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Speaker 1: These one Bills Live presented by called Light to Health.

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday. How you be. It's a home game weekend

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Speaker 1: for your Buffalo Bills. It feels like it's been a

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Speaker 1: month since this team has played at High Mark Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, it has been. It's been on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: It will be a day shy of three weeks, so

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Speaker 1: it's almost a month and it certainly feels longer. But

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Speaker 1: so glad for the team to be home in front

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Speaker 1: of their fans here in week five against the Stillers.

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Speaker 1: and Steve. Looks like it's gonna be a good weather

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Speaker 1: day for the most part. Might be cloudy, but fifty

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Speaker 1: seven fifty eight degrees doesn't look like there's any pre sip,

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Speaker 1: so that's good. But it looks like the Bills will

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Speaker 1: also be without some starters and coach McDermott addressing the

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Speaker 1: media this morning and also was on g R five

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Speaker 1: fifty earlier today and basically ruled out of Sunday's game.

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Speaker 1: Christian Benford, which was expected, Jake Kumero, which was expected

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Speaker 1: but then Dawson Knox and Jordan Poyer they're out as

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Speaker 1: well for Sunday's game, which means in the secondary you

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Speaker 1: will have again the combination of Jaquan Johnson and Damar Hamlin,

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Speaker 1: who line up together back in Week three against the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins when both starting safeties were missing. Payers dealing with

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Speaker 1: a rim injury. Dawson Knox has multiple injuries that he's

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Speaker 1: dealing with, bumps and bruises and all kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Neither of those guys have practiced this week, so you

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Speaker 1: know they'll be without them and going into the weekend.

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Speaker 1: There are still other question marks, most notably Tremaine Edmunds,

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Speaker 1: who was again watching practice today right at the end

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Speaker 1: of the media viewing portion in a sweatshirt there on

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Speaker 1: the left for our viewers at home watching on MSG right,

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Speaker 1: and Payers in there also in a sweatsuit. They're wearing

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Speaker 1: baseball hats, not helmets right now. Isaiah McKenzie has not

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Speaker 1: yet been ruled out for Sunday. As of this morning.

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Speaker 1: He was still in the concussion protocol. Yesterday at practice

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Speaker 1: he was wearing the red non contact jersey today practicing

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Speaker 1: today's practice, so we'll see if that moves him a

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Speaker 1: the earliest, we'll find out if he's a possibility for

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Speaker 1: Sunday when the Friday injury report comes out in a

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Speaker 1: as questionable, we'll probably not know until game day at

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Speaker 1: the latest, obviously if he has cleared the concussion protocol,

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Speaker 1: because that's where he is at this point in time.

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Speaker 1: If he's up, they have four healthy receivers, relatively speaking.

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Speaker 1: If he's down, they're down to Diggs, Davis and Shakier.

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Speaker 1: And in that case, you would have to call up

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Speaker 1: a practice squad wide receiver, whether that's Tanner, Gentry, Isaiah Hodgens,

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Speaker 1: an elevation just because he just got here. You're not

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Speaker 1: So I would say it's down to Gentry and Hodgens.

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Speaker 1: And the interesting thing about that decision, Steve, is how

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Speaker 1: of fits more of what Kumero does on special teams specifically, right,

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Speaker 1: he covers kicks and maybe Hodgins does on offense. Hodgen

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if Tanard Entry is any different.

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Speaker 1: It's a problem. Yeah, the fifth wide receiver spot this week.

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Speaker 1: If if Mackenzie's gone, if McKenzie doesn't activate, it's a problem.

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Speaker 1: Well then you might have to call it both of

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Speaker 1: You're cooked, and you get really which is exactly what

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Speaker 1: playbook becomes truncated to a great degree. Well, you're asking

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Speaker 1: I'm still convinced if he's running that play that Zack

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Speaker 1: offensive set personnel combination. You go to two backs and

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Speaker 1: he would love the opportunity, you know that, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: bad happens to him, right, So he's ready to shake

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Speaker 1: it may be. You know, they they've always been big.

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Speaker 1: And we've talked about a lot on getting these guys

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Speaker 1: come and that means you're not gonna do any of that

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Speaker 1: We're talking about stuff like this week four, Week five

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Speaker 1: of Osteopathic Medicine. I think it's safe to say, Steve

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Speaker 1: that Khalil Shaker is going to have his biggest role

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Speaker 1: I said, he seems wise beyond his years. There seems

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Speaker 1: and he and when he did get his opportunity, bigger

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Speaker 1: big way for him, no question about it. It It made

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Speaker 1: the of the sideline are very comfortable with Khalil Shakir. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But Bill's Mafia was very quick to bring up the

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Speaker 1: October almost to the day. Steve the October eleventh, two

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Speaker 1: thousand and nine tilts between the Bills and the Browns that,

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Speaker 1: by most accounts for those of us who witnessed it

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Speaker 1: in person, set football back forty years. The game ended

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Speaker 1: six to three after Roscoe Parish muffed a punt, turned

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Speaker 1: it over, and it led to the game winning field goal.

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Speaker 1: There were sixteen punts in that game. I gotta look

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Speaker 1: it up. How many punts were there last night? Let

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Speaker 1: me check. I'll check. I'm very curious as to to

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Speaker 1: see if they beat that game's record for punts in

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Speaker 1: a game, Because that you beat sixteen punts in a game,

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Speaker 1: you're you're doing something extraordinarily special. So I'm gonna look

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Speaker 1: it up right now. I'm gonna get to page two.

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Speaker 1: Final stats. Five punts for Weightman, seven for Hawk. Ah,

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Speaker 1: twelve punts. That's nothing. Ye had sixteen punts in the

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Speaker 1: Bills Brown six to three game in two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 1: They even touch it. Matt Hawk punted for the Broncos

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Speaker 1: last night, and he no the Colts right, the Colts.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Yeah, he punted seven times. The Bills have

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Speaker 1: punted seven times all season all season. Whoo, who I'm

445
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: telling you man? It Uh. People were like, this is

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Speaker 1: setting football back at least twenty years. I said, oh,

447
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Speaker 1: you didn't see the two thousand and nine game between

448
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Speaker 1: the Bills and the Browns, so that that was something

449
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Speaker 1: else for sure. Got a chock full roster here on

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Speaker 1: today's show. Coming up in about five to six minutes time,

451
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Speaker 1: we're gonna check in with resident Bills Mafia member Ariel Helwani,

452
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Speaker 1: who many people know from you know, the UFC world

453
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: and you know his journalism on that side of things.

454
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Speaker 1: But he is a lifelong Bills fan and he is

455
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Speaker 1: going Steve to his first Bills home game ever here

456
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Speaker 1: at Highmark Stadium on Sundays. We're gonna catch up with

457
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Speaker 1: him see just how pumped he is. Then, coming up

458
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: just before the second hour of the show, probably about

459
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:04,959
Speaker 1: a half hour from now, we'll check in with our

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Speaker 1: good friend Eric Wood because he is this week's legend

461
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: of the game. There you go, so we'll check in

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Speaker 1: with him. He's also got a new book out. We

463
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: want to talk to him about that. And he's got

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Speaker 1: his annual Flights and Bites fundraising event coming up on Monday,

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Speaker 1: so we'll check in with him on all of that,

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Speaker 1: and then, as always, on Friday, Steve ba from NFL

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Speaker 1: Film Senior Producer Greg Kosell to dive into the xs

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Speaker 1: and os for this matchup. I got a couple of

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Speaker 1: interesting questions I do want to ask him all of that,

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Speaker 1: plus the OBL Friday fan mail bag is open for

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Speaker 1: your most pressing questions on the Bills and the NFL.

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Speaker 1: We will step aside here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: it's Ariel hell Wanting joining us here on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Klata ELF. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to One Bill's Live. Christ Brown, Steve Tasker

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00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: with you, and join now by sports journalist and lifelong

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Speaker 1: Bill's fan Ariel Helwani, who is attending his first ever

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Speaker 1: Bills home game at high Mark Stadium Sunday at one Aril.

479
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 1: Do you have the chicken skin yet? Oh my god,

480
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: I wish you guys can feel my palms right now,

481
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 1: how sweaty they are. First of all, it is such

482
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: an honor to be on with you guys as you

483
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: just said. I'm a lifelong fan since nineteen ninety I

484
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: have lived vicariously through what you guys do. Steve, I

485
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: can't believe I'm talking to you right now, number eighty nine.

486
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: I have prayed for you. I have tried to will

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Speaker 1: you to the end zone. I've tried to will you

488
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: to victory throughout your entire career. You're one of my

489
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: favorite players of all time. And yes, on Sunday, for

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Speaker 1: the first time in my life, I can't believe, at

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Speaker 1: thirty two years since I first became a fan, I

492
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: will be attending a Bills home game. I've been to

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Speaker 1: some games on the road, this time at home Orchard Park.

494
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: My wife said to me when I turned forty in July,

495
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Speaker 1: what do you want to do for your fortieth I said,

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Speaker 1: I just want one thing. I want to go to

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Speaker 1: Orchard Park. And thank you so much to Kelsey's Suite

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00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills who made this happen for me.

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Speaker 1: I can't thank her enough. She's an absolute mention of

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Speaker 1: a human being, salt of the earth, and I will

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00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: never forget what she has done for me and my

502
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: family tell me this, why is this? Yeah, she is

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Speaker 1: She's great. Why is it that this is your first one?

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00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 1: What has kept you from coming here in the past.

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00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: We're like, where do you make your home? Is it

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Speaker 1: like in Timbuctoo or no? Actually, I'm from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I fell in love with you guys.

508
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: So we weren't that far away. And back in the day,

509
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: as you know, we didn't have red zone and all

510
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: these things. So the NBC Game of the week was

511
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,719
Speaker 1: always the Bills in Canada, especially you know, Eastern Canada.

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Speaker 1: And so I fell in love with you guys. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I went to university, I went to Syracuse.

514
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: I wasn't that far away, but I've never been. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of one of those fans who likes to

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Speaker 1: stay home and be on his couch and whatnot. But

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Speaker 1: when I turned forty, I felt like, you know, I

518
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Speaker 1: need to start doing these things. You only live once,

519
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: right yolo, as they say, And what better time than now?

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Speaker 1: And let's be honest, we haven't won a Super Bowl

521
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: and I thought, you know what, maybe I need to

522
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Speaker 1: go there to get us over the hump and watch

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Speaker 1: what happens after this game on Sunday. We're running the table.

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Speaker 1: We're winning the Super Bowl and everyone will thank me,

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Speaker 1: and I'll have to be there every season from here

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Speaker 1: on out. We'll take it. We'll take any good mojo

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Speaker 1: we can get. Um, what investigating have you you know,

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Speaker 1: being a journalist, what kind of investigating have you done

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Speaker 1: in terms of what you should expect coming here? I

530
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Speaker 1: imagine you've probably reached out to Bill's mafia members here

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Speaker 1: and there that have been to home games. What have

532
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Speaker 1: you learned or what are you what are you expecting

533
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: on Sunday? I don't even know what to expect because

534
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Speaker 1: I've heard all the tremendous stories. I'm bringing my three

535
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Speaker 1: children's emotional get a little for clemsons. I'm bringing my children,

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Speaker 1: all right, excuse me, get a swig of water real quick. Well,

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Speaker 1: this is emotion, No, that's it's the truth. Because I

538
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: love this team so much and this is such a

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00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: big deal for me. So you know, there's a guy

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Speaker 1: that I know named Mark Henry who's a huge lifelong

541
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Speaker 1: Bills fan. He's a very famous MMA coach and he

542
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: loves the Bills a thousand times more than I do.

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00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: And he's been to a bunch of games over the years,

544
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: he lives in New Jersey's one of the best mixed

545
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Speaker 1: martial arts coaches in the sport. He has told me

546
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Speaker 1: a lot about what to expect. I picked his brain.

547
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: He's a very good friend of mine, him and his

548
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: son Pinos. So I just can't wait to be a

549
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: part of it. It really means a lot to me.

550
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how much this team has meant

551
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: to me. I grew up in a household guys of

552
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans, so you can imagine what the early nineties

553
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: were like for me, and so now to see us

554
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: on top and doing so well, to see the team

555
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: doing so well, it really does mean a lot. And

556
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: one of you, this team has such high expectations it

557
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: makes it eat And I'm with you and I we

558
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: had a conversation yesterday, Brownie and I. This is the

559
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Speaker 1: year where my family wants to come up and see games,

560
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: and you kind of this year is really a perfect

561
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: time for your kid. Now are you are you grooming

562
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: your children to enjoy the bills? Are you gonna let

563
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: them have their own choice, to let them pick their

564
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,959
Speaker 1: own to know? Absolutely not, There is no discussion. They

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00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: are Bills fans. Early on, my brother who has older kids,

566
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: tried to convert them very early on into Cowboys fans.

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Speaker 1: I said, this is not happening. For once, I'm going

568
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Speaker 1: to be surrounded by Bills fans. And I have to

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Speaker 1: tell you, I get chills talking about it because my

570
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Speaker 1: middle son, his name is Walter. He's eight years old.

571
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: He really is a lot like me, and he kind

572
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: of fell in love with the Bills before his older

573
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Speaker 1: brother Oliver, who's ten. And last year he has a

574
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Speaker 1: step on Digg's jersey. And last January, you know, I

575
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: stayed up. I was obviously watching the Chiefs game, and

576
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: he had to go to bed because it was late

577
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: Sunday night. And I'll never forget. It's one of the

578
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Speaker 1: greatest and worst memories of my young life because he

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Speaker 1: snuck out of bed and came down to watch the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter with me. And again I get emotional because

581
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Speaker 1: when they scored with eighteen seconds left, I hugged them

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Speaker 1: and I started crying, and I knew in my heart

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Speaker 1: they win that game, They're winning the Super Bowl. I

584
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: will believe that till the day I die. They are

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Speaker 1: winning the super Bowl if they win that game. And

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Speaker 1: I told them Walter watched this right now, we are

587
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Speaker 1: about to win the super Bowl. This is the moment

588
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Speaker 1: that I've been waiting for. And then, as you know,

589
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: heartbreak afterwards, and he just left the room and I

590
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: didn't move for two hours. And hopefully one day we'll

591
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: get to celebrate that Super Bowl together. There's nothing more

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Speaker 1: that I want to see happen. Yeah, tears of joy

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00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: followed by tears of a different kind very quickly, and

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Speaker 1: a very short turnaround. I wanted to have a little

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Speaker 1: fun with you on this, Ariel. So I think everybody

596
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: call you know believes Josh Allen is a unicorn type player.

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Speaker 1: Knowing the MMA journalistic background you have. If you had

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Speaker 1: to compare Josh Allen and his skill set to an

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Speaker 1: MMA fighter, who would you pick from those ranks that

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Speaker 1: best exemplifies what Josh Allen does on a football field.

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Speaker 1: That is a tremendous question. And he is a unicorn

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00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,239
Speaker 1: and I love that man, and I would run through

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Speaker 1: a wall for him, and I will defend him till

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Speaker 1: the day I die. I am so proud that he's

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Speaker 1: our quarterback. The name that comes to mind is probably

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Speaker 1: the Pride of Endicott, New York. Now I want to

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00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: say they are nothing alike when it comes to their personality,

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Speaker 1: but in terms of their skill set, he reminds me

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Speaker 1: a lot of John Bones Jones, a long time UFC

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Speaker 1: Light heavyweight champion, because this man has the size, but

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00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: he has clearly the speed, he has the tools, and

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00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: he does things that we've never seen someone in his

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Speaker 1: position do before. I mean, every time he runs, especially

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Speaker 1: late in the game when the game is you know,

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00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: pretty much done, I hold my breath because he just

616
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: doesn't care. He puts his body on the line. You

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00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: see him stiff arming, you see him running. I mean,

618
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 1: you're seeing the highlights here. He just does not care.

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Speaker 1: He is the type of leader that you want on

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Speaker 1: your team, especially as QB one and John was kind

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Speaker 1: of you know when he came into the UFC around

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Speaker 1: twelve years ago. He was this sort of larger than

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Speaker 1: life character, this this athlete that we had never quite

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Speaker 1: seen before doing things inside the octagon that we have

625
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Speaker 1: never seen before. And Josh is doing the same stuff now.

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Speaker 1: And I really do believe he is only scratching the surface.

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Speaker 1: I really strongly believe that he's going to go down

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Speaker 1: one of the all time grades as a multiple Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl champion. And I just can't wait for that first one.

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Speaker 1: That first one is going to be so special, and

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Speaker 1: I suspect it's going to happen in February. Dere I say.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, can I tell you guys, the

633
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Speaker 1: first time, you know, I worked in television. I'm a journalist.

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Speaker 1: The first time I was ever on TV in any way,

635
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Speaker 1: shape or form, I called into this show. Now, it

636
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: wasn't known as One Bills Live back then, but it

637
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: was nineteen ninety five. I had MSG plus on our

638
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 1: satellite dish back home in Montreal, and Ruben Brown was

639
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: in his rookie year and I called up to ask

640
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: Ruben Brown a question. I recorded it on a VHS

641
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: tape and I played it over and over again. And

642
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: that was the very first time that I was ever

643
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: on TV in any way, shape or form. I was

644
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,959
Speaker 1: in the eighth grade and I spoke to I believe

645
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 1: number seventy nine, the rookie Ruben Brown, and I was

646
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: over the moon that you guys took my call and

647
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 1: I got to speak to one of the Bills players.

648
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: One of amazing for me all these years later. Yeah,

649
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: I want to say that was Budweis Sports Line with

650
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 1: Paul McGuire. Probably it might have been sports. Yeah, it

651
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: might have been Yeah, that's uh, yeah, you're you're a goner.

652
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: That's awesome. What is Zoe? You're coming your first get

653
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: what is coming in from you? You know? But you

654
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: know you're a Bill's Mafia member, You're a fan of

655
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: the team. You've heard all this stuff. What does a

656
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: must do for you when you come to Buffalo for

657
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: this game? What do you what do you really want

658
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,879
Speaker 1: to do before the game? Out in the parking lots

659
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: that What do you want to see? Who do you

660
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,399
Speaker 1: want to see? Who do you want to meet? Well,

661
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: my favorite of all time is number thirty four. If

662
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: I could shake that man's hand, I would probably faint.

663
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: I love him dearly. It was him and Bruce Smith

664
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: for me back in the day, and Steve you weren't

665
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: far behind. I loved everything that you did, and I

666
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 1: loved that you were the little guy on the field,

667
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 1: just you know, playing with your heart. It was an

668
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: unbelievable thing to watch you in your prime. Honestly, I'm

669
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: reminded of the scene from Rudy. I'm sure you guys

670
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: have seen it when the dad walks into Notre Dame

671
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,320
Speaker 1: Stadium for the first time, and he says, this is

672
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: the most beautiful thing these eyes have ever seen. I

673
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: suspect it's going to be a scene like that, my friends.

674
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: I suspect I'm going to get emotional, as you can

675
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: tell him. An emotional guy. And I've always dreamed of

676
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: seeing a Bill's game. I was I was watching in

677
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: my basement when when when you made the comeback against

678
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: the Oilers. I watched, you know, every playoff game back

679
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,919
Speaker 1: in the day. My heart was broken when they didn't

680
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: play Doug Flutie in nineteen ninety nine. I still believe

681
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: till this day that we had to pay some sort

682
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: of price for that. We won't get into all of that.

683
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: I've seen them all. I've watched them all, and I

684
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: can't believe that I can actually say on a Friday

685
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 1: that the next Bill's home game is one that I

686
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 1: will be attending. I've never been able to say that before,

687
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 1: and I can't believe I'm two days away from realizing that, Yeah,

688
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: you gotta like you gotta hydrate. Man, You're gonna I

689
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: don't know if you're here, you know you're you're not

690
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: gonna make it to Sun make sure you stay hydrated.

691
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 1: I'm starting to get worried about he's sweating. He's like

692
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: he's ready to go. Give him a helmet. I'm fired up, guys.

693
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,720
Speaker 1: If you need me to to to lead the boys

694
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: on the field, if you need me to fire them up. Now,

695
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 1: they have a great guy leading the charge, Coach McDermott.

696
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: He's unbelievable, mister Bean doing great things the whole. I mean,

697
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: I watch all the clips on the social medi when

698
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: they have those huddles, you know, a pregame, post game, everything.

699
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: I can't get enough of the content. They don't need me,

700
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: but I just want to throw it out there if

701
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: anyone needs me for a little extra umph. And I

702
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 1: think we're going to be fine against the Steelers there

703
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: I say we'd want to be too cocky, but I

704
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: think we'll be okay. If you need me, you know

705
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: my number. I'll do anything. All they need you to

706
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: do is be allowed with the other seventy three thousand

707
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: people that are gonna be Here's always Here's always an

708
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: issue though. If you've been a Bills fan free years,

709
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 1: the problem is this, if they win, do you have

710
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 1: to come to every game from now on? And if

711
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: they lose, can you never come to another one. There's

712
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure. Geez, Louise. I'll tell you what,

713
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 1: if they win, I'll make it a yearly pilgrimage for

714
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,280
Speaker 1: my family and I and and by the way, especially

715
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:42,919
Speaker 1: if they win the Big Daddy, I feel like I'll

716
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: have to come back teach and every year. And you know,

717
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: maybe we could talk about a statue or something like that.

718
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: Let's not get ahead of ourselves, but I would I

719
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: would love to be you know, I would love to

720
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: be there every year. We'll start with one. I'm happy

721
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: to and you know, the new stadium is coming down

722
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 1: the line. I would have I would have hated myself

723
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: forever if I never attended a game, you know, at

724
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: this stadium, at Ralph Wilson Stadium, the way I remember it.

725
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: So this really does mean a lot to me. All Right,

726
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 1: well listen, save yourself, man. We still got two days

727
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: till Sunday kickoff. We're a little bit under forty eight

728
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 1: hours here, so yeah, say, like pace yourself and make

729
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 1: sure you get some good grub in the park. A

730
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,720
Speaker 1: lot people great about you know, sharing food and stuff.

731
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: If you don't have, you know, all you're traveling from

732
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 1: out of town, so it's kind of hard to bring

733
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: your own stuff for your own tailgate. But I'm sure

734
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: you could just walk around and people are more than

735
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: happy to hand you a bite of something or a

736
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: swing of something else. So make sure you soak it

737
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: all in before the game on Sunday. I have a

738
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: great time out there, all right, Thank you so much.

739
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 1: This is a massive honor for me, and Bill's Mafia

740
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: has been so kind. Everyone's been reaching out, inviting me

741
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: and telling me that I should come over and say hello.

742
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,439
Speaker 1: So I just want to soak it all in, and again,

743
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 1: thank you so much to Kelsey Sweet and the Buffalo

744
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: Bills for reaching out and making this happen. You guys

745
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: are the best and I'm so proud to be a

746
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 1: mem of Bills Mafia. Yeah, pleasure to have you, Ariel.

747
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: Enjoy the game on Sunday and make sure you and

748
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: your kids are allowed. Let's do this, baby, and do

749
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: absolutely everything, do all of it. Just don't stop. Ariel hill,

750
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: wanti sports journalist, has done a lot of MMA coverage

751
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: over the years, and that's why I wanted to ask

752
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: him that question, because Josh is so unique, you know,

753
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: as a quarterback in this league. I mean, there are

754
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: some people that are similar to him, but a lot

755
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: of people call him a unicorn. So I was curious, like,

756
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: who's his MMA equivalent? And he went with John Bone Jones,

757
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: you know, from the from the from Endicott. And I

758
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: think John's brother, Arthur Jones, was a defensive lineman for

759
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens. I think I have that right. His

760
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: brother played in the NFL for a while, played for

761
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: the Ravens. I want to say, so kind of cool

762
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: that he picked an MMA fighter who's brother is an

763
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: NFL player. Very cool. Yeah, and it's uh yes, he

764
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 1: I was looking down writing some stuff down. I look

765
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: up and he was like ver clemmed. He was like

766
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: he was getting choked choked up about coming to the game,

767
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,760
Speaker 1: like the other thing too. There and later in the interview,

768
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: because I know our radio listeners can't see this, he's

769
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: wiping the top of his head. Yeah, he looks like

770
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: me after I ate some hot chili. He's sweating exactly.

771
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: He's sweating. I mean, he can't wait. He's ready to

772
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,439
Speaker 1: pop out of his skin. That's amazing. Yeah, it's well,

773
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 1: think about it. It's been a great it's been a

774
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 1: high expect a season full of high expectations. A lot

775
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,720
Speaker 1: of stuff's going on. They've only had two home games

776
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: so far, right, um, no one. They've had one home

777
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: game so far, and it was a night game and on,

778
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 1: so people are starving to get to the stadium. I

779
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: watch these guys play, it's felt like a month. I

780
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: know it's almost it'll be almost three weeks by the

781
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: time we get to Sunday. All right, we got a

782
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: break here because when we come back, we're gonna be

783
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: joined by this week's legend of the game. It is

784
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: our good friend Eric Woods. Had to jump on with

785
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: us next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kelly

786
00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back

787
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve task me with

788
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: you here on a Friday, and joined now by the

789
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: guy who is going to be the legend of the

790
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: game this Sunday when the Bills host the Steelers. Legend

791
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: of the game is presented by the BFLO Store, the

792
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: official retailer of the Buffalo Bills. It is our good

793
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: friend Eric Wood, also Bills Radio color analyst on the

794
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network. Eric hey doing I'm doing great. I'm

795
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,800
Speaker 1: fired up about coming back this weekend and being the

796
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 1: legend of the game. I'm at all the games now

797
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: doing the radio broadcast. It would be fun to be

798
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: the legend of the game, Steve, Do you have any

799
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: tips for me on that? I don't know. I'm no legend.

800
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: I'm I never get asked to do that stuff they

801
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: got I'm too far down the list, bro. You just

802
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: get to do the cool promo videos. That's right, Yes,

803
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: that's because I'm here during the week too, right, he's

804
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: it readily of I'm readily available. We need you to

805
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: smoke a cigar and be here on a Tuesday, you

806
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,280
Speaker 1: got it. I'm sorry, sir, it's a non smoking facility,

807
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: but I would, Yeah, he would, all right. So being

808
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: legend of the game has its added responsibilities, as as

809
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: you have probably undoubtedly learned. Because you're going to be

810
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: making an appearance at the BFLO store on Saturday from

811
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: ten to eleven am. And that's the one up on

812
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: Transit Road, right, yep, I'll be there all right, sweet.

813
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: And then there are there are some giveaways from what

814
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: I understand, like autograph Football's gift cards for the BFLO store.

815
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: You got like giveaways and everything. Do you know if

816
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: you're signing anything or no, I'm not sure. I believe

817
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: that I'll be signing anything that people bring, which earlier

818
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 1: when I was still playing with the Bills, I got

819
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff sent to me when I said

820
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: I would sign anything, including a jockstrap some other stuff

821
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,919
Speaker 1: that people set in the mails. Keep those at home.

822
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: But yes, there will be a signing tomorrow at the

823
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: BFLO store. That's good. And you've got another event that

824
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: I've I've actually been to in the past, the Flights

825
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: and Bites benefiting Oshie Children's Hospital and the Evan Would Fund.

826
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,879
Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about when that's happening. Yeah,

827
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: Monday night, that'll be going down. It is officially sold

828
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 1: out now, so if you haven't got your tickets yet,

829
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 1: then you can join us next year. And for all

830
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 1: those that have supported already, I truly appreciate it, the sponsors,

831
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 1: the people that come out. We just have a blast

832
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 1: every year at that event. And it never see amaze

833
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: me how generous the people of Western New York are

834
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: when it comes to anything that these Buffalo Bills players

835
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: are passionate about. In the community. Awesome. It's good stuff.

836
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: And I know I've been there once and I'm not

837
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: gonna I'm double books, so I can't make it this year.

838
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: But I appreciate you always. You always take the time

839
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 1: to invite some of the old guys, and we really

840
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,399
Speaker 1: appreciate it, and we hope and we should best. It's

841
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: gonna be great Brocheye Children's Hospital in the evan Wood

842
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: fend thanks for doing that, Eric. And this Legends of

843
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: the Game thing that you're gonna be a part of

844
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: this week, when do you like, is this gonna throw

845
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 1: a wrench into your pregame ritual? No? Well, yes, no

846
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 1: in the sense that I'll be there. Are generally on

847
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Speaker 1: there on Saturdays already, so it's all good travel wise

848
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: when it comes to free game and what I normally

849
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 1: do after doing the roundtable on WGR usually I hang

850
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: out for a little bit and then get settled in

851
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: for the broadcast. Murphy, Chris, we may need you a

852
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: little bit. You may need to fill up for me

853
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: in the booth while I'm trying to make my way

854
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: up there. My idea was to get the microphone and

855
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Speaker 1: everything up there, and there's a little platform outside the booth,

856
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: and I could do the announcement from up there and

857
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: everyone direct their attention to the kind of the booth.

858
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: But whether they were worried about me standing up there

859
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: and possibly falling or I don't know, but they're gonna

860
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: try and get me back up to the booth as

861
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: quickly as Polly. They'll just golf cards you up there.

862
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: You'll be up there. You might be you might be

863
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: a little you might be able to do it. Now

864
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: when you were playing you're playing weight. You might had

865
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 1: a hard time standing on that little roof there. It

866
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: might have collapsed. Yeah, I was just gonna say I

867
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Speaker 1: might have went through it all right. And then if

868
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Speaker 1: that's not enough, you also have your new book coming

869
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:19,839
Speaker 1: out Tackle What's Next that's gonna be available? Uh? I mean, man,

870
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: you got the event Monday, You got a book coming

871
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: out Tuesday? You got anything else on the dot? At jeez?

872
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: He where can you? You can get this on Amazon? Right,

873
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 1: you can get on Amazon pre ordering out. I'll get

874
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: to you on Tuesday. And the support for the book's

875
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: been incredible as well. And Sean McDermott did the foreward.

876
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:37,959
Speaker 1: So if you don't want to hear something, I wrote

877
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 1: or read something I wrote in the book, then you can.

878
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Speaker 1: I believe this is the first time Sean mcdermot's been

879
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: in print, and he did a wonderful job with the

880
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: ford from the book, and it chronicles my transition out

881
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: of the NFL, and that really helps you tackle what's

882
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 1: next in your life and use a lot of the

883
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: tools and tricks and tips that podcast guests and mentors

884
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: and friends of mine have given me over the year

885
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: to help you successfully transition. And that's not just big

886
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: transitions like out of pro sports or business or whatever

887
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,919
Speaker 1: it may be. It can simply just help you live

888
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: a more successful, fulfilled life. Yeah, that's good stuff, and

889
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. That'll be fun. You're gonna you're gonna

890
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 1: sign a ton of those, I'm sure over the next

891
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: few years, no question. Yeah, give us a little set.

892
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: We've been talking a little bit about what's happening with

893
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: this Bills game up. Ton of guys are questionable and

894
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: already been decided that they're gonna be out poor year. Knox, Kumero, Benford,

895
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: Poiler and Knox really the ones that kind of headline

896
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: that little group. What do you think about this Steelers game?

897
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,280
Speaker 1: A couple of days away. Yeah, I mean the injuries

898
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: play the key story again like they have ever since

899
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: the Bills got out of the Titans game. So the

900
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: Bills are still nursing injuries and coming back and have

901
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: so many key guys out that kind of wild, you know,

902
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: first time since the merger. The Steelers remain a fourteen

903
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: point underdogs to the Bills, but they have some injuries

904
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: to deal with on their side of the ball, and

905
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that comes down to a

906
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback coming into him Mark Stadium, even without Jordan

907
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: Foyer and a few other defensive starters, that Bills defense

908
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: should eat them up pretty good, you would assume. And

909
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 1: that's the track record that Sean McDermott and Leslie Frazier

910
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 1: have against rookie quarterbacks. And then Eric, you know, I've

911
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: been trying. I'm going to bounce this off Greg Cosell

912
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: when we have them on. But you would seem like

913
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,320
Speaker 1: a Kennedy to answer this too, because we have fans

914
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: asking us questions here on the Friday mail Bag, and

915
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 1: one was asking with the run game and why it

916
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 1: hasn't been able to get on track. They're asking, would

917
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: you say there are schematic differences in the run game

918
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 1: to what they ran last year to what you've seen

919
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: through the first four games. What would be your answer

920
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: to that, Yeah, there's some schematic differences, and I you know,

921
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 1: I think that I know that the Bills are are

922
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 1: a passing team. They want an effective run game. Though

923
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: they to rush from the ball for over four and

924
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: a half yards to carry. They would love to have

925
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: five yards to carry on average when they run the football,

926
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: as does everyone else in the league. And you know

927
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Speaker 1: the way the Bills throw the ball, in the amount

928
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Speaker 1: they throw the ball, it takes an offensive line time

929
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: to gel. We saw it last year those last five

930
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:18,799
Speaker 1: or six games of the season, the run game came

931
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Speaker 1: alive in particular. Devin Singletary. I think before long you'll

932
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 1: see this Bill's offense find some footing in the run game,

933
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: just identifying what the strength of this offensive line are

934
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: going to be. And you have a couple of new

935
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: starters up there, and people have been banged up throughout

936
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Speaker 1: the year. And as the offensive line continues to gel

937
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:40,240
Speaker 1: and the running back get used to some different schematic things,

938
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Speaker 1: I believe the run game will improve with that. Do

939
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: you think it's just it's always gonna be this way.

940
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 1: As long as you've got a guy like Josh at quarterback,

941
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna throw the football first, and it's just gonna

942
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: be late in the season, a second half of the season,

943
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,360
Speaker 1: or maybe even later like it was last year, that

944
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna take getting enough reps with an offensive line

945
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: that has settled in. If you don't keep shuffling those

946
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: guys around like they did last year, you think it's

947
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: just kind of a half a year thing, or you know,

948
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: a two month or an eight game game stretch that's

949
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:11,320
Speaker 1: always going to take them that long to get it together.

950
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 1: I think it could because there's no sense of thing

951
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:16,840
Speaker 1: that you're going to be a Bills team dedicated to

952
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,240
Speaker 1: the run when you have a prolific offense with Josh

953
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Speaker 1: Allen at quarterback, in the playmakers that they have receiving

954
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: at receiver, tight end, and even the running backs out

955
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 1: of the backfield are contributing in the pass game. That year.

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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary has been great in the pass game, and

957
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Allen sat in his press conferenceention in

958
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 1: the game last week, those swing passes to the running

959
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 1: backs the screens, whether it be to the exterior or

960
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: setting up an actual screen. Those are an extension of

961
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: the run game. Those are extremely high percentage throws and

962
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:48,399
Speaker 1: that is going to be a lot of what the

963
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: Bills run game is going to be right now. Like that,

964
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Speaker 1: that's what's essentially replacing them getting more runs in a game. Eric,

965
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: thanks for the time. We look forward to you firing

966
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 1: everybody up on Sunday at one and we'll catch up

967
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: with you soon. Sounds good, guys, Thanks for having me on.

968
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 1: All right. That's Eric Wood, not only radio color analyst

969
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: for the Bills Radio Network. He is going to be

970
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: the Legend of the Game on Sunday just before kickoff,

971
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: getting you guys all amped up. And he's also going

972
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 1: to be making an appearance tomorrow Saturday, ten to eleven

973
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: am at the BFLO Store on Transit Road and again

974
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: Legend of the Game presented by the BFLO Store, the

975
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: official retailer of the Buffalo Bills. Break time for us

976
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: when we return. It's Greg Cosell from NFL Films to

977
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: dive into the XS and os with us for this

978
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: game between the Bills and the Steelers. Next stay tune.

979
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:24,399
Speaker 1: Theyse one Bills Live presented by called light to health.

980
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: Welcome to our number two on a Friday, and you

981
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 1: know what that means. It's time for us to huddle

982
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:36,240
Speaker 1: up with senior producer from NFL Films, Greg co Sal

983
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 1: and talk x's and oh's about this one. Steelers Bills

984
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:45,439
Speaker 1: one o'clock on Sunday. Greg Bills are a little nicked

985
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: up here. They may have to get creative on both

986
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:52,359
Speaker 1: sides of the ball, quite frankly with their play calling. Yeah. Well,

987
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: but just before we start, Brownie, I just want to

988
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: let you know I'm really liking that sweatshirt. I'm a

989
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: two XL by the way, you can okay, any all right,

990
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: we'll see what we can do. We'll see what we

991
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: can do. We'll get you in Bill's here. Don't don't.

992
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 1: Don't like that now, you know. I gotta be an

993
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: honorary member of Bill's Mafia if you if you're gonna

994
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,240
Speaker 1: wear it, you gotta wear it on the NFL matchup.

995
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 1: Though that's all there is too. They make me wear

996
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 1: They make me wear a coat and tight Steve, I

997
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: I don't control that have the hood sticking out the

998
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 1: back of the collar. Yeah, no, you're but you're right.

999
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: A lot of injuries. I mean, I saw Employers out Edmunds.

1000
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll be out hamstrings don't don't heal in

1001
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: a week. Um, so Knox is out, you know, it'll

1002
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: be interesting. I mean obviously they just they're coming off

1003
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 1: a big, big win, and we can talk about that momentarily.

1004
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,919
Speaker 1: But you know, in Pittsburgh, in the minds of many,

1005
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: probably doesn't seem like a very good team right now.

1006
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 1: But you know, you never know. That's that's why we

1007
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,839
Speaker 1: play them, and it's a big game because of what

1008
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:56,840
Speaker 1: the game next week. You know, you don't want to

1009
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: you don't want to go into the Chiefs game, you know,

1010
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: with a law coming off a loss. Yeah, and this

1011
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 1: Steelers team kind of becomes a little bit of an unknown.

1012
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: With Kenny Pickett in there. You saw him play the

1013
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: second half against the Jets, got him actually got them

1014
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 1: a ten point lead in the fourth quarter of that game,

1015
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 1: and you know, the Jets came back and managed to

1016
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: win it. But Kenny Pickett, and I'll say this, i'mlike

1017
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 1: any casual fan, even a Pittsburgh fan. He loved what

1018
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:27,800
Speaker 1: you saw in the preseason. His ability to extend plays

1019
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: got a live armum, didn't seem too big for him.

1020
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:35,320
Speaker 1: And I saw more of that in the In the

1021
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 1: Jet game, there was only maybe. Yeah, he tried to

1022
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: fit the ball into some places, but a couple of

1023
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: those interceptions were just bad hops and bad tips. But

1024
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: I thought I liked what I saw. Yeah, I wouldn't.

1025
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 1: I wouldn't those interceptions only only the second one is

1026
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:54,760
Speaker 1: one that I think required some coaching because what he did, Steve,

1027
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 1: and you know this, that you can't do in the NFL.

1028
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: You can't drift backward when you feel pressure, and that's

1029
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: what he did on the second interception. But the play,

1030
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,760
Speaker 1: we just saw the shot he took and he stood

1031
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 1: and delivered, and that was right in front of him

1032
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 1: and he never flinched. He didn't even lose his technique

1033
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 1: throwing that ball. He's got mobility. The other thing that

1034
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 1: really stood out to me, and this is what you

1035
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: have to do in the league, is he threw to

1036
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:21,359
Speaker 1: the one on ones. That was not a problem for him.

1037
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 1: You know, you know as well as I do. When

1038
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,879
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterbacks come into the NFL, and here's

1039
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,840
Speaker 1: an example of throwing to the one on ones, you know,

1040
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterbacks are used to throwing too, receivers

1041
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 1: who are open in college football, and they have to

1042
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 1: learn that if it's one on one, even if your

1043
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:39,799
Speaker 1: receiver appears to be covered, you have to make those

1044
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:42,400
Speaker 1: throws in this league. And I think he has an

1045
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: innate sense of that. And as I'm sure you guys do, know,

1046
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: he played in college under Mark Whipple at pit and

1047
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:51,799
Speaker 1: that was an NFL offense because Mark Whipple had been

1048
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: in the league with several teams taking it a step

1049
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:59,440
Speaker 1: further with their offense, you know, going forward, Greg, I'm

1050
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: anticipate painting that their approach will remain to a great

1051
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:08,439
Speaker 1: degree the same. I was kind of taken by their

1052
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: use of twelve personnel. Friar muth Is. Obviously, I like

1053
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: him a lot. He's a good player. I was trying

1054
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 1: to figure out their aim and approach when they do

1055
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,360
Speaker 1: go to twelve personnel. I'm I'm kind of caught in

1056
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 1: the middle as to whether it's a byproduct of protection

1057
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 1: issues or their desire to run the ball, maybe even

1058
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 1: more so now with a rookie at quarterback to help

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00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: support him. Yeah, I mean, I think ultimately they want

1060
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,399
Speaker 1: to be a running football team. I mean, you talk

1061
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: about twelve personnel they did play over thirty percent of

1062
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:49,880
Speaker 1: their snaps last week and twelve personnel. And you know,

1063
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 1: my sense is that they want look even even when

1064
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 1: they named Trubisky the starter. You know with Trubisky, as

1065
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,760
Speaker 1: you're starting quarterback, that you're not coming out and throwing

1066
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 1: it around. You know that you're working off the run game.

1067
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 1: You want play action, you want boot action, you know

1068
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: you want to do those things. I don't think that

1069
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:11,400
Speaker 1: mentality will change Brownie this Sunday. The problem is they're

1070
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:15,759
Speaker 1: not that good or running team. I may be in

1071
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: the minority, and this is all film study, but I

1072
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 1: went back this summer and I watch seven games of

1073
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 1: Nagy Harris, and I gotta tell you, I think Nagy

1074
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: Harris is kind of a pedestrian NFL back. He's big,

1075
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: he's powerful, but he doesn't have any juice. He can't

1076
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 1: I had a great conversation with Fred Taylor at the

1077
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:39,520
Speaker 1: Combine about five years ago, and he gave me a

1078
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: phrase that I use now and I evaluate backs, and

1079
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: that's the ability to re accelerate in confine space. And

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00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: Nigie Harris can't do that. So he's especially a grinder. Greg.

1081
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you I'm I gotta let Brownie's been

1082
00:57:56,320 --> 00:58:00,080
Speaker 1: hammering me about Nagy Harris give him the stats. So

1083
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: we were taught when when we do draft prep and stuff.

1084
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 1: As I know you do, you watch a ton of tape.

1085
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 1: I was blown away by this one statistic. And I

1086
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 1: cannot remember the scout that unearthed or draft guruin unearthed it.

1087
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 1: But in Naji Harris's I don't know, five hundred plus

1088
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 1: carries in college, only six I think went for forty

1089
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 1: yards or more. She said, twenty five years or twenty

1090
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: five yards more So for me getting to the NFL,

1091
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: that means when he's trying to hit the hole, it's

1092
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 1: got to be a defined hole if he's gonna get

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00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: through it, because he doesn't. He's no Fred Taylor that's

1094
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: gonna get the crease and go seven or eight yards

1095
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: or maybe the distance he's need. He needs a defined hole.

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00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 1: That's that's got good integrity if he's gonna get you

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00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:50,720
Speaker 1: somewhere between four and eight yards on that play. And

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00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: this line Greg, at least in my estimation, just flat

1099
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 1: out isn't good enough to do that for him. No,

1100
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:00,040
Speaker 1: it's not a great old line. And of course a

1101
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 1: lot of people say, well, gee, if he played behind

1102
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 1: a good old line, well, I think I think the

1103
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: point is if most facts have played behind a really

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00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 1: good old line, they probably get in yards. I mean

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00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 1: that's you know, I was a baseball player, and that's

1106
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 1: like saying in baseball that anybody can catch the good hops,

1107
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I think I think nag Harris

1108
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:24,919
Speaker 1: is a powerful, physical, competitive grinder. There's no real explosive,

1109
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: big play element to his running style, you know. So again,

1110
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 1: he's not a bad back, but I'm not sure he's

1111
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 1: a true foundation back that you can lean on as

1112
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 1: a twenty carry a game guy. So you know, I

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00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 1: don't think, based on what I've seen on tape that

1114
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: he's that guy. This is a team that's coming in

1115
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: and you're right, what do they hang their hat on?

1116
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 1: I mean, what do they if this game? If they

1117
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: come in, play their game and beat the Buffalo Bills,

1118
00:59:55,360 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: what's it gonna look like? Well, I think it would

1119
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 1: have to look like some explosive plays in the passing

1120
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:08,439
Speaker 1: game on the outside. Because their passing game is kind

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01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 1: of vertical routes and short routes. They have not shown

1122
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 1: them less. Now with Picket that changes. I think he'll

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01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: make throws that Rubisky might not make. And when I

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01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:21,959
Speaker 1: say make, I mean attempt. You know, I think that

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01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: when you've watched them the last couple of years when

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01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 1: they had Big Ben, it was either vertical balls outside

1127
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: the numbers or they threw short balls. And it hasn't

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01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 1: really changed much up to this point. So we'll see

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01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 1: if they expand some of the concepts. Everybody has the

1130
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: concepts in their playbook, guys, you know that it's what

1131
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 1: you choose to call. But Picket, I think, is a

1132
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: more aggressive thrower. And I think look at the end

1133
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 1: of the game, and that was we saw the highlights.

1134
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:51,760
Speaker 1: That was at the very end of the game when

1135
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 1: he threw the dig ball. But you don't see those

1136
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 1: kinds of throws very much in the Steeler's offense. What

1137
01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 1: about on the defensive side. Uncovered this number, Greg and

1138
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: it surprised me a little bit, but I think I

1139
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: have a hunch as to why it is. So. Steelers

1140
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 1: are fourth in the NFL in single high safety snaps.

1141
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: They have fifty one percent of their snaps in single

1142
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: high safety, and I'm guessing that's partially due to the

1143
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 1: caliber of quarterbacks they faced. Burrows probably the only top

1144
01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 1: tier guy they faced. Otherwise it's Brisette, Zach Wilson, and

1145
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 1: Mac Jones. So how much do you attribute who they

1146
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:31,360
Speaker 1: have played at quarterback to playing so much single safety

1147
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 1: high because I think that's suicide against Josh Allen if

1148
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: you're playing it that often. Well, that's what we don't

1149
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 1: know because it's only been four games, so we don't

1150
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 1: know if that's what they worked on all through OTAs

1151
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:47,640
Speaker 1: and training camps and that's what they want their coverage

1152
01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 1: foundation to be, or if that's the case of who

1153
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:54,720
Speaker 1: they've played Brownie as you suggested. So that's a hard

1154
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 1: question to answer. But the thing that's really interesting is

1155
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: they have not got what they expected from Devin Bush

1156
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:05,440
Speaker 1: the linebacker. He was drafted high with the expectation that

1157
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 1: he's a great athlete and would be a three down player.

1158
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: And while they do they play him in bass, they

1159
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 1: play him in some nickel, not all, and they do

1160
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 1: not play him in dime. So they all they end

1161
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:22,440
Speaker 1: up playing in their past nickel they play Spileane and Jack,

1162
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:26,120
Speaker 1: and in their dime they play Spillane. Now they play

1163
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:30,120
Speaker 1: some three, they play some three two six dime as well,

1164
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 1: where they play both the Spilean and Jack, but they

1165
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:38,440
Speaker 1: do not play bush in their past defense. I want

1166
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 1: to ask you about the Bills defense. They have allowed

1167
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:44,840
Speaker 1: one touchdown in four games in the second half. Is

1168
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 1: there something? Is there something in that or is that

1169
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 1: just kind of a function of the way the games

1170
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:52,480
Speaker 1: fell and it's just a luck of the draw or

1171
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:57,200
Speaker 1: is there something to that? Well? I think there's something too,

1172
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: you know. It's funny. I watched I watched them play

1173
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:03,040
Speaker 1: against the Ravens really carefully and not because of the

1174
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: Lamar factor running, just the coverage, and I think they

1175
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 1: do such a great job of in zone and hear

1176
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:16,760
Speaker 1: me out, I hope this is clear. In zone, depending

1177
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 1: on how you play it, you can kind of force

1178
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: the quarterback to throw the ball where you want him

1179
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:24,240
Speaker 1: to throw it. And by that, I mean, let's say

1180
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:27,800
Speaker 1: you decide with your your flat defender that you want

1181
01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 1: him to get a lot of depth, so you're going

1182
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 1: to force the quarterback to throw the ball in the flat,

1183
01:03:33,480 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 1: you know. So they do a really good job with that,

1184
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:39,960
Speaker 1: and you know, it comes down to it. That's one

1185
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 1: reason I think they don't give up big plays because

1186
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 1: the approaches. Do you want the ball to go behind

1187
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 1: you or in front of you if you're an underneath defender,

1188
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 1: and in an ideal world particularly, I mean, they didn't

1189
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:53,360
Speaker 1: have the lead this week, but very often they play

1190
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: with a lead. You know, if you're playing with a lead,

1191
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 1: you want the ball to go in front of you,

1192
01:03:57,320 --> 01:04:00,320
Speaker 1: not behind you. And I think you can dictate that

1193
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: by how you drop, how you play with your eyes,

1194
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 1: you know, and they do a really really good job

1195
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 1: of that. One thing that I wanted to discuss with you,

1196
01:04:11,080 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 1: Greg was something that we discussed on our weekly podcast.

1197
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 1: We through the first four games found that the Bills

1198
01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 1: are sacrificing some explosiveness in the first half, yes, in

1199
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 1: exchange for efficiency, and while their conversion rate on third

1200
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 1: down is still at the top of the league, they're

1201
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:34,600
Speaker 1: forced to convert more of them because their passing game

1202
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: is focusing more on shorter passes intermediate passes than the explosives.

1203
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 1: As a result, though, what we found most interesting was

1204
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 1: their number of possessions are down in the first half

1205
01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 1: from an average of about seven a game through the

1206
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:54,240
Speaker 1: first month of the season last year to five this year. Yeah,

1207
01:04:54,280 --> 01:04:57,120
Speaker 1: and as a result, they're not ahead on the scoreboard

1208
01:04:57,240 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: very often at halftime like they have been in pass

1209
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 1: Their margin is zero at halftime through four games. And

1210
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 1: so while I want I understand that's probably a byproduct

1211
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:12,000
Speaker 1: of seeing a good amount of high cover two shell

1212
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 1: and just trying to take what they give them, it's

1213
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 1: kind of putting the pressure on them to pull away

1214
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 1: from teams in the second half. Now. Their defense has

1215
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 1: been helping them a great deal in that, but I

1216
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 1: wonder if that is something that could rear its head

1217
01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 1: in a bad way when they play a team like

1218
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:33,200
Speaker 1: the Chiefs who can pile up points. Yeah, and it's

1219
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: a great point, Brownie, because I think one thing that's

1220
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:38,800
Speaker 1: been missing has been the explosive plays. They made a

1221
01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:43,040
Speaker 1: few obviously, but I think I think that's something that

1222
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:46,600
Speaker 1: they probably need to do more of. And I'm sure

1223
01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 1: they know this, you know, if we're talking about it,

1224
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:52,200
Speaker 1: they know it, right, But I think that that needs

1225
01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 1: to happen because what you said is one hundred percent true.

1226
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,520
Speaker 1: I think the short passing game for the most part,

1227
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 1: has taken the place of their run game, and that's

1228
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 1: another factor that at some point is going to be

1229
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 1: an issue if they don't do it more and better.

1230
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:10,440
Speaker 1: But they're using the pass game essentially to be a

1231
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 1: run game, and Josh has become very efficient with those

1232
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:18,880
Speaker 1: quick game throws, and that's great, that's further part of

1233
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 1: his development into a great quarterback. But at some point

1234
01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:24,880
Speaker 1: you're going to need to do two things. You're going

1235
01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:27,200
Speaker 1: to have to have a more conventional run game, and

1236
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 1: you're going to have to try to orchestrate and create

1237
01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:32,760
Speaker 1: big explosive plays in the pass game because it's hard

1238
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 1: to live like the way they're playing, because, like you said, Brownie,

1239
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: the games are too close. Yeah, right. I want to

1240
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 1: ask you about maybe some specific players. Khalil Shakir looks

1241
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 1: like he's elevating through the depth charting. He got a

1242
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:48,680
Speaker 1: couple of plays last week, and with the injury the

1243
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:52,400
Speaker 1: unknowns to Isaiah McKenzie, Gabe Davis has not been one

1244
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:54,760
Speaker 1: hundred percent, although it looks like he's improving and he

1245
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:57,439
Speaker 1: may be their crowders out of the mix right now.

1246
01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:01,160
Speaker 1: Khalil Shakir may get elevated to quite a bit more

1247
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:02,959
Speaker 1: playing time. In fact, he might be the next guy

1248
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:07,960
Speaker 1: in under any circumstances this Sunday um comparing. I mean,

1249
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 1: what do you think between Obviously McKenzie's a fast guy

1250
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:14,480
Speaker 1: and Khalil Shakir is not, you know, a speed merchant.

1251
01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:17,760
Speaker 1: How might those two guys the internet interchange between. If

1252
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:23,200
Speaker 1: McKenzie's out, Shakier is in, how does that change the offense? Um? Well,

1253
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:26,520
Speaker 1: I always feel watching tape that I feel like McKenzie's

1254
01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:28,840
Speaker 1: there there man to man guy. They use him a

1255
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:31,240
Speaker 1: lot to run away from the defense. Steve, you know

1256
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:34,320
Speaker 1: you've heard that for years. That's what they say versus man.

1257
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 1: You run away from man and you settle it into

1258
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:41,480
Speaker 1: voids versus zone. McKenzie is that guy. We saw that

1259
01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 1: last year against New England. We saw the great I

1260
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:49,120
Speaker 1: think it was, Um, was it the Miami game? What

1261
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 1: game did he end of the twenty twenty season? Miami game? Yeah?

1262
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 1: And yeah and this year New England game a great

1263
01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:59,840
Speaker 1: brow to uh to McKenzie, Oh yeah that was week

1264
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Speaker 1: beautiful throw? Was that Week three where Kenzie was on

1265
01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 1: the left side line rocked it over? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,

1266
01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:10,720
Speaker 1: so that was man coverage. Um, McKenzie is a man guy.

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01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:13,600
Speaker 1: I think Shakier not that he can't play against man,

1268
01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 1: but I think you would see him more as a

1269
01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:18,480
Speaker 1: guy at this stage in his career. He's not necessarily

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01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 1: going to do that as a you know, he's not

1271
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:22,880
Speaker 1: a speed merchant, but you know he got in. Last

1272
01:08:22,920 --> 01:08:25,599
Speaker 1: week he had a big catch on the final drive

1273
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:28,600
Speaker 1: where um, you know, Josh moved to his left and

1274
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:32,519
Speaker 1: Shakier found that that void on the sideline. And you

1275
01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:34,280
Speaker 1: guys know how I feel about him. We talked about

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01:08:34,320 --> 01:08:36,519
Speaker 1: him in the preseason a lot, and I said, at

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01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 1: some point this season he would get an opportunity. I mean,

1278
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:42,000
Speaker 1: I would. You don't. You're not happy that guys are

1279
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:44,639
Speaker 1: hurt for that to happen, but obviously that's the NFL.

1280
01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 1: But I kind of like Shakier. I mean I wouldn't

1281
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 1: surprise me if he gets meaningful snaps. I don't know

1282
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:53,599
Speaker 1: if he'll be a volume target, but I think he'll

1283
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 1: get some meaningful snaps. Yeah, we talked to receivers coach

1284
01:08:57,240 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 1: here Chad Hall, about him because us just watching him

1285
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 1: in training camp. He just seems to have a route

1286
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:09,160
Speaker 1: savvy that is got wise beyond his years, especially for

1287
01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: a fifth round draft choice. And he's competitive, he's physical

1288
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:16,599
Speaker 1: for his size. I mean, I really liked his tape

1289
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:19,000
Speaker 1: coming out of college. Really like I think here's the

1290
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,840
Speaker 1: play where he was Yes found the void on the

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01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 1: sideline and made to catch. You know, it's not a

1292
01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:26,680
Speaker 1: big game, but I got him a first down in

1293
01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:30,280
Speaker 1: a critical situation. Yeah, and those and this is the

1294
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:32,479
Speaker 1: kind of thing that you know, you don't know how

1295
01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 1: these games are going to take place until they actually happened.

1296
01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:38,360
Speaker 1: But with a righty quarterback, I don't think there's any question.

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01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:40,880
Speaker 1: I think the Pittsburgh offense is gonna take I think

1298
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:43,840
Speaker 1: it's gonna have an uptick with Kenny Pickett, I really

1299
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:46,679
Speaker 1: do know. I like you, I was wrong about how

1300
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:48,960
Speaker 1: well Trubisky was gonna play for them, but I think

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01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:53,479
Speaker 1: Pikett gives them some juice that Trubisky did not. And

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01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:55,920
Speaker 1: I think that's one thing the Bills have. Turnovers are

1303
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:57,519
Speaker 1: going to be an enormous part of this game. I

1304
01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:00,439
Speaker 1: believe if whichever team wins that has a better has

1305
01:10:00,439 --> 01:10:02,680
Speaker 1: A is going to win the game, I think. And

1306
01:10:02,760 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 1: that's the real thing that could help Pittsburgh. Their defense

1307
01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:07,720
Speaker 1: is good to getting turnovers, and if they do that,

1308
01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 1: this game goes in the way their way. Yeah, you know,

1309
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:14,639
Speaker 1: and it'll be interesting. You know, the Steelers high Smith,

1310
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 1: it's proven to be a pretty solid pass rusher. I

1311
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:19,280
Speaker 1: think they're kind of trying to figure out who the

1312
01:10:19,280 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 1: other guy is opposite him with what out But high

1313
01:10:22,920 --> 01:10:26,520
Speaker 1: Smith is proven to be a pretty solid pass rusher. Um,

1314
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:28,200
Speaker 1: you know they've played a lot of man. I'll be

1315
01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:32,840
Speaker 1: real curious what this what the Bills do with their

1316
01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:36,479
Speaker 1: receiver location because Malette plays in the slot. Yeah, and

1317
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:39,160
Speaker 1: I think if you're going to play a lot of man,

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01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:42,040
Speaker 1: I think he's a guy worth going after. And and

1319
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: you know you could line Digs up in there. Diggs

1320
01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 1: doesn't always have to line up outside. I mean, you

1321
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 1: can line up receivers anywhere you want, especially for a

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01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 1: team that plays a lot of man, because you can

1323
01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:55,200
Speaker 1: you can dictate the matchup. You want the one last

1324
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 1: thing about the defense before we let you go. Greg

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01:10:57,200 --> 01:11:00,320
Speaker 1: For the Steelers, anyway, we know they're without what still

1326
01:11:00,320 --> 01:11:03,440
Speaker 1: trying to figure things out. I did see a statistic

1327
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 1: that said when Watt is not in the lineup, they

1328
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 1: blitz four times as often. Understandable. Understandably why blitzing Josh

1329
01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:16,439
Speaker 1: though sometimes can be foolhardy, as he has proven in

1330
01:11:16,479 --> 01:11:19,640
Speaker 1: the past. But you have a nicked up secondary in

1331
01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:22,400
Speaker 1: the back, so they might have all their guys out there.

1332
01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:23,439
Speaker 1: But I don't know if any of them are going

1333
01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:26,040
Speaker 1: to be one hundred percent. I'm wondering how much they

1334
01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 1: try to help protect those guys on the back end

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Speaker 1: with their front in terms of their approach with pass rush. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: any thoughts question? Yeah, because even Minka Fitzpatrick Brown, I

1337
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:40,599
Speaker 1: guess is he's is he questionable at this point. I

1338
01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:43,479
Speaker 1: haven't seen the final listing, but he's been limited in

1339
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:47,559
Speaker 1: practice all week, as has Cameron Sutton, as has Levi Wallace,

1340
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:51,599
Speaker 1: as has Terrell Edmonds, who was in concussion protocol. Yeah,

1341
01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:54,840
Speaker 1: so I mean they could be playing with backups, and

1342
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:56,800
Speaker 1: then you have to be careful, you know, because don't

1343
01:11:56,840 --> 01:12:00,360
Speaker 1: forget you don't have to play man behind pressure. There's

1344
01:12:00,520 --> 01:12:03,760
Speaker 1: multiple kinds of pressures, and you can play zone concepts

1345
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:06,800
Speaker 1: behind it. So we'll see. I mean they played a

1346
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 1: lot of Cover one, as you just mentioned. They played

1347
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 1: a lot of one robber, which is a man concept

1348
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:13,840
Speaker 1: where you take one of your safeties and you drop

1349
01:12:13,880 --> 01:12:16,120
Speaker 1: them into the middle and the other safety is just

1350
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:19,760
Speaker 1: a post safety. So they've done a lot of that.

1351
01:12:19,960 --> 01:12:22,880
Speaker 1: The question is if they're going to play backups, will

1352
01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:26,840
Speaker 1: they do that? Now? Obviously playing backups in zone is

1353
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:30,000
Speaker 1: not automatically a Pennessee either because there's a lot of

1354
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 1: communication and I discipline that is required and backups may

1355
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:36,320
Speaker 1: not be able to you know, feel real comfortable doing

1356
01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 1: that last one I've got for you, Greg, it's I

1357
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:43,080
Speaker 1: guess it says a lot that because there's so many

1358
01:12:43,080 --> 01:12:45,120
Speaker 1: things on the front burner, we've kind of stopped talking

1359
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:48,439
Speaker 1: about the young corners of the Buffalo Bills Carrier Elam, Yeah,

1360
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:50,960
Speaker 1: Christian Benford and now you know Dan Jackson as well.

1361
01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:56,360
Speaker 1: But Elam seems to be getting better, even even though

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01:12:56,560 --> 01:13:00,400
Speaker 1: you know he was playing behind Christian Benford, and of

1363
01:13:00,439 --> 01:13:05,840
Speaker 1: course Tarn Johnson continues to play at an elite level. Yeah,

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01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:08,240
Speaker 1: so give me an idea of what your thoughts are

1365
01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:10,599
Speaker 1: about Elam and how he's playing, and also Dane Jackson

1366
01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:13,280
Speaker 1: the fact that he was back in the lineup. Yeah,

1367
01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought they played well this week, but

1368
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 1: it's not a good test because, as you guys know,

1369
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:20,959
Speaker 1: the Ravens they played a fewer snaps of eleven personnel

1370
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,479
Speaker 1: in the league. Less than ten percent of their offensive

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01:13:23,479 --> 01:13:26,760
Speaker 1: snaps come with three wide receivers. I think all season long,

1372
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 1: they played twenty two snaps with three wide receivers, so

1373
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:32,519
Speaker 1: they'll get a bigger test this week. But I did

1374
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:35,960
Speaker 1: watch watch them a little bit when I watched that tape,

1375
01:13:36,160 --> 01:13:39,559
Speaker 1: and I thought that Elam was pretty sticky in his coverage.

1376
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 1: I watched him a little more than Jackson. I've been

1377
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:44,519
Speaker 1: impressed with hammelin at safety. I don't know about you guys,

1378
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 1: and I don't know what the coaching staff has said publicly,

1379
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:50,799
Speaker 1: but I've been pretty impressed with Hamlin. Yeah, he's really

1380
01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 1: good playing downhill. He's aggressive. While they're not a heavy

1381
01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 1: blitz team by any stretch, as you guys know, when

1382
01:13:57,080 --> 01:13:59,400
Speaker 1: they do sometimes he's a part of it, you know.

1383
01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:03,680
Speaker 1: I think he's played, to my eye, without knowing what

1384
01:14:03,720 --> 01:14:06,240
Speaker 1: he's asked to do on every play, I think he's

1385
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:10,040
Speaker 1: played well. Yeah. Leslie Frasier was asked about that this week,

1386
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:16,240
Speaker 1: and his description of Hamlin and Jaquan Johnson was as follows.

1387
01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:18,679
Speaker 1: Because people are asking why to Hamlin start over Johnson,

1388
01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:22,439
Speaker 1: Johnson's been here longer, etc. Etc. It's very clear that

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01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:27,160
Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier feels that Hamlin's strength is coverage, that he

1390
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:29,360
Speaker 1: can cover the deep path, he has the range to

1391
01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:32,320
Speaker 1: do that, and also plays with physicality. On the back end,

1392
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:36,280
Speaker 1: while they feel Jiquon Johnson is better closer to the

1393
01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. So I would anticipate that Johnson is

1394
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:43,360
Speaker 1: going to take Poyer's spot while Hamlin stays in the back,

1395
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:46,880
Speaker 1: you know, manning Hide's role. Even though those two guys

1396
01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:50,519
Speaker 1: are usually interchangeable, how interchangeable these two are I do

1397
01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:54,719
Speaker 1: not know. Yeah, and that could be game specific, which

1398
01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:57,160
Speaker 1: we don't know because we haven't seen them enough to

1399
01:14:57,200 --> 01:15:00,040
Speaker 1: know that. The coaching staff obviously has a feeling about that.

1400
01:15:00,479 --> 01:15:03,680
Speaker 1: But but but Hamlin did did flash to me on

1401
01:15:03,720 --> 01:15:08,439
Speaker 1: film this week in particular. All right, thanks Gregg as always,

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01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:10,920
Speaker 1: we appreciate it, and we'll catch up with you next

1403
01:15:10,920 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 1: week for week six. It's a big one. Thanks Greg.

1404
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:15,560
Speaker 1: I know I'm looking for I think I'll lead my

1405
01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:19,400
Speaker 1: sweatshirt by then, Brownie. We'll see how well the mail works.

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01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:24,960
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, Thank you. That's great. Costal joining us here

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01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:28,519
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live, senior producer from NFL Films, will

1408
01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:45,080
Speaker 1: take a break be back with more. Stay tuned. All right,

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01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:49,160
Speaker 1: the injury reports are out for both teams, and we

1410
01:15:49,240 --> 01:15:52,800
Speaker 1: already told you who is not going to play for

1411
01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:56,240
Speaker 1: the Bills for the most part, and I'll pull up

1412
01:15:56,760 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 1: the last two tweets that I made to run down

1413
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:05,440
Speaker 1: on the full list. But Benford, Crowder, Dawson Knox, Jake Kumereau,

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01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:09,280
Speaker 1: and Jordan poy are all out for Sunday's game. Questionable

1415
01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:12,920
Speaker 1: for the game for the Bills, Tremaine Edmonds, Isaiah McKenzie,

1416
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:17,599
Speaker 1: ed Oliver, and Jordan Phillips. Jordan Phillips and ed Oliver

1417
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:22,879
Speaker 1: participated in practice all week on a limited basis. Isaiah

1418
01:16:22,960 --> 01:16:25,880
Speaker 1: McKenzie was limited the last two days. Tremaine Edmonds has

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01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:28,720
Speaker 1: not practiced all week, so I would tend to put

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01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 1: him on the more doubtful side of questionable in light

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01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:33,559
Speaker 1: of the fact that he never took the field. And

1422
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:37,679
Speaker 1: I know you and I were talking about who would

1423
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:39,519
Speaker 1: be in the lineup in his place, and knowing that

1424
01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:41,400
Speaker 1: the Steelers want to run the football, they have a

1425
01:16:41,439 --> 01:16:44,200
Speaker 1: big back who's not super fast. As we discussed with

1426
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:48,240
Speaker 1: Greg Kosell in Nagi Harris, we're kind of anticipating it

1427
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:51,639
Speaker 1: would be the bigger, sturdier linebacker coming onto the field

1428
01:16:51,640 --> 01:16:54,280
Speaker 1: in place of Edmonds, and that would be Tyrell Dotson. Right.

1429
01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if Kenny pick it changes that equation.

1430
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:00,840
Speaker 1: I don't think he does, but I don't think he did.

1431
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:02,560
Speaker 1: I think their offense is what it is, and I

1432
01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:04,920
Speaker 1: think they're gonna do what they can to protect Kenny

1433
01:17:04,960 --> 01:17:07,080
Speaker 1: Pickett with a running game and all the same kind

1434
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:11,880
Speaker 1: of thing, and I'm that's what it gets. That's where

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01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:13,519
Speaker 1: it is to me. I think, yeah, if we're gonna

1436
01:17:13,720 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 1: you know, we you know, we building a game plan here,

1437
01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 1: we will do that. In a second. First, let me

1438
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:22,680
Speaker 1: do the Steelers injury report. Let's hear what ye've go

1439
01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:26,240
Speaker 1: ahead and tell him. So, basically out for the game

1440
01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:30,080
Speaker 1: as expected. Starting cornerback Akello Witherspoon he's gonna miss a

1441
01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:32,519
Speaker 1: second straight game of a hamstring injury miss last week's

1442
01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:35,720
Speaker 1: game as well. That means the guy starting in his

1443
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:41,120
Speaker 1: place is expected to be one Levi Wallace at left cornerback,

1444
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:43,840
Speaker 1: So that'll be interesting matching up with guys he went

1445
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 1: against in practice for four years. Questionable for the game

1446
01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:53,719
Speaker 1: Terrell Edmonds, who was in the concussion protocol, Tremaine's brother,

1447
01:17:54,080 --> 01:17:59,520
Speaker 1: the safety, and others. Starting cornerback Cameron Sutton is questionable,

1448
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:04,240
Speaker 1: Although Cameron Sutton told Steelers dot Com after practice today,

1449
01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 1: I'm playing on Sunday. So even though he's listed his

1450
01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:11,919
Speaker 1: questionable Sutton telling Steelers dot Com he will play on Sunday,

1451
01:18:12,240 --> 01:18:15,839
Speaker 1: and the Steelers will also have Minca Fitzpatrick and Cameron

1452
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 1: Heyward in the lineup. Both of those players off the

1453
01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:23,320
Speaker 1: injury report without a designation, So those two players good

1454
01:18:23,360 --> 01:18:26,400
Speaker 1: to go, even if they are not one hundred percent.

1455
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 1: So that's kind of where things stand heading into Sunday's game.

1456
01:18:31,360 --> 01:18:34,439
Speaker 1: Time now for us to build a game plan presented

1457
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:37,360
Speaker 1: by United Rentals. United Rentals is the exclusive and official

1458
01:18:37,400 --> 01:18:41,760
Speaker 1: construction equipment rental partner of the Buffalo Bills. Steve, you

1459
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:43,639
Speaker 1: want to take the offense here, whether they they gotta

1460
01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:46,599
Speaker 1: do this Steelers. For the Bills, I think the key

1461
01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 1: thing is play clean game. You gotta don't turn it over.

1462
01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:53,479
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with them with what they've

1463
01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:55,840
Speaker 1: done thus far in the here, staying very efficient, just

1464
01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:58,880
Speaker 1: staying on the football field offensively. You really I think

1465
01:18:58,920 --> 01:19:02,080
Speaker 1: put need put pressure on their offense from both sides,

1466
01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:04,799
Speaker 1: your defense putting pressure on them and also your offense

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01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:07,559
Speaker 1: by being efficient and coming away with points every drive,

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01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:10,559
Speaker 1: whether it's three or six or seven, come away with

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Speaker 1: points and start to stack it up. This is one

1470
01:19:14,360 --> 01:19:16,280
Speaker 1: of those games where you hope, no matter how many

1471
01:19:16,280 --> 01:19:20,280
Speaker 1: possessions you have, Sam Martin maybe has one punt or

1472
01:19:20,400 --> 01:19:22,760
Speaker 1: zero punts, you got to stay on the field and

1473
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:24,479
Speaker 1: that's I think that's it, and don't turn it over,

1474
01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:29,439
Speaker 1: don't fumble it away. First downs are gold and I

1475
01:19:29,479 --> 01:19:31,760
Speaker 1: think that is going to be the way that you know,

1476
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:35,000
Speaker 1: the solid way now. I think too, you're gonna be

1477
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:36,680
Speaker 1: able to nick them. I think this might be the

1478
01:19:36,680 --> 01:19:39,040
Speaker 1: first team you can nick for a big point. You

1479
01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:42,080
Speaker 1: can get some explosives because their their secondary is going

1480
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:43,920
Speaker 1: to be a little bit susceptible to it, and I

1481
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:49,160
Speaker 1: don't think their past rush. Even given what Greg Cosel

1482
01:19:49,320 --> 01:19:55,960
Speaker 1: just told us about Highsmith five and a a half second

1483
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,920
Speaker 1: in the league, I still think the Bills can. Josh

1484
01:19:58,960 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 1: can hit some big plays, but I think efficiency and

1485
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 1: then when he comes, take your shot down the field

1486
01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:06,000
Speaker 1: and it may happen defensive side of the ball. For

1487
01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:09,040
Speaker 1: the Bills game plan wise, I would just not allow

1488
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:12,680
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett to get comfortable in any way, shape or form.

1489
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 1: If you feel that your front four can get home effectively,

1490
01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:19,959
Speaker 1: and I believe they are vastly superior to the Pittsburgh

1491
01:20:20,040 --> 01:20:22,120
Speaker 1: offensive line. I think they're gonna have a field day

1492
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:26,080
Speaker 1: on Sunday getting after your Pickett. Because I've just watched

1493
01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 1: this Pittsburgh offensive line on tape through the first month

1494
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:33,800
Speaker 1: of the season. I am largely unimpressed. I mean, outside

1495
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:37,480
Speaker 1: of the guard they picked up in free agency, James Daniels,

1496
01:20:38,800 --> 01:20:42,200
Speaker 1: they got a bunch of just regular guys like I

1497
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:46,679
Speaker 1: just nobody really stands out to me, and they haven't

1498
01:20:46,720 --> 01:20:48,320
Speaker 1: pulled it all together yet. I think they're going to

1499
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:51,800
Speaker 1: have a supreme problem protecting Kenny Pickett. They may just

1500
01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:53,599
Speaker 1: have to play quick game just to get the ball

1501
01:20:53,600 --> 01:20:54,960
Speaker 1: out for him and allow him to try to get

1502
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:58,160
Speaker 1: into a rhythm. But you got a condor over there

1503
01:20:58,200 --> 01:20:59,960
Speaker 1: on the one side, and Gregor Rousseau he puts his

1504
01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:01,920
Speaker 1: hands up Pickets not throwing it over him out to

1505
01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:05,320
Speaker 1: the flat. So I think they're gonna struggle. I'll say

1506
01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:07,400
Speaker 1: this though, Pickets an athlete. I liked what I saw.

1507
01:21:07,439 --> 01:21:11,439
Speaker 1: He's six three, two twenty. He runs well, and he

1508
01:21:11,479 --> 01:21:14,120
Speaker 1: seems to have a more live arm, and he's able

1509
01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:17,600
Speaker 1: to see the field better when he scrambles than Trubisky is.

1510
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:21,240
Speaker 1: It scares me his ability even if he's under pressure

1511
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:24,640
Speaker 1: to extend plays and make something out of it. That

1512
01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:27,160
Speaker 1: scares me. So I think it's almost the point now,

1513
01:21:27,320 --> 01:21:30,000
Speaker 1: particularly since he's young, if you can get pressure on

1514
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:32,479
Speaker 1: him with four or send an extra guy and get

1515
01:21:32,479 --> 01:21:35,160
Speaker 1: pressure quick with five. You almost tell you guys not

1516
01:21:35,360 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 1: to run stunts up front to keep him in the

1517
01:21:38,360 --> 01:21:41,400
Speaker 1: pocket a lot like you did Lamar and force him

1518
01:21:41,439 --> 01:21:44,160
Speaker 1: as a rookie to read your defense in the back

1519
01:21:44,320 --> 01:21:49,040
Speaker 1: end and then you know, snipe him. Yeah, they could

1520
01:21:49,040 --> 01:21:53,240
Speaker 1: do it. I just think if you get Ed Oliver

1521
01:21:53,320 --> 01:21:57,519
Speaker 1: or Jordan Phillips back this week, just one of them. Yeah,

1522
01:21:57,600 --> 01:21:59,280
Speaker 1: it's gonna be game said match. You're not gonna be

1523
01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:01,760
Speaker 1: able to run on this defensive line and the pass

1524
01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:05,759
Speaker 1: pressure is going to be overwhelming. I don't think Kenny

1525
01:22:05,800 --> 01:22:09,120
Speaker 1: Pickett has any idea what he's walking into here. Well

1526
01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:11,439
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, here's the thing too, And I

1527
01:22:11,479 --> 01:22:14,960
Speaker 1: know there are bills fans that are that are beyond optimistic,

1528
01:22:15,000 --> 01:22:16,760
Speaker 1: and it's like we're gonna roll, We're gonna get I mean,

1529
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:21,280
Speaker 1: you know, and set set, yes, but set the set

1530
01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:24,000
Speaker 1: the injured guys down, get healthy for Kansas City. You

1531
01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:26,519
Speaker 1: got to win this game. Yes, you've got to win

1532
01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:29,640
Speaker 1: this game. I get it there four and one or

1533
01:22:29,720 --> 01:22:32,240
Speaker 1: three and one. It's you know, it's it's week five,

1534
01:22:32,320 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 1: and you know you got a lot of football left you.

1535
01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:37,360
Speaker 1: But these are the games that means. This game means

1536
01:22:37,360 --> 01:22:39,439
Speaker 1: as much as next week. He does, because you don't

1537
01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:41,040
Speaker 1: know if the Chiefs are gonna come off the rails

1538
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:42,880
Speaker 1: later on. They're not even gonna be in the conversation.

1539
01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:45,200
Speaker 1: You gotta win this game and you can worry about

1540
01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:47,400
Speaker 1: next game next time. So if they if a guy

1541
01:22:47,439 --> 01:22:54,439
Speaker 1: can go, he's got to play. Um. The Steelers aren't

1542
01:22:54,479 --> 01:22:56,439
Speaker 1: going to come in here and in any way, shape

1543
01:22:56,520 --> 01:22:59,919
Speaker 1: or form, lay down and die with a rookie quarterback

1544
01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 1: or not. They're gonna rally around this guy. They're gonna

1545
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:05,040
Speaker 1: play their best football of the season. And you can't

1546
01:23:05,040 --> 01:23:06,479
Speaker 1: get hit in the mouth by a team that you

1547
01:23:06,520 --> 01:23:10,479
Speaker 1: thought was gonna lay down, because that could happen easily.

1548
01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:15,200
Speaker 1: The Steelers scare me more than as much as Baltimore does,

1549
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:18,519
Speaker 1: because of their because of their coach, and because they've

1550
01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:23,680
Speaker 1: got because of this quarterback switch mostly and I get

1551
01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:26,920
Speaker 1: it too. I'll say this, We've been watching them. Their

1552
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:32,960
Speaker 1: receivers are just okay to me. They're okay, they're they're

1553
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:34,960
Speaker 1: better I think once they get the ball in their

1554
01:23:34,960 --> 01:23:37,800
Speaker 1: hands than they are getting open. You know what I mean.

1555
01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:40,040
Speaker 1: I think they're better after the catch than they are

1556
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 1: before the catch. But you still got to cover them up. Yes,

1557
01:23:45,479 --> 01:23:47,320
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question about that. All right,

1558
01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:52,559
Speaker 1: that's building a game plan presented by United Rentals. Let's

1559
01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:54,040
Speaker 1: go to the phones. Take a quick call. I got

1560
01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:57,440
Speaker 1: a guy that's been waiting patiently there. It's Jeff in Buffalo.

1561
01:23:57,680 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 1: What do you guy for us? Jeff, you're all one

1562
01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:04,639
Speaker 1: bills live? Oh? Hi, guys, Uh, glad, glad? I got on. Uh,

1563
01:24:05,439 --> 01:24:10,679
Speaker 1: I have all I wanted to say that I Steve.

1564
01:24:11,520 --> 01:24:15,760
Speaker 1: I know you know that Isaiah Hodgins is never you know,

1565
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 1: I guess he's never played special teams and that they

1566
01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:22,640
Speaker 1: you know that they need that kind of thing. Um.

1567
01:24:23,120 --> 01:24:25,840
Speaker 1: But you know, I've seen this guy now for a

1568
01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:31,519
Speaker 1: few years, and he he catches everything that's thrown his way. Uh.

1569
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:34,400
Speaker 1: And I know you also said I heard you say

1570
01:24:34,720 --> 01:24:37,200
Speaker 1: one time during one of the preseason games that he

1571
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:41,920
Speaker 1: doesn't create enough separation as a receiver. I'm sure you

1572
01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:44,840
Speaker 1: know that a lot better than I do. But he

1573
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:48,320
Speaker 1: you know, Josh loves to throw in a tight window

1574
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 1: and he doesn't drop anything where you know, we've seen

1575
01:24:53,240 --> 01:24:56,120
Speaker 1: a lot of drops this year so far, and he

1576
01:24:56,560 --> 01:24:59,320
Speaker 1: you know, he's impeccable as far as that's concerned. I

1577
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:01,840
Speaker 1: mean that one he made one of the preseason games

1578
01:25:01,840 --> 01:25:05,880
Speaker 1: where he jumped over one of the defenders and caught

1579
01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:08,599
Speaker 1: the ball off his back was just an incredible play.

1580
01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:13,760
Speaker 1: And you know, I think, you know, if mackenzie's out, especially,

1581
01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:16,840
Speaker 1: I think he would be the guy to come in

1582
01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:21,519
Speaker 1: for him, that would, you know, the one of the guys.

1583
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:24,599
Speaker 1: So you're ready to see you're what you're saying, I guess, Jeff,

1584
01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:27,040
Speaker 1: as you think Isaiah high is time to take him

1585
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:29,160
Speaker 1: out of out of the closet and use him. And

1586
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:31,400
Speaker 1: you may have to. I mean, if Mackenzie's not up

1587
01:25:31,520 --> 01:25:33,559
Speaker 1: on Sunday and he is questionable, he's still in the

1588
01:25:33,560 --> 01:25:36,880
Speaker 1: concussion protocol for all we know, you're down to three

1589
01:25:36,920 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 1: healthy guys, So and shaquires your three. So Hodgens would

1590
01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:43,719
Speaker 1: presumably be your four, and then Tanner Gentry's your five

1591
01:25:43,760 --> 01:25:47,320
Speaker 1: and he's playing on special teams. That's probably how you're

1592
01:25:47,320 --> 01:25:51,640
Speaker 1: going if McKenzie doesn't play. Now, if mackenzie does play.

1593
01:25:52,200 --> 01:25:54,360
Speaker 1: That makes it a little more tricky. I mean, you

1594
01:25:54,360 --> 01:25:57,559
Speaker 1: still might bring both of them up. But if you're

1595
01:25:57,560 --> 01:26:00,720
Speaker 1: only bringing one up, are you leaning offense there or

1596
01:26:00,760 --> 01:26:03,280
Speaker 1: you're leaning special teams? Because if you're leaning offense, it's

1597
01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:06,080
Speaker 1: probably Hodgens and if you're leaning special teams, it's probably gentry.

1598
01:26:06,120 --> 01:26:08,480
Speaker 1: That's that's when it gets tricky. If you have McKenzie,

1599
01:26:09,200 --> 01:26:12,559
Speaker 1: I think, I think you lean offense. And then you

1600
01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:14,519
Speaker 1: go back and you look at the other spots on

1601
01:26:14,560 --> 01:26:16,400
Speaker 1: the roster, other guys on the roster, and say, hey,

1602
01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:18,040
Speaker 1: I need you to cover kicks this weekend. Once you

1603
01:26:18,080 --> 01:26:19,439
Speaker 1: give a go, you know, which is what they've done

1604
01:26:19,479 --> 01:26:21,840
Speaker 1: with al Kumaro already. They go to other guys in

1605
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:24,040
Speaker 1: the roster and they'll make some decisions and other position

1606
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:26,120
Speaker 1: groups on the roster and say, hey, you're covering kicks

1607
01:26:26,120 --> 01:26:28,160
Speaker 1: this week, let's go. You're up. And not to knock

1608
01:26:28,400 --> 01:26:30,840
Speaker 1: special teams, but offense is going to play sixty five

1609
01:26:30,920 --> 01:26:32,920
Speaker 1: seventy plays a game. Special team he's only gonna play

1610
01:26:32,960 --> 01:26:36,120
Speaker 1: twenty five to thirty, right, Yeah, there's no question about it.

1611
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:38,840
Speaker 1: And plus you need a guy that is not going

1612
01:26:38,880 --> 01:26:41,160
Speaker 1: to be a hole in your special special teams. You know,

1613
01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:44,920
Speaker 1: you need a guy that whatever. Yeah, so yeah, I

1614
01:26:45,360 --> 01:26:46,880
Speaker 1: don't have a problem with that either. But if the

1615
01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:49,080
Speaker 1: guy's gonna come up and you don't anticipate him playing

1616
01:26:49,120 --> 01:26:51,439
Speaker 1: at all on the offense, well that changes the equation

1617
01:26:51,479 --> 01:26:58,160
Speaker 1: as well. And if if Tanner Gentry is only a

1618
01:26:58,160 --> 01:27:01,519
Speaker 1: smidge better than Isaiah Hodgens on special teams, but Isaiah

1619
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 1: Hodgens is way better offensively, there's your answer right there,

1620
01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:06,559
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Now, if ten Or Gentry

1621
01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:10,160
Speaker 1: is infinitely better than Hodgens on special teams, and Hodgens

1622
01:27:10,520 --> 01:27:13,479
Speaker 1: until something happens, is gonna have to play special teams,

1623
01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:15,960
Speaker 1: then that changes the equation. So we don't know those

1624
01:27:15,960 --> 01:27:19,920
Speaker 1: grady and differences in their skill sets. So but those

1625
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:21,720
Speaker 1: are the considerations you're at. And I think when you

1626
01:27:21,720 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 1: get to that point you need a guy on offense,

1627
01:27:23,400 --> 01:27:25,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna look and say, Okay, we need an extra

1628
01:27:25,120 --> 01:27:27,200
Speaker 1: dB up, or we're gonna keep an extra linebacker up,

1629
01:27:27,240 --> 01:27:28,960
Speaker 1: or whatever. If Edmonds is down, we're gonna keep an

1630
01:27:28,960 --> 01:27:34,040
Speaker 1: eye linebacker up. You know, maybe we're getting we're getting

1631
01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:36,360
Speaker 1: Specter up this week anyway, so he'll help us on

1632
01:27:36,400 --> 01:27:39,559
Speaker 1: special teams. We don't need you don't need Hodgens to

1633
01:27:39,600 --> 01:27:42,040
Speaker 1: play special teams. All right, we got a break because

1634
01:27:42,360 --> 01:27:45,680
Speaker 1: coming up next Tailgate Friday, we'll let you know what

1635
01:27:45,800 --> 01:27:49,519
Speaker 1: you have on the menu for your tailgates on Sunday.

1636
01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:51,599
Speaker 1: That's coming up next year on one Bill's Live, Stay tuned.

1637
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:09,400
Speaker 1: It is Tailgate Friday, presented by high Mark, Blue Cross,

1638
01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:11,880
Speaker 1: Blue Shield, the Western New York the official healthcare plan

1639
01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:16,400
Speaker 1: of your Buffalo Bills. Let's get to the list. What's

1640
01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:19,360
Speaker 1: on the menu from you this week? From Faith? She

1641
01:28:19,560 --> 01:28:23,479
Speaker 1: says wing gap? Have you all ever tried it with celery?

1642
01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:25,960
Speaker 1: Even if you don't like it, it adds the perfect

1643
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:28,640
Speaker 1: crunch celery in the wing dip? Steve, what do you

1644
01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:33,000
Speaker 1: make of at celery in the wing dip? Yeah? I

1645
01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:36,080
Speaker 1: don't know if I like cooked celery? No thanks, I'll

1646
01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:39,760
Speaker 1: bring my own. Yeah, how is it still crunchy? Oh?

1647
01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:43,759
Speaker 1: Eating it with it, using it instead of a chip. Okay,

1648
01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:46,000
Speaker 1: all right, I can get behind that, of course, Yeah,

1649
01:28:46,040 --> 01:28:48,839
Speaker 1: I can get behind that. I was sorry, I was confused.

1650
01:28:50,040 --> 01:28:54,400
Speaker 1: Jack says, cooking up some andy bomb Sammy's at the

1651
01:28:54,439 --> 01:28:57,439
Speaker 1: tailgate this week. For those who don't know, that's hot

1652
01:28:57,560 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 1: Lakeside Italian sausage patties topped with bacon, chopped salami, fried

1653
01:29:03,479 --> 01:29:06,960
Speaker 1: hot peppers and onions, smothered in provolone and motts and

1654
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:10,799
Speaker 1: homemade hot sauce, all on a grilled garlic bun. Woo doggie.

1655
01:29:11,120 --> 01:29:15,240
Speaker 1: All I'm gonna say, that's your sodium intake for the month.

1656
01:29:15,840 --> 01:29:18,640
Speaker 1: You have every salted cured meat you could have. I

1657
01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:21,920
Speaker 1: want that so bad right now. I want that is

1658
01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:24,559
Speaker 1: so good. All right, it sounds odd. I'll see you Sunday.

1659
01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:26,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be here at right, bright nerd, I'll be

1660
01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:28,479
Speaker 1: here nine. That sounds good. We'll see you back here

1661
01:29:28,479 --> 01:29:30,920
Speaker 1: on Monday at noon to break it all down. Enjoy

1662
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:31,320
Speaker 1: the game.