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Speaker 1: text down, all over time. Okay, here we go. It

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Speaker 1: is Tuesday. It is the second of last week of

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Speaker 1: you know that. Good afternoon, and welcome to Orchard Park.

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Speaker 1: If you're watching on the MSG feed, you got to

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Speaker 1: look at the snow covered field, new airfield. A little

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Speaker 1: This looks good. Actually, the field looks pretty good. Does

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Speaker 1: it looks like nice? And this that snooze new snowfall

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. I'm John Murphy. This is Bill's

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Speaker 1: Wall of Famers team Tasker. We're here until three o'clock

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Speaker 1: today to talk about the Bills in the NFL. Look,

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Speaker 1: it's a short week. The game is Saturday, not Sunday, um,

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Speaker 1: and the Bills are practicing as we speak. They're out

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like a short week, though, Steve. Not like

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Speaker 1: the thanks getting look the couple of weeks ago the

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Speaker 1: of Sunday, so the day when the Bills would normally

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Speaker 1: But it doesn't at this point anyway, feel like the

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Speaker 1: We got stuff to talk about today, much more important

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Speaker 1: a feeling like anything we get here from here on

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Speaker 1: ten wins, they're in the playoffs. The division title can

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Speaker 1: still be clenched. It is extremely remote possibility. But I

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Speaker 1: We don't need much more. We can still get a

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Speaker 1: little more, especially the division title. But you know what

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Speaker 1: I think it's a reflection of the fans. They realize

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Speaker 1: But the division title, to me, is is it a

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Speaker 1: But I think it's worth shooting for. I really do.

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Speaker 1: I phone line's open eighth three five fifty toll free

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Speaker 1: What's the biggest reason for a Bills win over the Patriots?

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Speaker 1: Is it the fact that it keeps the AFC East

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Speaker 1: He's thirty one and three against the Bills in his career,

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Speaker 1: a signal of a changing of the guard in the division,

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Speaker 1: the turning point, the future has arrived. It's the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: Thirty three percent of you say say it keeps the

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Speaker 1: What do you think, mister Tasker, which would you circle there,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't changing of the guard maybe a last chance.

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Speaker 1: and start with is it Marvin or Mayvin in California? Hello? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm Nathan and Californa Nathan in California and Nathan, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I've been a Bill stand my entire life. Coincidentally enough,

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Speaker 1: Steve I love your idea of the eighteen game season

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Speaker 1: call Nathan for thanks for agreeing with me. My eighteen

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Speaker 1: And yeah, and you get eighteen games. Here's the contract.

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Speaker 1: to talk about that now. But you can let it rip.

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Speaker 1: But just say, hey, you know, Matt, you're gonna let

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Speaker 1: it rip now instead of Josh, Right, let her rip.

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Speaker 1: Let's go. And plus you're you can give day Ball

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Speaker 1: some freedom to experiment, you know, get with the test tubes,

429
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Speaker 1: pour a little bit of this this package into this package,

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Speaker 1: you see what you think is maybe run some things

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Speaker 1: with some different personnel. All of that stuff is in

432
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Speaker 1: the mex and just see what you got. You know,

433
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Speaker 1: see if you see who's playing, who emerges in the

434
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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, maybe they'll help you in the

435
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Speaker 1: in them in the tournament. You know, I that's a

436
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Speaker 1: great I think it's a great attitude. Fearlessly, you know,

437
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Speaker 1: just let a rip, let's go and these last two weeks,

438
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,880
Speaker 1: win or lose, at least you'll know something or find

439
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,840
Speaker 1: something out about your players and it'll it'll give them

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Speaker 1: a little refresher and'll have some fun in these last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks and head into plays with a great attitude.

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Speaker 1: Say call here from Art in Rochester. Hello Art, go

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Speaker 1: ahead and you're on the heir. Yes, how you guys

444
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Speaker 1: doing now? I'm just gonna ask if you guys think

445
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Speaker 1: the Bills mismanager the second half time out? Sometime they

446
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Speaker 1: missmanach the second half timeouts. Sometimes timeouts way way before

447
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Speaker 1: the gal in the most four minutes or so left. Yeah,

448
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Speaker 1: once in a while. I've one thing I've noticed about

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Speaker 1: McDermott and this staff. They they do use timeouts at

450
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Speaker 1: places that are unconventional, mostly on on a crucial down

451
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Speaker 1: where you'll see them all the time. You'll you know this,

452
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Speaker 1: They'll call a time out before the snap, they'll get

453
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Speaker 1: let the other team line out, they'll line up, and

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Speaker 1: then right before the snap, they'll call a time out

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Speaker 1: and then force that other team to either a change

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Speaker 1: their play call because you gotta look at what they're

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Speaker 1: gonna do, or be uh, you got you gotta leg

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Speaker 1: up on them and you're gonna change into something that's

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Speaker 1: a little better or something that you know at least

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Speaker 1: you can get a because here's the thing. They'll study

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Speaker 1: film and they'll know what this team likes to do

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Speaker 1: in short yard or goal line or third and nine

463
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Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. They'll get an idea

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Speaker 1: of what they like to do. They'll get in they'll

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Speaker 1: get in line, and when they line up, they see

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Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. They'll know what they've done out

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Speaker 1: of that formation in the past, and they call a

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Speaker 1: time out and they get ready for that and they

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Speaker 1: force the team to go to something they don't like

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Speaker 1: as well or their second choice. Ye uh, that's a

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Speaker 1: to me. It's it's an innovative and different kind of way.

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Speaker 1: To use your timeout. But I don't think it's any question.

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Speaker 1: I think they've had good success doing it. I think

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit it's like a basketball strategy, right

475
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Speaker 1: you that's right, get lined up and then they're gonna go.

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Speaker 1: They're gout and the other thing. I would And I

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Speaker 1: don't think Sean's ever been asked this, but I believe

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Speaker 1: this to be true. He's got this analytics department, the

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Speaker 1: sports science department. I am certain that they are the

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Speaker 1: ones who who told them, hey, uh, instead of carrying

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Speaker 1: the time out into the locker room at the end

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Speaker 1: of the half or at the end of the game,

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Speaker 1: use it to do this a little bit now you

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Speaker 1: need them. Although I can't think of it, I was

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Speaker 1: thinking whilst he was talking to their art I can't

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Speaker 1: think of an instance this season where they have been

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Speaker 1: short timeouts down the stretch and they really needed them.

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Speaker 1: So I know they know the value of them. They're

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Speaker 1: trying to come back, they know the value of having timeouts.

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Speaker 1: But I also think when they got three and they

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Speaker 1: got a chance to get a look at their opponents

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Speaker 1: and how they're lining it up, they will use it.

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Speaker 1: I think it's kind of smart. Yeah, they do, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's a different way of doing things than teams.

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Speaker 1: We've seen the old school away to do it. You

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Speaker 1: take a time out when you got whatever, whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: when the clock, when you got it on offense. I

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Speaker 1: think defensive coaches are more tuned to the fact that

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Speaker 1: once in a while. They used to be never take

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Speaker 1: a defensive time out. You always want to save it

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Speaker 1: for the offense in case they get a chance to

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Speaker 1: move the football and they'll go down to score a

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Speaker 1: point and that last touch, that last time out, we'll

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Speaker 1: give him a chance to set up for a field

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Speaker 1: goal or you know whatever, save them give them a

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Speaker 1: play to go for the touchdown. Right. So it used

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Speaker 1: to be an old no no not to do that.

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Speaker 1: But I think there's a lot of defensive coaches, our

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Speaker 1: head coaches, and one of them to saying, listen, I

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Speaker 1: could really use that time out right here, because if

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Speaker 1: we could call a time out, I got a handle

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Speaker 1: on what they're doing. We saw an example of it

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Speaker 1: on the two point play against the Ravens when they

514
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Speaker 1: went for two and people crushed them and liked them.

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Speaker 1: It was a real polarizing thing, but they got an

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Speaker 1: idea of what they were going to see and I

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Speaker 1: don't know that that involved a time out at the time,

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Speaker 1: but that's the kind of thing we're talking about. When

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Speaker 1: they get a handle on what they expect, it gives

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Speaker 1: them a chance to be successful. I say one more

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Speaker 1: call here Rick in Rochester. Go ahead, Rick, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. You're on the here. Yeah. I just wanted

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Speaker 1: to make the point that if they win in Foxboro

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Speaker 1: this following week, it really demonstrates that they have the

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Speaker 1: ability to, you know, being on a prime time stage,

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Speaker 1: the pressure kind of jacks up a little bit because

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Speaker 1: they're on a bigger stage, and haven't they already demonstrated that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think it just demonstrates that when you're in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's going to help them stay tom under

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Speaker 1: that pressure because they've been pretty calm. Are you losing

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Speaker 1: your out? And I just think it's through their credit

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Speaker 1: that the team, and especially John Josh Ellen says, stays

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Speaker 1: calm under those situations being on a little a little

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Speaker 1: bit bigger stage. Yeah. Yeah, I mean we've we've talked

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Speaker 1: about that on the show a lot, where we kind

536
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Speaker 1: of labeled Josh as this kind of primetime guy, a

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Speaker 1: clutch guy when the lights are on, he plays his best.

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Speaker 1: Are you going with that? I don't know. We don't

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Speaker 1: know either. You know, maybe this, maybe this would help

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Speaker 1: if he did this in New England, you know. And um,

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Speaker 1: it's not like he doesn't play good at Sunday at

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Speaker 1: one o'clock. But we've seen him when we all have

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Speaker 1: doubts about how he's gonna play under the bright lights.

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Speaker 1: On Thanksgiving Day in Dallas, man he shut us all up.

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Speaker 1: And then in this last game in Pittsburgh, Um, you

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Speaker 1: know the throw he makes to Tyler Craft. While it's

547
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: pretty good throw, um, you know, he leads him to

548
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Speaker 1: a victory. So uh yeah, you kind of think that

549
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: your quarterback doesn't shy away from those moments. But every

550
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Speaker 1: time like this, every time you see him do it,

551
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Speaker 1: it reinforces that belief. And I don't know that we're

552
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Speaker 1: all believers and we're all confident that, yeah, that's our guy.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go and these bright lights are gonna make

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Speaker 1: him play better. I don't know if we're there. I'm

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Speaker 1: not there, But the more chances he gets, yeah, and

556
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Speaker 1: it including Saturday. Look, it's NFL network, it's not a

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Speaker 1: big national you know. Over the air broadcast network if

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Speaker 1: those even exist anymore. But the more chances he gets

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Speaker 1: at it playing in a spotlight game like Saturday, the

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Speaker 1: better you would think you'd get at it. We never

561
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: used to get chances to even find out, right where

562
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: this is new territory for everybody, for a whole generation

563
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Speaker 1: of Bills fans, to have our guys playing in December

564
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,919
Speaker 1: clinched a playoff thing, Well, what do we do? How

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Speaker 1: do how do I feel about this? And I know

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Speaker 1: it's a small chance to be what do you do? Yeah? Right,

567
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Speaker 1: we got a whole generation of people and we haven't

568
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Speaker 1: been through this for and even old guys like that,

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Speaker 1: it's been two decades, two and a half decades before

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Speaker 1: even worry about this stuff, you know. And now we're

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Speaker 1: now we got a quarterback that you know. Now we're

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Speaker 1: getting a guy that in the last two he's had

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Speaker 1: three two out of the last three games or so

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Speaker 1: under the bright lights, and he's killing it. Even the

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00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 1: Baltimore game was shown yacially, you know, so it SUPs

576
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: to be one, two, three, four straight games with big

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Speaker 1: national TV audiences. You we just have why asked the question?

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00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 1: We're never gonna find out the answer, right, because we

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Speaker 1: never get the bright lights. Yeah, it's pretty nice. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we got a break care. Pete Prisco is going to

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Speaker 1: join us CBS Sports Senior NFL columnists get his thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the Bills potential changing of the guard in the

583
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Speaker 1: AFC East. He's coming up next. Come on back for that.

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Colada Health Company from the

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Speaker 1: Seneca Studio in Archard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, One Bills Live. I'm John Murphy right next

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Speaker 1: to the Steve Tasker Company of from our Seneca studio

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Speaker 1: in Archard Park. The Bills getting set to play Saturday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: four thirty against the Patriots on the line, let us

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Speaker 1: talk about that. To talk about the Bills, We've got

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Speaker 1: CBS Sports Senior NFL rider, the host of the Pick

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Speaker 1: six podcasts. He's covered the NFL for over three decades.

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Speaker 1: Really happy to have Pete Prisco on the line. Hello Pete,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve task up here in Buffalo. Thanks

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00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: coming on, Hey guys, how are you? We're good? Hey?

596
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 1: The Bills were surrounded by doubters before this season began.

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00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 1: Vegas had him at six wins and yet you saw

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Speaker 1: something you, in fact, were on record is predicting the

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Speaker 1: Bills as a playoff team. What did you see? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think I saw a team on defense that would

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Speaker 1: rally around their coach and take on their personality, which

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00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 1: is exactly what they did. I mean that that defense

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00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: is very good and they play hard and they play feisty,

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00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: and that's who Sean McDermott is. And on the other

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Speaker 1: side of the all, I'm a big believer in Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: I know there's not a lot of people out there

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Speaker 1: who are I am, and I've been since he came out.

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Speaker 1: I think he's getting better and better as the season

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Speaker 1: moves along. And you know, it's not always easy for

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Speaker 1: him because he doesn't not the greatest offensive line. At times,

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Speaker 1: even though they're better than they were a year ago.

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00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: His receivers drop a lot of balls and people point

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Speaker 1: to him and I'll go back to play last week.

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Speaker 1: I mean, gold Beasley's got to catch that ball in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the field. I'm sorry the balls picked,

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Speaker 1: but he's got to catch it. It was a little high,

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00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: it wasn't a great throw, but it's on his hands.

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Speaker 1: He's got to catch that football. And then you have

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Speaker 1: you know Collinsworth going on there and dissecting how Alan

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Speaker 1: had bad footwork. Well maybe he did, but he still

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Speaker 1: makes the story. You got to catch it. So I

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Speaker 1: think he gets picked apart. But I'm a big believer

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Speaker 1: in him, and I'm a big believer in the Buffalo Bill. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you also you picked him to make the playoffs

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Speaker 1: this year, and you know, even to win the division.

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Speaker 1: That that's from a guy who's in your position. We

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Speaker 1: kind of believe that here in Buffalo because we liked

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Speaker 1: the team and we saw the work they put in

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Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. Still, their offense

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Speaker 1: has still been hit and miss a little bit. It's

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Speaker 1: really the thing that is the most frustrating part of

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Speaker 1: the team, their inability to score points. But yet you

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Speaker 1: thought this team as a total would be good enough

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Speaker 1: to move towards the top of the league and getting

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah, and you know the offense is hit

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Speaker 1: and miss, and I think there's times and I go

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Speaker 1: back to you know there were games where was at

638
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland game where Dawson Knox dropped a back shoulder

639
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Speaker 1: faith and then he dropped a pass probably in the

640
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Speaker 1: end Zoney, he should have caught. I thought, you know,

641
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: and Allen was late with that throw, but he still

642
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: got to catch the football. Those are the little things.

643
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Speaker 1: He's going to be a really good tight EDDI he's

644
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Speaker 1: just not there yet. I think when you look at

645
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Speaker 1: the receivers, John Brown's had a great season, but they

646
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Speaker 1: need a big guy on the other side. I mean

647
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Speaker 1: a j Green would be the perfect compliment to John

648
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Speaker 1: Brown on the other side. And I think that's what

649
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: they're missing in that offense. I think that's what Josh

650
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: Allen's missing. And then it took him a while to

651
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Speaker 1: get singletary going, and now you're seeing more and more

652
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: and now you put the ball in the ground. You

653
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: can't do that. But he's looking like he's become the

654
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Speaker 1: guy that they expect him to become. So yeah, I

655
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Speaker 1: like what I've seen from that team. And by the way,

656
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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win this week. I'm in the

657
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: minority on that one too. I think the Patriots offense

658
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: is struggling. I think the Bill's defense is playing outstanding football.

659
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Speaker 1: I'm a little concerned with back to back, you know,

660
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: road games, that's always tough, but I think they can win. YEA,

661
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Speaker 1: what do you think the problem is with the Patriot offense,

662
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: what do you see? It's speed. It's a lack of speed.

663
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: They don't scare anybody down the field. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: that's first and foremost. And in the past when you

665
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Speaker 1: had the lack of speed, because really they only had

666
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Speaker 1: a great outside playmaker in recent times with Randy Moss,

667
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: and that was a whole different offense and a whole

668
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: different dimension that they haven't had. But when they had Gronk,

669
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: they could compensate for that. If you had Edelman and Gronk,

670
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: you couldn't double both of them, and you were able

671
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: to compensate for your lack of speed without Gronk. Now

672
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: you have Edelman, everybody doubles them and nobody's winning outside.

673
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Speaker 1: So for me, it's it's easy to see it's a

674
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Speaker 1: definite lack of speed. With Pete Priscoe from CBS Sports,

675
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Speaker 1: NFL writer from CBS Sports, back to the Bills for

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Speaker 1: a second. When we've been asking our listeners today, Pete

677
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: this question, So Bills at Patriots, what's the reason to

678
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: root for? The biggest reason to root for a Bills win?

679
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: And one of the options is it would represent the

680
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: changing of the guard in the AFC East Patriots have

681
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: won the division ten straight years. Do you see that happening.

682
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Speaker 1: Do you see that happening if the Bills should win Saturday,

683
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Speaker 1: or do you see that in the future the Bills,

684
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Speaker 1: Mike replaced the Patriots as the team to beat in

685
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Speaker 1: this division. Well, I predicted they would win the division

686
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Speaker 1: next year. That was my prediction before the season. I said,

687
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Speaker 1: they get to the postseason this year and win the

688
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: division next year. And I still think that's going to happen. Yeah,

689
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Speaker 1: I absolutely think that's that's in the process. That's happening,

690
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: And you gotta give them the credit for a way

691
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: to built that team. You know, there's still a couple

692
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: of spots. The offensive line of times has been leaky.

693
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: They've been leaky against the run. They need to get,

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00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: you know, bigger I think bigger people up front to help,

695
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: you know, choke off the run a little bit. But

696
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: you gotta like what you're seeing. Edmonds is growing and

697
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: he's athletic kid. Milana is one of the most underrated

698
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: players in the NFL. He doesn't get too he deserves.

699
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: Those two stafeties are smart and athletic, and they cover

700
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: a lot of ground and we know, White's outstanding. You know,

701
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: Wallace to me, the guy he had his moments where

702
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: he looked really good in the early part of the season,

703
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: kind of tailed the middle and and but he's still

704
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: got capable ability to become a top corner as well.

705
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Speaker 1: So I love what they've done. They still have some problems,

706
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: but it's switching, it's it's it's just changing in the guard.

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Speaker 1: They will be the best team in the division next year.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that? How it? Say, for instance, if this,

709
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Speaker 1: if tom Brady does hang it how big of a

710
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Speaker 1: dropoff do you expect? Murph and I have been debating

711
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: this for quite a while now. We had a little

712
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Speaker 1: discussion on a minute ago. Say, for instance, if Tom

713
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Speaker 1: Brady does hang it up or ends up on another team,

714
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Speaker 1: which I don't think will happen, but how big a

715
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Speaker 1: drop off do you expect from the forty two year

716
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: old Tom Brady too? Whoever it may be that they

717
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: plug in next What if it's Jared Stidham and they

718
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: do like him, It's going to be a drop off.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it's going to be a drop off. And

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Speaker 1: again he's not Tom Brady of old. But in one game,

721
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: two games, three games, it's possible he can be, and

722
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: that's the thing that you have in your back pocket.

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Speaker 1: If he's not there, then I think there's a significant

724
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Speaker 1: drop off because he even as bad at times as

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Speaker 1: he's played this year, he still compensates for some of

726
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: the problems. The offensive line hasn't been great, and we

727
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: know Dante Scarnecki is the best line coach in football.

728
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: He'll get that group together by playoff time. But he compensate.

729
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: They haven't run the ball very well. A lot of

730
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: the stuff they do was off play actions. They need

731
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: to run the ball more. We saw a little hint

732
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Speaker 1: of that with Sony Michelle last week. Remember in the

733
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: playoffs last year, they ran the football. So yeah, there

734
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Speaker 1: would be a big drop off. And then you look

735
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: at the other two teams in the division. Miami's building something,

736
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Speaker 1: and believe me, I'd love to have all those draft

737
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: picks and all that money because a couple of years

738
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: are going to be very good football team. And then

739
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: the Jets, who knows. I mean, it's all about what

740
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: they do around Sam Darnold. So if you ask me

741
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: right now who will win the division next year, I'd

742
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: say the Buffalo Bills. Pete this year and again division

743
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: title aside for a second Bills are in the playoffs,

744
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 1: can they should we look for a deep run, a

745
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: couple of wins, just one, or just be happy to

746
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Speaker 1: make it. What do you think about the Bills playoff prospects? Well,

747
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tough road, it really is. I mean,

748
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Speaker 1: they'll probably have to win at what used to You know,

749
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Speaker 1: that's not impossible. They can win that game. You know,

750
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta control the ball. And you saw

751
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,399
Speaker 1: Drew Loco in there and light them up a couple

752
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. So that's a winnable game. And then

753
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,439
Speaker 1: you win that, you're gonna have to play what the Ravens, Yeah,

754
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: you know that, I mean, or or you might have

755
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 1: to play the Patriots or the Chiefs, And yeah, those

756
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:58,919
Speaker 1: teams are all beat a ball. I don't think there's

757
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: anybody that you can look at. You go look look

758
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: how they played through Ravens toe to toe when they

759
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: played them up there. They were they were one of

760
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: the defenses that actually did a really good job on

761
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. You had the one bust on her sixty

762
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: yard touchdown. Other than that, they didn't do anything that day.

763
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: So yeah, they can play with anybody because of that defense. Pete,

764
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Speaker 1: you've got your power rankings. You've got the Buffalo Bills

765
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: at ninth. What talk a little bit about the top

766
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: three or four teams. There's some teams and you look

767
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 1: at the NFC, they've got a bunch of guys sitting

768
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: at eleven and three. I mean, it's a power conference

769
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: over there. They got a it's a horse race. Let

770
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: alone the conference, Let alone for the AFC or the

771
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: NFC West. And there's some really good football teams on

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Speaker 1: that side of the bracket. What do you see happening

773
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: in the playoffs? And your power ranking is overall across

774
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: the league? Yeah, And you know it's interesting because you

775
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: saw San Francisco go in and beat New Orleans and

776
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: they both put up a bunch of points, and that's

777
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: a red flag for the same defense. Because the forty

778
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: nineers offense is that good. It's a red flag for

779
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers offense. So then you see them

780
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: come home and they lose to the Falcons. Those are

781
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: major issues for me. And then you know when the

782
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: Saints give up that many points to the forty nine Ers,

783
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: they gave up a boatload of points to the Panthers

784
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: and should have lost that game. So those are issues

785
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: as well. And then they bounce back and they limit

786
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: you know, Jacobe Rissette last night, so that's a good

787
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: turnaround for them, even though they're banged up on defense.

788
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: And then you got the Packers. I don't think we've

789
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: seen the best of the Packers yet, I really don't.

790
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: I don't think that offense is played to the expectations

791
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: and it's still got eleven wins. They got a big

792
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: game this week, but really isn't a big game because

793
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: if they even if they lose to the Vikings this

794
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,760
Speaker 1: week and beat the Lines next week, there's a division

795
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: chant so I don't know how big it is for seeding,

796
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: and you'd like to win the game and lock it up.

797
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: But they still got outfits. They do lose a game.

798
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: It's a tough conference. And it's funny because a week

799
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: ago Frisco was number one, cruising to the home field

800
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: advantage after beating the Saints. Then they lose another in

801
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 1: the five seed in Seattle's number one, right, yeah, And

802
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: that's the thing. It's a little bit like the AFC

803
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: as well. The six wild cards got a two game

804
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: lead and or built Buffalo with the fifth The fifth

805
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: seed has a two game lead on the fifth seed

806
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: in the tournament. So there's it seems to be a

807
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: gap between the teams that are just in the hunt

808
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 1: and the teams that are actually um sitting have already

809
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: clinched and in the NFC that you know, everybody, okay, Well,

810
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: whoever wins the East is gonna be a terrible team.

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Speaker 1: That no, they're not, because you're gonna have to go

812
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: there and you go to Philly and in the playoffs,

813
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,479
Speaker 1: you go to Dallas in the playoffs. Those are gonna

814
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: be tough games. So I think it's wide open, I

815
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: really do. I don't think there's a clear cut great

816
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: team in this league this year, and I think that's

817
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 1: a good thing. Pete, thanks for your time today, Thanks

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00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 1: for your observations. Hope we talk again soon. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: it absolutely absolutely, guys, take care of thanks, Pete. Pete Priscos,

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Speaker 1: CBS Sports Senior NFL rider, the host of the Pick

821
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Speaker 1: six podcasts. He's covered the league for over three decades.

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Speaker 1: We always seem to for some reason that the combine

823
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: you were there last year, they always put his group

824
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: CBS Sports right next to right next to us. Yeah,

825
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: so we feel like it's for Pete Prisco next to

826
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: find yourself listening to their show as we do. We're

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Speaker 1: doing a breaks and they're there in the middle of

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Speaker 1: a segment. We're sitting there watching them, you know, eating

829
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: a sandwich or whatever it is. Yeah. Yeah, they were

830
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Speaker 1: right next to us the whole week. Yeah, he says,

831
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Speaker 1: the Bills win the division next year, not this. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, we'll get picky about that. We'll see. We're

833
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Speaker 1: in we'll see. Yeah, we got a break, We're coming back.

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Speaker 1: We'd love to hear from you. Give us a call

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Speaker 1: eight three fifty to three one eight eight eight by

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. What do you see is the

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Speaker 1: biggest reason you should root for a Bills win? Saturday

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Speaker 1: in Foxborough. Let's hear from you. One Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 1: Orchard Park, Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing comes close. He's

841
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Speaker 1: been talking to Pete Crisco. I saw him at a

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Speaker 1: Bills game this year, Roady. I can't remember which one

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00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: it was. Yeah, you were trying to figure that out, remember,

844
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Speaker 1: and it's sting's getting old. Let me know how it

845
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Speaker 1: goes when you're you got ahead of me a year

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Speaker 1: or two. I'm the leader in the House in terms

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Speaker 1: of age. Hey, we're talking about the Bills winning in

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Speaker 1: Foxboro and wanting to know from you what would be

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Speaker 1: the best part of that if they should get a victory.

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Speaker 1: That is our Twitter poll. It's a good one, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you right now, it's a good

852
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: Twitter poll because you know what, there's no wrong answer.

853
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Speaker 1: That might be the you know how we always see

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Speaker 1: keep them simple quarterback questions. We're talking about what makes

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Speaker 1: a successful Twitter poll. I think the ones where there's

856
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Speaker 1: no wrong answer are good ones too. And that's what

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Speaker 1: this a wrong answer, it's a pole. What's the biggest

858
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Speaker 1: reason for a Bills win in Foxborough? What do you think?

859
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Speaker 1: A thousand votes in already in less than an hour

860
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Speaker 1: on Twitter, Fifty one percent of you say it would

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Speaker 1: be a sign of a changing in the guard in

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Speaker 1: the AFC East. It would be Pete Prisco says it's

863
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Speaker 1: gonna happen next year. Thirty two percent of you say

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Speaker 1: it would keep the Bills divisional title hopes alive as

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Speaker 1: long as they are. That's where I'm voting. I think

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Speaker 1: that's something to play for. Fourteen percent of you say

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Speaker 1: it's the last chance, could be anyway, the last chance

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Speaker 1: to beat Tom Brady at age forty two. Maybe he

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Speaker 1: doesn't return to play, Maybe he doesn't um play for

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Speaker 1: the play for the Patriots. Maybe the Bills beat him

871
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Speaker 1: so badly that he doesn't, he decides not to come

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Speaker 1: back next year. What about that? That would be great

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Speaker 1: if the Bills punish him physically and he said that

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Speaker 1: that's enough. Would that be cool? That could happen? That

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00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,359
Speaker 1: would be cool. Four percent if something else will live

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Speaker 1: out you live out there in that nether world and

877
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Speaker 1: thinking that that's not gonna happen. That is not gonna happen. Okay,

878
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Speaker 1: they're a top ten SAC team. They could put heat

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Speaker 1: on the passer. What do you think? Give us a

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Speaker 1: call or maybe you want to go on the tweet cheat.

881
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Speaker 1: Let's give you the tweet sheet, brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: What he got there in the tweet cheeks heat? All right,

884
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Speaker 1: biggest reason for a win over the Patriots in Foxborough

885
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Speaker 1: from Bills and Mets fan, a smug Patriot fan in work,

886
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Speaker 1: admitted to me today that he's worried about Saturday. He

887
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Speaker 1: sees what we're all seeing, the inevitable end of the

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Speaker 1: Patriots dynasty. Everything comes to an end. The future is here,

889
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Speaker 1: and it's in Josh's strong right arm and our outstanding defense.

890
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Speaker 1: Like that, it's a little bit of it makes me

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Speaker 1: cheer up a little bit. There's a little bit of

892
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Speaker 1: conjurens in that that I'm not sharing confidence about what

893
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Speaker 1: that all that New England is gonna self implode or

894
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 1: whatever it is, and the and the Bills are going

895
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Speaker 1: to roll in there and just you know whatever. Also

896
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Speaker 1: from Brian, at the beginning of the season, I had

897
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Speaker 1: one had three criteria for this being my ideal season.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Number one, make the playoffs. Check number two.

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Speaker 1: Contend for the division title. Check number three. Beat the

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Speaker 1: Patriots at least once. Question mark. I don't care if

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Speaker 1: it's this Saturday or in the playoffs, but I want

902
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Speaker 1: to beat them this year. Bad. I would be bad lead,

903
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Speaker 1: But yeh bad. What a great season that must be

904
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Speaker 1: for Brian to get those At least two of those

905
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Speaker 1: three checked off already, w still two games left to play,

906
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Speaker 1: it would be a fairly successful season. Yeah, if you,

907
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: But I still think you're right. You still want to

908
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Speaker 1: beat that team. Um. I think that at this point

909
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: in history has become the for some Bills fans, the

910
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: holy grail. You know, they want to see it happen.

911
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: They want to on a level not in week seventeen

912
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 1: when Tom Brady's sitting down, you know, drinking gatorade, but

913
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Speaker 1: when they need the game and we need the game

914
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Speaker 1: and go into their building and beat them. That's that's

915
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Speaker 1: pretty much a that's a unicorn. And over the last

916
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Speaker 1: two decades, nobody's been a guard. Nobody's been able to

917
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Speaker 1: do it. Changing into the guard. It could happen. From

918
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Speaker 1: Max tweets this in the biggest reason for a win

919
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,760
Speaker 1: over the Patriots Saturday, Max tweets in other just beating

920
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: New England, no matter the circumstance. It's great to beat

921
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: New England and it's been a little while. Let's just

922
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: go in and beat them and the other three options

923
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: take care of themselves. Plus beating a true contender would

924
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: give us a lot of confidence going into January. I'm

925
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: a little confused, Max about a true contender, aren't the

926
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Speaker 1: Bills a true contender? Are they a false contender? They

927
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: got ten wins with two games to play. Why are

928
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Speaker 1: the Patriots with one more win a true contender? Their history?

929
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Speaker 1: I don't think that history means anything. Did you know

930
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? I know exactly what you're saying. Why

931
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: are they a true contender in the Bills aren't contender

932
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: for what championship? Well, the Bills are going to be

933
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Speaker 1: in the tournament, a couple of wins away from a

934
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: super Bowl, right, I think they're a true contender. I'm

935
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Speaker 1: not saying they're a favorite. I'm not saying I would

936
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Speaker 1: bet on him or pick them, but a true contender.

937
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 1: The Bills are a true contender. What do you mean

938
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Speaker 1: beating a true contender? Sorry, I don't mean to jump

939
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Speaker 1: on you. Well, he's not saying that we're not. He's

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Speaker 1: saying you need to beat one and he didn't. Just

941
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Speaker 1: that's that's what I was gonna say. You must not

942
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 1: consider the Steelers a true contender. Although the Steelers tournament,

943
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: if they yeah, and they would have been the five seed,

944
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: we would have been reverse places with him. Had the

945
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: game gone the other way, the Bills would still be

946
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Speaker 1: sitting in the in the top spot or in the

947
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Speaker 1: sixth seed, and the Steelers would be the fifth seed.

948
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Speaker 1: That's the only difference. So yeah, if you're in the tournament,

949
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Speaker 1: you are a contender. But I get it. This next

950
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Speaker 1: the tweet is good. You want to read it from

951
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: the Big Bills. Okay, here we go to me. It's

952
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: very important for the Bills. You get to win over

953
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 1: New England as a sort of passing the torch before

954
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: the New England dynasty is over, rather than the Bills

955
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: getting the torch just because they're the next man up.

956
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: I get that. Yeah, you want to beat him while

957
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: Tom is still there instead of having him leave and

958
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, now it's just now it's

959
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: a coin flip every time. They don't have that dynasty

960
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 1: going because Tom Brady's gone. Yeah, I geeah, I get better,

961
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: I said as a strong sentiment. Let's face it, we

962
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 1: got a lot of AFC East, not just the Bills fans,

963
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: but also Jet fans in Miami fans. They got a

964
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: lot of scar tissue built up around the conflict with

965
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: the Patriots. There's a lot of that and for good reason.

966
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: I mean, the team is common. They've been dominant for

967
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: a better part of two decades. So it's yeah, there's

968
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 1: that runs deep. I think for a lot of people.

969
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: See one call here before we hit the break, we're

970
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: going to Cheetawaga. Who am I talking with in Cheetwaga?

971
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: Who is this? Frank Rank? You're on the air? Go ahead, Frank,

972
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: how are you doing good? I just think I'd go

973
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 1: a long way for this team to go into New England,

974
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 1: beat them, get the monkey off their back. No one

975
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: more than likely if they do this, they're gonna meet

976
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 1: them in the playoffs again in New England. You have

977
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: a little confidence to the team, which they really don't need.

978
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,439
Speaker 1: But it's just like, get the monkey off your back.

979
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: They haven't beaten New England and Brady in New England.

980
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 1: And how many years it's gonna would be, say five years,

981
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 1: six years, twenty twelve, fourteen. I don't have it in

982
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 1: front of me, but I'll get it. The thing of

983
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,919
Speaker 1: it is, uh, they beat New England, but Brady wasn't

984
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,320
Speaker 1: there in that one particular game. No one gave me

985
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 1: played the first half two years ago. Yeah, you did

986
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: play in the first half in that one game. I

987
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 1: get you, Frank, all right? Thank you want to you Yeah,

988
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:26,399
Speaker 1: like I said a minute ago, you want to beat

989
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 1: New England when they need the game too. You want

990
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: to beat New England in New England when the game

991
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: is important to them too, when it means something to

992
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: them and their chances as well. And I think this

993
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 1: game sort of qualifies for that. They still have the

994
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: lead in the division even if they win this game,

995
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: So I don't know that there's that much at stake

996
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: for New England. The division will will be tied, but

997
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: they've got the tiebreaker right, so they'll still they'll still

998
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: win the division even if the Bills win, even if

999
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: both teams went out. But the next you know, the

1000
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: next week, the next week, if you're if you've got

1001
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: that that what do you call conspiracy theorist mentality, You'll

1002
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: say the Patriots could come in throw this game knowing

1003
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: that they can beat the Dolphins next week and show

1004
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 1: the Bills things that will help the Patriots if they

1005
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 1: do get a rematch in New England at the second

1006
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: time around, when it's really important in the playoffs. Do

1007
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: you believe that now you're gonna try and win this,

1008
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: Bill Man, Kyle Brant, stay, anybody to join us next

1009
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: from the NFL Network, host of Good Morning Football. We'll

1010
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: talk with Kyle about all of these issues. We want

1011
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: to hear more from you as well, so come on back.

1012
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: One Goes Live presented by KLATA Health from the Seneca

1013
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:47,760
Speaker 1: Studio in Archard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Bills

1014
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: Radio Network Sports. It comes from One Goes Live. Or

1015
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: The Bills had a short practice today as they get

1016
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: set for a Saturday game, a matchup with the New

1017
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:59,479
Speaker 1: England Patriots. There is something on the line. The Bills

1018
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: with an out side remote chance of an AFC East

1019
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 1: Division title. They need to win a couple and the

1020
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 1: Patriots need to lose the couple. Obviously, on the Bill's

1021
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: injury front, head coach Sean McDermott had little to say

1022
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 1: yesterday about the status of offensive lineman Tyan Seki, who's

1023
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: missed the last four games. He will talk to the

1024
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: meeting in tomorrow, maybe have an update on the injuries.

1025
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Speaker 1: John Hussey has been assigned as the referee for Saturday's

1026
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: game between the Patriots and the Bills. Kick out four

1027
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 1: thirty Saturday afternoon in Foxborough. Tonight eight pm, the Pro

1028
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: Bowl rosters will be announced. It'll be an NFL Network

1029
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl special NFL Total Access Pro Bowl players revealed

1030
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: eight PM tonight. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was the leader

1031
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: among the fan votes for the Pro Bowl. The Pro

1032
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 1: Bowl coming up obviously in January. Bills have a good

1033
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 1: chance to get Tredavious White into his first Pro Bowl.

1034
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: We'll find out tonight at eight o'clock. Drew Brees made

1035
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,760
Speaker 1: NFL history last night. He broke Peyton Manning's career touchdown

1036
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Speaker 1: record with a five yard touchdown pass the tight end

1037
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Speaker 1: Josh Hill. Midway through the third quarter. He had five

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Speaker 1: hundred forty and then he also made NFL history by

1039
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: registering a ninety six point seven completion percentage in the

1040
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: saints thirty four to seven win over the Indianapolis Colts.

1041
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: A huge night for Drew Brees last night. In the

1042
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: game in their win over the Colts, Rams quarterback Jared

1043
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 1: Goff suffered a thumb bruise on his right throwing hand

1044
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: in the second quarter of this past Sunday. His status

1045
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: is unknown. Mcvea Sean mcvays, coach, said he's getting better,

1046
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: but they're not sure about his availability this weekend. The

1047
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 1: Chiefs Monday yesterday claimed Terrell Suggs off waivers. He is

1048
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: expected to report to the AFC West Division champions. His

1049
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: status about as far as reporting, had come into question

1050
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: after he was cut by the Arizona Cardinals last week.

1051
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: Seahawks wide receiver Josh Gordon has been suspended indefinitely for

1052
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: violating NFL policies on performance and nancing drugs. And the

1053
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Speaker 1: Savers in action tonight in Toronto seven o'clock face off

1054
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Speaker 1: in Toronto against the Leafs, and there you go. The

1055
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Speaker 1: update from our Seneca studio and Archerd Park. John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and our favorite guests. One of our favorite

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Speaker 1: guests all week long, joins us right now. He is

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Speaker 1: the co host of Good Morning Football on NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: Happy happen with us with us here right now, Kyle

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Speaker 1: Brant joined us. Hello Kyle, welcome to the show. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for coming on. How you doing today? I was a

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Speaker 1: pleasure of Murk Steve. I'm excited, especially this week because

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Speaker 1: it feels like it's Prom week for the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get all dressed up, fancy limo. Everybody's watching

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Speaker 1: It's prom night. You could go one of two ways

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. Do you remember your senior prom? Tell us

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Speaker 1: about it please, I do remember. It was very nice affair.

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Speaker 1: M my my rented tuxedo shoes were a little tight,

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Speaker 1: but I got it through, you know, I got Did

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Speaker 1: you go with Sarah? Did you know Sarah? I did not? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I want more questions. I want to ask more questions.

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Speaker 1: I picture you in the powder blue ruffle, the cumberbund,

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Speaker 1: Steve and matching the both high and everything is probably killer.

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Speaker 1: That's the Bills this weekend. That's it. I'm ready. What

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Speaker 1: was last Sunday? Wasn't at the prom too? The Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night football nationally televised win over the Steelers? Yeah? It was,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was good, it was great. This is

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Speaker 1: not the same day, though. The Steelers are the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: and they I had a duck caller as their quarterback.

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Speaker 1: This we're going from ducks to goats in terms of

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks that they're playing, big, big jump up in

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Speaker 1: this one. I feel like it's a huge leap and

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Speaker 1: weight class. Now. I gotta tell you, you're right. It's

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Speaker 1: a different kind of week for the Buffalo Bills, a

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Speaker 1: different kind of week for me. I don't have any

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Speaker 1: kind of analogy I can offer you for about what

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Speaker 1: the Bills are sitting here, because I don't know, it's

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Speaker 1: been so long since the Bills have clinched to playoff

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Speaker 1: birth this early. I don't know what to do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you actually it's cool, but it's

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Speaker 1: also I think in times like this, as you look

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Speaker 1: in the past, it's been a long time since they

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Speaker 1: have clinched this year early, Steve, But I would also

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Speaker 1: look at this, and this is where I'm standing kind

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Speaker 1: of institutionally on this week right now with the Bills.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get too excited about where they're going

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Speaker 1: or what they're doing in the playoffs. Because they're going

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs. I'm not going to get too excited

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Speaker 1: unless they take care of this Patriots thing. And by

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Speaker 1: this Patriots thing, I mean, you guys know this. This

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Speaker 1: goes back to twenty eleven. I'm talking about beating Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady in a four quarter game in which he has

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Speaker 1: everything to play for the last time it happened, it

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Speaker 1: was Ryan Fitzpatrick to Steve Johnson. Let's timestamp, But just

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Speaker 1: for perspective, I'll go even further. The last time that happened, guys,

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Speaker 1: forget about Fitzpatrick and Stevie Johnson. Steve Tasker was working

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Speaker 1: a Broncos Titans game for CBS. That was Kyle Orton

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Speaker 1: versus Matt Hasselback. That's how long ago it was. And

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Speaker 1: I'll do you one better, Murph, you were the sports

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Speaker 1: director at the CBS to fill it. Just writing your

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Speaker 1: producer Jay Harris, that's the last time that happened. It's

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Speaker 1: been a while, So I can't get to excite unless

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Speaker 1: they knock these guys off. Yeah, you're right. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's we were all in a different place back then,

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Speaker 1: no question about it. I remember as well, though. The

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Speaker 1: interceptions that Tom Brady threw we just saw we're watching

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Speaker 1: them there on MSG. You know, a couple of tipped passes.

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Speaker 1: You know, there were all kinds of things that went

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Speaker 1: wrong in that game. The bill still only you know,

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Speaker 1: they squeak out a three point victory at home. You

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Speaker 1: just don't do that to Tom Brady every that much.

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Speaker 1: And going into Foxborough, the Patriots just don't lose in

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Speaker 1: that building. It doesn't seem like just almost to anybody

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Speaker 1: except maybe the occasional Chiefs team. Yeah, and so it

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Speaker 1: kind of is this thing Steve with It's like if

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Speaker 1: not now, when when? If you're not gonna beat Brady

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Speaker 1: there now, then I don't know if it's going to

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Speaker 1: happen until retire. Let's think about it. He's coming off

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Speaker 1: a loss at home to a young, upstart Chiefs team.

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Speaker 1: He apparently is bothered by this elbow. He has no

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Speaker 1: one to throw to, even good old faithful Julian Edelman,

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Speaker 1: I think had two catches last week for almost nothing.

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Speaker 1: There has never ever been more blood in the water

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Speaker 1: with this new England dynasty and they're facing it. Bill's

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Speaker 1: team that's on fire. So it's like, here's the danger

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Speaker 1: of it. The Bills should compete in this game. They

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Speaker 1: should win this game. They're a better team right now.

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Speaker 1: But if you lose this game, it's a huge punch

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Speaker 1: in the stomach for Buffalo, I think, because it's just like,

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Speaker 1: what do we gotta do. It's never gonna be set

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Speaker 1: up better than this to win there, and we still

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Speaker 1: can't do it. I think there's pressure there with Kyle

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Speaker 1: Brandy has hosted Good Morning Football on NFL Network seven

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Speaker 1: am weekdays. Kyle, let me get you involved in our

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll. I think it's a great I came up

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Speaker 1: with it today. It's a it's a really good smiling nod, Kyle,

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Speaker 1: you got here. It is And it's about this weekend's game,

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Speaker 1: about Saturday's game. And what's the biggest reason, the best

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Speaker 1: reason for Bills fans to root for a victory in Foxborough?

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Speaker 1: What's the biggest reason the Bills should be interested in

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Speaker 1: victory in Foxborough? Is it a it keeps their AFC

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Speaker 1: East Division chances alive? They need this to do that.

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Speaker 1: Is it be a sign of a changing of the

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Speaker 1: guard in the division, or is it c maybe the

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Speaker 1: last chance to beat Tom Brady. Can you pick one

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Speaker 1: of those or do you like all of them? Well,

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Speaker 1: if I'm gonna pick the juiciest one, Steve, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna Steve John, I'm gonna pick be I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: pick the changing of the guard. Now that's a loaded

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Speaker 1: sound bite right there. We've heard that sound bite many

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Speaker 1: times with many Bills coaches, with many Bills quarterbacks. And yet, look,

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Speaker 1: this season does feel special, Steve. You said it yourself.

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Speaker 1: It's almost the surreal state of mind you're in right

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Speaker 1: now that you've clinched this early and I want the

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Speaker 1: change in the Guards. Guys. I have to talk about

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Speaker 1: football every morning like you do, and I'm so tired

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Speaker 1: of eating the same sandwich every day with the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: I would love nothing more than the Bills when the

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Speaker 1: AFC East, and even more so. I mean, look, I

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Speaker 1: know you guys talked about it a lot, but Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen getting off the plane at two thirty in the

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Speaker 1: morning or whatever it is, to the tarmac and there's

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Speaker 1: thousands of people there, not for a playoff win, just

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Speaker 1: for clinching a wild card game that they didn't even

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Speaker 1: win at home. So the idea that he could show

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Speaker 1: up if they ever had a home playoff game, I

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Speaker 1: can't even imagine the atmosphere. And I gotta say this

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Speaker 1: about Josh Allen. I think the hidden blessing in this video.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love that he's not wearing a coat. It'll jacket,

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Speaker 1: no parka, no hat, nothing. He's sitting in it. That's

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Speaker 1: a Bills quarterback right there. That's a go pokes Wyoming guy.

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Speaker 1: It's so so much toughness. It's like the guys who

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Speaker 1: come out for warmups with no sleeves on. He comes

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Speaker 1: off the plane with no code on. And I just

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Speaker 1: this gets me so excited, the idea of a home

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Speaker 1: playoff game in Western New York. I have to have

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Speaker 1: it just for the pure spectacle. Yeah, and I agree.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about it about this game last last Sunday

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Speaker 1: night in Pittsburgh. Certainly had two former college teammates going

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Speaker 1: against Mike Tomlin and Sean McDermott. There was that Larry

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Speaker 1: had the Edmunds brothers who were on the field together.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, you had the Buffalo Bills going

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Speaker 1: in and really winning a really hard fought game exactly

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Speaker 1: the way so many people thought it was gonna us

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Speaker 1: included I was going to be a low scoring, defensive battle.

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Speaker 1: The Bills come out on top. They turned the Renegade

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Speaker 1: song into their own personal anthem in practice all weekend.

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Speaker 1: It comes through and the answer right after the anthem

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Speaker 1: with a forty yard bomb to John Brown. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it really went well. Does it tell you anything more

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Speaker 1: that we didn't know about the Bills? Does it set

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Speaker 1: them up for some more success? Does it? You know,

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Speaker 1: what's it due to the Bills persona around the country.

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Speaker 1: Does anything change or does everything change? No, Steve, it

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Speaker 1: was awesome. I mean it really was because you know,

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Speaker 1: we've talked about this all the year. The Bills haven't

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Speaker 1: beating anybody here that and then even after they beat

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Speaker 1: up the Cowboys on Thanksgiving, well, the Cowboys aren't good. Listen.

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Speaker 1: That was Hines Field as Mike Tomlin. That's one of

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Speaker 1: the best defenses in the league. And that place was rocking.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it looked like one of these European soccer stadiums.

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Speaker 1: It was raucous, and you have this young offense with

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Speaker 1: Buffalo facing that down making the big throws. It was

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Speaker 1: a big boy game. I mean, that was a grown

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Speaker 1: up Buffalo Bill's team, and we saw the maturation of

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen right in front of us. Not because he

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Speaker 1: was spectacular and through for four hundred yards, but it

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Speaker 1: was two young quarterbacks and one of them made all

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Speaker 1: the mistakes, you know, I mean devil and I just

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Speaker 1: throws four picks that could have been Josh Allen, and

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Speaker 1: it could have been mac offense, Patrick here and t J.

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Speaker 1: Walk here. It wasn't. The Bills let their defense win it,

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Speaker 1: and Josh Ellen made a couple of big throws and

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Speaker 1: didn't do anything a radic, didn't do anything crazy, which

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Speaker 1: as we know, I mean, look forward to this weekend.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be it. You go against the Patriots. We

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Speaker 1: saw it the first time around. Josh Allen came around

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Speaker 1: and he looked wild. Just thrown it all over the

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Speaker 1: second or interception here, interception here. This is a game

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Speaker 1: this weekend. You win it like the Pittsburgh game. And

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Speaker 1: I listen. If I had to pick the script for

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Speaker 1: Buffalo against New England, I'd have them win the game

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Speaker 1: sixteen to thirteen. It's just simple throw it away, house, scud.

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Speaker 1: You want to talk how big a house does in

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Speaker 1: this game? Man eleven of his last twelve kicks, he's

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Speaker 1: I think this game is gonna be one on his foot,

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Speaker 1: and I will be just singing the praises of Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen on a random third and six. If he just

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Speaker 1: chucks into the fiftieth row, that's how I gonna win this.

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Speaker 1: Steve made reference to it. Did you catch the You

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Speaker 1: know the Steelers have this sticks renegade song that's been there, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: good luck charm for years. I guess they waited until

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter a tie game ten to ten, and they

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Speaker 1: played at the place goes nuts. Did you see how

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Speaker 1: Bills players reacting on the side lens. It was great.

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Speaker 1: The Bills danced along with the Steelers fans. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean you, of all people, you hat Matt Barkley helicoptering jacket.

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Speaker 1: You got guys bob in their heads backup. Quarterbacks are

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Speaker 1: doing it. And here's what I like about that. Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermot runs a tight ship. It's almost like a very

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Speaker 1: college program. It's been a lot of discipline, but it's

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Speaker 1: okay to have a little nasty, to have some panache,

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Speaker 1: to have some showmanship. I love it, guys, especially in

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Speaker 1: the day that Sean McDermott was against his old teammate.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was one of the coolest moments. They

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Speaker 1: had to take it in that stadium. Sticks. I don't

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Speaker 1: even know if these players on the Bills know of

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Speaker 1: the band's sticks. That's the music you were listening to

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Speaker 1: much apparently got it and limps and I was killing

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Speaker 1: that song too. And I'll tell you this, Hey, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about some individuals. Turdavious White showed up in a

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Speaker 1: big way. You've got guys who really stepped up, and

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Speaker 1: also the young guy Devin Singletary offensively, he's obviously the

1264
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 1: lead guy for the Buffalo offense and the running game.

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00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 1: They're starting to use him a little more in the

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00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: pass game. The one thing about this Bill's team that

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00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 1: we've been able to observe, I mean, you've done it.

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00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: I mean you've been hanging in there with us through

1269
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: you know, all fifteen weeks. They're getting better and better

1270
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 1: and better. And you see some of the young players

1271
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 1: now contributing a little bit and then a little more

1272
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: more than a little more. And now all of a sudden,

1273
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 1: you've got, you know, a young guy like Devin Singletary

1274
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 1: who's the bell cow of the offense, and also Tradavious White,

1275
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 1: who has really spread his wings as a superstar. It's

1276
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 1: all over the maps, Steve Oliver and Edmunds and Singletary. Look,

1277
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: he looks good. And I know that he's missed some

1278
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: time this year, but that might be serving him well

1279
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 1: right now because he is running in week fifteen with

1280
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: like week five legs. He's joking guys, he's running over guys.

1281
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 1: He's got this thing where he's small, where he disappears

1282
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 1: for a second that he's out the gates. And this

1283
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: is the time of year where running games either they

1284
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: fall apart because everybody's gassed and we're seeing that around

1285
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 1: the league a little bit or all of a sudden,

1286
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: they're like, wow, where did this guy come from? You know?

1287
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: I point to last year the LA Rams when they're

1288
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 1: going on their run and Gurley was kind of getting

1289
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: gassed out. They start handing it to C. J. Anderson

1290
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, and the guy looks like Earl Campbell

1291
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: in a Rams helmet. This is the time when you

1292
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 1: see what kind of batteries left on your running game?

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00:59:57,280 --> 01:00:00,200
Speaker 1: And I think maybe Singletary being out, maybe he has

1294
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: helped him because he looks really fresh, really exciting, not

1295
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: only you know, the scatback stuff, but power. We're seeing

1296
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 1: stiff arms, he does everything that is the type of

1297
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: January type run. It gets me excited. The Bills should

1298
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: be excited about this game, and they have a lot

1299
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: to play for. We've established that Patriots have even more

1300
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 1: to play for, including avoiding to having to play in

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01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: the first round. Right, they still want to finish in

1302
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: the top two mark. They haven't played in a wild

1303
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 1: card weekend since two thousand and nine. Wow, it's just

1304
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 1: not what they do. It's built into their fabric that

1305
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 1: we get a week off, we get an extra bye

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01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 1: week and then most of the time we go to

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01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. It would be this crazy, freaky Friday

1308
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: reversal if all of a sudden, Tom Brady is playing

1309
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:46,440
Speaker 1: a Saturday playoff game and wild card weekend. And yet

1310
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 1: here's the thing with them. They have so much equity

1311
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:51,960
Speaker 1: and you have so much respect over twenty years of winning.

1312
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: That's what's carrying them right now. It's not what you

1313
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: see on the field. It's not that they look that great.

1314
01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 1: The offense is nothing. I mean, it's really really bad.

1315
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 1: And let's not forget early in the season when the

1316
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:06,400
Speaker 1: Patriots were still cooking and they're still undefeated, and they

1317
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: had things going and Josh Gordon is still there. They

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01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,360
Speaker 1: still got wombed by both those defense. That's one of

1319
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 1: the worst games that Brady's played in his career was

1320
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 1: way back and whatever it was, late September, early October

1321
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 1: against this Buffalo defense. I don't think it's a coincidence

1322
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 1: that Josh McDaniels, their who coordinator, came out this week

1323
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: and has already said this is the best defense that

1324
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 1: we face all year, this Bill's defense. He knew they

1325
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 1: looked awful in this game. In the Sunshine, the brilliant

1326
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 1: Sunshine in Western New York. It looks like a different season.

1327
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:37,520
Speaker 1: So this is when they were playing well, that's why

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01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 1: I say it again. I have every confidence that the

1329
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:43,080
Speaker 1: Bill's defense is going to really shackle Tom Brady. It's

1330
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:45,480
Speaker 1: just a question of whether or not the Bill's offense

1331
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: is going to give this thing away. Just a couple

1332
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: of dumb players could lose this game from Buffalo if

1333
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:51,760
Speaker 1: they played smart. I think they're gonna win it. It

1334
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 1: is an NFL Network game Saturday at four thirty Kilo

1335
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 1: and your co host on Good Morning Football, Peter Schrager

1336
01:01:58,000 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 1: is going to be in the sidelines. He just has

1337
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 1: to come to you. He didn't have to go to

1338
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: a production meeting, right He has to come to you

1339
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 1: for his Bill's questions. I happen to know that Peter

1340
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 1: has a want list the people he wants to talk to,

1341
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 1: and at the top of that list is somebody you mentioned, Steve.

1342
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: He wants to talk to Trey White because he's always

1343
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 1: got something to say right now. And there's also like

1344
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:20,400
Speaker 1: there's a contest within a contest in this one about him.

1345
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 1: Who is the best cornerback in this game? Is it

1346
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: tradevious White? Is it Stefan Gilmore? Both of them had

1347
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: two picks last week, you know both of them obviously

1348
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:32,920
Speaker 1: a current Bill, a former Bill, and Trey White is

1349
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 1: this guy that listen, no dude, I'll due respect. If

1350
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: Trey White was on the Dallas Cowboys and a national

1351
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:40,919
Speaker 1: TV every single I think he'd be in chunky soup ads.

1352
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: I think he'd be on the Wheati's box. He is

1353
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:44,840
Speaker 1: that good of a player and that big of a personality.

1354
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:46,600
Speaker 1: He is the guy you're not going to get it

1355
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen or McDermott. They're all locked in. But

1356
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: he is the guy that if they beat New England,

1357
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,080
Speaker 1: the first guy I want to go to with Trey White,

1358
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:54,920
Speaker 1: he's he's gonna have something to say. Well, let's take

1359
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: a trip down what if lane just for a minute,

1360
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 1: all right, let's do it. What if you can get

1361
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 1: your mind? Because I've I've thought about it a little bit. Obviously,

1362
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:07,760
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen if the Bills waltz into Foxborough and

1363
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:11,440
Speaker 1: when let's say they beat win by ten, you know

1364
01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 1: that something something unthinkable happens they win by ten, thirty

1365
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 1: to twenty or twenty to ten. That is almost in

1366
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: the last month of the season. For a team, any

1367
01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 1: team to go in there and do that to the Patriots,

1368
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: but let alone a Buffalo Bills team, how is that

1369
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 1: going to change things? It's staggering. I mean right, that's

1370
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 1: not a Buffalo story. That's not an AFC story. That

1371
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:37,960
Speaker 1: is a coast to coast NFL story. Well, and you

1372
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:39,800
Speaker 1: know if the problem is with that, and this is

1373
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: I'm going to preempt this that happens this weekend Monday morning.

1374
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 1: The story has nothing to do with oh my gosh,

1375
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:47,920
Speaker 1: the Bills are so good Monday morning. The story is

1376
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,919
Speaker 1: the Patriots are dead. And it's true. They'll be they'll

1377
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 1: be eulogies and they'll start writing the epitaphs. But meanwhile,

1378
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:57,880
Speaker 1: maybe some of us will know, oh my gosh, Buffalo

1379
01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:01,320
Speaker 1: is really good. If they beat New England in Foxboro

1380
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:05,800
Speaker 1: in December, who can't they be? All right? They did

1381
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 1: a pretty good job, as we've talked about against Baltimore.

1382
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: I think there's progress to be made there. I think

1383
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 1: they can be Kansas City. Then then we're wide open.

1384
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:15,240
Speaker 1: But we're doing the thing that I hate doing, Steve.

1385
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 1: I don't like indulging the hypotheticals because they've been indulged

1386
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:22,040
Speaker 1: many too many times against New England again twenty eleven.

1387
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:26,560
Speaker 1: Long time ago, Steve, you were working Kyle Rton versus Hasselbeck. Steve,

1388
01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 1: We've got to take care of it. I can't do

1389
01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 1: any more hypotheticals. They drive me crazy. Yeah, I'm totally

1390
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:33,040
Speaker 1: with you. A couple more things. Let you go. Just

1391
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 1: the rest of the AFC playoff picture. Is there a

1392
01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: team the Bill should look to avoid now that they're

1393
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:42,680
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Is there somebody that they can't match

1394
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:44,480
Speaker 1: up with and they have no chance against. When you

1395
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: look at the AFC contenders so far, you know, the

1396
01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:50,840
Speaker 1: only teams that make me nervous when I when I

1397
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 1: think about Buffalo because their defense is so good they

1398
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 1: can play with anybody's offense. It would be the really

1399
01:04:56,400 --> 01:05:00,080
Speaker 1: good defenses, the ones the ballhawks, the ones that that

1400
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 1: are gonna jump at Josh Allen route are going to

1401
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 1: hit him, make them throw a bad pass, because I

1402
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:06,120
Speaker 1: think that's the weakness of Buffalo. And here's the thing.

1403
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: The two best teams that do that better than anybody

1404
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:11,920
Speaker 1: are Pittsburgh, who they just dealt with and who may

1405
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 1: not even get into the playoffs and then New England,

1406
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:16,480
Speaker 1: who they got to score to settle with in a

1407
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 1: few days. So you know, Murph, I look at Casey,

1408
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 1: I look at Baltimore. Of course they're good and maybe

1409
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:24,400
Speaker 1: a hell of a challenge, but I feel like Buffalo

1410
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 1: has the horses to run with them because that they

1411
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:29,560
Speaker 1: can match up against any good offense. It's the really

1412
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 1: good defenses that make me nervous with the Bills, And

1413
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:34,120
Speaker 1: if they win this weekend, they've beaten both of them

1414
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 1: twice in a row. Pro Bowl announcement tonight on NFL

1415
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 1: Network eight o'clock Bills fans should look for just Trdavious

1416
01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 1: White or is there any other reasonable expectations for Bills

1417
01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl? What do you think? How well? Listen.

1418
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 1: It's funny that they come out now because I think

1419
01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:54,760
Speaker 1: the Bills have a huge opportunity this weekend to become

1420
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:59,360
Speaker 1: a household names last week last year I saw because

1421
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 1: of an alternate or somebody dropped out. I saw Mitch

1422
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: Trabisky in a Pro Bowl last year, So I don't

1423
01:06:04,840 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 1: know the other thing that's gonna wash out, But certainly

1424
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:09,560
Speaker 1: Josh Allen has played this well as mister Trubisky did

1425
01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:12,600
Speaker 1: last year, and I wrote route for as many as possible.

1426
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: For sure, Tray White. Trey White is not a Pro

1427
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 1: Bowl guy. Tray White is an All Pro guy. And

1428
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 1: we'll see if anybody else joins them. I hope so,

1429
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 1: because if you get to this many wins, you gotta

1430
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:23,000
Speaker 1: have Pro bowlers. One last thing We've asked a couple

1431
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 1: of people. Listen, we've talked about it ourselves. Over on

1432
01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:28,040
Speaker 1: the other side of the league and the NFC, you

1433
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 1: got a bunch of horses over there. You got the

1434
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, the Seahawks, the ram you got some

1435
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 1: teams that are you know, the Saints, a bunch of

1436
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 1: eleven and three teams. That is a really tough tournament

1437
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:43,000
Speaker 1: to get into. Who do you how do you think

1438
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:44,560
Speaker 1: that's gonna shake out? Who do you think the last

1439
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 1: team in is gonna be? It's a royal rumble right now.

1440
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:51,160
Speaker 1: It's it's brutal, and the best thing about it is

1441
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 1: everybody that's coming Monday night is going to get a

1442
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:55,680
Speaker 1: real treat in the sense that they're gonna get Vikings

1443
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:59,280
Speaker 1: versus Packers, which is kind of a de facto playoff,

1444
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 1: playing really eleven and three versus ten and four, and

1445
01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:06,840
Speaker 1: then we still have you know, the the ugly Duckley

1446
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:09,840
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys versus the Eagles. Steve, if you're asking

1447
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:11,880
Speaker 1: me who I have to throw on one team right now,

1448
01:07:11,960 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: it's really hard because of this great royal rumble factor.

1449
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 1: But it's cost to pick against the Saints. It is

1450
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 1: just because I feel like, out of nowhere, this forty

1451
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: year old Drew Brees has found this arm strength and

1452
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 1: this juice. And I don't know if he's working on

1453
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 1: his core or pliability or those rubber resistance bands or

1454
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:32,760
Speaker 1: whatever the hell us forties something guys should do. He

1455
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:36,000
Speaker 1: looks great. The Dome is still the Dome. Last night

1456
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 1: they ran through the Colts team like they weren't even there.

1457
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 1: There's about four or five that could win the thing.

1458
01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:43,000
Speaker 1: I still think, though you could do a lot worse

1459
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:44,720
Speaker 1: than thrown in with the Saints. I'll take New Orleans,

1460
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 1: all right? All right, Kyle? So Saturday night is prom

1461
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: night for the Bills, right, I should get a limo

1462
01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:51,160
Speaker 1: and do all that. Get the Yeah. Now, hold on, Mark,

1463
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 1: we didn't hear about your senior problem. Give us something.

1464
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 1: There must be pictures on Google. That file has been sealed.

1465
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 1: Thanks for this, have a great weekend. We'll talk to

1466
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:06,400
Speaker 1: you next week. Kyle Brand hosted Good Morning Football on

1467
01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 1: NFL Network seven am weekdays. Thanks to Kyle for joining us.

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01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 1: That guy's funny. I'm sorry, he's just correct. He's great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah and he yea, his energy levels great. He did

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Speaker 1: a great angry runs segment today on Good Morning Football.

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Speaker 1: He always does that. Dawson Knox still on the leaderboard.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's um, it's a fun show and

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01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 1: it's you know, like we always say, it's part of

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Speaker 1: our daily routine is tournament on and having wrong. But

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01:08:29,160 --> 01:08:32,280
Speaker 1: he's right that that the tournament. You look at this

1476
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is in is the sixth seed and they haven't

1477
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:39,400
Speaker 1: clinched yet. Uh, they're behind Buffalo at ten and four.

1478
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:42,639
Speaker 1: That's a two game lead on the On the there's

1479
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 1: only one the only spot for one one more team,

1480
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:48,880
Speaker 1: you know, Houston in the South and Houston Texans have

1481
01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 1: not clinched yet over the Tennessee Titans. They both have

1482
01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:55,320
Speaker 1: a game against somebody this weekend and then they play

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01:08:55,400 --> 01:09:00,640
Speaker 1: each other again week seventeen for that spot. And I

1484
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 1: think the losers out the winner's in. I think and

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01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:05,080
Speaker 1: one thing about Kyle what he said, and I think

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01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:09,840
Speaker 1: he's right. A Buffalo victory Saturday in Foxborough, the story

1487
01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:12,200
Speaker 1: nationally and I don't care about this, but the story

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01:09:12,240 --> 01:09:15,160
Speaker 1: would be Patriots are dead. It wouldn't be Bills are alive,

1489
01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:18,880
Speaker 1: Bills taken over the you know, have a chance to

1490
01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:20,719
Speaker 1: take over the AFC East. It would be the Patriots

1491
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:22,439
Speaker 1: are dead, right. Yeah. The question, which is something to

1492
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:24,680
Speaker 1: look forward to as well. If they're a Bills fan,

1493
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:26,800
Speaker 1: by the way, right, questions would really would be around

1494
01:09:28,040 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 1: what are they gonna do? Well, how are they going

1495
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 1: to change things? What are the changes they're gonna happen

1496
01:09:32,320 --> 01:09:34,439
Speaker 1: in the offseason, what's gonna happen with Tom Brady? What's

1497
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:37,400
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick gonna do? Is it time for him to

1498
01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 1: make a change, Is it time for Robert Kraft to

1499
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 1: step in and make some fundamental changes? And you know

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01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:44,040
Speaker 1: all that stuff. They once you lose a game that

1501
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:45,679
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to lose or do it, and particularly

1502
01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 1: at this stage for the Patriots, they all of a

1503
01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 1: sudden people rush in to say, Okay, now they've got

1504
01:09:52,439 --> 01:09:55,720
Speaker 1: to do something completely different. I would venture to say

1505
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:57,880
Speaker 1: that even if the Bills do go in there and

1506
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 1: lump them up. They're gonna get up and go to

1507
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:03,160
Speaker 1: work the next week and get ready for the week

1508
01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 1: seventeen match against the Dolphins, and and they're gonna rumb

1509
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:08,320
Speaker 1: along like nothing's going on the better Again, they got

1510
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:10,559
Speaker 1: to protect that number two seating right if they want

1511
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 1: to miss. And that's the thing too. And I said

1512
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:15,479
Speaker 1: that the little tinfoil hat that I put on once

1513
01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:16,920
Speaker 1: in a while, where they may, you know, they may not,

1514
01:10:17,280 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 1: you know, do they may do some things differently in

1515
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:21,000
Speaker 1: this game, thinking they may play the Bills in the

1516
01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:25,160
Speaker 1: playoffs at some point, again knowing that full well they

1517
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: can maybe beat the Miami Dolphins in Foxborough when the

1518
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:31,559
Speaker 1: Dolphins come in there. Uh, they can't afford to drop

1519
01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 1: any games because they're in a They got one or

1520
01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:37,599
Speaker 1: half a game lead on the Chiefs. If the Chiefs

1521
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:41,160
Speaker 1: win and the Patriots lose, the Patriots don't get a

1522
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:45,320
Speaker 1: buy And I think, like, like Kyle Branch just told

1523
01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:47,160
Speaker 1: us that that's not part of their DNA. They need

1524
01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 1: a buye week late in the season. I'm told the

1525
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:51,320
Speaker 1: Patriots are favored by six six and a half points

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01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 1: on Saturday's game, and whoever wins the margin will probably

1527
01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:57,360
Speaker 1: be somewhere around that. Think it gonna be a one

1528
01:10:57,400 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 1: score game. I would think, all right, we got want

1529
01:10:59,240 --> 01:11:01,000
Speaker 1: to hear from you about Saturday's game and what's the

1530
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 1: best thing that could happen as a result of a

1531
01:11:03,479 --> 01:11:07,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo possible Buffalo victory in Foxborough. Send it a tweet.

1532
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:08,760
Speaker 1: We can read it on the tweet sheet. You can

1533
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:11,600
Speaker 1: vote on our Twitter poll at One Bills Live, or

1534
01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:13,360
Speaker 1: you can give us a call. Full line's open eight

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

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. We're coming back with more. One

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Speaker 1: for Milestones, presented by Reichs Jewelers, the official jeweler of

1540
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:48,519
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. With the win over the Steelers in

1541
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:50,920
Speaker 1: Week fifteen, the Bills clinched the playoff berth for the

1542
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:53,720
Speaker 1: second time in three years, and it's the earliest in

1543
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:56,639
Speaker 1: the season Buffalo has secured the playoff spot since nineteen

1544
01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:59,240
Speaker 1: ninety one, when the Bills clinched to the Vision title.

1545
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:04,160
Speaker 1: Week fourteen. I went against the Jets. There you go

1546
01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:06,519
Speaker 1: that's a milestone seat. There you go. You mentioned it.

1547
01:12:06,560 --> 01:12:10,880
Speaker 1: You're right. It's um uncharted waters for us and for

1548
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:13,640
Speaker 1: Bills fans to have a playoff of birth in your

1549
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:16,559
Speaker 1: back pocket. It's early, right, with two games left to play,

1550
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 1: it doesn't it's it's a great feeling. It just feels weird.

1551
01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:23,320
Speaker 1: It's really good, and it get puts the playoffs out there,

1552
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 1: except and it's kind of like we were sitting there,

1553
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:28,200
Speaker 1: like for the Sunday night game in Pittsburgh. It's like, man,

1554
01:12:28,240 --> 01:12:30,320
Speaker 1: it's taking forever. You get here, man, Yeah, Like we're

1555
01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:32,280
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. We were like, wow, let's play, man, it's

1556
01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 1: gonna can't wait, right, So you get there and again,

1557
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:36,760
Speaker 1: and then you got to get up on Sunday morning.

1558
01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:38,519
Speaker 1: You think, okay, it's not a one o'clock game. You

1559
01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:42,439
Speaker 1: gotta wait through like sixteen hours of football coverage to

1560
01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:44,759
Speaker 1: get to the game and then have that thing kickoff.

1561
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,559
Speaker 1: So that's kind of what now the playoffs are, except

1562
01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:51,360
Speaker 1: that you know, you know, we get a little respite

1563
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:53,479
Speaker 1: in between, right, you're kind ready for the playoffs, but

1564
01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:54,920
Speaker 1: we don't even know who we're playing yet, so it's

1565
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:56,679
Speaker 1: kind of hard to get your mind around it. You know. Yeah,

1566
01:12:57,240 --> 01:12:59,960
Speaker 1: there was a point Sunday night in the radio boot

1567
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:03,439
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, Hindesfield had to be about seven fifteen, seven thirty,

1568
01:13:03,520 --> 01:13:06,960
Speaker 1: so forty five minutes or an. Now I'm just standing

1569
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,200
Speaker 1: there and I'm basically I'm screaming, almost at the top

1570
01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:12,680
Speaker 1: of my lungs. Come on, come on, let's go. I'm

1571
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 1: ready for this game. That's the way I felt Sunday

1572
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:17,840
Speaker 1: night and all day Sunday, you know, waiting for the game.

1573
01:13:18,439 --> 01:13:20,880
Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glad it game when it did and

1574
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:24,439
Speaker 1: it turned out well. But they hate that. I hate

1575
01:13:24,479 --> 01:13:26,960
Speaker 1: waiting like that. Yeah, I mean it's it's hard in

1576
01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:28,560
Speaker 1: this game. This game will be a little bit like

1577
01:13:28,640 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: that four thirty on a Saturday, A little bit, yeah,

1578
01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:36,439
Speaker 1: you know. And listen, it's gonna be dark. Oh yeah, well,

1579
01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: Saturday's shortest day the year. Man. Yes, it's gonna get

1580
01:13:40,479 --> 01:13:44,800
Speaker 1: dark the winter solstice exactly. Yes, so you're gonna be

1581
01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 1: sitting there. I remember this too, my thoughts about playing

1582
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:50,479
Speaker 1: in New England when I was a player. You'd go

1583
01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:53,120
Speaker 1: in there game one o'clock on Sunday. You come out

1584
01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:57,720
Speaker 1: of the locker room after the game, it's six five

1585
01:13:57,920 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 1: thirty five. It's like five, it's like five. It's dark.

1586
01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 1: You never finished it. And the lights were on at

1587
01:14:03,479 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 1: the end of the game too. Remember, right, it was

1588
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:08,639
Speaker 1: all Sullivan Stadium. Oh my gosh, what an atrocity that place.

1589
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:10,680
Speaker 1: It was, Oh my god, it was horrible. It was

1590
01:14:11,479 --> 01:14:16,400
Speaker 1: It was a It was a block of granite painted green,

1591
01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:22,280
Speaker 1: and the stands were bleachers. It wasn't even it wasn't

1592
01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:25,120
Speaker 1: even an outdoor rock concert worthy. Right. You could just

1593
01:14:25,280 --> 01:14:28,960
Speaker 1: rather sit on a grassy knoll than that. Those stadiums.

1594
01:14:29,280 --> 01:14:32,720
Speaker 1: Oh my guy, it was horrible. And the concourses were

1595
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:35,519
Speaker 1: Oh I think you were there. Do you remember this?

1596
01:14:35,640 --> 01:14:37,840
Speaker 1: I always think about this trip to uh. I mean,

1597
01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:40,360
Speaker 1: we've been to Boston to Foxborough so many times and

1598
01:14:40,479 --> 01:14:43,240
Speaker 1: the Bill's team buses, four or five team buses, get

1599
01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:45,920
Speaker 1: a police escort after the game to the airport and

1600
01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:48,360
Speaker 1: we're in Foxborough going to I think it's t F.

1601
01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:51,599
Speaker 1: Green Airport in Providence, remember this, flying down US one

1602
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:55,120
Speaker 1: all and we got an escort from the Massachusetts State Police.

1603
01:14:55,439 --> 01:14:58,840
Speaker 1: You cross over into Rhode Island. Massachusetts States Police were

1604
01:14:58,920 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 1: done with us, so they put off into the State

1605
01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:04,880
Speaker 1: Police headquarters. Three two or three State trooper cars and

1606
01:15:05,080 --> 01:15:07,360
Speaker 1: like idiots. All the bus drivers pulled into the State

1607
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:09,519
Speaker 1: Police headquarters as well and sat there. What are we

1608
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:11,519
Speaker 1: doing now? I was like, come on, man, we're going

1609
01:15:11,560 --> 01:15:15,600
Speaker 1: to the airports, right, I'll never forget. Yeah, there's a

1610
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:18,120
Speaker 1: bunch of things that happen. I gott do you remember

1611
01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:21,000
Speaker 1: the time when we left John Butler and Marv yes St. Louis,

1612
01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:25,120
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Yes, my guy. The bus drivers, nobody wanted

1613
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:27,800
Speaker 1: to be the guy who had to admit that. He's

1614
01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:29,680
Speaker 1: like going, yeah, we're all full. Let's go. Yeah, you know,

1615
01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:32,000
Speaker 1: give the finger twirl up above your head, like the

1616
01:15:32,120 --> 01:15:34,720
Speaker 1: squirly things like let's go, you know, like the big

1617
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:38,800
Speaker 1: the big you know wagon train guy wagons hold, let's go.

1618
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 1: And Marv Levy and the general manager John Butler, two

1619
01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:46,160
Speaker 1: most important people in the right. They come walking out.

1620
01:15:46,200 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 1: Everybody's gone, are gone. They caught it. They yeah, they

1621
01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:52,040
Speaker 1: had a cop there that well, they pulled the police.

1622
01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:54,599
Speaker 1: Remember we're on the interstate, had to do the airport

1623
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:58,240
Speaker 1: and stay pulled over. They pulled over the buses. Marvin Marvin,

1624
01:15:58,479 --> 01:16:05,120
Speaker 1: John Gottah hijinks uh, the Bills and the New England

1625
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:07,880
Speaker 1: Patriots Sunday, and we're asking you today what would be

1626
01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:10,120
Speaker 1: the best possible thing that would happen if the Bill

1627
01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 1: should win that game? Give us a call eight three

1628
01:16:12,479 --> 01:16:15,559
Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight by fifty two

1629
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Speaker 1: five fifty. I'm a line Kim from Niagara Falls. Hello, Kim,

1630
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:20,640
Speaker 1: go ahead, and you're on the air with us. Hi,

1631
01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:23,640
Speaker 1: how are you okay and good? The main reason we

1632
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:27,439
Speaker 1: should want to beat the Patriots anytime, for any reason

1633
01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:30,240
Speaker 1: is because if you're a Bill fan, you hate them

1634
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:35,040
Speaker 1: because we have they helped us, you know, show our

1635
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:38,519
Speaker 1: en aptitude throughout the league. In the two thousand we

1636
01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:42,120
Speaker 1: were a brick in their yellow brick road to the

1637
01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:46,439
Speaker 1: super Bowl every year. Yeah right, yeah, I mean, how

1638
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:48,640
Speaker 1: long does it take to turn a franchise around? For

1639
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:53,160
Speaker 1: some three years five years, we've had eighteen years. We

1640
01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:55,320
Speaker 1: could have done it three times over by now. Yeah,

1641
01:16:55,520 --> 01:16:59,040
Speaker 1: that's right. And I wanted to beat them at their peak,

1642
01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:03,479
Speaker 1: not on the downhill trajectory. So everybody can say, oh,

1643
01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:07,599
Speaker 1: the Bills only be the Patriots because they suck, you know, Well,

1644
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:09,599
Speaker 1: you take that win though, right now, You take the win,

1645
01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 1: start beating them consistently. That's what I want all right, Yeah,

1646
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:15,920
Speaker 1: that's true, I think as everybody wants. But you're you're right, Kim,

1647
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:18,400
Speaker 1: it's been That's why this is such a big deal.

1648
01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:22,080
Speaker 1: And it hasn't even been an opportunity for the Bills

1649
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:25,000
Speaker 1: to stay in the division race this late into the season,

1650
01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:28,479
Speaker 1: let alone clinch a playoff spot and going to New

1651
01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 1: England with a chance to knock him off. It just

1652
01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:33,519
Speaker 1: has never happened. And a couple of decades. We've talked

1653
01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:35,479
Speaker 1: a lot on this show over the year, Steve about

1654
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:38,479
Speaker 1: why the Patriots so dominant? Is it Brady? Is it

1655
01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:40,479
Speaker 1: battle check? Yeah, it's all of that. But you know

1656
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:43,599
Speaker 1: what is uncomfortable to discuss, and it's part of their

1657
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:45,720
Speaker 1: record of domination. And Kim got to it right there,

1658
01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:50,120
Speaker 1: the ineptitude of the Bills, Jets and Dolphins over the span, right,

1659
01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:53,639
Speaker 1: three franchises that have been unable to mount an effective

1660
01:17:53,720 --> 01:17:57,720
Speaker 1: challenge against the Patriots for twenty years, close to twenty years.

1661
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 1: Here they had ten straight division titles Miami one, I

1662
01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:03,000
Speaker 1: think that one year, and the Patriots have a streak

1663
01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:05,800
Speaker 1: of division titles before that, right, We never talked about that,

1664
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:08,680
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's ugly history for the Bills, as

1665
01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:10,640
Speaker 1: it is for the Dolphins and the Jets, that it

1666
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:13,560
Speaker 1: just doesn't happen in the NFL that one team is

1667
01:18:13,600 --> 01:18:17,040
Speaker 1: dominant for that long. Now here's where you are. You

1668
01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:21,639
Speaker 1: probably feel compelled to insert your the cheat narrative, cheating

1669
01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:24,960
Speaker 1: or not. And I'm not condoning cheating. But the Bills,

1670
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:28,400
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, and the Jets and their inability to mount

1671
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:30,639
Speaker 1: a challenge have a lot to do with New England's

1672
01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:34,479
Speaker 1: two decades of dominance here. Yeah, it does, and you

1673
01:18:34,600 --> 01:18:36,880
Speaker 1: have to take on you have to acknowledge it. It's

1674
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:39,679
Speaker 1: because it's true. The neither none of those three teams

1675
01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:42,599
Speaker 1: have been consistently good. Certainly they've had bounces around where

1676
01:18:44,240 --> 01:18:46,200
Speaker 1: the Rex Ryan era in New York, he beat him

1677
01:18:46,200 --> 01:18:47,680
Speaker 1: a couple of times in the playoffor once in the

1678
01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:49,960
Speaker 1: playoffs beat him a couple of times in the regular season.

1679
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:54,200
Speaker 1: Nobody in Miami that to my mind, has been able

1680
01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:56,840
Speaker 1: to challenge them at any given point. They've struggled, even

1681
01:18:56,840 --> 01:18:59,680
Speaker 1: when Jimmy Johnson was down there, so and and then

1682
01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:02,679
Speaker 1: here with Buffalo. You know, I've read three or four years,

1683
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:06,680
Speaker 1: five years, they're washing a new guy through. And you

1684
01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:10,200
Speaker 1: can go down the list it's not pretty and the

1685
01:19:10,280 --> 01:19:12,760
Speaker 1: base there's no doubt that the Patriots have benefited from it.

1686
01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:16,679
Speaker 1: And that's what makes Option BE in our Twitter poll

1687
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:19,599
Speaker 1: so appealing to me in too many, I mean our

1688
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 1: Twitter pole. What's the biggest reason you would root for

1689
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:24,880
Speaker 1: a Bills win in Foxborough? First option we present is

1690
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:27,559
Speaker 1: that keeps their chances for a division title alive Buffalo.

1691
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:29,600
Speaker 1: It's yes, that's big. That's where I would vote for.

1692
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 1: But Option B it would be a sign of a

1693
01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:34,840
Speaker 1: changing of a guard into division. It's fifty one percent

1694
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:37,240
Speaker 1: of you say that's the reason. Thirteen percent say Last

1695
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:39,800
Speaker 1: Chance would beat Tom Brady. And here's why the changing

1696
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:42,240
Speaker 1: of the guard is important, I think because it's not

1697
01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:43,960
Speaker 1: like the Bills are a flash in the pan and

1698
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:46,880
Speaker 1: one year, wonder they got this free agent they're gonna maybe,

1699
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 1: you know, challenge of Patriots this year. No, Buffalo is

1700
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:53,880
Speaker 1: structured and set up for long term success. Now tons

1701
01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:55,760
Speaker 1: of money in the camp next year, a lot of

1702
01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:58,960
Speaker 1: draft picks next year, stable leadership with Brandon Bean and

1703
01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:02,840
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott. Buffalo changing of the guard wouldn't just be

1704
01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 1: a one year phenomenon. I'm not say they go on

1705
01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:07,519
Speaker 1: a twenty year run. But they are set up better

1706
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:10,519
Speaker 1: than the better than the Patriots, set up to play

1707
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:14,360
Speaker 1: really well and win most of their divisional games over

1708
01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 1: several years based on what the structure they have in place,

1709
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:19,080
Speaker 1: and that kind of gets me excited a little bit. Yeah,

1710
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:23,840
Speaker 1: certainly we can all feel and see that for the

1711
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:25,560
Speaker 1: first time in a long time. It's not just the

1712
01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:27,760
Speaker 1: people who are with the team or you know, are

1713
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:30,200
Speaker 1: working for the team who can say, wow, this is

1714
01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:33,960
Speaker 1: this is different than it has been. Certainly there's been

1715
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:35,960
Speaker 1: years where they've been better than other years, but there's

1716
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:38,000
Speaker 1: never been a time when you've said, wow, the whole

1717
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:41,800
Speaker 1: vibeer on the building, the plan, the offseason makes sense

1718
01:20:41,880 --> 01:20:44,400
Speaker 1: with this season and next season, and they're lined up

1719
01:20:44,400 --> 01:20:45,720
Speaker 1: and they got their ducks in a row, and they've

1720
01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:47,600
Speaker 1: got some young players that they're developing, and this is

1721
01:20:47,640 --> 01:20:51,160
Speaker 1: a team that's getting better. And it just seems so

1722
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:55,760
Speaker 1: many different things have happened to this club that are positives,

1723
01:20:56,840 --> 01:21:00,479
Speaker 1: even taking steps back for backwards and staying in you know,

1724
01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:02,960
Speaker 1: staying inside the lines, showing some discipline and free agency,

1725
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:05,439
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So many things have come together

1726
01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:07,360
Speaker 1: and now for the first time, all those things are

1727
01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:09,840
Speaker 1: in place at once, and they're winning games. It's not

1728
01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:11,560
Speaker 1: just like will you just wait, you know, we're just

1729
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:13,120
Speaker 1: we're gonna win game, and then all of a sudden,

1730
01:21:13,160 --> 01:21:15,720
Speaker 1: will they blew? They blew a ton of cat money

1731
01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:17,400
Speaker 1: on this one guy because they felt like they had to,

1732
01:21:17,479 --> 01:21:19,519
Speaker 1: and then they drafted this kind of traded three draft

1733
01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:21,439
Speaker 1: picks to get this guy. You know, there's all these

1734
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 1: things happening. Well, I don't know, you know, um, everything

1735
01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:26,920
Speaker 1: seems to be in place and it's and now they're

1736
01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:30,760
Speaker 1: winning games as well, and that feels different with this,

1737
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:33,599
Speaker 1: with this in organization. So it does feel like there's

1738
01:21:33,640 --> 01:21:38,960
Speaker 1: a sustainability aspect to this whole scenario. Let's go to

1739
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:41,320
Speaker 1: Mike and Lakeview, New York. Come on, Mike wilcome me

1740
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:43,360
Speaker 1: around the air with us. Welcome to the show. How

1741
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:45,599
Speaker 1: are you going doing? I got ya speaker phones out? Okay,

1742
01:21:45,760 --> 01:21:48,240
Speaker 1: that's okay, go ahead, speak up. Already there's been a

1743
01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:49,600
Speaker 1: lot of talk. You know, how do we play this

1744
01:21:49,720 --> 01:21:52,479
Speaker 1: game against the Patriots and then the Jets game and whatnot?

1745
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 1: Remember the scene and on the waterfront all right, yeah,

1746
01:21:58,160 --> 01:22:01,960
Speaker 1: what scene? I could have a contender. Yeah, you gotta

1747
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:04,439
Speaker 1: look at it from the Patriots side, they obviously don't

1748
01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:06,439
Speaker 1: want to lose. How can anybody even dream of like

1749
01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:10,280
Speaker 1: kind of rolling over and kind of like playing not

1750
01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:12,000
Speaker 1: to get hurt, you know, all that type of thing.

1751
01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: Who's dreaming that? You mean the Bills the Patriots? Who

1752
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:16,840
Speaker 1: I think we're both thinking the same way. I think

1753
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:18,840
Speaker 1: you guys should have did some research as to while

1754
01:22:18,880 --> 01:22:20,680
Speaker 1: the Patriots feel like they're going to play this game,

1755
01:22:20,920 --> 01:22:22,679
Speaker 1: they might rest a lot of people in this game,

1756
01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:24,760
Speaker 1: no one they can go down and you know, pop

1757
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:26,840
Speaker 1: up the floor of Miami. Well, here's the thing, and

1758
01:22:26,920 --> 01:22:29,360
Speaker 1: here's the problem with that, Mike, that the Patriots don't

1759
01:22:29,400 --> 01:22:31,320
Speaker 1: want to lose this game. This game means something to

1760
01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 1: them because if they lose it, they go from having

1761
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:35,920
Speaker 1: a buy in the first round of the playoffs to

1762
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:37,799
Speaker 1: not having a buy in the first round of the playbots.

1763
01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:40,880
Speaker 1: That's that's my exact point. So we should be playing

1764
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:43,360
Speaker 1: them as hard as we possibly could. What makes you

1765
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:46,880
Speaker 1: think they wouldn't, Well, people are talking harder to spend talk.

1766
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:49,160
Speaker 1: Earlier on you were saying, you know, we're in the playoffs.

1767
01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: Everything else is gravy. That's I don't see it that way. Yeah,

1768
01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:55,519
Speaker 1: I get you. We're Yeah, here's what they meant by gravy.

1769
01:22:55,840 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 1: They have the playoff spot in place. Everything they add

1770
01:22:59,120 --> 01:23:01,519
Speaker 1: to it now is on top of that a potential

1771
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:05,280
Speaker 1: division title that's huge. All the issues in our Twitter poll.

1772
01:23:05,840 --> 01:23:07,960
Speaker 1: Maybe the last time they faced Tom Brady that would

1773
01:23:07,960 --> 01:23:10,960
Speaker 1: be big. Um. Maybe you know, a changing of the

1774
01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:12,920
Speaker 1: guard in the division that would be big as well.

1775
01:23:13,160 --> 01:23:15,200
Speaker 1: That's what I meant by gravy, not like they don't

1776
01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:17,080
Speaker 1: need this, they don't want this, they get easy. Not

1777
01:23:17,160 --> 01:23:20,040
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, there's no there's no hint when we're

1778
01:23:20,080 --> 01:23:22,120
Speaker 1: talking about that stuff. There's no hint of the bills

1779
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:25,000
Speaker 1: being satisfied with what they've done already. Not at all. No,

1780
01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:28,439
Speaker 1: But yeah, I get your point, but that's not the

1781
01:23:28,640 --> 01:23:31,479
Speaker 1: tone of what we were talking about. But okay, Tony

1782
01:23:31,520 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 1: and north Tonawanda, Hello, Tony, go ahead, you're on the air. Hi,

1783
01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my calf. Before I tell you why

1784
01:23:38,240 --> 01:23:39,920
Speaker 1: I think it's important for New England to win, I

1785
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:42,519
Speaker 1: just want to mention how far I go back to

1786
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:47,639
Speaker 1: lou Saban and I got believe it or not, when

1787
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:50,640
Speaker 1: they opened up the stadium it was I think HSBC

1788
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:54,439
Speaker 1: Arena and they gave us coins for the very first game.

1789
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:58,880
Speaker 1: It was rich Stadium nineteen seventy three, right, yeah, yes, yeah,

1790
01:23:58,880 --> 01:24:00,760
Speaker 1: I was here for that game. Were you there? Yes?

1791
01:24:00,840 --> 01:24:04,120
Speaker 1: I was, yeah, yeah, and they gave did you did

1792
01:24:04,160 --> 01:24:06,200
Speaker 1: you get your coins? I still I have that coin, Yes,

1793
01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:08,599
Speaker 1: so do I. Yeah. I got two of them, one

1794
01:24:08,640 --> 01:24:12,640
Speaker 1: for myself and one for my wife. But anyway, what

1795
01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:15,680
Speaker 1: I'm getting at, you know Bill's fans know this. How

1796
01:24:15,720 --> 01:24:20,240
Speaker 1: did that game begin? Do you recall? I'm sorry, I Washington?

1797
01:24:20,280 --> 01:24:23,720
Speaker 1: It was preseason Washington return man Herb Malki ran one

1798
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:26,920
Speaker 1: hundred three yards back with the first ever kickoff in

1799
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 1: the stadium, and not your Parker back for a touchdown.

1800
01:24:29,720 --> 01:24:31,839
Speaker 1: Can you believe that that's howiday you opened the stadium?

1801
01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:35,040
Speaker 1: Come on, man, I'm sorry to bring that up. That's

1802
01:24:35,080 --> 01:24:36,840
Speaker 1: not how you open the stadium. Go ahead, I'm sorry

1803
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:40,240
Speaker 1: I interrupted you. Go ahead, Tony. What I'm getting at

1804
01:24:40,479 --> 01:24:42,680
Speaker 1: is we went through a period of time that I

1805
01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:45,439
Speaker 1: can remember, and I had season tickets and everything where

1806
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:47,880
Speaker 1: Miami was doing the same thing that New England has done.

1807
01:24:48,479 --> 01:24:51,760
Speaker 1: I also remember, and it wasn't even a playoff game.

1808
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:54,720
Speaker 1: There wasn't anything where we finally beat them and we

1809
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:57,920
Speaker 1: tore the goal post down. Yeah, nineteen eighty. Oh. Here's

1810
01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:00,040
Speaker 1: what I'm leading up to. If you can kind to

1811
01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:02,680
Speaker 1: get the parallel, because I think this game with New

1812
01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:08,360
Speaker 1: England is very important. I think it's almost the difference.

1813
01:25:08,760 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 1: And here's why. There's three steps that Buffalo had to

1814
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:13,400
Speaker 1: do this year. If you listen to mister McDermott how

1815
01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:17,479
Speaker 1: we talked. First step was to get in the playoffs. Okay.

1816
01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:20,479
Speaker 1: The second step is believe it or not be in

1817
01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:23,160
Speaker 1: New England so you can be number one. And a

1818
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:26,280
Speaker 1: third step obviously is the super Bowl. But we've achieved it,

1819
01:25:26,439 --> 01:25:29,360
Speaker 1: not of the first step. This next step I think

1820
01:25:29,520 --> 01:25:32,759
Speaker 1: is going to be very important because if we don't

1821
01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:36,519
Speaker 1: beat them, I think psychologically it's going to have a

1822
01:25:36,600 --> 01:25:39,439
Speaker 1: big effect on the playoffs. I think this game is

1823
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:43,080
Speaker 1: so huge, you know, as far as their mindset and

1824
01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:46,640
Speaker 1: their mental toughness, that if they get this win, they

1825
01:25:46,680 --> 01:25:52,120
Speaker 1: will feel like, excuse me, I apologize, have accomplished three

1826
01:25:52,240 --> 01:25:54,800
Speaker 1: quarters of their goal and they're not you know, and

1827
01:25:54,880 --> 01:25:57,160
Speaker 1: they're not gonna They're just gonna be so much better

1828
01:25:57,240 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 1: psychologically and get to see. Let me thank you for

1829
01:26:00,479 --> 01:26:03,000
Speaker 1: calling Tony. Let me tap into your playing experience, Eve.

1830
01:26:03,040 --> 01:26:08,240
Speaker 1: You played very successful, highly accomplished AFC championship teams, some

1831
01:26:08,360 --> 01:26:11,240
Speaker 1: of whom clinched early in the earlier in the season.

1832
01:26:12,400 --> 01:26:14,920
Speaker 1: What kept you guys going down the stretch knowing that

1833
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:17,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs are out there, knowing that they're I mean,

1834
01:26:17,320 --> 01:26:19,759
Speaker 1: what kept you guys? Because you had a great record

1835
01:26:19,800 --> 01:26:22,400
Speaker 1: of success. It wasn't like you clinched the division and

1836
01:26:22,479 --> 01:26:24,560
Speaker 1: then went to bed. You know, you kept after it.

1837
01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:27,000
Speaker 1: What kept that going back then? You kept playing hard

1838
01:26:27,080 --> 01:26:30,439
Speaker 1: and it was about competing. You know, you wanted to compete.

1839
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:33,599
Speaker 1: Now certainly you left you prepared like you're gonna play.

1840
01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:35,320
Speaker 1: You're prepared to like it. The game was important. You

1841
01:26:35,400 --> 01:26:38,400
Speaker 1: prepared normally as you would. It was, you know, kind

1842
01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:40,519
Speaker 1: of part of the process back then as well. And

1843
01:26:40,760 --> 01:26:45,120
Speaker 1: you let the coaches decide. Listen, if if we're gonna

1844
01:26:45,160 --> 01:26:46,800
Speaker 1: win this and this game doesn't meanything, we're gonna give

1845
01:26:46,800 --> 01:26:49,120
Speaker 1: our guys some time to play. But if we're not

1846
01:26:49,160 --> 01:26:51,840
Speaker 1: gonna risk you know, the coaches would sit guys down.

1847
01:26:51,880 --> 01:26:54,599
Speaker 1: You know, they would decide, like, listen, this isn't gonna

1848
01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:56,479
Speaker 1: help us any of you're sitting down now. See this

1849
01:26:56,600 --> 01:26:58,479
Speaker 1: game isn't quite to that point yet. No, I know

1850
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:00,800
Speaker 1: that this game isn't quite to that. This game has

1851
01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 1: some some meat on it for both of these clubs.

1852
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:07,840
Speaker 1: Obviously for the Bills and also for the Patriots. Um,

1853
01:27:08,520 --> 01:27:10,120
Speaker 1: if they have to go on, if they go to

1854
01:27:10,240 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 1: the wild card uh or yeah, if they go to

1855
01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:18,200
Speaker 1: the wild card, or if they don't keep pace with

1856
01:27:18,240 --> 01:27:19,920
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, they're gonna have to play in

1857
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:21,519
Speaker 1: the wild card ground. Now, certainly the game will be

1858
01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:25,439
Speaker 1: at home, as if they win the division, but they've

1859
01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:30,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to play another game, So a week

1860
01:27:30,160 --> 01:27:32,519
Speaker 1: off would really help them, particularly a forty two year

1861
01:27:32,560 --> 01:27:35,920
Speaker 1: old quarterback kind of guy. You know. So seriously, you know,

1862
01:27:36,800 --> 01:27:38,840
Speaker 1: the time offics in to turn a vacation at that

1863
01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:41,120
Speaker 1: point of the season really does wonders flee for psych

1864
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:46,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, this game, this game has no to me.

1865
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:48,640
Speaker 1: It has no smell and we we laughed about it

1866
01:27:48,720 --> 01:27:50,760
Speaker 1: when we talked about it earlier. This game has no

1867
01:27:51,040 --> 01:27:55,400
Speaker 1: smell of a game that need either team doesn't need back. Yeah,

1868
01:27:55,520 --> 01:27:57,639
Speaker 1: and they both should play like it. And by the way,

1869
01:27:57,760 --> 01:27:59,680
Speaker 1: I'm confident that both will. I think it's gonna be

1870
01:27:59,720 --> 01:28:04,080
Speaker 1: another great game. The Chiefs need it, chief the Patriots

1871
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:07,000
Speaker 1: needed as badly as the Bills do because they've got

1872
01:28:07,120 --> 01:28:10,040
Speaker 1: they're trying to get a bye. Yeah, you put an

1873
01:28:10,080 --> 01:28:15,360
Speaker 1: extra game an entire it's thirty percent further to the

1874
01:28:15,439 --> 01:28:17,680
Speaker 1: super Bowl when you get in the playoffs. Right, it's

1875
01:28:18,040 --> 01:28:20,320
Speaker 1: an extra game you gotta get by against a really

1876
01:28:20,400 --> 01:28:23,200
Speaker 1: good team. So it's yeah, they need that by badly.

1877
01:28:23,360 --> 01:28:25,759
Speaker 1: Coming back with more One Bill's Live, presented by Kalaida

1878
01:28:25,840 --> 01:28:27,920
Speaker 1: Hell from the Seneca Studio on Orchard Park. This is

1879
01:28:27,960 --> 01:28:42,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. We're just powering through this show this Tuesday.

1880
01:28:43,040 --> 01:28:45,920
Speaker 1: The Bills got through a practice today. They moved things

1881
01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:47,920
Speaker 1: up a day this week because they play on Saturday.

1882
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:51,519
Speaker 1: Practice tomorrow and then practice on Thursday. They leave Friday

1883
01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:53,840
Speaker 1: for the game on Saturday. Simple, Right, it's not that

1884
01:28:53,920 --> 01:28:55,920
Speaker 1: big a thing I'll do. No, it'll be It's okay

1885
01:28:55,960 --> 01:28:59,080
Speaker 1: once you get deep into the week. Yeah, it's still

1886
01:28:59,120 --> 01:29:02,240
Speaker 1: confusing that it's it's because the routine is so set.

1887
01:29:02,920 --> 01:29:05,040
Speaker 1: It'll feel confusing to him because it'll feel like a

1888
01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:07,439
Speaker 1: Thursday when it's only Wednesday. You know, it'll feel like

1889
01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:10,840
Speaker 1: a Friday or Saturday when it's only Friday. And that'll

1890
01:29:10,840 --> 01:29:14,080
Speaker 1: still but that's it. It's fine, big payoff Sunday off

1891
01:29:14,479 --> 01:29:19,080
Speaker 1: for the players, for the coaches, broadcasters, big payoff. Love

1892
01:29:19,160 --> 01:29:21,320
Speaker 1: that having a Sunday off this time of year. That's

1893
01:29:21,360 --> 01:29:23,800
Speaker 1: gonna be great. Yeah yeah, wait yeah man. After the

1894
01:29:23,840 --> 01:29:25,720
Speaker 1: calls Rich and Buffalo, Rich, go ahead, you're on the

1895
01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:28,840
Speaker 1: air of this. First thing I want to say is

1896
01:29:29,040 --> 01:29:34,200
Speaker 1: you are outstanding. Is the voice of the build. Thank you, Rich,

1897
01:29:34,560 --> 01:29:38,439
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. I called a few weeks ago and

1898
01:29:38,560 --> 01:29:40,640
Speaker 1: I had to argue with Steve about you going to

1899
01:29:40,760 --> 01:29:43,679
Speaker 1: an up temple offense. And you know what, they finally

1900
01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:46,400
Speaker 1: did it and it worked. They get up to watching

1901
01:29:46,439 --> 01:29:50,200
Speaker 1: the Steelers game. I simply I cannot understand why they

1902
01:29:50,280 --> 01:29:53,280
Speaker 1: abandon this. They took the handcuffs off Josh in the

1903
01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:55,640
Speaker 1: third quarter and he dwell down the field for the

1904
01:29:55,720 --> 01:29:59,719
Speaker 1: winning touchdown. Our defense is the best in the NFL,

1905
01:29:59,840 --> 01:30:02,800
Speaker 1: so don't worry about the Bills going springing out and

1906
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 1: putting them back on the field is double tight ends,

1907
01:30:07,600 --> 01:30:11,040
Speaker 1: low tempo, bringing the fullback and holding up off. I

1908
01:30:11,160 --> 01:30:13,200
Speaker 1: hear you, Richard. I'm got Steven on this too. I

1909
01:30:13,360 --> 01:30:15,560
Speaker 1: do think that, and I talked to Dable about it

1910
01:30:16,439 --> 01:30:19,800
Speaker 1: Sunday night. I think that was in deference to those

1911
01:30:19,840 --> 01:30:22,880
Speaker 1: two outside linebackers, but Dupree and t J. Watt, and

1912
01:30:23,400 --> 01:30:26,800
Speaker 1: they did not want to create issues in protection. They

1913
01:30:26,920 --> 01:30:29,679
Speaker 1: I don't think they felt like they could go eleven personnel.

1914
01:30:30,400 --> 01:30:32,200
Speaker 1: And it's not, let's face it, it wasn't a real

1915
01:30:32,320 --> 01:30:35,000
Speaker 1: fast paced, up tempo know how to attack they had

1916
01:30:35,040 --> 01:30:37,800
Speaker 1: even when they were rolling through those four games with it.

1917
01:30:37,920 --> 01:30:40,280
Speaker 1: But I just think they felt like they needed to adjust.

1918
01:30:40,360 --> 01:30:42,719
Speaker 1: You know, I talked to members of the coaching staff

1919
01:30:42,800 --> 01:30:44,320
Speaker 1: last week. I said, are you good with us eleven

1920
01:30:44,360 --> 01:30:46,639
Speaker 1: personnel this week? And they said, well, maybe not. We'll

1921
01:30:46,640 --> 01:30:48,760
Speaker 1: find out, right. I mean that that would have been

1922
01:30:48,760 --> 01:30:51,479
Speaker 1: a lot for them to block those two without extra

1923
01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:54,559
Speaker 1: tight ends. I mean, DeMarco played thirty percent of the snaps.

1924
01:30:54,600 --> 01:30:57,040
Speaker 1: I have it here. Um Lee Smith played half of

1925
01:30:57,080 --> 01:30:58,479
Speaker 1: the snaps the other day. It was kind of a

1926
01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:01,479
Speaker 1: totally different offensive approach and they won. But go ahead,

1927
01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:06,720
Speaker 1: what do you think I'm probably out? I go ahead, Rich,

1928
01:31:07,240 --> 01:31:11,479
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for interrupting. Go ahead. I understand what you're saying. Murphy,

1929
01:31:11,600 --> 01:31:14,800
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't. I played some quarterback in the

1930
01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:17,280
Speaker 1: past and blah blah blah. It really doesn't matter. But

1931
01:31:17,439 --> 01:31:20,559
Speaker 1: you know what, you can't be afraid to be afraid. Okay,

1932
01:31:21,040 --> 01:31:23,800
Speaker 1: get you drafted this kid. You gotta let him play

1933
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:26,920
Speaker 1: in his comfort zone. You know, John, she's the future

1934
01:31:26,960 --> 01:31:29,640
Speaker 1: of the Bills. You know his comfort zone is, you know,

1935
01:31:29,960 --> 01:31:33,639
Speaker 1: play some hurry up swinging around. And I said before,

1936
01:31:33,800 --> 01:31:37,479
Speaker 1: Murphy's a schoolyard quarterback. He's a guy that goes in

1937
01:31:37,560 --> 01:31:40,280
Speaker 1: the schoolyard. And they went, Steve knows all about that.

1938
01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:42,560
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear it. Steve knows. I would just in

1939
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:46,200
Speaker 1: one quick response, rich Um, his comfort zone does not

1940
01:31:46,280 --> 01:31:48,920
Speaker 1: include having t. J. Watt or Budder pre sitting on

1941
01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:52,439
Speaker 1: top of him. Either. That's not a comfort zone. Go ahead, Murphy,

1942
01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:57,439
Speaker 1: you can't enter a game and you know be afraid.

1943
01:31:57,600 --> 01:32:00,479
Speaker 1: It's not being afraid, it's being smart. You know what

1944
01:32:00,920 --> 01:32:04,640
Speaker 1: A well we can agree to disagree, Okay, rich I

1945
01:32:04,920 --> 01:32:06,800
Speaker 1: think I'm a little I'm gonna probably a different spot

1946
01:32:06,840 --> 01:32:08,599
Speaker 1: than you. I'm maybe a little ahead of the curve

1947
01:32:08,640 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 1: on this. Maybe I'm maybe I'm maybe you're right and

1948
01:32:11,240 --> 01:32:15,280
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Um. I tend to I tend I tend

1949
01:32:15,360 --> 01:32:17,800
Speaker 1: to believe that the coaching staff who studies the film

1950
01:32:17,960 --> 01:32:19,960
Speaker 1: knows their players and gives them the best chance to

1951
01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:21,760
Speaker 1: win by putting the fullback on the field with two

1952
01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:24,680
Speaker 1: tight ends against the best rushing team in the league. Um,

1953
01:32:24,960 --> 01:32:26,840
Speaker 1: you can say what you want about tempo and stuff,

1954
01:32:26,880 --> 01:32:30,200
Speaker 1: and and it's different than it was when I played.

1955
01:32:30,200 --> 01:32:32,040
Speaker 1: And I know you remember. I can tell by the

1956
01:32:32,080 --> 01:32:33,880
Speaker 1: tone of your voice. You remember back when I played

1957
01:32:33,920 --> 01:32:36,880
Speaker 1: in Jim and Bruce and Thurman and Andre and all

1958
01:32:36,920 --> 01:32:39,040
Speaker 1: those guys running up and down the field, going fast paced.

1959
01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:41,240
Speaker 1: It's a different league. Now. You can do some of that.

1960
01:32:41,479 --> 01:32:43,680
Speaker 1: You can you can try and all those techniques, and

1961
01:32:43,720 --> 01:32:46,080
Speaker 1: it's in the toolbox. But the moment you start doing

1962
01:32:46,120 --> 01:32:48,559
Speaker 1: that all the time is the moment you start losing games.

1963
01:32:48,880 --> 01:32:51,320
Speaker 1: And I know Josh is the future of the franchise

1964
01:32:51,680 --> 01:32:53,240
Speaker 1: and he's going to continue to be the future of

1965
01:32:53,280 --> 01:32:56,720
Speaker 1: the franchise. But I got news for you. The futures now,

1966
01:32:56,880 --> 01:32:59,840
Speaker 1: and you got a stellar defense. You're trying to win

1967
01:33:00,120 --> 01:33:03,080
Speaker 1: games now. You're not trying to develop Josh right now.

1968
01:33:03,640 --> 01:33:07,400
Speaker 1: He's developing, no question. But the job one for everybody

1969
01:33:07,520 --> 01:33:10,360
Speaker 1: is to win games. And if that means Josh has

1970
01:33:10,400 --> 01:33:13,280
Speaker 1: a fullback and two tight ends on the field, that's

1971
01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:15,680
Speaker 1: what you're gonna do to win the game. So I'm

1972
01:33:15,720 --> 01:33:20,120
Speaker 1: not I trust that Brian day Bole and Sean McDermott

1973
01:33:20,120 --> 01:33:24,040
Speaker 1: are trying to win the Pittsburgh Steeler game, and that's

1974
01:33:24,080 --> 01:33:25,840
Speaker 1: why they had those guys on the field. It's not

1975
01:33:25,960 --> 01:33:29,240
Speaker 1: about it's not about making Josh look great or having

1976
01:33:29,280 --> 01:33:31,519
Speaker 1: a great offense or great. They're trying to win the

1977
01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:35,360
Speaker 1: game against that particular defense on that night this season. Rich,

1978
01:33:35,439 --> 01:33:37,160
Speaker 1: thanks you a call, thanks you for your nice comments,

1979
01:33:37,240 --> 01:33:39,880
Speaker 1: and I would disagree with you as well for everything

1980
01:33:39,920 --> 01:33:43,439
Speaker 1: Steve said. And look, the Bills allowed one sack against

1981
01:33:43,439 --> 01:33:45,680
Speaker 1: the top sack production team in the NFL. They gave

1982
01:33:45,760 --> 01:33:48,559
Speaker 1: up one sack in that game. And if I'm Brian

1983
01:33:48,680 --> 01:33:50,559
Speaker 1: dab Bole or Sean McDermot, I say we gave up

1984
01:33:50,600 --> 01:33:54,360
Speaker 1: one sack and look at the scoreboard. That's you take

1985
01:33:54,439 --> 01:33:57,800
Speaker 1: something away that they've depended on. You take away their turnovers.

1986
01:33:57,880 --> 01:34:01,160
Speaker 1: You know that's Devin Singletary, that's you know, you coughed

1987
01:34:01,160 --> 01:34:03,439
Speaker 1: it up really with your rookie running back trying to

1988
01:34:03,479 --> 01:34:05,479
Speaker 1: do a little extra after really good runs. He got

1989
01:34:05,520 --> 01:34:07,240
Speaker 1: the ball punched out a couple of times, or ripped

1990
01:34:07,280 --> 01:34:10,160
Speaker 1: out once and punched out another time. You took that

1991
01:34:10,320 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 1: you won that battle against a really good defense who's

1992
01:34:13,400 --> 01:34:17,000
Speaker 1: the entire team thrived on turnovers. You won that turnover

1993
01:34:17,080 --> 01:34:21,920
Speaker 1: battle a lot of it by not throwing interceptions. They

1994
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:23,680
Speaker 1: still punched it out a bunch, but you got some

1995
01:34:23,800 --> 01:34:25,200
Speaker 1: of them back and he didn't do it as much

1996
01:34:25,200 --> 01:34:27,840
Speaker 1: as they did. So and plus you took away the

1997
01:34:27,880 --> 01:34:31,120
Speaker 1: sacks from they got one sack, we got four. You know,

1998
01:34:31,479 --> 01:34:33,320
Speaker 1: we won that battle. So you do that as much

1999
01:34:33,360 --> 01:34:36,160
Speaker 1: with your offense against their defense as you do our

2000
01:34:36,240 --> 01:34:39,360
Speaker 1: defense against their offense. It's you play it to the

2001
01:34:39,479 --> 01:34:41,800
Speaker 1: percentages and you think, listen, if they can beat us

2002
01:34:41,840 --> 01:34:45,240
Speaker 1: with Duck at quarterback and us win in the turnover

2003
01:34:45,280 --> 01:34:48,479
Speaker 1: battle or not getting any turnovers and no sacks, we're

2004
01:34:48,520 --> 01:34:50,280
Speaker 1: going to take those chances. And that's what they did.

2005
01:34:50,360 --> 01:34:52,600
Speaker 1: And certainly you can say, wow, why didn't they go

2006
01:34:52,720 --> 01:34:57,240
Speaker 1: no huddle? Hey they won, I get it. Thanks Rich.

2007
01:34:57,360 --> 01:34:59,920
Speaker 1: We got Dan Orlovsky standing by to join us from ESPN.

2008
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:02,360
Speaker 1: We'll talk with him about that game and about Josh Allen.

2009
01:35:02,479 --> 01:35:04,360
Speaker 1: Come on back for that one. Bill's Live presented by

2010
01:35:04,439 --> 01:35:08,040
Speaker 1: Collaida Health. I'm from the Seneca Studio Seneca Resorts in Casino.

2011
01:35:08,479 --> 01:35:37,040
Speaker 1: Nothing comes closet Tasper to the end, done bastiast time. Welcome.

2012
01:35:37,160 --> 01:35:39,800
Speaker 1: Kis our number three, John Murphy Steve Tasker with One

2013
01:35:39,840 --> 01:35:42,599
Speaker 1: Bill's Live from the Seneca Studio in Archer Park. We're

2014
01:35:42,640 --> 01:35:45,320
Speaker 1: presented by Collada Health and we got going. We got

2015
01:35:45,400 --> 01:35:47,280
Speaker 1: going one more hour here today. The Bills are wrapped

2016
01:35:47,320 --> 01:35:49,960
Speaker 1: up their practice. Their Tuesday work out today looked like

2017
01:35:50,160 --> 01:35:52,160
Speaker 1: U we didn't watch much of if any of it,

2018
01:35:52,240 --> 01:35:54,240
Speaker 1: but it looked like kind of a light practice, no pads,

2019
01:35:54,320 --> 01:35:56,200
Speaker 1: kind of T shirts. Right, that's right way to do

2020
01:35:56,240 --> 01:35:57,960
Speaker 1: it this late in a year. Yeah, I probably I

2021
01:35:58,280 --> 01:36:02,760
Speaker 1: might not have pulled a hamstring. I'm I'm pretty sure

2022
01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:04,639
Speaker 1: I would have come up with some sort of injury

2023
01:36:04,720 --> 01:36:07,880
Speaker 1: had I been through it. Limped off of Hey, we're

2024
01:36:07,880 --> 01:36:10,160
Speaker 1: gonna talk more about this game, about this Bills team

2025
01:36:10,200 --> 01:36:11,840
Speaker 1: with our special guests. We love to have him as

2026
01:36:11,880 --> 01:36:14,799
Speaker 1: one of our favorites. He's a football analysts for ESPN.

2027
01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:18,360
Speaker 1: Former NFL quarterback with Detroit, Houston, Indian Tampa Bay played

2028
01:36:18,400 --> 01:36:20,920
Speaker 1: twelve years in the NFL. Happy to a former quarterback,

2029
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:23,400
Speaker 1: Dan Orlovski of ESPN on the line with us, Hello, Dan,

2030
01:36:23,479 --> 01:36:25,960
Speaker 1: thanks coming on. We appreciate it. Well, what's going on, guys?

2031
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:28,160
Speaker 1: How are you good? We reach out to you because A,

2032
01:36:28,400 --> 01:36:30,920
Speaker 1: we needed a guest for this hour, and B we

2033
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:33,559
Speaker 1: can know we can tell that you have. You've taken

2034
01:36:33,640 --> 01:36:36,720
Speaker 1: note of what the Bills have done, particularly on offense. Uh. Look,

2035
01:36:36,760 --> 01:36:38,960
Speaker 1: they're in the playoffs now, Dan, and all is good

2036
01:36:39,080 --> 01:36:42,639
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. But um, there are there are problems

2037
01:36:42,720 --> 01:36:44,640
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo offense, right you see it, you and

2038
01:36:44,760 --> 01:36:46,639
Speaker 1: and there are good things too. Talk about what you've

2039
01:36:46,680 --> 01:36:50,240
Speaker 1: seen from watching the Bills win in Pittsburgh the other night. Yeah,

2040
01:36:50,240 --> 01:36:52,960
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you everything has to be in context. Um,

2041
01:36:53,320 --> 01:36:56,200
Speaker 1: you know, I know the Pittsburgh Steelers aren't a team

2042
01:36:56,680 --> 01:36:58,920
Speaker 1: in totalent. Everyone's talked about a lot this year, but

2043
01:36:58,960 --> 01:37:03,519
Speaker 1: their defense is really good. I don't know if if

2044
01:37:03,560 --> 01:37:06,160
Speaker 1: the Bills will see, you know, they'll see as good

2045
01:37:06,160 --> 01:37:08,920
Speaker 1: of a defense this weekend. And the Ravens probably are

2046
01:37:09,040 --> 01:37:13,600
Speaker 1: equal to Pittsburgh, maybe not as good, just because Pittsburgh's

2047
01:37:13,600 --> 01:37:16,000
Speaker 1: front is probably better. But Pittsburgh's defense is really good.

2048
01:37:16,040 --> 01:37:19,400
Speaker 1: Don't forget this. They were ten days removed from dragging

2049
01:37:19,560 --> 01:37:22,080
Speaker 1: Dallas in Dallas and scoring a bunch of points. So

2050
01:37:22,640 --> 01:37:24,960
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's probably the most under talked

2051
01:37:24,960 --> 01:37:27,040
Speaker 1: about thing of this offense is the offensive one and

2052
01:37:27,120 --> 01:37:29,680
Speaker 1: how well they've played and how constantly they in their

2053
01:37:29,720 --> 01:37:33,000
Speaker 1: run game as you know, one is not given up

2054
01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:37,800
Speaker 1: a lot of negative plays and two three or the

2055
01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:40,280
Speaker 1: second thing would be is obviously I think Cold Beasley's

2056
01:37:40,320 --> 01:37:43,400
Speaker 1: probably you know, top three frames and signing in the

2057
01:37:43,520 --> 01:37:45,760
Speaker 1: NFL this offseason and how much impact he's had on

2058
01:37:45,840 --> 01:37:48,439
Speaker 1: this offense and how much of it is built through him.

2059
01:37:48,479 --> 01:37:51,800
Speaker 1: And then here's the thing. The Bills are going to

2060
01:37:51,880 --> 01:37:54,840
Speaker 1: be in every game, and from this weekend on, they

2061
01:37:54,880 --> 01:37:57,200
Speaker 1: will be in every game once they play this Saturday

2062
01:37:57,280 --> 01:38:00,960
Speaker 1: and what whatever happens on sixteen seventeen, and then once

2063
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:03,360
Speaker 1: they get into the playoffs, they're gonna be in every game.

2064
01:38:03,479 --> 01:38:06,080
Speaker 1: They will be in every fourth quarter because of their defense,

2065
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:09,560
Speaker 1: and the offense is good enough and Josh Allen is

2066
01:38:09,600 --> 01:38:13,280
Speaker 1: playing good enough where he makes two plays, they're gonna

2067
01:38:13,320 --> 01:38:15,559
Speaker 1: win the ballgame like they're They're that type of team

2068
01:38:15,640 --> 01:38:17,479
Speaker 1: that they'll be in it in the fourth quarter and

2069
01:38:17,680 --> 01:38:20,360
Speaker 1: Josh's got a big enough arm or athletic enough to

2070
01:38:20,400 --> 01:38:21,719
Speaker 1: make a play here or there, and all of a sudden,

2071
01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:24,120
Speaker 1: the Bills can win a football game twenty one fourteen

2072
01:38:24,160 --> 01:38:27,280
Speaker 1: and go wow, you know, now onto the next round. Yeah. Yeah.

2073
01:38:27,320 --> 01:38:29,800
Speaker 1: And you said as well today that in your one

2074
01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:32,439
Speaker 1: of your tweets that you feel like the Bills are

2075
01:38:32,479 --> 01:38:34,479
Speaker 1: coached as well as anybody in the league. What leads

2076
01:38:34,479 --> 01:38:37,080
Speaker 1: you to those kind of generalizations, I know, you know

2077
01:38:37,160 --> 01:38:38,880
Speaker 1: you can say that any given week a team really

2078
01:38:38,880 --> 01:38:40,960
Speaker 1: plays well for its coaches. What do you see in

2079
01:38:41,000 --> 01:38:43,879
Speaker 1: this staff and this philosophy, this process here in Buffalo

2080
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:47,479
Speaker 1: that catches your eye. They don't beat themselves, right, that's

2081
01:38:47,479 --> 01:38:50,240
Speaker 1: a good sign. They don't beat themselves. They're not highly penalized.

2082
01:38:50,720 --> 01:38:53,400
Speaker 1: But something happened in the Monday they were Monday night,

2083
01:38:53,479 --> 01:38:55,760
Speaker 1: right or Sunday night football game that caught my eye

2084
01:38:55,800 --> 01:38:57,880
Speaker 1: and I just haven't put it on the internet yet.

2085
01:38:57,960 --> 01:39:02,080
Speaker 1: So it's the fourth down Pittsburgh's offense, and Pittsburgh it's

2086
01:39:02,160 --> 01:39:05,360
Speaker 1: before Duck Hodges throws that interception down the middle of

2087
01:39:05,360 --> 01:39:07,920
Speaker 1: the field, so it's fourth down. They line up with

2088
01:39:08,120 --> 01:39:10,840
Speaker 1: two tight ends and a slot receiver to one thought field.

2089
01:39:10,880 --> 01:39:12,800
Speaker 1: Both tight ends are kind of like attached to the

2090
01:39:12,880 --> 01:39:16,240
Speaker 1: tackles and they have a slot to the field, and

2091
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Speaker 1: Buffalo looks to be just in a normal defense, just

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01:39:19,320 --> 01:39:21,800
Speaker 1: like they were gonna play coverage or whatnot, and Sean

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01:39:21,880 --> 01:39:24,320
Speaker 1: McDermott calls timeout, and they come out of the timeout.

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01:39:24,720 --> 01:39:27,280
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh lines up in the same exact formation. All of

2095
01:39:27,320 --> 01:39:30,200
Speaker 1: a sudden, Buffalo changes their call. Buffalo then shows a

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01:39:30,280 --> 01:39:32,880
Speaker 1: blitz with two linebackers in the A gap and they

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01:39:32,920 --> 01:39:35,840
Speaker 1: blitz a guy off the slot. And you see before

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01:39:35,920 --> 01:39:38,840
Speaker 1: the snap, the quarterback for Pittsburgh, Duck Hodges, points out

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Speaker 1: those two guys that say, hey, we're hot off those

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Speaker 1: two guys, and all of a sudden, those two guys

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01:39:43,720 --> 01:39:45,679
Speaker 1: are the one that blitz and they make him hot

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Speaker 1: and they forced him to throw that ball kind of

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01:39:48,200 --> 01:39:50,680
Speaker 1: early and down the middle because the nickel guy came

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01:39:50,720 --> 01:39:52,920
Speaker 1: on block. And I was just thinking to myself, like,

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01:39:53,840 --> 01:39:56,639
Speaker 1: really good coaching by Sean McDermott to in that moment

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Speaker 1: fourth down. Okay, I'm gonna call the time out. I

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Speaker 1: know what they're in. I saw them line up and

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01:40:01,600 --> 01:40:03,840
Speaker 1: they never changed their personnel group. I think they're going

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01:40:03,920 --> 01:40:06,080
Speaker 1: to line up in the same formation. I know how

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01:40:06,120 --> 01:40:09,840
Speaker 1: to attack their protection. Let's go after it. I just

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01:40:09,960 --> 01:40:12,760
Speaker 1: thought that was really good coaching by Sean McDermott in

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Speaker 1: that moment to understand situational football attack to Pittsburgh Steelers

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01:40:18,320 --> 01:40:21,439
Speaker 1: protection and then they had no chance to convert. You know, Dan,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up. First hour of our

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01:40:23,200 --> 01:40:26,439
Speaker 1: show today, a caller brought it up that sequence and

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01:40:26,520 --> 01:40:29,360
Speaker 1: said they're wasting timeouts on defense. They might have used

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01:40:29,400 --> 01:40:31,519
Speaker 1: those timeouts, and we kind of pointed out in my

2118
01:40:31,600 --> 01:40:34,920
Speaker 1: partner on Sundays, the color man on the broadcast, Eric Wood, says,

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01:40:34,960 --> 01:40:38,200
Speaker 1: that's a McDermott move. I think he's been encouraged to

2120
01:40:38,320 --> 01:40:41,640
Speaker 1: do this by the Bill's sports science department. But it's

2121
01:40:41,640 --> 01:40:44,080
Speaker 1: almost like a basketball move, right. See how they line

2122
01:40:44,120 --> 01:40:45,640
Speaker 1: up then take a time out and go back to

2123
01:40:45,640 --> 01:40:49,040
Speaker 1: your huddle. Absolutely, what's the point of saving the time out?

2124
01:40:49,400 --> 01:40:51,080
Speaker 1: The game is going to be won in that moment.

2125
01:40:52,280 --> 01:40:55,880
Speaker 1: You have the opportunity, Like this is why it's good coaching.

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01:40:56,160 --> 01:40:58,720
Speaker 1: You got game plan right, You've scouted the other team, right,

2127
01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:01,600
Speaker 1: you know their tendency. Okay, when they line up with

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01:41:01,680 --> 01:41:03,920
Speaker 1: two tight ends into the slot, this is what is

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01:41:03,960 --> 01:41:05,880
Speaker 1: going to likely be their play and this is likely

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01:41:05,920 --> 01:41:08,120
Speaker 1: going to be their protection. So when they line up

2131
01:41:08,160 --> 01:41:10,519
Speaker 1: in there, if you have the timeouts, use it and

2132
01:41:10,640 --> 01:41:13,439
Speaker 1: go attack it. I look at it as a complete

2133
01:41:13,479 --> 01:41:15,800
Speaker 1: opposite as the caller and all due respect, it is

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01:41:15,920 --> 01:41:19,920
Speaker 1: fantastic coaching because why would you know. Here's the thing, guys,

2135
01:41:20,360 --> 01:41:23,919
Speaker 1: and there's three types of coaches really and play callers coordinators.

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01:41:23,960 --> 01:41:26,519
Speaker 1: In the NFL, there's there's coaches who wake up and

2137
01:41:26,600 --> 01:41:28,800
Speaker 1: really at college football too, there's coaches who wake up

2138
01:41:28,840 --> 01:41:31,599
Speaker 1: the day after the game and watch the tape and go, ah,

2139
01:41:31,800 --> 01:41:33,680
Speaker 1: the team was doing this, we should have done that.

2140
01:41:34,240 --> 01:41:35,920
Speaker 1: And then there's a coach who can do stuff like

2141
01:41:36,040 --> 01:41:37,800
Speaker 1: Thatt at halftime, where they go in the halftime and

2142
01:41:37,840 --> 01:41:40,479
Speaker 1: then they make adjustments. And then there's really good coaches

2143
01:41:40,520 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 1: who can do stuff at the blink of their fingers.

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01:41:43,400 --> 01:41:46,160
Speaker 1: And it's just impressive to me that Sean McDermott in

2145
01:41:46,280 --> 01:41:48,439
Speaker 1: that moment called time out because it wasn't a pre

2146
01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:51,800
Speaker 1: premeditated time out like that. They were lined up and

2147
01:41:51,880 --> 01:41:53,840
Speaker 1: then he pops the time out, And to me, that

2148
01:41:54,040 --> 01:41:56,280
Speaker 1: is a coach who's completely aware of what's going on

2149
01:41:56,800 --> 01:41:59,000
Speaker 1: and going, Nope, I know exactly what they're gonna do.

2150
01:41:59,160 --> 01:42:01,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna do this. And it was evident to me

2151
01:42:01,400 --> 01:42:03,560
Speaker 1: that that was a big difference in that play. And

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01:42:03,640 --> 01:42:05,360
Speaker 1: that's really the key, isn't it. When you get into

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01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:07,760
Speaker 1: a team and for instance, we've all seen these high

2154
01:42:07,760 --> 01:42:10,400
Speaker 1: flying offenses around the league, the Kansas City Chiefs, the

2155
01:42:10,479 --> 01:42:12,280
Speaker 1: LA Rams from a year ago that even in New

2156
01:42:12,400 --> 01:42:14,880
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints and and he given Sunday. You get these

2157
01:42:14,920 --> 01:42:17,400
Speaker 1: teams that can really score. But if you've got a

2158
01:42:17,479 --> 01:42:20,040
Speaker 1: team that is a defensive minded team and you're leaning

2159
01:42:20,120 --> 01:42:22,519
Speaker 1: on one of the best defenses in the league, you

2160
01:42:22,640 --> 01:42:25,920
Speaker 1: really have to be have your antent eye up for

2161
01:42:26,080 --> 01:42:28,360
Speaker 1: those moments. Do you just describe the moment said, listen,

2162
01:42:28,439 --> 01:42:30,160
Speaker 1: this game is gonna be one. In this moment, we

2163
01:42:30,280 --> 01:42:32,600
Speaker 1: got to get ready. That's hard to do in the

2164
01:42:32,720 --> 01:42:34,559
Speaker 1: heat of the moment, to know, hey, wait a minute

2165
01:42:34,800 --> 01:42:36,720
Speaker 1: and call a time out. And I think that's where

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01:42:37,600 --> 01:42:40,479
Speaker 1: you really show how prepared you are and how nimble

2167
01:42:40,600 --> 01:42:43,840
Speaker 1: your coaching staff can be. Let's see the word that

2168
01:42:43,920 --> 01:42:48,320
Speaker 1: you used right there is absolutely key prepared, prepared for

2169
01:42:48,400 --> 01:42:51,599
Speaker 1: the moment, you know, Like so often we see more

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01:42:51,680 --> 01:42:54,240
Speaker 1: talented football teams, and I think the Bills have a

2171
01:42:54,280 --> 01:42:57,559
Speaker 1: lot of talent, but we're watching more talented football teams

2172
01:42:58,280 --> 01:43:02,479
Speaker 1: not handle moments, not be prepared for moments. And then again,

2173
01:43:02,479 --> 01:43:04,040
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're gonna look back and their

2174
01:43:04,080 --> 01:43:05,760
Speaker 1: coaches are gonna go up there and staying out there

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01:43:05,760 --> 01:43:07,519
Speaker 1: at the press conference either after the game of the

2176
01:43:07,560 --> 01:43:10,240
Speaker 1: next day and go, yeah, looking back on it, I

2177
01:43:10,280 --> 01:43:11,960
Speaker 1: think we could have executed better, or we could have

2178
01:43:12,040 --> 01:43:14,679
Speaker 1: done this better. And I just think really good coaches,

2179
01:43:14,800 --> 01:43:18,640
Speaker 1: to great coaches, to special coaches rarely say that. I

2180
01:43:18,720 --> 01:43:22,120
Speaker 1: think they're always ready for situations. They're always prepared and

2181
01:43:22,240 --> 01:43:25,160
Speaker 1: having a plan, and they never think about oh well

2182
01:43:25,240 --> 01:43:28,960
Speaker 1: if I do this, then this and potential regrets. They don't,

2183
01:43:29,200 --> 01:43:32,479
Speaker 1: you know, like he wasn't coaching with the fear of

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01:43:32,600 --> 01:43:34,920
Speaker 1: regret there. He was going, no, I know exactly what

2185
01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:36,519
Speaker 1: they're gonna do. We're gonna go in the ball game

2186
01:43:36,600 --> 01:43:39,839
Speaker 1: right here. Yeah. Dan Orloska are guests ESPN football analysts

2187
01:43:39,880 --> 01:43:42,759
Speaker 1: spent twelve years playing quarterback in the NFL. There's another

2188
01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:45,600
Speaker 1: play from the Staters game that we took note of.

2189
01:43:45,680 --> 01:43:47,720
Speaker 1: You made a big point of breaking it down on

2190
01:43:47,840 --> 01:43:51,000
Speaker 1: Twitter the fourth quarter midway through the fourth quarter, fourteen

2191
01:43:51,080 --> 01:43:53,519
Speaker 1: yard touchdown pass to Tyler Croft. What did you see

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01:43:53,600 --> 01:43:56,280
Speaker 1: there and what did you see that that was important? Well,

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01:43:56,320 --> 01:43:58,479
Speaker 1: I mean they first of all, they put Crofts by

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01:43:58,560 --> 01:44:00,759
Speaker 1: himself and trips to the other side, which I always

2195
01:44:00,800 --> 01:44:04,040
Speaker 1: like because that kind of you know, tells the quarterback information,

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01:44:04,200 --> 01:44:07,160
Speaker 1: man zone and all that stuff. And just a little

2197
01:44:07,240 --> 01:44:11,040
Speaker 1: detail that they took Singletary as the tailback and they

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01:44:11,120 --> 01:44:12,880
Speaker 1: didn't want him to be part of their protection. They

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Speaker 1: wanted him to be part of the pass route for

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01:44:14,600 --> 01:44:16,880
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. One, you know, t J. Watt

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01:44:17,040 --> 01:44:18,920
Speaker 1: then doesn't become a part of a chip or he

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01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:20,720
Speaker 1: doesn't he didn't doesn't get the chance to knock the

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01:44:20,800 --> 01:44:23,719
Speaker 1: tailback off. And then two you get that that fifth

2204
01:44:23,920 --> 01:44:28,599
Speaker 1: past pass receiving option. He becomes part of the play

2205
01:44:28,840 --> 01:44:31,840
Speaker 1: sooner when you free release him. But to free release

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01:44:31,920 --> 01:44:33,320
Speaker 1: him and actually get him to be part of the

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01:44:33,360 --> 01:44:35,840
Speaker 1: play sooner, they adjusted his alignment and they put him

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01:44:36,240 --> 01:44:38,560
Speaker 1: on the outside leg of the tackle. Putting him on

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01:44:38,600 --> 01:44:41,000
Speaker 1: the outside of the leg of the tackle made that

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01:44:41,720 --> 01:44:44,800
Speaker 1: his ability to get out faster, and then that his

2211
01:44:44,920 --> 01:44:48,120
Speaker 1: ability to get out faster forced the corner to see

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01:44:48,320 --> 01:44:51,400
Speaker 1: him quicker. And this is reactionary stuff, guys, Like, remember

2213
01:44:51,479 --> 01:44:54,920
Speaker 1: football is so reactionary. This is happening pop up in

2214
01:44:55,000 --> 01:44:57,599
Speaker 1: the corner. He got to the line of scrimmage before

2215
01:44:58,040 --> 01:44:59,880
Speaker 1: Josh Allen ever got to the top of his drops,

2216
01:45:00,280 --> 01:45:02,200
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the corners like, wait, I

2217
01:45:02,240 --> 01:45:05,200
Speaker 1: got somebody right here. It's as third and nine or

2218
01:45:05,240 --> 01:45:07,000
Speaker 1: something like that. If he catches as he can go

2219
01:45:07,520 --> 01:45:10,040
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you see Croft widen. And

2220
01:45:10,280 --> 01:45:14,719
Speaker 1: so often young players will cover themselves up by running

2221
01:45:14,760 --> 01:45:18,000
Speaker 1: bad routes, and you don't run bad routes if you're

2222
01:45:18,040 --> 01:45:20,920
Speaker 1: coached well. And you see him widen on the safety.

2223
01:45:20,960 --> 01:45:23,719
Speaker 1: The safety's inside Croft and he wants to go outside,

2224
01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:27,120
Speaker 1: and so don't go don't go inside to go outside,

2225
01:45:27,160 --> 01:45:29,400
Speaker 1: just keep going outside. Make sure that you'll just run

2226
01:45:29,479 --> 01:45:32,360
Speaker 1: away from the bad guy who's the safety. And Jos

2227
01:45:32,400 --> 01:45:34,200
Speaker 1: did a really good job holding his eyes. But all

2228
01:45:34,240 --> 01:45:38,040
Speaker 1: those little details, like, to me, that's the sign of

2229
01:45:38,080 --> 01:45:40,000
Speaker 1: a well coached football team. That's the sign of a

2230
01:45:40,080 --> 01:45:43,120
Speaker 1: team that's doing the little things and critical moments that

2231
01:45:43,160 --> 01:45:45,160
Speaker 1: are playing well. Sure do you want to score forty game,

2232
01:45:45,200 --> 01:45:48,080
Speaker 1: of course, but when they needed it, they got it.

2233
01:45:48,439 --> 01:45:50,439
Speaker 1: You know. It's kind of cool about that play too, Dan.

2234
01:45:50,479 --> 01:45:52,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw it, but yesterday Bill's

2235
01:45:52,960 --> 01:45:56,519
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Brian Dable revealed that the first day of

2236
01:45:56,600 --> 01:46:00,400
Speaker 1: OTA's last spring, Tyler Croft ran that play early in

2237
01:46:00,520 --> 01:46:02,760
Speaker 1: practice and got hurt on it. He was out for

2238
01:46:02,880 --> 01:46:06,080
Speaker 1: several months as he reinjured his foot that very same play.

2239
01:46:06,160 --> 01:46:08,559
Speaker 1: Brian Dable said, I just thought it was in the side. Yeah,

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01:46:08,600 --> 01:46:10,479
Speaker 1: good for him, and there is in December. It's going

2241
01:46:10,520 --> 01:46:13,120
Speaker 1: to go ahead touchdown on it. Yeah, National TV too.

2242
01:46:13,200 --> 01:46:14,840
Speaker 1: That's really cool. What do you think some of the

2243
01:46:14,880 --> 01:46:17,639
Speaker 1: things your thoughts about Josh Allen? We've this whole season

2244
01:46:17,880 --> 01:46:20,639
Speaker 1: and on the run up to it, and you mentioned

2245
01:46:20,680 --> 01:46:23,200
Speaker 1: he made a nice throw on that play, and and uh,

2246
01:46:23,439 --> 01:46:25,439
Speaker 1: we've heard some some other people, you know, about his

2247
01:46:25,520 --> 01:46:28,320
Speaker 1: footwork and about his completion percentage, which continues to be

2248
01:46:28,400 --> 01:46:30,240
Speaker 1: an up and down kind of affair. What do you

2249
01:46:30,280 --> 01:46:34,080
Speaker 1: see in his development? Um, they're winning games with a

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Speaker 1: defense and an offense that just makes enough place. So

2251
01:46:36,880 --> 01:46:38,559
Speaker 1: what do you think about Josh Allen, how far he's

2252
01:46:38,560 --> 01:46:40,360
Speaker 1: come this season, where he has to go and maybe

2253
01:46:40,400 --> 01:46:42,920
Speaker 1: what his next step is. Yeah, I mean, I think

2254
01:46:42,960 --> 01:46:45,559
Speaker 1: that people need to understand that completion percentages are often

2255
01:46:45,640 --> 01:46:49,320
Speaker 1: tied to schemes. You know, Like, I don't think Josh

2256
01:46:49,360 --> 01:46:52,439
Speaker 1: Allen's ever going to be a seventy percent completion percentage quarterback.

2257
01:46:52,640 --> 01:46:55,320
Speaker 1: I don't think that's Like he's a six foot six

2258
01:46:55,400 --> 01:46:57,280
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty pound guy. You're not going to

2259
01:46:57,360 --> 01:47:00,200
Speaker 1: dink and dunk him often, right, unless like that your

2260
01:47:00,280 --> 01:47:02,800
Speaker 1: only resort on offense. So I think that we make

2261
01:47:02,840 --> 01:47:04,519
Speaker 1: a little bit too big of a deal with that

2262
01:47:04,680 --> 01:47:07,080
Speaker 1: that he missed some throws. Yes, of course, blah blah

2263
01:47:07,080 --> 01:47:10,559
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But I think, you know, I think

2264
01:47:10,600 --> 01:47:14,240
Speaker 1: that's what's been nice to watch with Josh's maturation throughout

2265
01:47:14,320 --> 01:47:19,160
Speaker 1: this year is when they need him to play good football,

2266
01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:22,000
Speaker 1: he does. And I don't think you can dispute that. Like, Listen,

2267
01:47:22,040 --> 01:47:23,760
Speaker 1: I've got friends who text me all the time who

2268
01:47:24,200 --> 01:47:27,040
Speaker 1: have the stands on Josh Allen and they don't waiver

2269
01:47:27,200 --> 01:47:28,760
Speaker 1: from it, and they'll send me some stuff and I'll

2270
01:47:28,760 --> 01:47:30,920
Speaker 1: be like, I think he's playing good football, Like is

2271
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:33,920
Speaker 1: he playing football that you know you may want him

2272
01:47:33,960 --> 01:47:37,640
Speaker 1: to because you didn't like him coming out of the

2273
01:47:37,720 --> 01:47:40,479
Speaker 1: draft and now you won't admit that he's playing good football.

2274
01:47:40,600 --> 01:47:42,840
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, but like I'm sitting here, going,

2275
01:47:43,320 --> 01:47:45,759
Speaker 1: this guy's playing good football, and he's playing good football

2276
01:47:45,760 --> 01:47:47,760
Speaker 1: in the moments that they need him too. Here's the

2277
01:47:47,880 --> 01:47:50,680
Speaker 1: thing for me with Josh that will take him from

2278
01:47:50,720 --> 01:47:54,439
Speaker 1: playing good football and then go blah. Josh Allen is

2279
01:47:54,439 --> 01:47:57,040
Speaker 1: becoming the difference maker for the strong arm that he has.

2280
01:47:57,720 --> 01:48:00,439
Speaker 1: The consistency of the deep ball hasn't shown up yet,

2281
01:48:00,800 --> 01:48:04,160
Speaker 1: and so I mean, you get four to six shots

2282
01:48:04,240 --> 01:48:06,720
Speaker 1: a game to push the ball downfield, like push the

2283
01:48:06,760 --> 01:48:08,800
Speaker 1: ball downfield, and usually if you hit those, you have

2284
01:48:08,880 --> 01:48:11,479
Speaker 1: a good chance to win it. If you don't, you'll struggle.

2285
01:48:11,680 --> 01:48:14,560
Speaker 1: If Josh will get hot with those and hit some

2286
01:48:14,680 --> 01:48:17,120
Speaker 1: of those, I think the Bills could be really difficult

2287
01:48:17,200 --> 01:48:19,000
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, not just make it like I think

2288
01:48:19,040 --> 01:48:21,599
Speaker 1: the Bills. I think that's what will be the determining

2289
01:48:21,640 --> 01:48:23,880
Speaker 1: factor in their game on Saturday against the Patriots, because

2290
01:48:23,920 --> 01:48:25,960
Speaker 1: the Patriots are going to give Josh the can to

2291
01:48:26,080 --> 01:48:29,080
Speaker 1: throw the football downfield, and if he hits them and

2292
01:48:30,439 --> 01:48:33,479
Speaker 1: chooses to just throw them rather than try to aim them,

2293
01:48:33,600 --> 01:48:37,360
Speaker 1: I think he aims the ball downfield sometimes, that will

2294
01:48:37,400 --> 01:48:39,800
Speaker 1: be a big determining factor in that game. And then

2295
01:48:39,840 --> 01:48:43,479
Speaker 1: also in the playoffs. Then the Patriots held Alan and

2296
01:48:43,520 --> 01:48:45,760
Speaker 1: the Bills to just ten points when they played three

2297
01:48:45,800 --> 01:48:49,360
Speaker 1: months ago, Bills need much better than that. Is the

2298
01:48:49,439 --> 01:48:52,240
Speaker 1: Patriots defense still that formidable, that will be hard to

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Speaker 1: get more than ten points. Yeah, they're still that good.

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01:48:55,840 --> 01:48:59,519
Speaker 1: I think that's what's not getting talked about enough with

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Speaker 1: the page defense and actually, what's what happened in the

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati game. Cincinnati's offensive line change the line of screamage

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Speaker 1: a lot. I think that the Bills can line up

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01:49:09,720 --> 01:49:13,519
Speaker 1: and run the football, excuse me, in between the tackles

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Speaker 1: on the Patriots. Just line up and play bully football

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Speaker 1: and go we're We're not gonna let you. Because what

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01:49:19,120 --> 01:49:22,080
Speaker 1: happened was in the first game, the Bills got into

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01:49:22,120 --> 01:49:24,559
Speaker 1: too many bad situations where it became a passing game

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Speaker 1: and they're just not equipped right now to handle New

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Speaker 1: England's blitz packages. There's just not They're not going to

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01:49:30,240 --> 01:49:32,080
Speaker 1: see them well enough. They don't have good enough plans

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01:49:32,200 --> 01:49:34,080
Speaker 1: or players aren't good enough. On the outside of whoop

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01:49:34,080 --> 01:49:36,479
Speaker 1: book very I don't know if anybody is in the NFL.

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01:49:36,640 --> 01:49:38,840
Speaker 1: So I think that they got to line up and

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01:49:38,920 --> 01:49:42,320
Speaker 1: play bully football. Scoring ten points won't be enough, but

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01:49:42,360 --> 01:49:44,200
Speaker 1: don't don't forget. I think they had three or four

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01:49:44,280 --> 01:49:47,639
Speaker 1: turnovers that game as bow so you know in New England,

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01:49:47,680 --> 01:49:51,200
Speaker 1: and the scored sixteen UM. I think the Bills have

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01:49:51,400 --> 01:49:53,720
Speaker 1: given up what twenty more than twenty one once this

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Speaker 1: year defensively to the Eagles. I think so like it.

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Speaker 1: It's not like New England's gonna get hot this week

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01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:02,200
Speaker 1: doing He's got their off issues on offense as well.

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01:50:02,320 --> 01:50:04,240
Speaker 1: So you know, I think the Bills, if they can

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01:50:04,280 --> 01:50:08,160
Speaker 1: go score seventeen twenty points, they'll absolutely have a good

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01:50:08,280 --> 01:50:10,519
Speaker 1: chance to win, a really good chance to win that game.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna come down to the will be not can

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01:50:13,320 --> 01:50:16,599
Speaker 1: they but will they stay committed to playing bully football?

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01:50:16,800 --> 01:50:19,400
Speaker 1: You know, like second and nine, you run the ball,

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01:50:19,479 --> 01:50:21,519
Speaker 1: first down, you get one yard, second and nine, I'd

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01:50:21,600 --> 01:50:24,240
Speaker 1: run it again. And I'm just I'm gonna walk up

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01:50:24,280 --> 01:50:25,960
Speaker 1: to the offensive line if I'm day ball and going,

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01:50:26,080 --> 01:50:28,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna win this game with you guys in a

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01:50:28,439 --> 01:50:30,600
Speaker 1: run game. And we're gonna lose this game with you

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01:50:30,680 --> 01:50:32,600
Speaker 1: guys in the run game either way, you know. And

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01:50:32,680 --> 01:50:35,360
Speaker 1: I think I think they could have success doing that. Yeah,

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01:50:35,600 --> 01:50:38,000
Speaker 1: And I got one last thing for me, Dan and

2337
01:50:38,080 --> 01:50:40,960
Speaker 1: a bigger picture. Drew Brees down in New Orleans passed

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01:50:41,040 --> 01:50:43,400
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning for the most touchdown passes in her career,

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01:50:43,479 --> 01:50:47,120
Speaker 1: over five hundred. A guy who and you've seen Drew,

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01:50:47,200 --> 01:50:50,439
Speaker 1: I mean, he's like six foot six one. Maybe he

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01:50:50,560 --> 01:50:53,560
Speaker 1: had a catastrophic shoulder injury early in his career, and

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01:50:53,680 --> 01:50:57,200
Speaker 1: yet here he's he's mushroomed into this guy who's passed

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01:50:57,240 --> 01:51:00,559
Speaker 1: for five thousand yards, more than five times more than

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01:51:00,560 --> 01:51:02,599
Speaker 1: anybody else has done it. I mean, the guy's phenomenal.

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01:51:02,680 --> 01:51:04,320
Speaker 1: What do you think about Drew Brees? Can you put that?

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01:51:04,600 --> 01:51:07,160
Speaker 1: As a former quarterback? Can you put what he's done

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01:51:07,560 --> 01:51:14,479
Speaker 1: in perspective? Oh? Man? You know the Malcolm Gladwell author

2348
01:51:14,680 --> 01:51:17,360
Speaker 1: when he talks about you become a master of something

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01:51:17,439 --> 01:51:20,760
Speaker 1: when you do it for ten thousand hours. Drew Brees

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01:51:20,800 --> 01:51:24,280
Speaker 1: has become a master of playing quarterback. He's never been

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01:51:24,360 --> 01:51:27,080
Speaker 1: the master of us as a thrower or an athlete

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01:51:27,200 --> 01:51:32,560
Speaker 1: or whatnot. He's a master at playing quarterback. And I

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01:51:32,680 --> 01:51:35,920
Speaker 1: think his accomplishment if you guys, I don't know if

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01:51:35,920 --> 01:51:38,040
Speaker 1: you guys saw it, but he had a quote post

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01:51:38,200 --> 01:51:40,760
Speaker 1: last night where he broke the touchdown record and the

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01:51:40,840 --> 01:51:46,080
Speaker 1: completion percentage record in a game and had one in completion.

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01:51:46,960 --> 01:51:49,040
Speaker 1: He had a quote last night and said that one

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01:51:49,120 --> 01:51:52,240
Speaker 1: in completion is gonna hat me forever. Wrap your brain

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01:51:52,320 --> 01:51:56,200
Speaker 1: around that, like you want to know why guys become

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01:51:56,320 --> 01:52:01,160
Speaker 1: great or overcome physical deficiencies. Drew Brees has had a

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01:52:01,400 --> 01:52:05,679
Speaker 1: historic night and the one flaw, literally the one flaw

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01:52:05,800 --> 01:52:08,400
Speaker 1: that he had was on his mind. That is why

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01:52:08,439 --> 01:52:11,200
Speaker 1: he's great. Did you see the incompletion too? It almost

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01:52:11,240 --> 01:52:14,640
Speaker 1: looked deliberate. Yeah, And he even said he's like if

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01:52:14,680 --> 01:52:16,639
Speaker 1: I'm if I'm not an idiot and I just square

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01:52:16,720 --> 01:52:18,600
Speaker 1: my feet, I'm gonna be fine, you know, just like

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01:52:19,280 --> 01:52:21,599
Speaker 1: that's me. If all was him, I'd be like, Hey,

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01:52:21,680 --> 01:52:23,560
Speaker 1: I'm the best ever look at me. But you know,

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01:52:23,640 --> 01:52:25,920
Speaker 1: and he's going a wrong going, man, I was. I

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01:52:26,080 --> 01:52:29,160
Speaker 1: was one incompletion away and that's that's the one that's

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01:52:29,240 --> 01:52:31,519
Speaker 1: that's gonna, you know, be in my memory. Hey, Dan,

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01:52:31,640 --> 01:52:33,719
Speaker 1: thanks for this. It's always great. You've got great insight

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01:52:33,840 --> 01:52:36,240
Speaker 1: into the Bills and Josh Allen, and thanks for making

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01:52:36,280 --> 01:52:39,240
Speaker 1: yourself available to us today. We really appreciate it. Always

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01:52:39,240 --> 01:52:43,000
Speaker 1: a pleasure, guys. Thanks Dan, Dan Orlovsky ESPN Football Analysts.

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01:52:43,040 --> 01:52:44,960
Speaker 1: You can catch him there and does college and NFL

2377
01:52:45,200 --> 01:52:48,519
Speaker 1: and analysis. There. Played twelve seasons in the NFL with

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01:52:48,640 --> 01:52:51,479
Speaker 1: the Lions, with Houston, with Indian Tampa Bay and we

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01:52:51,560 --> 01:52:53,720
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us here today. A lot of

2380
01:52:53,760 --> 01:52:57,400
Speaker 1: good observations are about the Bills. Uh, the Bills are

2381
01:52:57,400 --> 01:52:59,040
Speaker 1: going to be in He's right, and you can tell

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01:52:59,120 --> 01:53:00,640
Speaker 1: you watching the Bills. He's the Bills are going to

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01:53:00,680 --> 01:53:02,680
Speaker 1: be in every game and they might just need a

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01:53:02,720 --> 01:53:05,400
Speaker 1: couple of plays from their offense to win every game.

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01:53:05,439 --> 01:53:07,639
Speaker 1: And he's talking about this year, this next month or two.

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01:53:08,479 --> 01:53:12,640
Speaker 1: Think about that for a minute. It gives you a

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01:53:12,680 --> 01:53:16,920
Speaker 1: little fluttered at it did, like, Yeah, they're gonna be

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01:53:16,960 --> 01:53:18,920
Speaker 1: in every game, and yeah, you think about and we

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01:53:19,040 --> 01:53:22,320
Speaker 1: believe that they probably are. Yeah, I never really put

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01:53:22,320 --> 01:53:25,280
Speaker 1: it in perspective like that, but I have a hard time.

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01:53:25,520 --> 01:53:28,080
Speaker 1: It happened once this year in Philadelphia at home where

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01:53:28,120 --> 01:53:30,439
Speaker 1: they scored thirty one and Bill scored thirteen, where they

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01:53:30,560 --> 01:53:32,840
Speaker 1: kind of got out of hand. But man, oh man,

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01:53:32,880 --> 01:53:35,240
Speaker 1: you're right. This is a team and I said it

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01:53:35,320 --> 01:53:37,639
Speaker 1: early in the seas, they're hard to beat. They're gonna

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01:53:37,640 --> 01:53:39,920
Speaker 1: be in. They're gonna be in these games. It's gonna

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01:53:39,960 --> 01:53:43,880
Speaker 1: be another game like it was Sunday night, like the

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01:53:43,960 --> 01:53:46,200
Speaker 1: last playoff game they were in in Jacksonville. Is gonna's

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01:53:46,200 --> 01:53:48,200
Speaker 1: gonna be a one score game most of that game,

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01:53:48,280 --> 01:53:50,720
Speaker 1: and um, and all you need is for this young

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01:53:50,840 --> 01:53:55,559
Speaker 1: quarterback and this group on offensive flash one or two plays,

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01:53:55,720 --> 01:53:57,920
Speaker 1: you know, over the course of the game to make

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01:53:57,960 --> 01:54:01,080
Speaker 1: the difference. It's fun to think about. It's exciting. We

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01:54:01,160 --> 01:54:03,720
Speaker 1: thank dan or Laski for making himself available to us.

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01:54:04,000 --> 01:54:05,400
Speaker 1: We got a more coming up. We want to hear

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Speaker 1: more from you. What's the biggest reason you should root

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Speaker 1: for a Bill's win Saturday in Foxborough. Let's hear it

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Speaker 1: show turned, it turned. You know, it's good about the

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Speaker 1: show today, Steve. It's not over yet, that's one thing. Yeah,

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01:55:14,520 --> 01:55:17,200
Speaker 1: think it's better than I thought it was gonna be. Well,

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01:55:17,240 --> 01:55:20,360
Speaker 1: we came in, we knew, we knew Kyle Brant was

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01:55:20,440 --> 01:55:23,000
Speaker 1: coming on, and that's it. That's all we had. That's it.

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01:55:23,360 --> 01:55:26,920
Speaker 1: And then Pristovsky, Yeah, Pete Prisco, we reached out to.

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01:55:27,120 --> 01:55:30,000
Speaker 1: He was really good. And Orlovsky puts his tweet out

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01:55:30,160 --> 01:55:33,400
Speaker 1: about the play the fourth you know, the touchdown to

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01:55:33,520 --> 01:55:36,040
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft and then he you know the time alcohol

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Speaker 1: right in the time, and he puts his tweet out

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01:55:37,880 --> 01:55:39,320
Speaker 1: and we said, you know what we because I know

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01:55:39,480 --> 01:55:41,040
Speaker 1: him and so does the show. He's a friend of

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01:55:41,080 --> 01:55:43,200
Speaker 1: the show and he's a great dude. So we call him, Hey,

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01:55:43,240 --> 01:55:44,600
Speaker 1: you want to come on and talk about He said yeah,

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01:55:44,720 --> 01:55:48,120
Speaker 1: So he came on last segment. He's great. So all

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01:55:48,160 --> 01:55:50,320
Speaker 1: of a sudden we come in with Kyle Brandt and

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01:55:50,480 --> 01:55:53,000
Speaker 1: nobody and we have Kyle Brandt, Pete Prisco, and Dan

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01:55:53,120 --> 01:55:55,400
Speaker 1: Orlovsky and it turned into a really good show. Yeah,

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01:55:55,440 --> 01:55:57,440
Speaker 1: and let's just sit here and just no, we want

2443
01:55:57,480 --> 01:55:59,400
Speaker 1: to hear from from listeners too, and you're welcome to

2444
01:55:59,480 --> 01:56:02,200
Speaker 1: join our hearts over the over the fire of our

2445
01:56:02,240 --> 01:56:04,600
Speaker 1: own us here, give us a call. We want air

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01:56:04,640 --> 01:56:09,320
Speaker 1: from listeners. Fifty to three. You said it to a

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01:56:09,360 --> 01:56:11,440
Speaker 1: little serendipity in the show because we had a caller

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01:56:11,720 --> 01:56:13,760
Speaker 1: early on. I can go back and look at the name.

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01:56:13,800 --> 01:56:17,280
Speaker 1: I always dropped the names down. I think it was

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01:56:17,520 --> 01:56:22,920
Speaker 1: Rick who called in and was talking about, um, gotta

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01:56:22,960 --> 01:56:24,960
Speaker 1: stop wasting time, wasting time. I don't know if that

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01:56:25,040 --> 01:56:26,640
Speaker 1: was Rick now, I don't think that it was Art.

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01:56:27,320 --> 01:56:30,440
Speaker 1: Art called in and was like, hey, they're wasting timeouts

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01:56:30,480 --> 01:56:32,120
Speaker 1: and you know, and then I didn't like the way

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01:56:32,120 --> 01:56:34,720
Speaker 1: they're handling the game management. And then or LOBSI comes

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01:56:34,760 --> 01:56:36,720
Speaker 1: on and tell and gives them a specific answer about

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01:56:36,720 --> 01:56:38,880
Speaker 1: why they were way out ahead of it and how

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01:56:39,280 --> 01:56:41,440
Speaker 1: nimble they were and on it they were that they

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01:56:41,520 --> 01:56:43,360
Speaker 1: won that moment and maybe the game because of it.

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01:56:43,480 --> 01:56:45,760
Speaker 1: So it was a little serendipitous that we had a

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01:56:45,800 --> 01:56:48,600
Speaker 1: call or call in and ask about that or comment

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01:56:48,680 --> 01:56:50,520
Speaker 1: on it, and we had an expert, an NFL expert,

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01:56:50,520 --> 01:56:53,320
Speaker 1: a former player, and a quarterback come in and give

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01:56:53,400 --> 01:56:55,360
Speaker 1: us what the lowdown on how it worked. It was.

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01:56:55,520 --> 01:56:58,520
Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive and we've talked about that before. We

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01:56:58,880 --> 01:57:00,880
Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever had had a head coach

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01:57:03,240 --> 01:57:07,040
Speaker 1: call defensive timeouts like this one does. And I think

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01:57:07,080 --> 01:57:09,920
Speaker 1: it's a nod to the modern NFL where they kind

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01:57:09,960 --> 01:57:12,200
Speaker 1: of say, listen it was. It's an old wives tale

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01:57:12,200 --> 01:57:15,400
Speaker 1: that you shouldn't use a timeout on defense, right, and

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01:57:15,480 --> 01:57:17,840
Speaker 1: you get a lot of code like you Kyle Shanahan

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01:57:17,960 --> 01:57:21,800
Speaker 1: and Adam Gasee and all these offensive you know, Sean McVeagh,

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01:57:23,400 --> 01:57:26,520
Speaker 1: you know, use the timeout on defense. Yeah, because it counts,

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01:57:26,960 --> 01:57:28,680
Speaker 1: you know, use it when you need it, and the

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01:57:28,800 --> 01:57:30,480
Speaker 1: moment that it is really important when that other team's

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01:57:30,480 --> 01:57:32,080
Speaker 1: got that fourth down that if you get it, you

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01:57:32,200 --> 01:57:34,920
Speaker 1: get you know, your probability goes web use a timeout.

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01:57:35,280 --> 01:57:37,480
Speaker 1: Sean mcdermots has been out ahead of that and done

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01:57:37,520 --> 01:57:40,560
Speaker 1: that on a number of occasions. And I it's funny too,

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01:57:40,600 --> 01:57:42,800
Speaker 1: because I'm the old offensive god and I'm like, oh wow,

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01:57:42,840 --> 01:57:45,360
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good time out. You know, I'm thinking

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01:57:45,400 --> 01:57:46,920
Speaker 1: it from the offensive side of it, and I go

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01:57:47,000 --> 01:57:49,000
Speaker 1: oh wow, that that kind of crushes them right there.

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01:57:49,960 --> 01:57:53,120
Speaker 1: It's a really smart move. No, not ever, I'm not

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01:57:53,160 --> 01:57:55,040
Speaker 1: saying they've never blown a time out here in Buffalo.

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01:57:55,080 --> 01:57:59,080
Speaker 1: Always they have, but I've always been struck by their

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01:57:59,160 --> 01:58:01,320
Speaker 1: willingness and what they get out of They seem to

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01:58:01,360 --> 01:58:03,600
Speaker 1: win those moments after those timeouts. It's pretty cool. I

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01:58:03,640 --> 01:58:06,280
Speaker 1: would love to get coach McDermott talking about that sometime,

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01:58:06,360 --> 01:58:09,480
Speaker 1: and that and other ways that he and his staff

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01:58:09,520 --> 01:58:14,080
Speaker 1: have embraced analytics. Analytics is much more than don't punt

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01:58:14,120 --> 01:58:17,400
Speaker 1: on fourth down. No, these guys are totally basing many

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01:58:17,480 --> 01:58:20,200
Speaker 1: of their decisions on analytics, like can we use the

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01:58:20,240 --> 01:58:22,360
Speaker 1: timeout on defense? What does that mean? Where should these

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01:58:22,400 --> 01:58:26,040
Speaker 1: timeouts go? And every and in the whole player development

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01:58:26,120 --> 01:58:30,480
Speaker 1: and physical conditioning aspects of sports science, and these guys

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01:58:30,520 --> 01:58:33,200
Speaker 1: are heavily into analytics. They don't talk about it much

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01:58:33,200 --> 01:58:36,400
Speaker 1: because they don't talk about much of anything. Talking about

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01:58:36,400 --> 01:58:38,000
Speaker 1: of stuff because there may be a team out there's

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01:58:38,000 --> 01:58:41,720
Speaker 1: not doing it's proprietary information, you know. And it's interesting too, yeah,

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01:58:41,920 --> 01:58:45,440
Speaker 1: because it's you talk about, you know, where they use

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01:58:45,520 --> 01:58:47,400
Speaker 1: these timeouts and how they manage the game. A lot

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01:58:47,480 --> 01:58:51,480
Speaker 1: of it comes down to projections like if we do

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01:58:51,680 --> 01:58:55,880
Speaker 1: this and this, you know, it changes the narrative the

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01:58:55,960 --> 01:58:58,200
Speaker 1: rest of the game. For instance, I heard him and

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01:58:58,240 --> 01:59:00,360
Speaker 1: I never really thought about it. With a certain amount

2507
01:59:00,360 --> 01:59:02,839
Speaker 1: of time left, they start to count how many possessions

2508
01:59:02,840 --> 01:59:05,880
Speaker 1: are going to be left in that game? And you

2509
01:59:06,000 --> 01:59:08,120
Speaker 1: want to have the first one in the last one,

2510
01:59:08,400 --> 01:59:10,600
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. In what's left? You want

2511
01:59:10,640 --> 01:59:12,200
Speaker 1: to have this one and then the last one too.

2512
01:59:12,680 --> 01:59:15,520
Speaker 1: And if you can manipulate the clock by going forward

2513
01:59:15,600 --> 01:59:17,800
Speaker 1: on fourth down to give you that extra possession, or

2514
01:59:17,920 --> 01:59:20,760
Speaker 1: you know, do that. It all gets mixed into the water.

2515
01:59:21,160 --> 01:59:23,720
Speaker 1: It's all. I don't know whether it's all statistics. Probably

2516
01:59:23,960 --> 01:59:28,080
Speaker 1: I don't know what math genre you're talking about, but man,

2517
01:59:28,160 --> 01:59:31,600
Speaker 1: oh man, it's rampant in the NFL and certainly in

2518
01:59:31,640 --> 01:59:33,880
Speaker 1: this building, sure is. Hey, our Twitter poll today, what's

2519
01:59:33,880 --> 01:59:36,160
Speaker 1: the biggest reason you should root for a Bills win

2520
01:59:36,240 --> 01:59:38,960
Speaker 1: over the Patriots? Sanitay in Foxborough? On the Twitter poll

2521
01:59:39,080 --> 01:59:41,480
Speaker 1: seventeen hundred votes in so far, about half of you

2522
01:59:41,600 --> 01:59:44,080
Speaker 1: fifty one percent say the biggest reason would be that

2523
01:59:44,160 --> 01:59:47,920
Speaker 1: it signifies the changing of the guard in the AFC East.

2524
01:59:48,400 --> 01:59:50,720
Speaker 1: Thirty three percent of you say it would be because

2525
01:59:50,840 --> 01:59:54,560
Speaker 1: that would keep the Bills chances alive for a division title. Okay,

2526
01:59:54,760 --> 01:59:57,240
Speaker 1: and it's a remote chance, but that's where I would vote.

2527
01:59:57,480 --> 01:59:59,880
Speaker 1: Thirteen percent of you say it would. It could be

2528
02:00:00,480 --> 02:00:02,760
Speaker 1: the last chance to beat Tom Brady. He's thirty one

2529
02:00:02,800 --> 02:00:04,760
Speaker 1: and three against the Bills. Three percent of you have

2530
02:00:04,840 --> 02:00:07,040
Speaker 1: something else in mine. Let's talk about it. Eight three

2531
02:00:07,280 --> 02:00:10,720
Speaker 1: fifty to three one eight eight eight five fifty two

2532
02:00:10,800 --> 02:00:13,800
Speaker 1: five fifty. Tony on the line from Rochester, Tony, go ahead,

2533
02:00:13,800 --> 02:00:16,920
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Murphy had a little bit different

2534
02:00:17,000 --> 02:00:20,080
Speaker 1: take on why they should beat the Patriots. Okay, first

2535
02:00:20,080 --> 02:00:22,760
Speaker 1: of all, I'm an everyday listener, so I know way

2536
02:00:22,800 --> 02:00:25,720
Speaker 1: back in August and September, there was one host on

2537
02:00:25,920 --> 02:00:29,720
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live who predicted eleven or twelve wins. He

2538
02:00:29,800 --> 02:00:31,880
Speaker 1: said eleven plus. I don't think he ruled out thirteen

2539
02:00:31,960 --> 02:00:36,160
Speaker 1: or fourteen. Well, eleven or plus, right, So I would

2540
02:00:36,200 --> 02:00:39,240
Speaker 1: like him to be spot on. If they beat the Patriots.

2541
02:00:39,640 --> 02:00:41,720
Speaker 1: I think they'll come out to play against the Jets.

2542
02:00:41,960 --> 02:00:44,640
Speaker 1: If they don't beat the Patriots, they have nothing for

2543
02:00:44,760 --> 02:00:46,520
Speaker 1: it to play for it for the Jets and I

2544
02:00:46,600 --> 02:00:48,800
Speaker 1: think the rest of them that's but I would like

2545
02:00:48,960 --> 02:00:51,720
Speaker 1: one of you to be dead right. That's why can't

2546
02:00:51,720 --> 02:00:54,800
Speaker 1: I be dead right? Because you choose less games than

2547
02:00:54,880 --> 02:00:57,120
Speaker 1: I did. Why can't you rule for me to be

2548
02:00:57,200 --> 02:00:59,680
Speaker 1: dead right? Tony? And by the way, what do we

2549
02:00:59,720 --> 02:01:03,480
Speaker 1: do with plus now that it's down to you know down,

2550
02:01:03,720 --> 02:01:07,400
Speaker 1: we're down to playoff plus? Well, you didn't make that clear.

2551
02:01:07,480 --> 02:01:10,760
Speaker 1: You said eleven plus. You took eleven to infinity. I

2552
02:01:11,080 --> 02:01:13,280
Speaker 1: nailed down a number. I think you your prediction of

2553
02:01:13,320 --> 02:01:18,040
Speaker 1: eleven plus was invalid. Kids eleven. What if I said

2554
02:01:18,160 --> 02:01:22,080
Speaker 1: ten minus? What would I get? I don't know. I

2555
02:01:22,120 --> 02:01:23,960
Speaker 1: think I don't know. That's a good point, Tony. Are

2556
02:01:24,000 --> 02:01:25,760
Speaker 1: you trying to get us fight? My plus had to do.

2557
02:01:26,280 --> 02:01:28,000
Speaker 1: My plus was and I maybe I didn't make this

2558
02:01:28,120 --> 02:01:31,040
Speaker 1: clear at the time, but my plus was a playoff game,

2559
02:01:31,080 --> 02:01:34,200
Speaker 1: playoff win. I think they could win a playoff game. Um,

2560
02:01:34,400 --> 02:01:36,920
Speaker 1: and whether they won the division with eleven wins or whatever,

2561
02:01:36,960 --> 02:01:38,480
Speaker 1: I thought they were going to win a playoff game.

2562
02:01:38,520 --> 02:01:40,760
Speaker 1: And I think that's that still stands. I think Tony's

2563
02:01:40,760 --> 02:01:45,520
Speaker 1: trying to get us arguments. Yeah, Bill and Rochester, go ahead, Bill,

2564
02:01:45,640 --> 02:01:49,000
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hey, guys, thanks for taking my call.

2565
02:01:49,600 --> 02:01:52,800
Speaker 1: I think the best reason to win is we are

2566
02:01:52,960 --> 02:01:56,080
Speaker 1: definitely rolled Warriors and we're going all the way to

2567
02:01:56,160 --> 02:01:59,080
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. You know, the Bills have never gone

2568
02:01:59,120 --> 02:02:01,160
Speaker 1: seven and one in a season on the road. I

2569
02:02:01,240 --> 02:02:04,360
Speaker 1: read that today too. Who wrote that? I think I

2570
02:02:04,480 --> 02:02:07,760
Speaker 1: wrote that it's going up on the website tomorrow. Yet

2571
02:02:07,880 --> 02:02:10,000
Speaker 1: never never gone seven and one, which I have to

2572
02:02:10,120 --> 02:02:12,120
Speaker 1: confess it surprised me for four times. This will be

2573
02:02:12,240 --> 02:02:14,520
Speaker 1: if they this is the fourth time in their history

2574
02:02:14,520 --> 02:02:18,160
Speaker 1: they've gone six, won six road games, never gone seven

2575
02:02:18,240 --> 02:02:20,480
Speaker 1: and one, certainly never gone eight. No on the road either.

2576
02:02:20,680 --> 02:02:23,640
Speaker 1: That's that's big. Yeah, that's big, And that would be

2577
02:02:23,760 --> 02:02:26,920
Speaker 1: that would be significant. It would be a how about it?

2578
02:02:27,120 --> 02:02:30,480
Speaker 1: You know, you start winning double jigit games and you

2579
02:02:30,560 --> 02:02:32,920
Speaker 1: start doing some pretty cool stuff, particularly and given the

2580
02:02:33,040 --> 02:02:35,760
Speaker 1: last recent history of this club, you're going to do

2581
02:02:35,880 --> 02:02:38,000
Speaker 1: some historic things. Yeah, you know. And if you could

2582
02:02:38,200 --> 02:02:41,560
Speaker 1: win seven road games in a season, first time in

2583
02:02:41,600 --> 02:02:46,760
Speaker 1: the Enfranchise's history, milestone, that's a big milestone. Here is

2584
02:02:46,800 --> 02:02:48,920
Speaker 1: a John in Tonawanda. John, welcome to the show and

2585
02:02:48,920 --> 02:02:53,600
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Hey, doing you good good? I'm

2586
02:02:53,760 --> 02:02:57,480
Speaker 1: very excited that we clinched. Already I'm already out of

2587
02:02:57,520 --> 02:03:02,400
Speaker 1: my mind, but for John, I think I watched him

2588
02:03:02,440 --> 02:03:05,880
Speaker 1: every week everything that he does. I think that he's

2589
02:03:05,960 --> 02:03:09,480
Speaker 1: not scared of anybody. He is very clinch at the

2590
02:03:09,600 --> 02:03:12,480
Speaker 1: end of a game. He doesn't get nervous. And I

2591
02:03:12,640 --> 02:03:15,240
Speaker 1: think beating New England in New England would give him

2592
02:03:15,360 --> 02:03:21,560
Speaker 1: more confidence going into the playoffs. UM as well as singultary.

2593
02:03:21,760 --> 02:03:27,320
Speaker 1: How he runs our defense is you know, awesome. And

2594
02:03:27,640 --> 02:03:30,000
Speaker 1: my other comment I want to make to Steve Uh

2595
02:03:30,280 --> 02:03:33,960
Speaker 1: just as a long time fan, my favorite all times

2596
02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:39,720
Speaker 1: to U Tasker play is Special Teams the Rams kick

2597
02:03:40,080 --> 02:03:44,200
Speaker 1: or punt and you crushed the guy who caught the ball.

2598
02:03:45,200 --> 02:03:48,000
Speaker 1: Remember that play, Steve. I think I probably remember the

2599
02:03:48,040 --> 02:03:52,120
Speaker 1: one you're talking about. He had been with us for

2600
02:03:52,200 --> 02:03:54,160
Speaker 1: a year and a half, two years before that, UM,

2601
02:03:54,640 --> 02:03:59,560
Speaker 1: and he was he went to the Rams and Vernon returner,

2602
02:04:00,080 --> 02:04:02,520
Speaker 1: Vernon Vernon Turner. He was good, too good. He was

2603
02:04:02,560 --> 02:04:04,880
Speaker 1: really good. He's a good player. And and and that

2604
02:04:05,320 --> 02:04:07,200
Speaker 1: the hit he's talking about his interesting because Vernon and

2605
02:04:07,200 --> 02:04:11,600
Speaker 1: I are friends, obviously, and Uh, Vernon hasn't an autobiography out,

2606
02:04:12,040 --> 02:04:14,400
Speaker 1: does he. Yeah, And one of the chapters in the

2607
02:04:14,440 --> 02:04:17,840
Speaker 1: book is that hit and the old chap He sent

2608
02:04:17,920 --> 02:04:20,480
Speaker 1: me an autograph copy you know stuff. He's great and

2609
02:04:20,560 --> 02:04:23,520
Speaker 1: he's doing very well. He's and I there's a chance

2610
02:04:23,560 --> 02:04:25,440
Speaker 1: of that book could be made. They could make the

2611
02:04:25,480 --> 02:04:29,280
Speaker 1: move book into a movie. Really yeah, why Vernon was

2612
02:04:29,560 --> 02:04:32,520
Speaker 1: Vernon was like almost smaller than me. Uh and he

2613
02:04:32,680 --> 02:04:35,200
Speaker 1: had and he was talented, very talented, and he's got

2614
02:04:35,240 --> 02:04:37,920
Speaker 1: a great backstory. He was he's you know, to hit him.

2615
02:04:38,040 --> 02:04:40,640
Speaker 1: I mean the ball was like literally caught and you hit.

2616
02:04:40,880 --> 02:04:44,440
Speaker 1: How did you know the ball was right there? I

2617
02:04:44,560 --> 02:04:48,280
Speaker 1: could tell me. I could tell by his body language.

2618
02:04:48,280 --> 02:04:49,920
Speaker 1: I mean it was. I knew the guy I had

2619
02:04:50,080 --> 02:04:52,640
Speaker 1: say something up he might I couldn't hear him. I

2620
02:04:52,720 --> 02:04:55,600
Speaker 1: was my head was probably still ringing, but he was. Yeah, Um,

2621
02:04:56,080 --> 02:04:58,000
Speaker 1: I could tell by the way. There's a whole I

2622
02:04:58,080 --> 02:04:59,840
Speaker 1: got a whole list of things that happened on that

2623
02:05:00,040 --> 02:05:02,280
Speaker 1: play because I've relived it so many times because of

2624
02:05:02,880 --> 02:05:05,600
Speaker 1: fans like you, John, and and there's that's back on

2625
02:05:05,680 --> 02:05:07,640
Speaker 1: the old turf, when the middle of the field was

2626
02:05:07,680 --> 02:05:11,920
Speaker 1: a painted bill's helmet. The paint was slippery. I used

2627
02:05:12,000 --> 02:05:16,440
Speaker 1: that to my advantage on the way down there. They doubled,

2628
02:05:16,480 --> 02:05:19,120
Speaker 1: they actually doubled teamed me on the outside and they

2629
02:05:19,240 --> 02:05:21,320
Speaker 1: ran a third guy out to trying to pick me off,

2630
02:05:21,440 --> 02:05:23,640
Speaker 1: you know, on the punt coverage. It was the first

2631
02:05:23,680 --> 02:05:26,120
Speaker 1: punt of the nineteen ninety two regular season. That's why

2632
02:05:26,120 --> 02:05:29,960
Speaker 1: it was so sunny and warm that day, and uh yeah,

2633
02:05:30,040 --> 02:05:32,000
Speaker 1: it just worked out. What can you say? I was

2634
02:05:32,040 --> 02:05:34,440
Speaker 1: gonna I wondered if thanks for your call. I wondered

2635
02:05:34,440 --> 02:05:36,200
Speaker 1: if he was gonna bring up another one of your

2636
02:05:36,240 --> 02:05:38,800
Speaker 1: famous hits. And what happened after the hit? Your hit

2637
02:05:38,880 --> 02:05:41,880
Speaker 1: on Tim Brown of the Raiders, La Raiders, Oakland Raiders.

2638
02:05:41,880 --> 02:05:44,640
Speaker 1: They were LA my entire career, and he was he

2639
02:05:44,800 --> 02:05:46,920
Speaker 1: was he was, he was a trophy winner, he was

2640
02:05:46,960 --> 02:05:49,400
Speaker 1: a premier return guy, hall of famer. Yeah, and you

2641
02:05:49,520 --> 02:05:51,200
Speaker 1: hit him, and you both sat there and looked at

2642
02:05:51,200 --> 02:05:53,360
Speaker 1: each other and just pointed each other. The pointed at me,

2643
02:05:53,400 --> 02:05:55,120
Speaker 1: and I kind of shrugged my shoulders like I'm glad

2644
02:05:55,120 --> 02:05:57,840
Speaker 1: I got you because there was nobody, you know. Yeah,

2645
02:05:58,240 --> 02:06:01,920
Speaker 1: Tim Brown, big time, Yeah, Tim great. And I chased

2646
02:06:01,920 --> 02:06:07,320
Speaker 1: all the great ones man, Dion rod Woodson, Clarence Verdan,

2647
02:06:08,120 --> 02:06:10,160
Speaker 1: I chased all the really good ones, really cool, good,

2648
02:06:10,240 --> 02:06:12,360
Speaker 1: good memory. Thanks for bringing that up. Hey, we should

2649
02:06:12,360 --> 02:06:14,760
Speaker 1: talk about this in our remaining moments. The Pro Bowl

2650
02:06:14,880 --> 02:06:18,480
Speaker 1: voting comes out tonight eight o'clock NFL Network, a special

2651
02:06:18,680 --> 02:06:23,000
Speaker 1: NFL Total Access Pro Bowl players revealed at eight pm tonight.

2652
02:06:23,280 --> 02:06:26,040
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson of the Ravens the top vote getter among fans.

2653
02:06:26,120 --> 02:06:28,520
Speaker 1: But that's only a third of the compilation of votes, right.

2654
02:06:28,560 --> 02:06:32,560
Speaker 1: It's fans, coaching staffs, and players, and so the Bills

2655
02:06:32,640 --> 02:06:35,440
Speaker 1: with their ten wins should get consideration. And look, I'll

2656
02:06:35,480 --> 02:06:38,200
Speaker 1: say it tonight, I'll say it today. If Tredavious White

2657
02:06:38,400 --> 02:06:40,400
Speaker 1: is not going to the Pro Bowl, then somebody's gonna

2658
02:06:40,400 --> 02:06:41,960
Speaker 1: have to answer to you and me, Steve, because that

2659
02:06:42,080 --> 02:06:44,880
Speaker 1: guy is maybe one of the top two corners in

2660
02:06:44,880 --> 02:06:46,520
Speaker 1: the league right now. He belongs. If he's not on

2661
02:06:46,560 --> 02:06:48,440
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl this year, there's something wrong with the

2662
02:06:48,560 --> 02:06:52,440
Speaker 1: process of choosing him. Yeah, no question about it. When

2663
02:06:52,480 --> 02:06:55,640
Speaker 1: I first began in my career, the Pro Bowl was

2664
02:06:55,760 --> 02:06:58,920
Speaker 1: only voted on by coaches and players. The coaching staff

2665
02:06:58,960 --> 02:07:02,280
Speaker 1: of each team had a vote for each position in

2666
02:07:02,360 --> 02:07:06,000
Speaker 1: their conference, and the players on each team had one

2667
02:07:06,160 --> 02:07:08,440
Speaker 1: vote for each of their positions. So, for instance, the

2668
02:07:08,480 --> 02:07:12,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills coaching staff equaled one vote for each position,

2669
02:07:13,160 --> 02:07:16,080
Speaker 1: and then the players also had one vote, so all

2670
02:07:16,120 --> 02:07:18,800
Speaker 1: the players would vote for their choice as quarterback of

2671
02:07:18,880 --> 02:07:20,920
Speaker 1: the AFC, and they would vote for their choice of

2672
02:07:21,600 --> 02:07:24,560
Speaker 1: center and garden. So that's how it went. And then

2673
02:07:24,720 --> 02:07:29,360
Speaker 1: during my career it widened and they added the fan

2674
02:07:29,480 --> 02:07:32,800
Speaker 1: vote into it, and that votes counts for one vote

2675
02:07:33,520 --> 02:07:36,680
Speaker 1: for the players. And there were stories back in your era,

2676
02:07:36,760 --> 02:07:38,800
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it's to this extent, but

2677
02:07:39,200 --> 02:07:42,280
Speaker 1: there was politicking right and our mutual friend fred Smerliss

2678
02:07:42,400 --> 02:07:44,320
Speaker 1: was like a Tammany hall Ward healer. He would get

2679
02:07:44,360 --> 02:07:46,920
Speaker 1: on the phone Pro Bowl voting day and call his

2680
02:07:47,000 --> 02:07:49,080
Speaker 1: buddies on other teams to say, you vote for this guy,

2681
02:07:49,160 --> 02:07:51,680
Speaker 1: and will vote for your guy and trade favors. I

2682
02:07:51,760 --> 02:07:53,320
Speaker 1: wonder if it's still goes. I don't know about that.

2683
02:07:53,440 --> 02:08:00,480
Speaker 1: I'm sure did. And I know this too. I was yeah,

2684
02:08:00,640 --> 02:08:02,760
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, of course there was some of that.

2685
02:08:03,200 --> 02:08:07,080
Speaker 1: I'm sure there wasn't. And I know this. I never no,

2686
02:08:08,200 --> 02:08:11,080
Speaker 1: I never did it. But here's the thing. What it

2687
02:08:11,160 --> 02:08:13,360
Speaker 1: worked for us on our team when during the times

2688
02:08:13,400 --> 02:08:15,920
Speaker 1: I was there was that you know, obviously me as

2689
02:08:15,920 --> 02:08:17,760
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, I'm sitting over there, how do I

2690
02:08:17,880 --> 02:08:19,680
Speaker 1: know who the best left guard is? Yeah? But I

2691
02:08:19,720 --> 02:08:22,200
Speaker 1: would ask, you know, Ted Washington. I go, Teddy, who

2692
02:08:22,200 --> 02:08:24,280
Speaker 1: do we vote for? And those guys would say, hey,

2693
02:08:24,320 --> 02:08:26,360
Speaker 1: here's the guy that gave us the biggest problems. That

2694
02:08:26,520 --> 02:08:28,440
Speaker 1: kind of thing, so, you know, and they would say, okay,

2695
02:08:28,480 --> 02:08:31,560
Speaker 1: you guys, you know us receivers will pick the corners.

2696
02:08:32,560 --> 02:08:34,800
Speaker 1: The quarterbacks can pick the you know, the safeties or

2697
02:08:34,840 --> 02:08:37,680
Speaker 1: whoever you know. The running backs will pick the linebackers

2698
02:08:37,760 --> 02:08:39,440
Speaker 1: or whoever you know, whatever that the case may be.

2699
02:08:39,480 --> 02:08:41,680
Speaker 1: They would pick the guys that they competed directly against.

2700
02:08:41,760 --> 02:08:44,440
Speaker 1: It's the best ones. Any other Bills who have a

2701
02:08:44,520 --> 02:08:47,480
Speaker 1: shot maybe an outside on the Pro Bowl recognition tonight?

2702
02:08:48,360 --> 02:08:51,480
Speaker 1: What about Tremaine Edmonds, leading tackler on the NFL's third

2703
02:08:51,520 --> 02:08:54,280
Speaker 1: drink defense. They've been top five defense all season long?

2704
02:08:54,320 --> 02:08:56,880
Speaker 1: Why not Edmunds? Yeah, and there's some great defenses out there,

2705
02:08:57,320 --> 02:08:59,880
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens, the New England Patriots, the Buffalo Bills,

2706
02:09:00,080 --> 02:09:03,680
Speaker 1: or the top of the league with the forty nine ers.

2707
02:09:03,760 --> 02:09:05,800
Speaker 1: I mean, those four teams have been there all season

2708
02:09:05,880 --> 02:09:08,080
Speaker 1: and haven't moved and have a chance. I think so.

2709
02:09:08,200 --> 02:09:10,880
Speaker 1: I think so. I think so. Particularly the fact and

2710
02:09:10,960 --> 02:09:13,040
Speaker 1: it's interesting too, the particularly the fact that they had

2711
02:09:13,080 --> 02:09:18,320
Speaker 1: two highly high profile games here at the end of

2712
02:09:18,360 --> 02:09:20,360
Speaker 1: the season where people were kind of getting in their

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Speaker 1: minds and I gotta vote for this. And now they

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Speaker 1: see the Buffalo Bills play so well against Dallas, they

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Speaker 1: see the Buffalo Bills play okay, really good against Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: and then of course Sunday night against Pittsburgh. Tremaine has

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Speaker 1: cut it loose the last month and a half. He's

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Speaker 1: a different he's cut loose cat. Great to see they're

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Speaker 1: a different cat. Yeah, he's great. Anybody else, I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: John Brown seventy one catches five of them for touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: He wouldn't merit some consideration, right for a Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll And some of these guys may end

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Speaker 1: up being the second alternatet or third alternate and will

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Speaker 1: end up playing in the game anyway, because quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: nobody wants to play in the game. They want the

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Speaker 1: honor of being selected without having the responsibility of going

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Speaker 1: down there and actually suiting up and going out on

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Speaker 1: the field, or it's been raining for two hours before

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it happens, that's the game.

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Speaker 1: It's the honor. It's then, yeah, it's the honor. And

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Speaker 1: I've I've long said the league should do something different

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Speaker 1: than having an All Star game. They should have a

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Speaker 1: weekend or an experience or whatever for these players. And

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Speaker 1: we post the question to Kyle Brandt today and he

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Speaker 1: mentioned Josh Allen long shot right for Pro Bowl tonight. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would say long shot, long shot, although yeah, who knows,

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Speaker 1: who knows? I mean, maybe these teams, maybe the defenses

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Speaker 1: are scared to Josh because of his legs and because

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Speaker 1: of the you know, maybe he does strike a little

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Speaker 1: fear into him for his athleticism and his arm. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Eight o'clock tonight, NFL Network, the Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: Reveal Show. We'll talk about more of that tomorrow. Maybe

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Speaker 1: we'll complain about it. How did this guy right? That's

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Speaker 1: standard talk show fodder. You got to get there. He's

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Speaker 1: got to be absolutely no brainer. Get in and I

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Speaker 1: would hope so, yeah, I would think so. All right

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Speaker 1: to break, We're back with more One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalada Health from the Seneca Studio in Archard Park.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills reading, So what have we learned?

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Speaker 1: Is brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment

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Speaker 1: rental company of the Buffalo Bills turned into a good show. Today.

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Speaker 1: Pete Prisco from CBS longtime reporter covering the NFL CBS

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Speaker 1: dot Com, we asked him if a Buffalo wins Saturday

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Speaker 1: in New England might signify a changing of the guard

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Speaker 1: in the AFC East. Here's what he said. That was

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Speaker 1: my prediction before the season. I said they get to

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Speaker 1: the postseason this year and win the division next year.

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Speaker 1: And I still think that's going to happen. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: absolutely think that's that's in the process. That's happening. And

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Speaker 1: you gotta give them a credit for a way of

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Speaker 1: built that team. You know, there's still a couple of

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Speaker 1: spots to the offensive line of times has been leaky.

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Speaker 1: They've been leaky against the run. They need to get,

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Speaker 1: you know, bigger, I think bigger people up front to help,

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Speaker 1: you know, choke off the run a little bit. But

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Speaker 1: you gotta like what you're seeing. Edmund is growing and

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Speaker 1: he's athletic. Kid Milana is one of the most underrated

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Speaker 1: players at the NFL. He doesn't get dude, he deserves

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Speaker 1: those two safeties. They're smart and athletic and they cover

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Speaker 1: a lot of ground. And we know whitehout stand and

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Speaker 1: you know, I love what they've done. They still have

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Speaker 1: some problems, but it's switching, it's it's it's just changing

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Speaker 1: in the guard. They will be the best team in

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Speaker 1: the division next year. As Pete Prisco talking about the

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Speaker 1: Bills and the Patriot's. Also on the show today, Kyle

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Speaker 1: Brandt from NFL Never gost A Good Morning Football. We

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Speaker 1: asked him to twitter pole question what would it mean

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Speaker 1: if the Bills beat New England this year? Here's what

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Speaker 1: he said. If not now, when when? If you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna beat braiding there now, then I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen until retire. Let's stick about it. He's

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Speaker 1: coming off a loss at home to a young, upstart

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Speaker 1: Chiefs team. He apparently is bothered by this elbow. He

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Speaker 1: has no one to throw too, even good old faithful

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Speaker 1: Julian Edelman. I think had two catches last week for

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Speaker 1: almost nothing. There has never ever been more blood in

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Speaker 1: the water with this New England dynasty, and they're facing it.

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Speaker 1: Bill's team that's on fire. So it's like, here's here's

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Speaker 1: the danger of it. The Bills should compete in this game.

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Speaker 1: They should win this game. They're better team, right, now.

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Speaker 1: But if you lose this game, it's a huge punch

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Speaker 1: in the stomach for Buffalo, I think because it's just like,

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Speaker 1: what do we gotta do? It was never going to

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Speaker 1: be set out better than this to win there, and

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Speaker 1: we still couldn't do it. I think there's pressure there.

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Speaker 1: Like everything Kyle said, except the last sentence and a half,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how much pressure there is on the Bills. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they want to win, and it'd be great to win,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know if it would be a huge

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Speaker 1: punch in the gut. What do you know nobody expects

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Speaker 1: him too? Yeah right, I mean outside of you know,

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Speaker 1: the building, and you know Bills fans who you know

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Speaker 1: have faith in the team and all that. But you know,

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Speaker 1: national media fans from other teams, certainly the New England fans,

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Speaker 1: and nobody expects the Bills and go in there and

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Speaker 1: this late in the season and beat those guys. Now,

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Speaker 1: certainly they see New England's being vulnerable in a way

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Speaker 1: they haven't been in before. But come on, it's just

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Speaker 1: you and me, Murph. We got a couple more days

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Speaker 1: to talk about this. Thanks for our production assistance. George Blast,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Coltonick Thomas Holland or Kelly Rude, j j Urito,

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Speaker 1: Kevin carg James robol our producer Jay Harris. Back with

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow at twelve noon. Join us in One Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalaida from the Seneca Studio in Archer Park

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio