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Speaker 1: returns where I'm looking at that and I'm like, that

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Speaker 1: door's not going to be open long enough for him

428
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: to get through. And he gets through it. I don't

429
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 1: know how he does it. Yeah, you've got two guys

430
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 1: ready to just turn him into a sandwich. He's an

431
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: absolute I don't know how he gets through there. He's

432
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,679
Speaker 1: an absolute textbook for what a return guy should do

433
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You make hard, you make decisions, and

434
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,239
Speaker 1: you make them and you go one hundred miles an

435
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 1: hour you go, and they're decisive and you just live

436
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: with them. And he does it so well because the

437
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,919
Speaker 1: faster you make your decisions and the harder you go

438
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 1: with those early decisions, the better you're going to be consistently,

439
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,920
Speaker 1: because the return team is always coming down his coverage

440
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:47,719
Speaker 1: guys with their antenna up, wondering where this is gonna go?

441
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 1: Where are you gonna go? And that little bit of

442
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 1: not knowing where you're gonna go, and you making the

443
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 1: decision faster and going as hard as you can the

444
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 1: gap between that thought process between the two sides is

445
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 1: what gives you the ability to be good consistent. I

446
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,919
Speaker 1: remember Terence was very good at taking an angle and

447
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:09,880
Speaker 1: then as soon as he saw a gap open up,

448
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 1: bang foot in the ground north south in a hurry.

449
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 1: And that's what made him such an effective returner for

450
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: so many years for the Bills in the early to

451
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: mid two thousands. Went to the Pro Bowl for it

452
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: once in two thousand and four. So yeah, the decisiveness

453
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: is so key on returns because you don't have time

454
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,160
Speaker 1: to think about anything. You just gotta go on instinct

455
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 1: and say, here's the crack, and I think I can

456
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: get there, and then you just hustle your bustle to

457
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 1: make sure you do. Otherwise you are going to turn in,

458
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: going to be a victim of the Malachi crunch because

459
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 1: guys are moving at high speed and opposite directions there.

460
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 1: And I mean, I'm not telling Steve anything. He doesn't know. Guy.

461
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: It's it's it's all about quick decision, quick and decisive decisions.

462
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,919
Speaker 1: When you make a quick decision, you have and it

463
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 1: sounds crazy, but you gotta believe in it and you

464
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: gotta go and go hard and sometimes it works a

465
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 1: lot a lot of times. Sometimes you're right, So yeah,

466
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,719
Speaker 1: sometimes you're not. When it doesn't work, it's you know,

467
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: it's it's not. It's not like it's gonna hurt any worse.

468
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,880
Speaker 1: But doubling back on a decision is almost the worst

469
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 1: thing you can do. You gotta Yeah, once you commit,

470
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: you gotta commit. There's exceptions to everything. It's sometimes it

471
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: can work, but for the most part, you know you're

472
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 1: you're playing against guys that are pretty good at what

473
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: they do. So if you start doubling back and second

474
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,120
Speaker 1: guessing yourself, they're way ahead of you and they've already

475
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: snapped off a lot of the you know, the gobbled

476
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: the art is between you and them. Yeah, it's uh

477
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: And to me, it's all about that. And plus there's

478
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: some things they do returners do that set them up

479
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: for success as well. And you'll see Andre Roberts do

480
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 1: it a lot, and it's I did it as a

481
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 1: return guy, and it was always a key move. You

482
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,919
Speaker 1: see him catch the ball, don't just take off and

483
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 1: go where you're supposed to be going, Take a couple

484
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: of steps in an alternate direction, and then cut over

485
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: to where where the return is going or whatever, because

486
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: what happens is as soon as you catch and start running,

487
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: the coverage collapses towards you. Yeah, they're looking for you

488
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 1: to declare yes, like it's a left or turn or

489
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: right return. What you do, it's just by taking two

490
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 1: or three steps one direction that gets them to commit,

491
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: and then you can go around and then by then

492
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 1: the ank hopefully the angles of the blocks for your

493
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: guys have gotten better. Yeah, and that just a couple

494
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: of steps in the misdirection before you take off in

495
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: the direction of return is crucial. It's hard to do, yeah,

496
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: because the mental question, the mental clock is the alarms

497
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 1: going off already. I mean the clock is run out,

498
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 1: you're right, So it's sometimes before you have the blight,

499
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,959
Speaker 1: it happens really fast. So it's but Andre Robert has

500
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: been brilliant, no question about it, and expanding his role.

501
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: I see it, and I and I get it. But

502
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 1: you know, you got a guy that's not quickly capable

503
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: of executing there anyway already in Mackenzie. So there's no

504
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: reason too. And I'm all for maximizing your players, but

505
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 1: this is nothing. It's broken, and so keep it rolling. Yeah, don't,

506
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 1: don't tinker with it, Yeah too much? You know, break

507
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,959
Speaker 1: time for us. When we return the latest installment of

508
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: Tasker's Teammates, We'll see if Steve can guess which former

509
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: teammate we are trying to describe. Next. Here on One

510
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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

511
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

512
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: Here on a Friday edition, broadcasting from the Seneca Studios

513
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park at One Bill's Drive. And it is

514
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: time now for the latest installment of Taskers Teammates and

515
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 1: Tasker's Teammate. Each week is brought to you by Wegman's

516
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:59,360
Speaker 1: Meals to Go Delicious Meals delivered download the Wegman's app today. Steve,

517
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: are you ready one of my one of my roommate?

518
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: It was my roommate on road trips last week. I

519
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 1: never a while to get Pete wheat straw. I can't

520
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: believe it's my roommate in all four Super Bowls, but

521
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh gosh, I trust you'll do better this week.

522
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: So here we go. Clue Number one A three sport

523
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: athlete in high school. I played football, basketball, and track

524
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: and field. Don Beebe, It is not John Beebe. Clue

525
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: number two. I played my college ball in the Big

526
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: Ten Conference. Three sport athlete college ball in the Big

527
00:28:52,120 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: Ten ten John Kidd not John Kidd. After a successful

528
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: college career, I made an appearance in the Senior Bowl

529
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: and it helped me become a ninth round draft choice.

530
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: But I was not drafted by the Bills Mark Kelso.

531
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: It is not Mark Kelso, tenth rounder. After four seasons

532
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: with the team that drafted me, I was released and

533
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: spent and spent brief stints on two other NFL rosters

534
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: before signing with the Bills. James Lofton, It is not

535
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: James Lofton. He wasn't a ninth roune. What am I talking?

536
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: You got to pool the clue, the clues. We're painting

537
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: a picture here. You tell me when you want to

538
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: go to Clue number five, Big ten, three sport athlete

539
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: in high school, ninth round draft choice, not by the Bills.

540
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: Four seasons with the team that drafted him before signing

541
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: with Buffalo. Bryce Pop. It is not Bryce Pop. This

542
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: one may help you if you can put the history together. So,

543
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,479
Speaker 1: after a year with Buffalo, I was resigned by the

544
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: team that drafted me, but returned for the Bills for

545
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: a second go round a year later, playing my final

546
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: eight seasons with the Bills. It's a guy played for

547
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: the team that drafted him for four years, signed with

548
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: the Bills for a season, went back to his original

549
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: team for a year, then came back to the Bills

550
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: for his final eight season. Gee, Mini Christmas, this should

551
00:30:51,280 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: I should get this? Man? Oh man, that's kind of

552
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: an unusual thing. That's one thing you would think would

553
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: like whittle it down right, could But as teammates, you know,

554
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: when you're playing, you're not paying attention to where guys

555
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: have been or But he was gone for a year

556
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: and came back, was here for a year, gone and

557
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: came back. Yep, next clue, how can I not get this?

558
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: I played in two hundred games in my career, including

559
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: one hundred forty with the Bills, so most of his

560
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: career here. Fred Smerlis, it is not Fred Smerlis. Um.

561
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: Jim Haslin, it is not Jim Hasl hold on. Oh,

562
00:31:52,000 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: he's getting that steely eye. Look, I can I can

563
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: reduce forty games. I can reduce the pool a little

564
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: bit further for you if you wish. Yeah. So the

565
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: next clue is I am one of the twenty two

566
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: players to appear in all four Super Bowls for Buffalo.

567
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: So let's review Big Ten Conference college. Pard It is

568
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: not Howard Belly. He didn't play in the Big Ten.

569
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: Do you want me to Would it help you if

570
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: I gave you the Big Ten Conference school? Yeah? Well,

571
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: I don't know Illinois Henry Jones, it's not him, not him?

572
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: He did play at Illinois, I think he didn't. I

573
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: don't know man who else played at Illinois. I don't

574
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: even know Yellinois, so that didn't have played hoops? Clark

575
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: Kellog then Clark Kellog. He might have played it Ohio State.

576
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm saying he went to Maybe

577
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: I don't know one of twenty two players to play

578
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: Adam Linger There it is Steve. Well done. Adam Lingner

579
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: is Tasker's teammate this week, and I think we have

580
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: ad him on the line right now. He took some thinking, wow,

581
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: but he finally got it. I got him. Adam, How

582
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: you doing doing great? That was hilarious. Thanks? Don't you

583
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: love watching Steve squirm? I know as a long snapper

584
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: you're used to being sort of unnoticed and behind the scenes.

585
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: But yeah, this listen, I didn't know you played hook

586
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well I did in high school. I was

587
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: trying to pull up a picture of me. I think

588
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: we found I think we found it. We went digging

589
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: into the to the archives. Here there it is. Look

590
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: at that slam, don't many and Chris, I gotta give

591
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: you props. You really did a nice job behind here,

592
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: at least in the beginning. Some tough questions out there. Yeah, well,

593
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: here's the thing, Adam. The problem is, Steve, the first

594
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: few were out for your first few times we did this,

595
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: the clues were just He got one in one clue

596
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 1: one time, and it just ruined the whole damn thing.

597
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: So I said, forget it. I'm going vague, vague and cryptic.

598
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 1: Who did I get in one clue? He got Jamie

599
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: Mueller in like two clues. I mean it was crazy.

600
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: So we had to get more. Pretty nice to be

601
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: in the same same company with jameson you know, Hey,

602
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 1: Steve goes all over the maps. I'm all over the

603
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: James Lowton played at Stanford, which he didn't know it

604
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,760
Speaker 1: was in the Big Ten when he was in college. Yeah,

605
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: right you Yeah, yeah, I did remember that. But so

606
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: Adam Linger obviously played offensive line and played long snapper,

607
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: but obviously as one of the game. We can tell

608
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: this day that I played offensive line. We're in training

609
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: camp always. Um. Adam is obviously one of the guys

610
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,879
Speaker 1: who dropped weight when he left the Adam looks great

611
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: now when when he was playing, who were We're all

612
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: heavier when we played. Um, you really trimmed down for

613
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: a while, right, weren't you, like like doing cross training

614
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: or something. Didn't you drop a lot of weight? Well? Actually,

615
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,439
Speaker 1: I had a health scare. I had a big stent

616
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 1: put in left anterior descending artery. I have heart disease,

617
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: and so that kind of scared me into a really

618
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: strict vegan diet. Yeah, are you still there? Did that

619
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 1: for about for about a decade, and so I got

620
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: to don't do about one ninety five with the COVID stress,

621
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: I crept up. I'm backed up covering, you know, in

622
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: the two fifteen range. So I would like to lose

623
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: that twenty pounds. So you're like sixty three though, right,

624
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: sixty four? So yeah, he's sixty four. He waited one

625
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: ninety five. He ways what I do, Steve the COVID fifteen. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

626
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: I did drop some weight during COVID, but I got interest.

627
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: So among the research that we had to do for this,

628
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: our crack staff uncovered the story. And you could legitimize

629
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: this for us or say it's or completely refuted at him.

630
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: But the story I read basically said that you became

631
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: a long snapper because a coach in high school asked

632
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: you to throw him a ball that he needed for

633
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: a drill, and you just playfully threw it between your

634
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: legs and it was like a perfect spiral. And then

635
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 1: at that point the coach said, here, take the ball back.

636
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 1: Why don't you do that for real and long snapp it?

637
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,760
Speaker 1: And the rest is kind of history. Is that accurate?

638
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:32,919
Speaker 1: That is true? Yeah? Coach George don George, God bless him. Yeah,

639
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: he was my freshman coach, exactly. That's exactly the right story.

640
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: I don't know where you uncovered that one. How many

641
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: years did you playing? Then through the ball through my legs?

642
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: He said, do that again? And that weekend I was

643
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: snapping puns. And then when I was a sophomore, I

644
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: actually played high school football for coach Wayne to stutter

645
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: who played for the sixty five Bills. And I didn't

646
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,720
Speaker 1: even know that until I think probably in the night somewhere,

647
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: I knew he played a year of pro football. I

648
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: didn't know it was with Buffalo. How many years in

649
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: the league did you play? Thirteen? So I had the

650
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: five in Kansas City. But then you know, as Chris explained,

651
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 1: there was four there, then then one with Buffalo because

652
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: Dale Hellistray was out with back surgery, and then when

653
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: he was healthy, they let me go. And but then

654
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: I came back on free agency Plan B free agency

655
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: at the time in eighty nine because Dale had left

656
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: for the Raiders. Right, Yeah, and you you snapped all

657
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: through those years. I know, it's Yeah, it's an amazing run.

658
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: And I have told a lot of people, listen, if

659
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: you don't want your nothing, if you want your if

660
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 1: you got a big kid and you don't really want

661
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: him to play, you know, tackle, teach him how to

662
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: long snap. It's a great it's a great living if

663
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: you can, if you can keep your low back. It

664
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: was its harder back then because I'm sure Adam would

665
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: have loved to play. Now where your long snapper isn't

666
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 1: even covered up, so you can't get snapped in half

667
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 1: nearly as much as you probably used to, right, right,

668
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 1: not Yeah, now all the snappers, you got guys that

669
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:11,959
Speaker 1: are like five times snap in the bowl, right yeah. Yeah, Actually, hey,

670
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 1: they don't have to be offensive line anymore. Yeah, they

671
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 1: still wanted me to. Coach Levy still wanted me to

672
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: carry the weight because you know, he didn't want me

673
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 1: getting pushed around and driven back on field goal protection.

674
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: So even when I was just snapping those last few years,

675
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: they didn't want me to lose weight, you know, because

676
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: we were still getting getting hit in there. Well, they

677
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 1: could still line guys up on your nose back then,

678
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 1: and it was only until Yeah, do you remember I

679
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: called it the tidal wave, right they had there was

680
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: I think it was detroit to put a guy on

681
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 1: my head, a guy in the gap in the a gap,

682
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: a guy on Howard Ballard's head, and put two guys

683
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: behind him. It's the first time I ever remember, so

684
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: those those three guys were getting pushed by two guys.

685
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: So basically they committed five five guys to one gap, right,

686
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: And you know, I snapped the ball and immediately went

687
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: flat backed. And then I see Howard laying down next

688
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: to me. I'd never seen that before. But the operation

689
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: was good and they still didn't get a block, you know,

690
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: because we had we had an operation with Steve Tristi

691
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 1: one time where we got the ball off at one

692
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: point one nine seconds. Yeah, that's fast, it's really I

693
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 1: mean if you if you get off the snap operation

694
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 1: is under one point three, they can't block it off

695
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: the corner. But yeah, Steve was so aggressive to the

696
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: ball that we I remember that one like yesterday that

697
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: he got you know, one point one nine. I'm like, Steve,

698
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,439
Speaker 1: I appreciate the confidence, but take it easy, right right,

699
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: because yeah, the pressure is really on the snapper in

700
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: the holder when he wants to attack the ball like that.

701
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,399
Speaker 1: But nobody's gonna block it if you get it off.

702
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,439
Speaker 1: I remember that. Yeah, so it's very hard to block

703
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: if you have a smooth operation on time. So, Adam,

704
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: that's awesome. It's good to hear from me. Man. You look, hey,

705
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on. I'm good to chatting with you.

706
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun watching you'd really stumble

707
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: over Mica. That's the idea. Yeah, used to have a

708
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Adam Linger Farmer long snapper for the Buffalo Bills,

709
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, one of the twenty two players who

710
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: appear in all four Super Bowls for Buffalo and just

711
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 1: we didn't get a chance to mention this with him,

712
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: but just back in twenty eighteen, he got inducted into

713
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: the Quad City Sports Hall of Fame, which is that

714
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: four city area where Iowa and Illinois kind of border

715
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: each other. Um, Illinois come. Yeah, I want to say,

716
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: I think he's a Rock Island Illinois guy. Um. But

717
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: you got Davenport, Iowa there and Moline, Illinois. And so

718
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: that's that's that Quad Cities area that they call it

719
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,760
Speaker 1: and Quad City Sports Hall of Fame areas at Illinois.

720
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: It's his college picture for our MSG viewers watching it

721
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: there and he got the last scholarship at Illinois UM

722
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 1: and it was due part is long snapping abilities and

723
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: pretty good shot putter. In high school, I think he

724
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: finished seventh or eighth in the state of Illinois. So

725
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,439
Speaker 1: three sport athletes. You don't see that many three sport

726
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 1: athletes anymore. Kids are so specialized and you have to

727
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: go to smaller high schools to do that now. And

728
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,280
Speaker 1: that's what the way when I went to high school

729
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: that too, was too. Yeah, I mean it just we

730
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: had two hundred and fifty kids in the entire system

731
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: from K through twelve, right, so that is really small. Yeah,

732
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: so like a hundred it was about it was about

733
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: I mean not no in the four grades of high school,

734
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: all four grades of high school, or two hundred and

735
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: fifty kids. Okay, still that's small. Yeah, and uh yeah,

736
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: my high school graduating class had like fifty seven kids

737
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: in it. And you know, you had, you know, if

738
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 1: you wanted to field all these sports. Everybody played all

739
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 1: the sports together. Yeah, you know that sounds like my,

740
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: uh my wife's old K to eight school where you

741
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 1: played on every every team and everything was co ed

742
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: because you didn't have enough boys or girls separate at least,

743
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 1: so they just used to throw them all together. That's right, play,

744
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: it's exactly crazy. Yeah. I was on the volleyball team,

745
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: the basketball team, the soccer team, the debate team. Let's

746
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: just run right down the list, all right, break time

747
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: for us. When we come back, we'll crack open the

748
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: obl fan mail bag and take your phone calls at

749
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: eighth three five fifty one, eight five fifty two five

750
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: fifty open line for you. There Steve and I'm back

751
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: in a moment here on One Bill's Line, presented by

752
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker,

753
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: One Bills Live Friday Edition, which means only one thing.

754
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:47,399
Speaker 1: The obil fan mail Bag is open, and we lead

755
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: off with Nick and the Fan mail Bang brought to

756
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company

757
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Nick says, if you could choose any

758
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: AFC team that's realistically in playoff contention to play in

759
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: the round, who would it be? Personally? I think we

760
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: match up well against the Ravens and Dolphins. I'd want

761
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: to avoid the Titans, so hopefully they win their division.

762
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: If you had to pick, Steve, who, I don't know

763
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: that anybody's going to be an easy matchup in the

764
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: AFC this year. There's a lot of really good team

765
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: There's gonna be at least seven of them, maybe one

766
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: or two that don't get in. And I don't like

767
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: the prospect of playing the Dolphins a third time. That's

768
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 1: just that's something that doesn't sit right with me. I'd

769
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: prefer to play a team that isn't battle tested in

770
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: the playoffs. The Ravens have been there times. I won't

771
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: have them problem playing the Dolphins a third time if

772
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: they beat us this next time. Oh, I see what

773
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 1: you're saying. So split the season series and then beat

774
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 1: them in the playoffs. Yeah, it's hard to beat a

775
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: team three times in a row, right, That's why i'm

776
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: a little you know what I mean. So if you

777
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: beat Denver, beat New England, don't need the Week seventeen matchup.

778
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: They win that and then a play him a third time.

779
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that, and just

780
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 1: play super Vanilla in Week seventeen. Whatever, you know, I

781
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: don't care. Just whatever, just give them, give me another

782
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: shot at him. So you would take Miami? If? No? Only,

783
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: if only? If that's the Asseren scenario. Well, he's asking

784
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: you who would you like to play? I would play

785
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: the Jets. Well, I want to play about Jacksonville or Cincinnati,

786
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: one of those three teams. I'll take any of them. Yeah, first,

787
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: Actually I'll take him in the I'd like to steer

788
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: clear of the Titans, much like nick Um, because I

789
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: just don't like the way they can grind out games. Um,

790
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: I suppose I could tolerate Indie although their offensive line

791
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: and their ability to run the football is a concern.

792
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 1: Take Indie, but I would say probably Indie is is

793
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: the team Indie's Cleveland's really talented and they're starting to

794
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: play really well. They're getting better, is to fancy. Yeah,

795
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,479
Speaker 1: their defense though, struggles on the back end. That would

796
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: be a good matchup for the Bills. But the way

797
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: they run the football is a concern. That's it. Well,

798
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: we're our run defense is not what it was. It's

799
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: it's better. It is better. It's much better now. But

800
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: they got that two headed minds, and don't let me

801
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: just go out on them and just say this for me.

802
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: You can pick I don't care, because this team's gonna

803
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: beat him. This team will is. This team is good

804
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: enough to beat any of those. I don't care who

805
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: it is, any of those. And I'm looking forward to

806
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: this team having a chance to play Kansas City. I

807
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a really good game. The Bills

808
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 1: are playing as well as anybody in the league. Forget

809
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 1: about the AFC, the whole league, and I don't think

810
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 1: there's a single team out there. If they watch the

811
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: film and watch the games the Bills are played, they

812
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 1: want any part of these guys. So let's go. You know,

813
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 1: I'm that we got three games to go, and I

814
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 1: want to see this team obviously want to see him

815
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: finish strong. And however this falls, it's out of there

816
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: because it's out of the Bills control. Who wins, who loses.

817
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: They canna. I want to see him push their foot

818
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: on the gas and win the next three games to

819
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs. And you know, go thirteen and

820
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 1: three and then hit the playoffs at a dead run.

821
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: Nobody's getting a buy. Don't count on it. Just play

822
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 1: and win every week because that teaches you how to

823
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: win in every circumstance. So I'm you know, I get

824
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: his query. Who would you like to play? To me?

825
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: I do not care? Yeah, I do not care. Question

826
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: two in the oldbl fan mailbag from Chris. With all

827
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: the talk about Marshawn Lynch possibly coming out of retirement

828
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:31,919
Speaker 1: if he has a chance to play for a Super

829
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: Bowl contender, do you think the Bill should pull the

830
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: trigger and sign him to a contract. Could we see

831
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: beast mood two point zero in Buffalo? If so, does

832
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: he improve our run game? First of all, I haven't

833
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: heard a lot about this. If you heard about Marshawn

834
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: Lynch coming out of retirement. I haven't heard about this.

835
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: I heard a breath or two about a wild beat.

836
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say unequivocally, No, he's thirty four years old.

837
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: He is not in shape. He wasn't. He didn't look

838
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: good the last time he came back for Seattle. Didn't

839
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: look like the same player. And thirty four for a

840
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: running back is ancient. So respect what he did in

841
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 1: the league. Thought he was a talented player when he

842
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: was here. But no, I'm not interested. It's a great story,

843
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 1: but like a lot of stories, I think it's a

844
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: fairy tale. I don't think it's gonna I don't think

845
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: it's in real I don't think it's reality based. I

846
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: love Marshaun as a player. Man, that guy was he

847
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: He was the beast of all beasts. You know, he had.

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00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 1: He was a great, great attitude. His teammates loved him.

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00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: He's a great locker room guy, did a lot of

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00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: things he never get credit for, and was obviously a tremendous,

851
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: tremendous player. But no, no, he's they There's no reason

852
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: for the Bills to do any of that. Yeah, signed

853
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch. There's no reason to put Andre Roberts at

854
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 1: wide receiver. There's no reason to start doing any of

855
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: that stuff. Do you find it interesting that Seattle is

856
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,959
Speaker 1: a team that has been doing that all season long,

857
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:06,359
Speaker 1: just grasping at veterans making trades, you know, whether they

858
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: trade for Carlos Signing, Well, that was a year ago.

859
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: But yes, that kind of that kind of thing. They

860
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,879
Speaker 1: seem to be tinkering all the time through the course

861
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Speaker 1: of the regular season with their roster. And I understand

862
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: if you have a hole, you gotta do something, but

863
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: it seems like it's just been constant and I find

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00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: that approach peculiar as unusual, and this is an unusual year.

865
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Speaker 1: But like I said, but like you said, they did

866
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Speaker 1: some history of doing They did it against Clowney last year,

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Speaker 1: They've done it at other times. Sign and got like,

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, who's the Jamal Adams, you know, the

869
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Speaker 1: signing of him, And yeah, it's a little bit of philosophy,

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Speaker 1: poph philosophical difference that they have. I think it runs

871
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 1: counter to a lot of to the way a lot

872
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: of other Kidams do business. It's like, hey, when I'm

873
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 1: getting into the season. This is kind of my roster.

874
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: I have a little pool of money here, Phil, Yeah, yeah,

875
00:48:58,000 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: in case we have a rashing. They seem to spend

876
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: their urgency fund facts. And I understand maybe, you know, hey,

877
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 1: you know our quarterbacks thirty one, he's in his prime.

878
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 1: We're going for it. You know, whatever, you whatever, your

879
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: mind's eye is telling you. But it seems like they

880
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,919
Speaker 1: do that year over year. And they're always competitive though. Yes,

881
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: and Russ makes them that way. Yes, and Russ gives

882
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: them a chance, and they got DC. They got some

883
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Speaker 1: guys going, oh yeah, so I get it. But to me,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I just think, like, like in this building,

885
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 1: I get a vibe from this place, like our coaching

886
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 1: gonna coach that up. Yeah, we're good. We're gonna scheme

887
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: that up. If we've got us some problems, we're gonna

888
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:39,800
Speaker 1: do some things. Look at what happened with the defense

889
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 1: six weeks ago, that's right, and even over the bye week.

890
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Speaker 1: I mean they came out of the bye week now

891
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: they ran the ball better, and they defended the run

892
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: extremely a ton better. I just got more faith in

893
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: the coaching staff to make up for personnel deficiencies than

894
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 1: to go out and bring a guy in, get him acclimated,

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Speaker 1: get him in the protocols, get him up to speed,

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Speaker 1: get him in the game, find out what he can do,

897
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Speaker 1: and then finally give him something that'll help you win.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's you know, that's a three week process

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Speaker 1: and you got a month left in the season. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's just I think it's counterproductive. Yeah. I

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00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 1: mean since the bye week, Buffalo's run defense went from

902
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Speaker 1: giving up one hundred and thirty five yards per game

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Speaker 1: on the ground to sixty nine point seven. They've cut

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Speaker 1: it in half. And that's not the only place. I mean,

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Speaker 1: yards per carry is down almost a yard and a

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Speaker 1: half from four point eight the first ten games to

907
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: three point four the last three. Third down conversion percentage

908
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: by opponents down almost twenty percent forty six and a

909
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Speaker 1: half percent in the first ten games, twenty seven percent

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00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. I mean, they have they have

911
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,880
Speaker 1: whacked away at a bunch of stuff. So impressive. All right,

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Speaker 1: we gotta take a break. When we come back. More

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Speaker 1: Broncos canceled today's walk through as a precaution. The team

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Speaker 1: is continuing its normal preparations virtually for Saturday's game against Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: For the Broncos, running backs Philip Lindsay and Melvin Gordon

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Speaker 1: incomes Taylor Russellino. Last night, Week fifteen kicked off, holding

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Speaker 1: on to their slim playoff hopes, the Las Vegas Raiders

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Speaker 1: to the Chargers thirty to twenty seven in overtime. Raiders

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Speaker 1: coach John Gruden described Car's injury as pretty significant. The

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Speaker 1: NFL's top two teams will square off this weekend, and

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Speaker 1: it looks like it will indeed be Mahomes versus Brees.

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Speaker 1: After missing the last four games because of eleven fractured

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Speaker 1: a game. On the ground. With a win, the Bulls

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Speaker 1: going to go right to the phones here all right.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna pull up Rico in Blaisdell. Rico, what do

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Speaker 1: you have for us here on One Bills Live. Hey, Hi, Chris, Hi, Steve.

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00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:54,240
Speaker 1: I was just wanted to make mention of the Stefon

966
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: Diggs article that I saw on ESPN dot com, and

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00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: I just wanted to, you know, I thought there was

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00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 1: a real feel good thing as far as how uh

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00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: John Brown and the rest of the team took him

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00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,879
Speaker 1: in and actually uh made him feel welcome right from

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00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: the beginning. And Uh, I'm glad to see that he's here,

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00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 1: Glad to see that he's lightening it up. And I

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00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 1: just said, after I got done with that article, it

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Speaker 1: pumped me up for this Saturday's game. And I'm saying

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Speaker 1: Gold Bills, all right, sounds good, Rico, thanks for bringing

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Speaker 1: it up. Appreciate the call. Uh, Steve and I were

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Speaker 1: actually talking about that story yesterday and you pointed out

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Speaker 1: what Rico pointed out, how John Brown at that player

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Speaker 1: organized workout in South Florida back in June. I want

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00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: to say it was They're all getting ready to line

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00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 1: up for some routes on air drills with Josh and

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00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: the other quarterbacks throwing to him. And Diggs doesn't know

983
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: anybody personally from Adam new guy. You know, he just

984
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: like the first day of school. He just wants to

985
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 1: fit in. It's like the first day of schoo for him.

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Speaker 1: And you know, John Brown kind of takes it from there.

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00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: And you pointed out how how instrumental that is and

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00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 1: just kind of taking the edge off of everything. Yeah,

989
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 1: And here's what happens usually when you're on the team,

990
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Speaker 1: like when I was playing wide receiver for the Buffalo

991
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: bill I mean I practice wide receiver. I played special teams,

992
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 1: but six days a week. For eleven and a half years,

993
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 1: I played wide out from Monday through Saturday. So I

994
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: was in the room with Don Baby, James Lofton, Andre Read.

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00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 1: They were my guys. We I practiced with him all

996
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 1: the time and we were we were close friends. So

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00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 1: what happens You get out there and you know, Andre

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00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,720
Speaker 1: lead you off in the in the in the drills,

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00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 1: or James Lofton leads you off in the drills. Every

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Speaker 1: single day. It's those in the number one the number

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00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: two guy. Those guys lead you off. And that's kind

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Speaker 1: of the way it is around. It's kind of a

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Speaker 1: thing where the you know, the the lead dog sets

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00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 1: the pace. So these guys get together in this summer

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Speaker 1: workout with Josh and those guys down in Florida, and

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Speaker 1: it's a thing. Do onlybody tell you it's not a thing.

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Speaker 1: It's a thing. And they start going and Steph Diggs

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00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:03,319
Speaker 1: is going, how I you know what's gonna happen here?

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00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: I just want to fit in. I hope these guys

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00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 1: all right. So they said, all let's go, We're gonna

1011
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: run some routes. So they start to line up to

1012
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 1: get to take some one on one air routes with

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00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:13,320
Speaker 1: Josh and John Brown does something that is very cool

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00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 1: in NFL circles. He points to the front of the

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00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: line where their line is gonna be, where they're gonna

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00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 1: take He goes, Hey, Steph, lead us off, you know.

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Speaker 1: And that's pretty cool. It's pretty cool because it's a

1018
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: in a saying let's go. Let's go, man, let's we'll

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00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:32,399
Speaker 1: take our lead. And that's pretty cool. That's funny. It's

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Speaker 1: meant something to Steph did. I think the funny part

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Speaker 1: of it was it put all the pressure on steps

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Speaker 1: and now he's like, oh, man, I better catch his

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Speaker 1: first ball right right? Um. But I think that went

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Speaker 1: a long way in establishing the trust and the relationship

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Speaker 1: change teammates. And that was the one thing that Stefans

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Speaker 1: thought was missing in Minnesota. He did not feel like

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Speaker 1: he could trust everybody in that organization, whether it was coaches.

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Speaker 1: He loves his teammates. I don't think there was an

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Speaker 1: issue there, he said. He still has a lot of

1031
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:13,879
Speaker 1: good friends on that roster. I think his issue dealt

1032
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Speaker 1: with coaching and management and them not being completely upfront

1033
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Speaker 1: with him, and it eroded the trust level between the

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Speaker 1: two sides, and eventually he was unhappy. There. Let me

1035
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Speaker 1: say this, and I don't want to go too far

1036
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Speaker 1: down this rabbit hole. We've been talking the last couple

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Speaker 1: of days, particularly yesterday's anniversary of the twenty fifth year

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00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 1: since they won the division or whatever it was, you know. Yeah,

1039
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: so it's been a long time for success like this

1040
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: to come along. Now they've been in the playoffs, you know,

1041
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: two out of the last three years, and maybe with

1042
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 1: this year, probably going to be four out of five

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Speaker 1: or three out of four. So there's been some success here.

1044
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Speaker 1: But for a lot of years, a lot of us

1045
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:57,919
Speaker 1: can relate this was this was not an easy team

1046
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: to root for. You had to, really you had to

1047
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: work at it to find hope, to find positivity, to

1048
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Speaker 1: find something to love about the crew. And it was

1049
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Speaker 1: usually it was guys like fits or you know, Freddie

1050
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Speaker 1: Jackson or Stevie Johnson or Kyle Williams or you know,

1051
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Speaker 1: you pick your guy. Usually about one of the guys

1052
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Speaker 1: you kind of had an affinity for. Now and I

1053
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: got another example I can get to with this now,

1054
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: this whole team you can root for. I mean that

1055
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 1: that stuff we just talked about Steph Diggs and the camaraderie.

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Speaker 1: And remember last year and I can't remember the play

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00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 1: what it was, What it was Levi or somebody who

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00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 1: picked off a path and the sideline goes absolutely crazy,

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00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 1: absolutely crazy for a guy who caught a first down.

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00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: It was like one of it was like Isaam McKinsey

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00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 1: or one of the other guys. I don't know who

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00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 1: it was, maybe as Duke Williams or something. The sidelines

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00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 1: went absolutely bonkers for a nondescript It was a good third,

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00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 1: good first down pick up, but you know it was

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00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 1: a first down. The sidelines went crazy for the guy.

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Speaker 1: This whole crew is easy to root for these days.

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00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 1: It's not like he had to pick out your favorite

1068
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 1: because the team is not doing that well. It's not

1069
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 1: And it's more than just the fact that they're winning.

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00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: It's a great group of guys who like each other

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00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:15,439
Speaker 1: and that's fun to be a part of as a fan.

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00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 1: And that's I think, and I'm and I'll make this

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00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 1: relation to I read an article today that Kim and

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00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 1: Terry Pegoula have sought have have had conversations with other

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00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 1: owners around the National Football League about Leslie Frasier being

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00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 1: a head coaching candidate and how they support him and

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00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: how he should get an opportunity to do that talking

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00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: to other owners, which is detrimental to their organization because

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00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:41,480
Speaker 1: if you lose Leslie Frasier, you ostensibly would not be

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00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 1: as good. But they did that for him, and I

1081
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: know Bills fans are like, what are you doing. You're

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00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: trying to get rid of one of our best coaches.

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00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 1: Let me just tell you this. Here's why it's it's

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00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 1: a good thing. Sean McDermot has always said, we want

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Speaker 1: guys and people and coaches and players to come to

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00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 1: Buffalo to be the best ver of themselves. They did

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01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 1: this with the players they lost last year in freezing

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01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:07,880
Speaker 1: Georg Jordan Phillips, Shack Lawson, some of those other players

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01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: they have always had. Let those guys go on their

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01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 1: way with great feelings and a great relationship and no

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01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 1: bridges burned, with great affection for all those guys that left.

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01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 1: That goes for the coaches as well. And that's one

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01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: more reason why this organization is successful, because these guys know,

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01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 1: even if they're not in this building anymore, this building

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01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 1: is for them, and that is very enticing in a

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01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 1: little in an industry called pro football. That's very enticing

1097
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 1: to have a place that will let you flourish and

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01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: then send you on your way to bigger and better

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01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: things with open hearts. It's a great, great atmosphere. Well,

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01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 1: and not only that, they let these guys be themselves.

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01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: You know, whether it's seven or eight guys after an interception,

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01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 1: sliding in front of the video camera in the end

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01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 1: zone because that's who they are, that's their personality, or

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01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: letting them have a snowball fight at the end of practice. Right,

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01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 1: it's not so rigid and you know, lacking in a

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01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:18,280
Speaker 1: variance in terms of who everybody can be. It's not

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01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 1: like everybody's lined up as wooden soldiers here where there's

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01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:25,200
Speaker 1: no margin for expressing who you are as a person

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Speaker 1: or a player. One of the reasons that, one of

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Speaker 1: the ways they do that, and the reasons they do

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01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 1: that is because the atmosphere is this, they want to

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Speaker 1: know you as a person more than a football player.

1113
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: Sean has made efforts to do that all the way

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Speaker 1: down through the building, and so has Brandon being and

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01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 1: all and the coaching staff. They know each other extremely well.

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01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 1: Inside the coach's office, inside the locker room, the coaches

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01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: know the players. The players have an idea of who

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01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: the coaches are, and they know that they're being spoken

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Speaker 1: to honestly. And because they have such a familiarity with

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Speaker 1: each other, the desire to do well for each other

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01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 1: is enhanced and that leads to, you know, off the

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01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 1: charge productivity, it leads to a growth mindset. It leads

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Speaker 1: to helping each other get better, which leads to success

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01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: on the field. And it's it's you really got to

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01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: tip your hat to what Sean and Brandon have done

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01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 1: and with the support of Terry and Kim and the

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01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: entire building, the people they brought in are all about that.

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Speaker 1: And it's not just lip service when Sean McDermott says

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Speaker 1: during free agency, because we want guys who if we

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Speaker 1: get guys to come here, we will want them, they

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01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 1: will be and we will help them be the best

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Speaker 1: version of themselves. That goes for coaches, executive scouts, and

1133
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:41,840
Speaker 1: of course players. Let's go back to the falls. We

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Speaker 1: go to Tony in North Carolina. Tony, what do you

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01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:47,280
Speaker 1: have for is you're on one Bill's Live. Yes, I

1136
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 1: was just calling to find out your opinion, and whether

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01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 1: the Bills the play their starts against the Dolphins as

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01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:56,160
Speaker 1: they're sitting in the second spot because the week before

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01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 1: the if Indianapolis peats Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh has got the

1140
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:02,080
Speaker 1: same record, or whether the Bills that play their starters

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01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins. I think they probably would because it

1142
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 1: depends on what's around me. It depends on how likely

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01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 1: they would be to losing the second seed and how

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01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 1: likely would be that they could move up to the

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01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 1: first seed. But if that, if that game is meaningless,

1146
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 1: you can probably bet it'll look a lot like the

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01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:26,200
Speaker 1: Week seventeen game last year against the Jets. Yeah, that's

1148
01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 1: probably the way it would go, but it looks like

1149
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 1: it might have some meaning. But if there is something

1150
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:35,440
Speaker 1: to gain and it means two home playoff games instead

1151
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: of one, see, it's almost an impossibility for the Bills

1152
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:41,560
Speaker 1: to get that one seed because they'd have to win out.

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01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 1: They'd have to win out and Kansas City would have

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01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 1: to lose out because Kansas Ceed's got the tiebreaker on Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: So if they both end up thirteen and three, Kansas

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01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 1: City's the one seed. But if you're the two seed,

1157
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:55,080
Speaker 1: you can still get two home playoffs, but the two

1158
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 1: seed is key because you won't see the Chiefs until

1159
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game, and you get two off games

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01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: if you can keep winning at home. So that's that's

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01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 1: where you stand. But if that game in week seventeen

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01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 1: is not meaningful, then you can bet it they'll be

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01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:14,320
Speaker 1: treated like this week seventeen game last season, right in

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Speaker 1: which they sat just about everybody and started largely backups.

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Speaker 1: Back to the phones, and we have Ben in Amherst. Ben,

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Speaker 1: you're on one Bill's Live. What do you have for us? Hey, afternoon, fella.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of a two part question here. I'm here

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Speaker 1: in Denver. Secondary's pretty banged up. I guess my first

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01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 1: question is how do they deal with Josh and our

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Speaker 1: receivers in that passing attack? And the second part is

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01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 1: what does their defensive coordinator do as a backup plan

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Speaker 1: if they lose another DV Yeah, they'll have enough bodies.

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Speaker 1: They will. They've added some players to the roster in

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Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks. They got Will Parks earlier

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01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: this month off of waivers from Philadelphia. He had been

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01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 1: with them previously. Now he's a safety by trade, but

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01:04:57,360 --> 01:04:59,680
Speaker 1: he can play in the slot, and he did last

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01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: week for them and did pretty well, So that's your

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01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:05,920
Speaker 1: answer there. They're starting a rookie at left corner in

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01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 1: Michael Ojemudia, and they've got another backup starting in Davante

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01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 1: Bosby because they lost Duke Dawson and Kevin Tolliver last week. A. J.

1182
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: Booyer is on the suspended list now. They also signed

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01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 1: Nate Hairston, picked him up and he will be eligible

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01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:26,920
Speaker 1: to play this week. They picked up another guy off

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01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 1: the San Francisco practice squad, Perry and Motley, but it

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01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:32,800
Speaker 1: doesn't look like he's going to clear all the COVID

1187
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:35,840
Speaker 1: protocols to be eligible to play. So I guess that's

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01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:40,480
Speaker 1: a long way of saying they'll have probably four corners

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Speaker 1: dressed because they have another corner on the practice squad

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01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: they could call up too, and then they have Will Parks,

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01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 1: who's technically a fifth corner as their slot guy. But yeah,

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01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:50,440
Speaker 1: if they have another injury, they're gonna have to get creative.

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01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:52,760
Speaker 1: And that's why we were saying all week, Ben that

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01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:56,400
Speaker 1: if you're the Bills, run him four wide all day long.

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01:05:56,560 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 1: I mean, right, tax that group right in this just

1196
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 1: came over about one o'clock, just about a half hour ago,

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01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: uh from a guy named Patrick Smythe following a positive

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01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen tests. UH, the Broncos canceled today's walk through

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Speaker 1: as a PRECAUTIONUS was a staff member. There's a staff men. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you know they've got it. See it seems like

1201
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:24,480
Speaker 1: a mess when you start talking about it in these terms.

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01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:26,360
Speaker 1: They got, they got no corners. They got a couple

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01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:28,360
Speaker 1: of guys that are absolute strangers that may have to

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Speaker 1: take significant number of snaps uh tomorrow at corner Um.

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Speaker 1: Believe me. There they're gonna try and overcome that as

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01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:40,040
Speaker 1: a group, and I think one way they can do

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01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:43,640
Speaker 1: that is, you know, with their pass rush and with

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01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 1: playing a little bit of zone and mixing it up

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01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 1: and giving them different fronts. They'll they'll start to with

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01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 1: some they'll put some smoking mirrors on the field against

1211
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:54,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo just to try and get into Josh's head. But

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01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:57,000
Speaker 1: it's becoming more widely known that if you can get

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01:06:57,040 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 1: to Josh, the Bills aren't as effective offensively. Now, whether

1214
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:03,160
Speaker 1: you can do that or not remain to be seen,

1215
01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: because the Bills will answer you with some protection changes

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01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 1: like they did against Pittsburgh. But that's what you're gonna

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01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: look at. The Broncos have got some problems. It's not

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01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:15,000
Speaker 1: a good matchup for the Bronco secretary for sure, just

1219
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:17,280
Speaker 1: based on their shorthandedness. All right, break time for us

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Speaker 1: when we return, Senior producer from NFL Films one, Greg

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01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 1: co Sell will be joining us to dice this game

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01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:26,600
Speaker 1: up seven ways to Saturday. When we return here on

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Back to Live. Chris Brown Steve Chaster Time now making

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Speaker 1: his weekly visit, is the senior producer of NFL Films

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Speaker 1: and the head of the Aran Johnson fan Club. It's

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Speaker 1: one great co Sell everybody, Greg, How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Chris Steve? I'm doing great. How are you guys doing?

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Speaker 1: We're doing well. We have poking fun that you're saying.

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01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:04,040
Speaker 1: Head of the Aryan Johnson I go by with the

1231
01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 1: tape shows. I think this kid's playing really good football.

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01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:10,080
Speaker 1: The defense as a whole, Greg over the last well,

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01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:12,480
Speaker 1: certainly since the bye, but even before then they were

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01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 1: showing signs of improvement. But since the bye, Greg, this

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01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:20,320
Speaker 1: run defense has cut the production of their opponents in half.

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01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:22,640
Speaker 1: It was one hundred and thirty five rushing yards a

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01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:25,760
Speaker 1: game through the first ten weeks, and in the last

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Speaker 1: three weeks it's been shaved down to about sixty seven

1239
01:08:29,080 --> 01:08:32,320
Speaker 1: sixty eight yards a game. And I know one of

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Speaker 1: those opponents was Pittsburgh's had trouble running the ball against anybody,

1241
01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:38,080
Speaker 1: but that's true. I think the three of us could

1242
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:40,519
Speaker 1: stop the stealers runs right, but still at all I

1243
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 1: mean some sizable improvements from this Bill's defense, which has

1244
01:08:44,400 --> 01:08:48,360
Speaker 1: really kind of made them into a three phase football team.

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01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:51,600
Speaker 1: Not It's a great point because I think one of

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01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:54,640
Speaker 1: the concerns early in the year, which was overshadowed by

1247
01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 1: how well Josh Allen has played all season and his

1248
01:08:57,439 --> 01:09:00,360
Speaker 1: dramatic improvement has been that the defense and for the

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01:09:00,360 --> 01:09:02,559
Speaker 1: first half of the season was not what we thought

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01:09:02,560 --> 01:09:06,439
Speaker 1: it would be. And now it's clearly played better and

1251
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:09,519
Speaker 1: it makes them a far more complete team, you know,

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01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:12,519
Speaker 1: and I think now you know, I think not that

1253
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: you want anyone to get hurt, of course, you never

1254
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:17,200
Speaker 1: want that, but with Milano being out for a few

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01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:20,240
Speaker 1: weeks and A. J. Klein getting an opportunity to play

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01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:23,559
Speaker 1: for a number of weeks almost every snap he's played

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01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:26,880
Speaker 1: phenomenal football. So now they've got a sort of a

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01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 1: three headed monster in their sub nickel defense. Obviously Edmonds

1259
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 1: never leaves the field, but Klein and Milano. This week,

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Speaker 1: Milano played more snaps. I think it was almost split

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Speaker 1: pretty evenly with Klin. But but that position now is

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01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:46,120
Speaker 1: a really strong position with two really good players. You know, hey,

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01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:49,280
Speaker 1: you mentioned me with tarn Johnson, but he's played really

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Speaker 1: good football over the last month. And in this game

1265
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,880
Speaker 1: that we're seeing the interception return for a touchdown, you know,

1266
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 1: he's really competitive and against the run in the run

1267
01:09:58,320 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 1: game as well, which you have to be in this

1268
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:04,240
Speaker 1: league now as a slot corner. So you know, this

1269
01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:07,479
Speaker 1: defense has really come on. And and of course I've always,

1270
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 1: based on tape study, been a big big fan of

1271
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:12,800
Speaker 1: both safeties Hide and player. I think I think they're

1272
01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:15,879
Speaker 1: really good players. And how do you think this defense

1273
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:18,040
Speaker 1: and the way it's playing now meshes with what the

1274
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:21,160
Speaker 1: Broncos did. We thought and have heard that Drew Locke

1275
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:23,040
Speaker 1: really took a little bit of a step forward this

1276
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:25,960
Speaker 1: past week with his completion percentage. Is decision making and

1277
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 1: how it affected their offense, How do you think these

1278
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:31,120
Speaker 1: two I watched that tape. I watched that tape Stephen,

1279
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:33,880
Speaker 1: and I think that they played a defense in Carolina

1280
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:37,680
Speaker 1: that's not tactically difficult to play against. It was a

1281
01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 1: good way. It was a good game for Drew Locke

1282
01:10:40,080 --> 01:10:42,400
Speaker 1: to kind of get back on track because he is

1283
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:46,599
Speaker 1: a talented kid. Has some concerns, clearly, but he's a

1284
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:50,040
Speaker 1: very talented kid. And I think that that Carolina defense,

1285
01:10:50,080 --> 01:10:52,479
Speaker 1: the way they play, it was a good game for

1286
01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:55,439
Speaker 1: him to sort of get comfortable. I don't think that

1287
01:10:55,920 --> 01:10:58,959
Speaker 1: Sean and Leslie will let him get quite as comfortable.

1288
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:01,800
Speaker 1: And now having said that, at the kid has a

1289
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:04,439
Speaker 1: really good arm. He can make every throw. He's an

1290
01:11:04,479 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 1: aggressive thrower. He needs to better understand game situations and

1291
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:11,280
Speaker 1: when he can turn certain throws loose and when he can't.

1292
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:13,479
Speaker 1: But there's no question in any given week he can

1293
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 1: make big time throws. I gotta ask you as well.

1294
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:18,960
Speaker 1: It's been talked about a lot here in Buffalo. It's

1295
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 1: hard to get a straight answer from Sean mcdermotter or

1296
01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 1: Brian Day By the offensive coordinator, what did you notice

1297
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:27,599
Speaker 1: that was different in the second half of the Buffalo

1298
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh game. For the Bills offense. What adjustments did you notice,

1299
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 1: because they came out and had two very very impressive

1300
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:37,320
Speaker 1: touchdown drives to put the game away early in the

1301
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:41,519
Speaker 1: third quarter. Yeah, I think they Again I'm not being

1302
01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:45,799
Speaker 1: sarcastic here. I think they threw it to Diggs versus

1303
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,880
Speaker 1: matchups day Like, Diggs caught six passes for eighty three

1304
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:52,080
Speaker 1: yards on the Bill's first two possessions of the third quarter.

1305
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:55,400
Speaker 1: He lined up on the right side of the formation

1306
01:11:55,479 --> 01:11:59,200
Speaker 1: on all but the nineteen yard touchdown, and a lot

1307
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 1: of them were just quick game type throws, Steve you know.

1308
01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 1: So again they saw something that allowed them to believe, hey,

1309
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:08,519
Speaker 1: those quick game throws would work. But it didn't strike me.

1310
01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: And again, these guys know more than I do, clearly

1311
01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:14,439
Speaker 1: their coaches about their offense. But it wasn't a case

1312
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:17,360
Speaker 1: where I was looking at, you know, detailed route concepts

1313
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:21,760
Speaker 1: that attacked the specific coverage concept. They just they got

1314
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:25,400
Speaker 1: the ball to Stefan Diggs on basic routes. And you know,

1315
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:27,920
Speaker 1: when you catch six passes on two possessions, six for

1316
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:29,880
Speaker 1: eighty three would be a nice game every week for

1317
01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:32,000
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, and he did that on the first

1318
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:35,720
Speaker 1: two possessions of the third quarter and then Greg, you know,

1319
01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:37,760
Speaker 1: taking it a step further. I knew. I saw some

1320
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 1: next Gen stats this week and it explains how even

1321
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 1: though Diggs is one of the leading receivers in the

1322
01:12:44,479 --> 01:12:47,320
Speaker 1: league right now, he's gone about it a much different way.

1323
01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:50,800
Speaker 1: He's relied primarily on the hitch route to get most

1324
01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:53,200
Speaker 1: of his yards, where you know, a lot of the

1325
01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:55,360
Speaker 1: other players that are at the top of the league

1326
01:12:55,360 --> 01:12:58,759
Speaker 1: and receiving yards and receptions have relied on much bigger

1327
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 1: plays to accumulate their yardage and receptions. And I was

1328
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:06,960
Speaker 1: struck by Michael Ojimudia, the rookie corner who's now in

1329
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 1: the starting lineup for the Broncos. He said, I could

1330
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:13,200
Speaker 1: watch Stefon Diggs run the hitch route three hundred and

1331
01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 1: fifty times on tape, and I'm still not going to

1332
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:18,799
Speaker 1: be able to defend it any better because he runs

1333
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:20,600
Speaker 1: it that Well, what do you what do you? We

1334
01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 1: all know that he's an elite route runner, but what

1335
01:13:23,479 --> 01:13:25,160
Speaker 1: is it about the way he runs that hitch route

1336
01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:28,760
Speaker 1: that makes him so hard to figure out? Well, I

1337
01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:32,200
Speaker 1: think and Steve would understand this very well. I think

1338
01:13:32,240 --> 01:13:34,120
Speaker 1: the way you run a hitch route is dependent on

1339
01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 1: the way the corner is playing, because I think you'd

1340
01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:39,360
Speaker 1: run a hitch rout differently versus a press you run

1341
01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:43,040
Speaker 1: it differently versus an off coverage corner, So you know,

1342
01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:45,759
Speaker 1: I think it's dependent on how the corner is playing.

1343
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:47,880
Speaker 1: I mean, clearly, if you're going to run a hitch

1344
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:51,680
Speaker 1: route against an off coverage corner who who doesn't want

1345
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:54,599
Speaker 1: to give up his cushion, you have to show him

1346
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:58,479
Speaker 1: in some way on your vertical stem that you're going

1347
01:13:58,520 --> 01:14:01,519
Speaker 1: to run vertically, because you have to get him to

1348
01:14:01,640 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 1: turn just a little bit, because if he does not

1349
01:14:04,280 --> 01:14:07,200
Speaker 1: turn at all and he just sits facing you, then

1350
01:14:07,240 --> 01:14:10,639
Speaker 1: there's then the route's not there. And obviously if it's

1351
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:13,840
Speaker 1: press coverage, then you also have to make him feel

1352
01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:15,960
Speaker 1: in your release off the line of scrimmage that you're

1353
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:18,719
Speaker 1: going to run by him, so he turns and runs.

1354
01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:23,600
Speaker 1: So obviously Diggs is very nuanced, very detailed, very disciplined

1355
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:27,800
Speaker 1: in how he runs routes against specific corners, UH specific

1356
01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:31,800
Speaker 1: coverage type corners. So and Ojimudia, he's a rookie and

1357
01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 1: he's he'll be the most experienced corner. I think they're

1358
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 1: not the most experience, but they're really down corners this

1359
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 1: week in Denver, so I'm not even sure he'll play

1360
01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:46,639
Speaker 1: opposite him. Maybe DeVante Bosby. Who's your sense of who's

1361
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:48,519
Speaker 1: going to play opposite him with all their injury. Yeah,

1362
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:51,759
Speaker 1: they that's pretty much Bosby and Ojimui as you're starting

1363
01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:53,880
Speaker 1: two corners, and then Will Parks is gonna have to

1364
01:14:53,880 --> 01:14:56,400
Speaker 1: probably be the nickel because that's where he played some

1365
01:14:56,560 --> 01:14:58,640
Speaker 1: last week, as I understand it, And then they just

1366
01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:01,599
Speaker 1: signed Nate Hairston and he's gonna probably have to dress.

1367
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:04,559
Speaker 1: He's a Temple kid. He's a Temple kid from this area.

1368
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:06,599
Speaker 1: He's been in the league. He could get some snaps

1369
01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:09,400
Speaker 1: as well. But but they're really hurting at the corner position.

1370
01:15:09,479 --> 01:15:12,840
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, Greg, would you anticipate that

1371
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:15,840
Speaker 1: it just makes too much sense for Brian Dable to

1372
01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:19,439
Speaker 1: go ten personnel, maybe even more than he has, just

1373
01:15:19,479 --> 01:15:24,880
Speaker 1: to stretch that cornerback contingent all the thinner Yeah, I

1374
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 1: would do that. I mean, I think this fuck. We

1375
01:15:27,320 --> 01:15:30,479
Speaker 1: know that that they're a passing football team. You know,

1376
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:33,040
Speaker 1: obviously we talk every week about how much they'd like

1377
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:35,880
Speaker 1: to run, but they don't really run. Although it was

1378
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:38,240
Speaker 1: mighty impressive that they got the ball with seven minutes

1379
01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:40,680
Speaker 1: and eleven seconds remaining in the game this week and

1380
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:43,000
Speaker 1: ran out the clock. I mean, if you can do that,

1381
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:46,240
Speaker 1: that is pretty darn good. And and Moss had four

1382
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 1: consecutive runs, pretty nice runs. But I think when all's

1383
01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 1: said and done, they're a passing football team right now,

1384
01:15:52,560 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 1: and I think this week sets up for that to

1385
01:15:55,160 --> 01:15:58,240
Speaker 1: be the case. So the main thing is protection obviously,

1386
01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:01,200
Speaker 1: but you know, you want them to have to go

1387
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:06,920
Speaker 1: as deep as possible into their secondary secondary. Now you

1388
01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:10,639
Speaker 1: could easily see Kareem Jackson, who has corner experience. If

1389
01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:13,760
Speaker 1: they go four wide and ten personnel. It would not

1390
01:16:13,840 --> 01:16:16,559
Speaker 1: surprise me, giving their injuries, to see Kareem Jackson play

1391
01:16:16,600 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 1: some corner. Yeah. One of the other things about this

1392
01:16:19,120 --> 01:16:21,080
Speaker 1: matchup that I want to get your thoughts on is

1393
01:16:21,240 --> 01:16:24,400
Speaker 1: Denver has an excellent red zone defense and Buffalo is

1394
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 1: pretty good in the red zone as well. Josh has

1395
01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:28,679
Speaker 1: yet to throw our career interception down in the red zone,

1396
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 1: but this matchup may be crucial because if Buffalo is

1397
01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:34,840
Speaker 1: gonna score points and put you know, and put some

1398
01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:37,680
Speaker 1: distance between themselves and put the pressure on them offensively,

1399
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:40,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to make hay in the red zone

1400
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 1: and come away with a lot of touchdowns instead of

1401
01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 1: field goals. So how do you think, what do the

1402
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:47,280
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos do so well in the red zone and

1403
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:51,320
Speaker 1: how could Buffalo attack that? Well, it's funny, you know,

1404
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:54,600
Speaker 1: we can talk about their lacking personnel, but Vic Fangio

1405
01:16:54,760 --> 01:16:56,800
Speaker 1: to me, and I've talked to people in the league,

1406
01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:59,320
Speaker 1: he's a savant when it comes to defense. He is

1407
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:02,639
Speaker 1: really really good at showing you one thing and then

1408
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:05,799
Speaker 1: doing something else. He's really good with disguise and movement.

1409
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 1: Safeties are really important to him. And in the red

1410
01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:11,800
Speaker 1: zone where it's tight or that even matters more when

1411
01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:14,840
Speaker 1: you sort of show something and it's not exactly what

1412
01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 1: it is. One area I think Josh has improved dramatically

1413
01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:21,240
Speaker 1: this year though, and I'm speaking about the red zone,

1414
01:17:21,760 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 1: is the ability to make quick decisions and get the

1415
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:28,160
Speaker 1: ball out with timing and anticipation. You know, I think

1416
01:17:28,200 --> 01:17:31,920
Speaker 1: back to that Beasley touchdown versus San Francisco where Richard

1417
01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:34,080
Speaker 1: Sherman was just, you know, a hair laid getting there.

1418
01:17:34,200 --> 01:17:35,800
Speaker 1: But in the red zone, a hair laid is a

1419
01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:38,320
Speaker 1: mile late. You know, you guys know that. So I

1420
01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:41,519
Speaker 1: think that that Josh is so much better with his

1421
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:44,640
Speaker 1: you know, elimination of where he does not want to

1422
01:17:44,640 --> 01:17:47,439
Speaker 1: go and then is isolating where you should go because

1423
01:17:47,439 --> 01:17:50,000
Speaker 1: everything is a little faster in the red zone. It

1424
01:17:50,040 --> 01:17:52,400
Speaker 1: has to be faster because there's not enough room. And

1425
01:17:52,439 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 1: I think that's an area where he's really improved. What

1426
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:57,920
Speaker 1: about the Josh's you know, the threat of him being

1427
01:17:57,920 --> 01:17:59,720
Speaker 1: a runner down there, but obviously you got the red

1428
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:01,760
Speaker 1: zone the run game. If you can run the ball

1429
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:04,960
Speaker 1: in the red zone, everything changes for the offense and

1430
01:18:05,560 --> 01:18:08,400
Speaker 1: obviously also for the defense. So Josh's ability to do

1431
01:18:08,439 --> 01:18:11,599
Speaker 1: that has got away on Vic Fanzio's mind as well,

1432
01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:15,400
Speaker 1: no question. And I think that happens particularly in the

1433
01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:17,840
Speaker 1: tight red zone from the ten yards in where you

1434
01:18:17,880 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 1: can put Josh in the gun, you can spread them out,

1435
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 1: you can force them to defend the width of the field,

1436
01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:25,519
Speaker 1: and then you light, you light in the box, and

1437
01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:28,120
Speaker 1: that's where the run game with Josh becomes a factor.

1438
01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:32,679
Speaker 1: Maybe a quarterback draw, we'll see, but I mean that's

1439
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:35,200
Speaker 1: always a factor with Josh Allen in the red zone.

1440
01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:38,000
Speaker 1: We haven't seen as much of it lately because you know,

1441
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:41,760
Speaker 1: they've been scoring, they've been doing well, but that's certainly

1442
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:45,560
Speaker 1: part of what they do. And here you're seeing a

1443
01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:48,200
Speaker 1: you know, a zone read type play, which they certainly

1444
01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 1: can do as well, but no, Josh Allen's legs in

1445
01:18:51,080 --> 01:18:55,040
Speaker 1: the red zone are a definite factor. Looking at Denver's offense,

1446
01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:58,960
Speaker 1: Greg obviously they try to add speed to their unit

1447
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:01,400
Speaker 1: in the draft with kay j Hammler, you know, had

1448
01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:03,559
Speaker 1: a big game last week with two touchdowns, and then

1449
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:06,640
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy is a really accomplished route runner for a

1450
01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:09,599
Speaker 1: young player. They didn't have no a Fan last week

1451
01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 1: because of food poisoning. It seems like more than anything else.

1452
01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 1: He's back this week. And I know the Bills have

1453
01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:19,080
Speaker 1: been susceptible to giving up catches and yards to opposing

1454
01:19:19,120 --> 01:19:20,639
Speaker 1: tight ends this year. I think they have the second

1455
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:24,800
Speaker 1: highest total in the league allowed. Maybe just paint the

1456
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:27,320
Speaker 1: picture for us on Fant a little bit and the

1457
01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:31,519
Speaker 1: weapon that he can be in the Broncos passing game. Well,

1458
01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:34,920
Speaker 1: Fan is almost one of those glorified wide receivers who's

1459
01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 1: just big enough to be a tight end. He came

1460
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:39,600
Speaker 1: out of Io. He actually played with t J. Hockinson.

1461
01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:44,479
Speaker 1: A Fan is a speed guy. You want to be

1462
01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: careful with him with two things. He can win vertically

1463
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,960
Speaker 1: and he can run after catch, and you want to

1464
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:52,840
Speaker 1: make sure Look, obviously you do not want to give

1465
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:55,800
Speaker 1: up big vertical plays, but more importantly, you do not

1466
01:19:55,920 --> 01:19:58,040
Speaker 1: want him to get the ball and then to run

1467
01:19:58,080 --> 01:20:00,320
Speaker 1: after catch. And now they do some things to try

1468
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:03,120
Speaker 1: to get him the ball in space where that becomes

1469
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:05,680
Speaker 1: a factor. So you've got to be careful with him. Now.

1470
01:20:05,680 --> 01:20:09,320
Speaker 1: They've got a very good receiving core. Tim Patrick has

1471
01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:12,519
Speaker 1: really emerged as kind of a boundary acts big kid

1472
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:16,639
Speaker 1: runs well. Judy is a fascinating guy. Obviously, their pass

1473
01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:20,519
Speaker 1: game this year has been very inconsistent, lockmiss time. He's

1474
01:20:20,520 --> 01:20:23,080
Speaker 1: still finding his way. But I watched tape of their

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01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 1: offense and it seems like Jerry Judy's open all the time.

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01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:27,800
Speaker 1: He just is a really good route runner. And then

1477
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:31,679
Speaker 1: kJ Hammler he's he's a Penn State kid who he's

1478
01:20:31,680 --> 01:20:36,200
Speaker 1: got great quickness, great lateral quickness, has some vertical abilities

1479
01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:39,280
Speaker 1: we saw last week. So they do have a very

1480
01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:42,720
Speaker 1: good and very explosive receiving corps. They just have not

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01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:46,559
Speaker 1: developed any kind of consistent passing game, and some of

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01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:48,920
Speaker 1: that's a function of lockmissing time, and then some of

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01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:52,679
Speaker 1: it's a function of Locke just not being consistent himself yet.

1484
01:20:52,960 --> 01:20:55,160
Speaker 1: So but you just don't want this to be the

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01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:59,040
Speaker 1: week that it all collects. We heard that Drew Locke

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01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:00,439
Speaker 1: has you know, he's one of the those guys that

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01:21:00,479 --> 01:21:04,000
Speaker 1: loves to throw the football down the field, And is

1488
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:06,599
Speaker 1: that that they call plays like that or are they

1489
01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:08,639
Speaker 1: trying to get to him to get him to take

1490
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 1: easier completions? Are they designing because he was I think

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01:21:11,960 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 1: he was twelve or twelve to start against Carolina, which is,

1492
01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:18,960
Speaker 1: you know, a great start for a quarterback. Obviously, was

1493
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:22,040
Speaker 1: that game planned or was it just him somebody get

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01:21:22,040 --> 01:21:25,080
Speaker 1: into his ear and just taking those those easy completions

1495
01:21:25,080 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 1: for a change, Well, there were a number of those

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01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:30,600
Speaker 1: easy ones in that game. And I think one of

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01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:35,040
Speaker 1: the main issues with Locke is doing that, is taking

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01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:39,160
Speaker 1: those plays, is being a sustaining quarterback and not just

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01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:42,200
Speaker 1: a big play quarterback. Because this league is all about

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01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:44,960
Speaker 1: situational football. We always tend to talk about that more

1501
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:48,160
Speaker 1: in terms of the defense with situational football because of

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01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:52,120
Speaker 1: the different personnel packages, but that's very true for offense

1503
01:21:52,160 --> 01:21:54,799
Speaker 1: as well, and for quarterbacks. That's why the term system

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01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:57,680
Speaker 1: quarterback is not a negative term, or game manager is

1505
01:21:57,720 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 1: not a negative term, because every quarter back has to

1506
01:22:00,880 --> 01:22:05,000
Speaker 1: manage game situations and understand when you make throws and

1507
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:08,120
Speaker 1: when you don't make throws. And Drew is still learning that,

1508
01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:12,040
Speaker 1: so you know some of it's by design obviously, but

1509
01:22:12,280 --> 01:22:15,360
Speaker 1: he'll turn it loose, and you know, you want to

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01:22:15,360 --> 01:22:17,479
Speaker 1: be in a situation where when he turns it loose,

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01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:20,200
Speaker 1: that he's not going to hit big plays because he's

1512
01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 1: he's more than capable. He's he's a big time thrower

1513
01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:26,360
Speaker 1: the football. Taking a look at some of the other

1514
01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 1: matchups this week, there's one that you know Bill's fans

1515
01:22:29,520 --> 01:22:31,400
Speaker 1: will have their eye on in the AFC East between

1516
01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:35,000
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and the Patriots. We know Bill Belichick's history

1517
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:40,920
Speaker 1: against rookie quarterbacks, so him against Tuah. Are you expecting

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01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:44,479
Speaker 1: that trend to hold and that Belichick will get the

1519
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:47,880
Speaker 1: better of him. Well, I'll tell you what I think

1520
01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:51,559
Speaker 1: I'll expect from Bill's defense. Whether it works, I guess

1521
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:54,519
Speaker 1: we'll find out. I think what you'll see from Bill's

1522
01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:58,800
Speaker 1: defense because Tuah is such a timing, rhythm player, and

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01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:01,719
Speaker 1: in fact, Belichick's voke about that in his press conference

1524
01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:05,080
Speaker 1: this week. I think what you'll see is a lot

1525
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:08,760
Speaker 1: of disguise and late movement in coverage so that when

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01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 1: Tua hits that back foot, what he saw at the

1527
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 1: snap is not going to be the same thing that

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01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:16,919
Speaker 1: he sees when he hits that back foot and therefore

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01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:20,400
Speaker 1: force him to hold the football because where t is

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01:23:20,439 --> 01:23:23,200
Speaker 1: not yet at that point in his career, and who knows,

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01:23:23,200 --> 01:23:24,960
Speaker 1: he may never be. We don't know what he's going

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01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:27,320
Speaker 1: to be. But what you want with two is you

1533
01:23:27,320 --> 01:23:29,639
Speaker 1: want to hit that back foot and not be able

1534
01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:32,439
Speaker 1: to throw where he thinks he wants to throw, and

1535
01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:35,559
Speaker 1: then have see what happens after that. But two is

1536
01:23:35,600 --> 01:23:38,479
Speaker 1: so timing, rhythm based with a great feel for the

1537
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:41,960
Speaker 1: passing game. But everything comes out, and you want to

1538
01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:44,120
Speaker 1: make sure that it doesn't come out, or if it

1539
01:23:44,160 --> 01:23:46,519
Speaker 1: does come out, that you've shown him something that he

1540
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:50,360
Speaker 1: thinks but it's not really that right. What is the

1541
01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:53,000
Speaker 1: matchup around the league that you guys are most looking

1542
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:59,120
Speaker 1: forward to? An NFL matchup? Probably Casey New Orleans. Drew

1543
01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:02,200
Speaker 1: Brees will be back this week. There are two things

1544
01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:04,639
Speaker 1: that immediately stand out when you watch the Chief defense

1545
01:24:04,640 --> 01:24:07,360
Speaker 1: with Steve Spagnolo, and that's that they play a lot

1546
01:24:07,360 --> 01:24:09,599
Speaker 1: of man coverage and they heat you up with blitz.

1547
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:12,519
Speaker 1: And I would do that with Drew Brees because Drew's

1548
01:24:12,560 --> 01:24:15,160
Speaker 1: been out for five weeks or so, great Hall of

1549
01:24:15,160 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 1: Fame player, But you know, you know when you're out, Steve,

1550
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:19,280
Speaker 1: when you're out four or five weeks, it's a little

1551
01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:22,000
Speaker 1: faster right away when you get back in and uh

1552
01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:23,920
Speaker 1: and plus Drew's gonna want to get it out fast

1553
01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:26,160
Speaker 1: because of the nature of his injuries. He's not gonna

1554
01:24:26,160 --> 01:24:28,880
Speaker 1: want to take shots. So I would play press and

1555
01:24:28,960 --> 01:24:31,920
Speaker 1: I would I would heat him up. And obviously Spags

1556
01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:33,599
Speaker 1: didn't give me a call to get my opinion, but

1557
01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 1: that's the way I would see it, right, all right, Greg,

1558
01:24:36,320 --> 01:24:38,760
Speaker 1: thanks for the insight. As always, we appreciate it. We'll

1559
01:24:39,040 --> 01:24:41,719
Speaker 1: keep an eye out for you on the ESPN NFL

1560
01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:45,639
Speaker 1: Matchup Show this weekend. All right, guys, appreciate it. Thanks,

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01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:48,519
Speaker 1: thank you. That's great. Co Sale, senior producer of NFL

1562
01:24:48,600 --> 01:24:52,320
Speaker 1: Films and the self appointed president of the Terren Johnson

1563
01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:55,680
Speaker 1: Fan Club. We have to take that right, that's right.

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01:24:56,320 --> 01:24:58,160
Speaker 1: We have to take a break when we return. More

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01:24:58,160 --> 01:25:01,000
Speaker 1: of your questions from the OBL fan mail bag, and

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01:25:01,760 --> 01:25:04,120
Speaker 1: we'll get to that when we return here on one

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Speaker 1: Bill's Line, presented by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo

1568
01:25:06,400 --> 01:25:21,559
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Chris Brown Steve Tasker won Bill's Live time

1569
01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:24,439
Speaker 1: to open up the OBL fan mail bag once again,

1570
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:27,280
Speaker 1: and we go to Joe, who says, going into the

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01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:30,479
Speaker 1: playoffs unless the Bills clinched the bye, which team do

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01:25:30,479 --> 01:25:33,479
Speaker 1: you hope the Bills don't see in the first round?

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01:25:34,240 --> 01:25:36,599
Speaker 1: I think this gets into who wins the AFC South

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01:25:36,720 --> 01:25:39,639
Speaker 1: maybe more than anything else. I think I'd me personally,

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01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:42,599
Speaker 1: I'd prefer to avoid the Titans. They're battle tested, They've

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01:25:42,600 --> 01:25:44,559
Speaker 1: been in the playoffs each of the last two years.

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01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:48,000
Speaker 1: Nothing phases them. They're not a team that panics. They're gritty,

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01:25:48,040 --> 01:25:51,840
Speaker 1: they grind games out. So Tennessee would be my pick

1579
01:25:51,880 --> 01:25:54,400
Speaker 1: for who I whom? Which team I do not wish

1580
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:57,400
Speaker 1: to see in Round one? Do you have one you'd

1581
01:25:57,439 --> 01:26:00,800
Speaker 1: like to face less than that? Nope? Care And I

1582
01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:02,720
Speaker 1: totally I don't care. I do not care. I think

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01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:04,519
Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna I think the Bills are gonna

1584
01:26:04,520 --> 01:26:09,160
Speaker 1: be the favorites in anybody with anybody they face short

1585
01:26:09,200 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 1: of Kansas City. Yeah, I mean, I think the important

1586
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:12,760
Speaker 1: thing to remember here is if you look at the

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01:26:12,760 --> 01:26:16,160
Speaker 1: current AFC playoff picture, the Bills have played the other

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01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 1: three teams in the group with them at the top

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01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:21,879
Speaker 1: of the conference. Played all of those teams Kansas City, Pittsburgh,

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01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:25,679
Speaker 1: and Tennessee. They're battle tested. They've seen those guys, right,

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01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 1: They've played Miami, they will have played Miami twice, and

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01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:33,280
Speaker 1: they even played Las Vegas. So you're talking about five

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01:26:33,320 --> 01:26:35,720
Speaker 1: of the teams in the AFC playoff picture. They have

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01:26:35,800 --> 01:26:40,599
Speaker 1: played already. They're battle testing. They're three and two against them. Yeah,

1595
01:26:40,640 --> 01:26:44,560
Speaker 1: and I still think they're a better team than Tennessee.

1596
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:47,599
Speaker 1: So and I think I want to see this team

1597
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:50,920
Speaker 1: matchup against Kansas City because, particularly since those two teams

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01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:52,960
Speaker 1: beat the Bills, I think they'll be a little bit

1599
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:55,960
Speaker 1: of something extra in that for the Bills. And I

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01:26:57,040 --> 01:26:59,200
Speaker 1: just think this sets up really well for a team

1601
01:26:59,200 --> 01:27:01,920
Speaker 1: to be motivated throughout the playoffs, not only in through

1602
01:27:02,080 --> 01:27:07,400
Speaker 1: Week fifteen or sixteen fifteen, sixteen seventeen, also wildcard in

1603
01:27:07,439 --> 01:27:10,120
Speaker 1: Division round of the playoffs. I mean this, the Bills

1604
01:27:10,120 --> 01:27:12,479
Speaker 1: are sitting right where they will have always wanted to sit,

1605
01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:16,200
Speaker 1: barring not having the number one seed, and I think

1606
01:27:16,240 --> 01:27:18,679
Speaker 1: it looks good coming in these There's nobody I shy

1607
01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:21,280
Speaker 1: away from in the playoffs. From Jack, he says, well,

1608
01:27:21,280 --> 01:27:23,719
Speaker 1: the Bills remaining on a nickel based defense on Saturday

1609
01:27:23,800 --> 01:27:25,800
Speaker 1: or play more four three. Denver has two very good

1610
01:27:25,880 --> 01:27:28,360
Speaker 1: running backs, though questionable, and can run it. While I

1611
01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:30,280
Speaker 1: know they can throw it down field. It may behoove

1612
01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:32,040
Speaker 1: the Bills to take away the ground game to try

1613
01:27:32,040 --> 01:27:35,760
Speaker 1: and generate more pass rush on an inexperienced Lock. I'm

1614
01:27:35,760 --> 01:27:38,280
Speaker 1: gonna say no. And the reason I say that is

1615
01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:42,200
Speaker 1: because the Bills essentially have played nickel defense ninety percent

1616
01:27:42,240 --> 01:27:45,679
Speaker 1: of the snaps this year, and even last week against

1617
01:27:45,720 --> 01:27:49,080
Speaker 1: the Steelers, who, granted can't really run the football very well,

1618
01:27:49,120 --> 01:27:51,680
Speaker 1: they stayed in nickel even when the Steelers try to

1619
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:55,879
Speaker 1: continually run the football to no avail and tarn. Johnson,

1620
01:27:56,280 --> 01:27:58,639
Speaker 1: as we heard Greg Cosell mentioned the last segment, has

1621
01:27:58,640 --> 01:28:01,360
Speaker 1: been an accomplished player in the run front. I mean

1622
01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:05,920
Speaker 1: he is a good run support corner and they used

1623
01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:08,280
Speaker 1: him in run blitz situations, they used him in pass

1624
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:11,519
Speaker 1: blitz situations, and he is strong and solid at the

1625
01:28:11,560 --> 01:28:14,880
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage for a diminutive guy. So I don't

1626
01:28:14,920 --> 01:28:19,160
Speaker 1: see them going to a four to three. Stopping the

1627
01:28:19,240 --> 01:28:21,599
Speaker 1: run is as much about wanting to stop the run

1628
01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:25,840
Speaker 1: and as being willing to do it as it is

1629
01:28:25,920 --> 01:28:28,160
Speaker 1: size and strength and all that. You just need to

1630
01:28:28,200 --> 01:28:30,760
Speaker 1: be there, and it's about being gap sound and doing

1631
01:28:30,800 --> 01:28:32,160
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do and being in the spot

1632
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:35,040
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be on in defensively for against the

1633
01:28:35,120 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 1: running game. And if you've got guys that are, you know,

1634
01:28:38,040 --> 01:28:40,479
Speaker 1: Tarren Johnson's fine, He'll be fine. As long as he

1635
01:28:40,479 --> 01:28:42,439
Speaker 1: holds up physically, he's gonna be fine. I don't mean

1636
01:28:42,479 --> 01:28:44,720
Speaker 1: physically like being strong enough to stop the run. I'm

1637
01:28:44,800 --> 01:28:50,080
Speaker 1: talking about not getting hurt. They're gonna be fine. Now,

1638
01:28:50,400 --> 01:28:53,160
Speaker 1: it's about they've proven that they are getting better and

1639
01:28:53,200 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 1: good enough in the run game to hold their own

1640
01:28:55,479 --> 01:28:58,840
Speaker 1: against anybody. Now, I will say that there have been

1641
01:28:58,920 --> 01:29:01,680
Speaker 1: times last season and at times this season, although more

1642
01:29:01,680 --> 01:29:04,719
Speaker 1: so earlier in the year than now, when the opponent

1643
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:07,559
Speaker 1: does go twelve personnel or twenty one personnel, they will

1644
01:29:07,560 --> 01:29:10,200
Speaker 1: bring a hybrid player out onto the field in place

1645
01:29:10,200 --> 01:29:14,479
Speaker 1: of Taron Johnson, which is either Dean Marlowe or Siran Neil.

1646
01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 1: We haven't seen that in recent weeks though, and I

1647
01:29:16,920 --> 01:29:20,360
Speaker 1: think it speaks to how effective Taron Johnson has been.

1648
01:29:20,600 --> 01:29:24,519
Speaker 1: It's clear that they trust him, and even when the

1649
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:29,000
Speaker 1: personnel grouping changes, they don't change, they don't move out

1650
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:31,040
Speaker 1: of Nickel. They're like, we can handle it with the

1651
01:29:31,040 --> 01:29:32,680
Speaker 1: guys we got on the field right now. I think

1652
01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:37,519
Speaker 1: they feel especially confident in that given the play between

1653
01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:40,280
Speaker 1: aj Klein and Matt Milano as well. Milanno getting back

1654
01:29:40,280 --> 01:29:42,240
Speaker 1: out there is going to help him, and I think

1655
01:29:42,280 --> 01:29:44,120
Speaker 1: the fact that he had an elevated snap count this

1656
01:29:44,200 --> 01:29:48,000
Speaker 1: last week gives him some assurances. But aj Klein and

1657
01:29:48,280 --> 01:29:50,439
Speaker 1: what they allow him to do and what they've asked

1658
01:29:50,479 --> 01:29:51,880
Speaker 1: him to do over the last month and a half

1659
01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:54,519
Speaker 1: has really come through and started to play well as too.

1660
01:29:54,560 --> 01:29:57,559
Speaker 1: So I think it's as much about the other linebacker

1661
01:29:57,600 --> 01:30:00,080
Speaker 1: from Tomaine Edmonds as it is about Taron Johnson the

1662
01:30:00,160 --> 01:30:03,280
Speaker 1: run game, because they can just as well run away

1663
01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:05,280
Speaker 1: from the slot, and then you've got to have you know,

1664
01:30:05,280 --> 01:30:08,639
Speaker 1: you gotta have tradevious, be willing to jump in there.

1665
01:30:08,680 --> 01:30:10,640
Speaker 1: You know, the boundary corners got to get ready and

1666
01:30:10,680 --> 01:30:12,680
Speaker 1: get involved. So you can't be a corner in this

1667
01:30:12,800 --> 01:30:16,400
Speaker 1: defense without being a run support type player. You can't

1668
01:30:16,400 --> 01:30:19,559
Speaker 1: function right or the defense, I should say, the scheme

1669
01:30:19,600 --> 01:30:21,760
Speaker 1: can't function unless you have corners willing to fill and

1670
01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:25,160
Speaker 1: run support. That's right from Rachel in the obl fan

1671
01:30:25,240 --> 01:30:28,040
Speaker 1: mail bag. I think Josh is playing at an elite level,

1672
01:30:28,080 --> 01:30:30,960
Speaker 1: but players always have something they can improve on. What

1673
01:30:31,040 --> 01:30:33,439
Speaker 1: aspects of his game can Josh focus on improving down

1674
01:30:33,479 --> 01:30:35,599
Speaker 1: the stretching in the off season. Steve and I were

1675
01:30:35,680 --> 01:30:39,720
Speaker 1: kind of talking about this the other day, saying improvements

1676
01:30:39,720 --> 01:30:43,919
Speaker 1: in Josh's game moving forward will be harder to discern

1677
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:48,519
Speaker 1: and recognize because from this point forward they're going to

1678
01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:52,320
Speaker 1: be about refinement. They're going to be very nuanced. But

1679
01:30:52,400 --> 01:30:55,559
Speaker 1: there are always things that he can improve upon. He

1680
01:30:55,600 --> 01:30:58,760
Speaker 1: even said a couple of weeks ago, where I am

1681
01:30:58,880 --> 01:31:01,599
Speaker 1: now when I don't have a good throw, I know

1682
01:31:01,680 --> 01:31:05,200
Speaker 1: exactly what went wrong and I immediately know how to

1683
01:31:05,200 --> 01:31:08,280
Speaker 1: correct it. So my next throw is back to the

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01:31:08,320 --> 01:31:13,439
Speaker 1: consistent mechanical level that I wanted at. But we've seen

1685
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:17,240
Speaker 1: him throw off platform throws. I saw him move a

1686
01:31:17,360 --> 01:31:20,920
Speaker 1: safety with his eyes last week. He moved Minca Fitzpatrick

1687
01:31:21,560 --> 01:31:25,120
Speaker 1: with his eyes and his hips. He made his hips

1688
01:31:25,280 --> 01:31:28,800
Speaker 1: point towards the left side of the field. Which can

1689
01:31:28,840 --> 01:31:31,519
Speaker 1: be a tell for Dbs that that's where he's throwing

1690
01:31:31,560 --> 01:31:34,920
Speaker 1: the ball. And he throws it out, he's got his

1691
01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:37,160
Speaker 1: hips point left and he just arms it out to

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01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:40,760
Speaker 1: his right to Diggs, who's got an opening over there.

1693
01:31:41,320 --> 01:31:44,000
Speaker 1: But he gave Digs more space after the catch because

1694
01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:47,559
Speaker 1: he moved Fitzpatrick two steps to his own right and

1695
01:31:47,680 --> 01:31:50,280
Speaker 1: gave Digs more room to run after the catch. And

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01:31:50,320 --> 01:31:53,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, So now not only can he throw

1697
01:31:53,160 --> 01:31:57,040
Speaker 1: accurately with perfect mechanics, he's shown an ability to throw

1698
01:31:57,160 --> 01:32:01,240
Speaker 1: accurately off platform with horrible mechanic anx as he's trying

1699
01:32:01,240 --> 01:32:02,880
Speaker 1: to move his safety out of the way. And I

1700
01:32:02,920 --> 01:32:06,360
Speaker 1: think another thing that I would look for that it's

1701
01:32:06,400 --> 01:32:10,000
Speaker 1: hard to see unless you know you're studying film or whatever. Josh,

1702
01:32:10,160 --> 01:32:14,200
Speaker 1: sometimes when well, sometimes he takes too long to make

1703
01:32:14,240 --> 01:32:15,800
Speaker 1: the decision of where to go to the ball. He

1704
01:32:15,840 --> 01:32:17,639
Speaker 1: needs to get rid of the ball a little bit quicker,

1705
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:20,519
Speaker 1: not a ton, and not all the time, but the

1706
01:32:20,520 --> 01:32:23,960
Speaker 1: ball needs to come out more consistently faster, and he

1707
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:25,960
Speaker 1: needs to get through his reads just a hair quicker.

1708
01:32:25,960 --> 01:32:29,040
Speaker 1: I think that's one place where and defenses have started

1709
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:30,800
Speaker 1: to you know, they're starting to game plan for him,

1710
01:32:30,800 --> 01:32:32,920
Speaker 1: and he's got to be ready for that, and he's

1711
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:35,479
Speaker 1: getting much money. He is obviously much much better at

1712
01:32:35,479 --> 01:32:39,320
Speaker 1: it than he was last year. But I think he's

1713
01:32:39,320 --> 01:32:41,280
Speaker 1: got to continue to get to a point. And that's

1714
01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:44,800
Speaker 1: you know, that's where all these Aaron Rodgers and Drew

1715
01:32:44,800 --> 01:32:46,920
Speaker 1: Breeses of the world and Philip Rivers of the world

1716
01:32:47,000 --> 01:32:49,400
Speaker 1: live in their ability to know what's as soon as

1717
01:32:49,400 --> 01:32:51,960
Speaker 1: the ball is snapped and all these defenders start taking

1718
01:32:51,960 --> 01:32:54,400
Speaker 1: two steps to where they're actually going, that's when it

1719
01:32:54,439 --> 01:32:56,200
Speaker 1: clicks and the ball's going to where it's supposed to

1720
01:32:56,200 --> 01:32:58,680
Speaker 1: go very quickly. Josh has got to get that a

1721
01:32:58,680 --> 01:33:01,519
Speaker 1: little bit quicker than he has now From Joe, have

1722
01:33:01,680 --> 01:33:04,680
Speaker 1: you ever seen such a stacked conference going into the playoffs?

1723
01:33:04,720 --> 01:33:06,519
Speaker 1: I believe seven of the eight teams in the AFC,

1724
01:33:06,760 --> 01:33:09,920
Speaker 1: not counting the Dolphins, could reach the Super Bowl. What

1725
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:14,280
Speaker 1: are your thoughts? I will say every week I checked

1726
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:16,960
Speaker 1: the standings as the games are played on Sundays, and

1727
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:19,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, this is really tightly packed. And I

1728
01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:22,879
Speaker 1: realize that some of these teams have had easier schedules

1729
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:26,680
Speaker 1: than others, Cleveland being one of them, but yeah, it

1730
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:30,360
Speaker 1: is tightly packed. There are a lot of legitimate contenders,

1731
01:33:30,680 --> 01:33:33,400
Speaker 1: some a little bit more battle tested than others. I

1732
01:33:33,400 --> 01:33:35,920
Speaker 1: would call Cleveland kind of the neophyte of the group.

1733
01:33:36,320 --> 01:33:39,519
Speaker 1: No playoff experience, you know, a lot of those guys

1734
01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:41,599
Speaker 1: on that roster have not been to the playoffs before.

1735
01:33:41,640 --> 01:33:44,120
Speaker 1: We know, it's a different animal. So it's a little

1736
01:33:44,120 --> 01:33:46,200
Speaker 1: bit of foreign territory for them. I think that works

1737
01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:50,320
Speaker 1: against them. Same case for Miami. So you look at

1738
01:33:50,360 --> 01:33:52,800
Speaker 1: those two teams and say, okay, well, you know, they

1739
01:33:52,880 --> 01:33:54,519
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs, you know, maybe they get a

1740
01:33:54,520 --> 01:33:57,920
Speaker 1: little nervous and you know, have a couple of mistakes

1741
01:33:57,920 --> 01:34:01,120
Speaker 1: that are uncharacteristic. You know, we saw that happen to

1742
01:34:01,160 --> 01:34:03,400
Speaker 1: the Bills last year. Not a lot of playoff experience.

1743
01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:06,880
Speaker 1: They get there and they play a great first half,

1744
01:34:06,880 --> 01:34:09,519
Speaker 1: but they can't finish the deal. And that's something that

1745
01:34:09,600 --> 01:34:13,240
Speaker 1: could befall a team like Cleveland with no playoff experience,

1746
01:34:13,320 --> 01:34:16,680
Speaker 1: Miami with no playoff experience. So it'd be interesting to

1747
01:34:16,680 --> 01:34:19,400
Speaker 1: see where it goes. But besides those two teams, Yeah,

1748
01:34:19,400 --> 01:34:21,640
Speaker 1: it's a good group of clubs. I mean, yeah, and

1749
01:34:21,680 --> 01:34:24,400
Speaker 1: there's yeah and if and I know this is cliche,

1750
01:34:24,479 --> 01:34:26,880
Speaker 1: but on any given Sunday. Any one of these seven

1751
01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:29,600
Speaker 1: teams that actually make it into the top part of

1752
01:34:29,600 --> 01:34:32,640
Speaker 1: the bracket, you know, any of them can do it.

1753
01:34:33,160 --> 01:34:35,360
Speaker 1: A wild card team has won the Super Bowl before,

1754
01:34:35,479 --> 01:34:38,040
Speaker 1: so it can still be It can be done again.

1755
01:34:38,320 --> 01:34:40,759
Speaker 1: It's a question of getting hot at the right time

1756
01:34:40,840 --> 01:34:43,160
Speaker 1: and putting it together. The Tennessee Titans are a perfect

1757
01:34:43,200 --> 01:34:45,200
Speaker 1: example of that. Last year they were almost in the

1758
01:34:45,200 --> 01:34:49,040
Speaker 1: Super Bowl ahead of the Kansas City Chiefs. They were,

1759
01:34:50,120 --> 01:34:52,360
Speaker 1: they were, you know what, a half of football away

1760
01:34:52,400 --> 01:34:54,200
Speaker 1: from it when they got jumped out to the quick lead.

1761
01:34:54,640 --> 01:34:58,080
Speaker 1: But so I'm yeah, while I've said this earlier in

1762
01:34:58,080 --> 01:35:00,080
Speaker 1: the show, I'm I'm not afraid of the Bills to

1763
01:35:00,120 --> 01:35:02,040
Speaker 1: face any of the teams in the bracket at all.

1764
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:06,360
Speaker 1: I think they're that good. You still don't know who's

1765
01:35:06,360 --> 01:35:08,879
Speaker 1: gonna catch lightning in a bottle and do something special

1766
01:35:09,280 --> 01:35:10,720
Speaker 1: and make a run to the super Bowl. It could

1767
01:35:10,720 --> 01:35:13,240
Speaker 1: happen for any one of the seven teams. Break time

1768
01:35:13,280 --> 01:35:16,280
Speaker 1: for us. When we return, it's time for the Lowdown

1769
01:35:16,360 --> 01:35:21,000
Speaker 1: with One Lorenzo Alexander. Stay tuned for his look at

1770
01:35:21,160 --> 01:35:24,920
Speaker 1: Bill's Broncos tomorrow when he joins us next here on

1771
01:35:24,920 --> 01:35:27,679
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo

1772
01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:42,439
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Balo Bills Radio Network Sports Date, your sports

1773
01:35:42,520 --> 01:35:44,800
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive. Bills on their way to

1774
01:35:44,840 --> 01:35:47,400
Speaker 1: the Majahi City for tomorrow's game with the Broncos, where

1775
01:35:47,439 --> 01:35:49,960
Speaker 1: a win the Bills can clinch a playoff birth and

1776
01:35:50,120 --> 01:35:53,880
Speaker 1: the AFC's title. Here first in twenty five years. For

1777
01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:56,800
Speaker 1: the latest ahead of Tomorrow's game, stay connected and check

1778
01:35:56,800 --> 01:35:58,720
Speaker 1: out Buffalo Bills dot com as well as all the

1779
01:35:58,720 --> 01:36:02,880
Speaker 1: Bills streaming platforms. Following a positive COVID nineteen test result

1780
01:36:02,920 --> 01:36:06,120
Speaker 1: from a staff member at the UC Health Training Center,

1781
01:36:06,160 --> 01:36:09,680
Speaker 1: the Broncos canceled their walkthrough today as a precaution. The

1782
01:36:09,720 --> 01:36:13,760
Speaker 1: team is continuing if normal preparations virtually for Saturday's game

1783
01:36:14,160 --> 01:36:16,880
Speaker 1: against Buffalo. For the Broncos, running backs Philip Lindsay and

1784
01:36:16,920 --> 01:36:19,880
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon both listed as questionable but expected to play.

1785
01:36:20,360 --> 01:36:24,360
Speaker 1: They will also have a rookie kicker, as Brandon McManus

1786
01:36:24,720 --> 01:36:28,320
Speaker 1: not expected to be out of the reserve COVID protocol,

1787
01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:34,040
Speaker 1: so incomes Taylor Russlino. The Washington football team has ruled

1788
01:36:34,040 --> 01:36:36,799
Speaker 1: out quarterback Alex Smith this week with a calf injury.

1789
01:36:37,160 --> 01:36:40,960
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins, the former starter, is back in Sunday against

1790
01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:44,800
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. It's his first start since Week four. Last night,

1791
01:36:44,840 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 1: Week fifteen kicked off and trying to hold on to

1792
01:36:48,040 --> 01:36:50,439
Speaker 1: their slim playoff hopes were the Las Vegas Raiders, but

1793
01:36:50,479 --> 01:36:52,800
Speaker 1: they dropped their second game in a row, falling to

1794
01:36:52,880 --> 01:36:56,280
Speaker 1: the Chargers thirty to twenty seven in overtime. Making matters worse,

1795
01:36:56,360 --> 01:36:59,719
Speaker 1: they also lost quarterback Derek Carr, who suffered a groin

1796
01:36:59,800 --> 01:37:02,880
Speaker 1: in in the first half. Marcus Mariota came on in

1797
01:37:02,960 --> 01:37:05,960
Speaker 1: relief and may have to start the team's final two games.

1798
01:37:05,960 --> 01:37:10,840
Speaker 1: As head coach John Bruton called Car's injury quote pretty significant.

1799
01:37:11,240 --> 01:37:14,040
Speaker 1: NFL's top two teams square off this weekend looks like

1800
01:37:14,040 --> 01:37:17,439
Speaker 1: it will indeed be Mahomes versus Breeze. After missing the

1801
01:37:17,479 --> 01:37:19,920
Speaker 1: last four games because of eleven fractured ribs and a

1802
01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:23,800
Speaker 1: punctured lung, Saints quarterback Drew Breeze returned to practice this

1803
01:37:23,840 --> 01:37:27,800
Speaker 1: week and is expected to start on Sunday, and the

1804
01:37:27,960 --> 01:37:31,320
Speaker 1: UB football team taking on Ball State tonight in Detroit

1805
01:37:31,920 --> 01:37:35,040
Speaker 1: for the MAC Championship. The Bulls feature the nation's leading

1806
01:37:35,120 --> 01:37:38,120
Speaker 1: rushing attack, averaging three hundred forty four yards a game

1807
01:37:38,160 --> 01:37:40,559
Speaker 1: on the ground. With a win, the Bulls will capture

1808
01:37:40,600 --> 01:37:44,040
Speaker 1: their first MAC title since two thousand and eight. That

1809
01:37:44,240 --> 01:37:47,160
Speaker 1: is your sports update from One Bill's Drive Chris Brown

1810
01:37:47,200 --> 01:37:50,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker ready to begin our number three of a

1811
01:37:51,040 --> 01:37:54,679
Speaker 1: Friday edition of One Bills Live. The obl fan mailbag

1812
01:37:54,960 --> 01:37:58,160
Speaker 1: is open, so submit your questions there at One Bills

1813
01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:00,640
Speaker 1: Live at your leisure, or you can give us a

1814
01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:03,720
Speaker 1: call at eight oh three oh five fifty one eight

1815
01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:07,639
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty and we will

1816
01:38:07,640 --> 01:38:09,960
Speaker 1: get to more of those questions. The thing that I

1817
01:38:09,960 --> 01:38:12,000
Speaker 1: wanted about so if you, Steve, was because I know

1818
01:38:12,040 --> 01:38:14,680
Speaker 1: you mentioned that you saw this in an article. The

1819
01:38:14,960 --> 01:38:19,200
Speaker 1: head coaching candidacy of Leslie Frazier was the subject of

1820
01:38:19,280 --> 01:38:23,800
Speaker 1: that article, and the report was that the Pagoulas are

1821
01:38:23,920 --> 01:38:28,160
Speaker 1: just talking to other owners about his candidacy. So I

1822
01:38:28,680 --> 01:38:31,559
Speaker 1: couldn't I can't find I can't resurface the article. I didn't.

1823
01:38:31,600 --> 01:38:35,720
Speaker 1: I didn't tag it or anything. But it's interesting to me,

1824
01:38:35,760 --> 01:38:37,639
Speaker 1: and most people will say, what what are you talking about?

1825
01:38:37,680 --> 01:38:40,400
Speaker 1: Why would they? And that's the atmosphere that's here. They are.

1826
01:38:40,520 --> 01:38:42,679
Speaker 1: They are for the people in their building. They they

1827
01:38:42,760 --> 01:38:45,720
Speaker 1: want them to be successful and uh, and that's part

1828
01:38:45,760 --> 01:38:48,840
Speaker 1: of what entices people to come here to play, and

1829
01:38:48,920 --> 01:38:51,960
Speaker 1: it's a part of what has made them successful in

1830
01:38:52,000 --> 01:39:09,439
Speaker 1: this building. Time now though, for the lowdown, that's right,

1831
01:39:09,520 --> 01:39:12,680
Speaker 1: it is time for one Lorenzo Alexander to make his

1832
01:39:12,720 --> 01:39:17,360
Speaker 1: weekly appearance. He's gonna talk Bill's Broncos with us. Lorenzo.

1833
01:39:17,400 --> 01:39:20,840
Speaker 1: How you doing, man, I'm doing good. How you guys

1834
01:39:20,840 --> 01:39:22,680
Speaker 1: doing out there in Orchard Park? We're doing all right.

1835
01:39:22,680 --> 01:39:25,520
Speaker 1: I got a couple inches of snow, but otherwise we're okay.

1836
01:39:25,760 --> 01:39:29,080
Speaker 1: No worse for the wear, More power to you. You know,

1837
01:39:29,160 --> 01:39:31,320
Speaker 1: it's not I don't it's not warm out here, but

1838
01:39:31,400 --> 01:39:33,800
Speaker 1: it's a little chili and no snow though, So I

1839
01:39:35,040 --> 01:39:36,439
Speaker 1: don't think if you could use through I don't know

1840
01:39:36,439 --> 01:39:38,000
Speaker 1: if you're allowed to use the word chili with us.

1841
01:39:38,040 --> 01:39:40,599
Speaker 1: Lorenzo area way down in the sixties, isn't it. There's

1842
01:39:40,600 --> 01:39:45,040
Speaker 1: a look at the stadium for you, Yes, there's uh, yeah,

1843
01:39:45,080 --> 01:39:49,920
Speaker 1: you can have all of this right. Uh, let's h

1844
01:39:50,080 --> 01:39:53,880
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this game first and foremost. Though, um

1845
01:39:54,080 --> 01:39:57,000
Speaker 1: I I almost kind of chuckled a little bit when

1846
01:39:57,040 --> 01:40:00,799
Speaker 1: I saw this, but this is the this is proof

1847
01:40:01,520 --> 01:40:06,160
Speaker 1: that Josh Allen has arrived. Drew Locke, the quarterback for

1848
01:40:06,200 --> 01:40:11,800
Speaker 1: the Broncos, has had accuracy issues in his first I

1849
01:40:11,800 --> 01:40:15,559
Speaker 1: think eighteen starts it is now, and obviously has had

1850
01:40:15,600 --> 01:40:20,120
Speaker 1: problem turning the ball over. He's been He's had a

1851
01:40:20,160 --> 01:40:22,920
Speaker 1: propensity to go for the deep shots, maybe more often

1852
01:40:22,920 --> 01:40:27,400
Speaker 1: than he should. And there were people in the media

1853
01:40:27,479 --> 01:40:32,400
Speaker 1: in Denver who compared Drew Locke's first eighteen starts up

1854
01:40:32,439 --> 01:40:36,439
Speaker 1: against Josh Allen's and the numbers are pretty comparable. But

1855
01:40:36,520 --> 01:40:39,800
Speaker 1: the argument is, hey, look Josh Allen was like this

1856
01:40:39,880 --> 01:40:41,880
Speaker 1: in his first eighteen starts and look at what he

1857
01:40:42,000 --> 01:40:44,080
Speaker 1: is now, and I set up son of a gun.

1858
01:40:44,520 --> 01:40:47,759
Speaker 1: Josh is efficiently arrived. He's now the guy that people

1859
01:40:47,800 --> 01:40:51,320
Speaker 1: are comparing to the young quarterbacks who are struggling. What

1860
01:40:51,360 --> 01:40:53,720
Speaker 1: do you what do you make of that? Yeah, I

1861
01:40:53,720 --> 01:40:55,320
Speaker 1: mean Josh has put a lot of hard work in

1862
01:40:55,400 --> 01:40:57,720
Speaker 1: and obviously it's a testament to what they've been able

1863
01:40:57,760 --> 01:41:02,160
Speaker 1: to do this year and his evolution and and incremental

1864
01:41:02,200 --> 01:41:04,800
Speaker 1: increases as far as his accuracy me and throw the

1865
01:41:04,840 --> 01:41:07,759
Speaker 1: ball down field. As leadership, obviously, adding talent like Stefan

1866
01:41:07,840 --> 01:41:10,800
Speaker 1: Danz has helped that and just being another system in

1867
01:41:10,840 --> 01:41:13,439
Speaker 1: another year of the system with Brian Dabele. All those

1868
01:41:13,479 --> 01:41:19,439
Speaker 1: things have really contributed to Josh's ability to rise above

1869
01:41:19,640 --> 01:41:23,400
Speaker 1: everyone else and defile out of the naysayers. Um. And

1870
01:41:23,479 --> 01:41:25,240
Speaker 1: so it's cool, you know, to see a maybe you

1871
01:41:25,240 --> 01:41:28,200
Speaker 1: could be a Josh Allen type. And I think Drew

1872
01:41:28,240 --> 01:41:30,559
Speaker 1: lock has the potential to maybe do some of those things.

1873
01:41:30,600 --> 01:41:34,120
Speaker 1: You know, I know Jordan Palmer fairly well, and and

1874
01:41:34,200 --> 01:41:36,120
Speaker 1: I know he works out with Drew Locke and had

1875
01:41:36,120 --> 01:41:37,760
Speaker 1: a lot of great things to say about him and

1876
01:41:37,800 --> 01:41:40,320
Speaker 1: really had a lot of high hopes this year when

1877
01:41:40,320 --> 01:41:42,760
Speaker 1: you think about the weapons that they added, giving that

1878
01:41:42,840 --> 01:41:45,439
Speaker 1: a lot of their receivers are still fairly young, I

1879
01:41:45,439 --> 01:41:49,240
Speaker 1: think as they, you know, maybe mature together, those guys

1880
01:41:49,920 --> 01:41:52,880
Speaker 1: can make some noise, especially seeing Drew Locke and seeing

1881
01:41:52,960 --> 01:41:56,760
Speaker 1: him evolved maybe next year and maybe taking the same

1882
01:41:56,840 --> 01:41:59,760
Speaker 1: step that Josh Allen did this past season. What did

1883
01:41:59,800 --> 01:42:02,240
Speaker 1: you think about the Monday night game or the Sunday

1884
01:42:02,320 --> 01:42:05,120
Speaker 1: night game against Pittsburgh. The Bills a little bit of

1885
01:42:05,160 --> 01:42:07,559
Speaker 1: struggles offensively in the first tap of man, they found

1886
01:42:07,600 --> 01:42:10,120
Speaker 1: they found their legs and put it away in the

1887
01:42:10,160 --> 01:42:13,320
Speaker 1: third quarter. Yeah, I mean that's what you expect. I

1888
01:42:13,360 --> 01:42:17,840
Speaker 1: mean Pittsburgh, even with the injuries, is still a pretty

1889
01:42:17,920 --> 01:42:20,679
Speaker 1: good team, elite team, and that's why they were undefeated

1890
01:42:20,760 --> 01:42:24,040
Speaker 1: up until two weeks ago. And so they came after Josh.

1891
01:42:24,040 --> 01:42:26,519
Speaker 1: They pressured Josh. You know, obviously they've always leaned heavily

1892
01:42:26,560 --> 01:42:29,200
Speaker 1: on their defense and historically they've been a great defense,

1893
01:42:29,200 --> 01:42:31,800
Speaker 1: and it was body punches going back and forth. I

1894
01:42:31,920 --> 01:42:34,960
Speaker 1: was really impressed with the guys on our defense as

1895
01:42:34,960 --> 01:42:37,920
Speaker 1: well as stepping up and really leading a charge when

1896
01:42:37,920 --> 01:42:39,880
Speaker 1: you have a tarn Johnson having that pick six, I

1897
01:42:39,960 --> 01:42:41,720
Speaker 1: thought that was the ultimate change in the game with

1898
01:42:41,800 --> 01:42:45,599
Speaker 1: the momentum really shifted and changed in the Bill's favor.

1899
01:42:45,680 --> 01:42:50,160
Speaker 1: And really after that that moment there, the Bills were

1900
01:42:50,160 --> 01:42:51,920
Speaker 1: looking in their rear view mirror, you know, they hit

1901
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:53,320
Speaker 1: him in the mouth, was able to make a play.

1902
01:42:53,360 --> 01:42:55,040
Speaker 1: I think that was the first time the defense scored

1903
01:42:55,760 --> 01:42:59,680
Speaker 1: scored since maybe two thousand and seventeen or eighteen. They

1904
01:42:59,680 --> 01:43:01,240
Speaker 1: think maybe that a land of game which your Davis

1905
01:43:01,240 --> 01:43:02,960
Speaker 1: picked it up and scored. I may be missing one

1906
01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:07,880
Speaker 1: other game in there somewhere, but yeah, I mean that's huge.

1907
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:11,120
Speaker 1: They are putting things together right at the right time

1908
01:43:11,840 --> 01:43:15,120
Speaker 1: as far as getting better and peaking and I'm talking

1909
01:43:15,120 --> 01:43:17,000
Speaker 1: about this Bill's defense, and so I'm really like what

1910
01:43:17,120 --> 01:43:19,160
Speaker 1: I'm saying. They're being able to stop the run once again,

1911
01:43:19,160 --> 01:43:21,719
Speaker 1: that somewhere Pittsburghers struggled and didn't allow it to become

1912
01:43:21,720 --> 01:43:25,360
Speaker 1: an issue versus the Bills. And then obviously Josh just

1913
01:43:25,439 --> 01:43:28,160
Speaker 1: staying calm, cool and collective when things aren't quite maybe

1914
01:43:28,160 --> 01:43:31,040
Speaker 1: clicking and putting up points on the board, still remaining

1915
01:43:31,040 --> 01:43:33,760
Speaker 1: within himself, not trying to do too much, and just

1916
01:43:33,920 --> 01:43:36,120
Speaker 1: using his weapons. You know. Obviously, they just have so

1917
01:43:36,160 --> 01:43:39,360
Speaker 1: many guys, and Diggs was obviously the benefactor last week

1918
01:43:39,600 --> 01:43:41,360
Speaker 1: having a huge game. So it's just really fun to

1919
01:43:41,400 --> 01:43:44,559
Speaker 1: watch see him compete, see him finally get to prepare

1920
01:43:44,640 --> 01:43:47,599
Speaker 1: for one of these league teams and not have to wonder, okay,

1921
01:43:47,640 --> 01:43:50,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna play a different team as a game schedule

1922
01:43:50,520 --> 01:43:53,600
Speaker 1: and as a nice routine. Everybody was playing well, and

1923
01:43:53,640 --> 01:43:56,280
Speaker 1: it's just good to see him on the trajectory right now. Joe.

1924
01:43:56,320 --> 01:43:58,080
Speaker 1: We had one of our fans ask us in the

1925
01:43:58,080 --> 01:44:01,320
Speaker 1: obl fan mailbag this week, you know, with the with

1926
01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:03,960
Speaker 1: the ability that the Broncos have with the one two

1927
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:07,200
Speaker 1: punch in the backfield between Melvin Gordon and Philip Lindsay.

1928
01:44:08,240 --> 01:44:10,400
Speaker 1: They were asking do we think that the Bills might

1929
01:44:10,439 --> 01:44:12,920
Speaker 1: go to a more more of a base four three,

1930
01:44:13,280 --> 01:44:17,160
Speaker 1: and we basically said no, because this team's played almost

1931
01:44:17,240 --> 01:44:21,960
Speaker 1: ninety percent nickel. So when you see that and a

1932
01:44:22,120 --> 01:44:26,519
Speaker 1: defense so committed to a given personnel grouping, does that

1933
01:44:26,720 --> 01:44:29,720
Speaker 1: really speak to the trust that the coaching staff has

1934
01:44:29,760 --> 01:44:33,160
Speaker 1: in their players to deploy that group no matter what

1935
01:44:33,280 --> 01:44:36,000
Speaker 1: might be coming at them. Yeah, when you try to

1936
01:44:36,000 --> 01:44:38,000
Speaker 1: put your best players out there, and obviously when you

1937
01:44:38,040 --> 01:44:40,559
Speaker 1: have a guy down in Matt Mulano, they may not

1938
01:44:40,640 --> 01:44:42,760
Speaker 1: have another linebacker that they trust as much. As to say,

1939
01:44:42,760 --> 01:44:44,439
Speaker 1: if a team comes out into a l where you

1940
01:44:44,439 --> 01:44:47,880
Speaker 1: want to go base, so instead of going base, you

1941
01:44:47,960 --> 01:44:50,880
Speaker 1: go big nickel and and bring in you know, whether

1942
01:44:50,880 --> 01:44:54,519
Speaker 1: it's a saman or whoever, Dean Marlowe lay the big nickel,

1943
01:44:54,680 --> 01:44:56,800
Speaker 1: or you may just keep tearing in there because he's

1944
01:44:56,800 --> 01:44:59,479
Speaker 1: playing well too, and just match up and play the

1945
01:44:59,560 --> 01:45:01,080
Speaker 1: run because he it's a physical type of guy who's

1946
01:45:01,080 --> 01:45:03,519
Speaker 1: played in the box and it's familiar with it. Now

1947
01:45:03,560 --> 01:45:05,639
Speaker 1: when you have a guy like Matt Malone getting healthy,

1948
01:45:05,720 --> 01:45:07,960
Speaker 1: or obviously we've seen a J. Klein find his role

1949
01:45:08,040 --> 01:45:11,400
Speaker 1: and really get comfortable now and made a lot of plays,

1950
01:45:11,720 --> 01:45:14,840
Speaker 1: especially two weeks prior to the Pittsburgh game. You can

1951
01:45:14,960 --> 01:45:17,719
Speaker 1: maybe play bass versus some of these you know, maybe

1952
01:45:17,840 --> 01:45:22,080
Speaker 1: twelve teams and and and and not necessarily bring another

1953
01:45:22,160 --> 01:45:24,479
Speaker 1: dB in and you know, so obviously Sean and Leslie

1954
01:45:24,479 --> 01:45:27,160
Speaker 1: would identify that and try to find the best matchups

1955
01:45:27,600 --> 01:45:29,559
Speaker 1: because Matt still needs to be brought on slowly because

1956
01:45:29,560 --> 01:45:31,360
Speaker 1: you want him for the playoffs, so you don't necessarily

1957
01:45:31,400 --> 01:45:33,599
Speaker 1: want to do too much too soon. But if they

1958
01:45:33,640 --> 01:45:35,880
Speaker 1: have the ability to do it, because you know, they've

1959
01:45:35,920 --> 01:45:38,280
Speaker 1: done it in the past, as it just all depends

1960
01:45:38,320 --> 01:45:42,000
Speaker 1: on what they feel is the best matchups giving their

1961
01:45:42,040 --> 01:45:46,880
Speaker 1: personnel versus the Denver Broncos personnel. What's the vibe like

1962
01:45:47,120 --> 01:45:49,639
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball when they come

1963
01:45:49,640 --> 01:45:51,400
Speaker 1: out of the gates this season and they're not the

1964
01:45:51,439 --> 01:45:53,680
Speaker 1: same defense they were a year ago. They're struggling to

1965
01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:56,200
Speaker 1: stop the run, their numbers are down there, they're not

1966
01:45:56,240 --> 01:45:58,599
Speaker 1: getting very many turnovers, and then all of a sudden

1967
01:45:58,760 --> 01:46:00,679
Speaker 1: they do start to come around. It starts to build

1968
01:46:00,720 --> 01:46:02,320
Speaker 1: on itself, and now they get to this point where

1969
01:46:02,320 --> 01:46:04,920
Speaker 1: they're playing really good defense. What's the vibe like and

1970
01:46:05,000 --> 01:46:08,720
Speaker 1: How does it change week to week? Yeah, I mean

1971
01:46:08,720 --> 01:46:11,240
Speaker 1: they got the swag back. Now everybody's healthy. If you're

1972
01:46:11,240 --> 01:46:14,920
Speaker 1: flying around obviously a confidence breathe success, you're not second

1973
01:46:14,920 --> 01:46:18,000
Speaker 1: guessing yourself and so now you have to just hunting up.

1974
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:20,080
Speaker 1: And so even when things go wrong, you know that

1975
01:46:20,120 --> 01:46:21,760
Speaker 1: you can maybe make a play on the back end

1976
01:46:21,800 --> 01:46:24,559
Speaker 1: getting the pick or somebody getting a big sack or

1977
01:46:24,600 --> 01:46:28,439
Speaker 1: a big tackle for loss. Your mindset is just much different.

1978
01:46:28,880 --> 01:46:31,439
Speaker 1: It's no longer up here we go again. It's okay, well,

1979
01:46:31,439 --> 01:46:33,479
Speaker 1: who's gonna make the play now? And when you had

1980
01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:37,439
Speaker 1: that type of mindset, it's just it's infectious and it

1981
01:46:37,520 --> 01:46:39,320
Speaker 1: just allows you to take your game to another level.

1982
01:46:39,360 --> 01:46:41,759
Speaker 1: Because anytime you're out there, especially playing on this level,

1983
01:46:42,120 --> 01:46:44,559
Speaker 1: and you're not quite sure in yourself or maybe some

1984
01:46:44,600 --> 01:46:46,719
Speaker 1: of the guys next to you or what's gonna happen,

1985
01:46:47,960 --> 01:46:50,040
Speaker 1: you just don't play as well. You know, it's all

1986
01:46:50,080 --> 01:46:52,479
Speaker 1: about confidence, it's all about trusting the man next to you.

1987
01:46:52,479 --> 01:46:54,479
Speaker 1: And that's the way these guys are playing, and it's

1988
01:46:54,520 --> 01:46:57,440
Speaker 1: mainly because they're finally healthy and able to have some continuity,

1989
01:46:57,439 --> 01:46:59,840
Speaker 1: and it's really there about Tremaine Admans just the way

1990
01:46:59,840 --> 01:47:02,200
Speaker 1: he's really stepped his game up and playing on another level,

1991
01:47:02,200 --> 01:47:04,600
Speaker 1: and guy's getting their hands on balls, and it's just

1992
01:47:04,680 --> 01:47:08,960
Speaker 1: really fun to watch this defense have a reassurgence and

1993
01:47:09,320 --> 01:47:12,680
Speaker 1: really confirmation of who we thought they should be at

1994
01:47:12,680 --> 01:47:15,280
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, finally fear finding the groove

1995
01:47:15,360 --> 01:47:19,200
Speaker 1: and rhythm. Taking that a step further, Zough drew Locke

1996
01:47:19,200 --> 01:47:22,200
Speaker 1: as a player that has the second most interceptions in

1997
01:47:22,200 --> 01:47:26,360
Speaker 1: the league with thirteen in nine starts, and he has

1998
01:47:26,520 --> 01:47:30,920
Speaker 1: at least one turnover or more in nine consecutive games.

1999
01:47:31,320 --> 01:47:34,360
Speaker 1: Now that's going to make a defensive player's eyes get

2000
01:47:34,360 --> 01:47:36,759
Speaker 1: really big. I would think just looking at it on paper,

2001
01:47:36,840 --> 01:47:39,960
Speaker 1: let alone on film, how do you go into a game?

2002
01:47:40,560 --> 01:47:43,920
Speaker 1: How do you go into a game staying disciplined but

2003
01:47:44,120 --> 01:47:50,080
Speaker 1: knowing those opportunities could very well present themselves. Well, I mean,

2004
01:47:50,120 --> 01:47:52,200
Speaker 1: when you're doing your job, the ball normally comes to you.

2005
01:47:52,280 --> 01:47:54,400
Speaker 1: And so on film, they'll see some things that Drew

2006
01:47:54,439 --> 01:47:56,880
Speaker 1: Locke likes to do. And you'll see some tennessees whether

2007
01:47:56,880 --> 01:47:58,960
Speaker 1: he's loose with the ball or as a pass rusher

2008
01:47:59,000 --> 01:48:00,719
Speaker 1: you can get to him, or maybe a striped sack.

2009
01:48:00,760 --> 01:48:04,640
Speaker 1: And then from a dv dB in a linebacker perspective.

2010
01:48:04,680 --> 01:48:07,400
Speaker 1: You're looking at some of the tendensees that they have

2011
01:48:07,720 --> 01:48:10,960
Speaker 1: where you can take educated jumps, right, and that's what

2012
01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:13,240
Speaker 1: all the great players do. When guys are out of

2013
01:48:13,280 --> 01:48:15,960
Speaker 1: position or making a jump on a ball or playing

2014
01:48:15,960 --> 01:48:19,200
Speaker 1: a certain coverage and intercepting it. It's some most of

2015
01:48:19,200 --> 01:48:20,760
Speaker 1: the time, it's because it's what they've seen on TV,

2016
01:48:20,960 --> 01:48:25,080
Speaker 1: on TV, on film and are making plays based on that.

2017
01:48:25,320 --> 01:48:28,040
Speaker 1: You know, obviously we have a very intelligent high football

2018
01:48:28,080 --> 01:48:32,160
Speaker 1: IQ guys, especially when we think about Micah Hyde and

2019
01:48:32,280 --> 01:48:34,640
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer to Davis White, we've seen a couple of

2020
01:48:34,640 --> 01:48:37,840
Speaker 1: times him come off off of routes whether it was

2021
01:48:37,880 --> 01:48:40,280
Speaker 1: trap or not and get some interceptions or some out routes.

2022
01:48:40,320 --> 01:48:42,400
Speaker 1: And so you'll see guys like that dial up because

2023
01:48:42,720 --> 01:48:45,360
Speaker 1: Drew Locke has been inaccurate, and so they also have

2024
01:48:45,400 --> 01:48:46,840
Speaker 1: to make sure that they didn't get those tippers and

2025
01:48:46,920 --> 01:48:50,000
Speaker 1: overthrows and are knowing that he is like that, just

2026
01:48:50,040 --> 01:48:51,600
Speaker 1: be ready for those type of balls. But at the

2027
01:48:51,640 --> 01:48:54,680
Speaker 1: same time, based on your film study, understanding that you

2028
01:48:54,720 --> 01:48:57,200
Speaker 1: can jump some of these balls because he's shown to

2029
01:48:57,280 --> 01:48:59,800
Speaker 1: throw them to other team, How long did you think

2030
01:49:00,000 --> 01:49:02,000
Speaker 1: if it hasn't already happened. Do you think it'll be

2031
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:04,080
Speaker 1: before Matt Malone gets one hundred percent of the snaps,

2032
01:49:04,120 --> 01:49:05,920
Speaker 1: goes back in there and plays one hundred percent, you

2033
01:49:05,960 --> 01:49:08,640
Speaker 1: know what I mean? It was pretty significant injuries. It

2034
01:49:08,640 --> 01:49:10,880
Speaker 1: seems like he went up to almost fifty fifty though

2035
01:49:10,880 --> 01:49:14,920
Speaker 1: with AJ last week in terms of playing times. So yeah,

2036
01:49:14,960 --> 01:49:16,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they may continue to do that

2037
01:49:16,920 --> 01:49:19,559
Speaker 1: because obviously AJ had earned the right to be out

2038
01:49:19,600 --> 01:49:21,400
Speaker 1: there as well, and trying to come up with different

2039
01:49:21,400 --> 01:49:24,200
Speaker 1: packages that where you can get both guys maybe on

2040
01:49:24,240 --> 01:49:26,600
Speaker 1: the field together, or you just you know, kind of

2041
01:49:26,680 --> 01:49:29,800
Speaker 1: play played until Matt really feels comfortable, because you don't

2042
01:49:29,800 --> 01:49:32,519
Speaker 1: necessarily want to put Matt in a position to where

2043
01:49:32,720 --> 01:49:34,280
Speaker 1: you give him one hundred percent of the reps right

2044
01:49:34,320 --> 01:49:36,720
Speaker 1: now and then he reaggravates something. So I think they

2045
01:49:37,240 --> 01:49:39,080
Speaker 1: as long as they can maybe continue to do that,

2046
01:49:39,120 --> 01:49:41,839
Speaker 1: get guys out there, maybe situationally or maybe some packages

2047
01:49:41,880 --> 01:49:44,400
Speaker 1: that they like on third down with AJ versus Matt,

2048
01:49:45,080 --> 01:49:48,240
Speaker 1: they'll continue to play ball like that and then who knows,

2049
01:49:48,320 --> 01:49:50,680
Speaker 1: you know, as they continue to developing. Both guys are

2050
01:49:50,680 --> 01:49:52,479
Speaker 1: playing well because Matt and even came out and made

2051
01:49:52,479 --> 01:49:55,439
Speaker 1: some plays last week right when you try to figure

2052
01:49:55,479 --> 01:49:58,320
Speaker 1: out ways, you know, how is there certain certain ways

2053
01:49:58,320 --> 01:49:59,920
Speaker 1: where we get both these guys on the field, because

2054
01:50:00,080 --> 01:50:02,200
Speaker 1: it's better than maybe some of our maybe our Nickel

2055
01:50:02,400 --> 01:50:05,000
Speaker 1: or Buffalo situations. Because at the end of the day,

2056
01:50:05,160 --> 01:50:06,920
Speaker 1: wants the best players out there, guys that are going

2057
01:50:06,960 --> 01:50:09,679
Speaker 1: to take advantage of the matchups in the way. These guys,

2058
01:50:09,760 --> 01:50:11,599
Speaker 1: you know, especially Matt has been known to make plays

2059
01:50:11,600 --> 01:50:15,360
Speaker 1: and aj has shown here Blate Coaches are always trying

2060
01:50:15,360 --> 01:50:16,720
Speaker 1: to figure out ways to get them on the field

2061
01:50:16,760 --> 01:50:19,479
Speaker 1: so you can aim things up, so you just have

2062
01:50:19,560 --> 01:50:21,559
Speaker 1: your best guys out there. Last one, I've got four

2063
01:50:21,640 --> 01:50:27,320
Speaker 1: years old, deals with the cornerback platooning that re emerged

2064
01:50:27,479 --> 01:50:31,040
Speaker 1: last week against the Steelers, that between Levi Wallace and

2065
01:50:31,160 --> 01:50:34,160
Speaker 1: Josh Norn. You were here last year when it happened

2066
01:50:34,160 --> 01:50:38,120
Speaker 1: between Levi Wallace and Kevin Johnson late in the season.

2067
01:50:38,240 --> 01:50:40,760
Speaker 1: We're seeing that again now and it looks like coach

2068
01:50:40,760 --> 01:50:43,160
Speaker 1: Frasier is fine to do it. It doesn't look like

2069
01:50:43,160 --> 01:50:46,080
Speaker 1: it disrupts the secondary all that much in terms of

2070
01:50:46,080 --> 01:50:50,080
Speaker 1: those guys playing together. I'm just curious from a player perspective,

2071
01:50:51,280 --> 01:50:53,600
Speaker 1: how disruptive though, can that be? If you're one of

2072
01:50:53,600 --> 01:50:55,600
Speaker 1: those two guys in terms of a rhythm of the

2073
01:50:55,680 --> 01:50:59,000
Speaker 1: game and the field, that kind of thing. There's definitely

2074
01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:01,160
Speaker 1: more individual when you think about them, because you know

2075
01:51:01,200 --> 01:51:03,200
Speaker 1: they communicate, but they're also out there on the island

2076
01:51:03,200 --> 01:51:05,400
Speaker 1: and it's not like there's a continuity like an offensive

2077
01:51:05,400 --> 01:51:07,559
Speaker 1: linement switching in and out and how you're gonna help

2078
01:51:07,600 --> 01:51:09,599
Speaker 1: and do those type of things maybe as a guard

2079
01:51:09,640 --> 01:51:12,040
Speaker 1: working with a center or a tackle. When you're on

2080
01:51:12,080 --> 01:51:16,320
Speaker 1: an island, it's much more an individual, individualistic issue, and

2081
01:51:16,520 --> 01:51:18,840
Speaker 1: it can message your confidence. You know. Sometimes you may

2082
01:51:18,840 --> 01:51:20,479
Speaker 1: get into a good rhythm and now they want to

2083
01:51:20,479 --> 01:51:23,200
Speaker 1: decide to see who that next man is up. You know,

2084
01:51:23,240 --> 01:51:26,560
Speaker 1: the only thing I would do is challenge both those guys. Hey,

2085
01:51:27,040 --> 01:51:29,280
Speaker 1: whoever wants it, take it right. And so if you

2086
01:51:29,360 --> 01:51:32,200
Speaker 1: go out there and you're making plays, you're gonna force

2087
01:51:32,240 --> 01:51:34,880
Speaker 1: the coaches to stop rotating, because all at this point

2088
01:51:34,920 --> 01:51:37,760
Speaker 1: they're trying to create a competitive, competitive environment and see

2089
01:51:37,800 --> 01:51:40,240
Speaker 1: who is going to perform the best when the game

2090
01:51:40,320 --> 01:51:42,120
Speaker 1: is on the line. And the only what true way

2091
01:51:42,200 --> 01:51:45,280
Speaker 1: you can do that and not show like I like

2092
01:51:45,360 --> 01:51:47,759
Speaker 1: this player versus the other player is seeing who performs

2093
01:51:47,760 --> 01:51:50,080
Speaker 1: the best on game day, and if you earn the

2094
01:51:50,200 --> 01:51:52,200
Speaker 1: right to be the starter, you'll be the starter and

2095
01:51:52,240 --> 01:51:55,160
Speaker 1: hold that spot down. And so both those guys are

2096
01:51:55,200 --> 01:51:59,080
Speaker 1: great competitors, and so somebody eventually needs to just take

2097
01:51:59,120 --> 01:52:01,759
Speaker 1: hold of it and on it and force the coach's

2098
01:52:01,760 --> 01:52:04,439
Speaker 1: hands to make a decision. Last thing I've got for you.

2099
01:52:04,680 --> 01:52:07,400
Speaker 1: So we're hearing some rumblings out of the owner's meetings

2100
01:52:07,479 --> 01:52:11,000
Speaker 1: that they're considering not only the and the union is

2101
01:52:11,400 --> 01:52:13,840
Speaker 1: chiming in as well. There's conversations on going about all

2102
01:52:13,840 --> 01:52:16,559
Speaker 1: the COVID relief and some of the things the union

2103
01:52:16,640 --> 01:52:19,720
Speaker 1: would love to have some of the offseason changes that

2104
01:52:19,760 --> 01:52:24,600
Speaker 1: were mandated by COVID to remain, you know, fewer offseason activities,

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Speaker 1: fewer OTAs and that kind of thing. Maybe a shorter preseason.

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Speaker 1: And the owners are thinking about adding a regular season game,

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Speaker 1: going to seventeen games. Where do you think that conversation

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Speaker 1: will start an end? Where do you think it has

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Speaker 1: a chance of ending up? Um, you know, we'll see.

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Speaker 1: It's still a lot of conversation that has to go

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Speaker 1: back and forth. I don't think anything will really take

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Speaker 1: until probably after the Super Bowl as far as far

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Speaker 1: as figuring out the schedule, as far as what's really

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Speaker 1: going to happen when you have to have to make decisions.

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Speaker 1: But obviously to some extent, you know, guys we're able

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Speaker 1: to have more time off bill Way maybe with their families,

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Speaker 1: and so they like that aspect of it. And obviously

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Speaker 1: ownership is going to try to figure out a way

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Speaker 1: where they can add another game to make up for

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Speaker 1: the COVID shortfall that we're going to see next year,

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Speaker 1: and so there's going to be some type of exchanges. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you want another regular game, or you gotta give me

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Speaker 1: some of at least my off season back, because that's

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Speaker 1: another week from your family and another week on my

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Speaker 1: body that's way more gruesome. So you try to find

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Speaker 1: a happy beding point. You know. I also from a

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Speaker 1: coaching standpoint, another coaches are gonna hate that because being

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Speaker 1: a flag football coach myself, man, you just want as

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01:53:28,479 --> 01:53:30,960
Speaker 1: much time you can get with guys because you never

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01:53:31,000 --> 01:53:33,599
Speaker 1: feel like you can do enough to make sure people

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01:53:33,600 --> 01:53:36,400
Speaker 1: are prepared. And so I know what the coaches are

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01:53:36,400 --> 01:53:38,960
Speaker 1: pulling for as far as making sure we don't want

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Speaker 1: to change that. But you know, we'll see where it

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Speaker 1: lands after you know, conversation and seeing the pros or

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Speaker 1: the cons of it, because at the same time, you

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Speaker 1: want to make sure guys still have access to be

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Speaker 1: able to rehab, to be able to train if they

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Speaker 1: need to, because we have I think because guys you know,

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Speaker 1: didn't have a training camp, and maybe even some guys

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Speaker 1: who weren't able to go into the facility and have

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Speaker 1: physical therapy, those injuries lingered and also popped up, and

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Speaker 1: I can almost guess that the injury rate has to

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Speaker 1: be hired this year. All right, So thanks very much

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Speaker 1: for dropping the knowledge. Enjoy the game tomorrow. Hopefully we're

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01:54:12,040 --> 01:54:15,880
Speaker 1: celebrating an AFC's title over the weekend and we'll catch

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Speaker 1: up with you next week. Our fellows, appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: having me on see see all right, that's Lorenzo Alexander

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Speaker 1: with the lowdown. Break time for us, But when we return,

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Speaker 1: it'll be time for the reporters segment, as Mandy glab

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Speaker 1: will check in with the Denver's Beat reporter for the

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01:54:33,360 --> 01:54:35,920
Speaker 1: update on just what the Bills will be looking at

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Speaker 1: tomorrow when they face those Denver Broncos. That's coming up

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Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live time.

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Speaker 1: Now for this week's team reporters are very own. Matt

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01:55:00,200 --> 01:55:04,600
Speaker 1: Glab catches up with Broncos team reporter Alexis Perry. Alexis

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Speaker 1: this Broncos team. It's been an up and down season

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Speaker 1: for them, but you look at what they have, their

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Speaker 1: very young team with the new coaching staff trying to

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Speaker 1: figure it out, much like the Bills were doing in

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Speaker 1: their first couple years under Sean McDermott and Brandon bean. So.

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Speaker 1: I see a lot of similarities in these two teams.

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Speaker 1: But last week against the Panthers, the Broncos scored thirty

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Speaker 1: points for the third time this season, beating them thirty

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Speaker 1: two to twenty seven. What was going right for the

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Speaker 1: Broncos in that game that maybe hasn't gone right in

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Speaker 1: some of those losses. Yeah, well, I think you know,

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Speaker 1: as any offense, it's not just one thing that goes

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Speaker 1: right all of a sudden, and I think that was

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Speaker 1: definitely the case with the Bronchos. In fact, there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of reasons why the Broncos offense shouldn't have

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Speaker 1: been clicking. I mean, less tackle Garrett Bowles. He was

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01:55:52,040 --> 01:55:53,920
Speaker 1: ruled out of the game early in the morning dealing

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Speaker 1: with the stomach bug. We saw Noah Fant actually go

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01:55:56,920 --> 01:55:59,000
Speaker 1: out of the game dealing with the same kind of issue.

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01:55:59,480 --> 01:56:01,800
Speaker 1: The old line was hurt and already with Graham Glasgow

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Speaker 1: out of the game. But you know, I digress. I

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Speaker 1: think if we're going to try to pinpoint exactly what's

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Speaker 1: going right for this team, I think first we have

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01:56:08,360 --> 01:56:10,840
Speaker 1: to bring up Melvin Gordon and the Broncos running game,

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01:56:10,880 --> 01:56:13,960
Speaker 1: and it has been truly spectacular as of late. You know,

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Speaker 1: like you know, when you have a young quarterback, having

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Speaker 1: a run game that's clicking just makes life so much easier.

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Speaker 1: And the Broncos running game has been keeping defenses honest,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's really helped Drew lock as well.

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Speaker 1: And I think that kind of parlays a little bit

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Speaker 1: into the second reason, and that's that Drew Locke and

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Pat Shermer are really starting to gel together.

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Speaker 1: I think people forget that this is Pat Shermer's first

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Speaker 1: season and Denver so when you you know, think of

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Speaker 1: some of these facts, like it was assuring the offseason

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Speaker 1: there were no preseason games, and then you add in

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Speaker 1: the fact that Drew Locke, he was dealing with an

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Speaker 1: injury early in the season. The reality is is that

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Speaker 1: Denver's new coordinator and their second year quarterback have really

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Speaker 1: only had a little more than half a season together.

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Speaker 1: So I think it makes sense why they haven't been

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Speaker 1: overly effective up until recently. But right now we are

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Speaker 1: witnessing the evolution of this relationship between Pat Shermer Andrew Locke,

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Speaker 1: and I truly think it's only going to get better

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Speaker 1: from here on out. Yeah, Drew Locke, a young quarterback,

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Speaker 1: has drawn some comparisons to Josh Allen in his first

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Speaker 1: couple of seasons. I mean, he's a gun slinger. He

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Speaker 1: loves the deep ball, he's aggressive like Josh Allen in

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Speaker 1: a lot of ways. This season, He's thrown thirteen passing

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Speaker 1: touchdown so far with thirteen interceptions, something that is not

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Speaker 1: so crazy to say for a second year quarterback. But

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Speaker 1: what are some of his strongest assets that the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: defense needs to prepare for come Saturday. Yeah, Well, like

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, I think he is so much like Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: He has all the tools, he has the big arm,

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Speaker 1: he's fairly mobile, he's fearless. You know, we talked about

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Speaker 1: this on the podcast that you came on earlier with

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Speaker 1: us this week. You know, he's aggressive by nature. You

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Speaker 1: saw him actually at Missoo, Like you just said, he's

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Speaker 1: a gun slinger. So I have to say that those

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Speaker 1: are really great qualities. But there are also qualities that

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Speaker 1: have really gotten him into trouble early in his career,

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Speaker 1: and he has had to rely a lot on his

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Speaker 1: physical attributes. But I feel like in the NFL that's

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Speaker 1: only going to go so far. So there really is

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Speaker 1: a learning curve for Drew Locke. You know, I think

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Speaker 1: Buffalo you guys saw this early in Josh Allen's career too.

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Speaker 1: Like it's really interesting when you think about their first

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Speaker 1: fifteen games, the numbers that Drew Locke and Josh Allen

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01:58:26,920 --> 01:58:30,520
Speaker 1: put up are almost identical. I mean both eight and seven.

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Speaker 1: Through their first fifteen games. Alan had a complete sent percentage.

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Speaker 1: I think it was like fifty five percent. Locke was

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Speaker 1: fifty nine point five, I want to say, and they

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Speaker 1: both had a six point seven yards per attempt on average.

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Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, Locke actually has a better touchdown to interception

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Speaker 1: ratio of twenty to sixteen, which is kind of funny

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Speaker 1: given the fact that Drew Locke threw a pick seven

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Speaker 1: straight games. He finally broke that streak last game against

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Speaker 1: the Panthers. But at the moment, you know, forty one

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Speaker 1: games into his career, I have to say, you know,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen is the better quarterback. But I really hope

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Speaker 1: that his progression is a really good indicator of where

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Speaker 1: Locke can go and hopefully where he will be this

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Speaker 1: time next year and maybe even early into his fourth

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Speaker 1: season here with the Broncos. Definitely, and so much of that.

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Speaker 1: We've heard Josh Allen here and Buffalo talk a lot

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Speaker 1: about his relationship with his offensive coordinator and how that's

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01:59:24,600 --> 01:59:27,320
Speaker 1: one thing that's been consistent since he's gotten to Buffalo.

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01:59:27,520 --> 01:59:29,920
Speaker 1: So hopefully in the next couple of years, Drew lock

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Speaker 1: can feel the same thing with Pat Shermer, because a

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Speaker 1: young quarterback needs some stability in his first couple of

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01:59:35,680 --> 01:59:38,440
Speaker 1: seasons to really truly be able to grow. I think.

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Speaker 1: But Broncos defense or offense, they ranked twenty ninth overall.

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Speaker 1: They're averaging nineteen point eight points per game, much like

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Speaker 1: Buffalo was last year. Buffalo is averaging nineteen point six

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Speaker 1: points per game. They've been able to increase that to

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Speaker 1: twenty seven points or just over twenty seven points this season.

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Speaker 1: But with the struggles that we've seen on this Broncos offense,

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Speaker 1: the team breaks pretty high. They're tied for fourth with

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Speaker 1: fifty five plays of twenty or more yards on the

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Speaker 1: ground or through the air. We know the running game

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Speaker 1: is very stable for this Broncos offense, but we've seen

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Speaker 1: Drew Lock throw some deep balls to several different wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: How and when has the team been able to find

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Speaker 1: big play success and who are those some of those

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Speaker 1: players that are having it for the Broncos this season. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think the reason why they have the big play

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Speaker 1: success is because there's explosive talent everywhere you look. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned the running backs. You know, Melvin Gordon and

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Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay. Those aren't your three yards in a cloud

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Speaker 1: of dust type of backs. Like. They're both shifty, they

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Speaker 1: have excellent top end speed, so they're really capable of

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Speaker 1: breaking off big runs. But I think when you think

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Speaker 1: about the wide receiver and the tied end positions, the

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Speaker 1: Broncos have speed and size pretty much everywhere you look.

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Speaker 1: Tim Patrick and Noah Fan huge targets, both very fast,

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Speaker 1: very physical, so those guys are always giving a big

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Speaker 1: target downfield, and then you have I think we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about these two guys here in

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Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, Jerry Judy and kJ Hamdler

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Speaker 1: both incredibly quick, incredibly gifted route runners. So the big

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Speaker 1: plays are going to be their weekend and week out.

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Speaker 1: But I do have to mention, like, I think the

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Speaker 1: reason why you haven't seen I guess really scoring because

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Speaker 1: of those plays is because of turnovers. You know, big

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Speaker 1: plays have a way of negating themselves when there is

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Speaker 1: a turnover, and unfortunately, the Broncos are worst in the

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Speaker 1: entire NFL with a minus eighteen turnover ratio. I have

2285
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Speaker 1: to point out like the next closest teams Bengals, Cowboys, Eagles,

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Speaker 1: those guys are all minus ten. So I think if

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Speaker 1: Denver can clean that up, that's one way that we

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Speaker 1: might actually see these big plays starting to turn into

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Speaker 1: touchdowns or at least eventually leading to more scoring. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Broncos rank at the bottom of the league and

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Speaker 1: giveaways with twenty nine. The Bill's defense has had takeaways

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Speaker 1: in eight straight games, so we'll see if that storyline

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Speaker 1: can play out. The Bills or a ninth game. I know,

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Speaker 1: I know you are. Drew Lock was pretty good in

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02:02:06,120 --> 02:02:08,840
Speaker 1: his last game though against the Panthers, so we will

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Speaker 1: see about that. But speaking of the rookie wide receivers,

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Speaker 1: kJ Handler Jerry Judy, Jerry Judy had a great route

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Speaker 1: runner written all over him when he was in the

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Speaker 1: Combine and a lot of Bills fans and I got

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Speaker 1: to know these wide receivers pretty well. Because the Bills

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Speaker 1: had a first round pick in which a lot of

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Speaker 1: people thought they were going to go after a wide

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Speaker 1: receiver if the right guy was there in the first round.

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Speaker 1: They end up trading away their first round pick for

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs, and I think it's turned out pretty well

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Speaker 1: for the Bill so far Diggs and just what he's

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Speaker 1: been able to do. But how of young rookies like

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Speaker 1: kJ Handler and Jerry Judy added to this offense this season.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure in their rookie season you've gotten to see

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a splash, and hopefully in the

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Speaker 1: next couple of seasons it gets bigger, just like we're

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Speaker 1: hoping for Gabriel Davis, who was our fourth round pick

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Speaker 1: wide receiver who's playing a lot higher than a fourth

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Speaker 1: round level. Yeah, I think at the wide receiver position,

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Speaker 1: it's really interesting because that's one of those positions, like

2316
02:03:09,760 --> 02:03:13,320
Speaker 1: we've talked about this week, that it's not that easy

2317
02:03:13,320 --> 02:03:16,280
Speaker 1: to translate from college to the national football leagues. So

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Speaker 1: I think this year, you know, when it comes to

2319
02:03:18,200 --> 02:03:21,800
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy and kJ Hamdler, they've done well, and really

2320
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Speaker 1: they're just always a stamp away from a big play,

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Speaker 1: but they could be doing actually even better. They're just

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Speaker 1: they're both so fast, you know, for rookies. I think

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02:03:31,040 --> 02:03:34,680
Speaker 1: they're unusually good route runners. And we saw kJ Hamdler

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02:03:34,680 --> 02:03:36,840
Speaker 1: explode last week for two long touchdowns, and I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of the reason for that is because defenses

2326
02:03:39,800 --> 02:03:42,920
Speaker 1: are spending a lot of resources to curb the Bronchos

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02:03:43,000 --> 02:03:45,040
Speaker 1: running game. I keep referring to the Bronchos running game

2328
02:03:45,080 --> 02:03:47,560
Speaker 1: over and over and over again in this interview with you,

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02:03:47,720 --> 02:03:49,880
Speaker 1: but it is true, and I think that helps Handler,

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Speaker 1: especially on seam routes where he can use his speed

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02:03:52,120 --> 02:03:53,880
Speaker 1: to get up the middle of the field and just

2332
02:03:54,040 --> 02:03:58,000
Speaker 1: get behind defenses. So for Jerry Judy, something to point

2333
02:03:58,040 --> 02:04:00,800
Speaker 1: out is that the expectations were really high for him,

2334
02:04:00,800 --> 02:04:04,360
Speaker 1: but his numbers have been really inconsistent. I think, even

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Speaker 1: though he's you know, typically drawing the toughest assignments as

2336
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Speaker 1: a rookie, we see him up against the opposition's best

2337
02:04:11,840 --> 02:04:15,000
Speaker 1: corner and Jerry Judy tends to put those guys in

2338
02:04:15,040 --> 02:04:17,840
Speaker 1: a blender still like he's breaking ankles left and right.

2339
02:04:17,880 --> 02:04:20,480
Speaker 1: But when you look at the tape, Drew Locke hasn't

2340
02:04:20,480 --> 02:04:23,720
Speaker 1: actually managed to get him the ball consistently. So you

2341
02:04:23,720 --> 02:04:26,640
Speaker 1: can always count on Jerry Judy for a few spectacular

2342
02:04:26,680 --> 02:04:29,920
Speaker 1: plays each game. But I think is the chemistry between

2343
02:04:30,000 --> 02:04:33,080
Speaker 1: Drew Locke and Pat Shermer continues to grow. We're going

2344
02:04:33,120 --> 02:04:36,120
Speaker 1: to see that chemistry between Locke and Judy, and even

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02:04:36,160 --> 02:04:39,560
Speaker 1: Locke and Hamdler continue to follow suit. Yeah. One of

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02:04:39,600 --> 02:04:42,520
Speaker 1: the Bill's defensive goals in each game, and part of

2347
02:04:42,560 --> 02:04:45,440
Speaker 1: their identity is to shut down the run first and

2348
02:04:45,520 --> 02:04:48,760
Speaker 1: make a team one dimensional. So for running teams, they

2349
02:04:48,800 --> 02:04:52,160
Speaker 1: definitely want to shut down that part of their offense.

2350
02:04:52,160 --> 02:04:54,680
Speaker 1: So we'll see if they can do it against the Broncos.

2351
02:04:54,680 --> 02:04:57,680
Speaker 1: Their running defense has been a lot better as of light.

2352
02:04:57,920 --> 02:05:01,600
Speaker 1: But fun fact, Levi Wallace, one of the corners on

2353
02:05:01,640 --> 02:05:05,040
Speaker 1: the Bills, went to Alabama. He's a younger corner in

2354
02:05:05,080 --> 02:05:07,920
Speaker 1: the NFL, and he played with Jerry Judy, so it'll

2355
02:05:07,960 --> 02:05:10,320
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if those two line up against

2356
02:05:10,400 --> 02:05:13,440
Speaker 1: each other at all. You'd think Jerry Judy would also

2357
02:05:13,560 --> 02:05:15,920
Speaker 1: draw a little bit of coverage from a corner like

2358
02:05:16,000 --> 02:05:19,440
Speaker 1: Tredavious White as well. But maybe Levi is going to

2359
02:05:19,480 --> 02:05:22,400
Speaker 1: be on him quite a bit because Levi did say

2360
02:05:22,440 --> 02:05:25,720
Speaker 1: that he went up against Jerry Judy almost every practice

2361
02:05:25,760 --> 02:05:28,640
Speaker 1: when the two were at Alabama together, and just speaks

2362
02:05:28,680 --> 02:05:32,120
Speaker 1: to Jerry Judy's speed as a wide receiver. He was

2363
02:05:32,160 --> 02:05:34,560
Speaker 1: one of the fastest, if not the fastest, if I

2364
02:05:34,600 --> 02:05:38,960
Speaker 1: can remember, coming out of the college football ranks into

2365
02:05:38,960 --> 02:05:42,120
Speaker 1: the NFL. So, but I want to move to your defense.

2366
02:05:42,360 --> 02:05:44,560
Speaker 1: You guys have had some injuries, and I feel like

2367
02:05:44,640 --> 02:05:47,240
Speaker 1: every single team can say they've had a lot of

2368
02:05:47,280 --> 02:05:50,360
Speaker 1: injuries this season, or you know, people on and off

2369
02:05:50,400 --> 02:05:54,120
Speaker 1: the COVID list. Everybody's dealt with the adversity in that

2370
02:05:54,160 --> 02:05:59,040
Speaker 1: way somehow. But they rank sixteenth overall, allowing three hundred

2371
02:05:59,040 --> 02:06:02,000
Speaker 1: and fifty one point seven yards per game, But their

2372
02:06:02,080 --> 02:06:05,640
Speaker 1: red zone defense is a leak. They leave the league

2373
02:06:05,640 --> 02:06:09,320
Speaker 1: allowing teams to score touchdowns only forty nine percent of time.

2374
02:06:09,720 --> 02:06:12,640
Speaker 1: So what's been the difference when this team is defending

2375
02:06:12,680 --> 02:06:16,440
Speaker 1: a red zone versus the rest of the field. I

2376
02:06:16,480 --> 02:06:19,160
Speaker 1: think it's the fact that, you know, Vic Fangio, he

2377
02:06:19,400 --> 02:06:23,200
Speaker 1: has built a defense that its biggest strength really is

2378
02:06:23,240 --> 02:06:25,800
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field. The interior of the

2379
02:06:25,880 --> 02:06:31,320
Speaker 1: defensive line is amazing. Alexander Johnson and Josie Jeweler, you know,

2380
02:06:31,360 --> 02:06:33,800
Speaker 1: inside linebackers, and there are a couple of the best

2381
02:06:33,920 --> 02:06:37,680
Speaker 1: run stuffing linebackers in the entire league. And then at

2382
02:06:37,720 --> 02:06:40,920
Speaker 1: safety you have Kareem Jackson and Justin Simmons. Both guys

2383
02:06:40,960 --> 02:06:44,000
Speaker 1: are pro caliber players. So when the field becomes a

2384
02:06:44,040 --> 02:06:46,400
Speaker 1: little bit shorter, I think the middle of the defense

2385
02:06:46,440 --> 02:06:48,920
Speaker 1: becomes more important, and that's where the Broncos are just

2386
02:06:48,960 --> 02:06:53,360
Speaker 1: like so so good. You know, outside of course, like

2387
02:06:53,360 --> 02:06:55,400
Speaker 1: there's been just a ton of injuries, but in the

2388
02:06:55,440 --> 02:06:59,160
Speaker 1: red zone, I think the makeshift cornerback situation is only

2389
02:06:59,200 --> 02:07:01,040
Speaker 1: asked to cover for a few yards and not the

2390
02:07:01,040 --> 02:07:03,800
Speaker 1: whole field. So if the Broncos are healthy at the

2391
02:07:03,800 --> 02:07:06,440
Speaker 1: cornerback position, I think you'd see a defense that has

2392
02:07:06,480 --> 02:07:11,160
Speaker 1: really zero, if any flaws at all. But I think

2393
02:07:11,160 --> 02:07:14,000
Speaker 1: they're especially good in the red zone because that's where

2394
02:07:14,000 --> 02:07:16,120
Speaker 1: they're the healthiest, and I think that's where the talent

2395
02:07:16,240 --> 02:07:21,040
Speaker 1: is the most impressive given the health of the players. Alexis,

2396
02:07:21,120 --> 02:07:23,720
Speaker 1: thanks so much for being on. Good to get to

2397
02:07:23,760 --> 02:07:26,560
Speaker 1: know the Broncos a little bit better, as this matchup

2398
02:07:26,720 --> 02:07:29,880
Speaker 1: is just right around the corner. Of course, good luck.

2399
02:07:29,920 --> 02:07:33,120
Speaker 1: While I hope you guys don't get the win, I do,

2400
02:07:33,280 --> 02:07:36,320
Speaker 1: you know, as a as a friend of yours, you know,

2401
02:07:36,360 --> 02:07:37,920
Speaker 1: I do hope that you guys are able to clinch

2402
02:07:38,000 --> 02:07:40,640
Speaker 1: the AFC East here and you know, first time since

2403
02:07:40,720 --> 02:07:43,360
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. Man, that would be so amazing. So

2404
02:07:43,400 --> 02:07:45,240
Speaker 1: good luck to you guys, and I hope to see

2405
02:07:45,240 --> 02:07:48,600
Speaker 1: you soon. Thank you, Alexis. We're hoping we can get

2406
02:07:48,640 --> 02:07:50,960
Speaker 1: the win. It'll be a good test though, looking forward

2407
02:07:50,960 --> 02:07:55,400
Speaker 1: to the matchup on Saturday. All right, that's Maddie Glab

2408
02:07:55,480 --> 02:07:58,920
Speaker 1: in our Team Reporters segment with Alexis Perry Broncos Teams

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02:07:58,960 --> 02:08:04,120
Speaker 1: Team Reporter. And we do have some other news which

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Speaker 1: involves the Governor. Andrew Cuomo spoke today at his daily

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02:08:09,960 --> 02:08:14,120
Speaker 1: press briefing amidst the COVID situation, as he has for

2412
02:08:14,240 --> 02:08:19,160
Speaker 1: almost the duration of the pandemic and basically what we've

2413
02:08:19,240 --> 02:08:24,080
Speaker 1: learned today is that Governor Cuomo has not completely closed

2414
02:08:24,080 --> 02:08:27,720
Speaker 1: the door on the possibility of having some fans at

2415
02:08:27,880 --> 02:08:30,960
Speaker 1: Bill's home playoff games. This is a direct quote from

2416
02:08:31,040 --> 02:08:34,640
Speaker 1: him today. He said, they're playing great and it's exciting.

2417
02:08:34,680 --> 02:08:38,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo deserves it. Buffalo Bills fans are like no others.

2418
02:08:38,680 --> 02:08:42,600
Speaker 1: If the infection rate is under control and the hospital

2419
02:08:42,760 --> 02:08:46,040
Speaker 1: capacity rate is under control, and we come up with

2420
02:08:46,080 --> 02:08:49,680
Speaker 1: a smart, science based way to do it, I'd be

2421
02:08:49,760 --> 02:08:54,240
Speaker 1: all in favor. It's going to be a health based decision.

2422
02:08:54,320 --> 02:08:58,600
Speaker 1: And he later went on to say that, yes, the

2423
02:08:58,600 --> 02:09:01,160
Speaker 1: infection rate in Western New York is coming down, but

2424
02:09:01,200 --> 02:09:04,320
Speaker 1: the decision on whether to allow some fans to attend

2425
02:09:04,440 --> 02:09:07,720
Speaker 1: games is going to be made by doctor Howard Zooker,

2426
02:09:07,760 --> 02:09:10,240
Speaker 1: who is the Commissioner of Health for New York State.

2427
02:09:10,280 --> 02:09:12,960
Speaker 1: So this is going to be purely a science and

2428
02:09:13,080 --> 02:09:16,480
Speaker 1: databased health decision, and it's going to depend on how

2429
02:09:16,560 --> 02:09:19,000
Speaker 1: Christmas Holidays go here in Western New York. Right, Yeah,

2430
02:09:19,040 --> 02:09:23,400
Speaker 1: do the right thing people next week during Christmas. Do

2431
02:09:23,920 --> 02:09:27,480
Speaker 1: the right thing. If having at least a glimmer of

2432
02:09:27,520 --> 02:09:30,800
Speaker 1: hope as to getting some people in the building for

2433
02:09:30,880 --> 02:09:34,800
Speaker 1: a home playoff game, you got. You gotta do right

2434
02:09:34,880 --> 02:09:37,840
Speaker 1: by the rules and what's the right thing to do

2435
02:09:37,920 --> 02:09:41,240
Speaker 1: here for Christmas? As hard as that may be. Now,

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02:09:41,440 --> 02:09:44,200
Speaker 1: I will say this, as you know, Steve, I am

2437
02:09:44,480 --> 02:09:46,920
Speaker 1: a big soccer fan, and I watched the English Premier

2438
02:09:47,000 --> 02:09:50,280
Speaker 1: League on the other side of the pond, and they

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02:09:50,320 --> 02:09:55,960
Speaker 1: started allowing some fans in their stands, and they were

2440
02:09:56,040 --> 02:09:59,160
Speaker 1: doing it in a tier system, and the first tier

2441
02:09:59,400 --> 02:10:02,480
Speaker 1: was two thousand fans and a lot of their buildings

2442
02:10:02,480 --> 02:10:04,360
Speaker 1: in the English Premier League are about the same size

2443
02:10:04,360 --> 02:10:10,080
Speaker 1: as NFL stadiums, so two thousand fans attended games. Now,

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02:10:11,040 --> 02:10:15,280
Speaker 1: after two weeks of that, teams playing in London, of

2445
02:10:15,360 --> 02:10:17,400
Speaker 1: which there are I believe six or seven in the

2446
02:10:17,440 --> 02:10:21,360
Speaker 1: Premier League, the top division, the teams playing in London

2447
02:10:21,400 --> 02:10:23,720
Speaker 1: are no longer allowed to have the fans again because

2448
02:10:23,720 --> 02:10:27,360
Speaker 1: their infection rates in those areas quickly jumped back up

2449
02:10:27,400 --> 02:10:31,880
Speaker 1: above the necessary threshold in terms of infection rate. So

2450
02:10:31,920 --> 02:10:34,440
Speaker 1: they were at two thousand. Now they're no longer allowed

2451
02:10:34,480 --> 02:10:36,240
Speaker 1: because the infection rate jump back up again. And I

2452
02:10:36,280 --> 02:10:39,680
Speaker 1: would assume that New York State would take a similar approach.

2453
02:10:39,680 --> 02:10:43,320
Speaker 1: The infection rates go back up after Christmas in early January,

2454
02:10:43,360 --> 02:10:47,240
Speaker 1: all bets are off, and I think that would certainly

2455
02:10:47,920 --> 02:10:52,160
Speaker 1: hamper any chance of getting some fans in the stands. Yeah,

2456
02:10:52,200 --> 02:10:54,200
Speaker 1: and that's yeah, I mean it's a pipe dream. Just

2457
02:10:54,200 --> 02:10:56,160
Speaker 1: think you're going to have seventy thousand plus in the

2458
02:10:56,200 --> 02:10:59,640
Speaker 1: stadium for the playoff game in two and a half weeks.

2459
02:11:00,120 --> 02:11:02,920
Speaker 1: But maybe for the first time there will be some

2460
02:11:03,720 --> 02:11:06,880
Speaker 1: even you know, I don't know what, I don't even

2461
02:11:06,880 --> 02:11:09,200
Speaker 1: know what the numbers. Well, I know Arizona when they

2462
02:11:09,200 --> 02:11:11,480
Speaker 1: were having fans in the stands, they are not anymore.

2463
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Speaker 1: They had forty two hundred. Like the game that Lorenzo

2464
02:11:15,280 --> 02:11:18,480
Speaker 1: went to, forty two hundred fans in what was about

2465
02:11:18,480 --> 02:11:23,800
Speaker 1: a seventy thousand seat stadium. They seat seventy three thousand here.

2466
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Speaker 1: So do the math. Tennessee was allowing fans in their

2467
02:11:31,240 --> 02:11:33,080
Speaker 1: stands for a time. I don't know if that is

2468
02:11:33,120 --> 02:11:36,080
Speaker 1: still the case. They're still doing it in Florida, So

2469
02:11:36,400 --> 02:11:38,240
Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll have to see where it goes. Break

2470
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Speaker 1: time for us when we return. We closed things up

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Speaker 1: for the week with what have we learned. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back in a moment to give you that. Here on

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health. This is

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02:11:47,040 --> 02:12:08,720
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio time for what have we learned from

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Speaker 1: today's show brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction

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02:12:12,520 --> 02:12:16,880
Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills, And we probably

2477
02:12:16,960 --> 02:12:19,160
Speaker 1: learned that the idea of fans in the stands is

2478
02:12:19,200 --> 02:12:23,240
Speaker 1: not quite dead yet for the playoffs for the Bills.

2479
02:12:23,320 --> 02:12:28,600
Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo's remarks today interesting although they will be completely

2480
02:12:28,640 --> 02:12:32,280
Speaker 1: based on science, data and health. But he did not

2481
02:12:32,360 --> 02:12:35,200
Speaker 1: shut the door on the possibility of there being some

2482
02:12:35,440 --> 02:12:40,640
Speaker 1: fans in the stands for Bills home playoff games in January.

2483
02:12:40,680 --> 02:12:42,520
Speaker 1: But as Steve and I said in the previous segment,

2484
02:12:42,560 --> 02:12:45,040
Speaker 1: it's going to largely hinge on how well people do

2485
02:12:45,120 --> 02:12:48,280
Speaker 1: the right thing through Christmas Week. Here, this is a

2486
02:12:48,280 --> 02:12:50,080
Speaker 1: week coming up next week where a lot of people

2487
02:12:50,120 --> 02:12:52,080
Speaker 1: are going to gather, and we know the lag effect.

2488
02:12:52,160 --> 02:12:55,120
Speaker 1: We saw it with Thanksgiving where numbers spiked about a

2489
02:12:55,120 --> 02:12:56,720
Speaker 1: week and a half after a week and a half

2490
02:12:56,760 --> 02:12:59,760
Speaker 1: after Christmas. Is right around the first playoff game for

2491
02:12:59,760 --> 02:13:02,360
Speaker 1: the it'll be interesting too. There are two factors, he said,

2492
02:13:02,360 --> 02:13:05,160
Speaker 1: one of the infection rates and also the other thing

2493
02:13:05,360 --> 02:13:07,240
Speaker 1: is the hospital bed rates. So if there are people

2494
02:13:07,280 --> 02:13:09,280
Speaker 1: getting out of the hospital, if the hospitals are getting

2495
02:13:09,400 --> 02:13:12,240
Speaker 1: less than capacity and have room for a surge if

2496
02:13:12,280 --> 02:13:16,040
Speaker 1: they have one. And that's looking like the people who

2497
02:13:16,080 --> 02:13:19,120
Speaker 1: are sick are getting well and there's not that many

2498
02:13:19,120 --> 02:13:22,200
Speaker 1: people getting infected. Maybe you got a chance of getting

2499
02:13:22,200 --> 02:13:24,600
Speaker 1: some people in the stadium for the playoff game. Yeah,

2500
02:13:24,640 --> 02:13:26,880
Speaker 1: but that's just to wait and see at this point.

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02:13:27,120 --> 02:13:29,080
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for Steve and I this week,

2502
02:13:29,120 --> 02:13:32,600
Speaker 1: But we remind you if you need more Bills content,

2503
02:13:33,160 --> 02:13:36,440
Speaker 1: the One Bill's Light podcast will be available for you

2504
02:13:36,800 --> 02:13:39,880
Speaker 1: later today. You can chew on that tomorrow morning while

2505
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Speaker 1: you're waiting for the four o'clock game between the Bills

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02:13:43,360 --> 02:13:47,120
Speaker 1: and Broncos. Fresh fresh content from Steve and I. Greg

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Speaker 1: Co sell a lot of fun on there. Check it

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Speaker 1: out on all your streaming platforms. We'll catch you on Monday.