1
00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,720
Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields.

2
00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,400
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

3
00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:18,840
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

4
00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:25,520
Speaker 1: into strated beer of normalcy here, all right, karate chopping

5
00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,520
Speaker 1: our way through a Friday here, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker,

6
00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:34,040
Speaker 1: one Bill's live. Steve be doing anything this weekend? I know, right,

7
00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,159
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this weekend? Oh mother, not what I

8
00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,000
Speaker 1: thought I was hoping. I was gonna do. Well. I'll

9
00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,519
Speaker 1: be watching football, just not in the way I had

10
00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,920
Speaker 1: hoped to be watching. You know what I got right exactly.

11
00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,360
Speaker 1: I'll probably in person. I'll probably watch, but I think

12
00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,480
Speaker 1: i'm you know, I gotta pond out in the back.

13
00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:54,520
Speaker 1: Got a lot of ice. I might go out and

14
00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,880
Speaker 1: just therapeutically, just work on the ice rink, just stand

15
00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,280
Speaker 1: out there and push snow, be the human zamboni and

16
00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,080
Speaker 1: water on it. And nobody's in town to use it,

17
00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,840
Speaker 1: but who cares. I just go out. I'll smoke a cigar,

18
00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:11,959
Speaker 1: I'll put a six pack of beer in the snow

19
00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:13,840
Speaker 1: next to the pond, and I'm just gonna stand there

20
00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,120
Speaker 1: and just like Charlie Brown with the rain, cloud over

21
00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:18,640
Speaker 1: kind of Freezemke took us off and you stand out

22
00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:21,520
Speaker 1: there and pout, I'm gonna suffer. I'm just gonna pounce

23
00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,680
Speaker 1: self loathing. I am. I hate myself. So and that's

24
00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,640
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. Okay, probably tomorrow do that. Last day,

25
00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,479
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna do. Last night I

26
00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,959
Speaker 1: did watch the US men's national team in a World

27
00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,640
Speaker 1: Cup qualifier. We're just watch El Salvador. It was. It

28
00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:41,280
Speaker 1: was on ESPN two. It was it. Yeah, um, I

29
00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:43,800
Speaker 1: wish how to watch. That is the biggest problem I

30
00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:48,919
Speaker 1: think for the US national teams broadcasts. They're often flip

31
00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,559
Speaker 1: flopping between different networks and nobody can find them right.

32
00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, for me, and you know me, I'm a

33
00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,680
Speaker 1: I'm an American football guy, not really a soccer yes, football,

34
00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:02,280
Speaker 1: but you you've been open minded to this. Here's the thing,

35
00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,240
Speaker 1: US women's national team, US men's national team. I'll stop

36
00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,560
Speaker 1: and watch that above everything else any one. Maybe not

37
00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:12,919
Speaker 1: NFL ball if it's but then I'm at the same time,

38
00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,160
Speaker 1: I will sit and watch that. For sure. I do

39
00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,680
Speaker 1: have a keen interest in the US men's and women's

40
00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,639
Speaker 1: national teams. Yes, US men's national team now ranked I believe,

41
00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,160
Speaker 1: eleventh in the world, so pretty darn good. A lot

42
00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,560
Speaker 1: of young talent and we're gonna we're gonna qualify right

43
00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,960
Speaker 1: for this? Looking good right now? Yes, they got another

44
00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,399
Speaker 1: three points last night with the one nothing win over

45
00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:39,840
Speaker 1: El Salvador. Um. El Salvador kind of mucked the game up.

46
00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,000
Speaker 1: You could argue that the US should have won more

47
00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,200
Speaker 1: handily than they did, but three points is three points.

48
00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,960
Speaker 1: And so now the next game they have coming up,

49
00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,120
Speaker 1: I believe what's today Friday. I think it's either Monday

50
00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:57,040
Speaker 1: or Tuesday. They play Canada. Yeah, next up, one of

51
00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,480
Speaker 1: the toughest sides they'll play in their in their global region.

52
00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:05,920
Speaker 1: But as I understand it, at least they were saying

53
00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,600
Speaker 1: this on the telecast last night, Canada has suffered a

54
00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:14,760
Speaker 1: number of COVID losses to their roster, so there it's

55
00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,920
Speaker 1: anticipated they will be down several players, which figures to

56
00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,679
Speaker 1: make the level of competition not as stringent as anticipated.

57
00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,840
Speaker 1: So we'll have to see what happens there. But it's

58
00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:30,280
Speaker 1: basically it's the US, Mexico and Canada. They're kind of

59
00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,040
Speaker 1: out in front and we'll see where it all ends up.

60
00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,320
Speaker 1: But right now it's looking pretty good. So just keep

61
00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,280
Speaker 1: your fingers crossed. They can come out and knock if

62
00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,680
Speaker 1: they can come out with nine points in this latest

63
00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:48,400
Speaker 1: leg where they play in three games sets, right, you

64
00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,200
Speaker 1: mean they gotta go three and o though, Well, they

65
00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,280
Speaker 1: don't have to. But if you do, how do you

66
00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:53,840
Speaker 1: get points here? What are we talking? Three points for

67
00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,160
Speaker 1: a win, one point for a tie, nothing for a loss.

68
00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,760
Speaker 1: So and they got three games to get nine points? Well, no,

69
00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,720
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is if they maximize their point total

70
00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,120
Speaker 1: and get nine in this current leg. Because all these

71
00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,880
Speaker 1: legs of qualifying are separated because a lot of these

72
00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:15,000
Speaker 1: players have professional obligations, they gotta bolt. So the world

73
00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,479
Speaker 1: basically breaks for a week. Let's do World Cup qualifying.

74
00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,280
Speaker 1: They play like three games in ten days, which is

75
00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,800
Speaker 1: a lot, and they say, okay, you know, break for

76
00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,279
Speaker 1: World Cup qualifying, all right, go back to your respective

77
00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,839
Speaker 1: professional clubs, continue your season. Um, it's kind of like

78
00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,320
Speaker 1: the Olympic break for the NHL and you know stuff

79
00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,480
Speaker 1: like that. So they yeah, so if they can scoop

80
00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,919
Speaker 1: up nine points here, they're gonna put themselves in prime

81
00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:43,200
Speaker 1: position to qualify, it'll be good. We're talking soccer it's okay.

82
00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,159
Speaker 1: I hate just a couple of minutes. I hate just

83
00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,400
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. You know what, if it was

84
00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,400
Speaker 1: on last night, it's topical. I woke up at five

85
00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,640
Speaker 1: am this morning thinking about all the ways we could

86
00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,160
Speaker 1: have played better than thirteen seconds last weekend, and here

87
00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,960
Speaker 1: we are talking because we wouldn't be talking. We're talking

88
00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:00,880
Speaker 1: soccer right now. That the big reason why I was

89
00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,120
Speaker 1: watching that game last night. I'm still trying to forget

90
00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:07,120
Speaker 1: I am. I woke up this morning and could not

91
00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:11,800
Speaker 1: get back to sleep I had. I got up, started

92
00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:13,720
Speaker 1: on the phone, just got on Twitter and started talking

93
00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,520
Speaker 1: look at it to trying to get myself off of it.

94
00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:17,919
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Because you can't. You just

95
00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000
Speaker 1: keep replaying it and replaying it and replaying it. And

96
00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:21,640
Speaker 1: I know this too as a player. I did the

97
00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,080
Speaker 1: same thing. There were plenty of games that I played

98
00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:28,679
Speaker 1: in where you just can't get over you ah, and

99
00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,680
Speaker 1: you know, you just gotta There's just no way to

100
00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,200
Speaker 1: get it out of your mind unless you get yourself

101
00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,920
Speaker 1: distracted somehow. Someway, you gotta go do something or read

102
00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,919
Speaker 1: something or something else. And that's what happened to me

103
00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,119
Speaker 1: this morning. Yeah, That's what happened to me this morning.

104
00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:46,839
Speaker 1: The latest on the head coaching front. As you know,

105
00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,920
Speaker 1: we know a couple of spots got filled in the

106
00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,840
Speaker 1: last day or so, with Maddie Reflus going to Chicago

107
00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:58,240
Speaker 1: and Nate Hacket going to Denver. Leslie Fraser interviewed with

108
00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:01,640
Speaker 1: the Giants this morning. I'm not sure if that's over yet.

109
00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,240
Speaker 1: Usually they send a tweet out when the interview is

110
00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,880
Speaker 1: we have completed an interview with so and so. So

111
00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,599
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that yet. Maybe it has been put

112
00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,680
Speaker 1: out there on social media. But the latest report out

113
00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,640
Speaker 1: of South Florida is that Brian Dable is considered the

114
00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:21,480
Speaker 1: favorite to be offered the head coaching job of the Dolphins.

115
00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,719
Speaker 1: It makes a lot of sense for the Dolphins to me,

116
00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,040
Speaker 1: I mean, right, there's a familiarity with two. He knows too,

117
00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:35,960
Speaker 1: he knows division, he knows your roster, at least defensively.

118
00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:38,559
Speaker 1: And you say, why isn't often, Well, he played against

119
00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,560
Speaker 1: the defense and he's been there before. He was a

120
00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:43,600
Speaker 1: coordinator for one season down there. I want to say

121
00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:48,960
Speaker 1: it was twenty eleven under Tony Sperano. So so I'm yeah,

122
00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,520
Speaker 1: it makes a lot of sense because Plus you got

123
00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,359
Speaker 1: to think too, if you're the Dolphins, at least that

124
00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,920
Speaker 1: you know, at least we kneecap the Bills for a minute, right,

125
00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,599
Speaker 1: I mean the least. Now they got Josh, Allen's getting

126
00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,640
Speaker 1: got a different voice in his head. Maybe that'll help

127
00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,719
Speaker 1: us as Dolphin family. We get we gained by getting

128
00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,560
Speaker 1: day Ball and they lose by losing him, right, so

129
00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:13,000
Speaker 1: maybe you get you think about that stuff. But he

130
00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:14,680
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. He's a really he's a

131
00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,680
Speaker 1: great offensive coach. You got it no matter what. And

132
00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,679
Speaker 1: give Josh the lion share the credit. But how many

133
00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,000
Speaker 1: how many coaching staffs all uh, Joe Judge and the

134
00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:34,000
Speaker 1: Giants um Um urban Meyer and the Jacksonville Jaguars Vic Fangio.

135
00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:39,000
Speaker 1: Go down the list of teams that have messed up

136
00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,960
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks. Matt Naggie, the guy in the Todd Bowles

137
00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,320
Speaker 1: not to Todd Bowls, and the Jets with Sam Darnold,

138
00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,480
Speaker 1: Adam Adam Gase, that's the guy not to coaches, Adam Gase.

139
00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,400
Speaker 1: Adam Gase did that. You know, you can go down

140
00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:59,000
Speaker 1: the list of teams that have mucked it up and

141
00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:05,480
Speaker 1: Brian Dable did was the opposite of that. So, yeah,

142
00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:07,840
Speaker 1: not saying that it's automatically going to be different, but

143
00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,400
Speaker 1: at least you get a chance of maximizing what TA

144
00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,320
Speaker 1: can be. Right, she was not going to be a job.

145
00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,200
Speaker 1: You would think that a guy who has worked with

146
00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,240
Speaker 1: him in the past would be able to really hit

147
00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:21,400
Speaker 1: the ground running in terms of, you know, creating and

148
00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,560
Speaker 1: crafting a scheme that takes advantage of the things that

149
00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:29,280
Speaker 1: he does best. And probably his best assets are between

150
00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,320
Speaker 1: his ears to what I'm talking about, between his ears

151
00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,760
Speaker 1: and getting the ball out quickly. Not a big man,

152
00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,880
Speaker 1: we know that there really aren't any outstanding physical traits

153
00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:44,600
Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, I was. I was really interested to

154
00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,760
Speaker 1: see what Dabel thought of that job, if in fact

155
00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,960
Speaker 1: he was offered it. Because as excited as you might

156
00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,440
Speaker 1: be to reach the pinnacle of your profession, which is

157
00:08:54,440 --> 00:09:00,200
Speaker 1: a head coach, is it Maybe you don't worry about

158
00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,840
Speaker 1: at being the ideal job, you're just worrying about getting

159
00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,200
Speaker 1: there first. But you also want to be in a

160
00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:10,760
Speaker 1: position that sets you up to succeed, and it's hard

161
00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:14,000
Speaker 1: not to think that. Take a head coaching job in

162
00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,400
Speaker 1: this division. Have fun playing Josh Allen twice a year,

163
00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:19,640
Speaker 1: you know what, I mean, like not to mention the

164
00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:21,800
Speaker 1: fact that the Bills also had the number one defense

165
00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:26,280
Speaker 1: in football and a top five special teams unit in

166
00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:31,719
Speaker 1: terms of coverage teams. So an average drive start, I mean,

167
00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,360
Speaker 1: that's as complete the team as you're gonna find in

168
00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:38,400
Speaker 1: this division. And there's no sign of the pecking order

169
00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,760
Speaker 1: with the Bills at the top changing anytime soon. So

170
00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:46,400
Speaker 1: you've got to really really believe that you can make

171
00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:52,480
Speaker 1: things dramatically better in Miami to even contend for a

172
00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,720
Speaker 1: wild card spot, because you still have your own mentor

173
00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,839
Speaker 1: up there in New England, still coaching over there. So

174
00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:04,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. I thought that if he had the

175
00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,880
Speaker 1: choice to weigh between the Giants and the Dolphins, that

176
00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,760
Speaker 1: he would pick the Giants. It's a more favorable division

177
00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,760
Speaker 1: in which to succeed. Maybe he likes two of better

178
00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:20,280
Speaker 1: than Daniel Jones. He might, he might, that's certainly possible.

179
00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,280
Speaker 1: I did not look up the cap situation for the Giants.

180
00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,400
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's all that pretty, especially with

181
00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:30,120
Speaker 1: Giant money being handed to people like Kenny Golladay last

182
00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:34,960
Speaker 1: year in the off season in free agency. So I

183
00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:36,480
Speaker 1: did not look that up. So I'm not going to

184
00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:38,640
Speaker 1: profess to know which team has a better cap situation.

185
00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,559
Speaker 1: We could check it in the break, but I think that,

186
00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it's great that he's a finalist and considered

187
00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:49,280
Speaker 1: the favorite to be the dolphins next head coach. I'm

188
00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,960
Speaker 1: very interested to see if he actually shakes their hand

189
00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,840
Speaker 1: and say says let's do this. Yeah, and I'll say

190
00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:58,120
Speaker 1: this too. The fact that dan Quinn went back to

191
00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:03,440
Speaker 1: Dallas takes one quality candidate out of this and enhance everybody.

192
00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:06,600
Speaker 1: Leslie Fraser, Brian Dabe will go one not try New

193
00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:11,200
Speaker 1: York also, and Flores in New York. Well, Flores in

194
00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,040
Speaker 1: New York is right in the mix of it too,

195
00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:17,200
Speaker 1: So he interviewed yesterday. So all of these guys, you know,

196
00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:21,880
Speaker 1: there's still I mean, we still got like seven opening

197
00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:27,600
Speaker 1: seven openings. Right. People have been commenting, including the National reporters,

198
00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:33,720
Speaker 1: saying that this is the slowest head coaching hiring cycle

199
00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,240
Speaker 1: they have ever seen. And usually because we've seen this

200
00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:43,560
Speaker 1: once one or two get hired, they happened in rapid succession.

201
00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,160
Speaker 1: We still we haven't seen that either, right. I think

202
00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:52,160
Speaker 1: Hackett got hired on what Wednesday, Today's Friday. Eberflus was Tuesday, afternoon.

203
00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,720
Speaker 1: I believe we're at Friday. We don't have anybody else

204
00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,480
Speaker 1: name to a post yet. And and let's let's face it, two,

205
00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:01,559
Speaker 1: some of these teams on that listen, I can't I

206
00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:04,240
Speaker 1: don't know, have a GM to fill too. They have

207
00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,400
Speaker 1: some GM positions that just got filled. The Giants are

208
00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,320
Speaker 1: one of those. The Vikings are one of those. So

209
00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,440
Speaker 1: you've got some of those offices that have to you know,

210
00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,520
Speaker 1: you want the GM to help you hire the head coach,

211
00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:20,240
Speaker 1: that kind of thing and get their feet, come in

212
00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,600
Speaker 1: to catch their breath, get to know their team, and

213
00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,600
Speaker 1: then start asking people, you know, talking to people in

214
00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:30,679
Speaker 1: an interview situation. So a ton of stuff going on,

215
00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,960
Speaker 1: and I think there's no reason for them to be

216
00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,760
Speaker 1: in a hurry. I'll say that there is absolutely no

217
00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,200
Speaker 1: reason for these teams to be in a hurry. You

218
00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:43,200
Speaker 1: gotta get the right guy. Certainly, if somebody snatches the

219
00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:44,760
Speaker 1: guy you thought you might have liked, you got to

220
00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:48,600
Speaker 1: make the best of it. But you got to hone

221
00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:52,120
Speaker 1: in on these guys. Here might be the determining factor

222
00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:56,960
Speaker 1: that could swing Miami's job as a more favorable one

223
00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,320
Speaker 1: to that of the Giants. When you come on board

224
00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,440
Speaker 1: as a head coach, what's the number one thing you

225
00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,360
Speaker 1: want to do after hiring your coaching staff in terms

226
00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:07,760
Speaker 1: of importance. You want to be able to shape the

227
00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,320
Speaker 1: roster in your image, the vision you have for the roster. Right,

228
00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,360
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have sixty six million dollars in cap space.

229
00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:23,280
Speaker 1: The Giants are ten million dollars over. Here's the thing.

230
00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:25,400
Speaker 1: If you become the head coach of the Giants, you're

231
00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,160
Speaker 1: looking at a suck it up year. Yeah, because you're

232
00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,199
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to change the roster all that month.

233
00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,720
Speaker 1: Think about this though, Miami. I mean, Joe Shane can

234
00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,120
Speaker 1: cut here and cut there, but you know you're taking

235
00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,240
Speaker 1: cap hits at the same time. What's gonna happen if

236
00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,440
Speaker 1: day Ball gets the Dolphins job? All this long list

237
00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,280
Speaker 1: of free agents the Bills are gonna have, He's gonna

238
00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,640
Speaker 1: cherry pick him. Oh, get ready for that. Not only

239
00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:48,160
Speaker 1: if he takes a job in Miami. It won't only

240
00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,679
Speaker 1: be in Miami the Giants. Giants already started doing it right.

241
00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,960
Speaker 1: Joe Shane's gig Antonio Williams, who got cut off the

242
00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,840
Speaker 1: practice squad here about a month or so ago. The

243
00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,400
Speaker 1: running back that tore it up against the Dolphins in

244
00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,000
Speaker 1: Week seventeen the twenty twenty season. So he's a New

245
00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,960
Speaker 1: York Giant already and just strap in for more of

246
00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,120
Speaker 1: that because they know those players intimately. So yeah, it's

247
00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:14,520
Speaker 1: just it's the byproduct of having a lot of success.

248
00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,959
Speaker 1: Other teams want that same success, and they're going to

249
00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:21,320
Speaker 1: siphon off of you to benefit in the same way

250
00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,000
Speaker 1: that you did in your march to the top of

251
00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,800
Speaker 1: the league. So I never I will say this, Steve,

252
00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,640
Speaker 1: and this is nothing against what the Bills have done here.

253
00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,120
Speaker 1: I never thought I would see a day where the

254
00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:39,320
Speaker 1: Giants organization was looking to the Bills to get answers

255
00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,440
Speaker 1: on how to get better. Because for the longest time,

256
00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:44,680
Speaker 1: I mean since I was a kid, the Giants were

257
00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:48,280
Speaker 1: like one of those stable standard bearers of the league,

258
00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,640
Speaker 1: much like Pittsburgh and you know some of these other

259
00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:56,800
Speaker 1: stable historic franchises, and man if they lost their way.

260
00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,360
Speaker 1: So Joe Shane's a good hire. He'll kind get that

261
00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,360
Speaker 1: thing moving back in the right direction. It's gonna take

262
00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,480
Speaker 1: some They're gonna they got some bitter pills to swallow

263
00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:07,520
Speaker 1: this year. Ten million over the cap. Yeah, I mean,

264
00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:09,240
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be able to fix everything the way

265
00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,520
Speaker 1: he wants to right away. You know, he'll go through

266
00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:13,040
Speaker 1: what the Bills went through. But if you get the

267
00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,000
Speaker 1: right guy, think about it. The Bills had that same

268
00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:18,640
Speaker 1: scenario when Sean McDermott got hired and they went to

269
00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:20,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs that first year with that with a horrible

270
00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:24,960
Speaker 1: roster that everybody said they were tanking with. Yeah, McDermott

271
00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,320
Speaker 1: gets him to the playoffs his first year. Now they

272
00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:29,000
Speaker 1: backed in and they had all that stuff, you know,

273
00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,280
Speaker 1: but then they bait the cap bullet in twenty eight

274
00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:33,800
Speaker 1: and they bait the cap bullet. But at least you

275
00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,640
Speaker 1: had that year where you got, okay, the guy can

276
00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,440
Speaker 1: coach right now, you're gonna and then you gutted his

277
00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,520
Speaker 1: roster and then they had to, you know, suck it up,

278
00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,400
Speaker 1: and he played Josh in the year where you thought

279
00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,960
Speaker 1: you weren't gonna have to play him, you know. So

280
00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,200
Speaker 1: all of that went into it. But still, if you

281
00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:53,640
Speaker 1: get the right guy, you know, he's gonna maximize whatever

282
00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:55,920
Speaker 1: roster you can put on the field. And he'll show

283
00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,240
Speaker 1: that when you get those guys. And I think, if

284
00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,640
Speaker 1: you're right, Miami seems like much better spot to land

285
00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:07,560
Speaker 1: than does the Giants because financially being able to turn

286
00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,520
Speaker 1: it around quicker. Yeah, you got financial maneuverability to add

287
00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:13,400
Speaker 1: to the roster in a way that you see fit.

288
00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,840
Speaker 1: So we'll have to see where that goes. Because the

289
00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,720
Speaker 1: word is the Giants will have a decision by the weekend,

290
00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,400
Speaker 1: presumably as early as maybe the end of the day

291
00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:27,560
Speaker 1: today or early tomorrow morning or overnight or something like that,

292
00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,240
Speaker 1: once they get to contract negotiations, and then that figures

293
00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:35,680
Speaker 1: to force the Dolphin's hand into hiring somebody, because if

294
00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,920
Speaker 1: the Giants don't pick Dable, Dable's probably taking the Dolphins

295
00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:41,840
Speaker 1: job if the reports are accurate. If the Giants offer

296
00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:43,800
Speaker 1: Dable the job and he takes that, well, then where

297
00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:45,760
Speaker 1: does that leave the Dolphins. Maybe it takes a little

298
00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,080
Speaker 1: longer for them. They don't name somebody to Monday. We'll

299
00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:49,840
Speaker 1: just have to wait and see guys out there though.

300
00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:52,840
Speaker 1: But I think too, I think I'll be surprised if

301
00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:54,960
Speaker 1: Brian Flores doesn't land someplace and one of these other

302
00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,400
Speaker 1: seven spots. Yeah, I know that some of them are

303
00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,000
Speaker 1: you know, we've been talking about and we saw the

304
00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,040
Speaker 1: list a minute ago. How you know some of them

305
00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,480
Speaker 1: are more attractive than others New Orleans. They're like, nobody

306
00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,480
Speaker 1: wants any part of it. Seventy four million over the

307
00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,639
Speaker 1: camp and they got Taysom Hill's quarterback. Yeah, well they

308
00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:14,040
Speaker 1: got Jami's coming back off a bad knee injury. He's

309
00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,920
Speaker 1: a free agent though, I believe. Yeah, what are they doing?

310
00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,359
Speaker 1: All right? So they got out they were robbing Peter

311
00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,200
Speaker 1: to pay Paul for a ten years. So they're they're

312
00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,159
Speaker 1: done for a year at least. They're gonna have to

313
00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,360
Speaker 1: right bite the cap bull at hard this offseason year.

314
00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,840
Speaker 1: Denver's got a guy, Chicago's got their guy. Denver's going

315
00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,480
Speaker 1: through an ownership change and that whole thing. Denver's gonna

316
00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,359
Speaker 1: go out of a sale. Yeah, they're gonna have to

317
00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,000
Speaker 1: sell the team because of the death of the of

318
00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,400
Speaker 1: the owner of a year or two ago. Now that's

319
00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:43,960
Speaker 1: it's a seems to be a cat fight over who

320
00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:48,080
Speaker 1: can control the team. Right, Oh, that's bad. But then,

321
00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,840
Speaker 1: but you know they still got to find somebody. Yes,

322
00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,960
Speaker 1: So a lot is going to go down here in

323
00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,080
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks with the head coaching hiring cycle.

324
00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,199
Speaker 1: And we'll try to keep you abreast of it as

325
00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:03,640
Speaker 1: best we can. And full show for you today. Coming

326
00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,159
Speaker 1: up in about ten minutes time the triumphant return of

327
00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,399
Speaker 1: Tasker's Teammate. We'll have a new edition and quiz Steve

328
00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:11,440
Speaker 1: to see if he can guess which former teammate we're

329
00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,879
Speaker 1: describing with the most cryptic set of clues you can find.

330
00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,080
Speaker 1: Second hour of the show, it'll be our final visit

331
00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:21,200
Speaker 1: with Greg Kosell, as we wrap up the Bills twenty

332
00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,359
Speaker 1: twenty one season with him and take a look ahead

333
00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:25,760
Speaker 1: at the conference title games, dice up some x's and

334
00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,080
Speaker 1: oh's with him, particularly with the Bengals Chiefs showdown in

335
00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:32,000
Speaker 1: the AFC. And then final half hour of the show

336
00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,480
Speaker 1: a little over an hour from now, we'll have our

337
00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:38,320
Speaker 1: colleague Bills reporter Mandy Glab joining us to give us

338
00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:42,600
Speaker 1: her end of season Mattie Awards, So we look forward

339
00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,520
Speaker 1: to that a little over an hour from now. But

340
00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:50,240
Speaker 1: in the meantime, it is Friday Fan mail Bag here

341
00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,520
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live. Any or your most pressing questions

342
00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:54,640
Speaker 1: about the team of the league at large are welcome,

343
00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:56,680
Speaker 1: and we're gonna give the phones for some right now.

344
00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,760
Speaker 1: Leaving us off today is Judy on to sell. Judy,

345
00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:02,240
Speaker 1: what do you have for us. You're all one Bill's live.

346
00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,240
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you know, I think, uh, Miami's a perfect

347
00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:16,000
Speaker 1: place for Brian day Ball. Why, well, Miami is a

348
00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:21,960
Speaker 1: talented team, they need some really good offensive coaching, and

349
00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,280
Speaker 1: they're in a position to offer mister Robiski a contract.

350
00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,800
Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me at all if that isn't in

351
00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,800
Speaker 1: the works. One other thing I want to say is

352
00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:36,720
Speaker 1: I certainly hope that Buffalo signs Mackenzie to a contract.

353
00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:43,680
Speaker 1: If they let him go, it will be a terrific mistake. Yeah, yeah, okay, thanks, Judy,

354
00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,680
Speaker 1: appreciate the call. I'll come down too, is whether Isaiah

355
00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,560
Speaker 1: wants to play here. You know, he might. He might

356
00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,439
Speaker 1: want to go to greener pastors, just where he'll have

357
00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,639
Speaker 1: he'll have a guaranteed spot on the roster, a bigger

358
00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,640
Speaker 1: contract for that matter, you know, maybe Miami. Yeah, maybe

359
00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:58,680
Speaker 1: it was Maybe he'll go down to Miami and day

360
00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:00,359
Speaker 1: Ball say hey, listen, we're gonna put in there and

361
00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,200
Speaker 1: leave you there. So that yeah, that could be a too.

362
00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,680
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about the Drubisky thing going to Miami.

363
00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:11,679
Speaker 1: But yeah, if if the Miami ownership, that's your fail safe.

364
00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,480
Speaker 1: If yeah, if Miami ownership says you can bring him

365
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:21,880
Speaker 1: in to compete. Yeah, I mean because Trubisky, because Mitchie's

366
00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:26,520
Speaker 1: got some physical traits, well, certainly better ones than TWA.

367
00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,400
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any debate about that. And if

368
00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:31,439
Speaker 1: and if day Ball is going to put in the

369
00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,320
Speaker 1: same offense obviously that he put in here with Buffalo,

370
00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:39,919
Speaker 1: knows it coming in the door. Yeah, yeah, Mitchie, Mitchie

371
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,720
Speaker 1: might scratch that Itchy. I mean, that might be perfect.

372
00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:47,600
Speaker 1: Think about it. Did you just say I just said that.

373
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:52,639
Speaker 1: I just came to me. I'm just brilliant Trubisky Trubisky.

374
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,240
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that, Judy, You're a great call.

375
00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,240
Speaker 1: Trubisky is a shoe in to go down there. That's

376
00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,439
Speaker 1: a smart move by day Ball. He'll come in and

377
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,680
Speaker 1: even if he doesn't come in to compete, he'll come

378
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,160
Speaker 1: in and be a guy in the room that can

379
00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 1: sit there. I don't know. I think Mitchell Trubisky, though,

380
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:12,800
Speaker 1: bides his time to see what opportunities surface. If you remember,

381
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,879
Speaker 1: you know he didn't jump at an opportunity last year

382
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,119
Speaker 1: in free agency because not a real good opportunity ever surfaced.

383
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,959
Speaker 1: I don't think he's expecting to be plugged in as

384
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 1: a starter anywhere necessarily. I think he's just looking for

385
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,880
Speaker 1: a place where he can compete. Knowing that upper management

386
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:33,359
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins, essentially we're at odds with Brian flora

387
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,000
Speaker 1: Is about the future of the organization at quarterback, and

388
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,080
Speaker 1: Flora's and the and the organization basically said, well, we're

389
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,560
Speaker 1: gonna part ways here because you don't believe in Tuah

390
00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,919
Speaker 1: and we do, so thanks for coming. Knowing they're that

391
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,160
Speaker 1: staunch in their stance about Tuah and going forward with him.

392
00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 1: I can't see them signing off on an open quarterback

393
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:56,440
Speaker 1: competition in August. If you're Brian Dabole or anybody in foot,

394
00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 1: any of these anybody the ownership too in Miami. If

395
00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,680
Speaker 1: you if you've watched any football over the last two

396
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:07,639
Speaker 1: weekends and you think your guy can do that what

397
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:12,440
Speaker 1: Mahomes did, what Josh Allen did, or does he look

398
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 1: like Mac Jones did? He looks awfully mackish. He does

399
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 1: not to mention that his current teammate and former Alabama teammate.

400
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,919
Speaker 1: When he was asked which quarterback would you prefer? He

401
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 1: said Mac. He said, man, listen, I think about that.

402
00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 1: If you're and if you're any self respecting candidate, you

403
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,320
Speaker 1: gotta be fourth right, And all these guys I think

404
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,800
Speaker 1: they're brutally honest when they go into these interviews, that

405
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 1: they're not sugarcoat any because you're not trying. You can't

406
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,119
Speaker 1: go in there and sugarcoat the way you feel about

407
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,399
Speaker 1: the roster or your philosophy about how you want to

408
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 1: do things. That's how you get to become a finalist.

409
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 1: When your vision and your thoughts and value system coincide

410
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 1: with what that team is looking for at that point

411
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 1: in history. That's when you get to be a second

412
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 1: interview yeah, and say, okay, what about that? What about specifically?

413
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 1: What you can't Brian Dabeles not gonna go in there

414
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 1: and think, yeah, I'll take two us. Great if he

415
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 1: doesn't like Tuah right, or if that's why I wasn't

416
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 1: convinced he would just take it. But think about this,

417
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,160
Speaker 1: if you go in there and say, listen, I'll give

418
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 1: to every opportunity I played against him. He's a good kid,

419
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: I know him. But let me tell you this, there's

420
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: a guy up in Buffalo who's backing up the guy

421
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 1: in Buffalo that Mitch Drubisky. You bring him down here

422
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 1: and let him compete with Tah and we'll let the

423
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 1: mess man win. But you gotta let me pick my guy.

424
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 1: Let you gotta let me do it if you're that's

425
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: what break Day Ball could say. I'm not saying he did,

426
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,360
Speaker 1: but you could say. And every other candidate that goes

427
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,640
Speaker 1: in there has got to be saying the same thing.

428
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,640
Speaker 1: They got to be brutally honest where they think Tua

429
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 1: can go knowing behind the scenes that the guy that

430
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 1: was there last time knew he couldn't didn't think he

431
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,959
Speaker 1: could win with him. So you've got to be brutally

432
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 1: honest in these interviews to get to the next stage.

433
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:52,679
Speaker 1: You're a chance to toot your own horn and tell

434
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: him how you feel, don't you know, don't hide anything

435
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 1: because you might get the job. And then it's like, well,

436
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:58,959
Speaker 1: this is how I feel, But why didn't you tell

437
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,560
Speaker 1: us that? Right? You? Yeah, you've got to be really honesty.

438
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 1: You gotta be fourth. Right, let's go back to the phones.

439
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,200
Speaker 1: We go to Alan west senecon X. What do you

440
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 1: have for us all? Why isn't we have to play

441
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,439
Speaker 1: Kansas City in Kansas City all the time. That's a

442
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 1: good question. It happens that way. It's a quirk of

443
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 1: the scheduling, and it's because the Bills and the Chiefs

444
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 1: always end up as the well with the same level

445
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: of of They finished in the same place in their

446
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 1: respective difference, finished in the same spot in their division,

447
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:35,199
Speaker 1: number one in their division, and that means whichever And

448
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,160
Speaker 1: I don't know how the works where their home or away,

449
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 1: but that's why you got to play the Chiefs. And

450
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 1: that's why three years in a row and four games

451
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 1: in a row we got to go to Kansas City, right,

452
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,720
Speaker 1: So that's just that's just a luck of the draw.

453
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: There's nothing, nothing other than that's the way the chips fall.

454
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: They've got these parameters of why why do you know

455
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 1: which division do you play this year? It's a rotational

456
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: it's rotational and it worked out that boom. The AFC

457
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: East is on the road with the Ones. So basically

458
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 1: what you do is you obviously have your six division games,

459
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: so those are just you know, lockstock and Barrel. Then

460
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 1: next year the Bills play the NFC North and the

461
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 1: AFC North. They play those entire divisions in totality, they

462
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 1: play two of them at home, two of them away,

463
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 1: and it's that's the opposite two from what it was

464
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 1: eight years ago for the end or four years ago

465
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 1: for the NFC teams, and for the AFC teams, it's

466
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 1: the opposite two from a couple of years ago. Perfect example, Okay,

467
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: everybody remembers the December game against Baltimore here in twenty seventeen, No.

468
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: Twenty nine, when they lost twenty four to seventeen to

469
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Everybody that game was when they were playing

470
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 1: the AFC North, they played him here at home. Well,

471
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,439
Speaker 1: now here we are a couple of years later and

472
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 1: they're playing them away, the Boston Ravens Josh Allen hurdles

473
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings linebacker at home instead of away like

474
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: you did two years ago. So what you have, So

475
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: that gives you eight plus six, that's fourteen. You have

476
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: three games remaining. You play one game against each of

477
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: the other two divisions in your conference with the same

478
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: finishing that finished in the same place in their division

479
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,880
Speaker 1: as you did in yours. One home, one away. They're

480
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 1: playing the AFC West first place finisher away, and then

481
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: they're playing the AFC South first place finisher at home,

482
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 1: that is Tennessee. Then you have the seventeenth game, you're

483
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,959
Speaker 1: playing the first place team from the NFC West, And

484
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: because you played Washington last year, the NFC team as

485
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 1: your seventeenth game at home last year, the Bills now

486
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: have nine away games coming up next season and eight

487
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: home games, and that is the Rams on the road.

488
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's kind of how it all

489
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 1: gets spelled out. So the next time they have to

490
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 1: play the first place team from the AFC West, it

491
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,919
Speaker 1: will be at home the next time, And the next

492
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,719
Speaker 1: time I gotta play the AFC South finisher, It'll be away,

493
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: So it rotates. It all comes out in the wash.

494
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: I just I understand why it feels like we're always

495
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 1: playing them on the road. I get it. Same thing

496
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: with Tennessee, but they get Tennessee at home. And here's

497
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 1: the thing too, it wouldn't have been so bad if

498
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 1: the Bills would have played a little better the regular season.

499
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: They wouldn't had to play two playoff games in Kansas City. Yeah,

500
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: there would have been just one regular season game, which

501
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 1: would have been the Week five game. This year. I

502
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: got a good feeling that Kansas City game might be

503
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 1: Week one, just a week one, just time time Sunday night,

504
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: Sunday night, probably Sunday night Football week or Monday night.

505
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: One of the Mahomes. Mahomes and Pattingham. Josh, that's there.

506
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 1: We go. Let's shift gears. That's what's gonna be. Yeah,

507
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: put them on the white board. We're gonna start another list. Well, hey,

508
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty two. Why not. I absolutely stunk on

509
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: my list last year, and we'll try to do better

510
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 1: this time. We'll take a break here, but when we return,

511
00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: it is the return of Tasker's Teammate that's coming away next.

512
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: See if you can guess the former teammate we are

513
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: describing before Steve does. Here on One Bills Live, presented

514
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: by Collata Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome

515
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

516
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,479
Speaker 1: and it is that time and the show where we

517
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: unveil the latest installment of Tasker's Teammate, brought to you

518
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: by Wegman's Meals to Go Delicious Meals Delivered. Download the

519
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: Wegman's app today. Stevie, you're ready for clue number one?

520
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: Do I have to listen to the buzzer? You do

521
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: when you guess incorrectly. All right, Clue number one. Born

522
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: in Columbus, Ohio. I was a highly decorated high school

523
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: player for the South High School Bulldogs, attracting the attention

524
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: of a number of top college football powerhouses across the country.

525
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: I eventually settled on one of the most storied college

526
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: programs in football, Chris Spielman. It is not Chris Spielman.

527
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 1: Clue number two. My college career was unfortunately marred by

528
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: injury in my most important seasons. To try to build

529
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: a resume for a pro career, my junior year I

530
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,479
Speaker 1: broke my leg, played in just two games. My senior

531
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,719
Speaker 1: year wasn't much better, as a badly sprained ankle allowed

532
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: me to appear in just five games. To give my list,

533
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: is serious? Was the wheels are turning? It? Not? Yeah,

534
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: we already did Jeff Burrows. We've had Jeff Burrows. I

535
00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: was some injury, all right, I don't know, I don't know.

536
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: Pass all right, clue number I don't have to buzz

537
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: buzzby all right, go ahead, clue number three. Fortunately, my

538
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: athletic ability was good enough to be a first round

539
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: pick of the Bills. Late in Round one, I stepped

540
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: right into the starting lineup as a rookie and was

541
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: productive enough to earn Pro Bowl honors. Reuben it is

542
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: not Reuben Brown, Proby wait, probol honors as a rookie.

543
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: Will Wolford it is not Will Wolford. Hold on, yeah,

544
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: who's the first round rap pick? Didn't You didn't tell

545
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 1: me what year? Did not? Jimmy Richard is not Jimmy Richard.

546
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: You want me gonna go out to the next clue

547
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: you want to guess again. Fred Smerliss is not Fred

548
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: smerls alright, go ahead. I think Fred was a second

549
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: round pick any right whatever. In my rookie year, I

550
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: was instrument mental in securing the team's first victory of

551
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: the season in nineteen eighty four when I took a

552
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: handoff for a touchdown on my first carry of the game.

553
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: I finished with two hundred six rushing yards on twenty

554
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: seven carries, and we beat the Dallas Cowboys fourteen to

555
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: three eighty four. Yes, before you got here, Rob Riddick,

556
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: it is not Rob Rittack think he was a first

557
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: year hold On. Greg Bell, Greg Bell, it is ring

558
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: the bell for Steve Tasker. Well done, Steve, Greg and I,

559
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: Greg and I were. Yeah, we were together for that.

560
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: We were there seven, yeah, eighty seven, all three, eighty eight, Yeah,

561
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: you were there for a while. Yeah, eighty six, eighty seven.

562
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Man? Good? I love that. That

563
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: was a good test. There, isn't it fun? Oh my god,

564
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: it's great. Yeah. The reason I didn't get the first

565
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: round because you were You got picked before I ever

566
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: showed up. I was still wearing T shirt Northwestern University

567
00:31:55,760 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: t shirts and eighty four. Yeah, yeah, that you were, man.

568
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: You were part of that enormous deal three way deal

569
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: with Cornelius, Bennett and hic eron Dickerson and draft picks

570
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: and number ones and and you went on. You had

571
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: a nice you had a nice run with the Raiders, right, Rams,

572
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: I'm sorry the Rams. Rams. Yeah, tell me about tell

573
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: me about with the Rams. And wasted a little time

574
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: with the Raiders. But it's all good. You know, we

575
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: enjoyed our career. Tell me about how that deal from

576
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: your perspective. One of the guys, the pieces that moved

577
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: around with you know, you know, like you first round

578
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: draft pick, Eric Dickerson, the Hall of Famer Cornelians, been

579
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: at one of the great you know, draft picks, ever,

580
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: tell me from your perspective about that deal, how you

581
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: found out about it, and what and what you thought

582
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: after it happened, and what it meant to you walking

583
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: into the locker room for a brand new team. Well,

584
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: you know, funny enough, you know I had gone through

585
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: that that issue with my abdom and I tore my

586
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,239
Speaker 1: abdomen very seriously. Raiders, we went on strike, and uh,

587
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: I got blamed from so many things I can't even

588
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: tell you, But the longest short of it is I

589
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: was asking to get traded, and I actually had secured

590
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: a deal to be traded to Miami, and Bill Polian

591
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: said no to the deal, right, because he didn't want

592
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: to face you. Right, you know, I wanted to stay

593
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: on natural grad. One of the correct criterias that I

594
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: wanted is I wanted to get back on natural grass, right,

595
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: and so that was one of the things I was

596
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: looking for. And of course when Los Angeles came available,

597
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: that was just perfect for me, right. And it worked

598
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: out really well for you because you know, you had

599
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: some injuries, as you said, and you come back in

600
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: eighty eight and your named NFL Comeback Player of the Year.

601
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: You led the league in rushing touchdowns. Yeah. Yeah, I've

602
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: had a couple of those years there were rushing touchdowns

603
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: and thousand yards seasons. You know what it did for

604
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: the Yeah, I think all three teams were truly benefited enormously,

605
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: no matter how you really look at the picks and

606
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: all that. I mean, the Rams kind of wayted. They

607
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: you know, they blew up some some really quality picks

608
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: that they could have done some things to help Jim

609
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: Everett a little bit of a little bit of everything.

610
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: But in the long run, I think all the teams

611
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: that you know, we all three uh well I should

612
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: say all three, but the Bills and the Rams continue

613
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: to be a playoff contending team. And uh, you know,

614
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: Indianapolis got what they wanted with Eric, and Eric got

615
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: what he wanted, which was out of Los Angeles and

616
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: to be paid properly. Um. You know, it's just one

617
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: of those kind of things. You know, everybody kind of

618
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: looks at the career, you'd love to be a one

619
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: team your entire career. Uh, you know, for me, it

620
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: just turned out that I needed to come to California

621
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: and it's actually worked for a blessing because I live

622
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: in Santa Barbara, California, I verily sell to believe the

623
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: reason there's seventy degrees out here, and I know y'all

624
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: just know there. Yeah, that's right. Shove them my walk

625
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: this morning. Man, you don't want me to say you

626
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,959
Speaker 1: don't know what you're missing. Maybe he he does, Maybe

627
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: he knows what he's missing. Yeah, I know him. Hey, Steve,

628
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: I know what I'm missing because I threw away all

629
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: my fur coaches. Yeah, there you go, so so greg

630
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: Um tell me because was it John rob Was John

631
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: Robinson the coach of the Rams? Then there was there?

632
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: Yeah that was perfect for me. Yeah, that's what I

633
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: was gonna say, running coach, right, he recruited me in college.

634
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 1: I knew him from college. Uh. It's one of those

635
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: situations where I went into a really great opportunity with

636
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: a really great line. We had Jackie Slater, who to

637
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 1: me is probably one of the greatest lineman that's ever

638
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: played the game. Uh. A Newberry was there with me.

639
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 1: Dub Smith, who was one of the guys who grew

640
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: up with me in Columbus, Ohio. So you know, I

641
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,280
Speaker 1: had a lot of good friends that were there. Beautiful

642
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: McGee who he and I became the best of friends.

643
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: I still talked to him daily. You know. It's just

644
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: one of those things. And at the same time, it's

645
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: kind of funny because you know, my god children are

646
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 1: Dwight Drain, So I still see Dwight Draine all the time.

647
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: I still talked to Biscuit, I still talked to Uh,

648
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 1: you know. Heck, me and Andre are hosting a Super

649
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: Bowl party in two weeks, So just to kind of

650
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: give you the idea, I mean, it's you know, a

651
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: lot of the guys that you know, you you build

652
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 1: that camaraderie with, you build that friendship with. Those are

653
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: lifetime experiences for us, and lifetime friendships. I remember a

654
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,399
Speaker 1: story one of the old La Ram guys who came over,

655
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 1: I think it was Kent Hill, the offensive lineman, who

656
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: went to he was gone before you went there. He

657
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: came to the oiler and he said when John Robins,

658
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,919
Speaker 1: they'd go out to practice and they'd be thrown doing

659
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: seven on seven on that but when they started to

660
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: do their run game period, John Robinson would walk over

661
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 1: by himself and put his hands on his knees and

662
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: just concentrate on what was going on with the running game.

663
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 1: He was a head coach and Eric Dickerson was his guy,

664
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: and then then you were his guy. They were going

665
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: to hand it off a lot, and it was a

666
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: perfect situation. You know, a lot of people, you know,

667
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: they talked about John and as a running coach, and

668
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: he really truly is. We He and I met at

669
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: seven thirty in the morning every Wednesday and Thursday. I mean,

670
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 1: it's just the two of us, you know. I would

671
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: we had a you know, premiere back with just a

672
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: one back system, and we moved you know, Pete Hollahan

673
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: around Bee from McGee around a lot. But he would

674
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: literally meet with me, and I'm sure he did it

675
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: with Eric as well, and he went over the running

676
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,839
Speaker 1: game with me. And you know, when when you got

677
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: a coaches that into running the ball as a running back,

678
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,919
Speaker 1: you're gonna love it because you're gonna have those opportunities.

679
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 1: And and of course he took liberties, you know, you

680
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: know when we go through nine on seven, he'd tell

681
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: me to go stint off to the side, and he's like,

682
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: I know what you're doing the game, so you don't

683
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: have to do the practices. So it was one of

684
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: those kind of it's a you know, a love love

685
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: love of the running game kind of a thing. And

686
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: at the same time, we had a guy by the

687
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: name of Ernie Zampezy who was the mastermind of that,

688
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: you know, the West Coast passing and you know, we

689
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: can talk about his days to San Diego, you can

690
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: talk about all the running shoots, but Ernie was a

691
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: throwing guy. And it was just a perfect combination because

692
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: they had a young quarterback by the name of Jim

693
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,399
Speaker 1: Everett who had a very good arm. Me and Jim

694
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: played against each other in college and Notre Dame and

695
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: he was at Purdue, so we knew of each other,

696
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: and you know, we all hit a common common goal

697
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: trying to make this team a better team, same as

698
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: we you know, we did when we were in Buffalo.

699
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: After you were done playing, Greg, I read that. You know,

700
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,959
Speaker 1: you eventually became president CEO of Athletes for Life, which

701
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: is that foundation that provides educational services, camps and stuff

702
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: after school programs for young people in southern California. Are

703
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: you still doing that? You know what. I retired from

704
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 1: Wacovia and the now. You know, when I when I

705
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: came out of NFL with to work for Roger Goodell

706
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 1: for four years vice president over in Europe with the NFL,

707
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: the World League of American Football. So I lived in

708
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: Europe for four years and then I came back home

709
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: and just decided, you know, I didn't have the you know,

710
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: didn't get the opportunities to do anything in the management

711
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: that I was looking to, so I just said, why

712
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: not run your own business. It's been thirty two years

713
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: we've been having this program out here. I've oversee middle

714
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: school programs in San Bernarino County. You know, part of

715
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: what this the little cocktail party we're doing at a

716
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: museum in southern California, is to benefit the foundation. I've

717
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: been doing that for a long time. Demante Kazi, Alexander Madison,

718
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: Kenny Clark, Nate Metters, Alex mack all these kids I

719
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: saw him when they were kids. So they've all come

720
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 1: through my program. You know, we've probably seen about nineteen

721
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: to twenty kids go on to play in the National

722
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: Football League who've come through our Summer Life Skill Programs,

723
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: which probably still one of the largest camps in the country.

724
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: We host about three hundred and fifty kids for free.

725
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: It used to be called the NFL HSPD program, and

726
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: the NFL decided to let that go, but I decided

727
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: to keep it going. And like I said, we've been

728
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,919
Speaker 1: at we've been doing it for about twenty years now. Yeah,

729
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: that's awesome. And then the last thing I had for

730
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: you is your son, the Greg Bell that was at

731
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: San Diego State. No, it's not. There's a there's a

732
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: Greg Bell who's a running back who just finished at

733
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: San Diego State. I was like, and then even in

734
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: his bio it says his dad is a Greg Bell.

735
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 1: Also his dad is Greg Bell. But it's not me. Okay,

736
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: I've had that call from so many people. I've been

737
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 1: fortunate enough that I know who he is. I can't

738
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 1: remember who's one of our former coaches in the NFL.

739
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: His son is coaching at San Diego State right now,

740
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 1: and I actually spoke to him because I was supposed

741
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: to go and see him play against un LV, but

742
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: with all the COVID restrictions, I had to pass on that.

743
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: But that is not my son. I wish him all

744
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: the best. Uh, you know, it's a name that you

745
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: know some people will remember. He said, you know, he

746
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: doesn't wear number twenty eight or forty two, so that's

747
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: that's definitely a difference. A little bit smaller than I

748
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: am as well. Yeah, I saw that. Grant. Great talking

749
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 1: to you, man. Appreciate you coming on and spending some

750
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:48,280
Speaker 1: time with us. Just remember Steve Greg Bell Columbus, Ohio

751
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 1: Spielman didn't have the athletic career that I had. A

752
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: stable Yeah, you can. You can tell him that, although

753
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: see him, you tell him that. Yeah, he's a Massillon guy.

754
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: I think right, he's on guy. All right, bro, Thanks Greg,

755
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 1: and I help to see you guys soon. Yeah, thanks

756
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: for joining us. Appreciate it. If the Super Bowl, that's awesome.

757
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: That's former Bills running back Greg Bell, a teammate of

758
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: Steves for a short time, only a couple of seasons,

759
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: two seasons eighty six eighty seven before he got traded on.

760
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: I think that was a Halloween trade, right, I got

761
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: here on in weekteen of eighty six he was here,

762
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: and then eighty seven we started this season and then

763
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: we hit the strike. And right after the strike is

764
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: when we made the deal. For right after it ended,

765
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 1: or right after it ended, okay, a week or two

766
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: after it ended. Halfway through that eighty seven seasons, when

767
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,320
Speaker 1: Corney has Benett showed up, Yeah, I was like, maybe

768
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: this is his son at San Diego's Day, just finished

769
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: his college career. You gotta ask. And you know, I

770
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: looked in the bio and it said his dad, Greg

771
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: you know parents. You know, his parents are Greg Bell

772
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: and has got to be it. And I was like, well,

773
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: there's probably a pretty good chance, right. Well, it's like

774
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: that we had Lonnie Johnson as a Tasker's teammate, and

775
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: the Lonnie Johnson and playing college now is not his

776
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: son either. So oh the corner with the Texans now, Yeah,

777
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: so there you go. Yeah, you never know, you do

778
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: not know? All right, we got to take a break

779
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: after Steve's performance there in Tasker's Teammate. We'll get to

780
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: some questions in the obi L Fan Friday mail bag

781
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: and then coming up in the second hour of the show.

782
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: Greg Cosell from NFL Film Stay tuned. All right, welcome

783
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve tasking with

784
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: you here on a Friday, and the OBL Friday fan

785
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: mail bag is open, So sending your questions either on

786
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: Twitter at one Bills Live or you can hit us

787
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: up on the what are you doing over there with

788
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: my mask on? We gotta go back to the phones.

789
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: We got people waiting for us over there at eight

790
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 1: oh three oh five fifty and we go to Marty

791
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: in East Aurora. What do you have for Marty? Hey,

792
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: great show, guys. You do a terrific job. And I

793
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: love the thing that you do where you're kind of

794
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: pulling back into the seventies, eighties and the bills of

795
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: days of yr. It's just a quick Greg Bell story.

796
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: Back in the early eighties, I had bought a sports car,

797
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: and I had vaccasioned beyond the four hundred with some frequency.

798
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you more than that, there was a

799
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:32,839
Speaker 1: red Ferrari that would go blowing behind me like unbelievable.

800
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: So one day I sped up some just because I

801
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: could see him coming. And when I went by and

802
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: I saw on the plate g Bell Bell red Ferrari.

803
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: Never forgot that. Yeah, and I'll bet touch base. All right,

804
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 1: sounds good. Thank you for the call. Appreciate it. Yeah,

805
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: you know, there's always those kinds of story. It wasn't

806
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 1: driving the red Ferrari when I got here midway through

807
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: eighty six and eighty seven, when I know when I

808
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: saw him, he was driving a gold Mercedes. Oh, so

809
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: the thing was painted gold. It was gold. It wasn't

810
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: it was painted gold? Yeah, like Notre Dame Golden Dome. Exactly,

811
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: kind okay, exactly, so there you go. All right, let's

812
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 1: go to Derek in Florida. And that does not to

813
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: say he couldn't have had both cars. That's right, Derek,

814
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 1: What do you got for us? You're all one? Bill's Live, Derek.

815
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: Are you there, sir? About Dave or Dave? Okay, I'm it,

816
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,399
Speaker 1: says Derek on the screen. Here. I'm sorry, sorry, Dave.

817
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: Go ahead, we're doing okay, good, okay. I won't let

818
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: you know about the funk. I was in okay, and

819
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:46,280
Speaker 1: I'm out of now. After the game, I turned off

820
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: my telephone and I did not watch any highlights on

821
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football. And you guys weren't on Monday. I

822
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: don't know why you guys are. On Monday we were

823
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: on watch well not I'm not done here, oh okay?

824
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: And Tuesday and Wednesday, I didn't watch you because I

825
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: don't want to hear them more about it. I'm done

826
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 1: crying about it. My solution one or two on the

827
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: offensive line on the offense, one or two more players

828
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: on the defense. You might need the most important thing

829
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: is the coordinators and their coaches. And I know that's difficult,

830
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 1: but keeping that coaching staff together is an immense, immense

831
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: thing to do, right, They're all used to it, and

832
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: that's how they're gonna win the Super Bowl next year

833
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 1: and I guarantee it. All right, So you guys have

834
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: a nice stuf. Okay, all right, have a good weekend.

835
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 1: I'm glad to have you back. We're glad you're out

836
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: of your funk. So, um yeah, everybody's got to move on.

837
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: But the coordinator thing is going to be easier said

838
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: than done, because you never want to stand in the

839
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: way of somebody reaching the top of their profession because

840
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 1: that reflects poorly on you when it comes time to

841
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 1: hire new assistance. Oh you're not gonna let me advance?

842
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: Why would I come to Buffalo like that kind of thing? Right,

843
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:12,320
Speaker 1: it's and we thought they were gonna it was happy

844
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: to keep them this year. We thought we're gonna lose

845
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 1: them last year. We're playing with house money. Yeah, And

846
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: and it showed the string of football they put together

847
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: at the end of the season and throughout the season

848
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: defensively was outstanding. Um yeah, And I know everybody's a

849
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: little bitter about the way the season ended and how

850
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 1: it went down, and it was you know, it was obvious,

851
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: obviously mis misplayed at the end of the game and

852
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: regulation that was you know, we can all shake our

853
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: heads at but these two guys are really really good coordinators.

854
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: They're highly respected, and they've been highly productive for this team.

855
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: It's been a great combination all the way down the line.

856
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: And it's it's for all those people that in the

857
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 1: heat the moment we're going out, let's make some changes.

858
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: Let's do that. Fire this guy, fire that guy, get

859
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: bitt of that. Listen. Now, who you're gonna get now,

860
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing, because you're not gonna get

861
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: a guy like Sean Payton. He's not gonna come out

862
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: to be a coordinator for the Bills. You're not gonna

863
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: get a Brian Dable type of guy who's played, who's

864
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 1: been with a bunch of pro teams and a college team,

865
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: won a national championship, won three Super Bowls, been with

866
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: different teams in your division. It's got the credentials and

867
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: the chops that he does on his resume. Those guys

868
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: don't fall off trees. And if they do, if they

869
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: are out there, they're already they're already employed, So that's

870
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: a big question mark if Brian Dabele is not here.

871
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: Same thing with Leslie Frasier. There's a ton of guys

872
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 1: that have been defensive coordinators, but there haven't been many

873
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 1: of that coordinated a number one defense and been a

874
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: consistently top flight coordinator like Frasier has. So you know,

875
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: for all that stuff, you know, you might just be

876
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: careful what you ask for. You might be forced to

877
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: have it and get it. Yeah, easier said than done.

878
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,320
Speaker 1: A holding on to the guys that you have already

879
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: because they're both in the mix for head coaching positions,

880
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: and be replacing them with qualified candidates that are going

881
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 1: to be able to do just as good a job,

882
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 1: if not better. Hard to do because nobody, no play

883
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: caller calls the game the same as anybody else, and

884
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 1: so you don't know how those results are going to

885
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 1: turn out. It's not in the end. Yeah, it's still

886
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:29,720
Speaker 1: one of the few things and this is why guys

887
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: get addicted to it, like Andy Reid and the Mike

888
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,800
Speaker 1: McCarthy's of the world, these and Kyle Shanahans of the world.

889
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,919
Speaker 1: Some of these guys that call their own game offensively.

890
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: We've seen them down the line. It's really the one

891
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: thing about NFL football that is more art form than science. Certainly,

892
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of science that goes into it, but

893
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: having a feel for it and calling it is it's

894
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 1: art and it's a style and it's a feel, and

895
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: that's the one place where you don't have the you know,

896
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,720
Speaker 1: analytics can say what they want, but man, oh man,

897
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 1: you know you can say pass or run. You know,

898
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 1: the analytics might, but you've got to, you know, artfully

899
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: pick a run that's going to match up with who's

900
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: on the field. It's and it's really intoxicating when you

901
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: can do it well. And I think that's why a

902
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: lot of guys don't ever want to give that up.

903
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 1: And that's a lot of why a lot of guys

904
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 1: love coaching is so they can do that. Yeah. So, yeah,

905
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,320
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting and difficult to find a guy that's

906
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: that's of the same caliber that of the two guys

907
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: that you may lose break time for us here, but

908
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 1: when we come back. Senior producer from NFL Films, Greg

909
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 1: co Sell joins us, we'll talk about the game that

910
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: was and to look forward at the conference title games

911
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: this weekend with Greg next here on One Bill's Life

912
00:49:47,160 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: presented by a Lot of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio

913
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,760
Speaker 1: at a Steve Tasker who has been all over the field.

914
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

915
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:18,919
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

916
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: in the strated beere of normalcy. All right, welcome to

917
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: all We're number two of the show here on a Friday,

918
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 1: and that means we're gonna be joined by senior producer

919
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: from NFL Films, Greg co Sell. Greg, we're still recovering. Um,

920
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: this is not where we want to begin, but we

921
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: kind of have to with you. Um, I'm gonna I'm

922
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 1: gonna stick with the positive here though, because after two

923
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 1: weeks of postseason play, Josh Allen leads all quarterbacks in

924
00:50:52,200 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: completion percentage, touchdown percentage, total touchdowns, passer rating, and I

925
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 1: believe he's right up there for rushing yards as well.

926
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:08,240
Speaker 1: Among quarterbacks. He took his game to an even higher

927
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 1: level than I think any of us anticipated. I know

928
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 1: you've been on the Josh Allen train for a while.

929
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 1: What can you say about the level of quarterbacking we

930
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 1: witnessed from him over the first two weeks of the

931
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 1: playoffs incredibly high level. I mean, you know, I think

932
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: that there's there's two things that kind of stood out

933
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: to me. One is not an X and O thing,

934
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 1: but I think there was just a poise and calm

935
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: and calmness and composure to his game that's not always there,

936
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 1: because Josh has always had a tendency to what's the

937
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: best way to say it, there were times he'd always

938
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 1: he could always be a little reckless and undisciplined, and

939
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 1: you'd worry that, oh, you know, he might make a

940
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: bad play. That didn't happen in the two playoff games.

941
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: There was just a poise to the way in which

942
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: he played. And the other thing, and you just hope

943
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 1: it carries over, and there's no reason to believe it

944
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: won't is his ball location has become so much more consistent.

945
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: You don't see the scattershot throws. You don't see him

946
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: throw the ball at someone's feet. You know, it's just

947
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 1: he's so much more efficient and precise with his ball

948
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 1: placement that you feel now that when he makes a

949
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: throw that, hey, it's going to be a good throw.

950
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 1: And those two things really stood out to me, you know,

951
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 1: and and I guess one final thing too is I

952
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 1: feel that he's very much now more aware of what

953
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,959
Speaker 1: defensers are trying to do to him. And I think

954
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: that his ability to eliminate what's not there and isolate

955
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: what is there is just a beat quicker. And I

956
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: think that that's a really important step for you. Forget

957
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: he's still a young quarterback, but that's a really important

958
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: step for a young quarterback. One of the things I

959
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: thought about his play and that I thought made it

960
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: appear different than it has been in the past was

961
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 1: his willingness to take and we talked about this on

962
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 1: the show. His willingness to take the quick and easy

963
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: completion us hit all of those easy completions, and it

964
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: just makes him appear way more poised because the balls out,

965
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,359
Speaker 1: easy completion, let's move along, And that gives him a

966
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 1: totally different It gives you a totally different perception of

967
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: where his head's at. And I think that's a great point, Steve.

968
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,360
Speaker 1: It's it's and that I think speaks to just his

969
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:35,919
Speaker 1: understanding now of the game. Is that, hey, if if

970
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 1: underneath defenders are going to drop back in zone coverage

971
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: and that eight yard throw is there, which often becomes

972
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: a twelve or thirteen yard game. You take that throw,

973
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 1: You'll take You should take that throw every single time

974
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: because it impacts the defense, it forces them to change. Now,

975
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 1: I think that that's a really, really good point. I mean,

976
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: it's it's something we've noticed. I think, Chris, you wouldn't

977
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: mention that too. And that was it the first New

978
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: England the second New England game. I believe correct when

979
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: we talked about that, taking the early check down quickly. Yeah,

980
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: taking those throws that are there, and you know they

981
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: end up being you know, important plays in games. They

982
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: don't seem important at the time, but they are. Yeah,

983
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:25,879
Speaker 1: no question about it. Gabriel Davis, Right, I mean, this

984
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 1: is a guy that I had been saying should be

985
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:30,320
Speaker 1: on the field more. He did have an ankle injury

986
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,800
Speaker 1: that he was fighting through at the beginning of the year. Okay, fine,

987
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: you've got veteran guys in front of him. Fine, But

988
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 1: I argued, like mid season, first of all, he's the

989
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: best blocking receiver you have on the roster to help

990
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:45,359
Speaker 1: in the run game. And number two, he is a

991
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:49,240
Speaker 1: reliable route runner. And even though he's not a burner.

992
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: He somehow finds ways to get behind the defense. I

993
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: know he's benefiting from one on one matchups a great

994
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: deal because of the attention paid to Diggs and maybe

995
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:02,399
Speaker 1: to a lesser extent, Beasley and the like. But how

996
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: is this guy not this team's number two receiver next year? Yeah,

997
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: I mean it's hard for me to speak about what

998
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:14,759
Speaker 1: happens next year, but I think Davis is probably you know,

999
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: it's funny. He's not a burner I would imagine in

1000
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,399
Speaker 1: his forty time. But he's tall. And that's one thing

1001
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 1: I learned years ago where I would look at taller

1002
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: receivers and I'd say, boy, they don't look real fast.

1003
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,360
Speaker 1: And then they'd get in the NFL and they showed

1004
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: the ability to get on top of corners because stride

1005
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:35,720
Speaker 1: length is a trait and taller receivers have stride length.

1006
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,560
Speaker 1: And you know, you talk about that seventy five yard

1007
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:43,800
Speaker 1: or that was not man coverage, but still and Ward

1008
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 1: was playing with outside leverage, and obviously and the route

1009
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 1: by knocks threatened Thornhill because they were in they were

1010
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: in quarters to that side of the field. But but

1011
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: you just saw how quickly he got on top of

1012
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: Ward and that's stride length. So there is a vertical

1013
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: to mension to Davis's game, which, by the way, Chris,

1014
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 1: as you probably know, he showed that in college. Yes,

1015
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 1: so so he's you know, he may not, as I said,

1016
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:13,320
Speaker 1: be a four four guy, but he's a tall receiver

1017
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: and that stride length matter. So we'll see what happens

1018
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,240
Speaker 1: next year. But I would imagine that will be the case.

1019
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he certainly came on toward the end

1020
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:23,919
Speaker 1: of this season, you know, as we saw this game

1021
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:26,879
Speaker 1: take place, and it was such a shootout and it's

1022
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 1: such a you know, display, and we talked about Josh

1023
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: and how good he was most of us should take

1024
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,879
Speaker 1: it for granted, but how good was Mahomes in this

1025
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:39,399
Speaker 1: game as well? You know, obviously I watched the game,

1026
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: you know, and watching the game and then watching the tape,

1027
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: I thought to myself that I don't I can't remember,

1028
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: and I'm sure there are I've been doing this a

1029
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 1: long time. I can't remember everything I've seen in forty

1030
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:53,919
Speaker 1: two years. But I don't think that either quarterback really

1031
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,040
Speaker 1: made a bad play in this game. I mean, can

1032
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:58,399
Speaker 1: you guys say that that do you feel like they

1033
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,239
Speaker 1: were you know, bad plays by I mean, and incompletion

1034
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 1: to me is not necessarily a bad play. Every quarterback

1035
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:07,400
Speaker 1: throws incompletions. But I don't remember a really bad play

1036
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:10,839
Speaker 1: in this game by either quarterback and Mahomes, and we're

1037
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: looking at one right now. You know, this was a

1038
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 1: special play by Mahomes. And the other thing too, is

1039
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: you could almost make the argument, which might sound crazy,

1040
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,919
Speaker 1: that the Bills passed rush actually did a pretty good job.

1041
00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: They got a lot of people around Mahomes, they just

1042
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 1: couldn't get him to the ground. Yeah. A lot of mistackles,

1043
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: a lot of poor tackling on defense. That's probably the

1044
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: one consistent thing that ran through the defensive effort from

1045
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: start to finish in the game. A lot of opportunities

1046
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 1: to get people on the ground and a lot of

1047
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: mistackles both after the catch as we're seeing here. Although

1048
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: this guy, yeah, that was the killer. I mean, obviously

1049
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: the thirteen seconds was more of a killer, but this

1050
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: one was a killer as well. They went two man

1051
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 1: coverage and Wallace, you know, undercut it. I mean, he

1052
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 1: played the coverage, he undercut it. And I think it

1053
00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: was Poyer who just took a bad angle, and obviously,

1054
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 1: and you take a bad angle on on Tyreek Hill,

1055
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 1: he's going to run by you. Yeah. And I would

1056
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 1: argue sometimes that a lot of these defenders, not just

1057
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: the Bills, but other teams, they don't take a bad

1058
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 1: angle on Tyree Hill. He just outruns the angle. Yeah,

1059
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: Like you could be fundamentally sound, and he can still

1060
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 1: beat you because he's not one step faster than everybody.

1061
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: He's three or four. Yeah, No, he's super explosive and

1062
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: he looks healthy now. And you know what was so

1063
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 1: interesting about that game, and it's been very interesting. You

1064
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: mentioned it. You asked me how Mahomes played. He didn't

1065
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: throw one ball more than twenty yards in the air

1066
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: from the line of scrimmage. And they've done that a

1067
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:38,400
Speaker 1: lot this year in recent games. You know, down the stretch.

1068
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 1: He's become very much of a timing rhythm throw or

1069
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 1: hit the back foot, let the ball come out. So Mahomes,

1070
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,479
Speaker 1: which is crazy to say, because his first three years

1071
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: were certainly outstanding and he's been in back to back

1072
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 1: Super Bowls, winning one of them. But I think he

1073
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: actually has evolved and gotten better as a quarterback because

1074
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,919
Speaker 1: of his understanding. You know, we talked about Josh. I mean,

1075
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 1: you know, to me, one area of Josh's game that's

1076
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:07,919
Speaker 1: improved dramatically, as we said, it's his patients, his willingness

1077
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: to take the easy throw and the defense gives it

1078
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 1: to you to stay on schedule throws. You know, he's

1079
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 1: so much more decisive with a better understanding and feel

1080
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 1: for situational football. I think you could say almost the

1081
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 1: same thing about Mahomes. Right. So, and your thoughts now

1082
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 1: as we kind of spin it forward this the two

1083
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: championship games coming up, UM Cincinnati headed into Kansas City,

1084
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 1: the Rams and there and four nine ers, you know,

1085
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: what do you think about these two games and your

1086
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: thoughts in overarching generalized? Yeah, I mean there's there's so

1087
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 1: many ways to go with these games, as there always are,

1088
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 1: as you know, Steve, I mean there says you know,

1089
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: there's so many elements and dimensions to these games, as

1090
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 1: there really aren't any game. But you know, Joe Burrows

1091
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 1: obviously played extremely well, but they're O line. I just

1092
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 1: feel like that that has to become a really meaningful

1093
01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 1: issue at some point. It's a very poor pass protecting

1094
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:10,000
Speaker 1: old line. Obviously he got sacked nine times, but they

1095
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: played a team who's foundationally is not an explosive team.

1096
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 1: That's not going to be the case this week. And

1097
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have very good pass rushers as well, in

1098
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 1: Jones and Clark, in Ingram, who's kind of a wild card,

1099
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 1: even jarn Reid. So you know, I just feel that

1100
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 1: that particular flaw in their offense is going to at

1101
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 1: some point be a problem in terms of winning and losing.

1102
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 1: And because the Chiefs are not going to score sixteen

1103
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: points right right, And we should note that, you know,

1104
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 1: the Bengals did play them this season and did come

1105
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 1: back from a twenty one seven deficits to beat him

1106
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: thirty four thirty one. The Bengals number one receiver might

1107
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: be better than the Chiefs number one. What do you think, Chase? Yeah,

1108
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 1: you mean better? Yeah, Chase is probably more complete. He's

1109
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: obviously a bigger man. Chase is really solidly built, and

1110
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 1: his lower body is almost like that of a running back. Yeah,

1111
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: Chase is very very good. The other on that side

1112
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: of the ball. One thing that I would look for

1113
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 1: in this game is I would expect the Chiefs maybe

1114
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: to play some more two man coverage as opposed to

1115
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:28,120
Speaker 1: single high man coverage because there were so many throws

1116
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: outside the numbers on fade balls, and you know, as

1117
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: you guys know, and here you're looking at one. It

1118
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:38,560
Speaker 1: was the eighteen yard touchdown against war who actually had

1119
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: good coverage on a number of them. But when you're

1120
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 1: playing single high coverage, if you're gonna throw fade balls

1121
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:47,440
Speaker 1: outside the numbers, that post safety has zero chance of

1122
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 1: being a factor on those kinds of throws. So it

1123
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 1: would not surprise me to see a little more two

1124
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:56,920
Speaker 1: man coverage, right right? What about what about the NFC

1125
01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:59,439
Speaker 1: side of the ledger? Yeah, I mean Niners have beat

1126
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 1: the Rams six times in a row. Why yeah, if

1127
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: you I mean, you've got to have a feel for

1128
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 1: why the Niners have got the Rams napper. Well, here's

1129
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 1: what I'll say. I think, I mean, I think I

1130
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: do have a feel. I don't know how this game

1131
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 1: will play out. The winners are a very physical team

1132
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, particularly offensive line, defensive line,

1133
01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: and offensively. The Niners play out of twenty one personnel meeting.

1134
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 1: They play with two backs and use check Kyle use

1135
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 1: Check is on the field probably forty to fifty percent

1136
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:32,320
Speaker 1: of their snaps. So what that does is it makes

1137
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 1: the Rams play at a base and it minimizes the

1138
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 1: impact and at times eliminates the impact of Donald as

1139
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 1: a pass rusher. It actually almost eliminates von Miller. Von

1140
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 1: Miller is a pass rusher. He's not really a run defender.

1141
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 1: So you know, we always think of those guys, Hey,

1142
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:55,120
Speaker 1: they're going to sack the quarterback. That's not really the

1143
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 1: way the Niners play offense. So they're able to control

1144
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: the game. Negate the pass rush traits and abilities of

1145
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 1: the Rams defensive front, and they control the game. And

1146
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: then the forty nine ers d line and their linebackers

1147
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 1: have played at such a high level over the last

1148
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 1: six weeks or so, so they physically have beaten up

1149
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 1: the Rams. Steve and you know, I know, we don't

1150
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 1: think about football, and particularly when you think of what

1151
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and the Bills just did with the quarterbacks

1152
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 1: and going up and down the field and the running

1153
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:28,440
Speaker 1: game's not really being a factor. The Niners maybe a

1154
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 1: little old school, but they physically beat you up. Yeah,

1155
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: And I mean, I mean Rams are a good team.

1156
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:36,320
Speaker 1: You beat them six times in a row as a

1157
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:38,360
Speaker 1: division opponent. I mean, you know, them, they know you.

1158
01:03:38,480 --> 01:03:41,560
Speaker 1: I mean, it just screams lousy matches, right, You're right,

1159
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:43,840
Speaker 1: though they put us check on the field, you've got

1160
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:47,479
Speaker 1: to counter that. And if your counter to that isn't

1161
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:49,920
Speaker 1: as good as they're two guys there use check on

1162
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:53,960
Speaker 1: the field, you can't get out of it. No, it's

1163
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:57,720
Speaker 1: And the reality is Kyle shanna and is so good

1164
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:00,840
Speaker 1: with run game design. And you know, people don't think

1165
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 1: of the run game as being designed because they think, oh,

1166
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:04,919
Speaker 1: you're just line up and you know you hit people

1167
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 1: in the mouth. But as you know, Steve, there's so

1168
01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 1: much that goes into the run game with angles and

1169
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 1: leverage and dictating and eliminating run support. I mean, you know,

1170
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 1: that was the thing Joe Gibbs did for years and

1171
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 1: years in his first tenure with Washington Is. I think

1172
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,240
Speaker 1: they had three running plays, but they used a lot

1173
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:26,680
Speaker 1: of motion because it impacts run support by the defense,

1174
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 1: as you know, and Shanahan is so good at that.

1175
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:32,959
Speaker 1: And he's also really good in the past game even

1176
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:36,000
Speaker 1: when us checks on the field with his route concepts

1177
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:40,040
Speaker 1: at attacking and breaking down zone coverage and the rams.

1178
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 1: Quite honestly, they play a lot of zone I mean,

1179
01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 1: people are probably always surprised by that. They don't really

1180
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:47,720
Speaker 1: play a lot of man and they don't use Ramsey

1181
01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 1: that often as a matchup corner. Right, all right, Greg,

1182
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 1: thanks for breaking those games down for us. We appreciate it.

1183
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 1: Enjoy Conference championship weekend. Yeah, I'm looking forward to I've

1184
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:02,680
Speaker 1: already started take a peak at college quarterback. So, oh

1185
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:06,120
Speaker 1: my god, he can't help himself. You don't want to

1186
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:08,520
Speaker 1: stay ahead of tasker. I'm sure he's you know, Oh yeah,

1187
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 1: he's he's elbow deep and then Greg nose to the grindstone. Yeah,

1188
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 1: thanks Greg, I have a good weekend. That's a senior

1189
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 1: producer from NFL Films, great co sell joining us here

1190
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 1: as he does on Fridays, and appreciate him breaking down

1191
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 1: those games. Gonna be some interesting matchups there. I wonder

1192
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 1: if Sean givey he's got to try something different. You

1193
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:32,440
Speaker 1: lost six times in a row. You keep doing the

1194
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 1: same thing. That's the definition of insane. Yeah, but a lot, Yeah, Yes,

1195
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 1: you're right, he's got to come up with some way.

1196
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: And maybe it'll be a don't play bass, maybe not,

1197
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 1: or maybe um you beat him with the other side

1198
01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 1: of the ball and start scorn on him. You know,

1199
01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 1: you try and get the ball out and get get

1200
01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:51,080
Speaker 1: some points on the board and take him out of

1201
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:52,480
Speaker 1: that him maybe a little bit, I don't know. You

1202
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 1: gotta put pressure on him somehow. It is going to

1203
01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:56,280
Speaker 1: be interesting for sure. We want to get back to

1204
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 1: the phones though. At eight oh three oh five fifty

1205
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:02,680
Speaker 1: one eighty eight five fifty five fifty as the obil

1206
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 1: Friday fan mail bag is open for you, we go

1207
01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 1: to Mike in South Carolina, X. What do you have

1208
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 1: for as mic here on one Bill's Life? Hey, Christ

1209
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,480
Speaker 1: and Steve's Mike from Greenville builds backers? All right, not

1210
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 1: too much, hey, doing a hanging in there man. Um.

1211
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:23,240
Speaker 1: So it was certainly a disappointing loss to the Chiefs,

1212
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:27,760
Speaker 1: right Josh Allen played his best game, the fans gave up,

1213
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:32,960
Speaker 1: you know, could have played better. My question, Steve, where

1214
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:36,400
Speaker 1: did we get best? This is the question do you have?

1215
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 1: Where do you get better? Team? And in my in

1216
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:43,760
Speaker 1: my opendon to prevent us from happening again, where do

1217
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 1: you think our most glaring issue is moving forward on

1218
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:53,000
Speaker 1: the roster? You mean? Um, I would say probably you

1219
01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:55,840
Speaker 1: need to maintain a good offense. And they kind of

1220
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 1: got their offensive line together coming into the late in

1221
01:06:57,920 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 1: the season that you got to make sure that doesn't

1222
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 1: go anywhere. Um. I think they could probably use a

1223
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:06,560
Speaker 1: big body down inside defensively, Uh, they could use some

1224
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:08,760
Speaker 1: more speed in their secondary, maybe at one of the

1225
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:12,240
Speaker 1: corners or uh if Jdavous White comes back and get it,

1226
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:14,200
Speaker 1: you know, and Levi Wallace goes on his way after

1227
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:16,200
Speaker 1: his one year deal, you got to find a guy

1228
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:19,480
Speaker 1: that can really run maybe, uh, that kind of thing.

1229
01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 1: And you also probably have to refurbish your wide receivers.

1230
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 1: You gotta make sure you got enough speed out there

1231
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:26,640
Speaker 1: as well. You don't know if Emmanuel Sanders is going

1232
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 1: to be back at age thirty four. Cole Beasley still

1233
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 1: has a year left on his contract. They said they

1234
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 1: want him, might lose Isaiah McKenzie, And you got to

1235
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:37,439
Speaker 1: you got to make sure you stay fast out there.

1236
01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 1: What about you? What about you? Mike? And Mike already left. Yeah,

1237
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:43,480
Speaker 1: we got other people we gotta get to here. But yeah,

1238
01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:46,000
Speaker 1: I think I think, you know, while I've already stated

1239
01:07:46,040 --> 01:07:47,920
Speaker 1: the case for speed, you got to add more speed.

1240
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: It's not a matter of you know, what do the

1241
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:52,439
Speaker 1: Bills have to do to make sure it doesn't happen again.

1242
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:56,000
Speaker 1: They got to finish games again. I mean they were

1243
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 1: right there, they had the Chiefs beat and they didn't

1244
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:02,840
Speaker 1: finish the game. Unfortunately, they're certainly good enough to beat

1245
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:05,080
Speaker 1: them as they are currently constituted. Now, they have to

1246
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 1: do what they can to at the very least maintain

1247
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:10,640
Speaker 1: some elements of that team going forward and maybe make

1248
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 1: it better when they have an opportunity to do so,

1249
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:15,560
Speaker 1: whether it's with a draft prospect or a you know,

1250
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:18,000
Speaker 1: tier two free agent that doesn't cost them a ton

1251
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:19,720
Speaker 1: of them all To say this though, you don't, I mean,

1252
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 1: they don't need to do too much differently than they've

1253
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:24,840
Speaker 1: been doing. Certainly, it'll it'll take a course that it takes,

1254
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:27,840
Speaker 1: you know, in the offseason. But they're gonna scour free

1255
01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:32,000
Speaker 1: agent market. I doubt that they're going to sign a

1256
01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:34,160
Speaker 1: guy like they did five years ago Mitch Morris to

1257
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 1: you know, making the highest paid center in the league

1258
01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:38,280
Speaker 1: or anything like that. But they are going to bring

1259
01:08:38,320 --> 01:08:42,439
Speaker 1: in guys at just about every position, and they're going

1260
01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 1: to give them a chance to compete. So they're gonna

1261
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:45,760
Speaker 1: have a lot of work to do on the D line.

1262
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 1: They've got seven players with contracts up they're gonna have.

1263
01:08:49,280 --> 01:08:51,640
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some some movement there because they're not

1264
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:53,280
Speaker 1: bringing them all back. Some of them are a little

1265
01:08:53,320 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 1: long in the tooth, and maybe others didn't perform up

1266
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 1: to their expectations. I think you're going to see some

1267
01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 1: changes there. Youth is there, you know, But you got

1268
01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:04,280
Speaker 1: a decision to make on Harrison Phillips. I. We tend

1269
01:09:04,320 --> 01:09:05,840
Speaker 1: to think they want to bring him back with the

1270
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:08,640
Speaker 1: way he finished this season. But some other players that

1271
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:10,400
Speaker 1: are a little long in the tooth or maybe didn't

1272
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:13,160
Speaker 1: perform up to expectations. There could be very well some

1273
01:09:13,320 --> 01:09:15,720
Speaker 1: changes there. But let's go back to the phones. We

1274
01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:17,640
Speaker 1: go to Betty and Depew. Betty, what do you have

1275
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 1: for us? You're all one of Bill's life. Oh Hi, Hi,

1276
01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:25,880
Speaker 1: I'm Betty from Maud Depew. You remember me I called before? Yep?

1277
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:29,479
Speaker 1: I remember running back? Yep? Thurman Thomas, Well, Dan, ain't

1278
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:33,280
Speaker 1: why I'm calling today? Okay? The person ahead of me

1279
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 1: for him to say that Josh Allen could have played better?

1280
01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:40,759
Speaker 1: What's he got the you know what in this brain?

1281
01:09:41,200 --> 01:09:44,839
Speaker 1: This guy. We're lucky to have Josh Allen. The problem

1282
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:48,080
Speaker 1: is not with Josh Allen, it was what the defense.

1283
01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:51,600
Speaker 1: The defense led us down. I think they went with

1284
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:57,519
Speaker 1: too much confidence and aspiras table goes. Oh boy. I'm

1285
01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:01,400
Speaker 1: concerned about him being with the with the Dolphins. I'm

1286
01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 1: hoping that whoever we have, if Fitztarcy fine. I know

1287
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:09,920
Speaker 1: Josh Allen likes him and all that, but he's going

1288
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:13,719
Speaker 1: to have to change this whole offense. Don't you think

1289
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:16,320
Speaker 1: this whole offense is going to have to be changed?

1290
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:21,799
Speaker 1: What we have right now is stables offense. Well, Betty, Betty,

1291
01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:25,000
Speaker 1: they can run, Betty, They'll be all right, Betty. Don't think, Betty,

1292
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:26,600
Speaker 1: they'll be all right. They don't have to change the

1293
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:28,880
Speaker 1: whole offense just because a new guy comes in. In fact,

1294
01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:33,519
Speaker 1: that's why there's some speculation that they may just promote

1295
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:36,080
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey and keep running the exact same offense. He's

1296
01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 1: a quarterbacks. If a new guy comes in, part of

1297
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:41,280
Speaker 1: the process is going to be and I've seen this

1298
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:44,800
Speaker 1: happen before other teams where the new offensive coordinator will

1299
01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:47,799
Speaker 1: learn the Bills offense and then they'll start to branch

1300
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:49,760
Speaker 1: out from there, so the words will be the same.

1301
01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:52,600
Speaker 1: It'll be the coordinator who has to adjust to the

1302
01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:55,599
Speaker 1: verbiage and the words and the language of the Bills

1303
01:10:55,640 --> 01:11:00,559
Speaker 1: offense rather than the Bills learning some other guy's new offense. Yeah,

1304
01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 1: so I don't think. Yeah, you're right, Brian Dable is

1305
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 1: going to be a big loss if we do, indeed

1306
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:09,439
Speaker 1: lose him, But it will be the coordinator's job coming in.

1307
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:12,040
Speaker 1: It could be, and probably will be the coordinator's job

1308
01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:14,920
Speaker 1: coming in to adjust to the Bills offense and get

1309
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 1: comfortable with that. And then if he has ideas about

1310
01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:19,080
Speaker 1: how to change and do things, they can do that

1311
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:23,000
Speaker 1: after he assimilates it, so that transition will be much

1312
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:26,479
Speaker 1: much easier for Josh Allen and Mitch Trubisky and whoever

1313
01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:28,800
Speaker 1: the other quarterbacks are. It won't be Mitch. But do

1314
01:11:28,840 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: you hear my point? Yes? Understood. We have to take

1315
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:36,040
Speaker 1: a break here because coming up next are the Maddie Awards,

1316
01:11:36,200 --> 01:11:39,719
Speaker 1: with Bills Multimedia reporter Maddie Glabs set to do the honors,

1317
01:11:39,800 --> 01:11:42,280
Speaker 1: So we'll get ready to roll out the red carpet

1318
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:44,800
Speaker 1: here for the last time this season. Maddie joins us

1319
01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:47,280
Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health,

1320
01:11:47,560 --> 01:12:02,640
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back, to one,

1321
01:12:02,680 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 1: Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you here on

1322
01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 1: a Friday. And this is a little bit of a

1323
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:13,880
Speaker 1: bittersweet moment, Steve, because it is the final edition of

1324
01:12:13,880 --> 01:12:18,000
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one season of the Maddie Awards, presented

1325
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:22,320
Speaker 1: by Energy Mark as always the official energy supplier to

1326
01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:26,519
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills and Maddie at the end. Came too soon,

1327
01:12:27,320 --> 01:12:30,479
Speaker 1: but we're glad to have you. Nonetheless, I know I

1328
01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:32,880
Speaker 1: was gonna say say it ain't so I was hoping

1329
01:12:32,960 --> 01:12:35,560
Speaker 1: we could push this off for as long as possible

1330
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:38,320
Speaker 1: and that we could just keep celebrating all the wins,

1331
01:12:38,920 --> 01:12:41,479
Speaker 1: a couple more wins at least, but you know, it

1332
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:43,920
Speaker 1: is what it is, and hopefully this team will be

1333
01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:47,280
Speaker 1: back in the same place next season. I wanted to

1334
01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 1: make sure we did this towards the end of the

1335
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:52,240
Speaker 1: week because honestly, I know we've all been feeling down,

1336
01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:55,040
Speaker 1: so hopefully this can make us feel a little bit better.

1337
01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:57,760
Speaker 1: And I wasn't ready to do this until Friday. Yeah,

1338
01:12:57,800 --> 01:13:02,200
Speaker 1: we've become the radio equivalent of therapists, So yeah, we

1339
01:13:02,320 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 1: feel you. Yeah, I totally agree with you, So I

1340
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:08,559
Speaker 1: guess you know, and it's so sad that all this

1341
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 1: has a little bit of finality to it. You're right,

1342
01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:15,160
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, when you do sit down, take a deep

1343
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:19,040
Speaker 1: breath and think about this season, there's a lot in

1344
01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:23,439
Speaker 1: there to take note of. Yeah, there definitely is. It

1345
01:13:23,479 --> 01:13:25,880
Speaker 1: was easy to come up with all these awards, these

1346
01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 1: season end awards, and it was almost hard because you

1347
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:31,360
Speaker 1: wanted to put so many different people in so many

1348
01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:34,920
Speaker 1: different places, because a lot of this team deserved to

1349
01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:37,800
Speaker 1: be recognized after the season that they had. So we've

1350
01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: got a couple of wards to go through, kind of

1351
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:43,120
Speaker 1: wrap up the season here and look forward to next season.

1352
01:13:43,240 --> 01:13:47,759
Speaker 1: So number one on my list is Offensive MVP, and

1353
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:50,639
Speaker 1: of course it's got to be jug Allen. The way

1354
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:54,160
Speaker 1: that he finished the season was just incredible. He is

1355
01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:56,719
Speaker 1: that dude. He is a gamer, he is a boss.

1356
01:13:56,840 --> 01:13:59,120
Speaker 1: He's one of the best, and there are no more

1357
01:13:59,360 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 1: arguments about any of Can Josh Allen prove himself? Does

1358
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:06,880
Speaker 1: he need to prove himself more? He's not the quarterback

1359
01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:09,840
Speaker 1: that the Bills need X y Z. That goes out

1360
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: the window after what he did in the playoffs. I

1361
01:14:12,960 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 1: mean Brandon Bean talked about it in his end of

1362
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:18,679
Speaker 1: season press conference, how he really liked how Josh Allen

1363
01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 1: started to take what the defense gave him more on

1364
01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:24,000
Speaker 1: in the season, and you really saw that in the

1365
01:14:24,040 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 1: Patriots game on the road that he talked about. He

1366
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:29,840
Speaker 1: started to take those checkdowns early on in the game,

1367
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 1: and that was probably the most mature Josh Allen that

1368
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:36,120
Speaker 1: we had seen up until that point. He averaged forty

1369
01:14:36,200 --> 01:14:38,600
Speaker 1: one and a half points per game in the playoffs,

1370
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:44,000
Speaker 1: nine total touchdowns, no interceptions. That's the first time that

1371
01:14:44,080 --> 01:14:47,080
Speaker 1: a QB has ever done that in the playoffs. He

1372
01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:50,200
Speaker 1: is the reason why Bills fans should feel really good

1373
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 1: about the future. And I just cannot say enough about him.

1374
01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 1: And he's just gonna get better. I can't believe I'm

1375
01:14:57,120 --> 01:15:00,639
Speaker 1: saying that, but the ceiling is very high for him,

1376
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:03,760
Speaker 1: and better days are ahead for this quarterback as he

1377
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:06,639
Speaker 1: starts to grow and mature more and learn more about

1378
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:09,760
Speaker 1: opposing defenses. All right, so let's flip it around and

1379
01:15:09,960 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 1: let's go defensive MVP. Next defensive MVP. I couldn't name

1380
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:18,280
Speaker 1: just one because these two are a tandem and they

1381
01:15:18,320 --> 01:15:21,440
Speaker 1: had such a great season, Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde

1382
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:26,360
Speaker 1: combining for ten interceptions during regular season, which was the

1383
01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: most by any safety tandem in the NFL. It's also

1384
01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:33,120
Speaker 1: nuts to think that they're in year five with the

1385
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:36,280
Speaker 1: Bills and in year nine in the NFL. And just

1386
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:38,720
Speaker 1: like Josh Allen, I mean Josh Allen is young, these

1387
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:42,280
Speaker 1: guys are older and they continue to get better every season.

1388
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:45,559
Speaker 1: They're a huge part of why the defense was number

1389
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 1: one overall in total defense and scoring defense. And they

1390
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 1: made it really hard for offenses to pass the ball.

1391
01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:57,120
Speaker 1: I mean they allowed the fewest touchdown passes twelve, they

1392
01:15:57,120 --> 01:15:59,720
Speaker 1: allowed the lowest passer rating and had the best third

1393
01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 1: down on defense. And they were important leaders for the

1394
01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:05,240
Speaker 1: team and for the defense. And I think they still

1395
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 1: have some stuff left in their bag for next season

1396
01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:11,200
Speaker 1: and until they're done being Buffalo Bills. I mean, these

1397
01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:14,600
Speaker 1: two guys are anchors of the defense and year in

1398
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 1: year out, they are at the top of the list

1399
01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:19,960
Speaker 1: of why this defense has been so good since Sean

1400
01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:23,240
Speaker 1: McDermott and Leslie Frasier came in. Yeah, they've done a

1401
01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:25,599
Speaker 1: heck of job. It's been year in year out. It's

1402
01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:28,880
Speaker 1: like wash Rent's repeat with those two year after year.

1403
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 1: So no question about that. What do we got next

1404
01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:35,200
Speaker 1: rookie of the year Rookie of the Year, and I

1405
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: like this. I like your choice here. It makes a

1406
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:40,800
Speaker 1: lot of sense. And it was a year when we

1407
01:16:40,400 --> 01:16:43,080
Speaker 1: needed we needed this rookie more more so probably than

1408
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:46,800
Speaker 1: in years past. Yeah, Rookie MVP for me has got

1409
01:16:46,800 --> 01:16:51,160
Speaker 1: to be Spencer Brown. He was absolutely thrown into the

1410
01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:54,439
Speaker 1: mix and it might have taken some time to adjust,

1411
01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 1: but he definitely answered. I mean, the Buffalo Bills and

1412
01:16:57,400 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 1: the offensive line they needed him so badly and it

1413
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:04,000
Speaker 1: was really good to see him answer and feel comfortable

1414
01:17:04,040 --> 01:17:06,280
Speaker 1: in that spot at right tackle. He also played a

1415
01:17:06,280 --> 01:17:08,760
Speaker 1: little bit at left tackle. No big deal, Just throw

1416
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:11,639
Speaker 1: a rookie into the mix right there in your first

1417
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 1: season in the NFL. So just his ability to step up.

1418
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:18,080
Speaker 1: He was one of the answers to the final five

1419
01:17:18,240 --> 01:17:21,479
Speaker 1: that finally had some consistency down the stretch at the

1420
01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:23,280
Speaker 1: end of the season. And Brandon Beans so that he

1421
01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:25,479
Speaker 1: did a good job of cleaning out the pocket for

1422
01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:28,839
Speaker 1: Josh and that they expect big things from him going forward.

1423
01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:31,880
Speaker 1: So that's why he is my rookie MVP. He really

1424
01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:35,439
Speaker 1: helped save that offensive line I think right, Okay, m

1425
01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:37,920
Speaker 1: IP is what they used to call it when I

1426
01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:40,639
Speaker 1: was a kid. Most improved? What do we got there?

1427
01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:44,200
Speaker 1: Most improved? I couldn't just name one because if you

1428
01:17:44,280 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 1: name one, you gotta name the other based on how

1429
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:49,920
Speaker 1: they added to the offense this season. So I picked

1430
01:17:50,040 --> 01:17:54,000
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary and Dawson Knox, and I'll start with Dawson Knox.

1431
01:17:54,560 --> 01:17:57,639
Speaker 1: He was nine and day different from last year. Nine

1432
01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:01,280
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns this year and the right season, adding two

1433
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:05,360
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, eleven total when you added those two together,

1434
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:07,679
Speaker 1: which was tied for the most in the NFL. And

1435
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:11,720
Speaker 1: the year before he just had three receiving touchdowns two

1436
01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:14,320
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty eight receiving yards. Then the next year

1437
01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:18,799
Speaker 1: he triples his TD number. He doubles his catch number,

1438
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:21,439
Speaker 1: going from twenty four to forty nine, and doubles his

1439
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:24,439
Speaker 1: receiving yards number, going from two hundred eighty eight to

1440
01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:28,439
Speaker 1: five hundred eighty seven. That is progress. What he did

1441
01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:32,639
Speaker 1: last offseason absolutely worked for him. All of the catching

1442
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:34,840
Speaker 1: drills that he did, all the crazy drills that he

1443
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:36,559
Speaker 1: told us about in the beginning of the season. He

1444
01:18:36,600 --> 01:18:39,040
Speaker 1: said he's going to do it again this offseason because

1445
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:40,880
Speaker 1: it worked so well for him. I think he really

1446
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: solidified himself as the tight end for the Bills going

1447
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:47,080
Speaker 1: forward and someone who can really be a difference maker

1448
01:18:47,160 --> 01:18:49,880
Speaker 1: and almost a secret weapon to this offense as he

1449
01:18:49,920 --> 01:18:53,880
Speaker 1: continues to grow. And then Devin Singletary came out strong

1450
01:18:53,960 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 1: toward the end of the season, also had a career

1451
01:18:56,439 --> 01:19:00,360
Speaker 1: year for him. He tripled the touchdown amount from last year,

1452
01:19:00,600 --> 01:19:04,880
Speaker 1: going from two rushing touchdowns to seven, and finished the

1453
01:19:04,920 --> 01:19:08,240
Speaker 1: season with at least one rushing touchdown in six straight games.

1454
01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 1: I think he really made Josh Allen's life easier. They

1455
01:19:12,360 --> 01:19:14,960
Speaker 1: relied on Devin and it helped open things up for

1456
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 1: the offense as a whole. And so I hope they

1457
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:20,000
Speaker 1: can rely on Devin Singletary again next year because a

1458
01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:22,519
Speaker 1: balanced offense is a lot harder to stop than just

1459
01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:25,680
Speaker 1: to passing offense. And I would agree that Devin came on.

1460
01:19:25,840 --> 01:19:28,920
Speaker 1: I really thought the last month of the season he

1461
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:31,719
Speaker 1: was a factor that he hadn't been during a regular season.

1462
01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:34,160
Speaker 1: But I agree you talk about a guy that improved

1463
01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:36,559
Speaker 1: before our very eyes look over the last half of

1464
01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:39,840
Speaker 1: the season. In playoffs, Devin Singletary would have been that guy.

1465
01:19:39,880 --> 01:19:45,160
Speaker 1: What about your next one? The best comeback of the year,

1466
01:19:45,320 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 1: Let's what are your thoughts. I'm given it to the

1467
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:51,559
Speaker 1: offensive line. I mean the amount of twists and turns

1468
01:19:51,640 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 1: that that group took throughout the season. One guy was

1469
01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 1: injured one game, another guy had COVID, one guy got

1470
01:19:57,360 --> 01:19:58,920
Speaker 1: hurt in the middle game. I mean, you name it.

1471
01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:03,120
Speaker 1: Things were popping. It seemed like every single game. During practices,

1472
01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:06,479
Speaker 1: right before games, an hour before a game, it was

1473
01:20:06,479 --> 01:20:09,400
Speaker 1: a revolving door of who was going to play on

1474
01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:12,480
Speaker 1: the offensive line. And they really didn't have any consistency

1475
01:20:12,680 --> 01:20:15,360
Speaker 1: until around week fifteen toward the end of the season,

1476
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:19,479
Speaker 1: when they finally started to get five together that we're

1477
01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:22,639
Speaker 1: working together and that were healthy together and could stay

1478
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:25,200
Speaker 1: on the field throughout an entire game. And the group

1479
01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 1: worked out and shout out to guys like Ryan Bates

1480
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:31,599
Speaker 1: and Spencer Brown for fitting into the mix and allowing

1481
01:20:31,600 --> 01:20:35,080
Speaker 1: for some offensive production production. I mean, the protection that

1482
01:20:35,120 --> 01:20:37,639
Speaker 1: they had for Josh and the run game was really

1483
01:20:37,640 --> 01:20:40,519
Speaker 1: the starter to getting something going on offense. And that's

1484
01:20:40,560 --> 01:20:43,599
Speaker 1: when the floodgates opened for this offense. When they had

1485
01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:46,479
Speaker 1: that four game win streak to end the season and

1486
01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:48,720
Speaker 1: then won that first playoff game, it was because the

1487
01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:52,200
Speaker 1: offensive line was set and they were consistent they started

1488
01:20:52,240 --> 01:20:55,360
Speaker 1: scoring more points, winning more games, Devin Singletary became a

1489
01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:58,200
Speaker 1: hot name, and Josh was having more success. So the

1490
01:20:58,280 --> 01:21:01,479
Speaker 1: offensive line is just so important and without one, you

1491
01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:03,680
Speaker 1: really can't do much. So that's why they are the

1492
01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:07,040
Speaker 1: best comeback and they get another tip of the hat

1493
01:21:07,160 --> 01:21:11,080
Speaker 1: here with your Unsung Hero award. Unsung Hero goes to

1494
01:21:11,120 --> 01:21:14,640
Speaker 1: Mitch Morse. He was the one constant on the offensive

1495
01:21:14,680 --> 01:21:17,800
Speaker 1: line this year and in previous years, I mean he

1496
01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:19,479
Speaker 1: would kind of be in and out of the lineup

1497
01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:22,080
Speaker 1: due to some concussions that he would have, and he

1498
01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:24,880
Speaker 1: really held it down at center this year and was

1499
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:27,679
Speaker 1: a veteran presence I think when the offensive line really

1500
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:30,200
Speaker 1: needed one because of all the shifts and all the

1501
01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:32,880
Speaker 1: mixing that it really had. And I don't think he

1502
01:21:32,920 --> 01:21:36,200
Speaker 1: gets a lot of credit because offensive lineman just really

1503
01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:38,960
Speaker 1: don't but I think he deserves a lot of credit

1504
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:41,760
Speaker 1: based on what the offensive line went through during the

1505
01:21:41,800 --> 01:21:44,040
Speaker 1: season and kind of how he stepped up and was

1506
01:21:44,120 --> 01:21:46,880
Speaker 1: that leader. He also looked like he had some nice

1507
01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:50,639
Speaker 1: pep in his steps sometimes blocking for Josh Allen getting

1508
01:21:50,640 --> 01:21:53,000
Speaker 1: down the field in a hurry there toward the end

1509
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:55,920
Speaker 1: of the season. So he is the unsung hero Mitch Morse.

1510
01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:58,240
Speaker 1: I thought his third season in a Bill's uniform was

1511
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:00,920
Speaker 1: his best season as a Bill this year for sure,

1512
01:22:01,040 --> 01:22:04,320
Speaker 1: And really, when you think about it, only him and

1513
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:07,639
Speaker 1: Darryl Williams, those are the only two guys that appeared

1514
01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:11,000
Speaker 1: in every game. Upfront, Yeah, up front, Yeah, it was

1515
01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:14,800
Speaker 1: a I was looking through the participation. Yeah, they had three.

1516
01:22:14,920 --> 01:22:16,600
Speaker 1: The first three weeks of the season, there was the

1517
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,040
Speaker 1: same lineup, and then it was different all the way

1518
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:21,080
Speaker 1: through the end except for the last two regular season

1519
01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:22,920
Speaker 1: games and in the playoffs they had the same five

1520
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:25,920
Speaker 1: guys out there when Ryan Batescott inserted. Okay, now let's

1521
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:28,680
Speaker 1: spin it forward. The last award we have is the

1522
01:22:28,720 --> 01:22:31,439
Speaker 1: one that says promise, the big promise award about what's

1523
01:22:31,439 --> 01:22:33,479
Speaker 1: going to happen maybe next year and going forward. Who

1524
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:37,320
Speaker 1: gets that award? Big promise goes to Greg Russ. I

1525
01:22:37,360 --> 01:22:39,320
Speaker 1: think there's a lot to look forward here with this

1526
01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:42,599
Speaker 1: young defensive end. And it's good to remember that this

1527
01:22:42,720 --> 01:22:46,479
Speaker 1: kid did not play football last season at Miami because

1528
01:22:46,479 --> 01:22:49,839
Speaker 1: of COVID. He started hot and he finished the season strong.

1529
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:52,759
Speaker 1: He tied for second on the team with most stacks

1530
01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:55,840
Speaker 1: with four. He tied for a third most in TFLs

1531
01:22:55,880 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 1: he had ten of those and Brandon being set at

1532
01:22:58,360 --> 01:23:00,640
Speaker 1: the end of his During his press conference at the

1533
01:23:00,720 --> 01:23:02,880
Speaker 1: end of the season press conference, he said he thought

1534
01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:04,720
Speaker 1: in he thought he got into a little bit of

1535
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:07,120
Speaker 1: a lull there and hit the rookie wall, which is

1536
01:23:07,200 --> 01:23:09,559
Speaker 1: expected for a lot of these guys. But thinks that

1537
01:23:09,840 --> 01:23:11,840
Speaker 1: he's a great fit and really going to be a

1538
01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 1: good pro for them moving forward. And I think if

1539
01:23:14,840 --> 01:23:17,800
Speaker 1: he can become more physical, which I know he will

1540
01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:20,959
Speaker 1: in the years to come, he's gonna be a nightmare

1541
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:23,720
Speaker 1: for opposing offense. Is based on what we saw and

1542
01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: what we got a taste of in his first season. Yeah,

1543
01:23:26,120 --> 01:23:27,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I think all things considered, we have to

1544
01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:30,639
Speaker 1: remember he opted out last year. He didn't even play

1545
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:33,160
Speaker 1: college football, so he's coming back to play football at

1546
01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:36,800
Speaker 1: the highest level of the game after an eighteen month layoff. Ian,

1547
01:23:37,560 --> 01:23:40,599
Speaker 1: I mean, he did pretty well all things considered, all right.

1548
01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:43,559
Speaker 1: Best play of the year. I think if you asked

1549
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:47,280
Speaker 1: ten people, nine of them would agree with you. Best

1550
01:23:47,320 --> 01:23:50,840
Speaker 1: play has got to be Micah Hyde's interception against the

1551
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:54,639
Speaker 1: Patriots in the wild card round. There is you cannot

1552
01:23:54,720 --> 01:23:57,559
Speaker 1: argue with me about another better play during the season.

1553
01:23:57,680 --> 01:24:00,280
Speaker 1: I mean, it's an obvious to me. He is such

1554
01:24:00,280 --> 01:24:02,840
Speaker 1: an incredible athlete, and he put that on display in

1555
01:24:02,880 --> 01:24:06,519
Speaker 1: that moment, making that over the shoulder catch against Nelson Agil,

1556
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:09,439
Speaker 1: robbing him of a touchdown. And it was early in

1557
01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:11,599
Speaker 1: the game and the Patriots had a chance to tie

1558
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:13,800
Speaker 1: it up right there. Seven to seven would have been

1559
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:16,120
Speaker 1: the score if they would have scored that touchdown, and

1560
01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:18,960
Speaker 1: I think that was a true momentum shifter. And then

1561
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:22,479
Speaker 1: the Bills ended up scoring forty seven total points and

1562
01:24:22,520 --> 01:24:25,720
Speaker 1: beating them by thirty. So that's the best play in

1563
01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:28,200
Speaker 1: my mind this season. And what was the best win

1564
01:24:28,320 --> 01:24:32,679
Speaker 1: this season? The best win that game, baby, a thirty

1565
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:36,040
Speaker 1: point win against the Patriots and the playoffs, I mean,

1566
01:24:36,360 --> 01:24:40,439
Speaker 1: does it get any sweeter than that sweet victory, like

1567
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:46,600
Speaker 1: complete domination against one of your AFC East foes. It

1568
01:24:46,760 --> 01:24:49,559
Speaker 1: felt so much better knowing that we had lost to

1569
01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:54,280
Speaker 1: the Patriots at home in that first meeting and beating

1570
01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:56,320
Speaker 1: them by that much was just epic. I mean, the

1571
01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:59,320
Speaker 1: Patriots never led in that game. The Bills totalled almost

1572
01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:03,479
Speaker 1: five yards of offense. Josh Allen had a freakish day,

1573
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:06,960
Speaker 1: completing eighty four percent of his passes for over three

1574
01:25:07,040 --> 01:25:10,800
Speaker 1: hundred yards through for five touchdowns. Bill's record in the

1575
01:25:10,840 --> 01:25:14,320
Speaker 1: playoffs close to a perfect passer rating Devin Singletary and

1576
01:25:14,439 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox with two touchdowns each. I mean it was

1577
01:25:18,320 --> 01:25:21,280
Speaker 1: a complete beatdown and I think it brought all of

1578
01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:24,879
Speaker 1: Bill's mafia so much happiness. Yeah, and for future reference, everybody,

1579
01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:27,000
Speaker 1: when you ever talk about that game, you only refer

1580
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:29,720
Speaker 1: to it as a beatdown. That is the only appropriate

1581
01:25:29,880 --> 01:25:32,519
Speaker 1: term to use for that game. Last one, quickly, Maddie

1582
01:25:32,560 --> 01:25:34,720
Speaker 1: before we run out of time. Best touchdown of the year,

1583
01:25:35,479 --> 01:25:38,080
Speaker 1: all right, best touchdown. I'm gonna give it to gave

1584
01:25:38,200 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 1: Davis the seventy five yard touchdown pass that he caught

1585
01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:44,200
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen in the most recent game of the

1586
01:25:44,280 --> 01:25:46,880
Speaker 1: loss against the Chiefs. But what an epic performance that

1587
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:50,040
Speaker 1: he had four total touchdowns. I mean, this guy is

1588
01:25:50,040 --> 01:25:53,920
Speaker 1: a player that also has a lot of promise going forward.

1589
01:25:54,120 --> 01:25:56,720
Speaker 1: I had to give him some recognition here. So that's

1590
01:25:56,760 --> 01:25:59,200
Speaker 1: the one that I'm gonna pick, and I love that.

1591
01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 1: If the Bills didn't score on that drive, it could

1592
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:03,800
Speaker 1: have been a game over. But the Bills were able

1593
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:05,760
Speaker 1: to score with just a couple of minutes left in

1594
01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:08,599
Speaker 1: the third quarter there, and I love that Brian day

1595
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 1: Well dialed one up deep on first down and the

1596
01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:14,360
Speaker 1: Chiefs had no idea it was coming. I think he

1597
01:26:14,520 --> 01:26:17,719
Speaker 1: has a huge role in this offense next season based

1598
01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:21,519
Speaker 1: on what he saw when he was called upon this year. Maddie,

1599
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:24,400
Speaker 1: good stuff and enjoyed it. I'm glad we had John

1600
01:26:24,439 --> 01:26:27,040
Speaker 1: for a big number of games this year. It's always

1601
01:26:27,080 --> 01:26:30,639
Speaker 1: fun to have you on Mondays after wins and great

1602
01:26:30,680 --> 01:26:32,720
Speaker 1: as always. Thanks for giving us a little positivity to

1603
01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:37,240
Speaker 1: go forward with. Yeah, some positivity to head into your weekend.

1604
01:26:37,320 --> 01:26:39,800
Speaker 1: Here you go, Thanks much, Maddie, appreciate it all season long.

1605
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:42,680
Speaker 1: That's Maddie Glab Bills Multimedia reporter joining us here. We

1606
01:26:42,760 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 1: will take a break and then close things up for

1607
01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:46,639
Speaker 1: the week when we come back here on One Bill's

1608
01:26:46,680 --> 01:27:02,160
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

1609
01:27:02,160 --> 01:27:04,719
Speaker 1: welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

1610
01:27:04,800 --> 01:27:09,559
Speaker 1: with you and uh got a minute here, Steve. And

1611
01:27:09,680 --> 01:27:12,759
Speaker 1: it won't be easy watching the conference championship games without

1612
01:27:12,760 --> 01:27:16,880
Speaker 1: the Bills being a part of the equation. I'll be

1613
01:27:16,880 --> 01:27:19,160
Speaker 1: able to watch him. I think I'm past it. Now

1614
01:27:19,439 --> 01:27:21,280
Speaker 1: it took a few days. It's probably gonna take some

1615
01:27:21,320 --> 01:27:23,840
Speaker 1: bills fans longer than it did me, and I get why.

1616
01:27:24,760 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 1: But you can't change it. So I'll probably tune in,

1617
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:33,479
Speaker 1: see how I feel about it, and you know, go

1618
01:27:33,600 --> 01:27:36,479
Speaker 1: from there. I probably I would probably watch I'll watch it.

1619
01:27:36,520 --> 01:27:39,360
Speaker 1: I think I'll probably watch it. You like yeah, I

1620
01:27:39,360 --> 01:27:40,920
Speaker 1: like football, and plus you and I got it. We're

1621
01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:42,439
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it all next week. So I want

1622
01:27:42,439 --> 01:27:44,320
Speaker 1: to get I know how I feel about it as

1623
01:27:44,320 --> 01:27:46,120
Speaker 1: we as I watch, and so I'll watch both games

1624
01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:49,679
Speaker 1: start to finish. But are you rooting four or against

1625
01:27:49,720 --> 01:27:52,360
Speaker 1: the Chiefs? I don't know. My weekend's empty. I'm I'm

1626
01:27:52,400 --> 01:27:59,080
Speaker 1: dead inside. Cheer up, buck up, young man. There are

1627
01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:01,880
Speaker 1: brighter days ahead. We have to believe that. We have

1628
01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:05,200
Speaker 1: to cling to that. We'll be back next Monday. We

1629
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:07,559
Speaker 1: have a full three hour show from Mute for you.

1630
01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:09,840
Speaker 1: We'll be talking about those conference title games. We'll see

1631
01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:10,000
Speaker 1: that