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Speaker 1: because if people like Jamar Chase and Kyle Pitts, who oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, could have been drafted by the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: but they chose not to, So there's everybody's getting pointed

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Speaker 1: to it and knocked to it. And look, he's not

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Speaker 1: my favorite quarterback either. But the problems run far deeper

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Speaker 1: than to a tonga violo with the Miami Dolphins. And

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Speaker 1: to confirm that for us, in the third hour the

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Speaker 1: show today, we'll have Armando Selgaro from OutKick dot Com,

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Speaker 1: who has covered the Dolphins for the better part of

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Speaker 1: the last thirty years and is also lamenting the failed

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Speaker 1: draft decisions of the Miami Dolphins. Right and that and

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Speaker 1: it was, and it's their recent draft history under Greer

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Speaker 1: as their general motor is and Armando did pull no

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Speaker 1: punches in some of the tweets that he put out earlier,

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Speaker 1: How did this guy keep his job? They passed on Pits,

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Speaker 1: they trapped passed on Lamar Jamar Chase, they passed on

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. I mean, the list goes on and on

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Speaker 1: and on and on, and a lot of the guys

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Speaker 1: they've grabbed haven't been good enough. Now. James Waddle's a

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Speaker 1: nice player, don't get me wrong, very good. He's a

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Speaker 1: good player. Gassick, he's a good players. So they got

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Speaker 1: some guys. Boston Jackson, the offensive tackle from USC was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be their franchise left tackle. He's not. He's not.

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Speaker 1: He was playing guard. Didn't They also Liam Eichenberg they

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Speaker 1: draft in the second round last year out of Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: He actually looks like a halfway decent player. He had

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Speaker 1: to play left tackle a couple weeks ago because I

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Speaker 1: didn't have anybody healthy and they don't want to put

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Speaker 1: Jackson there. So yeah, yeah, it's there are a myriad

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Speaker 1: of problems. Jalen Phillips, you know, was the other guy

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Speaker 1: they drafted in the first round with Waddle. They got

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Speaker 1: him off the ground and I'm playing it outside linebacker.

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Speaker 1: He's dropping into coverage. The man is a pass rusher, yea,

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Speaker 1: even from what I understand, they're using him a little

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Speaker 1: bit more on the pass rush. And there's there was

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Speaker 1: an injury note also linebacker Jerome Baker, who's perennially their

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Speaker 1: top tackler. He he had a minor knee injury yesterday

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Speaker 1: left the game. So that's an injury to monitor through

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Speaker 1: the course this week as the Bills will be hosting

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins. The danger here that I sometimes worry about, Steve.

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Speaker 1: You got a team at one and six that is

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Speaker 1: supremely desperate, and I wonder how much they decide to

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Speaker 1: go away from their tendencies and just pull everything out

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Speaker 1: of the hats to try to win a game this week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: speak that's the danger for the Bills, That's right, And

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Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be the mindset of the Dolphins. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Brian Flores is the panic kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: But you've you've lost but six games. Yeah, there's there's

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Speaker 1: no holds barred now. They've got they've got to win

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Speaker 1: this game in Buffalo this week or their their season's over,

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Speaker 1: absolutely done, and they know it. So you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: a supreme effort. And you know it's interesting too you

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Speaker 1: think about looking around at some of the other and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to, you know, change the subject off

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Speaker 1: of it what we're talking about, but think about this, um.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday you go into Foxborough and the Jets go in

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Speaker 1: there and the Patriots ran. In my what what I

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Speaker 1: would They must have run eight trick plays in the

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Speaker 1: first half. Well, I would say trick plays like double pass,

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Speaker 1: a backward pass, you know, one of these triple reverse

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Speaker 1: whatever whatever. They ran a ton of awareness trick type

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Speaker 1: gadget plays, backward passes, double passes, and it strikes me

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Speaker 1: as a really desperate measure for a club. And I

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Speaker 1: guess I think they're doing it because they got a

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Speaker 1: quarterback they're trying to support, and they're doing some of

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Speaker 1: this too with the Jets. Make no mistake about that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that might be it. They might be. They're clowning them

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Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned. Let's see how ready they

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Speaker 1: are for this stuff. Oh they're not ready. Let's do

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Speaker 1: more of it. Let's embarrass them, right, I think that

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Speaker 1: I think that stuff runs deep for Belichick. It might.

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Speaker 1: I think it does, and which is kind of stupid

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Speaker 1: when you think about it. It's not even the same

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Speaker 1: ownership that you had the issues with in the first place,

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Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, but that's not You can't blame the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: I guess because the Jets, hey, you don't like it,

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Speaker 1: stop it, stop it. And they could not stop any

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Speaker 1: of the inside run game of the Patriots. They could

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Speaker 1: not stop the screen game of the Patriots. They must

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Speaker 1: have had one hundred and fifty yards receiving on screenplays yesterday.

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Speaker 1: It was an embarrassment. The Jets could do nothing. And

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Speaker 1: I hate to say it because I think Robert sala

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Speaker 1: is the right coach for the Jets. But knowing the

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Speaker 1: history of that team, the history of that franchise, there

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Speaker 1: are enough players on that roster who have gone through

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Speaker 1: losing seasons where you know, they just check out, They

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Speaker 1: just check You can see it on the Salo was

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Speaker 1: really really upset after that game. He was he was livid,

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Speaker 1: and he you know, he held himself together, but you

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Speaker 1: could see on the sideline his demeanor on the sideline

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Speaker 1: throughout the last two and a half quarters of that

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Speaker 1: game was stoic. Yeah, he was. I would love to

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Speaker 1: have one. I would love to have known what he

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Speaker 1: was thinking. Because it was obviously the way that game

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Speaker 1: was going, and there was just no answers on his sidelines,

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Speaker 1: and we did not even mention probably the most important

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Speaker 1: story that came out of that game. Zach Wilson got injured.

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Speaker 1: He'll be out four weeks. Well, they're saying there are

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Speaker 1: differing reports here. One Ian Rappaport is reporting it's a

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Speaker 1: two week injury, which would mean his first game back

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Speaker 1: would be against the Jets, would be against the Bills

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Speaker 1: in week ten, when he would be healthy enough to

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Speaker 1: play again. There are other reports that are saying two

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Speaker 1: to four weeks. It's a PCL knee injury, which is

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Speaker 1: the ligament that runs behind the knee. I had that injury. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so well, we'll have to see how quickly he recovers.

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Speaker 1: He's a young player, and you know, if it's not

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Speaker 1: a major PCL injury, you know, maybe he could be

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Speaker 1: back in two weeks, as Ian Rappaport is reporting, But

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Speaker 1: there are others. Adam Schefter among them, were saying is

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Speaker 1: a two to four week injury. If that's the case,

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Speaker 1: he's a very big question mark for the Jets four

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Speaker 1: week ten against the Bills and Mike White would be

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Speaker 1: the quarterba back. And there is a big difference between

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Speaker 1: Zach Wilson and Mike White because Mike White is a

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Speaker 1: pocket passer only. He is not an extend the play

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Speaker 1: type guy, where that's kind of the most attractive quality

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Speaker 1: of Wilson's game, being able to make plays on the run,

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Speaker 1: extend plays because the protection hasn't been there either. McKay

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Speaker 1: Beckton still out with the injury left tackle. There, they're

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Speaker 1: the Jets and the Dolphins. Look they're a mess. Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, they're an absolute mess. And then and the

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Speaker 1: Patriots are getting together as I you know, you kind

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Speaker 1: of figured they would. The Patriots are gonna, you know,

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Speaker 1: find a way to cobble together some some games and

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Speaker 1: score points and keep you from scoring. Mac Jones three

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Speaker 1: andrew yard passing day, first of his career, and it's

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Speaker 1: you know, they're getting better and you knew they would be.

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Speaker 1: And would the Bills have him twice in the second

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Speaker 1: half of the season, and those are games that are

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Speaker 1: going to be absolutely vital to the Bills to get

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Speaker 1: to win, to continue on their way to win in

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Speaker 1: the division. The it goes through Patriots for the Bills,

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Speaker 1: break time for us here but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll get your thoughts on our Twitter conversation today. How

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Speaker 1: does the rapidly changing landscape of the AFC change the

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Speaker 1: way you think about the bills and their place in

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Speaker 1: that hierarchy? Check out One Bills Live on Twitter for

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Speaker 1: the choices for you to vote on there, hit us

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Speaker 1: up on the tweet sheet or give us a call

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Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty open line for you there

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Speaker 1: to talk with us here on One Bills Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Klatta Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome

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

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Speaker 1: going all the way up till three o'clock, kind of

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Speaker 1: surveying the landscape in the AFC and asking if it's

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Speaker 1: changed your opinion on the bills. Chances here in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, you can go to the tweet sheet, weigh

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Speaker 1: in on the poll, or give us a call at

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Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty let's go to the phones. Now.

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Speaker 1: Leading us off today is Rick in north Tonawanda. So Rick,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live right, Um, thanks for thanking me been Billed fans

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Speaker 1: in sixty four and I see the Bills this year.

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Speaker 1: There is a fun football team. But I'm really worried

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Speaker 1: about the run game. I don't know if there's anything

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Speaker 1: we can do to improvement, but I think if we

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Speaker 1: don't get a run game going, we're going to get

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen kills what. The guy has so much spirit.

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Speaker 1: He tries to do everything on its own. But they

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Speaker 1: are The other teams in the league understand the problem,

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Speaker 1: and I think that in order for us to get

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Speaker 1: down to all the way to the playoffs and maybe

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, we gotta do some about a run game.

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Speaker 1: What if I asked you, hey, Rick, if I asked

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Speaker 1: you where you think the Bills rank in the run game,

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Speaker 1: what do you think they rank in the NFL? I

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Speaker 1: really don't know. I didn't even tell you. I'm not

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Speaker 1: into the ranking. I'm just watching the games, and I'm

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Speaker 1: watching the other teams that can dominate. They are the

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Speaker 1: teams like the Baltimore Ravens and the obviously the Titans.

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Speaker 1: They have a run game that opens up their passing game.

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Speaker 1: We don't really have that. That's our problem. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Josh does miracles, but imagine what he could do if

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Speaker 1: we had a formidable run game. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's our personnel or the coaching or watch. I really

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Speaker 1: wish we get a better run game though, that protects Josh. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Bills are number seven in the league. Ahead of them

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Speaker 1: is Chicago, Arizona. And you said at Baltimore, Tennessee, Dallas,

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Speaker 1: and Cleveland, those are the teams with the best running games,

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Speaker 1: and it's Cleveland by kind of a wide margin over

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Speaker 1: any of the And then but like I said, three

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Speaker 1: of the top four teams or AFC teams, it's Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: Tennessee in Baltimore. Buffalo averages one hundred and thirty yards

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Speaker 1: a game and their number seven in the league. I

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Speaker 1: think they're running games a lot better than it was

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Speaker 1: last year. I get it. I think the way the

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Speaker 1: Bills use their running game is a little different than

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Speaker 1: other teams do. I think Indianapolis has a nice running game.

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Speaker 1: I would say this as well. I don't think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna change too much this season. I think if you

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Speaker 1: want to change the Bills running game or their philosophy

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Speaker 1: of about running game, they're gonna change. They're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to change the guys who are carrying the ball. I

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Speaker 1: think again, this guy like like the Raiders of God,

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Speaker 1: like the Colts of God, unlike Tennessee's good. Although I

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Speaker 1: I'll just say that. Back in the spring, when people

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Speaker 1: follow it up with questions to Brandon Bean about the

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Speaker 1: more effectively in twenty twenty one, they asked him do

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Speaker 1: you need better backs? And he said quite clearly that

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Speaker 1: the backs aren't the problem. He said that, he said

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Speaker 1: they're good enough. That's a direct quote. Now, if he

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Speaker 1: didn't think they were good enough, he could have couched

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Speaker 1: shoots you straight. They're gonna throw their kids under the bus.

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Speaker 1: But you could have also qualified that answer and said, well,

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Speaker 1: we believe in those guys and we'll look to get

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Speaker 1: more from them, and if we need to make additions

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Speaker 1: or upgrades, we will. I mean, he said that before

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Speaker 1: about other positions. So and they added mad Brita. So

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Speaker 1: to me, that's an indication that what he said was accurate.

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Speaker 1: In terms of what the front office believes they are

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Speaker 1: good enough to be effective. Devin Singletary, he's evering five

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Speaker 1: point two yards per carry this season. I'll say this

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Speaker 1: better than Josh. I know, I get it. And they

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Speaker 1: do have some nice numbers, and they've been better, much better.

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Speaker 1: Both of them have been better this year than they

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Speaker 1: were a year ago, both catching the ball out of

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Speaker 1: the backfield on screens and running with the football as well.

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Speaker 1: But when GM says they're good enough, that's, to me,

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Speaker 1: is not a ringing endorsement. No good enough is not

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Speaker 1: good enough. Um, if you want to be as good

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Speaker 1: as you can be, you want to have a guy

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Speaker 1: that said, like, you know what, when we get into

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Speaker 1: a punch, this guy's the guy. This is you know,

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Speaker 1: this is a guy that can dominate. This is a

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Speaker 1: guy that can take over a game once someone maybe

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Speaker 1: not every game, maybe not, you know, and we're not

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Speaker 1: talking about a Derek Henry type of guy who's a

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Speaker 1: singular talent and we can all acknowledge that, but you know,

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Speaker 1: a guy like they have in Cincinnati, not well like

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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon or the guy in Indianapolish Jonathan Taylor, the

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Speaker 1: guy in Las Vegas, Josh Jacobs, I'm glad I've got

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Speaker 1: you here. Let me name another guys like that who

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Speaker 1: can take over a game and be better than the defense.

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Speaker 1: Is make something more out of nothing, be a guy

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Speaker 1: that all of a sudden is gone if you get him.

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Speaker 1: Because you got all these guys we mentioned, most of

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Speaker 1: them can outrun most of the guys on the field.

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Speaker 1: Their their home run hitters. Well, Bills don't have one

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Speaker 1: of those, so you can say they're good enough. But

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Speaker 1: good enough is you know? Well, what about Matt Brita,

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Speaker 1: who has been inactive the last few weeks? Is it

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Speaker 1: time for him to reasons for that too? I mean

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Speaker 1: there's there's reasons for that too. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: those are. I couldn't begin to say, but that's a

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Speaker 1: guy that can hit a home right. They're not gonna

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Speaker 1: they're not gonna put a guy in there that gives

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Speaker 1: them a worst chance to win. Yeah, So Breeda was

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Speaker 1: active week one and that was it. He hasn't. We

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Speaker 1: haven't seen him since. So I'm just saying that. As

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Speaker 1: for Brandon Bean, we says, no, our guys are good enough, Okay,

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Speaker 1: good enough. I should also mention he also said they're

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Speaker 1: not the problem. Yeah, and I agree at that point.

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Speaker 1: I agreed. I don't know if I'm quite as agreeable now. Um.

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Speaker 1: I like their offensive line in the configuration it's at now,

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Speaker 1: although I still think they're going to tinker with it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're all that that, you know,

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Speaker 1: please with the production up front, but they're you know,

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Speaker 1: this is a team that's scorned, you know, at a

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Speaker 1: high rate. So there's no reason to blow it all

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Speaker 1: up just so we can say we're running the ball better.

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Speaker 1: They're scoring thirty points a game, and I know, you know,

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Speaker 1: Rick says that's what's holding them out. There ain't nothing

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Speaker 1: to holding them back. The only thing holding them back

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Speaker 1: is the opponents they face. And they can beat any

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Speaker 1: of those guys. So I'm I get it. Running game

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Speaker 1: be nice to you know, just run it and make

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00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: it easy and makes a fan base feel good that

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Speaker 1: they can overpower another team. It just doesn't happen that often.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the tweet sheet, brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. How does the rapidly changing landscape of the

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Speaker 1: AFC change the way you think about the Bills, Jack,

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Speaker 1: who leads us off, says, I'm unchanged. I was cautiously

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Speaker 1: confident heading into the weekend and remain so. The loss

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Speaker 1: to the Titans hurt, and that's compounded by their beatdown

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Speaker 1: of KC Cincinnati is impressive. But young, I don't think

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Speaker 1: the Ravens are as good as their wreck Chargers remain scary.

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Speaker 1: It's up to the Bills to control their fate. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's one hundred percent true. Their schedule is very favorable.

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Speaker 1: Take care of business and put yourself in position, you know,

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Speaker 1: to not only win the division, but maybe have one

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Speaker 1: of the highest seeds in the AFC. That's that's their

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Speaker 1: job going forward here. Yeah, you look forward, and you're

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Speaker 1: right if you look at some of these other teams

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Speaker 1: and who they have to face as compared to Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's got a pretty cushy schedule all the way until

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. You know that's their next one. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots are always get your your guts and a

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Speaker 1: nod over the New England Patriots if you're a Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills fan. But you know Baltimore they've got they've got Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: Miami and Chicago coming up. But they played Cleveland twice,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh twice, and Cincinnati again, the team that just beat

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Speaker 1: them up they played. They've got those five games remaining,

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Speaker 1: do the Baltimore Colts or Baltimore Ravens. Cleveland, Pittsburgh twice

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Speaker 1: and then Cincinnati again. Then they finish up and they

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Speaker 1: got Green Bay and the La Rams on their schedule.

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Speaker 1: So Baltimore is in to run the gauntlet at the

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Speaker 1: end of their at the end of their season, the

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals, they've got Cleveland, the Raiders, the Chargers, Baltimore again, Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: Kansas City in Pittsburgh. That doesn't look too good for

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati going forward. Tennessee's got the Rams, the Saints, the Colts,

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Speaker 1: Houston twice, Miami, San Francisco, and Jacksonville. So the Tennessee's

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Speaker 1: kind of a you know, yeah, kind of schedule goals.

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Speaker 1: They just posted wins and what they believed was the

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Speaker 1: gauntlet of their schedule of Buffalo Kansas City back to back.

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Speaker 1: They won both of them. Right. The Chargers, you know,

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Speaker 1: they've got a little bit of a rough goal. They

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Speaker 1: play the Bengals, the Chiefs, and the Raiders over the

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Speaker 1: final six games of their season. As well. So coming

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Speaker 1: down the stretch, even the Chargers have got a few

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Speaker 1: guys in their way and the Chiefs will try. It'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see if the Chiefs continue to slide

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Speaker 1: and the and the playoffs start to go away. I'll mean,

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Speaker 1: just to see how strong they've finished the season, because

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Speaker 1: that's a team that, for lack of a better way

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Speaker 1: to put it, they've got some character issues on that team,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of those teams don't hold together when

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Speaker 1: it gets tough, and that it hasn't been this tough

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Speaker 1: in Kansas City for five years. So we'll see how

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Speaker 1: they handle this adversity. If they can stay together in

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Speaker 1: that locker roomf Andy Reid can keep it going and

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Speaker 1: give them a chance at the end, or whether they crumble.

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Speaker 1: Now we have to take a break here, but those

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Speaker 1: of you holding at eight oh three five fifty stay

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Speaker 1: where you are. We're wide open for your phone calls

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Speaker 1: next as you join the conversation about this rapidly changing

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Speaker 1: AFC landscape and how it's impacted your thoughts about the

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Speaker 1: Bill's fortunes here in twenty twenty one, we'll take your

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Speaker 1: oh three five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty we were asking you how us the

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Speaker 1: rapidly changing landscape of the AFC change the way you

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Speaker 1: think about the bills. Leading us off here is Judy

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Speaker 1: and Buffalo Judy what do you have for us? Welcome

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00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: to the show. Yeah, I'm I'm concerned about our tight

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00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: end situation. We have Sweeney and Gilliam. Will Gilliam be

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Speaker 1: reinstated at tight end? And another thing that I'm bothering

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Speaker 1: me is what is the status of Isaiah Hodgins. I

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00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,959
Speaker 1: think he's still on a practice squad, that's right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's thanks for the call, Judy, He's on the practice

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Speaker 1: squad and there's a logjam at receiver. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: as simple as that. That's really He's a victim of

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Speaker 1: the numbers and the talent that they have here on

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Speaker 1: this roster. And for the most part, everybody's been able

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Speaker 1: to stay healthy too, with the exception of Markquez Stevenson,

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Speaker 1: who remains on i R right now, who's another receiver

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Speaker 1: who would probably get called up even before Hodgens, right

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Speaker 1: because of his versatility with a ball in his hands.

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Speaker 1: He could be returned guy and all of that. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that and for the tight ends Gilliam is we all think,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know how how accurate it is, given

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Speaker 1: the offensive sets they use, we all think that he

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Speaker 1: could be switched right over to tight end pretty quickly

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Speaker 1: if they needed him. I think they've got some faith

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Speaker 1: in Tommy Sweeney. I know, as an unfortunate incident with

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Speaker 1: with Dawson Knox getting his hand broken, had surgery, probably

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00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: had a pin put in it. It'll be better in

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, three weeks probably, Max, It'll probably

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Speaker 1: be fully healthy and he'll be able to go. They'll

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Speaker 1: probably pad it up and give him some sort of

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Speaker 1: support on his hand, you know, as as he gets healthier.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, the tight ends, and I get it, Dawson

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Speaker 1: Knox was having a great season. It's hard to see

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Speaker 1: that void happen. But we'll see, bless you excuse me.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if you know, how fast Knox gets back,

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Speaker 1: and if he does come back, and when he does

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Speaker 1: come back, well he you know, just hit the ground

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Speaker 1: running and start catching touchdowns again. I hope. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll see that big That was a big plus. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: This year, we should mention that the Bills do have

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Speaker 1: two tight ends on their practice squad, Calle Warring, third

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Speaker 1: year player who was picked up right after the season started,

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Speaker 1: and their undrafted rookie tight end Quintin Morris, who was

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Speaker 1: out of Bowling Green, another Mac product similar to Reggie

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Speaker 1: Gilliam who came out of Toledo. So there are options

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Speaker 1: on the practice squad if they feel they need numbers there.

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Speaker 1: They only had two on the roster in Sweeney and

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Speaker 1: Knocks and then Gilliam was for all intents and purposes

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Speaker 1: at fullback. Let's go back to the phones, though, and

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Speaker 1: we go to Mark in West Seneca, Mark, what do

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Speaker 1: you have for us here? On one Bills Live, Good afternoon, guys.

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Speaker 1: I got a couple of thoughts about this running game thing,

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Speaker 1: about Josh Allen running the ball. I believe the Bill's identity,

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Speaker 1: I think we will all say is a spread offense

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Speaker 1: that attacks defensive backfields and puts the ball in Josh's

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Speaker 1: hand and go at it, and that's who we are.

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Speaker 1: I believe that we've overthought this rushing game this year

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Speaker 1: to the point where, especially in the red zone, we've

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Speaker 1: given downs away, just insignificant runs off tackle, dive plays

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Speaker 1: into the line for two yards if we get that whatever,

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Speaker 1: as opposed to being who we are and attacking the

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Speaker 1: other team, and that absolutely drives me crazy. We've thrown

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Speaker 1: less balls into the end zone. I think Sal Capachio

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Speaker 1: talked about that today. It's almost a foregrone conclusion. Down

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Speaker 1: in the red zone. I think we've thrown less balls

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Speaker 1: into the end zone. So that all being said, I

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Speaker 1: we are. Just be who we are, make teams stop us,

847
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: and then change what we do. But be who we are.

848
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: And then the other part about the other thought I

849
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: had about you. Hear a lot of people talk about,

850
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, we gotta run Josh less because we can't

851
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: get them hurt. We can't get them hurt people. The

852
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is, we have a six foot five,

853
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty pound quarterback who runs like a deer.

854
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: Then nine times out of ten when he's getting hit

855
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: out there, he's around the end and he's running over

856
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: people and hitting people who are smaller than him or

857
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: at least the same size as him. If a linebacker

858
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 1: gets them, think about this, he's got more chance of

859
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: being hit and hurt in the pocket where he goes

860
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: back to pass on average forty times a game by

861
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: three hundred pound guys who are trying to take his

862
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 1: head off or go at his legs. If somebody falls

863
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: at him, then he does running the ball eight times

864
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: a game. This drives me crazy. Josh is who he is.

865
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: He's a big man, he's an athletic man. Take advantage

866
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: of who he is. Let him be who he is.

867
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: And you know what, injuries are part of the game.

868
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:31,959
Speaker 1: It's not. There's no chance of him getting hurt less

869
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: by pulling back what he does and not take an

870
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 1: advantage of his God given abilities. So I mean this

871
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: whole thing about Josh getting hurt, Josh getting hurt. Sure,

872
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna call certain plays that will lend him not

873
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 1: to get hurt, but to not use him at all

874
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:52,359
Speaker 1: as a running back. That is absolutely insane. All right,

875
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: thanks more enough, Thanks for the call. You want to

876
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,240
Speaker 1: weigh in on that one or I see his point.

877
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 1: He got into the conversation as an MVP last year

878
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 1: running some He's run it a little bit this year.

879
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 1: I know people panic when he does, but you know,

880
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: even you go back to the Chiefs game earlier. In

881
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: that game he's snapped off a twenty yard twenty two

882
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 1: yard run and slid at the end of it. He

883
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 1: can dictate how much contact he takes. I think the

884
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: one thing that is concerned He's right it's more in

885
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: the pocket for the ques as much as they protect

886
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: these guys. Now, that's when guys get hurt is in

887
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: the pocket when they get caught, they get grabbed, and

888
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: then everybody jumps on him and they get bent over

889
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 1: a pile, or one of their offensive lineman gets rolled

890
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 1: up in their legs, or somebody or a d lineman

891
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: or whatever comes in low on them. Yeah, it's dangerous

892
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: to stand in the pocket and do that, and quarterbacks

893
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 1: get hurt there a lot. And Josh is a good runner.

894
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: I think the thing that concerns me and the thing

895
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: that they've gotten away from is a little bit what

896
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: he said, short yardage, goal line and the red zone,

897
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,399
Speaker 1: or where Josh is a real weapon in the run game,

898
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:04,280
Speaker 1: Short yardage, goal line and the red zone. Of course,

899
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: all of that stuff is one of the things that

900
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,320
Speaker 1: made John you know, he's got so many rushing touchdowns

901
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: as a young player. I agree with Mark a little

902
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 1: bit to that. Look, there are certain situations where he's

903
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: the best weapon because he is big, and he can

904
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: move and he can throw it, and the defenses have

905
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: to respect that ability. So he's a really effective short yardage,

906
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: goal line and red zone running threat. I don't have

907
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: a problem with those situations. None of this is in

908
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 1: the conversation. If he doesn't slip and fall in a

909
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 1: quarterback sneak, if he if he if they execute the

910
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,839
Speaker 1: quarterback sneak and they get the first down, they win

911
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: the game. You know, none of this is on the table.

912
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: We're having a completely different conversation. And that one play

913
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything that they've done is wrong. That's all

914
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: there is to it. I just yeah, they're they're fine.

915
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: They're scoring as many points is anybody in the National

916
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: Football League. They're going to continue do that. They're getting

917
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,359
Speaker 1: better every week. They're they're finding out who and better

918
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: about what they are and what they can do. Emmanuel Sanders,

919
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs, Cole Beasley, Gabe Davis, Kumero, all these guys

920
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: that are getting reps at wide receiver. Those guys are

921
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: all getting better. The fact that they couldn't execute that

922
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: quarterback sneak because it was rainy and it was wet

923
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: and whatever does nothing to deter what this team's all about.

924
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: I don't you know. They're they're evolving. They're not worthy

925
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: who they were two years ago. And Josh is not

926
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: the same guy was two years ago or even last year.

927
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: So let them evolve slowly. They're gonna look different in

928
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 1: certain situations. Is not always gonna work like it didn't

929
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. But they're they're they're a really good football team.

930
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: So whatever we do, let's just you know, well and

931
00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 1: for what it's worth. The offensive play calling is lightly

932
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,839
Speaker 1: different after six games played from what it was last year.

933
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 1: They were a sixty forty pass to run team last

934
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: year and right now they are fifty seven to forty three,

935
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 1: so they're passing is trending down about three percent through

936
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: six games played. But let's see how the last eleven

937
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: games play out before we pass judgment on what this

938
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: bill's offense is. Because I agree with Steve, I think

939
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: it is still evolving and is subject to change going forward.

940
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: We have to take a break here, Shamus and Amherst

941
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 1: Dan in Rochester, Ron and Orchard Park. You guys will

942
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: be up next after the break, as well as others

943
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 1: holding at eight oh three, five fifty because we have

944
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,399
Speaker 1: a wide open segment. It's our long segment here at

945
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: the top of the second hour, so we'll get to

946
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: your phone calls next here on one Bill's line, presented

947
00:51:42,680 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: by Kalid to health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a

948
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields. Kind

949
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 1: of unique. He was kind of a dual role fighter

950
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even in

951
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: the strategyre of normalcy. Here our number two here on

952
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 1: a Monday. You missed that little guitar licking you. Hear

953
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: the horns and then there's like Nani, I love that thing.

954
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: That's good stuff, all right, Nour number two here on

955
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: a Monday, got plenty of your phone calls to get

956
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,439
Speaker 1: to here, so we will waste no time in doing so.

957
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: As we are asking you at eight O three oh

958
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: five fifty, how does the rapidly changing landscape of the

959
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 1: AFC change the way you think about the bills? It

960
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: was a wild weekend and a seeming shift in power.

961
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: But let us know what you think. We lead off

962
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 1: this segment with Shamus and Amherst. Shamus, what do you

963
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:51,760
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hey guys,

964
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 1: So I got two things. Um. One of them is

965
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: an actual question about some nuances that you probably know

966
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: better than me, and the other is just a little

967
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: quip that I'd be remissed not bring up about the

968
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: last time I called, But don't worry, we agreed on

969
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: the subject. The question I have is just, you know,

970
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: I when I see the you know, the rotation of

971
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: the players that we have, you know, at all positions,

972
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: you know, it all kind of makes sense to me

973
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: just knowing generally what their strengths and weaknesses is. But

974
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:24,320
Speaker 1: I guess the one that you know, I'm just curious

975
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: about is which again, I think both players are great,

976
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 1: and I'm sure there's a good reason for it, is

977
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,720
Speaker 1: that I noticed the Spencer Brown and Darryl Williams rotation,

978
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: and I know, you know, we obviously drafted Spencer to

979
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 1: be the just wrecking ball that his body is, and

980
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: we just all, you know, we signed Daryl Williams of

981
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: the contract because he had like, what a crazy PFF

982
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: grade last year. So I'm just wondering if there's maybe

983
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: strength or weaknesses that they each have that you know, I,

984
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 1: you know, a canal view casual viewer might not understand

985
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 1: or know what their strengths are. Blah blah blah. And

986
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: I'm just the other clip I had to mend um

987
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:04,799
Speaker 1: last year, I called about the ridiculous Titans game. I

988
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,760
Speaker 1: think I might even done under some goopy other name advice.

989
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:12,400
Speaker 1: But the previous day, Brownie has this just tough, delicious

990
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 1: rant against this one caller that you know was completely

991
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,720
Speaker 1: misinformed about COVID. I'm not trying to start a polity

992
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: politics decision. But I brought it up the next day

993
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: and I was just like, well, I think it triggered

994
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: another ten minute rant, and I just felt so proud

995
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: of myself. It was just it was like chocolate cake.

996
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:30,800
Speaker 1: So I had to bring that up, all right. But

997
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 1: the Darrell Williams Spencer Brown question, that's, yeah, I'm most

998
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 1: concurious about. All right, I'm gonna shut up that. Yeah,

999
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: no problem, Thanks for the call, um. I think most

1000
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 1: would agree that Spencer Brown is a better feet athlete

1001
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: than Darryl Williams, and because of that, he's better at

1002
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 1: handling pass rushers in space, not only because of his feet,

1003
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: but because of his length as a tackle, then perhaps

1004
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 1: Daryl Williams is That's not to say that Darryl Williams

1005
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 1: can't play tackle. He but in an ideal world, if

1006
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 1: you have a player with good feet in length, he

1007
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:08,320
Speaker 1: is probably a better fit at tackle than even Daryl Williams,

1008
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 1: who is largely because of his size and strength, a

1009
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: power player, and that makes him a good fit at

1010
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 1: guard to hold up inside against the bigger, girthier players. Steve,

1011
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:22,279
Speaker 1: you can add to that he played. Darry Williams played

1012
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: guard for most of his time in Carolina. He came

1013
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 1: to Buffalo and they moved him to right tackle, and

1014
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 1: he played very well for him that I think they

1015
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: were surprised and that's why they gave him the extension.

1016
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: Then when Spencer Brown came in and they thought, you

1017
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: know what, Daryl Williams is actually a better right guard

1018
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:40,399
Speaker 1: than Cody Ford is. Right now, they moved Daryl Williams down.

1019
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: And what Chris is talking about is when you got

1020
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,359
Speaker 1: a guy when you're in guard, and you can kind

1021
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 1: of picture this in your mind if you watch a

1022
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:48,280
Speaker 1: lot of football, the guard backs up in a pass set.

1023
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 1: The defensive tackle he's playing against can go inside between

1024
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 1: the guard center or outside against the guard tackle. So

1025
00:55:56,880 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: a guard, even though there's not much space because you

1026
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: got a center and a tackle on either side of you,

1027
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 1: the guard has to be able to move his feet

1028
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 1: side to side one way or the other. And catch

1029
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 1: the momentum of a big defensive tackle. So he got

1030
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 1: to be heavy and he got to be able to

1031
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: move side to side an anchor real quick. That takes

1032
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 1: a little bit of a skill set in a certain athleticism. Now,

1033
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:21,320
Speaker 1: as tackle, you move to your if you're right right tackle,

1034
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:26,280
Speaker 1: you move out three feet. Spencer Brown backs out moving

1035
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 1: to his right every play, every pass play. That's where

1036
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 1: he's moving. He doesn't have to go back to his left.

1037
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: Most ofly, what he does is just stop and an anchor.

1038
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 1: He doesn't have to go back inside to anchor, so

1039
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:41,479
Speaker 1: he you know, he doesn't have to have the quick

1040
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: feet to go side to side, right or left on

1041
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:47,720
Speaker 1: a moment at in an instant that athleticism. He's long

1042
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: and can reach a long way, but he's backing out

1043
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: of there as a right tackle, going right right, right, right,

1044
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: a boom and anchoring against the defensive end coming off

1045
00:56:56,560 --> 00:57:00,279
Speaker 1: the edge. If the defensive end tries to spin inside,

1046
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 1: basically what he does he goes right, right, right, and

1047
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 1: then anchors and as the guy spins inside, he's already there.

1048
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: So you don't have to really go side to side

1049
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 1: as a tackle. You can go forward, right or left.

1050
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 1: That's a different story, but that's what you're looking at,

1051
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: and that's why the nuances are different. That's why they've

1052
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 1: got different you know, skill sets for guard and tackle,

1053
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 1: and it's an athleticism and it's not much, but the

1054
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: fact that you can move yourself six inches to the

1055
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 1: right or left really fast, an anchor, really fast against

1056
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: a three hundred and twenty plus pound defensive lineman. That's

1057
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 1: what you got to be able to do as a

1058
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,760
Speaker 1: guard in the NFL a tackle. You got to be

1059
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: big and heavy as well an anchor, but you don't

1060
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 1: have to do it go in one direction, so and

1061
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 1: you got more space one direction. So you really got

1062
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: to be long to cover a lot of ground with

1063
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 1: fewer steps. That kind of stuff comes into play and

1064
00:57:53,680 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: we're talking, you know, we're talking nances and small differences.

1065
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 1: I mean, Darry Williams can cover that ground too, but

1066
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: he doesn't do it as easily as a big, long

1067
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: six eight guy like Spencer Brown. He gets, but he

1068
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: can cover a lot of ground in three steps a

1069
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: little bit more what we're talking inches here, Like he'll

1070
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: his three steps as a set a tackle set on

1071
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 1: a quick set or a foot further than Darryl Williams

1072
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: would be because his legs are that much longer. That

1073
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: kind of thing, that's what you're Those are the kind

1074
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: of differences in the nuances you're talking about. And Spencer

1075
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: Brown is built for tackle because of those facts. And

1076
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: Daryl Williams is gifted so he can go inside or

1077
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: outside because he's a better athlete on his feet. So

1078
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 1: that's what you're talking about. And and I couldn't even

1079
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 1: begin to talk about what the evaluation process for Bobby

1080
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: Washington Bobby Johnson to go in there and look at

1081
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 1: these guys and say, oh, okay, we get a little

1082
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 1: bit here. You know, let's try this. You know, let's

1083
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 1: try this right guard with this right tackle, and you

1084
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 1: know what, let's move this right tackle over to guard

1085
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 1: and put this guard out of left tackle and put

1086
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 1: this that That is how fine they cut it though.

1087
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,919
Speaker 1: That's how they do it, man. That's how you get

1088
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 1: John Feliciana going from right guard to left guard and

1089
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: Daryl Waves moving down to right guard and Spencer Brown

1090
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: and Spencer Brown popping out on the field. That's how

1091
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: it happens. They Okay, I think this will work. And

1092
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 1: then Spencer Brown, do you know spent a couple of

1093
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 1: games in preseason at left tackle. Yeah, so he got

1094
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 1: all of that going on, and and I don't that's

1095
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: why they spend long hours, man, they evaluate these guys

1096
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: and going to nuances like that. But that's that's the

1097
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: way I see it. And I could be, you know,

1098
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 1: a voice, a crazy voice in the wilderness when I

1099
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:46,760
Speaker 1: talk about it. Don't don't, don't be so self deprecating, Steve. Uh.

1100
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones. We go to Dan

1101
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 1: in Rochester. Next, Dan, what do you have for us?

1102
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 1: You're on one bills like Chris uh I, Steve, Thanks,

1103
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: that takes my car off. You bet the first Steve

1104
00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 1: blones on the hall thing and Buffle does not have

1105
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: to make any changes. I called you a couple of

1106
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 1: weeks ago before the Kansas City game and said, we

1107
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: beat the all out of them. Now we're gonna go

1108
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: on a run about six or seven in a row,

1109
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: I believe, And Steve got me fired up. He's right,

1110
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: we got a damn good football team. Thanks for taking

1111
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:18,440
Speaker 1: by call. Sure. Sure. So I'm guessing Dan's opinion is

1112
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 1: unchanged based on what happened in the AFC this week.

1113
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: I get it. They are good. I mean, who are

1114
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 1: you talking about? Well, they're good. They're really good. And

1115
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:29,120
Speaker 1: I get it too. When you see teams doing stuff,

1116
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 1: you automatically project your team onto that scenario and you think, Okay,

1117
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 1: we need to know how are they doing week this

1118
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:36,840
Speaker 1: and do that? You know, And the simple fact of

1119
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 1: the matter is these games are all different. That Baltimore

1120
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 1: Ravens were in a completely different situation yesterday than they

1121
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 1: were eight days ago when they thumped whoever it was

1122
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 1: they thumped, I can't even remember. It was a Chargers

1123
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 1: where they crushed the charge of six. Who the Chargers

1124
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 1: were like the Chargers the week before. The Chargers were

1125
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 1: that team, right, and then the Chargers were gonna buy

1126
01:00:57,680 --> 01:00:59,640
Speaker 1: with the Bills, So the Bills and the Chargers took

1127
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: a week off this week after getting their heads handed

1128
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:05,840
Speaker 1: to them, you know, And so they're sitting there stewing

1129
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 1: a little bit. The Charges are still really good too, Yeah,

1130
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:13,160
Speaker 1: so you are. And I get it too. We all

1131
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: get this idea. We get caught up in the off

1132
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 1: season where you can change so much about your team,

1133
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 1: but once the season kicks off, you are who you are. Mostly.

1134
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 1: There's occasionally a team will catch will lightning in a bottle.

1135
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,600
Speaker 1: They'll switched something up or whatever occasionally, but for the

1136
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: most part, that's who you're gonna be. And unless those

1137
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 1: guys get better at what they're doing, you are who

1138
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 1: you are. So I think that's where we're at with

1139
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 1: the Bills. You don't and they don't, and luckily or

1140
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 1: fortunately or just the way it is, that's the way

1141
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 1: they built it. They're really good now. They were really

1142
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:49,160
Speaker 1: good when they lost to the Chiefs or when they

1143
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 1: lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers on a Week one. They

1144
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 1: were really good when they ran four in a row

1145
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 1: off and they're still really good. Getting beat by a

1146
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:57,320
Speaker 1: really good Titans team on the road in Tennessee, they're

1147
01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 1: still good. And most of us who watched this team

1148
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 1: believe that no matter who they play, whether it's Tennessee

1149
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 1: Titans again this week, or the Pittsburgh Steelers again this week,

1150
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:09,600
Speaker 1: or any of the teams they already beat, they're gonna

1151
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 1: win those games. There. They got a lot, They got

1152
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 1: some teams coming up on their schedule that have been struggling.

1153
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 1: But let me remind you, the Jets beat beat the

1154
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans right without a j Brown or Julio Jones

1155
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: in the lineup. But yes, they scored twenty seven points

1156
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: on the Titans. So a team that can only manage

1157
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: fourteen against the Patriots yesterday, So in a lost game,

1158
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,880
Speaker 1: lost early. So it's a week. You know, we'll see

1159
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 1: what happens this week. Let's go back to the phones

1160
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: at eight three, five fifty to Ron in Orchard Park.

1161
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:48,120
Speaker 1: We go, Ron, what do you have for us here

1162
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 1: on one Bill's life? How are you doing guys for

1163
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 1: taking call? My concern is the penalties and when they're

1164
01:02:56,600 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 1: losing points, and it seems on special teams almost every

1165
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 1: kickoffs either way there's a penalty, and it's when they

1166
01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:07,760
Speaker 1: were in a dog fight, like what the Titans. They

1167
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 1: can't afford to be given up points to say, yeah,

1168
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 1: I mean last week was egregious in terms of penalties

1169
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:18,680
Speaker 1: taken points off the board. The Dawson Knox touchdown on

1170
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 1: the end around got taken off the board because of

1171
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: the holding penalty on Emmanuel Sanders, and the one or

1172
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:27,959
Speaker 1: one yard kickoff returned by Isaiah McKenzie got called back

1173
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 1: on a holding penalty on Andre Smith. Both were legitimate

1174
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:35,439
Speaker 1: penalty calls and the Bills only got a field goal

1175
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:39,280
Speaker 1: after Dawson Knox's touchdown was called back, and they did

1176
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:42,120
Speaker 1: not get any points on the drive that followed Isaiah

1177
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:45,520
Speaker 1: McKenzie's kick return being called back. So right there, you're

1178
01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 1: talking about eleven points off the board and they lost

1179
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 1: the game by three, so it was easy to point

1180
01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 1: to it. Last week. I can tell you the Bills

1181
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:56,480
Speaker 1: have forty penalties in six games, and that's just penalties

1182
01:03:56,600 --> 01:04:01,600
Speaker 1: assessed against them, nots penalties called on, so all the

1183
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 1: decline penalties are not even counted in that total. They

1184
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: have a total of fifty three flags thrown against them

1185
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:12,480
Speaker 1: this year, forty penalties assessed against them. Now it's not

1186
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 1: tops in the league because now you've got teams that

1187
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:17,520
Speaker 1: have played seven games, six games, because the buys are

1188
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 1: starting to come into play here, Let's just say hypothetically,

1189
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 1: the Bills, you know, forty penalties assessed in six games.

1190
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:28,760
Speaker 1: That's a little less than seven penalties a game. So

1191
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 1: let's just say they got hit with seven penalties in

1192
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 1: their next game to assess where they would be with

1193
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:36,760
Speaker 1: all the teams that have played seven games, forty seven

1194
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:39,440
Speaker 1: penalties would put them at first, second, third, fourth, fifth,

1195
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 1: six tied for six most assessed against them thus far

1196
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 1: this season. If they held to their averages this week

1197
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:50,320
Speaker 1: against Miami, that's high. It's a high number. It's got

1198
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 1: to come down. You want to be more around three

1199
01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:57,880
Speaker 1: or four a week, maybe five as an average. You

1200
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 1: don't want to be in the seven, eight, nine areas

1201
01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 1: because that is going to hurt you, just in field

1202
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: position alone. Forget about offense and being behind the sticks.

1203
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:11,120
Speaker 1: They're they're at nine a week, totally called not all

1204
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:13,200
Speaker 1: of them, ex sense total calls fifty three, right, that's

1205
01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 1: he has too many and he's right. Yeah, Ron's right. Um,

1206
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 1: penalties are the great unknown and there and you know,

1207
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 1: Bills fans and Chiefs fans and Baltimore Raven fans and

1208
01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:24,640
Speaker 1: any fans you want to look at, have a tough week.

1209
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:27,800
Speaker 1: And the Bills are still going back wondering why the

1210
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:32,040
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry seventy six short touchdown pat run wasn't called back. Yeah, Um,

1211
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 1: it was a It was a play a hole that

1212
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 1: looked a lot like the one they called on Isaiah

1213
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 1: McKinsey's touchdown run kickoff return. You know, they looked almost

1214
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:46,040
Speaker 1: identical in a mirror image. So one was against the

1215
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 1: Bills and one was for the Bills. So one got

1216
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 1: called and one didn't. Yeah, you're just gonna run into that.

1217
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 1: Some of that goes on, no question, but you kind

1218
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:56,920
Speaker 1: of got to live with it. There's nothing you can

1219
01:05:56,960 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 1: do about it in the in the in the moment,

1220
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:01,080
Speaker 1: you got to minimize it. And you're right, though, run.

1221
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: I think they have been penalized too much. They have

1222
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 1: been penalized. Some of it you can in the early

1223
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 1: season you can chalk up too. Oh, Okay, they're gonna

1224
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:09,560
Speaker 1: call it differently than they did a year ago. Okay,

1225
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 1: we're gonna You know, last year, nobody wanted to call

1226
01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:14,920
Speaker 1: holding penalties because they didn't want to they didn't want

1227
01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 1: to work the change. You know, everything was yes it's

1228
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 1: a first down or no it's not. It's short a yard.

1229
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't give you any short inches last

1230
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 1: year because they didn't want to touch. They didn't want

1231
01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:27,479
Speaker 1: to touch the chains and measure stuff. So everything's changed,

1232
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:29,080
Speaker 1: and this year there's a little bit of adjustment to

1233
01:06:29,080 --> 01:06:31,240
Speaker 1: begin the season. But I think at this point, I

1234
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: think going forward, you're right. I think that's one thing

1235
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:37,560
Speaker 1: the Bills can get better at, and that's not getting

1236
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:40,360
Speaker 1: assessed penalties. Back to the phone sense, it's Tom on

1237
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 1: a sell Tom, what do you have for us? You're

1238
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. Hey, guys, you had last week

1239
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 1: off and I'm glad for that. I hope you enjoyed

1240
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:51,080
Speaker 1: your time. Did we missed you? Oh that's nice to

1241
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 1: you to say, what do you have for us? Time? Anyway,

1242
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:56,920
Speaker 1: it was National tight end week and Dawson Knox didn't

1243
01:06:56,920 --> 01:07:00,080
Speaker 1: get a chance to play, and it was fortunate. It

1244
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:04,000
Speaker 1: was in a very unfortunate situation. He broke his hand,

1245
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 1: and I'm wondering. I kept analyzing the plays before and

1246
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:12,000
Speaker 1: after when he threw the touchdown pass, When did he

1247
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 1: break his hand? Was it I a Josh Allen fastball,

1248
01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:17,760
Speaker 1: or did he break it whacking the guy in the

1249
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 1: helmet after the celebration. No, it was it was actually

1250
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 1: before the two point conversion. I'm not going to pretend

1251
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:27,360
Speaker 1: to know exactly what play had happened on um. Well,

1252
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:29,200
Speaker 1: that could have been the whack in the helmet because

1253
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:31,640
Speaker 1: he scored the touchdown and then whacked the guy in

1254
01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 1: the helmet. Yeah, you know, that's a good point. I

1255
01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:37,920
Speaker 1: have not gone back and I haven't investigated it myself.

1256
01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:40,360
Speaker 1: Interesting man, Well, maybe I'll get a chance, maybe i'll

1257
01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:42,840
Speaker 1: go do that. Maybe in the next break, I'll go

1258
01:07:42,880 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 1: back and look at that. But I know this. Josh

1259
01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:51,040
Speaker 1: knew he had a busted hand because he was trying

1260
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:53,439
Speaker 1: to wave off the two point conversion, the play call,

1261
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:56,400
Speaker 1: the play call because he didn't think Knox could throw it.

1262
01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:01,400
Speaker 1: So I think it had just or maybe it did happen.

1263
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:06,120
Speaker 1: Maybe it did happen a few plays before. Head knocks

1264
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 1: already told him, so, now I can keep going, but

1265
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Speaker 1: don't you know, don't throw me the ball kind of thing.

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01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 1: Our MSG viewers, they're watching Josh saying, give me another play,

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01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:16,640
Speaker 1: don't do that. And we've all said why Johnson had

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01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:18,799
Speaker 1: the shot put it because he couldn't grip the ball

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01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 1: with a fracture. With a fracture in his hand, he

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01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 1: did have surgery last week. Uh. Mike Garifolo from NFL

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01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 1: Network was reporting three weeks for the injury, counting this

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01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:33,000
Speaker 1: past week, which was a bye week. So hopefully it's

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01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:34,640
Speaker 1: two more weeks and he's back in the saddle. But

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01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 1: we'll have to wait Jacksonville next week. It might end

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01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:41,679
Speaker 1: up being two games, you know, and given him because

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Speaker 1: if he gets back on the field at the end

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01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:46,680
Speaker 1: of the third week to practice. Then he'll, you know,

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01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:49,200
Speaker 1: he'll he won't be ready to play right then. Although

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Speaker 1: it's been my experience, you can practice with a busted

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01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:56,920
Speaker 1: hand because they'll just they'll put a big yeah, I

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01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:58,679
Speaker 1: don't know how he's catching the football. You know, they'll

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01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 1: put a big oven mid on on him that he

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01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 1: won't be able to use his fingers, but he could

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01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:04,880
Speaker 1: pound it on the table and it wouldn't hurt it

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01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:07,200
Speaker 1: because it's padded and all that. So he could go

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01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 1: out and run through the things, stay in shape, do

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01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:14,559
Speaker 1: all of that, particularly after a week I've had not

1288
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:19,160
Speaker 1: for nothing. I've had my hands have been broken multi

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01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:21,840
Speaker 1: nine times that I can count. I think it was eleven,

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01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:24,200
Speaker 1: I think in my medical report, I'm not sure. Okay, okay,

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01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:26,599
Speaker 1: So I've had my hands busted a bunch my fingers

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01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 1: and my hands both back in the in the palm

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01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:31,400
Speaker 1: above your palm, in your hand and also in the fingers.

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01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:35,680
Speaker 1: And once you get a week in, if it's stabilized,

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01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:39,760
Speaker 1: you feel almost normal, particularly when it's your finger. But

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01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:41,559
Speaker 1: they said it was his hand, so I imagine it's

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01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:46,240
Speaker 1: back in the metacarpals. Back behind his bottom knuckles. And

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01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:48,640
Speaker 1: if they do that, they'll probably put a pin in

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01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:51,400
Speaker 1: it to keep it stable. And once you get into

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01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 1: once you get in about a week. It's been my experience.

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01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 1: I'm no doctor, but it's been my experience. Then it

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01:09:57,080 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 1: it's stable on its own kinda. It's not strong, but

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01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 1: it's together. And as long as you don't bang it

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01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:08,960
Speaker 1: hard against something or you know, play football with it,

1305
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:10,559
Speaker 1: it'll you don't even need to do any You could

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01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:14,960
Speaker 1: walk around normal. But that's interesting about how when and

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01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:16,479
Speaker 1: how bad a break and where it is and how

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01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:18,120
Speaker 1: they if they put a pin in and all that stuff.

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01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:20,759
Speaker 1: We don't know any of that. But in two weeks

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01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,240
Speaker 1: he should be feeling like he'll be chomping at the

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01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:25,280
Speaker 1: bit when we can get back on the field. Let's

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01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:28,280
Speaker 1: go back to the phones too, Devin and williams Ville. Devin,

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01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 1: what do you have for us here on one Bill's life? Oh?

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01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 1: I got it, Thanks for taking my call. Sure, um,

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01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:38,360
Speaker 1: just my observation. And I'm not a football analyst, i

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01:10:38,439 --> 01:10:41,080
Speaker 1: play one on TV. But it seems to me that

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01:10:41,120 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: when that the teams are keeping jobs in the red zone,

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01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:48,000
Speaker 1: the teams are keeping Josh in the pocket more and

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01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:53,120
Speaker 1: they're not allowing him to scramble and break open wide receivers.

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01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:57,120
Speaker 1: And that's just once again, that's just my observation, and

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01:10:57,200 --> 01:11:00,560
Speaker 1: that's how I seek that he got his um touchdowns

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01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:04,000
Speaker 1: in previous years. Second point, I want to make I

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01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 1: get the ball out of his hands. I don't want

1324
01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:08,760
Speaker 1: to see John stick to hit like Mahoons Sook. It's

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01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 1: just crazy, just absolutely crazy. I'll hang up the most

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01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:15,479
Speaker 1: of you guys. Okay, thanks for the call, Devin. It's interesting.

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01:11:15,560 --> 01:11:17,080
Speaker 1: If you want to give this a listen, I would

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01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 1: encourage it. Steve and I did a deep dive into

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01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:24,719
Speaker 1: Buffalo's red zone touchdown efficiency in our most recent episode

1330
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:27,639
Speaker 1: of the Bills by the Numbers podcast, which is available

1331
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:31,840
Speaker 1: on any podcast platform you use, and we took a

1332
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:36,000
Speaker 1: deep dive into this statistically, and you know, I think

1333
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:38,080
Speaker 1: we all know by now, their red zone touchdown efficiency

1334
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 1: this year is twenty six in the league. It's just

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01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:43,080
Speaker 1: over fifty five percent. After six games. They lead the

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01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 1: league in red zone opportunities with twenty nine. They were

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01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:48,920
Speaker 1: tied for fourth in red zone touchdowns with sixteen. Those

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01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 1: numbers have probably fallen now with all the other teams

1339
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:56,280
Speaker 1: playing and the Bills not I think the thing to

1340
01:11:56,320 --> 01:12:00,400
Speaker 1: know here is a how well are they running the

1341
01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 1: ball in the red zone? They are running it okay.

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01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:11,639
Speaker 1: Josh is averaging like three point eight yards to carry

1343
01:12:11,680 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 1: in the red zone. That's good, Devin Singletary, Zach Moss.

1344
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:19,200
Speaker 1: Singletary's averaging four point one in the red zone. He's

1345
01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:22,320
Speaker 1: got fewer attempts. Zach Moss is averaging three yards even

1346
01:12:22,360 --> 01:12:24,519
Speaker 1: in the red zone, which isn't terrible because it's tighter

1347
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:27,439
Speaker 1: space down there. And then the other thing that I

1348
01:12:27,479 --> 01:12:30,959
Speaker 1: think is worth noting, Josh has fifty seven percent completion

1349
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:33,879
Speaker 1: percentage in the red zone this year, which is below

1350
01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:38,080
Speaker 1: his sixty five percent completion for the season. So he's

1351
01:12:38,120 --> 01:12:42,760
Speaker 1: been a little less accurate down there, which is noteworthy.

1352
01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:45,599
Speaker 1: That's the scoring territory. You gotta be on the money there.

1353
01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:47,960
Speaker 1: I think he's right though. I think teams know what

1354
01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:51,360
Speaker 1: kind of threat Josh is when he's out there running around.

1355
01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:53,360
Speaker 1: They don't want any part of that because all of

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01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:55,799
Speaker 1: a sudden, now you're running around, Like in the Miami

1357
01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:58,759
Speaker 1: game early in the season, when Josh runs out, Stefan

1358
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:01,759
Speaker 1: Diggs falls on his face going across the field, gets

1359
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:05,680
Speaker 1: back up comes back towards Josh Boom touchdown. When the

1360
01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:09,000
Speaker 1: quarterback starts running around back there, espresionally in the red zone,

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01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 1: it is a disaster for the defense. So most teams now,

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01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:16,280
Speaker 1: and I think the Tennessee Titans did a pretty good

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01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:17,880
Speaker 1: job of it, although we saw a couple of plays

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01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:21,639
Speaker 1: here where Josh did extend it. They want him, they

1365
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:24,080
Speaker 1: want to know where Josh is. They want to keep

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01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:26,679
Speaker 1: him where he's at and force him to throw a dart.

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01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 1: And they'll do that rushing just four guys with seven

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01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:34,559
Speaker 1: guys in coverage, and everybody's trying to plaster that the receiver.

1369
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:37,879
Speaker 1: Stay between, you know, stay between the receiver and Josh

1370
01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:41,840
Speaker 1: and blow his vision and just cover everybody up for

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01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: long enough for somebody to get loose. And it's hard

1372
01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 1: to do as a defense. But if you keep Josh

1373
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:49,479
Speaker 1: standing in one spot and not let him run all

1374
01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:51,519
Speaker 1: over the yard, you're ahead of the game defensively. I

1375
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:54,200
Speaker 1: think he's right. I think David's right. That's what teams

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01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:56,080
Speaker 1: will try to do to Josh is keep him where

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01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:58,000
Speaker 1: they know worried, don't let him run it. Just make

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01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:01,080
Speaker 1: him a passer, only him to be on the money,

1379
01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:04,360
Speaker 1: and to this point, he's trending below where he was

1380
01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:07,559
Speaker 1: last year passing in the red zone. This year, as

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01:14:07,600 --> 01:14:10,400
Speaker 1: we said, twenty eight to forty nine, fifty seven percent

1382
01:14:10,439 --> 01:14:14,600
Speaker 1: completion rate, ten touchdowns, no interceptions. That's great, but the

1383
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:17,600
Speaker 1: fifty seven percent completion percentage ranks twenty first in the

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01:14:17,680 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 1: league among starting quarterbacks. Last season, he was at sixty

1385
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:24,479
Speaker 1: three percent completion rate in the red zone and ranked

1386
01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:28,639
Speaker 1: tenth among quarterbacks in the league. Break time for us here.

1387
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:30,679
Speaker 1: We'll take more of your phone calls when we return,

1388
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:34,240
Speaker 1: So Mike in Ontario, Walter and Toronto get some north

1389
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:36,479
Speaker 1: of the border guys, and Larry and Lancaster hang tight.

1390
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:38,439
Speaker 1: We'll get to you guys when we return here. On

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01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:41,160
Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:56,960
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back, talking about how the rapidly changing

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01:14:57,040 --> 01:15:00,560
Speaker 1: landscape of the AFC may or may not change the

1394
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:02,360
Speaker 1: way you think about the bills. You can let us

1395
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 1: know at eighth three oh five fifty open line for

1396
01:15:04,360 --> 01:15:06,360
Speaker 1: you there, or hit us up on the tweet sheet

1397
01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:08,640
Speaker 1: at one Bill is Live. Back to the phones, we

1398
01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 1: go north of the border to Mike and Ontario Mike,

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01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:15,040
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one bills Live. Hey,

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01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:18,479
Speaker 1: Chris Brnny, thanks for taking my call. Sure, guys, I

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01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:20,600
Speaker 1: just want to touch base on the landscape. To me,

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01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:23,760
Speaker 1: I don't think it changes the thing because the teams

1403
01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:26,400
Speaker 1: are gonna win games that they should lose, and you're

1404
01:15:26,439 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: gonna lose games that you shouldn't win. I'm taking back

1405
01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:31,360
Speaker 1: to Josh's first year as a starter. I think they

1406
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 1: went to Minnesota, Atlanta, and Carolina, and I think they

1407
01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:36,599
Speaker 1: were underdogs in all three games, and they came out

1408
01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:39,880
Speaker 1: with three wins against those three NFC teams. So for me,

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01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:43,839
Speaker 1: from an AFC perspective, it hurts the lost agains Tennessee.

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01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:46,920
Speaker 1: But I mean, like I said, if Joscelyn slip, we're

1411
01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:51,200
Speaker 1: talking a completely different story here. So just throw that

1412
01:15:51,240 --> 01:15:53,160
Speaker 1: out there and leave it and listen. Listen to what

1413
01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 1: you guys got to say. Yeah, all right, so un changed.

1414
01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:57,760
Speaker 1: That's fine. And it's a week to weekly, as you

1415
01:15:57,880 --> 01:16:00,840
Speaker 1: kind of laid out. You know, some some teams look

1416
01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 1: like world beaters one week and then you know they

1417
01:16:03,280 --> 01:16:05,000
Speaker 1: lose to a team that's under five hundred. You're like,

1418
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:07,320
Speaker 1: what the heck happened? To those guys. Yeah, it happens

1419
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:09,720
Speaker 1: a lot every week. It happens in this league. Yeah,

1420
01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:12,080
Speaker 1: And he's right the fact that the Bills have two

1421
01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:14,599
Speaker 1: conference losses, that'll come down to the tiebreakers. And when

1422
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:16,160
Speaker 1: he got all these teams that are all you know,

1423
01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 1: the Bills are sitting right there with everybody else. Everybody's

1424
01:16:19,120 --> 01:16:20,920
Speaker 1: got two losses in the AFC, so they're at the

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01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:24,240
Speaker 1: top of it. It's gonna be it's gonna come down

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01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:27,040
Speaker 1: to conference losses, head to heads, all of that stuff

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01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:30,960
Speaker 1: as tiebreakers until the until the race kind of thins

1428
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:32,599
Speaker 1: out at the top and we'll get a better handle

1429
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:34,599
Speaker 1: on it. But he's right, there are gonna be times

1430
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:38,240
Speaker 1: when you know, teams just you know, lose to a

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01:16:38,240 --> 01:16:40,160
Speaker 1: team you think, what do they do? And losing to that,

1432
01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:43,639
Speaker 1: you know, And right now, the Bills have two conference losses.

1433
01:16:44,040 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 1: Baltimore has two conference losses, but Tennessee, Vegas, and Cincinnati

1434
01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:51,200
Speaker 1: all have one or less. Cincinna has zero losses in

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01:16:51,240 --> 01:16:54,800
Speaker 1: the conference. Vegas has four and one and Tennessee's four

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01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: and one in the conference, so you know, and they're

1437
01:16:56,240 --> 01:16:59,160
Speaker 1: five and two overall, both of them. So it does

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01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 1: make a difference who you lose to no question about it.

1439
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 1: And you'd always like to lose NFC teams rather than

1440
01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 1: AFC because you know it gives you an up an

1441
01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:12,880
Speaker 1: edge on the tiebreaker. But for the for the number

1442
01:17:12,880 --> 01:17:15,160
Speaker 1: one seed, Bills are still in the conversation. Though for

1443
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:17,960
Speaker 1: the number one seed, they've got a schedule that's conducive

1444
01:17:17,960 --> 01:17:20,599
Speaker 1: to a teams are struggling out ahead of them, and

1445
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:23,080
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna come bounce back from this, with

1446
01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 1: the exception Dawson Knox, They're going to come back healthy

1447
01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:31,280
Speaker 1: and refreshed. And I think that you know, mcdermot's tough

1448
01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 1: out of the bye. He's never been beaten out of

1449
01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,439
Speaker 1: the bye, so we'll see how they know that is correct.

1450
01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:37,000
Speaker 1: He is four and oh out of the bias. Head

1451
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:40,080
Speaker 1: coach of the Bills. Back to the phones until Walter

1452
01:17:40,360 --> 01:17:44,280
Speaker 1: in Toronto. Walter, what do you have for us? Hey, guys,

1453
01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Sure, I've been I've been

1454
01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:50,519
Speaker 1: a season ticket older for just about twenty years now,

1455
01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:52,559
Speaker 1: and I just want to make a couple of points.

1456
01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:57,000
Speaker 1: First point is is great that the Bills will have

1457
01:17:57,560 --> 01:18:01,400
Speaker 1: relevance right into January and in those past twenty years

1458
01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:05,559
Speaker 1: by Canadian Thanksgiving in October, we were kind of, you know,

1459
01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 1: writing off the bills and turn the playoffs and you

1460
01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:09,680
Speaker 1: know what we can do next year. But we have

1461
01:18:10,280 --> 01:18:13,559
Speaker 1: relevance and hopefully we can maintain that for the better

1462
01:18:13,600 --> 01:18:16,719
Speaker 1: part of ten years where we're one of those handful

1463
01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:20,439
Speaker 1: of teams that always have a chance to make it

1464
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:23,720
Speaker 1: to the conference finals, to the super Bowl. And on

1465
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:25,680
Speaker 1: another note, and I want to hear your thoughts on it.

1466
01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 1: An earlier caller had said that we should we should

1467
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:33,080
Speaker 1: focus on our strength, and our strengthens is Josh Allen's arm.

1468
01:18:33,439 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think anybody can throw it further

1469
01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:39,000
Speaker 1: than in and I'd like to see every second play

1470
01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:43,599
Speaker 1: down field. You guys remember Dan Fous and Air Correale. Well,

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01:18:43,640 --> 01:18:46,640
Speaker 1: I think we should have Air Allan. And sure you

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01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:50,160
Speaker 1: know you live by the sword, you die by the sword.

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01:18:50,640 --> 01:18:53,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna have some great exciting years then who knows,

1474
01:18:53,320 --> 01:18:55,400
Speaker 1: we might we might pull off a Super Bowl or two.

1475
01:18:56,080 --> 01:18:59,120
Speaker 1: And I think our biggest asset is Josh Allen would

1476
01:18:59,120 --> 01:19:01,600
Speaker 1: be that way for the next ten years. And like

1477
01:19:01,720 --> 01:19:04,320
Speaker 1: anything in life, you play with you with your strength

1478
01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:07,759
Speaker 1: or with your strength. Just wondering on your thoughts on that. Yeah, sure, Walter,

1479
01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:10,519
Speaker 1: thanks very much for the call. Appreciate it. I mean, look,

1480
01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:14,919
Speaker 1: you can't throw deep down the field every other play.

1481
01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just not realistic. They're not high percentage plays.

1482
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:21,879
Speaker 1: Most teams, even some of the most aggressive teams in football,

1483
01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:24,639
Speaker 1: don't take more than six shot plays in a game.

1484
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:28,480
Speaker 1: And that's a high number. Eighth is like extremely high

1485
01:19:28,479 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 1: ten if you're blowing the doors off a defense that

1486
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 1: just can't hang with your people. But not as much

1487
01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 1: as you're indicating. Yes, Josh has a huge arm, but

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01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:38,479
Speaker 1: you're not doing that all game long. It's just not

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01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:42,280
Speaker 1: a way to stay on schedule down and distance wise. Yeah,

1490
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:45,160
Speaker 1: and I get it. You could accentually, you know, you

1491
01:19:45,240 --> 01:19:48,880
Speaker 1: got he's got this big arm. One of the problem

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01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:50,680
Speaker 1: is it's not just it is about Josh. I know,

1493
01:19:50,720 --> 01:19:52,040
Speaker 1: he's the strength. I know you got. It is his

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01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:53,920
Speaker 1: arm and his abilities and stuff is a strength of

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01:19:53,960 --> 01:19:55,200
Speaker 1: team and that's where you got to play too. But

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01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:57,680
Speaker 1: then again, too, this is a team that's got as

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01:19:57,720 --> 01:20:00,360
Speaker 1: a wide receivering corps. Has got three guy at the

1498
01:20:00,439 --> 01:20:02,880
Speaker 1: top of the list that are separators, not speed guys.

1499
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:04,960
Speaker 1: John Brown was a speed guy last year and they

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01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 1: took it deep, and you can remember him getting some

1501
01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:09,240
Speaker 1: deep shots last year in the Miami game, in the

1502
01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:12,880
Speaker 1: New England game, in the Colt and even Steph Diggs

1503
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 1: in the Colt playoff game. But Cole Beasley, Steph Diggs

1504
01:20:16,439 --> 01:20:21,360
Speaker 1: and Emmanuel Sanders are separators. They're there to give Josh

1505
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:23,479
Speaker 1: a window to throw the football into and if you've

1506
01:20:23,479 --> 01:20:25,320
Speaker 1: got somebody that can take the lid off, it's sure.

1507
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:29,680
Speaker 1: But by the same token, like you said, Brownie, that

1508
01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:33,479
Speaker 1: you know that's a roll of the dice every time out,

1509
01:20:33,640 --> 01:20:36,320
Speaker 1: and it's it's not really good odds to stay on

1510
01:20:36,360 --> 01:20:38,240
Speaker 1: the football field, and I think the better way to

1511
01:20:38,320 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 1: do it is to stay on the field, get first downs,

1512
01:20:42,200 --> 01:20:43,800
Speaker 1: put a lot of pressure on and the Bills lead

1513
01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:46,519
Speaker 1: the league in red zone opportunities with twenty nine coming

1514
01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 1: into this last week, and they they move the football

1515
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:53,479
Speaker 1: and that puts a lot of pressure consistently on a defense.

1516
01:20:53,920 --> 01:20:56,880
Speaker 1: And I think right now, Josh and the Bills need

1517
01:20:56,880 --> 01:20:59,720
Speaker 1: to do a better job of taking advantage of the

1518
01:20:59,760 --> 01:21:01,920
Speaker 1: time I'm they're on the field offensively. You can look,

1519
01:21:01,960 --> 01:21:03,720
Speaker 1: I think they left a lot of plays on the

1520
01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:06,160
Speaker 1: field in Tennessee where Josh looking back at the film's

1521
01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:08,160
Speaker 1: like a A, I should have taken this one right

1522
01:21:08,160 --> 01:21:11,160
Speaker 1: here instead of going down field. So I think they

1523
01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:15,280
Speaker 1: they're leaving a lot on the field at times. Not

1524
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:17,559
Speaker 1: just big plays, but I'm talking about completions to keep

1525
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:20,400
Speaker 1: them on the field, third down conversion, second down conversions,

1526
01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 1: even third and long conversions that are there that they miss. So,

1527
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:29,840
Speaker 1: while yeah, Josh is the strength of your team, don't

1528
01:21:29,880 --> 01:21:32,400
Speaker 1: expect a quarterback with a strong arm that he's just

1529
01:21:32,439 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 1: going to overpower everybody throwed over the top of the defense,

1530
01:21:35,600 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 1: because you're not playing in a vacuum, right And I

1531
01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:43,479
Speaker 1: think when you know, Steve says they feel they left

1532
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:45,840
Speaker 1: yards on the field. In no way is that an

1533
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:47,960
Speaker 1: indictment on Josh. The team's not even in the game.

1534
01:21:48,360 --> 01:21:50,760
Speaker 1: Unless Josh played the game that he did. That's not

1535
01:21:50,800 --> 01:21:52,960
Speaker 1: saying not to say he played the perfect game either,

1536
01:21:53,280 --> 01:21:55,720
Speaker 1: But an example of leaving yards on the field is

1537
01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 1: you know, fourth quarter of that game, it's first and

1538
01:21:58,479 --> 01:22:01,200
Speaker 1: ten and he's trying to make a big play down field.

1539
01:22:01,200 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 1: He holds the ball too long, takes a sack. Now

1540
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:06,519
Speaker 1: it's second and seventeen. He goes deep down the field

1541
01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:09,839
Speaker 1: again on a deep post to Emmanuel Sanders can't connect.

1542
01:22:10,080 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 1: Now it's third and seventeen and he throws it deep

1543
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:15,320
Speaker 1: down the right side line to try to get it

1544
01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:17,280
Speaker 1: all in one play to Jake Kumeroa. It goes out

1545
01:22:17,280 --> 01:22:19,800
Speaker 1: of bounds incomplete, and now they're punting back with a

1546
01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:22,519
Speaker 1: four point lead just after Bass kick the field goal

1547
01:22:22,560 --> 01:22:25,840
Speaker 1: to put them up thirty one twenty seven. So that's

1548
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:28,000
Speaker 1: an example of what Steve's talking about. You can't be

1549
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:30,240
Speaker 1: going deep, deep, deep all the time. It's not a

1550
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:32,880
Speaker 1: high percentage play. It doesn't help keep you on the

1551
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 1: field all the time, and so you have to mix

1552
01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:39,479
Speaker 1: in and take what the defense gives you, or instead

1553
01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:41,720
Speaker 1: of forcing it down field, take a check down, get

1554
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:44,320
Speaker 1: half of it, you know, especially after taking that seven

1555
01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:48,160
Speaker 1: yard sack, you got seventeen yards to gain, get half

1556
01:22:48,160 --> 01:22:49,840
Speaker 1: of it back on second down. So now you're in

1557
01:22:49,880 --> 01:22:53,320
Speaker 1: third and at least manageable. And there are times where

1558
01:22:53,360 --> 01:22:57,200
Speaker 1: you have to recognize time and score to take what

1559
01:22:57,240 --> 01:22:59,920
Speaker 1: you can get and try to live for another down

1560
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:04,200
Speaker 1: down and make it manageable for you not almost near impossible.

1561
01:23:04,439 --> 01:23:07,680
Speaker 1: And sometimes he fights his own competitive nature with that

1562
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:10,960
Speaker 1: on occasion. But I mean, I'm not I'm not complaining

1563
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:13,120
Speaker 1: about his performance in that last game three under fifty

1564
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:15,720
Speaker 1: three yards. I think he had over seventy percent completion.

1565
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:19,120
Speaker 1: I mean, he was not the reason they lost the game. Uh,

1566
01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:21,519
Speaker 1: Larry and Lancaster, what do you have for us? You're

1567
01:23:21,520 --> 01:23:27,639
Speaker 1: on one Bills live. Yeah, thanks for taking my cat, sure, Larry. Yeah,

1568
01:23:27,680 --> 01:23:29,839
Speaker 1: I was just wondering if you think that the Bills

1569
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:33,479
Speaker 1: may see if they can run some some plays, working

1570
01:23:33,560 --> 01:23:35,840
Speaker 1: some plays where Josh kind of exits out to the left.

1571
01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:38,360
Speaker 1: It seemed like that was a big thing with Tennessee.

1572
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:41,240
Speaker 1: Was you know, they really kind of forced him when

1573
01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:43,599
Speaker 1: he got uncomfortable. They wouldn't let him go right. The

1574
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:45,720
Speaker 1: one time he got right, he hits easily down for

1575
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:48,280
Speaker 1: the touchdown, But everything else was you know, kind of

1576
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:51,160
Speaker 1: out to the left, forcing them to that uncomfortable side

1577
01:23:51,160 --> 01:23:54,599
Speaker 1: for the right handed quarterback. Where you know, they might

1578
01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:56,639
Speaker 1: want to look at maybe working some of that into

1579
01:23:56,640 --> 01:23:59,040
Speaker 1: the offense just so that other teams can't use that

1580
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 1: as a blueprint how to kind of make him uncomfortable,

1581
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:04,400
Speaker 1: especially in the red zone. Yeah, I mean it's interesting

1582
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:06,120
Speaker 1: you mentioned that. Steve and I were just talking about

1583
01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:07,760
Speaker 1: that in the break, Lawry, and thanks for the call.

1584
01:24:09,280 --> 01:24:12,320
Speaker 1: It's not that Josh can't make plays doing that. Let's

1585
01:24:12,320 --> 01:24:15,880
Speaker 1: not forget. He rolled out to his left and threw

1586
01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:17,559
Speaker 1: a dark test Stefan Diggs in the back of the

1587
01:24:17,600 --> 01:24:20,160
Speaker 1: end zone against Arizona to give them the lead before

1588
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:23,320
Speaker 1: the Haill Murray play. And he also rolled out to

1589
01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:26,040
Speaker 1: his left and threw a dark test Stefan Digg sliding

1590
01:24:26,040 --> 01:24:27,719
Speaker 1: in the end zone for another touchdown on the Monday

1591
01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:30,439
Speaker 1: night game against New England. So he's capable of making

1592
01:24:30,439 --> 01:24:32,960
Speaker 1: plays rolling out to his left. But it's obvious that

1593
01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:35,120
Speaker 1: the opponents that have studied Josh, you know, he has

1594
01:24:35,120 --> 01:24:37,479
Speaker 1: a far more effective quarterback rolling to his right than

1595
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:40,200
Speaker 1: his left, which I would say is probably true for

1596
01:24:40,280 --> 01:24:43,200
Speaker 1: most right handed quarterbacks because throwing against your body and

1597
01:24:43,240 --> 01:24:45,040
Speaker 1: getting your hips square to the line of scrimmage, it's

1598
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:46,760
Speaker 1: a lot harder rolling to your left and to the right.

1599
01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:50,200
Speaker 1: They feel that that was going to work for them

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01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:52,719
Speaker 1: for the most part, it did, Tennessee I'm talking about

1601
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:56,200
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean, you could build it into your practice,

1602
01:24:56,280 --> 01:24:58,839
Speaker 1: or Josh could build it into his own individual position

1603
01:24:58,920 --> 01:25:01,000
Speaker 1: drill practice. You know, ask coach Dorsey, Hey, can we

1604
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:02,880
Speaker 1: just do some more rolling to the left, because we

1605
01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:04,439
Speaker 1: know teams are gonna try to make me do that.

1606
01:25:04,479 --> 01:25:06,800
Speaker 1: I want to be better there. Yeah, you can work

1607
01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:08,800
Speaker 1: that in. I don't think there's any question about it.

1608
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 1: But I don't know if you're putting it in your

1609
01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:14,760
Speaker 1: game plan per se. Right, teams are always going to

1610
01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:16,040
Speaker 1: have a plan against you, and some of them can

1611
01:25:16,080 --> 01:25:18,120
Speaker 1: execute it really well, and sometimes they're just not good

1612
01:25:18,200 --> 01:25:19,800
Speaker 1: enough to get it done, and your guys still better

1613
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:24,400
Speaker 1: than they are. Josh is that way a lot. They

1614
01:25:24,400 --> 01:25:27,000
Speaker 1: can say, Okay, keep him from rolling right, Okay, that's fine,

1615
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:29,000
Speaker 1: but he's beating a couple of teams left too, and

1616
01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:31,320
Speaker 1: he's done. He's still scoring thirty points a game. When

1617
01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:34,000
Speaker 1: these teams are trying to do that. That's a big

1618
01:25:34,040 --> 01:25:36,680
Speaker 1: ask for a team to come in, particularly a team

1619
01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 1: like Miami this week, Jacksonville, some of these teams that

1620
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:42,800
Speaker 1: are struggling with young quarterbacks of the Jets, they're gonna

1621
01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:45,280
Speaker 1: have to score thirty points on this team to stay

1622
01:25:45,320 --> 01:25:47,759
Speaker 1: in it, because that's what the Bills are scoring against everybody,

1623
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:52,280
Speaker 1: the good teams, the really good teams, everybody. The Bills

1624
01:25:52,280 --> 01:25:55,720
Speaker 1: are scoring thirty points on these guys. And unless you've

1625
01:25:55,720 --> 01:25:58,559
Speaker 1: got a plan that's going to keep them from doing that.

1626
01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:04,599
Speaker 1: You're gonna lose, You're planning to lose. Yeah, it's yeah.

1627
01:26:05,240 --> 01:26:08,120
Speaker 1: I can't pit at all on one thing. For sure.

1628
01:26:08,720 --> 01:26:10,840
Speaker 1: We have to take a break here, but we still

1629
01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:13,320
Speaker 1: have more phone calls to get to when we come back.

1630
01:26:13,760 --> 01:26:16,599
Speaker 1: So the West Seneca boys, Gary and Charles hang tight.

1631
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:19,120
Speaker 1: We will get to you when we return. Here on

1632
01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:21,719
Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo

1633
01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:36,720
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right, welcome back. I got to get

1634
01:26:36,840 --> 01:26:38,920
Speaker 1: right back to the phones where we're asking you, how

1635
01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:41,800
Speaker 1: does the rapidly changing landscape of the AFC change the

1636
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:45,280
Speaker 1: way you think about the Bills? If at all? And

1637
01:26:45,640 --> 01:26:49,439
Speaker 1: at eight fifty we go to Charles in West Seneca. Charles,

1638
01:26:49,439 --> 01:26:50,920
Speaker 1: what do you have for us here? On One Bills Live.

1639
01:26:52,439 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 1: Happy Monday, gentlemen, Happy game week. This question. I guess Brownie,

1640
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:01,560
Speaker 1: not to discount your opinion on this, but Steve, I

1641
01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:04,439
Speaker 1: really wanted your opinion on this. As somebody who has

1642
01:27:04,439 --> 01:27:08,320
Speaker 1: played professional football before, a lot about you know, players

1643
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:11,479
Speaker 1: need to execute, players need to execute, which too, I

1644
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:15,680
Speaker 1: do agree. Um, But as you know somebody who has

1645
01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:19,000
Speaker 1: played the pro game before, Um, how much do you

1646
01:27:19,160 --> 01:27:23,839
Speaker 1: take into consideration, uh, coaches putting players in a position

1647
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:27,920
Speaker 1: to have a high success rate. Um, you know, more

1648
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:32,080
Speaker 1: than players executing. You know, we've we've talked at nauseum

1649
01:27:32,080 --> 01:27:35,720
Speaker 1: about this drive. With eight minutes to go, you know,

1650
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:39,960
Speaker 1: you're up by four and you got Josh tossing. You know,

1651
01:27:40,439 --> 01:27:43,320
Speaker 1: these these long balls down the field. You know, is

1652
01:27:43,360 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 1: that is that him not executing or is that him

1653
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:50,400
Speaker 1: not being put in a position to be successful at executing?

1654
01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:53,960
Speaker 1: You know it wasn't there each place, different play calls, Yeah,

1655
01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:56,960
Speaker 1: each plays different charles. I mean, there's some of those

1656
01:27:56,960 --> 01:27:58,800
Speaker 1: plays where you could say, Okay, I don't mind you

1657
01:27:58,840 --> 01:28:01,799
Speaker 1: doing that on a second and second medium or whatever.

1658
01:28:02,240 --> 01:28:04,639
Speaker 1: But if there's if you think back, all you gotta

1659
01:28:04,680 --> 01:28:06,000
Speaker 1: do is go back and look at the film and

1660
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:08,599
Speaker 1: and they do this with Josh too. They'll go back

1661
01:28:08,600 --> 01:28:10,280
Speaker 1: and look at say Josh, I know you're trying to

1662
01:28:10,320 --> 01:28:12,120
Speaker 1: look at this right he look at look at Beasley

1663
01:28:12,200 --> 01:28:15,240
Speaker 1: right here? You got you gotta check. Do you gotta

1664
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:17,479
Speaker 1: give Beasley a chance to catch this? Where you gotta

1665
01:28:17,520 --> 01:28:20,400
Speaker 1: give here? Look at me? You didn't go you gotta

1666
01:28:20,400 --> 01:28:22,720
Speaker 1: get to don't if you're seeing this right here, go

1667
01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:24,519
Speaker 1: to your second read and look where your second read is.

1668
01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:26,800
Speaker 1: He's wide open. You gotta get it there. That's what

1669
01:28:26,840 --> 01:28:29,559
Speaker 1: you're talking about is execution. And when a when a

1670
01:28:29,600 --> 01:28:33,240
Speaker 1: coaching staff puts together like a plan like that, particularly

1671
01:28:33,240 --> 01:28:34,880
Speaker 1: with a team as talented as the one they've got

1672
01:28:35,040 --> 01:28:37,559
Speaker 1: now here in Buffalo, a lot of it has to

1673
01:28:37,560 --> 01:28:41,799
Speaker 1: do with execution. Um. I put it on the players

1674
01:28:41,880 --> 01:28:43,519
Speaker 1: because that's what I was, and we was, you know,

1675
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:45,479
Speaker 1: we was thinking, yeah, I find have done that. We'd won.

1676
01:28:45,640 --> 01:28:48,320
Speaker 1: You know, you know what the plan is, Um, you

1677
01:28:48,400 --> 01:28:51,720
Speaker 1: gotta do it. There were a couple of times and

1678
01:28:51,720 --> 01:28:54,439
Speaker 1: and here's the thing too, you'll never know. And this

1679
01:28:54,479 --> 01:29:00,400
Speaker 1: is a great conundrum. For instance, the Derek Henry touchdown

1680
01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:02,760
Speaker 1: seventy six Shard touchdown that gets called back. Okay, well

1681
01:29:02,760 --> 01:29:04,719
Speaker 1: that now the game is a completely different game because

1682
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:07,840
Speaker 1: now for them it's third down and they still got

1683
01:29:07,840 --> 01:29:09,160
Speaker 1: the ball. Now what are they gonna do? And he

1684
01:29:09,240 --> 01:29:13,479
Speaker 1: may snap off another one, but you know, now the

1685
01:29:13,520 --> 01:29:15,960
Speaker 1: game is different from there going forward. So later on

1686
01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:18,040
Speaker 1: in the game, nothing, none of the other stuff ever happens.

1687
01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:21,040
Speaker 1: That's the great conundrum you're in. If you change the

1688
01:29:21,240 --> 01:29:23,679
Speaker 1: game early on, how much does it change the strategy

1689
01:29:23,760 --> 01:29:25,519
Speaker 1: going forward because instead of getting the ball with eight

1690
01:29:25,520 --> 01:29:27,759
Speaker 1: minutes left and the four point lead, maybe the Bills

1691
01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:30,920
Speaker 1: get the ball back with eight minutes left and a

1692
01:29:31,160 --> 01:29:34,680
Speaker 1: fifteen point lead. That kind of stuff, but by the same.

1693
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:37,080
Speaker 1: But the point of your question is this, I always

1694
01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:40,280
Speaker 1: put it on the players. I always end the quarterback

1695
01:29:40,320 --> 01:29:42,560
Speaker 1: gets a lot of credit when they go right, and

1696
01:29:42,600 --> 01:29:44,120
Speaker 1: they get a lot of blame when it goes wrong.

1697
01:29:44,160 --> 01:29:46,360
Speaker 1: And maybe this is on Josh too. Maybe, and I've

1698
01:29:46,400 --> 01:29:47,800
Speaker 1: said it a couple of times. I think there were

1699
01:29:47,840 --> 01:29:50,800
Speaker 1: some plays there they left on the field. But there

1700
01:29:50,800 --> 01:29:54,200
Speaker 1: are also times when goodness gracious, they should have snapped

1701
01:29:54,240 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 1: this off for a big game, and they got a

1702
01:29:58,360 --> 01:30:02,160
Speaker 1: an audacious or a totally questionable holding call away from

1703
01:30:02,160 --> 01:30:05,120
Speaker 1: the player. You know. So it's there's a lot of

1704
01:30:05,160 --> 01:30:06,680
Speaker 1: things to go into it, but I always put it

1705
01:30:06,720 --> 01:30:08,160
Speaker 1: on the players. And you go back and look at

1706
01:30:08,160 --> 01:30:10,280
Speaker 1: some of those plays that they missed on the long

1707
01:30:10,320 --> 01:30:12,840
Speaker 1: ball or whatever. There were some times when Josh if

1708
01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:14,839
Speaker 1: he had just taken an extra quarter of a second

1709
01:30:15,240 --> 01:30:16,880
Speaker 1: look back, and some of this is the past rush,

1710
01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:19,160
Speaker 1: but there are some plays they left out there because

1711
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:21,560
Speaker 1: Josh wanted to take that shot and didn't want to

1712
01:30:21,560 --> 01:30:23,960
Speaker 1: take the underneath, or didn't see it in time to

1713
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:26,599
Speaker 1: take the underneath or on the play there too, Diggs.

1714
01:30:26,640 --> 01:30:28,800
Speaker 1: We've been showing it the whole day. He just missed

1715
01:30:28,880 --> 01:30:31,600
Speaker 1: him three feet to the outside of that on the

1716
01:30:31,640 --> 01:30:35,880
Speaker 1: gold line, and that's a touchdown. It didn't turned into

1717
01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:39,040
Speaker 1: a field goal, and everything's different after that. So, yeah,

1718
01:30:39,080 --> 01:30:41,800
Speaker 1: I put it on the players. And having said that,

1719
01:30:43,400 --> 01:30:46,280
Speaker 1: coaches at the NFL are extremely good, particularly this crew

1720
01:30:46,479 --> 01:30:48,640
Speaker 1: is extremely good at given these guys a chance. And

1721
01:30:49,080 --> 01:30:51,880
Speaker 1: you know, you mentioned their game plans are I think

1722
01:30:51,880 --> 01:30:55,120
Speaker 1: are top Yeah, you mentioned putting them in position to succeed.

1723
01:30:55,560 --> 01:30:58,920
Speaker 1: It's a coach's job to always put a player in

1724
01:30:58,920 --> 01:31:02,400
Speaker 1: a position to succeed. That's their job, so they are

1725
01:31:02,479 --> 01:31:06,760
Speaker 1: always striving to do that. Now, not every thing they

1726
01:31:07,280 --> 01:31:12,160
Speaker 1: believe will help a player succeed works, but a lot

1727
01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:15,479
Speaker 1: of times it's due to execution and decision making, and

1728
01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:17,720
Speaker 1: the decision making falls on the guy who's got the

1729
01:31:17,720 --> 01:31:20,519
Speaker 1: ball in his hands every snap, and that's Josh for

1730
01:31:20,600 --> 01:31:23,000
Speaker 1: better or for worse, and there's been a whole lot

1731
01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:26,679
Speaker 1: more better than worse. But like we say all the time,

1732
01:31:26,720 --> 01:31:28,040
Speaker 1: the guys on the other side of the ball, they're

1733
01:31:28,040 --> 01:31:31,479
Speaker 1: getting paid to play too, and they're trying to stop

1734
01:31:31,520 --> 01:31:34,799
Speaker 1: everything that you're doing and make good decisions as well,

1735
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:37,320
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna win all of them. You're not

1736
01:31:37,360 --> 01:31:39,840
Speaker 1: gonna make the right decision one hundred percent of the

1737
01:31:39,840 --> 01:31:43,080
Speaker 1: time when you're handling the ball sixty times a game.

1738
01:31:43,160 --> 01:31:45,880
Speaker 1: It's this is the way it is. The competition is

1739
01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:48,880
Speaker 1: too great in this league. But if he can make

1740
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:53,479
Speaker 1: a majority of the correct decisions and recognize time and

1741
01:31:53,600 --> 01:31:57,639
Speaker 1: score and the circumstances in which he finds himself, which

1742
01:31:57,680 --> 01:32:01,439
Speaker 1: includes how is your defense play, you have to make

1743
01:32:01,479 --> 01:32:04,360
Speaker 1: a choice there and say it's more important for us

1744
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:06,240
Speaker 1: to stay on the field than for me to hit

1745
01:32:06,240 --> 01:32:08,080
Speaker 1: a forty yard bomb. Right now, let's get to the

1746
01:32:08,120 --> 01:32:11,000
Speaker 1: sticks and get a fresh set of downs, run some

1747
01:32:11,080 --> 01:32:14,080
Speaker 1: more clock, or force them to use timeouts or give

1748
01:32:14,120 --> 01:32:16,479
Speaker 1: them less time to work with because our defense having

1749
01:32:16,520 --> 01:32:18,360
Speaker 1: a tough time today stopping them. Yeah, and this is

1750
01:32:18,400 --> 01:32:20,960
Speaker 1: another thing you think about as Josh drops back. He

1751
01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:25,880
Speaker 1: would always, always and forever make the right read if

1752
01:32:25,880 --> 01:32:27,599
Speaker 1: he knew he could stand in there and have time

1753
01:32:27,600 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 1: to do it and just look around. And though I'm not,

1754
01:32:29,280 --> 01:32:32,200
Speaker 1: he knowing, he's never gonna get sacked but sooner or later,

1755
01:32:32,240 --> 01:32:35,439
Speaker 1: everybody gets sacked. And if he but if he feels

1756
01:32:35,439 --> 01:32:38,720
Speaker 1: comfortable that his offensive line is winning around him in

1757
01:32:38,760 --> 01:32:42,920
Speaker 1: the pockets and you know, stay in intact, that's one

1758
01:32:42,920 --> 01:32:44,920
Speaker 1: of those times where he says, I've trust my guys.

1759
01:32:44,920 --> 01:32:47,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take one last look over here, because this

1760
01:32:47,040 --> 01:32:49,200
Speaker 1: is a long shot, and oh, there it is, I

1761
01:32:49,240 --> 01:32:52,400
Speaker 1: see it, boom and Daniel hit it. So everybody works

1762
01:32:52,400 --> 01:32:55,280
Speaker 1: in concert together. The players have to trust each other.

1763
01:32:55,760 --> 01:32:57,920
Speaker 1: Josh has to trust his offensive line that given the

1764
01:32:57,960 --> 01:32:59,840
Speaker 1: extra quarter of a second it takes to take another

1765
01:33:00,000 --> 01:33:02,040
Speaker 1: look to the backside and say, oh, there's a guy

1766
01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:05,559
Speaker 1: standing wide open. That kind of stuff. I always put

1767
01:33:05,560 --> 01:33:08,120
Speaker 1: it on the players. I always put it on the

1768
01:33:08,160 --> 01:33:11,240
Speaker 1: players because when these coaches watch so much film and

1769
01:33:11,280 --> 01:33:13,640
Speaker 1: put in so much offensive weaponry, and they've got all

1770
01:33:13,680 --> 01:33:16,920
Speaker 1: these guys, they know how to put a game plan

1771
01:33:16,960 --> 01:33:20,720
Speaker 1: together and so there's the plan, get it done kind

1772
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:23,880
Speaker 1: of thing. I always put it on the players. So

1773
01:33:24,320 --> 01:33:27,439
Speaker 1: but that's me as a former player. Yeah, break time

1774
01:33:27,479 --> 01:33:29,439
Speaker 1: for us here, but when we come back, we're gonna

1775
01:33:29,439 --> 01:33:32,599
Speaker 1: get an early look at the Miami Dolphins, who just

1776
01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:37,000
Speaker 1: dropped another heartbreaker on Sunday on a final field goal

1777
01:33:37,080 --> 01:33:39,760
Speaker 1: at the gun, losing to the Falcons thirty to twenty eight.

1778
01:33:40,120 --> 01:33:42,760
Speaker 1: To help us do that will be OutKick dot Com

1779
01:33:42,960 --> 01:33:46,800
Speaker 1: senior NFL reporter Armando Salgaro. He joins us next here

1780
01:33:46,840 --> 01:33:49,120
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo

1781
01:33:49,120 --> 01:34:10,160
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio at a Steve Taster who has been all

1782
01:34:10,320 --> 01:34:12,360
Speaker 1: over the field. Kind of unique. He was kind of

1783
01:34:12,360 --> 01:34:17,960
Speaker 1: a dual role fighter for you, Steve, Steve a blimp.

1784
01:34:18,720 --> 01:34:25,120
Speaker 1: We're not even in the strated here of normalcy. All right,

1785
01:34:25,120 --> 01:34:27,599
Speaker 1: welcome to our number three on a Monday. Chris Brown,

1786
01:34:27,640 --> 01:34:31,760
Speaker 1: Steve Taster with you One Bills Live and here to

1787
01:34:31,880 --> 01:34:34,120
Speaker 1: join us in our number three to give us a

1788
01:34:34,160 --> 01:34:38,360
Speaker 1: head start on the Dolphins rematch from week two is

1789
01:34:38,760 --> 01:34:42,160
Speaker 1: OutKick senior NFL writer also Pro Football Hall of Fame

1790
01:34:42,240 --> 01:34:47,240
Speaker 1: voter Armando Salgaro. Armando, First, how are you doing? And second?

1791
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:51,080
Speaker 1: Has Chicken Little infiltrated the building in Davy at the

1792
01:34:51,120 --> 01:34:57,600
Speaker 1: Dolphins facility? Hi? Chris, ih, Steve, I don't know, I

1793
01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:03,920
Speaker 1: don't have a GPS on Little Yeah, but my guess

1794
01:35:04,080 --> 01:35:08,360
Speaker 1: is you know, chick a Little is known for uh

1795
01:35:08,760 --> 01:35:14,280
Speaker 1: yelling at you know, crisis when it's not merited. The

1796
01:35:14,360 --> 01:35:18,760
Speaker 1: Dolphins have a crisis that is merited. Yeah, to the

1797
01:35:19,160 --> 01:35:23,040
Speaker 1: found the alarm. They've lost six in a row and

1798
01:35:24,640 --> 01:35:29,320
Speaker 1: not good. Not good. Guys. What it looks at you

1799
01:35:29,320 --> 01:35:32,120
Speaker 1: look at the stat line, it doesn't look horrific for

1800
01:35:32,360 --> 01:35:36,120
Speaker 1: tua Um. Why is it that when you got a

1801
01:35:36,200 --> 01:35:38,439
Speaker 1: quarterback and I know the two the two picks were

1802
01:35:38,439 --> 01:35:42,800
Speaker 1: pretty bad. But um still and they almost beat that.

1803
01:35:43,040 --> 01:35:45,280
Speaker 1: They were down to one play against the Atlanta focus

1804
01:35:45,280 --> 01:35:48,120
Speaker 1: of beating, But why is it The tuah In statistics

1805
01:35:48,120 --> 01:35:50,240
Speaker 1: don't look bad? But you know, why can't they put

1806
01:35:50,240 --> 01:35:56,120
Speaker 1: together a win with him at quarterback over of late? Well,

1807
01:35:56,439 --> 01:36:00,680
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's just him. Like you said, Um,

1808
01:36:00,720 --> 01:36:02,800
Speaker 1: I think it has a lot to do with the

1809
01:36:02,920 --> 01:36:09,560
Speaker 1: defense being a gigantic disappointment, and I do mean gigantic.

1810
01:36:10,120 --> 01:36:14,599
Speaker 1: You have to understand that maybe Bills fans don't see

1811
01:36:14,640 --> 01:36:18,720
Speaker 1: it this way because when they last saw the Dolphins

1812
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:23,160
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park, I think the Bills scored like fifty

1813
01:36:23,240 --> 01:36:27,160
Speaker 1: something points on them. But that was a defense that

1814
01:36:27,360 --> 01:36:33,639
Speaker 1: last year was number five in the NFL in points alloud,

1815
01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:38,400
Speaker 1: And so the Dolphins thought that they had something to

1816
01:36:38,560 --> 01:36:44,080
Speaker 1: build on with that, except that this year, they're twenty

1817
01:36:44,160 --> 01:36:49,559
Speaker 1: ninth in the NFL so far in points aloud, and

1818
01:36:50,080 --> 01:36:54,280
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, the team has carried leads

1819
01:36:54,320 --> 01:36:58,120
Speaker 1: into the final two minutes of a game and it's

1820
01:36:58,240 --> 01:37:01,719
Speaker 1: up to the defense to be on the field and

1821
01:37:01,960 --> 01:37:07,040
Speaker 1: close it out. And against Jacksonville they gave up a

1822
01:37:07,200 --> 01:37:12,120
Speaker 1: game winning field goal drive with one forty seven to play,

1823
01:37:12,240 --> 01:37:16,759
Speaker 1: and against Atlanta yesterday they gave up a game winning

1824
01:37:16,880 --> 01:37:21,280
Speaker 1: field goal drive with two twenty seven left to play.

1825
01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:27,840
Speaker 1: And So when the anchor of your team is basically

1826
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:32,200
Speaker 1: just collapsed under itself for no apparent reason, because they

1827
01:37:32,200 --> 01:37:37,519
Speaker 1: didn't exactly graduate anybody, nobody went on, you know that

1828
01:37:39,439 --> 01:37:41,439
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that they've not been able

1829
01:37:41,439 --> 01:37:44,519
Speaker 1: to recover from. So, Armando, you have to explain this

1830
01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:46,280
Speaker 1: to me, because I've been talking about this for the

1831
01:37:46,320 --> 01:37:51,000
Speaker 1: better part of the last three weeks. The defensive philosophy

1832
01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:55,320
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins does not hold water for me. It's

1833
01:37:55,400 --> 01:37:59,120
Speaker 1: fantastic that you feel you have elite corners who can

1834
01:37:59,160 --> 01:38:01,679
Speaker 1: play man cover ridge for a majority of the game,

1835
01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:04,519
Speaker 1: but if you don't have a pass rush on the

1836
01:38:04,560 --> 01:38:08,479
Speaker 1: front end to support them, you can have I said

1837
01:38:08,520 --> 01:38:11,080
Speaker 1: this on the air earlier today, you could have Champ Bailey,

1838
01:38:11,560 --> 01:38:15,519
Speaker 1: Darryl Greene, and Dion Sanders as your top three corners.

1839
01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:17,040
Speaker 1: But if you don't have a pass rush, they're not

1840
01:38:17,040 --> 01:38:19,679
Speaker 1: gonna be able to cover anybody long enough either. So

1841
01:38:20,040 --> 01:38:22,160
Speaker 1: I look in there. You know they're twenty ninth and

1842
01:38:22,240 --> 01:38:24,920
Speaker 1: sacks per play. They have a first round pick in

1843
01:38:25,000 --> 01:38:27,799
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips who half the time is dropping into coverage

1844
01:38:28,120 --> 01:38:32,120
Speaker 1: when his strength is rushing the passer. It just does

1845
01:38:32,200 --> 01:38:35,200
Speaker 1: not compute for me, Armando this whole defensive philosophy. And

1846
01:38:35,280 --> 01:38:38,960
Speaker 1: yet without a pass rush, they insist on playing man

1847
01:38:38,960 --> 01:38:41,559
Speaker 1: coverage and it killed him on the final drive with Pitts,

1848
01:38:43,760 --> 01:38:48,040
Speaker 1: And they insist on doing it when the other guys

1849
01:38:48,160 --> 01:38:53,000
Speaker 1: know that they're gonna two pits, which is kind of curious.

1850
01:38:54,720 --> 01:38:59,080
Speaker 1: And you mentioned that Jayleen Phillips, the thing he does

1851
01:38:59,160 --> 01:39:04,559
Speaker 1: best is rushed the passer. Okay, except that he's got

1852
01:39:04,600 --> 01:39:07,320
Speaker 1: like one sack this year. Yeah, but they're not letting

1853
01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:13,040
Speaker 1: him do it. No. I My point is the guy

1854
01:39:13,200 --> 01:39:18,800
Speaker 1: that picked number one, you know, number eighteen overall in

1855
01:39:18,840 --> 01:39:25,160
Speaker 1: the first round to rush the passer is not doing

1856
01:39:25,240 --> 01:39:30,000
Speaker 1: that yet. And I know he's a rookie, but there's

1857
01:39:30,040 --> 01:39:34,519
Speaker 1: another University of Miami rookie in the NFL rushing the passer,

1858
01:39:35,240 --> 01:39:39,240
Speaker 1: and he was picked number thirtieth overall, I think, and

1859
01:39:39,280 --> 01:39:43,120
Speaker 1: he's doing a pretty good job. His name is Gregory Rousseau,

1860
01:39:44,080 --> 01:39:47,640
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins picked his teammate eighteenth, and he's not

1861
01:39:47,800 --> 01:39:51,360
Speaker 1: doing nearly as good a job. Beyond that, the team

1862
01:39:53,479 --> 01:39:58,559
Speaker 1: cut Kyle van Noy, who had six and a half

1863
01:39:58,760 --> 01:40:04,800
Speaker 1: sacks last year, and they figured we're gonna We're gonna

1864
01:40:04,840 --> 01:40:10,960
Speaker 1: invest in more snaps, more repetitions for Andrew van Ginkl,

1865
01:40:11,160 --> 01:40:15,080
Speaker 1: and Van Ginkl has not been getting to the passer

1866
01:40:15,320 --> 01:40:21,960
Speaker 1: as well. So their plans, while it has some logic

1867
01:40:22,000 --> 01:40:23,760
Speaker 1: to it, Hey, we're going to draft the guy in

1868
01:40:23,800 --> 01:40:26,599
Speaker 1: the first round and the guy that showed us promise

1869
01:40:26,760 --> 01:40:31,479
Speaker 1: last year, we're gonna incorporate him. It might have been logical,

1870
01:40:31,720 --> 01:40:36,400
Speaker 1: it hasn't worked. And therefore, no, they don't get pressure

1871
01:40:36,479 --> 01:40:41,800
Speaker 1: on the quarterback and therefore their man press corners get

1872
01:40:41,880 --> 01:40:43,880
Speaker 1: hung out to dry. Give us a little bit of

1873
01:40:43,880 --> 01:40:46,559
Speaker 1: a synopsis of what Brian Flores said after the game

1874
01:40:46,600 --> 01:40:48,679
Speaker 1: and about what's going to happen to their locker room

1875
01:40:48,760 --> 01:40:50,920
Speaker 1: or their team or any changes adjustments that are going

1876
01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:54,559
Speaker 1: to happen going forward. Yeah, it's pretty much the same

1877
01:40:54,600 --> 01:41:00,360
Speaker 1: story the last six weeks with Flora's Steve, and the

1878
01:41:00,439 --> 01:41:05,760
Speaker 1: story is we didn't make enough plays, you know, we

1879
01:41:05,840 --> 01:41:10,240
Speaker 1: didn't coach it well enough, we didn't execute. We have

1880
01:41:10,360 --> 01:41:14,559
Speaker 1: to go back and improve, and that also is very

1881
01:41:14,600 --> 01:41:18,000
Speaker 1: logical and makes sense, but after a while it starts

1882
01:41:18,040 --> 01:41:26,120
Speaker 1: to ring hollow, because dude, change stuff, do something else.

1883
01:41:27,880 --> 01:41:31,320
Speaker 1: You know, Flores came to the Dolphins with the new

1884
01:41:31,320 --> 01:41:39,320
Speaker 1: England Patriot philosophy, being multiple and doing many things and

1885
01:41:39,479 --> 01:41:43,599
Speaker 1: changing things up and having a different game plan week

1886
01:41:43,640 --> 01:41:48,800
Speaker 1: to week, sometimes within the very game, at least defensively.

1887
01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:54,599
Speaker 1: He was Bill Belichick's defensive play caller when they beat

1888
01:41:54,640 --> 01:41:59,600
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl. And still

1889
01:42:01,720 --> 01:42:07,400
Speaker 1: this defense, it's been figured out. Its teams and the guys,

1890
01:42:07,439 --> 01:42:12,040
Speaker 1: even the people who they've brought in that they're counting on,

1891
01:42:12,240 --> 01:42:18,000
Speaker 1: like Byron Jones, and they made him like at the time,

1892
01:42:18,120 --> 01:42:21,679
Speaker 1: the highest paid corner. Now he's like the fifth highest

1893
01:42:21,680 --> 01:42:28,920
Speaker 1: paid or six highest paide corner. He's okay, he's very good,

1894
01:42:29,280 --> 01:42:32,800
Speaker 1: not even very good. He's good, but he's not eighty

1895
01:42:32,840 --> 01:42:38,360
Speaker 1: million dollars good. So this is this is the story

1896
01:42:38,439 --> 01:42:42,680
Speaker 1: and the narrative of again, a defense that is that

1897
01:42:42,880 --> 01:42:47,680
Speaker 1: is not been good enough, and then you you combine

1898
01:42:47,720 --> 01:42:50,479
Speaker 1: that with an offense that's just you know, it has

1899
01:42:50,520 --> 01:42:53,800
Speaker 1: no real running game, it has no real consistency, and

1900
01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:56,400
Speaker 1: that's what you get. A one in sixteen. It's lost

1901
01:42:56,400 --> 01:43:01,120
Speaker 1: six in a row. We saw today at Jason mccordy's

1902
01:43:01,160 --> 01:43:04,639
Speaker 1: going on IR one of their veteran defensive backs, and

1903
01:43:04,720 --> 01:43:09,559
Speaker 1: they picked up Sheldrick RedWine off the Panther's practice squad

1904
01:43:09,600 --> 01:43:12,960
Speaker 1: to fill that void at least from a depth perspective.

1905
01:43:13,680 --> 01:43:19,080
Speaker 1: But what do you I guess what I'm asking based

1906
01:43:19,080 --> 01:43:22,000
Speaker 1: on what you just said, Armando, is how likely have

1907
01:43:22,120 --> 01:43:24,040
Speaker 1: they reached the point of no return where they have

1908
01:43:24,120 --> 01:43:26,680
Speaker 1: to change something to try to change the narrative here?

1909
01:43:26,760 --> 01:43:30,120
Speaker 1: Because you said that everything he's saying indicates they're going

1910
01:43:30,200 --> 01:43:32,880
Speaker 1: to kind of stick to the plan. But you've got

1911
01:43:32,920 --> 01:43:37,679
Speaker 1: six losses after seven games. You gotta, as you said,

1912
01:43:37,800 --> 01:43:41,640
Speaker 1: change something. How likely do you think Brian Flores and

1913
01:43:41,720 --> 01:43:44,920
Speaker 1: his crew are to change some things up, break some

1914
01:43:45,040 --> 01:43:50,840
Speaker 1: tendencies and throw some curveballs at the Bills on Sunday.

1915
01:43:51,720 --> 01:43:56,840
Speaker 1: I know that Brian Flores believes in what he was

1916
01:43:56,960 --> 01:44:02,760
Speaker 1: taught and how he was taught in New England. But

1917
01:44:04,160 --> 01:44:07,919
Speaker 1: I just don't see him being one of those guys

1918
01:44:07,960 --> 01:44:12,759
Speaker 1: that says, I'm going to go a different way because

1919
01:44:12,800 --> 01:44:18,160
Speaker 1: he sees that, I think, as abandoning his roots and

1920
01:44:18,280 --> 01:44:22,040
Speaker 1: abandoning the things that he believes in. He doesn't see

1921
01:44:22,080 --> 01:44:28,160
Speaker 1: it necessarily as changing course. He sees it as like

1922
01:44:28,200 --> 01:44:33,639
Speaker 1: an abandonment thing. And you know, I get it. You know.

1923
01:44:34,400 --> 01:44:37,120
Speaker 1: I covered a guy named Don Shula who was pretty

1924
01:44:37,160 --> 01:44:40,240
Speaker 1: good at what he did, and he often talked about

1925
01:44:40,280 --> 01:44:43,200
Speaker 1: having the courage of your convictions, that if you just

1926
01:44:43,320 --> 01:44:47,120
Speaker 1: believe something is right, you stick with it, even if

1927
01:44:47,160 --> 01:44:51,240
Speaker 1: there's a you know, a desert experience in that in

1928
01:44:51,280 --> 01:44:54,200
Speaker 1: that belief, because eventually you're going to come out of it.

1929
01:44:54,880 --> 01:44:59,600
Speaker 1: But here we are in the third year of the

1930
01:45:00,080 --> 01:45:07,679
Speaker 1: Brian Flores general manager Chris Greer administration, and if they

1931
01:45:07,760 --> 01:45:11,360
Speaker 1: lose to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, and they are,

1932
01:45:12,600 --> 01:45:15,799
Speaker 1: you know, the underdog in that game, and it makes

1933
01:45:16,200 --> 01:45:19,800
Speaker 1: logical sense that they probably will lose that game, they

1934
01:45:19,800 --> 01:45:24,439
Speaker 1: will be one in seven in twenty twenty one. In

1935
01:45:24,520 --> 01:45:28,880
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, a year in which they were basically tanking

1936
01:45:29,000 --> 01:45:33,240
Speaker 1: and were devoid of most of their talent from previous

1937
01:45:33,320 --> 01:45:36,559
Speaker 1: years because they got rid of them. They started out

1938
01:45:36,760 --> 01:45:43,000
Speaker 1: one in seven, and so where's the progress? What have

1939
01:45:43,120 --> 01:45:47,120
Speaker 1: you done? You're one in seven your first year, and

1940
01:45:47,200 --> 01:45:49,559
Speaker 1: you're one in seven again this year. If you lose

1941
01:45:49,600 --> 01:45:53,880
Speaker 1: to the Bills, you're in the same spot two years later.

1942
01:45:54,760 --> 01:45:57,439
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, you haven't been to the

1943
01:45:57,439 --> 01:46:03,760
Speaker 1: playoffs in three seasons. So what you know, this is

1944
01:46:03,800 --> 01:46:06,040
Speaker 1: something that ownership is going to have to look at

1945
01:46:06,120 --> 01:46:09,320
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. You mentioned the ownership.

1946
01:46:09,400 --> 01:46:12,679
Speaker 1: You mentioned Chris Greer and Brian Flores. Chris Greer who

1947
01:46:12,760 --> 01:46:16,360
Speaker 1: you know, who's relegate. He's the GM whose job it

1948
01:46:16,479 --> 01:46:19,519
Speaker 1: is to build this roster, and I get it. You know,

1949
01:46:19,560 --> 01:46:21,880
Speaker 1: the draft is what it is. You had a tweet

1950
01:46:21,920 --> 01:46:24,320
Speaker 1: earlier that you mentioned, you know, Kyle Pitts was available,

1951
01:46:24,600 --> 01:46:28,320
Speaker 1: as was Jamar Chase ahead of Jalen Waddle, the guy

1952
01:46:28,320 --> 01:46:32,280
Speaker 1: that the Dolphins actually you know picked, not that Jalen

1953
01:46:32,320 --> 01:46:34,320
Speaker 1: Waddle is a bad guy, but it looks bad on

1954
01:46:34,360 --> 01:46:37,280
Speaker 1: a weekend where Kyle Pitts caught seven passes for one

1955
01:46:37,360 --> 01:46:39,840
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three and Jamar Chase had eight for

1956
01:46:39,960 --> 01:46:42,719
Speaker 1: two oh one, and they're talking about him as Offensive

1957
01:46:42,800 --> 01:46:45,439
Speaker 1: Rookie of the year. How much of that besides these

1958
01:46:45,439 --> 01:46:48,320
Speaker 1: top guys, how much of that has gone on throughout

1959
01:46:48,400 --> 01:46:50,439
Speaker 1: the bottom of the draft in Miami? Have they gotten

1960
01:46:50,479 --> 01:46:53,240
Speaker 1: any depth, any help at all from the drafts that

1961
01:46:53,320 --> 01:46:58,240
Speaker 1: Chris Greers put together? Have they gotten help? Well, they've

1962
01:46:58,240 --> 01:47:03,160
Speaker 1: gotten starters, They've gotten guys that play. But there's a

1963
01:47:03,160 --> 01:47:06,960
Speaker 1: difference between getting guys that play and guys that play

1964
01:47:07,040 --> 01:47:12,320
Speaker 1: at a high and even elite level. I remind you

1965
01:47:12,400 --> 01:47:16,120
Speaker 1: the Dolphins picked two a Tonga Byloah number five overall

1966
01:47:16,200 --> 01:47:21,360
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Justin Herbert went number six overall in

1967
01:47:22,200 --> 01:47:26,000
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and he was Offensive Rookie of the Year

1968
01:47:26,880 --> 01:47:31,439
Speaker 1: and now he's going off again this year. Meanwhile, the

1969
01:47:31,479 --> 01:47:35,479
Speaker 1: Dolphins are talking about trading for Deshaun Watson, and so

1970
01:47:35,960 --> 01:47:39,400
Speaker 1: what does that tell you about that pick? In the

1971
01:47:39,479 --> 01:47:43,120
Speaker 1: first round in twenty twenty, they drafted a cornerback named

1972
01:47:43,200 --> 01:47:48,440
Speaker 1: Noah Igbinogeny out of Auburn. He has been a healthy scratch.

1973
01:47:48,720 --> 01:47:52,600
Speaker 1: He cannot get on the field for the Dolphins in

1974
01:47:52,680 --> 01:47:56,640
Speaker 1: his second year as a former first round pick in

1975
01:47:56,840 --> 01:48:02,280
Speaker 1: five of the last seven games. So if you're picking

1976
01:48:02,360 --> 01:48:07,439
Speaker 1: guys that are inferior, and I think I mentioned the

1977
01:48:07,760 --> 01:48:12,040
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips through so example, if you're picking guys that

1978
01:48:12,120 --> 01:48:16,960
Speaker 1: are inferior to guys who go later, if you're picking

1979
01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:21,639
Speaker 1: guys that a year later you're looking to upgrade from

1980
01:48:22,680 --> 01:48:28,639
Speaker 1: something's wrong. That's not how you build a quality NFL team.

1981
01:48:29,320 --> 01:48:33,439
Speaker 1: It's great to gather high picks, and the Dolphins are

1982
01:48:34,280 --> 01:48:38,080
Speaker 1: great at doing that, and half they had three first

1983
01:48:38,160 --> 01:48:43,920
Speaker 1: round picks last year, they had two this year, multiple

1984
01:48:44,160 --> 01:48:49,760
Speaker 1: second round picks both years. But you gotta hicks on

1985
01:48:49,960 --> 01:48:53,800
Speaker 1: those picks. It's not just about, you know, opening up

1986
01:48:53,840 --> 01:48:58,000
Speaker 1: the treasure chest and seeing a bunch of gold in there.

1987
01:48:58,600 --> 01:49:02,360
Speaker 1: You actually have to pick the right pieces and spend

1988
01:49:02,400 --> 01:49:04,880
Speaker 1: on winning a champion so you can spend on winning

1989
01:49:04,920 --> 01:49:11,679
Speaker 1: a championship. And so far, all evidence, you know, taken

1990
01:49:11,720 --> 01:49:18,120
Speaker 1: into account, it looks on multiple occasions like they picked

1991
01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:23,799
Speaker 1: the wrong people, or if not necessarily the wrong people,

1992
01:49:24,479 --> 01:49:31,080
Speaker 1: the inferior talent. And that's a problem. Let me ask

1993
01:49:31,080 --> 01:49:36,160
Speaker 1: you this, though, Armando, because we've seen a lot of

1994
01:49:36,640 --> 01:49:40,120
Speaker 1: coaching staff cycle through here in the last twenty years

1995
01:49:40,120 --> 01:49:43,560
Speaker 1: with very limited to almost no success. And then the

1996
01:49:43,640 --> 01:49:46,160
Speaker 1: McDermott staff comes in here, and I would say one

1997
01:49:46,160 --> 01:49:48,120
Speaker 1: of the things they do better than any of the

1998
01:49:48,160 --> 01:49:51,320
Speaker 1: others that came through here in those aforementioned twenty years

1999
01:49:51,680 --> 01:49:56,320
Speaker 1: is player development. The coaching staff is outstanding in this

2000
01:49:56,400 --> 01:50:00,920
Speaker 1: area in comparison to their predecessors. Where would you put

2001
01:50:01,479 --> 01:50:05,839
Speaker 1: this Dolphins coaching staff on the player development scale? Because

2002
01:50:06,360 --> 01:50:09,120
Speaker 1: you might draft talented players, but if you can't make

2003
01:50:09,160 --> 01:50:12,000
Speaker 1: them better when they get to this level, I fear

2004
01:50:12,040 --> 01:50:14,040
Speaker 1: you're going to see a lot of what Dolphins fans

2005
01:50:14,040 --> 01:50:16,400
Speaker 1: have seen from these guys over the last few years.

2006
01:50:18,439 --> 01:50:23,400
Speaker 1: That's a good question, and it's a question that the

2007
01:50:23,560 --> 01:50:27,920
Speaker 1: devil's the Dolphins because here we are in year three

2008
01:50:28,080 --> 01:50:33,680
Speaker 1: of the Brian Flores coaching administration tenure, and he's basically

2009
01:50:33,720 --> 01:50:40,080
Speaker 1: put together together three different staffs. He is the Dolphins

2010
01:50:40,200 --> 01:50:46,679
Speaker 1: now have two co offensive coordinators. They are the third

2011
01:50:46,800 --> 01:50:52,920
Speaker 1: and fourth coordinators for the offense that Brian Flores has.

2012
01:50:53,479 --> 01:50:57,719
Speaker 1: He has had in three years, four offensive line coach.

2013
01:50:58,560 --> 01:51:03,880
Speaker 1: He has had, you know, two defensive coordinators. He has

2014
01:51:03,960 --> 01:51:12,960
Speaker 1: had multiple secondary coaches. He has had multiple defensive line coaches.

2015
01:51:14,080 --> 01:51:19,800
Speaker 1: My point to you is that there's been no continuity

2016
01:51:19,920 --> 01:51:23,240
Speaker 1: in his staff you know, he came from New England.

2017
01:51:23,720 --> 01:51:29,040
Speaker 1: He brought he brought an offensive coordinator that he had

2018
01:51:29,120 --> 01:51:34,800
Speaker 1: worked with for fourteen years in New England, chat O'shay.

2019
01:51:35,200 --> 01:51:39,680
Speaker 1: And at the end of that first year he fired

2020
01:51:39,840 --> 01:51:43,839
Speaker 1: chat Oshay. So, you know, a guy for fourteen years,

2021
01:51:44,439 --> 01:51:49,599
Speaker 1: you bring him to South Florida from Boston or wherever,

2022
01:51:49,760 --> 01:51:54,519
Speaker 1: Foxborough to be your coordinator because obviously you've thought about

2023
01:51:54,560 --> 01:52:01,840
Speaker 1: this for a while, and after a season you you

2024
01:52:01,880 --> 01:52:07,519
Speaker 1: blow them out. I mean, that's not normal. And then

2025
01:52:07,560 --> 01:52:12,639
Speaker 1: you hire sixty nine year old Chan Gaily, well known

2026
01:52:12,720 --> 01:52:18,040
Speaker 1: to Buffalo Bills fans, who had been retired for two years,

2027
01:52:18,640 --> 01:52:23,880
Speaker 1: to be the coach of the offense, the offensive coordinator

2028
01:52:24,000 --> 01:52:28,000
Speaker 1: in a year where you're drafting a quarterback, you know,

2029
01:52:28,280 --> 01:52:35,880
Speaker 1: top of your first round. And Chan was fine with

2030
01:52:36,040 --> 01:52:40,040
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick, who he knew and could you know, kind

2031
01:52:40,080 --> 01:52:45,839
Speaker 1: of have a relationship with. But it didn't work between

2032
01:52:46,080 --> 01:52:50,760
Speaker 1: sixty nine year old Chan and twenty one year old

2033
01:52:50,800 --> 01:52:53,920
Speaker 1: to a tongue I law. And so Chan bugged out

2034
01:52:54,720 --> 01:52:59,200
Speaker 1: after one year. So what does that leave Where does

2035
01:52:59,240 --> 01:53:02,760
Speaker 1: that leave the dollar? It leaves the Dolphins with a

2036
01:53:02,800 --> 01:53:06,679
Speaker 1: different offense in twenty twenty than they had in twenty

2037
01:53:06,760 --> 01:53:10,000
Speaker 1: nineteen and a different offense in twenty twenty one that

2038
01:53:10,200 --> 01:53:14,440
Speaker 1: they had in twenty twenty. How do you get continuity?

2039
01:53:14,760 --> 01:53:19,559
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, he's the fourth offensive line coach.

2040
01:53:20,160 --> 01:53:22,679
Speaker 1: This is the first ever time he's been an offensive

2041
01:53:22,720 --> 01:53:27,439
Speaker 1: line coach. Wow that yeah, all right, Well that sums

2042
01:53:27,479 --> 01:53:30,120
Speaker 1: it up, well done, it does. And this is a

2043
01:53:30,200 --> 01:53:35,559
Speaker 1: team that was despite all despite all of that last season.

2044
01:53:35,560 --> 01:53:38,120
Speaker 1: They're a team that was talented enough for well coached

2045
01:53:38,200 --> 01:53:41,160
Speaker 1: enough to get to a point where they were a

2046
01:53:41,240 --> 01:53:43,559
Speaker 1: play in a win and end game in Week seventeen

2047
01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:48,840
Speaker 1: last year against Buffalo. And now it seems things are different.

2048
01:53:48,880 --> 01:53:51,479
Speaker 1: I mean they've taken obviously taken a big step backward.

2049
01:53:52,200 --> 01:53:55,320
Speaker 1: What happens now? I mean, and you mentioned it earlier

2050
01:53:55,320 --> 01:53:59,879
Speaker 1: in passing they're talking about trading for Deshaun Watson and Houston.

2051
01:54:00,360 --> 01:54:02,679
Speaker 1: What is the next is? You know, what are the next?

2052
01:54:03,240 --> 01:54:05,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess shoes to drop in this

2053
01:54:06,840 --> 01:54:08,960
Speaker 1: in this juggling match here, I don't know what even

2054
01:54:08,960 --> 01:54:11,679
Speaker 1: else to call it. I mean, like what, I don't

2055
01:54:11,680 --> 01:54:14,439
Speaker 1: even know what an analogy? It's a schmuzzle. What are

2056
01:54:14,439 --> 01:54:20,880
Speaker 1: they gonna do? Yeah, there there's a work you know.

2057
01:54:21,000 --> 01:54:25,000
Speaker 1: I was born in Cuba. Uh, and in Spanish we

2058
01:54:25,080 --> 01:54:29,000
Speaker 1: have a word for what is next for and what

2059
01:54:29,040 --> 01:54:34,960
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are going through. It's called the cluster. Um. So, Um,

2060
01:54:35,200 --> 01:54:40,040
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are a cluster right now? Uh, that was

2061
01:54:40,280 --> 01:54:46,120
Speaker 1: an attempt at humor anyway, we were there. I don't

2062
01:54:46,160 --> 01:54:50,440
Speaker 1: know what's next for them. I mean, I assume that

2063
01:54:50,480 --> 01:54:53,960
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, coming off of bye, will be prepared

2064
01:54:54,840 --> 01:54:57,840
Speaker 1: for a team that they have basically punched in the

2065
01:54:57,920 --> 01:55:02,080
Speaker 1: mouth multiple times in the last you know, three years

2066
01:55:02,840 --> 01:55:08,040
Speaker 1: without much you know, return fire from the other side.

2067
01:55:08,880 --> 01:55:12,400
Speaker 1: What was it thirty five to I forget the score

2068
01:55:12,400 --> 01:55:18,600
Speaker 1: of the last game? Okay, yeah, Um, and the game

2069
01:55:18,640 --> 01:55:22,720
Speaker 1: before that, what was it fifty four to twenty five

2070
01:55:22,880 --> 01:55:30,320
Speaker 1: or something like that. Yeah, yeah, not not close, guys.

2071
01:55:30,480 --> 01:55:35,839
Speaker 1: So I'm guessing that, you know, even if the Dolphins

2072
01:55:35,880 --> 01:55:40,560
Speaker 1: improved from that, it's gonna be an uphill climb for

2073
01:55:40,920 --> 01:55:46,200
Speaker 1: team Cluster to to beat the Bills. And you know,

2074
01:55:46,880 --> 01:55:48,840
Speaker 1: at the end of it all, they still have to

2075
01:55:48,880 --> 01:55:51,640
Speaker 1: play the Ravens, they still have to play the same

2076
01:55:51,960 --> 01:55:55,560
Speaker 1: they still have to go through their schedule. Um, this

2077
01:55:55,640 --> 01:56:01,440
Speaker 1: is a team that was one fumble from being is

2078
01:56:01,520 --> 01:56:06,240
Speaker 1: one fumble in New England by a New England running

2079
01:56:06,280 --> 01:56:10,880
Speaker 1: back from being oh and seven. The Patriots had the

2080
01:56:10,920 --> 01:56:15,080
Speaker 1: ball first and goal at the eleven yard line, or

2081
01:56:15,280 --> 01:56:19,800
Speaker 1: first and ten at the eleven yard line, and they're

2082
01:56:19,880 --> 01:56:22,840
Speaker 1: running back fumbled at the seven, and they lost the

2083
01:56:22,880 --> 01:56:27,040
Speaker 1: game by one point. That happened with fifty seconds to play.

2084
01:56:27,960 --> 01:56:32,480
Speaker 1: So my guess is that there's going to continue to

2085
01:56:32,520 --> 01:56:35,600
Speaker 1: be a struggle in Miami, and at the end of

2086
01:56:35,640 --> 01:56:38,320
Speaker 1: the year, people are going to be evaluated. I'm not

2087
01:56:38,440 --> 01:56:41,880
Speaker 1: talking about the players. Yeah, last one before we let

2088
01:56:41,920 --> 01:56:46,760
Speaker 1: you go, Armando, what is what are the tea leaves

2089
01:56:46,760 --> 01:56:50,760
Speaker 1: telling you with respect to their interest in Deshaun Watson.

2090
01:56:50,800 --> 01:56:53,800
Speaker 1: We hear that there are multiple teams now fielding or

2091
01:56:53,880 --> 01:56:58,120
Speaker 1: Houston's fielding calls from multiple teams. Carolina's supposedly putting on

2092
01:56:58,200 --> 01:57:01,080
Speaker 1: a full court press after they're pretty convinced Sam Darnold's

2093
01:57:01,120 --> 01:57:04,800
Speaker 1: not the answer, benching him yesterday. But we're also hearing

2094
01:57:04,840 --> 01:57:08,240
Speaker 1: that Stephen Ross is not is not in an urgent,

2095
01:57:08,640 --> 01:57:11,320
Speaker 1: you know, push the red button mode to get him

2096
01:57:12,000 --> 01:57:14,680
Speaker 1: because of his pending legal issues which have yet to

2097
01:57:14,720 --> 01:57:20,560
Speaker 1: be adjudicated. Where where do things stand down there? Losing

2098
01:57:20,680 --> 01:57:26,040
Speaker 1: organizations do things that losing organizations do that. You know,

2099
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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans are losing organization right now, and they're

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Speaker 1: portraying it all as this big, you know, sale afon

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Speaker 1: for Deshaun Watson, and everybody's hot and heavy on the

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson trade and we've got multiple offers or multiple

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Speaker 1: teams and YadA, YadA, YadA. Yeah, I don't believe that.

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Speaker 1: I believe that the Texans have maybe two teams right

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Speaker 1: now that have shown some interest. It's not three first

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Speaker 1: round picks interest. It's not three first round picks and

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Speaker 1: three second round picks, which is what they're stated prices.

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Speaker 1: And that's the reason you're hearing so much about these

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Speaker 1: rumors is because the Houston Texans are trying to drum

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Speaker 1: up interest. They're trying to drum up you know, like

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Speaker 1: I guess, urgency from other teams as we get closer

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Speaker 1: to the trade deadline. Everybody understands that Shaun Watson has

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Speaker 1: twenty two civil complaints against him, lawsuits alleging harassment and

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Speaker 1: other sexual you know, abuse, and there's ten criminal complaints

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Speaker 1: pending against him alleging the same stuff. So his future

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Speaker 1: is not at all certain. And you know, you can

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Speaker 1: get past civil lawsuits with money, you just pay people off,

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Speaker 1: but the criminal complaints are another matter. Altogether. It's rough.

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Speaker 1: And even if he shows up, if let's say the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins trade for him next week, is he gonna, say

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Speaker 1: the season for the Miami Dolphins, you know what offense

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Speaker 1: is he gonna run? Is he gonna learn the offense

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Speaker 1: in like twenty four hours and off we go? And

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Speaker 1: now did he do that for the Houston Texans last

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Speaker 1: last year or where the Houston Texans four and twelve

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Speaker 1: or something like that. He's a great talent, but there

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Speaker 1: are reasons why this is not a home run. And

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Speaker 1: you know, six or seven teams are not on this thing,

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Speaker 1: so it sounds like a real thing. It's in the

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Speaker 1: short term at least, it's fool's gold. You know, maybe

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Speaker 1: a year or two after his suspension or after whatever

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Speaker 1: legal issues are overcome, get done and he has a

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Speaker 1: full offseason to learn an offense and just that then

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Speaker 1: he's going to start to pay dividends. But save a

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Speaker 1: season this year, that's not gonna happen anywhere. That's all right,

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Speaker 1: armand thanks for the time. You paint a very gloomy

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Speaker 1: picture down there. But we understand why, and good luck

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Speaker 1: covering this team for the rest of the year. We've

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Speaker 1: been there. We know what it's like just hanging there. Man. Okay, well, no,

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Speaker 1: Luckily I get to cover the entire NFL on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: I'll be in Phoenix, Arizona watching the undefeated Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 1: play the Green Bay Packers. So I'll be good. I'm good. Okay, good, Well, Provo,

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Speaker 1: are you in your career decision well timed. We'll let

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Speaker 1: you go now, but we'll catch up with you down

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Speaker 1: the line. Thanks Armando. As always, all right, guys, All right,

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Speaker 1: Armando Selgaro from Olkick dot Com covering the whole league,

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Speaker 1: senior NFL writer and has covered the Dolphins for a

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Speaker 1: long time, still lives down there and has very plugged

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Speaker 1: into their situation. And it is not good. And we

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Speaker 1: called it, Steve. I hate to say it, but we

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Speaker 1: did not foresee a prosperous future for this team. We

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Speaker 1: didn't and I'm not saying yeah, we knew it. We knew,

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Speaker 1: we knew, but we said it. Their schedule was not favorable.

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Speaker 1: We didn't like the fact that they had co offensive coordinators.

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Speaker 1: We didn't like the fact that they jettison five of

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Speaker 1: their eight captains from last year's team off of the roster,

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Speaker 1: and the chickens have come home to roost there. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, we thought they would probably beat Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta these last two weeks. Well, I didn't have

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Speaker 1: them as a one in six football team. Nod not either.

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Speaker 1: I had him like as a three and four at

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Speaker 1: this point. Yeah, but running into what they ran into

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Speaker 1: in London, Jacksonville wrote rose up and beat him with

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Speaker 1: the last second field goal Atlanta. Same thing. Now they

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Speaker 1: roll into Buffalo against the team coming off a bye

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Speaker 1: that lost a game and is still smarting from that.

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Speaker 1: These are dark days for the Dolphins. Yeah, hard to believe.

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Speaker 1: Thirty first it's the defense that's let him down. Thirty

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Speaker 1: first in defense, nineteenth against the run, thirtieth against the pass,

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Speaker 1: twenty ninth and sacks per play thirty first and third

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Speaker 1: down defense thirty first in points allowed. Yuck, yuck and yuck.

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Speaker 1: Break time for us. More from the tweet sheet. When

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Speaker 1: we come back here on One Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Colloid of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: one Build Bve. Chris Round, Steve Tasker with you some

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Speaker 1: NFL news and notes in the last hour. First and foremost,

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Speaker 1: it looks like veteran Dolphins cornerback Jason mccordy, who went

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Speaker 1: on IR today, may end up needing surgery on his foot,

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Speaker 1: so it looks like it is a long term injury.

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Speaker 1: Backup running back Malcolm Brown of the Dolphins also placed

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Speaker 1: on IR after suffering injuries against the Falcons yesterday. The

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Speaker 1: Dolphins did pick up defensive back Sheldrick RedWine from the

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Speaker 1: Panthers practice squad put him on the active roster to

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Speaker 1: fill them accordy void. There there's also a trade. The

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Speaker 1: Rams are sending linebacker Kenny Young in a twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four seventh round pick to the Broncos in exchange for

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Speaker 1: a twenty twenty four sixth round pick, So the Bronchos

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Speaker 1: are really short at linebacker. They have eight injured linebackers

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Speaker 1: on their roster, including six on injured reserve, so they're

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Speaker 1: looking for anybody they can find anywhere, literally anywhere. So

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Speaker 1: there's that. Then there is also this. Bears head coach

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Speaker 1: Matt Naggey has confirmed that even though he is fully vaccinated,

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Speaker 1: he has tested positive for COVID so he will be

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Speaker 1: out of the building for the foreseeable future. And the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers have a positive test for defensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: Joe Barry. That is a problem because the Packers play

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Speaker 1: Thursday night and there's no way they're going to have

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Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator at the game to call play, so

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to find somebody else to do that.

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Speaker 1: And David Laflour, the head coach, has said that they

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Speaker 1: are now an advanced COVID protocols Enhanced COVID protocols as

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Speaker 1: the correct term at the Packers facility, which is an

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Speaker 1: indication that Joe Barry may not be the only one

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Speaker 1: on their coaching staff that has a positive test. So

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Speaker 1: we'll have to see where that goes as the week unfolds.

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Speaker 1: But they have a Thursday night game and they are

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Speaker 1: definitely not going to have their DC. They may not

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Speaker 1: have other coaches either. It could be very similar to

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Speaker 1: what we saw the Arizona Cardinals go through just a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago when they had to go up

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Speaker 1: to Cleveland without their head coach, Cliff Kingsbury. Right, that's um,

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Speaker 1: it's completely not out of the word out of the wood.

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Speaker 1: I mean, some of these teams are getting hit by it.

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Speaker 1: Most of them are in the protocols anyway, because most

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Speaker 1: of them are not one hundred percent vaccinated. But it's

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Speaker 1: something you can't just forget about it, I guess at

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Speaker 1: this point. But I think, you know, compared to where

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Speaker 1: we were a year ago, this time, you'll take these problems,

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Speaker 1: particularly if they're for other teams. But you know, these

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Speaker 1: problems seem they seem surmountable rather than insurmountable the way

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Speaker 1: we saw it last year. So I'm you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's interesting, but you know, at least it's a different

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Speaker 1: conversation that we were having a year ago. Yeah. Ian

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Speaker 1: Rampaport followed up, saying Packers coach Matt Lafleur tells reporters

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Speaker 1: the team is in advanced COVID nineteen protocols because of

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Speaker 1: potential spread or related to defensive coordinator Joe Berry's positive test,

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Speaker 1: all meeting are virtual, players are wearing masks. Short weeks

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Speaker 1: or any positive test knocks a player or a coach

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Speaker 1: out of this week's game. So, right, that is the

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Speaker 1: worst possible scenario. You get a positive COVID test coming

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Speaker 1: off a Sunday game, and you gotta play Thursday. You

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Speaker 1: can't get out of the protocol in time. Yeah, to

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Speaker 1: be ready for the game on Thursday. That's tough. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's yeah, it is, and it's yeah. Some of these teams,

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Speaker 1: you know, some of these teams have problems with COVID.

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Speaker 1: Other teams have other problem. We're talking to Rando Salgaro.

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Speaker 1: Next last segment. This is one of those things where

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Speaker 1: you know, what, if you're Sean McDermott Brandon being in

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff of those you're just like saying, guys,

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Speaker 1: don't don't think about that. You gotta get ready to

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Speaker 1: play these guys because the the Miami Dolphins are in

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02:06:41,760 --> 02:06:43,520
Speaker 1: are a mess, and you don't want to go in

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Speaker 1: there thinking, you know, all we gotta do is kind

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Speaker 1: of roll in on our But let them roll in here,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna roll our helmets out there and win.

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Speaker 1: I mean, right now, the Miami Dolphins are picking number

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Speaker 1: two in this year's draft, number two. And wait, they're

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Speaker 1: number two and they're also number isn't a pick going

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Speaker 1: to the Eagles. Picks is going to the Eagles. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if it's the higher one or the lower one.

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Speaker 1: I think yeah, this says fourth and ninth. They picked

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Speaker 1: fourth and ninth. The Jets had picked fourth and ninth,

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Speaker 1: so they got their pick from the Seattle Seahawks from

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Speaker 1: last year. That's the Jets, right, the Jamal Adams tight. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Miami's picking number two. The Jets are picking fourth and ninth,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, Miami. I think Miami gave one of their

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Speaker 1: They had two first round picks and gave one of

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Speaker 1: them to the Eagles. I just don't remember which one

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Speaker 1: it was. The Giants picked seventh and fifteenth. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these are it's amazing some of these. I mean they're just,

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Speaker 1: you know, really really struggling, and it's we can see

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Speaker 1: it coming down the road from Miami. And some of

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Speaker 1: this doesn't ever come to fruition because even now the

2264
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Speaker 1: people are saying, hey, the Bills have got this cake

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Speaker 1: walk of of a schedule all the way through. They're

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Speaker 1: all they go to New Orleans on Thanksgiving. That's a

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Speaker 1: short week, Okay, I get that. But then they go

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Speaker 1: to Tampa Bay, which is really the tough ones. They

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Speaker 1: got a couple of tough games coming up. Of course,

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Speaker 1: in the New England games are looking more and more

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Speaker 1: formidable now. But they let you know they're gonna roll through.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't always work that way. We saw it this week.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these teams are getting their heads handed to

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Speaker 1: them after playing like gangbusters the week before. Baltimore Ravens

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Speaker 1: looked like that, man, how are you gonna get by

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Speaker 1: those guys? And the Bengals took them to a wood. Shit.

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Speaker 1: So we sat here listen to Armando sell Gara or

2278
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Speaker 1: Wax poetic about how pathetically bad the Miami Dolphins are.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna win some games coming down the stretch, you

2280
02:08:31,200 --> 02:08:34,440
Speaker 1: know they are. You don't want to it is more favorable.

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Speaker 1: Don't let it be you. Yeah, you know you can

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02:08:39,000 --> 02:08:41,800
Speaker 1: cry for him in the off season. And it's not

2283
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Speaker 1: like they're not scoring points the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: I mean, as bad as their defense has been twenty

2285
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Speaker 1: eight points or yeah, twenty eight points yesterday, and they

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Speaker 1: had twenty points the week before. Now you say, wow,

2287
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Speaker 1: is that enough to beat the Bills? Probably not, and

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02:08:57,400 --> 02:09:00,240
Speaker 1: they're probably not scoring that many against the Bills. But

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Speaker 1: I mean they have losses this season in which they

2290
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Speaker 1: scored twenty eight, twenty eight, and twenty points. So again

2291
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Speaker 1: it points right back to their defense and I don't

2292
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Speaker 1: know that anybody's got answers as to how to fix

2293
02:09:15,200 --> 02:09:19,640
Speaker 1: that on the fly. Dinah on the tweet sheet where

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Speaker 1: we're asking, how does the rapidly change in the landscape

2295
02:09:21,880 --> 02:09:24,680
Speaker 1: in the AFC change the way you think about the Bills,

2296
02:09:24,680 --> 02:09:27,440
Speaker 1: she says, I'm actually less confident. I still think they'll

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Speaker 1: easily take the division, but the wins I was so

2298
02:09:29,280 --> 02:09:31,360
Speaker 1: thrilled about now seem to have been against teams that

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Speaker 1: aren't very good. The losses seem even more unexplainable. At

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Speaker 1: least it looks like the rest of the schedule looks doable.

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Speaker 1: Jason says, I'm not overly concerned, but it did bother

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Speaker 1: me that the defense couldn't make the correct adjustments to

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Speaker 1: stop the Titans offense. It seems like they go into

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Speaker 1: a game with a game plan and refuse to stray

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Speaker 1: from it. Letting them score in the last six drives

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Speaker 1: is unacceptable. Nick t I've never been I've never seen

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Speaker 1: such parody and a clear lack or a single dominant

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Speaker 1: team in the AFC before. I don't see any team

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Speaker 1: having less than four losses by the end of the season.

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Speaker 1: So as long as we take care of business against

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Speaker 1: our easy schedule, we should have a clear path to

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Speaker 1: the number one seed. What do we think about that? Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know the first guy about don't straight from

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Speaker 1: I think that's not true. Yeah, the problem with the

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Speaker 1: pain with the Tennessee Titans game was they had a

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Speaker 1: part of their offense in place that we hadn't seen.

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Speaker 1: They were together week one, and that was it. You

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Speaker 1: get a J. Brown on the field along with Julio

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Speaker 1: Jones and they become a much different offense. And then

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Speaker 1: you throw Derrick Henry into the mix where they can

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Speaker 1: run it and pass. You got Tannehill died. They're a

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Speaker 1: formidable offense. When you get Julio Jones as a complimentary

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Speaker 1: piece to a J. Brown, they're good and that so,

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Speaker 1: you know, them scoring in their last six possessions is

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Speaker 1: more about how talented they are and the Bills kind

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Speaker 1: of keeping them in check rather than you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: giving up the ghost. And to say that this this

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Speaker 1: coaching staff doesn't adjust on the fly. They had series

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Speaker 1: by series, but that other team, Tennessee, they were executing

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Speaker 1: even in the face of pretty good pressure and pretty good,

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Speaker 1: pretty good coverage at times. So yeah, that was a

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Speaker 1: game where Tennessee was playing at a high level. They

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Speaker 1: played again at a high level this last week against

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. They're playing at a high level right now.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be hard to beat. And no matter what

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Speaker 1: your game plan is or what adjustments you make, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna have some answers for and Tannehill's got some experience.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna put them in the right place. So that's

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Speaker 1: where you're looking at with Tennessee. They're good and you

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Speaker 1: can adjust all you want. They're still gonna be able

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Speaker 1: to score in you. That's what the Bills do to people.

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Speaker 1: They got some guys and that's why they're, you know,

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Speaker 1: scoring at a high rate. So I'm yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 1: yeah that I get it. It's a concern, but when

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Speaker 1: you play good teams, there are more concerns. They've got

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Speaker 1: more things they can do. Tennessee, with the addition of a. J.

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Speaker 1: Brown and Julio Jones in that offense, maybe we thought,

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Speaker 1: you know, because they lost John U. Smith, they we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get and they're gonna hurt him not so much.

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Speaker 1: They're really really good offensively. All right, break time for

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Speaker 1: us here, but when we come back, we will take

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Speaker 1: a look at that Bill's upcoming schedule to see just

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Speaker 1: how easy it may or may not be. That's coming

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Speaker 1: up next Here on one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Blcome back on Bills Live Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and Steve The next three games for the

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Speaker 1: Bills are all one win teams. The Bills do not

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Speaker 1: face a team with a winning record until Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: in December. Now, some teams might have a winning record

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Speaker 1: by the time they play them, you know, like Colts

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Speaker 1: may climb up above five hundred by then. I think

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Speaker 1: the Colts will. I mean, they played really well last night,

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Speaker 1: much more like the team that we thought we were

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Speaker 1: gonna get this season. And New Orleans is three and two,

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Speaker 1: so I'll rephrase that until they get to the Saints,

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Speaker 1: right or three and two, they do not winning record

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Speaker 1: at least, So yeah, it's um, we knew it. And

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Speaker 1: maybe that's the challenge of this season is not looking

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Speaker 1: at the other team and how good they're playing, but

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Speaker 1: still concentrate on what you do and getting it done.

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Speaker 1: And the Bills, let's face it, the Bills have some

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Speaker 1: lofty expectations and there's a long way to go before

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Speaker 1: they can get in the realm in the neighborhood of

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Speaker 1: accomplishing them. They want to get the number one seed

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Speaker 1: to head into the into the playoffs. That's that's audacious

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Speaker 1: for most teams, but that's where the Bills find themselves.

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Speaker 1: And with a schedule like this, with the teams they

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Speaker 1: have remaining on the schedule, and how they've struggled to

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Speaker 1: this point first third of the season or a little more,

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Speaker 1: they have every reason to expect that maybe they've got

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Speaker 1: a chance to do it, but they're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: play well every single week. Bills only have a strength

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Speaker 1: of victory of two fifty. That's the lowest among the

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Speaker 1: playoff teams. The only ones lower New England, who has

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Speaker 1: beaten the Jets twice for two of their three wins,

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Speaker 1: and Jacksonville, who has one win against the one win Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt on the show tomorrow Steve and I will

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Speaker 1: see on Tuesday, will catch you then,