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Speaker 1: They's One Bills Live presented by Called Light of Health.

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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday. They are back out on the practice field,

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Speaker 1: getting ready for their Week ten matchup at home. Little

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Speaker 1: home cooking for the Bills this week and next week.

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Speaker 1: Boom first back to back home games all season long.

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Speaker 1: It's nice, very nice, pretty wide when you think about it.

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Speaker 1: Weather's supposed to be kind of crummy. Weather is going

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Speaker 1: to be a little question bowl. We'll get to that

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Speaker 1: in a second. But how you be. It's Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you here on One Bill's Live. Players

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Speaker 1: back on the practice field, and we'll run down the

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Speaker 1: entire list, including one Josh Allen, who is under the

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Speaker 1: microscope from a health perspective. We got Bill's mafia like

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Speaker 1: praying at their bedside every night that his elbow is okay.

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Speaker 1: And we'll get to coach mcdermot's comments in just a

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Speaker 1: few minutes, but just to lay it out there, Josh

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Speaker 1: right elbow injury throwing elbow. Obviously, he is not practicing today.

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Speaker 1: As far as playing on Sunday, Coach McDermott had a

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Speaker 1: two word answer. We'll see so that means he is

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Speaker 1: obviously not ruled out for Sunday's game, but case Keenum

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Speaker 1: will be taking all of the reps in practice today

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Speaker 1: and we'll have to see where it goes from there

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Speaker 1: after today. But Josh Allen not out on the practice

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Speaker 1: in any capacity, So that's kind of where he left it.

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Speaker 1: Any kind of questions that you may have about is

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Speaker 1: this an injury that he could make worse, is it

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Speaker 1: injury that he sought a second opinion on. Is it

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Speaker 1: an injury that can improve with rest? All of those

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Speaker 1: questions will not be answered by coach McDermott. He is

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Speaker 1: leaving medical details to the medical professionals and is not

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Speaker 1: going to weigh in on them in any capacity. So

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Speaker 1: as far as shedding light on the prognosis and anything else,

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Speaker 1: I think the Bills are going to keep that in

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Speaker 1: because I still think it's obvious they don't know yet.

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Speaker 1: Oh you don't think they know I don't think they

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Speaker 1: know yet. I think they know exactly what the injury is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how it's going to respond is a

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Speaker 1: different story, right, That's why it's will see, right. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I just don't think they're really for sure

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent that Josh's gonna play or he's not

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Speaker 1: gonna play. Certainly, him not being a practice is not

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Speaker 1: a great thing. But you know, I mean, at this

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Speaker 1: big a difference. I know this team also is very

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Speaker 1: cautious with injuries. They air on the side of caution.

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Speaker 1: That is true. That would presumably, I don't know whether presumably,

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Speaker 1: many exceptions here. There is no exception. If the medical

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Speaker 1: whether it's Josh Allen or the Queen of England, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're not deviating from what the medical information tells them

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Speaker 1: play you coach McDermott's press conference, at least the first

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Speaker 1: six to eight minutes of it, so you can get

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Speaker 1: But we wanted to run down some of the other

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Speaker 1: Other than that, other players not seen at practice. Roger

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Speaker 1: So that is probably your top to bottom practice update.

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Speaker 1: College of Osteopathic Medicine. Do you talk about Trey White.

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Speaker 1: Trey White, we did not discuss yet, but he is

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Speaker 1: Not gonna waste time doing it now. The other thing

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Speaker 1: where you're going going with that, cell Yes, I mean overall,

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Speaker 1: you know, you really don't want to have that show

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Speaker 1: up on the stat sheet, um like it did this

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Speaker 1: Pa last week, Josh being the number one rusher. And

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Speaker 1: then also it's throwing like he did, and so everything

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Speaker 1: and balance, everything in moderation is important, all right. So

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Speaker 1: that's coach McDermott address saying Josh Allen's injury among others,

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Speaker 1: and obviously peppered with questions understandably so by the media.

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Speaker 1: Is they're trying to ascertain just what we're looking at

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Speaker 1: here with Josh's injury. But I think we're all going

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Speaker 1: to be forced to take it a day at a time.

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Speaker 1: See what tomorrow brings. Does he step out on the

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Speaker 1: practice field, does he participate in any capacity? And then

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Speaker 1: if not, what happens on Friday? Is it the same

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Speaker 1: thing again? And you know, as we get closer and

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Speaker 1: closer at the end of the week, he'll obviously be

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Speaker 1: clearer and clearer as to whether or not he's going

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Speaker 1: to be a part of the game plan on Sunday

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Speaker 1: against Minnesota. Yeah, you have to wait and see. They've

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Speaker 1: got to prepare, though, I think the prudent thing to

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Speaker 1: do is for the Bills to prepare us. Though he

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Speaker 1: will not make it. You can't count on anything. I mean,

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Speaker 1: certainly you like the guy, and he's courageous and he'll

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Speaker 1: go even if he's not one hundred percent. But they're

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Speaker 1: going to look at this with a pretty dispassionate eye

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Speaker 1: and look trying the best they can anticipate the big

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Speaker 1: picture down the road, the playoffs in January February December

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Speaker 1: January February football. How important that's going to be to

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Speaker 1: have him not drag this thing around like luggage for

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Speaker 1: the rest of the season and to have it or

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Speaker 1: have it balloon into something that's really serious where it

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Speaker 1: really should have been just a bump in the road.

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Speaker 1: That is kind of the message though, right, like from

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff. Look, Josh's status is up in the

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Speaker 1: air at best. Right we have to focus on a

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Speaker 1: game plan that we're going to have to prepare to

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Speaker 1: execute without him. So it's like all hands on deck

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Speaker 1: to execute that way rather than wait and hope that

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Speaker 1: Josh can play Sunday. Here was a weird thing that

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Speaker 1: I was thinking. Let's just say his elbow is not

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Speaker 1: in good shape to throw the football and he doesn't

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Speaker 1: start on Sunday. Is there any reason you wouldn't put

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Speaker 1: him in the game in first in goal on the

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Speaker 1: three yard line. I'm just asking. I would say probably

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Speaker 1: not because no, no, because why would you risk him?

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Speaker 1: And then otherwise you could just do a wildcat with

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying with Josh Allen, Like, without Josh,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying with Josh, like, why do it with him?

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna throw him a wildcat? In the league. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but that's because he's got the ball in his hand.

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Speaker 1: They're afraid of him throwing it and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I think I think more you'll come up with a

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Speaker 1: different plan. Um, put Devin Singletary at quarterback with you know,

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Speaker 1: Hines and Cook all three of those guys back there

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Speaker 1: and run the run, the triple option you know who cares. Uh,

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Speaker 1: But I think or you could put my guy or

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Speaker 1: activate Justin Zimmer him back right. Um No, with this

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Speaker 1: much time and a game plan to install, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have a plan to do it, and it'll be a

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Speaker 1: wrinkle that they haven't seen obviously because Josh has been

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Speaker 1: in there every snap, So you're gonna get some play

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Speaker 1: out of that. You're not going to have tendencies that

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Speaker 1: they're going to be tipped off by formation or any

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Speaker 1: other thing. So no, leave Josh active and haven't go

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Speaker 1: out there to run the ball now. No, now you heard,

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Speaker 1: don't sign me up for that, you heard, coach McDermott

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Speaker 1: asked several times. There's no debating that Josh Allen's skill

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Speaker 1: set is not the same skill set as that of

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Speaker 1: case Keenum. They're both playing within the same system, but

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Speaker 1: Obviously the game plan will be decidedly different if Keenam

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Speaker 1: is in the lineup. How quickly I mean, the coaching

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Speaker 1: staff probably knows the percentages of Josh playing this week,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is, and so they move forward accordingly with

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Speaker 1: a game plan. There are a lot of things that

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Speaker 1: Josh can do that case Keenum and many other quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: on this planet cannot. So you have to tailor to

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Speaker 1: Keenam right, absolutely, because he's the most like players guy

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Speaker 1: that's playing on It's not as much as not as

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Speaker 1: much the coaches or any of that stuff. They'll kind

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Speaker 1: of understand what they're trying to do. It's also about

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Speaker 1: the players around him getting used to what they can

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Speaker 1: expect from him. You know, can I expect him to

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Speaker 1: throw this go route late in the play? Probably not,

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Speaker 1: because Josh could get it there. Case Keenam, it would

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Speaker 1: have had to already be out of his hand to

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Speaker 1: get here. So there's some of that that goes on.

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Speaker 1: And also, I mean, it might be one of those

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Speaker 1: games where if Case Keenams the quarterback, they throw to

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Speaker 1: the running backs and the tight ends, or they throw

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Speaker 1: a bunch of screens and misdirections, and you know, at

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage kind of passes all of Ben

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger last year in Pittsburgh, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: where they don't throw the football down the fields like

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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning back in two thousand, you know, sixteen or

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Speaker 1: fifteen wherever it was. So that could be what you're

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Speaker 1: looking at if case Keenum gets in there more of that,

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Speaker 1: not exclude that, because we've seen him throw the football

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Speaker 1: down the field and in the practice and stuff. So

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Speaker 1: but yeah, skill sets like that manifest themselves in what

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Speaker 1: the offense looks like when it's on the field and

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Speaker 1: doing some things they haven't really done a lot of

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Speaker 1: to this point. We'll take a break here when we

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Speaker 1: come back. How the change at quarterback could make maybe

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's offense a little bit more difficult to decipher at

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Speaker 1: the outset for the Vikings, knowing it will probably look

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Speaker 1: decidedly different if, in fact, case Kingdom is the starter.

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Speaker 1: On Sunday, it's One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, here we are

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live on a Wednesday. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you and want to remind you this week's game

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Speaker 1: sponsor is Saint Bonaventure University's saying Bonaventure is an official

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Speaker 1: education partner of the Buffalo Bills. And as we said

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Speaker 1: at the break there, Steve, if in fact it is

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Speaker 1: Keenum on Sunday, how does it maybe shift the preparations

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Speaker 1: for the Vikings. Obviously there's less to worry about because

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Speaker 1: Keenum isn't gonna go running around like Josh will, Right,

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Speaker 1: So logic would say the task is easier. At the

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Speaker 1: same time, you know, you gotta kind of adjust to

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Speaker 1: Keenum as the game unfolds. I would assume, right, it's

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Speaker 1: this is a completely different coaching staff than the one

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Speaker 1: Keenan played for when he was in Minnesota, right, and

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00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: it was five years ago. Anyway, it gets easier for

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Speaker 1: them on the field. I don't think they'll take it

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Speaker 1: easier in their game plan. They're gonna prepare like they're

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Speaker 1: gonna get the best Buffalo version of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: And I'll say this, the Bills are good enough to

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Speaker 1: beat the Vikings without Josh and with Casey Keenan playing quarterback,

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Speaker 1: but the rest of the roster is going to have

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Speaker 1: to play their best. We haven't seen that in a

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Speaker 1: game and a half. Right, there's always that thought that

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Speaker 1: this Bills team's gonna play like they did against the

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Speaker 1: Jets or in the second half of the of the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay game when they've kind of let up. If

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Speaker 1: that happens, this Bill's team, this roster is not gonna

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Speaker 1: beat this Viking team. But if this, if this Bill's

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Speaker 1: defense comes out and plays like it has, if Milano's

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Speaker 1: out there, doesn't look like Greg Russou will be out there,

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Speaker 1: although we're gonna have to wait and see. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: if they get pour your back, maybe or maybe not.

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Speaker 1: If they're not one hundred percent healthy on defense and

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Speaker 1: they don't play well, they're they're gonna get their heads

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Speaker 1: handed to them by this team. They're good. This is seven.

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Speaker 1: This is six and one team seven to one team one,

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Speaker 1: and that's no fluke. Now, they've been in a bunch

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Speaker 1: of close games, so you can count on even if

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Speaker 1: you're not playing your best, you're gonna be in this

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Speaker 1: game to the end. But this is a this is

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Speaker 1: a team that the Bills could beat without Josh, but

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Speaker 1: the others the to this crew has got to play

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Speaker 1: their best and that includes case keenum. Yeah. Um, if

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Speaker 1: they don't. Yeah this this Vikings team could run off

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Speaker 1: and leave them because you know, you got to score

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Speaker 1: points to keep up. And if if they can't do

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Speaker 1: that with case Keenum a quarterback, and the and the

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Speaker 1: defense is too battered to play well against the Vikings,

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Speaker 1: yeah you're gonna get You're gonna get lumped up. Um

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Speaker 1: I did find the five backup quarterbacks that the Vikings

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Speaker 1: have faced. It's a little bit of a technicality because

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Speaker 1: Jordan Love did come on in the fourth quarter of

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Speaker 1: the week one game against the Packers, so there's a

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Speaker 1: backup there, Andy Dalton when they played the Saints, then

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Speaker 1: Bridgewater and Skyler Thompson. As I mentioned, there were two

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Speaker 1: in one game, Bridgewater and Skyler Thompson against Miami, and

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Speaker 1: then Heineke last week. So all together that's five um

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Speaker 1: so in limited capacity in one case. Granted, and look,

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to discredit the Vikings in any way,

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Speaker 1: shape or form, but four backup quarterbacks for sure in

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Speaker 1: their eight games. And then on top of that, they're

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Speaker 1: playing some of the work. They've played some of the

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Speaker 1: worst defenses in football. Arizona twenty six, Detroit last in

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Speaker 1: the league, Chicago eighteenth, and twenty first and points allowed.

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Speaker 1: They have not exactly been playing the juggernauts of defense

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Speaker 1: in the NFL so far this season. So I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to say, okay, maybe that you know, I understand why

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Speaker 1: they're seven and one. They pulled those games out. Good

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Speaker 1: on them. You know you're in a tight game, You're

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Speaker 1: able to find a way to win. More power to you.

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Speaker 1: Why are you in a close game with Detroit? Like,

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Speaker 1: I know they can score points, but they can't stop

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Speaker 1: a clock. Like, how do you win by only four

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Speaker 1: against them at home in Minnesota. There's some of these

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Speaker 1: games they should they should walk away with some of those,

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Speaker 1: and for some reason these teams hang around with that.

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Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see what happens and the Bills.

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Speaker 1: You talk about the Bills and how they've kind of

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Speaker 1: gone through their their own evolution during this you know,

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Speaker 1: this season, the Vikings themselves, nobody has has more receiving

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Speaker 1: yards against man defense this year than Justin Jefferson, the

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Speaker 1: wide receiver for the Vikings. He's got a ton of

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Speaker 1: reps against man. They go off coverage, they use pick

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Speaker 1: plays against him. Jefferson is fifty nine point four percent

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Speaker 1: catch rate over expected versus man coverage. So that guy's

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Speaker 1: catching a ton of balls even against man and when

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Speaker 1: they don't expect him to be to be able to

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Speaker 1: catch it. Now, here's another interesting thing about the Bill's defense.

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Speaker 1: After playing primarily zone to begin the season, the Bill's

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Speaker 1: use of man has spiked since the Week six game

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Speaker 1: at Kansas City, despite they them being less efficient in

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Speaker 1: those looks. Buffalo played man coverage on forty four point

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Speaker 1: one percent of the coverage snaps since Week six. That's

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Speaker 1: since the Kansas City game. So in the last few games,

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Speaker 1: the Bills have gone to playing a lot more man coverage.

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Speaker 1: That's eighteen percent from weeks one through five is what

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Speaker 1: they used to play. They used played like one out

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Speaker 1: of every five snaps was man. Now it's forty four percent. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it's because can do it number one and

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Speaker 1: I have to do it four year and hide being

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Speaker 1: out Well, right, I also wonder what qualifies as a

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Speaker 1: man cover snap, because what if you're playing you know,

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Speaker 1: man on one side and zone on the other, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like that happens too, So what

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Speaker 1: do they call that? How does that factor in the

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Speaker 1: Bills have done that before, They did it in the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs game on the last interception by Tarn Johnson. They

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00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: did it. They've so they've played man prime much twice

643
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: as much man as usual, even more than twice as

644
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: much man as usual against the Chiefs, against the Packers,

645
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: against the Jets. That's interesting. Um, I don't see them

646
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: doing that with Jefferson. Well, you may do it with

647
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: the other guys on the other half of the field. Yeah,

648
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: but bracket up Jefferson. He's too good. He'll eat you alive.

649
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: As you just pointed out, he'll eat you alive if

650
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 1: you play him in man, right down in and down out.

651
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: You've gotta Yeah. Well that's what That's why I thought

652
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: it was going to be interesting, because the Bills have

653
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: started to evolve away from zone coverage and get a

654
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: lot more man, playing twice as much man as they

655
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: have two out of every five snaps or man. But

656
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: Jeffers just in Jefferson, I'll crush you if you play

657
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 1: him in man. I will also say this. I went

658
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: back and watched the Bill's Jets game again just to

659
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: kind of get a better feel for Josh's decisions, and

660
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: the biggest thing that I came away from it with

661
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: was the reason the Jets pass rush was so successful

662
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: was primarily because Josh wasn't taking checkdowns. There were guys

663
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: underneath that were open with pretty good frequency, and Josh

664
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,919
Speaker 1: was insistent on trying to make the bigger play down

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Speaker 1: the field, which was something which is something we really

666
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 1: have not seen from him, I want to say, in years.

667
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: He was still doing that every once in a while

668
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: back in twenty nineteen as a second year player, but

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Speaker 1: this year we had not seen that from him at all.

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00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,399
Speaker 1: And I saw it in the Jets game. I could

671
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Speaker 1: account on two hands how many times he had a

672
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: checkdown option available. You know, it's like second and fifteen

673
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: and he's got Dawson Knox underneath in the middle of

674
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Speaker 1: the field by himself. You get half of it back

675
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 1: now it's third and seven or from mistackle, and he's

676
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 1: trying to stick it in somewhere twenty yards down the

677
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: field outside the numbers. And I think that's one of

678
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 1: the things that probably had him miffed after the game

679
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: when he when he described the way he himself played

680
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: so but after the game's too late, Oh that's right.

681
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: I think maybe it's a hard lesson man at some point,

682
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,240
Speaker 1: you know, you'd like your offensive coaches to start getting

683
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 1: in his ear during the game, saying, hey, listen, the

684
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 1: checkdowns are there, take them, take him. Whether they were

685
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: doing that or not remains to be seen. But you

686
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: gotta have somebody in there and hold them accountable, maybe

687
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: like case Keenum or you know, the quarterbacks coach all that.

688
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,919
Speaker 1: I think that's where Josh's competitive nature gets the best

689
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: of him. Oh yeah, and you guys are the best

690
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: coverage defense and blah blah blah. Okay, I'm gonna show you.

691
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick it here in this tight window and

692
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: show you you're not the best. You know what I mean.

693
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: I could might have been some of that. The worst

694
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: thing possible might have been that forty two yard or

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00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: that they started the game with. He says, now we're

696
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: gonna get them, We're gonna do it a game. Yeah,

697
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, maybe a false sense of

698
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: security or a boost to the ego. Yeah, But I

699
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Speaker 1: just watching it back, it's all. It almost made me

700
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Speaker 1: feel better about the game, because to me, that's an

701
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: easy fixable thing. If your old line just flat out

702
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: isn't good enough, that's gonna be a problem the next time.

703
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: You face them. I think I think the problems that

704
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: they had with protection were more rooted in Josh's unwillingness

705
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: to take the checkdowns when they were there and available

706
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,800
Speaker 1: to him to alleviate any kind of pressure. So hopefully

707
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Speaker 1: that's a correctable thing that they fix the next time

708
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Speaker 1: they play the Jets or the next time they take

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Speaker 1: the field. Quite frankly, with Josh in the lineup, that's

710
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: my hope anyway. So I was kind of my spirits

711
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: were a little buoyed by that because I thought it

712
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: was a quarterback decision making thing with respect to the

713
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: protection more than anything else. So I'm sure they went

714
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Speaker 1: over it in film on Monday, and you know, Josh

715
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: is a wiser quarterback for it going forward. We have

716
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Speaker 1: to take a break here when we come back. More

717
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:23,240
Speaker 1: on this Bill's Vikings matchup. Here's something to think about

718
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Speaker 1: that we'll discuss when we come back. If Keenum is

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00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: the starter who figures to see a lot more targets

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Speaker 1: than maybe they have thus far this season with him

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Speaker 1: in the lineup, we'll explore that next Here on one

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Speaker 1: wanted to discuss this Steve under the hypothetical situation in

728
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: which case Keenum is the starter on Sunday, knowing the

729
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: passing game will change to some degree with Keenum in

730
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 1: the lineup as opposed to Alan, if in fact that happens,

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Speaker 1: who do you think could be a more frequent target

732
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: with Keenam in the lineup as opposed to Alan, Knowing

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Speaker 1: some elements of the passing game are likely to change,

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Speaker 1: I would say probably tight end Dawson Knox or the

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Speaker 1: running back whoever might happen to be either you know,

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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary, James Cook, or Naheem Hines. I think those

737
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,240
Speaker 1: are That's the group you're going to look at, certainly,

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00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: because those are easier throws, easier closer line scrammage, get

739
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: rid of it quick, and you can be more creative

740
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: with the formation and where they line up and who's

741
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: going to pick them up, motion shifts, all of that

742
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: stuff comes into play. So to me that would be

743
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: where you could get case Keenum an advantage. You get

744
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,399
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands quick into some guys

745
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,439
Speaker 1: that can really do something with it. I'm taking the backs.

746
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: It could be super busy if Keenam's the starter on Sunday,

747
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: and with guys like Cooking Hines, you give those guys

748
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,839
Speaker 1: opportunities in space. I think they've got a good chance

749
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: to pick up the yards after the catch that you

750
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: don't get by the quick release passing game. It's a

751
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: good pass rushing tandem between Daniel Hunter and Zadarius Smith.

752
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: Case Keenum cannot get away from trouble the way Josh

753
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: Allen can. So I think you got to plan your

754
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:59,240
Speaker 1: passing game accordingly, and I would work the quick passing

755
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: game to the mteenth degree. And this one, if I

756
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 1: know Keenham's the guy that's going to be in the

757
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: lineup this weekend, I don't know there's gonna do it

758
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: any other way. Yeah, and we'll see because because then

759
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 1: to me, if Keendom's playing, the main aim of the

760
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: Bill's offense is stay on schedule. I mean, Josh is

761
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:26,919
Speaker 1: good at overcoming long down in distance with a great

762
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: degree of success. Bless you. But for Keenum it's a

763
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: taller task because he doesn't bring the elite physical traits

764
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: to the table that Josh does. So nobody stay on schedule.

765
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: Nobody's worried about throwing a spy on case Keenum. So right,

766
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: you get an extra guy out there to do whatever

767
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: you want with him. But Ken Dorsey should have an

768
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: understanding what it's like to be that guy. Ken Dorsey's

769
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: not wasn't a runner as a quarterback. He was a

770
00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: thinker and a thrower. He should know what it takes

771
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: to make a guy like case Keenum really comfortable out

772
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 1: there in an offense and formulate a game plan around it.

773
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: The problem is when do you know you're gonna have

774
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: to do that. Did you know it yesterday that Josh

775
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: is not going to play play? Apparently not. Are you

776
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: gonna find out on Saturday and it's too late? Yeah, So,

777
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,439
Speaker 1: well you know Keenom's getting all the reps today. So

778
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: but like I said, what plays do you practice the

779
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: ones that you're going to run in the game with

780
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: Josh or the ones that you think you're gonna run

781
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: with Case Keenum. Are you getting guys ready to who

782
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: are getting them guys ready to play with I think

783
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: you're getting them ready to play with Keenam because it's

784
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: a change from what you have been doing, that's right,

785
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: and you want to get them accustomed to those changes.

786
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: In as much as if, in fact he has to play,

787
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 1: where if all of a sudden, you get to the

788
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: end of the week Alan's elbow is miraculously pain free

789
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: or whatever and he can play, You're obviously going to

790
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: play with him and then change on the fly how

791
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: you're called all in the game, but it's going to

792
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: be more in line with what you've done the first

793
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: eight games anyway. So I say the focus this week

794
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: is on how you would run it with Keenum in

795
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 1: the game, to get them used to those kinds of changes,

796
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: knowing it's not going to be the same as what

797
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: you ran the first eight games. That would seem logical, right,

798
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: I mean, so he's getting all the snaps today in

799
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: practice with the install the game plan beginning today. So

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00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens tomorrow whether Josh is part of

801
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: the practice equation or not. And then I think by

802
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: Friday it's going to be pretty clear what direction this

803
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: thing has headed. Yeah, I mean, if Josh is limited tomorrow.

804
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: That doesn't tell you anything either Then Friday, if he's

805
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,360
Speaker 1: still limited or if he's full, then you start to

806
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:57,399
Speaker 1: get an idea. But if he's limited Friday again, Yeah,

807
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how you proceed like that.

808
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:06,880
Speaker 1: Well you proceed on, Yeah, I think you you're keenum, keenum,

809
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: keenum until the athletic training staff and the medical staff

810
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: says Josh is good to play. Until that statement is made,

811
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Speaker 1: you prep with keenum. That's what you do, at least

812
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: as I see it. So level of confidence in keenum

813
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 1: is the next question. I know Bill's fans are, at

814
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: least from the response I've seen on social media, they're

815
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: nervous and understandably so. I mean, certainly you don't want

816
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: to drop two games in a row. If you're not

817
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: going to have Josh this week, it's a good week

818
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: because it's not an AFC opponent, so it won't impact

819
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: you in the AFC Conference race and obviously not in

820
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 1: the AFC East Division race as far as some of

821
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Speaker 1: those tie breakers, although common games does come into it

822
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Speaker 1: with your division opponents at some point if you're locked

823
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: up and it's way down the list. But the weight

824
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: of this game is not nearly as heavy as the

825
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: upcoming division games, of which there are four left, or

826
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: the AFC conference games that are left on Buffalo schedule.

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Speaker 1: So looking at it that way, if you had to

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Speaker 1: play case Keenum in a game, this is one of

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Speaker 1: the ones you would have picked, I guess, is what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, I mean, otherwise it's Bears, even the Lions, Lions.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, that's hit. You'd hate to play

832
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: him on the Lions just because it's Thanksgiving Day, right,

833
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, other than that, it's the Lions,

834
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: or the pay or the Vikings, maybe the Bears. That

835
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,479
Speaker 1: that's late in the game, late in the year. You'd

836
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 1: like to play him in the Bears game because you've

837
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: already got the division wrapped up in the one seed.

838
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:54,320
Speaker 1: But that's not you know, that's kind off the table.

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00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:58,839
Speaker 1: Super optimistic, Steve. But that's yeah, this is a game

840
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: that is, in that respect, the most attractive to do

841
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: that too. I don't know, though, Yeah, these games are meaningful.

842
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 1: They're meaningful because you're in a tight race for the

843
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 1: conference number one seed, and quite frankly, the team that's

844
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: chasing it doesn't look like they're stumbling at all. Kansas City,

845
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: Tennessee is gathering in and so is Baltimore. Those teams

846
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 1: have got it together now. Although Buffalo has beaten all

847
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: of them, they do have a head to head tiebreaker

848
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: with all three, which is good. Now. They got to

849
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,879
Speaker 1: take care of their division where they are currently. Oh

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Speaker 1: and two. We will take a break here. When we

851
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,320
Speaker 1: come back, our number two will have Damar Hamlin fresh

852
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: off the Field here in studio to talk to him,

853
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,400
Speaker 1: part of our Austin Air Fresh off the Field interviews

854
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Speaker 1: every week. And we'll also discuss what do you do

855
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: with case Keenham in the game? What is the formula

856
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: for victory against the Kings if Keenum is your starter?

857
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 1: We'll discuss next here on One Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Colli to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. This is One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Calli to Health. Our number two

860
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: here on a Wednesday, Chris Brown Steep Caasker with you

861
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: One Bills Live as the show, and we wanted to

862
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 1: discuss a little bit here the formula for victory if

863
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 1: in fact it is case Keenum in the lineup. And

864
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: I think we all realize it's going to have to

865
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 1: look different with Keenam in the lineup than Alan, if

866
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 1: that in fact proves to be the case on Sunday.

867
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: And my level of concern deals with the run game, Steve,

868
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:25,319
Speaker 1: because logic would say you're gonna need a little bit

869
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:29,959
Speaker 1: more support from that area of the offense, knowing that

870
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: to ask Keenam to carry the whole load is probably

871
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: a little unfair. So with that in mind, and with

872
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 1: what you saw from the run game last week, and

873
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: I'll just tell you right up front, Minnesota tenth in

874
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:49,320
Speaker 1: the league against the run, the Jets were ninth. How

875
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,800
Speaker 1: do you see a formula to victory for the Bills

876
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 1: if in fact Keenam's your starter. Here's what I think

877
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: it'll look like. I mean, Keendom's gonna have to have

878
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: some early success. They're gonna have to go the long way.

879
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: But I think even if they don't, if they do

880
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:03,839
Speaker 1: snap off some explosive plays, it's going to be sure

881
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 1: pass long run. And I think Keenam will know do

882
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 1: what we're saying that Josh should have done last week,

883
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: and that's take the check down. He'll do that, and

884
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: I think whoever catches those have to make the most

885
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: of them. You're gonna you're gonna have to have some

886
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: yards after catch. You're gonna have to have some you know, mistackles,

887
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:28,720
Speaker 1: that kind of thing on their defense. And the running

888
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: game has got to be consistent. And I don't mean

889
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 1: you know, it's gotta It doesn't have to be the

890
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: thing you do all more than passing it, but you

891
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 1: do have to be able to be in the game

892
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:42,720
Speaker 1: at a point where you can hand it off whenever

893
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: you want on a regular down a distance, and they

894
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: got to defend it. You can't make this. You can't

895
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: get one dimensional, I guess, is what I'm saying. So

896
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 1: that's what it's going to look like. I think you're

897
00:52:56,200 --> 00:53:00,479
Speaker 1: gonna see case Keenum in a perfect world, he's he's

898
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 1: having a twenty for thirty or twenty for twenty seven

899
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:10,800
Speaker 1: kind of game, two hundred twenty five, two hundred and

900
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: thirty yards, a couple of touchdowns, and he can't turn

901
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:20,839
Speaker 1: it over. You can't turn it over. Um Defensively, you've

902
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: got to hold this this Vikings team to twenty points

903
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: or less, hopefully like seventeen fourteen points. If you can

904
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 1: do that, you're gonna give yourself a chance. And you're

905
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: like they're never gonna get out of the way, but

906
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: out of the out of reach. But you know the Bills,

907
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:35,800
Speaker 1: you don't know who's gonna be available. Is Milano gonna

908
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,399
Speaker 1: hang in there? Is Greg Russo gonna make it back

909
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: somehow some way? Is poor you're gonna be in the

910
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 1: lineup Milano, Um, Edmonds, Tremaine, Tredavious. Is he gonna be

911
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 1: out there? Um? And if they're not, who's gonna step in?

912
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson? Even so, you know you've got to You've

913
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: got a lot of question marks you gotta do. But

914
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 1: if if Josh doesn't play in this game, it's very

915
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 1: fairly obvious this is a team that is good and

916
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 1: deep enough and talented enough to win games without Josh.

917
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: But they've got all played well and the marge, they

918
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 1: got to play better than they played in the last

919
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:16,359
Speaker 1: game and a half. Yeah, as a group, and they've

920
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 1: all had moments where they played pretty good, but they

921
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: got to do that for four quarters against the Vikings.

922
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: If they're gonna win without Josh. And I will say this.

923
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 1: You know you spoke about the offensive approach. I'll talk

924
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 1: about the defense a little bit here. The Bills defensive

925
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 1: front and the investments made there and have you got

926
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 1: to make a difference. They did not make a difference

927
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: last week thanks to a quick passing game by the Jets,

928
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: getting it out quick guys getting open in early separation,

929
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:48,880
Speaker 1: and also due to the fact that the Jets are

930
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: very often for most of the day were in third

931
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 1: manageable because they couldn't stop the run on first and

932
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: second down. And so at least from what I've seen

933
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 1: from Minnesota is when you can get them in third

934
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 1: and medium to third and long, that's when you can

935
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: really get home on kirk Cousins longer developing routes to

936
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 1: get the first down. And that's when Minnesota's offensive line

937
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: becomes a little bit susceptible and kirk Cousins starts getting

938
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:17,839
Speaker 1: knocked around in the pocket a little bit. So those

939
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 1: big guys in the middle, you know, Oliver Phillips, Settle

940
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:26,360
Speaker 1: de Kwon Jones, those guys have got to lock it

941
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: up on Dalvin Cook on the early downs so that

942
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,799
Speaker 1: the ends can go eat on third down because it's

943
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:35,439
Speaker 1: third and twelve or third and eight or third and nine.

944
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is not a stiff. You got to play

945
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 1: well against him. He's good and I don't want to

946
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:44,399
Speaker 1: say it like like this is a bad thing. He's

947
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: good enough for that team to win and beat anybody,

948
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: and he plays like it occasionally. They they're seven and

949
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: one for a reason. They don't make the mistake. They

950
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: don't make mistakes, they don't turn it over. They got

951
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: a good running game, they got a very efficient passing

952
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: and you watch him play the first couple of series

953
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: against the Miami Dolphins. They were they were like, how

954
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:07,399
Speaker 1: did the Dolphins, you know, even hang in there with them?

955
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:09,879
Speaker 1: That this is a team that really moves the football well.

956
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:15,800
Speaker 1: So the Bills are up against it, no question, particularly

957
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:19,720
Speaker 1: if Josh doesn't play, and because you've got to beat

958
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: a really good team that's playing well left handed, and

959
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 1: that's that's a big ask for anybody. Yeah, defense has

960
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,439
Speaker 1: to show up and show out and be a top

961
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 1: flight You gotta make some splash plays defensively, no question

962
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 1: about it. I mean, get some sacks and you gotta

963
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: get some turnovers. And that's and you got to do

964
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: it in such a way that you can your offense

965
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,840
Speaker 1: can capitalize. I mean, the Bills are fourth in the

966
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:47,760
Speaker 1: league with fifteen takeaways. Minnesota, they are credited as fourteen.

967
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: They're right behind them. As we know, the Bills have

968
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: fourteen of their own giveaways, which is third most in football.

969
00:56:55,160 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 1: Minnesota only has eight turnovers in eight games eight and

970
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: they were plus six because of it, which is third

971
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: best in football, and it's a big reason why they're

972
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:10,360
Speaker 1: seven to one. Philadelphia is a plus fifteen they're undefeated,

973
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 1: and then Baltimore and Dallas after that. I've taken care

974
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: of the football pretty well so far this season. Bills

975
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: have to take care of the football on It's kind

976
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: of funny like in a way, they have to use

977
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: the Jets formula last week this week if they have

978
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: Keenam in the lineup, that's essentially what they gotta do, right,

979
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: play mistake free football on offense, run it well enough

980
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: to stay in third and manageable convert those, and then

981
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 1: play lights out on defense and special teams. Yeah, I

982
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: mean you look, yeah, like last last week, look at

983
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 1: the kind of game that your boy Zach Wilson had

984
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty five for a buck fifty four and

985
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:51,080
Speaker 1: one touchdown. That's that's a case Keenum kind of day.

986
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: You know, you'd like to see him throw it a

987
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:56,440
Speaker 1: little bit more than twenty five times, maybe maybe go

988
00:57:56,560 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: twenty for twenty seven, around near two hundreds. But that's

989
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 1: that's a seventy percent you know, completion privent. So you

990
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 1: got you got to do that. That's what you're gonna

991
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 1: have to do. You got to stay on the field

992
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: and you've got to score points and be efficient against

993
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: a really good football team. You can't turn it over

994
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 1: doing that. The Bills so far this year, and you

995
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 1: mentioned it, they're turning it over at a pretty high rate.

996
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: It's almost two a game. But they but they're a

997
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: you know, with Josh Allen at quarterback, this team is

998
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: a wagon man. They can overcome that stuff and they

999
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 1: don't even that's not even a stumble for them. They're

1000
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 1: gonna get the ball back and they're gonna go down

1001
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have you be on the ropes against

1002
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: most times. So they can do that with Josh. The

1003
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 1: defense still, when the Bills that are taking a snap

1004
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: offensively with Josh Allen at quarterback, they're still defending all

1005
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: four corners of that field, no matter where the ball is,

1006
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 1: all four corners all the time. And with case Keenum

1007
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 1: or with you know, somebody else at quarterback, anybody, and

1008
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 1: then the other team they don't have to. You know,

1009
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: Bill's defense doesn't have that big a field. Nobody else

1010
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: can sling it like that. So it's a big change,

1011
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 1: and it's an adjustment for everybody and minute. And you know,

1012
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: in the Bill's favor, the Vikings are gonna have a

1013
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: hard time wondering. They're gonna be wondering what were the

1014
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 1: Bills are going to look like when they do take

1015
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 1: the field if case Keendom's the quarterback. I was surprised

1016
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: to see Minnesota last in the league in red zone

1017
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 1: defense last. Now, they haven't given up a ton of

1018
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 1: red zone possessions, only nineteen so far this season, but

1019
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: they're allowing opponents to score a touchdown seventy nine percent

1020
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: of the time. That is a fat number, just for perspective.

1021
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 1: Buffalo is fourth in the league and red zone defense.

1022
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: They're only giving up touchdowns forty eight percent of the time.

1023
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 1: Seventy nine percent of the time your opponent cracks your

1024
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:01,440
Speaker 1: twenty yard line, you're giving up seven man. Maybe that's

1025
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: why they're in tight games every week, and maybe people

1026
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 1: contributing factor. I mean, if the team has any success

1027
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: at all, they're coming away with six. You got to

1028
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 1: keep up with him. That's um, yeah, that's that's weird,

1029
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: isn't it. It's kind of like an almost one game. Yeah,

1030
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: it's it's strange to me. The cool thing, maybe the

1031
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: coolest thing about this game. And if Josh can't play,

1032
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 1: it'll be a shame because I think it'd be harder

1033
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 1: to put Stefan Diggs exploits on display. Not to say

1034
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: that he and Kingdom can't do it. Kingdom's got a

1035
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 1: rapport with him. But you're getting two of the top

1036
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 1: three receivers in the league in receiving yards. Tyreek Hill

1037
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: is the only guy out of those two, and two

1038
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 1: of the top four I think in receptions in the

1039
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 1: league in Jefferson and Diggs. I mean, you want a

1040
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: Marquee receiver matchup, it's here in Buffalo this weekend. I mean,

1041
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:01,440
Speaker 1: those guys are just two special talents, and they'll always

1042
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:04,919
Speaker 1: be intertwined because of the trade, because the first round

1043
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 1: pick the Bills gave to Minnesota wound up being justin Jefferson.

1044
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: I just think it's kind of a cool thing to have.

1045
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 1: This is like Andre Reid and Jerry Rice playing in

1046
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:15,919
Speaker 1: the same game, you know what I mean, Like, Yeah,

1047
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:18,439
Speaker 1: it's kind of like that, and these two these two

1048
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 1: clubs would consider it to win both the both clubs

1049
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 1: consider that a win that that trade. Nobody in the

1050
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 1: league since he came to Buffalo has been targeted more

1051
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: than Steph Diggs, nobody, and he's come through big time

1052
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 1: for this club. So and justin Jefferson, nobody would say

1053
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 1: they're unhappy with that pick in Minnesota. So yeah, he's

1054
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 1: got the most receiving yards since it was it was

1055
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:45,919
Speaker 1: the twenty second pick overall as well. So it's yeah,

1056
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: this is this is fun to think about these two guys. Yeah,

1057
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 1: I just think it's it's a matchup with those are

1058
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 1: guys that your eyes are drawn to if you're in

1059
01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 1: the stadium, if you're not beholden to what the TV

1060
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 1: camera shows you, if you're sitting at home and watching

1061
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Speaker 1: it on TV, if you're one of those fans that

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01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 1: are in a stadium for a matchup like this, you're

1063
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 1: not watching the ball for half the game, You're watching

1064
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:13,400
Speaker 1: that guy, you know what I mean. Like, that's that's

1065
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 1: when it's a real treat when you get to watch

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01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 1: a supreme talent like that and You'll be able to

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01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 1: do it no matter which offense is on the field.

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01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 1: With those two cats running around, right, I just think

1069
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 1: that's you don't get that. I mean, there's don't get

1070
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 1: me wrong, there's a boatload of talent in this league.

1071
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 1: But to get two guys at the tippy top in

1072
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:31,600
Speaker 1: the same game, and the Bills will have it again

1073
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:34,720
Speaker 1: when it's Tyreek Hill and Stefan Diggs, you know, later

1074
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:37,320
Speaker 1: this season. I just think it's a little bit of

1075
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: an extra treat when you get it from the other conference,

1076
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 1: you know, and it's Justin Jefferson. I mean, like I said,

1077
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: nobody's got more receiving yards than Justin Jefferson since he

1078
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: came into the league in twenty twenty. Nobody. Yeah, the

1079
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:55,080
Speaker 1: Bills don't see these guys very often, and certainly it's

1080
01:02:55,120 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch the problem him is. And

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01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: we talked about this for a second. Supposed to be

1082
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 1: thirty three and sleeting and raining and bad weather and

1083
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:15,520
Speaker 1: it could be some lake effects, snow turning to rain, wind, Yeah,

1084
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: could be a slog fest, depending on how much precip

1085
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 1: they get. One other thing on Justin Jefferson, he's got

1086
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 1: a chance to break his team record. He has nineteen

1087
01:03:32,040 --> 01:03:35,520
Speaker 1: career games with a hundred plus receiving yards. He's tied

1088
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:38,360
Speaker 1: for the record most by any player in their first

1089
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:45,280
Speaker 1: three seasons. He's got five of those games this year already,

1090
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:50,040
Speaker 1: and if he gets you know, obviously, if he keeps

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01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 1: going and gets another one, he's got a chance to

1092
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 1: pass Randy Moss on the Vikings all time list for

1093
01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 1: one hundred receive hundred yard receiving games in his first

1094
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: three seasons. You're passing Randy Moss. I mean you and

1095
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:09,840
Speaker 1: I remember how dominant Randy Moss was his first three

1096
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 1: seasons in the league. He was literally unstoppable, um like

1097
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 1: it was. I remember going to games and seeing Randy

1098
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:22,240
Speaker 1: Moss in person. It was laughable. I mean, he would

1099
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:26,160
Speaker 1: just blow the doors off at DB's, you would. And

1100
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 1: he he said it himself too. He knew that when

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01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:31,560
Speaker 1: he showed up on a team, like when he showed

1102
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 1: up in New England, when he showed up in Minnesota,

1103
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 1: and very quickly after he did that, teams you couldn't

1104
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 1: play single high safety against him. You're never gonna get

1105
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 1: any single high safety against Randy. Against Randy, you couldn't

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01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:47,479
Speaker 1: do it because he ran past everybody, and the guy

1107
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:51,960
Speaker 1: on the center fielder was done. You know, two seconds

1108
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:54,200
Speaker 1: into the route, he was a touch, he was out

1109
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 1: of reach. So that kind of physical attributes, plus his

1110
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 1: ability go up and get it and run around the

1111
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:06,120
Speaker 1: whole thing. But his sheer, speed and size were just

1112
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:11,240
Speaker 1: difference makers and he knew it. I mean that you

1113
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 1: just teams all of the sudd if you're gonna play

1114
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 1: our team, Randy Mosses on all of a sudden, you

1115
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:17,479
Speaker 1: got two safeties in the game, and they're gonna stay

1116
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:20,120
Speaker 1: back all day, and that was the only chance you

1117
01:05:20,120 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 1: had to keep the lid on it. Yeah. I still

1118
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 1: remember sitting in the Metrodome late nineties. Bills were up

1119
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 1: there and it's him, Chris Carter Jake read Dante Culpepper,

1120
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 1: and it was like asteroids were coming out of the sky,

1121
01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: Dante Culpeppers dropping into the hands, just throwing rainbows. Oh

1122
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:46,040
Speaker 1: my gosh, it's just high, looping throws and they're just

1123
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 1: running under them for not just for like a fifty

1124
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:54,640
Speaker 1: yard play, but for sixty yard touchdowns. And it's amazing

1125
01:05:54,680 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 1: to me that that team didn't win more Like, I know,

1126
01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 1: they got to an NFC title game in ninety eight

1127
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 1: and then they got upset by Atlanta. Denny Green. Yeah, yeah,

1128
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:11,320
Speaker 1: they get Listen. I we've said, we've we've experienced here

1129
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:14,400
Speaker 1: in Buffalo with this crew. They've got on board right now.

1130
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:19,000
Speaker 1: You get you get to that point, you get Gary Anderson.

1131
01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 1: Is it Gary Anderson? Thirty one for thirty one on

1132
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 1: the season, his last kick he misses and they lose,

1133
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 1: go home, no super Bowl, no soup for you. And

1134
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:33,440
Speaker 1: that's just and you're standing there on the sidelines everything,

1135
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:40,680
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, seriously, yeah, seriously, just think that

1136
01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:43,760
Speaker 1: the only kick the guy missed all year was the

1137
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 1: one that mattered. Oh my gosh, that's why they didn't

1138
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 1: win more. Yeah, we take a break here, but when

1139
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:51,720
Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna be joined in studio by

1140
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:55,800
Speaker 1: Bill Safety. Damar Hamlin check in with him as part

1141
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,440
Speaker 1: of our Austin Fresh off the Field weekly interviews. It's

1142
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 1: coming up next here on One Bill's Lives two. All right,

1143
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:13,400
Speaker 1: here we be One Bill's Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker,

1144
01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:16,600
Speaker 1: and please to be joined on set now by the

1145
01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:20,320
Speaker 1: man who wears number three on your roster, number one

1146
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:24,120
Speaker 1: in your heart. It's tomorrow, Hamlin Bill's safety and he's

1147
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:26,160
Speaker 1: part of our Fresh off the Field interviews, which is

1148
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:28,320
Speaker 1: brought to you by Austin Air, the official clean air

1149
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:31,640
Speaker 1: provider of the Buffalo Bills. Are we doing DH We're

1150
01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:34,120
Speaker 1: doing good, going great. Thanks for having me. Yeah, glad

1151
01:07:34,160 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 1: to have you here. It's funny because we were just

1152
01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 1: talking about how, you know, you've been here for a

1153
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 1: couple of years now, and because of COVID and all

1154
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:45,120
Speaker 1: the restrictions we've had, we haven't like really even talked

1155
01:07:45,160 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 1: to you a face to face and I mean, I

1156
01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 1: know we haven't gotten around to doing it here during

1157
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 1: training camp when things were finally open again, but it's

1158
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:52,920
Speaker 1: just it's just good to kind of chat with you

1159
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:54,880
Speaker 1: a little bit, like get to know you a little

1160
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 1: bit better and kind of you know, like so I

1161
01:07:57,160 --> 01:08:00,840
Speaker 1: feel like we're welcome. We're really late for the welcoming part. Yeah. Yeah,

1162
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:02,919
Speaker 1: it feels good. Drafted a year and a half ago,

1163
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:04,760
Speaker 1: it feels good for things to be back to normal.

1164
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:08,080
Speaker 1: Almost feel it was a little abnormal to be doing

1165
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:11,960
Speaker 1: things regular schedule programming again, but it feels good. You

1166
01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:16,880
Speaker 1: and Jaquan now have started three games together. If my

1167
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 1: math is right with all the time that Porter has

1168
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:21,599
Speaker 1: missed and obviously we know Mike has done for the year.

1169
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:26,200
Speaker 1: Has it maybe just I know you guys have lined

1170
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:31,280
Speaker 1: up together in training camps untold number of practices. Games

1171
01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:33,800
Speaker 1: are different. I don't have to tell you that. Now

1172
01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:36,759
Speaker 1: that you're three games in as a starting tandem together,

1173
01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:40,599
Speaker 1: what has been the progression for you in terms of

1174
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:45,040
Speaker 1: playing off one another in a regular season game setting? Um,

1175
01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:49,639
Speaker 1: you know, just getting comfortable with the other nine guys

1176
01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:52,240
Speaker 1: out there on the field, really just playing off of

1177
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 1: each other, playing off of West in front of us,

1178
01:08:54,120 --> 01:08:57,519
Speaker 1: things like that. But like you said, we've been playing

1179
01:08:57,560 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 1: together all through OTAs, all through training camp, and all

1180
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:03,960
Speaker 1: through preseasons, So our chemistry as far as playing with

1181
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:09,840
Speaker 1: each other, it's already been, you know, as you're counting on. Yeah,

1182
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:12,519
Speaker 1: So really we're just trying to It's just all about

1183
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:15,200
Speaker 1: fitting in the system and playing within the guard roils

1184
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:17,360
Speaker 1: of the system and doing our job. You have you

1185
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:21,400
Speaker 1: would you and Jiquana sat there and watched Poorer and

1186
01:09:21,479 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 1: High do their thing for a while. How much of

1187
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:26,920
Speaker 1: it is there when you guys plug yourselves and say listen,

1188
01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna play this this way and how

1189
01:09:30,280 --> 01:09:32,240
Speaker 1: much of it is like let's let's do exactly what

1190
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:34,439
Speaker 1: Micah and Poyler did on this play on this one,

1191
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: but let's do it this way when we do it

1192
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. I mean, you got to play

1193
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 1: your own game and you stay within the parameters. But yeah,

1194
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:44,120
Speaker 1: you and Jiquan have your own probably system of communication,

1195
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:46,920
Speaker 1: just like Poorer and high do. Right. Um, Really, it's

1196
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:49,160
Speaker 1: it's pretty much all the same line of communication. It's

1197
01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:51,519
Speaker 1: just like a it's pretty much like a standard. That's

1198
01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:53,040
Speaker 1: what we call it. You know, it's a standard that

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01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:55,400
Speaker 1: we all uphold, um, no matter who's out there. So

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01:09:55,479 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 1: it's not really too much different than um Micah and

1201
01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 1: Poe as far as it's like communication and things that

1202
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:03,760
Speaker 1: should be said that we haven't. We're not really like

1203
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:07,240
Speaker 1: changing too much of our scheme or anything like that.

1204
01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 1: It's pretty much just upholding the standard. And it is

1205
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:12,320
Speaker 1: a it's a big bonus being able to watch two

1206
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 1: our pros do it exactly how it's supposed to be done.

1207
01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:17,599
Speaker 1: So that's something that I rely on as well. So

1208
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:19,960
Speaker 1: I might go check out some film and see how

1209
01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:22,160
Speaker 1: Michael did it, or he's right there on the sideline,

1210
01:10:22,240 --> 01:10:24,400
Speaker 1: you know, just to coach me up or let me

1211
01:10:24,439 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 1: know some tips of anything of how to do it.

1212
01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:28,679
Speaker 1: But in the same sense, with all that being said,

1213
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 1: I am my own players, So when I do get

1214
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:33,200
Speaker 1: out there, I gotta beat myself within the system. Yes,

1215
01:10:33,240 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 1: it Now when you guys go out and say, I

1216
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:36,439
Speaker 1: know some of the things that make poor your heights

1217
01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:39,960
Speaker 1: so good and have people talking about him is how

1218
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 1: hard it is for quarterbacks to the key on what

1219
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:46,479
Speaker 1: coverage guys are running the pre snap. How confident were

1220
01:10:46,479 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 1: you when you got started, and how much has it

1221
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:51,720
Speaker 1: grown since, Like you feel confident of being out of

1222
01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:54,200
Speaker 1: position when the ball is snapped and getting back to

1223
01:10:54,280 --> 01:10:57,320
Speaker 1: your spot, making the coverage that you need to make

1224
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 1: after the snap, and knowing that you yourself vulnerable during

1225
01:11:01,040 --> 01:11:03,800
Speaker 1: that time. Yeah, something that I've been that has been

1226
01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 1: growing on me. Something I had to learn. You know, first,

1227
01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:08,639
Speaker 1: you had to know what your job is and how

1228
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:10,840
Speaker 1: to execute it at a high level. And then on

1229
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:13,280
Speaker 1: top of that, it's you know, trying to make the

1230
01:11:13,360 --> 01:11:16,720
Speaker 1: quarterbacks see something else pre snap or even maybe a

1231
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:19,479
Speaker 1: little bit post snap, just to hold them that one

1232
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:22,000
Speaker 1: extra second, you know. So it's something I had to learn,

1233
01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:25,280
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna keep saying this as much as we talk,

1234
01:11:26,320 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 1: just being able to have them to do it in

1235
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:31,400
Speaker 1: front of me. Since I got here, I've been been studying,

1236
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:34,240
Speaker 1: just learning, just trying to trying to see how to

1237
01:11:34,280 --> 01:11:36,280
Speaker 1: do it exactly the right way that they've been in

1238
01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:38,200
Speaker 1: credit to that. There's a lot of layers to this

1239
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:41,519
Speaker 1: because when you stem into it, step in after the

1240
01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:44,559
Speaker 1: ball snap, you get to your right position. But you

1241
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:48,639
Speaker 1: don't want to like stand over here without a reason.

1242
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:52,040
Speaker 1: You gotta make him think it's an actual, real coverage

1243
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 1: that you're gonna play. You can't just stand out of positions.

1244
01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:56,000
Speaker 1: I don't know what that guy's doing. You want to

1245
01:11:56,000 --> 01:11:58,400
Speaker 1: give him an idea that like, you want to fool him.

1246
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 1: So here's what we're gonna run and then run out

1247
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 1: of it. And you gotta have that. Means other guys

1248
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 1: got to be doing the same thing. So there's it's

1249
01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:07,439
Speaker 1: not just not showing him what you're gonna do by

1250
01:12:07,439 --> 01:12:10,599
Speaker 1: standing in some random spot, you're trying to give him

1251
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 1: the wrong idea. It is calculated. Yeah, it's very calculated.

1252
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:17,240
Speaker 1: Playing chess exactly exactly. That's how hard that's hard to do.

1253
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:21,679
Speaker 1: It is, Coach Frasier, I would say, if there's one thing,

1254
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:24,679
Speaker 1: at least just from the naked eye, that looks different

1255
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:26,479
Speaker 1: to me in terms of the way he's made use

1256
01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:29,479
Speaker 1: of your skill set, is he likes putting you up

1257
01:12:29,479 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 1: pretty close to the line of scrimmage, getting physical with people.

1258
01:12:33,400 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 1: You know, I know you don't like getting you're I

1259
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:36,719
Speaker 1: know you don't have a problem getting your nose dirty,

1260
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:40,320
Speaker 1: so not at all. Maybe just talk about the physical

1261
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:43,720
Speaker 1: mindset that you seem to have, because I mean, you

1262
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:46,599
Speaker 1: are not shy about, you know, laying wood to people

1263
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 1: when you get the opportunity. Yeah, I mean that's just

1264
01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:50,800
Speaker 1: all I know how to play football. That's just how

1265
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:53,200
Speaker 1: I was raised. That's how it was brung up every

1266
01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:55,760
Speaker 1: system I was in from high school to college. To

1267
01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:58,599
Speaker 1: hear it was you know, um, we're not shying away

1268
01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:01,720
Speaker 1: from no contact and uh, pretty much as simple as

1269
01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:04,679
Speaker 1: seaball get ball, so you know, recognized the play, diagnosed

1270
01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 1: what's going on, and go tackle the guy who got

1271
01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:10,080
Speaker 1: the ball. Pretty much, don't pretty much make it, um

1272
01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:14,320
Speaker 1: no more complicated than that becomes pretty simple after that. Yeah,

1273
01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:17,200
Speaker 1: give us an idea. You guys last week, and I've

1274
01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:19,439
Speaker 1: said this, you ran into a jet team. They played

1275
01:13:21,200 --> 01:13:23,280
Speaker 1: against you guys this last week. They played better than

1276
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:25,519
Speaker 1: they played on film against anybody else they put together.

1277
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:27,479
Speaker 1: It might be their best, their best game of the season.

1278
01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:30,000
Speaker 1: A lot of teams would have had a hard time

1279
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:32,920
Speaker 1: beating the Jets last week. Give us an idea of

1280
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:35,120
Speaker 1: going forward. What you can learn from a tough game

1281
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,760
Speaker 1: like that, and you know how you can apply to

1282
01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:41,680
Speaker 1: this Vikings game. Something I can say is that you know,

1283
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna get everyone's best no matter what UM, no

1284
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:47,280
Speaker 1: matter what week it is, and you know we have

1285
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:50,040
Speaker 1: to show up as well knowing that UM. And it's

1286
01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 1: it's it's a simple game, you know, no matter what

1287
01:13:52,479 --> 01:13:56,360
Speaker 1: level you're on UM literal league college football, it's about

1288
01:13:56,360 --> 01:13:59,640
Speaker 1: handling the small details of things the right way, UM.

1289
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:03,680
Speaker 1: Execute in your calls, executing your fundamentals. Like it's all

1290
01:14:03,720 --> 01:14:06,680
Speaker 1: about the things that make the game simple. If you

1291
01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:09,639
Speaker 1: do those at a high level, then you'll probably get

1292
01:14:09,640 --> 01:14:13,360
Speaker 1: the results that you want to get. So just taken

1293
01:14:13,439 --> 01:14:16,840
Speaker 1: last week, learning from not getting the outcome that we want.

1294
01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 1: That's something that I'm taking into this next week, just

1295
01:14:19,439 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 1: you know, just trying to do my job a little

1296
01:14:21,160 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 1: bit better and just trying to worry about the simple

1297
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:25,360
Speaker 1: things and let all the big things come to me.

1298
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:28,600
Speaker 1: Is there a part of you that still kind of

1299
01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 1: pinches yourself when you realize you not only have a

1300
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:37,320
Speaker 1: college teammate, but a childhood friend running with you as

1301
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:41,559
Speaker 1: a professional athlete in the same defense, in the same secondary. Like,

1302
01:14:42,479 --> 01:14:45,160
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're not the first tandem, and you probably

1303
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:48,960
Speaker 1: won't be the last, but that's a pretty special, rare

1304
01:14:49,040 --> 01:14:53,200
Speaker 1: super blessing, like super bussing. Just having someone like Dane

1305
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:56,320
Speaker 1: just being able to just play with me. It feels

1306
01:14:56,320 --> 01:14:58,519
Speaker 1: so surreal, Like I can't even describe it, but I

1307
01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:01,559
Speaker 1: cherish it second that I can, you know, every second

1308
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 1: and every day. We just had our prayer or dB

1309
01:15:03,439 --> 01:15:05,960
Speaker 1: prayer we do every Wednesday outside. He was next to me,

1310
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:07,559
Speaker 1: and I just grabbed his hand a little bit harder,

1311
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:09,600
Speaker 1: just because you know, you never know when, like the

1312
01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:12,639
Speaker 1: last day could be that you're getting an experience something

1313
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:14,840
Speaker 1: like this, you know. So I'm just I'm cherishing at

1314
01:15:14,880 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 1: every moment I can, um and it makes it a

1315
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:21,160
Speaker 1: little bit easier for me, you know, just having like

1316
01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 1: coming in being a rookie, having someone that I trust, um,

1317
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:27,559
Speaker 1: someone who's like a big brother figure to you know,

1318
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:31,120
Speaker 1: just literally like walk behind like a baby duckling, just

1319
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,960
Speaker 1: find just finding my way through what I should be doing,

1320
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 1: what I shouldn't be doing, you know, early on, and

1321
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:39,000
Speaker 1: then making my own path through that. So he's been

1322
01:15:39,120 --> 01:15:41,400
Speaker 1: nothing short of that, because we're going back to we're

1323
01:15:41,439 --> 01:15:45,240
Speaker 1: talking like grade school here, right, Like why did you first? Second?

1324
01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:48,120
Speaker 1: Third grade? Like how I mean we kind of we're

1325
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:49,680
Speaker 1: from the same side of town. Yeah, it's like we

1326
01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:52,719
Speaker 1: always knew of each other. You know, family is small,

1327
01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:54,760
Speaker 1: so his family know my family. Things like that. We

1328
01:15:54,880 --> 01:15:57,639
Speaker 1: played a scrimmage against each other little league, so we

1329
01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:00,400
Speaker 1: were always familiar with each other, always knowing other word,

1330
01:16:00,479 --> 01:16:03,040
Speaker 1: and you know, we ended up going to the same

1331
01:16:03,080 --> 01:16:06,719
Speaker 1: college together, which was like something cool, something that something

1332
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:09,880
Speaker 1: that people don't even get to experience there, especially coming

1333
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:11,600
Speaker 1: from our side of town. Like it's a lot of

1334
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:14,120
Speaker 1: people don't go Division one, a lot of people don't

1335
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:16,839
Speaker 1: even get to like see other things in the environment

1336
01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:19,120
Speaker 1: that they come from. So just being able to take

1337
01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:20,920
Speaker 1: that to a whole other level and be here with

1338
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:25,120
Speaker 1: the bills, it's something that we definitely are cherishing and

1339
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 1: we're not going that's a once in a light, that's

1340
01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: not even once in a light. That's what once in

1341
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 1: a generation that would happened to a couple of guys.

1342
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:33,519
Speaker 1: And certainly you know you got Tremaine and his brother

1343
01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: and Stephen and that and even James Cook and his brothers.

1344
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:40,080
Speaker 1: They're scattering to be on the team and being and

1345
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:43,120
Speaker 1: kind of hang tough with the same team throughout every

1346
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:46,800
Speaker 1: different level. Yeah, really really unusual and still be kind

1347
01:16:46,800 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 1: of like having similar chemistry. How we did that pick?

1348
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:51,439
Speaker 1: You know, it's like we were able to play off

1349
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:54,680
Speaker 1: with each other, like without even saying little words, you know, communication,

1350
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:58,400
Speaker 1: We communicate a lot, but like you know, it's just

1351
01:16:58,720 --> 01:17:00,240
Speaker 1: I know how to play off of him through his

1352
01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:02,840
Speaker 1: body movements, and I know how to communicate with him.

1353
01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 1: And we know how to like be deceptive within our

1354
01:17:06,439 --> 01:17:09,240
Speaker 1: system and within just whoever we're playing. We know how

1355
01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:11,559
Speaker 1: to just be deceptive, play off of each other and

1356
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 1: just work together well. And it shows. Do your guys

1357
01:17:15,640 --> 01:17:17,960
Speaker 1: families get to come in, Do they come in together too?

1358
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:19,559
Speaker 1: When they come in for home games? They come in.

1359
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 1: You know, we both got our own own situations, own

1360
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:25,599
Speaker 1: families and stuff. They come out separate, but we're literally

1361
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:28,120
Speaker 1: we live um like we're next door neighbors to each

1362
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:30,920
Speaker 1: other his complex and in my complex. So pretty much

1363
01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:33,720
Speaker 1: like I said, like that little duckling once I got jacked, Yeah,

1364
01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:35,560
Speaker 1: I pretty much asked us where you live at? Like

1365
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:37,720
Speaker 1: where you where'd you get this at? Where you do this?

1366
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:40,320
Speaker 1: Where you? And it's I just I fell right in

1367
01:17:40,360 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 1: line and things were just that much simpler, that much

1368
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 1: easier for me to just transition to this level. So

1369
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:46,920
Speaker 1: we don't we don't know what's gonna happen this week.

1370
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:48,479
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of talk about how Josh, whether

1371
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:50,680
Speaker 1: he is gonna player, isn't gonna play. Give me a night.

1372
01:17:50,760 --> 01:17:53,639
Speaker 1: Give us an insight as to like if Josh doesn't

1373
01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 1: play in Case, Keendom's the guy and you find that

1374
01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:58,320
Speaker 1: out like Friday, Saturday or even Sunday, it's a last

1375
01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:01,880
Speaker 1: minute kind of just acion give us a sense of

1376
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:04,240
Speaker 1: what it's like when the team we're at gonna rally around, kay,

1377
01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:05,720
Speaker 1: I mean, because you will. I mean you're gonna say

1378
01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:07,320
Speaker 1: a right, we're gonna do this, and we're gonna do

1379
01:18:07,360 --> 01:18:08,720
Speaker 1: it with Case and we're gonna do it together and

1380
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:11,439
Speaker 1: here we go. Give us a sense of the emotion

1381
01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:13,840
Speaker 1: behind that and the voices that you guys, you know,

1382
01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 1: who steps up and says let's go. Oh yeah, it'll

1383
01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 1: be nothing but support from the whole team. You know,

1384
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:21,320
Speaker 1: in cases, a veteran quarterback in this league with nothing

1385
01:18:21,360 --> 01:18:24,760
Speaker 1: but experience, So um, we believe in them and we're

1386
01:18:24,880 --> 01:18:26,800
Speaker 1: nothing but confident that he can get the job done.

1387
01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 1: He did well for us throughout the preseason, and he

1388
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:32,120
Speaker 1: does well for us every day in practice, things that

1389
01:18:32,439 --> 01:18:35,000
Speaker 1: the outside world don't get to see. Um. But like

1390
01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:38,840
Speaker 1: I said, he's a veteran quarterback, so every man on

1391
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:40,760
Speaker 1: the roster will be one hundred percent behind him and

1392
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:43,519
Speaker 1: ready to get this one. Sounds good to me. Listen, tomorrow,

1393
01:18:43,560 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 1: thanks for sitting down spending some time with us. We

1394
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:47,479
Speaker 1: appreciate its good with you for a little bit and

1395
01:18:47,640 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: hopefully we see him more down the line. Good luck

1396
01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:52,720
Speaker 1: on Sunday. That is Bill Safety tomorrow, Hamlin. We turn

1397
01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:55,040
Speaker 1: now to the guy he was just talking about, case

1398
01:18:55,160 --> 01:18:57,280
Speaker 1: Keenum at the podium or actually sorry, he's in the

1399
01:18:57,280 --> 01:19:00,160
Speaker 1: locker room addressing the media. Let's go there now, lot

1400
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:02,599
Speaker 1: of weapons out of the backfield, and then everybody knows

1401
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:04,880
Speaker 1: our receivers and what they can do, so uh, it's

1402
01:19:04,920 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 1: a it's a lot of guys, Um, you throw the

1403
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:10,000
Speaker 1: tight ends in there. Don't forget about them either. And uh,

1404
01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:11,320
Speaker 1: you know, we could do a lot of different things

1405
01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:12,439
Speaker 1: with a lot of different people and a lot of

1406
01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:18,360
Speaker 1: difficult personnels because you know, after Penas started for a

1407
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 1: couple of years, you have been a backup and you've

1408
01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:22,719
Speaker 1: gone in and started as a backup in recent years.

1409
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:25,519
Speaker 1: Does that kind of help you in this situation ramping

1410
01:19:25,560 --> 01:19:27,559
Speaker 1: it up to play? Yeah, I've been. I've been in

1411
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:31,599
Speaker 1: all situations. I've been. Uh, you know, played a lot

1412
01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:34,000
Speaker 1: without any practice you know how to do that step

1413
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:36,000
Speaker 1: in the middle of the game. I've practiced some and

1414
01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:39,400
Speaker 1: then played. I've practiced very little and played. I've I've

1415
01:19:40,040 --> 01:19:42,519
Speaker 1: literally any situation you know you could probably think of

1416
01:19:42,600 --> 01:19:45,320
Speaker 1: throughout the week. So uh, just coming each day, like

1417
01:19:45,320 --> 01:19:46,680
Speaker 1: I said, take it a day at a time, or

1418
01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 1: and see what what the plan is and and uh

1419
01:19:49,479 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 1: and get ready to go there. Anything that's different this week?

1420
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:56,360
Speaker 1: And where's his headache coming off the injury and how's

1421
01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:58,840
Speaker 1: he helping it prepare for a potential opportunity to start

1422
01:19:58,880 --> 01:20:01,400
Speaker 1: this week. I you have to ask him as far

1423
01:20:01,400 --> 01:20:04,200
Speaker 1: as where it's at. Um, But yeah, he's being a

1424
01:20:04,240 --> 01:20:06,120
Speaker 1: meetings and stuff. Our meetings are you know, the same.

1425
01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:07,840
Speaker 1: I mean we get coached, we all get coached the

1426
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:12,760
Speaker 1: same and uh, great communication and there with Joe and Dorsey, um,

1427
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:16,040
Speaker 1: and it's you know, it's it's uh, it's seamless. You know,

1428
01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 1: we're we're talking through the same game plan, doing the

1429
01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:21,040
Speaker 1: same same things we always do. Uh, you know, same

1430
01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 1: meetings at the same time here coming up pretty soon.

1431
01:20:23,720 --> 01:20:25,320
Speaker 1: Does that make it any different? I was just going

1432
01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 1: to ask you, You've been done this road before, but

1433
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:31,320
Speaker 1: there's something that's different about this particular situation, the communication,

1434
01:20:31,400 --> 01:20:35,280
Speaker 1: the environment or whatever. Um As you prepare, yeah, I

1435
01:20:35,320 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 1: mean there's always little differences. UM, but uh, you know,

1436
01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:42,040
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm I'm I'm preparing each each day

1437
01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:46,120
Speaker 1: the same. Uh. You know, I continue to tweak and

1438
01:20:46,120 --> 01:20:48,599
Speaker 1: and trying to make myself better and work on things

1439
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:50,880
Speaker 1: I need to work on. Uh, keep getting better at

1440
01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:53,760
Speaker 1: things I'm good at. UM. So I don't know if

1441
01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:57,560
Speaker 1: that's answers your question, but okay, good, thank you. You

1442
01:20:57,600 --> 01:21:00,160
Speaker 1: don't have to tackle them. You played with Delvin. You

1443
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:02,200
Speaker 1: know what what kind of player is seeing you see?

1444
01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 1: Oh you mean Cook one point? Oh yeah, we got

1445
01:21:07,439 --> 01:21:10,880
Speaker 1: Cook two point over here. Yeah, just a little about

1446
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 1: him and playing with him. Yeah. Oh he's great. Yeah,

1447
01:21:13,520 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 1: he's great. Um, I'll take our guy. You're talking about

1448
01:21:17,080 --> 01:21:18,840
Speaker 1: the weapons. But they've been a lot of public talk

1449
01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:21,759
Speaker 1: this week about the lack of productions from anyone besides

1450
01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:25,400
Speaker 1: takes seving Core. I feel a little urgency that moving

1451
01:21:25,439 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 1: ball around. I haven't I haven't heard any of that

1452
01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:31,680
Speaker 1: around here. Um talked about it? Is it? Okay? Well,

1453
01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:34,120
Speaker 1: we don't listen to much just being talked. Abut that's

1454
01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:38,599
Speaker 1: not in the Maybe it was productions from the other guy.

1455
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:40,679
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we all we all want to produce.

1456
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:43,000
Speaker 1: You know, I want to produce. You know, I've been

1457
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:46,479
Speaker 1: on sale. You know. So I think everybody cares. Verybody

1458
01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:49,160
Speaker 1: loves the game, uh wants to do well. And you know,

1459
01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:51,800
Speaker 1: whoever whoever gets an end zone, Um, it doesn't matter

1460
01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:53,680
Speaker 1: who's who's the one there. We'll all need him and

1461
01:21:53,680 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 1: celebrate when we get there. Relations just from an emotional spot, Yeah,

1462
01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:07,400
Speaker 1: it's tough. Um, you know, this game. Uh, it's hard,

1463
01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:10,760
Speaker 1: it's it's it's one of those it's not if uh

1464
01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:12,519
Speaker 1: if you get hurt, it's kind of win. You know,

1465
01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:15,719
Speaker 1: that's just nature of the game. It's a violent game. Uh,

1466
01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:17,960
Speaker 1: and I hate it for a friend, you know, Uh,

1467
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:21,920
Speaker 1: anytime they're they're dealing with uh you know something something,

1468
01:22:22,120 --> 01:22:24,920
Speaker 1: uh you know, being banged up. So uh yeah, I

1469
01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:27,840
Speaker 1: hate it, but uh you know, I try to compartmentalize

1470
01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:30,000
Speaker 1: that and uh, you know, go do my job when

1471
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:32,400
Speaker 1: I'm on the field. Played a multiple of human environments

1472
01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:35,719
Speaker 1: throughout your career. Just what do you think about having

1473
01:22:35,720 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 1: the chance to play in front of this crowd as

1474
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:41,599
Speaker 1: a starter in front of building mafia. Well, the fact

1475
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:45,559
Speaker 1: that when I came in uh for some mop up

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01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:48,920
Speaker 1: duty early in the year, in the fourth quarter, we

1477
01:22:48,920 --> 01:22:51,680
Speaker 1: were up by forty and everybody was still on their

1478
01:22:51,680 --> 01:22:55,960
Speaker 1: feet the entire game. I imagine, uh you know, playing

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01:22:56,160 --> 01:22:57,960
Speaker 1: if you know, if I do get to play early,

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01:22:58,439 --> 01:23:01,120
Speaker 1: uh you know, it'll be the pretty special I'm going

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01:23:01,200 --> 01:23:02,880
Speaker 1: to call myself down a little bit. It's pretty electric

1482
01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:10,000
Speaker 1: over there this week. As far as this or is

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01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:12,520
Speaker 1: that any different at this point in the week? Um,

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01:23:12,560 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's similar. I mean, we have a

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01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:17,639
Speaker 1: great discussion in the quarterback room, you know, no matter

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01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:20,160
Speaker 1: what for all plays. So, um, you know, we have

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01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:21,920
Speaker 1: a lot of great voices, a lot of great minds

1488
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:24,120
Speaker 1: in there and um, you know, try to learn, learn

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01:23:24,120 --> 01:23:28,080
Speaker 1: from everybody, and um, you know. So it's it's it's

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01:23:28,120 --> 01:23:30,400
Speaker 1: a it's a good discussion at all times. Talk about

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01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 1: the mental reps. How much does it helps make you

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01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:38,960
Speaker 1: feel comfortable with this? Yeah, I mean mental reps are

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01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:42,080
Speaker 1: are everything for me. Um as a backup quarterback in

1494
01:23:42,160 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 1: this league, there's not enough reps to go around for

1495
01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:46,519
Speaker 1: the starters. But being a backup quarterback, you don't really

1496
01:23:46,520 --> 01:23:48,960
Speaker 1: get any reps of your own offense a lot during

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01:23:48,960 --> 01:23:54,400
Speaker 1: the week. So the visualization, the mental preparation is basically

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01:23:54,439 --> 01:23:56,679
Speaker 1: all you have to know. So that's that's that's huge,

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01:23:58,840 --> 01:24:01,320
Speaker 1: all right. So that's case Can addressing the media after

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01:24:01,400 --> 01:24:04,720
Speaker 1: practice today after he got all of the reps with

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01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:08,800
Speaker 1: the first team Josh Allen not practicing today. I thought

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01:24:08,840 --> 01:24:12,400
Speaker 1: it was interesting, Steve that coach McDermott during his press

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01:24:12,439 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 1: conference today was talking about how most times Case wants

1504
01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:21,479
Speaker 1: the scout team reps in the course of the practice

1505
01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:25,400
Speaker 1: weekue in other words, running the other team's offense so

1506
01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:29,240
Speaker 1: he can stay sharp with his internal clock. Feel a

1507
01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:33,160
Speaker 1: rush from what amounts to Buffalo's starting defense going against him,

1508
01:24:34,080 --> 01:24:37,479
Speaker 1: you get a feel for the timing of the rush,

1509
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:41,280
Speaker 1: the progressions that he has to go through. He wants

1510
01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:43,680
Speaker 1: to run scout team so he can stay sharp in

1511
01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:46,400
Speaker 1: that aspect. He's not running the Bills offense. He's running

1512
01:24:46,400 --> 01:24:49,960
Speaker 1: the opponent's offense, but those elements of the game are

1513
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 1: important for him to stay sharp on. I thought that

1514
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:54,720
Speaker 1: was interesting to hear that from coach. It's as close

1515
01:24:54,760 --> 01:24:57,080
Speaker 1: as you can get to live reps and you're still

1516
01:24:57,080 --> 01:25:02,040
Speaker 1: playing against a really good defense, and and it just

1517
01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 1: keeps you sharp. You gotta throw it on time, you

1518
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:06,840
Speaker 1: gotta you feel the rush, you do all that stuff.

1519
01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:08,559
Speaker 1: It's as good a practice as you can never get

1520
01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:12,360
Speaker 1: without running your own offense. And that's you know, I

1521
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:14,360
Speaker 1: think a lot of guys felt that way. I know

1522
01:25:15,240 --> 01:25:18,600
Speaker 1: through my years in the league, it was. It was

1523
01:25:18,680 --> 01:25:22,439
Speaker 1: not just a throwaway period. Guys were, you know, Frank Reich,

1524
01:25:22,920 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 1: Gail Gilbert, those guys were taking reps, throwing the football

1525
01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:28,160
Speaker 1: and throwing it hard, trying to get guys open. And

1526
01:25:28,160 --> 01:25:30,080
Speaker 1: I was running wide out. I was working on my

1527
01:25:30,160 --> 01:25:32,559
Speaker 1: skills as a white out the same way. So it

1528
01:25:32,640 --> 01:25:36,280
Speaker 1: was it was not a throwaway period by any stretch

1529
01:25:36,320 --> 01:25:37,960
Speaker 1: of the imagination. Just because you weren't getting ready to

1530
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:40,320
Speaker 1: play or start. You were running against the defense and

1531
01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:43,639
Speaker 1: they wanted to see it. So you used to take

1532
01:25:43,680 --> 01:25:46,680
Speaker 1: great pride and playing well against those guys. And at

1533
01:25:46,680 --> 01:25:50,400
Speaker 1: the same time, you just heard Keenham talking about as

1534
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:53,280
Speaker 1: a backup. Yeah, you may get live scout team reps,

1535
01:25:53,320 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 1: but it's not your offense. So now you have to

1536
01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:58,800
Speaker 1: flip it around and go stand behind Josh and visualize

1537
01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:04,000
Speaker 1: yourself executing what you're watching, not what you're repping. Physically, Yeah,

1538
01:26:04,040 --> 01:26:07,760
Speaker 1: that's that's that can be a heavy lift, like it's

1539
01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:09,880
Speaker 1: really got to apply yourself to do it that. It's

1540
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:14,320
Speaker 1: an incredible amount of concentration because you run through reps

1541
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:16,280
Speaker 1: in the same practice, you're doing this and doing that

1542
01:26:16,320 --> 01:26:19,519
Speaker 1: and taking you know, trying to give the defense as

1543
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:21,519
Speaker 1: good a play as you can give them. And then

1544
01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:23,720
Speaker 1: when you sit back and watch Josh or you're the

1545
01:26:23,800 --> 01:26:27,720
Speaker 1: offense go in this case, you know case Keenom, you're

1546
01:26:27,760 --> 01:26:30,960
Speaker 1: trying to you know, you're trying to implant yourself into

1547
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:33,880
Speaker 1: what Josh is looking at and what he's doing. And

1548
01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:36,360
Speaker 1: you think, you think, well, why didn't you you know

1549
01:26:36,439 --> 01:26:39,280
Speaker 1: I would have, And it becomes very clear very quickly

1550
01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:42,120
Speaker 1: why guys are different case, keenom back there, going, I

1551
01:26:42,160 --> 01:26:44,080
Speaker 1: would have taken that right there, right then, I would

1552
01:26:44,080 --> 01:26:46,240
Speaker 1: have thrown it already, and Josh still got the ball

1553
01:26:46,240 --> 01:26:48,280
Speaker 1: in his hand trying to fit it in down the field.

1554
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:52,280
Speaker 1: Those kind of differences, um, and then when it and

1555
01:26:52,479 --> 01:26:54,800
Speaker 1: you kind of note that. And then when you go

1556
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:57,120
Speaker 1: back and you watch the practice after that or the

1557
01:26:57,160 --> 01:26:59,840
Speaker 1: next day, you're thinking, I was taking this one right

1558
01:26:59,840 --> 01:27:01,920
Speaker 1: here year and you tell that to Josh, say I'm

1559
01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:03,519
Speaker 1: taking this right here, and he'll say, well, that's And

1560
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 1: you have a conversation about the availability, how open it is,

1561
01:27:07,680 --> 01:27:10,280
Speaker 1: how easy the completion it is, the pluses and minuses,

1562
01:27:10,560 --> 01:27:13,280
Speaker 1: even if both plays are successful, which one do you

1563
01:27:13,320 --> 01:27:16,280
Speaker 1: want better or which one's most likely to help you?

1564
01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:20,320
Speaker 1: All those conversations go into the memory bank, and you

1565
01:27:20,320 --> 01:27:23,599
Speaker 1: can you can tell just from explaining all of that, Yeah,

1566
01:27:23,640 --> 01:27:26,160
Speaker 1: the high level these guys are functioning at. Yeah, you know,

1567
01:27:26,200 --> 01:27:28,960
Speaker 1: and how the nuances and why you take this play,

1568
01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:31,479
Speaker 1: why you take this easy completion in this situation rather

1569
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:33,840
Speaker 1: than that one, because of the down and distance, because

1570
01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:35,320
Speaker 1: of this, because of the time of the game, because

1571
01:27:35,320 --> 01:27:38,479
Speaker 1: of you know, first quarter, third quarter, that kind of stuff.

1572
01:27:38,479 --> 01:27:41,559
Speaker 1: It's it's advanced calcre It's a lot. There's a lot

1573
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:43,719
Speaker 1: in there. And that's why you got twenty five guys

1574
01:27:43,720 --> 01:27:45,880
Speaker 1: on the coaching staff, and you got two quarterbacks that

1575
01:27:45,920 --> 01:27:48,040
Speaker 1: are sitting there with you, thinking like you do, and

1576
01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:50,800
Speaker 1: a quarterbacks coach that'll talk to the coordinator for you.

1577
01:27:51,640 --> 01:27:55,200
Speaker 1: It's it's a system and a process that you got

1578
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:57,080
Speaker 1: to fall into that you got to know what's going on.

1579
01:27:57,200 --> 01:27:59,679
Speaker 1: It's it is not easy, and you got to tip

1580
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:01,080
Speaker 1: your hat to these guys were doing it at such

1581
01:28:01,080 --> 01:28:03,360
Speaker 1: a high level. Break time for us here, Steve and

1582
01:28:03,400 --> 01:28:05,120
Speaker 1: I with one more segment to go when we return

1583
01:28:05,160 --> 01:28:07,360
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back to One Bill's Live.

1585
01:28:23,200 --> 01:28:27,200
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. And before we get

1586
01:28:27,320 --> 01:28:32,920
Speaker 1: rolling here for the day, I was thinking about DeMar

1587
01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:35,479
Speaker 1: Hamlin's comments when he was here in studio with us

1588
01:28:35,479 --> 01:28:39,960
Speaker 1: earlier this hour, and just how he said, playing with

1589
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:44,320
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson at pitt and then here allows them the

1590
01:28:44,479 --> 01:28:49,839
Speaker 1: non verbal communication that you can use on the field.

1591
01:28:50,320 --> 01:28:52,519
Speaker 1: They know how to play off of one another based

1592
01:28:52,520 --> 01:28:56,160
Speaker 1: on Dane's body language. To Mar said, and I felt

1593
01:28:56,200 --> 01:28:58,760
Speaker 1: like that's where Poyer and Hyde were in terms of

1594
01:28:58,800 --> 01:29:02,080
Speaker 1: their on field relations chip, and it sounds like Damar

1595
01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:06,720
Speaker 1: and Jaquan Johnson are trying to develop that on the

1596
01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:10,719
Speaker 1: fly here, but it's not there yet and you'll understand why.

1597
01:29:10,760 --> 01:29:14,640
Speaker 1: But yeah, they'll get there, and because they're committed to

1598
01:29:14,640 --> 01:29:16,920
Speaker 1: doing it. They've played together at a bunch of different

1599
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:19,520
Speaker 1: levels of football, and you know that kind of relationship

1600
01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:23,360
Speaker 1: takes some time, although Hide and Poyer got it pretty quickly,

1601
01:29:23,920 --> 01:29:27,360
Speaker 1: and once you get some confidence, that's all it takes.

1602
01:29:27,880 --> 01:29:30,400
Speaker 1: That's it for us today here on a Wednesday. We'll

1603
01:29:30,400 --> 01:29:33,240
Speaker 1: see you tomorrow on Thursday, Field Yates, Pete Bursach and

1604
01:29:33,280 --> 01:29:36,160
Speaker 1: former Bills receiver Lee Evans joining us. We'll see you

1605
01:29:36,200 --> 01:29:38,519
Speaker 1: then at one