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Speaker 1: about with in Bill's training camp who's looked great. They

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Speaker 1: may stink when this game comes on in Detroit. We'll see,

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Speaker 1: but it is a thing, Brownie. You're right, you'll see players.

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Speaker 1: Well he's a gamer. That's great, but you've got to

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Speaker 1: show enough in practice to even get there. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: don't want guys who can't practice or don't practice or

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Speaker 1: won't practice. You've got to help the team prepare. That's

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Speaker 1: what your spot is. And there during the week, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get every other guys ready. It's not just about you.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't practice well or can't practice or

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Speaker 1: any of that stuff, it's a problem even if you

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Speaker 1: are good when the lights come on. But you know,

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Speaker 1: but no, no question, some guys thrive when the lights

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Speaker 1: are on because they it raises their level, not because

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Speaker 1: they stink in practice, but because they know that's what

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Speaker 1: it's all about, and something changes in them. I found

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Speaker 1: some of the early voting interesting because when we put

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Speaker 1: these choices together on the Twitter poll, I was saying

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Speaker 1: to myself, I'll bet pass rush gets a healthy percent

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Speaker 1: of the vote because people are excited about the two

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Speaker 1: young draft choices aj EPINESSA and they know they are

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Speaker 1: going to play in the preseason. And so when you

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Speaker 1: ask which area the Bills will benefit the most from

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Speaker 1: preseason games, I could see a lot of people siding

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Speaker 1: with that choice and saying the pass rush is gonna

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Speaker 1: benfit because you're gonna have the young guys getting valuable

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Speaker 1: reps to make them better and bring them along, and

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Speaker 1: you know you can see the rotation and whatever you

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Speaker 1: have and what combinations work. Well, I'm voting pass rush.

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Speaker 1: Like I could very easily see a lot of people

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Speaker 1: going down that road. There are merits for the others,

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Speaker 1: maybe most notably run game, which was an issue that

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Speaker 1: both the general manager and the head coach brought up

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Speaker 1: at their season and wrest conference last January when they

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Speaker 1: said we need to run it better. So the first

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Speaker 1: litmus test is Friday. Yeah, you could really see a

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Speaker 1: lot of people jumping on. It's a preseason, so the

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Speaker 1: word of the day is always vanilla. They're not gonna

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Speaker 1: do anything like, they're not gonna run PhD kind of

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Speaker 1: offensive schemes and concepts. They're gonna a lot of times

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Speaker 1: maybe they just want to hand If Josh Allen plays

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Speaker 1: a bunch, maybe it's time to work on the run game.

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Speaker 1: You can say, all right, Josh, you're not gonna throw

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Speaker 1: too much because we're getting the ball out of your hands.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna hand it to Brita, You're gonna hand it

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Speaker 1: to Singletary, you're gonna hand it to Moss and Williams,

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Speaker 1: you're not doing anything. We're gonna run the ball. Let's

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Speaker 1: see if our offensive line competition is coming out like

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Speaker 1: we like it. There could be a lot of that.

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Speaker 1: So you could make a case for that as well

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Speaker 1: as the pass rush as well. All these choices are

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Speaker 1: you know, the run defense is gonna take care of

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Speaker 1: itself too. You're gonna find out about that. You have

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Speaker 1: no choice. And same thing with a pass rush. Those

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Speaker 1: teams are going to get reps, no question. But on offense,

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Speaker 1: when you're talking about that, that's a choice you make.

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Speaker 1: The coaching sest is, listen, we need to find out.

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Speaker 1: So they're the ones who call the play. You know,

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Speaker 1: they decide when the run defense gets tested and when

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Speaker 1: the past rush gets a chance to come on, you know,

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Speaker 1: the past protection gets a chance to work. So I

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Speaker 1: think the run game could be one of those things

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Speaker 1: where we'll go through a certain stretch of this preseason,

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Speaker 1: maybe all three of games, maybe just one of them

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Were you going to get a ton of

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Speaker 1: run game. I think they want to find out. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's only natural in the preseason because it

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Speaker 1: caters to being vanilla, right like you, especially for an

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Speaker 1: offense that's going to throw as much as this one.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it benefits them twofold. One. It gives them

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Speaker 1: valuable reps in the run game, something they did not

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Speaker 1: have with no preseason last year, because I remember talking,

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Speaker 1: I remember John Feliciano talking about this last year. Well

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Speaker 1: not him, No, it wasn't him because he was out

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Speaker 1: injured anyway, Who the heck was it now? I think

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Speaker 1: it was Mitch Morris who said, Look, we didn't have

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Speaker 1: any preseason games. We didn't have a training camp in pads.

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Speaker 1: We didn't get to block anybody at full speed. We

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Speaker 1: didn't get to combo block a guy. We didn't get

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Speaker 1: to help block and then leave and take off like

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Speaker 1: at full speed you know, gamelike environment. We didn't have that,

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Speaker 1: and so getting the running game to an efficient place

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Speaker 1: became a chore because of that. So the benefits here,

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Speaker 1: as I see it, are two fold. Number One, you

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Speaker 1: get them the reps at game speed, so that they're

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Speaker 1: blocking and execution is more efficient come the regular season.

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Speaker 1: And then two, you're not putting any more pass plays

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Speaker 1: on tape than you want to in advance of the

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Speaker 1: regular season. You're trying to keep everything if close to

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Speaker 1: the vest. If you've got an evaluation on your team

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Speaker 1: and you're sitting there thinking, okay, we've got you know what,

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Speaker 1: and your defensive line coach, your head coach or defensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: linebackers coach, you're all sitting around going, you know what,

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Speaker 1: these are the four guys right here, and these are

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Speaker 1: the ones. These are top four guys. And when we

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Speaker 1: get into a pass rush situation, these two guys will

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Speaker 1: be inside, these two guys will be on the end,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna go and I don't think they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to stop us. So we're never going to

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Speaker 1: see that combination in the preseason, you know, if you

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Speaker 1: if you know your guys and they're sitting back there saying, listen,

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Speaker 1: this is this is the group right here, these are

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Speaker 1: we're saving that for Week one, so nobody gets a

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Speaker 1: look at that, right. So there's some of that going

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Speaker 1: on as well, and that's certainly what they do with

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Speaker 1: their passing game. They're not going to show any of that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so who benefits from that in the preseason? Everything else? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Eight three five fifty one, eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty which area the Bills will benefit the most

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Speaker 1: from the preseason games. Choices for you there at One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live on Twitter, give us a call eight O

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Speaker 1: three oh five fifty open line for you there. Coming

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Speaker 1: up on the show today, we've got the quarterbacks that

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Speaker 1: sit behind Josh Allen on the depth chart, Mitch Drubisky,

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Speaker 1: Davis Webb, Jake from all schedule to address the media

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Speaker 1: after practice today, and then about midway through the program,

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Speaker 1: about an hour from now one, Peter King from NBC

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Speaker 1: Sports we'll be joining us. He was at practice today,

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Speaker 1: also spoke to Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott in some

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Speaker 1: one on one interview, so we'll pick his brain to

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Speaker 1: see what he took away from those two conversations. About

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Speaker 1: an hour from now here on today's show, break time

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Speaker 1: for us here. When we come back, we'll get some

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Speaker 1: of your thoughts on the tweet sheet and see which

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Speaker 1: area the Bills you think will benefit the most from

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Speaker 1: preseason games. We're back in a second stay with us.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Taster

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Speaker 1: with you. Got some political news that just came down

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Speaker 1: a short time ago. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has

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Speaker 1: announced he will resign. He said quote, my resignation will

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Speaker 1: be effective in fourteen days, which means Lieutenant Governor Kathy

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Speaker 1: Hokel will be sworn in as the new governor of

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Speaker 1: New York State in two weeks time. She is a

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Speaker 1: Western New York native as we know, so that will

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Speaker 1: be happening in Albany. Somewhat big news. I know that

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Speaker 1: might take some people by surprises. Some people thought he

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Speaker 1: was going to fight the report that laid out what

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Speaker 1: he was charged with a lot of sexual harassment stuff,

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Speaker 1: but he has announced he will resign, So there is

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Speaker 1: that Kathy Hokel will assume the governorship in two weeks time.

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Speaker 1: Want to get to the tweet sheet here, which is

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Speaker 1: always is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

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Speaker 1: are discussing what area of the Bills you believe will

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Speaker 1: benefit the most from preseason games, Seth leads us off

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Speaker 1: today and says, reserve players, particularly on the defensive line,

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Speaker 1: There're gonna be a couple of difficult cuts there. Can

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Speaker 1: you keep seven defensive ends with Johnson as the special

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Speaker 1: team's ace and the top six pretty much locked in?

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Speaker 1: That seems like the number, does zimmermake it. Interior guys

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Speaker 1: have a lot to prove. We were talking the other day, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this might be an even harder position group

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Speaker 1: than the wide receivers for the coaching staff to figure

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Speaker 1: out who they're keeping and who's going. No, I don't think.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can keep seven. Can't keep seven.

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Speaker 1: You can't do unless you have ones that are that

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Speaker 1: you are convinced can also help you inside so well,

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Speaker 1: like Boogie Basham is a guy that has position flexibility.

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Speaker 1: Faobada is a guy that has position flexibility. Rousseau you

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Speaker 1: saw him line up inside of Miami. Now that's a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a different animal. We're talking college football,

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Speaker 1: but there are guys that have that offer that are

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Speaker 1: you gonna cut Justin Zimmer or Harrison Phillips, Vernon Butler. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's the question. What is the you're doing If you're

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Speaker 1: going to do that, at what cost? Are you doing

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Speaker 1: that right? You've somebody else got to go right. And

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Speaker 1: that's and then I'm not so sure that your run

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Speaker 1: defense is going to be demonstrably better because you don't

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Speaker 1: have stars starts right at the ball, right right up

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Speaker 1: front inside. That's why Starlotilla was missed last year. Um,

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Speaker 1: and that's why Harrison Phillips has come back looking like

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Speaker 1: a different guy this year. Maybe that does it for him. Um,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. He's right though, difficult cuts coming up. This

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Speaker 1: is a very good roster. It's a very difficult roster

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Speaker 1: to make, and it's going to be shown in the

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Speaker 1: fact that the team's gonna lose some guys that can

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Speaker 1: probably play in the NFL pretty well. Yeah, and reserve

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Speaker 1: players playing in the preseason. We'll hopefully help their own

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Speaker 1: personal cause to make this roster and even if not,

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Speaker 1: maybe enhance their chances of landing on another roster if

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Speaker 1: it's not here. So yeah, that's a very well founded

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Speaker 1: tweet from Seth. Tiffany says, let the young pass rushers

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Speaker 1: get after it on Friday. I'm curious to see fa

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Speaker 1: Obada in a game setting. He's an easy guy to

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Speaker 1: root for. Hopefully he has an excellent showing in all

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Speaker 1: three preseason games and makes the fifty three man roster.

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Speaker 1: I think you and I are pretty confident he's on

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Speaker 1: this team. Well, pretty confident, very We're very confident if

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Speaker 1: the cuts are today, but they're not right. You got

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Speaker 1: three games to go, and he's got to show up.

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Speaker 1: Like we said, you know, practice is one thing. The

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Speaker 1: games are more important, so we'll see. But yes, in

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Speaker 1: the first week and a half a camp, fa Obada

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Speaker 1: has shown up a lot and he fits the mold

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Speaker 1: that the Bills obviously are looking for. He's got elite

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Speaker 1: physical traits and he has a big upside that he

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Speaker 1: still has yet to realize. And he's displayed also the

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Speaker 1: the effort to realize his potential. If he does, you

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Speaker 1: got an all pro caliber guy because those are his traits.

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Speaker 1: So if he can put it all together, he can

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Speaker 1: put it all together. Absolutely, he said, I want to

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Speaker 1: see him play as well. He's here young in football,

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Speaker 1: so that that always is a mountain to climb when

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Speaker 1: you're young in a sport as varied and different from

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Speaker 1: one play to the next, mastering all that when you

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Speaker 1: didn't start playing until you were twenty two, that's that's

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Speaker 1: a challenge, to put it mildly, and that's probably a

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Speaker 1: euphemism to call it a challenge, Rusty says. While I

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Speaker 1: think all will benefit and the pass rush and Runde

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Speaker 1: both need to improve. I think it's the bubble guys

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Speaker 1: fighting for depth rolls will benefit the most. Bills return

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Speaker 1: most of their starters from twenty twenty, so the bubble

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Speaker 1: guys who can make or miss the roster by what

640
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 1: they do in these games, they know they have to

641
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 1: open eyes. Yeah, we hemmed with the thought on these

642
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: Twitter polls about like who we all know there's gonna

643
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,879
Speaker 1: be somebody one of these names that we've looked at,

644
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: we've got. We've got these rosters that we get every practice.

645
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: I'm holding one up and showing the people it's got

646
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: by position every guy on the roster and one or

647
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: a hand up to a handful. But at least one

648
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: or two of these guys on this list are going

649
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: to show up in the preseason and be like, wow,

650
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,280
Speaker 1: look at that guy. Yeah, I mean it always happens.

651
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen for the Detroit Lions, for the Green

652
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, all the teams that were the

653
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: Bills are playing against in the preseason are going to

654
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: have guys like that as well. Happens everything where a

655
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,879
Speaker 1: guy comes in and just exceeds expectations. It's like where

656
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: did this guy come from? Wow, he could really play.

657
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: And like I said, how much of a role he

658
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: you know, carves out for himself is going to be

659
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: in large measures to how he plays in these next

660
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 1: three games. And we don't know who those guys are

661
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: gonna be at or what position, but you know it's

662
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: gonna happen. That's that to me, That is the only

663
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: fun part about the whole exercise is to see which

664
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: guy gets some opportunity that nobody and nobody knew who

665
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: he was, Nobody knew him, and all of a sudden,

666
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: he's a household name for about a month at least,

667
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: and he becomes a guy that that becomes part of

668
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: the fabric of the franchise. The thing that we do

669
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 1: see also, though Steve is a player, will come out

670
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 1: of nowhere and pop in the preseason. He'll get a

671
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 1: cavalcade of support from the fan base, and then he

672
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: still might not make the roster, and then everybody's up

673
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 1: in arms and ready to riot. I mean that happened

674
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago with Christian Wade, but him

675
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: ultimately did not make the roster. He made the practice squad.

676
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: People say, how can you not I have this guy

677
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: on the team. Oh my god, exactly what. There's always

678
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: one or two of those. Also, yeah, does he not

679
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 1: make see him in the plea? And there's so much

680
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: going on that you can't see there. And certainly the

681
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: preseason games are important, no question about it, but there's

682
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: a lot of other things going on, most notably practice

683
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: out here and meetings. Like practice is over, they're still here.

684
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: They don't like get out of practice, go in, shower up,

685
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: and then go out and you know, get wings. You know,

686
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: they they're sitting in kings. They're sitting in meetings watching

687
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 1: the practice they just performed in and they're saying, hey,

688
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: right here, you need to do this, not that, or

689
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: you need to do more of this and less of that.

690
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: They're getting coached up all day and they'll go out

691
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: and then they'll work out this afternoon, they'll come out

692
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: and they'll they'll get some weightlifting in, they'll get some treatment,

693
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: get ready and get fresh. Back in the evening, they'll

694
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: walk through and they'll come back, have more meetings, and

695
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: they don't you know, they don't leave, and all of

696
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: this stuff gets thrown into the kitty of what they're

697
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: being evaluated on. And when you're in a meeting. You

698
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: can we've all been there. You've been in a meeting

699
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: and you ask a couple of questions and the and

700
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: everybody in the rooms like, oh, yeah, you know what,

701
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: that's a good question. Or you ask a question that's

702
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: at the level that other guys are gonna have. What

703
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: do you mean? And he's like, well, if this happens,

704
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: and this happen, you got to think about this, and

705
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: you have a depth of knowledge and understanding and intelligence

706
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: and an ability to learn that jumps in that setting

707
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: that goes into the kiddie as well, and all the

708
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: conversations you have and think about this. So you're in

709
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,479
Speaker 1: a brownie. I don't know if you've ever done this. Maybe,

710
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if you do this in your soccer career.

711
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: You watch film and football players watch oh epic film sessions. Yeah,

712
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: not as much. Right, So here's what happens. So you're

713
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: in a one. They film everything, literally, they film everything.

714
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: I don't think they may not film stretch, but they

715
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: film everything. Individual drills, everything, particularly like one on one

716
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,879
Speaker 1: competitive drills like today, we saw him to the wide

717
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: receiver goes out. It's one wide receiver, one defensive back

718
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: lined up out wide to the field just like they

719
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: do in a normal setting, but but nobody else is

720
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: out there. It's just the wide receiver and dB. The

721
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: quarterback fakes a snap like Hey goes, slaps the ball

722
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: go they take off. Wide receiver runs a route, the

723
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: defensive back is in coverage, I can a coverage, and

724
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: the quarterback tries to complete the past. It's very simple.

725
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: Think about this. You're in a room with like you're

726
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: Jake Kumero. You're in a room with Steph Diggs, Manuel Sanders,

727
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, Gabe dave Is and all the rest of them.

728
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 1: And every day you everybody watches every one of your routes,

729
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: and you watch every one of theirs, and there are

730
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: conversations out loud going on about what you did, why

731
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,760
Speaker 1: you did this, and it gets you do so many

732
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,479
Speaker 1: of them, all of you. When you say you're gonna

733
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: go up against Trey White and you're like, well, what

734
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,240
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? You know, you've got a chance

735
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: to do a release like this. Tray's not gonna let

736
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: you do that, you know, Or if you're getting out

737
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: there and you're Cam Lewis and everybody knows like you

738
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: can get inside on him, but you got to get

739
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: vertical real quick. And there's all these nuances and they

740
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: start having these conversations, and during those conversations, you reveal

741
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: your skill set and your mindset about how you go

742
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: about your business and your football like you and the

743
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: coach is sitting there writing it down and he's taking

744
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: mental notes or and he's in the conversation as well,

745
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: but he that's when you get to know who these

746
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: guys really really are. And a guy like Jake Kumero,

747
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: who we've all seen flash, caught a touchdown in Denver.

748
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: Because of things like that and those conversations, Jake Kumero

749
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: was gone the next week and somebody else was in

750
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: his spot. Yeah. Now, maybe it was something the Bills

751
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: didn't want to happen or all of that, but that

752
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: stuff happens, and it's not as much about what happened

753
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: on the field during the Denver game when he caught

754
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: a touchdown, made a tackle on special teams, all of that.

755
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: It's about all the other It's one of the most

756
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,280
Speaker 1: unappreciated things that fans have. I think, in my opinion

757
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: about what goes on in an NFL team is how

758
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: intimate and deep the relations, get relationships, get You know

759
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 1: these guys, you know who they are, what makes them tick,

760
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: You know their pluses and their minuses, you know their

761
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 1: skill set, and you know why they do certain things

762
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: on certain routes because they can't do they can't win

763
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,359
Speaker 1: any other way. They don't have it. So they do

764
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: this this technique. They do it well, but they can't

765
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: expand they don't expand their horizons. I mean, there's I

766
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: got a catalog of stories about players and why they

767
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,399
Speaker 1: didn't make a team like this Bill's team this year,

768
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: and I you know, I'm seeing I've got catalogs and stories.

769
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: I've got guys who did you know? And the differences

770
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: in those stories have to do with everything that happens

771
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: off the field and in practice, not in the games.

772
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 1: So it's I've said this yesterday, and I get down

773
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 1: into the weeds when I start talking about this stuff,

774
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: because there is a million things. It's an onion, it is.

775
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: There's a million layers to this onion and a million

776
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: degrees of difficulty and more an infinite number of intangibles

777
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: that you got to sort through. It's a melting pot

778
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 1: of evaluation and people. He's saying, why do you know,

779
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: you ever think about coaching, I'm like, no way. First

780
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: of all, I got to deal with thanks, but no, yeah,

781
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: thank First of all, i'd have to know I'd have

782
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: to deal with donkeys like me, and I don't want

783
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: any part of that. Secondly, you gotta, I mean, it

784
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: is a it is a lifestyles, Oh my gosh. And

785
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,439
Speaker 1: these guys are like these guys are like in there

786
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: like water polo players. They're in a pool. You can't

787
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: touch the bottom ever, they're treading all day. You are

788
00:43:56,719 --> 00:44:00,399
Speaker 1: swimming and treading water every moment or you're drowning. Yeah,

789
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: that's where an NFL coach lives. Have fun with that.

790
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: Oh break time for us. When we come back, I

791
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 1: think we're gonna check in and see what Good Morning

792
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: Football was doing this morning. What the heck were they doing.

793
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 1: They're already talking Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of

794
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,879
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. To put it this way, they're killing

795
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: me today. They brought up Devin Hester's name as a

796
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: potential inductee for special teams. Might be put in the

797
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 1: cart before the horse on that one we will discuss

798
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: next here on one Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to

799
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: Health it's Buffalo Bill's Radio, so good Morning Football on

800
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: NFL Network. This Morning decides to throw out what they

801
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: deemed to be a relatively harmless tweet, saying, Devin Hester

802
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: is officially l for the Pro Football Hall of Fame

803
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:05,800
Speaker 1: class of twenty twenty two. Besides Hester, who's your favorite

804
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:11,959
Speaker 1: special teams player of all time? Uh, let's just say

805
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: somehow I got in that conversation. Yes, very quickly. Yeah,

806
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: and understandably so. As Bill's Mafia came out of the

807
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: woodwork and basically unveiled a blitzkrieg on Good Morning, they

808
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: got out in front of it very quickly. Even I

809
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: got in on the act. I basically said thanks for

810
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: the layup, Good morning Football, and then hashtag did Bills

811
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: with a photo of number eighty nine there and then

812
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: people followed like Nate Waterstram says, greatest special teams player

813
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:48,840
Speaker 1: of all time is Steve Tasker's not debatable. Uh, somebody

814
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 1: randomly threw in a photo of Reggie Robie high kicking

815
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: um good punter. But come on, then the next person,

816
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: James Canfield Steve Tasker honorable mentions, Dion Anders, Rick up

817
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: Church remember him? Yeah, Brian Mitchell Brian Mitchell. Brian mitchells

818
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 1: on my list, Okay, Dave Meggett VI Sikahema is a

819
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 1: great one to crash Jensen. Uh, Dante Hall is on

820
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: there alongside Steve on one of these posts here. Uh

821
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, he also belongs in the Hall of Fame. Uh,

822
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,919
Speaker 1: Mike Saysniak. Until Steve Tasker is in the Hall of Fame,

823
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 1: no other Special Teams player will ever be worthy. Somebody

824
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: put in Josh Cribbs saying this dude was a beast

825
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 1: and our only offense in Cleveland. L ol. Uh he

826
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: was good. Uh yeah, They're all good players. Yeah, all

827
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: good players. I'm it's it's an honor to be you know,

828
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:53,919
Speaker 1: talked about like like this, but long string, Like come on, man,

829
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: there was a long string and Steve's timeline got blown

830
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 1: up as well. I got there like three thousand likes

831
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: of this thing where you know, the bills you know,

832
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: retweeted it and stuff and then which was cool, and

833
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 1: you know, I can't I can't talk about anything else

834
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: on my well, I know you don't like talking about

835
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: yourself to begin with it, which is why I'm doing

836
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: this Segas instead of this the first time it's gotten inconvenient. Yeah, yeah,

837
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: I would say that. Uh, And I love the guy.

838
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 1: We have Kyle Brandton all the time, and I've been

839
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: on Good Morning Football as well, and Sean McDermott is

840
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: like the old time record holder for being on their show.

841
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: And they're great. And you and I we watched the show.

842
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: I mean, Good Morning Football is always on in this

843
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: when we're getting ready for our gig. And you know,

844
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 1: Kyle and Pete Schreger and Nate Burlison and Kay Adams

845
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: that they're great crew. It's one of the best. For me,

846
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 1: it's one of the best shows on TV. Not just

847
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 1: because I'm neck deep in ord you know, you and

848
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: I are neck deep in football. Because they're good. They're fun, right,

849
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: And I've been on the show and everybody, man, oh man,

850
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 1: they everybody everybody in football watches the show. Right. It's

851
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: at the right time of day, people, you know, it's

852
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 1: on everywhere in this building. They got it on in

853
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: the background constantly, right, and so when it something like

854
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:21,280
Speaker 1: this comes up, jem, it's like getting hit with sticks.

855
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: I mean. My favorite tweet of the group was from

856
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: Backbone five, who said, uh, if hester gets in before

857
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:37,359
Speaker 1: Tasker Bill's Mafia. Will Riot have to do that. But

858
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 1: one guy he had a split screen. He said, me

859
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: with the cigar thing and the black coat and the

860
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: scarf and the hat you know from the hype video

861
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: and he said, I was just here's Steve Tasker minding

862
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 1: his own business. And then the Good Morning Football had

863
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: the Bills Mafia and then he had a picture of

864
00:48:54,880 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: army guys in a foxhole returning fire. It was I like,

865
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:02,800
Speaker 1: that's the only one I like. I did like that tweet,

866
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: but just it's a crazy more. It's been fun and

867
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: the you know, we talked about it all the time

868
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: once in a while, but every time. The Hall of Fame,

869
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 1: you know, this last Hall of Fame weekend was really cool.

870
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: I got a chance to spend some time with Bill

871
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:20,399
Speaker 1: Kauer a month ago, a couple of days, and it's

872
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 1: a great guy and we're friends and he, you know,

873
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: he was really looking forward to it and to have him,

874
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: you know, go in and even he mentioned one of

875
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: the old Bill guys, you know, Will Wolford and all

876
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: of that. It was really cool to see it and

877
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: the big you know, the the centennial class that went

878
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: in and you can see the thing involved, and I

879
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: told you, you know, they had to start putting in

880
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:44,840
Speaker 1: the stadium. When Jim went in, he was he was

881
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: kind of the trend setter for that. And have you

882
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: seen you remember going I don't know when was it,

883
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,320
Speaker 1: It must when I know it was when I you know,

884
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 1: when I was playing in nineteen eighty five, I played

885
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 1: in the in the Hall of Fame game. Then the

886
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: Bills played in nineteen eighty nine, and then you know,

887
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:01,839
Speaker 1: I think Marv was the first Bill of that era

888
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: to go in, right, And so when Marv goes in

889
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: and it was awesome, and then Jim went in. The

890
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:12,319
Speaker 1: amazing thing was that stadium was a high school football stadium. Yeah,

891
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 1: now it's an NFL stadium. It's pretty amazing. How it's like, yeah,

892
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: we gotta do something here and we've outgrown this. Yeah,

893
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: and it's it's pretty fantastic to see that campus and

894
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: what has happened to it. It's it's a lot of

895
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to see it and how it's transformed.

896
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 1: And even even the way they hand the state. They

897
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 1: used to do it on the steps of the Hall

898
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: of Fame, there was like two hundred people pressure right

899
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: now there's twenty thousand there. It's pretty cool. So just

900
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: going up and down that Twitter string, you were far

901
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:43,479
Speaker 1: and away the most most mentioned special team are on here.

902
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: It's fun to see some of these names though, Bill Bates,

903
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: Billy White Shoes, Johnson who did the crazy legs touchdown

904
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 1: routine right every time he scored on a return. So

905
00:50:55,520 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 1: Dante Hall, good returner. Mel Gray? Remember Mel Gray? I

906
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: played against Mel Gray in college too, right, didn't you

907
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: play agast him in college? To junior college and college?

908
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: He went to Coffeeville Community College. Mel Gray was a

909
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: tailback then, right before he turned into maybe one of

910
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: the great return men of all time. He was a

911
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: running but tailback. You know who is? You know who is?

912
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,440
Speaker 1: They ran a wishbone, right, they had the three men backfield.

913
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: Guess who the other wingback? The other tailback was at

914
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: Coffeeville Community College in Kansas. I don't know Mike Rosier,

915
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,359
Speaker 1: Oh dear, the Heisman Trophy winner. So it's the two

916
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: of those jokers. Oh my god, that fun with that. Yeah,

917
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: they beat us. So I played against him there and

918
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 1: then he went to Purdue. Mel Gray did and I

919
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,439
Speaker 1: went to Northwestern. So I played him at Northwestern chased

920
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: him at Northwestern too, and then in the NFL, and

921
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 1: then I played him against him in the NFL and

922
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 1: chased him. That's crazy. Yeah, he must have been a

923
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: lot of fun in the team meetings that week. Yeah,

924
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: seeing this guy, I know what he's about. I'll be

925
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: ready and believe he's a fantastic talent. All right, break

926
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: time for us here when we come back, we're gonna

927
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: hear from one Mitchell Trubisky, who addressed the media after

928
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: practice today. We know a lot of Bills fans are

929
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: eager to hear what he has to say, not only

930
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 1: about his decision to sign with the Bills, but now

931
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 1: everything's going here in his first training camp, especially after

932
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 1: Josh Allen said he and Trubisky have become fast friends

933
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: thanks to their give and take in the film room.

934
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: We'll hear more from him next here on One Bill's

935
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Had

936
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:56,240
Speaker 1: a Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields.

937
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

938
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve a blimp. We're not even in

939
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 1: the straded beer of normalcy. We're a number two on

940
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 1: a Tuesday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, And before

941
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 1: we get to Mitchell Trubisky, who addressed the media today,

942
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:22,479
Speaker 1: one little NFL note to pass along. Packers head coach

943
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur said today that Aaron Rodgers will quote most

944
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: likely not play in the preseason. Jordan Love expected to

945
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: get plenty of preseason playing time. I figured we were

946
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,799
Speaker 1: talking about preseason stuff today, so why not throw that in.

947
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:41,879
Speaker 1: So we already have Matthew Stafford not expected to play

948
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 1: in the preseason, per Rams head coach Sean McVeigh and

949
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: now Packers head coach Matt Lafloor said today Aaron Rodgers

950
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: will most likely not play in the pre season. So

951
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:56,279
Speaker 1: there it is. But not surprising, not surprising at all. Particularly,

952
00:53:57,120 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: I mean here's the thing too. Think about this. If

953
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:01,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna if you got a guy like Josh Allen

954
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers and Pat Mahomes and you go down

955
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 1: the Liz Russ Wilson um Matt Stafford, not only he okay,

956
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:10,799
Speaker 1: he's gotta go out and here you're gonna want him

957
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 1: to play, all right? What if he got like like

958
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: the Bills, Dion Dawkins hasn't played, he's probably not gonna play.

959
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: Has been on the COVID list. You know, so your

960
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: left tackle can't play, and say something else happens, You

961
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: got like your right tackle can't. You're gonna really put

962
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: your franchise quarterback out there unless the a top number

963
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: one guys on your offensive line are gonna play in

964
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: front of him. Yeah, you don't do that. Yeah, probably

965
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: not right. So all of that stuff goes in the

966
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: mix and it's like, uh and maybe not. You know,

967
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,840
Speaker 1: she's take a knee. Time for us now, though, to

968
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:50,879
Speaker 1: turn to the quarterback who will be backing up one

969
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,879
Speaker 1: Josh Allen this season. Mitchell Trubisky, former number two pick

970
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,280
Speaker 1: in the draft, did not get his fifty year option

971
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 1: picked up by the Chicago Bears. Had some interesting things

972
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:04,840
Speaker 1: to say about that, and also is talking about how

973
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 1: his love for the game is returning now that he

974
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 1: is here in Buffalo. Here is Mitchell Trubisky. We haven't

975
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:16,399
Speaker 1: talked to, so we need to catch up. What went

976
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 1: into the decision to come here when you probably had

977
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: I would think several options, Yeah, not as not as

978
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 1: many options as you think. Um. It was a very

979
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: interesting free agency process for me. Um first time going

980
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 1: through it, so UM, I try to be patient and UH,

981
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 1: just a lot of things that went onto the process.

982
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: Tried to reach out to a lot of people that

983
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 1: trust UM going into it. And this opportunity came across

984
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: the board. And at first I wanted to go to

985
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:43,799
Speaker 1: a spot where I would be able to compete UM

986
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: for the starting position, but the right situation didn't come up,

987
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 1: UM and and that opportunity really wasn't there, So I

988
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 1: looked at the next best thing where I could continue

989
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 1: to develop and continue to progress and become a better

990
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 1: player in a person, and UM, I fell into this

991
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: organization and I loved ever since coming to Buffalo, just

992
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 1: working under this coaching staff, being with the caliber, the

993
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,279
Speaker 1: type of players that we got here, the people UM

994
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: and using all the resources and it's just really nice

995
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: to be a part of a great team and be

996
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: somewhere where people want you here and UH and they

997
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:18,239
Speaker 1: care about how you're progressing this This is gonna be

998
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: a one year deal. He's gonna come here rest and

999
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: we know he's gonna go somewhere next year. Can you

1000
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: confirm that that's kind of what you were thinking? Or

1001
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 1: I mean, you never know what's gonna happen. But I

1002
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:30,839
Speaker 1: think hearing him say that gives me confidence because he

1003
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,880
Speaker 1: believes I am starting caliber quarterback and I believe that

1004
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: as well. So, Um, you never know what's gonna happen,

1005
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:39,919
Speaker 1: but I'm here to stay in the moment, just give

1006
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: everything I can to this team and my teammates. Um,

1007
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: but be the best teammate and player I can be,

1008
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 1: and continue to progress and honing my skills. So I

1009
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 1: feel like I'm in the right place. And well, we'll

1010
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 1: get to that next year. And right right now, I'm

1011
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:52,360
Speaker 1: just lucky to be a part of this team and

1012
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to a really great year with the

1013
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: With the Bills, maybe we'll meet with every offensive player

1014
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 1: and basically we said, you know, you've ever been fired

1015
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,479
Speaker 1: or cut your trade, sit down there, if you want

1016
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:07,760
Speaker 1: a first round pick, sit down all that. How important

1017
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 1: is it for you to be part of that environment?

1018
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:12,800
Speaker 1: You know at this stage? Yeah, what he was basically

1019
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 1: saying is that everybody in our offense at one important

1020
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: other is looked as an underdog. And that's kind kind

1021
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 1: of how I felt like my situation was going through

1022
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 1: free agency. Wasn't as wanted as as some of the

1023
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 1: other guys in free agency wasn't offered a spot to

1024
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: go compete or a start position. So everybody on our

1025
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:33,760
Speaker 1: offense we have that underdog dog mentality and that's why

1026
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: I love being here working with these guys. They come

1027
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 1: out to work, everyone's very well prepared to smart players,

1028
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: and they just got that dog mentality where we're gonna

1029
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: go out and work and earn everything. And that's what

1030
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: I think David was trying to get across, that we

1031
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: are underdogs and nothing's given to us. We got to

1032
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: go out and earn it. And when we play hard

1033
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 1: and play together that this guy's limits. So it's it's

1034
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: just that having that mentality and that chip on your shoulder.

1035
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: How often have you thought about the difference between the

1036
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: way you started your career and the way John did

1037
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 1: in terms of consistency, continuity, same coaches, same everything, and

1038
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: you had to go through changes at your time in Chicago,

1039
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: and the difference that makes for a quarterback coming in

1040
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 1: the league. Yeah, I think it's huge. Everyone's situation is

1041
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: different and that's what made it appealing coming here because

1042
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: I saw how they had a plan in place. They

1043
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 1: had a process for Josh keeping the same coaching staff,

1044
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: having great coaches, bringing in great players around him, and

1045
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: then just believing him and developing him. And that's where

1046
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: he's at where he is now. So I'm just happy

1047
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 1: to be working with him and with the other quarterbacks

1048
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 1: in the room and learning from this coaching staff and

1049
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 1: be a part of this great team. So hopefully I

1050
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: can just continue to progress and see some of the

1051
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 1: progress that he's made as well. Dealing with that in Chicago,

1052
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 1: talking too, love dealing with that in Chicago. Now being

1053
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: a backup here and maybe having to deal with circumstances

1054
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 1: things change, I might have to go into the game.

1055
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: How much did that time in Chicago where you had

1056
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 1: to make adjustments depending on what they wanted to do,

1057
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: prepare you for maybe the role you'll have for this season. Yeah,

1058
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 1: I think I'm very well prepared for the role that

1059
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 1: I have this season. Just continue to learn the offense

1060
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: and build chemistry with the guys, the ones, twos, and

1061
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 1: the threes, whoever is out there. Just continue to be

1062
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 1: a great teammate and push these guys in, and you

1063
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:21,800
Speaker 1: just always have to be ready in the role I'm in,

1064
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: So just being most prepared I possibly can being ready

1065
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 1: at any moment and just go out there and do

1066
00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: my job and continue to show my teammates and coaches

1067
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: that I know the offense will and I can go

1068
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: out there and make play for this team if they

1069
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: need me. So it's just being reliable, being prepared, and

1070
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 1: continue to work on my craft. Do you feel like

1071
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: in Chicago? I mean and your record, Not that it's

1072
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:44,720
Speaker 1: all about record, but twenty twenty one, do you feel

1073
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: like you got maybe a rougher ride that maybe you

1074
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: deserved from not only fans but certainly media. I mean,

1075
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:52,439
Speaker 1: do you feel like you've got a rougher ride there?

1076
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't. I really don't like to dwell

1077
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 1: on the past, and I don't want to go too

1078
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: far into it. But the point of this game is

1079
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: to win and and stats and stats are numbers and numbers,

1080
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 1: stats are stats. Um, what I was trying to do

1081
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 1: is go out there in one game. So I feel like, now,

1082
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: if if you have an opportunity, I could go out

1083
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:12,600
Speaker 1: there and help my team win. So I know my

1084
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: role here and I'm just trying to get better. But

1085
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:17,919
Speaker 1: the past is past. Not really trying to dwell on it,

1086
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 1: and people are always gonna have something to say, but uh,

1087
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 1: I'm just happy to be where I am right now.

1088
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 1: Feel an inherent pressure as a number two overall. But

1089
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 1: if I think one of the things that maybe the

1090
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,280
Speaker 1: Bears were criticized for was you had that one year

1091
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 1: at North Carolina, the one year record, and you had

1092
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 1: a great year and they went ahead and picked you,

1093
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: did you feel inherit pressure when you got there, Like, Wow,

1094
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 1: there's a lot of They're expecting a lot out of me.

1095
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: I mean, there definitely is when you're drafting number two overall.

1096
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean I only started one year at

1097
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: North Carolina, but I played in a lot of games,

1098
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: and you're playing in one of the biggest markets in

1099
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:54,680
Speaker 1: the country and it's a tough football town. But um,

1100
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 1: I mean I went out there and went one games.

1101
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:01,560
Speaker 1: I continue to get better and uh, and I'm just

1102
01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: happy to be at where I am now. But I mean,

1103
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: people always gonna have something to say about, um, your

1104
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 1: journey and what everything goes to. But I mean it's

1105
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,360
Speaker 1: not everybody could have done what I what I did,

1106
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 1: and I'm proud of where I'm at now, and I'm

1107
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: just ready to continue to embrace the process and embrace

1108
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: this team and be a part of a great organization.

1109
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 1: So I believe I'm I am where I am now

1110
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:24,520
Speaker 1: for a reason, and you just got to believe that

1111
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 1: and continue to move forward and get bettered or disappointed?

1112
01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 1: Were you when they didn't give you the fifth year option? Um?

1113
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 1: I mean it kind of saw it coming just the

1114
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: way I was progressing. So year two was really good,

1115
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 1: and then year three and four not as good. I

1116
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 1: was dealing with some injuries and some other things going

1117
01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 1: on there. But uh, like I said, it was disappointing,

1118
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a surprise. You just you could throughout

1119
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 1: the process you can kind of see that they were just, uh,

1120
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 1: continuously just believing in me less and less, and that's

1121
01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:00,400
Speaker 1: just kind of how that process went. What have you

1122
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: learned by yourself being able to kind of step back

1123
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 1: now and looking back, I guess yeah. I think I

1124
01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:09,600
Speaker 1: just still have confidence and who I am as a

1125
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: player and as a person. I believe everything happens for

1126
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 1: a reason, and I'm just happy to be in a

1127
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:16,919
Speaker 1: great place now where I'm surrounded by great people, great

1128
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 1: coaches and teammates, and be on a team where you're

1129
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:22,480
Speaker 1: wanted and and be a part of a great team.

1130
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to be a part of the

1131
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: Bills and hopefully win a lot of games this season

1132
01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: and just have a lot of fun throughout the process.

1133
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm always gonna continue to work on my craft,

1134
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 1: continue to get better, and and just grind because I

1135
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 1: just love football. I love ball, and that's what the

1136
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 1: guys on this team do too. They love coming out here,

1137
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 1: going to work and just working on our game. You

1138
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 1: mentioned that you just said love and have fun. Can

1139
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 1: you maybe lost that at the end a little bit

1140
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 1: in Chicago and are you feeling it coming back or

1141
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 1: is that too strong? Said? Definitely. I would just say

1142
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:55,240
Speaker 1: the game feels a lot more pure now than it

1143
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 1: did the last couple of years. Um, it feels a

1144
01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: lot more fun, and I'm for the game and back

1145
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 1: and just being here over the summer and OTAs and

1146
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:05,400
Speaker 1: throughout training camp. I just feel a lot more free

1147
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 1: playing the game, going out there playing loose, slinging it around,

1148
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:10,640
Speaker 1: and I'm having a lot of fun doing it. So

1149
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just happier. Said fits this offense because

1150
01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 1: you know, obviously you and Josh would have different strengths

1151
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: and weak fass, But how do you feel like your

1152
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:20,440
Speaker 1: game fits with the scheme they have here. I think

1153
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 1: it fits very well. I think coach Dabele and the

1154
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 1: rest of the staff they they call the plays based

1155
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:29,880
Speaker 1: on your strengths and skills as a player and just

1156
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 1: from the sum I feel like this allows me to

1157
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 1: go out there and play free, play loose, go through

1158
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:37,640
Speaker 1: my progressions and find completions and just make plays for

1159
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 1: this offense. So we're still learning each other and going

1160
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:42,919
Speaker 1: through that process, but I feel like I've I've shown

1161
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:44,480
Speaker 1: a lots of positive things about what I can do

1162
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 1: with this offense, and uh, he's calling it to what

1163
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:49,080
Speaker 1: fits my strength so far. So it's it's been a

1164
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,720
Speaker 1: lot of fun so far. And being around Josh you

1165
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 1: know what you before and now being around him, what

1166
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:56,720
Speaker 1: do you what do you think? Joss is awesome. He's

1167
01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 1: one of the best teammates, a lot of fun to

1168
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: be around, and he just grind ends on the field,

1169
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:03,920
Speaker 1: and we got a great quarterback room pushing each other. Um,

1170
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 1: and we're just learning a lot and I'm still learning

1171
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:08,959
Speaker 1: him and we're developing a great relationship off the field

1172
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:10,720
Speaker 1: and on the field, and we're just having a ton

1173
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 1: of fun. So uh, it was cool to when when

1174
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:16,640
Speaker 1: I wasn't here watching him from far and then seeing

1175
01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:19,520
Speaker 1: it up close and kind of the things that separate

1176
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:20,840
Speaker 1: him from the rest of the guys in the league,

1177
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 1: and uh, it's it's very impressive. So I'm just happy

1178
01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 1: to be here support him and help him anywhere I can.

1179
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: Shifts looking somewhere you can start and then coming here.

1180
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,880
Speaker 1: What would it like to process that? UM? I think

1181
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: it was humbling at first, UM, because as a competitor,

1182
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 1: you just want to be given the opportunity to show

1183
01:04:39,160 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 1: that I can still play at a at a starter

1184
01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 1: level in this league. And I felt like, um, even

1185
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: things that happened to my last year, I still showed that, um,

1186
01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 1: I could I could play at that level and win

1187
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:52,360
Speaker 1: games as a starter, And I did win games my

1188
01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:55,320
Speaker 1: last year UM in Chicago. So it was a humbling

1189
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 1: process and just not being given the opportunity to even

1190
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 1: even compete was Uh, well, We're just a process I

1191
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: had to go through. But once I figured out that

1192
01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 1: I can come to a great place, continue to continue

1193
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:11,000
Speaker 1: to work on my skills still and get better as

1194
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 1: a player. This is just a perfect spot for me

1195
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:14,919
Speaker 1: to come to be a part of a great team,

1196
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,400
Speaker 1: learn from great coaches, and continue to progress my game.

1197
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 1: Um And even though it might not be in game

1198
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:23,120
Speaker 1: action right away, because because my role right now, I

1199
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 1: can still see a lot of progress on the field,

1200
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,000
Speaker 1: just because the resources here, the knowledge of the coaches

1201
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:30,960
Speaker 1: and and and the talent around that we're playing with

1202
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 1: on the field with all with his team. Forward to

1203
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:39,440
Speaker 1: the Chicago preseason game or we got Detroit first, so

1204
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:42,120
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that on Friday, and then we'll

1205
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 1: get to that next week. But it'll be weird going

1206
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:47,840
Speaker 1: back there, but I'm looking forward to it. About the

1207
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:50,920
Speaker 1: city Buffalo, since you've been here, it's awesome. It kind

1208
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 1: of I'm from Cleveland, Ohio, so it kind of feels

1209
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 1: very similar to back home for me. Um. I like

1210
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 1: that it's only a ten minute drive from my house

1211
01:05:57,720 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 1: to the facility every morning, uh traffic, easy to get to,

1212
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 1: the great food in the area, and the people are

1213
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:08,720
Speaker 1: really nice. So everyone's been very welcoming. My teammates, coaches

1214
01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:11,360
Speaker 1: and all the neighbors and everyone around here just been

1215
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:15,480
Speaker 1: very nice and welcoming. So it feels like home. Mitchell

1216
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:18,680
Speaker 1: Trubisky speaking to the media for the first time since

1217
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 1: he signed with the Bills back in the offseason a

1218
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,080
Speaker 1: one year, two and a half million dollar contract, And

1219
01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:25,920
Speaker 1: even Brandon Being said when he signed him, and this

1220
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:28,600
Speaker 1: was kind of his pitch to Mitchell Trubisky, who clearly,

1221
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 1: as he stated, was not presented with any kind of

1222
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:36,560
Speaker 1: contract offer from a team that would allow him to

1223
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 1: compete for a starting job. So when he spoke to

1224
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 1: the Bills, Brandon Being pitched him this way, Hey, this

1225
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:48,560
Speaker 1: is just a temporary stop for the next chapter of

1226
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 1: your career. But you can be our number two here.

1227
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 1: You can focus on your game. You don't have to

1228
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 1: worry every day about leading a team, also saying all

1229
01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 1: the right things two three times a week and press offerences.

1230
01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:04,640
Speaker 1: You can focus on you here, become the best version

1231
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:07,000
Speaker 1: of yourself, and then go in the free agent market

1232
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 1: next year and maybe you find a starting job somewhere. Right,

1233
01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:12,360
Speaker 1: And he didn't. He said, I would love to have

1234
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:13,800
Speaker 1: gone to a place where they say, all right, you

1235
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:17,000
Speaker 1: can compete for the starting job. That didn't come up.

1236
01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:19,240
Speaker 1: It didn't come up. And he's, you know, so, if

1237
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:21,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna pick a spot, he's right, I mean, this

1238
01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:23,960
Speaker 1: is the spot. If you're gonna sign for a one

1239
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:26,000
Speaker 1: year deal to be a backup. This is the guy

1240
01:07:26,040 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 1: you want to this offense, this environment is exactly where

1241
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:31,600
Speaker 1: you want to be. Give yourself a chance to develop,

1242
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:36,560
Speaker 1: get better, and then move on next year. Smart moved

1243
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:40,760
Speaker 1: by him, no question, and we'll see how it works out.

1244
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:44,440
Speaker 1: Pretty telling though, how things went south in Chicago in

1245
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:47,000
Speaker 1: a hurry. And I know you've never been a major

1246
01:07:47,080 --> 01:07:53,080
Speaker 1: proponent of some of those NFC North organizations and how

1247
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 1: they are run. But I mean this guy, I think

1248
01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:02,120
Speaker 1: he had fifty starts for the Bears in his career,

1249
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 1: or he played in at least fifteen games. He had

1250
01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 1: twenty nine and twenty one record as a starter in Chicago.

1251
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:11,960
Speaker 1: You're eight games over five hundred playing for the Bears.

1252
01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:17,559
Speaker 1: You're doing something right, right as their quarterback had good

1253
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 1: numbers across the board last year. But unbelievable, I mean

1254
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:27,479
Speaker 1: Risky saying I could just feel them believing in me

1255
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:32,679
Speaker 1: less and less. So the fifth year option and them

1256
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 1: the team declining to pick it up was no surprise

1257
01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 1: to him. Just wow with a capitol W. Yeah, I

1258
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:43,040
Speaker 1: could feel them believing in me less and less. Can

1259
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 1: you imagine trying to be a player on a team

1260
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 1: forget about the starting quarterback to any player, just you

1261
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:52,680
Speaker 1: feel that this team does not believe in me, and

1262
01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:55,400
Speaker 1: you've got to take yourself, get yourself out there on

1263
01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:58,360
Speaker 1: the practice field every day, you know what I mean, Like,

1264
01:08:58,400 --> 01:09:00,760
Speaker 1: that's got to be tough. You're twenty want, twenty nine

1265
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:04,760
Speaker 1: and twenty one as a starter, and yeah, they don't want,

1266
01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:07,640
Speaker 1: they don't want yet. Unbelievable, I don't. Yeah, and I

1267
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:10,040
Speaker 1: get it. I mean, there's just different standard, there's different

1268
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:12,320
Speaker 1: fans have a feel for a guy and that you know,

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Speaker 1: certain plays stick out and he doesn't say he has

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Speaker 1: a limitation, and fans can't get their mind around it,

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Speaker 1: and the club doesn't do anything to help the guy

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Speaker 1: get around it, and doesn't give him a weapon or

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01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:24,800
Speaker 1: a facet of the offense that will overcome it. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty frustrating as a fan base. Break time for us.

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Speaker 1: Here one other NFL note quickly, Houston Texans head coach

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01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 1: David Culley said Deshaun Watson is unlikely to play on

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Speaker 1: Saturday in Green Bay for them in preseason quote based

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Speaker 1: on the limited reps he's had in practice. End quote

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Speaker 1: when he was asked if Watson would play at all

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Speaker 1: in the preseason Culley said, no comment. So that's where

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01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 1: that sits in Houston, still very much a schmuzzle for

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01:09:54,479 --> 01:09:57,160
Speaker 1: lack of a better term. But we break here because

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Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll be talking with NBC Sports. Peter,

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01:10:00,439 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 1: who was at Bill's training camp today spoke with Brandon

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01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:05,920
Speaker 1: Bean and Sean McDermott. Will pick his brain on what

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01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:08,400
Speaker 1: he pulled from those two gentlemen, as well as the

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen extension and his thoughts on that when we

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Speaker 1: return here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Live. Chris Brown,

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01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:33,360
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you and now joining us is a

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Speaker 1: very familiar person, NBC Sports writer for Football Morning in America,

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01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:40,519
Speaker 1: also the contribute to NBC Sports Sunday night football coverage,

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01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:42,720
Speaker 1: and he's also a member of the Pro Football Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame. Poor to selectors and a big weekend for

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01:10:45,439 --> 01:10:48,680
Speaker 1: them last week with two classes going in including the

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Speaker 1: huge centennial class. But it's Peter King joining us here

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Speaker 1: basically across the parking lot from us Steve, because he

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Speaker 1: was just at Bills training camp today. Peter, thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us. How you doing hey things? Going good, Chris,

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01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 1: thanks for having me, Hi, Steve, how you doing, Peter?

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01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:04,680
Speaker 1: It's good to see what do you know, what were

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01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:06,760
Speaker 1: your first impressions you come out? I know it is

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01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:08,200
Speaker 1: you guys. Do you travel around and you you get a

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01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: chance to see a lot of other teams? You know,

1305
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:11,720
Speaker 1: what do you think about the set up here at

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01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 1: one Bill's Drive and how Sean McDermot, the coaching staff

1307
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:20,560
Speaker 1: and the Bills are looking well? I missed the Pittsford

1308
01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 1: Dairy Barn, which has the greatest black raspberry milkshake in

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01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:30,320
Speaker 1: the history of mankind. Have some good stuff? Are you

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01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:34,240
Speaker 1: go they had? Yeah, they're pretty good place. But hey,

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01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:38,600
Speaker 1: a lot of teams I miss, uh, I mean I

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01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 1: really miss Latrobe too, or the Steelers train but hey,

1313
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:45,080
Speaker 1: it's just the way life is right now. You know,

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01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 1: you've got to make do. And look, Bill's facility here.

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01:11:50,160 --> 01:11:54,640
Speaker 1: The fields are wonderful. M I mean, I think the

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01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:58,800
Speaker 1: best training camp fields in the NFL are in Seattle,

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01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:04,160
Speaker 1: but these are very very close. So look, they're getting

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01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 1: all their work in. It's all going to be okay.

1319
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:12,400
Speaker 1: And look, I know this is a total, absolute cliche,

1320
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:17,440
Speaker 1: but there's not a lot you can do on August

1321
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:22,320
Speaker 1: tenth to beat the Kansas City Chiefs on January thirtieth

1322
01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:25,800
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. So my feeling is one of

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01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:28,200
Speaker 1: the big things the Bills have to do is to

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01:12:28,439 --> 01:12:32,440
Speaker 1: not look ahead, you know, and to not think about

1325
01:12:32,479 --> 01:12:36,400
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of the AFC Championship Game, you know,

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01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:40,000
Speaker 1: because that's not going to help them win against Pittsburgh.

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01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 1: They have some of the players, though Peter have said,

1328
01:12:43,720 --> 01:12:46,160
Speaker 1: like I remember Levi Wallace was asked a week or

1329
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:49,400
Speaker 1: so ago, what is different about the team this year

1330
01:12:49,439 --> 01:12:51,680
Speaker 1: that might be an element that it did not have

1331
01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:55,519
Speaker 1: last year? And he said anger. He said, anger is

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01:12:55,560 --> 01:12:59,000
Speaker 1: something that this team has because of what failed to

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01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:01,840
Speaker 1: happen last year getting to the Super Bowl. Obviously, I

1334
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:04,040
Speaker 1: think they also feel they did not play their best

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01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:07,080
Speaker 1: game in the AFC Title Game against the Chiefs, And

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Speaker 1: as Steve has said many times, you could argue the

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01:13:08,960 --> 01:13:11,439
Speaker 1: Chiefs may have played their best game of the year

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Speaker 1: in the AFC Title Game. So it was a real

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01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 1: strong dichotomy there. But I find it interesting. As much

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Speaker 1: as Sean McDermott preaches it's a new year, it's all

1341
01:13:20,360 --> 01:13:21,800
Speaker 1: you got to start at the bottom of the mountain

1342
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:23,840
Speaker 1: again and climb back up to the top that there

1343
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 1: are players here who are used clearly using that loss

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01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 1: as fuel going into this season. And why wouldn't you,

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01:13:31,439 --> 01:13:34,439
Speaker 1: I mean, asked Steve Tasker. Don't you think the Buffalo

1346
01:13:34,520 --> 01:13:36,760
Speaker 1: Bills us losing in the Super Bowl to try to

1347
01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:38,800
Speaker 1: win it next year? And you could say, well, a

1348
01:13:38,800 --> 01:13:41,679
Speaker 1: lot of good that did. But the fact is every

1349
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:46,040
Speaker 1: team has losses that they try to build on and

1350
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:50,559
Speaker 1: negative experiences that they try to build on. This team

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01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:54,240
Speaker 1: lost to Kansas City by fourteen and nine points last year,

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01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:58,120
Speaker 1: and no matter what you say about they didn't play

1353
01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:01,439
Speaker 1: well to Kansas City, really play That doesn't matter who cares,

1354
01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:04,920
Speaker 1: Nobody cares. What matters is playing better in the fourth

1355
01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:08,479
Speaker 1: quarter this year. I'll tell you the two interesting things

1356
01:14:08,479 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 1: that I saw are one that I heard in one

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01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:14,120
Speaker 1: that I saw. I'll tell you he was having a

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01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:17,040
Speaker 1: really good camp. And you guys know you watch him.

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01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:20,720
Speaker 1: I mean, Jake Kumerou might really be a factor for

1360
01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:27,080
Speaker 1: this team. He's another big outside receiver. And especially if

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01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:32,760
Speaker 1: you're gonna be starting two guys like Digs and Sanders outside,

1362
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:35,640
Speaker 1: if if that is what's going to happen, you know,

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01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:39,680
Speaker 1: and Beasley inside. All three of those guys when you

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01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:46,320
Speaker 1: think about it, all three of those guys, in my opinion, anyway,

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Speaker 1: I have a chance to get dinged up. And Beasley

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01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:52,400
Speaker 1: today was we watched him on the foam roller for

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01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 1: quite a while and you know he had that he

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01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 1: had that tape on his uh, you know, on his cab,

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01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 1: you know, that sort of tape that runners were to

1370
01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:06,240
Speaker 1: try to shield them on their cat on his cap.

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01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 1: So anyway, I think their depth at receiver, you know,

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Speaker 1: especially like if I look at it like with Davis

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01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:16,880
Speaker 1: and Kumerow, those that could really hold them in good stead.

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Speaker 1: I think the one other thing is what was really

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01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:27,040
Speaker 1: really interesting about this team at this time, honestly, is

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01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:31,360
Speaker 1: the attitude of Josh Allen. I think Josh Allen is

1377
01:15:31,840 --> 01:15:37,679
Speaker 1: tremendously motivated to really show how you know the fact

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01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:41,840
Speaker 1: that he is going to play better late in games,

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01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:44,600
Speaker 1: and that's sort of you know, I think that's a

1380
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 1: really really important thing for them. Yeah, and to speak

1381
01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 1: about Josh Allen a six year extension and he did

1382
01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:53,799
Speaker 1: it on Friday, two hundred fifty eight million, one hundred

1383
01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:57,080
Speaker 1: and fifty million guaranteed it structured a little bit along

1384
01:15:57,080 --> 01:15:59,040
Speaker 1: the lines of Pat Mahomes it doesn't kick in for

1385
01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:03,320
Speaker 1: a couple of years. He gets a big guaranteed percentage,

1386
01:16:03,400 --> 01:16:05,680
Speaker 1: but you know, the big money really doesn't hit the

1387
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:09,200
Speaker 1: team until the balloon payments in a couple of years.

1388
01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:11,439
Speaker 1: So he kind of leaves the window a little further

1389
01:16:11,560 --> 01:16:13,280
Speaker 1: open than it might otherwise have been. What do you

1390
01:16:13,320 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 1: think about the Josh Allen deal. Well, you know, I'm

1391
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:20,200
Speaker 1: sure that a lot of people look at it and say,

1392
01:16:20,439 --> 01:16:25,680
Speaker 1: we just signed a contract to pay our quarterback. You know,

1393
01:16:25,760 --> 01:16:29,280
Speaker 1: a ridiculous amount of money. Two point five million dollars

1394
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:33,800
Speaker 1: every game. Hold on, just one second, can you turn

1395
01:16:33,840 --> 01:16:37,200
Speaker 1: around and go back to the stadium. Uh, sorry about that, guys,

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01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:41,639
Speaker 1: You're just gonna have to pully you turn it up here, Nicole, Sorry,

1397
01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:46,599
Speaker 1: I'm in the car, we're driving away and whatever. But

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01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 1: I do think that his attitude, i mean, Jordan Palmer

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01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:53,360
Speaker 1: is tutor. Everybody knows has hurt of him. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: said that in the offseason he was a lot more

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01:16:58,240 --> 01:17:02,360
Speaker 1: concerned with fixing his mistake than signing his contract. Most

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01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks know that this contract is coming. If

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01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:09,479
Speaker 1: the contract isn't to complete, and you know, they know

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01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:12,479
Speaker 1: what's going to happen, So In my opinion, I think

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01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:17,640
Speaker 1: they basically are when they look at it, they honestly

1406
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:22,559
Speaker 1: look at We know that we're going to hit the contract.

1407
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:25,519
Speaker 1: We can't be concerned with that that money is coming.

1408
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:29,479
Speaker 1: But they got to be more concerned with you know,

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01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:32,639
Speaker 1: as he said, I think Josh Allen was very honest

1410
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:35,360
Speaker 1: with me about himself. He said, I got to stop

1411
01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:38,960
Speaker 1: playing hero ball, you know when I do. Now he

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01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 1: doesn't do it as much as he used to, but

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01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:45,559
Speaker 1: I think he realizes that still is a part of

1414
01:17:45,600 --> 01:17:49,840
Speaker 1: his game that's a work in progress. Sitting across from

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01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:52,120
Speaker 1: you know, the myriad of coaches and gms that you

1416
01:17:52,200 --> 01:17:56,599
Speaker 1: have in you know, your career, I'm just curious sitting

1417
01:17:56,600 --> 01:18:01,640
Speaker 1: across from Sean McDermott today what you feel might be

1418
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:05,280
Speaker 1: weighing on his mind, maybe the most as this team

1419
01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:09,160
Speaker 1: gets ready to enter the preseason and obviously a much

1420
01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:14,160
Speaker 1: anticipated regular season with the loftiest of expectations that we've

1421
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:16,519
Speaker 1: had here probably in thirty years. Could you glean that

1422
01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:23,639
Speaker 1: from him at all? Or yeah, you can't. Basically, and listen,

1423
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 1: any coach could, Any coach could say this. Any coach

1424
01:18:29,280 --> 01:18:32,400
Speaker 1: at all would probably say this. But I think the

1425
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: thing that he thinks about most, honestly, is we can't

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01:18:37,120 --> 01:18:41,400
Speaker 1: win a game in January in August and we got

1427
01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 1: to get ready for the Pittsburgh Steelers and let all

1428
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:46,639
Speaker 1: that other stuff fall. We can sit here and say

1429
01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:50,479
Speaker 1: that the only important thing with this franchise at this

1430
01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:55,000
Speaker 1: point in time, honestly, the only thing. You know, everybody

1431
01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:58,639
Speaker 1: is so consumed with that. But does it really matter?

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01:18:59,160 --> 01:19:03,760
Speaker 1: I mean it does it really matter until you get

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01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:07,400
Speaker 1: to January. You can only what's the cliche, You've got

1434
01:19:07,400 --> 01:19:09,680
Speaker 1: to be You got to be where your feet are,

1435
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:14,679
Speaker 1: And I think that is the way that U Sean

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01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:17,640
Speaker 1: McDermott is approaching it with his team right now. What

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01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:20,519
Speaker 1: do you sense in your travels around the league any

1438
01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:23,840
Speaker 1: major difference in how teams are going to treat the

1439
01:19:23,880 --> 01:19:26,599
Speaker 1: three preseason games as opposed to the four preseason games.

1440
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:28,559
Speaker 1: We've had this debate. I mean, are they gonna do

1441
01:19:28,560 --> 01:19:30,519
Speaker 1: it like they always have and wait till the third

1442
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:33,320
Speaker 1: preseason game? Play the starters that much then and then

1443
01:19:33,720 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 1: they've got that bye week over Labor Day weekend before

1444
01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:38,599
Speaker 1: the season kicks off. Have you you know how are

1445
01:19:38,640 --> 01:19:42,000
Speaker 1: team's gonna that's gonna handle it? Teams to do it, Steve,

1446
01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:44,680
Speaker 1: I think they're still gonna play their guys in the

1447
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:48,719
Speaker 1: third game. And now there are some coaches. I doubt

1448
01:19:48,720 --> 01:19:52,720
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh is gonna play Matthew Stafford much at all.

1449
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 1: I mean, Jared Goff didn't play a snapp in the

1450
01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 1: last two preseasons, so I mean, I think I think

1451
01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:02,679
Speaker 1: probably most teams will be playing their guys the third

1452
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:06,439
Speaker 1: week of the preseason. Where are we, Peter? Do you

1453
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:10,559
Speaker 1: think with respect to the vaccination situation? Obviously there are

1454
01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:15,040
Speaker 1: still some players who are pretty heels dug in not

1455
01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:17,680
Speaker 1: going to change. I mean, Lamar Jackson even said he

1456
01:20:17,720 --> 01:20:20,719
Speaker 1: wants to learn more about the vaccine. He's gotten COVID

1457
01:20:20,760 --> 01:20:23,280
Speaker 1: twice and it's cost him time on the field both

1458
01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:26,040
Speaker 1: in the regular season last year in training camp this year.

1459
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:29,240
Speaker 1: Knowing there are still going to be some of those

1460
01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:33,439
Speaker 1: outliers out there, where does the league go with COVID?

1461
01:20:33,479 --> 01:20:36,120
Speaker 1: And do you see a better picture this year than

1462
01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:40,120
Speaker 1: last year? I certainly think we all anticipate that. I mean,

1463
01:20:40,479 --> 01:20:45,320
Speaker 1: you know, probably the league is at about nine of

1464
01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:52,040
Speaker 1: players who are at least partially vaccinated. They've gotten their

1465
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:58,240
Speaker 1: first vaccine dose, so that's obviously good progress. But on

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01:20:58,280 --> 01:21:02,040
Speaker 1: the other hand, you know, you still have some real

1467
01:21:02,240 --> 01:21:07,400
Speaker 1: significant players Lamar Jackson, Kirk Cousins, you know, and who knows,

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01:21:07,439 --> 01:21:09,400
Speaker 1: I mean a lot. There's speculation on a lot of

1469
01:21:09,400 --> 01:21:13,960
Speaker 1: the other ones. But I mean, I just keep coming

1470
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:18,559
Speaker 1: back to when I hear the phrase it's a personal decision.

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01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:24,479
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a personal decision, but it involves and

1472
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:28,800
Speaker 1: if a quarterback, if kirk Cousins test positive on a

1473
01:21:28,880 --> 01:21:32,760
Speaker 1: Friday of a game week and he is symptomatic, he's

1474
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:36,919
Speaker 1: going to miss the next two games, and that becomes

1475
01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:41,160
Speaker 1: not necessarily just a personal decision, that becomes a decision

1476
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Speaker 1: radically infecting a team and a fan base. In my opinion,

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Speaker 1: the responsible thing to do is to get vaccinated when

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01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:52,200
Speaker 1: you're in a team sport where if you're not there,

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01:21:52,600 --> 01:21:57,080
Speaker 1: you're screwing the team. And what you wrote an article

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01:21:57,360 --> 01:22:01,320
Speaker 1: recently about around the league about how teams, you know,

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01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:03,599
Speaker 1: we've always seen these teams are the thirty two teams.

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01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:05,920
Speaker 1: They're all kind of the same, but they're all very

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01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:08,040
Speaker 1: unique as well. And you wrote about the importance of

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Speaker 1: having a GM, a head coach, a quarterback that are

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01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:13,200
Speaker 1: all on the same page. The Chiefs model you called it.

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01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:16,200
Speaker 1: The Bills seem to be on that on that track

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01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:19,759
Speaker 1: as well. What is it about that that the Bills,

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01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:23,240
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and some other teams have and why does

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01:22:23,320 --> 01:22:26,240
Speaker 1: it hamper other teams even if they win games once

1490
01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:29,839
Speaker 1: a while like this, for instance, Seattle Seahawks and the Packers,

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01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:31,360
Speaker 1: they win a lot of games, but they don't have

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01:22:31,439 --> 01:22:36,280
Speaker 1: that cohesion. I think, Steve, I think very simply. You know,

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01:22:37,280 --> 01:22:40,479
Speaker 1: the general manager the Kansas City Chiefs, Brett Veach, the

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01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:43,680
Speaker 1: head coach of the Chiefs, Andy Reid, and Patrick Mahomes

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01:22:44,680 --> 01:22:49,080
Speaker 1: have a very open line of communication. Mahomes is walking

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01:22:49,120 --> 01:22:51,840
Speaker 1: off the field after the Super Bowl where you got

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01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:56,280
Speaker 1: hit our sack twenty nine times last year, and Brett

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01:22:56,320 --> 01:22:58,280
Speaker 1: Veach meets them there and said, we're gonna get this

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01:22:58,360 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 1: line fixed, and they spent an awful lot of money

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01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:04,920
Speaker 1: in the offseason fixing line. There is a respect there.

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01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:09,639
Speaker 1: There's a respect picking the game plan every week. There

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01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:14,519
Speaker 1: is a great respect between Andy Reid giving Patrick Mahomes

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01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:18,920
Speaker 1: the plays that he really wants to call. In my opinion,

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01:23:19,040 --> 01:23:22,519
Speaker 1: in today's day and age, that is the way you

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01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:24,479
Speaker 1: deal with a quarterback. That's the way you treat a

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01:23:24,560 --> 01:23:27,080
Speaker 1: quarterback and that's the way you're going to get the

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01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 1: best out of your quarterback. Yeah, nurturing relationships. We get it, Peter.

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01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:33,360
Speaker 1: We know your time is short, we know your schedule

1509
01:23:33,400 --> 01:23:35,920
Speaker 1: is even busier, so thanks for giving us a few minutes.

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01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:38,040
Speaker 1: Safe travels to you the rest of your training camp tour.

1511
01:23:38,439 --> 01:23:41,120
Speaker 1: Thanks Pete. Hey appreciate it. Guys, thanks a lot for

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01:23:41,160 --> 01:23:43,400
Speaker 1: having me, all right, Bett, thank you. Peter King from

1513
01:23:43,479 --> 01:23:47,840
Speaker 1: NBC Sports joining us there after taking in training camp today.

1514
01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:51,320
Speaker 1: And it looks and not surprising. I mean, he had

1515
01:23:51,360 --> 01:23:54,000
Speaker 1: a conversation with both Brandon being he had a conversation

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01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:58,000
Speaker 1: with Sean McDermott before practice today and what does he

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01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:02,040
Speaker 1: take from coach McDermott. It's all coming back to process,

1518
01:24:02,400 --> 01:24:05,519
Speaker 1: the day to day. And I had a coach one

1519
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:08,160
Speaker 1: time who told me, Hey, before we can win five games,

1520
01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:11,960
Speaker 1: we got to win one right, and to project and

1521
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:15,000
Speaker 1: look too far ahead, you kind of lose sight of

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01:24:15,040 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 1: what's right in front of you. And it looks like

1523
01:24:17,200 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 1: coach is still trying to reinforce that with his team. Hey,

1524
01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:24,519
Speaker 1: we'll get our chance against the Chiefs. It's on they're

1525
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:27,360
Speaker 1: on the schedule. We'll get a crack. But right now,

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01:24:27,439 --> 01:24:30,320
Speaker 1: let's worry about Detroit and getting our execution down in

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01:24:30,320 --> 01:24:33,000
Speaker 1: this first preseason game, and then next week we'll worry

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01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:37,000
Speaker 1: about Chicago. Right, So hopefully the guys are adhering to that. Yeah,

1529
01:24:37,040 --> 01:24:39,719
Speaker 1: you don't worry about you know, going you know, fourteen

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01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 1: and three or thirteen and four or twelve and five

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01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:45,160
Speaker 1: or whatever your record did. Don't worry about Try and

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01:24:45,200 --> 01:24:48,000
Speaker 1: go one and oh this week and then see where

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01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:50,200
Speaker 1: it takes you and then look back and see what

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01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:52,599
Speaker 1: you did. You can't you can't get there from this end.

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01:24:52,600 --> 01:24:55,160
Speaker 1: You got to get there, you know. You can't wait

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01:24:55,240 --> 01:24:57,439
Speaker 1: till that end to get to the you know, that

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01:24:57,520 --> 01:24:59,559
Speaker 1: record or whatever the final record is. Just and he

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01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:01,519
Speaker 1: said it, just be where your feet are. Think about

1539
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:03,160
Speaker 1: what you're doing in the here and now, and the

1540
01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:06,439
Speaker 1: big picture will take care of itself. We will step

1541
01:25:06,479 --> 01:25:09,479
Speaker 1: aside here, but when we come back, more of your

1542
01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:12,639
Speaker 1: thoughts on the tweet sheet in terms of what part

1543
01:25:12,640 --> 01:25:15,679
Speaker 1: of the Bills you feel will benefit the most from

1544
01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:18,200
Speaker 1: playing in the preseason games. The choices are there for

1545
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:21,439
Speaker 1: you at one Bills Live on the Twitter poll and

1546
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:23,439
Speaker 1: if you want to call in and chime in on

1547
01:25:23,479 --> 01:25:25,479
Speaker 1: it as well, we'll welcome those calls eight oh three,

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01:25:25,720 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: five fifty one, eight five fifty two, five fifty and

1549
01:25:29,320 --> 01:25:32,320
Speaker 1: don't forget. We'll have some comments from Davis Webb and

1550
01:25:32,400 --> 01:25:35,280
Speaker 1: Jake from coming your way in the third hour of

1551
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:37,639
Speaker 1: the program. Plenty more to come here on One Bills

1552
01:25:37,640 --> 01:25:40,000
Speaker 1: Live presented by Collid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

1553
01:25:57,640 --> 01:26:01,599
Speaker 1: Welcome back. The show's called One Bill Live case you're

1554
01:26:01,640 --> 01:26:03,919
Speaker 1: just joining us. We're here every day Monday to Friday,

1555
01:26:04,439 --> 01:26:07,559
Speaker 1: noon to three. A lot of Bills stuff going on,

1556
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:10,360
Speaker 1: a lot of NFL stuff going on. Tom Pellisiero NFL

1557
01:26:10,439 --> 01:26:15,400
Speaker 1: Network is commenting on Twitter about the NFL's annual rule

1558
01:26:15,479 --> 01:26:18,760
Speaker 1: change in points of Emphasis video, which I still have

1559
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:21,240
Speaker 1: sitting in my inbox. I have to watch that. But

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01:26:21,320 --> 01:26:25,680
Speaker 1: he points out Steve officials have been instructed to strictly

1561
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:30,040
Speaker 1: enforce taunting rules in twenty twenty one. As we know,

1562
01:26:30,160 --> 01:26:33,840
Speaker 1: two violations results in an automatic ejection with fines and

1563
01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:39,080
Speaker 1: even suspensions in play as well. I still remember last season,

1564
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:42,439
Speaker 1: you know, Josh gets flagged for taunting after he spun

1565
01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:47,320
Speaker 1: the ball on the ground after scoring a touchdown in

1566
01:26:47,360 --> 01:26:49,080
Speaker 1: front of the other player in a game last year.

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01:26:49,439 --> 01:26:54,120
Speaker 1: I believe it was Seattle. Yeah, and I can't remember

1568
01:26:54,120 --> 01:26:56,519
Speaker 1: I who was Coach McDermott or coach McDermott who was

1569
01:26:56,520 --> 01:26:59,000
Speaker 1: miked up, or if it was Josh who was miked up.

1570
01:26:59,040 --> 01:27:00,960
Speaker 1: But coach comes over to him and he's like, I

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01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:03,639
Speaker 1: love the energy, I love the passion. But you can't

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01:27:03,640 --> 01:27:07,559
Speaker 1: do that again or you're gonna get ejected, like just

1573
01:27:07,640 --> 01:27:14,000
Speaker 1: so you know, yeah, could you imagine? Wow? And now

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01:27:14,040 --> 01:27:16,960
Speaker 1: it appears that finds and suspensions will be in play

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01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:20,120
Speaker 1: as well. Um, and I don't I get it. I

1576
01:27:20,120 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 1: don't mind them curbing some of the showboating garbage, doing

1577
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:27,040
Speaker 1: something in the face of another player. Yeah, I mean

1578
01:27:27,160 --> 01:27:29,439
Speaker 1: that's just you want to celebrate with your teammates, go

1579
01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:32,800
Speaker 1: for it, man, but don't stick it in somebody's pie hole,

1580
01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:35,000
Speaker 1: you know. After you I mean you beat him on

1581
01:27:35,040 --> 01:27:37,800
Speaker 1: the play, that's enough, right, Like, yes, you would think

1582
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:40,320
Speaker 1: in most cases, maybe that's right. I don't know. Maybe no,

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01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:42,680
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Maybe I'm sounding way too old school here,

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01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:49,240
Speaker 1: but yes I am. Yeah, it's I don't know what, Yeah,

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01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:54,280
Speaker 1: enforce it just so you don't enforce it against bills.

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01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:59,439
Speaker 1: Don't just don't give him two you know. So I'm

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01:27:59,479 --> 01:28:03,919
Speaker 1: that's all could you imagine getting like having Josh get

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01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:06,280
Speaker 1: and then one of them being a real soft one

1589
01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:09,240
Speaker 1: Chargers game, the Chargers game. There it is, and this

1590
01:28:09,280 --> 01:28:12,479
Speaker 1: is where he goes in and he gets up and

1591
01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:14,640
Speaker 1: spins the ball because he took a little bit of

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01:28:14,680 --> 01:28:18,880
Speaker 1: a hit there and and there's no question he's spinning

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01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:23,880
Speaker 1: at the guy. Yeah, that was a penalty. That was

1594
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:26,800
Speaker 1: a penalty. So that is a point of emphasis for

1595
01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:33,559
Speaker 1: the officials this year. Anything that closely resembles taunting, it's

1596
01:28:33,560 --> 01:28:36,760
Speaker 1: gonna get flagged. You get two of them, you're ejected,

1597
01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:40,599
Speaker 1: and two of them in the same game you're getting ejected. Yeah,

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01:28:40,640 --> 01:28:46,960
Speaker 1: the ejection hurts, take my word a little bit. Yeah,

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01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:49,639
Speaker 1: So I guess they're going to break it all down

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01:28:49,680 --> 01:28:52,479
Speaker 1: because Peter Peter Schreeger is also tweeted about this and

1601
01:28:52,479 --> 01:28:54,759
Speaker 1: he said he spoke to NFL officials on the taunting

1602
01:28:54,800 --> 01:28:58,439
Speaker 1: penalties last week and he said there's a significant difference

1603
01:28:58,840 --> 01:29:05,240
Speaker 1: in making gesture and making gestures at opposing players. So

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01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:08,160
Speaker 1: let's just say a guy gets a first down and

1605
01:29:08,280 --> 01:29:10,959
Speaker 1: he kind of signals first down, but it's not directed

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01:29:10,960 --> 01:29:15,080
Speaker 1: in anybody. That's fine. But if you've got a guy

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01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:19,000
Speaker 1: from the other team who's standing in front of you

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01:29:19,320 --> 01:29:22,200
Speaker 1: and you gesture over his shoulder first down like this,

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01:29:22,520 --> 01:29:26,160
Speaker 1: You're probably gonna get flagged for a taunting penalty, right,

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01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:30,719
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how it reads to me. I get it. Yeah,

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01:29:30,760 --> 01:29:35,639
Speaker 1: I mean I don't do it at anyone, right, better yet,

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01:29:35,720 --> 01:29:37,560
Speaker 1: don't do it at all. I mean I was, I

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01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:40,599
Speaker 1: hate I don't want to. I was as bad as anybody,

1614
01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:47,400
Speaker 1: because my opportunities to, you know, do celebrate, we're few

1615
01:29:47,439 --> 01:29:50,400
Speaker 1: and far between. So I was as bad as anybody.

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01:29:50,600 --> 01:29:54,320
Speaker 1: But yeah, you gotta be careful, don't. You can't do

1617
01:29:54,360 --> 01:29:58,400
Speaker 1: that at anybody. You can't. It's the gesturing, I think

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01:29:58,439 --> 01:30:01,639
Speaker 1: more than anything else. Like, we know there's a lot

1619
01:30:01,640 --> 01:30:04,200
Speaker 1: of stuff that's said on a football field on a Sunday.

1620
01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:07,519
Speaker 1: We know that, oh yeah, and a lot of that

1621
01:30:07,760 --> 01:30:10,960
Speaker 1: is not audibly heard by the viewing audience at home,

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01:30:11,080 --> 01:30:13,240
Speaker 1: or even the fans in the stands because there's so

1623
01:30:13,320 --> 01:30:16,280
Speaker 1: much ambient noise anyway, none of that really gets picked

1624
01:30:16,360 --> 01:30:20,800
Speaker 1: up unless the referees mic is still open. It's the

1625
01:30:20,880 --> 01:30:26,960
Speaker 1: gesturing because everybody can see that. And so the part

1626
01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:28,840
Speaker 1: of the memo that went out with the points of

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01:30:28,880 --> 01:30:32,640
Speaker 1: emphasis the NFL players Association Coaches and Competition Committee of

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01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:35,000
Speaker 1: All made a strong statement regarding respect among everyone on

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01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:37,479
Speaker 1: the field. We saw an increase in actions that clearly

1630
01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:39,719
Speaker 1: are not within the spirit and intent of this rule

1631
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:42,840
Speaker 1: and not representative of the respect to opponents and others

1632
01:30:42,840 --> 01:30:45,679
Speaker 1: on the field. Game officials have been instructed to strictly

1633
01:30:45,760 --> 01:30:48,799
Speaker 1: enforce the taunting rules, and players and coaches are reminded

1634
01:30:48,840 --> 01:30:52,120
Speaker 1: that two taunting penalties committed by an individual player will

1635
01:30:52,160 --> 01:30:57,000
Speaker 1: result in automatic disqualification. In addition, the taunting player may

1636
01:30:57,040 --> 01:31:01,479
Speaker 1: be fined and or suspended depending on the severity of

1637
01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:04,200
Speaker 1: the actions. So when Marshawn Lynch is diving into the

1638
01:31:04,280 --> 01:31:06,800
Speaker 1: end zone and grabbing his crotch while facing other people,

1639
01:31:07,720 --> 01:31:12,599
Speaker 1: that's gonna get flagged. It's it's going to happen, right,

1640
01:31:13,040 --> 01:31:16,800
Speaker 1: except Marshawn's retired. Well, so when you go into the

1641
01:31:16,880 --> 01:31:19,080
Speaker 1: end zone, Oh yeah, we're retired too. So if you

1642
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:21,679
Speaker 1: go into the end zone and do that, you're gonna

1643
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:24,120
Speaker 1: get and from a different kind of football together. Right,

1644
01:31:25,280 --> 01:31:28,120
Speaker 1: there was no end zone in your fob. So anyway, yeah,

1645
01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:30,719
Speaker 1: that'll be interesting. And you know this too, think about

1646
01:31:30,760 --> 01:31:35,400
Speaker 1: it in the preseason. It's gonna be over the top

1647
01:31:35,520 --> 01:31:40,040
Speaker 1: overall over the top. They are going to be called.

1648
01:31:40,160 --> 01:31:42,719
Speaker 1: It's going to be raining if you if you walk

1649
01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:44,719
Speaker 1: by the guy and stare him down as you walk

1650
01:31:44,800 --> 01:31:48,080
Speaker 1: by him, you can't get flagged. Kirk Cousins pulls out.

1651
01:31:48,080 --> 01:31:52,240
Speaker 1: You like that flag? Pointed a guy? You like that

1652
01:31:52,520 --> 01:31:55,680
Speaker 1: flag done? That's right? Think about it. It's coming and

1653
01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:59,400
Speaker 1: it'll be something subtle. It'll be you'll see at least

1654
01:31:59,479 --> 01:32:04,320
Speaker 1: one or two that are egregiously soft calls, you know.

1655
01:32:04,640 --> 01:32:07,479
Speaker 1: I mean it's gonna be like what You're gonna see

1656
01:32:07,479 --> 01:32:11,640
Speaker 1: a couple of those. What what's the over under for

1657
01:32:11,680 --> 01:32:17,120
Speaker 1: the first preseairst preseason weekend? Like per game or I mean,

1658
01:32:17,160 --> 01:32:18,880
Speaker 1: like how many in this game? How many in there?

1659
01:32:18,920 --> 01:32:20,680
Speaker 1: No total weekend? What do you think there's gonna be

1660
01:32:20,720 --> 01:32:22,160
Speaker 1: like one in every game? There won't be one in

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01:32:22,200 --> 01:32:25,200
Speaker 1: every Maybe I think there will be Okay, I think

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01:32:25,240 --> 01:32:28,160
Speaker 1: the over under in every game is probably two. No.

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01:32:28,479 --> 01:32:31,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, come on, get a third stringer out there

1664
01:32:31,960 --> 01:32:35,800
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, makes a big play. He's fired up,

1665
01:32:35,840 --> 01:32:38,599
Speaker 1: he thinks he's enhanced his chances of making the roster.

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01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:43,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh, come on, you are gastly You

1667
01:32:43,160 --> 01:32:47,040
Speaker 1: are grossly underestimating a gay youth in the NFL the

1668
01:32:47,880 --> 01:32:54,120
Speaker 1: first weekend of the preseason, Steve, culture of Generation Z people.

1669
01:32:55,000 --> 01:32:58,320
Speaker 1: We live in a culture of Generation Z people where

1670
01:32:58,439 --> 01:33:01,640
Speaker 1: selfie became a daily thing. It's probably gonna be in

1671
01:33:01,680 --> 01:33:06,920
Speaker 1: the dictionary next year. Look at me, Look at me.

1672
01:33:07,520 --> 01:33:10,840
Speaker 1: I will say, no, it's not gonna be there. There

1673
01:33:10,920 --> 01:33:13,840
Speaker 1: might be. The overunder is two. One tell the under

1674
01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:19,040
Speaker 1: over unders gotta be sixteen one per game? Maybe two,

1675
01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:26,360
Speaker 1: all right, maybe twenty four. He's maybe twenty four. Keep

1676
01:33:27,640 --> 01:33:32,400
Speaker 1: keep Steve, come on the what is I mean? The

1677
01:33:32,520 --> 01:33:39,160
Speaker 1: point of the preseas, perhaps more than anything, is, hey,

1678
01:33:39,240 --> 01:33:41,679
Speaker 1: I gotta get good tape out there. If I'm making

1679
01:33:41,720 --> 01:33:44,360
Speaker 1: a big play, I am drawing everyone's attention to it.

1680
01:33:44,720 --> 01:33:47,000
Speaker 1: Look at this play I just made. It's also the

1681
01:33:47,120 --> 01:33:49,639
Speaker 1: league saying, hey, this same thing is gonna change this year.

1682
01:33:49,680 --> 01:33:51,439
Speaker 1: Here's how it's gonna get used to it. Here it is,

1683
01:33:51,439 --> 01:33:52,960
Speaker 1: and they're gonna hit him hard with a hand. You

1684
01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:55,679
Speaker 1: know they're gonna hit him hard in preseason. The under

1685
01:33:55,720 --> 01:33:58,080
Speaker 1: will go down after this week, But this week right,

1686
01:33:58,160 --> 01:34:01,160
Speaker 1: exactly so, this week is a point of points finger quotes,

1687
01:34:01,240 --> 01:34:07,840
Speaker 1: points emphasis, and those are like all of a sudden, guys,

1688
01:34:07,880 --> 01:34:11,000
Speaker 1: like I used to be in the booth be like, well,

1689
01:34:11,040 --> 01:34:13,000
Speaker 1: it's a point of emphasis this week. They sent on

1690
01:34:13,080 --> 01:34:15,799
Speaker 1: him them all And because I used to ask meanwhile,

1691
01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:18,600
Speaker 1: last year we had the point of d emphasis for

1692
01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:22,559
Speaker 1: holding right. I used to ask the officials when i'd

1693
01:34:22,600 --> 01:34:24,600
Speaker 1: see him, like pre game and stuff, I go, did

1694
01:34:24,640 --> 01:34:27,439
Speaker 1: you get a point of emphasis this week? And they'd say,

1695
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:29,120
Speaker 1: oh yeah, and they say, well we're gonna do da

1696
01:34:29,160 --> 01:34:31,200
Speaker 1: da da da da da And okay, thanks, you know,

1697
01:34:31,920 --> 01:34:35,960
Speaker 1: and you sure enough that was an absolute talking point. Boom,

1698
01:34:35,960 --> 01:34:37,839
Speaker 1: there it is, there, it is. There's point of emphasis

1699
01:34:37,920 --> 01:34:40,799
Speaker 1: this week, folks that you know trying to they shape

1700
01:34:40,880 --> 01:34:43,160
Speaker 1: the game that way. But there are going to be

1701
01:34:43,200 --> 01:34:47,559
Speaker 1: instances where you're gonna have a guy that dropped a

1702
01:34:47,680 --> 01:34:50,320
Speaker 1: running back for a tackle for loss and he's gonna

1703
01:34:50,320 --> 01:34:52,360
Speaker 1: stand over him for two seconds and look down at

1704
01:34:52,439 --> 01:34:56,080
Speaker 1: him and point at him bing flag. That is going

1705
01:34:56,120 --> 01:35:01,320
Speaker 1: to happen several times across the league between Thursday, Friday Saturday.

1706
01:35:01,360 --> 01:35:04,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it's come on, are you telling me that's

1707
01:35:04,200 --> 01:35:07,080
Speaker 1: not gonna happen with alarming frequency? Sign tell I'm the

1708
01:35:07,080 --> 01:35:09,120
Speaker 1: guy who brought it up. I'm telling you it is

1709
01:35:09,120 --> 01:35:14,960
Speaker 1: gonna happen. With alarming frequency and sometimes without justification. That's

1710
01:35:15,000 --> 01:35:18,400
Speaker 1: the point I think. All right, I'm gonna say the

1711
01:35:18,479 --> 01:35:22,719
Speaker 1: over unders twenty there'll be twenty penalties. Go, we gotta

1712
01:35:22,720 --> 01:35:24,040
Speaker 1: get that. I don't know how we're gonna keep trying.

1713
01:35:24,040 --> 01:35:25,720
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna have to, unfortunately, go to all

1714
01:35:25,760 --> 01:35:28,200
Speaker 1: the game book. We're gonna have to call them and

1715
01:35:28,200 --> 01:35:33,760
Speaker 1: and talium mounting. Yeah, that's to a game, man, that's

1716
01:35:34,080 --> 01:35:35,760
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be to a game you want to go,

1717
01:35:36,479 --> 01:35:39,400
Speaker 1: it's gonna be one. Naw, it's gonna be like one

1718
01:35:39,520 --> 01:35:43,280
Speaker 1: point four one point two a game. There'll be like

1719
01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:46,519
Speaker 1: two games. Tell you in the third stringer's baby, they'll

1720
01:35:46,560 --> 01:35:49,760
Speaker 1: be like, there'll be one in every game. There's there's

1721
01:35:49,760 --> 01:35:52,559
Speaker 1: gonna be one in every game. There's gonna be one

1722
01:35:52,600 --> 01:35:54,840
Speaker 1: in every game. And they'll probably be four games where

1723
01:35:54,880 --> 01:35:59,000
Speaker 1: it'll be two four of the sixteen games. All right, well,

1724
01:35:59,439 --> 01:36:01,880
Speaker 1: I'll we'll try to tally it up before Monday show

1725
01:36:01,920 --> 01:36:04,080
Speaker 1: and see where we land. All right, we'll try to

1726
01:36:04,120 --> 01:36:06,040
Speaker 1: tally them all up. Write that down in the control

1727
01:36:06,120 --> 01:36:09,559
Speaker 1: room to get the buzzer taunting taunting penalties. There will

1728
01:36:09,600 --> 01:36:14,639
Speaker 1: be over under twenty, over under twenty. You say, total

1729
01:36:14,760 --> 01:36:18,519
Speaker 1: across the league, across the league. Okay, taunting penalties twenty

1730
01:36:18,560 --> 01:36:21,920
Speaker 1: All right, I'm writing that down for Steve Taunting Record

1731
01:36:21,960 --> 01:36:25,880
Speaker 1: Show on August tenth. Yes, okay, all right, we're all

1732
01:36:25,880 --> 01:36:28,559
Speaker 1: set with that. We'll see where we come out on Monday.

1733
01:36:28,640 --> 01:36:31,200
Speaker 1: We'll mention that on Monday show. All right, break time here,

1734
01:36:31,280 --> 01:36:33,240
Speaker 1: our number three coming your way. We still have to

1735
01:36:33,240 --> 01:36:37,519
Speaker 1: get some comments to you from Davis Webb and Jake,

1736
01:36:37,600 --> 01:36:40,960
Speaker 1: from guys that are probably in direct competition with one

1737
01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 1: another to probably be the practice squad quarterback on this

1738
01:36:44,640 --> 01:36:46,720
Speaker 1: roster this year, because it looks like one two is

1739
01:36:46,960 --> 01:36:50,160
Speaker 1: pretty much locked up. We'll get to their comments and

1740
01:36:50,360 --> 01:36:52,760
Speaker 1: yours on the tweet sheet in the third hour of

1741
01:36:52,760 --> 01:36:55,320
Speaker 1: our program Next One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health.

1742
01:36:55,360 --> 01:37:16,599
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

1743
01:37:16,640 --> 01:37:18,960
Speaker 1: been all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was

1744
01:37:19,040 --> 01:37:22,719
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve

1745
01:37:24,200 --> 01:37:31,360
Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the straded fear of normalcy.

1746
01:37:31,400 --> 01:37:34,000
Speaker 1: All right, here we are our number three on a Tuesday.

1747
01:37:34,080 --> 01:37:37,360
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and just to put

1748
01:37:38,520 --> 01:37:43,800
Speaker 1: a final exclamation point on the points of emphasis for

1749
01:37:43,880 --> 01:37:47,040
Speaker 1: officials heading into the preseason this weekend, and how they

1750
01:37:47,080 --> 01:37:53,160
Speaker 1: will be strict in anything that resembles taunting and flag

1751
01:37:53,160 --> 01:37:57,639
Speaker 1: a player for that too, you're automatically disqualified. Here's another

1752
01:37:57,640 --> 01:38:00,719
Speaker 1: example that was not flagged last year, Steve, that would

1753
01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:06,400
Speaker 1: get flagged this year Week sixteen Bills at Patriots. Do

1754
01:38:06,520 --> 01:38:11,840
Speaker 1: we remember Stefan Dick's second touchdown waving at J. C.

1755
01:38:12,080 --> 01:38:15,800
Speaker 1: Jackson on his way to the end zone. That will

1756
01:38:15,880 --> 01:38:19,360
Speaker 1: be that he flashed a peace sign. That will be

1757
01:38:19,479 --> 01:38:23,680
Speaker 1: flagged this year. And that's during the play. Nay, you

1758
01:38:23,800 --> 01:38:25,360
Speaker 1: have to wait till after the play. That will be

1759
01:38:25,400 --> 01:38:27,880
Speaker 1: flagged this year. And there's been a question there is

1760
01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:30,920
Speaker 1: now that's not going to nullify the play. It's just

1761
01:38:30,960 --> 01:38:34,200
Speaker 1: gonna be a personal foul penalty like that would nullify

1762
01:38:34,240 --> 01:38:36,439
Speaker 1: the touchdown, would it, No, it would be a penalty

1763
01:38:36,479 --> 01:38:38,920
Speaker 1: after the play. So they would you know, on the

1764
01:38:39,080 --> 01:38:41,280
Speaker 1: on the it wouldn't be even beyond the extra point

1765
01:38:41,280 --> 01:38:43,080
Speaker 1: to beyond the kickoff. They would kick off from their

1766
01:38:43,320 --> 01:38:45,519
Speaker 1: twenty instead of him go and peace sign right there.

1767
01:38:45,880 --> 01:38:49,720
Speaker 1: That would be a taunt under the new points of emphasis, right,

1768
01:38:50,120 --> 01:38:55,879
Speaker 1: So that's that's gonna be. That's gonna take some adjusting

1769
01:38:55,920 --> 01:38:57,920
Speaker 1: from some players. There's gonna be some players like what

1770
01:38:57,920 --> 01:39:01,599
Speaker 1: what did I do? I don't know what. Well, they've

1771
01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:04,760
Speaker 1: got some examples of it, you know, where the guy

1772
01:39:04,800 --> 01:39:07,120
Speaker 1: goes up and gives the double flex on the arm

1773
01:39:07,240 --> 01:39:09,439
Speaker 1: like the muscle builder, where he puts his arms like

1774
01:39:09,479 --> 01:39:12,320
Speaker 1: this right towards the guy. There's defensive players that I've

1775
01:39:12,360 --> 01:39:17,160
Speaker 1: seen make the handcuff gesture to a receiver like I

1776
01:39:17,200 --> 01:39:19,519
Speaker 1: got your handcuffed all game, You're not doing anything, and

1777
01:39:19,600 --> 01:39:21,919
Speaker 1: like breaking up passing and then show them the handcuffs

1778
01:39:22,000 --> 01:39:24,680
Speaker 1: or handcuffs like this. That's gonna get a flag. That

1779
01:39:24,760 --> 01:39:27,639
Speaker 1: you've got guys like this is one from the NFL.

1780
01:39:27,760 --> 01:39:29,320
Speaker 1: This is where the guy makes a hard tackle on

1781
01:39:29,360 --> 01:39:31,720
Speaker 1: the side of the and the receiver gets up and

1782
01:39:31,840 --> 01:39:35,519
Speaker 1: because like he didn't hurt me, that is a flag.

1783
01:39:36,080 --> 01:39:37,840
Speaker 1: And then there's another one where the guys you know

1784
01:39:38,000 --> 01:39:40,760
Speaker 1: where like Jarvis Landry for the Brown, spikes the ball

1785
01:39:40,840 --> 01:39:44,160
Speaker 1: in the face of a guy after this is the play.

1786
01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:47,519
Speaker 1: If MSG viewers are watching, Mayfield throws this out to

1787
01:39:47,640 --> 01:39:50,840
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry. Landry gets tackled immediately after the first down.

1788
01:39:51,320 --> 01:39:52,880
Speaker 1: It's not you know, it's an okay, play. I mean

1789
01:39:52,920 --> 01:39:54,880
Speaker 1: it's like probably twelve yard game for a first down.

1790
01:39:54,880 --> 01:39:56,800
Speaker 1: On third down, he gets up and spikes the ball

1791
01:39:56,920 --> 01:40:00,799
Speaker 1: right in the face of the dB and that'll be flagged.

1792
01:40:01,600 --> 01:40:05,479
Speaker 1: So it's it's gonna be far reaching. I'm the over hunder.

1793
01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:12,360
Speaker 1: Might be twenty six, might be twenty four this first

1794
01:40:13,120 --> 01:40:14,880
Speaker 1: I don't know they're you know what they're you know,

1795
01:40:14,920 --> 01:40:16,200
Speaker 1: I don't think there will be you know why, I

1796
01:40:16,200 --> 01:40:18,760
Speaker 1: don't think they everything get that meaning penalties because they're

1797
01:40:18,760 --> 01:40:20,879
Speaker 1: not gonna be good enough to get his taunting penalty.

1798
01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:23,680
Speaker 1: They're not They're not gonna scorny points. It's gonna be

1799
01:40:23,720 --> 01:40:27,080
Speaker 1: like a six to three game. I don't know. These

1800
01:40:27,120 --> 01:40:29,920
Speaker 1: cannot convinced of that. Look at the Hall of Fame

1801
01:40:29,960 --> 01:40:34,559
Speaker 1: game sixteen to three. What a snooze fest. We'll see,

1802
01:40:34,760 --> 01:40:38,599
Speaker 1: there's nothing. I have faith in the third stringers. Okay,

1803
01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:43,559
Speaker 1: looking to shine a light on me, I have faith

1804
01:40:43,560 --> 01:40:46,280
Speaker 1: in I'm gonna be over under at twenty All right,

1805
01:40:46,840 --> 01:40:50,360
Speaker 1: twenty enough taunting penalties. The prediction holds, We'll check on

1806
01:40:50,400 --> 01:40:52,719
Speaker 1: Monday and see where we came down on it. Want

1807
01:40:52,720 --> 01:40:56,280
Speaker 1: to bring to you some comments from one Davis Webb,

1808
01:40:56,439 --> 01:40:59,200
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Bills, who's been here for a few

1809
01:40:59,280 --> 01:41:02,640
Speaker 1: years now, instrumental in setting up those South Florida workouts.

1810
01:41:03,200 --> 01:41:07,400
Speaker 1: When COVID was raging across the country. The team decided

1811
01:41:07,439 --> 01:41:09,920
Speaker 1: to hold their own practices on offense anyway, and he

1812
01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:13,280
Speaker 1: put together the practice scripts there. Guy is considered by

1813
01:41:13,360 --> 01:41:15,320
Speaker 1: many of the members of this coaching staff to be

1814
01:41:15,320 --> 01:41:17,920
Speaker 1: a future coach in this league. But here is Davis

1815
01:41:17,920 --> 01:41:27,760
Speaker 1: Webb addressing the media after practice today. Davis, I'll be yeah, yeah.

1816
01:41:28,000 --> 01:41:30,639
Speaker 1: Leslie always ask us probably twice a week to help

1817
01:41:30,640 --> 01:41:32,880
Speaker 1: the dbs out, Jake and I and we just try

1818
01:41:32,920 --> 01:41:35,040
Speaker 1: to get Micah some reps, ploy er, some long ones

1819
01:41:35,120 --> 01:41:38,160
Speaker 1: so throughout the seventeen games season they can catch a

1820
01:41:38,240 --> 01:41:40,639
Speaker 1: couple of passes down the field. To talk about your

1821
01:41:40,760 --> 01:41:46,599
Speaker 1: batting success. Oh oh yeah, well today was, but it's uh,

1822
01:41:46,680 --> 01:41:48,680
Speaker 1: we got three we got four good quarterbacks in here,

1823
01:41:48,720 --> 01:41:51,920
Speaker 1: so every day is a new champion, is it? What

1824
01:41:52,080 --> 01:41:56,120
Speaker 1: I had to ask you the pre practice sprint with Josh,

1825
01:41:56,160 --> 01:41:58,920
Speaker 1: Where did that start? And obviously you guys think it

1826
01:41:59,040 --> 01:42:02,880
Speaker 1: ultra seriously, So you know, what's the interplay light When

1827
01:42:02,880 --> 01:42:05,240
Speaker 1: you guys talk about that, We don't talk about it

1828
01:42:05,320 --> 01:42:07,040
Speaker 1: much to be honest with you. Kind of started when

1829
01:42:07,040 --> 01:42:09,840
Speaker 1: I first got here. I was a coach's kid. Josh

1830
01:42:09,920 --> 01:42:11,360
Speaker 1: is a hard worker. We always kind of just jog

1831
01:42:11,439 --> 01:42:14,439
Speaker 1: between drills and it's kind of just who got there first,

1832
01:42:14,439 --> 01:42:16,479
Speaker 1: and it's kind of picked up a little bit, picked

1833
01:42:16,520 --> 01:42:19,400
Speaker 1: up some momentum, and every day it's it's the first

1834
01:42:19,400 --> 01:42:22,880
Speaker 1: competition of the day. So I think it's a little

1835
01:42:22,960 --> 01:42:26,519
Speaker 1: higher than his right now. But he has he competes

1836
01:42:26,520 --> 01:42:27,960
Speaker 1: a little better at other things than I do, but

1837
01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:31,120
Speaker 1: that one I got him. That one. You're considered another

1838
01:42:31,160 --> 01:42:32,680
Speaker 1: coach out here by a lot of people. I mean,

1839
01:42:32,960 --> 01:42:36,479
Speaker 1: because I guess just you put together the something Floridy

1840
01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:39,080
Speaker 1: helped do that, the organizational skills, and like, do you

1841
01:42:39,120 --> 01:42:41,439
Speaker 1: see yourself that way? I know your player first and foremost,

1842
01:42:41,479 --> 01:42:44,840
Speaker 1: And is that something you're trending towards in your life? Yeah,

1843
01:42:44,920 --> 01:42:47,080
Speaker 1: I think, Um, I think I've been that way since

1844
01:42:47,120 --> 01:42:50,080
Speaker 1: I was six. You know, I've always had a pretty

1845
01:42:50,120 --> 01:42:52,720
Speaker 1: good vision. I wanted to coach down the road, but

1846
01:42:52,760 --> 01:42:54,320
Speaker 1: obviously I want to play as long as I can.

1847
01:42:54,400 --> 01:42:56,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I love being a player first. I love

1848
01:42:56,200 --> 01:42:58,840
Speaker 1: throwing the football still and getting the huddle, calling the play,

1849
01:42:58,920 --> 01:43:01,479
Speaker 1: being around your teammates, But yeah, I mean down the road,

1850
01:43:01,479 --> 01:43:04,240
Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna do. So hope T time not

1851
01:43:04,320 --> 01:43:06,880
Speaker 1: too soon, but if it is, it is. But I

1852
01:43:06,880 --> 01:43:08,960
Speaker 1: think I'm playing good enough where I can continue to play,

1853
01:43:09,640 --> 01:43:13,360
Speaker 1: developing this organization and this offense and just trying to

1854
01:43:13,360 --> 01:43:16,600
Speaker 1: be the best quarter I can't be. What is or

1855
01:43:16,680 --> 01:43:21,800
Speaker 1: what are the faulties are Josh that make him the

1856
01:43:21,920 --> 01:43:26,320
Speaker 1: leader of this team where everybody offense, defense, special teams

1857
01:43:26,360 --> 01:43:30,320
Speaker 1: players look to what are because those faulties had to

1858
01:43:30,320 --> 01:43:32,720
Speaker 1: be innate in some ways, don't they because you just

1859
01:43:32,800 --> 01:43:35,760
Speaker 1: can't learn them in some ways. I think it's a

1860
01:43:35,840 --> 01:43:38,120
Speaker 1: huge credit to a small circle like his parents and

1861
01:43:38,200 --> 01:43:40,880
Speaker 1: his girlfriend and his brother and sister, I mean his

1862
01:43:41,000 --> 01:43:43,519
Speaker 1: friends from college back home. He can tell he's the

1863
01:43:43,600 --> 01:43:47,200
Speaker 1: same since he was twelve years old. He's really personable,

1864
01:43:47,280 --> 01:43:49,920
Speaker 1: cares about everybody, knows everybody in the team, sits with

1865
01:43:49,960 --> 01:43:53,320
Speaker 1: different people every day, offensive, defensive, special teams. Everybody knows

1866
01:43:53,320 --> 01:43:57,320
Speaker 1: who he is, and he wants to get to know you.

1867
01:43:57,360 --> 01:43:59,760
Speaker 1: And I think you know that's your leader and the

1868
01:43:59,800 --> 01:44:02,000
Speaker 1: best player in your team. That makes everybody play a

1869
01:44:02,040 --> 01:44:05,280
Speaker 1: little harder. And that's something we got going on right now.

1870
01:44:05,320 --> 01:44:06,920
Speaker 1: You know, he's the best team I've ever been around.

1871
01:44:06,920 --> 01:44:09,000
Speaker 1: And m I think a lot of guys will will

1872
01:44:09,040 --> 01:44:11,680
Speaker 1: vouch for that because he is How important is that?

1873
01:44:11,840 --> 01:44:14,639
Speaker 1: Just Okay, I don't know who this guy is, but look,

1874
01:44:14,760 --> 01:44:17,519
Speaker 1: I mean he's texting guys they're getting drafted, but welcome

1875
01:44:17,520 --> 01:44:20,760
Speaker 1: to the team. Just those little things. How important is

1876
01:44:20,800 --> 01:44:23,760
Speaker 1: that too? Because he's jennyine with it. Yeah, I mean,

1877
01:44:23,880 --> 01:44:26,680
Speaker 1: Sean and Brandon set the standard in the culture many

1878
01:44:26,760 --> 01:44:29,640
Speaker 1: years ago. But he's the one player the probably the

1879
01:44:29,880 --> 01:44:31,639
Speaker 1: player that carries it out the most. And we all

1880
01:44:31,680 --> 01:44:33,760
Speaker 1: try to do our part, but it means a little

1881
01:44:33,760 --> 01:44:35,479
Speaker 1: bit more coming from the starting quarterback in the face

1882
01:44:35,479 --> 01:44:37,920
Speaker 1: of the franchise, and he does it each and every day.

1883
01:44:38,439 --> 01:44:40,320
Speaker 1: We have a lot of standards, a lot of culture stuff,

1884
01:44:40,320 --> 01:44:43,040
Speaker 1: and he does it every single time. So every days

1885
01:44:43,040 --> 01:44:46,680
Speaker 1: the same person. He's getting better. Um, great leader, great competitor,

1886
01:44:47,040 --> 01:44:51,400
Speaker 1: and thank goodness, he's our quarterback. What is the quarterback?

1887
01:44:52,080 --> 01:44:53,760
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of experience. I mean, he's

1888
01:44:53,760 --> 01:44:56,720
Speaker 1: played a bunch of games in Chicago. He's played a

1889
01:44:56,760 --> 01:44:58,320
Speaker 1: lot of big games in Chicago too. Of that one

1890
01:44:58,360 --> 01:45:00,800
Speaker 1: year they won on that little run. Um, he's been

1891
01:45:00,800 --> 01:45:05,280
Speaker 1: through some adversity coaching changes. Um got drafted second overall,

1892
01:45:05,520 --> 01:45:07,920
Speaker 1: you know, went to a place that hasn't been winning

1893
01:45:07,920 --> 01:45:10,479
Speaker 1: and had some success there. Um so now he's coming

1894
01:45:10,560 --> 01:45:12,320
Speaker 1: here and it's always good to have a guy in

1895
01:45:12,360 --> 01:45:14,000
Speaker 1: the room has played a lot, and we have two

1896
01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:16,479
Speaker 1: guys that have and two younger guys that haven't. So

1897
01:45:16,479 --> 01:45:18,680
Speaker 1: it's kind of a good mix and match. Um. He

1898
01:45:18,720 --> 01:45:20,639
Speaker 1: brings a lot of experience. He's a great dude. He's

1899
01:45:21,200 --> 01:45:24,120
Speaker 1: fun to compete with. He plays catan now, so he's

1900
01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:27,280
Speaker 1: getting he's getting in the groove, the groove of the room. Um.

1901
01:45:27,600 --> 01:45:29,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's a good he's good to ask TV shows,

1902
01:45:29,880 --> 01:45:33,000
Speaker 1: he's all about that. He's got a great wife, just married. Um,

1903
01:45:33,280 --> 01:45:34,960
Speaker 1: he's just a good dude. So that's the kind of

1904
01:45:34,960 --> 01:45:40,320
Speaker 1: guys we like around here. That's important. Sorry, what's your catans?

1905
01:45:40,400 --> 01:45:42,080
Speaker 1: Rad and Jam and you brought it up. So it's

1906
01:45:42,120 --> 01:45:44,280
Speaker 1: game to game, yeah, to be able to adapt and adjust.

1907
01:45:44,760 --> 01:45:48,559
Speaker 1: Um So Harry, Harry goes along a show it every time.

1908
01:45:48,640 --> 01:45:53,160
Speaker 1: Josh goes for the develop d cards. Um, Dawson goes

1909
01:45:53,200 --> 01:45:55,720
Speaker 1: for cities all the way. I'm mixed and match. I

1910
01:45:55,720 --> 01:45:57,080
Speaker 1: try to go for the two for one ports and

1911
01:45:57,160 --> 01:46:04,639
Speaker 1: just grind that way. Um, it's a good question, Aaron.

1912
01:46:05,400 --> 01:46:08,680
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers obviously knows a good receiver when he sees one.

1913
01:46:08,760 --> 01:46:11,680
Speaker 1: It's been very complimenting or of Jake. We've seen him

1914
01:46:11,680 --> 01:46:16,200
Speaker 1: really just perform well all through camp, going back to

1915
01:46:16,240 --> 01:46:18,840
Speaker 1: the spring. What's your assessment of him? It seems like

1916
01:46:18,840 --> 01:46:20,519
Speaker 1: he kind of does a little bit of everything well.

1917
01:46:20,760 --> 01:46:22,479
Speaker 1: And when we when we first got him last year,

1918
01:46:22,479 --> 01:46:24,000
Speaker 1: we were all like, dang, you know, like he's a

1919
01:46:24,040 --> 01:46:26,080
Speaker 1: good player and let's see how he develops in our offense.

1920
01:46:26,080 --> 01:46:27,720
Speaker 1: And he's continuing to get better each and every week.

1921
01:46:28,040 --> 01:46:30,599
Speaker 1: Everybody talks about the Denver touchdown, the Josh ripped to him,

1922
01:46:30,600 --> 01:46:33,559
Speaker 1: and um, I think if he continues to trene zim'sn

1923
01:46:33,640 --> 01:46:35,200
Speaker 1: catch a lot more of those i's. He's playing really

1924
01:46:35,240 --> 01:46:38,040
Speaker 1: good football right now. But that whole room's really competing

1925
01:46:38,080 --> 01:46:40,840
Speaker 1: pretty hard. We have a really good four guys that

1926
01:46:40,960 --> 01:46:43,519
Speaker 1: kind of play for us. Last year with Isaiah McKenzie, Gabe,

1927
01:46:44,040 --> 01:46:45,920
Speaker 1: Steph and Cole. We added the manual, so we got

1928
01:46:45,960 --> 01:46:48,719
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys in there with Duke and Speedy

1929
01:46:48,960 --> 01:46:53,040
Speaker 1: and Jake and Isaiah Hodgens m blance guys that are

1930
01:46:53,120 --> 01:46:54,880
Speaker 1: really playing at a high level right now. So it's

1931
01:46:54,880 --> 01:46:56,400
Speaker 1: gonna be a fun competition, just like it is every

1932
01:46:56,400 --> 01:46:58,400
Speaker 1: position group. We have a good team. We have good

1933
01:46:58,439 --> 01:47:00,880
Speaker 1: players at Brandon and Show and all those guys that

1934
01:47:00,960 --> 01:47:03,040
Speaker 1: brought in. But Jake has made a lot of plays

1935
01:47:03,080 --> 01:47:05,400
Speaker 1: and he's been consistent. So I'm excited to watching Friday night.

1936
01:47:06,280 --> 01:47:09,880
Speaker 1: Oh here you go. We're talking to Davis Webb, who

1937
01:47:10,600 --> 01:47:12,880
Speaker 1: sound He sounds like a coach. That was Chris, That's

1938
01:47:12,920 --> 01:47:15,000
Speaker 1: what Christian said, and I agree with him. Davis Webb

1939
01:47:15,160 --> 01:47:16,840
Speaker 1: says he's gonna be a coach. He's gonna work out

1940
01:47:16,880 --> 01:47:21,320
Speaker 1: being a coach. He's a part of this team because

1941
01:47:21,360 --> 01:47:23,639
Speaker 1: that's kind of part of his personality setting up those

1942
01:47:24,600 --> 01:47:28,719
Speaker 1: meetings last year. This browdy getting under the counter didn't

1943
01:47:28,720 --> 01:47:33,360
Speaker 1: fix his mic off. So anyway, so you get an

1944
01:47:33,439 --> 01:47:35,759
Speaker 1: idea that they're trying to put a quarterback room together

1945
01:47:35,880 --> 01:47:40,080
Speaker 1: with Traubisky, who is probably has a closer skill set

1946
01:47:40,160 --> 01:47:43,040
Speaker 1: to Josh Allen than Matt Barkley did a year ago.

1947
01:47:43,160 --> 01:47:46,800
Speaker 1: But he understands even even here that his role is

1948
01:47:46,840 --> 01:47:51,519
Speaker 1: to get Josh ready. Davis Webb same thing, and as

1949
01:47:51,760 --> 01:47:55,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to more sound from players. After this break,

1950
01:47:55,200 --> 01:47:58,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna take Steve Tasker. Chris Brown here with this one.

1951
01:47:58,439 --> 01:48:01,280
Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. Listening to Buffalo Bills Radio.

1952
01:48:13,600 --> 01:48:17,479
Speaker 1: Sure about that, pieces my microphone went dead. Detroit Lions

1953
01:48:17,520 --> 01:48:20,880
Speaker 1: are the preseason opponent coming up on Friday. A couple

1954
01:48:20,960 --> 01:48:25,920
Speaker 1: of transactions by them this week. First, Nickel Robie Coleman,

1955
01:48:26,040 --> 01:48:29,640
Speaker 1: former Bill was just signed by them and we'll be

1956
01:48:29,760 --> 01:48:33,519
Speaker 1: in line to be their slot corner going forward. It'll

1957
01:48:33,560 --> 01:48:37,560
Speaker 1: compete for that job. And they also signed kicker Zane Gonzales,

1958
01:48:38,520 --> 01:48:41,680
Speaker 1: so two new players on their roster. Also looking like

1959
01:48:42,040 --> 01:48:44,960
Speaker 1: running back DeAndre Swift is probably not going to be

1960
01:48:45,000 --> 01:48:48,479
Speaker 1: healthy enough to play on Friday, so unlikely that the

1961
01:48:48,560 --> 01:48:52,439
Speaker 1: Bills see him on the field. Wanted to bring you

1962
01:48:52,439 --> 01:48:55,400
Speaker 1: a few comments from a former fifth round pick of

1963
01:48:55,439 --> 01:48:58,800
Speaker 1: the Bills last year, Jake from I'm sure he is

1964
01:48:59,080 --> 01:49:01,760
Speaker 1: going to be asked by the media here about his

1965
01:49:02,160 --> 01:49:06,480
Speaker 1: sojourn through the most unusual of rookie seasons for a quarterback.

1966
01:49:06,880 --> 01:49:10,439
Speaker 1: As you know, he was the quarterback last year who

1967
01:49:10,560 --> 01:49:13,000
Speaker 1: was separated from the rest of the group in the

1968
01:49:13,120 --> 01:49:16,479
Speaker 1: event that there was some catastrophic outbreak in the quarterback room.

1969
01:49:16,840 --> 01:49:19,240
Speaker 1: He would be eligible to play for the team if

1970
01:49:19,280 --> 01:49:22,960
Speaker 1: the other three quarterbacks were either positive with COVID, deemed

1971
01:49:23,040 --> 01:49:25,680
Speaker 1: close contacts and unable to play in a game, they

1972
01:49:25,760 --> 01:49:28,320
Speaker 1: had Jake from as a fail safe in the event

1973
01:49:28,439 --> 01:49:31,080
Speaker 1: that all that happened. So here is Jake from addressing

1974
01:49:31,120 --> 01:49:33,759
Speaker 1: the media, where he'll probably be asked about that very scenario,

1975
01:49:33,840 --> 01:49:37,479
Speaker 1: among other things. Obviously tough and all you rookies last year,

1976
01:49:37,640 --> 01:49:40,120
Speaker 1: but for you personally that the strange year of last

1977
01:49:40,200 --> 01:49:42,040
Speaker 1: year getting a chance to come out here this year

1978
01:49:42,200 --> 01:49:44,479
Speaker 1: from the spring on, how much has it been like

1979
01:49:44,840 --> 01:49:47,120
Speaker 1: a ramp up period of comforts at this point where

1980
01:49:47,360 --> 01:49:49,720
Speaker 1: he probably got to feel pretty good now having so

1981
01:49:49,840 --> 01:49:52,960
Speaker 1: many days back to back. Yeah, absolutely, you know it

1982
01:49:53,040 --> 01:49:54,760
Speaker 1: was you know, kind of tough. You just kind of

1983
01:49:54,800 --> 01:49:56,600
Speaker 1: do what you what you can, you know, and just

1984
01:49:56,720 --> 01:50:00,360
Speaker 1: trying to just drink water through a firehouse, you know,

1985
01:50:00,479 --> 01:50:03,080
Speaker 1: basically just so much information, so much football kind of

1986
01:50:03,360 --> 01:50:05,200
Speaker 1: being kind of pushed at you. But um, you know,

1987
01:50:05,280 --> 01:50:08,439
Speaker 1: having no ta's, you know, this spring was awesome. You know,

1988
01:50:08,520 --> 01:50:10,519
Speaker 1: gave me a time to to really learn and um,

1989
01:50:10,600 --> 01:50:12,519
Speaker 1: your training training camp has been good for me. You know,

1990
01:50:13,240 --> 01:50:15,000
Speaker 1: when when the reps come, just go in and and

1991
01:50:15,360 --> 01:50:16,880
Speaker 1: do the best you can and just try to execute

1992
01:50:16,920 --> 01:50:19,400
Speaker 1: the play, not trying to do too much. So just

1993
01:50:19,479 --> 01:50:21,800
Speaker 1: been it's been fun. Just felt like real football. Fel

1994
01:50:21,800 --> 01:50:24,400
Speaker 1: like a football player again. And it's always always fun,

1995
01:50:24,439 --> 01:50:25,880
Speaker 1: always a blessing when you go out and throw it.

1996
01:50:26,400 --> 01:50:29,120
Speaker 1: What's been the transition to eleven out eleven ball? And

1997
01:50:29,160 --> 01:50:31,200
Speaker 1: that's something you didn't have at all for over a

1998
01:50:31,280 --> 01:50:33,200
Speaker 1: year and I think you said, it's the first time

1999
01:50:33,240 --> 01:50:36,559
Speaker 1: you hadn't had that work what since you've ever played football? Yeah,

2000
01:50:37,880 --> 01:50:40,200
Speaker 1: very it was very very different. Um, you know, we

2001
01:50:40,320 --> 01:50:43,360
Speaker 1: were in the stadium, uh last Saturday, I managed it

2002
01:50:43,439 --> 01:50:45,240
Speaker 1: just felt like well football, you know, if you can

2003
01:50:45,280 --> 01:50:47,720
Speaker 1: go out, have fun, play loose and be free. So

2004
01:50:47,840 --> 01:50:51,000
Speaker 1: it's it's been great. Definitely a transition, but uh, it's

2005
01:50:51,040 --> 01:50:52,560
Speaker 1: been been awesome to get back out there with the

2006
01:50:52,600 --> 01:50:55,200
Speaker 1: guys and and have fun and and and play football. Man.

2007
01:50:55,640 --> 01:50:59,680
Speaker 1: Been a learning curve diagnosing it and seeing defenses for

2008
01:50:59,760 --> 01:51:02,439
Speaker 1: the time like that, even though you've probably watched a

2009
01:51:02,479 --> 01:51:04,280
Speaker 1: lot of film and things like that, but it's actually

2010
01:51:05,080 --> 01:51:07,720
Speaker 1: live action. Have to make those decisions. Yeah, yeah, yes,

2011
01:51:07,800 --> 01:51:10,720
Speaker 1: and know, um, you know, things things happen fast, you know,

2012
01:51:10,840 --> 01:51:13,559
Speaker 1: especially at this league, in this level, but um man,

2013
01:51:13,600 --> 01:51:14,960
Speaker 1: you just kind of you just go out and you

2014
01:51:15,200 --> 01:51:17,559
Speaker 1: play and just let your instincts take over. And um,

2015
01:51:17,760 --> 01:51:20,560
Speaker 1: you know, if anything, you know that I was you know,

2016
01:51:21,360 --> 01:51:23,400
Speaker 1: not worried about, but you're thinking about. You know, was

2017
01:51:23,640 --> 01:51:26,880
Speaker 1: was was movement in the pocket and feeling the pockets. So, UM,

2018
01:51:27,240 --> 01:51:28,960
Speaker 1: I think I've I've done a pretty decent job of

2019
01:51:29,080 --> 01:51:30,840
Speaker 1: that so far and be able to feel and just

2020
01:51:31,520 --> 01:51:34,519
Speaker 1: play loose and just let my instincts take over. It

2021
01:51:34,640 --> 01:51:39,240
Speaker 1: was a strange year for when it comes to football

2022
01:51:39,320 --> 01:51:41,880
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, don't give it the circumstances that you

2023
01:51:42,040 --> 01:51:44,040
Speaker 1: have to deal with as we're working you And then

2024
01:51:45,320 --> 01:51:50,600
Speaker 1: what kept you going through all that? What cat what

2025
01:51:50,840 --> 01:51:53,840
Speaker 1: you kept defeating you through all that to say I

2026
01:51:54,040 --> 01:51:55,920
Speaker 1: need to keep doing this because it's for the best

2027
01:51:56,240 --> 01:51:58,720
Speaker 1: looking coaches are asking I need to keep doing this.

2028
01:51:59,000 --> 01:52:04,360
Speaker 1: What affected you? What? Yeah? Uh, for sure my faith

2029
01:52:04,400 --> 01:52:07,080
Speaker 1: and my family, UM, And I I was I was

2030
01:52:07,160 --> 01:52:09,640
Speaker 1: grounded my faith and knowing that hey, this is this

2031
01:52:09,800 --> 01:52:11,880
Speaker 1: is my purpose, this is where my feed are at. Um,

2032
01:52:11,920 --> 01:52:14,960
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna show up every day and give the

2033
01:52:15,000 --> 01:52:16,920
Speaker 1: best I can every single day, and um, you know,

2034
01:52:17,080 --> 01:52:18,759
Speaker 1: doing it for my family who you know, I couldn't

2035
01:52:18,800 --> 01:52:23,000
Speaker 1: see um talk to on FaceTime you know, all the time.

2036
01:52:23,120 --> 01:52:25,680
Speaker 1: But UM, you know I I missed them very much,

2037
01:52:25,720 --> 01:52:27,759
Speaker 1: and I wanted to make the most of the opportunity

2038
01:52:27,880 --> 01:52:30,240
Speaker 1: and obviously help out this organization, in this ball club

2039
01:52:30,240 --> 01:52:32,400
Speaker 1: anyway I can. So they gave me a role, and

2040
01:52:32,439 --> 01:52:35,280
Speaker 1: they gave me an opportunity, and I wanted to fill that, um,

2041
01:52:35,520 --> 01:52:37,640
Speaker 1: that role as best I could. UM. And you know

2042
01:52:37,720 --> 01:52:39,720
Speaker 1: when I was if if and when you know, I

2043
01:52:39,800 --> 01:52:41,760
Speaker 1: got called on, I wanted to be ready, um, and

2044
01:52:41,800 --> 01:52:43,360
Speaker 1: I wanted to show everybody I was gonna be ready

2045
01:52:45,920 --> 01:52:50,559
Speaker 1: on the run game going into this first preseason game. Yeah, uh,

2046
01:52:50,760 --> 01:52:53,000
Speaker 1: A lot more, I would say, you know, practice is running,

2047
01:52:53,000 --> 01:52:54,880
Speaker 1: you know, running the football. A lot more team run

2048
01:52:54,960 --> 01:52:57,519
Speaker 1: periods and um, you know coach Dave said something you

2049
01:52:57,560 --> 01:53:00,320
Speaker 1: know about running the football. Um, so I think something

2050
01:53:00,400 --> 01:53:02,640
Speaker 1: that um, we we gotta be ready to, gotta be

2051
01:53:02,680 --> 01:53:04,160
Speaker 1: prepared to do. And I think we've been working a

2052
01:53:04,200 --> 01:53:08,800
Speaker 1: lot on them. Second to play in a game, let's go.

2053
01:53:09,200 --> 01:53:11,880
Speaker 1: I'm I'm ready. Um. Ben had it, you know, marked

2054
01:53:11,920 --> 01:53:14,639
Speaker 1: on my calendar for a while and I'm just decided,

2055
01:53:14,720 --> 01:53:17,160
Speaker 1: you know, for the opportunity go out like a football

2056
01:53:17,200 --> 01:53:19,640
Speaker 1: player again. And um, you know, just opportunity to be

2057
01:53:19,720 --> 01:53:21,760
Speaker 1: with the guys and and and play for you what

2058
01:53:21,920 --> 01:53:23,800
Speaker 1: I like to walk into a receiver room with this

2059
01:53:23,960 --> 01:53:26,080
Speaker 1: kind of talent ar walk into a field of a

2060
01:53:26,160 --> 01:53:28,800
Speaker 1: receiver what looks like this? I mean, those guys done

2061
01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:30,200
Speaker 1: this league. They don't have the kind of talent to

2062
01:53:30,200 --> 01:53:32,240
Speaker 1: throw too that you do. Yeah, I mean these guys

2063
01:53:32,240 --> 01:53:34,960
Speaker 1: are incredible. The plays they make. You know, when you

2064
01:53:35,320 --> 01:53:37,000
Speaker 1: you have a ball that's not exactly kind of where

2065
01:53:37,000 --> 01:53:38,920
Speaker 1: you want, you're like, oh, oh wow, you know you

2066
01:53:38,960 --> 01:53:40,840
Speaker 1: know what a play? Uh? And and you know those

2067
01:53:40,880 --> 01:53:42,680
Speaker 1: guys they take care of you that those guys get

2068
01:53:42,720 --> 01:53:45,519
Speaker 1: open and um, I mean they just make plays, they

2069
01:53:45,560 --> 01:53:48,120
Speaker 1: really do. So it makes you know, the comfort level

2070
01:53:48,120 --> 01:53:50,680
Speaker 1: for a quarterback a lot easier. Hey, you just put

2071
01:53:50,680 --> 01:53:52,479
Speaker 1: it close and they'll take care of the rest. What's

2072
01:53:52,520 --> 01:53:55,200
Speaker 1: the conversation with those guys? I mean, you got veterans

2073
01:53:55,240 --> 01:53:57,360
Speaker 1: out there like Cole and step on the manual and

2074
01:53:57,680 --> 01:53:59,800
Speaker 1: you know you're you're out there, we'll leven out lotut

2075
01:53:59,800 --> 01:54:02,840
Speaker 1: for the first there is a mistake, miscommunication. What's that

2076
01:54:02,920 --> 01:54:05,880
Speaker 1: conversation been like with those guys with you? Yeah, man,

2077
01:54:06,040 --> 01:54:09,880
Speaker 1: you just you know, really it's just a bunch of feel.

2078
01:54:10,080 --> 01:54:12,400
Speaker 1: And you know, those guys have incredible feel at what

2079
01:54:12,439 --> 01:54:14,240
Speaker 1: they're doing. You know, when it's when it's zone getting

2080
01:54:14,240 --> 01:54:16,240
Speaker 1: in the right zones and when it's man um and

2081
01:54:16,439 --> 01:54:18,320
Speaker 1: you just watched a lot of film with him and say,

2082
01:54:18,520 --> 01:54:22,160
Speaker 1: and you just it's really like a second language that

2083
01:54:22,240 --> 01:54:24,680
Speaker 1: kind of just takes over. And um, you just you

2084
01:54:24,760 --> 01:54:27,320
Speaker 1: just go play and and let's your instincts really take over,

2085
01:54:28,600 --> 01:54:32,920
Speaker 1: all right. That is Jake from uh talking to the

2086
01:54:33,000 --> 01:54:36,320
Speaker 1: media after practice today. I didn't really talk about his

2087
01:54:36,400 --> 01:54:39,840
Speaker 1: year last year, which was wild to say the least.

2088
01:54:40,080 --> 01:54:43,840
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, he was like twenty feet away from

2089
01:54:45,360 --> 01:54:49,320
Speaker 1: Venus right last year. He was like standing back behind everybody.

2090
01:54:49,400 --> 01:54:53,040
Speaker 1: He was like it was like I don't know what

2091
01:54:53,160 --> 01:54:54,720
Speaker 1: it was like. He was like standing like he was

2092
01:54:54,800 --> 01:54:59,400
Speaker 1: like like I in the sky, except he had to

2093
01:54:59,480 --> 01:55:02,320
Speaker 1: like walk aroun just follow everybody the distances. The kid

2094
01:55:02,360 --> 01:55:05,200
Speaker 1: that didn't even get picked for teams in the playground, Yeah,

2095
01:55:05,280 --> 01:55:07,400
Speaker 1: he only got to be the spectator, right. He had

2096
01:55:07,440 --> 01:55:11,200
Speaker 1: to stand away from everybody running through motions by himself,

2097
01:55:11,400 --> 01:55:14,920
Speaker 1: twenty five yards away from everybody watching film by himself

2098
01:55:15,040 --> 01:55:17,640
Speaker 1: or watching film like behind the you know, twenty feet

2099
01:55:17,680 --> 01:55:22,520
Speaker 1: away in a big, huge room, the weirdest thing ever.

2100
01:55:23,600 --> 01:55:26,800
Speaker 1: But so this year has got to feel great. Yeah,

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01:55:27,080 --> 01:55:28,720
Speaker 1: you know what. I got to feel like he's part

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01:55:28,760 --> 01:55:33,200
Speaker 1: of the team anyway. You know, that's a huge step forward.

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01:55:34,880 --> 01:55:37,240
Speaker 1: It's hard to forge friendships and relationships where he can't

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01:55:37,280 --> 01:55:41,320
Speaker 1: be in physical proximity to anybody. But he got it done.

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01:55:41,400 --> 01:55:44,720
Speaker 1: Last year's you know, he gave him a blanket of security.

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01:55:44,760 --> 01:55:46,840
Speaker 1: They didn't need it, but it was one of those

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01:55:46,920 --> 01:55:50,600
Speaker 1: things that was forced by COVID and it worked out

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01:55:50,640 --> 01:55:53,840
Speaker 1: for the Bills. I mean that winning thirteen games was

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01:55:53,840 --> 01:55:56,320
Speaker 1: a pretty good season for this squad, and Jake from

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01:55:56,640 --> 01:56:00,840
Speaker 1: for whatever his current contribution was, own it. Now I

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01:56:00,920 --> 01:56:03,200
Speaker 1: get some try and making another, i mean more significant

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01:56:03,240 --> 01:56:06,840
Speaker 1: contribution this year. We want to get to some of

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Speaker 1: your final thoughts on the tweet sheet concerning which area

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01:56:10,000 --> 01:56:13,800
Speaker 1: the Bills will benefit the most from the preseason games.

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01:56:14,200 --> 01:56:16,000
Speaker 1: We had our choices there and one Bills live on

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01:56:16,040 --> 01:56:18,520
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. We are up to Nick who says

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01:56:18,560 --> 01:56:21,919
Speaker 1: the defensive line has so many new and or changed players,

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01:56:22,480 --> 01:56:25,280
Speaker 1: plus the return of Star, they really stand to benefit

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01:56:25,760 --> 01:56:29,080
Speaker 1: from getting some drives together to build the chemistry. Again,

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01:56:29,440 --> 01:56:31,920
Speaker 1: the preseason will also help the coaches determine the best

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01:56:32,000 --> 01:56:36,800
Speaker 1: starters and the best rotation. I agree on all fronts

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01:56:36,880 --> 01:56:44,360
Speaker 1: with that. That's a good tweets. We've gone over and

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01:56:44,440 --> 01:56:47,160
Speaker 1: over it. There's just so many things you got to consider,

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01:56:47,360 --> 01:56:49,440
Speaker 1: right But on the defensive line there might be more

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01:56:49,520 --> 01:56:51,920
Speaker 1: layers than anywhere else because if the newcomers coming in

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01:56:51,960 --> 01:56:55,560
Speaker 1: the door, the heavy rotation that you do have, what

2127
01:56:55,840 --> 01:57:01,600
Speaker 1: combinations work best, who's got position flexibility to move inside

2128
01:57:01,680 --> 01:57:05,760
Speaker 1: on an obvious passing down situation. There's so many questions

2129
01:57:06,000 --> 01:57:08,280
Speaker 1: that have to be answered, and you don't and you

2130
01:57:08,320 --> 01:57:10,600
Speaker 1: don't know that you've got enough data or enough reps

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01:57:10,720 --> 01:57:13,240
Speaker 1: to answer all of them. For instance, if say, like

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01:57:13,320 --> 01:57:16,240
Speaker 1: a guy like Rousseau, Okay, he's gonna need a little polish,

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01:57:16,280 --> 01:57:18,440
Speaker 1: he's not quite ready to step in all the time.

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01:57:18,520 --> 01:57:20,320
Speaker 1: But how soon is it gonna be before he is?

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01:57:20,400 --> 01:57:22,040
Speaker 1: And what downs do we want to use him on?

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01:57:22,120 --> 01:57:24,800
Speaker 1: And you know what, if we have this combination on

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01:57:24,880 --> 01:57:28,360
Speaker 1: the field, he is ready, the guy can go. But

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01:57:28,480 --> 01:57:30,560
Speaker 1: if those guys just took three reps and they're off,

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01:57:30,640 --> 01:57:32,120
Speaker 1: then he can't you know what I mean? He can't

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01:57:32,160 --> 01:57:36,560
Speaker 1: go and the rotation's messed up. Maybe it's best to

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01:57:36,640 --> 01:57:38,360
Speaker 1: sit him for a couple of weeks until he gets

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01:57:38,440 --> 01:57:39,880
Speaker 1: up to speed, and then we'll put him in there

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01:57:39,920 --> 01:57:41,600
Speaker 1: with those guys, and we can put him in with

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01:57:41,720 --> 01:57:44,960
Speaker 1: different combinations rather than that one elite combination that he

2145
01:57:45,040 --> 01:57:47,960
Speaker 1: fits with, you know all. And it doesn't have to

2146
01:57:47,960 --> 01:57:50,720
Speaker 1: be rosso. It could be bash him as well. Bashim

2147
01:57:50,760 --> 01:57:53,960
Speaker 1: works in this spot in this rotation, but once he

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01:57:54,040 --> 01:57:55,800
Speaker 1: starts to get outside of that, then he has some

2149
01:57:55,880 --> 01:57:57,240
Speaker 1: work to do and we have to have a different

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01:57:57,360 --> 01:57:59,640
Speaker 1: rotation with him. If he's in a different spot, it's

2151
01:58:01,440 --> 01:58:04,360
Speaker 1: and that's for the rookies. The veterans are the exact

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01:58:04,400 --> 01:58:07,240
Speaker 1: same thing. You gotta go like, you got a guy

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01:58:07,320 --> 01:58:10,440
Speaker 1: like Harrison Phillips who's a little bit of a different

2154
01:58:10,440 --> 01:58:12,720
Speaker 1: player this year, now that he's two years removed from

2155
01:58:12,720 --> 01:58:15,640
Speaker 1: an acl and he's got a different body type. You

2156
01:58:15,760 --> 01:58:19,360
Speaker 1: got a Japanessa who is coming back now kind of

2157
01:58:19,440 --> 01:58:22,240
Speaker 1: more stable in his weight and much more polished, and

2158
01:58:22,320 --> 01:58:24,760
Speaker 1: guys are looking at him like, Wow, he's a different guy. Okay,

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01:58:25,160 --> 01:58:27,600
Speaker 1: Now you got to reevaluate a guy you thought you knew.

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01:58:27,840 --> 01:58:31,200
Speaker 1: Two guys you thought you knew starlot La where's he

2161
01:58:31,280 --> 01:58:33,640
Speaker 1: been for two You gotta evaluate him. Can he stand

2162
01:58:33,760 --> 01:58:38,200
Speaker 1: up to it? There's an infinite amount of question marks

2163
01:58:38,280 --> 01:58:40,120
Speaker 1: on the defensive line, even though you feel like you've

2164
01:58:40,120 --> 01:58:43,520
Speaker 1: got a lot of talent. JT says pass Rush stands

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01:58:43,560 --> 01:58:47,320
Speaker 1: to benefit the most getting Boogie and Greg's beaks wet

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01:58:47,360 --> 01:58:51,200
Speaker 1: against other NFL teams and the newcomer Obada. I think

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01:58:51,240 --> 01:58:53,880
Speaker 1: he has a great upside. Also, Epins in his second

2168
01:58:53,960 --> 01:58:56,080
Speaker 1: year is gonna shine for us. We must get pressure

2169
01:58:56,120 --> 01:58:57,680
Speaker 1: on the quarterback this year to push us to the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl and Tasker Hall of Fame twenty two. So yeah,

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01:59:02,520 --> 01:59:05,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I think and I don't know, guys, if

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01:59:05,760 --> 01:59:07,560
Speaker 1: we can pull up the voting. See what the update

2173
01:59:07,680 --> 01:59:10,640
Speaker 1: is on the Twitter poll in terms of where our

2174
01:59:10,720 --> 01:59:14,840
Speaker 1: listeners feel the Bills will benefit the most in terms

2175
01:59:14,920 --> 01:59:18,080
Speaker 1: of the preseason game reserved players at thirty seven percent

2176
01:59:18,280 --> 01:59:21,360
Speaker 1: yea or last time right behind it is pass rush

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Speaker 1: right pass Rush, So almost twenty nine percent of the vote.

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Speaker 1: There pretty even, though I once again I got to

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01:59:27,640 --> 01:59:30,600
Speaker 1: pat you on the back for having a four choice

2180
01:59:30,600 --> 01:59:34,920
Speaker 1: Twitter poll, it's pretty even. That's all of these things

2181
01:59:35,080 --> 01:59:37,960
Speaker 1: for this particular team in this particular year are gonna

2182
01:59:38,000 --> 01:59:41,920
Speaker 1: be points of focus for filming, beneficial and they're all

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01:59:41,960 --> 01:59:44,080
Speaker 1: gonna benefit. But I think this is where the focus

2184
01:59:44,160 --> 01:59:46,200
Speaker 1: of the fans attention is all these four things. The

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01:59:46,280 --> 01:59:49,040
Speaker 1: run game, that run, defense, pass rush. And then you

2186
01:59:49,120 --> 01:59:51,560
Speaker 1: know who's gonna fill this roster out and not so

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01:59:51,720 --> 01:59:55,240
Speaker 1: much the reserved players they're gonna keep. Which reserved players

2188
01:59:55,280 --> 01:59:56,800
Speaker 1: which one of my favorites are they're gonna get rid

2189
01:59:56,840 --> 02:00:00,360
Speaker 1: of maybe because the roster is too good, or which

2190
02:00:00,400 --> 02:00:04,440
Speaker 1: reserve players stand to help stand you know, are positioned

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02:00:04,480 --> 02:00:06,240
Speaker 1: in a way that's going to help us the most too,

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02:00:06,680 --> 02:00:10,280
Speaker 1: because you're not playing with twenty two guys. You know,

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02:00:10,360 --> 02:00:12,880
Speaker 1: you're you're playing with more than that. Heck, you dressed

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02:00:12,880 --> 02:00:15,560
Speaker 1: forty eight on game day, right if you got eight

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02:00:15,640 --> 02:00:19,800
Speaker 1: linemen up. So I mean that's why I call it

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Speaker 1: a team game, because you need everybody pulling on that rope. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm Are you having any concerns about any of the

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Speaker 1: position groups because we came in depth, to me, is

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Speaker 1: not proven and so I openly wonder about that. We

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02:00:37,720 --> 02:00:41,320
Speaker 1: saw a little of Dodson last year. Joe Giles Harris

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02:00:41,400 --> 02:00:45,080
Speaker 1: has had a nice camp as a newcomer. I think

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Speaker 1: a j Klein in the right role, which Leslie Frasier

2203
02:00:48,040 --> 02:00:51,680
Speaker 1: eventually found for him, is helpful. So those are all encouraging.

2204
02:00:53,040 --> 02:00:56,480
Speaker 1: But beyond Kline, do we really know? I don't know

2205
02:00:56,560 --> 02:00:59,800
Speaker 1: that we do, and maybe preseason can reveal something there

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02:01:00,040 --> 02:01:03,120
Speaker 1: for us that that's a position group where it's not

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Speaker 1: that I don't have faith that they have enough depth

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02:01:05,760 --> 02:01:08,200
Speaker 1: and talent. I just need to see more of it

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Speaker 1: to be convinced, you know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know exactly. Yeah, like Metta Kevin is gonna be

2211
02:01:14,120 --> 02:01:16,960
Speaker 1: on the team, but he's a special teams guy. Um,

2212
02:01:17,440 --> 02:01:20,080
Speaker 1: can Joe Giles Harris come in and step in front

2213
02:01:20,120 --> 02:01:23,400
Speaker 1: of Mike or Terrell Dotson or Mike Bell or you know,

2214
02:01:23,600 --> 02:01:26,600
Speaker 1: is Andre Smith right behind Matt Milano? I don't know.

2215
02:01:26,760 --> 02:01:28,520
Speaker 1: And then tight end would probably be the other one,

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02:01:28,840 --> 02:01:31,000
Speaker 1: you know, which, Yeah, I get it because tight ends

2217
02:01:31,000 --> 02:01:33,240
Speaker 1: are a huge question mark because they're you know, you

2218
02:01:33,400 --> 02:01:36,680
Speaker 1: lost a couple from last year, you lost your veteran

2219
02:01:38,040 --> 02:01:39,680
Speaker 1: had a role here. He was a niche player, but

2220
02:01:39,760 --> 02:01:42,200
Speaker 1: he had a role, and he was an intangible guy.

2221
02:01:42,280 --> 02:01:44,320
Speaker 1: He was a glue guy. I think the one the

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Speaker 1: position group that I was thinking of when I asked

2223
02:01:46,280 --> 02:01:48,000
Speaker 1: about that, And it's kind of shocking to me to

2224
02:01:48,080 --> 02:01:52,280
Speaker 1: hear myself say this because it's the offensive line. Feliciano

2225
02:01:53,280 --> 02:01:56,040
Speaker 1: right out of the gate, shoulder hurt. Then he's got

2226
02:01:56,120 --> 02:02:01,200
Speaker 1: an illness, he's out. Dion Dawkins. We haven't even seen um,

2227
02:02:02,600 --> 02:02:09,800
Speaker 1: but COVID reserve list, Cody Ford coming off an acl UM.

2228
02:02:11,120 --> 02:02:13,320
Speaker 1: You know, you got Ryan Bates, and you got a

2229
02:02:13,400 --> 02:02:16,080
Speaker 1: lot of guys that. Yeah, there's a lot of guys there,

2230
02:02:16,160 --> 02:02:20,480
Speaker 1: but you know, Caleb Benenoch, we just got him, markll Harrold,

2231
02:02:20,840 --> 02:02:28,960
Speaker 1: Stephen Gonzalez, Jordan Devi, you know, Bobby Hart forced Lamps

2232
02:02:29,000 --> 02:02:34,320
Speaker 1: out with an injury. I don't know if the the

2233
02:02:34,520 --> 02:02:37,480
Speaker 1: health of that crew, both in both with you know

2234
02:02:37,520 --> 02:02:41,960
Speaker 1: the illnesses COVID and non COVID and and Nick nicked

2235
02:02:42,000 --> 02:02:45,800
Speaker 1: up ding injuries not serious injuries, but they're not getting

2236
02:02:45,800 --> 02:02:50,640
Speaker 1: any reps or any work now. Certainly Spencer Brown is

2237
02:02:51,760 --> 02:02:54,080
Speaker 1: you know, he's a beneficiary and all that. Yeah, he's

2238
02:02:54,120 --> 02:02:56,520
Speaker 1: getting a ton of reps. So we'll see how that

2239
02:02:56,600 --> 02:03:00,160
Speaker 1: works out and what it means. But that's a that's

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Speaker 1: a position group that is a mess right now just

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02:03:04,520 --> 02:03:06,560
Speaker 1: because of who's taking reps and how many reps they

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02:03:06,560 --> 02:03:09,240
Speaker 1: can take and whether they're practicing today or not. Feliciano

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02:03:09,280 --> 02:03:11,640
Speaker 1: and Doyle did come back to practice today after missing

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02:03:11,680 --> 02:03:15,000
Speaker 1: practice yesterday with a non COVID illness. As Steve mentioned,

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02:03:15,120 --> 02:03:18,600
Speaker 1: lamp is still out, Dawkins is at practice but not

2246
02:03:18,760 --> 02:03:24,160
Speaker 1: participating in any football related stuff to this point. And yeah,

2247
02:03:24,360 --> 02:03:25,880
Speaker 1: there have been guys that have been in and out

2248
02:03:26,280 --> 02:03:29,520
Speaker 1: for a day here, a day there, So we'll see

2249
02:03:29,560 --> 02:03:31,920
Speaker 1: how it comes together in preseason will be important for them.

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Speaker 1: Jason on the tweet sheet says, preseason is always about

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Speaker 1: the reserve players. To me, I think it's important for

2252
02:03:37,880 --> 02:03:40,400
Speaker 1: the starters to get some reps in preseason games, but

2253
02:03:40,480 --> 02:03:42,920
Speaker 1: a lot of players are playing for their NFL lives

2254
02:03:42,960 --> 02:03:45,960
Speaker 1: and leaving it all out on the field. I just

2255
02:03:46,080 --> 02:03:49,080
Speaker 1: wonder what it is about the reserve like that. Is

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02:03:49,160 --> 02:03:52,600
Speaker 1: that why you think reserve players can benefit the most

2257
02:03:52,600 --> 02:03:54,320
Speaker 1: because they can kind of show their wars. It's the

2258
02:03:54,360 --> 02:03:56,840
Speaker 1: best opportunity to show, hey, look I can compete at

2259
02:03:56,880 --> 02:03:59,760
Speaker 1: this level. I've got something to give your team to

2260
02:04:00,000 --> 02:04:02,240
Speaker 1: help push them along and maybe get them over the hump.

2261
02:04:03,200 --> 02:04:07,520
Speaker 1: Or is it the flat out competition seeing the reserve

2262
02:04:07,600 --> 02:04:11,720
Speaker 1: players straining and struggling for every scrap of ground they

2263
02:04:11,760 --> 02:04:15,720
Speaker 1: can gain. Is that what appeals to fans seeing these

2264
02:04:15,800 --> 02:04:18,360
Speaker 1: guys work their tails off to try to make the roster.

2265
02:04:19,480 --> 02:04:22,320
Speaker 1: It's such a struggle to get on an NFL squad.

2266
02:04:22,800 --> 02:04:25,240
Speaker 1: And let's say, for instance, you're a backup defensive back,

2267
02:04:25,280 --> 02:04:27,360
Speaker 1: either corner or safety. You can take your vic or

2268
02:04:27,440 --> 02:04:30,600
Speaker 1: inside a nickel corner or whatever, and you're trying to

2269
02:04:30,680 --> 02:04:33,240
Speaker 1: do as good as you can on these rips because

2270
02:04:33,280 --> 02:04:36,520
Speaker 1: you live and die with each good rep and bad rep,

2271
02:04:37,280 --> 02:04:40,680
Speaker 1: and you think every bad play you put on the

2272
02:04:40,840 --> 02:04:43,360
Speaker 1: tape is going to get your cut, and you think

2273
02:04:43,440 --> 02:04:45,920
Speaker 1: every good play you put on tape is gonna like

2274
02:04:46,320 --> 02:04:48,720
Speaker 1: be the thing that saves your career and your dream.

2275
02:04:49,240 --> 02:04:51,080
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a roller coaster that you ride. And

2276
02:04:51,480 --> 02:04:56,080
Speaker 1: the thing is they've got they've got to do well

2277
02:04:56,440 --> 02:05:00,840
Speaker 1: at their position is a defensive back. But the simple

2278
02:05:00,920 --> 02:05:03,960
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is this, on this team, then

2279
02:05:03,960 --> 02:05:06,240
Speaker 1: it's got you gotta do something you have never done before.

2280
02:05:06,840 --> 02:05:09,040
Speaker 1: You have to cover kicks. You got to be the

2281
02:05:09,200 --> 02:05:11,200
Speaker 1: up back on punt team. You gotta be the wing

2282
02:05:11,280 --> 02:05:13,839
Speaker 1: back on punt team. You got to be the tackle

2283
02:05:13,920 --> 02:05:16,880
Speaker 1: on punt team, the guard, whatever, and you're gonna be

2284
02:05:16,920 --> 02:05:20,440
Speaker 1: the R four on kickoff team, and you're gonna be

2285
02:05:20,440 --> 02:05:24,920
Speaker 1: in the front line on kickoff return, and you're trying

2286
02:05:25,000 --> 02:05:27,200
Speaker 1: to play dB because you want to play D. You're

2287
02:05:27,200 --> 02:05:30,440
Speaker 1: trained to play defensive back. You're spending all your time

2288
02:05:30,520 --> 02:05:32,520
Speaker 1: meeting there. Then you go out and you got to

2289
02:05:32,600 --> 02:05:35,760
Speaker 1: learn how to play on punt, punt return, kickoff, kickoff return,

2290
02:05:35,840 --> 02:05:38,680
Speaker 1: which you have never done unless you were catching the

2291
02:05:38,720 --> 02:05:42,240
Speaker 1: ball as an athlete. You've never had to engage anybody

2292
02:05:42,320 --> 02:05:43,560
Speaker 1: like that, and you got to learn how to do

2293
02:05:43,680 --> 02:05:48,720
Speaker 1: that on the fly. And never realizing some of these

2294
02:05:48,760 --> 02:05:51,800
Speaker 1: guys never realize that is the only way that they're

2295
02:05:51,800 --> 02:05:54,040
Speaker 1: going to make the team is by how well they play.

2296
02:05:54,080 --> 02:05:57,760
Speaker 1: It's something they've never done before, which is stressful while

2297
02:05:57,840 --> 02:06:00,440
Speaker 1: still being neck deep in a position and they've been

2298
02:06:00,440 --> 02:06:04,680
Speaker 1: trained to play and are struggling against top, top flight personnel. Yeah,

2299
02:06:04,680 --> 02:06:10,240
Speaker 1: that gets stressful. It is a really tough environment. Veto

2300
02:06:10,360 --> 02:06:14,320
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheets says, pass rush for sure, seems

2301
02:06:14,360 --> 02:06:17,120
Speaker 1: like we have an endless combination of pass rushers. It's

2302
02:06:17,120 --> 02:06:19,920
Speaker 1: a great problem to have, but difficult to predict what

2303
02:06:20,400 --> 02:06:27,880
Speaker 1: will work so many combinations, and that's where that's why

2304
02:06:28,000 --> 02:06:31,480
Speaker 1: you have the preseason coaches, this is the avenue in

2305
02:06:31,520 --> 02:06:36,919
Speaker 1: which to experiment in the best possible game like scenario.

2306
02:06:37,760 --> 02:06:42,400
Speaker 1: I mean, this is where you can test, experiment and

2307
02:06:42,680 --> 02:06:46,240
Speaker 1: see what players can give you based on the combinations

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02:06:46,280 --> 02:06:48,520
Speaker 1: you have out there on the field. Maybe Jerry Hughes

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Speaker 1: worked better with Harrison Phillips than Mario Addison does, and

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Speaker 1: so you put those two guys on the same side,

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Speaker 1: because when you're running pass rush games, those two guys

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Speaker 1: are good and they play off each other, or you

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Speaker 1: know exceptionally well, there's a combination that you're gonna put

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Speaker 1: out on the field on a game day after seeing

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Speaker 1: it after two games in a preseason or what have you.

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Speaker 1: Those are that's what we're talking about here. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: here's the thing too. You get these guys and sometimes

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Speaker 1: they look good and just coming down to the point

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Speaker 1: of the cuts, and it's like, we gotta get rid

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Speaker 1: of some of them. You got you gotta pick and

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Speaker 1: choose which of these really good players are actually even

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Speaker 1: gonna be on your team. And you gotta take all

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Speaker 1: this other stuff into consideration about who they work well with,

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Speaker 1: do they have position flexibility, are they good enough in

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Speaker 1: their second position? To be, you know, to really help

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Speaker 1: you if indeed they make the team, or are they

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Speaker 1: just gonna be a stop gap or is it only

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Speaker 1: in an emergency situation you would ever consider putting them

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Speaker 1: there in a game and the other maybe this other

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Speaker 1: guy's not as good as at either one of them,

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Speaker 1: but he's better at both than the one is at

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Speaker 1: his lesser positions. It's all that, and one of them's

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Speaker 1: got to go, you know, that's that's the hard part

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Speaker 1: of this whole scenario. Well, yeah, you only have so

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Speaker 1: many spots. Yeah, you only have so many spots. And

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Speaker 1: this any coach will tell you it's their least favorite

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Speaker 1: part of the job because you're telling a guy who

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Speaker 1: laid it on the line for you for three and

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Speaker 1: a half weeks in camp and an entire offseason. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate everything he does did, but it still wasn't enough.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna be here. And that's the thing too.

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Speaker 1: These coaches invest in these guys, and you know they're

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Speaker 1: trying to coach them up, get them ready to play,

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Speaker 1: and get them to help. And then you know, as

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Speaker 1: guy's gone and they and you know, to their detriment

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02:08:40,440 --> 02:08:45,080
Speaker 1: or their credit or what their lifestyle requires they can't

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Speaker 1: think about the guy anymore. They gotta go on. They

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Speaker 1: got to go on with the guys in the room.

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Speaker 1: Brad says, I think the run game would be beneficial

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Speaker 1: from the preseason due to the way we played last season.

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Speaker 1: This would let all the running backs get a chance

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Speaker 1: to show what they've got, not to mention the fact

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Speaker 1: that the line can show how well they can, you know,

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Speaker 1: tie up and handle and execute their blocks, whether it's

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Speaker 1: single blocks, combo blocks, getting out in space on a screen,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is. They didn't get the opportunity to do

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Speaker 1: that last year. There was no preseason and there were

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Speaker 1: no pants and training camp. So yeah, I mean, you

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Speaker 1: get to week one, you're like, well, I hope this

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Speaker 1: works as good as job as they did last year.

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Speaker 1: You know, with the COVID protocols, you have got Jake

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Speaker 1: from sitting in the back of the room, you got

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Speaker 1: all this other stuff going on. As good a job

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Speaker 1: as they did last year. Do you think they feel

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Speaker 1: more confident going into this year that they can pick

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Speaker 1: make the right calls on guys because they get to

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Speaker 1: see him play in actual games. They gotta feel that way, right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Because at the end of all of this, What every

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Speaker 1: coach will tell you is information helps make the decision.

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Speaker 1: The more information you have to go on, the better

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Speaker 1: the odds are that you're making the right decision. And

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Speaker 1: they got it right last year. I mean team games

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Speaker 1: got at the championship game in the conference. They got

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Speaker 1: a few more confident being able to evaluate more accurately

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Speaker 1: this year. Thanks for chiming in, everybody on the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet today. We appreciate it. Good comments there. We have

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Speaker 1: to take a break here because when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we have to find out what the heck we learned

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Speaker 1: on this show today. That's coming your way next year.

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Speaker 1: On One of Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. What have we learned? Brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Well, it's some pretty interesting things about

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Speaker 1: Mitchell Trubisky situation. Is last year or so in Chicago

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02:10:46,800 --> 02:10:50,760
Speaker 1: wasn't pretty, said himself. He could felt he could feel

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02:10:50,880 --> 02:10:53,840
Speaker 1: the team believing in him less and less. And he

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02:10:53,920 --> 02:10:57,760
Speaker 1: means the organization, not his teammates. That has got to

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02:10:57,800 --> 02:11:00,880
Speaker 1: be a tough road to home. Didn't get his fifth

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Speaker 1: year option picked up. Said it didn't surprise him because

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Speaker 1: he felt the team was believing in him less than less.

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Speaker 1: Feels like the game is becoming fun again here in Buffalo.

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02:11:09,480 --> 02:11:12,960
Speaker 1: Loves his teammates, loves his coaches, so it seems like

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Speaker 1: he's got a much healthier mindset with respect to the

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Speaker 1: game now, and the pressure's off at least until he

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Speaker 1: has to step onto a field and win a game.

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Speaker 1: If God forbid, Josh gets knicked up somewhere. That's the key.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's not under the pressure being an overall

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Speaker 1: pick that the team traded up for being the franchise quarterback,

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Speaker 1: particularly on a team that's not built to win, that

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Speaker 1: didn't have the weapons this team has, that didn't have

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Speaker 1: the support that this team has. This is just a

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Speaker 1: better at this point in history. This is just a

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Speaker 1: better run organization. They got a better roster put together.

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Speaker 1: They're more stable coaching staff. The general manager and head

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02:11:49,720 --> 02:11:52,560
Speaker 1: coach in Chicago were on pins and needles about their

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Speaker 1: future because of draft picks like Trubisky that didn't work

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Speaker 1: out ultimately for whatever reason. Yeah, the pressure's off, Mit Cheer.

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Speaker 1: He's just got to get as ready as he can

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Speaker 1: be and knowing that if he does get the chance,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna get all kinds of support from the players

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Speaker 1: around him and the coaching staff. He's gonna he's gonna

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Speaker 1: get handed the keys to a really, really nice car

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Speaker 1: if indeed Josh Allen goes down, So he's he's just

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Speaker 1: gotta get ready, and more importantly, if he maximizes the

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Speaker 1: time he has to work on his personal game here

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Speaker 1: without the pressure of leading an entire football team and

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Speaker 1: being the face of a franchise every single day, and

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Speaker 1: he can just work on himself and do it in

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Speaker 1: a positive way this year, and if he's fortunate enough

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Speaker 1: for himself to get in a couple of games and

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Speaker 1: perform admirably, could be in a good spot to find

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Speaker 1: a starting job as soon as next year. At this time,

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Speaker 1: we are done for today, but more training camp coverage

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Speaker 1: continues tomorrow, and more players sound as when they address

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Speaker 1: the media we bring them to you, Steve, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: be diving in head first to more of this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I want to see more as we get closer and

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Speaker 1: closer to the preseason games from the defense. I might

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Speaker 1: have a discussion on that tomorrow. I'm thinking the defense

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Speaker 1: is going to be better. I told you that today

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Speaker 1: on Guana lim and over sell it. But we'll see

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Speaker 1: and we'll see you tomorrow