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Speaker 1: here on a Wednesday Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with You.

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Speaker 1: Bills back on the practice field minus a couple of

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Speaker 1: As we mentioned, Bill's back practicing, but they are doing

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Speaker 1: issue with player availability this season. And yet, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Lamar Jackson missed I think a preseason game

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Speaker 1: because of COVID. He missed a game last year because

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Speaker 1: of COVID, into our knowledge, remains unvaccinated. It's amazing some

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Speaker 1: of the most important players on the teams remain unvaccinated,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers being the latest one. It's yeah, I remember

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Speaker 1: with Tom Brady said before the season he thought he

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Speaker 1: was It was brought up again during these reports that

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Speaker 1: he said he thought COVID would probably play a more

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Speaker 1: significant role this year than last year. And I think

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Speaker 1: he may be right. Yeah, I think he might be too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: everything's different than it was last year. And you know,

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Speaker 1: with you got these guys that are vaccine, unvaxed, and

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Speaker 1: something they're getting it. Yeah. Well, I think because the

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Speaker 1: restrictions and the vigilance to try to steer clear of

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Speaker 1: they're out in public. They're probably in crowded areas at times,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you you may not be going out

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Speaker 1: looking for the virus, but it finds you. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: finds you. So yeah, it's um, it's a tough thing

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Speaker 1: and I don't I don't know how it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: kids who are just now only eligible for vaccines, because

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Speaker 1: that's you know, the reason why, the reason why COVID's

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Speaker 1: affected three school years, right, you know, the tail end

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Speaker 1: twenty one twenty two school year. This is a third

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Speaker 1: school year it's impacting. Yeah, so yeah, we'll have to

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Speaker 1: see where it goes. Other quick bills note they had

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Speaker 1: to they had a COVID situation of their own practice squad.

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Speaker 1: Quarterback Jake from and Wide receiver Tanner Gentry both put

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Speaker 1: on the practice squad COVID nineteen list, so they're out

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Speaker 1: of commission for a while. To fill in their roles,

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Speaker 1: the Bills added wide receiver Austin Prole and offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: Jacob Copra to the practice squad to fill those vacant spots.

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Speaker 1: Austin Prole, some of you might remember, a former seventh

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Speaker 1: round draft choice of the Bills back in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: So those guys are here filling in those spots as

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Speaker 1: Gentry and from are on the COVID reserve list for

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Speaker 1: the Bills practice squad. We have to take a break here,

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Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll be joined by NFL

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Speaker 1: Networks Judy Batista as will be talking probably COVID and

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers with her along with a very jumbled AFC

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Speaker 1: conference and how she is it shaking out in the

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Speaker 1: weeks to come. That's coming up next here on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalata Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker with you, and please to be joined now by

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Speaker 1: NFL dot Com column This NFL Network reporter and has

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Speaker 1: covered the NFL nationally since two thousand and four. It

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Speaker 1: is Judy Batista joining us on the line. And Judy,

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Speaker 1: we've got a few extra things to talk about with

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Speaker 1: you that we anticipated when we asked you to come

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Speaker 1: on the show. I trust you're prepared, because you always are.

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Speaker 1: But why don't we start with the Aaron Rodgers situation,

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Speaker 1: because immunized and vaccinated are two very different things we

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Speaker 1: have learned this morning. Yeah, so back in August, he

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Speaker 1: was asked, you know, almost every quarterback was asked during

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Speaker 1: training camp or he vaccinated, and he was asked by

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Speaker 1: the Packers pat reporters and he said, yeah, I immunized,

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Speaker 1: and then he went on to answer some other questions

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Speaker 1: that certainly suggested he was vaccinated. But as it turns out,

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Speaker 1: he is not vaccinated and that became a problem today

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Speaker 1: when he tested positive. So he's out for the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City game this weekend end. You know, he's going to

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Speaker 1: have to test negative. That the minimum amount of time

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Speaker 1: he's out is until next Saturday, which would beat the

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Speaker 1: day before their next game. So it's no sure thing

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Speaker 1: that he will be back for next week's game. We'll

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Speaker 1: see what happens. We don't know if he has symptoms.

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Speaker 1: We have no idea what his condition is, only that

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Speaker 1: he's unvaccinated and his tested positive. Yeah, so that means

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Speaker 1: he's got to stay at least the ten days and

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Speaker 1: test pot negative before he comes back. And like you say,

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Speaker 1: that's twenty four hours before their week ten game, right, Um, right,

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Speaker 1: that's a stretch. So that I mean, let's and let's start.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's go backwards and say, obviously you hope he's

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Speaker 1: but um, you know, I mean the clock is it

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Speaker 1: it's going to be tight, and he's going to have

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Speaker 1: to test negative and we can only hope that if

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Speaker 1: you know that he has a mild case. And we

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Speaker 1: and we were we were trying to ascertain exactly what

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Speaker 1: he meant by immunized and the only thing I've been

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Speaker 1: able to come up with is maybe he already had COVID,

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Speaker 1: had the antibodies, and considered himself immunized in that way,

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Speaker 1: because they usually say after you've had COVID, there's usually

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Speaker 1: a ninety day window where your body is all too

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Speaker 1: prepared to kind of fend it off so you don't

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Speaker 1: get it a second time, at least within you know,

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Speaker 1: ninety days, they say, But you know, I'm just yeah,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is. Um, it's clear that then fell in.

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Speaker 1: The nfl PA did not agree with the idea that

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Speaker 1: he should not be under the protocols, so they considered

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Speaker 1: him unvaccinated. Whether he took some sort of alternative medicine

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Speaker 1: or whether he considered himself in the eyes if he

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Speaker 1: had natural immunity, they do not recognize that. So he

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Speaker 1: falls under their protocols and he is positive and he's out.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about the guy who is without he's

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Speaker 1: the most valuable player in the league, and obviously the

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Speaker 1: Packers are going to miss him. They've got Jordan Love

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Speaker 1: to step in against the Kansas City Chiefs and the

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Speaker 1: guy who was MVP through two years ago or three

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Speaker 1: years ago. So you know, this is it's complicated, no question,

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Speaker 1: But this is a game the Packer trying to win

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Speaker 1: because they want to get the number one seed. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's how good they are. And now they got to

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Speaker 1: go play the Kansas City Chiefs in Kansas City. How

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Speaker 1: do you think I mean, certainly Jordan Love is chopping

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Speaker 1: at the bit to be ready. And I've said this

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Speaker 1: just a minute ago. Jordan Love should be spot on.

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Speaker 1: He should be really, really ready to play this game

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Speaker 1: for the opportunity that presents. How do you think it

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Speaker 1: changes the dynamic of it? Well, first of all, let's

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Speaker 1: go back. I was really looking forward to this game

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Speaker 1: since the schedule it was announced. Right, we have not

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Speaker 1: seen Mahomes and Rogers on the field together because Mahomes

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Speaker 1: was injured the last time the teams played, and the

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Speaker 1: way the schedule cycle works, they may never face each

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Speaker 1: other again. We don't know. So this stinks from that perspective.

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Speaker 1: You know, how does it impact the game? I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: even if Jordan Love comes out and looks great, he's

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Speaker 1: not Eric Rodgers. The good news, I guess, if you

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Speaker 1: can call it good news, is that you know he

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Speaker 1: has all week to prepare and then get the starters

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Speaker 1: reps all week. Great that this was not a week development.

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Speaker 1: So that's the positive news if you're the Green Day Attackers.

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Speaker 1: But certainly, you know you're looking at this on paper,

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Speaker 1: and we know that the Chiefs defense has and struggling

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Speaker 1: all season, and you know when you thought it was

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Speaker 1: going to be Aaron Rodgers. You thought, Wow, Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: could just shred this defense, you know, So it's a

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Speaker 1: break for the Chiefs maybe, But you're right. I think

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Speaker 1: this is the opportunity for Jordan Love. They drafted them

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Speaker 1: to be the next quarterback, so they certainly believe in him.

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Speaker 1: We just haven't seen much of him. And this is

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Speaker 1: a big, big opportunity, but incredibly high stakes because you're right.

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Speaker 1: I mean that the Packers want to have the number

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Speaker 1: one overall seed and so he has to hold serve here. Again,

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Speaker 1: we don't know how long Aaron Rodgers is going to

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Speaker 1: be out. You hope onliness is one game, but you know,

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Speaker 1: you can't afford to lose any game when you're trying

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Speaker 1: to give the number one seed in the conference. And

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Speaker 1: then the Giants have a whole different COVID situation. They

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Speaker 1: had a slew of positive tests come through, including to

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Speaker 1: that of se Quon Barkley, and now they're in the

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Speaker 1: process of retesting to verify the first round. They've only

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Speaker 1: confirmed one as a true positive. I think it was

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Speaker 1: their running backs coach, so that we're still waiting for

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Speaker 1: the word to come down on that and I know, Judy,

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Speaker 1: we've seen these retest situations before in the league, and

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Speaker 1: there have been false positives here and there through the

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Speaker 1: course of the last eighteen months. But twenty I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that they're all going to turn up,

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Speaker 1: you know, like unverified or whatever. So yesterday they had

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Speaker 1: like a dozen right, and they retested, and only one

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Speaker 1: of them retested positive. That was the running backs coach

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Speaker 1: just reference sat. Quan was not in that original group.

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Speaker 1: Sa Quon tested positive today on his rapid test. Quan

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Speaker 1: is vaccinated. He tested positive, so now he is being retested.

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Speaker 1: The PCR tested, so they're they're waiting to see what

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Speaker 1: the results are. And but the reports out of Giants

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Speaker 1: camp today are I'm not there, but people who are

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Speaker 1: there saying it's not Quan. There are probably other players

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Speaker 1: involved too, So yeah, I mean it's kind of a messy.

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Speaker 1: This is It's strange because COVID had almost disappeared as

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Speaker 1: a story this season. We would I mean, it was

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Speaker 1: really nothing had happened, and now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you know, this is the messiest day by before this

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Speaker 1: season on the COVID front. So the Giants had sort

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Speaker 1: of a strange situation going on? Are these false positives?

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Speaker 1: What's what's happening here? And how many people are really

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Speaker 1: going to miss the game. And of course Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: is a confirmed positive. The Aaron Rodgers situation that we

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Speaker 1: have to keep an eye on that going forward because

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Speaker 1: they have big team Halloween party over the weekend and

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Speaker 1: so you're worry right, if he was positive, if others

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Speaker 1: were positive, who might there be spread within the team

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Speaker 1: or we passed that window already. So thankers cross for

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Speaker 1: the Packers that they don't have any more positive test,

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Speaker 1: but you got to keep an eye on that too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I didn't think about that. All these teams have those

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Speaker 1: kind of holiday get togethers, and it'll be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see how it scares people off the Christmas party list

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Speaker 1: this year. You know, there's like listen, we had that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they may they may forego all of that. But you're right,

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Speaker 1: every team in the league has these costume parties and

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So to see a couple of

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Speaker 1: teams get nicked because of it kind of makes some sense. Jude,

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Speaker 1: you had this a great article and I agree with you,

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Speaker 1: and I said it yesterday. There are eleven teams in

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Speaker 1: the AFC that are within two games forget the playoffs

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Speaker 1: of the one seed there within two games of the

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Speaker 1: one seed. That is really really a tight race in

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Speaker 1: that side of the net conference. How do you think

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Speaker 1: this is going to play out? Particularly with the top

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Speaker 1: team Tennessee Titans losing their best player in Derrick Henry, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean they were the top team for like five

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Speaker 1: minutes before they helped Derrick Henry news. There's been a

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Speaker 1: different top team like each of the last three or

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Speaker 1: four weeks here. Don't forget in the AFC because the

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Speaker 1: Chargers were on fire and then they go to Baltimore

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Speaker 1: and get crushed by Baltimore, and then you think the

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Speaker 1: Ravens of the top team in the AFC, and then

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Speaker 1: they get manhandled by the Bengals, and then the Bengals

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Speaker 1: get crushed by the Jets team and the Jets have

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Speaker 1: beaten the Titans too, So it's a it's a very

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Speaker 1: strange season in the AFE obviously. I mean the Titans

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00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: uh looked great last week in in beating the Poulton

639
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Speaker 1: Then you know, you get the news that Derrick Henry

640
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,760
Speaker 1: is done at least until we get to the playoffs.

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00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: If then, um, look I think the Titans win that

642
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: division anyway, because they are three up on the Pulton.

643
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: They have already swept the season series with the Polts on.

644
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: The other two teams in the division are you know,

645
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: not even factors. So I think they hold onto the division.

646
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: But boy, it's hard to imagine making a run um

647
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: to you know, deep into the playoffs to the Super

648
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 1: Bowl with without Derrick Henry over without a full strength

649
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: or Henry. Right now, it looks like he would come back,

650
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 1: you know, mid mid January at best. So again, fingers

651
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 1: crossed that they get him back and he's in great shape.

652
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 1: But that's a that's obviously a very tough blow and

653
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 1: it opens the door for the other teams here. You know,

654
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: I wrote this in the column, but it's really it

655
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: was it's Kansas City weaknesses that have swung the door

656
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 1: wide open in the AFC because last few years a day,

657
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: it's sort of been running away with it, and so

658
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 1: you use it to be either the one or the

659
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: two seat, and that's the complicas anymore. I mean, at

660
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,439
Speaker 1: this point, you're halfway through the season, we don't even

661
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: know if Kansas City is going to pull it together themselves.

662
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: So that's opened the door for all of these other teams,

663
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Speaker 1: including the Buffalo Bills. Who are you know, steady And

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Speaker 1: that's maybe the best thing you can be right now

665
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,399
Speaker 1: in the AFC. Right you're not going up and down

666
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: the way some of the other teams are. They don't

667
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 1: always have to look great. They look particularly great last weekend,

668
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: certainly not the first half. They don't look great, but

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00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,959
Speaker 1: that's okay. Just keep winning and keep and keep going

670
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: because the other teams are, you know, sort of going

671
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: up and down. You know, I thought the Cincinnati Bengals

672
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:50,760
Speaker 1: look great when they when they beat the Ravens in Baltimore.

673
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 1: That was a really emotional sort of statement win that

674
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: the Bengals are back, but you know they're they're really

675
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,800
Speaker 1: young teams that still you know, sort of bring it out.

676
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: And then you know, they came in really flat against

677
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: the Jets and they got handed to them. So, um,

678
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: you know, the best thing you can be right now

679
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 1: is steady. And I think that favors teams like Buffalo

680
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,720
Speaker 1: with experienced at coaching, and favors teams like the Ravens

681
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,359
Speaker 1: again who have experienced a coaching and then you know,

682
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: and quarterbacks who have getten to the playoffs before talking

683
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Speaker 1: to NFL Network reporter Judy Bautista. Her story on NFL

684
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Speaker 1: dot Com AFC A Glorious Mess is twenty twenty one

685
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: NFL season years halfway point. I have to commend you

686
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: for um working the Jets into the lead of that

687
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: story to talk about the top of the conference race.

688
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 1: But they deserved it. They deserved it. You know, you

689
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: beat the Titans, and you beat the Bengals who were

690
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Speaker 1: number one seeds at the time. But well done there,

691
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Speaker 1: because I don't think that happens all that often, at

692
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Speaker 1: least in recent memory. Um. But the thing that I

693
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Speaker 1: found most interesting, Judy, is very quietly, the Steelers have

694
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Speaker 1: won four in a row, I believe, three in a row,

695
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: three and a row three in a row. And the

696
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: other team that's creeping up is New England after a

697
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,760
Speaker 1: very nice win out on the West Coast against the Chargers,

698
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: who are having trouble stopping people. They can certainly outscore people,

699
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: but they have trouble stopping people. You know, traditional powers.

700
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Speaker 1: Over the last ten fifteen years in this conference, people

701
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 1: were ready to kick dirt on Pittsburgh and New England.

702
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: But they're saying hold on a second, how do you

703
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: see them trending here, because we've seen a lot of

704
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: New England teams looking awful lot better in November and

705
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: December than they do in September and October. Right, this

706
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: is the pattern in New England, even when Tom Brady

707
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: was the quarterback, Right, they would sort of spend September

708
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: and October figuring out what they did well and what

709
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: they didn't do well, and then you know, you sort

710
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 1: of see them take off later in the season. And

711
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: I think we're seeing that now, And of course that's

712
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,760
Speaker 1: compounded by the fact that they have a rookie quarterback.

713
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: But met Joms it looked really steady, and so I agree.

714
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,399
Speaker 1: I think you know, when they lost some games early

715
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 1: in this season, but you know, they lost for the

716
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, which is no sin this year, but Dallas

717
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: Cowboys are a really good team, and so I think

718
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: you're seeing them again figure out what they do. You

719
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 1: saw the great defensive effort they befuddled just and Herbert

720
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: for the Chargers, and so I would certainly not be

721
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 1: surprised if we see them take off in the second

722
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: half of the season. Is that going to be enough

723
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: to overtake the Bills, I don't know, but you know,

724
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: certainly I think they at the very least can get

725
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: themselves into the wildcard conversation. And the Steelers, and this

726
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:26,959
Speaker 1: isn't you know, this is another really well coached team,

727
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: rate experienced games. They know what they're doing. The Steelers again,

728
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: like they started out looking terrible. Brockleis Erger looked terrible

729
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 1: early on, and then they sort of figure it out.

730
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: They're obviously going to be carried by their defense. The

731
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: defense looks good, and you know they can keep cobbling

732
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 1: together wins. Again, the winds are not pretty, that's okay.

733
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,439
Speaker 1: They don't have to be pretty, Ben Muthless, Berber doesn't

734
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: have to throw for four hundred yards. But they've got

735
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: a running game and they've got a defense, and you

736
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: can go pretty far with that. I just don't think

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Speaker 1: you can count out either of those teams. The AC

738
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: North is a tougher division than the AFC East. I mean,

739
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 1: the East has the Patriots and the goals and the

740
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: other two teams to jects them that the offense certainly

741
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 1: are not factors. The North has, you know, a lot

742
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: more competitiveness going on. There only a few weeks ago,

743
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,919
Speaker 1: all four teams would have been in the playoffs out

744
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: at the North. So there's you know, that's a tighter,

745
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: that's a tougher assignment for the Steelers. But you know,

746
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: I would not count out a Mike tom One team,

747
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: that's for sure, right, Judy, thanks very much for the time.

748
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Speaker 1: We appreciate it. I know your schedule to talk to

749
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Speaker 1: doctor Sills again tomorrow, which should be a very interesting conversation.

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Speaker 1: When can we anticipate seeing that on NFL dot com?

751
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: Do you know what the turnaround time is on those usually? Yeah,

752
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,879
Speaker 1: we talk at two fifteen, so it'll be live at

753
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: two oh live. Okay, great, awesome. Yeah, I've got a

754
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: lot of questions. I don't know if you'll be able

755
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: to answer this, but a lot to talk about this. Yeah,

756
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 1: all right, we look forward to that. Thanks, as always

757
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 1: for the time, Judy. We appreciate it, my pleasure. All right.

758
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: NFL Network reporter Judy Batista joining us here. Certainly a

759
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 1: lot of interesting stuff. So she interviews doctor Sills, the

760
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 1: chief medical officer for the NFL, on this whole COVID

761
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,879
Speaker 1: front and as she said, she's gonna have a lot

762
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: of interesting questions for him, Aaron Rodgers and the New

763
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: York Giants, some other things percolating around the league with

764
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 1: respect to COVID. So it'll be very interesting to hear

765
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: his answers. And as she told us off air before

766
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: we went on, he is really candid with his answers.

767
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: Like you know, you hear doctor Fauci and other national

768
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: experts on the news stations, they're kind of careful about

769
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: what they say, and we understand why doctor Sills is

770
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: very transparent. And I gotta say, just listening to some

771
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 1: of those through the course of the last eighteen months,

772
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: I've learned a lot. I mean, he's really good at

773
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: what he does, really really good. We have to take

774
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: a break here. When Steve and I come back, we'll

775
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: check the phone lines, we'll talk about this AFC conference,

776
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: which is jumbled, and we'll talk about Buffalo's roster after

777
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: not doing anything at the trade deadline. Is it good

778
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 1: enough to take this team all the way to the

779
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: Promised Land. We'll get your thoughts on that next here

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Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo

781
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: Bills Radios game sponsor against the Jaguars is Zippo. Zippo

782
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: fire it up. I like that tag line. I'm a fan.

783
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: Zippo's great. So we had like Brownie, I got this

784
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 1: on my mind here. Yeah, So we just had Judy

785
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: Batista and she said, how the AFC is a mess?

786
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: And it is. It's a it's a huge mess. It's

787
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: a jumble. Tennessee is a one seed, Vegas is the

788
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: two seed, Baltimore's the three seed, then Buffalo, then Cincinnati

789
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh Chargers. Okay, those are the top seven. Tennessee

790
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: just lost the best player in the league at Derrick

791
00:45:56,239 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: Henry's out, so they're they're hobbled. Vegas just lost not

792
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: only their number one draft pick in Henry Ruggs because

793
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 1: of his tragic car accident, but they also lost their

794
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: head coach a week and a half ago, two weeks ago.

795
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: That has galvanized them. I think more than anything else,

796
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: this Ruggs thing is a different story that it's not

797
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: going to help them. I know that Baltimore sits just

798
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: ahead of Buffalo, but Baltimore and they're coming off a

799
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: bye and they're healthier, right. But Buffalo, however, has the

800
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: schedule we know there and we'll get to that in

801
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 1: a minute. But the Ravens, folks. Their schedule is a

802
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: little bit different than the Buffalo Bill schedule. The Ravens

803
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: schedule is and I've got it here, Okay, I thought

804
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: I had it here? Are they? No, The Ravens are

805
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 1: just coming off their bye week, right, they're coming off

806
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: their by. They have Minnesota this week, at Miami, at Chicago,

807
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 1: Cleveland at Pittsburgh, at Cleveland, green Bay, and presumably Rodgers

808
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: is back by then right at Cincinnati Rams Steelers. They

809
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: got a rough schedule. It's tough. It's a tough schedule.

810
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,800
Speaker 1: Those next three aren't all that intimidating. Tough Minnesota, Miami,

811
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: and Chicago. They should win those games, all right. So

812
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:20,839
Speaker 1: then you look at then you look at Cleveland Division game,

813
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Division game, Cleveland again, Green Bay, Cincinnati, La Rant.

814
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: I mean the last one, two, three, the last seven

815
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: or eight, all right. Then you look at your Buffalo

816
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: Bills that are playing the you know, Jacksonville, the Jets,

817
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: then the Colts, then the Saints Patriots. Now, if you

818
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,399
Speaker 1: if you split with the Saints Patriots, if you take

819
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: those first three Jacksonville, the Jets, Colts, you go to

820
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: Saints Patriots. If you can split with those preferably win

821
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: the Patriots game because it's an AFC Conference game, right,

822
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 1: then you got Tampa Bay. So if you can go

823
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: two and one in that stretch of three games right there, right,

824
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: that's not gonna be easy. It's not gonna be easy.

825
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: But the Saints are on Thanksgiving night and the Patriots

826
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: are on Monday night and then the four twenty five

827
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 1: game with the Buccaneers. That's the stretch right there. So

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00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: if you go two and one whatever, win two of

829
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: those games, then you go Carolina Patriots again, Falcons, Jets,

830
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 1: and you give you split with the Patriots somehow someway

831
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: with those two games, and then you take the Jets

832
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: and put them, put them away. You win the division.

833
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: You got the Falcons and the Panthers that I mean.

834
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: And this is a team that's getting better again. It's

835
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:47,760
Speaker 1: gonna get better because they're gonna get healthier up front.

836
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: Well yeah, you would hope. Yeah, it's the table is

837
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: set for Buffalo to roll in at like thirteen and four,

838
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 1: fourteen and three or twelve and five. Yeah, I think

839
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna be hard to catch. Three is ambitious, it is,

840
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be somewhere between twelve and fourteen, only

841
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: losing one more game after in the last ten. I

842
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: don't know that's right. I think they're probably losing two games,

843
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 1: possibly three, right, Okay, so they go seven, that makes

844
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Speaker 1: them twelve ye five, twelve and five, thirteen and four

845
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: I think is twelve and probably the range that I

846
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: would anticipate, barring some catastrophic injury loss. So they're gonna

847
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: be somewhere in the top. They'll be in striking distance

848
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 1: to the top seed, you would think so, particularly given

849
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: what those other teams ahead of them have to go

850
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: through to get there. Now, Tennessee's really got to stumble here,

851
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: and they have four gimmeis against Houston and Jacksonville, you

852
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 1: know what I mean in their own division. Well, Tennessee, Yeah,

853
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 1: they've played They've played Jacksonville once already, and they just

854
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: beat the Colts. That was the game that you thought

855
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: they might stumb along, but they didn't. So they got

856
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: the Patriots, the Texans, the Jags again, but they got

857
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 1: the Steelers the Niners in there. But then they played

858
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and Texans. Yeah, the Tennessee Titans, the Rams,

859
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 1: the Saints, Patriots, Niners, those are four really tough teams Steelers,

860
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: five really tough teams the way the Steelers are playing lately.

861
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 1: There is a statistical correction from last week's Bill's Dolphins game.

862
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: The Elias Sports Bureau has officially credited the Dolphins missed

863
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: field goal last Sunday, the first one attempted by Jason

864
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: Sanders to a block, as a blocked field goal by

865
00:50:53,800 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: a Listen to this because think about this. Not for

866
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: nothing now, I'm not one of those guys that changes

867
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: the fantasy ruling for their Bills kicking and defense special

868
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 1: teams defense, because the defense gets credit for that now

869
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: and they didn't before. So if you're in a tight

870
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: match and the defense for the Buffalo Bills gets a

871
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: notch of improvement, well that's if points are awarded for

872
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: a block field goal. Not all leagues award that, but yeah,

873
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,280
Speaker 1: if some do, then yeah, they could swing the balance

874
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: of a tight game. I lost to Maddie glab by

875
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: two one hundreds of a point a couple of weeks ago.

876
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: I was not quite as close this past week. Yeah

877
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: I wouldn't either. I hadn't bolted by decimal points, and bye,

878
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:45,320
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta be more diligent, Steve, your only

879
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: problem is not paying attention. My only problem is my

880
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 1: level of interest. We gotta take a break here, so

881
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: we will step aside. But when we come back, we'll

882
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: talk more about the AFC jumble that it is standings

883
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:01,760
Speaker 1: wise with respect to this conference, and we will also

884
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: discuss a little bit about the Bill's roster. Nothing done

885
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: at the trade deadline. Is this roster good enough to

886
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: go the distance? Let us know what you think. At

887
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,879
Speaker 1: eighth three, five fifty open phone lines for you here

888
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: in the second hour of the show on one Bill's Line,

889
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: presented by Kalaida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a

890
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker who has been all over the field. Kind

891
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: of unique. He was kind of a dual role player

892
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even in

893
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: the scratted beer of normalcy, all right. Here we are

894
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 1: our number two on a Wednesday. Bill's still practicing today.

895
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 1: They'll be wrapped up in about ten fifteen minutes. We

896
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: have a chance to jump in on some players addressing

897
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 1: the media this afternoon. We will bring that to you

898
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: and as soon as humanly possible. But Steve and I

899
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:10,800
Speaker 1: do want to talk with you about this jumbled AFC picture.

900
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: As Steve mentioned earlier in the show, there are eleven

901
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 1: teams in the conference that are within two games of

902
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 1: the conference leader, Tennessee at six and two, which means

903
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: there are about eleven teams that are four and four

904
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 1: are better through eight games seven games, however, many they

905
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 1: have played based on bye weeks. And where does it

906
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: go from here? That is the question. And we've assessed

907
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:37,920
Speaker 1: some of the teams, and you know which teams have

908
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: a perceived easier schedule the rest of the way, the

909
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,959
Speaker 1: Bills being one of those teams. Dolphins are another team,

910
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: although at one and seven they are far from being

911
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 1: in any kind of picture besides that of the basement.

912
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 1: So who do you feel is a threat here? I

913
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 1: don't know about you, Steve, but I kind of look

914
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: at this and while the Colts certainly stubbed their toe,

915
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: they're certainly not gonna win that division after getting swept

916
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: by the Titans. I don't know what it is. I

917
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: still think there's a chance for them to be a

918
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: wild card team. I don't know why I feel that way,

919
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:19,879
Speaker 1: because Carson Wentz just seems so mercurial to me. Right

920
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: in terms of being, you know, the leader of that offense.

921
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: One week, he's making all world plays like, ah, yeah,

922
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 1: that's the guy, that's the guy I remember. And then

923
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: he makes a foolhardy play like he did last week,

924
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:34,959
Speaker 1: and it's like, what was he thinking doing that? Here's

925
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: the thing they got in the next five games, They've

926
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: got the Bills and Buccaneers, So those are two tough

927
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: games for the Colts, but they also played the Jets, Jaguars, Texans.

928
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: That could get him back on track. Yeah, I don't know,

929
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 1: going three and two in those five, don't they'd have

930
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,879
Speaker 1: to because they're three and five right now, right right,

931
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:59,040
Speaker 1: so that that would get him to six and seven,

932
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: that kind of hang in. They're at five hundred, which

933
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, with seven

934
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:07,919
Speaker 1: teams making the playoffs, being right around five hundred puts

935
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: you somewhere right there around the seven eight nine right now,

936
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: it does, right, so depending on what your conference record

937
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 1: look like, looks like among other things. Right, so, they

938
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: you know, they've got a chance to hang in, hang in,

939
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:23,360
Speaker 1: hang in. You know, if they could somehow find a

940
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 1: way to beat the Bills or the Buccaneers along with

941
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: you know, the Jets, Texans and Dolphins and those guys.

942
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: They got a chance, but they got to stop turning

943
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: it over. They did everything they could do to beat

944
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans the other day, and Carson through the

945
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: most unbelievably bad I mean it was I think it

946
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 1: was worse than the Pat Mahomes throwing it up for

947
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: grabs pick that he threw a couple of weeks ago.

948
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 1: We've seen some bad ones this year, so you want

949
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 1: to know what is the most astounding thing? And this

950
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: is what convinced me to kick dirt on the Chiefs.

951
00:55:56,239 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 1: So the Chiefs, despite all of the detractors, they're four

952
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 1: and four, right, Okay, so they're just outside the playoff picture.

953
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: Even at four and four. The thing that I think

954
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 1: is ultimately going to sink them is their conference record.

955
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: They're one and four in the conference. One and four. Yeah, yeah,

956
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: that's tough to overcome. I mean that's the first tiebreaker,

957
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: and with where they are now, it looks like they're

958
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:25,839
Speaker 1: going to be in one of those tiebreaker situations where

959
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: they're sweating to get in on a wild card, and

960
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:30,840
Speaker 1: with that, the conference record might sink them. Well, the

961
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 1: head to head is big right, if you're in a

962
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: tiebreaker with somebody a head to head, the four and

963
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 1: four guys are all in tiebreaker mode, and it's like

964
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 1: Kansas City is one defeat down to what New England

965
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:47,280
Speaker 1: is it? I don't know who it is. But then

966
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: well they're AFC Conference losses are Tennessee, Buffalo Chargers, Ravens.

967
00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 1: All good teams, don't get me wrong, all good teams.

968
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 1: Their only AFC Conference win is the season opener against Cleveland,

969
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: which they had to sweat to win. That's it, Yeah, yeah,

970
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:14,359
Speaker 1: that's I'm not gonna kick dirt on them though. I mean, well,

971
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: I don't know's there's too many even if they tire

972
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:21,240
Speaker 1: a lot wrong? Right, you're right, but Indianapolis ms fixing it.

973
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: I think you and I are both still sitting here

974
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: remembering how good a game the Colts gave us last

975
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 1: year in the playoffs, when the Bills were absolutely clicking,

976
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: and they came in here and gave the Bills all

977
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:35,919
Speaker 1: they could handle. With Philip Rivers at quarterback, Carson Wentz

978
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 1: is a different animal. I get it, but man, I

979
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 1: just the Colt. The Colts are just I just don't

980
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: think they're gonna go away. I think they're gonna hang

981
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: in there right until the end if they don't. If

982
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: they don't get in I think they're gonna be right

983
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 1: there even at the end, like a win and end

984
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 1: weekend on Week eighteen, that's where I think the Dolphins.

985
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: Had a press conference today, Tua was asked about a

986
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 1: multitude of things, whether or not he was vaccinated. He

987
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:14,479
Speaker 1: said he is used the word vac He was also

988
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: asked about his former college teammate Henry Ruggs, and he

989
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: had an interesting comment there. He said he never thought

990
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 1: Henry Ruggs was the type of person who could hurt

991
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: another soul and said he's shocked and saddened to hear

992
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: about what happened. So there's somebody that does know Henry

993
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 1: Ruggs a little bit better than we do. So yes,

994
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 1: it's it's bad all the way around. There's just no

995
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 1: two ways about it as far as this AFC goes.

996
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: You know, you're trying to look at strength as schedule

997
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 1: and try to, you know, handicap this thing a little bit.

998
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'd rather look at the wartz that

999
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 1: each of these teams have Steve and for me, I

1000
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: think the Chargers warts are on the defensive side of

1001
00:58:59,920 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 1: the ball. They have trouble stopping people. And I think

1002
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 1: their quarterback is still a quarterback that can get crossed

1003
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: up if he's playing a good defense that knows how

1004
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: to spin the dial and keep him off balance, as

1005
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 1: we saw last week against New England. As far as

1006
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's concerned, it's the age in the health of their quarterback.

1007
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:21,200
Speaker 1: They're going to rest on their defense. We know that,

1008
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: and it's a good defense. It's still the best sacking

1009
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: defense in football, and the Bill saw saw that in

1010
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 1: full color in Week one. I just don't know they

1011
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: need their defense to hold them in games. If an

1012
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 1: opponent gets up past twenty four points, I think they're

1013
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 1: in trouble because I don't think there's their offense has

1014
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:47,040
Speaker 1: the firepower to keep pace with an offense that can

1015
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: really roll it up, even against a team like the Steelers. Well,

1016
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, a defense like the Steelers, I should say,

1017
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,480
Speaker 1: well for Buffalo, I think you always looked down the

1018
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:57,080
Speaker 1: road to Buffalo or to Buffalo and how Buffalo would

1019
00:59:57,120 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 1: match up again with the Steelers. You know, I'm still

1020
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:03,440
Speaker 1: thinking the Bills are a better football team. They they

1021
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:08,400
Speaker 1: dropped it to the Steelers a week one of the season. Yeah,

1022
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 1: I just think that's a matchup the Bills would look

1023
01:00:10,680 --> 01:00:13,360
Speaker 1: forward to again, you know, with a chip on their shoulder.

1024
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: Um the other you know, And you're right, Cincinnati's inexperienced, right,

1025
01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 1: that's the that's their flaw. Yeah, they're young, they're very young,

1026
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:29,120
Speaker 1: but they're playing very well, very talented. The Chargers to me, Um, yeah,

1027
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 1: they've They've obviously got some problems, some some wartz. They

1028
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 1: can't stop people. Yeah, give a forty two to Cleveland.

1029
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: The team that comes back keeps coming back to me

1030
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 1: is Bolton Ye, battle tested, they are veteran coaching staff

1031
01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 1: exactly physical style, can run the ball. So if it's

1032
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 1: a bad weather game, well they that's what's hurt them.

1033
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:51,920
Speaker 1: I think earlier this season their running backs are all

1034
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: you know on the shelf. But the silver lining there

1035
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: was they moved towards more passing and they may have

1036
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: found something in diverse fighting their offense as a result. Right,

1037
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 1: Deshaun DeShawn Lamar Jackson has really played much better in

1038
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 1: the passing game through the last month of the season

1039
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:14,720
Speaker 1: than than he has any point in his career thus far.

1040
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:16,760
Speaker 1: I think the guys. Really they I think they have

1041
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 1: found something that makes them, to me, the team other

1042
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,320
Speaker 1: than the Bills to like say, Okay, we're gonna make it,

1043
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:26,480
Speaker 1: We're gonna make a run at this. That's that's the team.

1044
01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 1: I think that you got to chase if you're Buffalo.

1045
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 1: Now the problem is and like like we were just

1046
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: bringing it up. You know, they play the Vikings, they

1047
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: play the NFC North, the Vikings, the Bears, the Packers.

1048
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 1: They also have the Rams and of course the Steelers,

1049
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: Bengals and Browns twice, the Browns twice, Steelers twice yet

1050
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 1: this season. So those are you know that division's gonna

1051
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 1: lump them up a little bit, I would think I

1052
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 1: would think the Vikings aren't, the Bears are not, but

1053
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:01,120
Speaker 1: the Packers and Rams, yeah, a little bit. And then

1054
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 1: the Raiders. If they have a flaw, it's their run defense.

1055
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 1: It's terrible. I mean they're twenty ninth against the run

1056
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 1: this year. That has made it difficult for their defense

1057
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: to get off the field to get the ball back

1058
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:16,680
Speaker 1: to Derek car Because Derek Carr is playing at an

1059
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 1: all world level. He's having a career season right now

1060
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: and really moving that offense especially when Josh Jacobs has

1061
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: been dinged up for the better part of the first

1062
01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:30,360
Speaker 1: half of the season. He's having a monster year. And

1063
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, I think they've been somewhat galvanized

1064
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 1: by special teams coach Rich Bisaccia, who is now their

1065
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 1: interim head coach. And I heard this. I heard this

1066
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 1: take on a program the other day and it really

1067
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 1: made me think about this. The theory was the Raiders

1068
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:54,040
Speaker 1: not only love their interim head coach and want to

1069
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 1: do wealth and write by him and are performing well,

1070
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:01,320
Speaker 1: but there is still loving respect for John Gruden, who

1071
01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 1: they think God railroaded out of the league and they

1072
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 1: want to win on his behalf as well. I thought, Ah,

1073
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:11,520
Speaker 1: you know what, I hadn't thought of that. I suppose

1074
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 1: it's plausible. Oh yeah, I don't know if it runs

1075
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 1: completely through the locker room, but I think there's probably

1076
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,040
Speaker 1: some sentiment for him there because those guys all owe

1077
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 1: their jobs the guy who picked him, and it'll be

1078
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: interesting to see how it goes out. But also too

1079
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 1: the Raiders as they come down this stretch here. You know,

1080
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:35,040
Speaker 1: one of the things that Bessacius did their head interim

1081
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:38,200
Speaker 1: head coach, was he paired away the offense and said, here, listen,

1082
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 1: here's what we're doing. Well, let's just work off of that.

1083
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 1: He's made it a little easier on David, on Derek Carr,

1084
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:47,439
Speaker 1: and therefore they're becoming more efficient and even playing better.

1085
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:49,440
Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, that extra set of

1086
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: eyes on the offense, a little bit of guys different

1087
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 1: guidance at the wheel, has given them a little bit

1088
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:57,720
Speaker 1: of a resurgence in their offensive performance. I you know,

1089
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:01,479
Speaker 1: guys will respond to it. Sometimes practice has ended out

1090
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: on the field about fifty yards away from us. Josh

1091
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:06,439
Speaker 1: Allen is sitting down to address the media. So let's

1092
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:10,360
Speaker 1: go there and listen in to job. I was your

1093
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:13,439
Speaker 1: of for four months of the band and Kevin, would

1094
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:17,360
Speaker 1: you get yourself there? I don't know. I did my job.

1095
01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: It's not really my show, you know. Just on there,

1096
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 1: I got to talk to two Hall of Fame quarterbacks,

1097
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: two legends, two of the ever best ever to play

1098
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:30,960
Speaker 1: the game, you know, and um, it's really cool, it's

1099
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:36,640
Speaker 1: really fun for me. It's all your wearing your name

1100
01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:39,720
Speaker 1: on the back of Yeah. I mean that we had

1101
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 1: talked about that a while ago, And honestly, the going

1102
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:45,440
Speaker 1: live is it's kind of nerve wracking. Um, So I

1103
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 1: wasn't just trying not to do anything stupid. Can you

1104
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:55,919
Speaker 1: put this into perspective? It's so, it's it's it's it's

1105
01:04:55,960 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 1: it's a surreal moment. It's a moment that happens in

1106
01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 1: your life. But you know, four, five years ago or

1107
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 1: six years ago in Europe, Wyoming was just trying to

1108
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:08,680
Speaker 1: make it as a college quarterback to a thought this

1109
01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 1: might might be in the future. Yeah, I mean to

1110
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:17,200
Speaker 1: that point, I don't want to come up the wrong way.

1111
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:19,120
Speaker 1: But I always I always thought i'd be in this position,

1112
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 1: you know, Um, having that self leaf and that trust

1113
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 1: in yourself, thinking that you're going to be able to

1114
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 1: accomplish the things that you want accomplish. Now, it took

1115
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 1: a lot long time and a lot of work to

1116
01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 1: get here. Um, But I mean I didn't think anything else. Yeah,

1117
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 1: I think it's just kind of how I was raised. Um,

1118
01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:45,200
Speaker 1: you know, just playing where I played, growing up where

1119
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:49,800
Speaker 1: I grew up. Um, just very internally motivated. I Like

1120
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 1: I've said that over and over again, But um, I

1121
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:57,040
Speaker 1: don't couldn't pinpoint to one certain thing over your teammates

1122
01:05:57,040 --> 01:06:00,080
Speaker 1: opinions about your appearance of the many casts. Davis was happy.

1123
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 1: I give him a little shout out. Nice mustache, um,

1124
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: and he played with Eli. So just just trying to

1125
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:10,280
Speaker 1: have something common to talk about, you know. Um, a

1126
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:13,720
Speaker 1: couple of guys that I was boring, but that's fine

1127
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:18,800
Speaker 1: with me. You know, I did uh Micah Hyde, but

1128
01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:23,800
Speaker 1: he's a hater, So it's all good thinking that you know,

1129
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 1: you were always gonna be here. Did you always think

1130
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 1: that you'd have your own cereal? And how often do

1131
01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:32,800
Speaker 1: you actually eats Jacks. I'm not a huge breakfast guy,

1132
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 1: but and I do eat breakfast. That's typically what I

1133
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:37,640
Speaker 1: would do at home. I'm a big cereal guy. Um,

1134
01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:39,240
Speaker 1: but no, too long a those lines not It didn't

1135
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 1: that and when I was younger didn't come into my mind.

1136
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 1: It's having cereal and hot sauce and um, you know,

1137
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:50,080
Speaker 1: having the success with Oshi Chu's Hospital that we're having,

1138
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:52,479
Speaker 1: you know, that's uh, those are goodies that come along

1139
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:55,240
Speaker 1: with it, and um, that stuff has been pretty exciting,

1140
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:57,440
Speaker 1: you know, especially working with the hospital and you know

1141
01:06:57,560 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 1: Josh and Jackson, the hot sauce and uh miniature Fisher

1142
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 1: Price people like proceeds go to the hospital. That's something

1143
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 1: I'm super proud about. Like, what do you actually think

1144
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:12,440
Speaker 1: about this here? I mean it's usually I wanted to

1145
01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:16,120
Speaker 1: do things like kind of like fruity flat or uh,

1146
01:07:18,120 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: fruit loops, but no fluty flakes. Fluty flakes. I wanted

1147
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 1: to Josh Jackson like the alliteration there, But again, I

1148
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 1: grew up eating apple jacks all the time and to

1149
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:31,680
Speaker 1: kind of play off of that and uh, have it

1150
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:34,960
Speaker 1: red and blue. That's that's cool. You've been capable of

1151
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 1: compart mentalizing like what like this this fun stuff? It

1152
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:43,200
Speaker 1: seems to just flow off here, like like the water

1153
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:45,560
Speaker 1: off the ducks back in some ways you can and

1154
01:07:45,560 --> 01:07:48,080
Speaker 1: you're able to stay focused on football will also hiving

1155
01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 1: these other things. How does this come naturally to you?

1156
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:55,080
Speaker 1: You know this you've found fame like elevation of fame

1157
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:58,360
Speaker 1: in some ways to be in a Manning casco. Yeah,

1158
01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 1: I mean again, it doesn't happen. And if you're not

1159
01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:04,600
Speaker 1: playing well, so again, you got to keep the most

1160
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:07,120
Speaker 1: important thing, the most important thing that's performing on the

1161
01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 1: field and being the best teammate and the best quarterback

1162
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,640
Speaker 1: that I can be for the Buffalo Bills. And you know,

1163
01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in everything happens for a reason.

1164
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:18,040
Speaker 1: And you know, typically when you have that type of

1165
01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:20,240
Speaker 1: thought process and you work hard, things usually fall into

1166
01:08:20,240 --> 01:08:24,600
Speaker 1: places the backstage there. So you come out of the

1167
01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: third quarter, has there been communication leading up to like

1168
01:08:28,280 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 1: what they're gonna ask you? Or is it all it's

1169
01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:33,760
Speaker 1: no idea what they're going to talk about at all?

1170
01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:38,760
Speaker 1: So yeah, again, and it's live, so knowing that your

1171
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 1: heart's racing a little bit. And again you just don't

1172
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:43,479
Speaker 1: want to do the wrong thing, say the wrong thing.

1173
01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 1: You don't want to come off and sound dumb. And

1174
01:08:47,400 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 1: again I just feel like I did my job just

1175
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:52,240
Speaker 1: going there and answer some questions. It's not my job

1176
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:55,160
Speaker 1: to comment on the game or call play by play,

1177
01:08:55,240 --> 01:08:58,240
Speaker 1: So just there and talking with two guys that again

1178
01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:01,040
Speaker 1: I grew up watching and idolizing, and um, you know,

1179
01:09:01,080 --> 01:09:04,680
Speaker 1: their greats and their own perspective, and uh, it was

1180
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:09,960
Speaker 1: really fun for me. Anything to get ready. Now my

1181
01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:12,840
Speaker 1: voice is a little gone right now. I don't know why. Um,

1182
01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's just again just trying to be as

1183
01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 1: calm as possible and just try to answer the questions

1184
01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:22,720
Speaker 1: that they were given. The defensive backs jumped into one

1185
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:29,920
Speaker 1: of the drills down did not go. Well, it looks easy,

1186
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:33,479
Speaker 1: but but apparently it's not right. Yeah, it's it's not

1187
01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:35,720
Speaker 1: as easy as it looks, and they want to give

1188
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:38,840
Speaker 1: us a, you know, a hard time every every time

1189
01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:40,240
Speaker 1: we make it. We're like good ball, you know, we're

1190
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:42,479
Speaker 1: saying telling each other a good job, and they want

1191
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:44,679
Speaker 1: to sit back there and just say good ball to everything,

1192
01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:46,679
Speaker 1: and we're just like, okay, we'll step up and show

1193
01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:48,960
Speaker 1: us what you got. And I think everybody missed the

1194
01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 1: net except for Poyer Levi maybe the Levi's old one

1195
01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 1: that actually hit hit the net, not made it one

1196
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:56,840
Speaker 1: of the net, but actually hit the net. So everybody

1197
01:09:56,840 --> 01:09:59,280
Speaker 1: else missed it. So, uh, they can talk all day,

1198
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 1: want consistent basis. Which one do you think would be

1199
01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:07,240
Speaker 1: more likely to be a quarterback level kind of at

1200
01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 1: least trying to hit the pocket? Ooh, I think player.

1201
01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:14,040
Speaker 1: He's he's pretty athletic obviously the baseball background. I think

1202
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:15,960
Speaker 1: that would help. So if he did it consistently, I

1203
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:21,439
Speaker 1: think he'd get there. So we've never actually met in person.

1204
01:10:21,479 --> 01:10:25,320
Speaker 1: We've messaged on Twitter and Instagram. Um, actually we follow

1205
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:28,720
Speaker 1: each other in just first round, seventh pick, two years

1206
01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:31,000
Speaker 1: in a row. Josh Allen's the pick, so that was, Uh,

1207
01:10:31,400 --> 01:10:35,639
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. So we we've shared, um, just exchange messages,

1208
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:39,160
Speaker 1: just common name and draft pick and big fan of his.

1209
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 1: He's a great player, you know. I know he's coming

1210
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:43,840
Speaker 1: into his own right now, and um, you know, we

1211
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:45,840
Speaker 1: got to be prepared for him because he can ruin

1212
01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:48,160
Speaker 1: a game plan and that's why he was drafted so

1213
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:49,760
Speaker 1: high and he's playing at a really high level right

1214
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:53,880
Speaker 1: now this week. No, we haven't, but I've talked with

1215
01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:56,639
Speaker 1: Adrew w Gary the safety there we were playing it well,

1216
01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 1: I mean together. It's one of my good buddies. So

1217
01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:00,599
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see him. Told us when we met

1218
01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 1: with him that when you're emotional, whether you're fired up

1219
01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:06,680
Speaker 1: or frustrate or whatever, sometimes it's I don't want to

1220
01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:08,080
Speaker 1: say a thing to him. That's who Josh is, and

1221
01:11:08,080 --> 01:11:09,559
Speaker 1: I need to let him be Josh kind of. But

1222
01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:12,760
Speaker 1: is that the delicate touch that Brian has with you,

1223
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:15,479
Speaker 1: that of being a leader and knowing when to maybe

1224
01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:16,840
Speaker 1: talk to you and not to talk to you, and

1225
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:18,800
Speaker 1: how all that balance has to be. Yeah, and Daves

1226
01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 1: has been around the league long enough to know how

1227
01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:24,720
Speaker 1: to hand us certain situations. And he does a good

1228
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:27,160
Speaker 1: job of letting me be me and um, you know,

1229
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:29,559
Speaker 1: dialing up some plays for us, trying to get me

1230
01:11:29,560 --> 01:11:32,360
Speaker 1: into a rhythm. And you know, everybody knows the report

1231
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:34,760
Speaker 1: that we have is really good and you know it's

1232
01:11:34,760 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 1: only going to get better as the season goes on.

1233
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:41,400
Speaker 1: How much do you not want to meet I don't.

1234
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:44,200
Speaker 1: I'd like to talk to him before and after the game,

1235
01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:46,080
Speaker 1: and I don't want to talk to him, you know,

1236
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:48,760
Speaker 1: in between the lines, you know, as long as he's

1237
01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:51,120
Speaker 1: staying off of me. But um, again, we got to

1238
01:11:51,120 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 1: be prepared for him and their defense as a whole.

1239
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:55,320
Speaker 1: And um, I know the record doesn't show it, but

1240
01:11:55,360 --> 01:11:57,639
Speaker 1: again it's it's a week to week league and those

1241
01:11:57,680 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 1: guys get paid on that side of the football too,

1242
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:02,519
Speaker 1: and they're hungry or a win. Um, you know. And

1243
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:05,680
Speaker 1: typically again, when when teams lose the way they did

1244
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:07,960
Speaker 1: last week, they come out ready to go. And you know,

1245
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:11,639
Speaker 1: we don't expect anything less. So we gotta be ready

1246
01:12:11,680 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 1: for whatever, going on the road into you know, a

1247
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:17,200
Speaker 1: hostile environment. You know, playing on the roads never easy. Um,

1248
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:21,680
Speaker 1: so yeah, we gotta be ready. James from going on

1249
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:25,160
Speaker 1: the COVID list, is there any level of concern in

1250
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 1: terms of like maybe contact that you've had with them,

1251
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:28,880
Speaker 1: given that you guys are you know, obviously in the

1252
01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:32,839
Speaker 1: same meeting room. Now I think we're we're good on that. Um,

1253
01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 1: you know, in meeting rooms especially, we're socially distance and

1254
01:12:35,840 --> 01:12:38,519
Speaker 1: making sure we're staying apart from each other. So no,

1255
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:41,639
Speaker 1: no concerns about being a week two week league. Last week,

1256
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:44,120
Speaker 1: Cole said it wasn't that Miami game wasn't a game

1257
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:46,680
Speaker 1: you want to play, but her need to kind of

1258
01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: learn from it. Struggling in the first half. Did you

1259
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:52,160
Speaker 1: learn What can you take away from a game like

1260
01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:54,559
Speaker 1: that as you go to play some more teams like

1261
01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 1: my An, Well, you know, they had a good game plan.

1262
01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:02,800
Speaker 1: It's something that we maybe didn't expect. Um, but now

1263
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:06,800
Speaker 1: we know if we kind of get into that situation again, Um,

1264
01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:09,479
Speaker 1: you know what what play calls we like, what checks

1265
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:12,160
Speaker 1: we like, really just trying to make it a completion

1266
01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:14,720
Speaker 1: game and force them to tackle guys on the outside,

1267
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 1: because again, when you bring that much pressure, if you

1268
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:19,679
Speaker 1: if you want to do that and your guys miss

1269
01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:22,400
Speaker 1: tackles on the outside, um, you know, it's not gonna

1270
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:24,880
Speaker 1: be a great day. So again just finding ways to

1271
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 1: get them out of doing that. Um. But again it

1272
01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:34,639
Speaker 1: they're challenging situations. But like Cole said, having that now

1273
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:38,759
Speaker 1: experience with that, we can use that going forward halfway

1274
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:44,000
Speaker 1: through the season. Now, what would you say, Issie, I

1275
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:46,120
Speaker 1: think our identity is just a team that's willing to

1276
01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:50,400
Speaker 1: do whatever it takes to win a football game. Um.

1277
01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:53,320
Speaker 1: You know, if that's thirty times passing, thirty times running,

1278
01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 1: whatever it is. We got guys that are more than

1279
01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 1: willing to go in there and do their job. M

1280
01:13:59,080 --> 01:14:01,120
Speaker 1: Receivers that are going going in there and getting their

1281
01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 1: noses dirty and blocking linebackers and um running back set

1282
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:07,799
Speaker 1: are okay stepping up and blocking a linebacker, a safety

1283
01:14:07,840 --> 01:14:10,400
Speaker 1: blitz in. And guys that, like I said, just care

1284
01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:12,320
Speaker 1: about each other and are willing to do whatever it takes.

1285
01:14:12,840 --> 01:14:15,559
Speaker 1: See John Fliciatto, you know, don't know how long he's

1286
01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:17,800
Speaker 1: gonna be out for. Know when Cody got you know,

1287
01:14:17,840 --> 01:14:19,680
Speaker 1: badge basically a couple of weeks ago. How did you

1288
01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:21,320
Speaker 1: see him handle that? And if it is the case

1289
01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 1: where he's called out again, you know what did you

1290
01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:24,680
Speaker 1: challe him in that moment? What do you expect from

1291
01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:26,720
Speaker 1: if he gets back in now. He's handled it like

1292
01:14:26,720 --> 01:14:29,599
Speaker 1: a pro. Um, Sorry, my voice is going out. He's

1293
01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:32,120
Speaker 1: handled like a pro. And every day he's just put

1294
01:14:32,120 --> 01:14:35,160
Speaker 1: his head down, he's worked, he's never complained. Um, you know,

1295
01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:38,920
Speaker 1: and he's got an opportunity here. And whether whoever's going

1296
01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:42,760
Speaker 1: on Friday or Saturday Sunday, sorry, um, you know, the

1297
01:14:42,800 --> 01:14:44,360
Speaker 1: best five's got to go out there and try to

1298
01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:47,400
Speaker 1: perform and execute game plan. And we've got supreme faith

1299
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:50,479
Speaker 1: and the guys that we put out there. Is it

1300
01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:52,920
Speaker 1: validation with the group that you guys have that there

1301
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:55,439
Speaker 1: weren't any moves made with the trade deadline and you know,

1302
01:14:55,479 --> 01:15:00,800
Speaker 1: obviously diffront office believes in players. Yeah. Absolutely, Um, you

1303
01:15:00,840 --> 01:15:04,240
Speaker 1: know it is what it is as far as trades

1304
01:15:04,240 --> 01:15:06,160
Speaker 1: and all that stuff goes. But we got guys that

1305
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,720
Speaker 1: can play. We know that they know that, um, and

1306
01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: we got to go out there and nextecute. And it's

1307
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 1: it starts with me making sure we're in good positions

1308
01:15:12,080 --> 01:15:14,960
Speaker 1: and situations where we're not in third and long, where

1309
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 1: guys can go pin their ears back and just to

1310
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:19,680
Speaker 1: go try and get the quarterback. So making sure that

1311
01:15:19,680 --> 01:15:22,280
Speaker 1: we're staying on task, moving the chains on first and

1312
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:24,800
Speaker 1: second down trying to skip some third and longs um

1313
01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:36,200
Speaker 1: and helping him out that way. Given just you know

1314
01:15:36,479 --> 01:15:38,160
Speaker 1: he he had he could have hit that one from

1315
01:15:38,200 --> 01:15:42,560
Speaker 1: sixty seven yards. Yeah, I mean, he's he's unbelievable. He

1316
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:45,000
Speaker 1: works extremely hard. Um, he's a guy that we can

1317
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 1: count on. Um, and he's got a lot of confidence

1318
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 1: in himself. And we got a kicker that has confidence

1319
01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:53,040
Speaker 1: in himself. Everybody can feel it. Everybody can see it.

1320
01:15:53,280 --> 01:15:56,720
Speaker 1: And uh, you know he's you know, guys can tell

1321
01:15:56,840 --> 01:16:00,400
Speaker 1: he's he's he's got it. So you can just feel

1322
01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:03,599
Speaker 1: it the way he walks, the way the way he walks,

1323
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 1: the way he talks, how he holds himself, um, Press conferences,

1324
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:09,640
Speaker 1: and then how he kicks. You know, you see it.

1325
01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:13,280
Speaker 1: You see Lawrence is in a spot where you were

1326
01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:14,720
Speaker 1: a few years ago about how to get from there

1327
01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:17,840
Speaker 1: where you are up. Yeah. I I've thrown with Trevor

1328
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:21,080
Speaker 1: a few times in the off season. He's a great kid. Um,

1329
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:23,760
Speaker 1: he's a great talent. Um. You know, obviously when you're

1330
01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:26,679
Speaker 1: when you're drafted that high, Uh, you know those teams

1331
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:28,559
Speaker 1: are picking there for a reason. And you know he's

1332
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:31,080
Speaker 1: got to learn to growth. The growth, the bumps and

1333
01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:32,880
Speaker 1: bruises that they come along with it, But it's only

1334
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:35,000
Speaker 1: gonna make you a better quarterback in the long run.

1335
01:16:35,040 --> 01:16:39,040
Speaker 1: And having that type of um experience is gonna pay

1336
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 1: off up run. Right now, there's a chance, Cody Ford,

1337
01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 1: you get back up in the line up. Where's his

1338
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:48,920
Speaker 1: confidence do you think right now? And where's your confidence? Again? No,

1339
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 1: he's he's ready to go if if need be. Um,

1340
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:54,800
Speaker 1: We're confident in him. You know there's gonna be no

1341
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:58,080
Speaker 1: limitations to what we do or we're not gonna change anything. Uh,

1342
01:16:58,120 --> 01:16:59,640
Speaker 1: he knows that, and you know he's got to go

1343
01:16:59,640 --> 01:17:01,800
Speaker 1: out there and Elvis win a football game. But again,

1344
01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 1: like I alluded to earlier, helping our guys up front,

1345
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:06,920
Speaker 1: they got a good um, They got a good front,

1346
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:10,640
Speaker 1: you know on defense and making share we're productive on

1347
01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:12,600
Speaker 1: first and second down. And like I said, skipping some

1348
01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:16,360
Speaker 1: third and longs UM and allowing our our team really

1349
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:18,040
Speaker 1: to be too dimensional on the offensive side of the

1350
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:20,240
Speaker 1: ball really gives so much on this and get too deep.

1351
01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:22,080
Speaker 1: But can you take us into a little bit of

1352
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:24,360
Speaker 1: when things change and like you go for the second

1353
01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:27,800
Speaker 1: half and Coal's catching passes on every drive, is that

1354
01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:31,439
Speaker 1: more of a Ryan says, I think these things will work,

1355
01:17:31,960 --> 01:17:33,920
Speaker 1: and Cole's gonna be opener is that more of We're

1356
01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:36,200
Speaker 1: gonna go to this personal formation and Josh pick out

1357
01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:38,479
Speaker 1: the right guy, you know what I mean? Like, where's

1358
01:17:38,520 --> 01:17:40,840
Speaker 1: the difference in that? Yeah, I mean it's it's a

1359
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:46,919
Speaker 1: it's game plan specific, sometimes it's it's personnel matchups, um.

1360
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:49,080
Speaker 1: And then ultimately it's trust. And you know we we

1361
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:53,960
Speaker 1: I trust Coal implicitly. You know, he sees the field

1362
01:17:53,960 --> 01:17:56,680
Speaker 1: as well as anybody, um, and he makes you know,

1363
01:17:56,760 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: decisive decisions where I can get him the football. But

1364
01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:02,679
Speaker 1: again it's all sometimes it's who's got the hot hand

1365
01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:05,080
Speaker 1: that day? Who were we going to let's keep riding it?

1366
01:18:05,120 --> 01:18:08,200
Speaker 1: And you know it was his time on Sunday and

1367
01:18:08,520 --> 01:18:13,360
Speaker 1: who knows what's gonna happen on this Sunday? Yes, all right,

1368
01:18:13,400 --> 01:18:17,040
Speaker 1: that's Josh Allen voice a little horse today, maybe after

1369
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:22,160
Speaker 1: barking out some hardcounts or something. Who knows, But yes,

1370
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:27,800
Speaker 1: he was asked about Dredevious White, Micah Hyde, oh my gosh,

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01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:32,920
Speaker 1: and Jordan Boyer running through quarterback footwork drills to avoid

1372
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:34,840
Speaker 1: pressure in the pocket and then try to hit the

1373
01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:39,760
Speaker 1: big square netting with three holes in it. High, medium, low.

1374
01:18:40,600 --> 01:18:42,800
Speaker 1: They didn't even hit the big thing. They couldn't even

1375
01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:45,479
Speaker 1: hit the Yeah. They well, basically what they're saying is

1376
01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:47,360
Speaker 1: they couldn't hit the broadside of a barn once they

1377
01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 1: threw it. They couldn't even hit them apparatus, let alone

1378
01:18:50,640 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 1: the targets on the apparatus. And it was, yeah, pretty interesting.

1379
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:04,320
Speaker 1: He was asked about Josh Allen. Did you hear that? Yeah,

1380
01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:06,720
Speaker 1: Josh Allen asked about Josh Allen, And it's not This

1381
01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:10,519
Speaker 1: isn't like Ricky Henderson, Josh Allen, this is like talking

1382
01:19:10,520 --> 01:19:12,719
Speaker 1: about himself from the third person. This is the defensive

1383
01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 1: end from the Jacksonville Jaguars named Josh Allen, who was

1384
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:19,720
Speaker 1: also a first round pick, seventh Pick'd be interesting to

1385
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:23,120
Speaker 1: see if those two run into each other, knowing the

1386
01:19:23,400 --> 01:19:26,160
Speaker 1: commitment we have from one. Kyle Brandt, Yeah, I need

1387
01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:29,880
Speaker 1: Josh to have an angry run over the top of Josh. Yeah,

1388
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:32,800
Speaker 1: that would be something special. We have to take a

1389
01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:34,960
Speaker 1: break here because we are up against it on the clock.

1390
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:38,360
Speaker 1: With Josh's interview, it was fresh off the field there,

1391
01:19:38,720 --> 01:19:40,840
Speaker 1: so we will step aside here. When we come back,

1392
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:43,799
Speaker 1: there might be time for a little NFL true false.

1393
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:46,519
Speaker 1: We'll see when we were turning here on One Bill's Live,

1394
01:19:46,560 --> 01:20:01,439
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right,

1395
01:20:01,439 --> 01:20:03,679
Speaker 1: welcome back to one Bill's Live. Christ Brown, Steve Taster

1396
01:20:03,880 --> 01:20:06,640
Speaker 1: with you, and we're gonna go back out to the

1397
01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:10,759
Speaker 1: practice field where Jordan Poyer is now addressing the media.

1398
01:20:10,840 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: Let's listen in to Jordan. For a lot of us,

1399
01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:15,880
Speaker 1: we think of Jacksonville. We think we're going back to

1400
01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:18,080
Speaker 1: the stadium. We think of you guys, and you're playoff

1401
01:20:18,280 --> 01:20:20,400
Speaker 1: that ended the drop. So when you think back to

1402
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:23,080
Speaker 1: kind of like where that team was then and where

1403
01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:24,960
Speaker 1: you guys are now, what's the biggest thing that stands

1404
01:20:24,960 --> 01:20:28,719
Speaker 1: out of around I mean, I didn't even think about

1405
01:20:28,800 --> 01:20:31,479
Speaker 1: the playoff game going there. So he's, yeah, you're bringing

1406
01:20:31,479 --> 01:20:33,840
Speaker 1: it up. It's kind of first time he actually really

1407
01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:35,920
Speaker 1: thinking about that, you know. I mean, you know, we're

1408
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:38,800
Speaker 1: a lot you know, I think we're a more mature

1409
01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:41,920
Speaker 1: football team. We've grown a lot throughout the years. I've

1410
01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 1: had a lot of experience together with the guys, and

1411
01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:48,080
Speaker 1: I think that's probably the key word is experience. Um,

1412
01:20:48,200 --> 01:20:51,519
Speaker 1: guys been in the system U two three, four, five

1413
01:20:51,600 --> 01:20:55,240
Speaker 1: years now, and we played a lot of football together, so, um,

1414
01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:57,360
Speaker 1: you know, we're a lot I think we're a lot

1415
01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:02,200
Speaker 1: older team now, I would say. At Marmature, I was

1416
01:21:02,240 --> 01:21:06,519
Speaker 1: asked about kind of the build the blueprint that this

1417
01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:08,880
Speaker 1: team used to get where they are right now, Sean

1418
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:12,040
Speaker 1: and Brandon obviously looking back to them, and he said,

1419
01:21:12,040 --> 01:21:14,280
Speaker 1: it's one of the most impressive builds that he's seen

1420
01:21:14,320 --> 01:21:17,200
Speaker 1: in recent NFL history. What does it mean to hear

1421
01:21:17,280 --> 01:21:20,120
Speaker 1: somebody from another organization look at what you guys have

1422
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:23,280
Speaker 1: been able to build inside inside these this building. Yeah,

1423
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:25,479
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's awesome to hear. You know. Uh,

1424
01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:29,280
Speaker 1: we've been grinding the same out since twenty seventeen, um,

1425
01:21:29,400 --> 01:21:31,960
Speaker 1: trying to give ourselves a chance in the postseason to

1426
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:34,240
Speaker 1: to get a ring. Um, you know we're still still

1427
01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:36,040
Speaker 1: grinding it out still, you know, right in the thick

1428
01:21:36,080 --> 01:21:38,200
Speaker 1: of it. So, uh, you know, we want to continue

1429
01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:41,400
Speaker 1: to do that, continue to work hard, and and you know,

1430
01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:43,680
Speaker 1: it's it's awesome to be noticed, you know by other

1431
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:45,960
Speaker 1: coaches around the league that you know, that build that

1432
01:21:45,960 --> 01:21:49,320
Speaker 1: we've that we've that we've had it so remarkable how

1433
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:52,280
Speaker 1: much times flown. I mean, yeah, you kind of you

1434
01:21:52,360 --> 01:21:56,320
Speaker 1: kind of almost forget that that was then. Yeah, I

1435
01:21:56,400 --> 01:21:58,000
Speaker 1: was actually looking at photos the other day. You know,

1436
01:21:58,040 --> 01:22:01,400
Speaker 1: my daughter was one one years old at the time,

1437
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:04,280
Speaker 1: you know, so, um, you know, time really does go by,

1438
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:06,760
Speaker 1: you know, just trying to enjoy the moments, trying to

1439
01:22:06,800 --> 01:22:10,200
Speaker 1: enjoy the guys around us. So it is crazy how

1440
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:13,720
Speaker 1: fast it's gone. Trevor Lawrence a young quarterback with a

1441
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:16,240
Speaker 1: big arm, do you just what do you see from him?

1442
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 1: And like with somebody like that, he might you can't

1443
01:22:20,360 --> 01:22:22,840
Speaker 1: presume that he's not gonna throw it. He might try

1444
01:22:22,840 --> 01:22:25,639
Speaker 1: and throw it in a tight spot that maybe somebody

1445
01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:27,600
Speaker 1: else couldn't get it there. Yeah, a lot of a

1446
01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:30,759
Speaker 1: lot of upside in Trevor. Man, he's uh, his tall quarterback,

1447
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:33,240
Speaker 1: has got a very strong arm. He's extremely athletic for

1448
01:22:33,320 --> 01:22:36,080
Speaker 1: his size. Um, and so you know, he's got a

1449
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:38,840
Speaker 1: lot of talented football players around him. Right now. I

1450
01:22:38,840 --> 01:22:42,479
Speaker 1: think they're the you know, the second or third yards

1451
01:22:42,479 --> 01:22:45,200
Speaker 1: per carry team in the league right now. So, um,

1452
01:22:45,280 --> 01:22:47,080
Speaker 1: you know, we got we got our hands full. We

1453
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:48,479
Speaker 1: got I mean, we had a good day of practice,

1454
01:22:48,479 --> 01:22:50,640
Speaker 1: say just continue to work. But they got a lot

1455
01:22:50,640 --> 01:22:52,920
Speaker 1: of good football players on that side of football, Where

1456
01:22:52,920 --> 01:22:56,600
Speaker 1: do you have rookie quarterbacks? Sometimes Jordan, Um, I know,

1457
01:22:57,200 --> 01:22:59,280
Speaker 1: and you want to confuse him and haven't seen things

1458
01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:02,080
Speaker 1: he's ever seen? Can you also make it too much

1459
01:23:02,120 --> 01:23:04,120
Speaker 1: of that? Sometimes you have to think about, Hey, let's

1460
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:06,200
Speaker 1: just also keep doing what we're doing and not you know,

1461
01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 1: get to to complicate for ourselves. Yeah, I think there's

1462
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:12,880
Speaker 1: a little happy medium in between it. Um. You know, obviously,

1463
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:15,560
Speaker 1: you know, our looks is something that we take a

1464
01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:17,840
Speaker 1: lot of pride in on the back end, um, you know,

1465
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:20,040
Speaker 1: since we've got here in twenty seventeen. But at the

1466
01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:22,880
Speaker 1: same time, you know, being able to you know, line

1467
01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:25,479
Speaker 1: up and play our defense and and you know if

1468
01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:27,200
Speaker 1: he knows it, you know, like now we got to

1469
01:23:27,200 --> 01:23:30,000
Speaker 1: play play football. So um, you know, I think it's

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Speaker 1: a little happy medium in between it. You know, young

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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, Um, you know, he probably hasn't seen a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of our looks. But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: we got to continue to do what we do wellpectation

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, because even even as you're getting on a

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01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:49,599
Speaker 1: plane back from Jacksonville that this this might this team

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01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:53,400
Speaker 1: might this good at this point four years later, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think you come in every season with

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01:23:55,920 --> 01:24:00,559
Speaker 1: expectations for yourself, expectations for the team. UM. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think in twenty seventeen, we didn't really have a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of idea of what it, you know, what

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01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:08,160
Speaker 1: it was kind of gonna unfold, like obviously, and so

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Speaker 1: we just you know, I know, and Mike and I

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01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:11,639
Speaker 1: came in here. We just wanted to be the best

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Speaker 1: that we could be. Um. We had a goal to

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Speaker 1: be the best in the league. UM, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we want to continue to just build that. And you know,

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Speaker 1: there's never a road where you just stopped, you know, building.

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Speaker 1: You know, you always want to figure out ways to

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01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:28,320
Speaker 1: to get better and and and figure out ways, you know, um,

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01:24:28,360 --> 01:24:32,439
Speaker 1: to keep moving forward, do you guys? Backs jumped in

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01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:37,280
Speaker 1: the quarterback drill down there, didn't didn't go well, did

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01:24:37,360 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 1: not go well for it. I was a little surprised.

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Speaker 1: I was a little surprised. I thought you'd at least

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01:24:41,400 --> 01:24:42,760
Speaker 1: get them. Now, you know, I didn't get it. I

1495
01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:44,240
Speaker 1: didn't get a whole lot of warm up throws and

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01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:45,880
Speaker 1: not to see it. So I'm not an excuse guy.

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01:24:45,960 --> 01:24:47,960
Speaker 1: That was an ugly throw. I didn't see it. If

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Speaker 1: you guys posted it online. Oh guy, uh he you well,

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Speaker 1: what do you say? What was that? When he was

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Speaker 1: asked which are the four you he thought would be

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01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 1: most likely to actually could get at that and and

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01:25:02,400 --> 01:25:06,400
Speaker 1: didn't pick you. I'll do it all, man, I do

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01:25:06,439 --> 01:25:11,880
Speaker 1: it all man. It might be like he'll get over

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01:25:11,960 --> 01:25:15,559
Speaker 1: right though, It'll be all right. I see guys, Thank

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Speaker 1: you guys. That's Jordan Poyer addressing the media this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Pretty uh touch that Josh picked him of the four

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01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:25,960
Speaker 1: dbs that tried their hand or quarterbacking and hitting a

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01:25:26,040 --> 01:25:29,880
Speaker 1: net and failing miserably. I guess you could take what

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01:25:30,240 --> 01:25:33,240
Speaker 1: take whatever you can get the best of a bad lot.

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Speaker 1: Shall we say? We have to take a break here,

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Speaker 1: but Steve and I will close it up in a

1512
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Speaker 1: moment as we discuss a situation that has reached a

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Speaker 1: critical juncture in Cleveland with Odell Beckham Junior. We'll fill

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Speaker 1: you in on that when we return here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Klota Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to one of Mill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve

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01:26:08,880 --> 01:26:10,960
Speaker 1: Tasker with you. We told you we would fill you

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Speaker 1: in on the situation that has reached a critical juncture

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland between Odell Beckham Junior and the Browns. The

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Speaker 1: agents of Obj and Brown's GM Andrew Barry reportedly discussing

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01:26:21,640 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 1: options as the wide receiver's future in Cleveland has reached

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Speaker 1: a critical juncture here. Kevin Stefanski, in his weekly press

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Speaker 1: conference said that the two sides had engaged in talks.

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Speaker 1: He's also said that Obj was excused from practice today

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Speaker 1: and apparently, according to Mike Silver of NFL Network, basically

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01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 1: what Stefanski has told the rest of the team is

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Speaker 1: consider him not part of the team right now, which

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Speaker 1: is that's pretty seismic. When Stefanski was asked about that

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01:27:02,040 --> 01:27:05,080
Speaker 1: report by Mike Silvery said, I would just tell you

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Speaker 1: today he's excused and we'll see where this goes. Now,

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Speaker 1: this all stems Steve from Obj's dad going on social

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Speaker 1: media and putting out clips of games in which Obj

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Speaker 1: is wide open and Baker Mayfield isn't looking at him.

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Speaker 1: You think it was his dad, Well, that's part of it.

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Speaker 1: It fanned the flames to this situation. The relationship is

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Speaker 1: deteriorated between Obj and Mayfield. I think that's readily obvious,

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Speaker 1: and his dad made it worse right by bringing it

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Speaker 1: to light public. Yeah, there's some speculation that wasn't his

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Speaker 1: dad at all. Dad put this out, um. But even

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Speaker 1: if he didn't, still, you know, OBJ hasn't said anything

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Speaker 1: about it, um, And I think, yeah, his dad didn't

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01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:56,120
Speaker 1: come out of a vacuum and think, oh yeah, okay, um,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to back for my kid because I'm

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Speaker 1: watching this and he's like, you think OBJ didn't tell

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01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:02,280
Speaker 1: his dad to do it? Yeah, probably, you know, getting

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01:28:02,320 --> 01:28:05,080
Speaker 1: his dad's ears start, you know, especially was nowhere on

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Speaker 1: social media before the other day. Odell Beckham Junior is

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01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:12,160
Speaker 1: obviously unhappy with the way the offense is going, his

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01:28:12,320 --> 01:28:19,400
Speaker 1: role in it right now, And okay, um, well maybe

1550
01:28:19,439 --> 01:28:22,599
Speaker 1: he was doing this hoping he could force a trade

1551
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:26,040
Speaker 1: and get out of too late now and the trade

1552
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:29,559
Speaker 1: deadline came and went, and now it's like, what are

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01:28:29,600 --> 01:28:31,439
Speaker 1: our other options? Hard to get him on? I don't

1554
01:28:31,439 --> 01:28:33,120
Speaker 1: know what kind of contract he's in, do you know?

1555
01:28:33,200 --> 01:28:35,120
Speaker 1: And because I'm not off the top of my head,

1556
01:28:35,600 --> 01:28:37,200
Speaker 1: because there's got to be teams out there that could

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01:28:37,240 --> 01:28:41,519
Speaker 1: use him. But still by the same token, now he's

1558
01:28:41,760 --> 01:28:43,880
Speaker 1: whether he forces his way out of Cleveland or not.

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01:28:44,680 --> 01:28:47,639
Speaker 1: He's not happy things in Cleveland are starting to come apart.

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01:28:48,360 --> 01:28:53,559
Speaker 1: The team that had Super Bowl aspirations seems far from

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01:28:53,600 --> 01:28:56,559
Speaker 1: that now. He gets far from realistic. Now. He's got

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Speaker 1: two more years at about thirty million dollars cap hit

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01:28:59,640 --> 01:29:01,880
Speaker 1: on his contracts, but he's next year. He's not going

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01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:05,480
Speaker 1: anywhere on that on that contract. He's not going anywhere

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01:29:05,600 --> 01:29:10,439
Speaker 1: on that contract, especially since his base salaries are thirteen

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01:29:10,520 --> 01:29:13,920
Speaker 1: seven five and thirteen seven five, so it's mostly base salary,

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01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:16,000
Speaker 1: which the team that would trade for him would inherit

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01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:20,400
Speaker 1: pretty tough, Pretty tough. That's an ugly situation. We'll see

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Speaker 1: where it goes tomorrow on the show ESPN's Field Yates

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Speaker 1: with his fan duel Ultimate Fantasy Lineup. We'll see you

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Speaker 1: then