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Ep. 25 - The Pals Go Live!
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Join the pals as they run through the trials and tribulations of going live on YouTube for the first time! Hang with us as we recap the the Bills v. Steelers Wild Card Game and breakdown the Bills and Chiefs matchup (and remind you that the Sabres still stink).
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Introduction & Social Media
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You're listening to the Let's Go Buffalo podcast. Your new favorite podcast for everything, bills and sabers.
00:00:23
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What's going on, everybody? You're listening to the Let's Go Buffalo podcast, your favorite podcast for all things bills and savers with the pals, Nigel, Tom and Jake. Episode 25 coming at you.
00:00:42
Speaker
quarter of the way to a hundo. Quick reminder to everybody follow our social medias you can find us at let's go buff pod that's buff with two f's on instagram and x and hopefully right now i think maybe possibly live on youtube um so hopefully that's happening right now tom is there any way we can check on that
00:01:06
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I'm getting I got some comments. You got some comments and everything. We got one viewer. We got one. Hello to the one viewer. I think it's probably my mom. Um, which is cool. Thanks, mom. Um, yeah, hopefully, hopefully that's it. Hopefully that's actually happening. Um, but yeah, we're gonna, we're trying to, uh, get it, get ourselves over onto the old, the old
YouTube Streaming Experience
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YouTube here. So let's say, Hey, to the good fellas here, Tom, how are we doing?
00:01:34
Speaker
Dude, I'm good. Welcome. Good man. Look at us. We're live 4D. I like it. I know. Crazy, right? I'm good. We got pounded with another like 10 inches of snow up here in Vermont. So, yeah, we're doing good. Just fluffy white little goodness. Did you not love that? We worked up in Nickname Street. What kind of what kind of goodness? Dorpedo, how you doing, buddy? Oh, I'm good, man. Yes. Same here. Same here.
00:02:04
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We'll, we'll snow today, but I'm buried ourselves. Yeah. I'm buried ourselves from Tom's white little goodness. What did you just say? I think I just want to talk about Tom's white little goodness for a while. Moving on. You actually probably shouldn't. Well, um, so, Hey, before we get into the beer corner real quick folks, as, as a, an incentive for our, for our YouTubers that are out there right now, um, I,
00:02:29
Speaker
in my typical Nigel fashion, crazy day of work, crazy day of teaching lessons, and then I just come right to my studio to record the pod. And I'm essentially committing a felony by not having a beer for our first segment of every show, which is Beer Corner.
00:02:47
Speaker
Oh, I know, right. So if you are on our YouTube stream right now in the comments, OK, we are happily accepting suggestions on whatever might punishment what should be for not having a beer for beer corner.
00:03:03
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So if you make a comment on Instagram or whatever, it doesn't count. But if you leave one on the live stream right now, there might be maybe there's one or two coming in. I don't know. But go leave a comment on what you think my punishment for B should be for not having a beer for beer corner. And maybe we'll do it live on an episode if it's somewhat sort of within reason. But with that being said,
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the the
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Speaker
Nice. Let's let's see who to start with. Torpedo, what are you drinking tonight, buddy? Whoa. What a can. What a can. Look at the can on you. I get to show them off now. This is the sunburn. This is one angry dude. You did not catch a sunburn at the game against the Steelers if you were there. But this is a delicious little Belgian white ale. A little more fluffy white goodness for you. Yeah, from three heads brewing in Rochester.
00:04:09
Speaker
that's a three hands beer no way it sure is man i think it was maybe maybe limited release or something i don't know i hadn't seen it before but i snagged it and uh yeah man it's it's delicious got that nice nice crisp orangy coriander flavor that you get from belgian whites for pitot i feel like are you a big fan of the belgian beers dude i feel like you've had a bunch of those this this season on the podcast
00:04:32
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I get behind them. Yeah, for sure. I wouldn't call myself like an expert, but I like drinking them. That's for sure. But you do get. I don't know if you're just beers that Jake doesn't like. So that's a large majority. He's definitely pro beer. Yeah, we're not piggy. Tommy, what are you drinking there, buddy? Boy, I have something new. I'm excited. It's from Wilmington, Vermont. Valley beer. You don't. And it's an IPA. Just a. Yeah, it's very cool. I'm excited. I haven't had any of it yet. So I'm excited to enjoy it tonight.
00:05:02
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Hold up your can again, and then hold your beer. I'd say so far so good. I want to see the can again. Oh, no, I lost audio. Oh, no. Well, hopefully Tom comes back here. Jake, can you still hear me?
00:05:16
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can hear you. I can hear Tom too. I can also hear Tom. Well, hopefully he comes back here. Maybe Jake, you can work with him in the chat while I cue us into the next thing here.
Bills' Playoff Victory Celebration
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So the excellent, excellent, excellent news here is that the bills have made it through the
00:05:35
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Wildcard round of playoffs right a nice rousing 31 17 victory over Mason Rudolph and the Steelers Let's see. I'll start with a with a prevailing positive note here my prevailing positive note from that game I'm actually gonna kind of steal from the last podcast is the depth on this team and defensively
00:05:58
Speaker
We had so, so, so, so, so, so, so many injuries. It was super upsetting. We had Terrell Bernard go down. We had Christian Benford go down. We had Taryn Johnson go down. So a couple updates on those injuries as far as we know. Taryn Johnson is in concussion protocol, which obviously isn't great, but also isn't like the end of the world because it's pretty frequent now that we see guys come back in within like a week of being out with
00:06:28
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with a concussion. I'm not sure how in depth all of that is in terms of them actually being like healthy. But I would be stoked to find that he was able to come back for this game, which would be awesome. But the guys that came in for those injured guys, you had Dorian Williams come in. You had Cam Lewis come in to a pretty admirable job. And so yeah, just once again, the depth on this defense being stressed big time. But
00:06:58
Speaker
Yeah, man, it's it's I'm a little bit concerned for next week because there seems to be I Don't know who we're gonna get back. It looks like Rasul Douglas will be good to go. I think Tyrell Dotson would be good to go But yeah at this point a little bit nervous for the defensive depth going into next week But once again, it was stressed and once again we came out Okay So yeah, that's my big positive is once again Brandon being putting together some insanely good depth for this team Jake
00:07:28
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Did you have a positive that you wanted to add in?
Impact of Injuries on Defense
00:07:32
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Yeah, I thought there was a lot, but I thought I saw a comment just going back to the injury things you were saying. I thought I saw a comment that Russell Douglas was maybe could have been OK to play in the game, but he was kind of held out as a.
00:07:46
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precautionary thing, so I think he'll definitely be in against the Chiefs. Yeah, great. Yeah, a little bit of corner depth back. Yeah, it looks like essentially what he was saying before was. Oh my God, I'm just reading Ben's comment about the three four locals before next pot ends.
00:08:04
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That's a good way to end up in the hospital. So yeah, dude, I saw that he felt like he was going to be good to go for this coming week against the Chiefs. I did see what you were saying, though he could go, but wasn't going to be something that he was going to feel great about.
00:08:22
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So I'm okay with him sitting out that game, particularly now since we won the game. But yeah, he would be huge to get back. I would imagine that Tyrell Dodson is able to go. So leading into this game, this upcoming Chiefs game,
00:08:41
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If we were able to get back, Rasool Douglas, Christian Benford, and Taryn Johnson, I would feel immensely better. Tyrell Dotson would be a nice bonus as well, but who knows what's going to happen there for sure. It's tough to say. Yeah, just the defense has, they've been warriors all year, despite a ton of injuries, man. They've been
00:09:03
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They've been banged up the entire year, it seemed like. Yeah. Yeah. So it's going to be tough to see what happens with all that. But that's that game. And we're still talking about positives from the Steelers game. Do you have a positive you want to share, Jake? Yeah. I mean, besides the defense.
00:09:21
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standing up to the pressure. I mean, they gave up 17 points. That's a, that's, if you put up, if you let up 17 points and let Josh Allen cook a little bit, that's a good recipe to win the game right there. And they gave them the chance to do that. And then I thought offensive side to the offense generally took up the call when it was needed and, you know, put points up when they needed in part, in particular,
00:09:49
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that drive in the third quarter, I think they ate up like half the third quarter, just kind of slowly marching down the field and put up a kind of a dagger there. But overall, yeah, I really thought the offense looked.
00:10:01
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Pretty decent, honestly. No turnovers, if I remember correctly. And look, I think Josh Allen put the game on his back when he needed to and got the ball to maybe not the receivers you'd expect, but the receivers that came through in one of the games.
Josh Allen's Leadership
00:10:18
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So we can get into those guys in a second here. But yeah, for sure. Just complimentary overall, like the team played a complete game, I thought.
00:10:26
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Yeah, the complimentary ball was good. Like, for example, like that Kyrie Kyrie Elam touchdown, right? Sorry, I'm adjusting my mic a little bit here. That Kyrie Elam, not touchdown, but interception, right? Like you want to talk about complimentary ball, getting that interception and then immediately putting up seven points to go up three scores. That was absolutely massive. I think Mike Tomlin actually talked about that in his little like weird halftime presser thingy, which, by the way, I think it's criminal that they make coaches do that in the middle of the playoff game.
00:10:55
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I know it's not like happening while live football's happening, but I think it's so stupid that they make those guys do like a mini interview in the middle of coaching, dude, I don't understand. It's halftime. They don't have anything on their minds, right? They kick their feet up at halftime. Yeah, exactly. No adjustments to be made or anything like that.
00:11:13
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So, yeah, dude, and I want to highlight one thing that you said there, which was Josh Allen was huge when he needed to be. And I think the key word there is needed to be because it was, you know, we still ran the ball pretty well. I mean, even if you take away Josh Allen's rushing yards, which we'll get to that. But Jimmy Cook still had a solid game there. Tom, Tom, it looks like you're back. Now I can't hear you at all, Tom.
00:11:40
Speaker
Well, I haven't said anything. Can you hear me now? I can hear you now. Yes, indeed. Nigel, it requires you to stop talking for me to talk. So can you hear me now, Tom? I can't. Tom's Tom's back. We've done it, everybody. Tom's back. Tom's back. We love it. So here, Tom, I wanted to wait for you to do this, I think. OK, so you guys, you guys, those of you that are watching live, you're going to be learning with us in real time. Do you guys see on our screen here, the stream, your thing that like popped up?
00:12:09
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where it says live viewer comments show up on stream yards. I do. So I think. Oh, Tom, while you're since you're back, give us your positive real quick. Can you give us your positive from the game? Yeah, I took the stupid streamer thing down.
00:12:27
Speaker
Can you tell me what the other positives were so the other positives? Yeah, so I don't I don't repeat myself or you guys so we talked about the defense standing up under pressure and the offense making the call when they needed to and Just in general playing kind of a complimentary game And then not sure what else to say. I I just talked about the depth the depth. Yeah defensive depth
00:12:52
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Um, but, uh, I'm going to go with Josh Allen, man, Josh Allen playing like a, a, a, um, just a quarterback who belongs, right? He belongs in that moment. He has an unreal number or stat line in the playoffs over multiple years. And he's only contributed it with, uh, with yesterday's performance. Um, the guy looked like he, I mean, he didn't, he took care of the ball. He made plays that were un, like just unreal and, um, stepped up when we needed him. It was awesome.
00:13:22
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Yeah, he was, he was like, well, we kind of talked about that when I turned your hiatus, Tom, like Josh Allen stepped up when he needed to, which was like, that was the biggest thing. But part of Alia in the back behind Tom, one of the huge things there was like, he didn't have to be a crazy hero all game because Jimmy Cook still ran the ball pretty well. Obviously, Josh Allen had some success running the ball, which we're going to get to.
00:13:48
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but yeah dude just one more time Josh Allen's numbers 21 for 30, 203 yards three touchdowns two passing one rushing I mean you know I don't I don't I don't want him to have to do like a ton more than that I always just feel a little bit better when Josh Allen throws for like closer to 300 yards but you know
00:14:07
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If he's going to throw for 200, if the three touchdowns, like who gives
Knox & Kincaid's Performance
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a shit? Well, it's because he ran for like 60 on one play. Yeah. Yeah. So playing red light, green light with freaking the entire steel steelers secondary. So, yeah, we take. I see. I see Ben here. Ben, who's number 38 for the Steelers? I don't know if he's if Ben is still here. If you're listening, send him home.
00:14:28
Speaker
Yeah, you fire that guy because he had a terrible game. He got ran over by Josh Allen on the touchdown run. And then shortly after that, Khalil Shakir on his unbelievable touchdown. Absolutely snapped that guy's ankles into pieces, dude. What an incredible effort.
00:14:45
Speaker
Oh yeah, tough night for 38 for the black and gold though. One cool thing that we've got here in our planning dock, this wild Dawson Knox debt. So Dawson Knox has scored the opening playoff touchdown for the Bills in each of the last four seasons, which to me is like
00:15:04
Speaker
I mean, it's it's not like the craziest thing I've ever heard, but it's also like it's pretty. It's pretty. No, no, no. Just think about that. That's a it requires the bills to go to the playoffs four times in a row. Right. So that's that's one variable. Variable number two, it requires a single player to get a touchdown. The first touchdown for the bills in not one game, not two, not three, four consecutive games. And then it also requires a player who does not get a high volume of touchdowns to do that.
00:15:34
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Like the guy has a handful. Like he's definitely a red zone threat and he's he's great. But I would not say that he's got twelve touchdowns on the year. So it's all. Yep. Sign me up for a Dawson Knox touchdown. Like that's a pretty bonkers stat. We should we should absolutely start gambling on that. Putting like Josh or excuse me, Dawson Knox first touchdown next season. We're here next season. Yeah. Yeah. I'm doing it. I turned to my dad and said that I was like, look, I got to start putting money on this. Like what are we doing? This is money that we're missing.
00:16:04
Speaker
He only has six postseason touchdowns. Two thirds of his touchdowns in the postseason are opening scoring for the Bills. Nice quick math there, Torpedo. That's what I do. I got a calculator on the screen.
00:16:23
Speaker
Um, we got to talk about our boy, uh, our boy Dalton Kincaid, dude. Oh, nice banner there, Tom. Thank you. This is, this is us just playing around. Um, but yeah, dude, I Dalton Kincaid, dude. I mean, goddamn dude, leading the team in receptions in that, in that playoff game, right? Three receptions, which doesn't sound like a ton, but he had that awesome, um, touchdown catch with the bill. Second touchdown of that game.
00:16:48
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which wasn't absolute a dot from number 17. Um, but yeah, dude, I mean, for the rookie three receptions, 59 yards in a touchdown. I mean, what more can you ask for from the kid? You know, not a ton of reception, but he, he answered the belt and he got him. Um, yeah, led the team in receiving, um,
00:17:07
Speaker
Yeah, just looked incredible. He's a rookie. He's a rookie man, right? And he's, he's, he's running routes that make him look like he's been in the league a while, at least to me. It's incredible. Yeah. He just, he doesn't look at all like a rookie dude. Um, so a couple, a couple tight end rookie year comparisons. I, Jake, did you put these on the doc dude? I did. Yes. I was curious. These are amazing. Well, Jake, you read them down.
00:17:31
Speaker
Well, yeah, I just wanted to do it because I didn't know, like I knew he had a good season, but I was curious, one, how he looked against, you know, compared to his teammate, Dawson Knox, who came in, at least from my memory, came in as a good tight end prospect and had a good season and he progressed well and earned a good contract, like a good player by all means. And then also like the high bar, the high end of the scale, I wanted to see what Kelsey's rookie season
00:17:57
Speaker
kind of looked like. And so I wrote these down. I just wanted to share them because I think it is interesting and highlights how good of a season he had. So Dawson Knox came in 28 receptions on 50 attempts, 388 yards and two touchdowns in his rookie season back in 2019, I think.
00:18:17
Speaker
Kincaid came in and had 73 receptions, so almost triple. There's that math again, how are you? But he put up 673 yards and a similar amount of touchdowns, two touchdowns. I think those continue to come as he gets more comfortable with Josh Allen. So, you know,
00:18:38
Speaker
same touchdowns but almost double the receiving yards and then Kelsey Kelsey's one of the best if not the best item to play the position is that fair to say maybe you make the argument for grok yeah some people might say grok some people I know would die on the hill of like Antonio Gates I personally I think Kelsey's better than all of them but you know there's a debate there but yeah top top three in the history of the game for sure
00:19:02
Speaker
Fair enough. Fair enough. I, I won't, we won't, we won't inflame people too much, but Kelsey came into the league first year in the, in the NFL, he had 67 receptions, 862 yards and five touchdowns. So yeah, a little bit more than Dalton and in a couple of those stat categories, but still just, just an incredible season for him. I just wanted to take a second to call him out for having such a great year and then put in the exclamation mark in the, in the first playoff game and hopefully many more in the next few weeks.
00:19:30
Speaker
Yeah. James Cook, 18 carries for 79 yards. So not as explosive as he has been, but still doing good things. I like that we have a bullet here. So we're finding over the last couple of weeks that he's been doing a little bit less in the passing game.
00:19:46
Speaker
And I don't think that's necessarily at fault of James Cook or Josh Allen. I think what we have there is just teams keying in on James Cook. And we have written down, is that a positive or a negative? Well, Tom, what do you think? Positive, negative there?
00:20:02
Speaker
I mean, it's a positive because the guy is he's clearly become a weapon and teams are having to take an account. And that also that opens up other parts of the passing game, right? It opens it. This is this is how you start to leverage as many options as you can against different defenses. If defenses have to account for James Cook, that means they cannot account for other parts of the offense. So it opens other things up.
00:20:26
Speaker
Yeah, and I feel the exact same way. Like if you're if you're keying in on one guy, all that is is taking attention away from Stephon Diggs, Khalil Shakir, Dawson Knox, Dalton Kincaid, right? Like all those guys. So I think it's great that he's established himself as a threat. And now teams, because if you I mean, what happens if you don't take him into consideration, you're completely he's gonna make you look so stupid.
00:20:48
Speaker
He's going to make you look silly. And then if you do take it right, it's an ebb and flow. It's a, hey, you can try and take this away from us. We'll beat you another way. All right. You know, no problem. And that only works when you have an offense that can win in multiple ways. Yeah. Yeah. Which up until this season, I mean, we kind of haven't really had, right? Like this is the first season in a minute where, or at least the first season, in my opinion, since we've had 17 as a quarterback, that we've had a really, truly complimentary running game.
00:21:17
Speaker
which makes this Bill's team scary. I wrote this one down because I think that leads to the next
Stephon Diggs' Game Role
00:21:26
Speaker
question. So if you're taking away James Cook, that should lead to other things opening up. And that's kind of the conversation we've had around stuff on things too, where
00:21:33
Speaker
a lot of defenses focus on him as the number one receiving threat on the team as they should. But that's kind of diminished his role in the past couple of weeks. And I think that kind of played a role in this game too. He had seven receptions for only 52 yards.
00:21:49
Speaker
you know, is that concerning to you guys that he still was fairly quiet? Like, I thought he made his presence known. He was kind of all over the field, I thought, and made big catches when it counted. But I was surprised to see that he only had 52 yards. Is that still concerning to you guys, or do you think that's a symptom of him being the top threat and other teams focusing on it so that opens up opportunities for your Kincaids, your Shakirs, your other complementary players?
00:22:14
Speaker
Let it rip, man. Yeah. So I think I think you got to take, you got to take it out of context, right? So he had 52 yards, but Josh only threw to 203. So that's, he had 25% of the passing yards, which is what you want your number one wide receiver to be to receiving, right? That's, that's well within the range. Um, it's also, I think it matters when he's getting those catches. I don't have the data. It's been a crazy day, but, uh,
00:22:40
Speaker
The one that stands out to me is that one, um, third down gotta have it throw that Josh Allen was scrambling, doing his classic scrambling to the right defenders hanging off with the guy. And he found Stefan digs in space, got the first down. It was unreal. And I think, yeah, it was for like, I don't know, 12 yards.
00:22:59
Speaker
It wasn't for a significant chunk. However, it was an important time in the game where the Steelers were starting to come back. They had that. They blocked up the field goal from Tyler Bass. They scored. They were getting some momentum. And they honestly had kind of stymied the Bills offense a little bit. They had some not quite as productive drives. And it was looking like it was going to be another one of those. But Josh and Diggs had the connection and made it work. And I think that's an important part of his game.
00:23:28
Speaker
So yeah, his stats aren't quite as explosive as you might want them to be. But I think that they're still really important. And I think he's playing a huge role still. One more yard than the minimum. That's all you need. You're right.
00:23:42
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, that game for Steph Diggs was just a hard hat and bring your lunch bill to work kind of game. Nothing super flashy, nothing crazy, but showed up in the big moments when Josh needed him most like that play that Tom talked about. Yeah, I don't know, man. We're still dying for that big Steph on Diggs play again, right? It's just been so long since he scored a touchdown or just a huge play, man.
00:24:10
Speaker
felt like it's been a while. It's okay that he's not putting up huge numbers, dude, because like we've been talking about, we're just winning in other ways, right? Khalil Shakir making plays, Dalton Kinkade making plays, Dawson Knox making plays. I don't think it's the worst thing in the world that everything isn't funneling through stuff on digs, personally.
00:24:32
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. I mean, and he and Josh almost almost connected on a huge touchdown throw. I think it was about 20, 30 yards. It was right there. It was every game we've been getting. They're going to connect. It's going to happen. And I agree that this was a game that he just came in and put his
00:24:50
Speaker
like you know pulled his pants up high and he just had to get to work you know like the guy was he was crazy. I also I don't know if you guys saw but going through on you know most teams like all in the Buffalo Bills included like putting out some fun things after the game and there was some footage of him before the game when Steve Tasker was doing the where else would you rather be a little spiel and
00:25:10
Speaker
Uh, digs is mouthing it to the camera and it is, it's pretty freaking cool. It's pretty sick. Yep. I saw that too. Yeah. I still like I'm firmly in the camp of this guy. Love being Buffalo bell. Like I know there's still people out there that think he's putting on an act, but you know, I just, I just don't see it, dude. I think, I think he loves it here. I think he loves Josh. I think he loves the role he has on this team. I'm sure he wishes it was more, but every diva wide receiver,
00:25:36
Speaker
in the world feels that way. So, I mean, at some point, what do you do? But I think he's perfectly happy.
00:25:45
Speaker
Um, everybody has bad days at work. Like how many times would you guys have a shit day at work and you're still, you know, you're there the next day. Right. I mean, that's exactly paycheck. Just wish it was the five digs paycheck. But I also wish it was really nice. I'd be real happy. I could just do it. I'd be no problem. Yeah. Tell you what, I'd be way less pissy if I was making that kind of money. Um,
00:26:07
Speaker
Yeah, dude. So let's see. What do we got for the next thing here? Diggs made his presence. Oh, the Steelers. Well, I would like all of our four viewers right now. Please give us a like. Please give us a little like that. Like, but thank you very much. Nice. What are we talking about next? Yeah. We're going to talk about the bills today or yesterday. Excuse me. Not today.
00:26:32
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Accurate reporting here at Let's Go Buffalo. Just tuck me into bed. Yesterday, the Bills put up more points than the Steelers have allowed, literally all season. The Steelers have given up 30 or less points to every opponent this year than the Bills toppled that a little bit. Just, you know, we like that a little bit. It's nothing crazy, but it's a fun little fact to just toss out there. I think it obviously makes a
00:26:58
Speaker
massive, massive, massive, massive difference when you don't have a guy like TJ Watt. And I really do think that if he was playing in this game, this probably would have been at least a much closer game, if not a game where my nerves were shot a lot more than they were, because there were times where my nerves were shot, and we can get into when that was.
00:27:21
Speaker
It's hugely unfortunate for the Steelers, massively fortunate for us that T.J. Watt couldn't go. But yeah, a little feather in the bill's cap there. It's still a formidable defense, dude. Like Steelers defense is no joke. I mean, Patrick was back and Hayward was was causing freaking problems like. Yeah. Yeah, it was. They made their presence known. It was not a gimme game. Yeah.
00:27:47
Speaker
in the 11 games that TJ Watt has been injured for or didn't play in since he was drafted, the Steelers have won one of them. So, I mean, him being out is massive. Yeah, I think that I should have walked back to the GM and be like, all right, buddy, what are you paying me? Yeah, I mean, I think that much of a game breaker.
00:28:05
Speaker
With that playoff game yesterday, they're now 1-11 with TJ Watt out. So that's a tough thing. That's a tough way to win games, dude. I think if I truly, and this is just an opinion, obviously, but if that's your record without one guy who is not your quarterback, that feels like a bit of a problem to me in terms of roster construction.
00:28:28
Speaker
right like because tj y granted i mean i think he's you can easily easily easily make the case that he is the best defensive player in the league i feel like he's heard a lot is he not like i feel like he's heard a decent amount
00:28:43
Speaker
I don't think he's ever missed like an entire season. He's maybe I'm not sure. I don't know. I don't want to. I'm not an expert, but I think it's just it's a usage. I mean, he's on the when he is when he is active, he's on the field for never comes off. He was like, yeah, it feels like he's on the field for the entire game. Yeah. Like at some point, you're just going to get ripped in half.
00:29:00
Speaker
It could be. We took a lot of flak as Bills fans yesterday for the refs being massively in our corner. I and maybe my bias is creeping out here. I didn't feel like it was super crazy. I think they missed a holding call or a pass interference call in George Pickens at one point. Possibly two of those I could see the case.
00:29:21
Speaker
Outside of that dude, I really didn't feel like there were too many calls that were were massively missed By the refs well Say you give those you give those penalties up like you're giving up a first down or something like that Like I don't think that's changing the script of the game
00:29:39
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the game
00:30:11
Speaker
the the the
00:30:22
Speaker
to me. Right. And this was this was what I thought the way football works. And apparently, I don't know how football works at all. But he I don't remember who the player was. Who was the who was the Pittsburgh player? Was it Brian? Brian? Yeah. Patrick. So he is he had the ball. Right. He fumbles it. Right. And as well after he loses possession of the football,
00:30:48
Speaker
the football touches his helmet and I guess because it touches his helmet and there is a part of his body that is out of bounds, that play is considered dead. Now, my thought with that was in order for the ball to be considered out of bounds in that situation, I recognize that if a part of the player's body is out of bounds, the ball is also out of bounds. But I thought the player had to have full clear possession.
00:31:16
Speaker
of the football for that to go into effect. I don't understand how he can openly not have possession, have a part of his body be out of bounds, have the football graze his helmet and have that still fall the Steelers way. That seems super crazy to me. Either you have either info or thoughts on that.
00:31:38
Speaker
No info at all. I'm a void of info. But that makes no sense to me. If he had possession of the ball and is moving out of bounds and goes out of bounds while he has possession and kind of loses it at the same time, I understand that. But he fully was in bounds and fully lost the ball. The ball was out, and then his momentum kind of carried him out of bounds.
00:32:05
Speaker
And then Bayland Specter comes in and dives on it and hugs it all in bounds. The ball never left play. So I just don't understand how it's baffling that his foot grazes the white part of the field.
00:32:18
Speaker
And then we're left with a, you know, that being out of bounds fumble. Right. Am I phrasing? Yeah. I mean, so I think in the all in all, like, yes, it's kind of like a goofy end of it, but I think the consequence of it is the bigger deal. The fact that that like the bill, like Sean McDermott law, because he won his first challenge. And for whatever reason, if you lose your second challenge, now you lose all your challenges. You're not able to challenge anything because the reps, you know, messed up their first one.
00:32:42
Speaker
And he called him out on it. That's the thing that I'm honestly more upset about. I agree. It's goofy. And I don't think I think it's the letter of the law is the issue is like how it's written. I also think that it's how it was called on the fields. And then that goofy thing of what's called in the field. And it has to be clear and obvious to be turned around. So I think we get into that. But I think the bigger issue is, thankfully, it didn't come to bite us in the butt. We're good. But it's just yeah, I was absolutely a former recovery by balance factor. But that's how it goes. You know,
00:33:09
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not complaining about it. They still won the game, of course. And again, I don't think that plays into the game script. But I was just baffled by that call. It seemed ass backwards. Yeah. Can I ask you guys about the challenging in the NFL too? They said something on the broadcast where
00:33:29
Speaker
The Bills had challenged for an earlier call and won and then they challenged for that one and lost. So then they were unable to challenge through the rest of the game. Can you guys just inform me and anyone else listening that doesn't really know about those kinds of rules? Like what are the challenging rules? Why are they the way that they are? Anything you guys got to tell.
00:33:50
Speaker
Um, nice. Do you, do you feel confident? I'm producing. So Tom, if you can maybe sing us a song for a second, I can feel confident for a moment here. Yeah. Um, but, uh, no, so the way it works is it's really just trying to deter coaches from challenging everything because if you challenge something and you get it and you don't win it, you lose a timeout, right? So there's a consequence there, but Sean McDermott had at the beginning of the game, he challenged and then.
00:34:18
Speaker
one. So it was not take the timeout was not taken away. Right. Um, I so I and then we got to the second one here and he challenged this bail inspector fumbling recovery. And it was upheld. So he was technically denied we lost a timeout. And yeah, I'm not sure why he wasn't able to he lost his ability to challenge I actually don't know the answer to that. So I think I have it here Tom while I'm talking about this check our private check as I asked you a question in there. So
00:34:45
Speaker
It says here, if one of the first two challenges is unsuccessful, it automatically means they cannot get the third potential challenge for the game. So if you're going to challenge, you have to continue to be right. And if you continue to be right, you keep getting to go. If you miss one of those first two, though,
00:35:07
Speaker
You're done. You lose. So, so if you get the first two correct, then it doesn't matter if you're wrong on three, four, five, six, seven, you can, I think you only get three. I think you only get three. Um, okay. That's that. Yeah. But if you, if one of your first two is unsuccessful, you're done. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Which seems pretty cutthroat, but it's like Tom saying, like they're trying to make sure that if you're going to challenge, you're super confident about, um, you're super confident about what it is that you're challenging.
00:35:35
Speaker
Which which I don't question McDermott's decision to challenge either of those. I think they were both. Good ones to challenge. I mean, clearly the first one got overturned and the second one was I would have. We're sitting here scratching our heads too, so.
00:35:48
Speaker
I would have spiked the ever loving shit out of the challenge flag on both of those plays. So I don't play Sean McDermott even a little bit. I look good and a bit more of a magnifying glass on it because the second challenge happened. I think it was in the first quarter or just after the first quarter somewhere around there, super early on. And so then they were forced to go with the rest of the game without any kind of challenge ability. But.
00:36:10
Speaker
Yeah, I don't love that. And that's, you know, because that's the risk you take, right? Like, you know, because you never know if down the road, like if one of those challenges becomes, if it's like, egregiously obvious, you're like, fuck, like, what am I supposed to do? So, yeah, Tom, I think, I think if you click on, so now we're just talking for us for a second, our chat box, we have private chat and then comments. Yeah.
00:36:34
Speaker
If you switch over to comments, I think you can click on one of those. So we got an answer to something that we were talking about. So TJ Watts injury history. We wanted to kind of shout out to Ben for looking up some stats on that. First of all, hold up, Ben, you got to change that picture doodle.
00:36:49
Speaker
holy shit was that from like 20 years ago bro so yeah the 12 games since since roughly 2017 Ben's a huge Steelers fan shout out our buddy Ben huge Steelers fan we weren't friends yesterday but I did send him a very nice sportsmanship text where that I was being genuine
00:37:10
Speaker
Let's get into it, but there were some moments where I was big time sweating yesterday and I would say from about, now Tom, I think it won't come off until you click off of it too, just so you know.
00:37:22
Speaker
Do you want me to get rid? So, so nice. You're okay. Ready? We're getting back into it. I'm not sure when you want me to have these up or not. Um, I'll tell you, make it go away. Yeah. Yeah. Make that one go. I don't need to see that picture of Ben anymore. Um, we'll just have to communicate those. This is fun. We're learning as we're going.
Defense Injuries & Strategy
00:37:37
Speaker
Um, but yeah, dude, I would say from the blocked punt,
00:37:42
Speaker
over to when Khalil Shakir scored that touchdown. I wasn't feeling great. I was getting pretty nervous. I was shaking in my boots. I don't know, man. It just like, we started to, the injuries were piling up and we had a couple drives that stalled out after like two or three good plays and it just started to feel like
00:38:03
Speaker
Okay. Are the injuries going to be too much for us to overcome? And I don't know, man, like I was, you guys might've noticed, like I disappeared from the text chat for a while. Cause I was like, I was just nonstop watching the game, like head in my hands. It was absolutely panicking. It was stressful, dude. What Tom, what were you feeling during those times?
00:38:27
Speaker
Like, just put it together, boys. Yeah. Right. Just like, hold it together. Please find a way. Yeah. How together is, you know, bubblegum and duct tape. But yeah, we did it. And and let's get into the defense, too, because the injuries, hey, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. So going into the game, Gabe Davis, Dotson and Russell Douglas were all inactive.
00:38:52
Speaker
During the Steelers game, all these players left and did not come back. Bail Inspector, Christian Benford, Taryn Johnson, Terrell Bernard. So now, if you keep in mind Trey White and Matt Milano,
00:39:08
Speaker
you are suddenly down, and not just on, well just on defense, you are down Matt Milano, Trey White, Tyrell Dodson, Rasul Douglas, Christian Benford, Taryn Johnson, Terrell Bernard. That is seven out of your 11 starters that are not on the field, and in some cases you're down to like your fourth or fifth guy on the depth chart, which is
00:39:32
Speaker
Not even a little bit where you want to be in a playoff game Yeah, dude, I don't even I Don't even know what to make up all of that now that here's the good news and we talked about a little bit the top It looks like for next week Russell Douglas should be able to go and I feel pretty confident that Terrell Dodson Should also be able to go
00:39:56
Speaker
Sean McDermott seemed pretty relatively confident that he could go this week against the Steelers but I don't know man like Tom do you have any did you see either of you seen anything on the injuries? Um so I've seen
00:40:12
Speaker
that Terrell Bernard was not as bad as it was it looked because he was carted off and put on like they had the air cast put on him right away. Carted off. Right. I thought immediately ACL. That's what I was right. So we saw it come back that Emma that the scans were working back negative. It's most likely just some kind of ankle sprain. Ankle sprains are not good, especially. I mean, it's going to hinder him. I'm not sure we're going to see him this weekend.
00:40:38
Speaker
Um, I've not seen anything about Taron Johnson that was head, correct? Yeah. He's, he's in concussion protocol that Sean McDermott is fantastic today. Okay. Um, and then I'm hoping that we're still Douglas is back. I did see a, um, a quote from him saying that he's, he's feeling like he was good to go, but the team held him out. So I think we're going to be, I think we're going to be just fine.
00:41:03
Speaker
Yeah, begs the question. I mean, no offense to this dealer's offense, but I think you have to say Kansas City's got a little bit more potent of a quarterback and receiving core, so.
00:41:14
Speaker
Can they come back and put up? Yeah, go ahead. That's where I almost disagree with you because obviously Patrick Mahomes and Mason Rudolph are not even sure they play the same sport. That's how far apart they are. However, dude, between like George Pickens and Deontay Johnson, like, OK, Tom, who would you who would you make a case for that are the top two receivers in Kansas City right now?
Steelers vs. Chiefs Receiving
00:41:40
Speaker
It's Rashi Rice and Travis Kelsey.
00:41:42
Speaker
Travis Gels. OK, so, yeah, I put Russia over there because Russia, I mean, Russia has been a problem the end of the season. Yeah. And I didn't even want to really include Travis Kelsey. But you know, you have to because you have to. If you ask me, I would include Don Kincaid on the bill. So by definition, we have to. Yeah. So are you telling me you guys aren't interested in Caderius, Tony's cinder block hands?
00:42:05
Speaker
Well, that's kind of what I'm getting at here. Like, would you rather have Reishi Rice and Travis Kelsey, or would you rather have Deontay Johnson and George Pickens?
00:42:16
Speaker
I think you take Kelsey over both Pickens and Deontay Johnson. That's the correct answer. But is Reishi Rice a lock over those other two? I don't know, man. So in a weird way, and not for nothing, I would also take both of Pittsburgh's running backs. Right? So in terms of weapons,
00:42:36
Speaker
Man, I don't know. OK, yeah, keep going. Jacob's been been great this year, though. Yeah, but I feel like especially recently and, you know, recency bias is huge in the NFL, right? Like, what have you done for me lately? I can entertain a case where the weapons for the Steelers are better for the are better than the weapons that Kansas City has. Truthfully, it's just the quarterback play doesn't even. Yeah, remotely closely compare. Yeah, it's still patching my home, so it's going to be a problem.
00:43:05
Speaker
Right. Yeah, it is. So I was telling Jake when you were on your hiatus, Tom, that if we could go into next week with Benford, Taryn Johnson and Russell Douglas, I feel immensely better. Oh, yeah. I I think having Trelburn are back is wishful thinking for next week. I think we have to just assume that he's not going to be in.
00:43:31
Speaker
I think it's not overly optimistic to think that Dotson could be back in now. So then that begs the question, and it kind of depends on what Specter's health is, who's the linebacker opposite of Dotson? Are you going Klein? Are you going Specter? Or are you going Dorian Williams? I think it's AJ Klein, especially considering how he played at the end and communicated and the place he got in those post-game comments. That's the huge one. Right. I think he's got the trust of Sean McDermott. So I think he's got the start.
00:43:59
Speaker
It was the fact that he started making the green dot calls. I'm pointing to the back of my head. He started making the green dot calls once Bernard went down. And I think that is the one thing that can put him above the other guys because athletically.
00:44:14
Speaker
I think I'd prefer all three Dotson, Spector and Williams over AJ Klein, but you get that veteran presence out there with AJ Klein, which proved yesterday to be pretty darn important. Trust is a big thing. Especially for Sean McDermott. Especially for Sean McDermott. So I think that's huge.
00:44:31
Speaker
Yeah, boys, we should probably hop over to looking ahead to the Chiefs game this week. Any other major thoughts on the Steelers before we switch gears? Other than, hey, man, go Bills. It's so cool that we're in another playoff run. Again, I'm being very intentional about not taking this for granted. We're playing another week, and that's a big deal.
00:44:54
Speaker
So absolutely. Another week at home, too. Yeah. Find another week. You know, that's that's how you do it. So, yep. And Tom, you got it on the banner here. I think obviously the main storyline here for me is obviously the Chiefs have been the thorn in our side for the last several seasons.
Chiefs' Playoff Away Game
00:45:11
Speaker
But this is the first time that Patrick Mahomes has to play a playoff game, not in the chief stadium. I'm blanking on the name of their stadium.
00:45:20
Speaker
But he's got to go on the road. Right. So I think that's the big thing. Right. Like, how is that going to impact him playing? You have to imagine that Bill's mafia is going to be outside of their goddamn mind. Right. Knowing that Patrick Mahomes is in the building for a change. So Tom, do you or Jake, do you guys have any prevailing thoughts going into this game in terms of matchups and all that fun stuff?
00:45:46
Speaker
it's a man, it's going to come down to the trenches. It's going to come down to our D line, especially if we have, if we're as banged up as we think we might be in the secondary, it's going to be the knock on wood. We are fairly healthy at D line. So Ed.
00:46:02
Speaker
go get it. Groot, come on baby. AJF, Vanessa, let's go baby. They gotta make a presence. They gotta push Patrick Mahoney's office spot, but gotta play contain because we know how elusive Patrick Mahoney's can be and how dangerous he can be just escaping the pocket.
00:46:19
Speaker
throwing the ball and then with his legs. Um, he's no, you know, charging stallion like Josh Allen, but the guy can still get this, you know, be effective with his legs and get the first downs he needs and the yardage he needs. So he's a, he's a problem. They need to contain. And I also think it means that the, our offensive line has to mitigate this really potent chief's defense that starts up front for them. That's Chris Jones, right? That's, um, who's there, uh, there most of their, um,
00:46:46
Speaker
starts with a K it's Greek. Oh, God. Yeah. You know, this is terrible. I do. I do. You keep talking. I'll flooring reporting here. Um, but, uh, you know, like it's our, our O-line has to give Josh time, let him stay clean, keep him sane without letting him in, getting, get, uh, get antsy. And I think we're going to be okay. That's where it starts and ends with me.
00:47:10
Speaker
First of all, I just farted. Second of all, it's George Carlotus. So yeah, he's been potent this year. I want to bring up two names that you mentioned there, Tom, for the Bills, and that is Greg Russo and AJ Appanessa.
00:47:26
Speaker
these two guys, right, historically, have made huge plays against Patrick Mahomes in the regular season. They have. Specifically in the way of batted balls, batted balls that turn into interceptions, right? So if we need more of that, but you're absolutely right, dude, and it's, you know, I feel like we say it every episode, you have
00:47:51
Speaker
have to generate organic pressure with your front floor because if there's one thing that, well, there's a trillion things that Patrick Mahomes does really well. But towards the top of that list is his ability to make you look stupid when you blitz. Yeah. So it's going to be huge, right? Like obviously I'm not counting on Von Miller, although
00:48:10
Speaker
He did show the tiniest little baby bit of life at the end of this last game. Did you guys see those two plays in a row? We're back field in like two seconds. So that was nice. I'm not counting on that, but I'm looking specifically for Greg Russo and AJ up in NASA to make some Leonard Floyd to that's the other big one. Like the defensive ends have got to start making a place here. Greg Russo had the awesome, awesome
00:48:38
Speaker
sack yesterday where he let rip this unreal swim move over that um that rookie offensive tackle for pittsburgh project jones um made him look very much like a rookie but i just need more of that and i need it more i need it for more guys right like floyd's been quiet in terms of the sacks recently
00:48:57
Speaker
Come on, come on, Lenny. I just need it from those guys. So yeah, dude, it's, and I go to the edge rushers because the middle three on Kansas City's offensive line is incredibly good, right? Joe Tooney, Creed Humphrey, Trey Smith. I'm not positive. There's a better guard and two tackle trio.
00:49:21
Speaker
in the NFL, um, so, you know, like I, I, not to say that at Oliver and Daquan Jones can't make plays, but I put the onus more on the defensive ends because, um, their tackles, do you want
00:49:38
Speaker
Joanne Taylor and Donovan Smith just scare me a lot less than the middle three for Kansas City's offensive line, which is why I put the onus on the defensive ends. So yeah, dude, I agree with you 100%. The trenches are going to be the big one. As I continue to look at Kansas City's defense here,
00:50:00
Speaker
Nick Bolton's obviously a problem, but I think that's a guy that you can, in coverage, put in conflict with James Cook, Dalton Kincaid, all those guys. I think one of the things I'd really like to see, and we kind of saw it a little bit yesterday with the first two touchdowns coming from Dawson Knox and Dalton Kincaid,
00:50:20
Speaker
I'm just, I want to see more 12 personnel in the passing game, right? And I want to see situations where both King Kade and Dawson Knox are running routes because both of those guys are so athletic, dude. I just think it puts no matter who your linebackers are.
00:50:37
Speaker
I just think it makes your life a nightmare if you're if you're a defensive coordinator. Yeah. Right. That's one thing I'd like to see going into this game is a little like lean on those tight ends more. Right. Because I don't know. You've just got so many weapons. I just yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I can't see a world where a defense can cover Diggs, Knox, Kincaid, James Cook and Khalil Shakir. Like show me that show me that defense.
00:51:05
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I think, yeah, I think that's a great point. I think that's where we're going to have to live and die. Yep. And then offensively, Tommy, you hit on the head earlier. You just have to, you just have to be aware of Chris Jones at all times, right? Account for him. Get, get help to whoever needs it and, and, and do what we can to mitigate him. Maybe run right at him. Like, I don't know, do that kind of, you know, get that run game, um, flowing, keep the control of the ball, do all that.
00:51:31
Speaker
I imagine Mitch Morse is going to be moving to double wherever Chris Jones is like whatever whatever guard Chris Jones is lined up over. I imagine Mitch Morse is going to be required to move to that side. So that that should help because Mitch Morse is so solid.
00:51:51
Speaker
And then it's Travis Kelsey, right? And we talked about Race 2, Race 2, but this is where I get super concerned because we have two athletic linebackers left. And both scare the hell out of me in terms of covering a guy like Travis Kelsey. I think this is, and I don't like saying this because it puts so much pressure on one guy. If Taryn Johnson can't go, I'd be willing to bet money that Kansas City is going to win this game.
00:52:20
Speaker
because without Taryn Johnson to impact the tight ends portion of the game, I don't have the faith inspector or Dorian Williams to handle Travis Kelsey. Maybe that means it's a situation where Jordan Poirier is on Kelsey duty and you have Taylor Rapp maybe come in or Cam Lewis play some safety. I don't exactly know what the answer is, but that is my prevailing concern.
00:52:47
Speaker
Um, if anyone in the comments has thoughts, I see Dana's in here. What's up, Dana? Um, don't hesitate to, you know, post what your thoughts might be, but that's, that's my big prevailing concern with the injuries that we currently have to the line backing court. I don't know what we do about Travis Kelsey.
00:53:03
Speaker
Reishi Rice, I'm way less nervous about because we're going to be in a zone anyway. And listen, if the way that we handle Tyreek Hill is any indication of what we can do against Reishi Rice, he's going to make plays. Sure, he's been really good lately, but it's not something that's going to keep me up at night the way that Travis Kelsey stuff does. So, yeah, there's my rant there. He can make you pay for sure.
00:53:34
Speaker
Either one of you have thoughts on any of the things I said or your own thoughts on the defense or the offensive matchup against the Chiefs coming up We've talked so much right like it's just we've played the Chiefs so many times in in high-stakes situations like yeah, the only big difference here is that it's at home which obviously helps but I
00:53:56
Speaker
The game against the Chiefs earlier this year was kind of a do or die moment for the Bills. They were pretty down on their luck at that point and had given up a lot of games that they shouldn't have and they needed to win that to continue making an argument to get into the postseason and they did.
00:54:13
Speaker
And in truth, we were that far from losing that game, right? So like Grant is still in Kansas City, right? I don't think we can overestimate the value that Bills Mafia will bring to this game because they're going to be loud as hell. It's going to be sick. But yeah, dude, I just given the injuries they were dealing with right now, I'm exceptionally concerned about Travis Kelsey.
00:54:42
Speaker
I don't give a shit about the various Tony. I I mean hell dude. I can't even tell you Any other wide receivers on the team besides those guys Justin Watson he seems to make like one or two big plays a game, but whatever Mark has welded scantling at whatever equal Hartman, whatever. It's reishi rice and it's Travis Kelsey and those are my big concerns and
00:55:06
Speaker
That's enough, I'm still concerned. Yeah, it's 100% that's enough. Travis Kelsey's enough. But the emergence of Rishi rice, is it, Tom, you know if it's Rishi or Rishi?
00:55:18
Speaker
I think it's Rashi, but I'm not a. Yeah, we're going to get crucified for that one. But yeah, dude, so I think, you know, I talked about a couple of possibilities there for what you do with Kelsey, and I think it's probably going to end up being one of those. But the big thing that's going to impact it is who's who's available to play, right? Can Spectre go? Can Datsun go?
00:55:41
Speaker
Can Christian Benford go? Can Taryn Johnson go? Like, all these pieces matter. So I guess the big thing is going to be who's able to play. And we won't know that until two hours before kickoff, which will be 4.30-ish. So it's kind of a wait and see. But those are my thoughts as to what we can do to handle those guys. And then, yeah, Tom, you just sent a big one to the container on Patrick Mahomes. You got to contain that guy.
00:56:09
Speaker
Yeah, totally. Let's get some score predictions. Excuse me.
00:56:13
Speaker
Score predictions on this game. Oh, boy. Do we have an early?
Bills vs. Chiefs Score Prediction
00:56:20
Speaker
Do we have an early weather forecast? I think it's going to be a cold. Don't worry. I've Orchard Park on my speed search here. So let's see 10 day forecast. Yeah, it looks cloudy and 25 degrees as of right now. So bad. Yeah, not too bad. That doesn't. So given that with weather not being a huge factor,
00:56:45
Speaker
I have to imagine it's going to be a decently high scoring game. I'm going to say. Let's say 27, 21 bills. I'm going to go a closer game, 27, 26 bills, 20. Oh, my God, dude, we can. Oh, I know. It's going to be a late. It's going to be a late. It's going to be a late field goal to come back. Oh.
00:57:11
Speaker
Oh, should we talk about him real quick? No, no. We're getting long and long and long and long winded here. Let's just keep moving. All right. Yeah. I'm saying my prayers for you, bro. Find your find your stride. I get his mojo. Yep. Find your stride because I there's a big chance that we're going to need you big time this game. Please find it. Please find your way back. Jake, score prediction. I'll go 24 18 bills. 24 18.
00:57:38
Speaker
Okay. Cool. All right. Welcome to Buffalo Taylor Swift. I hope you have an awful time. Yeah. I hope you're absolutely miserable and cold. Um, Oh, look at that. The sabers still suck. Sabers are still bad. Yeah. They're playing. Yeah. Give us the quick rundown.
00:57:58
Speaker
I don't even think we'd go into it, but yeah, we yeah, for sure we can look. They've won two of the last three games since we last podcasted. They won against Ottawa. They lost against Vancouver, one against San Jose, so two and one in that stretch. They have upcoming games this Wednesday, the 17th against Chicago, and they have another game on Saturday, a matinee against Tampa Bay. As of January 16th, they are 1921 and four earning them 42 points.
00:58:26
Speaker
They are still seventh in the division. They are still seven points out of a playoff spot. I can't tell you how many times that that has remained the same since we've been podcasting. I don't think they've moved. I mean, it's the same conversation we've had. It's really tough to make up ground in this league. If you start off poorly, you're going to finish poorly and that's exactly what's happening. That's what we've been seeing. To finish on a positive
00:58:49
Speaker
UPL has been heating up lately. He's looked really good in his last couple of games. He's four, one, and now he's got a nine 50 save percentage in those games and a shutout the other day against San Jose. That's a crazy save percentage too. For those that might not know 0.950 for save percentage for a goalie. Obviously the best you can do is one, right? Meaning you stop everything. So 0.950 is significantly freaking awesome.
00:59:13
Speaker
Yeah, not a huge sample, but still yet 95% of the shots that have come at him had he's saved. That's a, that's a great metric for an NHL goalie. Yeah. So, but the savers overall still cause us a lot of pain and tears and sadness. Still suck at the moment. Yeah, still suck. Yep. More of the same, more of the same. Tom Smith, you beautiful, beautiful, beautiful man. Take us out.
00:59:35
Speaker
Folks, thank you so much for hanging out with us, and especially this new little venture here on YouTube. This has been fun. Thank you for the interactions. Yeah, I appreciate it. If you have any feedback, please reach out to us, especially if you know us personally. Just do just a little text. We'd love to hear it. We will get better.
00:59:50
Speaker
Yeah, we will. Thank you all for the bottom of our hearts for spending some time with us. It would mean a lot. If you could please share this episode, give us a like, smash that like button on YouTube. That's a big deal. And give us a follow on Instagram X and our freshly minted YouTube channel at Let's Go Buff Pod. These are my pals, Jake and Nigel. My name is Tom and you're listening to the Let's Go Buffaloe podcast. We're sending you love wherever you are. Go pills, go savers. Let's Go Buffaloe.