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It's Thursday, December 1st.

I'm Jamie Erdall.

It's Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and a Superbook champion giant great to my right. Sean O'Hara.

Happy December. Yeah, happy December. Clearly there's a line of demarcation right here. I'm still in November. You're very pumpkin and I'm very ornament. That's a wild clash between you too. Yeah. We did not coordinate. Thanks. Jason McCordy is up to England.

He's in Foxborough ahead of the Bill's Patriots game on Thursday night football.

Jason's gonna, you can hear his voice on the radio. Jason, hang with us. We want to include you in our chat in a little bit. Time for the lead block. Lead block. We've got a huge AFC East matchup this evening. It's Bill's Buffalo Bills head into Foxborough to take on their rival. The New England Patriots. That game kicks off at 8.15 p.m. Eastern on Prime Video,

and you can watch it on NFL Plus. And the states are high. It feels great. December 1st.

The playoffs are a concern for the Patriots. But where the bills sit, also a bit of a question. The bills are sitting in the top wild card spot right now, while the Patriots are the first team out. That's very bubblishous of them if the postseason were to start today. So there's a lot riding on this Thursday night football game. But besides just the standings, a win for the Patriots for the Patriots beating the bills tonight would mean, Kyle.

It would mean the Pats are back from the dead. And they were dead last year. That game in Buffalo, that was a public execution on national television.

Bill Belchick goes into the locker room. He shakes Josh Allen's hand. And then he went to work. He's had 10 months. He's had 10 draft picks.

He's had free agency. He extended Devin McCordy. He brought in guys like Gibral Peppers, and it's to beat number 17 of the Buffalo Bills. If they win this game, this is a – the East is not just yours. You don't just take it – and maybe Miami's. We'll deal with them another time. The East is not just yours. We are not dead. We are the Patriots. We are not going away. We are going to be

eight and five. We have won six of our last eight games. And if we beat the bills on any given

day, we can beat anybody in the AFC. It is an announcement by the Patriots if they win and they're back from the dead, Peter. Three and a half point underdogs at home in primetime. I don't know if I've ever seen the Patriots be big underdogs at home in prime time. And it's the case.

They gave the game away last week. They could have beaten Minnesota. Mack Jones threw for 382 yards. He was finding himself in a rhythm. And Minnesota, you know, was able to benefit off of a roughing the punter on Pierre Strong, on some defensive miscues. Nothing to take away from the Vikings, but if they win tonight, the Patriots,

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