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Speaker 1: This One Bill's Live presented by Calida Health.

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Speaker 2: All Right, tuning it up on a Wednesday, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 2: Steve Tasker with you, and we are a day closer

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Speaker 2: than we normally are to the next football game, with

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Speaker 2: this being a Saturday night game out in LA And

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Speaker 2: not that it matters, because they do have a covered

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Speaker 2: roof there, open air, but covered roof out at SOFI,

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Speaker 2: but it's supposed to be around six degrees at kickoff

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Speaker 2: at five pm Local time eight pm Eastern time for

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Speaker 2: this game, and it's probably one of the reasons why

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Speaker 2: the Bills are practicing indoors today. Weather is unlikely to

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Speaker 2: be a factor in terms of cold, so the Bills

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Speaker 2: are practicing in the field house just steps away from

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Speaker 2: us here in our One Bills Drive studios here on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday was a walk through practice. Today is more of

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Speaker 2: a full scale practice. Although at this point in the season, Steve,

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Speaker 2: nobody's doing full pads your resting bodies as much as

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Speaker 2: you can its shells.

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Speaker 3: At the most, they're allowed to have pads on one

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Speaker 3: day a week, and it's like, eh.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's sixteen times a year. So once

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Speaker 2: you get past week sixteen pads are off the table anyway.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't care, I mean no, yeah, and they

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Speaker 3: don't need it. This is a it's a mental exercise

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Speaker 3: more than a physical exercise. These guys most we hang

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Speaker 3: around here all the time. They work out every day.

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Speaker 3: Different groups work out every day. So they're stating that's

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Speaker 3: how they stay in shape. You don't practice, and there's conditioning.

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Speaker 3: There's conditioning there. These guys work out a lot every day.

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Speaker 3: Then they meet a lot every day. The football end

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Speaker 3: of it is a mental exercise at this point. The

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Speaker 3: physical stuff is just like going to your local gym

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Speaker 3: and they except they got really high level trainers and

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Speaker 3: stuff and facilities. So yeah, it's a different atmosphere these days.

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Speaker 2: How are you making out on Christmas shopping? Are you done?

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Speaker 2: You've got a big family, like, yeah, we're done.

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Speaker 3: We actually had our Christmas this last weekend because all

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Speaker 2: Were Oh so all the heavy lifting is done?

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Speaker 3: Are all it done? We had that tradition that we do,

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Speaker 3: you know, where we draw names with all the all

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Speaker 2: That yeah, because there's too many people, right.

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Speaker 3: So we draw names between the sons and their wives

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Speaker 3: and my daughter and her husband and my wife and

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Speaker 3: I we all draw names as adults, and we buy

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Speaker 3: a gift for one of our family names. You draw,

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Speaker 3: and then we draw another name that you have to

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Speaker 3: make the gift.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, I'd be in trouble then.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So there I say this though, stellar, stellar year of

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Speaker 3: made gifts. Stellar year. It was very good, very good.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty much done. I think I need like a

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Speaker 2: stocking stuff or two and that's about it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my my wife and I kind of tend to

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Speaker 3: for instance, this I told you I'm snow plowing my

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Speaker 3: so it's a big gift. So and hers was a

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Speaker 3: similar gift. Okay, Yeah, it was a little trip up

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Speaker 3: We said, this is my grift, we'll mutually good.

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Speaker 2: But I still got to do the.

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Speaker 2: I can't. I try not to push it that far,

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Speaker 2: Know, express shipping whatever, Express shippings.

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Speaker 3: Forty dollars you could you know those years where you

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Speaker 2: All right, Uh, full full show for you today, over

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Speaker 2: these next couple of hours. Coming up in about twenty

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Speaker 2: who will undoubtedly have an awful lot to say about

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Speaker 2: the per Mormans of James Cook in last week's game

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Speaker 2: against the Dallas Cowboys, and I also intend to ask

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Speaker 2: him what he feels the formula should be going forward

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Speaker 2: in terms of Cook's usage in the scope of the offense.

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Speaker 2: Something tells me I know what his answer will be.

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Speaker 2: What I want from him is what he thinks the

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Speaker 2: Bill's answer will be, not his own personal We all

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Speaker 2: know what Thurmot's personal answer is going to be. Let's

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Speaker 2: be real, right, Yeah, run the ball.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The over under there would be him, Yeah, run

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Speaker 3: the ball. Yeah, there's a prop bet.

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Speaker 2: Right after practice today, we are expected to have Bill

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Speaker 2: center Mitch Morse here in studio as we pump up

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Speaker 2: some Pro Bowl candidacy for him and many others on

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Speaker 2: Buffalo's roster. I believe the voting is ends this week

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Speaker 2: for players, and I think it's like the day after

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Speaker 2: Christmas for fans to vote. So we'll know pretty quickly

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Speaker 2: here in the next week or so who makes the

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Speaker 2: Pro Bowl from the Buffalo Bill's roster. And I think

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Speaker 2: there's a healthy number of candidates, to be quite honest,

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Speaker 2: so be interesting to see who makes the grade, so

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Speaker 2: out peaking right. Yeah's the right time.

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Speaker 3: Well, and we're all benefiting from the great play of

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Speaker 3: the offensive line. Did tell you didn't mention yet about

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Speaker 3: our boy James.

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Speaker 2: Cook AFC Offensive Player of the Week thanks to his

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Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty one yard total yards from scrimmage

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Speaker 2: the guy they call Jimbo, and it's an encouraging sign

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Speaker 2: going forward for a number of reasons. Number one, I

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Speaker 2: think he's vaulted himself to the top of the list

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Speaker 2: I think the second thing is the guy is so

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Speaker 2: It's not like, for example, the Chargers can come into

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Speaker 2: James Cook's rushing ability and we don't have to worry

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Speaker 2: all you know, Joe Brady could split him out outside

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Speaker 2: the rowdy rant. So he is a multiple threat that

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Speaker 2: you can't just pick one thing and say, Okay, we've

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Speaker 3: So yeah, and let's face it, they're not going to

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Speaker 3: certainly when teams decide James Cook is their vocal threat,

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Speaker 3: Diggs is going to show up. You know he will.

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Speaker 3: He that's that's what he does, is who he is,

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Speaker 3: this team and we were talking about we we did

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Speaker 3: podcast today Bills by the Numbers, and this team reminds

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Speaker 3: me of that Denver Bronco team in ninety eight where

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Speaker 3: John Elway's last two years he went. He was owing

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Speaker 3: twice in a row and won it because Terrell Davis

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Speaker 3: Big arm could run, smart you know all of that stuff.

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Speaker 3: This crew reminds me of that crew to a great degree. Uh,

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Speaker 3: the offensive line is dominant, and the defense is playmaking

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Speaker 3: and not not stifling. It's not like the two thousand

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Speaker 3: you know, ostunistic. Yeah, it's opportunities. Unless you think like

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Speaker 3: And we you know, the we talked about it on

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Speaker 3: the podcast this week, and I think it's really fun

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Speaker 3: to compare the runs that these teams are on and

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Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl. So it's going to be fun

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Speaker 3: to watch. Congratulations to James Cook often you kind of

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Speaker 2: Which brings us to the Bills practice updates, which are

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Speaker 2: presented by LEECOM your Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine,

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Speaker 2: and there are a number of updates here. We saw

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Speaker 2: the Tuesday injury report come out and it was lengthy,

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Speaker 2: Leonard Floyd, Reid Ferguson, Ty Johnson I believe has been

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Speaker 2: Good news is Sam Martin's a full participant, so too

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Speaker 2: is Reid Ferguson with a right thumb injury. But Leonard

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Speaker 2: He was out there today again, but he is wearing

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Speaker 2: a red non contact jersey. So to is aj Epanessa,

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Speaker 2: red non contact jersey as well. Coach McDermott described him

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Speaker 2: So yeah, this make of it what you will.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard to decipher what it all means. Whether

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Speaker 3: all these guys are in peril of not playing. Most

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Speaker 3: of them probably are not. But there's no doubt that

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Speaker 3: not only the guys on this list, which is extensive,

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Speaker 3: it's like fifteen guys long, right, no doubt all of

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Speaker 3: them are dragging around some form of luggage with aches, pains, hurts, bumps, bruises,

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Speaker 3: and flat out injuries. So nobody feels good. And you

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Speaker 3: take fewer reps. I mean, it's a that in and

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Speaker 3: the sports science guys are all it. They're all deciding

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Speaker 2: The one I neglected The biggest note of Bill's practice today.

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Speaker 2: So sorry for burying the lead there. But yeah, James

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Speaker 2: Yeah? It's like are we not allowed to have nice

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Speaker 2: their comments to you. So a topic of discussion for

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Speaker 3: Think strictly matchups. In fact, I think they may go

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's enticing, right. I'd love to see Josh. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Right so, I'm very curious to see what Joe Brady's

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Speaker 2: Sacks per play, they're decent. They're tenth in the league

435
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Speaker 2: in sack percentage, but I mean against the pass, they're thirtieth.

436
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Speaker 2: Against the run, they're eighteenth. On third down they're fourteenth.

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Speaker 2: So to me, their average at best in a number

438
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Speaker 2: of categories, and they're below average in several others.

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Speaker 3: And it's a common theme for the Chargers to have

440
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Speaker 3: multiple injuries to multiple stars. They do have one guy

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Speaker 3: on their squad who's legit and a star, and it's

442
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Speaker 3: Khalil Mack. He's second in the league in sacks. He

443
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Speaker 3: can get after it, but once you get past him,

444
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Speaker 3: Joey Bosa is not there, you know. So he's it.

445
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Speaker 3: He's that's their defense. And if you can kind of

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Speaker 3: get him blocked or run the football at him with power, yeah,

447
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Speaker 3: we'll see. You know, they got they got to find

448
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Speaker 3: another way.

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Speaker 2: Right, So we'll see what happens. Uh, But you let

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Speaker 2: us know what you think. Eight oh three h five

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Speaker 2: point fifty one eight eight eight five point fifty two

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Speaker 2: five fifty then number to get on board. We'll open

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Speaker 2: with the tweet sheet while people start calling in here

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Speaker 2: and tweet sheet is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

455
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Speaker 2: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills, and

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Speaker 2: Brian leads us off by saying, light it up early

457
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 2: and often then sit starters by the fourth quarter, open

458
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Speaker 2: up the passing game with indoor perfect conditions. There is

459
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Speaker 2: something to be said about knowing what the conditions are

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Speaker 2: going to be. That's true.

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Speaker 3: I mean they're practicing indoors today here in Buffalo, and

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Speaker 3: we all know what it was like Sunday night, and

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Speaker 3: it's been like that for a few games here, handful

464
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Speaker 3: of games, not only here but also in Philly. You know,

465
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Speaker 3: they've been fighting the weather. It might be nice to

466
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Speaker 3: see him get out. I've said this before on The

467
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Speaker 3: show Man. You play in Buffalo, you live in Buffalo,

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Speaker 3: and you get a winter like we're having now where

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Speaker 3: it's dark at four in the afternoon and it's raining

470
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Speaker 3: and it's thirty eight, and you kind of get there.

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Speaker 3: You kind of grind it out every day and day.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you this. You get on, you'll get it.

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Speaker 1: You'll do it.

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00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 3: Brownie's Friday. You get on the charter, you fly to

475
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 3: the West coast. You get off that plane and it's

476
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,239
Speaker 3: you soak it up like a dry sponge. I mean

477
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 3: it's like, oh yeah, it's awesome, right, and it's it.

478
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Speaker 3: It's different.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 3: You go out on the field and instead of having

481
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 3: all these layers on and all the you know, all

482
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 3: that suff you feel like you're playing nude. Seriously, you

483
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 3: feel so good. It feels like, you know, it feels

484
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Speaker 3: like training camp where you oh, it's just invigorating.

485
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Speaker 2: So that's a little thing, but it is a thing. Okay,

486
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Speaker 2: it is a thought of that.

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Speaker 3: It is a thing. The the conditions are going to

488
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 3: be a welcomed relief for this club. I would think

489
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 3: Tyler Bass, I mean think about him. Man, just plant

490
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 3: your foot and swing it through. Man, you have to

491
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 3: worry about your foot slipping or taking a shallower angle

492
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 3: the wind, just like oh baby, yeah, give me.

493
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Speaker 2: Some don't need a lot of extra brain power.

494
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 3: It's a relief for those guys, you know what I mean.

495
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Speaker 3: It's just one thing that's like off their plays, like,

496
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Speaker 3: oh man, that's nice.

497
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Speaker 2: You know. All right, we got to take a break

498
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Speaker 2: here because when we come back, the Hall of Famer

499
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Speaker 2: Thurman Thomas will be joining us. We'll talk James Cook

500
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 2: with him, among other things, including the rest of the

501
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 2: schedule for Buffalo, knowing they are in win now mode

502
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 2: with their backs against the wall in this playoff race

503
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 2: that is still tight in the AFC Conference. Therman Thomas

504
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Speaker 2: coming your way next here on One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 2: by a Lot of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 2: back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brownsey, tasker in the

507
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Speaker 2: Hall of Famer, Therman Thomas here at Studio Thurman.

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Speaker 5: Welcome sir.

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00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 2: How much were you puffing your chest out after Sunday's

510
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 2: game against the Cowboy Oh?

511
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Speaker 5: You kidding me?

512
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 6: Oh man, I wish I could have had a game

513
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 6: like that against them in the Super Bowl.

514
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he too.

515
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 5: Right before you.

516
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 2: Finish that sentence, I was like, wait a second, you

517
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 2: have had games like that, but okay you qualifying.

518
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but no, it was it was great to see,

519
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 5: you know.

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00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean the thing about it was for

521
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 3: Ice after the game was like it it was like

522
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 3: one of the few games this year it was like

523
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Speaker 3: almost stress free.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, stress free couple and week two, Week four, but man,

525
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Speaker 7: oh man, just absolutely And it's even more so it

526
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 7: seems really deep down, stress free in your soul.

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Speaker 3: When all they do is run it, it's like, okay,

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00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 3: you gotta put it. When you throw it in a

529
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 3: bad you know, so tipped interception makes it all go bad,

530
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 3: you know, and now you're nervous again. But when they're

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Speaker 3: handing it off, it's like, yeah, just like give us

532
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Speaker 3: another round exactly there.

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Speaker 5: You know their offensive line.

534
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 6: You know, they had to be loving it, and you

535
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 6: can tell Dallas wasn't liking it.

536
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, they had. They didn't want any part of what happened.

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Speaker 6: And the thing that I love about it, it started

538
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 6: at the beginning.

539
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it was like this is what we got.

540
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 6: And then when I looked at the front seven really

541
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 6: kind of smallest guys, kind of smallest.

542
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 2: Guys, and they play a ton of dime.

543
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Speaker 3: They and they kept play that. I was going to

544
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Speaker 3: ask you, were you surprised. I didn't know until after,

545
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 3: you know, you come out and you see all the

546
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 3: stats and all that, it gets kind of distilled out.

547
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Speaker 3: Then they didn't get out of dime.

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00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 2: They didn't want to get out of.

549
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Speaker 3: Dime, which tells me they were really afraid of Josh.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 3: That's to me, that's amazing.

552
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Speaker 5: You know that what we and we always talk about

553
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 5: and we've heard it. Nobody makes adjustments. They didn't make the.

554
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Speaker 2: I don't know what damn woman was thinking there, but

555
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 2: I guess he was terrified of Josh throwing it over

556
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Speaker 2: their heads. I don't know. And that leads me to my

557
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 2: next question term, how much more difficult is it now

558
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: for future opponents of the Bills to effectively defend this

559
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 2: team after what? They're gonna watch this tape from last

560
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 2: week and go, Josh only threw the ball fifteen times

561
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Speaker 2: and they won by twenty one points. Like, how much

562
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Speaker 2: more difficult are the Bills now to defend after what

563
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Speaker 2: James could Cook put on tape last week?

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Speaker 6: Well, I think if you if you look at it

565
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Speaker 6: throughout the year, well, I guess maybe all the way

566
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Speaker 6: until Joe got the job. I mean, because Dorset had

567
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 6: the same job, but he would and Cook had some

568
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 6: good game Yeah, yeah, he had some good games. But

569
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Speaker 6: now you're seeing the whole repertoire of catching the ball

570
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Speaker 6: out of the backfield, hitting plays on the outside and

571
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Speaker 6: in the inside, lining.

572
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 5: Up, doing screens, doing it all.

573
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Speaker 6: But we didn't see a lot of that, you know,

574
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Speaker 6: early in the season, but he was still putting up

575
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Speaker 6: numbers in different kind of ways. And so now you

576
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Speaker 6: know what, Hey, this helps, This helps everybody. This helps

577
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 6: Diggs and his last three or four games talking about that. Yeah,

578
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 6: it helps everybody. I mean, like like Dawson Knox, he

579
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 6: might be back into the floor now, So I mean it.

580
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 6: It spreads across the line of scrimmage and the offensive

581
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Speaker 6: side of the ball that you know what they and

582
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Speaker 6: Josh is not you know, I would leading ball carry anymore.

583
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Speaker 3: He's not even the engine.

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00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he's not even it. You got like this.

585
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 3: Seven forty seven sitting off there, you know, in the hangar.

586
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Speaker 5: Waiting to take right.

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00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 3: You got cookers like flying around, and you have the

588
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 3: seven forty seven still, you know, getting a paint job.

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing I was gonna ask you as well, Like,

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Speaker 3: so you're you're the Los Angeles Chargers. I always have

591
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 3: to hesitate because I keep on San Diego. You got

592
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Speaker 3: the Chargers coming in. They get absolutely embarrassed by the

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Speaker 3: by an embarrassing team to get embarrassed by exactly and

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Speaker 3: head coach gone, general manager gone, you got some You

595
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Speaker 3: got Frany Gift Smith? Yeah, get yeah, Tom tell us. Yeah,

596
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 3: we both we both texted him. You know, so you

597
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 3: got Giff Smith, a position coach taking over his head coach.

598
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 3: None of the coaching stats coming back next year, none

599
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Speaker 3: of them.

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Speaker 5: It's a mess.

601
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 3: It's an absolute mess.

602
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 2: How do you approach getting ready for that?

603
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Speaker 6: Well, you know what, you guys in the locker room, Hey,

604
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 6: you know what, this might be our last shot.

605
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Speaker 5: Some of them, maybe the veteran players or whatever.

606
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Speaker 6: Those guys, Yeah, they have to be in that locker

607
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 6: room right now going Hey, guy, I know we're going

608
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 6: through stuff with no head coach, no general manager. But

609
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 6: you know what, there's still film out there, there's still

610
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 6: plays to be made because you don't know what coach

611
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 6: going to come in here. We all could be gone,

612
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 6: we all could be gone.

613
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Speaker 5: So let it. Let's put it on tape to say,

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Speaker 5: I want.

615
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Speaker 6: That guy from San Diego here's he just needed some

616
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Speaker 6: different coaching, some different different organs.

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Speaker 3: They maybe, but also to think of the old guys,

618
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 3: like if they're thinking I was, you know this is

619
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Speaker 3: gonna be if this was gonna be your last year,

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Speaker 3: you may you may walk just walk through, Like I

621
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Speaker 3: just want to get.

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Speaker 5: Out of here.

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Speaker 2: I got my money, and I want to start.

624
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Speaker 3: My retirement with knee surgery. You know, I'm just gonna out. Yeah,

625
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 3: you messed Avonte Davis time.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, right, And they got some younger, they.

627
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Speaker 5: Got some Max out there.

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Speaker 2: He's thirty two.

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Speaker 5: He's thirty two, but he's he's chasing Spearon Williams. Williams right,

630
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Speaker 5: one of the defensive backs are.

631
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Speaker 2: He's a young player. He's a younger player, fifty player.

632
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Speaker 6: Even with everything that's going wrong, you know who's been

633
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 6: like the consistent guy with him, it's been Keenan Allen.

634
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 2: Right, but he missed last week's game with a heel injury,

635
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Speaker 2: and they don't know if he's gonna play this week either.

636
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Well yeah, I mean but I'm just saying, like before that,

638
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Speaker 6: you know, he's.

639
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Speaker 5: Been like there consistent, most consistent players, right, he'll be

640
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Speaker 5: able to play. Yeah, they're Yeah, I'm not sure what

641
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Speaker 5: coach this might.

642
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Speaker 6: I don't know if you give this to a college

643
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 6: coach or not, or it's going to be really difficult

644
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Speaker 6: for them to try to find somebody. I mean, you

645
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 6: want to say somebody like a Belichick who came in

646
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Speaker 6: and just transformed New England.

647
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Speaker 5: Sure, that's what they need they needed across the.

648
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Speaker 2: Board and their owner John Spanos nobody own their president,

649
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 2: who's the son of the owner. Yes, he basically went

650
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,720
Speaker 2: on record saying they will spend whatever they need to spend.

651
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 2: There's no limitations, no limitations in hiring a coach or

652
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Speaker 2: building a roster because for decades they've played it on

653
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Speaker 2: the cheap. Yes, I mean, it's not a it's not

654
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Speaker 2: a secret out there.

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Speaker 5: That's why they share.

656
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Speaker 2: With the last head coaching cycle. Last head coaching cycle,

657
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 2: Chargers were down to Brandon Staley and Brian Dayball and

658
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 2: Brandon Staley cost less money, so that's why they went

659
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Speaker 2: with Brass.

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Speaker 5: Anyway, Well, let's get back to the office seek.

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00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So you know, uh Cook, You know, Cook

662
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 2: has given future opponents a lot more to think about

663
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 2: now It's not just thinking about Josh Allen with this

664
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Speaker 2: Bill's offense. So I just wonder as much as defenses

665
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,359
Speaker 2: have to now think about Cook as much as they

666
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 2: think about Alan. I wonder what this puts in the

667
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 2: head of Joe Brady with future game plans. Obviously, there

668
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 2: was a lot of game plan opponents specific stuff last

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00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 2: week that prompted them to go with the run. Game

670
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Speaker 2: as much as they did, because even Mitch Morse after

671
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,959
Speaker 2: the game said, we didn't really plan to run that much,

672
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Speaker 2: but they didn't change anything, so we just kept doing it.

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Speaker 2: So this week, what Cook showed on the field last week,

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Speaker 2: how do you think that influences a coordinator going forward

675
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Speaker 2: with future game plans.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, obviously number one guy is always going

677
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 6: to be Josh. He's he's gonna be the main focal point.

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Speaker 5: Of the offense.

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Speaker 6: So whatever new, whatever wrinkles you want to put in now,

680
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Speaker 6: I think it's a great opportunity for you to try those. Look,

681
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,399
Speaker 6: these next two games should be winnable games. And this

682
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 6: is the kind of time sometimes where you you try

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Speaker 6: just different things, just just.

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Speaker 5: A player to here. You don't change your entire offense,

685
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Speaker 5: you know, but.

686
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Speaker 6: You changed where I mean, I mean, has has Cook's

687
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Speaker 6: motion over to Digg's side?

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Speaker 5: And how that come? Have you did different things like that?

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Speaker 5: I don't see.

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Speaker 6: I've always seen Digg's motion, but it's usually to a

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Speaker 6: tight end or another wide receiver.

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Speaker 5: So why about if you.

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Speaker 6: Have James Cook just throw in a couple of different

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Speaker 6: plays I think, and have that on the field, and

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Speaker 6: you know what, what try it in the game because.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking, like third down, Murray's usually on the field,

697
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,919
Speaker 2: although Ty Johnson got a little more time last week.

698
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Speaker 2: But Murray's usually on the field on third down. Why

699
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 2: can't you put cookout wide somewhere and leave Murray in

700
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Speaker 2: the backfield if you're worried about pass protection, leave Murray

701
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Speaker 2: back there, split out Cook.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Well, I do think at a time important time, you're

704
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 6: gonna have to say, hey, Cook, you're gonna have to

705
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Speaker 6: pick this guy up.

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Speaker 5: Matter.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But also, who's gonna you gotta sit somebody down?

708
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Speaker 3: You got two backs on the field, you're gonna put

709
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Speaker 3: Kinkaid on the bench or Knocks on the bench of

710
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 3: Shakir on the bench. Somebody's got to sit down. So

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00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 3: that becomes a you know, another layer up.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, problem to have.

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Speaker 2: I know, I'm not saying I'm and again I'm not

714
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Speaker 2: saying all the time to Thurman's point, you're talking about

715
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Speaker 2: a couple of plays here that you might weave into

716
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Speaker 2: the gaming plan because of what he demonstrates. I know.

717
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Speaker 3: So here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: We beat the We're flying high.

719
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Speaker 3: We beat the Cowboys and the Chiefs in succession in

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Speaker 3: successive weeks.

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Speaker 1: So there it comes.

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Speaker 3: I get it, and this is a team you should

723
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 3: lump up pretty good. There is something to be gained

724
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 3: by Joe Brady saying, okay, listen, if this does get

725
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Speaker 3: out of hand and we are lumping these guys up,

726
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Speaker 3: we're gonna do about twelve or thirteen plays sprinkled in

727
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Speaker 3: that are gonna be analytics busters. They're gonna break tendencies.

728
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Speaker 3: We're gonna throw off all them. You know, we're gonna

729
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 3: make it look like we don't do this too much.

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Speaker 2: We want to put something that's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: We are gonna put like James Cook split wide to

732
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Speaker 3: the boundary by himself, and we are gonna put you

733
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Speaker 3: know motion. You know, we're all gonna do all that.

734
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Speaker 3: We got all this stuff on. We're not gonna do

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Speaker 3: it until we're up, and we're gonna start sprinkling it

736
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Speaker 3: in so we can get some benefit out of this

737
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Speaker 3: game and throw and make some teams prepare for some

738
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Speaker 3: things that we have no intention to do.

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Speaker 6: It's just like the teams that we kind of have

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Speaker 6: a problem with with Kansas City, they do all that

741
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Speaker 6: with Travis Kelsey with the tight end playing quarterback.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they do a lot of that.

743
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Speaker 6: Motion stuff with their running backs and stuff. Mahomes is

744
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 6: out there. We haven't seen Josh Allen out there. Line

745
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 6: up a wire, receive a good ass.

746
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 2: We gonna touch down, right.

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Speaker 3: I questioned his ability release on one against pump press.

748
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Speaker 3: But you're right, you do some of that. There is

749
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Speaker 3: some there's probably a little bit in there. Do you

750
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Speaker 3: think in a game like this you might want to

751
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,720
Speaker 3: have that on a separate little spot on your play

752
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 3: call sheet to change some analytics numbers if you do

753
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 3: some self scouts, say like, we're doing this one hundred

754
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 3: percent of the time. We get into the situation we're

755
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 3: doing this so teams, you know, so let's break that

756
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 3: up a little bit. That kind of stuff.

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00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 2: Work on the screen, green, But you can't.

758
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Speaker 3: You can't do it unless you're lumping them up. You

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00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 3: got to you gotta play.

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Speaker 5: I think you can do the screen game, would Cook?

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Speaker 5: Maybe in the line up?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what, Okay, there's no waste to play on a screen.

764
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 3: We can't do it.

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Speaker 2: Just give it up, say we can't do that.

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Speaker 3: We can't do that. We're just gonna we're not gonna

767
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Speaker 3: waste our time.

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Speaker 6: All right, Hey, once again, congratulations Cook, great job, man,

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Speaker 6: great job.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm sure you texted man.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, absolutely, and he's like, man, it felt so good.

772
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,760
Speaker 6: It felt so good, Man, And like he's.

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Speaker 5: The first, Like if you think of.

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Speaker 6: Like all the backs we've had since I guess I

775
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 6: looked up Travis Henry was the last one two thousand

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Speaker 6: and two.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, ac offense.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's been really yeah, it's been a minute,

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Speaker 6: but we've but we've had some guy we've had like

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Speaker 6: Fred's been here, Marshaw has been Shade, Shady's been here.

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Speaker 5: Gahey yeah, mcgahey. I mean we've had guys that have

782
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Speaker 5: never unto two thousand and two.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's I'll say this though, this that Cowboys

784
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 3: game last weekend was as close to that offensive line

785
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Speaker 3: you had working for you in that Chiefs Championship game.

786
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Speaker 3: That's just close to a dominant offensive lines we've we've

787
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Speaker 3: seen here in a long long time. And they both go,

788
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Speaker 3: I know, you give your guys credit up front of you,

789
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 3: and I'm sure Cookwood too, but those performances by those guys,

790
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 3: five guys up front are rare, rare, and James was

791
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 3: there to take advantage of it, and he he did

792
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 3: some awesome stuff, so that he turned into that he takes, he.

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Speaker 5: Made some moves, he made some move showed great balance.

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Speaker 4: I mean.

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Speaker 5: I thought that should have been a touchdown. Yeah, got

796
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Speaker 5: down to the one.

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Speaker 6: I was like, oh yeah, but somebody was coming up

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Speaker 6: behind him, so yeah, I'm just first got.

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Speaker 2: Him from behind him. Is a fast defense, Dallas, There's.

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Speaker 3: No Josh found that out quick too. Josh got run

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00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 3: down like a wounded puppy a couple of times. You know,

802
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 3: he started, you know, Josh busting out. I think, okay,

803
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 3: he's gonna get that guy's like closes on him.

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Speaker 2: Right the fast group.

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00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 3: You can see Josh do a double taking them.

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Speaker 2: He thought he was gonna be.

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Speaker 1: Exactly.

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Speaker 2: We have to take a break here, but when we

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Speaker 2: come back, we will talk to Thuram about that offensive

810
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 2: line and ask him if he thinks it's the best

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Speaker 2: one the Bills have had in the McDermott era. We'll

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Speaker 2: do that when we return here. On One Bills Live,

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Speaker 2: presented by Colid of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 2: back to One Bill's Live. James Cook is on fire.

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Speaker 2: To celebrate another away game week, We're giving away assigned

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Speaker 2: James Cook Football entry today at Buffalo bills dot Com

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Speaker 2: slash giveaway no word if he signs it James or Jimbo.

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00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 2: Since that's what his teammates call him, Jimbo, I would

819
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Speaker 2: guess it's James Jimbo. Oh yeah, the team calls him Jimbo.

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Speaker 2: Josh started that and everybody calls him that. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Well, I mean it's not incorrect, James, it's not incorrect.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that he cares for it, but it

823
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 2: is what it is. Well, he got it last year

824
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 2: as a rookie, so he had no sight whatsoever.

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Speaker 5: Hey, I didn't get squatty.

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Speaker 2: I mean not exactly. He could be called a lot

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00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 2: worse things than Jim. I just take it, smile and wave.

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00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 3: Elijah, Elijah Pitsch. We're in stretch and Eli comes through

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Speaker 3: walking gives. He says, Thurman gonna sue the town of

830
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:23,399
Speaker 3: Orchard Park and it's like what because, yeah, they built

831
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Speaker 3: the sidewalks too close to his butt?

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Speaker 8: Oh wow wow squatty? Yeah, Okay, yeah, all right, let's

833
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Speaker 8: talk Bill Skin.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk Bill's O line here, thurm yeh uh. Steve

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Speaker 2: and I have discussed this on the show. We did

836
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 2: a whole podcast on it. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 2: you know, you think about the investment in the off season,

838
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 2: Connor mc govern on one side, Osiris Torrance on the

839
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 2: other at the guard spots, Spencer Brown kind of coming

840
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 2: into his own this year, arguably arguably playing his best

841
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Speaker 2: season in a Bill's uniform since he got here, and

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00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 2: Dion just kind of doing his thing over there with

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00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 2: Mitch and the pivot. Do you think this is the

844
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 2: best offensive line the Bills have had in the seven

845
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Speaker 2: year McDermott era.

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Speaker 6: All the averages are up, touches are up, maybe yardages up.

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Speaker 5: I would say yes, Yeah, I would definitely say yes.

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Speaker 6: And really, the last game against the Cowboys, I mean,

849
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Speaker 6: how many counter traits did they run pulling.

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Speaker 5: The guard and the tackle in twelve fifty That's a lot.

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Speaker 6: And that's telling you, hey, you know what, how big

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00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 6: guys can get.

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Speaker 5: Up and go?

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Speaker 2: Well, right, Dion, we know has I mean, he's been

855
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 2: an athlete since he got here. I mean that's a

856
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,839
Speaker 2: three hundred and twenty pound guy that was doing backflips

857
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 2: his first two years in the league. I mean he

858
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 2: can literally do a backflip, which is stupid at that weight.

859
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 2: I don't know if he can do it anymore, but

860
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 2: he was a younger guy. You can do it. And

861
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 2: then Spencer Brown was a tight end in eight man

862
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 2: football in high school. I mean, the guy can run.

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00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's gonna juke somebody out in the hole,

864
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 2: but he can you know, once he gets up and

865
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 2: move and he can go. So there aren't many teams

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Speaker 2: in the league with two tackles who can run that

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00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,919
Speaker 2: poll scheme all the way across the formation and lead

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Speaker 2: it back up through a hole like That's that's pretty rare.

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Speaker 6: It's pretty rare of that. But I've only seen maybe

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Speaker 6: I don't know if I've seen a lot of teams.

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00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 5: This year actually pull guard and the tackle. I see it.

872
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 6: I mean I've seen Kelsey the center for Philadelphia Pool. Yeah,

873
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 6: but he's kind of what'll do that? Yeah, So uh yeah,

874
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 6: I mean it's been it's been good to see that. Hey,

875
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,800
Speaker 6: you know what, when the Timeless play smash mall football,

876
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 6: we can and if not, you know what we can

877
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 6: do where iye, guys are coming off angles and everything

878
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 6: like that. So yeah, I love it, man, it has

879
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 6: it has been though, Like you said, I think it

880
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 6: has been the best office a line he's at since

881
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 6: he's been.

882
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. It looked so good against Dallas.

883
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 3: It had me thinking, Gosh, I wonder, I wonder if

884
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 3: they can bounce back and stay sharp in their passing

885
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 3: game because it you know, I wonder.

886
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 2: Josh, they didn't have a lot of practice, right, Yeah.

887
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 3: It's almost the point like, wow, I wonder, you know,

888
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 3: I wonder if they can get it back together in

889
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 3: the passing game, you know, because like they lost.

890
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 5: To it, will they be calling the audible from a run?

891
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:19,879
Speaker 2: Right?

892
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 3: It was crazy, It was going so well. You just

893
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,479
Speaker 3: don't see that in the league very often. That's why

894
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 3: when it happens, it's it's it's eye catching. And uh,

895
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 3: I don't think it's a shift in anything. I don't

896
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 3: think it's some sort of paradigm shift where they I

897
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 3: think they're a throw first. You're not going to seem

898
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 3: well right.

899
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:42,320
Speaker 5: From fifteen backs getting the ball right exactly.

900
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 3: I think it was a I think it was a

901
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 3: game that turned out that way, and the Bills were

902
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 3: smart enough and disciplined enough say hey let's go, let's

903
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 3: keep doing and just keep doing it.

904
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 2: But how much does that empower Joe Brady? Where if

905
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 2: there is a game plan where it's back to what

906
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,320
Speaker 2: we're used to seeing, and Josh is throwing it forty

907
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,879
Speaker 2: times and maybe it's not coming together, or they're having

908
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 2: a couple of series where they go three and out

909
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 2: and they're like, let's try to change the conversation. How

910
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 2: much does it empower Joe Brady to know he's got

911
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 2: that in his back pocket if he needs to turn

912
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 2: to it?

913
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 5: Man, a lot. I mean it's pretty much.

914
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 6: Reaching into a jar and just pulling out whatever play

915
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 6: you want to run, because you have.

916
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 2: As long as you're on schedule.

917
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 5: As long as you're on schedule.

918
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think over the first six or seven

919
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 6: week when doors set were here, were all kind of figured, like,

920
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 6: you know, because I said to the TV a lot,

921
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,919
Speaker 6: don't run, don't do a running play right now.

922
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 5: You've already throwing something or whatever. Don't run now. It's like,

923
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 5: you know what.

924
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 6: There were times in this game against Dallas where I

925
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 6: was like, I think they might pass it here. We

926
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 6: haven't seen John, right, I think they might pass it.

927
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 6: And I was totally fooled, totally. I mean, they just

928
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 6: kept running and running.

929
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 2: So I was like, man, I'll say this to and

930
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 2: that takes some intestinal fortitude from the coordinator also, because

931
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 2: a lot of these guys nowadays are like, well I

932
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 2: ran it three times here, like should I really run

933
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 2: it again? It's time to throw, isn't it. And he

934
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 2: just said, the hell with that till they stop it.

935
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 2: We're gonna keep going, right yeah.

936
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,919
Speaker 6: I mean, you're only gonna go so many plays without

937
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 6: letting number seventeen take over. You're only gonna do that

938
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 6: so many times. But it was rolling, yeah, you know.

939
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 6: And I even saw a couple of plays where it

940
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:25,280
Speaker 6: was a handoff and Josh was somewhere in the play

941
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 6: by Cook on a couple of.

942
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Josh is carrying out the fake like is

943
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 3: it like as an RPO or something. He might pull

944
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,240
Speaker 3: it out and run with it. And he made Micah

945
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 3: hesitate and then you know, Mike as fast as he is,

946
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,720
Speaker 3: couldn't catch up. Then it's done, so and that little

947
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 3: ball fake for Josh. Then there was a couple of

948
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,399
Speaker 3: times when there's a one time I think you're talking

949
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 3: about when James Cook cut back and Josh had moved

950
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 3: up the field and he's like.

951
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 5: Cutting right back to Josh, right.

952
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it was it's hard to imagine an NFL

953
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 3: game going that much that well for any team's run game,

954
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 3: even like the Tennessee Titans with Derrick Henry, it's hard

955
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 3: to imagine that because even then you snap off a

956
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 3: sixty five yarder once in a while with Henry and

957
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,320
Speaker 3: all that, this game was just like, man, it was

958
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 3: like twelve yards eight yards, right, these eight yards a couple.

959
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 6: Of games, they're gonna be the one that's gonna be

960
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:20,919
Speaker 6: in control. They're gonna make you switch on defense. They're

961
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 6: gonna make you because they're they're gonna be ready to

962
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 6: knowing that we got this now, this running game now

963
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 6: and offensive lineman a feeling good now cook offensive player.

964
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 5: Of the week.

965
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:34,760
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we're we're the lead dog right now.

966
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:39,959
Speaker 6: And Chargers watch out because we might do the same

967
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,760
Speaker 6: thing to you what we just did to the Dallas

968
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 6: Cowboy because I think they're a smaller type of defensive

969
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 6: line too, somewhere in that range with the Cowboys.

970
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 5: So yeah, I think it's rolling dice baby, all.

971
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 2: Right, them, Thanks for coming in as always, enjoy the game.

972
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 2: Don't forget it's Saturday night not sun Day. Uh and

973
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 2: it'll be on NBC here locally in the Buffalo market,

974
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:10,280
Speaker 2: Peacock everywhere else. Gotta take a break here our number

975
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,399
Speaker 2: two where we expect to have Bill Center Mitch Morse

976
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 2: joining us after practice Here on One Bill's Live presented

977
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 2: by Colida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

978
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:02,720
Speaker 9: The One Bill's Live presented by Calida Health.

979
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:05,959
Speaker 2: Our number two here on a Wednesday, Chris Brown Steve

980
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 2: Tasker with you and discussing, among other things, what you

981
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:14,720
Speaker 2: expect from Bill's offense. From the Bill's offense in Saturday

982
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 2: night's game against the Chargers. They had a run dominant

983
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 2: performance this past week against Dallas. Much of it was

984
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 2: game plan and opponent specific, but seeing the production that

985
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 2: was turned out on the ground, are you expecting a

986
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 2: different looking offense Saturday against the Chargers. There is a

987
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 2: larger bag from which to pull for Joe Brady in

988
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 2: terms of play calling, game plan, etc. In light of

989
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 2: the success we witnessed this past week against the Cowboys.

990
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 2: So you let us know at eight h three oh

991
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 2: five fifty what you anticipate. And we are going to

992
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 2: go to the phones right now as we wait for

993
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 2: the arrival of Mitch Morris once practice is over and

994
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 2: we lead off here with Kevin in Hamburg.

995
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 9: Hey, guys, how you doing bank for taking my call?

996
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 9: I think well, our offensive line looked as dominant as

997
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 9: I've seen it in a long time now. I don't

998
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 9: mean just in the German era, I mean through any

999
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 9: of the especially the losing coaches we had before. I

1000
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 9: mean I grew I remember watching and I know it's

1001
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 9: a people member because they beat us in the Simple Bowl,

1002
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,400
Speaker 9: the Hogs of the Redskins. Our offensive line in this

1003
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,720
Speaker 9: game looked as close to a Hogs as you could

1004
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:34,319
Speaker 9: possibly be for a Buffalo offensive line, the way the

1005
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 9: way they just pushed him around the way the way

1006
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 9: those guys used to push people around. And it was

1007
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 9: I think it's a Chargers defense who was not as good.

1008
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 9: They just gotta keep sticking it to him. Now, obviously

1009
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 9: the Chargers have a new spark with a new coach,

1010
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 9: and I can give him. I guess maybe that I

1011
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 9: needed the term Rocky mentality, Rocky bay Boll mentality. That

1012
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 9: might be could be a little tricky in the beginning,

1013
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 9: you know, the old as edge of I'm gonna go

1014
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 9: to the distance even if I don't win the game

1015
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 9: or fight. So that's the only thing I watched out

1016
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,280
Speaker 9: for but I think I keep sticking it to them.

1017
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 2: Okay, So.

1018
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 9: Because Steve, you know this your first year you were

1019
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 9: in the eighty six, wasn't it.

1020
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, the last half of eighty six?

1021
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 9: Yeah, and you were there? Were you there when they

1022
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 9: met from Hank Buller to Marv Levy and the locker

1023
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 9: room just in two or three games, you know, you

1024
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 9: had losing seasons, that spark of a new boys, the

1025
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:36,280
Speaker 9: new new language, and you beat a couple of teams.

1026
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:38,319
Speaker 9: You still had a losing record, but you beat a

1027
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 9: couple of teams that with Hank Bully you were probably

1028
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 9: got spanked.

1029
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 3: Uh well, certainly Marv's first game as head coach. It

1030
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:48,800
Speaker 3: was one week they played Tampa with Hank Buller. The

1031
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 3: next week they played the Pittsburgh Steelers and Marv Levy

1032
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 3: was the head coach and they beat the Steelers in

1033
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 3: Orchard Park. Yeah, and that was my first game as

1034
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 3: well as Marv's first game. Is my first game. I

1035
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 3: was the first new player they picked up, so I

1036
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 3: was there after. I never met Hank Buller, I guess,

1037
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 3: to be honest, to put it bluntly, but it depends

1038
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 3: on the atmosphere left behind by the former coach. I

1039
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 3: don't think Brandon Staley was vilified in the locker room.

1040
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 3: He might not have been liked, or the guys might

1041
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 3: have been tired of Hi or whatever, but I don't

1042
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 3: think they hated him. From my experience and stuff I

1043
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:30,839
Speaker 3: was told in the locker room when I got here

1044
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 3: to Buffalo, just after the change was made to Marv Levy,

1045
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 3: they hated that guy. So there was a bump, And

1046
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 3: I think that when you get a bump, that's what

1047
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 3: causes it, the lack. I mean, it was the If

1048
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 3: the Chargers come out and play off their rocker, it's

1049
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 3: because Brandon Staley was hated, you know what I mean,

1050
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 3: that's kind of what does it. If you're going to

1051
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,239
Speaker 3: get a bump, it's because the other guy was so

1052
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:03,319
Speaker 3: bad that the new guy couldn't help but be a

1053
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 3: welcome change. I don't know if I see that in

1054
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:09,720
Speaker 3: LA with the Chargers. Maybe yeah, But I think that's

1055
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 3: what you're looking at, the emotion of it. That's what

1056
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 3: you're right, Kevin. The emotion of it has everything to

1057
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,359
Speaker 3: do with it. If they are so happy to have

1058
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,760
Speaker 3: a new guy in there, that's where you get the bump.

1059
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 2: Let's go to Michael in California next. What do you

1060
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 2: got for us?

1061
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: Michael?

1062
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 10: Hey, there, Merry Christmas. First time I recall it in guys.

1063
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:31,919
Speaker 3: Oh thanks, yeah, yeah.

1064
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 10: Hey, So out here in LA. You know, here's what

1065
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 10: I'm thinking with the Chargers. I don't think they've got

1066
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 10: a whole lot on defense. So I think the new

1067
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 10: OC is just gonna and go with this script and

1068
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 10: then he'll see what they do. And what I like

1069
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 10: about Joe Brady is if it's not broke, he doesn't

1070
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 10: try to fix it. Oh, He's just gonna pound them

1071
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 10: whatever it is with the pass or the run. And

1072
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 10: then I hope in the fourth quarter that we will

1073
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:56,440
Speaker 10: be looking at Kyle Allen. I did have one thing

1074
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 10: to tell you guys, also about I went to Sofi

1075
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 10: Stadium last year when the Rams came here, and to

1076
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 10: spend five point three billion dollars on a stadium, that

1077
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 10: place is not great, guys. That greenhouse kind of roof

1078
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 10: thing a one hundred degrees up. Yeah, and it was

1079
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 10: like twenty inside. And I got my wife there. She's

1080
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 10: melting and filling out like divorce paperwork on me. She

1081
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 10: never wanted to be there. And then parking situation is

1082
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,320
Speaker 10: a joke. You know. I had to pay two hundred

1083
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 10: dollars to park close because if not you got to

1084
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 10: you got to park out by. You pay fifty bucks

1085
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 10: from park out by the Forum, and then you walk

1086
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 10: on black hardtop for almost a mile and you know

1087
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,879
Speaker 10: your wife dies on you on the way in. So yeah,

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00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 10: I didn't love it. They ran out of hot dogs

1089
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,800
Speaker 10: in the first quarter. The seats were really close together.

1090
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 10: The scream was beautiful. But I could have watched TV

1091
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 10: at home. So have you guys been there so far?

1092
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 10: I like to hear your thoughts on that point.

1093
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were there last week in Week one obviously

1094
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 2: because the Bills had the kickoff game and last year

1095
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:57,400
Speaker 2: and one, yeah last year, and it was warm like

1096
00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:00,040
Speaker 2: I had you know, I had a suit on and

1097
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 2: the press box was air conditioned. But then I had

1098
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 2: to go out and catch up with a couple of people.

1099
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 2: At halftime, I go down one level. I'm sweating bullets

1100
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 2: like it's like wow, I said, I hope it's better

1101
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 2: on the field for the guys playing the game, because

1102
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 2: I was. I was, just like, it is hot because

1103
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 2: they don't have climate control in that building. Because it's

1104
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 2: open air around the top. I guess they thought the

1105
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 2: air would circulate a lot more. I don't know what

1106
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 2: engineers came up with that one, but I don't know

1107
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 2: if they are going to get called back.

1108
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 3: They had they had to drop it down because of

1109
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 3: lax They had to get it out of it.

1110
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 2: That's right out of the flight path or something.

1111
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there you go.

1112
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 2: In any event, joining us in studio, Bill Center Mitch Morse,

1113
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 2: fresh off a super productive game against the Dallas Cowboys

1114
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 2: in which I don't know I would call that one

1115
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 2: of your best bullyball games since you've been here. I'm

1116
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 2: sure you can come up with others off the top

1117
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 2: of your head. But Bill's fans got a charge out

1118
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 2: of what that thing looked like on Sunday.

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00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say it's it's pretty unique. First of all,

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Speaker 1: thank you've yeah, oh, happy to have. Second of all,

1121
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 1: it was it was a new, unique one and one

1122
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: that uh, it wasn't dictated like that prior to the game.

1123
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 1: It was one of those things that you you're not

1124
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 1: feeling out again, but you're seeing how a team is

1125
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: going to play you. And we also understood what kind

1126
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 1: of passed us They had and so to limit those opportunities,

1127
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: we knew we had to be productive. And also kudos

1128
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 1: to the play callers and the coaches for putting us

1129
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 1: in positions where we could, uh, I mean stick to

1130
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: it right, right, I mean Joe Brady's talked about how

1131
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: it's hard as a play caller to uh, I don't

1132
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 1: want to say, but your pry aside, but like just

1133
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:41,880
Speaker 1: trust it and yeah, and kudos to him. So for us,

1134
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: it was just kind of uh, sticking to what the

1135
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:46,440
Speaker 1: defense gave us, saying a lot of times the running

1136
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: backs made us right.

1137
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's interesting not for nothing, you know, James

1138
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 3: Cook Offensive Player of the Week. Congratulations to you guys

1139
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 3: for that.

1140
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 2: You guys right, because you got it.

1141
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 3: You guys gotta be you gotta feel a certain sense

1142
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 3: of at least, if not satisfaction, certainly contentment for a

1143
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 3: minute after that game ended. When you had the dominating

1144
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 3: performance like you did. It's hard to do that in

1145
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 3: the NFL against anybody, But like you said, so many

1146
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 3: things have to come together. You're a play caller, the

1147
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 3: running back, the matchups, and then the inability or or

1148
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 3: you know, lack of conviction to adjust defensively, So all

1149
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 3: of those things have to kind of come together and

1150
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 3: then you guys, you know, certainly made it happen.

1151
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: Well. I like to think the run games is a

1152
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 1: symbiotic relationship between the offensive line and also the receivers.

1153
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: I think, I mean talk about the prideful game receivers.

1154
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 1: I mean to be able to just time after time

1155
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 1: after time again not get their number called. And you

1156
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: know a lot of these runs were getting to the outside,

1157
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: bouncing outside. These receivers are blocking their tails off. So yeah,

1158
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 1: I think for the most part this you know, you

1159
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: give it yourself a twenty four hour period where you

1160
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 1: reflect on the game, get to enjoy that. But at

1161
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 1: the same time, not to be a coach here, but

1162
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 1: we understand that if we want to get to where

1163
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: we want to get to, it's time to that next

1164
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 1: tap and move on.

1165
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 2: There are a lot of people who are of the opinion, Mitch,

1166
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 2: that this is probably the most gifted and effective offensive

1167
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:11,919
Speaker 2: line in the McDermott era. I'm not going to ask

1168
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 2: you to rank it, because I know that's not kind

1169
01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:15,959
Speaker 2: of what you do and you'd feel you'd be disrespecting

1170
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 2: previous teammates. What I will ask you is, when did

1171
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 2: you feel that this five really gelled and hit their

1172
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:28,080
Speaker 2: stride where there were most of the hiccups that you

1173
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 2: often have, you know, in the early stages of pulling

1174
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 2: a new group of five together will happen from time

1175
01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 2: to time. When did you guys kind of really feel

1176
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 2: like you hit your stride here in this season.

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01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good question and one that you'd like

1178
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 1: to say. You're still working on achieving, right, like, you

1179
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:48,040
Speaker 1: still feel like there's there's more to this for us,

1180
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:50,760
Speaker 1: And I think that's the approach we take in practice

1181
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: and how we attack meetings, and Cromer treats us like professionals,

1182
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: so we reciprocate that and work when it's time to work,

1183
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: and rest when it's time to act. I would say,

1184
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:05,439
Speaker 1: just every game as we continued, and then I would say,

1185
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 1: even though we lost that Denver game where we were

1186
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 1: able to run the ball effectively, we we we we

1187
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 1: felt like we pulled this. You know, we pulled each

1188
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:17,959
Speaker 1: other aside and said, listen, we you know, the fate

1189
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:21,280
Speaker 1: of this team is in everyone's hands, but we got

1190
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: to continue doing our job and do the best we

1191
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 1: can and and and understand that just because we're the

1192
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 1: standings are and stuff. There you get pride in being

1193
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: professional and I think that's tough for young guys, and

1194
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 1: it's also tough for pretty old you know, older guys.

1195
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: But when you get closer to the end rather than

1196
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:39,520
Speaker 1: the beginning of your career, I'm not saying, you know whatever,

1197
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 1: but you understand these chances are fleeting and uh. And

1198
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 1: so I'm just very fortunate to have a group of

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01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 1: guys who are younger than me that really take pride

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01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 1: in being professionals and uh and a lot of guys

1201
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: who are backup roles too. They can plug and play

1202
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 1: and it's just a real special group that really cares

1203
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 1: about each other.

1204
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:59,480
Speaker 3: You come in on a short week, you plan on Saturday,

1205
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 3: weird game, kind of a weird feeling, but still time change,

1206
01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 3: time change, all that West Coast and you're going to

1207
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 3: a team and I don't know if you you probably

1208
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 3: have not been through this as a pro where you

1209
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 3: got an interim head coach and stuff. I've been through

1210
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:16,680
Speaker 3: it way way back and also as part of the

1211
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 3: other side where I was playing for an interim head

1212
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 3: coach and twice I did it or I was least

1213
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:27,720
Speaker 3: on the team. The bump that a team might get

1214
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:29,920
Speaker 3: from changing coaches, and I just said this in the

1215
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 3: last segment, has a lot to do with I'll use

1216
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 3: the word but the hatred they had for the last guy. Sure, right,

1217
01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 3: if the last guy was you know, Captain Bly and

1218
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 3: you wanted to be the guy that threw him overboard,

1219
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 3: you do get a bump totally. But if it was

1220
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 3: a guy that's like, man, we should have played better

1221
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:50,120
Speaker 3: for him, and he was I kind of liked him,

1222
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 3: if you know, then it's not a bump, you know.

1223
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:55,760
Speaker 3: So that has everything to do with the you know,

1224
01:02:55,800 --> 01:03:00,360
Speaker 3: the La Chargers has nothing to do with the Buffalo Bills.

1225
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:02,040
Speaker 3: Some insight into that thought process.

1226
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:05,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's a good point, right, Like it's that

1227
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 1: you're you're damned if you presume in this in this business, right, So, uh,

1228
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 1: we're not. We're presuming the former. In those two regards,

1229
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have a spark, and they take

1230
01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 1: pride in being professionals and they have outstanding personnel. And

1231
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 1: if you watch the film, you're you're very impressed. So

1232
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:30,040
Speaker 1: like any week, we understand that that the competitive edge

1233
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 1: is going to be who shows up and out competes

1234
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:34,720
Speaker 1: the person. I know, the competitive edge being competition, but

1235
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: it's the truth. And and also I would I would

1236
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 1: mean you said we saw it to have another the Raiders.

1237
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 1: I mean the week after McDaniel's left, they were on fire.

1238
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 1: So we've seen it happen this year, and uh so

1239
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 1: we're just gonna go out. We're gonna we're gonna control.

1240
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:51,480
Speaker 1: We can control and understand that. Uh it could be

1241
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:53,480
Speaker 1: an on slot of things we see or they could

1242
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 1: stick to a few things where we could you could

1243
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 1: expect anything, but the one thing we are expecting is

1244
01:03:57,680 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 1: for them to be fired up.

1245
01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:04,160
Speaker 2: How is Christmas preparations going in the MOR's household? Are

1246
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:05,720
Speaker 2: you guys all set? Because I got to tell you

1247
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 2: right now, with the kids at your age, you are

1248
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 2: in the wheelhouse of like the best Christmas is because

1249
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 2: the sand thing is in full it's full board, you know,

1250
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:17,240
Speaker 2: the like, how's the house is it ready?

1251
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 4: Well?

1252
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:19,440
Speaker 1: I got to give credit to my wife, right like

1253
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 1: she takes so much of the brunt and season and

1254
01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: the and and the home front. And she also takes

1255
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:28,800
Speaker 1: a lot of brunt in regards to the presence and

1256
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 1: doing that. So when they write from Mom and dad.

1257
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:34,880
Speaker 1: It's from mom, and she just ces dad on the

1258
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 1: whole thing.

1259
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 2: So uh so not alone.

1260
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:40,920
Speaker 1: No, it's I'm so fortunate blessed to have her on

1261
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 1: my side. And uh, the kids are really cool. My

1262
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 1: son's a little too young, but my daughter's really wants

1263
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:49,520
Speaker 1: a mermaid for uh yeah, for Christmas. So we're doll

1264
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:49,919
Speaker 1: of course.

1265
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:55,640
Speaker 2: Yes, especially with the weather we have tough upkeep.

1266
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:57,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people are using those slip for

1267
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:00,920
Speaker 1: sled rinks, so we can. Unless you want the mermaid

1268
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 1: to freeze to death, we're gonna be kind of sol

1269
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 1: here in the Orchard Park.

1270
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:07,000
Speaker 2: Now, do you. I'm going to ask you this because

1271
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 2: I was fortunate enough to miss this window. Does the

1272
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 2: lf on the shelf exist?

1273
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:13,960
Speaker 1: Elf on the shelf is a no go in our house?

1274
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:14,600
Speaker 2: Why.

1275
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:18,120
Speaker 1: I just learned about it this past week from my wife.

1276
01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: Maybe call me.

1277
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:20,880
Speaker 3: I had to have a briefing outside.

1278
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:23,720
Speaker 1: It turns out we're all blissfully naive because it sounds

1279
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:24,280
Speaker 1: like a whole thing.

1280
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:26,120
Speaker 2: It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work.

1281
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:26,400
Speaker 8: Uh.

1282
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl voting Mitch runs through December twenty fifth. I

1283
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 2: know you are not a self gloss person, but you've

1284
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 2: put together a pretty nice season here. Fans can vote

1285
01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:43,640
Speaker 2: basically through Christmas at Pro Bowl dot Com slash vote Lord. Yeah,

1286
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 2: that's a good one man. They don't even have any shops.

1287
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:49,080
Speaker 1: Coming off your head yet, Bry just elbows feel great

1288
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:49,600
Speaker 1: in that picture.

1289
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:53,320
Speaker 5: But there is no limit.

1290
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 3: That's definitely a preseason.

1291
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:56,320
Speaker 1: That's the I think that's the first house here.

1292
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:58,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the bear, the beard is considerably shorter than

1293
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:00,400
Speaker 2: it is now, I will say that. But there is

1294
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:02,720
Speaker 2: no limit fans to how many times you can vote

1295
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 2: for Mitch or any of the other bills that you

1296
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:10,360
Speaker 2: believe are worthy. And fans can also post on Twitter

1297
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 2: now known as x to place votes that begin December eleventh,

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Speaker 2: and as I said, run through Christmas. So if you're

1299
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:18,920
Speaker 2: sitting around the house because you got the day off

1300
01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 2: Friday or this weekend, there is still time to get

1301
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,880
Speaker 2: your votes in for Mitch and anybody else on the roster.

1302
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 2: It's the last chance window. And here's the most important thing.

1303
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 2: On Christmas, even Christmas Day, if you get on social

1304
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 2: and vote, the vote counts double. So you want to

1305
01:06:35,080 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 2: vote twice for Mitch, you can do it in one

1306
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:39,439
Speaker 2: fell swoop. You want to vote for Dion anybody else,

1307
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 2: even Spencer's had a hell of a year. Spencer's probably

1308
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 2: had his best year in a Bill's uniform this year,

1309
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 2: wouldn't you say so?

1310
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:49,920
Speaker 1: Matt would agree, He's put on a beautiful, beautiful display.

1311
01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:53,920
Speaker 3: I'll say this too. Osirius Torrance has been everything they

1312
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:55,680
Speaker 3: hoped he would be. I think as a rookie, he's

1313
01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 3: been durable, dependable, the big body they were looking for,

1314
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 3: certainly athletic enough. Down inside, I noticed something about him

1315
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 3: the other day that I hadn't thought about. I used

1316
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 3: to play with a guy named Jerry Ostrowsky. He was

1317
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:12,240
Speaker 3: a six three, three hundred and thirty pound guy, enormously

1318
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:15,720
Speaker 3: long arms, beautiful and flat feet.

1319
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:19,080
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and anyone who doesn't know anyone doesn't know

1320
01:07:19,120 --> 01:07:22,520
Speaker 1: Cyrus got some funky feet. He looked bunky feet.

1321
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:25,360
Speaker 3: His feet looked like an elephant's foot, Like it's rent

1322
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:27,720
Speaker 3: and it's like right, the whole thing hits the ground

1323
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 3: at the same time.

1324
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 2: Hard to move a guy like that, And I thought.

1325
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:31,440
Speaker 3: Wow, that's well.

1326
01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 1: Three thirty also doesn't hurt either. Yeah that's true, Yeah,

1327
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 1: no doubt.

1328
01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 3: But he's put together a nice year.

1329
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:39,760
Speaker 1: Couldn't ask for anymore from a rookie. I was fortunate

1330
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:41,920
Speaker 1: enough to start as a rookie, and he is so

1331
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:44,360
Speaker 1: much farther ahead of me in regards to his mental

1332
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:47,760
Speaker 1: preparation and just his stick to itiveness and also his

1333
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 1: ability to bounce back from uh if anything does go negatively.

1334
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:54,120
Speaker 1: He has a great next play mentality, which is so

1335
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:56,400
Speaker 1: hard to do as a real que couldn't we We've

1336
01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 1: been just very so fortunate.

1337
01:07:57,840 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 2: So if you're gonna go on Twitter and vote for

1338
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 2: or any of the other bills for the Pro Bowl,

1339
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 2: you write in your post Pro Bowl vote and then

1340
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:08,840
Speaker 2: the players first and last name, and you can hashtag

1341
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:10,760
Speaker 2: their first and last name as well. That vote will

1342
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:15,560
Speaker 2: count double on Christmas Eve. On Christmas, that twenty yard

1343
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:18,840
Speaker 2: block when he puts somebody on roller skates there, How

1344
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:20,679
Speaker 2: many times did you guys run that back? In film

1345
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:21,120
Speaker 2: this week?

1346
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:21,680
Speaker 1: I've seen.

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01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mitch, thanks for the time, having great Christmas with

1348
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:29,400
Speaker 2: your family, and good luck on Sank appreciation. We will

1349
01:08:29,479 --> 01:08:33,280
Speaker 2: turn to the post practice podium where Gabe Davis is

1350
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:34,880
Speaker 2: addressing the media. Let's go there now.

1351
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:37,680
Speaker 11: Mentally, doubt was like not getting the ball as much

1352
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 11: study and kind of pushing through that and doing You're

1353
01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:41,320
Speaker 11: still doing your role out there.

1354
01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:46,720
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, you know, sometimes that's not just how

1355
01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 12: it's going to be. It's obviously it's not it's not

1356
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:55,080
Speaker 12: that like, it's not that easy. But you know, I

1357
01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:57,720
Speaker 12: gotta do it. I gotta be and do what my

1358
01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:00,240
Speaker 12: team asked me to do. And all like do is

1359
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 12: control what I can control. But you know, I'm doing

1360
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:07,839
Speaker 12: good in the block and game, and uh, real confident

1361
01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:08,439
Speaker 12: in that.

1362
01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:11,840
Speaker 11: Is there anything that like you and Josh are working

1363
01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:14,120
Speaker 11: on to make sure you're on the same page that

1364
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:14,599
Speaker 11: kind of thing.

1365
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:20,960
Speaker 12: Me and Josh had had a conversation, and you know,

1366
01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:26,519
Speaker 12: again that's what the game brings. You know, we both

1367
01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:28,719
Speaker 12: know that we want each of us to be successful.

1368
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:32,040
Speaker 12: His success is my success is his success, you know,

1369
01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 12: and vice versa when he's throw me the ball. So

1370
01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 12: it's not that we don't want it to happen. Uh,

1371
01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:42,560
Speaker 12: but you know, the league is tough and all the

1372
01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:44,760
Speaker 12: stars got aligne you know for stuff to go your

1373
01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:45,479
Speaker 12: way all the time.

1374
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1375
01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 13: Yeah, the saw what the Raiders did the Chargers last time.

1376
01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 13: The player just aerial assault did that kind of get

1377
01:09:57,160 --> 01:09:59,400
Speaker 13: chicks outed a little bit that maybe you could take

1378
01:09:59,400 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 13: advantage of it.

1379
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:01,719
Speaker 4: TVs.

1380
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 12: I mean, I'm excited whoever we go against. I feel

1381
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 12: we have the you know, the best team in the NFL.

1382
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 12: And I'm confident all the guys that I'm with, So

1383
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:14,400
Speaker 12: when it comes to seeing what we could do against

1384
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:15,719
Speaker 12: each team, I'm confident.

1385
01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 4: And you know, our run game or past game.

1386
01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:21,360
Speaker 11: So the past couple of games give you guys a

1387
01:10:21,439 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 11: lift since you're in this playoff, but you're knowing what

1388
01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:24,200
Speaker 11: you're up against.

1389
01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:25,439
Speaker 5: A win like.

1390
01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:27,840
Speaker 11: Specifically a gains Dalla's the way that you guys were

1391
01:10:27,880 --> 01:10:28,639
Speaker 11: able to handle.

1392
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:31,800
Speaker 12: With I mean, you know, that's what That's what we

1393
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:35,160
Speaker 12: all expect out of each other. It's no surprise to

1394
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 12: us to you know, come out with the with the

1395
01:10:37,479 --> 01:10:42,040
Speaker 12: victory each and every week. So the past couple of weeks,

1396
01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 12: with the wins that we've had, it's no surprises us.

1397
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:45,840
Speaker 12: We just have to play our game the way we

1398
01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 12: know how and things like that will happen, you know,

1399
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:49,040
Speaker 12: each and every.

1400
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 3: Week catching the ball.

1401
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:55,200
Speaker 11: But how much fun is it to have a game

1402
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:57,200
Speaker 11: like the one you guys have against Oats when you

1403
01:10:57,200 --> 01:10:59,719
Speaker 11: guys are out there running the ball down their drugs

1404
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:01,560
Speaker 11: kind of Nun.

1405
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:03,439
Speaker 5: As a wide receiver, as a kind of supers.

1406
01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:07,080
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, it always feels good to be one

1407
01:11:07,080 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 12: of the guys that springs the springs a big round

1408
01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 12: or something, and but it was we were just all

1409
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:14,479
Speaker 12: real happy for James. You know, James has grown into

1410
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:16,760
Speaker 12: such a great player. It was so fun to watch

1411
01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:19,920
Speaker 12: him last week. Uh so so happy for him and

1412
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:21,920
Speaker 12: so proud of him to see his game, you know,

1413
01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 12: get better and better. Uh James has definitely turned into

1414
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,240
Speaker 12: one of the known running backs in the NFL, and

1415
01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:30,519
Speaker 12: you know, just happy to see him blossom into the

1416
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:31,400
Speaker 12: player that he is now.

1417
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:33,560
Speaker 13: He likes during the game that he was on the

1418
01:11:33,600 --> 01:11:36,120
Speaker 13: track for a big performance and what was he saying something.

1419
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:37,920
Speaker 2: That maybe you were saying, pray the game is kind

1420
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:39,000
Speaker 2: of continued to find.

1421
01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:41,120
Speaker 4: Him out, you know.

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01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:44,200
Speaker 12: I mean James had some ups and downs kind of

1423
01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 12: earlier and then him being able to be real consistent

1424
01:11:46,479 --> 01:11:47,800
Speaker 12: in the past game, be able to make the big

1425
01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:51,759
Speaker 12: plays that he made and sort of you know, just

1426
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 12: just just run and give it as all each and

1427
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:55,600
Speaker 12: every time. You can tell by the way he was

1428
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:58,760
Speaker 12: running that he just was going forward and happy to

1429
01:11:58,760 --> 01:11:59,760
Speaker 12: see him him doing that.

1430
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:02,559
Speaker 4: Sty gave up sixteen three.

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01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:04,439
Speaker 9: I think our last game, I mean I want to be.

1432
01:12:04,640 --> 01:12:06,400
Speaker 11: When you look at that film and they're giving up

1433
01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 11: a lot of plays, you know, they're pridefuls, right and

1434
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 11: the professionals. I mean, is there any is there any

1435
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:15,760
Speaker 11: discussion that, hey, look, I mean, any team's gonna be

1436
01:12:15,880 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 11: motivated to put forth a better right up the very fans?

1437
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:24,559
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I feel like I I think it's

1438
01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 4: it's pride.

1439
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 12: You know, we all have pride, And I feel like,

1440
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:31,240
Speaker 12: no matter what happens the week before, guys are gonna

1441
01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 12: come in like they're the they're the best team, as

1442
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 12: they should, you know, and as we should as well,

1443
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:36,640
Speaker 12: and be able to go out there and compete at

1444
01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:41,000
Speaker 12: a high levels.

1445
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 14: You guys talk a lot about those teams at the

1446
01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:46,759
Speaker 14: playoffs stretch with the last of several games, with the

1447
01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:48,160
Speaker 14: energy and focus of those.

1448
01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:49,000
Speaker 2: Games have been really strong.

1449
01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:51,559
Speaker 14: How do you maintain that going to the West Coast,

1450
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:53,320
Speaker 14: playing on a short week against the team that's in

1451
01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:55,320
Speaker 14: a much different situation than the ones who placed for a.

1452
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:56,000
Speaker 15: Lot of few weeks.

1453
01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:00,800
Speaker 12: I feel like it's, you know, still the same thing.

1454
01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:03,720
Speaker 12: Whether it's a day before or day later or a

1455
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:05,640
Speaker 12: couple of days before, you know, it's still a football game.

1456
01:13:05,680 --> 01:13:07,680
Speaker 12: We still prepare. You know, you tweak a little bit

1457
01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:09,720
Speaker 12: things in the preparation for the week, but other than that,

1458
01:13:10,160 --> 01:13:11,639
Speaker 12: you know, everything still feels the same.

1459
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:12,759
Speaker 4: You're just leaving a day earlier.

1460
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 16: Do you think it's given the situation, you know, plays

1461
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 16: better knowing that you know yours are against the wall

1462
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 16: under that pressure, or maybe there's just something that you

1463
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 16: find like this team unlocks given the situation you guys

1464
01:13:26,040 --> 01:13:28,840
Speaker 16: are in as you're playing to keep your playoff hops att.

1465
01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1466
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 12: I just feel like for us, we just had to

1467
01:13:34,120 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 12: we had to really figure out, you know, what we

1468
01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:38,360
Speaker 12: wanted our identity to be. In fact, we didn't this

1469
01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 12: is this year. We didn't really know that until the

1470
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:45,559
Speaker 12: past few weeks, and guys were kind of just we

1471
01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:47,200
Speaker 12: were kind of just all over the place. But now

1472
01:13:47,280 --> 01:13:49,320
Speaker 12: being more consistent figuring out the things that we need

1473
01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:52,920
Speaker 12: to work on and getting good at those things just

1474
01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:57,640
Speaker 12: helped us, you know, be more consistent on Sundays.

1475
01:13:57,840 --> 01:13:59,080
Speaker 3: Much of the change in.

1476
01:13:59,040 --> 01:13:59,960
Speaker 9: The offensive coortant.

1477
01:14:03,400 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 12: I mean, we've been we've been, we've been playing well,

1478
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:06,600
Speaker 12: but I feel like it's just been more of a

1479
01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 12: players saying, not a coach is saying. I feel like

1480
01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:11,639
Speaker 12: the players have been doing better, playing more for each other.

1481
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:15,280
Speaker 12: Uh being unselfish, Uh had nothing to do uh not.

1482
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:17,920
Speaker 12: I I don't wanna say, like not give Joe any credit.

1483
01:14:17,960 --> 01:14:21,680
Speaker 12: He's been doing a great job. But again, Georgey was

1484
01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:23,200
Speaker 12: another guy that I loved, and I feel like did

1485
01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:24,280
Speaker 12: a great job here as well.

1486
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 4: I feel like some of the things are on us.

1487
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:27,640
Speaker 12: I can go all the way back to when I

1488
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:30,639
Speaker 12: talk about the Denver game.

1489
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:32,280
Speaker 4: We're driving down the field and the ball goes through

1490
01:14:32,280 --> 01:14:32,639
Speaker 4: my hands.

1491
01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:35,639
Speaker 12: I mean, that's a that's a touchdown drive and and

1492
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 12: it was something that I could have done better.

1493
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 4: A lot of us could have done better on that game.

1494
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:41,240
Speaker 4: And there's many.

1495
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:43,880
Speaker 12: Different other thing reasons on why you know, things don't

1496
01:14:43,880 --> 01:14:46,479
Speaker 12: go ourway. I wouldn't just put it on one singular person.

1497
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 3: It's something that might help with SAIFI has in the

1498
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:57,080
Speaker 3: past three weeks? Has it felt more simple?

1499
01:14:57,160 --> 01:14:58,840
Speaker 4: Has keeping playing simple helping you.

1500
01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:00,680
Speaker 14: Guys at all or or out that you look back

1501
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:02,439
Speaker 14: on it that you guys have put it together a

1502
01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:03,600
Speaker 14: couple of good reportances.

1503
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:06,360
Speaker 2: How does that relate? Maybe you can say the simplification.

1504
01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:08,200
Speaker 4: With your brand depend It depends on the week.

1505
01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:10,560
Speaker 12: Some weeks more simpler than others, But it's been the

1506
01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:14,920
Speaker 12: same offense, nothing really too different. We've been running the

1507
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:20,720
Speaker 12: same same offense and you know, just been being a

1508
01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:21,760
Speaker 12: little bit more successful.

1509
01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:28,040
Speaker 2: So cudiy Dallas, I don't believe you haven't had a receiver.

1510
01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:28,840
Speaker 10: That's had fifty.

1511
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:29,599
Speaker 3: Yards at the beginning game.

1512
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 5: What's that like with?

1513
01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:35,439
Speaker 14: Statistically the receivers are not all over, but you're getting

1514
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:37,559
Speaker 14: you're getting the results you want. How do you kind

1515
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:40,680
Speaker 14: of process the different role that this is that you

1516
01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:43,479
Speaker 14: guys have had the last few weeks compared to traditionally

1517
01:15:43,479 --> 01:15:44,320
Speaker 14: with the success.

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01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:45,840
Speaker 12: I mean, you don't want to play a team that

1519
01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:48,760
Speaker 12: can run and pass, and we can do both, so

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01:15:48,880 --> 01:15:50,880
Speaker 12: I feel like it's definitely a strength. It only shows

1521
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:54,000
Speaker 12: strength and that doesn't show any weakness. You have to

1522
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 12: decide which game you're gonna try and stop, and obviously

1523
01:15:56,920 --> 01:16:00,240
Speaker 12: both of them are super successful, so no no problems there.

1524
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:03,160
Speaker 5: All right.

1525
01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:06,800
Speaker 2: That's Gabe Davis addressing the media, kind of intrigued by

1526
01:16:06,800 --> 01:16:09,479
Speaker 2: what he said there at the end, saying it doesn't

1527
01:16:09,479 --> 01:16:11,280
Speaker 2: show any sign of weakness when we show we can

1528
01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:13,559
Speaker 2: run the ball in pass the ball, it's nothing but strength,

1529
01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:15,240
Speaker 2: And I would tend to agree with him. They're a

1530
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:17,760
Speaker 2: lot harder to defend now after what James Cook put

1531
01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:20,840
Speaker 2: on film with the offensive line last week. Break time

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01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:23,040
Speaker 2: for us. When we come back, though, we'll get back

1533
01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:25,519
Speaker 2: to your phone calls. We'll lead off with Harold in Rochester.

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Speaker 2: So if you're holding at eight O three oh five fifty,

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01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:29,479
Speaker 2: stay right where we are. We'll get to you when

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Speaker 2: A three five fifty the number to get on board here.

1542
01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 2: As we have been asking you today, what kind of

1543
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 2: Bills offense do you expect to see Saturday against the Chargers?

1544
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:08,200
Speaker 2: Fresh on the heels of a dominant rushing effort that

1545
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:10,559
Speaker 2: the likes of which had not been seen in quite

1546
01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:14,320
Speaker 2: some time with Buffalo's offense, does it change the dynamic

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01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:16,360
Speaker 2: for you in terms of what offense you expect to

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01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:20,240
Speaker 2: see from Buffalo on Saturday in LA against the Chargers.

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01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:21,639
Speaker 2: You let us know at eight h three zero five

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01:17:21,760 --> 01:17:23,920
Speaker 2: fifty one eight eight eight, five point fifty two, five

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01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:26,600
Speaker 2: point fifty to Harold in Rochester. We go next, what

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01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:27,080
Speaker 2: we got for us?

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01:17:27,080 --> 01:17:30,960
Speaker 15: Harold, Hey, I'd like to give props to two guys

1554
01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 15: that are part of the organization that I don't think

1555
01:17:34,400 --> 01:17:37,000
Speaker 15: enough gets said about these guys, and one is on

1556
01:17:37,040 --> 01:17:40,800
Speaker 15: the offensive line. I know that we've got those two

1557
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:45,640
Speaker 15: pro bawlers out there with Snowman and Morris and the

1558
01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 15: rookie seybol has been playing fantastic and Brown just has

1559
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:52,559
Speaker 15: been amazing this year. But I'd like to give more

1560
01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:55,280
Speaker 15: props to Connor McGovern. I think that guy's been playing

1561
01:17:55,280 --> 01:17:59,160
Speaker 15: fantastic and I wish the Bills would have given him

1562
01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:01,800
Speaker 15: a game ball after this last game, not only because

1563
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 15: the offensive line played so great, but because he helped

1564
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 15: the Bills beat his former team in the Dallas Cowboys

1565
01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:11,920
Speaker 15: that he played for just last year. And he's always

1566
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:15,639
Speaker 15: in those snowplows pushing the guys down the field. So

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01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:18,240
Speaker 15: I'd like to get some props to Connor and the

1568
01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 15: other guy I don't even know his name, but he's

1569
01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:25,000
Speaker 15: part of our special teams and he's the guy that

1570
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:28,960
Speaker 15: runs out on the field after Bassive kickoffs and gets

1571
01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:34,479
Speaker 15: that team because he runs with intensity and speed out

1572
01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 15: there and he must have just been exhausted after the

1573
01:18:37,120 --> 01:18:39,040
Speaker 15: Dallas Cowboy games with how many teas he had to

1574
01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:42,040
Speaker 15: go out and retrieve after those kickoffs. But yeah, you

1575
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 15: guys can tell me a little bit about how you

1576
01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:47,800
Speaker 15: think Connor's playing this year and who exactly that guy

1577
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 15: is that yeah gets those teas.

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01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:51,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, no problem, Harold. The guy that runs down and

1579
01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:53,640
Speaker 2: gets a kicking tea is our coworker, Ryan Moore. He

1580
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:57,879
Speaker 2: works in Football Ops and he wears probably about seventeen

1581
01:18:57,880 --> 01:19:01,040
Speaker 2: to eighteen hats with all the things that he does

1582
01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 2: for the operations department. That's one of the many. And

1583
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:09,720
Speaker 2: he runs out there as fast as he can and

1584
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:11,799
Speaker 2: gets back off the field as fast as he can.

1585
01:19:12,520 --> 01:19:14,840
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's Ryan Moore. He's our coworker up in

1586
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:18,880
Speaker 2: Football Ops. And as you see, he hustles every single

1587
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:22,720
Speaker 2: week and does that home and away. So that's that

1588
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:25,080
Speaker 2: you want to speak to Connor McGovern in the season

1589
01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:26,840
Speaker 2: he's put together in his first year in a building.

1590
01:19:26,960 --> 01:19:29,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, we thought we got you know, at the end

1591
01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:32,200
Speaker 3: of last season. We all know it was a big

1592
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:34,760
Speaker 3: narrative and we were part of it that you know,

1593
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 3: they needed to get bigger up inside. They were getting

1594
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:41,200
Speaker 3: a little overpowered. The pass rush was pushing the offensive

1595
01:19:41,240 --> 01:19:43,760
Speaker 3: line back into Josh's lap a little too easily, a

1596
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:47,639
Speaker 3: little too frequently, and they weren't powerful enough or athletic

1597
01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:49,280
Speaker 3: enough in the run game to get to the second

1598
01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:51,599
Speaker 3: level on double teams. So what they do. They signed

1599
01:19:51,600 --> 01:19:53,600
Speaker 3: The biggest contract they gave out in free agency was

1600
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:57,000
Speaker 3: to a guard, and which is not a sexy thing, right,

1601
01:19:57,040 --> 01:19:59,240
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, nobody's gonna sit up in bed

1602
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:01,400
Speaker 3: and going, oh my god, we got Terrell Owens, right,

1603
01:20:01,479 --> 01:20:04,960
Speaker 3: I mean, no Connor McGovern, which one the one that

1604
01:20:05,040 --> 01:20:07,120
Speaker 3: plays for the Jets or who's the other one?

1605
01:20:07,200 --> 01:20:07,360
Speaker 2: Right?

1606
01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:09,320
Speaker 3: So it was kind of like that vibe, like who

1607
01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:10,040
Speaker 3: is this guy?

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01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 10: Yeah?

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01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:15,040
Speaker 3: And then they draft Osiris Torrence, So they doubled down

1610
01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 3: on their desire to beef up their offensive line. Now,

1611
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:22,680
Speaker 3: and you're right, Connor McGovern has earned every cent of

1612
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:28,320
Speaker 3: that contract. He has been awesome. Also, one of the

1613
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:32,240
Speaker 3: things that is a characteristic of this offensive line is

1614
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 3: that all five of those guys have lined up for

1615
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:36,720
Speaker 3: every snap until the game was over, and then they

1616
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 3: started letting you know, David Edwards come in and all

1617
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:43,880
Speaker 3: you know, and Bates came in, and vandermart came in.

1618
01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:46,880
Speaker 3: They replaced guys, they sat them down because they were

1619
01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:50,920
Speaker 3: so good. Those guys have taken every single snap that

1620
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 3: was meaningful of this team this season, and that is

1621
01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:59,080
Speaker 3: as big a deal as anything they got. They got together,

1622
01:20:59,080 --> 01:21:02,080
Speaker 3: they gelled, and then they didn't move. Those five guys

1623
01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:06,920
Speaker 3: have been constance upfront and that really helps. So yeah,

1624
01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:08,679
Speaker 3: all of that is in there. I think the Bills

1625
01:21:08,720 --> 01:21:11,400
Speaker 3: offensive line, you'd be hard pressed to go back, even

1626
01:21:11,439 --> 01:21:13,640
Speaker 3: through the long history of the club and find a

1627
01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:16,240
Speaker 3: better You go back to the guys that Thurma and

1628
01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:18,479
Speaker 3: I were talking about in the nineties, you go back

1629
01:21:18,479 --> 01:21:23,120
Speaker 3: to the Electric Company. This offensive line has been outstanding

1630
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:25,280
Speaker 3: this year. We talked about it for the last couple

1631
01:21:25,320 --> 01:21:28,000
Speaker 3: of weeks because we've been noticing it. But now I

1632
01:21:28,040 --> 01:21:31,280
Speaker 3: think after it came like Dallas, I mean, you got

1633
01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:33,519
Speaker 3: to be a dope not to think that they're playing

1634
01:21:33,560 --> 01:21:34,320
Speaker 3: extremely well.

1635
01:21:34,680 --> 01:21:39,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I would say this season because you know,

1636
01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:41,600
Speaker 2: I hear coach after every game. I'm sitting there in

1637
01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:47,120
Speaker 2: the postgame press conference, and at least three or four

1638
01:21:47,200 --> 01:21:52,799
Speaker 2: times every season when the Bills would have a loss.

1639
01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:56,720
Speaker 2: A lot of times coach would mention the inability to

1640
01:21:56,800 --> 01:21:59,680
Speaker 2: reset the line of scrimmage on offense as one of

1641
01:21:59,680 --> 01:22:03,599
Speaker 2: the compromising factors in a loss. This year is the

1642
01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:08,320
Speaker 2: fewest times I have heard him use that in as

1643
01:22:08,360 --> 01:22:11,400
Speaker 2: a factor and why the Bills suffered a loss. I

1644
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:14,639
Speaker 2: think maybe once this year. It's the fewest times I've

1645
01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:17,240
Speaker 2: heard him mention they've got to win up front. Why

1646
01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 2: because they are winning upfront more consistently week after week.

1647
01:22:20,760 --> 01:22:22,280
Speaker 2: And you heard Mitch say it when we had him

1648
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:26,680
Speaker 2: in here last segment, because I was curious, like, when

1649
01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:28,400
Speaker 2: did you guys really kind of feel like you got

1650
01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 2: all the kinks out and you're operating at your most

1651
01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:34,840
Speaker 2: consistent fashion. And he said it, ironically, it was the

1652
01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:36,559
Speaker 2: Denver game. They ran for one hundred and ninety two

1653
01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:40,360
Speaker 2: yards in that game. Now, that wasn't the best run

1654
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:44,080
Speaker 2: front in the league by any means, but the production

1655
01:22:44,280 --> 01:22:46,400
Speaker 2: and the execution was such that they felt, you know what,

1656
01:22:46,439 --> 01:22:49,360
Speaker 2: we finally got this thing humming. Now let's keep it going.

1657
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:53,400
Speaker 2: And that was really the start of James Cook's one

1658
01:22:53,479 --> 01:22:56,799
Speaker 2: hundred total yards from scrimmage streak, which has now reached

1659
01:22:56,840 --> 01:22:57,519
Speaker 2: five games.

1660
01:22:57,640 --> 01:22:59,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you think about it too. It's ten weeks

1661
01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:00,960
Speaker 3: into the season and you think, wow, it took a

1662
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:04,400
Speaker 3: long time for him to come together. Well, you know,

1663
01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:07,559
Speaker 3: that's like a full season for o Cyrus Torrance in college.

1664
01:23:07,560 --> 01:23:09,400
Speaker 3: I mean, he just put in a full season in

1665
01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:15,080
Speaker 3: the pros. He got settled down, Spencer Brown was plugged

1666
01:23:15,080 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 3: in and stayed in for ten you know, as healthy, healthy,

1667
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:21,880
Speaker 3: and all of that stuff kind of came together right then.

1668
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:23,760
Speaker 3: Plus the matchups and all of that. And you know

1669
01:23:23,880 --> 01:23:26,240
Speaker 3: early in the season, you're playing the Bengals and the

1670
01:23:26,280 --> 01:23:29,599
Speaker 3: bronc and the Bengals, the Broncos, you know, Patriots, Giants all.

1671
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:32,679
Speaker 3: You know, it's not it's not kind of the schedule

1672
01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:35,000
Speaker 3: that would and this wasn't the team with Josh and

1673
01:23:35,040 --> 01:23:36,840
Speaker 3: Diggs and all those guys that's going to go out

1674
01:23:36,880 --> 01:23:39,599
Speaker 3: and hand it off thirty five times. So they got

1675
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:42,160
Speaker 3: into a game, and it's unusual to have an offensive

1676
01:23:42,160 --> 01:23:47,720
Speaker 3: play caller with an elite quarterback run that call those

1677
01:23:47,720 --> 01:23:54,120
Speaker 3: plays period. Mitch alluded to it a little bit. You

1678
01:23:54,240 --> 01:23:57,800
Speaker 3: got to you gotta have a big brassy set of

1679
01:23:57,840 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 3: courage to call run after run after run after run.

1680
01:24:01,520 --> 01:24:04,439
Speaker 3: When he got Diggs and Allen on the field out there.

1681
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:08,479
Speaker 3: I mean how I mean, that's hard to it sounds like, oh,

1682
01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:11,960
Speaker 3: you just gotta do it, No, you gotta let you

1683
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:16,640
Speaker 3: gotta let Josh Cook, right, I mean, it's it. It

1684
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:21,559
Speaker 3: takes some discipline and kudos to Joe Brady for just

1685
01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:22,439
Speaker 3: keep doing it.

1686
01:24:22,479 --> 01:24:22,679
Speaker 2: Man.

1687
01:24:22,720 --> 01:24:23,080
Speaker 10: That was.

1688
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:26,920
Speaker 3: The more I think about it, the more that's maybe

1689
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:29,160
Speaker 3: the most amazing part about the whole deal, because you've

1690
01:24:29,160 --> 01:24:31,200
Speaker 3: got an offensive coordinator and then think about it, Joe

1691
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:33,639
Speaker 3: Brady's trying to He's trying to, like, you know, splash

1692
01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:37,760
Speaker 3: a little bit right, Let me do this hop the back,

1693
01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:39,920
Speaker 3: let me let me run James Cook in motion, let

1694
01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:42,200
Speaker 3: me try and get the fine new and innovative ways

1695
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:44,960
Speaker 3: to get Dalton Kincaid and Steph Diggs, you know what

1696
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:47,439
Speaker 3: I mean. But then to just sit there and say,

1697
01:24:47,520 --> 01:24:50,479
Speaker 3: Josh isn't handed to number four please? You know that's

1698
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:53,679
Speaker 3: it's pretty significant ability.

1699
01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:56,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say the other thing that is a

1700
01:24:56,960 --> 01:25:02,080
Speaker 2: feather in the cap of the offensive line collectively number one.

1701
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:07,519
Speaker 2: They lead the league in sack percentage allowed, fewer sacks allowed, essentially.

1702
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:10,920
Speaker 2: I realize Josh's mobility has something to do with that.

1703
01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:13,800
Speaker 2: But on the whole, this has been a good pass

1704
01:25:13,840 --> 01:25:17,680
Speaker 2: pro unit, even at times when Josh has had to

1705
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:20,480
Speaker 2: hold the ball longer because a lack of separation downfielder

1706
01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:23,960
Speaker 2: would have you. And then the other one is, and

1707
01:25:24,040 --> 01:25:27,680
Speaker 2: this speaks to the guards directly, is the integrity of

1708
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:31,160
Speaker 2: the pocket has been very consistent through the course of

1709
01:25:31,200 --> 01:25:35,000
Speaker 2: the season. And if you remember in years past, even

1710
01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:39,439
Speaker 2: last year, there weren't many times where Josh could just

1711
01:25:39,520 --> 01:25:42,320
Speaker 2: sit in there and then step up and deliver the

1712
01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:44,720
Speaker 2: football like step into a throw if he hung in

1713
01:25:44,760 --> 01:25:47,720
Speaker 2: the pocket. And this year I can count on more

1714
01:25:47,760 --> 01:25:51,679
Speaker 2: than two hands how many times laid in the down

1715
01:25:52,720 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 2: the pocket is. The integrity of the pocket is still there,

1716
01:25:55,439 --> 01:25:57,800
Speaker 2: and Josh has been able to still step into a

1717
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:01,840
Speaker 2: throw while staying in the hocket. And you could not

1718
01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:05,280
Speaker 2: say that very often last year. You can now, and

1719
01:26:05,360 --> 01:26:10,120
Speaker 2: it's due in large part to McGovern, Morse and Torrents

1720
01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:12,760
Speaker 2: in the center of that group. I mean, the edge

1721
01:26:12,760 --> 01:26:14,479
Speaker 2: guys have been great, don't get me wrong, but those

1722
01:26:14,520 --> 01:26:17,439
Speaker 2: three guys, that's where we've seen the biggest step up

1723
01:26:17,920 --> 01:26:20,960
Speaker 2: in offensive line play this season. Got to take a

1724
01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:22,880
Speaker 2: break when we come back. Some final thoughts on the

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Speaker 2: All Right, some final thoughts on the tweet sheet here

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Speaker 2: on one Bills Live. In terms of what type of

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Speaker 2: offense you're expecting to see Saturday from the Bills against

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01:26:47,120 --> 01:26:51,240
Speaker 2: the Chargers in light of their gigantic ground game output

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Speaker 2: last week against the Cowboys, Emily says, I think we'll

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01:26:54,240 --> 01:26:56,040
Speaker 2: see more of the run game mixed with play action,

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01:26:56,200 --> 01:26:58,719
Speaker 2: more of Josh passing, but still dominating as we've seen

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Speaker 2: the past two games. Bill's News Consolidated says, I see

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Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bill's identity being a chameleon type, meaning that

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Speaker 2: they will stick with what works best. Reflecting on last week,

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Speaker 2: the Raiders were able to pass the ball effectively against

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Speaker 2: the Chargers. Therefore, I think Buffalo will prevail by passing it.

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Speaker 2: Garvey says, I envision a Josh Allen twenty three of

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01:27:21,479 --> 01:27:23,640
Speaker 2: twenty five passing game with three hundred plus yards and

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Speaker 2: three touchdowns. Keep him under center and use the play

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01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:29,120
Speaker 2: action game on top of a mix of runs with

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Speaker 2: Cook and Johnson. There will be a couple of shot

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01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:34,960
Speaker 2: plays that open up. As we told you earlier in

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Speaker 2: the show, Charges have given up the third most pass

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01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:42,280
Speaker 2: plays of twenty yards or more fifty six on the season,

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Speaker 2: eleven of which have gone for touchdowns. Ed Lee says,

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Speaker 2: mix of ball control and shot plays. Brady will dial

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Speaker 2: it up on a few big bombs. We haven't seen

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Speaker 2: a lot of We have not test the defense deep shots.

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Speaker 3: We have not done that. We have not seen that

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Speaker 3: much at all.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: Certainly the touchdown in Kansas City to James Cook was

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01:28:01,160 --> 01:28:03,800
Speaker 3: a shot play. It was a shorter throw the wheel route.

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Speaker 3: It was up up the seam inside.

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Speaker 2: The numbers yet.

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Speaker 3: And then had the wheel route as well, and that

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Speaker 3: wheel route came open in Philly as well. It was

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Speaker 3: going to be a touchdown and James Cook dropped it.

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Speaker 3: So you know, there have been some plays dialed up

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Speaker 3: and a couple of them have hit. But the shot

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Speaker 3: plays and the big plays the Bills have had have

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Speaker 3: been short passes to James Cook and turned him into

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Speaker 3: a long run, turning up the field. That's why he's

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Speaker 3: so dangerous.

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Speaker 2: Bill's Mafia says, I think the offense will feel inevitable.

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Speaker 2: Not sure what that means, slowly chipping away, but just

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Speaker 2: knowing that we're going to pull away as the game

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Speaker 2: goes on, Okay, I see, I get it now. I

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Speaker 2: bet we see Diggs come back alive as well. He

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01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:44,920
Speaker 2: tends to have a mid season lull, then refires going

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Speaker 2: into the end of the season. Steve mentioned this earlier

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Speaker 2: in the show when we had thurmanon. All of this

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Speaker 2: production from Cook forces defenses to shift their focus and

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Speaker 2: that could spell opportunity for Diggs. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. And one of the things about Digs the narrative

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Speaker 3: coming in and remember this brand we talked about a

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Speaker 3: lot was run after catch. We thought Kincaid was going

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01:29:02,320 --> 01:29:04,320
Speaker 3: to really help in that. Now actually it's James Cook

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Speaker 3: who's really doing it. We've seen Steph Diggs improve his

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Speaker 3: abilities there, so I think that's as big as anything.

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Speaker 3: Just get the completion to let the guys make a

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Speaker 3: play has been a big part of this offense, and

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Speaker 3: we'll see if it can continue.

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Speaker 2: Bob says, expecting pain full and complete domination. Will we

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Speaker 2: get that?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: This season's been full of surprise as disappointment and well

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Speaker 2: cuite frankly shock. But I see Josh having a day

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Speaker 2: Steve and I We'll see you tomorrow at one pm.