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Greg Rousseau Wins Player of the Week, Josh Allen Presser & Week 6 Raiders Prep | The Morning Charge · The Morning Charge

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mafia. It's Thursday, October 15th. This is the
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  Speaker 1: Morning Charge, your daily 10-minute or less Buffalo Bills news hit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Aaron Quinn, here with Colin Ritchie, bringing you everything
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  Speaker 1: you need to know before you start your day. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get right into it. Let's turn the page from Monday
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  Speaker 1: night and look ahead to Week 6, because the first
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  Speaker 1: injury report of the week came out for Sunday's matchup
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  Speaker 1: against the Las Vegas Raiders. Starting with the Raiders, tight
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  Speaker 1: end Brock Bowers was limited on Wednesday with a knee injury.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive tackle Tonka Hemingway and wide receiver Jalen Naylor were
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  Speaker 1: both with concussions and did not participate. Defensive tackle Fulorunchu
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  Speaker 1: Fatukasi and guard Trey Zun were also limited participants. Now,
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  Speaker 1: flipping over to the Bills side. Keep in mind, they
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  Speaker 1: had a Monday night game, so this is their first
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  Speaker 1: walkthrough of the week. DJ Moore and Ed Oliver were
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  Speaker 1: both listed as did not participate. Four players were listed
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  Speaker 1: as questionable. D. Alford with an ankle, Spencer Brown with
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  Speaker 1: a back, Ty Johnson with a hamstring, Joshua Palmer with
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  Speaker 1: a shoulder, and TJ Sanders with a shoulder. Even though
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  Speaker 1: it's a condensed week, Joe Brady still made time to
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  Speaker 1: meet with the media for his normal Wednesday press conference.
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  Speaker 1: On the high volume of penalties to start the year,
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  Speaker 1: Brady agreed that they need to be more disciplined, saying,
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  Speaker 1: we need to practice our fundamentals and technique needs to improve.
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  Speaker 1: On what to do with James Cook and the fumbling problem,
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  Speaker 1: Brady stated strongly that he doesn't want James Cook running
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  Speaker 1: any more timid, stating that he's running as well as
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  Speaker 1: anyone in the NFL, but acknowledged they are putting the
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  Speaker 1: ball on the ground. He doesn't want Cook to play scared.
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  Speaker 1: He needs to be confident and do a better job
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  Speaker 1: of holding onto the ball. We've addressed it, and he's
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  Speaker 1: cleaning it up, said Coach Brady. On staying out West,
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  Speaker 1: Brady explained that returning late from Monday night game put
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  Speaker 1: massive stress on player recovery. Staying out west allowed them
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  Speaker 1: to maintain a normal recovery and practice schedule, with major
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  Speaker 1: bonus of a training camp-style team bonding week built in.
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  Speaker 1: He praised the facilities at UC Irvine for giving them
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  Speaker 1: everything they needed for a normal prep week. On Pete
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  Speaker 1: Carmichael being down on the field on Sunday, Brady brushed
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  Speaker 1: this off, explaining that it had more to do with
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  Speaker 1: the limited space and the visiting coach's booth in LA
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  Speaker 1: than any tactical shift in how they were going to
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  Speaker 1: call the offense. Since Carmichael can easily call the game
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  Speaker 1: from either spot, it wasn't a big deal. On rookie
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  Speaker 1: head coach Clint Kubiak's success, Brady noted that you can
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  Speaker 1: see Kubiak's impact instantly on the tape, praising the way
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  Speaker 1: his unit plays entirely to his personality and the identity
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  Speaker 1: that he wants them to play with. On facing Max Crosby,
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  Speaker 1: Brady chuckled and called him, quote, literally relentless. He raved
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  Speaker 1: about Crosby's motor and how he totally wrecks game plans
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  Speaker 1: regardless of what you try to do. Asked about Spencer
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  Speaker 1: Brown going up against Crosby coming off an injury, Brady
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  Speaker 1: emphasized that it takes an entire week's game plan just
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  Speaker 1: to plan for a player like Crosby and where he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be every snap, adding that they'll keep evaluating
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  Speaker 1: Brown's status as they go throughout the week. On the
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  Speaker 1: idea of elevating Shaq Thomas to stabilize the linebacker room,
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  Speaker 1: Brady immediately went to bat for his current linebacker room, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I have no issue with the way our linebackers are
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  Speaker 1: playing right now. He clarified that Thompson is there for
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  Speaker 1: veteran leadership and depth down the stretch, but he loved
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  Speaker 1: where the room was at. On Greg Rousseau's impact, Brady
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  Speaker 1: smiled and said, I'm never going to get tired of
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  Speaker 1: giving him game balls. He praised how Rousseau was handling
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  Speaker 1: his success week in and week out, and specifically broke
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  Speaker 1: down the play of the blocked kicks, crediting Coach Rogers
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  Speaker 1: and Michael Hoyt alongside Rousseau's length and preparation on the play.
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  Speaker 1: On rookie tight end Brock Bowers, Brady kept it simple. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: there aren't many people in the world that can do
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  Speaker 1: what he does. highlighting how Bowers has a tight ends body,
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  Speaker 1: but the versatility to line up anywhere across the wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver spots.
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  Speaker 2: The Buffalo Bills won another award. Greg Rousseau was named
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  Speaker 2: AFC Special Teams Player of the Week. This is the
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  Speaker 2: first time Rousseau has earned the honor, and the first
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  Speaker 2: time a Bill has since Tyler Bass in Week 9
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  Speaker 2: of 2024. Rousseau's game-saving blocked kick in overtime was the
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  Speaker 2: first field goal blocked in OT since TJ Watt blocked
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  Speaker 2: an attempt by the Browns back in 2018. This award
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  Speaker 2: comes after Rousseau was named AFC Defensive Player of the
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  Speaker 2: Month for his six sacks in the month of September.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Allen spoke to the media yesterday, and he said
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  Speaker 2: on the current mindset of the team... They're watching the
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  Speaker 2: tape and there's a lot of things they can be
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  Speaker 2: better at on both sides of the ball on all
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  Speaker 2: three phases of the ball. On his mechanical issues that
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  Speaker 2: he mentioned earlier last week, he said in the second half,
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  Speaker 2: he just kind of turned his mind off and played football.
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  Speaker 2: And he thinks that's kind of what it's getting back
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  Speaker 2: to for him. On Dalton Kincaid's lack of involvement, he
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  Speaker 2: knows that Joe Brady has taken a lot of ownership
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of fault for that. He said that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it can be on him too, just
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  Speaker 2: taking some of the underneath stuff early and getting him
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  Speaker 2: involved early, getting him a touch or two here or there.
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  Speaker 2: He said he hasn't done a good job of that
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  Speaker 2: over the past couple of weeks. On James Cook's fumbles,
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  Speaker 2: he said that James is a tremendous football player and
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  Speaker 2: he understands what defenses are going to try to do now. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: ball security is of the utmost importance and he emphasized
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  Speaker 2: that that includes himself too, not making dumb decisions, not
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  Speaker 2: putting the ball at risk, whether that's in the passing
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  Speaker 2: game or the running game. He said, it takes everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's got to do their part. Bill's stat check-in. Josh
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  Speaker 2: Allen is currently 10th in the NFL in passing yards
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  Speaker 2: with 1,249. He also leads the league in rushing touchdowns
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  Speaker 2: with eight and total touchdowns with 15. Allen is also
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  Speaker 2: one of just five players to have more rushing touchdowns
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  Speaker 2: than James Cook, who currently sits at five on the year.
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  Speaker 2: Cook is third in rushing yards, currently at 532, which
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  Speaker 2: is just five yards behind Kenneth Walker. Granted, Walker has
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  Speaker 2: only played four games, given the Chiefs had a week
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  Speaker 2: five bye. Cook is also 48 yards behind Bajon Robinson.
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  Speaker 2: After a few quiet weeks in a row, Dalton Kincaid
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  Speaker 2: has dropped to fifth in receiving yards among tight ends,
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  Speaker 2: now trailing Sam Laporta, Brock Bowers, who the Bills will
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  Speaker 2: see on Sunday, Trey McBride, and Isaiah Likely. Ray Davis'
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  Speaker 2: 70-yard kick return to open Monday Night Football was the
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  Speaker 2: fourth longest return on the season. His 32.1 yards per
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  Speaker 2: kick return currently ranks fourth in the NFL. Greg Rousseau
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  Speaker 2: no longer has the lead in sacks, as he remains
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  Speaker 2: at six after being shut out in the last two games.
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  Speaker 2: Houston's Will Anderson Jr. is still the only player, though,
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  Speaker 2: that has passed Groot so far. Anderson sits at seven
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  Speaker 2: and a half sacks. In ESPN's Week 6 Intel report
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  Speaker 2: from NFL insiders Jeremy Fowler and Dan Graziano, Fowler mentioned
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  Speaker 2: that Mike Evans, the wide receiver, was interested in Buffalo
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  Speaker 2: this offseason when he hit free agency. Fowler said, quote,
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  Speaker 2: The Buffalo Bills were high on Evans' list, too, but
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  Speaker 2: they traded for DJ Moore before free agency. It's worth
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  Speaker 2: noting that many teams believed Evans would return to Tampa Bay,
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  Speaker 2: and perhaps Buffalo was one. Evans ultimately signed a deal
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  Speaker 2: with the San Francisco 49ers. Tonight, join Greg Thompson and
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Quinn as they preview the Bills matchup against the
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  Speaker 2: Raiders on the Cover One Buffalo podcast. Tune in live
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  Speaker 2: on YouTube at 9 p.m.
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