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Speaker 1: Oh a good time, Steve Tasperus domes Dot time. Well,

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Speaker 1: here we go again, start a new week. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Welcome to One Bill's Live. John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, coming to your live from our one Buffalo

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Speaker 1: studio in Orchard Park, New York, right next door to

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Speaker 1: the newer Afield in the Apro Sports Training Center. Beautiful

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Speaker 1: sunny day, beautifully cold sunny day. It was nineteen degrees

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Speaker 1: got up, it was like, ooh twelve first, It's like

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Speaker 1: got all these construction guys around. Some of them were worrying. Man,

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Speaker 1: it's cold day. Yeah, and the construction workers are bumming

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Speaker 1: out about it. It's cold. When they're cold. Everybody's cold

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Speaker 1: as they're out in it. It's uh, yeah, it's been

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Speaker 1: it's been a cold weekend. No snow though. It's been

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Speaker 1: clear and sunny. It's been sunny. It's been really good. Hey,

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Speaker 1: everything's better with the sunshine. Middle of January. That's what

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Speaker 1: sunshine helps. Yeah, we haven't got much snow yet. Though

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Speaker 1: it's on his way though, don't mention it. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll sneak through this one we're supposed to get.

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Speaker 1: Remember last week, we're supposed to get like two feet

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Speaker 1: I got like zero lesson. Yeah, like whatever's out there

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Speaker 1: now is what we got. Yeah, well, I'm welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Us got a whole weekend's worth of divisional

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Speaker 1: playoff games to talk about today in a preview of

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Speaker 1: the upcoming conference championship games. Very quiet here at one

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive and not a whole lot of Obviously, players

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Speaker 1: of bunkering down. The Bills still have some coaching vacancies

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Speaker 1: to film. No news on that today. Coming up in

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Speaker 1: bit busier. Next week Senior Bowl and Mobile Laudabama, and

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Speaker 1: I'll be headed down their steve to report for this show.

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Speaker 1: From Mobile. You'll be down here. He'll be here old

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Speaker 1: anchoring here while you're out and about in Mobile eating barbecue.

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Speaker 1: And there might be some barbecue in my future. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Mobile's great. It's one of my favorite places. And look

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Speaker 1: driven through Mobile one time. Where are we going? I think,

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Speaker 1: Is that right? Is that? I'm not sure either one

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Speaker 1: I've never been there. It's on Mobile Bay, which is

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Speaker 1: really is to me the unofficial start of the twenty

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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. This is like being where a springboard into

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Speaker 1: He's going to impress people too, Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 1: two weeks from today, January twenty eighth, will be at

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Speaker 1: a game. Absolutely, it's so fun. Yeah, Senior Bowl next week.

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Speaker 1: At one o'clock we're going to talk about the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs and Stephen Saint John, the host of The

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Speaker 1: Border Patrol on Sports Radio, a ten WHB radio in

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. He's covered Kansas City sports for over ten years.

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Speaker 1: Stephen Saint John joins us at one o'clock today to

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Speaker 1: recap what the Chiefs did, which was pretty impressive on

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Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon. And then at two o'clock and good Buddy

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Speaker 1: of ours. Andy Benoit from the mmqb's written a lot

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Speaker 1: of good stuff lately, including Mahome versus Battle Chick Round two.

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Speaker 1: You know, his rating was eighty five. I mean, none

427
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Speaker 1: of these things are eye popping, but you know what,

428
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Speaker 1: he's fun to watch. May he's different than anything we've

429
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Speaker 1: seen before, and uh, the Chiefs really played well around him.

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Speaker 1: Uh they rushed for one hundred and eighty yards against

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Speaker 1: the Colts. I was shocked by that. And you know

432
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Speaker 1: they turn it over very much. So you have the

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Speaker 1: numbers up there. I'm interested in what the Travis Kelsey's

434
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Speaker 1: receptions were. I've never been a big Travis Kelsey fan,

435
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Speaker 1: but I was Saturday watching him play, watching him get open,

436
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Speaker 1: watching him interact with his quarterback. They seemed to now

437
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Speaker 1: in their first year comes to an end. As you know,

438
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Speaker 1: multiple starters. Kelsey has a knack for getting open and

439
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people will tell you that

440
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Speaker 1: he was this a couple of years ago. I didn't

441
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Speaker 1: think so, but now I do think Kelsey is one

442
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Speaker 1: of the top, maybe two or three tight ends in

443
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Speaker 1: the game. Was ten tar. They threw at him ten times.

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Speaker 1: He caught seven of them for one hundred and eight

445
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Speaker 1: yards fifteen yard average as long was thirty culture no touchdowns. Yeah, yeah,

446
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Speaker 1: he was open. The Tyreek Hill had eight receptions, Kelsey

447
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Speaker 1: had seven, Sammy Watkins had six, Damian Williams had five.

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Speaker 1: That was the bulk of their receiving good production from

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Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins. They are not used to that in Kansas City,

450
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Speaker 1: but they got that from him. And Tyreek Hill is

451
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Speaker 1: a freak of nature. He's a force of nature. I

452
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Speaker 1: don't know what to do with that guy in the

453
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Speaker 1: return game or you know, on the run when you

454
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Speaker 1: hand it off to him on a like a jet sweep,

455
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Speaker 1: or if he gets open and makes the catch. Tyreek Kill.

456
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Speaker 1: There's nobody like him in the NFL. I guess my

457
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Speaker 1: point is the Chiefs, who started out the season so

458
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Speaker 1: strong and sort of tailed off a little bit, showed

459
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Speaker 1: I think the ability to turn it up again last Saturday,

460
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Speaker 1: and they and at home especially, they will be formidable

461
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Speaker 1: for the Patriots or anybody else. Yeah. There, they really

462
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Speaker 1: turned it on to a level we hadn't seen, particularly

463
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Speaker 1: on their defensive side of the football. I mean they

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Speaker 1: they forced Indianapolis to three and outs early in that game.

465
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Speaker 1: Time after time after time. They just couldn't get it going.

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Speaker 1: And that's you know. I mean the Colts had fifteen

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Speaker 1: first downs, you know the whole game, four by rushing,

468
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Speaker 1: ten by passing the entire game. Third down efficiency, they

469
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Speaker 1: were oh for nine. The Colts were oh for nine,

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Speaker 1: oh for nine. It was discouraged seriously that the chief

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Speaker 1: that was the Chiefs. I mean, the Chiefs are thirty

472
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Speaker 1: first in the league in defense. They're horrible. And yet

473
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Speaker 1: when you know it's it's a say you say it

474
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Speaker 1: all the time, Urf, and you're right. I never really

475
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Speaker 1: thought about it. I heard you say it so often.

476
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Speaker 1: It's a week to week league. One week you stink

477
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Speaker 1: and the next week you're playing like gangbusters. And that's

478
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Speaker 1: what the Chiefs did defensively. They played week after week.

479
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Speaker 1: They were given up yard after yards and touchdowns and

480
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Speaker 1: all of this stuff. Guys were running free in there,

481
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Speaker 1: and they played a lot of man demand to my

482
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Speaker 1: to my eye, they played a lot of man demand

483
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Speaker 1: that week. And the Colts couldn't beat it. The Courts

484
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Speaker 1: could not get open. And that was that was something

485
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Speaker 1: I didn't accept expect to happen. Didn't see that. They

486
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Speaker 1: looked bad doing it too. The Colts looked just flat

487
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Speaker 1: and like a bad football team. Penalties completely the opposite

488
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Speaker 1: of what they looked like the week before. They had

489
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Speaker 1: one first down by penalty the Colts. But it was

490
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Speaker 1: double digits, right, Yeah, the Colts had penalties. They had

491
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Speaker 1: ten penalties for seventy yards and the and the Chiefs

492
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Speaker 1: had six for fifty four. So it was you know,

493
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Speaker 1: them had one penalty and one fumble and lost it.

494
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Speaker 1: The Chiefs had three fumbles and lost one of them. Yea,

495
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Speaker 1: So it's I was just I was discouraged to see

496
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Speaker 1: that outcome. I didn't know. I didn't think the Colts

497
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Speaker 1: would win, but I thought they'd quit themselves better. And

498
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Speaker 1: I think we were both in many of our listeners

499
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Speaker 1: pulling for the Colts because of Frank Reich. How do

500
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Speaker 1: you think Frank Wrech will react to that? Handle that lost, Steve?

501
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,680
Speaker 1: He'll handle it well. I mean he'll he'll know, Hey, listen,

502
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Speaker 1: we got to play better. You can't. That's why you

503
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 1: want to have home field advantage. There's a lot of

504
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things in that game that a

505
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Speaker 1: coach will tell his team, first of all, and you'll

506
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Speaker 1: see it with a lot of these teams that I

507
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Speaker 1: saw it on Twitter yesterday how Doug Peterson handler when

508
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Speaker 1: his team came off. He stayed at the front door

509
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Speaker 1: of their locker room until every single player of his

510
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Speaker 1: went into the locker room, and he greeted each one

511
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Speaker 1: of them and thanked him and encouraged them in a

512
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Speaker 1: moment where it looked like they were going to have

513
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Speaker 1: another chance to win a game like they did in

514
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Speaker 1: Chicago and just couldn't get it done. He encouraged all

515
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Speaker 1: of them just as they went into the locker room,

516
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Speaker 1: and I think Frank Wrech probably did a lot of

517
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Speaker 1: the same thing, went around and thanked all of his

518
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Speaker 1: team members. I remember how Marv Levy handled it with us.

519
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Speaker 1: Our first championship game with that crew was in nineteen

520
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Speaker 1: eighty eight. We've been twelve and four and had to

521
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Speaker 1: go to India to Cincinnati for a championship game. We

522
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Speaker 1: lost to the Bengals, And after that game I will

523
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 1: never forget more of Levy said, hey, guys, no matter

524
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Speaker 1: how you feel right now, you're still the guys I

525
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Speaker 1: would have chosen to be here with you know. I mean,

526
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Speaker 1: it wasn't really encouraging and it made you here like, yeah,

527
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Speaker 1: we were a good team and we and it's tough.

528
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Speaker 1: It's tough to go and lose a game, but it

529
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Speaker 1: was great to be a part of that team. And

530
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Speaker 1: he encouraged all of us and said thanks for a

531
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Speaker 1: great season, and I'm and he would not have wanted

532
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Speaker 1: to go through it with anybody but us. Be that

533
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Speaker 1: as it may too or false, whether you know it's

534
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Speaker 1: it's good to hear in a moment like that. So

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Speaker 1: I'm sure Frank handled it in a way similar to that,

536
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Speaker 1: if not better. We're gonna get through all four of

537
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Speaker 1: those games from the weekend, But we got a couple

538
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Speaker 1: of callers. Want to talk a little bit about the

539
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Speaker 1: Chiefs in the Colts game, Tim and North Town of

540
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Speaker 1: want on the line. Go ahead, Tim, welcome, you're in

541
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Speaker 1: the air with this. How are you doing today? Great?

542
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Speaker 1: I noticed something about the way Mahomes plays quarterback. He's

543
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Speaker 1: more like a baseball infielder. Does his dad teaching him?

544
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Speaker 1: I kind of wonder if that had anything to do

545
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Speaker 1: with that well in it. In a pregame interview, Mahomes

546
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Speaker 1: said that he equates his knack for making plays like

547
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Speaker 1: like we see him make to his baseball career. No question,

548
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 1: he was a he was a shortstop, and how many

549
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Speaker 1: times you see shortstops go deep into the hole or

550
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Speaker 1: out behind the bag and have to turn their their

551
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Speaker 1: shoulders and their body and contort to make a throw

552
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Speaker 1: across the diamond to first base. That's what he looks

553
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Speaker 1: like when he plays quarterback. That's for sure. That's what

554
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Speaker 1: I played. That's probably why I recognized it. Yeah, yeah,

555
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Speaker 1: well there you go. Is that difficult for you, as

556
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Speaker 1: an official baseball hater to admit that he might enjoyed

557
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Speaker 1: playing baseball. I played shortstop myself and I and he's right,

558
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: you got to get the ball over there, and it

559
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: was fun. I mean, it's fun to do, but it's

560
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: hard with a with a ball that's like completely different,

561
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,959
Speaker 1: different weight, different shape, and to do it like that

562
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Speaker 1: and having the armed get it over or to make

563
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: those accurate throws. I'm certainly, I'm certainly that the skill

564
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Speaker 1: crosses over. Let's go to Chuck on the line with

565
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Speaker 1: us high Chuck, go ahead, welcome to the show. Yeah.

566
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Speaker 1: I called in, like after the draft of Mahomes. I

567
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 1: called in and I said, we better get a Christmas

568
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: card from that because we've passed Mahomes. And I was

569
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Speaker 1: like once I've been like, once that happened. I knew

570
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: this was going to happen. You knew, huh, Well, you

571
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: can go ahead and gloat, Chuck. You were right all along. Well, look, yeah,

572
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: he's a great quarterback. He also went to a team

573
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Speaker 1: that has great weapons around him and a really good

574
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Speaker 1: coach that no doubt. Yeah, he would still be a

575
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Speaker 1: good quarterback. Sure, yeah, you're right, absolutely, you know you

576
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Speaker 1: the players, as you say, the quarterback makes the receivers

577
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Speaker 1: sometimes too. Well, I think that's the case all the time.

578
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Speaker 1: I think it's absolutely the case all the time. I've

579
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Speaker 1: always thought that, Um, well, I wonder if we got

580
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: a Christmas card? Maybe you probably they probably did. Actually,

581
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,679
Speaker 1: teams are pretty good about Christmas cards. But they get

582
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: him to everybody, not just they have to send ten

583
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: of them for Pete, for the ten teams ahead of

584
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Speaker 1: us that did it. I'm prepared for that diet for

585
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: that narrative. It's true Bill screwing him and let me

586
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: finish the Bills screwed up by trading away that tenth pick.

587
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 1: I'm prepared and that that's true. You can make an

588
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: argument as long as you make the same argument for

589
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: the teams that may have passed on Josh Allen. Right,

590
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: do the Bills get a Christmas card from Miami? Because

591
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 1: Miami could have had Josh Allen and didn't. Right, they'd

592
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 1: have trade up to get him. But yeah, they could

593
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 1: have traded up the Bills traded up. Do the Bills

594
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Speaker 1: get Christmas cards from the people who now look at

595
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: Josh Allen said, man, I which we would have had him.

596
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,479
Speaker 1: People in need quarterbacks. So look, that goes on all

597
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: around the league. There's no guarantees. Kansas City identify the

598
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 1: player they wanted fit what they wanted. By the way,

599
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: the Bills were interested in Patrick Mahomes, he didn't like

600
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 1: sneak by him, Like, what, who's Patrick Mahomes? They knew

601
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: that day that day of the draft. Uh, your predecessor

602
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: Donald Jones and I had a long conversation with Doug

603
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 1: Whaley who said, maybe we'll get the Mahomes. We're variant

604
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: in their Mahomes now. They didn't. They chose to take

605
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: the draft picks, move down, get for Davious White, and

606
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: get better draft picks. But they had the opportunity to it.

607
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: They didn't sneak Mahomes by them. They could have had him,

608
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: and today you can say I wish they would have

609
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: had him. They it's not like they didn't think he

610
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: was gonna be an okay player. They knew he was good.

611
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: Everybody kind of knew he was pretty good, right, and

612
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: but they didn't think at the top ten pick of

613
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 1: the draft, it was a little bit of a stretch

614
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Speaker 1: for a lot of people except for the Chiefs, you know,

615
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: and you gotta have certainly, you gotta have somebody in

616
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: your organization, maybe a number of guys in your organization

617
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: that are you'll stand up and pound on the desk

618
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: and say, this is the you gotta take this guy.

619
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Speaker 1: This is the guy, this is the guy. And you

620
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: gotta have enough credibility in that room for having people say, Okay,

621
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Speaker 1: we'll take him. Yeah uh. And then you gotta and

622
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Speaker 1: then think about this too. If you take Mahomes that

623
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Speaker 1: in that draft, which you can should have, would have,

624
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: could have, then you got to be all in on

625
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: him every draft after the every draft pick after that,

626
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: and that draft you're taking off You're not taking Tradevious White,

627
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: You're taking an offensive lineman, you're taking a wide receiver,

628
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 1: you're taking a speed guy, you're taking a Tyreek Hill,

629
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Speaker 1: You're taking all the guy that set your team up

630
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: thinking he's going to be the guy. And that's I

631
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Speaker 1: think that's a long way from where the Bills were

632
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: at the time on Mahomes. It Maybe I don't think

633
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: the Chiefs were that far away because they already had

634
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: Alex Smith you know, they were in a different spot too,

635
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: and you got to really tip your hat to the Chiefs.

636
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: They got a guy like Alex Smith playing the way

637
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Speaker 1: he was playing and then taking this guy that to me,

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid and the Chiefs deserve a big, big tip

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Speaker 1: of the cap because they were in a position where

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00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: they didn't really need a guy and and they went

641
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Speaker 1: and got it. They gave up significant assets to move

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Speaker 1: up together. That's big. I mean that. I think this

643
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: is more about the Chiefs going all in on this

644
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: guy when they didn't have to, right than all these

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Speaker 1: other teams who missed on him. We're talking about the

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Speaker 1: playof the division around playoffs when we want to know

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Speaker 1: from you, who is your favorite who you're rooting for

648
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Speaker 1: the final four teams in the NFL. Now do you

649
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Speaker 1: think's gonna win? But who do you want to win?

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Speaker 1: Give us a call. The lines are open eight oh

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. We'll get more in depth

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Speaker 1: on all the other games too, And we're not just

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Speaker 1: going to talk about the Chiefs and the Colts. Come

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Speaker 1: on back, we're just getting started. One Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Steve and I sharing the cough switch. You

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Speaker 1: want to use, it won't work. I'll have it next break,

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Speaker 1: believe me. You know you think about the money that's

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Speaker 1: spent around here. Why is it that we only have

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Speaker 1: one cough switch? You know what I mean? Only one

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Speaker 1: of us can get a coffee. We can't coffee turns.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show, John Murphy and Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: here until three o'clock today. We got a good show

665
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Speaker 1: here talking about what went on over the weekend. We've

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Speaker 1: got the Stephen Saint John. I'm going to talk more

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Speaker 1: about the Chiefs with him coming up at one o'clock.

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00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: Andy Benoit from MMQB will look at the whole playoff

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Speaker 1: picture for us and look at what the Patriots Chiefs

670
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Speaker 1: matchup might look like. I want to get your thoughts.

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Speaker 1: Who are you rooting for for the Super Bowl? You

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Speaker 1: got four choices now, so it fits right in. I'll

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Speaker 1: give us a call. Eight oh three five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight fifty two fits right in because

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Speaker 1: we're only allowed four options. It's perfect. That's why perfect

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll. Jay and Tanawanda, Who are you rooting for? Jay?

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Speaker 1: Who do you want to win the Super Bowl? Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to see Kansas City in New Orleans. Really

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Speaker 1: tell me why, just because of the offenses and stuff,

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Speaker 1: or maybe the Rams in Kansas City, you know, just

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Speaker 1: because of two good offenses gone. I think that would

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Speaker 1: be great. But Kansas City is your team from the AFC.

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Speaker 1: Oh Yeah, Kansas City all the way. I want him

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Speaker 1: to go all the way. I like Candy seems like

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Speaker 1: a good guy. Yeah. I've met him a couple of times,

686
00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: had production meetings with him, and I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: He's a down to earth, solid guy, and I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of rooting for him. He's had a great career as

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Speaker 1: a head coach without ever winning the big When he

690
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: got Philly to all those NFC championship games and finally

691
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: got to the Super Bowl and Donovan McNabb turns up

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Speaker 1: sick and then and then he's been with Kansas City

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Speaker 1: where they've gotten off to hot starts and haven't been

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Speaker 1: able to close the deal in the postseason. But he's

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Speaker 1: always been a tremendous guy for me. He's his players

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Speaker 1: like him a lot, and he's been really successful. Plus

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Speaker 1: He's had so many guys come out of his staff

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Speaker 1: and go on to be pretty good head coaches, a

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Speaker 1: lot of them, and so it's kind of fun to

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Speaker 1: see and and I'd like to see him get one.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. And Plus I grew up in Kansas.

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Speaker 1: I remember when the Chiefs won it with Lenny Dawson

703
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Speaker 1: and all those guys. I'd like to see the time

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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs to go back. One of your my

705
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Speaker 1: loan Andy Reid encounter story short one. Yeah, so this

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Speaker 1: has got to be six now, ten years ago, eight nine,

707
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Speaker 1: ten years ago in New York. This time a year

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Speaker 1: with my wife for the weekend or she had business.

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Speaker 1: I just went down to hang with her. But Sunday morning,

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Speaker 1: we're at a brunch at a restaurant, kind of a

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Speaker 1: quiet little place right ten thirty eleven am. We went

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Speaker 1: to Saint Patrick's Cathedral and then went to brunch. So

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Speaker 1: it was somewhere in that neighborhood, quiet place, nobody around,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, this group starts trickling in

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Speaker 1: the same room. And this restaurant was very quiet at

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Speaker 1: the time, nobody around, and two people, four people say,

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00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, twenty people are there and it's

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid and his family, and they were noisy and

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Speaker 1: they were funny. I mean I recognized him. I didn't

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Speaker 1: say and bug him, but I recognized, Wow, that's Andy Reid.

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Speaker 1: He was coaching Eagles at the time. About midway through

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Speaker 1: the brunch, and we weren't bothered whatever. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: a restaurant. He gets uthing, comes over and says to

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Speaker 1: my wife and say, hey, I apologized. We're a little

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Speaker 1: out of control over here. We're kind of noisy. I said, coach,

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Speaker 1: that's fine. He goes. Then he realized I knew he was.

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Speaker 1: I said, no, probably he was noble. Thanks, yeah, thank you,

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Speaker 1: And he sends a drink over. He buys as a drink.

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Speaker 1: I thought, oh, that's pretty good guy. He's a good dude.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, And he thought they were making too much noise.

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Speaker 1: You can imagine their family. They fell up a joint.

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Speaker 1: Say did it was pretty fun? Yeah, that's why I

733
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Speaker 1: have the cough switch. Get the cough switch workwitch. There

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Speaker 1: you go, that's better, Oh much better. What do you think?

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Speaker 1: Who do you like? Which team you're rooting for in

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? Eight oh three five fifty toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about the other AFC game, the Division Round playoff

739
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: game yesterday. I'm disappointed in the in the Chargers too.

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Speaker 1: I thought they had a real shot at this one,

741
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Speaker 1: and I was really pulling hard for him. They didn't

742
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: really show up. Steve. The Patriots were outstanding right off

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Speaker 1: the start of the game. I don't know what you

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00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: do with Julian Edelman, and I want to ask you

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Speaker 1: that because you're a former receiver, what do you do

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Speaker 1: with Julian Edelman. He doesn't beat you with speed. He's quick, okay,

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Speaker 1: but there's something about the way they find Edelman, the

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Speaker 1: way he finds a room and the place he makes

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Speaker 1: that it's impossible to stop. He had huge numbers yesterday

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Speaker 1: and was maybe the most important for James White had

751
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Speaker 1: a big game too, But Edelman just killed the Chargers yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I thought, Yeah, Edelman had you know, one rush for

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Speaker 1: seven yards and he had nine catches for a buck

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Speaker 1: fifty one. Yeah, I'll tell you why. Thank you. You've

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Speaker 1: got a guy in your quarterback who is legendary still playing,

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Speaker 1: who throws to guys he trusts, and if he trusts

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Speaker 1: a guy, and that offense as versatile as it is,

758
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: as many things they can do as they want. They

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00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: can put Edelman wherever they want, against whoever they want

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Speaker 1: on the defense, and Brady's gonna throw it to him.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna get chances to catch the football. Edelman had

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Speaker 1: thirteen targets thirteen and the running back White had seventeen targets.

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Speaker 1: Nobody else had more than five. Those are the guys

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Speaker 1: that they went after. They when you get into a

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Speaker 1: tight game, into a game that's really important, Brady likes

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Speaker 1: to throw to guys he trusts, and White, the running back,

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00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 1: he never has to throw it very far because he's

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Speaker 1: sitting right there next to him. So those you can

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Speaker 1: say what you want about those targets. But Edelman, Brady

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Speaker 1: wants to throw to him because he trusts him, and

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00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: they will work their offense into a way that gets

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Speaker 1: him in the matchup they want, into the point of

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Speaker 1: the play where they're gonna go to Even if Edelman

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Speaker 1: come ends up being the second guy, it's by design no,

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Speaker 1: and he's gonna get matched up against a guy who

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Speaker 1: can beat and Brady will just forego the first option

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Speaker 1: and throw it right to him. That's the what that

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Speaker 1: And I've told you this time and again, Murph, the

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Speaker 1: quarterback makes the receiver and that's and Edelman is living

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Speaker 1: proof of it. It's just you know, the Bills go

781
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 1: through this twice a year, right, you play the Patriots,

782
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: and really rarely do you go into a Patriots game

783
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,439
Speaker 1: and say, other than Brady, we gotta handle this guy.

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Speaker 1: We gotta handle Edelman because he is this, this, this,

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Speaker 1: and we we gotta make sure we stop that. We

786
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: gotta handle James White because he is this, this, this,

787
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: and But they're not like physical specimens that you're trying

788
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Speaker 1: to pull your hair out, So how are you gonna

789
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Speaker 1: stop that? It's not like going up against you know,

790
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: some of the players around the league. It's just guys

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00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 1: that and you know what it is, Steve, it's Brady.

792
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: It's Brady makes them great. And Brady I thought was

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00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: sensational yesterday, as hard as that is to admit, I

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00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: thought he was outstanding yesterday. And in terms of timing

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00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: and getting the ball out on time and put the

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00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: ball in the exact right spot he needed to put it,

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Speaker 1: I thought he was great yesterday. He's a really accurate

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00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: throw where he always has been. It's always been the

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Speaker 1: strength of his game, his ability to think that he

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00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: can throw the football in plus his knowledge of that offense,

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00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: and his ability to read the defense and to pick

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00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: the spot where he's gonna go and to know pre

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00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: snap where it's probably gonna go, and then not to

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00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: be fooled if they stem into a different defense and

805
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: then they showed pre snap. He's just so far ahead

806
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: of it mentally, it makes everything. And here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: He's good enough to make a really impossibly complicated and

808
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: difficult game to play. He's good enough to make it

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00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: look easy. And that's what he's been doing for a

810
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 1: long time. And that's why you know he's legendary. Is

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Speaker 1: the Patriots are going to go to Kansas City for

812
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 1: their eighth consecutive AFC Championship game. They're gonna be underdogs

813
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: there in Kansas City, just the second time that the

814
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: Patriots have been a playoff underdogs since two thousand and seven.

815
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,479
Speaker 1: So Tom Brady jumped on that and said, everybody thinks

816
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: we stink. Here's what he had to say yesterday. It

817
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: would be a good game or a good team. And

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Speaker 1: we played him earlier this year. You know, I know,

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00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: you know, everyone thinks we suck and you know, can't

820
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: win any games, so we'll see it'll be fun. What

821
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: on earth is he talking about? We suck? We can't

822
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: everybody think you can talk about you really? I mean

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Speaker 1: he's trying to play the underdog and uh, you know

824
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: everybody's against That's the way players are, that's the way

825
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 1: they are. They can strew everything into motivation that you know,

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Speaker 1: to the fuels him and Tom Brady's done that his

827
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: entire career. He uses his draft status as fuel. Um,

828
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Speaker 1: he uses everything. Is even when you know they've been

829
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Speaker 1: like you said, they've been favored in every playoff game

830
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: they've been in since two thousand and seven. And you know,

831
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Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, nobody thinks they can play. Listen,

832
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: they are a different team than they have been. Um,

833
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: so you know, what are you gonna do? I mean,

834
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: and now he's gonna say, oh yeah, everybody thinks we stink.

835
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Speaker 1: Yeah right, everybody thinks you stink. You've won ten games

836
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 1: a year for fifteen years. Nobody thinks you stink. Tom,

837
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: nobody does. No buddy, you try to convince our producer

838
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 1: Jay Harrison myself that you saw this coming. Listen. Here's

839
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Speaker 1: what I did call the game. I did say that

840
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: you can't better ainst the Patriots in Foxborough. And I

841
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: know this, And we went back and listen to the

842
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: tape and it wasn't on there. And I'm bummed because

843
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: during the break, one of the breaks, I told you

844
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots are gonna jump out big, dominate this game,

845
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: and they'll let their foot off the gas and they'll

846
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: win by two touchdowns late and it'll look closer than

847
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: it actually is. That's exactly what happened. And I told

848
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Speaker 1: you that in one of the breaks last week, and

849
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,479
Speaker 1: I didn't get it on tape. I don't remember that

850
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: that worked out exactly like they're gonna win by two touchdowns.

851
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: They went by thirteen points. Yeah, big letdown for the Chargers,

852
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: I thought, right. I mean, Philip, their defense seems almost

853
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: Their defense seems almost clairvoyant in their ability to be

854
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: ready for a team, and so does their offense. They

855
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: almost they almost know where that defense pre snap is

856
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: going to be. Tom Brady is great at it. They

857
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: got guys run into open areas of the defense. Also, Um,

858
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: they're so good at knowing how defenses react. And I

859
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: think that's the key, one of the key things that

860
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: the Patriots do. When they do a play action, they

861
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:08,720
Speaker 1: know exactly how hard those linebackers are going to react,

862
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 1: and they know what route will get into the open

863
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: space they vacate and Brady's right there with it. The

864
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: ball comes out on time, Things happen the way they

865
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: anticipate them happening, and they're just so good. And it's

866
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: and I think that the brilliance of Bill Belichick over

867
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: the years has been able to prepare his team to

868
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: be ready for those in game adjustments that they do,

869
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: to get them ready to understand what those reactions are

870
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 1: going to be during the week of practice so they

871
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: can prepare their players for those reactions. It's just amazing.

872
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 1: Even go back to the interception at the end of

873
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl against the Seattle Seahawks, when Malcolm Butler

874
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: pick that little slant pattern off. They've been working on

875
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: that exact play for three weeks, right, and they tried

876
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:54,720
Speaker 1: to get it all and they did it and Malcolm

877
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: Butler was ready for it. And that's that is the

878
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: brilliance of the program. They have their new England. Now,

879
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 1: can they take that on the road. They're underdogs in

880
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Part one of a two part question about

881
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Can they do that on the road? Do

882
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: you think in a champion can? We've seen them do

883
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: it at time they've been Listen, it's the seventh it's

884
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: the eighth straight conference championship. They've been in eight straight

885
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:22,439
Speaker 1: conference champions Think about that, eight straight conference championships. Can

886
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: they do it on the road. Yes, they can do

887
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: it on the road. I don't know that they will.

888
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. When they get into games like this,

889
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: particularly in road games in the AFC Championship, even if

890
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: it's a coin flip. Sometimes and this is the only

891
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 1: time you'll ever see the Patriots get beat in these games,

892
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,479
Speaker 1: is when they do get a team that's playing really

893
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: well and they get out athletic size. Because we know

894
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 1: that Edelman's not the greatest athlete. Gronkowski is a great

895
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: physical matchup. But the other guys, you know, White, the

896
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,359
Speaker 1: running back up, they you know, they're not physical, they're

897
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: not physically superior to most teams, but they are they

898
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 1: are read. So the only if the Chiefs can get

899
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: them into physical matchups that the Chiefs can dominate. The

900
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: Chiefs are gonna win that game. But that's other than that.

901
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta think that it's a coin flip.

902
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: You're asking our listeners today, who are you rooting for?

903
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 1: Only six percent who you're rooting for in the Super Bowl.

904
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: Only six percent say they would root for the Patriots.

905
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: I won't. And we're just talking about it during the

906
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: last break when we were in the other room, in

907
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: our control room with some of our staff. Some Bills

908
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: fans think, all right, go ahead, Patriots win the super

909
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: Bowl and then dismantled yourselves. I don't. I don't think

910
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: you can count on that if they win the super Bowl.

911
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: I who knows Brady as his own council, will do

912
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 1: whatever he wants. But if they should win another super Bowl,

913
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to imagine Brady saying that's enough.

914
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: I'm doubt he won't. I don't think he will. He won't. Listen.

915
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: I've told you this, man, It rarely ends well for

916
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: the great ones. Tom Brady will never stop playing. You're

917
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: gonna laugh. He won't stop. They're gonna have to kick

918
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: him out or force him into saying goodbye. He will

919
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: not say goodbye. He won't won't. It's not gonna end well,

920
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: it's not gonna end well. It may it may get

921
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: It may be fine publicly, but behind the scenes, he's

922
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: gonna be He's gonna be mad. If they ever decide

923
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: to move on from him, it will not end well

924
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,439
Speaker 1: for him. We got the NFC games to talk about.

925
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: We'll do that when we return. Come on back. One

926
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: Bill slide presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive.

927
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. We'll come back. One Bill

928
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: Slide from One Bills Drive. Steve Tasker, John Murphy, We're

929
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: here trying to work through the weekend of divisional playoff games.

930
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 1: The Saturday night game, the Rams really didn't give the

931
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: Cowboys much to quarters. Steve. They jumped on him early,

932
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: they ran the ball against him, they moved it down

933
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: the field. Jared Goff looked good. Rams defense is typically solid.

934
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: I thought the Cowboys were outmatched. I don't they didn't

935
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:54,919
Speaker 1: even look like I don't even think the Cowboys looked

936
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: like they belonged in that game. Well, I don't know

937
00:43:58,040 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: if I go that far, but yeah, it was. It

938
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: was so I kind of that's the one I thought

939
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: was gonna get out of hand. That and the Saints game,

940
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: the two NFC games, I thought we're gonna get out

941
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: of hand, and they kind of did. But although the

942
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: Eagles it wasn't for an all Sean Jeffreys pass. You'd

943
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: like to see that one end the way it was

944
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: gonna end otherwise. But the Cowboys, I agree. I thought

945
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: on the way they were playing and going into that game,

946
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: I thought it was the Cowboys, not the Eagles, who

947
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: were the weakest of the of the eight teams let remaining,

948
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: I thought it was. I thought it was the Cowboys.

949
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: I I don't think Dak Prescott can win games by himself,

950
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: and I've seen the other three other seven quarterbacks kind

951
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: of do it. Kind of I'm generalizing here. Yeah, I

952
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: just think they were overmatched and like I said, too,

953
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,959
Speaker 1: and they were up against it because you get these

954
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: teams that that you know, get into the playoffs with

955
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: all guns blazing, and by they get time, they get

956
00:44:58,239 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: to the second round in the division round, they don't

957
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: have an bullets left. And the teams that have been

958
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: waiting on him arrested Reddy Healthier Fresher. They got two

959
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: weeks to get ready and they just they just hammer him.

960
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,280
Speaker 1: They hammer him, but he was Anderson rather than Girley

961
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: who carried the mail for the Rams. That was interesting, right, Yeah,

962
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: Anderson looking like Eric b Enemy too, a little bit

963
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: like like Jerome Bettis too. And he's like not the

964
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: same CJ. Anderson we saw in Denver, right right, he's

965
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: a little bit more Jerome Betted like bettis, like right,

966
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: a little heavier, a little rounder, a little more belowd

967
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: Good for him. And I gotta say my favorite Ram

968
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 1: is the former Bill Robert Woods, who's so versatile, catch

969
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: everything you want. He'll run great routes, he'll block like

970
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: probably no one else can at the wide receiver spot.

971
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: Just a great pro. I am a big Robert Woods fan.

972
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: I was when he was here, and he is just

973
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,280
Speaker 1: blossomed into a really key part of what the Rams

974
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: doing on he is. I agree with you, he is

975
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: just a gritty player, you know, and I think everybody

976
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 1: kind of appreciates that, where he just works hard every play.

977
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: Certainly every time you see him targeted with a pass,

978
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: you can just tell it. He acts like it's the

979
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,839
Speaker 1: most important past he's ever tried for, you know, And

980
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: even in it's a first quarter of a regular season game, whatever,

981
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,439
Speaker 1: he just seems like he is battling every moment he's

982
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: on the field, and I tipped my hat to him.

983
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 1: He's you're right, he took He took the contract, and

984
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: a good contract. It was with the LA Rams. He

985
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 1: wanted to go home and play back there. And hard

986
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: to feel bad about it too, you know, losing him

987
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: he was. He's a great player, good guy, and I

988
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: and I agree with you. He's one of the guys

989
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: it's easy to root for. Got Dave on the line

990
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 1: from Florida, who's rooting for the Rams? Dave, go ahead,

991
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 1: why do you like LA? How are you doing? Guys? Good? Good,

992
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 1: Let's stop JFC. I don't like the New England Patriots

993
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,879
Speaker 1: because I'm a Bills fan. Okay, given like Kansas City

994
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: didn't Kansas City stopped bust him going to Super Bowl one. Yes,

995
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 1: yes they did. Okay, they did stop us. Okay, so

996
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 1: I don't care about them. I want to win. Drew Brees,

997
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 1: that's my man. Okay, Okay, I got to say, so,

998
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: you know with your Bills Spain, you know what I'm

999
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: talking about. Okay, thanks, Dave. I thought he was gonna

1000
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is this guy? They don't get it. We

1001
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: come back, We're gonna talk about the Chiefs. We still

1002
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,280
Speaker 1: got to talk about the Saints. That game was interesting yesterday.

1003
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: And the Eagles. We're gonna talk to Stephen Saint John

1004
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: when we return. Covers the Chiefs for a radio station

1005
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 1: out in Kansas City. That's coming up when we come back.

1006
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bills Drive. This is Buffalo

1007
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Hello. The radio network stories date the update

1008
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. The final four set now in

1009
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,720
Speaker 1: the National Football League as the conference Championship game. Matchups

1010
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 1: were set after Division around playoff games over the weekend.

1011
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 1: Patriots are gonna be underdogs in the playoffs, were only

1012
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: the second time since two thousand and seven. They will

1013
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,399
Speaker 1: travel to Kansas City to face the Chiefs in the

1014
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 1: AFC Championship Game. That is the late game on Sunday.

1015
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,359
Speaker 1: The Patriot's playing at Kansas City in the NFC title game.

1016
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: The host New Orleans Saints are three and a half

1017
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,359
Speaker 1: point favorites over the Rams. In another rematch. Those two

1018
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: teams played back out November fourth in New Orleans and

1019
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: the Saints beat the Rams forty five thirty five. Eagles

1020
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: receiver Alshon Jeffrey takes responsibility for their loss to the

1021
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: Saint chesterday following a dropped pass late in the game

1022
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: that led to a critical interception. Jeffrey says, that's on me.

1023
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 1: I'll take that loss. It's on me. It was just

1024
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:27,839
Speaker 1: his third drop of the season. The Dolphins have not

1025
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 1: named their head coach yet their new head coach, but

1026
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: they reportedly have settled on Patriots linebackers coach Brian Flores

1027
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: as a man they want to take over their team

1028
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen and beyond. They cannot make that official

1029
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 1: until the Patriots season is over. According to multiple reports,

1030
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: former Lions and Colts head coach Jim Caldwell is expected

1031
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: to be on the staff of Brian Flores when he

1032
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 1: finally does get the job. Buffalo Sabers opened up a

1033
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: three game road trip tonight there in Evanton to play

1034
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: the Oilers face off set for nine o'clock out West.

1035
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: With a win tonight, the Sabers will have defeated the

1036
00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:00,040
Speaker 1: Oilers in five straight meetings for the first time, and

1037
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 1: Buffalo one six matchups in a row from two thousand

1038
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: and six through two twelve. Sabers in Edmonton faceoff nine

1039
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: o'clock tonight and former Yankee baseball legend mel Stottlemeyer passed

1040
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 1: away the lonely ace of Yankee pitching staffs from the

1041
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: late sixties through the yearly seventies during some lean years,

1042
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 1: then went on his a distinguished career as one of

1043
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: the best pitching coaches in baseball with the world champion

1044
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 1: Mets and with the Yankees. Mel Stotemeyer passed away in

1045
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: Seattle after a long battle with bone marrow cancer. He

1046
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:29,879
Speaker 1: was seventy seven years old. He was a five stun

1047
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: All Star, three time twenty game winner for the Yankees

1048
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: and later the tutor of a great pitching staff for

1049
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: the New York Mets. Mel Stotemyer. That's the update from

1050
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: One Bill Drive, John Murphy Steve Tasker in our one

1051
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo studio taking a deep look at the playoff matchups

1052
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: and talking about what went on this past weekend, What's

1053
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: to come? Kansas City interesting afternoon Saturday as they handled

1054
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: the Colts easily and joining us on the subway fresh

1055
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,879
Speaker 1: State hotline guy who's covered Kansas City sports for over

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Speaker 1: ten years. Horse hosted The Border Patrol on Sports Radio

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Speaker 1: eight ten HB Radio in Kansas City. Stephen Saint, John

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Speaker 1: on the Subway Fresh Day Hotline. Stephen, John Murphy, and

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Speaker 1: Steve Task, you're in Buffalo. Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me fellas. It's a pleasure. Did the

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Speaker 1: stop snow on yet? You know what it has? It

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Speaker 1: has a little bit and it's supposed to kind of

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Speaker 1: be off and on this week. But I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna snow Friday, maybe Saturday. But the early word is

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Speaker 1: on Sunday it's gonna be very cold. It might be

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Speaker 1: around eight degrees or so, and that's before you fact

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Speaker 1: in the windshow. But they say it should be dry,

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Speaker 1: no snow, no sleep, and so it'll be very very cold,

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Speaker 1: but it should be dry on Sunday for game day. Stephen,

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Speaker 1: thank you for letting the guy from Buffalo ask a

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00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: question about snow. We don't get a chance to do

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Speaker 1: that very often snow outside of Buffalo. It was it

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00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: was really it was great. It felt good. Yeah, you guys,

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Speaker 1: you guys know all about that, but it was I

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Speaker 1: will tell you this. It was a wild day that

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00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: day trying to get into Arrowhead Stadium because it was

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00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 1: worse than most of the weather people are predicted, and

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00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: so a couple of times I was wondering if we're

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Speaker 1: going to have just a bunch of people stuck out

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00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: in the parking lot now on the highway before the

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00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 1: game started. Yeah, we watched the game against the Indianapolis

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00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: coltson and we caught all the stuff trying to get

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Speaker 1: into the stadium. I had a couple of guys who

1084
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: were old buddies of mind tweeting about getting into that

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00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,240
Speaker 1: place and how bad it was out on the parking lots.

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Speaker 1: But you know, the Chiefs came in, they hosted Indianapolis,

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00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 1: and they snapped a sixth game losing streak in their

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00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: own building, and they did it in high fashion. What's that?

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Speaker 1: The city's got to be Absolutely there's a mix of

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00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: relief and jubilation. You know, that's a that's a good

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00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: way to describe it, because you know, having lived here

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Speaker 1: my entire life and having been that Arrowhead Stadium for

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00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: every single one of those playoff losses since their last

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00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 1: win when Joe Montana was a quarterback and they beat

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00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: the Steelers in overtime after the ninety fourth season, and

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00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: as you guys will know, they ended up going to

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00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: Houston and winning that game in the divisional round before

1098
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: they lost to the Buffalo Bills up there in Buffalo

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00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:56,839
Speaker 1: in the AC Championship game. That's the last time they've

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00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:00,359
Speaker 1: been to the AFC title game. And it was point,

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00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: you know in the past where if you're a Chief

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00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: fan and you go to a playoff game and arrowhead,

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00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: you just expect something bad to happen. It wasn't if

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00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: they were going to lose. It was going to be

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00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 1: how are they going to lose? And I think that

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00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 1: the part of that attitude was whenever the Chiefs were

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00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: losing the playoffs, it was because they had the lesser quarterback.

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00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: Even when they had Joe Montagna, he wasn't vintage Joe Montagna.

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00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 1: He was still very good, but he wasn't he wasn't

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Speaker 1: better than Jim Kelly at that point in his career.

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00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: And so you'd sit back and just wait for something

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00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: bad to happen. But I'll tell you it's it's crazy

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00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,320
Speaker 1: to say one guy has changed everything that Patrick Mahomes

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00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 1: the second with his attitude, his confidence and what he's

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00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: brought to this organization and to this city has been

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00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: remarkable to watch the fans truly believe not only can

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00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: they go to the Super Bowl, but they can win

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00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,359
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, all because of this twenty three year

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00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: old quarterback that has taken this town by storing no

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Speaker 1: pun intended, Stephen, I'm a home Stephen. Steve Tasker and

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00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:01,479
Speaker 1: I were talking about this last hour here in the show.

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00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,919
Speaker 1: So Mahome's numbers in Saturday's game, they're okay, they're pretty good,

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Speaker 1: but it's not it's beyond the numbers. It's the type

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00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: of throws that he makes and his sort of I

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00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: preferred to it as kind of a genius level intuitiveness

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00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: as to where to go with the ball and how

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00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 1: to get the ball there. It doesn't matter if his

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00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: feet are sat or his arm is perfect. He just

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00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: knows where to go with the ball and gets it

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00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: there no matter what it takes. It's kind of fun

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00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 1: to watch, isn't it. It absolutely is. And he's a

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00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: guy that he is mobile. He's very athletic, and he

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00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: will run. You saw him runs with that touchdown on

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00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: Saturday against the Colts. But he scrambles. He uses his

1135
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 1: mobility to keep plays a lot. He's just moving just

1136
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: so we could throw the football. And that's that's the

1137
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:43,919
Speaker 1: thing that's been even for his teammates talking to them

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00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: every week. It's it's so different to watch him because

1139
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 1: you have to pay attention until the very end of

1140
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: the play, that plays always alive. It looks like he

1141
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:54,919
Speaker 1: may be going out of barrels and he could throw

1142
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: his ball acause the football acause his body and find

1143
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,880
Speaker 1: receivers that other quarterbacks can't find. And even if they

1144
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: do see, because they don't have the arm talent, they

1145
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: can't get the football to him. It's when I talked.

1146
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: I do a weekly chief show with Ford Chiefs Tim Gunnhard,

1147
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:14,280
Speaker 1: and every week he can't find the words to describe

1148
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 1: what he sees. And he's played with and against a

1149
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: lot of great quarterbacks in this league. When you hear

1150
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 1: guys that know so much about football, that have spent

1151
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 1: their lives in this sport, when they can't accurately describe

1152
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 1: what it's like to watch this kid play quarterback, then

1153
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 1: you know you have something special on your hands. Well,

1154
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:32,759
Speaker 1: you don't get this deep into the playoffs unless you

1155
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 1: got a quarterback. But also he's not alone either. You

1156
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,839
Speaker 1: had Damian Williams who stepped up a running back rush

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00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: really for a lot of one hundred and twenty nine yards.

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00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: And I got to ask you this How devastating did

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00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: it seem at the time when you lost Kareem Hunt,

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00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: And how undevastating does it seem now, you know what?

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00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 1: It was certainly a shock to this to this town.

1162
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,319
Speaker 1: And I think some people thought, Oh, that's that's how

1163
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 1: it happens, that's how the wheels come off. They're not

1164
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:58,919
Speaker 1: going to be the same team. There was a little

1165
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: bit of hope that's venture aware wouldn't be as good

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00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: as kream Hunt, but good enough because he was the

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Speaker 1: starter when they drafted Kareem Hunt last year in the

1168
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 1: third run out of Toledo, and then he got hurt

1169
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 1: in training camp and that's what elevated Kareem Hunt the

1170
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: starter when he was a rookie. And so Spencer Ware

1171
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 1: was coming back from the knee injury and he's been

1172
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,439
Speaker 1: a good, solid back and so as soon he gets

1173
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:21,799
Speaker 1: he gets the opportunity. Though then he gets hurt and

1174
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: so then you're down to Damian Williams. And some people

1175
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 1: kind of raised their eyebrows when they signed him as

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00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: a free agent Layton training camp because it didn't look

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00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 1: like the opportunity was there for any carries. But he

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00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 1: signed with the Chiefs. Brett Beach the GM that turned

1179
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: out to be a great sign. He had already given

1180
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 1: him a two year extension because he stepped in and

1181
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 1: he's been fantastic and not just the guy that Nick

1182
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: and you know, running back to the needs of he

1183
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:50,320
Speaker 1: schemed into big yards or being able to get production

1184
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: because everyone else is good around him. He shows great

1185
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 1: field vision, the touchdown running. He had to put the

1186
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,480
Speaker 1: cheese up seven anohing. He made two guys miss. He's tough.

1187
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: They feel comfortable with him in forts and short He's

1188
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:04,520
Speaker 1: turned into a pretty good receiver out of the backfield.

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Speaker 1: He's been a remarkable addition late in the season to

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00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: this lineup. And I don't know where they deal with

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Speaker 1: album right now. Roll. I am a Stephen Saint. Johnny

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Speaker 1: is the radio host of The Border Patrol on Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio eight ten WHB in Kansas City, joining us on

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00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: the Subway Fresh Take Coline to talk about the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs. You know, Travis Kelsey has been good for

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00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: a long time, but I thought Saturday, Stephen, he was great,

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00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:30,840
Speaker 1: and I began to think that maybe it took you know,

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00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: the bulk of this year, this past season, but he

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Speaker 1: and the quarterback Mahome seemed to have develop a chemistry

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00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: and kind of a knowledge of where the other guy's

1201
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: going to be, and that's tough to stop. I think

1202
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 1: Kelsey has become maybe one of the best two or

1203
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 1: three tight ends in the league. And I saw it

1204
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: on display Saturday afternoon. What do you think he's so

1205
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 1: good with the football in the sands. I mean, obviously

1206
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: he's a great receiver, and he's such a mismatch because

1207
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 1: of the combination of size and athleticism and speed. But

1208
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: he's so much on to watch in the open field.

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00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,799
Speaker 1: I mean, he always makes the first guy miss, He'll

1210
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:07,320
Speaker 1: always drag the guy for next two or three yards.

1211
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,040
Speaker 1: He's he's more like a wide receiver at times when

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00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: he gets in the open field. And and for him,

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00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:15,000
Speaker 1: you know, early in his career there were some issues

1214
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: where he had some silly penalties on sportsmen my conducts

1215
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: and uh and and sometimes he would uh he would

1216
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:23,920
Speaker 1: irritate Andy Reeve with some of the things that he

1217
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 1: did UH that that were unnecessary, and it's it's it's

1218
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: about maturity. But he has turned into one of the

1219
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: leaders of this football team. He's the most dependable receiver

1220
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 1: for UH. For Patrick Mahomes and and really I think

1221
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: when you look at playmaking ability, he's he's the best

1222
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 1: receiving tight end in football because he's such a mismatch.

1223
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: He's he's too fast for for linebackers and safeties to

1224
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 1: really hang with it. And you know, you put a

1225
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:52,360
Speaker 1: corner on him, and that's the size of mismatch. And

1226
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 1: so he's one of those rare talents that, uh that

1227
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 1: you really don't have a good a good option to

1228
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 1: to come because he's just such a unique type of player.

1229
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: And I've seen many many times and Patrick Mahomes has

1230
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 1: needed to make a play, that's his guy. That's a

1231
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: saturity blanket. And it's a great combination. Right now, Oh, Steve,

1232
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: I had to ask you one thing, the whole question

1233
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: of that of the weekend in the NFL, and that

1234
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: question is this, where did this Chief's defense come from? Boy,

1235
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 1: if you guys find out, let me know and I'll

1236
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,919
Speaker 1: send that over to Bob Stutton and Andy e. Look. Look,

1237
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 1: they were thirty first, thirty first in the league in

1238
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: the regular season. They absolutely dominated one of the hottest

1239
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: offenses in the NFL, and so they have a really

1240
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: good performance the last game of the season against the

1241
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 1: Opland Raiders. But that's the Okland Raiders that are out

1242
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: of the playoffs for a reason. But with what's been crazy,

1243
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 1: if you look at the splits of what the defense

1244
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 1: has done at home versus on the road, it's really

1245
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 1: been two different teams, two different defenses. Because you've got

1246
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 1: the seventeen points seventeen points a game they've given up

1247
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: at home, which is kind of middle of the pack,

1248
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: but it's not dead. And and they led the NFL

1249
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 1: and sacked so that they can get to the quarterback

1250
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 1: and Chris Jones adjusting, he's in a d board. The

1251
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 1: problem has been Bob Sutton put so much responsibility in

1252
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 1: the safety position for his defense, and they lost Eric

1253
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 1: Berry in training camp and he's been day to day

1254
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 1: and week to week. They never put him an IR

1255
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: and that's been kind of a cloud hanging over the team.

1256
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 1: He finally came back, he wasn't the same. He couldn't

1257
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:27,440
Speaker 1: go in the playoffs game on Saturday. And they did

1258
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 1: make two moves under the radar. They'd Ben stron Parker

1259
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 1: and they inserted Jordan Lucas in the lineup, a kid

1260
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 1: they drafted. They traded a seven drownd pick to the

1261
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins for the inner training camp. He didn't even

1262
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: go to training camp with the Chiefs. And then shar

1263
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:44,440
Speaker 1: Varius Award. They traded the backup offensive lineman toward the

1264
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: forward to the Dallas Cowboys and he was an undrafted

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Speaker 1: free agent signed by the Cowboys, didn't make the team,

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Speaker 1: get straight to the Chiefs. They inserted him in place

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Speaker 1: of Orlando Scandrick. And since those two have been in

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Speaker 1: the lineup the last three games, it's like night and day,

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Speaker 1: and they were both very good. Board He had a

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Speaker 1: couple of pass breakups. He was terrific. Jordan Lucas was

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Speaker 1: very good. Those two personnel moves and being anel that

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Speaker 1: stadium has really showed some improvement. It's crazy to think

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Speaker 1: the two guys that you basically gave up a backup

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Speaker 1: off at the lineman and a seven time pick four

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Speaker 1: could end up being the difference makers and getting this

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Speaker 1: team to the Super Bowl. He Stephen, What did the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs learn from their Week sixth loss to the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: a three point loss. It was a great game, one

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Speaker 1: of the best games of the year. But what do

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Speaker 1: you think the Chiefs take from that game? And how

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Speaker 1: do they apply it to the rematch now, Well, it's

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Speaker 1: the same kind of game. They learned that they need

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Speaker 1: to have the football last and not leave any time

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Speaker 1: on the box of Tom Brady, because that's the way

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Speaker 1: that you could watch that game, and by halftime you

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Speaker 1: knew whoever had the ball lass was going to win

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Speaker 1: that game. And that's exactly what happened. But they know

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Speaker 1: that they can play with the Patriots. They know that

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Speaker 1: when they played that game, they did not have justin Houston.

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Speaker 1: They know that when they played that game, the Patriots

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Speaker 1: did have Josh Gordon. And so those are two big

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Speaker 1: differences right there. And we'll see if the and again,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots haven't been the same on the road. The

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Speaker 1: Patriots the last couple of times, they've had terrible performances

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Speaker 1: at Arrowhead Stadium. And uh, since since we've been talking

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Speaker 1: about the stand all day. Since since the two thousand season,

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick three hundred and fifty two games he's coach

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Speaker 1: in the regular season and in the playoffs, seven times,

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Speaker 1: his defenses have given up forty points or more. Three

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Speaker 1: of those times it's been to Andy Reid in the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs in two thousand and thirteen and two

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Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen, and then whether the last two years,

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Speaker 1: last last year when they won in the opening night,

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Speaker 1: and then this earlier this year when they put up

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Speaker 1: forty points, and so Andy Reid where the Chiefs is

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Speaker 1: at tremendous amount success against Bill Belichick's defenses, and it's

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Speaker 1: an Arrowhead stadium. Brady's now the same quarterback on the road,

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Speaker 1: and uh, hopefully the rest of the football nation is

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Speaker 1: rooting for the Chiefs because I think we're all sick

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Speaker 1: of the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Yeah, you're in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: I can guarantee that he Steven. I've broadcast a lot

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Speaker 1: of games in Arrowhead. Steve played a ton of games

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Speaker 1: of Arrowhead. I think we would both agree with your

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Speaker 1: assertion that Arrowhead makes a difference. And it's got to

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Speaker 1: be more fun than it spending years there in terms

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Speaker 1: of noise and excitement there based on what the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: did last Saturday. Huh, you know, and I said this

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Speaker 1: and this this is true. Uh, and I believe this

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Speaker 1: examina hundreds of games there. That's the loudest that Arrowheads

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Speaker 1: Stadium has been since already. Shot In Imo was the

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Speaker 1: coach since since since Derrick Thomas was on the field,

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Speaker 1: since they were playing button DS with you know, John Elway.

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Speaker 1: That is the loudest that that stadium has been since

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Speaker 1: the nineties. And and and you guys both know how

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Speaker 1: loud that stadium was in the nineties. They lost some

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Speaker 1: of this mystique over the past decade or so, but

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Speaker 1: us it's back. And the love affair with Pattic Moons

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Speaker 1: the second. The success on the field obviously, but sells

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Speaker 1: for I'm forty six years old, my whole life. I

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Speaker 1: wonder what the Arrowhead Stadium cloud would be like for

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Speaker 1: an ASC Championship game. I've waited forty six years. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna find out on Sunday, and I'll let you guys know.

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Speaker 1: Ye have trust me. It'll be loud, and it'll be great.

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Speaker 1: It'll be great and it'll be cold too. Thanks Stephen,

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Speaker 1: thanks for being with us. You know, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this and a lot of people like Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker around here. My producer, Jaco Tera has worked with

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Speaker 1: him on the CBS crew for several years. And so

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Speaker 1: Jake says alone and talks another but great things about

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Speaker 1: about you and mister Steve Taskers, So thank you for

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Speaker 1: having me on the show. I appreciate it. Steve appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Tell him I said, hey, I will thanks Stephen. Stephen

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Speaker 1: st John and the host of the Border Patrol radio

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Speaker 1: show on Sports Radio eight ten w HB Radio, and

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Speaker 1: Kansas City been around there for a long time. Joined

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Speaker 1: us on the Subway Fresh State Kidline presented by Subway

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01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 1: Restaurants probab to be locally owned and operated. We know

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Speaker 1: how loud New Airfield can get right, and Kansas City

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01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 1: is the same story. And it's interesting Kansas City might

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Speaker 1: be louder and stadiums built me. I don't know. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this too. He's right. It did lose

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Speaker 1: a lot of his mystique because, let's face it, they

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01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 1: that an Owen sixth playoff record, which is amazing for

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01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:11,360
Speaker 1: a stadium that has that much of an advantage, and

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Speaker 1: it is real. He even said it. And we've been

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Speaker 1: talking about the Chiefs defense all the way in the

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Speaker 1: lead up to these playoffs, about how their defense just

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Speaker 1: was non existence. But he reminded us when they're in

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Speaker 1: that building, they're markedly better, like fifteen spots better. They

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Speaker 1: were ranked thirty first in the league, their fifteenth in

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Speaker 1: the league and points given they're seventeen points of games

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Speaker 1: all they're given up in that building. It's a hard

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Speaker 1: place for offensive to come in there and function, and

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Speaker 1: they've been He was all over it, and he's right.

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Speaker 1: And we've seen two here in Buffalo even this year.

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Speaker 1: When you plug one or two guys in all that,

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Speaker 1: it makes all the difference in the world. We've seen

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Speaker 1: it time and time again with this coaching staff, either

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Speaker 1: at the corner opposite Tredavious White, when you finally get

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Speaker 1: a guy in there, Wow he can play. When you

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Speaker 1: find out a guy like tarn Johnson, wow he can play.

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Speaker 1: Now where our defense is way better because we got

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Speaker 1: one guy over the slot. The same thing for the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs defen they plug a couple of guys into the secondary,

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Speaker 1: they lose a good guy and Eric Buried, no question

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Speaker 1: about it. But when they plug a couple of guys

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Speaker 1: in and all of a sudden they get a little

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Speaker 1: chemistry and some things start to go right, it becomes

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Speaker 1: a different defense. And it couldn't have happened at a

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Speaker 1: better time for the Chiefs. You remember the week sixth game,

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Speaker 1: the three point Patriots win was that a Monday night

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Speaker 1: or Sunday night. I can't remember. It was a great game. Three. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was a great game. That's when. That's the game

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Speaker 1: also that set up that showdown with the Rams in

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Speaker 1: LA with the Chiefs of fifty four fifty one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: our producer tell me it was a Monday night, Okay,

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Speaker 1: Sunday night, Sunday night game. I don't know, it's week six.

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Speaker 1: I just remember watching that game taking this is for

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Speaker 1: real and the Bills were in a rough spot then too,

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Speaker 1: And I remember watching with the feeling of jealousy, like

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Speaker 1: how come I we can't have a team like either

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Speaker 1: one of these two Patriots and and the Chiefs. It

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Speaker 1: was a great game. It should be a great rematch.

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Speaker 1: I would think two good coaches, maybe two of the

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Speaker 1: best coaches working these days in the NFL. Great home

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Speaker 1: venue for the Kansas City Chiefs. You got a hardened

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Speaker 1: battle crew for the Patriots, You've been through a lot

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Speaker 1: of big games coming in. They know what it's like

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Speaker 1: to play in a big game. They won't be intimidated

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Speaker 1: by being on the road. And the Chiefs are gonna

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Speaker 1: ride emotion and momentum and that vibe into this game.

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Speaker 1: And it's I Yeah, this is gonna be a fun game,

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Speaker 1: a fun fun game. Um and Mahomes, I mean Mahomes

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Speaker 1: versus Brady. What about? I mean that's an amazing matchup,

1405
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Speaker 1: the past versus the future, you would think in absolutely

1406
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Speaker 1: gonna be fun. We'll talk more about that game. So

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Speaker 1: I gotta get deep into the NFC games. We'll do

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Speaker 1: that with you when we return. I want to get

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on Twitter. It's our Twitter poll today. Who

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Speaker 1: are you rooting for? It now? Who's gonna win these games?

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Speaker 1: The championship games? Who's gonna win the Super Bowl? Who

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Speaker 1: are you rooting for? Not? Who necessarily will do it?

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Speaker 1: Give us a column we'll discuss eight oh three five

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Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight by fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. Or we can do it on Twitter. You

1416
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:55,080
Speaker 1: can vote on our Twitter poll or sending something for

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. We'll read some of that when we return.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy' Steave Tasker. It's One Bills Live from One

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Speaker 1: Bills Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. Midway through the show,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy's Steve Tasker here until three o'clock. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: talk to our buddy Andy Benoit coming up a little

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Speaker 1: bit after two o'clock from ESPN and h MMQB. You

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Speaker 1: know he wrote and he m oh, I'm sorry. This

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Speaker 1: is Bill Barnwell who wrote this from ESPN. He's he

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Speaker 1: maintains this could be the most exciting NFL Final four ever,

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Speaker 1: and he gives a bunch of arguments on ESPN. He

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Speaker 1: could be right there, Steve. We were just talking during

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Speaker 1: the break. These are the four best teams for sure

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Speaker 1: that went into the playoffs this year. Four best teams

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Speaker 1: in the NFL still alive right now. That makes it

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Speaker 1: kind of a compelling conference championship. It's the four highest

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Speaker 1: scoring teams in the league in the in the championship games.

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Speaker 1: And it's interesting too because usually, you know, defense wins championships.

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Speaker 1: Not this year, offense is in. Is what's going to happen?

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Speaker 1: And you know who knews. You know, obviously you gotta

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Speaker 1: score more points than the other guys, and these teams

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Speaker 1: took her right to it in the wildcard round a

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Speaker 1: week ago. Defense seemed to hold the edge. But I

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Speaker 1: don't like to draw too many conclusions that there will

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01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:24,000
Speaker 1: be those who cite what you just said, Well, top

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Speaker 1: four scoring teams are the tops from the regular season. Yeah,

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01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:29,920
Speaker 1: from the regular seam the last fourth standing. So scoring

1444
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:32,479
Speaker 1: is everything scoring, and if you go by that. But

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01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:34,679
Speaker 1: if you go by that, it's gonna be Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: LA in the Super Bowl and Kansas City will win

1447
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:43,320
Speaker 1: it if that holds true. Kansas City averaging thirty thirty

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Speaker 1: five point three, the Rams thirty two point nine, the

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Speaker 1: Saints thirty one point five, and then the Patriots twenty

1450
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:53,200
Speaker 1: seven point three. That's how many points though those teams

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01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 1: scored respectively during the regular season on average, and that's

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Speaker 1: who is in the championship round of the NFL Playoffs.

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01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 1: Doesn't work out like that very often. Usually defense has

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01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:04,840
Speaker 1: something to do with it. And I think it's still

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01:09:04,840 --> 01:09:07,599
Speaker 1: well as a matter of fact. Yeah, And if that's

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01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 1: the case, Stephen Saint John, the guy we had on

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01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: from Kansas City eight ten WHF Radio, just said, listen,

1458
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 1: whe Radio, that's you know what has been the difference

1459
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:21,760
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs down the stretch. They made a couple

1460
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Speaker 1: of personnel changes on their defense. We all saw it.

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01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:25,760
Speaker 1: We all thought that the Colts were going to go

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Speaker 1: in there and do whatever they wanted offensively and not

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Speaker 1: so fast. The Chiefs defense is much different when they're

1464
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Speaker 1: in Kansas City, and they're also much different than the

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Speaker 1: last month when they made some personnel changes in their

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Speaker 1: secondary We're asking you on Twitter today and on the

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Speaker 1: telephone lines, which team are you rooting for to win

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? Not who do you think we'll do it?

1469
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Speaker 1: But who are you pulling for it? Give us a call.

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Speaker 1: The lines are open eight O three five fifty and

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Speaker 1: outside Buffalo toll free line at one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty, or on Twitter you can

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Speaker 1: vote on our Twitter poll. That's a close one. On

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Speaker 1: our Twitter poll, forty one percent of you say you

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01:09:56,760 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 1: are rooting for the Rams. Forty one forty percent of

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01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:03,160
Speaker 1: you say you are rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs.

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01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:07,599
Speaker 1: Only fifteen percent say I'm sorry forty one forty one

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01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:09,920
Speaker 1: percent say you are rooting for the Saints. That's what

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01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:12,400
Speaker 1: I meant to say. Forty percent say you're rooting for

1480
01:10:12,439 --> 01:10:15,519
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, fifteen percent say you're rooting for

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01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 1: the Rams. Four percent that's all. Just four percent say

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01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 1: you're rooting for the Patriots. Who are those people who

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01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:25,240
Speaker 1: are you identifying in case you're wondering now, that the

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01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:27,679
Speaker 1: Saints and Rams will be on first this next weekend.

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01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:29,960
Speaker 1: It'll be the Rams at the Saints at three oh

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01:10:30,080 --> 01:10:33,360
Speaker 1: five on Sunday, and then it'll be the Patriots at

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01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs at six forty pm Eastern Time on Sunday,

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01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:41,360
Speaker 1: So it'll be a doubleheader on Sunday afternoon. Three oh

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01:10:41,439 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 1: five kickoff in the first game, six forty, kickoff in

1490
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 1: the second game sixty forty. That's exactly what time the

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01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:50,439
Speaker 1: Super Bowl kicks off usually on Super Bowl Sunday as well,

1492
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:52,639
Speaker 1: so it'll be right in that Sunday afternoon window, both

1493
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 1: those games coming on no Saturday games. And on the

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01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:58,080
Speaker 1: way they go, a couple of tweets from the tweet

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01:10:58,120 --> 01:11:00,679
Speaker 1: sheet on this question who you're rooting for? From Ryan Greer,

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01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:04,720
Speaker 1: he tweets this, and I choose the Saints. Wish I

1497
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:08,280
Speaker 1: could say something great here about specific players, but ultimately

1498
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 1: it's because that's my wife's team, and I don't want

1499
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:12,479
Speaker 1: her to be in a bad mood for my saying

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01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:16,320
Speaker 1: That's a good reason. Ryan, That's what legitimate reasons you'll

1501
01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:18,920
Speaker 1: find on our tweet sheet. Mad Cow two fifty one

1502
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:21,880
Speaker 1: tweets this, and let Drew get one more Drew Brees.

1503
01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:24,120
Speaker 1: He deserves it. The Chiefs and Rams will have the

1504
01:11:24,160 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 1: next several years to get one of the Patriots. Screw them.

1505
01:11:28,280 --> 01:11:31,559
Speaker 1: He says, that sounds like a buffalo sentiment. I look

1506
01:11:31,640 --> 01:11:33,880
Speaker 1: in forty one percent of our respondent say the Saints.

1507
01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull for the Saints because I like Drew Brees,

1508
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:38,360
Speaker 1: I like much of what goes on down there. I'm

1509
01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: not a huge fan of the coach Peyton, but I

1510
01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:43,800
Speaker 1: do think they're a talented team that plays hard. They

1511
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 1: play hard steep down there, don't they the New Orleans

1512
01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:49,280
Speaker 1: It was on display against the Eagles yesterday. They had

1513
01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:53,880
Speaker 1: an enormous and enormously good a day going for him.

1514
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:55,920
Speaker 1: I mean that they were on it. They kind of

1515
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:58,960
Speaker 1: weathered the storm when the Philadelphia Eagles came in. They

1516
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:01,719
Speaker 1: got beat forty eight I believe forty eight to seven

1517
01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:05,880
Speaker 1: in Week eleven of this season, and the Philadelphia Eagle

1518
01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 1: players really thought that the Saints piled on they ran

1519
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:11,960
Speaker 1: up the score and they were not happy about it,

1520
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:15,600
Speaker 1: and they came in and showed it. They exploded on

1521
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:19,120
Speaker 1: the Saints in their own building early on fourteen to nothing,

1522
01:12:19,680 --> 01:12:21,800
Speaker 1: and then and the mark of a really good team,

1523
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 1: or if you've seen it, we've seen it hundreds of times,

1524
01:12:24,880 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 1: a really good team weathered that storm at home, came

1525
01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:30,240
Speaker 1: back and scored twenty unanswered points to win that game.

1526
01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:34,559
Speaker 1: And the Eagles came back to Earth and they couldn't

1527
01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:37,160
Speaker 1: sustain that emotion or that intensity throughout the rest of

1528
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:39,559
Speaker 1: the game and they ended up losing. Sehn Peyton has

1529
01:12:39,800 --> 01:12:42,160
Speaker 1: commanded that team, There's no question about it. He has

1530
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:45,320
Speaker 1: for several years now, even after you know he weathered

1531
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 1: the storm of being suspended for the one year, and

1532
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:49,719
Speaker 1: he got their attention this week, you would think seemingly

1533
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:53,040
Speaker 1: Steve with that locker room displayed. There was finally a

1534
01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:56,519
Speaker 1: picture that came out over the weekend about Sean Payton's maneuver.

1535
01:12:56,800 --> 01:13:00,160
Speaker 1: He put the Lombardi Trophy one hundred thousand dollars in

1536
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:02,240
Speaker 1: cash I think all in one dollar bills in a

1537
01:13:02,240 --> 01:13:05,679
Speaker 1: Super Bowl ring in a glass cylinder inside the Saints

1538
01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:08,080
Speaker 1: locker room to motivate his team. This is what you're

1539
01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:10,800
Speaker 1: playing for if you win the Super Bowl trophy ring money,

1540
01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:13,479
Speaker 1: it's a lot of cash. Murph, how would you what

1541
01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:16,639
Speaker 1: do you think rank the motivating factors there one, two, three,

1542
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:20,720
Speaker 1: the cash man. Look you see this picture, there's a

1543
01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 1: mountain of cash. It's all in one got two hundred

1544
01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:26,240
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand singles sitting there. And then the trophy

1545
01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:27,840
Speaker 1: the Lombardies over which you've all seen. And then the

1546
01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:30,120
Speaker 1: ring down in the bottom's laying, you know, down in

1547
01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 1: the little ring case man. The cash. It's the cash,

1548
01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 1: cash cash, cash cash, rama. Baby. It was fun. That

1549
01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 1: is unbelievables great and it's it's um and you know,

1550
01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 1: you can say what you want to about, you know,

1551
01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:45,559
Speaker 1: you know, being a mercenary playing just for the money. Listen,

1552
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 1: it's that is so fun to think about, you know,

1553
01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:51,160
Speaker 1: it's so fun to think about. But that's what it's

1554
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 1: going to take. They get a little bit of that

1555
01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 1: every week. The prize money goes up every time you

1556
01:13:56,600 --> 01:13:59,160
Speaker 1: play a game. I think it goes twenty five. I

1557
01:13:59,160 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 1: don't know what it's two hund twenty five grand total.

1558
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:03,960
Speaker 1: If you win the Super Bowl. I think the winner's

1559
01:14:04,439 --> 01:14:07,680
Speaker 1: share for a Super Bowl is one hundred maybe, I

1560
01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 1: don't know, I can't remember. I don't know what the

1561
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:11,280
Speaker 1: scale is, but it's it's always like double what you

1562
01:14:11,400 --> 01:14:13,479
Speaker 1: get the next round and so you can do the math,

1563
01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:20,040
Speaker 1: but it's don't cash. The Saints rolling in the third

1564
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:23,760
Speaker 1: quarter yesterday a drive that was amazing, third quarter touchdown drive,

1565
01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:27,200
Speaker 1: eighteen plays, ninety two yards, took eleven and a half

1566
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:29,200
Speaker 1: minutes off the clock they had. Did you see that?

1567
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:33,200
Speaker 1: They had like six penalties too. I think they gained

1568
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:35,519
Speaker 1: like one hundred and ninety five yards. That drive had

1569
01:14:35,560 --> 01:14:38,800
Speaker 1: to suck the soul right out of it. Was it

1570
01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:41,639
Speaker 1: was a soul crusher. Yeah, eleven and a half minutes

1571
01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:45,040
Speaker 1: and like you said, it looked like and they converted

1572
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:48,200
Speaker 1: two fourth downs, the last which was the touchdown. Yeah, wow,

1573
01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:50,560
Speaker 1: that is a soul crusher, all right? Special team or

1574
01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 1: what do you think of their fake punt at their

1575
01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:56,120
Speaker 1: own thirty yard line? The Saints? That's gutsie, that's big time.

1576
01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:58,320
Speaker 1: The same head coach who did a surprise on side

1577
01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:00,599
Speaker 1: coming out a halftime against the Colts and game they won.

1578
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:04,280
Speaker 1: He just doesn't hesitate to make calls like that, or

1579
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:06,760
Speaker 1: maybe he did hesitate, but he still made it. You know.

1580
01:15:07,640 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 1: Backup quarterback Bell goes in direct snapped a center. Let's hey,

1581
01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:14,040
Speaker 1: it's a yard and you think it looks so easy

1582
01:15:14,080 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 1: when you get it right. And they did. They got

1583
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:20,559
Speaker 1: it and got it easily, and it and ended up

1584
01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:23,680
Speaker 1: being the deciding drive of the game. It was the

1585
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:27,599
Speaker 1: fourth down that they converted. And and I don't think

1586
01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:29,640
Speaker 1: the cults. It's not like the Eagles weren't ready for it.

1587
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:30,920
Speaker 1: They had a lot of they had a couple of

1588
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:32,720
Speaker 1: defensive linemen on the field. I don't think they went

1589
01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 1: with their punt return team. It was too short a distance.

1590
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:38,040
Speaker 1: They still got it. Look when the Saints came in

1591
01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:42,360
Speaker 1: here in November of twenty seventeen and handed it to

1592
01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:44,640
Speaker 1: the Bills, I thought at that point, this is the

1593
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:46,880
Speaker 1: best team in football. I thought they were going into

1594
01:15:46,880 --> 01:15:49,439
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year they lost on a crazy play

1595
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:51,920
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. But I think they were the last couple

1596
01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 1: of years, I believe the Saints have been the best

1597
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:57,240
Speaker 1: team in the NFL. I really do. Most talented, well coached,

1598
01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:00,160
Speaker 1: and edgiest team. They are pretty edgy, you know what

1599
01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 1: I mean. Think about this, and I said this last

1600
01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:06,519
Speaker 1: week too. You know this, the big flavor of the

1601
01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: month coach in the NFL is Sean McVay. La rams

1602
01:16:10,040 --> 01:16:12,479
Speaker 1: and people forget and I reminded people of this last week.

1603
01:16:12,560 --> 01:16:18,040
Speaker 1: Sean Peyton, the Saints head coach, was Sean McVay ten

1604
01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:20,000
Speaker 1: years ago, wherever long it was ago, But when he

1605
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:22,200
Speaker 1: got the job as the head coach of the New

1606
01:16:22,320 --> 01:16:26,680
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints, he was Sean McVeigh. And now ten years

1607
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:29,519
Speaker 1: in with this quarterback and this this program that he's gotten,

1608
01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 1: and certainly they they've won a super Bowl already and

1609
01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:33,840
Speaker 1: now they're back in the saddle and they have got

1610
01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:36,960
Speaker 1: it put together again this year. They You're right that

1611
01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:41,920
Speaker 1: there's commercials being made about that Minnesota play that put

1612
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:43,880
Speaker 1: the Saints out of the playoffs last year, when it

1613
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 1: was a desperation throw down the sidelines, they get in

1614
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:49,479
Speaker 1: for the touchdown and the lid came off Minnesota. It

1615
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:53,000
Speaker 1: was unbelievable that they lost that game. It was unbelievable.

1616
01:16:53,920 --> 01:16:55,960
Speaker 1: But you're right, they had a shot to go to

1617
01:16:56,040 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 1: the super Bowl last year and the flukiest of flukey

1618
01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 1: plays took him out of it. UH. And it may

1619
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:03,680
Speaker 1: take another flukey play like that when the Rams come

1620
01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:05,840
Speaker 1: into New Orleans UH to get them out of it

1621
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:07,560
Speaker 1: again this year, because they are really hard to be.

1622
01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:09,920
Speaker 1: They know how to play, they know how to celebrate too.

1623
01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:12,680
Speaker 1: Did you see them the scene in their locker room

1624
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:14,679
Speaker 1: if you if you're watching an MG, we can show

1625
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:16,680
Speaker 1: you a little bit of it. Just a wild like

1626
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:21,280
Speaker 1: a disco ball music lights down and smoke machine and

1627
01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:24,840
Speaker 1: a smoke machine and their locker guys dancing in the

1628
01:17:24,920 --> 01:17:28,800
Speaker 1: colored lights and he's still in their uniforms and yeah listen.

1629
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:31,000
Speaker 1: I um, I was never in the locker room like that.

1630
01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 1: I was in some pretty happy locker rooms. But you

1631
01:17:33,320 --> 01:17:35,400
Speaker 1: know that, I mean it turned into a rock concert.

1632
01:17:35,479 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 1: I have a feeling this is where it's going postgame

1633
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:41,719
Speaker 1: locker room celebrations maybe. I mean, he got guys, guys

1634
01:17:42,040 --> 01:17:44,720
Speaker 1: with towels wrapped around them dance and it was It's

1635
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:47,960
Speaker 1: pretty awesome. It is. It is great. Uh, it is

1636
01:17:48,040 --> 01:17:50,960
Speaker 1: great to be a part of that, no question about it. Um.

1637
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:53,960
Speaker 1: Now I'll tell you this too, Um. That will be

1638
01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:56,880
Speaker 1: on the um. That will be in the motivation in

1639
01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:00,320
Speaker 1: the in the hype video for the Eagle the next

1640
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:03,960
Speaker 1: time they play the Saints, that's for sure. That's for sure.

1641
01:18:04,479 --> 01:18:07,000
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see. But yeah, it's Uh,

1642
01:18:08,600 --> 01:18:10,720
Speaker 1: it's what a spectacle. They got a smoke machine in

1643
01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,679
Speaker 1: their in their locker room, now do you it does

1644
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:17,479
Speaker 1: that it's it's attention to detail. That's New Orleans right there. Man.

1645
01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:19,679
Speaker 1: And so now you get the Rams and the Saints

1646
01:18:19,680 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 1: should be a great matchup. And we go back to

1647
01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:25,800
Speaker 1: the Rams, uh and the Saints. In Week nine when

1648
01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:29,480
Speaker 1: the Rams lost to the Saints. Marcus Peters, always outspoken

1649
01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:32,759
Speaker 1: defensive back for the Los Angeles Rams, had a message

1650
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:36,040
Speaker 1: back then for us Sean Payton of the the head

1651
01:18:36,080 --> 01:18:38,040
Speaker 1: coach of the Saints. Here's what he said way back

1652
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:42,400
Speaker 1: in week night, Dell Sean Payton keeps talking that we're

1653
01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:46,280
Speaker 1: gonna seem soon you feel me, fair enough, Yeah, because

1654
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:48,040
Speaker 1: I like what you were saying on the sidelines too,

1655
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:50,519
Speaker 1: So tell him keep talking, and I hope you see

1656
01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:52,720
Speaker 1: me soon you feel me, and then we're gonna have

1657
01:18:52,800 --> 01:18:55,639
Speaker 1: a good little, nice little ball of gumba together. Yeah

1658
01:18:55,680 --> 01:18:58,800
Speaker 1: we feel you. Yeah. Obviously that Week nine loss left

1659
01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:00,880
Speaker 1: a bad taste in the Peters not it should be

1660
01:19:00,880 --> 01:19:03,840
Speaker 1: a great matchup, Steve, It really should, absolutely and it's uh,

1661
01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:06,760
Speaker 1: you know, the Saints jumped out to a thirty five

1662
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:11,920
Speaker 1: to seventeen lead at halftime, and then uh, you know,

1663
01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:14,240
Speaker 1: the Rams came back scored ten in the third quarter

1664
01:19:14,280 --> 01:19:15,880
Speaker 1: to get back into it, but the Saints put them

1665
01:19:15,880 --> 01:19:17,280
Speaker 1: away with ten points of their own in the fourth

1666
01:19:17,320 --> 01:19:20,000
Speaker 1: quarter of one forty five thirty five over the Rams.

1667
01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:22,479
Speaker 1: So the last time, it's a you know, eighty point

1668
01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 1: over you know over under. I mean they scored eighty

1669
01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 1: points in that game the Rams. I mean, these these

1670
01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:30,920
Speaker 1: four teams can hang some points and some yards up.

1671
01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:33,559
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's one of those games, Murph, where

1672
01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:35,000
Speaker 1: you know, you get one of these guys in there

1673
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:37,559
Speaker 1: that weighs three hundred and fifteen pounds, he may weigh

1674
01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:39,680
Speaker 1: three oh five at the end of this one. You know,

1675
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: let's take a few phone calls here. Let's go to

1676
01:19:42,080 --> 01:19:45,880
Speaker 1: a Carl and Clarence Carl, who are you're rooting for? Hey, guys,

1677
01:19:45,920 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 1: I think God good. Yeah, for all it's being said

1678
01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:53,439
Speaker 1: about New Orleans. You know, they were just thirty yards away.

1679
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:57,479
Speaker 1: I'm a touchdown on an extra point of losing that game,

1680
01:19:57,680 --> 01:20:01,400
Speaker 1: and that happened to be very opportunity. And I have

1681
01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:05,679
Speaker 1: noticed some chinks in New Orleans armor this year. Not many,

1682
01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:07,760
Speaker 1: but there's been a few more than the or last year.

1683
01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:12,360
Speaker 1: I don't know, true just hasn't been the truth that

1684
01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:16,280
Speaker 1: I know and love, I worship the guy, but he hasn't.

1685
01:20:16,400 --> 01:20:19,200
Speaker 1: He's not the same Drew from from from yesteryear. As

1686
01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:21,200
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned, it looks pretty good to me.

1687
01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:23,160
Speaker 1: But yeah, okay, I'll take your word for it if

1688
01:20:23,160 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 1: you're if you watch him more closely than most people do.

1689
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 1: Is there anything else besides the way Drew Brees is playing?

1690
01:20:30,080 --> 01:20:35,920
Speaker 1: You know, everything else is pretty much standard. But God's

1691
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 1: been a little bit off too. But I just have

1692
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:42,040
Speaker 1: the feeling that the Rams will win this game. And

1693
01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:45,800
Speaker 1: I do believe that Jase will win that game from

1694
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 1: New England handily. I don't know. I don't know nobody well.

1695
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:52,200
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen him. Kansas City did it to

1696
01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:54,760
Speaker 1: him an opening weekend two years ago, what's now two

1697
01:20:54,800 --> 01:20:57,920
Speaker 1: years to teasons ago. But um, yeah, Carl brings up

1698
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:00,240
Speaker 1: a good point if you watch the teams closely, and

1699
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:02,160
Speaker 1: I think he's getting he gets caught up a little

1700
01:21:02,160 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 1: bit and watching his team so closely that he starts

1701
01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:07,479
Speaker 1: to notice differences in them that a lot of people

1702
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:10,920
Speaker 1: don't give credence to and and they forget. And he

1703
01:21:11,080 --> 01:21:13,880
Speaker 1: did bring it up. Though every team's got problems, even

1704
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:15,800
Speaker 1: these four teams that are the highest scoring teams, in

1705
01:21:15,880 --> 01:21:18,760
Speaker 1: the league. They all have things they are you know,

1706
01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:21,840
Speaker 1: they know they're vulnerable when they face these other three teams.

1707
01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:25,599
Speaker 1: And we'll see. But when you think about the Saints

1708
01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:28,040
Speaker 1: and the Rams, these two teams have faced each other.

1709
01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:32,439
Speaker 1: Like you just said, Murph, I don't know. I think

1710
01:21:32,479 --> 01:21:34,439
Speaker 1: this is really going to be a fantastic game. And

1711
01:21:34,680 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see that. I don't see the

1712
01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:40,200
Speaker 1: Patriots getting beat handily by anybody at this point. He

1713
01:21:40,280 --> 01:21:42,719
Speaker 1: got me thinking. The color got me thinking about these quarterbacks.

1714
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:44,400
Speaker 1: And let's play a little game here before we get

1715
01:21:44,439 --> 01:21:47,000
Speaker 1: to the break. Ranked the quarterbacks of these final four.

1716
01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:49,639
Speaker 1: Let me do this. Let me start ranking in order

1717
01:21:49,720 --> 01:21:52,559
Speaker 1: of who's the best of these four quarterbacks. You're ready,

1718
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:54,360
Speaker 1: who's playing the best right now week to week in

1719
01:21:54,439 --> 01:21:58,240
Speaker 1: the in the prisoner at the moment, jerk over the

1720
01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:04,240
Speaker 1: top right now this week? Okay, ready, go one, Mahomes, two, Breeze, three,

1721
01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:07,680
Speaker 1: Brady four, and he's ways back. Jared Goff. I mean,

1722
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:10,920
Speaker 1: I don't think that he comes close to those top

1723
01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:12,960
Speaker 1: three in terms, and the top three are very close.

1724
01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 1: But I would put Mahomes, Breeze, Brady, and then Jared

1725
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:19,640
Speaker 1: Goff a ways back. I would put, I might You're right,

1726
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:24,479
Speaker 1: I mahomes and and Breeze to me are very close.

1727
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:26,439
Speaker 1: Maybe flip I might have flip flopped the two of him.

1728
01:22:26,479 --> 01:22:29,960
Speaker 1: Just give Breeze this thing because of his experience. But

1729
01:22:30,120 --> 01:22:32,479
Speaker 1: then Brady, of course, and you're right, Golf is a

1730
01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:36,960
Speaker 1: guy who has shown a lack of ability to be

1731
01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:40,920
Speaker 1: the guy that seemingly carries the team. You know, Sean

1732
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:43,040
Speaker 1: McVeigh gets a lot of credit for the way Jared

1733
01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:45,040
Speaker 1: Goff has turned his career around. And I heard I

1734
01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:47,679
Speaker 1: was hearing the guys earlier today they had a guest

1735
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:51,599
Speaker 1: on Howard Simon and Jeremy had a guy on who thought,

1736
01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 1: you know, Jared Goff maybe a huge beneficiary of Sean

1737
01:22:56,520 --> 01:22:58,680
Speaker 1: McVay and his ability to scheme guys open and get

1738
01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:01,120
Speaker 1: it make it simple for him. It's not not in

1739
01:23:01,160 --> 01:23:03,200
Speaker 1: the realm of possibility to think the rams. May you know,

1740
01:23:03,360 --> 01:23:05,599
Speaker 1: think you know, we can do better than this guy

1741
01:23:06,240 --> 01:23:08,680
Speaker 1: at some point, sooner down the line than you might

1742
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:11,280
Speaker 1: think for a guy who's who's turned his career down

1743
01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:13,439
Speaker 1: around the way he has. But I think everybody sees

1744
01:23:13,479 --> 01:23:15,200
Speaker 1: the same thing we do Golf as a guy who

1745
01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:18,720
Speaker 1: he takes advantage of open guys, but he doesn't really

1746
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 1: a wow you with his ability to take over a game. Now,

1747
01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:23,800
Speaker 1: Mahomes and Breeze and then Brady won't. How many times

1748
01:23:23,840 --> 01:23:25,599
Speaker 1: have we seen all these guys do it? Even Mahomes

1749
01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:28,679
Speaker 1: and this season, in his first year as a starter,

1750
01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:31,639
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he has put himself into the MVP

1751
01:23:31,880 --> 01:23:34,960
Speaker 1: conversation with a bullet. I mean, this guy, this guy

1752
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:37,960
Speaker 1: is like he might win it against Drew Brees and

1753
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:41,439
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. That let me put that little line on

1754
01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:45,000
Speaker 1: your resume, right, I'm telling you, I was so impressed

1755
01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:47,800
Speaker 1: with Mahomes Saturday. I mean, I'm thinking this could be

1756
01:23:47,880 --> 01:23:51,320
Speaker 1: like a transformational figure in the NFL, mostly because and

1757
01:23:51,400 --> 01:23:54,720
Speaker 1: again the numbers. Saturday's numbers were okay, nothing spectacular, but

1758
01:23:55,160 --> 01:23:58,040
Speaker 1: just kind of his game presence, just the throws that

1759
01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 1: he makes, the opportunities he's he's I think he is

1760
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:04,679
Speaker 1: a genius at the quarterback spot in terms of stuff

1761
01:24:04,680 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 1: he sees, stuff he senses that no one else can

1762
01:24:07,240 --> 01:24:12,200
Speaker 1: see or sense. You see so few wasted plays, throwaways,

1763
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:15,120
Speaker 1: scramble out of bounds, it's taking a sack. He took

1764
01:24:15,160 --> 01:24:17,880
Speaker 1: four sacks. But you know what I mean, you just

1765
01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:20,200
Speaker 1: and You never see him like scrambling around getting back

1766
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:21,880
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage for a one yard game.

1767
01:24:21,960 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 1: You never see wasted plays I would call wasted plays

1768
01:24:25,080 --> 01:24:27,880
Speaker 1: like that where there's nothing there and he can't make

1769
01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:30,640
Speaker 1: anything out of it, either throws it away, throws it

1770
01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:33,519
Speaker 1: in the dirt, or whatever. You just never You don't

1771
01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:36,360
Speaker 1: remember plays like that so much. They just hardly ever happen.

1772
01:24:36,439 --> 01:24:38,479
Speaker 1: Now they do, and he probably has some of them

1773
01:24:38,479 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 1: in a game, but they're so inconsequential. There's so many

1774
01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:45,840
Speaker 1: times when he overcomes that moment and makes something happen,

1775
01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:47,640
Speaker 1: even if it doesn't get a first down instead of

1776
01:24:47,680 --> 01:24:49,120
Speaker 1: a third and ten, and all of a sudden, it's

1777
01:24:49,120 --> 01:24:52,040
Speaker 1: a it's a third and two because he just does something.

1778
01:24:52,680 --> 01:24:55,040
Speaker 1: It's amazing, And I think that's what catches your eye

1779
01:24:55,040 --> 01:24:58,200
Speaker 1: about him. He just never see him get behind all

1780
01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:00,519
Speaker 1: my bad play. Oh here's another bad play. Oh wow,

1781
01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:02,599
Speaker 1: he threw that one away. You just never see stretches

1782
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:05,320
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. We're gonna take a

1783
01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:07,000
Speaker 1: break here, we're gonna get back to your thoughts. Which

1784
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:09,439
Speaker 1: team are you rooting for for the Super Bowl this year?

1785
01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:11,840
Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty three, Give us a call eight three

1786
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:15,360
Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight by fifty two

1787
01:25:15,439 --> 01:25:18,280
Speaker 1: five fifty, John Murphy, Steve Tasker. It's One Bill's Live,

1788
01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:21,200
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive. This is

1789
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:41,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. We look we looked like a couple

1790
01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:44,559
Speaker 1: of nineteen seventies cops on TV. We're coming again. Sitting

1791
01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:46,599
Speaker 1: down at our desk during the break we were out

1792
01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:50,799
Speaker 1: having a long conversation about moments and interviews and Murphy

1793
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:53,120
Speaker 1: it looked looked like the teaser for a detective show.

1794
01:25:53,160 --> 01:25:56,400
Speaker 1: I was sitting down at our laptop. Go get him. Yeah, yeah,

1795
01:25:56,479 --> 01:25:59,160
Speaker 1: we had that thing on. Now he's telling me to

1796
01:25:59,200 --> 01:26:01,639
Speaker 1: tell the story. I was, all right, So you heard

1797
01:26:01,680 --> 01:26:05,720
Speaker 1: the postgame interview with Jared Goff about and then you know,

1798
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:09,600
Speaker 1: keep Talib comes in and uses profanity during just in

1799
01:26:09,720 --> 01:26:12,120
Speaker 1: excitement and you know, and slapping his hand going on.

1800
01:26:12,520 --> 01:26:14,400
Speaker 1: And they said, well, you know what has happened is

1801
01:26:14,479 --> 01:26:16,320
Speaker 1: Chris Fowler getting trouble out? And I said no, I said,

1802
01:26:16,320 --> 01:26:19,800
Speaker 1: that's bad pr work. I said, here's what happens as

1803
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:22,040
Speaker 1: the network which Chris Fowler is with Fox, And they

1804
01:26:22,120 --> 01:26:24,479
Speaker 1: got the postgame interview with Jared Goff the winning quarterback.

1805
01:26:25,360 --> 01:26:27,559
Speaker 1: The PR people bring him to the guy. They bring

1806
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:29,800
Speaker 1: him over to Chris Fowler in the in the postgame,

1807
01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:33,559
Speaker 1: Chris Myers, I'm sorry, not Chris foul. Chris Myers. Chris

1808
01:26:33,680 --> 01:26:36,960
Speaker 1: Myers does the interview. Well, it's the job of the

1809
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:38,880
Speaker 1: PR people to give him some space, right and make

1810
01:26:38,920 --> 01:26:42,120
Speaker 1: sure they don't get bothered because it's live, and you

1811
01:26:42,200 --> 01:26:44,880
Speaker 1: don't want something that happened like it happened with a

1812
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:49,160
Speaker 1: Keeb Talib dropping an F bomb on live television. It's

1813
01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:51,519
Speaker 1: you know, it's bad form and you don't The network

1814
01:26:51,600 --> 01:26:53,479
Speaker 1: doesn't want it, the league doesn't want it, the teams

1815
01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:56,120
Speaker 1: don't want it. Nobody wants that. But the guys are excited,

1816
01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:57,840
Speaker 1: and you just gotta, you know, you gotta have a

1817
01:26:57,960 --> 01:27:00,960
Speaker 1: crew there to give you some space. And my story

1818
01:27:01,160 --> 01:27:03,799
Speaker 1: was and the Tim Tebow game in Denver, the overtime

1819
01:27:03,840 --> 01:27:06,920
Speaker 1: game against Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers back in twenty

1820
01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:10,759
Speaker 1: and twelve. I think it was the overtime one play

1821
01:27:11,360 --> 01:27:15,200
Speaker 1: slant route goes the distance. It's overtime. I got I'm

1822
01:27:15,240 --> 01:27:17,519
Speaker 1: with CBS, and I've got the postgame interview with Tim

1823
01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:22,720
Speaker 1: Tebow right at that moment. And sure, enough the Denver guy.

1824
01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:26,639
Speaker 1: They did a great job. It was me and Tim Tebow,

1825
01:27:27,200 --> 01:27:31,120
Speaker 1: and there literally was fifty cameras and microphones and media

1826
01:27:31,160 --> 01:27:32,720
Speaker 1: people in a circle around us, and they were not

1827
01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:35,200
Speaker 1: They wouldn't they couldn't get within five feet of us

1828
01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:38,720
Speaker 1: while I did this postgame interview. Right, That's the way

1829
01:27:38,720 --> 01:27:41,639
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be done, because you know, you'll catch

1830
01:27:41,760 --> 01:27:43,519
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff down there. I mean, it's a

1831
01:27:43,640 --> 01:27:46,240
Speaker 1: it's a rough moment for a lot of guys, and

1832
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:47,479
Speaker 1: it's a great moment for a lot of guys, and

1833
01:27:47,479 --> 01:27:49,120
Speaker 1: they all get carried away with their language and the

1834
01:27:49,240 --> 01:27:51,760
Speaker 1: emotion and the screaming and the yelling and the and

1835
01:27:52,360 --> 01:27:53,840
Speaker 1: so that's the way it should have been done. Was

1836
01:27:54,120 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, you get I had to pull Tebow off

1837
01:27:56,080 --> 01:27:58,960
Speaker 1: the ceiling, right, I mean I did. I've reached up

1838
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:00,640
Speaker 1: and put my hand around the back of his neck

1839
01:28:00,680 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 1: because he was it was like two seconds after the

1840
01:28:03,439 --> 01:28:06,040
Speaker 1: game was over, and so he comes He's like okay,

1841
01:28:06,120 --> 01:28:07,720
Speaker 1: and it took him a second to look down and say,

1842
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:10,720
Speaker 1: oh yeah, okay, go. You know, it's a moment you

1843
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:13,479
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta give yourself a bubble, and it's up

1844
01:28:13,479 --> 01:28:15,679
Speaker 1: to the team pr guys to do that, and they

1845
01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:18,240
Speaker 1: didn't get it done yesterday. Yeah for the Rams. For

1846
01:28:18,320 --> 01:28:19,720
Speaker 1: the Rams. Hey, who are you rooting for in the

1847
01:28:19,760 --> 01:28:21,519
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Give us a call? Here is a Dan

1848
01:28:21,600 --> 01:28:26,000
Speaker 1: and Rochester Dan. What do you think, Hey, Murphy Steve,

1849
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:30,519
Speaker 1: how you guys doing today? Okay? I'm a long time

1850
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:34,519
Speaker 1: Bills fans since the eighties. Excellent, good for you biggest fans.

1851
01:28:35,560 --> 01:28:38,640
Speaker 1: Still a fan, but I will definitely route for the

1852
01:28:38,680 --> 01:28:42,759
Speaker 1: New England Patriots this year. What he and Belichick retire?

1853
01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:45,519
Speaker 1: What if they don't? What if you thought they weren't

1854
01:28:45,520 --> 01:28:48,960
Speaker 1: going to retire? Oh that I'd I'd love to see

1855
01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:51,400
Speaker 1: him lose big time. Yeah, listen, I don't Neither one

1856
01:28:51,400 --> 01:28:53,559
Speaker 1: of them is gonna go anywhere you can you can. Well,

1857
01:28:53,880 --> 01:28:56,240
Speaker 1: let's let's get into fantasy lion here, Dan, we're gonna happen.

1858
01:28:56,240 --> 01:28:58,000
Speaker 1: Somebody brought this up to me over the weekend too.

1859
01:28:58,880 --> 01:29:00,880
Speaker 1: If you're a Bills fan, would most of our viewers

1860
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:03,720
Speaker 1: and listeners are If someone said to you, look, if

1861
01:29:03,760 --> 01:29:07,200
Speaker 1: the Patriots win the Super Bowl, guarantee that Brady steps aside,

1862
01:29:07,760 --> 01:29:11,679
Speaker 1: would you then root for the Patriots? No? You would

1863
01:29:11,720 --> 01:29:14,160
Speaker 1: not know if you knew that, if the Patriots won,

1864
01:29:14,880 --> 01:29:18,280
Speaker 1: Brady would walk away. If Belichick and Brady walked away,

1865
01:29:19,120 --> 01:29:21,639
Speaker 1: so's I wish't. If I wouldn't, I wouldn't mind them,

1866
01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:25,599
Speaker 1: I wouldn't root for him. Yeah, would guarantee either. Listen,

1867
01:29:25,800 --> 01:29:28,360
Speaker 1: all right, I'll give you Belichick. If me guaranteed you

1868
01:29:28,840 --> 01:29:31,679
Speaker 1: Belichick and Brady, if they win the Super Bowl, they're done.

1869
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:34,439
Speaker 1: Would you then put on a Patriots hat and watch

1870
01:29:34,560 --> 01:29:38,640
Speaker 1: the game and say, go New England? Yeah? Might, I've

1871
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:40,559
Speaker 1: talked you into it. But it's not a guarantee there,

1872
01:29:40,600 --> 01:29:42,560
Speaker 1: and believe me, it ain't gonna happen. The guarantee is

1873
01:29:42,640 --> 01:29:44,360
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. They ain't. They ain't going anywhere if

1874
01:29:44,360 --> 01:29:46,320
Speaker 1: they win this gift, they win this if they win

1875
01:29:46,400 --> 01:29:49,080
Speaker 1: this weekend in Kansas City, It's like, huh, I'm making

1876
01:29:49,080 --> 01:29:51,439
Speaker 1: an argument for them to walk away. Now if they win,

1877
01:29:51,840 --> 01:29:57,120
Speaker 1: Toms Tom Brady is not gonna walk away ever ever,

1878
01:29:57,400 --> 01:30:01,439
Speaker 1: even mark my words. If you name great quarterbacks all

1879
01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:04,320
Speaker 1: throughout history, they all had to be kicked out, all

1880
01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:08,240
Speaker 1: of them, all of them. He won three. There's three,

1881
01:30:08,520 --> 01:30:13,920
Speaker 1: John Elway, Peyton Manning, and um um John Elway, Peyton, Manning,

1882
01:30:14,080 --> 01:30:16,800
Speaker 1: Dan Marino. They all walked away with and Marino was

1883
01:30:16,840 --> 01:30:19,040
Speaker 1: out without winning Super Bowl. Jim Kelly, Jim Jim Kelly

1884
01:30:19,120 --> 01:30:22,360
Speaker 1: had to be carried off, Joe Montana had to be

1885
01:30:22,479 --> 01:30:26,599
Speaker 1: carried off. Steve Young had to be barred from playing.

1886
01:30:26,640 --> 01:30:30,599
Speaker 1: Because they don't go away, they will. He will never

1887
01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:33,120
Speaker 1: walk away. You've told he said he's gonna play that

1888
01:30:33,240 --> 01:30:35,880
Speaker 1: he's forty five. He ain't kidding, He is not kidding.

1889
01:30:37,080 --> 01:30:40,679
Speaker 1: Tom Brady will not go anywhere until he can't take

1890
01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:45,920
Speaker 1: the field physically. He's gonna play until he until he

1891
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:47,960
Speaker 1: has to be barred from playing. That's all there is

1892
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:51,800
Speaker 1: to it, Just Mark, that's my words. I have seen it.

1893
01:30:52,479 --> 01:30:58,240
Speaker 1: I've seen it that that guy's special upstairs. Something wrong, right,

1894
01:30:58,800 --> 01:31:02,840
Speaker 1: He ain't right. Yeah, he is so competitive, He's been

1895
01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:04,760
Speaker 1: that way forever. It's the way he is what makes

1896
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:07,720
Speaker 1: him tickets, one of the things that has made him great, legendary.

1897
01:31:08,160 --> 01:31:11,120
Speaker 1: That's not going away. That, there's no time limit on that.

1898
01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:15,880
Speaker 1: There's no expiration date. Father time doesn't doesn't steal your

1899
01:31:15,920 --> 01:31:19,080
Speaker 1: competitive spirit. It's there now. Your body may go away,

1900
01:31:19,360 --> 01:31:22,080
Speaker 1: your skills may go away, but that ain't gonna go anywhere.

1901
01:31:22,120 --> 01:31:26,639
Speaker 1: Your heart never leaves. And Brady is never gonna walk away,

1902
01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:29,439
Speaker 1: not willingly, mate. And I told you this. It may

1903
01:31:29,520 --> 01:31:31,200
Speaker 1: look like it on public when they may come back

1904
01:31:31,240 --> 01:31:34,120
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, I'm telling you right now, they will

1905
01:31:34,160 --> 01:31:35,960
Speaker 1: have to They will have to hit him with a

1906
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:38,920
Speaker 1: hammer to get him to quick. I'm telling you right now,

1907
01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:43,160
Speaker 1: he will never walk away ever, even when he's forty

1908
01:31:43,200 --> 01:31:46,160
Speaker 1: five another championship under his belt. Wouldn't do it at

1909
01:31:46,240 --> 01:31:50,680
Speaker 1: forty one throw for throwing for four thousand yards and

1910
01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:52,640
Speaker 1: all those touchdow he ain't going anywhere. Why would he?

1911
01:31:53,280 --> 01:31:56,080
Speaker 1: All right, I'm telling you he is not going anywhere. Now.

1912
01:31:56,200 --> 01:31:58,479
Speaker 1: Belichick is another story. Bill has always said. He goes,

1913
01:31:58,479 --> 01:32:01,439
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna do this until I'm seven, Um, you know,

1914
01:32:01,760 --> 01:32:03,640
Speaker 1: but not even that's a handful of years away. They

1915
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:06,920
Speaker 1: don't think like these guys are gonna lose, win this game,

1916
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:08,800
Speaker 1: go to the Super Bowl winning, and then say, guys,

1917
01:32:08,840 --> 01:32:12,080
Speaker 1: it's been great war out that ain't gonna happen. They're

1918
01:32:12,080 --> 01:32:14,840
Speaker 1: gonna come back and say, we've been in the three

1919
01:32:14,880 --> 01:32:16,639
Speaker 1: of the last four Super Bowls. We're gonna go four

1920
01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:19,040
Speaker 1: out of it. We're gonna keep going. I'm telling you

1921
01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:22,280
Speaker 1: right now, there is no chance, no chance that this

1922
01:32:22,360 --> 01:32:23,560
Speaker 1: is the end of the line for the same for

1923
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:27,559
Speaker 1: the Patriots, just looking for a shred None. Tom Brady

1924
01:32:27,680 --> 01:32:31,719
Speaker 1: is not walking away ever. All Right, a break here first, Yeah,

1925
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:34,479
Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of things here. First, Andy Benoit

1926
01:32:34,520 --> 01:32:36,400
Speaker 1: stan anybody to join us. Next we'll talk about the

1927
01:32:36,439 --> 01:32:39,160
Speaker 1: Patriots in the Chiefs with Andy Benoit from MMQB. He

1928
01:32:39,320 --> 01:32:41,880
Speaker 1: is one of their top columnists. That's coming up next.

1929
01:32:42,280 --> 01:32:44,439
Speaker 1: One Goes Live from One Goes Drive. This is Buffalo

1930
01:32:44,520 --> 01:33:00,320
Speaker 1: Bill's Radiofalo Bill's Radio network Stories up date. You got

1931
01:33:00,400 --> 01:33:03,240
Speaker 1: the update from One Bill's Drive where the Bills are

1932
01:33:03,280 --> 01:33:04,960
Speaker 1: keeping an eye and the rest of the NFL as

1933
01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:07,439
Speaker 1: a Buffalo season ended a couple of weeks ago. The

1934
01:33:07,600 --> 01:33:11,080
Speaker 1: Patriots open as playoff underdogs, just second time since two

1935
01:33:11,160 --> 01:33:13,479
Speaker 1: thousand and seven that that has happened. They are the

1936
01:33:13,600 --> 01:33:16,880
Speaker 1: underdogs in the AFC Championship game in Kansas City. The

1937
01:33:16,960 --> 01:33:19,680
Speaker 1: Chiefs three point favorites over New England in the game.

1938
01:33:19,760 --> 01:33:22,559
Speaker 1: New England has been favorite in its last twelve playoff games,

1939
01:33:22,800 --> 01:33:25,240
Speaker 1: but not this week. In the NFC title game, the

1940
01:33:25,280 --> 01:33:27,439
Speaker 1: host New Orleans Saints opened as a three and a

1941
01:33:27,479 --> 01:33:30,040
Speaker 1: half point favorite over the Los Angeles Rams, a rematch

1942
01:33:30,120 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 1: of a game from earlier this season. The Saints beat

1943
01:33:32,840 --> 01:33:35,559
Speaker 1: the Rams forty five thirty five in New Orleans back

1944
01:33:35,600 --> 01:33:40,400
Speaker 1: on November four. Eagles wide receiver Alshon Jeffrey takes responsibility

1945
01:33:40,479 --> 01:33:43,439
Speaker 1: for the drop costing the Eagles their game against New

1946
01:33:43,560 --> 01:33:47,400
Speaker 1: Orleans Sunday night, a drop past leading the game that

1947
01:33:47,600 --> 01:33:50,920
Speaker 1: led to a critical interception. Alshon Jeffrey says, that's on me.

1948
01:33:51,040 --> 01:33:53,200
Speaker 1: I'll take that loss. It's on me. It was just

1949
01:33:53,320 --> 01:33:56,240
Speaker 1: Jeffrey's third drop of the season. The Dolphins have not

1950
01:33:56,360 --> 01:33:58,360
Speaker 1: yet named their new head coach. They reportedly they'll have

1951
01:33:58,439 --> 01:34:01,680
Speaker 1: settled on Patriots linebackers coach Brian Flores as the man

1952
01:34:01,760 --> 01:34:03,479
Speaker 1: they want to lead their team. They cannot make it

1953
01:34:03,560 --> 01:34:07,360
Speaker 1: official until the Patriot season is over, and last year

1954
01:34:07,479 --> 01:34:10,519
Speaker 1: we were reminded by Flora's co worker Josh McDaniels that

1955
01:34:10,640 --> 01:34:13,640
Speaker 1: things can change. According to many reports, former Lions and

1956
01:34:13,720 --> 01:34:16,560
Speaker 1: Colt's head coach Jim Caldwell is expected to be on

1957
01:34:16,680 --> 01:34:20,080
Speaker 1: Flora's staff in Miami. Albert Greer of Sports Illustrated dot

1958
01:34:20,120 --> 01:34:23,920
Speaker 1: Com says Caldwell is one of three names that Flores

1959
01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:26,439
Speaker 1: mentioned as a coach you'd like to run the offense.

1960
01:34:26,840 --> 01:34:29,599
Speaker 1: Also today, Adam Gates being introduced in New York as

1961
01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:31,680
Speaker 1: the new head coach of the New York Jets. That's

1962
01:34:31,720 --> 01:34:34,559
Speaker 1: two o'clock news conference beginning right now in New Jersey.

1963
01:34:34,800 --> 01:34:37,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo Sabers opened up a three game road trip tonight

1964
01:34:37,200 --> 01:34:40,200
Speaker 1: in Edmonton, day face off against the Oilers at nine o'clock.

1965
01:34:40,479 --> 01:34:42,360
Speaker 1: With the win tonight, the Savers will have defeated the

1966
01:34:42,400 --> 01:34:45,280
Speaker 1: Oilers in five straight meetings for the first time since

1967
01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:49,759
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. Mel Stottlemyer, a legend with the New York Yankees,

1968
01:34:49,840 --> 01:34:52,080
Speaker 1: the ace of their pitching staffs in the late sixties,

1969
01:34:52,080 --> 01:34:55,040
Speaker 1: and a longtime pitching coach for the Mets and the Yankees.

1970
01:34:55,280 --> 01:34:58,479
Speaker 1: Mel Stademeyer passed away today at the age of seventy seven.

1971
01:34:58,840 --> 01:35:01,000
Speaker 1: And that's the update from One Bill Drive, John Murphy's

1972
01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:03,200
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, third and final hour of the show. We're

1973
01:35:03,240 --> 01:35:05,559
Speaker 1: taking a long look today in a deep look at

1974
01:35:05,640 --> 01:35:08,439
Speaker 1: the games this past weekend and the upcoming games in

1975
01:35:08,520 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 1: the Championship Game this coming weekend. One of the best

1976
01:35:11,120 --> 01:35:13,880
Speaker 1: analysts out there joins us right now, Columness for the

1977
01:35:14,040 --> 01:35:17,800
Speaker 1: MMQB dot Com Sports Illustrated NFL writer and analysts Andy

1978
01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:19,840
Speaker 1: Benoit good friend of the show, Andy, John Murphy and

1979
01:35:19,840 --> 01:35:22,120
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker here in Buffalo. Thank you for joining us.

1980
01:35:22,120 --> 01:35:24,360
Speaker 1: How are you today? I'm doing well. How are you

1981
01:35:24,479 --> 01:35:27,200
Speaker 1: guys today? We're good great. We were talking earlier. This

1982
01:35:27,439 --> 01:35:31,679
Speaker 1: might be the best four team matchup in a conference

1983
01:35:31,800 --> 01:35:33,840
Speaker 1: championship series that we've had in a long time, at

1984
01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:37,240
Speaker 1: least in recent memory. What do you think of these matchups? Andy, Yeah,

1985
01:35:37,320 --> 01:35:39,760
Speaker 1: I love them. It's the top four scoring teams in

1986
01:35:39,840 --> 01:35:42,479
Speaker 1: the NFL this season are the ones left standing. They're

1987
01:35:42,479 --> 01:35:45,760
Speaker 1: also the four most innovative teams offensively when you look

1988
01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:48,120
Speaker 1: at their schemes, which I'm sure is why they're the

1989
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:50,920
Speaker 1: top four scoring teams are part of the reason. And

1990
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:53,200
Speaker 1: then what I really love is that these teams played

1991
01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:57,439
Speaker 1: already in action. Both had really instant classic shootouts, and

1992
01:35:57,560 --> 01:36:01,240
Speaker 1: it came way back in October and November, so we

1993
01:36:01,600 --> 01:36:03,920
Speaker 1: get to see how these teams have evolved. It's not

1994
01:36:04,040 --> 01:36:06,000
Speaker 1: like they played recently, and it's not like they played

1995
01:36:06,320 --> 01:36:08,160
Speaker 1: way back at the beginning of the season where you

1996
01:36:08,200 --> 01:36:11,800
Speaker 1: almost throw out parts of that film. This is a

1997
01:36:11,960 --> 01:36:14,800
Speaker 1: next step rematch. In both cases, I can't wait for

1998
01:36:14,920 --> 01:36:16,920
Speaker 1: either game. We had a guy named Steve Saint John,

1999
01:36:16,920 --> 01:36:20,400
Speaker 1: who's a radio analyst in Kansas City, and I asked him, really,

2000
01:36:20,439 --> 01:36:22,719
Speaker 1: the question for me of the weekend was what happened

2001
01:36:22,760 --> 01:36:25,479
Speaker 1: to the Kansas City Chiefs defense. It really emerged after

2002
01:36:25,600 --> 01:36:27,519
Speaker 1: being thirty first in the league in the regular season.

2003
01:36:27,880 --> 01:36:31,439
Speaker 1: It almost dominated the game in a playoff game against

2004
01:36:31,479 --> 01:36:33,400
Speaker 1: the Colts. What do you think has been the difference?

2005
01:36:34,760 --> 01:36:37,400
Speaker 1: You know that that kind of thing doesn't happen often,

2006
01:36:37,479 --> 01:36:39,600
Speaker 1: and it really frustrates me, is an analyst, because I

2007
01:36:39,600 --> 01:36:43,000
Speaker 1: said going into that game, the Colts will be able

2008
01:36:43,040 --> 01:36:45,800
Speaker 1: to do whatever they want offensively against the Chiefs. That

2009
01:36:45,880 --> 01:36:48,120
Speaker 1: they even wrote it's a bad Chiefs defense. And I

2010
01:36:48,160 --> 01:36:51,960
Speaker 1: don't speak in blunt terms like that very often, but

2011
01:36:52,400 --> 01:36:54,680
Speaker 1: it was a bad Chiefs defense for just about every

2012
01:36:54,720 --> 01:36:57,160
Speaker 1: week on film they looked predictable and run defense or

2013
01:36:57,240 --> 01:37:00,560
Speaker 1: linebackers aren't great. They're Finnic corner and safety and the

2014
01:37:00,600 --> 01:37:02,120
Speaker 1: ass those guys to play a lot of man to

2015
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:05,840
Speaker 1: man without getting help from blitzes. So it's a tough

2016
01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:09,360
Speaker 1: tall order for the Chiefs. And yet they show up

2017
01:37:09,439 --> 01:37:12,080
Speaker 1: at Arrowhead where they're they're much better than they are

2018
01:37:12,160 --> 01:37:14,160
Speaker 1: on the road, and they not only it sound like

2019
01:37:14,240 --> 01:37:15,920
Speaker 1: the ball bounced a few ways and they got a

2020
01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:19,200
Speaker 1: fumble recovery or something like that. This was two thousand

2021
01:37:19,479 --> 01:37:22,200
Speaker 1: Ravens style defense. He justs lined up and made the

2022
01:37:22,280 --> 01:37:25,080
Speaker 1: Colts punt again and again, and I could not believe that.

2023
01:37:25,720 --> 01:37:29,320
Speaker 1: What you mentioned the arrowhead defense at home, the Chiefs

2024
01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:31,720
Speaker 1: defense at home which got by a lot of us.

2025
01:37:31,760 --> 01:37:34,400
Speaker 1: I think going into that game, what factors are at

2026
01:37:34,439 --> 01:37:38,000
Speaker 1: play there? Andy? Is it the noise? I don't know intensity.

2027
01:37:38,040 --> 01:37:40,639
Speaker 1: What do you think that is? Yeah, that's a question

2028
01:37:40,720 --> 01:37:42,400
Speaker 1: for Steve. He's the one that's had to deal with that.

2029
01:37:42,520 --> 01:37:44,879
Speaker 1: I just watched the stuff from Afar. I would imagine

2030
01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:48,320
Speaker 1: the noise is a big deal. De fort Is especially

2031
01:37:48,439 --> 01:37:51,559
Speaker 1: is very and actually Chris Jones as well. They're very

2032
01:37:51,600 --> 01:37:54,400
Speaker 1: aggressive a jumping snap counts, and you do get a

2033
01:37:54,439 --> 01:37:57,360
Speaker 1: little bit more predictability in the snap counts at times

2034
01:37:57,439 --> 01:38:01,479
Speaker 1: when you've got the crowd noise on your side. Uh. Yeah,

2035
01:38:01,520 --> 01:38:03,360
Speaker 1: I don't know what I mean. The other part, it

2036
01:38:03,560 --> 01:38:06,599
Speaker 1: sees us a factor in. Like I've always wondered, when

2037
01:38:06,640 --> 01:38:08,920
Speaker 1: you're all at home. I know you sleep in a

2038
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:11,080
Speaker 1: hotel the night before the game, even at home, but

2039
01:38:11,479 --> 01:38:14,080
Speaker 1: having the routine of your day to day life and

2040
01:38:14,160 --> 01:38:16,960
Speaker 1: being around your family and not being on a flight,

2041
01:38:17,120 --> 01:38:19,800
Speaker 1: even if it's a charter flight, and not changing time zones.

2042
01:38:20,000 --> 01:38:22,240
Speaker 1: How big a deal is that kind of thing really

2043
01:38:22,360 --> 01:38:25,599
Speaker 1: to the details of how a player might perform. Yeah,

2044
01:38:25,640 --> 01:38:27,920
Speaker 1: I mean it all. It's all on an individual basis.

2045
01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:30,160
Speaker 1: I think the routine of being at home is a

2046
01:38:30,200 --> 01:38:32,240
Speaker 1: little more routine than it is on the road, because

2047
01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:34,160
Speaker 1: you're going to a different city, a different hotel, a

2048
01:38:34,240 --> 01:38:38,320
Speaker 1: different venue, a different locker room. And when you're at home,

2049
01:38:38,360 --> 01:38:40,879
Speaker 1: it's just that much more routine and you feel more comfortable.

2050
01:38:43,760 --> 01:38:45,400
Speaker 1: I just want to get back. What about these games?

2051
01:38:45,560 --> 01:38:49,200
Speaker 1: I mean, what game this week? And which one AFC

2052
01:38:49,439 --> 01:38:51,599
Speaker 1: or NFC. Which one do you think? I mean they

2053
01:38:51,640 --> 01:38:53,640
Speaker 1: all they both kind of look identical because of the

2054
01:38:53,680 --> 01:38:57,080
Speaker 1: top four scoring teams in the league. Which one has

2055
01:38:57,120 --> 01:38:59,559
Speaker 1: a chance of being something different than what we expect?

2056
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:04,280
Speaker 1: Probably the AFC game because you get the Belichick factor

2057
01:39:04,560 --> 01:39:07,200
Speaker 1: and you never quite know what New England's going to

2058
01:39:07,320 --> 01:39:11,360
Speaker 1: do schematically, and the Chargers found that out yesterday. And

2059
01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:14,599
Speaker 1: then Patrick Mahomes when he faced New England last time,

2060
01:39:14,640 --> 01:39:16,840
Speaker 1: it was a sixth game as a starter. I guess

2061
01:39:16,880 --> 01:39:20,120
Speaker 1: seventh if you count his rookie year, and so he's

2062
01:39:20,160 --> 01:39:23,240
Speaker 1: had that plus a few more games since, and there's

2063
01:39:23,240 --> 01:39:25,720
Speaker 1: a much more experience still inexperience, but it's much more

2064
01:39:25,800 --> 01:39:28,960
Speaker 1: experience now than he was, and that's evident too. He

2065
01:39:29,120 --> 01:39:31,280
Speaker 1: has more command at the line of scrimmage now than

2066
01:39:31,320 --> 01:39:33,920
Speaker 1: he did early in the year. So I would say

2067
01:39:34,120 --> 01:39:36,679
Speaker 1: that game and then when also what we're talking about

2068
01:39:36,720 --> 01:39:38,519
Speaker 1: the Chiefs defense, if they if they show up and

2069
01:39:38,640 --> 01:39:41,640
Speaker 1: act like world beaters again, that game could have a

2070
01:39:41,760 --> 01:39:44,599
Speaker 1: much different tenor than the shootout we saw on Sunday

2071
01:39:44,720 --> 01:39:46,960
Speaker 1: night back in week six. If I'm not betting man,

2072
01:39:47,040 --> 01:39:49,400
Speaker 1: though I'm not betting on that, I'm betting that thirty

2073
01:39:49,439 --> 01:39:51,560
Speaker 1: five points is the minimum it takes to have a

2074
01:39:51,680 --> 01:39:54,080
Speaker 1: chance to win that game. Andy Benoid from the MMQB

2075
01:39:54,280 --> 01:39:56,880
Speaker 1: joins us on the Subway Fresh Take contline. I ask

2076
01:39:56,960 --> 01:39:59,599
Speaker 1: you about Mahomes for a second or Indian. I've struggled

2077
01:39:59,640 --> 01:40:03,160
Speaker 1: to articulate today what I think of Patrick Mahomes. I

2078
01:40:03,240 --> 01:40:05,599
Speaker 1: think the world of them, and there's something that play here.

2079
01:40:05,640 --> 01:40:08,639
Speaker 1: I wonder if you can help us out. I see

2080
01:40:08,800 --> 01:40:11,680
Speaker 1: like it's kind of a super supernatural but kind of

2081
01:40:11,760 --> 01:40:15,559
Speaker 1: an amazing sense of just playmaking by him. He doesn't

2082
01:40:15,640 --> 01:40:19,320
Speaker 1: need a steady, usual platform to make throws. He doesn't

2083
01:40:19,360 --> 01:40:23,880
Speaker 1: need you know, the right delivery, the textbook delivery. He's instinctive.

2084
01:40:23,960 --> 01:40:25,800
Speaker 1: I think in the plays that he makes, and I

2085
01:40:25,880 --> 01:40:29,360
Speaker 1: think it approaches genius levels sometimes in what he sees

2086
01:40:29,400 --> 01:40:31,040
Speaker 1: and where he goes with a football. Can you help

2087
01:40:31,080 --> 01:40:33,120
Speaker 1: me out with this? What am I looking at? Yeah? No,

2088
01:40:33,200 --> 01:40:35,400
Speaker 1: I think we're on the same page and going in

2089
01:40:35,439 --> 01:40:38,120
Speaker 1: the same direction. I would say Mahomes the only guy

2090
01:40:38,160 --> 01:40:42,280
Speaker 1: I've seen who is as talented as a thrower. We're

2091
01:40:42,320 --> 01:40:45,320
Speaker 1: just talking the physical act of throwing, running around making throws.

2092
01:40:45,520 --> 01:40:47,919
Speaker 1: The only guy that I've seen like that is Aaron Rodgers.

2093
01:40:48,400 --> 01:40:51,200
Speaker 1: What those guys have in common, it's a quick release.

2094
01:40:51,680 --> 01:40:54,519
Speaker 1: They throw a lot with their risks more than with

2095
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Speaker 1: their shoulders, so there's a flick of the ball effect

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Speaker 1: and they don't have to have their feet correct in

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Speaker 1: order to make the throws. I mean, if I'm a

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Speaker 1: high school coach, I don't want Mahomes or Rogers showing

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Speaker 1: up on the TV of my players that I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to teach. Those guys can do stuff no one else

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Speaker 1: can do. The difference to me is too and the

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Speaker 1: reason I think Mahomes is going to ultimately be better

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Speaker 1: than Rogers. And the reason I think he's better than

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Speaker 1: him right now, but I think I'll have a better

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Speaker 1: career than Rogers is Mahomes's arm is a little bit

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01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:28,080
Speaker 1: more pliable, so he can throw from even more platforms

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Speaker 1: than Rogers. And when you watch Mahomes, it's apparent he's

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Speaker 1: a lot more coachable than Rogers. He's as good as

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01:41:34,439 --> 01:41:36,880
Speaker 1: he is playing off schedule and doing these things that

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01:41:37,000 --> 01:41:39,639
Speaker 1: make us go wild that we're talking about. He's willing

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Speaker 1: to play on schedule and let the offense do the

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Speaker 1: work and the designs, and it's a really well designed

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Speaker 1: offense that helps. But Andy Reid has I think Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid has a much better version of Aaron Rodgers at

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Speaker 1: his hands right now. Hey, you mentioned right at the

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Speaker 1: top here, how you consider these four teams? I think

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Speaker 1: you said the most innovative, the top or innovative teams

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Speaker 1: in the league. What do you see there and how

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Speaker 1: do you rank them in terms of innovation? These four Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: let's say what we see and that'll help me stall

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Speaker 1: on how to rank them. That's a hard one to

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Speaker 1: deal with, Okay, what they do with their formationing is

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Speaker 1: very unique. They don't spread out as much. They tend

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Speaker 1: to play, especially the Rams, especially the Chiefs, and especially

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01:42:20,280 --> 01:42:23,680
Speaker 1: the Saints. They tend to play in tighter formations with

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Speaker 1: guys aligned more towards the middle of the field. And

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01:42:25,960 --> 01:42:29,240
Speaker 1: that gives you two advantages. One is, all your receivers

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01:42:29,360 --> 01:42:31,320
Speaker 1: now have a two way go. They can run routes

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01:42:31,400 --> 01:42:34,400
Speaker 1: inside or outside. And two is it allows you to

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01:42:34,560 --> 01:42:37,040
Speaker 1: change the strength of the field very quickly. You might

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01:42:37,120 --> 01:42:39,240
Speaker 1: line up with three guys on your right and two

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01:42:39,320 --> 01:42:41,760
Speaker 1: on your left, but if everybody's tight to the middle

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01:42:41,760 --> 01:42:44,080
Speaker 1: of the field, the play could end up having one

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01:42:44,160 --> 01:42:46,000
Speaker 1: guy on the right and four on the left by

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01:42:46,040 --> 01:42:49,080
Speaker 1: the time the routes are being are done on fold thing,

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01:42:49,560 --> 01:42:52,519
Speaker 1: so you can really command the strength of the field

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01:42:52,920 --> 01:42:56,560
Speaker 1: and influence matchups and then mess with safeties and linebackers

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01:42:56,680 --> 01:42:59,599
Speaker 1: that way. And that's what these teams do really well.

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01:42:59,640 --> 01:43:02,240
Speaker 1: The Ranks are great at crossing routes. The Chiefs are

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01:43:02,360 --> 01:43:06,360
Speaker 1: very good at crossing routes. It's a lot of fun

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01:43:06,439 --> 01:43:08,400
Speaker 1: to watch. The last thing is they use their running

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01:43:08,400 --> 01:43:11,639
Speaker 1: backs well in the passing game. James White fifteen catches yesterday.

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01:43:12,160 --> 01:43:14,760
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley is more true last year than this year.

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01:43:14,800 --> 01:43:16,600
Speaker 1: But he's a weapon on the screen game. We know

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01:43:16,680 --> 01:43:19,599
Speaker 1: what Alvin Kamera can do. The Chiefs are the best

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01:43:19,720 --> 01:43:22,639
Speaker 1: backfield screen team in the NFL, especially when you add

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01:43:22,720 --> 01:43:25,920
Speaker 1: Tyree Kill as a decoy. So it's running backs in

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Speaker 1: the passing game, which influences linebackers and that's how you

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01:43:29,680 --> 01:43:33,000
Speaker 1: throw over the top of linebackers. Well, let's get back

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Speaker 1: to the rematch here between Kansas City and New England.

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Speaker 1: These teams met on a Sunday night back in October,

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Speaker 1: and you think back to that game, what do you

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01:43:40,800 --> 01:43:43,360
Speaker 1: think we'll see that's going to be different both from

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Speaker 1: New England and the Patriots going into Kansas City and

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01:43:46,640 --> 01:43:48,680
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. And this time the game is

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01:43:48,720 --> 01:43:50,599
Speaker 1: not in New England, It's going to be in Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: How does that change things? And even if it wasn't

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Speaker 1: in New England, what would both teams? What would you

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01:43:56,320 --> 01:43:59,960
Speaker 1: see both teams adjusting from that first matchup in October.

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Speaker 1: I think what we're going to I don't know if

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Speaker 1: the home field makes I mean, they'll make a difference,

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01:44:04,600 --> 01:44:06,559
Speaker 1: but I don't think it'll change the way either team

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01:44:06,600 --> 01:44:10,600
Speaker 1: approaches the game. What we'll see this time. In that

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01:44:10,720 --> 01:44:14,000
Speaker 1: last matchup, the Patriots showed Mahomes a lot of pressure

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Speaker 1: looks out of different fronts, but then they dropped into

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Speaker 1: coverage out of the pressure, they didn't actually bring it,

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01:44:19,600 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 1: and in fact, they instead of blitzing, they jammed Travis

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Speaker 1: Kelsey off the line of scrimmage, sacrificing an extra defender

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Speaker 1: to take him. So it was a slow way to play.

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Speaker 1: They were willing to let Mahomes work late into the down,

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Speaker 1: believing that if we show pressure and dropping the coverage,

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01:44:35,920 --> 01:44:37,719
Speaker 1: she might give us a ball or two to intercept.

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Speaker 1: And they were right. They forced some turnovers and they

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Speaker 1: gave the Chiefs some trouble on third down. In the end,

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Speaker 1: though that she's still scored about forty points against them.

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Speaker 1: So what I think we're going to see this time

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Speaker 1: is what the Patriots did to Rivers and the Chargers yesterday,

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Speaker 1: even though Rivers is very different than Mahomes. I think

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Speaker 1: the Patriots are going to show the pressure and then

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01:44:59,280 --> 01:45:01,960
Speaker 1: actually at this time, and it's going to come right

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01:45:02,080 --> 01:45:04,280
Speaker 1: up the middle, they'll use their ends to kind of

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01:45:04,360 --> 01:45:07,360
Speaker 1: contain the pocket and force Mahomes to stay in the pocket,

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01:45:07,760 --> 01:45:09,800
Speaker 1: and they'll see if they can make him play fast

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Speaker 1: from within the pocket. It's fighting fire with fire almost.

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Speaker 1: I think we're going to see New England be a

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Speaker 1: little bit more aggressive schematically. I have one more question

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Speaker 1: for you, Andy about the Patriots, and it's a question

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Speaker 1: Steve and I kind of started off the show with

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Speaker 1: how are they able to make Julian Edelman so effective,

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Speaker 1: so dangerous? He from a physical standpoint, his list of

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01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:35,439
Speaker 1: traits are not anything that would bow you over, and

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Speaker 1: yet he's out there making all the plays and he's

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Speaker 1: done it for years. Now, what is it about Edelman

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Speaker 1: that makes him so dangerous so good for New England? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's two I think there's two parts of that answer, John.

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Speaker 1: The first part is they do a nice job of

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Speaker 1: getting him matched against linebackers in safety's inside when it's

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Speaker 1: against his zone coverage. That gets back to the formation

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Speaker 1: and we were talking about and what New England does there.

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Speaker 1: But the other part is Edelman's better now than he

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Speaker 1: was early in his career. Even though he's kind of aging,

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Speaker 1: he's not showing the age and he is a really

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01:46:07,960 --> 01:46:13,120
Speaker 1: well round, it refined, detailed wide receiver. And so he's

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01:46:13,160 --> 01:46:16,959
Speaker 1: got a quarterback who understands the obviously the nuances of football.

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01:46:17,439 --> 01:46:20,479
Speaker 1: Brady trusts the system, he knows where Edelman will be,

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01:46:20,600 --> 01:46:25,160
Speaker 1: and so those details translate into anticipation throws from Brady

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01:46:25,680 --> 01:46:28,400
Speaker 1: and Edelman. If he gains an inch, he takes a foot,

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01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:30,400
Speaker 1: or if he gains the foot, he takes the yard.

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of offense they have. So it's just

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Speaker 1: a great illustration of the value of playing with a

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01:46:35,840 --> 01:46:39,560
Speaker 1: great quarterback and being well coached, and then training and

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01:46:39,680 --> 01:46:42,160
Speaker 1: drilling this stuff and being in the same system again

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01:46:42,240 --> 01:46:45,400
Speaker 1: and again. Guys get better when they practice this stuff

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01:46:45,439 --> 01:46:48,640
Speaker 1: over many years. Edelman is a perfect illutision. He is

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01:46:48,720 --> 01:46:51,840
Speaker 1: not just a flat receiver. He is a complete all

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01:46:51,960 --> 01:46:55,200
Speaker 1: around weapon for them. I want to shift gears if

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Speaker 1: I could. Andy Back in December, you know, we had

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01:46:58,040 --> 01:47:00,160
Speaker 1: been talking all through the season about the five I've

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01:47:00,600 --> 01:47:03,080
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks who were drafted this season. All of them

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01:47:03,120 --> 01:47:06,280
Speaker 1: got a lot of significant playing time. Baker Mayfield, Josh Rosen,

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, and Sam Darnold. You ranked him

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Speaker 1: in order, and you had Baker Mayfield first, then surprising

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Speaker 1: you put Josh Rosen, then Sam Darnold a third, Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson fourth, and Josh Allen fifth, and that was just

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01:47:19,200 --> 01:47:21,799
Speaker 1: before I think the last week of the regular season.

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01:47:22,560 --> 01:47:25,640
Speaker 1: What did you see anything as a season closed to

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Speaker 1: change those rankings or give you any idea, any different

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01:47:28,680 --> 01:47:32,400
Speaker 1: ideas about any of those guys. Not really mean, those

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01:47:32,520 --> 01:47:35,759
Speaker 1: obviously are very malleable, And I was basing those rankings

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Speaker 1: on the long term projection for how these guys look

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01:47:40,120 --> 01:47:42,840
Speaker 1: based on how they looked as rookie. So I think

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Speaker 1: Darnold right now is probably better than Rosen, but Rosen

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01:47:46,040 --> 01:47:49,360
Speaker 1: I think has the higher upside to be a steadier

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01:47:49,439 --> 01:47:51,960
Speaker 1: professional quarterback for example. And I'm sure the one you

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01:47:52,000 --> 01:47:55,240
Speaker 1: guys are wondering about is Josh Allen. He is He's

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Speaker 1: the only one that would maybe give me some pause there,

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01:47:58,960 --> 01:48:02,320
Speaker 1: because I do think he progressed more than any of

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01:48:02,360 --> 01:48:06,080
Speaker 1: those other guys given where he was starting from Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: We don't quite know about, yeah, because he hasn't had

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Speaker 1: to run a passing offense yet. But I thought Alan

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01:48:11,160 --> 01:48:13,160
Speaker 1: was a lot better in the final few weeks of

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01:48:13,240 --> 01:48:15,920
Speaker 1: the season than he was early in the season. But

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01:48:15,960 --> 01:48:18,040
Speaker 1: I thought early in the season, to be honest, guys,

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01:48:18,080 --> 01:48:20,000
Speaker 1: he looked like a deer and had lights at times

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01:48:20,320 --> 01:48:22,760
Speaker 1: so it was nice to see him improved, though within

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01:48:22,840 --> 01:48:26,400
Speaker 1: the season not everybody can do that. I'm intrigued to

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01:48:26,439 --> 01:48:28,680
Speaker 1: see what happens next year. If I'm playing against him.

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01:48:28,720 --> 01:48:32,160
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm going zone coverage because in Manda Man,

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01:48:32,320 --> 01:48:35,559
Speaker 1: his scrambling takes over and the Reds are easy because

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01:48:35,600 --> 01:48:37,360
Speaker 1: it's just Manda Man. I want to make him have

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01:48:37,520 --> 01:48:42,759
Speaker 1: to see the field and throw through multiple defenders. I'm wondering, Andy,

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01:48:42,840 --> 01:48:45,360
Speaker 1: what you think the ceiling might be for josh Allen. You've,

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01:48:45,640 --> 01:48:47,200
Speaker 1: you know, going back to the draft. I know he

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01:48:47,320 --> 01:48:48,920
Speaker 1: was not at the top of your list, and you

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01:48:49,000 --> 01:48:51,040
Speaker 1: mentioned how you watched him improved this year. But how

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01:48:51,120 --> 01:48:53,559
Speaker 1: good can he be based on the improvement you saw

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01:48:53,640 --> 01:48:55,960
Speaker 1: this year in his rookie year with the Bills. I

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01:48:56,040 --> 01:49:00,400
Speaker 1: think the ceiling is whatever one level above Tim Newton

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01:49:00,520 --> 01:49:03,720
Speaker 1: would be the concern with Allan's the same concern that

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01:49:03,920 --> 01:49:06,479
Speaker 1: Cam Newton has, and we've found that in Newton. You know,

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01:49:06,520 --> 01:49:09,040
Speaker 1: he had that outlier twenty fifteenth season where he was

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01:49:09,240 --> 01:49:12,560
Speaker 1: MVP and he was genuinely MVP that year. He was incredible,

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01:49:13,360 --> 01:49:16,160
Speaker 1: But every other year Newton has been an erratic quarterback

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01:49:16,240 --> 01:49:19,719
Speaker 1: with more pluses and minuses but still an erratic quarterback.

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01:49:19,760 --> 01:49:22,160
Speaker 1: And the reason why it's he struggles with his accuracy.

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01:49:22,320 --> 01:49:25,920
Speaker 1: So he's an inconsistent ball placer and when you are

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01:49:26,040 --> 01:49:28,720
Speaker 1: at that puts a ceiling on you. And I think

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01:49:28,800 --> 01:49:32,120
Speaker 1: Alan's going to have similar struggles throughout his career, and

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01:49:32,160 --> 01:49:34,479
Speaker 1: I think the Bills understand that and they're gonna be

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01:49:34,560 --> 01:49:37,720
Speaker 1: willing to live with it because he's gonna have some

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01:49:37,880 --> 01:49:40,040
Speaker 1: wild throws. He is going to make you have to

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01:49:40,120 --> 01:49:42,120
Speaker 1: defend every inch of the field. I mean, that guy

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01:49:42,200 --> 01:49:45,600
Speaker 1: can throw at seventy yards under durest at times, and

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01:49:45,640 --> 01:49:48,599
Speaker 1: he's gonna in He's gonna attack the sidelines and give

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01:49:48,640 --> 01:49:51,720
Speaker 1: you some power running dimension at QB. But if you

2276
01:49:51,840 --> 01:49:53,600
Speaker 1: can't put the ball where you want to put the

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01:49:53,680 --> 01:49:56,360
Speaker 1: ball every time, then you're going to have some sort

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01:49:56,400 --> 01:49:58,920
Speaker 1: of ceiling on you. So best case scenario to me

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01:49:59,280 --> 01:50:02,360
Speaker 1: is I think Cam Newton's a B class TV and

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01:50:02,360 --> 01:50:03,680
Speaker 1: I mean that in a good way to see his

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01:50:03,800 --> 01:50:07,880
Speaker 1: average A is all pro type stuff. Newton's a solid B.

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01:50:08,520 --> 01:50:12,639
Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen best case scenarios probably a B plus. Interesting.

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01:50:12,760 --> 01:50:14,400
Speaker 1: Hey Andy, thanks for this, it's good to catch up

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01:50:14,439 --> 01:50:17,360
Speaker 1: with you. Thank you very much anytime guys. Thanks Andy

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Speaker 1: benoid count on this for the MMQB dot Com MMQB

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Speaker 1: dot SI dot com sports illustrated NFL writer and analysts

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01:50:23,880 --> 01:50:26,720
Speaker 1: joined us on the Subway fresh State Hotline, Subway Eat Fresh.

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Speaker 1: Andy wrote for MMQB today Mahomes versus Belichick Round two,

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Speaker 1: what the Patriots should do differently? Um, it was a

2290
01:50:33,960 --> 01:50:36,200
Speaker 1: shootout win for New England and as he said, he

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01:50:36,360 --> 01:50:41,080
Speaker 1: thinks basically more pressure on Mahomes might benefit the Patriots.

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01:50:41,280 --> 01:50:43,200
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting too, and I've just been

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01:50:43,680 --> 01:50:47,519
Speaker 1: since yesterday afternoon. Steve kind of focused a little bit

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01:50:47,560 --> 01:50:50,240
Speaker 1: on Julian Edelman and how he does what he does,

2295
01:50:50,280 --> 01:50:52,320
Speaker 1: and I thought Andy kind of opened my eyes a

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01:50:52,320 --> 01:50:55,160
Speaker 1: little bit. I saw Edelman played college football Kent State

2297
01:50:55,280 --> 01:50:57,880
Speaker 1: at ub and he did everything for Kent State that day.

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01:50:57,920 --> 01:50:59,320
Speaker 1: He was the quarterback, he was the putter, he was

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01:50:59,360 --> 01:51:02,160
Speaker 1: the returns he was great. He was a standout player

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01:51:02,160 --> 01:51:04,479
Speaker 1: in the field. But never never in a million years

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01:51:04,520 --> 01:51:06,320
Speaker 1: that I see him making an impact in the NFL

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Speaker 1: like he did yesterday. And he's done this several times now.

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Speaker 1: And Andy, I think, had a good answer. You know,

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01:51:10,800 --> 01:51:14,599
Speaker 1: it's familiarity with the system, it's the quarterback makes him better,

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01:51:14,720 --> 01:51:17,080
Speaker 1: no question about that. But the third part of Andy

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01:51:17,120 --> 01:51:19,120
Speaker 1: Bonoid's answer, which really got me here stood was how

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01:51:19,800 --> 01:51:22,519
Speaker 1: Edelman don't just look at him as a as a

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01:51:22,600 --> 01:51:25,400
Speaker 1: slot receiver. You know, he's He's a football player who

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01:51:25,439 --> 01:51:27,439
Speaker 1: does a lot of different things for that offense. And

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01:51:27,840 --> 01:51:30,679
Speaker 1: it's hard to quantify sometimes, but I think it's because

2311
01:51:30,720 --> 01:51:33,640
Speaker 1: of his uh he's a better player now than he was,

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01:51:33,760 --> 01:51:35,160
Speaker 1: you know, years ago when he first came into the

2313
01:51:35,280 --> 01:51:37,639
Speaker 1: league too. I think kind of a fascinating case study

2314
01:51:37,680 --> 01:51:40,200
Speaker 1: of a guy who doesn't have the measurables. I'm talking

2315
01:51:40,200 --> 01:51:43,040
Speaker 1: about Edelman here, doesn't have the kind of physical statue

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01:51:43,080 --> 01:51:45,200
Speaker 1: that you think, Wow, that guy's a player, but Ali

2317
01:51:45,280 --> 01:51:48,679
Speaker 1: goes he goes out there and makes plays on championship teams,

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01:51:48,680 --> 01:51:50,519
Speaker 1: and he's done it for years now. I've seen so

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01:51:50,640 --> 01:51:52,840
Speaker 1: many We have seen so many guys come through New

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01:51:52,920 --> 01:51:55,840
Speaker 1: England and be much better players than they were anywhere else.

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01:51:56,200 --> 01:51:58,479
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan, who was here in Buffalo. But is he

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01:51:58,640 --> 01:52:01,719
Speaker 1: much better than he was here? I don't know, certainly

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01:52:01,800 --> 01:52:04,800
Speaker 1: more productive he wasn't even on the field here. H

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01:52:05,840 --> 01:52:12,360
Speaker 1: Edelman's the same way. Wes Welker, same thing he was

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01:52:12,400 --> 01:52:14,519
Speaker 1: a good player, an okay player, kind of a marginal,

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01:52:14,720 --> 01:52:16,360
Speaker 1: kind of a guy who is, you know, kind of finding.

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01:52:16,439 --> 01:52:18,599
Speaker 1: Other teams had a hard time finding a spot for him.

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01:52:18,800 --> 01:52:20,720
Speaker 1: And the thing I think that Edelman does do well.

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01:52:20,800 --> 01:52:23,679
Speaker 1: He's an athlete, He's a he's a smart a smart player.

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01:52:24,720 --> 01:52:27,320
Speaker 1: He's a good athlete. He's versatile, he can run with

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01:52:27,400 --> 01:52:30,280
Speaker 1: the ball, he can catch it, and he is a

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01:52:30,439 --> 01:52:33,160
Speaker 1: gritty player who never gives up, really intelligent, and I

2333
01:52:33,240 --> 01:52:35,559
Speaker 1: think it takes a lot of commitment to get neck

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01:52:35,640 --> 01:52:37,800
Speaker 1: deep into an offense like he is, where you're that

2335
01:52:37,920 --> 01:52:39,960
Speaker 1: familiar with everything that's going on around you and you

2336
01:52:40,000 --> 01:52:42,400
Speaker 1: can make adjustments on the fly because you understand where

2337
01:52:42,439 --> 01:52:45,640
Speaker 1: your quarterback is, who he is, what he's thinking. And

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01:52:46,000 --> 01:52:48,840
Speaker 1: let me tell you something, that's exactly why quarterbacks throw

2339
01:52:48,960 --> 01:52:53,240
Speaker 1: to guys is because when something happens on the field,

2340
01:52:53,720 --> 01:52:56,559
Speaker 1: their guy who they're gonna throw to thinks or knows

2341
01:52:56,720 --> 01:53:00,559
Speaker 1: what the quarterback thinks, thinks like the quarter or knows

2342
01:53:00,600 --> 01:53:02,880
Speaker 1: what the quarterback is thinking, and gives the quarterback what

2343
01:53:02,960 --> 01:53:05,639
Speaker 1: he's looking for to throw the football. That's what Edelman

2344
01:53:05,720 --> 01:53:08,519
Speaker 1: does better than anybody. He knows what Tom Brady wants

2345
01:53:08,880 --> 01:53:12,280
Speaker 1: in his routes and his adjustments in his off the

2346
01:53:12,360 --> 01:53:17,000
Speaker 1: cuff adjustments and his improvisations in his timing and everything.

2347
01:53:17,200 --> 01:53:19,439
Speaker 1: He knows what Tom Brady expects and he does everything

2348
01:53:19,520 --> 01:53:20,680
Speaker 1: he can to give it to him. So the guy

2349
01:53:20,760 --> 01:53:24,559
Speaker 1: throws him the ball. It's that simple. And that's why.

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01:53:24,680 --> 01:53:27,519
Speaker 1: And we've seen it. They move Edelman around, Andy Benoy

2351
01:53:27,600 --> 01:53:29,080
Speaker 1: said it. They put him in motion, They line him

2352
01:53:29,160 --> 01:53:31,600
Speaker 1: up in the slot at the wing, in the backfield,

2353
01:53:31,600 --> 01:53:33,439
Speaker 1: the motion out, They shift him from one side to

2354
01:53:33,479 --> 01:53:35,080
Speaker 1: the other. They use him in every way, shape or

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01:53:35,080 --> 01:53:37,439
Speaker 1: form they can. And a lot of it is because

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01:53:37,560 --> 01:53:38,960
Speaker 1: a they know he's going to be in the right

2357
01:53:39,040 --> 01:53:41,000
Speaker 1: spot at the right time. He's never gonna not line

2358
01:53:41,080 --> 01:53:43,320
Speaker 1: up in the right spot. And it sounds simple, it

2359
01:53:43,439 --> 01:53:47,760
Speaker 1: ain't that easy. And two Brady knows he can trust

2360
01:53:47,880 --> 01:53:50,280
Speaker 1: him and whatever happens, he knows what Edelman's gonna do,

2361
01:53:50,400 --> 01:53:52,400
Speaker 1: even the way Edelman knows what he's gonna do. So

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01:53:53,720 --> 01:53:55,840
Speaker 1: that's I think that's one of the things why. And

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01:53:55,920 --> 01:53:58,640
Speaker 1: you see that it's part of the culture there in

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01:53:58,760 --> 01:54:02,679
Speaker 1: New England. You see eyes who are better and fully

2365
01:54:02,800 --> 01:54:06,800
Speaker 1: exploit their mental side of the game as what as

2366
01:54:06,800 --> 01:54:08,200
Speaker 1: they do their physical side of the game, and I

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01:54:08,280 --> 01:54:10,840
Speaker 1: think that's what a lot of teams overlook and don't

2368
01:54:10,840 --> 01:54:12,200
Speaker 1: get the most out of it a lot of times.

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01:54:12,320 --> 01:54:14,200
Speaker 1: Yeah I don't. I wouldn't put Hogan in that category.

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01:54:14,240 --> 01:54:15,880
Speaker 1: And I just looked up the numbers real quick, and

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01:54:16,280 --> 01:54:20,800
Speaker 1: Hogan caught thirty five passes this year with three touchdowns.

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01:54:21,240 --> 01:54:23,120
Speaker 1: In his last year with the Bills twenty fifteen, he

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01:54:23,160 --> 01:54:25,320
Speaker 1: cut thirty six passes with two touches when he catched

2374
01:54:25,360 --> 01:54:28,080
Speaker 1: last year though with the Patriots, thirty four. See, so

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01:54:28,280 --> 01:54:30,439
Speaker 1: he had two years, all right, three years with the Bills.

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01:54:30,479 --> 01:54:32,960
Speaker 1: I did their math real quick. Eighty seven catches for

2377
01:54:33,080 --> 01:54:35,879
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan and three years with the Bills for six touchdowns.

2378
01:54:35,920 --> 01:54:38,760
Speaker 1: Three years with the Patriots one hundred seven catches. Twenty

2379
01:54:38,800 --> 01:54:41,600
Speaker 1: more catches, So seven catches more on average. Prof a

2380
01:54:41,640 --> 01:54:44,280
Speaker 1: catchy game. Yeah, yeah, I get it. It's just the

2381
01:54:44,320 --> 01:54:46,120
Speaker 1: same player. But I don't know what the edlman is

2382
01:54:46,200 --> 01:54:49,400
Speaker 1: And I thinks, as Andy Benois pointed, Edliman is much

2383
01:54:49,480 --> 01:54:51,160
Speaker 1: better now than he was when he got there. Think

2384
01:54:51,200 --> 01:54:53,760
Speaker 1: about think about what you're talking about with Hogan. Though

2385
01:54:53,840 --> 01:54:56,400
Speaker 1: you're on a he's on a much different football team

2386
01:54:56,440 --> 01:54:58,120
Speaker 1: than he was here and he's a team where he's

2387
01:54:58,200 --> 01:55:02,000
Speaker 1: the with the fourth option. Sometimes he was too. And

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01:55:02,080 --> 01:55:04,120
Speaker 1: you know when they didn't have the receivers they have now,

2389
01:55:04,280 --> 01:55:08,520
Speaker 1: well they got Gronk, got anybody out of the backfield,

2390
01:55:08,600 --> 01:55:13,200
Speaker 1: now Edelman and Josh Gordon this year for a lord

2391
01:55:13,320 --> 01:55:15,000
Speaker 1: stretch of the season, and in the past it was

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01:55:15,280 --> 01:55:18,800
Speaker 1: you know, another it was Brandon Cooks. So he's never

2393
01:55:18,880 --> 01:55:20,840
Speaker 1: been you know, the top flight guy. He's he's catching

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01:55:20,880 --> 01:55:22,960
Speaker 1: exactly the number of footballs he should be catching there,

2395
01:55:22,960 --> 01:55:24,600
Speaker 1: but you know pretty much what he caught him Buffalo,

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01:55:24,720 --> 01:55:27,440
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, except he's got guys around

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01:55:27,480 --> 01:55:30,040
Speaker 1: him that are catching you know, three times that many. Yeah,

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01:55:30,240 --> 01:55:32,280
Speaker 1: but you know, but I get it. I get it, though,

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Speaker 1: I mean I just think he wouldn't. Do you think

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01:55:34,040 --> 01:55:37,360
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan would still be on our football team if

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01:55:37,400 --> 01:55:40,680
Speaker 1: what if he hadn't gone to the Patriots? Wait minute,

2402
01:55:40,720 --> 01:55:42,840
Speaker 1: run that by me again. What would he Chris Hogan

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01:55:43,040 --> 01:55:44,840
Speaker 1: if he hadn't gone to the Patriots. I don't know

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01:55:44,880 --> 01:55:47,320
Speaker 1: that he would still be in the National Football League. Um,

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01:55:47,880 --> 01:55:50,000
Speaker 1: maybe not. I don't know. Why wouldn't you know, if

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01:55:50,000 --> 01:55:51,960
Speaker 1: he wanted to stay here, why wouldn't he was with

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01:55:52,040 --> 01:55:55,760
Speaker 1: all the Upheaver was happening here. I think you would

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01:55:55,800 --> 01:55:57,360
Speaker 1: have fit in with what they try to build here.

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01:55:58,760 --> 01:56:01,600
Speaker 1: Absolutely would fit in. That's interesting. It's an interesting point.

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01:56:01,640 --> 01:56:03,760
Speaker 1: You will never know the answer, but it's it's worth

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01:56:03,800 --> 01:56:06,040
Speaker 1: asking because he has fitted in New England and he's

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01:56:06,040 --> 01:56:08,920
Speaker 1: been he's been on the field for them a lot. Yeah,

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01:56:09,720 --> 01:56:11,880
Speaker 1: and it's but his numbers are similar to the three

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01:56:11,960 --> 01:56:14,520
Speaker 1: years in Buffalo. Yeah. Um, what else Andy said? Andy

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01:56:14,520 --> 01:56:16,440
Speaker 1: Annoy said something else They got my attention. I can't

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01:56:16,440 --> 01:56:20,840
Speaker 1: remember what it was now, talking about the young quarterbacks. Yeah, yeah,

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01:56:21,240 --> 01:56:23,360
Speaker 1: Andy right, you're right. Right from the start, Andy was

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01:56:23,400 --> 01:56:25,360
Speaker 1: not a Josh Allen guy, and that's fine. But the

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01:56:25,440 --> 01:56:27,680
Speaker 1: part about the ceiling I find interesting. You know that

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01:56:29,000 --> 01:56:32,320
Speaker 1: I kind of like his assessment of Josh Allen ceiling

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01:56:32,440 --> 01:56:34,440
Speaker 1: maybe what do you say, a half a notch above

2422
01:56:34,640 --> 01:56:36,560
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. That's pretty good ceiling. By the way, that's

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01:56:36,600 --> 01:56:38,360
Speaker 1: pretty good. I think he can be better than that.

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01:56:38,480 --> 01:56:40,960
Speaker 1: But here's a there's one of the good things about

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01:56:41,000 --> 01:56:43,880
Speaker 1: Andy Bennoy and his analysis, willing to admit that he

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01:56:43,960 --> 01:56:47,200
Speaker 1: underestimated Josh Allen, right, and he did. He underestimated what

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01:56:47,240 --> 01:56:49,320
Speaker 1: he might do. Everybody we've had on us said that

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01:56:49,400 --> 01:56:52,560
Speaker 1: same thing. Yeah, they've all said you know has said, yeah,

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01:56:52,840 --> 01:56:54,560
Speaker 1: he's a little better than I thought he was gonna be. Yea,

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01:56:54,600 --> 01:56:56,800
Speaker 1: they all set kind of say that without Some of

2431
01:56:56,800 --> 01:56:59,360
Speaker 1: them don't take ownership like Andy did, but yeah they do.

2432
01:56:59,560 --> 01:57:02,120
Speaker 1: I mean they everybody. You know, a lot of people

2433
01:57:02,160 --> 01:57:05,080
Speaker 1: were pooh pooh and Josh Allen because he played in Wyoming,

2434
01:57:05,760 --> 01:57:08,120
Speaker 1: he didn't have a high completion percentage. Other than that,

2435
01:57:08,480 --> 01:57:11,120
Speaker 1: that was it. And then you get in and here's

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01:57:11,160 --> 01:57:14,640
Speaker 1: the thing that is always underestimated because it's hard to quantify.

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01:57:15,520 --> 01:57:17,920
Speaker 1: And since he's been in the building and even the test,

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01:57:18,680 --> 01:57:22,480
Speaker 1: he's really smart. Josh Allen is really intelligent. That to

2439
01:57:22,600 --> 01:57:25,720
Speaker 1: me is the biggest sign for the ceiling of improvement

2440
01:57:25,920 --> 01:57:29,160
Speaker 1: than anything. When a guy is smart that also means

2441
01:57:29,200 --> 01:57:34,440
Speaker 1: you can look in the mirror and see your own wartz. Yeah. Time,

2442
01:57:34,560 --> 01:57:37,600
Speaker 1: smart guys get better. Smart guys always get better. Guys

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01:57:37,640 --> 01:57:39,560
Speaker 1: who are not smart are the same guy. Even if

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01:57:39,600 --> 01:57:41,920
Speaker 1: they are good enough physically to play ten years, they're

2445
01:57:41,960 --> 01:57:43,520
Speaker 1: the same guy in ten years as they are in

2446
01:57:43,560 --> 01:57:46,840
Speaker 1: the day drafted him or whatever physical detriments have happened

2447
01:57:46,880 --> 01:57:49,920
Speaker 1: to him since then. They're the same other guys you draft,

2448
01:57:50,080 --> 01:57:51,840
Speaker 1: and they're better and better. You know, you get a

2449
01:57:51,920 --> 01:57:55,200
Speaker 1: guy like Kyle Williams, who's really a smart guy, had

2450
01:57:55,240 --> 01:57:57,280
Speaker 1: the ability to see himself for what he was and

2451
01:57:58,640 --> 01:58:02,920
Speaker 1: turn his intelligence in to commitment and technique and getting

2452
01:58:03,000 --> 01:58:04,560
Speaker 1: better and improving, and all of a sudden, you know,

2453
01:58:04,600 --> 01:58:07,160
Speaker 1: the guy's at thirteen years been All Pro five times,

2454
01:58:07,440 --> 01:58:10,480
Speaker 1: six Pro Bowls and he's been a phenomenal, all time

2455
01:58:10,520 --> 01:58:13,520
Speaker 1: great player as a fifth round draft pick because I

2456
01:58:13,640 --> 01:58:16,360
Speaker 1: think in large part to his ability to see himself

2457
01:58:16,440 --> 01:58:18,160
Speaker 1: for what he was and work on that which he

2458
01:58:18,240 --> 01:58:20,280
Speaker 1: needed to work on her. Yeah, all right, we got

2459
01:58:20,320 --> 01:58:21,720
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about. Still, we want to hear

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01:58:21,720 --> 01:58:23,800
Speaker 1: from you. What do you think who are you rooting

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01:58:23,880 --> 01:58:25,360
Speaker 1: for it? Not who do you expect to win the

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01:58:25,400 --> 01:58:27,720
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? But who are you rooting for it to

2463
01:58:27,800 --> 01:58:29,840
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl? Which of the four remaining teams

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Speaker 1: give us a call? Eight oh three fifty toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight by fifty two five fifty, John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker coming back with more in a moment. One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live from One Bill's Driving, This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back is One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy Seat Task. You're here until three o'clock every day.

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Speaker 1: We're back here tomorrow another noon to three show, so

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Speaker 1: I have time to talk with you. And we're talking

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Speaker 1: about the four. The final four. It final four is

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01:59:05,680 --> 01:59:07,880
Speaker 1: such a basketball thing, but it makes sense with this group,

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01:59:07,960 --> 01:59:12,320
Speaker 1: the four contenders in the championship conference championship games, the

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01:59:12,400 --> 01:59:14,360
Speaker 1: final four. Which team you're rooting for? Not who do

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01:59:14,440 --> 01:59:15,800
Speaker 1: you think will win? But who are you're rooting for?

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Speaker 1: Who are you polling for? Give us a call, let

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Speaker 1: us know what you think. We got mines open eight

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

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. You can vote on our Twitter poll. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a dead heat on the Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: right now, forty percent of our respondents, We've had more

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01:59:30,920 --> 01:59:33,720
Speaker 1: than eleven hundred respondents so far. Forty percent of our

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Speaker 1: respondents say they are rooting for the Chiefs to win

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01:59:36,840 --> 01:59:39,920
Speaker 1: it all. Forty percent of our respondents say the Saints.

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01:59:40,080 --> 01:59:42,680
Speaker 1: This is as close as it gets in Twitter poll universe.

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Speaker 1: Sixteen percent say the Rams and only four percent say

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01:59:46,400 --> 01:59:48,720
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots are their favorite team in the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl Tournament. What do you think lines open eight

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Speaker 1: o three oh five fifty toll free one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. The Twitter poll has

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Speaker 1: its own following Steve. I was at Cannasious basketball and

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Speaker 1: Friday night and I got stopped by somebody who said, hey,

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Speaker 1: I got a Twitter poll for you. I should send

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Speaker 1: it in. We'll probably use it. We're always looking for

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Speaker 1: the next one. Yeah, we got some. We got some

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02:00:10,040 --> 02:00:12,120
Speaker 1: people who it's chiming in on the tweet sheet about

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Speaker 1: our Twitter poll from John Dooby, he says, I picked

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Speaker 1: the Rams. Not sure if he has a Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: ring or not, but I'd love to see Wade Phillips

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02:00:18,360 --> 02:00:20,760
Speaker 1: get a Super Bowl ring before he retires. Not saying

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02:00:20,800 --> 02:00:22,720
Speaker 1: he's retiring, but it would be an amazing close to

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Speaker 1: a great career going out on top super Bowl. Yeah,

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02:00:26,200 --> 02:00:29,680
Speaker 1: he won super Bowl fifty with Denver. Always root but

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Speaker 1: I am, And that's way I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: I don't know, some of it is rooting against, you know,

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Speaker 1: but most of it most people are thinking, Like like

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Speaker 1: last week, everybody was rooting for Frank Reich or whatever

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Speaker 1: guy they had who they knew personally here from here

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo or whatever, whoever's listening to us. You always

2511
02:00:46,840 --> 02:00:49,040
Speaker 1: kind of root for people you have a connection with um,

2512
02:00:49,440 --> 02:00:51,840
Speaker 1: and certainly Wade Phillips has a connection here in Buffalo's

2513
02:00:51,880 --> 02:00:55,400
Speaker 1: former head coach and twenty nine and nineteen. He'll tell

2514
02:00:55,400 --> 02:00:58,520
Speaker 1: you he's a great dude. Waits one of the all

2515
02:00:58,520 --> 02:01:01,800
Speaker 1: time great ones. Man, I just got shirts should say that, sis?

2516
02:01:02,280 --> 02:01:06,600
Speaker 1: Why not? David Naka tweets us in he's running for

2517
02:01:06,640 --> 02:01:09,800
Speaker 1: any team playing the Patriots, So now it's the Chiefs. Seriously,

2518
02:01:10,360 --> 02:01:13,160
Speaker 1: nothing matters except no Patriots in the super Bowl. The

2519
02:01:13,280 --> 02:01:17,600
Speaker 1: hate is real. I get it. Here we go, here

2520
02:01:17,680 --> 02:01:21,480
Speaker 1: we go the years. Also, by the way, Patriots fatigue.

2521
02:01:21,600 --> 02:01:24,760
Speaker 1: Would you acknowledge that? I, for one, and many of

2522
02:01:24,840 --> 02:01:27,080
Speaker 1: our respondents, I'm sure we're just tired of the Patriots

2523
02:01:27,120 --> 02:01:29,760
Speaker 1: and Brady and Belichick and shots of Bob. You never

2524
02:01:29,760 --> 02:01:31,360
Speaker 1: get check of the Bob Kraft video, but I do

2525
02:01:31,680 --> 02:01:34,240
Speaker 1: shots of Robert Kraft and his son high five in

2526
02:01:34,360 --> 02:01:36,600
Speaker 1: sitting with John bon Jovin up in the stands. I

2527
02:01:36,640 --> 02:01:38,680
Speaker 1: don't want that to ruin my super Bowl? Who would

2528
02:01:38,720 --> 02:01:44,080
Speaker 1: want that? All? Right? This is few can't say anything

2529
02:01:44,120 --> 02:01:46,520
Speaker 1: about Bob Kraft. No, this is a long those lines

2530
02:01:47,320 --> 02:01:50,840
Speaker 1: the eurostep blog tweets in I like to root for

2531
02:01:50,880 --> 02:01:53,680
Speaker 1: the Patriots because then it means the best team in

2532
02:01:53,720 --> 02:01:56,600
Speaker 1: football is from our division. This may be unpopular, but

2533
02:01:56,640 --> 02:01:58,400
Speaker 1: if the Bill, if it can't meet the Bills, at

2534
02:01:58,520 --> 02:02:01,600
Speaker 1: least another AFC team can rep our division and show

2535
02:02:01,640 --> 02:02:03,840
Speaker 1: that we have a good division. The Jets in Miami

2536
02:02:03,920 --> 02:02:06,480
Speaker 1: are not helping. No, no, no, yeah, that and that,

2537
02:02:06,720 --> 02:02:08,440
Speaker 1: you know, just one of the other things too. Adam

2538
02:02:08,480 --> 02:02:10,879
Speaker 1: Gates just wrapped up his pressor. He is now officially

2539
02:02:10,960 --> 02:02:13,680
Speaker 1: the head coach of the of the New York Jets.

2540
02:02:14,520 --> 02:02:17,440
Speaker 1: No speaking of the Jets and Dolphins. So yeah, that's

2541
02:02:17,560 --> 02:02:19,880
Speaker 1: that's a wow. That is a backhanded way to look

2542
02:02:19,880 --> 02:02:23,320
Speaker 1: at life. Nothing, I'm Bob Kraft from you. Nothing, you fatigued. Listen,

2543
02:02:23,400 --> 02:02:25,840
Speaker 1: I know the guy and you're right, he is um

2544
02:02:26,160 --> 02:02:29,000
Speaker 1: It's it gets tiresome for people who root against the

2545
02:02:29,040 --> 02:02:31,480
Speaker 1: Patriots to see him on all the time. The reason

2546
02:02:31,560 --> 02:02:33,520
Speaker 1: he's on is a couple of reasons. One, he does

2547
02:02:33,600 --> 02:02:35,640
Speaker 1: have a relationship with the networks. He's part of the

2548
02:02:35,680 --> 02:02:38,720
Speaker 1: committee of the broadcast Committee. He knows all those guys,

2549
02:02:38,800 --> 02:02:43,400
Speaker 1: and I hate I know Bills fans don't want here.

2550
02:02:43,400 --> 02:02:46,760
Speaker 1: He's he's a wonderful guy that he's friendly, he's gregarious.

2551
02:02:46,800 --> 02:02:48,880
Speaker 1: He's been a big reason why the league has been

2552
02:02:48,960 --> 02:02:51,440
Speaker 1: prosperous in the television into things. They've got a great

2553
02:02:51,440 --> 02:02:55,240
Speaker 1: relationship with all three networks in large part because of

2554
02:02:55,280 --> 02:02:59,520
Speaker 1: his contributions. You look at the CBA, the CBA that

2555
02:02:59,600 --> 02:03:02,440
Speaker 1: they did a few years ago, he was integral, integral

2556
02:03:02,760 --> 02:03:05,560
Speaker 1: and getting that done. He is a He is a massive,

2557
02:03:06,320 --> 02:03:09,760
Speaker 1: a massively important figure for the NFL as far as

2558
02:03:09,840 --> 02:03:12,320
Speaker 1: owners go, and what they do, and and it shows,

2559
02:03:12,360 --> 02:03:14,680
Speaker 1: and when his teams are in big games, they show him.

2560
02:03:15,040 --> 02:03:18,240
Speaker 1: It's like Jerry Jones show him too. Those two, those

2561
02:03:18,280 --> 02:03:21,600
Speaker 1: two guys are the or you know or you know

2562
02:03:21,720 --> 02:03:24,040
Speaker 1: one A and one B. Take your pick of the

2563
02:03:24,160 --> 02:03:29,120
Speaker 1: most recognizable you can say, overexposed, but recognizable and powerful

2564
02:03:29,160 --> 02:03:32,680
Speaker 1: guys in the league as far as owners go. So

2565
02:03:33,080 --> 02:03:39,920
Speaker 1: that's that's why you see him when they play on TV. Okay,

2566
02:03:40,640 --> 02:03:42,440
Speaker 1: you don't have to like it. I'm just telling I

2567
02:03:42,560 --> 02:03:44,000
Speaker 1: dislike it. I just don't want to. I don't want

2568
02:03:44,040 --> 02:03:46,879
Speaker 1: it to be. It's it's obnoxious how much TV FaceTime

2569
02:03:46,920 --> 02:03:50,400
Speaker 1: he gets. And they never say the man behind Spygate,

2570
02:03:50,480 --> 02:03:55,960
Speaker 1: the man behind ul Gate, right, they never would. They

2571
02:03:56,040 --> 02:03:58,760
Speaker 1: don't connect him to that, why not. Well, that's a

2572
02:03:58,800 --> 02:04:04,280
Speaker 1: good point. He's stayed clear of all that for whatever reason. However,

2573
02:04:04,360 --> 02:04:07,640
Speaker 1: he stayed clear. It's his employees. Yeah, but that's you

2574
02:04:07,760 --> 02:04:09,720
Speaker 1: just said it that you don't equate that with him

2575
02:04:09,960 --> 02:04:13,600
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. Let's take a call from Kevin and Hamburg. Hello, Kevin,

2576
02:04:13,640 --> 02:04:17,200
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Good. I'm rooting for anyone but

2577
02:04:17,320 --> 02:04:20,960
Speaker 1: the Patriots, obviously, anyone but the Patriots for sure, no

2578
02:04:21,080 --> 02:04:24,160
Speaker 1: matter what. And I want to touch on Steve's point

2579
02:04:24,200 --> 02:04:26,880
Speaker 1: about why Brady Belichick don't want to go away and

2580
02:04:26,880 --> 02:04:29,920
Speaker 1: all that because they know that they're hated and that

2581
02:04:30,200 --> 02:04:33,040
Speaker 1: fuels their fire to be hated. You you know what

2582
02:04:33,080 --> 02:04:35,880
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Yeah, I mean Brady said yesterday, what

2583
02:04:36,000 --> 02:04:38,920
Speaker 1: was his quote, I know everybody thinks we sucked. Yeah, Tom,

2584
02:04:39,040 --> 02:04:41,280
Speaker 1: this just said nobody thinks you sucked. Nobody in the

2585
02:04:41,360 --> 02:04:43,680
Speaker 1: last fifteen years has ever said, Wow, the Patriots suck.

2586
02:04:44,680 --> 02:04:47,640
Speaker 1: Nobody said that. Nobody believes that. I bring up some

2587
02:04:47,760 --> 02:04:50,280
Speaker 1: meltial pass real quick. Yeah. Um, it's sort of like

2588
02:04:50,520 --> 02:04:53,640
Speaker 1: WWV wrestlers. They know when they're hated, Like one time

2589
02:04:53,720 --> 02:04:56,520
Speaker 1: King Kong money hurt Hogan and he was hated, and

2590
02:04:56,600 --> 02:04:59,320
Speaker 1: he smiled because he put Hulk Hogan in the hospital.

2591
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:02,720
Speaker 1: That made him feel really good. Yeah, there's there's there's

2592
02:05:02,760 --> 02:05:04,640
Speaker 1: an upside to being the villain, right, and the Patriots

2593
02:05:04,680 --> 02:05:08,080
Speaker 1: probably get off on that a little bit. No, come on, yeah,

2594
02:05:08,080 --> 02:05:11,360
Speaker 1: I mean you can listen that that stuff Tom Brady

2595
02:05:11,400 --> 02:05:14,280
Speaker 1: said about the everybody thinking the Patriots stink, and certainly

2596
02:05:14,280 --> 02:05:16,960
Speaker 1: everybody everybody outside of New England says it because they

2597
02:05:17,000 --> 02:05:19,680
Speaker 1: all hate him so much because they win. They don't

2598
02:05:19,720 --> 02:05:23,160
Speaker 1: say they suck because they actually think they do. The

2599
02:05:23,280 --> 02:05:26,800
Speaker 1: Patriots are really good all the time every year. That's

2600
02:05:26,880 --> 02:05:30,000
Speaker 1: why everybody hates them. And they're One of the reasons

2601
02:05:30,080 --> 02:05:32,320
Speaker 1: they're good is because they're always highly motivated. And one

2602
02:05:32,320 --> 02:05:34,760
Speaker 1: of the reasons they're highly motivated, and Tom Brady gave

2603
02:05:34,760 --> 02:05:38,560
Speaker 1: an example of it. They can strue everything outside their

2604
02:05:38,640 --> 02:05:43,120
Speaker 1: walls as fuel for their fire, the hatred, the whatever

2605
02:05:43,320 --> 02:05:45,720
Speaker 1: slight they can perceive. And I've told you this. We

2606
02:05:45,800 --> 02:05:48,120
Speaker 1: have Thurman on here all the time. Thurman comes in

2607
02:05:48,200 --> 02:05:49,880
Speaker 1: and I would laugh, And I've told this in the

2608
02:05:50,000 --> 02:05:51,560
Speaker 1: thirty for thirty they did about him and in his

2609
02:05:51,600 --> 02:05:54,680
Speaker 1: football life and all that. One of the reasons he

2610
02:05:54,760 --> 02:05:56,760
Speaker 1: was grave is because he was motivated. He had a

2611
02:05:56,840 --> 02:05:59,480
Speaker 1: chip on his shoulder from the from being passed over

2612
02:05:59,560 --> 02:06:02,600
Speaker 1: in the draft, from the first round to everything else.

2613
02:06:02,840 --> 02:06:06,520
Speaker 1: He listened. There was an article on Super Bowl Week

2614
02:06:06,560 --> 02:06:09,440
Speaker 1: about how Thurman Thomas was the greatest running, all around

2615
02:06:09,520 --> 02:06:12,960
Speaker 1: running back in the National Football League. He construed that

2616
02:06:13,200 --> 02:06:16,720
Speaker 1: into motivation as an insult. How did he do that?

2617
02:06:17,240 --> 02:06:20,440
Speaker 1: Right there you go, how do you do that? He

2618
02:06:20,520 --> 02:06:23,080
Speaker 1: did it? And there you have it. The players do

2619
02:06:23,200 --> 02:06:25,200
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Tom Brady's no different, So you

2620
02:06:25,280 --> 02:06:28,280
Speaker 1: know that's and I'm telling you, man, and I know this.

2621
02:06:28,400 --> 02:06:30,720
Speaker 1: Somebody reminded me and I remember having the conversation. Remember

2622
02:06:30,720 --> 02:06:32,440
Speaker 1: I said about Brady, He's never gonna walk away, never

2623
02:06:32,440 --> 02:06:34,400
Speaker 1: gonna walk away. And I said earlier a month ago,

2624
02:06:34,880 --> 02:06:36,920
Speaker 1: how you know, father time catches up and you start

2625
02:06:36,960 --> 02:06:39,120
Speaker 1: training around all the injuries, and it just sucks your

2626
02:06:39,160 --> 02:06:43,600
Speaker 1: will to play. Listen, I'm telling you it does that forgot,

2627
02:06:43,760 --> 02:06:47,040
Speaker 1: But for truly great ones, they that's not about them.

2628
02:06:47,200 --> 02:06:50,160
Speaker 1: Guys like me have the will to play sucked out

2629
02:06:50,200 --> 02:06:52,600
Speaker 1: of them. You know, I'm I was. I couldn't dredge

2630
02:06:52,600 --> 02:06:54,440
Speaker 1: it up anymore. Tom Brady's never gonna That's not gonna

2631
02:06:54,440 --> 02:06:55,840
Speaker 1: happen to him. Doesn't happen nill a lot of those

2632
02:06:55,880 --> 02:06:58,000
Speaker 1: big they got to keep going. That's all they know.

2633
02:06:58,080 --> 02:07:00,400
Speaker 1: We're from the super Bowl. Nick tweets the sin if

2634
02:07:00,400 --> 02:07:02,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots go again, He says, this may be the

2635
02:07:03,000 --> 02:07:05,920
Speaker 1: first Super Bowl I do not watch. I'm sick of

2636
02:07:05,960 --> 02:07:08,320
Speaker 1: the Patriots and won't waste my time. All these so

2637
02:07:08,520 --> 02:07:11,040
Speaker 1: called experts give the Bills and the AFC East hell

2638
02:07:11,080 --> 02:07:13,840
Speaker 1: about stepping up and stopping the Patriots. Well, the NFL

2639
02:07:13,880 --> 02:07:16,320
Speaker 1: as a whole hasn't enabled to just over it go

2640
02:07:16,480 --> 02:07:21,120
Speaker 1: Bills rams chiefs. If the Patriots win this Sunday, he

2641
02:07:21,160 --> 02:07:26,280
Speaker 1: will not watch the super Bowl. I get it. There's

2642
02:07:26,320 --> 02:07:29,160
Speaker 1: a little part of me is attempted by that, saying, yeah,

2643
02:07:29,200 --> 02:07:30,960
Speaker 1: maybe that's the way to go. It might be would

2644
02:07:30,960 --> 02:07:34,600
Speaker 1: be something else to watch, might be you know what,

2645
02:07:34,800 --> 02:07:37,400
Speaker 1: or just you know what, take a vaca, read a book,

2646
02:07:37,640 --> 02:07:40,080
Speaker 1: go take a vc Just leave town and don't turn

2647
02:07:40,160 --> 02:07:42,520
Speaker 1: the TV on. Just go somewhere. You know, we we're

2648
02:07:42,560 --> 02:07:45,520
Speaker 1: gonna be in Atlanta all through that week and then

2649
02:07:45,960 --> 02:07:48,160
Speaker 1: actually I'll have to watch it. I don't have a choice.

2650
02:07:48,160 --> 02:07:50,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be working it. But you know, so I'm

2651
02:07:51,640 --> 02:07:55,600
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it now. That doesn't mean

2652
02:07:55,640 --> 02:07:58,000
Speaker 1: I haven't said now that Tom Brady's gonna play forever,

2653
02:07:59,120 --> 02:08:02,200
Speaker 1: but close, he ain't walking away. They're gonna kick him

2654
02:08:02,240 --> 02:08:05,200
Speaker 1: to the curb. Ultimately, it's not gonna end. I'm telling

2655
02:08:05,240 --> 02:08:07,520
Speaker 1: you publicly, they'll all put on a smiley face and

2656
02:08:07,520 --> 02:08:09,920
Speaker 1: it'll all be well and good and Tommy legendary walk

2657
02:08:10,000 --> 02:08:11,720
Speaker 1: off into the sunset. But let me tell you something.

2658
02:08:11,760 --> 02:08:15,720
Speaker 1: They're they're gonna have to push him out the door

2659
02:08:15,800 --> 02:08:18,320
Speaker 1: before he goes willingly. I'm telling you another column this,

2660
02:08:18,400 --> 02:08:20,680
Speaker 1: Mike and Oapville is an answer to our question, who

2661
02:08:20,720 --> 02:08:22,560
Speaker 1: are you rooting for the Super For the Super Bowl? Mike,

2662
02:08:22,600 --> 02:08:24,840
Speaker 1: what do you got? What do you think? Hey, guys,

2663
02:08:24,920 --> 02:08:27,920
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Sure sure For me, it's

2664
02:08:28,120 --> 02:08:31,840
Speaker 1: uh Andy Reid and the chiefs um. I just I

2665
02:08:32,160 --> 02:08:34,960
Speaker 1: feel the sentiments of the tweeter that texted in or

2666
02:08:34,960 --> 02:08:37,000
Speaker 1: tweeted in the about I'd like to see an aft

2667
02:08:37,120 --> 02:08:40,520
Speaker 1: and head win and not the Patriots and Murphy took

2668
02:08:40,560 --> 02:08:42,800
Speaker 1: the words on him out. If there's another word beyond

2669
02:08:42,880 --> 02:08:46,920
Speaker 1: fatigue for the Patriots and Belichick, Brady and Edelman and

2670
02:08:47,560 --> 02:08:51,640
Speaker 1: all of them. I got it all so tired. I'm

2671
02:08:51,720 --> 02:08:54,280
Speaker 1: so tired. A really good friend of mine, Charlie, who's

2672
02:08:54,320 --> 02:08:56,960
Speaker 1: been a Patch fan. I'm fifty one. I remember back

2673
02:08:57,000 --> 02:08:58,880
Speaker 1: in the nineties we didn't have texting and email and

2674
02:08:58,920 --> 02:09:00,760
Speaker 1: back in those days, but I would always chirp and

2675
02:09:01,120 --> 02:09:03,560
Speaker 1: getting a space about how great the Bills were. And

2676
02:09:03,640 --> 02:09:05,560
Speaker 1: I figured out, Okay, you know, they'll have their licks,

2677
02:09:05,600 --> 02:09:08,360
Speaker 1: but it's not going to be ten years and fifteen years.

2678
02:09:08,440 --> 02:09:11,280
Speaker 1: And I'm just so done with it. I don't want

2679
02:09:11,320 --> 02:09:14,240
Speaker 1: to see them. I want that she used to smash

2680
02:09:14,360 --> 02:09:16,360
Speaker 1: them in Casey, and that's a tough building to win in.

2681
02:09:16,800 --> 02:09:19,400
Speaker 1: And when they have to travel, they're not as good

2682
02:09:19,440 --> 02:09:21,320
Speaker 1: as when they host. They are three and five on

2683
02:09:21,360 --> 02:09:25,400
Speaker 1: the road this year New England. Yeah yeah, yeah, but

2684
02:09:25,480 --> 02:09:27,600
Speaker 1: even even in championship games. I think when they have

2685
02:09:27,720 --> 02:09:29,920
Speaker 1: to go on the road, I don't know what their

2686
02:09:29,920 --> 02:09:31,280
Speaker 1: record is, but I don't think if that's good is

2687
02:09:31,320 --> 02:09:33,520
Speaker 1: when they host. I gotta hang up, guys, I gotta

2688
02:09:33,520 --> 02:09:36,120
Speaker 1: pick up my daughter from school. Okay, thanks Mike, thanks

2689
02:09:36,160 --> 02:09:38,080
Speaker 1: for staying with us. One more call? Is he in

2690
02:09:38,120 --> 02:09:39,800
Speaker 1: West Seneca? Hello? Is He? Oh? Come, you're on the

2691
02:09:39,840 --> 02:09:42,720
Speaker 1: air of this. How are you doing? Guys? Okay, good,

2692
02:09:42,920 --> 02:09:44,800
Speaker 1: I have a question for you, if you guys could

2693
02:09:44,800 --> 02:09:50,560
Speaker 1: answer this. How do they determine how to um find

2694
02:09:50,680 --> 02:09:56,760
Speaker 1: a guy when he has um a penalty? You know,

2695
02:09:56,800 --> 02:09:59,880
Speaker 1: because when they get a penalty, they charge them ten thousands,

2696
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:02,200
Speaker 1: five hundred and eighty two dollars and sixty two cents.

2697
02:10:03,080 --> 02:10:04,960
Speaker 1: Why did how did they come up with this? It's

2698
02:10:05,000 --> 02:10:09,879
Speaker 1: a percentage of their game check. Okay, no matter what violation,

2699
02:10:10,600 --> 02:10:12,720
Speaker 1: well whatever violation it is. I'm sure it's a different

2700
02:10:12,720 --> 02:10:17,680
Speaker 1: percentage for more egregious infractions. But they they find him

2701
02:10:17,800 --> 02:10:20,000
Speaker 1: a part of their game check and that's why it

2702
02:10:20,040 --> 02:10:23,640
Speaker 1: comes out to some funky amount. So if if he

2703
02:10:23,760 --> 02:10:26,160
Speaker 1: gets like two to get ejected, then it's double that

2704
02:10:26,320 --> 02:10:29,280
Speaker 1: amount maybe, or if they call, if it's an ejection,

2705
02:10:29,320 --> 02:10:30,920
Speaker 1: it may be for its own amount, you know what

2706
02:10:30,960 --> 02:10:32,680
Speaker 1: I mean. It may not be it may not be

2707
02:10:32,840 --> 02:10:35,160
Speaker 1: double the amount of one. It may be a separate

2708
02:10:35,440 --> 02:10:37,720
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He might get you know

2709
02:10:37,760 --> 02:10:40,680
Speaker 1: what I mean, he won't get fined for either personal foul,

2710
02:10:40,920 --> 02:10:44,720
Speaker 1: but if he gets ejected, there's a fine. There's a fine,

2711
02:10:44,920 --> 02:10:47,840
Speaker 1: and that's the amount. Right, Thank you very much for

2712
02:10:47,880 --> 02:10:50,000
Speaker 1: your call. Will take a break. We're coming back. One

2713
02:10:50,080 --> 02:11:10,040
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Speaker 1: finest and security and Home Theater, the preferred alarm at

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Speaker 1: home Theater provider of the Buffalo Bills, covering a lot

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Speaker 1: of territory today talking about the weekend's games and the

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Speaker 1: upcoming weekend games. Stephen st John, radio man from Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: joined us talk about the Chiefs possibly winning a conference

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Speaker 1: championship game at Arrowhead Citium. Here's what you had to say.

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Speaker 1: You're a Chief fan and you go to a playoffs

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Speaker 1: game at Arrowhead, you just expect something bad to happen.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't if they were going to lose. It was

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Speaker 1: going to be how are they going to lose? And

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Speaker 1: I think that the part that attitude was whenever the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs were losing the playoffs, it was because they had

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Speaker 1: the lesser quarterback. You'd sit back and just wait for

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Speaker 1: something bad to happen. But I'll tell you it's crazy

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Speaker 1: to say one guy has changed everything to Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: second with his attitude, his confidence and what he's brought

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Speaker 1: to this organization and to this city has been remarkable

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Speaker 1: to watch. The fans truly believe not only can they

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Speaker 1: go to the super Bowl, but they can win the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl, all because of this twenty three year old

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Speaker 1: quarterback that has taken this town by story. He is amazing,

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. The conference championship games look amazing, right, don't they?

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Speaker 1: Starts on Sunday the afternoon game with the Rams playing

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Speaker 1: at the Saints, followed up Sunday night by the Patriots

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Speaker 1: playing at Kansas City. Andy Benoit from MMQB just told

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Speaker 1: us earlier this hour, this might be the best match

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Speaker 1: we've had a long time in conference championship games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I love them. It's the top four scoring teams in

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Speaker 1: the NFL this season are the ones left standing. They're

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Speaker 1: also the foremost innovative teams offensively when you look at

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Speaker 1: their schemes. But I'm sure is why they're the top

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Speaker 1: four scoring teams are part of the reason. And then

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Speaker 1: what I really love is that these teams played already

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Speaker 1: in action. Both had really instant classics shootouts, and it

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Speaker 1: came way back in October and November, so we get

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Speaker 1: to see how these teams have evolved. It's not like

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Speaker 1: they played recently, and it's not like they played way

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Speaker 1: back at the beginning of the season where you almost

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Speaker 1: throw out parts of that film. This is a next

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Speaker 1: step rematch in both cases, I can't wait for either game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting there too. And it's only Monday. The conference

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Speaker 1: championship games are set, four teams left standing. We asked

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Speaker 1: our listeners today who are you rooting for now? Who

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Speaker 1: do you think is gonna win? But who are you

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Speaker 1: rooting for in the Super Bowl? Who who do you

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Speaker 1: want to see win? And with more than twelve hundred

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Speaker 1: votes in on the Twitter post, Steve, I don't think

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Speaker 1: we've ever had this a dead heat. Forty percent of

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Speaker 1: our respondents want the Kansas City Chiefs and forty percent

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Speaker 1: want the New Orleans Saints, sixteen percent want the Rams,

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Speaker 1: four percent that's all want the Patriots. Have we ever

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Speaker 1: had a tie in Twitter pole history before? Oh no,

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Speaker 1: not from the top, not in the top slot. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it may might have had one to where

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Speaker 1: we were thirty three, thirty three and thirty two. I

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Speaker 1: was outstanding. It was very good. I want to thank

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Speaker 1: our production assistants, George Blast, Jeff Coltonick Thomas Hollander, Kelly

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Speaker 1: jj Urito, Kevin Card, James robel Our, producer Jay Harris.

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Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow. Brian Baldinger is going to join

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Speaker 1: us tomorrow to talk about these playoff matchups. Why don't

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Speaker 1: you join us? Also, twelve noon, One Bills Live from

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