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Speaker 1: He is a beast with a capital B.
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Speaker 2: The cook is in the kitchen. Fires on a post to Coleman in the end zone for the touchdown.
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Speaker 3: Pressure coming.
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Speaker 2: He's sacked and he fumbled.
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Speaker 1: The Bills have the football.
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Speaker 3: This is One Bills Live.
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Speaker 4: What is seen as a pivotal AFC Conference matchup as the 4-3 Baltimore Ravens come to Buffalo to face the 5-1 Bills.
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Speaker 2: Lined up again. Knocks behind him.
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Speaker 4: Here's the snap.
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Speaker 2: Allen goes over the top. Reaches over the goal line and he is in!
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Speaker 4: Josh Allen on the snowplow is in for a one-yard touchdown run. Bills Mafia trying to get into it and help their defense. Single tight end set. Justice Hill into the game. To the right of Huntley and the shotgun. Two to the left, two to the right.
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Speaker 3: Here's the snap.
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Speaker 2: Blitz coming. Huntley has to throw. He fumbled the football.
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Speaker 1: It's loose at the 22-yard line. And the Bills have it. The Bills come up with the football. We'll see who got the fumble recovery, but Huntley got sacked and stripped.
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Speaker 5: Alarms Orr on the fumble recovery there. Jim Leonard dials up a blitz there, bringing Cole Bishop and Alarms Orr on the blitz.
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Speaker 2: Here's the snap. Four-man rush. Has time.
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Speaker 3: Over the middle, and.
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Speaker 1: It's tipped and intercepted by Igbenosun.
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Speaker 2: Coming up the sideline, 40, 35.
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Speaker 1: Tries to cut it back, and he's wrapped up and tackled at the 33-yard line. Tipping the pass was Geno Stone, intercepting.
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Speaker 2: The pass for the first of his career. Davis and Igbenosun.
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Speaker 4: Allen working from the shotgun. Ray Davis to his right, two to the right, one to the left. And now orbit motion from Shakir. Here's the snap.
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Speaker 2: Back to pass. Has time. Fires. Deep post.
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Speaker 1: Looking for Moore, who goes up and pulls it down inside the five-yard line.
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Speaker 2: DJ, big play.
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Speaker 5: Moore. That is attacking the football at the high point. One on one against Marlon Humphrey goes up and elevates. Try to make up for that fumble there in the first half. That's what you bring G.J. Moore in a 50-50 ball down the field like that.
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Speaker 2: Two tight end set. Cook alone set back.
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Speaker 4: Allen under center.
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Speaker 2: Second and goal from the five. Motion right to left by Kincaid.
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Speaker 4: Here's the snap.
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Speaker 2: Hand off to Cook. It's a race to the far side.
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Speaker 1: And he's going to coast into the end zone for a five-yard touchdown run.
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Speaker 2: The Cook is in the kitchen.
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Speaker 4: Six games in a row now for a rushing touchdown for Cook. Allen in the shotgun. Three receivers to the right, counting Kincaid. Ty Johnson over there, single left, back to pass, has to step up in the pocket, fires to the end zone, and it's complete to DJ. Big play, Moore, with an 11-yard touchdown reception. And with that passing touchdown, Josh Allen has passed Hall of Famer Jim Kelly for the most passing touchdowns in Bill's history. That was 259 for Josh Allen. Davis the lone setback, three tight end set, Coleman the lone receiver on the left. Allen takes the snap, back to pass, has time, looking.
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Speaker 1: In the corner for a touchdown! Dalton Kincaid for a 23-yard pass play!
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Speaker 2: And that should put this.
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Speaker 1: One to bed for Buffalo as Kincaid spikes it with authority.
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Speaker 4: 36-10 your final in favor of the Bills. That is your Game Rewind presented by Treasure Cave, the official blue cheese of the Buffalo Bills. As you can see behind us, those viewing on MSG, it was a big dub for the Bills as they improved to 6-1 on the season and currently, as of today, sit atop the AFC Conference. We'll explain why in just a little bit as we go around the NFL in just a few minutes. The Bills admittedly were... The beneficiaries of Baltimore quarterback injuries, and even though their offense proved to be their biggest obstacle for the better part of two and a half quarters, they still rolled up 36 points in what wound up being a 26-point victory over the Ravens. Welcome into a Buffalo Victory Monday edition of One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as per usual. Got anything to offer here? Initial thoughts?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a 26-point win. It's a Fat number. But there's so much here that, you know, they scored on their first possession, but, man, oh, man, they did everything in their way to sabotage themselves. From James Cook dropping the opening play from scrimmage on what would have been a nice gain.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, on a pass play.
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Speaker 3: To a false start by Deion.
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Speaker 4: In the red zone.
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Speaker 3: On the one. They still end up scoring right there, but you think, okay, all right, let's settle down. Then you get Jackson Hawes playing volleyball and tipping. He couldn't have handed it to the guy for the interception. Knox and Kincaid all had significant drops. That was in the first half. I don't know if Kincaid's was actually in the first half. And one of Kincaid's, obviously, I think– and I told you this, it never got talked about, but I thought it got tipped part of the way there.
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Speaker 4: One of his drops?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the one that he would have waltzed in for a short touchdown. So– Tight end room had a rough day yesterday because Hawes also got called for a holding on a big play that went up the middle by Cook. So a number of things happened that make you feel like, gosh, you're just not hitting on all cylinders. And then they end up, you look up at the scoreboard, it's 36 points. And they're just rolling them up. It
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was a really good game for their offense because they got away with it. Yeah. And hung 36 points on what was not a great defense, but a good defense.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You think, okay, we won. That's good. But you feel like you got away with one a little bit.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 3: And that says nothing about the third string quarterback.
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Speaker 4: Right. And I think at very early in this game, it was clear as long as the bills could just get out of their own way, they should coast to victory. And ultimately that's what happened, but they continue to put detour signs in front of themselves and, Here, there, and everywhere. I mean, this isn't the first time this season where their offense has not been their own biggest obstacle. And then, to your point, and this isn't the first time, you look at the scoreboard, there were some things in the Raiders game where they got hung up on their own, got in their own way. And they win that game and score 33. In the Rams game, there were some hiccups. you know, they, they win 30, what was it?
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Speaker 3: 37, 34.
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Speaker 4: They win as an overtime game, but still it makes me wonder, Steve, if this offense plays a clean game, are they flirting with 50 points?
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Speaker 2: Like, what are we talking about?
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Speaker 3: They're never, they're never, you know, they're never going to play in a vacuum. So it's always going to be tough. They're going to be moments like this when it looks bad and they're going to make you look bad. But this is a team that has to have that under the hood, their defense, you know, you're right. And all be told they should have coasted to victory. They did coast, but they should have been coasting for a quarter and a half, not a half of a quarter.
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Speaker 4: Or even more than that.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 3: It would have been like, don't let up too soon. Should have been kind of the vibe. And this one is like, just put this thing away, please, already. So that's kind of the vibe. They put them away. They put them away handily. They should have with a third-string quarterback, with Lamar going out after one play.
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Speaker 4: And I.
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Speaker 3: We can get into this later, but Lamar, is there a worse place for an elite quarterback to be in the eyes of a fan base and a franchise and himself than this Monday, today, for the Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson? I can't picture a darker place for a franchise to be with an elite quarterback. He's hurt, maybe, probably, okay, season-ending injury. Whatever it is, it's going to be, you know, bad. On his throwing hand, after just coming off a three-week layoff where there was clouded questions, and is he coming, is he playing, what's his deal? And then to have this happen after one, and not even, it was done before the ball even hit the ground on the pass. It was before one play was even over, he was done. We just
didn't know it, he didn't. Hard to picture a darker Monday. It's terrible luck. than this one for the Baltimore Ravens.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was terrible luck. It was such an innocuous play, too. Like, Greg Rousseau's trying to block the pass, brushes past him, and he jams his thumb on Rousseau flying by him, and that's it.
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Speaker 3: His day's over.
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Speaker 4: We'll get into that in a second. Josh Allen, as you heard on Game Rewind, became the all-time Bills passing touchdown leader, passing Hall of Famer Jim Kelly with his 259th, going to DJ Moore for the record breaker. Allen also had a rushing touchdown in the game and finished with 289 passing yards. James Cook had his sixth consecutive game with at least 80 scrimmage yards and a touchdown. It's the longest streak of his career, and Todd, Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas for the second longest streak in team history. Tyler Bass with his 56-yard field goal early in the game that clanged off the upright and went through, broke the team record for most consecutive made field goals with 19, breaking the tie he had with Ryan Lindell in for the team record of 18. He then hit his next two attempts in the game, putting his record make streak currently at 21. With his 56 and 51-yard field goals, he also set the team record for most consecutive makes from 50 yards plus, which for Bass now stands at seven, passing Stephen Hauschka, who previously held the record with six.
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Speaker 3: I was watching– one of the things I do in getting ready for the game for the sideline radio report– radio gig for you and Eric is I kind of pay a lot of attention to Tyler Bass and how he's warming up and what the distance is and where he's good from, where he's bad from, and the wind and the conditions. Although in a high market, you know, there is no conditions, right?
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Speaker 4: It's a sunny day. The wind is relatively negligible.
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Speaker 3: The wind is nothing. So I kind of consider myself an interested fan, right?
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 3: Yesterday, the ball was jumping off his feet. He was as good yesterday in warm-ups as I've ever seen him. He was pounding it.
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Speaker 4: I think we kind of wondered if there was going to be, coming off the core muscle surgery for the sports hernia, a ramp-up. Because we interviewed him on the Bills pregame radio show a couple of weeks ago, going into the Raiders game. And he said he didn't feel like himself again until.
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Speaker 4: Midway through OTAs in May, coming off the surgery and all the rehabilitation. But I also wondered, because I know I asked you this, just you having been around kickers a lot longer than I have, if he has to get his strength, his true leg strength, all the way back to where it was, and if that was going to stretch into the regular season. Now, I don't know if it just worked out this way because we saw him routinely making 60 yarders in pregame warmups from the beginning
of the season. So it's not like the leg strength wasn't there. It was probably just a matter of happenstance that up until yesterday, he did not have a single attempt from 50 yards or longer the entire season, the first six games. So here he is yesterday and he's got to hit a 56 yarder and a 51 yarder. He's good on both and then also had a shorter field goal for a total of three in the game. But I think it's safe to say that Tyler Bass is all.
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Speaker 3: The way back. It felt like it, certainly. And like I said, the ball was absolutely jumping off his foot in pregames. He looked much better than the Baltimore kicker. The ball was much livelier getting airborne off his foot. He'll go out and routinely he'll make everything from 50 yards in. And then when he goes from 50 to 55– His miss is just barely to the right between 50 and 55, and that's where I've seen him consistently blow one in warm-ups.
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Speaker 4: Right, and he almost overcorrected yesterday on the 56 yarder because it went off the left upright.
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Speaker 3: Well, from 55 to 60, he's actually more consistent.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You know what I mean? In his warm-ups. He hit one bad kick yesterday in warm-ups, and it was a bad hit. I mean, whether the hole or whatever, he absolutely mishit it. It was... Yeah, it was weak and to the right. Wouldn't even have made it from, you know, whatever. So they teed it up and did it again, and he hit the second one, which is kind of normal for kickers. You're always going to go through it.
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Speaker 4: You're not going to hit the fat part of the ball every time.
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Speaker 3: Well, and the operation screws up once or whatever. So that's the only thing I saw in warm-ups yesterday. But he was on point in the pregame warm-up yesterday, and I thought, yeah, he's going to have a good day. He did. He doinked the one through from, I don't know, was it short of 56? 56. It knuckled out of there, so he's trying to drive it, but he got the knuckle right and it knuckled just at the right time to get inside and ricochet through. He's having a great season so far.
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Speaker 4: He's perfect on the year.
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Speaker 3: He's perfect on the year, and 21 in a row. Let's face it, that's a fat number.
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Speaker 4: It's a record number. Team record number.
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Speaker 3: He's due to miss one, although.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the law of averages, right?
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Speaker 3: When Scott Norwood went to the Pro Bowl for the Bills... In 88. He had an inordinate amount of short field goals. Yeah. Because all of a sudden, the Bills go from 9-7 or 6-7 or 5-11 or whatever they were.
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Speaker 4: 12-4.
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Speaker 3: 12-4, and are off in Jim Kelly Hall of Famer, Thurman Thomas Hall of Famer. We got him in the building. Yeah, and all of a sudden... they're lighting people up and he's got like 35 field goals inside 30 yards or something like that. I think that's what happened to Scott. His, his percentages were through the roof that year. And that's kind of what has happened to Bass in the early going of this year. He's had a number of short attempts, although yesterday he banged him from 50 plus.
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Speaker 4: Buffalo's defense had three takeaways, four sacks as the Ravens had just 144 total net yards. Davison Igbenosun with his first career interception. and then Caleb Elarms or another rookie with a fumble recovery off the strip sack by Cole Bishop. Bill's offense is averaging 33.3 points per game in Joe Brady's first seven games, the second most by a head coach in the first seven games of their NFL career in the Super Bowl era. Brady trails only Mike Martz in 2000, whose greatest show on turf team averaged 42.3 points per game through the first seven. Brady also became the first head coach in Bills history to start his coaching career at 6-1, and the Bills are currently the top seed in the conference with that record. There was one notable injury as Joshua Palmer sustained a hamstring injury in the first half and did not return. So let's go around the NFL to let you know why the Bills are atop the conference. As for the Ravens, they are now 4-4. and will be without quarterback Lamar Jackson indefinitely after he sustained his thumb injury following the first offensive play from scrimmage for Baltimore. Jackson will undergo surgery on his injured right thumb and will be placed on injured reserve, according to head coach Jesse Minter. Asked if this was a season-ending injury. Minter said, quote, potentially, but we'll see where it's at. Minter declined to provide any details about Jackson's injury and whether the thumb is dislocated or broken, but Jackson was on the sidelines with his right hand in an immobilizer cast after he was declared out for the game. After Jackson lasted just one play on offense, his backup Snoop Huntley lasted just 10 snaps before leaving the game with a turf toe injury. Undrafted rookie quarterback Joe Fignano out of UConn played the final 40 snaps on offense at quarterback for the Ravens, as we said, who slipped to 4-4 on the season. You want to talk about bad luck. It was all bad for Baltimore yesterday. They have no idea right now who's going to play quarterback in three days. They play on Thursday night football against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be Fignano.
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Speaker 4: It's got to be.
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Speaker 3: There's no way around it. But they're going to probably have to add another one. If it's a turf toe that keeps you out of a game, Snoop Huntley's done. So they've got to find somebody, somewhere to back up Fignano. But it couldn't be worse. Now, I'll say that Fignano came in and, bless his heart, he came in and went two for two. And it's like, oh, my gosh, now we're going to get. We're going to get John Forcade in here and kind of light us up.
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Speaker 4: You're still scarred from that.
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Speaker 3: Right? So you think
somebody's going to come in, you know, or Luke Longley on Thanksgiving in 1970-something.
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Speaker 4: Luke Longley?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. You're going to get one of these guys that comes in and goes out of his mind and we're going to pay the price. It didn't happen. But Fignano, he's an NFL talent to me, it looks like. Now, he's got a lot to do and a lot to learn. His problems, though, for me, I guess, are the neck up.
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Speaker 4: Well, processing, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he's a pure pocket passer. Got a live arm. He's got the frame for it. He seems to have command of the huddle for a guy who took zero reps.
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Speaker 4: They were getting plays late out of the huddle, though. There were a couple of times where they were rushing it.
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Speaker 3: That's only one of the problems they had. And that was understandable because you're talking to a guy that you don't even know the sound of his voice.
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Speaker 4: Right, and that led to some penalties on offense, too. False starts.
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Speaker 3: So all of that's going into the bag for Fignano. No tougher spot in all of football than that. Yeah. So we'll see. He's got to play Thursday night, though.
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Speaker 4: And he was getting his ankle wrapped in ice when he was sitting on the bench in the fourth quarter. It was crazy. Kansas City Chiefs could not stick the ball in the end zone on a last-ditch drive down four to the Broncos in Denver. Patrick Mahomes was sacked on the last play of the game as Denver, down 11 in the fourth quarter, scored 15 unanswered points, held on to win 28-24. Denver now 6-2 as the Chiefs fell to 5-2. Bengals needed overtime to beat the one-win Titans, 43-36. Joe Burrow threw for 462 yards and five touchdowns in the victory. to lift Cincinnati to a 5-2 record. Detroit Lions improved to 5-2, handed division rival Minnesota their first defeat of the season, winning 19-15. Vikings are now 6-1 and host Buffalo this week on Monday. Night Football there were also reports that Kyler Murray tweaked his hamstring so we're going to have to.
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Speaker 3: See that finger quotes hamstring tightness.
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Speaker 4: Yeah I mean he's got an extra day who's their backup I gotta look it's Carson Wentz it's Carson Wentz yeah Carson Wentz that's right he's.
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Speaker 3: Well He's good.
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Speaker 4: He's working with the quarterback whisperer, though. Well, dude, he's– And he's got a win in one of his starts in place of Murray.
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Speaker 3: He's a pro talent, if not a pro intellect. I mean, he's got– his problems are all from the neck up or inside his chest. I mean, that guy was in the MVP running as a young player for Philadelphia.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 4: Jaguars real– oh, sorry.
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Speaker 3: His problems emerged later.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Jaguars railroaded the hapless Colts 42-7. Jacksonville now 5-2 on the season. Patriots overcome a 10-point halftime deficit to beat the Dolphins 24-19. Cardinals were an extra point away from winning in regulation at the gun. And kicker Chad Ryland misses the game-winning extra point. It leads to overtime against the Cowboys. But Arizona got in field goal range thanks to Gardner Minshew. And Ryland redeemed himself with a 42-yard field goal for a 33-30 win for the Cards. Steelers run for 200 yards in a 27-6 win over the Browns. Sunday night football saw the Commanders hand the Eagles a 27-10 loss, their sixth in a row. as Washington scores 27 unanswered after going in an early 10-0 hole. And the Tampa Bay Buccaneers became the first team since the 1974 Bills to win a game without completing a pass in the Super Bowl era. 16-0 over Atlanta. Baker Mayfield 0-3 passing as the Bucs set a team record for yards rushing in a game with 324 passes. Bucky Irving with 170 and a touchdown. Kenny Gainwell for 140. In case you're wondering, the Bills beat the Jets 16-12 in that 1974 game. And that had been the only time a team did not complete the pass and win a game in the Super Bowl era.
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Speaker 3: For those of you who are wondering how that game happened, it was a monsoon in Tampa. It was absolutely a quagmire. I mean, it was like laughably muddy and wet.
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Speaker 4: It was like quite literally playing in a hurricane.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was an absolute rainstorm throughout. Nobody could even.
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Speaker 4: Hold on to the ball.
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Speaker 3: Hold on to the ball, let alone throw it. Think about it. The Tampa Bay, Baker was 0 for 3. They tried three passes. They only tried three passes.
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Speaker 4: And then said forget it.
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Speaker 3: And they said, you know what, we're not going to do that. So there you go. And that, I mean, I don't even know. I guess they had at least a couple of field goals, I guess, in that game.
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Speaker 4: Chase McLaughlin kicked a bunch of field goals. He went 3 for 3.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. So they had one touchdown and three field goals. Yeah, at least the kicking balls were dry.
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Speaker 4: And then finally, seven games into the season, and the Chargers are still winless after dropping a 24-9 decision to the Crosstown Rams. They also have not scored a touchdown since October 11th. They have now gone 27 straight possessions without reaching the end zone. In case you're wondering, it's been nine straight quarters without a TD. They have five total scoring drives in yesterday's, in that stretch, all field goals. I don't know how Mike McDaniel survives. I think the only reason he has survived this long, I don't know if there's anybody else in the building that knows the offense the way he does. You would like to think the quarterback's coach or somebody else has a grasp of the offense to call plays, because Harbaugh does not. It's a completely different offense than he's ever been exposed to before.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how anybody survives this. I mean.
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Speaker 3: I
thought it would have happened this last week. And maybe it will. I mean, it's Monday morning, so we may hear. And it's only, what, 7 a.m. out there. We may get some announcements today. Philadelphia last night losing to Washington the way they did.
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Speaker 4: That's six in a row for them. But they're playing without their quarterback. Their quarterback's out for the year, Jalen Hurst.
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Speaker 3: So that buys you some time, right, I guess?
00:24:09
Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 3: I don't know about that. Yeah, it's getting to the point where people are looking around going, all right, who's, you know, I'm not a gambler, but who's the parlay on the first head coach to be let go?
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Speaker 4: Raiders beat the Jets 38-33. The clock's ticking on Aaron Glenn as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Jets now 2-6.
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Speaker 3: It seems the clock runs fast in New York. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, so there it is. That's around the NFL. Obviously, here today on a Buffalo Victory Monday, we want to hear from you and get your biggest takeaways today. from the victory over the Ravens. And we're going to lead off with Mickey out in Illinois. What do you got for us, Mickey? You're on One Bills Live.
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Speaker 9: Hey, good morning, guys. Happy Victory Monday to you.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 9: And if I give a quick shout-out to my high school here in Woodstock, they just got rid of their 17-year drought and won their first playoff game. So happy Victory Monday to those boys, too.
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Speaker 3: Very nice.
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Speaker 9: I got a couple things with the offense and a couple things with the defense. And there's a couple of questions buried in there as well. So one with the offense, I mean, they look like a juggernaut for sure, as usual. It's a weird thing to watch because they just look like they stall out and then you blink and they have 36 points all of a sudden. So I think you'll hear about this throughout today is the couple of short yardage plays that we looked like we're going to line up for our always successful tush push. And then we did some sort of option S thing to cook, which he luckily converted. And then on the goal line there, we kind of went lateral as well. And at first I was kind of really poo-pooing those decisions, thinking they got a little too gimmicky and cute. But I was wondering as a question here is, in the long run, I think it might be helpful in terms of at least it puts it on film and gets it in defense's head that, hey, we can't just look at A gap and B gap here. They could go C or D. So maybe in the long run... You know, a nice move there, also considering the results of the game. I mean, it was very successful in the long run there, so too. With defense, obviously our best performance for sure. They looked in tune with each other communication-wise. They were flying around. The blitz packages were great. But I just feel like everyone's going
to say there's a giant asterisk there, knowing we won against a third-string quarterback much of the game. So my question in there is, I guess probably more for Steve, what, as a player, you spend all really two weeks probably getting ready for Lamar, who's an alien in his own right. He's out on the first play. And then you get Huntley, who's a decent backup for sure. But then all of a sudden you get this rookie third-string quarterback with no experience. what goes through your psyche as a player? Is it, is it still, you got to maintain a composure or do you, is there like blood in the water where it just changes your, your mentality and approach the game. And, and regardless of the asterisks, I think it's really helpful. And it was kind of a gift for us to, to able to come together and get that confidence that the defense has been struggling going forward there. So I appreciate the time guys.
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Speaker 10: Thanks.
00:27:26
Speaker 9: And as always go build.
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Speaker 3: You bet. You're right. The offense is a wagon. It was obvious, painfully obvious through the first half of that game that the biggest enemy to the Buffalo Bills was the Buffalo Bills. I thought they were fat and sloppy coming out of the bye, and they got over it and they got around it. They overcame their own shortcomings and put it together and won the game and all that. You're right. We commented on the radio broadcast about the cuteness of of their short yardage plays. And, and I, and I think having looking back on it now, it's like, I, they wanted to show some stuff. Yeah. I think that, and that's the perfect place to do it.
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Speaker 4: Right.
00:28:10
Speaker 3: You got to hand their offenses playing with their third quarterback. You're getting, you're scoring some points, although you haven't opened it up, you know, the dam hasn't burst point wise for your offense. You feel pretty confident in your ability to move the football and, Let's put some stuff out there so other people can look. I didn't think about that until last night after the game. I was like, I get it. You know, you feel like you're going to win this game. Let's give some people some stuff to look at. And some of the stuff didn't work. One of them did. One of those short yardage plays did. And then, of course, he did still show Josh going over the top and, you know, the famous Roquan head twist that he got on Josh. And then Josh trying to get in. off the wide left quarterback sneak that didn't work.
00:28:53
Speaker 4: They did it another time down at the goal line at the north end of the stadium too.
00:28:56
Speaker 3: So there was all this– there was still some– there was some tush pushes that they did, and then there was some cute stuff that they did off of that that they want to get on film. They've got to put it on film to get people to think about something else and give them a better chance the next time they want a tush push. So, yeah, all that's in that stew. And I think that
had a little bit to do with probably getting it on tape against a team you think you kind of got a handle on, and running around some pretty good defensive tackles for the Ravens. Those guys were.
00:29:28
Speaker 4: It's the biggest, heaviest defensive line they've seen all season. John Jenkins goes 340, Travis Jones goes about 360, almost 370, and I think that had an impact on what they felt their approach had to be in the short yard. situations as well quickly before we go to break you talked about defense and I thought Jim Leonard who by the way for those that didn't hear was up in the booth yesterday he was not on the sidelines where he had been all season so that was a change coming out of the bye as well And it was very clear that he was going to heat up whatever quarterback was in the game yesterday with a very aggressive style up front because they blitzed on the very first play of the game that Lamar got hurt on. They fire Bernard, who comes through on the inside. They pick him up and Rousseau gets around the edge on Rosengarten and makes contact with Lamar. And then they heated up the other two quarterbacks with blitzes. Cole Bishop with the strip sack fumble. And there were other blitzes throughout the game once Fignano was in there. We'll take a break here, though, and come back with more of your phone calls, 716-427-0989, to get in touch with us with your biggest takeaways from the win yesterday on a Buffalo Victory Monday edition of One Bills Live. Allen working from the shotgun, Ray Davis to his right, two to the right, one to the left, and now orbit motion from Shakir. Here's the snap.
00:30:45
Speaker 2: Back to pass, has time, fires, deep post, looking for.
00:30:49
Speaker 1: Moore, who goes up and pulls it down inside the five-yard line.
00:30:56
Speaker 2: DJ, big play, Moore.
00:31:01
Speaker 4: This week's Player of the Game is presented by M & T Bank, the official bank of the Buffalo Bills. DJ Moore, your Player of the Game. Four catches, 82 yards, and a touchdown in the win over the Ravens. Welcome back, DJ Moore, who had missed the previous two games with a shoulder injury.
00:31:20
Speaker 3: You get better players, your team gets better. You get DJ Moore back on the field, and it helps. There's no question about it.
00:31:26
Speaker 4: He had come off the field a couple of times, a little.
00:31:29
Speaker 4: Gimpy, but then insisted he was okay.
00:31:31
Speaker 3: For all the stuff that Baltimore's been going through, their defensive backfield, while they're getting torched a little bit and giving up some yards, they tackle well and they bring the wood. They were banging on DJ all day. He had to come off the field a couple of times. A couple of times he got caught in an awkward position. He came off and He got his neck jammed a little high on one play.
00:31:56
Speaker 4: Down by the goal.
00:31:57
Speaker 3: Down by the goal. It might have been on the.
00:32:00
Speaker 4: Quick slant when Humphrey hit him.
00:32:02
Speaker 3: So they were trying to punish him for the production he was getting. But DJ shook it off. I was down there. He caught one on a crossing route. I think it might have been the first down that got called back. Maybe not. But he came off the field. And he went down, and you could tell something was bothering him. He went in the tent. Yeah, he went in the tent after that. He came out. He denied treatment for a minute. He said he was going to try and shake it off and then went down into a catcher's stance on both toes, bent his knees, went down on his heels, sat on his heels. And I remember doing that when you needed to flex your ankle. You know what I mean? You wanted to get your ankle bent so it wouldn't tighten up. He did that and then got up and came back to the game. and then went into the tent a little bit later to get it looked at, maybe got it taped up or something like that.
00:32:56
Speaker 4: That's a hell of a catch.
00:32:57
Speaker 3: It was a great catch.
00:32:58
Speaker 4: I mean, Mike, yeah.
00:32:59
Speaker 3: Let me just say, it's just one reception. Granted, it's a long play, but that right there, that play that he caught down on the five, they spotted him at the six, changed the entire complexion of the game for as much– as the Bills couldn't get out of their own way, tipped interception, dropped passes, stupid offside penalties, all that stuff, all that made it wash away because then you had a chance to take control of the game right there with a touchdown and get back to your 10-point lead. That was a big moment. And you had somebody make a play instead of drop a play.
00:33:37
Speaker 4: Let's get back to the phone call, 716-427-0989, the number to jump on board. And we go to Miron in Richmond. What do you got for us, Miron?
00:33:47
Speaker 7: Hi, John.
00:33:48
Speaker 11: Thanks for taking my call. I have three quick comments, one which the previous caller talked about in regards to the play calling. The second comment I had was just trying to understand the rationale for James Cook and DJ Moore coming back into the game after they had their injury scares. You know, when James Cook took that big hit and almost looked.
00:34:06
Speaker 6: Like he landed on his neck.
00:34:07
Speaker 12: And then DJ Moore hobbling off the field and coming back into the game afterwards. I mean, at that point, we're up 19 points. Is there someone on the field or a position coach or someone who just kind of communicates to the head coach to say, hey, guys, we're up 19. We don't need to risk James Cook or DJ Moore to injury, or is that a conversation that's ever had, or did the GM have the conversation with the head coach after the game?
00:34:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay.
00:34:32
Speaker 7: The second question, if I can squeeze in here, is the time management issue at halftime. Was there any kind of analytics being made to let time come off the clock before calling a timeout, or were they kind of mismanaging the team on the surface?
00:34:43
Speaker 6: Thanks, gentlemen.
00:34:44
Speaker 4: All right, so I'll address the fact that Moore, after getting a little dinged up coming back into the game as well as Cook, with respect to Moore, I think part of the problem there was you were short receivers. You had already lost Palmer. You only had four healthy receivers counting your return man, Dortch. And so I think that compromise, being able to just pull Moore out of the game completely... So I think that's what was at work there. And then with Cook, sometimes Cook like goes airborne on a play, gets folded up like a scorpion by Connor McGovern, who falls on top of him and bends his heels like literally over his shoulders backwards. I can't believe his body can fold like that. And the fact that he got up and was OK afterwards, I'm sure he's sore today. But sometimes players, after they get dinged like that, they almost want to go back in the game to prove to themselves they're okay because he came back into the game, played one play, and then was gone. The rest of the game he was out. He came back in briefly and then was like, okay, I'm good. I proved it to myself. I'm sitting down the rest of the afternoon.
00:35:47
Speaker 3: Right.
00:35:48
Speaker 4: What do you say about his stuff at the end of the first half with the time? Use of the clock and the management.
00:35:53
Speaker 3: They let the clock run down to like 18 seconds and then took the time out. I think they wanted to make sure there they squeezed out the Ravens from going back the other way. And I think, I don't know what the down and distance was. And I remember Eric saying that he thought they waited too long for that timeout.
00:36:11
Speaker 4: He wanted them to burn the timeout fast.
00:36:14
Speaker 3: Faster, yeah.
00:36:15
Speaker 4: And then run the clock later.
00:36:16
Speaker 3: Right, exactly. I think they did it the other way.
00:36:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, looking at it here, second and ten... That's when Cook gets flagged for the chop block. It stops the clock. So now it's second and 25 with 59 seconds left. Josh runs for a yard on a scramble when he was under pressure at 59 seconds. They wait all the way until 20 seconds to then call the third time out. And now it's third and 24. And I think what Joe Brady's thinking is we're just going to use one play here to get into field goal range. But we were concerned because we're thinking– Well, you may have to run your field goal unit on in a Mayday drill.
00:37:00
Speaker 3: And the 18 seconds gives you the time to do that. You need about 10 to 12 seconds for a Mayday field goal. And that would have given them six seconds on the fat end of the 10 to 12 seconds to run a play, get off the field, run your field goal unit on, and kick it. And I think that's usually what that means. But you're right.
00:37:22
Speaker 4: Fortunately for Joe Brady... Josh Allen is a very smart player because he saw what the Ravens were doing defensively pre-snap. First of all,
they were playing... man underneath, and then they just had three guys all along the Ravens' 20-yard line to prevent anything from getting over the top of them for a first down. So there's lots of space. And so Josh just took the shotgun snap and just ran to the left sideline and ran out of bounds to stop the clock and picked up 14 yards in the process, leading to a 51-yard field goal attempt, which Tyler Bass makes good on, and it looks good going to the locker room. But, yeah, I think you could argue that. You could debate about how they used the timeout there.
00:38:02
Speaker 3: So they kick it. And I don't think, did they kick off? They didn't kick off after that, right? Yeah, they did.
00:38:06
Speaker 4: There was nine seconds left.
00:38:07
Speaker 3: Nine seconds. Well, there you have it.
00:38:09
Speaker 4: But on the kick return, which they kicked short to chew up some clock. Right. They return it, and then they get flagged for an illegal block in the back. It backs them up to their own 19. They're like, all right, one second left. Take the knee.
00:38:21
Speaker 3: Right.
00:38:21
Speaker 4: Let's just go to the locker room.
00:38:23
Speaker 3: It has to do with what they're giving back to the Ravens on the clock. And they gave them back a kick return. Yeah. So.
00:38:31
Speaker 4: With nine seconds.
00:38:32
Speaker 3: With nine seconds. So I'm, yes.
00:38:37
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:38:38
Speaker 3: I thought, given that, I didn't think, see any problem with it. I heard some people saying, I don't know, they should have taken the time. I don't know about all that. I struggle with clock management because I'm like most fans. I'm like, no, no. But when you look at the big picture, I think their analytics people are probably saying, listen, we're going to get this and this and this. The run out of bounds play with Josh.
00:39:02
Speaker 4: Is Josh calling that himself so he knows he can stop the clock?
00:39:05
Speaker 8: Oh, sure.
00:39:06
Speaker 3: He runs out of bounds and gives them the chance. Now they don't have to do the May Day thing.
00:39:09
Speaker 4: I mean, just like he called his own number at the end of the Rams game.
00:39:12
Speaker 3: Right.
00:39:13
Speaker 13: Right.
00:39:14
Speaker 3: So, getting out of bounds, stopping the clock. Now it's easy peasy. Go out, kick the field goal. Now you've got to kick it off. Now you've got to cover a kick. No question. But let's face it. They've got their third string quarterback and that's a different animal than Lamar. Yeah.
00:39:28
Speaker 4: We'll take a break here, but take more of your phone calls when we come back Kelly in North Carolina followed by Mark in Jersey City for your comments on a Buffalo Victory Monday here on One Bills Live Results that matter. Presented by Buffalo Law, the official personal injury law firm of the Buffalo Bills. They win. It's just that simple. Quarterback Josh Allen with his 259th career passing touchdown counting playoffs with his fourth quarter TD to DJ Moore past Jim Kelly for the most in franchise history. Josh with 259 career passing touchdowns. I was trying to, you know, figure that out um in terms of length of time wise so josh is obviously in his ninth season and jim played 11 seasons for the bills so josh in nine seasons passes jim kelly and think.
00:40:24
Speaker 3: About it too his back this is the changing era of football yeah.
00:40:28
Speaker 4: You guys were like a 50 50 run pass team yeah and thurman in the back.
00:40:32
Speaker 3: And we were in that day and age we were a wagon offensively then yeah You had a Hall of Fame running back, two Hall of Fame receivers, and a Hall of Fame– first ballot Hall of Fame quarterback. Dude, they were ringing people up. 491 yards– 491 points in a season I think is the most.
00:40:53
Speaker 4: You know– That your era team had. Right. The Bills passed them with a 525-point season.
00:40:58
Speaker 3: They scorched it.
00:40:58
Speaker 4: A couple of years ago.
00:40:59
Speaker 3: And they did it twice. They've done it before. They've done it a couple of times. They've scored that much. This offensive– and it's a different era, so it's hard to imagine.
00:41:09
Speaker 4: Well, and we always say nobody scores touchdowns like Josh Allen, and this is further proof of that.
00:41:15
Speaker 3: The dude's a machine at scoring points, and that's why he's so good. You just can't keep him out of the end zone. Because he had.
00:41:21
Speaker 4: Three more touchdowns in total yesterday, one rushing, two passing. He is now three touchdowns away from passing Peyton Manning. For the most touchdowns in a player's first ten seasons in NFL history, he's in season nine.
00:41:36
Speaker 6: Right.
00:41:37
Speaker 4: So he's a season ahead of the best in the history of the game.
00:41:40
Speaker 10: Right.
00:41:41
Speaker 3: So it's, it's, it's just going to be a question of how long he plays. Cause the guy is an absolute.
00:41:47
Speaker 4: Machine and that's the touchdown machine.
00:41:50
Speaker 3: That's right. And so he's going to have numbers like that. Uh, he was, he was money yesterday. You can say what you want. Yeah.
00:42:02
Speaker 4: Uh, They were a little out of sync early.
00:42:04
Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
00:42:04
Speaker 4: I think Josh was like six of his first 15 passing. But he had three drops, four drops in there.
00:42:09
Speaker 3: And the one tipped volleyball interception. Like, I mean, you couldn't have tipped it in a better place for the defense to pick it off.
00:42:19
Speaker 4: And when they were struggling to convert a third down, they had like a third and nine. And Eric called it. He's like, if this is man coverage, Josh is running.
00:42:26
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:42:26
Speaker 4: And he faked Teddy Buchanan, the linebacker, completely out of his shoes.
00:42:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, we just saw that. And Josh got tackled. He turned around and pointed at Eddie Buchanan saying, I got you good. He did. The play by D.J.
Moore, the long catch, was a game changer in that game. That really changed things around and said, okay, now we're set. But they were offensively, with their execution in the first half, they came out of a bye week fat and sloppy. That's a little bit of an overstatement, but you get my point.
00:42:56
Speaker 4: And they got to be on their– Got to be on their P's and Q's this week, man, against this defense coming up in Minnesota at their place.
00:43:03
Speaker 3: This defense is pressure-packed.
00:43:06
Speaker 4: Did you see what their blitz percentage was against the Lions?
00:43:09
Speaker 3: 90%.
00:43:09
Speaker 10: 92%.
00:43:09
Speaker 3: 92%.
00:43:09
Speaker 4: Nine out of ten snaps for bringing pressure. Holy cow. We'll take a deeper dive on them as we move through the week, but let's get back to the phones and to Kelly in North Carolina. What do you got for us, Kelly?
00:43:23
Speaker 14: Yeah, good morning, gentlemen. Visiting from North Carolina, Buffalo native was at the game yesterday with my sisters and my husband.
00:43:30
Speaker 9: And we collectively had two questions.
00:43:33
Speaker 14: One is with the Roe Kahn Smith, not his first rodeo with the face twist with Josh Allen. How do you feel that the NFL is going to start addressing this was my first question. And then my second question is why do you think the bills chose to do that two pointer versus just a kick? Thank you. Rest in peace, Dan.
00:43:54
Speaker 15: Go Bills.
00:43:55
Speaker 7: All right.
00:43:55
Speaker 4: Thanks, Kelly. Yeah, with regard to the first one, I would imagine that the league's disciplinary committee will take a look at that. I would imagine he gets a fine for it for unnecessary roughness. Obviously, it wasn't called on the field. Should have been. I mean, he tried to turn Josh into the exorcist, spinning his head completely around. So, yeah, I mean. There's really no place in the game for that. I mean, what are you doing, Roquan? You're mad that your quarterback got hurt, so you're trying to hurt theirs?
00:44:26
Speaker 3: He'll get a fine.
00:44:27
Speaker 4: He'll get a FedEx envelope on his stool in his locker on Thursday, and he'll probably get a fine for it. And it'll be probably nothing more than that, unfortunately.
00:44:38
Speaker 3: I may be in the minority. I'll bet they don't do anything.
00:44:40
Speaker 4: You don't think they do anything? I think you'll get a fine for it.
00:44:43
Speaker 3: I don't think they'll do anything. It was very fast. You can make the case for Roquan that he's trying to, you know, trying to get the, you know, rip him backwards away from the line to gain the goal line.
00:44:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you can't do that by the head.
00:44:58
Speaker 3: And he'll make a case that he was trying to pull him back and he let go as soon as he realized he had the guy's face mask. It happened very fast. I'm not saying he's not culpable and he wasn't trying to, like, you know, pull Josh's head off, but that's the way the game's played. And That was an unfortunate spot where Roquan was trying to take advantage of it. Yeah. No question about it. I mean, there's no question about there was something extra in it. I'll bet you there's a good chance it's not going to be anything. And I'm with you. He's trying to hurt him. Yeah. He was trying to get everything he could out of it. But it happened fast. He didn't. give it a second, grab it, or anything like that, I'll bet you nothing happens. And I'm not saying that I think it shouldn't, because I do. I think it should be a fine, if not a suspension. But I'll bet nothing happens.
00:45:59
Speaker 4: Two-point conversion attempt. The touchdown pass goes to D.J.
00:46:01
Speaker 3: Moore.
00:46:01
Speaker 4: They're up 29-10, early fourth quarter. They elect to go for two. which would put, they're up 19, two-point conversion would put them up 21, so three full touchdowns. Do you think it was that, do you think that was the aim, or do you think the aim perhaps was, hey, we haven't been really good on two-point conversions, let's try one here to try to see if we have something that works, or are they trying to put something on tape for next week? What do you think is the impetus there?
00:46:28
Speaker 3: Probably a little bit of all of that. I think there's a lot in that stew. Yeah, they could be doing that a lot, and they might have talked about it in the lead-up to that, And said, in passing, say, hey, because the Bills defense held them out of the end zone all second half. They scored zero. So at that point, you're thinking, I think there was a conversation going in saying, hey, you know, the book says go up by three. You may as well, you can go for two, and it's like a 50-50 plus minus if you don't get it or do get it. And he's saying, you know what, if we get it, we will go for the two. We're going to put something on tape here. We're going to try a little something, see if they give us a look, that kind of thing. Because at that point, you are into putting stuff out you want other people to see. I thought there was some impetus. I think there was a little analytics in that.
00:47:20
Speaker 4: Let's go to Mark in Jersey City here before the break. What do you got for us, Mark?
00:47:24
Speaker 15: Good afternoon, gentlemen. Thanks for taking my call. I mean, it's weird to complain about 36 points. but to put it in proper perspective at the end of the call, wow, the first caller stole my thunder, really. They just looked like they were just winning the preseason mode once Lamar went out. Like, let's just start with the starters. Let's just start, you know, working on stuff, seeing if it sticks, seeing if it doesn't, the whole put it on tape thing. That's what it smirked of to me. But defensively, it's hard to ascertain whether it's quarterback effect or... bye week list for them. It just seemed a little bit of both the drops on offense. It just, it really became disjointed, but I think we all need to just
take a, take a breath, watch the rest of the league just a little bit. You figure people have done on the buy and appreciate what we're watching play quarterback for the Buffalo bills every week. He's going to be the first quarterback to probably throw for over 300 passing touchdowns and run for over a hundred. He's at 88 right now. He's going to get a hundred rushing touchdowns before it's all said and done. that is insane.
00:48:31
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:48:32
Speaker 15: It just, it's video game stuff. Literally watch what happened on the other side. Lamar got touched. He's injured.
00:48:39
Speaker 6: He's out.
00:48:41
Speaker 15: It's all over the league. This Josh Allen is a Sherman tank playing quarterback. He's doing what he was born to do. I think we all need to appreciate that. Especially those of us who are a member of 17 years and not the Johnny can lately. Thanks for taking my call guys.
00:48:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure thing. We say it all the time. I said it just last week. We, every week, are watching living history in real time, watching Josh Allen play football. And I was excited to see Josh and Lamar because they're arguably two of the three best quarterbacks of this era, Patrick Mahomes obviously being the third. And you can probably throw some others in there, too, if you wanted. But to me, those three are the cream of the crop. just in terms of physical gifts, production, and winning. And Josh is that. I think Josh is going to flirt with 500 total touchdowns by the time his career is over. He's over 300 already, and he's halfway through his career? Like, it's crazy.
00:49:37
Speaker 3: Well, he's no more than halfway through. If he gets another five, Say five years. Say he plays 15. Yeah.
00:49:44
Speaker 4: He can flirt with it.
00:49:45
Speaker 3: He can flirt with it. And he'll have to evolve away from the physicality that he shows now, even at the 10th year. Because, you know, he'd just get tired of it. The game is undefeated in that regard. But, yeah, he's going to flirt with all of that. You give him, let's just say, 40 touchdowns a year. Yeah. There it is.
00:50:06
Speaker 4: We have to step aside, take a break here. We're at the top of the hour, but when we come back, hour number two here on a Buffalo Victory Monday, we'll commence with the Maddie Awards. The first time in the new studio, by the way.
00:50:17
Speaker 3: Oh, very nice.
00:50:18
Speaker 4: Maddie Glab, our senior team reporter, will be rolling on by to hand those out next here on One Bills Live.
00:50:33
Speaker 1: He is a beast with a capital B. The cook is in the kitchen. Fires on a post to Coleman in the end zone for the touchdown. Pressure coming. He's sacked and he fumbled. The Bills have the football.
00:50:57
Speaker 3: This is One Bills Live.
00:51:00
Speaker 4: All right, here we are, hour number two on a Buffalo Victory Monday. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and we welcome in senior team reporter Maddie Glab for what else? The Maddie Awards,
which are presented by Palmer Foods, delivering quality and service at the center of the plate for more than 175 years. I love that slogan, center of the plate. Learn more at palmerfoods.com.
00:51:23
Speaker 8: I think it's about time that we get some more Palmer Foods in.
00:51:26
Speaker 4: Front of us during the segment.
00:51:28
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Maddie.
00:51:29
Speaker 4: Be blatant. I don't care. Because that was so good.
00:51:32
Speaker 3: I am totally with you. And we got to take some meat home.
00:51:35
Speaker 8: Did you guys cook up anything that we got to take home?
00:51:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, I took the strip steak, and my wife and I split that thing because it was gigantic.
00:51:42
Speaker 3: It was delicious.
00:51:43
Speaker 4: You got the tomahawk.
00:51:44
Speaker 3: You took the tomahawk. It was like a two-foot-long bone. I took that home.
00:51:49
Speaker 8: Did you grill it?
00:51:50
Speaker 4: He cut the bone off.
00:51:51
Speaker 3: Let me just say. It was absolutely spectacular.
00:51:55
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:51:56
Speaker 3: Even when I cooked it, it was just awesome. I got the shirt steak, and it was so good.
00:52:00
Speaker 10: Yeah.
00:52:00
Speaker 4: And the burgers they handed out.
00:52:01
Speaker 3: Yeah. It was quality stuff. So thanks to them.
00:52:05
Speaker 4: I got to find out what sweet they're serving food in and find a way down there.
00:52:10
Speaker 3: I know, right?
00:52:11
Speaker 4: I don't really have enough time.
00:52:12
Speaker 3: At halftime because it's a sprint. We don't have any time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that. Yeah, I know. I mean, I'm.
00:52:18
Speaker 4: I wanted to bounce this off you quickly, Maddie, before we start the Maddie Awards, because Eric Wood had an interesting take with pregame warm-ups or pregame player introductions. Because what was it, the defense that got introduced yesterday? Eric looked at me and he goes, I'm sorry. He goes, the energy's just different when Josh gets introduced last. He goes, I think they might have to do the offense every week for home games. Because you're down there, can you audibly hear A difference when Josh gets introduced? 100%.
00:52:50
Speaker 3: Okay.
00:52:50
Speaker 4: 100%.
00:52:50
Speaker 3: Steve.
00:52:52
Speaker 4: Yes, right?
00:52:52
Speaker 3: Come on, man. Yeah. I love Ed Oliver.
00:52:54
Speaker 4: They may have to do that every game.
00:52:56
Speaker 8: Ed Oliver got a nice roar from the crowd, which was awesome to hear. But the best part is, especially in the beginning of the year when it's like, who's going to go first? Of course, it's going to be the offense.
00:53:06
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:53:06
Speaker 8: But you talk to defensive players, and they start to get upset about it.
00:53:10
Speaker 3: They're like, we want to be introduced.
00:53:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've got to hook them up.
00:53:13
Speaker 3: We need our time to shine, too.
00:53:14
Speaker 4: I get it.
00:53:15
Speaker 3: Josh– The ovation that Josh gets when he's introduced every week, it's like it's not only ratcheted up, it's like it's an absolute shocking surprise.
00:53:30
Speaker 15: Oh, it's Josh!
00:53:31
Speaker 3: No way! It's that kind of enthusiasm. It's like they don't even expect it. He comes out and it's like.
00:53:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, people lose their minds. It's like the Beatles coming out.
00:53:41
Speaker 3: It's exactly right. It's like you're there for the show, but when Elvis walks on stage, it's like, oh my God, there he is. It's scary.
00:53:52
Speaker 4: Yeah. That's what it's like. And that's why Eric was like, I think we might have to have him come out at the end every week to get the crowd where you want it at the start of the game.
00:54:01
Speaker 3: Do NFL rules tell you you can't? No.
00:54:03
Speaker 4: Defense plus Josh.
00:54:05
Speaker 3: Defense plus Josh. No, it's no rules because they even introduce special teams.
00:54:09
Speaker 4: Oh, I see what you're saying.
00:54:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, just do Josh every week.
00:54:11
Speaker 4: You're saying put Josh at the end of the defense. Every week.
00:54:14
Speaker 3: Starting at free safety?
00:54:15
Speaker 11: Yes.
00:54:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. Introduce 12 starters. You can introduce 12 starters.
00:54:20
Speaker 4: It's a nice audible.
00:54:21
Speaker 3: Why not? They did special teams once in my career. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so it was, you know. Okay, cool. It's a bone you throw to your guys, and they get a chance to, and it's for their families and stuff, too. It's very cool. They introduced me at my last home game. Yeah. So that's kind of cool, but there's no rules. Yeah. It's, come on.
00:54:43
Speaker 4: Okay, then you need to introduce Josh.
00:54:45
Speaker 3: I don't, and let me just, Yes, it's kind of– but that has zero to do with how they play when the ball's teed up. Yeah.
00:54:53
Speaker 4: I mean– Well, I'm just saying, you want to get the crowds to some fevered pitch level, that's the easiest way to do it.
00:55:01
Speaker 3: Let me just be– if you want to get the crowd to fever pitch level, don't drop the opening pass from scrimmage. Yeah. Don't fumble your first carry. Don't get an offsides on first and goal on the one. Okay. That'd be better.
00:55:16
Speaker 11: Yeah.
00:55:17
Speaker 4: This note filed by Steve Tashkent.
00:55:19
Speaker 3: Am I coming across disgusted? I don't want to come across disgusted. No, but you.
00:55:23
Speaker 4: Sound a little like get off my lawn guy.
00:55:25
Speaker 6: Ha!
00:55:26
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:55:28
Speaker 3: I'll admit to that. All right.
00:55:29
Speaker 4: Let's get to the Maddie Awards. And we begin with the Glow Up Award.
00:55:32
Speaker 8: Buffalo's defense had a glow up coming out of the bye week. They affected the game from the first drive to the very last drive.
00:55:39
Speaker 3: They allowed just 2.9.
00:55:40
Speaker 4: Yards per play.
00:55:42
Speaker 8: The Russian coverage took a big step forward working
together, something we've been waiting to see consistently all season. Seven pass breakups, 12 quarterback hits. That is working together as a defense. Head coach Joe Brady said he loved how the defense flew around in the game. And one difference that we saw in this game compared to the rest of the season, defensive coordinator Jim Leonard called the game from the booth. Do we see this the rest of the season?
00:56:07
Speaker 3: Well, it's hard to go backwards now, right? It's interesting how much of confidence you get from this thing. And, okay, when we saw it, we had a third-string quarterback. I get all of that. An offense that was struggling and got caught off guard, kicked in the stomach a little bit. But they did some things in this game. that gives you an idea, okay, when we do face an elite quarterback, we were still, we knew what we were doing, at least, right? We were in the right spot.
00:56:36
Speaker 4: Right from the beginning.
00:56:37
Speaker 3: Bless his heart, Geno Stone, ball goes through both hands and off his forehead for a pick. He doesn't get it, but Igbenosun does. That's why those guys are DBs, I swear to you. Athletes, first and foremost, get a chance to handle the football. When they can't catch, they go to the defensive side of the ball. Bless his heart, Geno Stone proved it.
00:57:03
Speaker 4: He has got it.
00:57:04
Speaker 3: I'm telling you right now.
00:57:05
Speaker 4: I will say on the positive side of that comment, Geno Stone and DeMar Hamlin had a very settling effect on the back end of the defense yesterday.
00:57:16
Speaker 3: DeMar is the only defender that had 100% of the snaps. And I know Geno Stone is laying in bed last night going to bed asleep.
00:57:22
Speaker 4: Going, Let's move on to the first of many award.
00:57:29
Speaker 8: First of many. Speaking of the ball going up in the air, Bills cornerback Davison Igbenosin has his first career interception, hoping that it's the first of many. After the game, Igbenosin said, hey, I got to be honest, it just fell into my hands. But you had to be at the right place at the right time. So give yourself some kudos there. Igbenosin is a physical corner who likes contact. And we see this young corner improving in different ways every single game. Right now, he leads the team with eight passes defensed.
00:58:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, he played well. He has been playing well. And he's getting better. All these guys, it seems you can see him getting better.
00:58:06
Speaker 4: He also leads all NFL rookies with.
00:58:09
Speaker 3: Eight pass breakups.
00:58:10
Speaker 8: There you go.
00:58:11
Speaker 3: That's good. That's good. A little of that is getting targeted. And this is a defense. They're putting the ball in the air against this defense. That's true. He's not laying down. He's picking it up. It's really good.
00:58:23
Speaker 4: The automatic award is next.
00:58:25
Speaker 3: Automatic.
00:58:26
Speaker 8: We know who it's going to. Bill's kicker, Tyler Bass. There's fewer things in this world that are more guaranteed than a Tyler Bass field goal make. Not many things in life that you can guarantee more than Bass making a field goal. Bass is always ready to go. Three for three yesterday. Two from at least 50 yards. 21 consecutive makes. That is the most in franchise history. Dude is having one hell of a season coming off of a year where he did not see the field at all.
00:59:01
Speaker 3: I told Brownie this, that he was as good as I've ever seen him in pre-games yesterday.
00:59:06
Speaker 4: Yeah steve watches the pre-game i.
00:59:08
Speaker 8: Love i we listen to you like when we're preparing for the post-game show i have you guys in my ear because you guys provide such great context throughout the game and i love hearing from you early in the game when you're talking about tyler bass and how he looked in pre-game warm-ups it's insightful and it's.
00:59:24
Speaker 3: Very helpful he was he was just the ball jumped and I can't remember the name of the kicker for Baltimore. I apologize.
00:59:31
Speaker 4: Tyler loop.
00:59:31
Speaker 3: Tyler loop. Bass was markedly better in pregame warmups. The ball jumped off his foot more loops leg in comparison, looked a little bit soft. Uh, the ball was jumping off bass's foot. And I, I've, I was impressed. I was like, wow, he looks different today than he has even up to that point during the regular season. Yeah.
00:59:52
Speaker 4: Bill's PR department deserves credit for this because Bass also has the team record for most consecutive 50-plus yard makes with seven. He passed Stephen Hauschka yesterday, who had the record with six. So it's not just longest make streak, but longest 50-plus yard make streak as well. That's pretty impressive. Yeah.
01:00:12
Speaker 3: A lot of people were like going, I don't know, do you wait on Bass? And the team was like, we're hanging in there with him. They gave him an entire year to come back and get back in the saddle knowing the kind of kicker he is. And they're being rewarded for it.
01:00:25
Speaker 4: Perfect on the year. Record breaker award.
01:00:28
Speaker 8: From one record breaker in Tyler Bass to another record breaker in Josh Allen. It seems like every Sunday, Josh Allen is breaking a new record. Even if the offense has a slow start in the first half, there's speed. Some way that Josh Allen is going to break record. But this one was special yesterday because he passed Bill's Hall of Fame quarterback, Jim Kelly, for most passing touchdowns in Bill's history, including the playoffs. He's now at 260.
01:00:55
Speaker 3: In his career.
01:00:57
Speaker 8: The first half, Allen said, it was not up to our standard. But the second half, the offense settled in. They stuck with what worked. And those chunk plays turned into scoring opportunities. They score touchdowns on three drives in the second half, and the offense completely comes to life with 36 total points scored.
01:01:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that was
number 259 to DJ. Number 260 goes to Kincaid. As Maddie mentioned, he has 260 now.
01:01:21
Speaker 3: Yep.
01:01:22
Speaker 4: And that number will only go up.
01:01:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird.
01:01:25
Speaker 4: Nobody scores touchdowns like Josh Allen. I say it all the time.
01:01:27
Speaker 3: That's right.
01:01:28
Speaker 4: The Difference Makers Award. This is a plural award.
01:01:31
Speaker 8: Difference Makers. It's going to two guys who... Spent two games on the bench recovering from injuries. Defensive lineman Ed Oliver, who was out with an injury, and wide receiver DJ Moore, who was down with that shoulder injury. Oliver grabs a couple pressures in this game, and it turns into incompletions. He finishes with three quarterback hits on the day, and Moore had a couple important completions in this game. We saw that 49-yard huge grab that set up a touchdown, and then an 11-yard touchdown on in the fourth quarter to go up 19. I love what Joe Brady said after the game. He said, we built this defense around Ed Oliver. And coming into the season, many people didn't know how Ed Oliver would fit in a 3-4 defense. The Bills believed it would work, and we're seeing it pay off when Oliver is in the lineup and healthy.
01:02:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, he, not that this was intentional on his part, but when he wrapped up, Snoop Huntley, that led to the turf toe injury for Huntley as well. So one snap for Lamar, 10 snaps for Huntley, and they're down to third. I mean, talk about bad luck.
01:02:41
Speaker 3: Holy cow.
01:02:42
Speaker 4: Like, I never want the Bills to have that kind of luck ever because that was like the lowest of the low in terms of bad luck. I mean, oh, my God. 11 snaps, both quarterbacks. Your top two quarterbacks out of the game in 11 snaps.
01:02:54
Speaker 3: And, you know, Fignano has– taking zero snaps in preparation for this. He's there to help those guys get better. He was doing it for Tyler Huntley. He was doing it for Lamar. He's in the room, and all of a sudden he gets thrown in there. Yeah, you're dead in the water. You're dead in the water.
01:03:12
Speaker 4: The Rising Up Award.
01:03:14
Speaker 8: Rising Up is going to two younger players who stepped in in other players' absence yesterday. Right tackle Spencer Brown couldn't go due to a back injury. Nickel cornerback Dee Alford was out with an ankle injury, so defensive back Ta'Cory Couch steps in and plays a majority of the nickel cornerback snaps. And Tylan Grable steps in to start at right tackle, just his third career start. Couch was flying around out there. Buffalo's pass defense just lost 68 passing yards on the day. And Grable was an anchor in there. Allen was just sacked once. I spoke with Grable heading into this season, and he said, I want to play with a lot more power this season. I have to understand that my power comes from anchoring in my feet. A lot of times when I play, I play excited, and I play on my toes, and I lose my power. So it was awesome to
see Grable up for the challenge and understand how to be an anchor on.
01:04:07
Speaker 3: The offensive line.
01:04:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think part of the reason that he played on his toes as a younger player is because he's a former quarterback.
01:04:14
Speaker 9: Yeah.
01:04:14
Speaker 4: Like he played a skill position where you do have to be on your toes and be light on your feet and elusive, and that changes. It's a 180 when you go to the offensive line. It's about driving off your feet, keeping your whole foot on the ground to anchor to your point, Maddie, and to drive guys off the line of scrimmage. So that's a major transition for somebody making that kind of position change, even from high school.
01:04:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were interested about the Takori Couch elevation and all those guys, Eugenio Stone, Takori Couch– How, whether this, and plus, because of this, because of the Fignano phenomenon, I don't know if they're really going to feel confident saying, listen, I like the changes we made. Are we going to, is this going to lead to more time for Takori Couch?
01:04:59
Speaker 4: It was chiefly because he didn't have Alford.
01:05:01
Speaker 3: Right.
01:05:01
Speaker 4: He was out of the game with an injury.
01:05:02
Speaker 3: Right.
01:05:03
Speaker 4: And then, so they had Couch and Handler kind of platooning at nickel. And when it was an obvious... It was shorter yardage. They had Hamlin in as a bigger run defender because Couch is only like 175 pounds. It was more obviously passing. Couch came in. Hamlin went deep safety, and they played three safety with Stone. So, yeah, they– It's a good plan by Leonard.
01:05:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they executed it really well. Is this going to foreshadow some permanent changes in personnel? You know what I mean?
01:05:34
Speaker 4: We'll have to see this week because the suspension for Gardner-Johnson is over. What happens there? What do they see on film today from yesterday's game? Do they like that and how it looks? Did the players feel comfortable? Were there fewer mental mistakes? Was the communication better? All of that goes into the decision-making that's going to take place this week, and it's some big decisions.
01:05:53
Speaker 3: It didn't look bad.
01:05:54
Speaker 8: When speaking of all this, you know, safety DeMar Hamlin has found himself a nice role on this defense, a nice purpose on this defense. Hamlin is one of the most chill guys on.
01:06:05
Speaker 2: This roster, and.
01:06:08
Speaker 8: The fact that he can play in so many different places on defense and act, I say chill because he acts like it's no big deal when he has to go in and fill at nickel cornerback or he has to play a bigger safety role or he's playing in his normal safety role. Few people on defense can do what he can do, and defensive coordinator Jim Leonard has talked about how important DeMar Hamlin is on this team and how he can fill in these different roles. And I'm just proud of how he's grown as a player in this defense. This is a new defense that he's also learning and to be able to grab multiple roles, I think says a lot of, Jim.
01:06:49
Speaker 4: Leonard has said it. He said it a couple of times. He said with Tamar, you know what you're getting. You can trust him. It's going to be where he's supposed to be when he's supposed to be there. And you wonder if they lean that way now with the defense, you know, trying to round itself into form and, We were talking about it last week on Buffalo Bills Weekly, how week 8, 9, and 10 is where you have to start seeing improvements for the better with a new defense. Otherwise, you've got to make a whole different kind of change, and that's usually lineup changes. So we'll see where it goes. Finally, the hunting season award. Hunting season.
01:07:22
Speaker 8: Bills outside linebacker Greg Grusso is back to hunting, affecting the quarterback in the run game and the pass game. Finishes the game with three quarterback hits, a sack, two passes defensed. It was fun to see him get out there and wreck a game plan yesterday. He was quiet for a few weeks. Doesn't mean he wasn't doing anything. We just didn't see the sack numbers that we saw in the beginning of the season. But fun to see him get back in and create some havoc.
01:07:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, he played extremely well, as did the entire defensive front. I thought, particularly in the run game, I thought with Fanano in the game, I thought Derrick Henry was going to get 50 carries. Yeah, right? I thought he was going to just hand it right, hand it left, hand it in the middle.
01:08:07
Speaker 4: It was a one-score game until the middle of the third quarter. That's right. But this is par for the course with the Ravens' offense. They don't give Henry the ball in the second half. He had four carries last week in the second half.
01:08:19
Speaker 3: I just thought that was a big miss.
01:08:22
Speaker 4: Up 13-0.
01:08:22
Speaker 3: I think it's a big miss.
01:08:23
Speaker 4: I don't know why they continue to do that. It's baffling to me.
01:08:27
Speaker 3: It is baffling to me. As well. I thought Derrick Henry was just going to say, I got this. Hand him the ball and let him go. He's hard to stop. Yeah.
01:08:36
Speaker 4: Also with that sack by Greg Russo yesterday, he moved past Darryl Talley for eighth on the Bills all-time sack list. He now has 39.
01:08:44
Speaker 8: Snaps for Greg.
01:08:46
Speaker 2: Way to go.
01:08:47
Speaker 4: Passes a wall of fame yesterday. Maddie, thank you for those Maddie Awards. We appreciate it.
01:08:51
Speaker 3: Of course.
01:08:52
Speaker 4: We do have to step aside and take a break. When we come back, we're back to your phone calls for your biggest takeaways from Buffalo's 36-10 win. over the Ravens at Highmark Stadium yesterday. We're back in a flash here on One Bills Live.
01:09:16
Speaker 13: Hey, I'm so appreciative of you guys. Hey, that second half, everything we talked about right there, man,
that's who we are. All right, and the opportunity to.
01:09:22
Speaker 4: Finish, man, did exactly that.
01:09:24
Speaker 13: All right, I got a couple game balls, man.
01:09:25
Speaker 4: Got a couple game balls.
01:09:26
Speaker 13: Hey, his first career interception, IQG!
01:09:36
Speaker 3: But first and foremost, I want to say thank God.
01:09:38
Speaker 13: I want to thank all y'all boys for pushing me to be the best version of myself.
01:09:41
Speaker 3: Go Bills.
01:09:42
Speaker 13: And you know what it has to be, man.
01:09:46
Speaker 2: Most touchdown passes in team history.
01:09:55
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta say something.
01:09:56
Speaker 4: Oh, uh, good job. Yeah, love it.
01:09:59
Speaker 13: Hey, hey, this one right here, man. 145 total yards of f * * * ing offense, right? Three takeaways, four sacks. Hey, and we finished, man. Defense, the way you guys f * * * ing respond, that's how we practice.
01:10:09
Speaker 6: You earned it.
01:10:09
Speaker 13: Bradley Chubb, here we go, baby. All right, this is one of the most important, man. You guys know what that was like, man, in practice, man. Having our guy Declan out there, man. Declan, we appreciate you, man.
01:10:33
Speaker 4: Thank you for bringing us hope and light, man.
01:10:34
Speaker 12: You're the man.
01:10:35
Speaker 8: Declan right here.
01:10:39
Speaker 3: Hey, bells on me. Bells on three. One, two, three.
01:10:43
Speaker 4: All right, so that was Make-A-Wish. recipient Declan, who got the final game ball in the locker room victory speech. So congrats to him and the Bills with a 26-point victory over the Ravens. And 716-427-0989 is where you can weigh in with your biggest takeaways from the victory yesterday. Got some open lines for you there, but we lead off with Butch on the east side. What do you got for us, Butch?
01:11:09
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01:11:17
Speaker 9: I just want to get right to it.
01:11:18
Speaker 4: A couple things, really.
01:11:21
Speaker 10: Last week, a week ago, we were speaking about going into the bye week, and it was really only one thing that I looked at our team that I thought our team needed, and I'm glad that it did take place. Even though Steve said that he doesn't see what the difference would make, I disagree because I couldn't comment because I was off the line about what Steve said. And I concur with Brady and him putting Jim Leonard upstairs in that box. I really believe the reason I say that is I'm not saying Jim couldn't do it from the sideline. It's just that it's a new defense that you're trying to install. You inherit in parts to actually make your defense great immediately because we're a playoff team. And I just thought that he could see the game more up top and see exactly what situation on football, when to do things and when not to do things.
01:12:10
Speaker 9: And it paid off.
01:12:11
Speaker 10: And I look forward to
that moving forward. I don't want to put that on the show. Secondly is, you know, sometimes as a military soldier that I am retired, is that I remember my drill sergeant when we was overseas would say, sometimes you can have your hand in your three-point of contact, sometimes get in your own way. Um, and I really believe that, you know, Joe, Joe Brady's my guy, you know, he's my guy. He was my guy always since he's been here, but sometimes Sean McDermott last year had to really meant a little bit to get in some kind of a rhythm. Uh, I really believe that Joe sometimes need to listen to Pete a little bit. Cause sometimes you can see Pete's offense. They bought some of the new Orleans saints with the bills and that's using his backs, uh, with Alva Cabrera. Yesterday in the first quarter, you see Joe was just calling plays, and the reason I say that is even though you guys were in the booth and Steve was on the sideline on the TV, you could see it from a distance. When he go ahead and he'll say, he'll run a play and a play doesn't work. And you can see Joe like, tag, it didn't work. And it was a play that really shouldn't have been called in the first place. So moving forward with this is that I want the Buffalo Bills going into this next game. One, with Terrell Shavers, Terrell Shavers getting acclimated. Secondly, use your backs. Find a way to go ahead and use Ray Davis and use.
01:13:41
Speaker 15: Ty Johnson.
01:13:44
Speaker 10: In the back of the Santac, coming out the backfield, catching passes, and getting in some kind of a rhythm. But thanks so much for taking my call.
01:13:50
Speaker 3: I love you guys. All right, thanks, Butch. Thanks, Butch.
01:13:53
Speaker 4: I think you better get ready for a lot of backs being used in swing passes, screens, whatever it is, because with the way Minnesota plays defense, you're going to have to get the ball out of Josh's hands quickly, and that should open up some opportunities for the backs. I'm very curious what the approach is going to be against a defense that routinely puts eight guys up at the line of scrimmage and will sometimes bring four, five, six, seven, and eight guys So you don't know who is coming and who is not. And they will back out nose tackles and bring a corner. They will back out a linebacker, bring an edge. They will back out an edge, bring a linebacker. They do anything and everything, and you've basically got to guess right and pick up the right people at the right time or it's a jailbreak. And that's what's so confounding with how Brian Flores, the defensive coordinator for the Vikings, draws it up.
01:14:48
Speaker 3: And you're right, and Butch... I don't remember our conversation about Jim Leonard being upstairs, but you were right, obviously. I mean, he called it a very nice game. And I will acknowledge, too, that coaches watch film more than anybody that you can imagine. I mean, that's all they do. It's their job. They watch film. They study. They know their players. They
know the defenses. They know the offenses. They know both sides of the ball. They know who they're facing and why. They know what they want to do and why. And they see it on film. And that's where the coaches sit is upstairs where the film is taken. So it gives them that familiarity. So Jim Leonard has watched a million hours of tape. When he sees it from upstairs, he gets a better handle on it quicker, and he doesn't have to have anything communicated to him. That helped, obviously. Whether that helped or not, I mean, Jim Leonard, he may be back down on the field as far as we know. We haven't heard anything about it until we talk to him. They'll come out today and have some information. And I know, because I know the guy next to me is going to ask him, like, how was it? upstairs, right? If he doesn't ask it, somebody's going to ask him, how was it? Did that make a difference? If it did, you can bet it'll happen again. So you might have been on point, Butch, with saying Jim Leonard should have been upstairs. And using the running backs, listen, yes, you're right. We are all about that, especially given Pete Carmichael and Joe Brady's propensity and history with– New Orleans Saints and Alvin Kamara and all that, it doesn't help when you throw it to the back right out of the gate and he drops that dude. You know, that's frustrating. The drop passes in the first half of this game changed everything. And the drop pass interception that gave the Ravens the chance to score their only touchdown of the entire game didn't help.
01:16:42
Speaker 4: And coaches can say whatever they want. It's human nature to be impacted with your own play calling and after you see that stuff happen. It's just human nature.
01:16:50
Speaker 10: Right.
01:16:51
Speaker 3: So, all that going into that stew, you're right on a lot of things, Butch. And this next week, you're facing a defense that is a different animal. And you may have to do something a little bit out of your comfort zone or a little bit off the menu or a little bit different than you've been asked to do in this game against this defense in Minnesota. Now, I believe the Bills have got it under the hood to do whatever they want offensively against anybody. They will have a plan. I know this, too. Minnesota hadn't seen a team like this offense. This defense in Minnesota hadn't seen an offense like this one. Detroit's pretty good, but they just got their first loss to a team like Detroit. Detroit had to score 19 points to win that game.
01:17:40
Speaker 4: That was at home, and they only had 19.
01:17:42
Speaker 3: They only had 19.
01:17:43
Speaker 4: Bills have to go on the road. where communication is going to be a bigger challenge, and communication is of the utmost importance against a defense like this, right?
01:17:50
Speaker 3: Communication is going to be a problem for their defense, too. That changes things. Their defense is going to be in a loud environment, too, because they're going to be screaming at
the Bills' offense. Bills' offense has been there, and they've operated in that. We'll see. So you may be right. You may be right. This is going to be a really interesting game. Number one offense, a bad defense, and a a bad offense against a bad defense in Bills. So when the Bills' offense is on the field, they're going to be up against a really good defense. And when the Bills' defense is on the field, they're going to be up against an offense that has struggled. It's going to be a really interesting game.
01:18:33
Speaker 4: You mentioned Tyrell Shavers. He remains on the PUP list as of right now, but with the Joshua Palmer injury, does the team decide? If the hamstring injury is severe enough, they might just put him on IR and create a roster spot. Right. for a guy who might be ready. I'm not saying Shavers is ready to return right now. He just started practicing last week off the ACL knee injury to open up his 21-day practice window. But it could happen. And knowing you're unlikely to have Palmer this week, It's nice to have Shavers as an option to just plug right back into the lineup. And, yes, Skyler Bell can be active this week. He was inactive yesterday.
01:19:15
Speaker 3: And you've got the two guys that have been practicing hard as well. You've got Trent Shurfield on the practice squad.
01:19:24
Speaker 4: Jamory Macklin.
01:19:24
Speaker 3: You've got Jamory Macklin on the practice squad.
01:19:26
Speaker 13: Steven Gosnell.
01:19:26
Speaker 3: Steven Gosnell on the practice squad. You've got some guys that can step up and who know the offense, who've been in the building. And at least Josh Allen knows what they look like when they're out there running routes. whether he has that chemistry with him or not. So they've got some guys healthy, but I'm with Browning. The way Joshua went down yesterday, Palmer I'm talking about, it was bad. I don't think he's a Caleb Williams type that's screaming at the top of his lungs over a grade one, but he went down hard.
01:19:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, trying to execute that double move.
01:19:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so I wouldn't be. shocked if he goes on IR for four weeks just because they got some guys they can move up.
01:20:08
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:20:09
Speaker 4: And get him right in the process.
01:20:10
Speaker 3: And get him right.
01:20:11
Speaker 4: Let's go to D.C. in North Carolina next. What's up, D.C.? Hey, guys.
01:20:16
Speaker 15: How you doing? It's been a long time.
01:20:18
Speaker 6: Good to hear you.
01:20:20
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
01:20:20
Speaker 15: All right. So I've been listening to like the some of the naysayers about, you know, whether or not the defense has actually improved or not. And this is the They're playing against a third-string quarterback. But I just want to do a stack comparison I've been researching between the averages of the first three games as far as the defensive output goes and our performance yesterday. So points allowed, the average, I'm going to go with the average first and then yesterday's performance. So 28.5 points allowed per game on the average as opposed to 10 yesterday. Total yards allowed, 386 as opposed to 144. Third down conversion rate, 45% to 23.1%. That's an improvement of 21.9%. Resting yards per carry, 5.23 over the first six games to 2.65. And I think that's why they abandoned the running game with Derrick Henry, because it just wasn't producing enough to get them through the rest of the game. Sacks allowed was 1.83 average over the first three games. for six and then four, uh, full sacks yesterday. And I'm just looking at this and I'm going, my comments after week one to you guys was, you know, Hey, if this, if this, if this is an indicator for a hard four, we're what we can be going forward, forward up until the bi-week. Um, I was really interested to see what, what, what would happen after the bi-week. And yes, there's been a lot of attrition, uh, when it comes to the secondary, but the combination of the Corey couch and, and, and, uh, What was the.
01:22:05
Speaker 4: Other quarterback's name? Dino Stone.
01:22:09
Speaker 9: Dino Stone.
01:22:10
Speaker 15: I think, yeah, I mean, Necessity is the mother of invention, guys. It's just like, yeah, this came together in the way that it did just because it happened that way. But I hope they look at this, you know, with Leonard being in the booth with this combination we have in the secondaries, the first game that our secondary actually played complimentary football with our front end. I think it's amazing. And as far as a third string quarterback goes, we shut down Zay Flowers. He's got to get open. It doesn't matter what quarterback you have. He's got to get open. We shut him down. And our front end basically held Derrick Henry to almost nothing. So I think this is an amazing output after the bye week. And I think this is what Jim Lunder was talking about when he said it's going to take at least, you know, the first half of the season for our defense to actually congeal. And a beautiful thing that he did yesterday was he actually went from a 39% pressure or blitz rate to almost 65% yesterday. And that's very telling. I'll take your comments off there.
01:23:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, no problem, DC. It's a one-game sample, and it's a third-string quarterback for the majority of the game. So you have to take the success with a grain of salt. And I agree with Jim Leonard. I was thinking we'd start to see this defense turn a corner around week 8, 9, or 10. Now, we cannot dismiss the fact, if we're going to take into account what happened yesterday, you can also not dismiss the fact that they were playing a third-string quarterback. And here's the other thing. Out of the shoot, the Bills are playing what I believe is an above-average quarterback in C.J.
01:23:51
Speaker 3: Stroud.
01:23:53
Speaker 4: A very good quarterback, probably a top 10 quarterback in Jared Goff in week two. All right, the Chargers are a mess, whatever. Herbert's a
talented quarterback. Drake May in week four, even though his struggles beforehand were well noted. And then Matthew Stafford in week five, and a competent and productive veteran quarterback in Kirk Cousins in week six. These next three games... You play the equivalent of Joe Fignano, a rookie, undrafted quarterback in his first ever action in the NFL. Kyler Murray, who has not been productive as the starter for Minnesota. Geno Smith, who is starting to put points on the board but has struggled for most of the year with the Jets. And then Malik Willis after that. I mean, those are probably the lesser of the quarterbacks you have played all season long to this point. You know, then it gets hard again because you got Mahomes, May, Jordan Love, Caleb Williams in succession.
01:24:56
Speaker 3: Bo Nix.
01:24:56
Speaker 9: Yeah.
01:24:57
Speaker 4: So the defense does have a chance to get fat here. the next couple of weeks and put up some impressive statistics. I also want to believe in there they are improving because I believe they are improving incrementally. But it was hard to make a firm determination yesterday because of the quarterback who was on the field for most of the game.
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Speaker 3: But success does give you confidence that you're playing better. The film doesn't lie. And there's going to be some good things to see out there. You're right. It is something to take Zay Flowers off the shelf for the Baltimore Raiders.
01:25:29
Speaker 4: Flowers to Benford and Hamlin yesterday on that.
01:25:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you know they're asking a lot of him. When you come in as Fanano comes in off the bench, he's got to say, all right, where's the guy? I've got to have Flowers. Quarterbacks lean on their best people. And he wasn't there yesterday, which is startling to me.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he averages 100 yards a game. It was second only to Jackson Smith and Jigba.
01:25:57
Speaker 3: Derrick Henry and Zay Flowers disappearing yesterday. I don't know. Some of it, yes, Bill's defense. But some of it is Ravens coaching staff.
01:26:06
Speaker 4: Five targets, no catches.
01:26:09
Speaker 3: That's troubling to me if I'm a Ravens fan, I think.
01:26:12
Speaker 4: Break time for us. One final segment to go here on a Buffalo Victory Monday on One Bills Live. All right, one final segment here on a Buffalo victory Monday after the Bills' 36-10 win over the Ravens to improve to 6-1 on the season. And we go to Randy out in Phoenix. What do you got for us, Randy?
01:26:34
Speaker 3: Hey, guys.
01:26:35
Speaker 14: Hold on.
01:26:36
Speaker 6: Turn my radio off. Hey, so I am an admin law attorney out here in Phoenix. All day long, I look at cases for professional boards where... you know, I'm advising the board about the evidentiary sufficiency, the intent.
01:26:54
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah.
01:26:55
Speaker 6: And I thought you guys did a really good job earlier of discussing the fine with Roquan Smith. And I'm just curious, what is that process like in the NFL? Are there attorneys that said I.
01:27:04
Speaker 9: Can do that?
01:27:04
Speaker 6: Or is it athlete? How do you get that job?
01:27:08
Speaker 10: You know?
01:27:09
Speaker 3: Right, right. Okay.
01:27:10
Speaker 4: Yeah. Let me help you with that, Randy. And thanks for the call. First of all, if it's, Personal conduct policy stuff for players. They have a former judge that handles that. That's Sue Robinson. She's the jointly appointed disciplinary officer for the NFL. And the NFLPA has approved her as well. So both sides in the CBA approve an appointed disciplinary officer. But that's for like personal conduct policy stuff off the field. Like the Josh Jacobs case, she's handling that. For stuff on the field, you have what are in the, they're independently reviewed by joint appeals officers. Those are former players, Derek Brooks, James thrash, Jordy Nelson. Those guys handle the on the field stuff and issue out disciplinary action as is needed, whether it's a game suspension, a fine, whatever. That's kind of how that all works. So hopefully that helps you.
01:28:12
Speaker 3: Yeah. Both sides of the CBA are in that room. Yes. And they're, Yeah, players and management.
01:28:17
Speaker 4: And players can appeal.
01:28:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can appeal.
01:28:20
Speaker 4: Because Sam Franklin appealed his spitting accusation.
01:28:23
Speaker 3: He got his reduced.
01:28:24
Speaker 4: Reduced to a five. But that's about it for us today. Steve and I will discuss this game with you plenty more tomorrow and begin to turn the page ahead to the Minnesota Vikings Monday night football. But that's it for us today on a Buffalo Victory Monday. We'll talk about it with you more tomorrow. We'll see you at 10.