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Speaker 1: in the credit fear of normalcy here and welcome to

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you here

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Speaker 1: on a Friday ob L fan mail Bag Friday, and

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Speaker 1: as we'll be taking your questions and we're pretty sure

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Speaker 1: developments concerning Buffalo's roster in the COVID reserve list. Steve

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Speaker 1: certainly not what you want to hear. Entering what we

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Speaker 1: My greatest fear was COVID was going to claim the

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Speaker 1: I really get the feeling that, you know, the only

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Speaker 1: the players, and I think it. You know, there's some

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Speaker 1: ways you can spend it as a player to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: this may help us because now we can just play

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Speaker 1: loose and free. We got all the nobody thinks we

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Speaker 1: can win it. Yeah, so that's always a good place

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Speaker 1: to be and helps you play a little free or

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Speaker 1: a little a little bit more mistake free, a little

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Speaker 1: bit more aggressive. Maybe that'll help. But that's one way

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Speaker 1: two players use it. Yeah, you got nothing to lose.

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Speaker 1: You're in a situation where you're down several players, starting

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Speaker 1: caliber players, and you still gotta make it happen. I mean,

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Speaker 1: ask the Saints how they're doing with their fourth quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You know, you got to line up with Ian Book

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Speaker 1: you know who was was he playing for Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: last year? I mean they got Taysom Hill and Trevor

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Speaker 1: Simeon on COVID reserve. I mean, it's it's crazy, right,

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Speaker 1: and the Bills aren't the only team. I just wonder

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Speaker 1: where the coaching staff fits in all of this, because

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Speaker 1: you know that and I don't have to tell you this, Steve,

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Speaker 1: but in football, the team concept is preached, maybe more

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Speaker 1: than in any other sport, sacrifice for the team, all

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Speaker 1: of that stuff, and unfortunately the decisions are around vaccinations

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Speaker 1: has flown in the face of that. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that, you know, people are right or wrong for

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Speaker 1: doing whatever they decide to do, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: you can debate that the self sacrifice that NFL players

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Speaker 1: and coaches talk about all the time with respect to

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Speaker 1: the team concept and the one goal has not I

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Speaker 1: mean it's been interrupted and compromised by this vaccination situation. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting too. The personnel out for the Bills on Sunday, Beasley,

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis, Dion Dawkins, Cody Ford, John Feliciano, a Japanessa,

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Speaker 1: Heath Farwell, Eric Washington. There's two coaches I couldn't tell

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Speaker 1: you which one of those guys are unvaccinated. I know

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis is most of those guys, Deon Dawkins. Some

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Speaker 1: of these guys are vaccinated. So it's hard. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to point the finger at those guys for getting it

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Speaker 1: when everybody under the sun's getting it. The difference is,

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Speaker 1: you know, how fast can they come back? Even the

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Speaker 1: coaching staff, who's I believe is I would say, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I came to say how many of them are?

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Speaker 1: I think they're probably all vaccinated. I'm just guessing. But

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Speaker 1: they got guys that are going down with it. Um.

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Speaker 1: The thing that's incongruous with me is and I and

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Speaker 1: I've seen it happen and I don't I UM, it hasn't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the environment is in the locker

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Speaker 1: room these days, but I know this. You've the thing

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Speaker 1: that's that makes guys shake their head and roll their eyes.

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Speaker 1: As you've got a guy who's got an ankle injury.

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Speaker 1: He'll get a shot a quarter zone to take the

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Speaker 1: pain away and go out and play on an injured ankle,

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Speaker 1: no problem. And it's hard for most guys to make

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Speaker 1: the connection of what's the difference between getting a shot

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Speaker 1: in your arm to make sure you stay healthy as

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Speaker 1: to getting one for a bad ankle, you know, with

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Speaker 1: long term effects down the road. Which you talk to

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Speaker 1: old guys like me, they'll tell you they are they're real.

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Speaker 1: Uh so. Uh It's it's hard to get your mind

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Speaker 1: around the difference that players place on those different scenarios.

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Speaker 1: One taking a shot on game day to play and

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Speaker 1: the other taking a shot in the preseason to make

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Speaker 1: sure you stay healthy. Right, It's it's hard to get

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Speaker 1: your mind around that. But it's but it's hard to

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Speaker 1: sit here. And also, just like I said, a lot

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Speaker 1: of the guys that are off the bills are vaccinated

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Speaker 1: guys they're having they're gonna have a chance to come back.

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Speaker 1: Dawkins is a great example of it. I mean, they've

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Speaker 1: done everything they could and still the fact the virus

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Speaker 1: got them. So hard to single out guys who aren't

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Speaker 1: vaccinator as being different than anybody else. Now coming back, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it takes a little longer, what a couple of days,

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Speaker 1: But man oh man, Yeah, it's hard to it's hard

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Speaker 1: to make this into a divisive issue in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: In my opinion, there was a football game last night

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Speaker 1: Titans and forty nine Ers. Steve was getting so exasperated

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Speaker 1: with Jimmy Garoppolo's texting about it. Gave a couple of

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Speaker 1: gifts to the Titans, and the Titans rally from ten

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Speaker 1: down to beat the forty nine Ers twenty to seventeen. Steve,

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Speaker 1: they now have six wins against the current playoff field,

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Speaker 1: most in the NFL, and if the Colts lose to

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals this week, they will clinch the AFC South.

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you how much how much the Tennessee

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Speaker 1: Titans are looking like the old the Patriots. They'd make

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Speaker 1: no mistakes. They just kind of continue to grind and situate.

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Speaker 1: They were ten points down, they just started to continue

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Speaker 1: to grind it out. One on some specific down and

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Speaker 1: distance plays got the ball back scored, and then they

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Speaker 1: did get a couple of enormous gifts from Jimmy Garoppolo

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Speaker 1: that gave him a chance to get back in it

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Speaker 1: and keep the forty nine ers in the first half

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Speaker 1: from going out seventeen zero from which they would never

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Speaker 1: have recovered. So that there's all that, But I the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers, what are they doing? They're a mystery team.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe what are they doing? I mean, Jimmy,

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Speaker 1: you can't tell I mean maybe you can't. You can

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Speaker 1: tell me. I don't know if I believe it. You

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Speaker 1: can't tell me Trey Young or Trey Lance. Trey Lance

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Speaker 1: couldn't play better than Jimmy Garoppolo did last night, because

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Speaker 1: that guy is he was garbage last night. I was

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Speaker 1: so I was so shocked. He couldn't even get to

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Speaker 1: game manager mode in that offense. What is he doing?

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Speaker 1: All right? He's just been terribly inconsistent. It's why. On

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Speaker 1: the playoff run to their super Bowl appearance a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago, he was throwing the ball ten times

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Speaker 1: a game. You can't rather just run the thing than

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Speaker 1: rely on him. You can't win in the playoffs. They

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Speaker 1: got to the super Bowl that way though, which was shocking.

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Speaker 1: But their defense and their run game was that good

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Speaker 1: and they were able to get there, and then you

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Speaker 1: know they lost to the They lose through the Ravens

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Speaker 1: or no, I can't even remember now two years ago

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Speaker 1: who won the Super Bowl? They lost the matter they

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Speaker 1: lost it to Nina Covid. Didn't they play didn't play

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Speaker 1: the Patriots or wasn't the Chiefs. Chiefs. Yeah, that's what

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Speaker 1: it was. They lost to the Chiefs. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: I just don't see him getting back there. I mean

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Speaker 1: that NFC field seems to be more of the halves

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Speaker 1: and the have nots. And I know we got to

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Speaker 1: get to break here. But Dallas, by virtue of the

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Speaker 1: Niners lost last night, clinched a playoff berth, so they

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Speaker 1: are in. They are the second team to clinch a

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Speaker 1: playoff berth, next to Green Bay who clinched last week.

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Speaker 1: Those are the only two teams that have clinched playoff berths.

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Speaker 1: And we're going into week sixteen. It's amazing. All right,

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Speaker 1: we gotta take a break here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll get some of your thoughts on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: Second hour of the show, Great Costell's coming up from

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Speaker 1: matchup between the Bills and the Patriots. More coming your

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Speaker 1: way next here on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health,

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Speaker 1: I have two questions. Are there any receivers they can

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Speaker 1: take off the practice squad? What about the running back

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Speaker 1: Antonio Williams. Yes, they can take receivers off the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: They have Tanner Gentry and Isaiah Hodgens. But as we

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Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, Steve, they still have five healthy receivers to

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Speaker 1: go into the game, and Kumro would presumably be the four,

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Speaker 1: provided Sanders is playing and all indications would seem to

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Speaker 1: point in that direction, and then Marquest Stevenson would be

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Speaker 1: the five and probably handle the return juies, so I

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Speaker 1: should be good there. Yeah, the wide receiver room is

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Speaker 1: less of a concern than the offensive line room. And

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Speaker 1: as for and as for Antonio Williams, yes they could

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Speaker 1: they could activate him as well, and maybe if that

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Speaker 1: might be a thing they do because of his ability

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Speaker 1: to play special teams and cover kicks. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what his level is, but yeah, so all that stuff

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Speaker 1: is available. But I don't think wide receiver is a

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Speaker 1: place there overly concerned about because Gabe Davis up until

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Speaker 1: the last two weeks was a fourth guy. Anyway, I

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Speaker 1: think the but Cole Beasley absence is probably as big

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Speaker 1: a bigger deal than the Gabe as crazy as it sounds,

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Speaker 1: as bigger the deal than the Gabe Davis absence. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but there they both stink. Yeah, no question about it.

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Speaker 1: Thomas asks, now, what is Josh her medically sealed in

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Speaker 1: a mayonnaise jar on the porch of Funk and wagonals? Seriously,

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Speaker 1: what precautions are taking to prevent the spread from getting

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Speaker 1: out of hand? Never a good time to get COVID,

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Speaker 1: But this couldn't be worse timing. I agree, it couldn't

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Speaker 1: be worse timing. Coach McDermott and addressing the media this morning,

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Speaker 1: said they've been virtual all week in light of the

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Speaker 1: COVID cases that popped up last week. So the only

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Speaker 1: time the players have come into the facility is to

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Speaker 1: actually practice, and he has made sure, despite the weather,

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Speaker 1: that they practice outside to further mitigate the spread. And

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Speaker 1: it's probably a good thing that they did that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: knowing Gabe Davis was at practice Thursday and pops up

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Speaker 1: positive Friday morning. Yeah, I mean that if they're doing

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Speaker 1: everything they can do now. It's also and you know

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Speaker 1: this as well, McDermott and his coaching staff and his

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Speaker 1: leaders on his team are all telling their other guys, say, listen,

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Speaker 1: when you go home, don't go down to the public

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Speaker 1: gym and go maskless and with all these wahoos that

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Speaker 1: are in you know, you gotta stay isolated at home too, right,

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Speaker 1: don't go to all these peat three dishes of establishments

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Speaker 1: and go out there. We'll go out to dinner. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're these guys are trying to stay

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Speaker 1: sick question for the next two months, like completely away

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Speaker 1: from everybody. That's hard to do. You know, obviously it's

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Speaker 1: hard to do. We none of us can really do

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Speaker 1: it as well as we like or but that's what

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Speaker 1: we're looking at. Yeah, it's not easy, not easy, especially

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Speaker 1: with this Almocrown running rampant. Let's go to the phones

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Speaker 1: at eight O three fifty two five fifty Yeah, Nick

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Speaker 1: and Los Angeles leading us off today. What do you

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Speaker 1: have for us? Nick, you're all one Bill's life. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've got a comment and two questions. Antonio Williams um

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, Steve said that he wasn't

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Speaker 1: probably wasn't good enough to play on the team. That's

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Speaker 1: why he was on the taxi squad. And my comment

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Speaker 1: or question is, if he's on the taxi squad, either

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Speaker 1: he's good enough to play with fresh legs, or you

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Speaker 1: put someone else on the taxi squad this spot. But

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Speaker 1: the real question I've got is on fourth and two,

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Speaker 1: why don't they line up to go for it? Unless

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Speaker 1: it's going to take a field goal past forty five yards?

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Speaker 1: Forty five yards, you line up to go for it

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Speaker 1: if you don't like what you see. He took the

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Speaker 1: delay of game penalty and either kicked the field goal

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Speaker 1: or punt. Thank you all right. I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 1: I think when Steve addressed them Antonio Williams situation, he

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Speaker 1: people are like, well, why can't they call that guy up,

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00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: and I think all Steve said and if I if

641
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: I don't get this right to you, just let me know.

642
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: Steve was basically saying if he was good enough to

643
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: be on the active roster right now and better than

644
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: the guys they already have on the active roster, he

645
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: would be there right And he's not right basically saying

646
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:37,919
Speaker 1: he's on the practice squad for a reason. Right. Isn't

647
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: that kind of exactly? Of course? I mean that it

648
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: goes what I'm saying. They think they think Mosson Singletary

649
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: are better options than Antonio Williams. Is that doesn't mean

650
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:51,840
Speaker 1: they don't like Antonio Williams, but they like Mosson Singletary better.

651
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: That's that's the point of that conversation. I'm positive and

652
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 1: the strategy of lining the Bills do exactly. I don't

653
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: the Bills do exactly what Nick in La said they

654
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: should do on fourth and shorter or in the field

655
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: goal n they'll come up and try and get guys

656
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: to jump off sides, or they'll go for it or

657
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: not go for it, and they'll kick the field goal.

658
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: I don't know why he thinks they would not do that.

659
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: I mean it's not a situation that happens a ton,

660
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: But we've seen him try and get the other team

661
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: to jump off sides a ton and then take a

662
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 1: time out either punted or kick the field goal. I mean,

663
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: that's a common occurrence. I don't know why Nick thinks

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00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: that is something that they don't do. Yeah, I'm not

665
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: I don't know where that was coming from, to be

666
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: quite honest. Let's go back to the phones, though, We'll

667
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: go to John and South Buffalo. John, what you have

668
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: for us, You're on one Bill's life. Yeah, I'm sorry, Falls,

669
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 1: but I just agree with you. I think these players

670
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: should be called out for not being vacilated. And I

671
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 1: think Speak was wrong what he said. There's no difference

672
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: between the undick the don't get well. The fact that's

673
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: the matter is that the vast, vast majority of the

674
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 1: people who get vaccinated do not contract the disease. And

675
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 1: with eighty percent or more of the Phillips players being vaccinated,

676
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: can you imagine the same work vaccinated, You wouldn't be

677
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:21,359
Speaker 1: able to feel a team. It's actually I think it's

678
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: about ninety percent vaccinated now. Yeah, yeah, it inched its

679
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 1: way up through the course of the season, and I

680
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: don't know why. But and I don't know what do

681
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: you mean by calling them out? John, I mean I

682
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: don't know, Yeah, because I think they should be criticized, Okay,

683
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 1: because I think that this whole idea of UH team

684
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: before self rings hollow when these guys uh don't get

685
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 1: thet don't get the shot. And I think the press

686
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: was right the other day when they were peppering josh

687
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: Y Allen with the questions about what he felt about

688
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 1: that situation, because the team's always saying, oh, the team

689
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: comes first. Well, in this case, it does, and the

690
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: team is going to sup it doesn't. Yeah, you're right, John,

691
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: it's hard. You're one hundred percent right on that point

692
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: of it. I will not debate that for a second.

693
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: It's very hard for a player to look a teammate

694
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: in the eye and say he is all for the

695
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:25,720
Speaker 1: team and the team comes first when he makes, granted

696
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 1: a personal decision, but a decision nonetheless that hurts the

697
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: team effort. You heard the head coach and the general

698
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: manager this football team admit when they were asked back

699
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: in September, with a lower vaccination rate for your players

700
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 1: in terms of the entire team's percentage of vaccinated players.

701
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: Are you at a competitive disadvantage? And because of the

702
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 1: way the rules are structured, and because of the contraction

703
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: rate of unvaccinated people in comparison to vaccinated people. They

704
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: answered yes, because that's what the science says, and that's

705
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 1: what the scope of the rules is going to. Point two,

706
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: that you are going to be at a competitive disadvantage.

707
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: And now the Bills, in their most important game of

708
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: the season, are at a competitive disadvantage. Appreciate the call, John, Yeah,

709
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 1: And I get it, John. I mean you can call

710
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: these the fact, you can call these guys out all

711
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: you want, but what do you think is gonna do.

712
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:21,399
Speaker 1: What's the point they're gonna I mean, you canna hold

713
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: them out of the game even more? Or I think John,

714
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: I mean no, I think John's gone. Just so you know, Steve,

715
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: But I think I think John's issue is it the

716
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:38,240
Speaker 1: personal decision, which everybody has the right to do, flies

717
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: in the face of everything they've represented as a professional

718
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: football player. That's that's the issue. Yeah, I get it, Um,

719
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: and you can. But yeah, I mean you've heard the

720
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: conversations both in the media. It's not going to change.

721
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: You're not going to change their mind because logic and reason,

722
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: um and data and science and all that other stuff

723
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: don't come into play some of them, not all of them,

724
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: but some of them. And so you're not going to

725
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: change their mind. And for whatever reason, they will not

726
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 1: change their mind. That is the most infuriating thing you're

727
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: kind to kind of live with because you can't make

728
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: them do it. Break time for us here. When we

729
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: come back, we'll get more of your thoughts from the

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00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: fan mail bags. See what questions you have for us

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00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: there and coming up in the second hour of the

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00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: show from NFL Films, the senior producer Greg co Sell,

733
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 1: we'll join us talk some x's and oh's on Bill's Patriots.

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00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: to get some more of your questions off of the

745
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: fan mailbag question lists, and we are up to Jonathan

746
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 1: who asks, what are your thoughts about getting Zach Moss

747
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 1: into the screen game more? If you look at the

748
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: Chiefs in Miami games, he killed it on screens three

749
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: receptions for fifty five yards and six receptions for thirty

750
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: nine yards, Just saying, what do you think about that? Steve,

751
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 1: I get it. I mean we've talked about this. There

752
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: was a time when we didn't think the Bills had

753
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: a screen pass in their playbook, and then you have

754
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary drop a screen pass in the Chiefs game

755
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 1: that might have made a difference. And then Yeah, one

756
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: problem is I think with the ship it's not a

757
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: screen pass is not about who catches the ball. It's

758
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: about who's upfront. Your offensive line has to do a

759
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 1: nice job. That's the problem with screen passes. I think

760
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons the Bills, along with you

761
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 1: got a quarterback that's a running quarterback. All that plays

762
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: a factor into why screen passes are or are not

763
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: a big part of your offense. I don't think it

764
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: has as much to do with somebody who like Zach

765
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 1: Moss or Devin Singletary or whatever. Zach Moss's plate has

766
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 1: had some nice screen passes, but now he's having trouble

767
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: even getting active on game day. And I'm pretty sure

768
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 1: it's not because he runs screen passes really well. So

769
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: I don't know. If he's in, Yeah, maybe they'll run it.

770
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll give him a chance to do that. Maybe

771
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 1: that's part of his strength of his game. But until

772
00:44:53,239 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: he gets on the field, what are we talking about? True? True? Uh?

773
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: Also from the mail bag from Kirk, what is the

774
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: more powerful motivator the cheers from your home crowd or

775
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: causing your opponent's home crowd to boo? Where where do

776
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: you stand on that one, Steve, Since you've lived it,

777
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 1: the cheers from your home crowd are better, they see

778
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: your steam roll easier. The home crowd, it's like a

779
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,399
Speaker 1: wave of away. Home crowd is always great because it's

780
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: in your it's something for you, and it's you know,

781
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 1: obviously now getting your home crowd to boo, the the

782
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,399
Speaker 1: what opponent's crowd to boo? Yeah, that's nice because it's

783
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 1: also takes a good play by you to do that,

784
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 1: But the home crowd kind of you gain. You seem

785
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: like you gain momentum when you do that, more so

786
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,840
Speaker 1: than when you go to the away crowd and you

787
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: silence them or they boom. When they boo. It's more

788
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 1: a lot of times they boo their own their own club.

789
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 1: It's not you know what I mean. You know, they

790
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: boo because they're Yeah, but there's a chance you could

791
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: have had an impact on that, right, I mean sure,

792
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: But when they boo, it seems there are more reasons

793
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: for the home crowd to cheer than there are for

794
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: the opponent's crowd to boo. When they boo, that means

795
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 1: because they're angry that something bad happened, not when you

796
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: When you score, they don't boo because you score. They

797
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: just go silent, you know what I'm saying, which I

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00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: think might even be more delicious up a crowd completely.

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00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: The silence is delicious, Yeah, no question, no question about it.

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00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: But yeah, i'd say, haven't because it means you're at

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00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: home and all that, So I'd say, yeah, I'd say

802
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 1: more your home crowd cheering is better than the away

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00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 1: crowd booing. Yeah, we have one entry here on Christmas

804
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: weekend for Tailgate Friday, which is presented by high Mark,

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Speaker 1: Blue Cross, Blue Shield to Western New York, the official

806
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: health plan of the Buffalo Bills. And it's from Dinah

807
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: who as far as her tailgate is concerned, and we

808
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: do no tailgates differ when you're on the road. But

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00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: she's keeping it simple. Leftover Christmas cookies, eggnog, Christmas dinner, leftovers,

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00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: spiced hot apple cider. You go, Dina liquoring it up

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00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: here on for game Day. Yeah, I'm I'm totally with her.

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00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,280
Speaker 1: I'm are you? Are you a thumbs up egg nagger

813
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 1: or thumbs down egg nagger? I know it's polarizing. I don't.

814
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:28,879
Speaker 1: I shouldn't. I think hayde is a strong word. But

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Speaker 1: if I don't have eggnog on Christmas, I'm not left

816
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 1: wanting it. Yeah, if that makes sense. I'm a fan.

817
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: I don't I could. I could take it or leave it.

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00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,320
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. I like it. It's a little

819
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,839
Speaker 1: bit of a like a Christmas milkshake for me. I mean,

820
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:52,280
Speaker 1: you know, I it's a Christmas milkshake. It's a Christmas milkshake. Um. Yeah. Plus,

821
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 1: like I told you, we had Kyle Branton during the week.

822
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: I throw liquor in it and and I'm off to

823
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: the races, right. Yeah, you're a heavy poor on the

824
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:06,879
Speaker 1: eggnog alcohol. Yeah, you start out, you start out about

825
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: fifty fifty and then it goes to where you just

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00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,320
Speaker 1: you're it's a tablespoon of eggnog on top of Bailey's

827
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 1: or something, you know. Yeah, it's like the foam on

828
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 1: top of a fancy cough. I'm a little bit at

829
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 1: the time, and I gotta be honest. I'm I don't

830
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna point in my life where I won't apologize

831
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: for it either, So you know, I'm you don't need

832
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: to apologize to anybody. That's how you like your right now,

833
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:29,720
Speaker 1: that's how you drink. You're right, So you're not. Are

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00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: I just don't know if I just don't know if

835
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:34,359
Speaker 1: you could call it eggnog anymore. It's good point by you,

836
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: But I that's some Bailey's with a splashing knock. But

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00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: you are you are a tolerant. You are a tolerant

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00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: of eggnog because I guess his best way to put it, Yeah,

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00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'll put it to you this way. Christmas,

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00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: you know, around the whether it's the or dirve table

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00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: or the dinner table, eggnog is not probably in the

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00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 1: top five things I'm seeking out. Well, I'll say this,

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00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:01,839
Speaker 1: if you want to if you want to put on

844
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: a winter a winter you know, coat of five pounds

845
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:11,720
Speaker 1: of blubber, eggnog is the way to do it. Oh yeah,

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00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: what's the first ingredient? Heavy cream? Oh, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. It's serious, raw eggs and something. I don't

848
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Speaker 1: know what it is, but it's like it's like a

849
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:26,439
Speaker 1: thousand percent calories. Yeah, I'm that's what I think. You're

850
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:30,720
Speaker 1: only two steps removed from the viscosity of paste drinking

851
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: egg nuts a step and a half probably, Yeah, I

852
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: mean it's yeah, you can't eat you don't eat it

853
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: with a spoon. I mean it's hard to get through

854
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Speaker 1: a straw, you know. Now you can't you can't have that,

855
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 1: which is why, you know, which is why you kind

856
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: of you gotta cut it with a little bit of alcohol,

857
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, thin it out a little bit. Oh man,

858
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Speaker 1: it's yeah, I'm a I'm it is might it might

859
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Speaker 1: be uh yeah, I think I like eggnog and Bailey's

860
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Speaker 1: better than I like coffee and Bailey's Okay, yeah, I'm

861
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: I'm that is saying, so I think it gets I'm

862
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: I'm way down that path. I'm. I wonder if that's

863
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: because you only get it for the span of arguably

864
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Speaker 1: four or five days out of the year, maybe a

865
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: week if it spins into New Year's celebration. It because

866
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: you miss it all year and then for a week

867
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,839
Speaker 1: you get it. It's almost like, oh, we finally got here.

868
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: Let me load up on the egg nog, and then

869
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: you forget about it for eleven and a half months.

870
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: If eggnog was a year round thing, I'm i'd weigh

871
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Speaker 1: thirty five at least pounds more than I am right now.

872
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Speaker 1: I don't doubt it is. Say it would be my

873
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: go to coffee creamer. It would be my everything, you know,

874
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: I'd use it every everywhere I use it. Now they're seeing,

875
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: now that is a surprise that nobody has come up

876
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: with an eggnog coffee creamer. Yet. Does that exist? Maybe

877
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: it does exist? Probably does. Come on, man, it probably

878
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: exists in the Western world. Exists, that exists. They put

879
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: everything in coffee. Somebody's gonna notify us and send us

880
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: a label picture of it eggnog creamer. That's right, there

881
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Speaker 1: will be a there'll be a gift dropped in to

882
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Speaker 1: did one Bills Live Twitter handle shortly. All right, we

883
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Speaker 1: gotta take a break here because coming up next, the

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Speaker 1: senior producer from NFL Films, Great co Sell, will be

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Speaker 1: joining us. We'll talk XS and o's with him on

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Speaker 1: Patriots Bills. It's coming your way next here on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presenter by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's

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Speaker 1: radio adas Steve Tasker, who has spent all over the fields.

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

890
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Speaker 1: plader for Steve. Steve a blimp. We're not even in

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Speaker 1: the stragedyre of normalcy. All right, welcome to our number

892
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Speaker 1: two and on a Friday. You know what that means.

893
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Speaker 1: It's time for senior producer from NFL Films, Greg co

894
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: Sell to join us as we dice up the XS

895
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: and os for Bills Patriots. The biggest game of the

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00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:59,280
Speaker 1: year for the Bills for sure, as the division title

897
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 1: is on the line. How the heck are you, Greg? Well,

898
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to talk about the biggest game in the

899
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: history of Western civilization as we know it. There you go,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you got. We appreciate the hyperbo see things

901
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 1: the way we do. Okay, there's a lot of there

902
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 1: is a lot of question marks about this game. There

903
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 1: Even though these two teams played each other twice every year,

904
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: the first game this year forty mile an hour wins.

905
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:23,319
Speaker 1: The Patriots didn't have to throw it at all, through

906
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 1: it three times, completed two of them. The Bills have

907
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,879
Speaker 1: no idea what they think of the Patriots think about

908
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: the Bills secondary. Are the Bills going to be able

909
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: to score points on a really tough defense to score

910
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: points on? What do you think this game will look

911
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 1: like in best case? Your best guests, Well, my guess

912
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: is we know what the Bills offense will look like.

913
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 1: I don't think we know what the Patriots offense will

914
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:51,760
Speaker 1: look like. The Bills offense is essentially the same every week.

915
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:54,879
Speaker 1: If someone just looked at a at the box score

916
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: and saw twenty two carries for singletary, they might think

917
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,240
Speaker 1: the Bills played differently. As you guys know, they really

918
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: didn't play that differently. I think half of those, if

919
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: not more, came in the fourth quarter with a two

920
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: score a two score lead up to that point. They

921
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 1: had pretty much been their normal pass heavy offense. And

922
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: you know, and quite honestly, and I'm just speaking to

923
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: the tape guys, you know, that's what I do. I

924
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 1: think it's taking a toll on Josh Allen. I think

925
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: would the old line be having to be reshuffled a

926
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: little bit and some concerns there. As we've discussed and

927
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 1: documented all season, I think you're starting to see Josh

928
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: be a little undisciplined move unnecessarily and last year he

929
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: did not really do that. He's more than capable of

930
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:41,240
Speaker 1: making great plays when he does that, but it also

931
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: leads to a little random nature to his play. And

932
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Speaker 1: I think he's going to have to play probably his

933
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: best game of the season on Sunday. I don't know

934
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Speaker 1: what the weather is supposed to be. Is that supposed

935
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Speaker 1: to be an issue? Doesn't look like it at this point,

936
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Speaker 1: So we should be okay on that forty degrees, you know,

937
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: not any significant wind of note as they as they say, Chris,

938
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 1: I guess that's football weather, right. Um. So you know,

939
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 1: I think that we know what the Bills will look

940
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 1: like even without Cole Beasley. The offense won't change dramatically.

941
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Speaker 1: McKenzie will get snaps. I imagine Kumaro will get some

942
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 1: snaps as well. I can't imagine that it'll be any different.

943
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: One thing we know about Bill Belichick is he does

944
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 1: play man. They've played a little more zone recently, but

945
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,720
Speaker 1: he will match up j C. Jackson on Stefine Diggs.

946
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: I think we pretty much know that, right, Yeah, that's

947
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: the next gen. Stats actually indicate that in the three meetings,

948
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: the last three meetings between the Bills and the Patriots,

949
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Speaker 1: they've had j C. Jackson match up and shadows Stefan

950
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: Diggs on ninety percent of the snaps. So that's that's

951
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: pretty much follow him around. Yeah, we're all intensive practices.

952
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: What do you think the Bills offense will do with

953
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: the absence of Cole Beasley? I mean, they're certainly not

954
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 1: going to just run some other personnel combination run eleven

955
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:05,399
Speaker 1: too much, probably just an abandon Yeah that I mean,

956
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: I guess the question is we know they're gonna throw it. Okay,

957
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 1: They're not all of a sudden going to become a

958
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,800
Speaker 1: run first team. And by the way, despite what happened

959
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 1: last week with the Patriots, they're a pretty good run defense,

960
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: and that's not what the Bills do, so they are

961
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: going to throw it. So the question you're really asking

962
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: is what's it gonna look like. I can't imagine the

963
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: overall scheming of it will look dramatically different. I mean, obviously,

964
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:33,759
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley is very very good at finding voids in

965
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,880
Speaker 1: zone coverage. He's very good at those quick sort of

966
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 1: pivot routes, whip routes, those kinds of routes against man.

967
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 1: I think McKenzie's a little different kind of player. He's

968
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: a more straight line, explosive athlete. You can certainly use

969
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: McKenzie on jet sweeps. You don't really see Beasley use

970
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 1: that way. Maybe that's an added feature to the offense

971
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 1: this week. I think that you can see McKenzie just

972
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 1: in general be used more in motion, just to get

973
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:02,919
Speaker 1: a feel for how the Patriots might defend that. We've

974
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 1: seen that before, So I think there'll be some added

975
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:09,839
Speaker 1: wrinkles with McKenzie because he's different than Beasley. But he's

976
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,359
Speaker 1: also not as good as Beasley in certain areas that

977
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is clearly comfortable with. So with then in mind,

978
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: how might the conversation change if Emmanuel Sanders is back

979
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 1: from his knee injury. Stefan Diggs was just addressing the

980
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:26,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo media and practice today and gave indication that Sanders

981
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: will be back in the lineup. He does have experience

982
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,880
Speaker 1: in the slot. How might would he be a better

983
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 1: option in the scope of this offense than say Mackenzie,

984
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: who's been used more on the fringes, you know, with

985
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,879
Speaker 1: a lot of that jet sweet motion that you're talking about. Yeah,

986
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: well that becomes that's the question, because Sanders in his

987
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: career has lined up both outside it in the slot,

988
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: and he's very comfortable in each spot. So you know,

989
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 1: that could be a big factor. They're gonna have to

990
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:55,399
Speaker 1: make plays in the passing game to win this game.

991
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,399
Speaker 1: There's no question they're not going to win this game

992
00:56:57,480 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: running the football, So we know they're going to have

993
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: to make in the passing game, and to do that,

994
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:05,279
Speaker 1: it starts with protection, So that is the key thing,

995
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:07,799
Speaker 1: you know. I think that's one of the reasons this year,

996
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: quite honestly, guys, that we've seen so many quick game

997
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:14,839
Speaker 1: throws and not a lot of vertical throws. Last year

998
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 1: we saw a lot more vertical throws down the field.

999
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 1: We've not seen anywhere near that this year. I mean,

1000
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: I thought last year the route concepts they had vertically

1001
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: were really good. We haven't seen many of those this year.

1002
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: My guess is it's the protection issue, right, and that

1003
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: it goes to hand in hand with the fact of

1004
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 1: their offensive lie. We talk about it all the time here.

1005
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 1: Their offensive line has been shuffled a ton with injuries

1006
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: with COVID, with absences, with shifting around. Darryl Williams has

1007
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 1: played right tackle and right guard. Mitch Morse has been

1008
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:47,080
Speaker 1: the only star where the guy that's actually been planted

1009
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: in there and non moved, Dion Dawkins is now out

1010
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 1: and that was before getting a late start in with

1011
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: COVID way back in training camp, and now he's out

1012
00:57:56,560 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 1: with the same thing. COVID again. He see on the

1013
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: Actors Sunday. Huh, we don't know yet. He's got a

1014
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 1: shot at him. He's but you know he hasn't been

1015
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 1: He can't even get in the building, let alone come

1016
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:10,439
Speaker 1: in and play left tackle against the Patriots. Um, that'll

1017
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 1: be a big ask, you know. So you got Feliciano

1018
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: with his calf injury, then COVID, Um Spencer Brown was

1019
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 1: out with COVID and a back injury. So the offensive

1020
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: line has been a complete mess for eight weeks and

1021
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: it showed last week early even in the Carolina game,

1022
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: without question, without what did you see? And again, yeah,

1023
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:35,919
Speaker 1: I agree with you, and I think look, Spencer Brown

1024
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: moved to left tackle. That's the position I believe he

1025
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:41,920
Speaker 1: played in college. But but you know, he struggled at

1026
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: times with Brian Burns. You know, uh, he's he's probably

1027
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: not quite ready to be an NFL left tackle on

1028
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: a weekly basis, but there's no choice right now. He's

1029
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: certainly athletic enough. He has to get stronger. You know,

1030
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: that'll probably happen with another year, another off season, because

1031
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 1: he's he's really built like a basketball player. He's kind

1032
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:04,479
Speaker 1: of long, he's Sinai hith, he's athletic. He just needs

1033
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:08,959
Speaker 1: to get stronger. So yeah, that's to me. And again

1034
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:11,919
Speaker 1: I can't speak to what's in Josh Allen's head, but

1035
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: you know, Steve that quarterbacks, when they're under pressure a

1036
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 1: lot two things start to happen. They start to anticipate

1037
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: that they'll be under pressure, and they start to perceive

1038
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:25,479
Speaker 1: pressure that's not really pressure. And when those two things happen,

1039
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: quarterbacks move unnecessarily and they break down and disrupt the

1040
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 1: timing of the play. Right. So, and if they get

1041
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 1: that straightened out, you still have the question of are

1042
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 1: they are they gonna be able to run block, are

1043
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:42,160
Speaker 1: they gonna be able to pass block? Can they win

1044
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage? And plus how versatile can they

1045
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: be in how much confidence day Ball has in them

1046
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:51,479
Speaker 1: to run the full compliment of plays. Plus they're gonna

1047
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: go against a defense defense and the Patriots that's really

1048
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 1: really executes well. Yeah, and that's you made a great

1049
00:59:57,760 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 1: point because if you're not going to get big play,

1050
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 1: you know, it's one thing if your offense can have

1051
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:06,440
Speaker 1: some hiccups through a game, if you hit some big plays,

1052
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 1: as you know, because that's the deodoran. If you can

1053
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: hit some big plays, you're good. But this is a

1054
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 1: difficult defense to go twelve thirteen plays down the field.

1055
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 1: And if that's going to be their approach, you know,

1056
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Speaker 1: if they stay with the approach of the quick game throws,

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01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 1: the six yard throws, the hitches to digs that you know,

1058
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 1: those kinds of throws that takes a long time, it's

1059
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 1: tough to score that way. It's tough to score a

1060
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 1: lot of points that way, so we'll see what their approaches,

1061
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: but we all know that they're going to throw the football.

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01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 1: You know, the question is, can you really ask Josh

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01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: Allen against that defense to drop back forty five times.

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Speaker 1: Let's flip it around to the Patriots offense, and one

1065
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Speaker 1: thing that I've noticed, Greg, is their third down conversion

1066
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 1: rate has dropped off precipitously the last four weeks. It's

1067
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Speaker 1: about it's trending about ten percent below their season average

1068
01:00:57,680 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 1: over the last four weeks, it's like thirty two and

1069
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: a half sent conversion rate. Obviously, getting into some more

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01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: long down and distant situations has been one of the

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Speaker 1: main culprits because of that. I'm just curious what you've

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Speaker 1: seen from this Patriots offense probably over their last four

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01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 1: games that seems to have them a little hamstrung on

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01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:17,560
Speaker 1: third down, And obviously the Bills game is included in

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01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 1: that where weather was a factor and compromise play calling. Sure,

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01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 1: you know, I think that the point you made, and

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01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 1: I haven't studied all the third and what the distant

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01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: situations are, but as you said, they've been in longer

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01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 1: yarded situations and that puts more of a burden on

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01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:40,919
Speaker 1: mac Jones because mac Jones, you know, he's played very efficiently.

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Speaker 1: You know. I think because it's New England and they

1082
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 1: won seven in a row, people have the sense that, man,

1083
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 1: this guy's in the MVP conversation, which is a little ridiculous.

1084
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 1: But he's still played very well for rookie quarterback. But

1085
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:54,080
Speaker 1: he's played well a certain way, Chris, and you really

1086
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:57,720
Speaker 1: kind of nailed it kind of implicitly in what you said.

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Speaker 1: He's been able to get rid of the ball really quickly.

1088
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 1: There's a lot of quick game throws. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of defined reads and throws where the ball can come out.

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01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 1: That changes when you get into third and long. As

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01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 1: you guys know, it's a little it's a little different

1092
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:14,760
Speaker 1: when it's third and long. You can't just drop back,

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01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 1: hit your back foot and throw at six yards if

1094
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 1: it's third and nine, you know. So I think that

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01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: that's where you start to run in a little bit

1096
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:25,280
Speaker 1: of an issue. And if you're a Patriots fan, that

1097
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 1: ideally is the next step and stage in mac Jones's development,

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01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: which is what they'll work with him on in the offseason.

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01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 1: But right now, you know, he's not really ready to

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Speaker 1: be the kind of guy that if you're meaningful, third

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01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 1: and eights, third nines, those kinds of plays. He's not

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01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:44,200
Speaker 1: quite there yet to really do that. So that becomes

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01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 1: where the Bills have to get this offense. They've got

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01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: to get them into long yardage situations. And obviously the

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01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:54,920
Speaker 1: last game, even with only three passes thrown, there was

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01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 1: just too much domination running the football that they couldn't

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01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 1: get them into long yardage. Anyway, what did we learn

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01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 1: about Mac Jones and the New England offense when we

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01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 1: saw them trying to catch up last weekend in Indianapolis. Well,

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01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:10,640
Speaker 1: I will say this, I thought he actually played pretty

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01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 1: well when he tried to catch up. You know. The

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01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 1: one thing is is when you get ahead like that,

1113
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 1: what a lot of defenses do is they play more zone.

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01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:23,320
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what Indianapolis and no, Indianapolis has played

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01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: a lot of man coverage this year, but they played

1116
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:27,479
Speaker 1: a lot of zone. And the one thing that Josh

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01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 1: McDaniels is really really good at is schemed throws because

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01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:34,160
Speaker 1: if you know you're getting zoned, then you know the

1119
01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 1: route concepts that can beat zone they're schemed throws, and

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01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:40,959
Speaker 1: those throws Mac Jones executes well because he knows where

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01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 1: the boyds are and it's schemed, so I actually thought

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01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 1: he played well down the stretch. The interception by Leonard

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01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 1: in the red zone was one that kind of really

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01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:55,840
Speaker 1: surprised me by mac Jones because it ended up just

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01:03:55,920 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: being covered three and only he could tell you this,

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01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 1: But I don't know where he what Darius Leonard was

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01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 1: going to be, because he was just the hook defender

1128
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 1: and cover three and he threw it right to him.

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01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: I mean, and then you could see him as soon

1130
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 1: as he threw us. We're looking at the play. You know,

1131
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 1: he did not account for Darius Leonard at all, but

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01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 1: he was the hook defender and cover three and he

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01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 1: basically threw it right till him and then Greg. There

1134
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: is a little bit of a play action battle in

1135
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: this one. Mac Jones has been extraordinarily efficient in play

1136
01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:28,880
Speaker 1: action as one of the highest completion percentages off play

1137
01:04:28,960 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 1: action passes. But the Bill's defense is number one in

1138
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 1: the league an opponent passer rating defending play action, and

1139
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 1: I think I should throw this in. Josh Allen leads

1140
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 1: the league in play action pass touchdowns with fourteen this season,

1141
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 1: So how does that battle shake out. I guess primarily

1142
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:49,760
Speaker 1: with Mac Jones and the play action game and the

1143
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 1: Bills being so good at defending it not being fooled

1144
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:55,480
Speaker 1: by it. I guess, well, their play action game is

1145
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 1: a little different because a lot of it comes out

1146
01:04:57,720 --> 01:05:01,440
Speaker 1: of base personnel, and that's so it'll be interesting. We know,

1147
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:04,520
Speaker 1: we know that the Bills went right back to playing

1148
01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:07,960
Speaker 1: one hundred percent nicol this week after playing twenty eight

1149
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 1: snaps against the Patriots with a third linebacker on the field.

1150
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 1: So I guess what I'm fascinated by, Chris, and I

1151
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:18,520
Speaker 1: guess we won't know the answer to this until Sunday

1152
01:05:18,560 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: when the game is played. Is if the Patriots do

1153
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:23,960
Speaker 1: line up and again they're going to throw it more

1154
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:25,560
Speaker 1: than three times. But if they do line up with

1155
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:27,960
Speaker 1: the fullback, which they do, if they do line up

1156
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:31,360
Speaker 1: with six offensive linemen, which they do, what is the

1157
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 1: bill What are the Bills going to do from a

1158
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 1: personnel standpoint? Are they going to stay one percent nickel

1159
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 1: or are they going to put a third linebacker on

1160
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 1: the field. You know, that's to me, that is one

1161
01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 1: of the big personnel questions of this game. One of

1162
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:49,080
Speaker 1: the things that Patriots do so well is they their

1163
01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:51,680
Speaker 1: past defense? Their secondary allows only like one hundred and

1164
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 1: eighty five yards a game through the year. Why are

1165
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:57,240
Speaker 1: they so effective as a defense, because you know, you,

1166
01:05:57,360 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 1: I know, ju Don is having a fantastic here and

1167
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:02,800
Speaker 1: is extremely good at pass rusher. But why is their

1168
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:06,480
Speaker 1: defense so good against not giving up points plus being

1169
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 1: really difficult to throw at? Yeah, I mean that's a

1170
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:14,760
Speaker 1: great question. Look, they had been a high hypercentage man

1171
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 1: coverage defense the last number of years. They've always been

1172
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:20,919
Speaker 1: among the highest percentage playing cover one, which is man

1173
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 1: coverage with a single high safety. As you know, this

1174
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: year when they lost Jonathan Jones, they've sort of morphed

1175
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:28,920
Speaker 1: a bid. He was their slot corner. They've morphed a

1176
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 1: bid into playing a little more zone coverage, but they're

1177
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 1: still pretty much a man based defense. They play it

1178
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 1: really well. They've been able to speed up quarterbacks quite

1179
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 1: a bit. You know, I think my guess is, and

1180
01:06:42,960 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 1: I'm not there, but my guess is they teach technique

1181
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 1: really well to to dbs, I would guess that that's true.

1182
01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:53,080
Speaker 1: And they're just not a team that gives up a

1183
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: lot of big plays. I mean, that was that's been

1184
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 1: themo for Belichick. Belichick is not about what you do

1185
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:03,120
Speaker 1: between the twenties. He's about how he matches up to

1186
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:06,200
Speaker 1: you in critical situations. And all of a sudden, there's

1187
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 1: a double steve. All of a sudden, there's a bracket coverage,

1188
01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:11,360
Speaker 1: all of you know something, All of a sudden, there's

1189
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:15,560
Speaker 1: a cover zero blitz. You know, he's a situational guy,

1190
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:18,440
Speaker 1: so you know he doesn't care about being number one

1191
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:22,000
Speaker 1: in defense in terms of yards allowed. He cares about points,

1192
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:25,560
Speaker 1: and they don't give up a lot of points. Last

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01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:28,000
Speaker 1: one I've got for you, Greg Dan Jackson's been in

1194
01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:30,920
Speaker 1: the lineup for about four games now. Just curious what

1195
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 1: your thoughts are in watching him on film. Granted there

1196
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 1: probably wasn't much to pull off the tape in the

1197
01:07:36,680 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 1: first New England game after three pass attempts by the Patriots,

1198
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 1: but maybe you know, how did he fair? Do you

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01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:46,120
Speaker 1: think against Tampa and then Carolina here and some of

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01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:48,560
Speaker 1: his early action in the starting lineup in place at

1201
01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 1: Tredavious way? You know, I guess the way I'd answer

1202
01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 1: that because I don't want to make something up because

1203
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,840
Speaker 1: I haven't studied him as a pure individual, but I

1204
01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:59,480
Speaker 1: haven't noticed him, which is a good sign. So, you know,

1205
01:07:59,680 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 1: because very often when I'm watching games, if I see

1206
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:06,240
Speaker 1: a corner that someone's going after, then I really noticed him.

1207
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:09,680
Speaker 1: So obviously he's not your Davious White. But up to

1208
01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:13,640
Speaker 1: this point, I don't think he's been a liability. I mean,

1209
01:08:13,640 --> 01:08:16,720
Speaker 1: when they played the Bucks, obviously Brady is gonna, you know,

1210
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:19,639
Speaker 1: get it out there. I think he had the play

1211
01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:22,240
Speaker 1: we're looking at now, I can't remember it. I know

1212
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:24,320
Speaker 1: he had an interference call on one play against the

1213
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:27,519
Speaker 1: Bucks that was a big one. But you know, I

1214
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:30,240
Speaker 1: haven't noticed him in a negative way. I haven't felt like, Wow,

1215
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 1: they're really going after him and they're killing him, which

1216
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:36,559
Speaker 1: I feel sometimes when I watch certain corners. So, uh,

1217
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:38,600
Speaker 1: you know, this might who knows, maybe this is a

1218
01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 1: week I'll tell you one thing, and you guys both

1219
01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:44,000
Speaker 1: know this. It will not be the exact same game

1220
01:08:44,040 --> 01:08:46,320
Speaker 1: plan with Bill Belichick that it was two weeks ago.

1221
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:48,519
Speaker 1: That will not be the case. Now. They'll run the

1222
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 1: ball because that's what they do to a large extent,

1223
01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:53,880
Speaker 1: but it will not be the same. Yeah, I agree

1224
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:56,639
Speaker 1: with you, Greg. Thanks a lot, Greg, appreciate you. Yeah,

1225
01:08:56,800 --> 01:09:00,760
Speaker 1: joy your holiday weekend. Up you guys, appreciate it. All right.

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Speaker 1: That's Greg Kosell joining us here on One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: and we will take a break, be back with more

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Speaker 1: in just a second. One Bill's Live presented by Collida Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker here with you

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Speaker 1: on this Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas, everybody out there. We

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01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 1: heard from Sean McDermott earlier in the show as he

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01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 1: addressed the latest COVID reserve designations on the roster, those

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01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: being Gabriel Davis and Cody Ford, who presumably will not

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01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:45,479
Speaker 1: be available for Sunday's game. But how did the rest

1236
01:09:45,479 --> 01:09:48,960
Speaker 1: of the players on the roster feel about it? Dawson

1237
01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:53,640
Speaker 1: Knox addressed the media after practice today and addressed some

1238
01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 1: of those very thoughts. So here now is Dawson Knox Man,

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01:09:57,400 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 1: what did you ask Sana for? It is Christmas? Um,

1240
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 1: you know, I would love I would love a little

1241
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: like surround sound system deal. I got a little, uh

1242
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:11,760
Speaker 1: got a little basement home theater thing I'm trying to

1243
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 1: get going. Um, trying to get like a projector you know,

1244
01:10:15,439 --> 01:10:19,519
Speaker 1: the full movie theater experience. So I need a good

1245
01:10:19,560 --> 01:10:21,960
Speaker 1: little surround sound system, you know, so I can just

1246
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:25,840
Speaker 1: blast it down there the Dawson's cave man. Hey, that's right,

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01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:30,960
Speaker 1: that's right. Question. Yeah, May Christmas in good look this

1248
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 1: Sunday game, very Christmas, appreciate it, Hey Dawson. Um, I

1249
01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:38,639
Speaker 1: know a lot can change between now and Sunday as

1250
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 1: far as who's able to play. But right now, with

1251
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:43,240
Speaker 1: the team just being so thin, both on the O

1252
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:46,439
Speaker 1: line and at receiver, how does that impact you in

1253
01:10:46,479 --> 01:10:48,519
Speaker 1: the tight ends of you know, you guys are kind

1254
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:53,680
Speaker 1: of affected on both sides of that. Yeah. Obviously all

1255
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:56,439
Speaker 1: that stuffs out of our hands. Um, nobody can really

1256
01:10:56,439 --> 01:11:01,320
Speaker 1: control that. But um, it just becomes more critical for

1257
01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:03,800
Speaker 1: our preparation. Like we're gonna have to do our job

1258
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:05,720
Speaker 1: to the tea, Like we're gonna have to prepare just

1259
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:08,640
Speaker 1: as hard as we prepared every other Weekum, and just

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01:11:08,720 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 1: know that we might get some extra snaps at the

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01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 1: tight end position just because there's not as much depth

1262
01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:18,840
Speaker 1: at other positions. But um, in terms of the way

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01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:21,559
Speaker 1: it's changed my preparation, I don't think it's changed what

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01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 1: I do on a daily basis at all. Um. You know,

1265
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:27,880
Speaker 1: I'm excited to be able to step up, and I

1266
01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 1: you know, my whole goal is a tight end us

1267
01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:31,920
Speaker 1: and never come off the field. I want to be

1268
01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:35,120
Speaker 1: on the field for every every play, every snap. Um.

1269
01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: So I think there's gonna be a lot of guys

1270
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: have to step up as well, especially in the receiver

1271
01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 1: room room. Thanks Christmas and Austin. Um you mentioned that

1272
01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:52,840
Speaker 1: offensive line room. I mean, when you guys get out

1273
01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:55,240
Speaker 1: there on Sunday, there could be you know, three guys

1274
01:11:55,840 --> 01:11:58,599
Speaker 1: out there that you know are being asked to step up.

1275
01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:01,559
Speaker 1: Can you talk about who maybe has stepped up in

1276
01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:04,120
Speaker 1: that room while you guys have been going through all

1277
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:06,000
Speaker 1: this stuff. Obviously, Mitch morrise is a guy that you know,

1278
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:08,320
Speaker 1: probably pops. But is it nice to have a guy

1279
01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 1: like that in there that you know, a veteran presence. Yeah. Absolutely,

1280
01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:15,680
Speaker 1: Um he's a leader of the old line. Um. He

1281
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 1: gets everyone organized and makes the calls at the line

1282
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 1: of scrimmagem So, yeah, he's the guy that everyone follows

1283
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:24,040
Speaker 1: his lead. But it's hard to think of the old

1284
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:26,799
Speaker 1: line without thinking about every single position and every single

1285
01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:29,599
Speaker 1: player that's stepped up and had to change positions. I mean,

1286
01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:33,400
Speaker 1: you know, Spencer's gone from side to side right tackle

1287
01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 1: to left tackle, Ike and Cody and you know John.

1288
01:12:38,280 --> 01:12:42,040
Speaker 1: The guards a bounced around all year. So I mean

1289
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,120
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of guys that have had to

1290
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:46,400
Speaker 1: step up and play new positions that they might not

1291
01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 1: be comfortable with, and it's just a testament to them

1292
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:51,320
Speaker 1: and their preparations just being able to step up and

1293
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:54,040
Speaker 1: do whatever is asked of them. But I think Mitch

1294
01:12:54,080 --> 01:12:58,639
Speaker 1: has been a very consistent, um, very very important leader

1295
01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:01,639
Speaker 1: and everything that he brings to the online is very

1296
01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:05,200
Speaker 1: is very important to the whole offense. And then, um,

1297
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:08,519
Speaker 1: I saw your one on one against Ryan Bates the

1298
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 1: other day we're out there, kind of turned to the

1299
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 1: media and said, he's really good. Um, there's actually like

1300
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:15,840
Speaker 1: a part of the fan base that is like they

1301
01:13:15,880 --> 01:13:19,200
Speaker 1: call him the bait time huge Ryan Bates fans And

1302
01:13:19,240 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 1: obviously you don't know what to happen on Sunday, But

1303
01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:24,639
Speaker 1: that's the guy that I feel like nobody really knows

1304
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 1: much about. But he seems to be, you know, a

1305
01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:30,320
Speaker 1: nice blue guy in the room. Oh he's awesome. We

1306
01:13:30,439 --> 01:13:32,760
Speaker 1: call him Rick. I don't know why that just kind

1307
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:36,519
Speaker 1: of became his nickname because he looks like a rick. Um,

1308
01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:39,519
Speaker 1: you know, you just see his face, and we just

1309
01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:42,479
Speaker 1: did some Christmas superlatives and he was most likely to

1310
01:13:42,479 --> 01:13:44,920
Speaker 1: ask for a set of tools for Christmas. You know,

1311
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:48,599
Speaker 1: he's just like your classic dad guy, like he's always

1312
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:52,200
Speaker 1: at home, just he's a homebody's he's an awesome dude though,

1313
01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 1: great sense of humor, and he's another guy that's been

1314
01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:57,000
Speaker 1: able to step up, whether it's been like a jumbo

1315
01:13:57,080 --> 01:14:00,160
Speaker 1: tight end position or anywhere else on the line. Um,

1316
01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 1: but yeah, he's uh, he always brings good energy to

1317
01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:08,560
Speaker 1: practice and gets everyone smiling. What was your superlatives? Um?

1318
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: Was my superlatives? I know I did Tommy's Tommy was

1319
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:18,360
Speaker 1: most likely to request the rock version song of every

1320
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:28,639
Speaker 1: Christmas song that's played. Um, yeah, what was the mine? Yeah?

1321
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:31,240
Speaker 1: I don't, Yeah, I don't. I don't remember mine. But

1322
01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:33,640
Speaker 1: the video will come out soon and everybody see it

1323
01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:36,200
Speaker 1: at some point. Yeah, thanks a lot. Dawsin Merry Christmas.

1324
01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, Matt, Merry Christmas, Hey Dawson. Um, A

1325
01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 1: couple of questions for you. First, I guess with and

1326
01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:45,599
Speaker 1: Sean kind of talked about this with us earlier, Like

1327
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:48,360
Speaker 1: it seems like every day someone's going on the code

1328
01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:50,200
Speaker 1: list it's not just a bill's thing. It's kind of

1329
01:14:50,200 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 1: a league wide past that you know, worldwide thing for

1330
01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:56,559
Speaker 1: you guys, what's it kind of just like because we

1331
01:14:56,600 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 1: can't be in there, what's it like you know in

1332
01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:01,559
Speaker 1: the facility this we what is the kind of the

1333
01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 1: mindset and mood kind of been. Yeah, so we've taken

1334
01:15:06,120 --> 01:15:10,240
Speaker 1: all the extra precautionary steps to avoid the spread, to

1335
01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:13,000
Speaker 1: avoid getting infected, But it's just one of those things.

1336
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:15,439
Speaker 1: It's a virus. Nobody can control how it spreads to

1337
01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:19,439
Speaker 1: who it spreads to. Um. You know this this year,

1338
01:15:19,479 --> 01:15:22,480
Speaker 1: I think ninety five percent of the NFL is vaccinated

1339
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 1: or something like that, and there's been I think just

1340
01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:27,960
Speaker 1: as many, if not more cases this year. Um. So

1341
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:30,320
Speaker 1: that just goes to show that, you know, the virus

1342
01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:33,720
Speaker 1: is gonna spread no matter vaccination status, no matter if

1343
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:36,559
Speaker 1: you're masking or not. So it's it's something that you

1344
01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:39,240
Speaker 1: just got to take every precaution that the CDC comes

1345
01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:42,439
Speaker 1: out with, you know, stands six feet apart, trying to

1346
01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:46,360
Speaker 1: avoid gatherings as much as you can. But it just

1347
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:49,479
Speaker 1: kind of amplifies the next man up mentality. You know,

1348
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 1: any given normal year, you know there's injuries. There's people

1349
01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:55,639
Speaker 1: that get hurt every minute, you know, like someone will

1350
01:15:55,680 --> 01:15:58,280
Speaker 1: have a broken helmet, um, so the next guy has

1351
01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 1: to come in. But this kind of just takes that

1352
01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:04,200
Speaker 1: to the further, to the next step because you never know,

1353
01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:06,280
Speaker 1: you know, it could be the morning of the game

1354
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:11,040
Speaker 1: somebody could positive. So just again, it's a testament to

1355
01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:13,799
Speaker 1: everyone's preparation here because you could be on practice squad,

1356
01:16:13,840 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 1: you could be not expecting to even be active for

1357
01:16:17,360 --> 01:16:19,799
Speaker 1: the game. The next thing you know, you're active and starting.

1358
01:16:19,840 --> 01:16:22,720
Speaker 1: So the preparation is key just for everyone to be

1359
01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:27,040
Speaker 1: locked into their assignment. I think everyone that is calling

1360
01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:29,240
Speaker 1: on to step up and get some playing time is

1361
01:16:29,840 --> 01:16:33,240
Speaker 1: going to get their job done and do well. Hey, Dawson,

1362
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:35,400
Speaker 1: I wanted to follow up on something you're saying to

1363
01:16:35,479 --> 01:16:37,840
Speaker 1: Matt about how there's been so many guys on the

1364
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 1: old line kind of moving around. Darryl Williams this one

1365
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,280
Speaker 1: who I don't think he's gone more than three games

1366
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:47,120
Speaker 1: without having to switch just back in fourth all season.

1367
01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:49,200
Speaker 1: What have you seen out of him in his handling

1368
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:54,599
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, I mean he's probably been the most

1369
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:56,640
Speaker 1: important part of the foundation of the old line, and

1370
01:16:56,720 --> 01:16:59,680
Speaker 1: just in terms of knowing every position and do an

1371
01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:03,080
Speaker 1: exact do what he's asked. I mean he's gone from

1372
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:05,519
Speaker 1: guard to tackle almost every other week. It's it seems

1373
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 1: like without skipping a beat. He's obviously a very experienced

1374
01:17:10,120 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 1: player and he's gotten the job done no matter where

1375
01:17:12,479 --> 01:17:15,479
Speaker 1: he lines up at. Like I couldn't imagine doing something

1376
01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 1: like that, just switching in the middle of a week

1377
01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:20,680
Speaker 1: and go on a planet in an NFL game at

1378
01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 1: a high level like he does week in and week out.

1379
01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:27,240
Speaker 1: So a lot of a lot of credit is due

1380
01:17:27,240 --> 01:17:31,040
Speaker 1: to him that I think he doesn't get as much.

1381
01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:33,760
Speaker 1: But when you look at how hard it is to

1382
01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:36,200
Speaker 1: play offensive line and then especially how hard it is

1383
01:17:36,280 --> 01:17:40,559
Speaker 1: to change positions like that, his name should be at

1384
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 1: the top of the list in terms of just being

1385
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:46,000
Speaker 1: able to be so just his versatility and leadership as

1386
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:49,160
Speaker 1: well to coming with that you mentioned, not just like

1387
01:17:49,439 --> 01:17:51,800
Speaker 1: having to switch for that it feels seamless. What does

1388
01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:54,720
Speaker 1: he do to make it like? Is it preparation? Is

1389
01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:58,599
Speaker 1: it his play? How does he make it less noticeable? Yeah,

1390
01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:01,960
Speaker 1: just his preparation, like practice, you know, coach asked him

1391
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:04,599
Speaker 1: to move. It's not like, I mean, he just doesn't

1392
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:07,000
Speaker 1: even blank. He just I was like, all right, I'll

1393
01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:09,479
Speaker 1: switch and then gets the job done. You never hear

1394
01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 1: him complaining. He never even in the locker room. He's

1395
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:15,920
Speaker 1: never like, oh I wish they wouldn't switch me around.

1396
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:18,120
Speaker 1: Like he just takes it for what it is, and

1397
01:18:18,160 --> 01:18:20,559
Speaker 1: he's an ultimate team player. I mean, you wish you

1398
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:24,400
Speaker 1: had a hundred guys like that. But it's very impressive

1399
01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:26,080
Speaker 1: to see what he does and how he does it

1400
01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:28,679
Speaker 1: so well, even though he's seen in positions every week.

1401
01:18:31,760 --> 01:18:35,519
Speaker 1: All Right, that's Johnson Knox addressing the media after practice today,

1402
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:39,839
Speaker 1: given some pretty thoughtful answers about some of the frequent

1403
01:18:39,880 --> 01:18:42,120
Speaker 1: shuffling we had to see on the old line due

1404
01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:45,479
Speaker 1: to some COVID reserve designations as well as injury, and

1405
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:48,240
Speaker 1: some of the adjustments he and the other tight ends

1406
01:18:48,280 --> 01:18:50,479
Speaker 1: are gonna have to make this week, knowing both the

1407
01:18:50,479 --> 01:18:54,160
Speaker 1: old line and the receiving corps are shorthanded, and you

1408
01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:57,799
Speaker 1: have to believe that, I mean, Knox is a pretty

1409
01:18:57,800 --> 01:18:59,840
Speaker 1: important part of the game plan every week, Steve, but

1410
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:04,680
Speaker 1: in the absence of Gabriel Davis and Cole Beasley, you

1411
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:07,840
Speaker 1: gotta believe if he's not one A, he's one B.

1412
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:10,680
Speaker 1: He takes his one, but he might be one A

1413
01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 1: or one B. I think he's I think he got

1414
01:19:13,200 --> 01:19:17,800
Speaker 1: to anticipate him getting more targets. Interestingly enough, you'd think

1415
01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:19,559
Speaker 1: he might get more targets by sending him, you know,

1416
01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 1: throwing the football whenever he's out there. He might be

1417
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:23,320
Speaker 1: a higher on the priority list for Josh Allen to

1418
01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:26,280
Speaker 1: look at as well. But then again, as well, he

1419
01:19:26,400 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 1: may not because he may be forced to stay in

1420
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:36,720
Speaker 1: and help a depleted offensive line protect. There's that as well.

1421
01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:41,040
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think what it does do is it

1422
01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:45,720
Speaker 1: puts him I think in Cole Beasley's priority spot for

1423
01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 1: how many targets he's gonna get. I think whatever targets

1424
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:50,920
Speaker 1: Dot Knox would have gotten and Cole Beasley would have

1425
01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:54,320
Speaker 1: gotten his targets are going to be somewhere within the

1426
01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 1: combination of those two, depending on what happens with Manuel

1427
01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:04,400
Speaker 1: Sanders and Isaiah McKenzie and all the other things. I

1428
01:20:04,439 --> 01:20:06,360
Speaker 1: really have a hard time. I said it earlier in

1429
01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 1: the show, Brownie, I think this game is gonna come

1430
01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:12,200
Speaker 1: down to the others. It's not gonna be Steph Diggs.

1431
01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:14,439
Speaker 1: It might not be Dawson Knox might be, but I

1432
01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:17,519
Speaker 1: think it's going to be more about Emmanuel Sanders and

1433
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie and the running backs in the passing game

1434
01:20:21,200 --> 01:20:24,280
Speaker 1: more so than the top two top two pass catchers

1435
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:30,080
Speaker 1: like Knox and Digs. When you are shorthanded to the

1436
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:32,559
Speaker 1: degree that the Bills are on the offensive side of

1437
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:35,519
Speaker 1: the ball, do you think it prompts the defense to

1438
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:40,200
Speaker 1: play more aggressively, to maybe make a few more things happen,

1439
01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:44,479
Speaker 1: perhaps try to get a couple of more possessions for

1440
01:20:44,600 --> 01:20:47,320
Speaker 1: that offense which may not be firing on all cylinders.

1441
01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:54,599
Speaker 1: You're talking about the Bills defense, Yes, right, yeah, yeah,

1442
01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:58,439
Speaker 1: I mean sure. But I think this defense is coming

1443
01:20:58,439 --> 01:21:01,000
Speaker 1: into this game if they're not highly motivated from the

1444
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:03,400
Speaker 1: way they played the last time these two teams got together,

1445
01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:07,680
Speaker 1: if they're not really ready to play a much more

1446
01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:09,800
Speaker 1: physical brand of football the line of scrimmage in that

1447
01:21:09,880 --> 01:21:12,800
Speaker 1: front seven, and do something that forces the Patriots to

1448
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 1: do something they don't want to do. I think that's

1449
01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:17,879
Speaker 1: first and foremost on their on their plate. I don't

1450
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:20,200
Speaker 1: I think certainly they would love to get some turnovers,

1451
01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:22,960
Speaker 1: they'd love to force some fumbles, get a tipped interception,

1452
01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:27,559
Speaker 1: But I think they're more focused on getting new England

1453
01:21:27,640 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 1: off the field somehow, some way than just having you know,

1454
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:35,400
Speaker 1: just having them be pushed all over the field like

1455
01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:37,519
Speaker 1: they were in forty mile an hour wins here in

1456
01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:41,760
Speaker 1: Orchard Park. You know, I think, yeah, certainly the turnovers

1457
01:21:41,800 --> 01:21:45,200
Speaker 1: come come into play, but man, oh man, they've got

1458
01:21:45,240 --> 01:21:47,400
Speaker 1: a couple of things that they're probably looking at much

1459
01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:51,240
Speaker 1: more on a much more important level, given the way

1460
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:55,920
Speaker 1: the last game went. Yeah, I just I mean, the

1461
01:21:56,000 --> 01:22:00,160
Speaker 1: defense is so good in its own right, you'd want

1462
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:02,520
Speaker 1: to say, if they just play a little bit more consistent,

1463
01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:05,760
Speaker 1: not that they played a bad game in the windstorm,

1464
01:22:05,800 --> 01:22:08,040
Speaker 1: you know, you let a big run leak out, But

1465
01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:13,360
Speaker 1: other than that, I mean, relatively sound defensively, you'd like

1466
01:22:13,439 --> 01:22:15,599
Speaker 1: to say, all right, let them just play their game.

1467
01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 1: We'll figure out how to fill the holes on offense,

1468
01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:23,839
Speaker 1: and if special teams can help us, great, all the better. Yet,

1469
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:28,920
Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier, Yeah, Leslie, but what it just makes me

1470
01:22:28,960 --> 01:22:31,600
Speaker 1: wonder a little bit, does Leslie Frasier say, you know,

1471
01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:33,960
Speaker 1: let me help those guys a little bit, especially if

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Speaker 1: the game gets starts going a certain way where maybe

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Speaker 1: the offense is struggling, maybe you take a chance, maybe

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01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 1: you get aggressive, try to make something happen to benefit

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Speaker 1: your offense, whether it's an extra possession or who knows,

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01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:50,680
Speaker 1: get to you know, even get a defensive score of

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01:22:50,760 --> 01:22:53,320
Speaker 1: some kind, you know, by crafting some kind of blitz

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01:22:53,320 --> 01:22:56,040
Speaker 1: at the right time to force a hurry throw, get

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01:22:56,040 --> 01:22:58,960
Speaker 1: a turnover. Maybe be a little bit more aggressive than

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01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:02,840
Speaker 1: a typical Yeah, I think I get you know, I

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01:23:02,880 --> 01:23:05,320
Speaker 1: get the thought there that you feel like maybe you

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01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:08,120
Speaker 1: got to do something special defensively to give your offense

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01:23:08,160 --> 01:23:10,960
Speaker 1: a boost or maybe a short even a short field.

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01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:15,680
Speaker 1: You know, Um, I get it. And the defense and

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01:23:15,880 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 1: for all that happened, and you know, the way they played,

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01:23:18,320 --> 01:23:20,800
Speaker 1: you know, they only forced three passes the entire game

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01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:23,120
Speaker 1: the last time they It's you know, fourteen points is

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01:23:23,120 --> 01:23:26,040
Speaker 1: not enough to win most football games. And if it

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01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:28,760
Speaker 1: wasn't forty mile an hour wins on in Orchard Park,

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01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:30,800
Speaker 1: you'd think the Bills would have scored more than that.

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01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:34,920
Speaker 1: But then again, so would have the Patriots. Yeah, the

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01:23:34,960 --> 01:23:38,360
Speaker 1: Bills defense certainly should play with some confidence, all, you know,

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01:23:38,439 --> 01:23:43,640
Speaker 1: and certainly should play with a sharper attitude. And I

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01:23:43,720 --> 01:23:45,519
Speaker 1: get the fact that with you when you're depleted on

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01:23:45,560 --> 01:23:47,400
Speaker 1: the offensive side, your defense is sitting there going, hey,

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01:23:47,400 --> 01:23:50,360
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta take up some slack here. Maybe

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01:23:50,360 --> 01:23:54,200
Speaker 1: there is that mentality going in, but I think the

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01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:56,360
Speaker 1: Patriots bring too much to the table to think like

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01:23:56,400 --> 01:23:58,320
Speaker 1: you're just gonna wish it and make it happen or

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01:23:58,360 --> 01:24:02,559
Speaker 1: do something special outside the parameters, or I think if

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01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:04,320
Speaker 1: you had a defense that you thought you might be

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01:24:04,360 --> 01:24:07,320
Speaker 1: able to get in on the quarterback fast or you know,

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01:24:07,479 --> 01:24:10,479
Speaker 1: that's all in there every week. But I do think

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01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:12,479
Speaker 1: it all comes down to timing it just right and

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01:24:12,520 --> 01:24:14,200
Speaker 1: getting and making it happen. But I think that that

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01:24:14,320 --> 01:24:17,479
Speaker 1: message is probably in the locker room, both amongst the players,

1507
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 1: and maybe the coaches have related to him as well

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01:24:19,439 --> 01:24:22,599
Speaker 1: that hey, guys, our side of the balls really got

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01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:24,559
Speaker 1: to pick it up this week because our offense is

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01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:27,120
Speaker 1: depleted because of the offensive line and Gabe Davis and

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01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:30,559
Speaker 1: all that. And then there's the fine line that Josh

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01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:33,479
Speaker 1: Allen has to walk. I think most people would agree,

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01:24:33,479 --> 01:24:35,000
Speaker 1: and you mentioned it at the top of the show.

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01:24:35,720 --> 01:24:39,240
Speaker 1: He has to come up with a superhuman performance potentially

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01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:42,040
Speaker 1: it'll lift this team to victory on Sunday, but he

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01:24:42,160 --> 01:24:44,599
Speaker 1: also has to do it in such a way where

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01:24:44,640 --> 01:24:47,519
Speaker 1: he's not making ill advised decisions in an effort to try,

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01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:50,000
Speaker 1: you know, I mean try too hard to make something happen.

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01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:53,360
Speaker 1: If you don't let it organically unfold, that's when he

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01:24:53,400 --> 01:24:56,320
Speaker 1: has gotten into trouble in the past. And it's gonna

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01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:58,400
Speaker 1: be it's gonna be a tight rope for him to

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01:24:58,400 --> 01:25:00,439
Speaker 1: walk this week, because you know, he's gon be thinking,

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01:25:00,479 --> 01:25:02,040
Speaker 1: I gotta do a few more things with all the

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01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:04,360
Speaker 1: guys we have out, and that can be a dangerous

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01:25:04,360 --> 01:25:06,800
Speaker 1: path to go down, even though in a lot of

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01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:13,360
Speaker 1: cases it helps us team. Yeah, he's certainly gonna have

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01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:19,560
Speaker 1: his percentage of plays that he's got to make. I

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01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:21,320
Speaker 1: don't want to and I said earlier, he's gonna have

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01:25:21,320 --> 01:25:24,240
Speaker 1: to put the cape on, you know, to make this happen.

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01:25:26,120 --> 01:25:28,599
Speaker 1: And you're right. It comes down to can he do

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01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:32,479
Speaker 1: that while not making any mistakes. That's that's what we're

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01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 1: talking about. I don't care if he goes out and

1533
01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:37,120
Speaker 1: runs the ball every time or has twenty carries in

1534
01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:40,519
Speaker 1: the game called quarterback runs, as long as he doesn't

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01:25:40,520 --> 01:25:42,519
Speaker 1: fumble it any and he and he doesn't throw any

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01:25:42,560 --> 01:25:45,080
Speaker 1: interceptions on the other thirty five snaps that they take

1537
01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 1: h and he's you know, he's got a complete seventy

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01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:52,599
Speaker 1: percent of his passes, and they got to go like

1539
01:25:52,720 --> 01:25:55,320
Speaker 1: they gotta go four or five or five or six

1540
01:25:55,479 --> 01:26:01,360
Speaker 1: or in the red zone. Yeah, you can't get around it.

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01:26:01,400 --> 01:26:03,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you and I've watched this team so much,

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01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:04,640
Speaker 1: and the more you think about how this game is

1543
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:07,519
Speaker 1: gonna look, the more you just gotta hang it on

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01:26:07,640 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and thinking what's he gonna do? How is

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01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:12,479
Speaker 1: he Who's gonna help him? You know that's the thing.

1546
01:26:12,520 --> 01:26:15,720
Speaker 1: Who's gonna help him? And can he find him and

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01:26:16,040 --> 01:26:19,920
Speaker 1: protect the football enough to make it happen? Break time

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Speaker 1: for us here, Steve and I close it up next

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live presented by Collida Health. It's Buffalo

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01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you almost done

1551
01:26:35,600 --> 01:26:39,760
Speaker 1: for the day and Steve. The list continues to grow

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01:26:39,800 --> 01:26:43,360
Speaker 1: around the foot the National Football League. The Colts will

1553
01:26:43,400 --> 01:26:47,200
Speaker 1: be without their best offensive alignment tomorrow when they play

1554
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:51,080
Speaker 1: at Arizona, a pivotal game for them. They've plays guard

1555
01:26:51,160 --> 01:26:54,599
Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson on the reserve COVID list. That is a

1556
01:26:54,600 --> 01:27:00,360
Speaker 1: tough loss for them. It's not as tricky as Baltimore situation.

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01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:01,840
Speaker 1: You want to talk about a team that's dealt with

1558
01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:04,680
Speaker 1: a lot. The Baltimore Ravens maybe at the top of

1559
01:27:04,720 --> 01:27:07,720
Speaker 1: the list, only eclipse by these recent teams that had

1560
01:27:07,920 --> 01:27:12,800
Speaker 1: lengthy COVID reserve lists. Lamar Jackson officially listed as questionable

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01:27:12,840 --> 01:27:14,680
Speaker 1: for Sunday. As we know he missed last week's game

1562
01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:16,639
Speaker 1: with this bone bruise on his ankle. He is questionable.

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01:27:16,680 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 1: He did not practice at all this week. His backup

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01:27:19,479 --> 01:27:24,439
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley, also questionable against the Bengals because of an illness.

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01:27:25,560 --> 01:27:28,200
Speaker 1: I don't even know who their third quarterback is. I

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01:27:28,280 --> 01:27:32,040
Speaker 1: think Tyler hunt Huntley is gonna be okay because he

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01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:36,320
Speaker 1: was just sick yesterday at practice. You know, he he'll

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01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:39,320
Speaker 1: you know that to me, is gonna be okay. It's

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01:27:39,360 --> 01:27:43,800
Speaker 1: a non COVID illness. It'll be interesting to see. But

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01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:46,000
Speaker 1: all these games, I mean, every team in the league

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01:27:46,080 --> 01:27:48,000
Speaker 1: is going to be affected by it, and both positively

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01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:50,679
Speaker 1: and negatively. The Bills obviously got the bad news today

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01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:54,920
Speaker 1: about Gabe Davis and Cody Ford, and there's gonna be

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01:27:54,960 --> 01:27:58,559
Speaker 1: others coming down the pike. Tomorrow is no exception. There's

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01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:02,080
Speaker 1: gonna be guys tomorrow, So you gotta stay tuned. I mean,

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01:28:02,120 --> 01:28:05,439
Speaker 1: on Saturday, and Sunday, so stay tuned for that. Yep,

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Everybody. Check out the Bills by the Numbers

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01:28:08,439 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 1: podcast out there. Have a great holiday. We'll catch you

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Speaker 1: on Monday.