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All Right, welcome into a Buffalo victory Monday. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and if you've tuned in and hope to hear the game, rewind. We will get it to you in short order. Just had some technical difficulties this morning, So for those of you eagerly anticipating that we will get it to you at some point during our three hour Buffalo Victory Monday today, apologies. So, yeah, the Bills are your AFC East champions for a fifth straight season, an unprecedented run in Bill's history. They have never done that before. So congratulations to the twenty twenty four edition of the Bills for making it five consecutive division titles. And they did it in convincing fashion last time.
Forget me for just doing the golf clap in a studio, but we're an uncharted territory now. They clinched the division in a year where they were picked to go third by a lot of people. They did it faster and more convincingly than any team in history.
Yeah, they are the fourth team to have done it with five games to play, first team to do it with five games to play since the two thousand and nine Indianapolis Colts, one of eight teams to ever do it. It's all, as we said, also the first time the Bills have ever won five Division crowns in a row. This win also gives the Bills their sixth consecutive ten win season. It's the sixth longest streak in NFL history, six straight seasons of at least ten victories. It's also their tenth consecutive win coming off a bye week eight under Sean McDermott. They also did it the two previous seasons, so that goes all the way back to twenty fifteen. Winning off the by the Bills have scored thirty points or more in six straight games nine total games this season. That is the most in the NFL. They have now tied the franchise record of nine games in one season scoring thirty points or more, tying the nineteen seventy five oh J. Simpson led Bills, the nineteen ninety one Bills, the twenty twenty Bills, and the twenty twenty one Bill. So there are five teams in Bill's history that have scored thirty points per game thirty points in a game nine times three of them are under Sean McDermott, and this year's addition still has five games to play. Yeah, they're gonna get the record.
Yeah, this seed this twenty four, they'll be by themselves. Yeah, this twenty twenty four edition of the Buffalo Bill's are really good at football. They are. There's so many there because of the circumstances of the way the season started with all the new faces, the trade for Amari Cooper, the way Mac Hollins has had to step up, the way Khalil Shakers continued his development, Dawson Knox filling in now for Kincaid who has been out for a couple of weeks, and now Keon Coleman who is just about to step up to the plate and started doing some great things before his wrist injury.
Ray Davis James Cook games breaking back.
There have been reasons and opportunities for so many players on the offensive side of the football to to have to have to come through for the team in order to win football games, and they have all done it. They have. You'd be hard pressed to find somebody who has not stepped up to the plate for this team offensively and helped them win games. Mac Hollins, case in point, James Cook, Ray David. I mean, you go down the list, and that's with guys in and out for injuries. Don't forget Amari Cooper and and Keon Coleman were out a couple of weeks ago at.
The same time, and Kin cad Or Coleman yesterday.
So this team looks different than other iterations of the Bills, and they clinched the division faster mainly because they're hard to match up with offensively and defensively. Last night was no exception. They're a timely, playmaking defense. Now, they're not a suffocating thing like some of these other teams. They're not like but man oh man, they got some guys with the antenna up in the secondary making some plays. And I'll say this too, kudos to Bobby Babbage for the way he has coordinated this defense, particularly in game. Yeah, there's a lot clicking for the Bills in Buffalo on and off the field, and it's been fun to watch. It's been a fun year. I mean, let's face it, it's been an absolutely fun fun year now. And I got to ask Sean McDermott about this, Well, what do you do? How hard do you chase that one seed, No, and there's only one team you're gonna go on the road to face. And if that happens, and you've got a chance to get like fifty three guys as healthy and sharp as they've ever been because you can rest them, you know, at different times during this next six game streak. Your problem now is staying sharp because you can sit. I mean you're in. Not only are you in, you stomped the AFC East, well, you stomped them.
They haven't even played New England yet. Let's not forget that. So there was a cool and I'll mention this the cool statistic from opti stats on Twitter. So I am just parroting it here. I'm not taking any credit for this, but it's worth mentioning. The Bills, as we know, don't play the Patriots until Week sixteen and have already clinched their division title. No other team in NFL history has clinched their division more than one week prior to playing one of their division rivals. For the first time, the Bills have done it three weeks clear of even lining up against the New England Patriots. Not that we ever thought the Patriots had a chance to win the division this year. But can you imagine what it's like in New England. They're like, son of a gun. We haven't even played those jokers yet and they've already won the division. What the hell? Yeah, they can't even I didn't even get a swing at them yet.
They're not there. Yeah, they're not even.
Everybody in the division lost yesterday or lost this past week. By the way, it's crazy Dolphin's on Thanksgiving. And then the Jets. We'll get to the Jets in just a second, but we've got a lot to discuss about the Bills first. Among the other details, Bills were the second team to clinch a playoff berth in twenty twenty four. Chiefs did it on Friday in the Black Friday Game, as their opponent again threw away another opportunity to beat them. Raiders in position, looks like they're setting up a game winning field goal attempt and Aidan O'Connell messes up the snap count. Jackson powers Johnson, the center snaps the ball. O'Connell's not ready for it. It bounces off of him. It's recovered by the Chiefs. Chiefs win nineteen seventeen. I mean, I am convinced. I am one hundred percent convinced. You cannot convince me otherwise that Andy Reid has made a deal with the devil. He is absolutely they made a deal with the devil. Joby Dbiassi on the morning show on WGR when I was on with him and Jeremy this morning, said, the Bills are are using fun magic to win football games. The Chiefs are using dark magic. They have a deal with Satan and that's the only reason that they are ahead of the Bills in terms of overall record right now at eleven and one, because the way in which they are winning these football games is uncanny, like you can't invent. Just when you think you can't invent any more ways for the Chiefs to pull a game out of their dairy air, they go ahead.
And do it. Yeah, they And there was you can imagine given the calm and logical and sedate nature of social media what people were saying about the way the Chiefs won that game with the officials coming in.
Oh illegal shift, Yeah, it really was.
The play was a atrocity from the word go.
The Raiders screwed it up.
The Raiders. The Raiders screwed it up four different ways from Sunday, but they came in that the officials came in. One was inadvertently because the clock was stopped and it was not running. There was he was signaling for an illegal procedure penalty when an actually ality it was an illegal shift because they had never gotten set. So all of that stuff's going on. So and because of the fact that the clock wasn't run, the clock was running, well, the clock running, I can't remember, it was not.
I was too busy falling to my knees shouting no, Oh my god. I literally I'm in my living room watching this game. My wife's in the kitchen, and I fall to my knees and shout no. And she goes, oh, my god, what happened. I was like, the Chiefs are gonna win again. She goes, oh, for God's sake. She was looked out of the room.
And the officials come off looking like it came off looking like the officials just figured out a way to end the game. Right, there 's favor.
We know that narrative. That really wasn't.
That's really not what happened. But man, ohman, it was to the casual fan. They were they were like looking sideways at each other one is that really that real?
So it was the work of Satan, that's what happened.
So the Chiefs. So the Chiefs come out, They're still a game ahead of the Buffalo Bills, or half game up anyway, and that's where it's going to stand until you know, some team doesn't let them, you know, gets up nine points with no time left.
Right. Five of the previous six teams to clinch their division with five or more weeks remaining in the regular season made the Super Bowl.
Yeah.
The only team to actually go on and win the Super Bowl were the nineteen eighty five Bears.
The problem with that is there's so there's two months of football left. Yes, you got six regular season games, and you've got three two or three playoff games and you got all that stuff going. Yeah. So yeah, it's a long way to go from here.
Josh Allen became the first quarterback in NFL history to have a passing touchdown, rushing touchdown, and a receiving touchdown all in the same game. Two passing touchdowns, one rushing touchdown, one receiving touchdown in the win over the forty nine ers. Allan was not credited with a reception, but he was credited with seven receiving yards yards and a receiving touchdown. The list of games of players with zero receptions and a receiving touchdown is rare, but this is not the first time this has come up. So Jamiir Gibbs and a guy named Alan Rice are the only players in the Super Bowl era to score a receiving touchdown in a game in which they did not record a reception. But I did a little bit of digging and I found a guy the last quarterback because they ran through the four times this has happened for a quarterback. Brad Johnson did it for the Minnesota Vikings off a tip pass, he comes back to him and he runs it in for a touchdown. Marcus Mariota did it against the Chiefs when he was the quarterback of the Titans. Tip pass and the red zone comes back to him and he runs it in for a touchdown. As we know, that is not the way Josh Allen did it. There is one other quarterback that did it just the way that Josh did, and he may have done it in even more impressive fashion. La Rams quarterback Frank Ryan October thirtieth nineteen sixty through a pass to the left flat and for some reason, just like Josh followed the play, his receiver turned around lateraled it to him, and he ran thirty seven yards for a touchdown in a forty eight to thirty five victory over the Detroit Lions. Nineteen sixty is the only other time something remotely like this happened, So I got unbelievable.
Is it me or do? And I think most Bills fans think this is You're almost immune to it now. It happens so often, but it seems like two, maybe three times every season of Josh's career. He becomes the first quarterback in NFL history to do this, that or the other. It's like three times a season. Yeah, most touchdowns thrown in the first six years that well, And I mean he broke this. I mean this broke He broke.
The tie with Hall of Famer Jim Kelly. He's the only quarter total touchdowns in Bill's history. With his first touchdown pass to Mack.
High and he's the only quarterback to run, throw, and catch touchdown in a game. I mean, it seems to happen like him three times a season for his entire career.
He also improved to ten and two in home prime time games including playoffs in his career. That's tied for the second best quarterback winning percentage in such games since nineteen fifty. The only guy with a better winning percentage. Some Hall of Famer named Steve Young as a better winning percentage in primetime games. Steve Young is fourteen and one. Josh Allen now tied with Lamar Jackson in home primetime winning percentage at ten and two. Some other notes to mention Besides the incomparable Josh Allen, the Bills ran for a season high two hundred and twenty rushing yards in Week thirteen, fifth most rushing yards in a game in the Josh Allen era. James Cook, as we know, led the Bills with one hundred and seven yards on fourteen carries, most of that coming on his sixty five yard touchdown run down the sideline. And you want to talk about glue guys on this football team, can I raise my hand and tell everybody that I told you Mac Collins was a glue guy when they signed him. I was talking about him as a glue guy in the summer after witnessing his impact on other players in the practice setting and training camp. This guy not only has the touchdown reception from Josh Allen in the front right corner of the end zone where Josh just gives him a chance to make a play and he boxes out Tarvarius Ward because he's a six to three receiver with thirty four inch arms. Yeah, but he also has the key kickout block on the touchdown run by James Cook. He totally kicks that guy out of there and out to the right flat and James Cook has a cavernous hole to run through for his sixty five yard touchdown down the sideline.
Yeah, and that's that is a glue guy, It really is. He. You see him on the field a lot, and James Cook showed why we've seen it. But that is that right there, the longest run of his career. Those guys, there's three guys had the angle on him when he when he got by the block that you mentioned, and then they didn't have it, and then they didn't have the angle that play the sixty five yard or after the missed field goal by the forty nine ers, there's there's a couple of plays. One Niners missed a field goal right there so it would have been seven to six and you're receiving the kickoff. They missed the field goal. Cook steps up one play, boom sixty five yard. Now it's fourteen to three, not seven to six. It's fourteen to three. That's a huge play in the game. And then, of course after halftime, the Niners are going in for the for the touchdown to get it to fourteen twenty or two ten to twenty one, and no, Taylor Rap knocks it loose and Benford scoops it and he goes down the sideline and now it's first and ten forty eight yard line going the other way. What to play? Those those two plays or three plays are unbelievable.
Let's not forget that's not the only touchdown saving play that Taylor Rap made in the game. In the first quarter, right, he makes a shoe string tackle on Christian McCaffrey who thinks he's going in for the touchdown. Not only that he injures his pcl on that play, because on the next carry he comes up lame and lays down on the field and exits the game. In the first quarter, Taylor Rap, who touchdown saving place?
Yeah, and this is we're seeing it right here, he gets he has a good tackle. But McCaffrey, Oh.
He's ticked because he thought he's going in.
He knew, but you're right. I think that's the play where McCaffrey got hurt, not the one, but preceding. I think he just noticed it when he took the hand off. Actually, I had the I had a PCL injury when in my rookie season, and you can function, the guy's told me, and I guess I proved it to be true. You can function without a PCL ligament. It's a small ligament. But yeah, that's the season. It's over for him.
Yeah, it could be. He's going to get an MRI today. He has a PCL strain. That's how the injury has been diagnosed. But they're going to take an MRI to see if the ligament is torn and it could cost him the rest of the season. And I even said it on the broadcast. Look, did the game get easier for the Bills when Christian McCaffrey exited the game? Of course, But you don't wish that on anybody, No, I mean, that was what horrible to see, especially the way he just kind of pulled up lame and gave himself up on the play. Oh terrible.
What a frustrating season for McCaffrey. And it's got to be hugely frustrated. You feel for the guy, a guy who's got huge aspirations and is a huge part of what they were planning on doing offensively. He was out for the entire first half of the season with tendonitis and both achilles. He comes back and trying to get back in and then this happens. Man, oh man, what an what a horrible way to suffer through an entire football season.
It's I talked to forty nine Ers radio play by play man Greg Papa. I said, man, you guys are having a tough go of it here with all these injuries. He goes, we don't have seven starters on the field, and he just lost McCaffrey. He's like, this is nuts. I mean, and I would argue, And I mentioned this on the pregame run up to kickoff with my broadcast partner Eric Wood, and you experienced this too, and we talked about this last week, Steve. With all these injuries that the Niners were coming into the game with, your team went through it too. You play all you make all these deep playoff runs in consecutive seasons. The Niners have made the NFC Championship game in four of the last five seasons. They've played twelve playoff games, twelve playoff games in the last five years, nine in the last three years, which with largely the same roster. That has to have a cumulative effect on bodies.
And you go back and it's interesting you go back and look at those you like, the greatest comeback game that was here in Buffalo. You got Cornelius Ben and Thurman Thomas standing on the sidelines with Jim I mean, Frank's playing, Yeah, Thurman's out, Corneaus Bennett' standing over there. I mean, it takes a toll because of the length of time, you know, not enough recovery time. You know that the higher off season, shorter off seasons is huge. Plus you get these guys that are coming in back then you had five preseason games in some of those seasons. It does take a toll. And these teams that go deep into the playoffs, it seems to its.
Head they're out of gas. Yeah, I mean they've now lost back to back games by twenty five plus points for just the fourth time in franchise history. They lost by twenty eight last week, twenty five yesterday. I mean it's the first time that the I mean the Bill, the forty nine Ers have a minus fifty three point differential in back to back games. It's tied for the worst in any two game span in the Kyle Shanahan era. In his era, they fell to five and seven on the year, and they have never made the playoffs the forty nine Ers when they have started five and seven or worse. So really, that team just needs to spend the rest of this year getting healthy because they are beat up and worn down.
As close as the division is out there, you just feel like, you know, they're sitting here with five or six games left and the end of the season seems like it's light years away, right just trying to get just trying to get through every game. Look, I mean, they're still two gets. They're five and seven, Seattle seven and five.
To just call it now, the Bill, just think about it.
The Bills were three games back last year with five games I know, but and the they were like, let's go this. You get a different vibe from this.
Team is not equipped to do that right now. They are just not And you know you don't want to, you don't want to call it, but like the doctor in the er when they can't bring somebody back, just call it time of death Week thirteen. For the San Francisco forty nine ers, they are not. They don't have the horses to do it. All the horses they have are getting a little long in the tooth. I mean, they need to come up with some good draft classes the next two years if they want to sustain the level of success they have enjoyed the last several years.
And think about it. To come out and going through what they went through last night, snowstorm, you can't play the way you want to play. You lose your star player and offense right out of the gate when it looked like he was really gonna shift gears. I mean, Jeffrey had seven for fifty three, like in the first quarter.
And then Taylor makes that tackle, he gets injured, and the whole thing turns on it. Yeah, I want to give some credit. Steve already did to some extent to Buffalo's defense run by Bobby Babbage this year as a first year coordinator. They came into this game leading the NFL in turnover differential at plus fourteen. They finished this game plus seventeen, winning the turnover margin three to nothing.
And they got one. They had three recovered fumbles they got they got robbed of an interception. Yeah, the first quarter, horrible, horrible penalty call, A call.
Tomar Hamlin for illegal contact when George Kittle basically tripped over Rasul Douglas who fell down and fell into DeMar Hamlin, and Hamlin gets called for illegal contact? Are you kidding me? And then makes the interception Me. I was beside myself. Steve was pounding the table two rows behind me in sense at the call. I don't know. Well, I shouldn't say this because the refsos top our expectations in the worst way possible. I can't imagine a worse call, but I'm sure there are some out there.
Yeah, terrible.
It should have been four takeaways for the Bills.
It should have been four takeaways. So, although that would have changed the trajectory of the game in that moment, but.
So as of right now, the Bills are tied for second in the league in takeaways with twenty four in twelve games. Twenty let me say that again, twenty four in twelve games and they are a plus seventeen on the season that leads the league. The only team with more takeaways right now the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah, and look out, look out. The Steelers are right on the heels of the Buffalo Bills. Their offense has pulled even with the level of play of their defense, and the Steelers, I would argue, are more dangerous than the Baltimore Ravens because you know what the Baltimore Ravens do. They give up leads in the fourth quarter and their kicker doesn't know where he is right now.
They are justin.
Tucker cost them a football game yesterday. They lose that game twenty four to nineteen. He misses two field goals and an extra point which adds up to seven point seven points and they lose by five.
The bolt, holy crap, do not seem to be clutch. The Steelers seem to have that gene. The Bills seem to have that gene. Obviously, the Chiefs seem to have that gene. There are teams that when they get in these type games, they find a way. The Minnesota Vikings, same thing. They're you know, they seem to have something up there that you know, they they thrive in those moments. Baltimore does not. They'll beat you by fifteen a lot, yep, but when it gets to be close, they seem to crumble in those moments.
So let's go around the NFL here quickly, and we'll get to phone calls in short order. Here at eight h three zero five fifty one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty But around the NFL presented by Kalida Healthy, Official Healthcare System of the Buffalo Bills DFC Conference race is beginning to show a bit of separation. And while the Bills are still looking up at the Chiefs after the Raiders blew a chance to beat them an arrowhead last Friday, there are teams on Buffalo's heels now. The Steelers are rounding into form. As we said, they are now nine to three forty four to thirty eight win over Cincinnati takeaways a part of that victory. Chargers bounce back from their loss to Baltimore last week. They beat the Falcons on the road seventeen thirteen to quietly improve to eight and four on the season. Nobody's looking at the Chargers because they're not at the top of their division. With the Chiefs ahead of them, look out for that team. They play the Chiefs on the road on Sunday Night Football this week, and then there's another AFC West team to worry about. The seven and five Broncos play tonight as they host the Browns at Mile High. Steve and I talked about this before coming on the air. As you look at the AFC race, we know the Chiefs are still the top dog, but after the Bills the teams to worry about, in my opinion, Steelers, Chargers, Broncos, they are all cresting right now as we come down the stretch here at the end of the season. The Ravens are still a part of that conversation, but they got two main problems right now, giving up leads in the fourth quarter and their kicking game. The Ravens continue to express confidence in Justin Tucker after the worst game of the seven time Pro Bowl kickers career. Missed two field goals and an extra point. As we said, it was the difference in a five point loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. It marked the first time in Tucker's career in his thirteen seasons, that he missed three kicks in a game. In a matter of three months, Tucker has gone from being the most accurate kicker in NFL history to having his job questioned. I mean he said it himself. I feel like I cost us this one, but it doesn't really do anybody any good to dwell on it. So through thirteen weeks this season, Steve Tucker now ranks thirty third in the NFL with a kicking success rate of seventy point four percent. He has made ten kicks in twelve games, eight field goals, two extra points. It leads the NFL. This is a seismic problem.
Yeah, it's and Harball was asked, and they seem to be gonna They're gonna stick with him. Going into the game where he missed three kicks, he had already missed seven kicks in the season, where that matched his career high of missed kicks in an entire season. And they're like just over halfway through. He's struggling. He's struggling, and for a team like Baltimore in a race like they're in. He was right. It cost him yesterday. It cost him.
Yeah, and it's a costly loss in a very tight AFC North race. We get a little more facetious Now, Steve I saved this for you. Happy birthday to Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who turns forty one today and his biggest birthday present was at his interim head coach Jeff Ulbrick said he will continue as the Jets starting quarterback. The Jets had a twenty one to seven lead in the first half in playing the Seattle Seahawks at home after a ninety nine yard kick return for a touchdown, But in typical Jets fashion, they collapse and the Seahawks score nineteen unanswered points to win twenty six to twenty one. So to put the space time continuum that the Jets live in, let me just.
Paint the picture.
The Jets play the Seahawks yesterday. They're facing a former second round pick of THEIRS in quarterback Geno Smith. A former first round pick at quarterback Mark Sanchez is doing the broadcast for Fox. Their former GM Mike Tannenbaum is in the midst of a search for the next GM and head coach, as he's part of a search committee hired by Woody Johnson, the owner. And here's the best part. Tannembaum hired as GM fifteen years Ago is being lobbied by Rex Ryan, who he hired fifteen years ago for the job now as head coach. And to cap it all off, what started the nineteen unanswered point swing by the Seahawks was former Jets' first round pick defensive end Leonard Williams, who went ninety two yards on an interception return for a touchdown. The former Jets first round pick for the Seahawks finishes with two sacks, three tackles for loss, and a pick six. You cannot you cannot be any more jetsy than that.
The Jets were awash in bad karma. They were neck deep in it by all the guys they picked and were part of their absolute frustrations over the last fifteen years. All of them are circling and just kicking them in the teeth.
This is a defensive end that went ninety two yards.
Leonard Williams picking that off, dropping back in the coverage, catching the tip pass and just going the distance is just I mean, if I'm a if you're a Jets fan, you almost want to stick your finger down your throat. I mean, just you just you gotta get it out. I mean, you've gotta be sick. Just sick over the way that game went yesterday and all the former Jets and all the stuff going on. Aaron Rodgers turns forty one, he may as well turn seventy one today. They look they are so dysfunctional. It is just awful.
I don't know how you right it.
The Seahawks looked, they looked like they were struggling, they had all kinds of problems going on the first half. They come back and score all those points. And let me just tell you something, how good does Geno Smith feel? And the end of that game?
How good does Leonard Williams feel? All players who were cast off and they're actually good players.
The Jets can actually draft good players. They just don't know how to develop. And I'll say this too. You gotta sitting up there And I didn't listen to the game, so I don't know what he said. But Mark Sanchez sitting up in the booth fifth pick, He's got to be sitting there going, yeah, there you go.
I've seen this movie.
Yeah, I played that. I played that role better than Aaron Rodgers played it.
Anybody remember the Butterfly I was?
I was? I was better at this than Aaron Rodgers. I was a better character.
I went to the AFC title game two years in a row with this team. How great am I?
I mean, it's all Meanwhile, up this little voice from the top rows Rex Ryan going, I can fix it. I can fix it. I can fix it.
I know how to handle it.
I can do this. Dude, it is bad. I would so bad. I would welcome Oh are you kidding me? Yeah, they're not gonna hire Recks there.
Are you sure about that? Are you sure about I'm gonna say.
Yes, save this show.
Gonna say save this show.
They will not hire Rex Ryan to coach be the head coach of the Jets. I will say yes, they will not will There's no way. That's what I'm saying. I'm tentatively saying that because I because you just don't know. Listen, you know, you know me, I'm I'm kind of I've got to try to keep an even keila up here. And I'm you know, I'm most of these teams deserve the benefit because they're trying to do the right thing for these reasons. And but listen what we have witnessed from think about where we were, Brownie. We were at a spot with this Jets team we were, we were looking. I was going, man, they're.
Oh, they actually put some to the class draft classes together, like they're actually drafting line of scrimmage players in the draft.
Amazing.
I made the joke that we missed a holiday because we can't. You couldn't make fun of the Jets draft like we usually do.
And dude, we're right back in that same place.
They didn't just light it on fire. They hit it with a flamethrower. There's like a YouTube video.
Yeah, and then brought in a case of TNT and hit the plunger at the same time.
What are they doing?
What are they doing? Indeed, we gotta take a break. We will get to your phone calls though, when we return. So if you're holding at eight h three oh five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty stay where we are. We will get to you as we are taking your phone calls. We want your biggest takeaways from yesterday's twenty five point victory on Sunday Night Football over the defending NFC champions Back in a flash. Here on a Buffalo victory Monday on One Bill's Live, presented by Colide Help, It's Buffalo Bills.
Radio takes a snap quick hitter thrown behind but somehow caught and now lateral to Alan and reaching for the pylon.
Are you kidding me?
It's a touchdown? Unbelievable.
A catch by Amari Cooper, a lateral to Josh Allen and he runs the remaining five yards for the score.
Have you ever seen that one before?
This week's Player of the Game is quarterback Josh Allen's surprise surprise thirteen to seventeen passing fo one hundred and forty eight yards, two touchdowns, a rushing touchdown, and a receiving touchdown. The Player of the Game presented by Wegmans, the official tailgate headquarters of the Buffalo Bills. Get your new Bills Mafia tailgate sauces available now exclusively at Wegmans, including mild Wing, Hot Wing, and the new flavor this year, Sweet and Spicy Barbecue Sauce. Pretty straightforward, There no argument for me. He was ridunculous as you usual and may have vaulted himself into the MVP winner.
He's this week's He's this week's favorite, right, I mean yeah? And that's after coming off the bye week where he went into the bye week as the favorite after the twenty six yard fourth and two against the Chiefs, and that's he just keeps doing it. He's done it weekend, week out all year, and that's where he belongs. We will, you know, Bills fans will tell you that's he's been the MVP years before this as well. But you never know until the till the votes are cast. So certainly Bills fans aren't trading Josh Allen for anybody right now.
I saw in Good Morning Football they were comparing which one is the play of the year, Josh Allen's run to the pylon off a lateral or the Saquon Barkley reverse hop over a player. Those are the two images they.
Were Snowstorm adds something to Josh's well and he actually scored on the play, and he scored on the play.
Saquon Barkley did not. It's a twelve yard run. The most spectacular twelve yard run.
I'm not taking anyth away from Saquon was it was nobody's ever done for the moment and being creative and having being that kind of guy in that moment. That'll give you an idea of where these guys heads are. They're just they're just doing. They're just coming up with stuff backyard football. Yeah, they are doing in the moment something that not very many people are built or equipped to do, or have the confidence or ability to do the knowledge of their own abilities to do. It's pretty fun.
Oh yeah, it's pretty fun. Fun with a capital Fuh. Let's go to the phones though, at eight oh three five fifty eight five fifty two, five fifty to see what's your biggest takeaways from the game were, And we lead off with Tom on the west side. What do you got first?
Tom, Hey, Brownie, and Steve Oh. First off, Amari Cooper should get in a fifth stole that touchdown. He didn't get any credit for it. Uh, I'm wondering they were they able to pull off that drone show at halftime?
And now I got scraped.
Yeah, they got grounded. Okay, I got to a quick story. I gotta tell you. I was downtown Saturday morning running an errand, and I know the Niners got in on Friday. So I'm in this local coffee shop downtown and I ordered my food and I ran my errand, and when I came back to pick up my food, there's this big, tall guy. I'm six foot, and he was wearing a Niners jacket. It didn't have anything on the back of it. It was a real nice jacket, but it didn't. I just knew he was the Niners. So I walk up to him. I say, excuse me so I can get by him, and I go, are you in town for the game? And he's like yeah. So I'm sizing him up and down, and because I swear to God, I'm six foot and he had to be ahead higher on me. And I'm thinking, who was this guy who wasn't kittled because the town wasn't long enough. So I look at his jacket and I go, you might want a warmer jacket. I go they sell him at the bills store and he goes, do they have him in red? And I look around, I go red, white, and blue. And then when I was leaving, I look back up but and I go gold builds and I'm just psychful he didn't punch me in the back of the head.
Yeah all right, Tom, wait to stick up for your crew, though, uh job well done. You probably uh had a lineman there if he's a head taller than you. I mean, as we say all the time, they're the one percenters, and you don't really realize until you're standing next to one in a coffee shop and going, oh, okay, he's pretty big.
Yeah. Plus he could probably outrun you. Tom. I'm just saying so you don't want it's just.
A guess, but an educated one by Steve. Yeah, be careful out there. Uh, let's go to Kevin and Hamburg next. What's up Kevin?
Hey, guys, you thanks for taking my holiday.
Yeah, you too.
It was awesome the way we played. I mean, we looked like world beaters out there. However, the only thing I'm scared about, and I'm sure you're gonna hear it from other Bills fans the rest of the week is our run defense, and I'm sure you're gonna hear it again because you've probably heard it. I'm worried because Christian McCaffery, before he got hurt, was gashing us pretty bad. And if we played a running back who's not injured getting off an injury. I don't know who the Rams running back is next week, but I know David Montgomery comes up in two weeks, and I do not like the thought of him gashing us for some big runs if he don't get hurt and then the week against the Packers because he looks like he'd be a scary running back if we can stop McCaffery and he's injured.
Yeah, I think you got a factor in the weather a little bit here, Kevin. I understand the concern. You know, at the end of the day, the Niners average five point seven and carry not for nothing. The Bill's average five point eight and had about eighty yards more than the Niners did in this one. And yes they were shorthanded defensively due to injuries and stuff. But here's the problem, and Eric Wood pointed this out on the broadcast. When you're coming downhill with a running game coming straight at you, the angle of entry for the safeties and the linebackers is narrow, and to change direction with footing like that and shift your body to change your alignment and angle of entry in a gap is very hard. So what happens You end up reaching with arm tackles, and most backs in this league are big enough and strong enough and powerful enough to power through most arm tackles in the league, especially arm tackles from two hundred pound safeties, so it becomes advantage offense. They know where they are going. Defenders have to react to the decisions of those players, and with footing like that, it is supremely difficult.
Yeah, you have to plant harder to react than you do.
And sometimes slow down too. Right, So now you're slower.
But I'll say this about you know, the players left on the Bill schedule. You're you're worried about the running back in Detroit.
You're you know Tyrone Williams.
Yeah, you've also got You've also got the Rams and Matt so Stafford is Matt Stafford, the whole crew, Puka and Nakua Cooper Cup. Every team you play coming in, I don't care if it's the Jets and the Patriots at the end of the season, they've all got great players. Ye. Yeah, the Bills have a plan for those guys, and yeah they're gonna You're gonna give up some plays there. You're playing against a really good competition. Don't be afraid of playing against great players. And don't think that just because they're great players that we you know, we have no plan and have no way to match up with them. That's what coaches are for, That's what great players on your team are for. Look forward to those matchups the Bills do, and it's that's why this is such a fun season. The Bills have got a plan for all those guys and they took it. They got punched in the mouth by the Baltimore Ravens, But that game seems like light years away from now. The only other game they dropped was the Houston game the next week, and you got walk And I said again, you walk out of that Houston Texans game going, how do you.
Lose that game to those guys?
And the Texans have faltered?
All I want to point out the Bills played the Ravens without Taron Johnson and Terrel Bernard on defense, right that that's not nothing.
And I'll say this too. You think the Bills are sitting there worried about the guys and the and the Detroit Lions are really good, don't kid yourself. They got some The Bills have got some teams on their schedule that are really good. What do you think those teams are looking at the Bills like like you think they're not sitting there going, their fans aren't sitting there going. What are you gonna do with that?
So?
Yeah, yeah, there's good teams on the schedule, the Rams, Lions, and then you got the Patriots, Jets, Patriots, And there's no love loss in there for those teams from the Bills fans. But but, man, oh man, what do you think those teams are sitting there thinking looking at this team. Yeah, they got Josh Allen, but they also got James Cook, they got oh my gosh, they got Amari Cooper and they got Yeah, so.
Lead the league and turnover differential. They have a plus one thirty one points differential, second in the league to only Detroit.
Yeah, believe me, you got guys you can depend on, So we'll see. That's why it's a fun sport.
Yeah, break time for us, more of your phone calls when we come back here on one Bills Live on a Buffalo victory Monday. Stay with us. The numbers Didn't Matter are presented by the New York Lottery backing the Bills. Sounds grande like the new Grande scratch off games from the New York Lottery with prizes up to three million dollars. Gambling problem called one eight seven seven eight. Hope and why Josh Allen is the first quarterback in NFL history with a passing rushing receiving touchdown. In the same game, Allan passed Hall of Famer Jim Kelly for most total touchdowns in franchise history with his touchdown throw to Matt Collins to give him number two forty five. He accomplished it in just one hundred and six regular season games, compared to Kelly, who needed one hundred and sixty. Let's get back to the phones for your biggest takeaways from Buffalo's thirty five to ten throttling of the Niners in Sunday Night Football. And next up is Cindy in Niagara Falls. What's up, Cindy.
Hi guys, hippie holidays. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving. I first off, wanted to say that congratulations to Josh Allen on his engagement because he's got a sparkle in his eye that I haven't seen in a couple of years.
Oh really, this is I think this takes a woman's intuition, Steve to see the sparkle, you know what I mean.
And the second thing is I see a freedom and Josh, you know, I love the mantra that the Bills have. Now everybody eats. When I went to my nana's house, everybody had to eat. You couldn't leave without eating, and that's what the bills are going for now. And I think that that Josh knows that he's got a good backup all around, and he's not pressed to throw in a nutsan who he's not pressed to use one player. So I just I love it. We were so excited by the game last night.
It was a good show.
So it's it all right.
Thanks Indy and tremendous analogies from you today, from the sparkling Josh's Eye to analogies to dinner at Nana's house. Love them all. Congrats also, by the way, to Alec Anderson, who also got engaged during the bye week. It wasn't just Josh, but when you have a quarterback whose personality and persona blocks out the sun, it's kind of hard to see somebody else that god engaged the same week. Alex probably like, seriously, Josh, you're gonna get engaged the same week as me? But se lobby in any event, both said yes, so good on you guys.
There's got a lot going on on a bye week, got to get it in, so there you go. But yes, it is done.
We've said this from the jump in the summertime that it was going to be a much more democratic approach to the passing game this year. And you can argue, and probably effectively so, that the Bills do not have perhaps the same elite talent proven elite talent in their receiving corps this year than they did last year. But I would argue it's a better overall group and a group with more upside. This group hasn't even hit their ceiling yet in terms of what they can do in the passing game because of the youth and athleticism on that roster. Keon Coleman hasn't played in a month.
Yeah, plus yeah, plus the injuries that they've had to sustain with Dalton k k hasn't played in We've seen what Cooper and Keon Coleman on the field for one game together. Yeah, So it's they've got a lot in the tank that we'd like to see. And I'm certainly and there's certainly they've gotten now with five games of playing already in the playoffs, they got a chance to experiment and do some things and find out about some things as they head into the tournament without having to worry so much about wrecking their season.
Yep, let's go to Jason and Rhode Island next. What's up Jason, Hey, Christal Steve.
Good to be on with you.
I hope you guys had a great holiday as well. To my biggest take thank you. My biggest takeaway, not just from this game, but from the season, is what a joy it is to root for a team that's actually a well run organization. And I was happy to see coach McDermott give mister a game ball because how many of these owners let their egos get in the way of allowing the football people to run, you know, the football team. Jerry Jones, Woody Johnson looking right at you guys, And to address the one of the callers comments about the run game, I'm intrigued to see. I love tarn Johnson, but I'm intrigued to see how Dorian Williams, Matt Mulano, and Terrelle Bernard might share on the field, at least against teams that like to run it light up the middle. I think with the experience Strian Williams has gotten this year, he's a little more reliable in the past team, so you know, you could leave him out there a little bit more just a little wrinkle that teams haven't seen Yetcause those guys haven't been on the field together. Yeah, thanks you for taking my call.
Go Bill's it's a valid point. You're right, that's something to your point about experimentation that you.
Can can find her with. They can find out some stuff about this crew without having it wrecked their season, like I just said, and it's it'll be interesting Secene now. Also, I mean they're going to chase the one seed pretty hard, no question about it. And they should and absolutely they should the coming think about it coming off of bye. They're pretty good coming off a bye, and they would get one and then you get it, So it's it's worth chasing. But there's also gonna be some space to find out how other teams view their roster with everybody healthy, with Cooper on the field, with Keon, Coleman on the field and Shakir on the field, or King Kaid on the field and Cooper on the field, or Kinkaid and Coleman on the field with Shakir. I mean, there's a lot of combinations. And this season has really been a revelation for Bills fans and the media at large. Nationally. We've we've had a lot of fun dunking on the people who counted the Bills out. It's been great. But there were a lot of question marks coming into this season about guys we didn't know about. Well, actually, you know now we do know about them. We know Mac Collins can contribute, we know Amari Cooper can play, we know Keon Coleman now can play. Samuel Khalis Shakir is an accepted really a force for the Bills, James Cook and Ray Davis, Dalton Knox last night catching a thirty nine yard or out of their own end zone, Dawson Knox uh coming coming out of the end zone. They got a ton of dudes who can really play at this level. And now you can do some things with personnel mixtures, with shifts and motions that will tell you what other teams see in your team. They got to match up with all these guys. How are they gonna do it? Oh, you're gonna do that? Well, what are you gonna do? If we do this? Then you know there's a lot of that going on, you know, with with these two coordinators, with Bobby Babbage and of course Joe Brady. So there's a lot of stuff Joe Brady can throw at defenses now that is gonna force their hand. And when you get teams kind of trying to over commit towards something they're vulnerable, and that's and the Bills now have whatever they need to take advantage of wherever they're vulnerable. That's pretty fun.
Break time for us here. When we come back to begin our number two here on a Buffalo Football Monday, we will be joined by my broadcast partner on the Bills Radio Network, Eric Wood, to get his take on last night's performance by the Bills in their twenty five point victory over the forty nine Ers. And if you were waiting last hour to hear the game rewind, we will have that for you to begin our number two. So if you're waiting patiently for that, we'll have it for you next here on One Bill's Live.
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Welcome to Buffalo's fifth primetime game of the regular season, Bill's Mafia, as we are coming to you live from Orchard Park, New York, here at a wintery high Mark Stadium for this Week thirteen matchup is the nine and two Buffalo Bills play host to the five and six San Francisco forty nine ers. Handoff goes to Davis, gonna pounce it outside, race to the pylon, and he dives into the end zone for a five yard touchdown.
Run Ray Davis with clear sailing to the end zone as Buffalo is on the board with the leaves. Here's the handoff to Cook through a hole and away and into the secondary.
Forty thirty twenty.
They're not gonna get up James Cook and go sixty five yards for a touchdown. Is unbelievable.
Back to pass has time, looks, fires to the right corner to back Hollins who pulls it in for the seven yard touchdown. Reception barefoot is beautiful. They give it to the upback, use check through a hole, the balls loose, it's fumbled at the five and it's picked up and coming the other way. Is Christian Fenford forty five fifteen and he's fourth out of bounds. You know, takes a snap, quick hitter thrown behind, but somehow fought and now lateral to Alan and reaching for the pylon.
Are you kidding me?
It's a touchdown unbelievable.
To my house.
Don't be quiet.
Here's the snap Alan back to pass as time steps up in the pocket, wots the tucket and run on his feet to the five and into the end zone.
The beast does it again. Josh Allen, with his second rushing touchdown of the games.
Bill's in convincing fashion beat the San Francisco forty nine Ers thirty five to ten, and with that victory, they have flinched their fifth consecutive Afcast Crown.
Five Division titles in a row. For your Buffalo Bills and to talk about it with us now, we welcome in my broadcast partner on the Bills Radio Network, Eric Wood, who joins us now after I don't know, I mean, these last two games, it'd be pretty hard to stack back to back on the fun meter any better than this. I mean, I talked about it on the morning show with the guys on gr You know you hear the hardball is always saying who's got it better than us, who's had more fun than us in the last three weeks?
Seriously, no, I agree? Can you throw the bye weekend there as well? And hopefully you guys had some fun on the bye week too, but not with you. Chris. After the Kansas City game at home, I said, that might have been the most fun I've ever had on a broadcast. It was just big boy football. It wasn't a blowout. Both teams were making plays. You saw some vintage Mahomes types plays, Gosh made plays. There was turnout. I mean, it was just an exciting competitive game to call. And then last night obviously not quite as competitive, but with the snow falling and people slipping and falling and then some nice run game on both sides, Josh to put on a performance like he did, it was it was another special night, that's for sure.
As we get into it a little bit of the big picture. We came into these last couple of games before the bye the chief You had the Chiefs, Niners, Rams, Lions. Four games that looked like, wow, I don't know, you know, we gotta you really got to get ready to play it now. The way the Bills have won these first two games going into La, no doubt they may be a road favorite against the La Rams going in there. That this sets up, and think about it. If the Bills beat the Rams, find a way to beat the Rams, and the Chargers step up to beat the Chiefs in two weeks. The Detroit Lions is the one seed in the NFC and the Bills is the one in the AC That shapes up to be an absolute marquee matchup. In the big picture, the Bills are really I don't know if you could ask for them. Even if they're the one seed right now, you couldn't ask for a better spot for them to be in, particularly the way their roster's shaping up.
Yeah, you're exactly right. They're getting healthy at the right time right now. And then the way those final three games of the season sit with teams that are eliminated from the playoffs, how you know how much fight are those teams gonna have in them? Who are they even going to be play as Aaron Robbs, You're gonna play for the Jets at that point, that's all to be determined. And so you got to go take care of business these next two weeks and then hope that Kansas City can drop one along the way. But you're right, that is going to be a big boy matchup in Detroit in a couple of weeks against two of the league's you know teams that that everyone wants to root for.
You know this.
Everyone loves Dan Campbell and the lines and their story and how much heart they play with. And people love watching Josh Allen and this Bills team. They're just so likable, the personalities, the style of play with both teams. It may it has a shot to break that Chiefs record or the Chiefs number that the Bills Chiefs Games put up a couple weeks ago, biggest audience on television since two thousand and seven in a Brady Manning matchup. It is a chance to break that one if both teams I'll just say this, not if, especially if both teams handle their business this weekend. So the Bill's got to go across the country to LA. It's a familiar trip for them, and most of the guys on the roster had made that trip out there these last couple of years. They obviously beat the Rams two years ago, and then they traveled all the way out there last year in a head coaching change, Gift Smith inspired Charger team able to get the win when they absolutely had two playoff playoffs were completely on the line, but they got it done these last couple of years. Going out to La.
Yeah, we'll talk about the point scoring prowess of this Bills team in a minute, but I want to give the defense and special teams a little bit of credit here. We knew the Bills had at least one takeaway in each of their first eleven games, and they get three takeaways via fumbles, two of them forced, one on special teams on a shot by Cole Bishop that coughs the ball loose from Deebo Samuel. The other obviously a humongous play by Taylor Rap Kyle Yuschak's going in for a touchdown from the five yard line and he punches it out with yet another peanut punch. He also had a touchdown saving tackle on Christian McCaffrey before that in the first quarter, actually leads to Christian McCaffrey's injury. But just the job by Taylor Rap and company here all season long in getting extra possessions for this Bill's offense.
Yeah, when you're a defense that can take the football away, you can really put your offense, obviously in a position to be able to score more points. This is a Bills team, and some of it's just the way that the Bills had blown teams out, so they haven't had to keep their foot on the gas the entire game. And you know, you have a couple offensively lacklesser performances in those early two losses in the season. But you know, when you look at the yardage and all of that from this Bills offense, it doesn't necessarily equate to what you see when you look at the points per game. The Bills went into last night top three in the NFL in points per game. But the couple of reasons for that is one, they're getting a ton of turnovers defensively for the Bills, that put them in good positions. And then also when you look at the red zone scoring percentage, they went four for four scoring touchdowns in the red zone last night. They came into that game six in the NFL. I expect them to jump now into the top five. And so when you're able to take the football away from the other team, play pretty sound on special teams, and you're able to score touchdowns in the red zone, well now that's going to give you that top three scoring offense in the league.
Yeah, and as you look look back that the Bills now are fifty They were fifty percent again last night on third down and one hundred on fourth down. They're climbing the rankings after struggling out of the gate when they're finding more and more, finding out more and more about the guys on their team. There. I said this to Brownie, and I've been making this point for a couple of weeks now. They got so many guys at the skill positions on this team that have come through and contributed to wins and become dependable parts of the offense. Defenses are really gonna have a full menu of guys they've got to match up with. It's a real problem for this offense. It's like it's like we thought it might be if you spun everything positive at the beginning of the year with all the if all these question marks turn out to be the answers. Yes, well that's where they are. That's where they are right now. And as you said, they're getting healthy. What are defense is going to be up against when a Cooper is healthy, fully healthy, when Keon Coleman's back on the field, can Caag's back on the field, and you got all these other guys that have been winning games anyway, Well, you.
Said it correctly, Steve. This is what we hope the offense will gonna look like and it's turned out to be true where you have everybody contributing and everybody that you'd hope to make steps. You know, Keon Coleman's made some plays as a rookie. Well, Lamar Cooper wasn't there in the preseason. You got and get a you know, guy to established number one receiver throughout his career. You missed Dalton Kincaid these last two weeks. You know, at the beginning of the season, we're gonna say we would have said that was our number one thread in the passing game. That's the guy we can't lose. And we see Dawson Knock step up and do what he always does, especially late in the season. I made that point of the broadcast I last night, Chris. It's like, as the season goes on, it gets later and colder. Man, I'm throwing it to Dawson Knox in those snowy, windy games. You know, it's almost like at times he will use more body and arms just to like secure the football, not worry as much about the yards after the catch. But that guy shows up in playoff games in Orchard Park, these December games but it's gonna be tough. It's it's this Bill's offense. It's tough to prepare for. And to me, and I'm not just saying this because I'm a former center, it starts with the guys up front. When you're great in pass protection and you're great in the run game, you become very tough to prepare for as a team because, yes, the Bills have weapons all over the field, and likely the Bill the NFL's MVP at quarterback. But when you go into a game and you have an offensive line that can road grade you, and they're also hard to penetrate with just a four man rush, so you can't really get to the quarterback. They're gonna make enough holes in the run game. Well now it's like, okay, yes, I got all these weapons, but we don't have a weakness. There's no weakness. I mean, you looked at that San Francisco offense last night, and even without you cannot out there, and you know, McCaffrey's kind of hobbled heading into the game. Their offensive line was weak enough that we weren't that worried about then. And so to me, this Bill's offensive line is an X factor on that side of the ball.
Let's talk about Matt Mulano's return to the lineup. He gets thirty seven snaps last night out of the forty eight that the defense was on the field. That's seventy seven percent of the snaps. We saw him come off the field during the dime package downs, mostly on third downs, probably shaking off some rust, as you would expect after missing almost fourteen months of regular season football. But what did you see from him through the course of the game last night.
Yeah, to me, the second level defenders last night were I mean, it was tough. None of them have footing. You saw what the Bills were able to do in the run game to the forty nine ers, and at times the forty nine ers were able to gash some runs. When you don't have footing and you have to react to what the offense is doing, it could be difficult, especially when it's your first action in fourteen months. But to me, I'm just excited about him being able to get back in the flow of the game. You know, they didn't have a huge snap count defensively, and they took him off for a few you know, don plays here and there, and then you know backups in maybe towards the end of the game, but at a few different spots. But to me, it's awesome to see him back out there. It was great to me to even see him not necessarily even be on a every other series rotation, which would maybe allude to him not being in game shape. I know he's I played with Mavlano for one season. I know what his work ethic looks like. You can tell by the way his physique is how hard he works. And so to me it was a great sign that, hey, this isn't a guy that we had to work back into playing shape. You know, Yes, we're gonna keep our Din package the same for now. I would expect that moving forward there would be a lot of times where we played the Din package similar to Kansas City, where take a defensive tackle off the field and leave Mavelano and Treil Bernard out there. But Matt's as good as it gets. The media doesn't get to see a ton for Matt because he's so quiet, but a great person, great player.
I was.
It was heartwarming to see the ovation he got when he ran out of the tunnel last night.
Yeah, and there's no question too the type of player he is and the way we've come to know him is perfect for what this defense seems to be about this year, and defense and good defenses within the NFL at long large, they're playmaking. It's hard to be a defense that stifles the run and you can't get a pass off on them because because of the limitations of what it takes to play defense in the league in this day and age, you kind of have to be to be a really good defense. You gotta be playing. You gotta make things happen. You gotta tip passes, you gotta pick passes off, you gotta punch the ball out on the goal line, all that stuff, and that is that's how we came to know and love Matt mlonald. That's exactly what he does. Now you've got Terrell Bernard, that's what he does, Uh, Taryn John. It seems to be the exact right type of player to raise this the whole level of this defense. We saw it last night. They had they should have had four turnovers. They got the three fumble recoveries, and then you know, uh, Damar Hamlin's interception got called back. We were rolling our eyes like, I hope this isn't gonna be one of those kind of games. But you could have choked up four turnovers last night. That's exactly what it takes to be a difference making defense in this day and age of the NFL. And that's what Matt mlonald fits exactly into.
Yeah, I mean, he's got ten career interceptions, He's forced a ton of fumbles. He's always heading to the football, so he gets a lot of fumble recoveries. To me, he gets a lot of tackles for loss. So those are those are drive stoppers. Okay, No, you can't go into a game and just get the ball ran down your throat like you did at Baltimore. Obviously that we all know that's the case. But if the teams aren't able to chunk you on the ground as soon as you go get one of those tackles for loss as you stop him for three yards. Think back to last night San Francisco's drive and they tried this like q little draw in the backfield. They stop him for a five yard loss. Now they're at second and fifteen, they might have call him four yard loss, second and fourteen. Drive stops, missed field goal. Bill's get the ball back it's those linebackers can make those plays in the backfield. Those are the guys that when we headed into the week, we'd say, Okay, this guy over here, he's a jag, just a guy. These guys they play downhill. They can make the plays that you know are gonna end drives for us, not sit back and make plays at five and six yards over and over. These are the guys that make plays in the backfield. Bills have two of them at interrel Bernard and Matt Mlano. They're also both great and pass coverage, which they have two of those guys on the second level of your defense is extremely valuable.
All right, So let's take a brief look at how the AFC Conference looks now eric and the Bills plays in it. We know they're still behind the Chiefs who pull out yet Another one is that I'm convinced they've made a deal with Satan as to how to use dark magic to win football games. But that being said, you've got other teams that are right on Buffalo's heels. Pittsburgh's offense looks like it's raised itself to the level of their defense, and they look like a complete football team right now. As a matter of fact, they're the only team in the league with more takeaways than the Bills, with twenty five in twelve games, and they are nine to three. They do have some tough games left on their schedule, but they're right there. Chargers are very quietly sneaking into this conversation, and I think the only reason people haven't looked at them longer is because the Chiefs are still ahead of them in their division, and Baltimore has a kicker problem and a fourth quarter points allowed problem. That is one of the reasons why they have slipped to eight and five. And then you have an upstart Denver team who can move to eight and five and pull even with the Ravens if they can win on Monday Night Football tonight. Who do you look at as teams that are cresting similar to the Bills right now that people should keep an eye on here down the stretch.
Yeah, I would say mainly it would be Pittsburgh. Obviously we're chasing Kansas City. I think that there is certainly losses that could be had out there for the Chiefs. I mean, you play the Raiders and the Panthers these last two weeks and fortunate to squeak both of those ones out. I mean, they're completely playing with fire. You talk about making a deal with the devil. Well, ever since Usin Tucker messed with Travis Kelcey and Patrick Mahomes before the game, he's had his struggle, so that that curse. That's like, yes, they can win them games, but they can also put that curse on you and make you make your career go away. Justin Tucker, who prior to that looked like the best kicker maybe in NFL history. All that being said, Pittsburgh to me, just based upon the fact that the AFC North isn't quite what we thought it would be from a competitive standpoint, they get that win last week against the Bengals offenses, rolling defense is still healthy and it's a playmaking defense as well. They got I mean, Cincinnati still able to put up a ton of points on them, I believe thirty eight points yesterday. But that Bengals defense is awful right now. The biggest threat to me, obviously for the one seed is Kansas City because you got to go chase them and then for someone to potentially come up and take the two seed from us. The Steelers to me seem like, like you mentioned it, very complete team, very tough remaining schedule. I appreciate, guys. I appreciate you guys putting up that graphic. Me and christ we're talking about it yesterday, but I couldn't remember exactly their remaining schedule. But you have that Billy game, the Baltimore game, and Kansas City game still left for the Steelers. But to me to find rest of the way, to me, it's it's yes, it's great that the Bills were able to close out the AFC, you know, week thirteen, But to me, with that one seed still very much in play, that makes it very easy for Sean McDermott to say, look, we got five weeks left. We got to get better every single week and then we'll worry about you know, our bye week will be first week of the playoffs, and I believe that's what the message will be, you know, throughout these you know, remaining five weeks.
All right, Eric, well, we appreciate the time. As always. We'll see out la way at the end of the week.
All right, be good, yep, sounds good looking forward to you guys.
All right, Eric would radio color analyst on the Bills radio network, joining US as he does every Monday after Bills games on Sundays, and uh yeah, the race is shaping up and it is on and you know, the Bills obviously have the one seed in mind in terms of chasing down the Chiefs, but there are some other teams. I think the Chargers looking at the fact that they have a head to head game against Kansas City this Sunday night on Sunday Night football, you win if the If the Chargers win that game, suddenly they are two games back in the lost column and they've gone even in the head to head with four games to play, and you could argue that the Chargers might have a little bit easier schedule than even the Chiefs at that point. Well, if they're playing a third place schedule, Chiefs are playing a first place.
They're gonna then they got Tampa Bay, New England and the Raiders and three the toughest game Denver would be their toughest game left, and they got them at home in LA. That's the Chargers are intriguing.
Don't sleep on those guys.
Yeah, I know.
The history Charging it's a thing, it's an adjective.
And they got me going. Now, Yeah, you're right, I mean they're gonna turn into the New York Jets in the last I don't know, not under Harrball they should under Yeah, Jim Harbaugh's is a different cat. He'll he'll have them playing well and you're, like you said, you're calling it. They're cresting. Yeah, and that's big. That does make a difference. You know, that win yesterday gets a good Falcons team. I got four interceptions and still only one by three or four. You got to play like that. You gotta play like that. So there's something. They're not a complete team at this moment. I wouldn't say, but they're finding ways to win, and that's that's big at this time of year.
Let's take a couple of phone calls here while we have a couple of minutes, people waiting patiently give us their takeaways from yesterday's twenty five point win over the forty nine ers. To Stephen in Florida, what do you got for a Steven Hey.
Good afternoon, guys. Yeah, I'll tell you what that win yesterday from my point of view, you know, the one against Case a couple of weeks ago, that was really sweet, you know, with Josh running the longest run for a touchdown twenty six yards and then take you know, picking off Mahomes in the beginning and the end of the game. But this one was definitely the sweetest because you know, first of all, it's what I called the Snow Bowl, so snow just never quit coming down, and of course the Bills are used to that. But you know, everything from you know, Cook's longest run for a TD, Josh Allen stellar performance, all the you know, different records, and you know, I was, of course AFC Champs fifth season in a row, and I was looking this up. I looked down their stat mus. Okay, the most points Buffalo scored in the season was twenty twenty so this is under Josh five hundred and one points. And then three of the next other four seasons are also with Josh twenty twenty one, twenty two, and twenty twenty three. So they're on course to break that if they keep getting thirty points a game or more. I know, they got you know, a tough run with Detroit, UH, and you know, a lot of people are saying that may be a preview of a Super Bowl. Of course I was thinking too, it might be really cool if you know, Buffalo ends up back in the Big One against another team that's been to the Super Bowl multiple times and has never won, which is Minnesota. I think that would be pretty cool. But you know, I got to say all overall, the the offense, the defense, the return of Matt Mulano, just overall the way the Buffalo Bills put it to the San Francisco forty nine ers and basically shut them down.
Uh.
And I gotta say this too, Buffalo has beat back to back the two teams that were in the Super Bowl last year. So you know, I'm just ecstatic. This is a great Monday, you know, victory celebration. And so you know, I'm expecting the Bills to go all the way this year. They've definitely got the potential to do that. And you know, like Joe and Jeremy were saying this morning, when you look throughout the NFL, there's very few teams out there now that have the same caliber of play at the as the Bills, and I think they are the team to beat.
Now.
All right, Steven, thanks for the phone call. I'll leave you with this before we go to break. I posted this on my Twitter handle. I do it kind of every week just because it's a league stat playoff percentages since nineteen ninety based on how a team starts their season, and I updated every week based on the outcome of the Bills game. Now ten and two to start the season, one hundred percent of the team since nineteen ninety to start ten and two made the playoffs. The Bills have already clinched a playoff berth as we know, having won their division. Ninety percent of teams win their division when they start the year ten and two, and twenty one point six percent of teams that start the year ten and two win the Super Bowl. Eleven of the last fifty one teams to start ten and two have gone on to win the Super Bowl. Just something to chew on for you got to take a break here, more of your phone calls when we return on a Buffalo victory Monday on one Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. This week's Efficient Drive of the game is presented by National Grid, a proud partner of the Buffalo Bills. Efficient Drive of the game came in the second quarter, nine plays, ninety seven yards, taking just two point fifty off the clock, and finished with Josh Allen finding Mac Collins in the front right corner of the end zone for ad touchdown reception to make it twenty one to three. And that's how it was when it went to the half. Did you see how he walked into the stadium, Matt.
Commons, Yeah, he's dressed like a mad.
Mad scientist. For those that don't follow him on Instagram, he did thirty days of science experiments. He has a monthly challenge and he dressed as a mad scientist for thirty days and had a little experiment like a test two kind of stuff. He made slime one day. He's a renaissance man.
You can call him that.
Yeah, that's one word.
Yeah, And it's here's the thing. And there's a lot going on in this building now. Obviously when you're ten and two and you just clinched the division earlier than any team ever, so you've got a lot of stuff is clicking for you. But there's there's certain subtleties about this team that seemed different and seem little bit unique. I'll say it. I said this on the postgame Live last night that you know, talk about think about Amari Cooper. He's never done this lateral play that he caught and it was you know all this to be a player in an important game and make this lateral to a court you've only been here a month, and to have a quarterback that you think that about that say you know what, he'll do it, let's get it says something about not only how Amari Cooper has assimilated to the culture and the attitude and the play and the atmosphere and the locker room, all that stuff he's assimilated to that you got to have some trust in the guy you're throwing that to. In that spot, there are three guys hanging on AMRII. He said, I'm gonna throw it to my guy. To have an attitude about your team and a culture that allows guys to come in and acclimate and kind of thrive, that quickly says something about him. Mccollins is an example of that. He's like the Gabe Davis we wish we had. Right he took gave Davis's role. He's not a number one receiver, but he plays more probably reps than any other guy. He blocks and you see him away from the play, like signaling for the touchdown when Josh is still twenty yards away on a twenty six yard run. You'll see him running guys off deep in patterns and signaling through the first down when he had no chance of getting the ball but his teammate did because of the route. Mccolland's rant. He does this stuff. He's kind of a workhorse and loves doing it.
And now James Cook for the sixty five yeard touchdown.
He got all this stuff going on in this locker room where every guy out there has really could say he had a really big contribution in one of their wins this year, maybe two, maybe four, maybe five of their wins where we made a significant play, not just mac collins, but all these other guys. There seems to be this or we've BROWNI and I have been watching this team for you know, all these years. It's unique. And you know you can say, yes, Sean mcdermot's culture and Brandon Bean and they bring you chemistry. It's uh, it seems to be headed in the right direction all the time. And there's some stuff that's going on, like this lateral play last night. You can't chalk that up to anything except.
Culture because it's completely improvised.
It's it's it's one hundred percent culture.
And it's trust between two guys who just got on the same roster together four weeks ago.
And that speaks to the atmosphere that it's it's pretty cool and a lot of people have been commenting. I mentioned Chris collins were saying something about it last night to me and I.
Unfortunately doesn't say it on the air though very much.
Well, the Chiefs have that going too, you know, because Pat mahomes.
And man, I mean, he can't help him.
He's getting hammered for it. So I yeah, I say that facetiously because that's you know, what collins Worth's been doing. It's it's a real thing. I the you know, the there's a bomb there and I we talk about a little bit on the show. I you know, we still talk. I got that five Presidents thing, that text loop with all the guys I played with back there's a special group that went to the super Bowl four straight times, very special group. And you know that that elevated guys at the bottom, like guys like me at the bottom of the roster, special teams guys. It's cool to see. I don't know, I don't know what's going to mean I don't know if in the end it's going to be the thing. Who knows, but it's there. It's there with his team.
Let's go back to the phones and to Ryan in Toronto. What do you got for us?
Ryan, Rid Steve Love the show, Happy victory Monday. Honestly, I know the Bills have won the She's the worst that will happen to them is finished fourth.
In the AFC.
But to be honest, they cannot take the foot of the gas pedal. They need to keep going and they need to go for the number one seed. The reason why I say that we are the top five teams the AFC right now, Casey, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Houston, and Baltimore. Right all these teams, Casey beat Baltimore in Casey, Baltimore beat the Bills in Baltimore, Houston beat the Bills in Houston, and Bills be the Casey in Buffalo, and Pittsburgh beat Baltimore at home.
It's key how home team is huge. Every single one of these teams who played each other at home, they beat each other and the home team actually won. So number one seed is key, I think for the Bills and whoever it is in the AFC can'n't take my call your thought right.
Let me just say I applaud you for that because you are right on the money. In my opinion, we get caught up in being the one seed because the bye week is important, and it is, there's no question about it. But when you get to be a really good team and these other really good teams are right there, the difference between the best teams in the league and the worst teams in the league, this is a Marv levyism. The best teams in the league and the worst teams in the league. There's a two percent difference in everything that they do and everything you do. Everything that they do is a thirty second ranked team, and everything you do is a top five ranked team. There's a two percent difference in all the things you do. Home Field makes a difference when you get there, because that's something that you can't quantify until you experience it. You're right, all these teams at the top of the conferences, they're winning games at home against really good opponents. That's what the playoffs are now. The bye week is important, certainly, but playing at home is huge in the playoffs. It's absolutely huge. It's a difference in atmosphere is a difference in what you can do offensively when the volume is turned up. And I think it's a really good observation that the teams at the top of these rankings Kansas City, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Houston, they all win home games. They all won home games against those top teams right there on that list this year. Yes, I would agree. You cannot take your foot off the gas if you're the Buffalo Bills. If there is a whisper of a chance to get the one seed, you got to go for it.
Let's move along to Judy and Buffalo next. What's up, Judy yep?
I want to give some kuros to the Buffalos offensive line. I'm glad to see Pencer Brown is back.
I love him.
Dan Dawkins, I think is a stellar player, as stellar human being. But it amazes me that no matter what happens, they have five or six players they can put on that line and nothing, nothing goes wrong.
This is the.
Line that makes the running game goal, that gives Josh Allen the time to make his decisions. It amazes me. And they're all young players. It amazes me that we haven't given them more credit than they deserve.
All Right, that's a good point. They have played extremely well, and they have for two years. They've had one game where Spencer Brown came out because of his ankle and he missed the Chiefs. He missed the Chiefs game and the Bills won it anyway, And that's the only game lost to injury in two years. They've been remarkably They've been remarkably healthy. But when guys have had spot duty, they have played extremely well. Vandermark came in, Alec Anderson continues to come in as a sixth offensive lineman. They went thirty eight plus percent six o linemen. Last night against against the Niners, they rushed for two hundred and twenty yards. Yeah, you gotta give you gotta tip your hat to the offensive If you're rushing for two hundred and twenty yards in an NFL game, you gotta tip your hat to the offensive line. And you're right the question. When they moved Connor McGovern down inside, everybody had some trepidation because we all had so much love and respect for Mitch Morse. Seems like they got better.
Yeah, break time for us here, more of your phone calls when we come back on a Buffalo Victory Monday. Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid of Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to a Buffalo Victory Monday edition of One Bill's Live. Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you and asking you for your biggest takeaways from sunday nights victory over the defending NFC champion San Francisco forty nine ers. Back to the phone as we go, and Mark and West Seneca leads us off. What do you got for us? Mark?
Hi, guys, real quick, A few observations. Nice to see the offensive line is getting the flowers that they're getting. That's what I originally called about. I believe that they've sort of been taken for granted this year with two significant moves. I mean, when you have to plug a new guy in and move somebody to a new position and you lose your intellectual leader off the line, to me, that's a big deal. And the transition has been seamless, has absolutely been seamless, and they seem to be getting better week to week to week. That's the first thing. Secondly, has JaMarcus Ingram officially supplanted Elam is the third corner on this team and if he has wondering if Elam's career in Buffalo may be over, and that would be sad if it is, because I think he's a talented guy. Lastly, I heard on this morning's gr did you guys see on Josh's run that Hollins reached out and pulled the linebacker's hair as Josh ran by him. They caught that on film. I don't know if you guys have seen that or if anybody has mentioned that.
I've seen a freeze frame still photo of it. He is unquestionably pulling Devondre Campbell's hair on Josh's rushing touchdown at the end of the game.
Could have been a holding call, so I was just curious. I thought it was a little bit funny, but right up Matt's Ali, I guess. And then lastly, I thought it was awesome to finally see Sean McDermott show a little bit of his personality by doing snow angels at the end of the game. It was great to see him enjoying it, having fun with the players, and giving a little bit of a glimpse of who he really is. So that was awesome.
Yeah, he does he is not a guy that is known for breaking character. Much as Eric, my broadcast partner on the Bills Radio Network, has said multiple times, he is the most consistent coach he's ever been around in terms of what his demeanor is after a twenty five point win, what it might be after a ten point loss. He is the same guy every week, and I think he realizes there is value and importance to that as a leader of a football team, and so he embodies that as best as he can. But when this team achieves something like they did last night, which was their fifth consecutive Afseast title, you can let your personality show a little bit. And he did that by making an impromptu request to his quarterback to do snow angels in the middle of an interview that he was conducting with Scott Van Pelt on ESPN's Sports Center after the game. I mean, he still has the microphone in his hand and he's doing snow angels with his quarterback in the end zone. So yes, it is good to see. But yes, to your point about the offensive line, they have been lights out. You have to tip your hat to offensive line code coach Aaron Kromer and his assistant Austin Gunn. They have done a fabulous job with a much younger group than they've had in recent years. I mean, their swing tackle was a rookie, Tylan Grable, who is hopefully coming off ir soon in the next week or so. Ryan Vandermark is a player they've developed, you know, and has stepped up to the play when called upon and performed admirably. And even Alec Anderson taking over the sixth offensive lineman role this year in place of David Edwards who's now in the starting lineup. I mean, anybody that's had to step up and into a larger role than the one they had last year has come through with flying colors. And you'll hear Joe Brady very quickly give credit to Aaron Kromer for his influence in the run game game plan design, in the pass pro game plan design. He is a big part of all of that, having been a former coordinator himself.
Yeah, there's a lot in it, no question. It takes a little it takes a coaching staff that it's on it and you have to and we've heard a little bit of this a couple of weeks ago, and then you got to pour into the guys who are not starting, you got to try and get them better. A lot of coaches, you know, they coach the best guys and they you know, they get them right and they're trying to get and then the backups say, well, it was a backup. You know it's not my They pour into the backups and get them ready to play. That's why you saw a guy like Mike White get elevated. The guy's been playing lights out in practice. He's been doing everything they've asked him to and doing it at a high level.
Yeah, so his reward is a game check for being on the fifties tran roster even though he wasn't even active for the game.
That's right, you get elevated. It is a reward for guys who are helping the team win games, whether we see it or not. And they do that by elevating guys by letting them get active for games, by giving them opportunities. You know, you saw Zach Davidson active again this week, active again this week, and he gets off opportunities. I thought Josh missed him once, had him early on a play that you know that he could have had a touchdown on. But that's it's it's a concerted effort by the top guys in the organization, on the top guys on the staff to reward players for working hard when nobody's watching. And it goes a long way toward getting the best out of everybody on the roster. And that's another thing we've talked about, the subtleties that you see in the culture in this building.
Let's go to John in Detroit here before the break. What do you got for us? John?
Hey, Christy, thanks for taking my call as always my way back to Detroit from Bill's game, and thank you guys for always helping me get.
Through three hours of the Happy to do it.
A couple of kays before my take quick take on the game is, uh, First of all, the take congratulations to the offensive line again, Judy. I'm glad you got off of the receiving corps and started throwing some other bouquets out there. I love you, Judy, Don't worry it's out of criticism. Two. I think the analogy that I take from that game is we were playing like the road Runner and the forty nine ers were wiley coyote who could not figure out why we had traction and although he need to get a sack out of the play, I thought with Aj Fanessa Chase brock Purty that he had fear in his eyes and it was not a sack. He should have gotten funting for that. But Aj really put on the speed and I think it started taking confidence not only a party but the other guys. And then the other great road Runner plays where those shoe string tackles we kept coming up with. The deep backs were just amazing on those. I mean, we could have getten damaged by the McCaffrey a couple of times. And then of course the sixty five yard touchdown. I don't know what kind of shoes we had, but we certainly had an advantage on that snow. So gentlemen, that's my take. I'll be home in about two hours, and thanks for you again for always getting me to these drives.
All right, Drive safely, John, and glad you enjoyed the game here last night. That's a five hour roadie on the way back through Canada.
Good effort, and yeah, we're happy to be on board with you.
Yeah. And the offensive line, yes it's been said, we won't say it again. And there were a lot of things to be happy about last night. For the second straight home game. It was a boatload of fun. I don't know if you could have had more fun in a football game if you're at either of these last two the past couple of weeks, and hopefully it continues on the road, which is where the Bills will be for the next couple of weeks. In fact, in John's current place of residence, Detroit, Michigan, in two weeks. LA this coming week got to take a break here. Our number three will begin with our Bills team reporter Maddi lab You know what happens after victories. It's time to dish out some Maddie Awards and she will do that with us next here in studio on One Bill's Live presented by Colida Health.
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All right, here we are our number three on a Buffalo victory Monday. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and with seven consecutive victories, we welcome in for the seventh consecutive time, our Bill's team reporter Mattic For what else The Maddie Awards presented by Energy Mark, the official Energy supplier to the Buffalo Bills. It's another week to hand out the hardware, and deservedly so after a twenty five point victory, a.
Lot of hardware to hand out in this one. It was a fun win, a fun team AFC East champs again. Let's run it back five straight years in a row, so let's hand out some fun awards.
Absolutely, we'll get started. You gotta start with the MVP guy.
Okay, MVP, it's Josh Allen.
I'm gonna continue to bang the drum on why Alan deserves to be this year's MVP.
He continues to prove why he's worthy.
It's not like we're just sitting up here being like, yeah, Josh has had an okay season, he deserves to be the MVP. No, he's been proving it every single game. He does so against the forty nine ers in the third quarter, we know what happened. Alan tosses it to Cooper for a loss of two yards. Cooper's about to be brought down to the ground. He sees Alan laterals it to him, and then Alan decides to take it nine yards into the end zone dives through the snow to score. It's a receiving touchdown and a passing touchdown for the QB. The athleticism alone on that play was incredible, but what was even better is the fact that Amari Cooper has been here for just a month and a half and he has the trust in his quarterback to lateral the ball back to him. Why would Allan follow that play? What quarterback would do that? Josh Allen would do that because he never wants a play to be over. That's that he's in charge of, so he follows the ball and is there to grab it and then run it into the end zone. He's the only quarterback to record a passing touchdown or receiving touchdown and a rushing touchdown in the same game. Just absolutely amazing and continuing to make the case why he deserves to be this year's MVP.
Yeah, and when you do that in the nationally televised game, it only helps raise the profile. That people don't know who Josh Allen is at this point in time, but when he does, when they see things like that, they are like, oh, geez, I guess he is.
It cements that opinion in everybody's mind. When they get they get knowing, yeah.
He's he is playing.
He is playing well. They can't say well, I don't know. I didn't see him do anything special in that game, but in this game is like, wow, do you see that? Yeah, once again he does.
It all right. Next up the fire Starter Award.
The Bills needed a fire starter early in this game. If you recall the first offensive drive, it went three and out. San Francisco gets on the field on offense and they start to move the ball. They get on the board first with the field goal, and you needed a spark from the offense. He needed something to happen ru and the rushing offense did exactly that. On their second drive, Ty Johnson picks up eight yards and Josh Allen has seven yards on the ground. Ray Davis has thirteen yards on the ground and it finishes in a five yard rushing touchdown by ray Davis. Two hundred and twenty rushing yards is what the Bills had in the entire game. That's the most rushing yards this offense has had this season. You have no Donkin Kaid, no Keyon Coleman. A snow game where you thought the snow was going to stop at some point, it didn't let up at all. So your your plans change of what you can do, of what you want to do, of what you're going to find success doing, and the rushing offense came alive. It's what they leaned on throughout the entire game. And to go into a game like that where hey, you may think one thing's gonna work, but another thing works. Kudos to Joe Brady, to the offensive staff, and to the players for sticking with what was working. That's the signs of a really good team when you can lean on one different facet in every single game. This offense is mantra is everybody eats and the rushing offense ate last night.
Yeah, primarily because James was cooking. When he cooks, everybody eats too. So yeah, the run game huge last night, and a game where throwing the ball on a consistent basis might have proved difficult or treacherous in light of the conditions last night, which we haven't mentioned yet today. By the way, do you remember the original forecast was the snow is supposed to be supposed to be dry and maybe a burst of snow like a snow squall for fifteen minutes. That was the forecast. It was not so much they flipped the coin, and they set up for the kickoff. It starts snow and.
It did not stop. It got bad for a minute, it got really bad.
There was some talk, and I don't know if there's validity to this about how the snow squall and the lake effect was coming off of Lake Huron that's like three hundred miles away. It wasn't coming from Huron. What are these cockamami excuses?
What happened with the weather? I saw the thing. It was off whatever it comes west to east as we all know, Yes, was coming hard north west down southeast, so it was coming from the northwest, and the radar showed ye, yeah it was.
I didn't even know it could do that. How does it travel over that much land before falling?
It's not that much.
But yeah, and that's your weather report by Steve Task.
That was we were looking at it. We had the stuff up on radar that are like because we were the same as you were, like, what is the deal? You know, because usually they get it right. And it shifted and it was going from hard north east west down to southeast and it was coming.
From the north. I've lived here long enough to know the Western New York weather can change in a minute. It can't.
But that was you guys didn't see the snow machines right outside the stadium.
It was snow machines. Turn them on.
It was a severe, severe curveball. We all got thrown last night, all right.
So it's the Best Supporting Actor award.
Best Supporting Actor going to our offensive line and those who helped block last night. The rushing offense shined. They deserved an award like we just talked about. But this wouldn't have been possible without the help of the offensive line and the wide receivers who blocked. They did heck of a job blocking in the snow. It's not easy with your footing, with your vision. The snow was coming down hard throughout the entire game. You have two really solid seasons now out of the offensive line, looking back to this year, looking back to last year, and this year. That completely changes what an offense can do when you have.
Five guys that are great blockers for you.
They used Alec Anderson a lot last night as a sixth offensive lineman that has worked for them all season. I would think it continues as the weather gets colder and they continue to run the ball more They're such an important group that just allows this offense to completely rip. They rank second in the NFL right now, averaging twenty nine point five eight points per game. A lot of that is because of the offensive line.
Yeah, and thirty points or more in the last six in a row. It's just it's crazy what they're doing, just turning out points, all right.
The dominator award the Dominator it's going to defensive end, Greg Russo. Greg Russo had a dominant performance against the forty eight a sack, three tackles for loss, and one fumble recovery. He's got an eighty three inch wingspan. It is so long, and he showcased that length on his sack, being able to pull Rock Purty down by his feet.
He was physical, he was aggressive.
In last night's game, the defensive line got after the forty nine ers and really stifled that run game. They weren't able to get that run game going. Christian McCaffrey obviously gets hurt, goes down and they had trouble running the ball after that. And part of that is due to the defensive line and the pressure they were putting on the quarterback and those up front. Gregorusso now has fifteen tackles for loss so far this season. It ties for the second most in the NFL. He's making a case for why he deserves a contract extension.
You had no question about it, Rob contract. Yeah, yeah, kroble Nod as well, he had no question about it. He is. He's been a he's been a steady force. He's been as consistent a draft pick as the Bills have had under Brandon, you know, even with Josh I mean, yeah.
But he's gone from good to outstanding. Yes, he really has, really has leveled up.
He has. He has been so dependable since his first year and now he's he's been here from it and now he's just you know, he's winning the Dominator Awards. So it's it's pretty cool to see. Now let's get to the fun stuff. The Best Selly the Best Selly Alec Anderson and Sean McDermott CO winners. Listen.
Yeah, I couldn't give it to one and not give it to the other because the celebrations last night throughout the game, after the game were downright amazing. Alec Anderson after the Bills score, I can't remember what touchdown it was, but Alec Anderson is partying with his teammates in the end zone, he lifts up his shirt and gives the.
Crowd his belllet.
It was so funny.
Look at my belly, he listened her up and down and up and down and running right past Alec as Alec is doing this is Spencer Brown with the beer that he's pouring on himself.
Just total offensive lineman things.
I did a podcast interview with Alec Anderson last week.
It's now on Buffalo Bills dot com.
If you want to know more about his personality, just his overall vibe, please go watch the podcast or listen to it.
It is so funny.
He details what it's like to be the sixth offensive lineman, going in and going out, and just why. Matthew Smiley, our special teams coordinator, calls him the nicest mean guy you'll ever meet. And then we got to give kudos to Sean McDermott for that celebration doing snow angels alongside his quarterback Josh Allen after the Bills win the game and clinch the AFC East. Sean McDermott is a coach that we love, that we know, but Sean is by the book. He's not gonna He's not a run around and you know, show off this big personality, big type of energy.
He's a coach. He's locked in.
He wants to be, you know, the same level all the time for his players, and that's why he's such a great coach. So when you see him doing snow angels on the field after a game, you got everybody's looking at and being like, WHOA, this man is having some fun and I loved to see it. This team is so easy to cheer for.
You.
I did it in the middle of a national interview with Scott Van Pelt. I mean they're on national television on ESPN and he stops Josh and says, hey, come on, let's do snow angels. I mean the interview is not over yet. He still has the microphone in his hand.
Oh was that big? And then Josh Trey's hats with him. He gives him the AFC East Champion. In fact, that leads us to the next award, fifth straight title AFC East.
Take it in five straight AFC East titles for this team. I want you guys to take it in to savor it and don't forget this. Back in twenty seventeen, when Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean walked through these doors. McDermott was a first time head coach, Bean was a first time GM. They're young guys with a hope to turn a franchise around who had a seventeen year playoff drought going. Bean drafts the right guys who fit the culture. McDermott gets the most out of his players, and what that turns into is seven playoff appearances in the eight years that they've been here, five straight AFC East titles. They clinched the division in week third team with five weeks to play. It's the first time doing so since two thousand and nine, first time in fifteen years. No other team in NFL history has clinched the division more than one week prior to playing one of their division rivals for the first time.
This is via OPTA stats. I was looking for the stat.
I was like, when is the last time a team has clinched the division without playing one of their division opponents? Once and there it is the first time in NFL history. This team this week, that's more than one week. Yeah, this team, this franchise, these players, what's happened here since twenty seventeen. I got to walk into this place as a winning team in twenty nineteen when I took the job, and since then it's been it's been so consistent, and it doesn't seem like it's going to end anytime soon.
Yeah, sixth straight season of at least ten wins as well, which is the sixth longest streak in NFL history. All Right, we wrap it up with the Welcome Back Award. I feel like we should play the welcome beck cover Well.
Come back, welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back. Matt Mulano.
It was his first game back since that left bicep tear, and his first game back in thirteen months. You would think, Okay, this guy hasn't played in thirteen months.
Maybe he's going to be on a pitch count.
He might just play, you know, a couple snaps here, a couple snaps there. Well, he finishes with five total tackles and played in seventy seven percent of the game, and it shows just how ready he was for that moment, just how much the coaching staff trusted him to go out there and play in way more than.
Half of the game.
He may not have had the biggest impact if you look on the stat sheet, but that's coming.
We know what Matt Mlano is capable of.
We know the accolades that he's gotten, the force, the physicality, the monster from within. It's gonna awaken soon enough, and right on time for the end of the season in the playoffs.
Yeah, amen to Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, it's huge you get him back. And you could tell it right before the first snap. He and Terro Bernard had a little moment there where before the ball was snapped. After he got back and they were happy to be back in the saddle together.
And what an ovation that he got when he got interroested. I was, sir starting lineups. I mean, the crowd was pumped to see fifty eight back on the field, as all of us were as well. It was really cool to see that, knowing what he's gone through to get back on the field, going a year plus with two injuries, not one to get back. So happy to see him back, and I think you know, his play will only ascend as we keep going here. He's probably knocking a lot of rust off last night and getting used to the looks and the speed and doing it with poor footing last night in the story conditions so awesome. Yeah, I think we can only expect him to get better.
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What's up? Rob?
Hello?
Chris?
Hello, Steve? How's how's it going?
Pretty darn good?
No, you know, you know we're doing very well after after a game like that last night. It was wonderful. It was beautiful. Everything just seemed to go our way.
It was.
It was just wonderful. One of my takeaways was I've noticed, go go back two weeks ago. You know, our defense has been containing the tight ends, the two top tight ends, Kelsey, and then last night we did a great job with Kittle. I know the weather played a factor, but going into this game, I was a little bit concerned on how we were gonna contain Kittle, and I think we did an exceptional job at that. Of Course, you know, the running game, the defense, of course we're gonna have problems because of the footing. I mean, you got to take that in consideration. I'm not worried about our run defense moving forward. So with the other tight ends coming to play, you know we've got we've got reported to put a lock on. And as far as the Rams, you know, Pooka and the Cup, I think we're.
Gonna be fine.
And one of my questions to you, Steve is and and you know, as a Bills fan from way back and going through the experiences of you know, nineties, the early nineties with you on the team and going to the Super Bowls, you know, I'm getting that same kind of feeling as a fan and experiencing that this year more than you know, the past few years. This year just feels like what you guys did. It's almost like deja voo. And I was wondering, do you do you get that feeling as well like deja vouish, Like it's almost that same kind of feeling.
Yeah, I would say there's a lot of things about this team that I like in the same way I like that team in the nineties. Deja vu may not describe it quite well enough, but yeah, this seems like a special group. It seems like a special group off the field as well as on and that was something that the nineties group was, So yeah, they're a different I mean, it's a different game, it's a different era, all of that stuff. But yeah, there is something this team does have a kind of a special vibe like that team back then did. But yeah, they're playing extremely well right now and it's fun to see and.
Other people are noticing it too, because Collinsworth asked him in the hallway yesterday, is there something different about this team this year?
And Steve said yeah, he said it felt like it was even himself. So yeah, and I'll say this to a lot of this it's a fifth straight division title. I get all that, you don't. I'm laughing, because you don't ever win the division this early in the season without it being a team effort to thank the Dolphins and the Jets for stinking so bad, because that's, you know, was one of the reasons they're out of it. They can't they can't catch the Bills because they're they're struggling so much. That's part of it. This is kind of why that, you know, we have such scar tissue from the New England Patriots and of the Brady Belichick era. The rest of the division just couldn't catch those guys and they'd win the division early. But this team is is different. It does seem special, and I think it's really cool because it was in a year when they came a little bit finger course from nowhere. People had written them off, and that's that makes it extra delicious.
Yeah, So let us know your biggest takeaways at eight oh three zero five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two fifty and a crack open the tweet sheet here presented by Corygan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills, where Rick says it was a glorious game in the snow. Josh Allen scoring by passing, running, and receiving. James Cook running for about one hundred and twenty yards and scoring a long touchdown run. Dawson Knox stepping up big in this game. He had two clutch grabs for fifty six yards that were crucial on Bill's drives. Yeah, and I think you're listing of contributors there kind of puts the exclamation point on it. It was a total team effort. And while the offense gets a lot of the accolades, the defense gets two takeaways, Special teams gets another one on a kick return, and look, was it not for another penalty, special teams would have had a kick return for a touchdown of seventy five yards. So every phase of the game is contributing to the outcome in some way, shape or form. And we see the offense get the headlines all the time. We know the polarizing figure and talent that Josh is, But there's a defense that's getting some stuff done here week in and week out. And there's a special teams unit that's coming around too.
Yeah, No special teams. The kick coverage and he knows this. Last night they had to cover a couple of kicks. They almost got out of the gate on them.
Yeah, they were a couple of long ones, and that's because that's the first two kicks I can It's a week twelve, and I've like, that's the only kicks they've had to cover. Yeah, there haven't been many.
There have not been many kickoffs to cover, and last night in a slippery game stuff. They're a little bit out of their elements. So that'll help them going forward the more those they get. But yeah, that was a problem last night and their kickoff coverage.
Their opponents have seventeen kick returns on the season.
Right, that's not very many and barely more than one game. And I'll say this the special teams that Codrington deserved that last night. He's been doing an extremely good job during this season. It's nice to see him get one like that. Although it didn't count. We'll see if he can get another one soon. But yeah, it's nice to see him get rewarded for how well he's been playing.
Yeah, Bills are now outscoring their opponents one hundred and seventy seven to eighty six in the second half.
Something's going on with that?
You think that is bananas? Joseph on the tweet sheet says, just a fun game to watch. Can't pick apart too much because of the field conditions, but for Josh to make some of the throes he did was outstanding. Plus bast and miss in nasty weather, So kudos to him. Now finished strong and get the one seat. He did have a fifty yarder that he hooked wide to the left.
Just missed it. It had enough leg on it, but yeah, that's uh.
In a driving snowstorm, I think you have to show a little grace for your kicker.
Yeah, but nevertheless, he had the distance on it and he didn't miss it by much. And you know, conditions being what they were, it's like, what are you gonna do fifty yards? Yeah, that's the special Teams did have their moments last night.
It was good to see c D on the tweet sheet says, the Bills offense is now so good it will overcome some deficiencies in the run defense. Super Bowl caliber team. You find it interesting that people keep knocking the run defense on a game like last night with the field conditions like footing was horrible.
Well, yeah, the one time this team has looked vulnerable was in a game against Baltimore where they figured out. They couldn't do it. They just it looked hopeless.
And don't you just consider that a bad night, not an epidemic problem.
Yeah, well, when you've got Mulano's out, Bernard's out, and Taron Johnson are out.
It's entire second level, you're gonna be a bad night. Yeah.
But yeah, yeah, we'll see, they're gonna they may get another shot at those guys.
They might tie. On the tweets sheet says the Bills are peaking at the best possible time. Extend mac Collins. He does so much. Coach McDermott is more relaxed this year, especially last night. He's maintaining his consistency, but he's letting people see how much he loves what he does. He's just getting better. Look, he's a head coach that practice practices what he preaches. You know. He preaches being the best version of yourself. Every day you come in the building. The next day, you try to be one percent better than you were the day before. He lives by that himself. I remember his second after his second season, here Bill's goes six and ten. It's the only year they have not made the playoffs on his watch. And you have normal exit interviews with your players before they go home for the off season, where you kind of go over some things, whether it's a position coach that does that or a coordinator, and they kind of outline what your season was like. They ask you for feedback, and then they give them suggestions. Hey, you know, I think you should work on this in the off season, or I think you could be a better player if you add five to six pounds a lean muscle mass so you hold up better in this area. On defense, Sean McDermott turned the tables on that he gave players the opportunity to critique the coaches and where they could get better. I had never heard that in my twenty plus years of cover in the NFL, and I was like, holy cow, this guy really does practice what he preaches. He's trying to get better by seeking out player input for him and his entire staff.
Yeah, that's that's big.
Mean the coaches are doing that.
Maybe there are some that we don't hear about, sure, but it hasn't happened in this building too much. I know that. Yeah. And McDermott has this that growth mindset mentality that he lives by and it's served him, well, he is a better coach now than he was eight years ago, and he gets he's gotten significantly better. And let's face it, we all everybody loves dunking on him about the thirteen second game and all the stuff that and all the time. You know, I told Brownie this, You go back and look at how good this team has become. Certainly has to do with the talent and the quarterback they've got in the offensive coordinators, but he's done it with different offensive coordinators. They're maybe the best team in the league at just before the half. They proved again last night where they squeezed the life out of the clock and scored with less than a minute left in the half and left the Niners with nothing to work with in a snowstorm so that they didn't get a chance to double dip. They do that consistently, and particularly when they're gonna double dip, they're very good at it. They've been very good at that. And he has just gotten better at every facet of being a head coach. And you know, you go back to the hit piece that was written on him a couple of years ago he had last year, he had a conversation with the guy who was said and and and you listen look at him at the ugly portrayal of himself by somebody else, and said, how much of it is true? Let me look at it. You know, that's that's pretty courageous. It's it's very unselfish. And that's why he's better now and as getting better than than he has ever been. And uh, I think that it speaks to the culture and how easy it is for players, wherever they come from, or however long they're here, whatever time they spend here, they thrive.
Let's get back to the phones. At eight oh three oh five fifty, we go to gym down in Pennsylvania. What he got first, Jim, I'm.
Just wondering, now that the Bills have won the AFCs, do you rest your players or do you make them play to get that number one seed?
Yeah, I think there's value in the number one seed. I would anticipate he's gonna continue to play players. Let's just say hypothetically the number one seed wasn't out there for them to get anymore. I think he'd still play him because you can't start resting guys five weeks before the playoffs. You know how rusty and unprepared they would be for a playoff game to like not really play much over the last month of a season and say, all right, guys, let's ramp it up. Now play some of the best teams in the league.
I'll say this though, it's hard to work that way. I'll say this though, Jim and Bills fans out there who were it's not nothing. You gotta manage it. And there's no question about it. You don't want. I mean, what are you gonna do if you're gonna go hard, crying get the one seed and all of a sudden you get the wrong player with a busted ankle a week before the season's over. You know that's what you're kind of up against, right, So you want them to be sharp and healthy going into the playoffs and rested.
Well, if you keep lumping up teams like they did yesterday, they're gonna be able to do that.
They may be playing three quarters a game.
We were talking about it on the broadcast. You know, you've got the longest trip of the season coming up this Sunday. It's late in the year. Granted you just had to buy so guys are relatively fresh, But do you know how enormous it is for you for a bulk of your starters to have only played three quarters and a little bit and sit the fourth quarter out and miss about twenty snaps like that's a big deal. Bodies recover faster when you take the load off like that, and it'll make them better this week in Los Angeles because of it.
But let's face it, though, you got to push hard enough to give yourself a chance at the one seed, knowing that you're already going to be in the tournament. But you got to give yourself a chance to get another week off and get guys health in stay sharp. It is something you gotta consider. I think I don't know how much consideration you're geting. You're gonna play. You're gonna play to win every game. You're not gonna play. You're not gonna sit star players who were healthy.
I think if someone's nicked, they have a minor ailment, they don't want to make it worse. I could see somebody sitting there. Maybe your your standard for what it's gonna take to miss a game. Obviously, with player athletic training and medical team input, maybe with some guys nicked, that isn't quite right. Well, I could play if you need me. I think those guys are gonna sit for a week, yeah, to get them right.
But think about it though, that's they do that these days anyway. I mean that's the way they're thinking.
They might do it, even to a greater degree.
Maybe, And but it's a question that you know, it's a good problem to have, yes, but it is an issue that you got to deal with, and it's imp It's important because there's risk involved.
Back to the tweetsheet where ha Roadie says Josh is playing as good as he ever has and at an elite level. The team is deep feeding everyone with opportunities and it's working. We're healthy. Knock on wood man. The Bills are fun to watch, Yeah they are. They're entertaining, There's no question about it. That's what I was saying, Like these last two games, you'd be hard pressed to be more entertained by this team than you have been these past two games and two very different games. You know, the atmosphere of last night was it was unprecedent. I mean, we've been a part of snow games before, but seeing the Bills dominate a team in adverse conditions and granted, you know, the forty nine ers came in here a wounded animal. I mean, let's just be honest about that. They were not the forty nine ers that were in the Super Bowl last year in terms of personnel and player availability, but condition wise, atmosphere, national television audience, and you do that, you know, to the defending NFC champs. That has entertainment value. Now, I don't think it was as palpably electric as it was two weeks ago against the Chiefs, where everybody across the country was watching that thing front to back, and it was a tight game for the most part, so you can understand why people were glued. What was it over? Thirty one million people watch that games?
Thirty one million people, thirty two million people. They yeah, it was the most watched games regular season game since Brady Manning. Manning.
Yeah, but I mean these last two who if you're a Bills fan, you're pinching yourself for what you've been able to witness the last couple of games. Corey on the tweets sheets says, need to figure out the first drive got to start scoring points heading into the playoffs. Rundy needs to tighten up if Bills draw Ravens in the wild card, Henry will run all over them again. I don't know if I'm ready to buy that yet, because I think the Bills will have a different game plan for the second meeting with the Ravens if it comes to pass in the postseason. And look, I understand that they're having trouble on their opening possession of games at times, but look up at the scoreboard at the end of the night. I mean they need to start scoring points heading into the playoffs. They've scored thirty points or more in each of their last six games. Are you high? Are you seriously saying they need to score more points? They're the second highest scoring team in football. What do you mean they need to score more points? Are you looking at the scoreboard at the end of the game seriously?
Yeah?
Come on with that.
They're scoring plenty of points. I get it. You wanted to start fast, have a strong middle, and then finish with a sprint. I get it. But you know they're not playing in a vacuum. And listen, you'd rather have it the way it is now than any other way. If you can't have it, if you can't have perfection, and nobody does so, Yeah, don't.
Yeah, that's I'm sorry.
That's like saying they're going to turn their That's like the calls we got when they were eight and two, somebody said they were going to turn their season around.
Like that, They're on a pace to be the highest scoring team in Bill's history, score more points. You're out of your gourd. I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Yeah, they've already tied the record for most thirty point games in a season. They've got five to play.
I don't know what your point you were trying to make is, but I'm sure it wasn't about scoring points.
Holy cow, I don't know, Gary says, to quote Ray Lewis, the Bills passed the eye test.
Yes.
Talented and well coached, the Bills are unified and play with belief most important, but most important intangible in life. To quote seven, we knew we were going to win. They knew we were going to win. They knew. We knew that's a keeper, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Not only do you we should put that one on your tombstone when all is said and done.
Not only do you know that's a good one you're gonna win, they know it too, And they know you know yeah, uh, yeah, that's an old timer, but that's yeah. They do pass the eye test. This team is finding multiple ways to win their scoring points from all over their roster. Their defense is playmaking, opportunistic and can do it in every facet of the game, from tackling from sacks, tackles for loss, turnovers, interceptions. They can do it. They do it all and do it all very well. One of the reasons people get caught up in the run defense is this year it's that Baltimore game that they gave up. They got beat badly and gave up a ton of yards rushing. I would challenge that notion that that's who this team is. They were missing a ton of starters and a second shot at that team. I'd take this one.
Yep, I would too, and not even hesitate. Lewis on the tweet sheet says, game felt close and I looked up and it was twenty one to three. I don't think we've played our best yet, which is scary. Steve and I have talked about this for the last month. I mean, this team is winning games, sometimes bludgeoning opponents, and Steve and I are talking before we come on the air. It's like, I don't even know if they've hit their ceiling yet. Yeah, I think they could be even better than this.
Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how they exploit the roster when it's fully healthy. Certainly, they have played like they're fully healthy every week. No matter who's been in there, they've done exactly what they were asked to do. They've done it at a high level. And it's been guys who we didn't know if they could even make the roster when training camp kicked off.
Their average margin of victory on this seven game winning streak is over fifteen points a game. That is hard to do in this league on a consistent basis for almost two months, and on the season, they're number two in the league, number one in the AFC. In point differential, they are a plus one p thirty one right now. The only team that's better are the Lions at plus one eighty. So nobody else is within sniffing distance of those two teams right now. Gotta take a break. Final thoughts on the tweet sheet and the phones when we return here on a Buffalo victory Monday on One Bill's Live, presented by Colida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, so final thoughts from the tweetsheets here on a Buffalo victory Monday, One Bill's Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with You, and Sella says this is the best team in five plus years of successful Buffalo Bills football. McDermott has created a great program meshed perfectly with Beam and of course Terry and Kim Pigula. As a kid in the seventies, I am thrilled that this young generation witnessed McDermott trust the process.
We told you so. I mean, we knew that at the beginning of the it was going to take a minute, and it looked like they stumbled, no question in the two game losing streak with between Baltimore and Houston Ortho. You know, the Houston game was what it was and the Baltimore game was what it was, and we thought, okay, it's going to be an uphill battle. This has a chance to be the best team Sean mcdermot's ever fielded. We've gotten some feedback today that makes you think a lot of people think it already is the best team they've ever fielded. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Maybe they'll go further. Maybe they won't, we don't know, but it certainly looks sustainable what they're doing here in Buffalo, and that's taking more shots at getting a chance to get a world championship. Is what it's all about. You need to go year after year after year. You you go, and they are they're gonna have another shot out of this year. How they're gonna be six weeks from now when the playoffs start, we don't know, but they're in it. Yeah, and there's no turning back now. They're they're in it. And however these next five or six weeks go, they're gonna they're still gonna be in a position to continue with it going forward a year after this. There's no this is this is a really good football team, and we were right. This may be the best team Sean mcdermot's ever fielded. There are no guarantees about what that means, but.
The truth is the truth from sloth No's ball. Say what you want about this Bills team and their strength of schedule and how injured the Niners were and all that, I don't care. It's all irrelevant. The energy and the vibes on the Bills team is just different. There's a special team with all the right championship ingredients, and it's a team that knows how to close Steve. They are now twenty and two in December and January regular season games twenty twenty and eleven, and oh since twenty twenty two. They know how to close out a regular season.
They got a chance to close it over the next few years. We'll see.
We'll be back tomorrow at one o'clock with Dan Orlovsky from ESPN. We'll see you then,