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Speaker 1: to time to time on Bill's Live. Good Afternoon. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the show, John Murphy and Steve Tasker in snowy

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Speaker 1: in the Baltimore Ravens. We're inside, of course, Steve and

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Speaker 1: the next three hours. Good to be warming indorset, isn't

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Speaker 1: It's nice. It's good to be warming indoors. Yes, it's

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Speaker 1: like twenty five degrees when I came into work this morning.

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Speaker 1: I gotta say. And I wrote a piece that'll go

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Speaker 1: I racked my brains this morning trying to remember more

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Speaker 1: last twenty twenty five years. Hard to find the game

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Speaker 1: a home game yet, yeah, home game, will leave it

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Speaker 1: to dad. It's hard to find one. This just has

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Speaker 1: And look, old timers like you and I remember you

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Speaker 1: month of December. Congratulations to the loyal Bills fans. Those

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Speaker 1: of you of a certain age, let's say, under what

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Speaker 1: know what it's like and what these games mean. You

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Speaker 1: but you know, the Baltimore Ravens will be in here.

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Speaker 1: Then the Bills go to New England as well. Then

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Speaker 1: you've also, um, you've also got the Jets, and you've

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Speaker 1: important four game stretch for the Buffalo Bills. And I

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Speaker 1: that's a that's a little bit of a paradigm shift,

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Speaker 1: it's a great it's a great burning question. How do

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Speaker 1: you stop those guys? How do you beat how do

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Speaker 1: you score more points than them? Over the last six games,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens have allowed thirteen points, and just for your asking,

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Speaker 1: for the last five games, the Bills defense is allowed

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Speaker 1: thirteen points. So don't worry about dodging fireworks at this game,

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Speaker 1: right It might be it might be at thirteen thirteen tie,

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Speaker 1: you know, but it'll be a big It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a big challenge for the Bills to stop that offense.

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Speaker 1: And I think the Bills offense obviously we've seen it

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Speaker 1: present some challenges for Baltimore. Well, it'll be fun to

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Speaker 1: see these teams take out to get after each other.

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Speaker 1: Before we dive head first into Baltimore this week, we

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Speaker 1: want to spend one more day today in our show

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Speaker 1: talking a little bit about where the Bills are at.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there're seventy five percent complete with the season

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Speaker 1: though right twelve games, four games to go. Just kind

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Speaker 1: of an assessment of where they're at and what they need,

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Speaker 1: and that takes us to our Twitter poll. It is

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Speaker 1: up right now on Twitter and we've already got four

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Speaker 1: hundred votes in over the first twenty one minutes of

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Speaker 1: the show, simple question on Twitter, what's still missing from

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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills? Where can they get better

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Speaker 1: down the stretch? Here the final four games? What do

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Speaker 1: you think it is like you hear from your phone?

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Speaker 1: Line's open eight oh three oh five fifty outside Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: It's a toll free call one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. You can send in a tweet,

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Speaker 1: we can read him on the tweet sheet. We'll do

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Speaker 1: that in a moment. Or you can vote in the

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll. As I said, four hundred votes in so far,

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Speaker 1: what's still missing from the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of close, Steve, it looks like a good question.

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Speaker 1: Forty six percent of our respondent so far as say,

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Speaker 1: the deep ball, the deep threats still not there in

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Speaker 1: the offense. They're making plays in the passing game. They're

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Speaker 1: still ranked twenty third overall in passing game effectiveness in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Forty six percent, almost half of our respondent

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Speaker 1: say that's still missing from the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: Thirty percent say, you know what, they need more big

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Speaker 1: game experience. You could argue I think pretty effectively that Thursday,

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day was a big game for the Bills. It

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Speaker 1: was and big game experienced national TV. They need more

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Speaker 1: of that as they make their way towards the playoffs. Right.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty solid argument. And thirty percent

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Speaker 1: of you think that's what's still missing, more big game experience.

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Speaker 1: Sixteen percent say that what's still missing for the Bills

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Speaker 1: is playoff caliber opponents talked about this. I mean the

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Speaker 1: entire first half of the season. You know where they played,

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Speaker 1: you know where they beat. They still only have one opponent.

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Speaker 1: I believe it's still one. Maybe not the only Tennessee Titans, right,

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Speaker 1: the only team they've beaten with the winning record right now,

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Speaker 1: I'll check, and they didn't have a winning record when

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Speaker 1: the Bills played them, right, So so maybe that's what

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Speaker 1: they need, right, playoff caliber opponents. Opponents, So get one

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Speaker 1: this week, that's to be sure. That's right. Tennessee seven

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Speaker 1: and five now, but when they played him, it was

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Speaker 1: I think they were four and five when there maybe

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Speaker 1: five and five when the Bills played them. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: I can't. I can't think back that for now. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what if that's the only one of the

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Speaker 1: Bills nine victims so far this year. That is a

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Speaker 1: winning record. The Tennessee Titans Dallas, of course, now six

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Speaker 1: and six. Maybe more playoff caliber opposition is the key

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Speaker 1: down the stretch here or something else. Nine percent have

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Speaker 1: another idea. Let's know what you what's still missing from

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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills. There's still a quarter of

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Speaker 1: the season left. Four games left, two at home, two

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Speaker 1: on the road. They can fill in some of these blanks.

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Speaker 1: They can patch up some of these deficiencies. They are

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Speaker 1: not perfect. I think we can agree with that. Right,

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Speaker 1: They're not a perfect team. They're nine and three. They're

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Speaker 1: really fun, they're sensational on defense. Look, if you asked

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Speaker 1: this question at mid season, and we may have one

501
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Speaker 1: of the things people would say is they need more sacks.

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Speaker 1: They need more sexy. They fixed that problem over the

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Speaker 1: last four games season. They've got fifteen sexs total in

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Speaker 1: the last three games. They've got more sacks right now

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Speaker 1: with four games to play than they had all the

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Speaker 1: last year. They also they also started getting turnovers, yeah,

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Speaker 1: which was a huge thing. So they're yeah, they're they're growing,

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Speaker 1: and they're they're attacking whatever their weaknesses are their deficiencies

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Speaker 1: are they're putting good game plans together. They're executing at

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Speaker 1: a higher level. And by the way, when the Bills

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Speaker 1: played the Tennessee Titans, they were the Titans were two

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Speaker 1: and two, so there they were five hundred ball club

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Speaker 1: when the Bills played them. So yeah, they're might be

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Speaker 1: that in the in the offering that they haven't played

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Speaker 1: some strong teams and the you know, the Cowboys are

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Speaker 1: at the top of a very weak division here in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. So still, you know, this is a team

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Speaker 1: that is continuing to be more and more fun to

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Speaker 1: watch because they're becoming better and better right before our eyes.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a that's a cool place to think

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Speaker 1: about being And and uh, this game last week in

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Speaker 1: Dallas was I think their best game of the year.

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Speaker 1: And when you start to play your best game games

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Speaker 1: of the year, you want it to be at the

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Speaker 1: end when you've got a chance to go all the way.

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Speaker 1: That's and that's where the Bills are at. They're they're

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Speaker 1: growing into a really, really tough team to be in,

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Speaker 1: a playoff caliber team and all of the other stuff,

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Speaker 1: you know, championship kind of team that you get in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, and you do feel like you can beat anybody.

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Speaker 1: It's a fun place to be and I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's um. The point is, I think there's room

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Speaker 1: for improvement, and there's time for improvement. Here four games left,

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Speaker 1: and that's how we want you to approach this question

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Speaker 1: of the day of this Twitter poll. What's still missing

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Speaker 1: from the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills. What are you seeing?

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Speaker 1: What are you looking for? A deep passing threat, more

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Speaker 1: big game experience, a more playoff Cali opposition, something else.

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Speaker 1: We got phone lines open to discuss eight oh three

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Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty, sending a tweet, voting the Twitter poll,

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Speaker 1: whatever you'd like, we'd like to hear from you. We'd

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Speaker 1: like to take the show in this direction. But of

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Speaker 1: course we'll take all of your phone calls and discuss

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Speaker 1: whatever you'd like to talk about. What's still missing from

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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills. Let's start with a tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: It is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

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Speaker 1: official movers of the Buffalo Bills. What he got there,

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Speaker 1: Steve Hey from Bob and this was a good one.

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Speaker 1: I saw early on, and I thought it was a

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Speaker 1: pretty astute observation. He says, fans really need to stop

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Speaker 1: with the deep ball passes and three hundred yard passings

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Speaker 1: passing as a benchmark of winning. This team is winning

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Speaker 1: with different ways and game plans. If it ain't broke,

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Speaker 1: don't fix it. Sure a shot here and there down

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Speaker 1: the field to keep monest but it's not a must.

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Speaker 1: That's from Bob, and then then from praise. He thinks,

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Speaker 1: I think the Bills are going to go, are going

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Speaker 1: in the right direct, But I don't know if we

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Speaker 1: beat a top team in the playoffs yet. We will

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Speaker 1: find out when we play the Ravens and the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: And like I said, this last month of the season's

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Speaker 1: got a lot of lessons that the Bills fans are

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Speaker 1: going to learn, and a lot of things we're gonna

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Speaker 1: find out about this team in particular as these last

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Speaker 1: four games transpire. I'm I'm really really curious to see

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Speaker 1: how the Bills stack up against the Ravens, Steelers, and

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. This team not the team that the Bills

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Speaker 1: were two months ago, even, but this team in week

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Speaker 1: you know, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen eighteen, or whatever. I want

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Speaker 1: to see how this team stacks up against those teams.

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Speaker 1: That's I think it's a fun place to be right now.

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Speaker 1: Can I get back to the first tweet there from

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Speaker 1: Bob Yea and he starts with fans really need to

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Speaker 1: stop with deep ball passes in three hundred yard passing

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Speaker 1: games as benchmarks of winning. It has never been a

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Speaker 1: benchmark of winning. It has never been. Years ago, if

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Speaker 1: a quarterback through for three hundred yards, it was more

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Speaker 1: apt to being in a loss. Now, I don't I

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Speaker 1: know it's not that way now, but it directly correl

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Speaker 1: eate three hundred yards through the air with a win

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Speaker 1: for your team. Lamar Jackson right, having a great year

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Speaker 1: close he might be the MVP. You know, many three

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Speaker 1: hundred yard passing games he's had this year? Yes, Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: Zero one? Has he had one? Opening Day he had

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Speaker 1: three hundred twenty four yards in their demolition in Miami

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Speaker 1: fifty nine to ten. He hasn't had one since three

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Speaker 1: hundred yard passing him. They've won eight in a row.

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00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: He hasn't had a three undred yard passing him, Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: They won the other day he threw for one hundred

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Speaker 1: five yards, whether obviously a factor one hundred sixty nine

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Speaker 1: yards in a win at the Raiders or at the Rams,

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Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty two yards in a win for Houston,

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Speaker 1: two hundred twenty three yards. And look, he's not the

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Speaker 1: well he's an MVP candidate. He's not thrown for three

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Speaker 1: hundred yards. He's not the greatest passer in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: but he's not thrown for three hundred yards. Bob is

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Speaker 1: right on his Twitter. Three hundred yard passing game is

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Speaker 1: not a benchmark. And winning and this team does. The

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Speaker 1: Bill team wins in different ways. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: you gotta do that right. Resourcefulness is key if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a winning record, find a way to win.

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00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 1: That's that's critical. And this Bills team has done it.

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Speaker 1: And the teams that are at the top there, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you think at it. Last night the Seahawks beat the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: They scored thirty seven points. They did have a defensive touchdown,

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Speaker 1: but they say, okay, so they scored thirty points. Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson had two hundred and forty yards passing two hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty and he is the other and he's another

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Speaker 1: MVP candidate Kirk Cousins had two hundred and seventy six

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Speaker 1: yards passing in a loss last night. They scored thirty points,

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Speaker 1: so it actually the defensive touchdown was on the Viking side.

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Speaker 1: The Seahawks scored all of their touchdowns I think offensively,

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Speaker 1: or maybe they had I didn't watch the entire game.

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00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: It was just too late on the West Coast. But

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Speaker 1: thirty seven points and only three if two hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty yards, I mean, that's it's not And you look

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Speaker 1: at the way that Baltimore Ravens. The Baltimore Ravens are

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Speaker 1: winning games. All of that, it's it's interesting to see

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Speaker 1: how these teams are finding different ways to do it.

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Speaker 1: And you know, the Seahawks, the Bills, the Saints. The

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Speaker 1: stats on the Saints last game against the Falcons, Drew Brees,

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan and Drew Brees. Drew Brees had one hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty four yards passing. They won, scored twenty six points. Now,

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00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan in the loss had three hundred and twelve

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Speaker 1: yards passing, but he also had the two interceptions. Think

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Speaker 1: about that. The Drew Brees, who's thrown for five thousand

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Speaker 1: yards A bunch in his career, had one hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty four yards passing this last Sunday and one throw,

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Speaker 1: scoring twenty six points. The league's in a spot right now.

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Speaker 1: We're they are winning games a lot more with a

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Speaker 1: running game, and a lot more with different types of

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Speaker 1: plays and more creative play calling. It's it's pretty weird, actually,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. It seems really weird. You look at the

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Speaker 1: offense the Ravens are running. Nobody was doing that, Nobody

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Speaker 1: has been doing that. You see. The Cardinals are trying

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Speaker 1: to do a little bit of a get the ball

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Speaker 1: out of the quarterbacks hands, using their quarterbacks as weapons

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Speaker 1: who can run the football and get first down with

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Speaker 1: their legs. And the Bills have done that a ton too,

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Speaker 1: calling those Josh Allen short yardage sweeps. Ravens are doing

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Speaker 1: that a ton. You pull that tackle and you send

643
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Speaker 1: a fullback or a tight end out in front. You

644
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: got two big, big bodies and a big quarterback coming

645
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Speaker 1: around the end. It's it's pretty hard to stop. Yeah. So, yeah,

646
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: that's three hundred yard passing thing. Not this year now.

647
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Speaker 1: Maybe swing back into the end of vogue next year.

648
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Speaker 1: But I think it's amazing how these teams all kind

649
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Speaker 1: of find the same way to win and when given

650
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: seasons a couple of years ago you almost had three

651
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Speaker 1: guys go over five thousand yards. Not anymore, you know,

652
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen. What's still missing from the twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. That's a question on the table. And the

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00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: presumption is the room they have room for improvement, right,

655
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: they certainly do. Bills fans understand that. Brian Dable understands that.

656
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Speaker 1: He talked about it yesterday, the offensive coordinator for the

657
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, Brian Dable, talking about how they can improve

658
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Speaker 1: moving forward. Here's what he said. You know, we've got

659
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Speaker 1: a long way to go, a lot of things to

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Speaker 1: work on, starting this week against you know, a team

661
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Speaker 1: in the last six weeks that's given up thirteen points

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Speaker 1: a game, first in the league, best against the best

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00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: quarterback rating, you know, somewhere around seventy percent, somewhere in

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Speaker 1: that area, best in the red zone, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty four point differential in the last six games, you know,

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Speaker 1: against some pretty good football teams. Daunting task, challenging defense.

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Speaker 1: Coach Martindale does I'd say a phenomenal job of giving

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Speaker 1: you multiple multiplicity of looks there'll be a challenging week

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Speaker 1: for preparation. Ryan Gable, Bill's offensive coordinator. They're preparing right now.

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Speaker 1: It looks like essentially a full practice out there today

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Speaker 1: this Tuesday. Right, Yeah, I guess they were off yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I spoke the game the long, long, long weekend, and

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00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: they'll come in go Tuesday through Saturday this week and

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Speaker 1: start to focus. But imagine the challenge of going up

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Speaker 1: against the team like the Baltimore Ravens who are playing

676
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: a unique style of offense with a with a an

677
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: elite athlete at quarterback who can really throw it too.

678
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: He's the atomic man. The guy's the atomic bomb. You

679
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: know he really is. Lamar Jackson is the atomic bomb.

680
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: I called Cam Newton that a couple of years ago

681
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Speaker 1: when they took he took them to the super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and now I think, to their credit, Baltimore found their

683
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: own and he's getting it done. What a fun player

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Speaker 1: to watch. He is gonna be fun this Sunday. We

685
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: know that gonna be fun leading up to it all

686
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: week talking about the Bills and the Ravens. And we'd

687
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Speaker 1: love to talk with you. The phone lines open eight

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Speaker 1: oh three fifty toll free from Outside Buffalo one eight

689
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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty question to get

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Speaker 1: it started. What's still missing from the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 1: even at nine and three, even after their big win

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Speaker 1: in Dallas last Thursday. What do you think still missing?

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Speaker 1: Give us a call, shooting a text and we'll discuss.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I just getting going here on this Tuesday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: It is One Bills Live, presented by Kalidah Health Live

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Speaker 1: from the Center the Studio, Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing

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Speaker 1: comes closed. Welcome back One Bills five. It is a

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Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon, John Murphy, Steve Dasker in our one Buffalo

699
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: studio The Bills at nine and three, getting set to

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Speaker 1: play the ten and two Baltimore Ravens this Sunday right here,

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Speaker 1: I just I can't go. I'm not gonna keep saying it,

702
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: but I'm just really glad that there's a whole new

703
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: generation of Bills fans get to see a game that

704
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: really means something that's really cool. And this game means

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00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: a lot, right does. And I think it's it's a

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Speaker 1: huge opportunity for the team to the organization to put

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Speaker 1: on display what they've been trying to build here, and

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Speaker 1: it's it's against an absolute can't miss playoff team. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is the Baltimore Ravens or playoff team coming up

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Speaker 1: after that, the Pittsburgh Steelers are a playoff team. They're

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00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: seven and five team depending on what they do this weekend. Obviously,

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00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: this game is like the playoffs because you're playing those

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Speaker 1: teams at the end of the season in which they're

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Speaker 1: going to be in there in the tournament. So how

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Speaker 1: you stack up against these teams says a lot about

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Speaker 1: how successful you might be once that tournament starts if

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Speaker 1: you can get in. So it's it's pretty meaningful in

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Speaker 1: a lot of different ways. It gives you a yardstick

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Speaker 1: for where your development is, and it also gives you

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Speaker 1: a scouting report on what that team thinks about you.

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Speaker 1: And that is as much and that's as helpful as

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Speaker 1: any of the scouting you do yourself. Because when they

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Speaker 1: get into again, when the Baltimore Ravens get into a

724
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Speaker 1: game against the Buffalo Bills, how they play your team

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00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: tells your team what they see, what that other team sees,

726
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: and you can adjust your development, you can adjust your

727
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: game plan, you can adjust your own evaluations based on

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Speaker 1: what other teams see in you. And it's really enlightening,

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00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, you gotta you know, it's

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Speaker 1: not like you can just say that. And you watch

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Speaker 1: kas when you go in and these guys grind out

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Speaker 1: and pull apart the film about why they played a

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Speaker 1: certain scheme, and who they're leaving one on one, who

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Speaker 1: they're covering one on one, who they're double teaming, who

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00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: they're attacking on your offensive line, how many guys they

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Speaker 1: throw at the front, the stunts that they run. Everything

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Speaker 1: tells you something about what that team thinks about you.

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Speaker 1: And when you get in against these really good teams

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Speaker 1: like the Ravens, like the Pittsburgh Steelers, like the New

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Speaker 1: England Patriots, it gives you an insight if you don't

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00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: already have one, about how they attack you and what

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00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: you can expect and when they meet again, when you

743
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: meet again. So it's these are important, huge games. If

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00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: the Bills can continue to play well and get in

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00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: the playoffs and face these teams again, what do you

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Speaker 1: think what's still missing from the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to the phone lines. We'll go to Gary

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00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: and his home Illo Gary, where's your home? Gary, Clarence, Clarence.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you with us, Gary, go ahead, you're

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Speaker 1: on the air. I agree with that tweet earlier that

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00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 1: the middle of the offense doesn't need to do much changing.

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00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 1: They're doing fine as they as they are. But on defense,

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Speaker 1: here's a suggestion I'd like you to pass on to

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Speaker 1: the coaches. Why don't they add a linebacker take away

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00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: alignment on defense in order to spread out that defense

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00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: or Lamar can't do his woman around the ending and

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00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: you know, more of a containment. The alignemen are just

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00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: gonna butt heads with each other, and if they do

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Speaker 1: manage to get into the backfield of Ravens, they won't

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Speaker 1: be able to catch Lamar. Yeah. I don't know if

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00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: that's an answer, and I'm not really an expert on this,

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Speaker 1: but I do know this. It's a power running game

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00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 1: Steve for Baltimore, and they have extra tight ends. They

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Speaker 1: all block, they all block well for Lamar Jackson. Look,

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Speaker 1: this guy isn't scrambling for all that yardage with nine

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Speaker 1: hundred seventy seven yards rushing. Yeah, he's like a thousand

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00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 1: yards this Sunday. You're not scrambling. He's not scooting around

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Speaker 1: picking up yard and those are designed runs for him,

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Speaker 1: which include blocks, lead blocks in front of him a

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Speaker 1: fullback or one of the many tight ends they have.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if an extra linebacker works in

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Speaker 1: that regard. I think you want to you want to

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Speaker 1: knock heads with him. You want to win at the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmidge and maybe shut down those running lines.

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Speaker 1: That would be my theory. Yeah. The thing that makes

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Speaker 1: a guy like Lamar Jackson so dangerous not only is

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Speaker 1: that he's an integral part and of their run game

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00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: because they have called quarterback runs, option plays, read option

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00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: plays where you're not sure if he's going to keep

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Speaker 1: the ball or give it to mark Ingram. Mark Ingram

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00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: is a really good running back as well. You got

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Speaker 1: to defend two guys in the running game and a

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Speaker 1: bunch of guys in the passing game. You've got to

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Speaker 1: hit on all cylinders and you've got to stay discipline. Now,

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Speaker 1: certainly there are things they can do, but here's the kicker.

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Speaker 1: Not only do they execute all that stuff really well,

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00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: then the read options the passing game. The Lamar is

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00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: a very accurate passer. He's a fast, big, agile running

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Speaker 1: back as well as a really good drop back quarterback.

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Speaker 1: The difference is because you meet good quarterbacks a lot,

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00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: you meet good running backs a lot. The difference is

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00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: that Lamar's got the ball in his hand every play,

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Speaker 1: and when you do defend it, he can still improvise

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00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 1: and make a play to beat you. So it's not

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Speaker 1: all just about it's about what he does off the page,

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00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: and that's what you've got to really try and contain

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00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: as well. It's you've got to hit on all cylinders

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Speaker 1: almost all the time against this offense of the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: or they're gonna just stay on the field and you're

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00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: gonna have about twenty minutes of possession time for your offense.

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00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: They're gonna run sixty plays offensively and you're gonna run

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Speaker 1: thirty five and you're gonna you're not You're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to beat him under those parameters, and it's almost impossible

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Speaker 1: to do. Let's hear from the expert on this, Leslie Frasier,

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Speaker 1: the Bill's defensive coordinator. He met with the media yesterday

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00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: and he was asked, what do you do? What do

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Speaker 1: you do with the guy like Lamar Jackson. Here's what

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Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier had to say about that. He seems, you know,

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00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: really bright young quarterback who understands obviously the run game,

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Speaker 1: but has a good feel for the past game as well.

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Speaker 1: You know, you really don't want to sleep on what

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Speaker 1: he does in the passing game. You know, his ability

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00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: to be able to find people in zones and and

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00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: find the mismatches in man but his ability to run

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Speaker 1: around with the football and scramble and make plays and

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00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: then the design runs for the quarterback puts a lot

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Speaker 1: of pressure on your defense. So he does a lot

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Speaker 1: of things well, and you really can't pinpoint and say,

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Speaker 1: if you can take this away, you really have him down.

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Speaker 1: But he does a lot of things well, so it'll

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Speaker 1: it'll be a challenge. I think it was one of

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Speaker 1: the Charges players who commented after the game it was

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00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: hard for him to tell, you know, when he had

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Speaker 1: the ball and when he didn't have the ball. He's

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00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:46,320
Speaker 1: he's a little bit of a hoodni back there with

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Speaker 1: the football and really, you know, so deceptive with whether

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00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: or not he's handing it off or he's keeping it

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Speaker 1: or potentially passing it. But he runs the offense extremely

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Speaker 1: well and probably doesn' get as anybody at our level

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Speaker 1: who's who's running the style offense. You just don't see

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00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 1: it very often Marseilles, so it's it's different. But he

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Speaker 1: does a very good job of running rpel system. He's

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Speaker 1: a Houdini with the ball. Find the ball. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's hard even watching the games on TV and I've

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Speaker 1: watched him a couple of times, hard to follow the ball.

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Speaker 1: When it's in the hands of Lamar Jackson, it can

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Speaker 1: go anywhere. Look, it's a great offense. And Eric Wood

838
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: talked about it at Link with us about the job

839
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Speaker 1: that Greg Roman has done yet again with another mobile quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Did with Kaepernick, did it with Tyrod Taylor here now

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00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: maybe he's excelling at it with Lamar Jackson. It is

842
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: really it's a fun offense to watch unless you're trying

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Speaker 1: to stop him. I'm sure that's the way the Leslie

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Speaker 1: Frazier looks at it. Yeah, I mean, there's so much

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Speaker 1: going on. And one of the things that Eric and

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Speaker 1: Eric Wood told us yesterday and has made clear what

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Speaker 1: happens is if they get you start getting this defense

848
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: running sideways with this even the tight ends who they'll

849
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Speaker 1: hand the ball off on one of those jets sweeps

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Speaker 1: like we give it to Isaiah McKenzie or Robert Foster.

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Speaker 1: They'll do that with tight ends and you got a

852
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: heavy guy with the ball, you kind of gotta get

853
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: over there and get in front of him. You feel

854
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: like it all the stuff's going side to side, and

855
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're starting to get it caught

856
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: up in all that movement. All of a sudden they

857
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: throw it over the top of your head or they

858
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: throw get your moving side to side, and all of

859
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: a sudden, the ball is over here. Because their ball

860
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 1: handling is so good, and they're doing it with a

861
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: lead blocker and a running back where you were even

862
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: leaning the wrong way, so you got to get back

863
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: over there. And by the time you get over there,

864
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: and even if you stop it and get really good,

865
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: it's a four yard game and that's a win for

866
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 1: the offense on a first down player or even a

867
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: second down in normal play. So they do so much

868
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 1: with they do it with big people. They've got a

869
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 1: lot of speed as well that they can offer it

870
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: mostly with mark Ingram and Lamar Jackson, who are fast.

871
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: Mark Ingrams are really good running back, and he's worth

872
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: a game plan all in his own right. So the

873
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: you ad ad Lamar Jackson into that. There's a lot

874
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: on your plate. As a defender. You've got to really

875
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: mind your eyes. Make sure your eyes are in the

876
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 1: right spot, don't get caught up in what's going on

877
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: over there, make sure your guy does not have the

878
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: football before you do anything else, and then pursue. And

879
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: that's for a lot of guys. It's hard because you

880
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: really have to bear up and get some strong pursuit

881
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: to stop these plays before they get to be a

882
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 1: significant game, and in doing so, you forget that in

883
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: your pursuit you're the guy you were supposed to be

884
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: defending in the first place has actually got the ball.

885
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,760
Speaker 1: That's been a real issue for teams defending the Ravens,

886
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,280
Speaker 1: and it's going to continue that way until some teams

887
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: figure it out. Hey, playoff scenarios, the league makes it official.

888
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,320
Speaker 1: And we were correct. You said yesterday I mentioned today

889
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: Bills clinch a playoff berth this Sunday. They can if

890
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: they beat Baltimore. All right, we got that. If Tennessee

891
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: beats Oakland, an Oakland loss or a tie, that's the

892
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: only thing we didn't mention. I don't like to think

893
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 1: about ties, right Denver Beach, Houston, and Tampa Bay hands

894
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: Indianapolis a loss or a tie and the Bills win.

895
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: So Bill's got to win an Oakland, Houston, Indianapolis. If

896
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: any one of those three lose and Buffalo wins, the

897
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: Bills are in. And there are a couple of ties

898
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: in Oakland, Houston, Indie, Yeah, or ties, yeah, well if

899
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: they if they, if somebody ties this weekend, you can

900
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: tear this scenario because it's old. Yeah, it gives you

901
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: a headache, all the permutations with the ties. But by

902
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: the same token, simply put, if Buffalo wins this weekend,

903
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: of course, and also Oakland or Houston or Indie loses,

904
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be all three of them, or

905
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: two of the three, or any If any one of

906
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: those three loses Oakland, Houston, or Indie and the Bills win,

907
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: the Bills are in. That'd be amazing. We got a

908
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: break here. We're coming back with the more. It would

909
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:40,800
Speaker 1: be we're coming back with the more. Let us know

910
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: what you think. What's still missing from the Buffalo Bills

911
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen eight H three h five fifty toll

912
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: free one eight eight by fifty two five fifty We're

913
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:53,720
Speaker 1: back one Bills Live Life from the Seneca Studio presented

914
00:43:53,719 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: by Kaleida Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back, John Murphy,

915
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. We're heading up to one o'clock when Kyle

916
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 1: Brand's gonna join us. This kind of cool Steva along

917
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: with the game on Sunday, Pretty cool game. The Bills

918
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: and Poogola Sports and Entertainment announcing today that they will

919
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: honor members of Saint Bonnoventre's nineteen seventy men's basketball team

920
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: before this Sunday's game. Nine former Bondies and coach Livery

921
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: we See to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their legendary

922
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 1: run to the Final four. Matt Gant, Greg Gary, Billy Calbam,

923
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: Mike call. Fifty years after beginning the season that would

924
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 1: end in the final four. They'll be on the field.

925
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: You're looking at me like, what are you talking about?

926
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,320
Speaker 1: It was it was one year in nineteen seventy, So

927
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 1: what was at thirteen years old when both the Bonnies

928
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: and Niagara went to the NCAA Tournament. Niagara had the

929
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: All American Calvin Murphy, Bonnies had the All American Boblaneer

930
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: Bonnies went right to the final four. It's part of

931
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: a partnership between Saint Bonnoventer and the Buffalo Bills, and

932
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: they will celebrate that partnership, the Bondies becoming an official

933
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: education partner. But it'd be cool. I mean that that

934
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,720
Speaker 1: was a major event in Buffalo sports history. In nineteen seventy,

935
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: Niagara went to the NCAA and Bonnies went all the

936
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: way to the final four. Pretty cool. Nice. Yeah, I

937
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: didn't realize that happened in the same year. I've been

938
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: here for a long time. Yeah, one of one. Yeah,

939
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,359
Speaker 1: the Bonnies were big time with Lanier, they were huge.

940
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: I were talking to you today about the Bills game

941
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: on Sunday and about what's missing from the twenty nineteen

942
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. What have you seen? What would you like

943
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: to see more of? Here is Paul on the line

944
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: from Ekron. Hello, Paul, go ahead, you're on the air. Hey,

945
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: good afternoon, guys. I wanted to kind of ask you

946
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: guys a question because Baltimore was beat twice and it

947
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,760
Speaker 1: was by Cleveland and by Kansas City back to back weeks.

948
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: The reason I want to ask this question is because

949
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out what the Bills could do

950
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 1: to win. So I guess the best way to try

951
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: to figure out that is what did they do successfully

952
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 1: to beat Baltimore that we might be able to take

953
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: from that to hopefully get a win this weekend. And

954
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: I'll hang up and listen to you guys, really good question.

955
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:04,959
Speaker 1: I plan on watching at least one of those games

956
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 1: this week. You don't have to go back that far.

957
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 1: And that was well eight games, right, they won eight

958
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: in a row, right, they lost them back to back weeks,

959
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: And I will look at that game maybe have a

960
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 1: better answer. But even San Francisco and now the Bills

961
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: have a really good defense, the Niners do as well.

962
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,440
Speaker 1: The Niners held them to twenty points, their lowest point

963
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 1: output of the years so far. Steve, I think that game,

964
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: especially because of the proximity, might be might be more

965
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 1: instructive than going all the way back to two and

966
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: a half months ago. Right, I think how different the

967
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills are than they were two and a half

968
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: months ago, you know, back in weeks three and four,

969
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 1: well two months ago. So yeah, it will help, no question,

970
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: but it'll all. But I think they'll digest all these

971
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: games and they'll find and they'll look at what forty

972
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 1: nine And here's the problem. Now, the forty nine ers

973
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,879
Speaker 1: may do things with their defense that the Bills don't

974
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: feel comfortable doing with their guys because of the personnel

975
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: they have. The Niners have got six of their seven

976
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: guys or first round draft picks up front on their defense.

977
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: The Bills don't. They got a couple, but they don't.

978
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: They're gonna do it differently. They're gonna do it with

979
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: the way their people stack up, So it'll be a

980
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: different thought. It may be the same philosophy, or the

981
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,479
Speaker 1: goal end goal may be the same. They may see

982
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: the they probably do see the Baltimore Ravens offense the

983
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: same way that the Niners defense did, but they will

984
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: probably have their own plan that will maximize their players,

985
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,800
Speaker 1: just like the Niners did, and it'll be up to

986
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: the Bills players to get execute it. So, yes, you

987
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,359
Speaker 1: can get some instruction on games like that. But going

988
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: back as far as they have, they've won eight games

989
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,919
Speaker 1: in the row. It's two months ago since they lost

990
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: a game. They're much different football team that now than

991
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 1: they were then. And in the meantime, they beat the Bengals,

992
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 1: the Bengals held them to twenty three points, you know,

993
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 1: but everybody else it's been The Steelers gave them twenty

994
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 1: six the Seahawks. They scored thirty on the Seahawks, they

995
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 1: scored thirty seven on the New England Patriots. They scored

996
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: forty nine. The second time they played the Bengals, they

997
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: scored forty one against the Houston Texans, they scored forty

998
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 1: five against the Los Angeles Rams, and then when they've

999
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: met the forty nine Ers, they only scored twenty. This

1000
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: is a team that can roll it up, can roll

1001
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: it up big time. So you better be you better

1002
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: be ready for it. But you're right, you've got to

1003
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 1: come up with a game plan that some that gives

1004
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 1: you a chance to beat them. And that's the big

1005
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: question whether you can go back and get some lessons.

1006
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: And there might be some lessons in the Cincinnati Bengals

1007
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: second meeting with him, where they gave up forty nine points.

1008
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: But you know, it doesn't matter how many points you get.

1009
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: It depends on the philosophy and what they find out

1010
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: about it. So there are things to learn in all

1011
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: those games, and we'll see what happens on this Sunday

1012
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: when the Bills unfurled their game plan, got a break

1013
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: right here. We're coming back with Mark. Come on back

1014
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: with us One Bills Live with me and Steve Tansker

1015
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: here until three. When we come back, Kyle Brandt of

1016
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: the NFL Network's going to be joining us. Come on

1017
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 1: back for that. It's One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida

1018
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 1: Health from the Seneca Studio in Archard Park. This is

1019
00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio, Buffalo Hills Radio Network. Sports Day comes

1020
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: from One Bills Driver. The Buffalo Bills have wrapped up

1021
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: their practice, a Tuesday practice, a different sort of a

1022
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: week with the weekend off and off day yesterday Monday.

1023
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: They're getting set to host the Baltimore Ravens huge game

1024
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: coming up this Sunday here at the New Airfield. A

1025
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: couple of top ten defense going at it in this

1026
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: game and their top five in points allow Buffalo gives

1027
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: up fifteen point seven points per game. The Ravens give

1028
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 1: up eighteen points per game, and they're getting better. Last

1029
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: five games, both the Bills and the Ravens giving up

1030
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 1: an average of thirteen points per game. One of the

1031
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: Bill's top defenders has a chance to be out of

1032
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 1: this weekend. Oliver Buffalo's rookie defensive tackle with two sacks,

1033
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 1: one force fumbled, and one pass defense in the win

1034
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,399
Speaker 1: over the Dallas Cowboys, and Oliver is a nominee Week

1035
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: thirteen of the NFL Rookie of the Week. Find out

1036
00:49:57,680 --> 00:49:59,439
Speaker 1: later this week if he's able to win it. Bills

1037
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 1: announced today that they will honor the nineteen seventy Saint

1038
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:06,240
Speaker 1: Bonaventure University Final Four basketball team in the game on Sunday.

1039
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 1: Prior to kick off, that team, including several members met

1040
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: Greg Gary and others, will be on the field for

1041
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: a pregame ceremony Settle Bread in the fiftieth anniversary of

1042
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: the school's legendary run to the Final Four. Last night,

1043
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: the Seahawks won over Minnesota thirty seven to thirty, and

1044
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:23,399
Speaker 1: they did it with the flu bug hitting their team hard.

1045
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 1: Many players hit by a flu bluck that started making

1046
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 1: us way through the Seahawks locker room. Midway through this week.

1047
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,760
Speaker 1: They had six players on the injury list listed with illness.

1048
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: Questions aren't going away soon about Jason Garrett's future as

1049
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: jobs Dennis with the Dallas Cowboys as head coach, but

1050
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: his owner Jerry Jones said nobody has the exclusive skills

1051
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 1: to get the job done. He said Jason Garrett, in

1052
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: my opinion, will be coaching in the NFL next year.

1053
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 1: He did not say with Cowboys. The Bengals officially activated

1054
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: wide receiver John Ross from injury. Reserved rossi Banoutsen suffering

1055
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: an injury during Week four in the loss at Pittsburgh

1056
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: College football great Ciano is back with Rutgers as coach.

1057
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,839
Speaker 1: They approved an agreement the university did to bring back

1058
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 1: the former Scarlett Knight's coach to lead the program. And

1059
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Savers defeat of the Devil's seven to one

1060
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: last night, Savers opened up a three game road trip

1061
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:15,479
Speaker 1: to Western Canada on Thursday. I'm not predicting it, Steve.

1062
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: I'm guarantanna the Buffalo Bills will beat the Dallas Cowboys.

1063
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,320
Speaker 1: And never mind my partners on Good Morning Football. And

1064
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: let me assure you, as much as I love my

1065
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: two brothers and my sister, they have seen five seconds

1066
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: of Buffalo Bills football all year. They're off doing the

1067
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 1: primetime games and the more prestigious teams, and they're all

1068
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 1: much bigger than me. Those guys, believe me, they are

1069
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:37,840
Speaker 1: like what the Bills, Oh, they still play football in

1070
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,800
Speaker 1: Western New York, telling you they will do it? E separate,

1071
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 1: k K knows the Bills, but I do think the

1072
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: Bills will beat the Dallas Cowboys there. I think they're

1073
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 1: a better team. I don't know if they have a

1074
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,919
Speaker 1: better roster. I don't really care. I think the Bills

1075
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,280
Speaker 1: will beat the Cowboys on Thursday, and how the Bills

1076
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: will be a much much bigger deal in this country

1077
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: on Friday. That's how it went last Tuesday, a week ago,

1078
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: when our man Kyle Brandt forecast correctly predicted, he guaranteed

1079
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,320
Speaker 1: a Buffalo Bill's victory over the Dallas Cowboys. As you know,

1080
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 1: that's the way it happened in Kyle Brandt, the host

1081
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 1: of Good Morning Football on the NFL network, joins US

1082
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: live right now. Kyle, go ahead, take a victory lap

1083
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: around your living room. There, go ahead, you deserve it.

1084
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: Not a prediction, m let's not less than anybody confused.

1085
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: Not a prediction, a guarantee. And you know what, it

1086
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: wasn't even that close. I wish I could pan forward

1087
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: now and say I guarantee. Steve Tascroll, being the Pro

1088
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 1: Football Hall of fame, but I can tell you this,

1089
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 1: I guarantee he is a first ballot Hall of Fame.

1090
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football guest Steve came on last Friday and

1091
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: was incredible. Thank you, Steve, Thank you for making the

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00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 1: show better. Wow, it was fun for me. You guys

1093
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: are great with you guys are a staple in our day.

1094
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 1: We watch you every day and it was an honor

1095
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: for me and thrill it was. It was fun. You

1096
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: guys are made your show better for thirteen weeks. You

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00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: kind of us and frankly, look, Steve, you were just

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00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 1: as a guest like you were as a player, completely dependable,

1099
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 1: hard working, research. You came in with a metaphor, and

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00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: you know we love metaphors and Good Morning Football absolutely

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00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: killed it. Thank you for coming on. Now let's bring

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00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:08,959
Speaker 1: on those Ravenshi. There you go then, and that brings

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00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: us to the topic of the day, and thank you.

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00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: We had to play your guarantee for last week so

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00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 1: we could finally put the Dallas win behind us and

1106
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: you know, kind of move on from our Thanksgiving feast.

1107
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: But this is and I've told Murph this a ton

1108
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: and you know this too. When you the reward you

1109
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: get for winning an important game is a more important game,

1110
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,399
Speaker 1: and that's what the Bills faced with the Ravens this week.

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00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: It's wild too, because I feel like it almost feels

1112
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,280
Speaker 1: like they jumped up in way class right, like like, okay,

1113
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 1: well you're knocked out the middleweight and now your reward

1114
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: is the light heavyweight who's been winning every fight in

1115
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:51,840
Speaker 1: the first round. And as no joke whatsoever, but listen,

1116
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,320
Speaker 1: isn't this what you want as a Bills fan, don't you?

1117
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: Nobody watched for eleven weeks and everyone said, well, you

1118
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 1: beat the Dolphins, to beat the Redskins. This is Its

1119
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: been three and a half months in the making, maybe

1120
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: twenty years in the making. It's a huge game and

1121
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,240
Speaker 1: a huge challenge. I heard Murs talking about the defensive

1122
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: statistics that the two teams going in. You know, I

1123
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 1: saw some really good defensive statistics. But the San Francisco

1124
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 1: in forty nine ers last week too, and then I

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00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 1: see Lamar just printing through the secondary. This is the

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00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 1: challenge of all challenges. I'm not necessarily sure. I'm gonna

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00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: give you a Bill's guarantee they're gonna win this week

1128
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:26,879
Speaker 1: or wait till the end of the segment. We don't

1129
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: need to guarantee every week, but if you got one,

1130
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:31,840
Speaker 1: we'll take it. Kyle, what is it about this Baltimore

1131
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: offense that as everybody's so excited? And I guess a

1132
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: better question might be what have they done to change

1133
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,479
Speaker 1: the way we look at NFL offenses? What has Lamar

1134
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: Jackson done? Do you think it's insane? You know? And

1135
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: it's I think it's also not just that they're running

1136
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 1: all over the place or not just at their a sensation.

1137
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,720
Speaker 1: We're in December now, this has been going on four months.

1138
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:53,800
Speaker 1: That supposed thing where the league catches up with Lamar

1139
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 1: or watches film with Lamar. We're kind of past that.

1140
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 1: He's passed every single test. There's a lot lot of

1141
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:02,319
Speaker 1: different ways that could take this, but I'll do kind

1142
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:04,880
Speaker 1: of a kind of a backdoor away on this. Everybody's

1143
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:07,720
Speaker 1: been watching Lamar Jackson, and everyone watching your show, listening

1144
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 1: to your show knows mark Ingram there's something that the

1145
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: Ravens do that is so interesting and a player to

1146
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: watch out for this weekend. Watch her number forty two.

1147
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: Patrick Ricard. Patrick Ricard, they call him Project Pat. He

1148
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: is an undrafted guy from Maine and he is one

1149
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 1: of the NFL's maybe the NFL's only true two way player.

1150
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 1: He's the full back that's in front of Lamar, in

1151
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: front of Ingram on the goal line. He also plays

1152
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: pass rusher on defensive defensive end, and he plays special

1153
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: teams a lot of this Malley that you see them

1154
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:41,399
Speaker 1: do when they go for a full house backfield double

1155
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 1: tight ends. It's not just Ingram and Lamar. This guy

1156
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 1: number forty two is the do all guy, and you've

1157
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: got to take him out of it because he's nasty

1158
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 1: watch for Patrick Ricard. Yeah, and there's a lot of

1159
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 1: things about this game that are new and different for

1160
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 1: Bill's fan. We don't see the Baltimore Ravens all the time,

1161
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: although it's the last two seasons we will have seen them.

1162
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: This is a team also that plays really good defense.

1163
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,280
Speaker 1: I mean, both that game last weekend with the forty

1164
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: nine ers and the Ravens, you knew that both those

1165
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: defenses were going to have their say, But man, it

1166
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 1: was a close game, a hard fought game, and there

1167
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,360
Speaker 1: is a way to hold the Ravens from forty scoring

1168
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: forty seven points or forty one points or thirty seven

1169
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: points like they've been doing. The last few weeks and

1170
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:24,319
Speaker 1: the Niners found a way to do it. Is there

1171
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: a key in there other than just putting a bunch

1172
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 1: of Superman out there. It's tricky because you know, as

1173
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 1: hyped as that Niners Ravens game was, it was the

1174
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,080
Speaker 1: game of the week and everyone was talking about it

1175
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: all week, it was it was a little strange because

1176
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 1: you know, you saw it. The conditions were terrible. It

1177
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:43,359
Speaker 1: was raining, it was wet, so the passing numbers from

1178
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,320
Speaker 1: both sides were way down. I almost feel like that

1179
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:48,320
Speaker 1: game it was like a movie you didn't get in

1180
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 1: high daff like it wasn't really the true experience, and

1181
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,800
Speaker 1: it was still so close. I think as it pertains

1182
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 1: to the Ravens defense against the Bill's offense, you know,

1183
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:01,919
Speaker 1: everyone is so hitilated by Lamar that you don't talk

1184
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,479
Speaker 1: a lot about the Ravens defense and you don't see

1185
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:07,359
Speaker 1: Ray Lewis and Ed Reid and Terrell Suggs out there,

1186
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,919
Speaker 1: and it's these guys like Matthew Junah and or Earl

1187
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 1: Thomas late. But they're fantastic. I mean, they really are good.

1188
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 1: This is not make no mistake. The Bills are not

1189
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 1: playing the MVP this week. Or the best offense this week.

1190
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 1: They're playing the best team in the league this week.

1191
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: The Ravens are head and shoulders above and you can't

1192
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: do that with Lamar Jackson just running around. Their defense

1193
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 1: is loaded too. Just look at who they beat, Kyla.

1194
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 1: You mentioned about a jump up in weight class. Are

1195
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: the Bills ready for that jump up? What do you think?

1196
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 1: I think so? I mean it's listen, They've had a

1197
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 1: lot of tuneups, Murph. You can only fight so many

1198
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: tomato cans. They've had sparring sessions. They're ready. It's the

1199
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: right time of year. They're at home. I would be

1200
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: obviously disappointed, but also very surprised if the Bills got

1201
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: beaten heavily this weekend. As good as Lamar is, as

1202
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 1: good as the Ravens are, there's absolutely no reason that

1203
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: should not be a close game. But it's gonna come

1204
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: down to the thing that we have said in every

1205
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: conversation we have ever had, and is the maturation of

1206
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. He's gonna have to make some plays. I

1207
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: thought on Thanksgiving Day, I barely recognize the guy, and

1208
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: I mean that in a good way. And listen, that

1209
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:21,479
Speaker 1: fourth and short was an a wasn't just a clutch play.

1210
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: It wasn't just that was a seminal play for a

1211
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: young Josh Allen to not only have the wherewithal, but

1212
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 1: to have the spine to scoop up the ball and

1213
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 1: make a play. The word we've used all season about

1214
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: this guy is fearless, Absolutely fearless, almost a little nuts

1215
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: sometimes where it makes you nervous. But this, as far

1216
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned, was the play of the year for

1217
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. They've had bigger ones, They've had more

1218
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 1: important ones, maybe, but not one that is more telling

1219
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 1: of him and the screaming and the pointing afterwards. So

1220
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 1: that to me was like it was like he left

1221
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: out of lessons. He's ready to get out of the house.

1222
00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 1: He's not living in mom's room anymore, he's not having

1223
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: Dad's car. I feel like Josh Allen was grown up

1224
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 1: on that play, as ugly and sloppy as it was.

1225
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: I'm at home on Thanksgiving jumping off the couch yelling,

1226
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 1: because that was what it was like. Josh Allen became

1227
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 1: a man, right, Yes, Kyle, I wonder and you tell

1228
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: me if I'm wearing rose colored glasses here, But you

1229
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 1: could argue, and I might be arguing right here that

1230
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 1: all that led up to this week's game was kind

1231
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 1: of meant to be the easy schedule. They get their

1232
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 1: footing offensively, they find out that they're better in no huddle,

1233
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: they find out that they're better with eleven personnel, the

1234
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: defense remained solid, and then maybe it was it was

1235
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 1: supposed to work this way. Now they are jumping into

1236
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 1: the heaviest weight class, ready to do so based on

1237
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: what has come before it, including back to back wins

1238
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: over the Dolphins and the Denver Broncos leading into this

1239
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 1: little stretch here. Well more, I mean, I would agree

1240
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 1: with you, and I'll take it a step further. I

1241
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 1: think also some of the beatdowns that they've taken, whether

1242
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 1: it was Philadelphia or whether it was Cleveland, you know,

1243
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 1: they got tougher from those. And let's not forget you know,

1244
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,080
Speaker 1: Key Bellboa got the snot beating out of him by

1245
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 1: clubver Lane before he came back in the rematch. It

1246
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:08,520
Speaker 1: had to remaster that deal. Now, Listen, they got bodied hard.

1247
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 1: We've talked about this to continue the boxing analogies. Those

1248
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 1: losses to Philadelphia to clear, those were just body shots.

1249
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 1: Run game up the middle up the middle. So I

1250
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: hope they mature because if they haven't, Baltimore is going

1251
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 1: to drop them early. And nobody runs the ball like

1252
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: this and San Francisco and Baltimore and it's kind of

1253
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 1: silver lining if you're the Dallas. Last week, Zeke Elliott

1254
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 1: was doing his thing, and we can agree that game

1255
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 1: got away from and they stopped handing him the ball

1256
01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:37,959
Speaker 1: and it's just handed it over to Dock. But it's

1257
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 1: not really like the Bill's defense was jumping all over

1258
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 1: number twenty one. It looked like he was going to

1259
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 1: be gashing them a little bit. So we'll find out

1260
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 1: I defense, I defense how much the Bills have progressed,

1261
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 1: because if we've seen a couple of times this year

1262
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:54,720
Speaker 1: when damn, someone really takes it to him with the

1263
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 1: ground game and nobody has the punching power in Baltimore. Yeah,

1264
01:00:57,560 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 1: one of the things that I kind of got out

1265
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 1: of that game, and we had seen flashes of it,

1266
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:04,240
Speaker 1: although we'd never had a moment where you had to

1267
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: compare it Josh Allen like like last year. The first

1268
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 1: time he really starts a game we remember was in

1269
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 1: the Minnesota game when the Bills were oo and two

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Speaker 1: and they had getten just getting up over the guy,

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Speaker 1: and he jumped over the guy. It seems as though

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Speaker 1: and this Thanksgiving game, same thing. Josh seems to play

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Speaker 1: well into pressures on he's a fourth quarter comeback guy.

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Speaker 1: Is he's a fourth quarter quarterback. His quarterback rating was

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Speaker 1: the top of the league for a while. When the

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Speaker 1: pressures on, when the lights are up, when you get

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Speaker 1: in those big moments, he seems to have the mentality

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Speaker 1: to rise up and elevate his play. And I can't

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Speaker 1: think of a better gene or trait for a quarterback

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Speaker 1: to have than that one. Do you think the Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: Day performance he put on maybe bolsters that or was

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Speaker 1: that just a kind of a one off game. What

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Speaker 1: do you think? Does he have that clutch gene, that

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01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 1: limelight gene that some of these guys have. You know

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Speaker 1: what I thought was impressed by on Josh and Thanksgiving Day.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the fourth and short in the assing, sure,

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Speaker 1: but actually one of my biggest takeaways was after the

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01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:07,280
Speaker 1: game they win, Oh my gosh, it's Bill's Christmas. They

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Speaker 1: beat the Cowboys. The American Dream beats America because team

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Speaker 1: It's a great storyline and everybody's freaking out, and he's

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Speaker 1: standing there on the field, and he's with Tracy Wilson,

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Speaker 1: who really teed it up high for him to say, Josh, basically,

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Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing, do you have something to say to America

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Speaker 1: now about the Buffalo Bills? And he didn't go there,

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01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 1: and he stayed in his shoes, And I thought he

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01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 1: showed a lot of poise because he could have beat

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Speaker 1: his chest and done a sort of how you like

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Speaker 1: me now type speech and it would have been way premature.

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Speaker 1: And that you say something like that, then you lose

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01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 1: the Baltimore, You lose the whole thing falls apart. I

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Speaker 1: thought in the biggest moment media wise of his NFL career,

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Speaker 1: I mean this, listen, guys, that was the most watched

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01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:53,520
Speaker 1: regular season NFL game in three years. There's thirty million

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Speaker 1: people watching that thing. For him to just say, no,

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01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:58,520
Speaker 1: you know, we're not worried about sending a message I

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01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 1: thought was very smart and very mature. So on the field, sure,

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Speaker 1: but I think he does have it between the ears. Dude,

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01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 1: got one more Thanksgiving left over before you regarding the Bills.

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01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 1: One of your favorite Bills, Dawson Knox gets nominated again

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Speaker 1: for an Angry Run this week. Huh, I'm glowing about

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01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:19,439
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox. You know, everybody can rant and rave about

1312
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 1: all these fantastic tight ends in the league, the Travis

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01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 1: Kelcey and Zach Ertz, and they're prolific players. Give me

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01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:28,560
Speaker 1: this young kid in Buffalo who just throws people into

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01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: the core of the earth that they try to tackle him.

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Speaker 1: I love Dawson Knox. He was He was a finalist

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Speaker 1: for our Angry Runs Award this week. I wish he

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Speaker 1: could have won, but it's the democratic process and it

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01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 1: ended up going down to one of the d lineman

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Speaker 1: for the Saints who sent matt Ryd into the next dimension.

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Speaker 1: But it's so funny because the Bills fans are always

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01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:50,400
Speaker 1: all over that segment and they really want it, which

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Speaker 1: I respect. They had, you know, you nominated Dawson Knox.

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Speaker 1: I thought, you know, they would be their blood lust

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01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 1: would be satisfied for the week. No, many people felt

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01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 1: he should have won. Many people upset that Josh Allen

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01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 1: was not nominated for the same fourth and short play.

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01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:06,720
Speaker 1: So if it was up to Western New York, every

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01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 1: nominee every week would be a Buffalo Bill and the

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Speaker 1: way they're playing, maybe someone of these weeks it will be.

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01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 1: But until then, Dawston Knox is one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: players in the league. He must be protected at all costs. Well,

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Speaker 1: we got we kind of wrapped up their Thanksgiving weekend,

1334
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 1: and we also looked ahead to the bravest Let's look

1335
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 1: a little bit around the league. We got the upcoming

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01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:27,280
Speaker 1: on the bill schedule the Pittsburgh Steelers and Devlin Hodges

1337
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 1: is two and oh is their story. And I gotta

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01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I have no idea who this

1339
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 1: guy is. I don't know where he came from anything.

1340
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:38,680
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what. The Steelers organization has a

1341
01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 1: knack for putting it together when they needed the most.

1342
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlins, you gotta tip your hat to him, and

1343
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:47,880
Speaker 1: Devlin Hodges come in and wins two games for him

1344
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 1: in a season that's not over for them yet. It's

1345
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 1: it's pretty intriguing over in Pittsburgh right now. It's unbelievably intriguing.

1346
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 1: And one of the things you learn if you're in

1347
01:04:56,960 --> 01:04:59,560
Speaker 1: the NFL world long enough, do not ever count out

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01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 1: the pittsbur Steelers. They're different than a team. They are

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01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 1: a company. They are an organization, and that organization does

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01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 1: not have bad seasons. And Mike Tomlin has never been

1351
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 1: below five hundred, and this was the year he's supposed

1352
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 1: to take his lumps. The franchise quarterback goes down, the

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01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 1: backup doesn't have it. Guys, understand. I don't know if

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01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:22,919
Speaker 1: maybe some of your listeners don't understand if the why

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01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 1: Devlin Hodges is called Duck Hodges. He's called Duck Hodges

1356
01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:30,000
Speaker 1: because he has a background in competitive duck calling, both

1357
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:32,640
Speaker 1: as a junior and then also when he grown up.

1358
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 1: When he grew up. Rather, this is random, wild stuff

1359
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:38,840
Speaker 1: that you expect to see, you know, on a different

1360
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 1: TV channel or some sort of weird documentary about duck dynasty.

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01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 1: He's the quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and he's never lost,

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01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:48,880
Speaker 1: and he's got this kind of thing. It reminds me

1363
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 1: earlier in the season of another wacky backup, Gardner Minshew,

1364
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 1: who came out of nowhere, ridiculous name, ridiculous look, and

1365
01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 1: just made plays and he worked and he had a

1366
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:00,960
Speaker 1: go in for a while there. And if you look

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Speaker 1: at the Steelers, no Ben Roethlisberger, no Antonio Brown, no

1368
01:06:04,840 --> 01:06:08,600
Speaker 1: Levion Bell, no Juju Smith Schuster, no Marquise Pouncy, all

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01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 1: of these guys out and they're throwing duck hodges to

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01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 1: James Washington and winning because Steelers don't ever think for

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Speaker 1: a second, I don't care. If Buffalo goes and beats

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Speaker 1: Baltimore and they're on top of the world, don't count

1373
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:22,919
Speaker 1: out the Steelers. They will go duck hunting and beat

1374
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: you again. It's a tough, tough opponent. Does Mike Tomlin

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01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:27,880
Speaker 1: deserve maybe Coach of the Year if he can win

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01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 1: games to get into the playoffs with a duck caller,

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01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:37,000
Speaker 1: I would think so. I would think so. I mean,

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01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 1: this is one of the best coaches of the year

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01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 1: years I've seen in a long time. Because quickly what

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01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 1: Sean Payton has done losing Drew Brees for a month,

1381
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 1: what Kyle Shanahan has done, They're a ten and two team.

1382
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,920
Speaker 1: I could go down the line even frankly, even what

1383
01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 1: Brian Flores is doing with the team that was engineered

1384
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 1: to lose and now the sudden they're winning. But Mike

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01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:59,600
Speaker 1: tom would always showed up guys and was well, he's

1386
01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: got all of him quarterback and he's got all the

1387
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 1: great players can Mike Tomlin really coach? He can coach.

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01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:07,919
Speaker 1: I mean, this is an awesome, awesome campaign that they're

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01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 1: putting together. That's one the quick one for you, Kyle

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01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 1: talking about counting out teams, When, if ever, can we

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01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 1: start counting out to New England Patriots? What do you think?

1392
01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 1: I'm not that stupid Murphy. I won't do it. There's

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01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:24,439
Speaker 1: a lot of people in media who want infamy, tweets, retweets,

1394
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:28,320
Speaker 1: whatever the hell they are. Listen, there's definitely blood on

1395
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:30,439
Speaker 1: the water right now. I'm not gonna tell you there isn't.

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01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:33,320
Speaker 1: It's a fascinating watch the Patriots the other night. We've

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01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:36,280
Speaker 1: watched Tom Brady for twenty years. Twenty years we've seen him.

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01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:41,480
Speaker 1: I've never seen him on the sideline dropping a monologue,

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01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 1: screaming at his wide receivers about what they have to do,

1400
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,680
Speaker 1: over and over, not even caring that the cameras were

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01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:50,760
Speaker 1: on him. You know, my colleague an NFL network, Kurt Warners,

1402
01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:53,680
Speaker 1: another Hall of famer, just said Brady has no one

1403
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:55,600
Speaker 1: he could trust. I mean, he doesn't know who to

1404
01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:58,520
Speaker 1: throw to. And I saw him truck down the field

1405
01:07:58,560 --> 01:08:01,880
Speaker 1: twenty five forty yards. Did Julian Edelman and double coverage.

1406
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:04,160
Speaker 1: That's not what Julian Edelman does. That's not what they do.

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Speaker 1: But it's his only friend he's got in the fight.

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01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 1: And So to answer your question, where there's a lot

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01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 1: of blood in the water and there's been blood before,

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01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:15,160
Speaker 1: until they are dead and buried, cold dead hands, I

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01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:18,040
Speaker 1: will never count out the Patriots. And everybody there in

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01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:20,800
Speaker 1: Bill's Kingdom knows what I'm talking about. How big was

1413
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:22,720
Speaker 1: that win for Houston? Know that there's no question that

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01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 1: the Patriots walk in there or what nine and two,

1415
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:29,519
Speaker 1: ten and two? And how big a win is that

1416
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:33,800
Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans. It's really big, but it's also

1417
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,760
Speaker 1: really fascinating. The AFC South to me is usually a

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01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 1: little bit bland. But what's gonna happen the last three

1419
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:41,519
Speaker 1: weeks in the season as the Texans are going to

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Speaker 1: play the Titans twice in the last three weeks. And

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Speaker 1: if you haven't watched the Titans recently, and probably you

1422
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:49,720
Speaker 1: have nim because they've been boring for about eight years.

1423
01:08:50,240 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 1: There must see TV after the Ravens. It's inexplicably in

1424
01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:57,160
Speaker 1: this crazy NFL year when we got duck callers and gardeners,

1425
01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill is out of his mind and right now

1426
01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:03,960
Speaker 1: Derek Henry is the best hottest running back in the league.

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01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:06,679
Speaker 1: So it was big for the for the Texans, of course,

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01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:09,160
Speaker 1: but they got a lot of unfisious business with the Titans,

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01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:11,479
Speaker 1: and I just never thought they'd be a sentence. I'd say, yeah,

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01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:13,840
Speaker 1: that's that they have two games within the last three

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01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:17,479
Speaker 1: weeks of this season. That's I think it's I say it.

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01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:21,160
Speaker 1: They didn't know, but it's brilliant scheduling, because that really

1433
01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:24,000
Speaker 1: is gonna be fun, right, don't need to flex it,

1434
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:28,080
Speaker 1: it flexes itself. It's my favorite kind of schedule, right, Kyle,

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Speaker 1: thanks for this. We'll talk again. Thank you very much anytime, guys,

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01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:34,400
Speaker 1: don't mind. Any week we do it and I will

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01:09:34,439 --> 01:09:38,760
Speaker 1: say Bill's twenty seven, Ravens twenty three, See you next week.

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01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:43,759
Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt from NFL Network, the host of Good Morning Football.

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01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:45,439
Speaker 1: We watch it every day here. It starts at seven

1440
01:09:45,479 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 1: am on the NFL Network. That did not sound like

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01:09:48,320 --> 01:09:51,240
Speaker 1: a guarantee. That was more like your prediction last week.

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01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:53,720
Speaker 1: It was a guarantee. That sounds like a prediction. Right.

1443
01:09:54,280 --> 01:09:56,640
Speaker 1: It's hard to predict against the number one team in

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01:09:56,720 --> 01:10:00,639
Speaker 1: the NFL. Right, yeah, I get well, I'll probably get

1445
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:02,400
Speaker 1: there by the end of the week. Yeah, I mean, listen,

1446
01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm already talked into it, so I'm I'm I'm with you.

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01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:08,720
Speaker 1: That's a lot of points. Yeah, I guess these two defenses.

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01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: But um, and I think the weather. And I've been

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01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:14,040
Speaker 1: trying to keep track of what the weather's gonna be

1450
01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 1: over the weekend, and it looks like mostly cloudy about

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01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:21,240
Speaker 1: forty three fourteen mile par wins ha. That's a great

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01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:24,439
Speaker 1: that's that's nothing that's perfect. That's good weather so for

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01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: these parts. So it's we'll see, we'll see. Gotta break care.

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01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:31,439
Speaker 1: When we come back, Joe Ferguson's gonna be with us

1455
01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 1: Spills Wall of Famer Joe Ferguson was at the game

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01:10:34,280 --> 01:10:37,080
Speaker 1: in Dallas last Thursday afternoon. He'll be with us live

1457
01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:39,240
Speaker 1: to talk about that and what he's up through these days.

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01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:41,800
Speaker 1: Come on back, One BILS Live presented by Kalida Health

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Speaker 1: comes close, Welcome back, It's One Goes Live. I'm John Er.

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Speaker 1: You just Steve Tasker. We're here until three o'clock today.

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01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 1: Judy Battisa of the NFL Network NFL dot COM's gonna

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01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:06,960
Speaker 1: join us coming up in the two o'clock hour to

1464
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:09,360
Speaker 1: talk about the Bills and the Ravens matchup. We do

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01:11:09,439 --> 01:11:11,360
Speaker 1: want to talk a little bit more about last Thanksgiving

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01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:13,639
Speaker 1: Day and on the line with us a special guest

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01:11:13,680 --> 01:11:16,240
Speaker 1: who was there at the game at at and T Stadium.

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Speaker 1: We spent twelve years with the Buffalo Bills as a quarterback,

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01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 1: third round pick of the Bills in nineteen seventy three,

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01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:24,719
Speaker 1: seventeen seasons in the NFL with the Bills, the Lions,

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01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:26,720
Speaker 1: the Bucks, and Indy. He's on the Bills Wall of

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01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 1: Fame named there in nineteen ninety five. Happy to have

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01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:31,280
Speaker 1: one of the all time greats, Bills former quarterback Joe

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01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:33,760
Speaker 1: Ferguson on the line with us live. Joe, it's John

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Speaker 1: Murphy here and Buffalo was team tasker. Thanks you coming on.

1476
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:38,920
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. You bet. John. How y'all doing a

1477
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 1: Th're doing great, doing good? Thanks thanks for coming on.

1478
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:44,360
Speaker 1: What got you to the Bills game in Dallas last Thursday?

1479
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:47,160
Speaker 1: Got what put you there in the stadium? Well, my

1480
01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:50,160
Speaker 1: actually my dollar works for the for the Cowboys, and

1481
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 1: so she gets us gets us down to a suite

1482
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:55,479
Speaker 1: up there, and when the Bills were playing, I wanted

1483
01:11:55,479 --> 01:11:59,040
Speaker 1: to come watch. So that pretty well got us over

1484
01:11:59,120 --> 01:12:01,519
Speaker 1: there for that, did I? And you had moved to Texas?

1485
01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:04,160
Speaker 1: Is that right? You live in Texas now? No? I

1486
01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:07,680
Speaker 1: live in Arkansas. Still in Arkansas, Okay? And uh, but

1487
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 1: we just we go down and actually see the grand

1488
01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:13,840
Speaker 1: kids and and go to the ball games. What what'd

1489
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:16,600
Speaker 1: you think of the Bill's performance there in Dallas? I

1490
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:19,240
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching them. I tell you they're competitive, is heck?

1491
01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:21,200
Speaker 1: And I tell you one thing I really enjoyed. I

1492
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 1: got to the stadium early and I watched them as

1493
01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:26,759
Speaker 1: they were coming out of the warm up and everything,

1494
01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:29,800
Speaker 1: and I mean, they just didn't just have a great

1495
01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:32,960
Speaker 1: enthusiasm about them, and it seemed like they was a

1496
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:35,200
Speaker 1: lot of together and it's there and you know and

1497
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:37,599
Speaker 1: wanting to play, you know, for each other. And that's

1498
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:41,560
Speaker 1: something that in today's NFL you don't normally see that.

1499
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:43,679
Speaker 1: But I like that. I mean it was fun watching

1500
01:12:43,720 --> 01:12:47,240
Speaker 1: them and a wale coach football team. Yeah. I was

1501
01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 1: gonna ask you, what are your what are your remembrances

1502
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:52,479
Speaker 1: about your early days here? We talked a lot about

1503
01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:55,280
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, obviously, and he played a really nice game

1504
01:12:55,400 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: last Thursday against the Dick Cowboys. What do you remember

1505
01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:00,920
Speaker 1: about your first couple of years in Flow Because every

1506
01:13:01,080 --> 01:13:03,800
Speaker 1: so often Josh Adam will break a record, like he's

1507
01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:06,280
Speaker 1: the only guy to have a winning season his second year.

1508
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:08,920
Speaker 1: He's got fourth quarter comebacks and he's breaking your records.

1509
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 1: What do you remember about your early days in Buffalo?

1510
01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:16,920
Speaker 1: Early days was that I had a lot of help,

1511
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:19,960
Speaker 1: naturally with a great running back and a great fullback

1512
01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:23,840
Speaker 1: then Jim Braxton, great receiver, and Bobby Chanler and j D. Hill.

1513
01:13:24,520 --> 01:13:26,599
Speaker 1: I had a lot of help. And I think that's

1514
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:29,680
Speaker 1: where Josh is at right now. And I understand that

1515
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:32,439
Speaker 1: Buffalo has some good early round draft picks coming up

1516
01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:35,200
Speaker 1: this year that'll that'll be beneficial for the team. But

1517
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of enthusiasm on the field, and

1518
01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:39,960
Speaker 1: I tell you, I think they're just gonna get better

1519
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:42,439
Speaker 1: and better. Joe, we were talking a little bit last

1520
01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: week about the Bills on Thanksgiving Day, and you were

1521
01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:47,920
Speaker 1: part of a Buffalo team in your third season that

1522
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 1: played a Thanksgiving Day game in Saint Louis, but under

1523
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:54,200
Speaker 1: kind of trying circumstances. Can you tell us that story?

1524
01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 1: What happened that day? Thanksgiving nineteen seventy five? Gosh, you

1525
01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:01,040
Speaker 1: know I slept last night, now, guys stretching it when

1526
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:03,720
Speaker 1: you get back that far. Well, it was a game.

1527
01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:05,519
Speaker 1: I think the Bills got into town like two hours

1528
01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:07,800
Speaker 1: for a kickoff or something. Right, Oh, oh, I do

1529
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 1: remember that. We flew in We actually left Buffalo and

1530
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 1: there was a snowstorm, and I believe it and not mistaken.

1531
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 1: We landed in Chicago and spent the night, and then

1532
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:21,680
Speaker 1: we got up the next morning and flew straight to

1533
01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:24,719
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, got off the plane, got our own backs,

1534
01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:27,759
Speaker 1: put them on the truck, went straight to the stadium

1535
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:31,519
Speaker 1: and got our own bags again, went in, got dressed,

1536
01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:33,559
Speaker 1: didn't even warm up, just went out and played the game,

1537
01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:39,880
Speaker 1: and still snowing and a sparse crowd, and we won

1538
01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: the game, and from there it was blaye. But when

1539
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 1: you don't go out and warm up, you know, you

1540
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:46,920
Speaker 1: just go out and start playing, which I guess you

1541
01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 1: could do. Yeah, you'd be hard pressed and convinced players

1542
01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:53,160
Speaker 1: these days you could do it without warming up. Everybody's

1543
01:14:53,160 --> 01:14:55,680
Speaker 1: got a part game routine and ritual and all that

1544
01:14:55,800 --> 01:15:00,400
Speaker 1: stuff exactly. These players today are a different breed good.

1545
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:02,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not being negative by any means said,

1546
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 1: They're just a little bit different to what we used

1547
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:06,880
Speaker 1: to be. Yeah, tell me a little bit about the

1548
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:11,040
Speaker 1: things you notice about the NFL today. Certainly you came

1549
01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:12,880
Speaker 1: in and were out of the league before I came in,

1550
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:16,880
Speaker 1: and it's changed immenseally since I left the NFL. What

1551
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:19,720
Speaker 1: are the most striking differences for you as you watch

1552
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:23,240
Speaker 1: the NFL today. I tell you, the most striking thing

1553
01:15:23,320 --> 01:15:28,280
Speaker 1: I see is the number of passes that are being

1554
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:33,000
Speaker 1: thrown to covered receivers and the dead gun receivers are

1555
01:15:33,080 --> 01:15:36,439
Speaker 1: jumping up making plays. Although I mean, there are some great,

1556
01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:42,040
Speaker 1: great athletes making great plays in today's game that we

1557
01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 1: never tested because when I was playing, I was always

1558
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:48,599
Speaker 1: told you, if the defensive back is running with the receiver,

1559
01:15:48,760 --> 01:15:51,720
Speaker 1: don't throw it there. Well, these guys today, they don't

1560
01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:53,560
Speaker 1: care if they're running even with them. They're throwing it

1561
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:55,560
Speaker 1: up there. And these guys are making these catches and

1562
01:15:56,360 --> 01:15:59,320
Speaker 1: it's phenomenal. You sit on every ball game and that

1563
01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:04,040
Speaker 1: just goes to the caliber athlete. Even though I had JD. Hill,

1564
01:16:04,120 --> 01:16:06,320
Speaker 1: Bobby Channel, they probably could have made those catches, but

1565
01:16:06,760 --> 01:16:10,599
Speaker 1: we never made the throws back in that day. So, Joe,

1566
01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:12,680
Speaker 1: you came into the league in nineteen seventy three, he

1567
01:16:12,760 --> 01:16:15,360
Speaker 1: played for seventeen years for a bunch of different teams.

1568
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 1: If you could go back and give young Joe Ferguson

1569
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:22,320
Speaker 1: some advice before he ever took a snap in the NFL,

1570
01:16:22,400 --> 01:16:27,919
Speaker 1: what would you tell him? I think, have more confidence

1571
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:31,560
Speaker 1: than what you can do. I was a young redneck

1572
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:34,200
Speaker 1: country guy that didn't know any different, never been away

1573
01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:37,639
Speaker 1: from home, and was just doing what I was told

1574
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:40,600
Speaker 1: instead of doing what I probably felt like I could do.

1575
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:43,759
Speaker 1: I think maybe to have a little bit more confidence

1576
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 1: than what I was able to do at that point,

1577
01:16:46,439 --> 01:16:48,720
Speaker 1: because your first five or six, seven years or your

1578
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:51,719
Speaker 1: best years and you need to play to that level.

1579
01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:55,479
Speaker 1: I wonder, Joe, what you would tell young Josh Allen,

1580
01:16:55,520 --> 01:16:57,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo's current quarterback now in his second year. What do

1581
01:16:57,880 --> 01:17:00,280
Speaker 1: you think of him? And what kind of advice would

1582
01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:03,400
Speaker 1: you have for him? Just, hey, keep doing what he's doing.

1583
01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:07,240
Speaker 1: He's got a very good arm, high caliber arm, and

1584
01:17:07,960 --> 01:17:10,439
Speaker 1: hopefully the build will build a team around him that

1585
01:17:10,640 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 1: that they can develop. And but to tell him, just

1586
01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:14,840
Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence in what you're doing and

1587
01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:16,920
Speaker 1: let the team know that you have confidence, you know

1588
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:19,400
Speaker 1: and what you can do. Uh. It makes a big

1589
01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:21,680
Speaker 1: difference when they believe in you, there's no doubt. You

1590
01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:23,479
Speaker 1: got to let them know that you're ready to play

1591
01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:27,479
Speaker 1: and and and show it on the field and just

1592
01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:29,800
Speaker 1: do what you can do. Last thing for you, Joe,

1593
01:17:29,880 --> 01:17:33,599
Speaker 1: your your health concerns have been followed closely here in Buffalo.

1594
01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:35,559
Speaker 1: I know you got a lot of moral support from

1595
01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:37,720
Speaker 1: Bills fans. How are you health wise and how are

1596
01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:42,840
Speaker 1: you feeling these days? I am really doing outstanding. Every

1597
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:44,680
Speaker 1: time I have a yearly check up I go to

1598
01:17:44,960 --> 01:17:47,800
Speaker 1: and my doctor keeps saying, your blood's getting better every

1599
01:17:47,840 --> 01:17:50,200
Speaker 1: time I see you. So whatever you're doing, keep doing it.

1600
01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:53,240
Speaker 1: So I'm doing very well. Thank goodness, and a lot

1601
01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:55,839
Speaker 1: of prayers to the people and from people in Buffalo

1602
01:17:56,000 --> 01:18:00,720
Speaker 1: and emails and he's amazing how much contact I had

1603
01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:04,000
Speaker 1: when I was down and from people in Buffalo was outstanding.

1604
01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:06,360
Speaker 1: Like I one last thing I had to say to you, Joe,

1605
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:08,160
Speaker 1: at the end of your career, the Bills brought you back.

1606
01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:09,960
Speaker 1: Marvh Leavia had taken over as head coach and they

1607
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:12,400
Speaker 1: had you in for a workout, and I was the

1608
01:18:12,479 --> 01:18:14,519
Speaker 1: guy that was catching the ball for you in your

1609
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 1: workout with the Bills. They didn't sign you, so I

1610
01:18:16,520 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: kind of apologized for not doing a better job than

1611
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:21,400
Speaker 1: giving that one extra year here in Buffalo. Come back

1612
01:18:21,439 --> 01:18:24,320
Speaker 1: and finish your career. It was all your fault. I

1613
01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:28,200
Speaker 1: talked to leaving about that. I said, you got to

1614
01:18:28,240 --> 01:18:31,439
Speaker 1: give me a better receiver right here, man, couple, that's perfect.

1615
01:18:32,479 --> 01:18:34,360
Speaker 1: I was. I tell you, once I got out of there,

1616
01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:36,040
Speaker 1: I missed it. I really was hoping to get to

1617
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:38,519
Speaker 1: come back and u and finished out there. I would

1618
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:41,160
Speaker 1: have loved to been able to do that, but just

1619
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:44,040
Speaker 1: didn't work. Didn't work. Hey, Joe, thanks for this. It's

1620
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:45,880
Speaker 1: great to catch up with here. We are delighted that

1621
01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:48,200
Speaker 1: you're feeling good these days. And maybe we'll see you

1622
01:18:48,280 --> 01:18:50,720
Speaker 1: in another Bills game down the road. Here. We have

1623
01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. I'll be I'll be back in Buffalo,

1624
01:18:53,360 --> 01:18:55,240
Speaker 1: or I'll be wherever they're playing if we can, if

1625
01:18:55,280 --> 01:18:59,120
Speaker 1: it's fairly close, I'll be there. Thanks Joe, Okay, thank y'all.

1626
01:18:59,160 --> 01:19:01,599
Speaker 1: Thank you Joe for send Bill's Wall of Famer former

1627
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:04,960
Speaker 1: Bills quarterback for twelve years. Played seventeen seasons in the

1628
01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:08,760
Speaker 1: NFL and uh always a class act, always a good guy,

1629
01:19:08,840 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 1: you know, and a lot of success here. Took the

1630
01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:14,439
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty team to the AFC East Division title, played

1631
01:19:14,479 --> 01:19:17,400
Speaker 1: playoff games, played on the famous bad ankle, and gave

1632
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:19,839
Speaker 1: it his best in a playoff game against the Chargers

1633
01:19:19,880 --> 01:19:22,400
Speaker 1: in San Diego. The Bills came up short in that game,

1634
01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:24,400
Speaker 1: but that guy was a He was a great arm

1635
01:19:24,439 --> 01:19:27,920
Speaker 1: and he was really a good competitive player too. You

1636
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:30,760
Speaker 1: don't put a career together in one town like he

1637
01:19:30,920 --> 01:19:32,920
Speaker 1: did here in Buffalo unless you're a really good player.

1638
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:34,800
Speaker 1: And I know that ankle game you're talking about. I

1639
01:19:34,920 --> 01:19:37,000
Speaker 1: heard stories about that after I got here in nineteen

1640
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:41,840
Speaker 1: eighty six where they'd say, look, they said you're not playing,

1641
01:19:42,240 --> 01:19:43,960
Speaker 1: and he said, I am going to play, and they said, well,

1642
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 1: then you're gonna sign this waiver that you're not gonna

1643
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:48,280
Speaker 1: sue us for letting you play when you ain't got

1644
01:19:48,360 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 1: no business playing. Yeah. Right. It was tough to it was,

1645
01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:53,360
Speaker 1: It was tough to watch it. It was it was

1646
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:56,040
Speaker 1: the atmosphere that the league was back then, and you know,

1647
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:58,200
Speaker 1: it's obviously a different atmosphere than it is in this

1648
01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:01,040
Speaker 1: day and age and when things are a little bit different,

1649
01:20:01,120 --> 01:20:03,800
Speaker 1: and maybe those things didn't happen, maybe they shouldn't have

1650
01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:07,280
Speaker 1: happened then, but it was kind of the way things were,

1651
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:10,599
Speaker 1: and for him to do that, I know you talked

1652
01:20:10,600 --> 01:20:11,920
Speaker 1: to the guys who are on that team. Meant a

1653
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:15,200
Speaker 1: lot to those guys on that team, and you know,

1654
01:20:15,280 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 1: that's really why guys do those kind of things in

1655
01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:19,320
Speaker 1: the first place. It's not so much about them wanting

1656
01:20:19,320 --> 01:20:20,560
Speaker 1: to play so much. It said, you don't want to

1657
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:23,400
Speaker 1: let their teammates down. You want to help like you

1658
01:20:23,479 --> 01:20:25,800
Speaker 1: have all season. It's hard not to. I thought it

1659
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:27,800
Speaker 1: was interesting too, And you asked a good question about

1660
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:31,400
Speaker 1: what he would tell himself to do differently after seventeen years,

1661
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:33,840
Speaker 1: and he said, have more confidence in myself basically is

1662
01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:35,960
Speaker 1: what he said, right, And I go back to you know,

1663
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:38,760
Speaker 1: he gets here in nineteen seventy three, Bills are pretty good,

1664
01:20:38,880 --> 01:20:41,240
Speaker 1: louse saving as a coach, and they have this Hall

1665
01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:44,160
Speaker 1: of Fame running back O. J. Simpson, who's tearing it up.

1666
01:20:44,320 --> 01:20:47,320
Speaker 1: Joe Ferguson was the starter that season, attempted a total

1667
01:20:47,920 --> 01:20:51,439
Speaker 1: of one hundred and sixty four passes in the entire season,

1668
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:54,000
Speaker 1: fourteen game season and a fourteen game season, So what

1669
01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:56,240
Speaker 1: are we talking about? Twelve pass passes a game. They

1670
01:20:56,240 --> 01:20:58,599
Speaker 1: didn't let him throw Maybe Joe was thinking, maybe I'm

1671
01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:00,280
Speaker 1: not putting words in this. Well, so maybe it's again

1672
01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:02,519
Speaker 1: I should have told him, lou I got to throw

1673
01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:04,320
Speaker 1: it a little bit more than twelve times a game, right,

1674
01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:07,479
Speaker 1: But they won nine games, I don't know, did not

1675
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:09,880
Speaker 1: make the playoffs with that nine and five record? Didn't

1676
01:21:09,920 --> 01:21:11,760
Speaker 1: make the playoffs of the nine and five No, well

1677
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:14,080
Speaker 1: that was a different era. There weren't as many playoff teams. Yeah,

1678
01:21:14,560 --> 01:21:16,720
Speaker 1: oh that's right. There was no wildcard teams. It was

1679
01:21:16,760 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 1: like the four division winners or maybe the three division winners,

1680
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:23,120
Speaker 1: four division winners, and that was it. Yeah, really interesting.

1681
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 1: All right, thank you to Joe Ferguson for joining the

1682
01:21:25,360 --> 01:21:26,800
Speaker 1: Steve and I coming back. But more we want to

1683
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:28,720
Speaker 1: get back into our topic of the day, and the

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Speaker 1: question is, you know, here are the Bills now with

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Speaker 1: their nine and three record playoff bound. It appears ninety

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Speaker 1: three ninety four percent chance of making the postseason. What's

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Speaker 1: still missing from the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills. There's still

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Speaker 1: twenty five percent of the season left what do they

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Speaker 1: need to get done in these last four games? What's

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Speaker 1: still missing? Give us a call, we'll discuss eight oh

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Speaker 1: three oh five fifty toll free from outside Buffalo one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty one Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Collada Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome Back, one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy was Steve Tasker here until three o'clock. We

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Speaker 1: got Judy Batista from the NFL Network joining us in

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Speaker 1: the two o'clock hour. We got a lot of time

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Speaker 1: to talk with you here and throughout the course of

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Speaker 1: the show, and a lot of things to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll today, I think it's an interesting question, and

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Speaker 1: again we're gonna get into the Baltimore Ravens game game

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Speaker 1: as the week moves along, but kind of taking stock

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Speaker 1: of the Bills where they're at three quarters of the

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Speaker 1: way through the season with twenty five percent of the game.

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Speaker 1: For many, the Twitter question today, what's still missing from

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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills? Are they perfect? No? Nobody

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Speaker 1: would argue that, right. What do they still need to do?

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Speaker 1: Got more than nine hundred and fifty votes. In so far.

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Speaker 1: Forty four percent of you say they still need to

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Speaker 1: develop a deep ball threat on offense. I get that.

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Speaker 1: Thirty two you say they still need more big game experience.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the Cowboys game is the only big game they've

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Speaker 1: had so far this year. Fourteen percent of you say

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Speaker 1: they still need more playoff caliber opponents. They'll get them

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Speaker 1: the next three weeks. Ten percent of something else in mind.

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Speaker 1: What's on your mind to this question or anything regarding

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Speaker 1: the Bills eight three five fifty two three one eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty Let let us know what

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Speaker 1: you think. We'll take your phone calls. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel in Dallas. Hello, Emmanuel, welcome to the show. Hey, Hey,

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Speaker 1: good morning, John and Steve. Hi my communists. Before I

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Speaker 1: got to your topic better day because I couldn't hear you,

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01:23:34,960 --> 01:23:36,720
Speaker 1: I want to talk about their topic of the day.

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Speaker 1: I think what they're missing is good tackling and up

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Speaker 1: front stopping to run. Every time I watched the Bills lose,

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01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:46,599
Speaker 1: its people running the ball down and throw. In terms

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Speaker 1: of like New Orleans Saints last year and now this year,

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01:23:49,880 --> 01:23:52,120
Speaker 1: old teams know, Hey, let's run the ball at the Bills.

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Speaker 1: If they can make good tackling and be stopped up front.

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Speaker 1: I think they can go and do anything they want

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Speaker 1: to do. Specifically, I want to talk about Starlasula. I'm

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Speaker 1: the guy who called from Hawaii, right. I just don't

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Speaker 1: think that it's in their nature or in Star's nature

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Speaker 1: to be mean upfront, and I think it's maybe it's

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Speaker 1: time to move on at this season from Star. Well

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Speaker 1: here's the Yeah, it's interesting you say that because most

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Speaker 1: of the people I'm looking down the mentions on the

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Speaker 1: people who reply to the Twitter poll, most of the

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Speaker 1: other category has to do with the run defense, because

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Speaker 1: that you're right. When the Bills have been vulnerable, it's

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Speaker 1: to teams who have run the football and had good

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Speaker 1: days running the ball against them, And that's I think

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01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:36,120
Speaker 1: that is an issue that they're dealing with and they

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01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:37,880
Speaker 1: kind of worry about. It's a concern of the defense.

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01:24:37,920 --> 01:24:39,840
Speaker 1: If the defense does have one concern at this point,

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01:24:39,920 --> 01:24:42,679
Speaker 1: that's gotta be it. They got to maintain the run defense.

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Speaker 1: And if so, I think that's a really valid point.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's it outweighs into the others,

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Speaker 1: but I certainly see where you're coming from. This is

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Speaker 1: a team that has leaned on the defense for most

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Speaker 1: of the season. Now that their offense is gaining its stride,

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01:24:57,200 --> 01:24:59,479
Speaker 1: maybe that takes a little pressure off that run defense.

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01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:00,960
Speaker 1: Maybe team they're gonna have to throw it a little

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Speaker 1: more any way to keep up with an offense that

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Speaker 1: scores a few more points. I don't know if that's

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Speaker 1: the case in this game, because of the defense is involved,

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Speaker 1: But it's a point well taken. When we've seen this

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Speaker 1: team look bad on that side of the ball, it

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01:25:13,680 --> 01:25:15,800
Speaker 1: has been because of the run defense. It's not been

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Speaker 1: because of the long pass. It's not been because of

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Speaker 1: you know, a quarterback lightening them up, or receivers getting open,

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Speaker 1: or there's a somebody they can't stop. It's been because

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Speaker 1: of run get defense. And so I think that's a

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01:25:27,880 --> 01:25:30,800
Speaker 1: valid point. And I hear you Manuel, you're right, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're gonna get I'll never get

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Speaker 1: into specifics about players who are playing good who are

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Speaker 1: playing bad. That's hard to say because quite frankly, you

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01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:39,640
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what these guys are being asked to

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Speaker 1: do or exactly how they're being coached. But and it's

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01:25:43,800 --> 01:25:47,280
Speaker 1: not automatically the defensive front's fault. It could be linebackers,

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01:25:47,320 --> 01:25:50,519
Speaker 1: it could be defensive backs, it could be something different

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Speaker 1: on every run play they give up. But you're right,

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01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:54,680
Speaker 1: I think that's a that's a great point you bring

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Speaker 1: up about a run defense. What's still missing from the

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen Bills. Bob and Orchard Park on the line

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Speaker 1: with thoughts on that, go ahead, Bob, Hello, Yeah, Hi,

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Speaker 1: John and Steve H. First of all, I'd like to

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Speaker 1: say that it's it's been a joy to watch the

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Speaker 1: Bills the last few weeks how they're progressing from game

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Speaker 1: to game. I mean, you don't really see that all

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01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:26,880
Speaker 1: the time, that it's been that quick of a turner progression,

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Speaker 1: where from game to game you can see how much

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01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:34,599
Speaker 1: they're getting better at certain things. And as to your

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Speaker 1: pole question about what's still missing, I had brought up

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago with you and Steve that

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Speaker 1: it's not a criticism, but it's I still see a

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Speaker 1: lack of production on the offensive side with the tight ends.

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01:26:53,840 --> 01:26:56,799
Speaker 1: I think we have two excellent tight ends and Knox

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Speaker 1: and Tyler Craft, but they're almost invisible in the offense.

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Speaker 1: Tyler Croft since he come back, I think he's only

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01:27:05,439 --> 01:27:09,040
Speaker 1: caught one pass, where is he? Is he hurt or

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01:27:09,160 --> 01:27:12,240
Speaker 1: what's going on with him? So I'll listen to what

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Speaker 1: you guys have to say. That's a good point. I mean,

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Speaker 1: John Brown's gotten a lot of positive attention because of

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01:27:16,960 --> 01:27:19,920
Speaker 1: the productivity he's put out. Cole Beasley is a guy

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Speaker 1: who had a huge breakout game, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: a career game against Dallas in this last game, and

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01:27:26,280 --> 01:27:28,920
Speaker 1: I think that's where the passing game starts with for

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Speaker 1: the most part. But there's no question the tight ends

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Speaker 1: are going to be important down the stretch. You've got

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01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:35,840
Speaker 1: to have somebody to win with. If a team like

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01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 1: the Patriots or the Baltimore Ravens force you to win

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01:27:38,640 --> 01:27:41,920
Speaker 1: left handed, you've got to have somebody who can get

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01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:45,600
Speaker 1: open consistently. If the Bills need somebody like that and

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01:27:45,640 --> 01:27:47,080
Speaker 1: they don't feel like they have it, I don't know

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Speaker 1: who's gonna be. Maybe it's a tight end, maybe it's Croft,

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01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:53,040
Speaker 1: maybe it's Knocks somebody else, but they're gonna need somebody

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01:27:53,439 --> 01:27:58,360
Speaker 1: other than Cole Beasley and John Brown, and I you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I if I know who would

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Speaker 1: be the passing game if it's not one of those

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Speaker 1: two guys. Tyler Croft has four catches since he's been

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01:28:07,200 --> 01:28:10,160
Speaker 1: backed right, They're not a great passing offense. Let's face it.

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01:28:10,240 --> 01:28:12,360
Speaker 1: They're twenty third in the league still, even with the

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01:28:12,439 --> 01:28:14,880
Speaker 1: production from John Brown, even with the I think it's

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01:28:14,880 --> 01:28:16,840
Speaker 1: gotten better the last few weeks. But they're not a

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Speaker 1: great passing offense. It's not their strength. And I think

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01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:21,000
Speaker 1: they want to run the ball more than they want

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Speaker 1: to throw the ball, don't you Yeah. I think they

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01:28:23,040 --> 01:28:25,760
Speaker 1: feel like it's better for their complimentary football philosophy when

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01:28:25,760 --> 01:28:27,519
Speaker 1: they get into these games where they know their defense

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01:28:27,640 --> 01:28:31,920
Speaker 1: is going to have something you know is gonna play well.

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01:28:32,680 --> 01:28:35,080
Speaker 1: They know too that the fewer chances they give a

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01:28:35,120 --> 01:28:38,880
Speaker 1: team to score, it's going to aid their probability of victory.

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Speaker 1: So I think they do want to run the football.

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01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:43,439
Speaker 1: It's like everybody, if you can make first downs just

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01:28:43,600 --> 01:28:47,040
Speaker 1: running the football, it feels less risky than it does

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01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:49,040
Speaker 1: throwing the football. And we used to stand on the

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01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:52,240
Speaker 1: sidelines and when we were running the ball well, or

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01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:54,400
Speaker 1: if a team was running the ball on us, we

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01:28:54,439 --> 01:28:56,880
Speaker 1: always used to say, if if you don't, if if

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Speaker 1: you can run the football, the other team, team is

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Speaker 1: defense less. I mean, there's nothing you can do. They're

1833
01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:05,880
Speaker 1: just gonna keep handing it off and getting first down,

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01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:07,679
Speaker 1: saying there's nothing you can do about it. You've got

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01:29:07,800 --> 01:29:10,719
Speaker 1: to find a way to stop it, because you really

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01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:14,720
Speaker 1: feel it feels hopeless when they run the football well

1837
01:29:14,800 --> 01:29:17,400
Speaker 1: on you because all they got it just looks so easy.

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01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:19,320
Speaker 1: That's why you give it to a guy. He makes

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01:29:19,320 --> 01:29:21,920
Speaker 1: a guy missing six yard gain, he makes another guy

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01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:24,880
Speaker 1: miss or has nobody touch him. It's another six yard gain. Man.

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01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:27,640
Speaker 1: That's really demoralizing, and that's why I think it's it

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01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:29,840
Speaker 1: strikes a chord with so many fans as well. Let's

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Speaker 1: take a call here from Jerry and Ken Moore. Hello, Jerry,

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01:29:32,400 --> 01:29:35,760
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. How are you guys doing good?

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01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:41,880
Speaker 1: You know, my two concerns are special teams. You know,

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01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:44,080
Speaker 1: we've we've had we've had a block punt, we've had

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01:29:44,120 --> 01:29:46,760
Speaker 1: a kickoff return for a touchdown, we've had a missfield.

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01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:49,519
Speaker 1: I mean, the special teams were bad last year, and

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01:29:49,600 --> 01:29:52,320
Speaker 1: aside from the kick return, which is a really small sample,

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01:29:53,600 --> 01:29:56,200
Speaker 1: the special team seemed to get soil played almost every week.

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01:29:56,800 --> 01:30:01,719
Speaker 1: The second thing is short yardage philosophy execution. It takes

1852
01:30:01,840 --> 01:30:05,400
Speaker 1: took a superhuman play to change our season last week

1853
01:30:05,920 --> 01:30:08,400
Speaker 1: and again I've called you guys twenty times on this.

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01:30:08,800 --> 01:30:12,479
Speaker 1: I really don't get packed the box and try to

1855
01:30:12,920 --> 01:30:15,000
Speaker 1: try to win seven one on one battle over two

1856
01:30:15,120 --> 01:30:17,080
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five pound guys to gain a yard.

1857
01:30:17,120 --> 01:30:19,800
Speaker 1: It's not how a yard is made anymore in this league,

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01:30:19,920 --> 01:30:25,920
Speaker 1: it say, isn't nineteen seventy five? Jerry? I disagree. We're

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01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:29,640
Speaker 1: all for like ten with Gore third or fourth and

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01:30:29,720 --> 01:30:33,439
Speaker 1: one this year over ten those real numbers? Are you

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01:30:33,520 --> 01:30:35,200
Speaker 1: just spitball in there, Jerry, because I don't have that

1862
01:30:35,280 --> 01:30:38,080
Speaker 1: number at night hard on any of the he was

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01:30:38,120 --> 01:30:40,759
Speaker 1: over six and two games back to back, the Philly

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01:30:40,840 --> 01:30:43,519
Speaker 1: game and another and the game after the Philly game.

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Speaker 1: He it's you watch the way New England does it.

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01:30:47,320 --> 01:30:49,800
Speaker 1: They spread the field and then they sneak Brady. They

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01:30:49,840 --> 01:30:53,719
Speaker 1: don't pack it in and sneake Brady. It's think about

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01:30:53,760 --> 01:30:55,240
Speaker 1: the math of it. Do you want to try to

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01:30:55,320 --> 01:30:58,120
Speaker 1: gain a yard in an area that has fourteen players

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01:30:58,200 --> 01:31:01,560
Speaker 1: away two hundred and seventy five pound The math of

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01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:05,160
Speaker 1: it doesn't isn't reasonable? Okay, I'll tell you. I'll tell

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01:31:05,200 --> 01:31:11,240
Speaker 1: you what if if that's your big issue with this offense.

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01:31:15,160 --> 01:31:17,240
Speaker 1: You're not paying attention. I mean, I get it. I

1874
01:31:17,360 --> 01:31:19,519
Speaker 1: think that's a minor thing. This is an offense that's

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01:31:19,560 --> 01:31:22,000
Speaker 1: twenty third in the league and throwing the football. Uh,

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01:31:22,160 --> 01:31:24,840
Speaker 1: it's they run the football pretty well. They've got a

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01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:29,680
Speaker 1: quarterback who's six six, two fifty uh and is a

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01:31:29,800 --> 01:31:33,000
Speaker 1: real athlete. Uh. They call his number once in a while.

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01:31:33,160 --> 01:31:35,360
Speaker 1: He's the best short yardage back in the league in

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01:31:35,360 --> 01:31:37,679
Speaker 1: my opinion, except maybe the guy they're facing this week

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01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:40,840
Speaker 1: in Lamar Jackson. Now I get it. Turn having him

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01:31:40,880 --> 01:31:43,200
Speaker 1: turn around and hand it off to Frank Gore U

1883
01:31:44,640 --> 01:31:46,880
Speaker 1: has not been as successful as you wanted to see. Okay,

1884
01:31:47,560 --> 01:31:51,679
Speaker 1: but they don't do that every single time. And last

1885
01:31:51,720 --> 01:31:53,960
Speaker 1: week is a perfect example of what they can do

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01:31:54,040 --> 01:31:55,880
Speaker 1: when they you know, when when they hand the ball

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01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:59,360
Speaker 1: to Josh Uh, he salvaged a busted play. But I

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01:31:59,479 --> 01:32:01,920
Speaker 1: get it. I mean, so they got they getting snapped

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01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:07,360
Speaker 1: off on fourth and shorts a lot. Okay, they're in

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01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 1: the top half of the look and I don't have

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01:32:09,080 --> 01:32:12,080
Speaker 1: the detailed numbers for fourth and short, but fourth downs overall,

1892
01:32:12,160 --> 01:32:13,800
Speaker 1: most of them are going to be short. They're in

1893
01:32:13,840 --> 01:32:15,600
Speaker 1: the top half of the league. They're fourteenth in the

1894
01:32:15,680 --> 01:32:18,240
Speaker 1: league and fourth down percentage Ravens, by the way, our

1895
01:32:18,320 --> 01:32:20,160
Speaker 1: number one in the league and fourth town percentage. But

1896
01:32:20,240 --> 01:32:21,960
Speaker 1: did you bring up a decent point, Jerry, I would

1897
01:32:21,960 --> 01:32:23,800
Speaker 1: have to look at I guess I would need some

1898
01:32:23,960 --> 01:32:28,400
Speaker 1: evidence based on numbers. You know that it's been unsuccessful.

1899
01:32:28,439 --> 01:32:29,960
Speaker 1: I know they did go through a rough stretch where

1900
01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:31,720
Speaker 1: they were getting snuts. Well, they had their goal line

1901
01:32:31,760 --> 01:32:33,840
Speaker 1: sequence right a couple of weeks ago, right, that was ugly,

1902
01:32:33,920 --> 01:32:36,720
Speaker 1: and they finally, by the way, did score right on

1903
01:32:36,840 --> 01:32:39,200
Speaker 1: that goal line sequence. It was first and goal a

1904
01:32:39,280 --> 01:32:40,760
Speaker 1: to one, second and goal to one, third and goal

1905
01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:43,439
Speaker 1: to one and then they scored on fourth down something

1906
01:32:43,520 --> 01:32:45,840
Speaker 1: like I might have been Washington game. I can't remember.

1907
01:32:45,840 --> 01:32:47,160
Speaker 1: I don't think it was. I don't think it was

1908
01:32:47,439 --> 01:32:50,479
Speaker 1: the I don't think it was the Denver game. It

1909
01:32:50,600 --> 01:32:52,960
Speaker 1: was before that. Yeah, anyway, i'd like to see more

1910
01:32:53,080 --> 01:32:55,720
Speaker 1: numbers on that. But that's a valid criticism. That's valid. Yeah,

1911
01:32:55,800 --> 01:32:58,000
Speaker 1: I mean, but I do like this and most people

1912
01:32:58,080 --> 01:33:01,200
Speaker 1: it's interesting, because Jerry the caller said it's interesting too.

1913
01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:04,880
Speaker 1: Most people crush you for not going for it and

1914
01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:07,840
Speaker 1: never thinking that you're not gonna get it, And the

1915
01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:10,120
Speaker 1: bills are kind of what sixteenth their middle of the

1916
01:33:10,240 --> 01:33:12,439
Speaker 1: road in the league, and it seems like they never

1917
01:33:12,560 --> 01:33:17,040
Speaker 1: get it right. So think about it. It's it's a

1918
01:33:17,200 --> 01:33:20,000
Speaker 1: crucial down. That's why coaches are very have been in

1919
01:33:20,120 --> 01:33:24,200
Speaker 1: years passing historically, very very reticent to even go for

1920
01:33:24,280 --> 01:33:26,519
Speaker 1: it on fourth down instead of just taking the punt,

1921
01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:28,960
Speaker 1: sending them down the field thirty five yards or forty

1922
01:33:29,040 --> 01:33:31,200
Speaker 1: yards and letting them have the ball there. What do

1923
01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:34,280
Speaker 1: you think what's still missing from the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills.

1924
01:33:34,320 --> 01:33:36,400
Speaker 1: They're not perfect, we know it. Want to hear from

1925
01:33:36,439 --> 01:33:37,920
Speaker 1: you in the third and final hour of the show.

1926
01:33:38,040 --> 01:33:40,200
Speaker 1: What do you think they can do better at as

1927
01:33:40,240 --> 01:33:42,920
Speaker 1: the season moves through? The final four games? Also coming

1928
01:33:42,960 --> 01:33:46,120
Speaker 1: up next hour. Judy Battisa of NFL dot Com. She's

1929
01:33:46,160 --> 01:33:48,760
Speaker 1: also on the NFL Network. She was in Baltimore Mt.

1930
01:33:48,880 --> 01:33:52,080
Speaker 1: Bank Stadium last Sunday for the forty nine Ers Ravens game.

1931
01:33:52,320 --> 01:33:53,960
Speaker 1: She has some thoughts on that game. She has some

1932
01:33:54,040 --> 01:33:56,040
Speaker 1: thoughts on what to expect from the Bills, and some

1933
01:33:56,200 --> 01:33:58,559
Speaker 1: thoughts on the NFL one hundred Team, the all time team.

1934
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:00,840
Speaker 1: She is a panel of on the panel of Blue

1935
01:34:00,920 --> 01:34:03,599
Speaker 1: Ribbon voters for that team. Judy Batissa coming up when

1936
01:34:03,640 --> 01:34:05,519
Speaker 1: we return. Come on back with us One Bill's Line,

1937
01:34:05,560 --> 01:34:08,519
Speaker 1: presented by Kalidah Health. Coming here from the Seneca Studio

1938
01:34:08,600 --> 01:34:21,200
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio Hills Radio

1939
01:34:21,360 --> 01:34:25,280
Speaker 1: Network Sports Day Update from One Bills Drive. It was

1940
01:34:25,320 --> 01:34:27,040
Speaker 1: a practice safe for the Bills. They've got a big

1941
01:34:27,120 --> 01:34:29,759
Speaker 1: game coming up Sunday at home against the Baltimore Ravens.

1942
01:34:29,840 --> 01:34:32,120
Speaker 1: With their ten wins, the Bills at nine and three

1943
01:34:32,160 --> 01:34:34,600
Speaker 1: going into this game. It's a couple of good defenses

1944
01:34:34,680 --> 01:34:36,719
Speaker 1: going head to head. The Bills and Ravens top five

1945
01:34:36,800 --> 01:34:39,240
Speaker 1: in points allout, and the Bills have done a good

1946
01:34:39,320 --> 01:34:42,160
Speaker 1: job of increasing their sacks over the last few weeks.

1947
01:34:42,200 --> 01:34:45,000
Speaker 1: The Bill's pass rush heating up. They've had fifteen sacks

1948
01:34:45,120 --> 01:34:47,720
Speaker 1: the Bills have the defense has in the last three games.

1949
01:34:47,760 --> 01:34:51,360
Speaker 1: They've got thirty seven total sacks this year, already surpassing

1950
01:34:51,479 --> 01:34:54,160
Speaker 1: last year's total of thirty six. With the four games

1951
01:34:54,280 --> 01:34:57,080
Speaker 1: left to play, Bills and Ravens coming up on Sunday

1952
01:34:57,120 --> 01:35:01,000
Speaker 1: here in Orchard Park. Bill's defensive tackle Oliver, who produced

1953
01:35:01,040 --> 01:35:04,000
Speaker 1: two sacks last week, is a nominee for the Week

1954
01:35:04,120 --> 01:35:07,240
Speaker 1: thirteen PEPSI Rookie of the Week, one of five nominees

1955
01:35:07,840 --> 01:35:10,120
Speaker 1: at Oliver with a force fumble and a pass defense

1956
01:35:10,200 --> 01:35:13,160
Speaker 1: and Buffalo's win over the Dallas Cowboys. Bills returned to

1957
01:35:13,240 --> 01:35:15,439
Speaker 1: practice tomorrow as they get set the host of the

1958
01:35:15,520 --> 01:35:19,200
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. Last night, Seattle suffered through the

1959
01:35:19,280 --> 01:35:21,840
Speaker 1: flu and still won the game. They beat Minnesota thirty

1960
01:35:21,880 --> 01:35:24,759
Speaker 1: seven to thirty six. Seahawks were listening on the final

1961
01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:27,439
Speaker 1: injury report of the game of an illness. Several of

1962
01:35:27,520 --> 01:35:29,800
Speaker 1: them were sent home a flu bug that started making

1963
01:35:29,880 --> 01:35:32,679
Speaker 1: his way through the Seahawks locker room midway through the week.

1964
01:35:33,080 --> 01:35:36,120
Speaker 1: Seahawks survived that and beat the Vikings thirty seven to thirty.

1965
01:35:36,560 --> 01:35:39,120
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones says his coach is qualified to be a

1966
01:35:39,160 --> 01:35:41,519
Speaker 1: coach in the NFL. He did not say he's bringing

1967
01:35:41,600 --> 01:35:44,599
Speaker 1: back Jason Garrett, but Jones said that during this Tuesday

1968
01:35:44,640 --> 01:35:47,439
Speaker 1: morning appearance on the radio with the Cowboys six and six,

1969
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:49,759
Speaker 1: he does not want to make an end season coaching change,

1970
01:35:50,080 --> 01:35:52,360
Speaker 1: and he says Jason Garrett is qualified to be a

1971
01:35:52,840 --> 01:35:55,280
Speaker 1: coach in the NFL. He says, in my opinion, Jason

1972
01:35:55,360 --> 01:35:58,880
Speaker 1: Garrett will be coaching in the NFL next year. Cincinnati

1973
01:35:58,920 --> 01:36:02,799
Speaker 1: Bengals have officially denmated wide receiver John Ross from injury reserve.

1974
01:36:03,040 --> 01:36:05,000
Speaker 1: He's been out since suffering in an injury in Week

1975
01:36:05,120 --> 01:36:08,200
Speaker 1: four in a game at Pittsburgh. Rutgers University is brought

1976
01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:11,479
Speaker 1: bag Greg Sciano as their head coach. He's fifty three

1977
01:36:11,560 --> 01:36:13,680
Speaker 1: years old, gets an eight year deal. It comes a

1978
01:36:13,760 --> 01:36:16,719
Speaker 1: week after they walked away from negotiations and the Buffalo

1979
01:36:16,800 --> 01:36:19,080
Speaker 1: Sabers returned to practice today. Came up with a seven

1980
01:36:19,200 --> 01:36:21,479
Speaker 1: one win against the Devil's last night. And that's the

1981
01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:28,360
Speaker 1: update from one Bill's drive. Oh great times, tesper get

1982
01:36:28,439 --> 01:36:39,160
Speaker 1: to the n done text Tex down to do over

1983
01:36:39,360 --> 01:36:48,759
Speaker 1: time the Bills back converc Tasker in our Seneca studio

1984
01:36:48,800 --> 01:36:51,320
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park on the line with NFL reporter Judy

1985
01:36:51,360 --> 01:36:54,320
Speaker 1: Batista of NFL dot Com. Judy, thanks coming on with us.

1986
01:36:54,320 --> 01:36:57,160
Speaker 1: We appreciate it today, My pleasure. Good to be here.

1987
01:36:57,560 --> 01:37:00,240
Speaker 1: You were in Baltimore on Sunday, and that's why we

1988
01:37:00,640 --> 01:37:03,080
Speaker 1: want to start with with you. You saw the Baltimore Ravens,

1989
01:37:03,160 --> 01:37:05,559
Speaker 1: who present a pretty big challenge to this Buffalo Bills,

1990
01:37:05,680 --> 01:37:09,519
Speaker 1: especially defensively. Nothing. Yeah, you know what I was impressed

1991
01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:12,639
Speaker 1: by the Ravens on Sunday was They did not play

1992
01:37:12,720 --> 01:37:15,960
Speaker 1: their best game offensively. Lamar Jackson was not at his best.

1993
01:37:16,040 --> 01:37:18,439
Speaker 1: He was pretty candid about it. The conditions there were

1994
01:37:18,479 --> 01:37:22,000
Speaker 1: not great. It was very wet. He had trouble throwing

1995
01:37:22,040 --> 01:37:24,320
Speaker 1: the ball. They had almost no deep passing games, so

1996
01:37:24,400 --> 01:37:27,280
Speaker 1: we didn't see those kind of big chunk plays that

1997
01:37:27,360 --> 01:37:30,400
Speaker 1: we've seen from them in the offense. And they still

1998
01:37:30,479 --> 01:37:32,720
Speaker 1: want It was a slugfest. They had to sort of

1999
01:37:32,800 --> 01:37:36,320
Speaker 1: grind it out. They held the Niners at bay and

2000
01:37:36,439 --> 01:37:38,719
Speaker 1: then you know, it came down to that final drive

2001
01:37:39,160 --> 01:37:42,320
Speaker 1: where they just had to play very carefully, no turnovers,

2002
01:37:42,400 --> 01:37:44,679
Speaker 1: no negative plays, to sort of march down the field

2003
01:37:44,720 --> 01:37:47,400
Speaker 1: and get in field goal position. And I thought that

2004
01:37:47,560 --> 01:37:50,439
Speaker 1: was the most impressive thing about it. They had shredded,

2005
01:37:51,200 --> 01:37:53,000
Speaker 1: you know, as you know, quite a few of their

2006
01:37:53,040 --> 01:37:55,560
Speaker 1: opponents in the last few weeks. It was not that

2007
01:37:55,680 --> 01:37:58,600
Speaker 1: kind of game, and they still came out ahead of

2008
01:37:59,439 --> 01:38:01,120
Speaker 1: the team that may still be the best team in

2009
01:38:01,160 --> 01:38:04,439
Speaker 1: the NFC. They're not the number one seed anymore after yesterday,

2010
01:38:04,560 --> 01:38:08,120
Speaker 1: but you know, that was a pretty impressive win. Yeah,

2011
01:38:08,160 --> 01:38:10,680
Speaker 1: And it was a highly anticipated game. You thought the

2012
01:38:10,760 --> 01:38:12,559
Speaker 1: forty nine ers might give them a really good shot

2013
01:38:12,600 --> 01:38:14,920
Speaker 1: of hitting them on them. Both teams really played there.

2014
01:38:15,120 --> 01:38:16,599
Speaker 1: It did the game live up to it? I mean,

2015
01:38:16,680 --> 01:38:18,960
Speaker 1: these both these teams are at the top of their conferences,

2016
01:38:19,000 --> 01:38:22,240
Speaker 1: and now now the Ravens are at the very top

2017
01:38:22,320 --> 01:38:24,000
Speaker 1: of the conference, in the top of the league with

2018
01:38:24,040 --> 01:38:27,240
Speaker 1: their win percentage. Yeah, you know, I was looking forward

2019
01:38:27,280 --> 01:38:29,680
Speaker 1: to covering that game for weeks. You know, as soon

2020
01:38:29,720 --> 01:38:31,439
Speaker 1: as it became clear that these we're going to be

2021
01:38:31,479 --> 01:38:34,320
Speaker 1: two with the top teams in the league, I couldn't

2022
01:38:34,360 --> 01:38:37,680
Speaker 1: wait to cover it. It did live up to my expectations.

2023
01:38:37,760 --> 01:38:40,280
Speaker 1: That leads you know, if you were looking for a

2024
01:38:40,400 --> 01:38:43,360
Speaker 1: high scoring game, no, right, it was sort of like

2025
01:38:43,400 --> 01:38:46,000
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl last year where everybody was looking forward

2026
01:38:46,040 --> 01:38:48,760
Speaker 1: to fireworks and you didn't get that. But this was

2027
01:38:48,800 --> 01:38:51,760
Speaker 1: sort of an old school battle, right. The conditions were

2028
01:38:51,880 --> 01:38:56,800
Speaker 1: not good, the defenses were good, the offenses had to

2029
01:38:56,920 --> 01:39:00,479
Speaker 1: fight for everything they had. It was tremendous. Again, if

2030
01:39:00,520 --> 01:39:03,320
Speaker 1: you tuned in wanting to see Lamar Jackson go off,

2031
01:39:04,200 --> 01:39:07,840
Speaker 1: you didn't see that. The conditions prevented that, and certainly

2032
01:39:07,880 --> 01:39:10,880
Speaker 1: the Niners defense, you know, arguably the best defense in

2033
01:39:10,920 --> 01:39:14,760
Speaker 1: the league, prevented it. But it was I thought it

2034
01:39:14,880 --> 01:39:18,519
Speaker 1: was a great game, really tightly contested, and certainly if

2035
01:39:18,560 --> 01:39:22,000
Speaker 1: we get that rematch again in February, I don't think

2036
01:39:22,040 --> 01:39:25,120
Speaker 1: a whole lot of people outside of other fan bases

2037
01:39:25,120 --> 01:39:27,680
Speaker 1: would be disappointed. Well, you know, it comes up that

2038
01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:30,519
Speaker 1: Baltimore is coming to Buffalo this week to play the

2039
01:39:30,560 --> 01:39:33,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, and the forty Niners are a unique team.

2040
01:39:33,880 --> 01:39:37,400
Speaker 1: They're highly talented upfront defensively. What kind of blueprint can

2041
01:39:37,479 --> 01:39:40,719
Speaker 1: people take away from this game for either team about

2042
01:39:40,800 --> 01:39:44,320
Speaker 1: getting an edge on what to do to derail them? Well,

2043
01:39:44,400 --> 01:39:46,960
Speaker 1: you know they did. The Niners did a really good

2044
01:39:47,080 --> 01:39:51,599
Speaker 1: job of stopping the Ravens running game outside of Lamar Jackson.

2045
01:39:51,680 --> 01:39:54,559
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson still had one hundred yards with his four

2046
01:39:54,760 --> 01:39:56,840
Speaker 1: hundred yard game of the season, but they did a

2047
01:39:56,920 --> 01:40:00,280
Speaker 1: good job of holding off the running back. So at

2048
01:40:00,360 --> 01:40:02,880
Speaker 1: least you're cutting off that part of their game. Again,

2049
01:40:02,960 --> 01:40:05,120
Speaker 1: I think it's going to depend on the conditions because

2050
01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:08,479
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson doesn't want to run. He'll tell you that

2051
01:40:08,680 --> 01:40:11,120
Speaker 1: he wants to be a quarterback who throws the ball,

2052
01:40:11,400 --> 01:40:13,479
Speaker 1: and they can do that and they've been able to

2053
01:40:13,600 --> 01:40:16,439
Speaker 1: do that, So I think conditions and Buffalo will dictate

2054
01:40:16,439 --> 01:40:18,960
Speaker 1: a little bit of what they're able to do but

2055
01:40:19,520 --> 01:40:22,360
Speaker 1: I think you know there's any blueprint, it's that you

2056
01:40:22,439 --> 01:40:24,560
Speaker 1: can take from the nine ers, and again, they have

2057
01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:28,800
Speaker 1: a very talented defense, but take away parts of their

2058
01:40:28,880 --> 01:40:32,479
Speaker 1: running game, put it all on Lamar Jackson and see

2059
01:40:32,520 --> 01:40:34,519
Speaker 1: what you get out of there. He doesn't want to run.

2060
01:40:34,600 --> 01:40:37,000
Speaker 1: He's run for almost a thousand yards. He's doing pretty well,

2061
01:40:37,600 --> 01:40:40,840
Speaker 1: but he's probably gonna break Michael Vick's single season rushing

2062
01:40:40,920 --> 01:40:43,759
Speaker 1: record for a quarterback. He's only I think it's twenty

2063
01:40:43,800 --> 01:40:46,240
Speaker 1: three yards away from a thousand yards rushing, So you

2064
01:40:46,320 --> 01:40:50,599
Speaker 1: know he'll probably get that this weekend. But he will

2065
01:40:50,640 --> 01:40:53,400
Speaker 1: tell you he prefers to throw the ball. He's a quarterback.

2066
01:40:53,520 --> 01:40:58,040
Speaker 1: He does not want to run first. He's obviously tremendously

2067
01:40:58,200 --> 01:41:00,479
Speaker 1: skilled at it. But I think if you can take

2068
01:41:00,520 --> 01:41:03,040
Speaker 1: away at least the running attack from the running backs,

2069
01:41:03,360 --> 01:41:06,160
Speaker 1: at least you put it all on Lamar Jackson. Judy,

2070
01:41:06,200 --> 01:41:07,640
Speaker 1: I was thinking a lot in the last twenty four

2071
01:41:07,680 --> 01:41:10,800
Speaker 1: hours actually about Baltimore's offense and the fact that they

2072
01:41:10,920 --> 01:41:12,960
Speaker 1: run in so well more than two hundred yards per game,

2073
01:41:13,280 --> 01:41:15,840
Speaker 1: Lamar with almost a thousand yards five point six yards

2074
01:41:15,880 --> 01:41:18,000
Speaker 1: per Garry, and they've got kind of this new age

2075
01:41:18,080 --> 01:41:21,920
Speaker 1: quarterback playing in sort of an old fashioned traditional offense,

2076
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:24,919
Speaker 1: you know, multiple tight ends in a power running games.

2077
01:41:24,960 --> 01:41:26,599
Speaker 1: It's kind of fun to watch. Kind of the melding

2078
01:41:26,640 --> 01:41:29,559
Speaker 1: to those two philosophies, isn't it it is? I feel

2079
01:41:29,600 --> 01:41:32,760
Speaker 1: like Lamar Jackson is this season's Patrick Mahomes right, Like

2080
01:41:32,800 --> 01:41:35,200
Speaker 1: the sort of supernovo who arrives on the scene and

2081
01:41:35,320 --> 01:41:37,600
Speaker 1: you can't take your eyes off him, and you're just

2082
01:41:37,840 --> 01:41:39,920
Speaker 1: everybody wants to watch him play least you want to

2083
01:41:39,920 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 1: see what he's gonna do next. Again, the previous few

2084
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:45,000
Speaker 1: weeks against some of the top teams in the league,

2085
01:41:45,040 --> 01:41:47,840
Speaker 1: they were shredding them right running up. The score was

2086
01:41:47,960 --> 01:41:50,840
Speaker 1: incredible to watch. That's why I thought this was a

2087
01:41:50,960 --> 01:41:53,920
Speaker 1: really important game against the Niners for them, because I

2088
01:41:54,080 --> 01:41:56,920
Speaker 1: think they had to go back and prove you could

2089
01:41:56,960 --> 01:42:00,479
Speaker 1: win a game like this, like a close, tightly tested

2090
01:42:00,600 --> 01:42:03,880
Speaker 1: game where not everything is working perfectly. You're not going

2091
01:42:04,040 --> 01:42:06,320
Speaker 1: up and down the field. Do you forget they hadn't

2092
01:42:06,479 --> 01:42:09,759
Speaker 1: had to hunt. I think it was twenty one straight

2093
01:42:10,320 --> 01:42:14,800
Speaker 1: drives that Lamar Jackson was in on. That's incredible. So

2094
01:42:15,080 --> 01:42:16,800
Speaker 1: I think it was important for them to get a

2095
01:42:16,920 --> 01:42:19,920
Speaker 1: game like this where everything was not going right. He

2096
01:42:20,120 --> 01:42:22,680
Speaker 1: did not have his best game. They just had to

2097
01:42:22,760 --> 01:42:26,479
Speaker 1: play a tightly controlled kind of game, not make too

2098
01:42:26,560 --> 01:42:30,200
Speaker 1: many mistakes, and you know, grind it out at the end. Well,

2099
01:42:30,520 --> 01:42:33,000
Speaker 1: the Ravens come to Buffalo, and you're right, the conditions

2100
01:42:33,080 --> 01:42:36,200
Speaker 1: may be good, maybe bad. That it's a big kind

2101
01:42:36,240 --> 01:42:38,439
Speaker 1: of roll of the dice at this point, but they're

2102
01:42:38,479 --> 01:42:40,320
Speaker 1: coming in to play the Buffalo Bills. Who, I mean,

2103
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Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on this Bill team? Are they

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Speaker 1: one of the more surprising teams as this team as

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Speaker 1: this season takes shape? They are, And of course, you

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Speaker 1: know they're under the radar. I think nationally maybe until

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving when everybody in the country is watching football, and

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously dismantling Dallas in Dallas on Thanksgiving will

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Speaker 1: get a lot of eyeballs focused on you. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: think I think they're surprising, maybe if you weren't paying

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Speaker 1: attention to football. You know, I think we knew the

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Speaker 1: defense was going to be good. Certainly, Josh Allen is

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Speaker 1: having a very good season, and maybe nationally he is

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Speaker 1: finally getting onto people's radars. But you know the fact

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Speaker 1: that they are not just a wildcard team, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're they're a wildcard team. They're one of the top

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Speaker 1: teams in the AFC. Let's face it, if they were,

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Speaker 1: if they happened to be in the NFC East instead

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Speaker 1: of the AFCs, they'd be running away with the division.

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Speaker 1: They would be running away with most divisions in football,

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Speaker 1: except you know, they happened to be in the division

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Speaker 1: with the New England Patriots. I do think they are

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Speaker 1: surprising a lot of people. Again, I think probably after

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving they probably shouldn't be surprising people anymore. You know.

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Speaker 1: We're with Judi Vatisa by the way, NFL reporter for

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Speaker 1: NFL dot Com. This game is Sunday here in Buffalo

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Speaker 1: features two of the first round. The five first round

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks from the twenty eighteen draft. Have you given any

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Speaker 1: thought to maybe reordering the way in which they were drafted?

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Speaker 1: I mean, think about it that. I don't think the

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Speaker 1: last you know, the last Shelby first year, right, Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson probably be number one now and maybe Josh and

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Speaker 1: it would be the second quarterback chosen. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to say. Obviously, we get a heavy dose

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Speaker 1: of Sam Donald here in New York, and it's hard

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Speaker 1: to say his season has been so strange with the

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Speaker 1: mona nucleosis, new coach, they haven't had many offensive weapons,

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Speaker 1: so it's sort of hard to tell what you're going

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Speaker 1: to get from Sam Donald. He's been very up and

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Speaker 1: down this year, you know, Baker Mayfield again very up

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Speaker 1: and down. You certainly expected much more of that offense

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Speaker 1: than we've gotten this year. You certainly expected much more

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Speaker 1: of that team in general than we've gotten this year.

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Speaker 1: I agree, obviously it would be reordered. Lark Jackson would

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Speaker 1: be the first one now taken in the first round.

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Speaker 1: He would probably be the number one overall pick, and

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Speaker 1: I think you could make a pretty good argument if

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Speaker 1: you were just going by what we've seen so far,

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Speaker 1: that Josh would be would be second. How do you

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Speaker 1: argue that they have certainly had much greater team success

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Speaker 1: than Sam Darnolds has had and then Baker has had.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see. Again, it's hard to judge, particularly, I

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Speaker 1: think Sam Darnold because this season has been so weird

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Speaker 1: for him. But you know, I would say, certainly Lamar

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Speaker 1: and Josh would be one and two right now if

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Speaker 1: you reorder him. Yeah, and there's a lot to like

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Speaker 1: about Lamar and Josh in particular. I think the attitude

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Speaker 1: they kind of approach to the game that both of

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Speaker 1: them have. We know Josh really well here in Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: but I see Lamar Jackson wearing that T shirt. Nobody

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Speaker 1: cares work harder. I think that guy's he's got the

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Speaker 1: right attitude too about how to approach this thing, right,

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Speaker 1: There's no question they have a similar attitude. First of all,

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Speaker 1: they don't talk about individual accomplishments or accolades at all.

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Speaker 1: Like Lamar Jackson does not want to hear anybody talk

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Speaker 1: about Super Bowl yet, MVP certainly not. He doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to talk about They're all about team and we got

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Speaker 1: to keep going and we still have games. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's sort of boring as a reporter. You

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Speaker 1: want somebody to embrace all of the hype. They're not

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Speaker 1: into that at all. They're very even keeled, and look,

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Speaker 1: that's what you want in December and Joy. How much

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Speaker 1: of a difference has it made you look at those

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Speaker 1: five first round quarterbacks from a year ago, the two

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Speaker 1: guys were talking about, Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen are

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Speaker 1: the only two that have had stability. Josh Rosen a

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Speaker 1: whole new team, Baker Mayfield three count them three head coaches,

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Speaker 1: and of course Sam Darnel now and his second offense,

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Speaker 1: his second head coach. That's got to be a big

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Speaker 1: factor in the success these young players have had. There's

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Speaker 1: no question it's a It's a huge factor. And their

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Speaker 1: teams know that, right, I mean, and everybody on the

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Speaker 1: outside should realize that that no matter how gifted a

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Speaker 1: quarterback or any player is, you just can't do it

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Speaker 1: when there's chaos all around you, right, It just doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter if there's coaching upheaval. I mean Sam Darnald, you know,

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Speaker 1: on his second offense, as you pointed out, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Josh Rosen, his head must spin. He's had so much

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Speaker 1: going on. Baker Mayfield again, you know, and so many

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Speaker 1: of these cases lots of personnel turnover to not just

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Speaker 1: the coaching step, it's just a lot. Look look at

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady right, as confident and as stable a situation

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Speaker 1: as you could possibly have with that head coach, even

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Speaker 1: he is having trouble adjusting to having new weapons, inexperienced

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Speaker 1: weapons around him. He's struggling with it this year. So

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Speaker 1: you know, after his twenty year career, right, greatest quarterback

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Speaker 1: in history if he is struggling with it. Imagine what

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Speaker 1: must what it must be like in the heads of

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Speaker 1: these young guys. To have one more question for me

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Speaker 1: about the Bills versus the Ravens, and you were there

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Speaker 1: see the Niners and Ravens last Sunday. Is that the

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Speaker 1: template for Is that what the Buffalo defense should look

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Speaker 1: to do against the Baltimore Ravens They held him to

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Speaker 1: twenty points? Yeah, I mean, look, we like to talk

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Speaker 1: about blueprints a lot, but you know, you got to

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Speaker 1: have the personnel to do it to The Niners have

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Speaker 1: a very fast, exceptionally talented defensive front that certainly helps.

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Speaker 1: You got to have the horse is to do it.

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Speaker 1: But certainly I think they at least the Niners at

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Speaker 1: least gave future opponents of the Ravens stuff to chew on.

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Speaker 1: They at least gave you stuff to look at, which,

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Speaker 1: you know, let's be honest, previous opponents did not do.

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Speaker 1: The la Rams weren't able to do what the Patriots

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Speaker 1: weren't able to do it. So at least this is

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Speaker 1: something that coaches can look at and say, all right,

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Speaker 1: what did they do? What can we adopt from this?

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Speaker 1: How can we tailor this to our personnel to slow

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Speaker 1: the Ravens down. One of the things I wanted to

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Speaker 1: ask you about two is on in the big picture

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Speaker 1: around the league. You've got a lot of teams like

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Speaker 1: the Bills unexpectedly playing up to a nine and three record.

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Speaker 1: You've got Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh who lost three quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: and has done a wonderful job with Pittsburgh. You look

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Speaker 1: at even John Harbaugh in Baltimore rebuilding that offense and

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Speaker 1: doing something's a little bit off the books and really

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Speaker 1: kind of going all in on somebody who's really unproven

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Speaker 1: in Lamar Jackson and getting it done. A lot of

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Speaker 1: Coach of the Year candidates out there, guys who have

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Speaker 1: really done outstanding jobs. And we read this yesterday. We

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Speaker 1: poop poo did a little bit that Brian Flores is

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Speaker 1: getting some play because of the job he did now

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Speaker 1: that they've won three games with that roster and Ryan

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Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick at quarterback. But what are your thoughts on you

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Speaker 1: guys like Mike Tomlin, John Harbaugh, Sean McDermott, Brian Flores. Yeah, well, look,

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Speaker 1: I actually tweeted yesterday that you know they're not going

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Speaker 1: to win Coach of the Year and they might not

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Speaker 1: even get any votes for Coach of the Year, but

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Speaker 1: I think Tomlin and Flores at least should be talked

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Speaker 1: about because they have operated under extreme personnel dress. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, some of it self inflicted. Obviously, the Miami

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Speaker 1: Dolphins are following a plan here that has dismantled the roster.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers, of course are happenstance with all of the injuries,

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Speaker 1: but that they have kept their teams together and that

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Speaker 1: they're figuring out ways to win. That goes to coaching, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look at the opposite when you look at,

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Speaker 1: without naming any names, teams that have a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of talent on the roster, it looks like on paper

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Speaker 1: they're going to be a great team and they're just

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Speaker 1: not getting the results. That's coaching, right. We blame coaching there.

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Speaker 1: The opposite is also true. So look again, I don't

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Speaker 1: think Tomlin or Flora is gonna is gonna win Coach

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Speaker 1: the Year. I do think they should be in the conversation.

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Speaker 1: As for the coaches who are really going to be

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Speaker 1: in Let's see how the last month plays out, because

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Speaker 1: we know this is when things get really tight in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Games get closer that the conditions get worse. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan has to be in the conversation. I agree

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Speaker 1: with you, John Harbaugh, I think has to be considered

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Speaker 1: a leading Kennedy. They went to this completely unorthodox kind

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Speaker 1: of offense when they made the decision to go all

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Speaker 1: in on Lamar Jackson. You remember in the off season

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Speaker 1: last year they were saying, we're gonna We're gonna show

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Speaker 1: the league this new offense. We're gonna try this new offense.

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Speaker 1: There were a lot of people rolling their eyes, like,

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Speaker 1: come on, there's you know, there's nothing new under the

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Speaker 1: sun here. How's this going to work. A quarterback can't

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Speaker 1: run as much as Lamar Jackson runs and stay healthy.

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Speaker 1: And it's working right. They're blowing up their opponents. So

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Speaker 1: I think Harbaugh is a leading candidate. I certainly think

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott is a leading candidate when you see what

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Speaker 1: they've been able to do. Again, let's see what happens

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Speaker 1: in the last month, because a lot can change here.

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Speaker 1: This is a very big list of Coach of the

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Speaker 1: Year candidates this year. Talking with Judy Vatisa, NFL reporter

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Speaker 1: for NFL dot Com, a couple of minutes left here, Judy,

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Speaker 1: I want to get to the NFL All Time Team,

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Speaker 1: the NFL one team. You are on the blue ribbon

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Speaker 1: panel that selects that team. Is your voting complete? Give

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Speaker 1: us an idea about the process. Have you already voted

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Speaker 1: for all those positions we voted. We've voted more than

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Speaker 1: a year ago. We voted in the off season prior

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Speaker 1: to the twenty eighteen seasons. So yes, the twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: season and the twenty nineteen season we're not even part

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Speaker 1: of the consideration. Yes, it was. It was hard. It

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Speaker 1: was an honor obviously to be on that panel with

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Speaker 1: a lot of great football people, but it was hard.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to make the cut when you're only looking

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Speaker 1: at great players, influential players. To me, the toughest part

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Speaker 1: of it was comparing players across generations of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: The rules have changed, the styles of play have changed.

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Speaker 1: You know, we have longer seasons, players have longer careers.

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Speaker 1: It's very difficult to compare players who played in the

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Speaker 1: nineteen twenties and thirties players who were playing right now.

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Speaker 1: How did you guys handle those twenties and thirties players.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's essentially no one's seen them play, right, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: we had a subcommittee which was John Madden, Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: and a few others who really did deep dives on

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Speaker 1: what were called the Golden Year players. Those are the

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Speaker 1: guys who played both ways, offense and defense, and they

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Speaker 1: did deep dives on research. They got what little film

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Speaker 1: there was and looked at it, and they sort of

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Speaker 1: reported back to the rest of the panel and said,

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Speaker 1: you know, this is what we found. These guys were this,

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01:52:54,960 --> 01:52:58,720
Speaker 1: these guys were that, And that really helped help the

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Speaker 1: rest of us, because you're right, obviously none of us

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Speaker 1: saw these guys play a lot. There's very little film

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Speaker 1: of them to see, and they spent a lot of

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Speaker 1: time to produce a report that really helped the rest

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Speaker 1: of us. Yeah, and and and when the list comes out,

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Speaker 1: I mean obviously it's it's comprehensive and it goes wide ranging.

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Speaker 1: Was how much contention was there within Was it just

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01:53:23,600 --> 01:53:25,680
Speaker 1: a blind vote? Did you just discuss it? I mean

2313
01:53:25,800 --> 01:53:28,920
Speaker 1: there must have been some guys with some pretty passionate opinions. Yeah.

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01:53:29,000 --> 01:53:32,479
Speaker 1: We had two rather lengthy conference calls, and then we

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01:53:32,560 --> 01:53:35,160
Speaker 1: had an imperson meeting in New York. Again, this is

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01:53:35,200 --> 01:53:38,920
Speaker 1: the off season prior to the twenty eighteen season. The

2317
01:53:39,040 --> 01:53:43,519
Speaker 1: in person meeting lasted hours, hours and hours where you

2318
01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:46,480
Speaker 1: just poured over these guys. I wouldn't say it was contentious.

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01:53:46,520 --> 01:53:48,400
Speaker 1: There wasn't yelling, but yeah, there were a lot of

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01:53:48,640 --> 01:53:52,720
Speaker 1: strongly held feelings, you know, were there were people there

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01:53:52,800 --> 01:53:56,040
Speaker 1: who had played with some of these players, certainly who

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01:53:56,160 --> 01:54:00,160
Speaker 1: had been personnel executives with some of these players, and

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01:54:00,320 --> 01:54:02,920
Speaker 1: obviously there were some media members. You know, we've covered

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01:54:02,960 --> 01:54:06,800
Speaker 1: some of these players. It was not contentious, but it

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01:54:06,960 --> 01:54:08,960
Speaker 1: was really I was impressed by how much thought and

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01:54:09,160 --> 01:54:12,080
Speaker 1: care went into it. People spent a lot of time.

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01:54:12,360 --> 01:54:14,880
Speaker 1: I'll just give you an example of me. You know,

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01:54:15,200 --> 01:54:17,960
Speaker 1: it's divided by categories. You weren't ranking them, you know,

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01:54:18,040 --> 01:54:21,200
Speaker 1: one through ten or anything. But for instance, punters, you

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01:54:21,280 --> 01:54:24,479
Speaker 1: only got two punters. Well, I spent one Saturday like

2331
01:54:24,640 --> 01:54:28,720
Speaker 1: going down the rabbit hole on punter statistics and hunter tank.

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01:54:28,760 --> 01:54:33,480
Speaker 1: Good luck with that. So that was just punters. Imagine

2333
01:54:33,520 --> 01:54:35,960
Speaker 1: what we did on quarterbacks and running backs and all

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01:54:36,040 --> 01:54:38,160
Speaker 1: of the rest. It was. There was a lot of

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01:54:38,200 --> 01:54:41,280
Speaker 1: effort put into this and it was very difficult. Well,

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01:54:41,280 --> 01:54:43,000
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, we all appreciate the effort you

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01:54:43,080 --> 01:54:44,840
Speaker 1: put in on it. All of us who followed the

2338
01:54:44,920 --> 01:54:47,360
Speaker 1: league didn't want to do all of that, so I

2339
01:54:47,640 --> 01:54:50,440
Speaker 1: appreciate you putting the effort in that. That's awesome to hear.

2340
01:54:50,480 --> 01:54:52,640
Speaker 1: And I know this too, and some of the and

2341
01:54:52,760 --> 01:54:54,440
Speaker 1: all the stuff that goes on that's a big list

2342
01:54:54,560 --> 01:54:56,920
Speaker 1: like this. The people they choose to do it do

2343
01:54:57,400 --> 01:54:59,080
Speaker 1: sacrifice a lot of their time and put a lot

2344
01:54:59,080 --> 01:55:00,800
Speaker 1: of everything. So I appreci shake you doing that, and

2345
01:55:00,880 --> 01:55:02,720
Speaker 1: I know on behalf a lot of fans work. We

2346
01:55:02,800 --> 01:55:06,120
Speaker 1: can't wait to see the entire comprehensive list. It was

2347
01:55:06,200 --> 01:55:08,560
Speaker 1: a lot of fun um and I look forward to

2348
01:55:08,640 --> 01:55:11,000
Speaker 1: the you know, one hundred twenty five year lists too well.

2349
01:55:11,040 --> 01:55:13,560
Speaker 1: Pasting it would be good. Judy, thanks for this, Thanks

2350
01:55:13,560 --> 01:55:15,960
Speaker 1: for being with us here today. We appreciate it. Always

2351
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:18,720
Speaker 1: my pleasure. Guys, good to see you. Judy Batista, NFL

2352
01:55:18,800 --> 01:55:21,520
Speaker 1: reporter for NFL dot com. Talking about the Ravens, talking

2353
01:55:21,520 --> 01:55:24,200
Speaker 1: about the Bills, talking about the NFL one hundred all

2354
01:55:24,240 --> 01:55:26,360
Speaker 1: time team. That would be one of that Saturday she

2355
01:55:26,440 --> 01:55:28,680
Speaker 1: talked about looking at punters, That's one of those days.

2356
01:55:28,720 --> 01:55:30,640
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you think I'll never

2357
01:55:30,720 --> 01:55:34,240
Speaker 1: get that day back again. What what where that day goes?

2358
01:55:34,680 --> 01:55:36,400
Speaker 1: I know exactly what you mean. You look up and

2359
01:55:36,400 --> 01:55:38,400
Speaker 1: it's like, oh man, I had stuff. I wonder the

2360
01:55:38,440 --> 01:55:40,840
Speaker 1: whole day. Yeah, thanks Judy, Thanks for being whether. Thanks

2361
01:55:40,840 --> 01:55:42,600
Speaker 1: you're doing that work, Stephen. I'm coming back with more

2362
01:55:42,800 --> 01:55:45,200
Speaker 1: One Bill's Li'm coming here from the Senecas Studio in

2363
01:55:45,320 --> 01:56:00,160
Speaker 1: Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills reading. Welcome back One Bills, right,

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01:56:00,200 --> 01:56:02,880
Speaker 1: and our thanks again to Judy Batista of NFL Network

2365
01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:06,320
Speaker 1: NFL dot com. She's a multi talented reporter and has

2366
01:56:06,360 --> 01:56:08,960
Speaker 1: a lot to offer and a lot of interesting observations

2367
01:56:09,080 --> 01:56:12,200
Speaker 1: on the Bills and the Baltimore Ravens. I think she

2368
01:56:12,480 --> 01:56:14,680
Speaker 1: knows it's gonna be a good matchup here. She can yeah,

2369
01:56:14,760 --> 01:56:16,760
Speaker 1: they can rest. The NFL knows this. I haven't looked

2370
01:56:16,800 --> 01:56:18,520
Speaker 1: at the whole slate of games this weekend. I would

2371
01:56:18,560 --> 01:56:20,480
Speaker 1: imagine this is the best game on the schedule, right.

2372
01:56:21,080 --> 01:56:23,880
Speaker 1: I think so too. And here's the interesting thing. No question,

2373
01:56:23,960 --> 01:56:26,200
Speaker 1: the Bills fans are like, Wow, this is really gonna

2374
01:56:26,200 --> 01:56:28,480
Speaker 1: be a tough game. I think it's interesting too if

2375
01:56:28,520 --> 01:56:30,440
Speaker 1: you went to Baltimore and listen to what they had

2376
01:56:30,480 --> 01:56:32,200
Speaker 1: to say about this game, whether it's going to be

2377
01:56:32,240 --> 01:56:35,680
Speaker 1: a tough game, and I think they'd say, yeah, it

2378
01:56:35,840 --> 01:56:38,480
Speaker 1: probably is. I mean, they got a load of the

2379
01:56:38,520 --> 01:56:41,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills on Thanksgiving against the Dallas Cowboys going in there,

2380
01:56:42,960 --> 01:56:45,120
Speaker 1: there's no way that Baltimore is taking this team lightly.

2381
01:56:45,920 --> 01:56:48,760
Speaker 1: They've got the New England Patriots on the schedule next, No,

2382
01:56:48,960 --> 01:56:50,960
Speaker 1: that's not right. Who they have on the schedule next

2383
01:56:51,000 --> 01:56:54,080
Speaker 1: Baltimore plays the Jets next week, the Jets, and then

2384
01:56:54,120 --> 01:56:56,200
Speaker 1: they go to Cleveland. Then they finish up against Pittsburgh.

2385
01:56:56,200 --> 01:56:59,040
Speaker 1: That's right. So you know, there's no way Baltimore sitting

2386
01:56:59,080 --> 01:57:01,640
Speaker 1: there going, yeah, this is another pushover week. You know,

2387
01:57:01,720 --> 01:57:03,920
Speaker 1: we're playing you know, the Bengals this weekend. Now they

2388
01:57:04,320 --> 01:57:06,200
Speaker 1: know they're in for a tussle as well, particularly in

2389
01:57:06,240 --> 01:57:09,040
Speaker 1: this building. So it'll be interesting to see. Now, think

2390
01:57:09,040 --> 01:57:11,080
Speaker 1: about this too, there's probably a bunch of guys on

2391
01:57:11,280 --> 01:57:13,680
Speaker 1: Baltimore's team that we're there an opening day last year

2392
01:57:14,000 --> 01:57:16,360
Speaker 1: where they lump the Bills up pretty good, and they

2393
01:57:16,560 --> 01:57:19,240
Speaker 1: got a load of Josh Allen last year and his

2394
01:57:19,440 --> 01:57:23,200
Speaker 1: very first ever snaps at quarterback. Think about the rout

2395
01:57:23,200 --> 01:57:27,480
Speaker 1: awakening they're in for. Yeah, right, Yeah, So it's a

2396
01:57:27,520 --> 01:57:29,640
Speaker 1: lot of it's gonna be a lot of fun seeing

2397
01:57:29,680 --> 01:57:31,720
Speaker 1: this game take place. It is going to be a

2398
01:57:31,800 --> 01:57:34,800
Speaker 1: really difficult game for the Buffalo Bills to win, but

2399
01:57:34,920 --> 01:57:36,800
Speaker 1: I think too, if you want to take some comfort,

2400
01:57:37,120 --> 01:57:39,440
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough for the Ravens too. What's the

2401
01:57:39,560 --> 01:57:41,360
Speaker 1: best game this weekend? I just was looking at this

2402
01:57:41,440 --> 01:57:44,560
Speaker 1: week's schedule. The Bills host in Baltimore. Really good game, right?

2403
01:57:45,440 --> 01:57:48,680
Speaker 1: How about Kansas City at Foxboro play the Patriots. That's

2404
01:57:48,680 --> 01:57:50,640
Speaker 1: a pretty good game. Pretty good game. And here's one

2405
01:57:50,760 --> 01:57:54,760
Speaker 1: from the NFC, the San Francisco forty nine ers at

2406
01:57:54,800 --> 01:57:57,760
Speaker 1: New Orleans. That's a really good game. Also, there's a

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01:57:57,760 --> 01:57:59,800
Speaker 1: couple of three good games at least this week games

2408
01:58:00,080 --> 01:58:04,120
Speaker 1: Jets Dolphin doesn't not getting excited about that. We'll take

2409
01:58:04,160 --> 01:58:06,320
Speaker 1: all your fancy. No, By the way, the Bills can

2410
01:58:06,440 --> 01:58:08,480
Speaker 1: clinch this weekend if things fall their way. It all

2411
01:58:08,560 --> 01:58:11,840
Speaker 1: starts with a Buffalo victory, right, that's number one. If

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01:58:11,920 --> 01:58:16,320
Speaker 1: the Bills beat the Ravens, that's piece one. If Tennessee

2413
01:58:16,440 --> 01:58:20,360
Speaker 1: beats Oakland or Oakland loses or ties against Tennessee, that's

2414
01:58:20,440 --> 01:58:22,640
Speaker 1: part of it. All of this has to happen. Denver

2415
01:58:22,800 --> 01:58:26,080
Speaker 1: has to beat Houston and Indianapolis has to lose or

2416
01:58:26,160 --> 01:58:29,440
Speaker 1: tie Tampa Bay, so it could happen. But number one

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01:58:29,920 --> 01:58:32,720
Speaker 1: thing they have to have fallen places the Bills beating Boldenware.

2418
01:58:32,760 --> 01:58:34,920
Speaker 1: What do you think as we assess the Bills three

2419
01:58:35,000 --> 01:58:37,560
Speaker 1: quarters of the way through the season, what's still missing?

2420
01:58:37,800 --> 01:58:40,000
Speaker 1: Give us a call? Eight O three five fifty toll

2421
01:58:40,080 --> 01:58:43,440
Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty

2422
01:58:43,680 --> 01:58:45,480
Speaker 1: sending a tweet? We got time for the tweet? Cheet.

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01:58:45,520 --> 01:58:48,240
Speaker 1: What's still missing from the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills? You

2424
01:58:48,280 --> 01:58:50,880
Speaker 1: want to take some more calls here? Okay, let's do it.

2425
01:58:52,440 --> 01:58:54,680
Speaker 1: Here's John on the line. John, you're thanks for waiting.

2426
01:58:54,720 --> 01:58:58,040
Speaker 1: You've been waiting a while. What's up? Hey, thanks for

2427
01:58:58,160 --> 01:59:02,760
Speaker 1: taking my call? Follows Chomp. I M. First of all,

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01:59:03,760 --> 01:59:07,400
Speaker 1: I M. Can I talk about the Bonnies for a minute? Murph?

2429
01:59:07,480 --> 01:59:14,560
Speaker 1: Is that okay? Sure? Remember Villanova knocked out Niagara in

2430
01:59:14,640 --> 01:59:17,920
Speaker 1: a round to sixteen, and then the Bonnies beat Villanova

2431
01:59:17,960 --> 01:59:20,680
Speaker 1: in the in the round of eight, and then uh

2432
01:59:21,200 --> 01:59:23,560
Speaker 1: Bob Lanier got a torn ligament in his knee and

2433
01:59:23,600 --> 01:59:25,960
Speaker 1: didn't play in the finals. Right, Chris Ford fell on

2434
01:59:26,000 --> 01:59:27,800
Speaker 1: the back of his leg. I remember, I remember watching

2435
01:59:27,840 --> 01:59:32,400
Speaker 1: it Chris Ford, who played for the Celtics. Uh hit him,

2436
01:59:32,440 --> 01:59:35,480
Speaker 1: and then we ended up playing Jacksonville And the next

2437
01:59:35,520 --> 01:59:38,360
Speaker 1: biggest guy was Matt Gant, who was only six to five, right,

2438
01:59:38,400 --> 01:59:42,320
Speaker 1: going up against artist Gilmore. Yeah, and he's given me

2439
01:59:42,360 --> 01:59:43,920
Speaker 1: a blank stare. You're gonna have to wrap up the

2440
01:59:43,960 --> 01:59:46,960
Speaker 1: body talk here, John, All right, Well, anyway, you say,

2441
01:59:47,000 --> 01:59:50,680
Speaker 1: what happened to our show? I should do a college

2442
01:59:50,720 --> 01:59:54,880
Speaker 1: basketball show, old time college basketball show. Offensive line against

2443
01:59:55,920 --> 01:59:59,440
Speaker 1: what I thought previously was the best offensive line in football,

2444
01:59:59,480 --> 02:00:01,640
Speaker 1: which was a how Boys. And I watched the game,

2445
02:00:01,680 --> 02:00:04,080
Speaker 1: and then I watched it again on Friday, and I

2446
02:00:04,160 --> 02:00:07,000
Speaker 1: thought our offensive line was better. And then I was

2447
02:00:07,040 --> 02:00:09,920
Speaker 1: gonna call yesterday and talk about the offensive line. But

2448
02:00:10,000 --> 02:00:14,560
Speaker 1: then Baldinger came on, and incidentally, he was excellent and

2449
02:00:15,360 --> 02:00:17,920
Speaker 1: exactly what I wanted to say about the offensive line.

2450
02:00:17,960 --> 02:00:19,720
Speaker 1: And then I got to thinking about it today and

2451
02:00:19,800 --> 02:00:25,080
Speaker 1: I went, we totally rebuilt the offensive line. Brandon Bean

2452
02:00:25,160 --> 02:00:29,000
Speaker 1: did that, right. I just wanted to say, what an

2453
02:00:29,080 --> 02:00:33,839
Speaker 1: outstanding job I think Brandon Bean's doing. Um, the offensive

2454
02:00:33,880 --> 02:00:38,240
Speaker 1: line is just one example. But the draft, the draft

2455
02:00:38,280 --> 02:00:41,640
Speaker 1: he got Josh and Tremaine Edmonds in the same draft,

2456
02:00:41,960 --> 02:00:45,800
Speaker 1: he's just doing an outstanding job. And I think in

2457
02:00:45,920 --> 02:00:48,040
Speaker 1: the long run, the best thing for the Bills is

2458
02:00:48,400 --> 02:00:53,280
Speaker 1: uh Um Murph, you should talk to Hum the Pagoulas

2459
02:00:53,360 --> 02:00:56,520
Speaker 1: and get them to sign Brandon Bean to a ten

2460
02:00:56,600 --> 02:00:59,280
Speaker 1: year contract. Huh Okay, do you think they'd listen to me?

2461
02:00:59,400 --> 02:01:02,360
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think they value I know they

2462
02:01:02,480 --> 02:01:04,920
Speaker 1: value Brandon Bean, and I'm sure they do Coach McDermott too,

2463
02:01:05,320 --> 02:01:07,840
Speaker 1: both of whom I would think could be up for

2464
02:01:08,120 --> 02:01:11,480
Speaker 1: extensions once this year was over. Steven No, yes, three

2465
02:01:11,560 --> 02:01:15,600
Speaker 1: years maybe, sure. And it's gone exactly according to their

2466
02:01:15,640 --> 02:01:18,960
Speaker 1: plan that they laid out. I mean, they got they

2467
02:01:19,040 --> 02:01:20,960
Speaker 1: started building it. They probably gave him an idea of

2468
02:01:21,040 --> 02:01:23,080
Speaker 1: what it was gonna look like while it was being built,

2469
02:01:23,160 --> 02:01:26,560
Speaker 1: and they got there's no question about it. They they

2470
02:01:26,720 --> 02:01:29,879
Speaker 1: got a real boon when they went to the playoffs

2471
02:01:29,960 --> 02:01:31,720
Speaker 1: in their first year, right out of the gate, and

2472
02:01:32,000 --> 02:01:33,880
Speaker 1: at the beginning of that year, people were saying, hey,

2473
02:01:33,920 --> 02:01:36,520
Speaker 1: they're tanking, they're tanking. They're tanking. And this coaching staff

2474
02:01:36,560 --> 02:01:39,080
Speaker 1: and this culture and this regime got them to the

2475
02:01:39,160 --> 02:01:43,800
Speaker 1: playoffs in that year. That's pretty big. So yeah, now

2476
02:01:43,880 --> 02:01:46,440
Speaker 1: that it's now that they put last year behind him,

2477
02:01:46,440 --> 02:01:49,240
Speaker 1: they found their quarterback and they've started to build around him,

2478
02:01:49,280 --> 02:01:52,040
Speaker 1: and and still and then you look going forward as well.

2479
02:01:52,320 --> 02:01:54,200
Speaker 1: They got a lot of money under the salary cap

2480
02:01:55,000 --> 02:01:57,480
Speaker 1: they got. The team is gonna look much different. And

2481
02:01:57,960 --> 02:02:00,520
Speaker 1: people might think I'm crazy for saying it's gonna look

2482
02:02:00,520 --> 02:02:02,240
Speaker 1: a lot different next year than it does this year.

2483
02:02:02,720 --> 02:02:05,320
Speaker 1: A lot of guys on one year deals, a lot

2484
02:02:05,360 --> 02:02:07,320
Speaker 1: of guys that are becoming free agents that you may

2485
02:02:07,440 --> 02:02:10,080
Speaker 1: or may not sign, and you got draft picks, and

2486
02:02:10,240 --> 02:02:14,600
Speaker 1: you you're starting to distill this roster where they ran

2487
02:02:14,680 --> 02:02:18,000
Speaker 1: a lot of guys through here for three years. You're

2488
02:02:18,000 --> 02:02:20,520
Speaker 1: gonna start to distill down. You got guys aging like

2489
02:02:20,680 --> 02:02:22,920
Speaker 1: like Lorenzo who knows if he's gonna come back and

2490
02:02:23,000 --> 02:02:27,640
Speaker 1: play Frank Gore. They're gonna start distilling down into guys

2491
02:02:27,680 --> 02:02:32,040
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have to pay Tradavious White, Tremaine Edmonds,

2492
02:02:32,320 --> 02:02:35,560
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, who else, Matt Milano. They're gonna have to

2493
02:02:35,640 --> 02:02:38,400
Speaker 1: start distilling it into guys who have proven themselves to

2494
02:02:38,440 --> 02:02:40,760
Speaker 1: be the kind of guy they want, playing the way

2495
02:02:40,840 --> 02:02:43,480
Speaker 1: they want, preparing the way they want on and off

2496
02:02:43,560 --> 02:02:46,320
Speaker 1: the field. It's not just this regime has never been

2497
02:02:46,360 --> 02:02:49,040
Speaker 1: about just talent or just getting guy who will show

2498
02:02:49,160 --> 02:02:51,040
Speaker 1: up and play and do great that even if he's

2499
02:02:51,040 --> 02:02:54,120
Speaker 1: a great player, you gotta do it all off the field,

2500
02:02:54,200 --> 02:02:56,040
Speaker 1: on the field, in the locker room, in the weight room,

2501
02:02:56,080 --> 02:02:58,280
Speaker 1: in the training room, in the meeting rooms, on the

2502
02:02:58,560 --> 02:03:01,120
Speaker 1: practice field, and then on the game. Feel of course,

2503
02:03:01,640 --> 02:03:03,560
Speaker 1: you've got to hit on all those cylinders for this

2504
02:03:03,760 --> 02:03:06,760
Speaker 1: regime to pay you, because if you're not that kind

2505
02:03:06,800 --> 02:03:08,640
Speaker 1: of guy in any one of those or anyone you're

2506
02:03:08,680 --> 02:03:10,880
Speaker 1: only here until they can replace you with somebody who does.

2507
02:03:11,880 --> 02:03:14,880
Speaker 1: And they pay guys, and they're willing to pay guys

2508
02:03:14,920 --> 02:03:18,160
Speaker 1: and keep guys around for a long time if they're

2509
02:03:18,160 --> 02:03:20,960
Speaker 1: the right kind of guys. So it's this team will

2510
02:03:21,040 --> 02:03:22,960
Speaker 1: look much different next year than it does this year.

2511
02:03:23,000 --> 02:03:25,200
Speaker 1: No matter what happened, how the season finishes out, it's

2512
02:03:25,240 --> 02:03:26,600
Speaker 1: gonna look a lot different. You can have a lot

2513
02:03:26,640 --> 02:03:29,680
Speaker 1: of faces that are not here, and maybe some surprising

2514
02:03:29,760 --> 02:03:33,320
Speaker 1: faces who are here. I think it's really intriguing. You

2515
02:03:33,440 --> 02:03:35,560
Speaker 1: got to tip your hat to the plan these guys

2516
02:03:35,880 --> 02:03:39,440
Speaker 1: have had and also to the discipline which which they've

2517
02:03:39,560 --> 02:03:42,440
Speaker 1: stuck to it. Because there's been a lot of shiny

2518
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Speaker 1: objects on the shelf that they could have grabbed and

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02:03:46,000 --> 02:03:49,480
Speaker 1: they didn't. I think it's been really fun to think about. Yeah,

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02:03:50,280 --> 02:03:53,600
Speaker 1: I think yeah. I was reading some of the comments

2521
02:03:54,200 --> 02:03:56,360
Speaker 1: on Twitter and some of the phone call descriptions coming

2522
02:03:56,400 --> 02:03:58,760
Speaker 1: and people want to look ahead too after this year.

2523
02:03:59,160 --> 02:04:01,480
Speaker 1: You know, they need a deep threat wide receiver. They

2524
02:04:01,560 --> 02:04:04,280
Speaker 1: need this, they need that. The great thing about this

2525
02:04:04,440 --> 02:04:07,120
Speaker 1: December for the Bills and their fans is that we're

2526
02:04:07,160 --> 02:04:10,280
Speaker 1: not looking ahead the twenty twenty twenty season yet. Right.

2527
02:04:10,760 --> 02:04:12,800
Speaker 1: You have four good games coming up here, you got

2528
02:04:12,840 --> 02:04:15,480
Speaker 1: a playoff team, a playoff bound team. It would appear

2529
02:04:15,840 --> 02:04:18,160
Speaker 1: all right with a win or two away from locking

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02:04:18,240 --> 02:04:19,960
Speaker 1: that down. They could lock it down this Sunday by

2531
02:04:20,040 --> 02:04:22,440
Speaker 1: seven thirty a night. You don't have to look ahead

2532
02:04:22,480 --> 02:04:24,520
Speaker 1: to the draft. I know they have needs. They're not perfect.

2533
02:04:24,680 --> 02:04:26,800
Speaker 1: They're not perfect this year. And we're asking that question,

2534
02:04:26,840 --> 02:04:30,320
Speaker 1: what are you looking for for this year? And the

2535
02:04:30,400 --> 02:04:33,440
Speaker 1: caller brought up a point about offensive line, how well

2536
02:04:33,440 --> 02:04:35,520
Speaker 1: they played? How about this? This got my attention yesterday

2537
02:04:35,560 --> 02:04:38,040
Speaker 1: when Sean McDermott met with the media and he gives

2538
02:04:38,040 --> 02:04:41,960
Speaker 1: the initial injury report. Tyan Seki is making progress and

2539
02:04:42,120 --> 02:04:43,920
Speaker 1: Seki coming back would be a boost right for the

2540
02:04:44,080 --> 02:04:46,080
Speaker 1: offensive line that's played well for a couple of weeks. Now,

2541
02:04:46,160 --> 02:04:48,160
Speaker 1: that'd be a real boost the health of this team.

2542
02:04:49,920 --> 02:04:53,520
Speaker 1: And the last year two is going to start to

2543
02:04:53,600 --> 02:05:01,560
Speaker 1: make other teams ask how It's simple, how are the

2544
02:05:01,600 --> 02:05:04,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills staying so healthy? Not just this year? Last

2545
02:05:04,480 --> 02:05:08,080
Speaker 1: year too. They lost fewer game they lost fewer man

2546
02:05:08,200 --> 02:05:10,720
Speaker 1: powers to injury last year than any team in the league.

2547
02:05:10,920 --> 02:05:14,240
Speaker 1: And they're pretty staying pretty healthy this year too. And

2548
02:05:14,400 --> 02:05:17,400
Speaker 1: they just pumped a bunch of money and a bunch

2549
02:05:17,440 --> 02:05:20,680
Speaker 1: of effort and a bunch of assets into the new

2550
02:05:20,800 --> 02:05:23,080
Speaker 1: building they put in with a full staff. I mean,

2551
02:05:23,160 --> 02:05:25,880
Speaker 1: they're they're doing some things right here that maybe some

2552
02:05:26,000 --> 02:05:29,560
Speaker 1: other teams aren't, and you got to tip your hat

2553
02:05:29,640 --> 02:05:33,720
Speaker 1: to them. It's it's it's more. It's it's not just

2554
02:05:33,840 --> 02:05:36,240
Speaker 1: about XS and o's anymore in the NFL. It's about

2555
02:05:36,960 --> 02:05:40,000
Speaker 1: a comprehensive program that that they've put together and they're

2556
02:05:40,000 --> 02:05:43,160
Speaker 1: reaping some benefits from it. Um And I've said this

2557
02:05:43,240 --> 02:05:45,160
Speaker 1: before on the show, and I tell people this all

2558
02:05:45,200 --> 02:05:47,440
Speaker 1: the time. Mar Marv Levi, a former head coach of

2559
02:05:47,480 --> 02:05:50,320
Speaker 1: the Bills and who I obviously have a ton of

2560
02:05:50,360 --> 02:05:53,360
Speaker 1: respect for Hall of fame head coach. He said this

2561
02:05:53,560 --> 02:05:55,440
Speaker 1: one time in one of our meeting rooms, and he

2562
02:05:55,520 --> 02:05:58,280
Speaker 1: was talking about guys doing the little things, putting an

2563
02:05:58,360 --> 02:06:00,360
Speaker 1: extra time, doing the thing everything you can to make

2564
02:06:00,400 --> 02:06:02,400
Speaker 1: your team better. He said, listen, guys, the reason you

2565
02:06:02,480 --> 02:06:04,880
Speaker 1: got to do that is because the difference between the

2566
02:06:05,080 --> 02:06:07,200
Speaker 1: top team in the league and the bottom team in

2567
02:06:07,280 --> 02:06:10,240
Speaker 1: the league is only about two percent of everything they do.

2568
02:06:11,520 --> 02:06:14,000
Speaker 1: There's only about two percent difference between the number one

2569
02:06:14,040 --> 02:06:15,840
Speaker 1: team in the league and the number thirty two team

2570
02:06:16,000 --> 02:06:19,640
Speaker 1: in the league. But that two percent is one hundred

2571
02:06:19,680 --> 02:06:22,480
Speaker 1: percent of the difference. And his point was, there's a

2572
02:06:22,560 --> 02:06:24,960
Speaker 1: lot that goes in there, and it comes down to

2573
02:06:25,080 --> 02:06:28,440
Speaker 1: fifty three guys, and however many dozen coaches you've got,

2574
02:06:28,760 --> 02:06:30,840
Speaker 1: and the staff and the medicals team and the pro

2575
02:06:31,120 --> 02:06:33,600
Speaker 1: scouting personnel and all of that stuff, all that goes

2576
02:06:33,680 --> 02:06:36,400
Speaker 1: into that two percent. You got to do it. And

2577
02:06:36,680 --> 02:06:39,000
Speaker 1: that two percent, Kate, takes you from being where the

2578
02:06:39,040 --> 02:06:41,760
Speaker 1: Bills were last year, a twenty six team in the league,

2579
02:06:41,760 --> 02:06:44,360
Speaker 1: to a top ten team in the league. Let's do

2580
02:06:44,440 --> 02:06:47,640
Speaker 1: a little true or false here. Yancy's Fancy is the

2581
02:06:47,680 --> 02:06:49,960
Speaker 1: sponsor two or False brought to you by Yancy's fancy

2582
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Speaker 1: New York's artisan cheese. NFC East, the Bills have played

2583
02:06:53,440 --> 02:06:56,520
Speaker 1: the NFC East right loss of The Eagles beat Washington,

2584
02:06:56,640 --> 02:07:00,600
Speaker 1: beat the Giants, and who am I missing? Oh? Dallas

2585
02:07:00,680 --> 02:07:03,400
Speaker 1: beat Dallas three and one. The NFC East is the

2586
02:07:03,520 --> 02:07:06,440
Speaker 1: worst division ever. Let's put forth in an article on

2587
02:07:06,600 --> 02:07:10,920
Speaker 1: Yahoo the Cowboys six and six, Eagles five and seven.

2588
02:07:11,520 --> 02:07:13,680
Speaker 1: The NFC East might finish the year as the third

2589
02:07:13,760 --> 02:07:16,880
Speaker 1: division in NFL history to produce a champion with a

2590
02:07:16,960 --> 02:07:20,120
Speaker 1: losing record like the Cowboys or the Eagles. The combined

2591
02:07:20,200 --> 02:07:23,000
Speaker 1: record for the four NFC East teams is sixteen wins

2592
02:07:23,640 --> 02:07:27,760
Speaker 1: thirty two losses. Is this the worst division ever? There's

2593
02:07:27,800 --> 02:07:30,480
Speaker 1: been two divisions that finished with only twenty two wins

2594
02:07:31,160 --> 02:07:34,800
Speaker 1: out of their four sixteen game schedules. Twenty two wins

2595
02:07:34,880 --> 02:07:36,560
Speaker 1: out of the four teams and the cow and that

2596
02:07:36,800 --> 02:07:39,280
Speaker 1: NFC says sixteen. Now, so they need to come together

2597
02:07:39,920 --> 02:07:42,240
Speaker 1: six or seven wins in the next four weeks. They

2598
02:07:42,240 --> 02:07:43,720
Speaker 1: should be able to do that, right. Yeah, I don't

2599
02:07:43,720 --> 02:07:45,880
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be that bad. Worst division ever. I

2600
02:07:45,960 --> 02:07:48,440
Speaker 1: don't think so. But it's close. I'm gonna say false,

2601
02:07:48,600 --> 02:07:51,480
Speaker 1: but close. They're bad. They're bad, and the Bills have benefited.

2602
02:07:51,520 --> 02:07:54,280
Speaker 1: There's no question about that. Absolutely benefit. There's been there's

2603
02:07:54,320 --> 02:07:56,840
Speaker 1: been teams seven and nine that've made the playoffs, no

2604
02:07:57,000 --> 02:07:58,920
Speaker 1: question about it. And I believe one time, I think

2605
02:07:58,960 --> 02:08:01,840
Speaker 1: it was the Seahawks, I can't remember. It was a

2606
02:08:01,920 --> 02:08:05,360
Speaker 1: West Western team, one of the West Coast team divisions

2607
02:08:05,440 --> 02:08:07,760
Speaker 1: made their NFCAFC who got in the playoffs with a

2608
02:08:07,800 --> 02:08:12,320
Speaker 1: seven nine record and won a playoff game. So Marshawn Lynch, Yeah,

2609
02:08:12,440 --> 02:08:14,800
Speaker 1: you talk about you talk about teams that you know,

2610
02:08:14,840 --> 02:08:16,440
Speaker 1: you just want to get in there because then anything

2611
02:08:16,480 --> 02:08:20,200
Speaker 1: can happen. It's true. Get in. Just gotta get in somehow,

2612
02:08:20,320 --> 02:08:25,040
Speaker 1: some way NFL. So we'll see false, right, absolutely true

2613
02:08:25,120 --> 02:08:28,240
Speaker 1: or false. Levian Bell is wasting away under head coach

2614
02:08:28,320 --> 02:08:31,040
Speaker 1: Adam Gase and the Jets. Um, this is a post

2615
02:08:31,120 --> 02:08:34,520
Speaker 1: that's up on the New York Daily News. Um, he

2616
02:08:34,640 --> 02:08:38,160
Speaker 1: didn't use them. The Venish matter what nuts the last

2617
02:08:38,200 --> 02:08:40,240
Speaker 1: couple of days talking about how he did not use

2618
02:08:40,760 --> 02:08:43,080
Speaker 1: him at all in their loss to Cincinnati. They now

2619
02:08:43,200 --> 02:08:45,160
Speaker 1: lost to a couple of winless. They've lost to two

2620
02:08:45,200 --> 02:08:47,560
Speaker 1: oh and seventeen, the first team in NFL history to

2621
02:08:47,640 --> 02:08:51,320
Speaker 1: do it. The Jets are the first team in NFL history.

2622
02:08:51,320 --> 02:08:54,000
Speaker 1: If you haven't heard this, they're the first team in

2623
02:08:54,360 --> 02:08:57,920
Speaker 1: NFL history to have lost in the same season to

2624
02:08:58,120 --> 02:09:03,160
Speaker 1: two teams that were seven or worse. The Jesse have

2625
02:09:03,520 --> 02:09:05,520
Speaker 1: done it twice. They lost to the Bengals and they

2626
02:09:05,600 --> 02:09:07,960
Speaker 1: lost to the Dolphins. Wow, both teams were owing seven

2627
02:09:08,040 --> 02:09:10,520
Speaker 1: or worse. Gas did not run the ball against what

2628
02:09:10,720 --> 02:09:14,040
Speaker 1: was the NFL's worst rushing defenses. Past Sunday, Levion Bell

2629
02:09:14,080 --> 02:09:17,480
Speaker 1: wasting no and er Adam Gase. Yes, true, and it

2630
02:09:17,640 --> 02:09:20,800
Speaker 1: may lead to Gaze being replaced, although they indicate they're

2631
02:09:20,840 --> 02:09:22,920
Speaker 1: not ready to do that. I find that I hope

2632
02:09:22,960 --> 02:09:25,320
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen for the Bill's sake. Keep going, Adam, Gas,

2633
02:09:25,440 --> 02:09:28,040
Speaker 1: keep doing what you're doing. It's it's really working out well. Yeah.

2634
02:09:28,080 --> 02:09:30,120
Speaker 1: I think the Bills, as people from here in Buffalo

2635
02:09:30,160 --> 02:09:31,680
Speaker 1: are saying, I think they just need to give Adam

2636
02:09:31,720 --> 02:09:35,640
Speaker 1: Gase more time in New York. Yeah, he's just getting started,

2637
02:09:35,800 --> 02:09:37,280
Speaker 1: just getting get let him, give him a chance to

2638
02:09:37,320 --> 02:09:39,920
Speaker 1: catch his breath, you know, get get some of his guys.

2639
02:09:40,120 --> 02:09:45,920
Speaker 1: Whispering to Sam Darnold quarterback whisper, I am Levion Bell

2640
02:09:46,040 --> 02:09:48,720
Speaker 1: is a is a dominant back. You got to feed

2641
02:09:48,800 --> 02:09:53,200
Speaker 1: him the football and against that defense in Cincinnati. You

2642
02:09:53,280 --> 02:09:55,040
Speaker 1: gotta do it early, and you got to have success

2643
02:09:55,120 --> 02:09:56,840
Speaker 1: doing it, and you got to center your offense around.

2644
02:09:56,880 --> 02:09:59,280
Speaker 1: You got a quarterback and Sam Darnold, who's young. I

2645
02:09:59,320 --> 02:10:01,720
Speaker 1: don't forget Am Donald's young, just like Josh allen Is.

2646
02:10:02,360 --> 02:10:05,200
Speaker 1: Let him lean on Levon Bell on the offensive one,

2647
02:10:05,320 --> 02:10:08,760
Speaker 1: lean on those guys and let him have some success

2648
02:10:09,240 --> 02:10:12,720
Speaker 1: other ways before you let Sam Darnold grow into the quarterback,

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02:10:13,200 --> 02:10:15,080
Speaker 1: do you? And I think he's probably gonna be I

2650
02:10:15,120 --> 02:10:16,840
Speaker 1: thought it was gonna be good. I think yeah, I

2651
02:10:16,920 --> 02:10:19,880
Speaker 1: think he's gonna still gonna be good. But they're just

2652
02:10:20,000 --> 02:10:23,040
Speaker 1: not doing that. He's just not doing that. Levion Bell

2653
02:10:23,600 --> 02:10:25,920
Speaker 1: is a back. You're paying thirty million bucks too, and

2654
02:10:26,560 --> 02:10:29,040
Speaker 1: you he should be carrying the ball four hundred times

2655
02:10:29,080 --> 02:10:31,160
Speaker 1: this year. He should have four. You should be using

2656
02:10:31,280 --> 02:10:34,000
Speaker 1: him up, and they're not. You know, I think Adam

2657
02:10:34,040 --> 02:10:36,200
Speaker 1: Gas might be. I think he's an excuse maker, you

2658
02:10:36,280 --> 02:10:38,080
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Well, I didn't want Levion Bell.

2659
02:10:38,160 --> 02:10:41,240
Speaker 1: They traded for him without my signature on it, and

2660
02:10:41,400 --> 02:10:43,240
Speaker 1: so now he has an accuse and now he's sticks

2661
02:10:43,240 --> 02:10:45,480
Speaker 1: around for another year. Look, Levian Bell is gonna be

2662
02:10:45,520 --> 02:10:47,840
Speaker 1: out there available in a trade again, right in a

2663
02:10:47,920 --> 02:10:51,360
Speaker 1: month or two and Adam Gates, Oh yeah, you get

2664
02:10:51,440 --> 02:10:54,000
Speaker 1: rid of him. Absolutely, They're gonna get rid of him.

2665
02:10:54,240 --> 02:10:57,040
Speaker 1: And because they're gonna commit to Gates, it's crazy. It's

2666
02:10:57,080 --> 02:10:59,960
Speaker 1: great for the Bills, it's great. That's sort of dysfunction,

2667
02:11:00,000 --> 02:11:01,800
Speaker 1: and that's like, I love it. I heard it over

2668
02:11:01,840 --> 02:11:07,240
Speaker 1: the weekend that you know, people outside of Michigan think

2669
02:11:07,280 --> 02:11:09,280
Speaker 1: that they need to give Jim Harball a little more time.

2670
02:11:09,320 --> 02:11:12,200
Speaker 1: And most of those people live in Columbus. You know,

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02:11:12,800 --> 02:11:14,600
Speaker 1: there's a lot of that going around where you know,

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02:11:14,720 --> 02:11:18,200
Speaker 1: you're give Adam. People here in Buffalo are lane. Yeah,

2673
02:11:18,240 --> 02:11:20,760
Speaker 1: let Adam Gaze keep coaching much time as you need. Yeah,

2674
02:11:21,000 --> 02:11:22,720
Speaker 1: keep going. All right, We're gonna be back and wrap

2675
02:11:22,800 --> 02:11:24,280
Speaker 1: things up at a moment. Come on back with us.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Klada Health from the Seneca

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Speaker 1: So what have we learned from today's show? Brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Good Show Today Kyle Brant showed it

2681
02:11:53,360 --> 02:11:55,880
Speaker 1: joined us the co host of Good Morning Football on

2682
02:11:56,080 --> 02:11:59,120
Speaker 1: NFL Network. You talked about the Ravens defense matched up

2683
02:11:59,120 --> 02:12:01,640
Speaker 1: against the Buffalo offense this Sunday. Here's what Kyle thinks.

2684
02:12:03,720 --> 02:12:06,920
Speaker 1: I think as it pertains to the Ravens defense against

2685
02:12:06,960 --> 02:12:10,560
Speaker 1: the Bills offense. You know, everyone is so so titillated

2686
02:12:10,560 --> 02:12:12,800
Speaker 1: by Lamar that you don't talk a lot about the

2687
02:12:12,920 --> 02:12:15,800
Speaker 1: Ravens defense and you don't see Ray Lewis and Ed

2688
02:12:15,920 --> 02:12:18,280
Speaker 1: Reid and Terrell Suggs out there, and it's these guys

2689
02:12:18,360 --> 02:12:22,360
Speaker 1: like Matthew Juno and Earl Thomas late. But they're fantastic.

2690
02:12:22,640 --> 02:12:25,240
Speaker 1: I mean, they really are good. This is not nick

2691
02:12:25,280 --> 02:12:28,680
Speaker 1: no mistake. The Bills are not playing the MVP this

2692
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Speaker 1: week or the best offense this week. They're playing the

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02:12:31,800 --> 02:12:34,640
Speaker 1: best team in the league this week. The Ravens are

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02:12:34,720 --> 02:12:37,040
Speaker 1: head and shoulders above. And you can't do that with

2695
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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson just running around. Their defense is loaded too.

2696
02:12:40,440 --> 02:12:43,760
Speaker 1: Just looking who they beat. Well, good, that's good. It's

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Speaker 1: good to hear. Judy Batista joined us earlier this hour

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Speaker 1: from the NFL Network and NFL dot Com, and she

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Speaker 1: talked about this matchup Lamar Jackson Josh Shallon, both quarterback

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02:12:53,120 --> 02:12:55,600
Speaker 1: products of the first round last year. Twenty eighteen, and

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02:12:55,760 --> 02:12:58,320
Speaker 1: they both have similar attitudes and approaches to the game.

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02:12:58,360 --> 02:13:03,360
Speaker 1: According to Judy, there's no question they have a similar attitude.

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02:13:03,360 --> 02:13:06,760
Speaker 1: First of all, they don't talk about individual accomplishments or

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02:13:06,840 --> 02:13:09,680
Speaker 1: accolades at all. Like Lamar Jackson does not want to

2705
02:13:09,840 --> 02:13:14,120
Speaker 1: hear anybody talk about Super Bowl yet, MVP certainly not.

2706
02:13:14,280 --> 02:13:16,760
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to talk about um. They're all about

2707
02:13:16,880 --> 02:13:18,720
Speaker 1: team and we got to keep going and we still

2708
02:13:18,760 --> 02:13:20,840
Speaker 1: have games. I mean, you know, it's sort of boring

2709
02:13:21,080 --> 02:13:23,880
Speaker 1: as a reporter. You want somebody to embrace all of

2710
02:13:24,000 --> 02:13:27,720
Speaker 1: the hype. They're not into that at all. They're very

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Speaker 1: even keeled and that's what you want in December and

2712
02:13:30,960 --> 02:13:33,640
Speaker 1: joy why we like them, that's what we're looking forward to.

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Speaker 1: One of the things I'm looking forward to the great

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and Bustos own. They're great. And I told

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Speaker 1: you this in all my days with covering the NFL.

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite head coaches with John Harball, down

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Speaker 1: to earth guy, really smart, a great communicator. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a fun weekend, a big challenge. Thanks for our

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Speaker 1: production assistant George Blast, Jeff Colt, Nick Thomas, Honold or

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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, JJ Dourto, Kevin cart, James robell Our, producer

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Speaker 1: Jay Harris, See You Tomorrow one bills five on Buffalo

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