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Speaker 1: through the whole thing. I think you build a football

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Speaker 1: team from where the where you line up on the

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Speaker 1: football out the center, the nose tackle, defensive tackles, guards, tackles,

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Speaker 1: both sides, of the line. Up front are the most

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Speaker 1: important spots on your football team. And then you go

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Speaker 1: from there, of course, and then you start you gotta

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Speaker 1: have somebody to pull the trigger two at quarterback. But

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Speaker 1: I think as far as a team goes, the offensive

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Speaker 1: line is half of the guys you have on the

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Speaker 1: field all the time, five out of the eleven guys

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Speaker 1: six if you count the tight end. You've got to

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Speaker 1: have those guys playing well or nothing's gonna work. As

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Speaker 1: the Bills found out last year offensively simple question today,

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Speaker 1: who's the Bill's best offseason acquisition? Give us a call.

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Speaker 1: We got phone lines open. Eighth three five fifty or

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Speaker 1: from outside Buffalo. Towell three eight fifty two fifty Jeff

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Speaker 1: calling from outside Buffalo from Utica. I, Jeff, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. You're on the air with us. Hey, John

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Speaker 1: at But are you guys doing okay? Good? Good? I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to talk about that the inside the draft

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Speaker 1: room video that came up I'm a slight last night. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there was basically a train that didn't happen, obviously because

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Speaker 1: because that's who was on the board. But at one

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Speaker 1: point the U they said that the Bills would receive eleven,

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Speaker 1: thirty seven and forties and that we would give up

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Speaker 1: nine seventy four and one thirty one. Hum. I remember

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Speaker 1: I saw that too. I thought it was really telling.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? Uh? You know what? Obviously I

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Speaker 1: think that you know, I trust Being and Company and

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Speaker 1: that they've believe at Alberts, I mean to give up that.

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Speaker 1: They had to think he's a transcendent town. They had

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Speaker 1: to think he is like top five level, if not higher.

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Speaker 1: I'm in the whole drafts. I mean, that's basically saying

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Speaker 1: because we could have got for it at thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: and the way the draft played out right, we got

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Speaker 1: him at thirty eight, saying that Ed Oliver is worked

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Speaker 1: for them. What you know, take your pick Rashaan Gary,

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Speaker 1: Christian Wilkinson, Joanah Williams, Worth one of those guys that

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Speaker 1: came right after you know, eleven and beyond and you know,

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Speaker 1: pick forties. Who they could have gotten someone like Greedy Williams.

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Speaker 1: They could have gotten if they wanted to go tight end,

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Speaker 1: they could have gotten IRB Smith. So basically they're saying

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Speaker 1: at Oliver, it's worth two top forties level talents, and

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Speaker 1: you know, when you're building a team we all know

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Speaker 1: how valuable those rookie contracts are, you know, on the

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Speaker 1: leeway they give you in the salary caps. So you know,

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Speaker 1: at Oliver, I like them a lot. I really do

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Speaker 1: like to fix. But you know, that's a that was

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Speaker 1: a very tempting thing. When I saw that, I thought

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Speaker 1: the same thing. I thought, Wow, that's tempting. They must

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Speaker 1: think exactly what you said. They've probably been through that

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Speaker 1: scenario in their minds already, and they probably believe me,

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Speaker 1: that wasn't the first that they had heard of it,

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Speaker 1: so they had had a chance to digest that. And

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Speaker 1: then when they showed that on the on the video,

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Speaker 1: you know they they had already probably been through that

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Speaker 1: and in fact didn't I don't mean to interrupt it

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Speaker 1: now going I got the sense that DA had the

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Speaker 1: way they talked about it at something as if that

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Speaker 1: had been discussed before the draft, that scenario right, right,

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Speaker 1: They knew that somebody was coming at him with that offer, right,

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Speaker 1: and they had they had to talk that. They had

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Speaker 1: decided they were not going to do that because of

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Speaker 1: probably because of the mock drafts that were that had

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Speaker 1: followed up to that point. They didn't like who they

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Speaker 1: were going to be left with at those other picks

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Speaker 1: thirty seven, forty and and the other. So, um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I thought that was really I thought

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Speaker 1: that was tempting because we'd always talked about how attractive

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Speaker 1: it was to trade down in this draft. But I

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Speaker 1: know this too. I mean, I'm not I don't know

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Speaker 1: what ed to Oliver's going to turn out to be.

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Speaker 1: But it's not just the Bills that were high on him. Uh.

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Speaker 1: There's only one thing that kept Dad Oliver from being

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Speaker 1: the most sought after player in this draft outside of

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Speaker 1: me maybe the Kyler Murray h and that was the

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Speaker 1: fact that he's six two two eighty instead of six three,

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Speaker 1: three hundred. Uh, he's down a half a size from

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Speaker 1: what he should be playing down on a tackle. Other

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Speaker 1: than that, at Oliver was the guy that a lot

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Speaker 1: of people had being the maybe the best overall player

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Speaker 1: in this draft. So that's probably what they saw and

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Speaker 1: what then, it's no doubt what they hoped for. But

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Speaker 1: I'm like Hugh Jeff, I thought that was a pretty

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Speaker 1: I was and for me, I didn't, you know, I

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Speaker 1: wasn't up on it, I was. It caught me off guard.

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Speaker 1: So I wasn't able to go back and look and

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Speaker 1: see who was taken like you just did. But I'm

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Speaker 1: with you, that's a really tempting offer. Jeff, you used

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Speaker 1: a word to describe look at all. I went back

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Speaker 1: and watched the video and a couple of times right

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Speaker 1: at the draft order and said, man, there is you know,

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Speaker 1: and and the Bean's credit. I don't think there was

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Speaker 1: any way that they thought Cody Ford would have been

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Speaker 1: available at thirty seven. So yeah, that's true. Probably thought

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Speaker 1: he was going to be cleaned off the board, So

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Speaker 1: if they accepted that trade, in Bean's mind, he would

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Speaker 1: have missed out on bols, you know, at Oliver and

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Speaker 1: the guy like Cody Ford probably thought he was gonna

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Speaker 1: have to settle for someone else who was out in

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Speaker 1: that way. Yeah, I mean Beam was talking about having

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Speaker 1: a trade up to the bottom of the first to

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Speaker 1: get Cody Ford. But Jeff, you use Jeff, you used

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Speaker 1: the word to describe Ed Oliver. That came up yesterday. Actually,

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Speaker 1: we had a really good guest on yesterday who we

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Speaker 1: enjoyed talking to, Doug Ferrar from a USA Today, long

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Speaker 1: time draft observer, and his point was, and you wrote

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Speaker 1: about it, you should look it up. You wrote about

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Speaker 1: how Ed Oliver not just a good fit for Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: but he will be better the way the Bills use

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Speaker 1: him than he was in college. But there was one

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Speaker 1: quote that he said at Oliver, or Doug Ferrar said

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Speaker 1: about Ed Oliver. I think when you look at traits

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Speaker 1: and things that are transferable to the NFL, I would

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Speaker 1: argue that there's no one more able to be a

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Speaker 1: more transcendent player in this draft than at Oliver. In

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Speaker 1: other words, he's not the best player in the draft,

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Speaker 1: but a guy who is transcendent, which is the word

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Speaker 1: you used a minute ago, Jeff, to a guy who

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Speaker 1: can really be special. No one more able to be transcendent. Now, look,

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Speaker 1: things got to work out, he's got to work hard,

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Speaker 1: he's going to be coach. Well, obviously things got to

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Speaker 1: break his way. But he's talking about a long time

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Speaker 1: draft observer talking about Oliver being transcendent and what a

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Speaker 1: perfect fity he is for the Buffalo Bills. That got

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Speaker 1: my attention. Yet, Yeah, and I think it's it's worth

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Speaker 1: it's worth noting because I'm like you, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: Jeff the caller, and I admire your research. Going back

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Speaker 1: and the problem is this. You're right they didn't know

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Speaker 1: Cody Ford. Didn't think Cody Ford would be there with

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Speaker 1: all those pick With the thirty seven pick, that might

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Speaker 1: have given him more. With a thirty seven and forty,

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Speaker 1: they could have for sure maybe traded up into the

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Speaker 1: first to get him if they thought they could, but

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Speaker 1: the price was too steep, so I don't think they

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Speaker 1: would have made that move anyway. Plus, once you start

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Speaker 1: changing the picks right where Buffalo is and you trade

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Speaker 1: and they trade back and they do, then the rest

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Speaker 1: of the draft doesn't fall that way, and maybe Cody

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Speaker 1: Ford isn't there, you know, when they think he is,

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Speaker 1: maybe he does get off the boarder and some other

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Speaker 1: players are gone as well. You don't know how it's

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Speaker 1: gonna the ripple effect of that trade to all the

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Speaker 1: teams between the time of at eleven where they would

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Speaker 1: have gotten and thirty seven, all those picks might have

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Speaker 1: been different and as well, So you know, it would

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Speaker 1: could have, would have should have. But I'm with you, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: that it was a really tempting offer. It sounded like it,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't know if I didn't really do the research.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you did that. Yeah, it turned into a

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Speaker 1: really tempting offer. The way the draft fell, there's a

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Speaker 1: question on the table today, between the draft and free

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Speaker 1: agency and the coaching editions, who's been the most important?

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Speaker 1: Who's been the Bill's best offseason acquisition? Give us a

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Speaker 1: call to discuss eight three fifty toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty sending a tweet,

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Speaker 1: we may read it. We're gonna talk with Ed Reid.

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Speaker 1: He wants to talk about Bill's six round draft pick,

585
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Speaker 1: Chiquon Johnson. He's going to the Hall of Fame in

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Speaker 1: July as well August. I guess first week of August.

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Speaker 1: Ed Reid, former Bill's secondary coach. When we return One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive, this is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back One Bill's Live from One Goals Drive. John

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Speaker 1: Murphy was Steve Tasker to talk about today, including the

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Speaker 1: Bills draft and the Bills offseason acquisitions. Who was their

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Speaker 1: best offseason acquisition. We will resume that discussion in a

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Speaker 1: couple of minutes. We want to get into this discussion

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Speaker 1: right here. Really happy and houdor to have on the

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Speaker 1: line of us a guy who spent just one year,

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Speaker 1: one year on the Buffalo Bill's coaching staff, but a

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Speaker 1: lifetime in the NFL. A nine time Pro Bowler, All Pro,

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Speaker 1: six times NFL Defensive Player of the Year in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and four, on the All Decade Team in the

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Speaker 1: two thousands, played with the Ravens, the Texans, and the

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Speaker 1: New York Jets, and one of the newest Pro Football

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famers. Really happy and honor to have ed

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Speaker 1: read on the line with us. Hello, ed John Murphy

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Speaker 1: and a team tasker up there in Buffalo. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us you guys in a while. Yeah, yeah, congratulations

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Speaker 1: on the Hall of Fame. What did you think. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it, man, you know, I mean, it's something that

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Speaker 1: I can't say I wasn't expecting, you know, the seam.

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Speaker 1: It came kind of fast, fairly young, but in the

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Speaker 1: football world the older, you know. So just just enjoying it,

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Speaker 1: you know, and make you think about the people who

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Speaker 1: help you along your way. Tell us a little bit

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Speaker 1: to tell us who really um made you. Who'd you

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Speaker 1: think about when you got the word that you were

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Speaker 1: going to go in the Hall of Fame, when they

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Speaker 1: showed up at your hotel room door. What was the

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Speaker 1: first we were the first people you thought about my parents,

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Speaker 1: you know, my parents and just you know where they

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Speaker 1: come from, and um, what they had to go through

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Speaker 1: just to to make a way for their kids, you know,

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Speaker 1: and um just a hard work and you know, constantly

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Speaker 1: constantly being on you know me, me particularly, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you know my dad with with school and my

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Speaker 1: mom would just discipline and stuff like that. Man, you know,

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Speaker 1: those are the things that stick out to me. You know,

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Speaker 1: they made a lot of sacrifices. You know at the

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Speaker 1: time they couldn't, you know, and I had to kind

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Speaker 1: of make do. So it's just those times my parents

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Speaker 1: raised me as a kid, you know, all the times

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Speaker 1: my dad had me as a park, you know, with

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Speaker 1: him watching basketball, watching baseball, you know, coaching me. All

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Speaker 1: those things kind of stick out. Hey, I read a

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Speaker 1: quote that was attributed to you when you went in

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame where you said football is the

635
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Speaker 1: ultimate team sport. There is no goat, there is no

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Speaker 1: greatest of all times, there is no greatest of all players.

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Speaker 1: It's impossible to say that. And yet I heard people

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Speaker 1: say that about you, and people probably still say that

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Speaker 1: about you, right, Yeah, I mean, you know, that's that's

640
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Speaker 1: what we do nowadays, you know, everybody is the greatest

641
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: of all the time. I heard more people being called

642
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: the goat than law Allah, which is cool. You know,

643
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: go you know, go go to actually travel and herds.

644
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: You know, there's multiple goats, you know. So I just

645
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: say that for football because it's the truth. Like, you

646
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: can't play this sport without the other same guys. You know,

647
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: as successful as people want to make Brady out to be,

648
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: if those guys don't block, if those guys are not

649
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: catching those balls and half the time and spectacular catches,

650
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: it's not like, you know, the guys are just catching

651
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: the ball, running and striding, nobody hitting them. Somebody's around him.

652
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: You know, you got to think about what the receiver

653
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: has to go through just to get open, you know.

654
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: So I just don't see football players operating without the

655
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: other teammates now sacrificing um, you know, things off the field,

656
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: to be to be a really good player, to set

657
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: yourself apart. Now that's different. You know, that's different. That's

658
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go like stuff. You know what I'm saying.

659
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: When you when you're working hard, disappliving yourself in the

660
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: off season, you know, to to not follow the crowd

661
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: and not follow the hurds or to day. You know,

662
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: now you're doing goat stuff, you know what I'm saying.

663
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: But ultimately, in the team sport man, it takes the team.

664
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: You know, you might have some individuals at that position,

665
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: you'd be like, you know, he might be the greatest

666
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: at that position. I can I guess I can deal

667
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: with that. And you came on too. Really the collective

668
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: consciousness of all of us. When you got to college

669
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: University of Miami, you have a relationship there as an

670
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: alumnus with that program. You took Jaquan Johnson under your wing.

671
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: You mentored him a little bit. He's a sixth round

672
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: draft pick of the Buffalo Bills. What's your relationship with Jaquan? Man?

673
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: You know the thing about it, I heard you say,

674
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: you know, I took him under my wing. He actually

675
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: reached out to me, you know, so that's that was

676
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: the great part about Jaquan that I love that he's

677
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: willing to learn. You know, he's humble enough to take coaching.

678
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: You know, he's not He's not a guy out here

679
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: who's just VOTs for and and and bragging and you know,

680
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: just you know, putting himself in a line like, you know,

681
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: he's a humble kid, you know, wants wants to be great.

682
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: You know, he's a study, he studies the game. He's

683
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: a student of the game, you know, and as a

684
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: football coach, that's what you want, you know. And that's

685
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: what I loved about take Yeah called me actually some

686
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: stuff about football and life. You know. So he's eager

687
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: to learn. He wants to be great, you know in Buffalo,

688
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: gotta still man at that pig. I read an article

689
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: about Jaquan that they were down to Florida State by

690
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: thirteen and a halftime, and they actually came back and

691
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: won that game. And after the game, his teammates credited

692
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: him with some words that he spoke to them at halftime.

693
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: Is it give you a little bit a sense of

694
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: pride that one of the guys who reached out to you,

695
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: uh is makes such a difference for his teammates. You

696
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: you said football is a team sport. Does that Does

697
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: that mean more to you than maybe an interception he

698
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: made or something like that? No doubt, no doubt about it,

699
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: because you know that them the them the moments when

700
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: you're done, as I am not playing anymore, you you

701
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: remember those moments. You know, people remember those moments. Those

702
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 1: are moments that I help you in life. You know,

703
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: as as a player, when you're going through a time

704
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: in the in the game or in the season, you

705
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 1: know your teammate says that does something that you can

706
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: that that you can remember. You know, those are things,

707
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: those are moments that look you up. Man. You know, So,

708
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: I was at that Florida State game. I remember that.

709
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: I actually remember talking to Jay on the sideline before

710
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: halftime about some of the stuff that was going on.

711
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: You know. So because we have we're able to have

712
00:34:56,080 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: that relationship with our team without with our players and

713
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 1: you aim. You know. So I remember that game, man,

714
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: and they didn't come back, and they play awesome in

715
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: that second half. Man. And then I actually talked to

716
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: Jake after that, you know, so and his teammates. That's

717
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:14,919
Speaker 1: what they were talking about in the locker room after

718
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: that game. You know that he stepped up and said

719
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: something what it needed to be said. You know, you

720
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: need you need leaders, You need multiple leaders on your team,

721
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: you know. And uh, I think as years go by,

722
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: you know, coaching everything, um accordingly playing for him, I

723
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: think did want to be a great asset to the

724
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: build a secondary just to the NFL in general. I'm

725
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 1: aligned with incoming Pro Football Hall of Famer Ed Reid.

726
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 1: And you spent three years ago you were hearing Buffalo

727
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,439
Speaker 1: on the coaching staff and more than a few people

728
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: that time, that Times speculator that you would have a

729
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: future in coaching. Is that still out there for you?

730
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: You think you'll ever get into coaching on a full

731
00:35:55,560 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: time basis? Again? Yeah, man, I'm I'm actually We're undefeated

732
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: in my Suns black football team. Our last game is Sunday.

733
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: I'm actually the office coordinator. Uh but yeah, I actually,

734
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: you know, I had a great time. I loved the

735
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: city of Buffalo. Um. Can't wait to come visit at

736
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 1: some point. You know. I got a couple of cold

737
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: friends and restaurants I want to get to. But you know, man,

738
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: it was a great time. You know, we didn't have

739
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: the staff to make Buffalo successful the way I thought

740
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: we could have. I thought we had a great um

741
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: team elective of guys. It's just a matter of you know,

742
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: coaching staff being the cohesive group just as much as

743
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: the team is. You know. And but of course I

744
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: want to coach, you know it got to be the

745
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: right situation. You know, I'm going through a lot just

746
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: learning about the coaching way, the coaching world, you know,

747
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: the NFL. You know, it's a lot of stuff that

748
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: uh they we have in our country that kind of

749
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: rubbed off in the NFL, you know, and other businesses

750
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 1: the way they running. You know, it was just hiring

751
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: people that are really not even qualified. You know, it's

752
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: crazy to me that I played twelve years in the

753
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: league and was known as a player to be a

754
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 1: coach and don't get any respect from coaches that's coaching

755
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: the game, you know. Um, That's that's the mind boding

756
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: thing to me. You know, I know there's coaches pride

757
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, egos and everything, but I just

758
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 1: can't believe that you wouldn't you wouldn't want players or

759
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: your staff that played the game that can help help

760
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: your players, you know. Sause I was involved. I was

761
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, and you know, you know all the mistakes

762
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: that we were having, particularly on defense. You know, there

763
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,959
Speaker 1: was communication issues, you know, and and I played the game,

764
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: so I was there to try to help simplify things,

765
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: but my opinion was never being taken. So it was

766
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:12,800
Speaker 1: it was very frustrating for me early, very early in

767
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: the in the football coaching career, you know, knowing that

768
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: your opinion is not being taken, you know, it was.

769
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 1: It was crazy to me because you know, the people

770
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: who I worked with, and I know how a Whinny

771
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: formula looks. You know. I used to go up on

772
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: Monday and tuesdays when I was in Buffalo, I mean

773
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: in Baltimore and me with my coaches. You know, I

774
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: was this staff meeting. You know, I know how those

775
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: staff meeting meetings go out they should look. You know,

776
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 1: I know what it takes for a team to be successful.

777
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: You know, so those things and it was hard for

778
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: me to deal with that, but you know, it came

779
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 1: with it, come with the territory. I understood that and

780
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: I learned a lot. Hey tell us some tell us

781
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: about your hometown. You're talking about your time in buff

782
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,320
Speaker 1: although you grew up in uh Saint Rose, Louisiana, just

783
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 1: up the river a little bit from New Orleans. You

784
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: got plans Todd kind of financed the building of a

785
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: brand new park there in Saint Rose, Louisiana. Tell us

786
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 1: about Edrey Park in Saint Rosette. Yeah, you heard me

787
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: say earlier, I was with my dad a lot at

788
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: the park. You know, I grew up at the park.

789
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: They always say I'm a park baby because it's the

790
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: true man. Families was at the park all the time.

791
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 1: You know, we we were having everything done there. You know,

792
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: family mention everything. So in my old neighborhood, one of

793
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: my old neighborhoods that I say, my second neighborhood I

794
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: moved through. Um, there was a park I used to

795
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: go to and play basketball, class football, tackle football, you know,

796
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: all kinds of other activities that we used to do.

797
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 1: And the kids don't have a park anymore. They took

798
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: the park and the kids don't have any outlets. This

799
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: across the world. Like, if kids don't have outlets, something

800
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: that can grab older their mind away from the streets,

801
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: away from crime, you know, away from the bad things

802
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,800
Speaker 1: that are in their environment. You know, they won't have

803
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: a chance. You know. I see this involved in Baltimore

804
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 1: a lot since I've been in Baltimore. I work with book.

805
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,280
Speaker 1: If you Watchton, you know, these kids don't have an outlet.

806
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of abandoned buildings around them. They need

807
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: somewhere to go. So a part gives them that outlet

808
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 1: when I was a kid to get that energy out,

809
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: you know, not have that energy in them and just

810
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: holding on to that, you know, and let it come

811
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: out the wrong way. You know. We got to channel.

812
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: We got to channel these kids minds and actions, you know,

813
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: and way that we want them to be cultivated to

814
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: two great people, you know. And I know, as I

815
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,479
Speaker 1: tell my son, you know, his job, but kids job.

816
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: My job as a kid when I was growing up,

817
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: it's to go to school, get good grades, do some

818
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: kind of physical activity, you know, because this is about health.

819
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: You know, even when you get older, as I am

820
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: older now you guys are older, you understand that you

821
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 1: gotta take care of your body. You gotta take care

822
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 1: of your health. So the park we're building, it's not

823
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: just for little kids. It's older people too, you know.

824
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 1: They need they need to be taking care of their

825
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: bodies as well, you know, walking, staying fit. Because the

826
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: day used stopped moving, they starting to put themself in

827
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: the ground, you know. So that's that's why we're building

828
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: the park. Man, It's really for the kids. They need it.

829
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: You know. Crime has hit my community big time, is

830
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: affecting my family there's been a lot of murders, you know,

831
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: kids or kids. I know kids need an outlet. You know,

832
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: I know what other countries go through. Our seen pictures,

833
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: I've seen talk to people. You know. When I saw

834
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 1: the picture of my kids in my neighborhood playing basketball,

835
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 1: it looked like they was in the third world country somewhere.

836
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: And this is this is America. You know this this,

837
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 1: this is this, this is this country. You know has

838
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 1: enough to where everybody can have, you know, so a

839
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: lot of stuff I don't understand about it. Man, We

840
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: have enough where everybody can have, you know, Yeah, we

841
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: won't provide it. Yeah, that's a really good initiative. If

842
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 1: if listeners want to help or get more to learn

843
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: more about it, you can go to Ed Reid Foundation

844
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: dot org to find out more about Ed Reid Parker

845
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: to raise money for that initiative down on Louisiana, Ed,

846
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: congratulations on that. Congratulations on the Hall of Fame. We'll

847
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 1: be watching this uh this summer when you go. And

848
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: it's really cool and we're happy to know You're happy

849
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: to have you on the show. Thank you, ah Man,

850
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Steven john Man, Greg talking to you

851
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 1: guys in a while. Like I said, but you know,

852
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,879
Speaker 1: hope father is wealth buffalo, you know, I hope it's

853
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 1: not storing that. Not this week. It just stopped, all right.

854
00:42:56,120 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: I know it comes out of out of nowhere. Thanks Ed,

855
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: you two. Thanks Ed Reid incoming Hall of Famer, nine

856
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: Pro Bowls, six times All Pro player. He was he

857
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: didn't want to talk a while. He talked about it,

858
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 1: but he was regarded as the greatest of all time,

859
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 1: right safety, Oh you've been great ones. He's right of

860
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: his generation. There's I don't know that there was anybody

861
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: better because he was not only was he good, but

862
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: he was good consistently throughout his career, every every year

863
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: to so on. So he just stacked great year after

864
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 1: great year. Some guys will have a year or two,

865
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: maybe even three years that are really good. Ed stacked

866
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: like ten of them nine times. Yeah, so he was.

867
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: He was good from top to bottom. Of the beginning

868
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 1: of the end. He was doing things on there. I

869
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 1: remember things about Ed. You'd watch it on film and

870
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: the coverage would be what it was, and Ed would

871
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: do something completely off the page because of his film study.

872
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: He would jump a route across the field down when

873
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:56,919
Speaker 1: he was supposed to be deep third on one side,

874
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: he'd go down across the field short on the other

875
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 1: side and pick the pass. Because he watched so much film,

876
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: he would have a feel and get into the flow

877
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: of the game. He could anticipate it. Just an amazing

878
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: player and it was his intelligence that made him different. Um.

879
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: If you want to know more about his foundation and

880
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: the initiative for Edward Park down on Louisiana, go to

881
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,879
Speaker 1: his website Edward Foundation dot org. I want to talk

882
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: with you see about his take on his one year

883
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: coaching here in Buffalo. It sounds like he wasn't entirely

884
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: happy with it. I think it was a I think

885
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: it was his first foray into coaching, if I'm not mistaken,

886
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: and I think he was probably surprised that. You know

887
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: the hierarchid of how it works. You know, you may

888
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: have a voice, you can they'll listen to you, but

889
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: if they don't take your advice, you got to be

890
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: willing and say, God, well, all right, cool, let's get

891
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: back to that in a minute. We're gonna take a

892
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:44,879
Speaker 1: break right here. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Driving.

893
00:44:44,960 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. I'm back one Bills Live

894
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy with Steve Tasker, as

895
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: we come to your Live from one Buffalo studio. Back

896
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: to Edreid just for a second him, We only have

897
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: a second or Steve, the coaching thing is interesting, and

898
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: you know he he was pretty um look crettical. Yeah,

899
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: he was critical. And I went back and looked at

900
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: that staff. Dennis Thurman was the defensive coordinator the one

901
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: year Ed Reid was here. Um, Tim McDonald would have

902
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 1: been ed Reid's immediate the superior as the defensive backs coach.

903
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: Rob Ryan dropped in that year too, which probably threw

904
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 1: some things. I mean, basically, Edreid was critical of the staff,

905
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 1: saying they didn't listen to him, right. He said, you

906
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: got a guy like me, and he wasn't bragging me.

907
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: He said, that played all those years and Dennis Thurman,

908
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: Dennis Thurman played as well. Maybe Dennis Thurman was on

909
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: his side. I don't know. I don't know what it

910
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 1: came down to was he was upset because he saw

911
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: the defense were and that was the um that was

912
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: a critic criticism of the defense. They kept making mistakes defensively.

913
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 1: They had an answer for everything, and that was that

914
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: Rob Ryan Rex Ryan defense that is really sophisticated and

915
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: very well respected around the NFL. But you gotta get

916
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:09,800
Speaker 1: you guys in the right spot. They got to do

917
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: the right thing. And Ed said, hey, they were not

918
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: communicating well enough on the field and his ideas. They

919
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: wanted to simplify that, and he didn't feel like he

920
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: was being listened to. He's and that's the way coaching is.

921
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you do what you can do. You coach

922
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: the way you can coach, and it's up to the

923
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: guys above you in the hierarchy to either accept or

924
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: or not accept your ideas. And and Ed was I

925
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: think that was a surprise for Ed Yeah, first time

926
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: in coaching, he said. He basically said, he's not done.

927
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,760
Speaker 1: He'd like to do it some more right right, coaching

928
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: his son now flighting football. But yeah, I think he

929
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: does have something to offer it. I'm telling you that

930
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: was telling the question. When ed Rey would walk onto

931
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 1: a field that year as a Bill's assistant coach, anywhere

932
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: you were in the league, here or anywhere else, people

933
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: would kind of whisper, the place would hush. Bill. I

934
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 1: tell you that all the time. You can tell how

935
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: good a guy was in within the league. When do

936
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: guys do exactly what you just describe, They talk about

937
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: certain players in hushed tones. Yeah, and that is an

938
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: ultimate sign of respect. And ed Reid was one of

939
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: those guys where he went that happened here. All right.

940
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna look to the future, however, and we thank

941
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: Edward joining us on the show. And the future includes

942
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: the Bills. What they've done this offseason? Got a simple

943
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 1: question for a response on Twitter or on the telephone

944
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: lines that where you're asking you today. He was the

945
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 1: biggest addition to the Buffalo Bills. What's the best move

946
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,399
Speaker 1: they've made in this offseason? Free agency? The draft? Who's

947
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:38,879
Speaker 1: the Bill's best offseason acquisition? You can mention to coach

948
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: too if you want. The phone lines open eight three

949
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

950
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,720
Speaker 1: five fifty. You're gonna talk about the draft more. Bucky

951
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: Brooks from NFL Network and NFL dot Com. Standybody to

952
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:51,720
Speaker 1: join us next, Come on back. One Bill's Live presented

953
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 1: by Kalaida Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

954
00:47:54,960 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: Bill's Radiolo Hills Radio Network Stories. Got the update from

955
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: one Bill's Drive today where it's quiet, no players really

956
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 1: around much, not many anyway, No offseason conditioning work today.

957
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: They wrapped up the week yesterday. They'll be back at

958
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: it on Monday, Bills veterans. Here. We are a week

959
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: away from the start of the rookie minicamp, and that

960
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: starts next Friday, when the eight draft picks and the

961
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 1: other undrafted rookie show up to get their first weekend

962
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: of working. So kind of a day off here and

963
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 1: one Bill's drive for the players and coaches. Green Bay

964
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: Packers have signed their first round draft pick, the first

965
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,320
Speaker 1: of the twenty nineteen first rounders to sign a contract,

966
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 1: Safety Darnell Savage agreed to a four year contract, as

967
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: agent announced. His contract includes the fifth year option year

968
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: late riser in the draft process, Savage the twenty first

969
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 1: selection in the first round. Green Bay traded its thirtieth

970
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: overall pick in order to move up to get Darnell Savage,

971
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: and he is under contract noun second player green Bay

972
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: drafted in the first round last Thursday, eight days ago.

973
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles have signed a familiar name, Zach Brown. Linebacker

974
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 1: had a good year with Buffalo a couple of years ago.

975
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 1: He agreed to a one year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles.

976
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: This morning, Brown nfl dot com ranked twenty ninth in

977
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:10,839
Speaker 1: a list of the top one hundred and one free

978
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: agents of the year. Lots of veteran experience going into

979
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: his eighth professional season, his fourtheen in his career. He

980
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: played with the Bills in twenty sixteen. Also played with

981
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: Tennessee and Washington during his NFL career. Tom Brady injected

982
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:25,879
Speaker 1: humor into the discussion last night when he was asked

983
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: about not being among the NFL's highest paid quarterbacks. In

984
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: an appearance on Jimmy Kim Alive, Brady said he says

985
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: his wife makes enough money. He says, I'm a little

986
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: smarter than you think. The crowd left, Brady moved on

987
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: to the next topic. Tampa Bay buccaneer's pass rusher Jason

988
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 1: Pierre Paul was involved in a motor vehicle accident early

989
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: yesterday and sought medical attention. The Bucks say they know

990
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: about it. They've been in contact with him. They say

991
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 1: it is not a serious injury. He has not been

992
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay for their offseason program yet. Stanley Cup

993
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: playoffs couple of games tonight Onnitors played at Carolina, Game

994
00:49:57,719 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: four of that series. Carolina leads at three games to night.

995
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 1: Dallas plays at Saint Louis and that series is tied

996
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: at two wins apiece. And that's the update from One

997
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. John Murphy and Steve Tasker coming to the

998
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: line from our One Buffalo studio, going to talk about

999
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: the draft. We want to hear from you about the

1000
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 1: Bill's offseason acquisition, which was the best one? Do you

1001
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 1: think Guy's got some opinions on that? Joins us right

1002
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: now on the line. He is a former Buffalo Bill

1003
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: draft pick, a second round pick in nineteen ninety four,

1004
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: played five seasons in the NFL, but beyond that, he's

1005
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: become a major analyst with NFL Network. The host of

1006
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,479
Speaker 1: the Move the Sticks podcast, Bucky Brooks. You can follow

1007
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 1: him on Twitter at Bucky Brooks. On the line with us, Oh, Bucky,

1008
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve here in Buffalo. Last time we

1009
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: talk to you was well before the draft at the Combine,

1010
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 1: and a lot happened since then, didn't it. Yeah, a

1011
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: lot has certainly happened. We finally got this draft. All

1012
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: the projects of going so it's they're fun because They're

1013
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 1: fun to see where everyone goes. Now to be even

1014
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: more fun to see how they played the destination. The

1015
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: hard part, though, Bucky now is we still don't know

1016
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 1: any more than we did a week ago. We know

1017
00:50:57,960 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: where these players are playing, but we don't know how

1018
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: good any of them will be. So it's really hard

1019
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: to give anybody a good or a bad grade. Nevertheless,

1020
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 1: you know you gave Bills and a minds for their draft,

1021
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: it's hard to give anybody a really bad grade because,

1022
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 1: like I said, they may be better than anybody when

1023
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: things shake out. What's your assessment and why did you

1024
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: think the Bills did so well? Well? I mean, Steve,

1025
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: I think what it comes down to is did the

1026
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:24,439
Speaker 1: team that you like get blueshift players? And I believe

1027
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: the Buffalo bill has got a handful of blueshift players.

1028
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 1: And the one thing that carries out is, you know,

1029
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: like those teams that when the four stray Super Bowls,

1030
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 1: those guys were mooted with talent, and because it really

1031
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 1: matters in the league, they have to sit in and

1032
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: be the right guys, but they have to be sounded.

1033
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: And I think we're such of the overall crop of

1034
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: players at the Buffalo Bills brought in. They're very, very counted,

1035
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: and they kind of fit the monster and the mentality

1036
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: that Sean mcderman has created. A lockerlow who is the

1037
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,479
Speaker 1: bluest of blue chips in your mind that the Bills

1038
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: drafted well obviously, I think first the first guy they took,

1039
00:51:56,440 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 1: Ed Oliver, is a monster, and I think anyone who

1040
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 1: really wants to know who Ed Oliver is and what

1041
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: he can be, they need to go back and pop

1042
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 1: it up on you Tube. Lichid his freshman in his

1043
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: sophomore year, he was argually one of the more dominant

1044
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 1: players in college football. They can the most dominant player

1045
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: in college football coming right out of high school. They

1046
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: played him a little differently than they played him in

1047
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: his final seasons. He played a three technique mean he

1048
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: played over the top of the guard, and his ability

1049
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: to penetrate and shoot through line and create disruption with

1050
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: second to none. And so in this system where he

1051
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: can be the undertackle, where he can play with his

1052
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 1: speed and quickness, he could be a dominant disrupt the

1053
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 1: force at the point of attack. His only downfall really

1054
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 1: for me, and I mentioned earlier the show is some

1055
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 1: clubs thought he's just too small to play the three technique.

1056
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 1: What allows him to be a little under size and

1057
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,359
Speaker 1: still be productive at the next level, Well, it kind

1058
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:55,359
Speaker 1: of depends on how McDermot plays him. I think if

1059
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 1: you put him on the move, being as you're slanning

1060
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: and stunning, and did not just have him two gap

1061
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:05,320
Speaker 1: or take on guys down the middle and occupy the

1062
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 1: A and the B gap, then he's gonna be fine.

1063
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: But if you allow him to play inside, to use

1064
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: his first step quickness to bullet and allow him to

1065
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: kind of get it on the mall, he's going to

1066
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: create a lot of problems. And so I can envision

1067
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills being a little more aggressive with their front,

1068
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 1: a little more bootment based to allow him to play

1069
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 1: on edges, and I think he's going to be okay. Yess,

1070
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: he doesn't have like that ideal side. He's not a

1071
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:33,319
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty founder guy that's gonna clog up

1072
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: the middle. But playing in a scheme that allows him

1073
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: to play with his athleticism could be a problem because

1074
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: the int your guards guys that aren't athletics, they don't

1075
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: have a tough time stand in front of him. We're

1076
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: on the line talking about the Bills draft with Bucky

1077
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:48,759
Speaker 1: Brooks from the NFL Network, host of the Move to

1078
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: Six podcasts along with Daniel Jeremiah, going through the Bills draft.

1079
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: To you like the second round of two, Cody four.

1080
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,280
Speaker 1: You've got him as a starter day one for the Bills, Bucky,

1081
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: what have you seen from him his versus til Um.

1082
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: He's a guy at Oklahoma that played right down, but

1083
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 1: he easily can move inside and play guard. I think

1084
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: the luxury that she has as you can start him outside,

1085
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: see if he worked outside. If not, you know, at

1086
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: worst you got a high end guard that can play.

1087
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:18,359
Speaker 1: And so with his physicality is toughness, physibility to move

1088
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 1: people off the ball. I think he's gonna be outstanding.

1089
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: It's just a big It's just it's just a luxury

1090
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: to be able to have those kinds of verse, the

1091
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,279
Speaker 1: players that can do a couple of different roles and

1092
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 1: really get it done. Look around the other teams around

1093
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: the top of this draft, Bucky, what are some other

1094
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: players not just the ones that you talked about for

1095
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: the Bills, but around uh this draft, at the top

1096
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 1: of it or maybe down lower, who are going to

1097
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:43,919
Speaker 1: be all pros who are guys what guys are gonna

1098
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 1: emerge from this draft as being guys who people can't

1099
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 1: believe teams passed on him. Well, I mean, I think

1100
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: I think at the top of the draft, Duni had

1101
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: just got a really good player, Quinny Williams. Quinty Williams

1102
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 1: is a dominant player at the point of attack. Its size,

1103
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 1: his strength, his motor. He plays hard. He does a

1104
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: great job of stopping the round but also getting after

1105
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,879
Speaker 1: the pastor. He is someone that you have to pay

1106
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 1: attention to when you go to my AMMI I thought

1107
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: Miami just did a solid job of grabbing good pieces

1108
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: and they also get the benefit of grabbing Josh Rosen.

1109
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 1: But in the draft, Christian Wilkins is the guy that

1110
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: can be an impact player a difference baker. He's very

1111
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: versatile to play a variety of different spots from the

1112
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: front line and then when you kicked over to the

1113
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 1: rival of the team that everyone hates to doing the Patris.

1114
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:31,240
Speaker 1: They just kind of benefited from taking a warm buffer approach.

1115
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 1: They got a bunch of bluecher players from brand named schools,

1116
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: and those guys have played typically well and they kind

1117
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: of work for the way that they are approaching meeting

1118
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 1: to Bill Bevitick, there's a great job of putting it

1119
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:46,399
Speaker 1: in spot. So the Chase Wine bitches, the Gamie and Harris,

1120
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: those guys performed well. And then mkil Harry is the

1121
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: first thing that we haven't seen them take the first

1122
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: round receiver, said Terry Glenn. He gives them a big

1123
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 1: body play man because it's very similar to what they

1124
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: have in Josh Ford. If he did I see this correcting?

1125
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: Did you I mean the Dolphins got Josh Rosen You

1126
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,479
Speaker 1: just mentioned that. Do you compare him somehow to Brett

1127
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: Farve already? No, So here's what I said. Back in

1128
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: the mid nineties when the Packers kind of blew up,

1129
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: they blew up because Ron Wolf made a trade for

1130
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: an Atlantisoustings cast off and Bret Farr Bred Farvar played

1131
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,479
Speaker 1: one year in Atlanta and for whatever reason, it didn't

1132
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:26,319
Speaker 1: work there. But by taking Brett Farve, it allowed him

1133
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: to get a young franchise quarterback to develop him. And

1134
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 1: because they kind of had him on the chief initially,

1135
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 1: it allowed them to Ben go and get Reggie White

1136
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: and all the others that kind of came after that.

1137
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 1: So it's the way that you manipulate the team building

1138
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: process to build a championship team. Josh Rosen's cat number

1139
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: gives them the flexibility where over the next three years

1140
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 1: he's only making six million dollars, do you take the

1141
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: rest of the money the atypically would be allocated to

1142
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,040
Speaker 1: the quarterback and spread it out. He gives you an

1143
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 1: opportunity to build a championship team if you hit them

1144
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:00,759
Speaker 1: the acquisitions that you made. I got. That's where it

1145
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: is kind of a play, kind of to make you

1146
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: click on it. That's what That's what it did. You

1147
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 1: did you know what I was thinking about this And

1148
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:11,360
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Josh Rosen camp play. He may be

1149
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: turned into a really good quarterback, but for the Dolphins,

1150
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: the best thing about him was how chiefly he came

1151
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: and how little they had to give up in the

1152
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 1: draft again him right now, that's the number one benefit,

1153
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: right Uh, there is a number a bit of it.

1154
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 1: But I will say Josh Roland is a talented quarterback

1155
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 1: and I actually think he's going to a system that

1156
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 1: will fit his game. Meaning, uh, the New England Patriots

1157
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 1: have always done played a system that they kind of

1158
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 1: build around the players and what they well, it's also

1159
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 1: a high IQ system. Well in Miami, they're going to

1160
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 1: do some of those things. And I think the multiplicity,

1161
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 1: the adaptability and the responsibility that they give to him

1162
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: is actually going to play to his strength because he

1163
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: is a high IQ player. He is a guy who

1164
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: understands the why and does bore when he has born

1165
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: his play. I think it might be a really, really

1166
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: good fit for him. I think the exciting things for

1167
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 1: everyone in the Ante outside of Tom Brady, we get

1168
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: to see three young quarterbacks kind of duke it out.

1169
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: It is uncommon to see so many first round picks

1170
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 1: and one division battled it out each and every week.

1171
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: Destiny for us. Yeah, we're really excited about. Yeah, we're

1172
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 1: excited about the possibilities of that. The one thing I'm

1173
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 1: asking you too, is with Kyler Murray, with Josh Rosen

1174
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: and with all the and the quarterbacks were all picked

1175
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: last year, some of which some of whom even Daniel

1176
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: Jones the Giants picked this year. Nothing nothing matters where

1177
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 1: they're picked. If they turn out to be the guy

1178
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: that those teams hope they are, everything is forgotten and forgiven.

1179
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 1: If that's the case, and the real job is to

1180
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: get these guys like a Josh Rosen from Miami with

1181
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 1: enough time and a lack of financial investment to develop him.

1182
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: Is that not the case? And some of these guys

1183
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 1: go in and they're gonna get thrown Like Kyler Murray,

1184
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 1: there's no guarantee is going to be successful in Arizona

1185
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 1: even though he's the first player picked in the draft

1186
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 1: because their roster is so deficient. How does that affect everything?

1187
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 1: It affects everything because right now, see like the game

1188
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 1: has changed so much from when we were playing when

1189
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,480
Speaker 1: I came into the league. You don't have a lot

1190
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: of time in terms of the outside. Fans aren't patient

1191
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 1: with draft picks. So even though we can sit there

1192
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 1: and talk about like a Josh Allen and needs some

1193
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 1: time or Josh Rosen the time calibery be patient, fans

1194
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: really don't want to hit it because when you take

1195
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 1: a guy high, they want to rush more to the

1196
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: deal and then they may be disappointed when it doesn't

1197
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 1: turn out that way. I think the thing that you

1198
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: have to do when you were a general manager and

1199
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 1: a team volder you have to have conviction on the

1200
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 1: players that you select, and you have to be willing

1201
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 1: to withstand the bows and arrow that may come your

1202
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: way when people on the outside say, oh, this guy

1203
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: can't play. I can't believe you took him that high.

1204
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: You take him because you believe in him, and then

1205
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: you give him every opportunity to be deceptful by building

1206
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: the right team around him and using Josh Allen as

1207
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: the example. And we saw him play last year, We

1208
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 1: saw him excited the band base, and then we saw

1209
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: the builds come back this year and try and put

1210
00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: pieces around him. So the expectation will be that he

1211
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: played better as a sophomore than he did as a virgie.

1212
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: I think both teams are going to try and take

1213
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 1: that approach with the quarterback. See what he can do

1214
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: his first year, then second year, make sure you're still

1215
01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 1: in the gaps to give him the opportunity to play

1216
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 1: to extrength as a player. Just a couple of minutes

1217
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: left with Bucky Brooks from the NFL Network before the draft.

1218
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 1: About three weeks ago, maybe a month ago, Bucky, you

1219
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 1: wrote a piece on NFL dot com in which you

1220
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 1: listed kind of the essential ingredients that go into building

1221
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:29,960
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl team. Can you talk about that and

1222
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 1: maybe how you arrived at those ingredients. As I think

1223
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 1: the big thing was that team was about, like Russell

1224
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: Wilson is building the championship team around a big money quarterback.

1225
01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:43,360
Speaker 1: And what happened when you pay the quarterbacks the kount

1226
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 1: of money that the clcrst are paying ruston Wilson. When

1227
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:49,439
Speaker 1: you start paying quarterbacks and that thirty million dollar range,

1228
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 1: it makes it hard to build your team. So what

1229
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 1: you have to do is you put pressure on yourself

1230
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 1: to make sure that you drafted develop well. You kind

1231
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: of have to commit to one side of the ball.

1232
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: So some of this comes from like just being around

1233
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: the locker wom in Buffalo, Like when that offense is

1234
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:07,360
Speaker 1: rolling and the King gun was good and you had

1235
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:09,880
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly and Thermot Thomas and Andre Read and Autos

1236
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 1: gap On Opor and doing it. You could have a

1237
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 1: start on defense like you had Bruce Smith for DEAs Bennette.

1238
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 1: But a lot of the guys that were playing were

1239
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: draft picks that came in and they had to play

1240
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 1: and play well. You couldn't go outside and bring the

1241
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 1: agents in. So when you begin to pay big money

1242
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: to your quarterback and to like one or two other stars,

1243
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: it's really imperative that the guys that you hit the

1244
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 1: draft are really really good and they can be productive

1245
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 1: to It just puts more pressure on the front office

1246
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 1: to be able to get it right on the draft deck. Well,

1247
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 1: when you talk about fans that are impatient and want

1248
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 1: the most out of their draft picks, the one fan

1249
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 1: base that was up in arms after this draft was

1250
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. They take Daniel Jones's number six

1251
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 1: overall and their fans went absolutely berserk. What did you

1252
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 1: What was your take on the Daniel Jones picked by

1253
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:55,200
Speaker 1: the Giants at number six. You know, like in going

1254
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: all the way back well before the draft, you just

1255
01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:00,560
Speaker 1: kind of connect the doctor. You see the relationship and

1256
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:04,360
Speaker 1: the similarities between Daniel Jones and El Manning and David Gelliman,

1257
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:07,240
Speaker 1: they had spent time in Buffalo. Has said, Look, I've

1258
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:09,360
Speaker 1: been to seven two rolls of teams. I know it

1259
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: in books like I know this spells like and I

1260
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 1: also know where the quarterbacks has to have in terms

1261
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 1: of the mentality. New York is a big market and

1262
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:19,440
Speaker 1: you have to have someone who was more focused on

1263
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 1: being a great players than the bright lights a Broadway,

1264
01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 1: and what they wanted from Daniel Jones was a guy

1265
01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 1: that was smart, tough, athletic productive. I think they got

1266
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 1: that now. The thing is, he's a former walk on

1267
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:34,600
Speaker 1: who ended up being a three year starter, ended up

1268
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:37,600
Speaker 1: being a two time captain, testing volumes about his toughness

1269
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 1: and his work ethic. Was he the sixth best player

1270
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 1: in the draft though, But it really doesn't matter. If

1271
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 1: he turns out to be a solid starter at his height,

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Speaker 1: his ceiling to meet is Alex Smith. If he plays

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Speaker 1: as well as I think he can play, he'd be

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Speaker 1: an Alex Smith by player where you can win a

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Speaker 1: lot of games, but you have to have the right

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Speaker 1: stuff around him. I think most of us would say,

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Speaker 1: if I'm a team that doesn't have a quarterback, Alex

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Speaker 1: Smith is a solid starter that can win you a

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Speaker 1: lot of games and get you to the tust of

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Speaker 1: being a championship team. Well, then in that case, he

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Speaker 1: sounds a lot like Eli Manning. He's exactly the same.

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Speaker 1: And so when you looked at the connection, he is

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Speaker 1: a guy that played for Eli Mannings coach. He was

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Speaker 1: tutored by Eli Mannings backup quarterback at Old Miss. That's

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Speaker 1: his quarterback trainer. He has a relationship with Eli Manning

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Speaker 1: so he's not going to threaten him in the quarterback room.

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Speaker 1: It's a situation, a rest situation where you have a

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Speaker 1: mentor that may be really willing to help the young

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Speaker 1: quarterback come along because there's a trust in a communication

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Speaker 1: that already this between the two. Hey, Bucky, I gotta

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Speaker 1: tell you, I spent most of last weekend watching the

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Speaker 1: draft on NFL Network. You guys did a great job.

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah was outstanding in his new role. Just congratulations,

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Speaker 1: you guys were outstanding last weekend. Hey, thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: You guys always loved talking to me. Thank you, Buck, Bucky.

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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, former Buffalo Bill wide receiver, NFL Network analyst.

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Speaker 1: You can follow Bucky on Twitter at Bucky Brooks host

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Speaker 1: the Move to Six podcast with Daniel Jeremiah. I mean

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Speaker 1: that's what I watched last week, right, I mean, I

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01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:07,480
Speaker 1: was watching the draft to all three days, but it

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01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 1: was mostly the NFL Network and we talked about this

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Speaker 1: a lot. And I don't like it when when I'm

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01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 1: a listener and the media starts talking about the media.

1304
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 1: But there were three primetime networks coverages of this draft.

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01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 1: How did how did you get that big huge? I

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01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: know how did you get that big? That's like the

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01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:29,680
Speaker 1: that's like a presidential address. I mean, everybody asked me.

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Speaker 1: Everything else was off the air. You can't. I mean

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01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 1: it was crazy. I mean I get it. I mean

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01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:36,040
Speaker 1: we were into it, but you and I, I mean,

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01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 1: it's our jobs. I know it says something about America.

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01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 1: It really does. We'll sit on our butts watching the

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01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:47,320
Speaker 1: good people having their names called podium all weekend long, right,

1314
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:49,360
Speaker 1: And a lot of people didn't. It wasn't just the

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01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:52,000
Speaker 1: ratings were big. Again, I get it too, and I've

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01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 1: said that, I said this last weekend and I still

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Speaker 1: believe it. It's the only time in the entire calendar

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Speaker 1: year where every team is in that game and that

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01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 1: one game at that same time, and your you know,

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01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 1: your team could trade up, trade down, get in, get out.

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01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:08,840
Speaker 1: So all thirty two franchises are involved at the exact

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01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 1: same time, whether they're on the clock or not. So

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01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:13,960
Speaker 1: that's I get it. So you got thirty two NFL

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01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:17,600
Speaker 1: fan bases at least that are tuned into it. And

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01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:21,520
Speaker 1: it was amazing because you guys, Bucky, those guys are

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01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 1: working like nineteen hours a yeah. Oh, and the prep

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01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:26,560
Speaker 1: for that it's gotta be huge too, getting ready for that. Hey,

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01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 1: we got a pretty good twitter question today that we

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01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 1: have not given enough time to um. And it's a

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01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 1: simple question, which is usually the best of them. I

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01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:35,080
Speaker 1: don't know what you think. We've got phone lines open

1332
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: and you can send in a tweet. So the Bills.

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01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:39,960
Speaker 1: The draft is over free agencies for the most part. Over.

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01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:43,480
Speaker 1: Who's the Bill's best offseason acquisition? Give us a name.

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01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:45,479
Speaker 1: It could be a player, it could be a coach,

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01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:47,680
Speaker 1: it could be an equipmentment. Now I don't think you

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01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:50,600
Speaker 1: had it anybody there. Who's the Bill's best offseason acquisition?

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Speaker 1: Give us a call at eight oh three five fifty

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01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 1: toll free from outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five

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01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty or sending a tweet. We got

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01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:01,600
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet working the bill best offseason acquisition? What

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01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 1: do you think? Sipping the kool aid? Sends this? And

1343
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,280
Speaker 1: a candidate as a coach would have to be Bobby Johnson.

1344
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:09,520
Speaker 1: He's in charge of fixing the biggest broken piece on

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01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 1: the team. Very good tweet, very strong opinion. I think

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01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 1: you're really on the on the right track there. Tough choice,

1347
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:18,040
Speaker 1: says they. This is from Ray tough choices. They have

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01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: done really well this offseason. Have to go with Oliver.

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01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 1: Having a disruptor in the middle should help the d

1350
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:27,520
Speaker 1: and get the oh more opportunities. Was there last night?

1351
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 1: He was there last night at the Speakers event with you,

1352
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:34,440
Speaker 1: Joe Coughlin and uh and Brandon Bean. So there's another

1353
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 1: two shoutouts in one show about didn't about me well

1354
01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 1: and he says it was there last night with Joe Coughlin.

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01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:42,760
Speaker 1: Great event, which is what we were talking about. The

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01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:44,680
Speaker 1: show was all right from Mark, those guys are from

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01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:48,600
Speaker 1: you know what Joe Coughlin is Coughlin's nia. I think

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01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 1: I have no idea, no idea what you're talking about.

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01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: From Sean from Marcus said achievement. I'm reading from the

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01:06:57,360 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 1: tweet sheet. Be quiet. The upgraded workout for facilities. We

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01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: can't underestimate or understate the impact they will have in

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01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:07,320
Speaker 1: the short term and long term team development. So there's

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01:07:07,360 --> 01:07:10,680
Speaker 1: a vote, a shout out for the facilities upgrade. How

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01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 1: about that? It's pretty good? That is pretty good. From

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01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:17,280
Speaker 1: Ryan Beasley Cole Beasley. He has a proven slot receiver

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Speaker 1: that can make catches in the middle of the field

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Speaker 1: and open up more uh P, and a deep routes

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01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:28,280
Speaker 1: and deep routes be a third down go to a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver. So I don't know what that means, PA,

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01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:34,960
Speaker 1: What am I missing attempts? Pass attempts and deep routes? Okay,

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Speaker 1: third down go Yeah. Cole Beasley is the vote. So

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Speaker 1: there you go. There's we're all over the map here

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01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 1: and there's been a lot of You think about all

1374
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: the changes that have happened. It's hard to think of

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01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:48,320
Speaker 1: a time when they were all of these, from top

1376
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 1: to bottom, all the changes, they may have been more

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01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,440
Speaker 1: well received. I gotta I told you, And this is

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01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:54,080
Speaker 1: a promo for the piece of the go up tomorrow

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01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:56,800
Speaker 1: on Buffalo bills dot com. I did a little roster analysis,

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Speaker 1: kind of breaking in down to each position group, new

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Speaker 1: additions and returners. There's a lot of new additions, folks,

1382
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 1: and you know, you've you know, we kind of chronicle

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01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 1: it on a day to day basis here since January.

1384
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:09,600
Speaker 1: But when you sit down and put it all together

1385
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:12,920
Speaker 1: here four or five months into offseason, you're like, holy Michael,

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01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: we got a brand new roster here. Basically, we really do. Yeah,

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01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:18,320
Speaker 1: they it's always something, it's something that was at the

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01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 1: top of the agenda. When Sean McDermott first took over

1389
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:23,080
Speaker 1: two years ago, now three off seasons ago. You know

1390
01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:25,080
Speaker 1: how he was gonna churn through the roster and get

1391
01:08:25,160 --> 01:08:28,000
Speaker 1: his guys, and good guys were let go. Other guys

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01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:30,280
Speaker 1: that we didn't know came back on. They churned it.

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01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:34,600
Speaker 1: It's the same thing this year. Yeah, they've really churned it,

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01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:37,000
Speaker 1: but you don't really notice it as much because the

1395
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:40,320
Speaker 1: guys that they're building around haven't changed right. Sometimes, And

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get the phone calls on this in a minute,

1397
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 1: because I do think we got the tap into this topic.

1398
01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:47,680
Speaker 1: The bill's biggest offseason acquisition. This came up last night

1399
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:51,320
Speaker 1: at the Famous Speaker series and Brandon Bean mentions it

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01:08:51,360 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 1: a lot, and I think I'm guilty of this. Maybe

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01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:56,240
Speaker 1: you are as well. We overlook how much they did

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01:08:56,439 --> 01:09:00,360
Speaker 1: to massage and fix the cap situation. That was what

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01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 1: last year was all about, right, and a little bit

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01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: of the year before. It's fixed now. It took, you know,

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01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:07,960
Speaker 1: two years to but that was a major accomplishment and

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01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:10,439
Speaker 1: a big accomplishment that they had to They had to

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01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:12,519
Speaker 1: get done right. They had to get it done. They

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01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,360
Speaker 1: there was no future for them, if for the bills

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01:09:15,400 --> 01:09:17,880
Speaker 1: and for this group, if they didn't fix the salary cap.

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01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:20,200
Speaker 1: And they did, and they did it the right way

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01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 1: because now certainly they got rid of simonarous contracts. But

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01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:26,439
Speaker 1: here's what happened. They had to get in here first.

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01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:28,639
Speaker 1: They had to find out maybe some of those contracts

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01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:32,000
Speaker 1: they liked, even though they were lucrative, some of these

1415
01:09:32,040 --> 01:09:33,720
Speaker 1: guys might have, you know, the guys they might have

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01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:35,680
Speaker 1: hung on too. They didn't want to get rid of

1417
01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:37,120
Speaker 1: some of these guys. They in fact, they want to

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01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 1: give some guys pay raises. But they had to find

1419
01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:42,599
Speaker 1: out what they had who they really wanted to keep,

1420
01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:46,120
Speaker 1: and then scrub that off of their their paycheck out,

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01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:48,280
Speaker 1: off of their ledger and get ready to move forward

1422
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:50,320
Speaker 1: and start to build the team they wanted from the

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01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:54,120
Speaker 1: ground up, which meant, uh like like this philosophy. We've

1424
01:09:54,120 --> 01:09:57,200
Speaker 1: been talking about a lot the bills, more so than

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01:09:57,280 --> 01:09:59,639
Speaker 1: any time that I can remember in the past, certainly

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01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 1: when I is playing. They've got a ton of guys

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01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 1: every year on these one year deals. They don't sign

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01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 1: any of these guys to three year, four year deals.

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01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:11,280
Speaker 1: One year proven deal, so you're getting the best effort

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01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:13,320
Speaker 1: from those guys because they know they can still hit

1431
01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:14,840
Speaker 1: a home run in the NFL. They come out and

1432
01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:16,840
Speaker 1: have a great year for the Buffalo Bills, they'll be

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01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:20,920
Speaker 1: in high demand next year. They also are handing out

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01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:25,360
Speaker 1: contracts to guys who have earned it and that they

1435
01:10:25,439 --> 01:10:27,960
Speaker 1: trust will continue to earn it. The guys that they

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01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:30,680
Speaker 1: bring in are not the kind of guys at least

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01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:32,760
Speaker 1: for the most part, and they've they've convinced this team

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01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:34,160
Speaker 1: that they are the kind of guys that when they

1439
01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 1: make a big paycheck, they're not going to take their

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01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:39,200
Speaker 1: their career out of gear and start coasting in the

1441
01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:41,120
Speaker 1: rest of the way. They're not that kind of guy.

1442
01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:45,320
Speaker 1: That culture, this culture doesn't support that. And of course

1443
01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:47,840
Speaker 1: they've always got like what they want to. I think

1444
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:49,599
Speaker 1: the number is and you look at others, it's about

1445
01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:53,040
Speaker 1: thirty thirty five million in cap space. So if something happens,

1446
01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:56,519
Speaker 1: they can afford to do anything they want and they

1447
01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 1: but they don't have to. They've got they've got some space.

1448
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:02,680
Speaker 1: If a catastrophe happens on their roster, they can go

1449
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:04,560
Speaker 1: get a guy or get a bunch of guys and

1450
01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 1: still afford it. So um, they're in the right spot there,

1451
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:10,280
Speaker 1: and they've got their key pieces of their roster in place,

1452
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:14,440
Speaker 1: guys like you know, like Josh, like Tremaine, like Tredavious,

1453
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:18,240
Speaker 1: like uh, Micah Hyde, Jordan Poor. They've got these guys

1454
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:21,560
Speaker 1: in place, they can build around star lotuleleay uh and

1455
01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:23,639
Speaker 1: they can say, you know, we're good. You know we're good.

1456
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:26,840
Speaker 1: We now we get at smaller pieces around them that

1457
01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:28,680
Speaker 1: they're in the right spot. It took a long time

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01:11:28,720 --> 01:11:31,800
Speaker 1: to get there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean if you if

1459
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:34,160
Speaker 1: you woke up Brandon Bean in the middle of the

1460
01:11:34,280 --> 01:11:37,000
Speaker 1: night and said, what has been your biggest accomplishment in

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01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:39,559
Speaker 1: the two years you've been with the Buffalo Bills, Getting

1462
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:41,600
Speaker 1: the quarterback probably be number one, But I think right

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01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:44,040
Speaker 1: behind it, he would say fixing the cap. Fixing the

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01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:47,600
Speaker 1: cap was as biggest cat anything. I think it's amazing

1465
01:11:48,280 --> 01:11:51,120
Speaker 1: that teams struggle with it still. It's been it's been

1466
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:55,240
Speaker 1: in place since nine early nineties, right yeah, oh yeah,

1467
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:59,679
Speaker 1: and teams still get caught in it and you can't

1468
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:04,080
Speaker 1: let yourself dig that hole. Um that and I don't know,

1469
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:06,680
Speaker 1: teams still do it. Teams still do because you know,

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01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:09,720
Speaker 1: I think some of it is they have a hard

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01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: time saying good bye to players that have really been

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01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:14,960
Speaker 1: productive for them. I get that. I think it also

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01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:17,360
Speaker 1: it's a function where you are with a quarterback and

1474
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 1: as you get close to contention, championship contention, you take

1475
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:24,320
Speaker 1: chances on the pay that money. It's gonna be the guy.

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01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:25,960
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that. We got a couple of

1477
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:28,160
Speaker 1: calls coming in two on the question of the day, Um,

1478
01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:31,360
Speaker 1: who is the Bill's biggest offseason acquisition? What do you think?

1479
01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:35,360
Speaker 1: Give us a call? Eight three fifty toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Steve and I

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Speaker 1: coming back one Goals Live from one Bal's Drive on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio One Bal's Live from one Deals Drive,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker and our one Buffalo student, Yo,

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Speaker 1: welcome back, talking about the off season draft, over free

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Speaker 1: agency for the most part, over who's the Bill's biggest

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Speaker 1: offseason acquisition? What do you think? Send a tweet in

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Speaker 1: or give us a call? Eight three five fifty to

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Speaker 1: three one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a CALLAR two on the Steve, you're up

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Speaker 1: for that? Yep. Edric from New Jersey, Hello, Edric, how

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Speaker 1: are you. Hey, how are you guys? Thanks for having

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Speaker 1: me on. Let's start off by saying, you guys have

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Speaker 1: done a wonderful job this week with the coverage after

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Speaker 1: the Drive. Thank you. Having those kids on has been terriffic.

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Speaker 1: Having Greg Cosell in on Monday was great. That's at

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Speaker 1: the treat um. I want to just say that, man,

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Speaker 1: we really put an inflammation mark on an off season

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Speaker 1: with that drive. I really think we hit a lot

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Speaker 1: of great needs and players and just a great job.

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Speaker 1: And the question of who's been our acquisition on that

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Speaker 1: kind of tea a little bit. I'm gonna go one

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Speaker 1: A and one beat, and then I'm gonna go addison

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Speaker 1: by kind of subtractions. Okay, that'll be the interesting one. Yeah,

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01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:08,920
Speaker 1: and it's not it's not we lost the players, more

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01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:11,840
Speaker 1: of what we didn't take. You know what we didn't drive. Okay,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, I'm gonna start off with miss Morris. I

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01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:19,200
Speaker 1: think getting the center uh at the caliber of which

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Speaker 1: he's played in the league so far, I think was terrific.

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01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 1: I think Lewis and Eric Wood was a huge, a

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Speaker 1: huge hit UH to our offensive line. UH. And and

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Speaker 1: bringing in a guy like miss Morris who seems like

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01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 1: he's already fitting in, uh just by watching social media.

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Speaker 1: Uh is going to be terrific. Um finding at Oliver

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Speaker 1: number nine to replace Carl Williams. I mean, could you

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Speaker 1: imagine we just went through what fourteen years on the

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Speaker 1: coplay fourteen or twelve? He was thirteen? Wasn't it off?

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Speaker 1: Carl Williams? So now replacing him with a prospect. The

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Speaker 1: caliber about Oliver, I think it's just absolutely terrific. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And and the addition by subtraction, to me, was not

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Speaker 1: drafting a wide receiver, uh, Steve and John. I think

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Speaker 1: adding we got a lot of people in that in

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Speaker 1: that in that wide receiver room, I think adding John

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01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:16,600
Speaker 1: Brown and Cole Beasley was terrific. I think if we

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Speaker 1: would have added someone, that would have set someone out,

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Speaker 1: and I really think would have been Day Jones because

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Speaker 1: to me, Robert Foster in eight games last year showed

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Speaker 1: more ceiling than day Jones having two years. And I

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Speaker 1: like day Jones, you know, but but I think Robert

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Speaker 1: Foster can really take off. I really do. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: in hearing great Cozelle say how like them, I think

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01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:45,840
Speaker 1: is really wonderful. But I really think Robert Foster we

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Speaker 1: have something, Robert more than just a speed guy, you know. Um.

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Speaker 1: And if you give a guy like Duke William the

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Speaker 1: chance to actually do something, you know. So I'm excited guys,

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Speaker 1: uh having me on and uh no Bills, thanks he

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Speaker 1: Dric And there's there's a lot in there. You're right, Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. Mitch Morse was a key addition

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Speaker 1: to the to the offensive line. I think that started

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Speaker 1: the ball rolling for the Buffalo Bills. Don't forget they

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Speaker 1: made him the highest play highest paid center in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League in the history of the National Football League. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He was a huge get for them. Ed Oliver, Uh,

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Speaker 1: we don't know how good a player he's gonna be,

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01:16:25,040 --> 01:16:27,320
Speaker 1: but by all accounts, he's certainly going to be at

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Speaker 1: least a contributor uh to the Bills. And he fits

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01:16:32,280 --> 01:16:34,720
Speaker 1: exactly what they're missing in Kyle Wimms. He'll bring some

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Speaker 1: freshness to that position that uh that there's going to

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Speaker 1: be a welcome, welcome addition. And uh and I think

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Speaker 1: with you. And when you're saying by addition, by subtracting, well,

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Speaker 1: I get it. They stayed disciplined in their draft board.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that, you think about

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Speaker 1: if the wide receiver room would have been as bereft

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Speaker 1: of bodies as the tight end room, maybe we would

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Speaker 1: have gotten two wide receivers. But it wasn't. They took

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Speaker 1: two tight ends. Both tight ends are known not for

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Speaker 1: just running for pass routes or being a blocker. They're

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Speaker 1: known as being all around athletes. Both of them are

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Speaker 1: converted to athletes from other positions and they're gonna help.

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Speaker 1: So I think you're right. I think the fact that

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Speaker 1: they passed on a wide receiver group that would have

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Speaker 1: forced them at one of their picks to take a

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Speaker 1: player a little bit ahead or a lot ahead of

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Speaker 1: where they had them slotted says a lot about their discipline.

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Speaker 1: And I'm I'm with you. I'm glad they did their

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Speaker 1: draft the way they did because I think they've got

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Speaker 1: eight guys there that really all of them have a

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Speaker 1: chance to make the team and to contribute. We'll see

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Speaker 1: if that happens. But I agree with you. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: the thanks. Glad you called. That's the only part you

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Speaker 1: say that dis in byte subtraction. Will you know they

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Speaker 1: didn't look they were banded at wide receiver last year, right?

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Speaker 1: I mean they were not good. Deonte Thompson started some games.

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Speaker 1: Isaia McKenzie started some games at white out last year. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: he had the whole issue with the Calvin Benjamin starting

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Speaker 1: games at at wide receiver. I agree with you, I'm Foster.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad he'll have a wide open door now to

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Speaker 1: show what he has, and I anticipate he'll be better

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Speaker 1: than he was a year ago. Much more comfortable, I

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Speaker 1: would think, and confident and much more ready to play

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Speaker 1: than he was at the start of last year. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: But to say that not at any anybody is a

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Speaker 1: good thing. I don't know about that. I don't think

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Speaker 1: why why don't we do that at offensive line too,

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Speaker 1: you know? And you said bereft of talent. They were

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Speaker 1: berefted of talented wide receiver last year, and they added

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01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:35,840
Speaker 1: those two Beasley and John Brown. But I just think

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Speaker 1: there might have been another piece to add there. We'll see.

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Speaker 1: I think you guys are right. I think I was

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Speaker 1: more urgent. I was more urgently needing a tight end

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Speaker 1: more than I was leaving a wide out, no question.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, we don't know. And certainly Cole Beasley is

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Speaker 1: a name everybody knows. He's had a really nice career.

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Speaker 1: I think he's eight or nine years in the league

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Speaker 1: with Dallas at a slot receiver. He's proven to be

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Speaker 1: durable enough and productive enough that he's a solid player.

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01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:06,800
Speaker 1: John Brown was is a fast, take the lid off

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Speaker 1: the defense kind of receiver to go along with some

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Speaker 1: of the other guys they've already got on their roster

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Speaker 1: to Robert Foster's the same thing. And I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's any question Robert Foster's gonna have some pressure on

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Speaker 1: him this year as a young player. Zay Jones, I

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01:19:18,200 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: think the pressure is on him this year to say, listen,

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01:19:20,400 --> 01:19:24,120
Speaker 1: it's time for him to step up. And you think

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01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:26,720
Speaker 1: about it when the change over the regimes. We've had

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Speaker 1: this brief conversation before God Zay Jones was a second

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Speaker 1: round draft pick, but it was a second round draft

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Speaker 1: pick by this this regime. Um, what's it gonna take

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Speaker 1: for him not to make the team? Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't like to think about it

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Speaker 1: like that. I stated it that way for a reason.

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Speaker 1: What was it gonna take for him not to make

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Speaker 1: the team. Hopefully somebody else right, Hopefully it's a guy

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01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:56,760
Speaker 1: like Duke Johnson, stepping him going WHOA, well, who's this guy?

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01:19:56,880 --> 01:20:00,920
Speaker 1: You know? Hopefully it's something like that. But Zay Jones

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01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:03,080
Speaker 1: the guy who they need him to be productive. He

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Speaker 1: was a second round draft pick. It's time for him

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01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 1: to be a bigger part of this offense and get

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01:20:08,479 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 1: more opportunities and whatever. The reason he didn't get opportunities was.

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01:20:12,880 --> 01:20:15,240
Speaker 1: That needs to change. Yeah, all right, yeah, we'd take

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01:20:15,280 --> 01:20:17,560
Speaker 1: somebody else I think to jump up for him, not

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01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:19,040
Speaker 1: to make the restorer. I think he is making it.

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01:20:19,080 --> 01:20:20,640
Speaker 1: I think he is going to be productive. I've got

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01:20:20,720 --> 01:20:22,599
Speaker 1: him penciled in, no question about Oh, I got him

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Speaker 1: inked in right. Leading receiver for the Bills last year.

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Speaker 1: Fifty six catches, seven touchdowns and and this is I

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Speaker 1: think indicative of how much we think of him. We

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Speaker 1: expect more than fifty six catches and seven touchdowns. Right,

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01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:37,360
Speaker 1: that's right, I do. Yes, let's read it. Tweaked on

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Speaker 1: this question, who's the Bills biggest offseason acquisition? What do

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Speaker 1: you think? From Josh says, you guys hit on it

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01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:46,960
Speaker 1: earlier this week. The biggest acquisition the new coaches. These

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01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:49,760
Speaker 1: position groups struggled last year and it will be up

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01:20:49,760 --> 01:20:52,679
Speaker 1: to Dorsey Hall Farwell and Johnson to get their players

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01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:55,080
Speaker 1: up to speed. I love all of the offseason moves

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01:20:55,120 --> 01:20:57,000
Speaker 1: and see more to come. And this is the time

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Speaker 1: of year when it starts really right. They'll get the

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Speaker 1: rookies in next Friday. The Venter have been in for

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01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:03,720
Speaker 1: three weeks. These guys are working now, These coaches new

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01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:06,400
Speaker 1: ones and the returning coaches working now to get these

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01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:08,519
Speaker 1: people up to speed. As I said, I think I

1641
01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:10,120
Speaker 1: said this on the air a couple of days ago,

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01:21:10,160 --> 01:21:12,559
Speaker 1: maybe we were here in that discussion. You got six

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01:21:12,640 --> 01:21:14,880
Speaker 1: weeks left in this offseason program and then you're out

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01:21:14,920 --> 01:21:16,960
Speaker 1: of here for three weeks, four weeks, and then as

1645
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:19,479
Speaker 1: training camp and when training camp arrives, you better have

1646
01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:20,840
Speaker 1: a good idea. I think you want to have a

1647
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:24,519
Speaker 1: good idea. Who's lined up where, who is the wide receiver,

1648
01:21:24,640 --> 01:21:28,040
Speaker 1: who is the corner opposite to Tredavious White, who's lining

1649
01:21:28,120 --> 01:21:29,640
Speaker 1: up where an offensive line? You got to get that

1650
01:21:29,680 --> 01:21:33,240
Speaker 1: settled in the next six weeks. But I'm not, you know,

1651
01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:35,599
Speaker 1: pushing the panic button here, But this is the time,

1652
01:21:35,720 --> 01:21:38,920
Speaker 1: over these next six weeks when those decisions ideally should

1653
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:41,439
Speaker 1: be made, I think. And the key thing, and I

1654
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: said this the other day. For like guys like Brian

1655
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:50,479
Speaker 1: Dayble and these coaching staff, Job one for them is

1656
01:21:50,560 --> 01:21:54,360
Speaker 1: to find out who their guys are gonna be. Find

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01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:56,599
Speaker 1: out not only who they want to carry the ball,

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01:21:56,640 --> 01:21:58,800
Speaker 1: who they want to be at left guard, right guard,

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01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: who they want at all these but find out then

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01:22:02,160 --> 01:22:05,560
Speaker 1: what can those guys do at the NFL level that

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01:22:05,680 --> 01:22:08,200
Speaker 1: it's going to be consistently good enough for us to

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01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:10,280
Speaker 1: take advantage of on our side of the ball. How

1663
01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 1: can I game plan to get that skill to highlight

1664
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:15,640
Speaker 1: in our offense? How can I game plan to get

1665
01:22:15,720 --> 01:22:17,800
Speaker 1: this guy to do what he does best in our

1666
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:21,640
Speaker 1: defensive game plan? Job one for these coaches, new or

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01:22:21,720 --> 01:22:24,080
Speaker 1: old is to find out what their players can do

1668
01:22:24,280 --> 01:22:28,720
Speaker 1: and formulate their game plans around those strengths. That's what

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01:22:28,920 --> 01:22:30,840
Speaker 1: it is, and that's what all the six weeks leading

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01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:32,800
Speaker 1: up to find out, because now they're just finding out,

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01:22:33,320 --> 01:22:35,320
Speaker 1: I mean, they're find out who can line up, what

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01:22:35,400 --> 01:22:37,000
Speaker 1: he looks like in his stance. They're trying to tell

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01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:39,439
Speaker 1: these guys apart for the most part, particularly when the

1674
01:22:39,479 --> 01:22:41,800
Speaker 1: rookies get in here, they're gonna try and find out

1675
01:22:42,479 --> 01:22:45,559
Speaker 1: not only what they do on the field, but mostly

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01:22:45,680 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 1: right now when they get him into a meeting room

1677
01:22:47,479 --> 01:22:48,720
Speaker 1: and they're looking him in the eye and saying, hey,

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01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 1: what do you Here's what we're trying to do, and

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01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:51,840
Speaker 1: they're looking at him. They're trying to teach him things

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01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:54,680
Speaker 1: off a white board and off a film. How's the

1681
01:22:54,760 --> 01:22:57,920
Speaker 1: what's the guy's personality? What's he respond to when I

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01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:00,639
Speaker 1: get him from this room onto the practice field? Does

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01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:03,720
Speaker 1: he respond well enough after just a whiteboard session or

1684
01:23:03,760 --> 01:23:05,720
Speaker 1: does he need to see it on film? All of

1685
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:08,920
Speaker 1: this stuff, there's a there's all this knowledge that is

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01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:11,559
Speaker 1: out there to be to be gained by the coaching staff,

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01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:13,280
Speaker 1: and the players are out there just trying to play

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Speaker 1: their best. Yeah, you know, they're trying to get better.

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01:23:15,120 --> 01:23:17,439
Speaker 1: They're trying to find out who their new teammates are,

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01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:19,960
Speaker 1: where do they fit in, Where where do they fall

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01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:23,760
Speaker 1: in the pecking order, And as we just said, there's

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Speaker 1: a ton of new faces and that's they're trying to

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01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:29,920
Speaker 1: build it from. And it starts from scratch. Yea, from

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01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:31,960
Speaker 1: the scratch. You know, you just said something that reminded

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01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:34,240
Speaker 1: me of another point made last night by Brandon Mean

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01:23:34,320 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 1: the Bill's GM at the Bills Speaker series, and he

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01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:38,439
Speaker 1: said it to the whole crowd, so it's not a secret.

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01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:42,000
Speaker 1: But your point about the coaching staff coming up with

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01:23:42,160 --> 01:23:45,599
Speaker 1: different plans for different players, and I didn't I didn't

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01:23:45,600 --> 01:23:47,679
Speaker 1: even know. We don't watch what they do. We don't

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01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:50,280
Speaker 1: watch the practices now, but he said, he said, the

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01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:54,000
Speaker 1: defensive coaching staff wants put together a package for last

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01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:57,400
Speaker 1: year's fifth round picks around Neil the safety um based

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01:23:57,439 --> 01:23:59,280
Speaker 1: on the Remember, I don't know if you recall this,

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01:23:59,400 --> 01:24:00,960
Speaker 1: he had to play a little bit. Mica High got

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01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:03,559
Speaker 1: banged up at Green Bay. Was a week four, Sir

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01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:06,360
Speaker 1: and Neil fifth round pick had to play, and he

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01:24:06,439 --> 01:24:10,280
Speaker 1: had a sack. He sat Aaron Rodgers, Brandon Being said

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01:24:10,360 --> 01:24:12,360
Speaker 1: last night, because of that play and some other stuff

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01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:14,800
Speaker 1: we saw, they're interested him putting together a package for

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01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:16,880
Speaker 1: Sir and Neil to take advantage of that skill. He's

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Speaker 1: good size, six foot two hundred and five pounds two

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01:24:20,400 --> 01:24:23,479
Speaker 1: hundred six pounds, good size, obviously a smart player that

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01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:25,479
Speaker 1: they like enough to draft in the fifth round last year.

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01:24:25,640 --> 01:24:27,760
Speaker 1: But that's indicative of what you just said. They're looking

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01:24:27,760 --> 01:24:30,080
Speaker 1: at players and saying he did this for us last year,

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01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:32,120
Speaker 1: and we capitalize on that. Can we use that more?

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01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:33,680
Speaker 1: That's what they're working on right now. And it's that

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01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:36,200
Speaker 1: kind of skill that they don't roll that out there

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01:24:36,240 --> 01:24:38,360
Speaker 1: every week, right, Sir and Neial's gonna rush every But

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01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:40,519
Speaker 1: when you get to a team that has a week

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01:24:40,680 --> 01:24:43,960
Speaker 1: back who doesn't pass protect well, but he gets matched

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01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:45,960
Speaker 1: up at Sir and Neil can beat. You get a

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01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:48,880
Speaker 1: team that is susceptible to that kind of package, that's

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01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:51,120
Speaker 1: when you roll that out and you and you crush

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01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:53,320
Speaker 1: him with it on that week. You may not see

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01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:56,519
Speaker 1: it for six weeks in a row, but weeks seven

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01:24:56,760 --> 01:24:59,559
Speaker 1: and nine, both those weeks, it wins a game for you. Yeah,

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01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:02,559
Speaker 1: that's that's the multiplicity you've got to have on both

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01:25:02,600 --> 01:25:04,720
Speaker 1: sides of the ball in the NFL. And you can

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01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:07,360
Speaker 1: say what you want about offensive coordinator style or whatever.

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01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:09,559
Speaker 1: Their style is getting the most out of the guys

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01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:11,519
Speaker 1: they got on their side of the ball and using

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01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:13,760
Speaker 1: it every week to win. Yep, Hey, who is the

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01:25:13,800 --> 01:25:16,240
Speaker 1: Bill's best offseason acquisition? Who do you think? We got

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01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:18,160
Speaker 1: a lot of response coming in on this. We'll get

1737
01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:20,160
Speaker 1: to a few few more phone calls when we come back.

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Speaker 1: One does Live presented by Collat of Health from one

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01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:36,400
Speaker 1: Bill's Driving This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Welcome Back, One

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01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:38,840
Speaker 1: Goes One Goes live from one Bills drives. Do you

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01:25:38,920 --> 01:25:42,760
Speaker 1: cast your with job Ruby? So I just want to

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01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:45,559
Speaker 1: mention the Steve Okay, wait, let me gather myself. Go ahead,

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01:25:45,720 --> 01:25:48,479
Speaker 1: Well you'll have time. Steve is off on vacation again

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01:25:48,600 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 1: next week. What do you say again? What's the number

1745
01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:53,120
Speaker 1: of HR here? I want to check on vacation? Are

1746
01:25:53,160 --> 01:25:55,960
Speaker 1: you kidding me? You've been every year you've been gone.

1747
01:25:56,080 --> 01:25:58,360
Speaker 1: What's this your eighth or ninth week of vacation? Right

1748
01:25:58,479 --> 01:26:01,400
Speaker 1: in a year? Eighth or ninth a day? You won't

1749
01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:03,840
Speaker 1: be here like six hours at a time getting these

1750
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:06,559
Speaker 1: Chris Brown for the most part. Next week, I believe right,

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01:26:06,600 --> 01:26:08,679
Speaker 1: Producer Jay Harris, Yes, I believe it is Chris Brown.

1752
01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:10,680
Speaker 1: And then Friday the rookies are in, and well it

1753
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:12,439
Speaker 1: will be real busy and Steve will miss all of it.

1754
01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:16,240
Speaker 1: That's Okaya, desperately miss it. You will not see me

1755
01:26:16,280 --> 01:26:19,720
Speaker 1: in the month of June. Yeah, and you'll miss me.

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01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:21,800
Speaker 1: I will miss you. Hey. The question of the day

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01:26:22,080 --> 01:26:25,640
Speaker 1: the Bills, who's their biggest offseason acquisition? Give us a

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01:26:25,720 --> 01:26:27,880
Speaker 1: call eight O three five fifty or twenty three one

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01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:31,519
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty or a tweet.

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01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:33,599
Speaker 1: We might read it from Dennis on the tweet sheet

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01:26:33,840 --> 01:26:38,040
Speaker 1: says the most intriguing is Duke Williams fingers crossed. He

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01:26:38,160 --> 01:26:41,200
Speaker 1: can transition. Well, that's a big transition, Steve. I have

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01:26:41,320 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 1: to say, you, guys, I wasn't here when Duke was

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01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:46,360
Speaker 1: on the show. I'm sure he's a great guy, an

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01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:50,160
Speaker 1: accomplished CFL receiver, but I think I don't want people

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01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:52,479
Speaker 1: to get their hopes up for Duke Williams. Here's here's

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01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:55,240
Speaker 1: my take on Duke Williams. He came out of high school,

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01:26:55,320 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 1: was a five star recruise, big, big, strong, rangy athlete, yep,

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01:27:00,120 --> 01:27:04,280
Speaker 1: got thrown off the Auburn football team. So you can imagine,

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01:27:04,640 --> 01:27:06,519
Speaker 1: you know, he had some issues, personal issues that he

1771
01:27:06,600 --> 01:27:08,240
Speaker 1: was dealing with, demons, whatever you want to call it

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01:27:08,280 --> 01:27:12,800
Speaker 1: on he just he was behavioral issues ended his college career.

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01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:14,760
Speaker 1: And I can't I can't remember where he actually went

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01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:17,479
Speaker 1: from Auburn, but he ended up in the Canadian Football

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01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:20,240
Speaker 1: League and has and we had him on the show

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01:27:20,320 --> 01:27:22,000
Speaker 1: Brownie and I. We asked him about, you know, what

1777
01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:24,439
Speaker 1: he learned and all that, and he admitted openly he

1778
01:27:24,479 --> 01:27:26,920
Speaker 1: said listen, I had some work to do. It was

1779
01:27:27,680 --> 01:27:30,160
Speaker 1: you know, it was me. You know I was the

1780
01:27:30,280 --> 01:27:32,720
Speaker 1: problem at Auburn. Now I was the problem in my past.

1781
01:27:32,760 --> 01:27:35,919
Speaker 1: I had to grow up. And being a pro athlete

1782
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:38,560
Speaker 1: in Canada for three years taught him how to do

1783
01:27:38,680 --> 01:27:42,000
Speaker 1: it on his own, make his own schedule, workout, get

1784
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:44,120
Speaker 1: all that done. He matured a lot. He admitted or

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01:27:44,320 --> 01:27:45,920
Speaker 1: he admitted it that that was his He knew he

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01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:48,800
Speaker 1: had to do it, and he led that league in

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01:27:48,960 --> 01:27:55,200
Speaker 1: receiving us. He's a really great athlete, big and wins

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01:27:55,280 --> 01:27:58,720
Speaker 1: fifty fifty balls. He has every reason to think, yeah,

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01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:02,760
Speaker 1: he could do it. He's got the athletic ability. We'll see,

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01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:05,519
Speaker 1: We'll see it's going to be really intriguing to watch him.

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01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:09,000
Speaker 1: But I think I might agree with that with that tweet. Intriguing.

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01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:12,760
Speaker 1: He's he is a guy that if he steps up

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01:28:12,760 --> 01:28:15,240
Speaker 1: to the plate, he's got all the tools to be

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01:28:15,320 --> 01:28:17,360
Speaker 1: a really good play. A receiver room that includes Zay

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01:28:17,439 --> 01:28:21,880
Speaker 1: Jones coming back, Robert Foster Isai McKenzie. Those three strong

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01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:25,200
Speaker 1: challengers also Ray Ray McLeod, Demarray, Scott cam Phillips, Victor

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01:28:25,280 --> 01:28:28,080
Speaker 1: Bolden Junior's got some experience in the league, and new

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01:28:28,120 --> 01:28:32,000
Speaker 1: additions including Duke, Cole Beasley, and John Brown. Andre Roberts

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01:28:32,240 --> 01:28:34,040
Speaker 1: is a receiver. He'll probably get most of his work

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01:28:34,320 --> 01:28:37,360
Speaker 1: on special teams. There's it's a crowded feeling in front

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01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:39,960
Speaker 1: of Duke Williams. With the addition to John Brown and

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01:28:40,040 --> 01:28:44,000
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley. All of a sudden, the list gets really

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01:28:44,080 --> 01:28:46,560
Speaker 1: short of spots at the end of that roster that

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01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:49,320
Speaker 1: are going to be available. And it's kind of mentioned

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01:28:49,560 --> 01:28:53,000
Speaker 1: Sills from West Virginia, undrafted rookie who is expected to

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01:28:53,080 --> 01:28:57,599
Speaker 1: be signed next week. Yeah. And competitive. Yeah, the room

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01:28:57,680 --> 01:29:00,320
Speaker 1: became a lot Just what I said. It is a

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01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:02,640
Speaker 1: lot more competitive than it looked like it was going

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01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:05,479
Speaker 1: to be four months ago. Yep. Take a phone call

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01:29:05,560 --> 01:29:08,320
Speaker 1: here from Brian in West Seneca. We're asking the question,

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01:29:08,840 --> 01:29:12,840
Speaker 1: who is the Bill's biggest offseason acquisition? What do you think? Brian?

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01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:16,599
Speaker 1: What do you think? Who is the Bill's biggest offseason acquisition? Hey, Murphy,

1813
01:29:16,720 --> 01:29:22,479
Speaker 1: see before I say who I think is the biggest

1814
01:29:22,479 --> 01:29:24,920
Speaker 1: offseason acquisition, I want to touch on the first part

1815
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:27,720
Speaker 1: of the show where talking about the summit last night

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01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:31,000
Speaker 1: and Brandon Bean not giving up too much information. I

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01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:34,800
Speaker 1: remember I was at the restaurant the Well at Orchard Park.

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01:29:34,840 --> 01:29:39,560
Speaker 1: I know, if you're familiar with this, where's that? What's that?

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01:29:39,720 --> 01:29:45,000
Speaker 1: Where is that? It's it's right on Orchard Park Road,

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01:29:45,200 --> 01:29:47,519
Speaker 1: near right in the village of Orchard Park. Oh, it's

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01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:50,960
Speaker 1: it's something else now yeah, Oh, excuse me. It's called

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01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:53,400
Speaker 1: the Birdhouse. You're right, Birdhouse. There you go. We've been

1823
01:29:53,439 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 1: to the Birdhouse. Steve has a seat there at the Birdhouse,

1824
01:29:56,479 --> 01:29:58,400
Speaker 1: kind of like the money he had at Coughlin's in Fredonia.

1825
01:30:00,200 --> 01:30:04,040
Speaker 1: Everybody holler's my name when I walked, I'm sorry, go ahead.

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01:30:05,640 --> 01:30:09,560
Speaker 1: So anyways, I ate dinner with my family there. It was.

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01:30:09,760 --> 01:30:11,760
Speaker 1: I looked it up, so I don't think I'm crazy

1828
01:30:11,800 --> 01:30:14,800
Speaker 1: around me in the day. But it was November one, seventeen.

1829
01:30:14,840 --> 01:30:18,320
Speaker 1: It was a daily traded for Calvin Benjamin and Brandon

1830
01:30:18,439 --> 01:30:20,720
Speaker 1: Bean had come in to eat with his family, and

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01:30:21,400 --> 01:30:23,920
Speaker 1: I'm a high school football coach, so I just wanted

1832
01:30:23,920 --> 01:30:25,760
Speaker 1: to go up and chat with him and you know,

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01:30:26,800 --> 01:30:29,519
Speaker 1: bother him a bit. I said, Hey, I said, we're

1834
01:30:29,520 --> 01:30:32,439
Speaker 1: probably going to draft a quarterback this year. Who you

1835
01:30:32,520 --> 01:30:34,600
Speaker 1: know without giving it away, who you're telling me? And

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01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:38,600
Speaker 1: his response was, while I was hoping that the quarterbacks

1837
01:30:38,640 --> 01:30:41,040
Speaker 1: from Wyoming would fly under the radar. But I don't

1838
01:30:41,080 --> 01:30:45,000
Speaker 1: think that's happening right now. Yeah, well there you go. Yeah, yeah,

1839
01:30:45,080 --> 01:30:46,840
Speaker 1: so you knew you knew it a long time before

1840
01:30:46,880 --> 01:30:48,640
Speaker 1: anybody else did. Who the Bills were going to take

1841
01:30:48,720 --> 01:30:51,599
Speaker 1: or are they who they'd like to take? Yeah? Yeah,

1842
01:30:51,640 --> 01:30:54,560
Speaker 1: So I told my brother in law and family about it, like, no,

1843
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:57,160
Speaker 1: no way they're going to take job. And I said, well,

1844
01:30:57,640 --> 01:30:59,960
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, brand No one believed me,

1845
01:31:00,360 --> 01:31:03,360
Speaker 1: including this guy, when I said I think Josh Allen

1846
01:31:03,479 --> 01:31:06,000
Speaker 1: is did you believe me last year before the draft

1847
01:31:06,040 --> 01:31:08,840
Speaker 1: would totally in with you? No, you weren't. I wasn't

1848
01:31:08,840 --> 01:31:10,920
Speaker 1: sure of anything, But I said, they liked Josh Allen

1849
01:31:10,960 --> 01:31:13,160
Speaker 1: a lot. I know they like Josh Allen a lot.

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01:31:13,479 --> 01:31:16,519
Speaker 1: Your point, Brian, is that if you talk and listen

1851
01:31:16,600 --> 01:31:18,920
Speaker 1: to Brandon Bean, you'll learn something. I think is what

1852
01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:22,360
Speaker 1: you're saying. Right. Absolutely, Yeah I do too. Yeah, I

1853
01:31:22,640 --> 01:31:24,760
Speaker 1: agree that there's a lot of people who and it's

1854
01:31:24,800 --> 01:31:26,680
Speaker 1: obvious after the draft and after it goes as well

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01:31:26,720 --> 01:31:28,040
Speaker 1: as it did or it seems to have gone as

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01:31:28,080 --> 01:31:31,160
Speaker 1: well as it did for the Bills. Yeah, it's it's

1857
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:33,599
Speaker 1: easy to say, but I've been saying it and we've

1858
01:31:33,640 --> 01:31:35,320
Speaker 1: been believing it for a long time. This is a

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01:31:35,479 --> 01:31:37,560
Speaker 1: coach and general manager who have done a lot of

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01:31:37,640 --> 01:31:40,280
Speaker 1: things really well, a lot of really good decisions, a

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01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:41,920
Speaker 1: lot of really good signings, and a lot of really

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01:31:41,960 --> 01:31:44,560
Speaker 1: good philosophies that are in place and seem to be

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01:31:44,640 --> 01:31:49,320
Speaker 1: working towards the same goal. So it's it always Now,

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01:31:50,840 --> 01:31:55,439
Speaker 1: there's no reason to think they can't win football games,

1865
01:31:55,920 --> 01:31:58,120
Speaker 1: except we haven't seen him do that for a long time.

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01:31:58,560 --> 01:32:02,280
Speaker 1: Right in history, said history. Now, this is a team

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01:32:02,320 --> 01:32:04,240
Speaker 1: that got a lot two years ago when they backed

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01:32:04,240 --> 01:32:06,680
Speaker 1: into the playoffs out of nowhere, in a team in

1869
01:32:06,760 --> 01:32:08,719
Speaker 1: a year when people thought they were going to be tanking.

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01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:12,400
Speaker 1: I think this is a it's a time when Wow,

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01:32:12,520 --> 01:32:14,040
Speaker 1: this is a coaching staff, and this is a head

1872
01:32:14,080 --> 01:32:16,479
Speaker 1: coach who's getting the most out of his roster anyway.

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01:32:16,640 --> 01:32:18,960
Speaker 1: You know, you can say that. Then last year with

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01:32:19,040 --> 01:32:21,160
Speaker 1: the rookie quarterback and how much they struggled with four

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01:32:21,200 --> 01:32:23,640
Speaker 1: different starting quarterbacks. You know, they went through a lot

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01:32:23,680 --> 01:32:26,760
Speaker 1: of things offensively, they couldn't score enough points. So having

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01:32:26,840 --> 01:32:31,160
Speaker 1: said all that, still a lot of things going right

1878
01:32:31,680 --> 01:32:34,360
Speaker 1: for the team, but it comes down to winning games now. Brian,

1879
01:32:34,720 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 1: you have, but to the point you wanted to make, Yeah,

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01:32:37,240 --> 01:32:40,240
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say who I think is the

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01:32:40,320 --> 01:32:43,519
Speaker 1: best offseason acquisition player wise. I agree with the previous

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01:32:43,560 --> 01:32:48,560
Speaker 1: callers to be much morse, but I think that I

1883
01:32:49,040 --> 01:32:53,760
Speaker 1: don't want to say the best the best accusation quite yet,

1884
01:32:53,840 --> 01:32:56,880
Speaker 1: but I think something that was necessary, that's that's very

1885
01:32:57,160 --> 01:33:00,759
Speaker 1: unique is the hiring of Bobby Johnson and he's getting

1886
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:04,479
Speaker 1: a fresh, new old line to coach freshly, and I

1887
01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:07,040
Speaker 1: think that could be by the end of the season

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01:33:07,439 --> 01:33:11,240
Speaker 1: the best higher all right, all right, thanks Brian, appreciate it.

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01:33:11,280 --> 01:33:13,000
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more about this in the third and

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01:33:13,120 --> 01:33:15,400
Speaker 1: final little show the show, and that's coming up. We're

1891
01:33:15,400 --> 01:33:17,320
Speaker 1: gonna talk with Lorenzo Alexander as well, and we'll be

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01:33:17,400 --> 01:33:19,360
Speaker 1: live with us when we return. Come on back One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalada Health from One Bill's Drive

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio Hills Radio Network. Stories update from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Quiet Day here as hard as players

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Speaker 1: and coaches, no offseason conditioning today. They'll be back on Monday,

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Speaker 1: a week from today. It's the Rookies Arrived. The Rookie

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Speaker 1: Minicamp starts next Friday around the league, the green Bay

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Speaker 1: Packers have signed their first round draft pick, safety Darnell Savage.

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Speaker 1: Agreed to terms and signed. It includes the usual fifth

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Speaker 1: year team option for the b Savage the twenty first

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Speaker 1: pick of the first round. Last Thursday night, Green Bay

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Speaker 1: traded up to get him. Darnell Savage the second Green

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Speaker 1: Bay player drafted in the first round after they picked

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Speaker 1: Michigan edge rusher Rashaan Gariot number twelve. Darnell Savage first

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Speaker 1: first round or to agree to terms and sign a

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Speaker 1: contract today. Former Bills linebacker Zach Brown has a new

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Speaker 1: location in the NFL. Signed a one year deal with

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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles announced today he was ranked

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Speaker 1: twenty ninth in a list of the top one hundred

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Speaker 1: free agents of this upcoming season. Twenty nine year old

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Speaker 1: Zach Brown going into his eighth professional season, fourth team

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Speaker 1: in his career, now with the Eagles. He played, of course,

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Speaker 1: with the Bills in two sixteen, with Tennessee and with Washington.

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Speaker 1: Earlier on Tampa Bay Buccaneers pass rusher Jason Pierre Paul

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Speaker 1: was involved in a minor motor vehicle accident early yesterday

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Speaker 1: sought medical attention Pierre Paul has not been at the

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Speaker 1: Bucks offseason conditioning program yet, led the team with twelve

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Speaker 1: and a half sacks last season, becoming the first Buck

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Speaker 1: to reach double digit sacks since two thousand and five.

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Speaker 1: Stand the Cup playoffs tonight a couple of games in

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Speaker 1: the East, game four of the series between the Islanders

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Speaker 1: and Carolina, again the series belonging to Carolina three games

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Speaker 1: to none so far. They'll face off at seven o'clock

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Speaker 1: tonight and out West at nine thirty tonight. Saint Louis

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Speaker 1: Blues at home against Dallas Game five, that series tied

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Speaker 1: at two wins apiece. Eight times Stanley Cup winner Red Kelly,

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Speaker 1: Hall of famer, passed away overnight. Kelly won eight Stanley

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Speaker 1: Cups during a twenty year career in the NHL, moonlighting

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Speaker 1: during that time as a member of Canada's parliament as

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Speaker 1: he won NHL championships and triple crown winning jockey Mike

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Speaker 1: Smith will ride in the derby. After all, he's picked

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Speaker 1: up the mount on thirty to one shot, cutting humor

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Speaker 1: after his horse, the favorite Omaha Beach, was scratched. The

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Speaker 1: derby tomorrow with post time at six fifty and that's it.

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Speaker 1: For the update from one Bill's drive, So it is

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Speaker 1: time for the lowdown. Lorenzo Alexander joins us in studio.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll read days and these before the updating stuff.

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Speaker 1: This blows me away. Red Kelly and I remember him

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Speaker 1: was a little kid. He was old then, Toronto, May Belief,

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixties or whatever. He's playing, winning Stanley Cups in

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Speaker 1: his twenty year career, and he's serving in the Canadian Parliament.

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Speaker 1: He's like a congressman while he's playing in the NHS.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing? I didn't know that he took up

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Speaker 1: coaching after that, but he played UH in the nineteen sixties,

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Speaker 1: mid nineteen sixties after playing in Detroit and was in

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Speaker 1: Canada's parliament. Anybody you mentioned a congressman player today? Couldn't no,

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Speaker 1: not at all? Great while you're playing, I mean you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean the hard parts playing. You bet a lot

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Speaker 1: of hard would be the commute, right, an amazing story, Lorenzo.

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Speaker 1: Are you good to have you in here doing great? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You know, been back um, just training, getting the body right,

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Speaker 1: meeting all the new guys, getting to know them, doing

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Speaker 1: these bills games, taking care of the kids, the wife.

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Speaker 1: Everything's going well for me right now. You just got

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Speaker 1: you say, he just got back. You're in Washington. He's

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Speaker 1: tell us about the Yeah we were dum last week

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Speaker 1: went down there, drove down with the kids, uh or

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Speaker 1: Thursday night, got up Friday, went over to Maryland, did

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Speaker 1: a tour, went over to the NFL PA building and

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Speaker 1: as well as Howard's campus, and we got the chance

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Speaker 1: to tour, you know, see the athletic facilities, see the

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Speaker 1: academic facilities obviously in the PA building. Um, getting them

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Speaker 1: to understand what the union is and and and how

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Speaker 1: we started gaming a little bit of history. So that

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Speaker 1: was really cool. Um. And then we went to the

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Speaker 1: Avengers movie, took them to that, and then Saturday we

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Speaker 1: went to the National African American Museum as well as

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Speaker 1: a lot of the monuments down there on the National Malls. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like tourists. Just like I said before, just exposing them

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Speaker 1: to something a little bit different. A lot of these

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Speaker 1: kids had never had never been to DC, let alone

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Speaker 1: you know, the African American Museum and in Maryland campus

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Speaker 1: as well as Howard and just giving them a different

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Speaker 1: perspective on things, especially with the African American Museum just

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Speaker 1: to show them, you know, what people fought for um,

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Speaker 1: you know, and how America has changed and some of

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Speaker 1: the things that we take for granted, especially as a

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Speaker 1: black man in americ because sometimes you just getting free

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Speaker 1: education or be able to read, be able to write,

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Speaker 1: be able to walk down the street, and I have

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Speaker 1: to worry about certain things. Just giving them a sense

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Speaker 1: of appreciation, it's always a great reminder for me as well,

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Speaker 1: be able to going into a place like that. Do

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Speaker 1: you also put it out there that there's still more

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Speaker 1: to be done? I mean, they know more than anything.

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Speaker 1: I mean, certainly the groundwork has been laid, and thank goodness,

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Speaker 1: it's not what it used to be right still. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think that's part of me mentoring because you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously I had my parents and mentors in my life

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Speaker 1: tell me, you know, I need to be part of

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Speaker 1: the solution, part of that progression that we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: And now I'm just trying to instill that in them

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Speaker 1: and get them to understand that they have so many

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Speaker 1: things that their finger tips, but they have to invest

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Speaker 1: in themselves before they can invest in anybody else. As

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Speaker 1: far as the monuments and the tourist sites in Washington.

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Speaker 1: Which of them getting most impressed your kids from self Park,

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Speaker 1: I mean because we went to MLK with the Linking Memorial,

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Speaker 1: getting word War two. Vietnam's vedams right there as well.

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Speaker 1: That one is really really pretty. Um but I mean

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Speaker 1: the African American Museum, it's just so much it's overwhelming. Um.

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Speaker 1: So that's something that you can spend maybe you know,

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Speaker 1: six seven hours in and go back a couple of times.

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Speaker 1: It's big. It's like four floors up, four floors down,

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Speaker 1: and just so much an interesting building too, right, It's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's that like gold. Yeah. I think it's like post

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Speaker 1: to look like a ship of some sort and I

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Speaker 1: know that like and then they design it, you know,

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Speaker 1: well kind of cool where they design it intentionally because

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Speaker 1: when you walk in, it's this big, grand thing just

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of the civil rights movement and how

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Speaker 1: far we've come in the progression. But then you go

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Speaker 1: down into the into the basement of it where they

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Speaker 1: where they talk about slavery and the slave trade in

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Speaker 1: that progression of history, it's like it's real tight just

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Speaker 1: to kind of give you a feel of what it

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Speaker 1: felt to come across the Atlantic. Of if everybody so

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Speaker 1: they the building was designed immaculately and it's a lot

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Speaker 1: of intentionality and if you ever get a chance to

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Speaker 1: go down there, I would definitely recommend it for anybody.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if you guys have the Civil Rights Museum

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Speaker 1: and Memphis. I have been the rain Motel shot. They

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Speaker 1: turned to half of the building into a museum. It's amazing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've been. Is the Rosa Parks bus I think is

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Speaker 1: there and everything. It's really cool. What a great trip.

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Speaker 1: Good for you to do that. Yeah, my pleasure. And

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Speaker 1: it was just you left Thursday and got back when

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Speaker 1: got back up Saturday night? Yeah quick, yeah, um six hours.

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Speaker 1: It's not a bad trip. Made a couple of stops,

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Speaker 1: you know, saw a movie. But you know it was

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Speaker 1: their end of their spring breaks, so we wanted to

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Speaker 1: make sure we got them back. So Sunday then I

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Speaker 1: getting back and have to go to school on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: While you were gone, the NFL Draft two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty seven players drafted and hundreds of others undrafted, which

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Speaker 1: is where you came into the league. I thought you

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Speaker 1: had some advice for undrafted guys. Guys who did not

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Speaker 1: probably disappointed. Sunday, Saturday did not hear their names called. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing is just, um, you don't con necessarily

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Speaker 1: control where you started. Obviously, gms and coaches around the

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Speaker 1: league they pick who they want to pick, and now

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Speaker 1: you dealt your hand and so don't get caught up

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Speaker 1: in the starting point. Obviously, it's it's a lot harder Rod,

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Speaker 1: but just put your head down, grind, believing yourself and

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Speaker 1: things will pan out. But you can't go in there

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Speaker 1: counting numbers and worrying about things that are really out

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Speaker 1: of you control. You gotta remember they signed you for

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Speaker 1: a reason too. They draft that guy for a reason,

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Speaker 1: but they signed you for a reason too, and you

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Speaker 1: got to live on that and and take take heart

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Speaker 1: that somebody thinks you got a chance exactly. And it's

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Speaker 1: a harder role, but I you know, I feel that

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Speaker 1: guys that have to grind and earn it, those guys

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Speaker 1: end up being in the league for a long time.

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Speaker 1: You look up and I know a lot of guys,

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Speaker 1: you know, London, Fletcher, Leje Dozebele who played here obviously

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Speaker 1: myself and countless other guys who you know. You look

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Speaker 1: up and you've played you know, ten fifteen years. I

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Speaker 1: mean Ryan Clark is another name that comes to minds,

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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of guys that became really um

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Speaker 1: great players in this league. One of the things we

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Speaker 1: were Murph and I were just talking about earlier in

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Speaker 1: the show is that now you've got guys like Tremaine

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Speaker 1: and Josh some of these other young and guys like

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Speaker 1: Robert Foster, rookies who now they've been through one lap.

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Speaker 1: And I remember thinking this even after my first year.

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Speaker 1: It was like, oh, that's it. Yeah, we go again. Right,

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Speaker 1: I get it. You know, there's something that happens to

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Speaker 1: you talk about that when you've seen it and another

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Speaker 1: group comes in, youthing, well, that's all there was to it.

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Speaker 1: I can take this, you know, let's go. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of a different mindset for your second year, right, because

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Speaker 1: you come in knowing. I mean, I think it's like

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Speaker 1: anything we talk about. Sean mentioned this thing. I forgot

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Speaker 1: the guy that did it, but nobody had ever ran

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Speaker 1: a four minute mile, right, I forgot the guy who

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Speaker 1: did it, and once he did it, everybody else did it.

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Speaker 1: So it's all about a mindset and understanding what to expect.

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Speaker 1: And after that rookie year, you've been through a lot

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Speaker 1: of the circumstances that you stress out about, but coming

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Speaker 1: into your second year, you have a little bit of

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Speaker 1: understanding and sometimes I could be a detriment. And we

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Speaker 1: call that the sophomore slump because you think, oh, I

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Speaker 1: got it now. But guys like your Main and Josh,

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Speaker 1: they've been doing great, working hard, and they're going to

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Speaker 1: build them the second You're much like Matt Milano. Did

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Speaker 1: you came into the league undrafted five right with Carolina

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Speaker 1: your first team? Yes? What took I wonder what the

2090
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Speaker 1: process is for an undrafted guy? In some ways, you

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Speaker 1: you're better off than the seventh round or a chance.

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Speaker 1: At that point, you almost want to give you the

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Speaker 1: Carrol drafted, Um, their defensive scheme, Um, the guys that

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Speaker 1: were on their roster. I was a three technique back then. Um,

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Speaker 1: You're looking at the coaching staff, Um, you know, is

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Speaker 1: a team good? And so there's a lot of you know,

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Speaker 1: different you know, variables. Obviously, who's going to offer that

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Speaker 1: that money at that point because I was a high

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Speaker 1: priority free agent, so I had about three or four

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Speaker 1: teams calling, and then you're just trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: what do you best fit in so that you have

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Speaker 1: a possibility of making that team based on the pieces

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Speaker 1: that they may already have for draft. They recruit you

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01:43:31,240 --> 01:43:34,040
Speaker 1: pretty hard these teams, Um they can. I mean, it

2105
01:43:34,160 --> 01:43:36,320
Speaker 1: just depends on who you are and what position you play,

2106
01:43:36,320 --> 01:43:38,080
Speaker 1: and how they feel about you, whether or not they

2107
01:43:38,120 --> 01:43:41,120
Speaker 1: really want you or not. Right, Alexander are guests, if

2108
01:43:41,160 --> 01:43:42,519
Speaker 1: you have a you have a your piecing you do.

2109
01:43:42,560 --> 01:43:44,479
Speaker 1: If you have a commented question, give us a call.

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01:43:44,560 --> 01:43:47,320
Speaker 1: Lorenzo can hear you? Eight three fifty and toll Free

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01:43:47,439 --> 01:43:50,080
Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. What do

2112
01:43:50,120 --> 01:43:51,559
Speaker 1: you think of the Bills draft? Did dude take note

2113
01:43:51,560 --> 01:43:53,479
Speaker 1: of anybody there? Um? It was good. You know. I

2114
01:43:53,479 --> 01:43:56,280
Speaker 1: don't really pay attention too much to the draft. I mean, obviously, um,

2115
01:43:56,720 --> 01:43:58,760
Speaker 1: Ed Oliver is a dynamic player, and what he's going

2116
01:43:58,840 --> 01:44:01,519
Speaker 1: to be able to do for us after losing Kyle,

2117
01:44:01,840 --> 01:44:04,440
Speaker 1: having a young guy that that can be very disruptive,

2118
01:44:04,479 --> 01:44:06,479
Speaker 1: adding him into that defensive line room is going to

2119
01:44:06,560 --> 01:44:09,800
Speaker 1: help out everybody. Obviously, being playing behind him, I'm going

2120
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:11,720
Speaker 1: to benefit. Playing next to him when I'm rushing, I'll

2121
01:44:11,720 --> 01:44:14,840
Speaker 1: benefit as well. And so I'm very excited to see

2122
01:44:15,439 --> 01:44:17,799
Speaker 1: what he brings to the table. And then we obviously

2123
01:44:17,880 --> 01:44:19,840
Speaker 1: drafted some other guys on defense and office that are

2124
01:44:19,880 --> 01:44:21,560
Speaker 1: going to add to the piece and the nucleus and

2125
01:44:21,720 --> 01:44:23,720
Speaker 1: of that competitive nature that we're trying to build here.

2126
01:44:24,000 --> 01:44:25,880
Speaker 1: So you just don't always feel comfortable, and I think

2127
01:44:25,920 --> 01:44:28,040
Speaker 1: out of that, you know, obviously the cream rides to

2128
01:44:28,120 --> 01:44:30,160
Speaker 1: the top and you have a lot of greatness. Yeah,

2129
01:44:30,960 --> 01:44:34,160
Speaker 1: they drafted the linebacker Forshawan Joseph who is coming out

2130
01:44:34,200 --> 01:44:36,040
Speaker 1: as kind of a raw guy who's up and down.

2131
01:44:36,080 --> 01:44:37,760
Speaker 1: He has the ability to make some great plays and

2132
01:44:37,840 --> 01:44:40,280
Speaker 1: then he kind of loses focus or what you know.

2133
01:44:40,360 --> 01:44:42,120
Speaker 1: He's kind of a roller coaster as a young player,

2134
01:44:42,160 --> 01:44:43,880
Speaker 1: and that's one of the reasons he got dropped down

2135
01:44:43,920 --> 01:44:46,439
Speaker 1: in the draft. What do you have any I think

2136
01:44:46,479 --> 01:44:48,519
Speaker 1: I know the answer, But does it bother you that

2137
01:44:48,560 --> 01:44:51,519
Speaker 1: they drafted out your position alway? Does it right? I

2138
01:44:51,600 --> 01:44:53,240
Speaker 1: mean at this stage, I mean you figure it out out.

2139
01:44:53,320 --> 01:44:55,960
Speaker 1: Me and m Andre Roberts were talking about this the

2140
01:44:56,040 --> 01:44:58,559
Speaker 1: other day. He was like, Zoe, Man, does ball get

2141
01:44:58,920 --> 01:45:01,000
Speaker 1: better for you the older you get? And I was

2142
01:45:01,080 --> 01:45:02,920
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, and he was like yeah, I mean

2143
01:45:02,920 --> 01:45:04,240
Speaker 1: I feel the same way too. I was like, the

2144
01:45:04,360 --> 01:45:06,600
Speaker 1: main reason is is that I'm not stressing over some

2145
01:45:06,720 --> 01:45:08,599
Speaker 1: of the stuff that you stress over as a young player.

2146
01:45:08,680 --> 01:45:10,240
Speaker 1: They gonna keep me and they're gonna cut me. Who

2147
01:45:10,240 --> 01:45:12,760
Speaker 1: did they draft? You know, what's my position? Can I

2148
01:45:12,840 --> 01:45:14,960
Speaker 1: play in this league? I don't. I don't have those

2149
01:45:15,000 --> 01:45:17,559
Speaker 1: worries anymore. So I'm actually enjoying the game of football

2150
01:45:17,640 --> 01:45:19,479
Speaker 1: like you did when it was Pop Warner in high school.

2151
01:45:19,960 --> 01:45:22,360
Speaker 1: So they could draft like I mean, like last year

2152
01:45:22,360 --> 01:45:25,160
Speaker 1: they drafted trade Maine Um. This year they drafted Rochean.

2153
01:45:25,240 --> 01:45:27,240
Speaker 1: They could draft another if I decided to play again

2154
01:45:27,280 --> 01:45:29,920
Speaker 1: another first round of format spot, I wouldn't. I wouldn't

2155
01:45:29,960 --> 01:45:31,760
Speaker 1: care because I can't control that. I know what I

2156
01:45:31,840 --> 01:45:33,559
Speaker 1: can do this league, and I go out there and produce.

2157
01:45:33,800 --> 01:45:35,679
Speaker 1: And it's happened before. I mean, when I was in Washington,

2158
01:45:35,760 --> 01:45:38,720
Speaker 1: they drafted Um. We had Brian Racpo one year, then

2159
01:45:38,840 --> 01:45:40,439
Speaker 1: Ryan Carre again a couple of years later, and I

2160
01:45:40,520 --> 01:45:42,280
Speaker 1: got moved out of the starting role. So it's happened

2161
01:45:42,280 --> 01:45:45,160
Speaker 1: to me and I survived it, and so I've learned

2162
01:45:45,200 --> 01:45:46,679
Speaker 1: from that experience, and I just know I can play

2163
01:45:46,680 --> 01:45:48,519
Speaker 1: in this league, so I always have an opportunity. Yeah,

2164
01:45:48,520 --> 01:45:49,800
Speaker 1: And it's it's great to be in a spot and

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01:45:49,880 --> 01:45:51,880
Speaker 1: you're right. It is like when you're when you're a

2166
01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:54,720
Speaker 1: young Pop Warner football player, all you got worried abouts man,

2167
01:45:54,760 --> 01:45:58,280
Speaker 1: I hope he win, right, Yeah, it's not like you know,

2168
01:45:59,400 --> 01:46:02,000
Speaker 1: hope I get it play or I just hope we win.

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01:46:02,520 --> 01:46:04,400
Speaker 1: It's a really it's a whole different mindset than is

2170
01:46:04,439 --> 01:46:06,599
Speaker 1: when you're a rookie thinking again, I gotta make the team,

2171
01:46:06,640 --> 01:46:08,360
Speaker 1: and you're starting to do that pecking order likes better

2172
01:46:08,400 --> 01:46:10,760
Speaker 1: than number. I think I'm better than him, but I

2173
01:46:10,760 --> 01:46:12,320
Speaker 1: don't know if they really see that because I got

2174
01:46:12,760 --> 01:46:14,280
Speaker 1: I'm not getting as many reps, or he had a

2175
01:46:14,320 --> 01:46:16,920
Speaker 1: really good rep. It's just roller coaster you ride with.

2176
01:46:17,280 --> 01:46:19,200
Speaker 1: You're gonna make it and you're gonna get cut in

2177
01:46:19,280 --> 01:46:21,720
Speaker 1: about five seconds. Both it's stressful and it's just a

2178
01:46:21,720 --> 01:46:23,439
Speaker 1: stressful life to live. And that's how I lived my

2179
01:46:23,520 --> 01:46:25,640
Speaker 1: first couple of years. We had my grain headaches. Then

2180
01:46:25,680 --> 01:46:29,360
Speaker 1: I figured it out, don't worry about things you cannot control,

2181
01:46:30,040 --> 01:46:33,240
Speaker 1: and then just everything just kind of, you know, went

2182
01:46:33,360 --> 01:46:35,640
Speaker 1: well after that because my mindset was totally different. You know.

2183
01:46:36,439 --> 01:46:39,679
Speaker 1: You mentioned and the Bills drafted obviously in the second

2184
01:46:39,720 --> 01:46:42,880
Speaker 1: round an offensive lineman and Dean Dawkins left tackle. Last

2185
01:46:42,880 --> 01:46:44,880
Speaker 1: two years and I'm going into this third year. I

2186
01:46:45,040 --> 01:46:46,560
Speaker 1: was asked about what does that mean to you? And

2187
01:46:46,640 --> 01:46:49,080
Speaker 1: he kind of excited you. He said, I have the

2188
01:46:49,479 --> 01:46:55,599
Speaker 1: what would Zoe do? Rule? Right? Um? You know, um,

2189
01:46:56,080 --> 01:46:57,880
Speaker 1: Deon is smart. I mean he just watches people that

2190
01:46:57,920 --> 01:46:59,439
Speaker 1: have been in the league a long time. And that's

2191
01:46:59,520 --> 01:47:02,040
Speaker 1: not just me. You know, he's been a benefit of

2192
01:47:02,120 --> 01:47:04,920
Speaker 1: being around the Eric Wood and a rich Incognito and

2193
01:47:05,000 --> 01:47:07,479
Speaker 1: the Kyle Williams, and I think he sees there as

2194
01:47:07,479 --> 01:47:09,960
Speaker 1: a common trait between all all those guys and how

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01:47:10,040 --> 01:47:12,320
Speaker 1: we work. And you know, it's a pleasure to be

2196
01:47:12,360 --> 01:47:14,760
Speaker 1: able to somebody to you know, cite me by the

2197
01:47:14,800 --> 01:47:16,400
Speaker 1: way I work, because I never mentioned that to him

2198
01:47:16,520 --> 01:47:18,240
Speaker 1: or anything like that. But he's watching the way I

2199
01:47:18,320 --> 01:47:21,439
Speaker 1: work and obviously has produced some success and he's taking

2200
01:47:21,479 --> 01:47:24,200
Speaker 1: heed to that. That's cool. This time of years, it's

2201
01:47:24,320 --> 01:47:26,599
Speaker 1: time for the teams to decide who they're gonna give

2202
01:47:26,640 --> 01:47:29,960
Speaker 1: their fifth year option to. That the team declined to

2203
01:47:30,160 --> 01:47:34,240
Speaker 1: pick up Shacks Shack Lawson's fifth year option. Is that

2204
01:47:34,600 --> 01:47:36,559
Speaker 1: what kind of ripple does that make in the locker

2205
01:47:36,680 --> 01:47:39,000
Speaker 1: room or what does you guys talk to him about that?

2206
01:47:39,160 --> 01:47:40,320
Speaker 1: Or what does he you know, what I mean, not

2207
01:47:40,400 --> 01:47:42,000
Speaker 1: a big I mean I think a couple of years

2208
01:47:42,000 --> 01:47:45,719
Speaker 1: ago Shack may have reacted differently, but he's matured immensely

2209
01:47:45,800 --> 01:47:48,840
Speaker 1: over these last two years, and he's just going to

2210
01:47:48,920 --> 01:47:51,200
Speaker 1: grind and work hard. I mean, that's his mindset now,

2211
01:47:51,320 --> 01:47:53,200
Speaker 1: and I think he understands why he probably didn't get

2212
01:47:53,200 --> 01:47:56,519
Speaker 1: picked up, And quite frankly, I think most guys rather

2213
01:47:56,720 --> 01:47:58,800
Speaker 1: not get picked up because if you ball out this year,

2214
01:47:58,880 --> 01:48:01,160
Speaker 1: I'm going to free agency now and it's a it's

2215
01:48:01,160 --> 01:48:03,280
Speaker 1: a year that I'm not restricted going into my fifth year.

2216
01:48:03,400 --> 01:48:07,000
Speaker 1: So it's probably beneficial to guys that where it's not

2217
01:48:07,120 --> 01:48:09,519
Speaker 1: exercised if they look at it and take it from

2218
01:48:09,560 --> 01:48:13,040
Speaker 1: the right perspective, Right, Lorenzo Alexander, our guests for a

2219
01:48:13,080 --> 01:48:15,040
Speaker 1: couple of more minutes. You're welcome to join us eight

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01:48:15,280 --> 01:48:18,280
Speaker 1: three fifty and toll free one eight eight eight by

2221
01:48:18,479 --> 01:48:21,439
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. Um. You guys do a great

2222
01:48:21,520 --> 01:48:25,120
Speaker 1: job all season long last season, including the team and

2223
01:48:25,200 --> 01:48:29,160
Speaker 1: even some employees here for the Inspired Change initiative. And

2224
01:48:29,240 --> 01:48:32,360
Speaker 1: there's an event coming up on Monday where Bill's players

2225
01:48:32,439 --> 01:48:34,880
Speaker 1: will present a check a total of two hundred twelve

2226
01:48:34,880 --> 01:48:38,040
Speaker 1: thousand dollars raised from players, staff and ownership to fund

2227
01:48:38,400 --> 01:48:43,000
Speaker 1: social justice justice initiatives chosen by the Player Community Leadership Committee.

2228
01:48:43,000 --> 01:48:46,200
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, this is an initiative that the

2229
01:48:46,520 --> 01:48:49,280
Speaker 1: players themselves began right around the time on the two

2230
01:48:49,360 --> 01:48:51,960
Speaker 1: years ago when all the controvers who was about anthems, right,

2231
01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:54,000
Speaker 1: you guys took it up yourself exactly. This was kind

2232
01:48:54,040 --> 01:48:56,200
Speaker 1: of birthed out of this um and obviously it's a

2233
01:48:56,320 --> 01:48:59,519
Speaker 1: league wide initiative now and here in Buffalo we like

2234
01:48:59,600 --> 01:49:01,400
Speaker 1: to you know, we've kind of led the way in

2235
01:49:01,680 --> 01:49:05,479
Speaker 1: a lot of different instances as far as what we're

2236
01:49:05,520 --> 01:49:07,960
Speaker 1: doing in the community, getting guys out, having our Community Day,

2237
01:49:08,439 --> 01:49:13,240
Speaker 1: and so this year, in addition to obviously providing resources

2238
01:49:13,280 --> 01:49:15,320
Speaker 1: and money that we've raised, we also want to go

2239
01:49:15,400 --> 01:49:18,680
Speaker 1: out there and put some of our sweat equity in

2240
01:49:18,760 --> 01:49:20,519
Speaker 1: into it as well and spend time with these kids,

2241
01:49:20,560 --> 01:49:22,920
Speaker 1: speak to them, play with them, and hang out. And

2242
01:49:23,000 --> 01:49:25,120
Speaker 1: that's something that we're just trying to create that culture

2243
01:49:25,160 --> 01:49:27,760
Speaker 1: that's not just about football, but it's about family and

2244
01:49:27,800 --> 01:49:31,759
Speaker 1: community as well, and it's going to be a culture

2245
01:49:31,800 --> 01:49:33,760
Speaker 1: that we've you know, I've been proud to be a

2246
01:49:33,800 --> 01:49:35,920
Speaker 1: part of to create for the future, you know, Buffalo

2247
01:49:36,000 --> 01:49:38,840
Speaker 1: Bills players. As we continue to move forward and actually

2248
01:49:38,880 --> 01:49:40,800
Speaker 1: grow this and make that part even bigger in our

2249
01:49:40,800 --> 01:49:44,439
Speaker 1: impact even larger, it's not I mean, it's good public relations.

2250
01:49:44,520 --> 01:49:46,559
Speaker 1: But they never get the sense from you or your

2251
01:49:46,600 --> 01:49:49,080
Speaker 1: group involved in this that it's about public relations. You're

2252
01:49:49,080 --> 01:49:50,519
Speaker 1: not doing it just to look good, right, No, No,

2253
01:49:51,040 --> 01:49:52,640
Speaker 1: not at all. I mean, obviously that's part of it.

2254
01:49:52,800 --> 01:49:57,200
Speaker 1: And as an organization, if you're part of any successful organization, foundation,

2255
01:49:57,400 --> 01:50:00,320
Speaker 1: nonprofit or not, you always want to let people know

2256
01:50:00,400 --> 01:50:02,280
Speaker 1: what's going on and out there because they may inspire

2257
01:50:02,360 --> 01:50:04,240
Speaker 1: somebody to get behind it or want to be a

2258
01:50:04,280 --> 01:50:06,200
Speaker 1: part of her to start their own thing. But for

2259
01:50:06,320 --> 01:50:08,479
Speaker 1: most of us in this locker room, a lot of

2260
01:50:08,600 --> 01:50:12,000
Speaker 1: us come from these communities that we're serving, and we

2261
01:50:12,120 --> 01:50:14,400
Speaker 1: didn't forget where we came from. We understand how hard

2262
01:50:14,439 --> 01:50:18,200
Speaker 1: it is to become successful, We understand how hard it

2263
01:50:18,360 --> 01:50:21,240
Speaker 1: is to overcome poverty and coming from broken homes. And

2264
01:50:21,600 --> 01:50:24,080
Speaker 1: if you talk to our team and when Sean shares,

2265
01:50:24,120 --> 01:50:26,599
Speaker 1: just to hear the stories where people come from, these

2266
01:50:26,680 --> 01:50:29,080
Speaker 1: guys are giving back to you know where their heart

2267
01:50:29,240 --> 01:50:31,120
Speaker 1: is and a lot of these communities, like I mentioned before,

2268
01:50:31,160 --> 01:50:34,880
Speaker 1: is where we were birthed and informed our personalities and character,

2269
01:50:34,960 --> 01:50:36,599
Speaker 1: and that's why we want to still be a part

2270
01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:39,360
Speaker 1: of it, whether it's in our hometown or here in Buffalo. Yeah,

2271
01:50:39,520 --> 01:50:41,160
Speaker 1: it's kind of glad it hearing Buffalo some of the

2272
01:50:41,560 --> 01:50:44,000
Speaker 1: agencies Boys and Girls Clubs of Western New York that

2273
01:50:44,600 --> 01:50:49,360
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Colonel Matter and Human Services, the Belt Center, Buffalo Area,

2274
01:50:49,479 --> 01:50:52,720
Speaker 1: Engineering Awareness for Minorities, Gloria Parks. You guys are kind

2275
01:50:52,720 --> 01:50:54,519
Speaker 1: of all over the place, and every home game there's

2276
01:50:54,520 --> 01:50:56,960
Speaker 1: always an announcement of where kind of this week's donation

2277
01:50:57,080 --> 01:50:59,320
Speaker 1: is kind and that just talks to the diversity of

2278
01:50:59,360 --> 01:51:01,400
Speaker 1: our group. You know, it's not just like a whole

2279
01:51:01,400 --> 01:51:03,080
Speaker 1: bunch of older guys on the team, or a whole

2280
01:51:03,120 --> 01:51:05,360
Speaker 1: bunch or just black guys that are on this committee.

2281
01:51:05,640 --> 01:51:08,840
Speaker 1: We have a diverse group of young, old, multicultural because

2282
01:51:08,840 --> 01:51:11,160
Speaker 1: we all come from different places and see the world differently,

2283
01:51:11,640 --> 01:51:13,760
Speaker 1: and so when we decided to dish out this money,

2284
01:51:13,840 --> 01:51:16,919
Speaker 1: wanted to equally divide it up based on everybody's passions.

2285
01:51:16,920 --> 01:51:19,760
Speaker 1: And so it's it's a real cool thing to be

2286
01:51:19,840 --> 01:51:22,519
Speaker 1: a part of and really help try to impact this

2287
01:51:22,680 --> 01:51:25,799
Speaker 1: city one more along these same lines. Your your own foundation,

2288
01:51:25,880 --> 01:51:28,120
Speaker 1: your aces, Foundation. You're what about a month away from

2289
01:51:28,160 --> 01:51:31,320
Speaker 1: your bowling tournament. Here's about a month now June eighth,

2290
01:51:31,800 --> 01:51:34,840
Speaker 1: will be over as Striker's Bowling Alley from twelve to

2291
01:51:34,960 --> 01:51:36,960
Speaker 1: three or have all my teammates out. There's actually a

2292
01:51:37,040 --> 01:51:40,840
Speaker 1: week after Micah hides softball at Saline's on June second,

2293
01:51:41,000 --> 01:51:43,120
Speaker 1: so definitely sign up for that as well. But this

2294
01:51:43,200 --> 01:51:46,280
Speaker 1: is a great time have some great sponsors West Herb Palmercare,

2295
01:51:46,960 --> 01:51:50,680
Speaker 1: Paula's donor to be helping out Spot Coffee. So it's

2296
01:51:50,720 --> 01:51:52,760
Speaker 1: it's a lot of people that I've built relationships since

2297
01:51:52,760 --> 01:51:56,360
Speaker 1: I've been here. There m just giving back and raising

2298
01:51:56,400 --> 01:51:58,479
Speaker 1: money for the Bell Center and as well as the

2299
01:51:58,640 --> 01:52:01,640
Speaker 1: South Park football team that I helped serve. Yeah, so

2300
01:52:02,080 --> 01:52:05,040
Speaker 1: this softball thing from Micah, your Striker's thing coming up

2301
01:52:05,040 --> 01:52:07,960
Speaker 1: and how many I mean, how many lanes are you

2302
01:52:07,960 --> 01:52:10,280
Speaker 1: gonna happen? How many bowlers you have? Ye? So yeah,

2303
01:52:10,320 --> 01:52:12,320
Speaker 1: so we have twenty four lanes and eight people on

2304
01:52:12,400 --> 01:52:15,400
Speaker 1: each lane. Um, so it's close to two hundred people

2305
01:52:15,400 --> 01:52:17,720
Speaker 1: that will have at the event. Um as well as

2306
01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:21,400
Speaker 1: our volunteers that help out for the Venezuela I got it.

2307
01:52:21,439 --> 01:52:22,920
Speaker 1: And the one thing, the last thing I want to

2308
01:52:22,920 --> 01:52:25,000
Speaker 1: ask you about while we sit here, is you know,

2309
01:52:25,120 --> 01:52:28,479
Speaker 1: Bills games are going on, Ironville, Iron Bills, and I,

2310
01:52:28,840 --> 01:52:31,000
Speaker 1: you know, me, I Murph and I see it when

2311
01:52:31,040 --> 01:52:33,040
Speaker 1: we're walking around. We just kind of look over, you know,

2312
01:52:33,160 --> 01:52:36,120
Speaker 1: stay away. The tug of war the other day it

2313
01:52:36,240 --> 01:52:38,040
Speaker 1: looked like it was a riot. I mean, I thought

2314
01:52:38,080 --> 01:52:39,880
Speaker 1: that it always is. I thought there's gonna be a

2315
01:52:39,920 --> 01:52:43,920
Speaker 1: fist fight, you know, we get closed out. We're very competitive. Yeah, yeah,

2316
01:52:43,920 --> 01:52:46,760
Speaker 1: and I'm actually kind of bitter. I'm kind of bitter

2317
01:52:46,800 --> 01:52:50,320
Speaker 1: about it because I can tell I finished fourth, but

2318
01:52:50,439 --> 01:52:51,880
Speaker 1: we should have been in the We should have been

2319
01:52:51,920 --> 01:52:53,840
Speaker 1: in the championship. The championship team we wouldn't have been.

2320
01:52:53,880 --> 01:52:56,400
Speaker 1: They were really good. They had they were stacked um.

2321
01:52:57,560 --> 01:53:00,120
Speaker 1: But our pool before going to the championship game, we

2322
01:53:00,240 --> 01:53:02,439
Speaker 1: had a couple of quarterbacks and they kind of they

2323
01:53:02,600 --> 01:53:04,960
Speaker 1: quite didn't own up on it. I don't know if

2324
01:53:05,000 --> 01:53:08,240
Speaker 1: it was Jack, Josh or Matt, but they were yelling,

2325
01:53:08,320 --> 01:53:10,680
Speaker 1: go go, and we had we had d Lineman on

2326
01:53:10,760 --> 01:53:14,479
Speaker 1: our things, so year go d Lineman just flutter. So

2327
01:53:14,760 --> 01:53:17,120
Speaker 1: Shack and Harrison took their hands off the rope and

2328
01:53:17,200 --> 01:53:20,080
Speaker 1: that's when Seato blew the whistle. To start, and it

2329
01:53:20,200 --> 01:53:24,280
Speaker 1: was before even started, and so I was I was

2330
01:53:24,439 --> 01:53:28,280
Speaker 1: pretty upset. I was pretty uh to say. Yeah, I

2331
01:53:28,320 --> 01:53:32,560
Speaker 1: mean they was to get your sidelines. No, there's no

2332
01:53:32,760 --> 01:53:34,800
Speaker 1: dude over there. What the issue was is because we

2333
01:53:34,960 --> 01:53:38,400
Speaker 1: just beat their team and so they were upset with us,

2334
01:53:38,520 --> 01:53:40,800
Speaker 1: and so they were trying to get our guys all

2335
01:53:40,880 --> 01:53:43,720
Speaker 1: flustered and they and they succeeded. It worked and we

2336
01:53:43,880 --> 01:53:48,360
Speaker 1: lost its first the individual competition iron weightlifting. And you're

2337
01:53:48,439 --> 01:53:50,160
Speaker 1: you're hanging in there, right, You're doing Yeah, I'm doing

2338
01:53:50,240 --> 01:53:52,280
Speaker 1: more than hanging in there. I'm number two right now

2339
01:53:52,600 --> 01:53:57,360
Speaker 1: behind U Croom Joe Croom, not Joe Crew, Jason Jason Crew.

2340
01:53:57,439 --> 01:53:59,519
Speaker 1: I know a Joe Crew too that does the photography stuff.

2341
01:53:59,520 --> 01:54:04,080
Speaker 1: So Jay and Chroome um and he is um. He

2342
01:54:04,240 --> 01:54:05,880
Speaker 1: was talking trash this one. He was in the in

2343
01:54:05,960 --> 01:54:09,679
Speaker 1: the locker room with me at the top of the list. Yeah. Yeah,

2344
01:54:09,880 --> 01:54:11,560
Speaker 1: you know, he's always trying to compare herself to me.

2345
01:54:11,640 --> 01:54:14,479
Speaker 1: You know, I'm thirty six, he's twenty five. He's young.

2346
01:54:14,560 --> 01:54:16,840
Speaker 1: I'm old, and I'm only two points behind him, and

2347
01:54:16,920 --> 01:54:19,720
Speaker 1: he has like ten additional points that there's no way

2348
01:54:19,760 --> 01:54:22,639
Speaker 1: I could get. So he's uh, he's he's doing okay,

2349
01:54:22,680 --> 01:54:24,880
Speaker 1: but I'll overtake him at the end. You want, you

2350
01:54:24,960 --> 01:54:27,120
Speaker 1: want to, I want I want to be the guy.

2351
01:54:27,320 --> 01:54:29,639
Speaker 1: I want it. I want it. I want the belt. Okay,

2352
01:54:29,960 --> 01:54:32,400
Speaker 1: and he has it now the belt, well, nobody has

2353
01:54:32,440 --> 01:54:35,120
Speaker 1: it yet. It gets passed around. Whoever wins that week's

2354
01:54:35,160 --> 01:54:37,280
Speaker 1: event gets to have the belt. But I'm taking it

2355
01:54:37,400 --> 01:54:39,160
Speaker 1: home at the end of this whole thing. And so

2356
01:54:39,400 --> 01:54:41,920
Speaker 1: I talk trash every day to everybody out see that

2357
01:54:42,000 --> 01:54:45,960
Speaker 1: even thinks they even want it. That's great, which publicize

2358
01:54:46,000 --> 01:54:49,920
Speaker 1: that more. We were sitting there trying to we're doing

2359
01:54:50,120 --> 01:54:51,680
Speaker 1: getting ready for the show, and you're out there doing

2360
01:54:51,720 --> 01:54:53,600
Speaker 1: that Tuck Award. And I had to go out and

2361
01:54:53,600 --> 01:54:56,040
Speaker 1: see what's going on because it was like screaming and

2362
01:54:56,320 --> 01:54:58,680
Speaker 1: and it was like one match after the other. Yeah,

2363
01:54:58,680 --> 01:55:00,240
Speaker 1: it goes boom boom booll. And there's a a ton

2364
01:55:00,280 --> 01:55:02,760
Speaker 1: of guys out I mean eighty guys out there, and

2365
01:55:02,800 --> 01:55:05,560
Speaker 1: they're all standing as close as they can stand to

2366
01:55:06,080 --> 01:55:09,640
Speaker 1: the ropes and stuff. You talk about an intense environment.

2367
01:55:09,800 --> 01:55:13,720
Speaker 1: It was fun to watch. For pardon me for saying

2368
01:55:13,760 --> 01:55:17,240
Speaker 1: so for nothing, right, I mean, baby right, you're just

2369
01:55:17,320 --> 01:55:20,640
Speaker 1: doing it for bragging. Basically, Yeah, nobody's making two point

2370
01:55:20,680 --> 01:55:25,360
Speaker 1: five over this, so you competitive. Yeah, it was flipping

2371
01:55:25,400 --> 01:55:27,680
Speaker 1: a switch because they turned it all the way up. Man,

2372
01:55:27,760 --> 01:55:30,520
Speaker 1: I just knew so that somebody's even wrestling match gonna breakout.

2373
01:55:30,560 --> 01:55:35,400
Speaker 1: What's your favorite event during these games? Um? Basketball looks fun.

2374
01:55:35,640 --> 01:55:37,480
Speaker 1: We haven't done basketball. That was. That's more like a

2375
01:55:38,440 --> 01:55:41,640
Speaker 1: team builder. My favorite because I because it shows this

2376
01:55:41,800 --> 01:55:43,760
Speaker 1: a great athlete you ares is actually the one that

2377
01:55:43,800 --> 01:55:46,040
Speaker 1: I want in the beginning the obstacle course because you

2378
01:55:46,120 --> 01:55:49,480
Speaker 1: have to quickness, speed through with power. Um. The rest

2379
01:55:49,520 --> 01:55:52,880
Speaker 1: of the stuff is just real more individualized or team aspects,

2380
01:55:52,880 --> 01:55:55,840
Speaker 1: so you can kind of hide um if you want

2381
01:55:55,880 --> 01:55:58,000
Speaker 1: to some teams then and guys high. You know there's

2382
01:55:58,000 --> 01:55:59,560
Speaker 1: a lot of guys out there high, and you know

2383
01:56:00,160 --> 01:56:02,160
Speaker 1: one is one on one is you and him. They

2384
01:56:02,200 --> 01:56:04,200
Speaker 1: don't want to show up. Hey, I forgot at one more.

2385
01:56:04,240 --> 01:56:05,600
Speaker 1: I got a teammate to ask you about. And I

2386
01:56:05,680 --> 01:56:07,560
Speaker 1: asked this of you because I've heard you talk about

2387
01:56:07,680 --> 01:56:10,400
Speaker 1: Mike Love and last night at the Bill's Speaker series,

2388
01:56:10,680 --> 01:56:13,520
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean was raving about Mike Love. You guys think

2389
01:56:13,600 --> 01:56:15,720
Speaker 1: very highly of this guy and his yea, his chances

2390
01:56:15,720 --> 01:56:18,360
Speaker 1: of really being a contributor this year, he's grown a lot,

2391
01:56:18,440 --> 01:56:21,200
Speaker 1: and I think you even saw that last year, just maturing.

2392
01:56:22,200 --> 01:56:24,360
Speaker 1: He's another I think he's undrafted as too, right, Yeah,

2393
01:56:24,840 --> 01:56:28,480
Speaker 1: undrafted guy chip on his shoulder, and I've been kind

2394
01:56:28,520 --> 01:56:30,360
Speaker 1: of mentoring him and he's grown a lot off the

2395
01:56:30,400 --> 01:56:32,160
Speaker 1: field as well, and I think with that maturity, he

2396
01:56:32,320 --> 01:56:36,000
Speaker 1: understands his day to day actions the impact that they

2397
01:56:36,040 --> 01:56:39,880
Speaker 1: can have on him being successful in this league long

2398
01:56:40,040 --> 01:56:42,360
Speaker 1: term and hopefully that's here. But he also understands that

2399
01:56:42,480 --> 01:56:44,480
Speaker 1: he has opportunities but if he puts in the work,

2400
01:56:44,520 --> 01:56:47,320
Speaker 1: and so he's growing. Listen to Jerry watching him. So

2401
01:56:47,400 --> 01:56:49,360
Speaker 1: he's around a lot of great players, and he's just

2402
01:56:49,600 --> 01:56:51,640
Speaker 1: soaking it all up right now. And I know you've

2403
01:56:51,640 --> 01:56:53,240
Speaker 1: talked about him, and the last time I heard Brandon

2404
01:56:53,280 --> 01:56:55,240
Speaker 1: talk about him really for the first time and raved

2405
01:56:55,240 --> 01:56:57,360
Speaker 1: about you know, the three weeks he's had here so far,

2406
01:56:57,440 --> 01:56:59,360
Speaker 1: how impressed they are. That's good to hear, right, Yeah, Yeah,

2407
01:56:59,400 --> 01:57:01,560
Speaker 1: he's working hard, grinding. You know, when I'm talking trash

2408
01:57:01,600 --> 01:57:03,960
Speaker 1: to you, got nothing to do but either work hard

2409
01:57:04,080 --> 01:57:06,560
Speaker 1: or somewhere. So yeah, he's one of the guys I

2410
01:57:06,720 --> 01:57:08,720
Speaker 1: love though. If I'm talking to you, I talk trash

2411
01:57:08,720 --> 01:57:10,160
Speaker 1: to him all the time, and he's stepping up. So

2412
01:57:10,240 --> 01:57:12,440
Speaker 1: I love Mike. That's good, Lorenzo, thank you, Thanks man

2413
01:57:12,720 --> 01:57:15,680
Speaker 1: seeing this. Yeah anytime, Lorenzo Alexander joined just for the lowdown.

2414
01:57:15,760 --> 01:57:18,160
Speaker 1: On Fridays, Steve and I coming back One Bill's Life

2415
01:57:18,200 --> 01:57:30,960
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

2416
01:57:31,000 --> 01:57:32,800
Speaker 1: back One Bill's Life from One Bill's Drive for this

2417
01:57:32,920 --> 01:57:35,880
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon. Chris Brown will be co hosting next week

2418
01:57:35,920 --> 01:57:43,920
Speaker 1: when Steve is on a much deserved vacation. Wow uh.

2419
01:57:44,320 --> 01:57:46,040
Speaker 1: Chris Brown will be co hosting for most of the

2420
01:57:46,080 --> 01:57:48,520
Speaker 1: week next week. Looking forward to that. Brownie's good. You know, Brownie,

2421
01:57:48,560 --> 01:57:51,960
Speaker 1: it's great. They're working. He's great. He's informative, he's energetic.

2422
01:57:52,280 --> 01:57:54,400
Speaker 1: If we're lucky, we'll get a couple of rants out

2423
01:57:54,440 --> 01:57:55,960
Speaker 1: of Chris Brown next week on the show. You know,

2424
01:57:56,160 --> 01:57:58,760
Speaker 1: here's what we'll Yeah, that's the thing. We should come

2425
01:57:58,840 --> 01:58:01,360
Speaker 1: up next week with a yeah one every day. It

2426
01:58:01,400 --> 01:58:04,120
Speaker 1: should be better than the Twitter poll. What was you?

2427
01:58:04,280 --> 01:58:06,720
Speaker 1: It was before you came here? Two summers ago, at

2428
01:58:06,800 --> 01:58:10,000
Speaker 1: camp the Bills uh had signed an Quin Bolden and

2429
01:58:10,120 --> 01:58:13,600
Speaker 1: Brownie made some some assertion, maybe they can help me

2430
01:58:13,680 --> 01:58:16,160
Speaker 1: in the control room about Bolden like he was gonna

2431
01:58:16,440 --> 01:58:19,480
Speaker 1: what catch like eighty passes and be a pro bowler.

2432
01:58:19,520 --> 01:58:21,440
Speaker 1: Bolden was gone on a week and a half. Yeah,

2433
01:58:22,120 --> 01:58:26,200
Speaker 1: he retired, but uh it was classic Chris Brown rant

2434
01:58:26,560 --> 01:58:28,960
Speaker 1: at camp. It was great and I wasn't fighting him.

2435
01:58:29,000 --> 01:58:30,720
Speaker 1: I just I kind of let him go. I hope

2436
01:58:30,720 --> 01:58:32,640
Speaker 1: we have a couple of moments like that. That's week.

2437
01:58:32,960 --> 01:58:35,440
Speaker 1: I could just got an orchestra well for a smoke

2438
01:58:35,480 --> 01:58:37,800
Speaker 1: and let Brownie filled three minutes with some kind of

2439
01:58:37,840 --> 01:58:40,080
Speaker 1: crazy rose don't just happen. You gotta see those coming

2440
01:58:40,120 --> 01:58:44,560
Speaker 1: down him? Yes, right, you gotta go over the plate.

2441
01:58:44,680 --> 01:58:47,520
Speaker 1: Chris Brown will be with us here next week. Hey,

2442
01:58:47,760 --> 01:58:52,680
Speaker 1: who's the Bill's biggest acquisition this offseason? Player? Coach Um staffer,

2443
01:58:53,040 --> 01:58:54,520
Speaker 1: what do you think? Give us a call? Eight oh

2444
01:58:54,560 --> 01:58:57,080
Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

2445
01:58:57,200 --> 01:59:00,560
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty or you can well, we don't

2446
01:59:00,560 --> 01:59:02,160
Speaker 1: have a Twitter poll. If we had a Twitter poll,

2447
01:59:02,160 --> 01:59:04,000
Speaker 1: I have a feeling Mitch Moore should be the winner.

2448
01:59:04,040 --> 01:59:06,640
Speaker 1: Here's another from the tweet sheet from Bruce. He says,

2449
01:59:06,760 --> 01:59:10,160
Speaker 1: with everyone saying Mitch Morse, I'm gonna say Beasley, Okay,

2450
01:59:10,440 --> 01:59:12,440
Speaker 1: he will provide an outlet for Josh so the ball

2451
01:59:12,520 --> 01:59:15,240
Speaker 1: can come off his hand. Quicker piece is gonna have

2452
01:59:15,280 --> 01:59:17,680
Speaker 1: an impact, Seve. If I were a betting man, I

2453
01:59:17,720 --> 01:59:19,800
Speaker 1: would bet that Cole Beasley will lead the team in

2454
01:59:19,880 --> 01:59:22,400
Speaker 1: receptions next year. Yeah, there's and there's a lot of

2455
01:59:22,440 --> 01:59:24,960
Speaker 1: directions you can go. And here's one from the Bills. EJ.

2456
01:59:25,160 --> 01:59:27,680
Speaker 1: Gaines may be the best edition. Him and Trade together

2457
01:59:27,840 --> 01:59:30,000
Speaker 1: were tremendous member. Two years ago, the Bills were like

2458
01:59:30,040 --> 01:59:32,800
Speaker 1: eight and three in gamesj AJ Gaines started at the

2459
01:59:32,880 --> 01:59:36,600
Speaker 1: other cornerback, which means obviously that that's probably not going

2460
01:59:36,640 --> 01:59:38,160
Speaker 1: to be the case this year. And I have nothing's

2461
01:59:38,200 --> 01:59:44,120
Speaker 1: really recallable, replicatable. Yes, you know, I was thinking about EJ.

2462
01:59:44,240 --> 01:59:45,840
Speaker 1: Gaines this morning next to you. I was writing this

2463
01:59:45,880 --> 01:59:48,240
Speaker 1: piece for the website that'll I think go up tomorrow.

2464
01:59:49,240 --> 01:59:51,520
Speaker 1: If I asked you right now, look you go through

2465
01:59:51,560 --> 01:59:54,000
Speaker 1: the roster, you look at the defensive backfield. Yes they

2466
01:59:54,040 --> 01:59:56,600
Speaker 1: have the two solid safeties. Yes they have Tremaine Edmonds

2467
01:59:56,920 --> 01:59:58,920
Speaker 1: or Tredavious White. If I ask you right now who

2468
01:59:59,040 --> 02:00:03,560
Speaker 1: starts opposite Tevious White? Who do you say? Yeah, that's

2469
02:00:03,960 --> 02:00:06,440
Speaker 1: that's the question. That's hard, that's the question, right could

2470
02:00:06,440 --> 02:00:09,040
Speaker 1: be Kevin Johnson. Don't forget that Kevin Johnson. That's right,

2471
02:00:09,120 --> 02:00:11,040
Speaker 1: that's who I would land, that former first round pick

2472
02:00:11,280 --> 02:00:12,880
Speaker 1: of the Texans. I think he only played a couple

2473
02:00:12,920 --> 02:00:15,240
Speaker 1: of games last year with an injury. But Kevin Johnson

2474
02:00:15,760 --> 02:00:18,320
Speaker 1: eighteen starts in Houston over four years he was the

2475
02:00:18,360 --> 02:00:20,600
Speaker 1: first rounder. Did they love him in Houston? Probably not.

2476
02:00:20,720 --> 02:00:22,600
Speaker 1: They probably thought, oh, that was not a great draft pick.

2477
02:00:22,840 --> 02:00:25,640
Speaker 1: But he did have first round draft picked traits four

2478
02:00:25,760 --> 02:00:28,880
Speaker 1: years ago and ability and athleticism Kevin and nobody ever

2479
02:00:28,960 --> 02:00:31,080
Speaker 1: talks about Kevin Johnson. But I think you're right. If

2480
02:00:31,120 --> 02:00:33,960
Speaker 1: I were picking one, it probably be in But E J. Gaines,

2481
02:00:33,960 --> 02:00:36,520
Speaker 1: who just mentioned as a something to say about that too,

2482
02:00:36,600 --> 02:00:40,080
Speaker 1: doesn't he I have always liked Levi Wallace. Walla says

2483
02:00:40,080 --> 02:00:42,720
Speaker 1: something to say about I think, And that's one of

2484
02:00:42,760 --> 02:00:44,840
Speaker 1: the reasons why I was shocked when in the run

2485
02:00:44,960 --> 02:00:47,720
Speaker 1: up to the draft the guys from Pro Football focused saying, hey,

2486
02:00:47,760 --> 02:00:49,560
Speaker 1: the Bills might take, you know, a corner, take the

2487
02:00:49,600 --> 02:00:51,280
Speaker 1: best corner at number nine. They could get the best

2488
02:00:51,280 --> 02:00:55,520
Speaker 1: guy out there. They're I think they're deep there, man.

2489
02:00:55,640 --> 02:00:58,040
Speaker 1: I think they got enough guys back there. Even now.

2490
02:00:58,160 --> 02:01:00,600
Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson and a little bit of EJ gains. Both

2491
02:01:00,600 --> 02:01:03,680
Speaker 1: those guys have a little trouble staying healthy. Uh. And

2492
02:01:04,000 --> 02:01:06,800
Speaker 1: was a Levi Johnson that had the shoulder last week

2493
02:01:06,880 --> 02:01:09,720
Speaker 1: or was it Arren Johnson? I can't arn Yeah, Okay,

2494
02:01:09,840 --> 02:01:11,800
Speaker 1: tern Josee. Levi Wallace is a guy I think they

2495
02:01:11,880 --> 02:01:14,280
Speaker 1: can kind of, you know, kind of look at and say,

2496
02:01:14,280 --> 02:01:16,520
Speaker 1: you know, I can this guy's gonna play started seven

2497
02:01:16,560 --> 02:01:18,360
Speaker 1: to last seven games last year, right, and this is

2498
02:01:18,480 --> 02:01:21,000
Speaker 1: and that's he started almost half the season for a

2499
02:01:21,080 --> 02:01:23,720
Speaker 1: defense that was in the top five in the league. Um,

2500
02:01:24,040 --> 02:01:27,400
Speaker 1: he's long, Like, yeah, he's he's got some trades. I

2501
02:01:27,640 --> 02:01:30,240
Speaker 1: like it. And so I think they've got enough corners

2502
02:01:30,680 --> 02:01:34,680
Speaker 1: and certainly even particularly now with Jikwan Johnson, the safety

2503
02:01:34,720 --> 02:01:38,200
Speaker 1: they drift they got. I think they're really good back there,

2504
02:01:38,360 --> 02:01:40,200
Speaker 1: and I think they can kind of count on those guys.

2505
02:01:40,720 --> 02:01:42,880
Speaker 1: But that is the question. Who's the other starter, right?

2506
02:01:42,920 --> 02:01:44,800
Speaker 1: I mean, you put tarn I think back in as

2507
02:01:44,840 --> 02:01:47,160
Speaker 1: the the nickel corner, But who do you put in

2508
02:01:47,280 --> 02:01:49,840
Speaker 1: opposite Trevis? Yeah, I think it's got I think it's

2509
02:01:49,880 --> 02:01:52,360
Speaker 1: got to be I think it's got to be Kevin

2510
02:01:52,440 --> 02:01:54,920
Speaker 1: Johnson at the moment, at the moment, he's the most

2511
02:01:55,000 --> 02:01:57,800
Speaker 1: proven guy, although you can make that case for Eja

2512
02:01:57,920 --> 02:02:02,200
Speaker 1: Gaines now as well. Safeties are si right hide in Poyer.

2513
02:02:02,280 --> 02:02:05,120
Speaker 1: We know those two. Raphael Bush had some good moments

2514
02:02:05,400 --> 02:02:09,240
Speaker 1: last year backing up at safety. I mentioned Random Bean's

2515
02:02:09,280 --> 02:02:11,880
Speaker 1: comment last night about Sir Ron Neil, last year's fifth

2516
02:02:11,960 --> 02:02:15,320
Speaker 1: round draft pick, who impressed them enough obviously to bring

2517
02:02:15,400 --> 02:02:18,040
Speaker 1: him back, but secondly to maybe dream up some package

2518
02:02:18,080 --> 02:02:23,840
Speaker 1: that features his skill set. And Jake Jaquan Johnson, Buffalo's

2519
02:02:24,200 --> 02:02:27,360
Speaker 1: sixth round pick last week, who you heard Ed Reid

2520
02:02:27,400 --> 02:02:29,040
Speaker 1: talk about a little bit earlier on the show till

2521
02:02:29,040 --> 02:02:31,360
Speaker 1: then that we're supposed to call him Jake Jake. I

2522
02:02:31,480 --> 02:02:34,120
Speaker 1: like that Dean Marlowe got playing time last year as well.

2523
02:02:34,200 --> 02:02:37,120
Speaker 1: There's I'm not saying it's an embarrassment of riches back there,

2524
02:02:37,160 --> 02:02:39,040
Speaker 1: but there's some players back there. There's some guys that

2525
02:02:39,080 --> 02:02:41,440
Speaker 1: they got to feel confident there that it's not going

2526
02:02:41,480 --> 02:02:43,560
Speaker 1: to be that much of a drop off from from one.

2527
02:02:43,640 --> 02:02:45,480
Speaker 1: It might be an incremental drop, but it's not going

2528
02:02:45,520 --> 02:02:48,560
Speaker 1: to be off a cliff. And plus, you know this

2529
02:02:48,720 --> 02:02:50,560
Speaker 1: was a defense last year with most of these guys

2530
02:02:50,600 --> 02:02:52,920
Speaker 1: in the mix, except for perhaps Kevin Johnson and well

2531
02:02:52,960 --> 02:02:57,680
Speaker 1: two years ago. E. J. Gaines was a huge contributor.

2532
02:02:58,440 --> 02:03:01,400
Speaker 1: I think it's the defense. And you know, you were laughing.

2533
02:03:01,480 --> 02:03:03,560
Speaker 1: We had this big debate last year in the offseason.

2534
02:03:03,600 --> 02:03:05,240
Speaker 1: I thought there was gonna be a top ten defense.

2535
02:03:05,280 --> 02:03:09,680
Speaker 1: Top shoot. They were third in the league overall. They

2536
02:03:09,760 --> 02:03:12,960
Speaker 1: were really really good defensively last year. And I don't

2537
02:03:13,000 --> 02:03:16,360
Speaker 1: know that they're gonna get worse. Certainly they're gonna miss Kyle,

2538
02:03:17,680 --> 02:03:20,280
Speaker 1: but now they've got their top draft pick stepping right

2539
02:03:20,400 --> 02:03:23,440
Speaker 1: into that slot. I hope they I hope they get

2540
02:03:23,560 --> 02:03:25,080
Speaker 1: more out of Shack loss and I hope they get

2541
02:03:25,160 --> 02:03:28,000
Speaker 1: more out of Trent Murphy. I hope they get more

2542
02:03:28,040 --> 02:03:32,120
Speaker 1: out of Jerry Hughes. Tremay Edmunds in the last half

2543
02:03:32,200 --> 02:03:35,160
Speaker 1: of last season played extremely well. He took a huge

2544
02:03:35,240 --> 02:03:38,320
Speaker 1: leap forward week by week up until you know, up

2545
02:03:38,360 --> 02:03:40,480
Speaker 1: until the end of the season. So I think this

2546
02:03:40,720 --> 02:03:42,880
Speaker 1: defense for the Buffalo Bills is once again going to

2547
02:03:42,960 --> 02:03:47,560
Speaker 1: be very formidable, and I'm looking forward to them if

2548
02:03:47,560 --> 02:03:50,000
Speaker 1: they can replicate and maybe take a step forward. I

2549
02:03:50,040 --> 02:03:52,080
Speaker 1: think it's about getting more turnovers than they were able

2550
02:03:52,080 --> 02:03:55,120
Speaker 1: to get it last year. Who's the Bill's best offseason acquisition.

2551
02:03:55,200 --> 02:03:57,640
Speaker 1: What do you think From the tweet sheet, Nick tweets

2552
02:03:57,680 --> 02:04:00,400
Speaker 1: this and has to be Morse or Brown will have

2553
02:04:00,440 --> 02:04:03,680
Speaker 1: a major impact on the offense. One will keep Josh

2554
02:04:03,760 --> 02:04:05,880
Speaker 1: Allen in the upright position and guide the rest of

2555
02:04:05,960 --> 02:04:09,080
Speaker 1: the offensive line. The other will be a valuable, reliable

2556
02:04:09,120 --> 02:04:11,280
Speaker 1: target down the field. Either ought to be a game

2557
02:04:11,360 --> 02:04:13,880
Speaker 1: changer in my opinion. I hope so. I think that's

2558
02:04:13,920 --> 02:04:15,600
Speaker 1: the belief that they can get something out of that.

2559
02:04:15,760 --> 02:04:18,160
Speaker 1: That's right. And from Joe on the tweet sheet, who

2560
02:04:18,160 --> 02:04:21,320
Speaker 1: will be the Bill's biggest offseason acquisition? He said? Joe

2561
02:04:21,360 --> 02:04:26,080
Speaker 1: says Cole Beasley is a top five slot and John

2562
02:04:26,160 --> 02:04:28,600
Speaker 1: Brown is an experienced speed receiver. If we go single

2563
02:04:28,680 --> 02:04:30,680
Speaker 1: back with our speed on the outside, Brown and Foster

2564
02:04:31,120 --> 02:04:32,960
Speaker 1: and Beasley in the slap, there's no way a team

2565
02:04:33,000 --> 02:04:35,400
Speaker 1: could stack the box with eight or risk being burned

2566
02:04:35,400 --> 02:04:38,440
Speaker 1: by the passing game. Big year for Shady the whole picture.

2567
02:04:38,520 --> 02:04:40,520
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what that would be great. This offensive

2568
02:04:40,560 --> 02:04:42,200
Speaker 1: line should be an upgrade. They should be able to

2569
02:04:42,280 --> 02:04:44,720
Speaker 1: run block a little better. That means Lashawn McCoy get

2570
02:04:44,760 --> 02:04:46,920
Speaker 1: opened up a little better. If your wide receivers are

2571
02:04:47,000 --> 02:04:49,880
Speaker 1: a threat, which they were not a year ago. Teams

2572
02:04:49,880 --> 02:04:51,600
Speaker 1: are going to have to back out of there and

2573
02:04:51,760 --> 02:04:53,560
Speaker 1: leave a little more space for the offensive line to

2574
02:04:53,640 --> 02:04:55,800
Speaker 1: do its work. Yeah, there's a lot of things that

2575
02:04:55,920 --> 02:04:58,560
Speaker 1: point towards a much more successful offensive season. But this

2576
02:04:58,680 --> 02:05:01,840
Speaker 1: is a team scored an average sixteen points last year.

2577
02:05:02,680 --> 02:05:04,720
Speaker 1: That is not good enough. There's a lot of room too.

2578
02:05:04,760 --> 02:05:10,280
Speaker 1: It is not good enough. And Sean McDermott drew drew

2579
02:05:10,320 --> 02:05:12,080
Speaker 1: some criticism issue, and we said, yeah, we need to

2580
02:05:12,080 --> 02:05:14,160
Speaker 1: score like an average. We need to average twenty points

2581
02:05:14,440 --> 02:05:17,800
Speaker 1: a game. Well even twenty points for me, it should

2582
02:05:17,840 --> 02:05:19,720
Speaker 1: be more than that. You know, you want to see

2583
02:05:19,760 --> 02:05:22,760
Speaker 1: I think it's twenty five plus points a game. You

2584
02:05:22,840 --> 02:05:25,880
Speaker 1: gotta score to be really successful all the time and

2585
02:05:26,040 --> 02:05:28,880
Speaker 1: really be a team that's in the thick of every

2586
02:05:29,000 --> 02:05:32,280
Speaker 1: conversation about contending and about being a team that's really

2587
02:05:32,320 --> 02:05:35,200
Speaker 1: hard to beat. You gotta, you gotta. If you're over

2588
02:05:35,320 --> 02:05:39,480
Speaker 1: twenty five points for the season on average, that's where

2589
02:05:39,520 --> 02:05:42,520
Speaker 1: you want to be. Certainly that's a big number, particularly

2590
02:05:42,600 --> 02:05:44,840
Speaker 1: given where they were this year. That's two scores a game,

2591
02:05:44,960 --> 02:05:47,040
Speaker 1: that's a touchdown in a field goal, more than they

2592
02:05:47,080 --> 02:05:49,520
Speaker 1: were able to get last year. They got to do

2593
02:05:49,640 --> 02:05:52,240
Speaker 1: that I think, and I think there's every reason to

2594
02:05:52,320 --> 02:05:54,760
Speaker 1: think they're going to be better, but that's a big jump.

2595
02:05:55,000 --> 02:05:56,640
Speaker 1: One more from the tweet sheet kind of puts a

2596
02:05:56,720 --> 02:05:59,200
Speaker 1: cap on a two from Thomas Kennedy. The question is

2597
02:05:59,240 --> 02:06:02,880
Speaker 1: who's the Bills best offseason acquisition? Thomas Kennedy responds, with

2598
02:06:03,040 --> 02:06:06,080
Speaker 1: all the new additions, primarily on offense, is it fair

2599
02:06:06,120 --> 02:06:08,200
Speaker 1: to be concerned about all the new faces and the

2600
02:06:08,240 --> 02:06:11,040
Speaker 1: ability for chemistry to develop? For me, that could be

2601
02:06:11,120 --> 02:06:13,960
Speaker 1: a concern. So many new faces. On paper, it looks

2602
02:06:13,960 --> 02:06:16,320
Speaker 1: like a fair to good upgrade, but still it's a

2603
02:06:16,440 --> 02:06:19,240
Speaker 1: legitimate question, I think, especially offensive line wise. You know

2604
02:06:19,320 --> 02:06:22,880
Speaker 1: what I think the answer to that question is Sean McDermott.

2605
02:06:23,640 --> 02:06:28,200
Speaker 1: His job, that is his wheelhouse. That is his wheelhouse.

2606
02:06:28,320 --> 02:06:31,480
Speaker 1: He has changed this culture and it's been his plan,

2607
02:06:31,840 --> 02:06:35,920
Speaker 1: his techniques, his leadership that has caused this culture to

2608
02:06:36,040 --> 02:06:40,040
Speaker 1: be something very very different all throughout the building. About

2609
02:06:40,240 --> 02:06:42,920
Speaker 1: what this team looks like, how it feels, the guys,

2610
02:06:43,000 --> 02:06:45,480
Speaker 1: the way they interact, the way the coaches interact with

2611
02:06:45,560 --> 02:06:49,400
Speaker 1: the players. That falls all these new faces and all

2612
02:06:49,440 --> 02:06:53,200
Speaker 1: the new acquisitions. Particularly and this isn't like new just

2613
02:06:53,440 --> 02:06:57,080
Speaker 1: new draft picks, although it is it's about new veteran players.

2614
02:06:57,360 --> 02:07:00,920
Speaker 1: It's about real guys who this team seems to be

2615
02:07:00,960 --> 02:07:04,200
Speaker 1: at this point to be depending on to be big

2616
02:07:04,320 --> 02:07:09,320
Speaker 1: contributors to play well. Mitch Morse, He's Pennsilana's starting center.

2617
02:07:09,600 --> 02:07:12,320
Speaker 1: He's right in the middle of everything. He's anchoring an

2618
02:07:12,360 --> 02:07:15,040
Speaker 1: offensive line that's going to have four new guys who

2619
02:07:15,320 --> 02:07:19,200
Speaker 1: have never played together before, including himself. Guys like that,

2620
02:07:19,400 --> 02:07:24,120
Speaker 1: who you're depending on contributing Cole Beasley, John Brown, contributors

2621
02:07:24,160 --> 02:07:26,800
Speaker 1: on the offensive side. Nobody knows who these guys are.

2622
02:07:28,200 --> 02:07:33,320
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox. These guys are brand new to this. Devin Singletary.

2623
02:07:34,120 --> 02:07:37,800
Speaker 1: All of these players who are really depending this team

2624
02:07:37,880 --> 02:07:41,120
Speaker 1: is depending on to be contributors. How are they going

2625
02:07:41,160 --> 02:07:44,200
Speaker 1: to come together and start to sacrifice and go through

2626
02:07:44,280 --> 02:07:47,320
Speaker 1: physical discomfort for each other and sacrifice that when they

2627
02:07:47,360 --> 02:07:50,320
Speaker 1: don't know who each other are. That's where Sean McDermott

2628
02:07:50,520 --> 02:07:53,360
Speaker 1: and this coaching staff have really shined, in my opinion,

2629
02:07:54,040 --> 02:07:57,440
Speaker 1: that's right in the wheelhouse of what they do best

2630
02:07:57,800 --> 02:07:59,800
Speaker 1: up to this point in their tenure here is to

2631
02:08:00,040 --> 02:08:02,320
Speaker 1: build a team with guys who have been not been

2632
02:08:02,360 --> 02:08:04,520
Speaker 1: together very long. You know, I'm just thinking, can you

2633
02:08:04,560 --> 02:08:07,160
Speaker 1: imagine it. Talking to Ed Read earlier in the show,

2634
02:08:07,400 --> 02:08:10,080
Speaker 1: it's not that difficult to remember what it was like

2635
02:08:10,120 --> 02:08:12,560
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Can you imagine the difference

2636
02:08:12,800 --> 02:08:20,960
Speaker 1: in locker room and chemistry and culture, the difference between

2637
02:08:21,080 --> 02:08:25,120
Speaker 1: what Shack Lawson walked into back in twenty sixteen and

2638
02:08:25,200 --> 02:08:27,320
Speaker 1: what Ed Oliver is walking into next week. You know

2639
02:08:27,360 --> 02:08:29,160
Speaker 1: what I mean? Yeah, I mean it's just a totally

2640
02:08:29,200 --> 02:08:31,960
Speaker 1: different place, not just physically obviously, but just a totally

2641
02:08:32,040 --> 02:08:35,960
Speaker 1: different atmosphere around here, totally different vibe. You know, the

2642
02:08:36,280 --> 02:08:38,920
Speaker 1: Bills had some talent on those Rex Ryan teams, they

2643
02:08:39,000 --> 02:08:43,160
Speaker 1: had some measure of some success, right, But you walk

2644
02:08:43,200 --> 02:08:45,280
Speaker 1: into the Buffalo Bills now, if you're Ed Oliver or

2645
02:08:45,440 --> 02:08:47,360
Speaker 1: one of these guys, you're like, whoa, this is a

2646
02:08:47,440 --> 02:08:49,640
Speaker 1: serious place where people come to work. I don't think

2647
02:08:49,680 --> 02:08:51,640
Speaker 1: you would have got that back when Shack Lawson ar

2648
02:08:51,680 --> 02:08:54,360
Speaker 1: rept here. I think also, you got to think it

2649
02:08:54,520 --> 02:08:58,360
Speaker 1: was a team full of some very talented individual players.

2650
02:09:00,200 --> 02:09:04,040
Speaker 1: You know, it's a different feel now, and now you're

2651
02:09:04,280 --> 02:09:06,200
Speaker 1: walking into a group of guys who are working together.

2652
02:09:06,680 --> 02:09:08,640
Speaker 1: You know that that's kind of the way I would scare.

2653
02:09:08,720 --> 02:09:11,800
Speaker 1: I know, that's an oversimplification of it, but I think

2654
02:09:11,840 --> 02:09:14,600
Speaker 1: it stands up. They were a team full of very

2655
02:09:14,680 --> 02:09:18,480
Speaker 1: talented individuals three years ago and now it's a group

2656
02:09:18,560 --> 02:09:21,680
Speaker 1: of guys talented or not who are really pulling in

2657
02:09:21,720 --> 02:09:24,400
Speaker 1: the same direction and trying to help each other play

2658
02:09:24,440 --> 02:09:28,240
Speaker 1: their best. That is a that makes an enormous difference

2659
02:09:28,280 --> 02:09:30,760
Speaker 1: in a team sport like football, and that's I think

2660
02:09:30,800 --> 02:09:35,000
Speaker 1: that's the difference three years ago to today. That's marked.

2661
02:09:35,120 --> 02:09:38,640
Speaker 1: Jack Lawson walked into a Bill's team in the spring

2662
02:09:38,680 --> 02:09:40,680
Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen the year before they win eight and eight,

2663
02:09:41,240 --> 02:09:43,560
Speaker 1: and Oliver walking into a locker room where the team

2664
02:09:43,600 --> 02:09:46,520
Speaker 1: the year before won six games. This one will have

2665
02:09:46,560 --> 02:09:48,800
Speaker 1: a much better feel for at Oliver than it did

2666
02:09:48,840 --> 02:09:51,120
Speaker 1: for Shack Lawson, I would guess. I think I'm speaking

2667
02:09:51,160 --> 02:09:53,960
Speaker 1: for ships, but I would guess. And the idea behind

2668
02:09:54,040 --> 02:09:56,360
Speaker 1: all that is that these young players should thrive in

2669
02:09:56,400 --> 02:09:58,560
Speaker 1: an environment like that where you've got a bunch of

2670
02:09:58,720 --> 02:10:01,520
Speaker 1: really experienced guy who you look around and say, Wow,

2671
02:10:02,080 --> 02:10:04,880
Speaker 1: he's really done something in the NFL and he's helping

2672
02:10:04,960 --> 02:10:08,040
Speaker 1: me play better. He's reaching out to me, he's showing

2673
02:10:08,080 --> 02:10:10,840
Speaker 1: me how to do it. I'm watching and learning from

2674
02:10:10,880 --> 02:10:13,720
Speaker 1: the group activities and from them, this team building stuff

2675
02:10:13,760 --> 02:10:16,480
Speaker 1: that they're doing. Yeah, you would think that they would

2676
02:10:16,520 --> 02:10:20,240
Speaker 1: acclimate a lot more quickly than they would otherwise. So

2677
02:10:20,400 --> 02:10:21,800
Speaker 1: it'll be fun to see if it happens. When I

2678
02:10:21,840 --> 02:10:24,920
Speaker 1: think about what I just said, I thought, duh, that's obvious,

2679
02:10:25,040 --> 02:10:28,000
Speaker 1: right most Bills. Of course it's mad with Hugh Murph. Yeah,

2680
02:10:28,040 --> 02:10:30,520
Speaker 1: of course. Well, breaking we're coming back One Bill's Live

2681
02:10:30,560 --> 02:10:45,840
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio. What have

2682
02:10:45,920 --> 02:10:49,000
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Speaker 1: provider of the Buffalo Bills Good show today. I don't

2686
02:10:57,480 --> 02:10:58,760
Speaker 1: care what you think. It is a good show. No,

2687
02:10:58,920 --> 02:11:01,160
Speaker 1: I think it was a future Hall of Famer we

2688
02:11:01,200 --> 02:11:03,320
Speaker 1: had ed read on the show. Former Bills assistant coach

2689
02:11:03,360 --> 02:11:06,120
Speaker 1: for one year, twelve years in the league, nine Pro Bowls,

2690
02:11:06,440 --> 02:11:08,000
Speaker 1: going to the Hall of Fame, and a couple of months.

2691
02:11:08,160 --> 02:11:10,240
Speaker 1: Ed Reid joined us today and he talked about his

2692
02:11:10,320 --> 02:11:13,520
Speaker 1: association with the Bills six round draft pick Jaquan Johnson.

2693
02:11:13,560 --> 02:11:15,560
Speaker 1: He calls him Jake. Here's what he had to say

2694
02:11:15,560 --> 02:11:20,040
Speaker 1: about him. He actually reached out to me, you know.

2695
02:11:20,240 --> 02:11:23,760
Speaker 1: So that's that was the great part about Jaquan that

2696
02:11:23,840 --> 02:11:27,080
Speaker 1: I love that he's willing to learn. You know, he's

2697
02:11:27,160 --> 02:11:30,800
Speaker 1: humble enough to take coaching. You know, he's not He's

2698
02:11:30,840 --> 02:11:33,400
Speaker 1: not a guy out here who's just votes for and

2699
02:11:34,040 --> 02:11:38,360
Speaker 1: and and and bragging and you know, just you know,

2700
02:11:39,760 --> 02:11:42,120
Speaker 1: putting himself in a line like. You know, he's an

2701
02:11:42,160 --> 02:11:46,720
Speaker 1: humble kid, you know, wants wants to be great. You know,

2702
02:11:46,920 --> 02:11:50,440
Speaker 1: he's a study, He studies the game. He's student at

2703
02:11:50,480 --> 02:11:53,920
Speaker 1: a game. He's eager to learn. He wants to be great.

2704
02:11:54,560 --> 02:11:57,840
Speaker 1: You know. In Buffalo, gotta still man at that pick.

2705
02:11:58,560 --> 02:12:00,720
Speaker 1: Ed Reid likes that pick six round picked for the Bills.

2706
02:12:00,760 --> 02:12:04,160
Speaker 1: Jikwon Johnson from University of Miami. Also on the show,

2707
02:12:04,200 --> 02:12:06,680
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, former Bills second round draft pick, played here

2708
02:12:06,720 --> 02:12:09,080
Speaker 1: a year or two. Lucky Brooks now with NFL Network.

2709
02:12:09,160 --> 02:12:12,560
Speaker 1: He likes Buffalo's second round picked the offensive lineman Cody Ford.

2710
02:12:14,960 --> 02:12:18,720
Speaker 1: His versatility. He's a guy at Okhoma that played right Dowt,

2711
02:12:18,920 --> 02:12:21,600
Speaker 1: but he easily can move inside and play guard. I

2712
02:12:21,680 --> 02:12:23,720
Speaker 1: think the luxury that you have the Buffaloes you can

2713
02:12:23,760 --> 02:12:26,400
Speaker 1: start him outside, he would be worked outside. If not,

2714
02:12:26,560 --> 02:12:29,160
Speaker 1: you know, at worst you got a high end guard

2715
02:12:29,480 --> 02:12:32,880
Speaker 1: that can play. And so with his physicality it is tough,

2716
02:12:33,000 --> 02:12:35,560
Speaker 1: the physibility to move people off the ball. I think

2717
02:12:35,600 --> 02:12:39,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna be outstanding. It's just a big It's just

2718
02:12:39,480 --> 02:12:41,680
Speaker 1: it's just a luxury to be able to have those

2719
02:12:41,720 --> 02:12:43,880
Speaker 1: kind of verse the players that can do a couple

2720
02:12:43,880 --> 02:12:46,760
Speaker 1: of different roles and really get it done. And Bucky

2721
02:12:46,800 --> 02:12:48,760
Speaker 1: made a good point. I had not really I heard

2722
02:12:48,840 --> 02:12:50,960
Speaker 1: last week to Bill say Cody Ford's gonna start outside

2723
02:12:50,960 --> 02:12:53,000
Speaker 1: of the right tackle. But Lucky made a good point.

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Speaker 1: If it doesn't work there, if it's not working, he

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Speaker 1: can easily kick inside and play guard and to be

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Speaker 1: a really top flight guard. Yeah, he's a big, heavy body,

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Speaker 1: can move around. Plus he's got the feet to catch

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Speaker 1: the stunts coming on the inside from the outside. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think he'd be a pro. He could be an

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Speaker 1: all pro guard if he moves in there immediately. But

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Speaker 1: you know, because of the edge rushes, in the pass rush,

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Speaker 1: in the climate, the league, tackles are a little bit

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Speaker 1: more important at this point. I'm going to promote it

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Speaker 1: again up on the Buffalo Bills dot com website tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I do it kind of a roster study. I promote

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Speaker 1: it because I worked on it for a long time.

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Speaker 1: This morning it crushed me this morning. See it was

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Speaker 1: three hours. I've worked on it for three and now

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Speaker 1: I'm not complaining. It was good. I like it. You're

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Speaker 1: not complaining. You're out for a week. We'll see you

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Speaker 1: here a week from Monday. Right, you have a great vacation.

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Speaker 1: I will. Okay, that'll do it for us this week.

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Speaker 1: We're back on Monday with Chris Brown, Bills Insider from

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