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10 Takeaways after Buffalo Bills dominate Raiders
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10 Takeaways from Buffalo Bills domination of Raiders
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Jenna Cottrell
Foreign.
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Mike Catalana
Welcome Back to the Buffalo Plus YouTube channel. Presented by Connors and Ferris, Mike Catalana along with Dan Fates, Jenna cottrell, back in 13 Wham Studios today. So we're here at the game. Please make sure to like, comment and subscribe. What a difference nearly a week makes, huh?
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Dan Fates
Yeah, the way the week started, the way the week ended are completely different.
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Mike Catalana
Yeah, we're going to give our 10 takeaways for what we saw. And it's a much different 10 takeaways than we saw a week ago because this was a complete team effort. And look, it always begins with number 17. Last week, not good Josh this week, really outstanding. Josh. What'd you make of his performance, especially coming off of last week?
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Dan Fates
This is the Josh that we have come to know. It was a mature approach. This was the Josh. It's not the total Josh Allen experience. It's a restrained Josh Allen. There were a couple of times I was joking with you just before we started recording that. I know he wanted to take a shot deep and he checked it down either to Latavius Murray or James Cook or those guys. And after the throw, he kind of had this smirk as I'm down on the field going, I could have taken a shot. Like, he had that look like I could have done it. And it was like a dog when you give him a treat and you're like, sit, sit. Like that was what it was. But this is what we talked about in the podcast that can Josh change and can he evolve? This is. We've seen this Josh before. This was nothing new. This was a just what the Bills need him to be, a more restrained, refined Allen. Because, Mike, you talked about it. He still had those Josh Allen plays.
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Mike Catalana
Well, I said that to Sean McDermott. I said, didn't it prove that he can be going what the game plan is, taking the underneath stuff and still make Josh Allen plays. And you saw McDermott big smile on his face. He's like, yeah, it's a pretty good teacher. You still had Josh being Josh. What was he, 31 of 37 in the game, Made some incredible throws. Like the one to Shakir was incredible. But he stopped himself. You say about going deep, he, yes, he always wants to chuck it deep. But what he avoided today wasn't just throwing it deep for the sake of throwing it deep. He avoided the dumb plays.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Dan Fates
And he didn't avoid them Monday in the Meadowlands. And all week media, national media, Buffalo Plus Channel. We were critical of him and we asked. He was asked after by Salmon of the Democratic Chronicle about how did he handle this week, this challenging week, and how he actually found a positive out of all of the negativity.
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Josh Allen
Honest to God, I didn't see any reaction. I didn't look at anything. I didn't turn on TVs. I didn't. You know, I was just. The thing is, with this game, man, it gives you the lowest lows. It gives you the highest highs. But I. I love feeling how I felt last week.
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Mike Catalana
I really do.
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Josh Allen
Because it makes the good feel that much better. You know, it forces us to be better. And I want to be the best I can be playing this game and being the best quarterback I can be for this Buffalo Bill. So I take the bad with the good. I understand it, and I'm just trying to let it fuel me and use it to my benefit.
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Dan Fates
And I think that's my biggest takeaway of this, is who Josh is. And guess what? He still tried to hurdle somebody at the goal line.
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Mike Catalana
Don't do that, Josh. Don't do that.
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Dan Fates
It was a friend of his. It was his former teammate at Wyoming. I think that's why there was.
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Mike Catalana
Yeah, the safety.
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Dan Fates
I think there was a little hug.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
After.
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Dan Fates
And Stefan Diggs did go up to him, kind of tapped him on the chin, like, hey, man, we went over this.
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Mike Catalana
Yeah, don't do that.
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Dan Fates
And Josh had a smile. But again, there are some things that you're never going to be able to fully remove from Josh Allen. And we talked about, this is a little bit of the Brett Favre. This is a little bit of the Nolan Ryan.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah, go ahead.
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Mike Catalana
The little bit. That's fine.
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Dan Fates
That's fine. But I was thinking about this. We walked in today and I said, the Bills need to stay aggressive. This is still an offensive team that is driven by Josh Allen. And I said, if you're a relief pitcher and you throw 102 and you one day give up a couple home runs, you blow a game, you hit a guy, you walk four guys. It's a terrible game. The next game, you don't come out through five changeups. You don't all of a sudden change who you are. You refine it a little bit. All of a sudden, you paint some more fastballs. That's what Josh Allen did today. He located his pitches, he threw it in the right spots. It's a golfer. He hit the right spots of the green. He played the course. All of those things. We'll make all the analogies. I can. This was the Josh that need.
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Mike Catalana
Yeah, I'm going to stick with Josh. Because we asked Sean McDermott a lot of questions about him and I was fascinated by his answer. You know, he was critical of his quarterback last week. He said, I know he can be better, but what he talked about is my version of, in the NFL, you're either humble or about to be humbled. Here's Sean McDermott on, I think his whole team, but his quarterback in particular.
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Sean McDermott
I think more than anything, it's humility. And when you approach every week with humility, you start in the right spot mentally and that's important. Not that he normally doesn't do that, but when you have the games like last week, it forces you to be rather humble. And I know I keep talking about humble and hungry is the. I just believe in that. And the minute you get out over your skis in this league is the minute you get bit. And again, today's a great teacher.
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Mike Catalana
Yeah, over your skis. He said, you know, that can happen to a guy a little bit in a game like that where you say you try to do too much. Look, I mean, basically whatever Josh did today seemed to work. The 1/4 down didn't and he had the 1 turnover and it was called back. There are days when it's just going to go your way. And this one went his way.
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Dan Fates
Yeah, I thought it was maybe everybody sit down. For us, it may have been Ken Dorsey's best game.
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Mike Catalana
I thought Dorsey was great. I thought his play calling was great.
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Dan Fates
And look after the first three change ups that they called to start the game.
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Mike Catalana
Yeah, I mean, he went twice with.
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Dan Fates
The quick, you know, handoffs, draw, draw, Josh, scramble.
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Mike Catalana
Josh scrambled, by the way. He had dicks open and he didn't throw it. But you know what? And everybody gets mad at the run plays when they don't do anything. They don't all work.
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Dan Fates
Yes.
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Mike Catalana
And they at least stuck with it.
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Dan Fates
Yes.
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Mike Catalana
And then, you know, I mean, it's nice to see them look like a team that can run the football.
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Dan Fates
Because my question to you, Mike, is was it circumstances of the Raiders defense not being great or was it Dorsey still pushing the right buttons? Like, which one is it? Is it everything was working because the Raiders stink, or was everything working because of the way that Dorsey was pushing all the right buttons?
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Mike Catalana
I'm going to hedge here a little bit and say a little of both. But I love the pace that they played at. I love that it was quick. And it was quick decisions by Allen got the ball to a bunch of people. You know, there are times when he's scrambling out to the side and he's got Dalton, Kincaid, like five yards ahead of him. And you know, he could run it.
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Dan Fates
He absolutely wants to.
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Mike Catalana
But he did not run it.
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Dan Fates
Nope.
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Mike Catalana
He gave the ball to whether it was Kincaid or Knox or Diggs or whoever it was. He just gave him the ball.
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Dan Fates
Nine different Bills caught passes today.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
And look, and Dorsey stuck with it. Look, he got contributions from all of his running backs. I think when you look at the running back position for Dorsey and McDermott, look, you know, it still runs through Josh Allen, right?
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Dan Fates
Correct.
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Mike Catalana
But this was a rare game where they ran the ball effectively and it wasn't Josh Allen in the game.
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Dan Fates
That's my one takeaway is that we always talk about the offensive line. Right. When we talk to them, they say we want to run the ball, we want to get downhill and all these things. And Sean McDermott says, We want to run the ball and be this physical team. To some respects, the offensive line has to earn that.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Dan Fates
Like the Bills aren't just going to slam their head against the wall just to say we want to run the ball. So it was almost a reward for the way they ran the ball today. Was the offensive line getting push, getting movement, wearing on the defense, leaning on him, as they said. The opening drive, third quarter, nine minute drive, 75 yards. Ran the ball really effectively. A couple of big runs, but it was a lot of five, six yard runs that, that I sat there and at one point I looked up and I said, no, James cook only has 50 yards. It felt like he had more. He ended up with over 100. But you know, middle of the game where I was going like that, that was my thing, is that like, if you're the offensive lineman and you want to run the ball more, prove it.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Dan Fates
Because Ken Dorsey's not just going to bash his forehead into a wall just for the sake of saying, we handed the ball off 20 times today, guys.
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Mike Catalana
See, I also thought, look, they gave him help. We talked about this coming in. Spencer Brown at the right tackle spot. They gave him help. Crosby's a heck of a player.
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Dan Fates
Absolutely.
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Mike Catalana
I would give him help, too. We talked about it coming in. Don't wait for somebody to make a play. You can't let Crosby bury your game plan. And maybe your quarterback, they chip, they helped him. But I thought he played a really solid game and he really wasn't mentioned a lot today. And that's an improvement for Spencer Brown on that right tackle spot.
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Dan Fates
Absolutely. And I think I give Spencer Brown credit. Josh was asked about him and he Said he has all of the talent.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
He also said he has all the confidence.
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Dan Fates
Well, he said when he puts his mind to it.
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Mike Catalana
Yeah, that was interesting.
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Dan Fates
Which is one of those things that, like, we. It's kind of like Josh. It's like when you get distracted, all the physical talent, but it's like, dude, just focus like these little things. So I thought that was an interesting comment that Josh made of, hey, he's got all the talent. He's just gotta focus.
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Mike Catalana
Well, they did a really good job with the. Keeping Crosby from really hurting the offense at all. I mean, he's a heck of a player. But look, when you start out playing against the Raiders defense, that's the guy you're looking at.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
Keep him from killing you. Let's stick with the offense. Gabe Davis, we want five and 70. Nope. He had to exceed that today, didn't he?
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Dan Fates
This was good, Gabe.
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Mike Catalana
Yeah, very good.
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Dan Fates
This was dependable, Gabe. A couple scramble plays. The fourth down, fourth and goal play. Kind of a scary play to go over the middle and to make that catch.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Dan Fates
He was also good on a couple scramble drills. Went deep for a couple of. That is the game. It was also given out in Uncle Dan's Best Bets. Gave Davis over 52 and a half yards that easily cashed because they wanted to get more people involved. Sean McDermott was asked on Tuesday after the Monday night game how important he had Steph go off. That's great. How important is it to get a secondary option? He said, it's huge. Like, we need that from somebody. They got it today.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
And I thought Diggs was still Diggs.
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Dan Fates
He was, absolutely.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
And you didn't notice it as much because everybody else contributed. You went from 13 passes, 10 completions with the jets and then nothing else to this one, where it's a series of things. And Davis also had that really nice catch. Now it was a free play for the Bills. He recognized it. Josh recognized it. Smart football. Sometimes guys don't always see that. They did. And he made a really nice catch to continue with that at the wide receiver position. A Khalil Shakir moment and a big moment for this team.
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Dan Fates
Needed it. And he's a guy that Josh said. And Josh and Sean both said, we haven't asked him to do a lot right now, look, they added Trent Sherfield, who still hasn't had the ball thrown his way. They added Deontay Hardy, they've added Dalton Kincaid, some of those. Those guys were getting involved. But Shakira is sneaky. He's he's been on the field like. Like he was a guy that made difficult catches and dropped easy ones. And for him to step up in that spot. And Sean McDermott says right now we're not asking him to do a lot of. Yeah, that may change as the year goes on. Injuries come up. But right now, that was a big play to be called upon in that spot. Needed it. And I think that's a big testament to who he is.
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Mike Catalana
And the throw was unbelievable. Now that's. I'll say this. That's like a Mahomes kind of throw. Like, Josh has some big arm, big moments. That was fantastic.
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Dan Fates
That was borderline. No, no, no. Yes.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Dan Fates
Like, what are you. What are you doing? Nice throw.
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Mike Catalana
Yeah, it was. And you mentioned Kincaid kind of right in the flow of the offense. Impactful today, I thought over the middle, too.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Dan Fates
I like to see him get involved over the middle of the field again. So sure handed.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Dan Fates
He just seems to be the guy. He took a lick in that end zone.
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Mike Catalana
Oh, yeah. And again, not in Utah anymore.
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Dan Fates
No. And for Josh to. Hey. Make a play.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Dan Fates
And to pop up. Took a breather. But, you know, like I said, I think that's welcome. The NFL moment. Gonna get hit from the safety. But I think Josh having that confidence of trying to thread the needle into him.
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Mike Catalana
James Cook, really good leading the backs. We mentioned all the backs. Makes Matt Milano seem like loquacious. James is so.
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Dan Fates
I didn't know where you were going. He is so tired. Yeah, he is.
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Mike Catalana
So, you know. And then it was funny at the end of his interview, which seems like a great kid and a good football player. He does not seem to enjoy being interviewed. He's very quiet, which was cool. Coming off. 126. And then what did Josh say to him? 126. And he's like, yeah. And they're kind of laughing, like, that's big. They kept him in there and he got him to his hundred.
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Dan Fates
They did the dual podium. And at one point, Josh gave him like a pat on like the leg and was like, you're doing great, bud. You're doing great, sweetie. Like, keep speaking to the microphone. You're doing a great job.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
And one last thing. Kind of offense in the defense, the defensive coordinator, aka head coach Sean McDermott. I liked him being aggressive in this one last week on that first drive, fourth and short, he ends up kicking the field goal. Okay. It's early in the game. Maybe it's different this time. He went for it. You got him deep and Even changed his mind. I was surprised when they were bringing out the field goal, and I'm like, you got him pinned deep, and then he brought it back. Smart play. And they ended up getting rewarded, what, two out of the three times when they went for it down there, they got touchdowns.
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Dan Fates
Josh talks about it like, you want to reward your coach for those decisions. Especially when I'm on the sidelines, I see him, and he's going, we're going to go for the field goal. And the crowd kind of. And then all of a sudden, he comes down the sideline and bangs a timeout. And all of a sudden, it's like, he's gonna send the offense back out there. So, again, I think the offense needed that. Micah Height talked about it that, like, when you put these things, when you have these games together, the confidence that you can get from it. It's a long season, but Micah is my favorite quote he ever said was, confidence is a hell of a drug. And when you got your offensive coordinator dialed in because Ken Dorsey had a great game, and you have your defensive and head coach trusting you, I think it's huge.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
And the other thing is, I asked Allen because, you know, there have been times when, you know, throws it up when it's down there, and he said, you gotta be smart. And he's right. You gotta be smart. You cannot turn it over there. Don't give him the ball at the 20. Remember that play in the Ravens game last year when Jordan Poyer made that interception? What a huge difference it was. It got the Bills the ball at the 20 instead of at the 1. So even if you fail, you gotta. It's like, I'm gonna go back to golf. It's like missing in a good spot.
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Dan Fates
Yes.
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Mike Catalana
How about that?
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Dan Fates
Don't shortside yourself.
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Mike Catalana
Exactly. That's the key. All right, let's stick with the defense here a little bit. Look, you win the game, what, 38 to 10?
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
And you can still look back at, I thought, one of the biggest plays of the game. And I'm not going to overstate it, but in the early part of the season, that Greg Russo play to deflect it. I think Daquan Jones got some pressure. Russo deflects it, and Terrell Bernard gets the interception. At that point, they're down seven nothing. You had just punted. They made a couple of proud booing.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
And Rousseau, who has been really good in the early season, comes up with a big play.
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Dan Fates
Yeah. Russo's been a monster. I can't stress it enough how. And Sean McDermott said he's nasty, that he always had that finesse to like that word today. And you know what? I remember sitting down with Greg Russo and I met his high school coach or I zoomed with his high school coach and he said he was the nicest guy in that sometimes you had to get him angry. I remember asking Greg about that his rookie year and he goes, I'm not nice. Like I'm just polite. And he goes, and to see this edge to him, to see him have that Jordan Phillips almost nastiness, to fire up the crowd and to be that energy giver, I was really impressed by all that he's done. I think he has stepped up and has been and nailed that first round pick right now. Like he is on that cusp of being right now that guy also in the defensive game. But that play, I think I tweeted, did somebody try and unplug the Bills and plug them back in because things weren't going well. Not Giants, bad, bad, but it was not going well. And that play really turned, I think the whole game around. And we're not going to make a hyperbole, even though we like to do those in the show. Big, big part of the season.
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Mike Catalana
It was big early because this is only week two, but you're down, you're at home. Bad start. I mean, they walked down the field against the Bills and they turn around. By the way, I was paying attention. I was just checking my phone, make sure we didn't forget to do something for Jenna while she's doing the other job that we do. I was just making sure that we weren't having all the fun.
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Dan Fates
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
And leaving her back there. How about Matt Milano's interception? I said he made maybe the best catch of the day. Even though Gabe's was great, Shakir's was great. That was a heck of a play.
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Dan Fates
Can a defensive player moss an offensive player?
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Mike Catalana
Oh, yeah, that was Moss. You got Mossed.
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Dan Fates
You got Mossed. It was just. Again, we're running out of being impressed by Matt Milano because it's just something he does every single day. Didn't get flagged for 15 yards. Besides just embarrassing Josh Jacobs with the interception. That was unsportsmanlike just to take that ball away from him. But again, this defense was flying around. Milano, Russo, Ed Oliver just causing havoc. Dan Orlovsky actually responded to one of my tweets today because I said that Josh Jacobs had negative two rushing yards. And according to Elias, that is the first time a reigning rushing leader from the Season before had negative yards in a game. It's a career low for Jacobs. And Orlovsky tweeted at me and just said, oliver has been a beast.
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Mike Catalana
Yeah, he started out right away, unbelievable. Got in play, pushed the heat.
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Dan Fates
He made the tackle by shoving the guard into Jacobs.
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Mike Catalana
Yeah, that was big for them. And you know, when you play like that defensively, that changes everything. They gave up that reverse for what, 34 yards on the first drive and then the rest of the game, I mean, they had a little garbage yardage, but up to that point, mid fourth quarter, Jacobs was negative. Garoppolo scrambled once for a yard. They did nothing on the ground. Now you could say the Bills made them one dimensional, but the game was close for, you know, at that point it was still two game at halftime, 2, 6. And the defense was really good. So in Micah Hyde, you know, I asked Micah Hyde about that in terms of the way they played coming off that game. And he gave us, you know, last week the sky was falling. He's right. Like it was. But I. Look, they can say what they want in the NFL. It's win or panic.
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Dan Fates
Yes.
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Mike Catalana
And it was a bit of panic because it was week number one. But I thought the defense came back this week. I thought the defense was pretty good last week.
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Dan Fates
I thought so too.
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Mike Catalana
But look at this. Look. Devonte Adams still made a few plays.
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Dan Fates
He's massive.
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Mike Catalana
He's so good.
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Dan Fates
He is. He is way bigger than I thought.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Dan Fates
Six, four, six, five. He's a big wide receiver that can move.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
But I thought the Bills defense as a group made plays. They were solid. They got the turnovers. Like Taylor rapping on one late in the game.
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Dan Fates
Well, like you were saying last week, all three phases were a part of the Bills embarrassing loss in the Meadowlands today. All three phases, special teams, offense. Events were a massive factor in the win.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Dan Fates
Because special teams was great.
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Mike Catalana
Hey, Damien Harris with a kick return, outstanding.
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Dan Fates
Tyler Bass, obviously good. Like all of those things just seem to work well today. Compared to what? Everything that went wrong on Monday.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
And when we talk about that, I know it's early in the year, but to wrap up our 10th thing is where they are now after the two games. Obviously severe disappointment week number one. It's a division game. I always talk about the hindsight of the wins or the losses. That's a division loss. That one hurts. It's against the Jets. It just hurts because you're always going to be sitting there going whatever it is. Maybe they're fighting the Dolphins or whatever for the division. And you're going, I got that loss to the jets. Okay. They had one to the jets last year, and they finished 13 3. I don't know what their record is going to end up being, but it was bad. And this makes you one and one. And we talked about being one and one. It could have been 2117. You'd still be one and one. They needed this.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Dan Fates
And we talked on the Buffalo plus live show. It didn't need to be some convincing win. It certainly helps.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
Everybody feels better.
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Dan Fates
It certainly helps that this wasn't a 21:20 squeak out of win. This game was over in the third quarter after the first drive of the second half, where they just imposed their will on the Raiders. Like that was the Bills that we have come to know over the last few years, and it's good to see that it was still there. Sean McDermott and the guys always talk about, you either win or you learn. And maybe that's something that Von always talked about.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Dan Fates
And Sean said after Monday night, they need to learn and they need to learn quickly. They did. That's a big testament to this team.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
And the other thing is, you know, for Bill's fans, you're sitting at home going, oh, I can breathe watching this game. Go back to last year. You had the Bengals playoff game. You had that Dolphins game. You had the other Dolphins game, You had the Patriots game. I'm trying to think, you know, I'd have to look back at the schedule like nothing was easy. Nothing was easy for that last stretch.
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Dan Fates
Even when they won, Even the Lions.
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Mike Catalana
Game, the Lions game, the Browns game, you had the crazy Vikings game. Like, you know, it's nice to blow somebody out.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yeah.
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Mike Catalana
And this. This Raiders team has talent. They're not a great team. But the Bills imposed their will on both sides of the ball. Lines of scrimmage. This has not been the strength of this franchise. And they were dominant on both the O line and the D line. And I'll give dominant to the O line because that doesn't happen very often with them. They were really good today.
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Dan Fates
We walked in and I said something I've never said before, which line played better? Because the offense and defensive line were great. Rushing defense, gap integrity, all of those things. Phenomenal performance.
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Mike Catalana
Again, needed something else. You've never said before was somebody had a good day today.
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Dan Fates
Ken Dorsey.
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Mike Catalana
Ken Dorsey did. Hey, look, ken Dorsey's the O.C.
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Dan Fates
Correct. I can be critical when he's bad. I will. He deserves his flowers today. He Pushed all the right buttons.
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Jenna Cottrell
Yep.
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Dan Fates
How about hit play action passes, they actually they work pretty well.
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Mike Catalana
I love the simplest play and it seems like they never did it. Maybe it's because Singletary wasn't much of a but just the quick little fake to cook and then they just drop him the ball. Everybody else does that and it's just like the Bills and like just get the ball in guys hands. Get everybody involved in the game and you don't need.
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Dan Fates
It helped when the running game was going today you can still run play action when you're not running the ball well.
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Mike Catalana
Yeah, you can do it. You can. It helps but it helps. Hey, Latavius Murray looked good too in his limited time. God, everybody looked good.
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Dan Fates
Seriously, this is great. You said. I'm sure they'll find something to nitpick. Christian Benford played well. Everybody played well.
- [23:17]
Mike Catalana
Yeah, that was good. Good all around win. The Bills get to one and one and now it's Washington next week. You and I will be there. So we'll see how it goes. All right. We're going to have plenty of content all week long on the channel. Jen will be back with us. So we'll have everything going for this week as the bills get to 1 and 1. Make sure to like comment on what your favorite part of this game must and I'm sure everybody still has some. If you have some concerns, go ahead. Maybe you have long term concerns. Short term, this is pretty good.
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Dan Fates
Short term, I don't have.
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Mike Catalana
I think you'll take this and certainly subscribe and tell friends about it too. For Jenna Cottrell and Dan Fates, I'm Mike Catalano. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time on Buffalo Plus.