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Speaker 1: Chris Brown. Great to have you with us here today.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're doing well. Yeah, come along, let me

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Speaker 1: come join me. Take a look at practice here. Chris

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Speaker 1: is our guide to practice today. Let's start with Josh

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Speaker 1: and it's interesting and we'll get you We'll get you

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Speaker 1: into our Twitter poll in a second here. But it

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Speaker 1: appears that many of our listeners viewers believe the Bills

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh staiders. I believe that as well. On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: there's a need for Josh to play better than he

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Speaker 1: did last Sunday. Right to talk to us about that,

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Speaker 1: if you would, Chris, Yeah, he's got to improve. Had

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Speaker 1: the lowest completion percentage in a game this season last

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Speaker 1: week at forty three point six percent completion percentage. He

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Speaker 1: knows that's got to be a better number. He said

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Speaker 1: in pressure rate on quarterbacks. So he had been since

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Speaker 1: Week five doing very well against the Blitz with a

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Speaker 1: passer rating of one oh nine. Obviously, that all changed

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Speaker 1: last week against the Baltimore front that had their way

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Speaker 1: seen all year. So what has to happen. You have

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Speaker 1: to take the lessons from that game and make proper adjustments.

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Speaker 1: And I asked coach specifically, just stepping away from Josh

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Speaker 1: officiating crew that doesn't call pass interference all that often,

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Speaker 1: difficult day for that receiving core to get consistent separation

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Speaker 1: they're going to see a lot of the same from

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Speaker 1: this Pittsburgh secondary this week. And then Josh has to

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Speaker 1: make tighter throws, more accurate throws, and rose a little

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Speaker 1: timing is still there between the quarterback and his receivers.

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Speaker 1: What do you think the Bill's plan is for handling

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Speaker 1: they don't run. A real strong stre screen game that

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Speaker 1: the the jet sweep kind of things. What are some

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Speaker 1: to handle pretty multiple blitz package that Pittsburgh might throw

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Speaker 1: to mimic the Ravens. Yeah, I'm hoping we see a

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Speaker 1: resurgence in swing passes. I think it was evident last

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Speaker 1: week that the Bills felt one of their best receiving

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Speaker 1: options was Devin Singletary. Yes, they ran eleven personnel very often,

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Speaker 1: as has been the case the last four weeks, but

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Speaker 1: they ran eleven in a spread look, empty backfield, Devin

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Speaker 1: Singletary out wide. Now. I don't know if they necessarily

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Speaker 1: need to do that against Pittsburgh per se, but what

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Speaker 1: training camp was an an ordinate number of swing passes

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Speaker 1: with their passing game, and I wouldn't mind them getting

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Speaker 1: back to that with Devin Singletary as the primary route recipient.

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Speaker 1: So that's one thing that I think they can do.

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Speaker 1: And then the other thing that they had been doing

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Speaker 1: in recent weeks to combat pass rush was putting Josh

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Speaker 1: They moved away from that last week, and I think

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Speaker 1: it actually hurt them so I'd be all in favor

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Speaker 1: of them turning to that a little bit more. But

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Speaker 1: you're one hundred percent right, Steve. The screen game has

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Speaker 1: been a weekly problem for them in terms of execution.

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Speaker 1: Their screens take too long to develop, and I think

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Speaker 1: that renders them relatively ineffective. And conversely, guys they don't

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Speaker 1: fixed because they're going to see more of that, especially

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Speaker 1: with a young, inexperienced quarterback like Duck Hodges. Talking with

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Speaker 1: as the Bills get through their Wednesday practice inside the

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Speaker 1: end Pro Sports Training Center, and I know everybody says, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's a copycat league. Look for the Steelers to blitz

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Speaker 1: like the Ravens did. I don't know, Chris, I don't

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Speaker 1: know that. I know they'll probably blitz a little more

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Speaker 1: and that, to me is are two key matchups for

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo offense this Sunday. Yeah, the only blitz about

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Speaker 1: thirty five percent of the time, which is about at

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Speaker 1: least in terms of what Buffalo faced against Baltimore last week,

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Speaker 1: about eighteen percent less often. Yeah, and they have good

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Speaker 1: edge rushers that both have to be accounted for. You

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Speaker 1: combine that pressure that they get concerned. I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: Watt was having his way with their right tackle whose

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Speaker 1: name escapes me right now. But that was not a

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Speaker 1: one on one matchup. That was a fair fight in

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Speaker 1: my eyes. And so what do the Bills think with

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Speaker 1: I think Cody Ford's a better right tackle than the

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Speaker 1: one Cleveland brings to the table. But Watt is so

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Speaker 1: good with his hands. He does not let a posing

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Speaker 1: great at the scrape away or whatever you want to

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Speaker 1: call that move. He's really good at knocking the hands

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Speaker 1: know why guys have not been able to counteract that,

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Speaker 1: but he's got twelve and a half sacks for a reason.

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Speaker 1: And the other guy, Bud Dupree, another former first round pick.

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Speaker 1: This guy's pretty good. He's a two hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: seven pound outside linebacker. He's a beast. Chris Well, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's and he's perfectly suited for a three four defensive front,

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Speaker 1: which is what they play obviously. And I don't think

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Speaker 1: anybody should sleep on Cameron Heyward either. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: only a season removed from twelve and a half sacks himself,

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Speaker 1: so I think he's one of the better five technique

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Speaker 1: defensive linemen in the league and has been doing it

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Speaker 1: and what about you talk about this three four You

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Speaker 1: don't see it that much, although you do see it

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Speaker 1: once in a while. How do you think that changes

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Speaker 1: things for the Bill's offensive line? Are they gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to man up? Are they gonna, you know, talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about the pass rush of Pittsburgh, because

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Speaker 1: also schematic and the offensive linemen are gonna have to

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Speaker 1: the front seven. Yeah, I think they've had some some

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Speaker 1: fair exposure to it this season. New England back in

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Speaker 1: Week four plays a version of it. Obviously, even the

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Speaker 1: Jets will morph into that and flip back and forth

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Speaker 1: under Greg Williams. So they've seen healthy doses of it

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Speaker 1: through the course of the season. It's been a few

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Speaker 1: weeks since they've seen it in its last iteration, but

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Speaker 1: I think they'll be prepared for that. It's not something

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Speaker 1: I'm terrible worried about in terms of schematics. It's more

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Speaker 1: about the physical matchups that they're going to have to

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Speaker 1: deal with there, because as we know, Pittsburgh is just

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Speaker 1: as physical affront as Baltimore is. I know, we gotta

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Speaker 1: wrap Chris one more thing, though, it's obvious the Bills

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Speaker 1: are taking it easy. At least a practice today, right,

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Speaker 1: no pads, just kind of I know it's not a walkthrough,

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Speaker 1: but it's kind of a like practice. What indefference to

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Speaker 1: this late in the season. I think I think it's

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Speaker 1: in response to load management, wear and tear on the bodies.

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Speaker 1: As we're now entering Week fifteen, this is a practice

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Speaker 1: that's being adopted by more and more NFL clubs. The

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Speaker 1: Bills included no shells, no helmets, so and guys mostly

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Speaker 1: running around here and sneakers. So I think it'll be

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Speaker 1: probably the equivalent of an elevated walk through. Chris, makes

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Speaker 1: sense to me. I like, I like elevated walkthroughs. Thanks Chris. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Chris Browns insider Buffalo Bills dot Com on the sidelines

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Speaker 1: of practice today. Elevated walkthrough. Yeah, that's what you do

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Speaker 1: right in the NFL these days in December, late the season.

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Speaker 1: You've played un banged around for thirteen games. He's up

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Take your foot off the gas physically. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: they're probably is a ten of is always in the

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Speaker 1: meeting rooms everything. Oh yeah, that and they practice last

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Speaker 1: what ninety minutes tops, maybe a little shorter maybe yeah,

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Speaker 1: seventy five minutes, maybe an iron fifteen. But they spend

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Speaker 1: all day here. I mean, these guys are here all day.

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Speaker 1: They're watching film, they're meeting, they're installing, they're studying the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: they're studying themselves, they're working out, they're getting preventative training, training,

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Speaker 1: assistance and attention. They're here all day working at getting better.

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Speaker 1: And I think this practice is a nod to the

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Speaker 1: fact that and you got to think about this too, Murph.

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Speaker 1: This is why it's so tough. And in the past

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Speaker 1: years without the sports scientists and the numbers and this

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Speaker 1: and the data to back it up. This is a

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Speaker 1: time when back in the old school, you come into this,

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Speaker 1: they like, hey, man, let's practice hard, let's go let's

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Speaker 1: get some things done. And it's just the opposite of

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Speaker 1: what you're You would intuitively think say, if you're healthy,

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Speaker 1: we can practice harder, when in fact the matter is

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Speaker 1: you get here in the numbers say wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: this is the time when you back off and you

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Speaker 1: and you don't push it because you're so healthy. They're

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Speaker 1: you know, in that part of that in that part

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Speaker 1: of the game right now, the Bills are hitting on

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Speaker 1: all cylinders. But you know, and I think it's a

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Speaker 1: nod to their discipline. Well, I'm gonna say it's important

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Speaker 1: I think for fans to know that. And it's not

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Speaker 1: just the Bills. A lot of teams do this. But

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Speaker 1: they use analytics to measure what christ is called load management. Right,

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Speaker 1: They're not just looking at Cody Ford and saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: Cody looks like you can need a break. No, many,

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Speaker 1: if not all of them have on monitors GPS. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they know exactly how far are they ran, how far

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Speaker 1: are they running, what their heart rating. That's what that

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Speaker 1: sportsology thing is that you do every week on the

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Speaker 1: website because they know how far and how fast these

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Speaker 1: you ran three times more this week than you did

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Speaker 1: last week in preparation for a game. You know what,

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Speaker 1: gonna do that kind of stuff, not guesswork. It used

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Speaker 1: you know, the analogs used to be what you weigh yesterday,

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Speaker 1: what do you wait today? Okay, that's it, right, that

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Speaker 1: was it. So they'd come up light years from where

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Speaker 1: they were, and that data has helped them. But this

637
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Speaker 1: point tie and Seki is the only guy. Well, now

638
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: they have a Corey Legit who's got a lower body

639
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: which it sounds like he got stepped on or something,

640
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: but sounds like he got slashed. They've got They've get

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Speaker 1: right right, They've got they're on top of all that,

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Speaker 1: and it makes a huge difference for a team like Buffalo.

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00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: You look at around some of the other teams, they

644
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: do not enjoy that type of success in that area

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Speaker 1: of their operations. So he saw the Bills at practice

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00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: today and they'll continue today. We got a Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: that's up there, and the Bills are underdogs in Pittsburgh

648
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Speaker 1: Sunday night. But if the Bills have an advantage over

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, what is it and why? That's our Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll more than five hundred votes in right now. Fifty

651
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Speaker 1: five percent of you say it's at the quarterback spot,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen over Duck Hodges. Thirty two percent of you say,

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00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: just overall defense, you think Buffalo is better. Eight percent

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Speaker 1: say the Bills have a better run game. Five send

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Speaker 1: him something else in mine. Let's discuss eight three fifty

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Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight by fifty two five fifty,

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Speaker 1: or sending a tweet. We can get to the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet in a moment or two. Uh. Let's start with

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Speaker 1: Jesse in Buffalo. Hello, Jesse, go ahead, Hey, Steve and Murphy,

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Speaker 1: you guys going good good? That's good. Hey, I really

661
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: like a field good story. I know you guys talking

662
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: about the Steers. I'm kind of gonna stay and aid

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Speaker 1: a vision and go to the Bengals. Andy Dawton three

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Speaker 1: years ago beat the Ravens to get the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: Into the playoffs. It'll be so coolable down this year

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Speaker 1: and miraculously beat the Patriots to give us a chance

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Speaker 1: to win an an seed. Yeah, yeah, you're right. That

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Speaker 1: isn't feel good. He'd get another boost in in his

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Speaker 1: foundation from Trapper, right, you know so that Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this that would be kind of fun. And listen, we've

671
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: this franchise more than the other in the last two years.

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Speaker 1: We know what it is to get a little help

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Speaker 1: at the end of the year. It would be interesting now.

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Speaker 1: It would be nice to get help for a better

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Speaker 1: seed in the playoffs rather than just to get in.

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Speaker 1: You'd like to win this weekend and get in and

677
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: then have the rest of it take care of itself.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, Andy Dalton going to New England and beating

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. Take all the help you can get. That.

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Speaker 1: I take that as a Christmas pers absolutely take everything

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00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: they'll get, for sure. Here's Milton Buffalo. Hello, Milk, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air of this, Hi Milk, Hello, how

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Speaker 1: are you doing doing good? Yeah? Tear me out. Last

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Speaker 1: week I called in and I told them to tell

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Speaker 1: the team to watch the tight end. They was watching me.

686
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Speaker 1: But you know one got loose. Yeah, Poyer and I'd

687
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: watch them, yeah, this week, And you know, she seems

688
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: like when a Singletary gets loose, Dabile gets away from that. Man.

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Speaker 1: We need every docs a Singletary, and we need if

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Speaker 1: the defense get to turn over, to try to take

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Speaker 1: it to the house because it's hard to score. What

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Speaker 1: do you think. I don't know that they get away

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Speaker 1: from Singletary. I think as the season has moved along,

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Speaker 1: they have leaned heavily, and almost on a weekly basis,

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Speaker 1: a little more heavily on Devin Singletary. And and by

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Speaker 1: the way, I'm not saying that that's enough either. I'd

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Speaker 1: like to see Singletary play a more prominent role in

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Speaker 1: the pass game, short passing in particular, especially if the

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Speaker 1: Steelers are going to put pressure on I don't think

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Speaker 1: they'll go to the Ravens extent of blitzes, but they're

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00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: probably gonna send people and yeah, let's use Devin Singletary more.

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Speaker 1: I'd be up for that. Yeah, I agree with him mild,

703
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: no question about it. It's Devin has proven himself to

704
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 1: be a really good running back, even at this level,

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00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: and I think the things that they saw in him

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Speaker 1: as a draft prospect or exactly what he's showing. He's

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00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: got elite vision. The guy sees everything. He makes a

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Speaker 1: move on a run on the guy that's like two

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00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: guys away, and it works. He dodges people in the backfield.

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Speaker 1: He does a really nice job down the field. He

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00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: gets every yard coming to him, and that's what you

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Speaker 1: want out of a running back. And I think, also

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Speaker 1: what you said about turnovers, I've said it and I'll

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00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: say it again now. Certainly the bits Pittsburgh defense is

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Speaker 1: very good. They lead the league in turnovers, and I

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Speaker 1: think if you're trying to take something away from them,

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Speaker 1: start by protecting the football. If they don't get turnovers,

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Speaker 1: I don't believe their offense is good enough to beat

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Speaker 1: our defense. I don't think they can score enough points

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Speaker 1: without short football fields to beat the Buffalo Bills. I

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Speaker 1: think the Bills offense has enough under the hood to

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Speaker 1: get some points, and we've seen him struggle a lot,

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Speaker 1: even this last week. But I think you get seventeen

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Speaker 1: points on the Baltimore Ravens defense. I think if you

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Speaker 1: don't turn it over, you will score at least seventeen

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00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: points on the Pittsburgh defense. And I think that'll be enough,

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Speaker 1: so I agree with you. If the Bills win the

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Speaker 1: turnover battle on Sunday night, they're gonna win the game.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. We'll go to Bill. Hi, Bill, welcome,

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Speaker 1: you're on the show with us. Hey, guys calling because

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Speaker 1: I picked up the cadence right, Josh cadence is said

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00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: he does it three times all the time. The defense

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00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 1: is just cheating off on that. Okay, when I played,

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Speaker 1: that's part of the colcham What was the other team's cadence?

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00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: We do cadence so we could get off on the

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Speaker 1: ball quicker, right, I mean I've picked it up watching

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Speaker 1: TV the other Are you watching the game on TV?

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00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: You know the other teams are? Yeah, you're You're right.

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00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 1: You can't have the same snap count every single time?

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Speaker 1: Are you just gonna cost you? I agree? Thanks for

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Speaker 1: your call. Let's go to Salvatore and Rochester. Hello Salvatore, Hey,

742
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: how you doing door? Steve Baska? Good good, look, I'm calling.

743
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 1: I just wanted to touch a couple of things. Definitely,

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00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: Josh swnen is gonna have to have a bigger game

745
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: this week. Um, the offensive lines gonna have to protect them.

746
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Speaker 1: And I also think that Signatary I mean, this guy's

747
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 1: a beast man. They got to start giving this guy

748
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit more, man and let this

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00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: guy produce what he could do. Um And I think

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Speaker 1: if we do that, our quarterback position, Yeah, Josh Sten

751
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: is definitely better than this Hodges guy. So you know,

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00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: when I'm looking at a game, I'm always looking to

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00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 1: see who's the better quarterback on which side, and that's

754
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: usually the team that's gonna end up winning. So I

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00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: think the bills chances of winning this game are very likely.

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Speaker 1: I really don't. All right, Thanks sal Thanks Alvator. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna take a break. We're coming back with more. It

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Speaker 1: is One Bill's Live, presented by KLADA Health from the

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Speaker 1: Seneca Studio in Archard Park, And this is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. John Murphy Steve Tasker up here in

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00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: Buffalo on the line with us now. Pro Football Hall

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Speaker 1: of famer just went in this past August. He is

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00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: a former NFL front office executive, most prominently with the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, part of suit two Super Bowl championships. Honored

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Speaker 1: and happy to have Gil Brandt on the line with us. Hello, Gils,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steam Tasker Here in Buffalo. What a

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00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: pair to draw to. That's all I've got to say.

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00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: And John, I'll say this about you. I think you're

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00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: at least one of the top people is first knowledge

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00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: of pro football is concerned. So it's really a treasurer

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00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: a pleasure to be on with you. And it was

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00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: great to see if in Dallas a couple of weeks

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00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 1: ago your team's looking pretty good. Can you repeat that,

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00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: because Steve doesn't believe what you just said. No, I'm

775
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: just kidding, but we've got to get Tesker in the

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00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame now, yeah, well, good luck with that, Gil,

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Speaker 1: believe me. I gotta ask you that you've been You've

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00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: lived really the epic NFL life. I mean, you're you're

779
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: revered as one of the guys that if there's a

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00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 1: question about the history about a player, about how things

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00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: transpired in the National Football League, you are the absolute

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00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: go to source. You're on this blue ribbon panel to

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00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: pick the NFL's all time team. Not gonna. I gotta

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00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: ask you, is there any of these guys that are

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00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 1: on this hundred year team that you don't know you

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00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I'm not saying that you knew

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Speaker 1: all the guys from the thirties and forties. But man,

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Speaker 1: you have a file on just about every single guy

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Speaker 1: they can discuss, is that right. I'm pretty fortunate that

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00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: I think I know of the majority of them. And

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00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, we were able to resurrect some some film.

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00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 1: I've got a hard time seeing film now that we're

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00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 1: in tape, but resurrects and film on guys that played

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00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: back there. And let me give you a great example.

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Speaker 1: And first of all, let me tell you the people

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Speaker 1: that are on the committee. How about Don Shula, John Madden,

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, Art Shell, Dick Vervio, Ron Wolfe, Charlie Castilely.

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00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: The list goes on and on and on. And the

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00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: biggest problem that you have is, you know, is kind

800
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: of like fitting ten pounds of food into an eight

801
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: pound bag, because when you talk about running backs, and

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00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 1: you know, everybody will say, well, how did this guy

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00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: Dutch Clark get get on there? And somebody like Ladanian, Tomlins, Ladanian, Tomlinson,

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00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 1: or Dorset or Peterson or McIlhenny, they didn't get on.

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00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: And so what we tried to do is and the

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00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: coaches did a great job, especially Belichick. He works very

807
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: hard at whatever he does. But anyway, anyway, with Dutch

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00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: Clark as an example, here's a guy that went to

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00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: Colorado College and uh and uh he was you know,

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00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: before really before pro football was pro football, and the

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00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: first year out of Colorado College, he didn't even go

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00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: into the National Football He stayed at Colorado College to

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Speaker 1: broadcast to va basketball coach. He was the head basketball

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00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: coach at the school, And so we went back and

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Speaker 1: looked at him as an example because he was so dominant.

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00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,959
Speaker 1: And after one year he left that head coaching job

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Speaker 1: in basketball and came into the league with the Detroit Lions,

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00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 1: and gosh, the guy was just so good. You know

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Speaker 1: Maryon Motley, You know a lot of people who was

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Speaker 1: Maryon Motley. Well, you know this was this was one

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Speaker 1: of the big backs that ran over people around him

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00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: and over him. It was. It was just such a

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00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: chore to get the right guys. And I think we

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00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: did a good job mixing and matching, and by that

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00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: I mean I think we did the right job of

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Speaker 1: getting to Bruce Smith to go along with Bill Hewitts

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00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: who came into the league early, or a Doug Atkins

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00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: who came in in the late fifties, mid sixties is

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Speaker 1: what we did. We're on the line with Gil Brandt,

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Speaker 1: part of the Blue Ribbon panel for the NFL All

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Speaker 1: Time Team in it and a recent this year Hall

832
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: of Famer. Four months later, after you're enshrinement in the

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00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame, I would imagine Gil, there's

834
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Speaker 1: still there's still you gotta still be glowing about it, right,

835
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: you gotta still feel good about it four months after

836
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Speaker 1: the fact. Let me let me say this about the

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. They do an unbelievable job, and anybody

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00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: that doesn't visit there within four hours of it is

839
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: making a mistake. Because you talk about Baker. I mean

840
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: a day never passes that he doesn't improve whatever we're doing. Donnor,

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00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: I'm so proud to be a part of it, and

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00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: I hope Steve will join us there because he really

843
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 1: deserves to be in it. I'm glad you said that.

844
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Speaker 1: And Steve won't ask this question, so I will. Gilm.

845
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: How does Steve or anybody really get over the almost

846
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: biased towards special teamers? You know, he was only a

847
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 1: special teamer. How does that play with the voters down there?

848
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: And what do you think has to happen for those

849
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: minds to change. Well, I think the coaches special teams

850
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: are really important. And you know he was a Buffalo

851
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 1: Bill Marv Levy used to pick his team and he'd

852
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: take three wide receivers and then he'd say, Okay, my

853
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: fourth and fifth wide receiver are going to be who

854
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 1: whoever our best special teamers are. And look at the

855
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,800
Speaker 1: New England Now, as far as special teams are concerned,

856
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: it's about twenty percent of the game. And as you

857
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 1: know the New England Dallas game, a block kick turn

858
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: that game around in New England's favor is what it is.

859
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:49,840
Speaker 1: So the importance to me of special teamers is so important.

860
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: And we always did this when we were drafting. The

861
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: first question we ask is is he a possibility of

862
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: a special teamer? And we drafted a guy named d. D.

863
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: Lewis because he was such a great special teamer at

864
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: Mississippi State and he ended up playing as a starter

865
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: for us for many years. But special teams are extremely important.

866
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,359
Speaker 1: The thing that's amazing now is the punters. I mean,

867
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: we got punters that are averaging forty seven and forty

868
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 1: eight yards a kick, and so you know, those gunners

869
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: have got a long way to run. Yeah, I agree

870
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 1: with you. It's it's the game has really distilled those

871
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: specialists into guys who are getting more and more practice

872
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 1: and starting to specialize earlier and earlier in life. And

873
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,240
Speaker 1: by the time they get to the NFL, they're pretty

874
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: darned good. And their numbers, you know, rival those of

875
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: the old guys who got in the Hall of Fame

876
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: and who blazed the trail for him? Is there? What

877
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: is your thought about that? Where a guy like Ray

878
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: Guy who deserved, in my mind, to get into the

879
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame because of the trail blazing way that

880
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: he approached the craft of punting. And now you've got

881
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 1: a ton of guys with even better numbers than Ray Guy,

882
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: but they kind of fall into a pack and don't

883
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: stand out the way he did in his Arab Explain

884
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: to maybe our listeners why that's important. Well, you know,

885
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: first of all, when you talk about Ray Guy, he

886
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: was a quarterback at Southern Myths and turned into a punny.

887
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: He's also a very very good kickoff man, and you know,

888
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: he could kick the ball into the end zone, is

889
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: what he could do. And I think that it took

890
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: him a long time to get in. I don't know

891
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:32,240
Speaker 1: how many years, probably twelve or fifteen years somewhere along

892
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:36,760
Speaker 1: that period time. But he definitely belonged in and belongs

893
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: in and like I said, we've got some punners in

894
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,880
Speaker 1: the league right now that decisions are going to be

895
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: having made. But I believe that the voters now are

896
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: aware of how important special teams play is if you

897
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,959
Speaker 1: were to be a successful team. Jo Brand, our guests

898
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer got one more question for you, Gillen.

899
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: As you said, I saw you at the Thanksgiving Day

900
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 1: game Bills at Dallas. What do you make of the

901
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills in a particular to the job

902
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 1: that Seohan McDermott has done with this team. Well, I

903
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: keep talking about it every week on my show about

904
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,399
Speaker 1: what a great job McDermott has done. And I'll tell

905
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 1: you your offensive coordinator, I think has done a great

906
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 1: job with the quarterbacks. With the quarterback, you know, he

907
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: just gets keeps getting better every week, your quarterback. I

908
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: prior to the season picked the Buffalo to be a

909
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,320
Speaker 1: wild card team. I'm I'm a great believer in Sean

910
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: and the work that he does. All right, Hey, Gil,

911
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: congratulations again in the Hall of Fame. Thanks for coming

912
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 1: on with us here today and see what you can

913
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 1: do about getting my partner here to join you in Canton.

914
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: Would you would you do that favorite for us? Murphy,

915
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 1: anything for you, I'd say that, I'll even I'll even

916
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 1: get rid of a vic cruci just for you like us.

917
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: Take care, guys, appreciate it. Jil Brandt Pro Football Hall

918
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: of Famer just went in in August, part of two

919
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: Super Bowl championships, most notably with the Dallas Cowboys. He's

920
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: a big fan Steve. He's a big fan of you,

921
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: and he's a big fan of football. That guy. You

922
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: can tell he followed his passion in life. He was

923
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 1: an executive way back in the seventies. He was with

924
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys and Tom Landry and they were he

925
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 1: was an innovator with how they found guys. They were

926
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:18,359
Speaker 1: finding basketball players and guys from other sports to come

927
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: in and they'd give him a try out and found

928
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: some fantastic players doing it that way. And you know what,

929
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: when he went in the Hall this past summer and

930
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 1: there were features on him, I guess I didn't realize

931
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: how what an innovator he was in terms of keeping

932
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: track of information basically using computers. They were the first

933
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: guys to do it. Yeah, yeah, we we even were

934
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: talking about some of the things they did with statistics

935
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. And one of the things

936
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: there was a big telling point for them back then.

937
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,800
Speaker 1: Of course, they have all kind realms of in depth

938
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: information to go beyond this now, but they said, if

939
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 1: you have a drive that has seven plays in it,

940
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:58,720
Speaker 1: that'll tell you you're winning the battle of field position

941
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: because that'll give you. Yet to have seven played drive,

942
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: you got to move the ball. Seven played drives were

943
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: a key statistic and wins losses because the more you

944
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: had of those, the more you were controlling the football.

945
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: All that stuff. That was the early days of the analytics.

946
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: And this was back when Murph. Computers were like punch

947
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 1: cards and spreadsheets. That's all it was. It wasn't like

948
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 1: bar graphs and all the video the visual stuff we

949
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 1: have today. It was really innovative stuff. And you know,

950
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: the computers were the size of refrigerators, you know, remember, yeah, right,

951
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: So they were doing it back then, and you know,

952
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:41,399
Speaker 1: just cutting their teeth on it, and it was he's

953
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: part of it, and he's still there. And so the

954
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: guy who's really followed his passions lived. Like I said

955
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: earlier in the thing is an epic football life. All right,

956
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: thanks to go Brand for joining us. We're gonna take

957
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: a break for the top of the hour. We're gonna

958
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: return talk more about this Bill's team this year and

959
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: this matchup with the Steelers. We're gonna talk with the

960
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: Field Yates ESPN NFL Insider. We'll get his take on

961
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: the Bills and Steelers, and also you can get your

962
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 1: fantasy football questions in send them in by a Twitter

963
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: at One Bills Live. He is the host of the

964
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: fantasy focused football podcast Bill Yates. When we return, John Murphy,

965
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,320
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, One Bills Live, presented by Kalada Health. Coming

966
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: here from the Seneca Studio on Archard Park. This is

967
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radiolo Hills Radio Network. Sports Day update from

968
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. The Buffalo Bill's practicing inside the at

969
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,280
Speaker 1: Pro Sports Training Center today, getting set for their matchup

970
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: with the Steelers Sunday night, Buffalo's first Sunday night game

971
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 1: in twelve years. Not practicing today, Defensive tackle Corey Legit

972
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 1: with a lower body situation, Offensive tackle Tie and Secky

973
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: with an ankle. The Steelers expect to get running back

974
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 1: James Connor and wide receiver Juju Smith Schuster back at

975
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,240
Speaker 1: practice today. They've been out the last three weeks with injuries.

976
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin says he'll watch how they practice see if

977
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,320
Speaker 1: they can play this week. Referee Sunday is going to

978
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: be Tony Current, who did the Bills game against Washington

979
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 1: six weeks ago. He only called a total of nine

980
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: penalties in that game. The weather in Pittsburgh Sunday night,

981
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 1: it's gonna be mostly cloudy skies, a low of twenty

982
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 1: eight degrees, a ten percent chance of precipitation. We've got

983
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: to call the Bills and the Steelers on our flagship

984
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: radio station, w GR Sports Radio five fifties Sunday Night,

985
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: Eric Wood and yours truly in the broadcast. Boots sal

986
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: Capaccio on the sidelines. The Jets. Lavy on Bells flu

987
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: kept him out of Sunday's win over the Dolphins, but

988
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: not out of a bowling alley. He was spotted as

989
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: a New Jersey bowling alley Saturday night, hours after the

990
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 1: Jets had ruled him out of the game. Coach Adam

991
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: Gay says he will not be disciplined for that. Ravens

992
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: quarterback Lamar Jackson says he will play Thursday night against

993
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 1: the Jets despite being limited the last two practices with

994
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,879
Speaker 1: a quad injury. Jackson says, I feel great. I am

995
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. Eagles wide receiver Alshon Jeffrey's gonna miss

996
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 1: the rest of the season with a foot injury suffered

997
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 1: Monday night against the Giants. Coach Doug Peterson says it

998
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: is a significant injury. Patriots coach Bill Belichick has denied

999
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 1: any involvement with a videographer who was caught taping the

1000
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 1: Bengal sideline during their game against Cleveland. It has raised

1001
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: suspicions around the league. It does not appear like the

1002
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,440
Speaker 1: league is going to issue a very severe fighting or

1003
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 1: penalty against New England. Troy Aikman says he would not

1004
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: mind being the general manager in his future, but not

1005
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys. Savers hockey jack cho with two

1006
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: goals last night. He extended his point streak to fourteen games,

1007
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: and the Savers beat the defending Stanley Cup champion Saint

1008
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: Louis Blues five to two. But for those next game

1009
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,720
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night against the Nashville Predators and the Yankees signed

1010
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: free to pitcher Garrett Cole to a contract nine years,

1011
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: three hundred twenty four million dollars. It's just a ridiculous number.

1012
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: I can't even begin to sort. Three that on the

1013
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 1: line with us right now, thirty three million year, six

1014
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 1: million year. Our guest on Wednesdays is with us right now.

1015
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: Field Yates, ESPN NFL Insider, the host of the fantasy

1016
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: focused football podcast. If you have fantasy football questions, Fields

1017
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: ready to take them as most people's fantasy seasons are

1018
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:54,319
Speaker 1: winding down. Field, good afternoon. Thanks for me with us

1019
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: here today. Good afternoon, guys. I just did some tabulations

1020
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: about how much I would have to make it my

1021
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,359
Speaker 1: current salary to even equate to one year of Garrett Cole.

1022
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 1: And the good news is it might happen by about

1023
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: the year thirty twenty thousand years. And I'll be right.

1024
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: That's exactly I hear you, Yeah, exactly. That's a it's

1025
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 1: a it's a big number, and that's h yeah. That

1026
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 1: and any thoughts about a little off topic, but any

1027
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: thoughts about the salary cap of the NFL going up

1028
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: to two hundred million. I guess the NFL is uh

1029
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: kind of doing Okay. I think it sort of depends

1030
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 1: on who you want to listen to about how that

1031
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:38,399
Speaker 1: information should be interpreted. On the one hand, it's good

1032
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: that it's growing, right, because if the salary cap either

1033
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 1: stagnates or goes the opposite way, you got real problems.

1034
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: It's a reflection of league revenue, and if you're not

1035
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,280
Speaker 1: making money, well, then players aren't going to be paid

1036
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,359
Speaker 1: as much money as they deserve. Now that being said,

1037
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: if you've noticed over the past four to five years,

1038
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: the percentage with which the salary cap is growing is

1039
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: decreasing year over year, So that to me is an

1040
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: indicator that I think is worth stowing away for the

1041
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 1: back pocket. Not trying to be the wet blanket here,

1042
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: but I just I do think it is interesting that

1043
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: although the league the salary gap is growing, which is

1044
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,399
Speaker 1: a positive sign for the league, it's not growing at

1045
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,320
Speaker 1: the rate that it has been in previous years, which

1046
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: you know, I think the NFL and players and owners

1047
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: would certainly like for it to be growing, not just

1048
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 1: every year, but growing at a higher rate every single Yeah.

1049
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: And actually it's up forty percent since twenty fifteen, so

1050
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: in the last five years. It is up, you know,

1051
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: but it's a bit. It seems like a lot, But

1052
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: you're right. If it is decreasing, you got to think, well,

1053
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 1: or is the curve starting to bend the wrong way?

1054
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: And I think down the road, I think maybe perhaps

1055
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 1: one thing that might help it in that the near

1056
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: future is labor peace. If they get another ten year CBA,

1057
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: I think the television revenues will reflect that. I completely agree,

1058
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,879
Speaker 1: and certainly there's a lot at stake during the next CBA.

1059
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: And I have always said that I approached with a

1060
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: very naive sentiment and I'll be the first to admit that.

1061
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: But and Steve, I mean, you've got unique perspective having

1062
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: played the game and now working as somebody that covers

1063
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 1: the game. I just wish there was more of a

1064
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 1: desire to make both sides happy. But instead it feels

1065
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,320
Speaker 1: like every time the players ask for something, the owners say,

1066
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 1: we'll give you that, but it's going to come at

1067
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: the cost of this, or if we give you X,

1068
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 1: you have to give us. Why Sometimes I'm surprised that

1069
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,399
Speaker 1: there's not a desire to find more middle ground now

1070
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: on major issues. I understand whether they have to be discussions.

1071
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: But I look at the NBA there's a good example

1072
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 1: of how I think that under Adam Silver's guidance, they've

1073
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: been willing to find a middle ground and do so

1074
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 1: more frequently than I feel like the NFL is often

1075
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 1: ready to do. Certainly, it's more of a partnership. I

1076
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: don't think there's any question about it. Hey, we're worth

1077
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: field gates from ESPN, ESPN NFL Insider. Here's another big

1078
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 1: number for your field sixty seven percent. Sixty seven percent

1079
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:00,720
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen's dropbacks last Sunday, the Baltimore Ravens blitz.

1080
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna do that again, right, Nobody's capable of doing that? Really,

1081
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: are they? I don't think so. And I think there

1082
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 1: are a few things to account for with this Ravens

1083
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 1: team that don't necessarily apply to every other team that

1084
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: the Bills are going to face in subsequent weeks. Obviously

1085
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: for the next three it's the Steelers, and then the

1086
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: Patriots and then the Jets. Is defensively, you call a

1087
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 1: different game when you're either up or when you are tied.

1088
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: You can afford the blitz, and you can afford to

1089
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: bring pressure because if you're playing from behind. You may

1090
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: have no choice. I'm sorry. If you're playing with the head,

1091
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: you have the choice to you don't let guys rip

1092
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 1: and try to rush Josh Josh Allen on the day

1093
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: that was super super windy, that even if he does

1094
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 1: get the football out quickly, and obviously you guys can

1095
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 1: speak to the elements more than I can, but that

1096
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: looked like a supreme amount of wind that was blustering

1097
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: through the stadium. Combine that with the cold, it wasn't

1098
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 1: exactly ideal elements to have to have a quarterback throwing

1099
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: the football. And then you combine that with the personnel

1100
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: that Raven tab which is very good. It's guys like

1101
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: Matt Judon who are doing a good job for them

1102
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 1: up front. It's also guys in the back end like

1103
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: Marcus Peters and Jimmy Smith and Brandon Carr amongst their cornerbacks,

1104
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: and obviously very good safety play as well that have

1105
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 1: found a way to even if guys upfront don't get home,

1106
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 1: they can stay covered up long enough in the back

1107
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: end to make a real impact. And I think Pittsburgh

1108
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: this week's opponents very very good defensively, but just kind

1109
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: of a different approach right, they can rush off the

1110
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:33,319
Speaker 1: edge with those two great outside linebackers. Yeah, talk about

1111
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 1: a revelation. It's not often that a guy kind of

1112
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: hits his stride in his fifth season. Bud Dupree, a

1113
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: first round pick out of Kentucky five years ago, has

1114
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,959
Speaker 1: really become the best version of himself that we've seen

1115
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: so far in his young NFL career. And why that's

1116
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: important is obviously because the Steelers are fighting for a

1117
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 1: playoff spot and could very well be fighting with the

1118
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills for a playoff spot. You know, if both

1119
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: teams are still in the wildcard mix in three weeks,

1120
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: which I expect them to at least. Certainly Bills at

1121
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:04,399
Speaker 1: least be in the wild card mix over the next

1122
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: three weeks. But Pittsburgh has bud Dupree playing at a

1123
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: very high level. Fifth year option was exercised this offseason.

1124
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:13,439
Speaker 1: He's met and delivered on those Buddet Puree is probably

1125
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 1: gonna be paid a lot of money. And then you

1126
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 1: do that opposite of t J. Watts, not JJ Watt,

1127
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,360
Speaker 1: t J Watts, who has just been remarkable for the

1128
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: Steelers this season. He's creating turnovers, he is sacking the

1129
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 1: opposing quarterback. He's good in past coverage. He's got a

1130
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: couple of interceptions he had won this past week in

1131
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:34,359
Speaker 1: the end zone. So much to like about the well

1132
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 1: roundedness of t J. Watts game, and I think he's

1133
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 1: emerged is not just one of the Steelers best players,

1134
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: but one of the NFL's best players based on how

1135
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:44,800
Speaker 1: he's played so far this year. One of the weapons

1136
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: that the Buffalo Bills are gonna unfurl against this Pittsburgh

1137
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 1: front seven is Devin Singletary. No question, he was an

1138
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: unknown commodity at the beginning of the season, but now

1139
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:54,399
Speaker 1: in Week fourteen, he's turned into a pretty good back

1140
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 1: and actually the lead back for the Buffalo Bills. What

1141
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:59,399
Speaker 1: are you seeing him? He had eighty eight eighty nine

1142
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: yards rushing this last week. It seems like he's getting

1143
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 1: more opportunities week after week. Yeah, I think about that.

1144
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: Over five yards of carey for Devin Singletary, so explosive.

1145
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:11,239
Speaker 1: Seems to be pretty decisive as well. I don't know

1146
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:13,319
Speaker 1: if he's the biggest running back on the roster even

1147
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: but the guy plays without statute stature limitations. What I

1148
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: mean by that, it's just because he's not huge. Does

1149
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: he run like a guy that feels like he's undersized.

1150
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: I don't get that sense personally. I feel like he's

1151
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: been a guy that not only takes what he gets,

1152
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: because that's an important trait for a running back is

1153
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 1: trusting the offensive line and the blocking in front of you.

1154
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: Sometimes think there are backs that are so talented they

1155
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 1: actually try to do too much on their own and

1156
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: it works in a negative fashion. But Singletary has struck

1157
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: me as the guy that has taken with the offensive

1158
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: line has given him and then allowing his gifts to

1159
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: take over at the second and third level, because with

1160
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: that level of agility, that center of gravity that allows

1161
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: him to stay balanced, He's been really impressive. And the

1162
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 1: Bills have certainly found themselves to keep or the third

1163
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 1: round the draft on the line with Field HSPN NFL

1164
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,200
Speaker 1: Insider talking about the Bills, their opponents, and much more

1165
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: to come. Field, certainly the complimentary piece in the Buffalo

1166
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: running game is very important to Buffalo. Offensively, the complimentary

1167
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: piece has been Josh Allen, and yet he only had

1168
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: two carries last week against Baltimore, a function of the

1169
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens Blitz, a function of what I mean, what

1170
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 1: do you think happened there? They need to get it

1171
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: to Josh more than that in the running game, don't they. Yeah,

1172
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 1: sure feels that way. Don't have a great explanation for

1173
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 1: why the carriers were limited to just to this past week,

1174
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: no injury that we know of last I've totally missed

1175
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: something with Josh Allen. Perhaps the blitz was part of it.

1176
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: Perhaps the fact maybe they felt like they were just

1177
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: inches away from breaking a big one in the passing

1178
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: game and they were just dedicated to it. It just

1179
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: never came they were. Don't have a great reason though, Yeah,

1180
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:52,080
Speaker 1: and they were, yes, But I don't have a great

1181
00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 1: reason other than that to shy away from Josh as

1182
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 1: a runner. You know, I know coordinators are always going

1183
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 1: to be a little bit weary of relying too strongly

1184
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 1: on a quarterback as a runner. It goes both ways,

1185
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 1: by the way. I don't if you guys caught the

1186
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: comments from Greg Williams. Greg Williams the Jets defensive quartering

1187
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 1: It made a comment to the effect of, like, you know,

1188
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 1: you better watch out, Lamar Jackson. I don't know if

1189
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: you want to be running that much for that long

1190
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: because this is the kind of league that can body

1191
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 1: you up and chew you out really quickly. And maybe

1192
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 1: part of it is the mindset that you know, the

1193
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 1: Bills are planning to play into January, which I expect

1194
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 1: them to be playing into January, and you've got to

1195
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: make sure that you're protecting your most important player on offense,

1196
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: which is Josh, and in doing so, someone's going to

1197
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: have to be choosing your spots of when you can

1198
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: actually use them as a runner. Well, one of the

1199
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 1: things about this game, and when you look at the

1200
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 1: both quarterbacks, you think Josh Allen okay, top pick, top

1201
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,520
Speaker 1: ten pick of the draft. The Steelers are on their

1202
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 1: fourth guy, Devlin Hodges, but he has played pretty well

1203
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 1: fifty seven of eighty He's keeping it between the lines,

1204
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: throwing for six touchdowns, you know, two interceptions, but he's

1205
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 1: given him a chance. He has certainly not been a

1206
00:59:57,600 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 1: detriment to their efforts to win. What are you seeing,

1207
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 1: Devlin Hodges? Duck? Yeah, And I don't want this to

1208
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 1: come across as sort of a backhanded compliment to Duck Hodges,

1209
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 1: but you know, Mike Tomlin at one point said was

1210
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 1: talking about Duck and it said the effect, if not directly,

1211
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: like he hasn't killed us, which Mason Rudoff was becoming

1212
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 1: a detriment to the Steeler's offense when he was under

1213
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 1: center for them. But over their past six games, they

1214
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 1: have seven offensive touchdowns, So there's been some good from

1215
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 1: Duck Hodges, make no mistake about it. But the most

1216
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 1: important thing is that he is doing what the team

1217
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: needs him to do right now, which is not put

1218
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 1: them in the hole. The defense is good enough that

1219
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna play so many close games as long as

1220
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: the offense does not bury them early, and Duck Hodges

1221
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: has avoided doing that. It's something that Mason Rudoff really

1222
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 1: struggled to do. I mean, you think about that game

1223
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 1: against the Bengals in which the Bengals were still in

1224
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 1: winless and the Steelers were in a tight one. I

1225
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 1: think it might have been either up thirteen seven or

1226
01:00:57,600 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 1: down thirteen seven and a half time. One of those

1227
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: games you're saying to yourself, there's no way we, a

1228
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:04,880
Speaker 1: team that hopes to play into January, can be this

1229
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: close with a bad Bengals team like that. That game,

1230
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 1: this game Sunday night, I'm anticipating and getting ready for

1231
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 1: yet another low scoring Bills game. Right, These are two

1232
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 1: pretty good defenses. I would think they're gonna hold form

1233
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: when they line up on Sunday night here in Pittsburgh. Yeah,

1234
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: I expect that to be the case on Sunday night.

1235
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: And by the way I want to treat this is

1236
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:29,160
Speaker 1: so it's a Sunday night game featuring the Bills for

1237
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:31,360
Speaker 1: the first time. It's two thousand and seven, murph right, right,

1238
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 1: twelve years. It's been a dozen years, right, yep, Right,

1239
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 1: the last one's forgettable. We don't talk about the last

1240
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 1: one much. Field of Bills lots fifty six to ten

1241
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 1: to the Patriots here last time they played on Sunday.

1242
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 1: I wasn't going to bring that part up, you know,

1243
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:46,760
Speaker 1: just the fact that it happens once every dozen years. Martin.

1244
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:51,160
Speaker 1: I'm actually just surprised the league doesn't incorporate more teams

1245
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 1: into the Sunday night schedule. So what that confirmed is

1246
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 1: that when I get home from work on Sundays, which

1247
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: is usually around seven thirty after our studio shows wrap up,

1248
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 1: turn on the TV and I'm like, oh, here I

1249
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 1: am watching other Cowboys game and how they've been confirmed.

1250
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 1: Because it feels like every week. I'm watching the Cowboys

1251
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 1: game as game, maybe Ravens game this year, but anyways,

1252
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 1: sociding from Buffalo. I think they're gonna play a low

1253
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 1: scoring game against the Steelers because I agree with the

1254
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 1: Nocean these offenses, these defenses are good enough, but I

1255
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,600
Speaker 1: do give the edge clearly to the Bills on offense.

1256
01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:23,600
Speaker 1: I think this is just a better offensive or complete

1257
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,240
Speaker 1: offensive team than the Steelers. Even if the Steelers have

1258
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 1: some really good weapons, which I know Sean mcdermots be

1259
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: very complimentary up this week, because they've got speed, and

1260
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 1: while a lot of their pass catchers are young, I

1261
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: would put the Steelers track record of drafting wide receivers

1262
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 1: up with just about any other team in the NFL. Yeah,

1263
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna get Juju Smith Schuster back in the line up.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna get James Connor back in the lineup. That'll

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Speaker 1: change things for Hodges, right. I mean, they're gonna look

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Speaker 1: a little bit more spunky than they have. For sure,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna feel like they can score more points than

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Speaker 1: than recent weeks would suggest. I would think so is

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Speaker 1: you know, both of those players big parts of what

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Speaker 1: they do off that. Now they have gotten some good

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Speaker 1: contributions from guys that have filled in. So recently it's

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Speaker 1: been Denny Snell in the backfield, and then Deonte Johnson

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Speaker 1: stepped up and James Washington stepped up amongst the pass

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Speaker 1: catchers filling in for Juju Smith Schuster. But Juju went healthy,

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Speaker 1: is their most talented wide receiver, that much is for sure.

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Speaker 1: He's got outstanding speed, he can he can certainly be

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Speaker 1: a factor over the middle. Unfortunately, it was the time

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Speaker 1: that he got injured when we last saw him, that

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Speaker 1: he got hurt when running around over the middle of

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Speaker 1: the field. But it's a part of his game that

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Speaker 1: he can handle. He's been very productive, came into the league,

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Speaker 1: is like a just turned twenty year old player and

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Speaker 1: he's really evolved into one of the better young wide

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Speaker 1: receivers in the NFL. So a good challenge. But as

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Speaker 1: we know, really up until last week, the Bills secondary

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Speaker 1: had been putting the Clams down. And even last week,

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Speaker 1: I know the numbers were a three passing touchdowns for

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, but you think about the Nick Boyle that

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Speaker 1: was more of a that was like a chess pass

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Speaker 1: from one yard than it was really a touchdown pass.

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Speaker 1: I know how it counts on the staff book. But

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Speaker 1: you guys get my point, Crowly, this Bill secondary is

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Speaker 1: about as good as there is in the NFL right

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Speaker 1: now on the line with Field ESPN NFL Insider, Okay,

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Speaker 1: feel get ready to play peacemaker here because Steve and

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Speaker 1: I got into this yesterday about the Patriots and Spygate two.

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Speaker 1: My contention is kind of much ado about nothing as

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Speaker 1: far as what we know already. Maybe a false alarm. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots do not deserve the benefit of the doubt,

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Speaker 1: but there's really I don't know if there's damning a

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Speaker 1: value that can be obtained from shooting video of opposing

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Speaker 1: coaches steal Stevie want to no, let's field, No, let

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Speaker 1: him go ahead? What do you think about that whole issue?

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Speaker 1: Feel I think I'm gonna end up being team Murph

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Speaker 1: here and always say this is that I understand the

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Speaker 1: point that you made about the Patriots not getting the

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Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt because of prior incidents. I would

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Speaker 1: also note that, you know Bill Bets, I would take

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Speaker 1: some of what Bill Belichick has said. I would interpret

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Speaker 1: that a certain way this week, like he has come

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Speaker 1: out strong and basically saying like we got nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with this whatsoever. And what would be truly damning

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Speaker 1: for the Patriots is if they did something wrong and

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Speaker 1: then they spent the entire week lying about it after

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Speaker 1: the fact because the NFL against Yeah, so this is

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Speaker 1: just you know, one thing that I do sort of

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Speaker 1: laugh about is that we're getting people are getting very

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Speaker 1: up in arms about the possibility of the team was

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Speaker 1: up there was was filming the opposing team sideline. So

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Speaker 1: let's just look through some of the mechanics here. First

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Speaker 1: of all, if that word who happened? What percentage of

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Speaker 1: signals from the sideline are play calls. Most of the

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Speaker 1: communication that takes place on the sideline nowadays is done

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Speaker 1: through a radio headset by the offensive coordinator to the

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Speaker 1: quarterback and to the defensive coordinator to either a linebacker

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Speaker 1: or safety. In most cases, a lot of what you're

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Speaker 1: seeing that might be sort of interpreted as signals is

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Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator saying, hey, they're an eleven personnel, or hey,

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Speaker 1: let's throw on our nickel package, or offensive coordinators saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're you know, it's basically ushering guys in and out

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Speaker 1: of the huddle. I'm having a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: harder time getting riled up about this than I think

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Speaker 1: some people are. But I also understand why people are

1334
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Speaker 1: still talking about it just a couple of days in

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Speaker 1: and why until there's some for the conclusion from the

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Speaker 1: league that people are going to certainly pay a lot

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Speaker 1: of attention to it a little more of the other. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it could be just a sense that if they were

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Speaker 1: doing anything, would be to make sure they're not getting

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01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 1: checks laid in the down from the sideline from a

1341
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Speaker 1: new coaching staff that they're not familiar with, just to

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01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:24,480
Speaker 1: double check to make sure. And that I don't know

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Speaker 1: that that's earth shattering even if that's the case, if

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Speaker 1: it was deliberate, which I kind of doubt that it was.

1345
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 1: But guys, I have got to be a huge simpleton

1346
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:34,520
Speaker 1: here and just say that, Like, I think maybe this

1347
01:06:34,560 --> 01:06:36,520
Speaker 1: story was a different time of the year, I might

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Speaker 1: have been a little bit more, maybe it would have

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Speaker 1: engaged me more. But I'm also like, I'm sitting here

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, it's week fifteen of the regular season,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm fired up for Bill Steelers on Sunday night,

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01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: I'm fired up for Rams Cowboys, which strangely is a

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Speaker 1: game that has a lot of playoff implications, but the

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01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:57,160
Speaker 1: fact that the Cowboys are six and seven, So that's

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Speaker 1: part of probably my dynamic as well as that I'm like, know,

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Speaker 1: we're not even talking about the stuff that I think

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01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:05,480
Speaker 1: a lot of people are really excited about right now.

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Speaker 1: Field h R guests ESPN NFL Insider, the host of

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Speaker 1: the fantasy focused football podcasting. We've had people's tweet in

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Speaker 1: their fantasy football questions. Field, Here we go, Steve take

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Speaker 1: it away? All right, here we go from Aaron, he said,

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Speaker 1: here's the question. Do I flex David Montgomery, Terry McLaurin,

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Speaker 1: or Rayheem Mostert. I would go with Mostert, who has

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Speaker 1: been really good for this for the forty nine ers

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Speaker 1: of late. Now they keep getting injuries that pile up

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Speaker 1: and pile up and pile up some more, and they

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Speaker 1: keep on dominating up front. So I would go with Mostert,

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Speaker 1: who seems to me like the best running back they have. Also,

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Speaker 1: he wants to know Tyler Higbee or Jacob Hollister at

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Speaker 1: tight end. Wow, as long as Gerald Everett for the

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Speaker 1: Rams is not play on Sunday, I would go with

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Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee. He's got back to back games of over

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Speaker 1: one hundred perceiving yards. He's really been a good player

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Speaker 1: for them. Of late tweet here from Patrick for your field,

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Speaker 1: Do I start Patrick Mahomes or Jimmy Garoppolo? Also Bill's

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01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 1: defense or Eagles defense? Thank your help, go Bills. What

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Speaker 1: do you think? Ye? I wouldn't ever think this one

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Speaker 1: another front. I would go with Patrick Mahomes, and I

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Speaker 1: would go with the Buffalo Bills. Mahomes plays Denver, and

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Speaker 1: I understand that Jimmy Garoppolo has got a very favorable

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Speaker 1: matchup against Atlanta Falcons. But we know Mahove's a special

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Speaker 1: and the Bills Bills have a special defense. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be thinking about benching them right now either, all right?

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Speaker 1: From Jack? For a flex spot in a PPR league,

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Speaker 1: Hunter Henry DK metcalf or DeVante Parker if he's healthy,

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Speaker 1: That's that's the question. I'm gonna go with Hunter Henry

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Speaker 1: because I don't know that DeVante Parker as of right

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01:08:32,240 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 1: now is practicing, but he's in the non contactors. He

1389
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Speaker 1: after entering the concussion protocol this past Sunday, so who knows.

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Speaker 1: I don't know for sure whether he will play on Sunday,

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01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 1: which leads me towards Henry, which even a Parker was playing.

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Speaker 1: There's a pretty good case for hunt around your as

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Speaker 1: it is fantasy football question from Kass, simple one. Who

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Speaker 1: do I start a quarterback this week? Jimmy Garoppolo, Jared

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01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:57,679
Speaker 1: Goff or Josh Allen. Oh that's a good one right there.

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01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 1: And between Josh Allen and Jimmy Garoppolo, Josh got a

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Speaker 1: more difficult matchup. I think Josh is gonna find a

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Speaker 1: way to bounce back this week, so I'll lean towards

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. Okay, wow, that's kind of nice to here.

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Speaker 1: All right. Last one, last one, Field, thanks for being here.

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01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:17,760
Speaker 1: Here we go from Drew Heyfield. Do I start Davonte

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Speaker 1: Freeman or Kenyan Drake in his second flex position? It's

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01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 1: a good question, it's a good problem to have. I

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Speaker 1: would go with Kenyan Drake. The matchup is really difficult

1405
01:09:29,680 --> 01:09:31,799
Speaker 1: for Davonta Freeman, as you guys know that for Niner's

1406
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Speaker 1: front is no joke whatsoever. I feel I like these

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Speaker 1: fantasy questions. But tell me, is this the last week

1408
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Speaker 1: we have to do this? We can stop it right

1409
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Speaker 1: now the playoffs. Isn't it a season over? Now? The

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Speaker 1: playoffs start, right, I mean we got playoffs now the

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Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. Yep, this is the semi finals

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Speaker 1: of the playoffs. So next week we'll be uh, we'll

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Speaker 1: probably be our last one. You know, this is our realhouse.

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Speaker 1: You're on. You're onto us, aren't. Yeah, I'm telling you.

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Speaker 1: Next year is your year. You guys don't really well,

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Speaker 1: so we got they got. The radio show before is

1417
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Speaker 1: a hockey show, and now those guys are playing football

1418
01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:09,360
Speaker 1: fantasy and they are obsessed and driving us nuts. So

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Speaker 1: if you could just call it already. Haven't met him,

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Speaker 1: but I like him all. Please call in and talk

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Speaker 1: to them. He feel thanks for this every great weekend.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next Wednesday. That's good guys, you

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Speaker 1: as well. All right Field Field Yates ESPN NFL inside

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Speaker 1: of the host of the Fantasy Focus Football podcast. He

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Speaker 1: joins us on Wednesdays at this time to talk fantasy

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Speaker 1: among other things. Look, I think we expose ourselves a

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Speaker 1: little bit, Steve as being old fashioned, the fact that

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Speaker 1: we are not totally head over heels in love with

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Speaker 1: fantasy football. And you know what, I don't care. I'm

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Speaker 1: run and I'll tell you this. I've been I've dabbled

1431
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:42,040
Speaker 1: in it. Like years past, we did a thing with

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Speaker 1: CBS with some of the talent who had a thing.

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Speaker 1: We went in. They even had us in New York

1434
01:10:45,920 --> 01:10:48,240
Speaker 1: to draft all these guys you know, and all and

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Speaker 1: all that, and I had I knew zero about it.

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Speaker 1: But it's very easy to see how it can become

1437
01:10:55,439 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 1: a really consuming hobby. We've seen Craig he's going crazy

1438
01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:04,479
Speaker 1: over and he's doing well, and it's his first year

1439
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 1: ever and it's changed the way he's watched football. And

1440
01:11:07,240 --> 01:11:09,559
Speaker 1: I it's very easy to see how it could get

1441
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:11,840
Speaker 1: to the point where it could be really a lot

1442
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Speaker 1: of fun. I mean, I understand it because it's a

1443
01:11:13,720 --> 01:11:17,040
Speaker 1: competitive game. It's really competitive, but it's a competitive on

1444
01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 1: an intellectual level as well as this physical You watch

1445
01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 1: you the pieces of your team, you know, physically go

1446
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 1: at it. It's pretty fun. But man, oh man, it's

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Speaker 1: one of those things, Murph. It's like coaching. You're never done.

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Speaker 1: You're never done, you know, You're always tinkering with it

1449
01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:36,400
Speaker 1: and asking and reaching out and see if you can

1450
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:38,760
Speaker 1: get a trade or a waiver. Claim, Am I good enough?

1451
01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:40,799
Speaker 1: What is this the right call? What's going to happen.

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01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:44,360
Speaker 1: It just never ends, man, and I value my free

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01:11:44,360 --> 01:11:47,120
Speaker 1: time too much to show it up with you. You know,

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Speaker 1: all right, we're taking a break here. We're coming back

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Speaker 1: at more of your phone calls. We'll talk more about

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Speaker 1: our topic of the day. Where do the Bills have

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01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:56,800
Speaker 1: the advantage if they do against the Pittsburgh Steelers on

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Speaker 1: Sunday night. Let us know what you think. It's one

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Speaker 1: New York, in the middle of the snow belt of

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Speaker 1: upstate New York. And if you're watching on the MSG feed,

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Speaker 1: you might get a kick out of this. Look at

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Speaker 1: the snow inside New Era. That end of the field

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Speaker 1: was clear ten minutes ago. Yeah, I just took a

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Speaker 1: look outside during the break. Open the door. It is snowing.

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Speaker 1: It is snowing hard here in Orchard Park today. And

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Speaker 1: right with it, Look all right with it. It's great.

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Speaker 1: We got a heavy snowfall hitting us here in Orchard

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Speaker 1: Park today. It's pretty cool. Welcome to the show. Bill's

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01:12:45,760 --> 01:12:48,439
Speaker 1: practice has just ended. We're gonna hear from Josh Allen

1474
01:12:48,439 --> 01:12:51,000
Speaker 1: as the afternoon rolls along he meets with the media.

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01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:52,599
Speaker 1: Hopefully we will hear some of the questions as well

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01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:56,160
Speaker 1: as his answers today. Also today, Arthur Moat's former Buffalo

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01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:59,400
Speaker 1: linebacker now in Pittsburgh. He's got a radio deal going

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01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:01,439
Speaker 1: on in Pittsburgh. He's got a new book called The

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01:13:01,520 --> 01:13:05,679
Speaker 1: Moats Way of Life. No Guide to the Theory of Life,

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01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:08,879
Speaker 1: The Moat's Theory of Life Arthur moatsbook I page three yesterday.

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01:13:09,120 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 1: That's coming up as well. Here's I want to get

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01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet in a second. Or Steve. Here's

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01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:16,080
Speaker 1: one though from Jeff Volta, who responds to our admission

1484
01:13:16,120 --> 01:13:19,320
Speaker 1: that we're not huge. We're not huge fantasy football guys.

1485
01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:22,200
Speaker 1: Jeff Volta tweets and Murph and Steve. Even with success

1486
01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:25,040
Speaker 1: in fantasy football, every year I say the same thing,

1487
01:13:25,360 --> 01:13:27,240
Speaker 1: not going to do fantasy football next year, so I

1488
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:29,320
Speaker 1: can just enjoy the games without worrying about who's gonna

1489
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:33,120
Speaker 1: do what statistically, And yet every year I'm in at

1490
01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:36,559
Speaker 1: least one draft. It's it's like an addiction you can't

1491
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:38,040
Speaker 1: get out. All the more reason why I don't want

1492
01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: to get involved. I fear things like that that I

1493
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:42,880
Speaker 1: start doing and can't get out of. It scares me.

1494
01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:45,200
Speaker 1: I know that I am susceptible to that kind of stuff.

1495
01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:46,519
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I might like it too much. Do you

1496
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:48,400
Speaker 1: have an addictive personality? Is that what you're telling me

1497
01:13:48,439 --> 01:13:50,439
Speaker 1: that I'm trying to make that case. I don't know

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01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:55,640
Speaker 1: if it's, but you know, here's the thing. They do

1499
01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 1: it because it's it's a lot of fun. Sure, particularly

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01:13:59,160 --> 01:14:03,080
Speaker 1: anybody more fun Gregory right right, here's the thing too,

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01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:07,240
Speaker 1: I would think. And you know, we listen to Choping

1502
01:14:07,240 --> 01:14:08,640
Speaker 1: the Bulldog once in a while, and you know they

1503
01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:13,080
Speaker 1: got guys like that are in fourteen leagues. That's that's

1504
01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:15,639
Speaker 1: hard time job. Yeah, that's way over the top. It

1505
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 1: depends to me. It seems like it would be fun

1506
01:14:17,560 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 1: if it was you three, four, five, your best buds

1507
01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:23,920
Speaker 1: who talked all the time, who were you know, and

1508
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:25,840
Speaker 1: they were always you know, you're just kind of always

1509
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 1: grinding out. But these some people are in leagues and

1510
01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:31,080
Speaker 1: people they don't even know. That to me is but

1511
01:14:31,240 --> 01:14:33,400
Speaker 1: I mean, there's in the higher stakes obviously, I mean,

1512
01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:36,040
Speaker 1: they've gotta win something, and it's not a participation trophy.

1513
01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 1: But I don't know what I mean. That to me

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01:14:38,080 --> 01:14:42,280
Speaker 1: is what you know. That's then it becomes like, yeah,

1515
01:14:42,400 --> 01:14:45,360
Speaker 1: you know, hey, our Twitter poll today Bills. If the

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01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:47,799
Speaker 1: Bills have an advantage over the Steelers, they are underdogs

1517
01:14:47,840 --> 01:14:50,400
Speaker 1: going to Pittsburgh Sunday night. But if they have an advantage,

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01:14:50,439 --> 01:14:52,559
Speaker 1: what is the advantage and why give us a call?

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01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 1: Let's discuss eight oh three five fifty toll free one

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01:14:55,280 --> 01:14:58,200
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Sending in

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01:14:58,280 --> 01:15:00,080
Speaker 1: some tweets. We can read them on the tweetst You

1522
01:15:00,120 --> 01:15:02,240
Speaker 1: may just want to vote in the Twitter pole. We've

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01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 1: had seven hundred eighty eight votes so far, and more

1524
01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:06,639
Speaker 1: than half of you say the advantages at quarterback Josh

1525
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:10,599
Speaker 1: Allen is better than Devlin Hodges. Thirty one percent say

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01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:13,719
Speaker 1: Bills overall defenses an advantage, eight percent say the Buffalo

1527
01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:16,840
Speaker 1: run game, five percent say something else. Let's hear from you.

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01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:20,280
Speaker 1: Eight three fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

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01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:24,920
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. Let's get to some of the

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01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:27,479
Speaker 1: calls here. Let's go to a Dan and Erie. Hello Dan,

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01:15:27,520 --> 01:15:30,679
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hey, guys, how are we doing? Thanky?

1532
01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 1: I'm good call. I'm pretty happy with the bill seasons

1533
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:36,000
Speaker 1: so far. But I think it could be a lot

1534
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:40,679
Speaker 1: better if we had better play calling, protect Josh Allen

1535
01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:44,240
Speaker 1: in pocket a little bit more, maybe a two backshet,

1536
01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:50,960
Speaker 1: use Tyler Croft and the tight ends more, and just

1537
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 1: just some better play calling, an end around, you know,

1538
01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of reverses. What's your take on that.

1539
01:15:57,640 --> 01:15:59,800
Speaker 1: I'll listen. It's hard for me when you got a

1540
01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:04,599
Speaker 1: team is nine and four complain about the play calling. Certainly,

1541
01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:06,559
Speaker 1: you know, give them if you get any time a

1542
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:09,400
Speaker 1: confensive coordinator calls a play that doesn't work, or if

1543
01:16:09,439 --> 01:16:13,599
Speaker 1: the offense struggles to score points, it's an easy thing

1544
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:17,400
Speaker 1: to say that the play calling stinks. But they use

1545
01:16:17,439 --> 01:16:19,880
Speaker 1: the same way to get ready for these games as

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01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:22,479
Speaker 1: they do for the games where they score thirty seven

1547
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:27,920
Speaker 1: or thirty points. Uh and uh you know, you know, yeah,

1548
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:31,240
Speaker 1: but he doesn't make adjustments when things aren't working. He doesn't,

1549
01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:34,400
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't make the necessary adjustments. That's that's

1550
01:16:34,439 --> 01:16:37,200
Speaker 1: my problem. I kind of doubt that. I don't know

1551
01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:39,400
Speaker 1: know if I agree with you on that, Dan, I mean,

1552
01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 1: I know they do different things throughout that throughout the

1553
01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:44,519
Speaker 1: every I mean they don't not only when things aren't working,

1554
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,920
Speaker 1: but series to series when they have success. Uh, they

1555
01:16:47,960 --> 01:16:50,519
Speaker 1: anticipate what the other team's gonna do and start calling

1556
01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 1: things differently. And even though, and I'll caution you about

1557
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:58,519
Speaker 1: this too, just because a guy a quarterback, not only

1558
01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:00,600
Speaker 1: our quarterback, but any quarterback in the league. It just

1559
01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:03,840
Speaker 1: because Josh Allen turns around hands it to Devin's Singletary

1560
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:07,599
Speaker 1: going left doesn't mean it's the exact same play as

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01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:10,160
Speaker 1: the last time Josh Allen took the ball and hand

1562
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 1: it off to Devin Singletary going left. They may look

1563
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:16,040
Speaker 1: the same to you, but the intricacies of the offensive

1564
01:17:16,080 --> 01:17:18,040
Speaker 1: line play and where they're going and who's pulling out

1565
01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:20,559
Speaker 1: in front and how that works, and the defensive front

1566
01:17:20,600 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 1: they're facing is all different. So it may look the

1567
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:26,920
Speaker 1: same at a casual glance, but there's three or four

1568
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:30,080
Speaker 1: key differences that make it a much different play. And

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01:17:31,120 --> 01:17:33,519
Speaker 1: there's also an element that when they do run that

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01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:36,679
Speaker 1: play for the second time, they're getting it ingrained into

1571
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:39,840
Speaker 1: the defense, even though it may be a little bit different,

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01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:41,840
Speaker 1: they're getting it ingrained into the defense, so that the

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01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 1: next time they run it, where Josh Allen takes it

1574
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:46,320
Speaker 1: starts to hand off to Devin Singletary the left, they

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01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:48,519
Speaker 1: do a different thing. He pulls it out of his

1576
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:51,680
Speaker 1: stomach and goes over the top, or it's an end

1577
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:53,559
Speaker 1: around coming the other way. They run a play that's

1578
01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:56,240
Speaker 1: completely different. So there's a lot of things that they'll

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01:17:56,280 --> 01:18:00,120
Speaker 1: run in a game in an offensive game plan in

1580
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:03,240
Speaker 1: the NFL that may look the same to you and me,

1581
01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:06,759
Speaker 1: that are much different, or being run for a specific

1582
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:08,840
Speaker 1: reason that they find out about later in the game.

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01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:11,880
Speaker 1: Thanks Dan, Let's go to take a call from Ken here. Hello, Ken, welcome,

1584
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:14,320
Speaker 1: you're on the air with us. Hey, how you guys

1585
01:18:14,439 --> 01:18:17,360
Speaker 1: doing it? Great? Good? Okay, can you hear me? Okay,

1586
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:19,080
Speaker 1: I'm on my bluetooth. I can kick it off as

1587
01:18:19,160 --> 01:18:21,040
Speaker 1: that help. Yeah, go ahead, we can here here, good,

1588
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:24,719
Speaker 1: go ahead, okay, great, all the comments, of course, great

1589
01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 1: to start. Who could have thought we'd be a nine

1590
01:18:27,439 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 1: and four on the threshold of making a playoffs. So

1591
01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:32,040
Speaker 1: I don't want to certainly lose any perspective there, But

1592
01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:33,920
Speaker 1: to get to the heart of the question. One of

1593
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 1: the glaring concerns that I have as I related to

1594
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 1: the upcoming game is shots Allen's inability to hit the

1595
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 1: long ball. This is beyond a troubling trend. It is

1596
01:18:44,600 --> 01:18:47,400
Speaker 1: to the point where it's alarming. If you think about

1597
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:50,200
Speaker 1: that game against the raven Listen, as you are just

1598
01:18:50,280 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 1: commented about roughly seventy percent of time. But if he

1599
01:18:53,240 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 1: hits one, we even two of those big players in

1600
01:18:56,439 --> 01:18:59,240
Speaker 1: the first three cities, the Bartermore Ravens have to totally

1601
01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:03,519
Speaker 1: change how scheming against the Bill. So the bigger question

1602
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: that old Steve has played the game, of course, and John,

1603
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 1: you've covered it for a long time, or something that

1604
01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:12,519
Speaker 1: take shape. I can't imagine that he said those pros

1605
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:14,880
Speaker 1: in practice and missing them in the game. So if

1606
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 1: you all have any insight about what's taking shape the

1607
01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:20,600
Speaker 1: long ball or the lack year of practice, I'd be

1608
01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:23,200
Speaker 1: interested in here. Yeah, I wish we didn't we're talking

1609
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:26,360
Speaker 1: about it, but it's definitely you're onto it. Ken, It's

1610
01:19:26,360 --> 01:19:28,400
Speaker 1: a it's an issue, and you're right. It would have

1611
01:19:28,400 --> 01:19:30,120
Speaker 1: made a difference in the Baltimore game. It'll make a

1612
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:34,160
Speaker 1: difference this Sunday night in Pittsburgh, and they're inches away

1613
01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:37,800
Speaker 1: last Sunday, inches away from big place through the passing game.

1614
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:39,720
Speaker 1: And and this is what I know everybody's gotten the

1615
01:19:39,720 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 1: back of their mind. Last year, that was one of

1616
01:19:41,520 --> 01:19:44,320
Speaker 1: the things that Josh Allen did well, not extremely well,

1617
01:19:44,320 --> 01:19:46,639
Speaker 1: but well. And where has it gone? I don't know.

1618
01:19:46,760 --> 01:19:48,800
Speaker 1: Earlier this year there was a speculation that maybe, in

1619
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:52,720
Speaker 1: an effort to avoid throwing a short and avoid interceptions,

1620
01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:55,800
Speaker 1: he decided to throw it beyond his receivers, hoping they

1621
01:19:55,800 --> 01:19:57,759
Speaker 1: can go to get it. Um, maybe that's the answer,

1622
01:19:57,800 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 1: but man, I don't know. I wish he had the

1623
01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:01,960
Speaker 1: answer to that. You have, no, I don't. He's right though,

1624
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:03,640
Speaker 1: you hit it on the head. There's an element of

1625
01:20:03,680 --> 01:20:08,200
Speaker 1: their offense that is absolutely vacated the premises they can't

1626
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:10,519
Speaker 1: find it. It was their last half of last year

1627
01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:13,599
Speaker 1: with the same virtually the same personnel and actually lesser

1628
01:20:13,680 --> 01:20:16,280
Speaker 1: personnel than they have this year. You got Robert Foster,

1629
01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:18,720
Speaker 1: who's the same, but he's better this year after being

1630
01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:20,439
Speaker 1: in the league for an entire year. He's got to

1631
01:20:20,479 --> 01:20:23,280
Speaker 1: have settled down and feel good. John Brown's better. Cole

1632
01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:25,880
Speaker 1: Beasley is a better option. You got Dawson Knox is

1633
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:27,639
Speaker 1: a better option. They hit him one for a deep

1634
01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:31,599
Speaker 1: one last week, but that the personnel should be even

1635
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:33,360
Speaker 1: better than it was a year ago, and they have

1636
01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:36,920
Speaker 1: lost the ability to throw over the top at least

1637
01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:39,280
Speaker 1: complete them. I mean, they're trying them, so they're they're

1638
01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:41,320
Speaker 1: getting some benefit out of that and knowing the defense

1639
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:43,360
Speaker 1: has got to play it honest. But man, oh man,

1640
01:20:43,439 --> 01:20:46,639
Speaker 1: you're right. It's troubling and I don't know what they're

1641
01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:49,000
Speaker 1: gonna do now. Now. Having said that, Murph and I

1642
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:52,080
Speaker 1: have both seen, you know, bits and snippets of practice

1643
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:56,519
Speaker 1: where you know, they work on that, and I'm at

1644
01:20:56,520 --> 01:20:58,920
Speaker 1: a loss. Quite frankly, I'm at a loss. More on

1645
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:01,599
Speaker 1: this topic from our next caller. Done in Texas? Where

1646
01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:04,559
Speaker 1: in Texas? How are you done? All right? Now? I'm

1647
01:21:04,560 --> 01:21:09,280
Speaker 1: in Odessa, Odessa, way out west. Yeah, I'm out here

1648
01:21:09,320 --> 01:21:13,080
Speaker 1: with pump Jackson, solar fields and windows. Oh there you go. Nice.

1649
01:21:13,360 --> 01:21:15,360
Speaker 1: You've got a thought on the problems with the long

1650
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:18,160
Speaker 1: ball for the Bills. What do you think? Yeah? My

1651
01:21:18,240 --> 01:21:26,160
Speaker 1: theory is this off season Josh yards and in his

1652
01:21:26,400 --> 01:21:29,479
Speaker 1: on his shorter throws, because last year he struggled with that. Yep,

1653
01:21:30,200 --> 01:21:33,479
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm wondering if they changed his arm angle,

1654
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:37,160
Speaker 1: you know, in the off season, and so now he's

1655
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 1: having to form a whole new muscle memory for long

1656
01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:41,640
Speaker 1: ball throws. Yeah, that may be it. I mean, he

1657
01:21:41,680 --> 01:21:45,040
Speaker 1: has worked very hard on his delivery, and even early

1658
01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 1: in the preseason, Sean McDermott, the coaching staff came back,

1659
01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:50,200
Speaker 1: they started doing the OTAs and watching him throw and

1660
01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:53,480
Speaker 1: getting into seven on seven stuff, and they noticed immediately

1661
01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:56,920
Speaker 1: that he had really worked on his techniques, his footwork.

1662
01:21:57,160 --> 01:21:58,960
Speaker 1: And you know, hear a lot about the platform these

1663
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:01,240
Speaker 1: guys throw off of it, where their feed are set

1664
01:22:01,280 --> 01:22:04,560
Speaker 1: when they throw it. You know, how their body language is,

1665
01:22:04,560 --> 01:22:06,479
Speaker 1: where their shoulders are when the ball comes out, and

1666
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:09,680
Speaker 1: like as you said, done arm angle. They said, he

1667
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:12,000
Speaker 1: worked really hard on it. And we've talked about that

1668
01:22:12,040 --> 01:22:15,040
Speaker 1: a little bit on the show about maybe he's getting

1669
01:22:15,080 --> 01:22:16,720
Speaker 1: so much better at the short game and it and

1670
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:20,000
Speaker 1: has set his long game back a little bit. Maybe

1671
01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:22,200
Speaker 1: there is that. I have no doubt that he's going

1672
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:24,000
Speaker 1: to work on that and try and get it better.

1673
01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:28,400
Speaker 1: But I thought about that exact same thing, that maybe

1674
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:31,479
Speaker 1: the mechanics that he's working with that he's changed and

1675
01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:34,880
Speaker 1: elevated are still bothering him on the long ball and

1676
01:22:34,920 --> 01:22:36,760
Speaker 1: has affected that. Maybe what do you what else you

1677
01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:39,880
Speaker 1: got done. All right, No, that that was basically it.

1678
01:22:40,200 --> 01:22:44,080
Speaker 1: And to the previous caller you had about the play calling,

1679
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:45,880
Speaker 1: and I mean, we hear a lot of people calling

1680
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 1: in about bad play calling. You know, right what you

1681
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:54,800
Speaker 1: can't anticipate is what exactly your defense is going to do.

1682
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:57,759
Speaker 1: It's a craft shoot and some of the play calls

1683
01:22:57,760 --> 01:23:02,360
Speaker 1: that are called in just give it time, all right. Yeah,

1684
01:23:02,400 --> 01:23:04,400
Speaker 1: they're nine and four. I mean they're they're doing Their

1685
01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:07,120
Speaker 1: play calls have been pretty good, and they've they're trying

1686
01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:09,360
Speaker 1: to get better and they're trying to also, they got

1687
01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:11,920
Speaker 1: a young quarterback who's getting better. And I think two,

1688
01:23:12,680 --> 01:23:14,519
Speaker 1: this is an offense that it's going to continue to

1689
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:16,519
Speaker 1: evolve even throughout the last three weeks of the season.

1690
01:23:16,560 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 1: They they're able now to do things that they were

1691
01:23:19,560 --> 01:23:24,280
Speaker 1: that were completely off the out of the question last year.

1692
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:27,240
Speaker 1: At this time, they've got a lot more things than

1693
01:23:27,240 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 1: their arsenal. If they can go to the question becomes

1694
01:23:30,280 --> 01:23:32,680
Speaker 1: And to me, it's always been it's not so much

1695
01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:34,760
Speaker 1: about the play that is called. It's about the guys

1696
01:23:34,760 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 1: who are running it and how well they run it.

1697
01:23:37,840 --> 01:23:40,479
Speaker 1: That's what it boils down to. And you've got the

1698
01:23:40,560 --> 01:23:42,840
Speaker 1: talent You've got the better offensive line up front than

1699
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:44,760
Speaker 1: you did a year ago. You got a quarterback that's better,

1700
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:47,240
Speaker 1: and your skill positions are light years ahead of where

1701
01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:49,760
Speaker 1: they were a year ago. You need to execute these

1702
01:23:49,760 --> 01:23:52,000
Speaker 1: plays better and that'll take care of a lot of

1703
01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:54,040
Speaker 1: play calling issues if you have any. Let's get to

1704
01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. We have the question out there if

1705
01:23:55,880 --> 01:23:58,120
Speaker 1: the Bills have an advantage over the Steelers? What is it?

1706
01:23:58,360 --> 01:24:00,839
Speaker 1: The tweet sheet brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

1707
01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:03,280
Speaker 1: the official movers of the Buffalo Bills, from a guy

1708
01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:06,479
Speaker 1: named Jello, is twitter handle. I think Singletary is a

1709
01:24:06,479 --> 01:24:08,760
Speaker 1: monster waiting to break out, he says. I know he's

1710
01:24:08,840 --> 01:24:10,840
Speaker 1: run well at his first one hundred yard game, but

1711
01:24:11,200 --> 01:24:12,640
Speaker 1: this is going to be the week he becomes a

1712
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:14,960
Speaker 1: household name. I predict Buffalo will have at least two

1713
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:18,360
Speaker 1: hundred twenty five rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns, including

1714
01:24:18,400 --> 01:24:21,000
Speaker 1: one from Josh Allen. Guy named Jello feeling good about

1715
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:23,920
Speaker 1: the predictions. Nice, All right, here we go. One from

1716
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:26,320
Speaker 1: Bill Allen is better than Duck, but I choose c

1717
01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:30,000
Speaker 1: our defense will put enough pressure on him, meaning Hodges,

1718
01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:32,800
Speaker 1: while confusing him to force him to make mistakes. Still,

1719
01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:35,160
Speaker 1: Alan has to make quick decisions because the Steelers d

1720
01:24:35,360 --> 01:24:39,360
Speaker 1: is no joke. Low scoring game, Buffalo ten, Pitts Buffalo seventeen,

1721
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh ten. And yeah, there's a lot of people that

1722
01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:43,840
Speaker 1: think that. I mean, you and I are in that

1723
01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:50,000
Speaker 1: same mindset. Score tweet from mex Alan over Duck. You're

1724
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:52,920
Speaker 1: talking about a franchise quarterback on one side and a

1725
01:24:53,000 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 1: third stringer named Duck on the other. To me, this

1726
01:24:57,160 --> 01:24:59,720
Speaker 1: is clear cut. I trust Allen to rebound from last

1727
01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:03,120
Speaker 1: week like he always does, only lost back to back games, once,

1728
01:25:03,160 --> 01:25:06,000
Speaker 1: perform well and take the W on the road. I

1729
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 1: think I'm kind of in that look. I know that

1730
01:25:09,640 --> 01:25:12,840
Speaker 1: Duck has been okay, but he hasn't been good. He

1731
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:15,080
Speaker 1: hasn't really been good field. The Gates kind of confirmed

1732
01:25:15,160 --> 01:25:17,599
Speaker 1: that he's been okay and their defense is helping him

1733
01:25:17,640 --> 01:25:20,000
Speaker 1: win games. And I think Josh, as we pointed out,

1734
01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:22,439
Speaker 1: I think on the show yesterday the day before, Josh

1735
01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:25,599
Speaker 1: usually rebounds from his bad performances. He gets better after

1736
01:25:25,640 --> 01:25:27,920
Speaker 1: he doesn't play well. I'm anticipating we'll get more of

1737
01:25:27,920 --> 01:25:31,479
Speaker 1: that coming up. Well, we'll see He's I got a

1738
01:25:31,479 --> 01:25:33,960
Speaker 1: lot of respect for the Steelers and their organizations, particularly

1739
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:37,360
Speaker 1: for Mike Tomlin and the Rooney family. They you know,

1740
01:25:37,439 --> 01:25:41,240
Speaker 1: they looked like they were gonna be overwhelmed by everything

1741
01:25:41,280 --> 01:25:43,200
Speaker 1: that happened to them this season, and the first they

1742
01:25:43,200 --> 01:25:46,679
Speaker 1: were oh and three to start the season. Well not anymore.

1743
01:25:50,120 --> 01:25:54,120
Speaker 1: Rumors of their demise were greatly exaggerated. This team can play,

1744
01:25:54,720 --> 01:25:57,679
Speaker 1: and that defense is for real, and they have won

1745
01:25:57,760 --> 01:26:00,960
Speaker 1: world championships with teams constructed very closely to the one

1746
01:26:00,960 --> 01:26:03,439
Speaker 1: they've got right now. I'm not saying that this team

1747
01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:05,920
Speaker 1: is that Pittsburgh team is gonna win the Super Bowl,

1748
01:26:05,960 --> 01:26:08,679
Speaker 1: but man oh man, they're not gonna get embarrassed by anybody.

1749
01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:11,320
Speaker 1: So I think this is gonna be a really tough game.

1750
01:26:11,320 --> 01:26:12,840
Speaker 1: And you can say all you want about some guy

1751
01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:15,400
Speaker 1: named Duck playing quarterback for him, the guy's completing eighty

1752
01:26:15,400 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: percent of his past seventy percent of his passes. And

1753
01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:21,639
Speaker 1: they've got two really good players coming too, Pro Bowlers

1754
01:26:21,640 --> 01:26:23,759
Speaker 1: getting back on the field form and Juju Smith Schuster

1755
01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:27,120
Speaker 1: and James Conner. This is gonna be a hard fought game,

1756
01:26:27,160 --> 01:26:29,960
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to play way better than you

1757
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:32,280
Speaker 1: did against the Baltimore Ravens to win it, all right,

1758
01:26:32,280 --> 01:26:33,960
Speaker 1: we got a break, coming back with more. Come on

1759
01:26:34,040 --> 01:26:36,240
Speaker 1: back with us one Bill Slide presented by KLADA Health

1760
01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:39,000
Speaker 1: Life from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This is

1761
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:51,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio Welcome back. We just spent the entire

1762
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 1: five minute break debating what to do next. Steve's elected

1763
01:26:54,479 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 1: not to talk about the Patriots. That's okay. Spy Gate two,

1764
01:26:57,520 --> 01:27:00,880
Speaker 1: it's a dead issue. A lot of heat about that

1765
01:27:00,920 --> 01:27:04,439
Speaker 1: from you and others. Yesterday I was right. So just

1766
01:27:04,479 --> 01:27:06,320
Speaker 1: because I was right, we can't talk about it today.

1767
01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:08,240
Speaker 1: What makes you think you're right? Because the league's not

1768
01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:10,240
Speaker 1: going to do anything because it's a phony issue. What

1769
01:27:10,320 --> 01:27:14,240
Speaker 1: they do last time what Spygate one, they lost the

1770
01:27:14,280 --> 01:27:17,040
Speaker 1: first round pick, they find a Belichick half a million dollars.

1771
01:27:17,280 --> 01:27:19,479
Speaker 1: This doesn't even come close to that. So they're not well,

1772
01:27:19,479 --> 01:27:21,120
Speaker 1: you don't think there'll be any talking. You don't think

1773
01:27:21,120 --> 01:27:23,800
Speaker 1: they're going to be any repercussions. I think they'll be fine.

1774
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:26,800
Speaker 1: Don't let your video people associated with the team do

1775
01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:30,320
Speaker 1: that again. Please. I do think and I said this yesterday,

1776
01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:33,040
Speaker 1: and look, they do not deserve the benefit of the doubt,

1777
01:27:33,080 --> 01:27:37,040
Speaker 1: but they're not guilty without any evidence. And I don't

1778
01:27:37,080 --> 01:27:40,160
Speaker 1: think there's eight minutes of video of what of coaches

1779
01:27:40,200 --> 01:27:43,200
Speaker 1: on the sidelines? What of value comes from coaches on

1780
01:27:43,240 --> 01:27:45,920
Speaker 1: the sidelines. That's my point yesterday. That's like saying it's

1781
01:27:46,040 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 1: very minimal, minimal value. That's like saying, what earth, it's

1782
01:27:50,240 --> 01:27:55,639
Speaker 1: absolutely black and white against the rules. There's a lot

1783
01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:57,599
Speaker 1: of things that get and there's a reason for Look

1784
01:27:57,640 --> 01:27:59,840
Speaker 1: and you know the reason that got put in as

1785
01:27:59,880 --> 01:28:03,000
Speaker 1: a rule against the rules for the exact team who

1786
01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:06,439
Speaker 1: got caught doing it again, that to me is a

1787
01:28:06,479 --> 01:28:10,320
Speaker 1: little bit more egregious than than having some stringer who

1788
01:28:10,360 --> 01:28:13,480
Speaker 1: got caught in a Boston Bruins jersey with a iPhone

1789
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:16,240
Speaker 1: on the other sideline was panning the thing. They had

1790
01:28:16,280 --> 01:28:18,680
Speaker 1: that thing focus. It wasn't even out of focus. It

1791
01:28:18,720 --> 01:28:21,479
Speaker 1: was focused on the sideline. You don't know this, by

1792
01:28:21,479 --> 01:28:23,960
Speaker 1: the way, it was that was reported and you don't

1793
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:25,920
Speaker 1: know that to be the case, but whatever that it

1794
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:28,479
Speaker 1: wasn't reported and it was reported, it was reported, doesn't

1795
01:28:28,479 --> 01:28:32,840
Speaker 1: mean it's true. And also and also by the way too,

1796
01:28:33,439 --> 01:28:36,760
Speaker 1: from what I read, it was also when the Bengals

1797
01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:39,840
Speaker 1: executives in the press box got wind of it, it

1798
01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:42,600
Speaker 1: was a firestorm in the press bar. They went ballistic,

1799
01:28:42,640 --> 01:28:46,040
Speaker 1: which you know, does that tell us right? It's nothing.

1800
01:28:46,200 --> 01:28:47,960
Speaker 1: A lot of people knew that it was something was

1801
01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:52,120
Speaker 1: going on. Yes, no, that's not true. They suspected something

1802
01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:54,559
Speaker 1: was going on. And my point is something was going around.

1803
01:28:54,640 --> 01:28:57,400
Speaker 1: It's in violation of NFL rules, and it doesn't amount

1804
01:28:57,439 --> 01:28:59,599
Speaker 1: to much because there's not a whole lot of value

1805
01:28:59,640 --> 01:29:03,040
Speaker 1: to come from those. Uh, that video on the sidelines

1806
01:29:03,280 --> 01:29:06,720
Speaker 1: just is not not in today's NFL And I get it.

1807
01:29:07,120 --> 01:29:11,280
Speaker 1: What do you get that? Yeah, it's a headset thing.

1808
01:29:11,840 --> 01:29:16,080
Speaker 1: Yeah right, I get it. I still think though, man

1809
01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:21,800
Speaker 1: strike two on the exact same infraction that was such

1810
01:29:21,840 --> 01:29:25,800
Speaker 1: a firestorm the first time around twelve years later, I

1811
01:29:25,840 --> 01:29:28,479
Speaker 1: don't know, Yeah, I get it. I don't know. I

1812
01:29:28,479 --> 01:29:30,320
Speaker 1: don't know. We'll see. I don't think there's much of

1813
01:29:30,400 --> 01:29:31,960
Speaker 1: value that can come from it. And I think the

1814
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:33,960
Speaker 1: fact that the Patriots owned up to it right away

1815
01:29:34,080 --> 01:29:38,439
Speaker 1: indicates they're not you know, they're not building a firewall here.

1816
01:29:39,160 --> 01:29:41,920
Speaker 1: Patriots aren't stonewall And yeah, you got us, we did it.

1817
01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:43,679
Speaker 1: We didn't know what they were doing. This is totally

1818
01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:47,120
Speaker 1: different from football, but yeah, we made a mistake. Certainly

1819
01:29:47,200 --> 01:29:51,600
Speaker 1: they've learned lessons about how it must be uncomfortable to

1820
01:29:51,600 --> 01:29:54,160
Speaker 1: be that suspicious of everybody and everything. I'm not I'm

1821
01:29:54,160 --> 01:29:57,519
Speaker 1: not to be uncomfortable. I'm just making observations. Yeah, I

1822
01:29:57,560 --> 01:30:00,479
Speaker 1: think you went too far. That's all, okay, all right,

1823
01:30:00,479 --> 01:30:02,280
Speaker 1: now we gotta take a break. I can't thank you

1824
01:30:02,320 --> 01:30:06,040
Speaker 1: for talking about it because I felt attacked as sailed yesterday,

1825
01:30:06,080 --> 01:30:09,160
Speaker 1: because of my my feelings, which have not changed. I

1826
01:30:09,200 --> 01:30:11,000
Speaker 1: will say this, and the fact that the league is

1827
01:30:11,040 --> 01:30:13,400
Speaker 1: not gonna, you know, buy all reports right Ian Rapp

1828
01:30:13,400 --> 01:30:15,559
Speaker 1: report another say, the League's not gonna do much about it.

1829
01:30:15,600 --> 01:30:18,200
Speaker 1: If anything, fine, Probably gonna be fine. Okay, that's about

1830
01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:20,640
Speaker 1: I will say this. This is out of character for

1831
01:30:20,680 --> 01:30:24,920
Speaker 1: you to come to the defense of the Patriots in

1832
01:30:24,960 --> 01:30:28,680
Speaker 1: an episode like that. You don't make up crazy conspiracy

1833
01:30:28,720 --> 01:30:31,960
Speaker 1: theories anything. They broke the r stand second to no

1834
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:34,799
Speaker 1: one in the way. I despised the New England Patriots.

1835
01:30:34,800 --> 01:30:38,960
Speaker 1: I hate the Jets wores. But look this, this is

1836
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:41,680
Speaker 1: not something that merits any kind of real consideration. Why

1837
01:30:41,760 --> 01:30:43,759
Speaker 1: you're shooting video again, you idiot. You got in trouble

1838
01:30:43,760 --> 01:30:45,800
Speaker 1: for that twelve years ago. Here's a fine, don't do

1839
01:30:45,800 --> 01:30:50,439
Speaker 1: it again, right, And that's the thing you're like I

1840
01:30:50,439 --> 01:30:52,400
Speaker 1: can't believe you're letting them off the hook so easy

1841
01:30:52,479 --> 01:30:56,880
Speaker 1: when they admitted they broke the rules right in front

1842
01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:59,160
Speaker 1: of everybody, got busted doing it, and you know, all

1843
01:30:59,200 --> 01:31:02,080
Speaker 1: the stuff, everything about this thing, and it's like, okay, fine,

1844
01:31:02,320 --> 01:31:07,000
Speaker 1: I can't believe you're like, no big deal. Sorry, I'm sorry. Disappointing.

1845
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:11,560
Speaker 1: I must say that must be it here. You're disappointing

1846
01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:14,040
Speaker 1: the hell out of me right now. I want you to.

1847
01:31:14,240 --> 01:31:17,719
Speaker 1: I want Bill Belichick and definitely suspended, Robert Kraft forced

1848
01:31:17,720 --> 01:31:20,280
Speaker 1: to sell the team. I wanted to burn the stadium.

1849
01:31:20,320 --> 01:31:25,400
Speaker 1: That's kind of yesterday. Yeah, anyway, hopefully we put this aside.

1850
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:27,160
Speaker 1: We talk more about the Bills. Coming up, We're gonna

1851
01:31:27,160 --> 01:31:30,040
Speaker 1: talk about the Bills and the Steelers with former Bills linebacker,

1852
01:31:30,120 --> 01:31:33,559
Speaker 1: former Steelers linebacker Arthur Moats. He's gonna be live with us.

1853
01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:36,400
Speaker 1: He's a radio host in Pittsburgh now after finishing up

1854
01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:38,599
Speaker 1: his career with the Steelers. Got a book, The Moat's

1855
01:31:38,680 --> 01:31:40,479
Speaker 1: Theory of Life. We'll talk with Arthur Moats when we

1856
01:31:40,520 --> 01:31:42,200
Speaker 1: come back. Come on back with us. One Bill's Live,

1857
01:31:42,479 --> 01:31:45,559
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park,

1858
01:31:45,880 --> 01:32:00,519
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello, Bills Radio Network Sports Update.

1859
01:32:01,120 --> 01:32:03,920
Speaker 1: The update comes from One Bill's Drive where the Buffalo

1860
01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:06,960
Speaker 1: Bills They've just finished their practice indoors escaping the snow

1861
01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:09,519
Speaker 1: here in Orchard Park today, getting ready for their matchup

1862
01:32:09,560 --> 01:32:12,280
Speaker 1: with the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday night. Bills first Sunday night

1863
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:16,360
Speaker 1: game in twelve years. Not practicing today. Defensive tackle Corey

1864
01:32:16,439 --> 01:32:19,920
Speaker 1: Legit with a lower body injury, offensive lineman Tie and

1865
01:32:19,960 --> 01:32:22,960
Speaker 1: Secki missing practice against still with his ankle. Spielers looking

1866
01:32:22,960 --> 01:32:25,400
Speaker 1: to get running back James Connor and wide receiver Juju

1867
01:32:25,479 --> 01:32:28,479
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster back at practice today. Mike Tomlin says he'll

1868
01:32:28,479 --> 01:32:30,320
Speaker 1: watch how they work out and see if they were

1869
01:32:30,360 --> 01:32:33,519
Speaker 1: able to play and help the Steelers this week. Referee

1870
01:32:33,520 --> 01:32:36,120
Speaker 1: Sunday Tony Carrente. He did the Bills Washington game six

1871
01:32:36,160 --> 01:32:39,280
Speaker 1: weeks ago, only called nine penalties total in that game.

1872
01:32:39,439 --> 01:32:41,559
Speaker 1: The weather in Pittsburgh Sunday night going to be mostly

1873
01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:43,840
Speaker 1: cloudy with a low of twenty eight degrees. Just a

1874
01:32:43,880 --> 01:32:46,559
Speaker 1: couple of snow showers in the morning Sunday morning in Pittsburgh.

1875
01:32:46,800 --> 01:32:49,479
Speaker 1: Just a ten percent chance of precipitation. We've got to

1876
01:32:49,479 --> 01:32:51,759
Speaker 1: call of the game the Bills and the Steelers Sunday

1877
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:54,400
Speaker 1: night on our flagship radio station, w g R Sports

1878
01:32:54,439 --> 01:32:56,559
Speaker 1: Radio five fifty. I'll be in the boots with Eric

1879
01:32:56,600 --> 01:33:00,720
Speaker 1: Wood sal Capaccio down on the sidelines around the league,

1880
01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:02,880
Speaker 1: let me on. Bell's flu kept him out of the

1881
01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:05,160
Speaker 1: Jets win over the Dolphins on Sunday, but it didn't

1882
01:33:05,200 --> 01:33:07,680
Speaker 1: keep him off the lanes. Bell was spotted at a

1883
01:33:07,720 --> 01:33:10,679
Speaker 1: New Jersey bowling alley Saturday night, hours after the Jets

1884
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Speaker 1: have ruled him out. Coach Adam Gay says Bell will

1885
01:33:12,960 --> 01:33:14,799
Speaker 1: not be disciplined, said it was not a good optic

1886
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Speaker 1: and preferred that Bell would not venture outside of his home.

1887
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Speaker 1: Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson says he will play Tomorrow night

1888
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Speaker 1: against the Jets. He's been limited with a quad injury

1889
01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:26,280
Speaker 1: that he suffered against the Bills last Sunday, but he

1890
01:33:26,280 --> 01:33:28,680
Speaker 1: says I feel great. I'm one hundred percent. Had a

1891
01:33:28,720 --> 01:33:31,000
Speaker 1: slight limp on Monday, but looked better during the media

1892
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Speaker 1: portion of practice this week, and he says he will

1893
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Speaker 1: play tomorrow night when the Ravens played the Jets. Eagles

1894
01:33:36,160 --> 01:33:38,519
Speaker 1: have lost wide receiver Alshon Jeffrey for the rest of

1895
01:33:38,560 --> 01:33:41,080
Speaker 1: the year. With a foot injury suffered and Monday Night's

1896
01:33:41,080 --> 01:33:43,600
Speaker 1: win over the Giants. Coach Doug Peterson says it is

1897
01:33:43,640 --> 01:33:46,240
Speaker 1: a significant injury. That injury left Carson went to with

1898
01:33:46,400 --> 01:33:48,840
Speaker 1: just two active receivers for the rest of the game.

1899
01:33:49,120 --> 01:33:51,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo Sabers came up with a big win last night,

1900
01:33:51,400 --> 01:33:53,200
Speaker 1: a five two win over the Saint Louis Blues, Jack

1901
01:33:53,240 --> 01:33:55,920
Speaker 1: Iago with two goals, and the Yankees have signed prize

1902
01:33:55,960 --> 01:33:58,720
Speaker 1: for each and Ficter Garrett Cole to a record three

1903
01:33:58,760 --> 01:34:01,400
Speaker 1: h twenty four million deal. Welcome back to the show,

1904
01:34:01,560 --> 01:34:05,360
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Cansker in our one Buffalo Seneca studio

1905
01:34:05,360 --> 01:34:08,639
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park with the snow falling outside. Do you bowl?

1906
01:34:09,360 --> 01:34:11,559
Speaker 1: I have? I haven't in a while, do you Yeah? No,

1907
01:34:11,640 --> 01:34:13,479
Speaker 1: but I used as a kid, I did, and I've been.

1908
01:34:13,560 --> 01:34:15,080
Speaker 1: You know, everybody does every once in a while, right,

1909
01:34:15,120 --> 01:34:16,920
Speaker 1: set of those fun things like putt put golf, you

1910
01:34:16,920 --> 01:34:18,880
Speaker 1: go every once in a while unless you bowl on

1911
01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:21,479
Speaker 1: Tuesdays or whatever. What about a LEVI on Bell Well,

1912
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Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you this, does that some in

1913
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:24,720
Speaker 1: that type of thing that a player should not be

1914
01:34:24,760 --> 01:34:26,280
Speaker 1: doing if he's been ruled out of the game. I

1915
01:34:26,280 --> 01:34:29,439
Speaker 1: don't think it again. That right, it's bowling. It's less

1916
01:34:29,439 --> 01:34:32,879
Speaker 1: egregious than filming the other team's sideline. But yeah, bowling,

1917
01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:35,680
Speaker 1: it's bowling. Plus, here's the thing. They ruled him out

1918
01:34:35,720 --> 01:34:38,960
Speaker 1: and he wanted to play. They said, stay out of

1919
01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:41,200
Speaker 1: the locker room. You got the flu and you're contagious.

1920
01:34:41,240 --> 01:34:43,880
Speaker 1: We don't want that rampaging through our locker room, so

1921
01:34:43,920 --> 01:34:46,280
Speaker 1: stay away. So he's like, I get you. So he's

1922
01:34:46,280 --> 01:34:48,800
Speaker 1: sitting at home wanting to play a professional football game.

1923
01:34:48,840 --> 01:34:51,160
Speaker 1: That's how good he feels. And they're like, going, no,

1924
01:34:51,320 --> 01:34:53,920
Speaker 1: stay away. So he's like, let let's go. You know,

1925
01:34:54,080 --> 01:34:56,280
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem. In fact, I'm fine with it.

1926
01:34:56,720 --> 01:34:59,599
Speaker 1: And he bowled his personal best, like a two fifty

1927
01:34:59,640 --> 01:35:02,840
Speaker 1: seven or something awesome. You're probably bowl every Saturday night,

1928
01:35:02,880 --> 01:35:04,360
Speaker 1: you know what. I'm kind of liking a Levy on

1929
01:35:04,400 --> 01:35:06,760
Speaker 1: Bell this week. I like him. He's like one of

1930
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Speaker 1: my favorite people. Hey, this came across the wires. Troy Aikman,

1931
01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:14,559
Speaker 1: three time Super Bowl champion quarterback, says he can't figure

1932
01:35:14,600 --> 01:35:16,840
Speaker 1: out the Dallas Cowboys, but says he's not interested in

1933
01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:20,479
Speaker 1: being their general manager. Aikman was asked by a radio

1934
01:35:20,680 --> 01:35:23,960
Speaker 1: show in Dallas if he could envision himself to taking

1935
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:26,640
Speaker 1: a player personnel role in the Cowboys front office, and

1936
01:35:26,720 --> 01:35:29,080
Speaker 1: he quickly shot it down. He said, it's unlikely Jerry

1937
01:35:29,120 --> 01:35:31,920
Speaker 1: Jones brings anyone in in such a capacity. And he

1938
01:35:31,960 --> 01:35:34,720
Speaker 1: says Jerry Jones is real, stubborn and steadfast that he's

1939
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:38,639
Speaker 1: in charge. And he says until that changes, Aikman said,

1940
01:35:38,680 --> 01:35:41,679
Speaker 1: this is interesting. Cowboy's gonna have some problems. But Troy

1941
01:35:41,680 --> 01:35:44,920
Speaker 1: Aikman says he wouldn't mind being a general manager. He

1942
01:35:44,960 --> 01:35:47,800
Speaker 1: says something I guess I've always somewhat entertained. They had

1943
01:35:47,840 --> 01:35:50,439
Speaker 1: a chance to talk with John Elway about it. Could

1944
01:35:50,439 --> 01:35:54,240
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman b I think he could GM. Really yeah,

1945
01:35:54,280 --> 01:35:56,200
Speaker 1: I think he could hit all I know if Troy

1946
01:35:56,200 --> 01:35:57,760
Speaker 1: an you know him better than I do, I'm sure

1947
01:35:57,760 --> 01:35:59,640
Speaker 1: all I know is what I see on TV, and

1948
01:35:59,760 --> 01:36:02,880
Speaker 1: I not impressed with his depth of knowledge, at least

1949
01:36:02,880 --> 01:36:05,800
Speaker 1: as it's expressed on the Fox. I think he does.

1950
01:36:05,920 --> 01:36:09,240
Speaker 1: I think he does hold enough understanding of the game

1951
01:36:09,400 --> 01:36:12,120
Speaker 1: to do it. I think it's not just a job

1952
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:14,240
Speaker 1: you walk into and then learn it while you're there.

1953
01:36:14,280 --> 01:36:16,120
Speaker 1: I think you need to apprentice and watch it done

1954
01:36:16,160 --> 01:36:18,880
Speaker 1: for a while. I think John Elway did that when

1955
01:36:18,920 --> 01:36:21,080
Speaker 1: in his years before he became the top guy with

1956
01:36:21,120 --> 01:36:24,600
Speaker 1: the Broncos, he was involved and watched how the personnel

1957
01:36:24,640 --> 01:36:29,799
Speaker 1: player personnel department worked, the pro and the college scouts

1958
01:36:30,960 --> 01:36:33,400
Speaker 1: how it worked, got a feel for how the organization worked.

1959
01:36:33,479 --> 01:36:36,080
Speaker 1: And remember when he took over, that was when they

1960
01:36:36,120 --> 01:36:39,280
Speaker 1: had the Elvis Dumerville debacle when they didn't turn in

1961
01:36:39,320 --> 01:36:41,920
Speaker 1: the paperwork on time in Dumerville, one of their great

1962
01:36:41,960 --> 01:36:44,360
Speaker 1: pass rushers on their team, one of their best defensive players,

1963
01:36:44,600 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 1: became a free agent right out from under them. So

1964
01:36:48,040 --> 01:36:50,840
Speaker 1: he kind of dropped the ball in that sense, um,

1965
01:36:51,200 --> 01:36:52,960
Speaker 1: you know, after he got the job, because there are

1966
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:55,200
Speaker 1: some things you've got to know as a GM, and

1967
01:36:55,320 --> 01:36:58,080
Speaker 1: I think there's a you know, there's a level of

1968
01:36:58,760 --> 01:37:00,920
Speaker 1: expertise you have to have before you take that job.

1969
01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:03,000
Speaker 1: But certainly the understanding of the game is there for

1970
01:37:03,040 --> 01:37:07,320
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman and his ability to make good decisions and manage,

1971
01:37:07,840 --> 01:37:10,720
Speaker 1: you know, authority, that kind of thing. I'm sure that

1972
01:37:10,760 --> 01:37:13,080
Speaker 1: he could do it, much like John Lynch has done it.

1973
01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:15,320
Speaker 1: John always done it. I'm one of the few people

1974
01:37:15,320 --> 01:37:17,680
Speaker 1: who thinks John always are pretty good at what he does.

1975
01:37:19,200 --> 01:37:21,240
Speaker 1: And yeah, right, a lot of people kill him. I

1976
01:37:21,720 --> 01:37:24,240
Speaker 1: kind of praise him for the same reasons they kill him.

1977
01:37:25,080 --> 01:37:28,200
Speaker 1: So there's there's there's there's person. There's guys out there

1978
01:37:28,240 --> 01:37:30,680
Speaker 1: who have played who can do it. John Lynch being

1979
01:37:30,680 --> 01:37:35,160
Speaker 1: four first and foremost so Odsey Knews him another example

1980
01:37:35,200 --> 01:37:37,719
Speaker 1: who had a Hall of Fame career both as a player,

1981
01:37:37,760 --> 01:37:39,200
Speaker 1: and if you'd ask me, he could have been in

1982
01:37:39,200 --> 01:37:41,920
Speaker 1: as a general manager like Bill Polian Executive of the

1983
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:44,160
Speaker 1: Year a couple of times. So yeah, I think Troy

1984
01:37:44,160 --> 01:37:47,120
Speaker 1: Aikman could do it. I don't know that he coming

1985
01:37:47,160 --> 01:37:50,639
Speaker 1: from the booth into an organization lends itself to having

1986
01:37:50,680 --> 01:37:53,800
Speaker 1: the depth of knowledge at that job. But he's got

1987
01:37:53,880 --> 01:37:55,760
Speaker 1: enough on the ball he could pull it off. A

1988
01:37:55,760 --> 01:37:57,760
Speaker 1: couple of phone calls here, we're gonna talk more about

1989
01:37:57,800 --> 01:37:59,720
Speaker 1: the question of the day if the Bills, if the

1990
01:37:59,760 --> 01:38:02,960
Speaker 1: Bill have an advantage over the Steelers and they are underdogs,

1991
01:38:02,960 --> 01:38:04,840
Speaker 1: what is that advantage? Let us know if you have

1992
01:38:04,880 --> 01:38:07,720
Speaker 1: thoughts on that. Eighth three five fifty toll free from

1993
01:38:07,760 --> 01:38:10,960
Speaker 1: outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

1994
01:38:11,240 --> 01:38:12,800
Speaker 1: Arthur Moats going to join us a couple of minutes

1995
01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:15,479
Speaker 1: from now. The former Bills and Steelers linebacker on the line.

1996
01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:17,760
Speaker 1: We go to John on the line. Hello, John, go ahead,

1997
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:22,240
Speaker 1: you're on the air in the afternoon. Gentlemen, Hello hey.

1998
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Speaker 1: First of all, First of all, I don't normally hand

1999
01:38:25,120 --> 01:38:28,840
Speaker 1: out compliments freely, but I will this little caveat. You

2000
01:38:29,080 --> 01:38:32,439
Speaker 1: and Steve make one heck of a team. I can't

2001
01:38:32,439 --> 01:38:35,360
Speaker 1: think of anybody would make that show more entertaining. Oh

2002
01:38:35,400 --> 01:38:37,160
Speaker 1: all right, John, all right, take as much time as

2003
01:38:37,160 --> 01:38:39,320
Speaker 1: you need. That's right. The floor is yours, my friend.

2004
01:38:40,080 --> 01:38:43,839
Speaker 1: One more compliment, Steve. I've been watching football since nineteen

2005
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:48,480
Speaker 1: sixty You, without a doubt, have made a tremendous impact

2006
01:38:48,880 --> 01:38:51,760
Speaker 1: on special teams and wouldout a doubt, belong in the

2007
01:38:51,760 --> 01:38:56,000
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, no doubt. Absolutely. Well, that's really nice.

2008
01:38:56,000 --> 01:38:58,920
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, John, Thank you. And you're two for two.

2009
01:39:00,360 --> 01:39:02,160
Speaker 1: You're going to bat a thousand. What's what do you

2010
01:39:02,160 --> 01:39:06,840
Speaker 1: got in next? How do you like our sweaters? Go ahead, John,

2011
01:39:06,520 --> 01:39:08,920
Speaker 1: And the only couple hung on their hand out in

2012
01:39:08,920 --> 01:39:14,320
Speaker 1: this call by one question is this I'm challenges? Do

2013
01:39:14,360 --> 01:39:17,720
Speaker 1: they not get three challenges per game? Two? Two one

2014
01:39:17,760 --> 01:39:21,599
Speaker 1: per half doesn't need to be okay? Yeah, they get two.

2015
01:39:21,760 --> 01:39:24,559
Speaker 1: And if you are successful on two, you get a third.

2016
01:39:26,200 --> 01:39:31,080
Speaker 1: Should they not have two challenges, and if the challenges

2017
01:39:31,360 --> 01:39:36,040
Speaker 1: is upheld, you maintain that challenge because of the difficulty

2018
01:39:36,120 --> 01:39:38,840
Speaker 1: the officials have and you've seen many errors on the

2019
01:39:38,880 --> 01:39:42,200
Speaker 1: field and they have a difficult job. But should they

2020
01:39:42,240 --> 01:39:45,599
Speaker 1: not have two challenges, and it's the challenges is upheld,

2021
01:39:45,640 --> 01:39:48,320
Speaker 1: you get that challenge back because I don't think a

2022
01:39:48,360 --> 01:39:50,720
Speaker 1: team should be penalized as a result of the error

2023
01:39:50,720 --> 01:39:53,200
Speaker 1: of an official. That's basically how the rule works, what

2024
01:39:53,320 --> 01:39:56,519
Speaker 1: you're explaining. But look, I'm pretty much in favor of

2025
01:39:56,560 --> 01:40:00,320
Speaker 1: no replay challenges or use of replay and officiating at all.

2026
01:40:00,360 --> 01:40:04,080
Speaker 1: So I'm the wrong guy to ask. Understand. Yeah, one

2027
01:40:04,080 --> 01:40:05,679
Speaker 1: of the thing reasons and I'll tell you this, John,

2028
01:40:05,680 --> 01:40:08,479
Speaker 1: and there's there's no hiding from it. The only reason

2029
01:40:08,600 --> 01:40:12,479
Speaker 1: they don't do that is because it will lengthen the

2030
01:40:12,560 --> 01:40:14,800
Speaker 1: game to a point where nobody will want to watch

2031
01:40:14,840 --> 01:40:18,120
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Um, you'll have guys challenging every play.

2032
01:40:18,200 --> 01:40:20,320
Speaker 1: And if and here's the thing, and it's a it's

2033
01:40:20,360 --> 01:40:22,720
Speaker 1: a dark hole. It's a dark rabbit hole to go down,

2034
01:40:22,800 --> 01:40:25,800
Speaker 1: because if you went by the letter of the law,

2035
01:40:25,880 --> 01:40:29,080
Speaker 1: like we've seen the debacle that this pass interfere offensive

2036
01:40:29,120 --> 01:40:33,400
Speaker 1: and defensive pass interference challenge has been this season and

2037
01:40:33,439 --> 01:40:35,599
Speaker 1: the fact that they don't overturn it, and the slow

2038
01:40:35,640 --> 01:40:41,120
Speaker 1: motion replay. Invariably, whether it's for or against, there's always

2039
01:40:41,200 --> 01:40:44,200
Speaker 1: pass interference, and because there's so many what they call

2040
01:40:44,280 --> 01:40:46,960
Speaker 1: bang bang plays where the defender gets there just a

2041
01:40:47,080 --> 01:40:50,160
Speaker 1: hair's breath in real time before the ball does and

2042
01:40:50,200 --> 01:40:53,519
Speaker 1: you slow it down on video and it looks egregious. Well,

2043
01:40:53,640 --> 01:40:56,360
Speaker 1: by the letter of the law, that should be a penalty.

2044
01:40:56,640 --> 01:40:59,880
Speaker 1: But you can't go down that road because then you'll

2045
01:40:59,880 --> 01:41:02,080
Speaker 1: be you haven't. You'll have guys throwing for seven hundred

2046
01:41:02,160 --> 01:41:04,759
Speaker 1: yards a game because the receivers will be running scott

2047
01:41:04,800 --> 01:41:08,840
Speaker 1: free everywhere. So it's a dark, dark place to go

2048
01:41:08,960 --> 01:41:12,280
Speaker 1: down saying you're going to challenge every single thing, and

2049
01:41:12,320 --> 01:41:15,200
Speaker 1: if you get it right, you're gonna get your challenge back,

2050
01:41:15,240 --> 01:41:17,880
Speaker 1: because then there's just no end to how many how

2051
01:41:17,960 --> 01:41:21,160
Speaker 1: long the games will last, and they'll be the momentum

2052
01:41:21,200 --> 01:41:25,320
Speaker 1: will break, the game will just be an afterthought. It'll

2053
01:41:25,360 --> 01:41:29,040
Speaker 1: be all about reviews, and then it won't be about competition,

2054
01:41:29,320 --> 01:41:33,360
Speaker 1: and it'll be about camera angles and that it's just

2055
01:41:33,400 --> 01:41:36,840
Speaker 1: it just sounds awful to think about. Go ahead. Yeah,

2056
01:41:37,560 --> 01:41:40,280
Speaker 1: you convinced me did a good job by doing that that.

2057
01:41:40,400 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 1: I have one more question, one more question. Okay, I

2058
01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:48,439
Speaker 1: noticed that watching the Bills game last this past week,

2059
01:41:49,360 --> 01:41:52,000
Speaker 1: when you have a fourth or third down and four

2060
01:41:52,080 --> 01:41:56,360
Speaker 1: to goal. Okay, and the weather in Buffalo was rather

2061
01:41:56,400 --> 01:42:00,559
Speaker 1: windy and difficult to throw against. I don't understand on

2062
01:42:00,720 --> 01:42:04,760
Speaker 1: a possession play on third down and four, thrown a

2063
01:42:04,880 --> 01:42:08,400
Speaker 1: pass forty to fifty yards on a low percent is,

2064
01:42:08,439 --> 01:42:12,799
Speaker 1: knowing very well, a difficult to complete anyways, be Josh

2065
01:42:12,920 --> 01:42:15,320
Speaker 1: isn't the most accurate on the long pass, and it's

2066
01:42:15,360 --> 01:42:18,519
Speaker 1: a possession play? Should those not be kind of if

2067
01:42:18,520 --> 01:42:21,400
Speaker 1: you're gonna throw a fifty or forty down Pith, can't

2068
01:42:21,400 --> 01:42:23,600
Speaker 1: we save them for the first and second down? But

2069
01:42:23,720 --> 01:42:26,320
Speaker 1: on a possession play, you got a guy like Beasley

2070
01:42:26,360 --> 01:42:28,320
Speaker 1: who's got a quick step like you did when you

2071
01:42:28,360 --> 01:42:31,960
Speaker 1: were playing. Kelly said, nobody could cover you one on one.

2072
01:42:32,200 --> 01:42:35,120
Speaker 1: Probably right, Well, John, you're right, John. On a third

2073
01:42:35,160 --> 01:42:38,320
Speaker 1: and four, going deep is not the optimum play. You

2074
01:42:38,320 --> 01:42:40,280
Speaker 1: want to stay on the field. Now here's the thing

2075
01:42:40,360 --> 01:42:43,160
Speaker 1: that you're not throwing it deep to six guys. You're

2076
01:42:43,200 --> 01:42:46,479
Speaker 1: throwing it deep to one receiver, and that all falls

2077
01:42:46,520 --> 01:42:50,960
Speaker 1: on the quarterback. Somebody on the short route has got

2078
01:42:50,960 --> 01:42:52,720
Speaker 1: to come open. A lot of people, even on that

2079
01:42:52,800 --> 01:42:54,880
Speaker 1: last play the game, there is a lot of chatter

2080
01:42:55,400 --> 01:42:57,880
Speaker 1: about the fact that people thought Cole Beasley should have

2081
01:42:57,920 --> 01:43:00,400
Speaker 1: been the target on the last play the game when

2082
01:43:00,439 --> 01:43:02,400
Speaker 1: he threw it and it got knocked away from John Brown.

2083
01:43:03,040 --> 01:43:04,880
Speaker 1: They could have gotten maybe a first down if they'd

2084
01:43:04,880 --> 01:43:07,080
Speaker 1: have thrown it to Cole Beasley. That all falls on

2085
01:43:07,120 --> 01:43:09,880
Speaker 1: the quarterback. I'm sure Brian Dable is not sitting over

2086
01:43:09,920 --> 01:43:12,639
Speaker 1: there saying, hey, throw this deep on this third and four.

2087
01:43:12,680 --> 01:43:15,240
Speaker 1: It's it's kinda hit. You know. He's not doing that.

2088
01:43:15,600 --> 01:43:20,120
Speaker 1: He's got options and guys that are running short routes,

2089
01:43:20,160 --> 01:43:22,280
Speaker 1: just like he has the last the long route. So

2090
01:43:22,560 --> 01:43:26,400
Speaker 1: when Josh decides to throw deep, that's on Josh. It's

2091
01:43:26,439 --> 01:43:29,320
Speaker 1: not on the offensive coordinator, it's not on the wide receivers,

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Speaker 1: it's not even necessarily on the offensive line. It's on Josh.

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Speaker 1: And you know, and he'll tell you after that game

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01:43:35,920 --> 01:43:37,240
Speaker 1: there was a lot of times when he needed to

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01:43:37,280 --> 01:43:39,599
Speaker 1: make better decisions about which guy threw the ball too.

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01:43:39,680 --> 01:43:42,519
Speaker 1: So you're right on a third and four throwing it

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Speaker 1: deep unless the guys standing there by himself, or it's

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01:43:46,040 --> 01:43:48,720
Speaker 1: something you know is coming and you can anticipate and

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Speaker 1: you get the right matchup and you think it's not

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Speaker 1: quite such a low percentage play. Maybe you do go

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Speaker 1: deep once in a while, but yeah, you're right, John,

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Speaker 1: you don't want to go deep on a third and four.

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Speaker 1: But it does fall on the decision making of the quarterback,

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Speaker 1: not really the decision making of the offensive coordinator. Thanks

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Speaker 1: you to call here from Greg on his cell phone. Hello, Greg, Yeah,

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01:44:08,520 --> 01:44:11,760
Speaker 1: how are you guys doing great? The You know, I

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01:44:11,840 --> 01:44:14,000
Speaker 1: have questions, But then I listened to your guys show,

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01:44:14,040 --> 01:44:15,760
Speaker 1: and it's so interesting that I forget what I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about. But that's really it's our lives. What were

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01:44:19,200 --> 01:44:21,559
Speaker 1: we just talking about the story about the Kansas City

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01:44:21,640 --> 01:44:26,599
Speaker 1: Chiefs not aiming their equipment available? Yeah, that was very interesting. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and I guess it went up to write an hour

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Speaker 1: before the game? Two hours? You are you gonna blame

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01:44:30,560 --> 01:44:34,280
Speaker 1: the Patriots for that? I wonder you know whether he

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01:44:34,439 --> 01:44:40,280
Speaker 1: was seen with a skycap Bruins Jersey? What are you

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01:44:40,320 --> 01:44:43,240
Speaker 1: talking about? The Chiefs? Hold on, hold on, hold on

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Speaker 1: New England? Um, they unloaded their plane but left apparently

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Speaker 1: left some of the equipment, pads, jerseys on the plane.

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Speaker 1: The plane went to where Newark or Laguardi or somewhere,

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Speaker 1: and the plane he had to come back to Boston

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01:44:56,600 --> 01:44:58,519
Speaker 1: or Providence or whatever, and got at the stadium two

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Speaker 1: hours for a kickoff last Sunday, and the and the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs had actually contacted through Rydell Equipment a local high

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Speaker 1: school to borrow their helmets and shoulder pads. Yeah, it

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01:45:10,280 --> 01:45:13,160
Speaker 1: didn't have to do that. And what makes you think

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Speaker 1: that the Patriots might have had something? I doubt the

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Speaker 1: Patriots were involved in unloading the Chiefs plane at the airport,

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01:45:19,040 --> 01:45:23,160
Speaker 1: but maybe No, who knows. They do hire low level

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Speaker 1: of people to go into the locker rooms. And I

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01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:29,040
Speaker 1: just I was gonna ask Steve whether that's ever happened

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Speaker 1: in his career where the equipment got lost or you know,

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01:45:32,360 --> 01:45:34,840
Speaker 1: two hours before the game or four hours before the

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Speaker 1: game wasn't available. Was that anything? No, I don't remember

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01:45:38,200 --> 01:45:41,559
Speaker 1: anything like that. No, but yeah it's And I laugh

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Speaker 1: when I when Mrs laughing when I tell them they

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01:45:43,560 --> 01:45:48,360
Speaker 1: have we when when a team at an away stadium,

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Speaker 1: particularly with a setup like they had here, in Orchard

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01:45:50,439 --> 01:45:53,799
Speaker 1: Park twenty five years ago, uh and other stadiums as well.

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01:45:54,040 --> 01:45:58,560
Speaker 1: The team leaves and they go away. Now it's commonplace,

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01:45:58,600 --> 01:46:01,120
Speaker 1: but you know, your guy go in and the guy

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01:46:01,200 --> 01:46:03,320
Speaker 1: the same guys that clean your locker room up, clean

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01:46:03,400 --> 01:46:05,800
Speaker 1: their locker room up, and they go through there, and

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01:46:06,600 --> 01:46:12,320
Speaker 1: sometimes inadvertently, these teams leave behind game plans and scouting

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01:46:12,360 --> 01:46:17,959
Speaker 1: reports and everything. They leave stuff behind that was specific

2145
01:46:17,960 --> 01:46:20,640
Speaker 1: to the game, and it's about their thoughts, their thought processes,

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01:46:20,680 --> 01:46:24,000
Speaker 1: their keys, their checks, their matchups and all of that,

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01:46:24,640 --> 01:46:26,720
Speaker 1: and they leave it just laying in the guard in

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01:46:26,760 --> 01:46:29,720
Speaker 1: the in the stalls of their lockers, or you know,

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01:46:29,920 --> 01:46:32,080
Speaker 1: even if it's in the trash cans. They got full

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01:46:32,240 --> 01:46:36,680
Speaker 1: binders in there, you know, and certainly that makes its

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01:46:36,720 --> 01:46:39,240
Speaker 1: way to the guys that can do something with it,

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01:46:39,240 --> 01:46:42,120
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. Um, what's one man's trash

2153
01:46:42,200 --> 01:46:46,759
Speaker 1: is another man's treasure. And it's commonplace for teams now

2154
01:46:46,800 --> 01:46:50,840
Speaker 1: to you know, make sure they sort through their trash

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01:46:50,920 --> 01:46:52,720
Speaker 1: before they leave so they don't leave any of that

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01:46:52,760 --> 01:46:58,080
Speaker 1: stuff behind. So that's all been fair game for decades. So,

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01:46:58,280 --> 01:47:00,760
Speaker 1: but as far as going as far as you know,

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Speaker 1: sabotaging their equipment, getting to the stadium. Yeah, I haven't

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01:47:03,520 --> 01:47:05,760
Speaker 1: seen that, thanks to your called See what if what

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01:47:05,840 --> 01:47:07,920
Speaker 1: if this happened? What if somebody put a fan behind

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Speaker 1: the opposing team's bench that blew all of the paper

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01:47:11,400 --> 01:47:14,080
Speaker 1: pictures of the polaroids and stuff onto the field, And

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01:47:14,120 --> 01:47:16,120
Speaker 1: what if a player on the field went out and

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01:47:16,120 --> 01:47:18,320
Speaker 1: grabbed that picture and started looking at it during the

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Speaker 1: game to the Patriots' bralliots. Isn't that something Patriots ever

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01:47:23,680 --> 01:47:26,920
Speaker 1: done anything like that? I wonder you wouldn't put it

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01:47:26,920 --> 01:47:30,719
Speaker 1: past them, would you? It could happen. I'm just feel

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01:47:30,760 --> 01:47:33,560
Speaker 1: like I've seen that. What would you put past them?

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01:47:33,880 --> 01:47:36,000
Speaker 1: I feel like I've seen that happen before. When we

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Speaker 1: come back, Arthur Moates is going to join this. Former

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Speaker 1: Buffalo and Pittsburgh linebacker now radio host got a new book,

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01:47:41,200 --> 01:47:43,800
Speaker 1: The Moats Theory of Life. We'll talk with Arthur Moates

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01:47:43,840 --> 01:47:45,920
Speaker 1: about it when we return. One. Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Colada Health from the Seneca Studio on Archerd Park. This

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01:47:49,040 --> 01:48:01,800
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back one of Bill's Live.

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01:48:01,880 --> 01:48:04,160
Speaker 1: We're coming to here from the Seneca Studio. It's a

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01:48:04,160 --> 01:48:06,720
Speaker 1: good show. We are a well oiled machine. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the show, John Murphy with Steve Tasker coming to

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Speaker 1: here from our Seneca studio and Archer Park. Special guest

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01:48:11,840 --> 01:48:13,160
Speaker 1: on the show with us now and we talked with

2181
01:48:13,240 --> 01:48:15,479
Speaker 1: him back when the schedule came out about this week,

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01:48:15,600 --> 01:48:17,920
Speaker 1: this game, and he's joining us right now. One of

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Speaker 1: the most popular players in recent Bill's history. Four seasons

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Speaker 1: here are Bill's draft pick in twenty ten, then went

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01:48:23,560 --> 01:48:25,680
Speaker 1: on to play four more with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He

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Speaker 1: hosts the Steelers Nation Radio and the Arthur Moates Experienced

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Speaker 1: podcast in Pittsburgh. The author of a new book, The

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Speaker 1: Moats Theory of Life, available at Moats Theory dot com.

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Speaker 1: Happy to have former Bills linebacker Arthur Moates on the

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Speaker 1: line with us. Hello Arthur, John Murphy and Steve up

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01:48:39,160 --> 01:48:41,880
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Thanks coming on, hey man, I'm glad

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01:48:41,920 --> 01:48:44,200
Speaker 1: to be here always grace seeing you guys and talking

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01:48:44,200 --> 01:48:46,920
Speaker 1: with y'all as well. Yeah, you know, I well, I'll

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01:48:46,920 --> 01:48:48,240
Speaker 1: talk to you about the book in a minute. But

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01:48:48,280 --> 01:48:50,120
Speaker 1: one of the things that the book reminded me was

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01:48:50,479 --> 01:48:53,080
Speaker 1: how much you embedded. You were in just four short years.

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01:48:53,080 --> 01:48:56,280
Speaker 1: You really were a popular and really an active Buffalo

2198
01:48:56,320 --> 01:49:00,439
Speaker 1: Bill and in this community as well, weren't you. Yeah, yes, man,

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01:49:00,920 --> 01:49:04,360
Speaker 1: I learned early on from George Wilson and Brian Scott

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01:49:04,720 --> 01:49:07,120
Speaker 1: that while I'm there, I need to make an impact

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01:49:07,160 --> 01:49:09,760
Speaker 1: off the field. Don't just focus on the on field stuff,

2202
01:49:09,800 --> 01:49:13,240
Speaker 1: but make sure you're impacting these communities because the people

2203
01:49:13,360 --> 01:49:15,800
Speaker 1: there are going to appreciate you so much more for

2204
01:49:15,880 --> 01:49:17,880
Speaker 1: that stuff than anything you've ever done on the field.

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01:49:17,920 --> 01:49:19,800
Speaker 1: And really, that's what your book is about it. It's

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01:49:19,840 --> 01:49:21,840
Speaker 1: so much it's more the lessons you've learned rather than

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01:49:21,880 --> 01:49:23,600
Speaker 1: the plays that you made as a football player. And

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01:49:24,920 --> 01:49:28,000
Speaker 1: for god, most guys like you, me, most of the

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01:49:28,040 --> 01:49:30,519
Speaker 1: guys who played it really is a journey to get

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01:49:30,640 --> 01:49:33,439
Speaker 1: to the NFL just to get on a team, let

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01:49:33,439 --> 01:49:36,160
Speaker 1: alone have a nice career like you did. And some

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01:49:36,200 --> 01:49:39,320
Speaker 1: of the lessons you learn along the way really translate

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01:49:39,360 --> 01:49:41,840
Speaker 1: to every aspect into everybody's life. And that's what you're

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01:49:41,880 --> 01:49:46,479
Speaker 1: really translating here in the book. Correct, Absolutely, I think

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01:49:46,520 --> 01:49:48,320
Speaker 1: that kind of like what you said, man, in terms

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01:49:48,320 --> 01:49:52,120
Speaker 1: of our personal experiences that we acquire along the way,

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01:49:52,200 --> 01:49:54,000
Speaker 1: we can use all those things to help us be

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01:49:54,040 --> 01:49:57,400
Speaker 1: more impactful, more inspirational. And the reason why I want

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01:49:57,479 --> 01:50:00,720
Speaker 1: to make my book more of a health, hope and

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01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:04,919
Speaker 1: inspirational style book versus autobiography. I felt that all athletes,

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01:50:04,920 --> 01:50:06,559
Speaker 1: who are a lot of athletes, once they retire, they

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01:50:06,560 --> 01:50:10,200
Speaker 1: write the autobiography, and once you read it once, you

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01:50:10,200 --> 01:50:11,920
Speaker 1: don't need to pick it up again. There's nothing you're

2224
01:50:11,920 --> 01:50:14,479
Speaker 1: gonna grow and learn from it. Words with this style

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01:50:14,520 --> 01:50:17,679
Speaker 1: of book, this self help style book, this is something

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01:50:17,720 --> 01:50:19,800
Speaker 1: that you could pick up today and read, You're gonna

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01:50:19,840 --> 01:50:21,760
Speaker 1: learn something. You could pick it up six months from now,

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01:50:21,760 --> 01:50:23,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna still grow and learn from it. And that's

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01:50:23,880 --> 01:50:25,920
Speaker 1: how to me what I wanted to do. Arthur Moe

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01:50:26,000 --> 01:50:28,200
Speaker 1: our guests. This book is the most theory of life.

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01:50:28,320 --> 01:50:30,280
Speaker 1: And I open it up to the page that I

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01:50:30,320 --> 01:50:32,600
Speaker 1: was looking at last night, I highlighted it. As you

2233
01:50:32,680 --> 01:50:35,680
Speaker 1: just said, this is not a biography, really an autobiography.

2234
01:50:35,920 --> 01:50:38,040
Speaker 1: So you want to open people up to the greatness

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01:50:38,120 --> 01:50:41,920
Speaker 1: that resides in them. What do you have in mind there, Arthur? Yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: So I feel that people are naturally awesome and a

2237
01:50:45,240 --> 01:50:49,439
Speaker 1: lot of times their life experiences, sometimes their circumstances will

2238
01:50:49,479 --> 01:50:51,400
Speaker 1: put a damper on that, and it will make them

2239
01:50:51,479 --> 01:50:54,080
Speaker 1: think that they aren't worth what they truly are, or

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Speaker 1: they can't accomplish themes that they truly are capable of accomplishing.

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Speaker 1: So for me, when I wrote this book, I wanted

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01:50:59,600 --> 01:51:01,559
Speaker 1: to make sure or that I let them know some

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01:51:01,640 --> 01:51:04,679
Speaker 1: of my some of my things that I felt were

2244
01:51:04,680 --> 01:51:06,840
Speaker 1: holding me back at times or hindering me, to let

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01:51:06,920 --> 01:51:10,680
Speaker 1: them know that you can still overcome these types of obstacles,

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01:51:11,040 --> 01:51:14,439
Speaker 1: all these doubters, and all these other various variables and

2247
01:51:14,520 --> 01:51:17,040
Speaker 1: still achieve great things. Yeah. One of the things about

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01:51:17,040 --> 01:51:20,599
Speaker 1: this book is it benefit all the proceeds benefit the

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Speaker 1: Marine Corps Heritage Foundation that preserves the history and traditions

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Speaker 1: and culture of the Marine Corps. Your dad Arthur Moates,

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Speaker 1: Arthur Nathan Moates, the third or you selected your dad? Yeah,

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01:51:33,280 --> 01:51:36,040
Speaker 1: your dad, your junior. You selected that because he was

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01:51:36,200 --> 01:51:38,320
Speaker 1: a marine for like thirteen years a big part of

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01:51:38,320 --> 01:51:39,960
Speaker 1: his life and a lot of these lessons have to

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Speaker 1: do with the things he learned as a soldier and

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01:51:42,680 --> 01:51:46,080
Speaker 1: passed on to you. Yeah. Absolutely, man. When when we

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Speaker 1: talk about the core values of the Marine Corps and

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01:51:49,360 --> 01:51:53,280
Speaker 1: just the mentality that's associated with those marines, those were

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01:51:53,400 --> 01:51:56,080
Speaker 1: qualities that my father passed along to me daily. It

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01:51:56,160 --> 01:51:59,000
Speaker 1: was so many life lessons, whether it applied to me

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01:51:59,400 --> 01:52:02,360
Speaker 1: in sport. It's me in the classroom once I got older,

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01:52:02,439 --> 01:52:05,680
Speaker 1: me and relationships as well. All of the qualities that

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Speaker 1: he had instid to me at an early age have

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01:52:07,760 --> 01:52:10,960
Speaker 1: paid a I've had a massive impact on my life

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01:52:10,960 --> 01:52:12,599
Speaker 1: to get me to where I am now. With Arthur.

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01:52:12,680 --> 01:52:14,639
Speaker 1: Motor's book is The Motes Theory of Life. And as

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Speaker 1: we mentioned, it's not an autobiographer or Arthur, but you

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01:52:17,160 --> 01:52:19,800
Speaker 1: do tell the story of how and you're senior year

2269
01:52:19,840 --> 01:52:22,400
Speaker 1: at James Madison down to Virginia, you were kind of

2270
01:52:22,400 --> 01:52:24,680
Speaker 1: surprised to learn that you might be drafted, right, tell

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Speaker 1: us that story. Yes, I talk about how coming out

2272
01:52:30,960 --> 01:52:33,960
Speaker 1: of college, no Kiper, he does his pre draft boards

2273
01:52:33,960 --> 01:52:37,720
Speaker 1: and everything like that, and I'm finding out my name

2274
01:52:37,800 --> 01:52:39,800
Speaker 1: is on one of his boards in terms of me

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01:52:39,880 --> 01:52:42,559
Speaker 1: being a guy that she gets selected. And I talk

2276
01:52:42,600 --> 01:52:44,880
Speaker 1: about how the whole draft day happened for me. Where

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01:52:44,920 --> 01:52:47,960
Speaker 1: I'm sitting waiting on this phone call. My family have

2278
01:52:48,080 --> 01:52:50,840
Speaker 1: some of the local media there and I'm not getting

2279
01:52:50,840 --> 01:52:53,360
Speaker 1: a phone call, and these rounds just going by. But

2280
01:52:53,520 --> 01:52:56,240
Speaker 1: then I'll tell about how the giants first called me

2281
01:52:56,280 --> 01:52:58,800
Speaker 1: and they're excited, and I'm getting excited and then from

2282
01:52:58,800 --> 01:53:00,599
Speaker 1: there it's the Falcons that are called him as well.

2283
01:53:01,000 --> 01:53:03,400
Speaker 1: And the whole time, Buddy Knicks he's trying to call

2284
01:53:03,479 --> 01:53:05,599
Speaker 1: my phone to let me know I'm drafted, but they

2285
01:53:05,600 --> 01:53:07,439
Speaker 1: couldn't get it. He couldn't get into my phone. So

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01:53:07,479 --> 01:53:09,840
Speaker 1: you know, I was calling my mother's phone and she

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01:53:10,000 --> 01:53:12,360
Speaker 1: takes the call from Buddy Knicks and they're finding out

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01:53:12,400 --> 01:53:14,800
Speaker 1: that I'm getting drafted before I even can. And it

2289
01:53:14,920 --> 01:53:16,840
Speaker 1: was just an awesome experience for me though. Man, just

2290
01:53:17,200 --> 01:53:19,760
Speaker 1: getting there on that phone and hearingybody Knicks telling me, Man,

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01:53:19,800 --> 01:53:21,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a Buffalo bill, seeing my name go

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01:53:21,880 --> 01:53:23,800
Speaker 1: across that screen, and it was just something I would

2293
01:53:23,800 --> 01:53:26,000
Speaker 1: never forget. It was a good four years here in Buffalo.

2294
01:53:26,040 --> 01:53:28,200
Speaker 1: You went onto the Pittsburgh Steelers, ended up in Arizona.

2295
01:53:28,280 --> 01:53:30,719
Speaker 1: Now you make your home in Pittsburgh. You've been watching

2296
01:53:30,720 --> 01:53:32,760
Speaker 1: this Steelers team that got off to a slow start,

2297
01:53:32,800 --> 01:53:36,479
Speaker 1: stumbling start. Ben Roethlisberger's sideline. They've kind of found it

2298
01:53:36,479 --> 01:53:38,280
Speaker 1: and put it together. Tell us about what you see

2299
01:53:38,280 --> 01:53:43,559
Speaker 1: with this edition of the Steelers with Duck Hodges taking snaps.

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01:53:43,560 --> 01:53:45,040
Speaker 1: So what do you see in this game coming up

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Speaker 1: Sunday night? Yeah? Man, So this Steelers team and a

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01:53:49,280 --> 01:53:51,160
Speaker 1: lot of wins are very similar to how the Bills

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01:53:51,160 --> 01:53:53,280
Speaker 1: have had two women in terms of having an elite

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01:53:53,360 --> 01:53:57,120
Speaker 1: level defense. Now, I granted with the Bills they've had

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01:53:57,200 --> 01:54:00,960
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, who's a far better quarterback, but in Pittsburgh, Man,

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01:54:01,040 --> 01:54:03,759
Speaker 1: they've had to get very creative with how they score

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01:54:03,800 --> 01:54:07,040
Speaker 1: points on offense. This is the technically fourth quarterback because

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01:54:07,080 --> 01:54:09,680
Speaker 1: they started up with Ben Roethlisberger who got hurt six

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01:54:09,760 --> 01:54:12,400
Speaker 1: quarters into the season. Then it went to Mason Rudolph,

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01:54:12,439 --> 01:54:15,320
Speaker 1: but Josh Dobbs was the third quarterback going into the

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01:54:15,360 --> 01:54:19,080
Speaker 1: season and they traded him away to Jacksonville, so they

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01:54:19,200 --> 01:54:23,720
Speaker 1: cut They end up releasing Doug Hodges coming out of

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01:54:23,720 --> 01:54:25,559
Speaker 1: camp and then bringing them back. So from then on,

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01:54:25,920 --> 01:54:29,320
Speaker 1: he takes over midway through the season and has provided

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01:54:29,320 --> 01:54:32,240
Speaker 1: a spark for those guys offensively and defensively they've been

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01:54:32,280 --> 01:54:35,360
Speaker 1: thriving on turnovers. So it's been a roller coaster ride

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01:54:35,760 --> 01:54:38,120
Speaker 1: all season from starting out winning four to win in

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01:54:38,160 --> 01:54:40,600
Speaker 1: seven of the last eight games. But I think that's

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01:54:40,600 --> 01:54:43,040
Speaker 1: who makes this matchup the Bill. So when triguing it

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01:54:43,120 --> 01:54:45,560
Speaker 1: comes Sunday because the Bills are a team that has

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01:54:45,600 --> 01:54:48,720
Speaker 1: been good all season, but hasn't had the type of

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01:54:48,920 --> 01:54:52,160
Speaker 1: national respect or having been talked about in that regard

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01:54:52,560 --> 01:54:54,840
Speaker 1: up until the Thanksgiving game, which you saw them put

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01:54:54,880 --> 01:54:58,040
Speaker 1: on that beautiful display verse to Cowboys. So now you're

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01:54:58,080 --> 01:55:01,600
Speaker 1: starting to see two teams that have that history, two

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01:55:01,600 --> 01:55:04,280
Speaker 1: teams that have been playing real and ultimately going to

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01:55:04,320 --> 01:55:06,600
Speaker 1: see who gets it done in prime time. Man, because

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01:55:06,600 --> 01:55:10,840
Speaker 1: it's major player ramifications on the line too. Arthur Mochart, guests, Farmer, Bills,

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Speaker 1: Farmer Steelers linebacker. Arthur. You played for Mike Tomlin there

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Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, and I will confess I'd never I didn't

2331
01:55:16,840 --> 01:55:20,000
Speaker 1: have negative thoughts about Mike Tomlin, just didn't think much

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01:55:20,040 --> 01:55:22,160
Speaker 1: of him even with the Super Bowl win. But this

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01:55:22,240 --> 01:55:24,080
Speaker 1: year has impressed me. And what has he done this

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01:55:24,160 --> 01:55:27,480
Speaker 1: year to keep that group going and together without Roethlisberger,

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01:55:27,560 --> 01:55:30,920
Speaker 1: without Antonio Brown, without Leveon Bell. How is Mike Tomlin

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01:55:30,960 --> 01:55:33,000
Speaker 1: managed to keep that group going and have him challenging

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01:55:33,040 --> 01:55:36,280
Speaker 1: for a playoff spot? Yeah, man, I think the biggest

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01:55:36,320 --> 01:55:38,520
Speaker 1: game with coach Thomlin. And you're not the only one

2339
01:55:38,560 --> 01:55:41,040
Speaker 1: who may have thought that he didn't do much because

2340
01:55:41,040 --> 01:55:44,440
Speaker 1: even if Pittsburgh sometimes the conversation was he's only one

2341
01:55:44,760 --> 01:55:47,240
Speaker 1: with Bill Cowards players, or he's only had success because

2342
01:55:47,240 --> 01:55:49,360
Speaker 1: he's had a Hall of Fame quarterback his whole tenure.

2343
01:55:49,760 --> 01:55:53,000
Speaker 1: But I think this year, when you strip away all

2344
01:55:53,040 --> 01:55:56,320
Speaker 1: of the offensive assets that he's been accustomed to having,

2345
01:55:56,680 --> 01:56:00,400
Speaker 1: when you go into hostile environments, you're winning with Mason Rudolph,

2346
01:56:00,400 --> 01:56:03,440
Speaker 1: who struggled mightily in his time here, when you win

2347
01:56:03,560 --> 01:56:05,960
Speaker 1: games with Douck Hodges, who was, like I said, a

2348
01:56:06,000 --> 01:56:10,320
Speaker 1: street free agent. I mean, just the combination of them

2349
01:56:10,360 --> 01:56:13,240
Speaker 1: finding ways to get it an offensively and them having

2350
01:56:13,240 --> 01:56:16,400
Speaker 1: an elite level defense, which is his specialty. I think

2351
01:56:16,440 --> 01:56:19,480
Speaker 1: those are the reasons why he's being viewed differently this

2352
01:56:19,560 --> 01:56:22,920
Speaker 1: season and why he's getting the acknowledgement this season because

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01:56:22,960 --> 01:56:25,360
Speaker 1: a lot of times, when you have the piece that

2354
01:56:25,360 --> 01:56:28,200
Speaker 1: he's had with a Baron Roethlisberg, with the Levon Bill,

2355
01:56:28,280 --> 01:56:32,600
Speaker 1: with Antonio Brown, sometimes it's easy to overlook or you

2356
01:56:32,880 --> 01:56:35,720
Speaker 1: make excuses in terms of how a person's being successful.

2357
01:56:35,760 --> 01:56:37,800
Speaker 1: I think that's what he was experiencing early on, Like

2358
01:56:37,800 --> 01:56:40,560
Speaker 1: you said, when you've you've got a rotating carousel at

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01:56:40,600 --> 01:56:42,600
Speaker 1: quarterback like the Steelers had for a few weeks and

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01:56:42,880 --> 01:56:44,800
Speaker 1: now they've kind of settled on Hodges, I guess, but

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01:56:45,320 --> 01:56:47,480
Speaker 1: and they're kind of settling in. They've won eight out

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01:56:47,480 --> 01:56:49,240
Speaker 1: of their last ten, and they're doing it with the

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01:56:49,280 --> 01:56:51,920
Speaker 1: other side of the football. Their defense is elite and

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01:56:52,000 --> 01:56:56,120
Speaker 1: it starts with really for me, their defensive ends and

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01:56:56,480 --> 01:56:59,160
Speaker 1: Minka Fitzpatrick in the back end. Let's first talk about

2366
01:56:59,200 --> 01:57:01,320
Speaker 1: the front end, the front seven. Those guys are really

2367
01:57:01,320 --> 01:57:04,640
Speaker 1: getting after it. Yeah, without a doubt, it starts with

2368
01:57:04,920 --> 01:57:07,720
Speaker 1: TJ White and Bud Dupree. Obviously TJ sitting at twelve

2369
01:57:07,760 --> 01:57:09,760
Speaker 1: and a half sacks, but it has nine and a

2370
01:57:09,800 --> 01:57:13,720
Speaker 1: half sacks. When you have two guys like those who

2371
01:57:13,760 --> 01:57:16,600
Speaker 1: can just get after the quarterback and set the tone

2372
01:57:16,640 --> 01:57:20,560
Speaker 1: early on, they provide the way that the defense rides.

2373
01:57:20,920 --> 01:57:23,160
Speaker 1: And with Bud, he was the question mark coming into

2374
01:57:23,160 --> 01:57:25,680
Speaker 1: the season in terms of him having the ability, but

2375
01:57:25,880 --> 01:57:29,200
Speaker 1: his productivity wasn't matching up well. Now this year you're

2376
01:57:29,240 --> 01:57:31,800
Speaker 1: seeing him put it all together. In the addition of

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01:57:31,880 --> 01:57:35,160
Speaker 1: Meca Fitzpatrick has been nothing short of amazing, the amount

2378
01:57:35,160 --> 01:57:37,360
Speaker 1: of turnovers, the amount of splash place he's been able

2379
01:57:37,360 --> 01:57:41,000
Speaker 1: to provide. Ultimately, having a guy to just wipe out

2380
01:57:41,040 --> 01:57:43,440
Speaker 1: any mistake that may be made by the guys in

2381
01:57:43,480 --> 01:57:45,840
Speaker 1: front of him. That's special, and I think that's why

2382
01:57:45,880 --> 01:57:47,560
Speaker 1: this defense has been playing at such a high level.

2383
01:57:47,840 --> 01:57:50,000
Speaker 1: What's it gonna be like there, Arthur, you played here

2384
01:57:50,040 --> 01:57:53,240
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, some great home crowds. Now you got heinz Field,

2385
01:57:53,280 --> 01:57:55,400
Speaker 1: You've played there as well. They you know they're gonna

2386
01:57:55,400 --> 01:57:58,760
Speaker 1: blast Renegade by sticks as the fourth quarter beginnings. It's

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01:57:59,400 --> 01:58:02,720
Speaker 1: it's It's similar to the atmosphere that Bill trans create

2388
01:58:02,800 --> 01:58:06,400
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo, isn't it. Absolutely. I always tell people

2389
01:58:06,400 --> 01:58:08,640
Speaker 1: I was very fortunate to be able to play in

2390
01:58:08,680 --> 01:58:12,800
Speaker 1: front of two just insane fan bases. It's rare because

2391
01:58:13,040 --> 01:58:15,960
Speaker 1: spending that last year in Arizona, it's nothing like that.

2392
01:58:16,480 --> 01:58:19,200
Speaker 1: But when you talk about these fan bases, when you

2393
01:58:19,200 --> 01:58:21,680
Speaker 1: talk about putting them in a prime time game with

2394
01:58:21,840 --> 01:58:26,520
Speaker 1: major pluff implications, it's gonna be a very memorable experience,

2395
01:58:26,560 --> 01:58:28,400
Speaker 1: not only for the people in stadium, but the people

2396
01:58:28,400 --> 01:58:30,640
Speaker 1: that are watching it on TV. This is gonna be

2397
01:58:30,680 --> 01:58:32,800
Speaker 1: something that you don't want to miss. And I'm just

2398
01:58:32,840 --> 01:58:34,240
Speaker 1: glad to say that I was a part of both

2399
01:58:34,280 --> 01:58:38,240
Speaker 1: of these organizations because they're very storied, they're very respectable

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01:58:38,240 --> 01:58:40,680
Speaker 1: in terms of the history of their organizations. But when

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01:58:40,720 --> 01:58:43,320
Speaker 1: you're putting these two together with the fan bases, Bill's

2402
01:58:43,360 --> 01:58:46,720
Speaker 1: Mafia still a nation, is going to be a sight disease. Yeah,

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01:58:46,960 --> 01:58:48,520
Speaker 1: this week, the Steelers are gonna get a shot in

2404
01:58:48,520 --> 01:58:50,560
Speaker 1: the arm. It looks like Juju, Smith Schuster and James

2405
01:58:50,600 --> 01:58:52,640
Speaker 1: Connor are gonna get back in the into the lineup.

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01:58:53,800 --> 01:58:55,800
Speaker 1: Hard to win games without those guys, but you've been

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01:58:55,800 --> 01:58:58,040
Speaker 1: getting it done and now they're getting to boost. This

2408
01:58:58,160 --> 01:59:00,520
Speaker 1: could be just in time for the Steelers to really

2409
01:59:00,920 --> 01:59:03,720
Speaker 1: kicking in gear and pushed towards the postseason. That's got

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01:59:03,720 --> 01:59:08,200
Speaker 1: to be their mindset. Yeah, it definitely is. James Connor

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01:59:08,240 --> 01:59:10,839
Speaker 1: has been, you know, trying to come back in practice

2412
01:59:11,120 --> 01:59:13,120
Speaker 1: over the past couple of weeks, but he had a

2413
01:59:13,160 --> 01:59:15,400
Speaker 1: shoulder injury and he had a setback when he played

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01:59:15,440 --> 01:59:18,240
Speaker 1: against the Browns on the Thursday night game, so he

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01:59:18,320 --> 01:59:21,320
Speaker 1: was pretty cautious going into these past couple of weeks.

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01:59:21,520 --> 01:59:24,280
Speaker 1: With Juju, here's a similar situation coming back from a

2417
01:59:24,360 --> 01:59:26,080
Speaker 1: knee injury. So it's still up in the air in

2418
01:59:26,160 --> 01:59:29,200
Speaker 1: terms of with their full availability will be. But having

2419
01:59:29,240 --> 01:59:30,920
Speaker 1: those guys come back is definitely going to help out

2420
01:59:30,920 --> 01:59:33,400
Speaker 1: the offense that needs all the help it can get

2421
01:59:33,640 --> 01:59:36,480
Speaker 1: and like you said, when you're talking about plolifications, you

2422
01:59:36,520 --> 01:59:39,080
Speaker 1: look at the wild card seatings right now. I mean,

2423
01:59:39,200 --> 01:59:41,760
Speaker 1: these are the two teams Buffalo and Pittsburgh. They've pretty

2424
01:59:41,840 --> 01:59:45,320
Speaker 1: much put a lock on those, and we're basically trying

2425
01:59:45,320 --> 01:59:47,480
Speaker 1: to figure out who's gonna be what ce going forward.

2426
01:59:47,880 --> 01:59:51,000
Speaker 1: But I think that that's just a testament to both organizations,

2427
01:59:51,040 --> 01:59:53,800
Speaker 1: both coaching staffs. I mean, obviously Sean McDermott has done

2428
01:59:53,800 --> 01:59:56,840
Speaker 1: a phenomenal job turning around the Bills and getting them

2429
01:59:56,880 --> 01:59:58,880
Speaker 1: to where they are right now. But it's gonna be

2430
01:59:58,920 --> 02:00:02,080
Speaker 1: an exciting game comes Sunday night. Arthur, do you dare

2431
02:00:02,160 --> 02:00:05,520
Speaker 1: making predictions on Steelers Nation Radio or the Arthur Most

2432
02:00:05,600 --> 02:00:07,960
Speaker 1: Experienced podcasts? And if so, who do you got in

2433
02:00:07,960 --> 02:00:11,200
Speaker 1: this game? Who do you like? Oh? Man, See, this

2434
02:00:11,280 --> 02:00:13,600
Speaker 1: is the one week where I'm like, not even trying

2435
02:00:13,640 --> 02:00:18,160
Speaker 1: to go down that I'm making predictions. You're torn, I

2436
02:00:18,160 --> 02:00:20,400
Speaker 1: get it. Let's tell people. I tell people all the time.

2437
02:00:20,440 --> 02:00:24,560
Speaker 1: I'm like, I picked Buffalo anytime they're playing somebody except

2438
02:00:24,600 --> 02:00:26,200
Speaker 1: the Steelers, and I picked the Steels every time they're

2439
02:00:26,200 --> 02:00:28,320
Speaker 1: playing somebody except when the Buffalo. I don't I don't

2440
02:00:28,320 --> 02:00:31,720
Speaker 1: like this matchup at all. Man, Well, maybe you're like,

2441
02:00:31,760 --> 02:00:33,560
Speaker 1: I got one more question about the book for you,

2442
02:00:33,600 --> 02:00:35,640
Speaker 1: and again I didn't finish it. I started it. But

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02:00:36,320 --> 02:00:40,360
Speaker 1: the early chapter chapter em make happiness a priority. Tell

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02:00:40,400 --> 02:00:43,400
Speaker 1: me what your theory is there, Arthur. Yeah, So when

2445
02:00:43,400 --> 02:00:46,680
Speaker 1: I talk about making happiness a priority, so many times

2446
02:00:46,840 --> 02:00:49,720
Speaker 1: in life people would do something to please somebody else,

2447
02:00:50,160 --> 02:00:52,760
Speaker 1: whether you're staying in a relationship because you want to

2448
02:00:52,800 --> 02:00:55,520
Speaker 1: make the other person happy, You're staying at this job

2449
02:00:55,560 --> 02:00:58,040
Speaker 1: because it makes this person happy, but all the time

2450
02:00:58,080 --> 02:01:01,240
Speaker 1: you're putting your own happiness on the back burner. And

2451
02:01:01,280 --> 02:01:03,960
Speaker 1: I tell people that you can't continue to live like that,

2452
02:01:04,080 --> 02:01:06,920
Speaker 1: no matter who you're trying to please, because ultimate you're

2453
02:01:06,920 --> 02:01:10,040
Speaker 1: gonna burn yourself out and you're gonna you're gonna self destruct.

2454
02:01:10,320 --> 02:01:12,640
Speaker 1: And I talk about some of my personal experiences and

2455
02:01:12,720 --> 02:01:15,240
Speaker 1: how I was doing that a little bit and how

2456
02:01:15,280 --> 02:01:18,840
Speaker 1: it hurt me. But I want in that chapter people

2457
02:01:18,880 --> 02:01:21,880
Speaker 1: to learn from my mistakes and learn from my shortcomings

2458
02:01:21,880 --> 02:01:24,200
Speaker 1: in that regard, so that way that if they are

2459
02:01:24,240 --> 02:01:26,480
Speaker 1: in a similar situation or going down a similar path,

2460
02:01:26,840 --> 02:01:29,320
Speaker 1: they can overcome their obstacles and get better at that.

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02:01:29,440 --> 02:01:32,000
Speaker 1: You said you set out to write an inspirational book,

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02:01:32,000 --> 02:01:34,800
Speaker 1: and I think you've succeeded. Arthur. Tell us how our

2463
02:01:34,840 --> 02:01:37,240
Speaker 1: listeners and viewers can get a hold of this book,

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02:01:37,280 --> 02:01:40,880
Speaker 1: The Most Theory of Life. Yeah, man, I definitely appreciate you. Man.

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02:01:41,400 --> 02:01:43,440
Speaker 1: If you want to purchase the book, it's at most

2466
02:01:43,560 --> 02:01:48,120
Speaker 1: theory dot com, so literally just m Oats theory dot com.

2467
02:01:48,440 --> 02:01:51,240
Speaker 1: And yeah, we also have a holiday bundle packages, so

2468
02:01:51,240 --> 02:01:53,040
Speaker 1: that way if you want to get the book before Christmas,

2469
02:01:53,040 --> 02:01:55,000
Speaker 1: it makes a great Christmas gift stock and stuff for

2470
02:01:55,120 --> 02:01:57,920
Speaker 1: that's available. And these are the paperbacks and then we

2471
02:01:58,000 --> 02:02:01,960
Speaker 1: also have the hardbacks. They'll be releasing after the new year. Well, Arthur,

2472
02:02:02,120 --> 02:02:04,880
Speaker 1: making happiness a priority is gonna be something we're happy

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02:02:04,920 --> 02:02:06,880
Speaker 1: you were on the show. Appreciate It's great talking to

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02:02:07,000 --> 02:02:08,560
Speaker 1: you man. Maybe we'll get a chance to cross the

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02:02:08,600 --> 02:02:11,920
Speaker 1: path soon. Yeah, man, I definitely appreciate you guys having

2476
02:02:11,960 --> 02:02:14,880
Speaker 1: me on and always go Bills. Don't let him hear

2477
02:02:14,920 --> 02:02:17,320
Speaker 1: you say that. Down there on the Steelers Nation podcast,

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02:02:17,960 --> 02:02:21,640
Speaker 1: Arthur Moats our guests former Bills linebacker, former Steelers linebacker.

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02:02:21,920 --> 02:02:24,920
Speaker 1: His book again is The Moats Theory of Life, available

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02:02:24,960 --> 02:02:27,240
Speaker 1: at Moats theory dot com, and we thank Arthur for

2481
02:02:27,560 --> 02:02:30,040
Speaker 1: joining us. Always a good guy, always a big smile

2482
02:02:30,040 --> 02:02:33,160
Speaker 1: on his face. One of my favorites, and certainly I

2483
02:02:33,240 --> 02:02:34,960
Speaker 1: know many fans feel like he was one of the

2484
02:02:35,000 --> 02:02:37,400
Speaker 1: favorite players for a long time around Don't cross the moat.

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02:02:37,600 --> 02:02:40,640
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, it's great. Yeah, you can tell too.

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02:02:40,720 --> 02:02:43,400
Speaker 1: He's that happy to make happiness a priority. He comes

2487
02:02:43,440 --> 02:02:46,720
Speaker 1: across as being exactly that happy, and he's We've had

2488
02:02:46,760 --> 02:02:50,800
Speaker 1: him on the show a couple three times, yep. Always upbeat,

2489
02:02:50,840 --> 02:02:53,000
Speaker 1: always just like he was today. So it's nice to see.

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02:02:53,040 --> 02:02:55,400
Speaker 1: The book's interesting. I'm leaving on my desk picking up

2491
02:02:55,440 --> 02:02:58,520
Speaker 1: something and it's not like Warren Peace either. You can

2492
02:02:58,520 --> 02:03:01,880
Speaker 1: finish that thing. I don't know how many pages, eighty

2493
02:03:01,920 --> 02:03:04,800
Speaker 1: nine pages, and it's all pretty good stuff into rationals

2494
02:03:05,200 --> 02:03:07,839
Speaker 1: thanks to Arthur. I hope to see him Sunday at Hinesfield.

2495
02:03:07,880 --> 02:03:09,440
Speaker 1: I hope we see him up in the press box. Hey,

2496
02:03:09,440 --> 02:03:11,960
Speaker 1: we're talking about that game, the Bills and the Steelers,

2497
02:03:12,000 --> 02:03:13,840
Speaker 1: and our Twitter poll today. If the Bills have an

2498
02:03:13,840 --> 02:03:16,320
Speaker 1: advantage over the Steelers, what is it? What do you think?

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

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Speaker 1: two five fifty couple of calls here, Jim and Oli

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02:03:22,240 --> 02:03:25,640
Speaker 1: and hello, Jim, you're on the air. Good show. I

2502
02:03:25,720 --> 02:03:29,879
Speaker 1: listened to you every day. Thanks Jim ol Samer. Hey,

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02:03:30,120 --> 02:03:35,440
Speaker 1: two plays. If Steve's got connections, the offensive coordinator, Jim

2504
02:03:35,520 --> 02:03:39,280
Speaker 1: Kelly and them and Allen get together. Remember the Therman

2505
02:03:39,400 --> 02:03:42,760
Speaker 1: Thomas and Singletary reminds me in short spaces of him

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02:03:43,360 --> 02:03:45,880
Speaker 1: our quarter. How about a running back to lay draw

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02:03:46,320 --> 02:03:49,320
Speaker 1: like Allen strolling, Allen strolling, all of a sudden he

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02:03:49,360 --> 02:03:52,960
Speaker 1: hands off to and away he went Thurman or fake

2509
02:03:53,040 --> 02:03:55,120
Speaker 1: it to him up the line and hit him ten

2510
02:03:55,200 --> 02:03:58,120
Speaker 1: yards in the center of the field. That's all I'll listen,

2511
02:03:58,200 --> 02:04:01,680
Speaker 1: Hang up and listen. Okay, keep drawing plays up. Maybe

2512
02:04:01,840 --> 02:04:03,280
Speaker 1: some of them will work. I don't know. I mean,

2513
02:04:03,320 --> 02:04:06,640
Speaker 1: we don't have It's not like brad day ball doesn't

2514
02:04:06,680 --> 02:04:11,240
Speaker 1: meet with us. I know that. So yeah, Jim has

2515
02:04:12,560 --> 02:04:15,080
Speaker 1: as far as x's and OS goes, it's far beyond

2516
02:04:15,280 --> 02:04:18,240
Speaker 1: what Jim and the Bills used to run when I

2517
02:04:18,280 --> 02:04:20,280
Speaker 1: was playing at Jim was playing and stuff. Their offense

2518
02:04:20,360 --> 02:04:23,160
Speaker 1: is completely different now. Certainly there are concepts inside there

2519
02:04:23,480 --> 02:04:25,240
Speaker 1: with some of the no huddle stuff that we ran

2520
02:04:25,320 --> 02:04:28,320
Speaker 1: back in the early nineties. Some of this stuff is

2521
02:04:28,320 --> 02:04:30,760
Speaker 1: timeless and if they don't, if they're not aware of

2522
02:04:30,760 --> 02:04:32,880
Speaker 1: it or not ready for it, it can get them still.

2523
02:04:33,480 --> 02:04:35,960
Speaker 1: But I think one thing that Jim does more for Josh,

2524
02:04:36,080 --> 02:04:38,640
Speaker 1: rather than just telling them about hey, run this time

2525
02:04:38,680 --> 02:04:40,760
Speaker 1: to play, run that kind of play, it's more about listen,

2526
02:04:40,800 --> 02:04:43,960
Speaker 1: think this, This is how you handle this situation. This

2527
02:04:44,040 --> 02:04:46,000
Speaker 1: is what happened to me. This is how I handled it.

2528
02:04:46,040 --> 02:04:49,040
Speaker 1: Here was the result. You're kind of in this situation.

2529
02:04:49,800 --> 02:04:51,640
Speaker 1: Maybe you can should handle it this way? You know

2530
02:04:51,680 --> 02:04:54,200
Speaker 1: that kind of It's a it's a mindset of being

2531
02:04:54,240 --> 02:04:56,760
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback. How to handle the media, how to

2532
02:04:56,800 --> 02:05:00,520
Speaker 1: handle your teammates, how to handle meetings with your wide receivers,

2533
02:05:00,520 --> 02:05:02,120
Speaker 1: and what you tell them, what you're thinking and what

2534
02:05:02,160 --> 02:05:04,440
Speaker 1: they're thinking. I mean, that's more where Jim can come

2535
02:05:04,480 --> 02:05:07,160
Speaker 1: into it. It's not more about which plays to call

2536
02:05:07,360 --> 02:05:09,720
Speaker 1: or whatever. And maybe Jim does have some advice on

2537
02:05:09,760 --> 02:05:12,960
Speaker 1: how to hit the deep ball, but it's more generally

2538
02:05:13,000 --> 02:05:15,600
Speaker 1: speaking rather than specific excess and knows when those guys

2539
02:05:15,600 --> 02:05:18,120
Speaker 1: get together. That's my opinion. Yeah, I like the way

2540
02:05:18,120 --> 02:05:19,600
Speaker 1: you're thinking, and you just said something to kind of

2541
02:05:19,600 --> 02:05:22,720
Speaker 1: register with me. The mindset of being a franchise quarterback.

2542
02:05:23,120 --> 02:05:26,200
Speaker 1: There's probably what fifty people in America who have that

2543
02:05:26,280 --> 02:05:28,080
Speaker 1: mindset or have ever had that mindset, you know what

2544
02:05:28,160 --> 02:05:30,600
Speaker 1: I mean. It's a small group. It's a very small group.

2545
02:05:30,680 --> 02:05:34,520
Speaker 1: And in Buffalo it's an even tinier group of franchise quarterbacks.

2546
02:05:34,520 --> 02:05:37,400
Speaker 1: And basically there's only been Kelly plus Josh over the

2547
02:05:37,480 --> 02:05:42,800
Speaker 1: last twenty five years. You've had a very small group.

2548
02:05:42,800 --> 02:05:45,240
Speaker 1: You guys trickle through. Drew Bledsoe was here, he knows

2549
02:05:45,240 --> 02:05:49,440
Speaker 1: what that was like. Um, but it is a mindset

2550
02:05:49,480 --> 02:05:50,800
Speaker 1: that you have to do because there are a lot

2551
02:05:50,840 --> 02:05:53,640
Speaker 1: of things that franchise quarterback is called on to do

2552
02:05:53,680 --> 02:05:56,920
Speaker 1: that have nothing to do with win in losing. Right, Yeah,

2553
02:05:56,960 --> 02:05:58,880
Speaker 1: they don't have They didn't have a special teams guy

2554
02:05:58,920 --> 02:06:03,480
Speaker 1: doing the media Wednesday media scrum every Wednesday. You know.

2555
02:06:04,160 --> 02:06:08,800
Speaker 1: They didn't have wide receivers doing media availability every single week.

2556
02:06:09,160 --> 02:06:12,240
Speaker 1: There were production meetings before there's production meetings before every game.

2557
02:06:12,240 --> 02:06:14,000
Speaker 1: As you can mend this last week, I an Eagle,

2558
02:06:14,120 --> 02:06:17,200
Speaker 1: Dan Fouts. You have meetings with the teams and their

2559
02:06:17,240 --> 02:06:19,440
Speaker 1: players before the game. You sit down and talk like

2560
02:06:19,520 --> 02:06:21,160
Speaker 1: Murph and I talk every day. They sit down and

2561
02:06:21,160 --> 02:06:24,680
Speaker 1: talk with them. The quarterback is absolutely required to be

2562
02:06:24,760 --> 02:06:27,000
Speaker 1: there by the league that the networks asked for him.

2563
02:06:27,040 --> 02:06:29,160
Speaker 1: Every time they talk to him, they get relationships. In fact,

2564
02:06:29,840 --> 02:06:33,000
Speaker 1: it happens so much. You get a situation like way

2565
02:06:33,040 --> 02:06:35,880
Speaker 1: back in the day. You know, the Dallas Cowboys are

2566
02:06:35,880 --> 02:06:37,960
Speaker 1: always on TV and they always get a number one crew.

2567
02:06:38,080 --> 02:06:41,560
Speaker 1: So John Madden did so many Dallas Cowboy games that

2568
02:06:41,680 --> 02:06:44,960
Speaker 1: he had meetings on a weekly basis with Troy Aikman

2569
02:06:45,040 --> 02:06:47,800
Speaker 1: and those guys. Right, Aikman invited him to his wedding.

2570
02:06:50,720 --> 02:06:53,760
Speaker 1: You know it's crazy that, yeah, So that kind of

2571
02:06:53,760 --> 02:06:55,760
Speaker 1: stuff happens. It's a it's a it's a game of

2572
02:06:55,800 --> 02:06:59,080
Speaker 1: relationships that you carry with you and how you handle those.

2573
02:06:59,600 --> 02:07:02,320
Speaker 1: Listen to fifty three guys in the locker room, all

2574
02:07:02,360 --> 02:07:04,360
Speaker 1: of them. You gotta be hitting on fifty three cylinders

2575
02:07:04,360 --> 02:07:07,400
Speaker 1: to win a Super Bowl. So the quarterback, the top guy,

2576
02:07:07,480 --> 02:07:10,400
Speaker 1: and the rosters gotta click with all of those guys,

2577
02:07:10,760 --> 02:07:13,520
Speaker 1: even the deep the backup, strong safety on the other

2578
02:07:13,520 --> 02:07:15,320
Speaker 1: side of the ball. You never were getting a meeting

2579
02:07:15,320 --> 02:07:17,960
Speaker 1: with him. You gotta click with those guys. So how

2580
02:07:18,000 --> 02:07:21,840
Speaker 1: to handle that. It's an art form. You mentioned Josh

2581
02:07:21,880 --> 02:07:23,800
Speaker 1: meeting with the media every Wednesday. He did it today.

2582
02:07:23,880 --> 02:07:26,040
Speaker 1: Let's listen in. We'll start with the first question about

2583
02:07:26,040 --> 02:07:28,520
Speaker 1: this game. Josh Hanlon, meeting with the media just moments

2584
02:07:28,520 --> 02:07:34,120
Speaker 1: ago here in Orchard Park. Yeah. I mean they're playing

2585
02:07:34,120 --> 02:07:38,080
Speaker 1: extremely well. I'bously taking away the ball, sacking the quarterback

2586
02:07:38,200 --> 02:07:39,920
Speaker 1: at a very high rate. I think they lead the

2587
02:07:39,960 --> 02:07:42,560
Speaker 1: league in both those statistics. You know, they got some

2588
02:07:42,600 --> 02:07:45,400
Speaker 1: young players that are moving well, moving around well off

2589
02:07:45,440 --> 02:07:47,160
Speaker 1: the edge, they get to the quarterbacks, and they play

2590
02:07:47,240 --> 02:07:50,800
Speaker 1: really smart coverage. So it's gonna be very tough for

2591
02:07:50,880 --> 02:07:53,480
Speaker 1: us mentally this week, and we gotta go in, prepare

2592
02:07:53,560 --> 02:07:56,440
Speaker 1: and watch as much film as we can and be

2593
02:07:56,560 --> 02:07:59,840
Speaker 1: ready for you know, another four quarter game. There you go.

2594
02:08:00,040 --> 02:08:03,880
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's brief comments. Sean McDermott I thought had interesting

2595
02:08:03,920 --> 02:08:05,720
Speaker 1: things to say today this morning, Steve. When you talk

2596
02:08:05,760 --> 02:08:08,280
Speaker 1: about the Steelers franchise kind of a model for the

2597
02:08:08,280 --> 02:08:10,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, Right, why wouldn't you model your franchise after

2598
02:08:10,960 --> 02:08:13,520
Speaker 1: what Pittsburgh has done. And here's what coach McDermot said

2599
02:08:13,560 --> 02:08:16,320
Speaker 1: this morning about the Steelers franchise over the years and

2600
02:08:16,320 --> 02:08:18,280
Speaker 1: how it serves as a model for the Bills and

2601
02:08:18,320 --> 02:08:21,240
Speaker 1: the rest of the NFL. And you look at the

2602
02:08:21,240 --> 02:08:24,720
Speaker 1: way that that the Pittsburgh just the organization has excusing me,

2603
02:08:24,760 --> 02:08:29,120
Speaker 1: has done things and how they've built it right from

2604
02:08:29,240 --> 02:08:33,040
Speaker 1: the continuity and consistency that they've had in their in

2605
02:08:33,080 --> 02:08:35,040
Speaker 1: their level, in their high level positions, and the way

2606
02:08:35,040 --> 02:08:37,320
Speaker 1: they've been able to build it at the player level.

2607
02:08:38,440 --> 02:08:40,840
Speaker 1: I think the tradition speaks for itself. It really does.

2608
02:08:40,880 --> 02:08:44,040
Speaker 1: And Mike working with Kevin, I think that's been again

2609
02:08:44,080 --> 02:08:47,560
Speaker 1: outside looking in, has been a good a good relationship.

2610
02:08:47,680 --> 02:08:50,200
Speaker 1: And yeah, there's been tough times. There always is in

2611
02:08:50,240 --> 02:08:53,200
Speaker 1: the organizations I've been around have all been successful. We've

2612
02:08:53,240 --> 02:08:55,480
Speaker 1: gone through some of those same times, but you weather

2613
02:08:55,600 --> 02:08:58,840
Speaker 1: the storm when you have good leadership and you've got

2614
02:08:58,880 --> 02:09:01,880
Speaker 1: consistency at Sean McDermot, let's take another phone call here,

2615
02:09:01,920 --> 02:09:04,040
Speaker 1: let's go to Tony in his car. Tony, go ahead,

2616
02:09:04,040 --> 02:09:06,440
Speaker 1: you're on the air with this. Hey, guys, how are

2617
02:09:06,440 --> 02:09:09,400
Speaker 1: you okay? I'm doing well. I'm gonna go through with

2618
02:09:09,480 --> 02:09:11,640
Speaker 1: three things. I'm gonna go in nohall here. So first

2619
02:09:11,680 --> 02:09:14,200
Speaker 1: time we're gonna talk about the Sunday night game. The

2620
02:09:14,200 --> 02:09:18,280
Speaker 1: pifth first Steelers have owned us practically for twenty six seasons,

2621
02:09:18,800 --> 02:09:22,560
Speaker 1: going back to the fourth Super Bowl year on Monday Night.

2622
02:09:23,480 --> 02:09:26,920
Speaker 1: We played three consecutive Monday Night games and then that

2623
02:09:27,040 --> 02:09:30,280
Speaker 1: playoff game in ninety five. I swear in those four games,

2624
02:09:30,720 --> 02:09:33,280
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly lost four years off of his career just

2625
02:09:33,320 --> 02:09:35,520
Speaker 1: because of the beatings we took. I'm still not over

2626
02:09:35,720 --> 02:09:39,920
Speaker 1: at twenty. Okay, Well, and I task I know how

2627
02:09:39,960 --> 02:09:45,560
Speaker 1: you probably feel. All right, I'll what's your second thing? Listen,

2628
02:09:46,360 --> 02:09:49,040
Speaker 1: you had that football man on I I caught that

2629
02:09:49,240 --> 02:09:51,280
Speaker 1: the last part of that interview, and he talked about

2630
02:09:52,080 --> 02:09:55,400
Speaker 1: Gable and Alan working together and how they are progressing.

2631
02:09:55,840 --> 02:09:58,920
Speaker 1: And we have this movement in our nation, Bill's nation,

2632
02:09:59,000 --> 02:10:02,480
Speaker 1: how people are all always downing the play calling. It's

2633
02:10:02,480 --> 02:10:06,000
Speaker 1: a quarterback. Listen, leave these guys alone. This is like

2634
02:10:06,320 --> 02:10:09,720
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly and Ted marsh broder rein Karnet. This guy's

2635
02:10:09,760 --> 02:10:13,080
Speaker 1: the coordinators won Super bowls with the Patriots, and now

2636
02:10:13,080 --> 02:10:16,920
Speaker 1: I'll get to the Patriots. Steve. I'm with you on this.

2637
02:10:16,920 --> 02:10:19,200
Speaker 1: This is a three time offender. If they were criminals,

2638
02:10:19,200 --> 02:10:21,480
Speaker 1: and if this was a criminal penalty, and if it

2639
02:10:21,560 --> 02:10:24,839
Speaker 1: was a felony, they'd be going to prison for life

2640
02:10:24,880 --> 02:10:30,800
Speaker 1: if convicted for Yeah, listen, they're cheaters, Okay, And there's

2641
02:10:30,800 --> 02:10:32,720
Speaker 1: no doubt that they just found a new inventive way

2642
02:10:32,760 --> 02:10:35,520
Speaker 1: to do it. And this is my thing. They should

2643
02:10:35,560 --> 02:10:37,720
Speaker 1: be no evidence of that. I've listened to, Tony, but

2644
02:10:37,720 --> 02:10:40,400
Speaker 1: there is no evidence of that. But go ahead, Okay, Well,

2645
02:10:40,440 --> 02:10:43,000
Speaker 1: you know, if they're found guilty, they should be kicked

2646
02:10:43,000 --> 02:10:46,480
Speaker 1: out of one draft. They should have their salary cap

2647
02:10:46,560 --> 02:10:50,400
Speaker 1: cut by fifty percent for three seasons. Bill Pelichick, you

2648
02:10:50,440 --> 02:10:53,280
Speaker 1: get a five year suspension from football. And that's dak

2649
02:10:53,520 --> 02:10:58,000
Speaker 1: tough guy. Okay, all right, Tony, thanks, there you go, Murph,

2650
02:10:58,080 --> 02:11:00,839
Speaker 1: there's there's some scar tissue there for you, and there's

2651
02:11:00,840 --> 02:11:07,160
Speaker 1: there's some retaliatory. Yeah. Hey, that hatred runs deep sometimes

2652
02:11:07,160 --> 02:11:10,000
Speaker 1: and people, let's face it. I mean, the Patriots have

2653
02:11:10,040 --> 02:11:15,680
Speaker 1: a history and people want to hit him hard for

2654
02:11:15,760 --> 02:11:20,080
Speaker 1: the slightest, egregious, slightest offense. Now I want the Bills

2655
02:11:20,080 --> 02:11:21,960
Speaker 1: to beat him in a couple of weeks. Yeah, does

2656
02:11:22,000 --> 02:11:23,720
Speaker 1: that count? We'll go away. That'll go away if the

2657
02:11:23,760 --> 02:11:26,640
Speaker 1: Bills went on in two weeks on Sunday, So we'll see.

2658
02:11:26,680 --> 02:11:28,520
Speaker 1: We got a break coming back. One. Bill's Live, coming

2659
02:11:28,520 --> 02:11:30,560
Speaker 1: to you from the Seneca Studio on Archer Park. This

2660
02:11:30,640 --> 02:11:45,960
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. So what have we learned. It's

2661
02:11:45,960 --> 02:11:49,040
Speaker 1: brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental

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02:11:49,080 --> 02:11:51,680
Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. Today's show is go Okay,

2663
02:11:51,800 --> 02:11:53,880
Speaker 1: It's better than okay. We had Gil Brandt, Pro Football

2664
02:11:53,920 --> 02:11:56,720
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, just went into August. Gil Brant of course,

2665
02:11:56,760 --> 02:11:58,880
Speaker 1: went in for his work with the Dallas Cowboys. Gil

2666
02:11:58,920 --> 02:12:01,720
Speaker 1: Brant was at the Bill game in Dallas on Thanksgiving Day.

2667
02:12:01,720 --> 02:12:03,160
Speaker 1: I talked to him, then we talked to him today.

2668
02:12:03,240 --> 02:12:05,120
Speaker 1: He told us he likes a lot of what he's

2669
02:12:05,120 --> 02:12:09,640
Speaker 1: seen from the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills. Well, I keep

2670
02:12:09,720 --> 02:12:12,840
Speaker 1: talking about it every week on my show about what

2671
02:12:12,960 --> 02:12:15,600
Speaker 1: a great job McDermott has done. And I'll tell you

2672
02:12:15,600 --> 02:12:18,160
Speaker 1: your offensive coordinator, I think has done a great job

2673
02:12:18,200 --> 02:12:21,120
Speaker 1: with the quarterbacks. With the quarterback, you know, he just

2674
02:12:21,160 --> 02:12:25,800
Speaker 1: gets keeps getting better every week, your quarterback. I prior

2675
02:12:25,920 --> 02:12:29,000
Speaker 1: to the season picked the Buffalo to be a wild

2676
02:12:29,040 --> 02:12:33,080
Speaker 1: card team. I'm a great believer in Sean and the

2677
02:12:33,120 --> 02:12:36,040
Speaker 1: work that he does. Gil brand talking about the Bills

2678
02:12:36,040 --> 02:12:38,240
Speaker 1: and talking about Sean McDermott. Also on the show today,

2679
02:12:38,280 --> 02:12:42,600
Speaker 1: our regular Wednesday guest Field Yates espn NFL insider Field

2680
02:12:42,680 --> 02:12:44,320
Speaker 1: Yates joined us and he has a lot of good

2681
02:12:44,320 --> 02:12:47,160
Speaker 1: things to say about Bills rookie running mcdevin Singletary. Listen

2682
02:12:47,200 --> 02:12:53,240
Speaker 1: to this. The guy plays without the statue stature limitations.

2683
02:12:53,240 --> 02:12:55,919
Speaker 1: What I mean by that it's just because he's not huge.

2684
02:12:56,080 --> 02:12:58,800
Speaker 1: Does he run like a guy that feels like he's undersized.

2685
02:12:59,360 --> 02:13:01,720
Speaker 1: I don't get that sense. Personally. I feel like he's

2686
02:13:01,760 --> 02:13:05,400
Speaker 1: been a guy that's not only takes what he gets,

2687
02:13:05,520 --> 02:13:07,800
Speaker 1: because that's an important trait for a running back is

2688
02:13:07,880 --> 02:13:10,480
Speaker 1: trusting the offensive line and the blocking in front of you.

2689
02:13:11,640 --> 02:13:13,800
Speaker 1: Sometimes think there are backs that are so talented they

2690
02:13:13,840 --> 02:13:16,040
Speaker 1: actually try to do too much on their own and

2691
02:13:16,040 --> 02:13:18,800
Speaker 1: it works in a negative fashion. But Singletary has struck

2692
02:13:18,880 --> 02:13:21,520
Speaker 1: me as the guy that has taken with the offensive

2693
02:13:21,560 --> 02:13:24,280
Speaker 1: line has given him and then allowing his gifts to

2694
02:13:24,360 --> 02:13:27,200
Speaker 1: take over at the second and third level, because with

2695
02:13:27,400 --> 02:13:31,440
Speaker 1: that level of agility, that center of gravity that allows

2696
02:13:31,480 --> 02:13:34,040
Speaker 1: him to stay balanced, he's been really impressive when the

2697
02:13:34,040 --> 02:13:36,200
Speaker 1: Bills have certainly found themselves a keeper of the third

2698
02:13:36,280 --> 02:13:38,560
Speaker 1: round the draft. A good things, good show tomorrow, step

2699
02:13:38,600 --> 02:13:40,480
Speaker 1: Thirm and Thomas who we have this another practice check

2700
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Speaker 1: from Chris Brown. That'll be fun? Is that? Yeah? Okay?

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02:13:43,560 --> 02:13:45,680
Speaker 1: Thurm's coming in tomorrow. Yes, he's kind of be in tomorrow.

2702
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm cold. We'll see. The weather's kind of

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Speaker 1: a rough, yeah, take it easy going on Safe Listeners.

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