1 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: These One Bill's Live presented by Called Light of Health. 2 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: All right, let's rip through a Thursday here on One 3 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you players on 4 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: the practice field again today. We'll get to your practice 5 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: updates in just a second, and we uh you know, 6 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: there will be some important names on that list coming 7 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:57,639 Speaker 1: up here in just a minute. There was a practice 8 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: squad transaction as well today and there was a special 9 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: honor for a member of Buffalo's coaching staff that came 10 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: down today as well. So we begin with the practice 11 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: updates which are presented by Lee Coom Lake Erie, College 12 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: of Osteopathic Medicine and Dion Dawkins and David Questenbury, both 13 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: trying to return from ankle injuries limited in practice yesterday. 14 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 1: Both of the guys out there today kind of working 15 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: their way through the week to try to get back 16 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: on the field by Sunday in some capacity. And one 17 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: guy's availability is tied to the other, obviously, Steve, because 18 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: if Deon Dawkins doesn't play, it's usually David Questenbury who 19 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: is playing in the lineup, as was the case last 20 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: week against New England. Right, and Questenbury kind of gutted 21 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: it out. So yeah, because he got dinged like on 22 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: the fairy play of the game last week. So it's 23 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: it's that time of year. Man. You guys don't feel good, 24 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: You don't want to practice, you need to. Guys are 25 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: getting extra tape jobs or doing extra stuff to get 26 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: ready to practice or having and let me say you 27 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: this as on a personal note, yeah, have trouble sleep. 28 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: They're having trouble sleeping at night. Their families on edge 29 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: because the player is on edge when he goes home. 30 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: He wants to play and he doesn't feel good. And 31 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: when you walk around all day every day dragging this ache, 32 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: this pain, this injury, trying to get ready to play 33 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: at a high level against a guy who really wants 34 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: to beat your brains in, it's a tough place to 35 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: be mentally. And you're at that time of the year 36 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: where these guys are. You know, you're trying to balance 37 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: your family, do what you can for the team that 38 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: you love and a bunch of guys you love and respect, 39 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: and you got your family at home trying to take 40 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 1: care of them and nurture them. I'm telling you, man, 41 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 1: it is you're these guys emotions, their temperate it is. 42 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: You get feisty, to say the least. And these guys, 43 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: this is where you're at in the season. Yeah, you're 44 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: at a point where these games are really really important. 45 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: You really want to play, and you really hurt. It's 46 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: a tough spot to be in and you don't know 47 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: for sure, even deep in your heart you think, should 48 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,799 Speaker 1: I play? Or is my buddy here who I love 49 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,679 Speaker 1: but isn't as good as me? Is he better this 50 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: week than I would be? Yeah, it's a tough thing 51 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: to do and all it's all hands on deck at 52 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: this time of the season, trying to not just you know, 53 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: obviously beat the New York Jets, but get ready well right, 54 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: And you know Dawkins didn't play last week. You know, 55 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: this is an athletic training staff that more often than 56 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: not airs on the side of caution. They felt the 57 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: better long game to play was to sit Dawkins last 58 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: week against New England, knowing he would get another ten 59 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: days before the Bills would be on a game field 60 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: again with the mini by last week Friday, Saturday Sunday 61 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: no game Sunday obviously because they played Thursday. Dawkins met 62 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: the media after practice yesterday somebody asked him how he felt. 63 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: He said, I'm feeling solid, and they said, do you 64 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: think you'll play on Sunday? And he said, that's above 65 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: my pay grade, you know, basically saying it's in the 66 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: hands of the athletic training staff, and you know, the 67 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: coaching staff has to say as well. But I thought 68 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: he was moving around well in practice yesterday, just watching 69 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:20,239 Speaker 1: him during individual position drills, so hopefully things are looking 70 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: up for him. Coach did say Wednesday things are moving 71 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: in the right direction for him. So if he can play, 72 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 1: that's a huge that's a huge ad back to the 73 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: starting lineup. Knowing the caliber the defensive front the Bills 74 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:34,679 Speaker 1: are going against this week. I mean, that front four 75 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: and the eight man, nine man rotation they use is 76 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: kind of what makes that whole defense go. I mean, 77 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: the corners on the back end, who are lock up corners, 78 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: have a lot to do with it also, but those 79 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: guys up front, it's kind of the catalyst for the defense. 80 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: Wish or hope or think, I mean, are we deluding ourselves? 81 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: I think even if Dionne plays, he going to be 82 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,840 Speaker 1: one hundred percent Probably not hard to know, but yeah, 83 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: I get what you're saying it's hard. Non participants had 84 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: practice yesterday were Matt Milano and Jordan Phillips. We were 85 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: only out there a short time. I did not see 86 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: either of those two players out there again today, So 87 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: we'll wait and see what the Thursday injury report has 88 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: to say about the availability of those two players. As 89 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: far as practice participation goes. The Milana one, it is 90 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: hard for us to understand because he played one hundred 91 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,679 Speaker 1: percent of the snaps in last week's game against the Patriots. 92 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: Then they had a long weekend and he's still not practice. 93 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: It didn't practice yesterday, and it doesn't look he wasn't 94 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: out there during the media viewing portion of practice today. 95 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 1: So we'll have to see what comes of it and 96 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: see what Thursday injury report says. But do you think 97 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: about the Bill's defense, And obviously they don't have Von 98 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: Miller They did the last time back in Week nine, 99 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: but Greg Rousseau only played the first fifteen sixteen snaps. 100 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: He went out with an injury in the first meeting. 101 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: They didn't have Poyer, they didn't have Hide, they didn't 102 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: have Tradavious White, and they didn't have Matt Milano in 103 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: that Week nine game defensively, and they still held them 104 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,279 Speaker 1: to twenty points. Now, granted that was with Zach Wilson. 105 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: Mike White has been infinitely more productive in the passing game, 106 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: granted against two lower third of the league defenses in 107 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: Chicago and Minnesota, but still the Bills know they'll have 108 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: Poyer in White this week. Hide is obviously not a 109 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: part of the equation, being on ir as well as 110 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: von Miller, and they'll have Greg Russo back who only 111 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: played the early stages of that game in Week nine. 112 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 1: So that's where we sit as far as the Jets 113 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: are concerned a relatively healthy roster. Michael Clemens, one of 114 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:51,119 Speaker 1: their rotational defensive ends, was out yesterday with illness, along 115 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: with three other players, Corey Davis, the wide receiver, their 116 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 1: right tackle, George Fan and their starting corner DJ Reid. 117 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 1: I would imagine they'll be improved, you know, coming into 118 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: practice today. We'll wait to see what the reporters down 119 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: in New York have to say about Jets practice today 120 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: and who might be missing. Dwayne Brown. They're starting left 121 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: tackle limited with a shoulder injury in practice yesterday. We'll 122 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: see how he comes along through the course of the 123 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: week and starting safety LaMarcus Joiner limited with a hip injury, 124 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: and his backup Ashton Davis also limited with a hamstring injury. 125 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: So for the most part healthy, but a couple of 126 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: things for them to be concerned about through the course 127 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: of the practice week. And as we said, Bill's Practice 128 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: Updates presented by Lecom Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. 129 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: The practice squad transaction. Steve defensive tackle Kendall Vickers, added 130 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: to Buffalo's practice squad, had been with the Raiders, and 131 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: the reason why is because practice squad defensive tackle Illie 132 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,679 Speaker 1: Ankou for the Bills had to go on the practice 133 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: squad injured list. Presumably he suffered an injury in practice 134 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: yesterday and went on the injured list for the practice squad, 135 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: So they just kind of add a body to take 136 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: place take the place of another body. You always wonder 137 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: when guys like you know, Jordan Phillips go up and down, 138 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: and how and how big a part of the rotation 139 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: he is, how what they're going to do to replace him, 140 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: and what's going to happen. It could be Mike Love 141 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: guys that have been around that you know, and that's 142 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: probably the most likely scenario. But you know, whenever these 143 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: injuries happened to the top of the rotation, like Dion Dawkins, 144 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips, offensive tackle, defensive tackle, and then you've got 145 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: guys like David Kessenberry, who's the first tackle in off 146 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: the bench, who's also on the injured list, Roger Saffel 147 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: who had a vet rest, who's you know, long in 148 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:48,719 Speaker 1: the tooth. You you know, you start to think, as 149 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: deep as we are, we're not deck neck deep in 150 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: depth anymore. Yeah, right, we're standing in knee deep water 151 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,319 Speaker 1: these days instead of neck deep water with our roster. So, 152 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: like I said, this this time of year, it's this 153 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: is really stressful for everybody, the coaches, and I think 154 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: it really trickles down to the players more than it 155 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: does normally. You're just saying, because of their desire to 156 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: be out there, you know, in a playoff race and 157 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: in a division race with a division opponent coming up, 158 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: there's like this anxiety to be healthy enough to play. 159 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: You want to play, Yeah, you feel like you gotta play, 160 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: you gotta win, and and it permeates not just like 161 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: we're talking about Dion Dawkins, We're talking about you know, 162 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: Dave Kessonberry, Mitch Morse, all these guys, Roger saffol all 163 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,959 Speaker 1: taking days off getting rest. It trickles down, not just 164 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:49,679 Speaker 1: through the offensive line, but Josh Allen and you know 165 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,839 Speaker 1: Barkley and the quarterback room. They're all sitting there going 166 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,959 Speaker 1: what what happens if if if there's a train rerecord 167 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 1: the offensive line, we lose two guys, three guys all 168 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: of a sudden, and Matt Malano not notwithstanding he shows 169 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: up after playing one hundred percent of the snaps, he 170 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: ain't practicing all of a sudden, You're looking around. It's 171 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: a ripple effect because now Josh saying, listen, okay, so 172 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: we got the offensive line is gonna be nicked up. 173 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: We're gonna have to make some adjustments. Ken Dorseys, gonna 174 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: have to make some adjustments. We're gonna have some guys 175 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: that are on the bench ready to come in who 176 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: I don't even know. It's a ripple effect through the roster. 177 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: I'll say one thing. It affected to Atalavoloa in the 178 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: San Francisco game last week. He did not have either 179 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: of his starting offensive tackles. Austin Jackson went on ir 180 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 1: Toron Armstead, not fit to play, and it affected him. 181 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: He was off last week. Now, granted, you're going against 182 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: the number one defense in the league, in the San 183 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers, So just psychologically you go into 184 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: that game and despite whatever your mindset is and your 185 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: focus on the game plan. It's human nature, isn't it 186 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: to go into that game saying, Man, I'm playing the 187 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: number one defense, I don't have either of my starting tackles. 188 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 1: I can get this ball out fast. I guess the 189 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: point is all the teams in the league, the Jets too, 190 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 1: probably at some level, especially teams like the Bills. I 191 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: remember it vividly. It is an atmosphere in the locker room, 192 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 1: that is, it's an added level of tension in the 193 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 1: interaction between guys, the desire to play, but also the 194 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: good sense to know you ain't ready to play. I remember, 195 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: you know, getting the needle just to practice late in seasons. 196 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: That kind of tense, you know, that kind of tension 197 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: in the locker room about having important games that you 198 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 1: need to advance and to get yourself closer to your 199 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: ultimate goal, and knowing you've got to do some things 200 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: that you really didn't think you're gonna have to do. 201 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: You're gonna have to play. Some guys you don't really 202 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: think you're gonna have to play. It's it is. The 203 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: holidays are tense anyway for a lot of people. In 204 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: an NFL locker room, man, you can cut it with 205 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: a knife because of the guy who can and cannot 206 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: play and their desire and ability to get ready to play. 207 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: It's it is really really a different atmosphere than it 208 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: is when you're in there. You know you're in a 209 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: three game winning streak in October or September. Yeah, it's 210 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: a different world in that locker room right now. It's 211 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: a different world. There was a special honor bestowed on 212 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: Bill's defensive coordinator Leslie Frasier today as it was announced 213 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: that he has been named to the twenty twenty three 214 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: Black College Football Hall of Fame induction class. So congratu 215 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: congrats to coach Leslie. Coach Frasier was on the finalist 216 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: list that was put together last month, so we knew 217 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: he was in the running. It was a list of 218 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: twenty five finalists and he made the grade. So congrats 219 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: to coach Frasier, who was an accomplished college defensive back 220 00:12:54,840 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 1: at Alcorn State an HBCU had twenty interceptions in three 221 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: seasons and left four. You know, he said, I'm gonna 222 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: Ford go my senior year, I'm gonna enter the NFL draft. 223 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 1: He goes undrafted, but the Bear signed him as an 224 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: undrafted rookie. He's a starter by year two, and unfortunately 225 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: his career was cut short after five seasons due to 226 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: a catastrophic knee injury that he actually suffered in Super 227 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: Bowl twenty. He was returning a punt in Super Bowl 228 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: twenty Bears Patriots had to get carted off the field 229 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 1: pl pl mcl Leslie Frasier's part of the legendary eighty 230 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: five Bears. Legendary he led the team in interceptions that 231 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:43,599 Speaker 1: year with six. Leslie Frasier was part of that Chicago 232 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: Bears and one of his team, yeah, Ron Rivera also 233 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: a part of that nineteen eighty five Bears team. Ron 234 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: Rivera a legendary figure who has been a part of 235 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: the National Football League for you know, four decades now 236 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: and just you know, stellar defensive coordinator into the Black 237 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: College Hall of Fame. Just absolutely sensational and kudos to him. 238 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: And you go down the line. I was trying to 239 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:14,680 Speaker 1: find the list of guys who were getting inducted. Guys, 240 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: some of them are my contemporaries, so it was a 241 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: great list of Yeah. Former Bills running backs coach Elijah 242 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: Pitts who served under Marv Levy on his staff. He 243 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: was also one of the inductees for this in Goo. 244 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: You know, this upcoming class which will be publicly recognized 245 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: for the first time during a ceremony in Atlanta in February, 246 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: and then induction takes place in June for this induction 247 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: class for the Black College Football Hall of Fame. So 248 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: congrats again to coach Frasier. A great honor. This isn't 249 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: his first football Hall of Fame. By the way, He's 250 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: also in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. He was 251 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: inducted there in twenty seventeen. Pretty cool either way. Yeah. 252 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: Also another one of the guys in this class, Albert Lewis, 253 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: former chief Chiefs stastic Henry Lawrence. Elijah Pitts, of course 254 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: a great running backs coach for Buffalo Bills. Running running 255 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: back for the Packers scored the first rushing touchdown in 256 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: Super Bowl history in the Super Bowl, and for the Packers, 257 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: it wasn't the first touchdown, but it's the first rushing touchdown. 258 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: Johnny Walton, uh Tyrone McGriff, Jim Marsalis, and coach Pete Richardson. 259 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: Just a great class um and I know Leslie Fraser's 260 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: thrilled and honored to be a part of it, and 261 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: we're proud of him and as and of course uh 262 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: Ron Pitts, Elijah's son was a member of the Buffalo Bills. 263 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: Elijah coached here through the Super Bowl years. Thurman Thomas 264 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: and the rest of us revered Elijah who lost his 265 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: battle with cancer. Yeah, just really cool to see that 266 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: that happened for a lot for not only for Eli, 267 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: but also for Leslie and the group that's going in 268 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, and for those that are interested in, 269 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: you know, maybe visiting the Black College Football Hall of Fame. 270 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: They are actually headquartered in Canton, so they're at the 271 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame. They're in a separate wing, 272 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: so to my knowledge, you know you can that's where 273 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: you go, even though they hold a lot of their 274 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: functions and events down in Atlanta. So just some info 275 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: to pass along there and a great honor for coach Frasier, 276 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: who I saw in an interview last month said, Hey, 277 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: if I get inducted, it'll be one of the best 278 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: honors I've ever been given. So you've got to know 279 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: that he's very happy today that he was worthy of 280 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: earning induction into the Black College Football Hall of Fame. 281 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: So congrats to him. We got a jam packed show 282 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: for you today coming up in about fifteen minutes. We've 283 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 1: got one field Yates from ESPN, your fantasy football expert, 284 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: to help you with your ultimate fantasy lineup, presented by 285 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: fan Duel. Make every moment that's coming you're way in 286 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes for Week fourteen, and then in the 287 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: two o'clock hour, about an hour from now, we will 288 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: have here in studio. Bill's cornerback Xavier Rhodes joining US, 289 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: got a ton of playing time the last two weeks 290 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 1: after spending his first month with the club on the 291 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 1: practice squad, actually on injured reserve. He got here, he signed, 292 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,119 Speaker 1: and then he suffered a hamstring injury, went on practice squad, 293 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: ir came back and then jumped right into the lineup 294 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. So we'll talk to him 295 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,399 Speaker 1: about that transition, how it feels to be back on 296 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,919 Speaker 1: an active roster and rolling right now into the final 297 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,439 Speaker 1: five weeks of the season. Twelve year vet. I mean, 298 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: the guy has been everywhere seeing everything that this league 299 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: has to offer, so it'll be great to have a 300 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 1: conversation with him here in studio next hour. We look 301 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: forward to that, and then anybody addressing the media with 302 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: Q and a post practice. We'll try to pass along 303 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: as many of those as we can to you in 304 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 1: the allotted amount of time we have left in the show. 305 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 1: Topic of discussion for today is pretty simple, pretty straightforward. 306 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: What will be the key to a Bill's victory over 307 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: the Jets on Sunday eighth three, five fifty one eight 308 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two, five fifty the number to 309 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: get on board with your thoughts on that front, or 310 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: you can hit us up on the tweet sheet at 311 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: one Bills Live. I know some of the NFL news 312 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: that happened today, Steve. Another quarterback change, Marcus Mariota, the 313 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 1: veteran quarterback for the Falcons this year, going to the bench. 314 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 1: Their season's going nowhere. They need to find out about 315 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: rookie quarterback Desmond Ritter. He is going to start this 316 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: week for the Falcons. And forgive me, I didn't take 317 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: the time to look to see who they're playing. So 318 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 1: I'm gonna check real quick here in week fourteen, the 319 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 1: Falcons have get it, Come on, get it, I'm checking. 320 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 1: Hold on, they played? Where the heck are they the Falcons? 321 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 1: They're on by this week, there's six teams. They got 322 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: an extra week to get him ready. Yeah, there's a 323 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: six week, six teams on the bye Falcons, Packers, Saints, Bears, Colts, Commanders, 324 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 1: so they'll play They'll play the Saints in week fifteen, 325 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: so they get two weeks to get ridder up to 326 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,479 Speaker 1: speed and ready for that first game. And that's usually 327 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: when you see some of these late season quarterback changes. 328 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:26,439 Speaker 1: Usually if they have a bye week they can take 329 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: advantage of. That's when they make the switch. They're not 330 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: the Falcons are five and eight, so they're not going 331 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: to the playoffs, and it's time. I mean, there's there's 332 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: no better time to find out about a young quarterback 333 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: when you're he's not going to kill the season that's 334 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 1: already dead. Yeah, let him go out there and see 335 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 1: what you can do, See how much improvement you can 336 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: see in him before the end of the season, and 337 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 1: we'll see. I mean, it's time, right, I mean yes, 338 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: And Marcus Mariota now at this point is a known 339 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,399 Speaker 1: commodity you've had a chance to He's had years in 340 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 1: the league, so that eighth loss is a killer, right. 341 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: Other quarterback news, we knew that Baker Mayfield got claimed 342 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: off waivers by the Rams, who have injury issues at 343 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: the quarterback position, most notably Matthew Stafford, who's on ir 344 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: their backup quarterback John Wolford as a neck injury. He 345 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 1: was limited in practice yesterday, and he has to play 346 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 1: a game on Thursday if he is able physically to 347 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: do so on a short week here as the Rams 348 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 1: are part of Thursday Night Football this week. But there 349 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: are reports coming out of LA that if for some 350 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: reason Walford can't start or can't continue or finish the game, 351 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 1: that Baker Mayfield, who just landed in LA yesterday, would play. Steve, 352 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: I know you've got an opinion on this. How is 353 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 1: that even possible? They have Bryce Perkins, their third string quarterback, 354 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: who's a rookie who has played already for them this season. 355 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: I would think he would be the guy they would 356 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:54,120 Speaker 1: turn to, not Baker Mayfield. After just touching down on Tuesday, 357 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 1: I think it's gamesmanship. I think it's gamesmanship. They're just 358 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:03,880 Speaker 1: they're just talking. Now. No way Baker Mayfield's gonna come 359 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,920 Speaker 1: in and impress a Rams coaching staff who just won 360 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. He's not going to impress them enough 361 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: to say, you know what, I'm a better option than 362 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: the guy who knows the words to the offense and 363 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: has been here for seven to ten months. There's no 364 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: way Bake, in my opinion, Baker Mayfield's gonna impress Sean 365 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh that much. And think about this. The Rams 366 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 1: were the World champions eight nine months ago, and now 367 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: they're talking about starting a guy they picked up off 368 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: waivers in week thirteen, four week fourteen, and I'd say 369 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, but it's just he's a guy off waivers. 370 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 1: He is. He can't play John and they just whisper 371 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: then he can't play Ferris Bueller once said life comes 372 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: at you fast. Goodness gracious. The Rams go from world 373 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: champion to three and nine with Baker Mayfield off the 374 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: waiver wire. It's been a mess on their offensive line 375 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 1: with injuries. Man, they've never made up for the loss 376 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:13,920 Speaker 1: of Von Miller, Odell Beckham Junior and Andrew Whitworth that's 377 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 1: left tackle, pass rusher and number two receiver. And then 378 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 1: over the course of this season, Steve, They've lost three 379 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:25,120 Speaker 1: starting offensive linemen to injuries. Cooper cups On injured reserve 380 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: Alan Robinson did not pan out as a number two 381 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: to replace Beckham Junior, and they didn't get anybody to 382 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: capably replace Von Miller. And now Aaron Donald is injured 383 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,880 Speaker 1: also in not going to play, so best of luck. 384 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: But that's all right. I think they can come out 385 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,120 Speaker 1: and maybe they'll just use their draft picks to rebuild. 386 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: I actually think they have a first I think they 387 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 1: might have a first round picks from somebody else. Yeah, 388 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 1: I want to say they do this year. Oh my god, 389 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: it's San Francisco that has absolutely nothing in the draft 390 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: this year. I don't think they have a one, a two, 391 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: or three. The Ram trade everybody away their first rounders. Yes, 392 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: usually yes, yeah, you might be right. Maybe they don't 393 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 1: have a one, but but yeah. Rams hosting the Raiders tonight. 394 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 1: John Walford, their backup quarterback behind Matthew Stafford, expected to start, 395 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,679 Speaker 1: but is questionable with a neck injury. Practiced on a 396 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: limited basis this week. If he can't start or can't 397 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: finish the game. Baker Mayfield could see action tonight, which 398 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: to me, I don't think ends. Well. Yeah, the Rams 399 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 1: don't have a first round. Detroit has their first for 400 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: the golf deal. Whoa they do have, but don't despair 401 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 1: because the Rams do have. Well, it doesn't go that far. 402 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 1: So there you go. I don't know how in the 403 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 1: second or third round. Don't have any idea. There is 404 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 1: another tidbit of news on the Odell Beckham junior front. 405 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: Obviously he's mulling his options and making a decision. Giants, Bills, Cowboys. 406 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 1: Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons was part of the welcoming party 407 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,160 Speaker 1: in Dallas when he spent time down there early this week, 408 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 1: and he said Odell Beckham told him that he could 409 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: be ready to play in five weeks, which basically is 410 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 1: the postseason convenient January mid January, which I think would 411 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,360 Speaker 1: line up. You know, that would be eleven months removed 412 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 1: from surgery. I would say week super Bowl. Probably meant 413 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: if he got signed this week and he had five 414 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: weeks to acclimate, right, I mean, well, yeah, and we'll 415 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: see what happens. I mean, it's it's Thursday. There's still 416 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: a little time left in this week for him to 417 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: make whatever decision he wants to make. Five weeks from 418 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,239 Speaker 1: now or five weeks from when he signed is an 419 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: interesting detail that I don't know, but it wouldn't. Yeah, 420 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: it's a long time. That's a long time, it is. 421 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: But you know, conceivably, if he did sign with a 422 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 1: team at the end of this week, whoever it is, 423 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: he would need time to getting quote unquote game shape. 424 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 1: He would also need time to learn the offensive playbook. 425 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 1: You know that all takes time. So five weeks you know, 426 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 1: not being ready physically to play in a game. Maybe 427 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 1: that's fine by some of these teams. I don't know. 428 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 1: We'll have to wait and see what his decision ultimately 429 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: is and then then, you know, punch the stop watch 430 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 1: and say, all right, how much time is it gonna take? 431 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 1: You know that kind of stuff. Right, But until he 432 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: makes a decision, it's neither here nor there, So we'll 433 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 1: just wait on that. Is it gonna be? Is this 434 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 1: is odell? Think about it? I mean, is he gonna 435 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: push it off and not sign with anybody this year 436 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: until after you know, free agency begins, when they've got 437 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: cap space. And you know, and then you know, you 438 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: talk about I don't know, you could you know, I 439 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: don't want to go down this rabbit hole too far 440 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,440 Speaker 1: because he's not on the team. He's not on anybody's team. 441 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,399 Speaker 1: But is he going to sign with somebody like, you know, 442 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: like Jacksonville or Denver, Houston in the AFC, or New 443 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 1: Orleans go back to the Rams or Chicago and in 444 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: the NFC going instead of going for one of these contenders, 445 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,199 Speaker 1: go to these teams. I'm one of the theaters with 446 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 1: this particular situation. I'm one of these guys that says, 447 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not going to waste my time 448 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: trying to guess, speculate and make hypotheses about where he's 449 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,479 Speaker 1: going to end up. Just make your decision and then 450 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 1: we'll we'll we'll we'll talk about it from there, will 451 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: you know, Express you make the decision, we'll handle it 452 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: from there. Make your mistakes, we'll have express opinions about it. 453 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 1: The other big news is the House Subcommittee on Capitol 454 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: Hill has released its findings on Commander's owner Daniel Snyder, 455 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: and they in their report that has been released, basically 456 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: said that Snyder permitted and participated in a toxic culture 457 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: in terms of his own team's work environment, and obstructed 458 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 1: a congressional inquiry. So it's gonna be pretty interesting to 459 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:09,640 Speaker 1: see where it goes from here. I didn't have enough 460 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: time to read everything before the show today. I was 461 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: taking care of some other stuff for Buffalo Bills dot com. 462 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,119 Speaker 1: But I I know you were reading more about it 463 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: today than I was. Is there a chance that federal 464 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 1: charges could be levied against Daniels I doubt it. I 465 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:28,639 Speaker 1: doubt it because of the because of the politics in Washington, 466 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,199 Speaker 1: not really having to do much whether he did it 467 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 1: or not. The politics in Washington are going to make this, 468 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: are going to dictate how far this goes down the road, 469 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,439 Speaker 1: And certainly, if it starts to go down the road 470 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: where federal charges come into play, it may that may 471 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 1: be the one thing that ends it with him selling 472 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: the team outright. I don't think he has any real 473 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 1: desire to leave the NFL, despite what he has said, 474 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 1: because we haven't seen any substantive information since that time, 475 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 1: but the articles that I read at every turn that 476 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 1: that is mentioned in any article. He has fought tooth 477 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: and nail and tried to subvert the process on every front. 478 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 1: Meaning if the government came out with him and said 479 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 1: we want to talk to this person, this person, this person, 480 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: this person, those people became targets of Dan Schneider to 481 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,639 Speaker 1: undermine their ability to testify against him, either with a 482 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 1: confidentiality agreement sending private investigators to watch them. I mean, 483 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: it is it's bad. It really looks bad. And Daniel 484 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,719 Speaker 1: Schneider is not, in any way, shape or form painted 485 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 1: in any bright light in any of this. He is 486 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: he is. It is not pretty for him personally. The organization, 487 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: of course is washed with that same brush because of 488 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: his ownership of it. But I don't think this is 489 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: going to go to the federal It doesn't look to me. 490 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: What do I know? This does not look like it's 491 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: going to go to the federal level because of the 492 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 1: politics involved and the fact that we just went through 493 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: a mid term election and all these people are kind 494 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: of the politicians in Washington and the ones that are 495 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 1: kind of driving this are up to their neck in 496 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: re election and in post election kind of, so this 497 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: is kind of pushed to the back burner. And and 498 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: for the side of the the commanders, and I think 499 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: a little bit the NFL, they're just hoping that that 500 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: gets washed away and let them handle it themselves. And 501 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: they are a private business, and there's that as well. 502 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 1: So there's some people in Washingtons saying, listen, the government 503 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: is getting into a private business, toxic or not. It's 504 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 1: not a federal it's not part of the government. What 505 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: do you Why are you spending what's the jurisdiction? Why 506 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: are we spending our time doing this? So um, all 507 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 1: of that being said, it is very ugly in all 508 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 1: these reports make it seem so. And yes, it's it's sad. 509 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 1: It's sad, and it's awful, and the league is trying 510 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: to minimize it as much as they can and for 511 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: obvious reasons. Break time for us here. When we come back, 512 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: it's time to get your ultimate fantasy lineup in order. 513 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: ESPN's fantasy football expert Field Yates joins us next here 514 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: on One Bills Live presented by Kalada Health. It's Buffalo 515 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to one Bills Live. 516 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve tasking with you on a Thursday, and 517 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: as we do every Thursday, we get your fantasy lineup 518 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: in order. With the Ultimate Fantasy Lineup presented by FanDuel 519 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 1: make every moment more and here to do the honors 520 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 1: on that front, as always, is ESPN's NFL insider and 521 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: fantasy football expert one Field yates on the line, Field, 522 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,120 Speaker 1: how are we doing? It's week fourteen. This is it's 523 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: kind of the end of the regular season, right like 524 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 1: for fantasy goers and we're rolling into the playoffs now. 525 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: It's right for those that play in season long fantasy. 526 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 1: This is the final week of the regular season for 527 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: those that either have seen their seasons go by the wayside, 528 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: or are not going to make the playoffs or might 529 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: be an early exit from the playoffs. That's the beauty 530 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: of daily fantasy is that whether it's week one or 531 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: week eighteen, there are always options to score some points 532 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,360 Speaker 1: and make you some money, which is exactly why I'm 533 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: here today. All Right, we'll make us some money. Get started, 534 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: do it for me. Who's the quarterback this and I 535 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: gotta tell you week fourteen. We all know that, but man, 536 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 1: oh man, you still think this name, that you've got 537 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 1: a quarterback is unbelievable. Even Smith, he's been awesome and 538 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: it's been one of the best stories in the NFL 539 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 1: this season. I remember coming into this season. Very skeptical 540 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: because and you guys can certainly attest to this, how 541 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 1: many players hit their stride as a quarterback in the 542 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 1: early thirties, right, I mean, he's been a backup. He's 543 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,520 Speaker 1: been available to resign or to be signed elsewhere like 544 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 1: four times in the past eight years, and no one 545 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 1: has shown interest in Geno Smith. He was with the 546 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: Giant see of course, with Jets see of course, was 547 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: now is now with the Seattle Seahawks, and he's been awesome. 548 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: He's been really good. He's got multiple touchdown passes in 549 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: five straight games. And on Sunday he plays against the 550 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers, who are a solid defense to be sure, 551 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: but the way the Gino is playing right now, he 552 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 1: is just locked in. And the two receivers are great 553 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 1: as well. More on them and just a little bit. Yeah, 554 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 1: the only name that comes to mind is rich Gannon 555 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 1: for me, like a guy that really kind of took 556 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 1: off in the second half of his career. Kurt Warner 557 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 1: as well, you know, yeah, different circumstances, but yeah, interesting, yeah, 558 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: great one right there, absolutely all right, let's go, let's 559 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: go to I'm sorry, Field, I didn't mean to cut 560 00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 1: you off there. Well, that's a great example of rich Gainn. 561 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have thought of that one off top of 562 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: my head. But but he and Kurt Warner are probably 563 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 1: as close as we'll get to this late blooming Geno 564 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: Smith that we have right now. Yeah, unbelievable. And both 565 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 1: of those guys want MVPs too. How about that. I 566 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 1: think Geno Smith might win Comeback Player of the Year, 567 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: but I don't know about MVP anyway. The running back 568 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 1: position here field and you're you're going with a member 569 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 1: of the enemy for Bills for the Bills this week. Yeah, 570 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: so Zonoman Knight for the Jets. And this has nothing 571 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 1: to do with the Bills defense, who, of course is 572 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: very good. It's the fact that you're getting. You're getting 573 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: Zonoman Night at sixty three hundred dollars. And what you 574 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,360 Speaker 1: don't know is whether he's going to be the man 575 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 1: unto himself on Sunday or not. But if he is, 576 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,719 Speaker 1: that's a better price than you would normally get for 577 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: a starting running back. The variable that we're keeping an 578 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 1: eye on is whether Michael Carter plays for the Jets 579 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: on Sunday, which he is expected to given that he 580 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 1: was off the injury report on Wednesday entirely, but we 581 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,480 Speaker 1: don't know how much he's going to play because of 582 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,240 Speaker 1: the performance of Bam Night over the past two weeks, 583 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:09,359 Speaker 1: who actually joined Philip Lindsay as the only two undrafted 584 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,000 Speaker 1: players in the Super Bowl era to have at least 585 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: one hundred yards from scrimmage in each of their first 586 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: two games. He's been a bright spot both as a 587 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,440 Speaker 1: runner and also as a receiver, which is why he's 588 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: one of my two running backs, and I'll take it 589 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 1: right into the second one, which Issa Pacheco for the 590 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs priced at seventy three hundred dollars, and 591 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: over the past couple of weeks he's been so busy 592 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 1: for KC on the ground. And the big limitation for 593 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:40,520 Speaker 1: Isaiah Pacheco has been the lack of passing game involvement. 594 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: He has barely been involved as a receiver until recently, 595 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,920 Speaker 1: in which he has been a bigger part of the 596 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 1: Chiefs passing game, at least enough to add some potential 597 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 1: fantasy upside. They play the Broncos, who are a good defense, 598 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,799 Speaker 1: but as you guys know, the Broncos offense is the 599 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,840 Speaker 1: worst in the NFL. The Chiefs might only need to 600 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,800 Speaker 1: score twenty points before they go into clock killing mode. 601 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 1: If they get into clock killing mode, it's gonna be 602 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 1: a whole lot of Isaiah Pacheco running the football. Yeah, 603 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,440 Speaker 1: that makes a lot of sense, particularly given the Yeah, 604 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,399 Speaker 1: Denver can't score and the Chiefs can and they're trying. 605 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 1: And then at this point of the year we've been 606 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 1: talking about it on the show, teams are trying to 607 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,680 Speaker 1: stay healthy and get healthy and handing the football off 608 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,840 Speaker 1: for two and a half quarters just a ticket to 609 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 1: do that, no question, and especially this time of the 610 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,400 Speaker 1: year when you've got to keep your eyes on the prize, 611 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,240 Speaker 1: which is being ready for January football. And the Chiefs 612 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,879 Speaker 1: now no longer control their fate for that number one 613 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,120 Speaker 1: seed in the AFC having lost last week and the 614 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,560 Speaker 1: Bills at nine and three. So move to the wide 615 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,359 Speaker 1: receivers here. Dk metcalf and Tyer Lockett's teammates. I kind 616 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 1: of teased this earlier when I was discussing Gino Smith 617 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:52,560 Speaker 1: their priced at seventy nine hundred and seventy seven hundred, respectively. 618 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,360 Speaker 1: Are those two metcalf is coming off of a huge 619 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,880 Speaker 1: game against the Rams, went up over one hundred yards 620 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,840 Speaker 1: and Tyler Lockett has a touchdown through the air five 621 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,720 Speaker 1: straight weeks, which is the longest active streak in the NFL. 622 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,719 Speaker 1: I don't think the match is a great, elite one, 623 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 1: but I also think it's a reasonable one against a 624 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 1: Carolina defense that has a lockdown corner in JC Horn 625 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 1: and then is kind of figuring out the rest of 626 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,799 Speaker 1: that secondary. The third receiver here, you kind of have 627 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,040 Speaker 1: to swallow hard before you say. It's Deontay Johnson for 628 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 1: the Steelers. And the reason why I mentioned that is 629 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: he hasn't scored a touchdown this year, which just seems 630 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,160 Speaker 1: unfathomable for a guy who in the two years prior 631 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,240 Speaker 1: to this was second fourth in the NFL in total 632 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:41,440 Speaker 1: targets and at twelve perceiving touchdowns in twenty twenty, twenty twenty, 633 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:45,560 Speaker 1: and twenty twenty one. So you would think Deontay Johnson 634 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,640 Speaker 1: is eventually bound for the end zone. If he snaps 635 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,359 Speaker 1: the curse this Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens, I'll probably 636 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,960 Speaker 1: do a backflip, which I'm not even physically capable of, 637 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,759 Speaker 1: so I might hurt myself, but it would be a 638 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 1: momentous occasion to say the least have my name film 639 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,759 Speaker 1: of that, you know, so we could use it on 640 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 1: the show. That would be great tight end position flex position. 641 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,840 Speaker 1: You got one of my favorite guys that I actually 642 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 1: have on my fantasy roster, and then this young guy 643 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,239 Speaker 1: at tight end. I didn't know what to make of 644 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:16,879 Speaker 1: him at the start of the season, and I'm sure 645 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,319 Speaker 1: he's been somewhat victimized by the lack of production in 646 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,279 Speaker 1: that offense overall. But this guy could be somebody, I 647 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,239 Speaker 1: think in the years to come at the tight end position. Yeah, 648 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,200 Speaker 1: it could be. It's Great Dultchitch of the Broncos, who 649 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,600 Speaker 1: actually was the second highest scoring tight end for the 650 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,600 Speaker 1: week this past week, and it was a bad week 651 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,920 Speaker 1: for tight ends. Kate Dotton ended up being the highest 652 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,640 Speaker 1: scoring tight end for the week and that was because 653 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,719 Speaker 1: he got that late touchdown for Tampa Bay and that 654 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,759 Speaker 1: miracle comeback over the New Orleans Saints. But Dult just 655 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,000 Speaker 1: also a good player. You know. The big problem is 656 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,200 Speaker 1: that the entire offense it's so bad. So we were 657 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,880 Speaker 1: just alluding to earlier on but what are you looking 658 00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,759 Speaker 1: for opportunity? What do we talk about with Casey? They 659 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,319 Speaker 1: might be up big and running the football well, if 660 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,560 Speaker 1: they're up big, that means that Denver has to throw 661 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,480 Speaker 1: the football, which is why great Dultchitz finds his way 662 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,680 Speaker 1: into the lineup. And then the flex consideration. This one's 663 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,760 Speaker 1: fairly straightforward, guys. Tony Pollard has been electric for Dallas. 664 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,000 Speaker 1: They play the worst run defense by far in the NFL. 665 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,800 Speaker 1: This Sunday in the Houston Texans, and it's a possibility 666 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:25,640 Speaker 1: the Texans won't have Brandon Cooks or Nico Collins. You know, 667 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,520 Speaker 1: the NFL's a funny game where strange things can happen, 668 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,120 Speaker 1: but god it, this could be one of those where 669 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,239 Speaker 1: it's thirty five to enough and before you blink and 670 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,319 Speaker 1: the Cowboys are basically playing running the clock football by 671 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,160 Speaker 1: about halftime of this game. Yeah, it was kind of 672 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 1: I was laughing at this one a little bit, not 673 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,880 Speaker 1: not to be mean or anything, but you see that 674 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,800 Speaker 1: Lovey Smith puts Davis Mills back in the starting lineup 675 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,240 Speaker 1: at the quarterback position for Houston, and I'm thinking to myself, 676 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,800 Speaker 1: if I'm Davis Mills, you're putting me back in against 677 00:38:54,840 --> 00:39:00,920 Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence and Micah Parsons. Thanks, coach, I appreciate you, right, 678 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,920 Speaker 1: Amazing it's amazing and it's gonna be tough, you know, 679 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,560 Speaker 1: Davis Mills. This is kind of the opposite of what 680 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,680 Speaker 1: happened with Mike White when he was inserted as the 681 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,400 Speaker 1: Jets starting quarterback because Zach Wilson had just come up 682 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,680 Speaker 1: with a stretch in which he faced Denver, New England, 683 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,520 Speaker 1: Buffalo and then Denver obviously New England again. It might 684 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,880 Speaker 1: have been one more other defense in there that was legitimate, 685 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,600 Speaker 1: but it was like, you know, four Indianapolis, excuse me 686 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,600 Speaker 1: as well, You're like four or five good defenses in 687 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,880 Speaker 1: a row, and then Mike White comes in and gets 688 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,399 Speaker 1: a pattycake defense. I'm not saying Mike White hasn't doesn't 689 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,640 Speaker 1: deserve to keep starting, as they certainly does. He did 690 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,279 Speaker 1: it again last week against Minnesota. But this could be 691 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,879 Speaker 1: the reality check weekend for Mike White. And same thing 692 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,759 Speaker 1: with Davis Mills, who has very little support around him 693 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,480 Speaker 1: right now. And I mentioned that Mike White had his 694 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,600 Speaker 1: way with Minnesota, so you might be thinking, why would 695 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,880 Speaker 1: you want to have the Vikings defense in your lineup? 696 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,920 Speaker 1: You know, they actually have six or more fantasy points 697 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,120 Speaker 1: in eight of their twelve games this season, and guys 698 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 1: there's no position in fantasy that's trickier to size up 699 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,560 Speaker 1: and less relevant to how the team is in real 700 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,120 Speaker 1: life than defense. You're just looking for the opportunity for turnovers. 701 00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,880 Speaker 1: Vikings have enough playmakers on defense, a couple of pass rushers, 702 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,799 Speaker 1: a couple of ballhawks in the secondary. They turn this 703 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,879 Speaker 1: thing into a shootout, and Jared Goff has to throw 704 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 1: the ball fifty times? Could that lead to a turnover 705 00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,879 Speaker 1: or to We'll see. As always, I think I've said 706 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,719 Speaker 1: it probably more than any other phrase that I've been 707 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,160 Speaker 1: or since I've been doing this with you guys for 708 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,560 Speaker 1: what almost three years now. I punt on defense for 709 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,719 Speaker 1: the most part, I just find a defense that's deep 710 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,040 Speaker 1: well for the best. Yeah, it's so difficult for them 711 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,719 Speaker 1: to amass a big number on that side of the ball. 712 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,399 Speaker 1: You just kind of take what you can get and 713 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,400 Speaker 1: look for a matchups that's favorable. They've been opportunistic. At 714 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,920 Speaker 1: the end of games. They'll say that they had interceptions 715 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,880 Speaker 1: just when they need them, you know, clinging to a 716 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,160 Speaker 1: lead like they were last week, and they get a 717 00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,560 Speaker 1: pick from Mike White. So, yeah, why wouldn't it Why 718 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,640 Speaker 1: couldn't it happen again? Jared Goff. If his attempts get 719 00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,439 Speaker 1: up over thirty five close to forty, he's usually gonna 720 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:09,520 Speaker 1: gift you one. See, Brownie, You and I could switch 721 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,800 Speaker 1: roles here. I can spend two hours a day with Steve. 722 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:17,239 Speaker 1: We eat lunch together. Well, there you go. I don't 723 00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,399 Speaker 1: know if my record in my current fantasy league would 724 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,120 Speaker 1: urin me that job, though that's not pretty. I am 725 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,040 Speaker 1: not going to the playoffs. I might be headed to 726 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:29,280 Speaker 1: daily Fantasy sooner than I thought. Um Field, thanks as always, 727 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,960 Speaker 1: we appreciate the lineup advice, and we'll catch up with 728 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,080 Speaker 1: you for week fifteen. Thanks Field, sounds good. Touch you 729 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,239 Speaker 1: next Thursday. All right. That's Field Yate's NFL Insider for 730 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:43,240 Speaker 1: ESPN and Fantasy Football expert with the ultimate fantasy lineup 731 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:47,400 Speaker 1: for Week fourteen, presented by Fandel Make every moment more. 732 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,719 Speaker 1: We'll take a break here, but when we come back, 733 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,279 Speaker 1: we'll take your phone calls. Get your thoughts from you 734 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,239 Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet about what you think will be 735 00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,440 Speaker 1: the key to victory for Buffalo against the Jets on Sunday. 736 00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:18,080 Speaker 1: Back in them all here on one Bill's Live Time 737 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:22,120 Speaker 1: Now for Soundbits, presented by Tim Horton's here from quarterback 738 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,879 Speaker 1: Josh Allen, safety Jordan Poyer, head coach John McDermott as 739 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:32,360 Speaker 1: the Bills discuss linebacker Von Miller's ACL injury, ending his 740 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:36,880 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two seasons. Von underwent surgery yesterday. It was 741 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:41,080 Speaker 1: exploratory type of surgery and it turned out that he, uh, 742 00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,719 Speaker 1: he got a ACL. I'll repair in there, so he'll 743 00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,920 Speaker 1: be out for the year. As an update for you guys, 744 00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:57,719 Speaker 1: very unfortunate situation for Vaughan obviously in our team, I mean, 745 00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:01,960 Speaker 1: obviously the Von news. That's that's of man. It sucks. Um. 746 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:03,960 Speaker 1: You know, you love the guy as a as a friend, 747 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,480 Speaker 1: as a teammate, just somebody who I've grown to just appreciate, 748 00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:09,879 Speaker 1: like I said, on and off the field. Um, he's 749 00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:13,320 Speaker 1: taught me so much, um in the game of football, 750 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,480 Speaker 1: just in his short time being here. Um. And to 751 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,840 Speaker 1: lose a guy like that is tough. Um. That's the 752 00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:20,920 Speaker 1: game we play. I think he'd be one of the 753 00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:22,880 Speaker 1: first ones to tell you that. Um. It's part of 754 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,680 Speaker 1: the game. And you know, being able to you know, 755 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,200 Speaker 1: have other guys, you know, have opportunities, you know, right 756 00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,400 Speaker 1: in front of him. Um, and those guys will be 757 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,279 Speaker 1: ready to go. UM. Obviously sucks losing him guy of 758 00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,839 Speaker 1: his kelber. You know what he came here to do, 759 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,040 Speaker 1: UM and helped his team out. You know, I don't 760 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,319 Speaker 1: know when he's coming back, but UM, you know he's 761 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,000 Speaker 1: coming back, and just to have his presence in the 762 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,360 Speaker 1: locker room and and you know, teaching guys still. I 763 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,800 Speaker 1: think that's gonna be a big help for us. UM. Actually, 764 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,680 Speaker 1: we wish he's out there, you know, with us, and 765 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,520 Speaker 1: we're praying for him. We're keeping him in our hearts. UM. 766 00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,399 Speaker 1: But the only ways forward and UM, you know, guys 767 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,600 Speaker 1: gotta step up and collective believe, we got to come 768 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:04,200 Speaker 1: together and you know, try to I said, come together 769 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:08,160 Speaker 1: and diminish his absence is as much as possible. I mean, 770 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,279 Speaker 1: it's always tough on the football team, you know, and 771 00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,120 Speaker 1: particularly I sawe of the ball defensively just because of 772 00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,000 Speaker 1: what he brought to the table, you know, his leadership. 773 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,560 Speaker 1: Just not having them out there. But you know, you 774 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,719 Speaker 1: know that happens in this game. You know that's that's sad, 775 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:21,440 Speaker 1: but it's true. And h you know, I know a 776 00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,239 Speaker 1: lot of guys are you know, taking initiative of stepping up. 777 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,400 Speaker 1: You know, obviously we you know, sent out our wishes 778 00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,600 Speaker 1: to him, wishing them, hoping them for you know, a 779 00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,680 Speaker 1: healthy recovery, for recovery and uh, you know I can't lie. 780 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,960 Speaker 1: I said, don't hurt. But you know, this gives another 781 00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:35,759 Speaker 1: It gives other guys in the locker room time, you know, 782 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:37,840 Speaker 1: the ability to come in and step up. It stinks 783 00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,160 Speaker 1: to lose Von, but we're still defensive line. We're still 784 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:41,799 Speaker 1: you know, we've still come to work every single day. 785 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:45,279 Speaker 1: We still um still do all the same things. So 786 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,080 Speaker 1: I mean it's about it's the same as it always been. 787 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,200 Speaker 1: It sucks that we've lost someone in Speth Vibius caliber, 788 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,680 Speaker 1: but um our day to day, you know, we come 789 00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:52,960 Speaker 1: in and we put the work in just like every 790 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:56,040 Speaker 1: other day. It was just hard barking, you know, our leader, Uh, 791 00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,719 Speaker 1: guy that's been there, a guy that's been there to 792 00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:00,719 Speaker 1: a super Bowl that we're trying to be get there. 793 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,839 Speaker 1: I mean it hurts, you know, he put too much 794 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,600 Speaker 1: effort and there to go down like that. Guys are 795 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,600 Speaker 1: going to roll. This is what this team has built on. 796 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,279 Speaker 1: This is how Brandon built the team for guys to 797 00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:15,319 Speaker 1: be ready to go. We're loaded and Uh, hopefully there's 798 00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,320 Speaker 1: not too big a drop off. Now we believe in 799 00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:21,319 Speaker 1: these guys. Vaughan has helped these guys already with just 800 00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,120 Speaker 1: some of the things he's taught him, whether it's moves, 801 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,400 Speaker 1: whether it's preparation film, all those things. So he's going 802 00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:28,000 Speaker 1: to be back here. And that's the thing I talked 803 00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,680 Speaker 1: to Vaughan last night. He's once he can fly and 804 00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,680 Speaker 1: get back here, he's going to be around to help 805 00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:37,319 Speaker 1: and and I'm excited to get him back, all right. 806 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:41,720 Speaker 1: So that sound bits presented by Tim Horton's and uh, yeah, 807 00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:43,360 Speaker 1: he is going to be around, So that's good to 808 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,959 Speaker 1: hear it, you know, counseling and you know, helping guys 809 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,080 Speaker 1: in the film room presumably as well. And you know, 810 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,120 Speaker 1: as Jordan Phillips said, we're loaded for Bear. So yeah, 811 00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,520 Speaker 1: it's losing him stinks, but it's not like the cupboard 812 00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,480 Speaker 1: is Bear, and he'll have guys to roll out there 813 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,160 Speaker 1: and produce. And I liked what I also heard about 814 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,799 Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds saying, you know, guys are already taking the 815 00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:09,440 Speaker 1: initiative to step forward and you know, fill some of 816 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,319 Speaker 1: the void left by vad Miller, whether it's from a 817 00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:16,240 Speaker 1: performance standpoint or from a leadership standpoint, guys are already 818 00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,200 Speaker 1: looking to see where they can fill in the game. 819 00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:21,480 Speaker 1: And it's not like Vaughan is, you know, he's been 820 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,640 Speaker 1: plucked and taking away to Mars or something. He's gonna 821 00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,800 Speaker 1: be back in the building fairly soon, and he'll he'll 822 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,600 Speaker 1: still be able to lend his insights, expertise and leadership 823 00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:32,719 Speaker 1: even if he can't lend his you know, hand on 824 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:39,040 Speaker 1: the ground going after the passer. So he's not completely 825 00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:43,160 Speaker 1: disappearing from the roster. So that's a plus as well. 826 00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:48,399 Speaker 1: But as you would think, these guys are gonna pick 827 00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:51,000 Speaker 1: it up, you know, try and make up for his 828 00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:55,560 Speaker 1: loss and and make it an opportunity for themselves. Let's 829 00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,520 Speaker 1: go to the phones real quick, as we're asking you 830 00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:00,720 Speaker 1: for your key to a bills ric over the Jets 831 00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,600 Speaker 1: on Sunday, what you think it might be and at 832 00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,480 Speaker 1: eight oh three, five fifty week go to Pete in 833 00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:08,960 Speaker 1: Arkansas to lead us off. What you got first, Pete, 834 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,319 Speaker 1: We're gonna hammer the Jets Sunday, no problem. Then it's 835 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:18,160 Speaker 1: always great to get the Dolphins in Buffalo in December. 836 00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:22,400 Speaker 1: So I'm I'm very confident in the next two weeks, 837 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,719 Speaker 1: I wanted the quest. I had a comment on the 838 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:30,719 Speaker 1: new Bill Stadium rendering article that came up, and it 839 00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:35,759 Speaker 1: mentions in there the extensive radiant heat. I go back 840 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:39,160 Speaker 1: to the old Rock Pile days in nineteen sixty four, 841 00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:41,960 Speaker 1: and I don't remember any of those kinds of a 842 00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,200 Speaker 1: minute to use at the at the Rock Pile back 843 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,799 Speaker 1: back in that day, which was a pretty good year, 844 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:51,640 Speaker 1: as you guys will remember, right, Yeah, that's true. And 845 00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,320 Speaker 1: I'll say this though, one thing I didn't know until 846 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,719 Speaker 1: we started getting into the details of the new stadium. 847 00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:02,560 Speaker 1: The Rock Pile is younger when they demolished it than 848 00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:09,080 Speaker 1: high Mark Stadium is today. Yeah, the Rock Pile had 849 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,120 Speaker 1: what they had what half the seats were in the 850 00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,600 Speaker 1: open end end zone down there that I mean, that 851 00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,799 Speaker 1: place was something else. Yeah, it was a big, cavernous place. 852 00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,759 Speaker 1: I mean I played, Uh, it was still erect it 853 00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,040 Speaker 1: was still up when I was got to town and 854 00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,440 Speaker 1: in the off season we played like a chair. It's 855 00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,919 Speaker 1: where the Bisons used to play baseball. Um, that's where 856 00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,080 Speaker 1: the natural you know, the film with Robert Redford movie 857 00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,400 Speaker 1: was filmed, obviously and people know that. But I played 858 00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,359 Speaker 1: in that stadium. It was cavernous. The place was huge. 859 00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,880 Speaker 1: It was like it was like Soldier Field in Chicago 860 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,120 Speaker 1: was enormous. I went went from it even like it 861 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:48,440 Speaker 1: went from miles the oval of it, right. So, but yeah, 862 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,080 Speaker 1: it was rock and that's why they called it the 863 00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,880 Speaker 1: rock pile. Um. They don't make them like that anymore. 864 00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,759 Speaker 1: And you can be nostalgic and romanticize it, but they 865 00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,760 Speaker 1: don't make them like that anymore for a good reason. 866 00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:04,440 Speaker 1: And fan expectations are different now than they were back then. 867 00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,320 Speaker 1: Most people are just happy to have a ticket to 868 00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,120 Speaker 1: the game and whatever you had to sit on, yeah, 869 00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:14,000 Speaker 1: and whatever was available was great. The expectation a little 870 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:15,880 Speaker 1: bit higher now, gonna make Yeah, I gotta be comfortable 871 00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,359 Speaker 1: when I'm watching your team perform. They can be out 872 00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,359 Speaker 1: there in the cold and wet. I want to be 873 00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,920 Speaker 1: as comfortable as I can in a stadium. So, um, 874 00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,759 Speaker 1: there you have it. I mean that's um. No, they 875 00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,640 Speaker 1: didn't have the amenities like that, but there will be 876 00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,600 Speaker 1: this state. And let me tell you that I'm gonna 877 00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:33,719 Speaker 1: hammer this for the next three years while we're doing 878 00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:36,520 Speaker 1: this getting this stadium up. The stadium is going to 879 00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:40,440 Speaker 1: be vastly different than the one they're in now, very different. 880 00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,680 Speaker 1: You're gonna have to get used to it, but you're 881 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,879 Speaker 1: gonna love it. I believe all of us are gonna 882 00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,440 Speaker 1: love this new stadium because that's how much better than 883 00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,799 Speaker 1: this place that we're in is That's how much better 884 00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:53,520 Speaker 1: it's gonna be than this place. As much as we 885 00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,440 Speaker 1: love this place that we're in the high Mark Stadium 886 00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,080 Speaker 1: we're in now, they're gonna you're gonna love the new 887 00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,359 Speaker 1: place just as much. And if you you can want 888 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:01,959 Speaker 1: to go, you're gonna be able to afford a ticket. 889 00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:05,000 Speaker 1: Countless amount of thought and creativity has gone into this 890 00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:09,279 Speaker 1: new stadium, so it's covered all the bases. And yes, 891 00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,640 Speaker 1: Steve is right, you're gonna love it. We take a 892 00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,200 Speaker 1: break here our number two come in your Way, which 893 00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:19,200 Speaker 1: will include one Xavier Rhodes joining us here in studio 894 00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,920 Speaker 1: at some point next hour. Stay tuned for that. Here 895 00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:24,000 Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live presented by Kalid to Health, It's 896 00:50:24,040 --> 00:51:10,440 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. These one Bills Live presented by Come 897 00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,799 Speaker 1: Light to Health. Hey, welcome to our number two. This 898 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:17,360 Speaker 1: week's game spots or is Independent Health. Independent Health is 899 00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:21,440 Speaker 1: an official health and wellness partner of the Buffalo Bills 900 00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,279 Speaker 1: Bills Jets is what we're talking about, and we are 901 00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,360 Speaker 1: asking you at eight o three oh five fifty what 902 00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,720 Speaker 1: will be a key to a Bills victory over the Jets. 903 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,399 Speaker 1: And we're gonna jump on the tweet sheet to get 904 00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:34,680 Speaker 1: things rolling right now. Tweet sheet is always brought to 905 00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:38,040 Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company 906 00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,799 Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Jeremy leads us off there and 907 00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:45,480 Speaker 1: he says, finding an answer for the Jets D line. 908 00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,080 Speaker 1: The offense wasn't able to find their rhythm after the 909 00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,080 Speaker 1: half in the last meeting. Hopefully that is cleaned up 910 00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:54,600 Speaker 1: and they can stay on script. Yeah, as we said 911 00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,560 Speaker 1: in the last hour of the show, the Jets front 912 00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:00,840 Speaker 1: four is kind of the key to their whole defensive approach, 913 00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:03,799 Speaker 1: and they roll eight nine guys through much like the 914 00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,000 Speaker 1: Bills have for years under coach Frasier. They're doing the 915 00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:11,000 Speaker 1: same thing now. And they had their way with Buffalo's 916 00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,160 Speaker 1: offensive line the first time, I mean, Josh got sacked 917 00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,560 Speaker 1: five times. The run game had a struggle to get 918 00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:21,280 Speaker 1: yards on a consistent basis. So yeah, finding an answer 919 00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,560 Speaker 1: to the D line would be a good solution. Yeah, 920 00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:25,560 Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. That is the engine of 921 00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:30,600 Speaker 1: this game for the Jets. They've got a young quarterback, 922 00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:35,520 Speaker 1: they're trying to get through this game. They are they had. 923 00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:39,799 Speaker 1: They played extremely well against the Bills last time out, 924 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,359 Speaker 1: and it was all fueled by their ability to get 925 00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,040 Speaker 1: after Josh. Let's face it, Josh is the engine that 926 00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,680 Speaker 1: runs a Bill's offense. Everything goes through him. Now he 927 00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,720 Speaker 1: can distribute the ball, no question about it. But without Diggs, 928 00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:52,759 Speaker 1: and if they've got a corner like Sauce Gardener who 929 00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:56,000 Speaker 1: wants to at least curtailed Dig's ability to get targets, 930 00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,279 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the Bills are in a hole. Yeah, 931 00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,080 Speaker 1: that they had strug get out of. And that's exactly 932 00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,080 Speaker 1: what happened the last time they played. But it's almost 933 00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:06,120 Speaker 1: like the last three weeks. The Bills have used those 934 00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:09,000 Speaker 1: three games as a run up to this one by 935 00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:12,880 Speaker 1: trying to diversify their offense with a more potent rushing attack, 936 00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:17,399 Speaker 1: and the production has been there, and in their last 937 00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:21,920 Speaker 1: three games it's been three of their four highest rushing 938 00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:25,839 Speaker 1: attempt total games of the season. And I think it's 939 00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:29,000 Speaker 1: due in part because they know if they're going to 940 00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,479 Speaker 1: beat this Jets defense or have an answer for them, 941 00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:35,319 Speaker 1: a defense that can get after the passer and can 942 00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:38,799 Speaker 1: cover on the back end with two solid corners that 943 00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,360 Speaker 1: they're not afraid to put on an island in man coverage. 944 00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,799 Speaker 1: You better have a running game as an answer to 945 00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:47,759 Speaker 1: whatever they're throwing at you, because if you can run 946 00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,640 Speaker 1: on this defense, which you know, the Jets twelfth against 947 00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,200 Speaker 1: the run this season, so they're pretty good against the run. 948 00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,719 Speaker 1: They're not great. There are two teams. There are two 949 00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,040 Speaker 1: teams that have held the Bills to under twenty points 950 00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,520 Speaker 1: all year. The Dolphins held them to nineteen and the 951 00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,440 Speaker 1: Jets held them the seventeen. Yeah, they lost both those games. 952 00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,600 Speaker 1: That's the only time that the Bills have been held 953 00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:13,360 Speaker 1: under twenty four points all seasons in those two games. 954 00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,080 Speaker 1: That tells you all you need to know about what's important. 955 00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:20,120 Speaker 1: But they've been they've been gearing up to get this 956 00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:21,880 Speaker 1: run game going. Steve and I like to think that 957 00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,360 Speaker 1: they've diversed. They probably feel they've diversified their offense to 958 00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:28,800 Speaker 1: the point where if the Jets are, you know, thwarting 959 00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:32,040 Speaker 1: their passing attack, that at least they have something else 960 00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:35,120 Speaker 1: to turn to. Also, they could you know, they might 961 00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:37,640 Speaker 1: give the Jets one more thing to think about before 962 00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:42,280 Speaker 1: they actually just pin their ears back and run after Josh, 963 00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:43,759 Speaker 1: if you can, if you got if they got to 964 00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:45,839 Speaker 1: bear up in the run game first and then rush 965 00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:50,680 Speaker 1: the passer makes a big difference in the passing game. 966 00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:54,600 Speaker 1: So we'll see. But yeah, that you're right. The Bills 967 00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:57,160 Speaker 1: have made a concerted effort and done a nice job 968 00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:01,239 Speaker 1: in balancing out their attack. And I think what was it? 969 00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:03,279 Speaker 1: It was the was it the Giants game? Was that 970 00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,680 Speaker 1: the Browns game where they ran more than they threw 971 00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:10,120 Speaker 1: it for maybe one of the few times in the season. Um, yeah, 972 00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,960 Speaker 1: that's huge. Don't know that that's going to hold up 973 00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:16,000 Speaker 1: this game, but the fact that they're they've got a 974 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,840 Speaker 1: feel more confidence in their run game is going to 975 00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,719 Speaker 1: go a long way towards giving them a better shot offensively. 976 00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,120 Speaker 1: It's scored more than just seventeen points they did last year. 977 00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:24,759 Speaker 1: The game plan is always going to be different from 978 00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:26,680 Speaker 1: one week to the next because the opponent is different 979 00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:28,920 Speaker 1: from one week to the next. You know, what they 980 00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:30,839 Speaker 1: what they think is going to work against the Jets 981 00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,520 Speaker 1: is probably in sharp contrast to what they thought was 982 00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,399 Speaker 1: going to work against the Patriots. But still in all 983 00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,359 Speaker 1: I think what they've put on tape the last three 984 00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:42,040 Speaker 1: weeks with respect to their run game forces opponents like 985 00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:45,040 Speaker 1: the Jets to think about something else besides just Josh 986 00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:48,200 Speaker 1: Allen in the passing game, and for me, that's that's 987 00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:50,520 Speaker 1: that's nothing to sneeze at. I think it's I think 988 00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:53,640 Speaker 1: it's more for the Jets to prepare for and that's 989 00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:55,239 Speaker 1: a good thing. Do you Yeah, yeah, I don't think 990 00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:57,520 Speaker 1: it's coincidence either. I'm like you. I think it's been 991 00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,480 Speaker 1: a concerted effort by the offense to put that on 992 00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:06,239 Speaker 1: tape and show teams the Bill's willingness and commitment to 993 00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,239 Speaker 1: being a little bit more balanced and taking a little 994 00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:11,400 Speaker 1: starch out of the out of the quest for Josh Allen. 995 00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:13,879 Speaker 1: But you can't just pin your ears back anyway. Joe 996 00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,320 Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet says, defense, get off the field 997 00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:19,960 Speaker 1: on third and long, offense, control time of possession, and 998 00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,520 Speaker 1: keep up the red zone efficiency like the last couple 999 00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:25,680 Speaker 1: of games. Finally, no Chris Brown predictions that we will 1000 00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:29,560 Speaker 1: smoke them. Don't worry, I'm not going near It was that. 1001 00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:34,640 Speaker 1: That game was the game. I just look at the 1002 00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:37,000 Speaker 1: beginning of the season, I was saying, hey, the Jets 1003 00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:39,520 Speaker 1: are gonna win seven games this year, and people looked 1004 00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:42,359 Speaker 1: at me like I had seven heads. They're already at 1005 00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,319 Speaker 1: seven wins. I mean, they could get to eight or nine, 1006 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,960 Speaker 1: maybe even ten. They you know, they gotta win. They 1007 00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:49,640 Speaker 1: really got to get it in gear here these last 1008 00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:53,279 Speaker 1: five weeks. And their strength of schedule is pretty good too. 1009 00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,000 Speaker 1: And you know, the Bills have a pretty strong schedule left, 1010 00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:58,960 Speaker 1: and so do the Jets to the Dolphins for that matter. 1011 00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,000 Speaker 1: But the Jets are in the playoff hunt, no question. Yeah, 1012 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:04,959 Speaker 1: and they've got good reason to feel like they're gonna 1013 00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,280 Speaker 1: stay there. I think the Detroit game is a sneaky 1014 00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:11,080 Speaker 1: game for the Jets remaining schedule, that that's gonna be 1015 00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:14,000 Speaker 1: a tough out. Bill saw firsthand. Out tough that Lions 1016 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,520 Speaker 1: squad is. They play hard for Dan Campbell and they've 1017 00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:19,120 Speaker 1: got an offense that can go. Yeah, they beat the 1018 00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:22,000 Speaker 1: Dolphins in their first first meeting. They beat the Bills 1019 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:26,480 Speaker 1: in their first meeting, but they got swept by the Patriots, 1020 00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,360 Speaker 1: so they got the This Bills game for them is enormous. 1021 00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:33,440 Speaker 1: Then they got Detroit Jacksonville, which you gotta think they 1022 00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:36,720 Speaker 1: they're gonna win. Win those games at Seattle's gonna be 1023 00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:38,560 Speaker 1: But then they've got to go to Seattle and then 1024 00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:42,919 Speaker 1: they've got to go to Miami. That I mean, if 1025 00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:44,720 Speaker 1: the Bills play their cards right and they have the 1026 00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:48,680 Speaker 1: division locked up Week eighteen, Jets at Miami could determine 1027 00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:52,600 Speaker 1: the wild card booze in and who's out boom diggity. 1028 00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:54,360 Speaker 1: That's a big one. But the Bills got a hold. 1029 00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:58,880 Speaker 1: Those two teams historically it's eat each other. Yeah, and yeah, 1030 00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,040 Speaker 1: people talk about the Bills Dolphins thing. You know that 1031 00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:04,120 Speaker 1: happened with Kelly and Marino, Right, The Jets Dolphins thing 1032 00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:06,080 Speaker 1: has been going on a lot longer than that. Shose, 1033 00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:09,560 Speaker 1: two teams hate each other. Yeah, the Patriots thing may 1034 00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:12,160 Speaker 1: have eclipsed it for a bunch of us. You know. Sure, 1035 00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,680 Speaker 1: We've talked for years about the Bills Dolphins rivalry and 1036 00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,880 Speaker 1: it got eclipsed by the Patriots dominance over the Bills 1037 00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,360 Speaker 1: for like twenty years. Same with the Jets. The Jets 1038 00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:24,160 Speaker 1: hated the Dolphins forever and then all of a sudden, 1039 00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:27,400 Speaker 1: the Belichick thing came into play, and you know, Jets 1040 00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:31,520 Speaker 1: fans loathed the AFC East was united and its loathing 1041 00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:34,439 Speaker 1: of the Patriots, but that's it pushed all the other 1042 00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:37,000 Speaker 1: But there's some history there too, and it's really going 1043 00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,200 Speaker 1: to be an interesting last five weeks of the seasons. 1044 00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:42,200 Speaker 1: But the paramount for Bills fans obviously they gotta win 1045 00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,720 Speaker 1: out and starting with these division games, the Jets and 1046 00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:49,200 Speaker 1: the Dolphins and and of course the Patriots in Week eighteen. 1047 00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:55,680 Speaker 1: But man, oh man, you're right, it's and it contributes 1048 00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:56,960 Speaker 1: to what I said in the first segment of the 1049 00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,640 Speaker 1: show out at the top. Man, it is the tension 1050 00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:03,480 Speaker 1: in NFL locker rooms is palpable at this time of 1051 00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:06,680 Speaker 1: year because everybody wants to play, not everybody can play, 1052 00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:09,640 Speaker 1: not everybody feels good enough to play, and you're living 1053 00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:11,920 Speaker 1: with these injuries trying to get ready to go, and 1054 00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:15,040 Speaker 1: it's and it's not there's just not enough time. Yeah, 1055 00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:18,640 Speaker 1: And the tension is mounting for a lot of these teams, 1056 00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:21,160 Speaker 1: particularly teams like the Jets and the Dolphins who are 1057 00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,360 Speaker 1: in the wildcard spot and you gotta chance you can 1058 00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:25,320 Speaker 1: win your way in. If you can win your way in, 1059 00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:28,360 Speaker 1: but you're not one hundred percent and it's awful to 1060 00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,200 Speaker 1: be in that position. Mark on the tweet sheet says, 1061 00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:34,040 Speaker 1: good run defense, getting the ball to our playmakers. Eighty 1062 00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:37,360 Speaker 1: eight needs to be involved. Motor and Cook need to 1063 00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:40,240 Speaker 1: take pressure off of Josh. I think we've already seen 1064 00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:43,480 Speaker 1: that in action. We saw it last week against the Patriots. 1065 00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:48,800 Speaker 1: I mean, Motor and James Cook had thirty two and 1066 00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:52,680 Speaker 1: thirty three snaps respectively. Cook went over one hundred total 1067 00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:57,520 Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage, had six catches, and we saw a 1068 00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,280 Speaker 1: Singletary's done it too, you know, playing a in the 1069 01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:05,680 Speaker 1: checkdown passing game. I think they realize that they had 1070 01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:11,280 Speaker 1: to fill the void left by Cole Beasley, who was 1071 01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:14,000 Speaker 1: always open and was the safety valve option for Josh 1072 01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:18,160 Speaker 1: Allen in the passing game. That has not been properly 1073 01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:23,280 Speaker 1: replicated by a receiver alone, due in part to Jamison 1074 01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:28,400 Speaker 1: Crowder's injury. Isaiah McKenzie. You know, it hasn't really been 1075 01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:32,120 Speaker 1: filled the same way by him, and so I almost 1076 01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:38,040 Speaker 1: feel like it's a group effort between McKenzie, James Cook 1077 01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:41,240 Speaker 1: and then you know, fill in Singletary or Naheim Hines 1078 01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:43,880 Speaker 1: to you know, pick your flavor there in the checkdown 1079 01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:49,080 Speaker 1: passing game. What about Knox though, Steve, I mean, he 1080 01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,800 Speaker 1: had that nice game against the Browns a few weeks ago. 1081 01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:56,800 Speaker 1: Seven catches seventy yards. But those performances just seem fewer 1082 01:00:56,840 --> 01:01:00,400 Speaker 1: and further between, and it's partially because he's in blocking 1083 01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:02,240 Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, I think a little bit of that 1084 01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:05,480 Speaker 1: as offensive line problems and issues and protection issues and 1085 01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:09,360 Speaker 1: you know, run game issues. But I think Dawson Knox, 1086 01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:11,720 Speaker 1: if if you know him, I think I don't think 1087 01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:15,840 Speaker 1: they've asked him. Yeah, you know, certainly you can point 1088 01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,880 Speaker 1: to a drop here and there that have, but it's 1089 01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:23,520 Speaker 1: I don't think that's I don't think it's been him, 1090 01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:24,880 Speaker 1: I guess is what it said. I think it's been 1091 01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:28,040 Speaker 1: the offense in the direction they've taken. Certainly, you look 1092 01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:34,200 Speaker 1: at Gabe Davis and you look at Isaiah McKenzie. They 1093 01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:36,720 Speaker 1: haven't him. I was. I'm surprised more by them than 1094 01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:40,360 Speaker 1: I am the Dawson Knox thing. But I think Dawson 1095 01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:43,439 Speaker 1: Knox is there when you need him. But I don't 1096 01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:45,240 Speaker 1: think they've needed him as much as we think they 1097 01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:47,160 Speaker 1: might have. And certainly there have been times when their 1098 01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:49,880 Speaker 1: offense doesn't do anything anything or somebody else needs to help. Okay, 1099 01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:54,760 Speaker 1: but you know that that game against Cleveland that you 1100 01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:57,800 Speaker 1: mentioned I think has proved positive that if they wanted 1101 01:01:57,880 --> 01:01:58,920 Speaker 1: him to be a bigger part of it, all I 1102 01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:00,800 Speaker 1: gotta do is call his number yeah, And I don't 1103 01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:03,200 Speaker 1: think they're doing that. I think he's always been second 1104 01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:08,360 Speaker 1: third option. I think fans watching this team became so 1105 01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:12,880 Speaker 1: accustomed to a reliable number one, number two option in 1106 01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:16,440 Speaker 1: the passing game, that of course being Diggs and Beasley, 1107 01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:21,720 Speaker 1: that now that there isn't a truly defined number two 1108 01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:25,600 Speaker 1: option in the passing game, it's kind of been a 1109 01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:28,520 Speaker 1: mishmash of different guys. Maybe it's one guy one week, 1110 01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,800 Speaker 1: somebody else another week, like perfect example, Dawson Knox seven 1111 01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:35,120 Speaker 1: for seventy against the Browns. The next week it's Mackenzie 1112 01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:37,600 Speaker 1: six for ninety five and a touchdown against the Lions. 1113 01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,600 Speaker 1: So it's it's either one guy steps up in a 1114 01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:44,840 Speaker 1: given week or it's a collective group of production behind Diggs, 1115 01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:48,440 Speaker 1: and I think it's a different It just puts a 1116 01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:50,640 Speaker 1: different complexion on the passing game that I don't know 1117 01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:53,479 Speaker 1: if Bills fans are completely accustomed to yet. And maybe 1118 01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:55,600 Speaker 1: that's why Mark is saying eighty eight needs to be 1119 01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:57,360 Speaker 1: more involved, you know what I mean. I don't know 1120 01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:59,440 Speaker 1: that it's it might have more to do with the 1121 01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:03,520 Speaker 1: relationship between Josh Allen and Ken Dorsey than it does 1122 01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:06,720 Speaker 1: anything to do with Dawson Knox. I think Dorsey's still 1123 01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:12,720 Speaker 1: trying to you know, I think without dig, without Beasley, 1124 01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:14,919 Speaker 1: and when they got these guys trying to grow into 1125 01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:18,040 Speaker 1: this role and you got a new offensive coordinator, I 1126 01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:20,720 Speaker 1: think this is part of what is going to look 1127 01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,840 Speaker 1: different about the offense going forward. It's not like I 1128 01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:25,800 Speaker 1: don't think Ken Dorsey knows how to use a tight end. 1129 01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:29,959 Speaker 1: I think he does, but I think he's his play 1130 01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:33,480 Speaker 1: selection and the way he's thinking has left you know, 1131 01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:35,400 Speaker 1: Dawson Knox at a lot of times on the outside 1132 01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:37,120 Speaker 1: looking in, just because of the way the game and 1133 01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:39,720 Speaker 1: the way he sees the game. And Josh is a 1134 01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:42,480 Speaker 1: guy who's and I think Josh and his relationship with 1135 01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:45,360 Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey works into that where they're gonna they're focusing 1136 01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:47,440 Speaker 1: on the guys who were giving them production in like 1137 01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:52,360 Speaker 1: Steph Diggs, and they've tried to get their running backs 1138 01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:56,560 Speaker 1: involved more, and I think they're still looking for a solid, 1139 01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:58,560 Speaker 1: big time number two, whether it's the tight end or 1140 01:03:58,560 --> 01:04:00,760 Speaker 1: the running back or the number two receiver Gabe Davis, 1141 01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:03,040 Speaker 1: and I've given everybody a chance to do it, and 1142 01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:05,040 Speaker 1: nobody's really said, Okay, this is mine. I'm doing it 1143 01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:09,600 Speaker 1: one game here, one game there, maybe, but not on 1144 01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:11,480 Speaker 1: a consistent basis. And I think that has as much 1145 01:04:11,520 --> 01:04:13,240 Speaker 1: to do with Ken Dorsey and Josh Allen in the 1146 01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:15,760 Speaker 1: way they see the game together and how they want 1147 01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:17,959 Speaker 1: to call the game and how it has fallen thus 1148 01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:20,680 Speaker 1: far in the season. I don't think there's any question that, 1149 01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:22,960 Speaker 1: though with some self scouting, they're gonna look at themselves 1150 01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:24,720 Speaker 1: and go, man, we gotta spread it around a little more. 1151 01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:29,760 Speaker 1: Jimmy on the tweet sheets says, quick passing attack, don't 1152 01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:32,040 Speaker 1: let their D line get in a rhythm, quick slants, 1153 01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:35,680 Speaker 1: wide receiver screens, quick outs, ten passes to every one run, 1154 01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:39,680 Speaker 1: split out our running backs to maximize mismatches. Oh and 1155 01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:42,600 Speaker 1: maybe throw to Knox more than once. Bill's thirty four 1156 01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:46,160 Speaker 1: jets seventeen. There's another person that thinks Knox is being underutilized. 1157 01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:49,360 Speaker 1: I will remind everybody Knocks at the end of the 1158 01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:52,960 Speaker 1: season had forty nine receptions. Now nine of them went 1159 01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:57,400 Speaker 1: for touchdowns, which, you know, kind of maximized his exposure, 1160 01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:00,000 Speaker 1: you know, within the scope of the offense. Right now, 1161 01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:03,000 Speaker 1: He's got thirty three receptions with five games to play, 1162 01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:05,800 Speaker 1: So what is that reps? A little less than three 1163 01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:10,000 Speaker 1: catches a game, So if he has another fifteen, it's 1164 01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:12,440 Speaker 1: gonna be right where he was last year forty eight catches. 1165 01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:18,440 Speaker 1: So I think again, the absence of Beasley has people 1166 01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:21,960 Speaker 1: pressing and saying, hey, get this guy more involved. Oh, 1167 01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:24,360 Speaker 1: this guy should be doing more. Where's our number two 1168 01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:28,000 Speaker 1: option now? After Diggs? You know, it's been a collective 1169 01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:31,320 Speaker 1: committee effort more than anything else, and I think people 1170 01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:33,160 Speaker 1: are wondering, well, is a second guy going to be 1171 01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:35,600 Speaker 1: a defining guy every week? Maybe it's better that there 1172 01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:38,200 Speaker 1: isn't one, right, Maybe the Bills are harder to defending 1173 01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:42,720 Speaker 1: the passing game because of it. Maybe maybe we'll see 1174 01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:45,000 Speaker 1: I still think though, we and we heard it in 1175 01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:48,040 Speaker 1: the early tweets on our tweet sheet, and I agree 1176 01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:49,960 Speaker 1: with him. We've been talking about it all week. The 1177 01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:53,000 Speaker 1: Jets d line is the one thing that is the 1178 01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:56,280 Speaker 1: is the boogeyman for this game. That's why ten passes 1179 01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:58,440 Speaker 1: to every one run is probably not the way you 1180 01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:00,040 Speaker 1: want to go here. You want to run it a 1181 01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:01,600 Speaker 1: little bit more than that. Are they gonna be teeing 1182 01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:04,120 Speaker 1: off on Josh? Their D line is the scary monster 1183 01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:06,560 Speaker 1: this game for the Bills offense. All right, break time 1184 01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:09,440 Speaker 1: for us when we come back fresh off the field 1185 01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:12,440 Speaker 1: Xavier Rhodes in studio here on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned. 1186 01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:26,960 Speaker 1: All right, Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, 1187 01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:29,520 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, and please to be joined now 1188 01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:34,120 Speaker 1: in studio by Bill's cornerback Xavier Rhodes, who is are 1189 01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:36,840 Speaker 1: fresh off the Field interview this week, which is brought 1190 01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:39,000 Speaker 1: to you, as always by Austin Air, the official clean 1191 01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:43,000 Speaker 1: air provider of the Buffalo Bills. Xavier, Man, it's like 1192 01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:46,520 Speaker 1: you got here. There was like a little hiccup there 1193 01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:49,560 Speaker 1: with an injury. Then you're working your way back and 1194 01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:51,960 Speaker 1: then bang you're on the active roster and then bang 1195 01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,960 Speaker 1: again you're in the lineup. Like I mean, I know 1196 01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:56,600 Speaker 1: you've seen a lot in your time in the league. 1197 01:06:56,640 --> 01:06:58,400 Speaker 1: I mean you're a ten year event and everything, But 1198 01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:02,480 Speaker 1: how was that kind of that was a new transition, right, 1199 01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:04,800 Speaker 1: It's a little different than what you used to in 1200 01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:07,040 Speaker 1: terms of ramping up for a season. Yeah, I mean 1201 01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:10,480 Speaker 1: it was it was something to get accustomed to. But 1202 01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:14,320 Speaker 1: mentally I had to fight myself throughout, do it through throughout, 1203 01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:17,080 Speaker 1: you know, and tell myself, you know, trust the process, 1204 01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:20,320 Speaker 1: trust myself, trust my tech, trust my teammates. So yeah, 1205 01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:22,120 Speaker 1: I told it's always uncomfortable to you come to a 1206 01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:23,440 Speaker 1: new place and all of a sudden you're hurt. Now 1207 01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:25,240 Speaker 1: you can't contribute. Now you just kind of like, all right, 1208 01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:26,840 Speaker 1: I gotta get ready. You can't you know, you don't 1209 01:07:26,840 --> 01:07:28,520 Speaker 1: feel like you can contribute right away and show the 1210 01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:30,840 Speaker 1: guys how much you can now that you can get 1211 01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:33,200 Speaker 1: on the field. And I was teasing you before we 1212 01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:37,040 Speaker 1: came on, but you've got some finger Corte experience. But 1213 01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:39,000 Speaker 1: you're in a room. You're in a room with some 1214 01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:43,280 Speaker 1: young dudes, yeah, like Christian Benford and Kyer Elam, but 1215 01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:46,200 Speaker 1: you also have Trey Tradevious over there as well. It's 1216 01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:49,040 Speaker 1: got to be a really good, nice mix. Yes, man, Um, 1217 01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:52,560 Speaker 1: you would be a maze on how the room is. 1218 01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:54,960 Speaker 1: You have guys that's that's young, and you're one and 1219 01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:57,560 Speaker 1: your two, and you have guys and you're ten and 1220 01:07:57,640 --> 01:07:59,840 Speaker 1: you're five or six and seven. It's like a mix 1221 01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:04,520 Speaker 1: of everything. But we all connect, we all come together, 1222 01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:07,080 Speaker 1: we all understand one another and having a group of 1223 01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:09,760 Speaker 1: guys like that man's I mean, the sky's the limit, 1224 01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:12,080 Speaker 1: you know, and I feel good in his group. I 1225 01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:15,200 Speaker 1: know that you've probably crossed paths with Trey before, just 1226 01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:17,479 Speaker 1: by the length of time you've been in the league, 1227 01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:19,880 Speaker 1: the length of time he's been in the league. But 1228 01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:23,439 Speaker 1: his teammates always talk about how the vibe is different 1229 01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:26,120 Speaker 1: when he's on the practice field. Now, you saw him 1230 01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:29,040 Speaker 1: getting ready for a while, but then you know, the 1231 01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:31,679 Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, and not only on the practice field, 1232 01:08:31,720 --> 01:08:34,080 Speaker 1: on the game field too. There's a vibe to him. 1233 01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:37,679 Speaker 1: What's it like lining up with him, whether it's practice 1234 01:08:38,320 --> 01:08:41,320 Speaker 1: or a game. Does he just make it fun? Or 1235 01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:43,759 Speaker 1: what is it about his vibe? If you can explain 1236 01:08:43,800 --> 01:08:46,800 Speaker 1: it from any perspects? It fun. He makes it fun. 1237 01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:50,519 Speaker 1: He makes you feel comfortable, He makes you happy. He 1238 01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:54,320 Speaker 1: just makes you don't think about the thing that happened previous, 1239 01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:57,320 Speaker 1: you know. He keeps you looking to was present and 1240 01:08:57,439 --> 01:09:00,879 Speaker 1: the future, you know, and next play, next play, basically, 1241 01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:02,920 Speaker 1: you know, And that's that's a good leader to have 1242 01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:05,040 Speaker 1: on your team. That's going to keep a smile on 1243 01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:06,599 Speaker 1: your face when you're looking down the hold of your 1244 01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:08,160 Speaker 1: head down. He's going to come and you tell you 1245 01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:09,960 Speaker 1: a joke or tell you what you need to work on. 1246 01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:12,639 Speaker 1: But the most in the most positive, in a most 1247 01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:15,439 Speaker 1: positive way. You've been around the block, been the Pro Bowl. 1248 01:09:15,479 --> 01:09:18,559 Speaker 1: You're all pro. I mean you've you've got some skins 1249 01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:21,080 Speaker 1: on the wall. I mean, you've accomplished some things. You 1250 01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:23,000 Speaker 1: got a group of this this group now and this 1251 01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:26,280 Speaker 1: defense with this team and the expectations that are attached 1252 01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:29,280 Speaker 1: to it. Tell us what the vibe is in the 1253 01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:31,920 Speaker 1: locker room about that and your experience and how that intertwines. 1254 01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:35,920 Speaker 1: The vibe is just basically not to feed into it. 1255 01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:38,600 Speaker 1: Not defeated to the noise, you know, And once you 1256 01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:41,280 Speaker 1: feed into it and you start to put more weight 1257 01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:43,840 Speaker 1: on your shoulder than what you need to, and once 1258 01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:46,760 Speaker 1: you just get the call and make the plays and 1259 01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:49,760 Speaker 1: do what you need to do, I mean, skys and 1260 01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:51,679 Speaker 1: let me know, you ain't got a world about anything else. 1261 01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:55,720 Speaker 1: You've got big Division games here, three in a row. 1262 01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:58,640 Speaker 1: You took care of business in the first one last Thursday. 1263 01:09:58,920 --> 01:10:01,160 Speaker 1: Get that nice little mini buy here down the stretch. 1264 01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:03,880 Speaker 1: That had to feel good. And then but then you, 1265 01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:06,439 Speaker 1: I mean, you know these are gonna be rock'em sock'em 1266 01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:08,640 Speaker 1: games with these division opponents that are fighting for the 1267 01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:11,680 Speaker 1: same thing you guys are fighting for. How do you 1268 01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:15,200 Speaker 1: how do you kind of walk into this because you know, 1269 01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:18,280 Speaker 1: you want to treat every game that you're playing is 1270 01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:20,479 Speaker 1: the most important one when it's sitting there in front 1271 01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:23,160 Speaker 1: of you, But at the same time, you don't want 1272 01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:25,000 Speaker 1: to make it bigger than it is. You could stay 1273 01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:28,040 Speaker 1: focused on the task at hand. So how do you 1274 01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:31,120 Speaker 1: go into this Jets game, especially knowing they got you 1275 01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:34,880 Speaker 1: guys the first time? Um, just saying it's the next game, 1276 01:10:35,320 --> 01:10:37,640 Speaker 1: but also I want to state that every team in 1277 01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:39,880 Speaker 1: his division is pretty pretty good. Yeah, you know, they 1278 01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:42,000 Speaker 1: about five hundred plus five hundred, you know. So we 1279 01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:43,880 Speaker 1: got to go in each and every game we placed 1280 01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:47,320 Speaker 1: were playing the division game knowing that, hey, this division 1281 01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:49,880 Speaker 1: is pretty tough, and they they're coming out to us, 1282 01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:53,160 Speaker 1: so coming this week, we know they're gonna come out 1283 01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:55,880 Speaker 1: to us again and trying to win it, trying to 1284 01:10:55,920 --> 01:10:58,120 Speaker 1: win this game. So we got to just play hard, 1285 01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:02,479 Speaker 1: hardball and play our keys. Yeah. Like one of the 1286 01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:04,840 Speaker 1: things I would ask you earlier in your career. Leslie 1287 01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:08,439 Speaker 1: Frasier was your head coach in Minnesota. Yeah, yeah, right here, 1288 01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:11,479 Speaker 1: right and then and then now today it just came out. 1289 01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:13,960 Speaker 1: He was He's now in the Black College Football Hall 1290 01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:16,280 Speaker 1: of Fame this year, class of twenty twenty three. He's 1291 01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:18,000 Speaker 1: accomplished guy. We talked about it. He's one of the 1292 01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:21,880 Speaker 1: legendary members that eighty five Bears team, all of that stuff. 1293 01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:24,120 Speaker 1: And now he comes back after all these years and 1294 01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:26,280 Speaker 1: he reaches out and then you're playing under him again 1295 01:11:26,280 --> 01:11:28,720 Speaker 1: as defensive coordinator. How it tell us about that relationship? 1296 01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:31,680 Speaker 1: Oh man, it's a great relationship. I remember when I 1297 01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:34,240 Speaker 1: was a rookie, he just trusting and believed in me, 1298 01:11:34,320 --> 01:11:36,640 Speaker 1: you know, and gave me the opportunity to play as 1299 01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:39,559 Speaker 1: a rookie, to start as a rookie and know um 1300 01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:42,320 Speaker 1: and knowing what I know. Now, if you have the 1301 01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:47,160 Speaker 1: opportunity coming in and starting, you know, and starting when 1302 01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:49,160 Speaker 1: you're playing against Megatron, you know, he's like that's a 1303 01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:51,800 Speaker 1: big guy. You know, that's primetime guy. They trust you 1304 01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:54,559 Speaker 1: to be on him. So it's like, yeah, that shows 1305 01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:56,800 Speaker 1: a lot, like how much trust he had in me 1306 01:11:56,880 --> 01:11:59,600 Speaker 1: and to bring me here? Also, is it kept me 1307 01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:02,360 Speaker 1: going from that relationship? You look at you know, some 1308 01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:04,479 Speaker 1: of these young receivers that Jets have and that they're 1309 01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:06,920 Speaker 1: putting out there. Obviously, Garrett Wilson's kind of leading the 1310 01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:09,840 Speaker 1: charge for them over there. I'm sure you've seen a 1311 01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:12,800 Speaker 1: lot of young receivers, you know, come through this league 1312 01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:15,559 Speaker 1: that you've had to match up against. What is it 1313 01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:20,040 Speaker 1: about some of these rookies that seem to acclimate to 1314 01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:23,759 Speaker 1: the pro game real quick? Like Garrett Wilson is probably 1315 01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:26,240 Speaker 1: an example of that. Like he just kind of jumped 1316 01:12:26,240 --> 01:12:28,280 Speaker 1: in the league, hit the ground running, you know, do 1317 01:12:28,360 --> 01:12:30,559 Speaker 1: not pass, go, do not collect two hundred dollars. He's 1318 01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:35,360 Speaker 1: just rolling. What is there a common thread that you 1319 01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:38,320 Speaker 1: see in a lot of these rookie receivers that get 1320 01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:42,000 Speaker 1: it quick and produce early. Is there a common thread 1321 01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,000 Speaker 1: that you find in some of these rookie receivers that 1322 01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:47,599 Speaker 1: just take to it and go from my experise from 1323 01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:50,200 Speaker 1: what I'm seeing it stars in the offseason, you know, 1324 01:12:50,280 --> 01:12:54,800 Speaker 1: and I see guys from like high school, you know, 1325 01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:57,799 Speaker 1: working on a craft knowingly want to be a receiver 1326 01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:01,960 Speaker 1: or corner and not playing you know, quarterback or running 1327 01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:04,799 Speaker 1: back and going and play corner. They're playing one position. 1328 01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:08,280 Speaker 1: They're working on that position from specialized specializing that one 1329 01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:11,679 Speaker 1: position and just from high schooling on out. So when 1330 01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:13,920 Speaker 1: I know, when I was in high school, it was 1331 01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:17,479 Speaker 1: I was playing running back, I was playing quarterback. I'm 1332 01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:21,040 Speaker 1: playing all different types. I'm playing different different It's different 1333 01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:24,280 Speaker 1: now now these guys are really specializing in one position 1334 01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:26,280 Speaker 1: and they're sticking to it all the way to the college. 1335 01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:28,320 Speaker 1: That comes from also being at a big enough high school. 1336 01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:29,720 Speaker 1: I mean, if you come, you know, a small high 1337 01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:31,000 Speaker 1: school like the one I went to, I don't know 1338 01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:34,040 Speaker 1: who kind of high school you went to, but there 1339 01:13:34,040 --> 01:13:36,280 Speaker 1: ain't nobody else to play. I mean, you got to 1340 01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:38,080 Speaker 1: go and if you're the best guy on both sides 1341 01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:39,639 Speaker 1: of the ball, you gotta play both sides of the ball. 1342 01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:41,160 Speaker 1: You knew that to help your team win. As part 1343 01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:44,479 Speaker 1: of the learning process of being a great teammate is 1344 01:13:44,479 --> 01:13:47,840 Speaker 1: doing everything you can. I think it's a gift to 1345 01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:51,040 Speaker 1: be a larger school and being able to get quality 1346 01:13:51,080 --> 01:13:54,400 Speaker 1: coaching on a craft that you can continue to work at. 1347 01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:56,679 Speaker 1: And I think we see you know you can tell 1348 01:13:56,720 --> 01:13:59,200 Speaker 1: me now you came into twenty thirteen. I came in 1349 01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:02,599 Speaker 1: twenty years, but twenty five years before that. The players 1350 01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:05,920 Speaker 1: that are coming out now are way more polished, way 1351 01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:09,080 Speaker 1: more polished, way better. They're way better than than guys 1352 01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:11,439 Speaker 1: were when I was coming out, way more. Yeah, because 1353 01:14:11,439 --> 01:14:14,040 Speaker 1: you look at Wilson, he come in and out his 1354 01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:16,479 Speaker 1: breaks like it seemed like he'd been in the league 1355 01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:19,320 Speaker 1: for a couple of years. Now it looks effortless, effortless, 1356 01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:22,559 Speaker 1: like looks second nature. Ye just think about it. Ye. 1357 01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:25,160 Speaker 1: So you know with guys like that, you just you know, 1358 01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:29,000 Speaker 1: you just play him, like play your technique. You know 1359 01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:31,880 Speaker 1: you're trusting yourself because he's gonna definitely trusting him. So 1360 01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:34,479 Speaker 1: would you if you had to describe him, would you 1361 01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:38,519 Speaker 1: call him a technician type player? I mean, obviously he 1362 01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:42,920 Speaker 1: has physical gifts, but is his calling card being a 1363 01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:46,439 Speaker 1: precise you know, a precision type route runner or where 1364 01:14:46,439 --> 01:14:49,320 Speaker 1: he makes every route look the same or what is 1365 01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:53,439 Speaker 1: possion type route running? He's a great route running you know, he's, 1366 01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:55,360 Speaker 1: like I said, getting out of his breaks. And once 1367 01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:58,439 Speaker 1: he makes that first that first cut is explosive. The 1368 01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:01,280 Speaker 1: next two steps is out of here, Like you have 1369 01:15:01,360 --> 01:15:04,280 Speaker 1: to be on point, you know, And um, with that guy, 1370 01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:07,880 Speaker 1: you just can't blink like that will that will say 1371 01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:10,439 Speaker 1: all the time, don't blink? YEA with him once you blink. 1372 01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:12,560 Speaker 1: I mean, he just might get past you. So you 1373 01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:14,679 Speaker 1: gotta keep your eyes on him all the times. Gotcha. 1374 01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:18,000 Speaker 1: And this Jet game, this Jet team really thrive. I mean, 1375 01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:20,240 Speaker 1: you gott a Mike White coming in. They've been struggling. 1376 01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:23,400 Speaker 1: Zach Wilson was there early. Um, they've struggled to find 1377 01:15:23,400 --> 01:15:25,200 Speaker 1: a guy to take snaps. But they feel like they're 1378 01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:29,080 Speaker 1: gonna rally around like this young guy, this Mike White. Um, 1379 01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:32,360 Speaker 1: give us a sense. You've probably been through this once 1380 01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:34,840 Speaker 1: or twice in your career where you're on the other 1381 01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:36,680 Speaker 1: side of the ball. You know the offense has got there. 1382 01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:38,479 Speaker 1: Probably they're trying to gather it up and you're trying 1383 01:15:38,479 --> 01:15:40,439 Speaker 1: to rally around the guy. But on defense, you do 1384 01:15:40,520 --> 01:15:42,400 Speaker 1: the same thing. Even though the guy's not on the 1385 01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:46,559 Speaker 1: field with you. You still rally for the team with 1386 01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:49,559 Speaker 1: a young quarterback, even when you're playing defense. Like so 1387 01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:52,120 Speaker 1: I'm talking about the Jet defense count they're gonna rise. 1388 01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:54,280 Speaker 1: I mean, this is a team that's driven by their defense, 1389 01:15:54,880 --> 01:15:57,519 Speaker 1: and you're playing a Jet team is gonna it's not 1390 01:15:57,560 --> 01:16:00,479 Speaker 1: their offense is making it go. Yeah, So that you 1391 01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:05,000 Speaker 1: just try to give give your quarterback as much opportunities 1392 01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:07,120 Speaker 1: as much as possible so you can put points on 1393 01:16:07,160 --> 01:16:09,200 Speaker 1: the board. So you put all that one on your 1394 01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:12,679 Speaker 1: shoulders so your offense can go out there and control 1395 01:16:12,760 --> 01:16:15,599 Speaker 1: the game. Xavier, I was looking it up to make 1396 01:16:15,600 --> 01:16:18,719 Speaker 1: sure I had this right. You played Mike White last 1397 01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:21,880 Speaker 1: year when you were with Indie, right, and he like 1398 01:16:21,920 --> 01:16:23,920 Speaker 1: he kind of did he come in and relief? He 1399 01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:26,960 Speaker 1: didn't start that game? Did he? I don't, Actually he did? 1400 01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:29,240 Speaker 1: I think didn't. He did start the game. He end 1401 01:16:29,320 --> 01:16:30,760 Speaker 1: him getting hurt, and he did get hurt, so he 1402 01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:32,400 Speaker 1: didn't really even get to see much of him on 1403 01:16:32,439 --> 01:16:35,719 Speaker 1: the field. So how do you prepare when you really 1404 01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:39,479 Speaker 1: only have film to go off of for the most part, 1405 01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:42,439 Speaker 1: Number one and then number two, you've got a limited 1406 01:16:42,439 --> 01:16:44,280 Speaker 1: amount of game film to go off of him, and 1407 01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:48,360 Speaker 1: he's got five starts in his career, So how do 1408 01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:50,640 Speaker 1: you kind of try to really get a field like 1409 01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:54,679 Speaker 1: you know, you play somebody like a Brady, You've probably 1410 01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:57,160 Speaker 1: played him like ten times, like you know what to expect. 1411 01:16:57,439 --> 01:16:59,280 Speaker 1: How do you prepare for a guy like this with 1412 01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:03,600 Speaker 1: limited and limited on field exposure? Um, you first you 1413 01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:05,920 Speaker 1: just look at the tendencies of the offense, and then 1414 01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:07,760 Speaker 1: after that you just look at his tennessee and who 1415 01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:11,040 Speaker 1: he like throwing too, checkdowns and everything else. But once 1416 01:17:11,080 --> 01:17:14,120 Speaker 1: you get that down, you know how you ramp up. 1417 01:17:14,240 --> 01:17:16,519 Speaker 1: You know who his favorite targets and then who he 1418 01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:20,000 Speaker 1: like throwing too when he's under pressure, like things like 1419 01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:22,640 Speaker 1: that you get a feel for. And after that you know, 1420 01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:26,360 Speaker 1: like is he a checkdown quarterback and he got the 1421 01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:28,880 Speaker 1: one and like to take shots? You know, you get 1422 01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:30,599 Speaker 1: that field and once you get a field for that, 1423 01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:33,160 Speaker 1: then you know you know what type of quarterback you're 1424 01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:35,040 Speaker 1: going and gets. Yeah, give us a all right, last 1425 01:17:35,040 --> 01:17:37,080 Speaker 1: one for me, Just give us a snops of what 1426 01:17:37,160 --> 01:17:38,880 Speaker 1: you think this game should look like if it if 1427 01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:42,800 Speaker 1: it goes to you guys' way, what's this defense? I 1428 01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:46,800 Speaker 1: know what coach Frazier's list. Less than seventeen points, right, 1429 01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:50,479 Speaker 1: less than seventeen. I mean, we definitely have to stop 1430 01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:53,720 Speaker 1: to run them. Guys, been playing smash mouth football for 1431 01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:57,360 Speaker 1: a while now. Definitely stopped that and not getting Mike 1432 01:17:57,400 --> 01:18:00,360 Speaker 1: White going with seventeen. You know that's gonna be guy. 1433 01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:02,720 Speaker 1: You know when when when he got to have it 1434 01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:05,000 Speaker 1: and he needs something to go for him, that's what 1435 01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:07,240 Speaker 1: he's going to So you shut him down and stop 1436 01:18:07,280 --> 01:18:10,040 Speaker 1: Mark White from getting to him and shutting down a run. 1437 01:18:10,120 --> 01:18:14,120 Speaker 1: Then we're winning this game. All right. That sounds good listening. Xavier, 1438 01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:16,120 Speaker 1: thanks for giving us some time here. We appreciate you 1439 01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:19,160 Speaker 1: coming right off the field and rolling in here. Yeah, 1440 01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:22,160 Speaker 1: good luck, stay healthy, get a job on Sunday. All right. 1441 01:18:22,560 --> 01:18:25,280 Speaker 1: That's Davia Roads joining us here on One Bill's Live. 1442 01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:28,080 Speaker 1: We will turn now to a guy we already talked about, 1443 01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:33,320 Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier, who's yeah, Leslie Frasier, who's addressing the media 1444 01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:35,559 Speaker 1: in the wake of the announcement that he is going 1445 01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:39,760 Speaker 1: to the College Black College Football Hall of Fame. Your 1446 01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:44,679 Speaker 1: reaction to finding out what your thoughts are on it, Yeah, 1447 01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:49,880 Speaker 1: just very humbled, Elana. Just you know, I have some 1448 01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:52,280 Speaker 1: much respect for some of the names on that list, 1449 01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:53,840 Speaker 1: of some of the guys that have gone before me. 1450 01:18:53,920 --> 01:18:57,000 Speaker 1: Some I played with, like Walter Payton and was around 1451 01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:00,000 Speaker 1: here called Michael for a long time with the Philadelphi Eagles, 1452 01:19:00,040 --> 01:19:05,600 Speaker 1: And uh, just very humbled, honored and almost at a 1453 01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:08,640 Speaker 1: loss for words. Just uh, you know, never would I 1454 01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:12,080 Speaker 1: have thought growing up that this honor would have would 1455 01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:14,280 Speaker 1: have come, even when I was in college playing and 1456 01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:16,519 Speaker 1: you know, we're balloting every week trying to get wins, 1457 01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:18,160 Speaker 1: and you're trying to do your best as a player, 1458 01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:21,120 Speaker 1: not thinking that one day, you know, you'd be selected 1459 01:19:21,160 --> 01:19:24,479 Speaker 1: to the HBCU Hall of Fame, and uh, just uh 1460 01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:27,519 Speaker 1: honoring and very grateful and thankful. Yes, what have you 1461 01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:31,160 Speaker 1: heard from players and other coaches here at the facility today? Yeah, 1462 01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:33,400 Speaker 1: the players that are aware, I mean they've been coming 1463 01:19:33,479 --> 01:19:37,479 Speaker 1: up and congratulating men, saying, uh, congratulations, uh, and and 1464 01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:40,280 Speaker 1: and how much respect they have for the honor and 1465 01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:42,479 Speaker 1: the fact that you know, I was voted to the 1466 01:19:42,479 --> 01:19:45,439 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. So they've been really really good and 1467 01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:51,320 Speaker 1: very positive of all the way around. Yet I really, uh, 1468 01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:54,320 Speaker 1: you know you when I got to call yesterday and 1469 01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:57,760 Speaker 1: then even today when they did the press release. You know, 1470 01:19:57,800 --> 01:19:59,560 Speaker 1: if you're in the midst of getting ready for a 1471 01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:03,000 Speaker 1: big ball game, so it's hard, Catherine to really focus 1472 01:20:03,040 --> 01:20:05,960 Speaker 1: on it. But when I was driving home last night, 1473 01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:09,679 Speaker 1: I was just so much in awe of the fact 1474 01:20:09,720 --> 01:20:13,200 Speaker 1: that that I've been chosen for the Hall of Fame, 1475 01:20:13,280 --> 01:20:18,120 Speaker 1: and it just just makes you very very grateful, very thankful. 1476 01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:21,840 Speaker 1: He's gonna fire up your highlights for the guys. I 1477 01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:25,280 Speaker 1: don't think I'll be pulling up to highlights. But you know, 1478 01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:27,960 Speaker 1: it was a great experience when I was at in 1479 01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:31,200 Speaker 1: college at all corn State with some great players and 1480 01:20:31,240 --> 01:20:35,439 Speaker 1: coaches who really deserve this honor as much as I 1481 01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:38,080 Speaker 1: do my coaches. Coach Marino kaz On, my head coach, 1482 01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,320 Speaker 1: really was the inspiration for me. I mean, he challenged 1483 01:20:41,400 --> 01:20:43,559 Speaker 1: me and helped to shape men who I am today. 1484 01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:46,400 Speaker 1: And I'll always be thankful for that experience. It was 1485 01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:49,840 Speaker 1: a great four years and and and it's led to 1486 01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:53,040 Speaker 1: this this moment. So very grateful. Had a number of 1487 01:20:53,080 --> 01:20:57,400 Speaker 1: honors and accolades. What is special about this one, I think, Catherine, 1488 01:20:57,439 --> 01:21:01,680 Speaker 1: just when I looked back and just know what the 1489 01:21:01,760 --> 01:21:05,360 Speaker 1: history of black colleges is and what it has meant 1490 01:21:05,360 --> 01:21:09,559 Speaker 1: to so many that looked like me. And when I 1491 01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:13,640 Speaker 1: think about the great players that came before me and 1492 01:21:14,120 --> 01:21:18,000 Speaker 1: the impact they've had on the NFL, it just humbles 1493 01:21:18,040 --> 01:21:21,280 Speaker 1: me to know that my name is by Mel Blunt 1494 01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:24,280 Speaker 1: or a Walter Payton or some of the Dunny Ship, 1495 01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:27,280 Speaker 1: some of the other great players that have come before me. 1496 01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:30,720 Speaker 1: Just it means a lot. It means a lot to 1497 01:21:30,840 --> 01:21:35,160 Speaker 1: my college, my uh alma model, All corn State, and 1498 01:21:35,560 --> 01:21:41,240 Speaker 1: you know other HBCUs across the country. So uh, it's 1499 01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:43,360 Speaker 1: it's a it's an honor and one that I hope 1500 01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:47,040 Speaker 1: I'll be able to represent all historically black colleges and 1501 01:21:47,160 --> 01:21:49,479 Speaker 1: universities in the right way. It means a lot in 1502 01:21:49,479 --> 01:21:52,479 Speaker 1: that respect. Who was it that called you, like someone 1503 01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:55,880 Speaker 1: from the committee? Another person in love? A former Buffalo Bill, 1504 01:21:56,439 --> 01:22:01,000 Speaker 1: James Jack Harris called me yesterday morning and in Formula News. 1505 01:22:01,040 --> 01:22:05,680 Speaker 1: So from one Buffalo Bill to another Buffalo Bill. It 1506 01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:09,280 Speaker 1: just you know, and he of course been a Hall 1507 01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:13,439 Speaker 1: of Famer Gramling State University graduate. Uh, it was special 1508 01:22:13,439 --> 01:22:15,320 Speaker 1: coming from him. I've known him for many many years. 1509 01:22:15,360 --> 01:22:18,880 Speaker 1: We always tease when Greenland and Grammlin and all Corn 1510 01:22:18,880 --> 01:22:21,840 Speaker 1: and play one another. So it was great to hear 1511 01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:25,800 Speaker 1: that and get that call from him. Leslie Vaughn was 1512 01:22:26,120 --> 01:22:28,960 Speaker 1: just on the McAfee show. He was asked about you. 1513 01:22:29,240 --> 01:22:31,960 Speaker 1: He was talking about how impressed he's been with you 1514 01:22:32,040 --> 01:22:34,840 Speaker 1: and how much you know, he's watched your process and 1515 01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:36,640 Speaker 1: how much he's learned from you this year. When you 1516 01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:40,360 Speaker 1: have like a surefire future Hall of Famer come in 1517 01:22:40,439 --> 01:22:42,080 Speaker 1: like this, we've seen so much in this league and 1518 01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:44,160 Speaker 1: talk like that about you, I mean, does that kind 1519 01:22:44,160 --> 01:22:47,400 Speaker 1: of gratifying too in a sense. Yeah, I mean I 1520 01:22:47,520 --> 01:22:50,439 Speaker 1: have so much respect for Vaughn, not only as a player. 1521 01:22:50,479 --> 01:22:54,280 Speaker 1: He's been obviously great for us and unfortunate, you know, 1522 01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:57,640 Speaker 1: with his injury, but just I've said this before, just 1523 01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:00,120 Speaker 1: the intangibles that he's brought to our team and what 1524 01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:02,960 Speaker 1: he's done with our young players. Just have so much 1525 01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:05,160 Speaker 1: respect for how he goes about what he does and 1526 01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:07,800 Speaker 1: his process as well. And to hear you say that 1527 01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:11,640 Speaker 1: he had those words about myself, Uh, I mean it's 1528 01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:13,920 Speaker 1: it's humbling to hear that. But I have a ton 1529 01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:16,559 Speaker 1: of respectfu Onn and who he is and what he's 1530 01:23:16,560 --> 01:23:19,639 Speaker 1: accomplishing our league, Your family, seen how much you've worked 1531 01:23:19,640 --> 01:23:21,640 Speaker 1: over the years and that sort of thing. What was 1532 01:23:21,680 --> 01:23:25,040 Speaker 1: their reaction when you got to share that with them? Oh? Man? Uh, 1533 01:23:25,080 --> 01:23:30,280 Speaker 1: my wife and kids extremely proud and and and happy. Uh, 1534 01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:32,719 Speaker 1: you know, just tim from my son and my daughter 1535 01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:35,639 Speaker 1: and just uh and then my wife who I met 1536 01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:40,679 Speaker 1: at all corn State. Uh. Just they were elated and excited. Uh. 1537 01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:43,439 Speaker 1: And they were as excited about the nominations as the 1538 01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:48,280 Speaker 1: actually the induction. So just a proud moment, very proud moment. Yes, 1539 01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:52,320 Speaker 1: all right. So that's Bill's defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier talking 1540 01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:55,479 Speaker 1: about the announcement that he is part of the twenty 1541 01:23:55,560 --> 01:23:59,599 Speaker 1: twenty three induction class for the Black College Football Hall 1542 01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:04,080 Speaker 1: of Fame due to his pretty productive three year college 1543 01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:08,800 Speaker 1: career at Alcorn State, where he had twenty interceptions in 1544 01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:13,880 Speaker 1: three seasons. And that's racking him up. And you know 1545 01:24:13,960 --> 01:24:17,040 Speaker 1: that's back when they usual only had about ten eleven 1546 01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:21,639 Speaker 1: game seasons. So twenty picks in about thirty games, that's 1547 01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:25,240 Speaker 1: that's getting some work done. Yeah, that's that's a good number. 1548 01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:28,599 Speaker 1: And he went on also to have you know, a good, 1549 01:24:28,600 --> 01:24:31,360 Speaker 1: really good pro career and was part of that legendary 1550 01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:36,240 Speaker 1: team there. And it's of course he's been head coach 1551 01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:40,240 Speaker 1: in the NFL and an outstanding member of whatever coaching 1552 01:24:40,240 --> 01:24:43,400 Speaker 1: staff he's been a part of for thirty five years 1553 01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:48,439 Speaker 1: and revered in that Buffalo universally respected and revered and 1554 01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:51,200 Speaker 1: loved by the players who play for him and the 1555 01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:53,799 Speaker 1: coaches who coach with him. Yeah, so congrats to coach Fraser. 1556 01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:57,600 Speaker 1: Really happy for him. The one thing I forgot to 1557 01:24:57,640 --> 01:25:01,680 Speaker 1: ask Xavier Rhodes, Steve, this team has not played a 1558 01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:04,840 Speaker 1: home game in like a month. Yeah, it's been a while. 1559 01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:09,120 Speaker 1: It's amazing, been a minute. Yeah, they've only played four 1560 01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:13,880 Speaker 1: home games through the first twelve this season, due mainly 1561 01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:16,680 Speaker 1: to the fact that the home game against Cleveland got 1562 01:25:16,680 --> 01:25:22,840 Speaker 1: relocated to Detroit. But even then, you're talking four home 1563 01:25:22,920 --> 01:25:27,720 Speaker 1: games and we've got five left, five games left. Um, 1564 01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:32,680 Speaker 1: you know they've they've obviously got the Jets and the 1565 01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:36,240 Speaker 1: Dolphins coming up here, back to back home games for 1566 01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:39,400 Speaker 1: the first time this season, I think, and then you've 1567 01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:42,640 Speaker 1: got the one at the end against the Patriots. But 1568 01:25:42,760 --> 01:25:45,559 Speaker 1: you still have the Bears and the Bengals on the road. 1569 01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:49,200 Speaker 1: So yeah, that's if you count the Cleveland Browns game 1570 01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:50,960 Speaker 1: as a road It was supposed to be a home game. 1571 01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:52,800 Speaker 1: It was a road game for my road. Yeah, it's 1572 01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:54,799 Speaker 1: a road game. You try for everybody that was supposed 1573 01:25:54,800 --> 01:25:56,639 Speaker 1: to be at the Cleveland game. This is the only 1574 01:25:56,680 --> 01:25:58,719 Speaker 1: time this year they've got back to back home games 1575 01:25:58,720 --> 01:26:03,920 Speaker 1: at Jets and Dolphins because of the Cleveland relocation. And yeah, 1576 01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:06,760 Speaker 1: and then they got two roads. It's like we spent 1577 01:26:06,800 --> 01:26:09,639 Speaker 1: the entire season on the road. It's felt that way. 1578 01:26:09,720 --> 01:26:11,479 Speaker 1: You got two home you got three home games out 1579 01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:13,840 Speaker 1: of your last five at home. Okay, that's great, except that, 1580 01:26:14,560 --> 01:26:18,080 Speaker 1: you know, the last three weeks of the season, two 1581 01:26:18,080 --> 01:26:21,000 Speaker 1: of those are on the road, at Chicago and at Cincinnati. 1582 01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:23,479 Speaker 1: It's it's yeah, it feels like they've been on the 1583 01:26:23,520 --> 01:26:26,280 Speaker 1: road the entire You remember the Pittsburgh game. I guess, 1584 01:26:29,360 --> 01:26:30,960 Speaker 1: what are the game we have here that seems like 1585 01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:33,440 Speaker 1: it was in August? Yeah, and then in the Minnesota 1586 01:26:33,360 --> 01:26:36,559 Speaker 1: and the Minnesota games here, Okay, the Packers game, the 1587 01:26:36,640 --> 01:26:40,120 Speaker 1: Tennessee game. It's like it's like a lifetime ago. It 1588 01:26:40,160 --> 01:26:43,439 Speaker 1: feels well, oh my gosh, Oh my gosh. I was 1589 01:26:43,479 --> 01:26:45,519 Speaker 1: saying to myself, like, it does feel like they've been 1590 01:26:45,520 --> 01:26:47,800 Speaker 1: on When was I in the stadium last? I mean, 1591 01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:51,760 Speaker 1: it feels like it's forever. It's nuts crazy. I just 1592 01:26:51,880 --> 01:26:53,920 Speaker 1: I couldn't get my head around it. And I actually 1593 01:26:53,960 --> 01:26:56,799 Speaker 1: had like I had to actively think, like the last 1594 01:26:56,880 --> 01:27:00,680 Speaker 1: time we were in the building was November thirteenth. Yeah, man, 1595 01:27:00,680 --> 01:27:04,919 Speaker 1: it's gonna be December tenth this weekend, a month or eleventh. 1596 01:27:05,360 --> 01:27:10,040 Speaker 1: I mean, it's bizarre. It's just flat out bizarre. But man, 1597 01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:12,280 Speaker 1: some home cooking is gonna be good for the bills. 1598 01:27:12,600 --> 01:27:14,320 Speaker 1: We know the fans will be in a froth for 1599 01:27:14,360 --> 01:27:17,760 Speaker 1: that thing. So it's nice lungs ready, everybody. It's a 1600 01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:20,240 Speaker 1: one o'clock game, like we have like one of those 1601 01:27:20,320 --> 01:27:23,760 Speaker 1: this year. It's the last one o'clock home game. It's 1602 01:27:23,760 --> 01:27:26,800 Speaker 1: the last one because because of the Miami game getting 1603 01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:30,920 Speaker 1: moved to eight fifteen next Saturday night. Yeah, we haven't 1604 01:27:30,920 --> 01:27:32,920 Speaker 1: even really had we haven't really done that game Jester year. 1605 01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:35,320 Speaker 1: We'll get into that next week. But man oh man, 1606 01:27:35,680 --> 01:27:37,559 Speaker 1: that's gonna come up on as fast coming one day 1607 01:27:37,560 --> 01:27:40,760 Speaker 1: early to boot. You can't just win this game, Bruce, Leeve, 1608 01:27:40,880 --> 01:27:42,599 Speaker 1: just win it. I got you, I'm with you. Break 1609 01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:44,360 Speaker 1: time for us, Steve and I to close things up 1610 01:27:44,400 --> 01:28:04,000 Speaker 1: next year on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned, all right, 1611 01:28:04,040 --> 01:28:06,720 Speaker 1: welcome back to One Bill's Live. So we all know 1612 01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:10,439 Speaker 1: that the Bill's new stadium, which goes up in twenty 1613 01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:13,880 Speaker 1: twenty six, will be across Abbot Road in what is 1614 01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:17,760 Speaker 1: now a parking lot over by ECC South Well, the 1615 01:28:17,760 --> 01:28:23,799 Speaker 1: Bills video team put together a video marking the fifty 1616 01:28:23,880 --> 01:28:26,679 Speaker 1: yard line spot in that parking lot to give everybody 1617 01:28:26,680 --> 01:28:29,920 Speaker 1: a little sense of perspective. So we're gonna play some 1618 01:28:30,040 --> 01:28:33,080 Speaker 1: of that for our MSG viewing audience. That's the spot 1619 01:28:33,200 --> 01:28:34,760 Speaker 1: right there in the middle of the fifty yard line 1620 01:28:34,840 --> 01:28:36,920 Speaker 1: is where that flag is planned it. I guess it's 1621 01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:38,400 Speaker 1: going to be there for the game on Sunday, right 1622 01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:40,200 Speaker 1: where they leave. Oh, they're leaving it there, I think 1623 01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:43,479 Speaker 1: until twenty twenty six, probably twenty twenty six, the stadium 1624 01:28:43,479 --> 01:28:47,320 Speaker 1: opens and boom diggity, here we go. Yeah, just trying 1625 01:28:47,320 --> 01:28:52,360 Speaker 1: to provide some perspective, build a little positive anticipation. I 1626 01:28:52,439 --> 01:28:54,559 Speaker 1: still think, Yes, it's gonna be a big adjustment for 1627 01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:56,000 Speaker 1: all of us to get used to a new stadium, 1628 01:28:56,000 --> 01:28:57,600 Speaker 1: and it's gonna be different. It's gonna not gonna be 1629 01:28:57,640 --> 01:29:00,400 Speaker 1: the old team. You're gonna I think we're We're gonna 1630 01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:02,680 Speaker 1: love it. We are absolutely gonna love it. And if 1631 01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:04,280 Speaker 1: you want to go, you're gonna be able to go. 1632 01:29:05,040 --> 01:29:07,439 Speaker 1: It's not gonna be ten thousand dollars a ticket or 1633 01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:10,320 Speaker 1: anything like that. I'm um, there are there are seats 1634 01:29:10,320 --> 01:29:12,240 Speaker 1: in this stating that you can't that I can't afford. 1635 01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:15,559 Speaker 1: So you know it's gonna be the same. It's gonna be. 1636 01:29:15,760 --> 01:29:19,599 Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome. I can't wait. Well, I gotta wait, 1637 01:29:19,640 --> 01:29:23,400 Speaker 1: you gotta waita wait. It's gonna a little bit. It's 1638 01:29:23,400 --> 01:29:25,200 Speaker 1: gonna be great. I just I hope I'm around to 1639 01:29:25,320 --> 01:29:29,799 Speaker 1: enjoy it. Oh my god, we just went morbid there, Steve. 1640 01:29:30,240 --> 01:29:32,639 Speaker 1: You know, hey, I don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow, 1641 01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:35,519 Speaker 1: let alone twenty six, right, I don't know what's gonna 1642 01:29:35,520 --> 01:29:38,120 Speaker 1: happen tomorrow because on the show tomorrow we're gonna have 1643 01:29:38,160 --> 01:29:41,479 Speaker 1: Greg co Sell, will have Darryl Tally and Micah Hide. 1644 01:29:41,520 --> 01:29:54,040 Speaker 1: You don't want to miss it. We'll see it one