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Bills DESTROY Jets 30–10 | Instant Reaction: James Cook Proves His Worth & Bosa DOMINATES
Sep 15, 2025
The Buffalo Bills made a STATEMENT in a 30–10 beatdown of the New York Jets. This was more than just a win — it was a referendum on the offseason: 🔥 James Cook earned every penny, breaking the game wide open 💪 Bosa was a wrecking ball up front, changing everything on defense ⚡ Buffalo showed attitude, shaking off last week’s late-night comeback to come out sharp and dominant Join Bill Matic (D.A.’s Buffalo Bills podcast) for full instant reaction: what this game means for Josh Allen, Sean McDermott’s team, and the Bills’ push to control the AFC East early. 💬 Jump in the comments with your take — Bills Mafia always brings it. 📺 Subscribe for live postgame shows after EVERY game.
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after the Bills game and break down the
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good, the bad, and the mystical. Okay?
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And so with this whitewash of the Jets,
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here's my big takeaways. And by the way,
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Amendo. To me, these are the big
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takeaways from the Jets debacle and the
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Bills easy victory, 30 to 10 at Medife.
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Number one, this was a referendum on the
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off season for Brandon Bean and the
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front office. Number one, you had the
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play of the day, James Cook, and that
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running hard open field, elusive with
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power as well touchdown, which basically
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iced the game of the first half. And
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there's a reason you pay James Cook.
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There's a reason that you reward that
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guy. And the reason is that you have to
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make sure everybody knows that we are in
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it to win it right now. If you're
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Brandon Bean, you have to let the entire
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locker room, organization, coaching
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staff know this right here is the moment
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is the time. And we're not cutting
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corners. You can certainly make the
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argument that there was more than enough
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talent with the Buffalo running back
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depth chart that you could afford. not
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to pay James Cook. You can make the
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argument in today's NFL, you don't need
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to pay a running back. And yet, I think
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because he was so productive last year,
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because he's so wellliked in the locker
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room, because this is the moment in time
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that you have to send the message,
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there's no excuses. You had to pay James
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Cook. You had to send that statement out
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to everybody within the organization.
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and he delivers today with the statement
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play which really creates the separation
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that you need in a game like this to
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kind of exhale. Also, Bosa Bosa had a
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tough start to last week's game against
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the Ravens. He tied things up and then
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today I mean it was just a man
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unleashed. Now he really got loose when
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the game got loose and sent Justin Field
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to the blue tent. But Bosa is going to
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end up being either a brilliant,
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brilliant master stroke by Bean or a guy
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that lacks health, gets injured,
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productivity down the stretch, and kind
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of fizzles out. But some people thought
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it wasn't enough. Right now, it looks
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like more than enough. That was a
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brilliant move in the off season by Bean
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as Bosa's all over the place today. I
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also think not only is it a referendum
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on the off seasonason today, but also
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it's a referendum on the attitude of the
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team. The fact that this squad did not
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come out of the thrilling victory over
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the Ravens on Sunday night and take it
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lightly. Look, there was a pathway where
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the Jets run the football,
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the Jets, you know, have some momentum
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coming out of the Pittsburgh game. The
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Bills had this emotional win, comeback
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win, and Buffalo comes out flat. And
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it's a close game. Maybe it's an ugly
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game, and perhaps the Bills get scared.
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Perhaps they lose. Perhaps they have to
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pull a rabbit out of the hat late. But
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there was certainly a pathway that that
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was realistic. Instead, it was drop the
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hammer. It was drop the hammer, create
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the separation, and cruise to victory.
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If you are trying to do something you've
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never done before, which is get to a
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Super Bowl and then win it, seeding in
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the playoffs is massive. And seeding in
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the playoffs come down to games like
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this. Yeah, you got to have tiebreers.
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And beating the Baltimore Ravens is one
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of those tiebreers.
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But you also can't punt away an
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advantage you created for yourself in
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the standings by losing a game like
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this, by coming out flat. The journey
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has to be every single Sunday putting
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your best foot forward. And today they
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did in a game that I think you could
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have seen a reality where the Bills came
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out a little flat. They didn't do that.
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So that's important. And also I thought
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it was a referendum on culture guys,
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developing guys.
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There is a turning point of this game to
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me in the first half when the Bills have
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a 10- nothing lead, but the Jets get
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back-to- back big plays.
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There's a 12 yd run by Bree Hall and
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then an 18yd gain by Garrett Wilson. The
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Jets are just about at midfield and
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they're putting something together.
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Crowd is into it. Here's the crisp
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Justin Fields we saw a week ago. Jets
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have their playmakers. It's Fields. It's
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Breece. It's Garrett Wilson. and they're
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out to midfield. It's about almost the
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50 yardd line. It's about the 45 yd line
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and they're down 10 nothing. They carry
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this momentum down the field. They kick
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a field goal or score a touchdown. It's
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a one-sore game and the Jets then have
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some juice. And instead on first and 10,
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they run that end around and Christian
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Bedford
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stays home. And when he stays home, he
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creates a massive loss of 10 yards. Now,
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first of all, it's the discipline of
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staying home, but also
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it is a really tough open field tackle
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and a skilled position guy in the back
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field and you're one-on-one. Now, this
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is a sixthround draft pick coming out of
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Villanovavva and here he is developed
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into one of the best defensive players
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on this roster and making a big play
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like that. That's what the Bills have
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done really well. That was a great play.
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It then sets up a short field for for
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the Bills. It it short circuits that
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drive for the Jets. Bills get the short
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field, score a field goal. It's 13-
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nothing. It's off to the races. That
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right there was one of those culture
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type plays and moments in a game where
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you get defined by those. If you're
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going for the big one, the big ring, the
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big trophy, those are things that have
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to happen. You've got to find guys,
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develop guys, and they have to make
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those types of plays where a game can go
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one way or the other. So, that was my
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big takeaway from today's victory by the
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Bills to move to 2 and 0. Also, it's
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pretty big considering the Chiefs have a
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massive challenge on their hands later
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on today against the Eagles. So, should
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Philadelphia pull out a victory, Bills
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are 2-0, the Chiefs, your nemesis, could
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be 0 and2. That still has to be played.
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So, that's the big takeaways here. every
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week doing the the postgame recap. I've
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got good, I've got bad, and I've got the
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mystical. The good comes in the form of
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shouts. Okay, so again, if you got any
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comments, thoughts, feedback on this
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game, hit me up in the comments section,
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can highlight a few of those as we make
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our way through this day, this postgame
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recap here on Bill Maddock, your
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the season. Okay, so let's do this.
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Let's give you the shouts of
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All right. And the shouts to me begin
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with, as I said, a couple of the players
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today that kind of made those big plays
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one way or the other. And one of those
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big plays being, you know, the Christian
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Benford play, you had Bosa all over the
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place and you had the big run by James
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Cook. I also thought, you know, when
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Trabiscy had to come in, when you had
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Josh Allen out, when he had to come in,
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strike to Palmer. It's a good throw. And
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QB2 was one of the most interesting
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battles of training camp. And QB2
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ultimately goes to Trabiscy. And you
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don't ever want to have to see Trabiscy.
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You hope he never plays a significant
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snap all season long. You're praying
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that he never has to get into a game
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because of injury. Just blowout.
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But he was forced in there. Threw a nice
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strike. Looked comfortable. That's a
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nice throw. Matt Prader. The story of
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Matt Prader continues. I mean, this
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thing is wild as well, is it not? That
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Prader didn't have a job 72 hours before
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the season begins. And here he is not
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only hitting the walk-off game winner
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against the Ravens, but a 52yder early
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in this game. That was a big kick. Okay.
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And he had a couple of good individual
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efforts. Concaid had a nice catch and
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carry on third and nine when they're up
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20-3. That kind of crushes the spirit of
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the Jets. That's a good That's a good
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play. And the Elijah Moore touchdown.
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Don't you have to think that Joe Brady
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has that play in there just to give
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Moore a chance to do it against his
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former team. And I know that there's a
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package in there that Elijah Moore runs,
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but that just felt like to me, let's
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let's reward Elijah Moore with a
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touchdown here so he can he can have the
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moment at Medlife Stadium. All that was
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good stuff. I thought also if you're
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looking for shouts from a Bill
10:19
standpoint, the Jets did themselves no
10:21
favors with all types of penalties all
10:23
day long. So that bailed out the Bills
10:25
early in the game. I thought all of
10:28
those penalties were legit, but
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ultimately, you know, they end up
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hurting the Jets in big-time ways and
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the Jets being undisiplined. Who would
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have ever thought? Who could have ever
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seen that happening? Also on that first
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drive where Josh Allen rolls and
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scrambles and kind of like throws half a
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stiff arm, half a smackdown against the
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defender was a pretty cool moment as
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well. So those overall with your 30-10
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victory, an easy win, just kind of
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getting it done, getting it out of the
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way, making sure the Jets don't hang
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around with some good efforts. That was
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all good. Those are all shouts on the
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day. There are even despite the blowout
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victory, some knocks.
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First of all, a knock to Tony Romo and
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Jim Nance. Here they are when Allen
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gets, you know, popped in the nose. And
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boy, it was sirens alert. Call the
11:29
authorities. Somebody investigate. This
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means something. This has to mean
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something. This is serious, Jim. This
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has got to be serious, Jim. Oh my
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goodness. You would have thought
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that Josh Allen had lost a limb on the
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play. Oh my god. Amputation of the
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sideline, Jim.
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I mean, he gets popped in the nose. It's
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profusely bleeding. They got to stop the
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bleeding cuz he's got to go out there
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and call plays. It's week two. It's the
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first half. There's not two minutes to
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go in the AFC Championship game. Yeah,
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Josh Allen's a tough dude, but if
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there's blood coming out of his nose and
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it's the second quarter in week two,
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he's got to come out for a couple of
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plays. That's not the definition of
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serious.
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I mean, causing all of Western New York
12:18
to hyperventilate.
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I I mean, come on here. He's getting a
12:22
wad of tissue stuffed up his nose. Was
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that need was that cause? Was there a
12:28
need to go crazy on It's serious, Jim.
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This is serious. This has got to be
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really serious.
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Oh my god. Relax. After they go to break
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and maybe that was the plan, give him a
12:44
breather. We're almost at the end of the
12:46
first quarter. He'll get even more time
12:48
if we wait until the end of the first
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quarter. That was probably the plan
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anyway. He comes back right out of that.
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Oh my goodness. Talk about freak out
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when there's no reason to freak out.
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Number two, I mean, these are little
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things. I thought early in the game
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there wasn't a lot of space in run of
13:06
the football up the middle. Jets were
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closing it pretty good. Brady kept kind
13:10
of forcing the issue there. Ultimately,
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the dam broke, so you got to give them
13:13
credit. Also, there's the drive that
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stalls in the red zone. They end up kind
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of calling conservatively in the red
13:21
zone. Even up 20-3, they were
13:23
conservative. They ran on third and
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four. It didn't come back to haunt him.
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They kicked the field goal 23-3. So, you
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know, I know that there are some people
13:31
that feel like Brady can get too
13:33
conservative, maybe too infatuated with
13:35
the run game, but I think the idea today
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was, and I thought it was smart, if you
13:42
get a lead, you don't have to go for end
13:46
ofame plays. You just have to go to make
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smart plays because the Jets don't have
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a comeback offense. They want to run the
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football. They don't have a big play
13:56
offense. So instead of trying with
14:00
everything you got to keep ending the
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game with high powered, you know, plays,
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you can run the football, you don't make
14:07
a mistake, you take the point, and you
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know, if we've got a lead, even if it's
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14 points, 13 points, 20 points.
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Certainly, this team's not equipped to
14:14
come back. And certainly they were not.
14:16
And you know, Keon Coleman gets that
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offensive pass interference.
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You know what you're hoping for after
14:22
that big week one was that Coleman ends
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up developing into wide receiver one. He
14:28
was quiet today, but the passing game in
14:30
general was quiet. That was his one
14:32
opportunity. Really good catch, you
14:35
know, and that would have been a big
14:36
chain mover. Didn't happen. So, it has
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to be kind of a a quiet hard knock here
14:42
on the day. But when you when you roll
14:43
the jets, not a lot of hard knocks to be
14:45
had because this is a quest to do
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something that's never been done. We
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always look for the mystical as well.
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always looking for the mystical around
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here. And so, why not look to honor the
16:43
buffalo?
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Yeah. And you know, I just, as I said to
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start off the show, when you're looking
16:55
to do something that's never been done,
16:57
you have to change
17:01
expectations.
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Teams that stink, that bring in culture
17:07
changers. Look at Dan Campbell in in
17:09
Detroit. He was asked about, you know,
17:11
going 0 and one to lead off the the
17:13
season and people calling this a
17:15
must-win game in week two. and he said,
17:17
'If there's pressure in us to we to win
17:19
week two, that means we change the
17:21
culture around here. We change
17:23
expectations because it didn't used to
17:24
be that way. And I thought that's a
17:26
perfect way to put it. If you are going
17:29
to change what has always happened, you
17:32
have to make people believe something
17:34
different. And I thought the Cook
17:37
signing again, if you want to
17:38
rationalize this of paying a running
17:41
back or the depth at running back for
17:44
the Bills, you know, spreading out the
17:46
wealth a little bit more, you need more
17:48
help on defense, what have you, you
17:50
could certainly do that. And I've made
17:51
the argument in the past about paying
17:53
running backs.
17:55
But if you're going to do something
17:58
mythical in Buffalo, it has to be about
18:02
the message to everybody. We're all in
18:05
right now. Now is the time. Now is the
18:10
moment.
18:12
And when you pay James Cook, the signal
18:14
is now is the moment. No excuses.
18:19
Guys will be rewarded. Go out there and
18:23
you've got your full complement of guys.
18:25
We've got everything we need right here.
18:27
Let's do this right now.
18:31
So honoring the Buffalo means honoring
18:35
the respect and integrity of that locker
18:38
room of guys that put their body on
18:39
their lines for you. And that was one of
18:42
those things that I thought Brandon Bean
18:44
got right and Shawn McDermott got right
18:46
in the offseason building this team. So
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