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Speaker 1: do time. Hello there, welcome. It is Wednesday afternoon at

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Speaker 1: or two. Hello there, Welcome to the show. John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Bills Special Teams as Wall of Famer, Now

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Speaker 1: the NFL on CBS here to talk about the Bills

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Speaker 1: and the Tennessee Titans coming up this Sunday. Here, the

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Speaker 1: Bills are back home here, finally back home after two

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Speaker 1: straight down the road. Good to have you with us

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Speaker 1: in the audience today. Welcome to the show. The Bills

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Speaker 1: at practice getting started out there right now. Our man

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown. We're gonna go to him in a moment

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Speaker 1: or two years the Bills Insider from Buffalo Bills dot Com.

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Speaker 1: But a good show beyond Chris. Yeah, Greg Bell former

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Speaker 1: Team at of Year running back Greg Bell, farmer first

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Speaker 1: great player and was part of that Mega three team

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Speaker 1: Plus we'll hear from Josh Allen, plus we hope to

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Speaker 1: work on the game plan for the Tennessee Titans. Joining

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Speaker 1: how are you doing today? Doing okay? Got some overcast

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Speaker 1: I acknowledge I didn't I didn't play well last Sunday,

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Speaker 1: field at practice with us. He didn't like my first

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Speaker 1: question there. He didn't agree with my first question by Josh. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying this is an important week of practice

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Speaker 1: for Josh. They're all important. But I think people, teammates,

432
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Speaker 1: coaches are gonna be looking at him and saying, are

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Speaker 1: you ready? Are you ready to plug back in because

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Speaker 1: we need you. That's what I'm saying. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: he's under pressure, but he's under a little pressure. He's

436
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Speaker 1: got to play better than he did last week. Well,

437
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Speaker 1: the pressure. Here's the thing with most of these players,

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Speaker 1: and Josh Allen is no different. The pressure is self inflicted.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the player puts the pressure on himself. He's

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Speaker 1: got expectations for himself. He wants to and he wants

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Speaker 1: to come through for his teammates. It's not about him.

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Speaker 1: He wants to do it because that's why he's here.

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Speaker 1: And I think you're right, Murph, this isn't and there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be other tough weeks too, other big weeks where

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Speaker 1: he's got to step in to the huddle and say, listen,

446
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Speaker 1: let's go. I gotta get better. I know that, but

447
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 1: you guys gotta get better too. You guys got to

448
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Speaker 1: play perfect because I'm not gonna be. If we're gonna

449
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Speaker 1: do this together, you got to carry me for a while.

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Speaker 1: Let's go. And he's got to step in and start

451
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Speaker 1: thinking his way through what this offense needs and what

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Speaker 1: his team needs for him to do. You're right, Murph,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you. I saw where you were coming

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Speaker 1: from with that. Josh Allen has a lot to do this.

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Speaker 1: He's got a lot to do. He's got a lot

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Speaker 1: of growing to do. He's got a lot to learn.

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Speaker 1: He's got to play well. He's got to use his

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Speaker 1: skills as best he can. But the thing about it

459
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Speaker 1: is he also has to be the guy this team

460
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Speaker 1: rally's around. He's got to be a guy that steps

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Speaker 1: in the huddle and those guys look at him saying,

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Speaker 1: all right, this guy, we're gonna win with him. You know,

463
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Speaker 1: he's got to convince him of that despite how he plays.

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Speaker 1: He's got to get in the huddle and lead these

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Speaker 1: guys and get him to rally around him. He's not

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Speaker 1: going anywhere and the players know it, so they're gonna

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Speaker 1: get They're gonna do everything they can to get the

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Speaker 1: motivation together to back him up. I went back and

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Speaker 1: listen to that. You remember the interview with parcels May

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Speaker 1: and I went back and listening to today he said,

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Speaker 1: and the quote was from Parcels and you talk to

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Speaker 1: us about his meeting with Sam Darnold and with Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen in the spring. Parselves said, you don't really found

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Speaker 1: out what you're gonna do in this business until you

475
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Speaker 1: just got beat thirty five to ten. And you the

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Speaker 1: quarterback was while you lost. He said, maybe the fans

477
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Speaker 1: are bruing you, the coach. You're starting to look at

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Speaker 1: your sideways. Now it's Wednesday. This is Parcels talking. Now

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Speaker 1: it's Wednesday. You gotta get in the huddle. You have

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Speaker 1: to convince everybody that you can lead the team. You

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Speaker 1: got to convince even peripheral people that means like us,

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Speaker 1: that you can lead the team. You don't really, this

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Speaker 1: is Parcel's talking. You really don't find out whether you're

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Speaker 1: going to be an NFL quarterback until that happens to you.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of where Josh Allen is. I think that

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Speaker 1: happened to him. He played a poor game Sunday in

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Speaker 1: Green Bay. Wasn't all just him, but he played poorly.

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Speaker 1: And now people are gonna look at him this week, today, Tomorrow, Friday,

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Speaker 1: right into Sunday and say what do you got? Are

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Speaker 1: you coming back? Are you gonna be okay to play?

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Speaker 1: I think you will. As Brownie pointed out, I think

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Speaker 1: he's got the right stuff, the right temperament to handle that. Well.

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Speaker 1: He's demonstrated that already. But I'm not talking about This

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Speaker 1: isn't a career crossroads for Josh Allen, but it is

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Speaker 1: an important week. I think. See how he bounces best

496
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Speaker 1: and they got shut out. Yeah, and that you can

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Speaker 1: point the finger right at the guy pulling the trigger

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Speaker 1: for the offense, the quarterback. You can't make a couple

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Speaker 1: of first downs and get a field goal. They struggled offensively,

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. And Josh Allen's gonna be

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Speaker 1: at the focal point of all the discussion for the

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Speaker 1: foreseeable future, through this year, probably in the next year,

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Speaker 1: through the next offseason everywhere, and people like you and me, Murph,

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Speaker 1: people like Chris brown all the people that are that

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Speaker 1: chime in on Twitter or Twitter questions, and all the

506
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Speaker 1: people who listen to us and watch the team play,

507
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Speaker 1: they're all focused on whether they can see and everybody's

508
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Speaker 1: looking for something. There's ten million eyes on him, and

509
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Speaker 1: every set eyes will see something different. They want to

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Speaker 1: see growth. They want to see him get better in

511
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Speaker 1: small ways, in big ways. They want to see the

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Speaker 1: talent that caused the Bills to draft him number one.

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Speaker 1: They want to see him get better in ways that

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Speaker 1: they didn't anticipate. All of that, and they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: focused on him and he's gonna feel it. He's gonna

516
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Speaker 1: feel it, but he's still got to, like you said, Murph,

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Speaker 1: he's got to stick his head back in the huddle,

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Speaker 1: look those guys in the eyes, call that play and

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Speaker 1: give them faith that he's gonna run it. Hey, we're

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Speaker 1: talking a lot today about the Bills obvious seeing about

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Speaker 1: where they are at four games into the schedule. Do

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Speaker 1: you believe maybe the toughest part of the schedule is

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Speaker 1: behind the Buffalo Bills. That's our Twitter question today. The

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Speaker 1: toughest part is the toughest part of the Bills schedule

525
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Speaker 1: behind them right now. Let us know what you think.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call the full nines open eight oh

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Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. Look the Bills, um have played

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Speaker 1: three of the first four games on the road, all right.

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Speaker 1: The two of the first four games have been up

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Speaker 1: against quarterbacks on their way to the Hall of Fame. UM.

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Speaker 1: The one lost percentage from the Bills first four opponents

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Speaker 1: this year so far is five to seventy. Now, what's left?

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Speaker 1: Twelve games, three quarters of the season, arguably only two

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Speaker 1: games against a Hall of famer. You would think that

536
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Speaker 1: would be Tom Brady, Right, is there a Hall of

537
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Speaker 1: Famer somewhere else? Blake Blake Bortles for Jacksonville. No Trubisky,

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Speaker 1: little early, Sam darn Luck, Andrew Luck. Maybe maybe Sam

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Speaker 1: the guy in Detroit, Matthew Stafford. Yeah, I mean no,

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Speaker 1: They've they've played some good quarterbacks and they don't see

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks lay Aaron Rodgers, Joe Flacco, Yeah, Philip Rivers, Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 1: So what do you think the Bills? As we said that,

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Speaker 1: the one lost percentage for their first four opponents this

544
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Speaker 1: year is about five to seventy. The twelve remaining, it's

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Speaker 1: a five hundred record, right, they play some good teams

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Speaker 1: and some bad teams, So I believe on paper anyway,

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Speaker 1: the schedules should be more manageable for the Bills moving forward. Now, look,

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Speaker 1: I know, and I'm the one who says that it

549
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Speaker 1: is a week to week league and the Detroit Lions

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Speaker 1: game on December sixteenth. Who knows where the Bills will

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Speaker 1: be on December sixteenth or what the Lions might look

552
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Speaker 1: like December sixteenth. But right now, as you look at it,

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Speaker 1: I would argue, I wouldn't you go to the wall

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Speaker 1: for this, but I would argue that the toughest part

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Speaker 1: of the Bill schedule is behind them. What do you

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Speaker 1: think of that, Steve? What do you think? We were

557
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Speaker 1: talking about it all in the off season when the

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Speaker 1: schedule came out, and think why that first month of

559
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Speaker 1: the season is going to be a rough you know,

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Speaker 1: going to Baltimore to play the Baltimore Ravens and Joe

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Speaker 1: Flacco coming home and then playing Philip Rivers and the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: which you thought, maybe give you a week because the

563
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Speaker 1: Chargers are notoriously slow starters, but still Philip Rivers was

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Speaker 1: going to give you a game, and having them at

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Speaker 1: home on the East coast time zone would give you

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Speaker 1: a break. No, no dice, Philip Rivers carved him up.

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Speaker 1: Then they go to Minnesota. You think Minnesota is one

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Speaker 1: of those teams that's actually thinking they're going to be

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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, and you go in there and

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Speaker 1: clean their clock. Then you got to go to Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: So you've got Kirk Cousins, Aaron Rodgers, Philip Rivers, Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 1: You look at the rest of the schedule, only Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady is in that conversation, probably above that conversation, but

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Speaker 1: only Tom Brady's in there. You got you know, Tannehill, Trobiski, Mariota,

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Speaker 1: you know guys that may have great careers, but you

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Speaker 1: don't know that much about it. So yeah, if you're

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Speaker 1: talking about quarterbacks and the guys you're playing on that

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Speaker 1: side of the ball, no doubt about it. The first

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Speaker 1: four games were the toughest of this and I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about a home and road right three, the first four

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Speaker 1: on the road, the seven of the final twelve at home.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to home and road. It makes a difference, too.

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Speaker 1: So I'm prepared to make that argument, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: there are others prepared to argue the other way, and

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Speaker 1: that's why you need to give us a call. Eight

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Speaker 1: three fifty toll free one eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty is the toughest part of the Buffaloville schedule.

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Speaker 1: Behind them. You can respond on Twitter as well. We're

589
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Speaker 1: gonna take a break here when we come back. Former

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Speaker 1: first round draft pick of the Bills, Greg Bell note

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Speaker 1: tre Damer, who played here from nineteen eighty four through

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Speaker 1: a portion of the nineteen eighty seven season. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: join us here in studio. He's a former teammate to

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Speaker 1: Steve's Greg Bell. When we come back, John Murphy's Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive and this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back John Murphy, Steve Tasker, and

597
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: Steve is a little reunion here with a former teammate

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Speaker 1: we are happy to have on set with us. Right now,

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Speaker 1: we visit back to Buffalo for former Bills running back

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Speaker 1: Greg Bell, first round draft pick for the Bills in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four. Welcome Greg. What brings you back to

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Speaker 1: Buffalo here? Well, I mean we got the alumni weekend

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Speaker 1: this weekend. Of course, I've been coming back probably about

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Speaker 1: five years for that, and what the heck? I said,

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Speaker 1: You come this close to Toronto, you might as well

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Speaker 1: go spend a couple of days in Toronto on your own.

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Speaker 1: So I'm headed up to Toronto and spent a couple

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Speaker 1: of days of fun. See some of my classmates from

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Speaker 1: NDE who are hockey players, a lot of hockey players.

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Speaker 1: Good friend of mine, Adam Parson, he's right downtown. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have some fun for a couple of days,

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Speaker 1: and I'll be back for the alumni. You are based

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Speaker 1: in southern California. I've been, you know. I retired in

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Speaker 1: ninety three, spent ninety four ninety six with Roger and

615
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Speaker 1: those guys over in Europe with the NFL euro and

616
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Speaker 1: worked in the league office till ninety seven, and then

617
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Speaker 1: went back home and did wealth management for a little bit,

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Speaker 1: branched out on my own. Probably in nineteen eighty nine.

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Speaker 1: I started a foundation called Athletes for Life. Thirty years.

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Speaker 1: That foundation will be in existence this coming September, and

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Speaker 1: we've probably sent about eighteen kids to the league. We

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Speaker 1: got ninety one percent high school going on to college,

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Speaker 1: graduation going on. It's a mentoring program out in southern California.

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Speaker 1: Athletes for life. And we've been doing that now, Like

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Speaker 1: I said, almost thirty years, just helping kids. Man spent

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Speaker 1: my passing. Yeah, what did you think when you drove

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Speaker 1: up to the coming back? Campus? Has kind of changed here,

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Speaker 1: you know what. But you know, when you're traveling around

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Speaker 1: and you work with so many high school kids, you

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Speaker 1: see the changes of colleges. I don't know how much

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Speaker 1: Northwestern has changed. You know, they just got brains. He

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Speaker 1: started in the Northwestern Notre Dame thing right away. But

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Speaker 1: you know, you're right when you see the colleges being

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Speaker 1: the way they are building, you can't help the see,

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Speaker 1: you know. I remember it probably was the ninety I

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Speaker 1: want to say, like ninety eight when the forty nine

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Speaker 1: ers change their facility and you saw the future coming in.

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Speaker 1: And now you come here, now you see what you

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Speaker 1: have now. It's just amazing. And you know, I'm happy

640
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Speaker 1: to say we were a part of it. Your first

641
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: round draft pick nineteen eighty four to the Buffalo Bills.

642
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: A very difficult year, but you provided for many Bills

643
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: fans me included the one highlight of the eighty four campaign.

644
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: It was late in the season. I don't think you

645
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: didn't ever win yet, right, No, it was actually early

646
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: in the season. I mean when you think about it,

647
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: if you go, I think we were like, oh when

648
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: six probably ohen seven. These are the back to back

649
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: two and fourteen yea two struggling true, And uh it

650
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: was I'm looking up here. It was November drafting. The

651
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: next year they drafted Bruce Bruce. Yeah, so we had

652
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: the big run against the Cowboys. Yeah, let's talk about that.

653
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are here, and the Cowboys are really America's team.

654
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: The Bills are heavy underdogs, kind of like there were

655
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago in Minnesota. First play from

656
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: scrimmage from the fifteen yard line and you you break it,

657
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: broke it. It is funny because you know, me and

658
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: Dorset become friends over the past two summers leading into

659
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: that because of Ron Springs and we used to do

660
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: Jack Lambert's camp. That's where Me, Kelly, all of us

661
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: where we used to That's where we've met a lot

662
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: of times. And uh, Dorset used to argue with me,

663
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: and I told him, I's like, you know, I run

664
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: about a four to three eight forty. He's looking at

665
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: me and I'm two fifteen. He goes no way in hell,

666
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: no way, and I go, okay, well, and then he

667
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: heard what the Bills signed me for, so that made

668
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: him upset, you know, like I'm better this guy. He'd

669
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: make it in the longest short After that game, he

670
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: co walked up to me says, Okay, you probably can't

671
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: run a ten to five. I did so like ten

672
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: years in the league. Or was that your signature play?

673
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: Do you think that people still talk about that, you

674
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: know what, Believe it or not. No, okay, the signature

675
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: played that most people remember, and probably the only reason

676
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: they remember is because back in I want to say

677
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: it was eighty eight, eighty seven, eighty eight the Philadelphi

678
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: eas who proposed to be the number one defense and

679
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: still to this day they rank them is the best

680
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: defense of all time. And uh, you know I was

681
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: at the Rams at that time and we torched them,

682
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: not only in the air, but you know, the last

683
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: play of that game was like a sex sixty five

684
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: yarder that I broke off to seal the game. And

685
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: I actually fumbled as I was being attackled. It's freezing cold,

686
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: and the ball fell up in front of me and

687
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: I snatched it out of the air and pulled it

688
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: back in and the next next play I ran a touchdown,

689
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: and it shut everybody down because that that team had

690
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: died many teams all year long. That's, you know, when

691
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: I'm in California, that's, of course what most people talk

692
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: about here. Of course that play is the one. Yeah,

693
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: it's sixteen touchdowns that year, right, let the league sixteen

694
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: touchdown back to back. Yeah. Yeah. So what happened was

695
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: then you they make the head coaching change, which after

696
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: two and fourteen and two and fourteen and one to nine,

697
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: you figured they probably would try to do that. You

698
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: were part of the biggest trade, not maybe maybe the

699
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: Dallas trade for Herschel with I got eleven guys, but

700
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: they were the most successful trade. Three team trade between

701
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, LA Rams and the Indianapolis Colts. Carnie

702
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: Bennett came here, Eric Dickerson went to Coats to the Colts,

703
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: and then the Colts the Rams got you and another

704
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: running back I don't remember his name from Indianapolis, Yeah,

705
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: Owen Gill. Here we go. Then they got two first

706
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: round picks, one from the Bills, one from the Colts.

707
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: With them, they got a second round pick and they

708
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: got another first. They got three first and three seconds

709
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: and two players the Rams got for Eric Dickerson going

710
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: to the Colts and those players ye remember, you know,

711
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: Flipper Anderson to me, yeah, Clipper was a second round here.

712
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 1: That's the crazy part about it. You don't talk about

713
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: Darrel Henlly being one, right, Okay, gash and Green was one. Uh.

714
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 1: You know, people put so much emphasis on, you know,

715
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: getting a kid out of college and that number one pick.

716
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: Sometimes it doesn't matter, you know, it's got to be

717
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 1: the right guy. And they they had a lot of

718
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: picks um And by the time I left the Rams

719
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,240
Speaker 1: and went to the Raiders, they went two and fourteen

720
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: the next year, and they still had all those picks,

721
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: and they had spent all those picks. But you know,

722
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: that's just one one observation of not picking right Halloween,

723
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: I think, right, yeah, it was the Halloween trade. It

724
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: was after just h it was after the strike and everything. Probably,

725
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,439
Speaker 1: you know, I can't remember. I got blamed for having

726
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: a dog that I sicked on somebody. I didn't even

727
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: own a dog, but the dog was standing next to me.

728
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: I don't know whose dog it was, but it was

729
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: standing behind me. But I could see it standing next

730
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: to me. It looked because I went to Dallas and

731
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,959
Speaker 1: they actually said that, I go. Guy, I never owned

732
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: a dog when I was in Buffalo. I don't know

733
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: how you got that. I said. Now, I was very

734
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: pro union, and so I was, you know, advocating for

735
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: us to hold out. And you know, people tend to forget.

736
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say about that team that

737
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: went in eighty four. We had camaraderie, we had solidarity,

738
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: and we were the last team to go back in.

739
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: We actually didn't come back in that Sunday. We lost

740
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: that with the scab games. And you know I was

741
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: probably two vocal telling guys to sit still. You know

742
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: Bill was there. It was and Bill was there. You know.

743
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: The good thing about uh, you know you think about

744
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: the times there and all that went. Of course, Uh

745
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 1: it was it was never personal. You know, I never

746
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: took anything personally. I knew it was business. I was

747
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: telling Jeremy, you know that when I retired, the guy

748
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: who I hit a lot of battles, John Shaw, was

749
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: the one who recommended me to Roger Goodell, the hired

750
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: to come work for the NFL euro So it's you know,

751
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: they all understood you know you're gonna get your contract.

752
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: I tapped my hat to Leveon Bell right now, because

753
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 1: he's doing what it's gonna do to help a lot

754
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: more than himself. It's gonna help players to come after

755
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: that as well. Ye had seven year career and had

756
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 1: I got eight years of pay, so you got right,

757
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: had really and other years you went in. He had

758
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 1: a couple of good years, really good years here in Buffalo,

759
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: you said. Then you went and had a couple of

760
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: really good years with the Rams as well. And tell

761
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 1: us a little bit about when he went to the

762
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: Raiders at the end the INNR career. You know what,

763
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: it's kind of funny because it kind of talks to, uh,

764
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: the negative side of al Davis as well as the

765
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: positive side. He valued veteran leadership, but at the same

766
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: time he stocked power. So when I got there, me,

767
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: Marcus and Bo were in the backfield the first year,

768
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 1: next year was me, Marcus and Roger Craig, and and

769
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: it was you know, I was pretty much done with

770
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 1: it at that point. And then the next year he

771
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: hit Roger Craig, Marcus and Eric Dickerson. What was the

772
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: purpose of stockpiling guys? It was. It was really bad.

773
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: I mean they put me on injury reserve and I

774
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: wouldn't even hurt. And then the year I was hurt,

775
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: they didn't want to put me on injury reserve and

776
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: they had to pay for that year anyway. So you know,

777
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: it's a business and you leave it as it is.

778
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: It's a business. It's a business, and I'm thankful that

779
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: the Lord gave me the talent to play in UH

780
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: and I love it to see where it's gone. Three

781
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: and a half years here in Buffalo. We were talking

782
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: to me before you came out of the era about

783
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: you had a close relationship with the guy I worked with,

784
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: Rick Azar right, the former A real good guy. You know.

785
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,760
Speaker 1: I was going to mention another day too, Bud Tallman

786
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: and I love but I can you know, I see

787
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 1: Bud for years afterwards. He left here and he went

788
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: to Penn State, right, so I got a chance to

789
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 1: continue to see him. But Rick I kind of lost touch.

790
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: But Rick gave me probably the greatest gift I think

791
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: you could probably ever get. I remember one day we

792
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: were sitting in there and he asked me, said, kid,

793
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 1: you know one of the things that do you think

794
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 1: this career is gonna be able to give you. I said, Man,

795
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: I'd love to meet Muhammad Ali. So then that year

796
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: we had to Blockbuster in Buffalo and I'm interviewing for

797
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 1: Rick and the guys tapping me on the back shoulder

798
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: like this, and I turned around and I'm like, man,

799
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 1: don't you see that? That that that that introduction here

800
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: in Buffalo led to a lifetime of friendship with Ali.

801
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: So when I went be funny enough, when I left here,

802
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: Eric Dickinson was scheduled to be the co starter of

803
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 1: the La Marathon. So they were like, what the heck,

804
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: just let Greg do the co starter and Ali was

805
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: co starting with me. Wow. So I'd see as soon

806
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: as they see he yells over, hey, Greg, come here,

807
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: Come And anytime I see him, it was like he

808
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: remembered me, even before his funeral, because I mean he

809
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time in La. I saw him.

810
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: They had him meant that they were giving him an award.

811
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 1: I think it was one of the Pump Foundation awards

812
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 1: that they give out. And I saw him, and I

813
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: saw his wife and she says, Greg, you know, you're

814
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: welcome anytime. You know. It's just that's because that one

815
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 1: introduction that Rick gave me, and I drove from downtown Buffalo.

816
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: There is no lie. I left downtown Buffalo. I raced

817
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: all the way back to Easter Roor, which you know

818
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: is about a fifty minute drive. I drove a fast

819
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: for scar if you remember that. So I wasn't gonna

820
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: say and so I screamed, and I went back there

821
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: just so I could pick up the phone to call

822
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: my dad and say, Dad, you're not gonna believe I

823
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: just met. Yeah, and it's still been one of the

824
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: lifetime dreams. And Rick made that all possible. Man. Hey, Greg,

825
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on and welcome back to Buffalo. You're

826
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: gonna have a good weekend in Toronto's good to see him.

827
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna enjoy the whole week man. Good good for you.

828
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: All right, Greg Bell, former Bill's first round draft pick,

829
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: joining us here in studio. Steve and I'm back with

830
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 1: mart In a moment. One does line from One Bills

831
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back, one does live

832
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Seve Tasker coming here from our one Buffalo studio.

833
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: The Bills in practice right now. I'm going to talk

834
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: to Arn Johnson after practice today. We believe fourth round

835
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: pick doing a good job on the defensive backfield. Durman

836
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: Thomas said, anybody to join us. It's been kind of

837
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: an alumni week, Steve look at Thurman. I sent a

838
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: trend Ron mcdold yesterday, Fred Jackson, Mark Council will join us.

839
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 1: Fred Wood was on yesterday. Eric Wood yesterday? How about this?

840
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: Did you see who? Our producer Jahiris says book for

841
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,280
Speaker 1: tomorrow show. Oh, I was going to call in sick tomorrow,

842
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to now Kurt Warner tomorrow at

843
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: the twelve thirty. There's only a couple of guys that

844
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: I consider myself really fans of in the game. You

845
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: were one, of course. Nice Larry Fitzgerald, huge fan. Love

846
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald and Kurt Warner. I love Kurt Warner and

847
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: I met him a couple of times. Me Kurt Warner,

848
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald, Yeah, wow, nice. Only you know I'm just

849
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: a huge fan. I love everything about Kurt Warner. Loved

850
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: the way he played, loved his backstory, loved the way

851
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 1: he conducts himself on television. Now he's going to be

852
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: on the show with the Storm. I've worked with him

853
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 1: a handful of times in broadcasting. He's, Uh, I do

854
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: some sideline work for Westwood One. He does some of

855
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: the Monday night stuff, Sunday night games on Westwood one

856
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: National Radio, And uh, he is. He's a great guy,

857
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: great guy once a while who bring one of his

858
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: kids on the on the road with him and uh,

859
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: you know, we'll hang out in the booth with him.

860
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: But uh, he's great. Yeah, he's he is what he

861
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,359
Speaker 1: seems to be. He's just a great guy and had

862
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: a phenomenal career. Yeah, he's what it really is. It

863
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 1: really is a storybook career that he had. Yeah, the

864
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: way it began to where he had the bumpy roads

865
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: he had to playing for the Iowa Barnstormers stacking groceries

866
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: and then ends up as a backup on the Rams.

867
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: He kind of makes it. Trent Green goes down and

868
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Kurt Warner is the MVP of

869
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: the league and wins the Super Bowl and wins, wins,

870
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 1: ends up winning what three MVPs. I don't know. He's

871
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 1: like three time MVP and he went to he won

872
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: two Super Bowls and then took the Cardinals, the Cardinals

873
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. He was amazing man. Can't wait

874
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: tomorrow one or tomorrow one, get ready for that. Our

875
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: twitter pull. Our Twitter question today deals with the Bill's schedule.

876
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: Four games in twelve games left? Is the toughest part

877
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,240
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo bill schedule behind them? Is that arguable?

878
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: I think it is, but I'm willing to listen to

879
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: our arguments against that or for it eight three fifty

880
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: and toll free one eight eight fifty two five fifty.

881
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 1: You got something on the tweet sheet there, Buddy Well

882
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: from Tiffany Daniels. The schedule makers did us no favors

883
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: with Brady on the schedule twice plus the rest of

884
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,320
Speaker 1: the division games still there comes Yeah, I mean that

885
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:40,320
Speaker 1: the schedule makers didn't have that to do, but the

886
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: schedule gets more challenging moving forward. The Bears look solid,

887
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,479
Speaker 1: the Jags are for real having to wrap my mind

888
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: around a rebuild for this year. And the Bears and

889
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: Jags you're talking about because of their defense is no question.

890
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: Their offenses don't scare me. Although Trubisky had an enormous game,

891
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: probably his best game as a pro, this last week,

892
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 1: but it's a week to week league, Murph sure is

893
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: week to weekly and sipping the kool aid kind of

894
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: gets to that here on another one from the tweet

895
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: sheet writing. Fans in their opinions, comments and highs and

896
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: lows are as week to week as the NFL itself.

897
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: That's right, fans are on the roller coaster. And then

898
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: what's he say? Then he says, relax. Last year he

899
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: had a one in four stretch and finished with nine

900
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 1: win seven losses. If we can learn from these games

901
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: and improve, the rest of the schedule is more favorable.

902
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: The key is getting better moving forward. Boom, give me

903
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: a sip of that kool aid. Sip in the kool aid.

904
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Look, you gotta learn from these losses.

905
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: You gotta you know, the growth mindset that Sean McDermott

906
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: talks about. Yes, that means something. But if you learn

907
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: and continue to improve, things kind of open up for you.

908
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 1: And I do think they're going to be at home

909
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 1: more than they are away for the remaining part of

910
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: the schedule and they don't face the killer quarterbacks the

911
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 1: rest of the way other than Brady. Yeah. And here's

912
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 1: another one. And there's an interesting thing too, because you

913
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: tend to put, like the first four games like we're

914
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: talking about first four games is one part of the

915
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: season and the rest of him and the other part

916
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,439
Speaker 1: we're talking about it. But this was from Ben Zott. Yeah,

917
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 1: it does get better, but the stretch of the Patriots,

918
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: the Bears, the Jets and the Jaguars is no joke

919
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: as well. So that's four games right there that you

920
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: got to kind of wade through that may at season's

921
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: end end up being against a tougher group of opponents

922
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: than the Packers, Chargers, Vikings and Ravens at the first part.

923
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: So there is there's no schule I'm saying that getting easier. Listen,

924
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 1: we've all listened, all of us. No, I mean this

925
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: is there's no there's no bye week unless you don't

926
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 1: have a game these teams come, by the way, there

927
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:35,919
Speaker 1: is a bye week in that stretch you talked about.

928
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: Here's a call from dion Ian Rochester. Go ahead, Dan,

929
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Hellodon, Hey, how you doing. Okay?

930
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: Go ahead, man, fire the question right about the schedule, right, Yeah, yeah,

931
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: I think it. I think it does get a little

932
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: tougher because you know, with the rookie quarterback and young

933
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: offensive players, new lineman, whether they're veteran or rookie is

934
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: going to be tough moving ahead with the defensive coordinators

935
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: being more experienced and what to look for. It's just

936
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 1: going to be a tough stretch. But I believe if

937
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: the coaching staff and the players they work together, I

938
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: think they can overcome this. This tough stretch they get

939
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: they just went through. In the next four games, Yeah,

940
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: we'll see. I mean they acknowledge I think where they've

941
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: been and what they're looking at. In fact, Sean McDermot

942
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: talked about it earlier today when he when he met

943
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,399
Speaker 1: with the media about you know, what's lies they had

944
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: and this is where I think people get kind of

945
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: people are kind of caught up in what's he talking about, growth, mindset, culture,

946
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: where they go and I think he kind of has

947
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 1: explained that a little bit where he's at. Sean McDermot

948
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: today talked about this tough stretch that the Bills have been,

949
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: winning one of their first four games. He believes that

950
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: it's a test of their culture that he's tried to instill.

951
00:45:55,280 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: Here's what he had to say about that this morning. Yeah,

952
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 1: I mean we're trying to develop a culture here, the

953
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: culture to meet Trump's strategy and uh, that's that's what

954
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: I believe in wholeheartedly. And it doesn't mean we have

955
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: choir boys. It means we've got guys that love football

956
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: and do the things the right way for the most part.

957
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand that we're trying to build something

958
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: that does take time, but overall, guy's got to be

959
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: committed to the process, and that means staying mentally tough

960
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: in moments like this where we start a season one

961
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: and three and hasn't always been easy. Right, But I've

962
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: been through this before. I can tell him that I'm

963
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: looking at Vic right here's smiling at me. He's been

964
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,800
Speaker 1: through it before. Those of us that have been around

965
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: this league long enough have been through it before. And

966
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: and if you do things the right way, and you

967
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: continue to build it the right way for long term success,

968
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 1: that you make the right decisions, those things will take

969
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: care of themselves. Interesting comment I thought from coach McDermott

970
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: a couple of things. Um, when he says the culture

971
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: Trump's strategy, he's saying that building the culture is more

972
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:10,399
Speaker 1: important than than the xes and os. I'm never gonna

973
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 1: coach say that. Admit that. I don't know what's an admission,

974
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: but I'm intrigued by that. I got to dig into

975
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,879
Speaker 1: the next time I talked to Sean a couple of days.

976
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: I'm going to dig into that a little bit. I

977
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: think for a guy like Sean and I don't know

978
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: this to be true, You're right, I noticed that too.

979
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: That kind of made me think, Wow, that's that's a

980
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: big statement. Yeah. I think one of the things he

981
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: takes for granted, like most most coaches do, is the

982
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: xs and o's are the easy part. They present themselves.

983
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: There's eleven guys on the side, and everything that is

984
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: possible to do with them has been done at some

985
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: point during the during the course of history. It's all

986
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 1: been you know you all you gotta do is figure

987
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: out what the other team's doing and anticipate and put

988
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: your exes and o's in. You're got to plug them in.

989
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: The difference is the guys you've got running them and

990
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: how they play him and how they execute them. Um,

991
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: the exes and os are are you know. And it's

992
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: like I've said a couple of times this week, actually

993
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,280
Speaker 1: there's no magic bullet to making to curing the Bill's offense.

994
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:11,720
Speaker 1: There's no magic formation, there's no magic philosophy like running

995
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: shoot or the k gun, or going heavy and running

996
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: the ball better, or passing the ball better. There's no

997
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 1: magic bullet to winning games in the NFL because the

998
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: other teams on scholarship too. If you do this and

999
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: they know you're gonna do it, they've got something that

1000
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: will combat it. And that's the kryptonite for your little

1001
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: magic bullet. There is no There is no magic bullet, right,

1002
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: So the x's nos for a guy like Sean McDermott,

1003
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 1: and he takes that for granted. You're gonna have your

1004
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: strategies and you're gonna be able to come up with

1005
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: a scheme and a plan that combats everything. The thing

1006
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: that is the difference, And I'll go back. This brings

1007
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: me back to what Marv Levy had told us once

1008
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: in a team meeting. Say, listen, the difference between the

1009
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: best teams in the National Football League and the worst

1010
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: teams in the National Football League is two scent of

1011
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: the total. The difference between the best team and the

1012
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: worst team is only two percent, and all the other

1013
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 1: thirty teams are in between that two percent. He goes,

1014
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: but that two percent is one hundred percent of the

1015
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: difference you got to get all of it, and it

1016
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: comes down to culture, It comes down to chemistry, It

1017
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: comes down to having the right guys committed to the

1018
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: right things all through the week to prepare through the week,

1019
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: to get ready to play. That two percent of the

1020
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: difference between the great teams and the bad teams. You

1021
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: have to you have to gain all of it, and

1022
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: it takes a lot of people working hard to do

1023
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: it because it's it is a little bit esoteric, is

1024
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: a little bit like a vapor. It's not tangible. The

1025
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: excess and those you can see on a paper, you

1026
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 1: can write him down. But chemistry and culture, you know,

1027
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: that's you know, that speaks to like the human spirit

1028
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:52,799
Speaker 1: about what's different about one guy than another. If they're

1029
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: both talented, why is one guy hall of famer and

1030
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 1: the other guy he's out of the league. You know,

1031
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 1: that's the difference. And that's why he says that, I think,

1032
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 1: and I'm that's my take on why says culture trumps Yeah, strategy. Yeah,

1033
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: really interesting thoughts and we're gonna get more into that.

1034
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: We don't want to hear more from you about where

1035
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 1: the Bills are at four games in twelve games to go?

1036
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: Is the toughest part of the schedule behind them. Now

1037
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: we'll ask Thurman Thomas about that. The Hall of Fame

1038
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: running back to Danny Body to join us in the

1039
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: next segment. Stick around for that. Thurman Thomas coming up.

1040
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 1: Steve and I are here until three o'clock today. One

1041
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 1: Bills Live from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo

1042
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Balo Bills Radio Networks Stories Update update from

1043
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,279
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. The Buffalo Bills on the practice field today.

1044
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: The practice week begins for the Bills, getting set to

1045
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: play the Tennessee Titans on Sunday at one o'clock. Not

1046
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: practicing today's safety Micah Hyde with his groin, is back up.

1047
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 1: Raffia Bush not practicing today with the shoulder, and Drey

1048
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 1: Kyle Williams, Lorento Alexander get their rest days off. Charles

1049
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: Clay Shack Lawson, both of them limited in practice work today.

1050
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 1: Bills and Titans. Buffalo back home after two in a

1051
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: row on the road. The referee is going to be

1052
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,439
Speaker 1: Tony Corrente. One o'clock kickoff at the New air Field.

1053
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota, quarterback of the Titans, has been named the

1054
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: AFC Offensive Player of the week, helping the Titans back

1055
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: from a fourteen point deficit to claim their overtime victory

1056
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: over the Eagles last Sunday. Mariota was thirty to forty

1057
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: three for two touchdowns and a touchdown run in that game.

1058
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: The Jaguars going to Sunday's game against Kansas City Chiefs

1059
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: without two of their top players. Jags coach Doug Morone

1060
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: says running back Landard Fournette and cornerback d J. Hayden

1061
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: will not play Sunday. Fournette has a hamstring Hayden has

1062
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 1: a toe issue. Miami Dolphins blaw out loss of the

1063
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:39,800
Speaker 1: Patriot Sunday created some on field ripples, and yesterday the

1064
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: Dolphins released defensive tackle Jordan Phillips. He had a sideline

1065
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: tirade in the first half of Sunday's game in Foxborough.

1066
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 1: Seahawks linebacker and Michael Kendricks has been indefinitely suspended by

1067
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: the NFL following a review into his guilty play in

1068
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: September to insider trading charges. He faces up twenty five

1069
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: years in prison when he sentenced in December. Buffalo Savers

1070
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: have named Jackal as a new captain. The announcement came

1071
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 1: up just before noon today at coach Phil Housley gathering

1072
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,399
Speaker 1: players at the Center ice, making the announcement to the team.

1073
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: Savers getting set to open up the season on Thursday

1074
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: night Tomorrow night when the Boston Bruins comes down. Their

1075
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 1: roster is set and the Savers now have a new captain.

1076
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 1: Jack Eichel is a Buffalo Savers captain and baseball playoffs tonight.

1077
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: It is the American League Wildcard game the Oakland A's

1078
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: and the New York Yankees. That's at eight o'clock first

1079
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: pitch tonight at Yankee Stadium. That game will be tunabout.

1080
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: He's on TBS tonight and that is the update from

1081
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker and are One

1082
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:35,399
Speaker 1: Buffalo Studio as we move along here till three o'clock today.

1083
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 1: Coming up a little bit later on, we expect to

1084
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: hear from Taran Johnson Bill's rookie defense of Beek. He'll

1085
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: be joining us after practice. We'll hear from Josh Allen

1086
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: as well. We are joined in studio right now by

1087
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame running back Thurman Thomas Thomas Thomas Thoman

1088
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: just getting a set for August or October twenty nine.

1089
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: Thanks ladies and gentlemen general, please welcome, Welcome Thurman, Thurman Thomas. Oh,

1090
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna be doing all right what I'm saying,

1091
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: right and ask No, I'm not that I know of

1092
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: really did Bruce's didn't you? Uh No, I don't think

1093
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,919
Speaker 1: I did. Did Burman did that? Did that? You gotta

1094
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: get Burman. You gotta get somebody bigger than you were.

1095
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: There were were you remember? I mean he's here like

1096
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: every other week, right, we're weeks away now from your

1097
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: number retirement ceremony. I thought about that the other day, Thurman.

1098
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 1: Walking around in uh in lambeau Field, and they have

1099
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: their ring of honor around the field at the one

1100
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 1: end they have guys whose numbers are retired. There's only

1101
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 1: four of them in Packer's history, and you are one

1102
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:36,280
Speaker 1: of three now in Buffalo Bills was far where Taylor

1103
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: some old guys. It's probably like Bart Star Start Star,

1104
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: bart Star Bridge White Brett Farm and gotta be one more.

1105
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:44,919
Speaker 1: Let me look it up. But I did. I thought

1106
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 1: about party. He didn't have a number. Are you still

1107
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: he'd be on the ring of honor there hall of fame.

1108
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: But he wouldn't have a number. He wouldn't have one.

1109
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: Where are they? Murph? I'm looking because I don't know

1110
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 1: how to use a search engine. Now, which packers have

1111
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 1: their numbers retired? But it's it's it's a singular honor.

1112
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 1: It means a Here they are Tony Canadeo. Yeah, there's

1113
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,280
Speaker 1: number three. Don Hudson, you know him, the great receiver,

1114
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 1: Bart Star, Ray Nichke. Wow, it's a big one. And

1115
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: Reggie White one, two, three, five. Green Bay packers have

1116
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: their numbers retired. And you you're gonna be wondered. What

1117
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 1: did they say? Three Buffalo bills? Yeah, number retired. Yeah,

1118
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. Have you thought about it? It's very shortless. No,

1119
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: I haven't thought about it. I mean, lately, in the

1120
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 1: last couple of days, I've been getting more request to

1121
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: do interviews you know, Rochester, Syracuse, New York, ESPN or whatever.

1122
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: I say. You know what, I'll just do them in bunches.

1123
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: I'll wait till the week of right of the Hall

1124
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 1: of Fame Retirement Jersey and not do them now because

1125
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 1: I'm really too busy to do them right now. Let

1126
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 1: me let me ask you this, how important is how cool?

1127
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: Is it? Because this for me, it's kind of the

1128
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 1: cool thing that the other two guys had their jerseys

1129
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,840
Speaker 1: retired or like buddies. You know, they're dad my best buddies,

1130
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,880
Speaker 1: right right, that's that's got to be like the ultimate

1131
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,720
Speaker 1: because I you know, because we're all we're all close buddis.

1132
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: But right, that's kind of cool, right it is. I

1133
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 1: mean it is cool. I mean having your number retired

1134
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 1: and being up there with Bruce and Jim, two guys

1135
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 1: that you played with for I mean I played with

1136
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,800
Speaker 1: Bruce for twelve years and Gym for eight. Yeah, you know,

1137
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: and we're still as you know, we're still very very close, um,

1138
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 1: you know. So, I mean it's obviously it is special

1139
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: for me and my family and you know a lot

1140
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills fans that were jersey number thirty four.

1141
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,360
Speaker 1: Have you written your nope? Now, Yeah, it's gotta be

1142
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 1: short right there, It's gonna be short. Yeah. I don't

1143
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 1: think I gotta be up there no more than four

1144
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 1: to five minutes. That's what they can't get everything set

1145
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 1: up fast, right exactly, depending on the weather too. Yeah,

1146
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:40,400
Speaker 1: so October, yeah, I know, Halloween weathers Halloween weather. But

1147
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 1: you know, I guess the closer and it gets you know,

1148
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:45,399
Speaker 1: you get a little more nervous, You get a little

1149
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: bit more nervous. I mean it's something I mean in

1150
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 1: front of people. No it's not, No, it's not. And

1151
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: but such a big crowd like this, Yes, it is

1152
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. I mean it's just like

1153
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: six other guys going in or four guys. Guys, you

1154
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 1: just don't have this nobody else. Yeah, So I mean

1155
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: it's I'm looking forward to it, literally looking forward to.

1156
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: Do you guys care who Tony Cannideo is. He's a

1157
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: fellow Hall of Famer Pro Football Hall of Famer and

1158
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:15,400
Speaker 1: he's a Packers number retired from Gonzaga University. What number was?

1159
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: He was number three. Played for the Packers nineteen forty

1160
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 1: one through fifty two, played offense and defense. Wow, I

1161
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 1: had him, know, that is the I gotta tell you,

1162
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever heard that name before ever. Well,

1163
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: you know what, it's some names that they usually threw

1164
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: up with the Hall of Fame website and then on

1165
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: Twitter or whatever they threw up, you know, born on

1166
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 1: this day, such look at the Hall of Famer, Like,

1167
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 1: I have no idea who that guy is right. Yeah,

1168
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 1: I mean someone it's been a long time, right, you

1169
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: know someone were born early, just started like sixty Yeah,

1170
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: I'm not at h But the one thing I was

1171
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: just reading about Cannadeo he served in the military in

1172
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: World War Two, So he lost two good years of

1173
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: his career to be in the US Army. That's pretty cool.

1174
00:56:57,760 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Yeah, but back then he probably made

1175
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: more money in them. It was his third job Thurman

1176
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:07,960
Speaker 1: Thomas Hall of Famer from the Bills in studio with

1177
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:09,839
Speaker 1: us his number to be retired when the Bills play

1178
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:12,800
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots coming up four weeks away, the

1179
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:15,760
Speaker 1: Bills and the Patriots coming up on what is it, Sunday,

1180
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: October Monday, October twenty nine. Yeah, so four weeks away.

1181
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 1: You watch the Packers game Packers Bills. Yea, how tough

1182
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: was that to stay with the game. You didn't, did you?

1183
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: You went out and did some No? No, actually we

1184
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: come you know, comekid? Yeah, beginning of fourth quarter that's

1185
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: when I that's when I kind of like, you know,

1186
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: this is it's not going in. Well, what did you see?

1187
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: What happened? You think, what's wrong with the running game?

1188
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: Let's well First of all, I think you're not giving

1189
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: us on enough touches. I think that's the problem. You're

1190
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: not giving him enough touches. Then okay, if your running

1191
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 1: game is not going, when you think about the guy

1192
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 1: can catch the ball out of the backfield, whether you

1193
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:55,919
Speaker 1: put him at backfield, put him at wide receiver, he's

1194
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: the focal point of your offense. He needs to touch

1195
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:02,440
Speaker 1: the ball now. Obviously coming back from the rear injury

1196
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: that may have played a little factory in it too

1197
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 1: it but okay, now you got two more. Now you

1198
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: got another week. If he's not healthy now to touch

1199
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 1: that ball anywhere from the twenty to thirty times right now,

1200
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: whether it's fifteen rushes and five catches or whatever it

1201
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: may be. That guy has again he makes things happen.

1202
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: And then you know, in a couple of runs that

1203
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 1: he had they got a call back. Yeah. I'll tell

1204
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 1: you this though, what I saw him and Chris Ivory

1205
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: both and we said this earlier in the week. I

1206
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: thought he's getting every yard coming to him, you know,

1207
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 1: I thought he was. He ran that when he got it.

1208
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: I mean, even though there was not much there at times,

1209
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: whatever was there he got plus a little extra and

1210
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 1: there were times when he got an extra two or

1211
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 1: three that I didn't think he was gonna be able

1212
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: to get because there's no, no, no doubt. When he's

1213
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: in there, he's the guy that they're going to look

1214
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 1: at and and focus on. It's a defense, so he's

1215
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: up against it anyway. And plus you know, with six

1216
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 1: or seven eight guys in the box and there's just

1217
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 1: not gonna be much room. But I thought, I don't

1218
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 1: I don't think it's him. It's what I'm saying, you know,

1219
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 1: it's not him. He's he's still got and he's run

1220
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 1: like a twenty six year old back to me. Yeah, no,

1221
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: he's still got some some some juice left in the town. Absolutely,

1222
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: and Chris Ivory too. I like what he's the one

1223
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 1: two punch with them. I think they can be great,

1224
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: you know, because this is what they need right now

1225
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 1: because Josh Allen is not he's not there yet. Yeah,

1226
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 1: and so you're gonna have to have those ten to

1227
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 1: fifteen year old play drives, whether it turns out to

1228
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 1: be a field goal, a touchdown, you're gonna need that

1229
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: right now to get his confidence back. I mean, he

1230
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: just went and well, you know, he's a young quarterback. Yeah,

1231
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 1: obviously you want him to get better, and I think

1232
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 1: he will get better, But right now he's in a

1233
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 1: situation where he shouldn't be put all the pressure should

1234
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: be on him. I think you got Lashawn right there.

1235
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 1: You can charge Clay. I mean, but you know, when

1236
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 1: you look at Zay Jones and Calvin Benjamin and the

1237
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: rest of the wide receiver the corps, they gotta step up.

1238
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 1: But with saying all of that, it starts up front.

1239
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 1: It starts up front automatically. You can't have Josh Josh

1240
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 1: Allen taking a five st up drop back and when

1241
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 1: he gets a step number three he's scrambled. You just

1242
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 1: can't have that happen. And I think those guys up

1243
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 1: front had to take upon himselves to say, hey, look guys,

1244
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: if we get him enough time, I think it completes

1245
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: some more complete some passes down the field. I really

1246
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 1: do believe that. Yeah, it's and I think one of

1247
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:18,919
Speaker 1: the things we've talked about, and it came up early

1248
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 1: in the week after that, right after the game. They

1249
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: got to be more successful on first and second down absolutely,

1250
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:26,919
Speaker 1: because they I mean, they just they can't drop every

1251
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 1: third down is third and eight. You know, if you

1252
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 1: can't have it plus and plus and including the fact

1253
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 1: that they got to stay on the field, they've only

1254
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 1: got you were showing me the break. They have five

1255
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the year five. It should they should. There

1256
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:43,600
Speaker 1: are some guys who've thrown for five, let alone run

1257
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: for as many. I mean, you should have a couple

1258
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: of games with five touchdowns. Well, I'll tell you what.

1259
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 1: They were to be out there practice on something that's

1260
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: going to get the ball out of Josh Allenham right now,

1261
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: because the same thing that Mike Patton Payton did to

1262
01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: Front in Green Bay, Mike Ray was going to do

1263
01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: the same exact game. I mean, they have two really

1264
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 1: good corners that can match up and go one on

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Speaker 1: one with our wide receivers. They're gonna put seven eight

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Speaker 1: men in a box right there to starting, I guarantee you,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna blitz. They're gonna make him throw the

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Speaker 1: ball really quick. But he has to be accurate with

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Speaker 1: those throughs and those wide receivers. Man, I think we've

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Speaker 1: been saying it pretty much just the first game. They

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Speaker 1: have to get open some way something I don't even

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Speaker 1: care if you push off and maybe they won't call it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but you have to find some way

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Speaker 1: to get open. Derman Thomas Hall of Famer in studio

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Speaker 1: with us, will take your phone calls eight three five

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Speaker 1: fifty and toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. Steve on the line from Buffalo. I Steve,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air with us. Steve lost

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Speaker 1: him lost, Steve Hey. You must say that stretches in

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Speaker 1: your Hall of Fame career with the Bills, where the

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Speaker 1: running game was not going well for a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Was there anything you could do schematically or any like

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Speaker 1: coaching change that a coach might make say, fellas, let's

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Speaker 1: try this and it worked. I mean, is it all

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Speaker 1: just stepping up and blocking better, running better, or is

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Speaker 1: there anything? I mean, what did you guys do to

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Speaker 1: fix it when things were not going so well? Well?

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Speaker 1: You know, well the user when things weren't going well,

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Speaker 1: it just weren't going well. Yeah, I mean, we had

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Speaker 1: an offense that could throw the ball. In running football,

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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you go up against defensive man would

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Speaker 1: just you're just not gonna have that running game there,

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01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 1: or you might not have that passing game there, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes you have to rely more on the passing game. UM.

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Speaker 1: I can remember a situation where we were. We were

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Speaker 1: late in the season, maybe the eleventh of the twelfth game,

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Speaker 1: I can't remember what year it was, but Jim called

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Speaker 1: a draw play and we hadn't ran a draw play

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Speaker 1: in the last eight games. Just out of the blue,

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Speaker 1: you know, he just saw something that changed the player

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Speaker 1: or whatever, and it was a draw play or whatever.

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01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 1: We picked up like eight or nine yards or what

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01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:47,440
Speaker 1: have you, and we came back to the hubs like,

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01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 1: where where'd you come up with that? I don't know.

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01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: We hadn't ran it a while, so I figured I

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Speaker 1: call it right now. So I mean, I don't really

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01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 1: think it's a lot you can do. That was the intelligent,

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01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: well prepared I don't call out for a while. Let's

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01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,280
Speaker 1: give it a shot. But what I do think that

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01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 1: you have to have to try different things with this

1311
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 1: football team to get people open into If the running

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01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 1: game's not going, you gotta find other ways to be productive.

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Speaker 1: And we were talking about this earlier in the show

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Speaker 1: and it's been my contention too, and we get you know,

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01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 1: we open this up and people trime into us all

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01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 1: the time. It's really nice because we get a chance

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01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:20,840
Speaker 1: to interact with fans unlike any other time in the

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01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 1: history because of the social media and Twitter and all

1319
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:24,920
Speaker 1: this stuff. So people chime in on what they think,

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01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 1: and I keep telling them, listen, it's not one magic

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01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 1: bullet to fix everything. And you say, you know, when

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Speaker 1: your run game is not going if they do this.

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01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:35,520
Speaker 1: There are things you can do up front unless you're

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Speaker 1: getting beat physically one on one all across I mean

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01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:41,520
Speaker 1: all the way across the board, okay, but you know

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01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:43,919
Speaker 1: that rarely happens in the NFL. You've got some guys

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Speaker 1: up front who can more than hold their own against

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Speaker 1: anybody else. And it changes a week tweek because this

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01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 1: team's got a great defensive tackle. Well, this team's got

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01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 1: a great defensive end. This team's got a great corner,

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01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 1: this team's got a great safety. So your matchups change

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Speaker 1: from week to week. There's always something you can adjust

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01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:01,240
Speaker 1: to and go to that you and do and it's

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Speaker 1: the challenges to find that. But there's no magic bullet. No,

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01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:05,640
Speaker 1: there's no magic bullet to find that. I mean, you

1336
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:07,960
Speaker 1: can go through an entire football game. I can remember

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01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 1: going up against Wade Phillip a couple of times when

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Speaker 1: he was with Denver. Yeah, what fits all the time,

1339
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:14,480
Speaker 1: and we try to do something different than it. Just

1340
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:17,840
Speaker 1: it just wasn't there. You know, we still continue to

1341
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 1: move the football, but you know we were getting field

1342
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 1: goals here, field goes there. But yeah, it's not a

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01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 1: magic button that you can press to say, Okay, we

1344
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,000
Speaker 1: can fix this by doing this, right because if you

1345
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:31,600
Speaker 1: do it, what if that don't work? Then what? Yeah?

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01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 1: But and it's like I said this, and we had

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01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:37,439
Speaker 1: a SoundBite from Sean McDermott just a minute ago. He says, listen,

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Speaker 1: culture Trump's strategy. Yes, culture trump strategy. You were out

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01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 1: you heard him say what's your take on that? On

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01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 1: his belief that cultured Trump's strategy. That was really interesting

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01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 1: to hear him say that because I think coaches like

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01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:56,800
Speaker 1: him they take strategy for granted. Right. Yeah, now you

1353
01:04:56,960 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 1: complain about that when we well, yeah, I I know,

1354
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 1: I said, you know, and I'll tell you what I said.

1355
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 1: I said, No, I won't use all the words that

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01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 1: I use, like, yeah, I said, having five or six

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Speaker 1: good or great football players on your football team will

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Speaker 1: change the culture. Yeah, No, I'm not saying that these guys.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I love Michaelhi, I love Join for all

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Speaker 1: those guys or whatever, but we need some of that

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Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. Yeah yeah, And

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Speaker 1: I think that can change the culture. You need good

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Speaker 1: players around here. I don't care what you're saved from

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Speaker 1: any head coach. You need good players around here. Just

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Speaker 1: does does talent trump everything? Absolutely? I think yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean we had talent, we had a good culture. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we had all that. We had, we had all that.

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01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:50,080
Speaker 1: And that's the big question. When you see a team

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Speaker 1: and the teams we lost to in Dallas in the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, they had great culture, they had great players.

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Speaker 1: The question is do the great players make the great

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Speaker 1: culture or does the culture create great players? Does the

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01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:04,000
Speaker 1: talent create the culture, does the coaching staff create the

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? I just winning creates a culture.

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Speaker 1: I just ask when you're talking about culture, because I

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01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 1: think not in my mind, but in some people's mind

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Speaker 1: they think culture means we're all chore boys and you're

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Speaker 1: all good guys. And I won't say anything about your team,

1379
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Speaker 1: but I know the Cowboys were not choirboys. Those teams

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Speaker 1: they were there, we were we were, but yeah, we

1381
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Speaker 1: were Yeah, but what are you guys talking about. There's

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Speaker 1: work work to me, work ethic and commitment and whole

1383
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:35,600
Speaker 1: and a standard held by the lowest guys on the

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Speaker 1: roster all the way through the highest guys in the

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Speaker 1: roster and the coaching staff. You have a standard that

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Speaker 1: you expect to be met and it's a standard of excellence.

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Speaker 1: And I know that that's what you know. Those guys

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01:06:44,680 --> 01:06:47,040
Speaker 1: down there in Dallas thought too, and they had a

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Speaker 1: standard that you you got to play and do your

1390
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Speaker 1: job well, and you got to know how to do

1391
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Speaker 1: your job well or you're gonna get called out, cut,

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Speaker 1: released whatever. I mean, that was it. I mean there

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01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:01,200
Speaker 1: was a standard that it gets said, adhered to by

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Speaker 1: the great players, and that means everybody has to follow along.

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Speaker 1: You agree with that, Thurm? Yep, I agree with that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Thurman Thomason's studio with us for the next couple of minutes.

1397
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:10,600
Speaker 1: We'll take your phone calls if you have a question

1398
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 1: or comment for Thurman. Eight oh three five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight five fifty two five fifty The bills,

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Speaker 1: Thurman and Steve, you're trying to break in a rookie

1401
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 1: quarterback now, right, Josh Allen gonna get another start this week.

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01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:24,920
Speaker 1: It'll be his fourth start. Um, you never had that experience?

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Speaker 1: Did you here in Buffalo? Right? You never had? You

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01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:29,360
Speaker 1: got here, Jim was already here for a couple of years. Um,

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01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:31,680
Speaker 1: did you I'm trying to think of your career. Did

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Speaker 1: you never had to play with a rookie quarterback? Because

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01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:36,400
Speaker 1: it does kind of Todd Collins was a second Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there you go, and you were here for Todd two. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it kind of resets you. Well he wasn't a rookie,

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Speaker 1: but it sort of resets your expectation level maybe or well,

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Speaker 1: I think at that point in time, everything was everything

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Speaker 1: was changed by then. By the time time we didn't

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Speaker 1: have Will Jimmy Richter, Knahole, Howard Ballot, John, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the whole office of line was different, the wide receivers

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Speaker 1: kind of different. Yeah. I mean we went through a

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Speaker 1: couple of offensive coordinators, Dan Henny, Um, Joe Pendry. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: See I wasn't here for Joe. Okay, you wasn't here

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Speaker 1: for that. So I mean when you lose guys like that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it changes a lot of different things. You know, you

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01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 1: have to get you to the guys that are coming in.

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Speaker 1: You know how these guys gonna fit from the guys

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Speaker 1: that just left. It's hard to do because you're bringing

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Speaker 1: in a whole new, different team and a new quarterback

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Speaker 1: would have in a new quarterback, yeah, that would have

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Speaker 1: that impact, right, a couple of different systems. Yeah, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what, thym And I follow you on Twitter

1427
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Speaker 1: and I can tell as far as new quarterbacks, he's

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Speaker 1: not a rookie. But you are a big fan of

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Speaker 1: the chief Patrick Mahomes, aren't you. You love that guy.

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Speaker 1: He's pretty special. It's pretty special. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: mur And I think he's special because he was put

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Speaker 1: He's put in an offense by Andy Reid that was

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Speaker 1: almost like his offense in Texas Tech. I mean, look

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Speaker 1: at the weapons that they half the Travis. They're a

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01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:05,720
Speaker 1: little further down the road than right now. Yeah, Kareem Hunt,

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Speaker 1: I mean those guys are then. They got formations that

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Speaker 1: I've never even seen before. I mean they're shifts to

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Speaker 1: shifts and everything. When you got the fastest guy in

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Speaker 1: the league, Tyreek Hill, who's Makahoma State, running across the

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Speaker 1: field and running, I mean, and giving Mahomes enough time

1441
01:09:23,360 --> 01:09:25,799
Speaker 1: to throw the ball fifty sixty yards down the field.

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01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 1: They're pretty explosive. Yeah. I saw the Chiefs line up

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01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:32,080
Speaker 1: and it was it was actually a play that was

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01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:34,519
Speaker 1: in capsule on Twitter, and the guy that was watched

1445
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Speaker 1: how they shift it was one of the football analysts.

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01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:39,719
Speaker 1: They had had like a trip to the to the left,

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01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:42,000
Speaker 1: and then they shifted the back out to go to

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01:09:42,080 --> 01:09:45,040
Speaker 1: the right. Then one by one, every guy was on

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01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:47,320
Speaker 1: the left shifted over and they all stopped. Then the

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01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:48,920
Speaker 1: next guy would go over, and by the time the

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01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 1: play snapped, they had everybody else to the other side,

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01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:53,720
Speaker 1: one at a time, and then they ran the play,

1453
01:09:54,120 --> 01:09:58,080
Speaker 1: whatever play was, and they shifted the formation literally four times,

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01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:01,880
Speaker 1: and even and even thinking with that game, how many

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01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:06,599
Speaker 1: times did and this is I think great scheme by

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01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:09,240
Speaker 1: Andy Reid. How many times did you actually hear Von

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01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 1: Miller's name Monday night? And not many? Not many, not many.

1458
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:16,519
Speaker 1: So those guys up front, they knew what to do,

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01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:18,960
Speaker 1: and you got chubbed on the other side. I heard

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Speaker 1: his name more than they heard Von Miller's name. But

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01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:23,800
Speaker 1: those are the type of guys that we need right now.

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01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:27,400
Speaker 1: It's interesting too, because we were just on MSG either

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01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:29,320
Speaker 1: showing the highlight, and everybody's heard about it. If you

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01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 1: haven't heard about it, you saw Or if you haven't

1465
01:10:31,400 --> 01:10:34,240
Speaker 1: seen it, you've heard about Mahomes throwing a little left

1466
01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:36,200
Speaker 1: hand to dump pass off when he's running to his right.

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01:10:36,280 --> 01:10:39,280
Speaker 1: Von Miller went unblocked on that play, unbombed by design,

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Speaker 1: by design, by design. So and for him to have

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Speaker 1: the whereabouts of knowing, Okay, I gotta get out of

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01:10:46,400 --> 01:10:49,240
Speaker 1: here and end up throwing the ball with his left hand. Now,

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Speaker 1: that guy, Patrick m Hahaugh, you know what, he's an athlete.

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Speaker 1: He's an athlete. He's a quarterback. And I guess early

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01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 1: in the year he was talking about if I didn't

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01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:00,200
Speaker 1: play football, I probably would have played baseball. He was

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01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:03,280
Speaker 1: a pretty good His dad played baseball. So he's an athlete, right,

1476
01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:08,240
Speaker 1: he he's thriving. Those the guys that are playing quarterback

1477
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:10,960
Speaker 1: in college, they're the biggest guys with the strongest arms

1478
01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:13,600
Speaker 1: or the best athletes, right. And that's and that's the

1479
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:16,640
Speaker 1: way there has always been historically with youth football. Your

1480
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:19,240
Speaker 1: biggest best athlete, you put him at quarterback and let

1481
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:20,800
Speaker 1: him have the ball in his hands all the time.

1482
01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:23,040
Speaker 1: And it's getting to be the same way in college.

1483
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 1: I'll tell you Cam Newton's yea. All these guys and

1484
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:30,799
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is another example. Nothing example, nothing example Headrick Mahomes,

1485
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:32,639
Speaker 1: a guy who's just your best athlete giving the ball

1486
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:34,640
Speaker 1: every time. Right. If they're before, let you go, let

1487
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:36,320
Speaker 1: me get you in on their question of the day.

1488
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:38,920
Speaker 1: And that is the most difficult stretch of the Bill

1489
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:41,280
Speaker 1: schedule behind them. They played three of their first four

1490
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:43,280
Speaker 1: on the road. They played a couple of future Hall

1491
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:46,559
Speaker 1: of famers Aaron Rodgers and Philip rivers Um. They played

1492
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:49,040
Speaker 1: teams that are you know, better record right now than

1493
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:51,280
Speaker 1: the teams that remain on their schedule. Not that it's

1494
01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:52,880
Speaker 1: gonna get easy, but it's the toughest part of the

1495
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:55,760
Speaker 1: schedule behind the Bills. Do you think right now? Uh? John,

1496
01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:59,680
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. After the first four games, I

1497
01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:05,280
Speaker 1: don't think so, because more than anything, if they keep

1498
01:12:05,280 --> 01:12:07,280
Speaker 1: playing like they did the first four games, three games,

1499
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna get harder every single week. You don't think

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01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard in Texas going against J. J.

1501
01:12:12,160 --> 01:12:15,559
Speaker 1: Watt and Jon Clowney, It's gonna be hard every single

1502
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 1: week if they don't clean up. They're at the up

1503
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:19,960
Speaker 1: front that's the bottom. That's the way I see it.

1504
01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:22,160
Speaker 1: Yeah at all. I mean, you can take out the

1505
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:25,800
Speaker 1: Patriots or whatever, but no, if it continues to be

1506
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:29,439
Speaker 1: like this, it's gonna be a long year. Seriously, You're

1507
01:12:29,479 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 1: gonna stop coming in here and win. No, I'm gonna

1508
01:12:31,520 --> 01:12:33,360
Speaker 1: continue to come in because you know what, John, I want.

1509
01:12:33,400 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 1: I want to see this team succeeded. Yeah. I think

1510
01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:38,280
Speaker 1: you know that, Steve, even the fans know that we

1511
01:12:38,479 --> 01:12:41,560
Speaker 1: want to see this team succeed. Yeah. And you know what,

1512
01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:43,800
Speaker 1: I think he gets something out of it if the

1513
01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:46,080
Speaker 1: end result does come down the road. When this team

1514
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: is good and they're coming they're winning, you know, they're

1515
01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:52,800
Speaker 1: winning four games and losing one game. You want to

1516
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:54,800
Speaker 1: be here for this part of it too. You want

1517
01:12:54,840 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 1: to know what it was like when they got started

1518
01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:59,479
Speaker 1: getting good, because that for me and you, that's the part.

1519
01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:02,040
Speaker 1: That's the nineteen eighty eight when eighty seven we were

1520
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:03,560
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs, it was a strike here and

1521
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:05,400
Speaker 1: everything was up. We come back in eighty eight and

1522
01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:09,000
Speaker 1: go twelve and four. Right, that was a lot of

1523
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 1: fun with the basic offense. That was a lot of fun. Man.

1524
01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: That that's and people want to be a part of that. Right.

1525
01:13:15,360 --> 01:13:18,439
Speaker 1: It's okay to jump on the bandwagon. I get that

1526
01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:21,479
Speaker 1: it's cool. But to be there, you know, when they

1527
01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:24,120
Speaker 1: weren't so good and watch them get really good, that's

1528
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 1: that's a real thing. And that's what we got to

1529
01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:28,720
Speaker 1: look to look forward to. You know. I was, I

1530
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:31,360
Speaker 1: think I'll make some struggles this year. And nobody was

1531
01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: coming into here thinking that we were gonna go what

1532
01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:38,240
Speaker 1: twelve and four I did? I did always pick nine

1533
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:40,320
Speaker 1: and seven. That's just a good solid that's a good

1534
01:13:40,479 --> 01:13:48,280
Speaker 1: solid band record record or whatever. Drunk on leg. But look,

1535
01:13:49,160 --> 01:13:52,040
Speaker 1: you played the Titans some ways, trying to win a game.

1536
01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:53,760
Speaker 1: Just try to win again. Just win this one. That's

1537
01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:55,719
Speaker 1: and I yeah, you just chop it up into little

1538
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:57,760
Speaker 1: pieces and take them one at a time. Just beat this.

1539
01:13:57,960 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 1: Just win this game. Just win this game. Get your confidence.

1540
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,400
Speaker 1: I got a proposition for your next week. When you

1541
01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:03,960
Speaker 1: come in, we'll be two and a half weeks away

1542
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:06,880
Speaker 1: from your number retirement ceremony. Why don't you bring your

1543
01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: draft of your speech in and we'll let people kind

1544
01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 1: of weigh in. You'll take some falls. Why we'll let

1545
01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:15,000
Speaker 1: people say, hey, why don't you throw this in? Therman? No,

1546
01:14:15,080 --> 01:14:16,439
Speaker 1: I like that part, but I think you should talk

1547
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:19,360
Speaker 1: about this. Come on, you can do that right now.

1548
01:14:19,400 --> 01:14:21,559
Speaker 1: It's going to go right ahead on Twitter, sending your

1549
01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:23,840
Speaker 1: ideas for Thurman speech to h What is it at

1550
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:27,080
Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas is, Yeah, something like that. I'm really pay

1551
01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:30,960
Speaker 1: attention to. You know, there's so much stuff going on

1552
01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:33,120
Speaker 1: in the world. I just kinda just flip through it. Yeah.

1553
01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:35,160
Speaker 1: If I see something, yeah, I'll retweet it and us

1554
01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 1: about it. Something makes you angry and you go off,

1555
01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:39,360
Speaker 1: That's what I do. Yeah, that's it. Thanks Term, all right,

1556
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:41,680
Speaker 1: you appreciate it. See you next week. Thurman Thomas Hall

1557
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 1: of Fame Running Back joins us every Wednesday. Right here

1558
01:14:44,160 --> 01:14:45,559
Speaker 1: in the show, Steve and I back with more. One

1559
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:48,559
Speaker 1: goes live from One Wheels Driving. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

1560
01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 1: We'll come back to the show, John Murphy, Steave Tasker

1561
01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:06,040
Speaker 1: here in our one Buffalo studio. Bills practice just wrapping

1562
01:15:06,120 --> 01:15:08,920
Speaker 1: up as we speak. They're coming in from the grass

1563
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:12,280
Speaker 1: practice field outside the m Pro Sports Training Center. Karen Johnson,

1564
01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:14,639
Speaker 1: Bills defensive Backs. He had to join us after practice

1565
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:16,639
Speaker 1: today and plus we expect we're going to hear from

1566
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 1: the podium where Josh Allen will speak and perhaps even

1567
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:20,840
Speaker 1: with Sean McCoy, So all of that's still to come

1568
01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:22,960
Speaker 1: here on the show. We're here until three o'clock today.

1569
01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:26,400
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker on Twitter, we're asking this question,

1570
01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:28,120
Speaker 1: what do you think is the toughest part of the

1571
01:15:28,160 --> 01:15:31,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill schedule behind them? Now? Four games in. I

1572
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:33,200
Speaker 1: can make the argument, and I've tried to. Most people

1573
01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:35,400
Speaker 1: are rejected. And I'm not saying, you know, they cakewalk

1574
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:38,320
Speaker 1: now and go on and win the twelve games, ten

1575
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:41,160
Speaker 1: or eleven games, just saying that that was a rough stretch, right,

1576
01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:42,560
Speaker 1: we knew it coming in, that was gonna be a

1577
01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:44,599
Speaker 1: rough stretch to start three of first four on the road.

1578
01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:46,640
Speaker 1: They still got two more road games in the next

1579
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:48,080
Speaker 1: three weeks, but three of the four four on the

1580
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:50,559
Speaker 1: first four on the road. Some Hall of Fame caliber

1581
01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:53,720
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are going up against and good teams. I'm just

1582
01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:56,479
Speaker 1: saying they might not be as tested as they have

1583
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:58,040
Speaker 1: been the last month. What do you think? Yeah, you

1584
01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:03,440
Speaker 1: can you could see it coming. Yeah, Baltimore is notoriously

1585
01:16:03,479 --> 01:16:07,160
Speaker 1: a fast starting game team. The Chargers are not. So

1586
01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:08,920
Speaker 1: he felt like he kind of might have had a

1587
01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:12,040
Speaker 1: chance at the Charges but Philip Rivers was excellent in

1588
01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: that game. The Vikings went on the road was surprising

1589
01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: to everybody, particularly given the fact that the Bills had

1590
01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 1: not played well at all in the first two weeks.

1591
01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:21,840
Speaker 1: Then this last week going into Green Bay and playing

1592
01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:25,040
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Listen, super Bowl teams head in there and

1593
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:26,800
Speaker 1: have a hard time with that group. And then I

1594
01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:29,560
Speaker 1: thought the Bills defense has started playing better. But you

1595
01:16:29,760 --> 01:16:31,280
Speaker 1: look at the rest of the schedule and there's just

1596
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:34,320
Speaker 1: there's not one of those you know, aside from the

1597
01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:36,720
Speaker 1: Patriots that you know you're gonna play twice a year,

1598
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:40,200
Speaker 1: There's none of those things down the schedule that make

1599
01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:41,720
Speaker 1: you go, wow, that's going to be a tough game

1600
01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 1: going into Green Bay or going into Minnesota, like the

1601
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:47,599
Speaker 1: Bears have already done, so the Bills have already done.

1602
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:52,960
Speaker 1: So Yeah, we're getting a little mixed bag of replies

1603
01:16:53,320 --> 01:16:56,920
Speaker 1: to this question, but for the most part, people are thinking, oh,

1604
01:16:57,400 --> 01:16:59,040
Speaker 1: they're kind of taking the middle of the road. It

1605
01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 1: could be or might I'd take a stand, folks, here's one.

1606
01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:09,599
Speaker 1: Take a stand. Have a take James Franks. We can't

1607
01:17:09,600 --> 01:17:13,800
Speaker 1: look at these games being either easy or tough. Every

1608
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:16,320
Speaker 1: game we face has a challenges, especially with this team

1609
01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:19,080
Speaker 1: we have. Hopefully we can figure out some future pieces

1610
01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:21,040
Speaker 1: to this team, though I look at the remainder of

1611
01:17:21,120 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 1: the season as individual sets of challenges. That is a

1612
01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 1: milk toast report. Where's the fun? There's the fun, man,

1613
01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:31,760
Speaker 1: where's the overreaction and knee jerk there? Uh? Still, that

1614
01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:37,519
Speaker 1: is a reasoned response, and you're right, all right, let's

1615
01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:41,479
Speaker 1: get to see if Rob Spidel can come up with one. Pats, Bears, Jat, Jets,

1616
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:44,160
Speaker 1: and Jags combined records is better than the four teams

1617
01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: we just played. So October ninth to November twenty fifth

1618
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:50,240
Speaker 1: looks like the toughest stretch. We've heard that from other

1619
01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 1: people as well. You look down and you break it

1620
01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:54,120
Speaker 1: into four game stretches like the one we just had.

1621
01:17:54,160 --> 01:17:57,000
Speaker 1: That was the toughest stretch we thought coming in and

1622
01:17:57,280 --> 01:18:01,679
Speaker 1: that that group between the Patriots, Bears, and Jaguars. Thanks

1623
01:18:01,680 --> 01:18:03,720
Speaker 1: you for not mentioning, but there is. Yeah, but there

1624
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 1: is a bye week in there, so that kind of

1625
01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:09,559
Speaker 1: changes that for me. I think you can really Yeah,

1626
01:18:09,760 --> 01:18:12,240
Speaker 1: the bye week is gonna help for a number of reasons.

1627
01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:14,040
Speaker 1: It'll be it'll be interesting to see how the Bills

1628
01:18:14,040 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 1: handled that take your phone calls on this issue eighth

1629
01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

1630
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:21,599
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty toughest part of the bill schedule?

1631
01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:24,200
Speaker 1: Is it over with? Moving forward? Let's see what you think.

1632
01:18:24,280 --> 01:18:26,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna switch gears a little bit. See, because I

1633
01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:28,720
Speaker 1: know you are a Sabers season ticket older, a tremendous fan,

1634
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:30,760
Speaker 1: and and you're going to the opener Thursday night, you

1635
01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:34,080
Speaker 1: bet Sabers and Bruins, and you'll see number nine, the

1636
01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:36,400
Speaker 1: new number nine with at Sea on his jersey. Jack

1637
01:18:36,439 --> 01:18:39,519
Speaker 1: Eichel named as the Sabers captain just before we went

1638
01:18:39,560 --> 01:18:42,040
Speaker 1: on the air today. It's interesting logical, right, it's gotta

1639
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:44,400
Speaker 1: be How could you not be? Jack Icle number fifteen,

1640
01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:47,400
Speaker 1: wasn't the captain? Jack Iarchol number nine? Yeah, captain? Yeah,

1641
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:50,560
Speaker 1: see there's yeah, you know he's only I'm just reading this.

1642
01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:52,400
Speaker 1: This is right now. He's going into this fourth season

1643
01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:54,800
Speaker 1: in the league. What is he sixteen years twenty one

1644
01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 1: years old into his fourth season? Amazing? What you're gonna

1645
01:18:59,880 --> 01:19:01,920
Speaker 1: have birthday soon? And I would think, but that's logical.

1646
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:03,559
Speaker 1: Who else would it be? You pay him all that money?

1647
01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:06,600
Speaker 1: He was your best player last year, What do you

1648
01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:09,599
Speaker 1: have like twenty nine twenty five goals, thirty nine assists

1649
01:19:09,640 --> 01:19:12,120
Speaker 1: in sixty four games last year. Of course he's the captain.

1650
01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:13,599
Speaker 1: Who else would it be if it's not him? Then

1651
01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 1: you started asking questions right right. And I think this

1652
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:19,320
Speaker 1: is a team that a lot of fan like like me.

1653
01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:22,200
Speaker 1: You know, I'm one of them. I'm expecting much better

1654
01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:24,519
Speaker 1: things from this year. I think that last year is

1655
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:28,720
Speaker 1: absolutely no doubt, was an enormous disappointment. I mean, we

1656
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:31,160
Speaker 1: got all the season ticket holders, got a letter from

1657
01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 1: Terry Pagoula, and he said, ain't good enough. He's it

1658
01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:38,800
Speaker 1: starts with me. We're gonna get better and that's our

1659
01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 1: goal because I'm not putting up with it, basically is

1660
01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:43,080
Speaker 1: what he was saying, which was kind of cool. I

1661
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:45,880
Speaker 1: thought you can say what you wanted about ask you

1662
01:19:46,040 --> 01:19:48,600
Speaker 1: to marketing, But I don't think so you've met and

1663
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:50,799
Speaker 1: talked with him. He doesn't do that kind of stuff.

1664
01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:54,880
Speaker 1: I know that's how he feels because you know, now, Murph,

1665
01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:58,800
Speaker 1: he bought the bills for whatever reasons he bought the bills.

1666
01:19:58,840 --> 01:20:01,080
Speaker 1: It's a great business, opera unity, it's a big and

1667
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:03,040
Speaker 1: he wanted to keep the team here and all that

1668
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:05,599
Speaker 1: he bought the Sabers because he loves them. He loves

1669
01:20:05,600 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 1: the Sabers, I mean, and that's I think that's a

1670
01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:10,600
Speaker 1: difference for him, and I think he Uh, it was

1671
01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:13,320
Speaker 1: night kind of neat to get that letter in the mail.

1672
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:15,840
Speaker 1: So I have big expectations for this, of course, you

1673
01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:17,800
Speaker 1: know here I am. I'm I'm the guy. I'm a

1674
01:20:17,840 --> 01:20:23,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo fan, So I have huge expectations for the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, playoffs,

1675
01:20:23,479 --> 01:20:26,679
Speaker 1: playoffs and but yeah, playoffs, that's what I'm talking about.

1676
01:20:27,320 --> 01:20:30,960
Speaker 1: And I'm yeah. So I'm going to the to the

1677
01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:33,880
Speaker 1: opener on Thursday ago, a little dinner for I'm making

1678
01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:36,000
Speaker 1: a night of it. It's gonna be big. We're gonna

1679
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:38,840
Speaker 1: get there early. We're gonna watch the warm ups, chit

1680
01:20:38,920 --> 01:20:42,559
Speaker 1: chat with people. I can't wait. Thursday night, Saber Tomorrow night,

1681
01:20:43,240 --> 01:20:46,120
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night, Yeah, to morrow night. Yeah all right, and

1682
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:49,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to Monday's game too. He's gonna be all

1683
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:51,280
Speaker 1: Saber day. Yeah. We're gonna take a break here when

1684
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:54,799
Speaker 1: we come back. Rookie cornerback Terren Johnson joins us in studios.

1685
01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:56,920
Speaker 1: He just comes off the practice field. That's coming up next.

1686
01:20:57,120 --> 01:20:59,920
Speaker 1: John Murphy Steve Tasker, One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida

1687
01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:03,240
Speaker 1: Help from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1688
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:16,840
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show, John Murphy, Steve Tasker in

1689
01:21:16,920 --> 01:21:18,880
Speaker 1: or One Buffalo Studio. On the other side of the wall.

1690
01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:20,880
Speaker 1: Over there, the Bills are just wrapped up their practice

1691
01:21:20,920 --> 01:21:23,560
Speaker 1: for this Wednesday, getting set for the Tennessee Titans and

1692
01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:26,439
Speaker 1: joining us in studio. Happy to have Bill's rookie defensive

1693
01:21:26,479 --> 01:21:28,320
Speaker 1: back Teren Johnson with us. Teren, thanks for coming by.

1694
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:30,240
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. It's happy to be here. First time

1695
01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:31,960
Speaker 1: on the show. I think we had John the phone

1696
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:33,920
Speaker 1: back during OTA's or Mini camp, but the first time

1697
01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:35,400
Speaker 1: you had you on said here, thanks, Yeah, that was

1698
01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:36,920
Speaker 1: a that was a while ago. Yeah, that was a

1699
01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 1: while ago. Lifetime ago, right, that's three months, long time ago.

1700
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:44,120
Speaker 1: It feeling all right? Practice full today or very limited. Nah,

1701
01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:46,880
Speaker 1: I'll practice. I'll practice full. Um, I'll practice full every

1702
01:21:47,040 --> 01:21:49,559
Speaker 1: every week. So, I mean, it's just something I'm getting through.

1703
01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:52,840
Speaker 1: But it's all good. I was weird talking because, you know,

1704
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:55,800
Speaker 1: kind of relating like the way it was when I played,

1705
01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:57,640
Speaker 1: and you kind of plenty of time to heal up

1706
01:21:57,680 --> 01:22:00,720
Speaker 1: when February rolls most definitely, Yeah, definitely. I mean no

1707
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:03,599
Speaker 1: one comes into the season usually like one hundred percent.

1708
01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:05,519
Speaker 1: I mean during the season, people get dinged up all

1709
01:22:05,560 --> 01:22:07,040
Speaker 1: the time, so it's just part of the game. You

1710
01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:10,040
Speaker 1: are four games, one month into the NFL, your first

1711
01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:12,559
Speaker 1: NFL regular season. Tell me what you think so far?

1712
01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:16,880
Speaker 1: Is it what you expected? Uh? No, I mean it's

1713
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:19,280
Speaker 1: it's amazing being out there. I mean that's one of

1714
01:22:19,280 --> 01:22:21,360
Speaker 1: the best experiences of my life just going onto the

1715
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:24,639
Speaker 1: field up my first game when we played the Ravens.

1716
01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:26,760
Speaker 1: Just going onto the field for the first time, all

1717
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:29,000
Speaker 1: those fans, that's something that was very exciting to me.

1718
01:22:29,160 --> 01:22:33,800
Speaker 1: So but I really enjoy uh basically the camaraderie you

1719
01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 1: get over time, because I mean I've been here for

1720
01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:37,840
Speaker 1: a while, so I know I know some of the

1721
01:22:37,880 --> 01:22:40,799
Speaker 1: guys a little bit deeper now. So it's just exciting

1722
01:22:40,800 --> 01:22:43,599
Speaker 1: because I want to keep our chemistry building. You missed

1723
01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 1: game two, right, the Arctic game. Yes, your injury, So

1724
01:22:46,560 --> 01:22:48,320
Speaker 1: you're looking at your first home game then coming up

1725
01:22:48,360 --> 01:22:51,400
Speaker 1: here this week, Yep, what do you think? Yeah, I'm excited.

1726
01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:53,800
Speaker 1: I got some people coming out here, some families, so

1727
01:22:54,120 --> 01:22:55,880
Speaker 1: I'm excited for them to watch me play up close,

1728
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:59,599
Speaker 1: coming from California. Yeah, California takes you have to get

1729
01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 1: uh so this week probably like five. But when we

1730
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:09,200
Speaker 1: go to Houston, as many as I possibly came because

1731
01:23:09,240 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 1: that's I think that's closest game to the West Coast,

1732
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:12,880
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So it's one game in

1733
01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:15,280
Speaker 1: my career to get one hundred and eighty six tickets. Ye,

1734
01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:19,840
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty six tickets. That's a lot, that's a lot. Yeah,

1735
01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:23,920
Speaker 1: you'll get there. Yeah, mighty in Houston tar where Yeah,

1736
01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:26,800
Speaker 1: where did you watch the first home game the Chargers game?

1737
01:23:26,840 --> 01:23:28,560
Speaker 1: Were you upstairs? And where were you? No? I was.

1738
01:23:28,640 --> 01:23:30,200
Speaker 1: I was on the field. I was on the field

1739
01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:32,400
Speaker 1: with him. Um, just just trying to be a good teammate,

1740
01:23:32,439 --> 01:23:35,280
Speaker 1: help the guys out right tarn down. Let's talk a

1741
01:23:35,320 --> 01:23:37,080
Speaker 1: little bit about what you've done so far. In fact,

1742
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:40,000
Speaker 1: your coach Sean McDermott talked about that. He was asked

1743
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:41,720
Speaker 1: about you today, how you keep hanging in there and

1744
01:23:41,800 --> 01:23:44,280
Speaker 1: playing through the injury you've had. Listen up, This is

1745
01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:47,000
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott this morning when he was asked about our

1746
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:50,040
Speaker 1: guest Aaron Johnson. Here's what he said, Yeah, it's big.

1747
01:23:50,160 --> 01:23:52,920
Speaker 1: He's a dog. I mean he's a dog in a

1748
01:23:53,240 --> 01:23:56,080
Speaker 1: good way. Right, Um, that's what you have to have

1749
01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:59,519
Speaker 1: and you noticed it. You feel him out there. For

1750
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:04,040
Speaker 1: a young player to have made that type of presence

1751
01:24:04,160 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 1: known from that nickel position is huge to our defense.

1752
01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 1: And you know he's a little banged up with his shoulder,

1753
01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:11,479
Speaker 1: but he goes out of the game, comes back in.

1754
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 1: I mean he wants it, and I've been I've been

1755
01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:17,439
Speaker 1: very pleased with his progress to this point. Yeah, that's

1756
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:19,320
Speaker 1: a that's pretty high praise from code. I mean he

1757
01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:21,479
Speaker 1: does he's not one of those guys that talks his

1758
01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:23,120
Speaker 1: guys up. I mean you must have really made it

1759
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:26,960
Speaker 1: an impression on him. How do you feel about your

1760
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:29,000
Speaker 1: growth and how much better you're feeling. Are you getting

1761
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:31,120
Speaker 1: more comfortable week by week? And describe what that's like

1762
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:35,479
Speaker 1: most definitely. I mean me just just being comfortable, first

1763
01:24:35,479 --> 01:24:37,080
Speaker 1: of all being in the NFL and the second playing

1764
01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:39,439
Speaker 1: the nickel position. It's it's a lot of when I

1765
01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:40,760
Speaker 1: first got here, it was a lot of on my

1766
01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:44,160
Speaker 1: on my mind, right um, but just playing in the game,

1767
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:45,840
Speaker 1: I'm starting to get it a little bit better and

1768
01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:47,960
Speaker 1: I just want to keep progressing to be one of

1769
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:50,439
Speaker 1: the best nickel that I possibly can be. Sometimes fans

1770
01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:52,400
Speaker 1: get the idea that they say, okay, you play, you

1771
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:54,680
Speaker 1: guard him and he's gonna guard you. Yeah, and it's

1772
01:24:54,960 --> 01:24:56,960
Speaker 1: there's a little more too. Yeah, it's not. It's really

1773
01:24:57,000 --> 01:24:58,800
Speaker 1: not that simple. It's really not that simple. There's a

1774
01:24:58,880 --> 01:25:02,680
Speaker 1: lot of things that that people that aren't in there

1775
01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:05,479
Speaker 1: in the game with us don't really understand. But there's

1776
01:25:05,520 --> 01:25:08,240
Speaker 1: just there's just a lot to it that I'm excited

1777
01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:10,240
Speaker 1: to continue to learn and get better. Did you ever

1778
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:13,240
Speaker 1: play nickel and we were staying The only time I

1779
01:25:13,360 --> 01:25:17,679
Speaker 1: really play nickel is probably, uh when their best receiver

1780
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:20,280
Speaker 1: went inside and then we were playing man and man,

1781
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:24,200
Speaker 1: So I never really played zone too much in the inside.

1782
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:27,040
Speaker 1: So here I'm doing it a lot and I feel

1783
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 1: like I'm been getting pretty good at it, and I

1784
01:25:28,840 --> 01:25:30,799
Speaker 1: just want to continue with the growth. It's the toughest

1785
01:25:30,840 --> 01:25:33,320
Speaker 1: adjustment to do that mental or is it physical? But

1786
01:25:33,360 --> 01:25:35,559
Speaker 1: you know, standing up against the run and being involved

1787
01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:37,960
Speaker 1: in run defensive, it's a little bit of both. It's

1788
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:39,720
Speaker 1: a little bit of both because as a nickel you're

1789
01:25:40,080 --> 01:25:42,600
Speaker 1: you're kind of like a linebacker in a way. You

1790
01:25:42,640 --> 01:25:45,479
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So that's that's something. And I'm

1791
01:25:45,479 --> 01:25:47,880
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety pounds, you know, so I'm getting

1792
01:25:47,880 --> 01:25:50,400
Speaker 1: in there. But I like, I like the physicality you

1793
01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:52,559
Speaker 1: feel me. I think that's why they drafted me here

1794
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:54,960
Speaker 1: because I feel like I'm a physical player and I

1795
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:56,280
Speaker 1: can go toe to toe with the best. Fim. I

1796
01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:58,800
Speaker 1: feel like, yeah, you like the physicality. That's where you're

1797
01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:01,680
Speaker 1: sitting next to me with a shoulder. Yeah. We're talking

1798
01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:04,120
Speaker 1: about the rule changes and stuff now, and a lot

1799
01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:06,439
Speaker 1: of guys. I'm seeing a lot of shoulder injuries around

1800
01:26:06,439 --> 01:26:08,600
Speaker 1: the league because guys are taking their head out of

1801
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:10,439
Speaker 1: the tackle and they kind of go off the side

1802
01:26:10,439 --> 01:26:12,040
Speaker 1: and that put your shoulder right and that right in

1803
01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:15,680
Speaker 1: the at the point of contact. And I think you

1804
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:18,080
Speaker 1: still got to learn, right, Yeah, guys, you gotta figure

1805
01:26:18,080 --> 01:26:19,760
Speaker 1: out how they can do without getting their shoulder. Yeah.

1806
01:26:19,800 --> 01:26:21,840
Speaker 1: So I mean, I gotta I gotta find ways to

1807
01:26:22,080 --> 01:26:26,040
Speaker 1: uh when I'm when I'm tackling players, to tackle in

1808
01:26:26,080 --> 01:26:29,280
Speaker 1: a better position to where I'm not risking myself. But

1809
01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:31,720
Speaker 1: at the same time, it's still football. So I go

1810
01:26:31,880 --> 01:26:34,360
Speaker 1: in there with with the attitude where I'm getting this

1811
01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:37,640
Speaker 1: guy down. No, matter what. That's the attitude I have

1812
01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:39,680
Speaker 1: to have, and that's the attitude I'm gonna continue to have.

1813
01:26:39,880 --> 01:26:43,559
Speaker 1: But my technique tackling probably could get a little bit better,

1814
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 1: and that's something I'll work on. Do you find around

1815
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:48,000
Speaker 1: and again, you're just in the league, But is that

1816
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:50,240
Speaker 1: at the top? I get discussion among defensive players like

1817
01:26:50,479 --> 01:26:51,720
Speaker 1: how do we have to learn? How do we learn

1818
01:26:51,760 --> 01:26:53,800
Speaker 1: how to tackle the way they want us to? It is?

1819
01:26:54,120 --> 01:26:58,960
Speaker 1: It is? I mean, the rules just changed, so it's

1820
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:01,240
Speaker 1: just it's just something we gotta adapt to. I mean,

1821
01:27:01,320 --> 01:27:03,680
Speaker 1: there's been there's been real changes throughout the league every

1822
01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:06,160
Speaker 1: single year. So something we gotta adapt to and UH

1823
01:27:06,360 --> 01:27:08,600
Speaker 1: just find ways to succeed at it. Talk to us

1824
01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:10,639
Speaker 1: a little bit now about this week's game. You're taking

1825
01:27:10,680 --> 01:27:12,880
Speaker 1: on the Tennessee Titans. You finally get a home game,

1826
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:17,720
Speaker 1: another home game. You talk to us about the philosophy

1827
01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:20,400
Speaker 1: that you're looking at with the Titans. Well, they're they're

1828
01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:25,040
Speaker 1: a run football team. They have two solid, solid running backs,

1829
01:27:25,439 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 1: and our goal is just to to be more physical

1830
01:27:29,320 --> 01:27:31,599
Speaker 1: than the UH beat him at the point of attack.

1831
01:27:31,960 --> 01:27:35,719
Speaker 1: So that just involves us swarming to the ball, everybody

1832
01:27:35,760 --> 01:27:38,360
Speaker 1: getting to the ball and that's just something on defense

1833
01:27:38,439 --> 01:27:40,360
Speaker 1: that we're going to try to take pride in this

1834
01:27:40,520 --> 01:27:44,000
Speaker 1: week is getting the ball in creating turnovers. Karen, who

1835
01:27:44,040 --> 01:27:46,719
Speaker 1: do you find yourself leaning on in these early stages

1836
01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:48,880
Speaker 1: of your career Teammates Maybe that you go to for

1837
01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:52,000
Speaker 1: advice or or talk about the game planned, or talk

1838
01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:56,400
Speaker 1: about what's going on. Uh, Jordan Poya, Raphael Bush, Philip Games.

1839
01:27:56,439 --> 01:27:58,719
Speaker 1: Those guys they've been in the league for a while,

1840
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:01,960
Speaker 1: So I just I'll ask them questions here and there,

1841
01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:04,000
Speaker 1: and that all me. They'll always give me their best

1842
01:28:04,120 --> 01:28:06,320
Speaker 1: their best answer and just try to help me to

1843
01:28:06,360 --> 01:28:08,519
Speaker 1: be in the best position I can. So, you guys

1844
01:28:08,560 --> 01:28:10,000
Speaker 1: are on the defensive side of the ball. You know,

1845
01:28:10,040 --> 01:28:11,920
Speaker 1: on the other side, you've got a rookie quarterback. You're

1846
01:28:11,960 --> 01:28:15,439
Speaker 1: still trying to find his way. You guys, how much

1847
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:19,200
Speaker 1: extra incentive you have to carry the whole team kind

1848
01:28:19,240 --> 01:28:21,559
Speaker 1: of on your back defensively when you know the offense

1849
01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:25,000
Speaker 1: is still trying to find itself. I mean, we don't

1850
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:27,960
Speaker 1: pay too much mind on what the offense does. We

1851
01:28:28,120 --> 01:28:30,320
Speaker 1: know what we have to do. So our job is

1852
01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:33,040
Speaker 1: to not let the other team score points. So whatever

1853
01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:35,600
Speaker 1: we have to do to win, that's what we're aiming for.

1854
01:28:36,640 --> 01:28:39,880
Speaker 1: The last question I have for you is the coaching staff.

1855
01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:42,439
Speaker 1: Who's been most beneficial to you so far? Again, early

1856
01:28:42,520 --> 01:28:45,920
Speaker 1: in your career on the Bills coaching staff, Coach Jimmy

1857
01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:49,759
Speaker 1: has definitely He's taught me a lot with the nickel position.

1858
01:28:50,439 --> 01:28:54,200
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott. Both of those guys have definitely taken time

1859
01:28:54,240 --> 01:28:56,720
Speaker 1: out and just drilled it with me, trying to get

1860
01:28:56,760 --> 01:28:58,960
Speaker 1: me right, coaching me hard, which is something that I need,

1861
01:28:59,040 --> 01:29:02,479
Speaker 1: especially as a rookie. Uh, just trying to make make

1862
01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:06,040
Speaker 1: all the mistakes basically go away. Is it fun to

1863
01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:10,240
Speaker 1: play in the NFL? It is fun fun. Um, making plays,

1864
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:14,280
Speaker 1: Making plays on Sundays, that's by far the most fun.

1865
01:29:14,320 --> 01:29:15,840
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things that people might

1866
01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:20,479
Speaker 1: find surprising when you're up there as a young player,

1867
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:23,760
Speaker 1: to have the mindset of you can hope they throw

1868
01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:26,720
Speaker 1: the ball at Yeah, yeah, that's I think most people

1869
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:29,600
Speaker 1: are surprised by that. But you're got like most of

1870
01:29:29,680 --> 01:29:32,240
Speaker 1: them throw the ball to my guy, I want you

1871
01:29:32,280 --> 01:29:34,439
Speaker 1: to yeah yeah. Now. I just want any opportunity I

1872
01:29:34,520 --> 01:29:36,599
Speaker 1: can to make plays. That's my goal every time I'm

1873
01:29:36,640 --> 01:29:39,479
Speaker 1: on the field. Um, just help the team win. Best

1874
01:29:39,520 --> 01:29:42,000
Speaker 1: way I can. He teren, thanks for this, good luck

1875
01:29:42,040 --> 01:29:43,880
Speaker 1: you stay healthy as you can and we hope you

1876
01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:46,200
Speaker 1: have a good game on Sunday. Appreciated, Thank you, thanks

1877
01:29:46,200 --> 01:29:48,760
Speaker 1: for coming in. Yeah, Karen Johnson, Bill's rookie defensive back

1878
01:29:48,800 --> 01:29:50,360
Speaker 1: Steve and I back with more in a moment One

1879
01:29:50,479 --> 01:29:53,679
Speaker 1: Bills Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's

1880
01:29:53,760 --> 01:30:11,639
Speaker 1: Radio Hills Radio Network stories. They comes from One Bill's Driver.

1881
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:14,639
Speaker 1: The Bills wrapped up there Wednesday practice their first practice

1882
01:30:14,680 --> 01:30:16,519
Speaker 1: of the week as they get set to take on

1883
01:30:16,640 --> 01:30:19,280
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans here in Orchard Park on Sunday. No

1884
01:30:19,400 --> 01:30:22,559
Speaker 1: practice today for Micah Hyde with his growing No practice

1885
01:30:22,600 --> 01:30:25,679
Speaker 1: today for Raphael Bush, his backup he's got a shoulder issue.

1886
01:30:25,960 --> 01:30:28,680
Speaker 1: Bills gave rest days to defensive tackle Kyle Williams and

1887
01:30:29,080 --> 01:30:32,200
Speaker 1: linebacker Lorenzo Alexander, and limited work today for tit end

1888
01:30:32,280 --> 01:30:36,760
Speaker 1: Charles Clay and defensive end Shack Lawson. The Bills underdogs

1889
01:30:36,800 --> 01:30:40,040
Speaker 1: at home against the Tennessee Titans this week. It's a

1890
01:30:40,080 --> 01:30:42,920
Speaker 1: one o'clock kickoff here at New Airfield, just the second

1891
01:30:42,960 --> 01:30:45,439
Speaker 1: home game of the season for Buffalo. Pete Correlli will

1892
01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:48,719
Speaker 1: be the referee for Sunday's game. Marcus Mariota, Titans quarterback,

1893
01:30:48,920 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 1: has been named the AFC Offensive Player of the Week.

1894
01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:53,880
Speaker 1: Led the Titans back from a fourteen point deposit to

1895
01:30:54,000 --> 01:30:56,559
Speaker 1: lead them to an overtime victory over the defending Super

1896
01:30:56,560 --> 01:30:59,920
Speaker 1: Bowl champion Eagles last Sunday. Mariota completed thirty of four

1897
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:03,000
Speaker 1: three passes for two touchdowns. Also rushed for forty six

1898
01:31:03,080 --> 01:31:06,320
Speaker 1: yards and one touchdown in that game. Rams quarterback Jared

1899
01:31:06,360 --> 01:31:08,800
Speaker 1: Goff was named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week.

1900
01:31:09,080 --> 01:31:11,720
Speaker 1: Jaguars going to this weekend's game against Kansas City without

1901
01:31:11,760 --> 01:31:14,120
Speaker 1: two of their top players or in. Jaguars coach Doug

1902
01:31:14,200 --> 01:31:17,120
Speaker 1: Morone says running back Leonard Fournette has a hamstring and

1903
01:31:17,320 --> 01:31:19,760
Speaker 1: cornerback d J. Hayden has a toe, and neither one

1904
01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:22,799
Speaker 1: of them will play Sunday against Kansas City. The Dolphins

1905
01:31:22,840 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 1: said goodbye to second round pick former second round pick

1906
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:28,680
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips yesterday at twenty fifteen. Second round pick in

1907
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:31,200
Speaker 1: the final year of his contract, got into a sideline

1908
01:31:31,479 --> 01:31:33,160
Speaker 1: issue a tie rade in the first half of the

1909
01:31:33,240 --> 01:31:36,320
Speaker 1: Dolphins loss in Foxborough after being taken out, and he

1910
01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:39,920
Speaker 1: was cut by the Dolphins yesterday Seahawks linebacker Michael Kendricks

1911
01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:43,439
Speaker 1: definitely indefinitely suspended by the NFL after a review into

1912
01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:47,599
Speaker 1: his guilty plea to an insider trading charges. Sabers news,

1913
01:31:47,680 --> 01:31:50,960
Speaker 1: the Sabers have named Jack Eichel as their new team captain.

1914
01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:54,000
Speaker 1: Last year, Ichael scored twenty five goals and at thirty

1915
01:31:54,080 --> 01:31:56,680
Speaker 1: nine assist in sixty four games. Signed a long term

1916
01:31:56,760 --> 01:31:59,439
Speaker 1: contract with the Sabers last year. Now he used their captain.

1917
01:31:59,600 --> 01:32:01,840
Speaker 1: Sabers getting set to open up the season facing the

1918
01:32:01,880 --> 01:32:05,639
Speaker 1: Boston Bruins tomorrow night seven o'clock downtown, and baseball tonight

1919
01:32:05,720 --> 01:32:08,200
Speaker 1: opened in the Yankees in the American League Wildcard Game.

1920
01:32:08,520 --> 01:32:10,800
Speaker 1: That is the update from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy

1921
01:32:10,840 --> 01:32:13,799
Speaker 1: and Steve Tasker coming to you from our one Buffalo studio.

1922
01:32:14,040 --> 01:32:15,479
Speaker 1: But I want to ask you about Steve something I

1923
01:32:15,560 --> 01:32:16,960
Speaker 1: just read. I want to get your take on what

1924
01:32:17,160 --> 01:32:19,360
Speaker 1: was it? What was it about the Titans? I think

1925
01:32:19,479 --> 01:32:23,240
Speaker 1: wasn't it was something about the tight Oh um, yeah,

1926
01:32:23,320 --> 01:32:26,160
Speaker 1: we should do more on this tomorrow. Oh. Here's here's

1927
01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:27,800
Speaker 1: what it is that I want to do something on

1928
01:32:27,920 --> 01:32:30,080
Speaker 1: the Titans tomorrow about their fourth down. You know they've

1929
01:32:30,400 --> 01:32:32,880
Speaker 1: they've gone for it seven times on fourth down. They've

1930
01:32:32,920 --> 01:32:35,320
Speaker 1: been verted five of them. Yeah, I want to talk

1931
01:32:35,320 --> 01:32:37,840
Speaker 1: about that whole issue tomorrow because that's worth it. Well,

1932
01:32:37,880 --> 01:32:40,639
Speaker 1: here's how we think that's worth a little mini segment tomorrow. Yeah,

1933
01:32:40,640 --> 01:32:43,160
Speaker 1: it is, and I'll give you just a quick Yeah.

1934
01:32:44,040 --> 01:32:46,400
Speaker 1: They went for it in the final drive and their

1935
01:32:46,479 --> 01:32:50,799
Speaker 1: victory against Philadelphia and overtime on Sunday this last Sunday

1936
01:32:50,800 --> 01:32:54,280
Speaker 1: they beat the Eagles, they went for They had to

1937
01:32:54,400 --> 01:32:57,920
Speaker 1: convert a fourth down three times on their final drive,

1938
01:32:58,040 --> 01:32:59,800
Speaker 1: and they got all three of them, one of which

1939
01:32:59,880 --> 01:33:03,519
Speaker 1: was a fourth and fifteen that they converted. So you

1940
01:33:03,640 --> 01:33:07,240
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, Marcus mariot to being a clutch

1941
01:33:07,320 --> 01:33:09,759
Speaker 1: player or whatever. They you know, the defense in Philly

1942
01:33:10,120 --> 01:33:12,080
Speaker 1: got him in a fourth and fifteen to win the

1943
01:33:12,120 --> 01:33:15,360
Speaker 1: game and couldn't get him off the field. Yeah, and

1944
01:33:15,479 --> 01:33:19,560
Speaker 1: then they subsequently converted a fourth down after that to

1945
01:33:19,680 --> 01:33:22,040
Speaker 1: go to go in and win it. So now it

1946
01:33:22,160 --> 01:33:27,519
Speaker 1: was tied at the beginning at that time, so they

1947
01:33:27,840 --> 01:33:30,280
Speaker 1: went in I think it was tied, but anyway, they

1948
01:33:30,680 --> 01:33:32,880
Speaker 1: they won it with three fourth down conversions on their

1949
01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:35,040
Speaker 1: final drive. So they tried it seven times and made

1950
01:33:35,120 --> 01:33:37,720
Speaker 1: five of them up in that time. They were two

1951
01:33:37,760 --> 01:33:39,400
Speaker 1: of four before that, I want to get in and

1952
01:33:39,400 --> 01:33:41,439
Speaker 1: we'll do it tomorrow because it merits more than just

1953
01:33:41,520 --> 01:33:43,760
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes here, but the whole going forward

1954
01:33:43,840 --> 01:33:45,960
Speaker 1: on fourth down thing. And you know, people are now

1955
01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:50,160
Speaker 1: toasting the Titans for what they've done. Seven tries on

1956
01:33:50,280 --> 01:33:53,120
Speaker 1: fourth down, they converted five of them. Look, that won't

1957
01:33:53,240 --> 01:33:55,479
Speaker 1: sustain itself. There are times when it's good to go

1958
01:33:55,520 --> 01:33:58,120
Speaker 1: for a fourth down, but just because it's worked doesn't

1959
01:33:58,160 --> 01:34:00,040
Speaker 1: mean that that means it was the right call, you

1960
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:02,280
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Sometimes you get lucky and I hear,

1961
01:34:02,360 --> 01:34:03,840
Speaker 1: you know, I hear a lot of there's a lot

1962
01:34:03,920 --> 01:34:08,760
Speaker 1: about analytics in this My huge problem with analytics. And

1963
01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:10,760
Speaker 1: I know that they're they're very valuable and a lot

1964
01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:12,519
Speaker 1: of teams get a lot of good stuff out of them,

1965
01:34:12,560 --> 01:34:14,479
Speaker 1: and fans can really be interested in it as well.

1966
01:34:15,240 --> 01:34:21,760
Speaker 1: But for me, they're never, ever, ever predictive. They don't

1967
01:34:21,760 --> 01:34:24,080
Speaker 1: tell you what's going to happen in the future. They

1968
01:34:24,240 --> 01:34:27,519
Speaker 1: told you what has happened without taking into account all

1969
01:34:27,600 --> 01:34:34,880
Speaker 1: the multimillion different intangible differences in every one of those

1970
01:34:34,920 --> 01:34:37,920
Speaker 1: little statistics, including the people in the field. I think

1971
01:34:37,960 --> 01:34:41,360
Speaker 1: that's what gets this with a lot of these metrics like, okay,

1972
01:34:41,439 --> 01:34:43,719
Speaker 1: but what if you got a corner who can't stand

1973
01:34:43,800 --> 01:34:46,400
Speaker 1: up to this defense, to this wide receiver. What if

1974
01:34:46,439 --> 01:34:49,840
Speaker 1: your defensive tackles getting pounded, getting steamrolled. That makes a

1975
01:34:49,920 --> 01:34:52,400
Speaker 1: difference aside from the number. And there's also a difference

1976
01:34:52,400 --> 01:34:54,800
Speaker 1: whether you're going against the eighty five Bears defense or

1977
01:34:54,880 --> 01:34:59,759
Speaker 1: the twenty fourteen Seattle Seahawk defense, or the steel curtain defense,

1978
01:34:59,880 --> 01:35:02,560
Speaker 1: or any of those other defenses that are unbelievable. Of

1979
01:35:02,640 --> 01:35:05,160
Speaker 1: the two thousand raven defense. You know, are you going

1980
01:35:05,200 --> 01:35:07,320
Speaker 1: against one of those defense? Are you going against the

1981
01:35:07,800 --> 01:35:11,320
Speaker 1: OZ and sixteen Browns? You know? Are you going who

1982
01:35:11,320 --> 01:35:13,200
Speaker 1: are you going against? And and who have you got?

1983
01:35:13,280 --> 01:35:15,920
Speaker 1: Who's not injured? Who is injured? Are you healthy or not?

1984
01:35:16,439 --> 01:35:18,439
Speaker 1: As your quarterback hurt? Can he throw? You know? All

1985
01:35:18,479 --> 01:35:22,240
Speaker 1: that stuff that you can't measure those All you could

1986
01:35:22,240 --> 01:35:25,640
Speaker 1: do is measure the result and then in stockpilot and

1987
01:35:26,040 --> 01:35:29,320
Speaker 1: try and get an idea for me. They're never predictive

1988
01:35:29,360 --> 01:35:31,800
Speaker 1: and that's why these coaches. Yeah, they get vilified and

1989
01:35:31,840 --> 01:35:35,360
Speaker 1: they get carved up for making these decisions of when

1990
01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:37,519
Speaker 1: to go for it and not go for it. You

1991
01:35:37,560 --> 01:35:40,320
Speaker 1: have a guy like well, my friend Frank Reich. He's

1992
01:35:40,360 --> 01:35:44,639
Speaker 1: getting vilified in ten Baltimore for not tying the game.

1993
01:35:45,280 --> 01:35:49,800
Speaker 1: He made a mistake, Yeah yeah, and he's he's yeah,

1994
01:35:49,800 --> 01:35:51,280
Speaker 1: but he went for it on fourth downs my point

1995
01:35:51,320 --> 01:35:55,360
Speaker 1: and there was a mistake. Yeah. Well yeah. So hey,

1996
01:35:55,439 --> 01:35:56,720
Speaker 1: I want to ask you this. You were on the

1997
01:35:56,800 --> 01:36:01,280
Speaker 1: sidelines Sunday in Foxborough Patriots Dolphins and Jordan Phillips, their

1998
01:36:01,280 --> 01:36:04,680
Speaker 1: second round picked defensive lineman from three years ago. Did

1999
01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:08,720
Speaker 1: you see this was? I was on the Patriot sideline

2000
01:36:08,720 --> 01:36:12,439
Speaker 1: because the Fins were getting crushed. It was not even

2001
01:36:12,479 --> 01:36:14,320
Speaker 1: a close game. It is one of those games where

2002
01:36:15,320 --> 01:36:18,120
Speaker 1: it's one of those games that Patriot fans have come

2003
01:36:18,200 --> 01:36:23,640
Speaker 1: to expect. They were just you know, I told you

2004
01:36:23,680 --> 01:36:25,200
Speaker 1: about this earlier in the week. I was there for

2005
01:36:25,280 --> 01:36:28,719
Speaker 1: that game, and the Patriot fans they're just no stress

2006
01:36:28,880 --> 01:36:31,240
Speaker 1: in that stands fact. I've seen that, you know what

2007
01:36:31,280 --> 01:36:33,519
Speaker 1: I mean? You know, you know, you get people, Wow,

2008
01:36:33,560 --> 01:36:35,280
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a tough game. Let's go, we're gonna

2009
01:36:35,320 --> 01:36:37,880
Speaker 1: have to Really, there's none of that. In New England.

2010
01:36:37,960 --> 01:36:39,920
Speaker 1: They're like, Okay, it's gonna be a fun game. Who

2011
01:36:39,960 --> 01:36:43,080
Speaker 1: are we playing? Okay, all right, let's go. Okay, and

2012
01:36:43,240 --> 01:36:45,559
Speaker 1: they just okay, oh that was a good play by them.

2013
01:36:45,840 --> 01:36:49,400
Speaker 1: That yeah, okay, well okay, we're gonna win. Great. Yeah

2014
01:36:49,800 --> 01:36:56,280
Speaker 1: it was. There is no drama in patriot Land. There

2015
01:36:56,439 --> 01:36:59,679
Speaker 1: is no drama. There is no tension about how good

2016
01:36:59,720 --> 01:37:02,200
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. The Dolphins were three and o going in there,

2017
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:05,240
Speaker 1: and there was no drama. There was no tension in

2018
01:37:05,320 --> 01:37:08,080
Speaker 1: the fan base. They had no doubt that be different,

2019
01:37:08,200 --> 01:37:11,559
Speaker 1: right when some opponents came in there, Right, I think

2020
01:37:11,560 --> 01:37:14,040
Speaker 1: it must. I think it might be, might be when

2021
01:37:14,080 --> 01:37:17,360
Speaker 1: it's a playoff game kind of scenario. But for this game,

2022
01:37:17,760 --> 01:37:20,320
Speaker 1: for all AFC S games, the Patriots coming in there

2023
01:37:20,479 --> 01:37:26,760
Speaker 1: one and two and the Dolphins coming in three and oh,

2024
01:37:27,560 --> 01:37:31,080
Speaker 1: and there was no drama in no stand stand. They

2025
01:37:31,120 --> 01:37:34,280
Speaker 1: were friendly, happy, high. They just knew it was gonna

2026
01:37:34,360 --> 01:37:36,080
Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna get on the trader. Yeah it

2027
01:37:36,240 --> 01:37:40,360
Speaker 1: was amazing. I just wow, that was That's unbelievable. Not

2028
01:37:40,520 --> 01:37:42,400
Speaker 1: like that here. I mean, the Bills have to play

2029
01:37:42,600 --> 01:37:45,160
Speaker 1: play any place else. Yeah, you're right, it's not like

2030
01:37:45,240 --> 01:37:48,200
Speaker 1: that any place else. They they have been so good

2031
01:37:48,400 --> 01:37:53,280
Speaker 1: for so long that fan base has been changed by that.

2032
01:37:53,439 --> 01:37:56,280
Speaker 1: Because listen, when I was playing, that was a bad

2033
01:37:56,400 --> 01:38:00,360
Speaker 1: franchise that had a bad stadium, Their ownership was a shambles,

2034
01:38:01,680 --> 01:38:05,680
Speaker 1: the facilities were terrible, They didn't draft well. I mean,

2035
01:38:05,720 --> 01:38:08,960
Speaker 1: they weren't a very good football team, and you know,

2036
01:38:09,120 --> 01:38:12,080
Speaker 1: and so there was all kinds of hostility in there,

2037
01:38:12,120 --> 01:38:15,680
Speaker 1: and there was you know, ugliness in the stands, you know,

2038
01:38:15,840 --> 01:38:18,120
Speaker 1: bad feelings towards you know. It just all it was

2039
01:38:18,160 --> 01:38:20,960
Speaker 1: all his tension and drama. And that's just gone. I'm

2040
01:38:21,160 --> 01:38:23,320
Speaker 1: completely gone. There are a lot of tension here in

2041
01:38:23,439 --> 01:38:25,840
Speaker 1: Orchard Park. There will be Sunday when the Tennessee Titans

2042
01:38:25,880 --> 01:38:28,160
Speaker 1: come in. Uh. Josh Allen I think is going to

2043
01:38:28,200 --> 01:38:31,439
Speaker 1: be the focus of attention all week, let alone on Sunday,

2044
01:38:31,520 --> 01:38:34,200
Speaker 1: and the Bill's rookie quarterback. Just moments ago, wrapped up

2045
01:38:34,240 --> 01:38:36,439
Speaker 1: his news conference talking to the Buffalo media after this

2046
01:38:36,560 --> 01:38:39,720
Speaker 1: Wednesday practice. Here's Josh Allen's news conference just a couple

2047
01:38:39,760 --> 01:38:42,640
Speaker 1: of moments ago, going back look at the film for

2048
01:38:42,760 --> 01:38:45,160
Speaker 1: to day, just kind of what you see that sit

2049
01:38:45,240 --> 01:38:47,120
Speaker 1: out to you that you think needs to improve on

2050
01:38:47,240 --> 01:38:50,120
Speaker 1: from your aspect to help the passenger. I mean, there's

2051
01:38:50,200 --> 01:38:53,320
Speaker 1: lots improve on, you know, I'd say by myself, you know,

2052
01:38:53,360 --> 01:38:56,479
Speaker 1: sitting down with Dave's and uh quarterback room and watching everything,

2053
01:38:57,080 --> 01:39:01,080
Speaker 1: understanding situations. Um, you know, we gotta be better. Fortunately

2054
01:39:01,120 --> 01:39:03,240
Speaker 1: it's it's behind us now, we've got a new opponent.

2055
01:39:03,280 --> 01:39:05,160
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to a really good defense. We're looking

2056
01:39:05,200 --> 01:39:07,200
Speaker 1: forward to you know, they haven't be allowed a point

2057
01:39:07,200 --> 01:39:09,280
Speaker 1: in the first quarter yet, so you know it's a

2058
01:39:09,360 --> 01:39:12,439
Speaker 1: tough task. Um, but we're preparing every day and uh,

2059
01:39:12,560 --> 01:39:14,200
Speaker 1: you know days is gonna have us. Ready. What did

2060
01:39:14,200 --> 01:39:16,439
Speaker 1: you learn from those seven sacks? How many were on

2061
01:39:16,600 --> 01:39:20,200
Speaker 1: you versus protection? And how do you prevent that type

2062
01:39:20,200 --> 01:39:23,080
Speaker 1: of repeating? Yeah, I gotta be better. I gotta understand that,

2063
01:39:24,200 --> 01:39:25,960
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta respect the league getting the ball

2064
01:39:25,960 --> 01:39:27,400
Speaker 1: out of my hands or that it's thrown it away

2065
01:39:27,479 --> 01:39:29,800
Speaker 1: or finding my check down and just allowing us to

2066
01:39:31,080 --> 01:39:33,519
Speaker 1: live another play. I guess, um, you know some of

2067
01:39:33,560 --> 01:39:37,120
Speaker 1: those sacks were big losses. And to move the ball

2068
01:39:37,240 --> 01:39:40,720
Speaker 1: consist consistently and move the chains. You know you can't

2069
01:39:40,760 --> 01:39:43,400
Speaker 1: have those, you know, seven, eight, nine, ten plus yard

2070
01:39:43,439 --> 01:39:45,799
Speaker 1: losses on sacks. So you know, I got to recognize

2071
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:47,600
Speaker 1: a little better. Um, I gotta find our guys and

2072
01:39:48,120 --> 01:39:50,200
Speaker 1: whether we have a hot route or a built in

2073
01:39:50,439 --> 01:39:52,120
Speaker 1: we're oute where we can get it out quickly. Um,

2074
01:39:52,520 --> 01:39:53,760
Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna do. You know, that's what we've

2075
01:39:53,760 --> 01:39:55,519
Speaker 1: been practicing on. Josh. Where do you feel you are

2076
01:39:55,680 --> 01:39:59,120
Speaker 1: in your development in regards to three D defenses three

2077
01:39:59,280 --> 01:40:02,040
Speaker 1: snap We die to play heavy plays. You know, I

2078
01:40:02,160 --> 01:40:03,760
Speaker 1: would say I'm in a good place, you know, know

2079
01:40:03,800 --> 01:40:07,640
Speaker 1: where I want to be. Um. Well, ultimately, you know

2080
01:40:07,680 --> 01:40:11,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna play post high or split safety, So just

2081
01:40:11,200 --> 01:40:13,360
Speaker 1: understanding what they can't they can't and can't do in

2082
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:17,639
Speaker 1: certain coverages and whether they're gonna manas up or play zone.

2083
01:40:18,120 --> 01:40:19,599
Speaker 1: You know, Dave has been doing a really good job

2084
01:40:19,640 --> 01:40:22,200
Speaker 1: with that, and you know with the coverage breakdowns and

2085
01:40:22,240 --> 01:40:25,240
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So we know what we're going into.

2086
01:40:25,320 --> 01:40:27,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna get going into the game, and you know,

2087
01:40:27,320 --> 01:40:29,080
Speaker 1: we feel like we got a good beat on uh,

2088
01:40:29,400 --> 01:40:31,599
Speaker 1: you know what they do very well this week. Um.

2089
01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:34,519
Speaker 1: But then again, you know, other teams of Throne stuff

2090
01:40:34,760 --> 01:40:36,479
Speaker 1: at us that we haven't seen, so we expect the

2091
01:40:36,560 --> 01:40:38,960
Speaker 1: same from them. Um. So we're just trying to play

2092
01:40:38,960 --> 01:40:43,160
Speaker 1: our game. How you balance where you are currently in

2093
01:40:43,240 --> 01:40:46,040
Speaker 1: your development as as opposed to where you know you

2094
01:40:46,160 --> 01:40:50,800
Speaker 1: can be into development and trying not to get a heavy. Yeah,

2095
01:40:50,880 --> 01:40:52,760
Speaker 1: I mean just understanding that I'm just a piece of

2096
01:40:52,800 --> 01:40:54,840
Speaker 1: this puzzle. You know, I'm just trying to be the

2097
01:40:54,920 --> 01:40:57,360
Speaker 1: quarterback that this team needs. Um. I don't have to

2098
01:40:57,400 --> 01:40:59,679
Speaker 1: do everything and make every spectacular play, and every play

2099
01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:02,559
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a great play, you know sometimes Uh,

2100
01:41:03,640 --> 01:41:06,439
Speaker 1: and then completion the throwaway one or two yard loss.

2101
01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:08,760
Speaker 1: It's a lot better than going backwards. And you know,

2102
01:41:08,800 --> 01:41:11,320
Speaker 1: putting the ball in Harn's way. So, UM, you know,

2103
01:41:11,400 --> 01:41:12,920
Speaker 1: I I know where I can be. I know where

2104
01:41:12,920 --> 01:41:14,960
Speaker 1: I want to be. Um, you know, and I've got

2105
01:41:15,000 --> 01:41:16,479
Speaker 1: a lot of weight to improve, a lot of weight

2106
01:41:16,560 --> 01:41:18,560
Speaker 1: to grow, and um, you know I'm looking forward to

2107
01:41:18,600 --> 01:41:26,760
Speaker 1: the entire process three games. Um, how do you get that?

2108
01:41:28,360 --> 01:41:30,800
Speaker 1: You know, just staying with it. Um, you know, we

2109
01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:34,120
Speaker 1: got a lot of you know stuff in the passing game. Um.

2110
01:41:34,800 --> 01:41:37,840
Speaker 1: You know, Shady's a captain. You know, he's a he's

2111
01:41:37,880 --> 01:41:40,160
Speaker 1: a long vet. Uh. He's a guy in this team

2112
01:41:40,200 --> 01:41:42,280
Speaker 1: that everybody looks up to, you know, and you know

2113
01:41:42,320 --> 01:41:43,880
Speaker 1: we see him and he had too that he brings

2114
01:41:43,920 --> 01:41:46,000
Speaker 1: an energy that he brings and you know he's a

2115
01:41:46,040 --> 01:41:50,200
Speaker 1: tough guy. So um, you know he's gonna get rolling. Um,

2116
01:41:50,479 --> 01:41:53,040
Speaker 1: you know, we all have trust in this offense, trusting

2117
01:41:53,200 --> 01:41:56,080
Speaker 1: in Dave's and trust and shady. Um. So yeah, it's

2118
01:41:56,080 --> 01:41:58,400
Speaker 1: really nothing to do with anybody else. But we got

2119
01:41:58,479 --> 01:42:00,439
Speaker 1: to understand what we can do and we've got to

2120
01:42:00,439 --> 01:42:03,519
Speaker 1: stay with it. Saying that the best friend of a

2121
01:42:03,640 --> 01:42:06,559
Speaker 1: young quarterback is is a really good running game for sure.

2122
01:42:06,720 --> 01:42:10,080
Speaker 1: You know, I think it helps make things a little easier. Um,

2123
01:42:11,080 --> 01:42:13,760
Speaker 1: just putting defense in a better predicament, um, you know

2124
01:42:13,880 --> 01:42:17,280
Speaker 1: for offensive standpoints. So you know, we're gonna do whatever

2125
01:42:17,320 --> 01:42:18,800
Speaker 1: we have to do to try to win football games.

2126
01:42:18,800 --> 01:42:21,080
Speaker 1: And Dave's knows that. I think coach McDermott knows that.

2127
01:42:21,160 --> 01:42:25,400
Speaker 1: And um, you know, whatever the situation asked for is

2128
01:42:25,400 --> 01:42:27,559
Speaker 1: what we're gonna try to do. You're falling it behind

2129
01:42:27,920 --> 01:42:29,760
Speaker 1: three of the four games. Do you find in like

2130
01:42:29,960 --> 01:42:34,200
Speaker 1: first quarters you're spending It's a lot of assessing, Okay,

2131
01:42:34,280 --> 01:42:37,439
Speaker 1: what are they doing to us? M oh, I mean,

2132
01:42:37,479 --> 01:42:39,280
Speaker 1: I think that every game's kind of a fill out

2133
01:42:39,320 --> 01:42:41,360
Speaker 1: process at the beginning, just seeing what they're gonna do.

2134
01:42:41,439 --> 01:42:44,639
Speaker 1: How are they're gonna play personnel to certain personnel, whether

2135
01:42:44,640 --> 01:42:48,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna match you or um, you know, do something different.

2136
01:42:48,280 --> 01:42:50,320
Speaker 1: So at the beginning, of the game. It's always kind

2137
01:42:50,320 --> 01:42:52,080
Speaker 1: of trying to find out what they're going to do

2138
01:42:52,120 --> 01:42:54,479
Speaker 1: for the rest of the game because defenses, you know,

2139
01:42:54,560 --> 01:42:56,120
Speaker 1: don't tend to switch up what they're going to do

2140
01:42:56,240 --> 01:42:58,760
Speaker 1: late in the in the in the game. So, um,

2141
01:43:00,040 --> 01:43:04,639
Speaker 1: you know it's about it. They're going up like Marcus.

2142
01:43:07,080 --> 01:43:10,120
Speaker 1: Does it make it feel any easier or does it

2143
01:43:10,280 --> 01:43:13,639
Speaker 1: help you? And knowing that Marcus went through his lumps

2144
01:43:14,280 --> 01:43:16,280
Speaker 1: in his rookie season, I believe it was three and nine.

2145
01:43:17,120 --> 01:43:19,760
Speaker 1: That was sacks seven times once. Yeah, I mean I

2146
01:43:19,840 --> 01:43:22,040
Speaker 1: think any rookie is gonna go through the lumps. Uh.

2147
01:43:22,760 --> 01:43:24,920
Speaker 1: You know, Saldon, do you see a rookie coming and

2148
01:43:25,040 --> 01:43:28,240
Speaker 1: just you know, tear it on fire. Um. But you know,

2149
01:43:28,439 --> 01:43:30,479
Speaker 1: I know Marcus, you know, I trained with him for

2150
01:43:30,479 --> 01:43:32,720
Speaker 1: a little bit in the off season. You know, just

2151
01:43:32,840 --> 01:43:34,960
Speaker 1: a great dude, and he's a fantastic football player. So

2152
01:43:34,960 --> 01:43:36,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun to go out there and and

2153
01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:43,000
Speaker 1: you know play against him experience. Um, I mean he

2154
01:43:43,120 --> 01:43:45,000
Speaker 1: was in the off season, Uh, and I was getting

2155
01:43:45,080 --> 01:43:47,800
Speaker 1: draft prep and you know, he was very helpful with

2156
01:43:48,120 --> 01:43:51,320
Speaker 1: you know, me and Sam and Kyle and just telling us, um,

2157
01:43:51,439 --> 01:43:54,200
Speaker 1: little tidbits here and there. And um, you know, he

2158
01:43:54,200 --> 01:43:56,840
Speaker 1: didn't give him anything too special, uh for us to

2159
01:43:56,880 --> 01:43:59,519
Speaker 1: come out, come out and play very well. But I'm

2160
01:43:59,560 --> 01:44:01,439
Speaker 1: looking for it's the chance of play against him because,

2161
01:44:01,520 --> 01:44:03,320
Speaker 1: like I said, he's just one of the coolest guys

2162
01:44:03,320 --> 01:44:07,519
Speaker 1: I've ever met. Warn you maybe to go slowly or

2163
01:44:07,680 --> 01:44:13,080
Speaker 1: just not really. Um, you know, he was thrown into

2164
01:44:13,080 --> 01:44:15,200
Speaker 1: the fire early in his career too. Uh you know,

2165
01:44:15,280 --> 01:44:18,040
Speaker 1: and I think any quarterback will say, sometimes you need that.

2166
01:44:18,160 --> 01:44:20,479
Speaker 1: Sometimes you need those mistakes and you need to learn

2167
01:44:20,560 --> 01:44:24,639
Speaker 1: by trial and error. So, um, that's what we're doing

2168
01:44:24,760 --> 01:44:26,880
Speaker 1: right now, and we're we're getting better. I'm learning. I'm

2169
01:44:26,920 --> 01:44:30,760
Speaker 1: growing every opportunity that I get. So UM, I felt

2170
01:44:30,760 --> 01:44:32,479
Speaker 1: like in that aspect, we're doing a really good jobs.

2171
01:44:32,800 --> 01:44:35,840
Speaker 1: Are you an accepting mistakes? And then we hear Sean

2172
01:44:35,920 --> 01:44:38,720
Speaker 1: McDermott and even teammates say, we understand it, You're going

2173
01:44:38,800 --> 01:44:42,560
Speaker 1: to make mistakes. Where are you personally accepting that. I

2174
01:44:42,680 --> 01:44:44,720
Speaker 1: don't care if I'm a rookie or a vet. You know,

2175
01:44:44,760 --> 01:44:47,240
Speaker 1: there's some things that I just flat out can't do

2176
01:44:47,360 --> 01:44:49,400
Speaker 1: on a football field. And you saw that, you know,

2177
01:44:49,760 --> 01:44:53,840
Speaker 1: right before halftime against Green Bay, And um, that's a

2178
01:44:53,960 --> 01:44:55,840
Speaker 1: mistake that you know, I hope to never make again.

2179
01:44:56,360 --> 01:44:58,559
Speaker 1: In my mind, I won't ever make again, you know. Um,

2180
01:44:58,800 --> 01:45:01,000
Speaker 1: I just got to understand that, you know, I don't

2181
01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:03,920
Speaker 1: have to make every play perfect, and sometimes, like I said,

2182
01:45:03,920 --> 01:45:07,120
Speaker 1: I throwaways the best option and just playing situational football,

2183
01:45:07,160 --> 01:45:08,880
Speaker 1: which coaching with Difference has been doing the great job of,

2184
01:45:09,040 --> 01:45:12,480
Speaker 1: you know, really preaching to us as a team, demonstrate

2185
01:45:12,840 --> 01:45:15,439
Speaker 1: physically that you could recognize which is where they're coming.

2186
01:45:15,479 --> 01:45:17,559
Speaker 1: You can beat it consistent basis. You're just gonna see

2187
01:45:17,600 --> 01:45:19,320
Speaker 1: more and more of it every single game. The team

2188
01:45:19,360 --> 01:45:21,720
Speaker 1: is just gonna keep testing as much as they can. Yeah. Um,

2189
01:45:22,200 --> 01:45:24,640
Speaker 1: but the more times it comes, the more times I

2190
01:45:24,720 --> 01:45:26,479
Speaker 1: see it, you know, the more comfortable I get with it,

2191
01:45:26,560 --> 01:45:28,519
Speaker 1: and the more times I can you know, assess what's

2192
01:45:28,520 --> 01:45:31,800
Speaker 1: going on and find answers and um, so, I mean

2193
01:45:32,680 --> 01:45:35,360
Speaker 1: it doesn't scare me. He doesn't put any more pressure

2194
01:45:35,439 --> 01:45:38,000
Speaker 1: on me. I understand that this is a process that

2195
01:45:38,000 --> 01:45:39,400
Speaker 1: a lot of people go through as as a young

2196
01:45:39,479 --> 01:45:42,280
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league. So, um, you know, I'm really

2197
01:45:42,320 --> 01:45:45,000
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. What stands out about about the

2198
01:45:45,160 --> 01:45:47,920
Speaker 1: Tennessee defense, I mean they do a lot of different things,

2199
01:45:48,000 --> 01:45:49,519
Speaker 1: you know, in their coverage and they got some really

2200
01:45:49,560 --> 01:45:52,800
Speaker 1: good cover players. Um, they got some really good speed

2201
01:45:52,840 --> 01:45:55,960
Speaker 1: in their front four front. They're big dudes that that

2202
01:45:56,439 --> 01:45:59,080
Speaker 1: really disrupt the running game. You know, I don't think

2203
01:45:59,080 --> 01:46:02,400
Speaker 1: they've allowed a rushing touchdown all year. Um, so, I mean,

2204
01:46:03,040 --> 01:46:05,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna be good. They're gonna be ready, they're gonna

2205
01:46:05,320 --> 01:46:07,320
Speaker 1: be prepared to come in here on Sunday, and you

2206
01:46:07,400 --> 01:46:09,559
Speaker 1: know we got we gotta execute and go out there

2207
01:46:09,600 --> 01:46:12,719
Speaker 1: and player game. That's Josh Allen, Bill's quarterback, Josh Allen

2208
01:46:12,840 --> 01:46:16,519
Speaker 1: talking about this game, about his rebounding and about his

2209
01:46:16,600 --> 01:46:20,040
Speaker 1: opponent this week, the Tennessee Titans. He's right about the defense,

2210
01:46:20,080 --> 01:46:23,519
Speaker 1: Steve Tennessee's defense, they're they're they're they're pretty good. They're

2211
01:46:23,560 --> 01:46:27,080
Speaker 1: pretty good. I'm double checking his numbers on Yeah, they've

2212
01:46:27,160 --> 01:46:30,720
Speaker 1: yet to allow a rushing touchdown. Most impressive to me

2213
01:46:31,200 --> 01:46:34,040
Speaker 1: just getting diving into the Titans was the upfront guys,

2214
01:46:34,280 --> 01:46:38,599
Speaker 1: in particular Jurrell Casey defensive alignment, defensive tackle. On one side,

2215
01:46:38,920 --> 01:46:41,839
Speaker 1: You've got Brian a rackbo, four time Pro Bowl performer,

2216
01:46:41,880 --> 01:46:43,640
Speaker 1: he'll come off the edge. You got Derek Morgan, a

2217
01:46:43,720 --> 01:46:46,280
Speaker 1: veteran guy. Their veterans and their coach by a veteran.

2218
01:46:46,479 --> 01:46:49,280
Speaker 1: I think he's sixty eight year old Dean Peace, who

2219
01:46:49,400 --> 01:46:51,600
Speaker 1: was the coordinator of the Baltimore Ravens defense for a

2220
01:46:51,680 --> 01:46:55,680
Speaker 1: long time. Retired last year from Baltimore and then went

2221
01:46:55,760 --> 01:46:59,280
Speaker 1: and took a job with the Tennessee Titans. It's kind

2222
01:46:59,320 --> 01:47:01,760
Speaker 1: of funny. He just I'm out, Well, I'm not out yet.

2223
01:47:01,800 --> 01:47:04,400
Speaker 1: I'll go back and work with Tennessee. But they kind

2224
01:47:04,439 --> 01:47:06,160
Speaker 1: of know what they're doing on defense. I think they're

2225
01:47:06,240 --> 01:47:09,080
Speaker 1: very strong defensively and Iraq Po on one side, Jarell

2226
01:47:09,200 --> 01:47:11,559
Speaker 1: Casey on the other very very good, just a really

2227
01:47:11,600 --> 01:47:14,400
Speaker 1: good defensive yeah there, and they are well coordinated, no

2228
01:47:14,560 --> 01:47:18,080
Speaker 1: question about it. They've a rock po and Jarell Casey.

2229
01:47:18,400 --> 01:47:21,920
Speaker 1: Fans here in Buffalo may not recognize Casey's name. He

2230
01:47:22,120 --> 01:47:25,840
Speaker 1: is a really good pass rusher from inside and a

2231
01:47:25,960 --> 01:47:28,160
Speaker 1: rock po coming over last year or two years ago

2232
01:47:28,560 --> 01:47:31,439
Speaker 1: change the front for them dramatically. So Casey's a guy

2233
01:47:31,520 --> 01:47:33,479
Speaker 1: that gets a lot of Saxon is a real handful

2234
01:47:33,600 --> 01:47:37,479
Speaker 1: up front. And with you did with the corners that

2235
01:47:37,720 --> 01:47:41,040
Speaker 1: we've already talked about and those they can they match

2236
01:47:41,160 --> 01:47:44,400
Speaker 1: up Malcolm Butler and Logan Ryan along with the Dory

2237
01:47:44,520 --> 01:47:47,560
Speaker 1: Jackson at corner. As those three guys they can go

2238
01:47:47,720 --> 01:47:50,240
Speaker 1: deep into their coverage skills with the nickel and the

2239
01:47:50,320 --> 01:47:53,280
Speaker 1: three wide receiver set, so they don't they're not afraid

2240
01:47:53,320 --> 01:47:55,200
Speaker 1: to match up. And if they're not afraid to match

2241
01:47:55,280 --> 01:47:56,679
Speaker 1: up and play man, if they can get it done,

2242
01:47:56,720 --> 01:47:59,120
Speaker 1: that that spells a lot of problems for your offense

2243
01:47:59,240 --> 01:48:02,960
Speaker 1: because that that needed they can send some extra guys

2244
01:48:03,000 --> 01:48:05,760
Speaker 1: after your quarterback. And this we should know this about

2245
01:48:05,800 --> 01:48:09,599
Speaker 1: their defense as well. Um Kenny McCarroll former New Orleans Saint.

2246
01:48:10,160 --> 01:48:14,240
Speaker 1: Now they signed him when they lost the name escapes

2247
01:48:14,320 --> 01:48:17,400
Speaker 1: me there the safety that they lost in preseason. Titans

2248
01:48:17,439 --> 01:48:19,040
Speaker 1: lost someone in to injury. So they go out and

2249
01:48:19,040 --> 01:48:20,880
Speaker 1: get a pretty good pick up Kenny McCarroll, who's had

2250
01:48:20,920 --> 01:48:23,559
Speaker 1: some pretty strong years with An Orleans Saints, and now

2251
01:48:23,600 --> 01:48:25,560
Speaker 1: he's hurt. He got hurt in the Eagles game. He

2252
01:48:25,680 --> 01:48:28,120
Speaker 1: is not expected to play this Sunday. So that's a

2253
01:48:28,120 --> 01:48:29,800
Speaker 1: little bit of a poost for the Bills. I would

2254
01:48:29,800 --> 01:48:32,240
Speaker 1: think the corners are good former Patriots, both of them.

2255
01:48:32,280 --> 01:48:33,880
Speaker 1: You gotta be leave Rabel had something to do with that.

2256
01:48:34,240 --> 01:48:36,439
Speaker 1: Logan Ryan on one side, Malcolm Butler on the other.

2257
01:48:36,840 --> 01:48:38,479
Speaker 1: Uh they're pretty good. They're not great, but they're a

2258
01:48:38,479 --> 01:48:40,240
Speaker 1: pretty good defense. And it is going to be a test.

2259
01:48:40,280 --> 01:48:43,840
Speaker 1: And the one thing I'm certain of, and Josh Allen

2260
01:48:43,880 --> 01:48:45,640
Speaker 1: made reference to it, that they're going to test him

2261
01:48:45,800 --> 01:48:48,200
Speaker 1: because everybody's gonna look at the video from last week

2262
01:48:48,240 --> 01:48:49,680
Speaker 1: and say, well, there you go, that's what we can

2263
01:48:49,720 --> 01:48:51,919
Speaker 1: do against this kid. I don't know that a Deep's

2264
01:48:51,920 --> 01:48:53,960
Speaker 1: are gonna throw the variety of different looks that Mike

2265
01:48:54,000 --> 01:48:56,240
Speaker 1: Patton did last Sunday, but he's gonna give him something

2266
01:48:56,280 --> 01:48:58,040
Speaker 1: to think about it, and it's gonna be another challenge

2267
01:48:58,080 --> 01:49:01,160
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen. Yeah, and there's always diff philosophies as well.

2268
01:49:01,280 --> 01:49:03,479
Speaker 1: Some defenses come out and they line up in the

2269
01:49:03,560 --> 01:49:06,439
Speaker 1: exact same look as much as they can. They come

2270
01:49:06,439 --> 01:49:08,320
Speaker 1: out and make you make you think they're in the

2271
01:49:08,400 --> 01:49:10,439
Speaker 1: same defense pre snap all the time, and then go

2272
01:49:10,560 --> 01:49:13,200
Speaker 1: to everything they've got out of that they stem into it.

2273
01:49:13,280 --> 01:49:15,240
Speaker 1: After the snap, they run to where they're supposed to

2274
01:49:15,280 --> 01:49:18,400
Speaker 1: be in the new defense. That's one philosophy as well.

2275
01:49:18,439 --> 01:49:19,840
Speaker 1: They may do a little bit of that as well,

2276
01:49:19,920 --> 01:49:22,600
Speaker 1: show him a lot of the same look with a

2277
01:49:22,680 --> 01:49:25,720
Speaker 1: different defensive scheme called and it's up to him after

2278
01:49:25,800 --> 01:49:28,680
Speaker 1: the snap to figure out what's going on, and a

2279
01:49:28,760 --> 01:49:31,200
Speaker 1: lot of times they do show something exotic and get

2280
01:49:31,280 --> 01:49:33,040
Speaker 1: him thinking about what he's looking at right now and

2281
01:49:33,160 --> 01:49:35,400
Speaker 1: then stem to something different as well. They do that

2282
01:49:35,479 --> 01:49:42,000
Speaker 1: almost every snap, so it's it's difficult, it's complicated, and

2283
01:49:42,240 --> 01:49:46,200
Speaker 1: sometimes even the defenders get confused by it. You know,

2284
01:49:46,240 --> 01:49:47,720
Speaker 1: that's one of the problems with run to some of

2285
01:49:47,760 --> 01:49:50,640
Speaker 1: these defensive schemes. But no problems like that coming out

2286
01:49:50,680 --> 01:49:52,519
Speaker 1: of Tennessee. They seem to be hitting on all cylinders.

2287
01:49:53,080 --> 01:49:54,840
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Lashaw McCoy in a moment or two.

2288
01:49:54,920 --> 01:49:56,800
Speaker 1: He went to the podium a couple of minutes ago.

2289
01:49:57,000 --> 01:49:58,240
Speaker 1: Whant to hear from you? And what do you think

2290
01:49:58,360 --> 01:50:00,760
Speaker 1: is the toughest part of the buffalopo s ngil behind them?

2291
01:50:00,840 --> 01:50:03,000
Speaker 1: Now after those first four games, give us a call.

2292
01:50:03,040 --> 01:50:05,599
Speaker 1: We got lines open eight three five fifty and toll

2293
01:50:05,680 --> 01:50:08,840
Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

2294
01:50:08,920 --> 01:50:11,639
Speaker 1: Call on the line from Gordon ian Hamburg. Hello, Gordon,

2295
01:50:11,680 --> 01:50:15,120
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air. Hi guys, hi, I

2296
01:50:15,400 --> 01:50:18,920
Speaker 1: see her quarterback coach has got like twenty five years

2297
01:50:19,000 --> 01:50:22,160
Speaker 1: experience and coaching, But how much of it is actually

2298
01:50:22,280 --> 01:50:26,439
Speaker 1: with quarterbacks, and does he have any experience with a young,

2299
01:50:27,120 --> 01:50:30,720
Speaker 1: startup quarterback, and do you think maybe we are to

2300
01:50:31,080 --> 01:50:33,760
Speaker 1: have somebody with a little more experience. I think that

2301
01:50:34,000 --> 01:50:39,439
Speaker 1: they lined this quarterback coaching, this coaching staff up exactly

2302
01:50:39,479 --> 01:50:40,960
Speaker 1: the way they want to line it up. I don't

2303
01:50:41,000 --> 01:50:44,200
Speaker 1: think they have any qualms about a Cully coaching him.

2304
01:50:44,520 --> 01:50:46,559
Speaker 1: I don't think they have any qualms about Brian Daboll

2305
01:50:46,640 --> 01:50:49,600
Speaker 1: coaching him. I think they liked their coaching staff, and

2306
01:50:50,120 --> 01:50:53,720
Speaker 1: for whatever experience they do or don't have, they know

2307
01:50:53,840 --> 01:50:56,920
Speaker 1: how important good coaching is for their quarterback. They knew

2308
01:50:56,960 --> 01:50:59,880
Speaker 1: they were going to draft a quarterback coming into this year,

2309
01:51:00,160 --> 01:51:02,559
Speaker 1: and they lined their their coaching staff up the way

2310
01:51:02,560 --> 01:51:04,320
Speaker 1: they wanted it. So I don't think there is any

2311
01:51:04,400 --> 01:51:06,840
Speaker 1: looking back about that. Brian Dabele is a guy who's

2312
01:51:06,840 --> 01:51:08,560
Speaker 1: worked with a lot of young college kids in the

2313
01:51:08,640 --> 01:51:12,000
Speaker 1: last year and a lot of great pro quarterbacks over

2314
01:51:12,040 --> 01:51:15,000
Speaker 1: the course of his career. So yeah, I think they

2315
01:51:15,080 --> 01:51:17,120
Speaker 1: feel really good about where their coaching staff is. I

2316
01:51:17,200 --> 01:51:19,760
Speaker 1: get your point, Gordon, and it's it's not a bad point,

2317
01:51:19,800 --> 01:51:22,160
Speaker 1: I guess, but I do think that might fall under

2318
01:51:22,200 --> 01:51:24,840
Speaker 1: the category of weren't you talking earlier about a silver

2319
01:51:24,920 --> 01:51:27,639
Speaker 1: bullet like, oh, just change a quarterback coach and Josh

2320
01:51:27,640 --> 01:51:29,840
Speaker 1: will be okay. I wish you were that easy. I

2321
01:51:29,880 --> 01:51:32,479
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be with Josh or any rookie quarterback. Right.

2322
01:51:32,600 --> 01:51:35,360
Speaker 1: It's a it's a process. It's gonna take time. He's

2323
01:51:35,400 --> 01:51:37,680
Speaker 1: gonna need good coaching. You're right about that, Gordon, And

2324
01:51:37,880 --> 01:51:40,479
Speaker 1: let's assume right now for the sacred argument that he's

2325
01:51:40,520 --> 01:51:42,720
Speaker 1: getting it, it's still gonna take good time, a lot

2326
01:51:42,760 --> 01:51:45,280
Speaker 1: of time, no matter who the quarterback coaches. Yeah, and

2327
01:51:45,400 --> 01:51:48,600
Speaker 1: believe me, I agree with your coaching matters. There's no

2328
01:51:48,720 --> 01:51:50,920
Speaker 1: doubt about it. It really matters. But I think the

2329
01:51:51,040 --> 01:51:54,280
Speaker 1: coaching staff here, I think Sean McDermott, I think they're

2330
01:51:54,360 --> 01:51:56,599
Speaker 1: very happy with what's happening with Josh. I think they're

2331
01:51:57,560 --> 01:52:01,320
Speaker 1: they know that, you know, they're laying on and what

2332
01:52:01,360 --> 01:52:03,120
Speaker 1: they need to lay on, and they're they're asking him

2333
01:52:03,120 --> 01:52:04,760
Speaker 1: to do what he needs to be doing. Uh, And

2334
01:52:05,000 --> 01:52:07,000
Speaker 1: it's up to Josh to rise to the occasion. But

2335
01:52:07,080 --> 01:52:08,760
Speaker 1: he's getting good coaching. I don't think there are any

2336
01:52:09,280 --> 01:52:12,840
Speaker 1: um anybody in the coaching staff who's looking sideways at

2337
01:52:12,840 --> 01:52:15,600
Speaker 1: the offensive guys or Brian Dable, saying I don't know

2338
01:52:15,600 --> 01:52:17,439
Speaker 1: if he's doing it right. I don't I haven't heard

2339
01:52:17,439 --> 01:52:19,920
Speaker 1: anything like that. I haven't seen it either, So uh no,

2340
01:52:20,080 --> 01:52:22,240
Speaker 1: I feel I don't have a problem with the coaching

2341
01:52:22,280 --> 01:52:26,040
Speaker 1: they're getting. But you're right, coaching does matter, and we've

2342
01:52:26,080 --> 01:52:28,560
Speaker 1: seen we've seen it, and you certainly don't want I

2343
01:52:28,640 --> 01:52:30,200
Speaker 1: went last year with his whole team. I mean they

2344
01:52:30,280 --> 01:52:32,800
Speaker 1: got the playoffs. Yeah you don't. You don't want to

2345
01:52:32,840 --> 01:52:35,080
Speaker 1: make changes now four games in right, I wouldn't think so.

2346
01:52:35,240 --> 01:52:37,960
Speaker 1: Gordon Hey, Lashawan McCoy. Shady McCoy met with the media

2347
01:52:37,960 --> 01:52:40,160
Speaker 1: a couple of moments ago. Let's listening to some of

2348
01:52:40,400 --> 01:52:42,519
Speaker 1: his comments as he talked to the media about the

2349
01:52:42,560 --> 01:52:47,920
Speaker 1: struggles with the Buffalo Bill's run offense. Yeah that's tough.

2350
01:52:48,000 --> 01:52:50,320
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, at the end of the day, man,

2351
01:52:50,880 --> 01:52:53,439
Speaker 1: one guy in control is this. I get the ball

2352
01:52:53,479 --> 01:52:57,360
Speaker 1: in my hands, making plays, my numbers, called simple as

2353
01:52:57,400 --> 01:53:02,920
Speaker 1: that helped his team win games. How do you how

2354
01:53:02,920 --> 01:53:04,880
Speaker 1: do you stay how can you stay patient? You for

2355
01:53:05,280 --> 01:53:07,680
Speaker 1: a guy like you who you know know where it's

2356
01:53:07,720 --> 01:53:11,439
Speaker 1: really patient. Yeah, I really am not um. But hey, man,

2357
01:53:11,479 --> 01:53:13,400
Speaker 1: the coaches they know they don't want to be involved.

2358
01:53:13,400 --> 01:53:16,120
Speaker 1: They don't want to. I want to get the ball

2359
01:53:16,479 --> 01:53:20,920
Speaker 1: every play, so they know that we're just trying to

2360
01:53:21,800 --> 01:53:23,840
Speaker 1: figure it out. You know, it's hard to get the

2361
01:53:23,880 --> 01:53:29,120
Speaker 1: ball a lot when we're getting pillonees, we're first and fifteens,

2362
01:53:29,520 --> 01:53:32,679
Speaker 1: the second and twenties. I mean it's kind of hard.

2363
01:53:33,479 --> 01:53:37,799
Speaker 1: And considering that the defense coming to play Buffalo offense,

2364
01:53:38,200 --> 01:53:40,000
Speaker 1: I mean the main guy you want to get us

2365
01:53:40,400 --> 01:53:44,840
Speaker 1: our stoppish is McCoy. So, um, you know you add

2366
01:53:44,920 --> 01:53:48,440
Speaker 1: that to the fact that we put ourselves some bad situations.

2367
01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:52,360
Speaker 1: That being said, you guys have had to pass the

2368
01:53:52,439 --> 01:53:54,360
Speaker 1: ball a lot in the second half. Are you surprised

2369
01:53:54,439 --> 01:53:58,080
Speaker 1: that maybe with considering the struggles with a wide receiving corps,

2370
01:53:58,439 --> 01:54:00,360
Speaker 1: you haven't got the chance to split out a little

2371
01:54:00,360 --> 01:54:05,160
Speaker 1: bit that way. Yeah, um, I never thought about that. Also,

2372
01:54:06,200 --> 01:54:09,160
Speaker 1: but we we having packages, we have the plays, um,

2373
01:54:10,080 --> 01:54:12,040
Speaker 1: you know smarter just gone through and just executing it,

2374
01:54:13,040 --> 01:54:16,320
Speaker 1: you know. Um, But whatever my number is called, that's

2375
01:54:16,360 --> 01:54:19,880
Speaker 1: gotta be effective. Get the job done. Worrying about the

2376
01:54:20,080 --> 01:54:22,559
Speaker 1: teams are building your phone behind in three games now

2377
01:54:22,640 --> 01:54:24,800
Speaker 1: this year to just the ability to like catch yall,

2378
01:54:26,600 --> 01:54:30,920
Speaker 1: the ability to like hat y'all try I'm thinking like

2379
01:54:31,320 --> 01:54:33,440
Speaker 1: the first game we got blew out right right, the

2380
01:54:33,520 --> 01:54:36,560
Speaker 1: second game was kind of close. Yeah, and then okay,

2381
01:54:36,720 --> 01:54:41,240
Speaker 1: well I'll just say this. I mean, if you go

2382
01:54:41,360 --> 01:54:46,200
Speaker 1: out there and we just eliminate the mistakes, um, because

2383
01:54:46,240 --> 01:54:48,560
Speaker 1: guys will get beat up front. I'll miss a block

2384
01:54:48,640 --> 01:54:51,440
Speaker 1: here and there, maybe a guy might get defended well

2385
01:54:51,480 --> 01:54:54,640
Speaker 1: on the route. That's football. But the small things, um,

2386
01:54:54,840 --> 01:54:59,200
Speaker 1: that should never happened. It's just jumping offsides, certain holding calls,

2387
01:54:59,760 --> 01:55:02,520
Speaker 1: U on misalignments, things like that that we can control,

2388
01:55:03,120 --> 01:55:06,320
Speaker 1: you know, and that's half the battle. I mean, there's

2389
01:55:06,320 --> 01:55:08,920
Speaker 1: not really too many players in the playbook for a second,

2390
01:55:09,000 --> 01:55:12,680
Speaker 1: and twenties and thirties, you know, third and twenties, there's

2391
01:55:12,720 --> 01:55:16,120
Speaker 1: there's no place for that. I mean, um, you know,

2392
01:55:16,280 --> 01:55:19,000
Speaker 1: so to be in the game, you know, when the

2393
01:55:19,040 --> 01:55:22,200
Speaker 1: win games, you got to give yourself a chance. I mean,

2394
01:55:22,440 --> 01:55:24,560
Speaker 1: and at least we'll give ourselves a shot to win

2395
01:55:24,640 --> 01:55:26,680
Speaker 1: a game or for it to be close, you know,

2396
01:55:26,720 --> 01:55:29,240
Speaker 1: because it all ties into like field position. You know,

2397
01:55:29,320 --> 01:55:30,880
Speaker 1: you get that far back man, do you point the

2398
01:55:30,920 --> 01:55:33,080
Speaker 1: ball and they're getting good field position, you know, and

2399
01:55:33,200 --> 01:55:35,520
Speaker 1: vice versas. So you's got to do a better job

2400
01:55:35,560 --> 01:55:38,440
Speaker 1: to stay on the field, um, you know, and minimizing

2401
01:55:38,480 --> 01:55:41,400
Speaker 1: all the small mistakes. Last year, this team there's seven

2402
01:55:41,440 --> 01:55:46,760
Speaker 1: and now when you've got twenty or more carries your effectiveness.

2403
01:55:47,240 --> 01:55:50,120
Speaker 1: I'm assuming he comes along with just getting the ball

2404
01:55:50,520 --> 01:55:53,520
Speaker 1: on them over the team. Base boy goes laughing because

2405
01:55:53,560 --> 01:55:55,360
Speaker 1: I remember when years ago in Philly we would go

2406
01:55:55,440 --> 01:55:57,840
Speaker 1: through the same thing that Airbard brings up. The stats

2407
01:55:57,840 --> 01:56:01,440
Speaker 1: and all that, but hey, I can't say too many

2408
01:56:01,480 --> 01:56:04,480
Speaker 1: other different ways, and just you know, sometimes the game

2409
01:56:04,520 --> 01:56:06,240
Speaker 1: may shift and we might have to do different things.

2410
01:56:06,360 --> 01:56:09,480
Speaker 1: But I want to run the ball, you know. We

2411
01:56:09,600 --> 01:56:12,200
Speaker 1: know we have to. Like I said before, we just

2412
01:56:12,280 --> 01:56:15,080
Speaker 1: got to minimize the small mistakes, you know, and get

2413
01:56:15,160 --> 01:56:19,320
Speaker 1: some some running downs, you know, second and six second

2414
01:56:19,360 --> 01:56:24,160
Speaker 1: of five regular first downs. You know, let's get things going. Um.

2415
01:56:24,600 --> 01:56:26,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I never look at the stats unless it's

2416
01:56:26,400 --> 01:56:30,440
Speaker 1: Russian stats for myself. But we do the small things.

2417
01:56:30,480 --> 01:56:32,480
Speaker 1: We block, we run, we catch, we get first down

2418
01:56:32,600 --> 01:56:34,879
Speaker 1: to convert. You know, we don't have a lot of penalties.

2419
01:56:35,040 --> 01:56:39,160
Speaker 1: That's some winning formula. They going simple ready makes sound simple.

2420
01:56:39,160 --> 01:56:41,600
Speaker 1: It's not the Esmond that simple. Um. I was there

2421
01:56:41,680 --> 01:56:44,800
Speaker 1: at McCoy's locker in Green Bay Sunday Steven again. Listening

2422
01:56:44,800 --> 01:56:46,480
Speaker 1: to him today, I wasn't out there today we're on

2423
01:56:46,520 --> 01:56:50,200
Speaker 1: the air. He sounds down to me, you know what

2424
01:56:50,280 --> 01:56:52,480
Speaker 1: I mean. His tone is sort of down, And I

2425
01:56:52,560 --> 01:56:55,240
Speaker 1: hope he pulls it together by Sunday because they need him.

2426
01:56:55,480 --> 01:56:57,280
Speaker 1: He's right, they need him. He's a big part of

2427
01:56:57,320 --> 01:56:59,480
Speaker 1: the offense. But he just sounds a little bit um

2428
01:57:00,160 --> 01:57:02,840
Speaker 1: if it's frustrated or just a little bit down about

2429
01:57:02,880 --> 01:57:04,760
Speaker 1: the way things have started so far this year. Yeah,

2430
01:57:04,760 --> 01:57:08,200
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's not as simple as just giving him

2431
01:57:08,200 --> 01:57:10,200
Speaker 1: the ball more. It's finding ways to stay on the

2432
01:57:10,280 --> 01:57:12,600
Speaker 1: field and making more opportunities so that you can give

2433
01:57:12,680 --> 01:57:15,200
Speaker 1: him the football. In a regular game plan setting, you're

2434
01:57:15,240 --> 01:57:16,880
Speaker 1: gonna have to throw the football around. You're gonna have

2435
01:57:16,880 --> 01:57:18,040
Speaker 1: to throw it to different people and give it to

2436
01:57:18,080 --> 01:57:20,960
Speaker 1: other people as well to share it because but by

2437
01:57:21,000 --> 01:57:23,280
Speaker 1: the same token, he's got to be the centerpiece, and

2438
01:57:23,400 --> 01:57:25,480
Speaker 1: I think the team is better when he's got the football.

2439
01:57:25,560 --> 01:57:27,680
Speaker 1: But like I said, you can go out there and

2440
01:57:27,760 --> 01:57:30,640
Speaker 1: give it to him every down and you'll be going

2441
01:57:31,400 --> 01:57:34,960
Speaker 1: three and out. Ten out of the twelve possessions you

2442
01:57:35,040 --> 01:57:37,040
Speaker 1: have instead of just seven out of the twelve possessions

2443
01:57:37,080 --> 01:57:40,760
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, so you've got to have more

2444
01:57:40,800 --> 01:57:44,360
Speaker 1: in your offense than just Lashawn McCoy, and right now

2445
01:57:45,440 --> 01:57:48,680
Speaker 1: it looks like he needs to. He's a bigger percentage

2446
01:57:48,680 --> 01:57:50,680
Speaker 1: of the weapons they have now than he's ever been.

2447
01:57:51,080 --> 01:57:54,080
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Murph, He's a bigger percentage

2448
01:57:54,200 --> 01:57:57,680
Speaker 1: of the weapons available than he's ever been been. I

2449
01:57:57,760 --> 01:57:59,720
Speaker 1: don't think that. I mean because they have so many

2450
01:58:00,040 --> 01:58:03,120
Speaker 1: were options. They have fewer options even now mature than

2451
01:58:03,120 --> 01:58:05,320
Speaker 1: they did a year ago. And I think teams know that,

2452
01:58:05,480 --> 01:58:08,400
Speaker 1: and that makes it, like I said, it makes it

2453
01:58:08,440 --> 01:58:11,000
Speaker 1: even harder to get in the ball now, so they

2454
01:58:11,040 --> 01:58:12,960
Speaker 1: gotta do it. Though. Yeah, you gotta find ways to

2455
01:58:13,000 --> 01:58:14,520
Speaker 1: get him over. You gotta split him out, put him

2456
01:58:14,520 --> 01:58:16,400
Speaker 1: in motion, make him hard to find for the defense,

2457
01:58:16,480 --> 01:58:19,240
Speaker 1: put him in a bunch situation where with the defense

2458
01:58:19,320 --> 01:58:21,080
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Move him out of the backfield.

2459
01:58:21,400 --> 01:58:23,160
Speaker 1: You gotta move them around, make it hard for the

2460
01:58:23,240 --> 01:58:25,280
Speaker 1: defense to find him, make him have to adjust to

2461
01:58:25,320 --> 01:58:27,440
Speaker 1: find somebody to cover him, and see if you can

2462
01:58:27,520 --> 01:58:30,040
Speaker 1: get it to him that way. But yeah, I think,

2463
01:58:31,360 --> 01:58:33,360
Speaker 1: like I said, I think there are even fewer options

2464
01:58:33,440 --> 01:58:34,920
Speaker 1: this year than they have been in the last three

2465
01:58:35,000 --> 01:58:37,960
Speaker 1: or four years. In Buffalo other than Shady talking about

2466
01:58:38,280 --> 01:58:40,240
Speaker 1: a lot today about the Bills, and maybe the schedule

2467
01:58:40,280 --> 01:58:42,040
Speaker 1: gets easier. Got a call I want to get on here,

2468
01:58:42,120 --> 01:58:43,920
Speaker 1: Dave in Florida. Hello, Dave, go ahead, you're on the

2469
01:58:43,960 --> 01:58:47,320
Speaker 1: air with us. Hey, Mark Pie, Dave. How you doing? Okay, Dave,

2470
01:58:47,960 --> 01:58:53,840
Speaker 1: I'm a firm believer the NFL is at a same parody. Okay,

2471
01:58:53,880 --> 01:58:57,120
Speaker 1: it's not like college where oklohol but plays some off

2472
01:58:57,160 --> 01:59:00,360
Speaker 1: the wall team. So you're asking about your last sport games.

2473
01:59:01,160 --> 01:59:03,760
Speaker 1: I don't. I think the whole season is tough. You're

2474
01:59:03,800 --> 01:59:06,960
Speaker 1: starting with a rookie quarterback and second year system, and

2475
01:59:07,240 --> 01:59:09,040
Speaker 1: I don't believe in it. I believe it's we just

2476
01:59:09,120 --> 01:59:11,680
Speaker 1: got a grid and Barren Man. That's how we are.

2477
01:59:11,800 --> 01:59:13,880
Speaker 1: That's how Yeah, we're not talking about the Bills. I'm

2478
01:59:13,920 --> 01:59:16,560
Speaker 1: talking about the I guess the caliber of their opponents,

2479
01:59:16,720 --> 01:59:18,640
Speaker 1: um the home and away. I think that makes a

2480
01:59:18,680 --> 01:59:20,760
Speaker 1: difference home and away, And that makes a difference if

2481
01:59:20,760 --> 01:59:23,480
Speaker 1: you go up against a Hall of Fame quarterback or

2482
01:59:23,720 --> 01:59:25,760
Speaker 1: a Marcus Mariota. I think there's a difference there. No,

2483
01:59:26,040 --> 01:59:28,160
Speaker 1: isn't there, Dave. Now, I don't. I don't think so.

2484
01:59:28,400 --> 01:59:30,840
Speaker 1: I think I think every team is a challenge any

2485
01:59:30,920 --> 01:59:35,800
Speaker 1: given the Sunday Okay just came up with that. Yeah,

2486
01:59:36,000 --> 01:59:38,160
Speaker 1: I get it. I mean, here's the thing. For all

2487
01:59:38,240 --> 01:59:41,080
Speaker 1: the Marcus Mariota is or isn't, and all that Aaron

2488
01:59:41,160 --> 01:59:44,160
Speaker 1: Rodgers is or isn't, the team around them is built

2489
01:59:45,720 --> 01:59:48,520
Speaker 1: they all and like Dave just mentioned, it's a parody.

2490
01:59:48,920 --> 01:59:51,440
Speaker 1: They get the same amount of draft picks everybody else does.

2491
01:59:51,520 --> 01:59:54,720
Speaker 1: They can move and finagle the salary cap whoever they want.

2492
01:59:55,120 --> 01:59:59,320
Speaker 1: And a team like Tennessee is built around a young

2493
01:59:59,440 --> 02:00:02,240
Speaker 1: quarterback and they've got assets at other places that other

2494
02:00:02,280 --> 02:00:04,160
Speaker 1: teams don't have. So that makes them just as big

2495
02:00:04,240 --> 02:00:06,960
Speaker 1: a challenge as any as the as the Green Bay

2496
02:00:07,000 --> 02:00:10,600
Speaker 1: Packers and the and the San Diego Chargers, because while

2497
02:00:10,600 --> 02:00:14,400
Speaker 1: they may have those great quarterbacks, they don't have a secondary,

2498
02:00:14,440 --> 02:00:16,440
Speaker 1: they don't have a defensive pass rush set's as good

2499
02:00:16,480 --> 02:00:20,040
Speaker 1: as Tennessee's is. Because Tennessee can spend money that they

2500
02:00:20,080 --> 02:00:22,600
Speaker 1: didn't spend on a quarterback kind of thing, but the

2501
02:00:22,680 --> 02:00:25,400
Speaker 1: same token you go to Lambeau, Green Bay. You're telling

2502
02:00:25,440 --> 02:00:28,360
Speaker 1: me it's the same as coming home and play in Tennessee. Right, No,

2503
02:00:28,760 --> 02:00:30,720
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Murphy. I've seen too much of

2504
02:00:30,760 --> 02:00:34,360
Speaker 1: it playing in your building as a difference, and that's

2505
02:00:34,400 --> 02:00:36,400
Speaker 1: going to help them this week, no question about it.

2506
02:00:36,480 --> 02:00:37,760
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's going to help them be

2507
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Speaker 1: the thing that tips the scales in their in their favor.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have to play better to make it. Yeah,

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02:00:41,640 --> 02:00:43,320
Speaker 1: no question, that's all there is to it. A break.

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Speaker 1: We're back with more. We got the coffee with the coach,

2511
02:00:46,000 --> 02:00:48,360
Speaker 1: not us. Chris Brown had coffee with the coach and

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Speaker 1: you can listen into that conversation when we return. John

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Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve Tasker. It's One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Collat of Health from One Bill's Drive and this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Life. John Murphy,

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02:01:10,480 --> 02:01:14,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. The official practice particulpation participation report is not

2517
02:01:15,040 --> 02:01:17,240
Speaker 1: in yet, but we know that Micah Hide did not

2518
02:01:17,320 --> 02:01:20,640
Speaker 1: practice today. Raphael Push his backup, did not practice. That'll

2519
02:01:20,680 --> 02:01:23,320
Speaker 1: get your attention. When you're first string safety and your

2520
02:01:23,360 --> 02:01:27,200
Speaker 1: second string safety both miss practice on Wednesday. That's a

2521
02:01:27,200 --> 02:01:30,040
Speaker 1: little way up good thing, especially when when I'm a

2522
02:01:30,080 --> 02:01:33,600
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl player and you'll find out, yeah, hey, what

2523
02:01:33,680 --> 02:01:35,560
Speaker 1: do you think about the bill schedule? That's kind of

2524
02:01:35,640 --> 02:01:38,720
Speaker 1: been the topic of discussion most most people who responded

2525
02:01:38,840 --> 02:01:42,440
Speaker 1: saying don't worry about it, right, yeah, They're like, yeah, yeah,

2526
02:01:42,760 --> 02:01:44,760
Speaker 1: and I get it. You gotta play better, There's no

2527
02:01:44,840 --> 02:01:46,600
Speaker 1: question about that. I guess I'm just looking at it

2528
02:01:46,680 --> 02:01:49,080
Speaker 1: like maybe things aren't going to be as tough as

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02:01:49,120 --> 02:01:52,440
Speaker 1: they appear to be. Rick on the line from Denver, Colorado, Rick,

2530
02:01:52,520 --> 02:01:55,040
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker tells me that Denver gets more sunshine than

2531
02:01:55,120 --> 02:01:58,000
Speaker 1: most cities in the country. Is that true? That is

2532
02:01:58,160 --> 02:02:00,200
Speaker 1: very true. The only problem with it is every time

2533
02:02:00,240 --> 02:02:02,600
Speaker 1: you see it's no it's usually during Brocos game. But

2534
02:02:02,720 --> 02:02:04,960
Speaker 1: I know it. Those of us that live in Denver

2535
02:02:05,280 --> 02:02:07,760
Speaker 1: like it that way because it keeps the Californians away.

2536
02:02:09,840 --> 02:02:12,600
Speaker 1: That's just what I say. That's just what I say. Rick,

2537
02:02:12,640 --> 02:02:14,520
Speaker 1: I talked bad about Buffalo when I'm out. I'm out

2538
02:02:14,520 --> 02:02:16,200
Speaker 1: in the country, so it keeps the riff raff out

2539
02:02:16,240 --> 02:02:19,840
Speaker 1: of my town. I know what you're saying. There you go, man,

2540
02:02:19,960 --> 02:02:24,040
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? All right? So, Steve, you know,

2541
02:02:24,600 --> 02:02:27,640
Speaker 1: everybody talked about the Wonderlick score and talked about how

2542
02:02:27,760 --> 02:02:31,080
Speaker 1: good Josh Allen is on the white board, and you know,

2543
02:02:31,280 --> 02:02:34,120
Speaker 1: I'm just curious as to why that doesn't translate on

2544
02:02:34,200 --> 02:02:36,400
Speaker 1: the field. It's kind of a yeah, you get on

2545
02:02:36,480 --> 02:02:39,720
Speaker 1: the white board as if this then that situations. But

2546
02:02:39,880 --> 02:02:42,200
Speaker 1: yet it just seems like when the bullets are live,

2547
02:02:42,960 --> 02:02:47,680
Speaker 1: he just doesn't think things through clearly. That's my first question.

2548
02:02:47,800 --> 02:02:50,840
Speaker 1: My second one is, I mean wide receiver. First of all,

2549
02:02:51,440 --> 02:02:53,720
Speaker 1: it's like day Jones in the slot hoping that that

2550
02:02:53,840 --> 02:02:57,280
Speaker 1: would improve his production. It hasn't, and they let Kelsey go.

2551
02:02:57,520 --> 02:02:59,600
Speaker 1: So you got guys like Kelsey out there, and you've

2552
02:02:59,640 --> 02:03:04,520
Speaker 1: got Chris God Matthews. Why are we not kicking these

2553
02:03:04,560 --> 02:03:07,600
Speaker 1: guys up and giving him more targets as well? Because

2554
02:03:07,880 --> 02:03:09,720
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. They probably like the guys they've

2555
02:03:09,760 --> 02:03:11,480
Speaker 1: got better, And that'll tell you why those guys are

2556
02:03:11,520 --> 02:03:13,720
Speaker 1: out there. I mean that they know those guys really well.

2557
02:03:13,800 --> 02:03:15,560
Speaker 1: The guys you just mentioned were actually on the Bills

2558
02:03:15,600 --> 02:03:17,520
Speaker 1: team and they don't want any part of it. You're

2559
02:03:17,520 --> 02:03:21,080
Speaker 1: talking about Richard Matthews, I believe, right, Rick, Yeah, Oh,

2560
02:03:21,120 --> 02:03:23,960
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you're looking at him too. They might have,

2561
02:03:24,240 --> 02:03:26,680
Speaker 1: but they also I mean Corey Coleman's out there again.

2562
02:03:26,760 --> 02:03:29,720
Speaker 1: He got released off the Patriots practice squad. So the

2563
02:03:29,840 --> 02:03:32,040
Speaker 1: guys that are out there are out there. Not only

2564
02:03:32,080 --> 02:03:34,240
Speaker 1: any think the Bills are the only ones struggling with

2565
02:03:34,400 --> 02:03:37,640
Speaker 1: wide receivers. They're not. But they're out there for a reason.

2566
02:03:37,720 --> 02:03:40,600
Speaker 1: And I think the Bills, Uh, while they probably kicked

2567
02:03:40,640 --> 02:03:42,680
Speaker 1: the tires on those guys, talk to the representation to

2568
02:03:42,760 --> 02:03:44,320
Speaker 1: make sure what kind of situation they are and what

2569
02:03:44,400 --> 02:03:47,080
Speaker 1: the guy's looking for. Um, other than that, you know,

2570
02:03:47,080 --> 02:03:48,560
Speaker 1: there's not that much more they can do if they

2571
02:03:48,600 --> 02:03:50,840
Speaker 1: don't want to bring those guys in for look, other

2572
02:03:50,880 --> 02:03:53,120
Speaker 1: than that the whiteboard thing. Yeah, let me say this

2573
02:03:53,280 --> 02:03:56,920
Speaker 1: before Steve gets going here. Um, Rick, it's early. I think, Look,

2574
02:03:56,960 --> 02:03:59,760
Speaker 1: and I acknowledge Josh Allen needs a lot of work

2575
02:04:00,000 --> 02:04:03,440
Speaker 1: and recognizing defenses and seeing the right thing and getting

2576
02:04:03,480 --> 02:04:07,280
Speaker 1: his eyes trained, etc. Etc. He's had three NFL starts.

2577
02:04:07,560 --> 02:04:09,040
Speaker 1: I think he's got a lot of room to grow.

2578
02:04:09,120 --> 02:04:13,080
Speaker 1: But I'm reluctant to make any sweeping this, you know,

2579
02:04:13,360 --> 02:04:15,560
Speaker 1: assertions about where he's at or what he can do.

2580
02:04:15,640 --> 02:04:18,680
Speaker 1: What do you think that's right? And plus these defensive corners,

2581
02:04:18,760 --> 02:04:21,280
Speaker 1: like there's one of the plays that are bouncing around

2582
02:04:21,320 --> 02:04:24,200
Speaker 1: on Twitter on my feed. Dan Orlofsky are buddy who's

2583
02:04:24,240 --> 02:04:26,120
Speaker 1: on the show once in a while, broke down what

2584
02:04:26,240 --> 02:04:28,360
Speaker 1: he saw from Josh Allen, a sixth man front with

2585
02:04:28,480 --> 02:04:31,240
Speaker 1: a bunch formation on his left, and he and actually

2586
02:04:31,280 --> 02:04:33,920
Speaker 1: are the guy our guest tomorrow Kurt Warner started chiming

2587
02:04:34,000 --> 02:04:36,320
Speaker 1: back and forth about what they saw and what Josh

2588
02:04:36,400 --> 02:04:38,240
Speaker 1: Allen's red should have been, where he should have thrown

2589
02:04:38,240 --> 02:04:41,080
Speaker 1: the football. And if you've let that play run, one

2590
02:04:41,080 --> 02:04:43,160
Speaker 1: of the guys in the bunch formation comes wide open

2591
02:04:43,200 --> 02:04:45,280
Speaker 1: in the flat and not covered. I mean he was there,

2592
02:04:46,160 --> 02:04:48,840
Speaker 1: Josh wasn't looking that direction, and Orlovsky was talking about

2593
02:04:48,880 --> 02:04:50,760
Speaker 1: how Josh should have been looking that way. The simple

2594
02:04:50,840 --> 02:04:53,760
Speaker 1: fact the matter is you can go on chalkboard and

2595
02:04:53,800 --> 02:04:55,680
Speaker 1: by the time it takes you to draw the play

2596
02:04:55,760 --> 02:04:59,240
Speaker 1: in or the front end, you've already you can sit

2597
02:04:59,320 --> 02:05:01,600
Speaker 1: there and think about there's no problem. The white board's

2598
02:05:01,640 --> 02:05:03,480
Speaker 1: different than having to do it in a half a

2599
02:05:03,560 --> 02:05:07,880
Speaker 1: second when there's moving bodies around. It's just different. Other

2600
02:05:08,000 --> 02:05:09,640
Speaker 1: players have been good on the white board and been

2601
02:05:09,640 --> 02:05:12,600
Speaker 1: able to go through the excellent guys because dan Orlovsky,

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02:05:12,920 --> 02:05:15,320
Speaker 1: you just talked to dan Orlovsky on Twitter. He went

2603
02:05:15,320 --> 02:05:16,760
Speaker 1: out and went through this whole thing. And to give

2604
02:05:16,760 --> 02:05:18,560
Speaker 1: you an idea of the level of knowledge you have

2605
02:05:18,640 --> 02:05:22,200
Speaker 1: to have. Dan couldn't play. I love Dan. He's a

2606
02:05:22,280 --> 02:05:24,480
Speaker 1: friend of mine. I played golf with him this offseason,

2607
02:05:24,600 --> 02:05:26,840
Speaker 1: and he's out of the league. He never started, and

2608
02:05:26,960 --> 02:05:28,560
Speaker 1: he's the guy that ran out of the back of

2609
02:05:28,640 --> 02:05:31,920
Speaker 1: the end zone in Detroit. I mean, you know, it's hard,

2610
02:05:32,560 --> 02:05:34,160
Speaker 1: and even for guys who have been in the league

2611
02:05:34,160 --> 02:05:37,920
Speaker 1: thirteen years and have got something to offer, they can't

2612
02:05:37,960 --> 02:05:40,400
Speaker 1: get it done. It takes time, and it does take time.

2613
02:05:40,480 --> 02:05:43,680
Speaker 1: And a lot of times quarterbacks who are successful who

2614
02:05:43,720 --> 02:05:46,360
Speaker 1: went through this trial by fire will tell you this.

2615
02:05:47,280 --> 02:05:49,880
Speaker 1: As their season goes on and they start and they

2616
02:05:49,960 --> 02:05:52,480
Speaker 1: play you know, for instance, the Bills will go back

2617
02:05:52,520 --> 02:05:54,640
Speaker 1: and they'll play the Jets twice. When they play the

2618
02:05:54,760 --> 02:05:58,120
Speaker 1: Jets a second time, it's much much easier. They learned

2619
02:05:58,160 --> 02:05:59,560
Speaker 1: a lot and they can carry it over when they

2620
02:05:59,600 --> 02:06:02,120
Speaker 1: come back and play the Patriots the second time, it's

2621
02:06:02,200 --> 02:06:04,720
Speaker 1: much easier. When they play you know, the Dolphins the

2622
02:06:04,800 --> 02:06:07,760
Speaker 1: second time, it's much easier. And consequently, when they play

2623
02:06:07,800 --> 02:06:11,400
Speaker 1: all these teams and they start seeing some repeated concepts,

2624
02:06:11,920 --> 02:06:15,240
Speaker 1: it gets easier and easier. But to get there, you

2625
02:06:15,360 --> 02:06:18,200
Speaker 1: got to play all those teams once, and then you

2626
02:06:18,320 --> 02:06:21,560
Speaker 1: got to start playing him again and keep working hard

2627
02:06:21,680 --> 02:06:25,080
Speaker 1: during that. So it's yeah, Josh Allen may score really

2628
02:06:25,120 --> 02:06:27,280
Speaker 1: high on the Wonderlick. That just means maybe he's gonna

2629
02:06:27,320 --> 02:06:29,160
Speaker 1: get a little faster than other guys. That doesn't mean

2630
02:06:29,200 --> 02:06:31,840
Speaker 1: he's gonna get it tomorrow. Make sure you call Rick good.

2631
02:06:31,920 --> 02:06:34,480
Speaker 1: Questions a good question. Chris Brown sits down every week

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02:06:34,520 --> 02:06:37,040
Speaker 1: with Bill's head coach Sean McDermott. Time now for Coffee

2633
02:06:37,080 --> 02:06:39,960
Speaker 1: with the Coach, presented by Tim Horton's Cafe and Bakeshop,

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02:06:40,000 --> 02:06:49,120
Speaker 1: the official coffee of the Buffalo Bills. Hello everybody, Welcome

2635
02:06:49,160 --> 02:06:51,240
Speaker 1: to the week five edition of Coffee with the Coach,

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02:06:51,320 --> 02:06:53,760
Speaker 1: presented by Tim Wartons. I'm Chris Brown along with Bill's

2637
02:06:53,760 --> 02:06:56,400
Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott as the Bills return home to

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02:06:56,520 --> 02:06:59,160
Speaker 1: face the Titans for a one pm kickoff Sunday at

2639
02:06:59,240 --> 02:07:01,440
Speaker 1: New Air of Field. Thanks for being with us. You

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02:07:01,600 --> 02:07:04,800
Speaker 1: got a valiant effort from your defense this past week,

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02:07:04,840 --> 02:07:08,200
Speaker 1: and some young players really stepped forward for you. When

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02:07:08,240 --> 02:07:11,480
Speaker 1: you have young players making plays like Tremaine and tarn

2643
02:07:11,600 --> 02:07:15,360
Speaker 1: Johnson Ryan Lewis did last week, what kind of impact

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02:07:15,440 --> 02:07:18,440
Speaker 1: do you find that can have on a young player's

2645
02:07:18,520 --> 02:07:21,880
Speaker 1: personal game going forward. Well, the confidence that these young

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02:07:21,960 --> 02:07:26,280
Speaker 1: players will gain from the experience number one having success

2647
02:07:26,440 --> 02:07:28,640
Speaker 1: number two goes a long way in terms of their

2648
02:07:28,720 --> 02:07:32,520
Speaker 1: development their growth moving forward. When you have an offense

2649
02:07:32,600 --> 02:07:34,480
Speaker 1: that has a tough day like you did last week,

2650
02:07:34,920 --> 02:07:37,360
Speaker 1: you navigate your way through the film, how do you

2651
02:07:37,440 --> 02:07:40,600
Speaker 1: and your coaching staff kind of establish what sits at

2652
02:07:40,640 --> 02:07:43,440
Speaker 1: the top of the priority list going into that next

2653
02:07:43,480 --> 02:07:45,680
Speaker 1: week in terms of corrections before you move on to

2654
02:07:45,760 --> 02:07:48,320
Speaker 1: the titles. That's a great question. Careers. Number one, we're

2655
02:07:48,360 --> 02:07:51,200
Speaker 1: real it wasn't good enough, and that's where you got

2656
02:07:51,320 --> 02:07:55,280
Speaker 1: to start. And then number two is take a paintbrush

2657
02:07:55,320 --> 02:07:57,200
Speaker 1: and say, okay, there are some things that we're good enough,

2658
02:07:57,600 --> 02:07:59,040
Speaker 1: and there are some things that we need to obviously

2659
02:07:59,080 --> 02:08:02,040
Speaker 1: make adjustments too. And let's start there. And it starts

2660
02:08:02,080 --> 02:08:05,440
Speaker 1: with establishing the lot of scrimmage on offense opportunities early

2661
02:08:05,440 --> 02:08:07,680
Speaker 1: in the game. To establish alant of scrimmage and our toughness,

2662
02:08:07,760 --> 02:08:10,560
Speaker 1: our physicality. We've got to continue, We've got to do

2663
02:08:10,640 --> 02:08:12,880
Speaker 1: that better moving forward. All right, let's look ahead to

2664
02:08:12,960 --> 02:08:15,800
Speaker 1: the Titans. Now, let's do some of our weekly word association,

2665
02:08:15,880 --> 02:08:18,600
Speaker 1: if you could, as we prepare for this team. So

2666
02:08:18,800 --> 02:08:20,320
Speaker 1: just give me a couple of words that come to

2667
02:08:20,440 --> 02:08:25,400
Speaker 1: mind when I say Marcus Mariota, mobile quarterback. I remember

2668
02:08:25,480 --> 02:08:27,640
Speaker 1: Marcus when he was a rookie as well, years ago

2669
02:08:27,720 --> 02:08:29,800
Speaker 1: and going through some of what Josh is going through now.

2670
02:08:29,840 --> 02:08:32,200
Speaker 1: I think we faced him and either that or a

2671
02:08:32,280 --> 02:08:35,080
Speaker 1: second year in the league and had a pretty good

2672
02:08:35,120 --> 02:08:37,879
Speaker 1: day against him, So you know, there's a process involved.

2673
02:08:38,240 --> 02:08:41,080
Speaker 1: But he's developed into a fine, fine young quarterback. How

2674
02:08:41,080 --> 02:08:43,880
Speaker 1: about a familiar face it was now a Titans cornerback,

2675
02:08:44,160 --> 02:08:48,040
Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler. Well, he's obviously been at the highest level

2676
02:08:48,800 --> 02:08:51,160
Speaker 1: of the game in his career and made big plays,

2677
02:08:51,240 --> 02:08:52,440
Speaker 1: and he's a guy that we're going to need to

2678
02:08:52,440 --> 02:08:56,480
Speaker 1: be aware of. A good solid player, Corey Davis another

2679
02:08:56,520 --> 02:09:00,320
Speaker 1: good solid player, a young player for him that's very talented,

2680
02:09:00,360 --> 02:09:02,840
Speaker 1: and they've got a talented roster and they're a physical

2681
02:09:02,880 --> 02:09:05,440
Speaker 1: football team and it will be good challenge for us.

2682
02:09:05,480 --> 02:09:08,920
Speaker 1: And then finally, rookie head coach Mike Vrabel shoes that

2683
02:09:09,040 --> 02:09:11,680
Speaker 1: you were in just last year right now, he's off

2684
02:09:11,720 --> 02:09:13,480
Speaker 1: to a good start. Like I said, they've got a

2685
02:09:13,520 --> 02:09:16,000
Speaker 1: talented football team and I'm happy for Mike. It'll be

2686
02:09:16,040 --> 02:09:18,560
Speaker 1: a good challenge for us and we've got to continue

2687
02:09:18,600 --> 02:09:20,680
Speaker 1: to grow and develop and put our best for forward

2688
02:09:20,760 --> 02:09:22,440
Speaker 1: this week. All right, thanks for working with me on

2689
02:09:22,520 --> 02:09:24,880
Speaker 1: that one, Coach. Now it's time for our fan question

2690
02:09:24,920 --> 02:09:27,160
Speaker 1: of the week, A chance for you. The fan asked

2691
02:09:27,160 --> 02:09:30,240
Speaker 1: coach a question. This week's question comes from Alan Henderson

2692
02:09:30,280 --> 02:09:32,440
Speaker 1: on Twitter. He says, Coach, do you feel it is

2693
02:09:32,600 --> 02:09:35,760
Speaker 1: as important to relate to all of your players on

2694
02:09:35,840 --> 02:09:38,320
Speaker 1: a personal level as much as the XS and os

2695
02:09:38,440 --> 02:09:41,400
Speaker 1: is Having that kind of relationship and family approach helped

2696
02:09:41,440 --> 02:09:44,800
Speaker 1: them as football players or just met Well, I think

2697
02:09:44,800 --> 02:09:47,080
Speaker 1: it does. I think it definitely helps them off the

2698
02:09:47,240 --> 02:09:51,520
Speaker 1: field first. And my dad, being a college football coach,

2699
02:09:51,680 --> 02:09:54,160
Speaker 1: taught me years ago when I was growing up that

2700
02:09:54,560 --> 02:09:57,440
Speaker 1: you need to establish the relationship with the player first

2701
02:09:57,480 --> 02:10:00,360
Speaker 1: so that they know how much you care, and after

2702
02:10:00,480 --> 02:10:02,880
Speaker 1: that they'll buy into what you're selling in terms of

2703
02:10:02,880 --> 02:10:05,440
Speaker 1: the XS and o's in the scheme. But I've found

2704
02:10:05,480 --> 02:10:07,480
Speaker 1: that if you developed the player off the field first,

2705
02:10:08,280 --> 02:10:11,720
Speaker 1: they turn out to be or turned to develop on

2706
02:10:11,880 --> 02:10:15,080
Speaker 1: the field as well. So you know, we try and

2707
02:10:15,120 --> 02:10:19,000
Speaker 1: develop the whole person with our support staff here at

2708
02:10:19,040 --> 02:10:21,480
Speaker 1: the Bills. All right, Coach, as always, thanks for the time,

2709
02:10:21,560 --> 02:10:23,560
Speaker 1: Good luck getting to winning on Sunday at home. Appreciate

2710
02:10:23,640 --> 02:10:25,920
Speaker 1: it all right. That's Bill's head coach, Sean McDermott. This

2711
02:10:26,040 --> 02:10:28,600
Speaker 1: is being Coffee with the Coach, presented by Tim Hortons.

2712
02:10:28,680 --> 02:10:31,240
Speaker 1: Thanks for watching. We'll see you next week. Thank you, Chris,

2713
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Speaker 1: Thank you Coach. Coffee with the Coach presented by Tim

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Speaker 1: Refield this weekend. Friday night. It is game two of

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Speaker 1: which provides a color commentary. Time in Saint Joe, Sat

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Speaker 1: Jude and Cardinal O'Hara seven o'clock this Friday night, year

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Speaker 1: at New Era fields, Steve and I back at the moment,

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bills Drive and this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back. What have we learned from

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Speaker 1: What have we learned today? Good guests today, both of

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Speaker 1: them including Thurman Thomas, Buffalo Bill's running back. Thurman Thomas

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Speaker 1: talking about the problems in the Buffalo Bills run game. Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, I think you're not giving us on

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Speaker 1: We'll go enough touches. I think that's the problem. You're

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Speaker 1: not giving him enough touches. And okay, if your running

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Speaker 1: game is not gone, when you're thinking about the guy

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Speaker 1: can catch the ball out of the backfield, whether you

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Speaker 1: put him at backfield, put him at wide receiver, he's

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Speaker 1: the focal point of your offense. He needs to touch

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Speaker 1: the ball. Now. Obviously, coming back from the rear injury,

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Speaker 1: that may have played a little factory in into it.

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Speaker 1: But okay, now you've got two more. Now you got

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Speaker 1: another week. If he's not healthy now to touch that

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Speaker 1: ball anywhere from twenty to thirty times right now, whether

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Speaker 1: it's fifteen rushes and five catches or whatever it may be.

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Speaker 1: That guy has again he makes things happen. Ran runs

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Speaker 1: phoning around, he wants trying to get more touches. I

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Speaker 1: get it. Also today in the show, Terren Johnson, Bills

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Speaker 1: rookie defensive back fourth rounder at a Weavers State playing

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Speaker 1: the nickel corner spot for the Bills, where he just

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Speaker 1: asked him one month in, what do you think of

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Speaker 1: the NFL so far? It's amazing being out there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the best experiences of my life. Just

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Speaker 1: going onto the field my first game, won't play the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: just going onto the field the first time, all those fans,

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Speaker 1: that's something that was very exciting to me. So but

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Speaker 1: I really enjoy basically the camaraderie you get over time,

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Speaker 1: because I mean I've been here for a while, so

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Speaker 1: I know I know some of the guys a little

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Speaker 1: bit deeper now. So it's just exciting because I want

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Speaker 1: to keep our chemistry building. There you go, Taron Johnson.

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Speaker 1: The injury report is out and uh, nothing really new here.

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Speaker 1: Rest day for Lorenzo, Alexander col Williams, Rafael Bush, and

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Speaker 1: Michael Hide the safeties. Both of them did not practice today.

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Speaker 1: Limited work for Charles Clay and Marcus Murphy. Great show

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Speaker 1: coming up tomorrow, Steve with Kurt Warner and company. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a great show. We're gonna talk more about

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Speaker 1: this game. Can't wait. I'm I told you this too,

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Speaker 1: and one of the breaks, I'm I'm at the point Wednesdays.

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Speaker 1: I don't know whether it's Wednesday, hump Day or whatever,

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Speaker 1: but I start thinking about it and getting excited. Is

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Speaker 1: I want to see him play again. I want to

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Speaker 1: see him get better in certain spots. I want to

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Speaker 1: see the defense play good, and I want to see

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Speaker 1: him have a chance to win. It's it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a fun week, I think. I think this is gonna

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Speaker 1: be a much more fun game to watch our productively,

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Speaker 1: it won't be a blowout, you know, way or the other.

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Speaker 1: I want to type game. Our production assistants Jeff Colton, Big,

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Speaker 1: Thomas Donald Or, Kelly Rude, JJ Turrito, Kevin Caring, James

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Speaker 1: Robol Or producer Jay Harris. Seeing tomorrow at noon One

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