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Ep. 66 - JA17 v. Miami is Inevitable
30 Plays5 months ago
Come frolic in the joy of yet another successful romping of the Miami Dolphins folks!
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Introduction & Podcast Focus
00:00:24
Speaker
What's going on, everybody? You're listening to the Let's Go Buffalo podcast, your favorite podcast for all things, bills and sabers with the pals Nigel and Tom this evening. I brought the reinforcements back from last week. Episode 66 coming at you, folks. Quick reminder to follow the socials. You know, the drill. We're on all of them. Instagram X, YouTube, TikTok. I'm sure if you can come up with another one, we'll probably be on it before too long.
00:00:51
Speaker
You can find this on all of them with the handle at Let's Go Buff Pod. Tom, how many Fs? Two! Two! Two! Douay! I was waiting for the Douay! Douay Fs! Yes, Let's Go Buff Pod with two Fs. Let's get around here and say hello to my buddy, Tommy.
Hosts' Catch-up
00:01:10
Speaker
How you doing, my guy?
00:01:11
Speaker
Dude, I'm good. It's so good to see you. I think we're in the, we're, we're in the middle of of the other three of us. This podcast is in the middle of a ah kind of a thick of it of just stuff going on. yeah Yeah, we all, we all got shit going on, man. Whatever it is. I feel like we got our fingers in it. So we yeah, dude, it's good. Yeah, it's good. man alls of Life is what we have. Right. this salt yeah A little bit of everything, right? A little bit of good, little bit of required, little bit of something, you know, fun shit. And it's all that required. I like that. too That is correct. That is accurate. That paycheck is required. You know, you kind of got to get that, unfortunately. Certainly. Certainly. But yeah, dude, no, I'm good because, you know, you know who we sent back in this week? Oh, freaking Miami Dolphins.
Bills vs. Dolphins Recap
00:01:54
Speaker
Could it be that they lost to us twice this year, Tom?
00:01:57
Speaker
two times two times now now wait a minute okay we don't we don't play them any more than two times right it's only two times in the season no it's the yeah and we want both of them we want both of them so miami didn't win a single one we got we won the first one and we won the second one okay cool and weird dude so like i think if memory serves to a plate i would say and if we're talking a percentage played 90 of all those snaps i would say maybe 85 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But he's still lost, right? Yes. Yes. OK. Still lost. Yeah. OK. Weird, man. I just something in my head. I just feel like I've spent the last i don' roughly year just hearing about how unstoppable the Miami offense is and how bad the bills are. And it's just I'm so confused, man, because like we've just established, we won both the games once and twice. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder what I wonder what happened, Tom.
00:02:53
Speaker
beats me, beats me. What are those dolphins? I think they're two and seven. Huh? Wow. It's not even that they can't beat the bills. They they they can't beat anybody. Oh, Tom, that's a really good point. Wow. Yeah. It doesn't seem like it it actually two and seven. That would indicate to me that they've lost way more than they won this season.
00:03:11
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. About three and a half times. Wait a minute. Don't they have, don't they have Tua and Tyreke and Jalen Waddle and HN and Raheem Mostert and Johnny Smith. They have all those guys, right? Sure do. Wow. Yeah, man, dude. This is, you know, can't, can't put it together. Wow. um My mind is, oh, and offensive guru, Mike McDaniels, right?
00:03:35
Speaker
Oh, that's right. Yeah. Genius. Yeah. He likes it cold. Wow. Old baby. This is I'm just so confused, man. I'm trying to wrap my head around this. I don you know I'm getting really excited for them, though, because they're going to have lots of time in January.
Sabres' Struggles
00:03:48
Speaker
Oh, lots of time. All the free time in the world. They could do whatever they want. Like I'm so excited for Jordan Boyer to go golf, dude. He's going to be so excited. He's been dying to get down to Miami so that he can golf, dude. Now he gets to do it as soon as the season's over.
00:04:03
Speaker
Good for him, man. That's awesome. yeah Yeah, man. We're just really good. We're just like really good people thinking about them. aren't we Yeah, we're really nice. yeah That was quite the bit we just leaned into. Hey, oh we did absolutely suck it, dude.
00:04:17
Speaker
I got another half hour nights. We can keep going. I mean, God damn, dude. Yeah. We'll get back to it. We're going to come back in a minute. I'm sure we'll dip back a little bit. Yeah. Suck it. Oh, it's so good, dude. And I mean, Hey, the bills were what? I don't know. Third highest odds to win the division going into this year. Third behind who the dolphins and the jets. Yeah, man. Just two on Rogers, dude. They're so good, Tom.
00:04:43
Speaker
Miss me with it, dude. Miss me with it. ah i a mile bro but we have I am We have a 96% statistical chance to make the playoffs. That's a 99% statistical chance. No, I'm sorry. I flipped them. 96% chance to win the division, 99% chance to win to make the playoffs.
00:05:01
Speaker
Huh? I would take those grades on a test, Tom. How about you? Pretty sweet. Yeah. Sign me up. You know what's going to make that test even better? It's a beer. So count me down. Yes, Tom. Yes. I'm sorry, folks. I'm party foul. I'm beer-less. Tom, you ready? Yeah. Three, two, one. I really hope that comes up on the recording somehow. It was very quiet, but I love that you have a bottle opener. Tom, what do we got a little harpoon flannel Friday, cause it's still beautiful fall out here. It's actually like gorgeous, like 65 degrees today, dude. yeah And this is okay. so this is my Sorry. Continue. I just totally cut you off again. Finish what you were going to say. You're good. I've just now love enjoying my walks of having a front facing baby. I'm just, just walking through life and she's just like soaking it in. It's, it's hilarious and awesome and beautiful all at the same time. So she's my but my favorite new little walking partner.
00:05:55
Speaker
if you're ah if you're a baby and you're born in vermont dude i just feel like you have to be like one percent maple tree or something like that dude like she's not exclusively a human being like she's got to be like like one percent dirt or something yeah there's some like and with some tops of hair that's also like
Celebrating Bills' Success
00:06:14
Speaker
pine needles growing yeah yeah yeah it's like a pine needle here and there something yeah that sounds about right love that pal yeah dude i'm miss i'll tell you what love being down here in nashville it's amazing the music situation all that stuff it's incredible can't imagine a better place for a musician
00:06:27
Speaker
I am very actively missing my northeast fall though dude like I miss I miss the 65 and sunny it was still it is right now at 439 here in Tennessee it's still 75 degrees outside dude so and it was it was over it was over 80 today yeah when I'm stuck in and like three feet of snow and like negative 12 degrees you're gonna be loving it yeah um right now you're winning
00:06:52
Speaker
What to get you scheduled for a ah Northeast visit next fall when you're ready to travel? Ah, yes. It sounds like that will be in the books before it's too, too long, pal. Yeah, hell yeah, dude. So walk me through what the hell is going on with the Sabres real quick so we can go have some fun. Thankfully, we're fans of multiple teams that maybe not everybody has to suck all at the same time.
00:07:11
Speaker
Yes. And it feels like the Sabres have to die so the Bills can thrive. that's That's the only thing I can come up with right now. I don't even want to talk about it. The Sabres fucking stink. 0-2 since the last pod. Lost to the Isles. Lost to Detroit. Two absolutely middling teams that are probably not going to make the playoffs.
00:07:29
Speaker
We didn't even look good. Um, man, like the, the transition game right now, defensively for us, we are giving up two on ones and odd man, rushes, like our fucking lives depend on it, dude. And I honestly am shocked to find that because like Lindy rough is a veteran as coach, man, should have that stuff locked in with the guys. And it's just absolutely not, dude. I feel like every time, like,
00:07:52
Speaker
and Every couple minutes there feels like a two-on-one coming right at UPL or Devin Levi and it's just you're you're you're literally
Standout Performances
00:08:00
Speaker
Never gonna win like that, dude. Yeah, so it's just like it's just so frustrating man It it feels like more of the same as last year. We're not scoring any goals. We lost to the aisles for three. Okay Yeah, I guess three is something but then we just lost to Detroit two to one dude after we put up five on them when we played them last week So I dude I'm at a loss already. i'm I'm trying to remain a little bit optimistic, still so just desperately, as ah as a like deranged fan, clinging to the idea that maybe it just needs a little bit longer because it's a new coach and a new system. But dude, I mean,
00:08:40
Speaker
The proof is in the pudding, dude. We're last in the Atlantic division right now, or tied for last. We're we're bottom 10 in every metric that matters. The saber stank. No two ways about it. It's looking like Kevin Adams failed. The the fact that he didn't get the team a legitimate top six forward this season. Looks like it's going to definitely come back to bite us in the ass. Jack Quinn is falling and missing shots at open nets. He's completely broken. Dylan Cousins still looks broken. That line change that we tried to do for the last two games completely was a disaster. They already went back
00:09:15
Speaker
So I guess we'll see what happens tonight. We play Ottawa tonight at seven. It's again, I said this last part, it's a team that's been in the same bucket as us for the last couple of years. This team that's like supposed to be ready to take that next step and just hasn't, you know, is at this point, isn't even a statement when if you beat Ottawa, just to say that we're taking a step, probably not. No one's going to believe that you're serious. You're probably going to win one and then lose the next one because Thursday they play the goddamn New York Rangers.
00:09:42
Speaker
who will challenge for a president's trophy. President's trophy, if you don't know, is the team that ends the regular season with the most points. um So the Rangers are going to challenge for that. Probably going to get smoked by them. And then Saturday we play the Flames at one. um Calgary started the year hot, but on paper, it's a team that's really quite bad. Um, a team we should expect to be, uh, almost for sure means the savers will come out and look terrible and lose and make Calgary look amazing. So that's about all I've got right now. I'm pretty jaded on the savers, man. I'm
Game Strategy & Referee Critique
00:10:14
Speaker
not too optimistic. Get ready for year 14 folks.
00:10:18
Speaker
yeah Well, you know, at least we know what's coming, right? less At least we can start to mentally prepare now in November. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. not mine So just a little ah producing here with you. I think we go. Let's talk Miami game and we talk news and then we talk next week.
00:10:35
Speaker
Hell yeah. I'm in dude. Get us going. All right. I think this, uh, well, first of all, the Buffalo bills, if you couldn't catch from our first five minute, uh, rampage there, um, defeated the mi Miami dolphins 30 to 27, uh, on Sunday, send them packing and essentially ended their season and send it any office off season, you know, uh, hopes they had any, whatever, you know, anything, just anything we ended it. It was great.
00:11:01
Speaker
I think the story of the week has to be T bass drilling a franchise record 61 yard field goal to go up three seconds with five seconds left on the clock. This kid, we all know, has been struggling for the last year and a half. Like, just has had the yips up the butt, like, doesn't know. like And we, everybody's frustrated with it. We brought in to the point where, like, the franchise has brought in legitimate, kind well, maybe not legitimate. They brought in competition. I once called it legitimate competition. Yeah, it's coming out legitimate. Right. But enough competition and where there was an act of competition before um games coming up in the um the previous weeks. And it's the point, and this kid,
00:11:40
Speaker
He stepped up McDermott believed in him. He believed in himself. He drilled it. That thing was good from 70 dude. um It was right up the middle and I think that has to be the story of the game.
00:11:53
Speaker
I, yeah, without question, dude, especially just amidst all the shit that he best has been taken. I mean, I think we've said it on the pod that we don't, we didn't have confidence in him. Right? Like, and, and dude, hand up when he lined up for that kick, I was sitting there begging out loud to my TV to just throw the Hail Mary. Yeah. And like, because I truly in my heart of hearts, dude,
00:12:14
Speaker
didn't think that there was a single shot that he best made that kick. no So incredibly happy to take the L on that. And I'm happy to give T bass all the flowers that he deserves, dude, because that is an absolutely massive kick. First of all,
00:12:29
Speaker
61 yards is not a short distance, you know, any world when you're kicking a field goal, I believe it was also into nine miles an hour of wind. If I remember right. I don't think he had the wind at his back. So it's possible. It could have even maybe had more on it. Um, if he was going with the wind or if there was no wind, I still agree. Would have been good from 70 dude. I think, I think it's 70 yards. It probably catches the crossbar and goes in, but I still think it goes in at 70 yards, ma'am. At the end of the day.
00:12:57
Speaker
I'm just so happy for Tyler Bass, dude. I'm happy for Tyler Bass, the person, because I mean, you know, going back to last season, the Kansas city game where, you know, another tough kick and nobody had confidence in him meant to make that kick and he missed it. And then people, I mean, you know how shitty people can be. Do people, I'm sure we're sending them threats and yeah, just all that stuff. Like they were. they Yeah. A hundred percent. So I am just super, super happy and stoked for Tyler Bass, the person.
00:13:23
Speaker
Yeah, you have to hope. Yeah, yeah. Love the person happy. Just just super happy and excited for him. Have to hope that this, um you know, get some going a little bit. yeah I mean, if if you If a 61 yard game winner against a division rival doesn't set you down the path of success, I can't figure out what possibly could maybe a 63 yarder. I don't know. But, um, I, I have to imagine this is going to do a lot for the mentors. I, the only thing, dude, the extra points, like what are we doing? Yeah. what How, I mean, we almost missed two of them.
00:14:01
Speaker
Right. Like we, we absolutely missed one. And the second one banked in off, off an upright. So who knows? Yeah. That is still concerning, dude.
Tyler Bass' Record Field Goal
00:14:09
Speaker
Like you need those to be automatic. Like you need to score a touchdown and just know that that seventh point is coming. I don't know, man. There's a big part of me that wishes we would go back to, cause like, I think it's probably five or six years ago. Now they moved that extra point back.
00:14:24
Speaker
And that's so other kickers have started to struggle, right? Yeah, it's not just by their backs. It's not automatic anymore. It's right, which is as fans frustrating and feels stupid, but it's not. It just it feels like that that is not the area to try and and introduce some variability to the game. Right. Like it it doesn't that that doesn't seem to me like the spot to do it. Like, oh, we're just going to make this one thing a little bit harder. Like,
00:14:50
Speaker
I don't know man I still like the kickoffs are still a complete joke everybody just it's it's it's a touch back still every time until you eliminate the touch like if you want to really introduce variants into the game get rid of the touchbacks on kickoffs right like make it make it require that you have to bring that shit out yep you know That is the way to introduce some variants, dude. Because and nine times out of 10, these kickoffs are still touchbacks. So I don't know why we're trying to introduce variants on the PATs. That feels so stupid to me. And just somebody being like, oh, let's just try this real quick. And I don't know. I didn't like it then. I don't like it now, mostly because it seems to hurt my team. um But yeah, dude, like it makes a lot more sense to me. And I get it's a safety thing. But like you've already taken care of that collision component by lining everybody up.
00:15:36
Speaker
five yards away from each other, right? Like just eliminate the touchbacks. Touchback's going to kick off. Yeah. That seems to be, I mean, I don't know. um That's anyway. Yeah. He's up. So Tyler Bass is up. I mean, he, so he also made a 40 and a 49 yard field goal yeah been a range where he's struggled this year, a hundred percent awesome him to see him do that, make the 61 he's up to an 83.3% field goal percentage.
00:15:59
Speaker
which isn't terrible. It's not awesome. It's probably not where he's paid yet, but it's better. Right. So he's he's week by week. He's he's chipping away. He's making kicks. And I agree with you. This needs to be a brick in the wall of his fortitude, but mental fortitude. Yeah. And you this because this could be a legacy kick for him. Right. Oh, it could be. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. This is when one this is when he turned it around. Remember. So now, just before we move on, a little bit of trivia, do you can you give me the kicker?
00:16:29
Speaker
Um, the distance or the year of win of, of the record that he broke, says he broke 61 yards as the franchise record. Now, do you know how long what year or what kicker might have held the record before? I would have to guess it was Ryan Lindell at some point. Am I right on the guy or no? No, go back, go back more. ah Even more dude. I can't even remember. I can't remember what what's the name you'll know. Is it its the name you'll know. I'm not going to get it.
00:16:55
Speaker
Alright, it was 1993. Okay. year for us is not ah Steve Christie. Steve Christie, damn it. Yeah. And it was 59 yards and um and franchise records. So 59 yards by Steve Christie, 1993 was the the old record. So now 31 years later, Tyler Bass is has overtaken it. I'm sure I'm sure Christie is happy to hand over the crown.
00:17:15
Speaker
Yeah, I have to imagine he Tyler Bass will probably break that. I mean, we saw what I legitimately think, dude. I mean, if he, if he gets ahold of it the way he did, that guy can hit a 70 yard field goal or get him indoors, get him at Indianapolis
Running Backs' Impact
00:17:28
Speaker
this week, right? In a dome, 75, right? Yeah. Do it. I love it. So some other just fun things that happened this week, let's start with the fun. And then we, there are some ugly, this was a tough game. This, the the dolphins came to play. We, we had to grind this one out. Oh yeah. But like Nigel, guess what?
00:17:44
Speaker
We won. Oh, that's right. That's right. I forgot somehow. Yeah. I just got to make sure nobody, nobody forgets that. Yeah. We, we, we won that. Um, I think we got to talk about Josh Allen doing Josh Allen things that touchdown pass to quitting Morris. Woo. Just two players, two hanging off of 75 pound line, you know, defensive lineman hanging off of them. And he just did flips it up over into the quit Morris. Like I just love that he's on our team. Yeah. Me, me goddamn too, dude. And honestly, like I, and I'm trying to like, I try to sift through this and and decide, is it like, is it a case where I am just like, I don't want to use the phrase. I don't want to use the word numb. Like I'm not getting numb to the incredible ability of Josh Allen.
00:18:27
Speaker
but dude like i mean let's not let's not sit here and pretend that that was like a good looking ball like it was a desperation flip he made it but it was an ugly looking ball as it traveled a couple years ago and man like i mean quit or cue morris dude like freaking Like like went out and snatched it dude like immediately got those hands up and got it like it was just so quick man That guy every time he makes a touchdown catch dude. It's like one of the craziest things I've ever seen and it's always some Ridiculous thing from Josh Allen that wasn't like super far, but it was enough where it was just like ah like what just happened It was incredible. Yeah, he's he's good quitting Morris is good for one of those a year. Yeah you least at least
00:19:09
Speaker
love having him. So that was awesome. Yeah. Um, do you want me to just keep ripping through this or do you want to come in with a, with a good? No, man. Hit me with it. So I think we got, I got to talk about Ray Davis, baby. All purpose yards took a 63 yard little, little outs outpass to, uh, to the house. Um, just that love seeing that he is coming into this office and making a, making us a significant impact. And and clear it's clear that we have two legitimate options at running back.
00:19:39
Speaker
it's awesome yeah yeah dude i um i yeah i love ray davis dude i really really really do man i just think and i'm and i'm gonna something a broken record he's just such a good compliment to to cookie dude like the way that that he's he's he's a meatball first and foremost He's not as quick nor and as fast as James Cook, but he's still got breakaway juice to him as we saw from that reception for a touchdown. And dude, he just makes guys miss. I mean, he broke. He split those two defenders um on that touchdown run to the point where they ran into each other and fell. And then he was like deuces. um Yeah, dude, I'm a huge Ray Davis fan. And I will already go as far. And this is maybe a bit of a, you know, something I don't need to do already, but I'm gonna
00:20:26
Speaker
I have no need to pay James Cook knowing that I have Ray Davis. I was going to just ask you that question. You read my mind. Yeah. Yeah. we pay no ah Probably not. or not wait Not when you got Ray Davis. We got him in what, the third? He was the third on pick, right? Yes, I believe so.
00:20:42
Speaker
And so was James Cook. We got both of those guys in the third. And guess what, dude? like Guess what? Ready? Once Ray Davis is ready for a nice contract, we'll just draft another guy in the third, fourth, fifth round, dude, because we are shown every year, whether it be by the bills or somebody else, that you can get starting caliber running back talent in the middle round.
Defense Highlights & Future Challenges
00:21:02
Speaker
So I hope we never are one of those teams that pay an ass load of money for Saquon Barkley or Christian McCaffrey. Although watching Saquon Barkley leap over guys while facing the other way is pretty crazy. You see that you see the reactions from the sideline. Somebody has like there's a video of like ah like from the sideline as was a fan from the um from the stands and caught like the rest of the team, like grown athletes who are the top, you know, the top of the one percent of the one percent also lost their minds watching that play.
00:21:32
Speaker
I mean, dude, that we don't even have to get into it. We'll be here. but in It was incredible. Yeah. But man, that that level of human athleticism is just astounding.
00:21:43
Speaker
Yep. I love the fact that, uh, coming out of the half, um, you called it, you said that we, you called it. The dolphins got the ball. They were, we needed a turnover. You texted in our text thread saying we need a stop here and who, but Taron Johnson comes in with a beautiful peanut punch, dude. I, or Elon picked it up and we got a fumble recovery and took the ball away and stifled the, uh, the, ah the dolphins coming out of the half. It was perfect.
00:22:08
Speaker
do that you know punch most are did not see it coming at all that it was that there's a great clip on one of the cover one guys posted today today it it was in slow motion man you can see it's really cool you can see uh tj man like border looks like he's like and when you watch it in slow motion it looks like a predator stalking prey He's like stalking this dude and like coming up on him and like raising that fist. And then when he drops it, dude, it is like it's a great little clip to watch. him the most Awesome. He like sneaks up on him. Mostert has no idea that he's there, dude. And yeah, textbook peanut punch, dude, like great, great angle by tearing to make sure that that punch went towards or went away from the sideline because you know, if that ball comes out, it's still Miami ball. So good awareness by TJ there to get that punch towards the middle of the field.
00:22:57
Speaker
So he didn't have to risk that ball going out of bounds. Textbook all the way around, dude. And dare I say, possibly a game altering play because Miami was driving. Oh, it was. It was. yeah Yeah, Miami. So to kind of get into the bad and the ugly here, Miami, like they came to play ah yeah an offense. They they could essentially do what they want, both the right. H.N. and most were over five a carry um on the day.
00:23:19
Speaker
um Tua was finding solutions in the passing offense. that Our defensive line couldn't sniff Tua, which was disappointing to me, um and and just did not really rattle him too much. and And he could do what he wanted. And they were moving the ball. They clearly scored, right? They scored 27 points. this was a Whoever had the ball last would have a good chance to win. And thank God we did. But it it was ah it was a grind, dude.
00:23:43
Speaker
Yeah, it was. They did come to play. And I know we gave Miami a ton of shit at the beginning. And I stand by all of it. But um it was it was a super close close competitive game, dude.
00:23:57
Speaker
The NFL has a has a serious referee problem right now, bro. yeah yeah I mean, the these referees do the fingerprint that they are leaving on these fucking games. I mean, and and and it it went both ways, dude, right? Like we had two phantom holding calls um the go against Buffalo, the absolute horseshit unnecessary roughness on Taylor Rapp when most are lowered the crown of the helmet.
00:24:23
Speaker
Um, I mean, you know, and, and we definitely had some go our way too. We got yeah super lucky with the Jordan Poyer hit at the end of the game. That one, we can get into that if we want. I have some issues with Jordan Poyer right now, but, um, you know, like that, that, I mean, that saved us the game. I mean, we were, we were dead in the water.
00:24:42
Speaker
And thankfully, Jordan Porter decided to be a dumbass. But
Referee Decisions Debate
00:24:45
Speaker
yeah, dude, like just I don't know that the NFL has a referee problem. And I feel like the last couple of bills games, dude, the amount of laundry that we've seen has just been unbelievable, dude, like never more than I've ever seen in my life. But man, what really kills me? It's the phantom calls, dude, like yeah that holding call that took back the touchdown on I think it was Osiris Torrance or was it the D.N. Dawkins hold? I can't remember one of those holds.
00:25:11
Speaker
both Two. Well, yeah, they both got called, but one of them canceled out a touchdown. Oh, so aside it was the, oh, it was the cyborg one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, but dude, like that Dion Dawkins rep, I mean, once again, dude, that is tape that you show young kids and say, Hey, if you do this every time you're going to make $200 million dollars in the NFL.
00:25:30
Speaker
And you're going to make grown men look silly. Like, dude, there there is no that is that is the perfect tackle rep, like literally a dream tackle rep. You drop his arms, his momentum fall. He brings him down to the ground and you fucking fall on him, dude. That is what you're supposed to do. They teach you to do that when you're six years old playing football. So and but it's the phantom calls for me, man.
00:25:51
Speaker
Yeah. my I always keep going back of like, hey, I don't want to be the one bitching about with the raps on. No, they deserve. You know, we have a microphone. Right. like So we have a we opportunity. But but at some point it has to change. Right. It has to. And I think it's I don't know. I don't know.
00:26:06
Speaker
get everybody to stop watching football. And that's how it changes. But exactly yeah yeah if we had if we could do it for two weeks, though, two weeks, no revenue for the NFL, that would be enough. Yeah, yes, it would. But it's it's it's insane. dude It is absolutely. particularly And I don't understand why we don't have the eyes. and If we have the eyes in the sky, why can't they fix it?
00:26:25
Speaker
Why can't they come back and fix it? why is I don't know. we this could This could be a fucking two hour podcast, bro. For sure. um Save this for the off season. yeah um so We should have a whole thing. But um yeah, so that was the the run game was able to kind of get off. um Tron Johnson and in a postgame interview did say, and we've kind of been kind of speculating this, of it was kind of the game plan to let them have some some room in the boxes and and not necessarily kind of stifle the run.
00:26:54
Speaker
with an eye at slowing down the explosive passing place. With with a guy like Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle, you want to limit what they're able to do and how they can affect that game. This is this honestly might have been Tyreek's best game against the Bills in multiple games.
00:27:13
Speaker
He had a bunch of catches for like 80 yards. Um, and he was, he was a problem. And thankfully that's all it was. And it wasn't, you know, a 200 yard game like he's been known to have, but, um, yeah, so I understand that, but sometimes that could catch up with you. And all of a sudden we were, you know, trying to win by three with the last minute field goal. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, it's a, it is a tough way to win, dude, but I, I'm there on the flip side and I just.
00:27:37
Speaker
I mean, it's a passing league, right? Like it's it's a passing dominated league right now. And I don't know if we'll ever see it fully shift back to like a run dominant league only because of the money that quarterbacks and wide receivers are making. Like, I don't know if we ever see that shift back. But that being said, dude, like,
00:27:53
Speaker
you know, like it having a having a defense that is more geared to stop the pass works for the vast majority of teams, except for these situations, right? Like Miami, who's got crazy fast wide receiver running backs, like Baltimore, who, I mean, I don't even want to talk about them yet, because they're keeping me awake at night. um But yeah, dude, like it's a,
00:28:15
Speaker
It's a risky game to play, but if you're going to err on the side of conceding one of them, you can see the rushing yards because it, I mean, because the other team has Jalen Waddle and Tyree Kill as wide receivers. yeah So, you know, like, and that's way more impactful than the running game, you know, no it's pick your poison poison. Right. Exactly. Just to keep things moving. My my last like little note here is is Keyon has to come down with that touchdown throw. Right. The one that that Josh hit him in the pads.
00:28:43
Speaker
hit him in the pads, walk in touchdown. He had, he had out um angled, out leveraged Jalen Ramsey. He would have absolutely scored right there. Hits him in the pads, pops up and Jalen Ramsey makes interceptions. That's a, that's a like a, I don't know, a what 14 point play because the right, the bills would have scored there. And then dolphins take it and go down and score. like That was a such a swing. Keon's got to come down with that. I know he's a rookie. He's going to make mistakes and he's going to. He's going to figure that out. He's already proven to us that he can make tough catches. He just needs to be more consistent. That's the thing that and that's going to be that as he matures, he's young, he's 21 or 22. He's a kid and he's going to get there and he's
Colts Game Preview
00:29:22
Speaker
going to be fine. But holy cannoli, dude, I needed him to come down with that.
00:29:26
Speaker
Yeah, that one was a bit of a backbreaker for sure. And luckily, you know, the turnover game, like we got that peanut punch and everything, everything worked out. But man, like Taryn Johnson doesn't make that peanut punch and we get our turnover like maybe it's a different game, you know, like so totally a different game. Yeah. So it's I mean, I agree with you, but I also agree with you in the sense that he's going to figure it out. um So, yeah, but he does have to make that or at least prevent Jalen Ramsey from making the interception. Right. um so Dude, my final nugget. Um, I just want to give Josh Allen one more flower here for the fact, and I don't remember the exact number, but this game is his own personal record for the amount of times that he took the easy checkdown. And I think, I think that was the difference in us winning this game, dude, because yes last season, Josh Allen, he's gone in that ball down the field and who knows how many interceptions are there.
00:30:18
Speaker
Right. But yes this was this was the game where he hit the most in his career where he's checked it down. And I mean, look at what happened. do We won the game. We had the Ray Davis touchdown. So just shout out, Josh. That's a ah massive, massive sign of maturity that we needed to see from him.
00:30:37
Speaker
And would you, I don't think I'd attribute either of his interceptions to Josh, to bad decisions. No, no, it's completely on the receivers. First one was Amari Cooper slipping in the rain, right? Second was Keanu, hitting Keanu Colan in the chest and popping up and the safety ah of somehow coming down with it. Right? Like I'm Josh, whatever you're doing, buddy, keep doing it. You're playing great. Don't like, Oh, love it. Yeah. Yep. 100%. Dude.
00:31:05
Speaker
All right. Well, the bills were now seven and two, correct? i Yes, we are. All right. Seven and two are heading to Indianapolis this week, Sunday, 1 p.m. versus the Indianapolis Colts.
00:31:17
Speaker
Um, just to kind of give you guys a quick overview. Um, I like kind of looking at these games with, ah um, through the lens of EPA, which is of expected points added. So either for offensive or defensively, the the Colts right now are are very middle of the pack, right? They're nothing to be terribly scared of. They're 19th overall in offensive EPA. So 19th in the league.
00:31:38
Speaker
um their 13th overall defensive EPA. To be honest, I went looking at this EPA thinking, oh man, this run game could kill us. They're 19th in the league and and and EPA per rush. So, right? That's not, I mean, we've been kind of, we've, we've played in um Jonathan Taylor and the Indianapolis Colts before and holy cow that they just make us like just suffer with that run game, yeah which they could still do. It's still a possibility, but I was expecting them to kind of be having a better season, but it's not as scary looking on paper. So yeah my big thing here is they have Joe Flacco now at quarterback, Anthony Richardson, their little, their phenom second year quarterback is has been sent to the bench.
00:32:20
Speaker
but Flacco's a savvy vet and he he can run an offense. He can play really smart and we just need to go in and play our game. Don't let this run game murder or like really take, get, get, uh, get out of hands and murder us in the, and in the run game. And I think we can be okay. Yeah, dude, it it is.
00:32:41
Speaker
legitimately just don't don't get smoked by Jonathan Taylor. i am I'm sorry, dude. I'm not even a little bit afraid of of Joe Flacco. I know he's had some good games, but I mean, i dude,
00:32:56
Speaker
was he throwing the ball to Michael Pittman at night? Mitchell. I don't know what Mitchell's numbers are like as a rookie this season. Josh Downs is solid and they got Mo Ellie Cox. I guess he was, he was a legit tight end. Um, yeah, I don't know, man. I don't like who just doesn't. It's, I guess just he's just going to play smart. He's not going to make a mistake. yeah He's going to play smart. He's going to play smart. And he has had a couple of crazy games in the last two years. So I guess you have to be prepared for it, dude. But And maybe I'm being an arrogant, dude. i'm I'm not even a little bit afraid of this cold steam right now. They're four and five. um The teams that hit that they have beaten, um let's see here. So but but but but but I just had it up. So they, let's see here. Lost to the Texans, OK? the texans okay loss of the Packers, beat the Bears, beat the Steelers. Lost to the Jags, beat the Titans, beat the Dolphins without Tua. Lost to the Texans, lost to the Vikings. so
00:33:50
Speaker
and i mean like some of these losses are pretty close man but like i don't know the cults just don't scare me man looking up and down their roster like i guess it it must be solid enough to win four games and there's some decent wins in there dude but whatever yeah no i bills are just wanted Right. we're Yes. We need to go in and don't be funny, right? we have We're kind of in between games, right? We have a big divisional game that we just won. We got the Colts. And then following week is the Chiefs.
Roster Updates
00:34:17
Speaker
So there's a lot going on here, right? And Colts are another conference win. like This needs to be a win. Go in, take care of business, get healthy. We've got a ton of wrist injuries for whatever reason, right? yeah um Oh, we never talk about news. We'll have to get there real quick.
00:34:32
Speaker
um And, uh, but yeah, getting out of this is going to be just important. Get out healthy, take care of business. They are, um, the, the Colts are pretty good decent at stopping the run. So I think this is going to be a pass heavy kind of game plan. Um, so I don't expect, um, uh, Cook or Davis to have giant games. But hey, we keep them involved and and go in and win this game and take care of business. Let's do some ah score predictions and then let's let's come back real quick to some of the the the kind of a smattering of news that we had from today because today is trade deadline day on Tuesday, November 5th. The only important thing that's happening today, right? Yeah, the only thing I care about. Every every other smart stoke gets to make that joke, so we get to, too. Right, right, right. So my score prediction, pal, I'm going to go 31-13. I'm going to go blow out. Oh, my God. Yeah, I know. I know. I'm getting a cocky here. No, I'm saying, oh, my God, because we almost had the exact same prediction. Really? Oh, well, we can go together. We can go ahead. Mine was 35-13.
00:35:35
Speaker
Okay. All right. Well, thank you I'm predicting a five touchdown game. Yeah. Whoo. All right. Did we get a score British from Jake? I didn't text. No, he's busy. Plumbing. Um, guys got a new house and everything's leaking.
00:35:50
Speaker
shake the plumber with his butt back up and everything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure this is exactly where he wants to be. So, um, before we get out of here, folks today, like I said, is trade deadline day. So it's kind of a big, a lot of movement. Um, the bills released safety, Mike Edwards this afternoon, um, Tuesday, November 5th. Um, he missed most of the off season after shoulder surgery. So we didn't see him through OTAs, but he came in kind of expecting, Hey, this guy could be.
00:36:14
Speaker
essentially a starter next to Taylor Rapp. Like that was the expectation, at least in my eyes. And I'm sure we had conversations on this podcast, talking through these microphones, saying the same thing. um He then injured his hamstring before the season, so was not starting at the beginning of the season. And then he essentially never got on the field. I think it was like a week or two ago, he started at... He um came out that he had essentially asked for a trade.
00:36:35
Speaker
um And clearly no trade partners were um were found and and he was released this afternoon. Just just a wild kind of turn of events. Yeah, dude, it is.
00:36:49
Speaker
It's so weird, man. because like And we've talked about this in our group chats a little bit, man. It's tough because he started for Kansas City. And I said this today, man. like You don't start as a safety in a Steve Spagnolo defense by accident. For two Super Bowl teams. For two Super Bowl teams, right? So like I don't know if it was exclusively because of the injuries at the beginning of the season, where Demar got the first team reps because Mike Edwards was hurt. And then i mean I'm sorry, dude. but like Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott are not guys that hand shit out, right? If this dude just thought that he was going to recover from his injury and get that spot handed back to him, like, no, dude, that isn't how this team operates. It's never how they've operated. They've always made guys work for their spots. So, and especially as the new guy coming in,
00:37:38
Speaker
Like, dude, I don't know. From everything that I can see, man, sounds like he's been slacking in practice lately. He's been pissy. Like, good riddance. If that's the kind of attitude you're going to have, dude, like, upset. First of all, like, I give, I give Demar Hamlin a firm B minus as a starter, dude. And if you can't make his job,
00:37:58
Speaker
That is nobody's fault, but your own dude. So sorry. Yeah. So like you can get pissy all you want, but the only person you need to get pissy at is the guy in the mirror. So that's where I fall on that. Thanks. Thanks. But see ya.
00:38:09
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. So my one thought here, this is where in the off season, I don't know if this moves the needle for me. This is the time of year where I said, Micah Hyde, let's sign them. Ooh. Right. This is the time of year. Hey, cause I, on the off season, I was like, don't sign the guy at the beginning of the year because he can't stay healthy throughout the entire season.
00:38:28
Speaker
And we have a bunch of young players who need the time. But if we get to a spot where we have a need and we're in a position of we're making a playoff push, which are in that spot right now, we're halfway through the season and we are in in position to make the playoffs. This is the time. Hey, Micah, come on in. Hope you've been staying healthy. Let's get in there. I don't know if he move he moves the needle, but having them in the wings, I don't hate it.
Conclusion & Thanks
00:38:51
Speaker
considering the other options out there, right? Right. I don't hit it either considering the other options. It makes me nervous that he's probably not in football shape, but right? i I still feel like it's early to sign him, and it which probably contradicts exactly what I just said. He's not in football shape. I don't imagine, because here's the thing we have to remember, the bills have no cap money.
00:39:10
Speaker
Right, so they might wait to sign him until, like, they gotta to get him, they gotta to get him ramped up physically if they're gonna sign him. My guess would be probably not signed to those, only for money reasons until a month before playoffs start, probably the last four games of the season, I would guess. um So it might still be early for Micah, just based on what he would need in in a contract for, at this point in the year. I mean, I don't know what that contract would look like. He might just give us, say, do whatever you need to do to be under the cap so I can play.
00:39:40
Speaker
I don't know. um But my guess is it's still too early for the Michael Hyde signing at this point. I agree. I'm just curious. I mean, they got or they're bringing up a Kareem Jackson from the practice squad or somebody, right? they Because we didn't sign anybody. We didn't trade for anybody. So no, they're going to need depth there at some point. Duann, defensive end Duann Smoot is heading to IR for after having wrist surgery.
00:40:01
Speaker
We're still waiting to hear on Kian Coleman's wrist and hand injury that he suffered again with that big hit from Poyer. So who knows? I think at this point, maybe the fact that we haven't heard right away is good because it's not like, oh, that's exactly what it is. But I'm hoping that we hear soon that Kian can come back and be healthy.
00:40:21
Speaker
um And then overall, we had no movement at the trade deadline. The Bills did not make a move. um And here we are, the players that we have on the squad or the players we have on the squad. There is, and if you could go look at Twitter real quick, Nigel, see if there's any news on Jordan Phillips. he Jordan Phillips went on IG about an hour ago, about four up hour and a half, 4.30 PM on on Tuesday, November 5th here, and hinted at with a post um that a possible rejoining with the Buffalo Bills. Nothing came out by the time we had started this recording.
00:40:49
Speaker
But um I don't know if that does anything for me. I mean, if he can be happy to come to the practice squad, but sure, why not keep him in the stable. But the guys, he's been a liability. He's been terrible in Dallas. He's literally the I'm from Matt Perino on Twitter. He's literally the last um ah defensive tackle in our PFF graded run defense, like the last in the league out of everybody. Like, yeah.
00:41:13
Speaker
I as a body in in at ah in a great class in case of emergency, sure. But don't spend money on them. Don't sign them to the to the active roster. Put them in the practice squad.
00:41:23
Speaker
You want to know what I want to do, dude? I want to fucking put Eli Anku on the master every week and put a phillips on the practice squad. Absolutely. Phillips is cheeks, dude. But he was the best defensive tackle this best Sunday. It was Eli Anku, dude, right off the practice squad. There is not a single defensive tackle outside of Daquan Jones and at Oliver right now.
00:41:45
Speaker
that I feel like I prefer over Eli Anku. I'm not positive right now that Eli Anku is not the third best defensive tackle in this, on this team right now. I don't know why he's always on the fucking practice squad, dude, but I would take him over Austin Johnson 10 times out of 10.
00:42:02
Speaker
Right now, absolutely, dude. Yeah. he He, when he comes in, he makes his impact. He comes in, he calls it in place. He contributes in a positive way, dude. Yeah. Poor guy's been stuck in the practice squad. We went to Atlanta for a little bit and then we got him back and give him a shot. Yeah, dude. I'm about that. I love it. yeah so me too Well, anyway, folks, hey, hope you guys have an awesome week. We had a lot of fun hanging with you. Please give us a like and a follow, all that good stuff. And yeah, go Bills, go Sabres. And yeah, here we go. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for spending some time with us. Please give us a like and a follow on Instagram X, TikTok and our YouTube channel at Let's Go Buff Pod.
00:42:38
Speaker
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