McKenzie: I mean the biggest biased question the thing is for me is
I get it you know it is an advantage (playing in bad weather) and I'm I'm fine with it you know saying no matter you know whatever people say I'm fine with being playing outside I don't care but it's just like when things like this happen like it rains no rain the whole game and we throw the ball and yes Josh can cut it in the wind but where's the ball the wind takes the ball or he slips off his hand or and then we got to worry about catching the ball from this Gunslinger so so it's just like you know it's I don't know it's just a little it's just you got to focus a little more which you can't focus on the main thing is that's just like playing football
Taylor Dunn: yeah I don't know though football is a it's a violent game Yeah by violent people as the football Gods intended Lombardi Palace Landry nagursky they want it to be in the conditions right
McKenzie: yeah I mean that's fine
Dunn: the mud you know what don't even take care of the field just make make it a big mud pit all right what was it like out there Sunday then because it was the wintry mix.
McKenzie: yeah
Dunn: it was windy and a little windy but wet yeah
McKenzie: it was mostly wet the field so I
Dunn: I'm not making excuses
McKenzie: yeah
Dunn: we're not letting you off the hook with excuses
McKenzie: um no it was it was like rain snow rain snow it never really stopped and the field was what I'm saying so you had to watch how you ran routes and all that stuff so it's just like and we were switching our gloves in and out because they were getting soaked like every time we touched the ground it was getting soaked so but as we drive down the field the ball was like soaked but the first play yeah it'd be fine but after that the ball's hitting the ground it's rolling everywhere it's just but we do wet ball drills in practice and I'll tell you the whole the main person that hates it…
Josh.
Dunn: he doesn't like the wet ball drill
McKenzie: yeah he hates it
Dunn: really
McKenzie: he hates it
Dunn: how does it work then do you just have like a big bucket of water
McKenzie: no, so coach comes has yeah well we don't you well I think we did a bucket of water before but he started using the spray bottle he'll spray the whole ball just with water soak it the whole bottle just soak it right and then it's a hike and then you just throw the ball and yeah whatever happens happens
Dunn: well I don't know I mean we were going to have a wet ball drill today you put it out there for those you know hopefully people don't live on Twitter because Twitter's awful it's a gross disgusting place but you did throw a tweet out today saying that we should just have a wet ball drill here at the show
McKenzie: yeah
Dunn: and I thought you were serious I brought a football John put the kibosh to it too he doesn't
want you know any injuries so we're not doing the wet ball drill sorry for everybody was looking forward to that unless you can find John and convince him and tell Isaiah we should then I'm open to it we got a football so I don't know. How hard is it to catch a wet football
McKenzie: oh it's hard especially with gloves on
Dunn: it's like they take the gloves off
McKenzie: yeah good luck [Laughter]
um but no that's why the thing is I was trying like the first pass it was like okay I thought the ball was so dry I was like I'm so confident because I went up I was like oh and then it went it hit my hands and then it's as I was trying to bring it in it was slipping I was like Oh and it got all the way down to my lap and then he pushed me out of bounds and I didn't know the ball was that wet and so I'll go to the sideline ah okay
cool so then the next case I just started catching it with my body and that's the reverse I got nobody would know because I'm a professional um the reverse I got Josh pitched it to me and I grabbed it and my left hand slipped off the ball so I just put it in my right hand so if you see me I'm running down the left sideline with the ball in my right hand I couldn't switch it because it was slippery but it won't look like it because that's just what I do right
So and then the other one that was up here right I was like there's nothing I could do with that one so it's like whatever so yeah I …
Dunn: got a hold on one of them
McKenzie: yeah
Dunn: it was that one yeah right that kind of gets lost in the mix
McKenzie: yeah I don't think people watching that part I don't think people are watching the game it's just watching like Isaiah what the hell is he doing
Dunn: I don't know I mean it's not real life on Twitter so I don't think they're even bringing it up but you caught a lot of crap on there like a lot of people you know all the time really I guess everybody kind of needs somebody to pick on so why not the little guy why not
McKenzie: yeah right like before halftime like I didn't just catch the ball and drive us downfield right the that's why somebody asked me they said uh uh uh they say oh yeah would you catch the ball I was like well I'm the one that got it started like who was catching the ball besides me before half after that before halftime to get us and then Dawson scored I was like okay cool
Dunn:
does it bother you I mean does does this bother you when you hear from people
McKenzie
: no
Dunn: no
McKenzie: no
Dunn: it's funny it seemed like there was some good replies there yeah people giving
you some unsolicited advice
McKenzie: yeah
Dunn: on how to catch the football
McKenzie: exactly
Dunn: yeah
it's all good you know it's just. oh one guy said um he's losing me a lot of money in my bets and I was like well stop betting on me It's like I don't even bet on myself.
Don't bet on me how about you just watch the game and enjoy and have fun
Dunn: right I think gambling does kind of uh
McKenzie: oh yeah
Dunn: turn the thermometer up a little bit
McKenzie: yeah yeah
Dunn: we but the good thing is you know the NFL's you know they're sponsored by DraftKings and they're you know throwing it all out there but they do tell you there's a hotline to call if you have a problem so that's nice it's just it's just so I hypocritical as always.
um but yeah I don't know like you don't care what people think about you
McKenzie: no
Dunn: but it it is interesting that you know scapegoats are needed people to blame are needed
McKenzie: oh yeah
Dunn: and right now it's it's kind I don't know I get the sense though that everybody's just kind of wondering why the offense is in a little bit of a funk right now and trying to piece that together
McKenzie: I think for the most part it's just I'm I don't know everybody I mean we doing what we can you know we're doing like during the week we're like okay like every week we're like we got the place we're we're practicing hard we're doing well bam but the week as well the sun is out yeah everything's fine and then Sunday comes and it's like it's raining we got to change the game plan we got to run different catch the ball different it's like those say I play a little role you know I'm saying when during the week you're like ah I'm feeling good I'm feeling good and then you get out there and it's a snowstorm and you gotta adjust the offense you got to call certain plays a different way catch the ball to throw the ball a different way it's just it's different you know I'm saying I feel like besides that game other games before that when it was just nice outside and we weren't playing too well it was just everybody going through their bumps and bruises like Josh you know he went to a state where he was throwing two interceptions a game and it was like okay well he's he's in the funk right now but it's not like he can't get out of it you know he's you know what he's capable of you know so it's just
Dunn: is it more mental or physical because right I mean there's going to be elements right football's always been played in the wind and the snow and the Heat and the everything um so how can these coaches get you guys better prepared to handle whatever's thrown at you on Sunday
McKenzie: um I don't think there's a preparation when it comes to elements or or anything you know I'm saying there's anything besides it it's just I'll be honest I don't know you know we just got to play better football you know we understand that it's not like we don't understand we gotta play better football it's just like you know it's it is what it is you know but at the same time like I don't know like how like what do you think like how like if I'm trying to figure it out and I'm on the team it's like what what do you do to be better it's like if we're not doing it and we're doing we're…
Dunn: probably running the ball better I guess I don't know it seems like you know if it's bad weather just run it more
McKenzie: yeah
Dunn: is it that simple?
McKenzie: no
Dunn: I don't know
McKenzie: because we can barely run the ball when it's sunny out so you know like it's it's like we
Dunn: yeah
McKenzie: we doing what we can and it's like it's it's not working it's working it's not working so I just we got it we gotta take the bumps and bruises as they come but we understand like the best footballs played in November and December and a win is a win I'm saying you just don't want to L at the end of the day
Dunn: that's true I mean it it's weird to nitpick and and try to dissect everything that's
wrong with this bill's offense
McKenzie: yeah
Dunn: but when you're 10-3 and I get it maybe the argument stops there at the same time the expectations were super bowl or bust for this team this year
McKenzie: and in beginning we said I said we can't Bank on that you know because I mean the bills are still going to be the bills 10 years from now like you still gotta you know so we can't just Bank on one year you know even though these last few years have been our best years you know and I just feel like if you think about that a lot of people don't think about the process that's what a trusted process
comes in you know
Dunn: that was one of the words we're gonna ban on this show we don't we don't use trust to process on this podcast, but it it kind of agitated enough
McKenzie: it kind of goes into play like everybody's thinking oh the bills are down to one super [ __ ] they have to Once well they're they're the same to win the Super Bowl
Dunn: as a player to handle that pressure I mean it is real
McKenzie: yeah
Dunn: nobody has bet on a team to win the Super Bowl more than the 2022 Buffalo Bills
McKenzie: exactly. I mean it's just but there's also in the mix of winter it's not like we can just jump from Camp to the Super Bowl you know and so because if we could do that then okay let's do it but
Dunn: I know
McKenzie: along those lines we got like uh okay we gotta win this game we gotta win that game we gotta lose this game we got to win that game we gotta you know like we gotta get injured here we gotta do we gotta fly to Detroit because it's snow on the ground like things happen you know what I'm saying like Joshua's interception I drop a ball ditch score touchdown like it's gonna happen like you know like it's just but what we could let's say yes if God's willing we go to the Super Bowl then all that's out the window then you know so but that's like that's that's life in general I'm saying if something good happens and something bad happened the good of I mean how depending on how good the good is the bad doesn't really matter anymore
Dunn: and you would still prefer home field advantage even though the elements can kind of throw this offense off Maybe not maybe a neutral site maybe pop over to the Carrier Dome
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