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Speaker 1: I didn't see that. I whenever I see that, you know,

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Speaker 1: you tend to say, well, when they ran the ball

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Speaker 1: on the Bills and the and the Patriots did have

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Speaker 1: some success in that, but I've always thought, um, I

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Speaker 1: didn't catch my eye. I gotta tell you, I didn't

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Speaker 1: think it was. It was outlandish like that where the

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Speaker 1: Bills didn't look like they were matching the physicality. Um that. Now,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots did rush for a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: of yards one hundred and some yards overall in the game,

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Speaker 1: and the Bills rushed for you know, nothing ninety like

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Speaker 1: you said, just under a hundred. So uh, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I thought the Bills were physical enough, but I would

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Speaker 1: have looked a lot different had they been able to

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Speaker 1: get the guys on the ground when the first guys there,

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Speaker 1: it would have looked a lot different. Eight three fifty

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Speaker 1: We've got to Chris in South Carolina. Hello Chris, Hey, gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: I just want to say, first thing, Merry Christmas to Bothy.

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Speaker 1: I hope you guys have a good holiday. Hey Ryce,

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Speaker 1: you too, Merry Christmas. I appreciate it. There are two

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Speaker 1: topics to just get by you real quick. The first one,

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Speaker 1: are you finally convinced that the Patriots get love at

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Speaker 1: their house? Are you finally convinced? Oh? I you listen.

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Speaker 1: I've long thought, and that's been a tenant around the

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Speaker 1: National Football League, that the Patriots get some love, some

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Speaker 1: home cooking in their building. What do you see is

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Speaker 1: what makes you say that, Chris Well, the intentional grounding

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Speaker 1: on Tom that didn't get called, the tripping penalty on

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Speaker 1: Tom that didn't get called on at Oliver. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: the intentional grounding was a bad miss, and instantly I

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Speaker 1: said that on the air Saturday night. I don't know

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Speaker 1: why they didn't get called, but it clearly was intentional grounding.

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Speaker 1: They said Birkhead was in the area, as I said

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Speaker 1: another broadcast, well he's in the area code. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if he was in the area. But the tripping

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Speaker 1: I think was insignificant, right, it was kind of a

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Speaker 1: cheap shot. After the play is over, Brady stup and

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Speaker 1: tried to you know, play is over. He tried to

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Speaker 1: knock down at Aliborough. I guess, I don't know. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: what else did you see what you're saying? I was

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Speaker 1: just pretty much because I just remember when Lorenzo was

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Speaker 1: on you know, you kind of said that you didn't

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Speaker 1: really think that they got calls, and I don't know,

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Speaker 1: just watching that game, it just seems like they get

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Speaker 1: those one or two. Well, go ahead and believe that,

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Speaker 1: But let me tell you something. If you're gonna beat him,

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Speaker 1: you gotta beat those calls too, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: They may or may not, but if you believe that,

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Speaker 1: you better be ready to take on the Patriots and

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Speaker 1: the officials. Chris, what did you think about the fourth

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Speaker 1: down when the Patriots they gave him the first down

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Speaker 1: and then they went back and the replay looked like

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Speaker 1: Sony Michelle's leg was down before he extended. Do you think?

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Speaker 1: What do you think about all that? How and the

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Speaker 1: Bills deciding not to challenge the whole nine yards? Do

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Speaker 1: you remember what I'm talking about? Yes, sir, I think

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Speaker 1: that's a little bit more on Sean personally only because

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Speaker 1: you know, wrest are going to miss those types of

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Speaker 1: things all day. But you know, who knows this would

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Speaker 1: have got overturned because you can't see the ball. I

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Speaker 1: guess when his knees down as they were staying on

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Speaker 1: the broadcast. You know, I would say that's a little

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Speaker 1: bit more on Sean not throwing the flag as opposed

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Speaker 1: to the rest not making that call. But there was

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Speaker 1: a couple more calls that I think the Rest could

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Speaker 1: have made that the Patriots, you know, did or did

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Speaker 1: not do. Do you think the officiating caused the loss? No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that. But I definitely think that, you know,

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Speaker 1: not having those plays called allowed other things to happen

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Speaker 1: that could have changed the outcome of the game. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it contributed. Now at any time you say that if

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Speaker 1: they miss a call or didn't get miss a call

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Speaker 1: or at getting your it was in your benefit or

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Speaker 1: not in your benefit, depending on the moment in the game. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: it does contribute plus or minus. There's no question it

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Speaker 1: always does, whether it's tipping point, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: you'd have to make a pretty strong argument, and it

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Speaker 1: had to be a lot later in the game than

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Speaker 1: the things we're talking about before it was a deciding factor.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Chris. Let's go to Art in Franklinville. Hello, Art,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air. A good afternoon, guys. Oh, I'm

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Speaker 1: a little bit aggregated about the Bill's loss, apparently because

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Speaker 1: of the way they did play, but more so at

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Speaker 1: the officiating for the calls at weren't call uh? Speaking

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Speaker 1: of which, the face mask of Josh Allen And why

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Speaker 1: wasn't Tom Brady on it run to the end zone

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Speaker 1: when he was tackled, hit hired, got up, made a

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Speaker 1: fist and punched our player right in the chest. Why

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Speaker 1: wasn't a personal fall called against him? Well, when he

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Speaker 1: when he turned over, I think the ball was in

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Speaker 1: his hand. He kind of swiped at him with the

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Speaker 1: ball more so than making a fist and punch. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I get you. I see it, and I get you.

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Speaker 1: The face mask. The face mask happened very fast, and

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Speaker 1: I didn't see it on live action, but when you know,

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Speaker 1: when you run it back in slow motion, it's plainly obvious.

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Speaker 1: And it would have been an extra fifteen yards on

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Speaker 1: that penalty on the play. But yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 1: I saw the same place you did. Thanks for your call.

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Speaker 1: One more call will go to Cleat in Boston, New York.

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Speaker 1: Hello Cleat, you're on the air. Um, John Steve, I'm

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Speaker 1: the first time caller. I love your show. I watched

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Speaker 1: it all the time. Thank you. M I see the

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Speaker 1: one guy asked my question about the face mask Kenny Ellen.

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Speaker 1: But I also was wondering why they didn't Singletary more

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Speaker 1: in a screen pass game or something getting more involved

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Speaker 1: in the passing game. I think he would be a

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Speaker 1: real good weapon. I really think we're missing out not

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Speaker 1: using them. Yeah, I would say if you didn't see

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Speaker 1: something in the offensive game plan, is probably because they

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Speaker 1: didn't think it would work given their film study that

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Speaker 1: like the Patriots are probably you know his face of

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Speaker 1: the Patriots are one of the smartest teams in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and they're very aware of what's going on around him.

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Speaker 1: It was really a shock to see him miss a

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Speaker 1: tackle eligible plays of tackle released out and wasn't covered,

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Speaker 1: but they missed it. So I think probably it's because

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Speaker 1: the Patriots have shown the ability to snap screenplays off.

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Speaker 1: I think that's probably one thing. And you know, so

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't say speak because I have

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Speaker 1: been told or asked the question of the coaches, but

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Speaker 1: I think that's usually what I attributed to. Bills are

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Speaker 1: not a strong screen pass team this year. No, they aren't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they need to use it. Yeah, okay, thanks for your call.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a break, We're coming back with more. We

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Speaker 1: got phone lines open, got some tweets to read on

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Speaker 1: want to do, Steve, I'll read a couple off the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet. All right, they'll give you the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: started all right from nine one nine, way more optimistic.

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Speaker 1: I don't care if they say no moral victories, but

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Speaker 1: that was the most entertaining Bills patch game I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Can I just say this, he's right about that that game.

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Speaker 1: Watched it over yesterday and I thought it was aggravating.

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Speaker 1: It's maddening that they lost. I'm upset that they lost,

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Speaker 1: but it was a pretty good NFL game. Again, it's

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Speaker 1: not just us either around the country. You could see

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Speaker 1: it on my timeline and others. And they just thought

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Speaker 1: all three games on Saturday were top nine, and it

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Speaker 1: really was. The Bills Patriots game had a playoff field

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Speaker 1: to it, no question about. It was a big deal,

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Speaker 1: and both those teams played hard and it was a

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Speaker 1: really tough game. You're right, it was a great game.

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Speaker 1: But it's still you know, I mean, you want to

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Speaker 1: be on the other end of it, that's all. And

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Speaker 1: can I argue this or ring this up to you

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Speaker 1: before you get to the next tweet there in the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet I think you'll make you can agree or

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Speaker 1: disagree I think the Patriots had much more to lose

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Speaker 1: that on Saturday than the Bills did. Right, Bills lost,

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Speaker 1: They're still the fifth seat. Had the Patriots lost, they'd

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Speaker 1: be worried about losing the you know, the AFC East.

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Speaker 1: Now they'd be worried about losing the home field the

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Speaker 1: bye week. Right, the Patriots had much more to lose

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Speaker 1: in that game. And yeah, is this along the lines

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Speaker 1: of moral victory. I don't think so. But it's a

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Speaker 1: fact the Patriots had more to lose than the Bills

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Speaker 1: did in that game. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Also

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Speaker 1: from the tweet sheet, how are you feeling about the

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Speaker 1: playoffs after the loss to the Patriots? And from Tiffany,

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Speaker 1: she says, they have a great opportunity to win a

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Speaker 1: playoff game. Plus, they've hung with the best NFL. The

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Speaker 1: NFL has to offer trading punches with a defending Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl champs. Saturday, they came close, but if they put

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Speaker 1: a complete game together, it will result in a victory. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta feel like and we talked about

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Speaker 1: this in the first segment, there's nobody in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: that I'm like going on. I don't know, you know,

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Speaker 1: certainly the Ravens are a different animal, and they're time.

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Speaker 1: It would be tough to go into Baltimore and win,

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Speaker 1: But you know, I think the Bills would love a

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Speaker 1: shot at those guys, another shot at them, and certainly

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. I don't know if the Patriots wanted any

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Speaker 1: part of another Buffalo game. Um, you know, Houston, we

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Speaker 1: haven't seen them this year as a Buffalo Bills team.

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, same thing. I mean, Kansas City looks to me,

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Speaker 1: and they played very well yesterday, so they're they're thinking

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Speaker 1: really high. They've got a lot of optimism about their

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Speaker 1: chances to get through the playoffs, although they're the three

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Speaker 1: seed right now. So um, yeah, it's gonna be an

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fun, fun playoffs and you're got

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Speaker 1: to be so happy your team's right in. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: just not there yet. I'm still not over Saturday, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. I think many Bills fans, it

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Speaker 1: sounds like in reads like they feel that way. Luke

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Speaker 1: tweets in how are you feeling about the loss about

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Speaker 1: the playoffs? After the loss, Luke tweets, and it says

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Speaker 1: a bit less. The offense performed as expected, the defense

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Speaker 1: had a slight letdown. I got that. I'm glad to

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Speaker 1: agree with that. The defense, which you know, let's face it,

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Speaker 1: it's been unfair all season long. They've relied in leaned

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Speaker 1: on that defense all season long, and this is the

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Speaker 1: first time the defense did not come through for him

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Speaker 1: in a huge way. And they've been leaning on that.

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Speaker 1: They've been relying on that, all right, phone calls eight

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Speaker 1: three fifty two three one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. Let's go to Mark on the line,

638
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: that little Mark, you're on the air. Go ahead, Hey, guys,

639
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: thanks for having me on Mary Christmas. Two goals. Um.

640
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 1: I just think that the narratives totally different. If Alan

641
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: can hit that pass, the Dawson knock and passes like

642
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: that that were give Mese earlier in the game that

643
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: that Brady made and which one you mean the thirty

644
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: three yard or the or the first one in the

645
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: end zone, end zone you overthrow him knock wide open,

646
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: you know I'm talking about in the fourth Oh yeah, yeah, yep, yep.

647
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: I mean just to send it to overtime. And I

648
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: think I want Allen to start winning these games for him.

649
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: I know we rely on our defense and that's good,

650
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: But I want you know, we've had the game manager quarterback.

651
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: I think I think Allen can really play. We get

652
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: the right tools around him. I think you know they're

653
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: missing that one a receiver that Well, here's the thing

654
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: I don't want. I guess I do kind of disagree

655
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: with you. I think that one a receiver. You're talking

656
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: out of both sides of your mouth. Dawson Knox got

657
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: opened in the back of that end zone. Josh gotta

658
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: put it in there. I don't a different receiver, isn't.

659
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: I mean, Dawson Knox is a huge target. He's got

660
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: to hit that throw you get, and there are other

661
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: throws like that in the game that Josh has to hit. Yeah,

662
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: the game goal, he's throwing it up to Cole Beasley.

663
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley's I'm probably than Cole Beasley. Well, wait a minute, mark.

664
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: He had six guys in his lap. There was a

665
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: huge bust on the offensive line. He had three guys

666
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: coming on him. He had he lofted it up. If

667
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: if he didn't get rid of it, it was gonna

668
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: be a sack. I mean, he had no chance to

669
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: get away that. So that play is notwithstanding. I mean

670
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying. He threw it up for grabs,

671
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: but he had guys in his lap. Steve, are you

672
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: saying the receiver you're fine with the receiving core that

673
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: we have. Is that what you mean. I'm saying that's

674
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: not the excuse for not winning games like this. No,

675
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: I'm saying that's what's if. Yeah, And it's crazy, Mark,

676
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: if you're crazy. If you want, yeah, better players make

677
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: you better. So if you can find somebody better than

678
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley or John Brown, okay, great, get them. But

679
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: I'm saying you have enough now to say, you know,

680
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: it's the guys you've got that aren't playing well enough.

681
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: I mean, they're good enough to win the championship with Steve,

682
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: I agree that those throws, but at the end of

683
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: the game where you need a big play, I mean,

684
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: these short receivers, I think it would benefit Anilin. I

685
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: think the Bills are kicking themselves and not addressing that.

686
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: You know, and I think it goes to show when

687
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: they were after a guy like Antonio Brown, well, why

688
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: didn't he throw it to the tall guy? Then why

689
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: didn't he throw it to the tight end. You have

690
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: to ask Davil. I mean, why you're telling we got

691
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,479
Speaker 1: a tall target? Why didn't he throw it to him?

692
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: Who's this tall target? We have a Chris Kelsey on

693
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: the team. I mean we got six six Dawson Knox.

694
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: You got a six five six six Tyler Croft? Yeah,

695
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: and where's Cross then? I mean to that point too, well,

696
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: there you go. I mean, well, why did Josh throw

697
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: it to the short guy? Why didn't he throw it

698
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: to the tall guy? That's my point. You're you're putting

699
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: it on Cole Beasley for not going up in double

700
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: coverage and pulling it down. I mean, he's you know.

701
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: I mean my point is, I get you, Mark, Yeah,

702
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: Better players make you better. And if you can get

703
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: another big time wide receiver, yeah, okay, get it. But

704
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: that's no excuse for this year. They got enough to

705
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: go the distance this year. You can't. Don't make it

706
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: seem like we're not gonna go because we don't have

707
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: Julio Jones or or a j. Green. Those guys are

708
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: no guarantee we'd be any better than we are right

709
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 1: now because the guy throwing it has got to fit

710
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: it in there. Thanks Mark, Better players. I want to

711
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: say this too, Better players on the offensive line. If

712
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: we're talking about that last play, better playing the offensive

713
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: line would have helped better players. Deon Dawkins kind of

714
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: slipped tripped over what the field his own feet on

715
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: that last play. On the other side, Cody Ford kind

716
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: of let who was a Cayle van Noy get in there.

717
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: It was Jamie Collins coming over the inside of Deon Dawkins.

718
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: Better tackles, better locking up front. But the thing about

719
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: that play that bothers me, Steve, is that they could

720
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: have spent their final time out there, I think, and

721
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: maybe reset everybody and refocus everybody and maybe got better protection.

722
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: I think better protection would have made a difference on

723
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: the last play. I really, here's the thing. When you're

724
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 1: in games like this, and we've been in them all year, Murph,

725
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 1: you're always gonna say, well, that guy, that guy didn't

726
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: make the Playwolf, and there's always gonna be a section

727
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: of your fan base they're gonna say that guy's not

728
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: good enough because he didn't make the play in the

729
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: last play of the game, like Cole Beasley's not good

730
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: enough because he missed that last desperation Hail Mary from

731
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: Josh Allen or you're gonna say, Dawson Knox, he's just

732
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: not good enough because that playing the back of the

733
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: end zone. You know, the ball was just out of

734
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,919
Speaker 1: his reach. And you're gonna say, you know, every time

735
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 1: these plays come down to these things, you're gonna say,

736
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: we need better players. You know what, Your players are

737
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: good enough. The coaches have got guys running open. The

738
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: guys are good enough to catch it. You can't drop them.

739
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: But you've got you've got enough talent on this roster

740
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 1: to go and win and win against anybody. But we

741
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: were just talking about the tournament and the bracket that

742
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: we've just laid out. You tell me that you don't

743
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: think the Bills can beat any of those teams that

744
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: we've seen it. They're they're in the game with all

745
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: of those games, with all of those teams. You've got

746
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: enough guys. Now, you've got enough gas in the tank

747
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: right now to win. So, yeah, good players make you better.

748
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 1: But those good players you get the A. AJ Greene

749
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: drops passes, Julio Jones drops passes. It's all up to

750
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: the guy to get it to him. And if the guy,

751
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: you know, and it's gonna be you're gonna come down

752
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: to these plays, and who knows You're gonna have a

753
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: guy come loose on the back side and AJ Green's

754
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: running wide open, and you got a quarterback like Josh

755
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 1: Allen's gonna hit him and he gets hit in the

756
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: back of the head before he can release it. Well,

757
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 1: now you gotta left tackle. You know it's a rabbit

758
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: hole that you'll never come out of. You gotta be

759
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: happy with the guys you got, and you gotta win

760
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: with these guys. You can say they'll never do If

761
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: you're gonna say they're never gonna do it with the

762
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: guys that got on the roster, don't watch. The simple

763
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:54,800
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is they are good enough, and

764
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 1: you gotta believe a lot of people believe they are.

765
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: Didn't get better, You're right, everybody, Yeah, good players make

766
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: you better. You're not gonna get anymore this year. And

767
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 1: if you want to just cash it in, go ahead.

768
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are good enough to win now

769
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: this year, this season, this tournament, this playoff run. So

770
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: you can say that you can forget it. If why

771
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 1: even watch, then if they don't have an AJ Greener

772
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: or Hulia Jones, you can go home. You can go

773
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: away for the holidays. You don't have to stick around

774
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,439
Speaker 1: for the playoff games. Let's go to Harry in Texas. Hello, Harry,

775
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Thanks guys. You know what I

776
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 1: saw yesterday is, you know, I feel like they played

777
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to stay scared, but like overly cautious.

778
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: The defense was back off the line. You're given a

779
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: lot of respect to a Patriots team that isn't the

780
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: same offense that it used to be where they can

781
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 1: just score at will and every play as a potential touchdown.

782
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: I don't know how many times Edelman was used to

783
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: convert a third down before they finally decided to double

784
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: cover them in those situations. The offense, you know, you're

785
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: I love single Parry. I think he's great, but you

786
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: know he can only try to run it up the

787
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: middle so many times, and you gotta you gotta put

788
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:05,959
Speaker 1: faith in Josh Allen and let him make them plays.

789
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: You had the deep ball to Knocks, he had the

790
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: deep ball to John Brown. You know you're making big

791
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: plays taking the pop off defense. Why are you not

792
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: continuing to throw the ball and then open up the

793
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 1: run games that are trying to use the run game

794
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: to open up the passing game that's been working for you.

795
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 1: You know, Josh Allen could have been taken off more

796
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: out of the pocket. I was really disappointed. I thought

797
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: it was a lack of days a full performance from

798
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: the defense. You know, when have we been the Bills

799
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: where we're depending on the offense to pull us through

800
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: the game when it's usually typically the defense. I mean,

801
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: I'm a Bill staying through and through, and I appreciate

802
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: how good our defense is. But I think yesterday, you

803
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: know you're gonna play a team like the Patriots in

804
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: their own house. Man, you gotta be aggressive. You gotta

805
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: be going after Braid. You gotta be putting the pressure

806
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: on him, you know, make these dudes during those yards,

807
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 1: not these five six seven minute drive. I just you know,

808
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: it's like their heart wasn't in it. Like we're just

809
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: content that you know, they're going to the playoffs and

810
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: we'll pick it up when we get there. If they

811
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 1: performed like they did yesterday against a team like the

812
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, they're gonna be one and done. And that

813
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: makes me sick, but it is what it is, all right, Harry, Thanks,

814
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: I disagree with m Their heart wasn't in it. I

815
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: don't think that was a case at all. I couldn't.

816
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: I listened to an argument about lack of lack of aggression,

817
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: you know, being overly cautious. I guess yeah. I could

818
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: see that. Um in particular, I would see a little

819
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: more pressure put on Brady, a little more heat, a

820
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 1: little more pass rush, and they didn't get a sack.

821
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: And they were coming off a string of games where

822
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: they had a lot of pressure on the opposing quarterback.

823
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: They didn't seem to be interested in doing that for

824
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: whatever reason. Yeah, and I agree. One thing I did

825
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: notice the Bills didn't get any quick pressure on Brady

826
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: on Saturday. I would like to, he's got to. And

827
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: I think they really that was part of their game plan.

828
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: The ball came out very fast with Brady Um, so

829
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: you know, you really didn't get a chance to sack

830
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: him at all. I think one of the other things

831
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:57,839
Speaker 1: he said about being overly cautious, I was thinking, Wow,

832
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: that was just the opposite of that, because they did

833
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: with no time at the end of the first half

834
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: to go down and get and get a touchdown to

835
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 1: tie it up in that game. I thought that was

836
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: the biggest moment of the Bills season that far to

837
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,959
Speaker 1: hit to come back and have hit that deep pass

838
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: over the top to Dawson Knox to get him down

839
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,439
Speaker 1: to the goal line and then hit the touchdown after

840
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: that when they when they you know, overturned the touchdown call.

841
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: I thought that was a really aggressive move. Uh the

842
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: tackle eligible play was a great move. So I thought

843
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: at that point the Bills were really coaching aggressive at

844
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: that point. But I agree with you this, It is

845
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: a it's hard to play aggressive defense against a quarterback

846
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: with the experience of Tom Brady when they know the

847
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: Patriots know, you know, they've had protection problems in their

848
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Speaker 1: offensive line. I think that all went into the mix

849
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: there and I and Harry says it looked like the

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00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: defense played scared. I see it. I get it. It's

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00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: hard to hit on all cylinders and to keep coaching

852
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: aggressively when you know you're on the road against that team.

853
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll agree with you it's it's hard to

854
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 1: get on top of that. But offensively, I thought they

855
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: stayed aggressive throughout, particularly like I said, at the end

856
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Speaker 1: of that first half and then at the end of

857
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 1: the game where they you know, they still had a

858
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Speaker 1: chance to win it. Driving the ball down and get it.

859
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: So it was You're right. It's a frustrating loss. And

860
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: when if you're gonna beat a team like that, every

861
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,320
Speaker 1: coaching decision has to be right, Every execution by the

862
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: team has to be right. Every offensive play, every defensive

863
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: call has to be right and executed perfectly in that

864
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: building against that team and the Bills. You know, it

865
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: came up a little short, no question about it. We

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Speaker 1: got a break. We're coming back. It's One Bill's Life,

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Speaker 1: presented by kalidah Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Frank Core in the backfield,

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Speaker 1: quick snap, Al was gonna throw it again. Deon's wife,

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Speaker 1: Dean Dawkins dis open it makes a catch, touchdown, Deon

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Speaker 1: Dawkins touchdown. Bluffa bo Dean dawkins second career touchdown. Catch

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Speaker 1: comes from the Hunt real Estate red zone. It's an

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Speaker 1: unreal estate dot com to score on all of your

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00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 1: real estate needs one second left in the first half.

875
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:24,919
Speaker 1: When that happened, that put me in a better mood today.

876
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: That was kind of fun. When that happens, that was

877
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: that was amazing. You're at a party at your house,

878
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: a watch party, the place, go to the Place erupt

879
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: when that happened, Well it really erupted when Dawson Knox

880
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: caught that and looked like they went in. They called

881
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: it a touchdown that the Yeah, the roof came off

882
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: at then because that was, you know, such a big

883
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: play and it's something that this team I think has

884
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: not done enough of her well enough. I mean, certainly

885
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: they've had some fourth quarter comebacks. Josh's getting a name

886
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: for himself doing that, but um, moving the ball down

887
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: the field, no time left, you know, they're running out

888
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 1: of clock that you know you need it, you know,

889
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: can't have felt like, wow, this is really huge if

890
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: they can get in and then they they you know,

891
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: I had first and goal on the in the one

892
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh god, here we go. Yeah, And

893
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: to me, how this play worked and get it called

894
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: was was huge. You know. Belichick apparently going right after

895
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: the play, actually going into the locker room at halftime,

896
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: was trying to say that he had not declared himself eligible.

897
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: They had Ryan Bates in there playing at an extra

898
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Speaker 1: offensive lineman. He declared eligible, as did as did. I'm

899
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 1: just watching these guests try to like this celeparation. Bates

900
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: had no idea what was going on in the celebration,

901
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 1: but um no, I heard him say, seventy three and

902
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: seventy one are eligible. I heard the official John Hussey

903
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: say that apparently Belichick did not hear that. He thought

904
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Speaker 1: that only Bates had declared himself. Right. They re ran

905
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: it on the on the broadcast and made it clear

906
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 1: that yeah. They In fact, they showed yeah team, the

907
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: guys do the signal where they take both hands, put

908
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: it at the top of their chest and brushed downward

909
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,479
Speaker 1: that signal that that number is now eligible. So great

910
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: play really was it was playing. It was a huge

911
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: moment in that game. I mean that that really sent

912
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 1: the Patriots in the locker room, like huh, I know

913
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: now that there was a tussle and it was fun.

914
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: It was really Halftime was way better. Let's go to

915
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: Steve in Southern California. Hello Steve, Welcome to the show. Oh,

916
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: thank you very much, guys. First of all, we don't

917
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: have a chance. I always listening out here and tell

918
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: the California to you guys, So thanks a lot. Sure,

919
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,879
Speaker 1: thanks for listening. What's that a call? There's First of all,

920
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: when we beat Pittsburgh. I was on cloud nine because

921
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: we made the playoffs so early, and I was just

922
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: so optimistic. And you know what, it sounded a mind

923
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: losing to to pitch to the Patriots. It's a way

924
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: we lost it. It's a way we lose it every

925
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,919
Speaker 1: for the past twenty years, the same thing. No, well,

926
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Speaker 1: go ahead, I'll let you finish your point. But I'm

927
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: guessing that I won't agree with you because it wasn't

928
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: the same thing. But go ahead, Steve, tell me what

929
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 1: you see. But what I'm just saying is they control

930
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: the line scrimmage on both sides of the ball, and

931
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 1: that you know, and I know this year the Patriots

932
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: have been having problems with the running game and the

933
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: and their rush defense against the Bills. All of a

934
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: sudden they come alive after a couple of months and

935
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: it's just like, what the heck is happening here? So

936
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: that's yeah, I don't look. It was a lot different,

937
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: I think than most Bills Patriots games have been. And

938
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,240
Speaker 1: it's been a sorry string of losses by the Bills

939
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: to the New England Patriots. And you're right about this.

940
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: You know, there were no sacks of Tom Brady. They

941
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: they made an effort to get rid of the ball.

942
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: They saw the Bills were doing a better job in

943
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: the last month or so of rushing the passer, putting

944
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: heat on opponent opposing Patchers passers. They did it to

945
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: Duck Hodges, they did it to hum everybody. Basically they

946
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 1: played Dak Prescott in the last month and a half.

947
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: But I don't think it was the same as the

948
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: way they've lost to the Patriots in the past. Even

949
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: I don't. I think it was that it was close.

950
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: It was If anything, it was the same is the

951
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: game on September twenty nine when they lost by one score,

952
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,479
Speaker 1: they lost by six points. That day they lost by seven.

953
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think it's the same as

954
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: the last you know what's Brady thirty two and three

955
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: now against the Bills. I don't think it looked anything

956
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: like most of those thirty two losses. What do you think, Um,

957
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 1: it's pretty similar, I don't think, because it comes down

958
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,879
Speaker 1: to them making one or two plays and the Bills don't. Uh.

959
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: And it comes down to moments in the game that

960
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: they seem to always come out on the positive of

961
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,439
Speaker 1: um and uh. Yeah, it's just the way they play

962
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: everybody there. That's why they're so difficult to beat. That's

963
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: why they're you know, they're in the super Bowl so often.

964
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 1: They just don't make mistakes at big moments of those games.

965
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: And and uh, and you know that's that's their gift.

966
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the that's the way they play so uh.

967
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: To me, it looks like a Patriots game. Um, even

968
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: when they get in close games, they just seem in control.

969
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: And that's uh, that's that's not something you see other things.

970
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: Did you feel like they were in control when it

971
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 1: was ten to ten and when the bills were up?

972
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: And when you think about it, what would happen if

973
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: that ball doesn't if they don't get in the end zone. Yeah,

974
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 1: total control. That but that happened. And that's exactly what

975
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: I said in the first the first segment of the show.

976
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: It takes some guy on the other team, this case

977
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo team, to make an unbelievable play throw and catch

978
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: to get into position to beat those guys. Dawson Knox

979
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: catch that ball over the shoulder going down the sideline.

980
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:26,919
Speaker 1: If you don't make it, and that's a low percentage play,

981
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: you make that play and now you got a chance

982
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 1: to tie it, you know, So that's you know, those

983
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: plays don't happen all the time. Teams can't make those plays.

984
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: That's why they're low percentage plays. And that's why the

985
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 1: Patriots always seemed to be in control of situations like that.

986
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: And and um, you know it's so it's hard to watch.

987
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 1: Did you feel pretty frustrated we're in control when the

988
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: Bills were up seventeen to ten? I didn't. Yeah, I'm

989
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: pretty sure. Yeah. You think about it, that's and it's

990
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: it's where you think, wow, that's that's where that game

991
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: felt different. You know, right when the Bills come back

992
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: and take the lead seventeen what thirteen seventeen seventeen thirteen?

993
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: You thought Patriots were in control? No, I thought that

994
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: was where that game seem did seem different that late

995
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: in the game, But you always knew too, that game

996
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: was nowhere near over. Oh yeah, I know that, right,

997
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: So that's why that's why it's different. And when it

998
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: was ten to ten and the Bills are up by four,

999
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like I thought it was anybody's game

1000
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: to win. I did. I thought it was anybody's game

1001
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: to win. That's why that that's the area where the

1002
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: game felt different. When the Bills are trailing late in

1003
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: that game, that's where it all. It seemed all too familiar, okay,

1004
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: because they usually lose down there, right, all right, they

1005
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: always lose down there. They're like the Patriots are. There's

1006
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: there's unbelievable stats about their home games, their home home

1007
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: games and both they're they're four and four on the

1008
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: road in the playoffs and they're like twenty and two

1009
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: at home. So yeah, and let me tell you something.

1010
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: It's a nice stadium, good crowd, but that's not the

1011
00:47:55,840 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: reason they're winning. What is I have no idea. You

1012
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: want to say something, but you're afraid to say. You know,

1013
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? I mean, they're they're twenty

1014
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: and two or something. I'm gonna go back and I'll

1015
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: go back and look and see because the stats are

1016
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: out there about how good they are in their own building,

1017
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: and it's it's unbelievable. Chris Brown, stay, anybody to join

1018
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 1: us next hour Bills Insider from Buffalo bills dot com. Again,

1019
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: we'll take more of your phone calls when Chris is here.

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00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,839
Speaker 1: Eight three fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. How are you feeling about the Patriots?

1022
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: Are about the Bills playoff chances now? Following that loss

1023
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: to the Patriots? What do you think we'll talk about

1024
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: it with Chris Brown when we come back. One Bill's

1025
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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health from the Seneca Studio in

1026
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: Archard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio Balow Bills Radio Network.

1027
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: Story update update from One Bill's Drive. The Bills will

1028
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:57,240
Speaker 1: get back on the practice field tomorrow. They practice Tuesday Thursday.

1029
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,919
Speaker 1: On Friday this week before they finished the regular season

1030
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: home against the Jets, Bills quarterback johsh Allen has accounted

1031
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: for twenty nine total touchdowns this year, twenty touchdown passes,

1032
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: nine touchdown runs, twenty nine total touchdown second most in

1033
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: the season in team history, trailing only Jim Kelly, who

1034
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: scored who produced thirty four touchdowns in nineteen ninety one.

1035
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: Bills locked into the fifth seed and the AFC Playoffs

1036
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: either visit the Houston Texans or the Kansas City Chiefs

1037
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: for a wild card weekend matchup. Kansas City at home

1038
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: Sunday one o'clock against the Chargers Tennessee at Houston for

1039
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: twenty five pm Sunday. Mitch Morris with a right ankle

1040
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: foot injury. May learn more about that at four o'clock

1041
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: today when head coach Sean McDermott addresses the media. The

1042
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: NFL finalized its Week seventeen schedule, distributing sixteen games through

1043
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: three Sunday windows to maximize the uncertainty in the playoff games.

1044
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,839
Speaker 1: Eight games to kickoff at one o'clock, including the Bills

1045
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 1: game seven more at four twenty five pm. Houston Texans

1046
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: wide receiver Will Fuller is not certain to play in

1047
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,240
Speaker 1: their regular season finale against Tennessee because of a groin injury.

1048
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 1: His status b on Week seventeen, including the Texans wildcard

1049
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: game in two weeks, has also uncertain. Suffered the injury

1050
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 1: in the first half Saturday against Tampa Bay. Fuller has

1051
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 1: already missed five games this season with a hamstring injury.

1052
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, ravaged by injuries and running back, are considering

1053
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: a reunion with Marshawn Lynch. He will travel to Seattle

1054
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:21,240
Speaker 1: today to discuss rejoining the team. According to multiple reports,

1055
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: Seahawks fear that's starting running back Chris Carson suffered a

1056
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Speaker 1: season ending hip injury in Sunday's loss to the Arizona Cardinals,

1057
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 1: and the Sabers play Ottawa on the road tonight, the

1058
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: final game before the holiday break, faceoff at seven thirty tonight.

1059
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: The Sabers have gone eleven three and three in their

1060
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 1: last seventeen games against the Senators. There back home on

1061
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: Friday when they host of Boston Bruins. The home team

1062
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: has won each of the five meetings between Buffalo and

1063
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: Ottawa since the beginning of last season. Sabers Ottawa tonight

1064
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: at seven thirty. And that is the update from One

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00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. John Murphy Steve Tasker. We're joined by Chris

1066
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:57,279
Speaker 1: Brown Bills inside a Buffalo Bills dot Com at this point, Hello, Chris,

1067
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: how you doing today? I'm doing okay. This us the

1068
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: other day. Yeah, it bothers me, Chris. It's having an

1069
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: effect on me. Two days removed, I still feel it,

1070
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: and I don't know why. I little hangover a little bit. Yeah,

1071
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: and I think it has something to do with the

1072
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 1: fact that A it's the Patriots and we keep waiting

1073
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 1: for the breakthrough against the Patriots, and B it's what

1074
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 1: it's um, I don't know. I guess it's the Patriots

1075
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 1: is the number one not you know, the officiating. It's

1076
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 1: not why they lost the efficiating, but there were enough

1077
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,479
Speaker 1: questionable calls that make me just shake my head about

1078
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:30,720
Speaker 1: the NFL. Those two reasons have me concerned about that loss.

1079
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: Help me out, Chris, can you? I don't know if

1080
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: I can. I don't know if I can. I just

1081
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 1: think that the Patriots played a more efficient game. They

1082
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: ran the ball as hard as I've seen them run it,

1083
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 1: maybe since the end of last season, which helped them

1084
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: get back to the Super Bowl last year. And I

1085
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:51,879
Speaker 1: think they corrected some of the things that had been

1086
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: ailing them in recent weeks. I mean, you looked at

1087
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 1: that five game stretch coming into the game last Saturday,

1088
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: and Tom Brady had not eclipse fifty five percent completion

1089
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:05,359
Speaker 1: percentage in any of those five games. Their run game

1090
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: was struggling mightily and had been quite frankly ever since

1091
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: Devlin the fullback, went out with the season ending injury

1092
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 1: and onto ir. But it looked like Saturday night a

1093
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: land and Roberts, who they had plugged in as a

1094
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: makeshift fullback, finally found his way and was effective enough.

1095
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: I think Carris, the backup center who replaced Andrews, who's

1096
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: out for the year, is starting to hit his stride now.

1097
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 1: And we see this from Patriots teams every single year.

1098
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: They may not have it all together, they may have

1099
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 1: some loss that nobody expected them to have in October,

1100
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: but when this team on the whole, when they get

1101
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 1: to December, they are ready to play. And unfortunately, they

1102
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 1: play some of their best ball at that time a year,

1103
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: and very often it is what propels them to the

1104
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. We are deep in December, though, you know

1105
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, that's what troubles me about. I

1106
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: think everybody. Everybody looks at the numbers, and I fell

1107
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 1: victim to this as well. I swore to myself that

1108
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: I would not pick the Bills in New England until

1109
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 1: they actually went and did it. I was playing like

1110
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 1: the State of Missouri show me, you know, and I

1111
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: fell into the trap last weekend. I picked the Bill. Yeah,

1112
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,399
Speaker 1: I did, And that was foolish. I shouldn't have done

1113
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: that because and I even cautioned everybody when I made

1114
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: the pick on the pregame show on the radio, I said,

1115
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: there is a line that Rudy tom Janovic said when

1116
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 1: he was coaching the Houston Rockets in the mid nineties.

1117
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,399
Speaker 1: That is ringing in my ears as I am making

1118
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: this pick. Never underestimate the heart of a champion, and

1119
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: they played like champions in that game. They were the

1120
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 1: more physical team at the line of scrimmage. They ran

1121
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: harder and refused to be tackled in the run game.

1122
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 1: And those were two big reasons why New England won it. Oh,

1123
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 1: by the way, that quarterback that everyone's trying to kick

1124
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: dirt on had his most efficient game of the season,

1125
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 1: also completing seventy eight percent of his passes. They're one

1126
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: hundred and two and twenty in that stadium since since

1127
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: since the stadium opened, since the first opened nineteen What

1128
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: are you saying about? And first and second year and

1129
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: first and second year quarterbacks are now one and thirty.

1130
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: There something nefarious, Steve. They have Let's see some other stuff.

1131
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: Two hundred and ten wins, you know, I mean, let's

1132
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:25,400
Speaker 1: go for it, Columbo, what do you got? It's unbelievable. Um.

1133
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,800
Speaker 1: They just don't get beat in their own building and

1134
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 1: haven't and haven't for fifteen years. Two years they averaged

1135
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: one game a year lost in that stadium to um

1136
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: Kansas City. This year two weeks before the bill, pay

1137
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: the play the right and they have two losses in December,

1138
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 1: which is something that they typically do not have. Um,

1139
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:53,759
Speaker 1: but they righted the ship on Saturday. For sure. He's

1140
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: still he's going through. He wants to say something. I

1141
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 1: think you want to say something about some sort of conspiracy.

1142
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: I think I think he's going fact police here. He

1143
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: stays hard to do, it's hard to do. It's hard

1144
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 1: to win a game in the NFL, let alone one

1145
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 1: hundred and two and only lose twenty of them. Well,

1146
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: when you got that quarterback over those twenty years, I

1147
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 1: think that it's the reason why. Yeah, okay, yeah it is.

1148
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,719
Speaker 1: I think don't just shake your head and say, okay,

1149
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: you have something to say. Say how good would they

1150
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 1: be if he was How good would he be? And

1151
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,280
Speaker 1: he would he be Tom Brady if he played in Cleveland,

1152
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: not even close. Well, he'd be a different different he'd

1153
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: be selling insurance and he would have been doing it

1154
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. And what's your point, what's your point?

1155
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:35,839
Speaker 1: I think they got a program. I think they got

1156
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: a program over there that unless you get something off

1157
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 1: the page that happens in that building, you can't win.

1158
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: You can't win. Well, the the Islands Arkins touchdown was

1159
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: off the page, right, the Chiefs are a little bit

1160
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: off the page. I mean you think about how that

1161
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:51,800
Speaker 1: goes down in there. You know you're talking about the

1162
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 1: uniqueness of Pat Mahomes. That's you're off the page for them?

1163
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying. I'm talking about the end,

1164
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 1: the end, the weapons they've got. Let's face it, they've got.

1165
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:00,839
Speaker 1: This is Sammy Walkers, they got, Pat Mahomes, got Tyreek Hill,

1166
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,800
Speaker 1: they got Um, they got they got a bunch of

1167
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,360
Speaker 1: guys and nobody else on the other side of the

1168
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: ball against a defense a team before once in the Patriots,

1169
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:12,840
Speaker 1: he's trying to do it defensively, so you know, I

1170
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: didn't match up and they almost still Won's go to

1171
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: Mike and Buffalo. Hello, like a one score game? Remember that?

1172
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 1: Mike and Buffalo? Hello? All right, how's it going okay? Chris? Uh? Yeah?

1173
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: I just want to start out with a question. Didn't

1174
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley have a seven reception, one hundred and seven

1175
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: yard game? Uh? This time? And didn't? Didn't didn't Brown

1176
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 1: get a fifty six yard bomb for a touchdown? You

1177
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 1: know the problems here? I'm listening to this guy's speech

1178
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: and it just doesn't make no sense to what the

1179
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 1: guy who was talking about the Bill's meeting was chief Yeah,

1180
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: the caller, yeah yeah. And it kind of took me off,

1181
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: just like a good speed because I'm thinking that they

1182
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: have every reason that they need. The problem here is

1183
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: is you're going up against the team who's arguably the

1184
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: best in trick plays correct, and then you get this

1185
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:06,319
Speaker 1: play with Deon Dockins and you're in and I think myself, wow,

1186
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:11,439
Speaker 1: you need more of that. And mostly before the game,

1187
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 1: I was listening to the commentators speak about special teams. Now,

1188
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 1: maybe this is something Steve, you know, because you were

1189
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: a special team Steve Um. There's been no big plays

1190
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 1: on special teams. It hasn't capitalized on special teams. Roberts

1191
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 1: hasn't broke through for you know, for a hundred yard

1192
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 1: and run or something like that, or a block punt,

1193
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 1: or or capitalizing on a pick six or something like that.

1194
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 1: Nobody's talking about that. Everybody wants to down Josh Allen.

1195
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 1: We're talking about a guy that came off of throwing

1196
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 1: eighteen touchdowns to twenty nine touchdowns. I mean, I know,

1197
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 1: I know, Okay, Mike, you make some good points. Here's

1198
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: think all of our callers today have their own people are,

1199
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:54,959
Speaker 1: i think struggling to find the reasons why the Bills lost,

1200
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 1: and there are a lot of different things to reach it. Hey,

1201
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 1: it's pretty simple. It's a lesson inconsistent. See, that's what

1202
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: that game was. It was a lesson inconsistency. The Patriots

1203
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 1: have been as successful as they are because they've been

1204
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: more consistent from the start to finish in football games

1205
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,120
Speaker 1: than any other team in the league over the last

1206
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: twenty years. It's as simple as that they execute more

1207
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: often than not better than their opponents, and it's enough

1208
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: to win football games, and sometimes it's more than enough

1209
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 1: because of the coach they have on the sidelines too,

1210
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 1: who drills that consistency into their head. I mean, I'm

1211
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: not trying to compare quarterbacks when I say this, but

1212
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 1: you can. It's a fine line that you cut when

1213
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: you play a team that plays that consistent. You have

1214
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: to stay as error free as possible. And for the

1215
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: most part, you know, they did. They kept turnovers, you know,

1216
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: to a minimum, and did good in that area. But

1217
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 1: if you start the game four of ten passing and

1218
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's ten of ten passing, there's a good chance

1219
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: you can be behind on the scoreboard. I mean, it's

1220
00:58:57,240 --> 00:58:59,480
Speaker 1: that's just the way it is. And what does he

1221
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 1: have in completions the entire games. That's remarkable efficiency. And

1222
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: when you combine that with what I felt was subpart

1223
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: tackling from what we've seen from this Bills team for

1224
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: the most part, and you're giving them extra yards because

1225
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 1: you're not getting down on initial contact, and you know,

1226
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: you roll the other things in, like misfires from your

1227
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 1: passing game, you're gonna be behind. I thought it was

1228
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 1: remarkable that the Bills were able to climb back into

1229
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: the game with some big plays, and the big plays

1230
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: were the only reason they were ahead on the scoreboard.

1231
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 1: Seventeen thirteen. I'm gonna talk for a minute, Chris about

1232
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: the mistackles and maybe the overall lack of physical play

1233
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 1: upfront both sides of the ball, offense and defense. Sean

1234
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:48,880
Speaker 1: McDermott kind of made an interesting comment I thought postgame

1235
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 1: when he said, is the fourth game, fourth big game

1236
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: in a row for our team, And I wonder if

1237
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 1: he's trying to not he's looking at an excuse, but

1238
00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:00,160
Speaker 1: almost like trying to explain the lack of physicality on

1239
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: the road that got them there to that game that night,

1240
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 1: that day, you know, after the three prior games, knockdown,

1241
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: drag out fights Baltimore and Pittsburgh in particular, and even

1242
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:12,040
Speaker 1: the Cowboys going back to Thanksgiving. An argument to be

1243
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 1: made about that, No, because to be the best, you

1244
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:17,919
Speaker 1: gotta beat the best, and they're just i mean, look,

1245
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 1: we've got to be completely honest here, They're just not

1246
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 1: quite there yet. I mean, this is a team that

1247
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: is climbing and making good progress. I mean you think

1248
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 1: about where they were in Week one and where they

1249
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:32,040
Speaker 1: are now. Their offense has an identity, their quarterback is

1250
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 1: making strides, still has work to do. I think everybody

1251
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,960
Speaker 1: would agree with that. The defense is a top five

1252
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 1: unit but still has its flaws from time to time.

1253
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:44,480
Speaker 1: They don't rear their head very often, but on occasion

1254
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 1: Philadelphia New England, there are times when they don't play

1255
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 1: up to their own standard. And you're going to have

1256
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 1: a couple of those games every year no matter what

1257
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 1: team you are. It's just unfortunate that fans had so

1258
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 1: much invested in this game and then to get that performance,

1259
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: you know, it felt like it was at the worst

1260
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 1: possible time. The worst possible time would have been the

1261
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 1: week before, because then you didn't clinch the playoff birth.

1262
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 1: Now you're gripping a little bit tighter. So I'd be

1263
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:15,000
Speaker 1: glad you got the defensive performance you did against Pittsburgh

1264
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 1: because it was instrumental in you getting the victory you

1265
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 1: needed to qualify for the playoffs. You know now see

1266
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 1: where it takes you. But I think most people that

1267
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 1: have watched this team from the start of the season

1268
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 1: to now know that there is still some ground to

1269
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 1: cover to become truly a complete three phase team that

1270
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 1: nobody wants to play. There's a defense here that most

1271
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 1: teams don't want to play, especially in the playoffs. But

1272
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 1: there's an offense that still has ground to cover in

1273
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 1: the areas of consistency, chiefly. So what do you think

1274
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 1: going forward? You got the Jets coming in. Now you've

1275
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 1: got to start thinking about, Okay, we're in. We can't

1276
01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 1: This is not gonna This is not a plus, This

1277
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 1: is not a minus for our squad. You only have

1278
01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 1: fifty three guys to play with. Josh Allen, do you

1279
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: give him some rep I mean, who do you sit

1280
01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 1: do you do you rest players? Do you try and

1281
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: win this game even though it's meaningless. I'm certainly the

1282
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 1: guys you put out they're going to be trying to

1283
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: win the game, right, I mean, what's what's your stress?

1284
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: I know that there are a lot of people that

1285
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,480
Speaker 1: are of the opinion this game doesn't impact your playoff status.

1286
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 1: Sit everybody, okay? And I totally respect risk of injury

1287
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 1: for this offense and the steps that I just said

1288
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:30,360
Speaker 1: that it still has to make. Do you want them

1289
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 1: to go idle for two weeks before a playoff game

1290
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 1: or would you rather have them get some reps, even

1291
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:40,400
Speaker 1: if it's just for a half, to stay sharp going

1292
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 1: into the postseason. What would you prefer to do everybody? Josh,

1293
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: you want to sit everybody? No, no, no, I'm asking you.

1294
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 1: You mean, let everybody play first half, just like it's

1295
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 1: a it's a game that matters in particular, Josh, I'm

1296
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 1: not saying everybody. Mitch Morris is a little dinged up.

1297
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,439
Speaker 1: Maybe you sit him. You know, you can put Josh

1298
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 1: in a behind us somebody else's offensive lines. Do you

1299
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 1: want Josh to go idle for two weeks without playing?

1300
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind that I would. You wouldn't mind it, Okay,

1301
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind my first quarter. Okay, first quarter this season.

1302
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: I know, Okay, he's a slow starter. Lowest passer rating

1303
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 1: of all four quarters this year, it's a seventy one.

1304
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 1: Think that in one game, not saying you can cure it.

1305
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:20,400
Speaker 1: Do you help it by having him not play for

1306
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:22,920
Speaker 1: two weeks? I'm just I'm being devil's advocate here. I

1307
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it does. I don't know, because um,

1308
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 1: but the simple I mean, you're damned if you do,

1309
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: and you're damned if you don't. As a coach works

1310
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 1: your genius. If it doesn't, you know, you're dumb. And

1311
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 1: I get it, But I just wonder what the consistency

1312
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:39,840
Speaker 1: that this offense still is trying to capture from start

1313
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:43,200
Speaker 1: to finish in a football game. Do you want to

1314
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:45,400
Speaker 1: do you want to sit him out two weeks and

1315
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:48,280
Speaker 1: say we need you to be at your best come

1316
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 1: playoff week, but you're not playing this week. Yeah. I

1317
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:52,320
Speaker 1: think I think he's in a bowl. I think he's

1318
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:54,640
Speaker 1: in a baseball cap. I don't think he was, And

1319
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 1: I think I think you get everybody a chance to rest,

1320
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:58,520
Speaker 1: give him, get him off their feet. In fact, I

1321
01:03:58,560 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 1: would as soon as that game happens well for me,

1322
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: I'd say after that game in New England, I said, listen,

1323
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 1: I'll see a Thursday. You know, Wednesday. Yeah, you guys

1324
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:13,280
Speaker 1: get lost, you have Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, just don't do

1325
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 1: what you want, get some rest, and then you guys

1326
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:17,360
Speaker 1: come back. You're gonna get some And I would practice

1327
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,280
Speaker 1: them hard because you know there's no contact. You're not

1328
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:21,320
Speaker 1: gonna get tackled in practice. I would give them some

1329
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:24,040
Speaker 1: full steam practices with the number ones and then once

1330
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:26,280
Speaker 1: again set them down for the game. I just didn't

1331
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 1: know if the trajectory of where this team is still

1332
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 1: being a team that's finding itself on offense in terms

1333
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 1: of complete consistency, does it behoove you to have them

1334
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:44,000
Speaker 1: play and I stay Sharpe, doesn't matter. Might it might not.

1335
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:45,920
Speaker 1: I just wanted to float it out there. I think

1336
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 1: you're talking about twenty twenty five. Maybe if maybe, if

1337
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:51,880
Speaker 1: they're lucky in the in the first half of that game,

1338
01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 1: you're talking about thirty snaps of live football. I don't

1339
01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 1: think I much. I think they'll play better if they

1340
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:57,960
Speaker 1: come back and they're fresh and they feel like you

1341
01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:00,479
Speaker 1: had a week off fair enough as a four A player,

1342
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 1: I know, because everybody's got something. Yeah, And I think,

1343
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: and you know what it's like, Man, we get some

1344
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 1: time off here, it feels like it's double whatever they

1345
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:10,040
Speaker 1: give you. You know, if you get two days, it

1346
01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:13,080
Speaker 1: feels like a four day, five day break. I think

1347
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 1: the I think the rest will help them more than

1348
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 1: the reps would. Let's go to David Hamburg with the

1349
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 1: comment or a question. Dave, go ahead, you're on the air. Hey, gentlemen,

1350
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 1: how are you okay? Good? Hey, I'm not inclined to

1351
01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:27,680
Speaker 1: be overly critical of Bill's lots, even though it stinks

1352
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:31,040
Speaker 1: to lose in New England. It always does. But I'm

1353
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 1: I was born in ninety two, so I don't really

1354
01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 1: remember any Bills winning seasons. And for me, this is

1355
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 1: really refreshing having a season like this and even just

1356
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 1: hearing the overall vibe. But the guys in the radio

1357
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:45,800
Speaker 1: and the guy's on TV, it's different for me and

1358
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 1: for guys that I've been here and talking about it

1359
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 1: for twenty years, it's different, and it's nice. And and

1360
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:54,160
Speaker 1: I had a couple of questions and a comment or two,

1361
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:58,240
Speaker 1: and the first question is is it possible that we're keeping,

1362
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:00,520
Speaker 1: you know, a golden play sheet or play you know,

1363
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 1: a bunch of players that we're saving for playoff scenarios

1364
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 1: so that other teams don't get a beat on us. Um,

1365
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:08,840
Speaker 1: that was my first question. Really, I mean, just keeping

1366
01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 1: keeping a play sheet close to the bus and not

1367
01:06:11,120 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 1: really showing all the time. I don't know. I kind

1368
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 1: of doubt I can see that happen this week. I

1369
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:17,439
Speaker 1: think one of the things you got to know, Dave

1370
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: is this. They pull these plays out when they see

1371
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 1: a team that'll work against. It's a game plan thing.

1372
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,720
Speaker 1: I think you're you're not giving the way that I

1373
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:30,320
Speaker 1: don't you're not in tune with what the real mindset

1374
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:32,360
Speaker 1: of an NFL coaching staff is week to week in

1375
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 1: the NFL. Here's the thing. They come up with these

1376
01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:37,680
Speaker 1: trick plays because they'll work against that team, or they'll

1377
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 1: see a team coming down the road and say, listen,

1378
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:41,360
Speaker 1: we've got a play here. We're gonna try because if

1379
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:44,200
Speaker 1: a team is we got teams doing this against us

1380
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 1: a lot, if another team does it against us a lot,

1381
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:49,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna trick them and do this play that. It's

1382
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 1: it's a thing that you put in for a game

1383
01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:56,840
Speaker 1: for a specific team, and you've got games are too important.

1384
01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:59,200
Speaker 1: It's not just it's not just as simple as run

1385
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 1: game pass game. Either. The run game can be a

1386
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:04,720
Speaker 1: zone read game or a or a power run block

1387
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 1: ISO game. It can be a lot of different things

1388
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 1: within or you can't just say we're gonna run the

1389
01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:12,600
Speaker 1: ball against this team. How you run it and what

1390
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,480
Speaker 1: your alignemen are asked to do is very different play

1391
01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 1: to play in some of these offensive schemes than it

1392
01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:22,800
Speaker 1: is on others. So what you're you're saying, you're these

1393
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:26,560
Speaker 1: guys put together an entire offense so that they've got

1394
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:32,439
Speaker 1: styles of offense, styles of run games, philosophies of run games,

1395
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:37,360
Speaker 1: philosophies of passing game, philosophies of pass protection. All of

1396
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:39,320
Speaker 1: these things are in their playbooks so that they can

1397
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 1: go to them when they meet a team who is

1398
01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:44,160
Speaker 1: susceptible to those kind of strengths or those kind of plays.

1399
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:48,080
Speaker 1: So don't think that they're playing they're not using certain

1400
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:50,280
Speaker 1: plays this week because they're trying to save them. They're

1401
01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:52,560
Speaker 1: not using them because that team defenses them, or that

1402
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 1: they don't look good against that philosophy of defense and

1403
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 1: not only yeah, it's yeah. These games are too important

1404
01:07:57,280 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 1: to win. Yeah, you gotta and they're trying to win.

1405
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:02,960
Speaker 1: Does it seem like we kind of broke the ice

1406
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 1: with the deep ball against New England finally getting a

1407
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 1: couple of deep passes complete. Yeah, I'll tell you this too.

1408
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 1: I hope. I'll bet you that that was part of

1409
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:12,440
Speaker 1: what New England saw too. They said, listen, we'll give

1410
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:14,200
Speaker 1: him a deep ball or two. We'll take some chances

1411
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,680
Speaker 1: underneath because quite frankly, we don't believe they can hit

1412
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 1: the deep ball. You can bet they were thinking that,

1413
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:22,679
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, they were never unsound and letting

1414
01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 1: guys run down the middle. But you know, even on

1415
01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:28,400
Speaker 1: the play that John Brown caught, he was doubled with

1416
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:32,120
Speaker 1: Steph Gilmore and the safety and Steph had no help

1417
01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:34,519
Speaker 1: to the outside and that's where John Brown threatened him

1418
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:36,280
Speaker 1: on the out move and then the up move and

1419
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:39,400
Speaker 1: the safety got caught flat footed. So you know, they

1420
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:43,080
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you can bet they had some discussions

1421
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 1: in their meetings. They said, listen, let's take away the

1422
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 1: underneath stuff. If they want to go deep, man, I

1423
01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:49,880
Speaker 1: don't believe they're gonna be good enough. To beat us

1424
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:54,400
Speaker 1: that way. And the last thing in the draft, how

1425
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 1: important is it to get a big receiver? Big like

1426
01:08:56,840 --> 01:09:00,080
Speaker 1: a DK Metcalf, that's a big strong Because I like

1427
01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: Beasley and Brown, I really do. They fast, But like

1428
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:06,679
Speaker 1: al Michaels during the Sunday Night game, the height average

1429
01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:08,479
Speaker 1: and our guys is less done. Most of our receivers

1430
01:09:08,560 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 1: less than six foot. Yeah. So I mean my team,

1431
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 1: I think we really got to get it and make

1432
01:09:12,280 --> 01:09:14,280
Speaker 1: it a priority. Right, Chris, get to get a bigger receiver.

1433
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 1: You add to it? Yeah, you just the only thing.

1434
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:19,599
Speaker 1: And I know this is a really strong receiver class

1435
01:09:19,680 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 1: coming in this year. They're saying it's gonna be better

1436
01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:24,160
Speaker 1: than the fourteen class. You know that had Beckham Junior

1437
01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:27,560
Speaker 1: and Watkins and all of those guys, Chars Landry. Is

1438
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:29,519
Speaker 1: it better than the ninety six class? I don't know,

1439
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:34,120
Speaker 1: you know, Molds, Terry, Glenn, Terall Owens, all those guys.

1440
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's better than that group, but

1441
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 1: they seem to be getting a whole lot of pub

1442
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:42,519
Speaker 1: How NFL ready are all of them? I don't know.

1443
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:44,800
Speaker 1: We'll have to take a closer look at that once

1444
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:48,280
Speaker 1: we get to the offseason. I know the free agent

1445
01:09:48,320 --> 01:09:51,080
Speaker 1: class at receiver is poor. There's not a lot of

1446
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:53,559
Speaker 1: people out there, so in all likelihood you are going

1447
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: to have to delve into the draft to find that

1448
01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:57,800
Speaker 1: and can that person be an instant impact player. This

1449
01:09:57,880 --> 01:09:59,519
Speaker 1: is a playoff team now, this is a team that's

1450
01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:02,559
Speaker 1: gonna be way on somebody to make an impact. It's

1451
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:04,040
Speaker 1: got to be somebody that can come in and play

1452
01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:06,479
Speaker 1: right now and make a difference. And if they have

1453
01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:08,519
Speaker 1: a rookie that they feel can do that, well, then great,

1454
01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 1: draft the guy. But where that happens, you know, as

1455
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 1: we all know, was a crapshoot. Gotta call here from

1456
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:22,240
Speaker 1: Tom and Rochester. Hello Tom, you're on the air, Go ahead, Tom. Hey, guys,

1457
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:24,880
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Um? I just wanted to see uh.

1458
01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:27,600
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you guys a question. First. I

1459
01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:30,280
Speaker 1: wanted to say the thing about the the officials. I

1460
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:33,080
Speaker 1: don't know if anyone else noticed, but did anyone else

1461
01:10:33,160 --> 01:10:35,439
Speaker 1: notice they were And a couple of times I can

1462
01:10:35,600 --> 01:10:38,680
Speaker 1: spot a couple one specifically, like when we pinning them

1463
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:41,519
Speaker 1: at the one yard line, they we stopped them on

1464
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 1: the first run play for no game. They marked them

1465
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 1: with a yard game and then it happened one other time,

1466
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:50,560
Speaker 1: like they kept spotting the ball a yard farther and

1467
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:53,479
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I mean, I don't think anyone noticed it.

1468
01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:57,280
Speaker 1: But that's kind of crazy that that's going on. But um,

1469
01:10:57,920 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 1: and if you want to look back at the tape,

1470
01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:01,920
Speaker 1: I can percent show you that on the on the

1471
01:11:02,240 --> 01:11:05,439
Speaker 1: on the one yard line run. But anyway, Um, does

1472
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:10,360
Speaker 1: McDermott have help on um his challenges because it seems

1473
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:12,519
Speaker 1: like the last couple of weeks he's left his challenge

1474
01:11:12,560 --> 01:11:14,280
Speaker 1: plague in his pocket when he should have thrown it.

1475
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:18,920
Speaker 1: I think there was enough with all the angles to

1476
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 1: piece together to see that he was he was very

1477
01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 1: short of that. I kind of I don't know, I

1478
01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:27,519
Speaker 1: get you, Tom, but I know Tom McDermott. I'll tell

1479
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 1: you this. Yep, every coach does this. They have guys

1480
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 1: that are upstairs watching them as they're looking at all

1481
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:34,639
Speaker 1: the camera angles and doing it. And if they don't

1482
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:36,559
Speaker 1: see it, and if it's not clear and obvious, they're

1483
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 1: not going to overturn, especially on a ball spot. If yeah,

1484
01:11:39,360 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 1: it's one of the lowest overturned calls on challenge, right,

1485
01:11:43,320 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 1: So if unless it's clear and obvious, they're not going

1486
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:49,160
Speaker 1: to challenge that, and and I get it. I saw

1487
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:52,360
Speaker 1: the same thing you did, but you know, and I

1488
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:54,840
Speaker 1: was hot over it on game day. But the further

1489
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:57,719
Speaker 1: I got away from it, the more I realized it's

1490
01:11:57,760 --> 01:11:59,760
Speaker 1: the exact right thing not to challenge in the grands

1491
01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:04,240
Speaker 1: of things too. They got they gotta field The Patriots

1492
01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:06,000
Speaker 1: got a field goal off of that because they you know,

1493
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:08,200
Speaker 1: they got the first down, they get a field goal

1494
01:12:08,200 --> 01:12:09,720
Speaker 1: off of that. The Bills, I don't know if they

1495
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:11,599
Speaker 1: get the touchdown at the end of the half because

1496
01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:14,479
Speaker 1: they needed the timeout for the ten second runoff to

1497
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:17,439
Speaker 1: eliminate that, so that timeout is not there if they

1498
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 1: don't win that challenge. So you can argue about a

1499
01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 1: four point swing there, touchdown versus field goal, four point

1500
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:25,519
Speaker 1: swing in favor of the Bills when it all comes

1501
01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 1: out in the wash. So, you know, I understand it

1502
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:32,320
Speaker 1: seems clear and obvious, but it just doesn't seem that

1503
01:12:32,479 --> 01:12:35,840
Speaker 1: the officials review it that way in New York. And

1504
01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:39,479
Speaker 1: that's why I'm hopeful, based on what we've heard from

1505
01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:41,439
Speaker 1: the league at this point, that there is going to

1506
01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:44,560
Speaker 1: be a top down review of the whole officiating mechanism

1507
01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 1: because it is broken, right now it is broken. These

1508
01:12:47,920 --> 01:12:50,680
Speaker 1: calls that we see getting missed in Bills games, I

1509
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:53,160
Speaker 1: got news for you. They're happening all over the league

1510
01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:58,320
Speaker 1: right now. Every team. It's happening to Cincinnati just get hose.

1511
01:12:58,479 --> 01:13:01,200
Speaker 1: Last week against New England was some call. I'm trying

1512
01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:04,640
Speaker 1: to remember that something got taken off the board for them.

1513
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:06,360
Speaker 1: I can't even remember what it was. I wish I could,

1514
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:10,360
Speaker 1: but it's every team is getting victimized every single week

1515
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 1: by poor officiating. Yeah, I wish I had confidence that

1516
01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 1: the league was interested in fixing that. You know what

1517
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:19,200
Speaker 1: I mean? Well, they made some announcement for the spring

1518
01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:21,559
Speaker 1: owners meetings that there is going to be a top

1519
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:25,240
Speaker 1: down review. How much is going to change? Who knows? You?

1520
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:27,600
Speaker 1: Did you make anything of the home cook and the

1521
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:31,639
Speaker 1: Patriots almost got where the officials said, guy, gentleman, would

1522
01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:33,880
Speaker 1: you please start the clock? Afternoon? I made a mist

1523
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 1: that John Housey, the referee, was kind of saying, are

1524
01:13:36,520 --> 01:13:39,160
Speaker 1: you kidding me? We got a monitor this. They let

1525
01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:41,640
Speaker 1: the clock run after an incomplete pass. He went from

1526
01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 1: being polite to smug very quickly because he had to

1527
01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:47,240
Speaker 1: correct them about five times through the course of the game.

1528
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:50,719
Speaker 1: It's a fan they had, and they also had thirty

1529
01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:54,639
Speaker 1: eight minutes of possession time, which was so as part

1530
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:58,040
Speaker 1: of their game plan to ball possess, and then they

1531
01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 1: had inadvertently had like four times where the clock kept

1532
01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:06,240
Speaker 1: running as well. Wow, Yeah, I don't know, Steve, that's

1533
01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:09,400
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what do you think? I don't know.

1534
01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:11,599
Speaker 1: All I know is three of their five scoring drives

1535
01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:15,000
Speaker 1: covered at least eleven plays and at least seventy five yards. Ye,

1536
01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:19,240
Speaker 1: nobody's working the clock on that, right. Didn't he any

1537
01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:22,920
Speaker 1: help there? Did they? He wants to say something. Can

1538
01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:24,519
Speaker 1: you figure out where he I don't know where he's

1539
01:14:24,520 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 1: coming down on it, though. He wants to say something,

1540
01:14:26,320 --> 01:14:28,120
Speaker 1: and he just won't say. He's in the enigmas. I

1541
01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 1: don't know. What do you think? I mean? I don't know.

1542
01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 1: That's the first time I've ever seen that, particularly multiple

1543
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:34,799
Speaker 1: times in a game at home where the bad clock operator.

1544
01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:37,759
Speaker 1: By the way, the fagger is employed by the NFL,

1545
01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:41,680
Speaker 1: not by the Patriots. He is the clock operator here

1546
01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:45,400
Speaker 1: is employed by the NFL. And I'm sure I'm sure

1547
01:14:45,479 --> 01:14:48,640
Speaker 1: the guy doesn't live in Boston or New England. He

1548
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:51,519
Speaker 1: loses his job if he screws up enough You don't

1549
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:54,000
Speaker 1: think the official wrote that up after the game. You

1550
01:14:54,040 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 1: don't think wrote the guy who deflated the football has

1551
01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 1: lost his job? Oh he didn't, did he? He's still bad,

1552
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:01,879
Speaker 1: he's still there. Look, if you want to console yourself,

1553
01:15:02,320 --> 01:15:05,719
Speaker 1: I'm not. It's tough to win. Embarrass theories. Go ahead.

1554
01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:07,680
Speaker 1: I think it's ridiculous, But go ahead and do that.

1555
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:09,320
Speaker 1: If they're one hundred and two, that makes me feel

1556
01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: better about that seven point. They're one hundred and two

1557
01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:13,640
Speaker 1: and twenty and that's all because of efficiity say what

1558
01:15:13,720 --> 01:15:16,200
Speaker 1: you're trying to say because you won't say it. No,

1559
01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:18,559
Speaker 1: it's because it's because there's a good reason to believe

1560
01:15:18,640 --> 01:15:23,080
Speaker 1: that an organization who says out loud and demonstrates with

1561
01:15:23,160 --> 01:15:24,800
Speaker 1: their actions that if they can get away with it,

1562
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:28,439
Speaker 1: they will. There you want to console yourself with that,

1563
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:31,840
Speaker 1: go ahead and make you feel better this week. I

1564
01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:33,640
Speaker 1: don't know if it's the reason they've won seventeen the

1565
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:37,800
Speaker 1: last East titles. I don't think it is, and I

1566
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:39,680
Speaker 1: think it has anything contributing fact to the fact that

1567
01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:43,320
Speaker 1: they're twenty and two in the playoffs at home and

1568
01:15:43,439 --> 01:15:45,519
Speaker 1: four and four on the road. So your argument is

1569
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:47,960
Speaker 1: there's no way they can be that good without help.

1570
01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:50,760
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Okay, I disagree. Let's go to gym

1571
01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:53,599
Speaker 1: in his car. You're on the air. You think that now?

1572
01:15:53,640 --> 01:15:55,000
Speaker 1: Have you've been there a number of times, You've been

1573
01:15:55,040 --> 01:15:57,760
Speaker 1: to other other cities. You're telling me that the New

1574
01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:01,479
Speaker 1: England fan base is so good that that home field

1575
01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:05,080
Speaker 1: is that big a difference, like better than Seattle, better

1576
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:07,960
Speaker 1: than Kansas City, it's better than Buffalo. Quarterback and the

1577
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:09,840
Speaker 1: coach you're great. Yeah, and they have been for a

1578
01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:12,920
Speaker 1: twenty years. I think it's great. They're not really that

1579
01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:15,240
Speaker 1: great away from that stadium. They're four and four in

1580
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:17,360
Speaker 1: the playoffs. No, they went on the road too, at

1581
01:16:17,400 --> 01:16:21,200
Speaker 1: four and four in the playoffs. Let's go to a

1582
01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:24,360
Speaker 1: greg and Almond. Where's Almond? Is that in New York State?

1583
01:16:24,439 --> 01:16:27,120
Speaker 1: Where is that? It's it's in the southern tiers. Oh

1584
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:30,040
Speaker 1: you've heard of that? Yeah, yeah, go ahead, great, Hey, Hey,

1585
01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:34,400
Speaker 1: thanks for having me on. This is thrilling beyond with

1586
01:16:34,439 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: all three of you. Quality pos. Thanks, and I believe

1587
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:43,799
Speaker 1: that this hasn't been mentioned nationally much less just in Buffalo.

1588
01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 1: Integrity and professional sports is absolutely everything. Edelman admitted he

1589
01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:54,240
Speaker 1: laid down in faiked and injury on the field. How

1590
01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 1: can this not be a national topic? Shouldn't he be

1591
01:16:57,640 --> 01:17:02,280
Speaker 1: suspended for multiple games? What benefit was there? It's the

1592
01:17:02,360 --> 01:17:06,040
Speaker 1: same thing as flopping great gamesmanship. I mean, I get it,

1593
01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:08,000
Speaker 1: but you can I mean, and guys have done that.

1594
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:09,880
Speaker 1: I mean, not to that extent, maybe a little bit,

1595
01:17:09,960 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 1: but guys do that all too. Quarterbacks problem in the

1596
01:17:13,400 --> 01:17:17,360
Speaker 1: NBA right now. Wide receivers flop they asked for for penalties.

1597
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:19,439
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it. Where but I'll tell you this,

1598
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:22,320
Speaker 1: it did bite him because if and I said this too,

1599
01:17:22,400 --> 01:17:25,960
Speaker 1: if he laid down there like he was out, you

1600
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:28,680
Speaker 1: have to send him through the concussion protocol, which is

1601
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:30,840
Speaker 1: what they did. And that's why you can bellyach and

1602
01:17:30,880 --> 01:17:32,680
Speaker 1: all you want, but that's that's what happened to him.

1603
01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 1: So the rules did apply there. You get in the game.

1604
01:17:36,280 --> 01:17:39,200
Speaker 1: In the game, well, because he wasn't concuss. He wasn't concussed.

1605
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 1: It was a fake. Yeah, he cleared protocol. Well, I

1606
01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:44,439
Speaker 1: just don't think it's right. Can you help me get

1607
01:17:44,479 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 1: a message to Sale. I couldn't get into his show

1608
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 1: this morning. I think he'd like to hear it. Yeah,

1609
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:55,439
Speaker 1: Chris will take it for you go ahead, it down here.

1610
01:17:55,479 --> 01:17:58,280
Speaker 1: I don't have a pen. Sorry. He had an early

1611
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 1: caller this morning that really frustrated him, and he went

1612
01:18:01,280 --> 01:18:04,320
Speaker 1: above and beyond to try and to get through to

1613
01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:09,160
Speaker 1: this guy and heed the call ended in frustration. Myself,

1614
01:18:09,280 --> 01:18:13,360
Speaker 1: being a huge Trump proponent, I've had to use this

1615
01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:15,920
Speaker 1: quote quite a few times over the last couple of years,

1616
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 1: and I'd like to get it to sell. It's the

1617
01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:22,639
Speaker 1: author of the quote is Sam Clements. Yes, Mart Poyne,

1618
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:27,000
Speaker 1: and the quote is all the evidence in the world

1619
01:18:27,479 --> 01:18:35,000
Speaker 1: will never convince an idiot. Okay, well thanks for that. Wow, Okay,

1620
01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:38,360
Speaker 1: I kinda like that. I think it's almost a plat. No,

1621
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:41,519
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, replies there's a yeah, there's I've got

1622
01:18:41,560 --> 01:18:43,320
Speaker 1: a mountain of evidence sitting over here in the one

1623
01:18:43,439 --> 01:18:45,880
Speaker 1: lost home record of the Patriots, and I can't convince

1624
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 1: anybody says it's like what Butch Cassie Paul Newman is

1625
01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:52,280
Speaker 1: Butcher Cassie said, I got vision and the rest of

1626
01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:55,519
Speaker 1: the world will by focused. Let's take one more called Harry.

1627
01:18:57,920 --> 01:19:01,320
Speaker 1: Very sorry, it's Verry in Buffalo. You're on the air, guys,

1628
01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:04,840
Speaker 1: how are you okay? Well, first of all, Mary Christmas

1629
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:07,479
Speaker 1: and happy Holidays in safe New Year to you and

1630
01:19:07,880 --> 01:19:11,840
Speaker 1: the whole gang. Guys. Listen, you know at the very

1631
01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 1: beginning of the show, Murphy you mentioned, you know you

1632
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:15,760
Speaker 1: thought the defense to let us down a little bit,

1633
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:18,720
Speaker 1: and you can't argue that point no matter what, no

1634
01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:21,120
Speaker 1: matter what anybody says, whether you whether you talk about

1635
01:19:21,160 --> 01:19:23,080
Speaker 1: the time of possession or whatever, you're not going to

1636
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:25,200
Speaker 1: win very many games when a team has they had

1637
01:19:25,280 --> 01:19:28,280
Speaker 1: the ball thirty nine minutes to our twenty one minutes.

1638
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 1: And if you look back years ago, Brady was the

1639
01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:36,759
Speaker 1: king of the blitz. You couldn't blitch him for years

1640
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:40,559
Speaker 1: because he would burn you every time. Well, the last

1641
01:19:40,600 --> 01:19:43,160
Speaker 1: five or six games, he's completed thirty nine percent of

1642
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:45,640
Speaker 1: his passes when you put some heat on him, and

1643
01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:49,760
Speaker 1: we didn't put any heat on him the entire gay yesterday.

1644
01:19:50,040 --> 01:19:52,000
Speaker 1: He looked at the end of the game like he

1645
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: did when he came out of the tunnel, because they

1646
01:19:54,240 --> 01:19:56,960
Speaker 1: didn't touch him the whole day. They didn't get near

1647
01:19:57,080 --> 01:19:59,760
Speaker 1: him with the four man rush. And why Leslie and

1648
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 1: didn't bring out at least a few more blitzeres than

1649
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:06,240
Speaker 1: what they did is beyond me. They didn't come near

1650
01:20:06,439 --> 01:20:10,280
Speaker 1: him the entire day. I believe they blitzed him thirteen

1651
01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:13,680
Speaker 1: times on all the dropbacks that he had, and I

1652
01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:17,240
Speaker 1: believe his completion percentage was over sixty two percent on

1653
01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:21,240
Speaker 1: those plays, So he effectively beat their blitz and I

1654
01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:23,960
Speaker 1: think they chose to go in another direction after that

1655
01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:26,560
Speaker 1: proved to be ineffective. They just caught Tom on a

1656
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:28,400
Speaker 1: really good day. I would like to see more pressure

1657
01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:31,240
Speaker 1: on Yeah, I don't disagree with that, but I can

1658
01:20:31,360 --> 01:20:33,599
Speaker 1: understand why they pulled back from it because it wasn't

1659
01:20:33,600 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 1: working early. Could they have turned to it again later

1660
01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:37,920
Speaker 1: in the game, Sure, I'll buy that for a dollar.

1661
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:41,519
Speaker 1: But he was pretty effective when he was blitzed, and

1662
01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:44,719
Speaker 1: you know, you look, he brought up time in possession.

1663
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:47,400
Speaker 1: This is a thing that I think got lost in

1664
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:51,320
Speaker 1: the course of the game halftime. The Bill's defense had

1665
01:20:51,320 --> 01:20:53,760
Speaker 1: already been on the field for twenty one minutes. To

1666
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:57,120
Speaker 1: expect them to perform at a top five defensive level

1667
01:20:57,479 --> 01:20:59,920
Speaker 1: in the latter stages of the second half after being

1668
01:21:00,120 --> 01:21:02,200
Speaker 1: on the field for that long, I don't know how

1669
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:04,519
Speaker 1: realistic that is. And yet still they had a goal

1670
01:21:04,560 --> 01:21:07,160
Speaker 1: line stand early in the fourth quarter to force a

1671
01:21:07,240 --> 01:21:10,599
Speaker 1: field goal to keep the Bills in front seventeen sixteen

1672
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:14,360
Speaker 1: after the field goal was made. So, you know, the

1673
01:21:14,479 --> 01:21:17,960
Speaker 1: defense had problems staying physical and playing physical throughout. They

1674
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:20,880
Speaker 1: had problems with tackling. I wouldn't be surprised if part

1675
01:21:20,920 --> 01:21:22,760
Speaker 1: of the byproduct was having been on the field for

1676
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:25,639
Speaker 1: twenty one minutes of the first thirty in the game. Yeah, Chris,

1677
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:27,880
Speaker 1: what's coming up on the website? You got the Sean

1678
01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:30,840
Speaker 1: McDermott at the four o'clock today. Yeah, so we'll probably,

1679
01:21:30,840 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll get an update on just what the plans

1680
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:37,920
Speaker 1: are with respect to, you know, lineups for this weekend.

1681
01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:41,479
Speaker 1: I know everybody's already looking ahead to the playoffs. And

1682
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:44,000
Speaker 1: then we've got a noteworthy numbers column coming up here

1683
01:21:44,120 --> 01:21:48,040
Speaker 1: today with the compressed week due to Christmas holiday. So

1684
01:21:48,160 --> 01:21:53,280
Speaker 1: we've got some interesting numbers there, including some percentages on

1685
01:21:53,400 --> 01:21:55,960
Speaker 1: target chair that might be opening your eyes a little bit.

1686
01:21:56,280 --> 01:21:59,880
Speaker 1: What target share? What do you mean in the passing game? Okay, yeah,

1687
01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:03,439
Speaker 1: all right, I'll look forward to target share. Yeah, sounds

1688
01:22:03,479 --> 01:22:06,840
Speaker 1: like an investment. All right, Thanks Chris, Chris Brown, Bills

1689
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:09,080
Speaker 1: Insider at Buffalo Bills dot com. We'll take more of

1690
01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:12,120
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01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 1: special holiday, of course, one of the holiday season, two

1695
01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:37,360
Speaker 1: days before Christmas. Steve, are you ready? Yeah? I think so.

1696
01:22:38,120 --> 01:22:43,559
Speaker 1: It is Festivus. That's right. The tradition of Festivus begins

1697
01:22:44,240 --> 01:22:47,000
Speaker 1: with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of

1698
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:53,200
Speaker 1: problems with your people. You're gonna hear about them. Let's

1699
01:22:53,200 --> 01:22:57,040
Speaker 1: hear about them, airing of grievances. Do you have any grievances, Steve, Nope,

1700
01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:03,560
Speaker 1: that's of course I have grievances. I am grieving about this.

1701
01:23:03,760 --> 01:23:07,160
Speaker 1: I am. I am grievance. I am. I'm upset about this.

1702
01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:09,639
Speaker 1: I'm upset about the number of calls we've had today

1703
01:23:09,720 --> 01:23:13,880
Speaker 1: focused on officiating. In Saturday's loss, the officiating was not good.

1704
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:17,400
Speaker 1: It was not good. There were bad calls, but that's

1705
01:23:17,439 --> 01:23:20,160
Speaker 1: not why the Bills lost. And I don't think there's

1706
01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:22,599
Speaker 1: a fix in when the Bills or anybody else plays

1707
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:25,519
Speaker 1: in Foxboro. I don't think do they get calls at home. Yeah,

1708
01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:27,320
Speaker 1: most teams get calls at home, but I don't think

1709
01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:29,840
Speaker 1: that's the reason why the Bills lost. But I agree

1710
01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:35,200
Speaker 1: what the officiating was it. You know, it's okay, you

1711
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:38,679
Speaker 1: can say whatever you want. I know this the Patriots

1712
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:40,320
Speaker 1: fans are going on, what about this? What about that?

1713
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:43,120
Speaker 1: What about this? The stuff that we don't notice? So yeah,

1714
01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:45,720
Speaker 1: And I've talked to so many officials over the years,

1715
01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:47,360
Speaker 1: and I know we have fun with them, and I'm

1716
01:23:47,400 --> 01:23:49,000
Speaker 1: you know, I got tossed out of my last game,

1717
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:51,800
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of I'm friends with Mike Perere and

1718
01:23:51,880 --> 01:23:58,400
Speaker 1: Mike and Jean Sterator and you know, Mike and Dean Blandino.

1719
01:23:58,439 --> 01:24:01,800
Speaker 1: I don't like all those guys and all the conversations

1720
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:03,599
Speaker 1: I've had with efficient. They really do try to get

1721
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:05,680
Speaker 1: it right. And there's no doubt that they have one

1722
01:24:05,720 --> 01:24:08,160
Speaker 1: of them. They have as tough a job in professional

1723
01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:11,120
Speaker 1: sports as anybody you can name, particularly in this sport.

1724
01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:15,280
Speaker 1: So I don't get caught up in that um at all.

1725
01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:19,160
Speaker 1: That the face masks that they missed yesterday. I missed

1726
01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 1: it on live action too. I didn't see it and

1727
01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:22,879
Speaker 1: I was watching and I was watching the game like everybody.

1728
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:24,600
Speaker 1: And then you think, like, why how do they miss it?

1729
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:27,320
Speaker 1: But people and they're paring that face mask to the

1730
01:24:27,439 --> 01:24:32,360
Speaker 1: face mask call on Tremaine Edmonds in Pittsburgh that was phantom.

1731
01:24:32,520 --> 01:24:36,040
Speaker 1: Yeah right. It was a bad call and they both

1732
01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:38,280
Speaker 1: go against you. Yeah right. So it's like, oh, it's

1733
01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:41,639
Speaker 1: a conspiracy, don't believe it. And bad luck is bad luck,

1734
01:24:41,720 --> 01:24:43,600
Speaker 1: no question about it. And there are bad calls in

1735
01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 1: every game. Um, it's getting more and more difficult to

1736
01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:48,799
Speaker 1: do a good job for the officials in the NFL.

1737
01:24:48,840 --> 01:24:50,200
Speaker 1: And they got you know, they got an issue with it.

1738
01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 1: It's going to take some some work to make it better.

1739
01:24:53,360 --> 01:24:59,360
Speaker 1: But I think, um, with some it was some I

1740
01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:02,880
Speaker 1: don't know, horse sense. And the problem with this is

1741
01:25:03,240 --> 01:25:06,080
Speaker 1: it's the thing is so big now the league. Everything

1742
01:25:06,160 --> 01:25:08,120
Speaker 1: takes an Act of Congress. Well that's why when the

1743
01:25:08,160 --> 01:25:10,280
Speaker 1: commissioner just says, listen, we're here's how we're gonna do it.

1744
01:25:10,880 --> 01:25:13,599
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just do it. I worry when Chris said,

1745
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:15,200
Speaker 1: and I read that too a week or two ago,

1746
01:25:15,200 --> 01:25:18,000
Speaker 1: about the league's gonna meet in the offseason and fix

1747
01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:20,920
Speaker 1: the FICI. Anybody I think they're fixing. We'll have more

1748
01:25:20,960 --> 01:25:24,200
Speaker 1: to do with the perception of being on the right path.

1749
01:25:24,240 --> 01:25:26,040
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying there, they'll fix it, but

1750
01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:29,600
Speaker 1: mostly about executive sell it this way and this is

1751
01:25:29,640 --> 01:25:31,479
Speaker 1: the way it'll look like we're fixing it. And are

1752
01:25:31,479 --> 01:25:33,800
Speaker 1: they really gonna fix it? In other words, are they

1753
01:25:33,840 --> 01:25:36,200
Speaker 1: gonna get rid of replay? No? Are they gonna make

1754
01:25:36,479 --> 01:25:39,120
Speaker 1: officials full time? No prob Are they just gonna are

1755
01:25:39,120 --> 01:25:41,320
Speaker 1: they here's the question, are they gonna fix it or

1756
01:25:41,320 --> 01:25:43,360
Speaker 1: are they just gonna do something that makes the fans

1757
01:25:43,400 --> 01:25:44,920
Speaker 1: shut up for a minute, right, you know what I mean?

1758
01:25:45,240 --> 01:25:46,920
Speaker 1: And I think it's the latter, Right, they're just worried

1759
01:25:46,920 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 1: about you know what's it look like? Uh maybe if

1760
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:53,760
Speaker 1: they let the football people who don't have any skin

1761
01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:56,920
Speaker 1: in the games, you know, fix it, maybe it would

1762
01:25:56,920 --> 01:26:00,519
Speaker 1: get fixed. So you don't have the Sean Paytents of

1763
01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:03,320
Speaker 1: the world who just got stabbed in the back by

1764
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:08,200
Speaker 1: admittedly no question to horrible miscall. But you can't let

1765
01:26:08,280 --> 01:26:10,599
Speaker 1: them fix it because they're gonna you know, this pendulum

1766
01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:12,439
Speaker 1: swings way back the other way. And now you got

1767
01:26:12,520 --> 01:26:14,680
Speaker 1: to rule in there that nobody wants or and they

1768
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:17,760
Speaker 1: don't administrate properly, they don't use it properly. So it

1769
01:26:17,920 --> 01:26:21,519
Speaker 1: got worse when that happened. So I think it's almost

1770
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:23,519
Speaker 1: the point where you go out and you hire like

1771
01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:29,920
Speaker 1: Jack del Rio, Ron Rivera, you know, North Turner, all

1772
01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 1: the old coaches that John Maddens of the world, to

1773
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:33,720
Speaker 1: go in and say what do we need, you know,

1774
01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:35,679
Speaker 1: and just have them say, listen, guys, here's what would

1775
01:26:35,720 --> 01:26:38,040
Speaker 1: fix it, here's what we think, and go from there,

1776
01:26:38,439 --> 01:26:40,400
Speaker 1: you know. And I because I you know, those guys

1777
01:26:40,400 --> 01:26:42,439
Speaker 1: don't have any skin in the game anymore, right, and

1778
01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 1: they don't have any They're not gonna lose their job

1779
01:26:45,600 --> 01:26:47,439
Speaker 1: if a guy makes a bad call and they don't

1780
01:26:47,479 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 1: have an axe to grind over a misscall that sent

1781
01:26:50,320 --> 01:26:52,960
Speaker 1: them cost him a Super Bowl appearance. So to me,

1782
01:26:53,160 --> 01:26:56,280
Speaker 1: that would be a great idea because the guys that

1783
01:26:56,360 --> 01:26:58,519
Speaker 1: are on the competition committee, they all got skin in

1784
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:01,040
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, and they're all gonna you know, they're

1785
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:02,679
Speaker 1: all gonna try and tilt the field in their favor.

1786
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:05,000
Speaker 1: Do you have any other grievances, any grievances you'd like

1787
01:27:05,040 --> 01:27:06,519
Speaker 1: to I don't know what are you gonna do? I

1788
01:27:06,560 --> 01:27:10,160
Speaker 1: mean everything everybody should have, everybody should have. My life,

1789
01:27:10,360 --> 01:27:12,240
Speaker 1: this is your cham got a good man. I don't

1790
01:27:12,240 --> 01:27:14,479
Speaker 1: have anything to grief. I don't have any grievances. Are

1791
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:17,880
Speaker 1: you sure people at home? This ridiculous record they have

1792
01:27:17,920 --> 01:27:20,320
Speaker 1: at home? There's well, they got thirty playoff wins since

1793
01:27:20,400 --> 01:27:24,200
Speaker 1: two thousand and one, and they have ten losses. Would

1794
01:27:24,240 --> 01:27:26,639
Speaker 1: you like me to go of the ten losses, let's

1795
01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 1: just go down real quick. One was on the road,

1796
01:27:29,439 --> 01:27:38,719
Speaker 1: Two were on the road. Uh, three were on the road. Okay,

1797
01:27:40,600 --> 01:27:49,240
Speaker 1: four were on the road, five were on the road. Six. Yeah,

1798
01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 1: six of the ten losses were on the road. So

1799
01:27:52,560 --> 01:27:55,200
Speaker 1: they're four and six on the road, and they're who's

1800
01:27:55,240 --> 01:27:57,639
Speaker 1: your grievance with? There's six and ten on the road

1801
01:27:57,800 --> 01:28:00,560
Speaker 1: and thirty and four at home, and who aggrievance with

1802
01:28:01,360 --> 01:28:03,599
Speaker 1: My aggrievance was with would probably be with the Patriots,

1803
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:06,400
Speaker 1: and they're in and they're in the impossibility it is

1804
01:28:06,479 --> 01:28:08,719
Speaker 1: seems to be of beating them in their own building

1805
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:11,120
Speaker 1: because they're good. Or is there something nefarious? I don't know.

1806
01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:13,400
Speaker 1: It seems like there should be something nefarious because nobody's

1807
01:28:13,400 --> 01:28:15,120
Speaker 1: ever been able to match that for a season, let

1808
01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:18,560
Speaker 1: alone twenty seasons. Okay, you don't believe it, do you

1809
01:28:18,600 --> 01:28:21,559
Speaker 1: at all? No? I don't despite their history. Yes, despite

1810
01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:23,120
Speaker 1: I think they're good. I think they've been good for

1811
01:28:23,200 --> 01:28:25,040
Speaker 1: twenty years. That's why that record is what it is.

1812
01:28:25,120 --> 01:28:27,479
Speaker 1: I think most teams would rather play at home in

1813
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:30,760
Speaker 1: playoff games. Yes they have. They've been caught cheating, Yes

1814
01:28:30,840 --> 01:28:34,599
Speaker 1: they have. They've been punished for those twice two incidents

1815
01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 1: inflation of balls, and they were they seem contrite. I

1816
01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:42,519
Speaker 1: don't know how did they seem them. They seem like

1817
01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:45,240
Speaker 1: they seem like, Okay, well, yeah, we're still going. We're

1818
01:28:45,240 --> 01:28:49,120
Speaker 1: still gonna. We're still going to be certainly deflate gate forever. Right.

1819
01:28:49,200 --> 01:28:51,639
Speaker 1: They they've stretched that out fighting it. That's just that's

1820
01:28:51,960 --> 01:28:55,640
Speaker 1: that's merely, that's merely painted a paint brush with a

1821
01:28:55,680 --> 01:28:58,680
Speaker 1: smaller brush. They they're the same color. Okay, you know,

1822
01:28:59,120 --> 01:29:01,080
Speaker 1: all right, it's not right. The Bill has lost Saturday.

1823
01:29:01,120 --> 01:29:03,160
Speaker 1: We know that. I believe that we're gonna take a break.

1824
01:29:03,160 --> 01:29:05,080
Speaker 1: We got more coming up. One Bill's Live for Zenta

1825
01:29:05,080 --> 01:29:07,840
Speaker 1: by Colada Health from the Seneca Studio on Orchard Park.

1826
01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:23,160
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio on five. We're here till

1827
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:25,280
Speaker 1: two or till three. I wish we were hearing, but

1828
01:29:25,400 --> 01:29:27,439
Speaker 1: we are here kill two. I was you know what

1829
01:29:27,520 --> 01:29:30,760
Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, we got Eric Wood coming by it too,

1830
01:29:30,800 --> 01:29:32,320
Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking of. Eric Wood's gonna be

1831
01:29:32,320 --> 01:29:34,120
Speaker 1: by after the top of the hour to give us

1832
01:29:34,160 --> 01:29:36,519
Speaker 1: his take on Saturday's game and talk a little bit

1833
01:29:36,600 --> 01:29:39,040
Speaker 1: more about the upcoming game this weekend. In the meantime,

1834
01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:40,920
Speaker 1: time for you to be heard. Eight oh three five

1835
01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:44,240
Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

1836
01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:47,559
Speaker 1: five fifty. Earl calling from Wellsville, New York. Come on world,

1837
01:29:47,560 --> 01:29:51,360
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Hey, Kay, Marry Christmas, Mary Christmas. Earl. I

1838
01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:56,160
Speaker 1: guta agree with Steve, though, uh, there's that many wins

1839
01:29:56,200 --> 01:30:00,880
Speaker 1: in five pill there's something wrong, something going on. What's

1840
01:30:01,600 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 1: I don't know what the Bill's home playoff record is,

1841
01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:06,880
Speaker 1: do you, Earl. I guess I can look not really,

1842
01:30:07,040 --> 01:30:11,000
Speaker 1: but I wonder if it's comparable in the old days.

1843
01:30:11,600 --> 01:30:14,040
Speaker 1: He I remember Jim Kelly always saying it was hard

1844
01:30:14,080 --> 01:30:17,519
Speaker 1: to win up there, really because Kelly and you guys

1845
01:30:17,600 --> 01:30:20,000
Speaker 1: want a lot out there, Stephen Fox, and we did,

1846
01:30:20,200 --> 01:30:23,439
Speaker 1: but it was still hard to win for some reason

1847
01:30:23,520 --> 01:30:26,599
Speaker 1: when Brady was in there. But my question never played

1848
01:30:26,600 --> 01:30:28,800
Speaker 1: against Brady. But go ahead in the face mask call

1849
01:30:28,920 --> 01:30:32,760
Speaker 1: on Allen and it wasn't called. Yeah, we were talking

1850
01:30:32,800 --> 01:30:35,240
Speaker 1: about that too. It happened really fast, I thought, Earl

1851
01:30:35,439 --> 01:30:37,439
Speaker 1: and I even missed it a live action. I only

1852
01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:40,160
Speaker 1: saw it when they replayed it. But like you said,

1853
01:30:40,520 --> 01:30:42,320
Speaker 1: you got officials that are paid to do that. And

1854
01:30:42,920 --> 01:30:46,439
Speaker 1: it was out kind of in space too. He wasn't

1855
01:30:46,479 --> 01:30:48,240
Speaker 1: like in a crowd. Really, he was on top of

1856
01:30:48,320 --> 01:30:51,800
Speaker 1: a pile coming sideways and nobody saw it. So I'm

1857
01:30:51,840 --> 01:30:54,080
Speaker 1: with you. I'm a little surprised they missed it, but

1858
01:30:54,680 --> 01:30:59,720
Speaker 1: it was there and uh apparently but still though the

1859
01:30:59,720 --> 01:31:01,479
Speaker 1: Bills got the first down, so it was kind of

1860
01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:05,520
Speaker 1: got washed away. Yeah. What about the tackle on Singletary

1861
01:31:06,000 --> 01:31:09,120
Speaker 1: on the score he's on the sidelines. I thought, if

1862
01:31:09,200 --> 01:31:13,519
Speaker 1: your hand is up around the face mask on a tackle,

1863
01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:17,760
Speaker 1: that that's a face mask call also, isn't it. Man?

1864
01:31:17,800 --> 01:31:19,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I don't remember what

1865
01:31:19,400 --> 01:31:22,400
Speaker 1: play you're talking about. I really don't. Well, it was

1866
01:31:22,479 --> 01:31:24,880
Speaker 1: where a Singletary. It was on the sidelines where he

1867
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:27,960
Speaker 1: was taken out. He got been around pretty good, but

1868
01:31:28,120 --> 01:31:33,560
Speaker 1: the one defender had his hand right over his shroud

1869
01:31:33,680 --> 01:31:37,719
Speaker 1: of his face mask, right. Yeah, I don't know, staying

1870
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:40,160
Speaker 1: right there and didn't see that right, All right, thanks

1871
01:31:40,240 --> 01:31:43,960
Speaker 1: very much for your call. Um, Let's go to uh

1872
01:31:44,680 --> 01:31:47,680
Speaker 1: Steve Steven Niagara Falls. Hello Steve, you're on the air.

1873
01:31:49,720 --> 01:31:52,760
Speaker 1: Well hang on just a second. Oh yeah, Steve, are

1874
01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:55,360
Speaker 1: you there? Come in Steve here? Nice Steve, how are you?

1875
01:31:55,760 --> 01:31:58,439
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Happy Merry Christmas? He behind the cud,

1876
01:31:58,520 --> 01:32:03,800
Speaker 1: Thank you, And just I just want to know we're done.

1877
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:08,479
Speaker 1: We were in the playoffs. Get over that loss. Let's

1878
01:32:08,520 --> 01:32:11,680
Speaker 1: start a new season. That's what I'm looking at. And

1879
01:32:11,840 --> 01:32:15,160
Speaker 1: another question I have is that deferring the kickoff, why

1880
01:32:15,240 --> 01:32:17,559
Speaker 1: don't we just take the kickoff and run it back

1881
01:32:17,640 --> 01:32:22,439
Speaker 1: and and just running up their butt? Well what I mean,

1882
01:32:22,479 --> 01:32:25,120
Speaker 1: I think it worked out. The others are running up there,

1883
01:32:25,120 --> 01:32:27,280
Speaker 1: but I think the way it worked out is exactly

1884
01:32:27,360 --> 01:32:29,960
Speaker 1: what they were hoping to get. That kind of scenario,

1885
01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:31,960
Speaker 1: that double dip scenario. Right, score at the end of

1886
01:32:31,960 --> 01:32:34,519
Speaker 1: the first half of the ball and hopefully you get

1887
01:32:34,560 --> 01:32:36,639
Speaker 1: the ball and score in the start of the second.

1888
01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:40,720
Speaker 1: I think it's all analytics, Steve. The percentages say that

1889
01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:43,000
Speaker 1: if you take the if you received, or if you

1890
01:32:43,200 --> 01:32:45,880
Speaker 1: kick off, then right in the middle of the game,

1891
01:32:46,560 --> 01:32:48,679
Speaker 1: the chances are that you're going to get the last

1892
01:32:48,760 --> 01:32:51,479
Speaker 1: possession of the first half and the first possession of

1893
01:32:51,560 --> 01:32:55,200
Speaker 1: the second half, so you get like two possessions right

1894
01:32:55,200 --> 01:32:57,439
Speaker 1: in the middle of the game in a row. And

1895
01:32:57,560 --> 01:32:59,800
Speaker 1: it worked out perfectly for the Bills. They scored with

1896
01:32:59,880 --> 01:33:01,800
Speaker 1: one second left in the first half and got the

1897
01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:04,080
Speaker 1: ball coming out a halftime on the kick return. Now,

1898
01:33:04,120 --> 01:33:06,639
Speaker 1: they couldn't turn that into points, but that's the reason

1899
01:33:06,760 --> 01:33:10,400
Speaker 1: you do. You defer, and and that's why almost every

1900
01:33:10,439 --> 01:33:13,760
Speaker 1: team in the league does it. Everybody does it. Yeah,

1901
01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:16,479
Speaker 1: thanks for your call. We're going to take a break.

1902
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Speaker 1: We're back with more Eric Wood when we come back,

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Speaker 1: come on back with us. One Bills Live presented by

1904
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Speaker 1: Kalaida Health from our Seneca studio at One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio Bills Radio Network. Sports date

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Speaker 1: update from One Bills Live. The Bills players return to

1907
01:33:43,360 --> 01:33:46,519
Speaker 1: work at practice tomorrow. They'll practice Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. This

1908
01:33:46,600 --> 01:33:49,120
Speaker 1: week finished the regular season up against the Jets on

1909
01:33:49,240 --> 01:33:52,479
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. The Bills are locked into the fifth seat

1910
01:33:52,520 --> 01:33:56,560
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, visit either the Houston Texans or the

1911
01:33:56,680 --> 01:33:59,120
Speaker 1: Kinds to the Chiefs on a wild card weekend matchup.

1912
01:34:00,160 --> 01:34:02,560
Speaker 1: H Allen now the third quarterback in NFL history with

1913
01:34:02,960 --> 01:34:05,720
Speaker 1: five thousand passing yards and one thousand rushing yards in

1914
01:34:05,800 --> 01:34:09,040
Speaker 1: thirty games or less. He joins Cam Newton and RG three.

1915
01:34:09,320 --> 01:34:11,680
Speaker 1: Newton did it in twenty three games. RG three did

1916
01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:16,240
Speaker 1: it in twenty two games. The Bills waiting for a

1917
01:34:16,280 --> 01:34:19,040
Speaker 1: four o'clock news conference from John McDermott, at which time

1918
01:34:19,080 --> 01:34:21,560
Speaker 1: we may know more about his personnel usage plans for

1919
01:34:22,360 --> 01:34:24,920
Speaker 1: Sunday's game against the Jets. Also may know more about

1920
01:34:24,920 --> 01:34:27,600
Speaker 1: the injuries suffered by Mitch Morris, a right ankle or

1921
01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:30,960
Speaker 1: foot injury late in the game at the Patriots on

1922
01:34:31,120 --> 01:34:34,519
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon. The NFL has finalized its Week seventeen schedule,

1923
01:34:34,800 --> 01:34:38,400
Speaker 1: moving a couple of games around, including the Steelers and

1924
01:34:38,520 --> 01:34:41,400
Speaker 1: Ravens go to four twenty five. Tennessee and Houston go

1925
01:34:41,439 --> 01:34:43,799
Speaker 1: to four twenty five. The Bills stay in one o'clock,

1926
01:34:43,840 --> 01:34:45,360
Speaker 1: and of course, the other game that matters to the

1927
01:34:45,400 --> 01:34:48,400
Speaker 1: Bills stays at one o'clock as well, the Kansas City

1928
01:34:48,439 --> 01:34:52,000
Speaker 1: Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers. Texans wide receiver Will

1929
01:34:52,080 --> 01:34:54,840
Speaker 1: Fuller is uncertain to play in his team's regular season

1930
01:34:54,920 --> 01:34:58,200
Speaker 1: finale because of a growing injury. The Texans play Tennessee

1931
01:34:58,400 --> 01:35:02,719
Speaker 1: on Sunday. His status beyond Week seventeen, including Houston's wildcard

1932
01:35:02,760 --> 01:35:04,880
Speaker 1: game in two weeks, is also uncertain. He suffered the

1933
01:35:04,920 --> 01:35:08,080
Speaker 1: injury in the first half against Tampa Bay Pullers already

1934
01:35:08,080 --> 01:35:10,599
Speaker 1: missed five games this year with a hamstring injury. Seattle

1935
01:35:10,680 --> 01:35:13,960
Speaker 1: Seahawks are considering a reunion with Marshawn Lynch. He plans

1936
01:35:14,040 --> 01:35:17,519
Speaker 1: to travel today to Seattle to discuss rejoining the team.

1937
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:21,559
Speaker 1: According to multiple reports, the Seahawks fear that starting running

1938
01:35:21,600 --> 01:35:24,519
Speaker 1: back Chris Carson suffered a season ending hip injury and

1939
01:35:24,600 --> 01:35:28,200
Speaker 1: Sunday's loss to the Arizona Cardinals. It's unclear whether Lynch

1940
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:31,360
Speaker 1: officially filed retirement paperwork with the league, but he's not

1941
01:35:31,439 --> 01:35:33,799
Speaker 1: been linked with any team this season, and the Savers

1942
01:35:33,840 --> 01:35:35,960
Speaker 1: play at Ottawa on the road tonight, final game before

1943
01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:38,519
Speaker 1: the holiday break. Base off is at seven thirty. That's

1944
01:35:38,560 --> 01:35:41,320
Speaker 1: the update. John Murphy, Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo

1945
01:35:41,760 --> 01:35:45,920
Speaker 1: studio area, Steve, you ready to go? Yeah, you set

1946
01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:48,880
Speaker 1: our guy on. We got our guy. We got Eric Wood,

1947
01:35:49,520 --> 01:35:51,479
Speaker 1: Bill's former Bills center and of course the color man

1948
01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:54,120
Speaker 1: on the Bills radio network standing by on the line

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Speaker 1: with the Hello, Eric How are you doing. I'm doing great.

1950
01:35:56,800 --> 01:35:58,360
Speaker 1: How you guys doing good? Thanks for having you with

1951
01:35:58,479 --> 01:36:01,599
Speaker 1: us For some reason, Eric, I started this way with Brownie,

1952
01:36:01,600 --> 01:36:03,960
Speaker 1: I'll start with you the same way that lost bothers me.

1953
01:36:04,040 --> 01:36:05,960
Speaker 1: Still two days later, I'm not over it yet, how

1954
01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:10,559
Speaker 1: about you? Yeah, you know that that was really tough.

1955
01:36:11,400 --> 01:36:14,160
Speaker 1: You know a lot of our discussion pre broadcast was

1956
01:36:14,240 --> 01:36:17,880
Speaker 1: about all the possibilities, if you know, the Buffalo Bills

1957
01:36:17,920 --> 01:36:19,599
Speaker 1: can go in there and get that win, how much

1958
01:36:19,680 --> 01:36:22,240
Speaker 1: fun Week seventeen would be in all the drama that

1959
01:36:22,240 --> 01:36:25,840
Speaker 1: would surround Can Fitzpatrick get to win against the Patriots

1960
01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:29,040
Speaker 1: and the Bills beat the Jets and US possibly win

1961
01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:33,160
Speaker 1: the division? But ultimately, the Bills fell short on Saturday.

1962
01:36:33,240 --> 01:36:36,920
Speaker 1: And you know, and what that does allow now is

1963
01:36:36,960 --> 01:36:39,519
Speaker 1: the Bills being locked into the five seats potentially get

1964
01:36:39,600 --> 01:36:44,040
Speaker 1: some rest mentally and physically heading into the postseason, which

1965
01:36:44,080 --> 01:36:47,840
Speaker 1: could be really, really valuable for this team, especially three

1966
01:36:47,960 --> 01:36:52,599
Speaker 1: emotional games. You know, they've played a number of really

1967
01:36:52,720 --> 01:36:56,360
Speaker 1: good teams lately, so to be able to take a

1968
01:36:56,439 --> 01:36:59,920
Speaker 1: week off from a number of starters, not all because

1969
01:37:00,160 --> 01:37:02,160
Speaker 1: rosters are not that big in the NFL. You you

1970
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:06,200
Speaker 1: simply can't just play all backups, um, but you can

1971
01:37:06,320 --> 01:37:08,519
Speaker 1: likely get some of your guys some much need to

1972
01:37:08,640 --> 01:37:12,400
Speaker 1: rest because when you combine training camp with four preseason

1973
01:37:12,479 --> 01:37:18,599
Speaker 1: games with sixteen weeks fifteen games already this season, as

1974
01:37:18,640 --> 01:37:22,800
Speaker 1: Steve knows, the injury rate in the NFL, whether it's

1975
01:37:22,840 --> 01:37:24,760
Speaker 1: something big enough to hit an injury report or not,

1976
01:37:26,200 --> 01:37:30,360
Speaker 1: that that's always to be seen. But these guys are

1977
01:37:30,400 --> 01:37:32,760
Speaker 1: gagged up at this point, and getting a week off

1978
01:37:33,160 --> 01:37:36,760
Speaker 1: and and even just mentally recharging can be extremely valuable. Yeah,

1979
01:37:37,080 --> 01:37:40,479
Speaker 1: and what do you think about this offense? Let's let's

1980
01:37:40,680 --> 01:37:45,040
Speaker 1: let's how do you get would you coach it up

1981
01:37:45,160 --> 01:37:46,400
Speaker 1: or what do you think the steps are that this

1982
01:37:46,439 --> 01:37:48,759
Speaker 1: team needs to go to get their offense more efficient,

1983
01:37:48,920 --> 01:37:52,240
Speaker 1: more you know, more sustained drives, less three and ounce,

1984
01:37:52,320 --> 01:37:54,639
Speaker 1: you know, just staying on the field a little longer. Certainly,

1985
01:37:54,680 --> 01:37:57,799
Speaker 1: they're playing the best defense in the league last Saturday

1986
01:37:57,840 --> 01:37:59,720
Speaker 1: in the New England Patriots. It's always gonna be tough

1987
01:37:59,760 --> 01:38:03,599
Speaker 1: again those guys, But how do they, you know, improve

1988
01:38:04,080 --> 01:38:06,920
Speaker 1: their ability to play more efficient offensively and play better

1989
01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:09,880
Speaker 1: complimentary football on that side of the ball. Right, in

1990
01:38:09,960 --> 01:38:13,840
Speaker 1: the last three weeks they played three excellent defenses in Pittsburgh, Baltimore,

1991
01:38:13,880 --> 01:38:17,840
Speaker 1: and New England, and then likely a number of offensive

1992
01:38:17,840 --> 01:38:20,080
Speaker 1: starters out this week, and then we'll see who the

1993
01:38:20,160 --> 01:38:22,160
Speaker 1: Bills face off in the first round of the playoffs.

1994
01:38:22,200 --> 01:38:25,240
Speaker 1: Not to get too far ahead of ourselves, but Kansas

1995
01:38:25,280 --> 01:38:28,719
Speaker 1: City has played. It's likely Kansas City or Houston. Kansas

1996
01:38:28,760 --> 01:38:30,960
Speaker 1: City is playing better defense, not nearly as good of

1997
01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:34,559
Speaker 1: a defense as those three teams, and then Houston down

1998
01:38:34,600 --> 01:38:37,080
Speaker 1: towards the bottom of the league in defensive statistics. So

1999
01:38:38,439 --> 01:38:40,559
Speaker 1: very good for the Buffalo Bills offense that they got

2000
01:38:40,640 --> 01:38:45,120
Speaker 1: to face four of the league's top defenses, I think

2001
01:38:45,160 --> 01:38:47,920
Speaker 1: in the last seven games. So really good that they

2002
01:38:48,040 --> 01:38:52,720
Speaker 1: got some work against some really good defenses lately. The

2003
01:38:52,800 --> 01:38:54,960
Speaker 1: bad news is, I hope it didn't crush their confidence

2004
01:38:55,040 --> 01:38:58,800
Speaker 1: because they have struggled. Going back to the Baltimore game,

2005
01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:02,040
Speaker 1: they really struggled against the cover zero blitz and was

2006
01:39:02,120 --> 01:39:04,400
Speaker 1: tough to get anything going that day. You go back

2007
01:39:04,439 --> 01:39:08,519
Speaker 1: to the Pittsburgh game and very conservative game plan, knowing

2008
01:39:08,720 --> 01:39:10,200
Speaker 1: that you weren't going to have to put up a

2009
01:39:10,200 --> 01:39:13,160
Speaker 1: whole lot of points to outscore Pittsburgh and Duck Hodges

2010
01:39:13,200 --> 01:39:16,200
Speaker 1: at quarterback against this Buffalo Bills defense and then last

2011
01:39:16,240 --> 01:39:18,200
Speaker 1: week against New England, you're going up against the number

2012
01:39:18,200 --> 01:39:21,400
Speaker 1: one defense in the league on historic pace and a

2013
01:39:21,479 --> 01:39:26,479
Speaker 1: few statistical categories, one being third down percentage, and they struggled.

2014
01:39:26,720 --> 01:39:31,000
Speaker 1: And to answer your question, you know, I think a

2015
01:39:31,200 --> 01:39:33,800
Speaker 1: big issue for the Buffalo Bills when they are facing

2016
01:39:33,880 --> 01:39:36,559
Speaker 1: these top defenses is not getting in third and long

2017
01:39:36,800 --> 01:39:39,000
Speaker 1: way too many third and longs. They're also starting the

2018
01:39:39,080 --> 01:39:45,040
Speaker 1: games off very slow and from a scoring standpoint, as

2019
01:39:45,120 --> 01:39:49,880
Speaker 1: well as staying on the field way too many six

2020
01:39:50,040 --> 01:39:54,639
Speaker 1: play or less drives early in games. And how does

2021
01:39:54,680 --> 01:39:59,040
Speaker 1: that get fixed? You know, I think that comes with experience. Steve,

2022
01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:01,360
Speaker 1: you could probably speak on this. The later you got

2023
01:40:01,439 --> 01:40:03,800
Speaker 1: in your career, the more the fact you were able

2024
01:40:03,840 --> 01:40:06,640
Speaker 1: to start games well. The Buffalo Bills cannot speed up

2025
01:40:06,680 --> 01:40:09,200
Speaker 1: the process with Josh Allen. He is a second year quarterback.

2026
01:40:10,280 --> 01:40:12,160
Speaker 1: You have a third year left tackle, you have a

2027
01:40:12,280 --> 01:40:15,120
Speaker 1: first year right tackle, you have a number of your

2028
01:40:15,160 --> 01:40:17,320
Speaker 1: your start your you're the guy who gets the most

2029
01:40:17,360 --> 01:40:19,720
Speaker 1: production of the tight end position. He's a rookie. You're

2030
01:40:19,800 --> 01:40:23,880
Speaker 1: running backs a rookie. These guys, um it takes him

2031
01:40:23,920 --> 01:40:26,320
Speaker 1: a second to settle into games. I think at this point,

2032
01:40:26,640 --> 01:40:28,760
Speaker 1: now come playoff time, you better get over that. And

2033
01:40:28,880 --> 01:40:33,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's um maybe um um some

2034
01:40:34,000 --> 01:40:36,680
Speaker 1: throws early in games that you know, Josh Allen can

2035
01:40:36,720 --> 01:40:39,360
Speaker 1: build some confidence on some quick hitter, some easy throws.

2036
01:40:39,439 --> 01:40:42,080
Speaker 1: But teams like New England, teams like Baltimore, they're just

2037
01:40:42,080 --> 01:40:45,120
Speaker 1: not giving you those. You know, they're they're running covers

2038
01:40:45,160 --> 01:40:47,599
Speaker 1: your blitz the first third down of the game. They're

2039
01:40:47,840 --> 01:40:50,800
Speaker 1: they're playing press man on second and twenty two knowing

2040
01:40:51,200 --> 01:40:53,840
Speaker 1: that we're not just gonna let you get in a rhythm. Um.

2041
01:40:54,320 --> 01:40:56,320
Speaker 1: So the Bills just need to be more efficient and

2042
01:40:56,439 --> 01:40:59,040
Speaker 1: put together drives. I did like that we hit a

2043
01:40:59,080 --> 01:41:01,160
Speaker 1: couple of big playst week. You know, you had the

2044
01:41:01,520 --> 01:41:04,240
Speaker 1: long past the Knox that you that they went back to.

2045
01:41:04,400 --> 01:41:06,240
Speaker 1: They almost hit it on the first drive of the game,

2046
01:41:06,280 --> 01:41:09,599
Speaker 1: which we'd be having a different conversation now about starting drives.

2047
01:41:09,720 --> 01:41:11,880
Speaker 1: Are starting games faster if they would hit that first

2048
01:41:11,920 --> 01:41:14,519
Speaker 1: one to Knox. But Josh Allen the second time around

2049
01:41:14,560 --> 01:41:17,120
Speaker 1: puts a little bit more air under it and allows

2050
01:41:17,200 --> 01:41:20,599
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox to run under it, and then obviously it's

2051
01:41:20,680 --> 01:41:23,040
Speaker 1: the phenomenal throw to John Brown later in the game.

2052
01:41:23,479 --> 01:41:26,679
Speaker 1: But yeah, the offense is going to have to perform

2053
01:41:26,760 --> 01:41:28,240
Speaker 1: better if if the Bills want to make a run

2054
01:41:28,280 --> 01:41:30,960
Speaker 1: at a Super Bowl, their defense is playing well enough

2055
01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:34,080
Speaker 1: for it right now. Their offense probably not. But prior

2056
01:41:34,160 --> 01:41:36,799
Speaker 1: to these last three weeks against these really tough defenses,

2057
01:41:36,840 --> 01:41:40,400
Speaker 1: they were playing better. And so the Bills have had

2058
01:41:40,520 --> 01:41:43,200
Speaker 1: really bright spots on offense this year. Eric, what our

2059
01:41:43,280 --> 01:41:46,080
Speaker 1: guests to your point, Eric, last, Well, let's go five games.

2060
01:41:46,160 --> 01:41:51,000
Speaker 1: Denver tenth ranked defense, Dallas eleventh ranked defense, Baltimore fifth

2061
01:41:51,080 --> 01:41:54,000
Speaker 1: ranked defense, Pittsburgh fourth, New England first. I mean, those

2062
01:41:54,040 --> 01:41:55,880
Speaker 1: are the some of the best defenses in the league

2063
01:41:55,880 --> 01:41:57,799
Speaker 1: they've gone up against. I want to turn your attention

2064
01:41:57,880 --> 01:42:00,200
Speaker 1: though to Buffaloes defense. And as you look on the

2065
01:42:00,320 --> 01:42:01,880
Speaker 1: back on the New England game, Eric, do you do

2066
01:42:01,960 --> 01:42:03,840
Speaker 1: you think the Bills could have played it differently? The

2067
01:42:04,080 --> 01:42:06,280
Speaker 1: very little pressure on Tom Brady. They were getting rid

2068
01:42:06,320 --> 01:42:07,920
Speaker 1: of it quickly. They weren't hanging out of the ball

2069
01:42:07,960 --> 01:42:10,960
Speaker 1: too much, but they you know, they didn't sack him.

2070
01:42:11,000 --> 01:42:13,360
Speaker 1: There was very few blitzes on Brady. Maybe should they

2071
01:42:13,400 --> 01:42:15,280
Speaker 1: have teed off a little bit more and got after

2072
01:42:15,360 --> 01:42:18,720
Speaker 1: Brady a little bit more? You know, you'd like to say,

2073
01:42:18,800 --> 01:42:20,759
Speaker 1: maybe we should have dialed up a few more pressures.

2074
01:42:21,280 --> 01:42:23,320
Speaker 1: Does he then burn you when you do dial up

2075
01:42:23,360 --> 01:42:25,720
Speaker 1: those pressures. I'm not sure. It seemed like this was

2076
01:42:25,760 --> 01:42:28,320
Speaker 1: a fairly conservative game plan by the defensive coaches as

2077
01:42:28,360 --> 01:42:30,640
Speaker 1: far as dialing up the pressures. But you know, you

2078
01:42:30,720 --> 01:42:32,920
Speaker 1: always got to be careful blitzing Tom Brady. He's seen

2079
01:42:32,960 --> 01:42:35,840
Speaker 1: them all. He can he can really hurt you. You know.

2080
01:42:35,920 --> 01:42:39,880
Speaker 1: At times the Bills have played they're owen six under

2081
01:42:39,920 --> 01:42:44,120
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott against Tom Brady. But the Buffalo Bills defense

2082
01:42:44,439 --> 01:42:46,600
Speaker 1: generally has given him more fits than anyone, and a

2083
01:42:46,680 --> 01:42:48,600
Speaker 1: lot of it's not coming from pressures. A lot of

2084
01:42:48,680 --> 01:42:51,120
Speaker 1: it's from mixing up coverages, giving them different looks, playing

2085
01:42:51,200 --> 01:42:53,840
Speaker 1: really sound, making them drive the whole field, not giving

2086
01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:58,120
Speaker 1: up huge plays. Um. You know, I felt like when

2087
01:42:58,120 --> 01:43:00,439
Speaker 1: I went back and watched the coaches copy this game,

2088
01:43:00,520 --> 01:43:04,360
Speaker 1: I thought the Patriots won both the line of scrimmages.

2089
01:43:04,600 --> 01:43:07,960
Speaker 1: The defensive line outperformed our offensive line. Their offensive line

2090
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:12,880
Speaker 1: outperformed our defensive line. And in December football in the Northeast,

2091
01:43:13,479 --> 01:43:16,000
Speaker 1: that's how you win football games. And they were able

2092
01:43:16,040 --> 01:43:19,200
Speaker 1: to defeat us because of that. They were able to

2093
01:43:19,320 --> 01:43:22,320
Speaker 1: run the ball effectively, which opened up the play action,

2094
01:43:22,400 --> 01:43:25,400
Speaker 1: which opened up some spots on the outside for Tom

2095
01:43:25,439 --> 01:43:29,120
Speaker 1: Brady to complete some passes. There were guys open at

2096
01:43:29,160 --> 01:43:31,519
Speaker 1: times for the Buffalo Bills, Josh Allen either unable to

2097
01:43:31,600 --> 01:43:34,840
Speaker 1: find him or unable to step into a throat, oftentimes

2098
01:43:34,960 --> 01:43:38,760
Speaker 1: because of the pressure in his space. And then as

2099
01:43:38,800 --> 01:43:41,360
Speaker 1: good of a job as the Buffalo Bills did an

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01:43:41,439 --> 01:43:44,760
Speaker 1: Orchard Park with running the football effectively, they just didn't

2101
01:43:44,840 --> 01:43:49,280
Speaker 1: run it effectively enough in Foxborough last Saturday. So I

2102
01:43:49,439 --> 01:43:51,880
Speaker 1: think I'm both si. You know, wee tom Brady three

2103
01:43:51,960 --> 01:43:54,640
Speaker 1: for two hundred and seventy something yards and they ran

2104
01:43:54,760 --> 01:43:58,160
Speaker 1: for over one hundred. But but I honestly think both

2105
01:43:58,240 --> 01:44:01,519
Speaker 1: sides of the ball in the trenches lost in this game,

2106
01:44:01,600 --> 01:44:04,760
Speaker 1: which hasn't happened many times this year. Both fronts had

2107
01:44:04,800 --> 01:44:07,120
Speaker 1: been excellent for a majority of this year. That's part

2108
01:44:07,160 --> 01:44:09,920
Speaker 1: of the reason why they have ten wins at this point. Yeah,

2109
01:44:09,960 --> 01:44:12,080
Speaker 1: and you get to the ten win spot and you

2110
01:44:12,160 --> 01:44:14,960
Speaker 1: got to think, well, you've got this game Week seventeen

2111
01:44:15,040 --> 01:44:18,000
Speaker 1: game against the Jets coming up, and you've got some

2112
01:44:18,160 --> 01:44:20,280
Speaker 1: decisions to make about how important it is to keep

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01:44:20,320 --> 01:44:22,360
Speaker 1: guys sharp and how important it is to rest, and

2114
01:44:22,640 --> 01:44:25,240
Speaker 1: and really you said it's hard to rest guys in

2115
01:44:25,280 --> 01:44:27,400
Speaker 1: the NFL. You got fifty three guys on the roster.

2116
01:44:28,200 --> 01:44:32,760
Speaker 1: You can rest less than a handful of your starters.

2117
01:44:32,800 --> 01:44:35,560
Speaker 1: And I just don't know, you know what else you

2118
01:44:35,640 --> 01:44:37,680
Speaker 1: can do. I mean, certainly you've got to practice them

2119
01:44:37,720 --> 01:44:41,800
Speaker 1: as well. But I think I'm with you. I'm anticipating

2120
01:44:41,880 --> 01:44:45,920
Speaker 1: what you're gonna say. Time off is the holy grail

2121
01:44:46,000 --> 01:44:47,960
Speaker 1: for this time of year, and I think that anybody

2122
01:44:48,000 --> 01:44:51,240
Speaker 1: you can give some rest, you need to do it, absolutely,

2123
01:44:51,560 --> 01:44:53,519
Speaker 1: And I don't think you can take a risk with

2124
01:44:53,680 --> 01:44:56,000
Speaker 1: Josh Allen Allen on the field, especially with the style

2125
01:44:56,040 --> 01:44:58,800
Speaker 1: of play he has. That guy's got. He doesn't have

2126
01:44:58,960 --> 01:45:02,000
Speaker 1: a compete switch. You see him take shots in the preseason.

2127
01:45:02,360 --> 01:45:05,360
Speaker 1: He does not have an off switch. So I think

2128
01:45:05,479 --> 01:45:07,040
Speaker 1: I don't even think you could put Josh Allen in

2129
01:45:07,160 --> 01:45:10,280
Speaker 1: uniform this week. And then otherwise, you know if he

2130
01:45:10,439 --> 01:45:11,960
Speaker 1: if he happened to get in the game, he's gonna

2131
01:45:11,960 --> 01:45:15,120
Speaker 1: be out there running around making plays. He's just that's

2132
01:45:15,240 --> 01:45:17,599
Speaker 1: that's him. He's like a editor and I absolutely love

2133
01:45:17,680 --> 01:45:19,519
Speaker 1: that about him. But you can't get him in this game.

2134
01:45:19,840 --> 01:45:22,000
Speaker 1: You get fifty three guys and if Ty and Secky

2135
01:45:22,080 --> 01:45:24,200
Speaker 1: still hurt, that brings you down to fifty two guys

2136
01:45:24,240 --> 01:45:26,680
Speaker 1: available for this game. You dress forty six, so you

2137
01:45:26,720 --> 01:45:29,400
Speaker 1: get six guys that you can essentially put hoodies and

2138
01:45:29,800 --> 01:45:32,120
Speaker 1: probably coats in Orchard Park in late December on for

2139
01:45:32,200 --> 01:45:35,000
Speaker 1: this game. And so you have six there, then you

2140
01:45:35,080 --> 01:45:37,840
Speaker 1: have a number of starters that you could substitute for.

2141
01:45:38,000 --> 01:45:39,680
Speaker 1: But they're still gonna be in uniform in this game,

2142
01:45:39,720 --> 01:45:41,920
Speaker 1: and they're gonna go through warm ups and they're gonna

2143
01:45:41,920 --> 01:45:45,800
Speaker 1: be available in case needed. And I think that's good

2144
01:45:45,840 --> 01:45:49,000
Speaker 1: for guys. You know, a guy like let's say Cody

2145
01:45:49,080 --> 01:45:53,040
Speaker 1: Ford at right tackle, he's dealt with some injuries this year,

2146
01:45:53,120 --> 01:45:55,160
Speaker 1: he had the elbow. Well, this is a chance for

2147
01:45:55,240 --> 01:45:57,640
Speaker 1: maybe him to get a little time off. But with

2148
01:45:58,400 --> 01:46:01,120
Speaker 1: only eight offensive lineman, he's going to be in a uniform.

2149
01:46:01,439 --> 01:46:03,880
Speaker 1: He will be in a uniform. But maybe you give

2150
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:06,639
Speaker 1: him some time off, maybe you rotate him. Maybe there's

2151
01:46:06,640 --> 01:46:09,880
Speaker 1: a rotation upfront where you get all of those guys

2152
01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:12,439
Speaker 1: some reps off, but maybe not all of them the

2153
01:46:12,520 --> 01:46:15,880
Speaker 1: full game. And we mentioned Mitch Morris's ankle. He had

2154
01:46:15,880 --> 01:46:18,200
Speaker 1: the finger a few weeks ago. That's probably a guy

2155
01:46:18,560 --> 01:46:20,840
Speaker 1: that you say, okay, we need to give him a break.

2156
01:46:22,080 --> 01:46:24,200
Speaker 1: And then and then maybe you say, on the defensive

2157
01:46:24,200 --> 01:46:26,040
Speaker 1: side of the ball, who are the guys that are

2158
01:46:26,120 --> 01:46:29,360
Speaker 1: You're Josh Allen on offense, and on offense probably Cole

2159
01:46:29,439 --> 01:46:31,840
Speaker 1: Beasley and John Brown. You say, let's rest those guys

2160
01:46:31,880 --> 01:46:34,439
Speaker 1: for this week. They're both experienced players, so they're in

2161
01:46:34,520 --> 01:46:37,320
Speaker 1: hoodies as well. And then defensively, you probably look at

2162
01:46:39,680 --> 01:46:42,719
Speaker 1: probably three of three out of the four of Tremaine,

2163
01:46:44,000 --> 01:46:47,559
Speaker 1: Trey White, and the two safeties, and then you say, hey,

2164
01:46:47,640 --> 01:46:50,240
Speaker 1: the rest of the guys, yes, you're very valuable. You know,

2165
01:46:50,479 --> 01:46:53,400
Speaker 1: Milano probably playing a depth role in this game. You

2166
01:46:53,479 --> 01:46:56,320
Speaker 1: guys are all very valuable. But you know these are

2167
01:46:56,360 --> 01:47:00,360
Speaker 1: the guys. They're either veterans or they're just so valdable

2168
01:47:00,400 --> 01:47:02,120
Speaker 1: that we're gonna put him in a hoodie because we

2169
01:47:02,360 --> 01:47:05,880
Speaker 1: definitely want them at Kansas City. Rath Houston with Eric Wood.

2170
01:47:05,960 --> 01:47:08,120
Speaker 1: He's a color analyst on the Bills Radio Network. Kid

2171
01:47:08,200 --> 01:47:10,600
Speaker 1: former Bills center Eric on the line with us Eric One.

2172
01:47:10,720 --> 01:47:14,200
Speaker 1: One other thing about Saturday's loss in New England. The

2173
01:47:14,280 --> 01:47:16,840
Speaker 1: Bills did do some things well, including hit the deep

2174
01:47:16,840 --> 01:47:19,240
Speaker 1: pass a deep one thirty three yards to Dotson Knox

2175
01:47:19,640 --> 01:47:22,679
Speaker 1: fifty three yards to John Brown. That was an issue

2176
01:47:22,800 --> 01:47:25,200
Speaker 1: for much of the season. Has that problem solved? And

2177
01:47:25,320 --> 01:47:28,360
Speaker 1: if so, what does hitting those two plays mean for

2178
01:47:28,439 --> 01:47:31,840
Speaker 1: the offense moving forward, moving into the playoffs. You know,

2179
01:47:31,920 --> 01:47:34,360
Speaker 1: I don't know that it solves it by any means,

2180
01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:37,040
Speaker 1: but it was great to hit both of those. And

2181
01:47:37,640 --> 01:47:40,320
Speaker 1: I think what it does is it probably scares teams

2182
01:47:40,320 --> 01:47:42,599
Speaker 1: a little bit that the Bills now have some answers

2183
01:47:42,840 --> 01:47:46,280
Speaker 1: if you're gonna play cover zero or just you know,

2184
01:47:46,320 --> 01:47:48,200
Speaker 1: the play to mcquardy was man free. They had a

2185
01:47:48,240 --> 01:47:52,960
Speaker 1: safety back there. And so I think what it does

2186
01:47:53,120 --> 01:47:56,080
Speaker 1: is it probably deters defenses from saying, you know, three

2187
01:47:56,160 --> 01:47:58,479
Speaker 1: weeks ago when you watch the Buffalo Bills against the Ravens,

2188
01:47:58,720 --> 01:48:02,160
Speaker 1: you know, moving forward, saying okay, well, anytime we want

2189
01:48:02,200 --> 01:48:05,080
Speaker 1: to stop against the Bills, if it's third down, heck,

2190
01:48:05,160 --> 01:48:06,880
Speaker 1: we could do at any down just covers zero blitz

2191
01:48:06,960 --> 01:48:09,160
Speaker 1: and they don't have answers for it. While you take

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01:48:09,240 --> 01:48:13,360
Speaker 1: the top off the defense twice like that, it makes

2193
01:48:13,360 --> 01:48:16,679
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator starting to think twice so great sign

2194
01:48:16,760 --> 01:48:18,920
Speaker 1: that they were able to hit those a show of

2195
01:48:19,120 --> 01:48:24,000
Speaker 1: progression for this offense. And and and I thought both

2196
01:48:24,080 --> 01:48:27,240
Speaker 1: of them were great reads. The second the second one

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01:48:27,280 --> 01:48:30,600
Speaker 1: to John Brown, I mean, my gosh, that throw with

2198
01:48:30,760 --> 01:48:32,720
Speaker 1: that kind of pressure in his face. It reminded me

2199
01:48:32,760 --> 01:48:36,080
Speaker 1: of the Jacksonville game Josh's rookie year where he stood

2200
01:48:36,080 --> 01:48:38,439
Speaker 1: in the pocket, just took an enormous shot in the pocket.

2201
01:48:39,680 --> 01:48:43,200
Speaker 1: And I mean, just just a great play. Yeah, And

2202
01:48:43,800 --> 01:48:46,280
Speaker 1: those plays do go a long way because the coordinators

2203
01:48:46,280 --> 01:48:47,800
Speaker 1: over there going to listen, I'll try it again. But

2204
01:48:47,840 --> 01:48:49,599
Speaker 1: if you know, if we're gonna give up a touch

2205
01:48:49,840 --> 01:48:51,959
Speaker 1: giving up a first down's one thing, or a completion,

2206
01:48:52,240 --> 01:48:54,120
Speaker 1: but giving up the touchdown is the one thing you

2207
01:48:54,200 --> 01:48:55,840
Speaker 1: really don't want to do. And if you hit enough

2208
01:48:55,880 --> 01:48:58,280
Speaker 1: of those, people just stopped doing it. And that's been

2209
01:48:58,360 --> 01:49:00,680
Speaker 1: the one thing that Buffalo has not been able to do,

2210
01:49:00,720 --> 01:49:02,840
Speaker 1: and that is just say, listen, if you blitz us

2211
01:49:02,920 --> 01:49:05,320
Speaker 1: like that, you're gonna pay dearly for it. And you

2212
01:49:05,400 --> 01:49:08,160
Speaker 1: know this Patriot game, and I said this early in

2213
01:49:08,160 --> 01:49:09,400
Speaker 1: the show, and I'm gonna get your read on this.

2214
01:49:10,080 --> 01:49:12,719
Speaker 1: I thought the Patriots are probably over their game planning

2215
01:49:12,800 --> 01:49:15,840
Speaker 1: for the Bills saying listen, we'll go some zero, because

2216
01:49:16,520 --> 01:49:18,519
Speaker 1: they just haven't shown the ability to hit those plays.

2217
01:49:18,560 --> 01:49:20,439
Speaker 1: We'll give them some shots at it, but they just

2218
01:49:20,880 --> 01:49:23,200
Speaker 1: even if you know, they're not gonna leave somebody uncovered.

2219
01:49:23,640 --> 01:49:27,840
Speaker 1: But they certainly weren't afraid of going zero cover and

2220
01:49:27,920 --> 01:49:30,160
Speaker 1: letting them, letting them giving the Bills the deep ball

2221
01:49:30,200 --> 01:49:34,200
Speaker 1: and taking away everything short correct, Yeah, for sure. And

2222
01:49:34,360 --> 01:49:36,760
Speaker 1: what the Bills have shown this year is, you know,

2223
01:49:37,040 --> 01:49:38,800
Speaker 1: when you get back and watching the coach's copy, even

2224
01:49:38,840 --> 01:49:41,320
Speaker 1: the Ravens game, they're guys open. But when it's covers

2225
01:49:41,360 --> 01:49:43,120
Speaker 1: zero blitz and you have a second and a half

2226
01:49:43,160 --> 01:49:46,120
Speaker 1: to find a guy, you have to pretty much guess

2227
01:49:46,280 --> 01:49:48,240
Speaker 1: right that the right guy is going to win because

2228
01:49:48,240 --> 01:49:51,160
Speaker 1: you you do not have time to go through progressions.

2229
01:49:51,479 --> 01:49:54,800
Speaker 1: And as good as John Brown and Cole Beasley are,

2230
01:49:55,200 --> 01:49:59,400
Speaker 1: they are not your physically imposing guy on the outside

2231
01:49:59,439 --> 01:50:01,439
Speaker 1: that you think, if this guy catches a comeback, he's

2232
01:50:01,479 --> 01:50:03,800
Speaker 1: gonna stiff arm a dude to the ground and take

2233
01:50:03,880 --> 01:50:06,519
Speaker 1: off for seventy five. Those guys aren't that you know,

2234
01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:09,120
Speaker 1: these guys are extremely productive this year or two guys

2235
01:50:09,160 --> 01:50:11,040
Speaker 1: that I am so glad around the Buffalo Bills. They

2236
01:50:11,080 --> 01:50:14,800
Speaker 1: just aren't that you know you think of. I mean,

2237
01:50:15,479 --> 01:50:18,080
Speaker 1: there's there's a ton of those guys throughout the NFL

2238
01:50:18,120 --> 01:50:20,200
Speaker 1: and that have played before. You know, when we had

2239
01:50:21,000 --> 01:50:23,040
Speaker 1: t o my rookie year, I mean, gosh, if we

2240
01:50:23,200 --> 01:50:25,640
Speaker 1: threw him a ball out in the flat and it

2241
01:50:25,800 --> 01:50:27,479
Speaker 1: was one on one and the rest of the field

2242
01:50:27,520 --> 01:50:30,400
Speaker 1: a defense coordinator be shaken and that to tur some

2243
01:50:30,520 --> 01:50:34,040
Speaker 1: of that. Well, now the Bills are showing that they

2244
01:50:34,120 --> 01:50:35,920
Speaker 1: do have an answer for this, and it's it's to

2245
01:50:36,000 --> 01:50:38,120
Speaker 1: take the top off the defense. And I love the

2246
01:50:38,240 --> 01:50:40,800
Speaker 1: fact that twice they went to Dawson Knox becau. Dawson

2247
01:50:40,880 --> 01:50:44,160
Speaker 1: Knox has better athleticism than most safeties in this league,

2248
01:50:45,240 --> 01:50:47,800
Speaker 1: especially strong safeties that are coming down and trying to

2249
01:50:47,840 --> 01:50:49,640
Speaker 1: cover him one on one. I love they went to

2250
01:50:49,760 --> 01:50:51,320
Speaker 1: him twice. They had him on the first drive as

2251
01:50:51,320 --> 01:50:53,519
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, and then they got him right before

2252
01:50:53,520 --> 01:50:56,360
Speaker 1: the half, and that could be an X factor moving forward.

2253
01:50:57,640 --> 01:51:00,800
Speaker 1: Is him on the safeties I mentioned the big type, Well,

2254
01:51:01,200 --> 01:51:04,000
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox had been shown this year to throw a

2255
01:51:04,120 --> 01:51:07,840
Speaker 1: mean step arm out in space himself as well Erica.

2256
01:51:08,080 --> 01:51:11,040
Speaker 1: So we know two weeks from now, it's gonna be

2257
01:51:11,120 --> 01:51:13,360
Speaker 1: either a game at Houston or a game at Kansas City.

2258
01:51:13,400 --> 01:51:15,160
Speaker 1: Which do you think is a better matchup for the Bills.

2259
01:51:16,920 --> 01:51:21,719
Speaker 1: You know, honestly, I would have to say Houston, Kansas

2260
01:51:21,760 --> 01:51:26,639
Speaker 1: City has been playing really well lately. Their defense, I'm

2261
01:51:26,680 --> 01:51:29,680
Speaker 1: not sure after last night, going into last night, the

2262
01:51:29,840 --> 01:51:32,439
Speaker 1: last three weeks prior they were averaging given up twelve

2263
01:51:32,520 --> 01:51:36,760
Speaker 1: points a game on defense, really improving their defense these

2264
01:51:36,840 --> 01:51:42,080
Speaker 1: last few weeks. And then offensively they're just phenomenal. But

2265
01:51:42,880 --> 01:51:45,040
Speaker 1: when you look at it, they were in the AFC

2266
01:51:45,200 --> 01:51:47,559
Speaker 1: Championship Game last year. They have a lot of big

2267
01:51:47,640 --> 01:51:51,800
Speaker 1: playoff experience on that team. You give me the choice

2268
01:51:51,840 --> 01:51:54,600
Speaker 1: of Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes, I'm gonna take the

2269
01:51:54,640 --> 01:51:57,000
Speaker 1: shout Watson, even though I think he's an excellent quarterback.

2270
01:51:57,240 --> 01:52:01,080
Speaker 1: And this Texans defense, this is not the Texans defense

2271
01:52:01,160 --> 01:52:04,280
Speaker 1: that you're used to talking about. This is not JJ Watt,

2272
01:52:04,360 --> 01:52:08,000
Speaker 1: this is not Jadeveon Clowney. Those guys have moved on this.

2273
01:52:08,840 --> 01:52:11,240
Speaker 1: This is not what was it either last year or

2274
01:52:11,240 --> 01:52:13,000
Speaker 1: the year before, the Texans had the number one ranked

2275
01:52:13,040 --> 01:52:15,280
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. I believe right now they're ranked

2276
01:52:15,320 --> 01:52:19,160
Speaker 1: twenty eighth or something. So, yes, that that what you say?

2277
01:52:21,240 --> 01:52:26,560
Speaker 1: Twenty eighth, Yeah, good guess, But so this is not

2278
01:52:26,720 --> 01:52:32,080
Speaker 1: that defense. Now, energy NRG Stadium is loud. I've played

2279
01:52:32,120 --> 01:52:35,320
Speaker 1: there twice Sunday at one o'clock. It's loud. I can't

2280
01:52:35,360 --> 01:52:37,400
Speaker 1: imagine how loud that place is gonna be for a

2281
01:52:37,439 --> 01:52:40,760
Speaker 1: playoff game. But then when you say compare noise and

2282
01:52:40,840 --> 01:52:43,920
Speaker 1: you compare it to arrowhead, Uh, there becomes a threshold

2283
01:52:44,000 --> 01:52:47,080
Speaker 1: we always talked about with with crowd noise. It's like, Okay,

2284
01:52:47,160 --> 01:52:49,400
Speaker 1: once you have to go silent, you can barely talk

2285
01:52:50,040 --> 01:52:52,400
Speaker 1: on the field. Anything more than that's a bonus. Well,

2286
01:52:52,439 --> 01:52:55,400
Speaker 1: both those places are going to be definitely be silent

2287
01:52:55,520 --> 01:52:58,439
Speaker 1: counts and it's gonna be hard to communicate. Yeah, the

2288
01:52:58,880 --> 01:53:02,400
Speaker 1: Houston Texans are averaging eighteenth in the league at points

2289
01:53:02,439 --> 01:53:05,639
Speaker 1: allowed per game. Kansas City. You think about their defense

2290
01:53:05,720 --> 01:53:07,920
Speaker 1: and how it struggled in years past, there's numbers. They're

2291
01:53:07,920 --> 01:53:09,920
Speaker 1: a top ten defense in the league at points allowed

2292
01:53:10,000 --> 01:53:12,960
Speaker 1: only seventeen or nineteen point one points a game. So

2293
01:53:13,320 --> 01:53:15,200
Speaker 1: you know, and the Bills are right at number two now,

2294
01:53:15,320 --> 01:53:22,200
Speaker 1: right behind the Patriots in the league. It's it's take

2295
01:53:22,240 --> 01:53:24,080
Speaker 1: your pick. You're gonna have to beat some really good

2296
01:53:24,120 --> 01:53:25,840
Speaker 1: teams in the playoffs. The Bills are gonna have to

2297
01:53:25,920 --> 01:53:28,679
Speaker 1: go on the road. I do like the Houston matchup

2298
01:53:28,720 --> 01:53:30,599
Speaker 1: because the Bills have been down there and this crew

2299
01:53:30,760 --> 01:53:33,200
Speaker 1: was down there last year. I mean, Josh Allen started

2300
01:53:33,240 --> 01:53:35,800
Speaker 1: that game, it's the Nathan Peterman game. He threw another

2301
01:53:35,880 --> 01:53:38,000
Speaker 1: pick six to cost him the game, and even so

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01:53:38,200 --> 01:53:39,880
Speaker 1: the Bills had the ball on the ground and the

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01:53:39,960 --> 01:53:41,559
Speaker 1: last drive of the game to win it. I mean,

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01:53:41,840 --> 01:53:44,880
Speaker 1: this is a pretty good This is a stadium and

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01:53:44,960 --> 01:53:47,120
Speaker 1: a matchup where the Bills have had some success against

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01:53:47,200 --> 01:53:49,559
Speaker 1: these guys. And I think if you're gonna pick your poison,

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01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:53,240
Speaker 1: pick the team that struggles where your weakness is, and

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01:53:53,320 --> 01:53:57,880
Speaker 1: that's the Bill's offense against that Houston Texans defense, right, Yeah,

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01:53:58,000 --> 01:54:00,519
Speaker 1: no doubt. I mean, and as we're talking about it,

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01:54:00,600 --> 01:54:02,800
Speaker 1: I think there's three teams in the AFC that are

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01:54:03,040 --> 01:54:09,280
Speaker 1: that are probably in the top echelon, and that's Baltimore,

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01:54:09,360 --> 01:54:12,000
Speaker 1: New England and Kansas City. And I think there's a

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01:54:12,080 --> 01:54:14,240
Speaker 1: tier below them that the Bills fall in at this

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01:54:14,439 --> 01:54:23,800
Speaker 1: point UM, and I think that includes UM, Houston, Tennessee, Buffalo, Pittsburgh.

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01:54:24,600 --> 01:54:26,880
Speaker 1: The fact that Oakland could sneak in the playoffs after

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01:54:27,200 --> 01:54:30,360
Speaker 1: all six things stacking up this week is pretty remarkable.

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01:54:30,439 --> 01:54:32,760
Speaker 1: But you know, there's that next group of teams that

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01:54:32,840 --> 01:54:34,600
Speaker 1: are that are great teams. They're gonna they play a

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01:54:34,640 --> 01:54:37,800
Speaker 1: lot of close games. Um And heck, two weeks ago

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01:54:37,800 --> 01:54:41,000
Speaker 1: we would probably put New England in that group as well.

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01:54:41,280 --> 01:54:43,480
Speaker 1: Tom Brady with a little bit of a resurgence last week,

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01:54:43,520 --> 01:54:45,720
Speaker 1: and then just with that defense they have over there,

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01:54:45,760 --> 01:54:48,200
Speaker 1: it's you know, they're always going to be a tough out.

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01:54:48,520 --> 01:54:51,560
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think you have to hope we go

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01:54:51,680 --> 01:54:56,080
Speaker 1: to Houston over Kansas City. Um, and there's a Bill O'Brien,

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01:54:56,160 --> 01:54:58,840
Speaker 1: there's I'm sure I don't know if he tunes into

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01:54:58,840 --> 01:55:01,720
Speaker 1: one Bills live, but we will make their hump up

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01:55:01,800 --> 01:55:04,040
Speaker 1: hyelight real next week and all they've been said, you know,

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01:55:04,160 --> 01:55:06,240
Speaker 1: even looking further down the road a little bit, Eric,

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01:55:06,240 --> 01:55:07,960
Speaker 1: I don't know Steve A. Greeves with this. I want

2331
01:55:08,040 --> 01:55:10,880
Speaker 1: the Bills to get another crack at the Patriots in Foxborough. Yes,

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01:55:11,200 --> 01:55:14,080
Speaker 1: whether it's AFC championship game or maybe a divisional game,

2333
01:55:14,280 --> 01:55:16,760
Speaker 1: I want that to happen. I think the Patriots might

2334
01:55:16,800 --> 01:55:18,920
Speaker 1: be a hard press to beat the Bills three times

2335
01:55:19,000 --> 01:55:22,720
Speaker 1: this year? Am I crazy? No? I don't think you're

2336
01:55:22,720 --> 01:55:25,160
Speaker 1: crazy at all. And you heard Josh Allen talk about

2337
01:55:25,160 --> 01:55:27,120
Speaker 1: it after the game. You know, that's the third time

2338
01:55:27,160 --> 01:55:29,480
Speaker 1: he's seen the Patriots. That's the best he's played against

2339
01:55:29,520 --> 01:55:33,520
Speaker 1: the Patriots. And each time I think he's getting more

2340
01:55:33,520 --> 01:55:36,320
Speaker 1: and more comfortable. You would have to like his chances

2341
01:55:36,360 --> 01:55:40,440
Speaker 1: of playing maybe even better than this time here, better

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01:55:40,520 --> 01:55:44,440
Speaker 1: the next time you go there. Also, when when you

2343
01:55:44,560 --> 01:55:46,680
Speaker 1: talk about the defense, you would have to think your

2344
01:55:46,760 --> 01:55:48,480
Speaker 1: defense would have a better day than it had in

2345
01:55:48,600 --> 01:55:52,400
Speaker 1: Foxborough the other day, just allowing you know it worked.

2346
01:55:52,440 --> 01:55:54,200
Speaker 1: The time of possession works both ways. I get it.

2347
01:55:54,280 --> 01:55:56,560
Speaker 1: I'm an offensive guy. It's easy for me to say

2348
01:55:56,600 --> 01:55:59,080
Speaker 1: the defense needs to get off the field, but they

2349
01:55:59,200 --> 01:56:02,040
Speaker 1: really let and grind out drives on him. I don't

2350
01:56:02,080 --> 01:56:06,720
Speaker 1: see that happening another time. And like they always say,

2351
01:56:07,080 --> 01:56:10,720
Speaker 1: it's tough to be three times in a year. Um, yeah,

2352
01:56:10,800 --> 01:56:14,680
Speaker 1: give give me, give me at New England, probably over

2353
01:56:14,840 --> 01:56:18,240
Speaker 1: Kansas City or Baltimore. Honestly, all right, hey, before we

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01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:20,440
Speaker 1: let you go, Eric wanting to make sure people know

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01:56:20,560 --> 01:56:23,160
Speaker 1: that the celebrity Roast of Eric Wood is coming up.

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Speaker 1: The w GR Celebrity Roast. It is Thursday, February twenty

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Speaker 1: seventh that Buffalo River Works. Tickets are available. Um, the

2358
01:56:29,960 --> 01:56:32,839
Speaker 1: w GR celebrity roast of Eric Wood or the tickets

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Speaker 1: in details available at w GR five fifty dot com.

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Speaker 1: You've got Richie incognito. Will that be an R rated

2361
01:56:38,360 --> 01:56:43,600
Speaker 1: Ritchie or will it be totally uncensored for that event? Yeah,

2362
01:56:44,240 --> 01:56:46,240
Speaker 1: we're not gonna go above our rated. I can tell

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01:56:46,240 --> 01:56:51,280
Speaker 1: you that. No, you know, Richie, Richie will likely it'll

2364
01:56:51,320 --> 01:56:54,280
Speaker 1: be a I think from Richie what what fans I

2365
01:56:54,320 --> 01:56:56,240
Speaker 1: think are going to enjoy that come out? One. This

2366
01:56:56,360 --> 01:56:58,480
Speaker 1: is a nonrecorded event, so if you want to hear

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01:56:58,560 --> 01:57:01,000
Speaker 1: this stuff, you got to be an attend U two.

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01:57:01,480 --> 01:57:04,400
Speaker 1: I think what people are going to realize, um, after

2369
01:57:04,560 --> 01:57:07,720
Speaker 1: seeing Richie Polke jabs at me and the other roasters,

2370
01:57:08,000 --> 01:57:11,240
Speaker 1: are that he's kind of a guy's guy. He's hilarious.

2371
01:57:11,280 --> 01:57:14,600
Speaker 1: He crosses the line at times, but it's it's locker

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01:57:14,720 --> 01:57:17,320
Speaker 1: room fun. It's yeah, you know, it's what guys do.

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01:57:17,480 --> 01:57:19,920
Speaker 1: It's what you do with your buddies. And I think

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01:57:20,120 --> 01:57:22,720
Speaker 1: a lot of people, Um, I think Richie will have

2375
01:57:22,760 --> 01:57:25,920
Speaker 1: an opportunity to flip the narrative on himself. For the

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01:57:26,360 --> 01:57:28,520
Speaker 1: six seven hundred people that are in the tennis that night,

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01:57:28,760 --> 01:57:31,280
Speaker 1: it'll be a great night. February twenty seventh. Tickets available

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Speaker 1: at w g R five fifty dot com. Eric, have

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01:57:33,600 --> 01:57:35,560
Speaker 1: a great Christmas. We will talk to you at the

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01:57:35,680 --> 01:57:39,400
Speaker 1: end of the week. Thank you very much. Likewise, Marry Christmas, guys. Okay,

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01:57:39,880 --> 01:57:42,240
Speaker 1: Eric what joining us on the lying from his home

2382
01:57:42,280 --> 01:57:44,160
Speaker 1: in Louisville. He's got a big week. He's got a

2383
01:57:44,600 --> 01:57:47,320
Speaker 1: Bowl game, comments Polley after Christmas, and then he's going

2384
01:57:47,400 --> 01:57:50,120
Speaker 1: He's coming up here for the game on Sunday, the

2385
01:57:50,160 --> 01:57:51,520
Speaker 1: Bills game. He's got a big week. A lot of

2386
01:57:51,520 --> 01:57:53,800
Speaker 1: stuff going up. Yeah, it's all right. Time of season, man, Yeah,

2387
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Speaker 1: break here, We're back for more. It is One Bill's Life,

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Speaker 1: Live coming to you from the Seneca Studio. Good afternoon,

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01:58:19,320 --> 01:58:20,760
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. We had less than a half

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01:58:20,760 --> 01:58:23,960
Speaker 1: hour left. In spite of ourselves, the show has moved

2393
01:58:23,960 --> 01:58:28,160
Speaker 1: along pretty well. Better talk faster, you know, hey, One

2394
01:58:28,200 --> 01:58:30,760
Speaker 1: thing we should talk about. For the most part, the

2395
01:58:30,840 --> 01:58:34,240
Speaker 1: AFC playoff picture is settled except for the Oakland Raiders.

2396
01:58:34,280 --> 01:58:35,840
Speaker 1: They have a chance to win the sixth seed. They've

2397
01:58:35,840 --> 01:58:37,800
Speaker 1: got to have a lot of things happen to win

2398
01:58:37,880 --> 01:58:40,160
Speaker 1: the sixth seed. But it can happen, and stuff broke

2399
01:58:40,200 --> 01:58:45,120
Speaker 1: there where yesterday they are stuff broke. Like five things

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01:58:45,240 --> 01:58:48,280
Speaker 1: had to go. They had to beat the Chargers, Ravens

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01:58:48,360 --> 01:58:51,520
Speaker 1: had to win, Jets had to beat the Steelers, Saints

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01:58:51,600 --> 01:58:54,840
Speaker 1: had to beat the Tennessee Titans, and the Colts had

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01:58:54,880 --> 01:58:59,040
Speaker 1: to beat the Panthers. All of those things happened. So

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01:58:59,280 --> 01:59:05,800
Speaker 1: now if five more things happen Week seventeen, Raiders Raiders,

2405
01:59:06,360 --> 01:59:09,160
Speaker 1: the Raiders are in. They gotta beat Denver. Okay, Cleveland

2406
01:59:09,240 --> 01:59:13,839
Speaker 1: beats Bengals, okay, one in fourteen Bengals, Ravens beat Steelers.

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01:59:14,400 --> 01:59:17,879
Speaker 1: That could happen the number one seed. Texans beat Tennessee.

2408
01:59:18,080 --> 01:59:21,200
Speaker 1: They've done that two weeks ago. Colts beat Jaguars, have

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01:59:21,280 --> 01:59:24,240
Speaker 1: got their bags packed. The Raiders would be in. The

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01:59:24,360 --> 01:59:27,360
Speaker 1: Raiders have got to beat Denver though that's the toughest part.

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01:59:28,280 --> 01:59:30,000
Speaker 1: That'd be fun though, having the Raiders in at eight

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01:59:30,040 --> 01:59:31,840
Speaker 1: and eight, wouldn't it? Kind of? I think it would

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01:59:31,880 --> 01:59:34,120
Speaker 1: be fun. They'd go to what they would go to

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01:59:34,240 --> 01:59:36,440
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Well, if everything stays still, they'd go to

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01:59:36,560 --> 01:59:39,680
Speaker 1: Kansas City, play a division rival, and the Bills go

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01:59:39,760 --> 01:59:43,120
Speaker 1: to Houston. And if yeah, and if Kansas City loses

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01:59:43,240 --> 01:59:48,120
Speaker 1: in Houston, well, if Houston wins, Oakland's not in right, right,

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01:59:48,480 --> 01:59:51,760
Speaker 1: So yeah, that'd be kind of fun. We'll see, we'll

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01:59:51,760 --> 01:59:54,480
Speaker 1: see how it happens. We're talking to you about Saturday's game.

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01:59:54,520 --> 01:59:57,920
Speaker 1: We're kind of fixated on Saturday's game. We're two days away.

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01:59:58,040 --> 01:59:59,800
Speaker 1: We're not going to talk to this much about Saturday's

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01:59:59,840 --> 02:00:02,720
Speaker 1: game tomorrow. I can tell you that I won't allow it.

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02:00:02,760 --> 02:00:05,520
Speaker 1: I won't stand for it. I hope you think about it.

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02:00:06,240 --> 02:00:09,200
Speaker 1: The Bills have scored seventeen points three weeks in a

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02:00:09,280 --> 02:00:12,280
Speaker 1: row against three of the best defenses in the league.

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02:00:13,720 --> 02:00:17,120
Speaker 1: And he's got to do better on that side of

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02:00:17,120 --> 02:00:19,520
Speaker 1: the ball. It's got to do better. Yeah, and they have.

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02:00:19,960 --> 02:00:21,960
Speaker 1: You know, we knew it. This was the gauntlet coming in,

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02:00:22,120 --> 02:00:24,680
Speaker 1: these these four tough games. They're two and two right

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02:00:24,720 --> 02:00:28,120
Speaker 1: against Dallas, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and New England won two loss too.

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02:00:28,280 --> 02:00:29,680
Speaker 1: When I was the tough part of this game and

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02:00:29,680 --> 02:00:33,400
Speaker 1: I predicted eleven plus wins, I thought, you know, that

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02:00:33,520 --> 02:00:36,640
Speaker 1: four game stretched Dallas, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, New England. They were

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Speaker 1: gonna have to go two and two in that stretch

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Speaker 1: and they did well. Now they've got it all sewn up,

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02:00:41,000 --> 02:00:42,760
Speaker 1: and now the Jets doesn't mean anything. So now they

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02:00:42,880 --> 02:00:46,320
Speaker 1: may my eleven My eleventh win may be left on

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02:00:46,360 --> 02:00:50,120
Speaker 1: the table because Josh Allen and Tremaine Edmonds and Devin

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02:00:50,240 --> 02:00:53,040
Speaker 1: Singletary and Dawson, all those guys may sit. I was

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02:00:53,080 --> 02:00:56,480
Speaker 1: thinking about John Brown and Cole Beasley. Come on, you know,

2441
02:00:56,600 --> 02:00:59,000
Speaker 1: when we talked about this season way back in August

2442
02:00:59,360 --> 02:01:01,240
Speaker 1: and looked at the schedule, try to guess how many

2443
02:01:01,320 --> 02:01:03,920
Speaker 1: wins it might have, whether it's ten, eleven or eleven plus,

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02:01:04,920 --> 02:01:07,400
Speaker 1: we always I think got down to the point where, yeah,

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02:01:07,440 --> 02:01:09,480
Speaker 1: and then the Jets and Hope you know that Jets game,

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02:01:09,480 --> 02:01:10,960
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna need to win it to get in

2447
02:01:10,960 --> 02:01:13,240
Speaker 1: the playoffs, to clinch your playoffs, but they're gonna need

2448
02:01:13,320 --> 02:01:15,600
Speaker 1: that win against the Jets. You know it's gonna be big. Yeah,

2449
02:01:15,720 --> 02:01:18,880
Speaker 1: it's not big at all. It's amazing how that played out.

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02:01:19,440 --> 02:01:21,840
Speaker 1: That is amazing. It's great though. It's great that they're

2451
02:01:21,880 --> 02:01:23,840
Speaker 1: in starting to get around to its starting to feel

2452
02:01:23,840 --> 02:01:26,600
Speaker 1: better about Saturday's game. Let's go. Let's take a call

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Speaker 1: here from Well, let's go to market, Lancaster. Hello, Mark,

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02:01:30,600 --> 02:01:34,200
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Yes, Hi are you John? And

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02:01:34,760 --> 02:01:38,960
Speaker 1: how are you Steve? And I congratulate you. I hope

2456
02:01:38,960 --> 02:01:41,360
Speaker 1: you make it into the Hall of Fame. Thank you.

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02:01:43,560 --> 02:01:47,600
Speaker 1: I got one of your football's autographed from a little

2458
02:01:47,640 --> 02:01:51,720
Speaker 1: while ago that I got from one of these the

2459
02:01:51,840 --> 02:01:58,120
Speaker 1: benefits my question to use and especially hey, you came

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02:01:58,240 --> 02:02:02,320
Speaker 1: from Houston, so you know we got you from them,

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02:02:02,680 --> 02:02:07,760
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that we play them too. But why uh,

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02:02:08,480 --> 02:02:13,000
Speaker 1: it's not Duke Williams being implemented into the game plan.

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02:02:13,400 --> 02:02:15,040
Speaker 1: It's a good question. It's a big and it's a

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02:02:15,120 --> 02:02:17,920
Speaker 1: question that fans have been calling us about what like

2465
02:02:18,200 --> 02:02:20,920
Speaker 1: for a month and a half now right people are

2466
02:02:20,920 --> 02:02:22,840
Speaker 1: wondering what happened to him. He got into the first

2467
02:02:22,920 --> 02:02:25,640
Speaker 1: Tennessee game or the only Tennessee game earlier in the year,

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02:02:25,760 --> 02:02:28,840
Speaker 1: caught a touchdown, played well, we haven't seen him since,

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02:02:28,920 --> 02:02:32,360
Speaker 1: so the red I don't know, there's got to be

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02:02:32,480 --> 02:02:36,920
Speaker 1: more than just um, I don't know. We don't know

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02:02:37,040 --> 02:02:40,160
Speaker 1: why he's not playing. Um, there's got to be reasons

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02:02:40,240 --> 02:02:43,600
Speaker 1: for it, and it might be a special team's contribution.

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02:02:43,680 --> 02:02:48,280
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Mark, you know they brought Kelvin Benjamin in

2474
02:02:48,600 --> 02:02:52,080
Speaker 1: from you know, Carolina, you know from you know where

2475
02:02:52,160 --> 02:02:55,680
Speaker 1: they came from. The mcdermock and mh you know, being

2476
02:02:55,800 --> 02:02:59,920
Speaker 1: era with that tall receiver. He didn't pan out over here,

2477
02:03:00,560 --> 02:03:04,320
Speaker 1: and it just seems like this guy could fit the

2478
02:03:04,440 --> 02:03:08,680
Speaker 1: bill and he catches everything that's thrown at him. He's

2479
02:03:08,720 --> 02:03:11,080
Speaker 1: been out eight games now, he's been inactive eight games.

2480
02:03:11,200 --> 02:03:13,840
Speaker 1: His last game was the Philadelphia game. I gotta believe

2481
02:03:13,880 --> 02:03:16,200
Speaker 1: it has something to do with special team Steve. You know,

2482
02:03:16,240 --> 02:03:19,320
Speaker 1: when you got one receiver, Andre Roberts, who's almost well,

2483
02:03:19,360 --> 02:03:21,480
Speaker 1: he played a lot of offense the other day, but

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02:03:21,600 --> 02:03:24,360
Speaker 1: he has dedicated to special teams. You got Robert Foster

2485
02:03:24,400 --> 02:03:27,000
Speaker 1: who's a pretty good coverage guy in special teams. Yeah,

2486
02:03:27,040 --> 02:03:29,560
Speaker 1: he saw him flash against the Patriots. He made a

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02:03:29,640 --> 02:03:33,240
Speaker 1: good tackle. Is Duke Williams available to do that? I

2488
02:03:33,320 --> 02:03:35,200
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know if they're willing to find

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02:03:35,240 --> 02:03:37,080
Speaker 1: out at this point. He's been out eight games. That

2490
02:03:37,200 --> 02:03:39,760
Speaker 1: could be the reason. Yeah, Robert Foster has become a

2491
02:03:39,800 --> 02:03:42,520
Speaker 1: good coverage guy on special teams. Yeah, let's go to

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Speaker 1: UM Dave and Fort Lauderdale. Hello Dave, you're on the air.

2493
02:03:47,240 --> 02:03:51,440
Speaker 1: Hey are you doing doing good? Hey? Allright, listen, the

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02:03:51,520 --> 02:03:55,000
Speaker 1: first thing I want to say was, Steve, you and

2495
02:03:55,080 --> 02:03:58,160
Speaker 1: Maddie did a great job Friday eight No offense, Murph,

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02:03:58,400 --> 02:04:05,040
Speaker 1: oh none taken. Not tough to watch. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

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02:04:05,240 --> 02:04:08,840
Speaker 1: Now what I want to know is why didn't we

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02:04:08,960 --> 02:04:12,600
Speaker 1: make any defensive changes on Edelman? How many catches did

2499
02:04:12,640 --> 02:04:17,520
Speaker 1: he have Saturday? And that's what I'm looking for. That

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02:04:17,800 --> 02:04:19,600
Speaker 1: plus the referee, and we don't want to get into that.

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02:04:19,960 --> 02:04:22,600
Speaker 1: And the last thing is a Merry Christmas everybody in

2502
02:04:22,680 --> 02:04:26,440
Speaker 1: tom of Buffalo Bills. Starting tomorrow we go to work.

2503
02:04:26,840 --> 02:04:30,480
Speaker 1: We got the playoffs. Forget this game, Thank you and

2504
02:04:30,600 --> 02:04:33,360
Speaker 1: have a thank you Garry Christmas. You he had five catches?

2505
02:04:33,640 --> 02:04:36,520
Speaker 1: Why did he make any changes? I don't know. Um,

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02:04:36,880 --> 02:04:38,920
Speaker 1: you know they moved him around a lot. He's a

2507
02:04:39,040 --> 02:04:43,240
Speaker 1: very quick and quick footed receiver. UM, I don't know.

2508
02:04:44,000 --> 02:04:47,040
Speaker 1: They had their best guy on him, Tarren Johnson is

2509
02:04:47,080 --> 02:04:49,440
Speaker 1: their best, uh slot guy. I don't know how how

2510
02:04:49,520 --> 02:04:51,240
Speaker 1: else you know you don't want to move to Davious

2511
02:04:51,280 --> 02:04:53,040
Speaker 1: in there to cover him? I don't think. What do

2512
02:04:53,120 --> 02:04:55,360
Speaker 1: you think? Do you think about it? He had six

2513
02:04:55,480 --> 02:05:02,040
Speaker 1: targets and five receptions. U White had four five targets

2514
02:05:02,080 --> 02:05:07,640
Speaker 1: and four receptions. Sanu had five targets and three receptions.

2515
02:05:07,720 --> 02:05:11,160
Speaker 1: Everybody and in Kiel Harry Nikiel Harry had three targets

2516
02:05:11,200 --> 02:05:16,960
Speaker 1: and two receptions. Everybody else. Everybody else caught every target

2517
02:05:17,000 --> 02:05:19,600
Speaker 1: they had. Burkehead had four for four, Myers had three

2518
02:05:19,720 --> 02:05:25,200
Speaker 1: for three, Ben Watson had three for three, Lacost the

2519
02:05:25,280 --> 02:05:27,320
Speaker 1: tight end had one for one. Everybody. I mean, they

2520
02:05:27,680 --> 02:05:30,120
Speaker 1: they didn't miss any very many targets. So I don't

2521
02:05:30,160 --> 02:05:33,440
Speaker 1: know that taking Edelman out of it would have changed

2522
02:05:33,480 --> 02:05:35,800
Speaker 1: too much because there's nobody else who was Like when

2523
02:05:35,880 --> 02:05:39,800
Speaker 1: Tom Brady was throwing it, they were completing it almost,

2524
02:05:40,320 --> 02:05:42,240
Speaker 1: you know, no matter who he was thrown too, so

2525
02:05:42,800 --> 02:05:44,880
Speaker 1: you can say Edelman killed him. And it's frustrating to

2526
02:05:44,920 --> 02:05:47,440
Speaker 1: watch the guy come out and be hurt and all

2527
02:05:47,520 --> 02:05:49,920
Speaker 1: that and then come in and have a really game,

2528
02:05:50,240 --> 02:05:52,560
Speaker 1: really good game. But I'm telling you, no matter who

2529
02:05:52,600 --> 02:05:55,280
Speaker 1: Brady was thrown to this last weekend, they were catching it.

2530
02:05:55,880 --> 02:05:59,880
Speaker 1: He had six in completions on the day. So it's

2531
02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:01,920
Speaker 1: frustrating to watch Edelman, but believe me, it was a

2532
02:06:02,000 --> 02:06:04,680
Speaker 1: passing game as a whole, not just Edelman that really

2533
02:06:04,760 --> 02:06:07,400
Speaker 1: hurt him. Thanks for your call. Let's go to Uh, well,

2534
02:06:07,480 --> 02:06:11,760
Speaker 1: another one about Edelman, Joe and uh where can from? Joe? Hey,

2535
02:06:11,880 --> 02:06:14,480
Speaker 1: guys out here in Keler's on you. How you doing? Okay?

2536
02:06:15,520 --> 02:06:18,760
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to both you think you too? A quick

2537
02:06:18,840 --> 02:06:20,880
Speaker 1: little tidbit for you. I don't know if you're aware.

2538
02:06:21,360 --> 02:06:24,600
Speaker 1: The only person on our roster to catch her touchdown

2539
02:06:24,680 --> 02:06:28,120
Speaker 1: pass last year and this year is our starting left

2540
02:06:28,160 --> 02:06:33,760
Speaker 1: tackle one. That's a great stat Joe. You sure you

2541
02:06:33,800 --> 02:06:35,160
Speaker 1: just sent me that. I could have used that on

2542
02:06:35,240 --> 02:06:38,440
Speaker 1: the air. It isn't that amazing. I mean it scares

2543
02:06:38,480 --> 02:06:40,960
Speaker 1: me though, because it shows you how far Foster has

2544
02:06:41,040 --> 02:06:44,760
Speaker 1: dropped off. Yeah, that's true. I mean he's the only

2545
02:06:44,800 --> 02:06:46,800
Speaker 1: guy left who's had a chance, and he hasn't had

2546
02:06:46,880 --> 02:06:49,880
Speaker 1: that many targets, right, I mean it's like, and here's

2547
02:06:49,920 --> 02:06:53,040
Speaker 1: the thing too. You gotta remember, Robert Foster went from

2548
02:06:53,760 --> 02:06:56,080
Speaker 1: you know, the really the number one or two guy

2549
02:06:56,200 --> 02:06:59,200
Speaker 1: that was on the field last year to having two

2550
02:06:59,240 --> 02:07:01,280
Speaker 1: guys plugged in the head of him, plus a whole

2551
02:07:01,360 --> 02:07:03,720
Speaker 1: new group of tight ends, plus a new running back corps,

2552
02:07:04,160 --> 02:07:07,400
Speaker 1: so you knew things we're gonna change, and and quite frankly,

2553
02:07:07,440 --> 02:07:09,440
Speaker 1: he's had a hard time breaking into the lineup at all.

2554
02:07:10,000 --> 02:07:12,720
Speaker 1: So it hasn't been just and last year he caught

2555
02:07:12,760 --> 02:07:15,000
Speaker 1: those deep balls and everybody, you know, let's and I

2556
02:07:15,080 --> 02:07:17,320
Speaker 1: think we all got kind of enamored with that, thinking

2557
02:07:17,440 --> 02:07:20,760
Speaker 1: that that would translate into any situation as a receiver,

2558
02:07:20,880 --> 02:07:24,440
Speaker 1: and I think it has not. So Yeah, but that's

2559
02:07:24,440 --> 02:07:27,360
Speaker 1: a that's an unbelievable stat that the left tackle is

2560
02:07:27,400 --> 02:07:28,880
Speaker 1: the one guy that had a TV last year and

2561
02:07:28,880 --> 02:07:31,560
Speaker 1: a TV you know a lot of people were asking

2562
02:07:31,600 --> 02:07:35,280
Speaker 1: about about Duke Williams. We had a perfect example in

2563
02:07:35,320 --> 02:07:37,400
Speaker 1: the game Saturday. We had a jump ball that went

2564
02:07:37,440 --> 02:07:40,480
Speaker 1: to our five foot nine Cole Beasley. Yeah, I know that,

2565
02:07:40,640 --> 02:07:42,920
Speaker 1: but that wasn't a deliberate play called that. There was

2566
02:07:42,960 --> 02:07:45,240
Speaker 1: a jump ball to Cole Beasley. Josh had three guys

2567
02:07:45,320 --> 02:07:47,640
Speaker 1: sitting on his lap and he just heaved it up.

2568
02:07:47,680 --> 02:07:49,560
Speaker 1: It was a desperation throw and he was you know,

2569
02:07:49,640 --> 02:07:52,840
Speaker 1: he's going for all of it. So that was you know,

2570
02:07:52,880 --> 02:07:54,680
Speaker 1: that's where that came from. That's not like they're going

2571
02:07:54,760 --> 02:07:56,200
Speaker 1: to design a play and the only guy, well, we

2572
02:07:56,360 --> 02:07:57,960
Speaker 1: only got these guys. We're gonna throw it to the

2573
02:07:58,000 --> 02:08:01,480
Speaker 1: short one or the shortest one. So yeah, don't get

2574
02:08:01,560 --> 02:08:03,240
Speaker 1: caught up in the fact that they threw that ball

2575
02:08:03,320 --> 02:08:06,720
Speaker 1: down there and you got caught where he could have

2576
02:08:06,800 --> 02:08:09,080
Speaker 1: just as easily thrown that to a tight end that

2577
02:08:09,160 --> 02:08:11,320
Speaker 1: was on the field who's six six, But he didn't

2578
02:08:11,320 --> 02:08:14,440
Speaker 1: have time to switch targets. That's it. That's all there

2579
02:08:14,560 --> 02:08:16,200
Speaker 1: was to it. So don't get caught up in like

2580
02:08:17,040 --> 02:08:19,640
Speaker 1: you know, they're all this. They're limited because they've got

2581
02:08:19,720 --> 02:08:21,960
Speaker 1: five nine or five eight wide receivers or five ten

2582
02:08:22,040 --> 02:08:25,920
Speaker 1: wide receivers to Tom and lackawan a hello time, Hey guys,

2583
02:08:26,040 --> 02:08:31,240
Speaker 1: All right, um, you were talking earlier Murph about consolation

2584
02:08:31,720 --> 02:08:35,000
Speaker 1: with uh you know, you know, I take the consolation

2585
02:08:35,000 --> 02:08:38,160
Speaker 1: out of the Patriots cheating and whatever. To me, it's

2586
02:08:38,240 --> 02:08:43,160
Speaker 1: Goodell and he's always yepp and protect the shield. Well,

2587
02:08:43,320 --> 02:08:46,560
Speaker 1: if people there's rules in the games, and if somebody

2588
02:08:46,680 --> 02:08:49,480
Speaker 1: keeps breaking them and you keep increasing the penalties right

2589
02:08:49,600 --> 02:08:54,400
Speaker 1: up defining them, which they've already done, games away from

2590
02:08:54,440 --> 02:08:56,640
Speaker 1: them whatever. It has nothing to do with what can

2591
02:08:56,680 --> 02:08:58,160
Speaker 1: you get away with. It has to do with the

2592
02:08:58,240 --> 02:09:01,480
Speaker 1: integrity of the sport and protecting the shield and playing

2593
02:09:01,520 --> 02:09:03,440
Speaker 1: the game the way it's supposed to be played. And

2594
02:09:03,560 --> 02:09:06,480
Speaker 1: when these rich owners like Jerry Jones and Craft or whatever,

2595
02:09:07,040 --> 02:09:09,400
Speaker 1: well that doesn't apply to us because we're we're above that,

2596
02:09:10,040 --> 02:09:12,040
Speaker 1: we're billionaires, and all we care about is money. We

2597
02:09:12,080 --> 02:09:15,040
Speaker 1: don't care about the sport, we don't care about the players,

2598
02:09:15,120 --> 02:09:17,160
Speaker 1: we don't care about the fans. All we care about

2599
02:09:17,200 --> 02:09:20,400
Speaker 1: is our billions of dollars on our evaluation of our teams.

2600
02:09:21,320 --> 02:09:23,480
Speaker 1: And how does this apply to the Saturday's game, if

2601
02:09:23,520 --> 02:09:27,400
Speaker 1: at all? Well, you were saying that if you take

2602
02:09:27,520 --> 02:09:29,920
Speaker 1: you know, you are taking consolation in the fact that

2603
02:09:30,640 --> 02:09:34,440
Speaker 1: they eat all that. Steve was mad that the Patriots

2604
02:09:34,480 --> 02:09:37,480
Speaker 1: get away with stuff. Well, it has nothing to do

2605
02:09:37,560 --> 02:09:39,200
Speaker 1: with that. It has to do with protecting the shield

2606
02:09:39,240 --> 02:09:42,800
Speaker 1: and protecting integrity of the game. All right, I don't think,

2607
02:09:43,320 --> 02:09:45,000
Speaker 1: be honest, I don't think the Patriots get away with

2608
02:09:45,040 --> 02:09:46,840
Speaker 1: a whole lot more than anybody else does. I think

2609
02:09:46,840 --> 02:09:49,960
Speaker 1: the officiating is so convoluted now in the NFL and

2610
02:09:50,320 --> 02:09:54,160
Speaker 1: such a crapshoot. Look that Cincinnati Bengals get away with

2611
02:09:54,200 --> 02:09:56,440
Speaker 1: stuff because the officiating is so bad, you know, I

2612
02:09:56,560 --> 02:09:58,440
Speaker 1: really believe that. And here's the thing, whether you believe

2613
02:09:58,520 --> 02:10:01,360
Speaker 1: it or not, it's pointless to talk about it. Um,

2614
02:10:02,520 --> 02:10:04,240
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go in there and play them,

2615
02:10:04,240 --> 02:10:07,280
Speaker 1: And there it's gonna you know, there's so many things

2616
02:10:07,320 --> 02:10:10,800
Speaker 1: that contribute to win losses in this league. Um you can,

2617
02:10:11,200 --> 02:10:13,760
Speaker 1: and it's it sounds like sour grapes coming from guys

2618
02:10:13,800 --> 02:10:16,120
Speaker 1: like me, Guys like if Murf was on board with

2619
02:10:16,200 --> 02:10:18,000
Speaker 1: this or whatever and all that. You know, they officiate

2620
02:10:18,080 --> 02:10:19,960
Speaker 1: and all and all the fans of the teams that

2621
02:10:20,080 --> 02:10:21,720
Speaker 1: kept going there and they get their heads caved in

2622
02:10:22,480 --> 02:10:24,080
Speaker 1: by a team that's really good and it's got the

2623
02:10:24,120 --> 02:10:26,920
Speaker 1: best quarterback ever and probably the best coach of all time.

2624
02:10:27,320 --> 02:10:29,080
Speaker 1: So it's hard to you know, it sounds it's sour

2625
02:10:29,160 --> 02:10:31,520
Speaker 1: grapes coming out, uh, you know after the fact. That's

2626
02:10:31,560 --> 02:10:33,680
Speaker 1: why I mean all Murph laughs and me he always

2627
02:10:33,680 --> 02:10:35,240
Speaker 1: wants me to talk about on the air and and

2628
02:10:35,840 --> 02:10:38,160
Speaker 1: also talk about it to him privately. We'll laugh about

2629
02:10:38,200 --> 02:10:40,480
Speaker 1: it a little bit too. But you know, it's all

2630
02:10:40,520 --> 02:10:42,600
Speaker 1: sour grapes if you think, yeah, the Patriots are winning

2631
02:10:42,640 --> 02:10:44,840
Speaker 1: because they're cheating and not Listen, they've got some really

2632
02:10:44,880 --> 02:10:46,960
Speaker 1: good players, they've got a way of doing things that is,

2633
02:10:47,480 --> 02:10:51,560
Speaker 1: uh has proven to be successful, and um, you got

2634
02:10:51,680 --> 02:10:53,840
Speaker 1: to tip your hat to them, whether you like it

2635
02:10:53,960 --> 02:10:55,760
Speaker 1: or not. And as frustrating as it has been, for

2636
02:10:56,040 --> 02:10:58,960
Speaker 1: Bill's fans and Jet fans and Miami fans for so long.

2637
02:11:00,360 --> 02:11:02,640
Speaker 1: You gotta tip your hat to those to that program

2638
02:11:03,120 --> 02:11:06,520
Speaker 1: and um and you know it, and it is certainly

2639
02:11:06,600 --> 02:11:08,280
Speaker 1: on a particularly on a day like today when it

2640
02:11:08,400 --> 02:11:10,040
Speaker 1: you know, you just got beat by a touchdown by

2641
02:11:10,080 --> 02:11:13,320
Speaker 1: those guys and you had a really good team. Um. Yeah,

2642
02:11:13,920 --> 02:11:15,720
Speaker 1: don't get caught in sour graves. I mean, these guys

2643
02:11:15,760 --> 02:11:18,080
Speaker 1: are really good. The Bills are much better than they

2644
02:11:18,120 --> 02:11:21,200
Speaker 1: have been in years passing, and it looks good going forward.

2645
02:11:21,200 --> 02:11:23,560
Speaker 1: So let's kind of hang our hats on that. Wow,

2646
02:11:23,600 --> 02:11:25,400
Speaker 1: what a great way for you to end this sec.

2647
02:11:27,560 --> 02:11:32,160
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we're gonna take a break. We're back. It's

2648
02:11:32,200 --> 02:11:34,920
Speaker 1: one Bill Slide presented by Klatta Health from the Seneca

2649
02:11:35,000 --> 02:11:51,800
Speaker 1: Studio on Orchard Park on Buffalo Bills Radio. Want we

2650
02:11:51,880 --> 02:11:54,280
Speaker 1: learned from today's show brought to you by Skyworks, the

2651
02:11:54,400 --> 02:11:57,840
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2652
02:11:57,920 --> 02:12:00,400
Speaker 1: had Chris Brown Bills inside from Buffalo Bills come in

2653
02:12:00,520 --> 02:12:03,080
Speaker 1: with us. In the one o'clock our talked about his

2654
02:12:03,240 --> 02:12:06,120
Speaker 1: theory about sitting players because in the Jets game, he

2655
02:12:06,160 --> 02:12:08,600
Speaker 1: doesn't know if you should sit players on the offensive

2656
02:12:08,600 --> 02:12:10,520
Speaker 1: side of the ball. If you're the Bills. Here's Chris Brown.

2657
02:12:12,160 --> 02:12:13,440
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people that are of the

2658
02:12:13,520 --> 02:12:18,200
Speaker 1: opinion this game doesn't impact your playoff status. Sit everybody, okay,

2659
02:12:18,560 --> 02:12:23,760
Speaker 1: And I totally respect risk of injury for this offense

2660
02:12:24,480 --> 02:12:26,520
Speaker 1: and the steps that I just said that it still

2661
02:12:26,600 --> 02:12:29,640
Speaker 1: has to make. Do you want them to go idle

2662
02:12:29,720 --> 02:12:33,040
Speaker 1: for two weeks before a playoff game or would you

2663
02:12:33,200 --> 02:12:35,560
Speaker 1: rather have them get some reps, even if it's just

2664
02:12:35,720 --> 02:12:39,720
Speaker 1: for a half, to stay sharp going into the postseason.

2665
02:12:39,760 --> 02:12:41,960
Speaker 1: What would you prefer to do? I just wonder, with

2666
02:12:42,040 --> 02:12:45,480
Speaker 1: the consistency that this offense still is trying to capture

2667
02:12:46,640 --> 02:12:50,080
Speaker 1: from start to finish in a football game, do you

2668
02:12:50,680 --> 02:12:52,640
Speaker 1: do you want to sit them out two weeks and

2669
02:12:52,800 --> 02:12:55,520
Speaker 1: say we need you to be at your best come

2670
02:12:55,560 --> 02:12:59,120
Speaker 1: playoff week, but you're not playing this week. Yes, yes

2671
02:12:59,200 --> 02:13:02,280
Speaker 1: I do, Chris. What about you? I think yeah, I

2672
02:13:02,360 --> 02:13:04,360
Speaker 1: think that's one of the things you clinch when you

2673
02:13:04,400 --> 02:13:06,240
Speaker 1: clinch the playoffs. Yeah, you sit them down. And there's

2674
02:13:06,240 --> 02:13:08,920
Speaker 1: a reason teams strive for a bye week. It's not

2675
02:13:09,040 --> 02:13:11,760
Speaker 1: just so you're in the playoffs. You're playing sharp enough

2676
02:13:12,000 --> 02:13:15,000
Speaker 1: on so many levels. Certainly they're at your offense. You know,

2677
02:13:15,280 --> 02:13:17,120
Speaker 1: we'd all talk about that, but this is the team

2678
02:13:17,160 --> 02:13:18,920
Speaker 1: they're going to the playoffs with. Anyway, get them rested,

2679
02:13:18,960 --> 02:13:21,600
Speaker 1: get them healthy, get them fresh, and turn them loose.

2680
02:13:21,880 --> 02:13:24,000
Speaker 1: I don't look at it as if they're doing it too.

2681
02:13:24,120 --> 02:13:26,280
Speaker 1: If they do rest them that they're doing it to

2682
02:13:26,400 --> 02:13:28,240
Speaker 1: protect them from injury as much as they do. They're

2683
02:13:28,280 --> 02:13:30,400
Speaker 1: doing it to give them a week off, give them

2684
02:13:30,400 --> 02:13:33,520
Speaker 1: a little rest week, right, Yeah, it's all about recovery. Yeah,

2685
02:13:33,680 --> 02:13:36,040
Speaker 1: it's about you know, going into the game the next

2686
02:13:36,120 --> 02:13:38,720
Speaker 1: game that you've got to win to continue to continue

2687
02:13:38,760 --> 02:13:40,920
Speaker 1: your season. You gotta win it and get them fresh

2688
02:13:41,000 --> 02:13:43,840
Speaker 1: for that game the bye week for starting. And it's

2689
02:13:43,840 --> 02:13:45,440
Speaker 1: not like they're not going to practice or not gonna

2690
02:13:45,440 --> 02:13:47,720
Speaker 1: be around. They're just not gonna take live reps in

2691
02:13:47,800 --> 02:13:49,520
Speaker 1: a game. That's the only thing they'll miss. We'll be

2692
02:13:49,560 --> 02:13:51,880
Speaker 1: back tomorrow with another good show on Christmas Eve. Want

2693
02:13:51,920 --> 02:13:55,680
Speaker 1: to thank our production assistance, George Blast, Jeff Coltnick Thomas, Honalder,

2694
02:13:55,760 --> 02:13:58,680
Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, j j Teredo, Kevin Cargis, James roll By,

2695
02:13:58,760 --> 02:14:01,240
Speaker 1: our producer, Jay Harris, Steve and I back tomorrow for

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02:14:01,360 --> 02:14:04,000
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve Show. One Bill's Live presented by Kalada Health

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02:14:04,400 --> 02:14:06,960
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park on Buffalo Bills

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