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Speaker 1: Welcome to Friday. Welcome to One Bill's Live in Orchard,

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Speaker 1: Part New York, where you're live at New Airfield right

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Speaker 1: next door in the One Buffalo Studio. Little dusting of

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Speaker 1: begin our Friday, our three hour show taking you into

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Speaker 1: the weekend. Good afternoon, John Murphy and Steve Tasker in

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Speaker 1: the One Buffalo Studio here until three o'clock. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk to some football. But this just came over Twitter

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Speaker 1: where everything happened. Steve, Jack Eichel is gonna play. Jack

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Speaker 1: Hichol has recovered from his upper body forgot upper body

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Speaker 1: from from from his whatever he had that nobody knows

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Speaker 1: and it will not be discussed secret. He's ready to

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Speaker 1: go tonight at Carolina. That's big news. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: the hockey game tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the tickets. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be a big, warm, fuzzy

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Speaker 1: welcome for Jack coming back on the ice. Oh yeah, arena. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll be among the crowd. They're awesome. Um, we're here

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Speaker 1: to talk football, but one more issue we should bring up.

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Speaker 1: You spent a little bit of time less night checking

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Speaker 1: out my Michigan Wolverines on TV. Yeah, they're plenty fighting

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Speaker 1: a lion on on the road. On the road. Kind

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Speaker 1: of a methodical, workman like win for the Wolverines overnight.

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Speaker 1: When I turned it on, they were up for first half,

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Speaker 1: I came back and sure enough, you know, they'd ratchett

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Speaker 1: double digits and about okay, I'm sixteen, and oh, I

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Speaker 1: don't need to watch it anymore now. They played pretty

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Speaker 1: good last night? Is that like they played? It was

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Speaker 1: like kind of a herky jerky game. Oh care some

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Speaker 1: and historically, in the last twelve years or so, they've

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Speaker 1: minimizing turnovers. They don't turn the ball over. The turnovers

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Speaker 1: in the first half last name, they were turning it

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Speaker 1: that was like that was the object of the game.

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Speaker 1: That was unusual for them. Okay, back we were telling

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Speaker 1: me I was unusual then, yeah, but that wasn't you

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Speaker 1: had nothing too good? Win the plague. In Sunday night

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Speaker 1: seven o'clock, Michigan Wolverines ranked two in the country, just rolling.

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Speaker 1: You know, they've lost one game in the last like

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Speaker 1: what game? That was the National championship game to Villanova

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Speaker 1: last April. They've lost one game in almost a year.

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Speaker 1: That's it. How would you know their number? Even my wife,

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Speaker 1: who I gotta tell you, I says, how are they

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Speaker 1: I love you and all that. But they don't look

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Speaker 1: There's a chance because you're gonna go to beaten Minneapolis

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Speaker 1: college basketball much over the year, Steve, partly and nothing

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Speaker 1: We know our job, we know what our task. It's

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Speaker 1: playoff time. Yeah, we're gonna talk a lot about the playoffs, right,

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Speaker 1: the divisional playoffs. There are those who would tell you

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Speaker 1: this is the best weekend of NFL football. The four

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Speaker 1: very close games except for the Colt Houston game first

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Speaker 1: But we've got some nuggets here if they want to

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Speaker 1: twenty four minutes from now. Jplassman, former Bills first round

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Speaker 1: We've been riding this and talking about these things to

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Speaker 1: NFL Playoffs this weekend. Which road team, Which road team

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Speaker 1: At seventy eight years, There's never been There's never been

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Speaker 1: Steve went seven and one of the road this year.

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Speaker 1: People here in Buffalo see it. We saw him play

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Speaker 1: he above nerves? Maybe feeling it a little bit in

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Speaker 1: his first playoffs start. I think it has to mean something.

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Speaker 1: I think it does for a lot of guys. We'll see, though.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is you know, let's face it, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure in the regular season when you're

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Speaker 1: the guy for the first time, when you throw and

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Speaker 1: you have the kind of season he did, and then

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Speaker 1: at the end of the year, by the second half

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Speaker 1: of this season, let's face it, all eyes were on

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. It's not that like he hasn't felt the

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Speaker 1: pressure before this, when they were gonna clinch the division,

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Speaker 1: when they were gonna clinch home field advantage. There have

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Speaker 1: been big moments leading up to this. Certainly this is

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Speaker 1: gonna be a full game that he can get ready for.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is gonna be one of those

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Speaker 1: times where it's gonna be an entire game of him pressing.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna look He's not gonna look like Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson in Baltimore last year, last week, where he's got

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Speaker 1: negative before yards passing in the first three quarters. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's going to happen to Patrick Mahomes, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. Yeah, Mahomes has got a lot

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Speaker 1: of talent. He's going to handle. Yeah. Yeah, he's well,

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Speaker 1: he's had more success yeah, throwing the football. So I

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Speaker 1: would say maybe a little, but it's not going to

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Speaker 1: hamper him to the point where it's going to be debilitating.

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Speaker 1: You know, he may feel it, but we may not

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Speaker 1: be able to perceive it, right, So that's where i'd

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Speaker 1: leave that. I think it's not going to be perceptible

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Speaker 1: if it is going to be a problem for him

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Speaker 1: this big moment. So there you go. Four playoff games.

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Speaker 1: The Divisional Round starts tomorrow. The lineup Tomorrow four thirty

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Speaker 1: five pm the Colts in Kansas City in the game

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Speaker 1: that Steve thinks the Colts will spring the upset, followed

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Speaker 1: by the night telling game to round a fifteen pm

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Speaker 1: kickoff the Dallas Cowboys in the Los Angeles Rams. And

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, things get going at one oh five pm

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Speaker 1: with the Chargers at New England. I think the Chargers

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Speaker 1: have a real shot to surprise New England. On Sunday

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Speaker 1: in Foxboro, followed by Philadelphia and New Orleans at four

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Speaker 1: forty pm. What do you think which road team has

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Speaker 1: the best and so pulling off the upset this weekend

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Speaker 1: in the Division round, we got a couple of tweets.

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Speaker 1: In reading from the tweet sheet, Brian Cook sends in

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Speaker 1: this it made me wishful thinking. He says, but the

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Speaker 1: Chargers have a better record than the Pats. Check. They

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Speaker 1: have not had a real home game all year. Check

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Speaker 1: Brady is looking at his age. Check the Pats are

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Speaker 1: very flawed. Check and the Patriots have stumbled late in

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Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, And Brian Cook goes down to say,

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Speaker 1: I like the Chargers and their pass rush against an

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Speaker 1: aging Brady. I do too. I don't think the New

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Speaker 1: England offensive line is anything special. I think New England

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Speaker 1: kind of struggles sometimes to find which of their receivers

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Speaker 1: is going to be the key guy, the targeted guy.

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Speaker 1: Gronkowski is not where he was a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: I think the Chargers have a real shot at the upset.

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Speaker 1: To hear this Sunday, I agree with Brian Cook on that. Well,

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Speaker 1: let me give you some a little bit of hope.

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Speaker 1: The Chargers allowed the most receiving yards to running backs

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Speaker 1: this season nine hundred and seventy three yards they gave

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Speaker 1: up to running backs out of the backfield and the

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Speaker 1: passing game, and the fourth most receptions by a running back,

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Speaker 1: which is a hun than seven. The Patriots had the

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Speaker 1: most receptions by running backs this season one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty one and the second most receiving yards by running

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Speaker 1: backs this season. So the strength of the Patriots has

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Speaker 1: been the running backs and the checkdowns this year and

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Speaker 1: then and the Charger's weakness has been given up the

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Speaker 1: running back receptions. Um is that how big how big

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Speaker 1: a factor is that it might be that you can

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Speaker 1: spend that anyway you want. You can go positive or

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Speaker 1: negative for either team. Positive for the Chargers, Hey, that's

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Speaker 1: what they gave away. You can throw it to the backs,

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Speaker 1: you can check it down to the backs all you want.

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Speaker 1: You're not getting us over the time. And the Patriots

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Speaker 1: may say, you know what, we're gonna not only gonna

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Speaker 1: take it, we're gonna keep Philip Rivers on the sidelines,

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Speaker 1: and when we get into the red zone, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: use our red zone offense and be as effective as

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Speaker 1: we have been all seasons. So it may be this,

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Speaker 1: that or the other. I don't know, as a Marty

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Speaker 1: Baronism dis ord at. Who knows, but they do seem

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Speaker 1: to fit. And that does seem to be a problem

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Speaker 1: for the Chargers, and they're gonna have to They're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to uh, They're gonna have to uh shore that

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Speaker 1: up because the As will kill you with the running

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Speaker 1: back out of the backfield. Now it might be too

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Speaker 1: that the Chargers can overcome that by sending more people.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna if the running backs in the backfield,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna have to pass protect because somebody's gonna come

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Speaker 1: free if he doesn't. There's always if you do this,

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Speaker 1: the defense can do that. The question is do you

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Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do before the snap? And that's

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Speaker 1: going to be the crucial element. Let's get your take

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Speaker 1: on this. You can ring us up now it's the

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Speaker 1: time to do it too. We're told that J. P.

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Speaker 1: Lasman tied up in a coaches meeting, and now it

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Speaker 1: looks like it'll be maybe one thirty and set of

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Speaker 1: twelve thirty, so we have time for you to hear

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Speaker 1: from you which road team has the best chance add

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Speaker 1: an upset. This weekend in the divisional round of the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call fall nine's open eight oh three

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Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty or do it on Twitter. We might

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Speaker 1: read your response on the tweet sheet. We're gonna do

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Speaker 1: all that. Talk more about the playoffs and also some

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Speaker 1: of the coaching moves when we come back. John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker just getting rolling here in Archard Park. One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalida Health from One Bills Drive

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Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: Big Show, The Friday Show one goes Live from one

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Speaker 1: Go Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker here until three. Talking

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Speaker 1: a lot about the playoff matchups. We talk about it

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Speaker 1: even during the break and the game. That's kind of

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Speaker 1: got our attention. We were talking about it with the

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Speaker 1: Jeff Coltneck, one of our producers. The uh the Colts game,

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Speaker 1: first game tomorrow four thirty five pm. The Colts in

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. Fascinating. I think it is fascinestacinating matchup because

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Speaker 1: I really think and know, given what I know and

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Speaker 1: what I what I perceive from them, they've got to

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Speaker 1: feel supremely confident that they're going to be able to

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Speaker 1: use in it today. The Colts are going to be

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Speaker 1: able to put in place an offensive game plan that

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Speaker 1: is so conservative and so ground and pound clock eating

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Speaker 1: almost four minute offense. Don't even don't even look for

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Speaker 1: the big play. Just stay on the field and know

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Speaker 1: that on a third and four you're gonna be able

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Speaker 1: to pick it up. Because their defense in Kansas City stinks.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it reeks, it's whole. It's awful. Statistically

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Speaker 1: and the eye test and everything, they just don't measure up.

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Speaker 1: So you got to think that, you know what I

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Speaker 1: don't third and six, let's hand it off off tackle,

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Speaker 1: get the first and then go again and then just

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Speaker 1: get down and when we get to the red zone,

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Speaker 1: grind it out and get a touchdown and then all

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Speaker 1: you and if you can do that, you gotta have

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Speaker 1: confidence so you can get every single possession of the game.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing that I think makes this matchup fascinating

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Speaker 1: and problematic for the Colts. The Chiefs have an explosive

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Speaker 1: component to their game that not many in the NFL

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Speaker 1: have this year. Tyreek Hill, for instance, can make big

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Speaker 1: plays from anywhere on the field, on special teams, even

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Speaker 1: and especially on offense. You can't fall behind. You can't

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Speaker 1: let a cup. It doesn't take a big breakdown for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs to jump out in front fourteen to nothing,

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Speaker 1: ten to nothing and all of a sudden that prescription

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Speaker 1: you have for the Colts victory, which it makes sense

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Speaker 1: that you got to throw that out the window. If

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Speaker 1: you're down by you know, seventeen to nothing in order,

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Speaker 1: that's a problem, and that can happen. With the way

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs can wreck up points. I think it happened.

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Speaker 1: That's how they that's how they manage their their season

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Speaker 1: right where they're outscoring people. The team that punts the

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Speaker 1: most loses in this game. I don't think the Colts

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Speaker 1: will punt more than twice the entire game. How many

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Speaker 1: points are they going to score? I think I think

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Speaker 1: you got to score thirty five plus in this game. Okay,

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Speaker 1: thirty five plus might be right, and I and I

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Speaker 1: don't think and I think it'll come down to just

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Speaker 1: what it came down to in that Rams game midway

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Speaker 1: through the season. I think the Chiefs are going to

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Speaker 1: turn it over and the and the Cults are gonna

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Speaker 1: win the game. Because of late, they'll have to turn

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Speaker 1: it over late. I think they'll be able to try

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Speaker 1: and to come back and get back in it. I

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Speaker 1: think as all comes down to the fact that because

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Speaker 1: I really don't know if the if the Colts are

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Speaker 1: going to be able to get it done U you know,

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Speaker 1: score every possession and keep them off the field or whatever.

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Speaker 1: But I do know this, the Colts are gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to score offensively. They're gonna put some points on

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Speaker 1: the board. They will not make mistakes, and they will

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Speaker 1: stay on the field and they will come away from

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Speaker 1: the red zone with the touchdowns. And if that happens,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Chiefs, the pressure is gonna mount because

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Chiefs fans aren't above booing. And

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Speaker 1: plus you cited the numbers and they're kind of shocking

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Speaker 1: the record recent record of the Chiefs failure in the playoffs, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's stunning. They can't win. They don't

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Speaker 1: win the playoffs. Where were those numbers here? It is

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Speaker 1: this Ray Chefs have not won a home playoff game

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Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety three. A home playoff game, and they've

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Speaker 1: got one of the hardest venues for a visiting team

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Speaker 1: to come into and play the most difficult and they

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Speaker 1: trumpet it. It's the loudest stadium on the planet. They've

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Speaker 1: got They've got a plaster painted on the walls of

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Speaker 1: the tunnel down there. Postseason games under Indy Reid, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are owing to at Arrowhead Stadium and one in

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Speaker 1: four Indy Reid with the Chiefs postseason one win, four losses.

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Speaker 1: That's the kind that's worth some of the pressure mounts

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Speaker 1: that you talked about when when you're trailing, say the Colts,

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Speaker 1: or the Chiefs are fourth quarter trailing the Colts, and

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Speaker 1: all that's in the fans mind, like are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna win this game against this team, this

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Speaker 1: wildcard team that came in here, this team that just

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Speaker 1: barely stuck into the playoffs. They're gonna lose this one too, right,

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Speaker 1: That's oh you got a pressure that It's real. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's real, there's no question about it. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's that's a that's a big monkey on Andy Reid's back,

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Speaker 1: I think. And and the Chiefs fans are letting him

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Speaker 1: hear about it too. They will, they are unafraid. What

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Speaker 1: do you think which which playoff underdog this week has

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Speaker 1: the best chance of springing the upset. Give us a

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Speaker 1: call eight oh three h five fifty or toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty on

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Speaker 1: the line from all the way in Texas. We've got

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Speaker 1: Patrick on the line. Patrick, we're in Texas? Are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, where are you? Pat? So you can siste

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Speaker 1: Daryl Johnson. I'll be going into the games. Okay, you're

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Speaker 1: in San Antonio then, yeah, pretty close? Okay, excellent. Which

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Speaker 1: team has the best chance of spring an upset? Do

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Speaker 1: you think? Patrick? You know, unfortunately, I'm not a Cowboys fan.

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Speaker 1: That's an unfortunate about that. From upstate in New York,

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Speaker 1: and I'm actually driving to Dallas now, But I actually

639
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: the Cowboys got a good chance in in LA this weekend.

640
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: Why why do you think that? I think simply because

641
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: I think Dallas has a training camp there. You know Dallas,

642
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: they used to we're losing, you're losing. Yes, The fact

643
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,239
Speaker 1: that they have their training camp there doesn't mean much.

644
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: The fact that somebody said yesterday for again, it was

645
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: Gary Myers I think in New York said there could

646
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: be as many as fifty thousand Cowboys fans in the

647
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: stands at the Conisseum and when that game is played

648
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, that's a factor. If that's true. Seems like

649
00:31:58,400 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: a lot to me. And I get it. The cow

650
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: Boys are America's team. Uh, they do have fans, and

651
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: you know they have a presence anyway in southern California.

652
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: But more than half of the fans at what ninety

653
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: three capacity there at the coliseum and fifty thousand of

654
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,479
Speaker 1: them are gonna be Cowboys fans? That would that'd be shocking.

655
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: I'll see that one. I'll believe that one. I see. Yeah,

656
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: I mean there will be there will be a good

657
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: group of Dallas fans, no question about it. I get it.

658
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: But that ain't gonna help that team. What makes the

659
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: crowd neutral? Uh? That doesn't. LA is not counting on

660
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: a home field advantage, you know, I mean that's not

661
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: what it's about. This is about the foot on in

662
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: this game. I don't see I don't see that home

663
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: field thing being a factor in this game, even if

664
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Speaker 1: it was in Dallas. H you know, I just I

665
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: just don't see that as a thing about this Dallas

666
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: team that makes it good or bad or needs that help.

667
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: Here's what I see. I don't think Dallas's defense, which

668
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: is ranked seventh overall in the league and yards given

669
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: up a game, I don't think that's good enough to

670
00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: stop this Rams team in LA. I think this. I

671
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: think the Rams team, Listen, they're gonna light it up,

672
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: and I don't think Dak Prescott is going to be

673
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: able to keep up. And that's what's gonna fall to

674
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliot's not going to keep them in this game.

675
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's gonna have to keep him in this game.

676
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper is going to have to keep him in

677
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: this game. And if you think Amari Cooper and Dak

678
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: Prescott can keep the Cowboys in a game with the

679
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: LA Rams, that's where we're going to disagree. I don't

680
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: think they're good enough. I don't think they're gonna be

681
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: good enough offensively to keep up with the Rams. Which

682
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: road team is the best chance at springing an upset

683
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: this weekend? From the tweet sheet from Tiffany Daniel's frequent contributor,

684
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: she says the Colts are playing at a high level

685
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: in all phases. They can score, and their defense is solid.

686
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: They match up favorably with the Chiefs if they forced

687
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: a couple of turnovers, they have a shot to move

688
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: on to the championship round. What do you think of that?

689
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: I agree, okay on turnovers are always the big, the big,

690
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: unpredictable facet of the game that has so much to

691
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: do with who wins and loses because so many times

692
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: they the you know, the ball bounces funky, you know,

693
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: even even last week. I mean, the Colts would have

694
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: absolutely obliterated the Baltimore Ravens had all the bounces of

695
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: the ball gone their way early in that game. Uh,

696
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: the Ravens got the ball back after they coughed up

697
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: about three or four times. They and the and the

698
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: Chargers didn't get all of them. If they'd gotten all

699
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: of them, the game would have been a laugher. As

700
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: it was, it was, it was pretty close in tense

701
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: throughout the entire game. You can't predict turnovers. So if

702
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: if if you win the turnover battle by more than two, yeah,

703
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna win that game, no question about it. But

704
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: and these teams, these teams are good. They're playing good,

705
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: all of them. So if that turnover thing goes in

706
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: the way of either in any of these eight teams,

707
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: that team is gonna win even if they are on

708
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: the road. One more from the tweet sheet Dougie Briggs,

709
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: when we asked the question which road team has the

710
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: best chance of UH springing it up? Said Dougy Briggs says,

711
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: the Colts are hot, playing very well. I think Andrew

712
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: Luck is playing very well and Marlon Mack is running wild.

713
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: You know, Luck is interesting in many respects, Steve, and

714
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: you've never been one of my favorites. But this is

715
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 1: not like so the Indianapolis Colts are back in the

716
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: playoffs after playing badly and missing last year. But this

717
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: is not like a brand new playoff team. And they

718
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,720
Speaker 1: have a guy in Andrew Luck who has had success

719
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: deep into playoff runs. So it's not as if, to

720
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: be honest with you, who would you have more confidence

721
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,280
Speaker 1: in and playing well tomorrow, Andrew Luck or Patrick Mahomes.

722
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 1: I'd have to say Luck just because he's been here before.

723
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: I know Mahomes is uber talented, got a great arm.

724
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: Lucks got a pretty good arm of his own right.

725
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: A little bit of it is the bar that Mahomes

726
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: has set for himself if he think got through for

727
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 1: five thousand yards, So a bad game for him is

728
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty seven yards two touchdowns, right, I

729
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: mean he through for three plus touchdowns in ten games

730
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: this year, So he could still play good by the

731
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: standard of other quarterbacks, but it would still be considered

732
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,439
Speaker 1: a down day for Mahomes, you know what I mean. Yeah,

733
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: So there's that he's got a team that leans on

734
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: him more than I think the Colts lean and Andrew Luck.

735
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: Would you agree with that? Well, they need Patrick Mahomes

736
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: to throw Marlin They've the Colts have got Marlon Mack.

737
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: The Chiefs lost Kareem Hunt during the season, you know,

738
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: they cut him after after what happened to him in

739
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: his personal life. That's a difference in this game, and

740
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: that's something that has changed for the Chiefs over the

741
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: course of the last month and a half when Kareem

742
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: Hunt has not been part of the mix. So now

743
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: they lean even more so on their quarterback and he's

744
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 1: come through for them. Let's face it, he's He's played

745
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: really well for him. So, um, I'm totally with you.

746
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, there's so many things that can go

747
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: on on in these games because we've seen all of

748
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 1: these teams play well in every phase at different times

749
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: during the season, and like I said, they're all these

750
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: teams are playing good. And you're right, Murph, this is

751
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: a big This is an enormously fun weekend for football

752
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: fans to watch these teams because he because just you know,

753
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: after all of us, the rest of us don't have

754
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: a team in this, we start picking him, We start

755
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: picking the team. Where cheering for in here in western

756
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 1: New York. You know you're picking, You're pulling for the Chargers.

757
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: You want to knock the Patriots off? I mean, right, yeah,

758
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 1: I mean look at our Twitter poll. Half the people

759
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,439
Speaker 1: are calling in saying something that they think something's gonna

760
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,760
Speaker 1: happen that's never happened. Philip Rivers is gonna beat Tom Brady.

761
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: It's never happened in fourteen years. A call here from

762
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: Anthony and Hamilton's, I know we kind of route, we're

763
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: kind of you know, apologize. I'm with you, man, which

764
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: road team is the best chance of an upset? What

765
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: do you think? Anthony and Hamilton? What do you what

766
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: do you have? Hey, guys, um, I really believe that

767
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,399
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have the best chance. And Steve, I get

768
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: what you're saying. I do think that Dad needs to

769
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: step it up. But when you look at this matchup,

770
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: I just think that this is a bad matchup for

771
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,959
Speaker 1: the rams Um. I also think I look at Jared

772
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: Goff and every time he plays a defense that is

773
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: top ten in the league, he seems to fold. You

774
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: put any pressure on the guy and he's gonna have

775
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: a tough time getting it out there. So I really

776
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: I do believe that the run game is going to

777
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 1: be a factor, But I believe at the end of

778
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: the day, Dallas has a great shot. Yeah, I mean

779
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 1: you could I see what you're saying. The Dallas has

780
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: got a number seven overall defense. LA's got the nineteenth

781
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 1: overall defense. So you know, I don't know what to

782
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: tell you. LA's got a really good offense. I mean,

783
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: they're they're They're averaging over four hundred yards of offense

784
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,760
Speaker 1: a game. Dallas has averaging only three hundred and forty.

785
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: But it all comes down to those two guys, and

786
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of reason to trust either of

787
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:36,399
Speaker 1: them in the in the postseason, except you know, dak

788
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: as a rookie. You know, they made it in there,

789
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: and they got to the they got deep in the

790
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: playoffs with dak as a rookie, and they haven't had

791
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: that success since. But we'll see Goff. He has yet

792
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: to win a playoff game as well. We'll see they

793
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: were one and done last year after that great start.

794
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: Maybe that sticks in their crawl. I don't know, but

795
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 1: neither one of these quarterbacks in crunch time. Although you

796
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: know Dallas fans will tell you a Dak's the most

797
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: clutch quarterback of all time. Well, we'll see, you know,

798
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: we'll see on the road in the playoffs. If Dak

799
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: pulls this off and has a great game because of it,

800
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: then you got something. But I haven't seen it yet,

801
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: not enough for me to count on it. That's all

802
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 1: I can say. I'm going with the home team. Thanks Anthony.

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00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: Let's take a call here from Robert in lockboard. Hello, Robert, welcome,

804
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: you're on the show with us. Thank you very much

805
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: for get my our call. I appreciate u, Cancer Gdan.

806
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: I have a football question and I have a comment.

807
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: Perceive go ahead football. When McCoy runs a boy and

808
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: Allen runs a ball, they won't keep the ball away

809
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,240
Speaker 1: from their body in their right hand, got a pomment

810
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: like a football player. And why don't the coaches correct

811
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: that take a chance to fumble the ball that way?

812
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 1: What do you think of that? Mcco doesn't, boy does it,

813
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: and a lot of other guys do it around the

814
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: league now. And I'll tell you why, Robert, why that's

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00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: different than it has been in years past, particularly back

816
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,879
Speaker 1: in the seventies and eighties. In the nineties it began

817
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: to change. And now in the two thousands and now

818
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,959
Speaker 1: in the two thousand teens, it's really changed. And there's

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Speaker 1: only one reason I'll tell you right now. It's the technology.

820
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: The gloves that those guys wear give you such a

821
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: grip on the ball. It's not as big a risk

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00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: as it was when I played. The gloves they and

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00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: you see you see Odell Beckham reaching back over his

824
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: head and catching a one handed ball with two fingers.

825
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: The gloves they use now, without any extra stick them

826
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: on them at all, are made with materials that absolutely

827
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: grip that ball like you can't believe when you have

828
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: those gloves on that they're tight fitting gloves and you

829
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: and you reach down and grab one of those footballs,

830
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 1: you can't imagine how much it takes to get it

831
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,240
Speaker 1: out of here. You can't. It is so much easier

832
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: to grip the ball. It gives you such confidence. That's

833
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: why these guys carry it the way they do, because

834
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,800
Speaker 1: the ball feels so good in your hand, it feels

835
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: so sticky and so solid. They can run with confidence

836
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: doing that. I don't think you've seen any more fumble

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00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 1: because of it. Because when they hold it around the ball,

838
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: it's easier also to hold it away from the defender.

839
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: When it's away from your body in the palm of

840
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: your hand, it's easier to stiff arm a guy and

841
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,359
Speaker 1: hold the ball four feet away in your other hand

842
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 1: while you're running it. You see it a lot around

843
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,760
Speaker 1: the league, and that's the reason you see guys carrying

844
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: it much different these days than they did back in

845
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 1: the day. It's the technology of the gloves. Then answer

846
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: your question, Robert, you got anything else ant, I would

847
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: have never thought about the glove. That's that's a very

848
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: important point. I also like to make a rest for

849
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Speaker 1: Steve On. I think you're a comment on Michigan basketball

850
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: is way off face. Why now you can because believe me,

851
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 1: I've trust you, Robert. I don't even know we've never met,

852
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:43,479
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you this. You may be right because

853
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: my take on Michigan basketball is uninformed and comes from

854
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,240
Speaker 1: a place of ignorance. So go ahead, just Michigan basketball

855
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: to begin with. We'll start with Michigan. Robert, Why is it?

856
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: Why do you love? Why am I so wrong about

857
00:41:56,719 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: Michigan basketball? Well, you can they would sixteen sixteen now

858
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: if they're worth athletic, and in order to go to

859
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: University of Michigan, you have to be pretty intelligence. So

860
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: I don't think there's everybody at a team that's very slow.

861
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: Well i'll take I'll take you your word for the athleticism,

862
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 1: the intelligence thing. I went to Northwestern and we'll argue

863
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: with that all day. I mean, basically, you need an

864
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: expired fishing license to get into Michigan. Oh that's a

865
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: good one. That's pretty bad, right, thanks, Robert. I'm teasing.

866
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 1: I'm I'm obvious. I'm teasing, Robert. I know you do

867
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: have to be a smart kid to get into into Michigan.

868
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: I know, but listen, it is good. That good. We

869
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 1: got a break here from coming back from One Bill's Drive.

870
00:42:46,000 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to the show,

871
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker, One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive,

872
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,359
Speaker 1: Coming to you from our one Buffalo Studio one one.

873
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: We keep hammering the one on what Steve we talked

874
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: about the playoff games and which one we thought would

875
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 1: be the upset. Which one are your most looking forward

876
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: to watching? Did they ask you that question? I think so.

877
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: I think it's it's the Colts Chiefs, no question about it.

878
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: I want to see those I want to see that game.

879
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: I want to see if the Colts can get that done. Now,

880
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,760
Speaker 1: certainly the Chiefs are I mean there's high flying offense,

881
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people around the country

882
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: outside you know, they didn't want to see the Chiefs

883
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:36,959
Speaker 1: play because they scored a lot of points and they'd

884
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: like to see that in the playoffs. I'd like to

885
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: see a Super Bowl with you know, with a fifty four,

886
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: fifty one or sixty three to sixty one game score.

887
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: You know, they want to see a basketball score. But

888
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:51,399
Speaker 1: I think this is the game for the Colts. That's

889
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 1: that's their season. I don't know that anybody can go

890
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: into New England and win, other than the Patriots, you know,

891
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: being a team there. So I think in the AFC,

892
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: this is the game that's that's gonna be the most

893
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 1: fund to said, I said, we said it yesterday. The

894
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: AFC games just seem to have so much more meat

895
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: on them than the NFC this weekend, don't. And I've

896
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: heard people thinking that that the Philadelphia Eagles are gonna

897
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: go in and beat the Saints, and then and the

898
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys is gonna go in. We had a caller say,

899
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: you know, I think Chelasa got a shot in this game.

900
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,919
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a double digit weekend. Both

901
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,240
Speaker 1: home teams in the NFC are gonna win by double digits.

902
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: I don't think either of those two teams can keep

903
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:30,800
Speaker 1: up with the teams they're going in there to face that.

904
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:34,439
Speaker 1: You can say, listen that the Eagles put on a show,

905
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:37,439
Speaker 1: but they they should have, would have, could have. They're

906
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 1: missed kick, missed easy kick away from losing to Chicago.

907
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 1: They're not gonna score. They are not gonna score. With

908
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,359
Speaker 1: the Saints not in the Dome, and LA with two

909
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: weeks of rest and Sean mcvagh is their head coach,

910
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 1: They're gonna light it up against Dallas, and I don't

911
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: think Dallas can score enough to keep up with them.

912
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 1: On the other hand, I do think because of the

913
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: severity of the drop off between the Chiefs offense and defense.

914
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: Their defense is not going to be able to do

915
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: anything against the Colts. If that happened, If the Chiefs

916
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: come out and get a couple of turnovers and stop

917
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:19,399
Speaker 1: Marlon mac completely and do that, that's then you got something.

918
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: But I don't think that's gonna happen. I don't either.

919
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna happen. So I think, and

920
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: of course, you know, we've been talking all morning about,

921
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: you know, or all the whole show about what I

922
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 1: think is going to happen in New England. I just

923
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: don't think it's I think late in the game, New

924
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: England will go up by two scores and it'll be over.

925
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: We got a call it online. Let's talk about that game.

926
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: I think Tom and Buffalo go ahead. Time you're on

927
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: the air, he Steve. That comment about Michigan was funny. Thanks.

928
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:44,759
Speaker 1: It was meant to be funny because I, you know,

929
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: obviously got a lot of respect for that university, and

930
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,720
Speaker 1: but I did go to Northwestern and it is difficult

931
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: to get into Northwestern. Well, in my youth, I thought

932
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: about going to Michigan for a hotel restaurant hospitality. And

933
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: I never had a fishing license. See there you go,

934
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: and couldn't get in. I wouldn't be accepted. All right,

935
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: all right, what else you got? We're probably looking through

936
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: We're probably jandered and looking through rose colored glasses. But

937
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:18,240
Speaker 1: it's the Chargers. I mean, Anthony Win has the Chargers

938
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 1: playing at a high level. Their defronts up front is

939
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: going to put a lot of pressure on Brady, and

940
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: Rivers is probably playing at the top of his game

941
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, you know, good point time. And I

942
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: kind of picked that as my upset special for the weekend,

943
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 1: and for a couple of reasons that you just mentioned.

944
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: Number one, the defense and Gus Bradley did a great

945
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: job throwing that kind of unconventional defense at Baltimore last week.

946
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: And Steve I liked the fact that Baltimore came back

947
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: in that game last Sunday, Baltimore came back and made

948
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 1: a game of it, and the Chargers responded. I think

949
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 1: that was a good test Baltimore at home Baltimore with

950
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: you know, not a complete lineup, obviously some limitations at

951
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: the quarterback spot, but they came back and made a

952
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,120
Speaker 1: game of it, and the way the Chargers ants or

953
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: that I thought was big. I thought there was a

954
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: very impressive win on the road for them. It'll be

955
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: even more impressive if they can play that way and

956
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,760
Speaker 1: come out with a victory in New England this weekend.

957
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: But I kind of like their chances. I see it.

958
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: I do see it, no question about it. And we've

959
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 1: been talking about it all week, and I've been very

960
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 1: high on the Charges in the way they're playing. But

961
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: when I get down to it, and maybe maybe this

962
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: is me trying to play reverse psychology, if I pick him,

963
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 1: there's no way they can It can be right, because

964
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: I am notoriously horrendous at picking games, So maybe me

965
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: picking New England means there's no way they can win

966
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:36,760
Speaker 1: in their own building. But listen, until I see something significant,

967
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:41,760
Speaker 1: significantly different in the Patriots results, then I'll start picking

968
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: against him. But they aren't the same team. They do

969
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: appear to be really struggling to win games. Even though

970
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: even though you know and Tom Brady, I know this too.

971
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 1: He is not the same quarterback he was five years ago.

972
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: He is not the same guy. Neither are the weapons

973
00:47:56,719 --> 00:48:00,040
Speaker 1: around him. They don't seem to be as dominant in

974
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 1: any one area than they were now. We've seen them

975
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: win games multitude of different ways over the years, even

976
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: within the same season. I mean, it's been their modus operendi.

977
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: They're the only team that can change their identity week

978
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: to week. They've struggled to do that this year. They've

979
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 1: won game, but they have continued to win. The scoreboard

980
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: is the same every week, even though the team looks different,

981
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: the results have been the same. And that's what I

982
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,720
Speaker 1: think is going to happen this weekend the LA Chargers.

983
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 1: Which road team is the best chance at an upset

984
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: this weekend? We're gonna put that question to our guest

985
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: next hour, Great co Sell, the expert, the producer, and

986
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: the executive producer of NFL Matchup on ESPN. A Great

987
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 1: co Sell joins us when we come back, Come on

988
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 1: back for that One Bill's Live presented by Kalaida Hell

989
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Bills

990
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 1: Radio Network Score some date to date from One Bill's Drive. So,

991
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: the NFL Playoffs coming up and still coaching moves around

992
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: the National Football League. RAMS quarterbacks coach Zach Taylor is

993
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: the Bengals' top choice to be their next head coach.

994
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: According to ESPN, the Bengals would like to hire him

995
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: after Los Angeles season ends. Because the Rams are still

996
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,320
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, they cannot negotiate a contract. Taylor was

997
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator for a Cincinnati in twenty sixteen, and

998
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: sources to say he would like to return to that city.

999
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 1: Bolivar Ravens have promoted Greg Roman to replace Marty morning

1000
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: Wegg as their offensive coordinator. That's a significant move in

1001
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: the development of quarterback Lamar Jackson. Roman, the assistant head

1002
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,240
Speaker 1: coach and tight ends coach last year, coordinated the Raymond's

1003
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,240
Speaker 1: dominant running game on morning Wegg called the plays. Morning

1004
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: Wegg had been the Ravens offensive coordinator since twenty sixteen.

1005
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: They they have the option to stay on in a

1006
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:51,359
Speaker 1: big role in a reorganization of the offensive staff. Greg

1007
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: Roman's third offensive coordinator job in the league. He called

1008
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 1: the plays here in Buffalo for a twenty fifteen and

1009
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 1: part of the twenty sixteen season. Antonio Brown Steelers wide

1010
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 1: will not be released, but all other options around the table. Ever.

1011
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:05,720
Speaker 1: Regarding his future with the Steelers, according to team president

1012
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 1: Art Rooney, Rooney said that it would be hard to

1013
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: envision Brown as part of the team when they report

1014
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: the training camp in late July. Four playoff games this weekend.

1015
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: The Division Around is underway tomorrow. It starts at four

1016
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: thirty five with the Cults of Kansas City, then Dallas

1017
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 1: in the Rams the night game tomorrow Sunday the Chargers

1018
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: in New England at one oh five, the Eagles in

1019
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: New Orleans at four forty. Hockey knew Jack Icho will

1020
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: be back on the ice tonight against Carolina Hurricanes. He's

1021
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 1: missed the last three Sabers games after an injury. The

1022
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: Sabers beat the Hurricans tonight at seven thirty. Jeff Skinner

1023
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,479
Speaker 1: makes his return to Carolina for the Sabers first meeting

1024
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:40,399
Speaker 1: of the season with the Carolina Hurricanes. I go back

1025
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: to one percent after practice yesterday. Meantime, fans around the

1026
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:47,720
Speaker 1: NHL have elected Sabers left winger Jeff Skinner, Colorado Avalanche

1027
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 1: left winger Gabriel Landiscon and Penguins defense on Chris Latang

1028
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:54,280
Speaker 1: to the All Star Game, the result of voting. College

1029
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: basketball a couple of home games Tonight, Kensius home against

1030
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 1: Ryder seven o'clock at the Kessler Center and Niagara home

1031
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 1: against Iona that game seven o'clock tonight at the Gallagher Center.

1032
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,439
Speaker 1: And that's the update from One Bills Try John Murphy

1033
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker on this Friday afternoon, our number two of

1034
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,800
Speaker 1: the show, Steve, You're ready to go? I am favorite

1035
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: part of the week coming up. One of my favorite

1036
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:16,320
Speaker 1: parts is our chance to talk to Great Coseell. He

1037
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: is the man behind hum the NFL shows on ESPN,

1038
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: and he joins us right now. Great Coseell, happy to

1039
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: have you with us. Great, good afternoon. How are you today?

1040
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: Hey Greg, I gotta stop you just for a second.

1041
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: We got a bad connection. We're gonna call you right

1042
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 1: back here in a second. Okay, sorry about that. Great

1043
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 1: Cozell is going to join this to kind of pre

1044
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:36,840
Speaker 1: we can. I think we can hear him, you and

1045
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: I in the studio, but our listeners cannot hear him.

1046
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: So we're gonna get that fixed and get him back on.

1047
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: You're right. I mean, we've got to ask him about

1048
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 1: the coaching stuff coming up, about you know, who's who's in,

1049
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: who's out, basically what he thinks the best guy and

1050
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 1: I think the most success ready spot is for the

1051
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 1: eight spots, and not all of them been in field

1052
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: and that was interesting. Does Zach Taylor he started parachuting

1053
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: in to the consciousness of people around the NFL yesterday

1054
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: when he was the first name other than Hugh Jackson,

1055
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: uh and uh who had been mentioned as it and

1056
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 1: and I didn't hear his name until yesterday. So and

1057
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: now he's the front runner. Well, people are kind of

1058
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 1: throwing darts at that particular peck. And it's not official yet,

1059
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor not the Bengals coach yet some people think

1060
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: it's just a reaction to the to the Rams success.

1061
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:34,319
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor with the Rams. And you know, as somebody said,

1062
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: what happens if the Rams? What happens? What happens if

1063
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: the Rams are to lose their game this weekend? You

1064
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 1: know what I mean that? Then? Right? Yeah? How how

1065
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 1: does it take the shine off of what Sean mcvayh

1066
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: has done out West? I don't know. Well to see, Uh, Greg,

1067
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: are you there again for us? Gentlemen? We got you?

1068
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: How are you great? We got you on the phone line.

1069
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 1: I guess great. I'm just gonna say before I guess

1070
00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 1: there was an issue that you mentioned Niagara basketball, which

1071
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: brought me back to my youth there Murph, And you

1072
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: may remember this as well, but I saw many leaks

1073
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: in Calvin Murphy play at Niagara. Oh yeah, I love

1074
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:11,320
Speaker 1: that team. Well, we went. My family had season tickets

1075
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: in the late sixties early seventies for that Niagara team.

1076
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:15,839
Speaker 1: They were a real good silence was that was Jim

1077
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: Maloney the head coach. Um Frank Layden was the head

1078
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:23,280
Speaker 1: coach when they went to the NCAA tournament in nineteen seventy.

1079
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: Maloney was just before Frank Layton. I think that's right.

1080
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 1: And if I saw those guys play at Saint John's

1081
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: University back you know when I had season tickets at

1082
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:34,280
Speaker 1: Saint john sitting three rows behind Louis Oh wow, pretty

1083
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: good seats. Yeah. And Carter Saca was a coach at

1084
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: Saint John's then, right, yeah, and he left for a

1085
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: couple of years to coach the New Jersey Nets and

1086
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: then came back. Yeah. Well, they'd like to get that

1087
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 1: glory back at Niagara and at Kennisia's and Saint Bonaventure

1088
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 1: and all of them. Actually, right now, the ub Bulls

1089
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: are nationally ranked. They're doing pretty good. We're not here

1090
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 1: to talk about whom fit Greg. I can talk about

1091
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: it all day. Hey, let's talk some football. Let's talk

1092
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,800
Speaker 1: some football, Let's talk some some uh, I guess, coaching

1093
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:01,760
Speaker 1: and what do you think about some of the coaching

1094
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,439
Speaker 1: moves that have been made already and some of those

1095
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: that are rumored around the NFL so far. You know,

1096
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: those are always tough. I mean, you know, people obviously

1097
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 1: look for certain things, and then there's always a philosophy

1098
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,399
Speaker 1: or a belief that goes into some moves. Obviously, we've

1099
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: now got this sort of Kyle Shanahan Sean McVeigh train

1100
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:23,839
Speaker 1: working here, and that the belief that those two offenses

1101
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: are are really good and you want to sort of

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00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 1: replicate that if you can. And that's that's hard to know,

1103
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: you know, because very often it's not just the philosophy,

1104
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: but it's the person. Obviously. The Cliff Kingsbury higher in

1105
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: Arizona is very very interesting because he's you know, he's

1106
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: an air raid coach. I know a lot about the

1107
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 1: air raid from speaking to people that I mean, that's

1108
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,720
Speaker 1: basically what I know from talking to people. I certainly

1109
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: have not been involved with it, and it's an interesting

1110
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 1: offense from an NFL perspective. I think that Kingsbury will

1111
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: have to make some adjustments in his worldview coach in

1112
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: the NFL with that philosophy, And I'm really happy for

1113
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 1: vic Fan Joe. Vic Fan Joe to me is just

1114
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:06,720
Speaker 1: one of those NFL lifers, a really really good coach,

1115
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: and no one knows how someone will do as a

1116
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 1: head coach, but I think he's very, very deserving of

1117
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 1: an opportunity. Who do you think is going to have

1118
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 1: the most immediate success. Who's set up for that right away?

1119
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's a great question, you know. I mean,

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00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: one could argue that the Packers with Aaron Rodgers potentially

1121
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: are because they're going to keep Mike Petton. From what

1122
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: I understand, it'll be an interesting transition, I think for

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers to some degree, because the one thing about

1124
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: Mattel Leafloor is he really comes from more from the

1125
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan school, which is a lot of quarterback under

1126
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:46,280
Speaker 1: center play action. You know, that's kind of a defining feature,

1127
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 1: the run pass fusion in the play action pass game.

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00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 1: And like Aaron Rodgers is talented enough to do anything.

1129
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 1: But I think that team could have success. How much

1130
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:59,440
Speaker 1: of his job Lafleur's job is managing Aaron Rodgers. How

1131
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: much of a after will that be. Well, I don't

1132
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 1: know Aaron Rodgers personally, so and you know, there's been

1133
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 1: so much written and talked about, and I'm sure Steve's

1134
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: been around him. I have not, so you know, it's

1135
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:13,840
Speaker 1: always hard to talk about an individual you know that

1136
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,800
Speaker 1: you don't know, and then what the public perception is,

1137
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:20,800
Speaker 1: which may or may not be true. From a physical standpoint,

1138
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 1: he clearly can do anything. The tape tells you that

1139
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: there are numerous times in which he steps outside the

1140
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: structure of the offense when he does not need to. Now,

1141
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: he can always make plays outside of structure. That's been

1142
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: his m much of his last four or five years.

1143
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 1: But I think that offense is very structured, the Malaflora

1144
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:43,759
Speaker 1: offense very structured and very disciplined, and I think that

1145
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 1: that's something that they might have to work through. Huh.

1146
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: I wonder what you think of We're going back to

1147
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:53,319
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh here too, just talking about coaches, and he's

1148
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: only had a couple of years in as the head

1149
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 1: coach there of the Rams. Does he have enough of

1150
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: a tenure to have protegees to have a coaching of

1151
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:01,759
Speaker 1: his own. Do you think it's kind of early for that,

1152
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: isn't it? I would say so. I mean, you know,

1153
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: I think everybody likes his offense, yeah, you know, and

1154
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 1: then you get down to philosophy versus success. You know,

1155
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: a lot of people have started to write these last

1156
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: couple of days, particularly with the sort of Sean McVeigh

1157
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 1: tree that what if he loses on Saturday night, you know,

1158
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: does that mean that's not very good? You know, again,

1159
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: those are questions that people have different responses too. But

1160
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 1: I think people are looking at his philosophical approach to

1161
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 1: offense and their belief that he's a great play caller,

1162
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 1: and you know, again, that's something people can have a

1163
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 1: lot of different opinions about. I certainly like his offense.

1164
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: I think it's a very timing based, it's very rhythm based.

1165
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: I like a number of the things he does. But

1166
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Murph, I think it's too early

1167
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: to look at him and says one might look at

1168
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 1: Bill Walsh. I wonder what do you think of this

1169
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 1: observation that I've often made on this show. Greg, And

1170
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: I know play calling is important, but on the list

1171
00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: of qualifications for a head coach, I would put play

1172
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 1: calling maybe somewhere around the bottom of the top ten,

1173
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 1: or at least having a knack for play calling of

1174
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 1: responsibilities that a head coach has to have. What do

1175
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: you think, Well, then you get into what you know

1176
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 1: what the head coach? Look, we know and Steve knows this.

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00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 1: With Sean McVeigh, when the offense is on the field,

1178
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: he's calling the plays. When the defense is on the field,

1179
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: he's sitting on a bench with Jared Goff. So basically

1180
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 1: there's an offensive head coach and a defensive head coach.

1181
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if that's what's going to

1182
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: be the case with Kluf Kingsbury for instance. And you know,

1183
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 1: I don't know what Matt la Floor is going to

1184
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 1: do in that regard because Mike Penton has been in

1185
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: this league a long time and had a lot of

1186
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: success as a defensive coach. So you know, I think people,

1187
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: I guess it depends on what one's philosophy is as

1188
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 1: an organization. Are you looking, I'll give you any the

1189
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 1: Cardinals or a perfect example, and I know they're not

1190
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: a team people. A lot of people talk about last

1191
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: year they hired Steve Wilkes and they made it a

1192
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 1: very I don't want to say a big deal, but

1193
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: it seemed that their approach was, let's hire the best

1194
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: leader of men without regard to quote unquote XS and O's. Well,

1195
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: in their mind, that didn't work at all, So what

1196
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 1: do they do this year? They hired someone who they

1197
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: believe has great XS and oas as an offensive guy

1198
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: and can create, you know, a super dynamic NFL offense

1199
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 1: without really, I don't want to say they didn't focus

1200
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: on whether he's a leader of men, but that seemed

1201
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 1: to be secondary to the fact that he might have

1202
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 1: this aerodynamic offense. So I guess it depends on an

1203
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: organization's philosophy. Yeah, and I just one more question on

1204
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 1: this great because I'm kind of fascinated by the decision

1205
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 1: making process when it comes to hiring head coaches. The

1206
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:32,920
Speaker 1: Jets go out and get Adam Gays, who to me

1207
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 1: is really nothing more or not much more than a

1208
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 1: play caller, and I just see way there's a lot

1209
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:39,720
Speaker 1: more of the job than coming up with offensive plays.

1210
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 1: And yet there is now with a second head coaching

1211
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 1: job in the last couple of years. Well, and we

1212
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 1: all read that Peyton Manning made a phone call, you know,

1213
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:50,240
Speaker 1: to really endorse him, and maybe that put it over

1214
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: the edge, but you know, I think again, now it's philosophy.

1215
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: My guess is, guys, that the Jets believe they have

1216
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: a young quarterback that's on the verge of potential superstardom,

1217
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 1: and that Adam Gaye is the coach to bring that out.

1218
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 1: And not that they don't care about the other parts

1219
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 1: of the team, but the point is if he can

1220
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 1: do that and they can have a star quarterback, that

1221
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: in some ways the rest of the team kind of

1222
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: falls into place. One of the things I've noticed about

1223
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 1: this list of guys, and if you take for granted,

1224
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 1: which is a big taking for granted, that Zach Taylor

1225
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: does get the Cincinnati job, and then in Miami this

1226
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:26,800
Speaker 1: Chris Richard gets the job, there's only two guys on

1227
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 1: the list of eight head coaches that are what you

1228
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: would call recycle. That's Adam Gays, the guy you just

1229
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 1: spoke about, and Bruce Arians who jumps back in after

1230
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 1: a year out. So most of the key teams that

1231
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 1: are looking for head coaches go to somebody who hasn't

1232
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: done it before. What's that tell us? Is it? I

1233
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 1: think that's just a to me, that would be a trend. Well,

1234
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 1: I think the belief there is that it's about philosophy

1235
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 1: and system more than being a leader of men or

1236
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: you know, an overall sort of leadership deal. I think

1237
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 1: that they're now looking for this idea that you're going

1238
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 1: to get great offensive philosophy and it's going to be

1239
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 1: it's cutting edge, so to speak. You know. I think

1240
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:14,720
Speaker 1: I'm sure Arizona believes that Kingsbury there's a cutting edge

1241
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 1: element to him with his offensive philosophy and principles. So

1242
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 1: I would tend to think that that's where teams are

1243
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 1: going more than looking for the so called experience or

1244
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 1: leader of men. We're on line with great co Salle,

1245
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:32,920
Speaker 1: executive producer, analyst of NFL Matchup on ESPN, senior producer

1246
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 1: at NFL Films for more than thirty years. Well, let's

1247
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 1: dive into some of these playoff games. Some people think

1248
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: it's the best weekend and on the Pro Football Canada

1249
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 1: the Divisional round Greg and it starts tomorrow four thirty

1250
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:45,959
Speaker 1: five with the Colts in Kansas City. My partner here, Steve,

1251
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:48,320
Speaker 1: thinks that could be the upset of the weekend. How

1252
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 1: much of a chance. Do you give the Colts against

1253
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. Well, I like the Colts, and

1254
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 1: I think the biggest issue for the Colts is going

1255
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 1: to be dealing with Patrick Mahomes and his improvisational ability,

1256
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:02,000
Speaker 1: because they are a predominant zone team, and when you

1257
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: play zone, no zone is meant to really be effective

1258
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 1: for more than let's say, two point five seconds at most.

1259
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:11,120
Speaker 1: So when the quarterback starts to move and and you're

1260
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: talked to plaster onto receivers and match up, you know,

1261
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 1: that sounds good, but it's hard, and so I think

1262
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 1: that that's going to be one particular difficulty that they

1263
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 1: might face in this game. Yeah, and that comes down

1264
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: to really my philosophy or my thought about this game.

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Speaker 1: If you're going to give the Colts a chance, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be Andrew Luck on the offense really taking

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Speaker 1: advantage of a poor Kansas City defense and staying on

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Speaker 1: the field and minimizing the opportunities that Mahomes has on

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Speaker 1: their offense. I think, I think if you're the Colts,

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Speaker 1: you have to have enough confidence that you can stay

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Speaker 1: on the field offensively and maybe hand the football off

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Speaker 1: on a third and medium rather than throw it and

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Speaker 1: just grind out first downs. I couldn't agree more. I

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Speaker 1: think you have to take an approach in this game. Look,

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Speaker 1: will they take some shots on first down with shot plays,

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Speaker 1: which they've been outstanding at this year. They will, But

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Speaker 1: I agree with ust with that approach. I think you

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01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 1: have to go into this game believing that we're going

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Speaker 1: to just sort of that the playbook is open, and

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Speaker 1: you know, unless it's third and ten, let's say, but

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Speaker 1: that the playbook is open, that seconds and eight is

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Speaker 1: not necessarily a throwing down. That we're going to just

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Speaker 1: keep running the football and playing sustaining offense. And I

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Speaker 1: think that that's a philosophy and you have to build

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Speaker 1: that throughout the week. And I think it's almost the

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Speaker 1: point where you run your four minute offense for four quarters. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's a great way to say it. I would agree

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Speaker 1: with that. I remember in the Super Bowl when the

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Speaker 1: Eagles got the ball versus the Patriots, clearly Doug Peterson said,

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Speaker 1: we're you know, there's no such thing as fourth down

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Speaker 1: in a traditional way. We're just running our offense. We're

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Speaker 1: not just going to throw it on every snap. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna run our offense. And if we get to fourth down,

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Speaker 1: it's just another down and we play. And not that

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01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna culture gonna go for it on fourth down,

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Speaker 1: But I think your four minute analogy is a good one.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs defense, the numbers are pretty shocking when you

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Speaker 1: and you sit down and look at them, Greg, but

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Speaker 1: they seem to find a way around that. Can they

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Speaker 1: continue to do that and advance in the playoffs? Given

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Speaker 1: up four hundred or more yards per game and giving

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Speaker 1: up all the points that they seemed to give up, Well,

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01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: you know, they've outscored a lot of people this year,

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01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 1: and I think they're a team built on offense. Clearly.

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01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:16,560
Speaker 1: The one thing they do do well defensively is rushed

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01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 1: the quarterback. But again that comes into play, you know,

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01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 1: uncertain down and distant situations more than others. So look,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they believe looking at the Colts defense, which

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01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 1: has actually played well. Some will point out that they

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Speaker 1: haven't played great opponents, but it's a very disciplined defense,

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Speaker 1: very sound fundamentally. Like I said, they played predominant zone.

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Speaker 1: They've added more blitz if the season's gone on, particularly

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Speaker 1: with the slot corner, can anymore. But I wouldn't call

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Speaker 1: them a high percentage of blitz defense. So I think

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs probably feel that they can outscore the Colts. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they've got to feel that way. They've given up more

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Speaker 1: first downs than any team. Their ranked thirty first in

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Speaker 1: the league in passing yards, thirty first in rushing yards,

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Speaker 1: thirty first in total yards. I mean they they really,

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Speaker 1: I mean they're giving up yards like Christmas presents to

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Speaker 1: these guys. I mean, and that's really it comes down to.

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Speaker 1: I think what the always unpredictable thing is the bounce

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01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 1: of the ball. Maybe a turnover here, Lay, because I

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Speaker 1: don't think there's any question the Colts can are going

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01:05:18,560 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: to be able to score on this defense. If they

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01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 1: could score on Baltimore, they can score on this defense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would agree, I mean I would. I'm sort of

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Speaker 1: my poem for the Colts a little bit here. They're

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Speaker 1: talking to my heartstrings a little So we'll see how

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Speaker 1: it goes. Greg Cosal, executive producer analyst NFL matchup on ESPN.

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Speaker 1: Going through this weekend's playoff games, the Divisional round and

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Speaker 1: the other AFC game. Sunday at one o'clock, the Chargers

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Speaker 1: have to come back east again, Greg to play the

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Speaker 1: Patriots this time in Foxboro. How tough attack is that

1335
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 1: some of us, me included, I think this could be

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Speaker 1: an upset brewing. The Chargers might have something to shock

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Speaker 1: the Patriots on Sunday. What do you think? Well, you know,

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01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 1: I think the Patriots offense is a lot different than

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01:05:56,680 --> 01:05:58,760
Speaker 1: we've come to expect. I mean, they have not been

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01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:00,960
Speaker 1: very good on third down this year, which is very rare.

1341
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's third down numbers are poor compared to previous years,

1342
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Speaker 1: and they're actually in the bottom half of the league.

1343
01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:10,960
Speaker 1: You know, the Patriots have become kind of a running

1344
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 1: team in which they line up with a fullback Devlin,

1345
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:15,919
Speaker 1: So they play a lot with what we call twenty

1346
01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:19,439
Speaker 1: one personnel two backs. They're going to end up playing

1347
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 1: a lot when they go to eleven personnel with three wide.

1348
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:24,640
Speaker 1: What the Chargers do is they play with six defensive backs.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of their mo The Chargers are played with

1350
01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 1: six defensive backs on well over fifty percent of their

1351
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:31,840
Speaker 1: snaps this year, So that's how they play, that's how

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01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 1: they roll, So that that part of the matchup fascinates me.

1353
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 1: One area I think of concern for the Chargers, and

1354
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:41,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Patriots can exploit it. But

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Speaker 1: I think the Chargers old line is probably average at

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01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:46,920
Speaker 1: best by NFL standards, and they've struggled at times and

1357
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 1: past protection. Yeah, and that's one of the things that's

1358
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:53,760
Speaker 1: always a question mark is what the Patriots ce in

1359
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:57,240
Speaker 1: Philip in this case, Philip Rivers and the Chargers offense.

1360
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Speaker 1: And you're right, if they feel like they've got a

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01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 1: you know, an advantage in some matchup, that's all the

1362
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 1: Chargers are going to see. If they think they can

1363
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 1: get to Philip Rivers, that's all you'll see all day

1364
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:12,840
Speaker 1: until the Chargers can can prove that they get out

1365
01:07:12,840 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 1: of it. And so do you think that's where the

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01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:18,720
Speaker 1: crux of Chargers offensive success will lie in their ability

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01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:22,960
Speaker 1: to protect Rivers? Yes, because Rivers is so good at

1368
01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:25,440
Speaker 1: being able at times to camouflage and compensate for the

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01:07:25,520 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 1: weakness at times. But there are certain times he can't

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Speaker 1: do it because obviously he's not going to move anywhere.

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01:07:32,360 --> 01:07:34,440
Speaker 1: So you know, his sense of timing and rhythm is

1372
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 1: so good and his ability to get rid of the

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Speaker 1: ball and against many teams he can handle that. But

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Speaker 1: you know, when you start playing a team, let's say

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Speaker 1: like the Ravens. They cause problems the Ravens have. There

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01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:46,920
Speaker 1: are multiple front defense, there are pressure defense. They come

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Speaker 1: from different parts of of their alignments. You know that

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01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:54,240
Speaker 1: the Patriots are not necessarily like that, but you never

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Speaker 1: know because Belichick coaches to the opponent. Right Tomorrow night's

1380
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Speaker 1: game and NFC Cowboys in Rams Out West eight fifteen

1381
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 1: kickoff tomorrow night. Gregy, what kind of a chance would

1382
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 1: you give the Cowboys in this game against the team

1383
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:08,880
Speaker 1: that won thirteen games this year? You know, I give

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys a pretty good chance. I think the Cowboys

1385
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:16,720
Speaker 1: stylistically are very defined. They have a distinct profile. What

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01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 1: they do is their run game and their defense are

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Speaker 1: both among the best in the NFL. So what that

1388
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:25,880
Speaker 1: does is it essentially keeps games close through the fourth quarter.

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01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:28,920
Speaker 1: They really don't ask Dak Prescott to do very much

1390
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Speaker 1: in the passing game. It's a very limited passing game.

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Speaker 1: But that profile makes games winnable in the fourth quarter,

1392
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 1: and that's when Prescott's running by design and his improvisational

1393
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 1: ability really come into play. And it only takes one

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01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 1: or two plays at that point and they can win games.

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Speaker 1: So I think they can keep this game close and

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01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 1: I think they would then have a chance to win.

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01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:53,680
Speaker 1: And it does get out, it gets untenable when the

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01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:56,679
Speaker 1: Rams do bust loose, snap off a few big plays

1399
01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 1: and put them down by double digits. Then you know

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Speaker 1: how susceptible at of the Cowboys too, then falling into

1401
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 1: that black hole of trying to catch up and then

1402
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 1: turning it over and it gets out of the Yeah,

1403
01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:09,479
Speaker 1: that's that's the concern. And again, at some point in

1404
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:12,720
Speaker 1: time that the Cowboys and every team steve you know this,

1405
01:09:13,240 --> 01:09:15,640
Speaker 1: every team that plays that's sort of what would be

1406
01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 1: considered an old school run game defense gets into a

1407
01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:22,559
Speaker 1: game where they have to throw. And look, maybe if

1408
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:24,679
Speaker 1: that turns out to be this game, maybe Dak Prescott

1409
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:26,960
Speaker 1: will play really, really well and they'll come back. But

1410
01:09:27,120 --> 01:09:30,400
Speaker 1: they're not built that way, so we'll see. But every

1411
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:33,599
Speaker 1: team that's built on run game and defense eventually gets

1412
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:37,400
Speaker 1: into games for whatever reason where your quarterback has to

1413
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Speaker 1: make throws. And finally, Greg the late game Sunday, four pm,

1414
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Speaker 1: the Eagles at the Saints. This one of all the

1415
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Speaker 1: four seems to be the one that might be the

1416
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Speaker 1: most lopsided. You see it that way, this matchup, well,

1417
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Speaker 1: I mean it could be it obviously was Week eleven,

1418
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Speaker 1: but I think the Eagles are a different team. You know,

1419
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 1: the big concern for the Eagles would be their secondary

1420
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:00,559
Speaker 1: and their corners in this game. And I the return

1421
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 1: of Ted Ginn, who missed most of the season and

1422
01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:05,320
Speaker 1: certainly did not play in the Week eleven game when

1423
01:10:05,360 --> 01:10:07,560
Speaker 1: the Saints won big anyway, but I think he's a

1424
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 1: big factor in this game because of his vertical dimension.

1425
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 1: The Eagles in that first matchup very often doubled Michael

1426
01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:18,320
Speaker 1: Thomas and Alvin Kamara, and obviously it didn't necessarily help them,

1427
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:20,760
Speaker 1: but they took that approach. I think gin makes it

1428
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:24,160
Speaker 1: difficult to do that, So we'll see. I mean, you know,

1429
01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:25,960
Speaker 1: the Eagles look a lot of people like to talk

1430
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 1: about the magic of Nick falls. I don't know what

1431
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 1: that means. You know, he's won some games, obviously, was

1432
01:10:31,479 --> 01:10:34,800
Speaker 1: great last year in the Super Bowl and before, but

1433
01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:38,679
Speaker 1: you know, the Eagles are not really an explosive offense

1434
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:41,439
Speaker 1: right right, And I agree with you. I think in

1435
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:44,679
Speaker 1: the two NFC games this weekend, I think both visiting

1436
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:48,240
Speaker 1: teams are the best case scenario is a close game

1437
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:51,559
Speaker 1: late because both but both the home teams could get

1438
01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:53,760
Speaker 1: away and jump out quick and then things the lid

1439
01:10:53,880 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 1: comes off. Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean,

1440
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Speaker 1: I think both these games have to be close mid

1441
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:01,800
Speaker 1: third quarter on and then the the away team would

1442
01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 1: have a legitimate chance. But if they're down by you know,

1443
01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 1: two scores whatever is something like that going to the

1444
01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:08,840
Speaker 1: fourth I think it's difficult. Hey, great, thanks for this.

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Speaker 1: I have a great weekend watching these games. You've got

1446
01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 1: the shows on ESPN tomorrow we'll I'll be watching that

1447
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 1: too for more in depth looks at these four games.

1448
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:17,719
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for being with us here today.

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01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 1: Appreciate it, guys, thanks a lot. Great co sal Executive

1450
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Speaker 1: producer Analysts NFL Matchup on ESPN, Senior producer NFL Films,

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Speaker 1: NFL Matchup. Here you go tomorrow four am on ESPN,

1452
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:31,639
Speaker 1: six thirty am on ESPN, eight thirty am on ESPN two.

1453
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Speaker 1: That's when you use your DBRC. There you go. It's right,

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Speaker 1: that's what I mean. It's a great show. I'm a fan,

1455
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:39,600
Speaker 1: but I ain't getting up at four am, but I

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01:11:39,640 --> 01:11:41,800
Speaker 1: will roll tape and watch it later in the day. Yeah,

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01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:43,560
Speaker 1: it's just been a half hour where they worth you know,

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Speaker 1: it's really worth the handle on all these four games. Yeah,

1459
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Speaker 1: and it's nice too because they give you the film

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Speaker 1: study right then they show it and they say, look

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Speaker 1: at this and this is why, and then it's great

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Speaker 1: in South Palatonio and our buddy Manpol and all of

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Speaker 1: them on ESPN, NFL Matchup tomorrow. Okay, a break coming

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Speaker 1: up here. Jplasman's schedule to join when we come back.

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Speaker 1: He just won a National championship with the Clemson Tigers.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to him about it when we return. One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalaida Health from One Bills Drive.

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Speaker 1: And this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back. It's One

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Speaker 1: Goes Live from One Bales Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: and our one Buffalo Studio. Happy Friday, everybody weekend coming up,

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Speaker 1: Big week this past week, Big Monday for our next guest,

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Speaker 1: former Bills quarterback, former first round pick of the Bills

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Speaker 1: back in two thousand and four, spent five seasons with

1474
01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:39,680
Speaker 1: the Bills, also played for the Dolphins and Oakland, one

1475
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:42,840
Speaker 1: season in the UFL, and this past couple of years

1476
01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:46,040
Speaker 1: he was a coaching intern for the new national champions

1477
01:12:46,120 --> 01:12:49,000
Speaker 1: the Clemson Tigers. Happy to have former Bills quarterback J P.

1478
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:51,680
Speaker 1: Lassman on the Subway Fresh Take Hotline with his JP

1479
01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:54,360
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker up here in Buffalo. Thank

1480
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 1: you for coming on in. Congratulations that's big. You won

1481
01:12:57,000 --> 01:13:00,800
Speaker 1: a championship. Yeah, thank you, thank you. Yeah, it is

1482
01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:02,760
Speaker 1: it is big. You know, I don't think it's really

1483
01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:06,040
Speaker 1: all sunking yet, but it's been. It's been a great couple.

1484
01:13:06,200 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 1: It's been a great year. How's it gone for you?

1485
01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 1: I mean you've been there now for two seasons and

1486
01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:13,400
Speaker 1: you've been in that playoff both seasons, and now you've

1487
01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:15,960
Speaker 1: got Trevor Lawrence, You've got some guys you're working with.

1488
01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:18,720
Speaker 1: Are you liking the coaching thing? Are you gonna stick

1489
01:13:18,760 --> 01:13:22,719
Speaker 1: with it? I absolutely love it. Yeah, Yeah, definitely definitely

1490
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:25,519
Speaker 1: gonna stick with it. Um, you know, I'm just having

1491
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 1: I'm having a great time. I mean, I haven't won

1492
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 1: this much in my entire life. So it's the winning

1493
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:32,479
Speaker 1: is a is a lot of fun and so it's

1494
01:13:32,520 --> 01:13:36,720
Speaker 1: contagious and coming to work every day with working with

1495
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:40,640
Speaker 1: someone like coach Sweeney is just it's just often he's uh,

1496
01:13:41,160 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 1: he's he's authentic, he's genuine, you know, he's honest. And

1497
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 1: the entire coaching staff is they're all open books to me,

1498
01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:51,720
Speaker 1: and it's been a great great starts to coaches. Well,

1499
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 1: we've we've you've obviously taken great note to the NFL

1500
01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:56,800
Speaker 1: coaching changes that have happened. I know you're you're well

1501
01:13:56,840 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 1: acquainted with Cliff Kingsbury. He was on in a camp

1502
01:14:00,479 --> 01:14:02,240
Speaker 1: with you as a quarterback here in Buffalo so many

1503
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:05,519
Speaker 1: years ago. Do you keep in touch with him? If

1504
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:08,760
Speaker 1: you guys touch basins? He's gotten the job, and is

1505
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:11,639
Speaker 1: there a chance that you could work for him? Yeah?

1506
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:14,679
Speaker 1: You know who knows, you know, in this coaching business

1507
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:16,680
Speaker 1: and world. I don't know what's going to happen. It's

1508
01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:19,240
Speaker 1: not like people tell you anything. You know, Cliff and

1509
01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:22,120
Speaker 1: I go way back, and we have skept in contact.

1510
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:24,760
Speaker 1: When I first started coaching high school in Connecticut, I

1511
01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:27,559
Speaker 1: was always reaching out to him, and so now here

1512
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:30,200
Speaker 1: it is, and you know what, what an What's just

1513
01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:32,040
Speaker 1: awesome to see him, you know as the head coach

1514
01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:34,960
Speaker 1: at the Arizona Cardinals. I don't know what's going to happen, man,

1515
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 1: but we'll see. We'll find out here shortly. JP going

1516
01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:41,080
Speaker 1: back to coach Dabo Sweeney for a second, I was

1517
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:43,040
Speaker 1: telling Steve the story of a couple of years ago

1518
01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:46,200
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl. The Bills had CJ. Spiller, Clemson

1519
01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:48,920
Speaker 1: guy who was just a spectator at the Senior Bowl,

1520
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:50,680
Speaker 1: and I was talking to him, and Coach Sweeney came

1521
01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:52,600
Speaker 1: to the Senior Bowl with him. He came up in

1522
01:14:52,760 --> 01:14:55,160
Speaker 1: the three of us, me, CJ, and Sweeney, Coach Sweeney

1523
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:57,439
Speaker 1: talked for maybe forty five minutes. What a down to

1524
01:14:57,520 --> 01:14:59,599
Speaker 1: earth guy, what a great guy. I mean, now, he's

1525
01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:02,720
Speaker 1: a Nest Championship head coach and has always been, you know,

1526
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 1: right around national champions for a while. But I can

1527
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:07,400
Speaker 1: I that's the kind of guy that I thought to

1528
01:15:07,479 --> 01:15:09,040
Speaker 1: myself this past week. That's the kind of guy you

1529
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,400
Speaker 1: want to see be a national champion just because of

1530
01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:14,080
Speaker 1: his demeanor and the way he handles people. You must

1531
01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:16,800
Speaker 1: have seen that the last couple of years. Huh. I

1532
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:19,120
Speaker 1: did every day. I'm a daily basis. Like I said,

1533
01:15:19,160 --> 01:15:21,240
Speaker 1: he does authentic of the person that you're ever going

1534
01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:24,120
Speaker 1: to meet. Everything that you see all his interviews, that's

1535
01:15:24,200 --> 01:15:26,960
Speaker 1: exactly how he is in real life. It's how he

1536
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:29,960
Speaker 1: is during Christmas time, you know. I mean, everything he

1537
01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:34,360
Speaker 1: does is very well thought out in authentic. It's I

1538
01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 1: don't know how to explain it. It's just everyone wants

1539
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:38,840
Speaker 1: to know what the secret sauce here in the Clinton

1540
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:40,720
Speaker 1: And then it starts with him. It starts with him,

1541
01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:44,560
Speaker 1: you know, in his leadership and all the people that

1542
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 1: he has surround his program with as all kinds of

1543
01:15:47,360 --> 01:15:51,840
Speaker 1: different leaders around every corner, and all those leaders contribute

1544
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:54,600
Speaker 1: and bring a unique thing to the table. So he

1545
01:15:54,920 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 1: is one often person for sure. JP. What has been

1546
01:15:57,280 --> 01:15:59,680
Speaker 1: your role on his staff over the last couple of years?

1547
01:15:59,720 --> 01:16:01,720
Speaker 1: What on the desks did they give you? What are

1548
01:16:01,720 --> 01:16:05,280
Speaker 1: you been doing as a as a coaching intern. I'm

1549
01:16:05,360 --> 01:16:08,479
Speaker 1: just an intern, man, I don't know. It's it's the

1550
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:11,880
Speaker 1: rules are simple. It's it's fine work and contribute or

1551
01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:15,840
Speaker 1: see you later. You know. Um, you know, but I'm

1552
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:17,600
Speaker 1: in the room with the offensive staff and you know

1553
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:20,360
Speaker 1: that's that's Tony Elliott and Jeff Scott or coordinators as

1554
01:16:20,439 --> 01:16:23,600
Speaker 1: Brandon Street or Robbie call where our online coach and

1555
01:16:23,880 --> 01:16:26,479
Speaker 1: uh so they're there, you know, They're just I'm in

1556
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:28,840
Speaker 1: the room with all the coaches and the analysts we have,

1557
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:31,439
Speaker 1: you know cam aikin just his IQ. It is just

1558
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:33,479
Speaker 1: an analyst and You're like, wait, who's this guy? I

1559
01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:36,080
Speaker 1: never even heard of him? And this is football. IQ

1560
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:39,080
Speaker 1: is off the chain and I'm sitting here doing this guy.

1561
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:42,040
Speaker 1: You know, I'm learning so much football. Everyone's been an

1562
01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:44,960
Speaker 1: open book. All the coaches has been great for me. Um,

1563
01:16:45,080 --> 01:16:47,960
Speaker 1: It's just, uh, and so your job is to help them,

1564
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:50,240
Speaker 1: you know, what was they not thinking about? Make them

1565
01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:52,840
Speaker 1: see something differently, Make um see something that maybe they

1566
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:55,800
Speaker 1: might not put in but maybe they don't call or

1567
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:58,280
Speaker 1: don't feel you know, if there's so many ways to help,

1568
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:00,320
Speaker 1: you have a bunch of duties obviously that you got

1569
01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:03,320
Speaker 1: to fulfill. Some of its city works, some of it's

1570
01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:06,320
Speaker 1: not some of it's printing, some of it's just making copies.

1571
01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:08,280
Speaker 1: You know, you don't know what they're gonna what your

1572
01:17:08,360 --> 01:17:10,680
Speaker 1: job is. It's just it's a it's this is a

1573
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:14,439
Speaker 1: massive program. There's a lot of things to do. Everything

1574
01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:18,599
Speaker 1: is well thought out. Every day, every meeting, the entire

1575
01:17:18,760 --> 01:17:21,960
Speaker 1: year is planned out already for two thousand nineteen, every

1576
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:25,040
Speaker 1: single hour of every day. So there's definitely a lot

1577
01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:28,120
Speaker 1: to do, Um, not just you know, coaching football. What

1578
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,599
Speaker 1: was your job Monday night during the National Championship Game,

1579
01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:32,639
Speaker 1: were you off in the booth down on the sidelines.

1580
01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 1: What do they have you doing? Yeah, so I'm on

1581
01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:37,040
Speaker 1: the sideline. So they made up a new rule this

1582
01:17:37,160 --> 01:17:41,719
Speaker 1: year where there's only sixty sixty people allowed on the sideline.

1583
01:17:41,760 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 1: That means every trainer, every you know, every every water person,

1584
01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:48,680
Speaker 1: every you know, every single person on the side of

1585
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:52,080
Speaker 1: all the coaches. Um, there's only there's only sixty people

1586
01:17:52,200 --> 01:17:54,960
Speaker 1: and that's medical and everybody. So definitely was one of those,

1587
01:17:55,400 --> 01:17:58,240
Speaker 1: which is cool. Um and have been for two years,

1588
01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:00,000
Speaker 1: which is pretty I don't even know how it's happened,

1589
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:02,840
Speaker 1: but there I am, and you know, I'm just there

1590
01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:05,559
Speaker 1: a really much sits a backup streaer, you know whatever,

1591
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:08,280
Speaker 1: studiers has any questions. You know, last year I had headphones,

1592
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:11,280
Speaker 1: so but you don't really talk much because there's too

1593
01:18:11,320 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 1: many chiefs. You know. Everyone said they made a rule

1594
01:18:13,320 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 1: this year where only like eleven people can have headphones.

1595
01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:19,640
Speaker 1: But I'm like, it doesn't matter how many people have

1596
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:22,599
Speaker 1: headphones because there's only so many people that can talk.

1597
01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:25,280
Speaker 1: The players are going in so fast, so you're really

1598
01:18:25,320 --> 01:18:27,880
Speaker 1: just there and listening and really just being an inserant

1599
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:30,760
Speaker 1: and coach Wene giving me an opportunity to sit back

1600
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:33,599
Speaker 1: and learn, watch how this whole thing works, and when

1601
01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:36,439
Speaker 1: the doors closed inside the complex, contribute as much as

1602
01:18:36,479 --> 01:18:38,679
Speaker 1: you can. Well, JP, you had a front row seat

1603
01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:41,400
Speaker 1: to the National Championship game, and for you it's probably

1604
01:18:41,439 --> 01:18:43,120
Speaker 1: an everyday occurs but for a lot of us, it

1605
01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:44,880
Speaker 1: was our first chance to really get a look at

1606
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:47,680
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. And you were a guy that was kind

1607
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 1: of in his shoes, a guy that was highly touted.

1608
01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:52,439
Speaker 1: You got taken in the NFL's first round. And this

1609
01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:55,080
Speaker 1: is a guy that people are already clamoring for him

1610
01:18:55,120 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 1: to declare for the NFL. What what do you see

1611
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:00,920
Speaker 1: in this kid, Trevor Lawrence? How can you help him?

1612
01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:03,960
Speaker 1: What do you see him in his future? Yeah? I

1613
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 1: mean I think I think it's pretty evident, you know,

1614
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:10,080
Speaker 1: I think his future is very very bright. Um obviously, UM,

1615
01:19:10,160 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: I think everybody sees the same thing. But it's being

1616
01:19:13,240 --> 01:19:16,519
Speaker 1: with the kid every day, UM, and watching him, listening

1617
01:19:16,560 --> 01:19:18,519
Speaker 1: to Coach Streeter and how he handles his coaching and

1618
01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:22,000
Speaker 1: how Coach Streetor is you know, you know, mentoring him

1619
01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 1: and teaching him and how it all works. It's, uh,

1620
01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure. I mean, the kids, you know

1621
01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:31,760
Speaker 1: comes from a great family's he's very mature, he's got

1622
01:19:31,840 --> 01:19:35,439
Speaker 1: his head on right, his faith is strong, very spiritual kid.

1623
01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:37,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just the kid is ready to go,

1624
01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:41,280
Speaker 1: and it's just it's just a testament to his upbringing

1625
01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:43,720
Speaker 1: and then it's also a testament to the program. I

1626
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:46,600
Speaker 1: think coach Sweeney has surrounded him with a bunch of

1627
01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 1: different leaders. Like I said, that all contribute in their

1628
01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:52,479
Speaker 1: own unique way. Every coach is talking to Trevor, they're

1629
01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:55,720
Speaker 1: all giving him advice and you know this leadership, encouragement

1630
01:19:55,880 --> 01:19:58,800
Speaker 1: and energy. And that's pretty much all I can do

1631
01:19:58,920 --> 01:20:02,920
Speaker 1: at practice myself is just encourage all the players bring

1632
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:05,439
Speaker 1: the energy every day and that's all I really can do.

1633
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:08,360
Speaker 1: With JP Lassman, former Bill's first round draft pick who

1634
01:20:08,479 --> 01:20:11,200
Speaker 1: just wrapped up his second season as a coaching intern

1635
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:14,639
Speaker 1: with the Clemson Tigers, the new National champions, I wonder

1636
01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 1: in your dealings with Trevor Lawrence, JP, have you had

1637
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:19,720
Speaker 1: an opportunity to talk to him about NFL life and

1638
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:21,880
Speaker 1: what it's like to be a quarterback. You have kind

1639
01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:24,080
Speaker 1: of a unique perspective as a former first round pick

1640
01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:26,840
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the NFL. Probably what Trevor Lawrence is

1641
01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:29,559
Speaker 1: looking at in a couple of years, right, Yeah, true,

1642
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:31,600
Speaker 1: But all that stuff happens naturally and he's going to

1643
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:34,000
Speaker 1: figure it out on itself. He has a specific question.

1644
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:36,120
Speaker 1: You know, we kind of talk about it, but it's

1645
01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:38,599
Speaker 1: more jokingly like I think at this stage, when you're

1646
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: that good, at this young of age, I think you

1647
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:43,960
Speaker 1: know what's about to happen. Trevor definitely knows what's about

1648
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:46,519
Speaker 1: to happen, and so he just needs to make sure that,

1649
01:20:47,479 --> 01:20:48,600
Speaker 1: you know, I don't really think he needs to make

1650
01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:50,559
Speaker 1: sure if anything, he's to be himself, you know. I mean,

1651
01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:53,280
Speaker 1: like I said, he's surrounded by so much good leadership

1652
01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:55,880
Speaker 1: and starting with coach Sweeney that you know, the kids

1653
01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:59,599
Speaker 1: future is very very bright. What did you notice around

1654
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:02,719
Speaker 1: your not just for Trevor Lawrence, but other players on Clemson.

1655
01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:04,400
Speaker 1: Who are some names? Do you have a handful of

1656
01:21:04,520 --> 01:21:07,559
Speaker 1: names that are eligible for the NFL Draft that may

1657
01:21:07,640 --> 01:21:10,320
Speaker 1: come out that maybe not everybody around the country knows,

1658
01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:12,840
Speaker 1: but you see on a daily basis and know how

1659
01:21:12,920 --> 01:21:14,439
Speaker 1: good these young men can be. Do you have a

1660
01:21:14,479 --> 01:21:18,120
Speaker 1: handful of names? Oh yeah, Ilie, we got the list today,

1661
01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:22,040
Speaker 1: but I gotta let them share their news. Whoever's gonna leave,

1662
01:21:22,080 --> 01:21:25,519
Speaker 1: who's not gonna leave, who's coming back, who's not. That's

1663
01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:27,680
Speaker 1: tough for them to tell the world. But there's so

1664
01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:30,160
Speaker 1: many great players on our team. And I think that

1665
01:21:30,320 --> 01:21:32,960
Speaker 1: the players that I were, you know, I mean, I mean,

1666
01:21:33,360 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 1: it just talks about Justin Roth and te Higgins. I mean,

1667
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:38,759
Speaker 1: those guys are first rounders right now in my books.

1668
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 1: You know, they're just unbelievable wide receivers, and they're he

1669
01:21:42,560 --> 01:21:45,720
Speaker 1: just turned eighteen years old, like two weeks ago. You're like,

1670
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:48,360
Speaker 1: I could not believe, you know, he's playing an entire

1671
01:21:48,439 --> 01:21:51,000
Speaker 1: year at seventeen years old and making these many plays

1672
01:21:51,040 --> 01:21:52,800
Speaker 1: and chaptains. I see it every day at practice. It's

1673
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:57,040
Speaker 1: just it's phenomenal to see. Hey, JP. In Tuesday around

1674
01:21:57,080 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo, you probably were this a lot of

1675
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:03,360
Speaker 1: people were talking about Clemson's victory over Alabama forty four

1676
01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:05,680
Speaker 1: to sixteen and talking about the last time a Nick

1677
01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:08,280
Speaker 1: Saban team was beaten to that extent. Did you come

1678
01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:09,960
Speaker 1: across this? A lot of people pointing back to the

1679
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:12,920
Speaker 1: Dolphins Bills game in two thousand and six, when you

1680
01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:15,240
Speaker 1: led the Bills to a twenty one to nothing victory

1681
01:22:15,280 --> 01:22:17,280
Speaker 1: over Nick Saban and the Miami Dolphins. Did you come

1682
01:22:17,280 --> 01:22:19,680
Speaker 1: across that and all this week? I thought it was

1683
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:24,080
Speaker 1: an interesting stat, you know, definitely, yeah it is. I

1684
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:27,360
Speaker 1: that was definitely more good news piled on after you

1685
01:22:27,439 --> 01:22:29,479
Speaker 1: win the national championship. I come off the field and

1686
01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:32,560
Speaker 1: everyone's telling me all these all the stats. I'm like,

1687
01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 1: just piled on. It feels so good right now. I

1688
01:22:36,400 --> 01:22:38,840
Speaker 1: didn't know before the game, but I definitely try to

1689
01:22:38,840 --> 01:22:40,360
Speaker 1: tell him I had a good record again for the

1690
01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:42,559
Speaker 1: last years, you know, and so I was like, uh,

1691
01:22:42,840 --> 01:22:44,680
Speaker 1: you can go back and watch those games. But now

1692
01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:47,160
Speaker 1: he changed some things up. But it was definitely a

1693
01:22:47,240 --> 01:22:49,479
Speaker 1: fun stat and fun to see someone dig it up

1694
01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:52,920
Speaker 1: and for its to come out. What's next, JP, What

1695
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:54,800
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? Did you get to stay as

1696
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:56,519
Speaker 1: an intern at Clemson or are you looking for the

1697
01:22:56,960 --> 01:23:00,400
Speaker 1: next step in your coaching career. I have no idea

1698
01:23:00,439 --> 01:23:02,679
Speaker 1: what's about to happen. I mean, I just I don't

1699
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 1: even think it's suck in yet that we won the

1700
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:06,760
Speaker 1: national championship. We have a parade here in the next

1701
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:10,360
Speaker 1: day or two, and uh, you know, I definitely will

1702
01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:12,439
Speaker 1: tell you that. You know, some doors I've been starting

1703
01:23:12,479 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 1: to open. I don't know what that means. It's just

1704
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:16,479
Speaker 1: a bunch of talk right now, So I don't know

1705
01:23:16,560 --> 01:23:18,400
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. All I know is I'm having

1706
01:23:18,400 --> 01:23:21,160
Speaker 1: a great time right now, enjoying every second of it.

1707
01:23:21,360 --> 01:23:23,320
Speaker 1: And uh and we'll just have to wait and see them.

1708
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:26,040
Speaker 1: And this is football, as you know, has always been

1709
01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:29,519
Speaker 1: the ultimate reality TV show. You know. Yeah, as soon

1710
01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:33,200
Speaker 1: as I find out some you probably know before I do. Hey,

1711
01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:34,800
Speaker 1: last time we talked to you about it a year

1712
01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:36,160
Speaker 1: and a half ago, we had you on the show

1713
01:23:36,200 --> 01:23:39,040
Speaker 1: and uh, you you're also a family guy. You got

1714
01:23:39,080 --> 01:23:40,840
Speaker 1: a young family. Give us an update on your kids

1715
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:44,880
Speaker 1: and all that's going. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, we got

1716
01:23:45,320 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 1: we have three boys, three wild wild boys, um six,

1717
01:23:50,479 --> 01:23:53,920
Speaker 1: five and two and if you can imagine having kids

1718
01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:56,599
Speaker 1: that age, I mean, and just as wild as all

1719
01:23:56,640 --> 01:24:00,519
Speaker 1: can be, multile they have girls, you know, color for

1720
01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:03,840
Speaker 1: forty five minutes our most boys, they're just not as

1721
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:06,840
Speaker 1: energetic as as my boy. So I definitely got my

1722
01:24:06,880 --> 01:24:11,439
Speaker 1: handful on a daily basis. Congratulations, and we wish you

1723
01:24:11,479 --> 01:24:13,160
Speaker 1: the best time we know, and I think probably we'll

1724
01:24:13,240 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 1: hear you. We'll hear your name affiliated with coaching spots

1725
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:20,479
Speaker 1: as your career progresses. Good luck to you. JP has

1726
01:24:20,520 --> 01:24:23,080
Speaker 1: been great talking to you. Thanks guys. Nice to talk

1727
01:24:23,080 --> 01:24:25,559
Speaker 1: to you guys beginning. Hear your boy Thanks J. P. Lassman,

1728
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:28,600
Speaker 1: former Bills quarterbacks. He's got a national championship now and

1729
01:24:28,640 --> 01:24:30,680
Speaker 1: a ring coming from the Clemson Tigers, where he was

1730
01:24:30,720 --> 01:24:33,640
Speaker 1: a coaching intern. This past year, JP joined us on

1731
01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:37,000
Speaker 1: the Subway Fresh State compline presented by Subway Restaurants, probably

1732
01:24:37,040 --> 01:24:39,360
Speaker 1: be locally owned and operated. Who knows that might work

1733
01:24:39,439 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 1: out with Arizona right. Cliff Kingsbury, the new head coach

1734
01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:46,000
Speaker 1: of the Arizona Cardinals, spent a summer in camp with

1735
01:24:46,080 --> 01:24:48,880
Speaker 1: the Bills oh six, I believe it was, and JP

1736
01:24:49,120 --> 01:24:51,280
Speaker 1: was there. They got close for a little while. I

1737
01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:54,559
Speaker 1: don't know if they're close buddies, but I have heard contact. Yeah,

1738
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 1: I've heard from a couple of people that JP might

1739
01:24:57,080 --> 01:24:59,120
Speaker 1: be on the list of guys that Kingsbury might reach

1740
01:24:59,160 --> 01:25:01,760
Speaker 1: out to as he puts together his staff in Arizona.

1741
01:25:01,960 --> 01:25:04,880
Speaker 1: JP obviously being quite about his future, which I don't play.

1742
01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:06,680
Speaker 1: He may not know anything and he may and it

1743
01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:08,960
Speaker 1: may not be finalized. He doesn't want to say anything.

1744
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:12,040
Speaker 1: And we also asked him about your interest it's different

1745
01:25:12,320 --> 01:25:14,280
Speaker 1: at the college level than obviously is here. He is.

1746
01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:16,560
Speaker 1: They just got a list today of the kids that

1747
01:25:16,640 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 1: are staying at Clemson and the ones that are going

1748
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:20,559
Speaker 1: to go to the NFL Draft, and he didn't want

1749
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:23,280
Speaker 1: to share that with us because those kids need to

1750
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:25,120
Speaker 1: share it with their families. I mean, it's that fresh.

1751
01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:26,960
Speaker 1: And that's what happens on the week after the National

1752
01:25:27,080 --> 01:25:30,400
Speaker 1: Championship game right now, especially when you win. Yeah, good

1753
01:25:30,439 --> 01:25:32,559
Speaker 1: for him. Congratulations to JPM. We thank you for being

1754
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 1: on the show with A Steve and I coming back

1755
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:36,200
Speaker 1: with more One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive and

1756
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:52,800
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to the show,

1757
01:25:52,880 --> 01:25:55,439
Speaker 1: John Murphy and c Chansker One Bills Live from One

1758
01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:58,720
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. Great to hear JP Lassman again. As I said,

1759
01:25:58,760 --> 01:26:00,160
Speaker 1: I noticed it a year and a half ago had

1760
01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:01,920
Speaker 1: him on the show. I was just so much more

1761
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:03,880
Speaker 1: mature now to hear him talk about his kids. A

1762
01:26:03,960 --> 01:26:08,599
Speaker 1: couple of interesting tweets on Lostman too, Joeann Peters tweets

1763
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 1: and wishing Lostman nothing but the best, which she could

1764
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:12,800
Speaker 1: have been our franchise quarterback. He was a good person

1765
01:26:12,880 --> 01:26:15,599
Speaker 1: who really got involved in the city. Go Tigers. She's

1766
01:26:15,680 --> 01:26:19,479
Speaker 1: right about that. That was William Johnson junior tweets and

1767
01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:22,000
Speaker 1: that was an awesome segment. Always have a soft spot

1768
01:26:22,040 --> 01:26:24,439
Speaker 1: for that Number seven. Wish him nothing but the best.

1769
01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:29,120
Speaker 1: Kevin g JP was a tough dude. Always rooted for him. Yeah,

1770
01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:33,599
Speaker 1: you know, a controversial figure. Obviously, probably did not belong

1771
01:26:33,680 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 1: in the first round. When the Bills drafted him, they

1772
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:38,280
Speaker 1: were I think desperate right at that point, right after

1773
01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:41,400
Speaker 1: Roether Struger got drafted, and so they chose a lostman.

1774
01:26:41,439 --> 01:26:43,840
Speaker 1: Tom Dona Hopel the trigger and chose lostman. I think

1775
01:26:43,880 --> 01:26:46,080
Speaker 1: he was plugged into the lineup too early, after just

1776
01:26:46,240 --> 01:26:48,519
Speaker 1: one year of apprenticeship under Drew Bledsoe. I don't think

1777
01:26:48,520 --> 01:26:50,560
Speaker 1: he was ready for that, and he played hard, he

1778
01:26:50,600 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 1: gave it his best. He didn't always make the right

1779
01:26:52,439 --> 01:26:56,120
Speaker 1: decisions on the field, but he was pretty good off

1780
01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:59,400
Speaker 1: the field, I thought, and a pretty good had potentially

1781
01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:01,760
Speaker 1: be a pretty good leader. It's unfortunate it didn't work out,

1782
01:27:01,800 --> 01:27:04,000
Speaker 1: you know, a first round quarterback that did not work

1783
01:27:04,040 --> 01:27:06,519
Speaker 1: out here. But well, I love the fact that, and

1784
01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:09,320
Speaker 1: I think it's an important lesson for me to absorb

1785
01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:11,400
Speaker 1: and for all of us that these guys are young

1786
01:27:11,479 --> 01:27:14,479
Speaker 1: guys when they get here. And now here's JP Lassman,

1787
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:17,080
Speaker 1: you know, so many years later after he was drafted,

1788
01:27:17,120 --> 01:27:19,519
Speaker 1: here what ten twelve years later as a as a

1789
01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:21,599
Speaker 1: you know, a full grown man now making his way

1790
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:23,800
Speaker 1: through the world. It's good to see. I'm happy for him. Yeah,

1791
01:27:23,800 --> 01:27:26,479
Speaker 1: and I think too, you got to acknowledge that we

1792
01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:28,360
Speaker 1: can do it, I guess more than a decade later.

1793
01:27:28,479 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 1: And it wasn't a real good organization around him at

1794
01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:34,120
Speaker 1: that time. You know, it was dysfunctional in a couple

1795
01:27:34,280 --> 01:27:35,760
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. They didn't have it. You know,

1796
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:37,599
Speaker 1: he can't say there's a ton of talent around him,

1797
01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:40,599
Speaker 1: certainly not a you know, we don't have quarterback. Didn't

1798
01:27:40,600 --> 01:27:42,800
Speaker 1: have a quarterback whisper at that point to give him

1799
01:27:43,320 --> 01:27:45,640
Speaker 1: the things he needed to do to help. And it

1800
01:27:45,800 --> 01:27:49,600
Speaker 1: was just a different setup back then. The league was

1801
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:53,040
Speaker 1: a lot different a decade ago. It's more different than

1802
01:27:53,040 --> 01:27:56,800
Speaker 1: it is now. And a lot of let's let's face it,

1803
01:27:57,560 --> 01:28:00,000
Speaker 1: people in Buffalo know as well as anybody around the league,

1804
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:01,320
Speaker 1: you've got to have a lot of things in place

1805
01:28:01,360 --> 01:28:03,720
Speaker 1: for a young quarterback to come in and acclimate. And

1806
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:06,439
Speaker 1: I don't know that JP was ready to acclimate as

1807
01:28:06,960 --> 01:28:10,080
Speaker 1: like he would be now. He's a much different guy now.

1808
01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:11,680
Speaker 1: You can tell by talking to him and the way

1809
01:28:11,720 --> 01:28:14,240
Speaker 1: he was here then and where he's coming. They listen

1810
01:28:14,280 --> 01:28:17,120
Speaker 1: to him talk about the leadership that he's around now. Uh,

1811
01:28:17,240 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 1: certainly I would question whether that leadership was president in

1812
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:23,280
Speaker 1: the organization to the extent that it is around him

1813
01:28:23,320 --> 01:28:26,880
Speaker 1: now at Clemson. Uh, but I don't you know, let's

1814
01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:30,439
Speaker 1: face it, that club wasn't ready to win when they

1815
01:28:30,520 --> 01:28:34,200
Speaker 1: drafted him, and right, and he wasn't ready to play.

1816
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:37,200
Speaker 1: He wasn't ready, you're said, I think that there's no

1817
01:28:37,320 --> 01:28:38,640
Speaker 1: question he was a little bit of a reach when

1818
01:28:38,640 --> 01:28:41,519
Speaker 1: they traded up to get him or took him at

1819
01:28:41,680 --> 01:28:43,880
Speaker 1: what was a nineteenth pick. I think they had. And

1820
01:28:45,400 --> 01:28:48,600
Speaker 1: so the life, Yeah, life goes on. But obviously a

1821
01:28:48,720 --> 01:28:52,679
Speaker 1: lot of guys go on to as good as football

1822
01:28:52,720 --> 01:28:55,120
Speaker 1: treats him, they go on to bigger and better things

1823
01:28:55,439 --> 01:28:57,800
Speaker 1: after they leave. And good for him, good for JP

1824
01:28:57,960 --> 01:29:01,840
Speaker 1: at How about him being being a coaching intern on

1825
01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:04,880
Speaker 1: the staff with Dabo Sweeney in the National Championship Game,

1826
01:29:04,960 --> 01:29:07,639
Speaker 1: being on the sidelines for the last two years, working

1827
01:29:07,680 --> 01:29:10,360
Speaker 1: with a kid like Trevor Lawrence, watching him work, watching

1828
01:29:10,400 --> 01:29:13,200
Speaker 1: the coaches work with him. Man, that's a what a

1829
01:29:13,439 --> 01:29:16,719
Speaker 1: fun environment. It sounds like m JP. To answer your question,

1830
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:18,960
Speaker 1: the Bills didn't trade into the first round. They got

1831
01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:21,479
Speaker 1: Leevans or their first pick, and OH four traded back

1832
01:29:21,479 --> 01:29:24,120
Speaker 1: into the first round by trading their second round pick

1833
01:29:24,160 --> 01:29:27,080
Speaker 1: to Dallas that year and moved up to get Jplassman

1834
01:29:27,160 --> 01:29:29,320
Speaker 1: with the twenty second pick in the first round. The

1835
01:29:29,400 --> 01:29:33,200
Speaker 1: same draft in nineteen was what they say. I was

1836
01:29:33,240 --> 01:29:35,519
Speaker 1: sorry two thousand and four, four same draft that had

1837
01:29:35,560 --> 01:29:38,760
Speaker 1: Eli Manning, Philip Rivers, and Ben Roethlisberger on top of him.

1838
01:29:38,800 --> 01:29:42,120
Speaker 1: So JP was the fourth of those quarterbacks, and obviously

1839
01:29:42,160 --> 01:29:44,000
Speaker 1: he did not belong in that company. I mean, it's

1840
01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:45,920
Speaker 1: plain to say he just did not belong in that

1841
01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:48,080
Speaker 1: first round company as those guys. But the Bills were

1842
01:29:48,120 --> 01:29:50,639
Speaker 1: desperate for quarterbacks and that's what they did. But good

1843
01:29:50,640 --> 01:29:52,880
Speaker 1: for him. I'm happy for him. Got a national championship now,

1844
01:29:53,240 --> 01:29:56,720
Speaker 1: and I think he was He didn't want to say,

1845
01:29:56,760 --> 01:29:58,720
Speaker 1: but I do think it sounds like he's got he's

1846
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:01,000
Speaker 1: got some interest in moving. I mean, two years is

1847
01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:04,800
Speaker 1: a coaching intern with the Clemson Tigers. It's probably for

1848
01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:06,960
Speaker 1: his professional development time for him to move on and

1849
01:30:07,040 --> 01:30:09,519
Speaker 1: get a real jealous And when it sounds like he's

1850
01:30:09,640 --> 01:30:12,639
Speaker 1: positioned well to do that, now you say it exactly right, Murph,

1851
01:30:12,680 --> 01:30:15,880
Speaker 1: When when he signed up to be a coach, it's

1852
01:30:15,920 --> 01:30:18,479
Speaker 1: a it's a two year window here, a two year

1853
01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:21,960
Speaker 1: window there, a two year window there, a year window here,

1854
01:30:22,040 --> 01:30:24,439
Speaker 1: a three year window here, and then you're you know,

1855
01:30:24,640 --> 01:30:28,439
Speaker 1: you're your final You're just you know, your whole life

1856
01:30:28,479 --> 01:30:30,600
Speaker 1: has lived out basically at of a tent. You know,

1857
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:33,600
Speaker 1: you're moving around the country at these different places and

1858
01:30:33,640 --> 01:30:36,679
Speaker 1: at different levels and at different you know, like, for instance,

1859
01:30:36,680 --> 01:30:39,519
Speaker 1: a guy like JP, he could go from where he's

1860
01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:43,519
Speaker 1: at now into a coordinator spot at a Division two

1861
01:30:43,600 --> 01:30:46,760
Speaker 1: school or at a at a lesser conference like a

1862
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:49,439
Speaker 1: MAC conference. You come in and be a coordinator at

1863
01:30:49,479 --> 01:30:52,439
Speaker 1: one of those schools and then move on from there

1864
01:30:52,479 --> 01:30:55,639
Speaker 1: and maybe move into another coordinator at a higher level.

1865
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:57,200
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is for coaches. And then

1866
01:30:57,600 --> 01:30:59,320
Speaker 1: plus two, you get to a point where you get

1867
01:30:59,360 --> 01:31:01,960
Speaker 1: into a place in there all get fired. Now you're

1868
01:31:01,960 --> 01:31:04,559
Speaker 1: scrambling just trying to find a job at whatever level

1869
01:31:04,640 --> 01:31:06,760
Speaker 1: you can find. I mean that that's in the bucket too.

1870
01:31:06,800 --> 01:31:08,400
Speaker 1: When you sign up to be a coach, But you're right,

1871
01:31:08,800 --> 01:31:11,240
Speaker 1: two years is a coaching intern in that program at

1872
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:13,479
Speaker 1: this point in history. It's a nice little thing to

1873
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:15,599
Speaker 1: have on your resume. Yeah, he's thirty seven years old,

1874
01:31:15,680 --> 01:31:19,320
Speaker 1: JP as he was twenty three years old when he

1875
01:31:19,400 --> 01:31:21,280
Speaker 1: was drafted by the Bills twenty four as a starter.

1876
01:31:21,760 --> 01:31:24,479
Speaker 1: I mean, I think how we work at it's just

1877
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:26,400
Speaker 1: look at you. Look at the rights out at age

1878
01:31:26,439 --> 01:31:29,600
Speaker 1: thirty seven. Yeah, thing's happened. Good for him, Happy for Jplassman.

1879
01:31:29,680 --> 01:31:31,599
Speaker 1: We thank you for joining us. We're gonna take a break.

1880
01:31:31,640 --> 01:31:33,640
Speaker 1: We got another one in Western New York's favorites coming up.

1881
01:31:33,680 --> 01:31:37,080
Speaker 1: Daryld Johnston, the Moose who has won his Super Bowls

1882
01:31:37,120 --> 01:31:40,439
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys at the expense of the local team.

1883
01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:42,679
Speaker 1: But he's got another thing going on now. He's general

1884
01:31:42,720 --> 01:31:45,040
Speaker 1: manager of a new team in the Alliance of American Football.

1885
01:31:45,240 --> 01:31:47,240
Speaker 1: Plus he's got some thoughts on the Cowboys game at

1886
01:31:47,240 --> 01:31:49,800
Speaker 1: the Rams this weekend. Moose Johnson schedule to join us

1887
01:31:49,800 --> 01:31:51,880
Speaker 1: when we return. Come on back. One Bills Live from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive And this is Buffalo Bills radiol S

1889
01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:11,040
Speaker 1: Radio Network Stories Update from One Bill's Drive. Boards. Pretty quiet,

1890
01:32:11,080 --> 01:32:13,840
Speaker 1: but there's action around the NFL on coaching moves, Los

1891
01:32:13,880 --> 01:32:16,680
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams quarterbacks coach Zach Taylor is said to be

1892
01:32:16,760 --> 01:32:20,400
Speaker 1: the Bengals top choices their next head coach. According to ESPN,

1893
01:32:20,479 --> 01:32:23,479
Speaker 1: they'd like to hire Taylor after the Rams season ends.

1894
01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:26,040
Speaker 1: The Rams still in the playoffs, so they cannot negotiate

1895
01:32:26,080 --> 01:32:28,639
Speaker 1: a contract yet. Zach Taylor just thirty five years old.

1896
01:32:28,680 --> 01:32:31,880
Speaker 1: He was offensive coordinator for the University of Cincinnati in

1897
01:32:31,920 --> 01:32:35,120
Speaker 1: two sixteen, and sourts to say he wants to return there.

1898
01:32:35,360 --> 01:32:37,320
Speaker 1: Some of the other moves on coaches around the NFL,

1899
01:32:37,400 --> 01:32:40,559
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens have promoted Greg Roman to replace Marty

1900
01:32:40,640 --> 01:32:44,120
Speaker 1: morning Wick as offensive coordinator. That's a significant move in

1901
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:46,920
Speaker 1: the development of quarterback Lamar Jackson. Roman. This is his

1902
01:32:47,080 --> 01:32:50,080
Speaker 1: third offensive coordinator Jobby and the role under Jim Harbaugh

1903
01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:52,240
Speaker 1: in San Francisco and then came here to Buffalo for

1904
01:32:52,320 --> 01:32:54,559
Speaker 1: a little bit more than a year. Around the NFL,

1905
01:32:54,680 --> 01:32:57,879
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals have announced the hiring of Vance Joseph,

1906
01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:01,680
Speaker 1: just released as the Denver Broncos head coach, as Arizona's

1907
01:33:01,680 --> 01:33:06,440
Speaker 1: new defensive coordinator. Steve Sarkisian closing in on the offensive

1908
01:33:06,439 --> 01:33:09,040
Speaker 1: coordinator job. It's said to be with the Arizona Cardinals,

1909
01:33:09,240 --> 01:33:12,880
Speaker 1: and the Jets talking with Greg Williams apparently today about

1910
01:33:12,920 --> 01:33:16,320
Speaker 1: their vacancy at defensive coordinator. Antonio Brown is not going

1911
01:33:16,360 --> 01:33:19,240
Speaker 1: to be released by the Pittsburgh Steelers, but Steelers owner

1912
01:33:19,320 --> 01:33:22,559
Speaker 1: and president Art Rooney says all options are on the table.

1913
01:33:22,840 --> 01:33:24,840
Speaker 1: He said it'd be hard to envision Brown as part

1914
01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:27,679
Speaker 1: of the team when they report the training camp in July. Meantime,

1915
01:33:27,760 --> 01:33:31,759
Speaker 1: four games this weekend as the divisional playoffs take center stage.

1916
01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:35,400
Speaker 1: Starts Tomorrow four thirty five pm Indianapolis and Kansas City

1917
01:33:35,720 --> 01:33:38,679
Speaker 1: in the AFC. The night game tomorrow eight fifteen pm

1918
01:33:39,040 --> 01:33:41,840
Speaker 1: Dallas and the Los Angeles Rams. On Sunday one oh

1919
01:33:41,960 --> 01:33:45,360
Speaker 1: five pm kickoff AFC the Chargers at New England, followed

1920
01:33:45,400 --> 01:33:47,639
Speaker 1: by the Eagles at New Orleans at four forty pm.

1921
01:33:47,960 --> 01:33:50,360
Speaker 1: Hockey Now, the Buffalo Sabers get Jack I called back

1922
01:33:50,439 --> 01:33:53,200
Speaker 1: in the lineup tonight against the Carolina Hurriccanes. He's missed

1923
01:33:53,200 --> 01:33:56,640
Speaker 1: the last three Savers games with an injury and undisclosed

1924
01:33:57,040 --> 01:34:00,160
Speaker 1: upper body injury. The upper body has healed an so

1925
01:34:00,240 --> 01:34:03,240
Speaker 1: that he can play tonight against Carolina. Jeff Skinner returns

1926
01:34:03,280 --> 01:34:05,600
Speaker 1: to Carolina for that game tonight. Skinner just named to

1927
01:34:05,640 --> 01:34:08,280
Speaker 1: the All Star Game and the NHL All Star last

1928
01:34:08,400 --> 01:34:10,920
Speaker 1: men in He's one of three named to the NHL

1929
01:34:10,920 --> 01:34:13,519
Speaker 1: All Star Game, plus a couple of college basketball games tonight.

1930
01:34:13,840 --> 01:34:17,960
Speaker 1: Cannsius plays Ryder tonight seven o'clock at the Kessler Center

1931
01:34:18,160 --> 01:34:19,920
Speaker 1: and Niagarah home against Iona. I'll be going to the

1932
01:34:19,920 --> 01:34:22,960
Speaker 1: Cannesius game tonight, Steve, very nice, looking forward to Good

1933
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:27,679
Speaker 1: for you, congratulations. I think I'll have fun. Still waiting

1934
01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:30,519
Speaker 1: for my interest. We'll get you there. There's only been

1935
01:34:30,520 --> 01:34:32,720
Speaker 1: a couple of games joining us right now on the

1936
01:34:32,920 --> 01:34:35,680
Speaker 1: subway fresh a hotline. Happy to have native Western New

1937
01:34:35,760 --> 01:34:38,439
Speaker 1: Yorker who knows all about Niagara Kinnesius in those teams.

1938
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:41,880
Speaker 1: Daryl Johnston, the Moose NFL on Fox analysts eleven seasons

1939
01:34:41,920 --> 01:34:44,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL and the current general manager of the

1940
01:34:44,160 --> 01:34:47,639
Speaker 1: San Antonio Commanders of the Alliance of American Football Moose.

1941
01:34:47,720 --> 01:34:50,439
Speaker 1: I'm guessing young Moose and Youngstown probably went to a

1942
01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:54,360
Speaker 1: couple of Niagara Purple Legal games when you were a youngster. Hunt. Yes, yes,

1943
01:34:54,520 --> 01:34:57,920
Speaker 1: Actually the one I remember was when Syracuse came to

1944
01:34:57,920 --> 01:34:59,840
Speaker 1: play and I got to see Roosevelt boie. Oh yeah,

1945
01:35:00,320 --> 01:35:02,880
Speaker 1: come in and play. Yeah, that one stands out. That

1946
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:05,200
Speaker 1: was enough to get you to commit to Syracuse. Right,

1947
01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:08,400
Speaker 1: who want to know in years later down the road, right,

1948
01:35:08,640 --> 01:35:11,240
Speaker 1: tell us, I know you're probably eyeballs deep in the

1949
01:35:11,520 --> 01:35:17,880
Speaker 1: uh in the in the alf I'm sorry you and

1950
01:35:17,960 --> 01:35:20,600
Speaker 1: you are practiced yesterday. Give us a little synopsis A

1951
01:35:20,640 --> 01:35:25,639
Speaker 1: thumbnail of the San Antonio Commanders. It's been good, it's

1952
01:35:25,680 --> 01:35:27,280
Speaker 1: been really good. I think that people are going to

1953
01:35:27,320 --> 01:35:30,759
Speaker 1: be very surprised and impressed by the quality of football

1954
01:35:30,760 --> 01:35:32,880
Speaker 1: that we're going to put out there on the field. So, um,

1955
01:35:33,280 --> 01:35:35,439
Speaker 1: the cool thing about it is the allocation process to

1956
01:35:35,479 --> 01:35:37,719
Speaker 1: get our guys. We've got a lot of Texas ties

1957
01:35:38,200 --> 01:35:39,960
Speaker 1: on our roster, and we also have some guys from

1958
01:35:39,960 --> 01:35:42,560
Speaker 1: the East Coast, upper Midwest, and West coast. But for

1959
01:35:43,720 --> 01:35:46,120
Speaker 1: the majority of our roster, they know about each other

1960
01:35:46,320 --> 01:35:48,640
Speaker 1: or they do know each other, have competed against each other,

1961
01:35:48,840 --> 01:35:51,200
Speaker 1: you know, in high school and even college. Um, so

1962
01:35:51,360 --> 01:35:53,639
Speaker 1: the chemistry of the team has come together very quickly.

1963
01:35:53,960 --> 01:35:56,400
Speaker 1: We've been very impressed with that component of it, and

1964
01:35:56,439 --> 01:35:59,280
Speaker 1: I think that that's, uh, that's something that's very important.

1965
01:35:59,360 --> 01:36:03,040
Speaker 1: So we're going to be talented, but the chemistry thing

1966
01:36:03,120 --> 01:36:05,000
Speaker 1: is the thing that we're really trying to focus on

1967
01:36:05,120 --> 01:36:07,040
Speaker 1: and work on. And I've seen teams that are very

1968
01:36:07,080 --> 01:36:09,400
Speaker 1: talented not reached the potential that they've had. And then

1969
01:36:09,439 --> 01:36:11,760
Speaker 1: I've seen teams that maybe don't have the talent levels

1970
01:36:11,800 --> 01:36:13,760
Speaker 1: on the other teams just jail really well together and

1971
01:36:13,800 --> 01:36:16,320
Speaker 1: get on some great runs. So we're trying to We're

1972
01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:18,280
Speaker 1: trying to balance both of those and create both of those,

1973
01:36:18,360 --> 01:36:20,400
Speaker 1: and we've been very impressed with the guys so far

1974
01:36:20,479 --> 01:36:22,200
Speaker 1: through the first six days of practice. We'll talk to

1975
01:36:22,280 --> 01:36:24,160
Speaker 1: me a little bit about your head coach. Mike Riley

1976
01:36:24,200 --> 01:36:27,160
Speaker 1: obviously a name that a lot of people in football

1977
01:36:27,320 --> 01:36:30,920
Speaker 1: know about. What kind of philosophy is he going to

1978
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:33,000
Speaker 1: have when you guys take the field on opening day

1979
01:36:33,040 --> 01:36:37,360
Speaker 1: against the San Diego Fleet. Mike is Mike is awesome.

1980
01:36:37,439 --> 01:36:40,599
Speaker 1: And it's funny because when everybody heard and the news

1981
01:36:40,680 --> 01:36:42,920
Speaker 1: broke that Mike and I would be working together in

1982
01:36:42,960 --> 01:36:46,200
Speaker 1: San Antonio's head coach and GM, I got multiple phone

1983
01:36:46,200 --> 01:36:48,679
Speaker 1: calls from people in the NFL who I really really respect,

1984
01:36:48,760 --> 01:36:50,840
Speaker 1: and they said, you're going to enjoy this. Mike is

1985
01:36:50,920 --> 01:36:54,080
Speaker 1: one of the nicest guys in football. And he hates

1986
01:36:54,160 --> 01:36:57,200
Speaker 1: to hear that because he wants to be considered kind

1987
01:36:57,240 --> 01:36:59,040
Speaker 1: of the you know, the drills argent. But he creates

1988
01:36:59,080 --> 01:37:02,519
Speaker 1: such a great demeanor at practice, in the meeting room.

1989
01:37:03,000 --> 01:37:08,479
Speaker 1: His messaging, it's firm, it's he is a great guy.

1990
01:37:08,600 --> 01:37:09,960
Speaker 1: He is a nice guy. He's not a yell or,

1991
01:37:09,960 --> 01:37:13,120
Speaker 1: he's not a screamer, but he's very firm. He holds

1992
01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:15,360
Speaker 1: the guy's accountable. You know, the mental part of the

1993
01:37:15,439 --> 01:37:18,639
Speaker 1: game is very important in the teaching process. He's assembled

1994
01:37:18,640 --> 01:37:21,600
Speaker 1: a great staff. Our offensive line coach is outstanding, Our

1995
01:37:21,640 --> 01:37:24,759
Speaker 1: wide receiver coach as sin Almena. We've got Bill Bradley

1996
01:37:25,120 --> 01:37:28,320
Speaker 1: working with our corners. We've got Jim Grove coordinating the defense.

1997
01:37:28,360 --> 01:37:29,920
Speaker 1: So we've we've got names that are out there, and

1998
01:37:29,920 --> 01:37:32,040
Speaker 1: then we've got a lot of youths sprinkled into that

1999
01:37:32,160 --> 01:37:34,200
Speaker 1: brings some of the new ideas from the college games.

2000
01:37:34,240 --> 01:37:36,560
Speaker 1: So we will be running, you know, some of the

2001
01:37:36,720 --> 01:37:40,240
Speaker 1: RPO stuff that you seem. But one of the things

2002
01:37:40,280 --> 01:37:42,160
Speaker 1: that I've learned about Mike is when he was down

2003
01:37:42,200 --> 01:37:44,320
Speaker 1: here in San Antonio with the writers back in the

2004
01:37:44,400 --> 01:37:46,200
Speaker 1: early nineties, he used to come up to training camp

2005
01:37:46,240 --> 01:37:49,760
Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas when we were playing, you know, back

2006
01:37:49,800 --> 01:37:52,600
Speaker 1: in the early nineties, and and he was he was

2007
01:37:52,640 --> 01:37:54,080
Speaker 1: a big fan of North Turner. They got to be

2008
01:37:54,160 --> 01:37:56,519
Speaker 1: good friends. So there's a foundational base of the offense

2009
01:37:56,600 --> 01:37:58,799
Speaker 1: that I was a part of with the Dallas Cowboys.

2010
01:37:58,880 --> 01:38:01,240
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have a nice nicks of pro style,

2011
01:38:02,240 --> 01:38:03,920
Speaker 1: a little bit of some of the things that the

2012
01:38:03,960 --> 01:38:06,479
Speaker 1: colleges are are sprinkling now with some of the spread

2013
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:09,640
Speaker 1: sets and then also the RPO elements. So we're going

2014
01:38:09,680 --> 01:38:11,920
Speaker 1: to challenge defenses to be able to defend a lot

2015
01:38:11,960 --> 01:38:14,160
Speaker 1: of different things on the line. With Daryl Moose Johnson

2016
01:38:14,240 --> 01:38:16,760
Speaker 1: from the NFL on Fox, Youngstown, New York native and

2017
01:38:16,920 --> 01:38:19,439
Speaker 1: currently the general manager of the Alliance of American Football,

2018
01:38:19,520 --> 01:38:22,240
Speaker 1: San Antonio commanders a couple of familiar names, one of

2019
01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:25,960
Speaker 1: them former Bills draft picked Sarah Richardson. Was he drafted

2020
01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:28,120
Speaker 1: by your team? He's an offensive linement from Baylor, Isn't

2021
01:38:28,120 --> 01:38:30,719
Speaker 1: he moves? Yes, he was one of the allocated guys

2022
01:38:30,920 --> 01:38:37,080
Speaker 1: via Baylor's so we were able to get to get Cyril.

2023
01:38:37,160 --> 01:38:39,200
Speaker 1: He's gosh, he's by far one of the biggest guys

2024
01:38:39,240 --> 01:38:40,720
Speaker 1: on our offensive line. One of the things that we

2025
01:38:41,080 --> 01:38:45,160
Speaker 1: are very blessed with is the fact that our offensive

2026
01:38:45,200 --> 01:38:47,880
Speaker 1: line is is very big, very physical across the front.

2027
01:38:48,400 --> 01:38:51,120
Speaker 1: Probably our number one guy a little bit of veteran

2028
01:38:51,200 --> 01:38:54,639
Speaker 1: leadership is Andrew McDonald, who had, you know, a nice

2029
01:38:54,920 --> 01:38:56,960
Speaker 1: four year career in the NFL. Was with the Chiefs

2030
01:38:57,040 --> 01:38:58,920
Speaker 1: the last time. So he came to us via the

2031
01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:03,320
Speaker 1: Kansas City allocation from an unallocated school, but with a

2032
01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:07,400
Speaker 1: professional allocation, and he's just been he's been outstanding. You know,

2033
01:39:07,479 --> 01:39:10,040
Speaker 1: he'll be our right tackle. Moot Porter is another guy

2034
01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:11,680
Speaker 1: who spent some time in the NFL. He's going to

2035
01:39:11,680 --> 01:39:14,720
Speaker 1: be our left tackle. So we've we've got a lot

2036
01:39:14,760 --> 01:39:17,280
Speaker 1: of experience in the front line, and they're they're kind

2037
01:39:17,320 --> 01:39:19,400
Speaker 1: of cut from the same cloth. They're all they're all

2038
01:39:19,439 --> 01:39:22,320
Speaker 1: big guys. We've got we've got our Polynesian power with

2039
01:39:22,439 --> 01:39:25,000
Speaker 1: some of the tongue and the Simoans. So we're really

2040
01:39:25,080 --> 01:39:27,080
Speaker 1: looking forward to see what that that starting five is

2041
01:39:27,120 --> 01:39:29,160
Speaker 1: able to do during the season. You lost your kicker, right,

2042
01:39:29,200 --> 01:39:32,599
Speaker 1: The Chargers just signed your kicker this week? Right? Yeah? Yeah.

2043
01:39:33,040 --> 01:39:35,880
Speaker 1: Nick Rose was called on Wednesday night by the San

2044
01:39:35,960 --> 01:39:39,920
Speaker 1: Diego Chargers and he jumped in the car and drove

2045
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:42,760
Speaker 1: up to Austin and then flew out early Thursday morning

2046
01:39:42,840 --> 01:39:45,000
Speaker 1: to join the San Diego Chargers as they get ready

2047
01:39:45,000 --> 01:39:47,479
Speaker 1: to head up to Gillette for the playoff game against

2048
01:39:47,479 --> 01:39:49,800
Speaker 1: the Patriots. We've actually got three of our guys on

2049
01:39:49,920 --> 01:39:51,880
Speaker 1: the San Diego Chargers, so we've got two guys on

2050
01:39:51,960 --> 01:39:53,680
Speaker 1: the practice squad, but Nick is actually going to be

2051
01:39:53,680 --> 01:39:56,280
Speaker 1: out on the field kicking off for the San Diego Chargers,

2052
01:39:56,360 --> 01:39:58,479
Speaker 1: so we're really excited for him. How does that work

2053
01:39:58,520 --> 01:40:00,560
Speaker 1: with if you've got guys on practice squads, they do

2054
01:40:00,680 --> 01:40:02,840
Speaker 1: not come and play for you, correct, they stay where

2055
01:40:02,880 --> 01:40:04,680
Speaker 1: they're at, or in the off season. Are they going

2056
01:40:04,720 --> 01:40:06,599
Speaker 1: to come in and you're gonna put them on the field.

2057
01:40:07,479 --> 01:40:10,040
Speaker 1: It's all based on kind of the calendar. So anybody

2058
01:40:10,080 --> 01:40:12,760
Speaker 1: that was on a practice squad, you know, towards the

2059
01:40:12,880 --> 01:40:14,760
Speaker 1: end of the year, if they were released prior to

2060
01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:16,720
Speaker 1: December twenty eighth, they could come right to us. But

2061
01:40:16,760 --> 01:40:18,880
Speaker 1: if they were on that practice squad roster on December

2062
01:40:18,920 --> 01:40:21,880
Speaker 1: twenty nine, that last the last game day of the

2063
01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:23,720
Speaker 1: NFL season, that we had to wait all the way

2064
01:40:23,760 --> 01:40:27,040
Speaker 1: through till January sixth before we could sign them back.

2065
01:40:27,600 --> 01:40:30,439
Speaker 1: And now once the playoff teams finish, they'll finish on

2066
01:40:30,520 --> 01:40:32,680
Speaker 1: a Saturday or Sunday. We have to wait all the

2067
01:40:32,720 --> 01:40:34,760
Speaker 1: way till that following Monday before we can bring them

2068
01:40:34,760 --> 01:40:37,759
Speaker 1: back to join us. So we'd love to have Tyrone

2069
01:40:37,800 --> 01:40:40,439
Speaker 1: Holmes and Justice Leaguans, who are the other two guys

2070
01:40:40,479 --> 01:40:42,719
Speaker 1: that we have out in San Diego. But I'm cheering

2071
01:40:42,720 --> 01:40:44,400
Speaker 1: for Philip Rivers in the playoffs this year. So I'd

2072
01:40:44,400 --> 01:40:46,519
Speaker 1: love to see Solis get the opportunity to experience the

2073
01:40:46,520 --> 01:40:48,599
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Well, we'll be remiss if we didn't ask

2074
01:40:48,640 --> 01:40:51,120
Speaker 1: you about your level of interest in the Cowboys going

2075
01:40:51,120 --> 01:40:53,200
Speaker 1: out to LA and play in the Rams. What do

2076
01:40:53,280 --> 01:40:56,040
Speaker 1: you see in that game about what the Cowboys chances

2077
01:40:56,040 --> 01:40:57,439
Speaker 1: are to go on the road in the playoffs and

2078
01:40:57,720 --> 01:41:01,000
Speaker 1: beat the number one seed or the number two. I

2079
01:41:01,120 --> 01:41:03,240
Speaker 1: think there's a I think there's a strong possibility they

2080
01:41:03,280 --> 01:41:04,840
Speaker 1: can do it. And I think you need to go

2081
01:41:04,920 --> 01:41:07,960
Speaker 1: back to what Seattle did earlier in the season. Um,

2082
01:41:08,120 --> 01:41:10,600
Speaker 1: they lost the game at home, but they played the

2083
01:41:10,680 --> 01:41:12,639
Speaker 1: same style that Dallas is going to play, and it's

2084
01:41:12,640 --> 01:41:15,160
Speaker 1: a style that that I feel that the Rams have

2085
01:41:15,200 --> 01:41:18,679
Speaker 1: struggled with all season. I think they're the worst rushing

2086
01:41:18,720 --> 01:41:21,400
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. If not by totally artists and

2087
01:41:21,560 --> 01:41:24,320
Speaker 1: yards per carry, and that's what Seattle did to them. Now,

2088
01:41:24,400 --> 01:41:27,599
Speaker 1: the Seattle defense at the time was starting to come together.

2089
01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:30,080
Speaker 1: They were they were probably better than people thought, but

2090
01:41:30,200 --> 01:41:31,880
Speaker 1: they but they were not at the level of the

2091
01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:34,639
Speaker 1: Dallas is at right now. So, um, I think when

2092
01:41:34,640 --> 01:41:37,360
Speaker 1: you take the running game and the offensive line of

2093
01:41:37,360 --> 01:41:39,400
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys put that up against a front that

2094
01:41:39,479 --> 01:41:41,880
Speaker 1: really likes to rush the passer and doesn't really like

2095
01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:44,639
Speaker 1: to defend the run, I think that that's a matchup

2096
01:41:44,680 --> 01:41:46,559
Speaker 1: that that Dallas should be able to win. And now

2097
01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:50,040
Speaker 1: if the defense can keep control of the Rams offense

2098
01:41:50,080 --> 01:41:53,479
Speaker 1: and make this a tight game where that Rams defensive

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01:41:53,520 --> 01:41:56,519
Speaker 1: line can't pin their ears back and just rush the passer, uh,

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01:41:56,640 --> 01:41:59,280
Speaker 1: that that plays into the style that that Dallas wants

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01:41:59,320 --> 01:42:01,160
Speaker 1: to establish. So I think if you go if you

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01:42:01,240 --> 01:42:03,400
Speaker 1: go back and watch that Seattle game from earlier in

2103
01:42:03,439 --> 01:42:05,000
Speaker 1: the year, I think that's exactly what you're going to

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01:42:05,040 --> 01:42:07,920
Speaker 1: see from the Dallas Cowboys. And the big, the big

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01:42:08,160 --> 01:42:11,240
Speaker 1: X factor in this. When Seattle did it, Russell played

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01:42:11,320 --> 01:42:14,160
Speaker 1: really well at the quarterback position. Dak Prescott is playing

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01:42:14,200 --> 01:42:16,200
Speaker 1: really well at the quarterback position right now. I thought

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01:42:16,200 --> 01:42:18,880
Speaker 1: it was awesome that Jason Garrett, you know, played him

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Speaker 1: the entire game, that final game of the season against

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01:42:21,280 --> 01:42:23,600
Speaker 1: the Giants. He was able to get a victory in

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01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:26,240
Speaker 1: a dramatic fashion. That is huge for his confidence. I

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01:42:26,280 --> 01:42:29,240
Speaker 1: think it carried over into Seattle in the wildcard round.

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01:42:29,240 --> 01:42:31,080
Speaker 1: I think it's going to carry over to the Rams

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01:42:31,160 --> 01:42:34,719
Speaker 1: and the divisional round, and I fully expect the Cowboys

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01:42:34,800 --> 01:42:36,960
Speaker 1: to be in the championship game next sun. Wow. You know,

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01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:38,600
Speaker 1: I was thinking about Dak Prescott and I want to

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01:42:38,600 --> 01:42:41,040
Speaker 1: ask you, I mean, fourth round pick. I believe, right,

2118
01:42:41,080 --> 01:42:43,559
Speaker 1: Moss And in these last week, this week, these are

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Speaker 1: the most important and maybe the first big important games

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01:42:46,880 --> 01:42:49,559
Speaker 1: of his career so far, He's answered the bell. Right,

2121
01:42:49,600 --> 01:42:52,080
Speaker 1: he answered the call last week. I think he did.

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01:42:52,200 --> 01:42:54,880
Speaker 1: I really do. And the big thing with Dak right now,

2123
01:42:54,920 --> 01:42:56,240
Speaker 1: you know, he was a fourth round draft pick for

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01:42:56,280 --> 01:42:57,800
Speaker 1: a reason. You know, there's still some things in his

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01:42:57,880 --> 01:43:00,240
Speaker 1: game that he has to work on. And we've kind

2126
01:43:00,240 --> 01:43:02,360
Speaker 1: of gone back to that Giants team and kind of

2127
01:43:02,400 --> 01:43:04,400
Speaker 1: looked at that last ride and this is where you

2128
01:43:04,479 --> 01:43:06,760
Speaker 1: can see the areas that he can improve and grow.

2129
01:43:06,840 --> 01:43:10,439
Speaker 1: In an incredible throw on the run on fourth and

2130
01:43:10,560 --> 01:43:13,280
Speaker 1: fifteen to win that game. But if you go that

2131
01:43:13,720 --> 01:43:16,280
Speaker 1: go back two plays earlier, on a double move to

2132
01:43:16,320 --> 01:43:18,400
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper on the outside, he's gotten wide open for

2133
01:43:18,479 --> 01:43:20,720
Speaker 1: a touchdown and it's a horrible throw. I mean, it

2134
01:43:20,760 --> 01:43:23,200
Speaker 1: almost throws the ball out of bounds. So that is

2135
01:43:23,240 --> 01:43:26,559
Speaker 1: the inconsistency that the Dak is working against right now.

2136
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:29,439
Speaker 1: So as he continues to grow and mature and build

2137
01:43:29,439 --> 01:43:32,880
Speaker 1: that consistency, I think he becomes a much better player.

2138
01:43:33,240 --> 01:43:35,720
Speaker 1: But I do believe that that experience that he had

2139
01:43:35,760 --> 01:43:38,520
Speaker 1: in that Giants game is the thing that has springboarded

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01:43:38,600 --> 01:43:41,360
Speaker 1: him to the performance against the Seahawks. The run on

2141
01:43:41,439 --> 01:43:43,120
Speaker 1: the third and long situation at the end of the

2142
01:43:43,160 --> 01:43:46,760
Speaker 1: game was vintage Dak Prescott. I think he built more

2143
01:43:46,800 --> 01:43:49,439
Speaker 1: confidence in that game. So you have a very confident

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01:43:49,640 --> 01:43:53,240
Speaker 1: young quarterback going into a game, and the offensive game

2145
01:43:53,280 --> 01:43:56,639
Speaker 1: plan should be built around their strength, which is something

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01:43:56,720 --> 01:44:00,640
Speaker 1: that the Rams struggle with. So there is every possibility

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01:44:00,720 --> 01:44:02,920
Speaker 1: for for him to have a really good game against

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01:44:02,920 --> 01:44:04,599
Speaker 1: the Ranch. I know we're down the road a little

2149
01:44:04,600 --> 01:44:07,479
Speaker 1: bit from from the mid season strife that was going on,

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01:44:07,760 --> 01:44:11,040
Speaker 1: and every year it seems as though Jason Garrett seems

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01:44:11,040 --> 01:44:12,800
Speaker 1: to be on the hot seat. And Dallas fans have

2152
01:44:12,840 --> 01:44:15,200
Speaker 1: a little, very little patience for a team that goes

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01:44:15,240 --> 01:44:17,800
Speaker 1: through the dips and swoons and a roller coaster of

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01:44:17,920 --> 01:44:20,920
Speaker 1: a regular season. But once again, I mean, Jason Garrett

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01:44:20,920 --> 01:44:23,360
Speaker 1: has pulled things together and got this team playing really

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01:44:23,439 --> 01:44:25,599
Speaker 1: well at the end of the season. He's a former

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01:44:25,680 --> 01:44:27,880
Speaker 1: teammate of yours. What are your thoughts on him and

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01:44:27,960 --> 01:44:30,840
Speaker 1: his tenure as head coach of the Cowboys. I think

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01:44:30,880 --> 01:44:32,400
Speaker 1: he's done a really good job. It's a it's a

2160
01:44:32,520 --> 01:44:36,439
Speaker 1: unique environment to navigate when you talk about the dynamic

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01:44:36,760 --> 01:44:39,080
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys, and I don't think anybody's done

2162
01:44:39,080 --> 01:44:41,680
Speaker 1: it better than Jason Garrett. So, you know, I think

2163
01:44:41,720 --> 01:44:44,639
Speaker 1: he needs to be applauded in that situation. I think

2164
01:44:44,680 --> 01:44:48,520
Speaker 1: the Dallas media, the Dallas fan base sometimes gets frustrated

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01:44:48,560 --> 01:44:51,240
Speaker 1: with him because he's not He's not that emotional guy.

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01:44:51,320 --> 01:44:53,120
Speaker 1: He's not going to throw you out, you know, some

2167
01:44:53,439 --> 01:44:55,320
Speaker 1: some statement that you're going to be able to put

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01:44:55,360 --> 01:44:57,320
Speaker 1: in the headlines. You know, he doesn't handle the media

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01:44:57,360 --> 01:44:59,120
Speaker 1: the way Bill Parcels does. He's not one of those

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01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:03,120
Speaker 1: Greg Areas coach. He's very methodical in his approach, to

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01:45:03,240 --> 01:45:06,760
Speaker 1: the point where sometimes it seems boring, but boring is

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01:45:06,800 --> 01:45:09,960
Speaker 1: good in the NFL. And Jason Garrett does not allow

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01:45:10,040 --> 01:45:12,679
Speaker 1: the media to take something he has said and create

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01:45:12,720 --> 01:45:14,360
Speaker 1: an issue out of it and use it to divide

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01:45:14,400 --> 01:45:16,320
Speaker 1: the team or distract the team, or create some type

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01:45:16,320 --> 01:45:19,880
Speaker 1: of adversity that's manufactured. So that's what's frustrating to them.

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01:45:20,120 --> 01:45:22,719
Speaker 1: But that's the beauty of his style. And he talks

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01:45:22,760 --> 01:45:25,880
Speaker 1: about the process and that's exactly what this team did

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01:45:26,000 --> 01:45:28,880
Speaker 1: going from three and five to ten and six. So

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01:45:29,040 --> 01:45:31,080
Speaker 1: I think he was validated with his approach. I hope

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01:45:31,120 --> 01:45:33,519
Speaker 1: that people understand that that's just who Jason Garrett is

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01:45:34,400 --> 01:45:36,240
Speaker 1: and there's nothing wrong with a guy who gets it

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01:45:36,280 --> 01:45:38,160
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. And I know it's been an up

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01:45:38,200 --> 01:45:40,000
Speaker 1: and down the year, and you know that a lot

2185
01:45:40,000 --> 01:45:42,320
Speaker 1: of people talk about the five hundred record in eight

2186
01:45:42,360 --> 01:45:45,559
Speaker 1: and eight seasons. But now that they've got things role

2187
01:45:45,640 --> 01:45:47,920
Speaker 1: and they've got that wide receiver position kind of sorted

2188
01:45:47,960 --> 01:45:50,800
Speaker 1: out and everybody knows their roles right now, this is

2189
01:45:50,800 --> 01:45:52,760
Speaker 1: a dangerous team in the playoffs. And I think one

2190
01:45:52,760 --> 01:45:54,120
Speaker 1: of the things too, and you can speak to this

2191
01:45:54,240 --> 01:45:56,800
Speaker 1: as well, a lot of people outside of Dallas, and

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01:45:56,880 --> 01:45:59,880
Speaker 1: maybe some inside Dallas kind of look at their own

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01:46:00,080 --> 01:46:03,120
Speaker 1: or Jerry Jones as being a guy that is a

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01:46:03,160 --> 01:46:05,760
Speaker 1: little bit different. Well, he's different than every other owner.

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01:46:05,840 --> 01:46:08,040
Speaker 1: He's fully engaged in the team and how it runs

2196
01:46:08,080 --> 01:46:11,920
Speaker 1: and operates, and he's the acting general manager. And Jason

2197
01:46:12,000 --> 01:46:14,920
Speaker 1: Garrett has done a wonderful job managing that relationship, his

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01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:17,920
Speaker 1: relationship with Jerry Jones as well. And I'm, for one,

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01:46:18,120 --> 01:46:19,680
Speaker 1: maybe I'm one of the few. I got a lot

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01:46:19,720 --> 01:46:21,840
Speaker 1: of respect for Jerry Jones and what he's been able

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01:46:21,880 --> 01:46:24,880
Speaker 1: to do as owner of the Cowboys. But isn't job

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01:46:25,000 --> 01:46:27,840
Speaker 1: one for Jason Garrett handling that relationship as well as

2203
01:46:27,880 --> 01:46:31,240
Speaker 1: coaching football. Yeah, that's that's what I mean. When it's

2204
01:46:31,240 --> 01:46:34,040
Speaker 1: a unique situation and he's navigated it as well as

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01:46:34,080 --> 01:46:36,640
Speaker 1: anybody could expect. Um. You know, there's been a lot

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01:46:36,680 --> 01:46:39,719
Speaker 1: of coaches, you know, in Jerry Jones's tenure as owner

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01:46:39,720 --> 01:46:42,160
Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys, and I really feel that the

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01:46:42,280 --> 01:46:46,680
Speaker 1: relationship and it does become um, you know, a key

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01:46:46,760 --> 01:46:49,000
Speaker 1: part in their relationship is the fact that Jason was

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01:46:49,040 --> 01:46:51,320
Speaker 1: a player for Jerry at one point, was part of

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01:46:51,680 --> 01:46:53,960
Speaker 1: was part of Super Bowl teams. Um, So there's the

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01:46:54,000 --> 01:46:58,000
Speaker 1: connection there, But the way that they work together UM,

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01:46:58,720 --> 01:47:01,560
Speaker 1: a way that that Jason and understand the dynamic and

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01:47:01,920 --> 01:47:05,680
Speaker 1: works with it, works through it, works around it. UM.

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01:47:06,080 --> 01:47:09,800
Speaker 1: I think is a credit to him. UM. And you

2216
01:47:09,920 --> 01:47:13,000
Speaker 1: know the big thing is right now, they don't they

2217
01:47:13,040 --> 01:47:14,600
Speaker 1: don't really have anything to show for it. I mean,

2218
01:47:14,640 --> 01:47:16,320
Speaker 1: you hear all these statistics that are out there, and

2219
01:47:16,800 --> 01:47:19,920
Speaker 1: and and they they are warranted. UM. You know, they

2220
01:47:19,960 --> 01:47:22,519
Speaker 1: have not had playoff success, you know since our team

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01:47:22,560 --> 01:47:25,040
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety five. I heard one last year that

2222
01:47:25,240 --> 01:47:28,040
Speaker 1: was actually shocking. You know. The Jacksonville Jaguars have been

2223
01:47:28,080 --> 01:47:31,400
Speaker 1: to three AFC championship games since nineteen ninety five. The

2224
01:47:31,479 --> 01:47:34,280
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys have not been to the NFC championship game.

2225
01:47:34,560 --> 01:47:36,360
Speaker 1: You know that that that's that's shocking. You know that

2226
01:47:36,479 --> 01:47:39,760
Speaker 1: that is that is not good. UM. So we can

2227
01:47:39,840 --> 01:47:42,400
Speaker 1: talk about the positives, but this is a result driven league.

2228
01:47:42,439 --> 01:47:44,560
Speaker 1: So for for Jason Garrett to really get into a

2229
01:47:44,600 --> 01:47:47,240
Speaker 1: comfortable position, uh and to really be embraced by the

2230
01:47:47,280 --> 01:47:49,360
Speaker 1: fan base, uh, you know, he's need he needs to

2231
01:47:49,400 --> 01:47:52,160
Speaker 1: have a good playoff push this year. And that's what

2232
01:47:53,040 --> 01:47:54,639
Speaker 1: that's what I think is going to happen. I really

2233
01:47:54,680 --> 01:47:56,560
Speaker 1: do think they're going to handle business tomorrow night. And

2234
01:47:56,840 --> 01:47:58,960
Speaker 1: they'll be in the NFC Championship Game next weekend. US

2235
01:47:59,160 --> 01:48:00,560
Speaker 1: I want more for you, and it deals with the

2236
01:48:00,600 --> 01:48:03,800
Speaker 1: atmosphere that you expect in Los Angeles tomorrow. I saw

2237
01:48:04,320 --> 01:48:06,519
Speaker 1: Steve and I were talking about it yesterday. An estimate

2238
01:48:06,600 --> 01:48:09,559
Speaker 1: that ninety three thousand seats in the coliseum and maybe

2239
01:48:09,600 --> 01:48:12,439
Speaker 1: fifty thousand of those will be filled by Cowboys fans

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01:48:12,439 --> 01:48:16,639
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Is that possible? Absolutely? Remember a Thousand Oaks

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01:48:16,880 --> 01:48:19,040
Speaker 1: was the home base of the training camp out there.

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01:48:19,040 --> 01:48:22,400
Speaker 1: We have a huge fan base in southern California. The

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01:48:22,680 --> 01:48:27,880
Speaker 1: only time that we struggle outnumbering the home team on

2244
01:48:27,960 --> 01:48:29,760
Speaker 1: the West Coast is when the Raiders were playing at

2245
01:48:29,800 --> 01:48:32,720
Speaker 1: the Coliseum because the Raiders have a tremendous fan base,

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01:48:33,160 --> 01:48:34,679
Speaker 1: you know, all the way through the state of California,

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01:48:34,720 --> 01:48:36,040
Speaker 1: and they got a lot of people that were traveling

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01:48:36,120 --> 01:48:39,040
Speaker 1: down from the Bay Area, you know, to southern California

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01:48:39,080 --> 01:48:41,120
Speaker 1: for the games in the coliseum. But when we go

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01:48:41,200 --> 01:48:44,479
Speaker 1: out there and play anybody but the Raiders, is that

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01:48:45,040 --> 01:48:48,639
Speaker 1: that's essentially another Dallas home game. You know, they spent

2252
01:48:48,720 --> 01:48:51,400
Speaker 1: a number of years out there in Thousand Oaks. You know,

2253
01:48:51,479 --> 01:48:54,880
Speaker 1: my rookie season was the last year that we held

2254
01:48:54,960 --> 01:48:57,880
Speaker 1: training camp in Thousand Oaks, California, and that was over

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01:48:58,000 --> 01:49:01,160
Speaker 1: two decades out there. So the Cowboys fan base is

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01:49:01,160 --> 01:49:04,920
Speaker 1: strong in southern cal I absolutely, I'd be surprised if

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01:49:04,960 --> 01:49:07,360
Speaker 1: it was only fifty thousand. I think you may see

2258
01:49:07,360 --> 01:49:08,880
Speaker 1: a little bit more. I think we might. We might

2259
01:49:08,920 --> 01:49:11,559
Speaker 1: get to a sixty forty. Wow. There you go, Hey Moose,

2260
01:49:11,640 --> 01:49:15,479
Speaker 1: thanks for this congratulations on the Alliance of American Football team.

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01:49:15,479 --> 01:49:17,360
Speaker 1: Will be following the Commanders and the rest of the

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01:49:17,400 --> 01:49:19,320
Speaker 1: teams in that league. Thanks for spending a few minutes

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01:49:19,320 --> 01:49:21,760
Speaker 1: with us here today. Oh no, my pleasure. Always good

2264
01:49:21,760 --> 01:49:23,640
Speaker 1: touch base. Thanks John Than, Thanks Steve all right Man,

2265
01:49:23,800 --> 01:49:26,760
Speaker 1: Darryl Moose Johnson NFL on Fox analysts eleven seasons in

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01:49:26,800 --> 01:49:29,479
Speaker 1: the league with the Cowboys, general manager of the San

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01:49:29,479 --> 01:49:32,200
Speaker 1: Antonio Commanders of the Alliance of American Football League. He

2268
01:49:32,240 --> 01:49:34,960
Speaker 1: joined us on the Subway Fresh Take hotline presented by

2269
01:49:35,240 --> 01:49:37,840
Speaker 1: Subway Restaurants, probably be locally owned and operating. I gotta

2270
01:49:37,880 --> 01:49:39,680
Speaker 1: I might have to rethink my position on the home

2271
01:49:39,720 --> 01:49:42,519
Speaker 1: field thing with the Raiders. He was pretty adamant that. Yeah,

2272
01:49:42,520 --> 01:49:44,200
Speaker 1: and he's you know, obviously or late out there, and

2273
01:49:44,280 --> 01:49:45,920
Speaker 1: I and I remember too We used to play in

2274
01:49:45,920 --> 01:49:47,880
Speaker 1: the college team against the Raison my whole career. The

2275
01:49:48,000 --> 01:49:51,479
Speaker 1: Raiders were the Los Angeles Raiders, not the Oakland Raiders,

2276
01:49:51,520 --> 01:49:54,599
Speaker 1: and they had a real strong following. But he's right,

2277
01:49:54,680 --> 01:49:56,800
Speaker 1: he played out there with the Cowboys and has probably

2278
01:49:56,840 --> 01:49:58,640
Speaker 1: seen it time and time again over the years that

2279
01:50:00,120 --> 01:50:02,679
Speaker 1: when you go out there, there's still a ton of people,

2280
01:50:02,880 --> 01:50:06,040
Speaker 1: a big generation of people who remember the Cowboys going

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01:50:06,080 --> 01:50:08,680
Speaker 1: a thousand Oaks and being having their training camp there.

2282
01:50:08,720 --> 01:50:10,439
Speaker 1: So maybe they are gonna maybe it is gonna be

2283
01:50:10,520 --> 01:50:13,559
Speaker 1: a wild scene out there, full of Cowboy fans, he says,

2284
01:50:13,600 --> 01:50:16,400
Speaker 1: there's gonna be. I kind of pooh pooed it when

2285
01:50:16,400 --> 01:50:18,000
Speaker 1: I heard about It's like I've heard that before. It's

2286
01:50:18,000 --> 01:50:20,720
Speaker 1: not It's not like StubHub Center and the Chargers. But

2287
01:50:20,880 --> 01:50:23,960
Speaker 1: maybe it will be only a bigger version. Yeah, much bigger,

2288
01:50:24,080 --> 01:50:26,320
Speaker 1: much bigger. Hey, we want to get you involved in

2289
01:50:26,360 --> 01:50:29,040
Speaker 1: our topic of the day as we talk about the

2290
01:50:29,080 --> 01:50:31,920
Speaker 1: playoff games this weekend. We've had this up on Twitter

2291
01:50:31,960 --> 01:50:33,240
Speaker 1: for a couple of hours. They haven't checked it in

2292
01:50:33,320 --> 01:50:37,599
Speaker 1: a while, though. Which upset are you predicting? Which? Which

2293
01:50:38,960 --> 01:50:41,280
Speaker 1: Which road team is what I'm looking at? Which road

2294
01:50:41,320 --> 01:50:43,320
Speaker 1: team has the best chance of pulling off an upset?

2295
01:50:43,439 --> 01:50:46,240
Speaker 1: Is it in fact the Cowboys? On Twitter, fifty three

2296
01:50:46,320 --> 01:50:48,680
Speaker 1: percent of you now say it's the Chargers at New

2297
01:50:48,720 --> 01:50:50,719
Speaker 1: England who have the best chance of pulling off an upset.

2298
01:50:51,040 --> 01:50:53,880
Speaker 1: Thirty three percent of you say it's the Colts and

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01:50:53,960 --> 01:50:56,760
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts go to Kansas City and you think

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01:50:56,800 --> 01:50:58,639
Speaker 1: they have the best chance. That's the first game tomorrow.

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01:50:58,640 --> 01:51:02,840
Speaker 1: About four thirty ten say the Eagles at the Saints,

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01:51:02,880 --> 01:51:04,800
Speaker 1: and only four percent give the Cowboys a chance to

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01:51:04,840 --> 01:51:07,080
Speaker 1: pull off the upset. That seems low. When you talk

2304
01:51:07,120 --> 01:51:11,280
Speaker 1: to Moss Johnson and he certainly was pretty um confident

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01:51:11,320 --> 01:51:14,519
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys chances, you know, right, I mean, they're

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01:51:14,520 --> 01:51:16,280
Speaker 1: not going to be embarrassed. I wouldn't think you do

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01:51:16,320 --> 01:51:18,600
Speaker 1: you does your opinion about these games go kind of

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Speaker 1: follow the percentages as well, your opinion about which road

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01:51:22,760 --> 01:51:25,439
Speaker 1: team is going to go in and win the chances? Yes? See,

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01:51:25,479 --> 01:51:27,559
Speaker 1: my I would flip the Colts and Chargers, Like I said,

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01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:29,840
Speaker 1: I think I would flip the Eagles and Cowboys. But

2312
01:51:30,200 --> 01:51:32,000
Speaker 1: would you you'd give the Cowboys a better chance of

2313
01:51:32,040 --> 01:51:33,920
Speaker 1: beating the Rams than the Eagles going down there? Yeah?

2314
01:51:34,040 --> 01:51:35,840
Speaker 1: You know what? You're probably right as well. I think

2315
01:51:35,840 --> 01:51:40,200
Speaker 1: it goes. I think for me it goes. I think

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01:51:40,240 --> 01:51:46,720
Speaker 1: it goes Colts, Chargers, Eagles, Cowboys in that order of

2317
01:51:46,760 --> 01:51:52,120
Speaker 1: a probability of winning on the road. Yeah, now, yes, Eagles, Cowboys.

2318
01:51:52,479 --> 01:51:55,160
Speaker 1: I think Cowboys have the least chance of anybody going

2319
01:51:55,200 --> 01:51:57,439
Speaker 1: on the road and winning out in LA. Well, if

2320
01:51:57,479 --> 01:51:59,280
Speaker 1: you're listening, no, that's not true. I got that wrong.

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01:51:59,360 --> 01:52:01,840
Speaker 1: I think it's the Eagles. The Eagles and Cowboys should

2322
01:52:01,840 --> 01:52:03,920
Speaker 1: be flipped as well. Yeah, you're right, So there you go.

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01:52:04,160 --> 01:52:05,800
Speaker 1: I think I think we got a call on the

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01:52:05,840 --> 01:52:07,840
Speaker 1: line and wants to talk about the Cowboys Sean and Florida.

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01:52:07,880 --> 01:52:11,080
Speaker 1: Are you still there, Sean? Yes? Hi Sean? What do

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01:52:11,120 --> 01:52:15,200
Speaker 1: you think? Hey? Anyways, is a great show so far.

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01:52:15,479 --> 01:52:18,880
Speaker 1: I love hearing you guys. Thanks. Yeah. I just feel

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01:52:18,920 --> 01:52:21,200
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys really gonna pull it out, just how

2329
01:52:21,320 --> 01:52:24,879
Speaker 1: they they're formula of winning, how they play on defense,

2330
01:52:25,240 --> 01:52:28,320
Speaker 1: and how the Rams just got demolished by the Bears.

2331
01:52:28,360 --> 01:52:30,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's more of a gut dealing than anything.

2332
01:52:30,360 --> 01:52:33,160
Speaker 1: But I know it's kind of jumping on the bandwagon

2333
01:52:33,200 --> 01:52:35,040
Speaker 1: too of all the collars. But I don't know, it's

2334
01:52:35,040 --> 01:52:37,680
Speaker 1: just that's how I feel with them. But anyways, I

2335
01:52:37,720 --> 01:52:41,000
Speaker 1: also wanted to ask a question on if the Patriots

2336
01:52:41,080 --> 01:52:44,519
Speaker 1: do end up winning, which I as a Bills fan,

2337
01:52:44,560 --> 01:52:49,040
Speaker 1: I really hope they don't. Um is is this the

2338
01:52:49,080 --> 01:52:52,160
Speaker 1: best defense they'll play the charters? Would this be the

2339
01:52:52,240 --> 01:52:56,599
Speaker 1: best defense? I would say it may be. Yeah, yeah,

2340
01:52:56,640 --> 01:52:58,439
Speaker 1: I'd say it might be the best defense left of

2341
01:52:58,479 --> 01:53:02,000
Speaker 1: the eight teams. Yeah. The Charger defense because of their

2342
01:53:02,000 --> 01:53:04,400
Speaker 1: pass rush. Now I don't know. The Rams defense is

2343
01:53:04,400 --> 01:53:06,519
Speaker 1: pretty formidable as well, but they don't like to stop

2344
01:53:06,600 --> 01:53:09,240
Speaker 1: the run, mostly because they don't work at it. But

2345
01:53:09,360 --> 01:53:11,960
Speaker 1: I think with two weeks of rest and knowing that

2346
01:53:12,080 --> 01:53:14,600
Speaker 1: it's a do or die situation for the team, you

2347
01:53:14,640 --> 01:53:16,679
Speaker 1: can bet that the Rams are gonna step up up front.

2348
01:53:16,880 --> 01:53:19,040
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald doesn't like to stop the run. In Dominican

2349
01:53:19,080 --> 01:53:22,160
Speaker 1: Sue Is you know, it's not known for his having

2350
01:53:22,240 --> 01:53:24,400
Speaker 1: his nose on the grindstone all the time unless it's

2351
01:53:24,400 --> 01:53:26,800
Speaker 1: a third and long. So I think the Rams, you

2352
01:53:26,840 --> 01:53:29,800
Speaker 1: can bet their defense will be up to stopping the

2353
01:53:29,960 --> 01:53:32,960
Speaker 1: run just because they know now it's the playoffs and

2354
01:53:33,040 --> 01:53:35,120
Speaker 1: it really matters, and if they don't play well, they're

2355
01:53:35,120 --> 01:53:38,200
Speaker 1: gonna lose. So you can bet that. I think you're

2356
01:53:38,200 --> 01:53:41,439
Speaker 1: gonna uptick in what the Rams didn't do well up front,

2357
01:53:41,439 --> 01:53:44,879
Speaker 1: because mostly in my estimation, their lack of the ability

2358
01:53:45,720 --> 01:53:48,240
Speaker 1: to stop the run starts with their lack of desire

2359
01:53:48,320 --> 01:53:50,240
Speaker 1: to stop the run because they want to get after

2360
01:53:50,280 --> 01:53:52,240
Speaker 1: the passer and the playoffs, you want to do it

2361
01:53:52,320 --> 01:53:54,160
Speaker 1: all well. And I think that'll be a difference for

2362
01:53:54,240 --> 01:53:57,160
Speaker 1: the Rams. So yeah, I think. But having said that,

2363
01:53:57,240 --> 01:53:59,559
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers probably do have the best defense

2364
01:53:59,680 --> 01:54:02,320
Speaker 1: left in the group. And if the Patriots get by them,

2365
01:54:02,680 --> 01:54:05,600
Speaker 1: and if the Colts beat the Chiefs, well, you know

2366
01:54:05,680 --> 01:54:08,519
Speaker 1: they've got another championship game in Foxborough. It looks like

2367
01:54:08,560 --> 01:54:10,240
Speaker 1: the Patriots you're going to go to the Super Bowl again.

2368
01:54:10,360 --> 01:54:12,920
Speaker 1: So there's that. I'm just looking over some of the

2369
01:54:13,000 --> 01:54:16,759
Speaker 1: numbers and I just would offer this caution, don't overlook

2370
01:54:16,760 --> 01:54:20,760
Speaker 1: Indianapolis defense. They are just slightly behind the Chargers in

2371
01:54:20,920 --> 01:54:23,000
Speaker 1: terms of the number of yards given up per game.

2372
01:54:23,080 --> 01:54:25,720
Speaker 1: That's the traditional way to analyze the defense, right, not

2373
01:54:25,960 --> 01:54:31,439
Speaker 1: necessarily the best way, but the traditional way. The last

2374
01:54:31,520 --> 01:54:35,560
Speaker 1: eleven games, the Colts have allowed their opponents just fifteen

2375
01:54:35,600 --> 01:54:37,520
Speaker 1: and a half points per game. The first six games,

2376
01:54:37,760 --> 01:54:39,960
Speaker 1: their opponents scored thirty points per game, So they cut

2377
01:54:40,040 --> 01:54:42,920
Speaker 1: the number of points allowed in half, and they cut

2378
01:54:42,960 --> 01:54:46,600
Speaker 1: their yardage way down. The Colts defenses has played. Here's

2379
01:54:46,600 --> 01:54:49,120
Speaker 1: an interesting stat about the Colts defense. Over their last

2380
01:54:49,160 --> 01:54:51,839
Speaker 1: eleven games, including last week, the Colts have held opponents

2381
01:54:51,920 --> 01:54:55,080
Speaker 1: to twenty points or fewer six times, and then five

2382
01:54:55,120 --> 01:54:56,800
Speaker 1: of the first six they played this year, their opponents

2383
01:54:56,840 --> 01:54:59,360
Speaker 1: got more than twenty points. The Colts are playing good defense, now,

2384
01:54:59,440 --> 01:55:01,760
Speaker 1: was the point? I'm an, yeah, no question. I do

2385
01:55:01,920 --> 01:55:04,640
Speaker 1: think the Chargers is the best defense out there right

2386
01:55:04,680 --> 01:55:07,480
Speaker 1: now that the Patriots will face. Well, by the rankings

2387
01:55:07,560 --> 01:55:12,240
Speaker 1: that the Colts are, well, let's see, the Colts are

2388
01:55:12,400 --> 01:55:14,680
Speaker 1: what am I looking for here? Yeah, they're number eleven

2389
01:55:14,800 --> 01:55:20,280
Speaker 1: overall defensively, so yeah, that's it's pretty good number. But

2390
01:55:20,360 --> 01:55:24,720
Speaker 1: the Chargers are number nine overall, so there's not much difference, right.

2391
01:55:25,000 --> 01:55:26,520
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna take a break. We're gonna come

2392
01:55:26,560 --> 01:55:28,240
Speaker 1: back and do NFL true and false. We want to

2393
01:55:28,280 --> 01:55:30,480
Speaker 1: hear more from you about which road team as the

2394
01:55:30,560 --> 01:55:33,120
Speaker 1: best chance at an upset this weekend, whatever's on your

2395
01:55:33,160 --> 01:55:34,760
Speaker 1: mind about the Bills in the NFL. We got more

2396
01:55:34,800 --> 01:55:36,760
Speaker 1: time to talk about it. Come on back, one Bill's

2397
01:55:36,800 --> 01:55:39,320
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalada Health from One Bill's Drive. This

2398
01:55:39,640 --> 01:55:55,120
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back John Murphy's Deep Tasker,

2399
01:55:55,160 --> 01:55:57,280
Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive. About thirty minutes

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01:55:57,360 --> 01:55:59,440
Speaker 1: left on our show today, that's the all the time

2401
01:55:59,480 --> 01:56:00,880
Speaker 1: you have if you want to get in some thoughts

2402
01:56:00,920 --> 01:56:04,520
Speaker 1: on this weekend's playoff games, the Divisional round four games

2403
01:56:04,600 --> 01:56:07,160
Speaker 1: two tomorrow two. On Sunday, we went to the break

2404
01:56:07,200 --> 01:56:10,240
Speaker 1: talking about the defensive rankings of the teams, the eight

2405
01:56:10,280 --> 01:56:12,600
Speaker 1: teams left, and Steve's done a little more research on that. Yeah,

2406
01:56:12,680 --> 01:56:15,600
Speaker 1: Dallas has got the top ranked defense statistically, their number

2407
01:56:15,640 --> 01:56:17,760
Speaker 1: seven overall. The next one of them is the Chargers

2408
01:56:17,800 --> 01:56:19,240
Speaker 1: that we were talking about is playing so well, and

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01:56:19,280 --> 01:56:21,640
Speaker 1: then the Colts at number eleven. So it goes Dallas

2410
01:56:21,720 --> 01:56:25,680
Speaker 1: number seven, Colts sorry, Chargers number nine, and Colts number eleven.

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01:56:25,960 --> 01:56:28,680
Speaker 1: So those two, those three are the teams that are,

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01:56:28,920 --> 01:56:33,200
Speaker 1: you know, the top rated defenses in the playoffs. Now

2413
01:56:33,320 --> 01:56:35,400
Speaker 1: after that you go down to you know, New Orleans

2414
01:56:36,080 --> 01:56:41,280
Speaker 1: and then the Rams, New England, Philly and Kansas City.

2415
01:56:41,360 --> 01:56:44,480
Speaker 1: So it's it goes down from there. Now offensively, it's

2416
01:56:44,560 --> 01:56:46,720
Speaker 1: interesting because you only had two teams ranked in the

2417
01:56:46,760 --> 01:56:50,040
Speaker 1: top ten defensively in the playoffs, that's Dallas and the Chargers.

2418
01:56:50,880 --> 01:56:54,800
Speaker 1: In offense, you've got one, two, three, five of the

2419
01:56:54,880 --> 01:56:57,760
Speaker 1: eight teams ranked in the top ten. Kansas City's number one,

2420
01:56:57,960 --> 01:57:03,560
Speaker 1: rams or number two. New England is number five, the

2421
01:57:03,680 --> 01:57:06,720
Speaker 1: Colts are number seven. New Orleans are number eight. So

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01:57:06,920 --> 01:57:08,920
Speaker 1: Steve and the Charges are number eleven. So you've got

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01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:11,000
Speaker 1: important in the post. There you go. I mean that

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01:57:11,120 --> 01:57:15,120
Speaker 1: says offenses. I think yeah. And the Charges are number eleven.

2425
01:57:15,240 --> 01:57:18,080
Speaker 1: They're just out of the top ten. So uh, that's

2426
01:57:18,280 --> 01:57:23,480
Speaker 1: you know, hey, when the game's over, score score points

2427
01:57:23,520 --> 01:57:25,280
Speaker 1: are king. You know you got to you gotta score

2428
01:57:25,320 --> 01:57:27,400
Speaker 1: points to do it. And that's that's where this sits.

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01:57:27,640 --> 01:57:30,680
Speaker 1: It's interesting too, though, because Dallas on statistically, is the

2430
01:57:30,720 --> 01:57:33,240
Speaker 1: best defense. But I think you and I both agree

2431
01:57:33,280 --> 01:57:35,000
Speaker 1: the Colts are the ones that are playing good. Now

2432
01:57:35,440 --> 01:57:38,000
Speaker 1: that's eleven games, because they stunk early in the season.

2433
01:57:38,600 --> 01:57:40,320
Speaker 1: They were one in five and they weren't given up

2434
01:57:40,360 --> 01:57:42,200
Speaker 1: that manion. Then, as you said, they started to get

2435
01:57:42,280 --> 01:57:44,400
Speaker 1: hot and they found themselves. Now they're playing better than

2436
01:57:44,520 --> 01:57:47,200
Speaker 1: most of the defenses. I think that we're seeing. But

2437
01:57:47,280 --> 01:57:50,560
Speaker 1: offense is more important right overall, I think you gotta think. Yeah,

2438
01:57:50,680 --> 01:57:52,520
Speaker 1: let me let's just remu that way. Let me just

2439
01:57:52,600 --> 01:57:55,320
Speaker 1: tell you this is what happened, uh last week. Why

2440
01:57:55,400 --> 01:57:58,120
Speaker 1: it's wild Card round. The Colts one twenty one to seven,

2441
01:57:58,240 --> 01:58:01,000
Speaker 1: gave up seven points of the Houston Texas, right. The

2442
01:58:01,120 --> 01:58:03,960
Speaker 1: Cowboys gave up twenty two to Seattle beat them twenty

2443
01:58:04,000 --> 01:58:07,360
Speaker 1: four to twenty two. The Chargers beat Baltimore and gave

2444
01:58:07,440 --> 01:58:11,600
Speaker 1: up seventeen points, and the Eagles beat Chicago gave up

2445
01:58:11,640 --> 01:58:14,360
Speaker 1: fifteen points. Defense kind of carried the day last Sunday,

2446
01:58:14,480 --> 01:58:16,440
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday in the wildcout round, Well, nobody was

2447
01:58:16,640 --> 01:58:18,720
Speaker 1: Nobody was really playing an offense that they were really

2448
01:58:18,760 --> 01:58:21,760
Speaker 1: scared of, except that Baltimore had the number nine offense overall,

2449
01:58:21,840 --> 01:58:23,760
Speaker 1: and they you know, they got into a tussle with

2450
01:58:24,840 --> 01:58:27,120
Speaker 1: and they scored fifteen points. I guess they scored fift

2451
01:58:27,320 --> 01:58:29,080
Speaker 1: Defense is not important. How do you account for the

2452
01:58:29,160 --> 01:58:31,920
Speaker 1: results from less Sunday? Yeah? I think you know, And

2453
01:58:31,960 --> 01:58:33,600
Speaker 1: I was thinking this too. If you if you add

2454
01:58:33,680 --> 01:58:35,960
Speaker 1: up the rankings, see where these teams ranked together. And

2455
01:58:36,120 --> 01:58:39,000
Speaker 1: if you do that, you know, the Chargers look really good.

2456
01:58:39,520 --> 01:58:41,840
Speaker 1: When you do that, the Rams look really good when

2457
01:58:41,920 --> 01:58:44,880
Speaker 1: you do that. All these other teams, uh, not so much.

2458
01:58:44,960 --> 01:58:46,840
Speaker 1: They're all kind of they got one side of the

2459
01:58:46,880 --> 01:58:48,920
Speaker 1: ball that carries them. But when you get into a

2460
01:58:48,960 --> 01:58:51,160
Speaker 1: total team, you look at those teams that kind of

2461
01:58:51,200 --> 01:58:53,640
Speaker 1: rank both that are pretty high. The Chargers come, you know,

2462
01:58:53,720 --> 01:58:55,520
Speaker 1: filtered to the top of that. They're playing really well

2463
01:58:55,600 --> 01:58:57,240
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, so maybe there's something

2464
01:58:57,320 --> 01:58:59,640
Speaker 1: there when they walk into New England. I think defense

2465
01:58:59,760 --> 01:59:01,840
Speaker 1: matters more now than it does in a regular season.

2466
01:59:01,880 --> 01:59:03,440
Speaker 1: Do you are you one of those that says just

2467
01:59:03,600 --> 01:59:05,800
Speaker 1: because they're good? Or is it like the are you

2468
01:59:05,840 --> 01:59:07,400
Speaker 1: one of those like, well, it's late in the year,

2469
01:59:07,440 --> 01:59:10,360
Speaker 1: it's November, it's windy, it's cold, all of that. Does

2470
01:59:10,440 --> 01:59:14,640
Speaker 1: that because I don't, Oh, I don't what why defense matters? Yeah?

2471
01:59:14,920 --> 01:59:17,160
Speaker 1: Or did why defense kind of takes a step forward

2472
01:59:17,240 --> 01:59:18,880
Speaker 1: late in the year it seems like always in Yeah,

2473
01:59:18,880 --> 01:59:20,120
Speaker 1: I don't think it has much to do with the weather.

2474
01:59:20,160 --> 01:59:23,760
Speaker 1: It's just it's just you're you're you're not challenged to

2475
01:59:23,800 --> 01:59:25,160
Speaker 1: put up a ton of points. If the other ding

2476
01:59:25,240 --> 01:59:27,080
Speaker 1: doesn't score a lot of points, it's it's kind of basic,

2477
01:59:27,160 --> 01:59:29,800
Speaker 1: it's kind of elementary. But boy, if you're giving up

2478
01:59:29,880 --> 01:59:32,880
Speaker 1: fifteen points, like, uh, you know some of these teams did,

2479
01:59:33,000 --> 01:59:36,280
Speaker 1: like Chicago scored fifteen You can beat a team. I mean,

2480
01:59:36,320 --> 01:59:37,920
Speaker 1: the Bills can win games if if they hold their

2481
01:59:37,920 --> 01:59:40,520
Speaker 1: opponents to fifteen points. Right, as bad as a Buffalo

2482
01:59:40,600 --> 01:59:43,520
Speaker 1: offense was fifteen points is is nothing in today's NFL.

2483
01:59:43,640 --> 01:59:45,480
Speaker 1: It's interesting too. But I told you this. Half the

2484
01:59:45,520 --> 01:59:48,240
Speaker 1: teams in the wildcard round, none of them scored twenty

2485
01:59:48,280 --> 01:59:51,360
Speaker 1: five points. Nobody did. Not a single team seventeen points

2486
01:59:51,400 --> 01:59:54,640
Speaker 1: for Baltimart or losing effort. Last week, none, nobody, not

2487
01:59:54,760 --> 01:59:58,000
Speaker 1: even the winning teams scored twenty five point defense matters,

2488
01:59:58,360 --> 02:00:01,240
Speaker 1: Nobody scored twenty five points in the the entire wildcard weekend.

2489
02:00:01,320 --> 02:00:03,680
Speaker 1: None of the four games, nobody scored twenty five points.

2490
02:00:04,720 --> 02:00:10,120
Speaker 1: How what? Why? What? What? What? How does that happen now? Right?

2491
02:00:10,480 --> 02:00:14,000
Speaker 1: Because this had all the LA maybe that's maybe that's

2492
02:00:14,000 --> 02:00:15,720
Speaker 1: the reason. Because none of the top offense has had

2493
02:00:15,760 --> 02:00:19,400
Speaker 1: to play over wildcard weekend. All these people are scratching

2494
02:00:19,440 --> 02:00:24,000
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, yeah, right, and the and the Patriots, who

2495
02:00:24,000 --> 02:00:25,760
Speaker 1: are the number five offense in the league. Maybe that

2496
02:00:25,840 --> 02:00:30,160
Speaker 1: was the JV last week, Maybe that was the JP tournament. Maybe,

2497
02:00:30,400 --> 02:00:32,840
Speaker 1: but well, nobody could score points. All right, there's this.

2498
02:00:32,920 --> 02:00:34,200
Speaker 1: We got to talk about this. And by the way,

2499
02:00:34,240 --> 02:00:35,960
Speaker 1: you can phone in your thoughts which road team is

2500
02:00:36,000 --> 02:00:38,160
Speaker 1: the best chance of an upset this weekend. We got

2501
02:00:38,200 --> 02:00:40,080
Speaker 1: phone lines open for the next couple of minutes. Here

2502
02:00:40,280 --> 02:00:43,960
Speaker 1: eight three fifty toll free one eight eight five fifty

2503
02:00:44,000 --> 02:00:46,080
Speaker 1: two five fifty. A lot of Bills fans, many of

2504
02:00:46,160 --> 02:00:50,720
Speaker 1: those on Twitter talking about Antonio Brown. Some interesting comments

2505
02:00:50,800 --> 02:00:55,000
Speaker 1: from Art Rooney, the second Pittsburgh Steelers team president, told

2506
02:00:55,280 --> 02:00:57,840
Speaker 1: m the posts at the Pittsburgh Post is at that

2507
02:00:58,160 --> 02:01:01,000
Speaker 1: as far as that talented wide receiver and Tony o'brown quote,

2508
02:01:01,680 --> 02:01:04,400
Speaker 1: he won't be released, but all other options around the table.

2509
02:01:04,760 --> 02:01:07,600
Speaker 1: Regarding his future, Rooney told the Post Gazette it would

2510
02:01:07,600 --> 02:01:10,120
Speaker 1: be quote hard to envision Brown as part of the

2511
02:01:10,160 --> 02:01:12,880
Speaker 1: Steelers when they go to training camp in late July. Now,

2512
02:01:13,000 --> 02:01:16,000
Speaker 1: don't expect the trade. That can't happen until after the

2513
02:01:16,080 --> 02:01:19,840
Speaker 1: new league year begins March thirteenth. But his roster bonus

2514
02:01:20,200 --> 02:01:23,680
Speaker 1: due March seventeenth would kind of make it difficult to

2515
02:01:23,760 --> 02:01:27,680
Speaker 1: make a trade. But Bills fans wonder and Tonio Brown

2516
02:01:27,880 --> 02:01:31,160
Speaker 1: possible fit for the Bills. The quotes from Rooney were interesting.

2517
02:01:31,240 --> 02:01:32,760
Speaker 1: Not much we can do right now. We have time

2518
02:01:32,800 --> 02:01:34,839
Speaker 1: to make a decision. We'll look at all the options.

2519
02:01:34,880 --> 02:01:37,080
Speaker 1: We're not going to release him, that's not on the table,

2520
02:01:37,120 --> 02:01:39,680
Speaker 1: but all other options around the table. And he went

2521
02:01:39,720 --> 02:01:42,680
Speaker 1: on to say whether the situation can be reconciled and

2522
02:01:42,840 --> 02:01:44,240
Speaker 1: have him back on the team next year, we're a

2523
02:01:44,320 --> 02:01:47,240
Speaker 1: long way away from thinking that can happen. We're not

2524
02:01:47,360 --> 02:01:49,520
Speaker 1: closing the door on anything on this at this We're

2525
02:01:49,560 --> 02:01:52,480
Speaker 1: a long way from that, from the point that thinking

2526
02:01:52,600 --> 02:01:54,880
Speaker 1: that we can have him back on our team next year. Yeah,

2527
02:01:55,040 --> 02:01:56,640
Speaker 1: they're a long way from They don't think they can

2528
02:01:56,720 --> 02:01:59,560
Speaker 1: happen at this point. That's time to say this. I

2529
02:01:59,560 --> 02:02:03,560
Speaker 1: don't mean to be um, you know, Pollyanna. What a shame,

2530
02:02:03,880 --> 02:02:05,240
Speaker 1: What a shame that one of the best, if not

2531
02:02:05,360 --> 02:02:08,200
Speaker 1: the best receiver in the game has essentially talked his

2532
02:02:08,280 --> 02:02:12,240
Speaker 1: way and misbehaved his way off that very fine Pittsburgh roster. Right,

2533
02:02:12,440 --> 02:02:14,000
Speaker 1: Can I just say that? Does that sound kind of

2534
02:02:14,480 --> 02:02:16,680
Speaker 1: I just think it's terrible that the player would do that.

2535
02:02:16,760 --> 02:02:20,080
Speaker 1: You're on a successful team, a perennial playoff contender, a

2536
02:02:20,160 --> 02:02:22,480
Speaker 1: team that has a shot to win championships. You got

2537
02:02:22,920 --> 02:02:24,800
Speaker 1: one of the best quarterbacks in the game and you

2538
02:02:24,960 --> 02:02:28,000
Speaker 1: have just ruined it. And now they're looking at you like, well,

2539
02:02:28,080 --> 02:02:29,720
Speaker 1: we can't have this guy in the roster next year.

2540
02:02:29,760 --> 02:02:31,920
Speaker 1: It's just terrible that if that happens in the interesting

2541
02:02:32,040 --> 02:02:34,200
Speaker 1: thing and the question that I don't know the answer

2542
02:02:34,240 --> 02:02:39,040
Speaker 1: to is why why did this happens? What's his problem?

2543
02:02:39,120 --> 02:02:41,240
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, he's been happy, it's seemingly

2544
02:02:41,360 --> 02:02:43,600
Speaker 1: happy there for a long time, and then word got

2545
02:02:43,640 --> 02:02:46,280
Speaker 1: out that there was some sort of flare up him

2546
02:02:46,280 --> 02:02:48,360
Speaker 1: and Ben Roethlisberger got into an argument or whatever. You

2547
02:02:48,440 --> 02:02:50,520
Speaker 1: hear a lot of after all that. You know, who

2548
02:02:50,560 --> 02:02:54,680
Speaker 1: knows the truth of it all? But why is he

2549
02:02:54,800 --> 02:02:56,920
Speaker 1: not happy in Pittsburgh all of a sudden? Were you

2550
02:02:56,960 --> 02:03:00,560
Speaker 1: gonna go and be happy? He's making all kinds of money.

2551
02:03:00,560 --> 02:03:02,440
Speaker 1: He signed that deal. Now he wants to make that

2552
02:03:02,600 --> 02:03:05,320
Speaker 1: money and go somewhere else to play. Is that why

2553
02:03:05,400 --> 02:03:07,960
Speaker 1: he or did he orchestrate this whole thing that he

2554
02:03:08,040 --> 02:03:12,400
Speaker 1: wants out of there? What's what's he doing? I don't know.

2555
02:03:12,520 --> 02:03:15,080
Speaker 1: He's on one. He's at the organization that has won

2556
02:03:15,200 --> 02:03:18,280
Speaker 1: more championships or as many championships as anybody and is

2557
02:03:18,320 --> 02:03:21,280
Speaker 1: expected to be in the contention for one every every year.

2558
02:03:24,200 --> 02:03:27,360
Speaker 1: Why are you wanting out of there? Why? Because listen,

2559
02:03:27,400 --> 02:03:29,480
Speaker 1: they don't put up with it. It does not surprise

2560
02:03:29,560 --> 02:03:31,160
Speaker 1: me that the Rooneys will say, you know what, we're

2561
02:03:31,240 --> 02:03:33,320
Speaker 1: a good franchise. We're gonna be good with or without him.

2562
02:03:33,880 --> 02:03:37,400
Speaker 1: They did it with Levion Bell already makes it. I mean,

2563
02:03:37,760 --> 02:03:40,000
Speaker 1: if you're the Buffalo Bills in desperate need of wide

2564
02:03:40,040 --> 02:03:43,120
Speaker 1: receiving help, you gotta look at it. But I think

2565
02:03:43,160 --> 02:03:46,880
Speaker 1: he's disqualified himself from here or any team that cares

2566
02:03:46,880 --> 02:03:50,240
Speaker 1: about chemistry on the roster and culture, you know, a

2567
02:03:50,960 --> 02:03:53,640
Speaker 1: cultural fit on the roster. Right, here's the thing, unless

2568
02:03:53,720 --> 02:03:56,720
Speaker 1: already declared himself ineligible for any team like that, unless

2569
02:03:56,720 --> 02:03:58,600
Speaker 1: you get him in, in which the Bills will probably do,

2570
02:03:58,680 --> 02:04:00,600
Speaker 1: and sole other other team they'll get Hi, go face

2571
02:04:00,680 --> 02:04:03,360
Speaker 1: to face with him and say what happened, and if

2572
02:04:03,400 --> 02:04:06,840
Speaker 1: he can explain it away and prove to them it

2573
02:04:07,000 --> 02:04:09,200
Speaker 1: wasn't me, it was something else. It was. Here's why

2574
02:04:09,280 --> 02:04:11,360
Speaker 1: I reacted the way I did. Here's my problem with

2575
02:04:11,440 --> 02:04:13,560
Speaker 1: what happened when here's what was going on in Pittsburgh.

2576
02:04:13,840 --> 02:04:15,920
Speaker 1: And it's a revelation to the people who are asking

2577
02:04:15,960 --> 02:04:19,960
Speaker 1: the question the Bills or the Cleveland Browns, or the Jets,

2578
02:04:20,080 --> 02:04:24,400
Speaker 1: or the Dolphins or the Patriot whoever, if he can

2579
02:04:24,480 --> 02:04:27,160
Speaker 1: convince them that the story is plausible, that it was

2580
02:04:27,280 --> 02:04:30,520
Speaker 1: not him, it's not just him being a bad guy. Well,

2581
02:04:30,600 --> 02:04:33,280
Speaker 1: he's very sought after, but he comes with a big

2582
02:04:33,360 --> 02:04:38,360
Speaker 1: price tag, so he does. Maybe he can undisqualify himself

2583
02:04:38,400 --> 02:04:40,520
Speaker 1: as a culture fit in a team, for a team

2584
02:04:40,600 --> 02:04:42,960
Speaker 1: like Buffalo terrible. I hate to see that happen. It's

2585
02:04:43,000 --> 02:04:45,120
Speaker 1: amazing that that happens. All right, let's play a little

2586
02:04:45,240 --> 02:04:46,760
Speaker 1: NFL true and false now. It is brought to you

2587
02:04:46,840 --> 02:04:50,440
Speaker 1: by Yancey's Fancy New York's artists and cheese. NFL True

2588
02:04:50,480 --> 02:04:53,840
Speaker 1: and False. Number one, The Bills should sign Thomas Davis,

2589
02:04:54,000 --> 02:04:58,240
Speaker 1: former Carolina Panthers longtime linebacker. There fourteen year veteran hasn't

2590
02:04:58,240 --> 02:05:02,200
Speaker 1: played for anybody else, he said yesterday. The Carolina is

2591
02:05:02,200 --> 02:05:04,920
Speaker 1: going in a different direction at the linebacking position. Davis

2592
02:05:04,960 --> 02:05:07,400
Speaker 1: will not be Carolina. He's an unrestricted free agent when

2593
02:05:07,400 --> 02:05:10,080
Speaker 1: the league year begins in March, thirty five years old.

2594
02:05:10,320 --> 02:05:15,280
Speaker 1: The Bills should sign him. Well, to are false, I

2595
02:05:15,320 --> 02:05:17,920
Speaker 1: don't know how to answer it. I would say false. Right,

2596
02:05:17,960 --> 02:05:20,120
Speaker 1: when freeings he opens, If we're in June and Thomas

2597
02:05:20,200 --> 02:05:22,600
Speaker 1: Davis is out there still and you get him at

2598
02:05:22,600 --> 02:05:24,880
Speaker 1: a good price, I'd look at that. But I wouldn't

2599
02:05:24,960 --> 02:05:26,760
Speaker 1: jump on him, Steve. He's thirty five years old. I

2600
02:05:26,760 --> 02:05:29,560
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't look. They have a great amount

2601
02:05:29,560 --> 02:05:33,000
Speaker 1: of affection, the power the power brokers here for Carolina

2602
02:05:33,040 --> 02:05:35,440
Speaker 1: Panthers players, and he's a good one. He has benefited

2603
02:05:35,480 --> 02:05:37,560
Speaker 1: from playing alongside Luke Keakley for a while. But I

2604
02:05:37,600 --> 02:05:40,240
Speaker 1: wouldn't jump on him. I'm gonna say false, right. I mean,

2605
02:05:40,560 --> 02:05:42,520
Speaker 1: like this last year he played in twelve games, started

2606
02:05:42,560 --> 02:05:48,440
Speaker 1: twelve games, so you know, not a great year. He's

2607
02:05:48,480 --> 02:05:50,160
Speaker 1: thirty five years old, like he said. But you know,

2608
02:05:50,800 --> 02:05:53,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the right number, of course,

2609
02:05:53,640 --> 02:05:55,720
Speaker 1: but that's what it comes down to. I don't know

2610
02:05:55,840 --> 02:05:58,400
Speaker 1: that he'll have teams lined up for his services. So

2611
02:05:58,480 --> 02:06:00,840
Speaker 1: there's no question that even if it is the first

2612
02:06:00,920 --> 02:06:02,760
Speaker 1: day of free agency, if the Bills can get him

2613
02:06:02,760 --> 02:06:06,440
Speaker 1: for a low number, absolutely a guy like that, and

2614
02:06:06,520 --> 02:06:09,800
Speaker 1: they would know if he's a culture fit, certainly, so

2615
02:06:10,120 --> 02:06:12,080
Speaker 1: I would know, and that was it, and listen, he

2616
02:06:12,120 --> 02:06:15,280
Speaker 1: would be a culture signing. If They're not signing him

2617
02:06:15,320 --> 02:06:17,520
Speaker 1: to be a difference maker at thirty five years old.

2618
02:06:17,560 --> 02:06:19,240
Speaker 1: How much of a culture signing is a guy who

2619
02:06:19,320 --> 02:06:22,880
Speaker 1: missed four games with a peed violation last year? You

2620
02:06:22,920 --> 02:06:24,720
Speaker 1: know what I mean? What kind of culture we're talking about?

2621
02:06:24,720 --> 02:06:26,920
Speaker 1: I get you, all right, get you? So you say

2622
02:06:27,200 --> 02:06:29,800
Speaker 1: true or false? Say false? Okay? I say false as well.

2623
02:06:30,000 --> 02:06:32,560
Speaker 1: Part two NFL true and false. If the Rams go

2624
02:06:32,720 --> 02:06:34,960
Speaker 1: one and done again, if they are eliminated tomorrow and

2625
02:06:34,960 --> 02:06:37,800
Speaker 1: I've had the Cowboys, the Sean McVay effect will lose

2626
02:06:38,040 --> 02:06:41,840
Speaker 1: its luster. Jim Trotter, who covers the NFL, tweeted this out.

2627
02:06:42,120 --> 02:06:44,120
Speaker 1: I keep being told NFL owners they're looking for the

2628
02:06:44,200 --> 02:06:46,520
Speaker 1: nick Sean McVay. Just curious. If he goes one and

2629
02:06:46,600 --> 02:06:48,680
Speaker 1: done in the playoffs for the second straight year, does

2630
02:06:48,760 --> 02:06:52,520
Speaker 1: this star lose any luster? Yes? True, of course it does.

2631
02:06:52,840 --> 02:06:55,200
Speaker 1: Sean McVay has shot to the top of the charts

2632
02:06:55,760 --> 02:07:00,320
Speaker 1: when it comes to NFL coaching templates, right, everybody once

2633
02:07:00,480 --> 02:07:02,360
Speaker 1: I want to get my Sean mcvagh, I got r

2634
02:07:02,400 --> 02:07:05,920
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh. You know, Kingsbury is our Sean McVeigh. Zach

2635
02:07:05,960 --> 02:07:09,160
Speaker 1: Taylor going to Cincinnati, He's a Sean McVeigh disciple after

2636
02:07:09,320 --> 02:07:11,920
Speaker 1: one successful season one and a half. Now he is

2637
02:07:11,960 --> 02:07:14,200
Speaker 1: shot to the top of the charts. If they get

2638
02:07:14,320 --> 02:07:18,080
Speaker 1: knocked out of the playoffs against the Cowboys, of course

2639
02:07:18,120 --> 02:07:20,680
Speaker 1: he loses its luster. Yeah, that's true. I'll say not

2640
02:07:20,880 --> 02:07:24,720
Speaker 1: necessarily because listen, it's a playoff game, a lot of

2641
02:07:24,760 --> 02:07:28,240
Speaker 1: things can happen. And plus, the reason he shot to

2642
02:07:28,320 --> 02:07:31,520
Speaker 1: the top was because he took a bad offense with

2643
02:07:31,680 --> 02:07:36,920
Speaker 1: a busted quarterback and fixed it overnight. Seemingly figuratively speaking,

2644
02:07:37,000 --> 02:07:41,040
Speaker 1: he fixed it overnight. That's why his star shines like

2645
02:07:41,160 --> 02:07:44,720
Speaker 1: it does. And one loss in the playoffs. Listen, a

2646
02:07:44,840 --> 02:07:47,120
Speaker 1: lot of franchises wish they were the team that could

2647
02:07:47,120 --> 02:07:49,600
Speaker 1: go to the playoffs every year and have a shot

2648
02:07:49,640 --> 02:07:51,880
Speaker 1: at it, and losing one game at the end of

2649
02:07:51,920 --> 02:07:54,920
Speaker 1: a really good season does not mean that you're you

2650
02:07:55,000 --> 02:07:57,320
Speaker 1: don't deserve to be there, you don't have better things

2651
02:07:57,400 --> 02:07:59,240
Speaker 1: in store for your franchise, or any of that's other

2652
02:07:59,280 --> 02:08:01,120
Speaker 1: stuff that goes along with having that. So I would

2653
02:08:01,120 --> 02:08:04,320
Speaker 1: say no, Certainly, they'll be bitterly disappointed because this is

2654
02:08:04,360 --> 02:08:06,160
Speaker 1: a year they'll be the second year in a row

2655
02:08:06,200 --> 02:08:08,840
Speaker 1: they did that. But when you get into the playoffs, hey,

2656
02:08:09,040 --> 02:08:12,840
Speaker 1: it's hard to win, and that would not that would

2657
02:08:12,880 --> 02:08:15,000
Speaker 1: not take anything away from what Sean McVay has already

2658
02:08:15,000 --> 02:08:17,280
Speaker 1: done for the Rams. All right, and finally, NFL true

2659
02:08:17,320 --> 02:08:20,000
Speaker 1: or false? This is hard to believe, but I saw

2660
02:08:20,080 --> 02:08:23,000
Speaker 1: the picture. Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, the home of the

2661
02:08:23,040 --> 02:08:25,800
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts Indie one and oh, after their playoff victory

2662
02:08:25,840 --> 02:08:28,640
Speaker 1: against Houston last week, headed to Kansas City for you know,

2663
02:08:28,880 --> 02:08:30,880
Speaker 1: a tough game against the top seed in the AFC.

2664
02:08:31,280 --> 02:08:34,400
Speaker 1: Outside Lucas Oil Stadium, the Colts have raised the flag

2665
02:08:35,240 --> 02:08:37,920
Speaker 1: that says the colts slogo one and oh, a new

2666
02:08:38,000 --> 02:08:41,480
Speaker 1: one and oh flag outside Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

2667
02:08:42,320 --> 02:08:45,160
Speaker 1: Is that a bad look? True? False? Yeah, true, that's

2668
02:08:45,200 --> 02:08:47,400
Speaker 1: a bad look. You're one to know in the playoffs

2669
02:08:47,440 --> 02:08:49,720
Speaker 1: you want a wildcard game. It's not like this franchise

2670
02:08:49,800 --> 02:08:54,839
Speaker 1: hasn't accomplished anything else. Sixteen division titles, two Super Bowl victories,

2671
02:08:54,840 --> 02:08:59,080
Speaker 1: and Colts history seven conference championships, NFL championships before the merger,

2672
02:08:59,600 --> 02:09:03,080
Speaker 1: A fly with one and all. Come on, man, somebody

2673
02:09:03,160 --> 02:09:05,880
Speaker 1: have a brother in law runs a flag company or what? Yeah?

2674
02:09:06,560 --> 02:09:08,400
Speaker 1: I agree, that's a bad look. I think that is

2675
02:09:08,440 --> 02:09:13,680
Speaker 1: a true. That's a bad look. I mean, what do

2676
02:09:13,760 --> 02:09:15,120
Speaker 1: you do do they have the two and old flag

2677
02:09:15,200 --> 02:09:16,880
Speaker 1: ready to go with it. They might win, they might

2678
02:09:17,080 --> 02:09:19,080
Speaker 1: and it's a thing now right two and oh right?

2679
02:09:19,240 --> 02:09:22,240
Speaker 1: I mean like the other you gether. Let ten games

2680
02:09:22,280 --> 02:09:24,880
Speaker 1: they won or nine or eleven games, whatever it was

2681
02:09:25,000 --> 02:09:27,720
Speaker 1: that that they want. Those are meaningless now they go away.

2682
02:09:27,840 --> 02:09:30,320
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm with you. I think that I think

2683
02:09:30,360 --> 02:09:32,040
Speaker 1: it is. It's a bad look. They're ten and six

2684
02:09:32,080 --> 02:09:34,160
Speaker 1: in the regular season, one to know in the playoffs,

2685
02:09:34,240 --> 02:09:37,840
Speaker 1: and it's not it's not time. It is the absolute

2686
02:09:37,880 --> 02:09:40,400
Speaker 1: worst time to raise a flag saying one to see

2687
02:09:40,400 --> 02:09:42,800
Speaker 1: what they do this week. They might win. Steve thinks

2688
02:09:42,840 --> 02:09:45,400
Speaker 1: you're gonna win. I think they're gonna win. And somebody

2689
02:09:45,520 --> 02:09:48,920
Speaker 1: just informed us on Twitter that the Chargers are the

2690
02:09:49,000 --> 02:09:51,760
Speaker 1: lowest underdog, their four point underdog to the Saint to

2691
02:09:51,880 --> 02:09:56,280
Speaker 1: the Patriots. And that's the smallest smallest spread on the

2692
02:09:56,520 --> 02:09:58,720
Speaker 1: over the weekends. That's what the that's where the upset is.

2693
02:09:58,760 --> 02:10:01,280
Speaker 1: I'm looking at again. You were right, you called me

2694
02:10:01,360 --> 02:10:04,320
Speaker 1: out right off the bat at twelve o three this afternoon.

2695
02:10:04,520 --> 02:10:06,360
Speaker 1: A lot of it is wishful thinking. I would love

2696
02:10:06,400 --> 02:10:08,760
Speaker 1: it if the Patriot is kind of eliminated. Yeah, as

2697
02:10:08,840 --> 02:10:12,120
Speaker 1: soon as the playoffs begin, love it. I think everybody's

2698
02:10:12,160 --> 02:10:14,160
Speaker 1: looking forward to happen. But there's nothing that tells me

2699
02:10:14,280 --> 02:10:16,600
Speaker 1: that it's going to all right, we'll see a break. Here,

2700
02:10:16,640 --> 02:10:18,760
Speaker 1: we're back with more One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive.

2701
02:10:18,840 --> 02:10:38,400
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Well, here we go. What

2702
02:10:38,480 --> 02:10:40,360
Speaker 1: have we learned from today's show? And is brought to

2703
02:10:40,400 --> 02:10:43,160
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2706
02:10:50,040 --> 02:10:51,360
Speaker 1: What have we learned today? We have a We have

2707
02:10:51,400 --> 02:10:53,680
Speaker 1: a pretty good show that focus a lot on the

2708
02:10:53,720 --> 02:10:56,040
Speaker 1: playoffs and on some of the coaching searches. We talked

2709
02:10:56,080 --> 02:10:59,720
Speaker 1: with Great Cosell, executive producer analysts of NFL Matchup on

2710
02:10:59,760 --> 02:11:02,720
Speaker 1: em and he gave us his insight into the Chargers

2711
02:11:02,800 --> 02:11:05,640
Speaker 1: matchup against the Patriots, that game coming up on Sunday

2712
02:11:05,680 --> 02:11:09,680
Speaker 1: at one. You know, I think the Patriots offense is

2713
02:11:09,680 --> 02:11:11,920
Speaker 1: a lot different than we've come to expect. I mean,

2714
02:11:12,000 --> 02:11:14,040
Speaker 1: they have not been very good on third down this year,

2715
02:11:14,080 --> 02:11:16,880
Speaker 1: which is very rare Tom Brady's third down numbers are

2716
02:11:17,000 --> 02:11:20,080
Speaker 1: poor compared to previous years, and they're actually in the

2717
02:11:20,160 --> 02:11:23,600
Speaker 1: bottom half of the league. You know, the Patriots have

2718
02:11:23,720 --> 02:11:26,200
Speaker 1: become kind of a running team in which they line

2719
02:11:26,280 --> 02:11:28,960
Speaker 1: up with a fullback Devlin, So they play a lot

2720
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Speaker 1: with what we call twenty one personnel two backs. They're

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Speaker 1: going to end up playing a lot when they go

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Speaker 1: to eleven personnel with three wide. What the Chargers do

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Speaker 1: is they play with six defensive backs. That's kind of

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Speaker 1: their m O. The Chargers are played with six defensive

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Speaker 1: backs on well over fifty percent of their snaps this year.

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Speaker 1: So that's how they play. That's how they roll. That's

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Speaker 1: Greg Cosell, that's how he rolls. Seriously, a lot of

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Speaker 1: insight there in a thirty second sound bite. Also today

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Speaker 1: we had j. P. Lassman on the show. Remember him

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Speaker 1: while were quarterback for the Bill's first round draft pick.

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Speaker 1: He just wrapped up his second season as an intern

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Speaker 1: coach on the staff at Clemson University, the new national

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Speaker 1: champions at Clemson. J Plasmon talked to us about being

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Speaker 1: an intern coach with the Clemson Tigers this year. I

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Speaker 1: absolutely love it. Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely gonna stick with it. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm just having I'm having a great time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I haven't won this much in my entire life.

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Speaker 1: So it's the winning is a is a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun and so it's contagious. And coming to work every

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Speaker 1: day with working for someone like coach Sweeney is just

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Speaker 1: it's just often he's uh, he's authentic, he's genuine. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's honest, and the entire coaching staff is they're all

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Speaker 1: open books to me, and it's been a great, great

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Speaker 1: start for statistic coach good talking to JP Losman today, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I gotta go back to the beginning the show where

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Speaker 1: were talking about basketball and you were talking about your

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Speaker 1: experience nineteen years ago when the tournament first came to Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: My buddy round Bertavitt, who was also part of that committee.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Burto, Yeah, Burto, says tell Steve it was

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Speaker 1: called time to hoop two thousand. Oh sorry. Bobby Knight

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Speaker 1: in Indiana lost to Pepperdine in the first round. I

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Speaker 1: remember that at a postgame presser, coach and Knight called

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo site quote the best run NCAA set up

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Speaker 1: he had ever been to, all because Steve Tasker was

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Speaker 1: our least say that? Bobby Knight on your side? How

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Speaker 1: about it? Bobby Knight did not say. He did say

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Speaker 1: it was the best run venue he'd been a part of.

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Speaker 1: He didn't mention my name, but he was very he

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Speaker 1: was very complimentary of our of our events. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: why we got it back. Probably guys like him over

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Speaker 1: and over again. Yea. All right, have a great weekend,

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Speaker 1: everybody you two Steve production assistant George Blast, Jeff Coltonick

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Speaker 1: Thomas Honalder, Kelly Rude, JJ Trito, Kevin Cardier's teams, Robolot,

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Speaker 1: producer Jay Harris. We will see you Monday at twelve

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Speaker 1: noon with One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio