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Speaker 1: He had one at Georgia, missed an entire school year

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Speaker 1: and I watched that injury live on television, and legs

425
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Speaker 1: are not supposed to bend that way. Yeah, it was bad.

426
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Speaker 1: To his credit, man, he has bounced back from that.

427
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,639
Speaker 1: He's been extraordinarily productive. But some people always look at

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00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,679
Speaker 1: these kinds of extensions for heavy workload running backs with

429
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Speaker 1: a wary eye because more often than not, the history

430
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 1: of this league has said, you don't get your money's worth.

431
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: There are exceptions. Adrian Peterson was still killing it at

432
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 1: age thirty three. Yep, but he is not the rule.

433
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 1: He is the exception. Maybe Chubb's an exception two. He

434
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Speaker 1: is a dynamite running back, no question about it. Yeah,

435
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 1: thirty six million plus for a three year extension, twenty

436
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 1: million guaranteed. That's a big number for any running back

437
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Speaker 1: in the NFL right now because those they're they're so numerous,

438
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,959
Speaker 1: you know, and teams are given the ball to so

439
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 1: many guys in the backfield. There's only a couple of

440
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: teams that have a bell cow the Giants, the Titans,

441
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 1: and you kind of run out. Everybody else is doing

442
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Speaker 1: it with a couple of guys, the Cowboys, maybe with Elliott,

443
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: maybe the Steelers do it with Nagi Harris. But that

444
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: guy's you know, that guy's fresh out of the rapper.

445
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 1: So it's just not a philosophy that has been proven

446
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Speaker 1: to be successful in this day and age and years

447
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,880
Speaker 1: pasted Obvian decades past. Yeah, obviously, but it's a it's

448
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 1: a pretty reasonable contract, all things considered, because Ezekiel Elliott

449
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: is an average annual value of fifteen million, Alvin Kamara

450
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 1: fifteen million, Christian McCaffrey sixteen million, and then after that,

451
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Speaker 1: it's down in the twelves. Derrick Henry twelve and a half,

452
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook twelve point six, and that's where Joe Mixon twelve,

453
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Speaker 1: and now Chubb is at twelve two, Aaron Jones at twelve.

454
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Speaker 1: So he's in the top ten. If I was a

455
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Speaker 1: running back, I couldn't sign that fast enough. Yeah, And

456
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Speaker 1: there were some people out there that were telling him

457
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Speaker 1: he got that, like he got taken, like he should

458
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Speaker 1: be up there in the fifteen sixteen million with and

459
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 1: I don't you can make that ark at his numbers,

460
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 1: he's averaging over five yours a care. I mean he

461
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 1: doesn't really getting it done. He is, and he doesn't

462
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Speaker 1: even have to play the position full time because they've

463
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Speaker 1: also have Kareem Hunt. I mean they're kind of a

464
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Speaker 1: one two punch, so it's not like he's low, you know,

465
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Speaker 1: loading up on carries like Derrick Henry. I'm, can you

466
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Speaker 1: argue about making more money than Derrick Henry. I mean,

467
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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry's making twelve five. Now you're making twelve two.

468
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Speaker 1: I mean that's pretty fair. Yeah, and you're sharing the

469
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,959
Speaker 1: load with Kareem Hunt. I'm I think both the team

470
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Speaker 1: and the player this is I think it's a really

471
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Speaker 1: good contract. If the if the Cleveland Browns think they

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Speaker 1: can afford it, and they got cap and they do

473
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Speaker 1: have cap space for it, and I mean they're they're

474
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Speaker 1: sitting at like eighteen million cap space. Um, that's that's

475
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 1: a great deal for both both sides. I was a

476
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Speaker 1: running back, You're that's as good as you can hope

477
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Speaker 1: to get in this market. And for the team if

478
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Speaker 1: if they like him that much they got him for

479
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Speaker 1: three more years, good for them. Yeah, I think it's

480
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Speaker 1: it's I think it's a three deal. The reason it

481
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Speaker 1: raises eyebrows, the reason we're talking about because they're running back. Well,

482
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Speaker 1: the attrition rate. Yeah, I mean there's you know, Chubb

483
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Speaker 1: has one more major leg injury, it could be over.

484
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 1: So twenty of the thirty six is guaranteed. So no

485
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Speaker 1: matter what happens, he's going home with twenty million dollars

486
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Speaker 1: if his career ends tomorrow. But yeah, the law of

487
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: diminishing returns applies to the running back position, maybe more

488
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Speaker 1: than any other position in football, just because of the

489
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Speaker 1: pounding they take. Now you have an extra game every

490
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Speaker 1: season in the regular season, so more teams are making

491
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Speaker 1: the playoffs every year. You know, it's more action for

492
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Speaker 1: a lot of running backs in this league. And there's

493
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Speaker 1: there's a few running backs out there that are singular,

494
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Speaker 1: like Alvin Kamara. That guy's different. McCaffrey is a little different,

495
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Speaker 1: and obviously Derek Henry is a little different, and they're

496
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Speaker 1: all different in their own way too. I mean, McCaffrey

497
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 1: is kind of an all around guy. They use him

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Speaker 1: in the passing game and the running game. Kamara is

499
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Speaker 1: a pass catching machine. He's an unbelievable talent. Of course,

500
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Speaker 1: and of course Derrick Henry's a steamroller. So all three

501
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Speaker 1: of those guys are different in their own way and unique.

502
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Speaker 1: But there's three of them in the league that has

503
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Speaker 1: what ninety six active on a Sunday. That's that's a

504
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 1: pretty elite group. Yeah, it is, no question about it.

505
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: So that's kind of our look around the league. There

506
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Speaker 1: was one other thing that came up. Eagles wide receiver

507
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Speaker 1: DeVante Smith, the rookie at Alabama Heisman Trophy winner. He

508
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Speaker 1: is going to miss the next two weeks with a

509
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Speaker 1: sprained knee. And Steve I remember when we were doing

510
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Speaker 1: all of our draft prep and we were doing the draft,

511
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Speaker 1: covering the draft, you know, on the show or during

512
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Speaker 1: the draft special, I expressed concern about that kid getting

513
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Speaker 1: snapped in half at the NFL level. I mean, he

514
00:27:55,480 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: is wafer thin, like he is thin, not a lot

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00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: of muscle tone. It's a physical game. The corners in

516
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: this league are physical. We're not even in pants yet,

517
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Speaker 1: and he's got a knee sprain. And I'm not wishing

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Speaker 1: ill will on the kid at all. But if I

519
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 1: was like, and believe me, this is the untrained die,

520
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: I don't know the things that GM's in this league. No,

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00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: but watching him play and seeing how open he got

522
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 1: in college, I don't know if that happens at the

523
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Speaker 1: NFL level as much as it did in college. It

524
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 1: usually doesn't. And the physicality of the cornerbacks in this league,

525
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: even with all the new rules to protect defenseless receivers

526
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Speaker 1: and all of that stuff, it's rough going, man, and

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Speaker 1: I just don't know if he's going to be able

528
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Speaker 1: to physically hold up, especially now in a seventeen game

529
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: regular season. It's gonna be I wish him the best,

530
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: but I am genuinely concerned if I am an Eagles

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Speaker 1: fan that this guy's going to be available every single year.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you. We set it from the beginning,

533
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: and that's why there's a bunch of guys that he

534
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: kid won the Heisman and he deserved it. Great season,

535
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: phenomenal season. It's a different game at this level. And

536
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,239
Speaker 1: that's why there and you and I talk about all

537
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: the time, because this team is way into it and

538
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: we you know, as much success as Sean McDermott and

539
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: brand of being have had here in Buffalo in the

540
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: last four or five years, it's been proven to be true.

541
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Speaker 1: Elite traits count count, and you can get by without them,

542
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: no question. There are great players who don't, you know,

543
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: tip the scales and check whatever boxes you want to

544
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: call it. But man, oh man, the one thing that

545
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: has helped this team in the last two or three

546
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: years is their health and elite traits helped that. They

547
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: really do. And time and time again, it's proven that

548
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: this is a big man's game. There are exceptions, but

549
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: not many, not many. It's thin, guys, that's what it's about.

550
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: It's not about being short, No, it's about being thin.

551
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: There's no muscle tone on his frame. You you gotta

552
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: have some masks picking up. You gotta have some mass

553
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Speaker 1: in your body to accept the collisions. That's one of

554
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Speaker 1: the things that when I was in college. I went

555
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: to college, I wagh one hundred and forty seven pounds

556
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Speaker 1: and when I came out of college, I was one

557
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five pounds at the same height people did,

558
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: eating fifteen thousand calories a day. I had friends of

559
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: high school friends like four or five years later, didn't

560
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: recognize me. Yeah, that's how thick much thicker I got.

561
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: And it was all due to just training, and it

562
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: wasn't because and I'll say this, I was I keep

563
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: telling you this. I was in the steroid era, right,

564
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Speaker 1: so a lot of a lot of my peers and

565
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: contemporaries were doing that and I never did. And it

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Speaker 1: wasn't because I had some conviction like I wanted to be.

567
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Speaker 1: I couldn't afford it, yeah, right, So I just had

568
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: to do it the old fashioned way. Cottage cheese and

569
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Speaker 1: you know, right, cheese. I'm just gonna say right now,

570
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Speaker 1: pump putting calories on your frame, if you gave me

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Speaker 1: a hundred guesses, I would not have picked cottage cheese.

572
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: I would that that would have been the last thing

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Speaker 1: I would have expected was to come out of your

574
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Speaker 1: mouth in terms of how you put on weight. It

575
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: was to play. In the end, it was cottage cheese.

576
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: You I couldn't because I trained hard all the all

577
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Speaker 1: the time. I mean I went hard and lifting and run,

578
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: lifting and running because I knew I had to get

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Speaker 1: strong because I was you know, I was little, and

580
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: I tried to you know, and when you're working out,

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Speaker 1: you know what it's most people like know what it's like.

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00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: I mean, people work out to lose weight. Well, I'm

583
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Speaker 1: trying to work it at both ends, gain weight and

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00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: work out and get stronger. Man. Oh man, what a battle.

585
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: What a battle. It's fun to eat that much though,

586
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: well it sounds like it, but you're not. You're not

587
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: trying to you know, I'm not eating vanilla and chocolate

588
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: ice cream, right, I mean it feels like I'm eating

589
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: cottage cheese and I'm eating you know, you know, boneless,

590
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: skinless baked chicken. Oh. So you know it's a battle

591
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: for these guys. And so I knew, and I've really

592
00:31:58,200 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: felt in my heart I had to get stronger. It's

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00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: why I could hold up physically, because the velocity of

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00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: these guys raises the collisions and the effect of them raises.

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00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: You just needed some girth and some weight and some

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00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: power behind you just to accept that collision. Because I

597
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: was an offensive player. So you see these guys come

598
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: out of college like you know, Jalen Waddle and these guys,

599
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: and I'm like, wow, man, it's gonna worry about Davante

600
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: Smith because take it from me, it hurts man when

601
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: you get whacked. Yeah, before we go to break here,

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00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,719
Speaker 1: speaking of receivers, it is the subject matter we want

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Speaker 1: to discuss with you today. It's a little early in

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Speaker 1: training camp. We know the pads haven't gone on yet,

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00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: there hasn't been a preseason game, but knowing the way

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Speaker 1: this offense operated last year and how it's likely to

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00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,959
Speaker 1: continue along those lines, how many receivers can the Bills

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Speaker 1: hold on the roster and who do you have making

609
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: it on the back end? I think we all know

610
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: the top were pretty clear and cut and dry. But

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Speaker 1: after that, who do you have for five, six and seven?

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Speaker 1: Let us know who you like, who you think you

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00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: would keep, and then how many you believe the Bills

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00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: will actually keep when it comes to fifty three man

615
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,479
Speaker 1: roster time eight oh three oh five, fifty one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five, fifty two, five fifty or you could

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Speaker 1: hit us up on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I back with more, including some comments from

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Speaker 1: Brian Dable coming your way and Mitch Moore who addressed

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Speaker 1: the media today. So plenty to come here next on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Klota Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to one Bill's Wive. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you week to a training camp under way and

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Speaker 1: a good day for Josh Allen in the offense made

625
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Speaker 1: some good plays in passing game. Trubisky even made some

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Speaker 1: plays with the second group, So yeah, it was a

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Speaker 1: good day for the offense. Not that the defense didn't

628
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: have their shares plays as well, as we mentioned that

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Speaker 1: Terek Thompson interception at the end of practice today, the

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Speaker 1: rookie undrafted safety out of San Diego State. So some

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Speaker 1: good stuff on the field today. We'll get to some

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Speaker 1: comments from Brian Dable, the offensive coordinator, who spoke to

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Speaker 1: the media this morning in short order, as well as

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Speaker 1: Mitch Morrison Devin Singletary who are addressing the media today.

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Speaker 1: But we are discussing how many receivers you think the

636
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: Bills can hold on the roster and who you might

637
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: have at the back end of that equation. Who's making

638
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: your team eight oh three h five fifty. To get

639
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: on board, we go to the phones and leading us

640
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: off today is Dan on a cell, Dan, what do

641
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: you have for us? You're on one Bill's life, Griff. Yeah,

642
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: how we doing? Go ahead? Man? Good? Not I'm about

643
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: the receivers. On ESPN this warning work early to pagas

644
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: why we have to hey for the taxpayers have to

645
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: pay for the new stadium. The receivers are the stadium.

646
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? He's talking about the stadium.

647
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: The taxpayers have to play the new stadium. Yeah, I

648
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: mean the team really isn't commenting on it at all,

649
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: So there's really nothing to discuss there because basically all

650
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: that all that we know is that negotiations are ongoing

651
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: and the team's not commenting at this time. Uh and

652
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 1: uh Steve Tasters should be in the Hall of Fame,

653
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: by the way, till Yeah, I'll buy that for a dollar. Um.

654
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I get where you're I get

655
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: where you're coming from. You know, you see headlines and

656
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: everybody just let's trust the process. I mean, it's just

657
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 1: we're just getting started. I mean we don't know, we

658
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: don't know anything. We can't even talk about it. I mean,

659
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: when I hear something come out of the mouth of

660
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: somebody who knows, I'll listen. Other than that, I'm you know,

661
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: I'm not down. Yeah. Yeah, basically it's that's net negotiations

662
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: ongoing and teams commenting at this time. Yeah, Steve eight

663
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: oh three five fifty one, eight five fifty two, five

664
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 1: fifty we go to Judy and Buffalo Judy, how's it going.

665
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Okay, listen, I think

666
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: Jake Kumero is a very undervalued receiver. I'd really like

667
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: to see him given a chance. Yeah, yeah, a lot

668
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: of public Go ahead, Judy. And my other comment before

669
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: we um, before you cut me off, is that you know,

670
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 1: when the Bills make all of their cuts, you're gonna

671
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:40,240
Speaker 1: see teams swarming over the choices that are scouting staff

672
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: is made. And I just think we don't give enough

673
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: credit to them because they really have some some good

674
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: options out there. I can't imagine making these cuts coming up. Yeah,

675
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. Um. That's why we're also wondering, Judy,

676
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 1: if you know last year they kept six on the

677
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: active roster, and all six were up every single week.

678
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 1: They had six receivers dressed for the game. There were

679
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: no receivers on their an active list right and they

680
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: used them. So knowing the offense is trending in the

681
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,760
Speaker 1: passing direction, I mean, they were sixty one past thirty

682
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: nine run last year in terms of percentages, and it

683
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: might tick a little bit higher this year for all

684
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: we know. So do they keep seven receivers on the

685
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. I wouldn't rule it out. I

686
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: think it's possible. Yeah, it's the league's certainly evolving that way.

687
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 1: But I don't know where they're gonna steal another player from.

688
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: You know, they only got fifty three guys on the

689
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: Act of God, and now they may keep some of

690
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: these guys on the Act on the practice squad. No question,

691
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: they may have as many of They may have as

692
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: many guys as eight guys in the building, but only

693
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: six on the on the roster, and how I have

694
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: two on the practice squad. That kind of thing. I

695
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: couldn't begin to tell you who those would be. But

696
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 1: it's a it's a question mark, and it's really become

697
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: because of not only the direction of the league, but

698
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: also the guys on this team. Their neck deep in

699
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,439
Speaker 1: guys that can play. And you you mentioned Jake Kumero. Yeah,

700
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 1: you're right, he is good. They got a couple other

701
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: guys that I really like um that we've been we've

702
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 1: been watching that. The kid Lance Lenore, I've been kind

703
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: of impressed with. Yeah, of course, Cowell had a nice

704
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: day to day. They've got got Marquez, Stevenson. I'm gonna

705
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 1: we're seeing some stuff from him. So they've got guys

706
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: that probably Judy's right. You get roster vultures at the

707
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,479
Speaker 1: at the cutdown date, and they're gonna get poached well,

708
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 1: and that could lead to a whole nother discussion with

709
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: respect to the receivers here, and maybe for other positions

710
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: like offensive and defensive line, which are also seen as

711
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 1: extraordinarily deep. And Judy was right about this too, the

712
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: scouting in personnel department here. I mean, the way that

713
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,919
Speaker 1: they have transformed this roster over the last four years

714
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: is nothing short of amazing. And there are options galore here. Um,

715
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 1: it's an embarrassment of riches at some of the positions

716
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: on this roster, isn't it really is? It's like one

717
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: guy is here to Jerry Hughes from when McDermott took over. Correct, YEA,

718
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: believe that's correct. Jerry's the only guy I can think of.

719
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: Maybe was it maybe the long snapper? Oh yeah, um

720
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 1: for Ferguson, But that I guess it. And it's a

721
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: total transformation. And you've got guys now that I mean

722
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: you look at you talk to Bills fans everywhere. I mean,

723
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: these guys are already household names. Yeah, but it's it's

724
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 1: been an amazing transformation in building the roster into what

725
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: we see today. And now this roster is harder to

726
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: make than ever and it will make these decisions difficult,

727
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,240
Speaker 1: which is why we're asking you to help that. Judy

728
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: help us with that. Judy just called and she said

729
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: she's she's all about Jake Kumro getting a chance. He

730
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: got a chance on Saturday. She's not alone. He got

731
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: a chance on Saturday because dig sat down and Basy

732
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,919
Speaker 1: didn't take very many reps and Sanders came out early,

733
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: came out early, so he got a chance on Saturday

734
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 1: and showed that he's a pretty good player. And here's

735
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: the thing, and this is me and I'm sure fans

736
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: have their own thoughts about this, and you probably do too, Brownie,

737
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: But so Kumroo comes in last year and they get

738
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 1: him at the end. He wasn't in camp right. He

739
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: came in like he was like the Bills poached him

740
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: when the when the Green Bay cut him right, and

741
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,280
Speaker 1: he was like after camp or during camp or whatever.

742
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: So he shows up and very low key signing of course.

743
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: So he's on the practice squad for a minute. Then

744
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: he gets eleaved. Now Heed he started playing special teams

745
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: a little bit, and he catches a touchdown against Denver

746
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: on that rope that Josh Allen threw right down the

747
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: middle of the field. He catches that. He gets on

748
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:55,760
Speaker 1: the field and he's covering kicks and stuff. He catches

749
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: that pass middled through. The next week after he catches

750
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: that touchdown, he cut They release him and he goes

751
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: to New Orleans and he's down there for I don't

752
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: know what the rest of the season, right, he's like gone,

753
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: and now they cut him and now he's back in

754
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: Buffalo this year. I wanna know why that's hat? Why

755
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,879
Speaker 1: did Green Bay cut him? White Buffalo release him after

756
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: he elevated himself, and now he goes to New Orleans.

757
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: They don't want they don't want him. He comes back

758
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: to Buffalo. What what is the deal with that? Well?

759
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: I think there was an injury situation on the Bill's

760
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: roster and that's why they had to clip him. And

761
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: they tried to get him back on the practice squad,

762
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 1: but he got claimed by New Orleans who just had

763
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: a rash of injuries at receiver and didn't have Michael

764
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: Thomas all year. Among other issues, and then they released

765
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: him a few weeks later, and the Bills got him

766
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: back at the end of one of life. Yeah, think

767
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 1: about that. I got to see an awful out of

768
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 1: the country just by jumping onto Green Bay, Buffalo, New Orleans. Yeah,

769
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,080
Speaker 1: but he came in Buffalo and he and he elevated it,

770
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: kind of worked himself up through the ranks. And I'll

771
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: tell you we you know, lot's been said about Jake

772
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: Kumero and how Aaron Rodgers thought he was the second

773
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 1: best guy in training camp most of the last training

774
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: camp with you know, Davantae Adams playing as well as

775
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: he did, and he and then they release him, and

776
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: so he comes to Buffalo, and certainly you could kind

777
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: of construe yourself in his name. You know, maybe Josh

778
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: feels the same way about the guy he likes. And

779
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's better than Digs or anything, but Josh,

780
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: Josh sees what Aaron Rodgers saw. Yeah, right. I mean

781
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: a lot of it has to do with the guy's

782
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 1: mind frame and how he runs routes and whether how

783
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: he makes himself quarterbacks like certain things about certain receivers. Yeah,

784
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: and the thing to like about him is he is

785
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,720
Speaker 1: a giant target. He's big. He is a giant target.

786
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: He's probably the biggest on the roster at the receiver position.

787
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 1: Sixty four, right, yeah, he might even be six to five.

788
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 1: I gotta check. But he is tall and he's long.

789
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 1: I mean he is a long limbed guy. Good athlete,

790
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: and he's got straight line speed. I mean, he's not

791
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 1: going to drop his hips and shake somebody out of

792
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: their shoes. But that guy can run a post. You know,

793
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: he can run a corner out and then you just

794
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 1: put it up. And the thing that the other thing

795
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 1: as well is the guy he's a four core special teamer.

796
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: You know, the guy the guys on it. I mean,

797
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: you know, he's six four, two oh nine. He plays punt,

798
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: punt return, kickoff, kickoff return. Those four special teams are

799
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: core teams, and he contributes in a big way on those.

800
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: Man oh man, and he can play white out. I'm

801
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:39,240
Speaker 1: sixty four. So that's you know you're looking at that.

802
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: That's why you need guys like that. They're versatile. They

803
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 1: can contribute when they're not on the field as a

804
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: wide receiver. They're not just standing over their drinking gatorade.

805
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: You know they're taking reps on special teams. It's huge,

806
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: it's huge. Crazy thing is he's already twenty nine years old. Late,

807
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: you know, late addition to the league, coming out of

808
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Whitewater, but late bloom. Yeah, but he comes from

809
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: an athletic family. His cousins are the boss, so it's

810
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 1: not like he's not coming from an athlete deep end

811
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: to the gene pool Man. We have to take a

812
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: break here. When we come back, we can talk a

813
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: little bit more about Kumo's chances. And don't forget second

814
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:17,879
Speaker 1: hour of the program. We'll have some comments from Brian

815
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: Dable coming your way, who addressed the media this morning.

816
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: Plenty more. Here is Week two of training camp is

817
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: underway here at One Bills Drive. It's one Bills Live,

818
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

819
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

820
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: you and discussing week two of terraining camp. Another good

821
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: day for the offense to day, Josh looked sharp, receivers

822
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: made plays and receivers are what we are discussing today.

823
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: How many do you think the Bills can hold on

824
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: the roster when they cut this thing down to fifty three,

825
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: and some of our callers earlier this hour outlined it

826
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: is going to be a difficult exercise in getting this

827
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: roster down to the top presumably six, possibly seven receivers

828
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: on the fifty three man roster. And you know, one

829
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: of our earlier callers, Steve, was talking about how when

830
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,320
Speaker 1: they do cut players, they will be signed and probably

831
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: playing football in the regular season on another roster. What

832
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: do you think about the prospect of maybe getting something

833
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:40,399
Speaker 1: in return for some of those players by trading them,

834
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 1: or do you think the presumption around the league is

835
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 1: going to be, Wow, you're not going to have them

836
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 1: make your team anyway, I'll just wait until you cut them.

837
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: Do you think there could be any kind of trade market, Yeah,

838
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: there could be. I think what will happen, It'll be

839
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 1: an economic decision for teams as to whether they wait

840
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: or not, because if there's a an appetite for some

841
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: of these guys out there on the market, other teams

842
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: will know it and they'll say, hey, listen, we need

843
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: that guy. We'll just trade for him. Let's give up

844
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: a sixth or seventh for the guy, get him in

845
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,320
Speaker 1: so we don't have so he doesn't become a free agent,

846
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: because if we get it, if he goes out to

847
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: free agency, we may not get him because he may

848
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: not want to play for He may not want to

849
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 1: play for Jacksonville. He may not want to play for

850
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: the Jets. He may not want to play for him

851
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: or this guy's former coaches on that team, and they'll

852
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: probably want him. So let's just give a little something. Now.

853
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: They don't get him for sure, well, for whatever reason

854
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:35,919
Speaker 1: they don't. They think they'll lose him to another team,

855
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: so they'll trade for him. That It's a small it's

856
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: a niche market, no question about it. But there are

857
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: there may be some scenarios where that happened. It'll be

858
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: interesting to see because in the past we've talked about it,

859
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 1: the Bills being a part of that. I mean, that's

860
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: where they got didn't isn't that where they got way

861
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: back in the day. Isn't that where they got John Feliciano? No,

862
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: I think the guy he did get free agent? So

863
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 1: did there was some It seems like there were some

864
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: guys that they got that way. But it's common teams

865
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: will upgrade certain positions when they're really when they've really

866
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 1: struggled when teams cut cut get cut their final cutdowns

867
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:21,479
Speaker 1: when there's guys available. So we'll see. You're right, it'd

868
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: be kind of nice to have that kind of roster,

869
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 1: but that's a niche market. Like I said, yeah, and

870
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: I mean Kumero is the guy that who we've been

871
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 1: talking about. He came here and got signed to the

872
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 1: practice squad first after Green Bay released him, and then

873
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: got bumped up to the roster for a spell. The

874
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: thing about it is, though guys like Kumero, you'd have

875
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,399
Speaker 1: to go out and find teams that have like one

876
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 1: or two guys that need a third or you know

877
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 1: what I mean. Because let's face it, the last two

878
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: or three drafts have been necked deep in really good

879
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: wide outs. This this last one was no differnt. Even

880
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: though the pool of players overall was only like a

881
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 1: third of what it usually is, it was still really

882
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: high had really high level wide receivers available. So I

883
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: don't know that a guy like Kumero is gonna necessarily

884
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: even going to land in the right spot. Yeah, you know,

885
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,800
Speaker 1: because that position is so sought after in the league.

886
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: Most of that stuffs that market's dried up by this time, yeah,

887
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to find. You gotta rob from Peter

888
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: to pay Paul to get the requisite number of receivers

889
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: you believe you need for the way this offense is

890
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: going to be run. And if you feel you've got

891
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: to keep more than six, where are you pulling from?

892
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,439
Speaker 1: What other position are you pulling from? If you come

893
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: to the decision that seven of our best offensive skill

894
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: position players are receivers, like, what do you do there?

895
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: And I would you know, my first inclination would be

896
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: tight end, But I don't know, I'm not I'm not

897
00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 1: sure about that. Is it running back? Maybe not, because

898
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: there's a very good chance you're going to have four

899
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: running backs and if you count you know, Reggie gilliam

900
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: as a fullback and Brian Dable this year decides he

901
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: wants a fullback for something he might be doing in

902
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: his offense, as opposed to last year when he let

903
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: one go in Pat de Marco because of the emergence

904
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: of Gabe Davis. You know, these are the decisions that

905
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: have ripple effects because you make a decision at one position,

906
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: it affects the other ones. If you keep eight offensive

907
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: linemen seven wide receivers, Oh, if you're only keeping eighth,

908
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: then you already have a spot three qbs, three running backs,

909
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: three tight end. I don't think they're keeping three qbs either,

910
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: not on the active roster. Well they might not, but

911
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: with the expanded practice squad, you're a forded the opportunity

912
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 1: to Puss's twenty four. But I think running backs you

913
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: almost have to take plus one because if you got

914
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,240
Speaker 1: a fullback that you want to keep, or a special

915
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,359
Speaker 1: teams guy that you need to keep, well, I mean

916
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: if it's if it's a guy like Reggie Gilliam, conceivably

917
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,399
Speaker 1: he can kind of cross eight running back end tight

918
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: end position, so that would right, Yeah, that's true. But

919
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: the running backs too, if you're gonna have yeah, that's

920
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: three running backs. So that's it. That's fifteen. That's twenty

921
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: four guys. I think you're probably looking at four running backs. Yeah,

922
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones is on the ross of the special team exactly.

923
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: So there's that's your twenty five right there. Seven wideouts,

924
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 1: eight offensive linemen instead of nine. Getting a little thin there,

925
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: especially know when you can dress eight on a game

926
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: day now you're allowed to dress eight, that might be

927
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: a little thin. You never want to go thin there.

928
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: I would say nine are on the rocks. That's what

929
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,399
Speaker 1: you're looking at. See that give you? But that's yeah,

930
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: that's the ripple effect that we're talking about. You say,

931
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: ah ah, what's the big deal? That's karen extra receiver, Like, well, okay,

932
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 1: where are we where are we pulling from? Yeah? Who

933
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: are you throwing off the bus? Yeah? You know who's

934
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: going overboard? So that's the that's the question. And that's

935
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: it gets tight because you get down to three tight ends. Okay,

936
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: that's that's fine, and one of them's fullback slash tight end. Okay, good,

937
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: You've got three running backs. That means Taiwan Jones doesn't

938
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: make it, or does Matt Brida or Zack Moss Devin

939
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 1: Singletary not make it on the game day roster. You know,

940
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks? Okay, you're gonna go with two quarterbacks? I

941
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 1: don't know. Well, the expanded practice squad affords you some

942
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 1: more maneuverability because you can have guys with more experience

943
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 1: in the league and you can put it. I believe

944
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: it's up to four on your expanded practice squad, provided

945
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: all that goes through. We heard like last month, Tom

946
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:37,800
Speaker 1: Palaceero is reporting that the expanded roster rules with respect

947
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 1: to the practice squad size and return from ir in

948
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,280
Speaker 1: three weeks are going to remain intact for another season.

949
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 1: That affords you uncommon roster flexibility that most gms in

950
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: this league have never seen before last season, and I

951
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 1: think they would tell you if they could have it

952
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:56,280
Speaker 1: every year, they would take it because it just allows

953
00:51:56,280 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: you to maneuver people based on health, player availability, all

954
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: those things in a much more flexible way. So that's

955
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: how you keep your third quarterback, you put him on

956
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: the practice squad. We have to take a break here

957
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: when we return some comments from Brian Dable, Bill's offensive coordinator,

958
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: who addressed the media Today's feeling good about a lot

959
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 1: of the talent he's got on that side of the ball.

960
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: We'll hear from him next Here on one Bill's Live,

961
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. At

962
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: a Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields.

963
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was out of a dual role

964
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 1: player for save Steve a blimp. We're not even in

965
00:52:55,360 --> 00:53:01,479
Speaker 1: the strated sphere of normalcy. And here we go our

966
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,919
Speaker 1: number two in week number two of Bill's training Camp,

967
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:10,320
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with You, and Brian Dable, Bill's

968
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator met the media today for the first time

969
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: and answered about it I'd say twelve to fifteen minutes

970
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 1: worth of questions and is excited about some of the

971
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:26,240
Speaker 1: new talent he has on the roster, Emmanuel Sanders, Matt

972
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: Breda among them. We'll get to what he thought of

973
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: Matt Breeda in a second. It was a good comment

974
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: from him, so we'll get to that shortly, but we'll

975
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:39,399
Speaker 1: begin with the progression of a second year receiver who

976
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:43,799
Speaker 1: took this roster by storm last year, Gabe Davis, you know,

977
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 1: as a player that really kind of stormed onto the

978
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 1: scene last year at seven receiving touchdowns, would have had

979
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:52,280
Speaker 1: more if it didn't have three callback on penalty and

980
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: was really a productive element and what ultimately convinced Brian

981
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,439
Speaker 1: Dable to go four wide as often as he did

982
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: last season, which was about fourteen percent of the offensive plays,

983
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: good for second highest percentage in the entire league. So

984
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: here is Brian Dable on the progression of Gabe dave

985
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: Is entering year two. I'd say, all the way through

986
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:17,800
Speaker 1: the off season OTAs he's a pro very fortunate to

987
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 1: get him where we got him. I think he's just

988
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: you know, he'll continue to get better and better. I

989
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence in him. Can play all

990
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 1: the spots. You know, he's one of the guys that

991
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: Steph gets a down day or something and you're always like,

992
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: all right, Gabe, get in there. And you know, you

993
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: don't even tell him where he's at. He just goes

994
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 1: in and knows and have a lot of confidence in him,

995
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 1: and you know, we're fortunate to get him there in

996
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 1: the fourth round. Look at the receiver position is a

997
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 1: tough position to play, particularly coming out of college, and

998
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,359
Speaker 1: I'd say he was a productive player for us last

999
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: year with the role that we asked him to do.

1000
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 1: You know, he has all the traits that you look for.

1001
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: He's really really smart, he's tough, he's big, but he's

1002
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: got i'd say game speed. You know, maybe it's not

1003
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 1: a three forty, but when he's running out there, he's

1004
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: he can get by guys. Um. You know, I think

1005
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: it's really helpful for him to watch guys like like

1006
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:12,959
Speaker 1: Steph and and Bees and Sanders and watch their body

1007
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:14,879
Speaker 1: language and how they getting out of breaks. I mean,

1008
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:17,439
Speaker 1: he does a really good job of watching the guys

1009
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,839
Speaker 1: ahead of them and then can emulate it. So we're

1010
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: fortunate to have those three guys ahead of him, and um, yeah,

1011
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 1: I really like what Gabe brings to our team. I

1012
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 1: don't think anybody's surprised by those comments, but it's clear

1013
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:35,800
Speaker 1: that Brian Dabel trusts Gabriel Davis implicitly with what he

1014
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 1: can do out on the field. He doesn't even have

1015
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 1: to tell him where he's lining up. He just gets

1016
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 1: to the huddle and Josh is like, you're the why okay, right,

1017
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's rare and you don't

1018
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 1: have to worry and he's just gonna execute what the

1019
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 1: y does on that play. Yeah, it's really rare for

1020
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,479
Speaker 1: a guy to be able to do that. It's hard

1021
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,280
Speaker 1: to learn because there are different techniques and thought processes

1022
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,440
Speaker 1: you want to get through, and coverage is different. Yeah,

1023
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: it's it's it's really ap of a cap to the

1024
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 1: guy's intelligence and to earn the coaching staff's trust that

1025
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: fast is pretty amazing. And because it's not just you know,

1026
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: some guys will go out and run through it and

1027
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:13,919
Speaker 1: practice and saying yeah, okay, I got it and they'll

1028
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:15,359
Speaker 1: be able to do it on the field, but it's

1029
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: also about the conversations they have after and between the

1030
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: plays and in the meeting rooms where the question hit

1031
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 1: and he's asking questions that are like, oh, I got Yeah,

1032
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,800
Speaker 1: He's asking really intelligent questions about what he's supposed to

1033
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 1: be doing. He's talking to him about when I'm playing

1034
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: the why and such and such as playing the accent.

1035
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 1: He's asking questions because he knows the concepts, he knows

1036
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: the nuances of all that stuff, and when you can

1037
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: talk about it, it really builds trust in the coaching stations.

1038
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,839
Speaker 1: Why gosh, he really does know what's going on out there.

1039
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: It's not like he remembers a line on a page

1040
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 1: and runs it. There's a lot that goes into earning

1041
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: the trust of a coaching staff who comes up with

1042
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 1: concepts and this language of the offense and have a

1043
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: guy come in and master it so fast, as much

1044
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:01,400
Speaker 1: with the conversations he has about it, letting you know

1045
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:05,160
Speaker 1: what he's where thought isn't really sharp and impressive. I

1046
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:07,359
Speaker 1: think one of that was one of the most surprising

1047
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:10,239
Speaker 1: aspects of the twenty twenty season for me was how

1048
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: fast Gabe Davis became ingrained in this offense and a

1049
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 1: force in the offense. I think the game on offense

1050
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 1: last year pretty it was really that shocked me. Shocked me,

1051
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: and yet now it's commonplace and it wasn't his fault,

1052
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 1: but I think it was largely the reason why this

1053
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: team made the decision to let fullback Pat DeMarco go

1054
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:37,160
Speaker 1: last year because of what Davis showed them he was

1055
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: capable of providing in the scope of the offense, and

1056
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: you know, it's business. What he offered presented more value

1057
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 1: to the scope and production of this offense than what

1058
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 1: Pat DeMarco was going to provide in the amount of

1059
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 1: time he was going to be on the field. Yeah,

1060
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: they just made that they were going to be more

1061
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 1: of a four wide team than they were going to

1062
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: be a fullback team, two back team. And that's it's

1063
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: amazing that We've talked about it a ton on different occasions.

1064
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: I just don't think it should be forgotten because it's

1065
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 1: really difficult for a young player to do, particularly a guy,

1066
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: and I get it, their first round draft picks who

1067
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: do it all the time. He was not. Now, certainly

1068
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 1: the Bills felt like he was a value pick. He

1069
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 1: was picked way below where they thought he would go,

1070
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 1: but he proved him right and and good for him.

1071
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 1: That's that's they were a juggernaut last year, and Gabe

1072
00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 1: Davis and the flexibility he gave them to go four

1073
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 1: wides was a big reason why. I mean, he only

1074
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: had thirty five receptions last year, but one in every

1075
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 1: five wound up in the end zone. Right, that's pretty

1076
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: good percentage. That's pretty good scoring percentage. I mean, and

1077
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: he's going to see a lot of single coverage again

1078
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 1: this year because of the three guys ahead of him

1079
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: on the depth charge. His efficiency was huge. When they

1080
00:58:58,600 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: threw it to him, he caught it and it was

1081
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: a big play. He was a guy who was forgotten about.

1082
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 1: You got you got Steph Diggs and Colt Beasley out

1083
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 1: there running around. He's there and he was one of

1084
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: the beneficiaries of a lot of teams just don't go

1085
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:16,520
Speaker 1: that deep at cornerback. They didn't have enough quality players

1086
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 1: to go that deep into their roster, and the Bills

1087
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: had that many quality wideouts and Gabe Davis was the reason.

1088
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 1: And it's why we're having the conversation we are today.

1089
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 1: How many do you think they can keep on the

1090
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: active roster at the receiver position. You can weigh in

1091
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 1: on that at eight O three five fifty fifty two

1092
00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 1: five fifty. I want to get to this next comment

1093
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 1: from Brian Dable, where he was asked about the new

1094
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 1: rule this year that makes blocking below the waist by

1095
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:52,120
Speaker 1: offensive and defensive players when contact happens beyond five yards

1096
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 1: from the line of scrimmage on either side of the line,

1097
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:59,439
Speaker 1: or more than two yards outside the tackle box. So

1098
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 1: you can't block below the waist anymore. You're running a

1099
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 1: screenplay and you're five yards up the field, you can't

1100
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: cut a defensive back. If you're an offensive lineman, can't

1101
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 1: do it right. Um, you know you're you're running a

1102
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 1: toss play and you get up the field as a lot,

1103
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: you can't cut somebody. Now, you gotta you gotta engage,

1104
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 1: you gotta get to that guy. That's gonna be a challenge.

1105
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: So here I want your thoughts on it, too, Steve.

1106
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 1: But here's Brian Dable on the rule penalizing blocking below

1107
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 1: the waist and to see how they you know, how

1108
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:34,320
Speaker 1: it works out in games. It's it's gonna be i'd

1109
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 1: say difficult. You know, it's a it's a space game.

1110
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of this is a space game,

1111
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 1: or come becoming a space game, you know, different than

1112
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: you know, lining up in two backs and you know,

1113
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 1: call it wad ball, if you will. Just everybody jammed

1114
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 1: in together. Now you're space and you're throwing bubbles and screens,

1115
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:51,960
Speaker 1: and you know, we always try to tell the offensive

1116
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 1: lineman don't try to out athlete the athletes, you know,

1117
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 1: and that's when you can throw and cut on screen passage.

1118
01:00:57,760 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: You can't do that now, So we have to do

1119
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 1: a good job with our technique and our hands. And

1120
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 1: you know, three hundred and thirty pounds twenty pounder running

1121
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: out space and trying to block a you know, a

1122
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 1: corner is not the easiest thing, but it's the same

1123
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 1: thing that goes along with the other side. You know,

1124
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:13,400
Speaker 1: you run ta toss cracks and things like that. And

1125
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 1: got big lineman they used to, you know, cut the

1126
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: guy that's pulling for the defensive line or for the

1127
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:20,320
Speaker 1: defensive cornerback. So they're flowing and cutting it. The big

1128
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 1: guys they can't do that either. So it's gonna be

1129
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 1: a space game. They have to do a good job

1130
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 1: at their feet keep their hands inside and um, you

1131
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:30,720
Speaker 1: know runners are gonna have to do good too, So Steve,

1132
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:32,439
Speaker 1: give me your take. I mean, it's gonna be harder.

1133
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 1: You got a three hundred pound man out there, and

1134
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 1: there's now got to make contact and engage with one

1135
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety pounds safety Who can you know, make

1136
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: a cut and get around him because he can't shop

1137
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 1: or cut block him anymore. I don't have a problem

1138
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 1: with him changing the rule like this. I'm it's really

1139
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:51,919
Speaker 1: it puts a premium on guys who can really move

1140
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 1: their feet. You're gonna have to be blocking with your

1141
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: feet in body position now rather than with the physical

1142
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:58,240
Speaker 1: just going out there and jumping and getting in and

1143
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 1: rolling up on a guy's legs and cutting him. Uh.

1144
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:03,920
Speaker 1: You can think we've all seen it. And there was

1145
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 1: a there was a play I believe in the in

1146
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 1: the in the Seattle game for Buffalo when Josh Allen

1147
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: ran into the corner the you know, the tunnel end

1148
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: of the end zone and on the near side. He

1149
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 1: ran into that corner and two guys got out and

1150
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 1: cut him, and they simultaneously cut two different guys. They

1151
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 1: can't do that anymore. They've got to you know, push

1152
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 1: him and stay up high on him and push him past. Um,

1153
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna make it more difficult, no question

1154
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 1: about it. But I think it's gonna also put a

1155
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 1: premium on offensive lineman who can move their feet well

1156
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: enough to get out in front. Uh, not only to

1157
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:40,600
Speaker 1: start to get there to make the block, but also

1158
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 1: once they start making the block, to have their feet

1159
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:44,840
Speaker 1: keep up with him and get him in a position

1160
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 1: to get between them and the ball carrier. Um, he

1161
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: need athlete, I mean, this just need better athletes. Question

1162
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:56,920
Speaker 1: was gonna be like, how much could this rule impact

1163
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 1: the weight and girth of offensive lines going forward. I

1164
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: don't know if it's a rule that's going to completely

1165
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 1: change the game, but it's gonna convince maybe some teams. Hey,

1166
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:11,200
Speaker 1: you know what, let's you know, let's go big a tackle,

1167
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 1: but at guard, let's get some people that can move. Yeah.

1168
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: It's really interesting because I think about it. The more

1169
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 1: you do this, and the more offenses are gonna start

1170
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:23,439
Speaker 1: throwing the football, They're not gonna they're not gonna run

1171
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 1: it more. When it's harder to block, you know, they're

1172
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:31,440
Speaker 1: gonna run it less. It's gonna become a throwing league.

1173
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 1: You're gonna have teams that are gonna go more athletic

1174
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 1: upfront rather than size upfront. It's gonna it's gonna evolve

1175
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:42,880
Speaker 1: into something, no question about it. Teams are gonna get

1176
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 1: as creative as they need to to have success with

1177
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:47,920
Speaker 1: the athletes they have. And you know, if a team

1178
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:52,480
Speaker 1: can find an advantage anywhere in any aspect of the game,

1179
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:56,400
Speaker 1: they're going to look to take advantage of it in

1180
01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 1: a big way, especially if they feel they're ahead of

1181
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 1: the curve on it. I think it's really gonna force

1182
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: teams to get creative in the running game. You know,

1183
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: they're if you can't cut guys on the trying to

1184
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 1: get to the edge of the defense. I don't know

1185
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 1: whether you start running it more inside or not, or

1186
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 1: whether you just don't run it anymore. You know, it's

1187
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 1: if it's gonna be that hard to get up to

1188
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 1: the second level and kind of and try and get

1189
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 1: out to a block. You know, you go, you see

1190
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:26,320
Speaker 1: guys dive and trying to just and the guys to

1191
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:28,840
Speaker 1: hop over them or whatever just delays them or whatever

1192
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:31,480
Speaker 1: just get in the way. You can't do that anymore.

1193
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:33,600
Speaker 1: You gotta get there and engage the guys, So you're

1194
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 1: gonna have to be fast enough to do that. Uh

1195
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: it is, I think it. I really think this is

1196
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:43,919
Speaker 1: gonna have some unseen consequence. I mean, it's not gonna

1197
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:46,400
Speaker 1: you're not gonna put it together. But because of these rules,

1198
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna see the offenses evolved into much different philosophies

1199
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:53,680
Speaker 1: in their run game. As much as anything else, somebody

1200
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:58,080
Speaker 1: who's maybe a more mobile guard might have a better

1201
01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:01,360
Speaker 1: chance of making certain ross is based on what they

1202
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:03,440
Speaker 1: run offensively. I don't know if they know what this

1203
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: is gonna look like, not yet, but it won't take long.

1204
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:09,920
Speaker 1: I think we're kind of I won't take long. Nobody's

1205
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:12,520
Speaker 1: gonna change their roster because of this this year, right,

1206
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 1: But somebody might get lucky with the way their roster

1207
01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 1: lands and they say, Wow, we can really do this,

1208
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:20,400
Speaker 1: and then they take advantage of it. Everybody else says, oh,

1209
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:22,280
Speaker 1: we should probably do that too. Yeah. It's like, oh,

1210
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:24,240
Speaker 1: I thought your offensive line was gonna stink, it's not

1211
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:26,360
Speaker 1: so bad now with these new rules. That kind of thing.

1212
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: I can't foresee what this is gonna look like, but

1213
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:34,080
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna force some offensive linemen to huff

1214
01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 1: and puff out to the edge trying to get there

1215
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:39,440
Speaker 1: and then trying to just hang on to the guy

1216
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:41,480
Speaker 1: you're supposed to block. You'll see a lot of linemen,

1217
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 1: I think now, like you know the peel black block,

1218
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:45,400
Speaker 1: where you see you'll see a lot of offensive lineman

1219
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:47,680
Speaker 1: getting out there and then turning their body towards the

1220
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:51,440
Speaker 1: runner and blocking like sealing it off, like blocking out

1221
01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:54,560
Speaker 1: like for a rebound, you know, blocking out for a rebound,

1222
01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:57,360
Speaker 1: kind of getting in between them and keeping the defender

1223
01:05:57,400 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 1: on their back, and it's kind of guiding the running

1224
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:03,480
Speaker 1: back that way. If you can get out there so

1225
01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 1: they can see where they need to block the guy

1226
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 1: to or at least keep him from getting to that,

1227
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:09,560
Speaker 1: you can see that happening. That's happened, that's already started

1228
01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:11,479
Speaker 1: to happen because of the peel back blocks. You can't

1229
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 1: go towards your own end zone and knock a guy

1230
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:16,760
Speaker 1: off his cleat. Think about this too. You got a

1231
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:21,040
Speaker 1: defensive end that runs the loop and he's more than

1232
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 1: five yards behind the line scrimmage tackle, can't dive at

1233
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:28,520
Speaker 1: his feet and cut him right. Can't do that anymore either.

1234
01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 1: You're beat you're beat. It's over. It's gonna be a

1235
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 1: lot harder to pass protect now deep in the pocket,

1236
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:36,800
Speaker 1: you may find it. You may find guys, certain guys

1237
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:40,440
Speaker 1: if they really feel like it's gonna well, now it's

1238
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:42,840
Speaker 1: it's it's different. Now, everything's different now, because here's what

1239
01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 1: I was thinking. Say, for instance, you get a left

1240
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 1: tackle like Dion Dawkins, he gets beat clean, or a

1241
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:50,960
Speaker 1: guy comes off the edge and instead of being able

1242
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:55,440
Speaker 1: to pivot and dive and you know, cut the guy,

1243
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 1: the only option he's gonna have is to jump out

1244
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:03,000
Speaker 1: and just pull the guy down. He's take the penalty.

1245
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:05,520
Speaker 1: But then again, the guy's not gonna be able to

1246
01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 1: lower his head and whack your quarterback. He's got to

1247
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:09,600
Speaker 1: hit the quarterback of the proper way as well, or

1248
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:12,760
Speaker 1: he's gonna get penalized as well. But still, but you've

1249
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: seen that where you know, a tackle will just dive

1250
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 1: at the guy's feet if he's got the edge on him,

1251
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:19,960
Speaker 1: and you know, just try to protect his quarterback. Can't

1252
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:22,720
Speaker 1: do it, can't do it. It's gonna be really interesting.

1253
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:27,880
Speaker 1: Brian Dable also addressed his early impressions of rookie offensive

1254
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:30,920
Speaker 1: tackle Spencer Brown. Now granted, pads are not on yet,

1255
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:34,320
Speaker 1: so you haven't seen him at his best in terms

1256
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 1: of what he really does offer. We will say that

1257
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:40,120
Speaker 1: his size is very imposing. Even in the field. We're

1258
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 1: in the we're watching the offense in the huddle. He's

1259
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:44,680
Speaker 1: standing next to Josh Allen. He's a head taller than

1260
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 1: you and I were joking about that man alive, Like

1261
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is not a small person, and they're Spencer

1262
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:52,560
Speaker 1: Brown's standing next to me. He's a head taller. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's way taller's I keep telling him, they've got some

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Speaker 1: circus freaks. They're so big big. So here is Brian

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Speaker 1: Dables early impressions on rookie offensive tackle Spencer Brown. Kind

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Speaker 1: of has advertised when he came out. He's big, he's long,

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Speaker 1: he's athletic. Anxious to see when we get going here

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Speaker 1: with the pads on. But you know, he's been rolling

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Speaker 1: in and out. Bobby's been doing a good job of

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Speaker 1: getting all those guys reps. Been happy with you know,

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Speaker 1: these last four days. Again, he's got better each every day.

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Speaker 1: And that's all that these young guys can that's all

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Speaker 1: anybody can do. But has good skill set. He's got

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Speaker 1: traits that we cove it. Now it's our job to

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Speaker 1: try to develop him the best we can. Found. The

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Speaker 1: last part of that comment maybe the most interesting. He's

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Speaker 1: got a skill set that we've thought he had, that's evident,

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Speaker 1: and now it's our job to develop him. I just

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Speaker 1: love that this coaching staff takes the onus upon themselves

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Speaker 1: to develop the youth on this roster. Yeah, it's huge.

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01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:55,160
Speaker 1: It's we've seen it year in year out for the

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Speaker 1: last three or four years that a lot of these

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Speaker 1: young players are much different guys at the end of

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Speaker 1: the season than they are at the beginning, and they're

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01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:05,559
Speaker 1: much better, much more complete, they contribute a lot more

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Speaker 1: on the field. That gives me great confidence in how

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Speaker 1: well this season may go coming up, because before when

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01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 1: they first started three years ago, I mean, we've all

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Speaker 1: seen it, they needed those guys right away, and it

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Speaker 1: took them a while and then finally they kind of

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Speaker 1: you know, now those guys are all and guys they

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Speaker 1: developed two or three years ago. Right now the basis

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Speaker 1: of the team and the team's gonna be going really

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01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:34,920
Speaker 1: well no matter what. And if they can add on

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Speaker 1: to that and contribute to that, is it. You know,

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Speaker 1: it just builds on itself. But I I'm a huge

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Speaker 1: fan of exactly that, Brian. We've seen it. It's tangible.

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Speaker 1: You see these young players play much better as the

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Speaker 1: season rules on. It's fun to watch. He's right, and

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff takes responsibility for it. Brian Dables final

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01:09:54,840 --> 01:09:57,479
Speaker 1: comment that we wanted to pass along to you healed

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Speaker 1: with new running back Matt Brita, a free agent running

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01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:06,160
Speaker 1: back who signed this offseason. I think anybody that's witnessed

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01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:10,120
Speaker 1: to practice here through the first week plus has seen

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01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:13,000
Speaker 1: his speed to the edge. It is very evident. You

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01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:14,840
Speaker 1: don't need to be an NFL scout to know this

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01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 1: guy's got some speed. And Brian Dable apparently feels the

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01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 1: same way. You know, he's been around the block a

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01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:24,439
Speaker 1: little bit. I think. You know, anytime you get a

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01:10:24,479 --> 01:10:30,599
Speaker 1: new a new guy coming in that's a veteran, it's good,

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01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:33,040
Speaker 1: you know, like East Sanders, but you just don't say, hey,

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01:10:33,080 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 1: you lead this group. You know they're they're busy trying

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01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:38,599
Speaker 1: to learn the offense and pick it up. So offering

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01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:41,080
Speaker 1: little tidbits to younger running backs or whatever it may be,

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01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:42,920
Speaker 1: but really want to try to have them focus on

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01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:46,160
Speaker 1: their job and be the best they can be. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's just for Matthew. He's a good runner, but he's

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01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 1: got some juice, so it's our job to find out

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01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:55,519
Speaker 1: a way to use it. He's got some juice. The

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01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:58,800
Speaker 1: beginning of that bike got clipped, but he said something.

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01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:01,240
Speaker 1: He said, well, what do you think of the addition

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Speaker 1: to mad breedy? He said speed, and then he went

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Speaker 1: into everything he just heard there. Yea, he adds a

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Speaker 1: different dynamic to the running back stable. I don't think

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01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:15,920
Speaker 1: there's any question about that. That guy can get around

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01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:18,640
Speaker 1: the edge in a hurry. And I think through the

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01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:21,080
Speaker 1: first week at camp he's demonstrated a very good ability

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01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: to pull the ball in for receptions, which I think

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01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:27,840
Speaker 1: is going to be important component if you're a running

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01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: back in this offense, because you might get it thrown

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01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:33,439
Speaker 1: to you just as much as you carry it might

1332
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 1: get it thrown to you as much as you haven't

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01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,880
Speaker 1: handed off to you in this offense. Yeah, and I

1334
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:40,840
Speaker 1: think the thing that you get from day Ball as

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01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:45,360
Speaker 1: he speaks is that it's not like we've talked about

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01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:47,400
Speaker 1: a bunch. It's not like Dayble's got this offense. He's

1337
01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:49,680
Speaker 1: looking for pieces to fit into it. He looks at

1338
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:51,760
Speaker 1: his pieces and then builds the offense around that, the

1339
01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 1: concepts and what he wants to do. If he's got

1340
01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:55,920
Speaker 1: a speedy running back, he's gonna put plays in that

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01:11:55,960 --> 01:11:57,760
Speaker 1: will utilize that speed. And if he got you know,

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01:11:57,800 --> 01:12:00,559
Speaker 1: this matchup problem, all that stuff, and that's that's a

1343
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:04,240
Speaker 1: lot of fun to think about when you've got a

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01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:06,800
Speaker 1: really good roster like they do this year. I think

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01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:08,840
Speaker 1: last year, I mean, let's face it, last year going in,

1346
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 1: we didn't know. I mean they were ten and six

1347
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 1: the year before, lost that first playoff game. You know,

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01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 1: how are they gonna do? What? You know, how's Josh

1349
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:17,559
Speaker 1: gonna do? And then they come out and they got

1350
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:21,400
Speaker 1: this offense that's hanging thirty points a game on people. Ah,

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01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:26,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be more of that this year, and they

1352
01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:29,360
Speaker 1: should be better at it this year. Now, certainly you

1353
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:31,519
Speaker 1: think defenses can catch up a little bit, but man,

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01:12:31,520 --> 01:12:34,639
Speaker 1: oh man, I think it's gonna be fun to see

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01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:36,000
Speaker 1: how they use breed or what do they do? What

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01:12:36,040 --> 01:12:38,120
Speaker 1: are they gonna how are they gonna utilize that? That?

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Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, was the question that I asked coach Dable.

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01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:44,439
Speaker 1: I said, look, you had an extraordinary success last year

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01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:47,240
Speaker 1: as an offense, you know that all your defensive opponents

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01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:49,120
Speaker 1: this year are going to be pouring over that tape.

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01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 1: You know what do you do every year to kind

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01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:56,720
Speaker 1: of stay ahead of your defensive counterparts? And he just

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01:12:56,800 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 1: went into the whole thing where you do it every year.

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01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:09,200
Speaker 1: You try to find new concepts or things that might

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01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:12,360
Speaker 1: work for your offense. You pull from anywhere you can

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01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:16,800
Speaker 1: find stuff, high school, college, pro and see if it's

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01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 1: something that will work for your team, and incorporated. We're

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01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:23,040
Speaker 1: always tinkering, you know, he said, Even on the practice field,

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01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:25,519
Speaker 1: we're always tinkering with stuff to see what works. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I remember a couple of years ago when we were

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Speaker 1: down in Spartanburg, South Carolina for the joint practices between

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Speaker 1: the Bills and the Panthers, and Beasley was like happier

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01:13:35,280 --> 01:13:37,280
Speaker 1: than a kid in a candy store after the practice

1374
01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 1: because something that he had brought to Brian Dable in

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01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:43,400
Speaker 1: terms of a play concept that he used to run

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01:13:43,439 --> 01:13:47,400
Speaker 1: back at SMU like ten years ago. He brought to

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01:13:47,479 --> 01:13:49,439
Speaker 1: Dable and said, look, I think this can really work

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01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:53,640
Speaker 1: with our personnel, said let's try it. They tried it

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01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:57,000
Speaker 1: in the next practice against the Carolina Panthers and it worked.

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01:13:58,040 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 1: But that's just how open minded Dable is and I

1381
01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:05,080
Speaker 1: think he wins so many players over with that kind

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01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:09,120
Speaker 1: of approach. He's willing to try almost anything. Collaborations a

1383
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:11,960
Speaker 1: lot of fun, and particularly on the football field where

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01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:14,360
Speaker 1: you get you know, or even in the meeting room

1385
01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:15,880
Speaker 1: where you get up and one of the players gets

1386
01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 1: up and says what about this and draw some stuff

1387
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,600
Speaker 1: up and it's and the rest of the player and

1388
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:23,000
Speaker 1: it's fun because then the other other players get to

1389
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:25,439
Speaker 1: feel empowered to chime in and say, yeah, I like

1390
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:27,200
Speaker 1: this because what about this, you know? And they ask

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01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:29,080
Speaker 1: and they question it, and they put it in there.

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01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:32,360
Speaker 1: Let's try it. Particularly if we get this coverage right

1393
01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:34,880
Speaker 1: and then you go out there and you see it

1394
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:40,800
Speaker 1: transform as that gives the players. It's a small thing,

1395
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:42,720
Speaker 1: but it gives the players an insight as to why

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01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:47,240
Speaker 1: coaches coach. And that's why I've always said coaching is

1397
01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:50,880
Speaker 1: not a job, it's a lifestyle. And gives him a

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01:14:50,920 --> 01:14:53,120
Speaker 1: glinson how much fun it is to be one of

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01:14:53,160 --> 01:14:57,200
Speaker 1: those guys. And I think it's it's really it's really

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01:14:57,240 --> 01:14:59,960
Speaker 1: empowering for the players. But it's also enlightening for them

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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,920
Speaker 1: as well break time for us here. When Steve and

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01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:06,800
Speaker 1: I come back, we will check in and see if

1403
01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:09,840
Speaker 1: we have some comments from Devin Singletary. Otherwise it might

1404
01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:12,360
Speaker 1: be time for a little what's for lunch Steve as

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01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:15,760
Speaker 1: we check the menu when we return here on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalaia Health, it's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Well,

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Speaker 1: welcome back. Second half of the show underway here on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. How many receivers can the Bills hold

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01:15:37,240 --> 01:15:40,120
Speaker 1: on the roster when they get down to fifty three?

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01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:43,000
Speaker 1: And who do you have? Who's on the back half

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01:15:43,400 --> 01:15:47,719
Speaker 1: behind the likes of Diggs, Beasley, Sanders and Davis. Who's

1412
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:50,800
Speaker 1: on that back half of the roster for you at

1413
01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:53,200
Speaker 1: wide Receiver? We go to the tweet sheet to find

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01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 1: out who you have brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

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01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:04,640
Speaker 1: Tiffany leads us off and she says, compared to a

1417
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:08,040
Speaker 1: couple of seasons ago, they have six seven quality receivers.

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01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:12,000
Speaker 1: The top four are locks, Digs, Davis, Beasley and Sanders.

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01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:15,799
Speaker 1: I would keep McKenzie, Kumaro and a toss up between

1420
01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:20,519
Speaker 1: Stevenson and Hodgins. It sure is a nice problem to have.

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01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:23,479
Speaker 1: What do you think about her back half choices? There? Yeah?

1422
01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:27,600
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's it in a nutshell, Kumaro, McKenzie, Stevenson,

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01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:31,479
Speaker 1: and Hodgens m Hodgens is a draft picks. Stevenson's a

1424
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:34,479
Speaker 1: draft picks. Kumero is a guy who's contributed on special

1425
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:37,799
Speaker 1: teams with McKenzie is a guy who has played well

1426
01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:43,559
Speaker 1: for the franchise. Um, how do you choose between those guys?

1427
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:45,240
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I know they've all

1428
01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:47,439
Speaker 1: got separate skill sets and think what you want. I

1429
01:16:47,479 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 1: think it comes down to on game day when you look,

1430
01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:54,280
Speaker 1: all right, you know what Isaiah McKenzie can do, He's

1431
01:16:54,280 --> 01:16:56,080
Speaker 1: gonna come in. He can play wide receiver, he can

1432
01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:58,120
Speaker 1: run some rounds, he can run those endo rounds, he

1433
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:02,599
Speaker 1: can do sweeps, all of that stuff. Okay, Kumarro four

1434
01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:04,760
Speaker 1: core special teams player. He's going to be on the

1435
01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:08,439
Speaker 1: field contributing when he's not playing wide receiver. That's big.

1436
01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:12,720
Speaker 1: And then the same thing Hodgens is Stevenson is kind

1437
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:15,479
Speaker 1: of like McKenzie. And for me, you we've talked about

1438
01:17:15,479 --> 01:17:17,639
Speaker 1: a lot. I think it's either or one of those

1439
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:19,880
Speaker 1: guys is in one of them's not if if Isaiah

1440
01:17:19,920 --> 01:17:28,400
Speaker 1: McKenzie's on the active roster, Stevenson is practice squad at best. Right, Hodgens,

1441
01:17:29,160 --> 01:17:33,400
Speaker 1: he's been here a year, He's had a good camp

1442
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:35,800
Speaker 1: by all accounts, he's had a good camp, good training

1443
01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:40,800
Speaker 1: and made some plays. Is it Hodgens or Kumarro? Is

1444
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 1: it one or the other of them? I think that

1445
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:45,799
Speaker 1: might be the thing. Is McKenzie redundant as Stevenson redundant

1446
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 1: to McKenzie, And is Mkumarro or Hodgens redundant to one

1447
01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:50,720
Speaker 1: or the other? I don't know if I don't know

1448
01:17:50,760 --> 01:17:54,960
Speaker 1: if Hodgins can play special teams like Kumarro can, though, yeah,

1449
01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:58,040
Speaker 1: that is a question. So if all that has to

1450
01:17:58,080 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 1: be shaken out and I and I with everybody out there,

1451
01:18:01,040 --> 01:18:03,360
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're going to do it. Jack

1452
01:18:03,439 --> 01:18:05,679
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet says they've been keeping six under

1453
01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:08,720
Speaker 1: this staff, but I am banking on seven. I don't

1454
01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:10,600
Speaker 1: know what other position they steal from to keep the

1455
01:18:10,640 --> 01:18:12,960
Speaker 1: extra wide receiver, but they throw the ball a lot

1456
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:15,800
Speaker 1: and have so much talent they will not want to

1457
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: part with. We know the top four or set, But

1458
01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:24,200
Speaker 1: McKenzie and Kumero are pushing hard. What about Hodgens, Like

1459
01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:26,840
Speaker 1: I was saying, yeah, a nice day to day. I

1460
01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:29,479
Speaker 1: think we've got to see him in pads. Let's see

1461
01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 1: him against a physical cornerback, you know, what's his release

1462
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 1: game like? So I think the jury is still out

1463
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:41,960
Speaker 1: on Hodgens because we haven't seen him play full contact football.

1464
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:43,760
Speaker 1: So I think the preseason is going to tell us

1465
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:47,880
Speaker 1: a lot more about Hodgens that we just don't know yet, right,

1466
01:18:48,439 --> 01:18:50,680
Speaker 1: And I think I think that's going to come down

1467
01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:53,759
Speaker 1: to being on an NFL field, playing against other NFL

1468
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Speaker 1: players at a higher level of intensity with pads on.

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Speaker 1: All this has been you know, Jim class so far

1470
01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 1: because there's no pads, no physicality there. Yeah, and everything

1471
01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 1: changes when that happens. So there's still a lot of

1472
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:12,640
Speaker 1: evaluations to go through and the players still have a

1473
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:16,639
Speaker 1: lot to prove. But that's and the most important element

1474
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:18,639
Speaker 1: I think has yet to be done. So we'll see

1475
01:19:18,680 --> 01:19:20,760
Speaker 1: what happens in these preseason games. Yeah, that's going to

1476
01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:23,240
Speaker 1: be really interesting. Not only that is who's going to

1477
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:25,640
Speaker 1: be thrown to these guys? Okay, Tribisky's gonna get a

1478
01:19:25,640 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 1: bunch of reps Okay, and you know Jake from Okay,

1479
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:35,960
Speaker 1: Davis Webb. How's this team gonna look for these guys

1480
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:37,640
Speaker 1: to play well in you know, are they gonna get

1481
01:19:37,640 --> 01:19:39,280
Speaker 1: a lot of chance? Are they gonna get any targets?

1482
01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:44,080
Speaker 1: For that matter, that's a question as well. So I'm yeah,

1483
01:19:44,160 --> 01:19:46,719
Speaker 1: they've got they've got a really good stable of wide

1484
01:19:46,760 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 1: receivers and it's going to be interesting to see how

1485
01:19:48,479 --> 01:19:51,639
Speaker 1: it shakes out. And hopefully they'll have to make those decisions,

1486
01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:54,519
Speaker 1: and injuries or something else won't won't make it for them.

1487
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:57,000
Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones at eight oh three, oh

1488
01:19:57,080 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 1: five fifty one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty

1489
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: Tom and lack of want and wants the way in here? Tom,

1490
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 1: what do you have? You're on one? Bill's live? Uh yeah.

1491
01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:09,040
Speaker 1: And receivers, I definitely think it's gonna be seven. If

1492
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:12,040
Speaker 1: they have to, they may have to go with one

1493
01:20:12,120 --> 01:20:16,440
Speaker 1: less tight end or keeps him or as a defensive

1494
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:18,800
Speaker 1: tackle and not make them a tight end like Steve wants.

1495
01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 1: And I would say, well, the way Crumer is looking,

1496
01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:32,680
Speaker 1: unless they can trade him for something him McKenzie. And

1497
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:36,960
Speaker 1: then if now Stevenson is supposedly also had a lot

1498
01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:39,880
Speaker 1: of catches. So it depends who shows up in preseason

1499
01:20:40,040 --> 01:20:44,000
Speaker 1: or who they can hide in preseason between Hodson and Stevenson.

1500
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:47,559
Speaker 1: As to who they try to get to the practice squad, yeah,

1501
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:49,920
Speaker 1: I mean it's gonna be you know, and Steve's brought

1502
01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 1: up there, and then i'd have one other, just one

1503
01:20:51,920 --> 01:20:55,240
Speaker 1: other quick thing if you guys, Yeah, go ahead talk

1504
01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:57,800
Speaker 1: to if you're happen to be talking to Andy Major

1505
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:01,320
Speaker 1: or whatever. The one thing. I mean, the practice was fine,

1506
01:21:01,400 --> 01:21:04,800
Speaker 1: except with all the constant music. I mean, they don't

1507
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:06,760
Speaker 1: have any kind of commentaries. Who don't know who they're

1508
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 1: throwing too. But a multi billion dollar operation, we don't

1509
01:21:11,080 --> 01:21:15,840
Speaker 1: need fancy, shiny, glossy ones. But if he said, mimiograph

1510
01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:18,800
Speaker 1: paper that lists the roster would be nice. You don't

1511
01:21:18,800 --> 01:21:21,479
Speaker 1: know who you're looking at. Yeah, that's a good point,

1512
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:24,320
Speaker 1: all right. I'm sure that that'll get passed along. That's good.

1513
01:21:24,479 --> 01:21:26,160
Speaker 1: That's a good idea. Thanks for the call, Tom, I

1514
01:21:26,160 --> 01:21:30,800
Speaker 1: appreciate it. He thinks Mackenzie and Stevenson could both make it.

1515
01:21:31,200 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 1: You kind of see it as an either or because

1516
01:21:33,600 --> 01:21:38,519
Speaker 1: their job duties are so similar. Right, Yeah, it'll be

1517
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:41,280
Speaker 1: interesting to see. I don't know. I've got from what

1518
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:44,559
Speaker 1: I've got with the long snapper, the kicker, and the punter.

1519
01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:46,400
Speaker 1: That's three right off the top. So you got fifty

1520
01:21:46,479 --> 01:21:50,280
Speaker 1: guys on your active roster without the kicker, punter, long snapper,

1521
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:54,120
Speaker 1: I've got twenty. It's seven wide receivers, eight offensive linemen,

1522
01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks, three running backs, three tight ends. Now, if

1523
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:04,800
Speaker 1: you go nine offensive linemen, six linebackers, oh, I got eight,

1524
01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:09,360
Speaker 1: eight defensive linemen, five linebackers, nine defensive backs. That's only

1525
01:22:09,360 --> 01:22:11,720
Speaker 1: twenty two on the defensive side, and it's twenty four

1526
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:14,200
Speaker 1: on the offensive side. So that gives you pretty like

1527
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:17,760
Speaker 1: it is, but it gives you four spots that aren't used.

1528
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:22,240
Speaker 1: You got four spots to sprinkle in there behind the

1529
01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:27,680
Speaker 1: core guys that are offensive defensive musts. Right, But that's

1530
01:22:27,720 --> 01:22:32,120
Speaker 1: only with you know, three running backs, and that's eight

1531
01:22:32,120 --> 01:22:34,840
Speaker 1: offensive linemen instead of nine, so there's two son you

1532
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:39,240
Speaker 1: got two more. That's was and this was seven white

1533
01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: outs though, so I got it. I think I would

1534
01:22:42,439 --> 01:22:46,679
Speaker 1: be a little uneasy with eight linemen. Okay, go nine linemen. Yeah,

1535
01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:49,920
Speaker 1: so you got twenty. That's twenty five offense and twenty

1536
01:22:49,920 --> 01:22:56,240
Speaker 1: two defense. That's eight s, nine offensive linemen, seven wideouts.

1537
01:22:56,439 --> 01:23:00,760
Speaker 1: Now you're probably gonna need a fourth running back, so

1538
01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:05,800
Speaker 1: that's twenty six and you still got two spots left

1539
01:23:05,880 --> 01:23:08,960
Speaker 1: that you'd get an extra linebacker and an extra defensive lineman.

1540
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:13,840
Speaker 1: So you go six linebackers and six d linemen. Sixty line.

1541
01:23:13,880 --> 01:23:16,559
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, ninety lineman. Oh so you go

1542
01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:21,760
Speaker 1: ninety line, nine dbs, six linebackers. That's twenty three. This

1543
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:24,800
Speaker 1: is yeah. I have an uneasy feeling just trying to

1544
01:23:24,840 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 1: do the math. Oh my gosh, you're you're cutting it. Fine,

1545
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:29,960
Speaker 1: yeah you are, but that's what you gotta do. I mean,

1546
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:32,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna be The expanded practice squad should hopefully help

1547
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:35,800
Speaker 1: you make these decisions because you can fortify the like

1548
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:38,679
Speaker 1: positions on your practice. It's all started from having seven

1549
01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:40,880
Speaker 1: wide outs on the on the rocks. So you can

1550
01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:44,240
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, it's doable. You have four what you

1551
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:47,639
Speaker 1: can have four rbs, which which is a special team's

1552
01:23:47,720 --> 01:23:52,960
Speaker 1: running back, and you can have three quarterbacks. I don't

1553
01:23:52,960 --> 01:23:55,680
Speaker 1: think you need to do that. You just put your

1554
01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:58,439
Speaker 1: third on the practice and that's nine offensive linemen, which

1555
01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:00,400
Speaker 1: is which is yeah, So take me down to two

1556
01:24:00,479 --> 01:24:03,559
Speaker 1: qbs there, all right, two q your spreadsheet. All right,

1557
01:24:03,640 --> 01:24:06,880
Speaker 1: I'm writing this. Here we go. Yeah, Steve's got the

1558
01:24:06,880 --> 01:24:08,920
Speaker 1: whole thing going. I use a rocket book. It's great.

1559
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:15,639
Speaker 1: So then so you got seven okay, sixteen eighteen twenty two.

1560
01:24:15,760 --> 01:24:20,160
Speaker 1: That's twenty five guys on offense with seven wide outs,

1561
01:24:20,280 --> 01:24:25,519
Speaker 1: nine offensive linemen, four running backs, and three tight ends.

1562
01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:29,280
Speaker 1: Two qbs. So it is doable. It's just a matter

1563
01:24:29,280 --> 01:24:31,320
Speaker 1: of how fine you want to cut it, how comfortable

1564
01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:34,400
Speaker 1: you feel with those numbers at the respective positions, and

1565
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:39,360
Speaker 1: you take it from there. And then you take the

1566
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:42,920
Speaker 1: positions where you think you're perceived to be light and

1567
01:24:43,080 --> 01:24:45,880
Speaker 1: maybe a little thinner than you're completely comfortable with, and

1568
01:24:45,960 --> 01:24:48,840
Speaker 1: you fortify that position on your practice squad, and you

1569
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:51,519
Speaker 1: make sure you protect at least one of those said players.

1570
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:54,519
Speaker 1: You can protect up to four that can't get poached

1571
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:57,320
Speaker 1: off your practice squad to another active roster. You protect

1572
01:24:57,400 --> 01:25:00,680
Speaker 1: up to four, and you make sure that at least

1573
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 1: one or two of those four at your light positions,

1574
01:25:03,439 --> 01:25:05,400
Speaker 1: so you're not left holding the bag saying, oh boy,

1575
01:25:05,400 --> 01:25:06,880
Speaker 1: if we have one injury, we don't have anybody on

1576
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:09,800
Speaker 1: the practice squad right now, right, And that's the game.

1577
01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:14,679
Speaker 1: You kind of half the play. Now if you want

1578
01:25:14,720 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 1: to fill up the wide receiver bucket, it's just you

1579
01:25:20,040 --> 01:25:22,320
Speaker 1: gotta move the you gotta move the thing, move the chairs.

1580
01:25:22,320 --> 01:25:24,960
Speaker 1: What are you sacrificing to keep those seven wide outs?

1581
01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:27,760
Speaker 1: And how effective are the seven whiteouts gonna be if

1582
01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:31,160
Speaker 1: you can only play four at a time. Yeah, any

1583
01:25:32,200 --> 01:25:34,840
Speaker 1: one is inactive every week because you're only dressing six.

1584
01:25:35,280 --> 01:25:37,360
Speaker 1: Why not just keep the seventh on the practice squad

1585
01:25:37,600 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 1: because you get two free call ups a year anyway,

1586
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:42,320
Speaker 1: without even exposing that guy to waivers. I think it

1587
01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:44,960
Speaker 1: may come down to on this the spreadsheet we're looking at,

1588
01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:46,679
Speaker 1: in the roster we're looking at, it may come down

1589
01:25:46,720 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 1: to a choice between seven whiteouts or ten defensive linemen.

1590
01:25:51,240 --> 01:25:56,000
Speaker 1: Ten defensive linemen. It's deep ten, it's deep ten. It's

1591
01:25:56,080 --> 01:25:58,479
Speaker 1: deep over there. But there's only four on the field

1592
01:25:58,680 --> 01:26:00,839
Speaker 1: at any one time unless you just and then rotating

1593
01:26:00,960 --> 01:26:02,720
Speaker 1: through so there's eight, and then if you gotta, then

1594
01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:05,280
Speaker 1: if you gotta you know, a special teams guy like

1595
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:09,160
Speaker 1: Bam Johnson who's also a pretty good defensive end at times. Yeah, right,

1596
01:26:09,560 --> 01:26:14,840
Speaker 1: and yeah, so they got enough spots. A fifty three

1597
01:26:14,960 --> 01:26:18,200
Speaker 1: is and enough spots and the only reason we're having

1598
01:26:18,200 --> 01:26:21,720
Speaker 1: this conversation is because we're reticent to get rid of

1599
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:23,960
Speaker 1: a good player. Yeah, but if you're gonna get rid

1600
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:25,160
Speaker 1: of him, it is because he got a better one.

1601
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:29,040
Speaker 1: And that's that's as simple as that. So and then

1602
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:30,679
Speaker 1: you just hope you're a better one doesn't get injured.

1603
01:26:31,240 --> 01:26:35,880
Speaker 1: Oh well, we have to take a break here, John

1604
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:38,160
Speaker 1: and Weedfield, hang tight, we'll get to you first after

1605
01:26:38,200 --> 01:26:41,759
Speaker 1: the break. Eight oh three oh five fifty. How many

1606
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 1: receivers can the Bills hold on the roster? And who

1607
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 1: do you have making one of those last two or

1608
01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:49,280
Speaker 1: three spots. We'll be back in a second to discuss

1609
01:26:49,320 --> 01:26:51,160
Speaker 1: that with you. Here on One Bill's Live, presented by

1610
01:26:51,240 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 1: Kali to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, and we're back

1611
01:27:08,080 --> 01:27:10,200
Speaker 1: and we're here to take a phone call at eight

1612
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:15,240
Speaker 1: o three five fifty as we go to John in Wheatfield,

1613
01:27:15,240 --> 01:27:17,559
Speaker 1: who's been waiting patiently. There, John, what do you have

1614
01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:20,800
Speaker 1: for us? You're on One Bill's Live. Hi, guys, I

1615
01:27:20,840 --> 01:27:22,720
Speaker 1: think you guys need a course, an algebra or a

1616
01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 1: calculator to figure this out. Yeah, or an abbocus Yeah

1617
01:27:28,479 --> 01:27:31,760
Speaker 1: right right. Hey, listen, I haven't heard anything on the

1618
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:35,800
Speaker 1: zach Ertz front line. Did he even report the training camp? Yeah,

1619
01:27:35,840 --> 01:27:38,800
Speaker 1: he did. Bills are still have an interest. He's still

1620
01:27:39,080 --> 01:27:42,080
Speaker 1: he's at Eagles camp last week. Checked. He's got blonde

1621
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:46,040
Speaker 1: hair too, apparently, but yeah, he's doing his thing down

1622
01:27:46,120 --> 01:27:49,720
Speaker 1: there in Philly. And we have not heard hide nor

1623
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:52,800
Speaker 1: hair of anything developing on this end. And I think

1624
01:27:52,840 --> 01:27:55,160
Speaker 1: it's because nobody wants to foot the bill for eight

1625
01:27:55,160 --> 01:27:58,840
Speaker 1: and a quarter million. That's the issue more than anything else.

1626
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:00,800
Speaker 1: What do you think of it? What do you think

1627
01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:02,920
Speaker 1: if the Bills, like they have for the first preseason game,

1628
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:05,960
Speaker 1: aren't too happy with the tight end, you think they

1629
01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:09,080
Speaker 1: they may look at making a move, not if it

1630
01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:12,439
Speaker 1: means inheriting his contract at eight and if if the

1631
01:28:12,520 --> 01:28:17,599
Speaker 1: Bills are unhappy with the tight end group that they have, yes,

1632
01:28:17,680 --> 01:28:19,519
Speaker 1: they will make a move if they have to or

1633
01:28:19,560 --> 01:28:22,519
Speaker 1: if they can. But that doesn't mean it's gonna be

1634
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:28,360
Speaker 1: zach Ertz. All right, thanks guys, pretty you bet? Yeah,

1635
01:28:28,439 --> 01:28:30,840
Speaker 1: no problem, But I don't I have no reason to

1636
01:28:30,840 --> 01:28:32,760
Speaker 1: think they're unhappy with their group. I'll just go on

1637
01:28:32,800 --> 01:28:34,920
Speaker 1: regular saying that there's no reason to think they're unhappy

1638
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:39,880
Speaker 1: with Dawson Knox and Tommy Sweeney and Jacob Hollister. There's

1639
01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:43,720
Speaker 1: no reason to think any of that, and Bud Bug Bug,

1640
01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:47,960
Speaker 1: Howard Bug, Howard So and Gilliam as well, So there's

1641
01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:49,840
Speaker 1: no reason to think they're unhappy with these guys. But

1642
01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:51,840
Speaker 1: if they were unhappy with all of them and didn't

1643
01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:53,559
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be playing, yeah, they'd make a move,

1644
01:28:53,560 --> 01:28:55,720
Speaker 1: and they would have done it before now. But if

1645
01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:58,960
Speaker 1: they find that out during the preseason games, yeah, I

1646
01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:01,400
Speaker 1: would expect them to to beat the bushes for a

1647
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:03,760
Speaker 1: new tight end. But I don't think that's going to happen.

1648
01:29:03,800 --> 01:29:05,880
Speaker 1: I think they like these guys. Yeah. I mean, we

1649
01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:08,400
Speaker 1: have to remember they are coming out of a restricted cap.

1650
01:29:09,160 --> 01:29:12,080
Speaker 1: They have a franchise quarterback. They have to sign to

1651
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:15,240
Speaker 1: a long term extension, if not in the next few

1652
01:29:15,280 --> 01:29:18,599
Speaker 1: weeks early next season. And I know you say, well,

1653
01:29:18,600 --> 01:29:20,920
Speaker 1: he's only under contract for one more year. That's this

1654
01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:23,240
Speaker 1: year that you know, if the extension doesn't get done

1655
01:29:23,280 --> 01:29:25,800
Speaker 1: now and that means next year. But they don't know that.

1656
01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 1: They don't know when that's getting done. Although Brandon being

1657
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:32,880
Speaker 1: addressed it this morning on w GR radio and said

1658
01:29:33,280 --> 01:29:35,800
Speaker 1: they'll probably have a deadline where they stop talking this

1659
01:29:35,840 --> 01:29:38,360
Speaker 1: summer if it doesn't get done and then pick it

1660
01:29:38,439 --> 01:29:43,559
Speaker 1: up in the off season. If you acquire Zaccurates, then

1661
01:29:43,600 --> 01:29:48,160
Speaker 1: it's no longer an option, right because you presumably will

1662
01:29:48,160 --> 01:29:50,080
Speaker 1: have gobbled up what cap space you have this year

1663
01:29:50,479 --> 01:29:53,760
Speaker 1: in signing Josh to an extension, unless the extension just

1664
01:29:53,920 --> 01:29:58,760
Speaker 1: tacks on years and doesn't redo his contract situation this year.

1665
01:29:59,280 --> 01:30:02,720
Speaker 1: You know, under the it could be. It could be

1666
01:30:02,760 --> 01:30:06,280
Speaker 1: a contract, a five year extension on the back end

1667
01:30:06,320 --> 01:30:09,120
Speaker 1: of the contract he's playing. It could be you know whatever.

1668
01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:13,120
Speaker 1: There's no no end to the creativity these guys will

1669
01:30:13,160 --> 01:30:15,400
Speaker 1: come up with if they if it's one of those deals.

1670
01:30:15,400 --> 01:30:21,599
Speaker 1: But um, yeah that if they're unhappy with any position group,

1671
01:30:21,640 --> 01:30:23,479
Speaker 1: they're gonna go out and make moves. So yeah, but

1672
01:30:23,560 --> 01:30:25,599
Speaker 1: I don't I think now right now, I think they

1673
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:27,880
Speaker 1: like exactly where their roster is and they're waiting for

1674
01:30:27,920 --> 01:30:30,360
Speaker 1: these guys to, you know, shoot to show it in

1675
01:30:30,360 --> 01:30:33,880
Speaker 1: the regular season. This is I think this training camp,

1676
01:30:33,960 --> 01:30:36,400
Speaker 1: more so than any other, has a smaller percentage of

1677
01:30:36,439 --> 01:30:39,639
Speaker 1: the roster that's actually in question, and certainly I think

1678
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:43,880
Speaker 1: there's like zero starters maybe in question. I'm trying to

1679
01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:45,840
Speaker 1: think of one. Now, who would it be maybe the

1680
01:30:45,880 --> 01:30:49,519
Speaker 1: defensive end, the defensive line starters, but the core guys

1681
01:30:49,560 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 1: are gonna be on the team. Who's gonna start I

1682
01:30:51,360 --> 01:30:55,360
Speaker 1: don't know. Um cornerback too, I don't you know who knows.

1683
01:30:55,360 --> 01:30:57,680
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be Levi Wallace right now, but

1684
01:30:58,600 --> 01:31:00,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if they This is a roster that

1685
01:31:01,000 --> 01:31:03,280
Speaker 1: you're talking about the bottom half of the roster, not

1686
01:31:03,360 --> 01:31:05,640
Speaker 1: the top half of the roster. And you know, when

1687
01:31:05,680 --> 01:31:11,960
Speaker 1: you're talking about training camp, I would I don't know.

1688
01:31:12,160 --> 01:31:14,960
Speaker 1: I mean, there's some juggling that has to go on there.

1689
01:31:15,040 --> 01:31:19,559
Speaker 1: I wrestle with what coach McDermott's philosophy is as it

1690
01:31:19,600 --> 01:31:23,960
Speaker 1: pertains to game day actives, and that's where I'm kind

1691
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:26,000
Speaker 1: of waffling a little bit on whether it's six or

1692
01:31:26,000 --> 01:31:28,639
Speaker 1: seven receivers. I just think, because how much you're gonna

1693
01:31:28,680 --> 01:31:33,160
Speaker 1: use receivers, it's just gonna make it easier to have

1694
01:31:33,200 --> 01:31:37,840
Speaker 1: seven on the fifty three and then use them as

1695
01:31:37,840 --> 01:31:41,320
Speaker 1: you see fit. Dress six every week and then one's inactive.

1696
01:31:41,360 --> 01:31:45,360
Speaker 1: But coach McDermott might not want that. He might just say, well,

1697
01:31:45,360 --> 01:31:47,160
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna have one inactive every week, just keep

1698
01:31:47,240 --> 01:31:50,280
Speaker 1: him on the practice squad and we'll only carry six. Yeah,

1699
01:31:51,280 --> 01:31:55,599
Speaker 1: I think that's a feasible thing to consider. They may

1700
01:31:57,439 --> 01:32:03,000
Speaker 1: stay flexible, like you're saying, but they may um do

1701
01:32:03,040 --> 01:32:07,760
Speaker 1: it week by week depending on matchups, game plan, that

1702
01:32:07,840 --> 01:32:09,040
Speaker 1: kind of thing, And there's a lot of that that

1703
01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:11,679
Speaker 1: goes into it, and obviously they're gonna you know, there's

1704
01:32:11,840 --> 01:32:15,240
Speaker 1: limitations to that. But at the bottom of the roster

1705
01:32:15,320 --> 01:32:18,080
Speaker 1: for special teams purposes is really what you're talking about.

1706
01:32:18,200 --> 01:32:20,040
Speaker 1: Because they got fifty three on their active roster, they

1707
01:32:20,040 --> 01:32:23,799
Speaker 1: can only dress forty seven with an extra offensive lineman

1708
01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:26,960
Speaker 1: and the and the third one's gotta be an That

1709
01:32:27,040 --> 01:32:30,160
Speaker 1: last one's got to be an offensive lineman. Right, Yeah,

1710
01:32:30,280 --> 01:32:38,320
Speaker 1: you can dress forty eight players if eight offensive line right. So, yeah,

1711
01:32:38,320 --> 01:32:41,599
Speaker 1: you're limited by it. So you're gonna you're gonna sit

1712
01:32:42,560 --> 01:32:46,960
Speaker 1: five guys anyway every week. Um who that is will

1713
01:32:47,120 --> 01:32:50,760
Speaker 1: vary depending on health and gain plan. Nick on the

1714
01:32:50,800 --> 01:32:53,479
Speaker 1: tweet sheet says, we have so much talent to go around,

1715
01:32:53,800 --> 01:32:55,920
Speaker 1: I'd say we have to keep six wide receivers, and

1716
01:32:55,920 --> 01:32:58,799
Speaker 1: I hope we keep Kumero. He may not be among

1717
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:01,679
Speaker 1: the five or six more talented receivers on the roster,

1718
01:33:01,760 --> 01:33:04,599
Speaker 1: but with his size. I think he can offer something

1719
01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:07,479
Speaker 1: that the other wide receivers can't, even if the other

1720
01:33:07,520 --> 01:33:09,640
Speaker 1: wide receivers may be a little bit better. What do

1721
01:33:09,720 --> 01:33:12,400
Speaker 1: you think about the size element that he presents? Is

1722
01:33:12,439 --> 01:33:17,920
Speaker 1: there value there beyond the consideration of is that player

1723
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:21,040
Speaker 1: more talented than that player? Well, yes he is, but

1724
01:33:21,160 --> 01:33:23,519
Speaker 1: he's not six four and he doesn't have long arms.

1725
01:33:24,680 --> 01:33:26,960
Speaker 1: And we like what the size and the long arms

1726
01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:29,439
Speaker 1: gives us over here even more than this guy's skill

1727
01:33:29,479 --> 01:33:31,679
Speaker 1: set because we have some of that on our roster already.

1728
01:33:31,920 --> 01:33:35,080
Speaker 1: We don't have that size. How much of a how

1729
01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:38,759
Speaker 1: much of a stick can Kumero swing because of his size?

1730
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:43,439
Speaker 1: Maybe some and certainly, and we always talk about it.

1731
01:33:43,479 --> 01:33:45,200
Speaker 1: You want big targets in the red zone when you

1732
01:33:45,240 --> 01:33:46,800
Speaker 1: get down close. You want guys that can go up

1733
01:33:46,840 --> 01:33:48,680
Speaker 1: high and get it higher than the dB can go

1734
01:33:48,760 --> 01:33:51,720
Speaker 1: up and get it. That's easy to say. But when

1735
01:33:51,720 --> 01:33:54,559
Speaker 1: you got when the dbs he got a choke hold,

1736
01:33:54,680 --> 01:33:58,759
Speaker 1: it's hard to jump. So you know, you can negate

1737
01:33:58,800 --> 01:34:01,000
Speaker 1: that if you're a defensive back by playing really physically

1738
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:05,599
Speaker 1: before the ball gets there. And officials sometimes, dude, sometimes

1739
01:34:05,960 --> 01:34:08,519
Speaker 1: don't call that kind of stuff. So there are ways

1740
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:12,600
Speaker 1: to combat that, But I've said Dawson Knox is a

1741
01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:15,200
Speaker 1: big red zone threat because he is a big tall target.

1742
01:34:15,600 --> 01:34:18,920
Speaker 1: You get a guy like Kumaro out there, he's a

1743
01:34:18,960 --> 01:34:22,000
Speaker 1: big tall target. I've said as well, you get Isaiah

1744
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:24,720
Speaker 1: Hodgens out there. He's tall. So you can do that

1745
01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:26,599
Speaker 1: and kind of go that philosophy. But then you know,

1746
01:34:27,080 --> 01:34:30,840
Speaker 1: when you're not in the red zone, you gotta put

1747
01:34:30,960 --> 01:34:32,720
Speaker 1: You want some guys out there that can get you

1748
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:36,280
Speaker 1: down there. You know, the separation guys like Sanders and

1749
01:34:36,360 --> 01:34:39,200
Speaker 1: Digs and Beasley and Davis who can work between the

1750
01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:41,439
Speaker 1: twenties and who can work down there in the red

1751
01:34:41,680 --> 01:34:43,240
Speaker 1: So it's easy and it's nice to have a guy

1752
01:34:43,320 --> 01:34:45,240
Speaker 1: like you know, Kumar there. But you don't need a

1753
01:34:45,280 --> 01:34:47,200
Speaker 1: tall target when you're out in the field because you

1754
01:34:47,200 --> 01:34:50,360
Speaker 1: should have enough space to get open. You know, you

1755
01:34:50,400 --> 01:34:53,920
Speaker 1: don't want Josh throwing a contested ball out in the

1756
01:34:53,920 --> 01:34:55,320
Speaker 1: mid of the middle of the fields. You wanted to

1757
01:34:55,320 --> 01:34:58,240
Speaker 1: throw an open guys. So if you're not gonna get open,

1758
01:34:59,280 --> 01:35:01,280
Speaker 1: what are we talking about? You know, you're never gonna

1759
01:35:01,280 --> 01:35:05,200
Speaker 1: get down there to the red zone. All valid things

1760
01:35:05,200 --> 01:35:09,160
Speaker 1: to consider, and Kumaro's got straight line speed to help

1761
01:35:09,200 --> 01:35:12,360
Speaker 1: you between the twenties, Yeah, I think. And like I said,

1762
01:35:12,360 --> 01:35:15,559
Speaker 1: he's a core special teams guy. And for those you know,

1763
01:35:15,600 --> 01:35:18,040
Speaker 1: when the rest of the team's going from their inside

1764
01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:20,400
Speaker 1: their own five driving on a thirteen play drive and

1765
01:35:20,400 --> 01:35:22,479
Speaker 1: they finally get down to the red zone, eat somebody

1766
01:35:23,120 --> 01:35:26,040
Speaker 1: who's gonna not just be there for that, but also

1767
01:35:26,160 --> 01:35:27,800
Speaker 1: when you kick it off, when you punt it, when

1768
01:35:27,800 --> 01:35:31,840
Speaker 1: you return punts, when you turn return kicks, somebody to help. Yeah,

1769
01:35:32,200 --> 01:35:37,280
Speaker 1: So it all goes into the stew and you know,

1770
01:35:37,320 --> 01:35:39,679
Speaker 1: that's what this training camps all about. And there's gonna

1771
01:35:39,720 --> 01:35:42,320
Speaker 1: be guys. There's gonna be assistant coaches. You know, Chad

1772
01:35:42,400 --> 01:35:44,680
Speaker 1: Hall's gonna be in there standing on the table saying, hey,

1773
01:35:44,840 --> 01:35:49,040
Speaker 1: we gotta have Kumarro on this receiving corps. You know, well, okay,

1774
01:35:49,080 --> 01:35:51,000
Speaker 1: but this you got this other guy over here standing

1775
01:35:51,040 --> 01:35:53,080
Speaker 1: on the table saying Dane Jackson needs to be on this,

1776
01:35:53,240 --> 01:35:55,640
Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing. And there's only so

1777
01:35:55,680 --> 01:35:57,760
Speaker 1: many of the table standers this year. There's a lot

1778
01:35:57,800 --> 01:36:01,280
Speaker 1: of guys are going. Man, we would have we you know,

1779
01:36:01,520 --> 01:36:06,639
Speaker 1: the assistant coaches that we would have pay the King's

1780
01:36:06,720 --> 01:36:09,000
Speaker 1: ransom for a guy like this three years ago, and

1781
01:36:09,120 --> 01:36:12,960
Speaker 1: now you're gonna cut him times of change that yes

1782
01:36:13,000 --> 01:36:17,600
Speaker 1: they do, yes they do here, especially with the roster transformation,

1783
01:36:17,680 --> 01:36:20,799
Speaker 1: we have witnessed break time for us here. When we return,

1784
01:36:21,320 --> 01:36:25,439
Speaker 1: Mitch Morse, Bill's center, addressed the media today. We will

1785
01:36:25,760 --> 01:36:28,880
Speaker 1: listen to his comments. Next here on one Bill's line,

1786
01:36:28,880 --> 01:36:48,840
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at

1787
01:36:48,840 --> 01:36:52,320
Speaker 1: a Steve tester who has been all over the fields.

1788
01:36:52,400 --> 01:36:54,000
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual roll

1789
01:36:54,000 --> 01:37:00,559
Speaker 1: of thunder Street Steve a blimp. We're not even in

1790
01:37:00,640 --> 01:37:06,840
Speaker 1: the straged bear of normalcy. All right here we are

1791
01:37:06,920 --> 01:37:11,160
Speaker 1: on a Monday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as

1792
01:37:11,400 --> 01:37:15,200
Speaker 1: we plow forward into week two of Bill's training camp.

1793
01:37:15,720 --> 01:37:17,680
Speaker 1: Got a topic on the table for you that you've

1794
01:37:17,680 --> 01:37:19,920
Speaker 1: been responding to on Twitter. Thanks for doing that. How

1795
01:37:19,920 --> 01:37:23,439
Speaker 1: many receivers can the Bills hold on the roster and

1796
01:37:23,600 --> 01:37:26,599
Speaker 1: who do you have particularly on the back end since

1797
01:37:26,640 --> 01:37:30,000
Speaker 1: most of us know the top four and who they

1798
01:37:30,439 --> 01:37:33,439
Speaker 1: will be, wanted to get you some commentary from the

1799
01:37:33,479 --> 01:37:37,080
Speaker 1: players themselves fresh off the practice field. And up next

1800
01:37:37,280 --> 01:37:41,000
Speaker 1: is Bill's sent here Mitch Morse, who addressed the media

1801
01:37:41,240 --> 01:37:44,840
Speaker 1: right after practice and also had a nice comment on

1802
01:37:44,960 --> 01:37:50,280
Speaker 1: a late media member, perez Or Terres Payler, who worked

1803
01:37:50,479 --> 01:37:54,080
Speaker 1: for or cover the Chiefs and worked for Yahoo Sports

1804
01:37:54,080 --> 01:37:57,479
Speaker 1: and had an untimely passing this past year or so.

1805
01:37:58,160 --> 01:38:01,960
Speaker 1: Here is Mitch Morris addressing the Buffalo media after practice today.

1806
01:38:03,360 --> 01:38:05,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's been a while. Everyone was in

1807
01:38:05,040 --> 01:38:10,760
Speaker 1: January February, maybe we lost Terres Paler. I was a

1808
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 1: fren Or was a sophomore center at University of Missouri,

1809
01:38:15,479 --> 01:38:17,840
Speaker 1: and Terres was a beat writer for Kansas City but

1810
01:38:17,840 --> 01:38:22,040
Speaker 1: it was also from Missoo and I was just having

1811
01:38:22,040 --> 01:38:24,080
Speaker 1: a tough go at center. I couldn't snap the ball

1812
01:38:24,400 --> 01:38:27,519
Speaker 1: it was going. I was sailing snaps and games and

1813
01:38:27,760 --> 01:38:30,639
Speaker 1: it was it was costing us big plays. And one

1814
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:33,200
Speaker 1: media day after a particular bad game, he comes up

1815
01:38:33,560 --> 01:38:35,280
Speaker 1: or you know a few guys, I'm not gonna say

1816
01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:37,880
Speaker 1: names with a few media guys, go are you as

1817
01:38:37,880 --> 01:38:40,000
Speaker 1: surprise as we are that you're still the starting center?

1818
01:38:40,560 --> 01:38:43,600
Speaker 1: And as a nineteen year old, I really did crush me.

1819
01:38:44,960 --> 01:38:48,719
Speaker 1: I was shaken. I was emotional, and Terres and another

1820
01:38:48,720 --> 01:38:50,720
Speaker 1: guy named Balhey came up to me. Didn't have to

1821
01:38:50,760 --> 01:38:51,880
Speaker 1: do this as the first time ever met him, and

1822
01:38:51,920 --> 01:38:53,760
Speaker 1: he said like, listen, pal, you're a young kid. You

1823
01:38:53,880 --> 01:38:56,559
Speaker 1: got this. We got your back, take it one day

1824
01:38:56,560 --> 01:38:59,280
Speaker 1: at a time. And he hadn't he didn't owe me anything,

1825
01:38:59,600 --> 01:39:02,519
Speaker 1: and he did that and and then I had him

1826
01:39:02,560 --> 01:39:05,439
Speaker 1: in Kansas City and it's a great dude. It's a

1827
01:39:05,439 --> 01:39:07,360
Speaker 1: good person. Did it for all the right reasons. And

1828
01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:09,760
Speaker 1: we lost him and that was I think he's got

1829
01:39:09,800 --> 01:39:14,080
Speaker 1: a scholarship fund at Howard University where he attended. UM

1830
01:39:14,080 --> 01:39:15,600
Speaker 1: and if you get a chance, we were trying to

1831
01:39:15,600 --> 01:39:19,400
Speaker 1: get the shirt. The Jewice shirt is a Juice shirt. Yeah,

1832
01:39:19,520 --> 01:39:22,639
Speaker 1: all Jewice team shirt. We couldn't get it here in time. Um,

1833
01:39:22,680 --> 01:39:24,080
Speaker 1: but I just want to start off. He was a

1834
01:39:24,080 --> 01:39:30,519
Speaker 1: good person and we miss him daily. Uh questions thanks, yeah,

1835
01:39:30,560 --> 01:39:37,880
Speaker 1: of course it SUPs to be short. How are things going, obviously?

1836
01:39:37,960 --> 01:39:40,599
Speaker 1: You know one of the big talking points off season

1837
01:39:40,680 --> 01:39:43,240
Speaker 1: was getting you guys back, to getting getting Cody back

1838
01:39:43,320 --> 01:39:46,439
Speaker 1: and you know, having some continuity this year so far,

1839
01:39:47,000 --> 01:39:51,000
Speaker 1: so well, it's great to have Cody back. Um. You know,

1840
01:39:51,120 --> 01:39:54,880
Speaker 1: he's such a competitor. I think you these those last

1841
01:39:54,880 --> 01:39:58,880
Speaker 1: two seanes were ended with injury. Um, you know, it's

1842
01:39:58,920 --> 01:40:01,559
Speaker 1: just irked him and he's such a competitive guy and

1843
01:40:01,520 --> 01:40:05,120
Speaker 1: a great teammate and very cerebral out there. There's another

1844
01:40:05,160 --> 01:40:07,280
Speaker 1: center out there knows his stuff. Um, so it's great

1845
01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:09,720
Speaker 1: to have him out here. He's a competitor and uh,

1846
01:40:09,840 --> 01:40:11,559
Speaker 1: I know, it's it's it was great to see him

1847
01:40:11,560 --> 01:40:12,920
Speaker 1: back out there, and we all have a lot to

1848
01:40:12,960 --> 01:40:15,960
Speaker 1: work to do. Um, but it's really fun to have

1849
01:40:16,000 --> 01:40:18,320
Speaker 1: Cody back out there, and um, you know we were

1850
01:40:18,320 --> 01:40:20,640
Speaker 1: able to uh you know, I know this is a

1851
01:40:20,640 --> 01:40:22,519
Speaker 1: while ago, but resign a bunch of guys. You know,

1852
01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:24,280
Speaker 1: it's just that continuity is something you don't see in

1853
01:40:24,320 --> 01:40:28,639
Speaker 1: the NFL very often. Um, So it's exciting. We're glad

1854
01:40:28,680 --> 01:40:32,280
Speaker 1: to have him. Long story short, back the high expectations,

1855
01:40:33,560 --> 01:40:36,559
Speaker 1: what happened last year. So I'm gonna flip flip this

1856
01:40:36,640 --> 01:40:38,800
Speaker 1: kind of around what are the things that you have

1857
01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:43,840
Speaker 1: to guard against to to to not get to achieve

1858
01:40:43,880 --> 01:40:46,000
Speaker 1: that kind of production that you guys have. What do

1859
01:40:46,000 --> 01:40:48,720
Speaker 1: you have to guard against in that sense to not

1860
01:40:48,880 --> 01:40:52,200
Speaker 1: get to where you were or beyond last year? Yeah,

1861
01:40:52,320 --> 01:40:56,559
Speaker 1: I'm I think every team has a different identity and

1862
01:40:56,600 --> 01:41:00,360
Speaker 1: training camps finding that out. Um, you know, we're gonna

1863
01:41:00,400 --> 01:41:03,400
Speaker 1: have ups and downs, ebbs and flows of every season.

1864
01:41:03,439 --> 01:41:06,960
Speaker 1: Every game, every practice. I think if you just look

1865
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:08,920
Speaker 1: at run plays, I think in twenty nineteen we're a

1866
01:41:08,920 --> 01:41:11,439
Speaker 1: penpole team. Twenty twenty. I mean, it's just every every

1867
01:41:11,520 --> 01:41:14,800
Speaker 1: year is different for us. It's all ultimately about putting

1868
01:41:14,800 --> 01:41:18,760
Speaker 1: points on the board. However we can, and I think

1869
01:41:19,320 --> 01:41:21,599
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, it's always easy to say

1870
01:41:21,680 --> 01:41:25,760
Speaker 1: we can't be complacent and fight complacency. Expectations are high.

1871
01:41:25,800 --> 01:41:27,439
Speaker 1: We put it on ourselves to be high. But we

1872
01:41:27,479 --> 01:41:31,400
Speaker 1: also understand that right now and in practices and in

1873
01:41:31,479 --> 01:41:35,519
Speaker 1: these preseason games are for correcting mistakes, are for trying

1874
01:41:35,560 --> 01:41:37,600
Speaker 1: things out, are for and now you don't want to

1875
01:41:37,600 --> 01:41:39,920
Speaker 1: try new things out preseason game, get the quarterback smoked.

1876
01:41:41,120 --> 01:41:42,760
Speaker 1: We don't want to mess up at those times. But

1877
01:41:42,880 --> 01:41:45,200
Speaker 1: right now it's it's for finding our identity and that

1878
01:41:45,280 --> 01:41:47,160
Speaker 1: might be different than last year, might be the exact same.

1879
01:41:47,200 --> 01:41:50,720
Speaker 1: So right now just kind of managing expectations, and no

1880
01:41:50,760 --> 01:41:54,479
Speaker 1: one puts higher expectations on us than ourselves. You mentioned

1881
01:41:55,360 --> 01:41:57,320
Speaker 1: free agency can get you guys back. You went through

1882
01:41:57,320 --> 01:41:59,880
Speaker 1: that as a player, ultimately changed teams, so you knew

1883
01:42:00,320 --> 01:42:02,560
Speaker 1: that those had to do what was best for them individually.

1884
01:42:02,600 --> 01:42:05,080
Speaker 1: But how did you approach it knowing that Darryl and

1885
01:42:05,160 --> 01:42:08,559
Speaker 1: John were to keep pieces for you. Were you recruiter

1886
01:42:08,720 --> 01:42:10,360
Speaker 1: or were you just kind of letting them make their

1887
01:42:10,360 --> 01:42:13,560
Speaker 1: decision and end up being pleasantly surprising. Yeah, that's a

1888
01:42:13,600 --> 01:42:15,600
Speaker 1: great I'd say the latter probably. I think you know,

1889
01:42:15,640 --> 01:42:17,320
Speaker 1: like you said, you know this is a business in

1890
01:42:17,360 --> 01:42:20,160
Speaker 1: the end, m guys, you know your your life spanning

1891
01:42:20,200 --> 01:42:24,360
Speaker 1: this league if so minimal, And yeah, both these guys

1892
01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:27,559
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to test theirselves in the market. Of course,

1893
01:42:27,680 --> 01:42:29,439
Speaker 1: there are some of my best buddies and I love

1894
01:42:29,520 --> 01:42:31,639
Speaker 1: playing with them so selfishly we wanted them back and

1895
01:42:31,960 --> 01:42:33,880
Speaker 1: it worked itself out like that and we couldn't have

1896
01:42:33,880 --> 01:42:35,400
Speaker 1: been happier. And I think it was just it was

1897
01:42:35,520 --> 01:42:37,760
Speaker 1: a really fun text message kind of group when all

1898
01:42:37,760 --> 01:42:40,639
Speaker 1: those guys resigned, and um, it just kind of showed

1899
01:42:40,640 --> 01:42:43,000
Speaker 1: the compassion we have for each other and the bond

1900
01:42:43,040 --> 01:42:45,439
Speaker 1: that we have, which I mean a lot of teams have,

1901
01:42:45,600 --> 01:42:47,679
Speaker 1: but it was something special in an offensive line last

1902
01:42:47,720 --> 01:42:50,880
Speaker 1: year and we're trying to keep that. Think that close

1903
01:42:51,000 --> 01:42:53,160
Speaker 1: relationship factor did I mean, I know you can't speak

1904
01:42:53,200 --> 01:42:55,360
Speaker 1: for them and what made their decision, but do you

1905
01:42:55,360 --> 01:42:58,040
Speaker 1: think that that could be part of it absolutely. I

1906
01:42:58,040 --> 01:43:00,479
Speaker 1: think it can be every person, Like you said, it's different.

1907
01:43:00,520 --> 01:43:03,519
Speaker 1: Some guys have to you know, this is have to

1908
01:43:03,560 --> 01:43:07,360
Speaker 1: set themselves up for a lifetime, you know, monetarily, and

1909
01:43:07,560 --> 01:43:10,000
Speaker 1: but you know, I think if you talk to either

1910
01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:13,080
Speaker 1: of those guys or anyone who resigned, um, this camaraderie,

1911
01:43:13,120 --> 01:43:17,360
Speaker 1: this uh, this organization, the mindset and kind of the

1912
01:43:17,640 --> 01:43:21,160
Speaker 1: and what he preaches here that's McDermott um definitely plays

1913
01:43:21,160 --> 01:43:24,599
Speaker 1: a role in that. It's a we We compete extremely hard.

1914
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:26,920
Speaker 1: We compete against each other offense and defense. But at

1915
01:43:26,920 --> 01:43:28,760
Speaker 1: the same time, there's no one closer in this locker

1916
01:43:28,840 --> 01:43:31,679
Speaker 1: room than the guys you compete against. And that's very special.

1917
01:43:32,000 --> 01:43:35,120
Speaker 1: Someone who's going through concussions in the past to see

1918
01:43:35,120 --> 01:43:37,040
Speaker 1: the guarding holmets out here and you guys wearing those,

1919
01:43:37,479 --> 01:43:39,839
Speaker 1: you know how just kind of maybe from a standpoint

1920
01:43:39,840 --> 01:43:41,479
Speaker 1: of the game itself and how it's growing the sports

1921
01:43:41,479 --> 01:43:43,000
Speaker 1: science and being able to protect you guys, and what

1922
01:43:43,040 --> 01:43:47,000
Speaker 1: that means for you. Yeah, I mean yeah, I at

1923
01:43:47,040 --> 01:43:49,439
Speaker 1: first I just saw him my helmet something like damn,

1924
01:43:52,760 --> 01:43:56,000
Speaker 1: this kind of a subliminal message. But you know it's

1925
01:43:56,000 --> 01:43:58,280
Speaker 1: something that I'm very comfortable with. And then we try

1926
01:43:58,280 --> 01:43:59,920
Speaker 1: it on. We of course we give each other health

1927
01:44:00,000 --> 01:44:02,559
Speaker 1: for how it looks. But then after I think one

1928
01:44:02,600 --> 01:44:04,400
Speaker 1: practice I looked at Justin Zimmer, I'm like, man, I

1929
01:44:04,439 --> 01:44:06,599
Speaker 1: know we were getting after it and I didn't feel anything.

1930
01:44:07,520 --> 01:44:09,439
Speaker 1: So now now the other Now, the flip side is

1931
01:44:09,439 --> 01:44:11,360
Speaker 1: we don't wear those during games, so I'm sure a

1932
01:44:11,360 --> 01:44:13,360
Speaker 1: certain few practices will take them off. But I think

1933
01:44:13,400 --> 01:44:15,360
Speaker 1: for the little hits here and there, especially in these

1934
01:44:15,720 --> 01:44:20,439
Speaker 1: these practices, is great. So it really enjoy those feeling

1935
01:44:20,479 --> 01:44:22,559
Speaker 1: unusual about actually wearing I mean you feel like you're

1936
01:44:22,600 --> 01:44:25,080
Speaker 1: playing Halo, like you're a Halo character, like the big

1937
01:44:25,120 --> 01:44:27,880
Speaker 1: ass helmets. Um, you know, you got people giving you

1938
01:44:27,960 --> 01:44:31,280
Speaker 1: hell on your family being like what the hell is this? Uh?

1939
01:44:31,320 --> 01:44:34,559
Speaker 1: But um, you know, I mean some people did for

1940
01:44:34,680 --> 01:44:36,599
Speaker 1: me the first few days with a helmet on. In general,

1941
01:44:36,760 --> 01:44:39,080
Speaker 1: your night gets a little sore. Um. So it's just

1942
01:44:39,120 --> 01:44:43,679
Speaker 1: a little added that wasn't too bad that the changes

1943
01:44:44,400 --> 01:44:46,800
Speaker 1: and the way you guys were doing things nineteen to

1944
01:44:47,000 --> 01:44:49,800
Speaker 1: last year. How much do you think that contributed to

1945
01:44:49,840 --> 01:44:54,639
Speaker 1: maybe not being totally insane or at points and how

1946
01:44:54,640 --> 01:44:57,800
Speaker 1: are you during that over is it just learning it

1947
01:44:57,880 --> 01:45:00,840
Speaker 1: being more insane having the guys together again, or how

1948
01:45:00,840 --> 01:45:04,440
Speaker 1: can you use that to maybe improve this year? Um,

1949
01:45:04,880 --> 01:45:07,040
Speaker 1: are you talking about run game just in general? I

1950
01:45:07,040 --> 01:45:12,200
Speaker 1: guess specifically? Yeah, Yeah, I mean I think there is more.

1951
01:45:12,240 --> 01:45:15,439
Speaker 1: I think there is more outside the building concerned about

1952
01:45:15,439 --> 01:45:17,799
Speaker 1: it than there wasn't here. Of course, we have pride,

1953
01:45:18,400 --> 01:45:20,400
Speaker 1: I mean we want to run the ball. Well, it's

1954
01:45:20,479 --> 01:45:22,720
Speaker 1: kind of prideful part of the playing offensive line. You

1955
01:45:22,760 --> 01:45:26,320
Speaker 1: don't want to have negative plays. Um, you know, I

1956
01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:28,680
Speaker 1: think for all of us is about scoring points and

1957
01:45:28,800 --> 01:45:30,640
Speaker 1: to help our pass attack, we have to run the

1958
01:45:30,640 --> 01:45:32,920
Speaker 1: ball better. So for us, it's it's not like we're

1959
01:45:32,920 --> 01:45:35,720
Speaker 1: starting from scratch, but there are certain things I think

1960
01:45:35,840 --> 01:45:37,640
Speaker 1: is one little thing off here and there that we

1961
01:45:37,680 --> 01:45:39,519
Speaker 1: can fix. And each person kind of looks at themselves

1962
01:45:39,640 --> 01:45:41,760
Speaker 1: understands that everyone's got a role to play on that.

1963
01:45:41,840 --> 01:45:44,320
Speaker 1: So I definitely know I do. Um. So I'm just

1964
01:45:44,320 --> 01:45:46,160
Speaker 1: trying to work on that myself and then we'll see

1965
01:45:46,160 --> 01:45:50,439
Speaker 1: how it plays out. Is approaching this and is a

1966
01:45:50,439 --> 01:45:53,479
Speaker 1: different mindset than he has the first couple of years.

1967
01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:55,400
Speaker 1: You know, the pads aren't on, so especially for your

1968
01:45:55,479 --> 01:45:58,120
Speaker 1: fine minutes, it's more challenging. But have you seen or

1969
01:45:58,160 --> 01:46:02,000
Speaker 1: noticed a different approach or mine said early here. I mean,

1970
01:46:02,080 --> 01:46:05,360
Speaker 1: I think we just I think it's a sense of urgency, right,

1971
01:46:05,439 --> 01:46:08,519
Speaker 1: like we know what the what like the possibility that

1972
01:46:08,560 --> 01:46:11,439
Speaker 1: we have. We know that the pieces we have, but

1973
01:46:11,520 --> 01:46:13,679
Speaker 1: just because you have it on paper doesn't mean anything.

1974
01:46:13,840 --> 01:46:16,719
Speaker 1: You can get beat by anyone badly in this league.

1975
01:46:16,800 --> 01:46:20,400
Speaker 1: So for us, it's just I think it's just a

1976
01:46:20,400 --> 01:46:22,880
Speaker 1: sense of urgency and understanding that we have a long

1977
01:46:22,920 --> 01:46:25,439
Speaker 1: way to go, and that's exciting, but at the same

1978
01:46:25,479 --> 01:46:27,559
Speaker 1: time it's also a little bit daunting. So we're just

1979
01:46:27,600 --> 01:46:29,679
Speaker 1: trying not to make any day too big, but understanding

1980
01:46:29,720 --> 01:46:32,040
Speaker 1: that we can't take steps backwards because we don't have time.

1981
01:46:32,400 --> 01:46:36,040
Speaker 1: We see a guy expensive ground some opportunities, do you

1982
01:46:36,200 --> 01:46:38,280
Speaker 1: think of him as a young guy on you know,

1983
01:46:38,520 --> 01:46:41,080
Speaker 1: on the side there or you go back to when

1984
01:46:41,120 --> 01:46:44,080
Speaker 1: you were a rookie and thinking about what he's going

1985
01:46:44,080 --> 01:46:45,680
Speaker 1: through and trying to help him. How does that How

1986
01:46:45,680 --> 01:46:47,519
Speaker 1: do you look at some of man I think these

1987
01:46:47,600 --> 01:46:50,400
Speaker 1: rookie is the group we have, they study their ass off,

1988
01:46:50,439 --> 01:46:53,479
Speaker 1: they come in prepared. It's little nuances that you have

1989
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:55,400
Speaker 1: to brush up on. But I think, I mean they're

1990
01:46:55,560 --> 01:46:57,160
Speaker 1: light years ahead of where I was. I feel like

1991
01:46:57,200 --> 01:47:01,400
Speaker 1: mentally my rookie year. You know, they just have the

1992
01:47:01,520 --> 01:47:04,160
Speaker 1: right ad sude and they have the right mindset and

1993
01:47:04,160 --> 01:47:06,080
Speaker 1: they're just a good group of guys. We're very lucky

1994
01:47:06,080 --> 01:47:08,240
Speaker 1: to have this group of rookies and it's the biggest

1995
01:47:08,240 --> 01:47:10,559
Speaker 1: group of rookies I ever seeing them. Just like Jesus Christ,

1996
01:47:10,960 --> 01:47:14,360
Speaker 1: these guys are tall as hell, um, but they're good guys.

1997
01:47:14,720 --> 01:47:17,800
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, I think when you're in there, you're

1998
01:47:17,800 --> 01:47:19,360
Speaker 1: in it. You know what I mean. It's you're saying

1999
01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:21,200
Speaker 1: you're thrown in the fire. I think that's a great

2000
01:47:21,200 --> 01:47:23,519
Speaker 1: way to learn. That's how I learned. And he threw

2001
01:47:23,600 --> 01:47:25,479
Speaker 1: me right in the fire. And he's like, you sink

2002
01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:26,800
Speaker 1: or swim, And I think these guys are doing a

2003
01:47:26,800 --> 01:47:29,000
Speaker 1: great job of swimming. Now there's there's bumps in the road,

2004
01:47:29,080 --> 01:47:31,640
Speaker 1: but that's how you get better. You compete against a

2005
01:47:31,640 --> 01:47:34,120
Speaker 1: great defense and a great defensive mind like coach Frasier.

2006
01:47:34,320 --> 01:47:36,040
Speaker 1: It'll get you right where you need to go quickly.

2007
01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:40,320
Speaker 1: Did they come to you for things? Do you go

2008
01:47:40,360 --> 01:47:42,240
Speaker 1: to then if you see something or how does that?

2009
01:47:42,320 --> 01:47:45,080
Speaker 1: Normally it's a two way street. I think if you

2010
01:47:45,120 --> 01:47:47,720
Speaker 1: see something that you think is glaring, you go to them.

2011
01:47:47,760 --> 01:47:49,880
Speaker 1: But for the most part. You know, they they have

2012
01:47:49,920 --> 01:47:52,360
Speaker 1: great communication with the guards on their side and there

2013
01:47:52,400 --> 01:47:55,400
Speaker 1: their guards are really helping those guys out too. Going

2014
01:47:55,439 --> 01:47:59,080
Speaker 1: through last training camp, but kind of an abbreviated schedule.

2015
01:47:59,200 --> 01:48:03,120
Speaker 1: What impact do you think that had on offensive lineman

2016
01:48:03,720 --> 01:48:06,559
Speaker 1: as a whole. That's a good question. I think you know,

2017
01:48:06,560 --> 01:48:09,800
Speaker 1: a lot of undrafted free agents, a lot of rookies, Um,

2018
01:48:11,640 --> 01:48:13,559
Speaker 1: they didn't get that opportunity to play in a game,

2019
01:48:14,040 --> 01:48:15,840
Speaker 1: you know. I mean some guys didn't even suit up.

2020
01:48:15,880 --> 01:48:19,519
Speaker 1: You know, it's such a bit so paramount to get

2021
01:48:19,560 --> 01:48:22,360
Speaker 1: reps against another team and h yeah, I mean this

2022
01:48:22,439 --> 01:48:24,559
Speaker 1: is a normal training camp schedule, as normal as it

2023
01:48:24,600 --> 01:48:27,680
Speaker 1: can be with COVID, and it's fun to see. I

2024
01:48:27,720 --> 01:48:29,760
Speaker 1: think guys are embracing it. You know, we had a

2025
01:48:29,800 --> 01:48:31,559
Speaker 1: first real off day and that was kind of fun.

2026
01:48:31,600 --> 01:48:35,360
Speaker 1: And um, that's a great point. I think it was

2027
01:48:35,400 --> 01:48:37,160
Speaker 1: just you know, we had like a two week acclamation

2028
01:48:37,200 --> 01:48:39,599
Speaker 1: period and then yeah, I think those first few games

2029
01:48:39,600 --> 01:48:41,559
Speaker 1: we all felt it a little bit. An offensive line

2030
01:48:41,600 --> 01:48:44,800
Speaker 1: definitely felt it with all the particular how was you know,

2031
01:48:44,840 --> 01:48:47,600
Speaker 1: you mentioned the running game earlier. How tough is it

2032
01:48:47,640 --> 01:48:49,640
Speaker 1: as an offensive lineman when you throw the ball so

2033
01:48:49,760 --> 01:48:52,759
Speaker 1: much to flip that switch into being you know that

2034
01:48:52,760 --> 01:48:55,840
Speaker 1: that run back. I mean, let me preface it with this,

2035
01:48:55,880 --> 01:48:58,640
Speaker 1: we're putting I mean as as as an organization, as

2036
01:48:58,680 --> 01:49:01,720
Speaker 1: a team, we care about going points and if we

2037
01:49:01,800 --> 01:49:04,200
Speaker 1: gotta throw the ball seventy times a game, like, yeah,

2038
01:49:04,240 --> 01:49:06,400
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be the most fun. But if we're

2039
01:49:06,400 --> 01:49:08,760
Speaker 1: putting up pots, when we're putting our team in a

2040
01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:12,639
Speaker 1: position to win, that's okay. But like I said before,

2041
01:49:12,680 --> 01:49:15,760
Speaker 1: we'd like to balance that up to help all of

2042
01:49:15,840 --> 01:49:18,920
Speaker 1: us out. A quarterback, the receivers, especially the running backs

2043
01:49:18,920 --> 01:49:21,479
Speaker 1: on us. So for us, it's just a lot of

2044
01:49:21,479 --> 01:49:24,639
Speaker 1: its situational awareness, understand what situations we need to run

2045
01:49:24,680 --> 01:49:28,000
Speaker 1: the ball in, and then doing that. The last two days,

2046
01:49:28,240 --> 01:49:30,760
Speaker 1: the last couple of days, we've heard from Devon and

2047
01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:34,720
Speaker 1: Zac both and they both have said basically, whether I'm

2048
01:49:34,760 --> 01:49:36,920
Speaker 1: starting or he's starting, it doesn't matter as long as

2049
01:49:36,920 --> 01:49:39,479
Speaker 1: we win the Super Bowl in a position where it

2050
01:49:39,520 --> 01:49:42,040
Speaker 1: can be guys wanting the ball and needing the ball.

2051
01:49:42,080 --> 01:49:44,479
Speaker 1: How refreshing is that as an offensive lineman to hear

2052
01:49:44,479 --> 01:49:47,360
Speaker 1: that it doesn't matter. Yeah, I think it's a testament

2053
01:49:47,400 --> 01:49:50,000
Speaker 1: to the group of guys that you know, Brandon and

2054
01:49:50,080 --> 01:49:54,080
Speaker 1: Sean have brought in. Yeah, it's tough. I mean, we

2055
01:49:54,120 --> 01:49:58,000
Speaker 1: all have egos, right, and it hurts when things don't

2056
01:49:58,000 --> 01:50:00,519
Speaker 1: go your way sometimes. But I think we have a

2057
01:50:00,520 --> 01:50:02,560
Speaker 1: bunch of professionals. I think we all pry ourselves and

2058
01:50:02,600 --> 01:50:05,479
Speaker 1: being pros. When your numbers called, you take that step

2059
01:50:05,479 --> 01:50:07,080
Speaker 1: and you go for it. If it's not called, you

2060
01:50:07,160 --> 01:50:09,400
Speaker 1: understand why, you get the answers why, and you'd be

2061
01:50:09,400 --> 01:50:11,640
Speaker 1: the best teammate you can be. And I think we

2062
01:50:11,720 --> 01:50:14,120
Speaker 1: got a bunch of pros doing that, and it's very

2063
01:50:14,400 --> 01:50:16,240
Speaker 1: enlightening to hear and I understand now. I know those

2064
01:50:16,240 --> 01:50:18,280
Speaker 1: guys are fighting their ass off to get that number

2065
01:50:18,280 --> 01:50:20,560
Speaker 1: one spot, but we talk about two guys with a

2066
01:50:20,680 --> 01:50:22,800
Speaker 1: very high character, young dudes who have perspective at such

2067
01:50:22,840 --> 01:50:25,599
Speaker 1: a young age. It's pretty cool. Talk about all the continuity.

2068
01:50:25,600 --> 01:50:27,800
Speaker 1: You did so rare obviously, so you're way ahead of

2069
01:50:27,840 --> 01:50:29,200
Speaker 1: the game now that you normally would be if you

2070
01:50:29,320 --> 01:50:31,479
Speaker 1: had three new offensive line and a bunch of new guys.

2071
01:50:31,600 --> 01:50:34,320
Speaker 1: So is the tolerance for error, maybe even a little

2072
01:50:34,320 --> 01:50:35,680
Speaker 1: bit less of it. A A mistake comes up and you

2073
01:50:35,760 --> 01:50:38,120
Speaker 1: still have to let that breathe because it's football. I

2074
01:50:38,160 --> 01:50:41,600
Speaker 1: think the latter. You understand this is football. Now you

2075
01:50:41,640 --> 01:50:43,320
Speaker 1: have less of a tolerance for saying making the same

2076
01:50:43,320 --> 01:50:46,000
Speaker 1: mistake twice. Right, you never try to make the same

2077
01:50:46,040 --> 01:50:48,080
Speaker 1: mistake twice, but you definitely have a low tolerance for it.

2078
01:50:48,840 --> 01:50:50,680
Speaker 1: And I think the people have the lowest horances are

2079
01:50:50,680 --> 01:50:52,400
Speaker 1: the people messing up. You don't want to be the

2080
01:50:52,439 --> 01:50:54,400
Speaker 1: guy who makes the same mistake twice. It's not coachable,

2081
01:50:54,400 --> 01:50:57,400
Speaker 1: it's not cool. So I think, like you said, we're

2082
01:50:57,439 --> 01:51:01,280
Speaker 1: just trying to understands footba. I think at the president's

2083
01:51:01,280 --> 01:51:03,360
Speaker 1: set by the coaches and their demeanor, and right now,

2084
01:51:03,360 --> 01:51:05,000
Speaker 1: it's as long as you're putting your best foot forward,

2085
01:51:05,000 --> 01:51:06,920
Speaker 1: you're competing. You make a mistake, that's okay. Let's just

2086
01:51:06,960 --> 01:51:08,519
Speaker 1: make it a thousand miles an hour, and then we'll

2087
01:51:08,560 --> 01:51:10,320
Speaker 1: make the corrections and then when you know it comes up,

2088
01:51:10,920 --> 01:51:13,479
Speaker 1: we'll fix it. And then if we don't, if it

2089
01:51:13,560 --> 01:51:15,160
Speaker 1: happens again, now we have a problem with either the

2090
01:51:15,200 --> 01:51:17,960
Speaker 1: person or the way we're teaching it. And then we

2091
01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:22,280
Speaker 1: go from there. You mentioned the day off yesterday, getting

2092
01:51:22,280 --> 01:51:24,439
Speaker 1: in here today, charging up for the week, the two

2093
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Speaker 1: days pads come on tomorrow. Is that does the kind

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Speaker 1: of gears switch a little bit. Does the vibe change

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Speaker 1: a little bit knowing that that's coming. I mean, try

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Speaker 1: to get maybe a little more sleep the night before

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Speaker 1: a big padding practice. I think it speaks to if

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Speaker 1: you try to do too much outside of yourself. We've

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Speaker 1: been really working with these shells on understand that the

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01:51:45,160 --> 01:51:47,519
Speaker 1: same techniques are going to carry over. You don't need

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Speaker 1: to do anything too different, but understanding that, you know

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Speaker 1: that run period is going to be a tone setter.

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Speaker 1: They have pads on and now it's big boy football

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Speaker 1: and mistakes are going to be made. They might feel

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Speaker 1: a little bit worse because pads are on, but understand

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01:52:00,000 --> 01:52:01,800
Speaker 1: and it's the same thing. It'll learn from them. You

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Speaker 1: got a fire out full speed and if you're if

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01:52:04,520 --> 01:52:09,160
Speaker 1: you're intensity changes, then something's wrong. Um. I mean, but

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Speaker 1: it it inherently does, just because full pads come on.

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Speaker 1: So it'll be it'll be a fun day. I think

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Speaker 1: it'll be a lot of learning experiences and we'll get

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Speaker 1: from there. You talked about the sense of urgency that

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Speaker 1: this team has. Is it increased as opposed to like

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Speaker 1: a team that that that spent that brought a lot

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Speaker 1: of players together in the free agency in the offseason,

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Speaker 1: as compared to this team. Is the sense of urgency

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01:52:34,160 --> 01:52:37,960
Speaker 1: heightened knowing what you are capable of because you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, because the bar has been set. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you definitely know who you got and I think that's

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Speaker 1: that's a that's a big plus. Um. Not to say

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01:52:50,439 --> 01:52:54,920
Speaker 1: that bringing other guys in a as a negative, right, UM.

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Speaker 1: I think it just goes back to understanding that we

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Speaker 1: did set a president last year, but that doesn't mean anything.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we're kind of going to be the

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Speaker 1: hunted this year and with that comes a whole new

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01:53:05,560 --> 01:53:10,160
Speaker 1: set of challenges and that's exciting. But at the same time,

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01:53:10,160 --> 01:53:12,000
Speaker 1: you got understanding, I gotta put your best foot forward

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01:53:12,000 --> 01:53:15,960
Speaker 1: every practice, every rep, and every game because your opponents

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01:53:16,000 --> 01:53:17,960
Speaker 1: are definitely doing that. And you just look at our division.

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01:53:18,040 --> 01:53:20,360
Speaker 1: They've ramped it up and brought a bunch of really

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01:53:20,360 --> 01:53:23,719
Speaker 1: talented guys in there and a lot of mindsets to

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01:53:23,760 --> 01:53:26,880
Speaker 1: compete for this champions this AFC's Championship, because it's going

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01:53:26,960 --> 01:53:28,960
Speaker 1: to be it's gonna be a daunting task to player

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01:53:29,000 --> 01:53:31,760
Speaker 1: division this year, and we're excited. At the same time,

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Speaker 1: we understand the competition is going to be pretty intense.

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Speaker 1: So there's Mitch Morse addressing the media today. I thought

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Speaker 1: some of his last comments there were the most interesting.

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Speaker 1: The fact that in his division he recognizes and probably

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01:53:46,160 --> 01:53:47,560
Speaker 1: a lot of his teammates do. They're going to be

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Speaker 1: the hunted. And we've mentioned that on the show here before, Steve,

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Speaker 1: because there is a different approach to this year. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna get everybody's best every single week. You're sneaking up

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Speaker 1: on No. One because of the success you had last year,

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Speaker 1: and in this division anyway, you are seen as the

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01:54:04,120 --> 01:54:09,160
Speaker 1: top dog. And in those six division games, you're gonna

2146
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Speaker 1: be getting the best right hooks and uppercuts that the Dolphins, Jets,

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01:54:12,920 --> 01:54:14,840
Speaker 1: and Patriots can throw at you. I don't forget they

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01:54:14,880 --> 01:54:17,519
Speaker 1: swept the division last year. Nobody bet right and that's

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01:54:17,800 --> 01:54:20,559
Speaker 1: that's lost. That does not sit well with the rest

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Speaker 1: of the division. And also too, You're right, they are

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Speaker 1: the hunted. They are a team out there that is

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01:54:26,960 --> 01:54:29,639
Speaker 1: now an accomplishment to beat. It's a feather in your cat.

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01:54:29,640 --> 01:54:31,800
Speaker 1: It's a good win when you beat the Buffalo Bills.

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01:54:31,800 --> 01:54:34,520
Speaker 1: And but by the same time we spoke about this,

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01:54:35,040 --> 01:54:39,160
Speaker 1: I think the Bill's mindset is different as well. They're

2156
01:54:39,200 --> 01:54:41,480
Speaker 1: gonna plow through this regular season with one thing and

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01:54:41,520 --> 01:54:43,960
Speaker 1: they got someplace to go, right. This isn't like we're

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01:54:44,000 --> 01:54:45,800
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna see how good we are. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: we're gonna show our development. We're gonna we're this new team.

2160
01:54:48,760 --> 01:54:50,600
Speaker 1: Look at us. This is awesome. Isn't this great? This

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01:54:50,680 --> 01:54:53,120
Speaker 1: is all that's all pushed off of the side. Let's

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Speaker 1: win these games and get to the playoffs. It was

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01:54:56,520 --> 01:55:00,160
Speaker 1: a fun ride last year, no question, um. But they

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01:55:00,160 --> 01:55:03,760
Speaker 1: are not on a Sunday drive this year. They're going

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Speaker 1: someplace and that's a different mindset for them as well.

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Speaker 1: So the best that these other teams have to offer,

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01:55:10,440 --> 01:55:13,280
Speaker 1: that's all well and good for them. But the Bills

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01:55:13,440 --> 01:55:16,600
Speaker 1: are on a mission that's different than they were last

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01:55:16,680 --> 01:55:19,800
Speaker 1: year they came in, There's no question they were. There

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Speaker 1: were some question marks last year coming in. Those questions

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01:55:22,840 --> 01:55:25,280
Speaker 1: have been answered and now the Bills are the ones

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01:55:25,280 --> 01:55:27,040
Speaker 1: that asking the questions of the rest of the league,

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01:55:27,040 --> 01:55:29,040
Speaker 1: and that I think that's a much different mindset that

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Speaker 1: they're in as well as other teams. Who what other

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Speaker 1: teams think about the Bills. Yeah, and we heard Josh

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01:55:35,520 --> 01:55:37,280
Speaker 1: Allen say on day one to training camp when he

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Speaker 1: addressed the media, we didn't win it, so you can

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Speaker 1: argue whether they're the hunter or not. But he said

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Speaker 1: we didn't win it. So yeah, we're still ticked off

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01:55:45,800 --> 01:55:49,440
Speaker 1: about last year and they'll be carrying those feelings into

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01:55:49,440 --> 01:55:51,640
Speaker 1: this season every time they take the field. We were

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01:55:51,720 --> 01:55:55,040
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace say last week the difference between this year's

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Speaker 1: team and last year's team is there's an anger there

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01:55:57,720 --> 01:56:00,880
Speaker 1: now because we didn't finish the job last year. Right,

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01:56:00,960 --> 01:56:06,000
Speaker 1: So people are angry on this roster. So you take

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01:56:06,040 --> 01:56:09,400
Speaker 1: the talent, the depth, and you throw a little anger

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01:56:09,440 --> 01:56:11,280
Speaker 1: in there. And I don't have to tell you it's

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Speaker 1: an emotional game. Uh, They're gonna be loaded for bear

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Speaker 1: every single week, no matter who's hunting them. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be ready for They've got they've got the

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Speaker 1: weapons to get it done against anybody. They're looking forward

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Speaker 1: to the chance. And there's certainly gonna be some highlights

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Speaker 1: along the way during this regular season that the Bills

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Speaker 1: themselves are kind of pointing to, like, you know, the

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Night game against New Orleans, the Patriots games, the

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Speaker 1: division games and that kind of in the Chiefs game

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Speaker 1: and the PA and the Titans game. So there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be some high marks emotionally where the Bills are gonna say, listen,

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Speaker 1: let's make a little statement here. You know, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: and the Titans beat us last year, Let's return the favor.

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Speaker 1: I've said this too, and I don't it's lost on

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Speaker 1: a lot of people because maybe they don't have as

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Speaker 1: long a memory as I do. One team over the

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Speaker 1: last four or five years that have embarrassed the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Building haven't been many was New Orleans Saints, who thumped

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Speaker 1: them in their own house up here in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna go back that far? I would, um, it

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01:57:10,960 --> 01:57:15,480
Speaker 1: was not pretty. And I think there's I think that

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Speaker 1: tape gets run on Saturday night before the game or

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Speaker 1: excuse me, Wednesday night. I think I think absolutely it does,

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Speaker 1: and I think for both on defense and offense, and

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Speaker 1: you know, they'll they'll remember it and and it'll it'll

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01:57:29,640 --> 01:57:31,920
Speaker 1: that for play even if you weren't on that team.

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Speaker 1: It's it's easy to dredge up some passion about a

2215
01:57:35,520 --> 01:57:37,720
Speaker 1: dislike for that team if they're gonna hang forty one

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01:57:37,800 --> 01:57:40,560
Speaker 1: points on you and you know, be throwing the ball late.

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01:57:40,680 --> 01:57:42,880
Speaker 1: So it's yeah, there's I think there'll be some of that.

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Speaker 1: So I think there's some highlights all on schedule, on

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01:57:45,360 --> 01:57:47,080
Speaker 1: the schedule that will take the Bills out of that

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01:57:47,600 --> 01:57:50,840
Speaker 1: AFC championship mentality and say, Okay, let's let's get this

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Speaker 1: one and make a statement here. Um, there's a little

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01:57:53,320 --> 01:57:55,200
Speaker 1: bit of that going on as well. So, yeah, that

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Speaker 1: they are the hunted, but they're not easy to takedown.

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01:58:00,560 --> 01:58:04,600
Speaker 1: So we'll see. And they're clearly still motivated. It's not

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01:58:04,640 --> 01:58:08,919
Speaker 1: like they're some successful team that's resting on their laurels.

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01:58:09,640 --> 01:58:11,920
Speaker 1: They still got their own things they want to accomplish.

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01:58:11,760 --> 01:58:13,440
Speaker 1: You may want to beat the Bills to have a

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01:58:13,520 --> 01:58:16,600
Speaker 1: nice win, the Bills are thinking bigger than that, and

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01:58:16,720 --> 01:58:18,760
Speaker 1: if you're in their way, well, best of luck to you.

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01:58:18,960 --> 01:58:21,520
Speaker 1: That kind of thing. It raises one of the things

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01:58:21,560 --> 01:58:24,200
Speaker 1: that happened happens to a lot of really good teams,

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01:58:24,200 --> 01:58:25,680
Speaker 1: to the teams I was on in the early nineties,

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01:58:25,880 --> 01:58:29,800
Speaker 1: the floor is so high. Yeah, when you're practicing, when

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Speaker 1: you're preparing, when you're when you're studying, when you're meeting

2235
01:58:32,600 --> 01:58:35,240
Speaker 1: about these these other teams putting in game plan stuff,

2236
01:58:35,280 --> 01:58:39,280
Speaker 1: the level of excellence and engagement is so high because

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01:58:39,320 --> 01:58:41,440
Speaker 1: of the success you've had, and because of the standard

2238
01:58:41,480 --> 01:58:43,160
Speaker 1: you've set, because of the kind of players you bring

2239
01:58:43,200 --> 01:58:46,480
Speaker 1: in and the coaching staff, you don't drop too far

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Speaker 1: below that. And you even heard Mitch Moore say just

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01:58:49,080 --> 01:58:54,040
Speaker 1: a few moments ago how they guard against complacency creeping in. Yeah,

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01:58:54,080 --> 01:58:56,800
Speaker 1: they fight it tooth and nail every step of the way.

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01:58:56,800 --> 01:58:59,400
Speaker 1: Every day they step on the field. There, if they

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01:58:59,440 --> 01:59:01,400
Speaker 1: have to remind a teammate, they remind the point. It's

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01:59:01,400 --> 01:59:04,120
Speaker 1: a great point. It's a great point. And that's what

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01:59:04,280 --> 01:59:08,880
Speaker 1: keeps you from falling off the pedestan keeps a bad

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01:59:08,920 --> 01:59:12,280
Speaker 1: game is still way up here, you know. And that's

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01:59:12,640 --> 01:59:15,160
Speaker 1: that's hard to It's hard to beat teams like that,

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01:59:15,400 --> 01:59:18,360
Speaker 1: really hard to beat teams like that. We step aside here,

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Speaker 1: but when we come back, we will hear from one

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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary, who addressed the media as well. That's some

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01:59:23,400 --> 01:59:27,640
Speaker 1: interesting thoughts, talked about his offseason preparation for his big

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01:59:27,880 --> 01:59:31,280
Speaker 1: third season with the Bills. We'll get to motor when

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Speaker 1: we return here on One Bills Live presented by Kalid

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Speaker 1: to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio back here on one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live and taking you right to the players right

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Speaker 1: after practice as a training camp, Week two for the

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Speaker 1: Bills is now underway. Good practice today for the offense

2259
02:00:02,400 --> 02:00:06,080
Speaker 1: connected in the passing game several times. That's pretty impressive

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Speaker 1: performance by them today. And one of the members of

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Speaker 1: that offense, one Devin Singletary, addressed the media after practice.

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Speaker 1: Here is the motor. How would you describe her relationship

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02:00:20,160 --> 02:00:24,160
Speaker 1: with Zach? He gave us a little insight from his perspective.

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Speaker 1: How would you describe the relationship between the two of Yeah, man,

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02:00:26,800 --> 02:00:29,920
Speaker 1: we something like like brothers. Were kind of the same aids.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're from South Florida, so it's kind of

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02:00:32,200 --> 02:00:35,560
Speaker 1: like we automatically click since we came in and really

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02:00:35,560 --> 02:00:37,840
Speaker 1: just been building ever since. So I say, I say,

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Speaker 1: we're pretty tight. What is it like each of you

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02:00:41,920 --> 02:00:44,800
Speaker 1: being the workhorse probably not even in college, but in

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02:00:44,880 --> 02:00:48,200
Speaker 1: high school and then you're being put in a position

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Speaker 1: here to where you're splitting things. It's kind of a competition,

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Speaker 1: and what is that like? And then doing that with

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Speaker 1: someone that you consider like brother? Yeah, I mean, you know,

2275
02:00:58,720 --> 02:01:01,080
Speaker 1: in a game of football, we all can competitors. Is

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Speaker 1: what we love to do, and that's just what it is.

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02:01:04,040 --> 02:01:06,760
Speaker 1: We take it day by day, help each other, get better,

2278
02:01:06,920 --> 02:01:09,800
Speaker 1: feed off each other, and just keep building in that way.

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Speaker 1: That's how I look at it getting better. So exactly

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Speaker 1: the beginning and practice working with Brian and he talked

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Speaker 1: about today, just like all the things you guys are

2282
02:01:18,560 --> 02:01:20,320
Speaker 1: working on to get better at and then you know,

2283
02:01:20,600 --> 02:01:23,280
Speaker 1: working on making catches and then you make one in

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02:01:23,440 --> 02:01:26,520
Speaker 1: practice and seeing what you're working on paying off nice Ron.

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Speaker 1: What's that process like and specifically work with Brian. Yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: it's it's big. Just you know, like you said, the

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Speaker 1: full practice name the little drills, um, just focusing on

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Speaker 1: those and then finding a way and translated to the field,

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Speaker 1: and like you said, that's what we was able to do.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's all about just stacking good days on

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02:01:44,360 --> 02:01:47,160
Speaker 1: good days and good plays on good plays, keep finding

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02:01:47,200 --> 02:01:48,880
Speaker 1: ways to get better. That's what they come down too.

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Speaker 1: And one are those interactions. Like with Brian. He seems

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02:01:51,200 --> 02:01:55,240
Speaker 1: like a very pans on a man. He's one of

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02:01:55,280 --> 02:01:57,160
Speaker 1: the best you know in this game, as you know,

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Speaker 1: as we all know, and um, you know he a

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02:01:59,440 --> 02:02:01,720
Speaker 1: funny guy for sure. You know, he's always bringing good

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Speaker 1: energy day in and day out. Devin, I know you said,

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Speaker 1: and OTAs I think or maybe when we spoke for

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Speaker 1: an interview that you said, you feel like you this

2301
02:02:10,120 --> 02:02:12,920
Speaker 1: is the strongest you've been at this point. Could you

2302
02:02:12,960 --> 02:02:15,960
Speaker 1: explain how that translates to the field now here in

2303
02:02:16,000 --> 02:02:19,120
Speaker 1: training camp and how you feel through the first week now. Yeah,

2304
02:02:19,240 --> 02:02:21,960
Speaker 1: So I've been feeling good just all the way around

2305
02:02:22,000 --> 02:02:24,920
Speaker 1: on the board, like mentally, physically, and you know, the

2306
02:02:24,960 --> 02:02:27,080
Speaker 1: game has slowed down a lot for me, you know,

2307
02:02:27,160 --> 02:02:30,440
Speaker 1: just coming into year three and just really just trying

2308
02:02:30,440 --> 02:02:32,160
Speaker 1: to put it all together, you know, taking what I

2309
02:02:32,320 --> 02:02:34,080
Speaker 1: learned in my first two years and putting it all

2310
02:02:34,120 --> 02:02:36,920
Speaker 1: together going into this third year flows down like that.

2311
02:02:36,960 --> 02:02:38,640
Speaker 1: How much has that helped? I mean sometimes you under

2312
02:02:38,680 --> 02:02:40,520
Speaker 1: running backs, that takes on a little while to know

2313
02:02:40,640 --> 02:02:42,840
Speaker 1: when to hit certain things, you know, certain gaps in

2314
02:02:42,880 --> 02:02:45,520
Speaker 1: certain holes. Has it really slowed down for you in

2315
02:02:45,560 --> 02:02:48,240
Speaker 1: that aspect now? It definitely has, I would say so, Um,

2316
02:02:48,320 --> 02:02:50,600
Speaker 1: and it helps a lot. Like I say, um, it

2317
02:02:50,720 --> 02:02:52,640
Speaker 1: just comes with reps and I've been able to do that,

2318
02:02:52,960 --> 02:02:54,880
Speaker 1: you know, get those over the past two years and

2319
02:02:55,040 --> 02:02:56,640
Speaker 1: like I say, they're just trying to put it all

2320
02:02:56,680 --> 02:03:02,200
Speaker 1: together in year three. What kind of tour or springboard

2321
02:03:02,240 --> 02:03:05,040
Speaker 1: has Matt Breida been here in a short time. Um,

2322
02:03:05,040 --> 02:03:07,680
Speaker 1: he's been good actually, you know, Um, I think he's

2323
02:03:07,720 --> 02:03:10,200
Speaker 1: going on like year five. Um, you know, he's been

2324
02:03:10,240 --> 02:03:13,520
Speaker 1: in a few different offenses, and UM, just talking with

2325
02:03:13,600 --> 02:03:15,880
Speaker 1: him about it could be something small about how I'm

2326
02:03:16,000 --> 02:03:19,480
Speaker 1: catching the ball, or my positioning on me catching the

2327
02:03:19,480 --> 02:03:22,000
Speaker 1: ball and making it harder for the defender to slap

2328
02:03:22,040 --> 02:03:24,640
Speaker 1: it down, or something that he sees I could have

2329
02:03:24,640 --> 02:03:27,080
Speaker 1: did on the run. So he's definitely been good in

2330
02:03:27,120 --> 02:03:29,600
Speaker 1: that way. And UM, he always brings good energy as

2331
02:03:29,640 --> 02:03:32,760
Speaker 1: well with you. It's part of that group. And he

2332
02:03:32,800 --> 02:03:35,640
Speaker 1: were training in Florida. Yeah, he was with me a lot.

2333
02:03:35,680 --> 02:03:37,960
Speaker 1: He was the pretty much the whole off season who

2334
02:03:38,000 --> 02:03:41,440
Speaker 1: was together. I had you had a previous relationship with

2335
02:03:41,520 --> 02:03:44,520
Speaker 1: him before meeting and training. Oh that was so that

2336
02:03:44,600 --> 02:03:46,680
Speaker 1: was our first time meeting when we got down there

2337
02:03:46,720 --> 02:03:49,240
Speaker 1: in South Florida when we started training, and we just

2338
02:03:49,640 --> 02:03:52,880
Speaker 1: ever since then and keeping in touching, you know, building

2339
02:03:52,920 --> 02:03:55,800
Speaker 1: our relationship. So what was it like developing it and

2340
02:03:55,920 --> 02:03:58,480
Speaker 1: being able to learn from a new guy veteran in

2341
02:03:58,600 --> 02:04:01,920
Speaker 1: that type of setting as opposed still here. Yeah, So

2342
02:04:02,840 --> 02:04:04,960
Speaker 1: I would say that is it's more of a like

2343
02:04:05,040 --> 02:04:06,840
Speaker 1: a one on one because it's it's not like the

2344
02:04:06,840 --> 02:04:10,320
Speaker 1: whole team, and it's like basically him and me. I'm

2345
02:04:10,360 --> 02:04:12,560
Speaker 1: not you know, while we're training, so it's a lot

2346
02:04:12,600 --> 02:04:15,840
Speaker 1: we're just talking about life football. So it was big

2347
02:04:15,880 --> 02:04:18,840
Speaker 1: for us. How much were you maybe also helping him

2348
02:04:18,920 --> 02:04:22,280
Speaker 1: as someone who's getting this system right? So I was Yeah,

2349
02:04:22,280 --> 02:04:24,200
Speaker 1: if he had any questions about the offense, I was

2350
02:04:24,240 --> 02:04:27,160
Speaker 1: able to tell him, um, you know, and we was

2351
02:04:27,200 --> 02:04:29,640
Speaker 1: able to quizzy or really me quizzing him or whatever

2352
02:04:29,680 --> 02:04:31,840
Speaker 1: it may be, Um, just to get him, you know,

2353
02:04:32,200 --> 02:04:33,760
Speaker 1: up and running on the place. Once you get here,

2354
02:04:33,800 --> 02:04:35,400
Speaker 1: you can hit the ground running. So that was good

2355
02:04:35,440 --> 02:04:39,480
Speaker 1: for both of us. Obviously knowing first speed, some things

2356
02:04:39,520 --> 02:04:43,760
Speaker 1: are God given. Was he able to pass along things

2357
02:04:43,880 --> 02:04:47,640
Speaker 1: to help you maybe gain some sort of seed speak

2358
02:04:47,840 --> 02:04:49,400
Speaker 1: some sort of speed? Yeah, I don't know what like

2359
02:04:49,800 --> 02:04:52,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I know some things training wise or no,

2360
02:04:53,000 --> 02:04:57,000
Speaker 1: not not necessarily in that aspect, NAT with you inac

2361
02:04:57,120 --> 02:05:00,840
Speaker 1: or even with MA. It's competition. How do you think

2362
02:05:00,920 --> 02:05:03,120
Speaker 1: of it? I mean we everybody talks about the competition

2363
02:05:03,160 --> 02:05:05,200
Speaker 1: between the backs, and it's gonna get carried on. You

2364
02:05:05,200 --> 02:05:08,480
Speaker 1: can think of these things that's competitive, or you use

2365
02:05:08,520 --> 02:05:10,320
Speaker 1: it to help each other, or how do you look?

2366
02:05:10,400 --> 02:05:12,240
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's well, use it to help

2367
02:05:12,240 --> 02:05:14,720
Speaker 1: each other. For one, um, it's the game of football.

2368
02:05:14,760 --> 02:05:18,280
Speaker 1: It's always competition, you know. And how we look at it,

2369
02:05:18,720 --> 02:05:20,200
Speaker 1: you know, as long as we win and we're helping,

2370
02:05:20,280 --> 02:05:22,960
Speaker 1: we're helping the team win, and that's just what it is.

2371
02:05:23,080 --> 02:05:25,280
Speaker 1: It don't matter, like I'm saying, if I'm starring the

2372
02:05:25,400 --> 02:05:27,560
Speaker 1: breed of start and exactly start and it don't matter.

2373
02:05:27,800 --> 02:05:29,640
Speaker 1: As long as we're helping each other win, helping the

2374
02:05:29,680 --> 02:05:31,640
Speaker 1: team win, that's what matters. At the end of the day.

2375
02:05:32,040 --> 02:05:35,400
Speaker 1: You've always been whatever level, fighting to get the most carries,

2376
02:05:35,440 --> 02:05:38,040
Speaker 1: to play as much as you can do. You have

2377
02:05:38,080 --> 02:05:40,480
Speaker 1: to change that at all as it change your mindset

2378
02:05:40,520 --> 02:05:44,120
Speaker 1: at all. Nah, I mean not at all. I mean

2379
02:05:44,160 --> 02:05:47,000
Speaker 1: that's what I'm getting at. It's like, of course, of

2380
02:05:47,040 --> 02:05:49,200
Speaker 1: course everybody wants the ball, you know what I'm saying.

2381
02:05:49,240 --> 02:05:51,160
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you gotta look

2382
02:05:51,200 --> 02:05:53,200
Speaker 1: at the bigger picture. If I'm getting the ball and

2383
02:05:53,280 --> 02:05:55,160
Speaker 1: getting the ball, if I'm not, I'm not, you know

2384
02:05:55,200 --> 02:05:56,800
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I still got to play my part.

2385
02:05:56,880 --> 02:06:01,200
Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to. Look back on last

2386
02:06:01,240 --> 02:06:03,640
Speaker 1: year as the whole running hand as a whole was

2387
02:06:03,640 --> 02:06:07,400
Speaker 1: it up to Bill's standards and how much more community

2388
02:06:08,000 --> 02:06:11,400
Speaker 1: do you think it needs to be more effective? Um?

2389
02:06:11,520 --> 02:06:14,920
Speaker 1: This year and your UM, I wouldn't say it was

2390
02:06:15,080 --> 02:06:19,160
Speaker 1: quite up to our standard, um, you know. And then

2391
02:06:19,240 --> 02:06:21,840
Speaker 1: this is just finding ways to get better, you know,

2392
02:06:21,920 --> 02:06:26,080
Speaker 1: and using it to basically get to that ultimate goal

2393
02:06:26,200 --> 02:06:27,600
Speaker 1: as we all know what we want to be. So

2394
02:06:27,840 --> 02:06:30,200
Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to, because you know you're

2395
02:06:30,240 --> 02:06:32,720
Speaker 1: not get it. We're not all of a sudden it's

2396
02:06:32,760 --> 02:06:35,760
Speaker 1: gonna become this ground and hound team with jobs. So

2397
02:06:35,880 --> 02:06:38,240
Speaker 1: you really have to pick your spots, right what you

2398
02:06:38,280 --> 02:06:39,960
Speaker 1: mean by that as far as like you know, when

2399
02:06:40,000 --> 02:06:43,480
Speaker 1: you get when you get your carries, you've got, you've

2400
02:06:43,520 --> 02:06:46,480
Speaker 1: got to be effective and productive, all right. That's I mean,

2401
02:06:47,040 --> 02:06:48,600
Speaker 1: that's even if you're getting the bottle a lot, you

2402
02:06:48,600 --> 02:06:53,720
Speaker 1: got to make them count. Like that relationship with mad

2403
02:06:53,920 --> 02:06:56,320
Speaker 1: after last season when you guys couldn't have all that

2404
02:06:56,400 --> 02:06:59,080
Speaker 1: in person interaction, how much more important to stop yell Now?

2405
02:06:59,480 --> 02:07:02,560
Speaker 1: Oh that's I feel like it's big, you know, I

2406
02:07:02,560 --> 02:07:05,120
Speaker 1: feel like it helps with the team, you know, just

2407
02:07:05,680 --> 02:07:08,440
Speaker 1: building that bun all the way around, you know, owning

2408
02:07:08,480 --> 02:07:10,760
Speaker 1: it and off the field. UM. And when you're able

2409
02:07:10,760 --> 02:07:12,120
Speaker 1: to do it all to feel it definitely helps on

2410
02:07:12,160 --> 02:07:14,160
Speaker 1: the field, So I feel like it's big we're able

2411
02:07:14,200 --> 02:07:19,640
Speaker 1: to do that this year. You had a chance to

2412
02:07:19,640 --> 02:07:21,560
Speaker 1: look at a lot of offensive linemen in front of

2413
02:07:21,600 --> 02:07:24,000
Speaker 1: you during captain pads aren't on yet. But Cody Ford,

2414
02:07:24,080 --> 02:07:26,080
Speaker 1: guy that went out last year, how is he looking

2415
02:07:26,040 --> 02:07:28,760
Speaker 1: in front of Hill Parker camp Man? So far, so good,

2416
02:07:28,880 --> 02:07:30,920
Speaker 1: you know, coming off the injury that he's came off.

2417
02:07:31,800 --> 02:07:34,880
Speaker 1: He's been making plays in the ring game, pass game. Um,

2418
02:07:34,920 --> 02:07:37,080
Speaker 1: of course we're not. No one's where they want to

2419
02:07:37,120 --> 02:07:39,760
Speaker 1: be right now at this early encount, but he's looking

2420
02:07:39,800 --> 02:07:45,200
Speaker 1: good for sure. So that's Stevin Singletary who spoke with

2421
02:07:45,320 --> 02:07:49,160
Speaker 1: the media after practice today and Steve, regardless of the

2422
02:07:49,200 --> 02:07:51,480
Speaker 1: substance of what he said, just the way he's carrying

2423
02:07:51,560 --> 02:07:54,040
Speaker 1: himself with the interaction with the media. I don't know

2424
02:07:54,040 --> 02:07:57,120
Speaker 1: about you, but I just feel he's carrying himself with

2425
02:07:57,280 --> 02:08:03,640
Speaker 1: so much more confidence now than even last year. Much so.

2426
02:08:03,920 --> 02:08:07,400
Speaker 1: And I notice the same thing. I think. I'm not

2427
02:08:07,440 --> 02:08:10,520
Speaker 1: going to speak because I'm not the professional athlete here

2428
02:08:10,560 --> 02:08:12,600
Speaker 1: or even the former professional athlete, so I'll let you

2429
02:08:12,640 --> 02:08:17,160
Speaker 1: take this one. But it just seems like when players

2430
02:08:17,280 --> 02:08:21,560
Speaker 1: seem poised for something that they feel is going to

2431
02:08:21,600 --> 02:08:24,000
Speaker 1: be better than it was before. Whether it's due to

2432
02:08:24,080 --> 02:08:26,200
Speaker 1: their preparation or their hard work in the off season,

2433
02:08:26,320 --> 02:08:30,600
Speaker 1: or some other circumstance that might involve the roster. I

2434
02:08:30,600 --> 02:08:33,240
Speaker 1: don't know. I just think they go into it with

2435
02:08:33,400 --> 02:08:40,080
Speaker 1: such a level of confidence and positive mindset. It almost

2436
02:08:40,160 --> 02:08:43,120
Speaker 1: just naturally unfolds and happens. And I don't know that

2437
02:08:43,120 --> 02:08:45,920
Speaker 1: the opportunities are going to be there for Devin Singletary

2438
02:08:45,920 --> 02:08:47,480
Speaker 1: to light the world on fire. No one. This is

2439
02:08:47,520 --> 02:08:50,360
Speaker 1: going to be a passing offense first and foremost. But

2440
02:08:50,480 --> 02:08:53,640
Speaker 1: the way he's carrying himself just says to me, I'm

2441
02:08:53,640 --> 02:08:56,120
Speaker 1: gonna be productive this year. And I know it. Yeah,

2442
02:08:56,160 --> 02:08:58,000
Speaker 1: it really does it. And I think it has to

2443
02:08:58,040 --> 02:09:01,520
Speaker 1: do with a lot. You know, he just knows now

2444
02:09:01,560 --> 02:09:03,880
Speaker 1: and coming into his third year, there's not that much

2445
02:09:03,920 --> 02:09:06,560
Speaker 1: that he's that's gonna catch him by surprise. You know,

2446
02:09:06,600 --> 02:09:10,040
Speaker 1: you always have those apprehensions about guys or plays or

2447
02:09:10,240 --> 02:09:14,480
Speaker 1: players or games that something unexpected might come up at

2448
02:09:14,520 --> 02:09:17,880
Speaker 1: the left at this level of football, and I just

2449
02:09:18,040 --> 02:09:21,040
Speaker 1: you can just tell, and you're exactly right. I noticed

2450
02:09:21,040 --> 02:09:25,040
Speaker 1: it as well when he's talking to the media. It

2451
02:09:25,200 --> 02:09:28,160
Speaker 1: is not too big for him, and it was as

2452
02:09:28,160 --> 02:09:31,040
Speaker 1: a rookie, Yeah, a lot of short answers. Yeah, to

2453
02:09:31,200 --> 02:09:33,960
Speaker 1: tell he was a little tense, there was a big

2454
02:09:34,000 --> 02:09:35,400
Speaker 1: you know, it just seems like he was living his

2455
02:09:35,480 --> 02:09:38,200
Speaker 1: life with a question mark, you know what I mean,

2456
02:09:38,280 --> 02:09:42,320
Speaker 1: And there is none of that now. It almost seems,

2457
02:09:42,680 --> 02:09:44,680
Speaker 1: particularly when he's got the ball in his hands when

2458
02:09:44,680 --> 02:09:46,520
Speaker 1: he's talking to the media, he just seems way out

2459
02:09:46,560 --> 02:09:49,560
Speaker 1: in front now, ahead of it, like he's expecting everything

2460
02:09:49,560 --> 02:09:51,440
Speaker 1: that's happening in front of him. And I think when

2461
02:09:51,480 --> 02:09:53,440
Speaker 1: you can picture picture him with a ball in his

2462
02:09:53,480 --> 02:09:56,360
Speaker 1: hands and a play happening, that kind of mindset is

2463
02:09:56,400 --> 02:09:59,480
Speaker 1: way different than looking for a place to run rather

2464
02:09:59,520 --> 02:10:01,680
Speaker 1: than wa for the opportunity to come up and taking

2465
02:10:01,720 --> 02:10:03,840
Speaker 1: advantage of it, just knowing that it's going to happen.

2466
02:10:05,440 --> 02:10:09,280
Speaker 1: Completely different mindset, it seems to me for him this year. Yeah,

2467
02:10:09,320 --> 02:10:11,480
Speaker 1: And we talked to you know, the guy that trained

2468
02:10:11,560 --> 02:10:13,600
Speaker 1: him in the offseason, Nick Hicks, was on this show,

2469
02:10:14,400 --> 02:10:18,120
Speaker 1: and you know he said, nobody taught him how to

2470
02:10:18,200 --> 02:10:21,920
Speaker 1: run before. To get to top speed as quick as possible.

2471
02:10:21,960 --> 02:10:24,360
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a way you drive your feet into

2472
02:10:24,400 --> 02:10:27,600
Speaker 1: the ground and drive off the surface as you meet it,

2473
02:10:28,120 --> 02:10:30,600
Speaker 1: and it was just something that was not in his arsenal.

2474
02:10:30,640 --> 02:10:33,880
Speaker 1: It is now and it almost seems like that part

2475
02:10:33,920 --> 02:10:37,040
Speaker 1: of it alone has kind of buoyed his confidence to

2476
02:10:37,080 --> 02:10:40,480
Speaker 1: the point where it's like, I'm gonna makes a place. Yeah,

2477
02:10:40,520 --> 02:10:43,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. The physics get ready, the physical transformation,

2478
02:10:43,400 --> 02:10:45,520
Speaker 1: as well as where he's had mentally and how far

2479
02:10:45,560 --> 02:10:47,839
Speaker 1: he's come since he's been a rookie in this offense,

2480
02:10:47,840 --> 02:10:51,120
Speaker 1: with the players around him, knowing his role, expecting the

2481
02:10:51,160 --> 02:10:54,360
Speaker 1: ball in certain situations, and just being ready for it.

2482
02:10:55,440 --> 02:10:57,520
Speaker 1: I think that goes a long way towards putting him

2483
02:10:57,520 --> 02:10:59,640
Speaker 1: in a different spot. It's the most comfortable I've seen

2484
02:10:59,720 --> 02:11:01,920
Speaker 1: him in his own skinning and bills resolutely by far.

2485
02:11:02,120 --> 02:11:04,440
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the most telling part of that interview

2486
02:11:04,480 --> 02:11:07,120
Speaker 1: that we brought to you today. We have to take

2487
02:11:07,120 --> 02:11:09,280
Speaker 1: a break here, Steve and I to close up a

2488
02:11:09,320 --> 02:11:12,040
Speaker 1: Monday edition of One Bills Live next with what have

2489
02:11:12,200 --> 02:11:14,960
Speaker 1: we learned from today's show? I think there's a few

2490
02:11:15,000 --> 02:11:16,680
Speaker 1: lessons in there. We'll tell you what those are when

2491
02:11:16,680 --> 02:11:18,720
Speaker 1: we return here on One Bills Live presented by Collid

2492
02:11:18,720 --> 02:11:35,120
Speaker 1: to help It's Buffalo Bills Radio. What have we learned

2493
02:11:35,240 --> 02:11:38,360
Speaker 1: from today's show, brought to you by Skyworks, the official

2494
02:11:38,400 --> 02:11:42,520
Speaker 1: construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. As we

2495
02:11:42,600 --> 02:11:44,480
Speaker 1: just said in the last segment, we learned that Devin's

2496
02:11:44,520 --> 02:11:47,160
Speaker 1: singletary sounds like a much more confident player coming into

2497
02:11:47,240 --> 02:11:52,280
Speaker 1: year three. I think Mitch Morris's comments today about how

2498
02:11:52,400 --> 02:11:55,840
Speaker 1: they fight against complacency going out on the practice field

2499
02:11:55,840 --> 02:11:58,680
Speaker 1: every single day. It's an important thing. They are guarding

2500
02:11:58,840 --> 02:12:02,120
Speaker 1: against it knowingly. And then you couple that with Levi

2501
02:12:02,280 --> 02:12:05,080
Speaker 1: Wallace's comments last week when he said, when asked what's

2502
02:12:05,080 --> 02:12:06,840
Speaker 1: different about the team this year, he said, there's some

2503
02:12:06,960 --> 02:12:11,440
Speaker 1: anger there. Yeah, it's all I like the I like

2504
02:12:11,560 --> 02:12:14,320
Speaker 1: the sum of the equation there. Yeah, they're poised for

2505
02:12:14,320 --> 02:12:16,520
Speaker 1: a really big season. They're gonna have to complete, you know,

2506
02:12:16,560 --> 02:12:18,680
Speaker 1: to prove it on the field, no question about it.

2507
02:12:18,680 --> 02:12:21,680
Speaker 1: It's a different mindset, I think, and I've said this

2508
02:12:21,720 --> 02:12:23,560
Speaker 1: before too, and the teams that I was a part of,

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Speaker 1: when they when they went from bad to good or

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Speaker 1: from good to grade, or from okay to really good,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. Um, there's a point

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Speaker 1: where you prove it to yourselves, and last year they

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Speaker 1: did that. I think when they won a couple of

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Speaker 1: playoff games, they proved it to themselves that they're up there.

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Speaker 1: And when you lose an opportunity like that, and believe me,

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Speaker 1: I know that's what sticks with you, and you you think, okay,

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Speaker 1: that opportunity, give it to me again, let's go. And

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Speaker 1: that's that puts a big target on on a level

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Speaker 1: of play that they have they're familiar with now, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's that's what I learned, that they're all

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Speaker 1: seeing it and it's gonna be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: It is, And I'm reminded of Cole Beasley's comments from

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Speaker 1: last week two where he admitted some of us weren't

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Speaker 1: ready for that game to perform the way we had

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Speaker 1: been performing, and he included himself in that conversation. I

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Speaker 1: think I give him a pass knowing he played on

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Speaker 1: a broken fibula, But I think that's very telling too,

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Speaker 1: because just like you said, give me that game again

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Speaker 1: and we'll be ready, and I think they will be.

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Speaker 1: The difficult task is getting back to that game again,

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Speaker 1: especially knowing you got one more regular season game to

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Speaker 1: finish off, just to finish the regular season before you

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Speaker 1: even get to playoff games. So be interesting to see.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow's show will include from NFL dot Com around the

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Speaker 1: NFL Podcast one. Dan han Zeus will be joining us tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Of course we'll have all of our training camp coverage.

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Speaker 1: Coach McDermott said to address the media tomorrow will get

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Speaker 1: the latest and greatest from him for you right here,

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Speaker 1: and Steve and I will be with you on at

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Speaker 1: noon tomorrow to take you up until three. We'll see

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Speaker 1: you there