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Jeremy White and Joe DiBiase are joined by Buffalo Bills beat reporter Sal Capaccio to discuss the Bills road game against the Jets on Sunday and where things stand through 9 weeks of the NFL season. The guys start by discussing the Bills opportunity to chase down the 1-seed in the AFC, which they have never done before with Josh Allen at QB. Then they discuss some of the injury issues the Bills are facing entering the divisional matchup, and how it could impact the game.
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00:00It is a football Friday.
00:02Happy Friday, everybody.
00:03Jeremy White, Sneaky Joe DiBiase, Owen Parker, Joe Calley.
00:07Joe Calley's last day, Sal.
00:09We got a gift for him.
00:11We're sending him out with a gift.
00:12All right.
00:12That's cool.
00:13That's awesome.
00:14I mean, his last day doing this show, right?
00:16We're going to hear from him again.
00:18Yeah, but that just drives it home that he doesn't like us,
00:20that he's leaving us.
00:21He's staying at the station.
00:23It's just his last show, you know, producing the morning show.
00:25Maybe he'll fill in from time to time, right?
00:28He'll come back.
00:28If there's ever a need.
00:29All right.
00:30He'll come back sometimes.
00:31Anyway, Sal, good morning.
00:33Happy Football Friday, Bills and Jets.
00:36And Joe and I have been talking a lot this morning already about the one seed
00:38and how, you know, the Bills, we're always talking about it every year.
00:42Last year, less so because they had to try to get back in the divisional
00:45driver's seat.
00:47But this is the latest they've been in first alone in the Josh Allen era.
00:52In 2020, they were tied, Joe?
00:54Is that what you had?
00:542020.
00:55That is not true.
00:56When were they this late in the season?
00:59Sorry, sorry to interrupt it on this because I went back and looked.
01:03The DeMar Hamlin situation year late in 2020.
01:06I believe they were the one seed.
01:07Yeah, no, I didn't have this late.
01:09I said after week nine.
01:10Okay.
01:11This is the first time they've been in the lead.
01:12Gotcha.
01:13Okay.
01:13Like this week of the season.
01:15So they must have chased it down to get there going into the DeMar Hamlin.
01:18I guess I should rephrase that because, right, like Rick was what Sal said.
01:20No, no, no.
01:20I'm saying, like, I think – hold on.
01:22Let me go back.
01:23I had this the other day.
01:24Like, it was late November they had the one seed that year.
01:27Okay.
01:27That's what I'm saying.
01:28I might have misphrased it then because the week of week 10,
01:31they've never been in the – that's what I looked up earlier today.
01:33Okay.
01:33So, actually, that's more important, though, what Sal just brought up.
01:36If they've been the one seed later in the season,
01:38that would matter more than just this specific week.
01:41Well, either way, the good news is they're in the driver's seat.
01:43Here we go.
01:43I have it.
01:44I have it right here.
01:44You ready, guys?
01:45Go ahead.
01:45Okay.
01:46Okay.
01:47I'm looking at the standings.
01:48They actually were the one seed heading into week 17 of 2022.
01:54Okay.
01:55That's the Hamlin game?
01:57And then that year in 2022 – hold on.
02:02Let me tell you what happened.
02:03Week 17, they lost.
02:05Yep.
02:05In week 17.
02:06That was the Bengals.
02:08Okay.
02:09So, that's the year that they do the rule thing where they would play in
02:13Atlanta if –
02:15Yes.
02:15If –
02:16Yes.
02:16I don't remember what it would have happened.
02:18If it was Chiefs-Bills, the game was going to be in Atlanta.
02:21Right.
02:22Correct.
02:23According to what I have here.
02:24Hold on.
02:24And the Bengals got mad that the NFL sold tickets to a game that might
02:27happen.
02:27Remember that?
02:28Right.
02:29And Joe Barosa gets those refunds.
02:30Anyway, after week 16.
02:32Yep.
02:32It was Buffalo, Kansas, and Kansas City both at 12-3, Cincinnati at 11-4 following week
02:4216 of 2022.
02:44Okay.
02:44And then the Bills and Bengals played.
02:47Yeah.
02:47Yeah, so, I don't know exactly, you know, because Kansas City got it and Buffalo got
02:51the two-seed, I believe.
02:52That's what happened.
02:53That's right.
02:53You know, just thinking about that, as we just laid out, like the Hamlin thing
02:57happened, that weird AFC championship game would have maybe happened in Atlanta.
03:02Instead, the Bills lose to the Bengals, and in that game is when the Diggs blow-up kind of
03:09happens, and the course of the Bills' future kind of changes, and he's got to go because
03:15there's a breakup.
03:16And there he is scoring a touchdown last night.
03:19Like, there's an alternate universe sale.
03:20Maybe I'm asking for a 30-for-30 or a four falls of Buffalo of that month and how much
03:27it changed the course of maybe the next couple years for them, because they had signed Diggs
03:31to an extension.
03:32I'm not, like, romanticizing.
03:34Just noting that in a month, like, that was a bomb that went off from Hamlin to all the
03:40way through to how they lost.
03:41It's their only playoff loss by, what, double digits?
03:44Or no, I'm sorry, the loss to the Chiefs, I guess, the AFC championship game.
03:46But whatever.
03:47Like, it's a playoff game.
03:48They score 10.
03:49Everything went wrong in about a span of a couple months, and there were definitely, like,
03:53aftershocks that rippled through for years.
03:55That was the first year of Diggs' contract extension.
03:57Yeah.
03:57Also.
03:57Yeah.
03:58So anyway.
03:59Anyway.
04:00Yeah, and by the way, really, when you look at this whole thing, we don't know what
04:03happened, you know, the Mar-Hamlin situation.
04:06They didn't even lose a game, and they still lost the one seed.
04:09They had it.
04:10Yeah.
04:10Going into the final two weeks of the year.
04:12And you're right.
04:13And then everything happened.
04:13And look, I know that, you know, it's one of those games where it's another tough loss
04:18in this era of playoffs.
04:20What I remember about that year was they were just so gassed.
04:23Everything happened, really.
04:25I'm not excusing that loss.
04:27Obviously, they played 10 yards off on, you know, third and seven and things like that
04:31that we could talk about.
04:32But, you know, that was a tough year in the playoffs.
04:35Now, that said, agreed, though, when you guys are talking about, like, man, at this point
04:40in November to be right here in the driver's seat, you guys have been talking about the
04:44one seed.
04:45I haven't been listening as much, but I still think it's going to be tough.
04:48I do.
04:48Because Jacksonville's schedule and Denver's schedule is so much more favorable for them
04:53to get this one seed than the Bills right now.
04:55Yeah.
04:56Which of those two teams, Sal, do you feel like is more likely to trip up?
04:59Like, because not every game will go the way you think it does, right?
05:03Like, the Titans will win a game that you don't think they will, or Miami will.
05:06But of those two, if you even want to include Cincinnati, because I know they have an easiest
05:11schedule, too, and they're at six wins.
05:13Like, of those three teams, is one more likely, you think, to, like, dumb loss than the other?
05:24Ooh.
05:24I think that's Denver.
05:26I think, probably Denver, but...
05:28I'll answer is Denver, because Denver has underlying numbers where their net yardage
05:32on the season is down there with teams that are, you know, two and seven.
05:37No, that's right.
05:38I agree with that, with the dumb loss.
05:39I think, though, Jacksonville does have a bit of a stretch where they could lose a game.
05:43Because as much as we say, as much as I just said, like, oh, look at their schedule,
05:46which is right, Tennessee, Giants, Tennessee.
05:48They do have the Bears, they have to play the Steelers, and then the Texans.
05:51And if the Cowboys can stay alive, which last night was good for that, because, you know,
05:55the Washington winning, the Cowboys are still going to be, you know, trying to, you know,
06:00play here, and so is Washington.
06:01So, maybe Jacksonville's schedule's not as, you know, easy as I'm making it sound,
06:06but they have some games they could trip up.
06:09I agree with what Jeremy's saying, though.
06:12Like, Denver just seems like the team that has a little less margin for error on the two, I guess.
06:17Talk of the tables here is the one seed.
06:19Talk of the tables brought to you by Treasure Cave, the official cheese of the Buffalo Bills.
06:23So, one seed chatter.
06:24The other big topic of the week, Sal, is, of course, Amani Hooker.
06:27So, take us through the timeline for him.
06:29He sounds confident.
06:30Like, he can just step right in, and we'll see if that's true.
06:33Maybe there are packages for him, or maybe he's just kind of out there.
06:36What are you expecting for Amani Hooker in this, his first game with the team?
06:41Yeah, I fully expect him to be active.
06:43How much he plays is going to be, you know, maybe determined on all of that,
06:47and I think you really get a sense of that from the coaches as well.
06:51I mean, Jim Leonard basically said, whatever he can handle, we'll give him.
06:54So, that tells me, like, they're going to play him,
06:57and I wouldn't be surprised if he's mostly in on, I mean, he could wind up starting,
07:02and they keep things a little basic, but it could also be, hey, third and six,
07:06third and seven, you go in, you play center field,
07:08and you'll keep everything in front of you, just do your thing.
07:10It could be that as well, but I expect him to go in right away
07:13and help this team in some way, or at least be on the field
07:16and try to help the team in some way.
07:18So, yeah, they talk a lot about his IQ.
07:21That is something we've heard a lot about this week, his high IQ.
07:26And I think they really believe that they can catch him up to speed pretty quickly,
07:29and he can be on the field.
07:31Sal Capaccio with us on the Western Hotline.
07:35Sal, turning to the injury report from yesterday, is this the most banged up
07:41you can remember the Bills' offensive line being in, I don't know, how long?
07:45Like, they have had a very great run here of health on that unit.
07:49And right now, I mean, maybe most of them play, maybe it's one guy out or two,
07:54but the amount of injuries that we're tracking on the offensive line,
07:58it feels like as many as we've had in a long time.
08:00Yeah, I agree.
08:01I don't think I've seen this many names from the starting offensive line,
08:06and that includes, what is it, everybody here?
08:08The only one is knock on Woto Cyrus Torrance, who's not on the injury report.
08:12Everybody else is, from Deion Dawkins and Alec Anderson on the left
08:16to Conor McGovern in the middle to Spencer Brown on the right side.
08:21Now, the bad news is you have a lot of names and a lot of names on your offensive line,
08:26and that's not good.
08:27The good news is there's only one player on the entire team
08:31that did not practice yesterday due to injury, and that is Spencer Brown.
08:35Obviously, you'd love to have him back.
08:37It's not the back, by the way, that's listed.
08:39It's the ankle.
08:40So remember, he had the back issue.
08:41We know that.
08:42He had the ankle injured last week, and that's actually the injury that's listed on the injury report.
08:48So, you know, you hope you can get him back.
08:50Good news to get Deion Dawkins a couple of days in at Limited.
08:52That's good, obviously.
08:54All of these guys, even Alec Anderson, limited two days in a row.
08:58And the really other part, guys, other real good news from practice,
09:02nobody's wearing a red non-contact jersey.
09:04So, I mean, I think that's encouraging.
09:05And generally, that's because if you look down the list, ankle, wrist,
09:09I guess you could for a wrist there, but ankle, rib could have done it.
09:13But mostly it's upper body when you have the red non-contact.
09:16I was going to say, that had been Kincaid and Moore the last couple weeks, right?
09:19Yep.
09:20Yep.
09:20And we'd wondered.
09:21They aren't even.
09:22Don't Kincaid.
09:23I mean, he's not in the red.
09:25He is listed.
09:26Remember I told you guys when I came on Monday, I did see him get, on Tuesday,
09:29I did see him get rolled up on and get taped up.
09:31He is listed, but he's not wearing red.
09:33And DJ Moore's not even on the list at all, and he's not wearing red.
09:36Yeah.
09:36That's good.
09:37I mean, we'd wondered if those two would just wear them for, I don't know,
09:41at least I had wondered, Sal, more would wear it for the foreseeable future
09:44just because, you know, veterans.
09:46But, you know, just regular old, healthy, good to go.
09:49So, that's definitely a good sign.
09:51They'll go to New York to play a Jets team with Aaron Glenn at the helm
09:55and Geno Smith.
09:56And, Sal, this Jets team, it's funny, like, same old Jets.
10:00I'm sure there's a lot of that, right?
10:01We see a lot of same old Jets.
10:03But, like, when you look at this Jets team, as you've seen them play this year,
10:06or talking to people in New York media, it, to me, seems like a team
10:10that is definitely a couple steps away.
10:13But I don't think, from a roster standpoint, they are completely lost.
10:16I think there are really nice pieces there that whoever gets the job next,
10:20assuming someone does get the job next, steps into a nice spot,
10:26you know, somewhat of a roster.
10:29Yes, Jeremy, I'm going to agree with you.
10:31I'm also going to say I think I've said that the last five coaches.
10:35Right.
10:36Just, yeah.
10:37I mean, maybe along the way there's been a definite, like, okay,
10:40this needs a lot of work.
10:42I mean, let's remember a few years ago when they drafted Brees Hall
10:47and Will McDonald and who else was a part of that group.
10:49They had, like, two picks in the first round and two picks in the second round.
10:53And, you know, it's like, okay, like, look, the Jets got –
10:55how many times – they've drafted high quarterbacks over the last few years.
10:58They had high draft picks.
10:59They took quarterbacks.
11:00And things haven't changed.
11:02And generally when things haven't changed, there are other factors at play.
11:06And in this organization, it feels like that's ownership.
11:08That is front office.
11:10That's leadership.
11:11And mostly ownership.
11:13And I just wonder, like, if you're a Jets fan and you look and go, oh, my God, look at
11:18this.
11:18We have three first-rounders.
11:19They're all going to be high.
11:20That's great.
11:21I love it.
11:22You know what I mean?
11:23You might also think, I just don't know if any coach can overcome what's happening over top of them right
11:28now.
11:28And if you are a coach who's looking for a job, doesn't that have to be some sort of, like,
11:34detractor for you?
11:35Yeah, I think so.
11:36Like, I think, Sal, if that roster was any other franchise in the league, and include the draft capital, right?
11:43Like, they're about to do something historic.
11:44They're going to have three picks, like, in the top 12 or 13.
11:47Like, that has never happened.
11:49But if it were the – I don't know, pick a random team.
11:53If the Vikings had that set up without a quarterback and an answer, a coach, like, I might be more
11:59confident that they would figure it out.
12:00But, like you said, they do always have some good players.
12:05Now maybe they have more, but the two things you're missing are the two most important things, coaching quarterback.
12:11And I don't know if you heard Dan Leberfeld yesterday, but, like, him talking about, like, the state of ownership
12:16there where they're cutting millions of dollars and, you know, cafeteria stuff for the players.
12:21And Aaron Glenn's not allowed to have a defensive coordinator because the owner doesn't want to pay because he's already
12:26paying Steve Wilkes, who got fired.
12:28And now Glenn's got to do both.
12:29And it's just like, sure, you have draft capital and a good roster, but I feel like you're working for
12:37an owner that's not going to give you the resources to finish the job.
12:41Agreed.
12:41Agreed.
12:42And, you know, I don't know – so – and then on top of that, you think about right now,
12:47at least the current state they're in, about this game and this year,
12:50all of the mistakes that you see every week from an Aaron Glenn coach team, right?
12:54It just feels like he's not up for this head coaching job.
12:57Like, he is a very good coordinator.
12:59Maybe there's one of those guys that really does a great job on that one side of the ball, can
13:03really rally a unit,
13:04but he doesn't do a great job as being the CEO, the decision maker, the head coach on game day.
13:09I mean, that stat a few weeks ago that I think is, like, a tiny bit better now, after a
13:14couple weeks, you guys know the first half stat, right, about the Jets.
13:17I mean, in the last two minutes, in case people don't know, this was going – this is as of
13:21a couple weeks ago.
13:21This, I think, has changed a little bit since then.
13:24They got to nine points.
13:25Like, it's barely different.
13:26Yeah, there you go.
13:27Over – in the final two minutes of the first half in Aaron Glenn's era, they've been outscored 107-6
13:35as of a few weeks ago.
13:36I mean, that is incredible.
13:38That is a very strategic point of the game, right?
13:41You're trying to limit the other team's opportunity.
13:43You're trying to double dip.
13:44You don't want them to score.
13:44You want to score – I mean, if you're just, like, I don't know, outscored 70-40, you're like, all
13:49right, well, that happens.
13:50Maybe it's just, like, you're facing good quarterbacks.
13:52107-6, that's incredible to think about.
13:54So, anyway, I just think that the coach has been an issue when it comes to that for them.
14:01Look, I have a healthy respect for Geno Smith's career in this league.
14:04I liked him a lot coming out, and it didn't work out.
14:06And then what he's been able to do to carve out a career, and now being back in New York,
14:10and, you know, he's playing pretty well.
14:12And when he's throwing the ball well, they can be pretty good.
14:16He's at a close to 68% completion percentage this year, 12 touchdowns, three interceptions.
14:21That is respectable.
14:22It's very respectable.
14:23And then he turns around, and it's not even Brees Hall.
14:26Braylon Allen's averaging five yards a carry.
14:28Garrett Wilson is dynamic, 43 catches on the year.
14:31He's playing this week.
14:32I mean, they have players.
14:34They draft Omar Cooper.
14:35What did Jim Leonard say yesterday?
14:37You know, they have three first-round wide receivers.
14:39They have, like, first-round, second-round tight end, first-round running back, second-round running back, whatever he said,
14:44however you put it.
14:44He's right.
14:45All of those resources.
14:46Then you look at the other side of the ball.
14:47David Bailey is balling.
14:49I mean, he is really, really good right now.
14:51I mean, I'm talking about this team, and you'd think, like, oh, my God, this is a Jets team that
14:54is fighting for, I don't know, the one seed.
14:57They're fighting for the division.
14:58And they're not.
14:59They're buried.
15:00And it's just odd.
15:01I think they have the ability to have a really good game, and the Bills have to be ready for
15:06that.
15:06But I think the Bills also are much more of a stable team and very good, obviously.
15:14They can score points.
15:15And if they just don't give the Jets anything stupid, they should be fine here.
15:20For sure.
15:21Bailey, by the way, he's one of the defensive rookie of the year frontrunners, like seven and a half sacks
15:25already this year.
15:26Yeah.
15:27They have good pressure numbers, Sal, but I know they're allowing a ton of rush yards per game.
15:34So maybe the Bills' injuries up front could affect this, too.
15:38I saw Harrison Phillips isn't practicing for the Jets, and he's been starting.
15:41So I don't know.
15:43Do you feel like this could be a game where they, like, maybe similar to last week but for different
15:48reasons, where they really lean into the run game?
15:52Yeah.
15:52I mean, I think the Bills always want to go into a game like that, Joe, to be quite honest
15:56with you.
15:56Like, you know, let's do our best to just kind of control the game on the ground if we can.
16:02I think the Bills would love to do that.
16:03They have James Cook.
16:04If I remember last year, didn't I think Cook had a really nice long run last year?
16:07Was that last year when that happened, like, in New York?
16:10Week two, yeah.
16:11Yeah, yeah.
16:12I think, you know, that happened.
16:13Let me just look at their – I'm just going to kind of look at their rankings here off the
16:15hoof.
16:17Yeah, 26th in the NFL defensively per game against the run, 16th middle of the pack per play against the
16:25run.
16:25They're better against the pass.
16:27They don't give up as much against the pass.
16:28So, yeah, that's probably the way you want to do it.
16:32By the way, how many – I've got to look how many interceptions.
16:35They're still last in the league in interception rate.
16:37Didn't they have the one?
16:38They did get one, though, didn't they?
16:40So they had zero last year and they got one this year.
16:42They did get one.
16:42Yeah.
16:43All right.
16:44Yeah.
16:44They got one.
16:46Let's see.
16:46New York Jets here.
16:47Where is their giveaway takeaway here?
16:50Takeaways, New York Jets.
16:52No, they have – oh, takeaways.
16:54Here we go.
16:55One interception.
16:56That is right.
16:56They have one interception on the year.
16:58Tampa Bay has 16, by the way.
16:59Now, you want to give a reference of, like, the best and worst in that category?
17:04Tampa Bay Buccaneers have 16 interceptions this year.
17:07The Jets have one.
17:08The Bills have six.
17:11Six for the Bills.
17:12All right.
17:13One of those to C.J.
17:14Gardner-Johnson.
17:14Maybe the Jets need C.J.
17:15Gardner-Johnson.
17:16Maybe they needed Amani Hooker, who has five.
17:18Right.
17:19How many – how long ago was five interceptions for the Jets?
17:23It's probably like three years.
17:24Oh, my God.
17:25That's right.
17:25And by the way, and sorry to be able to understand, that doesn't count Amani Hooker.
17:28I hope everybody knows that.
17:29That's how many the Bills have had this year so far on their team.
17:31Right.
17:32Right.
17:33The roster has 11.
17:35And you could do it that way, too.
17:36The roster now has 11.
17:37Six plus five.
17:38That's right.
17:38Yep.
17:39Sal Capaccio on the Western Hotline ahead of Bills-Jets.
17:42Sal, how does the Mafia travel to this game in New York?
17:45I'd imagine tickets are available.
17:48Yeah.
17:48It's a little more pricey, obviously.
17:51But there's a lot, obviously, downstate, if you want to call it that.
17:54You know, people on the other side of the state that like to go to the games.
17:57You know, Jets and Giants, season ticket holders.
17:59This time of the year, Jets fans are probably selling again.
18:02A lot of it is determined when they play inside this stadium.
18:06If it's earlier in the year, you're not going to get as many Bills fans because Jets fans
18:09are still going to games.
18:11I mean, by now, they may have, you know, okay, we're going to be selling our tickets.
18:15And I will say, like, if it's a night game, like, there's more Jets fans there.
18:20It's, you know, it's New York City.
18:22This is an afternoon game in New York City.
18:24You might get a lot of people in New York going, I don't know.
18:26I got other things I want to do.
18:28I'm going to do some Christmas shopping in the city, stuff like that.
18:30Whereas Bills fans, this time of year, great time to go to New York.
18:33Like, let's go.
18:34Let's go to ticket.
18:34Let's go to the game.
18:35So I actually expect more than the normal amount for Bills fans.
18:39It's not one of these places where you really fill up.
18:42And I always tell people, like, look, think about it.
18:44If you're a Bills fan and you get to go one, maybe two games a year away, you're probably
18:49going more of a destination city.
18:50Not that New York isn't, but you might want to get out of the cold when they play in
18:54November, December and go somewhere else.
18:56I went to the Monday night game that was around this time on the calendar a couple of years
19:00ago.
19:01And I was not impressed by that stadium.
19:04So, no, it's not even that old.
19:06Right.
19:06But just like, no, that's right.
19:08Nothing special.
19:08I would say.
19:09Yeah.
19:09The stadium itself is, yeah, nothing special.
19:12I agree with that.
19:13You know what I do like about the stadium is how they change over from blue to green
19:18and Giants to Jets.
19:19And it's pretty cool to watch.
19:21And I've seen it happen from one week to the other.
19:22Yeah.
19:23When the Bills did that in 2019.
19:24Right.
19:25Literally like they, you, I think, I think we might've talked about this, but in case
19:29people don't know, like up in the press box, they have like for the Giants.
19:33So the Giants played there last night.
19:34So if you were at the game at the Giants last night and you're in the press box, there's
19:38all these pictures of Lawrence Taylor and Phil Sims and Joe Morris, right.
19:43And all these great Giants.
19:45And then literally like the pictures, they are able to be, and they, they kind of come off
19:50the wall with the way that they're mounted on and then all they do is flip them over.
19:53And on the other side of the picture is Joe Namath and Mark Castineau and all the Jets.
19:58That's the way that it should.
19:59I thought you were going to tell me that they put up new frames.
20:01Like if they're not flipping those things over, they're going to flip.
20:03Yeah.
20:04They just flip them over.
20:04And then I just, I got to know.
20:06So every, every spy move ever watch you press one button and the whole room can change.
20:10That's exactly right.
20:12If they don't install that in MetLife, then what are we doing with ourselves?
20:15I want one button to press and the floor changes and the pictures change.
20:19Do they not do the NFL logo?
20:21It's at the middle of the field anymore.
20:22If I, if I just missed that, they, they changed the logos like on the field too.
20:27Cause it used to be the Giants had their logo last night.
20:29Cause it used, it didn't, it used to be that the NFL shield was in the middle of their field.
20:33I think that is right.
20:34I think they do change now.
20:35Okay.
20:35And it's just the turf that rolls out now.
20:37Okay.
20:38I think they can just, there's probably about 10 yards worth of turf there.
20:41Then the end zones of each of those.
20:43Gotcha.
20:43And then they just changed the, uh, the lighting in the stadium just goes, it's from blue to
20:47green basically.
20:48And is it still the turf that everyone says is the worst turf in the league?
20:52I believe they changed that out, Jeremy, but, um, I haven't heard as many as much about
20:57that this year.
20:57It's a good question.
20:58I'll have to, I'll ask about that.
20:59I think they did change it out last year, maybe, but it's still, you know, that is, but
21:05that is one of those stadiums where the world cup was and they'd grass.
21:08Yeah.
21:09They went back to artificial turf after the event, but maybe it's just, it's a different turf now.
21:14Let's hope I'll, I'll see what I can find on that.
21:16All right.
21:17Thanks, Sal.
21:17And, uh, safe trip.
21:18And we'll chat, uh, Monday.
21:20All right, guys.
21:20Thanks a lot.
21:21And Sunday.
21:22Cause we're on Joe and I are on nine to 11 on Sunday.
21:24Part of, uh, our pregame coverage that you can hear right here on WGR.
21:28We're going to call in here.
21:29Joe on a cell.
21:29Hey, Joe.
21:30Good morning.
21:31Hey guys.
21:31Oh, I miss Sal, the real pro man.
21:34I really would like to talk to him.
21:37Uh, got three points.
21:38So about the bills first, uh, just win the next two weeks.
21:42Uh, a dub is a dub, man.
21:43That's all that matters.
21:45Uh, point differential.
21:47I really don't think that's going to come into play this year as far as seating.
21:51So just win, uh, point two.
21:54I want to see the defense improve.
21:56Uh, Dino Smith is a better quarterback than the last two.
21:59And it's going to be quiet.
22:01So for the defense, if communication is what they need to get better at, uh, they should
22:06get some good practice, uh, in this game.
22:10Uh, and three, I've been watching my homes a little bit.
22:14He looks slow, man.
22:16Uh, he doesn't seem to have that escapability that he's had before.
22:20So I'm not as scared, uh, about him.
22:24Uh, and the last point quick about the Sabres.
22:27I saw the loss, maybe throw up in my mouth, man.
22:30I, I don't know what to think about them.
22:33Um, I don't know.
22:35I think they're toast.
22:36Thanks guys.
22:37All right.
22:38I saw a number about my homes, about his EPA and his DVOA on throws behind the line of
22:45scrimmage and then past the line of scrimmage.
22:48One thing about their offense, like they will have to evolve to become some sort of downfield
22:52passing team.
22:53I don't know how you can really win without some element of downfield passing.
22:58His charts are terrible in terms of where the ball's going.
23:01Maybe Josh Downs helps that a little bit.
23:04I don't know.
23:05Um, so we'll see, but.
23:08And by the way, on a, so I definitely true.
23:12Geno Smith's better than the last two quarterbacks they've played.
23:14Yes.
23:15Like maybe he's holding back a great group of skill position players a little bit, but
23:20way better than the last two, probably better than the next guy.
23:24Sorry to Kyle McCord in Syracuse.
23:26This is Kyle McCord hate.
23:27I can't.
23:28He's probably better than Kyle.
23:29I'm going to stand here for Kyle McCord.
23:31He's played in five games against the bills.
23:36Geno Smith.
23:37Does he have a win?
23:40He does with Seattle.
23:44No, no.
23:44With very first start.
23:47That doesn't count.
23:48Why does that count?
23:49I don't know.
23:49It doesn't count.
23:50So my son says when I score a goal in knee hockey, mini sticks, I'll score.
23:54I'll be like, that one doesn't count.
23:55Why?
23:56It just doesn't.
23:57September of 2013.
24:00They beat the bills.
24:01That definitely doesn't count in week.
24:03That's like another life.
24:052013, those Santonio homes with 154 yards in that game.
24:09All right.
24:10Steven Hill, 108 yards in that game.
24:13Yeah.
24:14So he's, he's got one.
24:15He also played a game against the bills in Detroit with the jets.
24:21Yeah.
24:21Is that the snow shovel game that guy had to get moved?
24:24One of them.
24:25803 05 50 Tom, if you can stick with us, I like your question you want to bring up.
24:29We'll get to that on the other side.
24:30Have some fun here on a football Friday and a, uh, pizza Friday as well.
24:35We're going to remember some jets later on.
24:38Bill's jets crossovers.
24:40Harrison Phillips right now.
24:41IK and Impale.
24:43Yes.
24:45You got to have that name ready.
24:46Jeremy and Joe on WGR.