September 16, 2025 • 47 mins
While Week Two was not as action-packed as Week One, the Buffalo Bills still did work and got their job done - moving to 2-0 on the young season.
The defense showed their grit and determination, while James Cook carried the load offensively.
Ryan Wolfe and John Cimino, joined by Chris Downey, break down everything regarding Buffalo's 30-10 victory over the New York Jets on Sunday afternoon.
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The defense showed their grit and determination, while James Cook carried the load offensively.
Ryan Wolfe and John Cimino, joined by Chris Downey, break down everything regarding Buffalo's 30-10 victory over the New York Jets on Sunday afternoon.
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Six, Episode one seven six Buffalo Bills at New York Jets,
My Babies, how is it going?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Ryan?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Just like I asked last week, I'm gonna ask you
him this week at Josh Allen. He's quite the hunk,
isn't he?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Even with a broken nose?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
He is, Uh yeah, You're gonna have to smart me
up on that one.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I was. I admit to not being around to watch
the game. I was. I had some other obligations I
needed to fill. But I heard about it. What exactly happened?
How did that happened?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
So it looks like there was I mean, it doesn't
look like there was a rush attempt from Josh Allen.
And is his face mask got grabbed and then also
his face got grabbed, and it looks like he just got.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
A kin to like a like a like I guess
for you, John, like a wrestling match. You hit someone
over the hat with a chair and you've done it
one hundred times, ninety nine times, you hit him in
the right spot, ninety one hundredth time, you get him
in just that right spot.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It just being's open. I think that's what happened. It
just it was just like a shit happened kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, he got hit in the right spot at the
right time with the right amount of force, and his
nose just popped and immediately popped, his helmet off, was leaking.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It was the best way to put it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Missed, missed a little time, came right back perfectly fine,
and then he played the game with a with a
bruce swollen face.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
But that's wild to me. But in any continue with
the intro.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
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date on the latest pot guess. I'm Ryan Wolf co
host Johnson. You know we're here every single week talking
about the Buffalo Bills. This one a little shorter than
last week, mostly because well, the Buffalo Bills cruised to
a thirty to ten victory over the New York Jets.
The Buffalo Bills looked very, very good and the Jets
(02:15):
did not. And there's really no other way to put that,
mostly because I'm going to try to be as gentle
as possible and not poke too much fun at the Jets.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
But I mean, I mean, it's not good. It's nothing
that hasn't been appropriately, you know, documented over the course
of the last fourteen years, like that organization is. There's
something Ryan. There was, believe it or not, a point
in time where the Jets consistently were competitive and consistently
(02:48):
were in it and would alter you know, you know,
at worst alter years making.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
The guys name and dudes, Chad Pennington brother, I remember
those days.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
This, I mean even before that, any test diverting then
he pissed off. But I mean, like, you know, there
there was a period of time where the Jets were
they were always gonna be the Jets. They always found
a way to Jets it up, but it was not
as like it wasn't as grandiose as it is now
(03:18):
because it's just every area of the business operations within
that organization is just a dumpster fire. And I don't
know how to correct it other than ownership, Like I mean,
when you have an owner like him, you know, I mean, funny.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You mentioned that John. I talked to a co worker
yesterday who mentioned he was a Cowboys fan lifelong because
he's a little bit older. And I said, you know,
it's it stinks for you because the problem is not
the quarterback. It's not the running back. It's not the coach,
it's not the coordinator, it's not the get well it
is the GM, but it's the owner. It starts like
the rot starts at the top. And you got to
(04:00):
when you bring in new people like Aaron Glenn. I
don't it's too early to say he's.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Going to be good or bad. You don't know, right, Yeah,
I mean you have to go in, and you.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Got to go in kind of like you got to
scrape out all that all that rot and all that rust, right,
you got to scuff it down to bare metal and
then fix it. You can't just come in and patch
it up.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah. And and Dan Campbell and the Detroit Lions were
a you know, kind of like uh, almost like a
template for what happens when you come into an organization
that's in disarray like that. So I can't necessarily and
I can't say anything about Aaron Glenn in his style
until really he's gone through a full season, because Campbell's
first full season the Lions weren't the Lions. But where
(04:40):
the Lions example differs from the New York Jets, and
even the same thing with Buffalo in the early offset
of the process era when McDermott came in and you know,
they were still kind of trying to find themselves ownership again.
You know, Terry and Kim Pigoul good owners, good football owners.
(05:02):
Maybe not the best hockey owners, they savers fans out there,
but you know, decent football owners. They've done a very
good job taking care of the team and putting the
right people in the right place. Detroit the same way
with their rebuild and now they're you know, up there
and everything like that. The Jets have had the same
ownership since two thousand when the Johnson family bought the team,
(05:27):
and it just he's more for the headlines. It's that
it's like that New York Yankees kind of ideology where
you want the back page right. The difference between the
New York Yankees, though, and the New York Jets is
the New York Yankees consistently have built their empire, evil
(05:48):
or not, around winning and a culture of winning. And
even when they had those down years in the eighties,
you know, it was still like the Boss showed up
and everybody played their ass off and they won those
games whenever the boss showed up. The Jets don't have that.
They don't they don't have the boss. They have what
(06:10):
he you know, Woody Johnson's the owner, but he's not
the boss. He's not. He's not somebody that I think
people underneath him truly respect, their appreciative of the payday,
but I don't think they respect him. And that, to
me is where I think it translates to just every
possible football operation at one Jets Drive.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I think it's the same thing with excuse me, with
the Miami Dolphins, where you cannot go in with the
mindset of, oh, well, Aaron Glenn is here, so he'll
do here what they did in Detroit, because it's like Buffalo,
you can never replicate, you only hope to imitate.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I mean, it's it's exactly exactly. And McDermott was was
he wasn't replicating or anything. He was he was figuring
himself out along the way as well, Like he wasn't
coming in saying they were coming in and was like, yes,
he's for Andy Reid disciple, but you have as trying
to be Andy Reid.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You need to have ownership, willing to do something differently,
willing to take it in a different direction than doing
the same exact thing you've done for the last twenty
five years and going it'll work at some point in time, Yeah,
if we bring in the washed up quarterback, Yeah it'll
work out. Oh, sure, thing absolutely, And it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And you go, well, why would that ever happen? Right right?
You know it's only in certain circumstances does that Does
that type of thing work? But everything has to work.
Like when Brady went to I mean Brady was never
really washed up, let's be real here, But when he
went to Tampa, he wasn't going to an oh and
you know sixteen team at the time. He wasn't going
to you know, a bottom feeder team that's looking to
(07:40):
you know this. He was going to a team that
already had a ton of people around there, and then
they got more and they took minimums just to get Brady,
to make sure Brady can get there, and that's kind
of how that Usually that's like the blueprint for how
that works, or like Peyton Manning to Denver a decade
ago that that was kind of how that blueprint works.
Aaron Rodger to the Jets was not that was not
(08:02):
a blueprints And you can argue him to the Steelers
now after the way they played Week two, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So again, and I think I think the same we're
seeing the same thing with it with it being Dolphins week.
We'll talk about that shortly, but you see the rot
from the from the from the top down.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, And I feel like it's become a lot more
clear lately too. Of that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I think it's it's it's also becoming a lot clearer
when when we've gotten media and journalism and journalists I
should say, sorry, who are not afraid to go Yeah,
Dallas is not the problem. It's Jerry Jones. Yeah, the
Jets aren't the problem. It's it's Woody Johnson. And like
like the problem with the Lions never was the ownership.
It was just that they were, they had no direction,
(08:45):
and they did something different. They stepped out a line
and they've created their own direction. The Buffalo Bills did
the same exact thing, exact There are times where you
will do that and you will fail, But then there
are times that you will do it and be the
lions of the Bills. And it's just you have to
be willing to try something different because what you've been
doing doesn't work. And I mean that's again looking at
Sean McDermott here milestone watch. He entered twenty twenty five
(09:07):
with an eighty six and forty five record. He's now
twelve wins away from one hundred career victories, twenty five
away from one hundred and thirteen, which would put him
past Marv Leevy for the most all times the Buffalo
Bills head coach. The Bills entered twenty twenty five an
all time record of forty six, five oh five and
eight bearing the lead here John. Week one was the
Buffalo Bill's one thousandth game as a franchise, and they
(09:28):
are twelve wins away now from five hundred victories as
a franchise.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Very good, very good. I like him, you know, you
know I actually unrelated. I mean related because you mentioned
Mario Levy's name, But I did see did you see
the video of him with his birthday cake at his
one hundred birthday celebration that he invited everybody to his
two hundredth birthday celebration.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I hope that's that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, indeed, ill he still got it. He still got
it at his age too.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh he can still bring it. Yeah, he can still
bring it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I absolutely love that.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Chris Downey, our unpaid interron, did point out to me
as well that this was the Bills one thousandth and
one great game as a franchise, and it was the
Jets one thousand and second game as a franchise. Not
sure where that.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Extra game was.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
That extra game was probably picked up about that probably
picked up, Yep, absolutely, I was gonna say, word the
extra game get picked up, But I'm pretty sure that
was the DeMar Hamlin game.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So we will just oh yeah, yeah, three.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Big things brought to you back.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
We've done that. That's that's not the first time that
we've blocked that game out. I think a lot of
people have blocked that game out, like whenever they think
about it, they're just oh, yeah, it was that. It
was that. Anyways, I'm sorry. Three Big It's okay.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
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running down the offense a weird day. And I say
this only specifically because, well, first off, Josh Allen broke
his nose and then came back and continued to play.
He was fourteen of twenty five, one hundred and forty
(11:25):
eight passing yards no touchdowns, with six rushes for fifty
nine yards and no touchdowns. The reason I point out
the no touchdowns is that it is the second time
in the career of Josh Allen as the quarterback of
the Buffalo Bills, that he did not record a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Really, it'll still won the game. Wow. I honestly, again,
I did not actually watch the game because I was
following you guys and I was following this stats. But
I guess I never really I guess I never really
thought of that or viewed that. But that's wow. His
second game with zero touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That's his forty yard rush was the third longest of
his career in the regular season. Moving over to rewriting
the record books with Josh Allen, he recorded his seventy
eighth victory, surpassing Joe Ferguson for second all time in
franchise history. He has three touchdown passes away from two
hundred forty one pass touchdown passes away from two hundred
and thirty eight, which would surpass Jim Kelly for the
most all time in franchise history. He's now six hundred
(12:22):
and fifteen passing yards away from twenty seven thousand, five
hundred and ninety one in his career, which would be
second all time in franchise history. Two hundred and fifteen
rushing yards away from four thousand, four hundred and forty
six rushing yards, which would be fourth all time in
franchise history. Also, the tally continues, Alan trails Patrick Mahomes
for most total yards in a player's first eight seasons.
Mahomes recorded thirty four thousand, six hundred and three. Josh
(12:45):
Allen is now at thirty one thousand, two hundred and
twenty six and counting right Thursday. Also, real quick, before
we move on from quarterbacks, John, I can't help myself,
but I had to point this out. Quarterback Mitch Trubisky.
More yards, more yards passing and one play third two
then Justin Fields had all day twenty seven James Cook.
(13:06):
He was the difference maker for the Buffalo Bills offensively
on Sunday, and boy did he look really good doing it.
Twenty one carries for one hundred and thirty two yards
and two touchdowns, one reception and one target for three yards.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
The first Playfield Bill. That freaking run you guys had
had sent me just where he went, like, were they
like bounced off him or it just dipsy?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I think it was like a dipsy like a dipsy doodle,
I think is the way explained.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It was a very good run.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
He's got it man. He definitely has. Like if you
were wondering, hey, maybe he has an off game, then
he's he's is he is? He still the man?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Still?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
James let him Cook Absolutely. He's the first Buffalo player
to record a rushing touchdown in six straight games since
Rob Riddick in nineteen eighty eight. It's also his Cook's
fifth career forty plus yard rushing touchdown was recorded in
the first half per Buffalo Bills pr. Since entering the
NFL in twenty two, Cook's five forty plus yard touchdowns
lead the league. He also leads the NFL and rushing
(14:05):
touchdowns from nineteen since the start of the twenty twenty
four season. Cook also surpassed Marshaun Lynch for fifteenth most
rushing yards all time in franchise history. Cook is now
twenty nine yards away from twenty eight hundred and forty
three career rushing yards, which would put him fourteenth most
all time in franchise history, currently held by Jim Braxton
at twy and forty two rushing yards. So James Cook
(14:26):
again when the offense was a little quieter, because again, hey,
credit where it's due. That Jets pass defense. It'll catch
up with you, and I mean, looking on paper, starting
the season off with with the with the Ravens and
the Jets, I probably would have expected more of two
performances like this game than what we saw Week one.
You take what you can get though when it comes, sure,
(14:47):
but that's why you that's why you have complimentary players
like James Cook.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And let's be honest with the with the with the
expanded season, week one really is almost like an extension
of the season if you if you consider how many
reps were played going into it and and things like that,
like Week one. Obviously, Josh Allen taking off the preseason
didn't bother him one bit that week. But maybe the defense,
(15:15):
you know, not playing full preseason games or whatever, and
then they're having their full one, they get a little
winded quickly. I'm not sure, but they certainly you know,
made up for it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah. I mean again, it's it's you get it where
you can. And that really shifts us to the defense.
Despite the fact that coming into the game, the best
way to explain to John our Pets heads are falling off.
If you are old like us, you'll get the reference.
If you're young, you won't. Week two injuries already out
of hand. At Oliver went to practice on Wednesday. Excuse me,
(15:44):
showed up Thursday and a walking boot on a scooter
and everyone went, WHOA, what the hell happened? Apparently at
Oliver was stepped on on Wednesday during practice and ruled
out the next day. So excuse me, almost immediately pretty close, uh,
state of press, excuse me. On the twelfth, Sean McDermot
said about Oliver's odds to playing Thursday, quote, I think
(16:07):
there's a chance. I don't know what that chance is.
To update everybody. As of Monday's practice report, Oliver was
a d NP for a game that is on Thursday.
So it doesn't look good Fred Oliver on Thursday. No.
Linebacker Shack Thompson missed the game with a hamstring slash
hand injury. Taron Johnson missed the game with a quad injury,
(16:28):
but again he was limited on Monday, so hopefully the
Buffalo Bills and the Buffalo Bills, I should say too,
only conducted a walk through practice. But I guess would
be if you're on a scooter with a boat, you're
not walking through anything.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Probably no, probably not.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
But Taron Johnson was a limited participant, so We'll see
how that when that Tuesday report comes out, we will
see how that.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Goes for them.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
But hey, the Buffalo Bills need the help where they
can get it because also Matt Malone left the game
with an injury. McDermott said postgame, he's quote dinged up
a little bit here. Sounds like he may have a
pectoral injury. Don't how long he's going to be out for,
but he may miss some time here.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
UH.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Cornerback tr Davius White, though on the plus side, played
fifty three fifty five point three percent of the defensive
snaps in his season debut. Per Chris Brown, quote, Trey
White exited so as to not over tax him having
come back just come back from ntry, which is smart.
But again to have I don't want to say anything
bad about other other cornerbacks at the Buffalo Bills UH
(17:23):
had on their team or have on their team, But
to have Tradavious White opposite Christian Benford, something just feels
right about that for the Buffalo Bills defense.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, I mean, those are those are your Those are
your guys. Those are the people that are there to
make the plays they play to win the game. Those
are your number ones. When you don't have those, it's
kind of tough to go by. But the injury, bug man,
that's that's kind of wild. Do you I almost wonder,
because this always seems to happen with with Buffalo early
(17:52):
on in the season, do you think it could be
the strength and conditioning coach? Like what is going on
with all.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You always you always want to point to that, But
then again with this, with how how close to the
best they are? Sure, I mean if they were, if
they were fighting for their playoff life every week, would
guys play I'm hard to say, would.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'm sure, well not not. I don't think that at
Oliver would be playing, but you know maybe, I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
We don't even know. The thing is, we don't even
know that, like, we don't even know how what what
the injury is Fred Oliver? Is this a? Is this
a they're trying to to prevent anything worse from happening
or they're just trying to there an actual like significant
injury keeping them out because again, teams are usually pretty
tight lipped about this. In the Buffalo Bills, they have
no need to rush a guy back because I mean,
(18:43):
look at the rest of the AFC East and winning
a division is your meal ticket to the playoffs. It
doesn't matter how you get there, just as long as
you get there. So my thought would be that some
guys would play if it were January, but hard to say.
So I feel I feel that they My guess would
be that the bumps and bruises happen. We all know that,
but as time goes on, it's hard to again, hard
(19:04):
to say, it's hard to say. But well, we'll see
how they develop, how these injuries developed throughout the week,
and we'll go forward from there. In Buffalo, Buffalo has
won the turnover battle in an NFL record twenty four
straight games. They held the Jets to two completions in
the first half, the first time this has happened since
Buffalo did the same December sixth, twenty one versus the
New England Patriots. Buffalo held the Jets to just three
(19:26):
offensive plays in the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
They held the gemination in the defense.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
There one hundred and fifty four yards of total offense,
the fewest allowed by Buffalo in a road game since
ninth December ninth, nineteen ninety at the thirty.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Five years ago, thirty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, it's also the second second time since nineteen ninety
one that Buffalo has not allowed a third down conversion
in a game. The only other time was November nineteenth,
two thousand and three, also against the New York Jets.
Also Buffalo's hell.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Talk about owning a matchup there, Good lord.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You're not kidding. Buffalo has also held the Jets without
a touchdown on their open driver for the last twenty
four meetings, the longest active streak in the National Football League,
and a lot of help defensively, Cole Bishop looked great,
five tackles for solo, one sack, one tackle for a loss,
a quarterback hit. Defensive end Joey Bosa, unbelievable, took over
the game. He played twenty six snaps On Sunday, John
(20:19):
He had six pressures, two tackles, one solo, a sack,
a tackle for loss, two quarterback hits, and two forced fumbles.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
You know what we call that efficiency?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I thought you're gonna hit the dog button, but yeah,
efficientcy wow.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Oh yeah, you know, I forgot about that dog button.
You know, why do you know why I forgot about
the dog button? Because I have this BA you down.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
That's that's fair.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That ripped dog. Spoiler spoiler alert. That's gonna be a
theme this season.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Rip dog, rip dog, Tell two back.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Let me just go back to that turnover to defensive
bat that you said. You said twenty four straight meetings
without letting the Jets score on their opening a drive,
on their.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Score a touchdown on their opening drive.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Correct, twenty four straight.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
So if they played twice a year, that's twelve years.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Dude, that is a quarter of a century, eleven and
a half years at this point. That's wild unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable.
This is the first time we know how dominant Joey
Bosa is. He talied two force fumbles in a game
for the first time in his career, his seventy third
sack of his career on Sunday, moving him into a
tie with Rob Burnett for ninety ninth on the NFL's
all time sack list. Defensive tackle Kwan Jones recorded a sack.
(21:29):
Defensive tackles Zion Log and defensive end at Greg Russo
split a sack each on Sunday. Log was elevated from
the practice squad on Saturday, records his first career sack
on Sunday, not a bad weekend. Speaking of john Buffalo
special teams were highlighting them. Because we've been talking a
lot about the special teams. Punter Cameron Johnston made his
Buffalo Bills debut.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Three punts for one hundred and thirty yards forty three
point three yard average, not the not his average, not
his normal, a little off. But here's the big thing.
Two punts down inside the twenty yard line. That is
how you flip a field. You get those punks down
in the twenty.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
He's not out there vomited, just a bombit. He's out there. Hey,
we're gonna we're gonna pin him deep and.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
He's you know what, he's He's filling the position that
he was brought there to fill. Like, that's what the
spec That's why there's the special and special teams, Like,
that's what they specialize in. If they punders are gonna
try and get inside of twenty every single time. If
they can, that is their touchdown. That is that's what
gets them going. So to see that happen, that's pretty
(22:30):
that's pretty cool, and that that makes him a valuable
piece to the puzzle going down the stretch as well.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And at the same time too. Uh just just seeing
that special Teams unit. Mm hm, it's it's absolutely incredible
like seeing uh and I'm looking this up quick because
i've my brain is liquid right now. Uh, it's already.
It's been a long day.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Okay, it's been Uh, I understand completely.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It's been a it's been a long day. It's been
a long week or a long year this week. That's
what I like to say.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Where did I.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Thanks? Thanks for you know what I needed that I
really need that. So Matt Prater, we'll just go to
Matt Prader right now. Let's go to Matt Prater because
I can't find the uh what I'm looking for. I'll
look up in a minute. Matt Pray, can you even say?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
What can you even say about Matt Prater?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Three for three on field goals twenty eight fifty two
thirty three yard apiece, three for three on his pets
John He recorded his eighty second career fifty plus yard
field goal on Sunday, extending his own NFL record.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Pad in the stats man, that's what you do when
you play mad and non rookie level. You p had
the stats and that's what he's doing there, So good
on him, man. I love his story and I love
you know how He's kind of covered for my boy
Tyler Bass in a in a pretty good way there
so and good on him. The name positive moment, hum
going man.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The name I was looking for. Sam Franklin Junior. The
Buffalo Bill's a here to have locked up aces on
all forms of special teams with Sam Franklin Junior with
Cameron Johnston Matt Prater Special teams. Once was a scary
portion of the Buffalo Bills game. Not anymore, not.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
So fast, not far exact. Get that courso sound bite.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
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Speaker 4 (25:50):
You, Brian and John, thank you as always, and welcome
two Week two of Around the NFL. With this will
take a look at the best and the not so
best of the week. As we did with Week one,
something new for this year, Let's get right into it
with Week two and as we will continue to do
start off with the good and there was any worry
about the Detroit Lions after Week one, those worries should
(26:13):
be put the rest, at least for now. Detroit fifty
two to twenty one winners over the Chicago Bears. Jared
Goff with a stellar game, thrown over three hundred and
thirty four yards and five touchdowns, three of those going
to a Monross Saint Brown, who caught nine passes for
one hundred and fifteen yards in the win. Jamior Gibbs
with a big bounce back game, scoring once and telling
(26:33):
ninety four yards in the win for the Bears, though
Roman Dunze had a performance of his own, catching seven
passes for a buck twenty eight and two scores. Jamar
Chase scored once, but he caught fourteen passes for one
hundred and sixty five yards, and the Bengals thirty one
to twenty seven victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jake browning
through for two hundred and forty one yards and two scores.
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He replaced Joe Burrow midway through the first half. Super
rematch lived up to the hype in Arrowhead, but it
was visiting Eagles, who took the win twenty to seventeen
over the home Chiefs. Kansas City first zero to two
start with Patrick Mahomes and they've now lost three straight
games going back to February's big game. With the loss
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and the Bills win, Buffalo now holds an early two
game lead over the Chiefs and the AFC standings. We
know it's a long way to go, but two games
over the Chiefs, the team that Bills have been chasing
down that top seed for so many years. In this
Josh Allen Patrick Mahomes era, a two game lead, especially
through the first two weeks, is nothing to shake a
(27:37):
stick at. In the NFC Dallas, they edged the New
York Giants in overtime forty to thirty seven at Jerry World.
The team's combined for forty one points in the fourth
quarter and they needed overtime to settle the contest in
a game which, really, if you watched it, no one
wanted to win. Russell Wilson threw for four hundred and
fifty yards. Yes see Russell Wilson scores. Malik Neighbors and
(28:02):
Wandel Robinson both caught over one hundred yards and combined
for all three of Russell Wilson's touchdown passes. Dack through
for three hundred and sixty one yards and Ceedee Lamb
caught up one hundred and twenty excuse me, one hundred
and twelve yards in the win. Player of the game,
though Dallas kicker Brandon Aubrey, third year kicker, now the
sixty four yarder as time expired in the fourth quarter
(28:23):
to force overtime, and he had a forty six yarder
to win the game. We turned to Monday night Baker Mayfield.
He led the Bucks on a game winning drive over
the Houston Texans twenty to nineteen. It was Mayfield's fifth
career game winning passing touchdown in the final minute of
the game, the second most since twenty eighteen. Now he
looked at the good, let's look at some of the
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not so good from Week two from the NFL, and
as Ryan and John have alluded to already, Justin Fields
had a start to forget. He finished with just three
completions in twenty seven yards and Sundays lost to Buffalo.
Justin Fields did leave due to an injury, but again
only twenty seven yards in the loss. Derrick Henry, he
(29:07):
had a monster game dope in the season. He gashed
Buffalo for almost two hundred yards and he was just
held a twenty three yard just two to three the
Michael Jordan number. And that was in their twenty four
point win over Cleveland. And as a team, Baltimore had
forty five total rushing yards, with Lamar adding thirteen onto rushes.
Denver special teams arguably cost them the win at Indianapolis
(29:29):
on Sunday, the Colts missed the game winning sixty yard
field goals time expired, but they got another chance, this
time from fifteen yards closer, as Denver was called for
a leverage penalty on the first attempt. Not necessarily a
bad performance, but you know, not a good moment if
you're the Bronco was wanting to get a road win,
you know, giving India the chance to win, which they
capitalized on. And lastly, the most unfortunate news this isn't
(29:53):
a bad performance, is just unfortunate. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow
suffered a tow injury and the Bengals win on Sunday.
That's why Jake Browning filled in midway through the second quarter.
As I mentioned earlier, Burrow left the game. Early did
not return, but he was seen riding a leg scooter
after the game, and as being reported that he can
miss up to three months or more following surgery and
rehab on the injury. Now with that current timeline that
(30:16):
has him missing the December game against the Bills in
high Mark Stadium in Orchard Park, Now let's look ahead
to week three. Starrying off Thursday night Squish the Fish
Go Bills. We do have a Burnburn and Store Monday night,
Detroit heads to Baltimore. Both teams are coming off rebound
wins in week two, but who makes it two in
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a row? We also have a pair of two and
OH teams meeting in the City of Brotherly Love. Is
the Rams head to fill it out, he for a
one game kick against the Eagles. And the only other
two and OH game of the week features Arizona and
San Francisco in the late afternoon Sunday slate in Santa Clara.
And lastly, you know if you would have bet that
the Chiefs would be in the only matchup of zero
(30:57):
to two teams this week, I'd also like to know
the upcoming one lottery numbers. Chiefs head to New Jersey
to take on the Giants on Sunday Night Football. It's
been your week to recap from around the NFL. Ryan
and John back to you.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Thanks Chris. As always, we appreciate the the endless amount
of effort you put into this podcast. Chris has for
breaking down the fourth wall. I'm being serious. I know
that sounded more like I was.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
No, no, no, no. We we love Chris. We love Chris,
we love It's It's Tuesdays. I'm a little mister and
missus Downey. I think we've done well with the with
the swears today. I actually I think we did well
with the swears last week too. I don't think that
we're I've.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Been trying to be better. I've been sharing the podcast
with a few more people, so I've been trying to
be on my best behavior, making sure it don't make
myself look too much like an ass. But also, there's
not really much to be mad about. And the only
really time I started firsting is when I get mad.
You know, yeah, you won't like me when I'm mad.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Here we go, yeah, yeah, because because then Ryan morphs
into Cholo Ryan. And if you have not seen Cholo Ryan,
I promise youlo Ryan exists, and he's terrifying.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
All because I I didn't accidentally, all because John got
me into the junk head bands and they work really well.
And then I sent John a photo, John and Chris
a photo, and a star was born.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Looking looking ahead, Week three, Buffalo Bills versus the Miami Dolphins, Thursday,
September eighteen away.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Before you do that, you were gonna put over downy
for a bit. No, No, I wasn't. You weren't, okay.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Kidding, I'm kidding, No, No, Chris, yes, he's he's taken
over helping out with Facebook page. He's he's working with
me during the week to get tweets into the into
the show notes. So that way we can also sneak
around behind John, so John doesn't see everything we're going
to talk about. Because a lot of the fun here John,
you know this, but the listeners may know this as well,
is reading stuff to John and educating John and having
(32:46):
a conversation here and just having you go, Jesus Christ,
that's wild. Like, but if I tell you, you're gonna
be like, yeah, cool, Like Josh Allen is awesome, great, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Well, you know, what it's it's what I do, and
I do this. I took this from wrestling. Anytime that
I'm you know, doing commentary or play my play or
anything like that, I don't want to know what's going
on in the show before then, because I want it
to be the most authentic kind of experience. If someone's
(33:18):
watching on IWTV or something like that and I'm commentating
a match, like, I want the reaction to be, you know,
as if they're seeing it, you know, the first time
as well. And I find that to be very successful
in that, especially when something goes wrong in a match
and you can hear me like start to laugh, you know,
(33:39):
those those types of things. So I try to bring
that as best as I can to the podcast form.
So usually the show notes, I know you guys do
an excellent job. Oh and by the way, I know
you guys do an excellent job of maintaining those throughout
the week. I do not bring those up until maybe
about ten minutes before the show, And when I do it,
(34:04):
I only bring up like the intro part, And then
as you start talking, I scroll along and I scroll
down just to kind of follow along and listen to
what you guys put together and then in real time
give real reactions. So I do enjoy the fact that
you guys do that.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
He's so good at this that if we were if
we had money to pay him, we would pay him.
But also at the same time, he made his own
thank you and send it to us so we could
thank him.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I mean that is that is name case if you
were for in case you didn't know his first name.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
That's incredible that Adam Sandler flop.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
When he sent that I'm sorry. The first thing that
immediately went through my mind was I'm playing this no
less than ten to fifteen times this podcast.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I love think I'm already on seven right now.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
So looking ahead Week three Buffalo Bills versus the Miami Dolphins.
Now that my my framework.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, say that. No, never mind,
don't say that, Go ahead, keep going.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
We Week three Buffalo Bills versus the Mimi Dolphins. Thursday,
September eighteenth, that's my mom's birthday. Happy birthday, Mom. I
don't think.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Apty birthday, miss her mama wolf, but happy birthday eight fifteen.
She's not my biggest fan, but happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Nonetheless, eight fifteen PM kickoff at Amazon Prime. The Dolphins
zero to two, tied for third in the AFC.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
It's going on. I'm sorry, go ahead, announce the Week
three game one more time for me, please.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Week three the Buffalo Bills versus the Miami Dolphins. Yes,
and that is fair because we will talk about where
the Dolphins are right now. Last week a thirty three
to twenty seven lost to New England. The story lines
are the luster was wearing off. Miami held the players
only meeting after their Week one loss to Indianapolis thirty
three to eight. Offensively, Tyreek Hill seems like he has
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one foot out the door to a tongue of Iloa.
Does not look good. And after I got the quote
appere John after last week's loss, I'm dead ass.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
With you right now.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
This is what Mike McDaniel said. Quote were to win games,
you have to win the game, not lose the game, honestly,
and that's how you lose the game.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
That's oh, that's that's very insightful.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
He's in a he's in a bad spot. The team's
in a bad spot. They owe to a tongue of
I loa way too much money to a tongue of
I looah.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
When he said this quote, did you watch this quote
or just right I've got the video on my phone.
I can send it to you right now. Does he
does he look like dead behind the I don't need
to see it's okay. Oh yeah, he like like like
he likes sunking in, Like his face is sunking in.
He just looks like he's been he's ready. I almost
kind of feel bad. And and it's because comedian Dan
Soder love Dan Soder love his podcast. He grew up
(36:48):
with Mike McDaniel, so like it's you get some fun
stories from like Dan Soder side of things.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Like my thought is that once this happens, that like
Mike McDaniel and Dan Soder will do something which would
be fun.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, but you kind of McDaniel, I think you for
the guys, the personality I feel for him. He just
coaches a crappy team.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I think I mentioned this before, but if not on
the podcast, I'll mention again. It's the it's the hockey
equivalent of John Tortorella in the opposite way, where he's
very much a player's coach, but that player's coaching has
run out and that team is it's like a it's
like a spot on, very spot on. It's like a
room of children that have been given candy and you're
just letting them go. It's it's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
The proverbial dish in front of the halloween on Halloween,
the dish in front of the door because you're too
lazy to open the door, and you say take one only,
and then the first kid comes up and piece of
a whole god dang bowl into his pillowcase and then
goes to the next house. Yeah, that's what that is.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
So I know we're running little tight on time here.
We've got children to take care of on both ends here,
things to do before we go to bed. So I
will just say this, Uh, something has come up this week.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Oh and I will be.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
I will be at high Mark Stadium on Thursday night
for the Buffalo Bills first the Miami Dolphins on Thursday
night football.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
That I know, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
My cousin Dan, wherever you are, if you're working out,
do not drop the weight on your on your throat.
If you're driving your car, do not crash your car.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Please.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
I have not been to a Buffalo Bills game. Making
this about me for a second since the Bills versus
the Jets on October third, twenty ten, thirty eight to
fourteen loss on a very rainy, miserable day, John, it
has been almost fifteen years. I have sworn I would
not go to a regular season game again because that
one sucked so bad.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
But you know what, can a good one to go to.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Now, We're gonna tell the story next week because I'll
have more details, and the people I'm going with will
tell the story. I'll have them call in and leave
us a nice little voicemail because the.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
People who are the people who are coming, that's probably
the first of the three big things next week.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
The people who are coming have not I don't believe,
been to Buffalo before, so they want to hit all
the spots. They want to go to all the spots
at taligating all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
So can can can you ask those people to call
the number and leave a voicemail of their experience, like
not tell you what they're going to say, but like
I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
The first thing I thought of after I said yes
and they said okay, we're going, was you're going to
have to call the podcast and leave a voicemail.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Perfect. Perfect.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I've always got I've always got the gig. I'm always
the gimmick is always first. It's like with you with wrestling,
You're always thinking about them because the gig is always
right there. You're like back in the day, back in
the day. Now it's but back in the day, you're like, what.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Now are you thinking of how to avoid going to shows?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
That's fair? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Though, damn it, I got you, I got you. Shut up, John,
I'm busting chops. I'll be at the I'll be at
the show in November for upw for those upwrs that
are listening, I'll be there. I don't know if i'll
be I'm not I won't be wrestling, probably won't be
in front of camera, but I'll physically be there.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Uh perfect, I like that.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
I love that for you.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Hey, so real quick, wrap it up. Predictions what you
got to?
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Thirty five? Ten?
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Buffalo I'm gonna go with because the Dolphins have allowed
a lot of points, well, thirty three and back to
back weeks. So I'm gonna say the Buffalo Bills score
thirty three again, or they score at least thirty three points.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
My only question.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
My only question here is does Mike does the Buffalo Bills.
Do the Buffalo Bills score enough points and beat the
Brakes off the Dolphins bad enough that Mike McDaniel gets fired,
or do they come into town fired up and rarey
around Mike McDaniel, Which, as from what we've seen so far,
I don't know about that one, because I.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Mean, the Dolphins always, in real in all seriousness, the
Dolphins always seem to manage to play the Bills tough. Yes,
it's Dolphins team feels more like the Jets in a
sense where I've not seen anything that would suggest that
that would be what would be happening this Thursday. You
(41:05):
say yes, I say yes, but because again the rumblings
that have come out this week have been that Mike
McDaniel is potentially on the hot seat. He's already had
to comment about his job. It's the sixteenth of September.
He's already had to comment on his job status. So
there's that looming where he's had to say, if I'm
thinking about getting fired, then I'm not doing my job,
(41:27):
which great. And then there were rumblings out last night
on ESPN that the Dolphins are smitten by their defensive
coordinator as a potential next head coaching candidate, if not
just an interim or an interim just if not a
full time head coach. So again, things are going splendidly
down in Miami. Not that it makes me sad, because
it definitely doesn't, but things are going well down there.
(41:50):
I'm expecting a raucous, a raucous atmosphere on Thursday night.
Ryan Fitzpatrick is going to be in the house. I
don't know the player, the alumni of the game is
going to be, but like whenever Fitzi's in the house,
you know it's about to be wild. So look at
Yeah a lot. He's one of those personalities where you know, yes,
during his time in Buffalo, he you know, they didn't
(42:12):
make the playoffs, he didn't get the Super nothing like that,
but he gave the franchise in the city a lot
of hope during a very down period. He will always
be one of the quarterbacks that are always discussed and
always talked about when you think of the Buffalo Bills.
He's the sluty of the of the era.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
He's also one of the biggest advocates for the franchise
right now, that does not play for or is actively
play for or is actively.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Contract think him his first real big contract, like they
took they took the chance on him that no one
else would have.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
So that being said again, come back next week for
a hopefully great story. I mean, if the Dolphins win
this game, well, I mean I'm not I'm not.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Trying to do too.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
I'm not trying to I'm not.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Trying to downplay Ryan. I want that to be the
first big thing.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Okay, I'm not, like I said, I'm not trying to
downplay this at all. Like if you're a Dolphins fan
listening and you're like typical Bills being like the Bills
are going to beat the beat the brakes off the Dolphins.
Like no, I'm legitimately sitting here as a sports fan,
as a as an impartial journalist going I don't see
away aside from like a drone strike. Okay, how the
Dolphins could win this game. We've we've we've discussed before.
(43:26):
The Homer hat and the chats, the things like that.
I don't wear that hat like at all for anybody.
I don't see away where that happens. I don't see
away where the historical Miami Dolphins play tough against Buffalo
and it's a you know, I could be wrong, but
I I just don't.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
This does not carry that same weight. This feels like
a New York Jets camp. Honestly feels like you're going
a lot to a little to gets.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Sacked four or five times, throws a couple, Josh Allen's
out by the end of the third quarter type of game.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean I now again could be wrong,
but don't think I am. But either way, that's the
first big thing next week.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Just the vibes just we're literally like when we talk
about stuff like that too, just to break down the
fourth wall real quick, it's all like again based off
vibes we're reading. I'm reading ESPN, I'm watching the postgame stuff,
I'm checking X, I'm seeing the news all come across
where it's like you.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Don't even need to look at it. Listen to all that.
Look at the results of look at look at the
team's results, look at the Buffalo Bills results from the
moment they got into training camp. When you if you
watched Hard Knocks and you saw the focus that this
Bills team had, and then you saw how they applied
to it. They never gave up week one, and you
saw how they just freaking dog walk the Jets in
(44:49):
week two. And their swag is there. And you know,
regardless of what's happening those all the defensive injuries, in
spite of all of those challenges, that team is rising
up and they're not making excuses and they're not quitting,
Whereas you can't say that about the Miami Dolphins at all.
Like the Bills are walking in with all the swag
in the world, if they were to lose this game,
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they would have done it to themselves. It's not because
Miami is the better team. It would be because the
Bill's humbled somewhere. That's fair.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Well. Hey, with that being said, Boomer, please.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
For John Samino, I am Ryan Wolf. As always, we
are trust the podcast You're not.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Also, thank you and Ryan, Ryan and Chris for the
wonderful thing you did for me last weekend. Thank you
for that. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
I forgot to even mention that because it was just
again every year we try to take care of you,
try to do something else for you, and I.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Wanted to make mention of that, but we got talking
about it earlier on and just I don't know why
it reminded me now, but I just wanted to publicly
thank you guys for that one.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
No problem, no problem, it'll look great, it'll look great,
and you're in your office. Indeed, and also always, although
you know it's going to really drive me nuts, is
that you've played that nine hundred times and if that
is really loud in comparison to the rest of the podcast,
it's going to screw up my levels and make my
life a little bit more difficult. But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
We can talk about that off there. I'll do the
I'll do the I'll do the leveler.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Don't worry, I'll take care here. I appreciate executive producing.
I appreciate that one of the many hats that you wear.
So again, thank you everybody for tuning in for John.
I am Ryan. We are trust the podcast.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
You are not.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
We got it twice this week because we're feeling it,
so again, thanks for tuning in. Tune in next week,
same time, same place for my my wonderful story of
my time at UH at the Bills game on Thursday
and UH as always. Thanks for tuning in. We'll catch
you next week. Go Bills show chow y'all.
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Six, Episode one seven six Buffalo Bills at New York Jets,
My Babies, how is it going?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Ryan?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Just like I asked last week, I'm gonna ask you
him this week at Josh Allen. He's quite the hunk,
isn't he?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Even with a broken nose?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
He is, Uh yeah, You're gonna have to smart me
up on that one.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I was. I admit to not being around to watch
the game. I was. I had some other obligations I
needed to fill. But I heard about it. What exactly happened?
How did that happened?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
So it looks like there was I mean, it doesn't
look like there was a rush attempt from Josh Allen.
And is his face mask got grabbed and then also
his face got grabbed, and it looks like he just got.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
A kin to like a like a like I guess
for you, John, like a wrestling match. You hit someone
over the hat with a chair and you've done it
one hundred times, ninety nine times, you hit him in
the right spot, ninety one hundredth time, you get him
in just that right spot.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It just being's open. I think that's what happened. It
just it was just like a shit happened kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, he got hit in the right spot at the
right time with the right amount of force, and his
nose just popped and immediately popped, his helmet off, was leaking.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It was the best way to put it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Missed, missed a little time, came right back perfectly fine,
and then he played the game with a with a
bruce swollen face.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
But that's wild to me. But in any continue with
the intro.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
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about the Buffalo Bills. This one a little shorter than
last week, mostly because well, the Buffalo Bills cruised to
a thirty to ten victory over the New York Jets.
The Buffalo Bills looked very, very good and the Jets
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did not. And there's really no other way to put that,
mostly because I'm going to try to be as gentle
as possible and not poke too much fun at the Jets.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
But I mean, I mean, it's not good. It's nothing
that hasn't been appropriately, you know, documented over the course
of the last fourteen years, like that organization is. There's
something Ryan. There was, believe it or not, a point
in time where the Jets consistently were competitive and consistently
(02:48):
were in it and would alter you know, you know,
at worst alter years making.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
The guys name and dudes, Chad Pennington brother, I remember
those days.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
This, I mean even before that, any test diverting then
he pissed off. But I mean, like, you know, there
there was a period of time where the Jets were
they were always gonna be the Jets. They always found
a way to Jets it up, but it was not
as like it wasn't as grandiose as it is now
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because it's just every area of the business operations within
that organization is just a dumpster fire. And I don't
know how to correct it other than ownership, Like I mean,
when you have an owner like him, you know, I mean, funny.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You mentioned that John. I talked to a co worker
yesterday who mentioned he was a Cowboys fan lifelong because
he's a little bit older. And I said, you know,
it's it stinks for you because the problem is not
the quarterback. It's not the running back. It's not the coach,
it's not the coordinator, it's not the get well it
is the GM, but it's the owner. It starts like
the rot starts at the top. And you got to
(04:00):
when you bring in new people like Aaron Glenn. I
don't it's too early to say he's.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Going to be good or bad. You don't know, right, Yeah,
I mean you have to go in, and you.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Got to go in kind of like you got to
scrape out all that all that rot and all that rust, right,
you got to scuff it down to bare metal and
then fix it. You can't just come in and patch
it up.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah. And and Dan Campbell and the Detroit Lions were
a you know, kind of like uh, almost like a
template for what happens when you come into an organization
that's in disarray like that. So I can't necessarily and
I can't say anything about Aaron Glenn in his style
until really he's gone through a full season, because Campbell's
first full season the Lions weren't the Lions. But where
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the Lions example differs from the New York Jets, and
even the same thing with Buffalo in the early offset
of the process era when McDermott came in and you know,
they were still kind of trying to find themselves ownership again.
You know, Terry and Kim Pigoul good owners, good football owners.
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Maybe not the best hockey owners, they savers fans out there,
but you know, decent football owners. They've done a very
good job taking care of the team and putting the
right people in the right place. Detroit the same way
with their rebuild and now they're you know, up there
and everything like that. The Jets have had the same
ownership since two thousand when the Johnson family bought the team,
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and it just he's more for the headlines. It's that
it's like that New York Yankees kind of ideology where
you want the back page right. The difference between the
New York Yankees, though, and the New York Jets is
the New York Yankees consistently have built their empire, evil
(05:48):
or not, around winning and a culture of winning. And
even when they had those down years in the eighties,
you know, it was still like the Boss showed up
and everybody played their ass off and they won those
games whenever the boss showed up. The Jets don't have that.
They don't they don't have the boss. They have what
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he you know, Woody Johnson's the owner, but he's not
the boss. He's not. He's not somebody that I think
people underneath him truly respect, their appreciative of the payday,
but I don't think they respect him. And that, to
me is where I think it translates to just every
possible football operation at one Jets Drive.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I think it's the same thing with excuse me, with
the Miami Dolphins, where you cannot go in with the
mindset of, oh, well, Aaron Glenn is here, so he'll
do here what they did in Detroit, because it's like Buffalo,
you can never replicate, you only hope to imitate.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I mean, it's it's exactly exactly. And McDermott was was
he wasn't replicating or anything. He was he was figuring
himself out along the way as well, Like he wasn't
coming in saying they were coming in and was like, yes,
he's for Andy Reid disciple, but you have as trying
to be Andy Reid.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You need to have ownership, willing to do something differently,
willing to take it in a different direction than doing
the same exact thing you've done for the last twenty
five years and going it'll work at some point in time, Yeah,
if we bring in the washed up quarterback, Yeah it'll
work out. Oh, sure, thing absolutely, And it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And you go, well, why would that ever happen? Right right?
You know it's only in certain circumstances does that Does
that type of thing work? But everything has to work.
Like when Brady went to I mean Brady was never
really washed up, let's be real here, But when he
went to Tampa, he wasn't going to an oh and
you know sixteen team at the time. He wasn't going
to you know, a bottom feeder team that's looking to
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you know this. He was going to a team that
already had a ton of people around there, and then
they got more and they took minimums just to get Brady,
to make sure Brady can get there, and that's kind
of how that Usually that's like the blueprint for how
that works, or like Peyton Manning to Denver a decade
ago that that was kind of how that blueprint works.
Aaron Rodger to the Jets was not that was not
(08:02):
a blueprints And you can argue him to the Steelers
now after the way they played Week two, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So again, and I think I think the same we're
seeing the same thing with it with it being Dolphins week.
We'll talk about that shortly, but you see the rot
from the from the from the top down.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, And I feel like it's become a lot more
clear lately too. Of that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I think it's it's it's also becoming a lot clearer
when when we've gotten media and journalism and journalists I
should say, sorry, who are not afraid to go Yeah,
Dallas is not the problem. It's Jerry Jones. Yeah, the
Jets aren't the problem. It's it's Woody Johnson. And like
like the problem with the Lions never was the ownership.
It was just that they were, they had no direction,
(08:45):
and they did something different. They stepped out a line
and they've created their own direction. The Buffalo Bills did
the same exact thing, exact There are times where you
will do that and you will fail, But then there
are times that you will do it and be the
lions of the Bills. And it's just you have to
be willing to try something different because what you've been
doing doesn't work. And I mean that's again looking at
Sean McDermott here milestone watch. He entered twenty twenty five
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with an eighty six and forty five record. He's now
twelve wins away from one hundred career victories, twenty five
away from one hundred and thirteen, which would put him
past Marv Leevy for the most all times the Buffalo
Bills head coach. The Bills entered twenty twenty five an
all time record of forty six, five oh five and
eight bearing the lead here John. Week one was the
Buffalo Bill's one thousandth game as a franchise, and they
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are twelve wins away now from five hundred victories as
a franchise.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Very good, very good. I like him, you know, you
know I actually unrelated. I mean related because you mentioned
Mario Levy's name, But I did see did you see
the video of him with his birthday cake at his
one hundred birthday celebration that he invited everybody to his
two hundredth birthday celebration.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I hope that's that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, indeed, ill he still got it. He still got
it at his age too.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh he can still bring it. Yeah, he can still
bring it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I absolutely love that.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Chris Downey, our unpaid interron, did point out to me
as well that this was the Bills one thousandth and
one great game as a franchise, and it was the
Jets one thousand and second game as a franchise. Not
sure where that.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Extra game was.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
That extra game was probably picked up about that probably
picked up, Yep, absolutely, I was gonna say, word the
extra game get picked up, But I'm pretty sure that
was the DeMar Hamlin game.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So we will just oh yeah, yeah, three.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
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Speaker 1 (10:27):
We've done that. That's that's not the first time that
we've blocked that game out. I think a lot of
people have blocked that game out, like whenever they think
about it, they're just oh, yeah, it was that. It
was that. Anyways, I'm sorry. Three Big It's okay.
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running down the offense a weird day. And I say
this only specifically because, well, first off, Josh Allen broke
his nose and then came back and continued to play.
He was fourteen of twenty five, one hundred and forty
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eight passing yards no touchdowns, with six rushes for fifty
nine yards and no touchdowns. The reason I point out
the no touchdowns is that it is the second time
in the career of Josh Allen as the quarterback of
the Buffalo Bills, that he did not record a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Really, it'll still won the game. Wow. I honestly, again,
I did not actually watch the game because I was
following you guys and I was following this stats. But
I guess I never really I guess I never really
thought of that or viewed that. But that's wow. His
second game with zero touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That's his forty yard rush was the third longest of
his career in the regular season. Moving over to rewriting
the record books with Josh Allen, he recorded his seventy
eighth victory, surpassing Joe Ferguson for second all time in
franchise history. He has three touchdown passes away from two
hundred forty one pass touchdown passes away from two hundred
and thirty eight, which would surpass Jim Kelly for the
most all time in franchise history. He's now six hundred
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and fifteen passing yards away from twenty seven thousand, five
hundred and ninety one in his career, which would be
second all time in franchise history. Two hundred and fifteen
rushing yards away from four thousand, four hundred and forty
six rushing yards, which would be fourth all time in
franchise history. Also, the tally continues, Alan trails Patrick Mahomes
for most total yards in a player's first eight seasons.
Mahomes recorded thirty four thousand, six hundred and three. Josh
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Allen is now at thirty one thousand, two hundred and
twenty six and counting right Thursday. Also, real quick, before
we move on from quarterbacks, John, I can't help myself,
but I had to point this out. Quarterback Mitch Trubisky.
More yards, more yards passing and one play third two
then Justin Fields had all day twenty seven James Cook.
(13:06):
He was the difference maker for the Buffalo Bills offensively
on Sunday, and boy did he look really good doing it.
Twenty one carries for one hundred and thirty two yards
and two touchdowns, one reception and one target for three yards.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
The first Playfield Bill. That freaking run you guys had
had sent me just where he went, like, were they
like bounced off him or it just dipsy?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I think it was like a dipsy like a dipsy doodle,
I think is the way explained.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It was a very good run.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
He's got it man. He definitely has. Like if you
were wondering, hey, maybe he has an off game, then
he's he's is he is? He still the man?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Still?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
James let him Cook Absolutely. He's the first Buffalo player
to record a rushing touchdown in six straight games since
Rob Riddick in nineteen eighty eight. It's also his Cook's
fifth career forty plus yard rushing touchdown was recorded in
the first half per Buffalo Bills pr. Since entering the
NFL in twenty two, Cook's five forty plus yard touchdowns
lead the league. He also leads the NFL and rushing
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touchdowns from nineteen since the start of the twenty twenty
four season. Cook also surpassed Marshaun Lynch for fifteenth most
rushing yards all time in franchise history. Cook is now
twenty nine yards away from twenty eight hundred and forty
three career rushing yards, which would put him fourteenth most
all time in franchise history, currently held by Jim Braxton
at twy and forty two rushing yards. So James Cook
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again when the offense was a little quieter, because again, hey,
credit where it's due. That Jets pass defense. It'll catch
up with you, and I mean, looking on paper, starting
the season off with with the with the Ravens and
the Jets, I probably would have expected more of two
performances like this game than what we saw Week one.
You take what you can get though when it comes, sure,
(14:47):
but that's why you that's why you have complimentary players
like James Cook.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And let's be honest with the with the with the
expanded season, week one really is almost like an extension
of the season if you if you consider how many
reps were played going into it and and things like that,
like Week one. Obviously, Josh Allen taking off the preseason
didn't bother him one bit that week. But maybe the defense,
(15:15):
you know, not playing full preseason games or whatever, and
then they're having their full one, they get a little
winded quickly. I'm not sure, but they certainly you know,
made up for it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah. I mean again, it's it's you get it where
you can. And that really shifts us to the defense.
Despite the fact that coming into the game, the best
way to explain to John our Pets heads are falling off.
If you are old like us, you'll get the reference.
If you're young, you won't. Week two injuries already out
of hand. At Oliver went to practice on Wednesday. Excuse me,
(15:44):
showed up Thursday and a walking boot on a scooter
and everyone went, WHOA, what the hell happened? Apparently at
Oliver was stepped on on Wednesday during practice and ruled
out the next day. So excuse me, almost immediately pretty close, uh,
state of press, excuse me. On the twelfth, Sean McDermot
said about Oliver's odds to playing Thursday, quote, I think
(16:07):
there's a chance. I don't know what that chance is.
To update everybody. As of Monday's practice report, Oliver was
a d NP for a game that is on Thursday.
So it doesn't look good Fred Oliver on Thursday. No.
Linebacker Shack Thompson missed the game with a hamstring slash
hand injury. Taron Johnson missed the game with a quad injury,
(16:28):
but again he was limited on Monday, so hopefully the
Buffalo Bills and the Buffalo Bills, I should say too,
only conducted a walk through practice. But I guess would
be if you're on a scooter with a boat, you're
not walking through anything.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Probably no, probably not.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
But Taron Johnson was a limited participant, so We'll see
how that when that Tuesday report comes out, we will
see how that.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Goes for them.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
But hey, the Buffalo Bills need the help where they
can get it because also Matt Malone left the game
with an injury. McDermott said postgame, he's quote dinged up
a little bit here. Sounds like he may have a
pectoral injury. Don't how long he's going to be out for,
but he may miss some time here.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
UH.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Cornerback tr Davius White, though on the plus side, played
fifty three fifty five point three percent of the defensive
snaps in his season debut. Per Chris Brown, quote, Trey
White exited so as to not over tax him having
come back just come back from ntry, which is smart.
But again to have I don't want to say anything
bad about other other cornerbacks at the Buffalo Bills UH
(17:23):
had on their team or have on their team, But
to have Tradavious White opposite Christian Benford, something just feels
right about that for the Buffalo Bills defense.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, I mean, those are those are your Those are
your guys. Those are the people that are there to
make the plays they play to win the game. Those
are your number ones. When you don't have those, it's
kind of tough to go by. But the injury, bug man,
that's that's kind of wild. Do you I almost wonder,
because this always seems to happen with with Buffalo early
(17:52):
on in the season, do you think it could be
the strength and conditioning coach? Like what is going on
with all.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You always you always want to point to that, But
then again with this, with how how close to the
best they are? Sure, I mean if they were, if
they were fighting for their playoff life every week, would
guys play I'm hard to say, would.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'm sure, well not not. I don't think that at
Oliver would be playing, but you know maybe, I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
We don't even know. The thing is, we don't even
know that, like, we don't even know how what what
the injury is Fred Oliver? Is this a? Is this
a they're trying to to prevent anything worse from happening
or they're just trying to there an actual like significant
injury keeping them out because again, teams are usually pretty
tight lipped about this. In the Buffalo Bills, they have
no need to rush a guy back because I mean,
(18:43):
look at the rest of the AFC East and winning
a division is your meal ticket to the playoffs. It
doesn't matter how you get there, just as long as
you get there. So my thought would be that some
guys would play if it were January, but hard to say.
So I feel I feel that they My guess would
be that the bumps and bruises happen. We all know that,
but as time goes on, it's hard to again, hard
(19:04):
to say, it's hard to say. But well, we'll see
how they develop, how these injuries developed throughout the week,
and we'll go forward from there. In Buffalo, Buffalo has
won the turnover battle in an NFL record twenty four
straight games. They held the Jets to two completions in
the first half, the first time this has happened since
Buffalo did the same December sixth, twenty one versus the
New England Patriots. Buffalo held the Jets to just three
(19:26):
offensive plays in the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
They held the gemination in the defense.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
There one hundred and fifty four yards of total offense,
the fewest allowed by Buffalo in a road game since
ninth December ninth, nineteen ninety at the thirty.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Five years ago, thirty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, it's also the second second time since nineteen ninety
one that Buffalo has not allowed a third down conversion
in a game. The only other time was November nineteenth,
two thousand and three, also against the New York Jets.
Also Buffalo's hell.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Talk about owning a matchup there, Good lord.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You're not kidding. Buffalo has also held the Jets without
a touchdown on their open driver for the last twenty
four meetings, the longest active streak in the National Football League,
and a lot of help defensively, Cole Bishop looked great,
five tackles for solo, one sack, one tackle for a loss,
a quarterback hit. Defensive end Joey Bosa, unbelievable, took over
the game. He played twenty six snaps On Sunday, John
(20:19):
He had six pressures, two tackles, one solo, a sack,
a tackle for loss, two quarterback hits, and two forced fumbles.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
You know what we call that efficiency?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I thought you're gonna hit the dog button, but yeah,
efficientcy wow.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Oh yeah, you know, I forgot about that dog button.
You know, why do you know why I forgot about
the dog button? Because I have this BA you down.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
That's that's fair.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That ripped dog. Spoiler spoiler alert. That's gonna be a
theme this season.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Rip dog, rip dog, Tell two back.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Let me just go back to that turnover to defensive
bat that you said. You said twenty four straight meetings
without letting the Jets score on their opening a drive,
on their.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Score a touchdown on their opening drive.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Correct, twenty four straight.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
So if they played twice a year, that's twelve years.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Dude, that is a quarter of a century, eleven and
a half years at this point. That's wild unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable.
This is the first time we know how dominant Joey
Bosa is. He talied two force fumbles in a game
for the first time in his career, his seventy third
sack of his career on Sunday, moving him into a
tie with Rob Burnett for ninety ninth on the NFL's
all time sack list. Defensive tackle Kwan Jones recorded a sack.
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Defensive tackles Zion Log and defensive end at Greg Russo
split a sack each on Sunday. Log was elevated from
the practice squad on Saturday, records his first career sack
on Sunday, not a bad weekend. Speaking of john Buffalo
special teams were highlighting them. Because we've been talking a
lot about the special teams. Punter Cameron Johnston made his
Buffalo Bills debut.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Three punts for one hundred and thirty yards forty three
point three yard average, not the not his average, not
his normal, a little off. But here's the big thing.
Two punts down inside the twenty yard line. That is
how you flip a field. You get those punks down
in the twenty.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
He's not out there vomited, just a bombit. He's out there. Hey,
we're gonna we're gonna pin him deep and.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
He's you know what, he's He's filling the position that
he was brought there to fill. Like, that's what the
spec That's why there's the special and special teams, Like,
that's what they specialize in. If they punders are gonna
try and get inside of twenty every single time. If
they can, that is their touchdown. That is that's what
gets them going. So to see that happen, that's pretty
(22:30):
that's pretty cool, and that that makes him a valuable
piece to the puzzle going down the stretch as well.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And at the same time too. Uh just just seeing
that special Teams unit. Mm hm, it's it's absolutely incredible
like seeing uh and I'm looking this up quick because
i've my brain is liquid right now. Uh, it's already.
It's been a long day.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Okay, it's been Uh, I understand completely.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It's been a it's been a long day. It's been
a long week or a long year this week. That's
what I like to say.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Where did I.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Thanks? Thanks for you know what I needed that I
really need that. So Matt Prater, we'll just go to
Matt Prader right now. Let's go to Matt Prater because
I can't find the uh what I'm looking for. I'll
look up in a minute. Matt Pray, can you even say?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
What can you even say about Matt Prater?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Three for three on field goals twenty eight fifty two
thirty three yard apiece, three for three on his pets
John He recorded his eighty second career fifty plus yard
field goal on Sunday, extending his own NFL record.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Pad in the stats man, that's what you do when
you play mad and non rookie level. You p had
the stats and that's what he's doing there, So good
on him, man. I love his story and I love
you know how He's kind of covered for my boy
Tyler Bass in a in a pretty good way there
so and good on him. The name positive moment, hum
going man.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The name I was looking for. Sam Franklin Junior. The
Buffalo Bill's a here to have locked up aces on
all forms of special teams with Sam Franklin Junior with
Cameron Johnston Matt Prater Special teams. Once was a scary
portion of the Buffalo Bills game. Not anymore, not.
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Speaker 2 (24:17):
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mister Chris Downey. Take it away you want, Holy jack Wagon.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
You, Brian and John, thank you as always, and welcome
two Week two of Around the NFL. With this will
take a look at the best and the not so
best of the week. As we did with Week one,
something new for this year, Let's get right into it
with Week two and as we will continue to do
start off with the good and there was any worry
about the Detroit Lions after Week one, those worries should
(26:13):
be put the rest, at least for now. Detroit fifty
two to twenty one winners over the Chicago Bears. Jared
Goff with a stellar game, thrown over three hundred and
thirty four yards and five touchdowns, three of those going
to a Monross Saint Brown, who caught nine passes for
one hundred and fifteen yards in the win. Jamior Gibbs
with a big bounce back game, scoring once and telling
(26:33):
ninety four yards in the win for the Bears, though
Roman Dunze had a performance of his own, catching seven
passes for a buck twenty eight and two scores. Jamar
Chase scored once, but he caught fourteen passes for one
hundred and sixty five yards, and the Bengals thirty one
to twenty seven victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jake browning
through for two hundred and forty one yards and two scores.
(26:55):
He replaced Joe Burrow midway through the first half. Super
rematch lived up to the hype in Arrowhead, but it
was visiting Eagles, who took the win twenty to seventeen
over the home Chiefs. Kansas City first zero to two
start with Patrick Mahomes and they've now lost three straight
games going back to February's big game. With the loss
(27:17):
and the Bills win, Buffalo now holds an early two
game lead over the Chiefs and the AFC standings. We
know it's a long way to go, but two games
over the Chiefs, the team that Bills have been chasing
down that top seed for so many years. In this
Josh Allen Patrick Mahomes era, a two game lead, especially
through the first two weeks, is nothing to shake a
(27:37):
stick at. In the NFC Dallas, they edged the New
York Giants in overtime forty to thirty seven at Jerry World.
The team's combined for forty one points in the fourth
quarter and they needed overtime to settle the contest in
a game which, really, if you watched it, no one
wanted to win. Russell Wilson threw for four hundred and
fifty yards. Yes see Russell Wilson scores. Malik Neighbors and
(28:02):
Wandel Robinson both caught over one hundred yards and combined
for all three of Russell Wilson's touchdown passes. Dack through
for three hundred and sixty one yards and Ceedee Lamb
caught up one hundred and twenty excuse me, one hundred
and twelve yards in the win. Player of the game,
though Dallas kicker Brandon Aubrey, third year kicker, now the
sixty four yarder as time expired in the fourth quarter
(28:23):
to force overtime, and he had a forty six yarder
to win the game. We turned to Monday night Baker Mayfield.
He led the Bucks on a game winning drive over
the Houston Texans twenty to nineteen. It was Mayfield's fifth
career game winning passing touchdown in the final minute of
the game, the second most since twenty eighteen. Now he
looked at the good, let's look at some of the
(28:45):
not so good from Week two from the NFL, and
as Ryan and John have alluded to already, Justin Fields
had a start to forget. He finished with just three
completions in twenty seven yards and Sundays lost to Buffalo.
Justin Fields did leave due to an injury, but again
only twenty seven yards in the loss. Derrick Henry, he
(29:07):
had a monster game dope in the season. He gashed
Buffalo for almost two hundred yards and he was just
held a twenty three yard just two to three the
Michael Jordan number. And that was in their twenty four
point win over Cleveland. And as a team, Baltimore had
forty five total rushing yards, with Lamar adding thirteen onto rushes.
Denver special teams arguably cost them the win at Indianapolis
(29:29):
on Sunday, the Colts missed the game winning sixty yard
field goals time expired, but they got another chance, this
time from fifteen yards closer, as Denver was called for
a leverage penalty on the first attempt. Not necessarily a
bad performance, but you know, not a good moment if
you're the Bronco was wanting to get a road win,
you know, giving India the chance to win, which they
capitalized on. And lastly, the most unfortunate news this isn't
(29:53):
a bad performance, is just unfortunate. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow
suffered a tow injury and the Bengals win on Sunday.
That's why Jake Browning filled in midway through the second quarter.
As I mentioned earlier, Burrow left the game. Early did
not return, but he was seen riding a leg scooter
after the game, and as being reported that he can
miss up to three months or more following surgery and
rehab on the injury. Now with that current timeline that
(30:16):
has him missing the December game against the Bills in
high Mark Stadium in Orchard Park, Now let's look ahead
to week three. Starrying off Thursday night Squish the Fish
Go Bills. We do have a Burnburn and Store Monday night,
Detroit heads to Baltimore. Both teams are coming off rebound
wins in week two, but who makes it two in
(30:36):
a row? We also have a pair of two and
OH teams meeting in the City of Brotherly Love. Is
the Rams head to fill it out, he for a
one game kick against the Eagles. And the only other
two and OH game of the week features Arizona and
San Francisco in the late afternoon Sunday slate in Santa Clara.
And lastly, you know if you would have bet that
the Chiefs would be in the only matchup of zero
(30:57):
to two teams this week, I'd also like to know
the upcoming one lottery numbers. Chiefs head to New Jersey
to take on the Giants on Sunday Night Football. It's
been your week to recap from around the NFL. Ryan
and John back to you.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Thanks Chris. As always, we appreciate the the endless amount
of effort you put into this podcast. Chris has for
breaking down the fourth wall. I'm being serious. I know
that sounded more like I was.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
No, no, no, no. We we love Chris. We love Chris,
we love It's It's Tuesdays. I'm a little mister and
missus Downey. I think we've done well with the with
the swears today. I actually I think we did well
with the swears last week too. I don't think that
we're I've.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Been trying to be better. I've been sharing the podcast
with a few more people, so I've been trying to
be on my best behavior, making sure it don't make
myself look too much like an ass. But also, there's
not really much to be mad about. And the only
really time I started firsting is when I get mad.
You know, yeah, you won't like me when I'm mad.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Here we go, yeah, yeah, because because then Ryan morphs
into Cholo Ryan. And if you have not seen Cholo Ryan,
I promise youlo Ryan exists, and he's terrifying.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
All because I I didn't accidentally, all because John got
me into the junk head bands and they work really well.
And then I sent John a photo, John and Chris
a photo, and a star was born.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Looking looking ahead, Week three, Buffalo Bills versus the Miami Dolphins, Thursday,
September eighteen away.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Before you do that, you were gonna put over downy
for a bit. No, No, I wasn't. You weren't, okay.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Kidding, I'm kidding, No, No, Chris, yes, he's he's taken
over helping out with Facebook page. He's he's working with
me during the week to get tweets into the into
the show notes. So that way we can also sneak
around behind John, so John doesn't see everything we're going
to talk about. Because a lot of the fun here John,
you know this, but the listeners may know this as well,
is reading stuff to John and educating John and having
(32:46):
a conversation here and just having you go, Jesus Christ,
that's wild. Like, but if I tell you, you're gonna
be like, yeah, cool, Like Josh Allen is awesome, great, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Well, you know, what it's it's what I do, and
I do this. I took this from wrestling. Anytime that
I'm you know, doing commentary or play my play or
anything like that, I don't want to know what's going
on in the show before then, because I want it
to be the most authentic kind of experience. If someone's
(33:18):
watching on IWTV or something like that and I'm commentating
a match, like, I want the reaction to be, you know,
as if they're seeing it, you know, the first time
as well. And I find that to be very successful
in that, especially when something goes wrong in a match
and you can hear me like start to laugh, you know,
(33:39):
those those types of things. So I try to bring
that as best as I can to the podcast form.
So usually the show notes, I know you guys do
an excellent job. Oh and by the way, I know
you guys do an excellent job of maintaining those throughout
the week. I do not bring those up until maybe
about ten minutes before the show, And when I do it,
(34:04):
I only bring up like the intro part, And then
as you start talking, I scroll along and I scroll
down just to kind of follow along and listen to
what you guys put together and then in real time
give real reactions. So I do enjoy the fact that
you guys do that.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
He's so good at this that if we were if
we had money to pay him, we would pay him.
But also at the same time, he made his own
thank you and send it to us so we could
thank him.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I mean that is that is name case if you
were for in case you didn't know his first name.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
That's incredible that Adam Sandler flop.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
When he sent that I'm sorry. The first thing that
immediately went through my mind was I'm playing this no
less than ten to fifteen times this podcast.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I love think I'm already on seven right now.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
So looking ahead Week three Buffalo Bills versus the Miami Dolphins.
Now that my my framework.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, say that. No, never mind,
don't say that, Go ahead, keep going.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
We Week three Buffalo Bills versus the Mimi Dolphins. Thursday,
September eighteenth, that's my mom's birthday. Happy birthday, Mom. I
don't think.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Apty birthday, miss her mama wolf, but happy birthday eight fifteen.
She's not my biggest fan, but happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Nonetheless, eight fifteen PM kickoff at Amazon Prime. The Dolphins
zero to two, tied for third in the AFC.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
It's going on. I'm sorry, go ahead, announce the Week
three game one more time for me, please.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Week three the Buffalo Bills versus the Miami Dolphins. Yes,
and that is fair because we will talk about where
the Dolphins are right now. Last week a thirty three
to twenty seven lost to New England. The story lines
are the luster was wearing off. Miami held the players
only meeting after their Week one loss to Indianapolis thirty
three to eight. Offensively, Tyreek Hill seems like he has
(35:51):
one foot out the door to a tongue of Iloa.
Does not look good. And after I got the quote
appere John after last week's loss, I'm dead ass.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
With you right now.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
This is what Mike McDaniel said. Quote were to win games,
you have to win the game, not lose the game, honestly,
and that's how you lose the game.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
That's oh, that's that's very insightful.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
He's in a he's in a bad spot. The team's
in a bad spot. They owe to a tongue of
I loa way too much money to a tongue of
I looah.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
When he said this quote, did you watch this quote
or just right I've got the video on my phone.
I can send it to you right now. Does he
does he look like dead behind the I don't need
to see it's okay. Oh yeah, he like like like
he likes sunking in, Like his face is sunking in.
He just looks like he's been he's ready. I almost
kind of feel bad. And and it's because comedian Dan
Soder love Dan Soder love his podcast. He grew up
(36:48):
with Mike McDaniel, so like it's you get some fun
stories from like Dan Soder side of things.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Like my thought is that once this happens, that like
Mike McDaniel and Dan Soder will do something which would
be fun.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, but you kind of McDaniel, I think you for
the guys, the personality I feel for him. He just
coaches a crappy team.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I think I mentioned this before, but if not on
the podcast, I'll mention again. It's the it's the hockey
equivalent of John Tortorella in the opposite way, where he's
very much a player's coach, but that player's coaching has
run out and that team is it's like a it's
like a spot on, very spot on. It's like a
room of children that have been given candy and you're
just letting them go. It's it's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
The proverbial dish in front of the halloween on Halloween,
the dish in front of the door because you're too
lazy to open the door, and you say take one only,
and then the first kid comes up and piece of
a whole god dang bowl into his pillowcase and then
goes to the next house. Yeah, that's what that is.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
So I know we're running little tight on time here.
We've got children to take care of on both ends here,
things to do before we go to bed. So I
will just say this, Uh, something has come up this week.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Oh and I will be.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
I will be at high Mark Stadium on Thursday night
for the Buffalo Bills first the Miami Dolphins on Thursday
night football.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
That I know, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
My cousin Dan, wherever you are, if you're working out,
do not drop the weight on your on your throat.
If you're driving your car, do not crash your car.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Please.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
I have not been to a Buffalo Bills game. Making
this about me for a second since the Bills versus
the Jets on October third, twenty ten, thirty eight to
fourteen loss on a very rainy, miserable day, John, it
has been almost fifteen years. I have sworn I would
not go to a regular season game again because that
one sucked so bad.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
But you know what, can a good one to go to.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Now, We're gonna tell the story next week because I'll
have more details, and the people I'm going with will
tell the story. I'll have them call in and leave
us a nice little voicemail because the.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
People who are the people who are coming, that's probably
the first of the three big things next week.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
The people who are coming have not I don't believe,
been to Buffalo before, so they want to hit all
the spots. They want to go to all the spots
at taligating all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
So can can can you ask those people to call
the number and leave a voicemail of their experience, like
not tell you what they're going to say, but like
I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
The first thing I thought of after I said yes
and they said okay, we're going, was you're going to
have to call the podcast and leave a voicemail.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Perfect. Perfect.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I've always got I've always got the gig. I'm always
the gimmick is always first. It's like with you with wrestling,
You're always thinking about them because the gig is always
right there. You're like back in the day, back in
the day. Now it's but back in the day, you're like, what.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Now are you thinking of how to avoid going to shows?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
That's fair? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Though, damn it, I got you, I got you. Shut up, John,
I'm busting chops. I'll be at the I'll be at
the show in November for upw for those upwrs that
are listening, I'll be there. I don't know if i'll
be I'm not I won't be wrestling, probably won't be
in front of camera, but I'll physically be there.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Uh perfect, I like that.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
I love that for you.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Hey, so real quick, wrap it up. Predictions what you
got to?
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Thirty five? Ten?
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Buffalo I'm gonna go with because the Dolphins have allowed
a lot of points, well, thirty three and back to
back weeks. So I'm gonna say the Buffalo Bills score
thirty three again, or they score at least thirty three points.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
My only question.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
My only question here is does Mike does the Buffalo Bills.
Do the Buffalo Bills score enough points and beat the
Brakes off the Dolphins bad enough that Mike McDaniel gets fired,
or do they come into town fired up and rarey
around Mike McDaniel, Which, as from what we've seen so far,
I don't know about that one, because I.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Mean, the Dolphins always, in real in all seriousness, the
Dolphins always seem to manage to play the Bills tough. Yes,
it's Dolphins team feels more like the Jets in a
sense where I've not seen anything that would suggest that
that would be what would be happening this Thursday. You
(41:05):
say yes, I say yes, but because again the rumblings
that have come out this week have been that Mike
McDaniel is potentially on the hot seat. He's already had
to comment about his job. It's the sixteenth of September.
He's already had to comment on his job status. So
there's that looming where he's had to say, if I'm
thinking about getting fired, then I'm not doing my job,
(41:27):
which great. And then there were rumblings out last night
on ESPN that the Dolphins are smitten by their defensive
coordinator as a potential next head coaching candidate, if not
just an interim or an interim just if not a
full time head coach. So again, things are going splendidly
down in Miami. Not that it makes me sad, because
it definitely doesn't, but things are going well down there.
(41:50):
I'm expecting a raucous, a raucous atmosphere on Thursday night.
Ryan Fitzpatrick is going to be in the house. I
don't know the player, the alumni of the game is
going to be, but like whenever Fitzi's in the house,
you know it's about to be wild. So look at
Yeah a lot. He's one of those personalities where you know, yes,
during his time in Buffalo, he you know, they didn't
(42:12):
make the playoffs, he didn't get the Super nothing like that,
but he gave the franchise in the city a lot
of hope during a very down period. He will always
be one of the quarterbacks that are always discussed and
always talked about when you think of the Buffalo Bills.
He's the sluty of the of the era.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
He's also one of the biggest advocates for the franchise
right now, that does not play for or is actively
play for or is actively.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Contract think him his first real big contract, like they
took they took the chance on him that no one
else would have.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
So that being said again, come back next week for
a hopefully great story. I mean, if the Dolphins win
this game, well, I mean I'm not I'm not.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Trying to do too.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
I'm not trying to I'm not.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Trying to downplay Ryan. I want that to be the
first big thing.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Okay, I'm not, like I said, I'm not trying to
downplay this at all. Like if you're a Dolphins fan
listening and you're like typical Bills being like the Bills
are going to beat the beat the brakes off the Dolphins.
Like no, I'm legitimately sitting here as a sports fan,
as a as an impartial journalist going I don't see
away aside from like a drone strike. Okay, how the
Dolphins could win this game. We've we've we've discussed before.
(43:26):
The Homer hat and the chats, the things like that.
I don't wear that hat like at all for anybody.
I don't see away where that happens. I don't see
away where the historical Miami Dolphins play tough against Buffalo
and it's a you know, I could be wrong, but
I I just don't.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
This does not carry that same weight. This feels like
a New York Jets camp. Honestly feels like you're going
a lot to a little to gets.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Sacked four or five times, throws a couple, Josh Allen's
out by the end of the third quarter type of game.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean I now again could be wrong,
but don't think I am. But either way, that's the
first big thing next week.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Just the vibes just we're literally like when we talk
about stuff like that too, just to break down the
fourth wall real quick, it's all like again based off
vibes we're reading. I'm reading ESPN, I'm watching the postgame stuff,
I'm checking X, I'm seeing the news all come across
where it's like you.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Don't even need to look at it. Listen to all that.
Look at the results of look at look at the
team's results, look at the Buffalo Bills results from the
moment they got into training camp. When you if you
watched Hard Knocks and you saw the focus that this
Bills team had, and then you saw how they applied
to it. They never gave up week one, and you
saw how they just freaking dog walk the Jets in
(44:49):
week two. And their swag is there. And you know,
regardless of what's happening those all the defensive injuries, in
spite of all of those challenges, that team is rising
up and they're not making excuses and they're not quitting,
Whereas you can't say that about the Miami Dolphins at all.
Like the Bills are walking in with all the swag
in the world, if they were to lose this game,
(45:11):
they would have done it to themselves. It's not because
Miami is the better team. It would be because the
Bill's humbled somewhere. That's fair.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Well. Hey, with that being said, Boomer, please.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
For John Samino, I am Ryan Wolf. As always, we
are trust the podcast You're not.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Also, thank you and Ryan, Ryan and Chris for the
wonderful thing you did for me last weekend. Thank you
for that. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
I forgot to even mention that because it was just
again every year we try to take care of you,
try to do something else for you, and I.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Wanted to make mention of that, but we got talking
about it earlier on and just I don't know why
it reminded me now, but I just wanted to publicly
thank you guys for that one.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
No problem, no problem, it'll look great, it'll look great,
and you're in your office. Indeed, and also always, although
you know it's going to really drive me nuts, is
that you've played that nine hundred times and if that
is really loud in comparison to the rest of the podcast,
it's going to screw up my levels and make my
life a little bit more difficult. But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
We can talk about that off there. I'll do the
I'll do the I'll do the leveler.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Don't worry, I'll take care here. I appreciate executive producing.
I appreciate that one of the many hats that you wear.
So again, thank you everybody for tuning in for John.
I am Ryan. We are trust the podcast.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
You are not.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
We got it twice this week because we're feeling it,
so again, thanks for tuning in. Tune in next week,
same time, same place for my my wonderful story of
my time at UH at the Bills game on Thursday
and UH as always. Thanks for tuning in. We'll catch
you next week. Go Bills show chow y'all.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
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