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Speaker 1: This the One Bill's Live presented by Calida Health. How

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Speaker 1: is everybody on this Wednesday? Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Thank you for joining us as the Bills

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Speaker 1: are back out on the practice field this afternoon, as

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Speaker 1: we speak about fifty yards away from where we sit,

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Speaker 1: and uh getting into it. And I gotta tell you

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Speaker 1: the special teams ace over here next to me. The

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Speaker 1: wheels are turning on the kick return and the best

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Speaker 1: way to crack the code, it's he was on it

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Speaker 1: like White on Rice. We're standing out there watching them

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Speaker 1: run through kick return drill. It was something we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be watching history in this league Steve live and in

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Speaker 1: color every single week this year.

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Speaker 2: It's transformative. It's gonna be cool. And then you know,

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Speaker 2: now you know it's gonna be different in games now

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Speaker 2: in regular season. The preseason was all right, let's just

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Speaker 2: run through it. See if we can do see let's

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Speaker 2: just check our guys out. Do they play hard? Is

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Speaker 2: a guy playing hard? Is he doing what I told him? Okay, fine,

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Speaker 2: he's on the team. Now here's what I really want

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Speaker 2: you to do kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see how many fancy parlor tricks do people

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Speaker 1: have up their sleeve in weeks one, two, three, and four,

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Speaker 1: because here's the you've got to know, Steve, this is

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Speaker 1: the ultimate fear of every coach in the league. They're

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Speaker 1: in a one score game that they just took the

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Speaker 1: lead and they have to kick off, and that other

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Speaker 1: team has some Harry high school play under his thumb

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Speaker 1: and they pull it out there and they tie the game,

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Speaker 1: or worse, you get beat on a play like that.

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Speaker 1: In weeks one, two or three. That's gonna happen. Somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Someone's got something.

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Speaker 2: Somebody's gonna struggle with it. I think, you know it's

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Speaker 2: if you're you're right. It is kind of like a

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Speaker 2: parlor trick where a guy comes up and says, pick

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Speaker 2: a card. Pick a card. You don't want to be

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Speaker 2: the guy he's talking to about picking a card, because

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Speaker 2: you're the one who's gonna get victimized, Yes, victimized, So

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Speaker 2: be the one holding the cards, basically, And.

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Speaker 1: That's what everybody's racing to try to do to be

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Speaker 1: the deal.

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Speaker 2: I think too, they're here's what people don't get about

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Speaker 2: special teams. Mostly it is such a and not so

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Speaker 2: much not like it was in the back in decades past,

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Speaker 2: but it is still a little bit of the wild

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Speaker 2: and kickoff return and punt punt team that you really

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Speaker 2: have to have guys who who understand it and are engaged.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna cut. You know, a great play can outweigh

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Speaker 2: the wrong call, even if they have the perfect return

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Speaker 2: on it. One guy who's thinking and sees it and

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Speaker 2: understands what's going on can blow it up. And you

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Speaker 2: want special teams coordinators or that's all they do. They

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Speaker 2: scour the roster during training camp for athletes who are

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Speaker 2: smart and instinctive and can think, and they're hard to

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Speaker 2: to play special teams. He goes, now, I'm doing this

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Speaker 2: He didn't get won't you get used? Special teams coordinators

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Speaker 2: are forced to trust their players. Offensive and defensive coordinators

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Speaker 2: are allowed to pick players they trust. And that's a

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Speaker 2: subtle difference that sometimes a lot of times goes unnoticed.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes is the difference.

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Speaker 2: It is the difference.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm very curious, very very very very curious

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Speaker 1: no starters essentially within reason, some linemen are going to

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Speaker 1: I think I think it's a much different situation for

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Speaker 1: the kickoff return and kick coverage team. You need as

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Speaker 2: To decide how to articulate what I think here. I

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. They almost have to start teams.

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Speaker 2: I'm starting special teams, but I'm not talking about Greg

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying there, That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: This is just as important as the game I had

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Speaker 1: And that's why the point I was trying to make

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Speaker 1: on Saturday, I think for kick return and kick coverage.

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Speaker 1: and the need for those reps on a brand new

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Speaker 1: play I think is more validable than sitting a guy

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Speaker 2: Nobody's even ever asked about special teams rotation. But that's

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Speaker 2: still some guys who you know, you got your offensive

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Speaker 2: and these these staff meetings that they have, and they're saying,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's there's a lot of work there, and that

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Speaker 1: works only going to get more voluminous because if you

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Speaker 1: don't like you've cracked the code, you're checking the thirty

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Speaker 1: one other teams to see if they have. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: because like I said, you don't want to be we had.

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Speaker 1: It's the old term that it's a copycat league. It

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Speaker 1: will never be more like a copycat league than on

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Speaker 1: kick returns and kick coverage this season because whoever cracks

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Speaker 1: coming up with a plan to stop it.

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Speaker 2: That's right. That's right, and that there's a lot going

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Speaker 2: on in it. And I'll say this I mentioned on

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Speaker 2: Guys like Joe Andresen and Davidson and all these young

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Speaker 2: make the fifty three. They're gonna get all the offensive

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Speaker 1: They're gas because gonna have any rests, no reps scept

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Speaker 2: No rest. They are gassed. And plus and I said

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Speaker 2: that's the way it is with these young players. They're

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Speaker 2: adrenaline is is catastrophically off the charts. So you go

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Speaker 3: Just let me.

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Speaker 2: You can't you can't find there's no oxygen in the

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Speaker 1: And that's what being out in the deep water there, Yes.

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Speaker 2: It is the deep water. That's what these guys are

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Speaker 1: They're playing four down football because you know, they're playing

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Speaker 2: I mean, they's just it's yeah.

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Speaker 1: A couple of quick updates from practice today. No sign

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Speaker 1: of Will Clap he left practice early yesterday. The offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman who's played garden center. And then the good news

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Speaker 1: is we saw Mike Edwards dressed for practice today. Cole

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Speaker 1: red non contact jersey, and linebacker Nicholas Morrow back for

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Speaker 1: now being our eyes and ears, so we'll get an

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Speaker 1: update from Maddie at the bottom of the hour. We

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Speaker 1: should go around the NFL. Here in short order, Around

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and we begin with AFC East News

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Speaker 1: and it starts in Miami where Tyreek Hill is dealing

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Speaker 1: with a thumb injury and the Dolphins are having joint

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Speaker 1: practices with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But Hill is going

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Speaker 1: to be sitting out any and all team periods against

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Speaker 1: the Bucks due to that thumb injury. Ultimately, they feel

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Speaker 1: he's going to be fine for Week one because that's

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Speaker 1: still a little over two weeks off, but he is

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Speaker 1: only going to participate pat on a limited basis in

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Speaker 1: some elements of the practice session today because they don't

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Speaker 1: want to exacerbate the thumb injury. So I don't know

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Speaker 1: how you can participate in catch footballs without a thumb

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Speaker 1: Because nobody's throwing it to you is what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: a chance to really surprise some people and be a

435
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,160
Speaker 2: really good pass rush group.

436
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Speaker 1: So with defensive end be your pick for I think

437
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: such position group has the best chances.

438
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Speaker 3: I think so.

439
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Speaker 2: I think so. I think anything you get out of Vonn,

440
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 2: people are gonna say, wow, that's a surprise because they

441
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,679
Speaker 2: you know, so many people think he was done. I

442
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 2: don't Rousseau's gonna be good, Epanessa's going to be good.

443
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 2: And those two young guys Jonathan and Solomon, I think

444
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 2: they got a chance to be really good, really good.

445
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we saw some of their special teams prowess

446
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:33,640
Speaker 1: in addition to what they did off the edge late

447
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: in the game last Saturday on defense, you know, collapsing

448
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 1: the pocket pressure on the quarterback. They're also making tackles

449
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 1: and coverage units on special teams. So I think they're

450
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: gonna go deep at the defensive end position this year.

451
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 1: I think they might keep six. So with that in mind,

452
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Speaker 1: I think that can get Jonathan and Solomon on the

453
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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. Yeah, so, And I think the

454
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: reason you carry six is not only because what you

455
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: consider first and foremost as a coach all the time,

456
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Speaker 1: which is you pick your best fifty three, but I

457
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Speaker 1: think because those two guys can play special teams. So

458
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Speaker 1: even if they're up and they're only getting twenty reps

459
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: on defense, they're still getting twenty on special teams and

460
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: they're helping you. And then also you couple that with

461
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Speaker 1: the fact that von Miller's probably playing thirty snaps a game.

462
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Speaker 1: He's a part time player, and that's on the high

463
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: end problem thirty snaps. So you need those guys to

464
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Speaker 1: fill the other parts of your team, like special teams,

465
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Speaker 1: to kind of stem the tide, so to speak. So

466
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Speaker 1: I think they go heavy because heavy at defensive end,

467
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Speaker 1: because Vaughn's going to be a part time player for them,

468
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 1: So you need an extra guy. So if God forbid,

469
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Speaker 1: somebody goes down one week and now you need a

470
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Speaker 1: guy to play fifty snaps, You've got two young guys

471
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Speaker 1: sitting there on your ross. You're maybe one of them

472
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Speaker 1: is inactive every week. I don't know, just from a

473
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Speaker 1: numbers perspective. As soon as you get an injury, THO,

474
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Speaker 1: you're gonna need one of those guys, and they're already

475
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Speaker 1: on your roster. So I think they go six deep

476
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Speaker 1: at defensive end, probably only keep four defensive tackles because

477
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Speaker 1: Smooth's kind of a swing guy. He can play end

478
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Speaker 1: on rundowns, kick down inside on passing downs if need be,

479
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Speaker 1: and if you're short of DT one week, he can

480
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: spell you there that kind of thing. So he's kind

481
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Speaker 1: of your swing guy there at that position. So you

482
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Speaker 1: can probably only only need to take four. That's that's

483
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Speaker 1: the thing, right. Uh, let's get to the phones at

484
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Speaker 1: eight oh three, five point fifty one eighty eight, five

485
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Speaker 1: fifty two, five fifty and joining us here to lead

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Speaker 1: us off today is a Robert in North Amherst. What

487
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Speaker 1: do you got, Robert Hi?

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Speaker 6: My question asked to with special teams, would the special

489
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Speaker 6: teams coordinator have an idea in advance as to whether

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Speaker 6: the coordinator is going to keep two extra linebackers and

491
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 6: two extra receivers uh and two safeties for special teams?

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Speaker 6: Is there a preconceived notion as to what is good,

493
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Speaker 6: what positions they need? And with the new rule where

494
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Speaker 6: there's less running and you're you're starting at the forty

495
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Speaker 6: yard line. Possibly change the formulas this year with a

496
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Speaker 6: defensive and like maybe Solomon or like Jonathan uh possibly

497
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 6: beyond special teams because there's less run duty on the kickoff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all the questions, Yeah, that's all, Yes, Robert, they

499
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 2: don't really know what kind of athletes are going to

500
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 2: have on kickoff kickoff return, but it is a good question,

501
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:53,640
Speaker 2: and and quite frankly, yes, it may change the type

502
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 2: of athlete you want. But there's an over there's a

503
00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 2: larger philosophy about. For instance, some head coaches will say, listen,

504
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 2: the last guy at every position group, the last linebacker,

505
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 2: last tight end, last offensive lineman, last safety, last corner,

506
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 2: last wide receiver, last running back, those seven groups, the

507
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 2: last guy all of them are going to be a

508
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 2: special teams player, whether they can play at all on

509
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 2: that group.

510
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Speaker 1: And the special teams coach is in those meetings.

511
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 2: Yes, and the special teams coach says, all right, if

512
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 2: you're you're gonna give me a running back, I want

513
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 2: that running back. You know, if you're gonna be a

514
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 2: running back, I want Taiwan Jones. You know, if you're

515
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 2: gonna give me a linebacker. I want Tyler Medikevitch, you know,

516
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 2: if you're gonna get you know that kind of thing.

517
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 2: That's how that works. So it's up to the club

518
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 2: to pick, or it's up to Brandon Bean to pick

519
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 2: the fifty three. But all those voices are in the

520
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 2: room saying had rather have this guy and that guy,

521
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 2: and they will make sure, and the special teams coordinator

522
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 2: will say, listen, I need at least seven guys, right,

523
00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 2: and I can fill in the last two spots. On

524
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 2: field goal, I can fill in the last eight spots

525
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 2: because I'll have you know, the kicker, the long snapper,

526
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 2: and the punter or three of the eleven. So I

527
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 2: need eight other guys. I can fill those in with

528
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 2: the guys I got with the offensive line and all that.

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00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 2: But on kickoff, I need seven solid athletes kickoff return,

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00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 2: I need eight or nine solid athletes.

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Speaker 1: And I'll just tell you Javon Solomon and Kingsley Jonathan

532
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,479
Speaker 1: are already on those units. Yeah, and they're playing in

533
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: this preseason.

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00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 2: They they have acquitted themselves extremely well so far. So

536
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 2: that is yeah, that's part of the and it doesn't matter,

537
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 2: you know, it doesn't matter. We've seen other defensive ends

538
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 2: and stuff and defensive linemen play over the years. They're

539
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 2: good enough athletes to do it. Absolutely. Mark Pike was

540
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 2: the greatest big man special teams player of all time.

541
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 2: He did it with it for a decade. And there

542
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 2: are guys like him in the league. So as long

543
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,080
Speaker 2: as you get that core number and they're got and

544
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 2: you need they got to be active on game day.

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00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 2: You can't deactivate three of them on a game day,

546
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 2: right because you want an extra whatever whatever. So that's

547
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 2: critical to think about as well. So, but yes, there's

548
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 2: a core number of athletes that a special teams coordinator

549
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 2: will ask for and the head coach will, you know,

550
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 2: say yeah, okay, and then they then they decide who

551
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 2: those are going to be on a week to week basis.

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00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: Got to take a break here, but when we come back,

553
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: we'll get an update from practice today from Bill's reporter

554
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: Maddy Clabs. She joins us here in studio next on

555
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Colta Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

556
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: All right back here on One Bill's Live. Chris Brown

557
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker joined.

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Speaker 7: Here in studio by Bill's reporter Maddy Clab, who's been

559
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Speaker 7: out of practice all week, and I guess we got

560
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 7: some good news yes day, Mandy with Cole Bishop coming

561
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 7: back to practice, albeit you know, red non contact jersey,

562
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 7: but just seeing him participate in some capacity was kind

563
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 7: of like a finally reaction.

564
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 8: With all these injuries to get some players back, specifically

565
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 8: a draft pick is better late than never, where he's

566
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 8: coming back to the practice field before this season begins,

567
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 8: and I think that's a win. Especially being a rookie.

568
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 8: You need that time on task, you need those reps

569
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 8: throughout practices. We heard from defensive coordinator Bobby Babbage today

570
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 8: and he said there's things we can do from Cole

571
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 8: outside of practices that can get him up to speed

572
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 8: on things, but it really comes down to letting a

573
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Speaker 8: guy be out there work, get to learn the position

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00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 8: and with what his coaches have to say and all

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Speaker 8: those things. So it's it's nice to have somebody like

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Speaker 8: that out there practicing. And Sean McDermott also said, you know,

577
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Speaker 8: Mike Edwards is also going to get uh be be

578
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 8: a part of individual and stretch and all those things

579
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 8: this week too, So I know we'll have a better

580
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 8: update once practice ends, but it's nice that a few

581
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,719
Speaker 8: players are getting back to practicing finally after you know,

582
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 8: somebody like Edwards hasn't really seen the practice field much

583
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 8: this entire offseason.

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Speaker 2: And if you think about it, Cole Bishop's got a

585
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 2: lot of time now, got you know, or two and

586
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 2: a half three weeks to get up to speed and

587
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 2: be become, you know, the guy they envisioned him being.

588
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 2: He's have a heart. He'll have a chance to get

589
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Speaker 2: into the starting lineup between now and opening day, even

590
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Speaker 2: given this level of ramping up. So he's gonna have

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00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 2: a lot of time to start taking a lot of reps.

592
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 2: He's already been taking mental reps, listening to the conversation,

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00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 2: getting coached up by the coaches. So he's Yeah, getting

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00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 2: back on the field now really just means he's gonna

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00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 2: be ready for opening day and one hundred percent healthy

596
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 2: when he does.

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00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 8: Yeah, and you wonder what that is gonna play out.

598
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 8: Like we know Tamar Hamlin is now not practicing as well.

599
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 8: So as you get a safety back who is starting

600
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 8: to get back into the fold of things, you lose

601
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 8: somebody and DeMar Hamlin, who has been on the practice

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00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 8: field throughout training camp. So the guy who's been there

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00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 8: throughout everything has been Taylor Rap. So come week one,

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Speaker 8: who is gonna be next to Taylor Rap? Is it

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00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 8: gonna be Taylor Rap starting on the field come week one?

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Speaker 8: We've seen the most out of him. He's been in

607
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Speaker 8: the system for a year. But if it is him,

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00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 8: who's opposite of him? And how quickly if it's going

609
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 8: to be somebody like Cole Bishop or Mike Edwards, how

610
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 8: quickly are they going to be ready? Or is it

611
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 8: going to be somebody like Deamar Hamlin who does have

612
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 8: starts under his.

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Speaker 1: Belt right, but he's now nicked up too with the

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00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: hamstring string, didn't play in the Pittsburgh game, didn't practice yesterday,

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to see how that goes the

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Speaker 1: rest of the week. I mean, I don't think he

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Speaker 1: would play Saturday even if he was healthy, based on

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Speaker 1: what coach McDermott said. So it is going to be

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Speaker 1: an opportunity for those second and third team guys because

620
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: he's been running with Taylor Rep when healthy, but that

621
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 1: was not the case last week.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, DeMar Hamlin, it's been nice to see him back

623
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,919
Speaker 8: out there. And when you think about the third preseason game,

624
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 8: Sean McDermott said, you know, at this point, we have

625
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 8: to rest the starters because of the injuries that we've

626
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 8: had to several different position groups. It's not just hey,

627
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 8: we're gonna play a couple guys for a quarter. We're

628
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 8: gonna we're gonna throw them out there for a series

629
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Speaker 8: because we want to see Josh Allen for a second time.

630
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 8: They weren't able to do that against the Steelers because

631
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 8: of the weather, but now with so many injuries to

632
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 8: several different position groups, they have to be a little

633
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,320
Speaker 8: bit more careful. So you have all these starters resting,

634
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 8: you know, a week before they get into in season mode,

635
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 8: before cuts happen. I know they'll have a few days

636
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 8: off there, but you you know, in a perfect world,

637
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 8: maybe you want to see some of those starters out

638
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 8: on the It'll be a nice test though, for the

639
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 8: twos and threes to get out there. A lot more

640
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 8: evaluation for the coaches if you're gonna have those guys

641
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 8: play the entire game.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of wondering what the plan will be for

643
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: Dorian Williams because obviously he slid into Matt Mulano's role

644
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 1: last week in Pittsburgh. But the question about his game

645
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: is really how much better has he gotten in coverage?

646
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh was not a good offense to go against to

647
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: get an evaluation of that with the way those two

648
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: quarterbacks played. So I'm wondering, does the coaching staff need

649
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: to put him out there again on Saturday and hope

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Speaker 1: they get the coverage looks they want to properly evaluate. Oh, well, look,

651
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: he's our starter on rundowns. Can he play passing downs too,

652
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Speaker 1: or do we have to come up with a different

653
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: kind of package. I'm wondering if he plays on set.

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Speaker 8: You also have to think about the fact that there

655
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 8: is a risk putting anybody out there. What would happen

656
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 8: if he knock on Wood were to get injured. I mean,

657
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 8: they have multiple injuries at that position group. They're getting

658
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 8: guys back in Nick Morrow and Eddie Ulfocio, so that's

659
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 8: nice to see see, but they don't want to be

660
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 8: down another guy. But on the other hand, you would

661
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 8: probably love to see Dorian Williams in another preseason game

662
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 8: if this is going to be your guys starting next

663
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 8: to Terrell Bernard, to see a different offense out there,

664
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Speaker 8: to see some different pieces, some different pass catchers that

665
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 8: he can go against. It's got to be hard for

666
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,760
Speaker 8: Sean McDermott and these coaches to make these types of decision.

667
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,240
Speaker 8: You have to fall back on what is the most

668
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 8: important thing heading into the season. Is it seeing Dorian

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Speaker 8: Williams out there for one more game or is protecting

670
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,919
Speaker 8: his health even more important? Knowing that you know, when

671
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 8: you go out there, you know, anything can happen to anybody.

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00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you've got these It could be the Eddie

673
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:53,320
Speaker 2: Udelfocio Show and the Joe Andriesen Show on on Saturday

674
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 2: as well. I mean, you're gonna play. You'll be playing

675
00:36:55,120 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 2: against the Carolina Panthers. They have not looked great in

676
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,919
Speaker 2: the preseason. They they have yet to win a game.

677
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 2: They're a team that is in a new head coach,

678
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 2: new head coach. They've got a quarterback that struggled, a

679
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 2: rookie quarterback from a year ago and going into his

680
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 2: second year and a year after a year he struggled

681
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 2: mightily as a rookie. And you're right, how do you

682
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 2: know if these guys can cover when the quarterback you're

683
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 2: playing against on the ground in the backfield all the time,

684
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 2: you know, so you know nobody has to cover anybody.

685
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 2: So I think you're gonna see I think you're gonna

686
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 2: see Eddie lafouch show. You're gonna see Joe Andrees, and

687
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 2: you're gonna see you know, all these and maybe Deon

688
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 2: Jones if he's healthy, anybody who's healthy. You know, Specter

689
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 2: is still a question mark.

690
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's probably not gonna play with the calf injury.

691
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 2: I'll say this, if Specter was ready on Friday to play,

692
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 2: he doesn't need the I mean he's been here for

693
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 2: three years. I mean the guys he'll know what to

694
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 2: do him in. I don't know how ready Shane Simon is.

695
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 1: He's been here all the camp. He got cut due

696
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: to a roster move with injuries and then got brought

697
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: back two or three days later. But Mattie, we heard

698
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 1: coach Babbage talk about Ulafotio and the time that he's missed.

699
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: What what do you make of his comments today about Eddie?

700
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean Eddie is somebody who it's nice that

701
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,280
Speaker 8: he's getting back on the field. This is another draft

702
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 8: pick where camp is so important for these rookies to

703
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 8: start to learn an NFL defense. This is not an

704
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,800
Speaker 8: easy defense to learn. We know they put a lot

705
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 8: on the linebackers and the safeties within this defense, so

706
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 8: it's learning about, Okay, what are my calls, what are

707
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 8: my checks? Who do I need to communicate with? But yeah, obviously,

708
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,760
Speaker 8: you know, he's starting to get comfortable with the little

709
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 8: bit that we're doing out there. And it's hard to

710
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,720
Speaker 8: get comfortable with something that you're just walking into after

711
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 8: spending some time injured. But he did say, you know,

712
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 8: there's a lot of room for growth for a player

713
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 8: like this and for anybody in our defense, and he

714
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 8: just needs to catch up as fast as possible.

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Speaker 1: He's been over a week on the sidelines with a

716
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: rib injury. I think the one feather in his cap

717
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: is he did play special teams in addition to defense

718
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: for three years at Washington, so special teams isn't foreign

719
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: to him. The kickoff play might be because it's foreign

720
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: to everybody, but I think it helps him that he

721
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: has a lot of special team snaps under his belt

722
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:27,720
Speaker 1: from his college days at Washington. So that's good. Anything

723
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: you're going to keep your eye on the rest of

724
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: this week, maybe besides the injuries, do you have any

725
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:33,720
Speaker 1: interest in Anthony Brown?

726
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 8: Who's Yeah, I do think it's interesting that. I mean,

727
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 8: I'm sure if we ask Brandon Hay Brandon, has there

728
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 8: ever been an offseason where you had to sign two

729
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 8: backup quarterbacks to get through the preseason, he would say

730
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 8: absolutely not. It's a very unique situation that this team

731
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 8: is going through where they lose their backup quarterback in

732
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 8: Shane Bouchelle, and then they lose another backup in Mitchell

733
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 8: Trubisky after injuries in preseason games. So you bring on

734
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 8: Ben Denuci a week ago. He has four days to

735
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,879
Speaker 8: prepare for a preseason game, plays against the Steelers, and

736
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 8: Mitchell Trubisky goes out with a knee injury, and up,

737
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 8: we've got to sign another backup quarterback. So in walks

738
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 8: Anthony Brown, who just got waived by the Las Vegas

739
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 8: Raiders last Friday and is now in Buffalo being signed

740
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,919
Speaker 8: by them on Tuesday, same deal. Ben Denucci got signed

741
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 8: on Tuesday. Anthony Brown got signed on Tuesday. There's a

742
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 8: game on Saturday. He'll have four days to prepare for

743
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 8: this game. I talked to him yesterday after practice. We

744
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 8: had to wait for I want to say thirty minutes

745
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 8: for him to come off the practice field because he

746
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 8: was talking, he was doing extra, he was talking with coaches.

747
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 8: It was very interesting to watch Anthony Brown and Ben

748
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 8: Denucci go through a practice yesterday. I was really keyed

749
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 8: in on both of them, and they had coaches next

750
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 8: to them the entire practice, walking them through things, talking,

751
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 8: talking with them about different things. Denucci told me he

752
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 8: went through the entire practice script after practice yesterday because

753
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 8: he's trying to get as many reps as possible. But

754
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 8: going back to Anthony Brown, I asked him about what

755
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,760
Speaker 8: the last twenty four hours had been like, and he said,

756
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 8: it's a whirlwind. I'm a younger quarterback. This has never

757
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 8: happened to me before. Where I get waived by a team,

758
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 8: I'm supposed to clear everything out of my mind when

759
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 8: it comes to the Raiders offense that I just spent

760
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 8: the entire offseason learning and felt like I was in

761
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 8: a good place. Now I'm here in Buffalo, I need

762
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 8: to pick up a new offense. Oddly enough, Ben Denucci

763
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 8: and Anthony Brown have been training together since their freshman

764
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 8: year in college. So Brown said, I'm gonna have a

765
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 8: million questions for Danucci, but I know that I can

766
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 8: feel comfortable around him and comfortable with asking him those

767
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,479
Speaker 8: questions because we've known each other for so long.

768
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Speaker 1: And Joe Brady the other day even said if he

769
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 1: calls a play that we have something else and it

770
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: helps him remember it better by calling it what it

771
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: was in his old football language. I'll make a note

772
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: on my sheet and call it that for him this week,

773
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: just so it gets executed properly. Mattie, we appreciate the time.

774
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: Maddie will be down on the sidelines on Saturday along

775
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:21,240
Speaker 1: with Steve on the television broadcast because Saturday, August twenty fourth,

776
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills welcome the Panthers for their home preseason

777
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 1: matchup at one pm, and it's Kids Day presented by

778
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: Fisher Price. Perfect time to enjoy a Bill's game with

779
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: the whole family. Starting at nine am in the bus

780
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: in Limo Alott at Highmark Stadium. The festivities kickoff with

781
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: a Junior tailgate at nine am which we'll have games, activities,

782
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: giveaways along with a dance party hosted by DJ Milk.

783
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: You must see experience this year will be an expanded

784
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:49,720
Speaker 1: power wheels track and photo opportunities with Bill's mascot, Billy Buffalo,

785
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,760
Speaker 1: as well as fun games and activities for all ages.

786
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: So get out there and get out there early. We

787
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: take a break here, but we're back with more of

788
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: your phone calls when we return here. On one Bill's Live,

789
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,240
Speaker 1: presented by Kilidia Hellp, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

790
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 5: Hi.

791
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,720
Speaker 1: Back out one of Bill's Live. Chris Brown Steve Tasker

792
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: asking you which Bill's position group has the best chance

793
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: to surprise us this season. Eighth three five point fifty

794
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty to

795
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: Mark in Jersey City. Next, what's up? Mark?

796
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 4: You and gentlemen, thanks for taking my call. I think

797
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:38,240
Speaker 4: safety safety to me. The book is out on McDermot.

798
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 4: It's not just Bill's Uh go back to Carolina? What

799
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:47,320
Speaker 4: was that group? Kirk Coleman, Uh, Roman Harper, Trey Boston

800
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 4: and Dean Marlowe. You go to the you go to

801
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 4: the Bills. I you know, it was a nice signing.

802
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 4: It wasn't like, oh my god, the Bill's got an

803
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 4: all World safety and Poyer was kind of just if

804
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 4: he makes the team. He was wasn't he a veteran man.

805
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 4: He didn't come with a lot of fanfare. And look

806
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 4: what they turned into. They turned into something amazing. I mean,

807
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 4: I remember last year everybody was just in their own

808
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 4: head about the linebacker and for all Bernard and he

809
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 4: didn't play it all during the preseason. I think they

810
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 4: have enough of that group and enough of a track

811
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 4: record to figure that out and make it work. And

812
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 4: I think, like along with Steve thinks this team will

813
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 4: crescerendo late across the board, especially in the back end.

814
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 4: They have five guys. Lewis has been there, Hamlin is

815
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 4: having a great camp. Rap was coming on late. He

816
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 4: was coming on late last year. He looked good until

817
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 4: he hurt that calf, and he was a big miss

818
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,360
Speaker 4: in the playoffs. People talk about Bernard, but Rap was

819
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 4: a big miss in the playoffs. But thanks for taking

820
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 4: my call, guys.

821
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, that's a good point. I mean people do

822
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: forget that, you know, Rap missed that playoff game and

823
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: they were injury decimated on the defensive side of the ball.

824
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:07,760
Speaker 1: So yeah, that is not something that should be lost

825
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: on people. And yeah, Rap was playing well. I mean

826
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 1: he makes the game sealing interception in Week eighteen, but

827
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,959
Speaker 1: actually hurts his calf on that play and the Bills

828
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: lost for Sewell Douglas in that game. And then they

829
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:22,399
Speaker 1: lose Bernard the next week.

830
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a skeleton crew finishing up the season

831
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 2: for him in the playoffs, and it's unfortunate because and.

832
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: They still only lost by three.

833
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 2: You really want to go in hitting on all cylinders,

834
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 2: and you've got to think if your team's healthy, maybe

835
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 2: that game goes a different way. I mean, it's easy

836
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,479
Speaker 2: to say that now, but I think Bills fans feel

837
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 2: that way for sure. And you're right McDermott. We had

838
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,479
Speaker 2: him on the show, I believe you're in training camp,

839
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 2: and we got into this conversation about you know, he

840
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 2: he wants to have a team and a culture here

841
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 2: in Buffalo that every guy who comes through the door

842
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 2: plays their best football while they're a Buffalo Bill. And

843
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 2: I'll say this in large measure, I think it's true.

844
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 2: You'd be hard pressed have to see any of the

845
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 2: players who have played here and gone elsewhere have played

846
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 2: better in their in their other place at another team.

847
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 2: And so for that reason, that's I can't think of

848
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 2: an example where anybody went and played better somewhere else.

849
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 2: Maybe there's one who knows, but I know there's a

850
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 2: lot of guys who didn't who not to say they

851
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 2: fell off the face of the earth, but they didn't

852
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 2: play any better or got get any better or develop

853
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 2: any further once they left this building. And because of

854
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 2: that fact, you've got a lot of reasons and a

855
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 2: lot of confidence saying that this is a team that's

856
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 2: gonna crescendo. Like like Mark from Jersey City just said,

857
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 2: this team is gonna crescendo across the board in the

858
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 2: late in the season. I really believe that. Now, you know, nine,

859
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 2: like last year, you got nine guys hurt, and ye know,

860
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 2: then you're talking about something different because then you got

861
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 2: guys that are playing. Even if they play their best football,

862
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 2: they're not as good as the guys they're replacing because

863
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 2: they're not there yet. So health notwithstanding, if this team

864
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 2: is healthy headed into the playoffs, you can bet they're

865
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 2: going to be on the ascent. And that's something that

866
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 2: we can you know, Brown and I we've been talking

867
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 2: about it. We talk about all the time about his

868
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 2: player development and McDermott.

869
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 3: And his staff.

870
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 2: You can say it all you want, but it's hard.

871
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 2: You know, you can never tell the future. But man,

872
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 2: oh man, it has certainly been the case throughout Sean

873
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:44,760
Speaker 2: McDermott's tenure as Buffalo Bill's head coach, that players during

874
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 2: season and under his coaching and under his staff's coaching,

875
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 2: they get better, they play their best football, and they

876
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 2: continue to ascend. That's not the case in most other

877
00:47:58,040 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 2: franchises these days.

878
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 1: Which Bill's position group has the best chance to surprise

879
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: us this season? And why we go to Butcher on

880
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: the east side. Got about a minute here, butch what

881
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: do you got for us?

882
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 5: All right?

883
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 9: Don't get right quick to it, Chris Steve, I love you, MSG,

884
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 9: I love you, WG I love you, and the fans

885
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 9: y'all definitely love you. Can get right to the point.

886
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 9: My two groups. I got two groups that's gonna be

887
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:28,359
Speaker 9: outstanding this year. Number one go with the linebackers. I'm

888
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 9: gonna go with Dorian Williams. I told you guys before,

889
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 9: we call them little Ray Ray Ray lewis on here.

890
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:35,879
Speaker 6: Now.

891
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 10: Guess what we never knew that a kid is home.

892
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 10: You're like when Corey Graham, like the rest of these

893
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 10: other young kids from Buffalo wanted to get a shot

894
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 10: in the NFL, like my friend number fifty five, But

895
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 10: Indianapolis coach is playing right now from Buffalo want to

896
00:48:58,080 --> 00:48:58,800
Speaker 10: get a shot.

897
00:48:59,320 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 6: They're gonna be.

898
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 4: Home during reason.

899
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 9: He's the truth.

900
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 10: Guess what I give homage and I prayed Shammy Dermott,

901
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:15,479
Speaker 10: but sitting the starters down, allowing the kid to going

902
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 10: into the same group as Dorian Williams, and that kid shine.

903
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 10: He gonna keep shining as.

904
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 9: Long as y'all leave, as long as long as y'all

905
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 9: leave him alone and keep his confident. Now, Steve, as

906
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 9: a former player, you know what I mean when I

907
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 9: say this, Confidence is the most powerful thing you have

908
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 9: when you're on the team with a lot of players.

909
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 9: If you got confidence, that means you gonna go out

910
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 9: and get an opportunity to keep proving your confidence to

911
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 9: anybody else.

912
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:51,479
Speaker 2: Who's your second who's your second group?

913
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:51,800
Speaker 3: Butcher?

914
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 2: Who's your second position group? You have linebackers? And who else?

915
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,959
Speaker 9: Oh, i'm'a move off. I'm sorry about that, I probably

916
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 9: and anybody else. I'm sorry to some.

917
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 2: Long winded who's your second group?

918
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 9: But wide receivers my second group. The reason why I

919
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:11,839
Speaker 9: say that is I told you guys back in January,

920
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 9: Justin showed the Tyro Shavers. We didn't need nobody else. Now,

921
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,720
Speaker 9: Tyron Shavers in the show. Justin's coming up late because

922
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:24,400
Speaker 9: he's been injured. This going forward in this regular season,

923
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 9: our wide receiving group, everybody saying we need to get

924
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 9: somebody else because everybody else hurt.

925
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 6: No we don't.

926
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,919
Speaker 9: We got a goog wide receiving group. When we get

927
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,760
Speaker 9: when Josh Allen, who's our quarterback, along with our double

928
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 9: tight ends, along with everybody else. The players we have

929
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 9: Justin Shavers, Justin Shorter, are gonna prove that they can

930
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 9: make up for I'm not saying be that guy like

931
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 9: uh Diggs, like be that guy like Davis. But at

932
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 9: the same time, they're gonna implement along with it as

933
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 9: a as a former AIST team to make it successful.

934
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,920
Speaker 9: That's all I'll thank thanks much.

935
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 2: Appreciate you.

936
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: I will say, a guy to keep an eye on,

937
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 1: maybe in this final preseason game as Xavier Johnson, who's

938
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: a receiver, whereas Jersey number sixteen, Uh, I thought he

939
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: had an outstanding week of practice last week, almost to

940
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 1: the point where I was thinking to myself, maybe it's

941
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: finally like clicking for this kid. Now, you know, you

942
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: see it click in a player's head and all of

943
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: a sudden they're making plays and I think with Lawrence Keys,

944
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: another undrafted rookie injured, he's getting some more reps with

945
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: the threes, and you know he's gonna play a ton

946
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: on Saturday. So keep an eye out for number sixteen

947
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: too at the wide receiver position Ohio State.

948
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 2: Kid, So linebackers and wide receivers at those are Yeah.

949
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: Got to take a break here when we come back.

950
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: More of your phone calls at eight O three oh

951
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: five fifty. Which Bill's position group has the best chance

952
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: to surprise us this season and why? And we'll also

953
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: hear from some players coming off the practice field as

954
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: they wrap up their session today. We expect to hear

955
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: from Greg Russo and maybe Arren Johnson as well. If

956
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: they speak, we'll have them for you here on One

957
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Colida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

958
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: This this One Bill's Live presented by Calida Health. All right,

959
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: welcome back back our number two here on a Wednesday,

960
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, stay tasker with you. As you know, the

961
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: Bills are taking on the Panthers in their final preseason

962
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: matchup on Saturday, one pm. It's also Kid's Day and

963
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: a couple of injury notes from the Panthers they're going

964
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: through it as well. In the last week's game against

965
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: the Jets, they lost cornerback Anthony Brown, cornerback Lamar Jackson,

966
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: and cornerback and former Bill Dane Jackson all to injuries.

967
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson has a hamstring injury. They said he's gonna

968
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: be out six weeks. That means he's tore it. He

969
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 1: probably tore some of it off the bone.

970
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's well, I don't know either that or it's

971
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:40,800
Speaker 2: got to def you can feel the defect.

972
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 1: He's probably got his legs blood cells back there in

973
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 1: the back of his leg. Probably ugly.

974
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:47,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, no doubt.

975
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 1: Six weeks is a long strep. And so three cornerbacks

976
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 1: lost to injury. So the Bills are feeling it at

977
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: safety and linebacker. The Panthers are feeling at a corner

978
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 1: so they just signed three cornerbacks yesterday. They signed cornerback

979
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:10,319
Speaker 1: Chris Wilcox, cornerback Caandre Mosley, and cornerback Willie Drew. They're

980
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:13,360
Speaker 1: also short at wide receivers, so they signed Sam Pinkney

981
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: and they also signed a running back, Jayden Sherdon, to

982
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 1: make room for them on the roster. They iered their

983
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: cornerback Anthony Brown, and they took their third quarterback, Jake

984
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 1: Luton and put him on IR. So all these calls

985
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 1: we take from Bills fans saying how can we have

986
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: so many injuries, and we tell you all the time

987
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,760
Speaker 1: it happens across the league. Here's your example. The Panthers

988
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: lost three cornerbacks in one preseason game, and they're gonna

989
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: be going into this game against the Bills with three

990
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: inexperienced corners that are probably gonna suit up and play

991
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:44,280
Speaker 1: on Saturday.

992
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 2: Yeah this you know, as of the well today or yesterday,

993
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 2: they hadn't decided whether Bryce Young was even going to

994
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:53,959
Speaker 2: play in this game, and now they got.

995
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: It seemed like they were. It seemed like Dave Canal,

996
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: as the new head coach for the Panthers, is leaning

997
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 1: towards them not playing stone Ars, although he didn't fully

998
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:03,759
Speaker 1: commit to it in his press conference yesterday. We'll see

999
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:04,800
Speaker 1: if that changes today.

1000
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 2: It's one thing you can do, and it's a preseason game.

1001
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 2: Nobody keeps track of. You know, where you win is fine,

1002
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:13,400
Speaker 2: let's let's let it go. But to get through a

1003
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 2: game like that, for the Panthers, they'll just bring some

1004
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 2: guys in They say, listen, we're not going to teach

1005
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 2: you coverage. Go cover that guy every play, anybody who

1006
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 2: comes out to your side. You got the number one

1007
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 2: receiver to the sideline. Let's go see you see when

1008
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 2: the game's done. And that's that's basically it. You don't

1009
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 2: have to they don't have to learn verbiage.

1010
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 1: Then one week, it's a one week rental because cuts

1011
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: are on Tuesday, and those guys just physically can't be

1012
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: here long enough to impress them to the point to

1013
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: even have a shot at the roster. It's basically what

1014
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: this week is, probably for Anthony Brown here the quarterback,

1015
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 1: and probably for these three corners that just got signed

1016
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: by the Panthers, is to get on film, get game

1017
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,880
Speaker 1: film so your agent can send this to people.

1018
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 2: And also to impress here enough with the kind of

1019
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 2: person you are, a work ethic, have, the way you

1020
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 2: handle an impossible situation. Something happens during the regular season, says,

1021
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 2: you know what, we like that kid, Bring him back,

1022
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 2: put him on the practice put him on a practice squad,

1023
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 2: and then and then you're off and running. So here's

1024
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 2: the thing too. Most teams during once the regular season

1025
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:22,720
Speaker 2: kicks off. I don't I don't know about the percentage

1026
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 2: of this, but my theory is and projection is that

1027
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 2: most teams when they need a guy, they go to

1028
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 2: a practice squad or one of the other NFL teams,

1029
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 2: unless there's a stud of free agent stud out there

1030
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,359
Speaker 2: who's waiting for this opportunity, like Steph Gilmour was up

1031
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 2: until this few days ago. The guys who you want

1032
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 2: are going to be practicing with an NFL team day

1033
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 2: after day after day after day after day, like the

1034
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 2: practice squad guys do here. And you can just go

1035
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 2: around check all the practice squads and I say, you

1036
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 2: know what that I remember that guy. Get him over here,

1037
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:54,359
Speaker 2: because you know he's been practicing, he's been working out,

1038
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 2: he's been to take care of he's going to meetings,

1039
00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:00,399
Speaker 2: he's got it together. So that's where they get guys.

1040
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 2: So if a guy, these guys coming in for the

1041
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 2: Bills like Brown and Denucci and all the receiver or

1042
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 2: the corners for Carolina, practice squad is their holy grail man.

1043
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 2: They want to get on one yeah, and hang in

1044
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 2: there and so they can get better and then carve

1045
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 2: out a career. It's it's a niche. I mean, there

1046
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 2: really needs to be like a thirty for thirty or

1047
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 2: a documentary following some of these guys around. It's unbelievable

1048
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 2: the way they travel around the country for workouts and

1049
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 2: all of that before they finally land in their spot.

1050
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 2: But that's where you're at right and right now. Think

1051
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 2: about it, folks. Every team in the league is gonna

1052
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 2: cut thirty seven guys from their roster. Thirty seven guys

1053
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 2: across thirty one team. Do the math on that real quick.

1054
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 2: It's like nine hundred guys are gonna flood the market.

1055
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 2: So if you're not with one of those teams, you

1056
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 2: go behind nine hundred guys who just got cut by

1057
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 2: NFL teams. So that's that's not a place you want

1058
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 2: to live. You want to get in the door with

1059
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 2: one of these teams. The way these guys, that's why

1060
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 2: somebody we always we got a couple of calls this

1061
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 2: week about do they get paid for this or how

1062
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 2: much they get paid it.

1063
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 1: They make anywhere from two hundred and twenty five thousand

1064
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: a year on the low end on the practice squad

1065
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 1: as a first year practice squad player, and then the

1066
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: maximum salary is three hundred and eighty three thousand dollars

1067
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: on the practice squad for the season, if you're on

1068
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: there the whole season.

1069
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 2: I made sixty as a as a draft pick making

1070
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 2: the team when I when I'm a little different. It's

1071
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 2: a little different now absolutely, but that's you know you're

1072
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 2: looking at. That's good money right for these guys to

1073
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 2: you know, to be a pro athlete and not have

1074
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 2: to play in the games and not risk the wearingto

1075
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 2: you know, that kind of stuff has been Come on, man,

1076
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 2: you're part of an NFL team.

1077
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: Let's go asking you an at three zero five point fifty,

1078
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: which Bills position group has the best chance to surprise

1079
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 1: us this season? And why we go back to the

1080
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 1: phones and to Mark in Orchard Park. What's up Mark?

1081
00:58:57,120 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 4: Hello? How are youse? Guys, Chris and Steve doing all right?

1082
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 1: Thanks?

1083
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 4: Uh?

1084
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 11: My, My thing that I'd say, uh surprising would be

1085
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 11: the defensive line obviously, you know Greg Russo, I like

1086
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:14,360
Speaker 11: what I saw out of Solomon. I think we're gonna

1087
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 11: be very solid there. They're gonna have to make up

1088
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 11: the difference as far as uh, you know, the depletion

1089
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 11: you know in our safeties and you know the other

1090
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 11: thing I think the surprise will be is the coaching staff.

1091
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 4: Uh.

1092
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 11: You know we got Babbage now and Brady and you.

1093
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 4: Know his first full year.

1094
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 11: Uh, it's going to be exciting to see what they

1095
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 11: can bring to the table. If they can't bring it,

1096
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:45,720
Speaker 11: then Sean McDermott is in trouble.

1097
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 5: Uh.

1098
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 11: And the other thing I wanted to say that you

1099
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 11: were just talking about all the injuries. I think they

1100
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 11: need to get rid of the preseason games because these

1101
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:57,439
Speaker 11: players make a ton of money and to put them

1102
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 11: on a field in preseason which doesn't even count to me.

1103
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 11: I think it just doesn't serve the purpose of the

1104
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:07,479
Speaker 11: National Football League. I'll let you go on that. Thank

1105
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 11: you very much, and you guys have a good day.

1106
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 1: Thanks Mary Bett.

1107
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 2: You know it's interesting, that's tough about the precell start

1108
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 2: with the last point first. Yeah, I mean, just do

1109
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 2: away with it. See what you get, See what the

1110
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:28,959
Speaker 2: coaches would ask for before they go actually go into

1111
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:29,480
Speaker 2: the season.

1112
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 1: Well, you'll be down to two preseason games soon enough.

1113
01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:34,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna have two preseason games soon enough. That's

1114
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 2: that's true, And I think it does you do get

1115
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 2: some benefit out of it, because when you play games

1116
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 2: for real, you need to have gone through the process

1117
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 2: of getting up to game time. I know it sounds crazy.

1118
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 2: It's like a little bit like a dress rehearsal, and

1119
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 2: that's what it is. You need to go through getting

1120
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 2: to the stadium, getting in the locker room, going through

1121
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 2: pregame warm ups, the whole thing, halftime, the whole thing,

1122
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 2: the night before. All of that that does help these guys,

1123
01:00:57,520 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 2: particularly the young guys, to feel comfortable once they do

1124
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 2: the field in a regular season game.

1125
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,240
Speaker 1: I'm going to be Devil's advocate here for those that

1126
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 1: don't believe the preseason is necessary. We heard Keon Coleman

1127
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 1: on our show yesterday addressing the media and he was asked,

1128
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: how has the preseason helped you the most? And he said,

1129
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: speed of the game. I now know what the speed

1130
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 1: of the game is and how I have to operate

1131
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:22,480
Speaker 1: within it to match that speed of the game. Rookies

1132
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: don't get that if there's no preseason. I mean, you

1133
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: can talk about joint practices all you want, it's still

1134
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: not the same thing as a preseason game. And I'll

1135
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 1: go back to the COVID year when there was no preseason.

1136
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: Who was at a distinct disadvantage the defensive players because

1137
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 1: they didn't tackle a single human being since January. I

1138
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 1: think you need preseason in some capacity, and maybe two

1139
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 1: games is the sweet spot.

1140
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:50,080
Speaker 2: Maybe it is, maybe, but.

1141
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 1: Defensive players, they got to practice tackling somebody in a

1142
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: live game situation. Right, You're not tackling a rolling donut

1143
01:01:56,280 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: across the field in practice. That's different. You gotta tackle somebody.

1144
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 2: That's right. And I'll say this too, either you have

1145
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 2: to if you're going to get rid of the game,

1146
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 2: the preseason games, which let's let's face it, none of

1147
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 2: us are going to miss preseason games. Yes, nobody cares that.

1148
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 2: But if you're going to do that, you have to

1149
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 2: take the handcuffs off the head coaches and let them

1150
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 2: have live practices and padded practices, extended padded practices, maybe

1151
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 2: even go back to to it. You've got to get

1152
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 2: back into the point where you can put the physicality

1153
01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:33,640
Speaker 2: into the game and get guys used to it, acclimated

1154
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 2: and prepared to survive in it. Mike Tomlin has always said,

1155
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 2: and there is I think there is something in this

1156
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:45,560
Speaker 2: where he says, listen, you practice hard every day and

1157
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:48,160
Speaker 2: you make it game like so that you guys learn

1158
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 2: how to stay healthy and survive in.

1159
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:51,760
Speaker 1: That almost callous him up.

1160
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 2: You get them, you get them, you get them hardened

1161
01:02:54,120 --> 01:03:00,880
Speaker 2: to it. And there is something to that, however, because

1162
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:04,080
Speaker 2: you know, you think back, I mean, we were going

1163
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 2: two weeks and two padded practices a day, and you know,

1164
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 2: it didn't seem you don't. The injuries don't seem to

1165
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 2: resonate back then like they do now. I don't know

1166
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 2: whether they're more unique now, maybe the injuries are less

1167
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 2: prevalent and therefore they stand out more, or everybody was

1168
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 2: hurt all the time and nobody cared. You know who knows?

1169
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 3: I can't. I don't have the answers to that.

1170
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, but certainly there does seem to be something in

1171
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 2: that where back in the day and even in the

1172
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 2: steroid area, when you've got guys that are freakishly strong,

1173
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 2: you know, they practiced like literally a couple four hours

1174
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 2: a day, two in the morning, two in the afternoon,

1175
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,960
Speaker 2: and they're hitting and it's like, okay, look, you know,

1176
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:49,320
Speaker 2: oh we get a day off. Okay, cool, you know

1177
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:52,320
Speaker 2: what I mean. Now it's like, well, we have a

1178
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 2: padded practice, So we can't have a padded practice for

1179
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:56,080
Speaker 2: forty eight out, you know that kind of thing. I

1180
01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 2: was like, I don't know, there's something in that that's

1181
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:00,920
Speaker 2: that defies logic.

1182
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:05,800
Speaker 1: What do we make of Mark's comment about he thinks

1183
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:08,919
Speaker 1: we're gonna be pleasantly surprised by the coaching staff gonna

1184
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: I'll say this and I'll let you kind of chime in.

1185
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:14,920
Speaker 1: First of all, coach McDermott hasn't yet made a decision

1186
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 1: on whether Bobby Babbage is calling the plays for the

1187
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: regular season. I think in an ideal world, he would

1188
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 1: prefer that to be the case so he can handle

1189
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: his head coaching duties. Not to say he's not going

1190
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:27,600
Speaker 1: to weigh in. I think he would in certain situations.

1191
01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 1: But this is kind of the last kick at the

1192
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 1: cat that Bobby Babbage has on Saturday to prove himself

1193
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 1: worthy of being the play caller for Buffalo's defense. Let's

1194
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:40,800
Speaker 1: see what happens on the offensive side of the ball.

1195
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 1: I am more convinced than ever after watching two preseason

1196
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:49,080
Speaker 1: games that Joe Brady is keeping it all under the covers.

1197
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 1: I don't think we have seen a play that's even

1198
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 1: gonna be identical to anything he is going to call

1199
01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:01,440
Speaker 1: come the regular season. Is got it all under wraps.

1200
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: And part of the reason why Steve I believe is

1201
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 1: he knows he doesn't have a number one receiver in

1202
01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:11,800
Speaker 1: the passing game. Maybe it eventually becomes Kincaid this year

1203
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:13,640
Speaker 1: and he's the number one target in the offense. I

1204
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:15,920
Speaker 1: think we're all kind of expecting that at this point.

1205
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: But I think he knows in the regular season, with

1206
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:24,240
Speaker 1: some young people and other stuff, he's going to have

1207
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:27,880
Speaker 1: to use scheme to help some of his skill position

1208
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:30,960
Speaker 1: guys make plays, and the best way to do that

1209
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 1: is to keep it all under cover until he actually

1210
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 1: needed in a game that counts.

1211
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:40,240
Speaker 2: Yes, I think they're running. They're probably running some concepts

1212
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 2: that they've run on shown on film like in years,

1213
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 2: last years, last year or whatever. They're doing some old

1214
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:48,000
Speaker 2: stuff so that they're not other teams have watched it.

1215
01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 2: Believe me that other teams devour every snap you put

1216
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 2: in public. They devour it, and that's just the way

1217
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 2: the league works. So you're not risking anything by running

1218
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:01,960
Speaker 2: plays that you ran last year or the year before

1219
01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:05,520
Speaker 2: even so you see some of that going on all

1220
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:08,080
Speaker 2: the way around the league, and that's what they're doing.

1221
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:13,640
Speaker 2: But as far as putting and here's why you're not

1222
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:16,080
Speaker 2: gonna run here's why you wouldn't run those plays this

1223
01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:17,840
Speaker 2: year if you're the Bills, and why you don't mind

1224
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 2: showing them last year's place because you got different players

1225
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:23,160
Speaker 2: and you're not gonna run those plays because these guys

1226
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:25,480
Speaker 2: are better at other things than the guys you ran

1227
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 2: those plays for last year. Last year, you run a

1228
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 2: place for Steph Diggs and Gabe Davis and all those

1229
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 2: and Mitch Morrison those jomokes. This year, you've got a new,

1230
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:37,680
Speaker 2: fresh set of skills. These guys are better at other things,

1231
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 2: different things, So you're gonna run completely different concepts because

1232
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:42,920
Speaker 2: this guy can do that and that other guy you

1233
01:06:42,960 --> 01:06:46,680
Speaker 2: had last year couldn't. So you're gonna run completely different

1234
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:49,520
Speaker 2: looking concepts, or at least have different guys in different

1235
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 2: spots running those concepts than you did a year ago.

1236
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 2: That's why you're not seeing any of that. So it's

1237
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 2: that's how it works, and you're you know, and I'm

1238
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 2: I'm confident. I've said it, and I've said it, I'll

1239
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 2: say it one more, I'll say it again. Before I

1240
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:10,040
Speaker 2: say it again, I think this offense is gonna hum.

1241
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:14,000
Speaker 2: They got too many good players, their offensive lines too big,

1242
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:17,920
Speaker 2: too talented, and their quarterback is an MVP caliber player.

1243
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 2: They're gonna be fine on that side of the ball.

1244
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 1: Fine, yeah, be nice, be nice.

1245
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 2: But they they've even scored a touchdown. Josh led the

1246
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:34,160
Speaker 2: league in touchdown like. Nobody's scored more touchdowns to him

1247
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:37,000
Speaker 2: in six years. Ye, nobody. And you're telling me now

1248
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:40,479
Speaker 2: they're not gonna score a single touchdown? Come on, wake up? Yeah,

1249
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:42,360
Speaker 2: I mean it's I'm fine. You're gonna be fine.

1250
01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:42,920
Speaker 5: Yes.

1251
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:46,240
Speaker 1: Uh. It looks like practice has wrapped up for the day,

1252
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:49,960
Speaker 1: so hopefully we uh hear from the likes of Greg

1253
01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:52,720
Speaker 1: Russell and tarn Johnson addressing the media in short order.

1254
01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 1: There is some NFL news as the Denver Broncos head

1255
01:07:57,080 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 1: coach Sean Payton has officially named rookie bow Nicks as

1256
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:03,920
Speaker 1: his starting quarterback. It was certainly trending in that direction

1257
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:08,080
Speaker 1: as he was competing primarily with Jared Stidham, and now

1258
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 1: it has been confirmed Sean Payton is going with the

1259
01:08:12,040 --> 01:08:16,000
Speaker 1: rookie first round pick as his starting QB. And look,

1260
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 1: the guy's got more college starts than any quarterback in

1261
01:08:20,280 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 1: college football history that's playing in the NFL with sixty one,

1262
01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 1: and he did it with two different schools, Auburn and Oregon,

1263
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 1: So there isn't much he has not seen in terms

1264
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 1: of defensive scheme on a football field wise beyond his

1265
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 1: years because of the level of exposure and experience he

1266
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:40,719
Speaker 1: got in the college rank. So sixty one starts.

1267
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:42,960
Speaker 2: That's a lot. It is a lot of reps and

1268
01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:47,439
Speaker 2: good and good for him. But let me just say,

1269
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:51,360
Speaker 2: if Bo Nicks, as young as he is and new

1270
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:53,599
Speaker 2: to the NFL as he is, can't beat out Zach

1271
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:56,120
Speaker 2: Wilson and Jarret Stidham, he is not the guy. He

1272
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:57,800
Speaker 2: shouldn't be a first round pick. He should not have

1273
01:08:57,800 --> 01:08:58,679
Speaker 2: been a first round pick.

1274
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:00,719
Speaker 1: Where Zach Wilson was also a first round pick.

1275
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:03,639
Speaker 2: Picked higher than bow Nicks. Yes, he was, but we've

1276
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 2: seen him play at this level. Well actually we've seen

1277
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:07,840
Speaker 2: him attempt to play at this level and he's not

1278
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:13,360
Speaker 2: good enough. And you know, Nicks in this preseason, in

1279
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 2: this two preseason games, he's had more success than Zach

1280
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:22,160
Speaker 2: Wilson hasn't in his two year career. So that's just

1281
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 2: the way. Yeah, Bo Knicks is the guy, and it's

1282
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 2: not a surprise. We'll see how far it gets him though. Yeah, well,

1283
01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:34,599
Speaker 2: I mean, and I heard this too, Sean Payton has

1284
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:38,160
Speaker 2: not been calling offensive plays. Oh really, he hasn't been

1285
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:39,680
Speaker 2: the guy calling the offensive plays. I read that in

1286
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:40,800
Speaker 2: an article yesterday.

1287
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:41,520
Speaker 1: Interesting.

1288
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:44,280
Speaker 2: I was, oh, there you go, because he's, you know,

1289
01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 2: doing the head coaching thing and stuff that surprises. That

1290
01:09:46,560 --> 01:09:49,280
Speaker 2: does surprise me too, and I was surprised to read it,

1291
01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:50,040
Speaker 2: and I did, oh.

1292
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:54,040
Speaker 1: I just thought of it. So that would mean that

1293
01:09:54,080 --> 01:09:56,840
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator is the former third string quarterback that

1294
01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:59,839
Speaker 1: was here. Is he the OC or just the quarterback?

1295
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 1: Might just be the quarterbacks coach. I'm thinking of the

1296
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:05,920
Speaker 1: third string quarterback that was here wanted to get into

1297
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 1: a coaching career. Hold on, I'm gonna Davis Webb web

1298
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: I think he's the quarterbacks coach though not the OC.

1299
01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:13,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe we'll see.

1300
01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:20,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna he's the KMV coach. Yeah, so yeah, that's cool.

1301
01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:25,080
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. And I listen, I'm I'm, I'm all

1302
01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:26,960
Speaker 2: for it. I think you gotta throw the guy, let

1303
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:29,960
Speaker 2: the guy play, and especially in the situation they've got

1304
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:36,599
Speaker 2: in Denver, so I'm i'm I think it's really compelling.

1305
01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:39,720
Speaker 2: But yeah, the offensive coordinator.

1306
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:41,080
Speaker 1: Is Pete Carmichael.

1307
01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:42,560
Speaker 2: Joe Lombardi.

1308
01:10:42,680 --> 01:10:43,559
Speaker 1: Oh, it's Joe Lombardi.

1309
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 2: Joe Lombardy. So Pete Carmichael is a senior assistant. Yeah,

1310
01:10:51,479 --> 01:10:54,320
Speaker 2: Davis Webb is is on that he's the quarterbacks coach.

1311
01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 2: But but Joe Lombardi is the guy. And I heard

1312
01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:59,919
Speaker 2: I think he's been he's been calling the play. I'm

1313
01:11:00,280 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 2: positive I read that in an article. And listen, Sean

1314
01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:08,200
Speaker 2: Payton knows how to handle quarterbacks. He is an extremely

1315
01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,360
Speaker 2: sharp guy. If you've ever watched him or heard him

1316
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:14,600
Speaker 2: talking that that guy, that guy does not lack confidence.

1317
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:17,760
Speaker 2: He's done it at the highest level. That guy knows

1318
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:20,840
Speaker 2: what he's doing, and he knows what he's doing. And

1319
01:11:20,920 --> 01:11:22,760
Speaker 2: I think he is going to be the guy that's

1320
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:24,640
Speaker 2: gonna handle bow Knicks and he has not been the

1321
01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:28,280
Speaker 2: voice that Bo Nicks has heard on the game day headset.

1322
01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 2: And I think there's a there's a reason behind that.

1323
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 2: I think Sean, I think Peyton would call the offensive plays.

1324
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 5: I think he got to.

1325
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:38,720
Speaker 2: Don't unless he heard from the ownership said I don't

1326
01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:39,200
Speaker 2: want you doing it.

1327
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:41,240
Speaker 1: Maybe he really likes Sjoe Lombardi and what he's done

1328
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:42,120
Speaker 1: it feels like he's ready.

1329
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 2: I mean he's under him before maybe and maybe he's

1330
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:47,400
Speaker 2: the same as McDermott. I think McDermott would love it

1331
01:11:47,479 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 2: if Bob Babbage proved his worth in the preseason said

1332
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:52,760
Speaker 2: I'll go ahead and do it. Yeah, that's another reason

1333
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:55,720
Speaker 2: why you want preseason games. Yeah, you had coaches back

1334
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:58,400
Speaker 2: to that. Yeah, the coaches protocols and how they communicate.

1335
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:02,680
Speaker 2: There's a lot going on. Yeah. Yeah, Denver's going to

1336
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 2: be an interesting team this year that the AFC West

1337
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:08,519
Speaker 2: is going to be Chargers, the Chargers and obviously the Chiefs.

1338
01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 2: The Chargers with Harbaugh and Sean Payton's second year as

1339
01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:16,280
Speaker 2: head coach there with a quarterback he drafted so high

1340
01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:20,280
Speaker 2: and has promoted the top spot. That's pretty compelling stuff.

1341
01:12:20,560 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 2: I'm ready to watch that.

1342
01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:23,640
Speaker 1: We got to take a break here, but when we

1343
01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:27,280
Speaker 1: come back. Greg Russo will be addressing the media after

1344
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:29,639
Speaker 1: practice today. We'll have his comments for you next Here

1345
01:12:29,680 --> 01:12:31,960
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live presented by Colida Health, It's Buffalo

1346
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:49,040
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right back here on One Bill's Live.

1347
01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:51,000
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. We got to go

1348
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:53,759
Speaker 1: to the post practice podium where Greg Russou is addressing

1349
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:55,720
Speaker 1: the media Let's go there now after his big two

1350
01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:57,439
Speaker 1: and a half sack performance last.

1351
01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:02,439
Speaker 12: Week, talking to I'll be bad before practice and he

1352
01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:04,840
Speaker 12: was asked about you and you're playing against the Steelers

1353
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:07,080
Speaker 12: just about leading up to the season. He said, You've

1354
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:11,519
Speaker 12: been very intentional this offseason of preseason leading up. What's

1355
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:13,639
Speaker 12: your mindset right now going into the year.

1356
01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 13: I'd say my mindsets really just to go out there,

1357
01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:21,400
Speaker 13: game practice, walk through, just lift whatever it is, Just

1358
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:23,600
Speaker 13: keep on getting better, keep on chipping what, keep on

1359
01:13:23,640 --> 01:13:26,200
Speaker 13: putting the work in, and uh, just making sure that

1360
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:28,040
Speaker 13: I'm doing doing my part out there. I'm one of

1361
01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:30,360
Speaker 13: the eleven dudes flying around on the field and I'm

1362
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:33,120
Speaker 13: giving Max everard all times. And I'm also being intentional

1363
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:35,000
Speaker 13: like coach said, and just trying to better myself because

1364
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:36,920
Speaker 13: i know if I play better, it helps it helps

1365
01:13:36,920 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 13: the team in the long run.

1366
01:13:39,439 --> 01:13:42,400
Speaker 14: Guys about like, I'm sure you have goals, but what

1367
01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:44,439
Speaker 14: you can be as a defensive line together? Like what's

1368
01:13:44,439 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 14: that like when you guys talk about what you could

1369
01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 14: be together as a d line?

1370
01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:48,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we talk about all the time.

1371
01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:52,559
Speaker 13: Man ed the Hugh von aj smooth like just we're

1372
01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:54,639
Speaker 13: always reflecting on what we can do better and how

1373
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:57,479
Speaker 13: we can affect games, uh coming up here in the

1374
01:13:57,560 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 13: near in the near future. This season is something that

1375
01:14:00,479 --> 01:14:02,080
Speaker 13: motivates to us. Being able to go out there, whether

1376
01:14:02,080 --> 01:14:04,200
Speaker 13: it's like two minutes or just even in the run game,

1377
01:14:04,240 --> 01:14:06,479
Speaker 13: being able to stop and run up front with six

1378
01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:08,519
Speaker 13: Just things like that. We're always talking about them and

1379
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:09,840
Speaker 13: reflecting on them.

1380
01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 15: A pass rush rep is so fast, right, like a

1381
01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:16,919
Speaker 15: really keep you talking about three two or three seconds.

1382
01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:19,960
Speaker 2: Do you feel like since you're a rookie year to.

1383
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:23,400
Speaker 15: Now, you have more so many more answers when things

1384
01:14:23,439 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 15: maybe don't go well early in the rep.

1385
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:28,800
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'd say being able to have a rust plan

1386
01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 13: before the play and then countering off of it. Just

1387
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 13: being intentional really like it goes a long way. Like usually,

1388
01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:36,640
Speaker 13: like if you're a younger player, you might just be

1389
01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:38,720
Speaker 13: out there like all right, like my job is to

1390
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:40,080
Speaker 13: go straight or go through the B gap, and you're

1391
01:14:40,120 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 13: kind of just focused just on that. But I mean,

1392
01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:44,200
Speaker 13: as you get older and as you get more experience,

1393
01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:45,559
Speaker 13: you're like, all right, I'm gonna try this. But then

1394
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:47,400
Speaker 13: if that doesn't work to the outside, I'm gonna try

1395
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:50,960
Speaker 13: to counter swim back inside or power arm over whatever

1396
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:51,280
Speaker 13: it is.

1397
01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:53,240
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Like, having a plan goes

1398
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:53,760
Speaker 5: a long way, and.

1399
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:56,080
Speaker 13: I feel like with the more experience you have, you'll

1400
01:14:56,080 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 13: be able to formulate more plans and really execute him

1401
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:01,200
Speaker 13: in times like the games.

1402
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:03,240
Speaker 5: Dude, how much do you.

1403
01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:05,920
Speaker 14: Keep warning on the right? Like how often do you say, Okay,

1404
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 14: you know what, that's something I haven't tried or looks

1405
01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 14: a little bit different. Is it maybe going against a

1406
01:15:10,439 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 14: different guy, a smaller, bigger guy, Like.

1407
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:13,240
Speaker 5: How much of that changes? Yeah?

1408
01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:15,400
Speaker 13: I mean, yeah, you should definitely change up a little

1409
01:15:15,400 --> 01:15:16,800
Speaker 13: bit when you go get a smaller, bigger guy. But

1410
01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:18,559
Speaker 13: at the end of the day, like everybody has their

1411
01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:20,880
Speaker 13: own skill set kind of and even as the pass

1412
01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:22,559
Speaker 13: rush er, you're probably only gonna have a couple of

1413
01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:24,519
Speaker 13: moves that really work for you and the way you

1414
01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:26,920
Speaker 13: move in your body type, Like you can't be doing

1415
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:28,360
Speaker 13: like a million things out there, you know what I'm saying,

1416
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:31,479
Speaker 13: So just having two three go to moves and having

1417
01:15:31,479 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 13: a counter off him like r I by double swiping,

1418
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:35,760
Speaker 13: this doesn't work on counter back inside and this way

1419
01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 13: shape or form, like just knowing, like, be you out there,

1420
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:39,959
Speaker 13: and do it confidently.

1421
01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:43,240
Speaker 5: I feel like that goes a long way about adding

1422
01:15:43,400 --> 01:15:44,160
Speaker 5: us to your record.

1423
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:46,400
Speaker 16: Car are you watching like a guy like vonn or agency?

1424
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:48,519
Speaker 16: But I'm gonna say having your arsenal, just studying other

1425
01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:49,639
Speaker 16: guys around the league.

1426
01:15:49,439 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 17: And.

1427
01:15:51,160 --> 01:15:53,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, my teen year old versus have a joke, broth.

1428
01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 13: I mean, I'll take a little thing, little things here

1429
01:15:56,160 --> 01:15:58,599
Speaker 13: and there from other dudes around the league. But at

1430
01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:00,439
Speaker 13: the end of the day, you gotta know you and

1431
01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:02,479
Speaker 13: what you're good at. You know, Like even talking to

1432
01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:04,920
Speaker 13: Van over the last three years, Like even Vaughan will

1433
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:07,320
Speaker 13: tell you like he's out there, he's going he's going speed,

1434
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:09,200
Speaker 13: he's going double swipe, he's doing some counters off. But

1435
01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:11,600
Speaker 13: even Vaughan doesn't have like he's not going into a

1436
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:14,559
Speaker 13: game with twenty different or ten, not even ten different moves,

1437
01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:16,720
Speaker 13: you know what I'm saying, Like a good deelignement, I

1438
01:16:16,720 --> 01:16:18,800
Speaker 13: feel like knows what they're good at and they just

1439
01:16:18,840 --> 01:16:19,720
Speaker 13: capitalize on that.

1440
01:16:21,120 --> 01:16:23,599
Speaker 14: Bridey keep adding or when you think on pass rush,

1441
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:27,200
Speaker 14: you also can't lose your edge setting, right, Yeah, as

1442
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:29,040
Speaker 14: a as a run defender, you have been good at

1443
01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 14: it in your career. Like how important is it to

1444
01:16:31,240 --> 01:16:33,040
Speaker 14: kind of make sure you still keep that part of

1445
01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 14: your game.

1446
01:16:33,640 --> 01:16:34,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, it should be.

1447
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 13: It's important for sure, And I feel like it's it's

1448
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:39,559
Speaker 13: hard to be in between. I feel like a lot

1449
01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:42,040
Speaker 13: a lot of that goes into like situational awareness, So

1450
01:16:42,120 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 13: knowing like it's first and ten and if it's like

1451
01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:46,760
Speaker 13: twelve personnel, there's two tightens on the field. This team

1452
01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:48,800
Speaker 13: might run the ball seventy percent of the time and

1453
01:16:48,840 --> 01:16:51,160
Speaker 13: do play action thirty percent of the time. So in

1454
01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 13: that situation, you probably got a favorite of seventy percent

1455
01:16:53,479 --> 01:16:55,320
Speaker 13: and play a little bit more with your eyes on

1456
01:16:55,360 --> 01:16:57,200
Speaker 13: the tight end or wherever that and kind of focus

1457
01:16:57,200 --> 01:16:58,519
Speaker 13: on your run keys because it's first and ten, but

1458
01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:00,840
Speaker 13: then it's second to eight or whatever. You could steal

1459
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:02,320
Speaker 13: one and get a good get off on second and

1460
01:17:02,320 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 13: a kind of just knowing that it might be like

1461
01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:06,439
Speaker 13: sixty eight percent pass or something like that. So just

1462
01:17:06,439 --> 01:17:08,720
Speaker 13: being able, I think being able to be tied into

1463
01:17:08,720 --> 01:17:10,840
Speaker 13: the situation goes a long way when it comes to

1464
01:17:10,920 --> 01:17:13,760
Speaker 13: like setting the edge and playing the run versus like, oh,

1465
01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:15,479
Speaker 13: I'm gonna get in to my rush quick and sometimes

1466
01:17:15,479 --> 01:17:17,599
Speaker 13: you kind of get calm between. But I feel like

1467
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:20,000
Speaker 13: it's the second and eighth. Situations like that where you

1468
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:21,160
Speaker 13: can steal a really good rep.

1469
01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:23,479
Speaker 14: But the numbers like that Greg like you I know,

1470
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:25,439
Speaker 14: game plan, they'll give me that. People will you study

1471
01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:28,280
Speaker 14: that to say second and eighty they're percentage wise say

1472
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:28,960
Speaker 14: like to do something that.

1473
01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:29,760
Speaker 6: Do you think about that?

1474
01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:33,559
Speaker 13: I want to say I think about it, but just knowing, uh,

1475
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:36,479
Speaker 13: putting myself in a like like let's say I'm playing

1476
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:38,800
Speaker 13: the game. I'm playing inst double A. If I'm if

1477
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:40,720
Speaker 13: it's second attendant into BLA, I'm gonna throw the ball

1478
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:43,760
Speaker 13: probably you know what I'm saying, you well know yeah, yeah,

1479
01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:47,320
Speaker 13: And it's pretty like I feel like most teams. I

1480
01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:48,840
Speaker 13: feel like football is FOOTBA at end of the day.

1481
01:17:48,840 --> 01:17:50,720
Speaker 13: You know what I'm saying, Third and eight, try to

1482
01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:52,679
Speaker 13: push the ball downfield. You know what I'm saying, Second

1483
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:55,160
Speaker 13: and nine, second and eleven, like they're probably gonna pass

1484
01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:57,280
Speaker 13: it in first and ten, run or pass, But I

1485
01:17:57,320 --> 01:17:57,560
Speaker 13: don't know.

1486
01:17:57,600 --> 01:17:59,080
Speaker 5: Sometimes I'm thinking run a little bit more.

1487
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 2: This SoRs game.

1488
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:02,840
Speaker 3: It's the right tackle.

1489
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:06,400
Speaker 1: It's been all over social media. Y.

1490
01:18:07,479 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 12: What happens in your mind when that when that play

1491
01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 12: develops and happens the way it did?

1492
01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean yeah, it happened the way it wanted

1493
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 13: to happen every every I want every play to go

1494
01:18:16,240 --> 01:18:17,840
Speaker 13: like that, you know what I'm saying. But really it

1495
01:18:17,880 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 13: was just a good get off, I feel like, and

1496
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:23,800
Speaker 13: just threatening, threatening up field shoulder, kind of getting the

1497
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:25,519
Speaker 13: office lineman to turn the shoulders a little bit, and

1498
01:18:25,560 --> 01:18:26,960
Speaker 13: he kind of just left inside exposed.

1499
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 5: So I went speed to power and fell off inside.

1500
01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:33,000
Speaker 12: Watch that and the film room after the you know,

1501
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:35,599
Speaker 12: during the week of practice, what's uh, what's the real

1502
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:37,600
Speaker 12: reaction like from teammates.

1503
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:37,640
Speaker 5: Uh, it was.

1504
01:18:37,720 --> 01:18:39,479
Speaker 13: It was a cool reaction. It was coreaction. Dud dudes

1505
01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:41,960
Speaker 13: were happy about their like nice move, nice move and

1506
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:44,360
Speaker 13: all that. But I mean, yeah, I'm I'm glad it

1507
01:18:44,360 --> 01:18:45,559
Speaker 13: hap him. But at the end of the day, it's

1508
01:18:45,560 --> 01:18:47,679
Speaker 13: a it's a long season, you know. I'm I've already

1509
01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:50,639
Speaker 13: put it behind me. There's way bigger things were working towards,

1510
01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:54,080
Speaker 13: like team wise and uh an and individually.

1511
01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:54,559
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

1512
01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:56,040
Speaker 13: You gotta go out there and keep doing it every

1513
01:18:56,080 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 13: single practice, every single game.

1514
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:01,760
Speaker 5: So I'm excited for the future. Yeah. Right.

1515
01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:04,639
Speaker 16: One thing Bobby talking about this morning or before practice

1516
01:19:04,760 --> 01:19:06,639
Speaker 16: was the emergency of some new face of you guys

1517
01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:07,360
Speaker 16: kind of taking.

1518
01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:09,400
Speaker 1: Over leaders two roles to your point in your career.

1519
01:19:09,479 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 14: Now, I mean, where do you see yourself kind of

1520
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:13,559
Speaker 14: fitting as a leader on this team and a leader

1521
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:14,320
Speaker 14: on this team sense?

1522
01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:16,479
Speaker 13: Yeah, uh, I feel like I'm a guy who has

1523
01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:19,000
Speaker 13: to go out there and play my best ball to

1524
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:19,800
Speaker 13: help the team win.

1525
01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:22,240
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. I I don't really get

1526
01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:23,280
Speaker 5: too caught up in like.

1527
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:26,320
Speaker 13: The uh the name tags and oh I gotta be

1528
01:19:26,360 --> 01:19:28,040
Speaker 13: this or that or this that and the third Like now,

1529
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:30,679
Speaker 13: I'm going out there trying to be the best Gregoro

1530
01:19:30,760 --> 01:19:32,120
Speaker 13: so I could be you know what I'm saying, to

1531
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:34,000
Speaker 13: help the team win and just trying to just trying

1532
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:35,960
Speaker 13: to do my job every single play and if I

1533
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:37,479
Speaker 13: can on the play do a little bit more and

1534
01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:39,840
Speaker 13: make splash plays that uh, at the end of the day,

1535
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:40,479
Speaker 13: help the team win.

1536
01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:44,519
Speaker 16: You know, last preseason game this week, Sean such as

1537
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:47,840
Speaker 16: starters trying not playing with that beam? He said, what's

1538
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:51,080
Speaker 16: the value of putting together performs like you get guess

1539
01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:51,879
Speaker 16: your last season.

1540
01:19:51,640 --> 01:19:53,719
Speaker 3: For the game that you go into the regular season.

1541
01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:56,880
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, I got the starters we're not playing.

1542
01:19:56,960 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 3: What are your quotes on this week? Yeah, and the

1543
01:20:00,160 --> 01:20:00,960
Speaker 3: we stays leading.

1544
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:01,320
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1545
01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 13: I'm not gonna say exactly what I'm focused on just

1546
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:06,280
Speaker 13: because but I focus on a lot of things in practice.

1547
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 13: I know there's a lot of things that I can

1548
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:09,880
Speaker 13: get better. I know I haven't arrived, you know what

1549
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:10,960
Speaker 13: I'm saying. There's a lot of things that I can

1550
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:13,160
Speaker 13: improve on, and so I'm glad to be out here.

1551
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:15,240
Speaker 13: I'm excited to be out here and just working on

1552
01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:18,240
Speaker 13: my craft for these next few weeks leading up to

1553
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:26,240
Speaker 13: the season. Ever change anything, Nah, it doesn't change nothing

1554
01:20:26,240 --> 01:20:26,439
Speaker 13: for me.

1555
01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:27,519
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm gonna go out there.

1556
01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:29,600
Speaker 13: I'm gonna go out there and just just work my

1557
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:31,479
Speaker 13: butt off and keep trying to get better and keep

1558
01:20:31,479 --> 01:20:33,960
Speaker 13: on trying to sharpen that sword for the season and

1559
01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:36,280
Speaker 13: on and when when the preseason game comes around, and

1560
01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:38,679
Speaker 13: be cheering my teammates on and if I see anything

1561
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 13: on the field that I can help them with. With the

1562
01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:42,120
Speaker 13: younger guys, I'm gonnaell them like, yo, I saw this,

1563
01:20:42,200 --> 01:20:44,160
Speaker 13: I saw that or whatever, and just give them a

1564
01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:46,200
Speaker 13: little something that might help them out in the next player,

1565
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:46,719
Speaker 13: next series.

1566
01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:49,280
Speaker 5: All right, that's great.

1567
01:20:49,280 --> 01:20:52,800
Speaker 1: Grusoe addressing the media here after practice, and even though

1568
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:54,599
Speaker 1: we were all impressed by his two and a half

1569
01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:58,840
Speaker 1: sack performance in about three series for the Bills against

1570
01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh last Saturday. He Greg's already moved on from it, said,

1571
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:06,320
Speaker 1: He's already working on the next thing. And that's how

1572
01:21:06,320 --> 01:21:08,880
Speaker 1: you get great in this league by not resting on

1573
01:21:08,920 --> 01:21:13,360
Speaker 1: your laurels, not being satisfied with your previous performance. It's

1574
01:21:13,400 --> 01:21:16,000
Speaker 1: continuing to strive and go and go and go and go.

1575
01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:19,919
Speaker 1: And Rousseau has that in his bag. It comes naturally

1576
01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:23,880
Speaker 1: to him to work that way. And you know, if

1577
01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:26,759
Speaker 1: we remember, this guy was a one year starter at Miami,

1578
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:30,240
Speaker 1: sat out a COVID year and didn't play, then comes

1579
01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:34,040
Speaker 1: to the Bills where things still weren't normal because of

1580
01:21:34,120 --> 01:21:39,280
Speaker 1: COVID restrictions, and now is in his fourth season. These

1581
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:42,639
Speaker 1: are the money seasons for Bill's draft choices over the years.

1582
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:45,960
Speaker 1: Jrel Bernard is an exception. He was great in his

1583
01:21:46,040 --> 01:21:48,880
Speaker 1: second year as a first year starter. That has not

1584
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:53,160
Speaker 1: been the case mostly. Tarren Johnson third year takes off.

1585
01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:57,880
Speaker 1: You know, Dawson Knox third year, nine touchdown season, and

1586
01:21:57,920 --> 01:22:00,559
Speaker 1: there are many other examples. Spencer Bank had his best

1587
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 1: year in a Bill's uniform last year and year three,

1588
01:22:03,360 --> 01:22:06,320
Speaker 1: So it's usually year three or four where these guys

1589
01:22:06,360 --> 01:22:08,800
Speaker 1: catch fire and really explode. At Oliver took him till

1590
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:12,040
Speaker 1: his fifth season exploded last year nine and a half sacks.

1591
01:22:12,040 --> 01:22:14,760
Speaker 1: I think Greg Russeau is gonna have that season this year.

1592
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:16,840
Speaker 1: We got to get to Taron Johnson who's at the

1593
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:19,840
Speaker 1: podium Steve, so we'll turn to him and see what

1594
01:22:19,960 --> 01:22:23,040
Speaker 1: his thoughts are, particularly about leadership as many look to

1595
01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:25,720
Speaker 1: him as a new leader on the defensive side of

1596
01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:26,080
Speaker 1: the ball.

1597
01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:29,800
Speaker 17: I would just say, just guys constantly coming together. I

1598
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:33,760
Speaker 17: feel like Rochester helped us a lot, just making us

1599
01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:36,679
Speaker 17: have to be with each other even in our free time,

1600
01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:39,320
Speaker 17: you know what I'm saying, and even having like dinners

1601
01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:43,479
Speaker 17: outside of the facility together, like just bringing groups together.

1602
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:45,960
Speaker 17: I feel like it's extremely important for us to continue

1603
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:48,479
Speaker 17: to have that chemistry. And I see guys stepping up

1604
01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:51,120
Speaker 17: really all across the board, you know what I'm saying.

1605
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 17: It's definitely gonna take a little maybe a little bit

1606
01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:56,160
Speaker 17: more time, but we definitely have those guys in.

1607
01:22:56,560 --> 01:22:58,720
Speaker 3: Our rooms stepped up the.

1608
01:23:00,640 --> 01:23:03,080
Speaker 12: Necessarily expected from UH.

1609
01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:05,360
Speaker 17: I like, I like how t Rap t Rap is

1610
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:09,040
Speaker 17: kind of leading those safeties and I feel like he's

1611
01:23:09,160 --> 01:23:11,640
Speaker 17: he's a quiet reserved kind of guy, but I hear

1612
01:23:11,720 --> 01:23:13,879
Speaker 17: him being more vocal and just making sure that everybody

1613
01:23:13,960 --> 01:23:17,040
Speaker 17: is having the knowledge that they need to have to

1614
01:23:17,080 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 17: perform at a high level.

1615
01:23:19,280 --> 01:23:22,600
Speaker 16: How important as that leadership been for retailer considering you know,

1616
01:23:23,120 --> 01:23:29,000
Speaker 16: sure seeing right there in that scene that ain't just

1617
01:23:29,040 --> 01:23:31,759
Speaker 16: kind of loos like that leadership and that stage press.

1618
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:34,400
Speaker 3: From the tailor that scene. I mean, it's it's important,

1619
01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:35,240
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.

1620
01:23:36,240 --> 01:23:38,920
Speaker 17: He's played a lot of ball, and and even the

1621
01:23:38,960 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 17: guys that that you just named, a lot of them

1622
01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:42,200
Speaker 17: have played a lot of ball.

1623
01:23:42,320 --> 01:23:45,000
Speaker 3: So it's just like it's just important. He's been here.

1624
01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:47,679
Speaker 17: He knows the system a little bit better than everybody else.

1625
01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:50,320
Speaker 17: So guys are watching him, guys are asking him questions,

1626
01:23:50,479 --> 01:23:53,440
Speaker 17: trying to make sure that that they could figure it out.

1627
01:23:53,760 --> 01:23:56,320
Speaker 14: Karen, how much is your position wanting to kind of change?

1628
01:23:56,320 --> 01:23:57,679
Speaker 2: And involved slot?

1629
01:23:58,040 --> 01:23:58,240
Speaker 9: First?

1630
01:23:58,240 --> 01:24:00,600
Speaker 14: Said that the slot position in the NFL since you

1631
01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:03,479
Speaker 14: entered the league, even because you see all these tight.

1632
01:24:03,360 --> 01:24:05,599
Speaker 3: Ends now, all these hybrids even at all, Yeah.

1633
01:24:05,680 --> 01:24:07,679
Speaker 14: You see what teams are doing it spreading you out.

1634
01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:09,800
Speaker 14: How much has it changed revolves when you come in

1635
01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 14: the league, and.

1636
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:13,400
Speaker 17: He's like, oh man, it's it's changed a lot, you know,

1637
01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:17,679
Speaker 17: for our team in particular, just being able to play

1638
01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:21,760
Speaker 17: nickel and heavy sets is a big deal. But I

1639
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:25,160
Speaker 17: also see it on tape that other teams are doing

1640
01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:27,000
Speaker 17: trying to do the same thing, you know what I'm saying.

1641
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:31,200
Speaker 17: So it's definitely becoming more I don't want to use

1642
01:24:31,200 --> 01:24:33,160
Speaker 17: the word popular, but I guess that's the word. Like

1643
01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:36,679
Speaker 17: just having your nickel on the field more like eighty

1644
01:24:36,680 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 17: five percent of the snaps instead of like back in

1645
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 17: the day, I feel like it was sixty five percent

1646
01:24:41,240 --> 01:24:42,800
Speaker 17: of the time, you know what I'm saying. But having

1647
01:24:42,800 --> 01:24:45,080
Speaker 17: that nickel out there playing basically the whole game.

1648
01:24:46,520 --> 01:24:48,320
Speaker 14: And a guy like Dayquana comes in and he's not

1649
01:24:48,400 --> 01:24:51,280
Speaker 14: the biggest guy, Yeah right, just thought him as a slot,

1650
01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:53,599
Speaker 14: but he also play at outside. Like the team's kind

1651
01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:55,679
Speaker 14: of change, Like what can you what can you talk

1652
01:24:55,720 --> 01:24:57,680
Speaker 14: to him about about the way you have to kind

1653
01:24:57,680 --> 01:24:59,360
Speaker 14: of play at your size of playing this game.

1654
01:24:59,479 --> 01:25:02,120
Speaker 17: Yeah, I would definitely say it the mindset, you know

1655
01:25:02,200 --> 01:25:06,320
Speaker 17: what I'm saying. I play with guys in college at

1656
01:25:06,400 --> 01:25:09,600
Speaker 17: Weeper State that were smaller, like much smaller than me

1657
01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:12,280
Speaker 17: and had and had a mindset like no other, you

1658
01:25:12,320 --> 01:25:15,080
Speaker 17: know what I'm saying. So that alone is why I

1659
01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:17,920
Speaker 17: feel like I am the player. Not alone, but one

1660
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:19,840
Speaker 17: of the reasons why I feel like I'm a good

1661
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:22,080
Speaker 17: player is because of my mindset. And I would just

1662
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:25,559
Speaker 17: say everyone having that kind of mindset where it doesn't

1663
01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:27,840
Speaker 17: matter how small you are, how like it's I mean,

1664
01:25:27,880 --> 01:25:29,800
Speaker 17: people say this whole time, but it's really about your

1665
01:25:29,800 --> 01:25:33,560
Speaker 17: heart for real. Man, He's a playmaker, you know what

1666
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:36,000
Speaker 17: I'm saying. He's getting his hands on the ball consistently.

1667
01:25:36,040 --> 01:25:39,040
Speaker 17: I've seen it consistently for weeks at this point. So

1668
01:25:39,120 --> 01:25:41,680
Speaker 17: him just consistently getting his hands on the ball, and

1669
01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 17: all we need is to just make sure he's making

1670
01:25:44,120 --> 01:25:45,080
Speaker 17: them finish in plays.

1671
01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:47,599
Speaker 3: And when he does that, it will be special.

1672
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:50,880
Speaker 12: It's a different position group, but Joe andres and that

1673
01:25:51,040 --> 01:25:54,439
Speaker 12: story has been kind of crazy. What's it like amongst

1674
01:25:54,479 --> 01:25:57,040
Speaker 12: the teammates and everything, especially on the defensive side of

1675
01:25:57,040 --> 01:25:59,519
Speaker 12: the ball, knowing that his position.

1676
01:25:59,560 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 2: When he came in and showed up here and what

1677
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:01,759
Speaker 2: he did.

1678
01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 17: Saturday, Wow, I say that was pretty special by him,

1679
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:08,759
Speaker 17: you know what I'm saying. Like he's coming in and

1680
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:12,320
Speaker 17: starting his first game, going against one, you know what

1681
01:26:12,320 --> 01:26:14,880
Speaker 17: I'm saying. So it's like they had their guys out

1682
01:26:14,880 --> 01:26:17,040
Speaker 17: there as well, and he comes out there and doesn't

1683
01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:19,799
Speaker 17: miss a beat, And I thought that was really special

1684
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:22,680
Speaker 17: to see and extremely impressive to me, you know what

1685
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:24,800
Speaker 17: I'm saying. I thought it was very impressive watching them

1686
01:26:24,840 --> 01:26:27,000
Speaker 17: go out there and fly around and just play with

1687
01:26:27,040 --> 01:26:28,680
Speaker 17: no fear, you know what I'm saying. I feel like

1688
01:26:28,720 --> 01:26:30,800
Speaker 17: that's our goal, is to play as fast as we

1689
01:26:30,840 --> 01:26:33,519
Speaker 17: can without without fearing the result.

1690
01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:37,040
Speaker 3: Just playing fast, all.

1691
01:26:37,040 --> 01:26:39,720
Speaker 1: Right, Well, that's encouraging listening to him about the secondary.

1692
01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:42,080
Speaker 1: He's really encouraged by the way Taylor Rapp is kind

1693
01:26:42,080 --> 01:26:44,439
Speaker 1: of taking on a leadership role on the back end

1694
01:26:44,439 --> 01:26:47,080
Speaker 1: to get guys lined up properly and stuff. And it

1695
01:26:47,200 --> 01:26:49,439
Speaker 1: just kind of falls to safeties a lot just because

1696
01:26:49,439 --> 01:26:50,880
Speaker 1: of where they're located on the field.

1697
01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:54,479
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's exactly right. When you're down on the field,

1698
01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:56,160
Speaker 2: and a lot of times you can't hear this. You

1699
01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:59,080
Speaker 2: can hear the quarterback on the broadcast. Sometimes you'll hear

1700
01:26:59,120 --> 01:27:01,840
Speaker 2: the quarterback yelling signals. Which you can't hear is the

1701
01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:04,519
Speaker 2: guys in the back of the secondary where Poyer and

1702
01:27:04,600 --> 01:27:07,120
Speaker 2: hide playing where rap and handling play, and all these

1703
01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:10,280
Speaker 2: guys they're screaming, they're yelling at each other back there

1704
01:27:10,320 --> 01:27:13,080
Speaker 2: to make sure they're getting calls to every person on

1705
01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:18,639
Speaker 2: the defense. Because the pass rush and the way those

1706
01:27:18,680 --> 01:27:22,080
Speaker 2: guys pass rush has something to do with It's not

1707
01:27:22,160 --> 01:27:24,080
Speaker 2: just four guys running up the field. It also has

1708
01:27:24,120 --> 01:27:26,680
Speaker 2: to do with the linebackers and where they drop into coverage.

1709
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:31,439
Speaker 2: So the linebackers have to know where that what zones

1710
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:34,719
Speaker 2: they have to get into in conjunction with the safeties,

1711
01:27:34,720 --> 01:27:37,280
Speaker 2: because as you've all seen, one safety or the other

1712
01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:40,920
Speaker 2: will will rotate into the front, will come up. He's

1713
01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:42,559
Speaker 2: got to rotate in the front. If you think if

1714
01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 2: the linebacker thinks he's got an area and the safety's

1715
01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:47,400
Speaker 2: over there, you got a problem. So they got to

1716
01:27:47,439 --> 01:27:49,280
Speaker 2: they got to get that all ironed out. So guys

1717
01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:52,519
Speaker 2: scream all the time on the field. You get used

1718
01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:55,840
Speaker 2: to hearing the guys on your team screaming things. Particularly

1719
01:27:55,840 --> 01:28:00,240
Speaker 2: on defense. Offense, there's only one guy screaming, and that's

1720
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:02,960
Speaker 2: the quarterback. The offensive lineman will be in there, they'll

1721
01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:05,840
Speaker 2: say make some quieter calls, but the quarterback is the

1722
01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:08,240
Speaker 2: only one you hear. On defense, there's like three guys,

1723
01:28:09,240 --> 01:28:13,519
Speaker 2: you know, so to have Taylor Rap come in and

1724
01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:16,720
Speaker 2: you've said, we talked about it, he's a different dude

1725
01:28:16,760 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 2: this year. He is a different dude and it has

1726
01:28:19,040 --> 01:28:20,840
Speaker 2: shown in every way, shape and form. You can see

1727
01:28:20,880 --> 01:28:24,680
Speaker 2: him out there communicating. He's having conversations between plays with

1728
01:28:24,760 --> 01:28:27,240
Speaker 2: the other safety, with the corners, he's talking to him

1729
01:28:27,520 --> 01:28:30,720
Speaker 2: and they're they're they're pointing and you know, nodding their heads.

1730
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:32,240
Speaker 2: And yet I mean, it's a there's a lot going

1731
01:28:32,280 --> 01:28:36,600
Speaker 2: on in Taylor Rap to me, has probably been the

1732
01:28:36,600 --> 01:28:39,120
Speaker 2: biggest eye opener of all a training.

1733
01:28:38,840 --> 01:28:40,479
Speaker 1: Camp, maybe the most improved player.

1734
01:28:40,680 --> 01:28:41,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.

1735
01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:43,760
Speaker 1: Got to take a break here back with more on

1736
01:28:43,760 --> 01:29:02,120
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Stay tuned back here on One Bill's Live.

1737
01:29:02,160 --> 01:29:05,559
Speaker 1: Steve our good friend from a spot track Mike Janitti,

1738
01:29:05,560 --> 01:29:08,120
Speaker 1: who have on the show every once in a while. Uh,

1739
01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:11,439
Speaker 1: put out the money that's going to be spent on

1740
01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:14,840
Speaker 1: Broncos quarterbacks this year? Are you ready? Because we've just

1741
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:17,760
Speaker 1: heard Bo Nix is going to be the starter two

1742
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:21,160
Speaker 1: point seven million dollars for Zack Wilson to ride the bench,

1743
01:29:22,240 --> 01:29:25,519
Speaker 1: six million dollars presumably for Jared Stidham to be the backup.

1744
01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:29,320
Speaker 1: Eleven point one million dollars for bo Nix, which probably

1745
01:29:29,360 --> 01:29:33,080
Speaker 1: counts as signing bonus sure, and thirty seven point eight

1746
01:29:33,120 --> 01:29:37,600
Speaker 1: million dollars for Russell Wilson, who is in Pittsburgh and

1747
01:29:37,680 --> 01:29:38,800
Speaker 1: may not even start there.

1748
01:29:39,520 --> 01:29:39,840
Speaker 2: Yep.

1749
01:29:40,600 --> 01:29:43,559
Speaker 1: That's that's a tough one. That's called a bitter pill

1750
01:29:43,600 --> 01:29:44,200
Speaker 1: to swallow.

1751
01:29:44,280 --> 01:29:46,599
Speaker 2: That is a business reality in the NFL.

1752
01:29:46,640 --> 01:29:50,160
Speaker 1: It is Steve and I are done for today. More

1753
01:29:50,280 --> 01:29:54,120
Speaker 1: on Bill's practice notes and getting ready for Carolina tomorrow.

1754
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:54,960
Speaker 1: We'll see at once