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Speaker 1: Oh, good time. I watch Steve Casper touchdown, touchdown, touchdown

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Speaker 1: time go on afternoon and welcome to the show. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to One Bill Slide from One Bill Drive. I'm John

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Speaker 1: Murfy along with Steve Cansker. Steve blame with something on

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Speaker 1: the telephone as the show beginst me, what are you

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Speaker 1: looking at? I was looking at that the overtime with

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Speaker 1: of tension on I like conflicts and how did that come?

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Speaker 1: How I come to be the eleven fifty nine fifty five?

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Speaker 1: You thought that was the best time to fire up

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Speaker 1: that because I thought we had a little more time

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Speaker 1: bit of tri to do his show here, buddy, How

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Speaker 1: did the game go this last weekend? Went well? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: welcome back. By the way, Steve was not here yesterday

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Speaker 1: as he made his way back from Green Bay the

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Speaker 1: Packers knocking off the Miami Dolphins. So we did the

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Speaker 1: How was your game? I was green Bay? Green Bay

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Speaker 1: was good. It was a little chilly first time in

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Speaker 1: the season where I almost got a little caught a

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Speaker 1: little without a little bit of gear that I needed.

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Speaker 1: How that happened? Everything you need, yeah, I do, but

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Speaker 1: I gotta bring it, you know. So I got caught

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Speaker 1: It was it wasn't too bad. Yeah, there was no

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Speaker 1: a cool, big one for the Packers over the Dolphins. Listen,

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Speaker 1: the Packers are flawed. I mean, oh yeah, we'll get

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Speaker 1: But uh yeah, you take Aaron Rodgers off that team,

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Speaker 1: and you know they're the New York Jets. Man, I'm

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Speaker 1: telling I don't know that. Maybe that may be overstated. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: By the way, how the Bill's defense player? Are they

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Speaker 1: in the top ten yet? Top ten? And Stevie you

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Speaker 1: know this, they're the top defensive, top of the top ten.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Good for you you should

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Speaker 1: have Look, you made that pronouncement way back and I

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Speaker 1: want to say early summer spring, right, you said they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be a top ten defense. I said, look, they're

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Speaker 1: The problem is, Steven, there's a lesson here for you.

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Speaker 1: You gotta put some stakes on it. You know you

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Speaker 1: you could have had money for me, you could have

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Speaker 1: had dinner for me. There's a I would have gone

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Speaker 1: a lot of places in a bet to say that

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Speaker 1: the Bills will not be a top ten defense. But

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Speaker 1: you never you never take it there. You gotta bet.

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Speaker 1: You gotta flush people out. You gotta force people to

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Speaker 1: take a stand. You didn't do that. And don't construe

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Speaker 1: this into me not having faith in my own predictions

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Speaker 1: because oh, I think it was Oh no, I will listen,

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Speaker 1: I knew they were gonna be a top ten I say,

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Speaker 1: I knew. I knew, and I will admit I top

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Speaker 1: don't know if I saw that coming, but I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what. They're playing that way, and it's it's good

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Speaker 1: to see that. It was. It was unbelievable. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was a great day for me. Sunday. Do you

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Speaker 1: Hamilton Tiger Cats are thumping the British. The BC Lions

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Speaker 1: Back up here a little bit. How do you keep

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Speaker 1: CBS man. I'm with CBS man. I was in the

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Speaker 1: It was hard to get on the Bills bandwagon before

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Speaker 1: It was a great day. Is as good at day

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Speaker 1: the way, the Bills had much much more dire circumstances

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Speaker 1: The Jets were the team that didn't come to play.

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Speaker 1: The Bills did come to play, did all the things

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Speaker 1: Steve just talked about, and came up with the resounding victory. Yes,

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Speaker 1: But it is definitely a win worth mentioning. And that

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Speaker 1: takes us right into what you're talking about, Steve, I

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Speaker 1: think takes us right into our Twitter poll today. Six

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Speaker 1: six game remaining. Simple question, how many games will the

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Speaker 1: Bills win the rest of the way? With six games

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Speaker 1: left and why why will they win these games? You

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Speaker 1: a chance to go through free agency in a draft

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Speaker 1: for the offense, you know, if they can, you know,

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Speaker 1: replicate that success and this is going to be a

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Speaker 1: pretty good football team. Well yeah, and I think you

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Speaker 1: make a very good point when you look at the

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Speaker 1: pieces they've added and what they've done on the defensive

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Speaker 1: side of the ball, and it's been a success this

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Speaker 1: season and for two seasons. But yeah, I mean, oh,

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Speaker 1: they built themselves up. They were what twenty sixth ranked

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Speaker 1: defensive year ago, now they're number one. And it did

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Speaker 1: take them a year and a half. So what makes

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Speaker 1: you think they can't do that on the offensive side

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Speaker 1: of the ball, right, I mean they can. They get

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Speaker 1: the same kind of decision makers, same people pulling the strings.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have all kinds of money and to spend

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Speaker 1: on free agents, and they got ten draft picks to

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Speaker 1: use to build up the offensive side of the ball

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Speaker 1: next year. Why what makes you think they won't be

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Speaker 1: able to do that. That's the thing. And it does

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Speaker 1: come down to how good Josh Allen can be. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it also was down to it took him last year's

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Speaker 1: free agency in the draft and then this year's draft

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Speaker 1: and free agency. I mean remember last year they they

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Speaker 1: brought Micah Hide, Jordan Poyer in and then uh uh

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Speaker 1: this last draft, you know, Tremaine Edmonds, Harrison Phillips, Trent Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Starlo tu Lele. Now they've got you know, they've kind

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Speaker 1: of got it together. They've drafted Milano last year, En

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Speaker 1: dras Arn Johnson, Turdavious White. I mean, they built that

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Speaker 1: defense up over the course of two off seasons and

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Speaker 1: a free to a free agency periods. But man, it's

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Speaker 1: number one. Uh, and let's face it, they got you know,

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Speaker 1: because of their offensive line departures. You know, out of

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Speaker 1: the blue, they there. They took a step backward offensively.

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Speaker 1: Plus they're in the they're starting a rookie quarterback when

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Speaker 1: he was healthy, so you knew the offense would struggle

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Speaker 1: a little bit. But man, oh man, you gotta think

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Speaker 1: if they can have that kind of success and start

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Speaker 1: focusing on the other side of the foot ball this

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Speaker 1: offseason and now during the office during this season, they've

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Speaker 1: started to do it already, and it goes on that list.

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Speaker 1: The speed they put on the field this last Sunday

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Speaker 1: started to remind me of what's going on around the

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Speaker 1: NFL now. The stuff they did with McKenzie on the

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Speaker 1: end of rounds. He got a couple of first downs

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Speaker 1: for him that were crucial in that game to keeping

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Speaker 1: the team on the field. The speed with McKenzie on

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Speaker 1: there the prior helped him. I think with his presence

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Speaker 1: out there as a big, physical receiver. Robert Foster being

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Speaker 1: back on the field he started a little bit early

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Speaker 1: in the season, took us some time on the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: They brought him back. He got active and caught a

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Speaker 1: couple of really good balls down the field. Marcus Murphy,

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Speaker 1: I think is a real fine He has really helped him,

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Speaker 1: particularly in the injury this last week to Chris Ivory.

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Speaker 1: All the speed they put on the field, they were

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Speaker 1: able to get to the edges of the formation really

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Speaker 1: quickly and put some extra pressure on the jet defense.

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Speaker 1: I can chalk that up to the coaching staff and

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Speaker 1: starting to know, you know, those are the trends in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. We see so many offenses attacking the team

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Speaker 1: sideline to sideline, right at the line of scrimmage. The

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Speaker 1: Bills now seem able to do that. They have that

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Speaker 1: in their toolbox. The team that's play they got from

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Speaker 1: their special teams, McKenzie and his punt returns. Micah Hyde

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Speaker 1: had a really nice punt return and of course the

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Speaker 1: fake punt was was timely, perfectly, perfectly executed. And of

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Speaker 1: course I don't know if if you remember the Houshka

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Speaker 1: fifty four yarder. They put him up seventeen nothing. He

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Speaker 1: started that wide right and it came in and barely

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Speaker 1: got inside the left upright. That is a courageous kick

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Speaker 1: from fifty four yards out. It was a great kick

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Speaker 1: by Houshki to put him up and really made it

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Speaker 1: a three score game, the tackle eligible play. All this

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Speaker 1: stuff comes back now, not so much of the kick

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Speaker 1: with Housa, but all that other stuff along with the

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Speaker 1: tackle eligible play and the Matt Barkley as well as

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Speaker 1: he played a boils down to the coaching staff and

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Speaker 1: how well they play they put this game plan together,

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Speaker 1: and the hope that I have and you and I

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Speaker 1: have been talking about what they're gonna do with this offense.

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Speaker 1: If Josh Aleck get healthy, they can build around here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's see how many wins you got for the Bills

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Speaker 1: the rest of the way, and anticipating it will be

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. That's a factor. I'll give us a call.

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Speaker 1: Here is Lynnwood in New Jersey. Hello, Lynwood, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. How you doing. The first thing I wasn't

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Speaker 1: to say was I was actually at the Jets game yesterday.

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Speaker 1: My cousin with me, he's a Jets fan. Enjoyed it

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Speaker 1: because last year I went to the Monday night game

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Speaker 1: and when we got beat up. So I really enjoyed

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Speaker 1: the game yesterday on Sunday. Yeah. Great, I see us, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I see us winning about three or four games with

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. I did want to see this. I hope

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Speaker 1: that he learns a lot from Matt Barkley because two

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Speaker 1: of the deep passes to our Robert Foster. They tried

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Speaker 1: that with Josh Allen a couple of the times they

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Speaker 1: missed out on it. So, um, I hope that he

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Speaker 1: learns learns a lot from Matt Barkley. Matt Barkley played

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Speaker 1: here yesterday. That's a good call, Lynnwood, Knight. I think

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Speaker 1: that's the interesting part about this. Okay, So let's say,

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Speaker 1: like we're all anticipating because we felt like he was

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Speaker 1: close last week, right, Murph, I mean Josh Allen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So let's say he does get healthy, lynn Wood, what

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Speaker 1: do you I mean, aren't you excited to see what

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Speaker 1: he did learn? Is he gonna are we gonna notice

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Speaker 1: something different about Josh Allen when he jumps back into

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Speaker 1: the starting lineup. So let's say it is against Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: in two weeks. What would be the first thing you

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Speaker 1: look for? The first thing I'm looking for that I

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Speaker 1: hope that he don't tuck in and run it so

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Speaker 1: fast and that he actually stepped up in the pocket,

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Speaker 1: just like Matt Barkley day. Matt Barkley was stepping up

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Speaker 1: in the pocket, even though the defense was coming towards him.

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Speaker 1: He was he was flinging it. So that's the one

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Speaker 1: thing I hope that he don't do it. Um is

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Speaker 1: heavy up and try to you know, this was the

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Speaker 1: break down. He ready to run it, all right? Agree,

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Speaker 1: that's it's a really good point, you know, And that's

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Speaker 1: I think, Josh, did you think back to his first

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Speaker 1: five starts, is only five starts so far, he sort

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Speaker 1: of deteriorated in that aspect. Steve is the is the

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Speaker 1: game run along by the time they got to Houston. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know his last game or the game he got hurt. Um,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't hanging in the pocket as he wasn't eyeball

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Speaker 1: on you know, downfield as much as he had even

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Speaker 1: in his early couple starts. I hope he gets to that.

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Speaker 1: As Linwood points out, that's a big thing for him. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's let's point out too. You gotta be honest, an

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Speaker 1: offensive line played better against the Jets than it had

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Speaker 1: in a while. That's right. I had some he had

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Speaker 1: some protection. The offensive line was battling. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think I think Wyatt Teller acquitted himself pretty darn well

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Speaker 1: in that game. Um. I think the other guys did

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Speaker 1: as well. They had some um they had some moments

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Speaker 1: where Barkley it looked like an NFL offense man, Barkley

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Speaker 1: stepping up at the play. I remember too, was Barkley

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Speaker 1: stepping up and hitting Zay Jones in the back of

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Speaker 1: the ends on that red zone touchdown. That was a nice,

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Speaker 1: well protected pass play. Barkley stepped up in the pocket, waited,

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Speaker 1: he waited a fever and gunned it in and he

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Speaker 1: and he hung in that pocket. He stood right there

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Speaker 1: and made the throw and that's that was. That was

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Speaker 1: a big time red zone play and the Bills pulled

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Speaker 1: it off. And uh yeah, I agree. That's a great

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Speaker 1: call by Linwood. And if the first thing you look

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Speaker 1: for in Josh is he going to be able to

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Speaker 1: stand in there, keep his eyes down the field and

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Speaker 1: make a throw without you know, pulling it down off

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Speaker 1: his first option. That's that's a good that's a good point.

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Speaker 1: There's a call from Dan and lockboard. Go ahead, Dan,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air. Oh hi, hi, it was a

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Speaker 1: call supporter Nathan Peterman might confused. He's a class guy.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna land out of the street somewhere he's like

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Speaker 1: he invited me Infalo. He'll get knocked down, but he

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Speaker 1: keeps getting up. Um I could you could? You could

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Speaker 1: just the way he handles himself all and I think, uh,

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Speaker 1: I want to be surprised to see him land in

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Speaker 1: New England. Man. Yeah, that's an interesting point. And I've

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Speaker 1: been thinking about that other teams, you know, just off

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Speaker 1: the top of my head, and at New England crossed

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Speaker 1: my mind too. That might be the guy that you

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Speaker 1: know you leave, but you do, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of people say, you listen, it was rough

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Speaker 1: for Peterman here, but he did earn everything that he got,

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Speaker 1: every opportunity got. He earned it the hard, the old

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Speaker 1: fashioned way. He earned it. And you know, how can

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Speaker 1: you wish the guy bad? I mean, I know he

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Speaker 1: he had some horrific performances and some all time, all

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Speaker 1: time bad spots where he played for the Buffalo Bills. Nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: he earned everything he'd gotten. I'm sure he's gonna earn

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Speaker 1: another spot in the NFL, another opportunity, so we'll see. Ope.

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Speaker 1: used to it now, all right, Steve, used to it.

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Speaker 1: It's that time of year. Man gets dark at two

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Speaker 1: She joins us from the New York metropolitan Area, NFL

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Speaker 1: have Kim Jones on the subway Fresh Take Hotline with us. Hi,

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Speaker 1: Kim's John Murphy and Steve up here in Buffalo. How

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Speaker 1: you doing? You two are reading my mind because we

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Speaker 1: had rain this morning. It felt like it was dark

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Speaker 1: until about nine thirty. Now it's gray and man, motivation

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Speaker 1: on days like these are tough for me. I gotta

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Speaker 1: be honest with you. Just get you know, just get

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Speaker 1: the extra large coffee and you know, just roll with it.

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Speaker 1: Just keep just plugger, just keep your head down and

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Speaker 1: nose on the grindstone. Yeah, don't give us a reason

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Speaker 1: to walk out, because talking right exactly, we would take

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Speaker 1: any opportunity to walk out. So if you're so Kim,

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Speaker 1: so Kim, if you're in the in the metropolitan area,

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Speaker 1: how bad is it for Todd Bowles? The last couple

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00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 1: of days bad and the bills obviously played a big

643
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: role in that it didn't surprise me. The Bill's defense

644
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: played very well full disclosure, because I never lied to audiences.

645
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: I was at the Saints game in Cincinnati. Uh, that's

646
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: what I'm assigned, and that's where I went, and I

647
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: watched the Bills and Jets on my game pass, obviously

648
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: with no sound. I was paying attention to the game

649
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: I was covering, so I saw it. Didn't hear a

650
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: lot of the commentary, but saw enough of it to

651
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: realize it was a bad outing, a bad showing. Uh,

652
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: you know, you want to question effort. That's not good.

653
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: And there still remains, you know, almost half a season

654
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: to play. That's the part with both of these teams

655
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 1: here in the Jets and Giants, and I suppose to

656
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: some degree the Bills, although I don't like lumping teams

657
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: together just to do so. You know, there's so much

658
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: of the season left, and yet the playoffs are really

659
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: a pipe dream, so bad, bad for bowls. And the

660
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: media talks and writes as if it is a foregone

661
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: conclusion that he will be gone at season's end, and guys,

662
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: that's how things happen here. John Zick was never going

663
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: to be fired as GM of the Jets. A few

664
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Speaker 1: years ago, a plane flew over practice saying fire Ezac,

665
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: and sure enough, along with Rex, Ryan john Zick was

666
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: fired by Woody then Woody Johnson. So that's how things

667
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: happen here, and certainly with bowls, that seems to be

668
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: the track that this is on. What do you mean

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Speaker 1: that's how things Jeff, and you need some sort of

670
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: aerial display. I don't understand, No, But the media has

671
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: a big voice here. The Jets and Giants both react

672
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: to it a little bit differently, but they both react

673
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: to it. They're cognizant of once the tabloid back page

674
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: of turn, they're probably not going to turn back to

675
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: the good and uh, you know, we've seen that. Like

676
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: I said, John Edick was not supposed to get fired.

677
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: He was supposed to be the guy you know, who

678
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: remained and helped to turn it around. And instead Woody

679
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: Johnson decided to fire both Rex and Ezec. Now you hear,

680
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: and I do believe that Mike mcagnet is safe as

681
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: the GM, but the media is still mostly on his

682
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: side that he should be the one to continue to

683
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: rebuild this. So he is likely okay. But but certainly

684
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: with Todd we have seen that turn in the last

685
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. And is that in function because this

686
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: is fourth year there? I mean, this is it's been

687
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: a while and now they seem even though they there's

688
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: you know, they're starting Josh McCown and not you know,

689
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. What are the underlying things that have gotten

690
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: to the Jets to this point? I mean, what happened

691
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: besides losing to the Bills that kind of started to

692
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: turn it for the Jets. I think Steve's number one

693
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: thing would be Darnald has regressed. Now we could have

694
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: a longer not for sports talk radio only because he

695
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: gets boring conversation about does this sometimes happen with rookies

696
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks in particular? Is some of this expected given

697
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: the number of injuries? And the Jets don't have the

698
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: best skilled players in the world anyway, by the way,

699
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: but given some of the injuries they've incurred, was some

700
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: of this predictable? You know? But no one wants to

701
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: hear that. And Sam Donald had a really good start

702
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: to this season and has regressed. He is now injured,

703
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: although he's out of the boot, so we'll see how

704
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: that goes after the bye. But this season was always

705
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: about Darnald and Steve. The moment he started to not

706
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: continue improving, the moment he started to be that guy

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00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: with one of the lowest completion percentages, one of the

708
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: lowest passer ratings, a guy just not driving them down

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00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: the field, a guy that couldn't get in the end

710
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: zone against the Dolphins in the game that he hurt

711
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,080
Speaker 1: his foot but stayed in the game. That's when and

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00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: the season really started to take a shape that a

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00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: coach can't recover from because this season, from the time

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Speaker 1: they drafted Sam Darnold was about Sam Darnold. Kim, I

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00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying about the influence of the New

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Speaker 1: York media. May you have on decisions like that one

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00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: in regards to the Jets, and not that they were

718
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: to have influence, But what do you think the sentiment

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00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: is in the Jets locker room? How do those players

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00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: feel about Todd Bowls and where that program's going. Well,

721
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: if you subscribe to actions speaking louder than words, they

722
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: don't feel real strongly about him. That's right. You know,

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00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams is a big leader. There's a he was

724
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: a good draft pick. There a really good draft pick there,

725
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: even with Patrick Mahomes available, But that's again another conversation

726
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: for another day. And I do think that they still

727
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: believe Sam Darnold is the future, but Jamal Adams says

728
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: he has Todd Bowls's back. Is Jamal Adams playing hard?

729
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: I've never seen him not play hard, at least nothing

730
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: that I could see. So I believe Jamal Adams. But

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Speaker 1: in terms of his speaking for the locker room, I

732
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: think he wants too, and I think his heart and

733
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: head are in the right place, but I'm not sure

734
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Speaker 1: enough of them are giving that kind of effort like

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Speaker 1: Jamal Adams, at least not from what we saw against

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Speaker 1: the Dells. Well, let's take a minute and talk about

737
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: the other New York team was on Monday Night football.

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Speaker 1: Eli Manning with three touchdown passes they get him past

739
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Speaker 1: the Niners. I got to admit I didn't watch too

740
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: much of this game. It was twenty to ten and

741
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 1: I couldn't take it anymore, and all of a sudden,

742
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: I wake up and the Giants pull it out behind

743
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: Eli Manning. What is the word coming out of New

744
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: York about the situation? Moving forward with the g men.

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00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: And you know, say Quon Barkley continues to play well,

746
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: but that's an offense that's really struggling to score. Yeah,

747
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: and you saw O'Dell with two touchdowns last night. He

748
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 1: was wide open because the Niners didn't cover him on

749
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: a run play at the goal line. Say Quan didn't

750
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,879
Speaker 1: gain a yard. Odell was by himself in the end zone.

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00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: So certainly they didn't fix everything last night. They didn't

752
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: fix a lot last night. But Steve, you know this.

753
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: You know, at least as well as I they finally

754
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 1: got a win and they got to fly back across

755
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: the country, you know, not feeling like complete losers like

756
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 1: they have this whole season. So you know, listen, O'Dell

757
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: is setting a tone by saying their goals to win

758
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: out and that's what he should say, and if he

759
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: said anything else, we'd be really criticizing him. So he

760
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: is trying to set that tone. He played pretty well

761
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: last night. Eli played pretty well last night. The defense

762
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: gave up a lot of big plays like it does,

763
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: but they held on at the end. So I think

764
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: for Eli Manning, we will eventually see I believe Kyle

765
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,280
Speaker 1: Loletta start this season or at least play this season.

766
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: Alex Tanney's actually the backup. That's because Pat Shermer likes

767
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: a veteran backup. The fourth round rookie out of Richmond

768
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: is Loletta, who you would think the Giants will want

769
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: to see so that they at least know what they

770
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: have in him. But I would be surprised if if

771
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: Eli Manning's successor is on this team right now. I

772
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: think that is still something to be determined, as is

773
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: Eli's future. Willie starts Sunday, yeah, I mean coming off

774
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: this win, he will certainly start Sunday Tampa Bay at

775
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: home home home game for the Giants. But other than that,

776
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a week to week

777
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: proposition as the Giants try to figure things out as this,

778
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,439
Speaker 1: you know, obviously incredibly disappointing season, you know, finally comes

779
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: to a close. Hey, Kim, was there much to talk

780
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: about what the Giants do for next year at quarterback? Yet?

781
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: I know it's early, but are they thinking draft free agent? Well?

782
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: The Oregon quarterback, the brass Giants Brass was all out

783
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: there now. It made sense because I believe they played

784
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: at Utah this weekend. That game was on like pack

785
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: ten network, and I was in a hotel room, so

786
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: I don't have a I don't have a chance to

787
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: see that. But they I think they stopped there again.

788
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: I think it was Utah, and then of course they

789
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: went on to San Francisco, you know, since the Giants

790
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: played there last night, so it made sense geographically and

791
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: logically and all of that stuff. They're certainly looking at him.

792
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're looking at all of these college quarterbacks

793
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: and seeing what they you know, what they like, who

794
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: they like. Could someone be an answer? I do think

795
00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 1: free agency could be interesting. Teddy Bridgewater u set to

796
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: be a free agent. He's Drew Brees's back up after

797
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: the Jets traded him to New Orleans, so we'll see

798
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: how all of that plays out. But he certainly knows

799
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,320
Speaker 1: Pat Shermer and the system. Teddy Bridgewater is still a

800
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: young quarterback who had a really good preseason. I will

801
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: say this, had the Jets gone a different direction and said, listen,

802
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: you know, we want to win. You know, Sam can sit.

803
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens, but we're going to play Sam,

804
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: but we really want to win. I think Teddy Bridgewater

805
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: would have given them a chance to be a competitive

806
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: team this season from what we saw in August, and

807
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: they elected not to do that, and now ultimately Tide

808
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: Bowls is going to probably almost certainly pay that price.

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00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: Let's talk about a game that you did see yesterday

810
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: that you were standing there for and Drew Brees and

811
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: the Saints in Cincinnati. Man, oh man, the Saints look

812
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: as good as they did when they won the Super

813
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: Bowl in oh nine. I mean, they are really playing

814
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: well on both sides of the ball. And Drew Brees,

815
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: who has never won an MVP, strikingly is on pace

816
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: to maybe do that, although who knows he's in the

817
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: conversation anyway. Yeah, and Michael Thomas, you know, hatches everything

818
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: Breeze throws at him. We know about Kamara, Kamara and

819
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 1: Kamara I should say, and you know mark ingram reemerges

820
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: Sunday as a as a really valuable weapon for them. Again,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're remarkable watching them operate. They are just remarkable.

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00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 1: And one of my colleagues said to me, aren't they

823
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: a fun team to cover? Well? News flash, teams that

824
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: win and do so fairly, seamlessly and with a little

825
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 1: bit of art to it, they always are fun to cover.

826
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: I covered the two thousand and nine Yankees. They were

827
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,359
Speaker 1: you know, they had whip cream pies in the face

828
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 1: after all of those walk off but they were a

829
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: blast to cover. They're not always a blast to cover,

830
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: but that season they were a blast to cover. So

831
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: winning teams are fun. New Orleans is certainly, you know,

832
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: embracing that. I did think it was interesting, Steve. When

833
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: I interviewed Sean Payton before the game, I asked him

834
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: what concerned him. You know, the Bengals had the last

835
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: ranked defense in the league. They fired the defensive coordinator

836
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 1: after the game, so it wasn't like the since defense was,

837
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, the eighty five Bears. And I said, what

838
00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:00,359
Speaker 1: concerns you? And Peyton said the start time. They've been

839
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: on primetime so many times. I don't think they had

840
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: played a one pm Eastern game on a Sunday since

841
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: Week three. So he said, we got to get up

842
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 1: and get moving. And then you hear Sean says what

843
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: he beat up a fire alarm pre game, probably in

844
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: in rallying his troops and trying to get their energy

845
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: level up. So that's the kind of stuff he's worried about.

846
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 1: Because on the field, they're they're they're just great and

847
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: they're really fun to watch. Kim, what's going to take

848
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: for you to cover the Buffalo Bills again? Do we

849
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: need Rex Ryan up here for a card signing thing? Yeah?

850
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 1: I think I need to start to Kim Bagola. Yeah,

851
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: I think I've asked. Yeah, I don't have a lot

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00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: of pool people in the club pool, the aforementioned Kim

853
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Speaker 1: Baggolah pool. Um, I don't know. I honestly, that's my

854
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: honest answer. I don't know. This week, I'll be at

855
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: the Redskins game. They host the Texans, so you know,

856
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: kind of throw it up in the air and pick

857
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: teams out of a hat. John, And that's where all, Yeah,

858
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: we need a few more wins. That would get you

859
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: up here, right, Yeah, that would get me a lot

860
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Speaker 1: of player Kim, thanks for this, it's great to check him.

861
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I love it. Guys. Have a

862
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: good day. Kim Jones from NFL Network NFL Network reporter.

863
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 1: You can see her on NFL Total Access and NFL

864
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: Game Day Morning. You can hear her in New York

865
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: on WFA and Radio a regular host there. Yeah, she

866
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 1: was here all the time when Rex was here. Oh yeah,

867
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,359
Speaker 1: Rex had his own way of attracting his own Rex. Yeah,

868
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 1: and that's um. And Rex was all over social media

869
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: yes yesterday, just trashing the Jets and the effort they

870
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: put forth against the Bills. And he took a little

871
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 1: heat for that too after from who social media? Yeah,

872
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: social well, yeah, people saying, hey, what are you talking about? Yeah?

873
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: What exactly exactly? You knew it was? Yeah, exactly. You

874
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: don't have to put too much thought into it to

875
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: see how that played out. After Rex, Ryan talked to

876
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: him about the effort they gave. So it never ceases

877
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: to amaze me that New York is a different animal

878
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: when it comes to this. And I think it's going

879
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: to be interesting if the Jets do make a head

880
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,320
Speaker 1: coaching change. We were talking to Kim Jones just a

881
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: minute ago. They're gonna bring another head coach in and

882
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: probably with a new offensive coordinator. Sam Darnold's gonna take

883
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:08,879
Speaker 1: a long time. You know, he's gonna have the whole

884
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 1: offseason probably to get into that offense and start getting together.

885
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: But does that help him or does it hurt him?

886
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 1: I mean, a new head coach, new offensive coordinator, new

887
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach, probably a lot of new skill positions. It's

888
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: like the Jets are starting from scratch with a quarterback

889
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: who still has a lot to learn. I mean, that's

890
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,439
Speaker 1: that's got to be really frustrating from the Jet fan base.

891
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: I mean, Baker Mayfield's in the same boat essentially, right. Yeah,

892
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 1: But although and you know, he played you know, I'll

893
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: tell you what though, and you and I both said this,

894
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: Greg Williams can coach, and he'll probably take the He's

895
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 1: probably given him the right message. And Baker Mayfield probably

896
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: had his good a year, a good a game this

897
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: last weekend with Greg Williams the head coaches he's had

898
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:51,320
Speaker 1: all year. He played really well. So that's probably something

899
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: that the Cleveland Brown fans are gonna like. And maybe

900
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 1: we see Greg Williams with another head coaching job. You mean,

901
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: he'll be the permanent guy there. I told you guys,

902
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: don't take those interim jobs unless they say, Okay, I'll

903
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,359
Speaker 1: take the interim job, but I want a shot at

904
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 1: the real deal. Give him a shot. Yeah. And if

905
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: Baker and they they won, they're on how do you

906
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: not they're one and one under? Hey, how do you say, well,

907
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: what were they under? Hugh? Yeah, they were what three

908
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: in three and yeah, but three and sixty four or

909
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: whatever that was. I mean, you know they were bad.

910
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,399
Speaker 1: So I think Greg Williams is making his case over there.

911
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: But still, these young quarterbacks, it's hard to get it

912
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: going forward. And when you change head coaches after, I mean,

913
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: you know, what are you doing? You know you're asking

914
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: for it, he seems Goettingen we coome Xe's gonna give

915
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Speaker 1: us some of his thoughts from the sidelines. That Lambeau

916
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Speaker 1: the Bow's sideline sounds. That's coming up next. Come on

917
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Speaker 1: back for that. One goes live from One Bill's Drive.

918
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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back. It's One Bills

919
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Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive, Jown Murfe's Team Tasker and

920
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 1: our one Buffalo Studio one one one. We keep hammering

921
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Speaker 1: the one. Hey, it's time now for the Reeds Gens

922
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: Milestones presented by Reach Jeweler's Official Jeweler of the Buffalo Bills.

923
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,280
Speaker 1: La Sean McCoy twenty six carries one hundred thirteen yards

924
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: against the Jets. That's fifteen one hundred yard rushing games.

925
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: Now for shady third place in Bill's history with fifteen

926
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Speaker 1: one hundred yard rushing games. Tied with Fred Jackson. Now

927
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Speaker 1: you're gonna make me go to the stat book to

928
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: try to figure out who's one and two? No, you

929
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: want to what do't you take the guests and look

930
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: thermino j okay, you think it's a all right? All right,

931
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna look it up while I While I look

932
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Speaker 1: it up, you have something to say about the sidelines

933
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Speaker 1: of what you heard in the sidelines at Lambeau as

934
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Speaker 1: my Bows sidelines Sounds presented by Bows, the official headphones

935
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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Here's my sideline sounds. I was

936
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Speaker 1: in Green Bay this last weekend for the Packers against

937
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. The Dolphins offensive line had two starters out

938
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Speaker 1: for the season with a with injury. They were on

939
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Speaker 1: ir then coming into this game against the Packers, both

940
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Speaker 1: tackles and their left guard, who was also a backup,

941
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Speaker 1: all of them were out. They were down to their seventh, eighth,

942
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: and ninth offensive linemen on the season. No, it was

943
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: the eighth, ninth, and tenth offensive linemen on the season,

944
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: and the Packers still couldn't. Now, the Packers did win,

945
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: but that you would think that the advantage of having

946
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: all those offensive linemen out for the Miami Dolphins and

947
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:35,280
Speaker 1: brock Osweiler in a quarterback would have given the Packers

948
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: an insurmountable thing, and they did end up lengthening their

949
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: lead at the end. The Packers, given the fact that

950
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins were struggling so badly on offense, the Packers

951
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: are not good enough to contend in the NFC. That

952
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: is my sound that I got. They won at home

953
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Speaker 1: against a depleted Miami Dolphins team, and they were not impressive,

954
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Speaker 1: even in the fact that they won by double digits.

955
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: The Dolphins hung around and hung around till late in

956
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: that game. The Packers, and you take Aaron Rodgers off

957
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: of that team, and I said it earlier in the

958
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,439
Speaker 1: showmur if you take Aaron Rodgers off the Packers, they're

959
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 1: the Jets, maybe even maybe even Arizona or you know,

960
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 1: they're They're not as good as the Buffalo Bills. The

961
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: pack without Aaron Rodgers are not good enough. They are

962
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: a bad football team without Aaron Rodgers. And they are.

963
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: They may get to the playoffs because of him, but

964
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: that's it, uh, And it's only because too that. And

965
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. They're in the division with the

966
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: with the Bears, the Bears are better. The Bears are

967
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 1: better with Mitch Trubisky and their defense and the way

968
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: they're playing than the Packers are with Aaron Rodgers. I

969
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: think they're a better football team. Now. I may not

970
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 1: come out that way in the Wash, but I think

971
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: the Packers, while they're gonna have a good season because

972
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: they've got maybe one of the all time great throwers

973
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: of the football in all the history of the NFL,

974
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: but that's where it stops. Their roster is not good

975
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: enough to compete at the playoff level. You can't put

976
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: them with the Rams, you can't put them with the Saints.

977
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: And I think the Bears are gonna get mall they

978
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 1: can handle. And I think the Packers, for a guy

979
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: that they've got in Aaron Rodgers, I don't know if

980
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy even survives this season, they are just not

981
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: good enough around Aaron Rodgers. That is my BOS Sideline

982
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: sounds presented by both the official headphones of the Buffalo

983
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: Bills and you heard it here first. That's a good one. Hey,

984
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,240
Speaker 1: you were right, most one hundred yard games in a career,

985
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: so as we just reported, Shady mccoye now with one

986
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 1: hundred yard rushing game against the Jets. That's fifteen. He's

987
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 1: tied with Fred Jackson for fifteen one hundred yard rushing games,

988
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,240
Speaker 1: third in franchise history. And you were right, But who's

989
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: number one on the Bills list for the most one

990
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 1: hundred yard rushing games? Thurman Thomas? That's right. I want

991
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: to guess how many twenty five you're gonna get? Slow,

992
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 1: I was gonna tell you forty six? Are you kidding? Second?

993
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 1: And what I'm talking about second was oj with forty one,

994
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,479
Speaker 1: which is pretty considerable too. Hey man, that's three times

995
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: as many is jack Fred Jackson and Lawn. Listen, it's

996
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,439
Speaker 1: tough to get in the Hall of Fame, bro. Yeah,

997
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: that's what it takes. And yeah, that's makes you know what.

998
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 1: That gives me warm fuzzies for my little my little friend.

999
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: He's coming in tomorrow or no, he's no tomorrow. He's

1000
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: off doing something important. His numbers retired. He's got a

1001
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: golden polish his number. And that stepped over. Let's take

1002
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: a quick call here from Milt and Buffalo milk ahead,

1003
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Yeah, I heard that of Josh

1004
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: outing from the back in like two weeks. Right, the

1005
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: planet if healthy he starts. If he's healthy, Milt, he'll

1006
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 1: be the guy. What do you think see to me?

1007
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I like Josh, you know he's the shooture.

1008
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 1: But I think we got to ride to Berkeley waves.

1009
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: He came and he did great against a good Jets defense,

1010
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, you never know what you might

1011
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: get in that man. No, you might have never you

1012
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: might have next time, Brady and don't know this can't

1013
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 1: pass up on him like that. Let me ask you this, Milt,

1014
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: where are you riding the Berkeley train too? Where do

1015
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 1: you what's the likely destination for the Matt Barkley train.

1016
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: If you do choose that way and write it, never know,

1017
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: he probably could pull off six in a row. Because no,

1018
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: I'll give you that. You don't know. Um. But let's

1019
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 1: face it too, Mike Barkley isn't like he's like this

1020
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie free a. He's been around the league a

1021
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:16,280
Speaker 1: little bit, and no question, the team played well around

1022
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 1: him on Sunday. But you know, I don't know, I

1023
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 1: get it, and I wouldn't have a problem with it.

1024
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you set the guy down after

1025
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: he came out and threw you know, had as good

1026
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 1: a day at quarterback as any quarterbacks had for the

1027
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:33,240
Speaker 1: Bills this season and maybe even last season. Two. It's

1028
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: I know, it's hard to to have him come in

1029
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 1: and then'll listen, it'll only be three or four weeks

1030
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 1: since he showed up, and certainly he did play well

1031
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: in the in the short time he was here. But

1032
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,399
Speaker 1: I think this, you know, I think, Matt, I think

1033
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is the guy that's gonna be in there.

1034
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: I kind of, yeah, it's hard to criticize either decision.

1035
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: I would if they were going to Barkley, I would

1036
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: be critical of that, would you. I mean, yeah, the

1037
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: season's about Josh Allen. I mean, let's let's get him

1038
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: in there. Let's let's see if he's better than he

1039
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:04,760
Speaker 1: was when he left. We got a call here from Chris,

1040
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: and Buffalo was on the other side of the issue

1041
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: from Milton. Buffalo. Go ahead, Chris, what do you think? Guys?

1042
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 1: How you doing? Murth good? I Steve, listen a couple

1043
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: of quick points. It's gotta be Josh Allen. Man, come on,

1044
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: I don't see any point and putting in anybody else.

1045
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: And it's like a broken record. You know, we're gonna

1046
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: keep going over and over again, and I'll hear. I'll

1047
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: tell you what, Chris. Here, here's the thing. Here's what

1048
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: I think. And this goes back to Milton Caller right before.

1049
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 1: The difference for me is it's the bye week. You've

1050
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 1: got Josh Allen, who can it was back in and

1051
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: because it's a bye it's not like you're keerrying the momentum.

1052
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen getting back in there, getting healthy,

1053
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 1: gives him a chance to rev up. I think that's why.

1054
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Speaker 1: And plus a two week it would be an extra

1055
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: time before you jump right back in with Barkley. That's

1056
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Speaker 1: why it makes it even a closer decision for me.

1057
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Speaker 1: Not that you're gonna throw Matt. You know, Matt Barkley

1058
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 1: in right away again, He's got another two weeks to

1059
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: learn and get more acclimated, so he'll be better in

1060
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 1: two weeks than he would be in one week. So

1061
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: I think that kind of says, well, you know, the

1062
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: guy's gonna have a little extra time to get ready

1063
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: for another game. That to me is the only reason

1064
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: I would like give Barkley a second thought that maybe

1065
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: he would be the starter. But having said that, I

1066
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: still think Josh Allen's Away to go. I'm with you, yeah,

1067
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 1: and Murph a great car with that. Who is this team?

1068
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: I love that? Or these guys? That was great And

1069
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 1: Steve real quick. I saw you in rich Stadium when

1070
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:34,240
Speaker 1: I would go into the games. You got hit so hard.

1071
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,800
Speaker 1: I met her and I heard you oh, and it

1072
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: was oh and you got up and I couldn't believe it.

1073
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 1: And then a couple of years later, I took my

1074
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: son to a book signing that you've had and you

1075
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 1: were tremendous and I just appreciate that, and I thank

1076
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: you for that. Thank you, Chris. I appreciate you bringing

1077
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: up that hit that I took. Kind of I felt

1078
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:58,439
Speaker 1: it this morning, all these years, after all these years,

1079
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:00,040
Speaker 1: I still remember it because it hurt me when I

1080
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: got up this morning. Thanks for your call. We got

1081
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,280
Speaker 1: coming up next Peter King from Football Morning in America

1082
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: and NBC Sports. He'll join us. Steve and I went

1083
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 1: to our side studio to talk with Peter this morning.

1084
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: That interview will coming up when we return. One Bills

1085
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: Line from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

1086
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:29,399
Speaker 1: Hello Bills Radio Network Sports Update. The update from One

1087
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive Bills players off this week because of the

1088
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: bye week coming. I'm coaching staff will work a few

1089
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:35,760
Speaker 1: days this week. They'll all be back to work next Monday.

1090
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 1: If he gets set for the next game against the

1091
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars coming up on Sunday, November twenty fifth, Bills

1092
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: made a roster move at the quarterback spot yesterday. They

1093
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: released quarterback Nathan Peterman, one of four quarterbacks on the roster,

1094
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,879
Speaker 1: move made necessary after injuries forced them to sign Derek

1095
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: Anderson and Matt Barkley he over a four week period. Peterman,

1096
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,840
Speaker 1: the fifth round draft pick in twenty seventeen, won the

1097
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 1: competition for the starting quarterback job on In Day this year,

1098
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: but only lasted one half against Valdemart got a couple

1099
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: of other appearances over his two years, year and a

1100
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: half a career in Buffalo. He appeared in eight games,

1101
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: four starts, completed just over fifty two percent of his passes,

1102
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, and twelve interceptions. Nathan Peter and released last

1103
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 1: night by the Buffalo Bills. Monday Night Football last night,

1104
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:21,280
Speaker 1: the New York Giants won their second game of the season,

1105
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: came back from a ten point second half deficit to

1106
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 1: beat the San Francisco forty nine Ers by a score

1107
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: of twenty seven to twenty three. The Giants two and

1108
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: seven to forty nine Ers now two and eight. Former

1109
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: Brown's head coach Hugh Jackson is returning to the Bengals

1110
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: coaching staff. He has become a special assistant to the

1111
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: head coach Marvin Lewis. The five and four Bengals fighting

1112
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: for their playoff lives and they play Cleveland twice still

1113
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 1: this season, once on November twenty fifth in Cincinnati and

1114
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 1: then December twenty third in Cleveland. Lebian Bell has to

1115
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: make a decision today. The All Pro running back must

1116
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 1: decide by four pm whether the report to the Steelers

1117
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 1: and signed his franchise tag givey shows he will be

1118
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: avistable to play the final seven weeks of the regular

1119
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 1: season as well as the playoffs. The indications are that

1120
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: Bell will not report in Mexico City Monday Night football

1121
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: next week the Rams in the Chiefs, but there's a

1122
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: lot of concern about field conditions there. A concert left

1123
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: the field in shambles, a soccer game was played on

1124
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 1: the turf, and the NFL is keeping an eye on

1125
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 1: conditions at the stadium, trying to make a decision whether

1126
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 1: the game can be played there or if they have

1127
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 1: to move it. Sabers Hockey tonight, the Sabers in the

1128
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay lightteen seven thirty tonight at the key Back Center.

1129
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: That's the sports update from One Bill's Drive. Oh a

1130
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: good time. I'll watch Steve Plasterer Days dos do Time,

1131
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:50,839
Speaker 1: Welcome back. It's one Billes Live for one Goes drive

1132
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,800
Speaker 1: around our side studio, John Murphy, Steve Tasker and joining

1133
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: us on the line our regular Tuesday guests. Peter King,

1134
00:53:56,719 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 1: NBC Sports COLUMNUS Sunday Night football contributor on NBC. He's

1135
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 1: covered the NFL for more than three decades. Peter, it's

1136
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve up here in Buffalo. Thanks for

1137
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 1: joining us. Hey, how are you guys doing. We're doing

1138
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: good coming off a win, and even though it's only

1139
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: the Jets, it makes a difference. It's a different atmosphere

1140
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:13,919
Speaker 1: in the building. Is I'm sure you can appreciate, Peter.

1141
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know that there's been a more

1142
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: shocking result this year, not necessarily that the Bills won,

1143
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:27,720
Speaker 1: but how it happened and what exactly happened with Matt Barkley.

1144
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 1: Who I mean, he shows up in twelve days later.

1145
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 1: He looks like Dan Marino, And so that was that

1146
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 1: was slightly surprising. And I have to ask you guys,

1147
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 1: I mean John, especially being in the building and watching

1148
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: that and then being around the team, what was the

1149
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 1: level of of sort of shock, you know, or around

1150
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,479
Speaker 1: the team both before and after that. Yeah, it was big.

1151
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: And Steve can attest to this last Friday when we

1152
00:54:58,360 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: kind of got the inkling that it was going to

1153
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 1: be Matt Barkley, I think all of us were kind

1154
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 1: of shaking our heads, right, Steve saying, yeah, where are

1155
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: we going with this? Yeah? Everybody else, everybody outside that

1156
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:07,800
Speaker 1: locker room, Pete. I mean, there was almost a sense

1157
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 1: of resignation about the game. You just couldn't expect your

1158
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: team to go out and play and win, I even

1159
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: make it competitive. I thought, you know, this is a team.

1160
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: When the Bills have lost this season, they've lost big,

1161
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:21,359
Speaker 1: and it looked like it was headed down that road.

1162
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 1: And to have him come out get off to a

1163
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 1: fast start with Matt Barkley not knowing what to expect, Yeah,

1164
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 1: I think everybody was really surprised. Peter, Steve and I

1165
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,840
Speaker 1: were talking today about Now that's twice this year that

1166
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,760
Speaker 1: the Bills coaching staff has had to start a quarterback

1167
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: who's had eleven days essentially a practice that says something

1168
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: about what that coaching staff was able to do for

1169
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley this week, right this past week. Well, I mean,

1170
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 1: I know it's been sort of a long, hard flog

1171
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 1: for Brian Dable and that staff, but I mean I

1172
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 1: named him one of my Coaches of the Week this

1173
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 1: week because I don't know how you get a guy ready.

1174
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:03,720
Speaker 1: First of all, I mean, Matt Barkley has not played

1175
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,879
Speaker 1: much football in the NFL in the last three years, obviously,

1176
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: and you know, for him to have come out, you know,

1177
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:16,439
Speaker 1: after not having played yet this year, and to come

1178
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 1: out against a very aggressive Jets defense and to do

1179
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: what he did, My feeling is this is one of

1180
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: those deals where as a coaching staff you sit there

1181
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:30,360
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, how are we going to help Matt Barkley?

1182
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: And you say, okay, we're sending the left tackle out

1183
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: for a path in the red zone. And you know,

1184
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: I mean when I first saw that, I said, I

1185
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 1: mean bad defense. And you know, why weren't the Jets

1186
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 1: ready for that, well, I'm sorry, who would be ready

1187
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: for that? It's like Doug Peterson. It's like Doug Peterson

1188
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: throwing the Philly Special at the Patriots and having Trey Burton,

1189
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: a guy who's never thrown a pass in an NFL game,

1190
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: throw a pass to Nick Foles, who's never caught a

1191
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:05,440
Speaker 1: pass in an NFL game. I mean, there's absolutely no

1192
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,719
Speaker 1: way the Patriots would have any clue what was going on.

1193
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: And I'm sure it was the same way. And sometimes

1194
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: I think one of the things we've learned in the

1195
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 1: last couple of years in the NFL is that I

1196
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: think I think we're all we all say, well, there's

1197
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: nothing new under the sun. There's nothing really original that

1198
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 1: teams can do out there right now, And in reality,

1199
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: you're only limited, honestly by your imagination when you're a

1200
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: play caller in the NFL. And in my opinion, that

1201
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 1: was a really, really smart play calling game by Brian Dable. Yeah,

1202
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 1: I agree, Murph and I talked about this early in

1203
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 1: the show. There's about five or six things you can

1204
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: go to and put on the and hang your hat

1205
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 1: on the coaching staff they did. They put more speed

1206
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:57,400
Speaker 1: on the field against the Jets, and they've had in

1207
00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:59,720
Speaker 1: the early in the season, in the first half of

1208
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,120
Speaker 1: the season, with McKenzie and Foster being in the lineup

1209
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 1: along with Terrell Prior, there's a lot of guys. There

1210
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: was a lot of speed added to the lineup. Then

1211
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 1: you go also with what they did with Matt Barkley.

1212
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: They also shuffled the offensive line, They ran a fake punt,

1213
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: They went deep on a team that with a quarterback

1214
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: that didn't even know if he was going to be

1215
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:21,440
Speaker 1: able to play to a rookie, undrafted rookie wide receiver

1216
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 1: on the first play of the game. There's a number

1217
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: of things they had to tackle eligible play that you

1218
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 1: said as well, There's a number of things, and plus

1219
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 1: getting Barkley just flat out ready to play. I mean,

1220
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: there's a ton of stuff that this coaching staff did

1221
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: in preparation to run up to this game that they've

1222
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: been trying to you know, obviously they've been trying to

1223
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 1: do this for weeks, but some of it finally came together. Now,

1224
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the Bills have got all their problems solved,

1225
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: but certainly the coaching staff hit on a number of

1226
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 1: decisions they made that went the right way for him

1227
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 1: and it turned into a landslide win. Yeah, I would.

1228
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:58,520
Speaker 1: I'd make one other point about this. I think if

1229
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 1: you're the head coach of a team, you have to

1230
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 1: be comfortable in empowering your people to have imagination and

1231
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 1: to do different things when the situation requires that. So

1232
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:18,919
Speaker 1: I give credit to Sean McDermott for basically saying and again, look,

1233
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: I've not talked to him, I've not talked to day Bowl,

1234
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: I've not talked to Berkeley, but I am just envisioning

1235
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 1: what happened in that building last Monday Tuesday. You're putting

1236
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: the game plan together. You're not positive what you're doing,

1237
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: but clearly you think you might have to play this

1238
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: guy who just got there. So that's that's one thing.

1239
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 1: And then is that week goes on, you start to say, Okay,

1240
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 1: we only have x percentage of our playbook that we

1241
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: can use. So if we only have all this and

1242
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: these are all our limitations, what are we gonna do?

1243
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 1: And you know what you're gonna do. You're gonna put

1244
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 1: Harry Houdini in the game plan. And he's dressing. He's

1245
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 1: dressing for the game, and good for you, because there's

1246
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: a lot of coaches who were saying, Okay, let's batten

1247
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 1: down the hatches and run Lashawn thirty six times. I mean,

1248
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 1: you know that's a that and again, who knows that

1249
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: might have that might have might have won the game too.

1250
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:18,160
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is I think they did a lot

1251
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: of smart things. I gained a lot of respect for

1252
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:24,440
Speaker 1: that coaching staff and certainly also for Barkley. On Sunday,

1253
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: if you don't want to ask you about Barkley and

1254
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: what this victory, what that performance means to him and

1255
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: to his career. A guy who was not on a

1256
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:33,439
Speaker 1: team for a couple of months, a guy who hasn't

1257
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: played in a couple of years. He mentioned after the

1258
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 1: game that he never lost his own belief that he

1259
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 1: could play. But that's the kind of game that would

1260
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:42,880
Speaker 1: keep him around either this roster or somebody's roster in

1261
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 1: the future, wouldn't you think? I assumed that the next

1262
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:51,240
Speaker 1: time we were going to see Matt Barkley was in uh,

1263
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 1: you know, in that New Shirley ever saw, right, That's

1264
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 1: where I thought he would be playing from February to

1265
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:06,920
Speaker 1: April in that league that basically, you know, the Alliance

1266
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 1: League that basically, is a is going to be approving

1267
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 1: ground to try to get another shot in the NFL

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Speaker 1: and uh And when they signed him, I just said, okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean absolute insurance policy and nothing else. But now

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Speaker 1: I think you look at him in a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a different light, you say, Okay, now we don't

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Speaker 1: have to necessarily really rush back with you know, with

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Speaker 1: each Josh Allen or Derek Anderson and I and I

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Speaker 1: just sort of felt like that did the Bills a

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Speaker 1: huge amount of good and obviously it did Matt Barkley's

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Speaker 1: career a huge amount of good. One of the things

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask is, you know, as well as

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Speaker 1: the Bills played on Sunday and all the things that

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Speaker 1: went right for them, everything absolutely went the other direction

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Speaker 1: for the New York Jets. They decided to keep odd

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Speaker 1: Bulls and there was I mean, as soon as a

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Speaker 1: game like this happens, I guess the team who had

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Speaker 1: struggled so badly on offense, like the Bills, and then

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Speaker 1: to come in and put that kind of performance up

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Speaker 1: of the New York Jets, I mean that that changed

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Speaker 1: the narrative in New York, did it not? Pete Well, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that the narrative will change decisively. I

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01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 1: think most people who watched the Jets, I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is your midway through the fourth year with Todd Bowles,

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Speaker 1: and it would be one thing if all you're worrying

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Speaker 1: about is the maturity of the quarterback. But they had

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Speaker 1: a thousand things that they needed to worry about, the

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Speaker 1: development of the quarterback is only one of them. And

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Speaker 1: then to see the defense just collapse the way it did,

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Speaker 1: I forget. I was reading the paper Monday, and one

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Speaker 1: of the trying to remember one of the guys who

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Speaker 1: might have been might have been Adams, I forget who

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Speaker 1: it was, said essentially that he went home after that

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Speaker 1: game and just cried because they were so kind of

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Speaker 1: depressed about the state of their team. And I only

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Speaker 1: mentioned all that because to me, if this wasn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: a decisive moment, I think it was more of the

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01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: last straw, where now the Jets were pretty sure they

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01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 1: were going to do something, and now they've got to

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01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:29,000
Speaker 1: be positive they're gonna they're gonna be looking for a

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Speaker 1: coach at the end of the year. On the Line

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Speaker 1: with Peter King, Pro Football Talk NBC Sports columnists rights

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Speaker 1: to the Football Morning, an American column. Every Monday, you

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Speaker 1: chronicled your trip to Kansas City and watching the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs. It wasn't a great performance by Kansas City,

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01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 1: but another good one, and they slowly and maybe quietly

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Speaker 1: I have established themselves as the AFC team to beat.

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Speaker 1: Right if they passed the Patriots in terms of, you know,

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Speaker 1: home field advantage, would you think when the playoffs coming up.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they now have a two game lead or

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Speaker 1: basically probably a game and a half because over the

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Speaker 1: Patriots for home field because obviously the head to head thing,

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Speaker 1: if they tie the you know, the Patriots would get it.

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Speaker 1: But I think home field in the AFC is going

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Speaker 1: to be all but decided if the Chiefs beat the

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Speaker 1: Rams this Monday night, because that that's going to be

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Speaker 1: clearly the toughest game on their schedule. Now, they also

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Speaker 1: play the Chiefs down the stretch on a Thursday night

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Speaker 1: in December, but that game is at Arrowhead, so it'll

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Speaker 1: obviously be an edge to the Chiefs that night. I

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Speaker 1: think this will this is going to decide home field

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Speaker 1: if if if the Chiefs win Monday Night, Yeah, how

1328
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 1: good are the Rams? I mean you mentioned this in

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Speaker 1: your column about all the things they were going through

1330
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 1: this past week, and it was it was obviously the

1331
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 1: shooting in Thousand Oaks, and then thirty six hours later

1332
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:02,560
Speaker 1: they had these fires breakout that and I know what

1333
01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:05,720
Speaker 1: it's you get distracted and sometimes happens here in Buffalo,

1334
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:08,040
Speaker 1: usually with a snowstorm or something where the guys can't

1335
01:05:08,080 --> 01:05:10,040
Speaker 1: get to work or whatever, and the and the week

1336
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:13,960
Speaker 1: is disrupted. We're talking about something really serious, not only

1337
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 1: a tragedy that happened, but then the fires that happened

1338
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:19,960
Speaker 1: that affected the players, even people who who weren't involved.

1339
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:22,560
Speaker 1: It was like a couple of double whammys. It was

1340
01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 1: just a double whammy there for the Rams and to

1341
01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:27,360
Speaker 1: have come out and although it was a tough game,

1342
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 1: they still pull out the victory and the Rams still

1343
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:33,400
Speaker 1: looked like a juggernaut plus with a great defense. I mean,

1344
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 1: they really are. They really did overcome a lot this

1345
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:42,440
Speaker 1: past week. I think Steve the Um one of the

1346
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Speaker 1: one of the significant things about that game was that

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01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 1: on Friday, Um the you know, so for people who

1348
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:55,240
Speaker 1: don't know a normal practice week in the NFL, most teams,

1349
01:05:55,320 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 1: not all um, you know, install all of their stuff

1350
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:04,120
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and then they review a

1351
01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:08,680
Speaker 1: lot of stuff Friday and do a little walkter on Saturday.

1352
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:13,480
Speaker 1: The Rams do it a little bit differently, whereas Friday

1353
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:17,440
Speaker 1: is sort of a ratcheting down day and a lesser

1354
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 1: day across the league. Friday has been, under Sean McVeigh,

1355
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:26,960
Speaker 1: a full day. It's like most teams Thursdays. And so

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01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 1: Friday they sent out a mass email or text at

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01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:34,800
Speaker 1: five o'clock of the morning saying don't come to the

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01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 1: facility today. Everything is canceled. We'll let you know what's

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01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 1: going on tomorrow. And so that that just got eraced.

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01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:47,520
Speaker 1: And is Andrew Whitworth, the left tackle, told me Friday

1361
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 1: was basically a day of horror watching on TV the

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01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 1: whole day and watching communities just disappeared. So so, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it was How in the world do you

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01:07:00,080 --> 01:07:02,439
Speaker 1: act to something like that? I don't I don't know,

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01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 1: but it had to have been difficult for them. And

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Speaker 1: then the one other point I would make about this,

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01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 1: they were playing a team that's pretty good. I mean,

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01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:15,520
Speaker 1: you know, the Seahawks have been over the last month

1369
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:18,280
Speaker 1: or so, have been a top ten team in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know. I give them an awful lot

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Speaker 1: of credit for playing well enough to win a game

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Speaker 1: under those circumstances, Peter. People have been looking forward to

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01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:31,680
Speaker 1: this Monday night game the Rams and the Chiefs in

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Speaker 1: Mexico City for weeks, if not months now, and now

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Speaker 1: they're we're reading about issues with the field down there

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01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 1: that make presents some issues, some challenges for the NFL

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Speaker 1: trying to get the field ready for that game. What

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Speaker 1: do you know about that? What have you heard about? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, as they're they're literally on the field today

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Speaker 1: in Mexico City and they're going to make a determination.

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01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be able to salvage it,

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01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 1: and with a combination of you know, of rolling the

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01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 1: field and putting in some new turf from what I hear,

1384
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 1: but we'll see. I mean, clearly they have a good

1385
01:08:06,280 --> 01:08:10,200
Speaker 1: alternative to be able to play in La So I

1386
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:14,280
Speaker 1: think that essentially it's going to be hard and it's

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01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:16,639
Speaker 1: not going to be a great field. But I think,

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01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 1: as I was told yesterday, I think they're going to

1389
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:21,840
Speaker 1: be able to salvage it. But we'll see in the

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01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 1: coming hours. I found it interesting, I think you wrote

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01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 1: this right that Neither the Rams nor the Chiefs have

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01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:29,840
Speaker 1: like a real strong fan base in Mexico City. Right,

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01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:32,040
Speaker 1: They're not the favorites of the Yeah, they're not in

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01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:35,200
Speaker 1: the top fifteen. The Chiefs and the Rams are not

1395
01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:38,639
Speaker 1: in the top fifteen of the teams that either sell

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01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 1: the most merchandise or have the most following in Mexico City.

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01:08:42,720 --> 01:08:46,000
Speaker 1: And so that's why when this game was first announced,

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Speaker 1: Raoul lang Gray, who's from Mexico, the former NFL kicker

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01:08:51,120 --> 01:08:55,160
Speaker 1: who now works for ESPN Deportis, told me that fans

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01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:59,559
Speaker 1: were really ticked off. They wanted you know, they would

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01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:04,240
Speaker 1: have much rather had the Raiders, for instance, and the

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01:09:04,320 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 1: Raiders have to play as long as they are between stadium.

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01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:10,160
Speaker 1: So next year the Raiders are going to have to

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01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:13,760
Speaker 1: play again, either in Mexico City or London. They would

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01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:18,360
Speaker 1: have much rather had the Raiders there, even though it

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01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 1: looked like the Raiders might be in for a rebuilding year.

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01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:26,599
Speaker 1: So and now you know what an incredible surprise, they

1408
01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:29,639
Speaker 1: got the NFL regular season game of the year. So

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01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:32,719
Speaker 1: the attitude there has changed quite a bit. One last

1410
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:36,160
Speaker 1: thing before we let you go, Peter, the Levion Bell

1411
01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:38,200
Speaker 1: situation is going to come to a head today at

1412
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:41,160
Speaker 1: four o'clock, either reports or he doesn't. And you wrote

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Speaker 1: in Football Morning in America, probably a succinct an article

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01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:47,080
Speaker 1: and explanation of what we're looking at. It's a little

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01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 1: bit confusing, and I've talked to people executives around the league.

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01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:52,519
Speaker 1: There's a little bit of an ambiguity in the language

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01:09:52,520 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 1: as to whether it's a good idea whether he shows

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01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 1: up today at four, or whether it's a bad idea

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01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 1: for him to show up at four. And I've heard

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Speaker 1: some executives that told me, no matter which way it goes,

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01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:03,320
Speaker 1: if he doesn't show up, there's going to be an

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01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:06,519
Speaker 1: arbitration about what it means for his future. What do

1423
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:07,880
Speaker 1: you what do you think is going to happen today

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01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:11,960
Speaker 1: at four o'clock. Well, there's a lot of things on

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01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,599
Speaker 1: the line here. I think some people in the league

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01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:21,320
Speaker 1: feel that he's going to try that because he can't play.

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01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 1: If he doesn't report after today, he won't be able

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01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:29,080
Speaker 1: to play. He's gonna want free agency without being able

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01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:31,680
Speaker 1: to be tagged. Number one, I think that's going to

1430
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:34,640
Speaker 1: get turned down, even though I don't think they're going

1431
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 1: to be tagged. But but the other the other thing

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01:10:38,439 --> 01:10:42,960
Speaker 1: that's very interesting here, as most people have sort of

1433
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 1: perceived this thing. The totally totally bizarre part of this

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01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:52,320
Speaker 1: to me is that he will have given up fourteen

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01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:56,880
Speaker 1: point five million dollars this year, and there really is

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01:10:57,120 --> 01:11:03,880
Speaker 1: no indication from anybody that it's that it's not only

1437
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:06,360
Speaker 1: even a good idea but not but it's just not

1438
01:11:06,439 --> 01:11:10,559
Speaker 1: a total disaster. The only thing he's gained by sitting

1439
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:14,559
Speaker 1: out is to be able to be injury free entering

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01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 1: free agency. That's right, And you know, who knows what

1441
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:20,320
Speaker 1: could happen. He could get a big injury playing a season.

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01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:24,160
Speaker 1: We all know that. But but clearly, I think it's

1443
01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:27,719
Speaker 1: one thing to give up two or three million dollars.

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01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:32,599
Speaker 1: You know, he basically gave up the equivalent of the

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01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 1: highest paid single year in revenue that a running back

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01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:39,920
Speaker 1: would have made in the ninety nine year history of

1447
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:43,320
Speaker 1: the NFL in giving up fourteen point five million dollars.

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Speaker 1: And I don't I'll never understand it because I don't

1449
01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 1: think he's ever going to be able to make that

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01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 1: money out. That's right, And really basically what he got

1451
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:53,120
Speaker 1: by holding out the entire season was the ability to

1452
01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:56,360
Speaker 1: go into free agency a year from the last time

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01:11:56,360 --> 01:11:59,560
Speaker 1: he played healthy. Yeah, that's all he got. But it

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01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:02,479
Speaker 1: cost him fourteen point five million dollars to do that.

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01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:05,719
Speaker 1: And we'll see if Yeah. And I don't know, Pete,

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Speaker 1: I don't think the market's going to be there to

1457
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:10,559
Speaker 1: double that money that he made. I mean, I just

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01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:14,160
Speaker 1: don't see that. I don't either. I don't think the

1459
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:16,599
Speaker 1: market is going to be what he thought it was, right,

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Speaker 1: But we'll see. Who knows. I mean, it only takes one.

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01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:22,200
Speaker 1: That's what I've always found out about free agency. It

1462
01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:27,080
Speaker 1: only takes one. It only took one for Kirk Cousins

1463
01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 1: to have eighty four million dollars guaranteed over three years

1464
01:12:31,439 --> 01:12:34,519
Speaker 1: and the ability again to be a free agent when

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01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:37,000
Speaker 1: he's like thirty one years old. It's just I mean,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens. But it's not the decision

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Speaker 1: I would have made if I was leavmvill Hey, Peter,

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Speaker 1: thanks for this. We'll talk next week. Thank you. Sounds

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Speaker 1: good guys, Thank you, Peter King, NBC and sports columnists

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Speaker 1: rights Football Morning in America on Pro Football Talk, a

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Speaker 1: place scratch off games from the New York State Lottery.

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01:13:25,920 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 1: Bills had held the Jets to just one hundred ninety

1479
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 1: nine yards of total offense on Sunday. So that's two

1480
01:13:31,280 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 1: consecutive games where the Bill's defense has held opponents in

1481
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 1: less than two hundred yards first time. Then they've done

1482
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:39,640
Speaker 1: that since nineteen ninety nine weeks two and three. That

1483
01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:41,960
Speaker 1: was a great defense back in nineteen ninety nine for

1484
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:44,320
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. This one is as well, Steve, I

1485
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:46,599
Speaker 1: mean you you called it, mister Tasker. You said they'd

1486
01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:48,720
Speaker 1: be top ten. I knew they'd be better. I never

1487
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:50,800
Speaker 1: thought I never thought they'd be this good. I didn't

1488
01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:53,040
Speaker 1: realize they'd be the top ten of the top ten,

1489
01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:56,479
Speaker 1: you know, I mean that the ninety nine defense. Just

1490
01:13:56,520 --> 01:13:59,559
Speaker 1: to refresh people's memory, Phil Hanson, Ted Washington, Bruce Smith,

1491
01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:01,960
Speaker 1: Samurai years great player. He was here a couple of

1492
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 1: weeks ago. John hollisk good player, Sam Cowart potentially great player,

1493
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:09,719
Speaker 1: had the bad injuries gave Northern, Thomas Smith, Ken Irban,

1494
01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 1: Kurt Schultz, Henry Jones. They held the first weeks two

1495
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:16,360
Speaker 1: and three their opponents to less than two hundred yards,

1496
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:18,160
Speaker 1: and Bills have done it the last two weeks. They're

1497
01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:20,160
Speaker 1: in good company. That was a good defense in n UND.

1498
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:22,639
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'd like to win the last time

1499
01:14:22,680 --> 01:14:25,040
Speaker 1: we had the number one defense. That's another good one.

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01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:27,400
Speaker 1: It might have been been ninety nine for a minute.

1501
01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 1: And it's hard to do in the NFL, particularly Murphy,

1502
01:14:32,240 --> 01:14:35,840
Speaker 1: I think the thing, particularly midway through the year. Week

1503
01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:37,720
Speaker 1: ten of the season, Week eleven of the season, they're

1504
01:14:37,720 --> 01:14:39,320
Speaker 1: in the number one defense in the league. That means

1505
01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:41,160
Speaker 1: you've been doing it, Yeah, for a while. It hasn't.

1506
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 1: It's not like Week one where you you know, where

1507
01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:45,720
Speaker 1: you faced the Buffalo Bills on opening day and they

1508
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 1: can't you know, they can't even get a first down. Yeah,

1509
01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:49,680
Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard to do with an offense as

1510
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:51,960
Speaker 1: poor as the Bills has been too. And the Brownie

1511
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:54,800
Speaker 1: had a great stat yesterday. May remember it. I remember it,

1512
01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:58,040
Speaker 1: he said, you here, I caught it. It was something

1513
01:14:58,040 --> 01:14:59,760
Speaker 1: about the number of plays they've been on the field.

1514
01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 1: They have faced the sixth most plays at any defense

1515
01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:06,360
Speaker 1: in the league, and they're still number one, number one.

1516
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:09,760
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Yeah, that's because you're not you're not getting

1517
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:11,519
Speaker 1: any hope for your help from your offense, right their

1518
01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:15,000
Speaker 1: offense is not staying on the field this past Sunday notwithstanding,

1519
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:17,800
Speaker 1: and so your defense is out there all you know,

1520
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:20,599
Speaker 1: more than all but five teams, and you're a number

1521
01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:23,479
Speaker 1: one defense in the NF. Amazing thing is this hasn't

1522
01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:24,920
Speaker 1: been I mean, you watched the team play and they're

1523
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 1: playing good defense. We've seen it, but it's not like

1524
01:15:27,280 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 1: spectacularly good defense, like big plays sacks. They're not getting

1525
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 1: a ton of sacks. They're not you know, not taking

1526
01:15:33,479 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: fifty getting fifty takeaways. They're doing it every play, weekend,

1527
01:15:37,160 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 1: a goat. That's it's been really consistently a real force

1528
01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:44,599
Speaker 1: for the Bills. That you know, and in large part

1529
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 1: because of the one loss record is you're getting really overlooked.

1530
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 1: But man oh man, you start looking around at what

1531
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 1: they've been doing, it's it's pretty impressive, particularly given those

1532
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:55,719
Speaker 1: first four weeks. When they face the Chargers, the Packers,

1533
01:15:56,360 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 1: even though I've I've mentioned the Packers aren't all that

1534
01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:03,640
Speaker 1: good from Aaron Rodgers. But you know, Flacco and the

1535
01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:09,160
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens and the and Vikings. So those four teams

1536
01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:11,200
Speaker 1: to start out the season with, and the offense that

1537
01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:13,800
Speaker 1: was struggling as mightily as it was not last week.

1538
01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:18,640
Speaker 1: Notwithstanding that defense has been really unbelievable. And you know,

1539
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:20,360
Speaker 1: given the fact that it doesn't look like the season

1540
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:22,960
Speaker 1: is going to turn out the way they wanted, it's

1541
01:16:22,960 --> 01:16:25,360
Speaker 1: going to get highly overlooked. And that's too bad. That's

1542
01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:27,439
Speaker 1: really too bad because they deserve a lot of credit

1543
01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:29,680
Speaker 1: for the year they've put together so far. Maybe that

1544
01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:31,759
Speaker 1: impacts your vote, And we got a lot of activity

1545
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:33,680
Speaker 1: in our Twitter poll today, a lot of votes, more

1546
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:36,599
Speaker 1: than three thousand votes in already, Steve, that's really that's

1547
01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:39,960
Speaker 1: a high number. People might must like this question. Who's

1548
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:43,920
Speaker 1: who's the question? Oh? It was mine. No, it's a

1549
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:45,920
Speaker 1: good question. I think we're at the point now and

1550
01:16:45,960 --> 01:16:48,240
Speaker 1: here's what I was thinking. And you know, we're living

1551
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:50,559
Speaker 1: the life right with the Bills, and with Bills fans,

1552
01:16:50,920 --> 01:16:52,920
Speaker 1: you're at the bye week. You think, you take a breath,

1553
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:55,240
Speaker 1: and you think all right, Where are we going from here?

1554
01:16:55,280 --> 01:16:56,760
Speaker 1: And where are we going from here? Where the Bills

1555
01:16:56,760 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 1: going from here? Six games remaining? How many of those

1556
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:01,360
Speaker 1: six will they win? That's our Twitter poll. More than

1557
01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:04,840
Speaker 1: three thousand respondents already. Forty forty eight percent of you

1558
01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:07,240
Speaker 1: say they're gonna win zero to two, zero one or

1559
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:10,519
Speaker 1: two more games. That's almost half. Obviously, thirty five percent

1560
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 1: of the respondent say Bills is gonna win three or

1561
01:17:12,479 --> 01:17:15,360
Speaker 1: four more. That's why I would put myself. Seventeen percent

1562
01:17:15,439 --> 01:17:17,479
Speaker 1: say they're gonna win five or six more. I'll give

1563
01:17:17,520 --> 01:17:19,240
Speaker 1: us a call. We'd love to hear your voice. Eight

1564
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:21,880
Speaker 1: oh three oh five fifty and twelve three one eight

1565
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:25,320
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. How many more wins

1566
01:17:25,320 --> 01:17:28,840
Speaker 1: for this group? Going into the year. I thought they

1567
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:32,519
Speaker 1: were gonna win about seven, maybe six. So if they

1568
01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:35,639
Speaker 1: get three of these five, if they get four, there's

1569
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:38,120
Speaker 1: seven wins. They get three, they're six, So I'll be

1570
01:17:38,160 --> 01:17:40,040
Speaker 1: all right. You had a little bit higher. I had

1571
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:42,679
Speaker 1: a ten to six record for him before the season. Yeah,

1572
01:17:42,760 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 1: I was. I got blown out of the water early.

1573
01:17:45,240 --> 01:17:47,320
Speaker 1: I was right about the defense, though you were, But

1574
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:50,280
Speaker 1: I wasn't righting. Actually, I wasn't right, enough about the defense,

1575
01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:55,760
Speaker 1: But yeah, I still think too. You look back and

1576
01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: I'm I still think they should be four and seven.

1577
01:17:58,120 --> 01:17:59,680
Speaker 1: It's to the three and seven. I mean four and

1578
01:17:59,720 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 1: six to the three and seven. With that Houston game

1579
01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:05,400
Speaker 1: that got away, got away, that stinks. What do you think?

1580
01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:08,200
Speaker 1: Eight three fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

1581
01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:11,640
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. On the tweet sheet from Scott Polychet,

1582
01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:13,640
Speaker 1: we asked the question how many more wins for the

1583
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:17,800
Speaker 1: Bills this season? Scott Policheck's response, Jets, Miami, Jacksonville, and

1584
01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:20,599
Speaker 1: Detroit are home games. They should get wins here if

1585
01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:23,200
Speaker 1: the defense stays the course, special teams played good in

1586
01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:26,519
Speaker 1: the offense doesn't turn the ball over. So yeah, for

1587
01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:29,559
Speaker 1: the final six or home games, big, it's better to

1588
01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:32,400
Speaker 1: be home than on the road. We know that. There

1589
01:18:32,439 --> 01:18:35,439
Speaker 1: was another one from Chris Schmidt. Four games, another Jets win,

1590
01:18:35,520 --> 01:18:38,200
Speaker 1: two Dolphins games, will steal the Lions games. Final record

1591
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:39,720
Speaker 1: seven and nine. I don't know if you have to

1592
01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:42,400
Speaker 1: steal the Lions game. They're three wins, right, Yeah, they're

1593
01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:44,799
Speaker 1: not much better than the Bills, honestly. The Detroit Lions

1594
01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:47,920
Speaker 1: and a couple other interesting new responses on Twitter, stee

1595
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 1: what do you got, Yeah, imagine this scenario. This from

1596
01:18:51,240 --> 01:18:56,439
Speaker 1: Zipping the kool aid, who always contributes. Imagine this scenario. Okay,

1597
01:18:57,560 --> 01:19:00,280
Speaker 1: the Bills win the next four to get to seven

1598
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:03,719
Speaker 1: and seven, headed into New England, we upset New England,

1599
01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 1: and then we again play Miami in the final week

1600
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:08,840
Speaker 1: and end up nine and seven with seven and five

1601
01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:13,080
Speaker 1: conference record. Could it be a mcde deja vous scenario

1602
01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:16,160
Speaker 1: like last year? We can only hope go Bills. Yeah,

1603
01:19:15,360 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 1: that's wishful thinking, But you're right. I mean, that's nothing's

1604
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:20,760
Speaker 1: out of the realm of possibility. But I think there's

1605
01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:22,280
Speaker 1: too many teams at the top of the conference that

1606
01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:24,040
Speaker 1: are going to knock. I don't think nine and seven

1607
01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:26,800
Speaker 1: does it this year. Yeah, it's to me, it is

1608
01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:30,120
Speaker 1: a little amazing how one win over the Jets flips

1609
01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:33,639
Speaker 1: everybody's It's not just that win, it's also how they

1610
01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:36,800
Speaker 1: won and all the things that happened during that win

1611
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:39,880
Speaker 1: and all the things that you know of coming. And listen,

1612
01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:42,519
Speaker 1: let's face it, it wouldn't even if the Bills were

1613
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 1: number two overall, even that changes everything. In fact, the

1614
01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:48,000
Speaker 1: number two overall defense, if they were number three, like

1615
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,120
Speaker 1: they were last week they were the number three overall defense.

1616
01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,200
Speaker 1: You know, it's like they're good, but there's a couple

1617
01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:55,080
Speaker 1: of other teams are. No, there is no better defense

1618
01:19:55,080 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 1: in the league given up yards than the Bills. It's

1619
01:19:57,280 --> 01:20:00,559
Speaker 1: hard to get a first down against these guys. They

1620
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:03,439
Speaker 1: you can count on them to keep you in these games,

1621
01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:07,240
Speaker 1: particularly at home. And you've got you know, teams like

1622
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 1: you know, the the Jets and the Dolphins coming in

1623
01:20:10,320 --> 01:20:13,599
Speaker 1: here that the Lions. The Lions are struggling as well.

1624
01:20:13,640 --> 01:20:15,400
Speaker 1: I mean, this is those are games that you got

1625
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:18,320
Speaker 1: to think, man, this is the you all of a sudden,

1626
01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:21,080
Speaker 1: you got a shot in those games. Howny Dolphins games

1627
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:23,000
Speaker 1: have you done on CBS? You did some? Three at

1628
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:25,080
Speaker 1: least I went I went back. I know there's three.

1629
01:20:25,120 --> 01:20:28,599
Speaker 1: We did them? Uh yeah, three. So here's my question

1630
01:20:28,640 --> 01:20:31,880
Speaker 1: for you about the Dolphins versus the Bills. Sweep for

1631
01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:36,240
Speaker 1: the Bills or split? What's more likely you can? You

1632
01:20:36,280 --> 01:20:39,439
Speaker 1: can think you can sweep those guys really? Yeah, the

1633
01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:42,720
Speaker 1: way they're ye five and five? Yeah, there are two

1634
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:44,559
Speaker 1: games ahead of the Bills in the standing. Yeah they

1635
01:20:44,720 --> 01:20:47,479
Speaker 1: now Listen, here's the problem with the Dolphins. It's it's

1636
01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:52,559
Speaker 1: it's brock Osweiler or Ryan Tannehill, because that scenario changes

1637
01:20:52,560 --> 01:20:55,559
Speaker 1: with the two of those. Uh. Tannehill is a pretty

1638
01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:59,360
Speaker 1: good quarterback. Brock Osweiler's kind of getting it done. And

1639
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:02,000
Speaker 1: I would shocked at how well their offense played against

1640
01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:04,040
Speaker 1: Green Bay given the fact that their offensive line was

1641
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:08,800
Speaker 1: a shambles, and I mean as shambles. Um. They were

1642
01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:13,120
Speaker 1: down three four unless three five offensive linemen down. They

1643
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,760
Speaker 1: had one offensive starter on the offensive line that was

1644
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:19,840
Speaker 1: their week one. The other four guys were all throw ins, um.

1645
01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:23,280
Speaker 1: So that is an offensive line that should have been

1646
01:21:23,320 --> 01:21:26,160
Speaker 1: dominated by a defensive front of the Packers, and it wasn't.

1647
01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:29,559
Speaker 1: Uh and brock Osweiler. They hung in there for a

1648
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:33,040
Speaker 1: while before the game got away from them with the

1649
01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:36,320
Speaker 1: turnovers and that kind of thing. So, you know, I

1650
01:21:36,360 --> 01:21:37,920
Speaker 1: think the Bills have got to think, yeah, those are

1651
01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:42,200
Speaker 1: two games against Miami that we're gonna they're gonna they're

1652
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:44,240
Speaker 1: gonna win. They gotta feel like they're gonna win. The

1653
01:21:44,320 --> 01:21:47,320
Speaker 1: Bills and the players and the coaches, you know, they

1654
01:21:47,360 --> 01:21:49,040
Speaker 1: always think they're gonna win every game. You know, you

1655
01:21:49,080 --> 01:21:50,680
Speaker 1: feel like you can do that. That's why that's why

1656
01:21:50,720 --> 01:21:53,920
Speaker 1: you're built, because you're preparing to do that. But um,

1657
01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:57,080
Speaker 1: I think for the rest of us outside the building, um,

1658
01:21:57,200 --> 01:21:59,360
Speaker 1: you know, the at the community large, I think they're

1659
01:21:59,360 --> 01:22:01,519
Speaker 1: gonna people are gonn walk into those two Miami games thinking, yeah,

1660
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna win this game. Okay, all right, here's a

1661
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:06,719
Speaker 1: call on this issue. Gary on the cell phone. Go ahead, Gary,

1662
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:09,320
Speaker 1: you're around the air. Hey guys, Hey guys, Hey, y'all

1663
01:22:09,360 --> 01:22:13,720
Speaker 1: doing good, good good. I'm in the schedule. I could

1664
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:18,240
Speaker 1: see were being in five of these games, being have

1665
01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:20,120
Speaker 1: a chance to win. I'm not saying win, but being

1666
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:23,759
Speaker 1: in them. Yep. So I would say three to maybe

1667
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,280
Speaker 1: four more wins, That's what I'll say. Yeah, And I

1668
01:22:26,280 --> 01:22:30,320
Speaker 1: think I think for me, I know, I really believe

1669
01:22:30,360 --> 01:22:32,720
Speaker 1: the team's gonna win at least two more out of

1670
01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 1: those these last six games. I don't think they're gonna

1671
01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 1: go one and five or zero and six. I know

1672
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:39,800
Speaker 1: if they're gonna win one or two more game, I

1673
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:41,760
Speaker 1: know they are, but I think it's not gonna take

1674
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:44,880
Speaker 1: that much to win three. I think it's I think

1675
01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:48,280
Speaker 1: they've got it on the you know, enough under their

1676
01:22:48,280 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: hood to come down the stretch and get three wins

1677
01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:54,080
Speaker 1: for sure. And you know, with a chance that you

1678
01:22:54,120 --> 01:22:56,240
Speaker 1: know obviously getting the fourth one as well. So I'm

1679
01:22:56,280 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 1: with you. I don't think two and four is where

1680
01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:00,559
Speaker 1: they're gonna be after these last six games. I think

1681
01:23:00,640 --> 01:23:03,680
Speaker 1: three and three is a good call. Maybe maybe four

1682
01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 1: and two if they get some breaks, if they play well,

1683
01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:09,240
Speaker 1: and that's if Josh Allen comes back and we see

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01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:13,280
Speaker 1: some progress by him. What do you think, Gary, I'm

1685
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:14,840
Speaker 1: will get the schedule, mean you got you know, it's

1686
01:23:14,840 --> 01:23:16,640
Speaker 1: how the team is playing when you play the right

1687
01:23:16,920 --> 01:23:18,679
Speaker 1: look at it, and I'm sure you guys are similar

1688
01:23:18,680 --> 01:23:21,879
Speaker 1: to that. Jack, He'll playing really bad. I mean, Portals

1689
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 1: is a turnover machine. Miami. You know what's going to quarterback?

1690
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:30,439
Speaker 1: Even Tanneill comes back, Is he gonna be playing well?

1691
01:23:30,520 --> 01:23:32,120
Speaker 1: Is you gonna be rusty? So that might be a

1692
01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:36,000
Speaker 1: win the Jets. That's a win de Troy, that's a

1693
01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:38,760
Speaker 1: that's probably going down. He'll I believe that team is

1694
01:23:39,120 --> 01:23:41,680
Speaker 1: I think you know they're given us paye Rist will

1695
01:23:41,680 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 1: probably lose that one. And then you got Miami at home.

1696
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:46,599
Speaker 1: So I mean those are all winnable games. Besides, really

1697
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:49,479
Speaker 1: how the New England right? You gotta think New England's

1698
01:23:49,479 --> 01:23:51,439
Speaker 1: gonna be clicking on all cylinders by that point of

1699
01:23:51,479 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 1: the season. But Gary, you brought it. The one thing

1700
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 1: you said there, Gary that got me is it all

1701
01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 1: depends on how those guys are playing when you play

1702
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:02,160
Speaker 1: them a lot. And we've seen it change in the

1703
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:03,760
Speaker 1: first half of the season, up and down for the

1704
01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:06,639
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, and it just like it changes for the Jets,

1705
01:24:06,680 --> 01:24:08,519
Speaker 1: just like it changes for the Packers and every team

1706
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 1: in the NFL. It's how it's a week to week league.

1707
01:24:11,720 --> 01:24:14,360
Speaker 1: Murph says it all the time, and he's right. It's

1708
01:24:14,360 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 1: how you're going to play that week. It doesn't matter. Listen,

1709
01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:20,400
Speaker 1: think about where the Bills were this last week and

1710
01:24:20,479 --> 01:24:23,400
Speaker 1: walking into that game with their core. It's how you

1711
01:24:23,439 --> 01:24:26,320
Speaker 1: play that week. And that's it. So we can sit

1712
01:24:26,360 --> 01:24:28,559
Speaker 1: here and say all we want about these next six games.

1713
01:24:29,680 --> 01:24:33,040
Speaker 1: We don't know, you don't know. Here's an interesting tweet,

1714
01:24:33,040 --> 01:24:38,639
Speaker 1: and I think this Twitter contributor is spot on. Anthony Domenico.

1715
01:24:39,040 --> 01:24:41,160
Speaker 1: He answers, I think it is difficult to choose an

1716
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:44,839
Speaker 1: amount of wins until we see Josh Allen with this offense.

1717
01:24:45,160 --> 01:24:47,240
Speaker 1: Just because they played well, but Barkley does not mean

1718
01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:50,639
Speaker 1: Allen can duplicate that success. You're right. You're right, Anthony.

1719
01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:53,599
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is the key here, isn't he. I guess

1720
01:24:53,680 --> 01:24:56,000
Speaker 1: a lot of what I'm doing when I anticipate thinking

1721
01:24:56,040 --> 01:24:58,680
Speaker 1: when three or four more, is hoping that he is

1722
01:24:58,720 --> 01:25:02,080
Speaker 1: better now coming out of the elbow injury than he

1723
01:25:02,200 --> 01:25:04,280
Speaker 1: was when he went into it, that he plays better,

1724
01:25:04,280 --> 01:25:06,599
Speaker 1: that he's more confident. Most importantly, not that his elbow

1725
01:25:06,640 --> 01:25:08,439
Speaker 1: will hold him back. But I want to see him

1726
01:25:08,479 --> 01:25:11,799
Speaker 1: get back to, you know, seeing the field, taking chances

1727
01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:14,840
Speaker 1: of firing deep shots. And maybe he learned something from

1728
01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:17,519
Speaker 1: the way Barkley ran it and we didn't. I just

1729
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:19,479
Speaker 1: talked about this a lot yesterday, Steve, when you were here.

1730
01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:22,120
Speaker 1: Barkley did a lot of good things. He didn't light

1731
01:25:22,200 --> 01:25:24,000
Speaker 1: up the statute or anything, but a lot of good things.

1732
01:25:24,040 --> 01:25:26,160
Speaker 1: And the thing that most impressed to me about Matt

1733
01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:29,120
Speaker 1: Barkley this past Sunday was his approach. I think it

1734
01:25:29,160 --> 01:25:31,760
Speaker 1: was born out of desperation, like, shoot, I got a

1735
01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:33,680
Speaker 1: great chance, or I might never get another chance like

1736
01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:36,040
Speaker 1: this again. If you're Matt Barkley and he just let

1737
01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:38,880
Speaker 1: it rip. I need to see Josh Allen do that,

1738
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:41,640
Speaker 1: just you know, consequences be damned. I'm just gonna let

1739
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 1: it rip. I'm gonna fire it down field. I'm gonna,

1740
01:25:44,240 --> 01:25:46,559
Speaker 1: you know, not waiting for people to be wide open.

1741
01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:48,599
Speaker 1: I will risk interceptions. I want to see Josh Allen

1742
01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:51,160
Speaker 1: play like that. And to me, that was the approach

1743
01:25:51,160 --> 01:25:53,479
Speaker 1: that Barkley took this past week out of desperation. In

1744
01:25:53,520 --> 01:25:56,160
Speaker 1: Barkley's case, well, I think also in Barkeley's case he

1745
01:25:56,280 --> 01:25:59,320
Speaker 1: took the quick, easy completions on a couple of occasions

1746
01:25:59,320 --> 01:26:02,200
Speaker 1: as well. He got some help, but from Brian day

1747
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:04,920
Speaker 1: Ball and I'll give you an idea. You see a

1748
01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:07,320
Speaker 1: lot of teams are doing it now. They're forcing the

1749
01:26:07,360 --> 01:26:10,400
Speaker 1: defense up towards the line of scrimmage from sideline to sideline.

1750
01:26:10,400 --> 01:26:13,320
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier when they had Isaiah McKenzie running those

1751
01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:16,120
Speaker 1: end of rounds where they'd take the snaphand at to

1752
01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:18,760
Speaker 1: him and he was outside really quick and he would

1753
01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:20,519
Speaker 1: cut it up got a couple of key first downs.

1754
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:23,719
Speaker 1: They also ran a play like that where they faked

1755
01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:26,680
Speaker 1: that that sweep over there and the quarterback looked that

1756
01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:28,400
Speaker 1: way and then came back and threw a screen pass

1757
01:26:28,479 --> 01:26:31,519
Speaker 1: back the up to the backside, forcing the defense to

1758
01:26:31,560 --> 01:26:34,840
Speaker 1: play right at the line of scrimmage from sideline to sideline,

1759
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:37,280
Speaker 1: open it up down the field, and in so doing,

1760
01:26:37,280 --> 01:26:39,840
Speaker 1: when Barkley did drop back to pass, he could take

1761
01:26:39,880 --> 01:26:42,639
Speaker 1: the nice easy completions. Zay Jones had his best day.

1762
01:26:43,120 --> 01:26:45,680
Speaker 1: He had ninety five yards and had let's see, he

1763
01:26:45,680 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 1: had eight receptions. I mean when did Zay Jones as

1764
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:51,320
Speaker 1: he ever had eight receptions in the game for over

1765
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:54,720
Speaker 1: ninety yards. And it was just Matt Barkley taking what

1766
01:26:54,840 --> 01:26:57,400
Speaker 1: was there, getting the ball out of his hands on time,

1767
01:26:57,640 --> 01:27:00,400
Speaker 1: and then taking a shot once in a while. Robert

1768
01:27:00,439 --> 01:27:04,519
Speaker 1: Foster first play the game. What a great start for

1769
01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 1: the entire club. And then of course Zay Jones hitting

1770
01:27:08,280 --> 01:27:10,559
Speaker 1: a big deep ball as well. I mean, they those

1771
01:27:11,200 --> 01:27:14,040
Speaker 1: the ability for the coaching staff to call those plays

1772
01:27:14,400 --> 01:27:17,120
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage from sideline to sideline, within

1773
01:27:17,160 --> 01:27:19,800
Speaker 1: five yards of the line scrimmage, forcing the defense up there,

1774
01:27:20,160 --> 01:27:23,639
Speaker 1: and then stinging them with those long balls down the field.

1775
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 1: And then of course, and I we have we haven't

1776
01:27:26,080 --> 01:27:28,719
Speaker 1: even talked about how well the offensive line played. With

1777
01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:32,400
Speaker 1: Wyatt Teller plugged in and Lashawn McCoy snapping off five

1778
01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:35,599
Speaker 1: yard runs, seven yard runs, eight yard runs on first down.

1779
01:27:36,160 --> 01:27:40,320
Speaker 1: Everything was different. Everything was different and Matt Barkley had

1780
01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:42,120
Speaker 1: the good sense to get the ball out of his

1781
01:27:42,200 --> 01:27:44,519
Speaker 1: hands to the open guy as fast as he could,

1782
01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:47,559
Speaker 1: and everything got better. I mean, that's and if Josh

1783
01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:50,640
Speaker 1: Allen is sitting there looking at that, you got to

1784
01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:53,360
Speaker 1: be sitting there if you're him and thinking why not me?

1785
01:27:53,680 --> 01:27:56,880
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. I hope that's why it turns out. All right,

1786
01:27:57,080 --> 01:27:59,360
Speaker 1: that's how I want to play. Yeah, that's perfect. We're

1787
01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:01,200
Speaker 1: gonna talk more about this when we come back. How

1788
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:03,000
Speaker 1: many more wins for the Bills this season? Give us

1789
01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:05,960
Speaker 1: a call. Lines open at eighth three fifty toll free

1790
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:09,080
Speaker 1: one eight eight, eight fifty two, five fifty. John Murphy,

1791
01:28:09,080 --> 01:28:12,000
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, One Bill's Live presented by Collata Health from

1792
01:28:12,040 --> 01:28:27,599
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. The show

1793
01:28:27,640 --> 01:28:30,559
Speaker 1: is One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy,

1794
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:33,280
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. The fact it always scares me, Steve and

1795
01:28:33,560 --> 01:28:36,840
Speaker 1: those watching an MSG see the tarp covering the field

1796
01:28:36,840 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 1: at New air Field, which means one and only one thing.

1797
01:28:39,640 --> 01:28:42,160
Speaker 1: There's snow in the forecast, right, That's what it means

1798
01:28:42,200 --> 01:28:44,680
Speaker 1: when the tarperteen. They don't need to cover it for rain.

1799
01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:45,920
Speaker 1: They don't have a game there for a week and

1800
01:28:45,960 --> 01:28:48,560
Speaker 1: a half. They don't want they don't want snow. That

1801
01:28:48,680 --> 01:28:53,880
Speaker 1: the good stewardship, that's what it is. H It scares

1802
01:28:53,920 --> 01:28:55,120
Speaker 1: me when I see it, like, oh, come on, I

1803
01:28:55,160 --> 01:28:56,320
Speaker 1: don't think we got what do we got a couple

1804
01:28:56,320 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 1: of inches of snow? Common? We'll be all right? All right? Yeah?

1805
01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:00,840
Speaker 1: Well are we listen right? Reset this Twitter pole because

1806
01:29:00,840 --> 01:29:03,519
Speaker 1: I gotta read this one, this last Oh okay, on

1807
01:29:03,560 --> 01:29:05,599
Speaker 1: this sheet. Let me reaset it for you, all right,

1808
01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:07,519
Speaker 1: let me tee it up for you. The Bills have

1809
01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:09,680
Speaker 1: six games remaining. You know they are a record now

1810
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:12,400
Speaker 1: they are three and seven. How many games will they win?

1811
01:29:12,439 --> 01:29:14,679
Speaker 1: Can I give what we where we're at with the respondents?

1812
01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 1: Almost half of you, forty eight percent of you say

1813
01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:20,599
Speaker 1: they're only gonna win zero to two. Thirty five percent

1814
01:29:20,600 --> 01:29:22,559
Speaker 1: of you say they're gonna win three or four, and

1815
01:29:22,680 --> 01:29:24,640
Speaker 1: seventeen percent say they win five or six. We got

1816
01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:26,519
Speaker 1: thirty three hundred votes in on this so far. What

1817
01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:28,439
Speaker 1: do you what do you want to read? Okay Bill's

1818
01:29:28,479 --> 01:29:32,840
Speaker 1: fan pex. Draft wise, I want them to lose all

1819
01:29:32,880 --> 01:29:35,640
Speaker 1: of them. Team wise, I want them to end the

1820
01:29:35,640 --> 01:29:42,280
Speaker 1: season with something, bringing on bringing to build on something positive.

1821
01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:45,320
Speaker 1: If Alan and team can end with positives and hope

1822
01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:48,599
Speaker 1: we can carry over into next season. There is always

1823
01:29:48,680 --> 01:29:50,400
Speaker 1: and you get it because when you do these shows,

1824
01:29:50,439 --> 01:29:53,080
Speaker 1: particularly in this age of social media, you always get

1825
01:29:53,080 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 1: both ends of the spectrum. Yeah, tank everything, Just get

1826
01:29:56,240 --> 01:29:57,320
Speaker 1: a better. If you're not going to go to the

1827
01:29:57,320 --> 01:29:59,120
Speaker 1: playoffs and win the super Bowl, just get the best

1828
01:29:59,160 --> 01:30:02,280
Speaker 1: draft pick he can. I hate that. Or it's like

1829
01:30:02,320 --> 01:30:04,919
Speaker 1: you gotta win. You got to pull out all the stops,

1830
01:30:05,120 --> 01:30:07,280
Speaker 1: you know, Fire the coach because you gotta make a change.

1831
01:30:07,320 --> 01:30:10,160
Speaker 1: Fire the GM, right, you know, after a badly all

1832
01:30:10,160 --> 01:30:13,679
Speaker 1: of that stuff goes on, and you know the best

1833
01:30:13,680 --> 01:30:15,559
Speaker 1: thing to do is like whoa, whoa, you know, pump

1834
01:30:15,600 --> 01:30:17,920
Speaker 1: the brakes and don't be a prisoner of what happened

1835
01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:21,200
Speaker 1: in New York with this team, they're somewhere in the

1836
01:30:21,200 --> 01:30:23,719
Speaker 1: middle of that. The Jets were not good last weekend.

1837
01:30:24,840 --> 01:30:27,360
Speaker 1: The Bills were much much better than they have been.

1838
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:31,080
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that the Bills are automatically beat the

1839
01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:33,160
Speaker 1: Jets and next time they play here in Orchard Park.

1840
01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:34,800
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that the Bills are better than they

1841
01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:36,519
Speaker 1: were before that game. It just means they put it

1842
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:39,200
Speaker 1: together a little bit better doesn't mean wholesale changes, and

1843
01:30:39,200 --> 01:30:42,519
Speaker 1: it doesn't say anything about Josh Allen and his ability

1844
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:45,559
Speaker 1: to come back in so we're all a little bit

1845
01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:47,679
Speaker 1: and even this, you know, we always do our Twitter

1846
01:30:47,760 --> 01:30:50,559
Speaker 1: poll about you know, how we're feeling. You know, what's

1847
01:30:50,600 --> 01:30:53,880
Speaker 1: the next big question that that we use the information

1848
01:30:53,880 --> 01:30:56,519
Speaker 1: that we just got from the team about watching them play.

1849
01:30:57,479 --> 01:30:59,560
Speaker 1: What's that bring to mind for us going forward? And

1850
01:30:59,560 --> 01:31:01,840
Speaker 1: it's always kind of where we focus our Twitter in

1851
01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:04,920
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll, particularly right after the game, and so

1852
01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:08,160
Speaker 1: we always and you always get these These are responses

1853
01:31:08,200 --> 01:31:10,320
Speaker 1: both from you and I and our conversations. I mean,

1854
01:31:10,439 --> 01:31:13,160
Speaker 1: you know, everything's better when the team wins in you know,

1855
01:31:14,720 --> 01:31:18,320
Speaker 1: the fixation on draft position troubles me, Stephen. I know

1856
01:31:18,360 --> 01:31:20,400
Speaker 1: a lot of people are into that. I think, are

1857
01:31:20,439 --> 01:31:23,760
Speaker 1: you telling me that you right now here in November

1858
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:27,840
Speaker 1: you are worried about whether your team drafts fourth or eighth.

1859
01:31:28,320 --> 01:31:30,720
Speaker 1: I mean, what are we talking about here? What are

1860
01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:32,200
Speaker 1: we saying that you know that there's going to be

1861
01:31:32,240 --> 01:31:34,840
Speaker 1: that much difference between him and the fourth draft position,

1862
01:31:34,920 --> 01:31:37,320
Speaker 1: let's say, for example, or the eighth, and it's worth

1863
01:31:37,560 --> 01:31:41,320
Speaker 1: losing on purpose to get to four. No, no, no,

1864
01:31:41,400 --> 01:31:45,160
Speaker 1: it's not worth the teams. Teams don't tank very often

1865
01:31:45,160 --> 01:31:46,720
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You'd be hard pressed to name a

1866
01:31:46,720 --> 01:31:48,879
Speaker 1: team that's done it. Teams do it in other sports,

1867
01:31:49,120 --> 01:31:51,599
Speaker 1: and we have evidence pretty close to home of how

1868
01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:54,439
Speaker 1: just disastrous it can be to deliberately lose in tank

1869
01:31:54,680 --> 01:31:56,400
Speaker 1: and how it takes you a while to flip the

1870
01:31:56,400 --> 01:32:00,639
Speaker 1: switch after that. Listen, here's why you can't worry about

1871
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:07,439
Speaker 1: draft order now. It's because say you're gonna pick fifth overall, Well,

1872
01:32:08,400 --> 01:32:10,400
Speaker 1: you've got four teams ahead of you who you don't

1873
01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:12,000
Speaker 1: know how they're playing. It's all the teams in the

1874
01:32:12,080 --> 01:32:14,000
Speaker 1: league who decide the draft, or its not just your

1875
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:17,040
Speaker 1: team's right, it's not just your team. There's no way

1876
01:32:17,080 --> 01:32:21,679
Speaker 1: the Bills can catch the Raiders. We're too good. Same

1877
01:32:21,720 --> 01:32:26,120
Speaker 1: thing with Arizona. Right, we're too good and you're too Yes,

1878
01:32:27,400 --> 01:32:29,679
Speaker 1: you're not gonna catch those guys. You're not gonna worry

1879
01:32:29,720 --> 01:32:31,439
Speaker 1: about it. And you can't worry about it because even

1880
01:32:31,439 --> 01:32:34,960
Speaker 1: if they're even if you drop draft eight, tenth, twelve,

1881
01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:38,640
Speaker 1: all those teams ahead of you have different problems and

1882
01:32:38,720 --> 01:32:41,800
Speaker 1: different needs than your team does, particularly at this point

1883
01:32:41,800 --> 01:32:44,000
Speaker 1: when you've just drafted this franchise quarterback. You hope it

1884
01:32:44,080 --> 01:32:46,120
Speaker 1: turns out you're not gonna go. You're not in that

1885
01:32:46,160 --> 01:32:48,920
Speaker 1: market anymore. So you don't care who's ahead of you

1886
01:32:48,960 --> 01:32:50,960
Speaker 1: because they don't. They don't have the same issues you do.

1887
01:32:51,080 --> 01:32:52,720
Speaker 1: They're not looking at you guys you're looking at in

1888
01:32:52,720 --> 01:32:55,000
Speaker 1: the draft. Maybe some of them are, but you don't

1889
01:32:55,000 --> 01:32:58,800
Speaker 1: know who that's gonna be yet, So it's crazy worry

1890
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:00,559
Speaker 1: about it. I don't worry about it until you get

1891
01:33:00,640 --> 01:33:02,680
Speaker 1: nearer the draft, and November is not the time. There's

1892
01:33:02,760 --> 01:33:05,679
Speaker 1: too many variables that have nothing that you can't control

1893
01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:09,240
Speaker 1: to worry about that, And right now you worry about

1894
01:33:09,280 --> 01:33:11,280
Speaker 1: let's see. Okay, let's find out who we are and

1895
01:33:11,360 --> 01:33:13,400
Speaker 1: let's play as good as we can play, because then

1896
01:33:13,479 --> 01:33:15,479
Speaker 1: you'll be able to be smarter when you do get

1897
01:33:15,479 --> 01:33:17,240
Speaker 1: a chance to pick. How many wins left for the

1898
01:33:17,240 --> 01:33:18,960
Speaker 1: Bills this season? What do you think? Tyler? On the

1899
01:33:18,960 --> 01:33:21,160
Speaker 1: line from Fairport, New York. Tyler, go ahead, you're on

1900
01:33:21,200 --> 01:33:25,000
Speaker 1: the air. I only I just think the Bell's offense

1901
01:33:25,120 --> 01:33:27,960
Speaker 1: is too inconsistent. They haven't strung it together for more

1902
01:33:28,000 --> 01:33:30,080
Speaker 1: than one week in a row, so I don't think

1903
01:33:30,120 --> 01:33:32,479
Speaker 1: they can win anything more than two to three games.

1904
01:33:32,960 --> 01:33:35,439
Speaker 1: Maybe beat the Jets, once beat the Dolphins, one to

1905
01:33:35,520 --> 01:33:40,000
Speaker 1: lose the Patriots, and maybe with the what the season

1906
01:33:40,040 --> 01:33:42,879
Speaker 1: with a Dolphins. Yeah, I think it's it's a compliment

1907
01:33:42,880 --> 01:33:45,800
Speaker 1: to call the Bills offense inconsistent. They essentially they've had

1908
01:33:45,840 --> 01:33:48,680
Speaker 1: one game where they were productive, right a little bit

1909
01:33:48,680 --> 01:33:50,960
Speaker 1: in Minnesota when they took advantage of all those takeaways.

1910
01:33:51,000 --> 01:33:54,400
Speaker 1: But h yeah, I hope they I hope they established

1911
01:33:54,400 --> 01:33:57,600
Speaker 1: some consistency. It's they've been worth much worse than inconsistent

1912
01:33:57,680 --> 01:34:01,000
Speaker 1: this year. U and setting aside Sunday, they've been awful,

1913
01:34:01,040 --> 01:34:04,120
Speaker 1: perfectly awful this year. You would hope that's Sunday is

1914
01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:06,840
Speaker 1: indicative of maybe a turnaround and in their fortunes, and

1915
01:34:06,920 --> 01:34:08,960
Speaker 1: not just because of quarterback. We've talked about this a lot.

1916
01:34:09,280 --> 01:34:11,760
Speaker 1: It's the infusion of speed. I think that made the

1917
01:34:11,760 --> 01:34:15,000
Speaker 1: biggest difference in Sunday's game. Every Yeah, I do agree

1918
01:34:14,560 --> 01:34:19,200
Speaker 1: the go ahead more things. I just when Steve said

1919
01:34:19,240 --> 01:34:23,200
Speaker 1: that the Packers about Aaron Rodgers would be worse than

1920
01:34:23,240 --> 01:34:25,360
Speaker 1: the Bells. That has to be probably one of the

1921
01:34:25,400 --> 01:34:29,559
Speaker 1: worst takes I've ever heard. Go ahead, Why why is that?

1922
01:34:29,760 --> 01:34:31,960
Speaker 1: I don't even think you were watching the game. You

1923
01:34:32,040 --> 01:34:34,880
Speaker 1: said that you said that it was a late late

1924
01:34:34,880 --> 01:34:36,840
Speaker 1: in the game they took over. It was the middle

1925
01:34:36,840 --> 01:34:39,519
Speaker 1: of the third quarter, when it was thirty one to twelve.

1926
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:42,200
Speaker 1: That's not late in the game, at the quarter and

1927
01:34:42,200 --> 01:34:45,759
Speaker 1: a half to go. Look at look at the stats,

1928
01:34:45,880 --> 01:34:48,080
Speaker 1: and look at How did you watch the game, Tyler?

1929
01:34:48,880 --> 01:34:52,320
Speaker 1: I did? Okay, watch it from the s Let me

1930
01:34:52,320 --> 01:34:56,600
Speaker 1: ask you this, Tyler, how bad did the Dolphins play?

1931
01:34:58,880 --> 01:35:00,920
Speaker 1: How bad did they play? Or how bad to the

1932
01:35:00,920 --> 01:35:04,400
Speaker 1: Packers make them look? Okay? Either way, let me ask

1933
01:35:04,439 --> 01:35:06,760
Speaker 1: you this, how bad should the Packers have made them look?

1934
01:35:06,760 --> 01:35:11,000
Speaker 1: When they've got five off four offensive linemen that are

1935
01:35:11,080 --> 01:35:14,400
Speaker 1: backups and shouldn't even be playing. Yeah, how many times

1936
01:35:14,400 --> 01:35:17,680
Speaker 1: did they sacked the quarterback? Tell me what do you

1937
01:35:17,680 --> 01:35:20,599
Speaker 1: guys ask to answer one of these questions? Listen, listen, Tyler,

1938
01:35:20,640 --> 01:35:24,479
Speaker 1: I get it now. The Packers are the Packers lumped

1939
01:35:24,560 --> 01:35:27,720
Speaker 1: up the Dolphins. But let me tell you something they

1940
01:35:27,760 --> 01:35:31,040
Speaker 1: should have The Dolphins should never ever have been in

1941
01:35:31,120 --> 01:35:33,519
Speaker 1: that game into the second half. And like you said,

1942
01:35:33,680 --> 01:35:36,000
Speaker 1: early in the third quarter, midway through the third quarter,

1943
01:35:36,320 --> 01:35:38,960
Speaker 1: the game got out of hand quick because brock Oswaters

1944
01:35:39,000 --> 01:35:42,599
Speaker 1: finally started to throw interceptions. But I'm telling you right now.

1945
01:35:42,880 --> 01:35:44,640
Speaker 1: And you can say, and I know people say this,

1946
01:35:44,960 --> 01:35:47,360
Speaker 1: you take Ben Roethlisberger off the Steelers, you take Drew

1947
01:35:47,360 --> 01:35:49,360
Speaker 1: Brees off the Saints, you take Tom Brady off the

1948
01:35:49,760 --> 01:35:53,040
Speaker 1: off the Patriots. You know, you take Aaron Rodgers off

1949
01:35:53,040 --> 01:35:55,400
Speaker 1: the Packers. Let me tell you something. The Packers without

1950
01:35:55,400 --> 01:36:02,639
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers are an afterthought. I disagree that the defense

1951
01:36:02,760 --> 01:36:05,360
Speaker 1: is really I think you're you're not giving enough credit

1952
01:36:05,400 --> 01:36:08,000
Speaker 1: to their defense. That's what you're probably right. Then if

1953
01:36:08,080 --> 01:36:10,160
Speaker 1: if you think that, if if you think that, I

1954
01:36:10,160 --> 01:36:12,160
Speaker 1: can I can live with that. Maybe I'm under rating

1955
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:16,240
Speaker 1: their defense. But that's where I'm sitting right now. I'm

1956
01:36:16,320 --> 01:36:18,439
Speaker 1: thinking their defense is not good enough, and the rest

1957
01:36:18,479 --> 01:36:22,120
Speaker 1: of their offense, running backs, offensive line are not good

1958
01:36:22,200 --> 01:36:25,200
Speaker 1: enough other than Aaron Rodgers making them look better. That's

1959
01:36:25,280 --> 01:36:27,080
Speaker 1: that's kind of where I'm sitting. Thanks Tyler, we got

1960
01:36:27,080 --> 01:36:28,960
Speaker 1: to move along. Good call, Thanks for calling. We're coming

1961
01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:30,920
Speaker 1: back with another hour to go on the show Nate

1962
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:33,360
Speaker 1: Davis USA Today, NFL writer, are gonna talk to us

1963
01:36:33,360 --> 01:36:35,680
Speaker 1: about Levan Bell. What's going on with that? Where a

1964
01:36:35,680 --> 01:36:38,400
Speaker 1: couple hours away from decision time on Levian Bell plus

1965
01:36:38,400 --> 01:36:40,920
Speaker 1: some other NFL issues with Nate Davis when we return,

1966
01:36:41,200 --> 01:36:43,479
Speaker 1: come on back, John Murphy's Team Tasker. One Bill's Live

1967
01:36:43,560 --> 01:36:46,680
Speaker 1: presented by Collada Health from One Bill's Drive. This is

1968
01:36:46,720 --> 01:37:01,519
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello Bills Radio Network Sporty Day. The

1969
01:37:01,600 --> 01:37:04,240
Speaker 1: update comes from One Bill's Drive Quiet, One Bills Drive

1970
01:37:04,240 --> 01:37:06,400
Speaker 1: with Buffalo Bills players now off for the rest of

1971
01:37:06,439 --> 01:37:08,800
Speaker 1: this week. Got the Byeway coming up the Sunday. Their

1972
01:37:08,880 --> 01:37:11,080
Speaker 1: next game is a week from Sunday, November twenty fifth,

1973
01:37:11,240 --> 01:37:15,240
Speaker 1: against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Roster moved late yesterday. Nathan Peterman

1974
01:37:15,320 --> 01:37:17,439
Speaker 1: released by the Buffalo Bills. The quarterback who began the

1975
01:37:17,520 --> 01:37:21,080
Speaker 1: season as Buffalo starter was finally released. The Bills had

1976
01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:23,519
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks on the roster right now They're down to

1977
01:37:23,600 --> 01:37:26,639
Speaker 1: three with Derek Anderson, Matt Barkley, and of course, Josh Allen.

1978
01:37:28,040 --> 01:37:30,559
Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman won the three man competition for the starting

1979
01:37:30,600 --> 01:37:34,559
Speaker 1: quarterback job in preseason, started against Baltimore, then replaced at halftime.

1980
01:37:34,800 --> 01:37:37,559
Speaker 1: For his career in Buffalo, he appeared in eight games,

1981
01:37:37,880 --> 01:37:40,920
Speaker 1: four starts, completed just over fifty two percent of his passes,

1982
01:37:41,200 --> 01:37:44,840
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, and twelve interceptions. Nathan Petermen released by the

1983
01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:48,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills late yesterday Monday Night football. Last night, New

1984
01:37:48,240 --> 01:37:50,639
Speaker 1: York Giants came from behind the ten point second half

1985
01:37:50,640 --> 01:37:53,040
Speaker 1: deficit and they beat the forty nine Ers twenty seven

1986
01:37:53,040 --> 01:37:55,799
Speaker 1: to twenty three. The Giants now two win seven losses

1987
01:37:56,040 --> 01:37:58,320
Speaker 1: and the forty nine Ers are two and eight. Former

1988
01:37:58,360 --> 01:38:00,679
Speaker 1: brown coach who Jackson going back to work in the league.

1989
01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:02,920
Speaker 1: He's going to work for his friend Marvin Lewis, head

1990
01:38:02,920 --> 01:38:05,880
Speaker 1: coach of the Cincinnati Bengals. The former Browns coach has

1991
01:38:05,880 --> 01:38:07,760
Speaker 1: been named a special assistant to the head coach. He

1992
01:38:07,760 --> 01:38:10,320
Speaker 1: as a specialist on the offensive side of the ball.

1993
01:38:10,600 --> 01:38:12,640
Speaker 1: The Bengals five and four trying to stay alive in

1994
01:38:12,640 --> 01:38:15,519
Speaker 1: the playoff race, and two of their remaining games are

1995
01:38:15,560 --> 01:38:18,880
Speaker 1: against Hugh Jackson's Cleveland Browns team, his former team. They

1996
01:38:18,880 --> 01:38:22,080
Speaker 1: play in Cincinnati November twenty fifth and in Cleveland December

1997
01:38:22,120 --> 01:38:25,200
Speaker 1: twenty third. Leaban Bell has just about two hours to

1998
01:38:25,200 --> 01:38:27,719
Speaker 1: make his decision. The All Pro running back must designed

1999
01:38:27,760 --> 01:38:29,840
Speaker 1: by four pm whether to report to the Steelers and

2000
01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:33,879
Speaker 1: sign his franchise tag. Also today, there's concern in Mexico

2001
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:36,599
Speaker 1: City over the Rams Kansas City game next Monday night.

2002
01:38:36,880 --> 01:38:40,880
Speaker 1: Awful field conditions there at Estadio Esteca in Mexico City

2003
01:38:41,120 --> 01:38:44,360
Speaker 1: concert last week soccer game played on the turf, and

2004
01:38:44,479 --> 01:38:46,360
Speaker 1: right now there are reports that the league is keeping

2005
01:38:46,360 --> 01:38:48,360
Speaker 1: an eye trying to determine whether the game could even

2006
01:38:48,400 --> 01:38:50,920
Speaker 1: be played there. Other options include moving it to Los

2007
01:38:50,920 --> 01:38:54,040
Speaker 1: Angeles or postponing it to a later date. Hockey Tonight,

2008
01:38:54,120 --> 01:38:56,599
Speaker 1: Savers and Tampa Bay faceoff at seven thirty at key

2009
01:38:56,600 --> 01:38:59,960
Speaker 1: Bank Center. That game on NBC Sports Network. John Murf,

2010
01:39:00,120 --> 01:39:02,800
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker here at One Bill's Drive. Steve, you are

2011
01:39:02,840 --> 01:39:05,080
Speaker 1: headed to hockey tonight. You're pretty pumped up about Savers

2012
01:39:05,080 --> 01:39:07,080
Speaker 1: and like a kid that's about to go in recess

2013
01:39:08,120 --> 01:39:11,160
Speaker 1: because of the game today. Yeah, okay, I'm I'm ready

2014
01:39:11,200 --> 01:39:15,439
Speaker 1: to get out and be out. I've had my child Buffalo. Yeah,

2015
01:39:15,560 --> 01:39:18,240
Speaker 1: Steve is out and about today. Hey, joining us right

2016
01:39:18,240 --> 01:39:20,120
Speaker 1: now in the subway Fresh day kindline to talk about

2017
01:39:20,200 --> 01:39:21,960
Speaker 1: Leavian Bell and some of the on the NFL issue.

2018
01:39:22,040 --> 01:39:24,720
Speaker 1: Is very happy to have USA today. NFL writer and

2019
01:39:24,880 --> 01:39:27,519
Speaker 1: editor Nate Davis. He's covered the leagues in two thousand

2020
01:39:27,520 --> 01:39:29,479
Speaker 1: and five. Nate, thanks for joining us, John Murphy and

2021
01:39:29,479 --> 01:39:32,280
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker up here in Buffalo. Thank you. Yeah, thanks

2022
01:39:32,280 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 1: for having me back. Guy. Sure Nate, I want to

2023
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:38,400
Speaker 1: start out question. We've been talking about this Levon Bell situation,

2024
01:39:38,479 --> 01:39:41,680
Speaker 1: and by all accounts and from all of us outside

2025
01:39:41,720 --> 01:39:44,640
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers organization and outside that fan base and

2026
01:39:44,680 --> 01:39:48,160
Speaker 1: all of it, it seems like an absolute mess. Can

2027
01:39:48,160 --> 01:39:50,599
Speaker 1: you shed any light on what's going on and what

2028
01:39:50,640 --> 01:39:55,280
Speaker 1: we can expect to happen at four o'clock today? If anything? Well, Steve,

2029
01:39:55,320 --> 01:39:56,880
Speaker 1: I just want to start out, start out to say,

2030
01:39:56,960 --> 01:39:59,080
Speaker 1: I grew up a Jets fan. I hated watching you play.

2031
01:40:00,040 --> 01:40:02,519
Speaker 1: Plead a complete admiration. They put you in the Hall

2032
01:40:02,520 --> 01:40:04,160
Speaker 1: of Fame. Way and wait, Nate, No, we have a

2033
01:40:04,160 --> 01:40:06,200
Speaker 1: little counter that keeps track of Hall of Fame votes.

2034
01:40:06,240 --> 01:40:08,000
Speaker 1: Receiver you voting for Seve right here for the Hall

2035
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:11,600
Speaker 1: of Fame. Uh, Jared Bell is my proxy, but I

2036
01:40:11,640 --> 01:40:13,400
Speaker 1: will I will make sure that I put something in

2037
01:40:13,479 --> 01:40:16,559
Speaker 1: his ear again super Bowl one when it comes up,

2038
01:40:18,040 --> 01:40:25,400
Speaker 1: three's like seventy five or something. Yeah, tell me about so, Nate,

2039
01:40:25,680 --> 01:40:29,360
Speaker 1: tell me about this Levon Bell mess. You know, guys,

2040
01:40:29,560 --> 01:40:32,760
Speaker 1: I was with the Steelers. I covered him for the

2041
01:40:32,760 --> 01:40:35,600
Speaker 1: Baltimore game a week ago last Sunday. Then I was

2042
01:40:35,640 --> 01:40:38,439
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh for the Panthers game. Last week, and um,

2043
01:40:38,479 --> 01:40:40,280
Speaker 1: you know, they don't want to talk about it. You know,

2044
01:40:40,320 --> 01:40:43,200
Speaker 1: I asked sen Roethlisberger after the game, Hey, you know,

2045
01:40:43,960 --> 01:40:45,960
Speaker 1: and at that point we thought he was coming back.

2046
01:40:46,640 --> 01:40:49,280
Speaker 1: You know, how do you how do you guys easier?

2047
01:40:49,320 --> 01:40:52,040
Speaker 1: It is hard to bring talent like that into an

2048
01:40:52,080 --> 01:40:54,600
Speaker 1: offense that they're playing so well right now, Steelers just

2049
01:40:54,600 --> 01:40:56,800
Speaker 1: scoring thirty five points a game the last you know,

2050
01:40:57,080 --> 01:40:59,920
Speaker 1: their five game winning streak, and then they're just shut

2051
01:41:00,040 --> 01:41:01,479
Speaker 1: it down. They don't want to talk about him and

2052
01:41:01,479 --> 01:41:03,200
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about the guy's not there. You know.

2053
01:41:03,280 --> 01:41:07,519
Speaker 1: David Castro had some strong remarks about it the previous week. Um,

2054
01:41:07,880 --> 01:41:10,240
Speaker 1: it's it's it's so rare in the NFL, you know,

2055
01:41:10,280 --> 01:41:14,439
Speaker 1: Steve for players to even a opine on another guy's

2056
01:41:14,479 --> 01:41:18,360
Speaker 1: money or contractional situation or whatever. But he clearly upset them,

2057
01:41:18,479 --> 01:41:20,559
Speaker 1: you know from the outset this year. We didn't show

2058
01:41:20,600 --> 01:41:22,840
Speaker 1: up for a week one and um, you know, and

2059
01:41:23,360 --> 01:41:25,280
Speaker 1: the other part of this is, you guys really have

2060
01:41:25,400 --> 01:41:28,519
Speaker 1: the utmost respect I think for James Connor, not only

2061
01:41:28,560 --> 01:41:30,920
Speaker 1: from when he overcame in college, but just the way

2062
01:41:31,280 --> 01:41:32,840
Speaker 1: the way he plays and the way he put his

2063
01:41:32,920 --> 01:41:35,639
Speaker 1: head down and produced for them. So um I wrote

2064
01:41:35,640 --> 01:41:37,720
Speaker 1: a column, you know, after the Panthers game saying, you know,

2065
01:41:37,720 --> 01:41:39,799
Speaker 1: even if Levy on about reports, I think the Feelers

2066
01:41:39,840 --> 01:41:42,479
Speaker 1: are better off. Just leave him an inactive you know,

2067
01:41:42,479 --> 01:41:45,400
Speaker 1: put put him through a many training camps at the

2068
01:41:45,400 --> 01:41:47,439
Speaker 1: training facility for four weeks or whatever and have him

2069
01:41:47,439 --> 01:41:49,160
Speaker 1: ready if you do them, but it doesn't look like

2070
01:41:49,160 --> 01:41:51,840
Speaker 1: we're gonna get there. It sounds like he's gonna take

2071
01:41:51,880 --> 01:41:53,720
Speaker 1: us football and go home. Yeah, let me ask you

2072
01:41:53,720 --> 01:41:56,680
Speaker 1: about that, because, let's face it, Levion bell knew what

2073
01:41:56,720 --> 01:41:58,840
Speaker 1: he was getting into. He held out this year because

2074
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:02,519
Speaker 1: last year under the tag as well, he had more

2075
01:42:02,560 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 1: touches than anybody in the in the league. I mean,

2076
01:42:04,439 --> 01:42:07,240
Speaker 1: he had like over four hundred touches, and he kind

2077
01:42:07,240 --> 01:42:09,720
Speaker 1: of was looking at the same scenario. The Steelers knew

2078
01:42:09,720 --> 01:42:11,800
Speaker 1: the end was coming for Levion Bell ei they're gonna

2079
01:42:11,800 --> 01:42:13,640
Speaker 1: pay him or overpay him, or he's gonna go on

2080
01:42:13,680 --> 01:42:16,519
Speaker 1: the free agent market. So they were probably gonna give

2081
01:42:16,600 --> 01:42:19,599
Speaker 1: him and they were gonna use him up. So him

2082
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:22,160
Speaker 1: sitting out this whole year, he stays fresh. He gets

2083
01:42:22,160 --> 01:42:24,400
Speaker 1: a year to recuperate from the last year he had

2084
01:42:24,800 --> 01:42:27,800
Speaker 1: and go into free agency healthy. But does that add

2085
01:42:27,880 --> 01:42:33,120
Speaker 1: up to fourteen and a half million dollars. Yeah, that's

2086
01:42:33,120 --> 01:42:35,040
Speaker 1: a great question to you. I mean, I can't really

2087
01:42:35,040 --> 01:42:38,240
Speaker 1: figure out the business strategy of walking away from fourteen

2088
01:42:38,240 --> 01:42:41,000
Speaker 1: and a half million dollars. You know, guaranteed eight hundred

2089
01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:43,439
Speaker 1: and fifty five thousand dollars a week in game checks.

2090
01:42:43,880 --> 01:42:47,920
Speaker 1: That's that he's given up and given Also just you know,

2091
01:42:47,960 --> 01:42:50,760
Speaker 1: the way way running backs get paid, that's that's a

2092
01:42:50,760 --> 01:42:54,000
Speaker 1: pretty good chunk of change for anybody, but particularly with

2093
01:42:54,080 --> 01:42:56,680
Speaker 1: that market, and um, you know, at the time this

2094
01:42:56,760 --> 01:42:58,639
Speaker 1: all started, you know, he had the opportunity to sign

2095
01:42:58,720 --> 01:43:01,639
Speaker 1: a new deal back in Jolt. At that point, Shady

2096
01:43:01,720 --> 01:43:04,559
Speaker 1: McCoy and H DeVante Freeman, I think we're the highest

2097
01:43:04,600 --> 01:43:07,760
Speaker 1: paid backs on a multi year contract. They were both

2098
01:43:07,760 --> 01:43:10,439
Speaker 1: at about eight million. And then we saw Todd Gurley

2099
01:43:10,479 --> 01:43:14,519
Speaker 1: reset the market later and H and David Johnson. So um,

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Speaker 1: but you know, again, seems like Levion also thinks he's

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01:43:16,920 --> 01:43:19,639
Speaker 1: got he should be up in the wide receiver market

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01:43:19,640 --> 01:43:22,280
Speaker 1: and making Antonio Brown money, which is like severt he's played.

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01:43:22,600 --> 01:43:26,559
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of tentacles whatever. He couldn't strategy. Yeah,

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01:43:26,560 --> 01:43:28,680
Speaker 1: and it seems that it was a reporter that he

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01:43:28,840 --> 01:43:32,599
Speaker 1: turned down the seventy million dollars five year deal. Now granted,

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01:43:32,600 --> 01:43:34,240
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of players feel this way

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01:43:34,240 --> 01:43:37,800
Speaker 1: that was not guaranteed money. Very little of it was guaranteed. Um,

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01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:41,880
Speaker 1: so he wanted no part of it, right, Yeah, I

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01:43:42,000 --> 01:43:44,720
Speaker 1: think that deal with structure where thirty million was guaranteed,

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01:43:45,040 --> 01:43:48,639
Speaker 1: which which was essentially two years of the franchise tag.

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01:43:48,760 --> 01:43:51,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, he was he was betting on himself. But

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01:43:51,080 --> 01:43:52,760
Speaker 1: he could get more down the line. But of course

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01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:54,160
Speaker 1: that was kind of before we knew he was. He

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01:43:54,200 --> 01:43:57,000
Speaker 1: wasn't going to report at all, by the way, around

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01:43:57,000 --> 01:43:59,639
Speaker 1: the line with Nate Davis USA today NFL writer editor,

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01:44:00,040 --> 01:44:02,080
Speaker 1: take you through some of the scenarios that could happen

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01:44:02,160 --> 01:44:05,240
Speaker 1: here at four o'clock and what happens, For instance, leban

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01:44:05,320 --> 01:44:08,599
Speaker 1: Bell decides to walk into report, he shows up for work,

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01:44:08,640 --> 01:44:10,920
Speaker 1: and what they can throw a uniform on him and

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01:44:10,920 --> 01:44:14,240
Speaker 1: play him right away. That is that even viable? Do

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01:44:14,280 --> 01:44:17,200
Speaker 1: you think? Well? I don't think it's viable. I mean

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01:44:17,240 --> 01:44:19,000
Speaker 1: if if he shows up for work and signs a

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01:44:19,120 --> 01:44:21,200
Speaker 1: tag by four o'clock, I mean, yeah, he goes on

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01:44:21,320 --> 01:44:24,000
Speaker 1: to the roster as part of the fifty three do

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01:44:24,120 --> 01:44:27,800
Speaker 1: they want to get at this point, well, I can't

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01:44:27,840 --> 01:44:30,320
Speaker 1: imagine that they do. Again, they're not talking about it.

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01:44:30,360 --> 01:44:31,760
Speaker 1: But that's the other part of it too. You know

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01:44:31,840 --> 01:44:34,360
Speaker 1: last year twenty seventeen, he showed up, you know, four

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01:44:34,439 --> 01:44:37,000
Speaker 1: days before the season started ice I think, and it

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01:44:37,080 --> 01:44:39,160
Speaker 1: took him. It took him a good month around into shape.

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01:44:39,320 --> 01:44:41,000
Speaker 1: Look at his numbers. I think he had about seventy

2132
01:44:41,040 --> 01:44:43,240
Speaker 1: five yards a game, you know, scrimmage yards the first

2133
01:44:43,280 --> 01:44:45,439
Speaker 1: three and it was up to about one hundred and

2134
01:44:45,479 --> 01:44:48,360
Speaker 1: forty over the last twelve weeks. So that's another problem

2135
01:44:48,439 --> 01:44:51,120
Speaker 1: is you got to bring a guy in if he

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01:44:51,200 --> 01:44:54,040
Speaker 1: reports he's not in football shape, and then then you're

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01:44:54,040 --> 01:44:56,080
Speaker 1: waiting for him to get into football shape for the

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01:44:56,120 --> 01:44:57,880
Speaker 1: better part of a month. And how do you do that.

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01:44:58,000 --> 01:44:59,680
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not gonna take James Connor out of

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01:44:59,680 --> 01:45:02,120
Speaker 1: your up and you know his lady on bell getting

2141
01:45:02,160 --> 01:45:04,360
Speaker 1: football shape by getting ten or twelve touch as the game.

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01:45:04,439 --> 01:45:07,160
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know, But to your question, John, yeah,

2143
01:45:07,160 --> 01:45:08,600
Speaker 1: I mean if he shows up, he reports he's on

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01:45:08,640 --> 01:45:11,560
Speaker 1: the roster, and then Steelers guys decide, you know, what

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01:45:11,720 --> 01:45:13,639
Speaker 1: to do with him. And this was another point I made.

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01:45:13,680 --> 01:45:16,120
Speaker 1: And then the column is you know, some people are saying, oh,

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01:45:16,200 --> 01:45:18,760
Speaker 1: it's just like Alvin Kamara and mark Ingram, you know,

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01:45:18,840 --> 01:45:22,200
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh style. I don't think so. I mean the Saints,

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01:45:22,240 --> 01:45:24,200
Speaker 1: those guys are used to playing, you know, kind of

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01:45:24,240 --> 01:45:26,479
Speaker 1: in a complimentary Well he's seeing on the field at

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01:45:26,520 --> 01:45:29,719
Speaker 1: the same time together. Steelers haven't done that. James Connor

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01:45:29,800 --> 01:45:31,639
Speaker 1: had two touches a game last year and they weren't

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01:45:31,680 --> 01:45:34,519
Speaker 1: necessarily on the field at the same time. And lady

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01:45:34,600 --> 01:45:37,000
Speaker 1: On Bell has never played in this office Randy Fickner

2155
01:45:37,040 --> 01:45:38,880
Speaker 1: as a coordinator. So this is not just a show

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01:45:38,960 --> 01:45:41,519
Speaker 1: up and plug him in right away situation to me.

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01:45:41,800 --> 01:45:44,799
Speaker 1: So on the other side, if labe On Bell decides,

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01:45:44,920 --> 01:45:46,720
Speaker 1: you know, four o'clock comes and goes, and then what

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01:45:46,840 --> 01:45:50,880
Speaker 1: he's a free agent until next spring. Well, if he

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01:45:51,080 --> 01:45:53,280
Speaker 1: doesn't a show up, he cannot play this year. That's

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01:45:53,280 --> 01:45:55,360
Speaker 1: the real decision note today is if he's not there,

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01:45:55,640 --> 01:45:59,400
Speaker 1: he's not gonna play this year. And then basically, you know,

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01:45:59,479 --> 01:46:02,559
Speaker 1: we're kind back to square one from last year. Does

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01:46:02,560 --> 01:46:05,240
Speaker 1: the Steelers decide to tag him again? If they don't,

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01:46:05,320 --> 01:46:07,600
Speaker 1: then he does become a bona friese free agent that

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01:46:07,640 --> 01:46:09,920
Speaker 1: they're probably not going to franchise to tag him again,

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01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:13,040
Speaker 1: because a third tag would be twenty five million bucks

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Speaker 1: or more, and that's that's just not running back money. Yeah,

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01:46:16,760 --> 01:46:20,720
Speaker 1: what about a transition tag so race they could use that,

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01:46:20,920 --> 01:46:22,880
Speaker 1: and then what the deal of the transition tag is?

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01:46:23,479 --> 01:46:26,360
Speaker 1: Listen to him negotiate with another team as with a

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01:46:26,439 --> 01:46:29,280
Speaker 1: franchise tag um, But there's no there's no draft pick

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01:46:29,360 --> 01:46:33,559
Speaker 1: compensation involved. So if you say, say the Bills come

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01:46:33,600 --> 01:46:36,200
Speaker 1: and make it Levyon Bell and offer and he signs

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01:46:36,280 --> 01:46:39,240
Speaker 1: the offer sheet, the Steelers didn't have the opportunity to

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01:46:39,360 --> 01:46:41,800
Speaker 1: match it and keep him, or they have the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to decline it, and he walks away for nothing to

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Speaker 1: to the new team. And I just want to say,

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01:46:47,320 --> 01:46:48,800
Speaker 1: and Steve kind of made this fine a minute or

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01:46:48,800 --> 01:46:51,360
Speaker 1: two go here, it's hard to figure out the cost

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01:46:51,479 --> 01:46:53,760
Speaker 1: benefit that the Levon Bell got out of all this.

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01:46:54,640 --> 01:46:55,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to put you on the spot night,

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01:46:56,040 --> 01:46:58,080
Speaker 1: but do you know who lady On Bell's agent is,

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01:46:58,200 --> 01:47:00,559
Speaker 1: and maybe what he's thinking is what is statements have been,

2185
01:47:00,600 --> 01:47:03,519
Speaker 1: what his strategy has been here? Yeah. I reached out

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01:47:03,560 --> 01:47:07,200
Speaker 1: to him last week and having heard back, as Desa mccari,

2187
01:47:07,360 --> 01:47:09,960
Speaker 1: who's also an agent, from Maurice Jones Drew. You remember

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01:47:10,000 --> 01:47:12,080
Speaker 1: he kind of had you know, a rough rough hole

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01:47:12,200 --> 01:47:16,160
Speaker 1: hold out sure the Jaguars a few years back. And

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01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:18,559
Speaker 1: you know mjd has said that the DISA kept him

2191
01:47:18,600 --> 01:47:20,920
Speaker 1: very up to speed on the permutations and the cost

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01:47:21,000 --> 01:47:23,720
Speaker 1: men I said on a daily basis. So you can

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01:47:23,760 --> 01:47:27,439
Speaker 1: only assume that Levyon has gone into this with eyes open.

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01:47:27,640 --> 01:47:30,560
Speaker 1: But again it's hard for me to figure what the

2195
01:47:30,640 --> 01:47:34,280
Speaker 1: benefit really winds up being for him. And again, you know, Steve,

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01:47:34,320 --> 01:47:36,960
Speaker 1: you mentioned the transition tag. At the end of the day,

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01:47:37,200 --> 01:47:39,919
Speaker 1: the Steelers could still really control his fate again, particularly

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01:47:39,960 --> 01:47:41,720
Speaker 1: if they do let him negotiate with another team and

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Speaker 1: then say, you know what, we're gonna match it, We're

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01:47:43,920 --> 01:47:46,080
Speaker 1: gonna keep you and you're stuck in Pittsburgh again. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the real question is he held out. And the perfect

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01:47:49,120 --> 01:47:51,439
Speaker 1: scenario for Levion Bell was it he would hold out

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01:47:51,439 --> 01:47:53,479
Speaker 1: in the Pittsburgh Steelers offense would go in the tank

2204
01:47:53,560 --> 01:47:55,760
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't be able to replace him. That's far

2205
01:47:55,920 --> 01:47:59,160
Speaker 1: from the case. James Connor has really played extremely well.

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01:47:59,240 --> 01:48:02,280
Speaker 1: They've got a guy who's stepped into that and made

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01:48:02,640 --> 01:48:05,200
Speaker 1: Levion Bell looked like he was a product of the

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01:48:05,320 --> 01:48:10,160
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line. Yeah, some ways that's true. I

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01:48:10,200 --> 01:48:12,280
Speaker 1: mean J James Connor has been a revelation. You know,

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01:48:12,320 --> 01:48:13,800
Speaker 1: we all know the story if I didn't have a

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01:48:13,880 --> 01:48:16,400
Speaker 1: cancer and all that in college and overcoming it. But

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01:48:17,120 --> 01:48:19,599
Speaker 1: he's been a much more I think, multidimensional back when

2213
01:48:19,720 --> 01:48:21,640
Speaker 1: give him credit for you know, he didn't had to

2214
01:48:21,720 --> 01:48:24,639
Speaker 1: pass last season, guys, not one pass, and then he's

2215
01:48:24,640 --> 01:48:26,639
Speaker 1: had this string of games with a hundred yards rushing

2216
01:48:26,680 --> 01:48:29,760
Speaker 1: in fifty yards receiving. Uh, you know, he's not the

2217
01:48:29,880 --> 01:48:33,200
Speaker 1: gifted rout runner and maybe you know, can't do the

2218
01:48:33,280 --> 01:48:35,479
Speaker 1: stop and start cutting the dime stuff that Levon does

2219
01:48:35,520 --> 01:48:38,519
Speaker 1: behind the blocks sometimes. But by the same token, he's

2220
01:48:38,560 --> 01:48:40,800
Speaker 1: a one cut and he is he is hitting the

2221
01:48:40,840 --> 01:48:42,719
Speaker 1: whole hard kind of guy, and I think his teammates

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01:48:42,800 --> 01:48:46,120
Speaker 1: really admire his style of play and they have not lost,

2223
01:48:46,240 --> 01:48:49,400
Speaker 1: you know, a drip of production at all from switching

2224
01:48:49,479 --> 01:48:52,040
Speaker 1: from Lavon to to connotas year. A couple of minutes

2225
01:48:52,120 --> 01:48:55,120
Speaker 1: left with Nate Davis USA today, NFL writer editor, just

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01:48:55,240 --> 01:48:57,760
Speaker 1: looking at some other league issues. Nate, it's hard, you know,

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01:48:58,000 --> 01:49:02,000
Speaker 1: Patriots loss of the Titans, and absolutely the Patriots will

2228
01:49:02,040 --> 01:49:04,040
Speaker 1: have their bumps in the road. But I get the

2229
01:49:04,120 --> 01:49:07,400
Speaker 1: sense that maybe that loss has some some imports, some

2230
01:49:07,560 --> 01:49:10,880
Speaker 1: significance for New England, especially in terms of home field

2231
01:49:10,920 --> 01:49:14,160
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and maybe even a chink in the

2232
01:49:14,280 --> 01:49:16,680
Speaker 1: armor of a Patriots team that normally by this time

2233
01:49:16,720 --> 01:49:19,479
Speaker 1: of the year mid November is is rolling along. What

2234
01:49:19,560 --> 01:49:21,479
Speaker 1: did you see that Titans went over the Patriots? What

2235
01:49:21,520 --> 01:49:25,559
Speaker 1: does it mean to New England? Yeah, I'm not sure.

2236
01:49:25,920 --> 01:49:29,320
Speaker 1: I couldn't pendpoint too much with that one day. They

2237
01:49:29,360 --> 01:49:32,360
Speaker 1: do tend to lay these eggs every once in a while.

2238
01:49:32,439 --> 01:49:34,920
Speaker 1: They are a little uh you know, you know, beat

2239
01:49:35,000 --> 01:49:37,080
Speaker 1: up right now, it's still kind of incorporating some new

2240
01:49:37,479 --> 01:49:40,439
Speaker 1: Tony Michelle is just coming back. No, no cronk in

2241
01:49:40,560 --> 01:49:43,600
Speaker 1: that game. But you do one or two about the

2242
01:49:43,680 --> 01:49:46,479
Speaker 1: odometer sometimes, and particularly when you've had so many deep

2243
01:49:46,520 --> 01:49:49,360
Speaker 1: playoff runs, est you can speak speak to that. But

2244
01:49:49,479 --> 01:49:52,960
Speaker 1: you know, one fund stat I point back to this year, guys,

2245
01:49:53,080 --> 01:49:54,760
Speaker 1: is you know the Patriots had never gone back to

2246
01:49:54,840 --> 01:49:58,000
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl the year after they lost it, um

2247
01:49:58,200 --> 01:50:00,639
Speaker 1: so and there have been a few I guess they've

2248
01:50:00,680 --> 01:50:03,120
Speaker 1: lost five now in their history, or in three in

2249
01:50:03,160 --> 01:50:05,880
Speaker 1: the Brady era, but it's hard to get back that

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01:50:06,000 --> 01:50:08,559
Speaker 1: far just because you're you know, eventually, you know, at

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01:50:08,600 --> 01:50:11,000
Speaker 1: some point they're playing a full extra season over over

2252
01:50:11,080 --> 01:50:13,840
Speaker 1: there other you know, these other teams over the course

2253
01:50:13,880 --> 01:50:16,120
Speaker 1: of a couple of years, and those guys are getting

2254
01:50:16,160 --> 01:50:20,000
Speaker 1: older so um and they have had so much turnover,

2255
01:50:20,160 --> 01:50:22,879
Speaker 1: you know, with especially in that backfield and Sony Michelby

2256
01:50:22,920 --> 01:50:26,000
Speaker 1: and the new guy uh and being hurt and trying

2257
01:50:26,040 --> 01:50:28,240
Speaker 1: to kind of you know, get by with Cordarrell Patterson

2258
01:50:28,280 --> 01:50:30,680
Speaker 1: and guys like that run the ball for you um.

2259
01:50:31,200 --> 01:50:35,040
Speaker 1: And that that defense still, in my opinion, not really fixed.

2260
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:36,960
Speaker 1: I mean we saw it exposed in the Super Bowl

2261
01:50:37,080 --> 01:50:39,920
Speaker 1: last year. It's not a dominant unit. I mean, it's

2262
01:50:39,960 --> 01:50:42,439
Speaker 1: built to kind of give up those empty calorie yards

2263
01:50:43,280 --> 01:50:45,360
Speaker 1: between the twenties, but not in the red zone. And

2264
01:50:45,479 --> 01:50:47,080
Speaker 1: that's kind of how they design it. But I mean

2265
01:50:47,120 --> 01:50:49,360
Speaker 1: there are there are gonna be those weeks the Patriots

2266
01:50:49,360 --> 01:50:52,280
Speaker 1: can be had. Yeah. It's interesting too because there's there's

2267
01:50:52,280 --> 01:50:54,360
Speaker 1: a handful of teams in the league that are kind

2268
01:50:54,400 --> 01:50:56,639
Speaker 1: of separating themselves, New England being one of them, despite

2269
01:50:56,640 --> 01:50:58,920
Speaker 1: their loss last week. You got New Orleans, you've got

2270
01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:01,800
Speaker 1: the Rams, you've got the Chiefs, and you know, you'd

2271
01:51:01,800 --> 01:51:05,200
Speaker 1: almost think you'd almost put almost put Pittsburgh in that

2272
01:51:05,320 --> 01:51:08,720
Speaker 1: thing too at six two and one. But yeah, the

2273
01:51:08,920 --> 01:51:11,000
Speaker 1: Chargers at seven and two. I mean, you've got like

2274
01:51:11,080 --> 01:51:13,880
Speaker 1: six or seven teams that are have have nots. What

2275
01:51:14,479 --> 01:51:18,240
Speaker 1: you know, give us a kind of insight. Is the

2276
01:51:18,320 --> 01:51:21,799
Speaker 1: team I'm looking at is the Rams, who who emerged

2277
01:51:21,880 --> 01:51:24,280
Speaker 1: last season under Sean mcvayh and have kept it going

2278
01:51:24,360 --> 01:51:26,400
Speaker 1: and kind of pushed all their chips to the center

2279
01:51:26,439 --> 01:51:28,720
Speaker 1: of the table pre you know, in the preseason. This

2280
01:51:28,840 --> 01:51:30,719
Speaker 1: year they got the free agents, they spent the money,

2281
01:51:31,000 --> 01:51:33,439
Speaker 1: and now they've got two guys in Aaron Donald and

2282
01:51:33,520 --> 01:51:36,600
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley who aren't even quarterbacks, who are making a

2283
01:51:36,680 --> 01:51:39,439
Speaker 1: bid for the MVP. I mean they're playing that well

2284
01:51:39,479 --> 01:51:42,920
Speaker 1: out in La. How I mean, is this La is

2285
01:51:43,080 --> 01:51:44,960
Speaker 1: La that the team to be? I mean, you got

2286
01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:46,720
Speaker 1: the Rant, you got the Saints over there. You know,

2287
01:51:46,840 --> 01:51:49,760
Speaker 1: the NFC's loaded. How good are the rand I've seen

2288
01:51:49,840 --> 01:51:51,880
Speaker 1: him play, I've seen it up close and personal. They

2289
01:51:51,920 --> 01:51:53,840
Speaker 1: had everything going against them this last week and they

2290
01:51:53,920 --> 01:51:57,080
Speaker 1: still won. I mean, this team in LA. Talk about

2291
01:51:57,080 --> 01:52:00,800
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley, about Aaron Donald, Jared Goff, and how good

2292
01:52:00,880 --> 01:52:04,680
Speaker 1: this Rams team is from top to bottom. Well, it's

2293
01:52:04,720 --> 01:52:07,639
Speaker 1: certainly the good Steven. You know, they're like you said,

2294
01:52:07,680 --> 01:52:10,120
Speaker 1: they're kind of in that, you know, throw throw about

2295
01:52:10,160 --> 01:52:11,960
Speaker 1: half of those teams in the bag and pick one out.

2296
01:52:12,000 --> 01:52:15,080
Speaker 1: You can probably make a strong Super Bowl case for them,

2297
01:52:15,280 --> 01:52:18,599
Speaker 1: and they're they're certainly one and having an innovative, innovative

2298
01:52:18,640 --> 01:52:21,840
Speaker 1: coach with with Sean McVay. I guess the reason I

2299
01:52:21,920 --> 01:52:24,360
Speaker 1: worry about them a little bit is that defense. And

2300
01:52:24,640 --> 01:52:26,479
Speaker 1: you do have two guys in Aaron Donald and the

2301
01:52:26,600 --> 01:52:29,720
Speaker 1: Dominican Sue who are just, you know, tremendous players, but

2302
01:52:29,840 --> 01:52:31,640
Speaker 1: they're also kind of up the field of rushers a

2303
01:52:31,680 --> 01:52:34,000
Speaker 1: lot of the time. And this this team has been

2304
01:52:34,040 --> 01:52:37,360
Speaker 1: a bit vulnerable against the run. It's back very vulnerable

2305
01:52:37,360 --> 01:52:39,599
Speaker 1: against the run, and they've also been vulnerably at the pass.

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01:52:40,160 --> 01:52:41,840
Speaker 1: Keep to leave out and I think once they get

2307
01:52:41,920 --> 01:52:43,920
Speaker 1: him back, you know, that might be when they really

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Speaker 1: hit their stride, when they've had a little extra time

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01:52:45,960 --> 01:52:48,840
Speaker 1: to hum, you know, get Dante Fowler up to speed

2310
01:52:49,040 --> 01:52:51,560
Speaker 1: in their system. But you gotta like the Rams. But

2311
01:52:51,760 --> 01:52:54,559
Speaker 1: I'd say my personal favorite really the last month has

2312
01:52:54,640 --> 01:52:57,840
Speaker 1: been New Orleans and I just like the I call

2313
01:52:57,920 --> 01:52:59,519
Speaker 1: them kind of the All Weather team. Although I don't

2314
01:52:59,520 --> 01:53:01,080
Speaker 1: think they're going to need to be because they've got

2315
01:53:01,120 --> 01:53:03,720
Speaker 1: that inside track now on the number one seed in

2316
01:53:03,760 --> 01:53:06,439
Speaker 1: the NFC. But you know, when you've got the NFL's

2317
01:53:06,439 --> 01:53:08,240
Speaker 1: all time leading pastor and then you've got the best

2318
01:53:08,560 --> 01:53:11,320
Speaker 1: running back duo in the league, you know, you bring

2319
01:53:11,400 --> 01:53:13,560
Speaker 1: in Brandon Marshall, a guy like that, it's truly a

2320
01:53:14,200 --> 01:53:16,800
Speaker 1: luxury um. And then I think of their defense like

2321
01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:19,320
Speaker 1: the old Colts. I mean, these guys are pretty much

2322
01:53:19,400 --> 01:53:21,600
Speaker 1: up twenty one nothing out of the shoot on their

2323
01:53:21,640 --> 01:53:23,800
Speaker 1: opponents recently. You know, all you're asking your defense to

2324
01:53:23,840 --> 01:53:25,920
Speaker 1: do at that point spend the years back, you go

2325
01:53:25,960 --> 01:53:28,479
Speaker 1: out to the quarterback and hold the league. I really

2326
01:53:28,560 --> 01:53:30,080
Speaker 1: like what they're doing. And I think, you know, I

2327
01:53:30,080 --> 01:53:33,360
Speaker 1: don't think plays better than much on pas does. Hey, Nate,

2328
01:53:33,439 --> 01:53:35,040
Speaker 1: thanks for this. Good to talk with you. We'll keep

2329
01:53:35,040 --> 01:53:37,479
Speaker 1: an eye on your reporting on Levian Bell and everything

2330
01:53:37,520 --> 01:53:40,160
Speaker 1: else around the league. We appreciate it. Okay, and I'll

2331
01:53:40,200 --> 01:53:42,320
Speaker 1: vote for Steve. Thank you, another vote for you only

2332
01:53:42,360 --> 01:53:44,400
Speaker 1: get one vote, just one vote. Name you've already voted.

2333
01:53:44,439 --> 01:53:48,080
Speaker 1: We've already been wasted on me. It's already even counted.

2334
01:53:48,120 --> 01:53:50,920
Speaker 1: We already took note of it. Nate Davis covers the NFL.

2335
01:53:51,080 --> 01:53:54,320
Speaker 1: NFL writer editor for USA Today. He's covered the NFL

2336
01:53:54,400 --> 01:53:57,040
Speaker 1: for about thirteen years now. Joined to sign the Subway

2337
01:53:57,040 --> 01:54:00,160
Speaker 1: Fresh Take kindline presented by Subway Restaurant's Proud to be

2338
01:54:00,280 --> 01:54:03,280
Speaker 1: locally owned and operated. Steve and I coming back with

2339
01:54:03,400 --> 01:54:05,639
Speaker 1: more more calls. Will take from you. How many wins

2340
01:54:05,920 --> 01:54:08,280
Speaker 1: left in the tank for the Buffalo Bills six games left?

2341
01:54:08,479 --> 01:54:10,799
Speaker 1: How many do you think they will win? We'll revisit

2342
01:54:10,840 --> 01:54:12,920
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll and talk with you about it on

2343
01:54:12,960 --> 01:54:16,720
Speaker 1: the telephone line at eight o fifty and three at

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01:54:16,760 --> 01:54:19,200
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty plus

2345
01:54:20,200 --> 01:54:22,240
Speaker 1: NFL true and false. Gotta do it Today, We're back

2346
01:54:22,280 --> 01:54:24,160
Speaker 1: with more One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive on

2347
01:54:24,240 --> 01:54:40,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to one Bills Live from

2348
01:54:40,000 --> 01:54:42,520
Speaker 1: One Bills Trying. John Murphy, Seve Tasker kind of got

2349
01:54:42,560 --> 01:54:44,760
Speaker 1: into it with Nate Davis. But you know you're a

2350
01:54:45,280 --> 01:54:47,680
Speaker 1: Saber season ticket over, but you really pumped about this

2351
01:54:47,760 --> 01:54:49,400
Speaker 1: game tonight. Tell me why? Don't ask me why, I

2352
01:54:49,480 --> 01:54:52,240
Speaker 1: just why tell me in a while because they're playing

2353
01:54:52,280 --> 01:54:55,040
Speaker 1: one of the top teams in the conference and you

2354
01:54:55,120 --> 01:54:58,680
Speaker 1: want to see him measure up, and they've been playing

2355
01:54:58,720 --> 01:55:00,080
Speaker 1: well of late. They had a day or two. You

2356
01:55:00,240 --> 01:55:02,680
Speaker 1: off and come on, let's see it. You know, I

2357
01:55:02,760 --> 01:55:05,320
Speaker 1: want to see you guys step up and uh punch

2358
01:55:05,400 --> 01:55:06,920
Speaker 1: him in the mouth. You don't have to win the game,

2359
01:55:07,000 --> 01:55:08,800
Speaker 1: but I don't want you getting beat four nothing either.

2360
01:55:09,400 --> 01:55:11,720
Speaker 1: Let's let's compete and let's see what it's like to

2361
01:55:11,760 --> 01:55:14,800
Speaker 1: get up there. Um, it's time for the Sabers to

2362
01:55:14,840 --> 01:55:18,160
Speaker 1: measure themselves against these guys and to measure up instead

2363
01:55:18,200 --> 01:55:21,080
Speaker 1: of instead of seeing how far they have to go.

2364
01:55:21,160 --> 01:55:23,480
Speaker 1: You're pretty bumped or pretty pumped. I feel like a

2365
01:55:23,600 --> 01:55:25,640
Speaker 1: kid that's about ready to go on because you're a

2366
01:55:25,720 --> 01:55:29,080
Speaker 1: hockey game. I'm just getting out of math class at nothing, nothing,

2367
01:55:29,440 --> 01:55:31,400
Speaker 1: you know, nothing to say that this isn't a fun job.

2368
01:55:31,440 --> 01:55:33,240
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. It's like you're getting out of math

2369
01:55:33,360 --> 01:55:35,560
Speaker 1: class and you're going out to recessing about you know,

2370
01:55:35,680 --> 01:55:37,560
Speaker 1: twenty minutes and you just can't wait. This will be

2371
01:55:37,640 --> 01:55:40,360
Speaker 1: your third or fourth game this year already third or fourth? Yeah,

2372
01:55:40,440 --> 01:55:41,760
Speaker 1: and how are you gonna wind up going to this

2373
01:55:42,120 --> 01:55:45,440
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty? That's good God, I'm looking forward to January

2374
01:55:45,440 --> 01:55:47,240
Speaker 1: when I start using my season You can imagine because

2375
01:55:47,280 --> 01:55:49,640
Speaker 1: most of my game up until January or December, you know,

2376
01:55:49,680 --> 01:55:51,440
Speaker 1: I kind of got to go midweek games. I can't

2377
01:55:51,480 --> 01:55:53,880
Speaker 1: hit the weekend games. I actually missed the Saturday game

2378
01:55:53,880 --> 01:55:56,040
Speaker 1: because I was out of town. So yeah, Hey, we

2379
01:55:56,120 --> 01:55:59,000
Speaker 1: want to keep talking with you about our Twitter poll conversations.

2380
01:55:59,040 --> 01:56:01,200
Speaker 1: It's a good one. More than thirty seven hundred votes

2381
01:56:01,200 --> 01:56:04,000
Speaker 1: in on Twitter bills. With six games remaining, how many

2382
01:56:04,080 --> 01:56:06,640
Speaker 1: will they win? On Twitter? Forty seven percent of you

2383
01:56:06,680 --> 01:56:09,080
Speaker 1: say they're gonna win zero to two, zero, one or

2384
01:56:09,120 --> 01:56:11,080
Speaker 1: two more games. Thirty five percent say they're gonna win

2385
01:56:11,160 --> 01:56:14,120
Speaker 1: three or four. Seventeen percent say they're gonna win h

2386
01:56:14,320 --> 01:56:16,640
Speaker 1: five or six. Give us a call, we'll discuss. We

2387
01:56:16,720 --> 01:56:18,680
Speaker 1: can read some of your tweets on the air. Eight

2388
01:56:18,760 --> 01:56:20,520
Speaker 1: O three oh five fifty the number to call them

2389
01:56:20,560 --> 01:56:23,800
Speaker 1: with your tweets, and if you'd like to discuss eight

2390
01:56:23,880 --> 01:56:26,040
Speaker 1: O three oh five fifty and twell three one eight

2391
01:56:26,200 --> 01:56:29,680
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty, let's take a

2392
01:56:29,760 --> 01:56:31,560
Speaker 1: call or two on this issue. How many more wins

2393
01:56:31,600 --> 01:56:35,000
Speaker 1: do they have? It's uh, Jonathan and Alden. Jonathan, go ahead,

2394
01:56:35,000 --> 01:56:38,240
Speaker 1: you're on the air, Hey, John Hasty, first news. First,

2395
01:56:38,240 --> 01:56:41,760
Speaker 1: I want to give Steve Hall of Fame vote. And secondly,

2396
01:56:42,720 --> 01:56:46,960
Speaker 1: Bills can win three or four more because I would

2397
01:56:47,000 --> 01:56:49,400
Speaker 1: like Wyatt Toller. I think he has somedings he has.

2398
01:56:49,600 --> 01:56:52,880
Speaker 1: He approves our offensive line, and really, I'll chall we

2399
01:56:52,960 --> 01:56:54,800
Speaker 1: see what josh Y Allen looks like with a better

2400
01:56:54,840 --> 01:56:57,720
Speaker 1: offensive line. I really got thirve receives, so I didn't

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01:56:57,720 --> 01:57:00,280
Speaker 1: see more of all fields declared. I mean, yeah, jas

2402
01:57:00,280 --> 01:57:02,720
Speaker 1: are a bad team, but I'm looking forward to tailback

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01:57:02,720 --> 01:57:04,880
Speaker 1: I would say for more wins. Yeah, I think I'm

2404
01:57:05,000 --> 01:57:07,640
Speaker 1: more interested also, not only in seeing how josh Adam

2405
01:57:07,640 --> 01:57:09,480
Speaker 1: plays against the Jaguars. I want to see this defense

2406
01:57:09,560 --> 01:57:12,360
Speaker 1: up against an offense that struggled, you know. I want

2407
01:57:12,400 --> 01:57:14,360
Speaker 1: to see him against a quarterback that throws it to

2408
01:57:14,360 --> 01:57:15,960
Speaker 1: the other team a little too much, you know. I

2409
01:57:16,040 --> 01:57:18,120
Speaker 1: want to see how that helps this offense get better

2410
01:57:18,200 --> 01:57:22,480
Speaker 1: as well. I think it was an enormous and you

2411
01:57:22,600 --> 01:57:25,000
Speaker 1: mentioned I think you mentioned this yesterday, and I'm sure

2412
01:57:25,080 --> 01:57:29,400
Speaker 1: we did that the Bills. We talked to Terrell Pryor

2413
01:57:29,480 --> 01:57:31,320
Speaker 1: last week and he said, listen, we need one big play,

2414
01:57:31,360 --> 01:57:32,680
Speaker 1: and they got it on the first play of the game.

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01:57:32,760 --> 01:57:35,760
Speaker 1: Two plays into this game on Sunday, the Bills have

2416
01:57:35,920 --> 01:57:37,560
Speaker 1: the lead. It's the first time they played with the lead,

2417
01:57:37,960 --> 01:57:40,560
Speaker 1: and that defense came out a little bit with a

2418
01:57:40,600 --> 01:57:42,280
Speaker 1: little bit of pep in their step, you could tell.

2419
01:57:42,320 --> 01:57:44,480
Speaker 1: And that's a different attitude. And I think I'd love

2420
01:57:44,560 --> 01:57:46,160
Speaker 1: to see him do that a little more often, and

2421
01:57:46,240 --> 01:57:49,200
Speaker 1: hopefully with an offense like Jacksonville's coming in here with

2422
01:57:49,720 --> 01:57:52,000
Speaker 1: this Bill's defense can do that again. On the tweet

2423
01:57:52,080 --> 01:57:53,960
Speaker 1: sheet to the question how many more wins for the

2424
01:57:54,000 --> 01:57:57,640
Speaker 1: Bills this year? Malory Livingston, this is a good one.

2425
01:57:58,200 --> 01:58:00,680
Speaker 1: How many more wins for the Bills? Malorie Livingston. Our

2426
01:58:00,720 --> 01:58:03,480
Speaker 1: offense with all the new parts is like a couple's

2427
01:58:03,560 --> 01:58:06,880
Speaker 1: awkward first dance, Lots of toe stepping, knee knocking and

2428
01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:10,160
Speaker 1: elbow clacking going on. Once they find their rhythm, figure

2429
01:58:10,200 --> 01:58:12,680
Speaker 1: out what they're good at and they're sore toes, heal up,

2430
01:58:13,000 --> 01:58:18,480
Speaker 1: they'll be fine and win some games. Toe tap, You

2431
01:58:18,560 --> 01:58:20,800
Speaker 1: gotta tell, Mallory put a lot of thought into that

2432
01:58:20,840 --> 01:58:26,160
Speaker 1: little analogy. Yeah, that's it's um. They have been awkward

2433
01:58:26,440 --> 01:58:30,360
Speaker 1: at best at some spots during this season. Yeah, but

2434
01:58:30,560 --> 01:58:34,080
Speaker 1: they certainly found their rhythm this last Sunday against the Jets.

2435
01:58:34,200 --> 01:58:36,240
Speaker 1: Can they keep it? Calling here's an interesting tweet from

2436
01:58:36,240 --> 01:58:39,240
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet from p JC, and this is this.

2437
01:58:39,440 --> 01:58:41,560
Speaker 1: There's something I bet has never been written on Twitter before.

2438
01:58:41,600 --> 01:58:46,680
Speaker 1: You ready. I respect everyone's opinion that I don't think

2439
01:58:46,680 --> 01:58:48,640
Speaker 1: those words have ever been said on Twitter before. I

2440
01:58:48,800 --> 01:58:51,959
Speaker 1: respect everyone's opinion. But some of you guys do realize

2441
01:58:52,000 --> 01:58:54,440
Speaker 1: that we have the leak's easiest schedule from here on out.

2442
01:58:54,880 --> 01:58:56,760
Speaker 1: We have four home games and we have the number

2443
01:58:56,800 --> 01:58:58,920
Speaker 1: one defense in the league. Right, gotta think at least

2444
01:58:58,960 --> 01:59:01,960
Speaker 1: three hopefully four. One thing, Look, can you remember the

2445
01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:04,680
Speaker 1: Steve about a month ago, six weeks ago, I talked

2446
01:59:04,720 --> 01:59:06,920
Speaker 1: a lot about the Bills schedule, how it lightened up

2447
01:59:06,960 --> 01:59:09,040
Speaker 1: at the second half of the season, and hammered away

2448
01:59:09,120 --> 01:59:10,560
Speaker 1: at that, and then all of a sudden, the Bills

2449
01:59:10,560 --> 01:59:12,480
Speaker 1: got in this four game slump when they were scoring

2450
01:59:12,560 --> 01:59:14,520
Speaker 1: six points a game, and I just dropped it. I

2451
01:59:14,600 --> 01:59:16,640
Speaker 1: think you're not gonna beat anybody who you're playing if

2452
01:59:16,640 --> 01:59:18,960
Speaker 1: you're not scoring touchdowns. Now they have the big breakout

2453
01:59:19,000 --> 01:59:21,200
Speaker 1: game on offense. We'll see if they keep it going.

2454
01:59:21,400 --> 01:59:24,000
Speaker 1: But it is true the schedule is not that daunt

2455
01:59:24,280 --> 01:59:27,000
Speaker 1: one winning. One winning team left on the schedule for

2456
01:59:27,200 --> 01:59:30,600
Speaker 1: the final six are at home and the remaining six. Look,

2457
01:59:31,160 --> 01:59:33,840
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna play that card anymore. PJC just did

2458
01:59:33,920 --> 01:59:36,240
Speaker 1: because they had that long stretch where they weren't scoring

2459
01:59:36,240 --> 01:59:39,000
Speaker 1: any points and it was impossible to envision any wins

2460
01:59:39,200 --> 01:59:40,960
Speaker 1: no matter who they were playing when they weren't getting

2461
01:59:40,960 --> 01:59:42,720
Speaker 1: in the end zone. That is behind us now, one

2462
01:59:42,760 --> 01:59:45,520
Speaker 1: would hope here's something else about that as well. When

2463
01:59:45,560 --> 01:59:47,920
Speaker 1: we got into the season, those first four games looked

2464
01:59:47,960 --> 01:59:50,960
Speaker 1: really daunting and stuff. Vikings aren't all that they were

2465
01:59:51,000 --> 01:59:53,600
Speaker 1: a year ago. The Chargers are actually a lot better

2466
01:59:53,680 --> 01:59:57,040
Speaker 1: than they were a year ago. The Baltimore Ravens aren't

2467
01:59:57,120 --> 01:59:58,600
Speaker 1: quite what they were a year a goal, though they're

2468
01:59:58,600 --> 02:00:00,880
Speaker 1: still in the they're still kind of in the mix

2469
02:00:00,960 --> 02:00:02,640
Speaker 1: at four and five, they're kind of hanging in there.

2470
02:00:03,520 --> 02:00:06,000
Speaker 1: And of course the Packers, who you know, are still

2471
02:00:06,080 --> 02:00:08,000
Speaker 1: in the in the hunt in the NFC. Although i've

2472
02:00:08,080 --> 02:00:09,840
Speaker 1: you know, you've heard me, I don't think they're that good.

2473
02:00:11,000 --> 02:00:13,240
Speaker 1: But at this point of the halfway point of the season,

2474
02:00:13,320 --> 02:00:15,400
Speaker 1: you know who these teams are. There's no hiding and

2475
02:00:15,480 --> 02:00:19,360
Speaker 1: this schedule coming up, you can you can compare the

2476
02:00:19,480 --> 02:00:22,120
Speaker 1: first half and the teams in their one loss record.

2477
02:00:22,640 --> 02:00:24,720
Speaker 1: Now with the teams they have left over, and you're right,

2478
02:00:24,760 --> 02:00:28,600
Speaker 1: it is easier. That's the thing that makes this second

2479
02:00:28,680 --> 02:00:32,240
Speaker 1: half of the season a little more you know, a

2480
02:00:32,280 --> 02:00:34,360
Speaker 1: little more familiar. You kind of know what you're up

2481
02:00:34,400 --> 02:00:38,080
Speaker 1: against now. The Jets have struggled, the Dolphins are struggling

2482
02:00:38,440 --> 02:00:44,000
Speaker 1: after a fast start, the Detroit Lions are struggling. This

2483
02:00:44,320 --> 02:00:46,919
Speaker 1: is you know, this is a stretch of the schedule

2484
02:00:47,000 --> 02:00:48,760
Speaker 1: and the Bills, you know, and you know we were

2485
02:00:48,840 --> 02:00:51,320
Speaker 1: prisoner of the moment, no question. The Bills are getting

2486
02:00:51,360 --> 02:00:53,720
Speaker 1: their rookie quarterback back in the game, their defense is

2487
02:00:53,840 --> 02:00:57,720
Speaker 1: number one, and they've got home field for the remainder

2488
02:00:57,760 --> 02:01:00,720
Speaker 1: of the schedule. Yeah, you can. You can jump on

2489
02:01:00,800 --> 02:01:03,320
Speaker 1: board with that. These teams are who they are this year.

2490
02:01:03,760 --> 02:01:06,160
Speaker 1: This isn't talking about last year, who were. Things have

2491
02:01:06,280 --> 02:01:09,240
Speaker 1: changed over the offseason, as they do sometimes, it's this year,

2492
02:01:09,360 --> 02:01:12,760
Speaker 1: this team, this year, and the schedule is easier. So

2493
02:01:13,120 --> 02:01:15,880
Speaker 1: with home games and the defense playing as well as

2494
02:01:15,920 --> 02:01:18,760
Speaker 1: it is, Yeah, there's every reason to be optimistic. How

2495
02:01:18,800 --> 02:01:21,040
Speaker 1: many more wins that the Bills have left in him?

2496
02:01:21,080 --> 02:01:23,040
Speaker 1: Give us a call if you want to discuss Kevin

2497
02:01:23,080 --> 02:01:25,960
Speaker 1: and Hamburg on the line. Hello, Kevin, go ahead, doing good.

2498
02:01:27,440 --> 02:01:30,480
Speaker 1: The ninety seven tweet is a far reach. It would

2499
02:01:30,480 --> 02:01:32,440
Speaker 1: be a miracle, and that'd be wonderful, but it's a

2500
02:01:32,560 --> 02:01:35,560
Speaker 1: little bit of a far reach. If we can get

2501
02:01:35,720 --> 02:01:38,760
Speaker 1: after the spankings that we got this year, eight name,

2502
02:01:39,280 --> 02:01:42,400
Speaker 1: that would be like the miracle of miracles, which means

2503
02:01:43,280 --> 02:01:45,920
Speaker 1: only have to lose, unfortunately to New England, which has

2504
02:01:46,040 --> 02:01:48,680
Speaker 1: sort of been a cliche too long. But if we

2505
02:01:48,800 --> 02:01:52,040
Speaker 1: can beat Jacksonville, beat Miami twice, beating the Jets here

2506
02:01:52,080 --> 02:01:56,120
Speaker 1: and beating inconsistent Detroit, that would be eight and eight

2507
02:01:56,160 --> 02:02:01,520
Speaker 1: would be the ultimate pinnacle of nine steps. I don't

2508
02:02:01,520 --> 02:02:04,240
Speaker 1: know ultimate pinnacle the miracle that eight wins, Kevin, but

2509
02:02:04,320 --> 02:02:05,880
Speaker 1: I know what you mean. It would be a big

2510
02:02:05,920 --> 02:02:07,880
Speaker 1: bounce back. And you know part of what we're dealing

2511
02:02:07,920 --> 02:02:10,320
Speaker 1: with here too, Steve, when people like Kevin say that

2512
02:02:10,520 --> 02:02:13,640
Speaker 1: is the Bills weren't just losing. They were getting absolutely

2513
02:02:13,800 --> 02:02:16,040
Speaker 1: smoked by a lot of teams. I mean, they've had

2514
02:02:16,120 --> 02:02:20,200
Speaker 1: some bad one sided losses this year, which colors those losses, right,

2515
02:02:20,240 --> 02:02:22,840
Speaker 1: colors of perception of those losses. Just to get through

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Speaker 1: the rest of the season without any more of those

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02:02:25,040 --> 02:02:27,360
Speaker 1: would be a welcome relief, right, just to have look

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02:02:27,680 --> 02:02:30,280
Speaker 1: as a broadcaster, I'm looking for close games. We haven't

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02:02:30,280 --> 02:02:32,640
Speaker 1: had too many close games, right, I'd love to sign

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02:02:32,720 --> 02:02:34,800
Speaker 1: up for a couple of close games, some last minute

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02:02:34,800 --> 02:02:37,040
Speaker 1: finishes or even fourth quarter games that are in question.

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02:02:37,080 --> 02:02:38,680
Speaker 1: We haven't had much of that this year. Yeah, and

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02:02:38,760 --> 02:02:41,080
Speaker 1: you're right, this is it's been one of those years

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02:02:41,160 --> 02:02:43,400
Speaker 1: where you think back, there's been one game and it

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02:02:43,560 --> 02:02:48,520
Speaker 1: was what the Tennessee game, Titans. Yeah, that's it. Everything

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02:02:48,560 --> 02:02:50,280
Speaker 1: else has been double digits one way or the other.

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02:02:50,440 --> 02:02:53,440
Speaker 1: And oh yeah, I mean nine and seven. You're right,

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02:02:53,480 --> 02:02:55,840
Speaker 1: that's a pipe dream. But you know, if you get

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02:02:55,880 --> 02:02:58,120
Speaker 1: to eight and eight, that means the Bills finished the

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02:02:58,240 --> 02:03:04,400
Speaker 1: season six and two after this last win against the Jets,

2531
02:03:04,440 --> 02:03:06,360
Speaker 1: and then go five and one the rest of the way.

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02:03:07,520 --> 02:03:10,720
Speaker 1: That's six and seven and one to finish the season. Right,

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02:03:11,280 --> 02:03:12,880
Speaker 1: what am I thinking? I can't even I can't. I

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02:03:12,920 --> 02:03:16,760
Speaker 1: can't right now think three and seven, now, the three

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02:03:16,800 --> 02:03:18,960
Speaker 1: and seven with six games to finish with eight? Yeah,

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02:03:18,960 --> 02:03:22,040
Speaker 1: they would they would win. They would win six out

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02:03:22,080 --> 02:03:26,120
Speaker 1: of their last seven games. Yeah. That you don't think

2538
02:03:26,160 --> 02:03:27,880
Speaker 1: that would that you don't think that would paint a

2539
02:03:28,040 --> 02:03:31,000
Speaker 1: rosy picture for this offseason. That would really set this

2540
02:03:31,080 --> 02:03:33,640
Speaker 1: team up with a lot of hope and expectations would

2541
02:03:33,640 --> 02:03:37,440
Speaker 1: absolutely skyrocket. But you know, six and one might be

2542
02:03:37,440 --> 02:03:40,120
Speaker 1: a little optimistic, you know, to finish these are actually

2543
02:03:40,160 --> 02:03:41,840
Speaker 1: not six and one at five and one might be

2544
02:03:41,840 --> 02:03:45,280
Speaker 1: a little optimistic. Uh, but you know four and two, yeah,

2545
02:03:45,520 --> 02:03:47,520
Speaker 1: three and three, okay, you know that kind of thing.

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02:03:47,640 --> 02:03:50,040
Speaker 1: I do think they're gonna win more than two out

2547
02:03:50,080 --> 02:03:52,120
Speaker 1: of these last games. Um, I think they'll win at

2548
02:03:52,160 --> 02:03:54,440
Speaker 1: least two anyway, So I think that's the I think

2549
02:03:54,480 --> 02:03:56,640
Speaker 1: that's the you can you sit here even at the

2550
02:03:56,720 --> 02:03:59,080
Speaker 1: at the rough dress they've had. That's why this is

2551
02:03:59,080 --> 02:04:01,000
Speaker 1: so fun to talk about, because we don't know how

2552
02:04:01,080 --> 02:04:02,720
Speaker 1: Josh is gonna look when he gets back in there,

2553
02:04:02,760 --> 02:04:05,160
Speaker 1: when he's healthy. The defense, you can kind of depend

2554
02:04:05,280 --> 02:04:07,520
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. Wow, it showed up this last

2555
02:04:07,560 --> 02:04:09,240
Speaker 1: week against the Jets, but the chests were kind of

2556
02:04:09,320 --> 02:04:12,080
Speaker 1: laying down what's gonna happen here? You know? And I

2557
02:04:12,160 --> 02:04:15,000
Speaker 1: think that's the fun part, and it's really it sets

2558
02:04:15,120 --> 02:04:18,080
Speaker 1: us up for a really intriguing bye week. I mean,

2559
02:04:18,160 --> 02:04:21,760
Speaker 1: I don't know what game we're gonna get here in Buffalo,

2560
02:04:21,880 --> 02:04:24,160
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna be watching a lot of games kind

2561
02:04:24,160 --> 02:04:25,800
Speaker 1: of figure out what's going to happen the rest of

2562
02:04:25,840 --> 02:04:28,800
Speaker 1: the way. Give us a call eight three fifty toll

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02:04:28,880 --> 02:04:32,280
Speaker 1: free one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Let

2564
02:04:32,360 --> 02:04:34,360
Speaker 1: us know what you think about the Buffalo Bills and

2565
02:04:34,440 --> 02:04:36,000
Speaker 1: how they finish up the season and how many more

2566
02:04:36,040 --> 02:04:37,960
Speaker 1: wins do they have? Not time now to do a

2567
02:04:38,000 --> 02:04:40,720
Speaker 1: little NFL tur or False And we do this around

2568
02:04:40,800 --> 02:04:42,800
Speaker 1: about this time every day in the show NFL tur

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02:04:42,880 --> 02:04:46,040
Speaker 1: or False is brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New

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02:04:46,160 --> 02:04:48,600
Speaker 1: York's artist in chiefs. Here we go. Andrew Luck, Colts

2571
02:04:48,720 --> 02:04:52,040
Speaker 1: quarterback Andrew lux comeback is the NFL story of the year.

2572
02:04:53,520 --> 02:04:56,800
Speaker 1: I'm going false. Patrick Mahomes play is the NFL story

2573
02:04:56,800 --> 02:04:59,280
Speaker 1: of the year. Andrew Luck may be the comeback story

2574
02:04:59,280 --> 02:05:01,240
Speaker 1: of the year, but is to the NFL story of

2575
02:05:01,280 --> 02:05:02,560
Speaker 1: the year. And no, I don't think so. It's a

2576
02:05:02,600 --> 02:05:06,800
Speaker 1: good story, it's encouraging, But I honestly believe that Patrick

2577
02:05:06,840 --> 02:05:10,040
Speaker 1: Mahomes is the NFL's story of the year. Yeah, no question.

2578
02:05:10,120 --> 02:05:12,000
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck is a comeback player and it's one of

2579
02:05:12,040 --> 02:05:14,560
Speaker 1: the great stories of the season. His ability to come

2580
02:05:14,600 --> 02:05:17,800
Speaker 1: back after not playing an entire season with a shoulder injury.

2581
02:05:18,280 --> 02:05:20,200
Speaker 1: But you know what, They took it so easy with him,

2582
02:05:20,240 --> 02:05:22,080
Speaker 1: and so you'd think, Okay, he's gonna come back and

2583
02:05:22,080 --> 02:05:25,000
Speaker 1: play pretty good, he's gonna stay healthy, and he did. So. Yeah,

2584
02:05:25,040 --> 02:05:26,960
Speaker 1: it's one of the stories. But no, I agree with you.

2585
02:05:27,040 --> 02:05:31,280
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes has been the surprise of the NFL. Andrew

2586
02:05:31,360 --> 02:05:33,360
Speaker 1: Luck has been a good story, but not the story

2587
02:05:33,520 --> 02:05:35,640
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So I think that's false. NFL true

2588
02:05:35,720 --> 02:05:39,200
Speaker 1: or false? Sponsored by Yancey's Fancy Number two. Baker Mayfield

2589
02:05:39,480 --> 02:05:41,000
Speaker 1: is the leader for a Rookie of the Year. We

2590
02:05:41,120 --> 02:05:43,200
Speaker 1: still got, by the way six games left in this schedule.

2591
02:05:43,440 --> 02:05:46,080
Speaker 1: Some teams have seven games left to play. Baker Mayfield

2592
02:05:46,240 --> 02:05:50,760
Speaker 1: is leading Rookie of the Year true, false, go ahead?

2593
02:05:51,280 --> 02:05:54,960
Speaker 1: I might first stay true in this moment. Yeah. I mean,

2594
02:05:55,040 --> 02:05:57,360
Speaker 1: he put together a really good game this last week

2595
02:05:57,400 --> 02:06:01,640
Speaker 1: and as a rookie play for a bad football team

2596
02:06:01,680 --> 02:06:04,360
Speaker 1: in Cleveland or what has been a bad football team

2597
02:06:04,760 --> 02:06:08,320
Speaker 1: for to have him come in and rest wrestle the

2598
02:06:08,440 --> 02:06:13,280
Speaker 1: leadership and that spot away from uh, from any other

2599
02:06:13,400 --> 02:06:15,800
Speaker 1: rookie in the league like sae Quon Barkley or you

2600
02:06:15,880 --> 02:06:17,200
Speaker 1: know any of the others that you want to name.

2601
02:06:17,400 --> 02:06:20,200
Speaker 1: I will name him. Yeah, I think I think it's

2602
02:06:20,280 --> 02:06:24,080
Speaker 1: really I think it's true. I'd say true. Baker Mayfield

2603
02:06:24,160 --> 02:06:26,240
Speaker 1: has been surprising, and he has been up and down,

2604
02:06:26,280 --> 02:06:29,120
Speaker 1: no question, But when he's up, he looks really good,

2605
02:06:29,160 --> 02:06:30,640
Speaker 1: and I had to tip my hat to him. I'd

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02:06:30,640 --> 02:06:32,880
Speaker 1: say it is false, and I would say sae Quon

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02:06:32,920 --> 02:06:35,160
Speaker 1: Barkley is the NFL's Rookie of the Year. And just

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02:06:35,480 --> 02:06:37,560
Speaker 1: if you just nailed it, I mean, Mayfield has been

2609
02:06:37,640 --> 02:06:39,480
Speaker 1: up and he's been down. He said some good games,

2610
02:06:39,840 --> 02:06:42,120
Speaker 1: some bad games, played well this past week, but I

2611
02:06:42,200 --> 02:06:44,600
Speaker 1: think sae Quon Barkley's played better. And again there's some

2612
02:06:44,800 --> 02:06:47,720
Speaker 1: there's some season left to play here. Um. I want

2613
02:06:47,760 --> 02:06:49,840
Speaker 1: to see Trimmy and Edmunds start to get mentioned. Is

2614
02:06:50,120 --> 02:06:52,160
Speaker 1: a candidate in any way for NFL Rookie of the Year.

2615
02:06:52,160 --> 02:06:54,200
Speaker 1: The guy plays every snap when he plays, he's on

2616
02:06:54,320 --> 02:06:57,440
Speaker 1: the number one defense in the league's defensive rookie of

2617
02:06:57,480 --> 02:07:00,600
Speaker 1: the year, calls the signals for the number one defense

2618
02:07:00,640 --> 02:07:03,200
Speaker 1: in the NFL, plays every down for the number one

2619
02:07:03,240 --> 02:07:05,320
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL when he's healthy. Why doesn't he

2620
02:07:05,360 --> 02:07:06,920
Speaker 1: get mentioned. He's got to be mentioned for me and

2621
02:07:07,040 --> 02:07:09,920
Speaker 1: Edmonds right should be mentioned. I think it's yeah, I

2622
02:07:09,960 --> 02:07:11,800
Speaker 1: think it's it's under the radar because of the one

2623
02:07:11,880 --> 02:07:14,480
Speaker 1: lost record of the team. But man, oh man, when

2624
02:07:14,520 --> 02:07:20,040
Speaker 1: people you've got to say, he's doing some great things

2625
02:07:20,120 --> 02:07:21,880
Speaker 1: for one of the for the best defense in the league,

2626
02:07:21,880 --> 02:07:24,320
Speaker 1: and he's the middle he's a guy. Yeah, I mean,

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02:07:24,680 --> 02:07:26,919
Speaker 1: he's got to be in that conversation. In the conversation,

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02:07:27,000 --> 02:07:29,480
Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying. One more for NFL true or false?

2629
02:07:29,720 --> 02:07:34,640
Speaker 1: This comes. It's a headline for ESPN overreacting to NFL

2630
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Speaker 1: week End. Mitchell Trubisky is this year's Jared Goth. Please

2631
02:07:39,040 --> 02:07:40,960
Speaker 1: did you see Mitchell Trubisky in the Bears hare a

2632
02:07:41,000 --> 02:07:43,800
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago? Yes, they won. Trubisky's didn't do

2633
02:07:43,840 --> 02:07:47,320
Speaker 1: anything special. I'm not sure he's capable of doing anything special.

2634
02:07:47,400 --> 02:07:49,200
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I think he's a pretty

2635
02:07:49,200 --> 02:07:51,840
Speaker 1: good quarterback. He runs. I mean he's more of a

2636
02:07:51,880 --> 02:07:54,720
Speaker 1: threat as a runner than a passer right now. Absolutely false.

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02:07:54,800 --> 02:07:56,880
Speaker 1: Mitchell Drubisky, I think is a long way to go

2638
02:07:57,000 --> 02:08:00,400
Speaker 1: to be considered anywhere close to Jared Goth. Are right,

2639
02:08:00,480 --> 02:08:03,520
Speaker 1: That's that's ridiculous. He Jared Goff is like they were

2640
02:08:03,560 --> 02:08:06,600
Speaker 1: scoring thirty points a game. Jared Goff was Jared Goff

2641
02:08:06,680 --> 02:08:09,080
Speaker 1: bounced back like nobody. He was a bust in his

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02:08:09,200 --> 02:08:11,280
Speaker 1: rookie year. He came back the next year and through

2643
02:08:11,320 --> 02:08:13,680
Speaker 1: the first half of the season was in the MVP conversation.

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02:08:13,760 --> 02:08:16,960
Speaker 1: Mister Trubisky is not anywhere near the MV He may

2645
02:08:17,000 --> 02:08:20,560
Speaker 1: not be the MVP of his team. You're right, Tarik

2646
02:08:20,640 --> 02:08:23,800
Speaker 1: Collin could three. Collin's a much more yeah, dynamic offensive.

2647
02:08:23,880 --> 02:08:27,000
Speaker 1: So Trubisky's okay. I mean he's their guy. And congratulations

2648
02:08:27,040 --> 02:08:29,520
Speaker 1: of Chicago for finding their franchise quarterback for the next

2649
02:08:29,600 --> 02:08:32,360
Speaker 1: you know, seven, eight, ten, twelve years, whenever, fourteen years

2650
02:08:32,400 --> 02:08:35,560
Speaker 1: he can have him. But no, he he is not

2651
02:08:35,640 --> 02:08:37,440
Speaker 1: having the kind of year Jared Goff did a year ago.

2652
02:08:37,680 --> 02:08:40,200
Speaker 1: NFL True and Falls brought to you by Yancey's Fancy

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02:08:40,280 --> 02:08:43,400
Speaker 1: New York's artists and cheese. Go ahead. I was gonna

2654
02:08:43,440 --> 02:08:48,800
Speaker 1: pile on trips. I didn't get enough. I'm done. I'm done. Hey,

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02:08:49,080 --> 02:08:51,480
Speaker 1: we got to recognize the AD Pro Sports Coaches of

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02:08:51,520 --> 02:08:54,800
Speaker 1: the Week for both Section five and Section six in Buffalo.

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02:08:54,920 --> 02:08:57,720
Speaker 1: Section six, the AD Pro Sports High School Football Coach

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02:08:57,760 --> 02:09:00,520
Speaker 1: of the Week comes from Cleveland l High School. Graham

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02:09:00,640 --> 02:09:02,600
Speaker 1: led Clevehild to a fifty four to six win over

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02:09:02,720 --> 02:09:05,800
Speaker 1: Letchworth Warsaw in the Far West Regionals. Clevehild now ten

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02:09:05,880 --> 02:09:08,480
Speaker 1: and one. They play Susquehanna Valley in the New York

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02:09:08,520 --> 02:09:12,440
Speaker 1: State Semifinals in Section five in Rochester. The ad Pro

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02:09:12,520 --> 02:09:15,520
Speaker 1: Sports high school football Coach of the Week Rennan Briggs

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02:09:15,840 --> 02:09:18,040
Speaker 1: of Batavia. He is the coach of the Week. Batavia

2665
02:09:18,040 --> 02:09:21,000
Speaker 1: beat cheek Towaga in the Class Beat Far West Regionals.

2666
02:09:21,360 --> 02:09:23,240
Speaker 1: The Blue Devils now eleven and oh and they play

2667
02:09:23,480 --> 02:09:26,120
Speaker 1: Scanty Atlas in the New York State Semifinals. There you go,

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02:09:26,400 --> 02:09:28,800
Speaker 1: AD Pro Sports the high school football coaches of the Week.

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02:09:29,000 --> 02:09:31,080
Speaker 1: Steve and I coming back with more. One Bills Live

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02:09:31,200 --> 02:09:48,800
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio. What do

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02:09:48,880 --> 02:09:51,640
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Speaker 1: provider of the Buffalo Bills. We had Ken Jones on

2675
02:09:59,640 --> 02:10:02,480
Speaker 1: the show, one of our favorite guests from the NFL Network.

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02:10:02,560 --> 02:10:05,200
Speaker 1: She also works for w fa N Radio. Talk to

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Speaker 1: here a lot about the Jets and the fact that

2678
02:10:07,720 --> 02:10:10,040
Speaker 1: the Jets Laws so miserably to the Bills last Sunday

2679
02:10:10,120 --> 02:10:12,240
Speaker 1: what it means for their head coach Todd Bowles. We

2680
02:10:12,320 --> 02:10:14,480
Speaker 1: asked Kim Jones, what's it like in the locker room there?

2681
02:10:14,520 --> 02:10:16,200
Speaker 1: What are those players think of Toad Bowls and his

2682
02:10:16,320 --> 02:10:19,840
Speaker 1: prospects as the head coach of the Jets. Well, if

2683
02:10:19,880 --> 02:10:22,640
Speaker 1: you subscribe to actions speaking louder than words, they don't

2684
02:10:22,920 --> 02:10:26,520
Speaker 1: feel real strongly about it, That's right. You know. Jamal

2685
02:10:26,600 --> 02:10:29,720
Speaker 1: Adams is a big leader there. He was a good

2686
02:10:29,800 --> 02:10:32,280
Speaker 1: draft pick there, and I do think that they still

2687
02:10:32,320 --> 02:10:36,160
Speaker 1: believe Sam Darnold is the future. But Jamal Adams says

2688
02:10:36,200 --> 02:10:38,880
Speaker 1: he has tied Bowls back. Is Jamal Adams playing hard?

2689
02:10:38,920 --> 02:10:41,520
Speaker 1: I've never seen him not play hard, at least nothing

2690
02:10:41,600 --> 02:10:43,840
Speaker 1: that I could see. So I believe Jamal Adams. But

2691
02:10:44,560 --> 02:10:48,440
Speaker 1: in terms of his speaking for the locker room, I

2692
02:10:48,600 --> 02:10:50,760
Speaker 1: think he wants to and I think his heart and

2693
02:10:50,880 --> 02:10:53,240
Speaker 1: head are in the right place. But I'm not sure

2694
02:10:53,440 --> 02:10:56,280
Speaker 1: enough of them are giving that kind of effort like

2695
02:10:56,400 --> 02:10:58,560
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams, at least not from what we saw against

2696
02:10:58,560 --> 02:11:01,120
Speaker 1: the Bills. Jim Jones on our show earlier today. Also

2697
02:11:01,200 --> 02:11:04,919
Speaker 1: on the show today, Peter King from Football Morning in America,

2698
02:11:05,160 --> 02:11:08,920
Speaker 1: NBC Sports and Pro Football Talk longtime pro football expert

2699
02:11:08,960 --> 02:11:12,400
Speaker 1: Peter King. He actually named Bill's offensive coordinator Brian Dable

2700
02:11:12,520 --> 02:11:14,560
Speaker 1: as one of his top ten coaches of the week

2701
02:11:14,640 --> 02:11:17,200
Speaker 1: dispatched week for the Bill's victory at the Jets, and

2702
02:11:17,360 --> 02:11:19,760
Speaker 1: Brian day Ball got cited by Peter King because of

2703
02:11:19,840 --> 02:11:22,600
Speaker 1: what he did with Matt Barkley playing quarterback against the Jets.

2704
02:11:24,520 --> 02:11:26,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I named him one of my coaches of

2705
02:11:26,520 --> 02:11:29,240
Speaker 1: the week this week because I don't know how you

2706
02:11:29,360 --> 02:11:32,440
Speaker 1: get a guy ready. First of all, I mean, Matt

2707
02:11:32,520 --> 02:11:36,920
Speaker 1: Barkley has not played much football in the NFL in

2708
02:11:37,040 --> 02:11:41,040
Speaker 1: the last three years. Obviously. My feeling is this is

2709
02:11:41,120 --> 02:11:44,080
Speaker 1: one of those deals where as a coaching staff you

2710
02:11:44,200 --> 02:11:47,520
Speaker 1: sit there and say, Okay, how are we going to

2711
02:11:47,600 --> 02:11:51,200
Speaker 1: help Matt Barkley And you say, okay, We're sending the

2712
02:11:51,400 --> 02:11:54,400
Speaker 1: left tackle out for a path in the red zone.

2713
02:11:54,720 --> 02:11:58,360
Speaker 1: And in my opinion, that was a really, really smart

2714
02:11:58,480 --> 02:12:04,320
Speaker 1: play calling game by Bryan Dable. Peter King talking about

2715
02:12:04,360 --> 02:12:06,720
Speaker 1: Brian Dable, Hey, our Twitter poll is interesting today. We

2716
02:12:06,800 --> 02:12:08,960
Speaker 1: had almost four thousand responses and a lot of calls

2717
02:12:09,280 --> 02:12:11,440
Speaker 1: Bills with six games remaining. How many of those six

2718
02:12:11,480 --> 02:12:14,280
Speaker 1: are they gonna win. On the Twitter poll, forty seven percent,

2719
02:12:14,360 --> 02:12:16,440
Speaker 1: about half of you said they're gonna win zero to

2720
02:12:16,560 --> 02:12:19,440
Speaker 1: two more games, zero one or two. Thirty five percent

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02:12:19,560 --> 02:12:21,560
Speaker 1: you say they're gonna win three or four more games.

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Speaker 1: Eighteen percent say they're gonna win five or six more games.

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Speaker 1: I'm right in the middle of their steve. I'm going

2724
02:12:26,600 --> 02:12:28,360
Speaker 1: three or four more games. I said going into the

2725
02:12:28,440 --> 02:12:30,720
Speaker 1: year they'd win six or seven, and I think they

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02:12:30,760 --> 02:12:32,760
Speaker 1: have a chance to wind up right about there. But

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Speaker 1: we'll see. And again, Josh Allen is the key here right, Yeah,

2728
02:12:35,720 --> 02:12:37,520
Speaker 1: he's and it's going to be interesting and fun to

2729
02:12:37,680 --> 02:12:40,040
Speaker 1: watch him come back out and start the game again.

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02:12:40,080 --> 02:12:41,960
Speaker 1: It's been seems like it's been a long long time

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02:12:42,040 --> 02:12:44,000
Speaker 1: since we've seen him, and I guess it has. And

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02:12:44,080 --> 02:12:45,960
Speaker 1: plus after the bye week, it's going to be even further.

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Speaker 1: But his development is what a lot of people base

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Speaker 1: this whole season on. It's a pivotal season. They want

2735
02:12:51,720 --> 02:12:54,160
Speaker 1: him to play better if he can come in get

2736
02:12:54,200 --> 02:12:56,920
Speaker 1: some mentorship from Derek Anderson, from Matt Barkley, and the

2737
02:12:57,000 --> 02:13:00,520
Speaker 1: things he's learned by watching and hearing other guys coached

2738
02:13:00,560 --> 02:13:02,320
Speaker 1: up at the position he's gonna play at this level,

2739
02:13:02,360 --> 02:13:04,720
Speaker 1: watch them implement their game plan. I want to see

2740
02:13:04,760 --> 02:13:06,400
Speaker 1: some different things from him. I want to see some

2741
02:13:06,480 --> 02:13:09,840
Speaker 1: more productions, some easier completions. I want to see that.

2742
02:13:09,880 --> 02:13:12,080
Speaker 1: I see him to be more efficient and I don't

2743
02:13:12,120 --> 02:13:13,920
Speaker 1: want to and like one of our callers said today,

2744
02:13:13,920 --> 02:13:15,760
Speaker 1: it'd be nice if he didn't pull it down so

2745
02:13:15,920 --> 02:13:17,720
Speaker 1: quickly and run with it. But I think that's the

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Speaker 1: most fun thing and most exciting thing about this upcoming

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02:13:20,920 --> 02:13:23,160
Speaker 1: game against Jacksonville. After the bye, we have one more

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Speaker 1: show this week, Tomorrow show. We are off Thursday and

2749
02:13:25,640 --> 02:13:28,440
Speaker 1: Friday because it's the bye week. There's nobody here, but

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Speaker 1: we do have a good show coming up tomorrow. Thurman

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02:13:30,200 --> 02:13:31,760
Speaker 1: Thomas is going to join us on the phone tomorrow

2752
02:13:31,800 --> 02:13:34,360
Speaker 1: and Greg Kosal a couple of days and he usually

2753
02:13:34,440 --> 02:13:36,360
Speaker 1: joins us a couple of days earlier than he usually

2754
02:13:36,440 --> 02:13:38,320
Speaker 1: joins us. He'll be on there to talk with us

2755
02:13:38,320 --> 02:13:41,240
Speaker 1: about Matt Barkley on tomorrow show, so look forward to that.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank our production assistant George Blast, Jeff Colteneck,

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Speaker 1: Thomas Homalder, Kelly Rude, j J. Tarito, Kevin Krgis, James

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Speaker 1: robol Our, producer Jay Harris, Steve. Anything you want to

2759
02:13:51,520 --> 02:13:53,920
Speaker 1: wrap up with, You're excited about hockey tonight. Everybody knows

2760
02:13:54,000 --> 02:14:00,240
Speaker 1: that let's go Sabes, Let's go Buffaloe in that I

2761
02:14:00,320 --> 02:14:02,040
Speaker 1: made it up top of my head. That's good. See

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Speaker 1: tomorrow at noon One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive

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Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bills Radio