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Speaker 1: Oh, Steve Tasper Tosti text text time. Here we go

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Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon. Welcome to the show. I'm John Murphy next

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Speaker 1: to Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo studio right next

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Speaker 1: door to the Bill Stadium newer Field Stadium. Field construction

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Speaker 1: looks like it's taking place. You're gonna get more on that.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get a guest in here. I promise you

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get We're gonna get down to the bottom

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Speaker 1: of what exactly is going on with that field. What's

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Speaker 1: the timeline on that too? I want that place looking spiffy.

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Speaker 1: I think they'll be done by September eight at the latest.

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be done before that. Hello there, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the show. It is a nice Wednesday here in

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Speaker 1: Archard Park. Temperature get it up to the seventy degree mark,

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Speaker 1: which is unusual for this time of year. I saw

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Speaker 1: something I forget where I was watching weather the other day.

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Speaker 1: But um, they mentioned, you know how it's been a

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Speaker 1: rough April right this year. It was a rough April

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Speaker 1: last year. It was worse last year. It was colder

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Speaker 1: and snowier last year. Yeah, maybe not snowier, but definitely

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Speaker 1: colder and less sunny. So I don't want to get

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Speaker 1: used to that, by the way, but I guess we're

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Speaker 1: getting used to it, right, I think we're Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not. My happiness is not tied to the weather.

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Speaker 1: I need to tell you that. And I think I'm

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Speaker 1: with most Buffalo people. I appreciate nice weather. It's great,

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Speaker 1: but I got a life aside from um, you know,

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Speaker 1: sunbathing or whatever you do, you know, golfing or whatever

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Speaker 1: you use in the nice one. I mean, I enjoyed

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Speaker 1: nice weather, but man, oh man, you're gonna tire if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna tie your happiness to it. I agree, what

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Speaker 1: are you doing? You know? I was thinking about this

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Speaker 1: at the draft last week, about how you know. On

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Speaker 1: the network coverage of the draft, virtually every Bill's player

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Speaker 1: drafted was either remarked upon or they was asked a

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Speaker 1: question about, Oh, you better get a winter code, Oh

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Speaker 1: to myself, we don't think about that here in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: We really don't want to say, oh, yeah, the weather's

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Speaker 1: gonna stink in March and April. It's gonna be colder

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Speaker 1: than you like. But nobody winds about nobody. Maybe we

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Speaker 1: want a little bit, but nobody cares. You don't let

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Speaker 1: us stop you. What you from what you want to do. Um,

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Speaker 1: you don't really alter your plans. We don't talk about

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Speaker 1: weather as much as outsiders talk about the weather. Here.

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Speaker 1: Every single draft pick steve it it became, you know,

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Speaker 1: not a major issue, but every one of them was

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Speaker 1: asked about it. How are you going to handle that

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Speaker 1: weather up there? Oh you better buy a coat? Do

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Speaker 1: you have a coat? Yeah? Get a cold? Big deal,

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Speaker 1: you know right, it's not a big deal to those here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess they You know, what do we do? I

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Speaker 1: think we dig a whole crawl into it for six

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Speaker 1: weeks during the winter and hibernate. I mean, I wish

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Speaker 1: it was only six weeks. We do it for four months.

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Speaker 1: I tell people, it's not and you know this, it's

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Speaker 1: not the winter that gets you. I mean, we go

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Speaker 1: of get out in. It's like April. It is April

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Speaker 1: where it's thirty eight and it rains and there's no sun.

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Speaker 1: That's when it's That's when it stinks. That's when you

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Speaker 1: or so and we're permanently damaged by it. I don't

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Speaker 1: think whatever. Hey, um, really no, we got a good

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Speaker 1: show here today're gonna talk about the draft a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about We're gonna talk with Eric Wood.

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Speaker 1: He's going to join us today about one thirty or so,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of draft talk today. Hey, I want

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Speaker 1: to tell I went to I am set an event

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Speaker 1: last night. See it was really cool. It's the brand

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Speaker 1: new Exploring More Ralph C. Wilson Junior Children's Museum being

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Speaker 1: build at Canal Side. It's gonna open for good I

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Speaker 1: think the summer June or July. They're saying. Last night

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Speaker 1: they had kind of a celebration for donors and benefactors,

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Speaker 1: people who've helped out. It is an amazing building right

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Speaker 1: right into the Exploring More Children's Museum. Great displays, great

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Speaker 1: a bonified tourist attraction. Parents of young children, grandparents are

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Speaker 1: It's it's beautiful, and it's just about ready to open

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Speaker 1: about a month. It's been under construction, and you know,

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Speaker 1: great building. Yeah it is. I knew it was getting close.

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Speaker 1: we got. Um, we got Bill's third round pick, Devin Singletary,

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Speaker 1: the running back from Florida Atlantic. He's gonna join us

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Speaker 1: it's third round running back? At you, Devin Singletary, you'll

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Speaker 1: You know, it's really more about the position because when

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Speaker 1: we were all focused on offensive line. We're focused on

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Speaker 1: they're all saying, oh, you know this guy, you know,

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Speaker 1: The team's gonna cut that guy. No, he's not. They're not.

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Speaker 1: The players make the roster. The coaches just inform them

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Speaker 1: don't it's too or way too early to start thinking

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Speaker 1: I mean, there may be some economic stuff, you know,

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Speaker 1: What do they really know about any of these guys

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Speaker 1: in his third year with the Bills, He's got playing

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Speaker 1: experience in the NFL, which will help played in the

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Speaker 1: league with the Eagles of forty nine ers in the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: He's also got military experience. He served in the US

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Speaker 1: Air Force as a second lieutenant. But this is his

429
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Speaker 1: first year as a wide receivers coach, first position group,

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Speaker 1: and he's got decisions to make and players to look at. Right,

431
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Speaker 1: you know the names John Brown and Zay Jones and

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Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, Robert Foster, Ray, Ray McLeod, Andre Roberts, a

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Speaker 1: special teamer, Isaiah McKenzie, Demiri Scott Bolden and Williams. He's

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Speaker 1: got players to look at. His decisions might not be

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Speaker 1: as critical because basically, I mean, look, if we all

436
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Speaker 1: sat down, we could probably throw out the names of

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Speaker 1: three or four almost certain locks to make the roster

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Speaker 1: as wide receivers, barring unforeseen circumstances. But you got at

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Speaker 1: least one, maybe two other positions to sort through and

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Speaker 1: figure out who's going to be your player. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: it's it's interesting too because what he's working with Chad Hall,

442
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Speaker 1: is a bunch of guys who play an individual position.

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Speaker 1: They line up and they run their thing, and there

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Speaker 1: there's is They're out there kind of by themselves, and

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Speaker 1: what they do may or may not matter in a

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Speaker 1: certain play unless the quarterback throws it to him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's you got the offensive line. Those guys have to

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Speaker 1: communicate and know exactly what each other are doing and

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Speaker 1: kind of free flow what they're seeing from the defense

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Speaker 1: and who's rushing and who's not, who's dropping out, and

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Speaker 1: if this guy drops out, you've got a different idea

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Speaker 1: about what to do. But Chad Hall has got guys

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Speaker 1: who are going to be responsible for most of the

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Speaker 1: big plays this offense turns out. They've got to know terminology, alignment.

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Speaker 1: They've got to be interchangeable across the line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: I mean across the yeah, across the formation at the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. And there's a couple of key components there,

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Speaker 1: mostly John Brown and Cole Beasley, who are going to

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Speaker 1: be critical to this. He's got to teach him the terminology.

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Speaker 1: They've got to work together, they've got to understand each other,

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Speaker 1: and they've got to be good. I mean, they've got

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Speaker 1: to be ready to win. Yeah, he's and he's got

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Speaker 1: he's gonna have a lot of work to do. You've

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Speaker 1: got a lot of work to do. Ken Dorsey is

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Speaker 1: on our list. Is one of the coaches who potentially

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Speaker 1: has the biggest challenge getting ready the team ready to play.

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Speaker 1: And now, look, his quarterback group is pretty well defined.

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Speaker 1: We know who the top three are anyway, and that

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Speaker 1: they've been the top three since what January early February

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Speaker 1: when they finished up to signing Josh Allen, Matt Barkley,

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Speaker 1: Derek Anderson, Tyree Jackson just added to the roster on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: is an undrafted rookie free agent, so he's got those

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Speaker 1: four to work with. He's got to figure out he's

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Speaker 1: got to figure out how to get snaps, I would

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Speaker 1: think for Tyree Jackson because they want to see if

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Speaker 1: they can develop and maybe he's targeted for the practice squad,

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Speaker 1: maybe not. He's got to determine how much work Derek

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Speaker 1: Anderson might need and how to best employee Derek Anderson's strengths,

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Speaker 1: which are experience and you know, kind of judgment he's

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Speaker 1: gotta But really the big challenge for Ken Dorsey going

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Speaker 1: to his first and he's had five years experience in

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Speaker 1: the league as a quarterbacks coach, working with Cam Newton primarily,

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Speaker 1: but he's got to work with Josh Allen and you

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Speaker 1: proclaimed on Monday. I think you said in Monday, Steve,

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Speaker 1: the season is all about Josh, and you're pretty much right.

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Speaker 1: And Ken Dorsey, there's a lot on his shoulders. He's

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Speaker 1: got a challenge and it can't wait until you know,

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Speaker 1: camp even for him to start developing chemistry and developing

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Speaker 1: kind of a routine of work with Josh Ellen. It's

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Speaker 1: got to start now. Hopefully he's started already a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago. Yeah. I think, let's face it, we're

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Speaker 1: all his job is the one that's going to be

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Speaker 1: under the most scrutiny and probably has the most pressure

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Speaker 1: around it. So much now that this roster has been formulated,

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Speaker 1: and I think all of us agree, even the most

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Speaker 1: casual observers of this franchise from the West Coast or wherever,

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Speaker 1: from the East, or wherever division rivals, you know, the media,

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Speaker 1: everybody knows this roster is much much better, much more

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Speaker 1: formidable than it was a year ago. They've got fewer questions,

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Speaker 1: and they've proven something, particularly on the defensive side of

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Speaker 1: the ball last year, that there they are what they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be. But then it all comes down to the

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Speaker 1: one guy, and that's the guy pulling the trigger, who's

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Speaker 1: gonna get Josh Allen the readiest to play. They kept

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Speaker 1: the quarterback room with Matt Barkley and Derrick Anderson intact,

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Speaker 1: and now they've got a new quarterback coach and Ken

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Speaker 1: Dorsey who's going to be added into that mix. It's

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Speaker 1: critically important for and I know it sounds crazy, and

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Speaker 1: I know it's but this is the way it works.

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Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey, Derek Anderson, Matt Barkley and Brian day Bole

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Speaker 1: and Tyree Jackson if he's actually in the room, anybody

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Speaker 1: in there. There one job is to get Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: to play his best. That's all there as a team,

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Speaker 1: as a group, as a committee, that's all they do.

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Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey leads that he's going to be the liaison

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Speaker 1: between Brian day Bole and Josh Allen and Derek Anderson

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Speaker 1: and those guys. It's all This offense is only going

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Speaker 1: to be as good as Josh Allen is, and it's

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Speaker 1: their job to get him to play his best. And

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Speaker 1: if you want to know, you know who who's going

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Speaker 1: to have the most critical job might beat Ken Dorsey.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's as big a challenge is

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Speaker 1: getting all the big guys up front playing right, but

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Speaker 1: we're all gonna know if Ken Dorsey doesn't do his job.

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Speaker 1: Last contender for the position coach, new position coach with

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Speaker 1: the biggest challenge getting ready for the season, and we

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Speaker 1: put the special team's coach, Heeth Farwell, who was hired back.

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Speaker 1: As we said around the third week of January, you

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Speaker 1: kind of know who the kicker is. Right for the punter,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna get their guy back, it appears, help me out,

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Speaker 1: Steve the name U the kicker punter a Horn Kids

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Speaker 1: Cory be hor Kids Horse. Yeah, he is a strong

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Speaker 1: candidate to get the punning job back again, I would think.

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Speaker 1: And then you got return work on Andre Roberts, you know,

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Speaker 1: one of the top return man in the league, if

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Speaker 1: not the top return man in the league last year,

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Speaker 1: will be a strong candidate for return work, especially punt returns.

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Speaker 1: But Farwell has got to kind of sort through the roster.

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Speaker 1: They've signed some guys who appear to be special teams candidates,

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Speaker 1: you know, core special teamers. But Heath Farwell in his

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Speaker 1: first year handling this position. He's been an assistant special

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Speaker 1: team's coach, former player obviously with Seattle Heath Farwell has

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Speaker 1: to sort through all that traffic and identify who the

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Speaker 1: core guys are along with fin you know, making sure

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Speaker 1: that he's got the right punter on the roster. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you want to talk about a math problem, you know.

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Speaker 1: So we've talked about Bobby Johnson. He's got like thirteen guys.

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Speaker 1: He's got to get down to eight guys that he

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Speaker 1: can put in combinations that will win on a Sunday.

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Speaker 1: You know. The other Chad Hall's got like three or four, five,

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Speaker 1: five guys On a game day, he's got to get

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Speaker 1: ready to play three spots, sometimes maybe four spots if

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Speaker 1: they go four wide. And of course Ken Dorsey and

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Speaker 1: his job were getting Josh Allen ready to play. Think

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Speaker 1: about the Heath Farwell. He's got sixty he's got sixty

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Speaker 1: six spots to fill. Sixty six field goal, field goal, block, kickoff,

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Speaker 1: kickoff return, punt, punt return, and then you got hands

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Speaker 1: hands team. So it's really it's eighty eight spots he's

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Speaker 1: got to philp eighty eight spots on the field that

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Speaker 1: he has to get lined up and know what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight roles, different roles, frontline guys, fuel goal frontline protection,

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Speaker 1: field goal defense guys trying to block it, and he

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Speaker 1: doesn't even know. And he's only got fifty three guys

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Speaker 1: to do it. And there's about probably eight guys on

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Speaker 1: the ruster he's off that are off limits to him,

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Speaker 1: right at least in some respects. You know, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna have Josh Allen out there being a punt gunner.

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Speaker 1: So you talk about a math problem and a guy

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Speaker 1: who's got and he's gonna get probably a core group

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Speaker 1: of maybe seven guys the last roster spot at every position,

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Speaker 1: last safety, the last corner, the last d lineman, the

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Speaker 1: last linebacker, the last tight end, running back, wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: an offensive lineman. That's eight guys. He can have one

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Speaker 1: of those guys, a last guy at each of those

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Speaker 1: position group is probably gonna be a core special teams guy.

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Speaker 1: But he's got all those other guys to fill in

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Speaker 1: and then find out what those eight core guys are

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Speaker 1: really good at, because you can't play a guy like me.

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Speaker 1: I can't be inside on a punt team. I can't

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Speaker 1: be you know, there's certain things you can to do.

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Speaker 1: So that's a math problem for Heath that he's got

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Speaker 1: to do it boggled my mind to think about the

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Speaker 1: challenge that Bruce to Haven had when I was playing,

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Speaker 1: and he had a great head coach for special teams too,

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Speaker 1: one of the innovators. It's hard. That's a big challenge. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he doesn't even I mean he can have a say,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know how big a say he gets

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Speaker 1: when it comes down to roster cut time. Says I

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Speaker 1: like to have this guy, he might say, he say,

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Speaker 1: you can have three guys, four guys. If you get

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Speaker 1: a punter, a kicker, long snapper, and then three other guys,

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Speaker 1: Well then he's got you know, what's he gonna do.

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Speaker 1: What's he gonna do? That's a big, big challenge. Now

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Speaker 1: I'll have a challenge all four of them, four new

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Speaker 1: position coaches for the Bills. Which one has the biggest challenge?

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Speaker 1: That's our Twitter poll today. You can vote on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: You can send in a tweet, or you can ring

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Speaker 1: us up at eight oh three oh five fifty or

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Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Hey,

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Speaker 1: this Saturday, you're welcome to join units in the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills at the annual Blood Drive Saturday, New Airfield. Every

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Speaker 1: donor gets a pair of preseason tickets for the Bills.

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Speaker 1: This year, the drive takes place in the Dune Tire Club.

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Speaker 1: There'll be food trucks outside, inflatable activities and fun for

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Speaker 1: the whole family. To sign up is at units dot

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Speaker 1: org Upstate New York Transplant Services Units dot org. The

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Speaker 1: Bills Blood Drive this Saturday, ten am to four pm

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Speaker 1: right here at New Airfield. Coming up next, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk with Bill's third round draft pick. Devin's singletary. That's

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Speaker 1: coming up next, One Goals Live from One Deals Drive

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio. One Bal's Live from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: I'm John Murphy next to Steve Tasker, coming to you

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Speaker 1: from our one Buffalo studio in Orchard Park and joining

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Speaker 1: us right now on the line Buffalo's third round draft pick,

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Speaker 1: the running back from Florida Atlantic University. Devin's singletary. Hello Devin,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve up here in Buffalo. Thanks coming

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Speaker 1: on with us today. Guys, we're doing well. I'm wondering

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Speaker 1: about you and what have you been doing since you

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Speaker 1: heard your name called on Friday night? As you wait

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Speaker 1: to come to Buffalo next week. How have you been

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Speaker 1: spending your days Devon. You know, the past few days,

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Speaker 1: I just want to be working out, you know, so

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Speaker 1: pretty much just been working out. I've been trying to

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Speaker 1: get in that playbook. I've been pretty much it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You when you were drafted, you're coming to a football

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Speaker 1: team with two really a veteran running backs already. Uh

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Speaker 1: and you got a lot of work in college FA.

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Speaker 1: You carried the ball over seven hundred times. You had

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Speaker 1: a great career there, but you didn't catch the ball

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Speaker 1: that much last year. And we talked to a general

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Speaker 1: manager of the Bills, Brandon Being. He said, when they

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Speaker 1: worked you out, just about all you did was catch

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Speaker 1: the football. Do you remember that? And what were your

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Speaker 1: thoughts about it? Right? Um, you know, I definitely remember

635
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: working out, um guys, So yeah, ran a lot of

636
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Speaker 1: rounds Colorado balls. That's what they wanted to see because,

637
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: like you said, you know this last year, um high

638
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: like was so yeah, I wanted to show them that,

639
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: you know, I can catch the ball well. And the

640
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: only reason I didn't how that Mini Cates was you know,

641
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: it was a game game plan that was going with

642
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: you know, I thought I did well with that. What

643
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: what do you need to work on in your game

644
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: as you assess your own strengths and weaknesses, Devin, what

645
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: what do you hope to achieve and what do you

646
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,719
Speaker 1: need to work on getting ready for this year? Um?

647
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: I would say, well, honestly, I feel like I can

648
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: always improve and everything. But the most thing I feel

649
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: I just work on is my past broke you know, Uh,

650
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: working on my pocknic a little more. Um, you know,

651
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: I definitely haven't want through the block, but I didn't

652
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: need to clean up my technes pass The biggest thing

653
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: for me. How much pushback did you get when you

654
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: came out and the scouts came in and you you know,

655
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: you're five to seven? I mean, and that's always gonna

656
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: be something you live with. I mean I lived with

657
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: it through my career as well. I was you know,

658
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: short as well, but short doesn't mean ineffective or small.

659
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: How did you handle that when when you got any

660
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: feedback from teams about your height? Well, you know, my

661
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 1: whole life, you know, I've been hearing so uh. It

662
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: never stopped me from being able to make plays, you know. Uh,

663
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: And and I could give you a list of people

664
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Speaker 1: you know that's my height. You know that that played

665
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: in you know played in the NFL and he did well,

666
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: so you know that was always waiting men. Yeah, pretty much.

667
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: I just never let it stop me just because of

668
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: my height. Yeah. With Devin Singletary Buffer those third round

669
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: draft pick, the running back from Florida Atlantic, I want

670
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: to talk about your background. Uh, your father, Divine played

671
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: at Norfolk State. How much of a factor has he

672
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: been on your choice of, you know, playing football and

673
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: maybe even your style of playing football? Kevin Right, Um,

674
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: you know I was my whole family, you know, Uh,

675
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: there's a whole bunch of football players, but my father, Yeah,

676
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: he was definitely a bigness fluing on me playing football.

677
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: Just always been with him and always been around him.

678
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: You know. I had a whole bunch of stories about,

679
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: you know, when he played football and how good, how

680
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: good he was growing up. So he definitely wasn't picking

681
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: slungs on me playing football. He provided you with a

682
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: nickname too, right. He was motor and you were a

683
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: little motor at least to start the RFA you right, true,

684
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: great nickname. Oh yeah, so when you go back and

685
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: obviously you came out of college and he had a

686
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: really nice career. He had thirty two rushing touchdowns. In

687
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, you ended your career with sixty six rushing

688
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: touchdo down. You had nineteen hundred and twenty yards rushing

689
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: one year. What was the what was the what was

690
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: what were you most proud of in college? Of course,

691
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: of course on problems obviously set out my whole wink payoff,

692
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: but um, just you know the relationships that I built

693
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: with my brothers, you know that that was big for

694
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: me as well. Um Um. I would also see, you know,

695
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:24,959
Speaker 1: coming off to my freshman year, you know, we want

696
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: to sillion nine and if my folk were year, you know,

697
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: just proving everybody a wrong and going to win that

698
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: comfortence championship of one of the boat Games. Definitely proud

699
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: of that. Hey, Devin, tell me about the slow start

700
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: you had in your senior year. You're calling for great

701
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: junior year and and right off the bat in your

702
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: senior year or your fight your last year year at FAU,

703
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: things didn't start well for you. You're recovered well, but

704
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: what do you think was going on in the first

705
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of the year. Um, you know it

706
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: was a slow start, like you said, you know, we

707
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: had a new oc um so Uh, we had a

708
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: new quarter back, you got a few new lining in

709
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: so we just had we just had to be a road. Um,

710
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: you know, slow started. You know, it's not all about

711
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: how you started how you finished. You know, I kept

712
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: mr and uh you know it took a day by

713
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: day and just kept working. You had um competition too, right,

714
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: you guys opened up against Oklahoma I think last year,

715
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: right right, yep? What was that like? Um? You know, uh,

716
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: you know that's turn out how we ordered it to

717
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: turn out. You know, it was a tough game, but um,

718
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: you know we put our best foot for you know. Uh,

719
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: like I said, didn't turn out how he wanted to.

720
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: But uh, Oklahoma definitely was a great opponent with Devin

721
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 1: Singletary the Builds, a third round draft pick, the running

722
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: back from Florida Atlantic. I want to ask you about

723
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: the Heisman campaign that they got going to Fau playing

724
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 1: off your nickname Motor. Can you talk about that and

725
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: how did you feel about that When they started suggesting

726
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: you were a Heisman candidate. That was big, you know

727
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: because not being in a Power five school, you know,

728
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: you kind of get overlooked when you come to it.

729
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: You know, the Howsman and things like that. So I

730
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 1: definitely you know, appreciate and love after you from what

731
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: he feels for me, you know, and always have him

732
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: about back, you know, um in that field with him,

733
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: you know, pushing him on the Higsman campaign. So that

734
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: was definitely good talk. I want to ask you about

735
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: your your coach is that Lane Kiffin? What was that

736
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: talk to us? A little bit of style of offense?

737
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: You ran, how was it playing for him? He's been

738
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: a guy that's been around the block in the coaching ranks.

739
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: What was your experience with him? So? I was feel

740
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 1: like my sophomore year, you know, it was comics and

741
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: it was more up tempo, well kind of like a

742
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: I would kind of feel like a you know, just

743
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: like a playground background, you know, playing out in the

744
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: field kind of offer and my junie, you know, he

745
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: kind of he kind of took over more. You know,

746
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: him and coach Wis, they was amicetting, right, so he

747
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: kind of went to more of a post offense. You know,

748
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: we still try to keep the temple, but it was

749
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: more of a post offense. Um. So just playing around

750
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,280
Speaker 1: of coach Kiff, it was good. You know, he always

751
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: preached and have a promonseet. You know how he approached

752
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: thing was definitely with a Pokemon sting. And you know

753
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: he definitely preached that Tess a lot. Hey, Devin, what

754
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: what can you do for the Buffalo Bills this year?

755
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,439
Speaker 1: How can you help the Bills as a rookie this season?

756
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: All right? Um? I feel like to help him a

757
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 1: special teams or you know, even earn him my way

758
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: onto the still you know, but anyway, you know they

759
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: want to use it and special teams return work. You're thinking,

760
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: or Devin, are you there still? I guess we lost him.

761
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: I we might have lost him. That's too bad to

762
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: talk to him. I think we're done. We got that

763
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: last question, Devin, thanks for coming on. Anyway, we didn't

764
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: cut him monkey. Yeah, you cut us. You can't cut

765
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: us off. Devin Singletary, Bills running back, third round pick,

766
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 1: seventy fourth overall. Um, no problem at all. Admitting that

767
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: he is undersized, you know, five feet seven and I

768
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: want to I want to see he said, I can

769
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: give you a list of running backs five seven or sure.

770
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: I felt like saying, send it up. It's true. I

771
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: want to see it. You thought that I doubt him,

772
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: but I want to he says he did that. He

773
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:55,879
Speaker 1: looked that up. I want to see that. Yeah, there's

774
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 1: been there have been some guys, no question about it.

775
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: But I think the fun part and I him more

776
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: so than any the other draft picks we've spoken to.

777
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: I gotta think, after you get drafted and then you're

778
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: going in there and you're just working out in the weeks,

779
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: just about before you come up to your NFL team

780
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: that has drafted you, that has to be the funnest

781
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,760
Speaker 1: part of your entire life. After you're drafted and before

782
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 1: you show up when all the pressure hits and you think, wow,

783
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: I may not make it that because your head to

784
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 1: be spending up here, yeah a little bit. Yeah, you're

785
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna be like drinking out of a fire

786
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: hose next week. But for now, all your teammates and

787
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 1: they're everybody's so happy for you, and they're so proud

788
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: of you, and it's a really nice place to be.

789
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: It's it's a little I don't know what it's like

790
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,879
Speaker 1: other than getting drafted and just about ready to start

791
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: your career. It's a real high point of your life.

792
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: And emotionally, his family is there and his friends are

793
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 1: and just everybody is so excited for you. It's really

794
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: really a neat thing to think about for these young

795
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: guys as they get ready to come up here for

796
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: OTAs and many Rookie Minicamp and all the things that follow.

797
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: Rookie Minicamp starts many tenth week from tomorrow, no week

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Speaker 1: from Friday, Friday, week from Friday, May tenth will be

799
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 1: up here. Bill's draft picks and some of the undrafted. Hey,

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00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: we're talking about the four new Bills position coaches, which

801
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: one of them is the biggest challenge with his group

802
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,879
Speaker 1: as they get ready for the season. That's our Twitter poll.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about that, and you can join us as well.

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Speaker 1: discussion when we return. John Murphy was Steve Tasker One

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Speaker 1: John Murphy was Steve Tasker, Are until three Struck by Lightning?

812
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Speaker 1: Coming up? Eric Wood next hour and then we're gonna

813
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Speaker 1: talk with Jim Nagi, the executive director of the Senior

814
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Speaker 1: Bowl as well. Our question for you, and we do

815
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Speaker 1: have a question for you on the Twitter poll, and

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Speaker 1: it's a simple one, but a good one because it's mine.

817
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,399
Speaker 1: Which new Bill's position coach has the biggest challenge leading

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00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: up to the season. Got more than five hundred and

819
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: fifty votes in on this so far, and most of

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00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: you think it is offensive line coach Bobby Johnson fifty

821
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Speaker 1: four percent. Eighteen percent say Chad Hall, the wide receivers coach,

822
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: has the toughest job. Ken Darcy quarterback coach up to

823
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,959
Speaker 1: seventeen percent. Heath Farewell special teams coach up to ten percent,

824
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Speaker 1: DC Steve. We talked about this. When you and I

825
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 1: can issue our opinions about the Twitter poll and you

826
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Speaker 1: watch the numbers move, it's a feeling of power, you

827
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: know what I mean, influence. I think it's I tend

828
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: to think of worst coincidence, but oh no, you know,

829
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Speaker 1: I get it. But I wonder if we would all

830
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: think this, if if the offensive line wasn't so a

831
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: tro just last year. That's part of it. They got

832
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: a bunch of new guys and and we're all and

833
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: we're all like, we got this shiny new quarterback who

834
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,280
Speaker 1: you know, he's the ultimate weapon. He can run, he's huge,

835
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: he's got a huge arm, throws it, uh makes plays

836
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: and you want to protect him. So you think, wow,

837
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: that's you think that's the most important thing ever. Uh,

838
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's more important or the guy

839
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: that coaches that quarterback is more important, you know, and

840
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: getting him ready to play and getting him to take

841
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 1: this huge step forward, because if Josh Alan takes this

842
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: enormous step forward, and and let's face it, even if

843
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: they hadn't changed the offensive line coach from boy to

844
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: Bobby Johnson, you know this offensive line is gonna be

845
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: they think is gonna be better just because they got

846
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: better players. So if you start there, I don't know that. Uh.

847
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: You know that Ken Dorsey's job isn't isn't more of

848
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: a challenge and more daunting because you know, it's the

849
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: hardest position pro sports to play. So we'll see, we'll

850
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: see you can make a case for either those two guys,

851
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 1: you know, right off the top of your head. And

852
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: it's interesting and most people and I think it has

853
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: it do with how bad they were last year that

854
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: they think Bobby Johnson's the most modern room for him

855
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: for the biggest cheap reading Jeremiah Ortiz on the tweet sheet,

856
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:21,240
Speaker 1: which new position coach? There are four on the Bills

857
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: coaching staff. Which new one has the biggest challenge? Jeremiah

858
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 1: Ortiz says on line coach not only is he new,

859
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: but he'll potentially be working with the group made up

860
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: entirely of guys who never worked together. But I think

861
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: they'll be fine because of the great group they have.

862
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: But that's a that's a challenge, and people always say this,

863
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those standard football hackney cliches. Well,

864
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: um cohesion is most critical on the offensive line, and

865
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: this offensive line has worked together for three years, so

866
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:48,919
Speaker 1: they'll be good. And you know what, the Bills can't

867
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: say that. They can't say anything remotely like that now

868
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 1: because they're all new. The coaches maybe one starts are new.

869
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,280
Speaker 1: Everything's new, except you know that some of the holdovers

870
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: from from years last year will help. I mean a

871
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: little bit, I guess, uh some of the old lineman.

872
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: But these old linemen that are left over from last

873
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: year that Dion Dawkins, okay, everybody else's you know, they

874
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: couldn't get on the field. Yeah, they were on the

875
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: field when it was desperation time. So that's a group

876
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 1: of condott Sears. All of those comes back, right, these guys.

877
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: I mean that Wyatt Teller comes back right. Quentin Spain's knew,

878
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: John Pelee, Siano's new, Vladimir do costs here. Butker So

879
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: these guys had trouble getting on the field on an

880
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: offensive line that was really struggling. So I mean, how

881
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: how confident are they? You know, they're gonna have to

882
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: you know, they're the guys that kind of have one

883
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,879
Speaker 1: year in this system, so to speak, that at least

884
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: one year so that they can kind of figure out

885
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: what's going on but and have the terminology down. But

886
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: they still got new guys to work with as well.

887
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: It's it is going to be a huge, huge challenge

888
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: for these guys to get this rolling, but hey, that's

889
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: what they get paid to do. We'll see call on

890
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: the line from Kevin and Hamburg. Hello, Kevin, go ahead,

891
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: you're on the air with this. How are you doing? Okay?

892
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: I'd like to say that I think I'm gonna slip

893
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: another in there and say the tight ends coach, not

894
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 1: knowing if our guys are going to be tight end wise,

895
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: if we would have had someone like Hawkinson or someone

896
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: traded like say Jesse James for Pittsburgh, he wouldn't make

897
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: it a lot easier for everybody because you know, he's

898
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 1: a good catcher and he can block wonderfully because I

899
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: used to watch him play when he wasn't playing the

900
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: Bills in Pittsburgh and he blocked good. Yeah. I mean

901
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: the thing is he's not new, right because coach Boris

902
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: has been here. He's going into his third year of

903
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: the Bills. But you're right about this. He's only got

904
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 1: one returner that he had last year, Jason Krum Tyler

905
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: Croft is new unrestricted free agents signed by the Bills,

906
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 1: and of course the two they just drafted, Tommy Sweeney

907
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: and Dawson Knox, So new faces in the tight end

908
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: room as well, not including the coach. Yeah. Yeah, they

909
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: got five guy that's it, and they'll probably go into

910
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: the season with three, maybe four. I think there could

911
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: be a case made. They really like Pat DeMarco. He's

912
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 1: been here for a while. He's a fullback. But then

913
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 1: you always see these other teams. And I'm not saying

914
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: the Bills are going to do this, but they could

915
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: use a you know, a Dawson Knox or a Tommy

916
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: Sweeney or you know Tyler Croft as a fullback and

917
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: line them up and you know, tight end h back

918
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: fullback kind of thing. Wouldn't be a dedicated guy like

919
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: h like DeMarco is, but it would free them up

920
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:32,879
Speaker 1: for a roster spot if they wanted, if they needed

921
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 1: some special teams help, if a guy could outperform a

922
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: DeMarco on special teams. So there's always that flexibility, but

923
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 1: there's just not that many faces there in the tight

924
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: end room that that you can, you know, think, wow, okay, man,

925
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know, all these guys have

926
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: a legit chance not only to make the team, but

927
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: to really be a big part, a big contributor. I

928
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:55,879
Speaker 1: get a lot of snaps on offense, so it's gonna

929
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: be interesting to see. But you're right, it's not a

930
00:44:57,920 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: new he's not a new assistant coach, which is why

931
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: he's not on our list. Thanks for your call. We're

932
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 1: gonna get back to more calls and more discussion. Eric

933
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: Wood's going to join us in the next hour of

934
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 1: the show a little bit later on one thirty one

935
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: thirty five or so, so stick around for that. We'll

936
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: continue to talk about which position coach for the Bills,

937
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: which new position coach as the greatest challenge as they

938
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 1: get ready for the twenty nineteen season. That discussion coming

939
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: up when we return, plus a lot more One Bill's

940
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radiollo

941
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network. Sports update update from One Bill's Drive.

942
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: NFL news come from Monday Night Football. Booger McFarland's going

943
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: to move from his field analyst position to join play

944
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 1: by play commentator Joe Tessitory in the booth. This year,

945
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 1: the fiftieth season of Monday Night Football. ESPN made the

946
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: announcement today. They'll be joined by sideline report of Lisa Assaulters,

947
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: who returns for her eighth NFL Monday Night Football season.

948
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 1: They kick it off the Euston Texans visiting the Saints

949
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: September ninth, part of the ESPN Opening Night double header

950
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football. McFarland, a two time Super Bowl champ,

951
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,720
Speaker 1: joined Monday Night Football in twenty eighteen after working college

952
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: football for four years from Oakland, comes word that new

953
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: league signed running back Isaiah Crowell tour has achilles tendon

954
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: during the workout this week. He is out for the season.

955
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 1: According to ESPN, he will undergo season ending surgery next week.

956
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: Crowell had signed a one year deal worth up to

957
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: two and a half million dollars. According to sources, it's

958
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: a blow to the Raiders depth chart at running back.

959
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,839
Speaker 1: Last week, Marshawn Lynch said he's done playing. Doug Martin

960
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: was the team's leading rusher last season, but he was

961
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:39,800
Speaker 1: a free agent. Bruce Allen, general manager of the Washington Redskins,

962
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: disputes what the Giants GM Dave Getleman said. Gentleman said

963
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: he took Daniel Jones with the number six overall pick,

964
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 1: believing that the Redskins were one team that might take

965
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: him before the Gents to get a chance. Appearing on

966
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: the NFL's Total Access Tuesday night NFL Networks, Bruce Allen,

967
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: the team president, said that notion is not true hogwash.

968
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: He said, Danny Cup playoffs tonight a couple of games

969
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 1: in the East. It is Game three of the Islanders

970
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: Carolina series. Carolina leads that series two games to none.

971
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: They'll face off at seven o'clock tonight and in the

972
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 1: West game four of the series between Saint Louis and Dallas.

973
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Blues lead that series two games to one.

974
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: After taking both ends of a doubleheader last night, the

975
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: Bisons have a chance to sweep the series from Pawtucka tonight.

976
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: They beat the pass Socks four three in both games

977
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 1: last night. Tonight, game four of the series, Bises have

978
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 1: won the first three first pitch for tonight's game six

979
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: oh five at Sailing Field. That's the update from One

980
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: Bills Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo studio.

981
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,399
Speaker 1: We just checked. It is beautiful out Steve seventy something

982
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 1: to grease Sonny here in Ulcher Parker's great looking day.

983
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: Really warm too, because the first time you walk out

984
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 1: and it's it's warmer outside than it is inside. Yeah, gosh,

985
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: I've been freezing for weeks. Seriously, today feels great. Well. Yeah,

986
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: we're not complainers, no, as a general rule, but it

987
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 1: was we were verging on constant regret at the weather.

988
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: So seventy three degrees the Orchard Park temperature right now,

989
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: happy to you, happy with us here today. Eric Wood's

990
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: gonna join us about a half hour from now later

991
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: on in the show. He's got a lot to talk about,

992
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: including the Derby. I want to get his thoughts on

993
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,399
Speaker 1: the Kentucky Derby. I wonder how many Derby's Eric has

994
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,800
Speaker 1: gone to. I bet it's uh more than double digits,

995
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna say, double digits for sure.

996
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: He might be up to twenty, right, Eric's thirty something, Yeah,

997
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:30,800
Speaker 1: maybe he's fifteen. That's bet on that Derby's is Eric Wooden.

998
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 1: He's a big can. They'll be tweeting out pictures all

999
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: dressed up, um, you know, with his uh a lot

1000
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:38,839
Speaker 1: of and you know, the Derby's huge, Steve a lot

1001
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 1: a lot of NFL guys go to the Derby. Now

1002
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 1: it's a big and I'm never I've never been. I

1003
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,879
Speaker 1: want to go. I've got Yeah, some of my guys,

1004
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: some of my cronies, you know, go all the time

1005
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: every every year. Um Wolford. Wolford lives in Louisville, so

1006
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: he's there all the time as well. He's told me,

1007
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: he's told me some stories that you know, it's a

1008
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: it's a party, yeah, and it's it's like it's not

1009
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 1: just like the day of the Derby either. I mean

1010
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: it's like a festival, right, it goes like days on end,

1011
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: you know, So it's and it culminates in that. So yeah,

1012
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: it's it's a really really big event. Um. It's one

1013
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: of the few top sporting events that I've not been to.

1014
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: I've been to like Ryder Cups. Uh, me too, I've

1015
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 1: been to I haven't been to the Derby, and I've

1016
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: not been to the Indie five hundred. But I've been

1017
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: to like the Boston Marathon, Super Bowls, World Series games,

1018
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: NBA games Masters. I've been to the Masters. It's open

1019
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: to the PGA. I have not been to the US

1020
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: So I've been to the Ryder Cup. Uh, that kind

1021
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: of stuff. Baseball games. Uh so, I've been to a

1022
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: lot of different you know types of sport Stanley Cup

1023
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 1: of course, World Series, Uh yeah, World Series a couple

1024
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 1: of times. All Star Game once. I was at the

1025
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 1: fiftieth All Star Game back in the day, right, So, um,

1026
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 1: what a waste of an evening. So um, yeah, there's

1027
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 1: something about all of those events that look and feel

1028
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: and smell and sound like a world class event. The

1029
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: Derby's probably one of those as well. I'd love to

1030
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 1: go sometime and you know, but it's just, you know,

1031
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 1: it's never been. I don't know whether it's the wrong

1032
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 1: time a year or what, but I've never been, never been.

1033
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:23,840
Speaker 1: One of the great sporting events I ever attended was

1034
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 1: Secretariat's last race race nineteen October. Yeah, up in Toronto.

1035
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: Last race in Toronto. Oh, that was after the Triple Plan.

1036
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 1: How long? How long did he race after that? Just

1037
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,879
Speaker 1: until that race October? So triple crown and ended in June.

1038
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: You have a couple of races after that. I think

1039
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: I believe he lost at the Traverse Stakes right in Saratoga,

1040
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 1: and then he rolled in the race at Toronto. It

1041
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: was amazing. One of the great and Ryder Cup is

1042
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: on my list two of events I've been to that

1043
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: among the greatest. Uh yeah events, great stuff Cup in Oki. Yeah,

1044
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: it was great. It was unbelievable. What's talk with the

1045
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 1: what about the Derby? When he joins us later this hour,

1046
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: I want to talk about some football, some Bills football

1047
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 1: with you. Four new position coaches for the Bills, Ken

1048
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: Dorsey coaching quarterbacks, Bobby Johnson coaching offensive line, Chad Hall,

1049
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: who's been with the Bills. Now he has promoted to

1050
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: wide receivers coach, Heath Farewell to special teams coach. You

1051
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: know what the roster kind of looks like now here

1052
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 1: we are on May first. What is your assessment here?

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00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 1: Which new Bills position coach has the biggest challenge leading

1054
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: up to the start of the season. So from now

1055
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 1: until the season starts September eighth, which new position coach

1056
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 1: has the biggest challenge? We got in lines wide open

1057
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: if you want to call up and discuss eight oh

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00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

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00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 1: fifty two fifty. We have a Twitter poll you can

1060
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: vote in and you can send in a tweet when

1061
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 1: we will read that on the air perhaps as well.

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00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 1: This one from Nick on the Twitter poll the new

1063
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: position coach it has the biggest challenge heading into the

1064
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:54,800
Speaker 1: upcoming season. Nick writes two new editions of Brown and

1065
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: Bazy will be easy, but making something out of the

1066
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: rest of my opinion will be a challenge. Hope Chad

1067
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: Hall can transformed this group that was severely lacking last

1068
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 1: season and get another undrafted wide receiver up to speed

1069
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: and crack the fifty three man roster. I believe this

1070
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: pretty strongly, Steve. They are. I haven't even done this,

1071
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: but I know where they had in camp, but I

1072
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: think they're much better set at wide receiver now than

1073
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 1: they were twelve months ago. You know what I'm saying,

1074
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, addition to John Brown and Cole Beasley, Oh absolutely,

1075
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: I think in fact, and I hate to say it

1076
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 1: this way because it makes it seem like I'm it's

1077
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 1: a throwaway position, and I understand how important whiteouts are believing,

1078
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: but I think the Bills are good enough to win

1079
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: with the guys they have with Robert Foster and what

1080
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,240
Speaker 1: he showed at the end of last year with Zay Jones.

1081
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: Another year with some competition and a better surrounding cast

1082
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 1: with guys who can draw give him an example of

1083
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: what to do and how to do it. Cole Beasley

1084
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: is a consummate pro, and so is John Brown. These

1085
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: guys are gonna set a different tone in the wide

1086
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: receiver meetings in that room, and I think it's going

1087
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 1: to really be a benefit to the young guys who

1088
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: have been in this building already twelve months ago. You

1089
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 1: know who we were talking about at wide receiver is

1090
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 1: the go to guy, the Calvin Benjamin. Yeah, yeah, we

1091
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: were talking about Calvin Benjamin and we were wrong. I

1092
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: think you'd have to say the organization was had confidence misplaced, right,

1093
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: thinking that Calvin Benjamin for whatever reason wasn't really into it.

1094
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 1: I guess last year. And then they I'm sure a

1095
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: year ago they were leaning on him, thinking, we got Calvin,

1096
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: we know him, we had him in Carolina, we know

1097
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 1: what he can do. Yes, he's not a speecher, but

1098
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: he's a big target, big bodied guy, and we're leaning

1099
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 1: on him. And they got nothing from Calvin ben They

1100
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 1: got nothing from him. So that two things. That shows

1101
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: you how wrong we can be in our springtime assessment

1102
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 1: of what they have. Secondly, it shows you how guys

1103
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: other guys might emerge on a year ago. Did we

1104
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: even mentioned Robert Foster. Brother Foster was a throwaway? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1105
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: it was like and he Robert Foster came in, was

1106
00:53:56,719 --> 00:54:01,359
Speaker 1: better than Austin prole play. He ended up being better

1107
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: than Ray Ray McLeod, the two draft picks. Um. Robert

1108
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 1: Foster was a guy who you know, you and I

1109
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:10,439
Speaker 1: talked to him. He's nice enough guy stuff. But after

1110
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: about eight games, about two months and as as long

1111
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 1: as it took him to start to find himself and

1112
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 1: get enough confidence to play with confidence, and they turned

1113
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 1: him loose, and he's turned into a few big plays

1114
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 1: for the Bills as they as a season rolled on.

1115
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: So the right, right, right, And I think that was

1116
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 1: and I remember having this conversation maybe maybe you remember

1117
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 1: this too, Murph, that he said, you know, that was

1118
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: kind of a wake up for him. That was kind

1119
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: of saying, wow, Wow, I really do have to, you know,

1120
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: buckle down to work at this level, because, let's face it,

1121
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: in the room that he had last year led by

1122
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: you know, Calvin Benjamin, I don't know that hard work

1123
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: was the was the mantra of that room, you know

1124
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 1: what I mean. So when when that was illustrated to

1125
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 1: him by his release and then when he subsequently was resigned,

1126
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: I think obviously he took a big step forward. I

1127
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 1: think they were lost in that room. I don't think

1128
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:04,400
Speaker 1: they were getting real strong coaching. The Bills have changed that.

1129
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: In the wide receiver corps, they had Calvin Benjamin as

1130
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 1: they're kind of lean on guy, and he was not

1131
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: up to that at all, didn't appear to be very

1132
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: interested in being the leader of that room. Yeah, I

1133
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: had Zay Jones and his second year, they were counting

1134
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: on him and he got going pretty well as the

1135
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 1: year went along last year, but that position is sort

1136
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: of a washout for the Bills last year. Much improved

1137
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: this year. But again there's a challenge here for new

1138
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: wide receivers coach Chad Hall, in his third year with

1139
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: the Bills as first as a position coach, to bring

1140
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:36,320
Speaker 1: that group together, to identify who are the five or

1141
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: six candidates are that he has, and maybe there's somebody

1142
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 1: out there we don't even know yet. Maybe they're gonna

1143
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 1: sign somebody else. Right, they went got Corey Coleman in

1144
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: the middle of training camp last year two years ago?

1145
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: Was it two years ago? They went got an Quin

1146
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:49,359
Speaker 1: Bolden in the middle, right, that was two years ago.

1147
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: That was three years ago. Now that was mc germott,

1148
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 1: was it, Yeah, And that was his first I mean

1149
00:55:57,840 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: he didn't last more than a week or two in

1150
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:02,400
Speaker 1: Coleman didn't last very long either. That was when Sammy

1151
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: Watkos was still on the team. But the point is

1152
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: there might be somebody else out there who answered that room.

1153
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: It's a it's a fairly crowded wide receiver room. Right now,

1154
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: didn't draft anybody, right, They got David Sill from West Virginia,

1155
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: so maybe he's has something to say about that room.

1156
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: But I do think it's a challenge for a first

1157
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,440
Speaker 1: year wide receivers coach Chad Hall to put that group together,

1158
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: do identify who is core? Five or six are special

1159
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,240
Speaker 1: teams will be a consideration as well when you consider

1160
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:32,800
Speaker 1: Andre Roberts. They will probably keep six or seven wide

1161
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: outs on the roster as the fifty three man roster,

1162
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 1: knowing they're gonna keep probably five active on every given Sunday,

1163
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 1: and so they'll have some spares and some guys to

1164
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: rotate in. Or they may have six wide receivers and

1165
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: go with one or two on the practice squad, depending

1166
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 1: on how things shake out with the young guys here.

1167
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: But this roster, and this was gonna be one of

1168
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 1: the Twitter questions we were thrown around two. Do you

1169
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 1: think that fifty three guys on the final roster are

1170
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 1: already here? Yes? No, not all of them. You don't

1171
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:07,879
Speaker 1: think there's a move to be made? What do you think? Yeah,

1172
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 1: I think there's less than a handful that aren't. I

1173
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 1: think it'll depend on what happens at final cutdown day.

1174
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: I don't foresee, and I think I'm not saying it.

1175
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to happen, because it very

1176
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: well could. I don't see a trade happening for player

1177
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: for player at this point or player for draft picks

1178
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: at this point. I don't think the Bills are desperate

1179
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: enough to go out and say, guysh now, we really

1180
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: got to get a receiver. I don't think that exists,

1181
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 1: and I don't think that's in this building anymore. I

1182
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 1: think they love the guys they got, and I think

1183
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: they're confident in the young guys to take a step forward.

1184
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: And if there is a move to be made, you know,

1185
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. That it'll be something

1186
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: probably unexpected, because that's what it usually happens. You know,

1187
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: we kind of get caught off guard by this, and

1188
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 1: you know, something will come across the the the air

1189
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: waves or the or the internet and say the Bills

1190
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 1: are close to making a trade with so and so team.

1191
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 1: That's how we'll find out about it. So it is

1192
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 1: always a surprise. I would be surprised if it happens now.

1193
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 1: It may happen closer to camp, or during camp, or

1194
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 1: at the lot final cutdowns or whatever. But I think

1195
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 1: it's more likely that there are any guys on this team.

1196
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: They're gonna be on this team. It's gonna happen very

1197
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 1: late in the preseason, not at this point. I don't

1198
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: know about that. I don't know. I don't either. I

1199
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 1: mean it might and we other teams do, but I

1200
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: think it. You're right. I think if the fifty three,

1201
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 1: I think forty forty six, forty seven are here of

1202
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: the fifty three here, but we're guessing. Yeah, I don't know.

1203
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: That's It's good. That's a good question, because man, they've

1204
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 1: done a lot of work, yep, and a lot of

1205
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: these guys are, at least by their pedigree, significant upgrades.

1206
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: This is a much more difficult roster to make this year.

1207
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:57,400
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I would think so. I haven't thought

1208
00:58:57,400 --> 00:58:59,480
Speaker 1: about that, but you look at the offensive lineman added

1209
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 1: through the draft and free agency. That's going to be

1210
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: the real question. Which of those old carryovers are actually

1211
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: going to be here in Week one? Yeah, you want

1212
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 1: to talk about that, We want to talk about our

1213
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 1: Twitter poll or what do you wanna do? All right,

1214
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 1: let's reset the Twitter poll. Twitter poll. The new position coach.

1215
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 1: Which new Buffalo Bill's position coach has the biggest challenge

1216
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 1: leading up to the start of the season. Who do

1217
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: you think, Ken Dorsey the quarterback coach Bobby Johnson on

1218
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: the offensive line, fifty two percent of fifty four percent

1219
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:28,439
Speaker 1: of you say he's the one. Eighteen percent say Chad

1220
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: Hall at wide receiver as the biggest challenge getting ready

1221
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: for the season, seventeen percent say Ken Dorsey, with Josh

1222
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: Allen and the quarterbacks as the biggest challenge. Ten percent

1223
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: say Heath Farwell the special team's coach. I gotta from

1224
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, Brian Rossignall, I will go with the

1225
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: unpopular choice, special team's coach, Heeth Farwell, as astronomical to

1226
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: change as the offense is at least the coordinator and

1227
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:52,280
Speaker 1: Allen remained constant. Farwell is brand new to this team

1228
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 1: the coordinator job, and as oodles of new players to

1229
00:59:55,320 --> 01:00:00,080
Speaker 1: incorporate into the game plan. I guess, Brian Rossignall, I

1230
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 1: will say Steve hn On something in the first hour

1231
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 1: about how the special teams coordinator, he Farewell, He's gonna

1232
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 1: be up against it. You know, he's gonna be on

1233
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 1: the clock because he can't really formulate his plans until

1234
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 1: he sees the fifty three in late August, or gets

1235
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: an idea of the fifty three late August, early September,

1236
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:18,880
Speaker 1: and then it can start to make decisions about who

1237
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 1: to play. Were right, Yeah, it'll be a week here.

1238
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 1: You gotta week put together your group. Right, it's sixty

1239
01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 1: six jobs gotta be yeah, sixty six regular jobs, you know,

1240
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 1: punp punt return, kickoff, kickoff return, and field goal, field

1241
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: goal defense. And it's you gotta find some guys. Um.

1242
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 1: Certainly you can always say, well, just leave the regular

1243
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 1: defense on the field for few goal. Well you don't

1244
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: do that, you know, you gotta You're gonna give yourself

1245
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 1: a chance to make a play. So you gotta put

1246
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 1: some guys on there. You gotta change some guys out.

1247
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:46,440
Speaker 1: It's a big, daunting task, and it's a lot of

1248
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 1: those roster spots and those spots on all those special

1249
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: teams have just as much technique and thought process going

1250
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 1: into them as any other position except there maybe quarterback,

1251
01:00:57,280 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 1: but every other positional player has. You know, the special

1252
01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: teams guys have just as much technique to learn and

1253
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:05,920
Speaker 1: just as much thought process to learn, game plans to learn,

1254
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 1: as anybody else, and they got to do it in

1255
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 1: addition to the regular down and distant spots. It's it's

1256
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 1: pretty amazing call on the line from John and Buffalo.

1257
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: Go ahead, John, you're on the air. Yeah. The tight

1258
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 1: end that I really liked that we had, Uh, the

1259
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:24,480
Speaker 1: bills let him let him ended up going to Miami

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Speaker 1: was a leerie. Yeah. He was very shifty, always got

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Speaker 1: open and caught touch now passed since when he played here. Shifty,

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Speaker 1: I think the guy like that. Go well, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what to tell you, John, I mean I liked

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Speaker 1: him too. Um, he's a great dude. H Uh. He

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01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: was gritty, he was tough, he did whatever they asked

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Speaker 1: him to do. Um. But as far as being touchdown

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Speaker 1: pass as far, yeah, oh that was last year. Let

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Speaker 1: me look as far as being shifty, uh, he touched.

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01:01:57,240 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 1: He got two touchdowns for Buffalo. You might be you

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01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: might be uh two. You might be having selective memory

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01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 1: about him being shifty. Um. You know he did get some,

1272
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:08,840
Speaker 1: get open some, no question about it. But his strength

1273
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 1: was more of grit and in the down in line

1274
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 1: tight end rather than being outside. Well, you you gotta

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01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 1: have grit, you know, from a player like that, the whole,

1276
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:22,919
Speaker 1: the whole offensive line. You know they gotta get down

1277
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:25,720
Speaker 1: and dirty this year. You know, I agree they need

1278
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:28,080
Speaker 1: to do. They need to play better. Thanks, we're gonna break.

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Speaker 1: We're back but more. One goes live from One Goals

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Speaker 1: Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Back one does live. Eric,

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Speaker 1: what's gonna join us in a couple of minutes. Here

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01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 1: we'll talk about Bill's draft. We'll talk about that. Kentucky

1283
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:52,120
Speaker 1: Derby with a longtime Bill's offensive line and Eric Wood

1284
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 1: former first round pick? Was it ten years ago? Was here?

1285
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: First round? Ten years? Our ten years? Our twitter poll,

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01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 1: our discussion topic. Maybe don't like it? I like new

1287
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:03,920
Speaker 1: position coach. The Bills have four of them new position

1288
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 1: coaches this year. Which one is the biggest challenge? And

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01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:09,280
Speaker 1: Doug as an answer on the tweet sheet, which I

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01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: think is a really good answer. First of all, Doug says,

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Speaker 1: this is a great question. As a fan, not thinking

1292
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 1: of this often. We're asking you to think about it.

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01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: He says, I'm gonna say, oh, line, it is expected

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01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 1: this group will be better than last year. So Bobby

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01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 1: Johnson has a challenge ahead of him to make the

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Speaker 1: group better, and I think he has the players in

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01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 1: coaching background to do it. The challenge, I believe Steve

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01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: for Bobby Johnson is to sort through what fourteen different

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01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:34,800
Speaker 1: skill sets and figure out who belongs where. That's the

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01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 1: challenge that he has. And we're talking about this period now,

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01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 1: not once the season starts. Maybe a look, by the

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01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 1: time they get the camp. I hope they have an

1303
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:45,280
Speaker 1: idea of who's gonna play where, But I think one

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01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 1: of the it'll not be a deal crusher. But if

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01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 1: you're at camp in what end of July, first week

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01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:53,720
Speaker 1: in August, and all of a sudden you're saying, you

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01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 1: know what, we're gonna try him now at guard or

1308
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:57,720
Speaker 1: we're gonna move him over to tackle, that's not ideal.

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01:03:57,880 --> 01:03:59,560
Speaker 1: That's not ideal. You want to have that kind of

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01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 1: set up before you get the camp, which means you

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01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: got to do it between now in the middle of June, which, oh,

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01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:07,480
Speaker 1: by the way, is only about six weeks left in

1313
01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:11,080
Speaker 1: this organized team activity period coming up right now offseason conditioning,

1314
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 1: then OTAs, and then mini camp. I would think they'd

1315
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:15,360
Speaker 1: like to end Mini camp with the kind of a

1316
01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:18,000
Speaker 1: better outline of who plays were upfront, maybe they got

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01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 1: it now, but I do think Bobby Johnson is probably

1318
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:22,840
Speaker 1: still sorting through the skill sets of the four team

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01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:24,400
Speaker 1: players that he has to work with up there. That's

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Speaker 1: really the essence of today's question. They are doing They

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01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: are doing that already, all these position coaches are. They're

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01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:34,320
Speaker 1: already talking to these guys, watching them, and they've already

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01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,720
Speaker 1: dissected their entire career, particularly these young guys who have

1324
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: come in and the guys they got by free agency.

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01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 1: They know them by watching them on film. They know

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01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:45,480
Speaker 1: what their abilities are, then over their strengths are by

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01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 1: watching them on film. They know what they can do,

1328
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:49,000
Speaker 1: but they got to see him do it together. They

1329
01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:51,800
Speaker 1: know They know that Mitch Morris is not going to

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01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:55,320
Speaker 1: play left tackle. They know that Dion Dawkins is not

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01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 1: going to play center. They know that are a couple

1332
01:04:57,360 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 1: of guys who could play guard and tackle. They know

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01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 1: that Tie and Secki has played both right and left tackle,

1334
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 1: and they know which one he plays better. The problem

1335
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:09,680
Speaker 1: is where did his skill set fit with three or

1336
01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: four other guys who may be switching or playing positions

1337
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 1: that they're not used to playing. How where does his

1338
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:17,760
Speaker 1: skill set fit? Where do they all fit together? Where's

1339
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 1: the best seven or eight guys that give us the

1340
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:24,880
Speaker 1: best five and the best three backups that can cover

1341
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:28,520
Speaker 1: all five spots. And they gotta handle on who they

1342
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 1: are and what they are. But they got to get

1343
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:32,440
Speaker 1: those guys to play together. They gotta find them, they

1344
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:34,120
Speaker 1: gotta put them in the right position, and they got

1345
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 1: to give them all a chance to look their best

1346
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:39,200
Speaker 1: in training camp. And it's it's really hard in these

1347
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 1: OTAs and these offseason activities because they don't they can't.

1348
01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:45,600
Speaker 1: They're limited, they can't do anything. Yeah, they played tag

1349
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 1: Award today. That's not gonna tell you who can play

1350
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:51,840
Speaker 1: the best guard, you know. So, uh, they try and

1351
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:54,760
Speaker 1: do as much as they can and much evaluating for

1352
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:58,080
Speaker 1: skill sets leading up to the fact where they can

1353
01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:00,680
Speaker 1: actually get in the field and start leaning against each other.

1354
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:02,919
Speaker 1: You know how Sean McDermott likes to have a leader

1355
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 1: in each position group in each meeting room. Who is

1356
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:08,560
Speaker 1: the candidate to do that in the offensive line meeting room?

1357
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 1: You know, you look at the returners and Dean Dawkins

1358
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:15,160
Speaker 1: is probably the most prominent returner with a chance to

1359
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 1: get playing time this year, but is in Mitch Morris,

1360
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:22,520
Speaker 1: who's a veteran unrestricted free agent signing from Kansas City

1361
01:06:22,680 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 1: play Center. But can you do that when you just

1362
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 1: are signed by a team. Can you walk into the

1363
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 1: room and I'm the leader, I'm the guy, I'm the

1364
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 1: I'm the bell cow here, the guy you gotta listen to.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think that that's kind of a

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01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:36,200
Speaker 1: lesser consideration, but certainly something that they might want to

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01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:38,840
Speaker 1: sort through as they get through these spring practices. Well,

1368
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,920
Speaker 1: he's the Bills made him the highest paid center in NFL.

1369
01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 1: You would really hope he's the kind of guy that

1370
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:48,800
Speaker 1: can do that. If you hang around these guys, and

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01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 1: I know it was just any good offensive line you

1372
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Speaker 1: look at or watch, they're all articulate guys. They communicate

1373
01:06:56,640 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: really well their total team eyes, because that's all they

1374
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 1: do the jobs that they do at any level from

1375
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:07,240
Speaker 1: from when you're eight years old playing offensive line to

1376
01:07:07,360 --> 01:07:10,840
Speaker 1: the time when you're thirty eight years old playing offensive line.

1377
01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:13,840
Speaker 1: If you're able to play that long, you work together

1378
01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:17,040
Speaker 1: with a group of guys around you, and that that

1379
01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:21,120
Speaker 1: lends itself to guys who are total bros. If you

1380
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You know, they get along, you know,

1381
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:25,800
Speaker 1: they laugh at themselves, they make fun of you. You

1382
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 1: can make fun of them. You hug each other, you

1383
01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:33,520
Speaker 1: understand each other, you laugh together, you criticize the same things,

1384
01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:35,920
Speaker 1: your values are the same, or you understand each other

1385
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:38,479
Speaker 1: so well. Even if you have different views on life

1386
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,440
Speaker 1: and where you came from, you get along really well

1387
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:44,080
Speaker 1: because it's the way you're wired. You get to this

1388
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:46,200
Speaker 1: level because you're wired that way. So a guy like

1389
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 1: Mitch Morse, it won't be long before, not only if

1390
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:53,640
Speaker 1: he's the guy that they understand who he is and

1391
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:55,600
Speaker 1: what he is and they're good with it. The guy

1392
01:07:55,640 --> 01:07:58,200
Speaker 1: the rest of the guys in the room, and there's

1393
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:00,440
Speaker 1: gonna because there's gonna be four or five six other

1394
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 1: guys that are exactly the same kind of guy offensive

1395
01:08:03,560 --> 01:08:10,080
Speaker 1: linemen are. It's an incredibly fun group to hang around

1396
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 1: with because they do talk together. They whispered each other's ears,

1397
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:16,519
Speaker 1: they get they give each other eye contact, and they

1398
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:21,800
Speaker 1: say a lot with just that. They communicate verbally and nonverbally.

1399
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:27,280
Speaker 1: It's like guys who grew up in completely different cultures,

1400
01:08:27,439 --> 01:08:30,200
Speaker 1: completely in completely different parts of the country, played for

1401
01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:33,080
Speaker 1: different offensive systems, did all this stuff, and they get

1402
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:37,800
Speaker 1: into a room and they're the same guy. Amazingly, they're

1403
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:43,240
Speaker 1: all wired the same. That's why offensive linemen they do

1404
01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:46,519
Speaker 1: things together. You don't ever talk about, well, all the

1405
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:48,400
Speaker 1: guard guys are going over here in the tackles are

1406
01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 1: over there. It's like the old line. You talk about

1407
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:54,519
Speaker 1: them as one group. They're one entity because they're all

1408
01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: wired so similarly. And it's it's really a cool thing

1409
01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 1: to hang out with and be around. But having said that,

1410
01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:03,240
Speaker 1: you know, they've got a lot of work to do

1411
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:05,439
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of verbiage and a lot of

1412
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:07,800
Speaker 1: concepts They've got to get to know and get to

1413
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:09,960
Speaker 1: be second nature to them. And that's that's hard. And

1414
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:12,519
Speaker 1: I get yeah, and you're talking about chemistry right right,

1415
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 1: guys working yet well, yeah, and you only got to

1416
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:16,720
Speaker 1: look for lack of a better one. I know, it's

1417
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 1: my first season doesn't start for one another four months.

1418
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:21,639
Speaker 1: They got six weeks to sort out some of these questions.

1419
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:24,760
Speaker 1: Six weeks. Six weeks from today, the Bills will be

1420
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:27,679
Speaker 1: in their mandatory mini camp. It'll be middle of June,

1421
01:09:28,040 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 1: six weeks away, and when that's over, they're done until

1422
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:32,400
Speaker 1: they come back for camp. I would think they'd want

1423
01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:36,120
Speaker 1: to and I'm not you know, I'm not predicting doom

1424
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:38,240
Speaker 1: and gloom here. But you gotta get moving on some

1425
01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:39,960
Speaker 1: of these decisions. Now that they have a pretty good

1426
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:41,559
Speaker 1: sense of who's coming in, and I would think they

1427
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 1: would not want to go to camp not having a

1428
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:45,800
Speaker 1: good and maybe they'll know and not tell us, but

1429
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 1: you want to I would think they'd want to have

1430
01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 1: a sense of who's playing where at the very least

1431
01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:51,800
Speaker 1: to start with. When we get to camp in the

1432
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:53,760
Speaker 1: end of July, right, who's going where? I got a

1433
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 1: call on the line about the Bills offensive line Jim

1434
01:09:55,920 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park. Jim, go ahead, you're on the air. Hide.

1435
01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Doing great? Listen on the draft

1436
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 1: at the seventh round, the last pick, why didn't we

1437
01:10:10,479 --> 01:10:14,479
Speaker 1: take the wide receiver from U B Anthony Johnson? He

1438
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:16,880
Speaker 1: ended up as a pre agent. I think he's with

1439
01:10:17,080 --> 01:10:20,439
Speaker 1: the Bucks now. Some of the Bucks. The tight end

1440
01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:24,480
Speaker 1: was better. The other was a Khalil Hodge, a linebacker.

1441
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: There was a player during the playoffs the Mac for

1442
01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:33,120
Speaker 1: the last two years was rated on their top linebackers. Yeah,

1443
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:35,400
Speaker 1: and he didn't go get drafted either. Look these guys,

1444
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:39,120
Speaker 1: nobody chose him. I don't think it's hard to criticize.

1445
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 1: It's hard to criticize him for not picking guys and

1446
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:43,519
Speaker 1: nobody else picked either, right, even though they you know

1447
01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:45,760
Speaker 1: there're UB guys. We all appreciate that. Do you think

1448
01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 1: there were nobody else other than those UB guys across

1449
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 1: the entire country that were more worthy of getting drafted

1450
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:54,200
Speaker 1: than those two UB guys you'd mentioned. He's gone, Okay,

1451
01:10:54,760 --> 01:10:56,160
Speaker 1: I mean I get it. I mean it'd be nice,

1452
01:10:56,479 --> 01:11:02,760
Speaker 1: but now now and no, Steve says, no, No, I

1453
01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:04,439
Speaker 1: mean that. Yeah, I mean I like those guys and

1454
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 1: I wish them all the best. It's not like it,

1455
01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:10,600
Speaker 1: and maybe it was a mistake, but you were you

1456
01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 1: know who. No, I just can't get I just can't

1457
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:15,880
Speaker 1: get my mind around that. No, you're They've got this

1458
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: board set up and they talk to these guys, they

1459
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:22,320
Speaker 1: go out and work them out, and they pick the

1460
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 1: guy they think has the best chance to make their

1461
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:29,040
Speaker 1: team at whatever position it was, because they put themselves

1462
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:32,280
Speaker 1: in position to take the best player. Uh. It takes

1463
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:34,120
Speaker 1: a lot of guts and a lot of discipline and

1464
01:11:34,160 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 1: a lot of telling yourself, no, you're not gonna you know,

1465
01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:39,760
Speaker 1: you gotta stay in your lane and not to go

1466
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:42,120
Speaker 1: outside that because when you start doing stuff when you

1467
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:44,040
Speaker 1: start reaching for this guy and reaching for that guy

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Speaker 1: and going here just because well it kind of feels good. Now,

1469
01:11:47,600 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 1: you evaluate these guys and you take the best player available,

1470
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:53,200
Speaker 1: no matter what position he is, because that guy gives

1471
01:11:53,240 --> 01:11:55,800
Speaker 1: your team a chance to get better. Even if they're

1472
01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:59,160
Speaker 1: already good at this area of your team and this position,

1473
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 1: you can get better and get more dominant by having

1474
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 1: another good player there. Don't draft a guy that you

1475
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 1: don't think has a chance to make your team. That's

1476
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 1: basically what this whole thing boils down to. You're you're

1477
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:14,519
Speaker 1: drafting the guys who can possibly make your squad. And

1478
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 1: it was the tight end in the seventh round in

1479
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:18,760
Speaker 1: this year, this year's draft. Last year it was two

1480
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:21,559
Speaker 1: wide receivers, neither one of well, one of which didn't

1481
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:25,559
Speaker 1: and the other one was a spot player at best

1482
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:28,400
Speaker 1: and was a practice squad guy the seventh round. So

1483
01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:30,479
Speaker 1: that's what you're looking at. Thanks, let's go to Dan

1484
01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:33,880
Speaker 1: on Long Island. Hoh, Dan, welcome to the show. Hey,

1485
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:38,280
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Bet. So, first of all,

1486
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:40,400
Speaker 1: I really liked what they did in the draft. I

1487
01:12:40,439 --> 01:12:42,360
Speaker 1: thought they filled a lot of needs. But now I'm

1488
01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:45,040
Speaker 1: looking ahead to the fifty three man roster, and I

1489
01:12:45,160 --> 01:12:47,600
Speaker 1: think personally, the wide receiver coach is going to have

1490
01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:51,320
Speaker 1: a really tough time because, you know, even though everyone

1491
01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:53,519
Speaker 1: says we need a wide receiver, we have a great

1492
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:56,519
Speaker 1: room of wide receivers right now. You know, young developing

1493
01:12:56,600 --> 01:13:00,479
Speaker 1: players obviously Zay and Foster, but so we got you know,

1494
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:04,800
Speaker 1: Duke Williams and Isaiah McKenzie and David Sills. And it

1495
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:06,680
Speaker 1: seems to me that at least two or three of

1496
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:08,280
Speaker 1: those guys are going to get cut, you know, because

1497
01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:11,599
Speaker 1: we got Roberts on the UM special teams as well.

1498
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:14,479
Speaker 1: So you know, it seems like just figuring out which

1499
01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:16,640
Speaker 1: one of those rod receivers to keep is going to

1500
01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:19,240
Speaker 1: be really difficult. UM. But my main question for you

1501
01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:21,400
Speaker 1: guys is do you think it might be a good

1502
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:24,719
Speaker 1: idea maybe to you know, cut someone like Patrick DeMarco,

1503
01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:27,560
Speaker 1: you know, maybe move Gore over to his spot, you know,

1504
01:13:27,760 --> 01:13:30,640
Speaker 1: have him do more of the blocking and then you know,

1505
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:37,280
Speaker 1: possibly keep one more wide receiver on on the roster. UM. No, look,

1506
01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:39,760
Speaker 1: that's to me, that's a decision that's almost made by

1507
01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:42,640
Speaker 1: the coordinator, right It really is like are you going

1508
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 1: to use UM? I think Patrick DeMarco is a pretty

1509
01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:46,960
Speaker 1: good fullback. Are you going to use him enough to

1510
01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:51,000
Speaker 1: merit a Rochter spot for him in basically a situational role.

1511
01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:53,600
Speaker 1: That's a question. I think that goes directly to the

1512
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:57,160
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, Brian Dable. How much you want Patrick DeMarco, Yes,

1513
01:13:57,200 --> 01:13:59,040
Speaker 1: how much you're gonna use him? Is that enough to

1514
01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:01,760
Speaker 1: keep to keep me on the roster or maybe do

1515
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:03,600
Speaker 1: you say we'll probably get more usage out of this

1516
01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:07,040
Speaker 1: sixth wide receiver or fifth wide receiver. I think that's

1517
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:09,680
Speaker 1: a coordinator question. It's a good question, it's a it's

1518
01:14:09,720 --> 01:14:11,479
Speaker 1: a valid question, but I think it's the kind of

1519
01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:14,040
Speaker 1: thing that will probably be discussed in those late night

1520
01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:16,880
Speaker 1: meetings at Saint John Fisher in August. That's exactly right,

1521
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:18,800
Speaker 1: And it might not be that the cut demarker to

1522
01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:21,360
Speaker 1: keep an extra wide receiver might be the cut pad DeMarco.

1523
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:24,000
Speaker 1: Keep an extra tight end who can move back and

1524
01:14:24,520 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 1: work out of the backfield like a fullback, an h

1525
01:14:26,520 --> 01:14:29,120
Speaker 1: back kind of guy, a move guy. But you're right,

1526
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:31,679
Speaker 1: these are questions when you come down to the nitty

1527
01:14:31,720 --> 01:14:34,519
Speaker 1: gritty's about what Brian Dable wants out of his office,

1528
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: and you'll get the same questions out of a defensive

1529
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:40,719
Speaker 1: coordinator where they're going a coverage linebacker or an extra

1530
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:43,280
Speaker 1: safety or something of that nature, a defensive tackle or

1531
01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:45,400
Speaker 1: a defensive end, or a guy who can do both

1532
01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:48,479
Speaker 1: as opposed to a guy who specializes. So you're gonna

1533
01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:52,280
Speaker 1: have all of those questions that come up during training camp,

1534
01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:55,559
Speaker 1: and you know, quite frankly, we can speculate all we want,

1535
01:14:55,600 --> 01:14:58,160
Speaker 1: we're never going to get the answer because, like you said, Murph,

1536
01:14:58,240 --> 01:15:02,040
Speaker 1: it's long conversation about where they're going to contribute and

1537
01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:06,280
Speaker 1: where they need contributions from. Pat de Marco may get

1538
01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: released because of one of the tight ends emerges as

1539
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:12,760
Speaker 1: a better special teams option. It might be something as

1540
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:14,840
Speaker 1: simple as that. That might be the tipping thing, plus

1541
01:15:14,880 --> 01:15:17,320
Speaker 1: the fact that the tight end isn't as good at fullback,

1542
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:19,680
Speaker 1: but you get that much more from special teams, and

1543
01:15:19,720 --> 01:15:22,200
Speaker 1: you get that much more from him in the passing game,

1544
01:15:22,720 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 1: you get more from him in formation and matchup possibilities

1545
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:29,560
Speaker 1: with extra tight ends flexed out. All that kind of

1546
01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:32,120
Speaker 1: stuff goes into the equation, and it's a question, like

1547
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:35,439
Speaker 1: Murph said, to drop for Brian Dabole. Plus it's a

1548
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:39,120
Speaker 1: question for the players as to what they can contribute. So, yeah,

1549
01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:42,760
Speaker 1: the roster is fluid right now. You've got a bunch

1550
01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:46,240
Speaker 1: of possibilities, and all of these conversations that we're having hour,

1551
01:15:46,320 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 1: they're going to be had ten times over at Saint

1552
01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:50,640
Speaker 1: John Fisher and in the next couple of weeks here

1553
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:53,400
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park. Thanks for recall. We're going to take

1554
01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:55,280
Speaker 1: a break. Eric good stand. Anybody to join us when

1555
01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:57,439
Speaker 1: we return, Come on back. One goes Live from One

1556
01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:15,680
Speaker 1: Goes Driving. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio to announce the

1557
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:20,480
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills selection. Please welcome from the University of Louisville

1558
01:16:20,920 --> 01:16:25,360
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl Center and twenty fifteen Bills Man of the Year,

1559
01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:30,599
Speaker 1: Eric Wood. The Oakland Raiders have traded the thirty eighth

1560
01:16:30,680 --> 01:16:34,960
Speaker 1: pick to the Buffalo Bills. With the thirty eighth pick

1561
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:38,439
Speaker 1: in the twenty nineteen NFL Draft, the Buffalo Bill select

1562
01:16:38,920 --> 01:16:43,120
Speaker 1: Cody Ford, tackle Oklahoma. That's what it sounded like Friday

1563
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:47,599
Speaker 1: night on Broadway in Nashville. Eric Wood, longtime Bill's offensive lineman,

1564
01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 1: makes the call, makes the selection for the Bills in

1565
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:52,120
Speaker 1: the second round. Eric Wood on the line with us

1566
01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:55,040
Speaker 1: right now, Bill's offensive lineman, former first round pick ten

1567
01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:57,760
Speaker 1: years ago, twenty eighth overall Pro Bowl appearance in his

1568
01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 1: ten seasons, where eight eight seasons with the Buffalo Bills.

1569
01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:02,840
Speaker 1: Eric wood Is on the line with us. Eric, good

1570
01:17:02,920 --> 01:17:04,560
Speaker 1: job last Friday night in Nashville. How did that go?

1571
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:08,040
Speaker 1: How did that feel? Thanks? John? You said ten? Then

1572
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:10,439
Speaker 1: he said, hey, and I played nine years. I had

1573
01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:14,599
Speaker 1: it surrounded defended. Yeah. Um no, it was a blast

1574
01:17:14,680 --> 01:17:17,320
Speaker 1: out in Nashville. It's really cool. Um it was an

1575
01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:20,800
Speaker 1: honor to go represent the Bills down there, um Man.

1576
01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:24,719
Speaker 1: To be in company with guy other guys an Ountics

1577
01:17:24,760 --> 01:17:28,640
Speaker 1: picks like Jim Brown and Sean Merriman and Tarrello and

1578
01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:31,679
Speaker 1: Trent Dilmour and Nick Mangol. I mean, it's just humbling

1579
01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 1: to be in a group like that, and it was

1580
01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,120
Speaker 1: an honor to be down there. You know the scene

1581
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:38,840
Speaker 1: Friday especially, I'm watching the draft on Friday night. Uh,

1582
01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:41,120
Speaker 1: what did they say? A couple hundred thousand people on

1583
01:17:41,240 --> 01:17:43,599
Speaker 1: the on the street there with all the honkey talks

1584
01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:46,320
Speaker 1: are just lined up shoulder to shoulder. It looked amazing

1585
01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:48,280
Speaker 1: on TV. I'm sure it was great to see live too.

1586
01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:51,439
Speaker 1: Here it was I mean there there was two hundred

1587
01:17:51,479 --> 01:17:54,639
Speaker 1: thousand people in the Street. Nashville is already an overcrowded town,

1588
01:17:55,120 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 1: and they had another three hundred thousand guests last weekend,

1589
01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:01,680
Speaker 1: so a lot going on. If you didn't have to

1590
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:03,720
Speaker 1: be down on Broadway, that was not the spot to

1591
01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 1: be last weekend because of the crowd, but a ton

1592
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:09,559
Speaker 1: of fun. And I really enjoyed my experience down there.

1593
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:11,800
Speaker 1: And you actually got to make the pick for the

1594
01:18:11,840 --> 01:18:14,759
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, and you picked an offensive lineman, Cody Ford,

1595
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:18,280
Speaker 1: and it looks like he's gonna wear your old number

1596
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:22,679
Speaker 1: number seven. You okay with that? You know that, Jeff Missouri,

1597
01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:25,200
Speaker 1: the Bills put me a guy texting me about it,

1598
01:18:25,280 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 1: and I said, man, that jersey, that jersey number was

1599
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:30,280
Speaker 1: not getting retired. You might as well give it out now.

1600
01:18:30,360 --> 01:18:32,639
Speaker 1: And pretty cool that it'll be going to a guy

1601
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:34,680
Speaker 1: that looks to be around for a few years and

1602
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 1: a guy who I announced, so that that's great. I

1603
01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:41,719
Speaker 1: talked to Bobby Johnson afterwards, because, uh, Cody Bred mentioned

1604
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 1: him by name, and it's rare that in these you know,

1605
01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:47,479
Speaker 1: when a guy gets strapped like that, he mentions the

1606
01:18:47,640 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 1: offensive line coach specifically, you know, be his relationship with

1607
01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:53,120
Speaker 1: Bobby was the reason he's so excited to go to

1608
01:18:53,200 --> 01:18:54,920
Speaker 1: the Bills, and that's why he wanted to go there.

1609
01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 1: So m I texted Bobby and Bobby said he spent

1610
01:18:57,520 --> 01:18:59,040
Speaker 1: a lot of time with him and really likes him.

1611
01:18:59,439 --> 01:19:00,760
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not in the line and say I

1612
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:04,040
Speaker 1: watched a bunch of Oklahoma Sooner football last year, focusing

1613
01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:07,600
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, but I've been really impressed with

1614
01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:09,960
Speaker 1: this highlights of what I've seen from a from a

1615
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 1: nastiness standpoint from him. Hey, we've talked. We've been talking

1616
01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:15,880
Speaker 1: about Bobby Johnson a lot here on the show today,

1617
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:18,200
Speaker 1: Eric and in particularly we're talking about the forward guys

1618
01:19:18,240 --> 01:19:21,599
Speaker 1: who are in new positions now in the Bills coaching staff,

1619
01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:24,320
Speaker 1: including Bobby the new offensive line coach, and kind of

1620
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:27,840
Speaker 1: talking about how difficult challenging his job is. First of all,

1621
01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:29,679
Speaker 1: he's got to figure out who goes where, who's lining

1622
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:31,360
Speaker 1: up where. That can't be easy, I would think over

1623
01:19:31,360 --> 01:19:34,280
Speaker 1: the next few months. No, you know, he's probably in

1624
01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: the process now of getting all the finer details of

1625
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 1: day Ball's offense down and then he um, you know,

1626
01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: he's got to figure out who's going where. But I'll

1627
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:44,600
Speaker 1: tell you what, they've added a lot of experience in

1628
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:47,599
Speaker 1: that room and guys that have played ball at this level.

1629
01:19:47,680 --> 01:19:49,560
Speaker 1: So those guys are going to come in and know

1630
01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:51,360
Speaker 1: what it's expected of him. It's not going to be

1631
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:54,760
Speaker 1: a here's what you need to do from a preparation standpoint,

1632
01:19:54,840 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 1: here's what you got to do from a yeah, and

1633
01:19:57,360 --> 01:19:59,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna learn new techniques, but these guys have a

1634
01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:02,120
Speaker 1: grasp for playing offensive line in the NFL. It'd be

1635
01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:05,799
Speaker 1: a lot different if they added a bunch of rookies

1636
01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 1: and expected a bunch of them to come in and start.

1637
01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:10,680
Speaker 1: You know, it looks like Cody Ford and there may

1638
01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:12,760
Speaker 1: be some other guys that may make the team, but

1639
01:20:13,320 --> 01:20:14,760
Speaker 1: it looks like he's going to be dealing with an

1640
01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:17,840
Speaker 1: experience group up front. Walk us through the time frame.

1641
01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:19,680
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys come together. First of all, they

1642
01:20:19,920 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 1: you know, they got to learn each other's names, but

1643
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:25,200
Speaker 1: they're also all learning a new language. All the free

1644
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:28,519
Speaker 1: agents who came in, they come from different terminology, different systems,

1645
01:20:29,360 --> 01:20:32,680
Speaker 1: and give us a little sense of how things come

1646
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:35,120
Speaker 1: together so that when you get out there on opening day,

1647
01:20:35,560 --> 01:20:38,200
Speaker 1: you all know what you're what each other's talking about.

1648
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:42,400
Speaker 1: How long does this take? And walk us through the progression. Yeah,

1649
01:20:42,439 --> 01:20:44,680
Speaker 1: it's funny, and you hit it on the head. You know,

1650
01:20:44,720 --> 01:20:46,880
Speaker 1: you almost got to learn a new language, especially when

1651
01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:49,320
Speaker 1: you're playing offensive line, because you're communicating at the line

1652
01:20:49,320 --> 01:20:51,680
Speaker 1: of scrimmage right in front of the defensive line, and

1653
01:20:52,200 --> 01:20:55,880
Speaker 1: you can't say Eric, you have ed Oliver, because if

1654
01:20:55,880 --> 01:20:57,960
Speaker 1: he knows you're coming to block him, he's likely going

1655
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:00,839
Speaker 1: to beat you. So you're speaking a totally different language,

1656
01:21:00,880 --> 01:21:03,679
Speaker 1: all coded. It's different in most offenses. And then even

1657
01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:06,800
Speaker 1: throughout the year, as TV copies pick up stuff, you

1658
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:09,479
Speaker 1: switch it up again. But you know that's where this

1659
01:21:09,600 --> 01:21:12,120
Speaker 1: spring is so valuable, these guys getting to know each other,

1660
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 1: getting to learn all the techniques that Bobby wants him

1661
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:18,559
Speaker 1: to do, learn the language so that when training camp

1662
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:21,639
Speaker 1: starts rolling, you're you're learning. You're getting better at blocking

1663
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:24,320
Speaker 1: people and executing the offense and not thinking out there

1664
01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:27,439
Speaker 1: on the football field, which really could put you behind

1665
01:21:27,479 --> 01:21:31,280
Speaker 1: the eight ball. Now you spoken, you announced the number

1666
01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:34,000
Speaker 1: two overall pick for the Buffalo Bills. The number one

1667
01:21:34,040 --> 01:21:36,360
Speaker 1: overall pick is a guy named Ed Oliver who hasn't

1668
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:39,880
Speaker 1: a reputation of being really athletic, really explosive. He's little

1669
01:21:39,960 --> 01:21:41,479
Speaker 1: under size, but he's one of those guys. He's going

1670
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:44,639
Speaker 1: to play the three technique and be a penetrator kind

1671
01:21:44,680 --> 01:21:48,240
Speaker 1: of guy. Why is a guy like Ed Oliver so important?

1672
01:21:48,240 --> 01:21:49,960
Speaker 1: And how does that help the rest of the defensive

1673
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:54,000
Speaker 1: front from the standpoint of view being an offensive lineman. Yeah,

1674
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:55,920
Speaker 1: I've been a fan of Ed Oliver ever since his

1675
01:21:56,040 --> 01:21:58,600
Speaker 1: freshman year when he tore up the cart of my

1676
01:21:58,680 --> 01:22:00,800
Speaker 1: Louisville Cardinals. I guess maybe I wasn't as big am

1677
01:22:00,840 --> 01:22:02,519
Speaker 1: a fan of this then. I was a fan of

1678
01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:05,519
Speaker 1: his game, I should say, but he caught my eye

1679
01:22:05,560 --> 01:22:07,680
Speaker 1: early as an eighteen year old and a guy a

1680
01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:10,880
Speaker 1: follower from Afar. And to me, if you're gonna draft

1681
01:22:10,920 --> 01:22:13,640
Speaker 1: a d tackle in the first round, especially in the

1682
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:16,920
Speaker 1: top ten, I want him to be an active player.

1683
01:22:17,120 --> 01:22:20,920
Speaker 1: You know, a guy like Ed Oliver who can move

1684
01:22:21,040 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 1: side to side laugh, Really similar to an I don't

1685
01:22:23,120 --> 01:22:24,759
Speaker 1: want to put too much pressure on him, but similar

1686
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:27,559
Speaker 1: to an Aaron Donald, a JJ Watt. A guy who

1687
01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:31,840
Speaker 1: can really move move around and not just plug a hole.

1688
01:22:32,120 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 1: You know, for offensive lineman, a guy that's just gonna

1689
01:22:34,160 --> 01:22:37,000
Speaker 1: play one gap and penetrate the same way every time.

1690
01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:39,280
Speaker 1: Those guys end up being pretty easy to block after

1691
01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:41,120
Speaker 1: the first series or two, once you get appeal for

1692
01:22:41,160 --> 01:22:43,720
Speaker 1: their speed and their get off and everything. Guys that

1693
01:22:43,880 --> 01:22:45,640
Speaker 1: have a little shake, a little legal but still have

1694
01:22:45,760 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 1: some strength like Ed Oliver does. Those guys are tough

1695
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:51,479
Speaker 1: to deal with. And you know, I'm really excited about

1696
01:22:51,520 --> 01:22:54,200
Speaker 1: getting him in there and uh and letting him make

1697
01:22:54,240 --> 01:22:56,160
Speaker 1: some plays up front for the Bills run line. With

1698
01:22:56,240 --> 01:22:58,880
Speaker 1: former Bills offensive lineman, former first round draft pick Eric

1699
01:22:58,920 --> 01:23:00,840
Speaker 1: Wood talking about him right topics. You want to go

1700
01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:02,920
Speaker 1: back a minute ago, Eric, and you talked about the

1701
01:23:03,360 --> 01:23:07,400
Speaker 1: offensive line play and communication upfront and maybe a part

1702
01:23:07,439 --> 01:23:09,880
Speaker 1: of offensive line play that is overlooked a little bit.

1703
01:23:09,920 --> 01:23:12,960
Speaker 1: But you mentioned the TV calls, the TV tape that

1704
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:15,080
Speaker 1: comes out, and can you talk about the mechanics of

1705
01:23:15,120 --> 01:23:19,080
Speaker 1: how offensive lines and defensive lines maybe more accurately study

1706
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 1: that to figure out what teams are doing. How does

1707
01:23:21,400 --> 01:23:25,040
Speaker 1: it work? Yeah, So each week we'll have someone on

1708
01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:28,439
Speaker 1: staff study the TV copy and see what calls got out.

1709
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:32,120
Speaker 1: You know, I'm I'm miked up for the quarterback to

1710
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:36,280
Speaker 1: get on the audio for the game footage, well for

1711
01:23:36,360 --> 01:23:41,200
Speaker 1: the actual TV footage right Well, that they'll ultimately pick

1712
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:43,240
Speaker 1: up a lot of especially me and the guards of

1713
01:23:43,320 --> 01:23:46,160
Speaker 1: the calls just through whatever time they cut on that

1714
01:23:46,320 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 1: bike before the play. So we gotta each week, you know,

1715
01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 1: I might be making a lucky call to tell the

1716
01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:55,640
Speaker 1: offensive line we're sliding to our left or we have

1717
01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:58,320
Speaker 1: an linebacker to our left. Well, if I said lucky

1718
01:23:58,840 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 1: one week and we're getting to play the New England Patriots,

1719
01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:04,439
Speaker 1: we sure know that the other side, you know, the

1720
01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:07,639
Speaker 1: opposite side of their defensive line probably do a twist

1721
01:24:07,840 --> 01:24:10,640
Speaker 1: knowing that we got them one on one. And so

1722
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:13,160
Speaker 1: you just gotta be really careful about what gets out

1723
01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:18,719
Speaker 1: there on tape each week. So it's a real fluid situation.

1724
01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:22,280
Speaker 1: I mean, your your language evolves week to week, and

1725
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:25,320
Speaker 1: how often do you put out, you know, dummy calls

1726
01:24:25,520 --> 01:24:29,640
Speaker 1: like misinformation, uh during a game or as a as

1727
01:24:29,680 --> 01:24:32,720
Speaker 1: a result of what you did the week before. Yeah,

1728
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:35,439
Speaker 1: all the time. And so a lot of times that

1729
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:39,200
Speaker 1: will happen. If we're running a naked bootleg, an experience

1730
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:40,920
Speaker 1: center will come to the line of scrimmage and make

1731
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:44,400
Speaker 1: all run calls anything that I know they've heard on film.

1732
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:48,280
Speaker 1: I'm making those calls of the defensive line and probably linebackers.

1733
01:24:48,600 --> 01:24:51,320
Speaker 1: I want them all to hear it. You know, if

1734
01:24:51,360 --> 01:24:54,599
Speaker 1: it's a tag call, which would be a combination between

1735
01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:56,840
Speaker 1: the tackle and guard, I'm telling them, day tag tag.

1736
01:24:57,160 --> 01:24:59,320
Speaker 1: You know, I'm a Resa knows whatever it may be.

1737
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 1: And uh, it's it's funny to watch him, especially early

1738
01:25:02,479 --> 01:25:05,000
Speaker 1: in games. You get a really well execute a bootleg

1739
01:25:05,080 --> 01:25:06,960
Speaker 1: where the whole defense goes. I said, man, they were

1740
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:10,439
Speaker 1: all tuned in on that call. Yeah. In general, what

1741
01:25:10,479 --> 01:25:12,040
Speaker 1: do you think of the Bills draft, Derek? What? What

1742
01:25:12,360 --> 01:25:15,439
Speaker 1: what did you make of it? Um? I liked it,

1743
01:25:15,640 --> 01:25:21,160
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I'm I worked a few college

1744
01:25:21,200 --> 01:25:23,800
Speaker 1: football games last year. One of one of my auditions

1745
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:28,120
Speaker 1: I did was for ESPN. I did the Clemson Boston

1746
01:25:28,200 --> 01:25:31,280
Speaker 1: College game. I called that one. I was really impressed

1747
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:33,800
Speaker 1: with Sweeney, the tight end from Boston College. Couldn't believe

1748
01:25:34,120 --> 01:25:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what a sporty time was

1749
01:25:36,320 --> 01:25:39,000
Speaker 1: and all that, but he caught my eye on film

1750
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:42,240
Speaker 1: at Oliver's a guy I knew of in advance. Um,

1751
01:25:42,680 --> 01:25:44,280
Speaker 1: you know, I thought the best thing the Bills did

1752
01:25:44,479 --> 01:25:48,040
Speaker 1: was prior to the draft, filling so many holes in

1753
01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:51,960
Speaker 1: free agency with quality football players, maybe not superstars, but

1754
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:54,320
Speaker 1: quality football players that can play where they didn't have

1755
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:56,640
Speaker 1: to go into this draft and say, Okay, now we

1756
01:25:56,800 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 1: have to take a corner, we have to take X,

1757
01:26:00,520 --> 01:26:02,920
Speaker 1: y Z position. They were able to take who the

1758
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:04,680
Speaker 1: best and they said they stuck to their board. I

1759
01:26:05,240 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 1: read Bean say that, so you know, I was happy

1760
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:11,920
Speaker 1: with it. I thought this staff has done an excellent

1761
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:16,160
Speaker 1: job the past three years, drafting with Eric quid Bill's

1762
01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:18,799
Speaker 1: a former offensive lineman who was a resident of Louisville

1763
01:26:19,040 --> 01:26:21,840
Speaker 1: and a product of the University of Louisville and has

1764
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:24,280
Speaker 1: a great interest in the Kentucky Derby. The one hundred

1765
01:26:24,320 --> 01:26:27,040
Speaker 1: forty fifth running of the Kentucky Derby coming up Saturday.

1766
01:26:27,080 --> 01:26:28,960
Speaker 1: How many Derbys have you been to over the years there,

1767
01:26:31,600 --> 01:26:34,200
Speaker 1: I've attended in the in the stands like we will,

1768
01:26:34,439 --> 01:26:35,840
Speaker 1: we like to do it now and the only way

1769
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:39,479
Speaker 1: my wife will do it. Maybe eight or nine times.

1770
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:42,479
Speaker 1: I missed it for my rookie mini camp my rookie year,

1771
01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:44,839
Speaker 1: but I haven't missed one since. And then in college

1772
01:26:44,840 --> 01:26:46,600
Speaker 1: we would attend, but it was in the enfield. It

1773
01:26:46,760 --> 01:26:48,320
Speaker 1: was more of just a party. I don't know that

1774
01:26:48,400 --> 01:26:50,560
Speaker 1: we ever even saw a horse throughout the day. So

1775
01:26:51,240 --> 01:26:54,799
Speaker 1: I've been to a bunch of them, A little different

1776
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:58,040
Speaker 1: now you know, now we walk in the red carpet

1777
01:26:58,120 --> 01:27:00,439
Speaker 1: and we do a sued my wife will get a hat.

1778
01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:02,800
Speaker 1: Back in college, it was more of a cut off

1779
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:05,600
Speaker 1: T shirt and Jim shorts and that whole deal. But

1780
01:27:06,240 --> 01:27:08,680
Speaker 1: which just shows you the wide range of people that

1781
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:11,200
Speaker 1: are out there at the derby. But such a fun week.

1782
01:27:12,280 --> 01:27:15,360
Speaker 1: The last thing I needed was a was a pretty

1783
01:27:15,400 --> 01:27:18,080
Speaker 1: packed Nashville trip the weekend before. This kind of wore

1784
01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:20,799
Speaker 1: me out on the front end. But it's a charity

1785
01:27:20,840 --> 01:27:24,479
Speaker 1: golf scramble every day. It's uh, you know, different types

1786
01:27:24,520 --> 01:27:27,120
Speaker 1: of charity events at night and it's just a ton

1787
01:27:27,160 --> 01:27:29,439
Speaker 1: of fun and the race. Then on Saturday, I think

1788
01:27:29,439 --> 01:27:33,080
Speaker 1: it's what six fifty pm post time, Saturday night post

1789
01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:35,760
Speaker 1: position draw. Last night, a lot of the favorites wound

1790
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:37,840
Speaker 1: out pretty far out there, Eric, Is that too far

1791
01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:40,560
Speaker 1: out for horses like Omaha Beach and Game Winner? What

1792
01:27:40,640 --> 01:27:44,479
Speaker 1: do you think? You know? It'll be interesting. It's all

1793
01:27:44,479 --> 01:27:46,479
Speaker 1: about in that break because you know, I know, John,

1794
01:27:46,560 --> 01:27:49,519
Speaker 1: you follow the pony, so um, you know, as long

1795
01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:52,120
Speaker 1: as they don't get run two wide of a route

1796
01:27:52,160 --> 01:27:55,120
Speaker 1: throughout the track, they should be all right. That mile

1797
01:27:55,160 --> 01:27:58,320
Speaker 1: and a quarter is so long. The post position matters

1798
01:27:58,360 --> 01:28:00,559
Speaker 1: because there's their spots that there's never been a Derby

1799
01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:04,880
Speaker 1: winner from, so so ultimately it does matter some. Um

1800
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:07,000
Speaker 1: but but I don't think any of them are too

1801
01:28:07,040 --> 01:28:09,000
Speaker 1: worried about it, and the odds makers aren't either. They

1802
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 1: still have Omaha Beach at I think four to one,

1803
01:28:11,240 --> 01:28:14,240
Speaker 1: which is um even higher than they anticipated a few

1804
01:28:14,280 --> 01:28:19,800
Speaker 1: weeks ago. You know, it's hard. I mean between you know,

1805
01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:22,560
Speaker 1: Mike Swist, Mike Smith switching over to Omaha Beach, you know,

1806
01:28:22,640 --> 01:28:26,320
Speaker 1: and him being the favorite. Um, you know, uh, you

1807
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:28,080
Speaker 1: gotta like him. If I you know, if I had

1808
01:28:28,120 --> 01:28:30,200
Speaker 1: to place a bet today and they were all equal odds,

1809
01:28:30,240 --> 01:28:33,600
Speaker 1: That's where I'd be playing. Um, Will Wolford's been on

1810
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:36,120
Speaker 1: which you guys know, Will Wolford's into the phonies too,

1811
01:28:36,240 --> 01:28:39,800
Speaker 1: he Um, he's been on Tescitus or like months now,

1812
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:43,679
Speaker 1: and um so that to me is always a good sign.

1813
01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:47,320
Speaker 1: But um man, it's funny I have. I have buddies

1814
01:28:47,680 --> 01:28:50,040
Speaker 1: in the horse racing business that I've gotten to know

1815
01:28:50,160 --> 01:28:53,400
Speaker 1: over the years, and um it's funny. I'll have my

1816
01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:55,720
Speaker 1: thoughts in my head what I'm gonna do, and then

1817
01:28:55,840 --> 01:28:58,439
Speaker 1: ultimately Derby days, Hey, hey, Kevin, what What are you

1818
01:28:58,479 --> 01:29:01,320
Speaker 1: thinking here? Is that roll with the Yeah, everybody's looking

1819
01:29:01,320 --> 01:29:04,160
Speaker 1: for the easy one. Yeah, exactly. Hey, Eric, when the

1820
01:29:04,240 --> 01:29:06,439
Speaker 1: Derby ends on Saturday, do you keep up with horse

1821
01:29:06,560 --> 01:29:08,000
Speaker 1: racing the rest of the year? Do you follow it

1822
01:29:08,160 --> 01:29:11,960
Speaker 1: very closely? I do, and you know, I went to

1823
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:13,920
Speaker 1: the Breeders Cup this year I was in Louisville, and

1824
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:16,439
Speaker 1: then obviously the last year with a ton of fun

1825
01:29:16,479 --> 01:29:18,920
Speaker 1: watching Justify win the Triple Crown and do all that.

1826
01:29:20,160 --> 01:29:22,560
Speaker 1: So I'll keep up with it. Um, I enjoy it.

1827
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:25,559
Speaker 1: I really enjoy going to the track, something my wife

1828
01:29:25,640 --> 01:29:29,519
Speaker 1: really liked to do. In Louisville. There's a good amount

1829
01:29:29,560 --> 01:29:31,639
Speaker 1: to do, but you know, that's that's one of the highlights.

1830
01:29:31,680 --> 01:29:33,400
Speaker 1: So we get out there and we enjoy it. But

1831
01:29:34,720 --> 01:29:37,960
Speaker 1: compared to I mean, I'm probably a figger horse race

1832
01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:40,600
Speaker 1: fan than ninety nine percent of people. But compared to

1833
01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:42,679
Speaker 1: some of my buddies, you know, I'm not even closed.

1834
01:29:42,720 --> 01:29:46,000
Speaker 1: They'll they'll be studying these racing programs like the Bible

1835
01:29:46,040 --> 01:29:47,920
Speaker 1: over these next few days. Yeah, you're in the right

1836
01:29:47,960 --> 01:29:50,439
Speaker 1: place for it, that's for sure. Thanks Eric, Eric, Thanks

1837
01:29:50,520 --> 01:29:52,600
Speaker 1: good talking with you. Have a great weekend with the

1838
01:29:52,640 --> 01:29:56,160
Speaker 1: derby this week absolutely Thanks for having me on. Guys. Okay,

1839
01:29:56,240 --> 01:29:58,479
Speaker 1: good luck, Eric Wood, former Bill's first round draft pick

1840
01:29:58,680 --> 01:30:01,360
Speaker 1: into the Derby Endo horse See, he's right. I feel

1841
01:30:01,400 --> 01:30:02,800
Speaker 1: that way too. You know, I feel like I care

1842
01:30:02,880 --> 01:30:05,320
Speaker 1: more about the derby and horse racing even more than

1843
01:30:05,439 --> 01:30:08,240
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the population. Everybody cares this Sunday

1844
01:30:08,280 --> 01:30:10,280
Speaker 1: starting about five thirty pm, and then they just sort

1845
01:30:10,280 --> 01:30:12,320
Speaker 1: of drift away, which is fine. You know, it's fine.

1846
01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:14,439
Speaker 1: I gotta go to a derby. If it's about the Derby,

1847
01:30:14,479 --> 01:30:16,200
Speaker 1: it's about the Derby. You don't have to watch the

1848
01:30:16,280 --> 01:30:19,240
Speaker 1: rest of it. Yeah, all right, thanks Eric for joining us.

1849
01:30:19,240 --> 01:30:21,000
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We're gonna come back. We're

1850
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:23,000
Speaker 1: gonna talk more about the draft. We're gonna talk about

1851
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:24,880
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl. Roll in the draft. What was it

1852
01:30:25,800 --> 01:30:28,000
Speaker 1: the players in the Senior Bowl around an NFL roster Now,

1853
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:29,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's ever happened before. We'll talk

1854
01:30:29,960 --> 01:30:33,080
Speaker 1: with Senior Bowl executive director Jim Nagy when we return

1855
01:30:33,160 --> 01:30:34,960
Speaker 1: on the show. Come on back. One of Bill's Live,

1856
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:37,479
Speaker 1: presented by Klada Hell from One Bill Drive. This is

1857
01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:52,679
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio, Low Hills Radio Network Stories. The update

1858
01:30:52,760 --> 01:30:55,679
Speaker 1: from One Bills Drive The Bills continue their offseason conditioning

1859
01:30:55,800 --> 01:30:58,439
Speaker 1: program a couple more days this week, finish things up

1860
01:30:58,479 --> 01:31:01,479
Speaker 1: on Thursday. Around the NFL, Booger McFarland's going to move

1861
01:31:01,560 --> 01:31:04,360
Speaker 1: from his on field analyst position to the broadcast booth

1862
01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:08,160
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football on ESPN. The announcement came today.

1863
01:31:08,760 --> 01:31:11,240
Speaker 1: He'll join Joe Tessitur in the broadcast booths for the

1864
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:14,920
Speaker 1: fiftieth season of Monday Night Football. Lisa Salters returns for

1865
01:31:15,360 --> 01:31:18,400
Speaker 1: her eighth season as the on field analyst for Monday

1866
01:31:18,479 --> 01:31:22,000
Speaker 1: Night Football. The Oakland Raiders newly signed running back Isaiah

1867
01:31:22,040 --> 01:31:26,320
Speaker 1: Crowell tore his achilles tendon and practiced during a workout yesterday.

1868
01:31:26,600 --> 01:31:28,759
Speaker 1: He has lost for the season. He will undergo season

1869
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:31,240
Speaker 1: ending surgery next week. He had signed a one year

1870
01:31:31,280 --> 01:31:33,040
Speaker 1: deal with up to two and a half million dollars.

1871
01:31:33,400 --> 01:31:39,000
Speaker 1: According to Crowell created national headlines with an unsportsmanlike conduct

1872
01:31:39,040 --> 01:31:41,559
Speaker 1: penalty last year early in the season at Cleveland after

1873
01:31:41,600 --> 01:31:45,519
Speaker 1: he scored. His celebration got wide rebukes from all over

1874
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:49,880
Speaker 1: the NFL, including right here from this seat. Bruce Allen,

1875
01:31:49,960 --> 01:31:53,040
Speaker 1: the president of the Washington Redskins, says the Giants GM

1876
01:31:53,160 --> 01:31:56,200
Speaker 1: Dave Gentleman has no clue about their draft strategy. Gentleman

1877
01:31:56,280 --> 01:31:59,599
Speaker 1: had indicated that other teams, including Washington, might have been

1878
01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:03,479
Speaker 1: inter in making a move for the quarterback Daniel Jones

1879
01:32:03,560 --> 01:32:06,280
Speaker 1: that they took at number six, but Bruce Allen says

1880
01:32:06,280 --> 01:32:08,280
Speaker 1: he had no clue about our strategy in the draft.

1881
01:32:08,520 --> 01:32:11,240
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup playoff action tonight a couple of games in

1882
01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:14,320
Speaker 1: the East. Game three of the series between the Islanders

1883
01:32:14,360 --> 01:32:17,320
Speaker 1: in Carolina. That's a faceoff at seven o'clock in Carolina,

1884
01:32:17,360 --> 01:32:20,439
Speaker 1: Tonight out West at nine thirty a faceoff in Dallas St.

1885
01:32:20,520 --> 01:32:23,800
Speaker 1: Louis and the Dallas Stars out of a game four

1886
01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:26,320
Speaker 1: of that series. St. Louis leads a series two games

1887
01:32:26,360 --> 01:32:28,840
Speaker 1: to one. Bison took both ends of a doubleheader last

1888
01:32:28,920 --> 01:32:30,799
Speaker 1: night at home. Now they have a chance to sweep

1889
01:32:30,840 --> 01:32:33,400
Speaker 1: a four game series from Pawtucket if they finish it

1890
01:32:33,439 --> 01:32:35,120
Speaker 1: off with a win tonight. They beat the pass Sox

1891
01:32:35,439 --> 01:32:37,479
Speaker 1: four three in both games last night. Game four of

1892
01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:39,840
Speaker 1: the series tonight, Bison have won the first three. First

1893
01:32:39,880 --> 01:32:42,759
Speaker 1: pitch tonight, six oh five at Silan Field and Houston

1894
01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:45,360
Speaker 1: Rockets star James Harden says he can barely see after

1895
01:32:45,439 --> 01:32:48,000
Speaker 1: getting hidden both eyes last night in their loss to

1896
01:32:48,080 --> 01:32:51,439
Speaker 1: Golden State game to the Western Conference semifinals. That's the

1897
01:32:51,520 --> 01:32:54,360
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy was Steve Tasker

1898
01:32:54,400 --> 01:32:57,320
Speaker 1: in our one Buffalo studio again reviewing the draft. What

1899
01:32:57,479 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 1: just ended four days ago, and a lot of good

1900
01:32:59,120 --> 01:33:02,240
Speaker 1: things about the draft. A lot of drafted players from

1901
01:33:02,240 --> 01:33:04,439
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, the Reese's Senior Bowl on the line

1902
01:33:04,479 --> 01:33:06,559
Speaker 1: with us right now. The executive director of the Rees's

1903
01:33:06,600 --> 01:33:09,000
Speaker 1: Senior BOWLD, he spent eighteen years in the league as

1904
01:33:09,040 --> 01:33:11,920
Speaker 1: a scout for various teams, including Seattle. He was also

1905
01:33:12,000 --> 01:33:14,240
Speaker 1: in the ESPN Draft analysts the last few weeks. Really

1906
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:16,040
Speaker 1: happy to have Jim Nagy on the phone with us. Jim,

1907
01:33:16,080 --> 01:33:18,680
Speaker 1: It's John Murphy and Steve Tasker upper in Buffalo. We

1908
01:33:18,760 --> 01:33:22,360
Speaker 1: talked to you back in January immobile at the Senior Bowl.

1909
01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:24,200
Speaker 1: Did you have any inkling that you would have so

1910
01:33:24,400 --> 01:33:27,400
Speaker 1: many players that were drafted and signed over this past weekend?

1911
01:33:27,479 --> 01:33:31,000
Speaker 1: Is at the normal amount? No, our numbers were up,

1912
01:33:31,040 --> 01:33:33,760
Speaker 1: I hope, so you know. Yeah, first of all, thanks

1913
01:33:33,760 --> 01:33:35,880
Speaker 1: for having me on, guys, good to talk. Good to

1914
01:33:35,920 --> 01:33:37,920
Speaker 1: talk to you again. You bet, no, we were. I

1915
01:33:38,080 --> 01:33:40,240
Speaker 1: was really excited about this year's class. I thought it

1916
01:33:40,320 --> 01:33:42,760
Speaker 1: was a good draft from top to bottom. You know,

1917
01:33:42,920 --> 01:33:46,200
Speaker 1: numbers wise, we ended up at ninety three total, which

1918
01:33:46,320 --> 01:33:49,479
Speaker 1: was up from our our ten year average was eighty three,

1919
01:33:49,600 --> 01:33:51,080
Speaker 1: so we were up there. And then our you know,

1920
01:33:51,120 --> 01:33:53,400
Speaker 1: our first rounder seven ten. We haven't had that many

1921
01:33:53,479 --> 01:33:57,759
Speaker 1: since two eleven, and the testaments of this year's class

1922
01:33:57,760 --> 01:33:59,320
Speaker 1: because you know, there's a lot of guys that bought

1923
01:33:59,400 --> 01:34:01,360
Speaker 1: in and you know, some of these high end guys

1924
01:34:01,439 --> 01:34:03,240
Speaker 1: really just wanted to come down and compete and playing

1925
01:34:03,280 --> 01:34:05,360
Speaker 1: the game. So you know, the last time we had

1926
01:34:05,400 --> 01:34:08,040
Speaker 1: that in eleven, there was I think fifty four juniors

1927
01:34:08,080 --> 01:34:10,439
Speaker 1: in that draft, and there was one hundred and forty

1928
01:34:10,479 --> 01:34:12,560
Speaker 1: four this year. So it's getting harder and harder to

1929
01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:15,920
Speaker 1: get those first round guys. And this was a competitive

1930
01:34:16,000 --> 01:34:17,680
Speaker 1: group of dudes, so it was great to have him

1931
01:34:17,680 --> 01:34:19,120
Speaker 1: down here in Mobile. Yeah, and one of the things

1932
01:34:19,160 --> 01:34:21,160
Speaker 1: I wanted to congratulate you on, as one hundred percent

1933
01:34:21,200 --> 01:34:23,559
Speaker 1: of the players that were on your roster that were

1934
01:34:23,640 --> 01:34:26,920
Speaker 1: in that game or on NFL rosters, I mean, nobody got,

1935
01:34:27,160 --> 01:34:29,400
Speaker 1: nobody slipped through the cracks. I mean, the combine can't

1936
01:34:29,439 --> 01:34:32,040
Speaker 1: even come near that for the amount of guys they

1937
01:34:32,080 --> 01:34:35,360
Speaker 1: actually invite to come work out. But the Senior Bowl,

1938
01:34:35,479 --> 01:34:38,200
Speaker 1: the Reese's Senior Bowl, one hundred percent of the guys

1939
01:34:38,240 --> 01:34:40,840
Speaker 1: that were in that game are on NFL rosters today.

1940
01:34:40,840 --> 01:34:42,639
Speaker 1: That's got to be really a feather in your cap.

1941
01:34:43,400 --> 01:34:46,639
Speaker 1: Well it is. And again I just back on the players.

1942
01:34:46,680 --> 01:34:48,920
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys worked hard, they did a good

1943
01:34:48,960 --> 01:34:51,840
Speaker 1: job through the process, and the hard part for us

1944
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:55,679
Speaker 1: is we're putting this roster together in late November, early December.

1945
01:34:55,720 --> 01:34:58,600
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm pretty competitive guys, so I was

1946
01:34:58,680 --> 01:35:00,720
Speaker 1: mad all our guys didn't get draft. But talking to

1947
01:35:00,800 --> 01:35:03,120
Speaker 1: my talking to my buddies around the league, they they

1948
01:35:03,240 --> 01:35:06,000
Speaker 1: just said, hey, Jimmy, you know, these guys hadn't been

1949
01:35:06,040 --> 01:35:08,400
Speaker 1: in the combine yet, they hadn't run their forties yet.

1950
01:35:08,560 --> 01:35:12,240
Speaker 1: You don't have all the medical information, so it makes

1951
01:35:12,280 --> 01:35:14,240
Speaker 1: it a little more challenging. But it was. It was

1952
01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:17,240
Speaker 1: a really, really fun year and really proud of its years. Class. Hey,

1953
01:35:17,320 --> 01:35:19,439
Speaker 1: jim I want to ask you this. I remember talking

1954
01:35:19,520 --> 01:35:22,479
Speaker 1: to uh, your predecessor, Phil Savage about is a couple

1955
01:35:22,520 --> 01:35:25,599
Speaker 1: of years ago. He said, you and your staff are

1956
01:35:25,640 --> 01:35:29,120
Speaker 1: the senior boat people. Essentially, you're trying to to recruit

1957
01:35:29,320 --> 01:35:33,280
Speaker 1: and assemble of your very own NFL roster or rosters, Right,

1958
01:35:33,320 --> 01:35:34,880
Speaker 1: that's kind of how you guys approach it, you and

1959
01:35:34,960 --> 01:35:37,960
Speaker 1: your scouts. Yeah, we you know, and we did something

1960
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:41,240
Speaker 1: differently this year. I hired four guys that were letting

1961
01:35:41,280 --> 01:35:43,960
Speaker 1: go a year ago that we're you know, been in

1962
01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:45,479
Speaker 1: the league a long time and I was on the

1963
01:35:45,600 --> 01:35:48,120
Speaker 1: road with So we staffed this thing this year with

1964
01:35:48,560 --> 01:35:51,920
Speaker 1: four full time NFL scouts. You know, guys that between

1965
01:35:51,960 --> 01:35:54,120
Speaker 1: the four of them had sixty nine years of experience.

1966
01:35:54,200 --> 01:35:57,040
Speaker 1: So that's ade huge dividends. You know, they're connected with

1967
01:35:57,160 --> 01:36:00,559
Speaker 1: other scouts, and they're connected at the schools, and they

1968
01:36:00,600 --> 01:36:03,160
Speaker 1: were a big part of, uh, you know why we're

1969
01:36:03,160 --> 01:36:05,200
Speaker 1: able to do what we did this year just having

1970
01:36:05,400 --> 01:36:09,120
Speaker 1: having a bunch of veteran, veteran eyes out there watching players.

1971
01:36:09,160 --> 01:36:11,200
Speaker 1: And again another thing that we take a lot of

1972
01:36:11,280 --> 01:36:13,639
Speaker 1: Friday in is we we saw one hundred and five

1973
01:36:13,720 --> 01:36:16,160
Speaker 1: of one hundred and fourteen guys that ended up in Mobile,

1974
01:36:16,280 --> 01:36:19,759
Speaker 1: we saw one oh five in games live in person.

1975
01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:23,000
Speaker 1: So those live evaluations. Again, what that does is it

1976
01:36:23,080 --> 01:36:25,719
Speaker 1: just gives us credibility with the teams in the league

1977
01:36:25,760 --> 01:36:27,720
Speaker 1: that they know that we're out there, um, you know,

1978
01:36:27,840 --> 01:36:30,160
Speaker 1: trying to do the same job they're doing. Yeah. Were

1979
01:36:30,200 --> 01:36:32,920
Speaker 1: there any surprises in this last draft from your guys

1980
01:36:32,960 --> 01:36:36,439
Speaker 1: in the Senior Bowl. Yeah, I'd say the biggest surprise

1981
01:36:36,560 --> 01:36:39,040
Speaker 1: with Drew locke slide into the second round. That one

1982
01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:41,559
Speaker 1: really shocked me because if I was drafting for a team,

1983
01:36:41,600 --> 01:36:43,120
Speaker 1: he would have been he would have been my pick.

1984
01:36:43,439 --> 01:36:45,439
Speaker 1: You know, I there was you know, there's some other

1985
01:36:45,479 --> 01:36:48,280
Speaker 1: good quarterbacks in that draft, but I probably believed and

1986
01:36:48,360 --> 01:36:50,960
Speaker 1: Drew the most just from everything he brought to the table,

1987
01:36:51,040 --> 01:36:56,320
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, size, athletic ability, arm, talent, charisma, confidence.

1988
01:36:57,120 --> 01:36:59,080
Speaker 1: I think he I think he had a ton to

1989
01:36:59,120 --> 01:37:01,719
Speaker 1: work with the most upside of anyone in this draft.

1990
01:37:01,800 --> 01:37:04,920
Speaker 1: So for Denver to trade back, pick up extra picks,

1991
01:37:04,960 --> 01:37:07,000
Speaker 1: and then be sitting there in the second round to

1992
01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:10,160
Speaker 1: take Drew lock, I mean that was that was that

1993
01:37:10,280 --> 01:37:13,240
Speaker 1: was a surprise to me. Talking to Jim Nagy, he's

1994
01:37:13,280 --> 01:37:15,280
Speaker 1: executive director of the Senior Bowl. Let's stay with the

1995
01:37:16,040 --> 01:37:18,240
Speaker 1: quarterbacks you had there in Mobile back in January, and

1996
01:37:18,360 --> 01:37:22,479
Speaker 1: let's talk about the controversial pick. I guess Daniel Jones,

1997
01:37:22,560 --> 01:37:24,439
Speaker 1: Duke quarterback you had him in Mobile. He goes at

1998
01:37:24,520 --> 01:37:26,760
Speaker 1: number six to the New York Giants. What did you

1999
01:37:26,800 --> 01:37:28,120
Speaker 1: think of that pick him? What do you think about

2000
01:37:28,680 --> 01:37:32,719
Speaker 1: the Giants moving picking him that high in the draft? Jim, Yeah,

2001
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:35,200
Speaker 1: you know, the unfortunate part about it to me was,

2002
01:37:35,360 --> 01:37:37,720
Speaker 1: you know, the pick took so much back lad I

2003
01:37:37,760 --> 01:37:40,400
Speaker 1: almost feel like it took away from Daniel's weekend. He's

2004
01:37:40,439 --> 01:37:45,040
Speaker 1: a He's an unbelievable kid, such a great, great young man,

2005
01:37:45,600 --> 01:37:48,080
Speaker 1: and he brings a ton to the table. Again, he's big,

2006
01:37:48,200 --> 01:37:53,280
Speaker 1: he's really athletic, he's accurate, he's extremely smart, and he's

2007
01:37:53,360 --> 01:37:56,080
Speaker 1: incredibly tough. If you watch Duke, if you watch tape

2008
01:37:56,120 --> 01:37:58,760
Speaker 1: on Duke, this guy gets hit more in one game

2009
01:37:58,840 --> 01:38:01,120
Speaker 1: than Dwayne Haskins and Kyler Murray got hit in the

2010
01:38:01,160 --> 01:38:04,439
Speaker 1: whole year combined. Um, you know, playing behind playing with

2011
01:38:04,560 --> 01:38:08,280
Speaker 1: that group at DO So, you know, I think Daniel's

2012
01:38:08,320 --> 01:38:11,200
Speaker 1: got a really blunt, bright future. And again, this was

2013
01:38:11,240 --> 01:38:13,160
Speaker 1: a different year for me because usually I don't pay

2014
01:38:13,360 --> 01:38:14,600
Speaker 1: you know, when I was working in the NFL, I

2015
01:38:14,640 --> 01:38:17,080
Speaker 1: didn't play a lot of attention to the media and

2016
01:38:17,120 --> 01:38:19,519
Speaker 1: where they had guys pegged. And I just think that,

2017
01:38:19,920 --> 01:38:22,799
Speaker 1: you know, the media can really set the narrative on players,

2018
01:38:23,320 --> 01:38:27,200
Speaker 1: and there was so much hyper on Dwayne Haskins that

2019
01:38:27,360 --> 01:38:30,240
Speaker 1: I feel like that the Giants fan base was so

2020
01:38:30,439 --> 01:38:33,920
Speaker 1: let down when they didn't take him that, uh, you

2021
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:37,439
Speaker 1: know when I called around the league to my friends

2022
01:38:37,479 --> 01:38:39,720
Speaker 1: and guys, I trust that you know, can evaluate the

2023
01:38:39,800 --> 01:38:43,040
Speaker 1: position really well. You know, Haskins was the fourth guy

2024
01:38:43,160 --> 01:38:45,360
Speaker 1: for for a lot of teams, and again it was

2025
01:38:45,400 --> 01:38:48,120
Speaker 1: a jumbled mess. I mean some teams you could ask

2026
01:38:48,160 --> 01:38:50,360
Speaker 1: four different teams that have it all in a different orders,

2027
01:38:50,400 --> 01:38:53,000
Speaker 1: So I mean some team fed Dwayne seconds. So it

2028
01:38:53,120 --> 01:38:55,280
Speaker 1: was a little all over the board. But the way

2029
01:38:55,360 --> 01:38:57,800
Speaker 1: that Dwayne was built up so much through that, you know,

2030
01:38:57,920 --> 01:39:01,920
Speaker 1: the from really comb time through the draft. It was

2031
01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:04,599
Speaker 1: a letdown for those Giants finds that they didn't take him,

2032
01:39:04,640 --> 01:39:07,439
Speaker 1: and that's us unfortunate. Yah. One of the other quarterbacks

2033
01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:09,720
Speaker 1: Jim that did not get draft as a guy here

2034
01:39:09,760 --> 01:39:12,880
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, Tyree Jackson's a big, long, lanky, strong arm

2035
01:39:13,000 --> 01:39:16,080
Speaker 1: quarterback who came out as a junior and not getting

2036
01:39:16,160 --> 01:39:18,400
Speaker 1: draft you kind of question maybe the fact that maybe

2037
01:39:18,439 --> 01:39:20,120
Speaker 1: he should have stayed in school for one more year,

2038
01:39:20,120 --> 01:39:22,000
Speaker 1: But what's your assessment of him and now that he

2039
01:39:22,040 --> 01:39:25,200
Speaker 1: signed with the Buffalo Bills about his future. Yeah, we

2040
01:39:25,320 --> 01:39:27,439
Speaker 1: had Tyree and our game down here. He was really

2041
01:39:27,560 --> 01:39:30,680
Speaker 1: our ninth quarterback, so we had eight guys on the

2042
01:39:31,200 --> 01:39:34,960
Speaker 1: roster already, and when so Tyree took us off guard

2043
01:39:34,960 --> 01:39:36,680
Speaker 1: a little bit, we did not expect him to come

2044
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:39,240
Speaker 1: come out early, so we had to do a lot

2045
01:39:39,280 --> 01:39:41,479
Speaker 1: of late work on him. And uh, you know, we

2046
01:39:41,600 --> 01:39:44,240
Speaker 1: watched a bunch of tape and he was actually down

2047
01:39:44,320 --> 01:39:46,559
Speaker 1: here in Mobile for their bowl game. And I went

2048
01:39:46,600 --> 01:39:48,880
Speaker 1: after their practice one day, saw him throw live and

2049
01:39:49,479 --> 01:39:51,679
Speaker 1: you know, talk to talk to all the Buffalo coaches

2050
01:39:51,680 --> 01:39:54,200
Speaker 1: about him, you know, just you know, just on the

2051
01:39:54,280 --> 01:39:56,240
Speaker 1: practice field, not even thinking he could be a senior

2052
01:39:56,280 --> 01:39:58,760
Speaker 1: bowler at that point. And when I called it to

2053
01:39:59,120 --> 01:40:01,840
Speaker 1: teams around the league, most guys had him in like

2054
01:40:01,960 --> 01:40:05,320
Speaker 1: the fourth round area. So again, him falling all the

2055
01:40:05,360 --> 01:40:07,479
Speaker 1: way out of the draft was a shock to me.

2056
01:40:08,240 --> 01:40:10,760
Speaker 1: You know, like you said, he's a big guy. I mean,

2057
01:40:10,840 --> 01:40:12,840
Speaker 1: I think the knock might be he's maybe too big

2058
01:40:12,920 --> 01:40:15,320
Speaker 1: because there hasn't been a lot of guys have success

2059
01:40:15,400 --> 01:40:18,040
Speaker 1: over sixty seven. But you know, those guys weren't as

2060
01:40:18,080 --> 01:40:20,080
Speaker 1: mobile as Tyrie is. I mean, the guy ran four

2061
01:40:20,160 --> 01:40:22,800
Speaker 1: or five nine. It's a combine. He's got a hose

2062
01:40:22,880 --> 01:40:26,160
Speaker 1: for an arm, He's got a great personality. So for

2063
01:40:26,320 --> 01:40:29,599
Speaker 1: Buffalo to get him where they did as no undrafted

2064
01:40:29,720 --> 01:40:33,200
Speaker 1: free agents is incredible And I think that for Bills

2065
01:40:33,200 --> 01:40:35,479
Speaker 1: fans it's a great thing, and the Bill's organization it's

2066
01:40:35,479 --> 01:40:38,320
Speaker 1: a great thing because he really mirrors what Josh Allen

2067
01:40:38,360 --> 01:40:42,600
Speaker 1: brings to the table too, in terms of size, arm strength, athleticism,

2068
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:45,000
Speaker 1: and you know, really the knock on both of them

2069
01:40:45,080 --> 01:40:49,080
Speaker 1: coming out with accuracy. So I know my time in Seattle,

2070
01:40:49,160 --> 01:40:51,920
Speaker 1: we always struggled finding a backup that could mirror Russell

2071
01:40:51,960 --> 01:40:54,200
Speaker 1: Wilson's skill set. Those guys are pretty hard to find.

2072
01:40:54,280 --> 01:40:56,479
Speaker 1: But you know, we always worried if Russell went down,

2073
01:40:56,560 --> 01:41:00,600
Speaker 1: we couldn't run the same offense with whoever backup was.

2074
01:41:00,680 --> 01:41:03,439
Speaker 1: And now if Tyree is able to earn that backup

2075
01:41:03,560 --> 01:41:07,840
Speaker 1: job in Josh Allen, god forbid went down, I think

2076
01:41:07,880 --> 01:41:10,519
Speaker 1: they could. You know, Buffalo could still continue all the

2077
01:41:10,600 --> 01:41:12,719
Speaker 1: same things they're doing around the line. With Jim Nagy,

2078
01:41:12,880 --> 01:41:15,519
Speaker 1: executive director of the Reese's Senior Bowl, we're kind of

2079
01:41:15,560 --> 01:41:18,080
Speaker 1: recapping the draft with him. A couple of Bills draft

2080
01:41:18,120 --> 01:41:20,479
Speaker 1: picks were in Mobile for the Senior Bowl. I want

2081
01:41:20,479 --> 01:41:22,320
Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on them. Bills in the sixth

2082
01:41:22,400 --> 01:41:25,880
Speaker 1: round went to safety Jaquan Johnson out of University of Miami.

2083
01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:27,280
Speaker 1: What did you see of him in Mobile? What do

2084
01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:31,439
Speaker 1: you think of him? Jim? Yeah, really virtual player. You know,

2085
01:41:31,520 --> 01:41:34,680
Speaker 1: he was a guy actually that the Miami defensive back

2086
01:41:34,760 --> 01:41:37,479
Speaker 1: coach called me about. And this didn't happen too often.

2087
01:41:37,560 --> 01:41:40,360
Speaker 1: Happen a couple of times, but the Miami DV coach

2088
01:41:40,479 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 1: called me in December and said, Hey, I know you

2089
01:41:43,040 --> 01:41:46,160
Speaker 1: haven't sent Jiquan an invite yet, but he's the best

2090
01:41:46,240 --> 01:41:48,680
Speaker 1: kid I've ever coached. He's the most competitive kid. He's

2091
01:41:48,680 --> 01:41:52,040
Speaker 1: the best practice player I've ever had. So you know

2092
01:41:52,240 --> 01:41:54,559
Speaker 1: that that meant a lot and you go, you watch

2093
01:41:54,640 --> 01:41:57,160
Speaker 1: the safe. He can play strong safety. He's really an

2094
01:41:57,200 --> 01:42:00,519
Speaker 1: undersize strong safety what he is, and he can nickel.

2095
01:42:00,560 --> 01:42:02,880
Speaker 1: I don't see him as much as a free safety,

2096
01:42:03,000 --> 01:42:05,360
Speaker 1: but I think you could play him deep if you

2097
01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:08,280
Speaker 1: were playing some cover two coverages. But he's really good

2098
01:42:08,360 --> 01:42:10,040
Speaker 1: near the line of scrimmage. He had a really good

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01:42:10,120 --> 01:42:11,800
Speaker 1: game down here in Mobile. I think he had six

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01:42:11,920 --> 01:42:16,760
Speaker 1: or seven tackles. So yeah, he's a really interesting player.

2101
01:42:16,800 --> 01:42:18,840
Speaker 1: To get him where they did, uh, you know, I

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01:42:18,920 --> 01:42:20,800
Speaker 1: think he's gonna make that football team, which makes that

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01:42:20,880 --> 01:42:22,160
Speaker 1: a great thick. You know. One of the things that

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01:42:22,240 --> 01:42:25,240
Speaker 1: Bills did in this draft, Jim, was they took two

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01:42:25,320 --> 01:42:28,960
Speaker 1: tight ends, not one, but two Dawson Knox midway through

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01:42:28,960 --> 01:42:31,559
Speaker 1: the draft, and then in the final round they also

2107
01:42:31,680 --> 01:42:34,960
Speaker 1: got Tommy Sweeney. Assess where those two tight ends would

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01:42:35,000 --> 01:42:39,120
Speaker 1: fall in your in your depth chart. Yeah, I'm glad

2109
01:42:39,160 --> 01:42:42,320
Speaker 1: you brought up Dawson Knox because when they took him,

2110
01:42:42,360 --> 01:42:44,599
Speaker 1: I texted one of the guys they're on the built

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01:42:44,640 --> 01:42:46,600
Speaker 1: staff while I'm close with, and I told him they

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01:42:47,120 --> 01:42:48,800
Speaker 1: hit it out of the park because he was We

2113
01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:51,400
Speaker 1: wanted we wanted Dawson to come to the Senior Bowl.

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01:42:51,439 --> 01:42:53,519
Speaker 1: He was a junior eligible guy for US because he

2115
01:42:53,560 --> 01:42:55,960
Speaker 1: had a diploma, but he had to have four attorney

2116
01:42:56,000 --> 01:42:58,600
Speaker 1: of surgery after the season, so we were that was

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01:42:59,000 --> 01:43:00,920
Speaker 1: that was a bummer for us when we lost him

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01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:02,519
Speaker 1: in December. We thought he was going to be coming

2119
01:43:02,560 --> 01:43:06,920
Speaker 1: down here. But I really thought talent wise, there wasn't

2120
01:43:07,120 --> 01:43:09,760
Speaker 1: much difference between he and t J. Hopkinson that went

2121
01:43:09,960 --> 01:43:12,920
Speaker 1: number eight overall the Detroit so where you know, because

2122
01:43:13,000 --> 01:43:15,840
Speaker 1: because Dawson can block, he's a really tough kid. He's

2123
01:43:15,880 --> 01:43:18,600
Speaker 1: got a great body type for the position. You know,

2124
01:43:18,640 --> 01:43:20,920
Speaker 1: he ran four or five to one. It's a pro day.

2125
01:43:20,960 --> 01:43:23,240
Speaker 1: We drove up to the pro day here from mobiles

2126
01:43:23,439 --> 01:43:27,400
Speaker 1: to time him and really just under underused player for

2127
01:43:27,600 --> 01:43:30,200
Speaker 1: full miss. I mean, he's he's going to be a

2128
01:43:30,439 --> 01:43:32,759
Speaker 1: way more productive pro than he was a college player.

2129
01:43:32,800 --> 01:43:35,000
Speaker 1: I think they drafted a long time starter there in

2130
01:43:35,120 --> 01:43:37,920
Speaker 1: Dawson and then Tommy we had in the game and

2131
01:43:38,280 --> 01:43:40,280
Speaker 1: sec kids are stud Again, he's a guy that can

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01:43:40,360 --> 01:43:43,360
Speaker 1: do both things. He can block, Um, he's kind of

2133
01:43:43,400 --> 01:43:45,599
Speaker 1: sneaky in the in the past game where he can

2134
01:43:45,640 --> 01:43:48,400
Speaker 1: get open and he's got really nice hands. So you know,

2135
01:43:48,520 --> 01:43:50,960
Speaker 1: the hard thing with tight ends there's finding guys that

2136
01:43:51,040 --> 01:43:53,720
Speaker 1: can do both things because if they can't, you're really

2137
01:43:53,800 --> 01:43:56,120
Speaker 1: kind of tipping. You're tipping your hand on what you're

2138
01:43:56,160 --> 01:43:59,519
Speaker 1: doing schematically when they're in the game. So, um, the

2139
01:43:59,640 --> 01:44:02,839
Speaker 1: fact that those guys can play in both phases, jib's

2140
01:44:02,920 --> 01:44:05,960
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Brian day Ball a ton of flexibility. Jim,

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01:44:06,040 --> 01:44:08,880
Speaker 1: what did you think of the wide receiver class both

2142
01:44:08,960 --> 01:44:11,519
Speaker 1: going into the draft and now coming out of it? Um,

2143
01:44:11,920 --> 01:44:13,760
Speaker 1: and I was thinking about the wide receivers who were

2144
01:44:13,800 --> 01:44:15,479
Speaker 1: down there in Mobile at the Senior Bowl, you know,

2145
01:44:15,600 --> 01:44:18,719
Speaker 1: guys like Andy Isabella or Deebo Samuel. It was almost

2146
01:44:18,760 --> 01:44:23,120
Speaker 1: like there weren't any you know, top flight X receiver tites,

2147
01:44:23,160 --> 01:44:24,640
Speaker 1: but a lot of like what kind of receiver do

2148
01:44:24,680 --> 01:44:26,120
Speaker 1: you want? And I saw a lot of those guys

2149
01:44:26,200 --> 01:44:30,360
Speaker 1: down in Mobile back in January, thought yeah, it's uh,

2150
01:44:30,600 --> 01:44:32,960
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't. I didn't think it was a

2151
01:44:33,120 --> 01:44:36,960
Speaker 1: great class in terms of a top end guys. In fact,

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01:44:37,040 --> 01:44:39,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if there was any guys I would

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01:44:39,400 --> 01:44:42,840
Speaker 1: have taken in the first round. Um. You know, Diebo

2154
01:44:43,040 --> 01:44:46,000
Speaker 1: is probably my favorite guy in the draft because he

2155
01:44:46,040 --> 01:44:48,320
Speaker 1: can play outside, he can play inside, he can return,

2156
01:44:48,439 --> 01:44:51,519
Speaker 1: He's really a natural playmaker with the ball in his hands.

2157
01:44:51,520 --> 01:44:53,720
Speaker 1: So I like Debo quite a bit. And you, like

2158
01:44:53,800 --> 01:44:56,599
Speaker 1: you said, and either a guy Terry mcclaurin from Ohio

2159
01:44:56,760 --> 01:44:59,479
Speaker 1: State who came down here and played off in the

2160
01:44:59,520 --> 01:45:02,160
Speaker 1: Redskins took him in the third. But you know, I

2161
01:45:02,320 --> 01:45:05,760
Speaker 1: think that you know, Hollywood Brown was the guy for

2162
01:45:05,840 --> 01:45:08,040
Speaker 1: me who went in the first round. Who don't I

2163
01:45:08,080 --> 01:45:09,719
Speaker 1: don't know if I would take one hundred and sixty

2164
01:45:09,800 --> 01:45:13,360
Speaker 1: six sound receiver in the first round, but good football player.

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01:45:13,720 --> 01:45:16,560
Speaker 1: But usually there's like one of those dynamic receivers that

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01:45:16,760 --> 01:45:18,880
Speaker 1: that you know, top half of the first round guy

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01:45:18,960 --> 01:45:20,880
Speaker 1: or a couple of them. I think next year, just

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01:45:21,000 --> 01:45:24,519
Speaker 1: with the Alabama guys with Jerry Judy and you know

2169
01:45:24,680 --> 01:45:27,720
Speaker 1: Henry Ruggs who ran four two five at their pro

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01:45:27,880 --> 01:45:31,240
Speaker 1: day recently. I just think with the Alabama and Clemson

2171
01:45:31,280 --> 01:45:33,320
Speaker 1: guys coming out next year, See Higgins, You're gonna have

2172
01:45:33,360 --> 01:45:35,519
Speaker 1: a bunch in the first round. Yeah. I wanted to

2173
01:45:35,560 --> 01:45:39,040
Speaker 1: ask you, Jim. You had the this year's Senior Bowl

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Speaker 1: there and the Raiders were one of the coaching staffs

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01:45:42,280 --> 01:45:44,080
Speaker 1: that they got a chance to work with these young guys.

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01:45:44,120 --> 01:45:45,640
Speaker 1: And then the Raiders came out it had a lot

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01:45:45,720 --> 01:45:48,120
Speaker 1: of picks and seemed to have a really good draft.

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01:45:48,640 --> 01:45:51,280
Speaker 1: What do you think that the Raiders got that nobody

2179
01:45:51,320 --> 01:45:53,200
Speaker 1: else got in this draft? And plus, who are you

2180
01:45:53,280 --> 01:45:57,759
Speaker 1: thinking about having coach next year's game? Well, the coaches

2181
01:45:57,880 --> 01:46:00,600
Speaker 1: is based off the draft order. So really, if you

2182
01:46:00,880 --> 01:46:02,800
Speaker 1: don't you don't ever really want to coach in our

2183
01:46:02,880 --> 01:46:05,439
Speaker 1: game because that means you haven't had a very good season.

2184
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:08,519
Speaker 1: But you know, in a lot of times, so you

2185
01:46:08,600 --> 01:46:10,479
Speaker 1: start with the draft order. But again at the top

2186
01:46:10,520 --> 01:46:12,559
Speaker 1: of the draft, a lot of those teams are changing

2187
01:46:12,640 --> 01:46:15,720
Speaker 1: over coaching staff, so they usually can't commit to do it.

2188
01:46:15,800 --> 01:46:17,360
Speaker 1: So that's why we ended up this year with the

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01:46:17,520 --> 01:46:19,720
Speaker 1: forty nine ers who picked second and the Raiders who

2190
01:46:19,800 --> 01:46:23,439
Speaker 1: picked four. But it's it's although they don't want to

2191
01:46:23,479 --> 01:46:27,160
Speaker 1: coach the game, it's a it's a huge, huge asset.

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01:46:27,360 --> 01:46:29,880
Speaker 1: So I mean, you're in meetings with these guys, You're

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01:46:29,880 --> 01:46:34,000
Speaker 1: seeing who's attentive, how they learn, how they take coaching

2194
01:46:34,080 --> 01:46:36,920
Speaker 1: on the field, you know, just how they interact with teammates.

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01:46:37,320 --> 01:46:40,720
Speaker 1: So it's an invaluable, invaluable resource for a for an

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Speaker 1: organization to come down here and really have their hands

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01:46:43,640 --> 01:46:45,840
Speaker 1: on these guys for an entire week, as opposed to

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01:46:46,400 --> 01:46:48,560
Speaker 1: you know, the other thirty teams, you know, get to

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01:46:48,680 --> 01:46:51,040
Speaker 1: maybe meet with them for fifteen minutes of the combine

2200
01:46:51,200 --> 01:46:53,800
Speaker 1: or you know, you know from a little bit a

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01:46:53,840 --> 01:46:55,840
Speaker 1: little bit of time down here. It's a senior Bowl.

2202
01:46:56,280 --> 01:46:58,040
Speaker 1: You just don't get the same feel as I mean,

2203
01:46:58,320 --> 01:47:00,800
Speaker 1: they live with these guys for a week. So it's

2204
01:47:00,840 --> 01:47:03,840
Speaker 1: a huge, huge advantage. And I think the Raiders did

2205
01:47:03,920 --> 01:47:06,720
Speaker 1: an awesome job not only in their draft, but they

2206
01:47:06,840 --> 01:47:09,080
Speaker 1: got three players in our in our game that didn't

2207
01:47:09,120 --> 01:47:14,479
Speaker 1: get drafted uh alec ingal to fullback from Wisconsin, Tavon Cony,

2208
01:47:14,520 --> 01:47:18,000
Speaker 1: a linebacker from Notre Dame, and Keelan Dawson receiver from

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01:47:18,080 --> 01:47:19,680
Speaker 1: UC Davis that I think are all going to make

2210
01:47:19,720 --> 01:47:22,040
Speaker 1: their football teams. Jim, you did a great job with

2211
01:47:22,120 --> 01:47:23,920
Speaker 1: the ESPN the last couple of weeks in the U

2212
01:47:24,280 --> 01:47:26,840
Speaker 1: in the broadcast it's about the draft, and I've watched

2213
01:47:26,880 --> 01:47:29,040
Speaker 1: you and I thought, oh, man, don't leave the Senior Bowl.

2214
01:47:29,040 --> 01:47:30,800
Speaker 1: You're just getting started. You're gonna stay there for a while,

2215
01:47:30,840 --> 01:47:34,439
Speaker 1: aren't you. Oh? Absolutely, no, this is this is my job. No,

2216
01:47:34,640 --> 01:47:36,720
Speaker 1: that was good. That was That was a lot of

2217
01:47:36,760 --> 01:47:39,960
Speaker 1: fun that Peva at ESPN were great. Um, it was

2218
01:47:40,080 --> 01:47:42,400
Speaker 1: really good exposure for the Resa Senior Bowl. But no,

2219
01:47:42,560 --> 01:47:44,560
Speaker 1: this is this is what I love to do. I'm

2220
01:47:44,600 --> 01:47:47,080
Speaker 1: a football guy, so I like watching tape and and

2221
01:47:47,479 --> 01:47:50,640
Speaker 1: footing rosters together. So I'm not going anywhere. Who do

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01:47:50,720 --> 01:47:52,320
Speaker 1: you think when when all this is said and done

2223
01:47:52,320 --> 01:47:55,280
Speaker 1: about the twenty nineteen drafting, your first year at the

2224
01:47:55,400 --> 01:47:58,400
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, who do you think is going to come

2225
01:47:58,439 --> 01:48:00,680
Speaker 1: out of this historically as the best player to come

2226
01:48:00,720 --> 01:48:05,679
Speaker 1: out of this draft. Out of this draft, I thought

2227
01:48:05,720 --> 01:48:09,000
Speaker 1: the best player in this draft with Quinnan Williams in Alabama,

2228
01:48:09,240 --> 01:48:10,840
Speaker 1: that would have been him if we were just picking

2229
01:48:10,880 --> 01:48:13,560
Speaker 1: best player available, I thought he should have been the

2230
01:48:13,680 --> 01:48:16,519
Speaker 1: number one pick. I think just kind of scratching the surface.

2231
01:48:17,120 --> 01:48:20,439
Speaker 1: Really young kid hadn't played a ton at Alabama because

2232
01:48:20,479 --> 01:48:22,960
Speaker 1: he was behind a bunch of other first round players

2233
01:48:23,040 --> 01:48:26,679
Speaker 1: like Geron Payne. But you know, he's quick, he's slippery,

2234
01:48:26,920 --> 01:48:29,760
Speaker 1: and he's powerful, which makes him incredibly hard to block.

2235
01:48:29,960 --> 01:48:33,080
Speaker 1: Usually guys are one or the other, and Quinnington beach

2236
01:48:33,080 --> 01:48:35,960
Speaker 1: you both ways. So I think the New York Jets

2237
01:48:36,400 --> 01:48:40,000
Speaker 1: got got an unbelievable player. And I just can't wait

2238
01:48:40,040 --> 01:48:41,920
Speaker 1: to see what that kid looks like when he's when

2239
01:48:41,960 --> 01:48:44,720
Speaker 1: he's like twenty six, twenty seven years old. Jim, I'm

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01:48:44,720 --> 01:48:46,960
Speaker 1: already looking forward to next year's Senior Bowl. I love

2241
01:48:47,040 --> 01:48:49,640
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl week. I love Mobile. I like Callahan's

2242
01:48:49,680 --> 01:48:54,040
Speaker 1: Irish Social Club. I like the Bananas Foster. What does

2243
01:48:54,080 --> 01:48:56,720
Speaker 1: the bananas Foster French toasted spot a t I'm the

2244
01:48:56,720 --> 01:48:59,120
Speaker 1: biggest Mobile Alabama fan in Western New York. I think

2245
01:48:59,720 --> 01:49:01,559
Speaker 1: I love it. I love to hear it. WE love

2246
01:49:01,640 --> 01:49:04,160
Speaker 1: having you guys come down. You know, the city of

2247
01:49:04,240 --> 01:49:06,720
Speaker 1: Mobile loves this game. They love bringing everyone down here.

2248
01:49:06,840 --> 01:49:09,040
Speaker 1: So that's great to hear. We look forward to having

2249
01:49:09,080 --> 01:49:11,160
Speaker 1: you back down next to January. We'll talk again. Thank

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01:49:11,200 --> 01:49:13,760
Speaker 1: you very much, Jim. Thanks Jim, all right, guys, appreciate you.

2251
01:49:14,000 --> 01:49:17,240
Speaker 1: Jim Nagee is the executive director of Reese's Senior Bowl

2252
01:49:17,320 --> 01:49:20,519
Speaker 1: eighteen years. Is an NFL scout Patriots, Seahawks other teams

2253
01:49:20,520 --> 01:49:23,439
Speaker 1: as well draft analyst on ESPN going into the draft. Seriously,

2254
01:49:23,439 --> 01:49:25,439
Speaker 1: I'm watching the draft. He did a great job on

2255
01:49:25,720 --> 01:49:27,880
Speaker 1: ESPN the last couple of weeks. They can I'll come on, man,

2256
01:49:28,000 --> 01:49:29,920
Speaker 1: we had Phil Savage and he's gone to know, are

2257
01:49:29,960 --> 01:49:32,280
Speaker 1: you gonna leave? He could do TV tomorrow if he wanted,

2258
01:49:32,560 --> 01:49:35,040
Speaker 1: right how good he was? Right? Well, you know I do.

2259
01:49:35,439 --> 01:49:37,519
Speaker 1: Look the Senior Bowl. I've said this a million times,

2260
01:49:38,160 --> 01:49:40,120
Speaker 1: perfect way to turn the page from one season to

2261
01:49:40,160 --> 01:49:43,479
Speaker 1: the next. Couple of weeks after the season ends late January,

2262
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:45,760
Speaker 1: you start to look at next year. Who's coming out.

2263
01:49:46,320 --> 01:49:48,200
Speaker 1: We're going to be talking about for the next a

2264
01:49:48,280 --> 01:49:50,320
Speaker 1: couple of months leading up to the draft. It's typically

2265
01:49:50,520 --> 01:49:53,639
Speaker 1: what three months from the draft late January to late April.

2266
01:49:54,320 --> 01:49:56,280
Speaker 1: It's a little bit warmer there and nicer there than

2267
01:49:56,320 --> 01:49:58,360
Speaker 1: it is around here in late January. Yeah, it's a

2268
01:49:58,439 --> 01:50:00,639
Speaker 1: great little town. I love Mobile Man, and I really

2269
01:50:00,680 --> 01:50:02,560
Speaker 1: love the senor well as the As the playoffs, the

2270
01:50:02,640 --> 01:50:07,200
Speaker 1: NFL playoffs wind down, you know, all these teams these cities,

2271
01:50:07,640 --> 01:50:09,880
Speaker 1: not so much Buffalo, but other NFL season, when their

2272
01:50:09,880 --> 01:50:12,160
Speaker 1: teams out of it, they stopped watching. Yeah you know,

2273
01:50:12,200 --> 01:50:15,000
Speaker 1: we're here in Buffalo, we watch all of it. But right,

2274
01:50:15,120 --> 01:50:18,680
Speaker 1: we're weird, all right, right, So but they all of

2275
01:50:18,720 --> 01:50:20,360
Speaker 1: a sudden, these teams they start to look and they

2276
01:50:20,400 --> 01:50:22,680
Speaker 1: start to have avoid there were you know, their team,

2277
01:50:22,760 --> 01:50:24,760
Speaker 1: and they say, okay, well we need to get better. Right.

2278
01:50:24,800 --> 01:50:28,200
Speaker 1: You know, by that time, real fan bases, like even Buffalo,

2279
01:50:28,320 --> 01:50:30,360
Speaker 1: we knew going in we're gonna have to fix that

2280
01:50:30,439 --> 01:50:33,000
Speaker 1: offensive line. We're gonna do something wide receiver, We're gonna

2281
01:50:33,040 --> 01:50:34,760
Speaker 1: you know, all these things we're gonna change, Like, well,

2282
01:50:34,760 --> 01:50:36,880
Speaker 1: who's it gonna be? You start looking for it, And

2283
01:50:36,960 --> 01:50:39,000
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowls a perfect way, like you say, to

2284
01:50:39,120 --> 01:50:40,800
Speaker 1: start thinking about what you're gonna do and how and

2285
01:50:40,920 --> 01:50:43,200
Speaker 1: the first changes that will be made and what's gonna

2286
01:50:43,240 --> 01:50:45,800
Speaker 1: come available. And that's way before free agency and all

2287
01:50:45,920 --> 01:50:47,840
Speaker 1: that stuff too. So a lot of fun and we

2288
01:50:47,960 --> 01:50:49,160
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun doing it. I was fun

2289
01:50:49,240 --> 01:50:52,479
Speaker 1: having you down there and uh, get some live footage

2290
01:50:52,520 --> 01:50:55,120
Speaker 1: from the practices and all that. It was cool. It's

2291
01:50:55,160 --> 01:50:57,880
Speaker 1: really fun, right, It's really it's good. It's good content,

2292
01:50:58,160 --> 01:51:02,280
Speaker 1: and it's a nice breath of air from in that

2293
01:51:02,479 --> 01:51:05,000
Speaker 1: routine of the regular season. You know, as much fun

2294
01:51:05,080 --> 01:51:06,760
Speaker 1: as the second half of the year was this last

2295
01:51:06,840 --> 01:51:10,400
Speaker 1: year watching Josh Allen take step after step and winning

2296
01:51:10,439 --> 01:51:11,920
Speaker 1: a game and that last game of the sea, it

2297
01:51:12,040 --> 01:51:14,760
Speaker 1: was really nice to say, okay, all right, here, we're

2298
01:51:14,880 --> 01:51:16,600
Speaker 1: zero and zero, let's go. You know, it's a lot

2299
01:51:16,640 --> 01:51:19,080
Speaker 1: of fun to be in that atmosphere after the long season.

2300
01:51:19,400 --> 01:51:21,200
Speaker 1: We thank Jim Nage for joining us. We'll get him

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Speaker 1: on the show again in the future. So the Bills

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Speaker 1: have these eight new draft picks, several new undrafted free agents.

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Speaker 1: The roster pretty much set, you would think, maybe some changes,

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Speaker 1: and our Twitter poll question today is about that. Look

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Speaker 1: the Bills also, I have four new position coaches on

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01:51:36,000 --> 01:51:38,839
Speaker 1: the coaching staff. Right. They have Ken Dorsey at quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: Bobby Johnson on the offensive line, Chad Hall at wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: Heath Farewell special teams. And our question is which New

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Speaker 1: Bills position coach has the biggest challenge between now and

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Speaker 1: opening day. We got phone lines wide open if you

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01:51:50,800 --> 01:51:53,280
Speaker 1: want to participate eight oh three oh five fifty or

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Speaker 1: outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: On the poll, it's been pretty consistent all day. Offensive

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01:51:59,720 --> 01:52:02,760
Speaker 1: line's Bobby Johnson fifty three percent of you think he's

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01:52:02,800 --> 01:52:06,320
Speaker 1: got the biggest challenge. Twenty percent say quarterbacks coach Ken

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01:52:06,439 --> 01:52:09,559
Speaker 1: Dorsey is the biggest challenge, seventeen percent say new wide

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01:52:09,600 --> 01:52:12,960
Speaker 1: receivers coach Chad Hall faces the biggest challenge. Ten percent

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01:52:13,040 --> 01:52:16,240
Speaker 1: say special teams coach he Farwell has the biggest challenge.

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01:52:16,680 --> 01:52:18,040
Speaker 1: Way in let us know what you think. See if

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01:52:18,040 --> 01:52:19,960
Speaker 1: you got some tweets from the team chet From Bill,

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01:52:20,000 --> 01:52:22,040
Speaker 1: he says the answer should be special teams. We had

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01:52:22,160 --> 01:52:24,840
Speaker 1: zero consistency with this group. Our free agent pickups plus

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01:52:24,880 --> 01:52:27,360
Speaker 1: some of the blue collar personality draft picks will be

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01:52:27,479 --> 01:52:30,600
Speaker 1: nice ingredients for Heath and Steve Tasker. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how I make sure, but there are three phases of

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Speaker 1: the game. If we can hit on special teams in defense,

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01:52:35,560 --> 01:52:39,240
Speaker 1: I'm good that from Bill. Also from Robert Chase, he

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01:52:39,360 --> 01:52:42,160
Speaker 1: takes the line of the majority. Definitely the offensive line.

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01:52:42,360 --> 01:52:44,640
Speaker 1: The old line didn't help get shady going. Plus the

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01:52:44,760 --> 01:52:46,479
Speaker 1: quarterbacks we had didn't have a lot of time in

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01:52:46,560 --> 01:52:50,920
Speaker 1: the pocket. That from Robert Chase so and then we

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01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:54,200
Speaker 1: get to run the gamut here from Zach Gabby Ken

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01:52:54,320 --> 01:52:56,360
Speaker 1: Dorsey because I want to see Allen take the right

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01:52:56,439 --> 01:52:58,640
Speaker 1: steps to improve on what I saw last season, and

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01:52:58,720 --> 01:53:01,080
Speaker 1: that to me, other than off of line, that's the

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01:53:01,160 --> 01:53:02,679
Speaker 1: one that jumps out. I don't know if there's anything

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01:53:02,760 --> 01:53:06,000
Speaker 1: more important than getting your quarterback right. Ken Dorsey's gonna

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01:53:06,000 --> 01:53:08,240
Speaker 1: be right neck deep and getting that done. We'll see

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01:53:08,280 --> 01:53:09,960
Speaker 1: how that goes. It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be

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01:53:10,000 --> 01:53:12,599
Speaker 1: a fun season for that to see him take another

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01:53:12,600 --> 01:53:14,559
Speaker 1: step forward if he if he can get it done.

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01:53:14,680 --> 01:53:17,080
Speaker 1: One more vote for Ken Dorsey the quarterbacks coach has

2343
01:53:17,120 --> 01:53:20,240
Speaker 1: come from swice as nice, he says. Dorsey, he has

2344
01:53:20,320 --> 01:53:22,160
Speaker 1: the challenge of molding the ball of clay that is

2345
01:53:22,240 --> 01:53:24,600
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. All of the potential is there, but he

2346
01:53:24,680 --> 01:53:27,320
Speaker 1: needs to turn it into elite level quarterback play from

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01:53:27,400 --> 01:53:29,880
Speaker 1: number seventeen. Much easier said than done in the NFL.

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01:53:30,360 --> 01:53:33,720
Speaker 1: When that is done, we will be consistent Super Bowl contenders.

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01:53:34,040 --> 01:53:39,240
Speaker 1: Starts now, that's good starts now, Ken Dorsey, we gotta

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01:53:39,240 --> 01:53:41,559
Speaker 1: get him on the show right now that we're beyond

2351
01:53:41,600 --> 01:53:43,720
Speaker 1: the drift talking about him. Yeah, we're talking about it.

2352
01:53:43,800 --> 01:53:45,360
Speaker 1: We got all these guys on the show that we're

2353
01:53:45,360 --> 01:53:48,040
Speaker 1: talking about for We've had Heath Farwell that was at

2354
01:53:48,080 --> 01:53:50,280
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl back in January. But the other three

2355
01:53:50,360 --> 01:53:51,720
Speaker 1: brand new coaches have got to get him on the

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01:53:51,760 --> 01:53:54,320
Speaker 1: show because they do have work to do. Maybe that's

2357
01:53:54,360 --> 01:53:55,920
Speaker 1: why they're not on the show yet because they're doing

2358
01:53:55,920 --> 01:53:59,880
Speaker 1: the work. But yeah, Ken Dorsey's got a it's a challenge.

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01:54:00,200 --> 01:54:02,479
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's pretty excited. And he's had what now,

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01:54:02,560 --> 01:54:04,880
Speaker 1: three weeks, two and a half weeks to see um

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01:54:05,320 --> 01:54:07,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, to see what he has on the field

2362
01:54:07,240 --> 01:54:09,599
Speaker 1: with them this week. He's probably pretty excited, I would think,

2363
01:54:09,640 --> 01:54:12,400
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey about the potential that he must see from

2364
01:54:12,479 --> 01:54:14,880
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. They're not they're not either throwing the there's

2365
01:54:14,920 --> 01:54:17,400
Speaker 1: no footballs out there. They don't have they don't even have,

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01:54:17,600 --> 01:54:19,800
Speaker 1: you know, anything out there to play with. Yeah, you

2367
01:54:19,880 --> 01:54:22,800
Speaker 1: know they're playing Tug Awards today. They were doing they're doing,

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01:54:23,280 --> 01:54:25,800
Speaker 1: you know, like we had Lorenzo on on Friday, he said, yeah,

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01:54:25,800 --> 01:54:28,880
Speaker 1: we're carrying forty five pound plates around they got you know,

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01:54:29,439 --> 01:54:34,360
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's Junior Olympics stuff. So, uh, they

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01:54:34,400 --> 01:54:37,480
Speaker 1: don't even some of these new coaches haven't even seen

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01:54:38,040 --> 01:54:41,240
Speaker 1: what he looks like when he throws it, right. I mean,

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01:54:41,320 --> 01:54:44,160
Speaker 1: we've seen him more than those guys. So it's gonna

2374
01:54:44,160 --> 01:54:46,840
Speaker 1: be interesting when they start to finally play football and

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01:54:46,920 --> 01:54:50,120
Speaker 1: get into the nuts and bolts of the season. And

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01:54:50,280 --> 01:54:52,240
Speaker 1: I think if you think about it, particularly in the

2377
01:54:52,320 --> 01:54:55,960
Speaker 1: AFC East where the Bills are, the Jets have a

2378
01:54:56,000 --> 01:54:58,520
Speaker 1: brand new head coach, new coaching staff, new offensive system.

2379
01:54:58,560 --> 01:55:00,320
Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins have a new head coach, each new

2380
01:55:00,360 --> 01:55:04,200
Speaker 1: offensive staff, new new system. And then there's the Patriots,

2381
01:55:04,240 --> 01:55:06,800
Speaker 1: of course, and the Bills, who the Bills going into

2382
01:55:06,840 --> 01:55:09,520
Speaker 1: their third year in this system, Josh Allen into his

2383
01:55:09,600 --> 01:55:13,000
Speaker 1: second year taking hopefully of taking a big step forward.

2384
01:55:13,040 --> 01:55:16,880
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a year where I think in this

2385
01:55:17,120 --> 01:55:20,560
Speaker 1: building there are high expectations and as high as the

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01:55:20,640 --> 01:55:23,320
Speaker 1: expectations are for the fans out there, particularly here in

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01:55:23,320 --> 01:55:25,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo obviously because it's you know, hometown team, I think

2388
01:55:25,920 --> 01:55:27,640
Speaker 1: they're even higher in this building. And I think they

2389
01:55:27,720 --> 01:55:30,280
Speaker 1: put the pressure more on themselves. Anybody else does. All right,

2390
01:55:30,280 --> 01:55:32,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. We're coming back with more,

2391
01:55:32,040 --> 01:55:35,120
Speaker 1: including NFL True and False. Come on back. One Bill's

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01:55:35,160 --> 01:55:37,600
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

2393
01:55:48,480 --> 01:55:52,280
Speaker 1: I hope you're right. One Bill's Live, John Murphy's Steve Tasker. Um, Look,

2394
01:55:52,320 --> 01:55:54,160
Speaker 1: I like our Twitter poll today, but I think you

2395
01:55:54,160 --> 01:55:56,200
Speaker 1: know what we're dealing with this if you almost said

2396
01:55:56,240 --> 01:55:58,720
Speaker 1: but I don't think they do. We're not getting a

2397
01:55:58,760 --> 01:56:02,400
Speaker 1: lot of calls. I'm blaming weather there. It's beautiful out

2398
01:56:02,480 --> 01:56:06,080
Speaker 1: seventy three Sonny. But it's a good question. You spent

2399
01:56:06,120 --> 01:56:08,440
Speaker 1: the entire first segment of the things making sure by

2400
01:56:08,520 --> 01:56:10,400
Speaker 1: knew it was your Twitter poll, so you ain't bailing

2401
01:56:10,440 --> 01:56:12,280
Speaker 1: on us now. I'm not a bail That's a good question.

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01:56:13,200 --> 01:56:16,440
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a little bit too a little bit too advanced,

2403
01:56:17,680 --> 01:56:20,960
Speaker 1: that's right. It requires some thought. I don't think it's

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01:56:21,000 --> 01:56:22,960
Speaker 1: a slam duck. I see Bobby Johnson get in fifty

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01:56:23,000 --> 01:56:27,080
Speaker 1: three percent. That's how i'd go too. But look these

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01:56:27,160 --> 01:56:29,880
Speaker 1: new coaches and a couple of cases guys who's never

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01:56:30,000 --> 01:56:32,640
Speaker 1: done this job before on their own. I'm talking about you,

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01:56:32,840 --> 01:56:36,040
Speaker 1: Keith farewell and and Chad hall Um, you got a

2409
01:56:36,160 --> 01:56:39,000
Speaker 1: challenge there, you got you got guys. You know, Bobby

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01:56:39,080 --> 01:56:41,960
Speaker 1: Johnson again, first time he's ever been a offensive line

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01:56:42,000 --> 01:56:44,440
Speaker 1: coach the whole unit by himself, or at least in

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01:56:44,600 --> 01:56:46,680
Speaker 1: charge of the whole unit. He's got to sort people

2413
01:56:46,720 --> 01:56:49,520
Speaker 1: out who's playing aware Um, who was it that? Eric

2414
01:56:49,600 --> 01:56:51,840
Speaker 1: Wood had a great response to that when he talked

2415
01:56:51,840 --> 01:56:54,440
Speaker 1: about how he's gotta he's gotta get people set up

2416
01:56:54,480 --> 01:56:56,120
Speaker 1: and how he will lean on the veterans who have

2417
01:56:56,200 --> 01:56:58,280
Speaker 1: done this sort of thing before. But still that's a

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01:56:58,320 --> 01:57:01,120
Speaker 1: big job, Steve, and you wan't think yourself, well, yeah,

2419
01:57:01,200 --> 01:57:03,760
Speaker 1: but so what, it's only made It's only six weeks

2420
01:57:03,880 --> 01:57:08,320
Speaker 1: left in these otash and mini camps that they can

2421
01:57:08,440 --> 01:57:11,000
Speaker 1: put all this together. I don't think they might have to.

2422
01:57:11,400 --> 01:57:13,320
Speaker 1: But I don't think you want to go to training

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01:57:13,400 --> 01:57:15,560
Speaker 1: camp in the end of July with a sort of

2424
01:57:15,640 --> 01:57:18,600
Speaker 1: uncertainty about who's playing where, you know, I don't think

2425
01:57:18,640 --> 01:57:20,360
Speaker 1: you want to do that. Is Ford a guard or

2426
01:57:20,360 --> 01:57:21,960
Speaker 1: at tackle? You don't want to have that question hanging

2427
01:57:22,000 --> 01:57:24,760
Speaker 1: out there when you go to camp. Who's who's starting

2428
01:57:24,800 --> 01:57:26,680
Speaker 1: at guard? Do you want that question out in the air,

2429
01:57:26,840 --> 01:57:28,200
Speaker 1: you know, when you go to camp in July. Know,

2430
01:57:28,240 --> 01:57:29,600
Speaker 1: I think you want that settle here in the next

2431
01:57:29,600 --> 01:57:31,560
Speaker 1: six weeks. Am I wrong? No? I think here's what

2432
01:57:31,640 --> 01:57:33,480
Speaker 1: will happen is they've got a plan right now is

2433
01:57:33,600 --> 01:57:35,520
Speaker 1: how they're gonna work through this. They're gonna start here.

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01:57:35,520 --> 01:57:37,800
Speaker 1: They're gonna start at a spot we're gonna start. We

2435
01:57:37,920 --> 01:57:39,960
Speaker 1: had Cody Ford on the second round drafting of the

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01:57:40,000 --> 01:57:42,120
Speaker 1: Bills a week ago. He said, they're gonna start me

2437
01:57:42,160 --> 01:57:44,560
Speaker 1: at right tackle. Yeah, and that he knows that's where

2438
01:57:44,560 --> 01:57:47,600
Speaker 1: he's gonna begin his career. He may not stay there

2439
01:57:47,680 --> 01:57:51,080
Speaker 1: more than three practices or three minutes, or he might

2440
01:57:51,160 --> 01:57:53,160
Speaker 1: stay there thirty years. You don't know. I mean that

2441
01:57:53,600 --> 01:57:55,880
Speaker 1: the guy might be plugging play you never move him.

2442
01:57:56,520 --> 01:57:59,000
Speaker 1: But for right now, that's where he starts. These guys

2443
01:57:59,120 --> 01:58:01,600
Speaker 1: understand that's going to depend on how they all play

2444
01:58:01,640 --> 01:58:03,640
Speaker 1: together and who is around them as to what they're

2445
01:58:03,640 --> 01:58:07,720
Speaker 1: asked to do right exactly. I think I don't know.

2446
01:58:07,920 --> 01:58:09,720
Speaker 1: I don't know either. I want to know. I think

2447
01:58:09,800 --> 01:58:11,360
Speaker 1: they do know. I think they've got a plan of

2448
01:58:11,600 --> 01:58:13,160
Speaker 1: what they would do today. I think it would probably

2449
01:58:13,160 --> 01:58:16,560
Speaker 1: be Spencer Long and probably Quentin Spain, but I don't know.

2450
01:58:17,040 --> 01:58:20,640
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Yeah, and I don't know how

2451
01:58:20,960 --> 01:58:24,080
Speaker 1: Tye and Secky plugs in here. If he's better at

2452
01:58:24,280 --> 01:58:29,320
Speaker 1: right tackle than say, Quentin Spain, isn't left guard or

2453
01:58:30,120 --> 01:58:32,600
Speaker 1: vice versa. If he's better even though he's a tackle.

2454
01:58:32,720 --> 01:58:34,560
Speaker 1: If ty and Secky's better at left guard than Quentin

2455
01:58:34,640 --> 01:58:36,920
Speaker 1: spain is, he goes over, he forgets the tackle spot,

2456
01:58:36,960 --> 01:58:38,880
Speaker 1: and he moves over to left guard. That's the way

2457
01:58:38,920 --> 01:58:41,360
Speaker 1: it works. You move these guys around where you need him,

2458
01:58:41,560 --> 01:58:44,120
Speaker 1: and even though you've played tackle your entire life, if

2459
01:58:44,200 --> 01:58:46,520
Speaker 1: nobody else on the team can play left guard better

2460
01:58:46,600 --> 01:58:48,800
Speaker 1: than you, that's where you're gonna get plugged into. And

2461
01:58:48,920 --> 01:58:51,760
Speaker 1: that's kind of where these guys know when you're talking

2462
01:58:51,800 --> 01:58:54,480
Speaker 1: about offensive line. That's how much things can change week

2463
01:58:54,520 --> 01:58:56,760
Speaker 1: to week, practice to practice. A tweet on this question

2464
01:58:57,160 --> 01:59:01,280
Speaker 1: which which new assistant coach has the biggest challenge in

2465
01:59:01,320 --> 01:59:04,360
Speaker 1: the months ahead. Richard Gianbra tweets and Bobby Johnson he

2466
01:59:04,440 --> 01:59:07,520
Speaker 1: used to learn Dable's playbook. Figure out whose five starters

2467
01:59:07,560 --> 01:59:12,000
Speaker 1: are minus Morrise. Morse is probably a solid lock there

2468
01:59:12,160 --> 01:59:14,280
Speaker 1: where to play them, get them to plays unified front,

2469
01:59:14,320 --> 01:59:16,640
Speaker 1: and figure out who to keep for depth. God bless him.

2470
01:59:16,760 --> 01:59:19,480
Speaker 1: Gonna be a lot of work, but he's got it. Yeah,

2471
01:59:19,560 --> 01:59:21,120
Speaker 1: I think it's a good respont. I do think he's

2472
01:59:21,120 --> 01:59:23,120
Speaker 1: the answer, the right answer here. But I'm listening to

2473
01:59:23,200 --> 01:59:26,680
Speaker 1: others too, including on the phone line from Mike and AMers. Mike,

2474
01:59:26,720 --> 01:59:29,360
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air with us, Hey, guys, Um,

2475
01:59:29,760 --> 01:59:34,440
Speaker 1: I think it's Dorsey for sure, because the difference between

2476
01:59:35,680 --> 01:59:38,880
Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator a quarterbacks coach that can coax a

2477
01:59:38,960 --> 01:59:42,920
Speaker 1: young talent like Alan is huge. That the difference there

2478
01:59:43,360 --> 01:59:45,600
Speaker 1: between the guy that can and can is massive, and

2479
01:59:45,640 --> 01:59:49,840
Speaker 1: it impacts the team greatly. Um, quick side point, I

2480
01:59:49,960 --> 01:59:54,840
Speaker 1: think the Bills will definitely sign. I think they're desperate rusher.

2481
01:59:55,200 --> 01:59:56,720
Speaker 1: Let me know what you guys. Yeah, hang on, Mike,

2482
01:59:56,800 --> 01:59:59,400
Speaker 1: before you what kind of coaching do you think Josh

2483
01:59:59,480 --> 02:00:02,360
Speaker 1: Allen need. Obviously he's got a lot, He's got a

2484
02:00:02,400 --> 02:00:04,480
Speaker 1: lot of improvement. I'm gonna get Steve's thoughts on this too.

2485
02:00:04,760 --> 02:00:06,480
Speaker 1: Does he need a guy to kind of go through

2486
02:00:06,520 --> 02:00:09,200
Speaker 1: the fundamentals with him and break down is passing emotion

2487
02:00:09,360 --> 02:00:11,000
Speaker 1: or does he need a guy that teaches him how

2488
02:00:11,040 --> 02:00:14,120
Speaker 1: to read defenses and get to the right play kind

2489
02:00:14,160 --> 02:00:17,640
Speaker 1: of two different skill sets there what do you think, Mike, Yeah, definitely, Um,

2490
02:00:17,920 --> 02:00:21,800
Speaker 1: you know, I think I am almost in the camp

2491
02:00:21,920 --> 02:00:23,840
Speaker 1: that I kind of want to let this kid run

2492
02:00:24,000 --> 02:00:27,360
Speaker 1: at the moment, and I would like someone to kind

2493
02:00:27,400 --> 02:00:29,680
Speaker 1: of maybe be able to pull him back in at

2494
02:00:29,760 --> 02:00:31,800
Speaker 1: some point if he's getting through scatter brain or something,

2495
02:00:32,040 --> 02:00:35,160
Speaker 1: so someone to just kind of somewhat oversee this huge

2496
02:00:35,240 --> 02:00:38,240
Speaker 1: talent that he has. Obviously, right, here's how it kind

2497
02:00:38,280 --> 02:00:41,640
Speaker 1: of works, usually not always in the NFL. The offensive

2498
02:00:41,680 --> 02:00:44,560
Speaker 1: coordinator is a guy who puts things in. He asks

2499
02:00:44,600 --> 02:00:46,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback, I want you to make this play. I

2500
02:00:46,480 --> 02:00:48,520
Speaker 1: want you to read this defense. I want you to

2501
02:00:48,640 --> 02:00:51,480
Speaker 1: do this, and if this happens, do something else. The

2502
02:00:51,720 --> 02:00:55,160
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator kind of lays the framework of the offense

2503
02:00:55,200 --> 02:00:57,240
Speaker 1: in front of the quarterback says, here's what I want

2504
02:00:57,320 --> 02:01:00,240
Speaker 1: you to do. Do it now. What happens is the

2505
02:01:00,320 --> 02:01:02,400
Speaker 1: quarterback goes out there and starts to work through what

2506
02:01:02,680 --> 02:01:04,320
Speaker 1: he's and they're going to be parts of it where

2507
02:01:04,360 --> 02:01:07,200
Speaker 1: he struggles or parts of where he just plane doesn't

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Speaker 1: like because when he looks out there, even though on

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02:01:10,120 --> 02:01:13,280
Speaker 1: film the reed looks plain and simple, when he sees

2510
02:01:13,360 --> 02:01:16,880
Speaker 1: it from the pocket at field level, it looks confusing

2511
02:01:16,960 --> 02:01:18,560
Speaker 1: to him. He doesn't want to make that throw. He

2512
02:01:18,600 --> 02:01:21,480
Speaker 1: doesn't like that decision. It doesn't present itself to him,

2513
02:01:21,560 --> 02:01:23,720
Speaker 1: so he wants to throw that out. So you get

2514
02:01:23,800 --> 02:01:27,680
Speaker 1: this kind of tension between an offensive coordinator and your quarterback,

2515
02:01:27,920 --> 02:01:33,880
Speaker 1: and a quarterback coach is the guy that intermediates that relationship.

2516
02:01:34,840 --> 02:01:37,760
Speaker 1: He's the guy that kind of helps those two find

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02:01:37,880 --> 02:01:41,920
Speaker 1: common ground and not be at each other's throats. Does

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02:01:41,960 --> 02:01:45,760
Speaker 1: that makes sense? Yeah? Definitely. I mean, I correct me

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02:01:45,800 --> 02:01:47,920
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, but I feel like Frank ra even

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Speaker 1: though he was the coordinator, he was kind of a

2521
02:01:50,360 --> 02:01:53,960
Speaker 1: guy that was in between things, kind of telling, you know,

2522
02:01:54,080 --> 02:01:55,840
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz what to do and what not to do.

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02:01:55,960 --> 02:01:58,160
Speaker 1: I could be wrong completely, but it just kind of

2524
02:01:58,440 --> 02:02:00,840
Speaker 1: from the outside looking in, that's right. The head coach

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02:02:00,960 --> 02:02:02,680
Speaker 1: is playing that role. Yeah, the head coach was really

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02:02:02,720 --> 02:02:05,560
Speaker 1: the coordinator. You know, Doug Peterson was kind of the

2527
02:02:05,680 --> 02:02:08,360
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator there and Frank Reich was the quarterback coach.

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02:02:08,760 --> 02:02:11,400
Speaker 1: Offensive coordinat was just up a notch with different titles

2529
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Speaker 1: if you want to look at it that way. Mike,

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02:02:13,240 --> 02:02:16,040
Speaker 1: thanks for your call, Steve, So what you didn't mention it?

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ask you. Is there any role to

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Speaker 1: play for um for Ken Dorsey in the fundamentals of

2533
02:02:22,600 --> 02:02:25,520
Speaker 1: the position. Hey, you know I'm the quarterback coach. Hey,

2534
02:02:25,640 --> 02:02:28,000
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, move your elbow here or put this left

2535
02:02:28,040 --> 02:02:31,040
Speaker 1: foot two inches more to the outside. Is there any

2536
02:02:31,400 --> 02:02:33,000
Speaker 1: does he have any need for that? They We'll think

2537
02:02:33,000 --> 02:02:36,840
Speaker 1: about it. You saw us here last year when Josh

2538
02:02:36,920 --> 02:02:39,040
Speaker 1: Allen came in. Who was all over and coaching him

2539
02:02:39,040 --> 02:02:41,840
Speaker 1: every play was Dave Bayba Day. Ball's the guy that's

2540
02:02:41,840 --> 02:02:43,480
Speaker 1: coaching him every place, and I want you to do this,

2541
02:02:43,840 --> 02:02:45,840
Speaker 1: And he's the guy that's got hands on right there,

2542
02:02:46,160 --> 02:02:48,520
Speaker 1: right in his face. Quarterback coach for the Bills. It's

2543
02:02:48,520 --> 02:02:51,400
Speaker 1: gonna be having a little slightly different role than fundamentals. Now,

2544
02:02:51,560 --> 02:02:53,720
Speaker 1: certainly he'll know all that stuff and see it with Dorsey.

2545
02:02:54,760 --> 02:02:57,640
Speaker 1: It may it may change. I think Dorsey. I think

2546
02:02:57,760 --> 02:03:00,320
Speaker 1: Dorsey in this place, and you see him here when

2547
02:03:00,320 --> 02:03:02,440
Speaker 1: he was with Carolina talking to Derek Anderson. This is

2548
02:03:02,480 --> 02:03:03,960
Speaker 1: kind of what he's gonna be. He's gonna be like

2549
02:03:04,040 --> 02:03:07,160
Speaker 1: a guy who has played the position at this level,

2550
02:03:08,240 --> 02:03:10,320
Speaker 1: understands what Josh is saying and what he's seeing, and

2551
02:03:10,400 --> 02:03:12,200
Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to put all of the things

2552
02:03:12,280 --> 02:03:15,520
Speaker 1: that day Ball has put before Josh into terms that

2553
02:03:15,680 --> 02:03:19,280
Speaker 1: Josh can understand and in a mindset that Josh will

2554
02:03:19,320 --> 02:03:20,960
Speaker 1: grab hold of and say, Okay, I get it. I

2555
02:03:21,040 --> 02:03:26,720
Speaker 1: see what you're saying. Dorsey's gonna be a translator, a therapist,

2556
02:03:27,360 --> 02:03:30,680
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a an intermediary. He's gonna be he's

2557
02:03:30,720 --> 02:03:33,640
Speaker 1: gonna be Josh Allen's best friend who is actually on

2558
02:03:33,720 --> 02:03:36,560
Speaker 1: the coaching staff. But he's also going to be one

2559
02:03:36,600 --> 02:03:39,120
Speaker 1: of those guys that's gonna be on Brian Dayble's side

2560
02:03:39,120 --> 02:03:40,920
Speaker 1: as well. Say listen, I'm gonna we're gonna try and

2561
02:03:40,920 --> 02:03:42,520
Speaker 1: get him to do this. This is really important this

2562
02:03:42,640 --> 02:03:44,840
Speaker 1: week for us to get him to a point where

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02:03:44,840 --> 02:03:47,360
Speaker 1: he sees this. So Dorsey's gonna have to be able

2564
02:03:47,360 --> 02:03:49,480
Speaker 1: to go to Josh Allen and say, listen, Josh, you

2565
02:03:49,560 --> 02:03:51,520
Speaker 1: got you gotta work on this. This is something that's

2566
02:03:51,560 --> 02:03:54,320
Speaker 1: important this week and here's why, and then put it

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02:03:54,400 --> 02:03:56,160
Speaker 1: into a place where Josh and say, okay, I'm in

2568
02:03:56,320 --> 02:03:58,720
Speaker 1: let's go. It's all a team thing where they all

2569
02:03:58,760 --> 02:04:01,240
Speaker 1: got to get on the same page. And Josh is

2570
02:04:01,280 --> 02:04:04,960
Speaker 1: going to be limited by his physical abilities, his experience,

2571
02:04:05,560 --> 02:04:09,400
Speaker 1: his grasp of the offense. Uh, what he's expecting from

2572
02:04:09,400 --> 02:04:11,800
Speaker 1: the defense and the curveball that the defense will throw

2573
02:04:11,920 --> 02:04:14,880
Speaker 1: for him, throw at him. All these things are curveballs

2574
02:04:14,880 --> 02:04:16,640
Speaker 1: and things that he won't control that they're gonna be

2575
02:04:16,720 --> 02:04:19,680
Speaker 1: on his plate. And it's gonna be everybody from Brian

2576
02:04:19,800 --> 02:04:23,720
Speaker 1: Dable all the way down through Tyree Jackson to get

2577
02:04:23,800 --> 02:04:26,320
Speaker 1: Josh ready to do that. And that's and that's the

2578
02:04:26,880 --> 02:04:29,200
Speaker 1: role that Dorsey's gonna play. You've seen this happen on

2579
02:04:29,240 --> 02:04:30,960
Speaker 1: the show a lot, and it usually happens late in

2580
02:04:31,000 --> 02:04:33,240
Speaker 1: the show when one of us gets an idea about

2581
02:04:33,560 --> 02:04:37,640
Speaker 1: something that could be a potential Twitter pole topic. I

2582
02:04:37,800 --> 02:04:39,840
Speaker 1: just had one, all right, and write it down. Write

2583
02:04:39,840 --> 02:04:41,880
Speaker 1: it down. Oh look, the producer should write this down.

2584
02:04:41,920 --> 02:04:44,920
Speaker 1: I'm just see what you want to know what it is,

2585
02:04:44,920 --> 02:04:46,400
Speaker 1: You can write it down. I'm gonna write it. Who

2586
02:04:46,520 --> 02:04:51,600
Speaker 1: is the most underrated potential contributor to the Bill's success

2587
02:04:51,680 --> 02:04:54,200
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. I would put Ken Dorsey on that

2588
02:04:54,280 --> 02:04:56,200
Speaker 1: list as a candidate. I'm not saying he's the guy,

2589
02:04:56,680 --> 02:04:59,040
Speaker 1: but we're not. We don't talk about him much. We

2590
02:04:59,120 --> 02:05:01,400
Speaker 1: don't talk about him, we don't see him much. Quite frankly,

2591
02:05:01,480 --> 02:05:02,960
Speaker 1: in this part of the building. He might be the

2592
02:05:03,040 --> 02:05:06,400
Speaker 1: most underrated guy who has the most to say about

2593
02:05:06,400 --> 02:05:09,600
Speaker 1: how twenty nineteen goes Ken Dorsey the quarterbacks coach? Right,

2594
02:05:09,600 --> 02:05:11,480
Speaker 1: we never talked about that. There are others. We'll come

2595
02:05:11,560 --> 02:05:13,600
Speaker 1: up with a few others. Other will be one of them.

2596
02:05:15,480 --> 02:05:17,960
Speaker 1: But I think, what that's a Twitter poll? That's how

2597
02:05:18,000 --> 02:05:21,200
Speaker 1: you do it. Steve, You're you're such a pro. Who's

2598
02:05:21,200 --> 02:05:25,880
Speaker 1: the most under undervalued? Underrated? Vigor? I'm the roster coach.

2599
02:05:27,000 --> 02:05:30,520
Speaker 1: Who's the most rated contributor? Who's the most underrated contributor

2600
02:05:30,840 --> 02:05:34,400
Speaker 1: to who? Josh Allen or the bills? The bills? You

2601
02:05:34,480 --> 02:05:36,320
Speaker 1: got two hundred names you can put on that, but

2602
02:05:36,360 --> 02:05:39,040
Speaker 1: you gotta pick somebody who nobody talks about. But we

2603
02:05:39,280 --> 02:05:40,840
Speaker 1: don't want to. We don't want to do make up

2604
02:05:40,880 --> 02:05:42,800
Speaker 1: the show while we're on the air. We don't want

2605
02:05:42,840 --> 02:05:44,920
Speaker 1: to make the side that you have. Everybody. We're gonna

2606
02:05:44,920 --> 02:05:47,080
Speaker 1: have a meeting tomorrow. We need we need more meetings,

2607
02:05:47,720 --> 02:05:49,360
Speaker 1: all right, NFL True or False brought to you by

2608
02:05:49,480 --> 02:05:51,960
Speaker 1: Yancey's Fancy New York's artist and Cheese. Are you ready?

2609
02:05:52,160 --> 02:05:56,880
Speaker 1: I'm Steve and I are debating hot topics. Haskins, Dwayne Haskins,

2610
02:05:57,040 --> 02:05:59,840
Speaker 1: high state quarterback, entering a perfect environment with the reds

2611
02:06:00,320 --> 02:06:02,720
Speaker 1: That's what the Pro Football Talk said, based on a

2612
02:06:02,800 --> 02:06:06,600
Speaker 1: Bruce Allen, the president of the Redskins, interview on ESPN.

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02:06:06,960 --> 02:06:10,120
Speaker 1: He said, uh, we um, We've got We've got a

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02:06:10,160 --> 02:06:12,880
Speaker 1: great system, a great environment to develop a quarterback. Our

2615
02:06:12,920 --> 02:06:16,360
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach, senior assistant all played quarterback in

2616
02:06:16,400 --> 02:06:18,520
Speaker 1: the NFL. Our head coach J Gruden was a quarterback.

2617
02:06:18,800 --> 02:06:20,880
Speaker 1: Doug Williams in the building. This is a quote, this

2618
02:06:21,000 --> 02:06:25,120
Speaker 1: is the money quote from from Bruce Allen. We think

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02:06:25,160 --> 02:06:28,080
Speaker 1: we have the perfect environment to nurture a young quarterback.

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02:06:29,120 --> 02:06:31,560
Speaker 1: True or false. You want to go first, I'll go first.

2621
02:06:32,000 --> 02:06:37,080
Speaker 1: That's patently false. I think Rayskins major in dysfunction. And

2622
02:06:37,240 --> 02:06:40,040
Speaker 1: Alex Smith is a better quarterback than Dwayne Haskins is

2623
02:06:40,040 --> 02:06:41,840
Speaker 1: he was a number one overall pick. He's coming back

2624
02:06:41,880 --> 02:06:43,920
Speaker 1: off a legans. You're what if Dwayne Haskin comes in

2625
02:06:44,200 --> 02:06:47,360
Speaker 1: and is just okay, and then Alex Smith comes back

2626
02:06:47,400 --> 02:06:49,600
Speaker 1: and is, you know, as good as ever. I mean,

2627
02:06:49,920 --> 02:06:52,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna bench this guy number one draft pick? What

2628
02:06:52,120 --> 02:06:53,840
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? I mean, I think they're set

2629
02:06:53,920 --> 02:06:55,720
Speaker 1: up just the opposite of that. I think it's a

2630
02:06:55,800 --> 02:06:59,240
Speaker 1: train wreck too. Ownership is a big problem there, Yeah, there,

2631
02:06:59,360 --> 02:07:02,800
Speaker 1: They've been historically dysfunctional, so I'm there. No they're not.

2632
02:07:03,120 --> 02:07:05,280
Speaker 1: I don't know that coach Gruden is perfect. No, they're

2633
02:07:05,360 --> 02:07:07,480
Speaker 1: not perfect. We both say false? All right? Part two?

2634
02:07:08,080 --> 02:07:11,240
Speaker 1: True or false? Joe Flacco leads the list of NFL

2635
02:07:11,400 --> 02:07:15,839
Speaker 1: veterans hurt hurt by the NFL draft Joe Flacco, quarterback

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02:07:15,920 --> 02:07:19,520
Speaker 1: from Denver. They signed Drew Lock. You heard, I think

2637
02:07:19,560 --> 02:07:22,120
Speaker 1: you heard a minute ago, Jim nag you talking about

2638
02:07:22,160 --> 02:07:25,200
Speaker 1: how much he likes the former Missouri quarterback. Did it

2639
02:07:25,320 --> 02:07:29,120
Speaker 1: hurt Joe Flacco? True or false? And I go first false.

2640
02:07:29,440 --> 02:07:31,839
Speaker 1: Flacco's a vet. I give him. He's not a great quarterback,

2641
02:07:31,880 --> 02:07:35,800
Speaker 1: but a pretty good, better than serviceable NFL veteran quarterback.

2642
02:07:36,120 --> 02:07:38,160
Speaker 1: And I don't think he probably gave a second thought

2643
02:07:38,480 --> 02:07:42,160
Speaker 1: to the Missouri quarterback being chosen by Denver in the

2644
02:07:42,200 --> 02:07:44,360
Speaker 1: second round. I really don't. I don't think he cares.

2645
02:07:44,680 --> 02:07:46,839
Speaker 1: I think he'll go out there and be Joe Flacco,

2646
02:07:47,240 --> 02:07:51,040
Speaker 1: you know, fling it to the Missouri quarterback being fling

2647
02:07:51,120 --> 02:07:53,360
Speaker 1: it through the air in the second round. I really don't.

2648
02:07:53,400 --> 02:07:56,120
Speaker 1: I don't think he cares. Yeah, I agree. I don't

2649
02:07:56,160 --> 02:08:00,960
Speaker 1: think there's There's no way Joe Flacco is even Listen.

2650
02:08:01,040 --> 02:08:02,880
Speaker 1: He was on the Baltimore Ravens last year that took

2651
02:08:02,880 --> 02:08:05,520
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the first round and the only reason

2652
02:08:05,720 --> 02:08:07,280
Speaker 1: he got off the field there is because he got

2653
02:08:07,400 --> 02:08:09,720
Speaker 1: hurt and they just decided to go with the first

2654
02:08:09,800 --> 02:08:12,520
Speaker 1: round guy and move away from Joe Flacco. Listen, Joe

2655
02:08:12,600 --> 02:08:15,920
Speaker 1: Flacco can sling it. He's not mobile. He's not an

2656
02:08:15,920 --> 02:08:18,200
Speaker 1: athlete that's gonna evade pressure or make a play with

2657
02:08:18,280 --> 02:08:20,760
Speaker 1: his legs or buy extra time to make the big

2658
02:08:20,840 --> 02:08:22,360
Speaker 1: play down the field. But I'll tell you what, when

2659
02:08:22,400 --> 02:08:25,320
Speaker 1: it comes time to throw it, Joe Flacco can throw

2660
02:08:25,320 --> 02:08:28,240
Speaker 1: it in a dixie cup. That guy can still do it. Now.

2661
02:08:28,360 --> 02:08:30,600
Speaker 1: He needs the right kind of offensive system around him,

2662
02:08:30,680 --> 02:08:32,360
Speaker 1: no question about it. But the guys won a Super

2663
02:08:32,400 --> 02:08:36,160
Speaker 1: Bowl and he is still good. This guy. The fact

2664
02:08:36,200 --> 02:08:37,560
Speaker 1: that they got a guy in the second round at

2665
02:08:37,640 --> 02:08:40,440
Speaker 1: quarterback in Denver, that's not even a blip on his radio.

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02:08:40,920 --> 02:08:42,360
Speaker 1: I don't think go bottom run now. There you go.

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Speaker 1: NFL two or Falls brought to you by Yancey's Fancy

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02:08:45,000 --> 02:08:46,880
Speaker 1: New York's artistan Chee, Steve and I coming back for

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02:08:47,000 --> 02:08:49,440
Speaker 1: more One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Okay, so what do we learn from today's

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02:09:05,120 --> 02:09:08,840
Speaker 1: show presented by Advanced Alarm providing Western New York's homes

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Speaker 1: and businesses with the fine US and security and home

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Speaker 1: theater and the preferred Alarm at home theater provider of

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02:09:14,200 --> 02:09:16,880
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. What do we learned? Devin Singletary joined

2675
02:09:16,960 --> 02:09:18,960
Speaker 1: US Bill's third round draft pick, the running back from

2676
02:09:18,960 --> 02:09:22,440
Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic five feet seven inches tall, and he talked

2677
02:09:22,440 --> 02:09:24,600
Speaker 1: about what that means as he's made it through his

2678
02:09:24,760 --> 02:09:31,360
Speaker 1: NFL career. You know, my whole life all got to

2679
02:09:31,400 --> 02:09:33,480
Speaker 1: stop me from being able to make plays, you know.

2680
02:09:34,360 --> 02:09:36,000
Speaker 1: And I'd give you a list of people. You know

2681
02:09:36,120 --> 02:09:38,320
Speaker 1: that's my eye. You know that that player and you

2682
02:09:38,400 --> 02:09:41,120
Speaker 1: know playing an NF round and he did well, so

2683
02:09:41,560 --> 02:09:44,040
Speaker 1: you know that was always waiting me. Yeah, pretty much.

2684
02:09:44,080 --> 02:09:45,840
Speaker 1: Aunt has never let us stop me just because of

2685
02:09:45,920 --> 02:09:48,640
Speaker 1: my eye, but for him, shouldn't stop him just because

2686
02:09:48,680 --> 02:09:50,240
Speaker 1: of his heighte we had somebody I can't I'm not

2687
02:09:50,320 --> 02:09:52,160
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna be able to find it now.

2688
02:09:52,240 --> 02:09:54,360
Speaker 1: But somebody tweeted in the list of a couple of Oh,

2689
02:09:54,400 --> 02:09:56,960
Speaker 1: here it is Thomas Latone talking about short running backs.

2690
02:09:57,320 --> 02:10:01,600
Speaker 1: Quick tweet Darren Sproles, Barry Sanders short. Yes they were

2691
02:10:01,880 --> 02:10:05,800
Speaker 1: Garin Sproules is extremely short. Yes he is all right.

2692
02:10:05,840 --> 02:10:08,440
Speaker 1: Also on what have we learned today? Among the other

2693
02:10:08,520 --> 02:10:11,200
Speaker 1: things we learned from today's show, we had on Eric Wood,

2694
02:10:11,240 --> 02:10:13,360
Speaker 1: former Bill's first round draft pick nine years in a

2695
02:10:13,400 --> 02:10:16,560
Speaker 1: Bill's uniform. He talked about the first round to pick

2696
02:10:16,760 --> 02:10:21,440
Speaker 1: Ed Oliver, who he said got his attention last year. Yeah.

2697
02:10:21,480 --> 02:10:23,360
Speaker 1: I've been a fan of Ed Oliver ever since his

2698
02:10:23,480 --> 02:10:26,080
Speaker 1: freshman year when he tore up the cart of my

2699
02:10:26,160 --> 02:10:28,160
Speaker 1: Loiville Cardinals. I guess maybe I wasn't as big of

2700
02:10:28,200 --> 02:10:29,960
Speaker 1: a fan of this then. I was a fan of

2701
02:10:30,040 --> 02:10:33,280
Speaker 1: his game, i should say, but he caught my early

2702
02:10:33,360 --> 02:10:35,640
Speaker 1: as an eighteen year old and a guy a follower

2703
02:10:35,720 --> 02:10:38,320
Speaker 1: from Afar And to me, if you're going to draft

2704
02:10:38,400 --> 02:10:41,080
Speaker 1: a d tackle in the first round, especially in the

2705
02:10:41,160 --> 02:10:44,360
Speaker 1: top ten, I want him to be an active player.

2706
02:10:44,560 --> 02:10:48,320
Speaker 1: You know, a guy like Ed Oliver who can move

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02:10:48,480 --> 02:10:51,520
Speaker 1: side to side. Laterally, a guy who can really move

2708
02:10:52,600 --> 02:10:55,560
Speaker 1: move around and not just plug a hole. Guys that

2709
02:10:55,720 --> 02:10:57,600
Speaker 1: have a little shake, a little logal but still after

2710
02:10:57,760 --> 02:11:00,280
Speaker 1: strength like ed Oliver does. Those guys are tough to

2711
02:11:00,360 --> 02:11:03,280
Speaker 1: deal with, and uh, you know, I'm really excited about

2712
02:11:03,320 --> 02:11:06,000
Speaker 1: getting him in there and uh and letting him make

2713
02:11:06,040 --> 02:11:08,840
Speaker 1: some plays up front for the build. Eric with a

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Speaker 1: lot of high expectations for ed Oliver are all over

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Speaker 1: the league, Steve, you hear it from everybody almost. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's an active, high motor guy that he seemed to

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Speaker 1: get the feeling he's going to be one of those

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Speaker 1: guys that's that's a disruptor. You know that you're always

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Speaker 1: seeing in the middle of something and every occasionally even

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Speaker 1: when he if he doesn't guess right, he's chasing a

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Speaker 1: play down behind the line of scrimmage. If he does

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Speaker 1: guess right, the play never gets off. I mean he

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Speaker 1: snaps it off from the beginning. It's one of those

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Speaker 1: guys that you're constantly the offense is constantly having to

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Speaker 1: deal with every snap and it's it's fun to think

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Speaker 1: about him being a game wrecker. We hope he is.

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Speaker 1: Here's I got a question for you. You've been around

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Speaker 1: the league for a long time. In this period now

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Speaker 1: in between the draft and when the rookies actually show,

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Speaker 1: and it's now what nine days away. Do you think

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff coordinators in particular Dayball Leslie Frasier are

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Speaker 1: up there thinking, I'm gonna use that Oliver. I can

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Speaker 1: do this with that Oliver. You don't just kind they

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Speaker 1: were doing that two months ago before they drap. But

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Speaker 1: it's got to really pick up. I would think this week,

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Speaker 1: now I got this this piece, how am I gonna

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Speaker 1: using How am I gonna maximize his value to us?

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Speaker 1: It's got to be a part of what they're doing now, right. Oh, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: not only a regular three technique, but also some things

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Speaker 1: where they can move him around. They probably got some

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Speaker 1: exotic stuff on their on their on their menu were

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Speaker 1: you know, he'll switch up, stand up with his hand

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Speaker 1: off the ground outside where they'll give the quarterback a

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Speaker 1: different look. When he's been wrecking the game from the

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Speaker 1: inside and all of a sudden he's not there and

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Speaker 1: they're looking for him. You got to make the offense

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Speaker 1: find him. We're you know, he's like, oh my, what's that? Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: give him that kind of thing. They'll do that as well.

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Speaker 1: All kinds of stuff come through and and these guys

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Speaker 1: it's fun. I think that's the fun part of the

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Speaker 1: coordinator and the staff on each side of the ball,

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Speaker 1: when they get to be creative and when they got

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Speaker 1: a guy who's an athlete like that, they'll get him

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Speaker 1: in here, work him out a little bit and see

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Speaker 1: even more what they can do right and how they

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Speaker 1: look in their particular packages. Hey, we want to want

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Speaker 1: to recap our Twitter poll which new Bill's position coach?

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Speaker 1: There are four of them, which one of which of

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Speaker 1: the new position coach has the biggest challenge leading up

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Speaker 1: to the start of the season between now and opening

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Speaker 1: day and with nine hundred and sixty four votes in

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Speaker 1: fifty three percent say Bobby Johnson, the offensive line coach.

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Speaker 1: That makes sense, got a lot of pieces to play with,

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Speaker 1: a lot of chess pieces to move around, and he's

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Speaker 1: got to get to work on that. Nineteen percent say

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Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey, the quarterback coach, has the biggest challenge leading

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Speaker 1: up to the start of the season. Different reason. He

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Speaker 1: kind of knows who his three pieces are going to

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Speaker 1: be and he's got one guy really to focus on

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Speaker 1: that of course. John Schallen seventeen percent say Chad Hall,

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Speaker 1: the new wide receivers coach, who probably is a good

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Speaker 1: idea who the top four are got at least one

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Speaker 1: more decision to make, and eleven percent say the Special

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Speaker 1: Team's coach, Heath Firewall. I like today's Twitter poll. I

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Speaker 1: blame the weather for no. Actually, nine hundred sixty four votes.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That's not bad. It's not bad for

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Speaker 1: a mediocre. Tune in tomorrow for Steve's Twitter poll. We're

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Speaker 1: back on the here tomorrow at Newton Production assistance George Blast,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Cartis, James Robled, our producer Jay Harris. We'll see

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow noon to three. Right here, One Bill's Live,

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