00:00We're going to start with the Monday night game that happened right after, right before
00:04we recorded the show and Buffalo, listen, the Vikings and Bills both coming in with
00:10really good records.
00:11Obviously the Vikings, a lot of people think it's snake oil.
00:15A lot of people don't really believe in it, but that defense is really good.
00:17And Kyler Murray had a hamstring injury.
00:21So he was inactive.
00:22Carson White started from Minnesota.
00:24I'm surprised he wasn't healthy at halftime.
00:27Maybe they should have made him active at halftime.
00:29I think you see where this is going, but John, it was an absolute offensive disaster,
00:34not just for the Vikings, but actually for the Bills up until like the third quarter.
00:38So it was a nasty game, but what were your thoughts on the Bills beating the Vikings 23 to
00:44six at Minnesota?
00:47What this shows you is Minnesota's limits.
00:50What this shows you is now they're going to fire every pistol in every pistol in the chamber
00:54to figure out what's going on with this quarterback situation because they got rid of JJ McCarthy.
00:59He looked like Jackson Dart.
01:00They got Kyler Murray.
01:03He out there looking like who knows what, like Call of Duty.
01:06He got Call of Duty early.
01:08That's how he out here playing.
01:09And then you put in Carson Wentz, who ain't been good since Ronald Reagan, apparently.
01:14And it's just not a good look out there for them right now at quarterback.
01:17And so what you saw tonight literally felt like you watched the wheel of the defense be broken
01:23because the offense wasn't going to score.
01:26When you're on the road, it feels like the defense can rally around and kind of find their
01:30way and keep fighting.
01:31At home, when the home crowd is booing you because you can't complete a third down, you get multiple
01:38three and outs after terrible pass or interception by Carson Wentz.
01:42It really felt like the defense, the chain broke.
01:45And that's when you start to see in the second half, Buffalo really begin to move the ball.
01:51But if you ever wanted to know what, over the course of a game, it looks like for the other
01:57side of the ball to let go, tonight's game was a really good example because Buffalo didn't do
02:04anything different in the second half.
02:06They just kept doing what they did in the first half.
02:08And that was the result that you saw.
02:11I really think at one point, Minnesota was like, man, we're not going to score.
02:14And if we can't score, we're not going to win.
02:17And now, like I said, as we head towards the trade deadline, as we head towards the trade
02:24deadline is on November 10th.
02:25So as you guys are watching this, as you're listening to this, you're going to be seeing
02:29moves.
02:31But you look at halftime, it was 10 to 6 Bills, right?
02:35Buffalo outgained Minnesota 143 to 86, but it wasn't like the Bills were playing amazing.
02:41John, I remember we talked about this and I asked you, are the Bills the team to beat in
02:45the AFC.
02:46And now they're sitting at 7-1.
02:48Obviously, they're in kind of control of their playoff destiny here.
02:52I think everyone feels like they're going to get to the playoffs, even though the Patriots
02:55got whooped by the Packers.
02:57But now they're kind of separating themselves from the rest of the group, right?
03:02And when you look at the Bills, I know we talk about the Vikings, but when you look
03:05at the Bills, there's still some things where I'm, I don't know, man, with their offense
03:10where it's, it shouldn't be as hard of a game for them offensively as it is in some
03:16of these games early on.
03:18And then they kind of find their stride.
03:19But when they get to a playoff scenario, like, are you concerned about that?
03:23Like their struggles early on in games?
03:26Well, tonight Dawkins was out, which they kept reminding you by showing him on the sideline.
03:32They also had a guard out as well.
03:34And again, the Vikings have done this, what they did in the first half, to every team
03:38they've played.
03:39No one has been immune to what they've been able to cook up on the defensive side of the
03:44ball.
03:45And that's why tonight's win, I don't really take much out of the first half of them
03:49struggling, because Brian Flores does that to everyone they play.
03:54Good defense.
03:55And if you think about it, we've watched Buffalo score against everybody, whether it be Houston
04:00in week one, when people still thought their defense was good.
04:02And they put 30 some 30 odd some points on them.
04:05And so for the Vikings to really be holding Josh Allen down for pretty much the entirety
04:10of the first half, I thought that was more impressive than I thought that it was more
04:15about Buffalo.
04:16That was about Minnesota.
04:17That wasn't about Buffalo's offense.
04:19That was more about Minnesota's defense and more Brian Flores than it was anything.
04:25And so now we get to it.
04:27Yeah, because, you know, I believe in the bills like they're going to be in the playoffs.
04:29They're going to be contender.
04:30They're going to, you know, they're going to be in the mix here.
04:33When you look at the Vikings, though, I want to kind of hone in here because they have
04:37a decision to make here.
04:39Kyler Murray, we've kind of seen that, you know, I was higher on him, too.
04:43You were higher on him, too.
04:44Loved him.
04:45With Kevin O'Connell, like, hey, this might work.
04:47It just it just hasn't.
04:49OK, we can kind of admit that now.
04:51The Carson Wentz experiment was an absolute disaster on Monday night.
04:55I mean, my God, some of these passes were just not even close.
04:58He was throwing it right at.
05:00But it looked like Justin Herbert.
05:01I was talking about Justin Herbert throwing it right to guys.
05:04That's what it looked like.
05:05It is just unbelievable.
05:06The vision like I didn't even know what he was seeing out there.
05:09He's seeing ghosts, as they like to say with rough Sam.
05:12But it was really bad.
05:14And this is a team that is still six and two, John.
05:17It's not like they're all another four and five and they can blow it up.
05:20Oh, there's six and two and still in the mix here with the deadline coming up.
05:25And now you have to say, like, what quarterbacks are out there?
05:29Because if they add a quarterback, John, to this elite defense that Brian Flores
05:33has put out there week by week, that's a good team.
05:37It's still a good team.
