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Speaker 1: to invest aran And wait, why why has it got

428
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Speaker 1: to be fast. Well, it has to be faster than

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Speaker 1: another guy who's got a high seat, and maybe not

430
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Speaker 1: an ultra high seat, but you know, they gotta they're

431
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Speaker 1: gonna weigh what's best for their team, and if if

432
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Speaker 1: they're gonna keep him around, the thought is yeah, certainly,

433
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Speaker 1: maybe down the line. But your thought now is you

434
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Speaker 1: got a guy who's in the second year who you

435
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Speaker 1: want to play for fifteen years. So the thought is

436
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Speaker 1: you want that guy at third if if there's a

437
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Speaker 1: bus wreck and he has to go in, you need

438
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Speaker 1: him ready now. You need him to go functional now.

439
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 1: So if there's a guy who's gonna get more functional,

440
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Speaker 1: quicker and be ready to play quicker in your offense

441
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Speaker 1: with your his skill set behind a guy for just

442
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Speaker 1: a week or two weeks or a month, that's that's

443
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Speaker 1: what you're looking. That's the judgment you have to make. Now.

444
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Speaker 1: Certainly Tyree's got a lot going for him in that

445
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,040
Speaker 1: he's they they're gonna and I think they're gonna know him.

446
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Speaker 1: And coaches are always more prone to saying, I know

447
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Speaker 1: what I got here. So let's take this guy. And

448
00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:51,840
Speaker 1: this guy's kind of a roll of the dice because

449
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:53,879
Speaker 1: he was camped with somebody else and they released him,

450
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Speaker 1: And I don't know what the deal is with that,

451
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:56,919
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, There's too many unknowns there.

452
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Speaker 1: So Tyree does have a leg up to stay here

453
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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, at least on the practice squad if not

454
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Speaker 1: in the fifty three. But let's face it, our Twitter

455
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Speaker 1: poll begs this question as well. Yeah, who is out

456
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 1: there that may end up on the bills. One more

457
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Speaker 1: thing though, and then we'll get to the Twitter poll.

458
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Speaker 1: You two things actually, you I think astutely pointed out

459
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Speaker 1: way back in May, how Tyree's physical stature makes him

460
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 1: a pretty good fit somewhere, not this year, but somewhere

461
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Speaker 1: down the road as a backup for Josh Allen. One. Yeah. Two.

462
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Speaker 1: Last year we saw this team go out on the street,

463
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Speaker 1: not once, but twice to get quarterbacks to quarterbacks who

464
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Speaker 1: eventually started unfortunately a week and a half after they

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Speaker 1: were signed to the rosters. Does that make them apt

466
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Speaker 1: to do that again or did they learn a lesson?

467
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Speaker 1: I think they're I think they're like, they're not gonna

468
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Speaker 1: burn twice. And here's the thing too, If if they

469
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Speaker 1: think Tyree's gonna take a year or two after what

470
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Speaker 1: they went through, last year with their quarterbacks. They're gonna

471
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Speaker 1: bring a guy in there that they think in two

472
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Speaker 1: weeks can play. Well. Well, that's the thing, all right,

473
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Speaker 1: either way, to be in a practice round, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be a very limited experienced guy, sure, absolutely so.

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Speaker 1: But limited experience, yes, But before he ever sees sniffs

476
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Speaker 1: the field here in Buffalo, he's gonna be sitting in

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Speaker 1: the room watching this offense. He's gonna be putting in

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Speaker 1: game plans. He's gonna be there week after week after

479
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Speaker 1: week taking rips with a scout team, getting to know

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Speaker 1: the terminology the players. He's gonna watch film, he's gonna learn,

481
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Speaker 1: he's gonna you know, he's gonna theoretically go, you know,

482
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Speaker 1: jump in with both feet all ten feet over his head,

483
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Speaker 1: immersed in this offense and get ready to play like

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Speaker 1: Matt Barkley did last year, right under the gun. Under

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Speaker 1: the gun. Yeah, I guess what The question I'm really asking,

486
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Speaker 1: and no one having a chance to ask you the

487
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Speaker 1: decision makers here is what is their position on the

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Speaker 1: third quarterback? Do you want him on your practice squad?

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Speaker 1: Are you okay with grabbing him off the street. Do

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Speaker 1: you want to put him on the fifty three man roster.

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Speaker 1: I mean, are you willing to do that? It doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem that's the case. I think more and more teams

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Speaker 1: are less likely to put quarterback number three on the

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. But that limits who you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to get onto actor squad. And yeah, as

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Speaker 1: they said twice last year, they went on the street

497
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Speaker 1: and got guys. I don't know, well, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what their philosophy is. I think I think there's a

499
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Speaker 1: lot of there's a lot of there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: circles on this little pebble you threw into the pond, right,

501
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Speaker 1: it's going because last year's offensive line got a carload

502
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Speaker 1: of quarterbacks crushed, right, I mean, you kept bringing guys

503
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Speaker 1: in off the street because they couldn't stay healthy behind

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Speaker 1: the offensive line that they had to field. You would

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Speaker 1: like to think given the fact that they brought seventeen

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Speaker 1: guys in to training camp on the offensive line, one

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Speaker 1: what three of which were holdovers from last year or

508
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Speaker 1: two of them were backups that ended up starting later

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Speaker 1: in the year because of the train wrecord. It was.

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Speaker 1: So you're thinking that this offensive line's gonna, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe protect their quarterback a little better, and your quarterbacks

512
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Speaker 1: got more experience, and he's got better guys around him

513
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Speaker 1: than it's not going to turn into a revolving door

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Speaker 1: or or a caravan of ambulances to the emergency room

515
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Speaker 1: for these quarterbacks like it was last year. So there's

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Speaker 1: that too. You think your guy's gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: stay upright better behind this offensive line, with better weapons

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Speaker 1: around him, He's not gonna be under the gun like

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Speaker 1: he was a year ago. Maybe he will stay healthier.

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Speaker 1: Maybe only two guys. Maybe you only take two guys

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Speaker 1: on the fifty three on the fifties. I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: you will, but I just don't. I'm worried about number three.

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Speaker 1: Not worried. I'm wondering about number three maybe you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe going I'm thinking and you said it, he got,

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Speaker 1: you know, called out a little bit on Twitter Sean McDermot.

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Speaker 1: They said, how many jobs are up for grabs? Is

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Speaker 1: when he's had all of them? Yea, And everybody's like, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: well you don't think the third quarterback jobs up for grabs?

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Speaker 1: Yeah I think it is. Yeah, I think it is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, hey Stevens right too, that's o our Twitter

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Speaker 1: question today deals with this issue. Yes, cutdown days coming.

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Speaker 1: The Bills have thirty seven names to remove from their

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Speaker 1: roster by four pm Saturday, but they add two. Right,

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Speaker 1: We've seen that in the last couple of years that

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Speaker 1: they like to how are the waiver wire and come

536
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Speaker 1: up with addition to the roster on the waiver wire

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Speaker 1: roster cuts just two days away or four days away? Now,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know from you what you think

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Speaker 1: their plan is, what their philosophy is. Which Bill's position

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Speaker 1: group is likely to add players cut by another team?

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Speaker 1: What do you think which Bill's position group is likely

542
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Speaker 1: going to be the one that adds players waived by

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Speaker 1: somebody else? Is it quarterback? Is Steve thinks it could be,

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Speaker 1: you know, either on the fifty three or maybe on

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Speaker 1: the practice squad? Is it m Is it a punter?

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Speaker 1: I mean people are speculated they cut Corey Carter yesterday.

547
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Speaker 1: Is but Hark has good to go? Or do they

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Speaker 1: have somebody else in mind that they're keeping on the

549
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Speaker 1: waiver wire, But Hark has came off the waiver wire

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Speaker 1: a year ago? Is it? Where else? Could there be

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Speaker 1: a guy coming? In? Steve? Offensive line? They they added

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Speaker 1: a linebacker in stidy, But they might add an offensive

553
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Speaker 1: lineman throughout camp over the last month. What would make

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Speaker 1: them stop that? Right backup offensive lineman? Is it backup linebacker?

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Speaker 1: Do they need help there? Which Bills position group is

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Speaker 1: likely to add players cut by anservent team. It's a

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Speaker 1: running back. Why would they had a running back? I

558
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Speaker 1: don't know, is it? I think quarterback is a prime

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00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: position that they may be looking at. And I think

560
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: Tyree Jackson has a chance this week two thumbs up

561
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: or thumbs down his time here in Buffalo. I think

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Speaker 1: that's what that comes down to. You got Jason Krum

563
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Speaker 1: who's coming back and getting a chance to play for

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Speaker 1: the first time this preseason on Thursday night. Probably I

565
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Speaker 1: can't see. Maybe you're right, maybe backup linebacker. But they're

566
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Speaker 1: not making any changes to the roster up and the

567
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Speaker 1: nine or ten guys deep they've got on the defensive line,

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Speaker 1: both the defensive tackle and defensive end cornerback. I think

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Speaker 1: they're a team circling this roster like buzzards, waiting waiting

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Speaker 1: for anybody at the cornerback position on this roster to

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Speaker 1: get cut. They'll get snatched up. So I think it

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Speaker 1: falls on the offensive side of the ball, offensive lines

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Speaker 1: a pretty good bet. I think the quarterback is he's

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Speaker 1: got something to prove this week, and then I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna get a chance to go

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Speaker 1: out and upgrade at wide receiver from the guys they've

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Speaker 1: got on their roster today. You know, I think they

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Speaker 1: like those guys, and I don't think there's anybody better

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Speaker 1: that's gonna get cut from anither team. I think they'll

580
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Speaker 1: be open at least to look. But I agree with

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Speaker 1: that they've got some talented white result. Well that's what

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Speaker 1: they tell I mean they got they'll they'll be looking

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Speaker 1: at thirteen, fifteen, seventeen hundred guys this weekend, a couple

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Speaker 1: of hundred of which are already available the air free agents,

585
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Speaker 1: and the rest are gonna get cut this weekend, so

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Speaker 1: we'll see there's no way anybody falls through the cracks.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna look at everybody. Got a good show coming

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00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: up for you here today. We just dealt with Chris

589
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: Brown at Bill's practice coming up at one o'clock or so.

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Speaker 1: Chad BB do you know that name? He is a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver on the Minnesota Vikings. Made the team last

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Speaker 1: year spent some time on the practice Goland and was

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Speaker 1: active for three games. And now Chad bb on him

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Speaker 1: with the first team, probably their number three wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: Chad Beebe's father is your former buddy, don your former teammate,

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Speaker 1: your more teammate. Hey, he is my buddy. I talked

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Speaker 1: to him last night. I told I had to make

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Speaker 1: sure that he was gonna not be in town for

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Speaker 1: the game this week Thursday night because he's a head

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Speaker 1: coach of Springfield College in Illinois. Don Beebe is so

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Speaker 1: I figured he wasn't. But if he comes in town,

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Speaker 1: he expects to stay at my house. So I had

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Speaker 1: to make sure he knew. You know, I knew he

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Speaker 1: wasn't gonna be in. So he's not coming in. He's

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Speaker 1: he's loving coach. He'd being the head coach at Springfille,

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Speaker 1: Springfield College, and uh, and I want to you know,

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Speaker 1: I told him Chad was coming on the show today

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Speaker 1: and we chit chatted about that and how things were

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Speaker 1: going for him. So Chad Beebe coming on at one

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Speaker 1: o'clock with this after practice one thirty two o'clock, Isaiah

611
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Speaker 1: McKenzie squarely in the hunt for one of the last

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Speaker 1: wide receiver roster spots with the Buffalo Bill So I'll

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Speaker 1: have that coming up on the show here today. Want

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Speaker 1: to hear from you which Bill's position group is likely

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Speaker 1: to add players cut by another team. What do you think?

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Speaker 1: Give us a call Bold lines open eight O three

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Speaker 1: oh five fifty or from outside Buffalo. It's a toll

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Speaker 1: free call one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Send it a tweet. We can read it on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet. Just getting started here, just kicking things off,

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Speaker 1: as they say, One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back, One Bals Live, John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo studio. Happy to have

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Speaker 1: you with us today. I got a lot to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Roster cuts coming up on Saturday, preseason game number four

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00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: coming up on Thursday. Did that backwards, didn't? I builds

627
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Speaker 1: on the practice field as we speak, and let's update

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Speaker 1: you what we know today. Sean McDermott says it is

629
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Speaker 1: more than likely that Tyree Jackson will start this week.

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Speaker 1: Isn't formalizay, but it looks like that's where they're going.

631
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Speaker 1: Mitch Moore still in concussion protocol. I would say he

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Speaker 1: is not expected to play. No practice today for Quentin Spain,

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Wesley, SNRs, Perry My Glove, Tyler Crofts still in

634
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:06,479
Speaker 1: the pup, and Jason Croom expected to play on Thursday night.

635
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: The Bills added a linebacker yesterday last night, Jeff Holland

636
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Speaker 1: two pounds, first year out of Auburn, most recently played

637
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Speaker 1: for the Arizona Cardinals before being released there came to

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Speaker 1: the NFL undrafted free agent out of Auburn, signed with

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Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. Played in three games last year six

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Speaker 1: tackles last year with the Denver Broncos. To make room,

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Speaker 1: the Bills released punter Corey Carter. Jeff Holland likely I

642
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Speaker 1: think seeve as signing made to give him somebody they

643
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Speaker 1: can play right on Thursday night, right and he'll have

644
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Speaker 1: a chance, and that they've got a file on him too,

645
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Speaker 1: because he's played in the in the league sure, and

646
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Speaker 1: so they'll know what they can expect from him, and

647
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Speaker 1: he'll be able to play special teams without too much problem.

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Speaker 1: And they'll give him three or four not even three

649
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Speaker 1: or three or four maybe defensive schemes to think about,

650
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Speaker 1: and they won't call anything outside his everything's gonna been

651
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Speaker 1: you know, basic football, one on one and a guy

652
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Speaker 1: of his background, he'll be able to snap that off

653
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Speaker 1: pretty quickly and pick it up easily. Hey, I gotta

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Speaker 1: mention before we get to a couple of calls and

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet got a great postcard from a listener

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Speaker 1: to the show, Eric Austerreicher from France, who said, Um,

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Speaker 1: outstanding job for you and Steve Hoping, outstanding season for

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Speaker 1: the Bills. Wishing for you and your family a good

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Speaker 1: French meal over here. Okay, I'll take that, but thank you,

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Speaker 1: Eric Osterichord. He chimes in on the tweet sheet once

661
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Speaker 1: while he listens to the shows and sends in tweets

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Speaker 1: and send in his postcard. Let me see the postcard?

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Speaker 1: Is that from another country? Even it's from France? From France. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's from France, aren't it? Twitter poll Twitter question which

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Speaker 1: Bills position group likely to add players cut by another team. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we're just guessing, as are you, but we want to

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Speaker 1: get your best guess. You know how the Bills sift

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Speaker 1: through the rosters of other teams. You know how they

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Speaker 1: you know they're not afraid to to churn the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the roster, right, they will. They've done to get

671
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Speaker 1: better athletically, kerrikwise, get fine guys that have the right

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00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: DNA that can contribute that are going to be leaders

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Speaker 1: even at the bottom of the roster. True pros. Guys

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Speaker 1: that fit that what McDermot has said time and time again,

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Speaker 1: have that DNA that they want. They want fifty three

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Speaker 1: leaders out there because they think that'll give their team

677
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Speaker 1: a personality that will be greater than the sum of

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Speaker 1: its parts. As talented as the Bills are perceived to

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Speaker 1: be by us and others, they want to be even

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Speaker 1: better than the sum of all those parts. And that's

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Speaker 1: the way they think they can get it done. So

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Speaker 1: we're probably right which position group likely to add players

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Speaker 1: off another roster. Let's go to the tweet sheet. It

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

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Speaker 1: movers of the Buffalo Bills, the tweet sheets. See what

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Speaker 1: you got on the tweet sheets? Well from Jeremiah, he

687
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Speaker 1: starts it out saying, believe it or not, offensive line,

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Speaker 1: you can never have too many since it's such a

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Speaker 1: physical and important position or positions, which is true, that

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Speaker 1: may be one. But also from Max, he chimes in

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Speaker 1: for the first time in ten years. This is a

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Speaker 1: hard question for me to fathom. We're so deep this year.

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Speaker 1: I can't think of one spot where this would be

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Speaker 1: needed or likely. But I'm sure someone will sneak in.

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Speaker 1: Other teams will pick up a few of our cuts,

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Speaker 1: for sure, though. And I think that's where kind of

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Speaker 1: most people are. I mean, and you can, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can always, you know, particularly in this world of

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Speaker 1: Twitter and Facebook and snapchat and all that, and make

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Speaker 1: fun of each other, and people will say, you know,

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Speaker 1: you and I sit here and we talk about these

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00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: guys that were kind of fond of them. But this

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00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 1: is a different kind of roster than the Bills have

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00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: had in recent years. I think the fact that they

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Speaker 1: went out and signed all those free agents quality free

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Speaker 1: agency in free agency, with all the money they had

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Speaker 1: to spend, and also the going to training camp was

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00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:43,760
Speaker 1: seventeen guys on the offensive line seventeen I don't remember

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Speaker 1: that ever happening. They had a couple of guys that

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Speaker 1: started that started training camp on the ir and and

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00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: of course a couple of them will fall in the wayside.

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Speaker 1: La Adrian Waddle is no longer here, Flat Duke cost

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00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:54,800
Speaker 1: is no longer here, but they brought back guys in

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Speaker 1: bates and training now, right, they got sixteen guys, So

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00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: that's a tough spot to break into. Forget about being

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00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: on the team, when's it your turn to play? Like

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Speaker 1: nine's sixteen. They're three d at every spot plus the

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Speaker 1: first eight spots. They're just changing those eight guys around,

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Speaker 1: six or eight guys around. Nobody else gets to go

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Speaker 1: in there, you know. So it's a long way up

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Speaker 1: from the bottom of that position. Here's and this is

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Speaker 1: the uncertainty about the offensive line. Look, they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: five starters. They're gonna be five starters better than last

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Speaker 1: year starters. I don't think anybody who want to dispute that.

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00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody could dispute that. But we just

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00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: don't know who those five are right now, right because

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Speaker 1: of the injuries. The injuries and the fact that they

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Speaker 1: do have some buttons to push makes you wonder, you know,

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Speaker 1: is Brownie pointed out when he was out on the

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Speaker 1: practice field today, it looked like Cody Ford at right

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Speaker 1: guard again right, and ty and Secki back in the

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Speaker 1: lineup at right tackle. Right. Mitch Morris was running with

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Speaker 1: the ones that at center, Spencer Long at the left guard,

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Speaker 1: and Dion Dawkins at left tackle. I'm gonna go out

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Speaker 1: on a limere. I don't think they've started a game

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Speaker 1: with that five, and they won't start this Thursday with

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Speaker 1: that five. But I think that's a new combination they

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Speaker 1: have not yet used in this preseason. Yeah, and that's

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Speaker 1: the issue, but I do I wouldn't take issue with

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Speaker 1: what Max said. We are so deep this year. I

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Speaker 1: can't think of one spot where this would be needed

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Speaker 1: or likely. I think you got to think about a

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Speaker 1: little bit. I think punter could be a spot where

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Speaker 1: they would add somebody from another roster. And I wonder,

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Speaker 1: you know, we bounced these ideas off our crew, and

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Speaker 1: a couple of them mentioned linebacker. I think they've got

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Speaker 1: some Look. I've said this now a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: This is the new thing. I repeat every show. This

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Speaker 1: defense is so deep right now, right now, so much

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Speaker 1: deeper than it was a year ago. They were the

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Speaker 1: number two defense in the league. Last year they got

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Speaker 1: a linebacker. Go through the second team defense. You got

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Speaker 1: a roster in front of you. Let me tell you, guys,

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Speaker 1: I think could be starters on half the teams in

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Speaker 1: the NFL second team Buffalo defender Shack Lawson could start,

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Speaker 1: am I crazy he could start on sixteen teams in

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Speaker 1: this league. Jordan Phillips could be a star on teams.

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Speaker 1: I think Corey Thompson could be a starter on many teams.

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00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson could be and has been a starter on

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Speaker 1: many teams in this league. Kurt Coleman has been a starter.

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Speaker 1: What's at five six? I just mentioned they got starting

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Speaker 1: caliber players, a half dozens of them at least second

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Speaker 1: team Buffalo defense and young guys. You know, Captain Munterlin

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Speaker 1: has been a starter. He's he's down to three on

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Speaker 1: the depth chart. Darryl Johnson looks like a promising draft pick.

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Speaker 1: Could he start on half the teams? I don't know

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00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: he could play, I'm sure. All I'm saying is that

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Speaker 1: the holes where guys might be added, I think on

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Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. I think they are

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Speaker 1: deep on defense. I don't know that there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: anybody out there available and on the waiver wire Saturday

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Speaker 1: afternoon after four that they might think adds to their defense,

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Speaker 1: gives them more for their defense. I agree, I think

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Speaker 1: they like the guys they've got. The only one. I mean,

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Speaker 1: particularly since he got a guy like like like Julian Stanford,

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Speaker 1: Maurice Alexander, these guys Corey Thompson, and you think you

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Speaker 1: forget about Vashan Joseph, who they've invested a draft pick in.

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Speaker 1: They know these guys, they like him a lot. So

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Speaker 1: we would take somebody pretty enticing on the waiver wire

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00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: for them to unplug one of those guys and bring

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Speaker 1: him in and do all the things that it would

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Speaker 1: take to bring a guy up to speed. Now they

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Speaker 1: did it for sam Acho and we had sam Acho

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Speaker 1: on the field. You want to know why they bring

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Speaker 1: sam Acho in? You want to talk about DNA. The

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Speaker 1: guy speaks three languages. He was voted one of the

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Speaker 1: most top three most intelligent pro athletes in North America.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to know why sam Alcho is here?

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Speaker 1: That's it. It's be on the fifty three Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: That's hard. It's hard to see that hard to see.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to see it. But that's why they bring

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Speaker 1: guys in because when they bring him in and they

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Speaker 1: they know how it's done. Sam Alcho was on the

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Speaker 1: Bears defense last year, the number one scoring defense in

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Speaker 1: the league, a big turnaround year for that squad, and

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Speaker 1: he was part of it. They want to they want

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00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: part of that on this team. They want to expose

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Speaker 1: the young guys on this team to that. So there

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Speaker 1: may be guys like that out there, and there probably

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Speaker 1: will be. They don't always and I think that's a

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Speaker 1: case too. You think about sam Ancho, how much it

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Speaker 1: would take for him to make this club, and where

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Speaker 1: they're at they brought him. It looks on a surface

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Speaker 1: when we're sitting here talking about it from you know,

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Speaker 1: ten thousand feet up, you know they brought him in

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Speaker 1: there strictly because of the guy he is. They didn't

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Speaker 1: expect him to come in and start for this team,

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Speaker 1: or to come in and say, wow, he can He

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Speaker 1: almost he's pushing for a starting spot. He might be

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Speaker 1: the best backup on the team now. But he's really smart.

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Speaker 1: He's been in the league for a while, he's been

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Speaker 1: on he was on a really good defense a year ago,

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Speaker 1: and that's he's gonna talk about that in meetings. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about that when he's out and there with

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Speaker 1: the guys, talking about staying around the practice field or

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Speaker 1: in meetings rooms or in the locker room. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about tellable guys his experiences. He's gonna expose them

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Speaker 1: to some pretty important philosophies about what it takes to

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Speaker 1: be good in this league. That's why he's here, even

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Speaker 1: if it is for two weeks, three weeks a month,

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Speaker 1: you know, and maybe it is for the risters here,

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Speaker 1: we don't know. We don't know what they think about him.

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Speaker 1: It may be for the entire season. But that's what

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Speaker 1: this bottom of this roster churning does for these guys sometimes,

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Speaker 1: and for this crew I'm talking about Sean McDermott, Brandon Bean.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes that's the reason they do it. Gonna be difficult

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Speaker 1: decisions four days away. Sean McDermott talked about it earlier today,

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Speaker 1: just before practice. Ninety man roster, thirty seven cuts to

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Speaker 1: be made. He told us today, it will not be easy.

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Speaker 1: It's good to have those numbers available just for practice,

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Speaker 1: but also to give as many of these young men

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to show us what they've got. And the

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Speaker 1: hard part is most of the most of those hard

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Speaker 1: conversations all happen in one day. And that's I found

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Speaker 1: myself last night going to sleep thinking about, you know,

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Speaker 1: some guys that those are tough conversations and part of

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Speaker 1: the job for me, for Brandon, but at the same time,

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00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: very difficult conversations. Yeah, it's gonna be difficul no question.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure it's taxing on the coaching staff. And

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Speaker 1: you've been on teams that have gone through that, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure even for the for the position coaches especially tough. Right,

842
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: they have favorites in their rooms. Yeah, they have guys

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00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: they fight for, but because they're at the bottom of

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Speaker 1: that position group's you know, depth chart, they lose out

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Speaker 1: to a special teams player, a better special teams player,

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Speaker 1: or some other consideration, or they lose that spot on

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Speaker 1: the roster to go because they have their deeper and

848
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 1: more contributors another spot. So it's hard. And I and

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Speaker 1: I you know, you hear a coach and I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of I guess I could. I'm I can see your

851
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: speculate all I want. You know, you see here a

852
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: head coach say they're laying in bed at night four

853
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: days before you have to make any of these decisions

854
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: about certain guys that are gonna be hard conversations. There

855
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: are guys that have probably contributed to this team in

856
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: the past and think about it in the past two years.

857
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: A team that snuck into the playoffs two years ago,

858
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: that struggled because of a quarterback you know, carousel early

859
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: last season and a poor offensive line last season. The

860
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: guys who have struggled through that and persevere and contributed

861
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: and kept sacrificing for the team and putting the team

862
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: ahead of themselves in every situation that the coach could observe.

863
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: And he's gonna have to sit on Saturday, he thinks

864
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: he may have to tell the guy he's done. You know,

865
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: there used to be an old adage, not so much anymore.

866
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: But I've told you there's always surprises when these cutdown days,

867
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: maybe for your team, for other teams. There's gonna be

868
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 1: names that all of us recognize around the National Football

869
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: League who are going to be street free agents. And

870
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: you think, wow, how did that happen? You know you,

871
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 1: you know you hold a guy on another team, Wow,

872
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,399
Speaker 1: he's in high regard because of the way he's played

873
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: against your team, and that team is done with him.

874
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 1: It may happen on this team. And from what Sean

875
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: McDermott just said in that little town bite we just heard,

876
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,359
Speaker 1: there may be some guys on this team that are

877
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:52,720
Speaker 1: that are in that same position. That's it's the worst.

878
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: Worst part of professional football is this week in a

879
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: lot of ways. Let's talk about this. We got phone

880
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: lines wide open. If you ring us up, you get

881
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: on the air, talk about the Bills where they're at,

882
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: four days away from the cutdown day, and we'll talk

883
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: about which position group on the Bills is elected to

884
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 1: add players off somebody else's roster this coming weekend. Give

885
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,479
Speaker 1: us a call. Eight oh three five fifty toll free

886
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty Steve Tasker,

887
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: John Murphy, We're back with more in a moment, coming

888
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: to you alive from One Bills Drive. It's one Bills

889
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: Live and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. John Murphy, Steve Tasker,

890
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: coming from One Bills Drive to Bills. Rob prettson right now.

891
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: Got a text from Buddy Mine last night out of town,

892
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: who said, do you think people have gone overboard analyzing

893
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: discussing Andrew Luck And I said, yeah, I'd listen to

894
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 1: that argument. It's it's big. It's a big story, biggest

895
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 1: story the NFL preseason so far, Andrew lux retirement. But

896
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: it's not um. It's not earth shattering or anything. Is

897
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 1: the Colts chances? But yeah, a little bit. I think

898
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 1: it was. I think it's amazing because it's it opens

899
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: up a pool of why a guy who seemed to

900
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: be in the prime of his career ready to take

901
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,280
Speaker 1: another step forward with his team, their Super Bowl contenders

902
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,800
Speaker 1: and all that, where they hadn't been in years prior,

903
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they're gonna get and all

904
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:19,839
Speaker 1: of a sudden he pulls the rip cord and he's done.

905
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,959
Speaker 1: That's I think that's really shocking to a lot of people,

906
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: because that's the one thing that every player kind of

907
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: you know, goes out there saying, I want to win

908
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and and the Colts seem to be

909
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: on the cusp of doing exactly that. There's a lot

910
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: of different aspects to it, including how it was reported

911
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: when it was reported, which our ridiculous questions. Was it

912
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: inconvenient for the Colts and luck yes? Does that mean

913
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: that the ESPN schefter should have sat on it? Of

914
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: course not. You know, he had great information when it

915
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,839
Speaker 1: goes um. A lot of talk about the booing at

916
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: um at the field in Um indianapocis soil philosophy. On

917
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 1: Saturday night, Aaron Rodgers, elite level quarterback franchise quarterback of

918
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, says he doesn't he can't comprehend

919
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: how Colts fans reacted on Saturday night. Let's know what

920
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers had to say about him. I thought it

921
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: was pretty discussed on him. You know, he's making a

922
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: really tough decision. And even before that, you know, he

923
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: makes a decision. I don't know why that doesn't stay

924
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: in the house to kind of protect protect him a

925
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 1: little bit. Although when I think about it, I thought

926
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: it would have been, you know, more of a standing

927
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:32,320
Speaker 1: ovation type thing. And I thank you and than booze,

928
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: but I said it this morning. I one percent respect

929
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: him immensely for his decision. I salute him for choosing

930
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: you know, quality of life. He's a fantastic player, he

931
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: had a great career and he's got a lot to

932
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: be proud of. And like many of us in this

933
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: locker room, if not all of us, you know, we

934
00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: all have interests outside of football. Andrews at guy, and

935
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,879
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of things to transition into. Aaron

936
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: Rodgers on the Indrew Luck thing, discussing. I don't know. Look,

937
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: as I said yesterday, and I believe this those fans

938
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: in indeed, you know, you can boo and you want.

939
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: I don't think it's great that they did it, but

940
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: it's to me, I read it more as confusion, you know, upheaval,

941
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: not quite sure what's going on here. Right, they were

942
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: throwing a they were throwing a rock in the middle

943
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: of their good feelings about the upcoming season when they

944
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: least expected it. I think that was that was where

945
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: the booze came from. That's my take, Like, yeah, they're idiots.

946
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: He's right, they should have. But what I don't think

947
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 1: at any point now if they're gonna cheer when they

948
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: come back and and thank Andrew luck or put him

949
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: on the Ring of Honor all the stuff, yeah they will, Yeah,

950
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: all the above. They're idiots. No, they're complete idiots. Why

951
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,839
Speaker 1: is that idiots? Or you're gonna boo him and then

952
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: the next minute you're gonna go, oh, yeah, you're great.

953
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: There was a segment boo him, and then they're gonna say, oh, no,

954
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: he was a great player, but I'm gonna boo him

955
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 1: because he had to stop playing. That's idiot. That's an

956
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: idiot confusion upheaval, what's going on here? There he goes,

957
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 1: he's walking off the field. And it was a segment

958
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: of the fans. It wasn't the entire Indianapolis fan base

959
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: booing him. I think, yeah, I wouldn't vote him. I

960
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: don't understand. I just think people. Of course, I'm not

961
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: talking about the guys who weren't booing him. Some people

962
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 1: were cheering for him. I'm sure some of them were clapping.

963
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: I saw that in the thing too. But they're idiots

964
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: who were booing him because why because it ruined their

965
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 1: fantasy team. Oh, because it ruined their vision of what

966
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: the season could be and what they expected from the

967
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,320
Speaker 1: Colts this year. And they were again I labeled it

968
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: as confusion, like, what's going on here? What's happening? That's

969
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: our quarterback, he's quitting what. I get it, I get it,

970
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:41,359
Speaker 1: I get all that. But here's and here's the thing too.

971
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: It brings up a great point because he's in the

972
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 1: prime of his career. He struggled with injuries. It kept

973
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,760
Speaker 1: him out of an entire year of a seven year career.

974
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: A huge portion of his career was dashed by injuries.

975
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: Another player who was who is brought to light that

976
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: same thing as a Buffalo guy here in Rob Grenkowski.

977
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: He he retired this last year, not with so much fanfare.

978
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: He did it in January February, when you're supposed to,

979
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 1: like everybody thinks, but for the same thing. In fact,

980
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: he spoke yesterday and we're gonna, we're gonna lay, We're gonna,

981
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: we gonna have time to do it now. We're gonna

982
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,919
Speaker 1: come back to the Rob Grinkowski sound that he spoke

983
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: yesterday about why he retired. And you know, everybody's saying, hey,

984
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: Rob Grenkowski's probably gonna come back, He's gonna. I don't

985
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: think so. I don't think he's going to do. We'll

986
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: get a chance to play that later in the show.

987
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: And I hope you stick around for because it's very

988
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 1: telling in how it relates to what Andrew Luck has

989
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 1: gone through. Stick around for what's coming up next. Chant

990
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: Bbe Vikings receiver Don Bbe Sun gonna join us when

991
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: we return. John Murphy, Steve Tasker, One Bills Live from

992
00:49:47,600 --> 00:50:01,800
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio, The Bills Radio

993
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: Network Sports Update. The Update from One Bill's Drive The

994
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 1: Bill's practicing as we speak, outdoors today, getting set for

995
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: the final preseason game on Thursday. Of course, cutdown day

996
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: is four days away Saturday, four pm. The final cut

997
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: to fifty three the only cut for fifty to fifty three.

998
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: No real change in the Bill's injury status. Center Mitch

999
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 1: Morse remains in concussom protocol, although he does get work

1000
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: and eleven on eleven situations this week in practice. No

1001
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,280
Speaker 1: practice today for offensive lineman Quentin Spain and DeAndre Wesley.

1002
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 1: Running Back sonoras Perry still out, Linebacker Mike Love still out.

1003
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,720
Speaker 1: Tight End Tyler Crofts still un physically unable to perform.

1004
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott says it's more than likely that quarterback Tyree

1005
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: Jackson will get to start this week, and he also

1006
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 1: says that Jason Kroum, tight end will likely play against

1007
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: the Vikings. Bills Vikings seven o'clock Thursday, right here at

1008
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: New Airfield. You can catch our broadcast on our flagship

1009
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:54,800
Speaker 1: radio station in Buffalo, w GR Sports Radio five fifty. Myself,

1010
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 1: Eric Wood and Salcapachu will be on the sidelines. Roster

1011
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: move made late yesterday by the Bills. They released punter

1012
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: Corey Carter and signed a linebacker Jeff Holland, who played

1013
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,280
Speaker 1: for the Arizona Cardinals most recently signed with the Broncos

1014
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 1: as an undrafted free agent out of Auburn last year

1015
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: and played in three games with the Broncos six tackles

1016
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: last year. Dolphins with some roster moves today they said

1017
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: goodbye to four more veterans, including right tackle Jordan Mills,

1018
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 1: who spent the last couple of years with the Bills.

1019
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: Mills was signed was signed with the Dolphins in May.

1020
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: They were hoping that he'd become their starting right tackle,

1021
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: but he wasn't playing well enough to fit that role,

1022
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: so he was released, along with tackle defensive tackle the

1023
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,959
Speaker 1: Team Spence and recently signed right tackle or I'm sorry,

1024
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 1: reserve linebacker Chase Allen, all of them released by the

1025
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. Patriots starting center David Andrews says blood clots

1026
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: in his lungs his season is in jeopardy. According to ESPN,

1027
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: he was hospitalized while undergoing tests to pinpoint the cause

1028
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 1: of his clots. Released from the hospital last night. A

1029
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: team captain, Andrews, in his fifth season in the NFL,

1030
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski says he is not returning to the NFL

1031
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 1: and his foreseeable future and the Bison's down to the

1032
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: final three home games home tonight against Rochester seven h five,

1033
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:06,240
Speaker 1: First pitch at Salon Field tonight. And that's the update

1034
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 1: from One Bills Drive, John Murphy and Steve Tasker in

1035
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 1: our one Buffalo Studio Bills Practicing outdoors. We'll talk more

1036
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 1: about Rob Gruncolsey because he said some interesting things that

1037
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: he steep and we'll get back into that. The Patriots

1038
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 1: news is interesting. David Andrews their starting center. His season

1039
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,240
Speaker 1: is in jeopardy, blood plots and his lungs. A team captain,

1040
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 1: and he played in twenty eight snaps in the preseason

1041
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: game for the Panthers last week, but was not at

1042
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: practice the last two days. Twenty seven years of age,

1043
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: he has developed a strong rapport with Tom Brady. They

1044
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: have ted carrots with forty five career games as a

1045
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:42,759
Speaker 1: number one backup at center. But that's not good for

1046
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 1: New England right to lose their starting center, if in

1047
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: fact they lose them for the year. Yeah, that's as

1048
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 1: you said, you know, it's kind of important the relationship

1049
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 1: they have with the quarterback because the center that has

1050
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: to communicates as does the quarterback, and the quarterback sometimes

1051
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: will communicate to the center so he can communicate with

1052
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 1: the rest of the team. So that relationship is pretty important,

1053
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: particularly when you've got a play clock that you've got

1054
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 1: to deal with, and that communication has got to be

1055
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: pretty succinct. Yeah, it's not just a professional relationship usually,

1056
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: and that's probably why it's pretty concerning for the Patriots

1057
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:18,240
Speaker 1: to find somebody to fill that role. And pretty quickly

1058
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 1: it's been. It's funny, you know, Bill's fans keep an

1059
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 1: eye on the Patriots obviously, and you keep an eye

1060
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,799
Speaker 1: on Brady status and the whole team status, and it's

1061
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: it seems to me that over the last year or so,

1062
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: it's been sort of a really slow, gradual erosion of

1063
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 1: talent in New England, you know what I mean. I mean, yes,

1064
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: they get Josh Gordon back, but you can't really rely

1065
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: on him. But it's not like there's a clean break

1066
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: like it's over here in New England. It's more like

1067
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: kind of a slow and probably to Patriots fans, a slow,

1068
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: painful kind of trudge to the end of their dominance,

1069
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: right am, I ahead of myself. It's easy to I'm

1070
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 1: not no, I mean, yeah, I get what you're saying,

1071
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:56,839
Speaker 1: but I don't see it that way because they lost

1072
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 1: Wes Welker, and you know, they lost Rob Ninkovich, they

1073
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 1: lost Teddy Bruski, they lost the big defensive lineman I

1074
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: can't think of his name went to the Raiders. I mean,

1075
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: they lost Richard Seymour, they lost him, They lost Vince

1076
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: will Fork, they had Ted Washington. They I mean, over

1077
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 1: the years, they have come and gone with some absolutely

1078
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: outstanding players and just kept rolling. The thing that the

1079
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 1: Patriots do better than anybody is they get guys they

1080
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 1: really know what they can do, and they ask them

1081
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 1: to do it. And they like players that are versatile,

1082
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: that can do different things. I remember when Aaron Hernandez

1083
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: was with them, they were handing him the ball lined

1084
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: up as a running back. So they get a personnel

1085
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: group in the on the defense lined up, thinking you know,

1086
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: he's going to be a tight end. They line him

1087
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:47,760
Speaker 1: up as a running back and hand him the football.

1088
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:52,359
Speaker 1: Versatile players like that or what makes the Patriots way

1089
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:54,800
Speaker 1: and the way their their modus oper end. That's what

1090
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,760
Speaker 1: makes them tick is they can do so many things

1091
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: with the same people and and they just keep rolling.

1092
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: So I'm not. I don't really see it as an erosion.

1093
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:05,840
Speaker 1: I just see it as a continual evolution of what

1094
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: they do best, which we're thinking on my part. I'll

1095
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:09,399
Speaker 1: tell you what the one thing, and this is where

1096
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 1: you have to acknowledge. I believe the genius of Belichick

1097
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: is that he can adapt. Right. They turn themselves into

1098
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 1: a running team last year won a Super Bowl as

1099
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 1: a running team and defensive team last year. They can adapt.

1100
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:23,439
Speaker 1: They do adapt. All right, enough about the Patriots, let's

1101
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:25,720
Speaker 1: talk about Thursday night. The builds on the Minnesota Vikings,

1102
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,399
Speaker 1: and there's a chance we get to see the son

1103
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 1: of one of Buffalo's Super Bowl greats, Don Beebe's son,

1104
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: Chad Beebe, in his second year now with the Minnesota Vikings,

1105
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 1: wide receiver from Northern Illinois. And Chad Beebe is on

1106
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 1: the line with us right now, Chad, John Murphy and

1107
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 1: I think you know Steve Tasker, we're set up for

1108
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: you here in Buffalo. Thanks for joining us today. Yeah,

1109
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: thanks JOHNA, Steve, thanks for having me today. How well

1110
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 1: do you know mister Tasker? Didn't you used to hang

1111
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 1: with his sons? Yeah, I've actually I've been dinner at

1112
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: his house and all that. I'll be honest with you,

1113
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 1: I'm not sure whether to call him Steve or mister Tasker.

1114
00:55:57,400 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 1: He makes me call him mister. You can call me Steve.

1115
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:02,279
Speaker 1: I was on the phone with your dad last night

1116
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,319
Speaker 1: asking him because I had to double check to make

1117
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: sure he wasn't coming to town for your game. But

1118
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:10,239
Speaker 1: he's neck deep in Springville College, right, Oh. Yeah, Yeah,

1119
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 1: he's at a royal university actually, and they got all

1120
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: kinds of camp going on and whatnot. He's taken on

1121
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:18,320
Speaker 1: that new new spot there as the head coach. So

1122
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: you first pop back onto the fans radar here in

1123
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo when he got onto the practice squad last year

1124
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: he got activated by the Vikings. And I was going

1125
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: to ask you this time of year again, the teams

1126
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: are forming. You were kind of on that cusp last

1127
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: year of being a practice squad or route roster guy,

1128
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 1: And what did they tell you at the end of

1129
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: last season when they'd use you a little sparingly at

1130
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: the end of the season, what did they tell you

1131
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 1: about what it was going to take for you to

1132
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: take the next step and become a full rostered player. Yeah,

1133
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 1: I think it was just becoming a complete player as

1134
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: far as you know, when you're coming up to the

1135
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, being able to read a defense. You know,

1136
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:58,359
Speaker 1: it's not just technically route running and obviously all those

1137
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: things are important, but it was the next level of things,

1138
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: you know, ring a defense and making decisions based off

1139
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:07,279
Speaker 1: of that and the right decisions. Chad, you were were

1140
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:09,919
Speaker 1: on the roster last year, but practice squad first half

1141
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: of the season. So you were on the Vikings practice

1142
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: squad when the Bills and Vikings hooked up in Week

1143
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: three last season, right, correct? What do you remember about

1144
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 1: that game? Practice squad? What do you remember about that

1145
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 1: that Sunday? Um? Well, I mean, obviously it was a

1146
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: little surreal. I mean, you know that at that moment,

1147
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: I was up in a in a box, um, and

1148
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: knowing that my dad played for that team a while

1149
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: a while back. Now, Uh, you know, I just brought

1150
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 1: up some fond memories. Um. And obviously I wanted to

1151
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: be out on that field, but I knew that I

1152
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 1: was just gonna have to continue to work hard and

1153
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: hopefully my time would come. Chead. Were you born here

1154
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, I know, right around the town. Your reward

1155
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: was the time your dad left here right. Yeah, I

1156
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 1: was born in Buffalo, and to be honest with you,

1157
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: I was so young. I'm not exactly sure the timeline.

1158
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 1: I know I was at the most one, um, but yeah,

1159
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: I was born there and then m yeah, so my

1160
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: memories are very slim when it comes to Buffalo. But

1161
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 1: I know that my dad thoroughly enjoyed it there. I know,

1162
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I bet your dad filled you in on

1163
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: the good times and the great achievements that he had

1164
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: here in his playing career on with the Bills. Oh yeah,

1165
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt. And uh, you know, growing up,

1166
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 1: he didn't always talk a whole lot of football. I

1167
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 1: had to kind of pry it out of him. But uh,

1168
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 1: I know he was very fond of of Buffalo and

1169
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: the fans there in the atmosphere. It's something that he

1170
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: would never forget. Well, I gotta ask you this, When

1171
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:34,439
Speaker 1: you talk to your dad about, you know, his career

1172
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 1: and the kind of player he was, does he tell

1173
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 1: you that he was faster than you or now or what?

1174
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 1: You know? How does that conversation go right? Because I know, yeah,

1175
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 1: I know he's I know he's not letting it slide. No, no,

1176
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 1: definitely not. We're both competitive when it comes to that.

1177
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 1: But I would give him the edge, I'll be honest

1178
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 1: with you. Uh you know, at this time now, I

1179
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: would not give him the edge. I definitely would would

1180
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 1: a blow pass. I listen, I've seen your dad lately. Yeah,

1181
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 1: you'd run circles around him. Now, I'm pretty sure it'd

1182
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 1: be a big certain it'd be a big circle too. Yeah.

1183
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 1: I was on the phone with him last night making

1184
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: sure that he wasn't coming in town for the for

1185
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: the game this week, you know, this week, figuring it

1186
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: he was being the head coach. But how much interaction

1187
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: do you call him weekly? Do you have conversations with

1188
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 1: him about how things are going for you? And and

1189
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: I think now more so maybe than any point in

1190
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: your career, he has some pretty solid advice to give you. Yeah,

1191
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 1: for sure. Um, we definitely stay in touch and uh,

1192
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, at this point he's my best friend.

1193
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: So we we talk on a regular basis. Obviously he's

1194
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 1: really busy as well as I am, but we we

1195
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:42,240
Speaker 1: try to find time at some point during the week,

1196
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 1: whether it's once twice, maybe three times, it's talk and

1197
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 1: chat and uh and whatnot. I mean, for me, it

1198
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: would be crazy, you know not to use him as

1199
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 1: a resource. Uh, you know, him having that career that

1200
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 1: he did. So for me, it's just yeah, staying connected

1201
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 1: with him and whatnot. Are you going to see the

1202
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 1: field it all this Thursday? I mean, the thought is

1203
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: that everybody kind of sits down and you have emerged

1204
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 1: as a having a what seems to be going to

1205
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:09,920
Speaker 1: be a pretty prominent role with a Viking offense. Are

1206
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna kind of sit down and watch things Thursday

1207
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:13,439
Speaker 1: night or you maybe take a couple of reps? How's

1208
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:16,160
Speaker 1: that going to work? Do you know yet? Yeah? You

1209
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 1: know what I mean, that's a really good question, And

1210
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I'm not one hundred percent

1211
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: sure yet. That's something that we haven't talked about. It's

1212
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 1: still a little bit early in the week. I'll probably

1213
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 1: find that out tomorrow, but at this point just kind

1214
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:30,200
Speaker 1: of preparing and making sure I'm ready if I do.

1215
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: Jan I'm wondering, you know, your your dad Don Beebe

1216
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 1: had the speed clinic right out there in the Chicago area,

1217
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 1: the House of Speed. You you must have attended Dan

1218
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 1: and benefited from that, right, did you find yourself and

1219
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 1: maybe referring back to some of the things you learned

1220
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 1: there at the House of Speed. Oh yeah, yeah, I've shoot,

1221
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:51,480
Speaker 1: I've been doing that stuff since I was five years old.

1222
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 1: But no, definitely, I mean a lot of that stuff

1223
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 1: I fall back on as far as training and speed

1224
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 1: to Jill and all those good things, and even just

1225
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 1: from a football standpoint, from a mindset and from XS

1226
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: and o's all those things have been something that's been

1227
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 1: instilled in me from a young age and something that

1228
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 1: I'm very you know, fortunate of fortunate for and thankful

1229
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: for two So I was gonna ask you, is you know,

1230
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: there's some some pretty high expectations there in Minnesota. You

1231
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 1: feel like you've got a very talented club, and you

1232
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 1: must feel, you take it as a little feather in

1233
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 1: your cap, that that's a really tough roster, kind of

1234
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: a playoff caliber roster that you were able to break

1235
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 1: into over the last two years. Yeah. No, I mean yeah,

1236
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 1: our locker room is full of talent, and so you know,

1237
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 1: when I first came in, I knew it was going

1238
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 1: to be a large mountain declimb, but I was all

1239
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 1: for it, you know, And at the end of the day,

1240
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:49,600
Speaker 1: I'm just having a workmanship attitude and knowing that I'm

1241
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:51,880
Speaker 1: gonna give it everything I got and let the chips

1242
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 1: fall where they may, and I'll know that I'll be

1243
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 1: happy with whatever the outcome is, you know. And so

1244
01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 1: that's going to continue to be my attitude throughout my

1245
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 1: whole career, whether it's short, long or in between. You know,

1246
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:06,479
Speaker 1: I'm just going to continue to work hard and hope

1247
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:08,840
Speaker 1: for the best. You know. I wonder chant if there's

1248
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: kind of an atmosphere of unfinished business for the Vikings

1249
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:14,480
Speaker 1: this year after last year. It wasn't a bad year

1250
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 1: last year, but many people expected a little bit more.

1251
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 1: Is that kind of a sense you get being in

1252
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: camp with these guys now for the last month. Yeah,

1253
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:23,440
Speaker 1: I mean I think we all got a little bit

1254
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:26,040
Speaker 1: of a chip on our shoulders, you know, something to prove,

1255
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 1: which is always a good thing, you know. Obviously, at

1256
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:30,000
Speaker 1: the end of the day, we're all competitors and you

1257
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:32,400
Speaker 1: want to end the season the right way. You know.

1258
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: Everybody has the same mindset and same goal to go

1259
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl, you know, and so we're just

1260
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:40,640
Speaker 1: trying to do the little things right and make sure

1261
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 1: we put ourselves in a position this year to make

1262
01:02:43,040 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 1: that happen. You came out undrafted last year out of

1263
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:50,560
Speaker 1: Northern Illinois, and forgive me for knowing some stuff about you.

1264
01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 1: You struggle with injuries at Northern Illinois once in a while.

1265
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 1: How did that affect your decision to come out and

1266
01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: give this pro thing a shot where you're just never

1267
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Speaker 1: going to give up until they kicked you out the door.

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Speaker 1: And how has that gone for you in Minnesota? Have

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Speaker 1: you been able to stay healthy? Yeah? No, that's a

1270
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 1: great question, and uh, you know, you're you're correct and

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Speaker 1: saying that I didn't. I didn't have a healthy season

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Speaker 1: my whole career there at NIU, which which was hard,

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01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 1: you know, um being able to not put up numbers

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01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 1: and and do the things that I wanted to do

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01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 1: to hopefully set my self up for a U a

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01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 1: better shot you know at the NFL. You know, when

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Speaker 1: when I was first getting into the to the NFL

1278
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 1: and whatnot. But at the end of the day, I

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01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 1: still got my shot, and so I was gonna just

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01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 1: you know, make do with what I had basically, and

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01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:41,960
Speaker 1: again I'm a man of faith, and so that was

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01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 1: a huge part of it. And there was a moment

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01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 1: in time before my senior year of college, where I

1284
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 1: just I was starting to get worn out a little bit.

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01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:52,400
Speaker 1: You know, all these injuries started to wear on me,

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01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 1: and I didn't know if I was going to play anymore,

1287
01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:57,240
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and the Lord just didn't

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01:03:57,280 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 1: let let that passion go away from me. Actually grew stronger,

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01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:02,480
Speaker 1: and so I was just like, you know what, I'm

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01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna ride this thing out. I'm gonna continue

1291
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 1: to work hard. I'm gonna come back from these injuries

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01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:10,440
Speaker 1: and and UM, like I said, make do with what

1293
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 1: I got and see where it takes me, you know.

1294
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 1: And and now I'm here, I'm sitting in a pretty

1295
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 1: good position, and I'm just super thankful and honored that

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01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:20,920
Speaker 1: I'm I am where I am, um, And to be

1297
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:22,800
Speaker 1: honest with you, it is a god thing. And so

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01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:25,120
Speaker 1: for that I'm I'm forever thankful, and I'm going to

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01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 1: continue to just do what I can and uh be

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01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 1: the best player I can be. Jed, you said you

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01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 1: left Buffalo. You're about one year old when you left

1302
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:35,320
Speaker 1: a Buffalo with your dad, don Bbe. Have you ever

1303
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: been to a game here in or your park over

1304
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:40,000
Speaker 1: the years? Come back for a game. Yeah, you know

1305
01:04:40,120 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 1: I have and I couldn't. My memory is pretty bad.

1306
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you when I was, but I know

1307
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 1: I've made it back, um to to a game, and

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01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 1: uh obviously it's a great atmosphere and growing up. I mean, shoot,

1309
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 1: these these guys are huge, you know. Staying on the sidelines,

1310
01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:56,840
Speaker 1: are going to a game. Uh, it's a it's a

1311
01:04:56,920 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 1: dream come true as a kid and um, and now

1312
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 1: I'm for enough to live it, you know. And it'll

1313
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 1: be pretty cool to go back in and um, you

1314
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 1: know on Thursday and being that stadium as a player,

1315
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:10,480
Speaker 1: it'll be pretty cool looking forward to himing you here, Chad,

1316
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:12,520
Speaker 1: Thanks very much talking to you. Chad, thanks a lot.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you on Thursday. Thank you, Thank you, guys.

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01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:19,240
Speaker 1: Chad Bbe wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings. Uh. He

1319
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:22,919
Speaker 1: is basically their third wide out right now, and he's

1320
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:25,560
Speaker 1: in a good spot, as he said, even he acknowledges

1321
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 1: in a good spot on that roster. And Adam Feeland

1322
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 1: obviously is their number one Stefan Diggs and then Jed

1323
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:33,200
Speaker 1: Bebe's probably going to be their number three wide out

1324
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:34,920
Speaker 1: when the season begins, and he's like a five eight

1325
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:37,640
Speaker 1: five nine kid, and he's right. I mean Done. I

1326
01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:39,480
Speaker 1: was talking to Done at the times when he was

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01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 1: doing the House of Speed and they were they were

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01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:45,400
Speaker 1: giving franchises around the country and he would go in

1329
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:49,200
Speaker 1: to make presentations and Chad, this little four five six

1330
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:52,120
Speaker 1: year old kid, was running circles around some of the

1331
01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 1: young guys they had doing it. He was outperformed because

1332
01:05:55,120 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 1: he was trained in it, and as he got older

1333
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 1: and older, he really, you know, excelled all the exercise

1334
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:04,120
Speaker 1: of the Don did in his you know, House of

1335
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,040
Speaker 1: Speed training. I know, two of my boys went over

1336
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 1: and they lived with Don and his wife and family

1337
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks and Don got him up

1338
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 1: to speed on what he was doing so they could

1339
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:16,600
Speaker 1: come back and train themselves. And my guys lived with

1340
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: him for a couple of weeks, so they know Chad

1341
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: really well. And it was it's just that training that

1342
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:27,280
Speaker 1: started at such a young age really has carried over

1343
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 1: into him. His ability to you know, stay committed and

1344
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 1: understand how hard you have to work. I mean, he's

1345
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 1: had a little bit of that offseason pro mentality at

1346
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:38,320
Speaker 1: of you know, at a really young age that some

1347
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:41,720
Speaker 1: players struggle with even today. As pros. So it was

1348
01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:43,600
Speaker 1: a leg up for him, no questions. But three games,

1349
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 1: four catches last year and the numbers weren't great. He

1350
01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 1: had some special team work last year, some punt return

1351
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:52,840
Speaker 1: action last year, Chad Beebe did. Uh yeah, Look, even

1352
01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: if he doesn't play Thursday night here, I'm sure he'll

1353
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:58,160
Speaker 1: be on the sidelines looking around, kind of thinking back.

1354
01:06:58,200 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 1: And again he left when he was one. He probably

1355
01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 1: has more vivid memories of his Of Don Beebe's time

1356
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:05,400
Speaker 1: with Green Bay, right and the Super Bowl. I would say, yeah,

1357
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 1: the latter part of his career, no question. And plus

1358
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: they won a Super Bowl. Yeah that helps, so uh yeah,

1359
01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:17,000
Speaker 1: no question about it. Oh good? Was Don Beebe second

1360
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 1: round draft pick? Is a pretty good player? Yeah, really

1361
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 1: good player, played bigger than he was really right. Yeah, yeah,

1362
01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: a very really fast athlete, really fast. And I remember

1363
01:07:29,280 --> 01:07:32,960
Speaker 1: that we got him and Jim Kelly, who is always

1364
01:07:33,040 --> 01:07:36,400
Speaker 1: you know, not shy about, you know, telling the coaches

1365
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:39,200
Speaker 1: what he wanted. Uh. Beebes got on the field for

1366
01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:40,800
Speaker 1: the first time in a game, I think in the

1367
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:44,800
Speaker 1: Houston in Houston Astrodome, and Beebes goes out and lines up.

1368
01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 1: I think on uh, Chris Dishman cornerback for the Houston Oilers,

1369
01:07:50,200 --> 01:07:53,480
Speaker 1: and Dishman is like, I guess white Boy's supposed to

1370
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:55,840
Speaker 1: be pretty fast, you know, talking about talking smack to him, right,

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01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:59,240
Speaker 1: you know, and that ball snapped. Beebes runs by him,

1372
01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 1: catches the ball touchdown and Dishman ends up swiping at

1373
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:06,240
Speaker 1: him from behind, couldn't catch him and swiped the middle

1374
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 1: e off of the back of his name. And the

1375
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:11,960
Speaker 1: next time Beebes goes out there and Dishman goes, yeah,

1376
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,280
Speaker 1: white boy can run. You know every time I was

1377
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: kind of laughing between him. Uh, that's kind of player

1378
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:23,919
Speaker 1: he was. He was. He was really fast, really important

1379
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:26,000
Speaker 1: for that club and the ingredients they needed to be

1380
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:28,720
Speaker 1: successful in the offense they ran with that with the

1381
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:32,040
Speaker 1: no huddle K gun, they needed somebody who could get

1382
01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 1: deep fast, and Beebes was that guy. He could explode

1383
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 1: off the line, which left it open for Andre read

1384
01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:41,200
Speaker 1: underneath for James lofton on a on a on the

1385
01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 1: deep intermediate routes and Thurman Thoma of course. Thurman Thomas

1386
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:47,000
Speaker 1: of course coming out of the backfield. UM. And you

1387
01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:49,799
Speaker 1: know people watching MSG now, you know you see Beebes

1388
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:52,879
Speaker 1: running deep and catching these balls. He was an important

1389
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:56,519
Speaker 1: part of that team, no question about it. And uh yeah,

1390
01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:59,760
Speaker 1: he was had a great career, maximized everything he didn't

1391
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 1: you you know, I hope his son does the same thing.

1392
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:05,000
Speaker 1: In Minnesota. Bbe came down. Beebe came out of Chadtern

1393
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:08,400
Speaker 1: State Division three right in Nebraska. Yeah. In fact, Don

1394
01:09:09,360 --> 01:09:11,320
Speaker 1: is a little bit of a legend out there. Obviously

1395
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:13,720
Speaker 1: you can imagine, you know, Danny Woodhead is also a

1396
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:17,559
Speaker 1: Shattering State graduate. But Beebes had his own golf tournament

1397
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 1: out there. In a handful of us would go out

1398
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:22,920
Speaker 1: every year in the summer to Shaddren, Nebraska and play

1399
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:27,280
Speaker 1: in a golf tournament with Bebes. I went back years

1400
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:29,240
Speaker 1: later and we had a little reunion back there. I

1401
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:31,639
Speaker 1: went back with Bebes again and we played out there

1402
01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 1: and it was a blast to go out there. And

1403
01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 1: you know, I'm kind of thinking now, I'm probably gonna

1404
01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:40,760
Speaker 1: get called to his Aurora College now and for golf

1405
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 1: tournament there, But I don't know if that will happen.

1406
01:09:42,320 --> 01:09:44,680
Speaker 1: So he's a head coach at Aurora College. Just got

1407
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:48,200
Speaker 1: that job down. Bebe did late last year after several

1408
01:09:48,320 --> 01:09:51,280
Speaker 1: years coaching at high level high school football coach his

1409
01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 1: son Chad in high school football, and when you talk

1410
01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 1: to him, he mentioned, even at Division three, how his calendar,

1411
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:00,559
Speaker 1: his schedule was just jammed up right down to Yeah.

1412
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:03,559
Speaker 1: I talked to him last night in a little preparation

1413
01:10:03,640 --> 01:10:04,920
Speaker 1: for this. I just reached out to him and he

1414
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:07,320
Speaker 1: called me and he said, listen to He goes, I go,

1415
01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:09,840
Speaker 1: how you know, how you like this? How's it going?

1416
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:11,839
Speaker 1: You know, you know you're coming up your first season's

1417
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:13,760
Speaker 1: about to start, because yeah, we open up in a

1418
01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:16,320
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. And he goes, I go, how is

1419
01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 1: he you liking it? And he goes listening his sixteen

1420
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:21,439
Speaker 1: hour days, he goes, everything you know, there's everything to

1421
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:23,280
Speaker 1: do is Division three football? He goes, But I can't

1422
01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:25,280
Speaker 1: tell you because I'm loving it, because I love every

1423
01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:26,880
Speaker 1: minute of it. He goes, he's just eating it up.

1424
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:30,000
Speaker 1: It's sixteen hour days, he's working hard, long hours, but um,

1425
01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:32,240
Speaker 1: he loves what he's doing. And it was happy. It

1426
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 1: was happy to hear. It's good, good to hear from him.

1427
01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:35,840
Speaker 1: I wish we'd get a chance to see Chad Bbe

1428
01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:38,280
Speaker 1: play tomorrow Earth Thursday. We won't. Yeah, me too, Yeah,

1429
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:41,280
Speaker 1: let's see him play maybe watch him warm up. Let's

1430
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:43,960
Speaker 1: set up for that. You'll watch him standing on the sidelines.

1431
01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:46,040
Speaker 1: And sure, Hey, we talked a couple of minutes ago

1432
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:50,519
Speaker 1: about the Patriots, and we actually heard from Aaron Rodgers

1433
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:53,480
Speaker 1: talking about Andrew Luck. But as Steve mentioned, Rob Gronkowski

1434
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:56,799
Speaker 1: has some interesting thoughts on his career and his retirement.

1435
01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:58,559
Speaker 1: Seat us and we'll get to that when we come

1436
01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:00,559
Speaker 1: back here. You're welcome to join us on phone lines.

1437
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:02,000
Speaker 1: I want to know what you think of the bills

1438
01:11:02,040 --> 01:11:04,439
Speaker 1: in which position group other bills likely to add players

1439
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:07,559
Speaker 1: off another roster? To give us a call, Lines open

1440
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Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty toll free one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. We're coming back with more.

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

1443
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:32,080
Speaker 1: Welcome back, John Murphy, Steve Tasker. One Bills Live from

1444
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:34,720
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Did you dust that whole sandwich? Was

1445
01:11:34,760 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 1: at a full twelve? Got through all of it yet? Okay?

1446
01:11:37,479 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 1: Well bring it out here, man. Just you're not gonna

1447
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:42,200
Speaker 1: do that while we're doing Don't you converse when you're

1448
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:47,080
Speaker 1: having dinner? No? I actually no, you don't know talking

1449
01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:51,400
Speaker 1: at dinner. I listened at dinner Bills, everybody else seems

1450
01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 1: to talk while I eat, So yeah, so yeah, Bill's

1451
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:58,800
Speaker 1: practice is ending. Isaiah McKenzie's gonna join us in a

1452
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:00,720
Speaker 1: couple of minutes. We're gonna hear from Eddie Clamped. He's

1453
01:12:00,720 --> 01:12:03,040
Speaker 1: got a conversation going on. But we talked about this

1454
01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:06,200
Speaker 1: a few minutes ago. Aaron Rodgers with his thoughts on

1455
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:10,280
Speaker 1: the retirement of Andrew Luck and Rob Gronkowski retired after

1456
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:13,360
Speaker 1: you see now and he was unveiled yesterday as a

1457
01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 1: spokesman or today rather for a cannabis oil company, says

1458
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:19,920
Speaker 1: he's not planning to return to the NFL for the

1459
01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 1: foreseeable future, maybe down the road. Here's what Rob Gunkowski

1460
01:12:23,120 --> 01:12:25,360
Speaker 1: said this morning at the news conference for his for

1461
01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:28,920
Speaker 1: his new business venture. Listen to what he says. But

1462
01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:31,880
Speaker 1: I want to be clear to my fans. I needed

1463
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:36,719
Speaker 1: to recover. I was not in a good place. Football

1464
01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:41,840
Speaker 1: was bringing me down and I didn't like it, and

1465
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:45,599
Speaker 1: I was losing that joy in life, like the joy.

1466
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: I'm sorry right now, but oh, dank let me. Oh,

1467
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:53,320
Speaker 1: I really was, and I was fighting through it, and

1468
01:12:53,479 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 1: I knew what I signed up for and I knew

1469
01:12:55,479 --> 01:12:57,680
Speaker 1: what I was fighting through, and I knew I just

1470
01:12:57,800 --> 01:13:01,120
Speaker 1: have to fix myself. And I believe I have the tools.

1471
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:05,599
Speaker 1: I have the people around me. I CBD medic team

1472
01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:07,760
Speaker 1: around me now to help me to deal with my

1473
01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: pain whenever I need it, when I'm during a workout,

1474
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:13,160
Speaker 1: whatever it is, so I can do the most safe

1475
01:13:13,200 --> 01:13:16,679
Speaker 1: alternative way for myself. I believe I have the great

1476
01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:18,439
Speaker 1: people around me to get to where I need to

1477
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 1: get to in life. Rob Gronkowski works for a CBD

1478
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:25,600
Speaker 1: medicine company right now. He said, I have to have

1479
01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:27,360
Speaker 1: the passion if I want to return, I need to

1480
01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:29,880
Speaker 1: have the fire. I'm not gonna go out there and

1481
01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:32,679
Speaker 1: be beat up. It's not the way to be maybe

1482
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:34,320
Speaker 1: down the road, so it doesn't rule it out, but

1483
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:36,560
Speaker 1: he doesn't sound interesting and he doesn't look like he

1484
01:13:36,720 --> 01:13:39,400
Speaker 1: is ready to play. But most importantly, I think Steve

1485
01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:42,120
Speaker 1: is well. First of all, the emotion with which Rob

1486
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:44,960
Speaker 1: spoke this morning at this news conference, and the emotion

1487
01:13:45,040 --> 01:13:48,519
Speaker 1: about not lost the joy, I mean that's what we got.

1488
01:13:48,560 --> 01:13:50,840
Speaker 1: Beat up. I mean he's hurt. He a little bit

1489
01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:54,560
Speaker 1: like Andrew luch entire career. Yeah, they both go through it,

1490
01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:57,360
Speaker 1: and they're both you know you wake up sore every

1491
01:13:57,479 --> 01:14:01,120
Speaker 1: day for years at a time, and you get tired

1492
01:14:01,160 --> 01:14:04,160
Speaker 1: of it, and you're expected to perform physically inside a

1493
01:14:04,240 --> 01:14:06,400
Speaker 1: body that's just beat up and hurt all the time.

1494
01:14:06,840 --> 01:14:08,640
Speaker 1: And now he hurt him there, he says, you know,

1495
01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:11,720
Speaker 1: the CBD stuff that he's using now allows him to

1496
01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 1: go out and train in an appropriate way for the

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01:14:14,160 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 1: pain he has to deal with. And that's what I

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01:14:16,280 --> 01:14:18,200
Speaker 1: told you as well, that you know you have this.

1499
01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:21,240
Speaker 1: You know, you get to this point in your life

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01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:24,640
Speaker 1: where you can't train hard like you could as a

1501
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:27,600
Speaker 1: healthy young man. You train and as a as a

1502
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:29,920
Speaker 1: guy who's beat up, you have to train around your

1503
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:34,679
Speaker 1: injuries and you and your physical defects and the pain,

1504
01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:38,559
Speaker 1: and it just wears these guys out. And Gronkowski falls

1505
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:42,000
Speaker 1: right into the same bucket as Andrew luck Man. They're

1506
01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:44,960
Speaker 1: just sick of being hurt all the time, and they

1507
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:47,720
Speaker 1: called it quits as a result. Well, now here's the thing,

1508
01:14:47,800 --> 01:14:52,280
Speaker 1: and I'm not being Look these two we're talking about

1509
01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:54,720
Speaker 1: luck In. Gronkowski made millions of dollars. And that's good.

1510
01:14:54,880 --> 01:14:57,200
Speaker 1: They earned it. They earned every cent. But that makes

1511
01:14:57,240 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 1: the decision, I think maybe more palatable to walk away

1512
01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 1: in your career twenty twenty five years ago. There had

1513
01:15:03,439 --> 01:15:05,599
Speaker 1: to be teammates who retired or people you knew who

1514
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:08,560
Speaker 1: got out because the same reason. But they didn't have

1515
01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:13,040
Speaker 1: the sort of soft landing that Grankowsky and Andrew Luckwhay

1516
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:14,519
Speaker 1: had because they didn't make that kind of money. And

1517
01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:16,639
Speaker 1: there were guys. Can't you think of anybody that off

1518
01:15:16,680 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 1: the top of my head now, because I'm sure some

1519
01:15:19,400 --> 01:15:21,360
Speaker 1: guys stayed in because the right that's what I was

1520
01:15:21,360 --> 01:15:23,120
Speaker 1: gonna see. They're they're staying in because they didn't have

1521
01:15:23,160 --> 01:15:25,519
Speaker 1: a soft landing and they stayed in, and now they're

1522
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 1: paying the physical toll for it, not even twenty five

1523
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:30,360
Speaker 1: years later, some of them ten years later, you know.

1524
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:33,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got guys and plus it's not just

1525
01:15:33,600 --> 01:15:35,360
Speaker 1: the physical part of it too. You got guys struggling

1526
01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:38,200
Speaker 1: with mental illness and depression as a result. We've got

1527
01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:40,280
Speaker 1: a handful of guys that I played with and against,

1528
01:15:40,479 --> 01:15:43,680
Speaker 1: not well not with, but yeah with and again that

1529
01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:49,360
Speaker 1: struggled with and they're dead. You know. Um, there's a

1530
01:15:49,479 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 1: number of guys around the league that did that. It

1531
01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 1: was a hard life for a lot of reasons. Some

1532
01:15:54,439 --> 01:15:56,920
Speaker 1: of it was self inflicted, no question about it. Guys

1533
01:15:57,000 --> 01:16:01,200
Speaker 1: deciding to, you know, live life styles that weren't conducive

1534
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:04,000
Speaker 1: to a healthy lifestyle, and they and they've paid the

1535
01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:05,680
Speaker 1: price for that as well. And you mix that with

1536
01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:08,080
Speaker 1: a physical toll that the game took on them. You know,

1537
01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:11,120
Speaker 1: every and every guy's different. The someone could handle it

1538
01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:13,640
Speaker 1: later in life, some of them couldn't. Um some of

1539
01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:16,400
Speaker 1: them contributes to a poor quality of life, and some

1540
01:16:16,560 --> 01:16:18,960
Speaker 1: of them can get through it and have it make

1541
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:22,519
Speaker 1: a difference for other people. Even so, every guy is different.

1542
01:16:22,960 --> 01:16:26,599
Speaker 1: They all struggle with the same parameters with football, though,

1543
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:30,519
Speaker 1: It's gonna hurt, and it's gonna hurt until you stop playing,

1544
01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:33,599
Speaker 1: and you've got a chance maybe that it's gonna hurt

1545
01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:36,360
Speaker 1: for a long time after you stop playing. Or maybe

1546
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:38,320
Speaker 1: if you don't hurt when you quit playing, you're gonna

1547
01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:40,599
Speaker 1: hurt in a few years because you you know, because

1548
01:16:40,640 --> 01:16:43,880
Speaker 1: of the game. Um I seem for me, I seem

1549
01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:47,080
Speaker 1: to be okay, I don't. I'm I got aches and pains,

1550
01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:50,679
Speaker 1: but I'm pushing sixty. You know, I'm fifty seven years old.

1551
01:16:51,120 --> 01:16:54,479
Speaker 1: So how's a sixty year old supposed to feel? You know?

1552
01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:56,800
Speaker 1: You tell me, you know, you're you're older than me, right,

1553
01:16:56,960 --> 01:16:59,760
Speaker 1: so you don't know. I feel okay. And I had

1554
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:03,600
Speaker 1: m a laundry list of injuries. I had, you know,

1555
01:17:03,760 --> 01:17:07,080
Speaker 1: four knee operations and one on the other and five

1556
01:17:07,160 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 1: knee operations total. I had a broken arm. My hands

1557
01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:11,120
Speaker 1: were broken ten times. I can go down the list

1558
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:13,680
Speaker 1: of you know, all the way down the list. But

1559
01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:16,960
Speaker 1: I feel good. What should we as fans, followers of

1560
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 1: the game, what should we take from this from what

1561
01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:23,519
Speaker 1: you just sent, from Grenkowski's obvious emotion about the aches

1562
01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:25,639
Speaker 1: and pains about you know, from watching I watched Andrew

1563
01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:28,519
Speaker 1: Luck Saturday night, explain it. I mean, I'm sympathetic for

1564
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:30,360
Speaker 1: them too, sure, but what is what do you what

1565
01:17:30,439 --> 01:17:32,479
Speaker 1: do you think these guys? What do you want fans

1566
01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:35,040
Speaker 1: to know about it? What not? Don't booist when we

1567
01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:37,080
Speaker 1: go off the field. Okay, no, none of that. I

1568
01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:39,439
Speaker 1: don't think it has to do with that. I'm I

1569
01:17:39,560 --> 01:17:43,840
Speaker 1: think here's the thing. Most of the guys, including Andrew

1570
01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:46,960
Speaker 1: Luck and Rob Grenkowski and guys like that, and guys

1571
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 1: who I played with, for me, it was all worth it. Well,

1572
01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:56,280
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I do everything you just said, do it

1573
01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 1: again and again and again. Really I wouldn't hesitate, and

1574
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 1: I and I had all five four sons, they all played.

1575
01:18:03,160 --> 01:18:07,160
Speaker 1: The benefits, I would say probably yeah, I would think so,

1576
01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:10,800
Speaker 1: I would say probably yeah. And I had my four

1577
01:18:10,840 --> 01:18:13,920
Speaker 1: sons play at a younger age than I ever started playing. UM.

1578
01:18:14,120 --> 01:18:17,240
Speaker 1: The game UH does have a physical risk to it,

1579
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:21,600
Speaker 1: and some parents, and rightfully so, are very you know,

1580
01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 1: hesitant to let their kids partake in something like that.

1581
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:27,720
Speaker 1: But I would say this for the physical risks that

1582
01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:34,280
Speaker 1: football has inherently in it, so too, the benefits are

1583
01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:36,360
Speaker 1: far beyond what they can get in any other way.

1584
01:18:37,520 --> 01:18:40,960
Speaker 1: Because of that, UM, we all go through life with

1585
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:43,519
Speaker 1: mental pain. You know, you're all uncome. You know, you

1586
01:18:43,600 --> 01:18:45,840
Speaker 1: go through those awkward stages in your middle team, in

1587
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:48,160
Speaker 1: your middle school years, where you're you don't feel right

1588
01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:50,679
Speaker 1: about your body, your body's change, You're going through puberty

1589
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:52,960
Speaker 1: and you feel awkward and you don't how do you

1590
01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:54,759
Speaker 1: make friends? How do you go to a new school?

1591
01:18:54,840 --> 01:18:56,719
Speaker 1: How do you do? You know, we all feel awkward

1592
01:18:56,760 --> 01:19:00,240
Speaker 1: in that kind of situation. Football helps you get through

1593
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:02,679
Speaker 1: that because it teaches you how to be a good teammate.

1594
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 1: It teaches you We all feel uncomfortable, but in football,

1595
01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:10,479
Speaker 1: it teaches you to be a good teammate even when

1596
01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:14,560
Speaker 1: you are uncomfortable. It teach you to make certain sacrifices

1597
01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:17,599
Speaker 1: for the people around you because it's for the betterment

1598
01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:21,960
Speaker 1: of all of us. Those lessons, to me are well

1599
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:24,960
Speaker 1: worth the risk that may be involved in football. So

1600
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 1: you know there's my little speel about teams good. We're

1601
01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:30,639
Speaker 1: gonna break. We're coming back Isam McKenzie, Bill's wide receiver,

1602
01:19:30,800 --> 01:19:32,960
Speaker 1: gonna join us when we return. Come on back. One

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01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:35,439
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by KLADA Health from One Bill's Drive

1604
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:52,080
Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome Back One goes

1605
01:19:52,120 --> 01:19:55,639
Speaker 1: live from One Bill's Drive practices over John Murphy, Steve Tansker,

1606
01:19:55,720 --> 01:19:58,240
Speaker 1: joined by a special guest just off the practice field.

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01:19:58,240 --> 01:20:00,719
Speaker 1: Bills wide receiver ISAMH. McKenzie. Thank for coming there, Isaiah.

1608
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:02,720
Speaker 1: Good to see you again. I think the last time

1609
01:20:02,760 --> 01:20:05,160
Speaker 1: we had you on the show was probably a couple

1610
01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:07,599
Speaker 1: of days after the game at the Jets last November

1611
01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:09,640
Speaker 1: where you opened that up with the bang, one of

1612
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:11,760
Speaker 1: the great moments of the twenty eighteen season, probably of

1613
01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:14,360
Speaker 1: your career. I would think, huh yeah, I mean when

1614
01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:15,960
Speaker 1: I got here and I made plays and things like

1615
01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:18,559
Speaker 1: that I just I got. I got comfortable as quick

1616
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 1: as I can so I can make more plays to

1617
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:22,160
Speaker 1: help the team win. It was a It was a

1618
01:20:22,439 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 1: wild scene because you know, the quarter you hadn't even

1619
01:20:27,120 --> 01:20:30,640
Speaker 1: seen met the quarterback to right, Matt had just got right.

1620
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 1: They spit the play out and say, wow, okay, you

1621
01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:36,400
Speaker 1: got the play out anyway right and as the vision

1622
01:20:36,520 --> 01:20:38,640
Speaker 1: rival on the road and open it up like you did,

1623
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:40,040
Speaker 1: and plus go on to win like you did. It

1624
01:20:40,080 --> 01:20:42,880
Speaker 1: had to be. That'd be awesome. It was amazing to

1625
01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:45,439
Speaker 1: the happy game I had and then put up the

1626
01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:48,320
Speaker 1: points we did that day with Matt Barkley there his

1627
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:51,120
Speaker 1: first time at the quarterbacks position for the Bills. It

1628
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:53,519
Speaker 1: was awesome. Though that's fun and the team struggled for

1629
01:20:53,600 --> 01:20:56,000
Speaker 1: points for motes of last year. It doesn't appear that's

1630
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:58,000
Speaker 1: going to be the case this year. Tell me about

1631
01:20:58,200 --> 01:21:00,679
Speaker 1: maybe as you can, if you can, like a half

1632
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:03,599
Speaker 1: step back from the from the wide receiver meeting room

1633
01:21:03,640 --> 01:21:05,160
Speaker 1: and look at the group you have now and just

1634
01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:07,040
Speaker 1: how much better is the group you have now than

1635
01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:09,599
Speaker 1: who you were playing with a year ago. Um, well,

1636
01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:11,920
Speaker 1: when I got here last year, I didn't I didn't

1637
01:21:11,920 --> 01:21:14,080
Speaker 1: know all the guys. But I've seen a lot of

1638
01:21:14,120 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 1: potential in there. But now it's a lot of guys

1639
01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:19,679
Speaker 1: that could do a lot of things. From Dude Zay,

1640
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:24,200
Speaker 1: John Brown, Bees, Seals, Ease, all this, we can do

1641
01:21:24,240 --> 01:21:25,720
Speaker 1: a lot of things. It's a lot of competition in

1642
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:27,800
Speaker 1: the room. It's been great though, it's been fun. Yeah.

1643
01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:29,800
Speaker 1: One of the things we see with you two is

1644
01:21:29,840 --> 01:21:32,360
Speaker 1: there they have a real desire I guess, Brian Dable,

1645
01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:34,960
Speaker 1: it's a real desire to hand the ball to you. Yeah,

1646
01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:38,560
Speaker 1: right on those screens you score the touchdown and so

1647
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:41,479
Speaker 1: is that Has that always been something you've done or

1648
01:21:42,160 --> 01:21:43,840
Speaker 1: did you ever play running back when you were young?

1649
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:45,519
Speaker 1: Like your kid as you had to write, I mean

1650
01:21:45,560 --> 01:21:47,479
Speaker 1: he played running back, right, which, yeah, a little league.

1651
01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:49,920
Speaker 1: We're not in high school and in college I was.

1652
01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:52,519
Speaker 1: I was just a receiver. But I got those handoffs

1653
01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:55,360
Speaker 1: just like I'm getting them now, right because I feel

1654
01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 1: like I'm good with the ball in my hands right

1655
01:21:57,280 --> 01:21:59,040
Speaker 1: after catch, with a little space, yeah, with a little

1656
01:21:59,040 --> 01:22:01,960
Speaker 1: space and things like that. He figured it out and

1657
01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:04,479
Speaker 1: he's just giving it to me like that Friday night

1658
01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:07,880
Speaker 1: in Detroit, six yard running rushing touchdown for you. Can

1659
01:22:07,960 --> 01:22:09,320
Speaker 1: you tell us what goes in there. It's like a

1660
01:22:09,439 --> 01:22:11,320
Speaker 1: jet suite. But what do you have to you have

1661
01:22:11,439 --> 01:22:13,240
Speaker 1: to sell a certain fake right at the line of

1662
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:14,560
Speaker 1: scrimmage on a play like that, what do you have

1663
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:16,760
Speaker 1: to do? No, he's just get the ball and run. Yeah,

1664
01:22:17,160 --> 01:22:19,400
Speaker 1: you don't follow your block. And if you got to

1665
01:22:19,439 --> 01:22:21,640
Speaker 1: make a man miss, make a man miss. It surprises

1666
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: a lot of people. But that's really what they do.

1667
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:25,599
Speaker 1: They hand you the ball, they don't tell you where

1668
01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:29,400
Speaker 1: they're run. Just just go. It's just part yeah, look

1669
01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:32,519
Speaker 1: what's happening, and run to where they're not. It's just front. Yeah.

1670
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:34,439
Speaker 1: What did you see in the run against the Lions,

1671
01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:36,040
Speaker 1: Because you were going to the outside and then you

1672
01:22:36,120 --> 01:22:37,760
Speaker 1: cut it up in the middle. What did you see there? Well,

1673
01:22:37,760 --> 01:22:40,160
Speaker 1: I've seen the nickel coming over the top and so

1674
01:22:40,320 --> 01:22:41,960
Speaker 1: I knew he was trying to beat me to the

1675
01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:45,679
Speaker 1: front pylon. So I was like, okay, I'm gonna stop eventually,

1676
01:22:45,760 --> 01:22:48,479
Speaker 1: and I just stopped and then jumped in there. There's

1677
01:22:48,479 --> 01:22:50,439
Speaker 1: got to be a certain amount of confidence you have

1678
01:22:50,560 --> 01:22:52,720
Speaker 1: in your in your foot speed, right, knowing that you

1679
01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:55,439
Speaker 1: can stop and start pretty quickly and accelerate like yeah,

1680
01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:58,760
Speaker 1: that's my strong suit speed and being explosive about the line.

1681
01:22:58,800 --> 01:23:00,519
Speaker 1: So I feel like if I at the bottom of

1682
01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:06,320
Speaker 1: my hands and where even I'm leaving right like you also,

1683
01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:08,400
Speaker 1: you you kind of got that bill that everybody kind

1684
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:10,760
Speaker 1: of associates with slot receivers. Cole Beasley is the guy

1685
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:12,479
Speaker 1: that kind of plug in there. Are you like doing

1686
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:14,000
Speaker 1: a lot of that as well? And pra we don't

1687
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:16,080
Speaker 1: ever get to watch practice an Yeah, they they have

1688
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:18,599
Speaker 1: a spot for you in a slot as well. I mean, yeah,

1689
01:23:18,640 --> 01:23:21,439
Speaker 1: I just like I'm a slot receiver, but I just

1690
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:23,640
Speaker 1: do a lot of things on the outside and jet

1691
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:25,840
Speaker 1: sweep and things like that, but I also play inside

1692
01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:28,080
Speaker 1: just what you know, doing what Bees does? He just

1693
01:23:28,439 --> 01:23:30,559
Speaker 1: he does it a lot more than I do. But um,

1694
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:33,120
Speaker 1: I watch him and I do I do things he does.

1695
01:23:33,280 --> 01:23:35,880
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes I just watch him. You know. Other

1696
01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:38,439
Speaker 1: than that, have they required you or how or difficult

1697
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:40,519
Speaker 1: is it to learn you know, X, Y, and Z

1698
01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:43,759
Speaker 1: all three spots? I mean, do they have you able

1699
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:46,200
Speaker 1: to do that at this point? Now? Um, they term

1700
01:23:46,280 --> 01:23:48,120
Speaker 1: me to learn everything because at any point in time,

1701
01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:50,160
Speaker 1: I can be anywhere. So that's what I do. I

1702
01:23:50,240 --> 01:23:52,280
Speaker 1: just learned everything and watch everybody else do what they do.

1703
01:23:52,680 --> 01:23:56,160
Speaker 1: Do you run reps at the other spots too, or yeah, okay,

1704
01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:57,640
Speaker 1: so you have to learn everything. Yeah, you have to.

1705
01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 1: There was a play, kind of a receiver screenplay in

1706
01:24:01,160 --> 01:24:04,400
Speaker 1: the game two weeks ago against Carolina. Carolina, that's a

1707
01:24:04,439 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 1: big game and a big pickup. And again it's clear

1708
01:24:07,240 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 1: that you're kind of you got your eyes open looking right.

1709
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 1: You have to get your eyes open with the ball

1710
01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:13,639
Speaker 1: in your hands. What's that like? What are you thinking?

1711
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:16,240
Speaker 1: And when you get the ball um Like, like I

1712
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:17,680
Speaker 1: said before, I was like a part return. When I

1713
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:20,080
Speaker 1: get the ball in space, it's like I gotta find

1714
01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:21,800
Speaker 1: a hole. I got to hit it. But also if

1715
01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:23,519
Speaker 1: I got to set set up my blocks, I do

1716
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:26,040
Speaker 1: that first and they hit the whole. So usually it's

1717
01:24:26,240 --> 01:24:28,519
Speaker 1: it kind of comes natural to me because I'm always

1718
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:31,519
Speaker 1: in space. You are the pump returner, and now you've

1719
01:24:31,560 --> 01:24:34,559
Speaker 1: got a special teams coordinator new heath is now you're

1720
01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:37,360
Speaker 1: special team's quarter. Do you notice a difference in like

1721
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:40,719
Speaker 1: philosophy or certainly his technique for coaching is a little different.

1722
01:24:40,760 --> 01:24:42,400
Speaker 1: He's more of a hands on guy who's out there

1723
01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:44,760
Speaker 1: with receiver gloves and stuff. I'm run around, it's in

1724
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:48,599
Speaker 1: a full lather So what's been the biggest difference you've

1725
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:50,840
Speaker 1: noticed about, you know, his philosophies and the way he's

1726
01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:53,519
Speaker 1: done things as to maybe last year or other places

1727
01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:56,280
Speaker 1: you've been um well, when he got here, he told

1728
01:24:56,439 --> 01:24:58,960
Speaker 1: us he wants to play smart, fast, and with juice.

1729
01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:02,400
Speaker 1: And it's every single week that we've been playing smart,

1730
01:25:02,520 --> 01:25:05,400
Speaker 1: we've been playing fast and with juice. So each and

1731
01:25:05,479 --> 01:25:07,439
Speaker 1: every day he comes out with energy. He tells what

1732
01:25:07,840 --> 01:25:09,560
Speaker 1: we did wrong, what we did right, and we go

1733
01:25:09,640 --> 01:25:11,960
Speaker 1: out there and fix it. But he's a great coach. Day.

1734
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:13,439
Speaker 1: We were talking a little bit of a week or so,

1735
01:25:13,600 --> 01:25:16,240
Speaker 1: go Steve and I about how four coach Firewalls special

1736
01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:19,599
Speaker 1: teams coordinator. He doesn't quite know yet who he's gonna have. Yeah,

1737
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:21,840
Speaker 1: right when the season opened. So do you sense it

1738
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 1: in the room, like you feel like it's almost like

1739
01:25:24,439 --> 01:25:27,240
Speaker 1: Heath Firewalls. He's coaching everybody, but he doesn't know, sister,

1740
01:25:27,479 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have next week, he might have a totally

1741
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:32,640
Speaker 1: different group in there. Huh. Yeah, I mean he has

1742
01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:36,519
Speaker 1: a great, great group of guys, So whoever he has,

1743
01:25:36,600 --> 01:25:39,599
Speaker 1: he's gonna be happy with because everybody's been playing well

1744
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:43,720
Speaker 1: on special teams and you know, he's he's gonna take

1745
01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:47,880
Speaker 1: it over with whoever he has. The wide receiver room

1746
01:25:47,960 --> 01:25:51,400
Speaker 1: got crowded this year, right with the additions and free agency,

1747
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:54,799
Speaker 1: right and John Brown and Cole Beasley and Duke Williams

1748
01:25:54,840 --> 01:25:57,439
Speaker 1: comes from Canada. What's going through your head last spring

1749
01:25:57,520 --> 01:25:59,559
Speaker 1: when you saw all those names at it too? Where

1750
01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:02,720
Speaker 1: you're position? When my trainer he told me, he was like,

1751
01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:06,760
Speaker 1: you wanted you ready to retire? And I was like,

1752
01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:08,960
Speaker 1: I was like, nah, I ain't gonna I'm not gonna tie.

1753
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:11,800
Speaker 1: I'm going here and you know, compete. And when I

1754
01:26:11,880 --> 01:26:14,439
Speaker 1: got here and Ota say were saying, you know, it's

1755
01:26:14,479 --> 01:26:16,360
Speaker 1: a lot of competition in the room, a lot of

1756
01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:18,600
Speaker 1: new guys in the room, and I understood that, and

1757
01:26:19,200 --> 01:26:21,719
Speaker 1: my only mindset was, you know, I'm just gonna compete

1758
01:26:22,080 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 1: and whatever happens happens. But right now, at to this point,

1759
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:27,640
Speaker 1: I felt like I compete it and I'm doing the

1760
01:26:27,720 --> 01:26:29,200
Speaker 1: job the best way I can. Whenever they gave me

1761
01:26:29,240 --> 01:26:30,880
Speaker 1: the ball, making plays and things like that, and that's

1762
01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:33,720
Speaker 1: all I can do. I only control my energy, my

1763
01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:35,760
Speaker 1: effort and what I do on the field, and I'm

1764
01:26:35,760 --> 01:26:37,560
Speaker 1: gonna keep doing it. So you've been controlling that and

1765
01:26:37,640 --> 01:26:40,120
Speaker 1: you've been you know, getting a lot of reps with

1766
01:26:40,240 --> 01:26:42,080
Speaker 1: the ones, all of that stuff, and this has been

1767
01:26:42,120 --> 01:26:44,639
Speaker 1: a different type kind of training camp. You're in Saint

1768
01:26:44,720 --> 01:26:46,720
Speaker 1: John Fisher, then you went down to Carolina for a while.

1769
01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:49,160
Speaker 1: How does how it give us a little you know,

1770
01:26:49,439 --> 01:26:52,640
Speaker 1: summary of how this this preseason has gone for not

1771
01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:55,200
Speaker 1: just you, but the entire team. With the bouncing around

1772
01:26:55,240 --> 01:26:59,840
Speaker 1: and all that um ot, I mean current training camp

1773
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:01,640
Speaker 1: that was new for me and new for a lot

1774
01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:04,479
Speaker 1: of guys that came in like colding them, um for

1775
01:27:04,880 --> 01:27:06,800
Speaker 1: you know, as a team, I feel like we just

1776
01:27:07,680 --> 01:27:10,040
Speaker 1: what we worked with, whatever we had, whatever scene we

1777
01:27:10,120 --> 01:27:15,040
Speaker 1: were in, from from Saint John Fisher to Carolina, we brung.

1778
01:27:15,160 --> 01:27:17,280
Speaker 1: We brung energy, you know, each and every place we

1779
01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:20,439
Speaker 1: came to and transition over to preseason games and you know,

1780
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:22,640
Speaker 1: now we're here and now we had the you know,

1781
01:27:22,720 --> 01:27:24,920
Speaker 1: last preseason game and we're gonna trying to find the strong.

1782
01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:27,439
Speaker 1: You went to a couple of camps with Denver and

1783
01:27:27,479 --> 01:27:29,479
Speaker 1: this was the first Buffalo gam How did they different?

1784
01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:33,280
Speaker 1: I was telling a lot a few weeks ago. I'm like,

1785
01:27:33,320 --> 01:27:36,720
Speaker 1: this is way different, only because for me, I'm in

1786
01:27:36,840 --> 01:27:39,320
Speaker 1: the offense. I'm getting plays on offense and things like that,

1787
01:27:39,840 --> 01:27:42,160
Speaker 1: and I'm playing special teams and I'm getting a chance.

1788
01:27:42,200 --> 01:27:43,840
Speaker 1: I'm getting a chance to compete with each and every

1789
01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:46,920
Speaker 1: guy in the room and um and in Denver, it

1790
01:27:47,120 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 1: was kind of like, you know, you play part return

1791
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:52,439
Speaker 1: and we'll fit you in when we can. And other

1792
01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:54,040
Speaker 1: than that, it was just like I was just watching.

1793
01:27:54,280 --> 01:27:56,719
Speaker 1: But now I'm in the offense, I'm playing special teams.

1794
01:27:56,800 --> 01:27:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm get a chance to compete and show what I got,

1795
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:02,320
Speaker 1: you know, and I like that. And not only compete,

1796
01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:04,960
Speaker 1: but contribute, right, I mean you want to help, right,

1797
01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:06,400
Speaker 1: I mean that's part of being on the team, and

1798
01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:08,280
Speaker 1: because you want to be and you want to contribute

1799
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:10,040
Speaker 1: to what everybody else is doing. It it's hard to

1800
01:28:10,080 --> 01:28:12,840
Speaker 1: do that when you're sitting on your helmet. Yeah, yeah,

1801
01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:15,000
Speaker 1: it's hard to do. And I'm glad, you know, coach

1802
01:28:15,080 --> 01:28:17,439
Speaker 1: gave me the chance to come here and compete and

1803
01:28:17,600 --> 01:28:19,360
Speaker 1: just earn a spot the best way I can and

1804
01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:21,599
Speaker 1: help the team win. I'd say, the rest of this week.

1805
01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:23,599
Speaker 1: So you got this game Thursday, and I anticipate your

1806
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:25,760
Speaker 1: play Thursday night. Right, You're expecting that, That's That's what

1807
01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:27,280
Speaker 1: I'm thinking. And then what don't you guys have like

1808
01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:31,040
Speaker 1: three days off this weekend? You got a long weekend Friday? Yeah, yeah,

1809
01:28:31,120 --> 01:28:33,040
Speaker 1: long again, and you got to cut down in the middle.

1810
01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:34,680
Speaker 1: There are you going to spend this weekend? What do

1811
01:28:34,720 --> 01:28:38,080
Speaker 1: you got? You can't just stare at your fat You

1812
01:28:38,200 --> 01:28:39,880
Speaker 1: probably want to just stare at your phone. You can't

1813
01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:41,960
Speaker 1: do that, right, Yeah, I guess I was just go home,

1814
01:28:42,080 --> 01:28:46,320
Speaker 1: play Fortnite and just wait till Saturday and hopefully my

1815
01:28:46,479 --> 01:28:49,120
Speaker 1: number won't be called. You you've been through this so everything. Yeah,

1816
01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:50,920
Speaker 1: I've been through it, so I understand how it goes

1817
01:28:51,280 --> 01:28:54,599
Speaker 1: and if if you know, whatever happens happens. But I'm ready,

1818
01:28:54,800 --> 01:28:57,000
Speaker 1: you know, no matter what happens. You were released by

1819
01:28:57,080 --> 01:28:59,760
Speaker 1: Denver like mid season last year? Yeah, would you rather

1820
01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:02,519
Speaker 1: be make the fifty three and stick for a while?

1821
01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:04,040
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna get released here, would you

1822
01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:05,920
Speaker 1: rather get a clean start for somebody at the top

1823
01:29:06,000 --> 01:29:09,080
Speaker 1: of the season. What do you think? Depends on where

1824
01:29:09,080 --> 01:29:11,640
Speaker 1: you go? I guess yeah, if they gave me the

1825
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:15,560
Speaker 1: opportunity any somewhere else or it's I gotta deal with it.

1826
01:29:15,640 --> 01:29:17,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I only can control what I control. I

1827
01:29:17,680 --> 01:29:20,080
Speaker 1: can't control what happens upstairs. But even if, even if,

1828
01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:23,160
Speaker 1: for instance, you do get a call on Friday or whatever,

1829
01:29:23,280 --> 01:29:25,200
Speaker 1: you gotta feel really good about the work you put

1830
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:27,640
Speaker 1: in here in Buffalo. You and I'm sure it's a

1831
01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:30,080
Speaker 1: tough roster to make, but there's got you gotta feel

1832
01:29:30,080 --> 01:29:32,360
Speaker 1: like there's a place for you in the NFL. Yeah,

1833
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:37,920
Speaker 1: it's particularly here even so. Yeah, I just I told myself,

1834
01:29:37,920 --> 01:29:40,479
Speaker 1: I put everything I could on film. You know, whatever

1835
01:29:40,560 --> 01:29:43,320
Speaker 1: reps they gave me, I take advantage of them, Whatever

1836
01:29:43,360 --> 01:29:45,320
Speaker 1: opportunities they gave me, I take advantage of them. So

1837
01:29:45,920 --> 01:29:48,200
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's all up to upstairs now. Yeah,

1838
01:29:48,360 --> 01:29:50,200
Speaker 1: gotta be a good feeling, right And you again, you

1839
01:29:50,320 --> 01:29:52,960
Speaker 1: you were talking about how your trainers said ready to retire,

1840
01:29:53,040 --> 01:29:54,840
Speaker 1: but you didn't retire. You didn't back down. You went

1841
01:29:54,920 --> 01:29:58,479
Speaker 1: to work this summer. Yeah, and that's what I'm still doing. Well,

1842
01:29:58,479 --> 01:30:01,760
Speaker 1: good lucky you tomorrow when the game Thursday, Thursday. Yeah,

1843
01:30:01,840 --> 01:30:05,080
Speaker 1: good luck it works out. Thank you. Isam McKenzie Bill's

1844
01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:07,040
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Maybe you don't have to play at all?

1845
01:30:08,640 --> 01:30:10,200
Speaker 1: Would that be a good sign? If you don't play,

1846
01:30:10,439 --> 01:30:11,920
Speaker 1: would you would you rather play? It seems like a

1847
01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:13,920
Speaker 1: good sign. Ship you know it's to the guys that

1848
01:30:13,960 --> 01:30:16,439
Speaker 1: are not playing. So if I'm not playing, d yeah,

1849
01:30:16,479 --> 01:30:18,479
Speaker 1: it's a good sign. But you never know what's gonna happen, right,

1850
01:30:18,600 --> 01:30:22,800
Speaker 1: be ready, Yeah, you can read into anything, right Yeah.

1851
01:30:22,960 --> 01:30:25,280
Speaker 1: Isam McKenzie joins us Stephen I coming back with more

1852
01:30:25,360 --> 01:30:28,200
Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio.

1853
01:30:40,120 --> 01:30:45,360
Speaker 1: Hello Bills Radio Network. Story date. All the Bills have

1854
01:30:45,520 --> 01:30:47,720
Speaker 1: finished their practice for today and they're getting set for

1855
01:30:47,800 --> 01:30:50,760
Speaker 1: preseason game number four, Thursday Night cut down, just four

1856
01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:54,080
Speaker 1: days away Saturday at four pm. The injury status remains

1857
01:30:54,120 --> 01:30:57,360
Speaker 1: pretty similar. Mitch Moore still in concussion protocol. No practice

1858
01:30:57,360 --> 01:30:59,760
Speaker 1: today for offensive lineman Quentin Spain with his ankle and

1859
01:30:59,840 --> 01:31:02,960
Speaker 1: d Andrey Wesley running backs Norris Perry another day off

1860
01:31:03,000 --> 01:31:05,839
Speaker 1: to day. Mike Love did not practice. Tyler Craft remains

1861
01:31:05,920 --> 01:31:09,680
Speaker 1: in physically unable to perform. Bills do expect to use

1862
01:31:09,760 --> 01:31:11,599
Speaker 1: Jason Krum to the tight end, who has missed much

1863
01:31:11,640 --> 01:31:14,439
Speaker 1: of the preseason, is expected to play on Thursday Night.

1864
01:31:14,720 --> 01:31:17,800
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott says it's more than likely the Tyree Jackson

1865
01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:20,640
Speaker 1: will start this week's game as the starting quarterback of

1866
01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:22,639
Speaker 1: the Bills. We're gonna hear from Tyree with Maddy glab

1867
01:31:22,800 --> 01:31:25,200
Speaker 1: in just a moment. Roster moved yesterday for the Bills.

1868
01:31:25,240 --> 01:31:28,080
Speaker 1: They signed linebacker Jeff Holland, who played for the Denver

1869
01:31:28,200 --> 01:31:31,400
Speaker 1: Broncos last year. Three games with the Broncos, six tackles.

1870
01:31:32,040 --> 01:31:34,200
Speaker 1: He played at Auburn. Signed with the Broncos as an

1871
01:31:34,280 --> 01:31:37,880
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent out of Auburn in twenty eighteen. Jeff

1872
01:31:37,920 --> 01:31:40,040
Speaker 1: Holland with the Buffalo Bills. Now when the Bills release

1873
01:31:40,080 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 1: thunder Corey Carter late yesterday to make room Bills and

1874
01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:46,120
Speaker 1: Vikings Tomorrow night or Thursday night. I keep saying Tomorrow

1875
01:31:46,200 --> 01:31:48,840
Speaker 1: Thursday night, seven o'clock are at Newerrafield. You can hear

1876
01:31:48,840 --> 01:31:52,200
Speaker 1: the broadcast on our flagship in Buffalo, w GR Sports

1877
01:31:52,320 --> 01:31:54,280
Speaker 1: Radio five fifty have got the call of the game

1878
01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:57,280
Speaker 1: with Eric Wood and Sal Capacho. That's coming up Thursday night.

1879
01:31:58,360 --> 01:32:02,040
Speaker 1: The Dolphins continue to share veteran talent. They let recently

1880
01:32:02,080 --> 01:32:04,719
Speaker 1: signed right tackle Jordan Mills, the former Bills right tackle.

1881
01:32:04,760 --> 01:32:06,960
Speaker 1: They let him go today. Mills was signed in May

1882
01:32:07,040 --> 01:32:09,040
Speaker 1: with hopes that he would be there starting and right tackle,

1883
01:32:09,880 --> 01:32:12,360
Speaker 1: but they discovered he was not playing well enough to

1884
01:32:12,400 --> 01:32:15,160
Speaker 1: fill that rule that means that Jesse Davis, switched from

1885
01:32:15,400 --> 01:32:17,840
Speaker 1: right guard to right tackle will stick for now during

1886
01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:22,120
Speaker 1: the regular season. Patriots starting center David Andrews as blood

1887
01:32:22,160 --> 01:32:24,839
Speaker 1: clots in as lungs. His season is in jeopardy. According

1888
01:32:24,920 --> 01:32:28,720
Speaker 1: to league sources. He was hospitalized after undergoing tests to

1889
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:31,679
Speaker 1: pinpoint the cause of the clots. Released from the hospital

1890
01:32:31,760 --> 01:32:34,240
Speaker 1: last night. He's a team captain for the Patriots. David

1891
01:32:34,280 --> 01:32:37,920
Speaker 1: Andrews his season now in jeopardy, and baseball devisings down

1892
01:32:37,960 --> 01:32:40,200
Speaker 1: to the final three games of the season home against

1893
01:32:40,280 --> 01:32:43,160
Speaker 1: Rochester tonight, seven or five. First pitch heard, just three

1894
01:32:43,200 --> 01:32:45,519
Speaker 1: games out of first place in the IL North. Left

1895
01:32:45,560 --> 01:32:48,439
Speaker 1: hand there. Anthony Kay gets to start for Buffalo tonight,

1896
01:32:48,600 --> 01:32:51,040
Speaker 1: and that is the update. Welcome back to our show,

1897
01:32:51,160 --> 01:32:54,120
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker. I think Isaia McKenzie had about

1898
01:32:54,160 --> 01:32:56,560
Speaker 1: as good and I told him walking him out, I

1899
01:32:56,640 --> 01:32:58,639
Speaker 1: let him, I got him through the locked doors here.

1900
01:32:58,880 --> 01:33:01,000
Speaker 1: I said, you got about his good an attitude as

1901
01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:03,120
Speaker 1: anybody could have in your position. I don't know if

1902
01:33:03,120 --> 01:33:05,479
Speaker 1: he's gonna make the roster, but he has played as

1903
01:33:05,520 --> 01:33:08,599
Speaker 1: well as he can this summer's team, and I salute

1904
01:33:08,680 --> 01:33:10,240
Speaker 1: him for that. Yeah, he's done a pretty good job

1905
01:33:10,400 --> 01:33:12,680
Speaker 1: this summer. You always think, too it comes down to him,

1906
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:15,200
Speaker 1: Guys like him, and guys like Duke Johnson, guys like

1907
01:33:15,600 --> 01:33:18,200
Speaker 1: Nick Easley, all these guys that are that are on

1908
01:33:18,280 --> 01:33:20,200
Speaker 1: this team trying to make it. You know, they kind

1909
01:33:20,240 --> 01:33:22,360
Speaker 1: of stacked as kind of stacked against you. They signed

1910
01:33:22,400 --> 01:33:24,720
Speaker 1: two guys in free agency and Cole Beasley and John

1911
01:33:24,760 --> 01:33:27,160
Speaker 1: Brown that kind of take, you know, for sure, two

1912
01:33:27,200 --> 01:33:29,439
Speaker 1: spots away. They got a second round draft pick in

1913
01:33:29,640 --> 01:33:31,960
Speaker 1: Zay Jones, He's gonna take a spot away, and then

1914
01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:34,960
Speaker 1: it kind of falls to everybody else. Robert Foster has

1915
01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:37,120
Speaker 1: proven himself to be a pretty good player in this

1916
01:33:37,280 --> 01:33:39,640
Speaker 1: league and on this team as well. Last year. He

1917
01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:41,600
Speaker 1: was the bright spot for the last half of the

1918
01:33:41,920 --> 01:33:43,439
Speaker 1: season last year, So you kind of think, wow, how

1919
01:33:43,439 --> 01:33:45,040
Speaker 1: are they gonna do it? Well, then you're starting thinking

1920
01:33:45,040 --> 01:33:47,479
Speaker 1: about one guy or one spot or maybe two spots

1921
01:33:47,760 --> 01:33:50,200
Speaker 1: for all those guys we've mentioned. And to have a

1922
01:33:50,320 --> 01:33:52,920
Speaker 1: great attitude going in knowing that hey, you know what

1923
01:33:53,040 --> 01:33:55,559
Speaker 1: you gave, it's your best shot, and to be at

1924
01:33:55,600 --> 01:33:57,800
Speaker 1: peace with it even though as it's going on it's

1925
01:33:58,080 --> 01:33:59,599
Speaker 1: It says a lot about the maturity of a guy

1926
01:33:59,640 --> 01:34:01,880
Speaker 1: like Kenzie he was. He was great talking to him.

1927
01:34:02,080 --> 01:34:04,200
Speaker 1: You could tell he was just he's he's loving this

1928
01:34:04,360 --> 01:34:06,360
Speaker 1: team and being on it and having a chance to compete.

1929
01:34:06,400 --> 01:34:08,120
Speaker 1: It's been It's fun to talk to you guys like that,

1930
01:34:08,280 --> 01:34:10,840
Speaker 1: great smile on his face. Happy to him here and

1931
01:34:10,960 --> 01:34:13,439
Speaker 1: hope it works out for him and roster spots. What

1932
01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:15,040
Speaker 1: do you think? We got phone lines open and we

1933
01:34:15,120 --> 01:34:16,880
Speaker 1: haven't taken a call yet today, have we? I don't

1934
01:34:16,880 --> 01:34:18,559
Speaker 1: know if we have. Give us a call eight three

1935
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Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

1936
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Speaker 1: two five fifty. What do you think about this roster?

1937
01:34:24,560 --> 01:34:27,120
Speaker 1: In particular the question we have up as a question

1938
01:34:27,200 --> 01:34:30,120
Speaker 1: of the day, which Bill's position group is likely to

1939
01:34:30,400 --> 01:34:33,800
Speaker 1: add players off another team's roster after the cuts are

1940
01:34:33,840 --> 01:34:36,200
Speaker 1: complete this Saturday. Let us know what you think. We'll

1941
01:34:36,479 --> 01:34:39,160
Speaker 1: take your phone calls on that. We will read tweets

1942
01:34:39,200 --> 01:34:41,240
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet in just a moment, and you

1943
01:34:41,280 --> 01:34:44,599
Speaker 1: can let us know what you think about that. Sean

1944
01:34:44,720 --> 01:34:48,000
Speaker 1: McDermot has said more than likely that Tyree Jackson starts

1945
01:34:48,120 --> 01:34:50,639
Speaker 1: this week. The Bill's head coach said that's the way

1946
01:34:50,640 --> 01:34:52,760
Speaker 1: they're leaning right now. They haven't formalized that, but it

1947
01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:55,040
Speaker 1: looks like that's where they're going, and McDermot went on

1948
01:34:55,160 --> 01:34:58,360
Speaker 1: to talk about Tyree Jackson's development since he signed with

1949
01:34:58,439 --> 01:35:00,720
Speaker 1: the Bill's last spring as an undrafted rookie free agent.

1950
01:35:00,760 --> 01:35:05,479
Speaker 1: Here's Sean McDermott. It's hard for rookie quarterbacks to play

1951
01:35:05,520 --> 01:35:07,360
Speaker 1: in this league, to come in and be comfortable, and

1952
01:35:07,560 --> 01:35:11,080
Speaker 1: I think he's gotten more comfortable with each with each exposure,

1953
01:35:11,600 --> 01:35:14,120
Speaker 1: at least in the games. And he's been in the

1954
01:35:14,200 --> 01:35:17,759
Speaker 1: games in good situational moments at the end of games

1955
01:35:17,960 --> 01:35:21,360
Speaker 1: most of them, most of his opportunities in that regard,

1956
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:25,000
Speaker 1: So I've seen him growing growing those areas for sure.

1957
01:35:25,439 --> 01:35:29,080
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot on Tyree Jackson as a tall hill to climb,

1958
01:35:29,160 --> 01:35:31,839
Speaker 1: to come in and be the kind of college quarterback

1959
01:35:31,920 --> 01:35:33,519
Speaker 1: he was and didn't be expected to be kind of

1960
01:35:33,560 --> 01:35:35,840
Speaker 1: a little bit of a different quarterback on the pro level,

1961
01:35:36,120 --> 01:35:39,360
Speaker 1: and to do it really quickly with very few reps,

1962
01:35:40,479 --> 01:35:43,600
Speaker 1: very few reps. Right. Remember, I remember driving home it

1963
01:35:43,640 --> 01:35:46,080
Speaker 1: seems like years ago, but driving home from Rochester a

1964
01:35:46,120 --> 01:35:48,920
Speaker 1: couple of times with you from that portion of training camp.

1965
01:35:48,920 --> 01:35:51,960
Speaker 1: But we're saying, man, Tyree Jackson got four snaps today

1966
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:54,000
Speaker 1: in teamwork. You know, I mean that's literally the kind

1967
01:35:54,040 --> 01:35:56,479
Speaker 1: of numbers he was getting early on in training And

1968
01:35:56,520 --> 01:35:58,160
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, early on training camp, he might

1969
01:35:58,240 --> 01:36:01,519
Speaker 1: get four or six snaps, he'd fumble the exchange twice,

1970
01:36:02,080 --> 01:36:06,000
Speaker 1: and I mean it was yeah, and it's yeah, he

1971
01:36:06,080 --> 01:36:08,240
Speaker 1: had a long he had a long way to go. Um,

1972
01:36:08,360 --> 01:36:11,000
Speaker 1: and now he's probably gonna play four quarters of football

1973
01:36:11,040 --> 01:36:13,920
Speaker 1: in this last preseason game. And uh, it's gonna be

1974
01:36:13,960 --> 01:36:16,240
Speaker 1: interesting to see how far he has come, because you know,

1975
01:36:16,600 --> 01:36:20,360
Speaker 1: right now, you got to know as as long as

1976
01:36:20,400 --> 01:36:22,439
Speaker 1: it seems for it seems like a lifetime ago, Saint

1977
01:36:22,520 --> 01:36:25,920
Speaker 1: John Fisher, all of us, it's it's an eyeblink. I mean,

1978
01:36:26,080 --> 01:36:28,160
Speaker 1: he is he has had no time to get better.

1979
01:36:28,320 --> 01:36:31,559
Speaker 1: This is still he's still swimming with all the information

1980
01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:34,440
Speaker 1: and trying to make the play calls, trying to read defenses,

1981
01:36:34,439 --> 01:36:37,479
Speaker 1: trying to get pre snap reads. Uh. And then after

1982
01:36:37,560 --> 01:36:40,000
Speaker 1: the ball is snapped, when the defense changes, what that

1983
01:36:40,479 --> 01:36:43,439
Speaker 1: does to the play. All that's got to have his

1984
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:47,840
Speaker 1: head swimming and and uh, it's it's a monumental task

1985
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:50,320
Speaker 1: to start to try and play the most difficult position

1986
01:36:50,360 --> 01:36:52,800
Speaker 1: there is in pro sports and do it well right

1987
01:36:52,840 --> 01:36:54,439
Speaker 1: out of the gate. It's hard it's going to give

1988
01:36:54,479 --> 01:36:57,479
Speaker 1: it a shot. On Thursday and our Meddi Glad, multi

1989
01:36:57,680 --> 01:36:59,920
Speaker 1: media journalist for a PSC, had a chance to talk

1990
01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:03,280
Speaker 1: to Tyree Jackson after today's workout. Here's how that went.

1991
01:37:03,400 --> 01:37:08,080
Speaker 1: Listen in thanks guys, Maddi glab hereth quarterback Tyree Jackson Art.

1992
01:37:08,200 --> 01:37:11,880
Speaker 1: You have one final week of practices before the last

1993
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:14,920
Speaker 1: preseason game. Head coach On McDermott said in this press

1994
01:37:14,960 --> 01:37:17,080
Speaker 1: conference to that you will likely be the starter for

1995
01:37:17,200 --> 01:37:20,519
Speaker 1: that fourth preseason game. How have practices been going so

1996
01:37:20,720 --> 01:37:22,880
Speaker 1: far this week? I's been going really well, you know,

1997
01:37:23,040 --> 01:37:26,760
Speaker 1: just trying to improve each day, you know, just getting better.

1998
01:37:26,840 --> 01:37:28,400
Speaker 1: You know, that's what training camps for, That's what the

1999
01:37:28,400 --> 01:37:30,560
Speaker 1: preseason's for. So you know, just working each day to

2000
01:37:30,600 --> 01:37:32,880
Speaker 1: get better and call out there and have a good game.

2001
01:37:33,600 --> 01:37:36,320
Speaker 1: When would you say you had your biggest learning lesson

2002
01:37:36,600 --> 01:37:40,720
Speaker 1: of camp or of preseason games? Yeah, I would say

2003
01:37:40,760 --> 01:37:43,840
Speaker 1: probably in Carolina the interception I threw. That was just

2004
01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:46,919
Speaker 1: not a smart play and something that you know, instantly regretted.

2005
01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:48,599
Speaker 1: But you know, each day I think I learned something

2006
01:37:48,680 --> 01:37:51,840
Speaker 1: new and you know, improve, So I've really liked it.

2007
01:37:51,920 --> 01:37:54,360
Speaker 1: But sometimes you know, it's hard learning and sometimes you

2008
01:37:54,360 --> 01:37:56,559
Speaker 1: got to make some mistakes to learn. Have you had

2009
01:37:56,600 --> 01:38:00,560
Speaker 1: a welcome to the NFL moment yet? I don't. I

2010
01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:04,160
Speaker 1: don't think I have yet. I did get hit pretty

2011
01:38:04,160 --> 01:38:06,599
Speaker 1: hard one game, the first game, and that was kind

2012
01:38:06,640 --> 01:38:09,640
Speaker 1: of a you know, welcome back to football and get

2013
01:38:09,760 --> 01:38:11,439
Speaker 1: tackled in me and live because you know, in practice

2014
01:38:11,439 --> 01:38:13,680
Speaker 1: we got those red jerseys. But I haven't had a

2015
01:38:13,760 --> 01:38:17,679
Speaker 1: real welcome welcome moment. You are working with Matt Barkley

2016
01:38:17,720 --> 01:38:19,840
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen every single day. What has it been

2017
01:38:19,960 --> 01:38:23,120
Speaker 1: like to learn from two pros and those guys. Yeah,

2018
01:38:23,240 --> 01:38:25,559
Speaker 1: you know, mass been around a long time, so he's

2019
01:38:25,560 --> 01:38:27,240
Speaker 1: seen a lot of things, and to learn from him

2020
01:38:27,280 --> 01:38:29,880
Speaker 1: has been amazing. You know, when I come up the field,

2021
01:38:29,920 --> 01:38:32,080
Speaker 1: he's always talking to me, and practice he's always talking

2022
01:38:32,120 --> 01:38:34,320
Speaker 1: to me. And those guys are really good dudes. And

2023
01:38:34,400 --> 01:38:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, with Josh, you know, watching the things that

2024
01:38:36,280 --> 01:38:38,000
Speaker 1: he can do. He can do a lot of special

2025
01:38:38,080 --> 01:38:40,080
Speaker 1: things with the ball in his hand. So just you know,

2026
01:38:40,200 --> 01:38:42,200
Speaker 1: watching and learning from him, and you know, it's been

2027
01:38:42,240 --> 01:38:46,400
Speaker 1: a real fun room. You have one final preseason game,

2028
01:38:47,160 --> 01:38:49,400
Speaker 1: one last chance to put some stuff on tape. Is

2029
01:38:49,439 --> 01:38:52,519
Speaker 1: there anything that you're trying to do that you haven't

2030
01:38:52,600 --> 01:38:55,519
Speaker 1: done yet in a preseason for your last opportunity out

2031
01:38:55,560 --> 01:38:57,720
Speaker 1: there to hopefully make the fifty three. Yeah, I think

2032
01:38:57,720 --> 01:38:59,439
Speaker 1: it really just be myself, you know, go out there

2033
01:38:59,479 --> 01:39:01,200
Speaker 1: and be called him and just you know, play like

2034
01:39:01,400 --> 01:39:03,680
Speaker 1: I've been my entire life and not put too much

2035
01:39:03,680 --> 01:39:06,160
Speaker 1: pressure on myself and you know, just play calm, and

2036
01:39:06,360 --> 01:39:08,840
Speaker 1: that's my main focus for this week. One guy who

2037
01:39:08,880 --> 01:39:12,280
Speaker 1: has been helping you get your craft right as a

2038
01:39:12,360 --> 01:39:14,920
Speaker 1: quarterback is quarterbacks coach Ken Dorsey. So what have you

2039
01:39:15,040 --> 01:39:18,240
Speaker 1: learned from him so far since you've been on the Bills. Yeah,

2040
01:39:18,320 --> 01:39:20,920
Speaker 1: Coach Dorsey might be one of the coolest coaches I've had.

2041
01:39:21,000 --> 01:39:23,240
Speaker 1: I've learned so much from him, and you know, him

2042
01:39:23,320 --> 01:39:25,080
Speaker 1: doing it at a high level in college and in

2043
01:39:25,120 --> 01:39:27,640
Speaker 1: the NFL. He's definitely seen a lot of things and

2044
01:39:27,720 --> 01:39:29,720
Speaker 1: been around. So it's been awesome to learn from him.

2045
01:39:29,760 --> 01:39:32,120
Speaker 1: And you know, every time he's talking, I'm really soaking

2046
01:39:32,160 --> 01:39:34,280
Speaker 1: it in and trying to, you know, take something from

2047
01:39:34,320 --> 01:39:37,479
Speaker 1: everything he's saying because it's it's real valuable. Tyree, thank you,

2048
01:39:37,760 --> 01:39:41,240
Speaker 1: thank you. There you go, Tyree Jackson with the Maddie

2049
01:39:41,280 --> 01:39:45,439
Speaker 1: Clant Hey, um, what's the chancet? Even this fourth preseason game.

2050
01:39:45,600 --> 01:39:47,639
Speaker 1: We know how these games go. We know, we think

2051
01:39:47,680 --> 01:39:50,160
Speaker 1: we know how both teams will play it. Right, not

2052
01:39:50,280 --> 01:39:54,679
Speaker 1: too many regulars starters and maybe even second teamers. Could

2053
01:39:54,720 --> 01:39:58,800
Speaker 1: it happened to ty rejects and plays better and maybe

2054
01:39:58,840 --> 01:40:01,000
Speaker 1: a more freelance that you that he might get on

2055
01:40:01,120 --> 01:40:03,360
Speaker 1: Thursday night, you know what I mean. Look, that's the

2056
01:40:03,439 --> 01:40:06,120
Speaker 1: game's gonna be. It's not gonna be you know, mayhem

2057
01:40:06,160 --> 01:40:09,760
Speaker 1: out there, you know, anarchy, but it'll either be really

2058
01:40:09,840 --> 01:40:11,920
Speaker 1: simple and take the snap and hand it off or

2059
01:40:12,240 --> 01:40:15,240
Speaker 1: whatever makes something happen. And if it's the ladder, Tybrey

2060
01:40:15,280 --> 01:40:18,280
Speaker 1: Jackson might exist pretty good at that. Yeah, So yeah,

2061
01:40:18,520 --> 01:40:20,919
Speaker 1: I can see that, and I think him getting extended

2062
01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:24,200
Speaker 1: playing time because I don't want to make light of it,

2063
01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:28,519
Speaker 1: but he could throw five first quarter interceptions. He's going

2064
01:40:28,560 --> 01:40:30,760
Speaker 1: back out there for the second quarter. You know they're

2065
01:40:30,760 --> 01:40:35,800
Speaker 1: gonna He's going back out So I think that and

2066
01:40:35,920 --> 01:40:38,000
Speaker 1: that kind of atmosphere once the game, there's gonna be

2067
01:40:38,120 --> 01:40:41,920
Speaker 1: plays where he does have to, you know, improvise and

2068
01:40:42,000 --> 01:40:46,040
Speaker 1: get out of the pocket. That's gonna be where he shines.

2069
01:40:46,120 --> 01:40:48,439
Speaker 1: I think we've said that from beginning. That's kind of

2070
01:40:48,479 --> 01:40:50,720
Speaker 1: the way he played. That's the way he played at

2071
01:40:50,720 --> 01:40:52,400
Speaker 1: you be. That's what got him on the radar of

2072
01:40:52,479 --> 01:40:55,200
Speaker 1: all these teams was his athleticism, his ability to get

2073
01:40:55,240 --> 01:40:57,839
Speaker 1: outside the pocket to be a threat of a running quarterback.

2074
01:40:57,880 --> 01:41:00,839
Speaker 1: And also with the big arm that if he breaks contain,

2075
01:41:01,280 --> 01:41:03,719
Speaker 1: you still have to defend every corner of the field

2076
01:41:03,720 --> 01:41:06,840
Speaker 1: because he can throw it there. So it's it's gonna

2077
01:41:06,840 --> 01:41:09,599
Speaker 1: be interesting. I think he if if he's smart, which

2078
01:41:09,600 --> 01:41:12,559
Speaker 1: I think he is, he's got to be man thinking

2079
01:41:12,640 --> 01:41:15,400
Speaker 1: this is gonna be an absolute blast this week. To

2080
01:41:15,520 --> 01:41:18,799
Speaker 1: play this game all four quarters, To have Matt Barkley

2081
01:41:18,840 --> 01:41:21,720
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen in my corner helping me to play

2082
01:41:21,800 --> 01:41:25,160
Speaker 1: well instead of the reverse, you know, and uh having

2083
01:41:25,280 --> 01:41:27,320
Speaker 1: day Ball focus on me in my game and how

2084
01:41:27,400 --> 01:41:30,040
Speaker 1: I did and and and Ken Dorsey's gonna be talking

2085
01:41:30,080 --> 01:41:31,880
Speaker 1: to me on the phone from upstairs telling me how,

2086
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:33,640
Speaker 1: you know, talking about It's gotta be a lot of

2087
01:41:33,680 --> 01:41:36,439
Speaker 1: fun for him in that situation. I think I hope

2088
01:41:36,479 --> 01:41:38,720
Speaker 1: he really embraces it and excels in it. Here's a

2089
01:41:38,800 --> 01:41:40,960
Speaker 1: tough question for you, Steve. What if you were a

2090
01:41:41,160 --> 01:41:45,320
Speaker 1: huge ub football fan. UM love the Bulls season ticket

2091
01:41:45,400 --> 01:41:48,200
Speaker 1: older go to all their games, rooting for Tyree Jackson.

2092
01:41:48,280 --> 01:41:50,320
Speaker 1: Really want to see Tyree Jackson get a chance? What

2093
01:41:50,680 --> 01:41:53,519
Speaker 1: he's starting this Thursday night at seven o'clock. That's great,

2094
01:41:53,560 --> 01:42:00,439
Speaker 1: But you b played seven o'clock on Thursday night. What

2095
01:42:00,560 --> 01:42:03,960
Speaker 1: a dilemma? What do you do? Robert Morris VERSUS ub Stadium,

2096
01:42:04,040 --> 01:42:05,960
Speaker 1: seven o'clock on third. First of all, you're mad that

2097
01:42:06,080 --> 01:42:14,000
Speaker 1: Tyree's not there yet to start. We got ten eleven games.

2098
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Speaker 1: You can come start for us. I mean, that's that's true.

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01:42:16,120 --> 01:42:18,679
Speaker 1: I mean, Tyree, in my opinion, I think he would

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01:42:18,680 --> 01:42:21,160
Speaker 1: have been best served by another year of college. Um,

2101
01:42:21,680 --> 01:42:23,720
Speaker 1: but you know, everybody's got to make those decisions on

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Speaker 1: their own. He didn't get drafted. I think that would

2103
01:42:26,880 --> 01:42:29,400
Speaker 1: be not getting drafted. If he stayed in another year

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01:42:29,640 --> 01:42:33,240
Speaker 1: and seasoned himself and tried to get that would there's

2105
01:42:33,280 --> 01:42:36,120
Speaker 1: no doubt that it would have enhanced his draft capabilities.

2106
01:42:36,200 --> 01:42:39,280
Speaker 1: But if he manages to link on and stick with

2107
01:42:39,320 --> 01:42:42,000
Speaker 1: an NFL team, that's way better than being in college too.

2108
01:42:42,600 --> 01:42:45,280
Speaker 1: I think it's it's way better, uh than playing for

2109
01:42:45,360 --> 01:42:47,599
Speaker 1: the ub Bulls. But it means he's got to make

2110
01:42:47,640 --> 01:42:49,479
Speaker 1: a roster for that to happen. It was a it

2111
01:42:49,560 --> 01:42:50,880
Speaker 1: was a roll of the dice, as it is for

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01:42:50,960 --> 01:42:53,800
Speaker 1: every player who comes out early. But but I think

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01:42:53,840 --> 01:42:57,640
Speaker 1: for Tyree, um, it'd be interesting to see after this

2114
01:42:57,800 --> 01:42:59,960
Speaker 1: training camp if he if he doesn't make the buff

2115
01:43:00,000 --> 01:43:02,160
Speaker 1: a little Bill's roster, if he doesn't make the practice squad,

2116
01:43:02,200 --> 01:43:03,880
Speaker 1: if he bounced out to see if he would have

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01:43:03,920 --> 01:43:06,200
Speaker 1: gone back and maybe stayed at UB for one more year,

2118
01:43:06,400 --> 01:43:09,960
Speaker 1: because I'll tell you what he was in that conference. Uh,

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01:43:10,560 --> 01:43:13,040
Speaker 1: he would have. He would have I think, enhanced his

2120
01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:16,120
Speaker 1: value to the NFL and you would have been drafted

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01:43:16,280 --> 01:43:18,040
Speaker 1: for sure after one more year in college. Well, I

2122
01:43:18,080 --> 01:43:19,640
Speaker 1: think I think a lot of people expect him to

2123
01:43:19,640 --> 01:43:22,439
Speaker 1: be drafted this year, although you know it never happened.

2124
01:43:22,479 --> 01:43:25,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah they were wrong. Hey, um, so Tyree

2125
01:43:25,520 --> 01:43:27,560
Speaker 1: likely to start according to Sean McDermott, What do you

2126
01:43:27,640 --> 01:43:29,080
Speaker 1: think of that? What do you think of the game Thursday?

2127
01:43:29,120 --> 01:43:30,840
Speaker 1: What do you think of the Bill's roster? Give us

2128
01:43:30,880 --> 01:43:33,519
Speaker 1: a call? Full nines open eight o three fifty toll

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01:43:33,600 --> 01:43:36,920
Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty

2130
01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:38,679
Speaker 1: years sending a tweet. We're gonna get to the tweet

2131
01:43:38,720 --> 01:43:40,840
Speaker 1: sheet in a moment, but a call or two. Edric

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01:43:40,880 --> 01:43:44,280
Speaker 1: from New Jersey how Edric, how are you doing? Hey, guys, good,

2133
01:43:44,360 --> 01:43:47,400
Speaker 1: how are you guys doing? We're doing great? Great, great,

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01:43:47,680 --> 01:43:49,840
Speaker 1: Hey guys, Joe. I don't normally do what I'm about

2135
01:43:49,840 --> 01:43:52,840
Speaker 1: to do, but this week I just kind of I

2136
01:43:52,920 --> 01:43:55,840
Speaker 1: think I kind of hit my boiling point and I

2137
01:43:55,960 --> 01:43:57,680
Speaker 1: need someone to talk to keep My wife knows nothing

2138
01:43:57,720 --> 01:44:06,000
Speaker 1: about football. I think this um shurtness that day Jones

2139
01:44:06,080 --> 01:44:08,960
Speaker 1: for some reason has a locked up spot on this team.

2140
01:44:09,120 --> 01:44:12,720
Speaker 1: I think it's just absurd. I think I think the

2141
01:44:12,800 --> 01:44:14,720
Speaker 1: fact that he needs said no awful, you know, you know,

2142
01:44:14,800 --> 01:44:18,559
Speaker 1: the extra y, the z oh that's great. The fact

2143
01:44:18,600 --> 01:44:21,400
Speaker 1: that he's playing gunner the other day, I think for

2144
01:44:21,479 --> 01:44:24,720
Speaker 1: a second round pick, that's not a positive. I think

2145
01:44:24,760 --> 01:44:28,120
Speaker 1: that the guy has been visible training camp. The guy

2146
01:44:28,200 --> 01:44:31,640
Speaker 1: has been visible all of pre season. I mean, the

2147
01:44:31,720 --> 01:44:33,840
Speaker 1: kid was playing in the fourth quarter last game. And

2148
01:44:33,920 --> 01:44:36,920
Speaker 1: you got a guy like Zaia McKenzie and Duke Williams

2149
01:44:37,000 --> 01:44:39,479
Speaker 1: who's showing out, who's doing everything they gotta do to

2150
01:44:39,560 --> 01:44:42,880
Speaker 1: make a team, and we've got locked up position for

2151
01:44:43,080 --> 01:44:45,720
Speaker 1: Zay Jones. Yeah, I know what you mean. Let mean,

2152
01:44:45,960 --> 01:44:47,960
Speaker 1: don't hang up. You want to hear more from me,

2153
01:44:48,040 --> 01:44:50,800
Speaker 1: But let me make the other argument. Zay Jones got

2154
01:44:50,840 --> 01:44:53,639
Speaker 1: fifty six passes last year, right, and and that means

2155
01:44:53,680 --> 01:44:57,160
Speaker 1: something that kind of proven NFL production means something. Fifty

2156
01:44:57,200 --> 01:45:00,439
Speaker 1: six receptions last year. They traded up to get Zay

2157
01:45:00,520 --> 01:45:02,439
Speaker 1: Jones in the second round a couple of years ago,

2158
01:45:02,760 --> 01:45:05,320
Speaker 1: that means something too. They have they have there's an

2159
01:45:05,360 --> 01:45:08,000
Speaker 1: asset there, and they've invested in an asset there, which

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01:45:08,040 --> 01:45:10,040
Speaker 1: I think and I'm not talking about comparing him to

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01:45:10,160 --> 01:45:13,320
Speaker 1: McKenzie or anybody else, but there there's investment, have been

2162
01:45:13,360 --> 01:45:16,200
Speaker 1: investments made in Zay Jones, which I believe it would

2163
01:45:16,200 --> 01:45:18,680
Speaker 1: be difficult, not impossible, but difficult for them to walk

2164
01:45:18,720 --> 01:45:21,479
Speaker 1: away from. I'm not saying he's a roster locker guaranteed

2165
01:45:21,520 --> 01:45:24,040
Speaker 1: spot Steve your thoughts on this, I agree. I mean

2166
01:45:24,800 --> 01:45:29,280
Speaker 1: it's hard to evaluate how what the coaches are evaluating.

2167
01:45:29,320 --> 01:45:31,240
Speaker 1: It's hard for us to sit here and just from

2168
01:45:31,280 --> 01:45:33,719
Speaker 1: the surface watching these plays once then watching the replays

2169
01:45:33,720 --> 01:45:36,320
Speaker 1: on television, to go back and say, well, Zay Jones

2170
01:45:36,360 --> 01:45:37,880
Speaker 1: should have done this or should have done that, or

2171
01:45:37,920 --> 01:45:39,880
Speaker 1: he was asked to do this and he did something else,

2172
01:45:40,240 --> 01:45:42,120
Speaker 1: or that he hasn't played well. And I don't know.

2173
01:45:42,400 --> 01:45:45,720
Speaker 1: I really don't read into too much that he was

2174
01:45:45,800 --> 01:45:48,720
Speaker 1: playing in the third or fourth quarter of a preseason game,

2175
01:45:48,760 --> 01:45:54,040
Speaker 1: plus playing gunner on special teams. Um, they're you know,

2176
01:45:54,160 --> 01:45:57,960
Speaker 1: that's just part of the process of evaluating every guy

2177
01:45:58,040 --> 01:46:01,439
Speaker 1: on your roster. It might have been that Zay Jones

2178
01:46:01,600 --> 01:46:03,720
Speaker 1: went to Heath Farwell and said, listen, I want to

2179
01:46:03,760 --> 01:46:06,000
Speaker 1: play on spunt team. I don't know that he did that,

2180
01:46:06,120 --> 01:46:09,320
Speaker 1: but that's sometimes all it takes. Um, And you know

2181
01:46:09,439 --> 01:46:11,800
Speaker 1: he Farwell put him on there. Yeah, of course, So

2182
01:46:13,000 --> 01:46:16,200
Speaker 1: you're right, there's been some stuff that's gone on with

2183
01:46:16,280 --> 01:46:21,800
Speaker 1: the rotation of the wide receivers that gives you brings

2184
01:46:21,880 --> 01:46:25,120
Speaker 1: up questions about all these guys, everything from uh from

2185
01:46:25,240 --> 01:46:27,840
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley and John Brown maybe being the only guys

2186
01:46:27,920 --> 01:46:30,880
Speaker 1: that there haven't been questions marks about or you know,

2187
01:46:31,640 --> 01:46:34,080
Speaker 1: you know all of that. So I agree with you.

2188
01:46:34,360 --> 01:46:36,720
Speaker 1: Zay Jones. The way he was using this last game

2189
01:46:36,840 --> 01:46:41,000
Speaker 1: was like a little bit different, But I don't think

2190
01:46:41,280 --> 01:46:43,600
Speaker 1: I would read anything into it more than just the

2191
01:46:43,640 --> 01:46:45,400
Speaker 1: fact that they're trying to find out as much as

2192
01:46:45,400 --> 01:46:48,080
Speaker 1: they can about all their guys. So I'm I'm gonna

2193
01:46:48,120 --> 01:46:50,479
Speaker 1: go with that until something tells me that it was

2194
01:46:50,560 --> 01:46:52,760
Speaker 1: something else. Yeah, And by the way. Either, I'm not

2195
01:46:52,840 --> 01:46:55,200
Speaker 1: saying he's a lock for roster spot. I don't know that.

2196
01:46:55,320 --> 01:46:57,200
Speaker 1: What do you think? What do you think of those responses? Either?

2197
01:46:58,760 --> 01:47:01,479
Speaker 1: You know it just I hear you. But you know,

2198
01:47:01,880 --> 01:47:05,080
Speaker 1: Phil McGegan, who was that wide receivers coach, probably so

2199
01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:08,479
Speaker 1: sold him that everybody in that room he jet after

2200
01:47:08,600 --> 01:47:12,280
Speaker 1: one year, you know, And I can guarantee you mcgegan's

2201
01:47:12,400 --> 01:47:16,599
Speaker 1: input was a huge factor enough taking him over Juju Smith,

2202
01:47:16,640 --> 01:47:20,320
Speaker 1: Schuster or Cooper or Cooper Cup, you know. And now

2203
01:47:20,720 --> 01:47:23,240
Speaker 1: with with with a kid who quite frankly, I don't

2204
01:47:23,280 --> 01:47:26,080
Speaker 1: even like his attitude. I think he's very all people

2205
01:47:26,080 --> 01:47:27,880
Speaker 1: are just out to get me in and you know,

2206
01:47:28,040 --> 01:47:33,040
Speaker 1: he's very I don't know, I just really I've had it.

2207
01:47:33,400 --> 01:47:36,120
Speaker 1: I think people people put him as a lock, and

2208
01:47:36,200 --> 01:47:38,840
Speaker 1: I think he's been out played by everyone. And I think,

2209
01:47:39,120 --> 01:47:42,720
Speaker 1: and I said this before, Robert Foster in those six

2210
01:47:42,840 --> 01:47:45,920
Speaker 1: games last year showed more upside than Dave Jones that

2211
01:47:46,000 --> 01:47:48,360
Speaker 1: showed him two years and then John. My argument with

2212
01:47:48,520 --> 01:47:51,439
Speaker 1: the with the production last year is heck, who else

2213
01:47:51,560 --> 01:47:54,280
Speaker 1: is going to get the ball? You go there? But

2214
01:47:54,560 --> 01:47:57,719
Speaker 1: again that that's production fifty six catch up seven touchdown

2215
01:47:57,800 --> 01:48:00,240
Speaker 1: John's heard that argument before for somebody. I don't know

2216
01:48:00,240 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 1: who it was, but yeah, tell them Benjamin and Andre

2217
01:48:03,560 --> 01:48:06,080
Speaker 1: Holmes were no longer even in the league. They're not

2218
01:48:06,120 --> 01:48:08,599
Speaker 1: even in the league anymore. You know. I just don't.

2219
01:48:08,680 --> 01:48:11,360
Speaker 1: I just don't think this is my issue because I

2220
01:48:11,400 --> 01:48:13,120
Speaker 1: don't want to sound like a like a dummy fan.

2221
01:48:13,720 --> 01:48:16,360
Speaker 1: He just hasn't earned I don't think he's earned anything,

2222
01:48:16,960 --> 01:48:20,200
Speaker 1: especially with the with the pedigree of a second round pick.

2223
01:48:20,640 --> 01:48:22,120
Speaker 1: You know, I think if this kid would have been

2224
01:48:22,520 --> 01:48:24,240
Speaker 1: a fourth or fifth round pick, or he would have

2225
01:48:24,280 --> 01:48:26,840
Speaker 1: been drafted by another regime, guys, I don't think he'd

2226
01:48:26,880 --> 01:48:30,040
Speaker 1: be on the seam anymore. Okay, Yeah, I'll you're right,

2227
01:48:30,320 --> 01:48:32,519
Speaker 1: all that dummy fan, all that, all that you've said

2228
01:48:32,640 --> 01:48:35,200
Speaker 1: is true. Edrich, I would say this, don't get too

2229
01:48:35,280 --> 01:48:39,320
Speaker 1: caught up in in comparing za Za Jones pick with

2230
01:48:40,000 --> 01:48:43,680
Speaker 1: the Juju Smith Schuster pick or the Cooper Cup pick

2231
01:48:43,840 --> 01:48:46,760
Speaker 1: or anything, you know, because nobody knows about these guys

2232
01:48:46,840 --> 01:48:48,400
Speaker 1: until they get them in. They can go out and

2233
01:48:48,400 --> 01:48:51,000
Speaker 1: they run them through pract they run them through drills,

2234
01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:53,920
Speaker 1: they run them through all kinds of interview process and all,

2235
01:48:53,960 --> 01:48:56,320
Speaker 1: and they're still question marks about all these guys until

2236
01:48:56,320 --> 01:48:58,000
Speaker 1: you get them in and some of these guys flourish

2237
01:48:58,360 --> 01:48:59,800
Speaker 1: and some of them don't. And if some of them

2238
01:48:59,840 --> 01:49:02,519
Speaker 1: are playing for the greatest offenses working in the NFL, right,

2239
01:49:02,600 --> 01:49:05,439
Speaker 1: and Zay Jones might be a much different guy. If

2240
01:49:05,600 --> 01:49:09,200
Speaker 1: if the picks between Juju Smith Schuster and Zay Jones

2241
01:49:09,240 --> 01:49:12,240
Speaker 1: would have been flip flopped him the Bills take Juju

2242
01:49:12,360 --> 01:49:15,720
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster instead of Zay Jones, Zay Jones might be

2243
01:49:15,880 --> 01:49:19,080
Speaker 1: a little bit different receiver than he would have been

2244
01:49:19,240 --> 01:49:22,160
Speaker 1: had two years ago he catching the ball from Ben

2245
01:49:22,280 --> 01:49:27,120
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger instead of Tyrod Taylor. I'm just saying so the

2246
01:49:27,800 --> 01:49:30,800
Speaker 1: way guys careers evolved has as much to do with

2247
01:49:30,960 --> 01:49:34,800
Speaker 1: where they were drafted as when good call Ederic, Thanks

2248
01:49:34,840 --> 01:49:37,639
Speaker 1: for Colin. Let's go to Wayne and Nebraska. Hello, Wayne, welcome,

2249
01:49:37,680 --> 01:49:41,559
Speaker 1: you're on the air with this. Hello. How are you doing? Okay?

2250
01:49:43,439 --> 01:49:47,160
Speaker 1: I want to find out why about to keep saying

2251
01:49:47,200 --> 01:49:51,840
Speaker 1: all the Bills might trade uh, Lasa McCoy and all

2252
01:49:51,920 --> 01:49:53,840
Speaker 1: this type of So, why would you even want to

2253
01:49:53,920 --> 01:49:57,800
Speaker 1: trade Lasa McCoy after he came to this team. We

2254
01:49:58,000 --> 01:50:01,040
Speaker 1: never even had a quarterback since yeah, Kelly, and when

2255
01:50:01,120 --> 01:50:04,840
Speaker 1: we got down Shady McCoy. I mean, he actually put

2256
01:50:04,920 --> 01:50:07,519
Speaker 1: the Bills on his back. He rans his butt off

2257
01:50:07,720 --> 01:50:10,240
Speaker 1: man for years and years, and now that we do

2258
01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:15,160
Speaker 1: finally got some type of quarterbacks in this organization, why

2259
01:50:15,240 --> 01:50:17,479
Speaker 1: would you even want to even talk about getting rid

2260
01:50:17,520 --> 01:50:20,920
Speaker 1: of That's the same thing they did with Advanger Kane

2261
01:50:20,960 --> 01:50:24,679
Speaker 1: and Bryan Riley, you know, for the Saves. Why would

2262
01:50:24,720 --> 01:50:27,519
Speaker 1: you want to mess that up? Well, it needs to

2263
01:50:27,560 --> 01:50:29,560
Speaker 1: be said, Wayne, and I hear what you're saying. The

2264
01:50:29,640 --> 01:50:31,880
Speaker 1: Bills have not talked about getting rid of him. The Bills,

2265
01:50:32,080 --> 01:50:34,479
Speaker 1: in fact, they've said he's our guy, he's the number

2266
01:50:34,520 --> 01:50:36,120
Speaker 1: one guy. I know it's been talking about, but not

2267
01:50:36,200 --> 01:50:38,400
Speaker 1: by the Bills. Yeah, the Bills haven't said that, Wayne.

2268
01:50:38,640 --> 01:50:41,240
Speaker 1: And it's just and what mostly boils down to Wayne

2269
01:50:41,240 --> 01:50:42,960
Speaker 1: at this point is the fact that he's a big

2270
01:50:43,120 --> 01:50:47,720
Speaker 1: cap hit and not even that big to me. So yeah,

2271
01:50:47,840 --> 01:50:50,799
Speaker 1: I hear you, Wayne. You're hearing that more from fans

2272
01:50:50,920 --> 01:50:54,479
Speaker 1: and fantasy people and people who look at statistics and

2273
01:50:54,560 --> 01:50:58,000
Speaker 1: statistics alone the year they had last year without putting

2274
01:50:58,040 --> 01:51:00,519
Speaker 1: it into context of the players he had around him,

2275
01:51:01,479 --> 01:51:04,479
Speaker 1: and they think a thirty year old running back is

2276
01:51:05,360 --> 01:51:08,479
Speaker 1: too old to be or thirty one year old running

2277
01:51:08,479 --> 01:51:10,840
Speaker 1: back is too old to be your your belt cow back.

2278
01:51:12,280 --> 01:51:14,120
Speaker 1: They're to me, they're not going to get rid of

2279
01:51:14,160 --> 01:51:19,280
Speaker 1: Leshaun McCoy. They're not, so I get it. But by

2280
01:51:19,320 --> 01:51:22,839
Speaker 1: the same token, having said all of that, what Leshaun

2281
01:51:22,960 --> 01:51:26,479
Speaker 1: McCoy did for the Buffalo Bills two years ago has

2282
01:51:26,560 --> 01:51:28,599
Speaker 1: no bearing on what they need him to do this year.

2283
01:51:29,479 --> 01:51:31,120
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of people out there who think

2284
01:51:31,200 --> 01:51:33,320
Speaker 1: he's not able to do that. And that's where that

2285
01:51:33,439 --> 01:51:37,160
Speaker 1: comes from as well. This team doesn't to me, doesn't

2286
01:51:37,200 --> 01:51:39,639
Speaker 1: believe that. They think he's got some some good football

2287
01:51:39,720 --> 01:51:41,080
Speaker 1: left in him, and they're gonna give him a chance

2288
01:51:41,120 --> 01:51:43,800
Speaker 1: to show it. And I think he wants to very badly.

2289
01:51:43,840 --> 01:51:47,160
Speaker 1: I think he's very highly motivated. So I think there's

2290
01:51:47,760 --> 01:51:50,040
Speaker 1: why you're right, Wayne, there are people calling or thinking

2291
01:51:50,040 --> 01:51:52,840
Speaker 1: they're gonna trade him. Neither Murph or I think that's

2292
01:51:52,840 --> 01:51:55,360
Speaker 1: going to happen. You know, it's kind of you can

2293
01:51:55,680 --> 01:51:58,240
Speaker 1: sense I think just from a couple of calls cutdown

2294
01:51:58,320 --> 01:52:00,960
Speaker 1: days coming four days away, and the passions are starting

2295
01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:03,280
Speaker 1: to get fired up a little bit from Edric from Wayne.

2296
01:52:03,280 --> 01:52:05,280
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. People have favorites that they

2297
01:52:05,320 --> 01:52:07,360
Speaker 1: want to keep, or people they want to move on.

2298
01:52:08,560 --> 01:52:11,720
Speaker 1: There's gonna be surprises. Think they're always by the way

2299
01:52:11,840 --> 01:52:15,320
Speaker 1: Edric and Wayne they're hunting or I don't know about Shady.

2300
01:52:15,360 --> 01:52:17,559
Speaker 1: I'm I would kind of bet that he's on the roster.

2301
01:52:17,720 --> 01:52:20,240
Speaker 1: But look, there's no roster lock here. Well we don't know,

2302
01:52:20,520 --> 01:52:23,000
Speaker 1: we don't know, guess, And there's no locks here. There's

2303
01:52:23,040 --> 01:52:27,800
Speaker 1: no yeah. And one thing about Sean McDermott that like

2304
01:52:28,000 --> 01:52:30,880
Speaker 1: it or not, you if you're gonna be on the

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Speaker 1: field for the Buffalo Bills, you have earned it no

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01:52:34,280 --> 01:52:37,479
Speaker 1: other way. It's not whether you were drafted high or

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01:52:37,520 --> 01:52:41,040
Speaker 1: whether you're a high price free agent, or whether the

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01:52:41,240 --> 01:52:45,519
Speaker 1: fans like you or what you did last year, none

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01:52:45,560 --> 01:52:48,840
Speaker 1: of that. You have to earn it like today. You've

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01:52:48,880 --> 01:52:51,439
Speaker 1: got to earn it yesterday, today and keep earning it

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01:52:51,600 --> 01:52:53,720
Speaker 1: every day, or it's the next guy is gonna be

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01:52:54,280 --> 01:52:57,640
Speaker 1: on the field that has been And I think it

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01:52:57,840 --> 01:53:00,760
Speaker 1: bit them last year a little bit, the fact that

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01:53:00,840 --> 01:53:02,519
Speaker 1: they said, listen, you're gonna earn it. So they went

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01:53:02,560 --> 01:53:05,600
Speaker 1: out and who has the best train training camp of

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01:53:05,680 --> 01:53:10,160
Speaker 1: anybody last year is Nate Peterman. Well, if he earned it,

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01:53:10,320 --> 01:53:12,679
Speaker 1: he got it. And then once he got on the field,

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01:53:13,800 --> 01:53:16,760
Speaker 1: it totally came apart and they had to pay the

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01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:22,400
Speaker 1: price for that. So they are staunchly committed to guys

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01:53:22,479 --> 01:53:27,040
Speaker 1: who earn their way on the field, and that includes

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01:53:27,120 --> 01:53:29,639
Speaker 1: a thirty one year old Lashawn McCoy. He doesn't get

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01:53:29,640 --> 01:53:32,960
Speaker 1: a break either, So you can take either take heart

2323
01:53:33,040 --> 01:53:35,439
Speaker 1: in that or be resigned to that, whatever your view

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01:53:35,520 --> 01:53:37,679
Speaker 1: of it is. That's the simple fact of the matter.

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01:53:37,800 --> 01:53:39,680
Speaker 1: So this guy, nobody out there is going to be

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01:53:39,800 --> 01:53:42,599
Speaker 1: out there without having earned his way onto the field.

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01:53:42,600 --> 01:53:45,720
Speaker 1: And I think this regime and this coaching staff, and

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01:53:45,760 --> 01:53:49,800
Speaker 1: certainly this head coach, that's more true of him than

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01:53:49,920 --> 01:53:52,160
Speaker 1: any coach I've ever laid than I've ever been around

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01:53:52,200 --> 01:53:55,800
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I mean there nobody, nobody gets a pass.

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01:53:56,120 --> 01:53:58,679
Speaker 1: You're a call from Rex in Tanawana. Hello, Rex, go ahead,

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01:53:58,680 --> 01:54:02,000
Speaker 1: and you're on the air of this guys might call.

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01:54:02,320 --> 01:54:04,120
Speaker 1: Do you think this is an easy answer? We're gonna

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01:54:04,240 --> 01:54:07,200
Speaker 1: up picking up a new puncher, Uh, Corey Bolo Quays

2335
01:54:07,320 --> 01:54:09,479
Speaker 1: or about who is that? You know? He working out

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01:54:09,560 --> 01:54:11,280
Speaker 1: and I think you know when it cuts him around,

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01:54:11,280 --> 01:54:13,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna be picking up a new punter, especially if

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01:54:13,680 --> 01:54:16,519
Speaker 1: Allen you know the way he looking at third preseason game.

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01:54:16,800 --> 01:54:20,760
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a pretty good punter. Yeah, yeah, that's

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01:54:20,960 --> 01:54:23,040
Speaker 1: you know, that was one thing that well when we

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01:54:23,200 --> 01:54:25,479
Speaker 1: brought this twitter question up, Murph said it right away,

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01:54:25,560 --> 01:54:28,120
Speaker 1: says we might be looking for a punter. Um By

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01:54:28,240 --> 01:54:31,600
Speaker 1: Orkes had two. Nothing to do with Josh Allen, by

2344
01:54:31,640 --> 01:54:34,200
Speaker 1: the way, but that's all right, Rex. But what he said,

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01:54:34,320 --> 01:54:36,040
Speaker 1: the way Josh Allen played the other night, they they're

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01:54:36,040 --> 01:54:38,640
Speaker 1: gonna need a good punter. Yeah all right, yeah, no,

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01:54:39,040 --> 01:54:42,080
Speaker 1: I mean he had he had two punts to begin

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01:54:42,200 --> 01:54:44,440
Speaker 1: the game when he was going to be the only

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01:54:44,480 --> 01:54:46,560
Speaker 1: punter in the game, and he both the first two

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01:54:46,600 --> 01:54:49,960
Speaker 1: punts of the game stunk. Um. He skanked both of

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01:54:50,000 --> 01:54:52,400
Speaker 1: them on the outside of his foot and they you know,

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01:54:52,920 --> 01:54:55,000
Speaker 1: they were bad punch. He did get one pretty good

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01:54:55,040 --> 01:54:57,320
Speaker 1: one in and he's got a pretty good average for

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01:54:57,440 --> 01:54:59,600
Speaker 1: the season or for the preseason so far. It's a

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01:54:59,680 --> 01:55:02,200
Speaker 1: forty five plus yard average and a forty one point

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01:55:02,280 --> 01:55:07,760
Speaker 1: something yard net, which is pretty good. But I go

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01:55:07,880 --> 01:55:11,000
Speaker 1: back to it over and over again, consistent from those guys,

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01:55:11,080 --> 01:55:14,840
Speaker 1: from your kicker and your punter. You gotta have consistency.

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01:55:15,240 --> 01:55:17,160
Speaker 1: And one eyebrow raising thing for me has been you

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01:55:17,200 --> 01:55:20,600
Speaker 1: know Steve housh Caun missed a couple of kicks. One

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01:55:20,680 --> 01:55:23,960
Speaker 1: of them looked like he miss hit. Maybe as a

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01:55:24,000 --> 01:55:25,480
Speaker 1: bad whole, I don't know. But the other, you know,

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01:55:25,560 --> 01:55:27,760
Speaker 1: one of me just you know, he pushed it. So

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01:55:29,240 --> 01:55:31,960
Speaker 1: you know that's consistency is what you're looking for from

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01:55:32,000 --> 01:55:34,000
Speaker 1: your kicker and your punter and your long snapper, the

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01:55:34,080 --> 01:55:37,840
Speaker 1: three specialists you have on your roster. And right now,

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01:55:38,080 --> 01:55:40,160
Speaker 1: I don't think either of those punters has been consistent

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01:55:40,280 --> 01:55:43,160
Speaker 1: enough to be comfortable with. Four days away from cutdown day,

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01:55:43,200 --> 01:55:45,160
Speaker 1: we're wondering what you think of the roster where you

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01:55:45,200 --> 01:55:48,520
Speaker 1: think the interesting decisions are to be made, And we're wondering,

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01:55:48,560 --> 01:55:51,440
Speaker 1: in particular, which Bill's position group is likely to add

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Speaker 1: players off another team's roster. Give us a call eight

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Speaker 1: oh three five fifty or twelve free one eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. Sending a tweet, we might

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01:56:00,600 --> 01:56:02,040
Speaker 1: read it here on the tweet sheet brought to you

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01:56:02,160 --> 01:56:06,320
Speaker 1: by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of the Buffalo Bills.

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01:56:06,440 --> 01:56:09,040
Speaker 1: From Jack. On the tweet sheet, he says, I'm going

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01:56:09,120 --> 01:56:11,680
Speaker 1: to say punter, kicker. It is likely they could be

2379
01:56:11,760 --> 01:56:14,840
Speaker 1: looking for an obvious upgrade over Behrkes, who has a

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01:56:14,920 --> 01:56:18,080
Speaker 1: job now largely due to injury to Carter Houshka has

2381
01:56:18,080 --> 01:56:20,600
Speaker 1: struggled since late last season. It's not crazy to think

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01:56:20,640 --> 01:56:23,640
Speaker 1: they could chop for a kicker. Neither one of those

2383
01:56:23,800 --> 01:56:26,920
Speaker 1: concept is crazy. I think less likely the Houshkin might

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01:56:26,960 --> 01:56:28,560
Speaker 1: not be here, But I get it. I got what

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01:56:28,640 --> 01:56:32,080
Speaker 1: you're saying. Tiffany tweets this, and it is a stacked

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01:56:32,120 --> 01:56:35,200
Speaker 1: froster of talented, versatile players. I can see some of

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01:56:35,280 --> 01:56:38,000
Speaker 1: our cut players ending up on another team's roster. In

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01:56:38,160 --> 01:56:41,240
Speaker 1: my opinion, we could possibly add an experienced punter. It's

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01:56:41,280 --> 01:56:43,400
Speaker 1: been a weak position on our roster for the past

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01:56:43,440 --> 01:56:47,400
Speaker 1: couple of seasons. Good field position and our defense equals wins.

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01:56:47,960 --> 01:56:50,080
Speaker 1: And one more on the punter from Brian, I could

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01:56:50,120 --> 01:56:54,280
Speaker 1: see them holding punter tryouts. Neither really shined in the preseason.

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01:56:54,400 --> 01:56:58,480
Speaker 1: While I like our current Corey's upside Behrkes, he's been inconsistent,

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01:56:58,560 --> 01:57:00,560
Speaker 1: shanking more often than you'd like. It leaves the door

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01:57:00,600 --> 01:57:04,160
Speaker 1: open for somebody else. I can't dispute any of those

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01:57:04,200 --> 01:57:07,120
Speaker 1: stream tweets. I mean, that's and you know one reason

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01:57:08,120 --> 01:57:12,040
Speaker 1: that it's an easy answer to this Twitter poll or

2398
01:57:12,080 --> 01:57:14,760
Speaker 1: to this Twitter question is that you know, punter really

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01:57:14,800 --> 01:57:17,640
Speaker 1: doesn't have to learn any place. You know, it's not

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01:57:17,720 --> 01:57:20,080
Speaker 1: like you have to install an offense for him. He's

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01:57:20,120 --> 01:57:23,240
Speaker 1: got to catch the ball and kick it. So you

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01:57:23,360 --> 01:57:27,280
Speaker 1: can you know, you can not do it for two weeks,

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01:57:28,680 --> 01:57:31,400
Speaker 1: parachute into a new team, catch a snap and kick

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01:57:31,440 --> 01:57:34,240
Speaker 1: it and have the job for ten years. So yeah,

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01:57:34,280 --> 01:57:36,400
Speaker 1: that's just the way that stuff works. So that's why

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01:57:36,480 --> 01:57:38,320
Speaker 1: I think that is an easy, easy answer to this.

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01:57:38,360 --> 01:57:41,160
Speaker 1: Plus the fact that they were battling and battling and

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01:57:41,240 --> 01:57:45,400
Speaker 1: then uh uh the other kid, uh Carter, Carter pulls

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01:57:45,400 --> 01:57:48,280
Speaker 1: a hammy, he's out and then they release him and

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01:57:48,440 --> 01:57:51,320
Speaker 1: now Borkez is the guy, and he was a little

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01:57:51,360 --> 01:57:54,680
Speaker 1: inconsistent again, didn't have a great night. So yeah, that's

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01:57:54,720 --> 01:57:56,880
Speaker 1: a that's got to be a concern. More a roster

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01:57:57,000 --> 01:57:59,040
Speaker 1: talking we come back. It was a call eight three

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Speaker 1: fifty to free one eight eight eight five fifty two

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01:58:02,800 --> 01:58:05,000
Speaker 1: five fifty NFL tru or false coming up as well.

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Speaker 1: Come on back. One Bill's Side presented by Kalida Health

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio

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01:58:23,400 --> 01:58:29,280
Speaker 1: ob L John murt GLD. We're talking about roster moves

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01:58:29,320 --> 01:58:31,800
Speaker 1: and what's to come. We don't know, but it's fun

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01:58:31,880 --> 01:58:34,400
Speaker 1: to talk about. Right, ninety players on the roster. Fifty

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01:58:34,480 --> 01:58:37,960
Speaker 1: three have to be here Saturday, four pm. Gomer Pyle surprise,

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01:58:38,200 --> 01:58:41,400
Speaker 1: surprised to be a surprise. There there always is, right

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01:58:41,520 --> 01:58:45,320
Speaker 1: last year roster cutdown day, they traded the Jay McCarn

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01:58:45,360 --> 01:58:47,720
Speaker 1: re member on roster cutdown day last year. That was

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01:58:47,760 --> 01:58:50,320
Speaker 1: a surprise. Gosh, you're right. Yeah, that came as a surprise.

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01:58:50,720 --> 01:58:52,880
Speaker 1: They traded them. There's always going to be a surprise,

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01:58:52,920 --> 01:58:54,800
Speaker 1: there will be this week. What do you think what

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01:58:54,960 --> 01:58:57,920
Speaker 1: position group likely to add players? What Bill's position group

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01:58:58,040 --> 01:59:00,920
Speaker 1: is likely to add players this weekend after the cuts

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01:59:00,960 --> 01:59:02,560
Speaker 1: are made, and just what do you think about the

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01:59:02,800 --> 01:59:05,040
Speaker 1: roster right now? Let's take some phone calls eight three

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Speaker 1: fifty to three one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. Marcus on the line from Amherst solo, Marcus,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air of this, Hi, John

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01:59:13,880 --> 01:59:17,920
Speaker 1: Steve Um. I just wanted to say real quick, I

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01:59:18,400 --> 01:59:22,360
Speaker 1: met John Beebe and he is a fabulous person. You know,

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01:59:22,480 --> 01:59:24,920
Speaker 1: I went to one of his things in Chicago. Anyway,

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01:59:25,200 --> 01:59:26,960
Speaker 1: what I wanted to say is I've been a bill

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01:59:27,040 --> 01:59:31,960
Speaker 1: stand for going on fifty years now, and this has

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01:59:32,120 --> 01:59:36,560
Speaker 1: got to be the scariest cutdown I've ever seen, because

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01:59:36,600 --> 01:59:41,240
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm really thinking that some bad moves on

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01:59:42,200 --> 01:59:47,000
Speaker 1: the cutdown would be disaster. Well, that's interesting. I don't

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01:59:47,040 --> 01:59:49,960
Speaker 1: know about scary, Like what are you talking about? What'll

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01:59:50,120 --> 01:59:57,120
Speaker 1: carry well? Because invariably the Bills they give away players

2445
01:59:57,320 --> 02:00:01,400
Speaker 1: and they are successful on other teams like who you

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02:00:01,520 --> 02:00:05,800
Speaker 1: can see that examples? Well, I don't have any off

2447
02:00:05,840 --> 02:00:07,880
Speaker 1: the top of my head, but it's like, you know,

2448
02:00:08,160 --> 02:00:12,839
Speaker 1: they they give away players sometimes that really have some success.

2449
02:00:13,000 --> 02:00:16,200
Speaker 1: But whatever the reason, they get those guys too. Everybody,

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02:00:16,720 --> 02:00:18,640
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't think Marcus, I mean, or

2451
02:00:18,720 --> 02:00:21,280
Speaker 1: you might be talking about like what Sammy Watkins and

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02:00:21,560 --> 02:00:24,720
Speaker 1: and and for sure, Well yeah, but that was That's

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02:00:24,760 --> 02:00:27,120
Speaker 1: not what we're talking about here. Those guys were their

2454
02:00:27,200 --> 02:00:33,760
Speaker 1: contracts were unwielding and wieldly, and they were let go

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02:00:33,880 --> 02:00:37,080
Speaker 1: by a different regime that than the one that drafted them,

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02:00:37,120 --> 02:00:40,080
Speaker 1: and they had messed up the salary cap and they

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02:00:40,160 --> 02:00:42,960
Speaker 1: weren't except they weren't let go because they were bad players.

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02:00:43,000 --> 02:00:45,960
Speaker 1: They were let go for other reasons. So I get

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02:00:46,000 --> 02:00:48,760
Speaker 1: what you're saying, but that's not the situation we're talking

2460
02:00:48,760 --> 02:00:52,640
Speaker 1: about here with the cutdowns. I love the the direction

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02:00:52,720 --> 02:00:55,280
Speaker 1: of the team, no question, but I just think that

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02:00:55,400 --> 02:00:57,560
Speaker 1: if they make a couple of wrong moves, it could

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02:00:57,600 --> 02:01:00,640
Speaker 1: be couldn't be very good. What do you like, Marcus,

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02:01:00,720 --> 02:01:02,360
Speaker 1: what are you afraid of it? Give me like, who

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02:01:02,400 --> 02:01:06,840
Speaker 1: are you afraid they're gonna let go? Well? Um, what's

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02:01:06,920 --> 02:01:13,880
Speaker 1: what's got you staying awake at night? Daryl Johnson and say, yeah,

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02:01:13,880 --> 02:01:15,600
Speaker 1: that's a good point. But yeah, if they let him go,

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02:01:15,680 --> 02:01:17,280
Speaker 1: I think that's scared. But they're not going to let him.

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02:01:17,480 --> 02:01:20,280
Speaker 1: I agree with you, that would be automatically Yeah, I

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02:01:20,360 --> 02:01:22,680
Speaker 1: think that would be a bummer if they let him go.

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02:01:22,760 --> 02:01:25,280
Speaker 1: I don't I wouldn't agree with that. Go ahead. What's

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02:01:25,320 --> 02:01:27,760
Speaker 1: another one I haven't heard. I haven't listened to the

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02:01:27,800 --> 02:01:30,680
Speaker 1: show today until now, But I just think that the

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02:01:30,800 --> 02:01:34,120
Speaker 1: moves they make are going to be more important this

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02:01:34,320 --> 02:01:36,960
Speaker 1: year than ever. Can I just say, Marcus said, I

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02:01:37,080 --> 02:01:39,320
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying. I don't really agree. And the

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Speaker 1: one thing I think, more than the last three years

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02:01:42,480 --> 02:01:45,920
Speaker 1: or so, the Bills are operating this weekend from a

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02:01:46,040 --> 02:01:48,880
Speaker 1: position of strength. I've talked about it. How many times

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02:01:48,880 --> 02:01:50,640
Speaker 1: have I said how deep they are on defense? They

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02:01:50,680 --> 02:01:53,120
Speaker 1: are very deep on defense. They are going into this

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02:01:53,280 --> 02:01:56,720
Speaker 1: cut from a position of strength, especially on the defensive

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02:01:56,760 --> 02:01:59,240
Speaker 1: side of the ball. That gives me hope that they're

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02:01:59,360 --> 02:02:01,360
Speaker 1: they're not gonna botch it. They're not going to screw

2485
02:02:01,400 --> 02:02:03,520
Speaker 1: it up. Are the cuts important? Yes they are, but

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02:02:03,600 --> 02:02:06,520
Speaker 1: they operate from strength there. And you know, we asked

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02:02:06,560 --> 02:02:09,120
Speaker 1: the question which Bill's position group likely to add players

2488
02:02:09,160 --> 02:02:13,280
Speaker 1: off another roster. Look, they don't have a crying need anywhere, really, right,

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02:02:13,360 --> 02:02:17,400
Speaker 1: they really don't have Well maybe yeah, okay, but they

2490
02:02:17,560 --> 02:02:19,600
Speaker 1: played with Barks for much of last year or two,

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02:02:19,720 --> 02:02:22,200
Speaker 1: so well, I think they're in a position of strength

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02:02:22,280 --> 02:02:24,120
Speaker 1: almost going into this cut. I'm not afraid of it

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02:02:24,160 --> 02:02:26,520
Speaker 1: at all. I look forward to it fantastic, So I'm

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02:02:26,560 --> 02:02:28,880
Speaker 1: not worried about that. But maybe if they pick up

2495
02:02:28,880 --> 02:02:30,920
Speaker 1: an offensive player, that would be good if they can

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02:02:31,200 --> 02:02:34,600
Speaker 1: I don't know even what position, but okay, they certainly

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02:02:34,640 --> 02:02:37,440
Speaker 1: don't need defense, I don't think. Yeah, I agree with you,

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Speaker 1: and you're right, there's gonna be some tough, some tough

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Speaker 1: calls to make. And let me ask you this, Marcus,

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Speaker 1: since you brought it up. Would you rather have, say,

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02:02:44,440 --> 02:02:47,160
Speaker 1: for instance, like an Eddie Yarborough or a Daryl Johnson.

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02:02:48,680 --> 02:02:51,400
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Daryl Johnson, all right, what about Shack

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02:02:51,520 --> 02:02:56,480
Speaker 1: Lawson and Darryl Johnson? Shack Lawson, Shack Lawson. No, I'd

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02:02:56,560 --> 02:03:02,160
Speaker 1: rather Lawson. Okay, to see that. That's why you know,

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02:03:02,440 --> 02:03:04,960
Speaker 1: he said check Lawson too. Yeah, he said to that.

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02:03:05,080 --> 02:03:06,880
Speaker 1: But it's tough, right, I mean, but those are the

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02:03:06,960 --> 02:03:09,440
Speaker 1: kind of things you you've got to think about when

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02:03:09,480 --> 02:03:12,720
Speaker 1: you're starting. Would you rather have? You know, you got

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02:03:12,840 --> 02:03:14,920
Speaker 1: to say this guy or this guy? And that's where

2510
02:03:14,960 --> 02:03:18,200
Speaker 1: you get to and here's where it gets iffy. Would

2511
02:03:18,240 --> 02:03:20,560
Speaker 1: you rather have a Terran? Would you rather have a

2512
02:03:20,680 --> 02:03:25,400
Speaker 1: Tarren Johnson or a Darryl Johnson? You know, you gotta

2513
02:03:25,440 --> 02:03:28,560
Speaker 1: cross positions. Would you keep an extra defensive back or

2514
02:03:28,600 --> 02:03:32,600
Speaker 1: an extra defensive lineman? Do you you know, uh, do

2515
02:03:32,720 --> 02:03:37,560
Speaker 1: you keep Mike Love or do you keep you know,

2516
02:03:38,160 --> 02:03:42,520
Speaker 1: Kurt Coleman you know? Or do you keep Vashon Joseph

2517
02:03:42,600 --> 02:03:44,400
Speaker 1: even a draft pick? You know, those are the kind

2518
02:03:44,440 --> 02:03:48,240
Speaker 1: of questions you gotta answer, Um, which one of those

2519
02:03:48,280 --> 02:03:50,200
Speaker 1: guys is going to contribute to you? Yeah, this year?

2520
02:03:50,520 --> 02:03:52,280
Speaker 1: But also both of them have kind of an up

2521
02:03:52,480 --> 02:03:54,000
Speaker 1: You know, all these guys have kind of an upside

2522
02:03:54,040 --> 02:03:58,320
Speaker 1: that you're looking for. So it's it's really hard to

2523
02:03:58,520 --> 02:04:00,960
Speaker 1: decipher when you get down to these spots. You know,

2524
02:04:01,000 --> 02:04:06,200
Speaker 1: on the roster, do you keep nine defensive lineman or eight?

2525
02:04:06,960 --> 02:04:09,720
Speaker 1: And does the difference mean you keep Darryl Johnson as

2526
02:04:09,760 --> 02:04:13,600
Speaker 1: opposed to Vashawan Joseph or d Kwon Johnson. You know

2527
02:04:13,840 --> 02:04:16,000
Speaker 1: that those guys, those are those are the questions you

2528
02:04:16,080 --> 02:04:18,120
Speaker 1: kind of have to ask. Thanks Marcus, we'll go to

2529
02:04:18,440 --> 02:04:21,840
Speaker 1: Kevin and Pennsylvania. Hello, Kevin, you're on the air. Yes,

2530
02:04:22,440 --> 02:04:25,720
Speaker 1: I would like to um say, I believe why why

2531
02:04:25,720 --> 02:04:28,400
Speaker 1: Arett receiver Robert Foster was gonna have a brick all

2532
02:04:28,440 --> 02:04:32,680
Speaker 1: that year? Because all right, I know he um, I

2533
02:04:32,720 --> 02:04:35,000
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know him personally, but I've seen

2534
02:04:35,120 --> 02:04:39,760
Speaker 1: him play in his uh high school days, and I

2535
02:04:39,880 --> 02:04:43,160
Speaker 1: know he was a highly talented college recruit and he

2536
02:04:43,200 --> 02:04:46,600
Speaker 1: went to Alabama, but he had injuries. But he's coming

2537
02:04:46,840 --> 02:04:48,760
Speaker 1: up right now and I think he's going to really

2538
02:04:48,840 --> 02:04:51,960
Speaker 1: help the Bills out this year. He's a very quality

2539
02:04:52,080 --> 02:04:54,920
Speaker 1: young man and he's a great player. He's a quality

2540
02:04:55,040 --> 02:04:58,880
Speaker 1: young man, and uh, that's all I got to say, Okay, yeah, Kevin,

2541
02:04:58,880 --> 02:05:00,720
Speaker 1: I agree with it. He's a quality guy. We've spoken

2542
02:05:00,760 --> 02:05:03,280
Speaker 1: to him on the show. He's a high character kid,

2543
02:05:03,760 --> 02:05:05,640
Speaker 1: really good guy, the kind of guy you want on

2544
02:05:05,760 --> 02:05:11,760
Speaker 1: your team. But every guy on this roster, all ninety

2545
02:05:11,800 --> 02:05:15,960
Speaker 1: of them, were highly highly successful high school players. Highly

2546
02:05:16,040 --> 02:05:18,320
Speaker 1: successful all of them, every last one of them, and

2547
02:05:18,400 --> 02:05:22,120
Speaker 1: some of them played way better in high school than

2548
02:05:22,360 --> 02:05:25,480
Speaker 1: than guys you might think are more well known. They

2549
02:05:25,560 --> 02:05:27,600
Speaker 1: all they all come out of high school highly touted.

2550
02:05:27,760 --> 02:05:29,840
Speaker 1: They all come out of high school highly recruited, and

2551
02:05:29,920 --> 02:05:32,840
Speaker 1: they all have an opportunity to do that. So and

2552
02:05:32,960 --> 02:05:35,160
Speaker 1: I get that you've seen him play at a high

2553
02:05:35,240 --> 02:05:37,800
Speaker 1: level when he was in high school and stuff, but man,

2554
02:05:37,840 --> 02:05:43,160
Speaker 1: oh man, this league is full of guys who can

2555
02:05:43,240 --> 02:05:46,360
Speaker 1: make that statement. Let's go to Don and Cheektowaga. Hello Don,

2556
02:05:46,440 --> 02:05:49,200
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hey John and Steve. How are

2557
02:05:49,200 --> 02:05:52,200
Speaker 1: you guys this afternoon? Real good, good, good good. So

2558
02:05:52,320 --> 02:05:54,560
Speaker 1: I just want to make some comments about this. I mean,

2559
02:05:54,880 --> 02:05:57,760
Speaker 1: obviously I saw your interview with Isaiah McKenzie. I'm a

2560
02:05:57,880 --> 02:06:00,120
Speaker 1: huge fan of his. I think he just brings so

2561
02:06:00,360 --> 02:06:03,200
Speaker 1: much to the table. You know, they can play special teams.

2562
02:06:03,600 --> 02:06:05,640
Speaker 1: He can do that jet suite, he can play in

2563
02:06:05,680 --> 02:06:08,560
Speaker 1: the slot. To me, I think he's got that second slot,

2564
02:06:08,840 --> 02:06:12,160
Speaker 1: you know, behind Cole Beasley. I think locked up. I

2565
02:06:12,280 --> 02:06:17,000
Speaker 1: hope I'm correct, but we'll see in cutdown day. I

2566
02:06:17,080 --> 02:06:18,720
Speaker 1: think it's going to be difficult when you look at

2567
02:06:18,760 --> 02:06:20,800
Speaker 1: the defensive line. I mean you talked about I heard

2568
02:06:20,800 --> 02:06:24,160
Speaker 1: you guys, you're saying about Daryl Johnson. Obviously shack sting,

2569
02:06:24,720 --> 02:06:26,720
Speaker 1: but you also have to look at shacks you know,

2570
02:06:26,880 --> 02:06:28,760
Speaker 1: long term. You know this is his last year. We

2571
02:06:28,800 --> 02:06:30,960
Speaker 1: didn't sign him to that fifth year. A guy like

2572
02:06:31,120 --> 02:06:34,240
Speaker 1: Johnson has some upswing. We know what Eddie, you know

2573
02:06:34,360 --> 02:06:37,040
Speaker 1: Yarborough is going to bring to the table. What I

2574
02:06:37,080 --> 02:06:39,400
Speaker 1: would focus on, you know, when it comes to cuts,

2575
02:06:39,840 --> 02:06:42,000
Speaker 1: if there's a veteran tight end, I still think we

2576
02:06:42,120 --> 02:06:43,880
Speaker 1: need one to bring on with these young guys. And

2577
02:06:43,920 --> 02:06:46,280
Speaker 1: we got a lot of young guys, you know. And

2578
02:06:46,440 --> 02:06:50,160
Speaker 1: then also a swing offensive tackle. I think that's huge.

2579
02:06:50,200 --> 02:06:53,360
Speaker 1: I think, you know, Wattle going down I think was

2580
02:06:53,520 --> 02:06:56,160
Speaker 1: a lot bigger than people will ever give credit for

2581
02:06:56,280 --> 02:07:00,160
Speaker 1: because to me, he was the perfect offensive tackle. Was

2582
02:07:00,240 --> 02:07:02,400
Speaker 1: a swing guy. He didn't have to start, but he could,

2583
02:07:02,840 --> 02:07:05,400
Speaker 1: but he could play left and right, side. But I'll

2584
02:07:06,000 --> 02:07:08,200
Speaker 1: hang back and listen to you guys and ask believes

2585
02:07:08,240 --> 02:07:11,520
Speaker 1: you guys do a fantastic job. Oh that's what do

2586
02:07:11,560 --> 02:07:15,160
Speaker 1: you think, Steve. Uh, there's so many numbers on the

2587
02:07:15,200 --> 02:07:17,920
Speaker 1: offensive line. I started to jump go ahead. No, yeah,

2588
02:07:17,960 --> 02:07:19,600
Speaker 1: I get it. We didn't make a huge deal out

2589
02:07:19,640 --> 02:07:21,640
Speaker 1: of Wattle being out, but they're just they got at

2590
02:07:21,680 --> 02:07:23,320
Speaker 1: that time, there was a ton of guys there, and

2591
02:07:23,440 --> 02:07:29,520
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that, Um, yeah, there's so much and

2592
02:07:29,600 --> 02:07:31,600
Speaker 1: what he just said and what Don just said, Yeah,

2593
02:07:31,680 --> 02:07:34,120
Speaker 1: I get it. But when you get started talking about, um,

2594
02:07:34,320 --> 02:07:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, guys on the defensive line, you've got Shack

2595
02:07:36,720 --> 02:07:39,920
Speaker 1: Laws and Trent Murphy, Jerry Hughes, Mike Love, Eddie Yarbro,

2596
02:07:40,160 --> 02:07:43,400
Speaker 1: Daryl Johnson. Then they just signed Jeff Holland they just

2597
02:07:43,520 --> 02:07:46,680
Speaker 1: signed that guy. What are their plans for him? Uh?

2598
02:07:46,920 --> 02:07:49,120
Speaker 1: That gives you there's eight guys there before you ever

2599
02:07:49,200 --> 02:07:52,680
Speaker 1: get down to Daryl Johnson and Eddie Yarbro. Those guys

2600
02:07:52,720 --> 02:07:55,640
Speaker 1: are are nine and ten on the on the depth chart.

2601
02:07:56,320 --> 02:08:00,560
Speaker 1: Then you've got you know, you've got nine UM linebackers

2602
02:08:00,640 --> 02:08:02,840
Speaker 1: on the roster right now, You're probably only gonna go

2603
02:08:02,920 --> 02:08:06,440
Speaker 1: with probably six, and then with corners. When you start

2604
02:08:06,600 --> 02:08:09,840
Speaker 1: five corners or five dbs, every play, you gotta go

2605
02:08:09,920 --> 02:08:12,240
Speaker 1: with at least ten of those guys on your roster

2606
02:08:12,560 --> 02:08:14,600
Speaker 1: and hope that some of them can play special teams.

2607
02:08:14,760 --> 02:08:17,440
Speaker 1: Who are those ten? Well, the second five right now,

2608
02:08:17,560 --> 02:08:21,440
Speaker 1: start with Cam Lewis, Kevin Johnson, Siran Neil, Dean Marlowe,

2609
02:08:21,440 --> 02:08:25,320
Speaker 1: and Kurt Coleman. Then you go Captain Munerlin, Denzel Rice,

2610
02:08:26,120 --> 02:08:30,480
Speaker 1: Jaquan Johnson, Abraham Wallace, and then you got Ryan Lewis

2611
02:08:30,520 --> 02:08:32,960
Speaker 1: and Lafayette Pitts. You got a ton of guys over there,

2612
02:08:33,000 --> 02:08:34,840
Speaker 1: and you gotta keep ten of them, probably if you're

2613
02:08:34,880 --> 02:08:37,960
Speaker 1: gonna go five, if you're gonna start five dbs, which

2614
02:08:38,000 --> 02:08:42,640
Speaker 1: you usually do with a nickel, I don't know. I

2615
02:08:42,680 --> 02:08:44,200
Speaker 1: don't know where you go from there. You know, I

2616
02:08:44,280 --> 02:08:47,160
Speaker 1: think you go light at linebacker rather than defensive line.

2617
02:08:47,640 --> 02:08:51,640
Speaker 1: Maybe that's a big question. Mark. Let's take one more call.

2618
02:08:51,760 --> 02:08:55,280
Speaker 1: Let's go to Dave in Florida. Hello, Dave, welcome, you're

2619
02:08:55,280 --> 02:08:57,960
Speaker 1: on the air with this. You gotta do, guys, Okay, listen,

2620
02:08:58,600 --> 02:09:01,080
Speaker 1: I do I ask you? Is I got faith to

2621
02:09:01,160 --> 02:09:04,720
Speaker 1: McDermott being the whole coaching staff. I say you take

2622
02:09:04,840 --> 02:09:09,040
Speaker 1: the cut, Buddy, seven guys, hide as many as you

2623
02:09:09,120 --> 02:09:12,360
Speaker 1: can in the practice squad and go what we got.

2624
02:09:12,520 --> 02:09:14,920
Speaker 1: I think we got a pretty good cheam. What do

2625
02:09:15,000 --> 02:09:18,000
Speaker 1: you think? So your thing? You think, whatever it is,

2626
02:09:18,040 --> 02:09:19,920
Speaker 1: even if there are surprises, and even there if there

2627
02:09:19,960 --> 02:09:21,960
Speaker 1: are guys that maybe all of us like that they

2628
02:09:22,040 --> 02:09:24,720
Speaker 1: have to release as you trust being McDermott, that they're

2629
02:09:24,720 --> 02:09:26,560
Speaker 1: gonna put the best fifty three out there, Let's just

2630
02:09:26,680 --> 02:09:30,320
Speaker 1: go without a doubt. Okay, that's a good place to be.

2631
02:09:30,520 --> 02:09:33,800
Speaker 1: Congratulations Dave, you're the guy with the most inner peace. Today,

2632
02:09:34,840 --> 02:09:36,400
Speaker 1: got a break. We're coming back with more on One

2633
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Speaker 1: Bill's Lide, presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive.

2634
02:09:39,440 --> 02:09:54,640
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. So at the end of

2635
02:09:54,680 --> 02:09:56,480
Speaker 1: the show, we'd like to take stock of where we

2636
02:09:56,600 --> 02:09:58,400
Speaker 1: have been over the last three hours and what have

2637
02:09:58,520 --> 02:10:01,840
Speaker 1: we learned from today's show. Let's recap. We had Chad

2638
02:10:01,880 --> 02:10:04,840
Speaker 1: Beebe on the show, Minnesota Vikings second year wide receiver.

2639
02:10:05,000 --> 02:10:08,200
Speaker 1: The name familiar. He's Don Beebe's son, former Bills second

2640
02:10:08,280 --> 02:10:10,840
Speaker 1: round draft pick. Former remember the Bill's super Bowl run,

2641
02:10:11,480 --> 02:10:13,920
Speaker 1: the team they had the Super Bowl run. Chad Beebe

2642
02:10:14,000 --> 02:10:16,360
Speaker 1: coming to town with the Vikings this week to play

2643
02:10:16,400 --> 02:10:18,600
Speaker 1: the Bills on Thursday night, and we asked him about

2644
02:10:18,600 --> 02:10:20,680
Speaker 1: his relationship with his father and how much he taps

2645
02:10:20,720 --> 02:10:25,040
Speaker 1: into his father's knowledge about life in the NFL. I mean,

2646
02:10:25,080 --> 02:10:27,040
Speaker 1: at this point, he's my best friend. So we we

2647
02:10:27,200 --> 02:10:30,120
Speaker 1: talk on a regular basis. Obviously he's really busy as

2648
02:10:30,160 --> 02:10:32,440
Speaker 1: well as I am, but we try to find time

2649
02:10:32,560 --> 02:10:34,760
Speaker 1: at some point during the week, whether it's once twice,

2650
02:10:34,800 --> 02:10:38,520
Speaker 1: maybe three times, it's talking chat and whatnot. I mean,

2651
02:10:38,720 --> 02:10:40,920
Speaker 1: for me, it would be crazy, you know, not to

2652
02:10:41,040 --> 02:10:43,960
Speaker 1: use him as a resource, you know, him having that

2653
02:10:44,040 --> 02:10:47,480
Speaker 1: career that he did. So for me, that's just yeah,

2654
02:10:47,720 --> 02:10:51,400
Speaker 1: staying connected with him and whatnot. Chad bby great talking

2655
02:10:51,440 --> 02:10:55,320
Speaker 1: with him today about his bid to make the Vikings roster.

2656
02:10:55,440 --> 02:10:57,600
Speaker 1: Look looks like he's gonna make it. We had Bills

2657
02:10:57,640 --> 02:10:59,880
Speaker 1: receiver Azam McKenzie on the show with us today. He's

2658
02:11:00,000 --> 02:11:03,720
Speaker 1: gotta uh, he's gotta worry a little bit about cutdown

2659
02:11:03,800 --> 02:11:06,080
Speaker 1: day coming up on Saturday, and we talked about how

2660
02:11:06,120 --> 02:11:08,840
Speaker 1: he uses his speed as a wide receiver on the

2661
02:11:08,880 --> 02:11:12,440
Speaker 1: Bills roster. Here's what I Zay McKenzie said, that's my

2662
02:11:12,560 --> 02:11:15,240
Speaker 1: strong suit speed and being exposed about the line. So

2663
02:11:15,280 --> 02:11:17,200
Speaker 1: I feel like if I got to ball my hands

2664
02:11:17,200 --> 02:11:19,400
Speaker 1: and we're even I'm leaving, I'm a slod receiver. But

2665
02:11:19,560 --> 02:11:21,600
Speaker 1: I just do a lot of things on the outside

2666
02:11:21,680 --> 02:11:23,520
Speaker 1: and jet sweep and things like that, but I also

2667
02:11:23,600 --> 02:11:25,720
Speaker 1: play inside just what you know, doing what Bees does?

2668
02:11:26,120 --> 02:11:28,400
Speaker 1: He just he doesn't a lot more than I do, right,

2669
02:11:28,480 --> 02:11:30,640
Speaker 1: But um I watched him and I do I do

2670
02:11:30,760 --> 02:11:35,080
Speaker 1: the things he does. Jay McKenzie, if we're even I'm leaving,

2671
02:11:35,160 --> 02:11:37,760
Speaker 1: I've never heard that before. You never heard that, no good,

2672
02:11:37,760 --> 02:11:39,840
Speaker 1: And that's around when I was I was playing if

2673
02:11:39,840 --> 02:11:42,600
Speaker 1: we're even I'm leaving, good, show a lot to talk about.

2674
02:11:42,600 --> 02:11:45,480
Speaker 1: We got more roster talking, you know, as much as

2675
02:11:45,560 --> 02:11:48,520
Speaker 1: we you know, and people call in and make their predictions.

2676
02:11:48,600 --> 02:11:50,880
Speaker 1: We kind of react to that a little bit. And

2677
02:11:51,040 --> 02:11:53,480
Speaker 1: I do think it's important, Stephen, you can attest to this.

2678
02:11:54,040 --> 02:11:56,680
Speaker 1: It is an extremely tough week around here. The next

2679
02:11:56,720 --> 02:12:00,400
Speaker 1: few days. It's these are personal life altering decisions about

2680
02:12:00,400 --> 02:12:02,320
Speaker 1: to be made here, and I don't look say what

2681
02:12:02,400 --> 02:12:04,480
Speaker 1: you want. You can say whatever you want, but don't

2682
02:12:04,520 --> 02:12:06,520
Speaker 1: lose sight of that, right. These are people who work

2683
02:12:06,560 --> 02:12:08,240
Speaker 1: pretty hard just to get where they are at here.

2684
02:12:08,680 --> 02:12:11,040
Speaker 1: This is it's real here. I mean, I get it.

2685
02:12:11,120 --> 02:12:13,400
Speaker 1: Fans out there, they're fantasy teams, they're just fans, and

2686
02:12:13,480 --> 02:12:15,600
Speaker 1: they think, you know, who's they're just and and once

2687
02:12:15,680 --> 02:12:18,000
Speaker 1: the guy's released, they forget, they cease to think about

2688
02:12:18,040 --> 02:12:20,520
Speaker 1: them ever again, you know, and and they forget that

2689
02:12:20,640 --> 02:12:23,160
Speaker 1: that's whoever that is is a guy who grew up

2690
02:12:23,400 --> 02:12:26,560
Speaker 1: playing high school football, college football, and whether he bounced

2691
02:12:26,600 --> 02:12:28,240
Speaker 1: around the league or not, or whether it's his first

2692
02:12:28,320 --> 02:12:33,200
Speaker 1: chance or maybe last chance, some relationships have been forged

2693
02:12:33,240 --> 02:12:36,200
Speaker 1: through preseason OTAs and training camp, and these guys are

2694
02:12:36,240 --> 02:12:38,640
Speaker 1: it's important to them. They're friends. And some of these

2695
02:12:38,680 --> 02:12:40,400
Speaker 1: guys who were main friends for a long time. But

2696
02:12:40,520 --> 02:12:43,160
Speaker 1: today is the next four days, it's gonna be a

2697
02:12:43,200 --> 02:12:46,160
Speaker 1: time when they get separated. One guy's gonna have to

2698
02:12:46,240 --> 02:12:48,120
Speaker 1: go away, or if two guys or they're they're all

2699
02:12:48,160 --> 02:12:53,040
Speaker 1: gonna or maybe both of them get released, and that's it. Foreman.

2700
02:12:54,360 --> 02:12:56,560
Speaker 1: They're human beings. They got families, they got people who

2701
02:12:56,600 --> 02:12:58,200
Speaker 1: are cheering for them. They got people who are sitting

2702
02:12:58,240 --> 02:13:04,360
Speaker 1: at home literally wringing their hands, hoping, praying and hoping.

2703
02:13:04,360 --> 02:13:07,520
Speaker 1: I'm praying that these guys make a fifty three man roster.

2704
02:13:09,520 --> 02:13:11,360
Speaker 1: It's no fun for these coaches to have to be

2705
02:13:11,440 --> 02:13:13,560
Speaker 1: the ones to tell these guys that they're not gonna

2706
02:13:13,600 --> 02:13:18,040
Speaker 1: make it. But it's gonna happen to a lot of

2707
02:13:18,080 --> 02:13:21,800
Speaker 1: these guys this weekend, and it's you'll hear coaches say

2708
02:13:21,800 --> 02:13:23,600
Speaker 1: it and sometimes you kind of go ass over it.

2709
02:13:23,680 --> 02:13:26,160
Speaker 1: It really is a tough tough weekend for for NFL

2710
02:13:26,240 --> 02:13:28,720
Speaker 1: coaches in NFL, in the NFL in general. Four days

2711
02:13:28,760 --> 02:13:31,760
Speaker 1: to the cutdown Saturday, four pm. Two days until preseason

2712
02:13:31,880 --> 02:13:35,080
Speaker 1: game number four, the Bills say. Sean McDermott says, it's

2713
02:13:35,080 --> 02:13:38,080
Speaker 1: more than likely that quarterback Tyree Jackson starts this week.

2714
02:13:38,120 --> 02:13:40,080
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll learn a little bit more about that tomorrow.

2715
02:13:40,360 --> 02:13:42,000
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for joining us today. I want to

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Speaker 1: Jay Harris. We have almost our full crew in these days,

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Speaker 1: right if the accents come do it and that everybody

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Speaker 1: tomorrow at twelve noon, come on back. John Murphy, Steve Tansker.

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