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  Hey there, it's Jeff. I want to wish you and yours a very
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  happy and healthy Thanksgiving, and I wanted to let you know that we recorded
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  this podcast on Tuesday, November twenty one, twenty twenty three, so by
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  the time you hear this, some things may have changed here there, but
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  we hope you enjoy the show. All right, folks, welcome to Opposition
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  Territory here at the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running Philly sports
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  podcast show in the world, over ten and a half years strong. We
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  got a great discussion coming your ways. We looked to week twelve, the
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  Philadelphia Eagles taking on the Buffalo Bills at the Link in philadel The Eagles coming
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  off an incredible and somehow an amazing win against the Kansas City Chiefs. They
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  are the top team in the NFL. Cannot be questioned at this particular point
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  as we're heading into Week twelve. However, the Buffalo Bills took care of
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  some business this past week against the New York Jets, probably as they should
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  have. However, there have been challenges for this Bills team. We've got
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  a great discussion coming your way. We've got a great guest, so Let's
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  get to it, and it is great to have back on the podcast to
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  get into this Eagles Bills preview, this matchup, what we're going to be
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  seeing this coming Sunday. We have from Buffalo Rumblings. You know, we
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  love our espnation sites. We have the one and only Sarah Larson. Sarah,
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  how you doing. I'm doing all right. I've been traveling a lot.
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  I went to fifty four consecutive games so far over last couple of years
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  home and away, and I live down in South Florida, so I have
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  definitely been traveling a lot. It's taken a lot out of me to season
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  especially, but but you know, I have a blast doing it. Yeah.
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  Of course, follow you on Twitter and you certainly are doing a lot
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  of traveling following this Buffalo Bill's team throughout the course of this twenty twenty three
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  twenty twenty four season. It's one of the reasons why I wanted to have
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  you on because of the insight that you have, not not just you know,
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  with the contributions you make at Buffalo Rumblings dot com and really quick folks,
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  if you would like to follow Sarah on Twitter at Sarah Underscore Larson,
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  she is a great, great follow for a ton of entertaining football, football
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  gifts and a bunch of great content on the Twitter on the Twitter. So
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  but yeah, you've been traveling around a lot following this team, and like,
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  I'm gonna be honest, Sarah, like I thought this Buffalo Bill's team,
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  as we're looking forward to the Week twelve matchup, you know, against
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  the Eagles, I thought this Buffalo Bill's team would be a little bit more
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  cohesive in terms of what it was going to be providing NFL fans in general,
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  their own fan base in general this season so far. But there have
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  been a lot of ups and downs for this team, and as we know,
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  they certainly had a good game this past week against the New York Jets
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  after some turmoil from the offensive side of things the week before, you know,
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  firing their offensive coordinator. And I wanted to get the conversation started with
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  regard to that because I'm wondering if that was really the reason why they were
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  able to, you know, I would say, quote get back on track
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  offensively. Then again, they were playing the Jets, and we're gonna kind
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  of talk about that a little bit later on in our discussion as well.
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  But you know, what did the shake up with the offensive coordinator position do
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  for this team? If anything? I mean, what was it needed?
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  Was it necessary or was it just kind of a symbolic type of thing that
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  needed to happen maybe to get this team back on track. What are your
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  thoughts with that whole situation. Yeah, to start the conversation, I will
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  say that, do I think that it was needed? Yes? Do I
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  think it was needed weeks ago? Yes? Okay, I feel like,
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  you know, it was not Dorsey's fault at the end of the Denver game.
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  He was a bit of an escapegoat as people were saying at that,
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  you know, after that game, at the conclusion of that game. Prior
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  to that, though, it was definitely something that should have happened weeks ago.
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  It sucks that it happened after the Denver game. But we saw today
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  with with Pittsburgh letting go after a win, you know, we can you
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  know, we can half go or no it this past weekend, the you
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  know after when they still let go of of their o C kind of the
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  same you know situation here. So I do think that there is some you
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  know, direct motivation when you do something like this mid season, players play
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  different. There's a renewed hope. But I think that the biggest thing is
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  as Joe Brady, the new OC, kind of said it best. He
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  was like, I just want Josh Allen to be Josh Allen. And during
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  the game, Josh Allen after after he threw the eighty one yard touchdown pass
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  uh to Khalil Shakir, he said, I feel like I'm back during the
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  game, and he was. You know, he was just a different player
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  that we We haven't really seen much of him like that this season, where
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  he was on the sidelines cheering and and hyping up the other guys. Usually,
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  especially when we're when we're losing, we kind of see a you know,
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  a dejected Josh Allen sitting on the bench. But what's been really tough
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  is when you know he's when we're still winning, he still doesn't look like
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  the guy who's having a good time. And so, you know, Joe
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  Brady coming in. Do I think that it's gonna change much. It's halfway
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  through the season. Most of the players have said the same thing. We're
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  not gonna change the playbook. We can't at this point. But I think
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  that what he will do is kind of add wrinkles to plays that we we
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  already have. But my biggest thing with with Ken Dorsey, and don't get
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  me wrong, I was a Ken Dorsey proponent, I was a fan.
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  I'm from I went to the University of Miami the same years that Ken Dorsey
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  was there, So it's been very hard for me to say this, but
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  I think that there is a very big difference between, you know, constructing
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  plays and coming up with a scheme and then knowing when to call those plays.
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  And I believe that a good OC can do both. I don't quite
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  feel like he could he ever ever got the art of calling plays. During
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  the game, the players said he had some of the most interesting plays,
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  some of the most complicated plays that they had had seen on paper. I
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  just don't think that the between the execution and the timing was ever quite there.
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  So I'm hoping that that Joe Brady can come in and and kind of
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  change that. You know, he could take the plays that were already created,
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  add his own little wrinkle to it, and then know when to call
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  them. It's gonna be interesting to see if he's able to do that against
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  this Philadelphia Eagles team. Week twelve, here just around the corner. But
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  you mentioned Sarah one Josh Allen and what he essentially was maybe going through,
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  whether it was in the huddle, in the pocket during practices and not necessarily
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  being able to be himself. And of course we know Josh Allen has taken
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  some heat in recent weeks for turnovers and just how he's been kind of playing
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  quote, you know, erratically throughout this season as some have put it.
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  How would you assess Josh Allen's season thus far in terms of I mean,
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  not just the shake up that you were just talking about, but where he
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  is in terms of his career and what that means for this latter part of
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  the season coming up here, right. So we all have you know this,
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  you know, conversation a lot throughout our network of whether or not quarterbacks
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  or whins are a quarterback stat or not. Yeah, and you know we
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  go back and forth, you know, all the MVP conversations. It's you
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  know, teams that have a quarterback that is winning games, whether or not
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  Josh Allen's numbers are better. Josh Allen is I believe, fifth in the
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  league in touchdown percentage. He leads the league in touchdown passes, and in
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  rushing touchdowns. So you go through it, he's fourth in QBR. I'm
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  looking at my notes right now. He's fourth in completion percentage, he leads
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  the league in sorry he's uh yeah, leads the league in total touchdowns with
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  twenty nine. So when you go through it all, he has eleven passing
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  interceptions and he has four fumbles loss on the season. Now, I believe
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  some of those fumbles are as much his fault as they are the O line's
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  fault. And then we have certain situations where the you know, three of
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  his passes were that were intercepted were essentially third down passes, you know,
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  third and long passes that you know he threw forty fifty yards down the field.
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  You know, whether or not you're in agreement that that that's as good
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  as a punt, you know, you're giving it. You're giving the the
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  receiver a chance to catch the ball or what you know, or a chance
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  a def you know, a defensive pass interference call. There's some you know,
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  there's some questions there on that, whether it's on him or you know,
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  it's just part of the play calling. But then there's also been three
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  where it it's literally went right through the hands of our you know, wide
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  receiver or it's been a tipped ball. So if you went and took those
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  six or seven passes that have been in you know, interceptions and take them
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  away, he's one of the lower quarterbacks on the list of interceptions. There's
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  been three or four that have really just been on Josh Allen and he can't
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  make those, you know, those decisions throughout the game. And you know,
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  one of them was against Denver, uh, you know, last week,
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  and then like, I'm not going to give him a pass though,
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  because he the against Denver as well. The handoff to to James Cook that
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  James Cook fumbled was completely on Josh Allen. It was a very bad handoff.
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  You can tell his mind wasn't on you know, handing a clean handoff.
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  So there are certain things that have been completely on Josh and you know,
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  we call the the hero ball, and you know we've all given you
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  know, Josh Allen his his little adages throughout his career. But I also
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  feel like, you know, I watched I watched the game last night against
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  Philadelphia, know, Philadelphia against Mahomes in Kansas City, and Mahomes doesn't get
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  the same you know, the same criticisms, and he had, you know,
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  two turnovers or Kanas City had two turnovers yesterday or last night, that
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  one of them was very much Mahomes And you know, so I just feel
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  like Josh gets a little bit of the unfair share. And I think that
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  statistically Josh is you know, is good on paper this year. I think
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  that we just need the eye test a little bit more and hopefully with the
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  change up at OC, he starts feeling like himself again and you know,
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  we can see that happen again. Folks. We're talking to Sarah Larson from
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  Buffalo rumblings dot com, great espidation site. And as we're moving along talking
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  about the offense here, Sarah, I really wanted to talk about one Stefan
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  Diggs too, because he's had a I'll tell you right now, he's killing
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  me in certain fantasy leagues that I'm in right now. I have him on
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  one too. Oh my gosh. I mean, just a very very quiet
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  past couple of weeks. Only thirty four yards receiving against the Broncos two weeks
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  ago. This past week twenty seven yards against the New York Jets. And
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  yes, I think the Broncos defense is really coming into their own as we're
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  heading into Week twelve of this NFL season, and certainly, you know,
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  the Yets are a prolific defense as well. But I'm wondering if Stefan diggs
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  productivity on the field as of late, is this a result of teams really
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  from what you're seeing at the games, is this a result of teams taking
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  him out of plays or is there something else going on with Digs here at
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  the moment? What do you why do you think he's been quote struggling as
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  of late. I don't think he's struggling. I think that it's a narrative.
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  I think that you know, people want Stefan Diggs to be unhappy in
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  Buffalo, and you know it's the same thing. You know, we saw
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  MVS yesterday, you know, slamming his helmet against the walls. He was
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  walking through the you know, the tunnel. There's not you know, any
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  narrative there. We saw a J Brown chirpin at you know, at Hurts
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  on the sideline. There's no negative narrative there. I feel like everyone wants
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  to be there to be a problem with Digs. I honestly believe the last
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  two weeks, he's went up against the two best young corners in the league.
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  He's you know, went up against Patrick Sortan and then he's went up
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  against you know, Gardner and they tend to either double him a lot or
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  you know. It's kind of what I feel, especially this past week,
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  we've been using that a little bit to get two of our younger wide receivers
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  open. While I'm not I shouldn't call uh Kinkaid a receiver, hes technically
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  a tight end, but he's a very good pass catching tight end right now
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  as a rookie. And then we have our second year Khalil Shakir. Both
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  of them have really come into their own the last two weeks as well,
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  so I feel like it's giving them an opportunity and hopefully it'll it'll change up
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  what our offense looks like down the road, because you can never count Digs
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  out. Diggs is always going to be there if you know, he's always
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  going to be the first option as well, so you can't say that that
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  Josh isn't looking that way. He's always going to look to him first.
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  And then you know, it's just at this point, I believe it's it's
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  opening up on some of our other guys as well. Okay, all right,
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  well, it's gonna be interesting to see what happens with this Eagle secondary,
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  which has been struggling all season up until this past week with the Kansas
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  A Chiefs arguably their best game of the season, and how Shakir and how
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  Dalton Kincaid and how Digs are gonna fare against them. And I do want
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  to trends over to a transition over to the Bills defense here with you,
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  Sarah, because you know, they were absolutely dominated against the Jets, and
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  when you look at the numbers, I mean, they only allowed one hundred
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  and fifty five total yards on offense for the Jets. But then again,
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  I do wonder, as I kind of mentioned a little earlier in a discussion,
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  I wonder how much of that was the fact that they were playing against
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  Zach Wilson, a just absolutely terrible quarterback in this league that what we have
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  seen learned from him an offense that just is unable to execute, especially with
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  Zach Wilson under center. Or I'm wondering, do you think this was the
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  Bills defense real Nott really starting to show that they can that they could be
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  a top ten defense in this league here, because I think the last time
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  I checked, they may have been sixteenth or seventeenth in terms of overall defense.
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  So I'm wondering, why do you think the Bills defense was so dominant
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  this past week against the Jets. Was it a terrible Jets offense or was
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  it the fact that, you know, they're really coming into their own,
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  this Bill's defense really coming into their own. What do you think here?
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  Maybe it's a balance of both. I think it's a little bit of a
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  balance of both. The first week of the season, the Bills played the
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  Jets and it was completely the opposite the Jets. They lost Aaron Rodgers four
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  plays into the game and the Jets still moved the football on us. So,
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  but that was because, in my opinion, the offense kept on putting
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  the defense in bad predicaments. And then this week, I believe it was
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  completely the opposite, where the offense was really putting the defense in, you
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  know, good situations, good field position, you know. But at the
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  same time, the defense has had so many injuries that we've had to finally,
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  since especially since the Jacksonville game, we've had to slowly kind of work
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  in some new guys, and we've had to bring in some free agents and
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  we had to do a trade to to get Russell Douglas. So it's taken
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  a couple of weeks I think for them to to really start to to gel
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  together with this new group of guys. I think the Rasteul Douglas trade obviously
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  after he had two picks and a forced fumble recovery, uh this past week,
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  it's it's already proven to to be a very smart trade. Uh.
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  But we have people that are really coming into their their own. Bernard is
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  a is a second year tight end that has looked ridiculous. He's been like
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  a breath of fresh air. He was not even he was not there this
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  this summer. You know, uh as at training camp he was injured.
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  So, you know, losing Milano, Trey White, Da Kwon Jones,
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  they were all playing at not even Pro Bowl, they were playing at all
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  pro levels this season. And in Trey White, I'm gonna even say it
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  for him, he did not look himself last year. He was really starting
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  to look like the old Tray White this year. So to lose all three
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  of them, what you know, in a span of two games, was
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  a really big deal for you know, not only for the psyche of the
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  Bills, but just obviously trying to to play with new guys. So I'm
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  you know, I'm I'm just really proud of this defense and I hope that
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  them all coming together, they can continue to to grow as a new unit
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  and work together. We do have some some vets on this team that I
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  believe are going to kind of lead the younger guys and you know and into
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  the last you know, the second half of the season. Yeah. Absolutely,
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  I think it's gonna be interesting to see is we're we're gonna get into
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  some matchups here and some matchup conversation with you. But it's going to be
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  interesting to see if the Bills have that bend but don't break ment, you
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  know, you know, implementation of their scheme, their defensive scheme against Philadelphia
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  Eagles at the Link this weekend. It's gonna it's good. It's going to
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  be an interesting atmosphere for sure being in Philadelphia for this Bills team. So
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  as we get into the matchups here, I really wanted to, you know,
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  pick your brain in terms of you know, vulnerability is quite frankly with
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  regard to the Bills and where do you think as you're looking at the matchup
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  with the Philadelphia Eagles from what we've seen as yes, they have the best
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  record in the National Football League here, and the Bills certainly a very formidable
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  team as well. But where do you think the Bills are most vulnerable from
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  an offensive side of things, Sarah's you're looking at this particular matchup here in
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  week twelve, Yeah, I think the obvious answer has to be play calling.
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  You know, with with having the new OC, you just never know
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  what you're going to get, you know, going up against the Jets,
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  now, granted, Jets have a very good defense. We cannot you know,
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  underscore that at all because you know, I don't want to. I
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  don't want Joe Brady's first you know, first game as O c to to
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  be you know, overshadowed because we played the Jets. The Jets defense are
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  is one of the best in the league. You know, we want yeah,
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  you know, whether we want to believe it or not. So you
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  know, it's gonna be the same thing against Philadelphia. Philadelphia has a very
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  good defense, I know. You you know, we've we've noticed some struggles
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  throughout the season on in their in their secondary. But at the same time,
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  uh, they're you know, their front you know, four or five
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  can be very scary. So yeah, very scary. So you know,
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  I think that that's you know where you know, Joe Brady is gonna have
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  to excel at play calling at the right time and make sure that we're we're
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  putting the offense in a good position, you know, throughout the game.
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  But that's obviously, you know where I think most of us are the most
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  you know, nervous about for vulnerabilities. Okay, all right, let's move
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  over to the other side of the ball. Then, I'm wondering where you
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  think the Bills are most vulnerable on the defensive side of things. Where you're
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  looking at this Eagles offense that absolutely struggled against the Kansas City Chiefs. Still,
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  I mean, at this point, I still cannot believe that this Eagles
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  team went to Kansas City and actually came out with a victory. It's incredible.
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  If you had told me Jalen Hurts was going to throw one hundred and
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  fifty yards, no touchdowns, one interception, I said, this team is
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  probably gonna lose. But they ended up making plays when they had to to.
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  They absolutely did so I'm wondering, you know, when you look at
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  the Bills from a defensive side of things, you know where are they most
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  vulnerable. I mean, is it in the middle of the field, is
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  it with the pass rush? What are your thoughts? Maybe it's in the
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  back end with the d backs. Yeah, and I'm gonna say it is
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  with our defensive backs right now. You know our corners and safeties that we
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  are very very thin. Yeah, we now have two more people that are
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  in concussion protocol. Taylor Rapp also got injured last week. He's gonna be
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  you know, limited this week. He's the one that got taken out on
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  a stretcher in the ambulance. Yeah, but you know, everything came back
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  negative, which is great. So there's a chance that he still plays on
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  Sunday. But we're very thin right now in our secondary. I'm hoping,
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  you know, all the guys can come back and you know, healthy enough
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  to play that, you know, especially Tarren Johnson. I hope he clears
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  concussion protocol. But the other the other concern is going to be our linebacker
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  play. As I was saying a little earlier, Bernard, he's our rookie,
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  our second year of linebacker who was you know, come in to kind
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  of fill in as our mic linebacker at this point in time, and he's
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  just been, you know crazy. We were not expecting to get what we've
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  gotten. He's balled out all year. I think he has over one hundred
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  tackles now throughout the season. He's just been just, you know, such
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  a breath of fresh air. I'm so happy. After losing Tremaine and Edmonds,
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  I was a little nervous of what we were going to get in,
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  you know, in return. But with Milano out, you know, we
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  do we you know, we have been going kind of a you know back
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  and forth between Torrel Dotson and and Dorian Williams. And Dorian Williams is a
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  rookie, so he's obviously has made some rookie mistakes, and and Dotson you
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  know, has went back and forth of you know, whether or not he's
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  even gonna make the team, you know, a year in and year out.
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  So it is a little concerning whether or not they're you know, gonna
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  you know, fulfill their their you know role in the in the moment.
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  But with all that being said, both our secondary and our linebacker unit,
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  it leads to my biggest concern, which is third down, which is what
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  you guys kind of excelled at last night, was those plays when you needed
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  it on third down, whether it was third and long or whatever, is
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  converting them, you know, on on offense and having our defense be able
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  to to stop you. So that's kind of been one of our struggles.
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  We did not struggle against the Jets on third down. We actually did not
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  allow them to convert a third down. So I'm hoping it's much more of
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  that this week. All right, Well, as I like to end our
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  Opposition Territory podcast here, Sarah get into another two part question about one thing
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  each team is going to need to hit on for a win. So let's
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  start with the Bills here. What's the one thing that this Buffalo Bills team
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  is going to need to hit on this week for a win and give the
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  Eagles their second loss of the season. What's that one thing? Well,
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  I'm gonna go with too because I feel like it's two part. I feel
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  like, obviously the Bills need to win the turnover a differential. I think
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  that that's a big thing with us, not only for our you know,
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  our psyche, but because when we lose the you know, turnover a differential,
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  we tend to lose the game, so I'm gonna say that. But
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  also keeping the ball out of Jalen hurts hands. So we need to control
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  the clock, whether that's by making sure we're not going three and out,
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  making sure we can run the ball. I think that those are the two
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  main things. If we can do both. And obviously, you know,
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  if we're winning the turnover differential, then at the same time we're keeping the
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  ball out of your guys's hands. So I think those are the two things
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  that you know, the Bills need to really you know, focus on for
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  the game, all right. And last, but not least, what's the
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  one thing the Eagles, in your opinion, are going to need to hit
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  on for a win this week against the Bills. I don't want to give
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  you guys any pointers, like, you know, they're going to listen to
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  me and change the whole game. Yeah, they're listening to the Philadelphia Sports
• 24:40
  Table, right, Yeah, Hey, you gotta love that. But no,
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  I think I think the biggest thing is is, you know, when
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  the Bills struggle the most is when Josh is indecisive and you know, putting
• 24:53
  a lot of pressure on him for the first year. It seems like when
• 24:57
  when Josh it feels pressure, he makes those irrational or you know, indecisive
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  decisions and which has led to the turnovers in the past. When he's you
• 25:08
  know, felt rushed and moved out of the pocket, it's usually when he
• 25:14
  excels. But I think when they took away a little bit of his running
• 25:17
  game from him, whether or not they handcuffed him a little bit from from
• 25:21
  doing that. This season, he's felt, I feel a little bit more
• 25:25
  pressure to get the ball down field in those moments, and it's it's led
• 25:29
  to some of you know, the the bad decision making. So I feel
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  like, you know, obviously, if the Eagles want to to pressure him,
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  which you know, you guys have the front to do it, so
• 25:41
  you know, our offensive line is gonna definitely have their workout up for them.
• 25:45
  Absolutely, I completely agree with you on that. And another thing I
• 25:48
  think we can agree on is that and especially after watching the Monday night game,
• 25:53
  the Eagles Chiefs game, we're all sick of Patrick Mahomes at this point,
• 25:56
  correct, Is that all? Yeah? Okay, I definitely definitely agree
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  on that. As we're heading into week twelve here, enough of Patrick Mahomes
• 26:03
  my gosh. All right, folks. Yeah again, Sarah Larson at Sarah
• 26:07
  Underscore Larson on the Twitter Buffalo Rumblings dot com. Check out everything they are
• 26:12
  doing over there. Sarah, it was great talking to you on this preview
• 26:15
  show. Yeah, come back and join us. I'd love to talk more
• 26:18
  football with you down the road. Of course, I'm a little nervous to
• 26:21
  go into Philadelphia this weekend, but myself, you know, I'm trying to
• 26:26
  figure out where I'm gonna say. I still haven't gotten my game tickey yet.
• 26:30
  The narrative stinks about Philly sports fans. You are nice to folks.
• 26:34
  They are gonna be nice and great to you. I guarantee you they will,
• 26:38
  all right, all right. I look forward to that then, because
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  my best time is when I go to a you know, an away stadium
• 26:48
  and I'm sitting around fans that I can have fun with absolutely And I know
• 26:52
  you're gonna be able to do that at Lincoln Financial Field for sure. Come
• 26:56
  back and well talk to talk talk to us about that then, all right?
• 26:59
  It sounds good fun conversation with Sarah. I love her fandom, her
• 27:03
  Buffalo Bills fandom. That really comes out when we're talking, and she's just
• 27:10
  so passionate, so passionate, absolutely love having her on. Gonna be an
• 27:12
  interesting game for sure. Eagle's coming off this big, big win against the
• 27:17
  Kansas City Chiefs, and I wonder what that momentum is going to give them
• 27:19
  heading into this week twelve matchup against the Bills, because I mean, at
• 27:25
  this point, it seems like this Eagles floor is really really high. At
• 27:30
  this point, the floor is real high, and heading into the link again
• 27:34
  off coming off this victory out in Kansas City, it was ugly. It
• 27:40
  did not look good. Go back in the feed, listen to the postgame
• 27:42
  podcast show where Matt Rogers and I were breaking everything down. It was ugly,
• 27:48
  but they've made plays when they needed to. They got it done.
• 27:51
  I could see something similar happening this week against the Buffalo Bills. Josh Allen
• 27:55
  is a darn good quarterback, they have darn good offensive scheming, and they've
• 27:59
  got a defense that does produce and has been running on all cylinders here.
• 28:03
  So we have to see what happens. And we're certainly gonna be uploading our
• 28:06
  Eagles postgame podcast as we always do. We've also got our regular show coming
• 28:11
  to you this week where we've got a lot of Phillies talk coming, a
• 28:12
  lot of Phillies offseason talk, so stay tuned for that. So it's gonna
• 28:18
  end it for us here on Opposition Territory again. Thank you to Sarah.
• 28:22
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• 28:33
  the interwebs at Philadelphia Sports Table dot com. All right, folks, take
• 28:37
  care. We'll catch you next time.