Added pressure? Now or never for Bills? Hall of Famer Ty Law joins!

WEEI-FM / WEEI

#NFL Hall of Famer Ty Law joins! Coco asks, "What's it like for a team trying to make a historic run?" Added pressure? Now or never for Bills?

Transcript

00:00Good morning, Tyler. How are you?

00:03Good morning, guys. How you doing?

00:04Well, way right in on, in fact, it was Curtis's lead this morning

00:09on whether you believe that the Chiefs continue to be gifted with calls

00:16and calls that they shouldn't be and no calls that should happen.

00:23Where do you stand on that this morning, Tyler?

00:26You know what?

00:27I don't want to take anything away from those guys because, you know,

00:30they're going to try to do something historic.

00:34But it seems it's getting pretty damn obvious.

00:36You know what I mean?

00:37But I've heard it on our end too.

00:39You know what I mean?

00:39When we were, when we were winning, we were on our road.

00:42People used to say the same thing about Tom Brady and about the Patriots.

00:46So I don't want to take anything away from those guys.

00:48But you know, the flop on the outside, that would get me right there.

00:53I'm like, come on, Pat.

00:54Come on, man.

00:55You ain't had to do all that.

00:58They do seem like, they do like, they seem like they're getting a little bit

01:00of help from the rest, but I don't want to, like I said, it's a tough one

01:03for me, man, because we've heard the same thing, Wiggy.

01:06Come on, man.

01:06Yeah, I know.

01:07But here's my issue with that, Ty, is from the beginning, we all remember

01:13that it was Bill Pullian and Tony Dungy with the Colts who were mad that

01:17you were a little too aggressive with their precious Marvin Harrison.

01:21So they prevented you from touching them.

01:23The NFL was, in real time, in the middle of the start of your dynasty,

01:29trying to make it easier for your biggest rival in the AFC, the Colts,

01:34to beat you.

01:34And Teddy Bruschi, famously, in the divisional round of 0-4, when you

01:39guys beat the Colts before beating the Steelers, said, if you want to

01:43come to Foxboro, it's going to snow.

01:45You want to change the rules, change them.

01:47We still win.

01:48Whereas with the Chiefs, it's as if everything the NFL is doing is to

01:52make it easier for them to keep going when it comes to winning

01:56championships, as opposed to what you guys dealt with.

02:01You know what, Chris?

02:02I agree with you.

02:03I mean, I can't complain.

02:05But at the same time, being a player, you don't want to win like that.

02:10You don't want to have that hanging over your head.

02:12But this is getting ridiculous out there with the refs.

02:15I mean, somebody needs to police the police.

02:18You know what I mean?

02:18Somebody needs to police the referees.

02:20I mean, somebody needs to throw a flag on their ass from up in the

02:24press box, you know what I mean?

02:25Throw a parachute flag with a parachute down there.

02:28I've heard the argument lately that the NFL refs, they ought to be

02:32full-time.

02:33Like, I don't know how you feel about that.

02:35But I mean, it's...

02:36No, I agree with that too.

02:37I mean, if you want...

02:40So much is on the line, you know, and, you know, guys are out there.

02:43And first of all, let's keep it real.

02:46They're billionaires.

02:47You can't pay full-time?

02:49Is this saving a couple dollars?

02:51I mean, as much fines as you're giving everybody every week, use that to

02:54pay the damn refs.

02:55Come on, man.

02:56I mean, why wouldn't they be full-time?

02:58You sitting there telling me I'm a referee for a billion-dollar industry

03:03is my side hustle?

03:05Come on, man.

03:06You know what else, Ty?

03:07And I don't know if they could do it, but I remember Bill wanted to do

03:10this before.

03:11They should have the ability like they do when it comes to, you know,

03:16referees on New York buzzing down and going, all right, that necessarily

03:21wasn't a late hit because it's such a bang-bang play or that wasn't a

03:25rough-and-the-passer.

03:27But they would have to do it almost instantaneously or else you're just

03:30extending the game.

03:32Oh, no.

03:32No, I'm saying like when you think about it, there were two

03:34rough-and-the-passer penalties called in that game against Kansas City.

03:38We've talked about the second one being wildly egregious.

03:41Yeah, the second one was wildly egregious.

03:43The first one was hit or miss, you know.

03:45But to have the ability where the official can buzz down and go after

03:50looking at it, Mahomes flop, no penalty, pick the flag up because they

03:54do it, you know, with a lot of other things we see before they even go

03:58to instant replay or turnovers or things that I never got buzzed down.

04:01It wasn't a fumble.

04:03If they had that capability, maybe to do it on certain, you know, those

04:07type of plays, maybe you could take some of that out of the game.

04:10Ty, when you look at that game in particular for this upcoming weekend,

04:14Chiefs-Bills, what's it like for a team that is trying to make a historic

04:18run and the pressure that is going on behind the scenes, especially when

04:23you're going against a team where it feels like for the Bills, it's now

04:26or never.

04:26They have to win this one.

04:27They have to win this year.

04:30You know what?

04:31It's more pressure on the Bills.

04:32I mean, think about the Bills' history.

04:34I mean, they are the absolute best lose-miss team ever.

04:41They get four in a row.

04:42I mean, they starving for them.

04:44So, you know, this is their opportunity again to get to the Super Bowl and

04:49win it.

04:51There's no pressure really on Kansas City other than making history.

04:53They already, you know, the new dynasty like we were, you know what I mean?

04:58They're the new dynasty.

04:59Patrick Mahomes is Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey.

05:02So, they really don't have any pressure other than the pressure that they

05:05put on themselves.

05:06If they come up short, okay, who cares?

05:09They're still the Kansas City Chiefs.

05:11They're still the back-to-back champs.

05:14All the pressure is on Buffalo.

05:15So, Kansas, man, if it was Kansas City, man, we just gonna make it harder.

05:20Man, we feel like we got the refs on our side.

05:22So, that's just the way it goes.

05:24So, all the pressure is out of Orchard Park, New York.

05:28That's where all the pressure is.

05:29So, it's up to those guys to play above themselves just to get past, one, a

05:34great team in Kansas City.

05:36Two, we're fighting against the refs.

05:38So, it'll mean a lot if they can win, if they can pull this off.

05:41They got a guy, Josh Allen, that is putting the team on his back because

05:46remember, he lost his number one target, Stephon Diggs.

05:49Regardless of what you're saying, that was his guy and they still able to get

05:53into this position.

05:55It'll be interesting to see if they can pull it off and they got to go to

05:57Kansas City.

05:58It's going to be an uphill battle.

06:00It's possible.

06:02Ty, I look at it like this.

06:03I don't know how you feel.

06:04I feel like Patrick Mahomes is in the Brady category when it comes to, I'm

06:11not betting against them until I see somebody knock the king off to his

06:14throne and nobody's been able to do that yet.

06:17Do you feel the same way?

06:18Like, when you look at this game, do you feel like, all right, I'm not

06:21betting against Mahomes?

06:25I ain't betting against Mahomes.

06:26Not right now.

06:27I mean, he has the Brady effect.

06:28He finds the ways, he finds ways to win.

06:31He's in his comfort zone in these type of situations.

06:34So, a fool only bet against Patrick Mahomes.

06:39I mean, you don't do that.

06:40You have to go out there and earn it.

06:42You have to go out there and beat him and can the Buffalo Bills do that?

06:46Absolutely.

06:47This is a one game situation.

06:50Anybody can win.

06:51You know, you're going to need a turnover.

06:53You got to have to do something.

06:55You have to have that big explosive play, but I would not put my money

06:59against these guys right now.

07:01I just wouldn't do it.

Category

Transcript

Recommended