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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you on a sun splashed afternoon here

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Speaker 1: So what happens is if they're all going along, humming

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Speaker 1: along during the week or whatever, and one guy gets

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Speaker 1: nailed for being positive like the Raiders, they'll keep them

430
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Speaker 1: going and isolate that guy. But when you get four positives,

431
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Speaker 1: then you got to know that somebody is touching somebody,

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Speaker 1: so to speak. So then they got to shut everything

433
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 1: down and isolate until they find out and let it

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Speaker 1: run itself out until the guys that got contaminated make

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Speaker 1: themselves evident, and then everybody else can come back in.

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Speaker 1: So that's why this is being taken so long. Well,

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Speaker 1: and what's different with the Titans, and Jim, we thank

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Speaker 1: you for the call. What's different with the Titans is

439
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 1: this thing hasn't even run its course yet. It was exacerbated,

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Speaker 1: presumably by the illegal outdoor practices away from this facility

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Speaker 1: that we're done. Literally a day after their facility closed,

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Speaker 1: fifteen guys from the offensive side of the ball skill

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Speaker 1: position players went and worked out at a local high

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Speaker 1: school against the COVID protocols and against the wishes of

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff and the organization. And then there's also

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Speaker 1: another report that defensive backs later in the day went

447
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 1: and did the same thing. So you're talking upwards of

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Speaker 1: twenty players, and so what that does is it lengthens

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Speaker 1: the timeline. So if they had all just isolated when

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Speaker 1: the place first closed, you're more than a week removed

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00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 1: from that that was September twenty ninth. Okay, But because

452
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 1: you did not, and you continue to have close contact,

453
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,679
Speaker 1: the thing kept spreading. And so what you did was

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Speaker 1: you lengthen the timeline from just being eight to ten days.

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Speaker 1: So now we're going over two weeks now. The problem

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Speaker 1: is this, and Dan Grasiona reported this on September thirtieth.

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Speaker 1: They were told the twenty ninth of the facilities were

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Speaker 1: going to be closed and that there would be no

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Speaker 1: in person activity. So they can't come to work, and

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Speaker 1: they can't do they can't come to the facility, and

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00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: they can't get together away from it. So they told

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Speaker 1: them specifically not to get together outside the building, and

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Speaker 1: yet here you got a dozen and a half players

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Speaker 1: getting together on a field somewhere in the open field,

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Speaker 1: and you know, nobody's they're not masked up or anything.

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Speaker 1: So they're going directly against what they were told to do, right,

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Speaker 1: and there is a big problem. And the other part

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Speaker 1: of the investigation, because there are reports now that they're

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Speaker 1: going to the league, is calling into question whether or

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Speaker 1: not mask wearing was done to the letter inside the

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Speaker 1: facility by players and coaches, because that is what has

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Speaker 1: prompted the league to start monitoring indoor facility cameras. They're

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Speaker 1: going to be requesting surveillance video from all thirty two

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Speaker 1: teams where they are going to watch and see is

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Speaker 1: everybody wearing masks when they're indoors? Is everybody wearing masks

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Speaker 1: in this team meeting? Are they properly social distanced? Does

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Speaker 1: all of this being Is everybody adhering to the rules

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Speaker 1: as we know them? And it's only because of what

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00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: has happened here with the Titans that is why the

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Speaker 1: enhanced protocols were handed down as well as the punitive punishments.

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Speaker 1: Those were also enhanced, which basically said loss of draft

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Speaker 1: picks and forfeiture of games if you can't stick to

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Speaker 1: the protocols. So that's where it is. Lot's going on. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we have to take a break, but we'll get back

485
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Speaker 1: to more of your phone calls when we return, so

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Speaker 1: hang on the line there if you're at eight oh

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Speaker 1: three five fifty. A lot to unpack here. We'll have

488
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Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander here a day early than we normally have.

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Speaker 1: He'll be giving us the loaddown. He's also an NFL

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Speaker 1: PA rep, so we can give an interesting player perspective

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Speaker 1: on what we're dealing with here. So we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: him later on in the show. And we have Maddie

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Speaker 1: Glab coming up in about fifteen minutes from the sidelines

494
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Speaker 1: for practice update. All coming your way here on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, second half of our

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Speaker 1: number one of a Thursday edition of One Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: and we're going right back to the phones as we

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Speaker 1: are discussing with you what should the approach be from

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00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 1: the NFL when dealing with this COVID nineteen outbreak and

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00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,199
Speaker 1: to sixteen game schedule. The choices are up to you.

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00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: We didn't want to spell them out for you. We

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Speaker 1: figured you guys come with the creativity, So bring it

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Speaker 1: to us at eight o three five fifty or on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. At one Bills Live, we go to

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Speaker 1: Matt and Buffalo to lead us off for this segment. Matt,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. What do you have hi, guys?

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Speaker 1: Real quick, I'll make this short. Steve. I always wanting

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Speaker 1: to ask you a question, and this is going back

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00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: to the and I'll get to my point in a minute.

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Speaker 1: The ARC Championship, you ran down for a punt and

512
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: I was sitting right there. Did you tackle Tim Brown

513
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: and then look at each other, pointing each other and

514
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 1: help each other up? Yeah? But not in the AFC Championship.

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Speaker 1: It was in a playoff game. But it wasn't a championship.

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00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: It was like ninety three, ninety four, not ninety It

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Speaker 1: was not in the It was not in the It

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Speaker 1: was not in the Yeah, it wasn't in the fifty

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Speaker 1: one to three game. Okay, but I did do that. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I was right in front of that and I saw it,

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Speaker 1: and I just saw you a point to him, and

522
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: he pointed to you, and you grabbed each other's hands

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Speaker 1: and help you. Okay, getting back to what I'm um

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Speaker 1: about the quarterbacks. When you see Breeze manning m Brady

525
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: when the defense is on the field, they got the uh,

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Speaker 1: they got the computer in front of him looking at

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Speaker 1: and back. When um t J. Lossman trad was EJ Manuel,

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00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: there was just walking around and I see Allen. He's

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Speaker 1: sitting there looking at the form of the previous player,

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Speaker 1: watching the defense, him next to the cliterback coach. I

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Speaker 1: think he's improving, he's getting better at it. Is that

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Speaker 1: something that you just don't see a lot would I

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Speaker 1: would disagree respectfully, Matt, but I thank you for the call.

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Speaker 1: I would say this, EJ Manuel worked very hard when

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Speaker 1: he was here. I don't know that JP had quite

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00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,479
Speaker 1: the same work ethic. I think he genuinely believed that

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Speaker 1: his physical ability would carry him, and then it became

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00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: readily apparent to him, probably at a time that was

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00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: too late for him to save his career, that he

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00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: was going to need more than that. And I would

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Speaker 1: say that Trent Edwards was smart but did not play

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00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 1: confidently enough on the field. He did not have the

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Speaker 1: moxie that you need at this level to be successful.

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Speaker 1: There's got to be an element of a killer instinct

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Speaker 1: or an element of arrogance in the quarterback that I

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Speaker 1: can do it. I can fit that ball in a

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Speaker 1: tight window and what sold everybody on the fact that

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Speaker 1: Trent did not have it was winning a game against

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Speaker 1: the Packers in Week two under chan Gailey in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and ten. They're losing thirty four to seven and

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Speaker 1: it's fourth down and it's the end of the game.

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Speaker 1: You're not winning the game, and it's fourth down, and

553
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Speaker 1: instead of chucking it down the field to try to

554
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: see if one of your receivers can make a play,

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00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: he ran out of bounds on fourth down. That was

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00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: all chan Gailey needed to see. Ryan Fitzpatrick was the starter.

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Speaker 1: Trent never played another It's never started another game for

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Speaker 1: the Bills. Again. Yeah, it's a lack of awareness and

559
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. But so yeah, but for all

560
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Speaker 1: Josh sits down on the bench and he's looking at

561
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Speaker 1: those the surfaces. You can't watch video, it's illegal, but

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Speaker 1: they are watching still. They used to have photographs that

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Speaker 1: they would show you and now they put it on

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Speaker 1: a surface and you scan from one photo to the

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00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: next on the surface. That's what he's doing. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: lots of quarterbacks do that. I don't I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Back in the day, it was all on paper and

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Speaker 1: they used to have a machine. It was like a

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Speaker 1: fact exactly. So now they use surface photos and they

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00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: do it that way, and and a lot of quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: do that, And yeah, Josh works very hard at it,

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00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: he does, and we're seeing the ramifications and the benefits

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00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: of it now in his career and his play. But

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00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: he's not alone in that, and so yeah, lots of

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks do that. All right. We have to take a

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Speaker 1: break here because when we return, we have to get

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Speaker 1: out to the practice field and get an update for

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Speaker 1: you on who is and who is not participating from

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Speaker 1: multimedia reporter Maddie Glabs. So we have to take a

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Speaker 1: break here so we can do that. We will get

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Speaker 1: back to your phone calls a little bit later, but

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Speaker 1: we step aside now here on One Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, Maurice Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, One Bills Live and time now here on

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Speaker 1: a Thursday to head out to the practice field where

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Speaker 1: it is considerably less windy than it was yesterday. We

587
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Speaker 1: were concerned not only because we saw our multimedia reporter

588
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: Maddie Glab completely freeze on camera and then disappear and

589
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Speaker 1: drop off the face of our broadcast, but we were

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Speaker 1: genuinely concerned, since she's five foot nothing, hundred and nothing,

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Speaker 1: that she may have clear blown away and become a

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Speaker 1: human kite. But we are learning that is not the case.

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Speaker 1: She is back out there on the practice field, and

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Speaker 1: it's good to see you, Maddie. Glad you are alive

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00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: and well, how are you doing out there? Much better

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00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: day today than yesterday? Right, Yeah, honestly, today is the

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Speaker 1: perfect weather, not a lot of wind in the forecast.

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Speaker 1: I'm not blown away today. Yesterday I was concerned for

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Speaker 1: my health a little bit with those gusts of wind,

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Speaker 1: but we made it through, even though I dropped off

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Speaker 1: in the middle of my hit. Sorry about that, you know,

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00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: weather problems, I guess. But I'm here today to inform

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Speaker 1: you all about what's going on right behind me. Yeah,

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00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: and we'll see if they can fit ankle weights into

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Speaker 1: the budget the next time it's windy out there. You know,

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Speaker 1: we don't want you in danger of literally getting blown

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Speaker 1: off the faces practice feah. I think two pound ankle

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Speaker 1: weights would hold you down. Give us a load, give

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Speaker 1: us a rundown, Maddie. Who's practicing, Who's hurt? What's the

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Speaker 1: injury report? Yeah, let's start off with the dB. So

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Speaker 1: we saw Tredevius White did not practice yesterday. He was

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Speaker 1: not on the practice field. He was out with a

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Speaker 1: back injury. I have not seen him yet on the

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Speaker 1: practice field today, so he is probably not practicing today.

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Speaker 1: Was not out here during stretch or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: Some of the injured players do come out here during

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Speaker 1: stretch and hang out or stretch with the team, but

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Speaker 1: Tredavius White is nowhere to be seen, so I would

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Speaker 1: assume he is DNP again for today, probably dealing with

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Speaker 1: that back issue again. Yeah, I mean we know that

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Speaker 1: injuries sometimes crop up a day after the game, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, he came through that game presumably fine. He

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Speaker 1: finished it, so it's kind of troubling that he's This

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Speaker 1: is now a second straight day that he is not practicing,

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Speaker 1: which certainly would call into question his availability for Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen guys come back on Friday and

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Speaker 1: playing games, but this is unusual for him, a guy

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Speaker 1: who has been remarkably healthy through his time here, isn't it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It does not normally see Tredevious White not on the

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Speaker 1: practice field or at least just in a red jersey.

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Speaker 1: Usually if he's dealing with some running. He'll put a

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Speaker 1: red jersey on and fight through it. This is a

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Speaker 1: guy who is very tough, very strong, So yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: a little odd. I hope it's nothing to be too

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Speaker 1: concerned over. And maybe he pops out onto the field

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Speaker 1: tomorrow just for their more walk through esque practice on Friday.

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Speaker 1: So hopefully he's inside getting treatment and getting healthy for

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Speaker 1: the game. Because there's no Levi Wallace. He was put

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Speaker 1: on the ir So if there's no Tredavious White, then

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00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 1: you got to go to someone like cam Lewis opposite

641
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Speaker 1: Josh Norman. What are some of the other names, notable

642
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 1: names that are on or off the practice field. Yeah,

643
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: so some other notable names. I'll just run down the

644
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: injury report from yesterday and let you guys know who's here,

645
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: who's not here. So of course Josh Allen was on

646
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: the injury report with that shoulder that he's dealing with.

647
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: He practiced full yesterday. He's on the field again today.

648
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, who was on the injury report yesterday with

649
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: a foot injury, he was limited. He's on the practice

650
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 1: field today. John Brown did not practice with a calf

651
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: injury yesterday. He is on the field today. The wide

652
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 1: receivers are going through individual drills right behind me right now.

653
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: Cody Ford was someone else who was not on the

654
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: practice field yesterday with a groin injury. He is here today.

655
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,959
Speaker 1: No sign of Matt Milano. He is week to week

656
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: with that peck injury. Someone else who was on injury

657
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: report from the linebackers was del Shan Phillips with a

658
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: quad He was limited yesterday. He is here today. Zach

659
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: Moss is limited with that toe injury yesterday. He is

660
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: back here today. John Feliciano was out here yesterday for

661
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: the first time as he begins to transition back to

662
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: the practice field after being on IR. He still is

663
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 1: on IR. We'll see when he gets put on the

664
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: active roster. He is out there today. He was in

665
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 1: a hat, not a helmet, so it looks like he's

666
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: more just observing practice today. But he isn't a practice jersey.

667
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: No sign of Brian Winters. He was out here yesterday.

668
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: He was one of the players who came out in

669
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: last week's game against the Raiders. He's dealing with a

670
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: knee injury. I didn't see him at all during stretch.

671
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: Other players that I haven't seen out here. Mario Addison

672
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: is someone who is not practicing today. Now there is

673
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: what looks to be a player. It's tough to see

674
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,320
Speaker 1: the defensive line there all the way across the field,

675
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: but didn't see Mario Addison, although it looks to be

676
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 1: there's a player just in a sweatshirt, so that could

677
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,240
Speaker 1: be him just kind of hanging out to the side.

678
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: Someone else who came out here late was Andre Roberts.

679
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: He's out here right now. He didn't practice yesterday. He

680
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: does not have a helmet with him, so it looks

681
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 1: like he's just kind of hanging out around the guys. Okay,

682
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:20,240
Speaker 1: So with respect to the offensive line, Maddie, as you mentioned,

683
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: no Brian Winters today after he was limited yesterday. It

684
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: looks like Feliciano got some work in yesterday even though

685
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: he's on IR and then today doing nothing. But the

686
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: good news is Cody Ford is back, so assuming all

687
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: goes well the rest of the week with Ford, that

688
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: takes care of the left guard position. So then they

689
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: might only have one spot conceivably to fill at right guard,

690
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: and I guess we would assume that would be Quentin Spain.

691
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 1: If Brian Winters isn't good enough to play, Yeah, you would.

692
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 1: You definitely assume it's Quintin Spain. I mean, he's someone

693
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: who knows that position, has played that position before, and

694
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: can be moved around the line of We know how

695
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: much that coach McDermott loves to see versatility in his

696
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: offensive line, and something that a lot of coaches don't

697
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: do is move those guys in the middle of the game.

698
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 1: And he's done it before and I don't think he's

699
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 1: afraid to do it again based on the health of

700
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 1: that line. So it'll be interesting to see what happens

701
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: there with the offensive line going up the Titans going

702
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: up against the Titans defensive line this weekend. And we

703
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: also know that John Brown missed a day of practice

704
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 1: last week with that calf injury and then proved to

705
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: be fine to play in the game last week. We

706
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: also saw something similar with Cole Beasley last week, you know,

707
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: limited for a day and then able to kind of

708
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: rally and play in the game. I guess we should.

709
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: I mean, we're guessing here, Maddie, but it looks like

710
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: they're on that same kind of track for this week

711
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 1: based on what we're seeing today. Yeah, yeah, totally. It

712
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: looks to be that way. And I was kind of

713
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: thinking about this earlier today and the fact that you know,

714
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: we've seen John Brown and Cole Beasley kind of pop

715
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: up on the injury list here there throughout the last

716
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of play to start the season, and

717
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 1: they're both vets. They're older guys, so they do while

718
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: they do need practice, I think it's okay for guys

719
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 1: like that to miss practice because their vets, and they

720
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: may start to just need those VET rest days weekly.

721
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: We saw Jerry Hughes have a veteran rest day weekly,

722
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: and of course as we get into the middle half

723
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: of the season, end of the season, I mean remember

724
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: last year, so many guys have those veteran rest days

725
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: one or two days a week, depending on how long

726
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,439
Speaker 1: they've been in the game and what they're dealing with

727
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: by that time in the season. They wouldn't surprising if

728
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: Mario Addison's in that group. Also, because you mentioned it's

729
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: probably him in that sweatshirt over there, Andre Roberts as

730
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: well could be in part of that part of that

731
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: crew as well. Del Sean Phillips is still dealing with

732
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: the quad injury he served for a couple of weeks ago.

733
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: He's in the game, but that seems to me more

734
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: of it was more of a contusion than it was

735
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 1: a pull. Is he is there any you know? Is

736
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: he what did you say his status? Was? He was

737
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: there in street? I think he's practicing, right, was he practicing? Yeah,

738
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: he's practicing today. He's out there in normal clothes. How

739
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 1: does helmet wasn't in a red non contact jersey. Nobody

740
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: besides the quarterbacks and the specialist in Tyler Bass and

741
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: Corey bjork Az are in red jerseys. Sol everybody looks

742
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 1: to be pretty healthy. But yeah, Delshan phillips availability would

743
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: be pretty important this week because, yes, I think we're

744
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: assuming Milano is probably not going to play this week.

745
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 1: We know Tyrell Dodson is probably going to fill in

746
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: for him, and we know how exhausted Dodson got back

747
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: in week two when he was playing all those snaps

748
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: on defense and also covering kicks on special teams. If

749
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: you have Phillips back, that's a guy that could probably

750
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: take Dodson's spot on the special teams units so he

751
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: doesn't have to do quite as much. Yeah, and Dodson didn't,

752
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 1: did Pop in that game, he had some great plays

753
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: on defense, but yeah, you could totally see he was

754
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: gassed by the end of the game. So it would

755
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,479
Speaker 1: be good to have Delshan Phillips in there for depth.

756
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: Of course, you have a j. Klein too, but let's

757
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: remember this defense really normally only likes to play two

758
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: linebackers in their defense regularly. Rarely do you see them

759
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: put three on the field when they're on defense. So yeah,

760
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: linebacker depth is going to be important against the Titans

761
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: because you're gonna have to stop the run. Derrick Henry

762
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 1: is probably gonna, you know, try to get through that

763
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: defensive line, get through that linebacker and linebackers into the

764
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: secondary every play. I mean, this is the guy who

765
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: has They're in their nineteen rushing yards through three weeks

766
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: of play right now and then just finally, just something

767
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. Although I think we know

768
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: based on the depth chart who the backup is. If

769
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: Roberts is not taking any return work because he can't

770
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: practice again today, I believe Isaiah McKenzie is his designated

771
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: backup return man, So just something to keep an eye on.

772
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're in that portion of practice yet.

773
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: Maddie it's individual position drills, but maybe something to report

774
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 1: back on if if we don't see Roberts doing that,

775
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 1: if it is in fact McKenzie, because I believe he's

776
00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: the backup. Yeah, it looks to be McKenzie. Who's going

777
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: to be the backup there? Yeah. Andre Roberts is really

778
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: just tossing around a football standing next to Isaiah Hodgens

779
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: right now, so and they're they're about to go into

780
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: some more individual drills. So I would assume Isaiah McKenzie

781
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: that's his spot. If Andre Roberts can't practice today or tomorrow, Yeah,

782
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: let me see as we see there. Josh Allen once

783
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:24,760
Speaker 1: again the social media darling of wearing the colored tinted

784
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: visor this week. He wore a visor a couple of

785
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: weeks ago, did not wear it in the game. Anybody

786
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: ask him why? Nobody has asked him why yet. I

787
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: kind of guessed or assume that somebody would ask him

788
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: that yesterday because he's someone who really hasn't worn a visor,

789
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: and to go into wearing a colored visor is quite different.

790
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is just a practice thing

791
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: or if he's just trying to get his eyes set

792
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 1: for I have no idea why, but that is more

793
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: more of a quarterback thing than my expertise here. But

794
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: he is not a I was going to say, if

795
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: he was available today, I would ask him, but he

796
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 1: is not available today. I would imagine he talked yesterday

797
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 1: to the media, so you know, we'll see what he

798
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: has to say. Maybe next week. If he continues to

799
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: wear that thing, I've got to say it looks good though.

800
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: I am all a fan of the tent Advisor. I

801
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: think it makes guys look pretty dang cool out there.

802
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: All right, Mattie, listen, thanks very much for your update today.

803
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: We're glad you got better weather out there, so enjoy

804
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: the sunshine and we will catch up with you. Thanks

805
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: very much for the info, no problem, have a good show, guys.

806
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,840
Speaker 1: All right. That's Bills multimedia reporter Maddy Glab helping us

807
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: out on the sidelines there at practice and giving us

808
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: a full rundown because man, there's about a dozen names

809
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: on the injury report and she covered just about all

810
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: of them, so we appreciate that. I think it's encouraging Steve.

811
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: And we didn't even get into this with Maddie. I

812
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 1: forgot to ask her about this. But you know, Zach

813
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: Moss comes back to the practice field yesterday and he

814
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: practices in a limited capacity with that toe injury. And

815
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: sometimes when you get back on the practice field that

816
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: first day is very telling. When you wake up the

817
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 1: next morning, how does it feel getting out of bed

818
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: And the fact that he's back on the practice field

819
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: again today, I have to believe is somewhat of a

820
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: positive side. Yeah, I think it is no question. And

821
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: you're right. You go out and you kind of try,

822
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 1: you do some things and if you feel like, all right,

823
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: let's go again and give it a little more to

824
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: do that today and if you can stand it, then

825
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 1: he gets better and then you know you got a

826
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: chance to play on Sunday. But this, like I've said before,

827
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: this is a coaching staff in a medical staff that

828
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: are in lockstep. They give these guys every opportunity to

829
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: play their games one hundred percent healthy before they come

830
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: back from injuries. So I wouldn't be surprised if Zach Moss,

831
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: while he starts to practice this week, is still held

832
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,879
Speaker 1: out another week if he's not one hundred hundred percent. Yeah,

833
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,399
Speaker 1: especially if you do in fact have a game knowing

834
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: you're going to be playing a very shorthanded Tennessee Titans

835
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: roster with a multitude of players presumably still on the

836
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen ir list for them. And I would say

837
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: the most eye opening thing here is the Tredavious White injury.

838
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 1: Is this two straight days now? I mean Tredavious White

839
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: has never missed a start in his NFL career, so

840
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: this is coming noteworthy now. And if he's not on

841
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: the practice field tomorrow, I think he is in real

842
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 1: jeopardy if not playing on Sunday. So we're gonna have

843
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 1: to see where that injury goes. And you know, we

844
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: look at the other parts of this roster, it looks

845
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: like the offensive line will be okay. They may only

846
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: need to replace one player in the lineup, which would

847
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: be Brian Winters, who is not practicing today after being

848
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: limited yesterday. So you would think Quentin Spain is the

849
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: plug in there and off you go. And then if

850
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: del Shan Phillips can come back this week, that's that's

851
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,320
Speaker 1: a boon for the especially every unit because Tyrrell Dotson

852
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 1: is probably gonna be playing for Matt Milano at linebacker

853
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: this week. You don't want him doing that much double duty.

854
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: So if you have del Shan Phillips to be a

855
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,879
Speaker 1: primary special team's core guy, that's a huge help. It's

856
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: all about able bodies, healthy bodies to be able to

857
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: cover kicks and do everything, cover all the bases and

858
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,959
Speaker 1: not have one guy spread too thin, because in these games,

859
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: particularly games against the Titans, you're gonna have to hit

860
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: on all cylinders. I think this is they've played him,

861
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 1: they beat in the last three times. They laid him

862
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: by a total of like eleven points. I mean, they

863
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: are close games, all of them, and you expect this

864
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: one to be the exact same business. You're gonna need

865
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 1: all your guys healthy and all guns blazing to win

866
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: this game. You don't need a guy in the fourth

867
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 1: quarter who's been covering kicks all day, like Terrell Dodson,

868
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: who's then got to go out and cover you know,

869
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 1: somebody in coverage and he just didn't have the gas

870
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,320
Speaker 1: to do it. M Andre Roberts would be a loss.

871
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: I mean, that guy is currently leading the league in

872
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: punt return average with a mark of fifteen point five.

873
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: And while Isaiah McKenzie is a jitterbug back there, he

874
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,280
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be honest, he's not Andre Roberts. Andre

875
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: Roberts to me is better, is great out there because

876
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: of his decision making. Reliant, you know, the guy never

877
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: gets every year. But yes, certainly he's been returning the

878
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: ball extremely well, but when to catch it and when

879
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: not to catch it, and just fight out catching it

880
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 1: every single time and being dependable back there, and you

881
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 1: know that nothing bad is going to happen back there

882
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: When Andre Roberts is there is an enormous comfort to

883
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: a coaching staff, and it gives you a chance to

884
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: snap off the big play like he's done a couple

885
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: of times this year with a big return. And plus

886
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:11,879
Speaker 1: you know is never gonna you know, he's never gonna

887
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 1: catch it on the two yard line, go backwards and

888
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: try and make his way out and try to make

889
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: something like that happen. He's just too smart for that.

890
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: And it's his decision making that I think if he's

891
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: not in there, they'll miss more than anything. And with

892
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:26,399
Speaker 1: John Feliciano practicing for the first time yesterday and then

893
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: not presumably doing anything today, Maddy said she saw him

894
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 1: in a baseball cap, not a helmet. You would assume

895
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,760
Speaker 1: he's going to be watching and observing today not participating,

896
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: That should that should give indication that he is not

897
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: on the cusp of coming off the IR list at

898
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 1: any point in time this week. So he's probably still

899
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: at least another week away from really kind of getting

900
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: in there and being part of what could be a

901
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,879
Speaker 1: new starting lineup up front. Yeah. Plus we already say

902
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 1: in Thomas Hollander back in the thing he said he

903
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 1: reminded us, you know Josh's visor that's tent. He can't

904
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 1: wear those in games. They're illegal. Yeah. Remember Odell Beckham

905
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: Junior I had got tossed off the field and had

906
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: to change his out of stuff. So it's fun for practice,

907
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 1: it's great, but you can't wear him in games. And

908
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: I think some quarterbacks have time seen it at other times.

909
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: You know how guys read the quarterback's eyes. If you

910
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: can't see his eyes, that hurts, you know, So quarter

911
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: I'm surprising more quarterbacks don't wear the dark visor. Yeah,

912
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 1: you know, the ones that they're allowed to wear. I

913
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: don't know, I hear you. I don't know. Yeah, it's

914
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: gotta to my Yeah, I believe it's gotta be a

915
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: clear visor, right, it does, it does? Yeah, all right,

916
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,320
Speaker 1: we have to take a break, but when we return

917
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls as we're going over with

918
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 1: you what the approach should be from the NFL when

919
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 1: dealing with these COVID nineteen outbreaks as it pertains to

920
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: their sixteen game schedule. Give us your solutions at eight

921
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 1: o three five fifty or on the tweet sheet add

922
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: one Bills Live and we'll get to all of your

923
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: comments and feelings on this issue as it continues to

924
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: spin in Tennessee. The Titans with another positive test today,

925
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: putting Sunday's game in jeopardy. The word on the street

926
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: from national reporters as it looks as though the game

927
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: is going to be rescheduled, but we're waiting for official

928
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 1: confirmation of that from the league office. So we'll keep

929
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: our ear to the ground as we continue with you

930
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 1: here on One Pills Live presented by Kalida Health. This

931
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello, Bills Radio Network. Sports Update.

932
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,359
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to our number two of one

933
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: Bills Live. We are blowing right past the Sports Update.

934
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: We got stuff to do. We do have stuff to

935
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: do when we have phone calls to get to at

936
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: eighth three five fifty. Basically, you know the situation. There

937
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: was another positive test for the Tennessee Titans today, so

938
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: their facility remains closed, and yeah, you heard, Sunday's game

939
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: is essentially put in jeopardy. We're awaiting a league decision

940
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: not only on what's to become of Sunday's game between

941
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: the Bills and Titans, but also what kind of discipline

942
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: is going to be handed down for the Titans organization

943
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 1: and or their players. Based on the investigation between by

944
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,759
Speaker 1: the player, by the league, and the players association that's

945
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 1: going on, it looks like the game's gonna be rescheduled.

946
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: I think we're kind of getting that. We're getting our minds.

947
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,799
Speaker 1: Hasn't a vibe, hasn't been official, but we're thinking it's

948
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: going to be rescheduled. Forfeit is a last resort and

949
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,760
Speaker 1: has been described as such. They're not going to forfeit

950
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: the game. They're gonna start juggling the schedule and compressing

951
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: game frequency before they forfeit games, which means this game

952
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 1: is gonna get pushed back. Now, if it gets pushed back,

953
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: and they're gonna play this game like Monday or Tuesday, obviously,

954
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,839
Speaker 1: the Kansas City game is supposed to be here on

955
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: Thursday night. That's not going to happen. Well, they have

956
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: to move the game to Monday or two. Yes, right,

957
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: so that's not gonna happen if they move this game

958
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: a day or two. But I will I wonder if

959
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: they reschedule it at a much later point in time,

960
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: they may preserve the Bills chief. But if they plucked

961
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 1: this game out of the schedule right now, they got

962
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: to find a place to put it. And they've already

963
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 1: got a problem with Tennessee using up the bye week

964
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: by skipping their Pittsburgh game last week. So either Tennessee

965
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: doesn't get a bye week, which I guess they probably wouldn't,

966
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 1: right because they're already gonna play Pittsburgh and their bye week.

967
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: So maybe I don't know. But if this game get

968
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 1: gets anything but plucked out of here, the Kansas City

969
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 1: game is gonna get moved. I would think they would

970
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: rather try and fit this game in and just say Tennessee, listen,

971
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: it's your fault. Your facility is going to be open

972
00:51:54,800 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: on Friday and you're playing on Monday, so get ready,

973
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: and the Bills are coming to town. Sorry, And they'll

974
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:07,279
Speaker 1: go ahead and they'll steam ahead. Because here's the problem.

975
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 1: Anytime we start, and everybody shouldn't understand this. If you

976
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: sit back and think about it, well, why don't they

977
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 1: just push this back and let's just extend the season.

978
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 1: There's about twenty five layers to all of this that

979
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: none of us are aware of. Venues this that you know,

980
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: they don't want to push the Super Bowl back unless

981
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,879
Speaker 1: it's absolutely necessary. And Plus if they start doing that, now,

982
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 1: what are they gonna do in three weeks when it

983
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 1: happens again. They've used up all of their slack at

984
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 1: the end of the season. Now they're done. Now they're

985
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 1: right back to this place. They gotta this is only

986
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: week five. They gotta they gotta compress these games and

987
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: get them in. They can't. They can't start moving the

988
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,839
Speaker 1: season out before they even get halfway done with it.

989
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 1: You can move the season out when you got three

990
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,240
Speaker 1: weeks left in it, not when you got three months

991
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 1: left in it. You gotta get these games in now.

992
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 1: You can't push the season back now because in six

993
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: weeks we'll be right back here. Maybe twice in six

994
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:06,839
Speaker 1: weeks we'll be right back here. So you gotta get

995
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: these games in now and keep the slack at the

996
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 1: end of the season for as long as as long

997
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:16,879
Speaker 1: as you can. We're not We're twenty five percent through

998
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 1: this thing. You can't use up one hundred percent of

999
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: the slack and the and the adjustments that you built in. Now,

1000
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 1: so force the Titans to you're gonna there's people wanting

1001
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: them to forefeit. Okay, don't forfeit, We'll get let you

1002
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: play no practice, but sorry, let's go punishment enough. Punishment

1003
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 1: enough might be forcing them to play in a game

1004
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: where they still have upwards if probably will have upwards

1005
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: of eight players on the COVID Ireland minimum, and then hey,

1006
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: who knows what the league might do. Maybe they decide

1007
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: to suspend the players that violated the protocols with that practice.

1008
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 1: So that means Ryan Tannehill's not playing, That means receivers

1009
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: and backs aren't playing, Derrick Henry might not be playing.

1010
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 1: And then you tell the Titans, all right, if that's

1011
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: how you want to operate, you're gonna go play the

1012
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: Bills now with thirty five players. Have fun, right, thirty

1013
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 1: five players on two days notice, yeah, and go get

1014
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: them no practice. I might be punishment enough in the

1015
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 1: eyes of the league. Well, yeah, it's it's next to

1016
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:14,279
Speaker 1: give Well I say that, but you know they still

1017
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:17,839
Speaker 1: gotta play. Yeah, you know, but that's that might have

1018
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: they have to do because if you use and we've

1019
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 1: all done that, we've all said it. Let's say, well

1020
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: you use the bye weeks and just pause the season

1021
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: for two weeks and then no, you can't do that

1022
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: because in a month you're gonna have to pause it again.

1023
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:36,319
Speaker 1: And they they're not gonna do that either. You got

1024
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:39,879
Speaker 1: to you gotta get these games in shoehorn them into

1025
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: the calendar. Make this like the Chiefs are playing, like

1026
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,760
Speaker 1: we said they're playing. They're about to play on Sunday.

1027
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: They're gonna play their second game of three in an

1028
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,839
Speaker 1: eleven day period. They played last Sunday, they're gonna play

1029
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:57,399
Speaker 1: this Sunday, and they're gonna play Thursday. So you can

1030
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: get at least three games in eleven days in Now.

1031
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be Sunday, Sunday, Thursday. It could

1032
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: be a Monday, Friday and whatever Wednesday. You know, they

1033
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: could be that as well. All these days of the

1034
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: week have got to be up for grabs, and you've

1035
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 1: got to start juggling the schedule. Around that way to

1036
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: get these games in because if you start moving down

1037
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: the calendar, you run out of slack very quickly. And

1038
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 1: we're only twenty five percent through the season. Right. Here's

1039
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: the funny thing. So you know how the league moved

1040
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:35,720
Speaker 1: and rescheduled the Titans Steelers game from Week four, which

1041
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: did not happen. They moved it to week seven, which

1042
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: was the Titans bye week, and the Steelers, which had

1043
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 1: a buy on Week eight, were moved to play a

1044
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 1: game on week seven or they had a maybe they

1045
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 1: had a no, they did not have it by the

1046
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 1: same week. Anyway, they basically moved the Titans game to

1047
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,919
Speaker 1: week seven and forced the Steelers Ravens game from Week

1048
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: eight to be moved from week seven to be moved

1049
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:05,320
Speaker 1: to week eight. So the Titans Steelers replaced Titans Ravens

1050
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 1: in week seven, and they moved Ravens Steelers to week

1051
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 1: eight and moved Steelers bye week to last week. Yeah,

1052
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 1: to the prior week so or the later week. So yeah,

1053
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,879
Speaker 1: it's a last week Week four. Right, So you say, well,

1054
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: why don't the Bills just why don't they just do

1055
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: that with the Bills with this Titans game. Bills have

1056
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: by in week eleven, what about doing that? Well, the

1057
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:27,920
Speaker 1: Titans gets who the Titans play in week eleven? They

1058
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: play the Ravens. The Ravens could be impacted again, right

1059
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:36,839
Speaker 1: if they want to go down that road, and there

1060
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: may not be a formula to do that. Yeah, and

1061
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 1: the and the Steelers, I mean, all of a sudden,

1062
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 1: they're looking at their thirteen games stretch without a break,

1063
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 1: which seems it's real, but teams have done that before. Yeah,

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00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 1: let's you know, let's go back to the phones at

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00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: eight o three oh five fifty because we're looking for

1066
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: answers from you. You put your league had on tell

1067
00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 1: us what the solutions are at eight three five fifty

1068
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 1: and we go to Steve in Denver. Steve, what do

1069
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,839
Speaker 1: you have for us? Welcome to the show, guys, Thanks

1070
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 1: for taking my call to address the COVID point real quickly.

1071
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty evident already that the league should

1072
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:14,800
Speaker 1: have built in a little bit more slack to start

1073
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: the season with a few more bye weeks. But I

1074
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: called to address Brownie's point at the beginning of the show,

1075
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: where you said people look at players success and what

1076
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: they judge it on, or the players themselves and they

1077
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 1: completely ignore the supporting cast and continuity. I agree with

1078
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: the point where a player's success does rely a lot

1079
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: on continuity and support, and it should be no coincidence

1080
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: that finally we have a good quarterback and we do

1081
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 1: have continuity and great support. What I disagree with is

1082
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: that people ignore that point, and especially Buffalo fans know

1083
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:55,439
Speaker 1: it better than anyone. We've seen promising players come through

1084
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: and fail, and you know, a lot of that had

1085
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: to do with the lack of support, you know, thinking

1086
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,680
Speaker 1: most recently, maybe like the handling of Sammy Watkins was

1087
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 1: a great example of this. You know, a talented player

1088
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: not a great support system, had some off the field

1089
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 1: issues as well, It's physical issues. So yeah, you know,

1090
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 1: I agree with like the support matters, but I do

1091
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: think people recognize for the most part that it does

1092
00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 1: matter a lot, right And you know, also there's there's

1093
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: a self motivation part of it too, And thanks for

1094
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: the call, Steve. I mean, I think the player has

1095
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: to be internally self motivated to reach the highest point

1096
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 1: of his ability level if you're going to make it

1097
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: in this league, at least for more than a couple

1098
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 1: of years. I mean, let's think about Carlos Williams. That

1099
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: guy burst onto the scene as a rookie here and

1100
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 1: had all the talent in the world to be very

1101
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: successful running back in this league, and then essentially thought

1102
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 1: he arrived after one year and they ate himself out

1103
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 1: of football by coming in here a two hundred and

1104
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: fifty five pounds when he should be playing at two

1105
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: twenty eight, two thirty, and he thought, well, I'll get

1106
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 1: a lot of rope here because of what I did

1107
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: last year. Well, if you can't perform, this is a

1108
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: what have you done for me lately? League? And if

1109
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: you can't perform because you're overweight, that speaks to a

1110
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 1: lack of lack of discipline and a lack of self

1111
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 1: motivation to do what you need to do to continue

1112
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 1: to be successful in this league. And you know, now

1113
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: he's trying to resurrect his career in the CFL, which

1114
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: isn't even playing right No they're yeah, they're they're not

1115
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: they're taking an entire year. Yeah, they're not even playing

1116
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: right now. So there you are. So yeah, it takes

1117
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 1: a certain amount of being self motivated to make it

1118
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: in this league on a daily basis, not just some

1119
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: of the time, but then you do have to have

1120
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: the support system around you where you can reach that

1121
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: potential that much easier because it's not just self motivation.

1122
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 1: It's being groomed and cultivated into becoming a pro. And

1123
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: that's not only from the coaching staff. That's from the

1124
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:53,520
Speaker 1: veterans in the locker room that say, hey, this is

1125
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 1: how you watch film. That's Kyle Williams telling Tremaine Edmonds, Hey,

1126
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 1: get up in front of the room. You're running the

1127
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:01,880
Speaker 1: meeting today. You know that it's those little elements that

1128
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 1: continue to push talent forward to the forefront where they

1129
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 1: can excel and reach their highest potential. But if you

1130
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 1: don't have all of that, it's a lot harder to

1131
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:14,360
Speaker 1: get there. Not saying you can't, but it's harder to

1132
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: get to that point in your career where you're like,

1133
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 1: I am the best version of my because there's so

1134
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 1: much of the about this that is new and it's

1135
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: it's a it's a career and a job, not just

1136
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: a fun game that you get to play because you're

1137
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 1: really good at it. It's showing up to work early

1138
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 1: in the morning, way before you have anything on the schedule.

1139
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:34,720
Speaker 1: You've got to go and you've got to you've got

1140
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 1: to decide how you want to work out. You've got

1141
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 1: to take the initiative going the trainings to have and

1142
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 1: say hey, I've got this, I've got that, I want

1143
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 1: this worked on. I want that. You've got to be

1144
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: the one to find time and make time on a routine,

1145
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 1: regular daily basis to find a place where you're going

1146
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: to watch film and learn how to do it right.

1147
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: And you've got you've got to find a time when

1148
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: you've got to go in and sit down with your

1149
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 1: position coach say hey, what am I doing and where

1150
01:00:57,080 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 1: can I get better? What am I What do I

1151
01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:00,120
Speaker 1: need to work on? What are you seeing that I

1152
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: need to do better? It's fine in a time to

1153
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 1: speak with the quarter if you're a receiver, speak with

1154
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:07,640
Speaker 1: the quarterback and sit down with those guys and get

1155
01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:09,960
Speaker 1: into get into their brain about what they see when

1156
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 1: you run routes. It's and it's about applying yourself in

1157
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:18,200
Speaker 1: the group meetings to learn and what's being presented and

1158
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,440
Speaker 1: learning how to take what's on a whiteboard or on

1159
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 1: the film projector or on any other learning mechanism they

1160
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 1: give you to give to you the information and going

1161
01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:30,720
Speaker 1: out on the practice field and making it happen. All

1162
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: of that stuff gets wrapped up in your work and

1163
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:35,120
Speaker 1: where most of these guys come from college. Just like,

1164
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,560
Speaker 1: when's practice start. Okay, I'll get there, I'll see I

1165
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 1: gotta get dressed, and okay, I'll get there about a

1166
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 1: half hour early. Now we'll give me a chance to

1167
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 1: go out and let's go out and practice. Where are

1168
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 1: we gonna go? Where's the next drill? You know, these guys,

1169
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: this is light years ahead of that, light years and

1170
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 1: most of these guys have no idea about that. Certainly,

1171
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 1: they're willing to learn. Most of them, if they're the

1172
01:01:56,760 --> 01:02:00,080
Speaker 1: right kind of kid, they're like, Okay, show me how

1173
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 1: how I do it. They're willing to do it. But

1174
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: there are some guys who are like, what you mean.

1175
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:08,360
Speaker 1: I want to go, man, I got stuff I want

1176
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 1: to do, I got money. You know. It's that kind

1177
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:14,800
Speaker 1: of attitude that you know gets you out of the

1178
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 1: league faster than you got in. All right, let's go

1179
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: back to the phones. At eight oh three, five fifty,

1180
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:23,120
Speaker 1: we go to Fred in Arizona. Fred, you're on one

1181
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Thanks for joining us. What do you have? Yeah?

1182
01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 1: Thank you. Originally from Western New York and a lifelong

1183
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 1: Bills fan. I think the NFL messed up when the

1184
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:34,960
Speaker 1: get go, when they decided to go ahead with a

1185
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 1: normal schedule. I think what they could have considered is

1186
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 1: to reconfigure the divisions from eight fourteen divisions in the

1187
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 1: four eighteen divisions, whereby each team would play the seventeams

1188
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: in their division twice, reducing the schedule from sixteen games

1189
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 1: down to fourteen. Well, nor Fred, I appreciate the thing,

1190
01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:59,480
Speaker 1: but that's that's great, but that's not going to happen now.

1191
01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:01,120
Speaker 1: And you can say what they should have done, would

1192
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:03,360
Speaker 1: have done, could have done, and I get it, but

1193
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: the simple fact of the matters the landscape was extremely

1194
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,920
Speaker 1: different through just three weeks ago, let alone three months

1195
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:11,080
Speaker 1: ago or three and a half four months ago. So

1196
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:14,360
Speaker 1: that ship has sailed. So what is your plan for

1197
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: them going forward from here? Well, okay, that's what they

1198
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 1: could have done, but I don't think it's too late

1199
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:23,560
Speaker 1: where they could make major changes to the rest of

1200
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:27,360
Speaker 1: the schedule. I mean, they should have recognized when Major

1201
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:30,000
Speaker 1: League Baseball got off to such a russ start that

1202
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:33,280
Speaker 1: it was unrealistic to think they could get away with

1203
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:38,560
Speaker 1: a regular sixteen game schedule without any pauses in the

1204
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 1: season due to fred I listen. I appreciate it, but

1205
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 1: I'm not really up for having somebody bash what the

1206
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 1: NFL has done so far. Yeah, okay, there's been a mistakes.

1207
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: They can't predict the future, and they got three two

1208
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 1: or three weeks in pretty well before one team decided

1209
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:54,240
Speaker 1: they didn't want to follow the protocols. And now they

1210
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:57,439
Speaker 1: got this virus rampant through their locker room. They didn't

1211
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: even it's been yet to be proven that anybody got

1212
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 1: it from somebody else on it in a game. So

1213
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:05,360
Speaker 1: you can say what you want about what the would have,

1214
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 1: should have, could have done, and say all this fun

1215
01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: stuff about how you look so smart that the elite

1216
01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:12,360
Speaker 1: should have done this, should have done that. I'm not interested.

1217
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 1: I want to know what you think they should do now,

1218
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:16,920
Speaker 1: and not what they should have, could have, would have done.

1219
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 1: That's irrelevant to me. Major changes to the schedule, they

1220
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,920
Speaker 1: are they just pushed there. They've got all kinds of

1221
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 1: stuff built in. They're gonna try and do it, but

1222
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 1: they're limited by by by stadiums that are that are

1223
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 1: not available, and plus about sixteen thousand other things they're

1224
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:38,880
Speaker 1: winging it as time goes by. They have no and

1225
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 1: of the schedule. I'm gonna how are you gonna plan, Fred,

1226
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:46,160
Speaker 1: How are you gonna plan for something you can't predict?

1227
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 1: You can build the extra five weeks into the schedule.

1228
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:55,520
Speaker 1: Not without the permission of the union. You can't, well

1229
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:58,800
Speaker 1: get permission. You can't. You gotta negotiate that, and they

1230
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 1: won't do it. Then what are you gonna do. Let's

1231
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 1: just can the whole season? No, yes, you will. If

1232
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:08,000
Speaker 1: you can't get that permission, your big scheme goes right

1233
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:10,919
Speaker 1: down the tray. And Fred, in all fairness here too,

1234
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:14,440
Speaker 1: they have built in some contingencies into the into the schedule,

1235
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:18,320
Speaker 1: you know they have. The schedule is exactly the way

1236
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 1: it was scheduled to be prior to the panademic. Well,

1237
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:23,840
Speaker 1: no it's not. No, it's not, Fred, and the reason

1238
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 1: and I'll mention a couple of the contingencies if you'll

1239
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:32,320
Speaker 1: give me a second. Here they purposely put in the

1240
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 1: first two weeks of the schedule. In the last two

1241
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 1: weeks of the schedule, they are all playing against division opponents.

1242
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 1: Every team in the league is playing a team in

1243
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:41,040
Speaker 1: their division in the first two weeks in the last

1244
01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 1: two weeks of the schedule. They did that because if

1245
01:05:43,520 --> 01:05:48,120
Speaker 1: they had to start late because of an outbreak, they

1246
01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:50,320
Speaker 1: could lop off the first two games and then that

1247
01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:54,960
Speaker 1: way every team plays only four division games total and

1248
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:58,360
Speaker 1: they decide divisions based on four games played instead of six.

1249
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 1: They also did that at the end of the season,

1250
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:02,920
Speaker 1: so if they had to cut the season short or

1251
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 1: lop off games, they would lop off the last two weeks,

1252
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 1: and again the division titles would be decided by four

1253
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:13,320
Speaker 1: games played, not six. That's one example of the contingencies

1254
01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:16,160
Speaker 1: they put into the schedule that you currently see today.

1255
01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:19,560
Speaker 1: The other contingency they put in was they rented out

1256
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:23,360
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Stadium to stage the super Bowl for

1257
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:27,240
Speaker 1: all four Sundays of February, so they have the first

1258
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 1: weekend in February when the when the super Bowl is

1259
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 1: supposed to be played, and they have reserved the last

1260
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 1: three Sundays in February to reschedule the super Bowl, so

1261
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:40,520
Speaker 1: if they need to push everything back when they reach

1262
01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:43,400
Speaker 1: the postseason, they have the ability to do that. Those

1263
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: are contingencies that they did put in place, So to

1264
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:49,520
Speaker 1: say they're winging at Fred is a little misguy hang

1265
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:52,400
Speaker 1: up on for Fred. Yeah, all right, let me appollo.

1266
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to bite your head off, because I

1267
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:56,560
Speaker 1: get what you're saying. I'm sorry. If you meet me

1268
01:06:56,640 --> 01:06:58,280
Speaker 1: on in public, don't punch me in the face. I

1269
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 1: apologize for snapping that. Steve, get it because I because

1270
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:05,520
Speaker 1: I know and I didn't take first. All right, great,

1271
01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:07,120
Speaker 1: I'll give you a hug when I see if after

1272
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:11,880
Speaker 1: the COVID. But we all, I agree with you, everybody

1273
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Speaker 1: is we all got skin in this game because we

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01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:18,160
Speaker 1: all love this game and I don't. And like I

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01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:20,080
Speaker 1: said yesterday, Fred, and I don't know how you feel

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01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:22,600
Speaker 1: about this too. I don't want the Titans to forfeit games.

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01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 1: I want to watch these guys play all of them.

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01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 1: I want everybody to play, because that's why we love

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01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:31,480
Speaker 1: the games, to see these games. But there's this a

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01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 1: problem going forward. And like I said here, and this

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01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:35,640
Speaker 1: is my point, Fred, and see what you think about this.

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01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 1: I think they gotta cram these games in. I just

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01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:41,400
Speaker 1: said this before you came on. They got to cram

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01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:43,920
Speaker 1: all these games in because we're gonna need all the

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01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:47,479
Speaker 1: slack later in the schedule because this will probably happen again.

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01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:51,040
Speaker 1: Do you think I agree, pent In fact, I think

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01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:55,400
Speaker 1: they should already move the Thursday night game against Kansas City. Yeah,

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01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:59,560
Speaker 1: it's unrealistic to believe they can get both games in

1289
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 1: ten to see And I'm and I that's fine, and

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01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: that's great, and that may happen. I'm just gonna say this,

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01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:08,920
Speaker 1: Steve and Fred, bravo to you. You did a hundred

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01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:12,440
Speaker 1: times better than you did than than the vice presidential

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01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:15,800
Speaker 1: debate or the presidential debate. You guys argued, but then

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01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:18,040
Speaker 1: you came together and you found common ground, and you

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01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 1: two are better US citizens and the people we got

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Speaker 1: trying to run for office. Right, Fred, here's my thing,

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01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:26,799
Speaker 1: how soon? How many games do you think an NFL

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01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:29,439
Speaker 1: team could play and say, like a three week a

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01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 1: twenty one day period. I think it's really pushing it.

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01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,479
Speaker 1: What you said about about the Chiefs trying to get

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01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 1: three games in that that's that's a normal schedule though, Fred.

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01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:42,920
Speaker 1: I mean that's on Sunday, than another Sunday, than a Thursday.

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01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:45,680
Speaker 1: So that's kind of done all the time, you know

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01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:49,080
Speaker 1: what I mean, Let's say Monday, Sunday, Thursday. I think

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01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 1: that's what about? What about that's what the Chiefs are doing? Yeah, Monday, Sunday, Thursday.

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01:08:54,160 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 1: What about Monday, Saturday, or about Sunday then Friday, then

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01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:05,559
Speaker 1: Tuesday then Sunday. You're going down a rabbit holes. It is.

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01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 1: It's a rabbit hole. But that maybe you know what

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01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:12,080
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I like the unwritten rule of not interfering

1310
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:15,360
Speaker 1: with high school and college games where you don't, right,

1311
01:09:15,479 --> 01:09:17,680
Speaker 1: And I know the networks are and Fred, thanks for

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01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 1: the call. We got to move along. Get the spikes people.

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01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 1: I know the networks are not a fan of Fridays

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01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:25,760
Speaker 1: at all. It is the lowest rated day of the week.

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01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 1: You're better off playing a game on a Tuesday night

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01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 1: for ratings than you are on a Friday night. So

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01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:35,479
Speaker 1: the networks will push back on Friday all day long.

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01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:37,479
Speaker 1: They will do that. So I don't know if Friday

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01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:40,160
Speaker 1: is really in the car as an option. They're already

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01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: inconveniencing the networks with all of this shuttling around that

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01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to do at a moment's notice to

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01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:47,519
Speaker 1: tell them we're gonna put a game on the worst

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01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 1: night of the week for ratings. I think is gonna

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01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:54,679
Speaker 1: that's gonna bring out major pushback from the net wherever

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01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:58,960
Speaker 1: they listen that networks I think are probably giving them.

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01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:00,600
Speaker 1: I mean, they'd rather have the game to not have

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01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:02,559
Speaker 1: the game, but they don't like that. They're giving them

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01:10:02,640 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 1: less pushback than you might imagine. I think they would.

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01:10:07,120 --> 01:10:10,120
Speaker 1: I mean because whenever you know this, whenever you plug

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01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:12,519
Speaker 1: out an NFL game in on the rate, on the

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01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:16,720
Speaker 1: ratings schedule, you're going to get a monster number. So

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01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:20,639
Speaker 1: the the TV people are all about that and putting

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01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:23,080
Speaker 1: them on these other you're right, Friday night or whatever.

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01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:24,680
Speaker 1: They may take it on a Friday night because they

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01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:27,560
Speaker 1: got you know, and nobody's playing high school football or

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01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:29,680
Speaker 1: at least you know, yeah, like we know it, have

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01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 1: known it in the past, and this is a strange year.

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01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:35,320
Speaker 1: So they will be flexible enough to put games where

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01:10:35,360 --> 01:10:37,639
Speaker 1: they need to put them, and I think they will,

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01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:40,200
Speaker 1: and I think it's a smart thing to do. I

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01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:42,160
Speaker 1: don't know what that's going to look like in the

1342
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 1: long run, but getting the games in no matter what

1343
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,280
Speaker 1: the schedule says, when they're supposed to be played, just

1344
01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:51,000
Speaker 1: get them played, and get them and keep them in

1345
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 1: order as best as you can. I think that's the

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01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:55,640
Speaker 1: that's the way to get through the season all right.

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01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:57,640
Speaker 1: Back to the phones at eight three, five fifty. We

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Speaker 1: go to William in Kansas City. William, thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Are they still freaking out in Chief's Kingdom hoping that

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01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes doesn't get COVID from Stefan Gilmour. Oh, you

1351
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:11,160
Speaker 1: have no idea out here, But I'm originally from New

1352
01:11:11,240 --> 01:11:13,400
Speaker 1: York holding it down for Bill SAMs out here in

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01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:15,880
Speaker 1: Chief's Kingdom. But I want to go to the point

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01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:18,920
Speaker 1: where that you made about the Titans players missing some

1355
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 1: of this this game coming up. I mean they chose

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01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:24,840
Speaker 1: to disregard protocol and not follow the league standing, they

1357
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:27,879
Speaker 1: shouldn't be allowed to play. Yeah, I mean we shouldn't

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01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:30,120
Speaker 1: have to make them forfeit this game because no, Bill

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01:11:30,160 --> 01:11:32,639
Speaker 1: Sam wants to win that way. I mean, we all

1360
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 1: want our team to hit Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City

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01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 1: and full stride momentum. We want to be able to

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01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 1: play this game, take it away and go in there

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01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:43,680
Speaker 1: five and ods to play Kansas City. Right. Yeah, I

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01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 1: couldn't agree more. And that's why I think a suitable

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01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:50,479
Speaker 1: punishment is these guys that once you can document who

1366
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:54,840
Speaker 1: practiced illegally in an unauthorized fashion that violated COVID protocols,

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01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:57,800
Speaker 1: suspend every last one of those guys for this game

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01:11:58,040 --> 01:12:02,639
Speaker 1: without pay, and the Titans, whoever you got left, whoever

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01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:04,920
Speaker 1: is not on that suspension list, and whoever is not

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01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:06,960
Speaker 1: on the covid IR list, suit them up and we're

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01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:11,519
Speaker 1: gonna play. That's your punishment for being idiots. Yeah, that's

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01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 1: exactly that seems you bet. Thanks for the call, William.

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01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 1: That seems to me to be a logical result of

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01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:24,200
Speaker 1: their own mistakes. Yeah, so let them suffer the consequences

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01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:28,519
Speaker 1: of it, and I doubt that will happen. Well, I mean,

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01:12:28,560 --> 01:12:30,599
Speaker 1: let's think about this, Steve. They don't want to forfeit

1377
01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:35,800
Speaker 1: the game at all costs, because that's not a good look. Um,

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01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:38,800
Speaker 1: So what are your alternatives? Your alternatives are to move

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01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:40,719
Speaker 1: the game to a later point in the season because

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01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:43,639
Speaker 1: the Titans are not opening the facility today, tom Pella

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01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:46,720
Speaker 1: sero saying it's probably not happening tomorrow. So what are

1382
01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:49,200
Speaker 1: you looking at a mine? If you don't get another

1383
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:52,200
Speaker 1: positive test the rest of this week, you're not opening

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01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:56,880
Speaker 1: before Saturday, Like, seriously, what are we doing so up

1385
01:12:56,920 --> 01:12:59,599
Speaker 1: on Saturday? You can play Monday, right, But I would

1386
01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:03,240
Speaker 1: be in to say too bad Bill's Chiefs game goes

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01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:07,839
Speaker 1: to Saturday, and I'll tell you what that I've gotten

1388
01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:12,400
Speaker 1: texts from all my all my buddies about aur Oh

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01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:15,600
Speaker 1: my gosh, are you kidding me? That would be Yeah,

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01:13:15,880 --> 01:13:18,720
Speaker 1: they would be drunk without drinking if that, they would

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01:13:18,760 --> 01:13:21,200
Speaker 1: be deliriously happy if they had a Saturday night game

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01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:26,360
Speaker 1: in Buffalo against the Chiefs. Man oh man. Yeah, everybody's

1393
01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:29,360
Speaker 1: on board with that, but you know that even so,

1394
01:13:29,439 --> 01:13:32,559
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna be there. Let's go to John on a cell, John,

1395
01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Thanks for joining the show. Hey, Chris,

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01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 1: Hey Steve, how are you good? Hey? John? Yeah, So

1397
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:43,559
Speaker 1: I'm afraid to say anything negative from the case Steve Jump. Yeah.

1398
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:46,479
Speaker 1: Usually I'm the guy that I'm sorry, pulls the trigger

1399
01:13:46,600 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 1: on people. And I have got to stop drinking uncontrollable

1400
01:13:50,320 --> 01:13:52,720
Speaker 1: rand today, Steve, I was the good cop today. That

1401
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 1: never happens. I know, I gotta stopped drinking caffeine so

1402
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:56,800
Speaker 1: much in the mornings. Go ahead, and John, what's on

1403
01:13:56,840 --> 01:13:59,160
Speaker 1: your mind? Oh? Yeah, So I just wanted to talk

1404
01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:01,680
Speaker 1: about like this, dealers in the bills here see to me,

1405
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:05,720
Speaker 1: they're following all the protocols, are doing everything right. The

1406
01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:09,519
Speaker 1: Titans obviously are screwing everything up, and it just seems

1407
01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 1: to me that they're being punished for what the Titans

1408
01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 1: should be being punished for. And another thing, you're trying

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01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: to tell me coach Brabel didn't know ten fifteen guys

1410
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:24,120
Speaker 1: were all practice, And come on, Steve, you played a

1411
01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:27,880
Speaker 1: long time. You know, coachers might not know everything about

1412
01:14:27,920 --> 01:14:30,679
Speaker 1: your personal life, but they know where you are pretty

1413
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:32,599
Speaker 1: much off the fields. Come on, you're trying to talk.

1414
01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:36,200
Speaker 1: Steve said that exact thing yesterday, said that exact thing.

1415
01:14:36,479 --> 01:14:38,640
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I thought too. He's like, there's no

1416
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:42,799
Speaker 1: with that many guys involved, because you're talking fifteen offensive

1417
01:14:42,800 --> 01:14:46,080
Speaker 1: skill position players. And now the reports are now being

1418
01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:49,919
Speaker 1: corroborated that a bunch of defensive backs for the Titans

1419
01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:53,840
Speaker 1: had their own unauthorized practice as well. So it wasn't

1420
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:56,040
Speaker 1: just these offensive players for the Titans that did this.

1421
01:14:56,439 --> 01:14:58,839
Speaker 1: It's a bunch of guys that play in the secondary.

1422
01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:02,439
Speaker 1: They did their own thing on their own unauthorized, violating

1423
01:15:02,439 --> 01:15:04,960
Speaker 1: the protocols as well. So now we've got multiple practice

1424
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:09,280
Speaker 1: sessions unauthorized and violating COVID protocols by the Titans, and yes,

1425
01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:11,840
Speaker 1: they should have the book thrown at him because they've

1426
01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:14,640
Speaker 1: completely turned over the apple cart on the rest of

1427
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 1: the league. And as you've said, John, they've impacted the Steelers,

1428
01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:21,880
Speaker 1: and they've impacted the Ravens whose schedule had to get moved,

1429
01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:23,840
Speaker 1: and now they're impacting the Bills. So you could argue

1430
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:27,720
Speaker 1: they've impacted three teams, not just two. So let me

1431
01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:32,120
Speaker 1: ask you one other question. Should coaches be getting fired

1432
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:34,439
Speaker 1: for this? Like, I mean, this is pretty big deal.

1433
01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:36,439
Speaker 1: I think they should pay a fine of some kind.

1434
01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:38,800
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen coaches Sean Payton and John Gruden

1435
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:42,599
Speaker 1: got fined for not wearing their masks properly, so they've

1436
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:44,960
Speaker 1: handed out fines for that. This would seem to be

1437
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:47,600
Speaker 1: a more egregious offense if your players are running a

1438
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:51,000
Speaker 1: foul of the COVID protocols, So the buck stops with

1439
01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:52,800
Speaker 1: you as the head coach. It's got to come back

1440
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:55,400
Speaker 1: on him, right, Steve. They were told, it was reported

1441
01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:58,439
Speaker 1: that they every club was told, and particularly the Titans

1442
01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:01,519
Speaker 1: were told that hey, you're shutting down your facilities, no

1443
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:04,760
Speaker 1: in person meetings at the facility at all, and more

1444
01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:08,519
Speaker 1: outside or outside the facility. So they were told to

1445
01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:10,920
Speaker 1: tell their players not to get together and do stuff

1446
01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:13,080
Speaker 1: outside the facility, and yet they did, and it wouldn't

1447
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:14,920
Speaker 1: be surprised, It wouldn't surprise me if the players are

1448
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:17,439
Speaker 1: going to do this, that they would have let it

1449
01:16:17,479 --> 01:16:19,479
Speaker 1: be known to the coaching staff. Hey, we're gonna get together.

1450
01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:21,880
Speaker 1: What do you want us to work on? Give me

1451
01:16:21,920 --> 01:16:25,439
Speaker 1: a script for the practice so we can run some plays.

1452
01:16:25,479 --> 01:16:28,559
Speaker 1: Stuff like that. Now, that may not have happened, but

1453
01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:34,320
Speaker 1: to me, that would be commonplace, a commonplace occurrence. And yes, absolutely,

1454
01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:38,880
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel will hear from the league about his players

1455
01:16:38,920 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 1: getting together outside when they were told they shouldn't do that. Right,

1456
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:45,320
Speaker 1: all right, we have to take a break. But when

1457
01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:47,760
Speaker 1: we return, more of your phone calls, and at two

1458
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 1: o'clock we'll be having Lorenzo Alexander rolling in for a

1459
01:16:51,280 --> 01:16:54,400
Speaker 1: day early version of the Lowdowns, So stay tuned for that.

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01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:56,439
Speaker 1: We'll be back with you here on One Bill's Live,

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01:16:56,479 --> 01:16:58,880
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

1462
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:14,040
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve task with you. A couple of things

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01:17:14,040 --> 01:17:16,360
Speaker 1: to bring to your attention before we get back to

1464
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 1: the phone calls. First for me, and then I'll let

1465
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:21,040
Speaker 1: Steve talk because he's got an interesting statistic that he

1466
01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 1: wants to share, and we often get corrected on this

1467
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:28,400
Speaker 1: show because Steve and I are far from perfect, and

1468
01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:31,600
Speaker 1: one of our listeners did correct me. Scott, thank you

1469
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:34,080
Speaker 1: for bringing this to my attention. When I was talking

1470
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:36,920
Speaker 1: to Fred about contingencies that the league put in place

1471
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 1: to prepare for any delays that COVID might prompt the

1472
01:17:42,560 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 1: league into an acting I mentioned how they put in

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01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:47,880
Speaker 1: all division games in Week one and week two. In

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01:17:47,880 --> 01:17:51,559
Speaker 1: week sixteen and seventeen that actually did not come to pass.

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01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:55,880
Speaker 1: It was a strong consideration, so I mixed what I

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01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:59,760
Speaker 1: remember reading in March about some of the things they

1477
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:02,000
Speaker 1: were looking to do to the schedule to what and

1478
01:18:02,360 --> 01:18:06,120
Speaker 1: confused it for what actually happened. It did not actually happen.

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01:18:06,160 --> 01:18:09,519
Speaker 1: In Week one, nine of the sixteen games on the

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01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:14,720
Speaker 1: schedule were divisional games. In Week two, that number went

1481
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:18,200
Speaker 1: down to six out of the sixteen games being division games.

1482
01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:22,479
Speaker 1: Week sixteen is the only week on the schedule, or

1483
01:18:22,520 --> 01:18:24,760
Speaker 1: Week seventeen, I'm sorry, is the only week on the

1484
01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 1: schedule where every single game is a division game, and

1485
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:29,760
Speaker 1: that was done in the event that they had to

1486
01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:33,320
Speaker 1: cut the season short by a game. Week sixteen. That

1487
01:18:33,439 --> 01:18:36,640
Speaker 1: is not the case. So I'm correcting myself here and

1488
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:38,880
Speaker 1: I thank Scott for bringing it to my attention. They

1489
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:41,000
Speaker 1: did not put that contingency in place. It was a

1490
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:43,720
Speaker 1: consideration back in March to make all division games week

1491
01:18:43,760 --> 01:18:47,439
Speaker 1: one week two weeks sixteen, Week seventeen. Not true. It

1492
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:49,880
Speaker 1: is only week seventeen where that is in fact the case.

1493
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:51,920
Speaker 1: So Scott, thanks for bringing that to my attention. Yeah,

1494
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:53,920
Speaker 1: And the stat I was going to bring up was

1495
01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:56,280
Speaker 1: we've all seen we've got these feelings we have about

1496
01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 1: the Bills, and they're about how fast they're getting started.

1497
01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:00,760
Speaker 1: In the third quarter, they all, you know, they go

1498
01:19:00,880 --> 01:19:02,960
Speaker 1: in the tank and all that it's borne out by

1499
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:06,200
Speaker 1: the time of possession, and the Bills are way out

1500
01:19:06,240 --> 01:19:08,479
Speaker 1: in front. In the National Football League, they lead the

1501
01:19:08,479 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: whole league with one hundred and ninety minutes and twenty

1502
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:15,120
Speaker 1: two seconds of time in the game. Now, there's a

1503
01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:20,000
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty minute season, four sixty minute games,

1504
01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:23,160
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty possible minutes of time that they've

1505
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:26,559
Speaker 1: got one hundred and ninety minutes of that and twenty

1506
01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:28,720
Speaker 1: two seconds. The Bills are been in the league on

1507
01:19:28,760 --> 01:19:31,720
Speaker 1: the scoreboard for all of that time the second they

1508
01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:33,600
Speaker 1: still had to have two fourth quarter coming right, and

1509
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 1: the Colts are second. They've got one hundred and eighty minute.

1510
01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:39,960
Speaker 1: They also have the number one defense in the league,

1511
01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: which is probably part of the reason they're leading for

1512
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:43,840
Speaker 1: so many. So of the two hundred and forty minutes

1513
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:46,800
Speaker 1: possible this season, one hundred and ninety plus minutes of it,

1514
01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 1: the Bills have been ahead only eight minutes of this

1515
01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:52,000
Speaker 1: entire season of game clock of the Bills trailed all

1516
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:54,439
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of course. Yeah, well it's because of

1517
01:19:54,560 --> 01:19:57,360
Speaker 1: how prolific they've been our offense obviously, and forty two

1518
01:19:57,439 --> 01:19:59,240
Speaker 1: the rest of the forty two minutes and change or

1519
01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:02,920
Speaker 1: thirty one minut it's in change they have. They've been tied.

1520
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 1: You know, it's been zero zero or whatever tent tent

1521
01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:07,639
Speaker 1: or whatever was when they were tied. So I thought

1522
01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:09,680
Speaker 1: that was really interesting. And you think the teams, well,

1523
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:12,120
Speaker 1: they led wire to wire last week, and in the

1524
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:14,720
Speaker 1: Raiders game they never trailed. They still trail, it was

1525
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:17,840
Speaker 1: only when it was zero zero. The Bills are leading

1526
01:20:17,880 --> 01:20:20,120
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety minutes, and then it's the Indianapolis Colts.

1527
01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:22,000
Speaker 1: We said one hundred eighty one hundred and seventy five

1528
01:20:22,120 --> 01:20:24,519
Speaker 1: minutes of the season. The San Francisco forty nine Ers

1529
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:26,720
Speaker 1: have led. Then it's the Seahawks, and it's the Green

1530
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:29,960
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. Pretty good company there for the Bills and

1531
01:20:30,160 --> 01:20:32,519
Speaker 1: Packers have been lightened it up. Yeah, well, you know what,

1532
01:20:33,720 --> 01:20:37,040
Speaker 1: nobody you think Aaron Rodgers is motivated this year after

1533
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:41,360
Speaker 1: they drafted Jordan Love. That guy's unbelievable. Guy. That guy

1534
01:20:41,479 --> 01:20:44,240
Speaker 1: put up points last week without his top two receivers.

1535
01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:47,840
Speaker 1: I mean, believe me, I love Josh Allen and we've

1536
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:50,360
Speaker 1: all fallen madly in love with the quarterback that he's become.

1537
01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:52,439
Speaker 1: But you take Digs and Brown off the field, I

1538
01:20:52,479 --> 01:20:54,640
Speaker 1: don't know if he's hanging forty points on somebody the

1539
01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:58,160
Speaker 1: way Rogers did. Yeah, throwing three touchdowns to an undrafted

1540
01:20:58,200 --> 01:21:01,400
Speaker 1: rookie tight end. I mean why our friend of the show,

1541
01:21:01,439 --> 01:21:04,920
Speaker 1: Andrew Brant from Villanova School of Law, Well, he used

1542
01:21:04,920 --> 01:21:06,640
Speaker 1: to be in the front office with Green Bay, right,

1543
01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:09,360
Speaker 1: he said, And he had a great tweet he said, Listen,

1544
01:21:09,760 --> 01:21:12,720
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan with all those first rounders he's got, is

1545
01:21:12,760 --> 01:21:14,920
Speaker 1: not as good as Aaron Rodgers with a bunch of

1546
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:19,479
Speaker 1: undrafted guys. Aaron Rodgers let him up. Yeah, and it's true.

1547
01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:22,360
Speaker 1: Aaron's a special dude. He's and he has been for

1548
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:24,080
Speaker 1: a long time. We like him or not, whether you're

1549
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: a Packer fan or not. The guy's got to respect

1550
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:29,559
Speaker 1: the game. The guy has got game, and it's fun

1551
01:21:29,600 --> 01:21:31,600
Speaker 1: and I got even I'm not even I'm not a

1552
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:35,439
Speaker 1: Packer guy, of course, but man, oh man, that's a guy.

1553
01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:37,720
Speaker 1: I'll watch. Ye, I'll watch him play and that and

1554
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:40,040
Speaker 1: make sure that I'm around to do it, you know

1555
01:21:40,040 --> 01:21:42,599
Speaker 1: what I mean. I'll make good time for that must

1556
01:21:42,640 --> 01:21:44,360
Speaker 1: see TV. Yeah, I don't have to just catch him.

1557
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 1: Oh he's playing, let's see. No, I'll go find him

1558
01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:49,080
Speaker 1: and watch him. Eight oh three oh five fifty. Back

1559
01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:51,439
Speaker 1: to the phones and to Drew in Salt Lake City, Drew,

1560
01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:54,360
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Thanks for joining the show. Well,

1561
01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:59,559
Speaker 1: I love the excitement from everybody considering wherever. But here's

1562
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:02,519
Speaker 1: my my thought is Steve talking about how they're pushing

1563
01:22:02,520 --> 01:22:06,599
Speaker 1: out and reserving the stadium in Tampa. My thoughts are

1564
01:22:07,320 --> 01:22:12,639
Speaker 1: are we better off accelerating the season and maybe going

1565
01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:15,920
Speaker 1: the way hockey did, and that is picking out two

1566
01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:20,280
Speaker 1: or three stadiums, putting these players into bubbles basically in

1567
01:22:20,360 --> 01:22:26,000
Speaker 1: their hotels and almost having football as a nightly occurrence.

1568
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:28,800
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I'll tell you this, Drew. It's a

1569
01:22:28,840 --> 01:22:30,960
Speaker 1: good question, and it's been brought up, and it was

1570
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 1: considered by the league, among other things. But their lead

1571
01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:41,040
Speaker 1: infectious disease expert, which is doctor Sills, on a conference

1572
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:44,719
Speaker 1: call with the coaches and the gms of all thirty

1573
01:22:44,760 --> 01:22:50,960
Speaker 1: two teams. He reiterated and is absolutely convinced that if

1574
01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: they do what the league has told them to do,

1575
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:59,680
Speaker 1: their protocols will work. And they are convinced that the

1576
01:22:59,720 --> 01:23:06,520
Speaker 1: tie and somehow messed up that protocol and got infected

1577
01:23:06,640 --> 01:23:10,920
Speaker 1: because something happened that was outside the protocols. So the

1578
01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:13,640
Speaker 1: league is not willing to go to the time or

1579
01:23:13,680 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: expense or the prob trouble of telling these teams to

1580
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:19,840
Speaker 1: bubble up. If they could just get the teams to

1581
01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:23,679
Speaker 1: do what they're supposed to do, that's the league's belief

1582
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:25,680
Speaker 1: and they're not gonna waiver from it because they've got

1583
01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:29,240
Speaker 1: a scientist telling them that it's true, and it's been

1584
01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:31,960
Speaker 1: held up by the fact that up to now, and

1585
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:33,800
Speaker 1: I've said this a couple of times, I think and

1586
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:38,400
Speaker 1: I'm I tell me I'm wrong. Nobody has transmitted the

1587
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:41,000
Speaker 1: virus on the field during a game. Well, they haven't

1588
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:42,800
Speaker 1: been able to prove that team to team yet. And

1589
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:45,439
Speaker 1: we know the Vikings got no positives from the Titans

1590
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:48,320
Speaker 1: who had the outproay. So think about that, and to

1591
01:23:48,400 --> 01:23:52,240
Speaker 1: this point, no positives with the Chiefs after playing against

1592
01:23:52,280 --> 01:23:56,200
Speaker 1: the Patriots, knowing Gilmore tested positive, and Gilmore and Patrick

1593
01:23:56,280 --> 01:23:59,439
Speaker 1: Mahomes are up there hugging and smoochin after the game

1594
01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:03,479
Speaker 1: and they didn't give and you know Gilmore didn't give

1595
01:24:03,479 --> 01:24:05,840
Speaker 1: it to Mahomes, or at least not yet. So you know,

1596
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:12,200
Speaker 1: those protocols seem will work if you get the guys

1597
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:14,280
Speaker 1: to wear them. You know, that's the key, one hundred

1598
01:24:14,320 --> 01:24:18,080
Speaker 1: percent compliance. The COVID protocols work, but you have to

1599
01:24:18,120 --> 01:24:20,680
Speaker 1: have one hundred percent compliance, and clearly the league has

1600
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:23,559
Speaker 1: not had that to this point. Thirty one out of

1601
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:26,400
Speaker 1: thirty two. I mean Cam Newton and to find Gilmore

1602
01:24:26,439 --> 01:24:28,720
Speaker 1: went out and had dinner together somewhere. So now they're

1603
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:31,240
Speaker 1: sitting across a table from one another, probably not six

1604
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:33,400
Speaker 1: feet apart. They got it from this. They probably not

1605
01:24:33,439 --> 01:24:35,880
Speaker 1: could have been the waiter, but right, but probably not

1606
01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:38,040
Speaker 1: six feet apart, talking back and forth to one another

1607
01:24:38,080 --> 01:24:41,040
Speaker 1: for an hour and a half a dinner Cam's COVID

1608
01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:45,000
Speaker 1: positive doesn't know two days later. Yeah, I mean that's

1609
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:49,840
Speaker 1: why just go to your neutral corners, go home, stay there.

1610
01:24:49,920 --> 01:24:52,880
Speaker 1: But here's just protocols. And and I will say the

1611
01:24:52,920 --> 01:24:55,720
Speaker 1: other thing, just to our last caller's point, he was

1612
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:58,080
Speaker 1: talking about these bubbles. I do know that it has

1613
01:24:58,120 --> 01:25:02,200
Speaker 1: been discussed that once they get to the playoffs, Oh yeah,

1614
01:25:02,200 --> 01:25:04,920
Speaker 1: they may very well go into a bubble scenario. This

1615
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 1: location for teams, you know, in the Mountain and Western

1616
01:25:08,520 --> 01:25:10,560
Speaker 1: time zones that might be playing each other. We have

1617
01:25:10,600 --> 01:25:13,320
Speaker 1: a playoff bubble here, or maybe there's an AFC playoff

1618
01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:15,439
Speaker 1: bubble and an NFC playoff bubble, and then we'll see

1619
01:25:15,439 --> 01:25:18,240
Speaker 1: you in Tampa. I kind of yes, that's possible. It's

1620
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:22,280
Speaker 1: been discussed. But if if the if you follow the protocols,

1621
01:25:23,200 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 1: it's gonna be okay. And I think with this Tennessee

1622
01:25:26,439 --> 01:25:29,160
Speaker 1: thing and some of the other they're starting to convince

1623
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:31,040
Speaker 1: the coaches that hey, you gotta do it, and they're

1624
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:36,720
Speaker 1: you know, here's the thing, we all get complacent. We're

1625
01:25:37,040 --> 01:25:39,840
Speaker 1: a month into this and only in the third week

1626
01:25:40,160 --> 01:25:43,519
Speaker 1: did we have one team get so complacent that they

1627
01:25:43,600 --> 01:25:46,120
Speaker 1: blew off one aspect of the protocols and they got

1628
01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:50,519
Speaker 1: nicked with this virus. The other teams haven't, and the

1629
01:25:50,560 --> 01:25:53,599
Speaker 1: protocols are this. The reason that the Titans got shut

1630
01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:57,040
Speaker 1: down was because they had like seven guys overnight come

1631
01:25:57,080 --> 01:25:59,599
Speaker 1: down with it. So they're like, whoa, that's it's too

1632
01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:05,200
Speaker 1: big a percentage. The Patriots had one guy, then another guy,

1633
01:26:06,479 --> 01:26:09,800
Speaker 1: or two guys, right, two guys then another guy they

1634
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:12,120
Speaker 1: got and that's it. So so far, that's all they got.

1635
01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:13,800
Speaker 1: So when they come in they get tested, then they

1636
01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:16,200
Speaker 1: see quest they don't come in the building anymore. So

1637
01:26:16,240 --> 01:26:19,120
Speaker 1: they can keep going if it's just one guy at

1638
01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:22,800
Speaker 1: a time who gets it. So that's the big key

1639
01:26:22,920 --> 01:26:26,439
Speaker 1: for this. And it seems as though I just heard

1640
01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:29,519
Speaker 1: the the investigation stuff they're talking about what they do.

1641
01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:34,320
Speaker 1: The players haven't been maybe even weren't completely honest, like, well,

1642
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:36,559
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not feeling that great today, you know what

1643
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:38,400
Speaker 1: I'm saying. They don't want to tell them that they

1644
01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:41,519
Speaker 1: don't feel well. They don't want to tell them that

1645
01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:45,360
Speaker 1: they got they're a little sweaty, they got a fever. Whatever.

1646
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:48,160
Speaker 1: They don't want to tell them that they came into

1647
01:26:48,200 --> 01:26:51,400
Speaker 1: contact with somebody who might maybe came in from out

1648
01:26:51,439 --> 01:26:55,160
Speaker 1: of state. You know, they're not being honest with the testers.

1649
01:26:55,200 --> 01:26:57,919
Speaker 1: So they slipped by, and all of a sudden, it's rampant.

1650
01:26:58,200 --> 01:27:00,640
Speaker 1: Nobody want. Nobody's being honest that way. That's part of

1651
01:27:00,680 --> 01:27:04,599
Speaker 1: blowing the protocols. It's not always easy. It's not always easy,

1652
01:27:05,479 --> 01:27:08,759
Speaker 1: but that's what you gotta do. Yeah, I just don't

1653
01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 1: know if based on the numbers of people you have,

1654
01:27:12,400 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 1: you're talking upwards of twenty two hundred players in this

1655
01:27:15,040 --> 01:27:19,360
Speaker 1: league with these expanded rosters, and you're talking upwards of

1656
01:27:19,400 --> 01:27:24,280
Speaker 1: another fifteen hundred to two thousand coaches, staff and support

1657
01:27:24,360 --> 01:27:27,280
Speaker 1: people that are in that Tier one and Tier two group.

1658
01:27:28,160 --> 01:27:32,320
Speaker 1: I mean you're talking six thousand people people. Yeah, I

1659
01:27:32,360 --> 01:27:34,840
Speaker 1: mean to think that you're going to get one hundred

1660
01:27:34,840 --> 01:27:37,320
Speaker 1: percent compliance out of a group that size, I don't

1661
01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:39,719
Speaker 1: know if you can guarantee that, And if you don't

1662
01:27:39,760 --> 01:27:43,800
Speaker 1: have Even with one hundred percent compliance, there's no guarantees.

1663
01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:46,120
Speaker 1: Now you drop that number because the Titans are going

1664
01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:48,599
Speaker 1: a wall and so are the Raiders. At a charity event,

1665
01:27:50,439 --> 01:27:53,680
Speaker 1: the risk goes up to what degree I'm not I

1666
01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:56,599
Speaker 1: don't think I'm a numbers guy like that, but it

1667
01:27:56,640 --> 01:27:59,400
Speaker 1: goes up. But if and we have what we have now,

1668
01:27:59,439 --> 01:28:03,840
Speaker 1: if you've got the league on top of it and

1669
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:06,040
Speaker 1: a team like the Titans, and we still don't have

1670
01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:07,960
Speaker 1: the end of it, I'm getting you know, Because we

1671
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:10,040
Speaker 1: get the test back from the COVID test in fifteen

1672
01:28:10,080 --> 01:28:13,439
Speaker 1: minutes or eighteen hours, whichever one they take. Why can't

1673
01:28:13,479 --> 01:28:16,720
Speaker 1: the league come out and say, Titans, here's what you're

1674
01:28:16,760 --> 01:28:18,840
Speaker 1: gonna happen, and get your helmet on because we're gonna

1675
01:28:18,880 --> 01:28:20,479
Speaker 1: hit you in the head with a penalty. Well, and

1676
01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:23,360
Speaker 1: we have breaking news now, this is being reported by

1677
01:28:23,400 --> 01:28:27,040
Speaker 1: the Athletic Multiple executives in the league say it's quote

1678
01:28:27,120 --> 01:28:30,840
Speaker 1: been an open secret the Titans were not strictly enforcing

1679
01:28:31,200 --> 01:28:37,200
Speaker 1: their mask guidelines. So now we've gone from okay, let's

1680
01:28:37,200 --> 01:28:39,559
Speaker 1: just lay it all out here because we got a break.

1681
01:28:40,320 --> 01:28:44,360
Speaker 1: We've gone from unauthorized practices outside of the facility after

1682
01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:48,000
Speaker 1: the facility was shut down by multiple players in two

1683
01:28:48,040 --> 01:28:51,280
Speaker 1: different groups at two different times, and now it is

1684
01:28:51,320 --> 01:28:55,519
Speaker 1: being revealed that mask guidelines were not properly followed in

1685
01:28:55,640 --> 01:29:01,800
Speaker 1: the facility. I mean, blow up the whole season for

1686
01:29:01,840 --> 01:29:04,559
Speaker 1: the Titans. As far as I'm concerned, the Titans have

1687
01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:07,000
Speaker 1: just forfeited their twenty twenty season. If that's the case,

1688
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Speaker 1: because they've compromised everything. We have to take a break

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01:29:09,800 --> 01:29:11,760
Speaker 1: when we return more of your phone calls. Eight three

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Speaker 1: five fifty fifty two five fifty. It's One Bill's Life

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Chris Brown,

1692
01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:34,000
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. Closing up our number two of

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01:29:34,040 --> 01:29:36,920
Speaker 1: the program and the Bills have announced a series of

1694
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:40,599
Speaker 1: unique player inspired apparel items for the twenty twenty season

1695
01:29:40,600 --> 01:29:44,080
Speaker 1: that janned to know about. Bill's Fanbox is available during

1696
01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:47,200
Speaker 1: the weeks prior to all eight home games, each containing

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01:29:47,240 --> 01:29:49,679
Speaker 1: a high quality player designed T shirt along with other

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01:29:49,680 --> 01:29:53,200
Speaker 1: exclusive products. Portion of the proceeds benefit a charity of

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01:29:53,240 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 1: the player's choice, and this just in Do Do Do

1700
01:29:56,240 --> 01:29:59,479
Speaker 1: Do Do, Do Do Do Do. The Josh Allen designed T

1701
01:29:59,640 --> 01:30:03,120
Speaker 1: shirt is next on the list and it was just

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01:30:03,320 --> 01:30:08,519
Speaker 1: released today and fans can purchase each fanbox individually at

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01:30:08,560 --> 01:30:12,799
Speaker 1: Bill's fanbox dot com or subscribe to receive all remaining

1704
01:30:12,800 --> 01:30:14,479
Speaker 1: boxes for the rest of the season at a five

1705
01:30:14,520 --> 01:30:17,360
Speaker 1: percent discount. We got ours, We're gonna wear them next week.

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01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:19,120
Speaker 1: They're pretty cool that they are kind of cool. The

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01:30:19,240 --> 01:30:23,360
Speaker 1: Allen Propulsion Laboratory is the theme of the shirt, which

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01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:25,479
Speaker 1: is kind of clever, kind of has the NASA the

1709
01:30:25,600 --> 01:30:29,800
Speaker 1: NASA fun you know, and it's on the front left chest,

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01:30:29,880 --> 01:30:31,960
Speaker 1: it's got this little patch that says, you know, allan

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01:30:32,040 --> 01:30:35,439
Speaker 1: propulsion laborage, Ball Propulsion Laboratory. And then on the back

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01:30:35,479 --> 01:30:37,640
Speaker 1: it's got the you know, bunch of graphics. Yeah, and

1713
01:30:37,760 --> 01:30:41,599
Speaker 1: all the angles, big white T shirt. Nice. Yeah, So

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01:30:41,640 --> 01:30:43,760
Speaker 1: we'll have it on next week so you can see

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01:30:43,800 --> 01:30:46,679
Speaker 1: it up close and personal. But yeah, Bills fanbox dot

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01:30:46,680 --> 01:30:49,000
Speaker 1: com is the place to go to get a load

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01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:51,960
Speaker 1: of that and maybe make yourselves purchase, knowing a portion

1718
01:30:52,040 --> 01:30:54,479
Speaker 1: of the proceeds go to charity as well, and I

1719
01:30:54,479 --> 01:30:57,680
Speaker 1: would assume those proceeds going too O'shi Children's Hospital, which

1720
01:30:57,760 --> 01:31:01,280
Speaker 1: is one of Josh's causes. So there you go, Bills

1721
01:31:01,280 --> 01:31:04,280
Speaker 1: fanbox dot com, get on it and grab yourself at

1722
01:31:04,320 --> 01:31:06,839
Speaker 1: Josh Allen T shirt for this week's edition in advance

1723
01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:09,360
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs game. So we got at the top

1724
01:31:09,360 --> 01:31:11,320
Speaker 1: of the hour, we got Lorenzo coming on. Yes, we

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01:31:11,400 --> 01:31:13,080
Speaker 1: do to us. And then also we're gonna try and

1726
01:31:13,080 --> 01:31:15,280
Speaker 1: have Bam Johnson. I don't know if he. Sometimes we

1727
01:31:15,360 --> 01:31:17,920
Speaker 1: get the players on and sometimes something happens they can't

1728
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:20,639
Speaker 1: make it because of the zoom and all practice meetings.

1729
01:31:20,720 --> 01:31:22,600
Speaker 1: You know, we think we might get a chance to

1730
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 1: talk to Bam john Darryl Johnson. Nice game last week

1731
01:31:26,080 --> 01:31:29,639
Speaker 1: by him, very nice game and he's been so he'll

1732
01:31:29,680 --> 01:31:33,240
Speaker 1: be our first player guest. And well we had um

1733
01:31:33,439 --> 01:31:36,840
Speaker 1: we had single Terry on, first Terry on, first T shirt. Yeah,

1734
01:31:36,880 --> 01:31:40,000
Speaker 1: so maybe Josh will come home with for to pump

1735
01:31:40,080 --> 01:31:42,640
Speaker 1: his T shirt. We'll see, we will see. But we

1736
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:44,360
Speaker 1: have to take a break now so we can get

1737
01:31:44,400 --> 01:31:46,200
Speaker 1: Lorenzo on in just a few minutes. So we take

1738
01:31:46,200 --> 01:31:48,439
Speaker 1: a break here and we'll be back on the other

1739
01:31:48,479 --> 01:31:50,880
Speaker 1: side here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health.

1740
01:31:50,880 --> 01:32:16,120
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

1741
01:32:16,240 --> 01:32:19,680
Speaker 1: It is that time a day early, albeit as we

1742
01:32:19,760 --> 01:32:24,160
Speaker 1: have the Lowdown and our weekly guest, Lorenzo Alexander joining us,

1743
01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:26,600
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get into a lot of stuff, not

1744
01:32:26,640 --> 01:32:29,080
Speaker 1: just about the game this week, but all of the

1745
01:32:29,240 --> 01:32:32,760
Speaker 1: things COVID related surrounding this game and putting the game

1746
01:32:32,800 --> 01:32:37,000
Speaker 1: in actual Jeopardy, Lorenzo, How are you doing, man, I'm

1747
01:32:37,040 --> 01:32:40,320
Speaker 1: doing great. Everything's going well out here in Phoenix and

1748
01:32:40,640 --> 01:32:44,080
Speaker 1: just enjoying my time. Yeah. I mean, we'd like to

1749
01:32:44,120 --> 01:32:46,439
Speaker 1: be talking about the nuts and bolts of this game,

1750
01:32:46,520 --> 01:32:48,360
Speaker 1: but I think we all know that's just not going

1751
01:32:48,400 --> 01:32:50,240
Speaker 1: to happen right now, as we have to talk about

1752
01:32:50,280 --> 01:32:54,880
Speaker 1: bigger and more unfortunate. How mad would you be if

1753
01:32:54,920 --> 01:32:56,439
Speaker 1: you were on the Bills and you're gonna get down

1754
01:32:56,479 --> 01:32:59,280
Speaker 1: to play the Titans and they do what they've been doing,

1755
01:32:59,760 --> 01:33:04,200
Speaker 1: You're game gets forfeited and it costs you a game.

1756
01:33:04,280 --> 01:33:06,680
Speaker 1: Check Sy, you're making sixteen million bucks a year, and

1757
01:33:06,680 --> 01:33:10,280
Speaker 1: it costs you a million bucks because they can't get there.

1758
01:33:10,280 --> 01:33:15,200
Speaker 1: They don't wear masks and stuff. How how ticked are

1759
01:33:15,200 --> 01:33:20,840
Speaker 1: the Bills right now? If this game gets forfeited, they're there?

1760
01:33:20,880 --> 01:33:23,040
Speaker 1: I mean it pissed. I mean, there's not no words

1761
01:33:23,080 --> 01:33:25,559
Speaker 1: to even a mince here. I mean, obviously the Bills

1762
01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:27,599
Speaker 1: have been doing, especially you've been doing everything you're supposed

1763
01:33:27,600 --> 01:33:29,799
Speaker 1: to do within these protocols, trying to get things fixed,

1764
01:33:30,560 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 1: um as far as this COVID and the pandemic and

1765
01:33:32,880 --> 01:33:34,559
Speaker 1: be able to play football, and now you have a

1766
01:33:34,560 --> 01:33:37,400
Speaker 1: team that's been going outside of the parameters that we

1767
01:33:37,479 --> 01:33:40,080
Speaker 1: all agreed upon to make sure that we can get

1768
01:33:40,439 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 1: through this season as safe as possible. It is. It's Um,

1769
01:33:45,320 --> 01:33:47,960
Speaker 1: it's crazy. I mean, it's something that you obviously lose

1770
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:50,559
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for the guys. Um And no

1771
01:33:50,560 --> 01:33:52,439
Speaker 1: matter where it came from it, whether it came from

1772
01:33:52,920 --> 01:33:56,040
Speaker 1: the coaches or the players, Um, they need to be

1773
01:33:56,040 --> 01:33:58,439
Speaker 1: held accountable. And at the end of the day, I mean,

1774
01:33:58,439 --> 01:34:01,680
Speaker 1: you essentially taking food out of our kids and our

1775
01:34:01,680 --> 01:34:04,360
Speaker 1: family's mouths. Let me ask you, let me ask you this.

1776
01:34:04,520 --> 01:34:07,800
Speaker 1: You've you've been you played for Sean McDermott for three years.

1777
01:34:08,920 --> 01:34:13,200
Speaker 1: How closely do you think, knowing what you know about him,

1778
01:34:13,240 --> 01:34:15,480
Speaker 1: how do you think the Bills would handle the protocols?

1779
01:34:15,680 --> 01:34:18,960
Speaker 1: What kind of you know, how tight would how tight

1780
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:22,960
Speaker 1: a ship would he run? He's they're locking step and

1781
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:25,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna even try to do things above and beyond

1782
01:34:25,360 --> 01:34:27,960
Speaker 1: even what the protocols called for, because they're innovative. You know,

1783
01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:30,080
Speaker 1: they bring people in so they can do the smartest

1784
01:34:30,080 --> 01:34:32,759
Speaker 1: thing possible. I mean there's a couple of times where

1785
01:34:32,840 --> 01:34:35,479
Speaker 1: just even like if you just think about certain protocols

1786
01:34:35,479 --> 01:34:37,559
Speaker 1: that are on the CBA that are non COVID related.

1787
01:34:37,600 --> 01:34:39,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I have coaches say no, nose all, we

1788
01:34:39,320 --> 01:34:41,760
Speaker 1: can't do it. Nope, not going to do it. So

1789
01:34:41,880 --> 01:34:45,160
Speaker 1: he's he's established a coulture there to making sure they

1790
01:34:45,200 --> 01:34:48,759
Speaker 1: do things above boarding the right way, regardless of whatever

1791
01:34:48,760 --> 01:34:51,439
Speaker 1: the pressure may be of trying to prepare for a game,

1792
01:34:51,520 --> 01:34:54,000
Speaker 1: what players may want to do, and that starts from

1793
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:55,599
Speaker 1: the top. And he's done a great job of doing

1794
01:34:55,640 --> 01:34:58,799
Speaker 1: that and establishing that and always trying to be ahead

1795
01:34:58,840 --> 01:35:01,040
Speaker 1: of the game and in the deals. Are one of

1796
01:35:01,080 --> 01:35:05,120
Speaker 1: those teams that got their COVID protocols approved right away

1797
01:35:05,360 --> 01:35:08,640
Speaker 1: because he's been game planning in March. You know, he

1798
01:35:08,640 --> 01:35:10,280
Speaker 1: didn't wait till the last minute. And that's just the

1799
01:35:10,320 --> 01:35:13,120
Speaker 1: type of person he is. He's very thorough about anything

1800
01:35:13,120 --> 01:35:14,880
Speaker 1: and everything that he has to do. So we're talking

1801
01:35:14,880 --> 01:35:17,759
Speaker 1: to Lorenzo Alexander here in this week's edition of The Lowdown.

1802
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:21,960
Speaker 1: So why don't you take this from the PA perspective here?

1803
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:25,320
Speaker 1: Lorenzo put your PA ad on and we know that

1804
01:35:25,360 --> 01:35:30,120
Speaker 1: the league is investigating the goings on down in Tennessee.

1805
01:35:30,200 --> 01:35:33,439
Speaker 1: The PA is doing their own investigation as well, and

1806
01:35:33,520 --> 01:35:36,960
Speaker 1: I totally understand why if it does come to pass

1807
01:35:37,080 --> 01:35:41,400
Speaker 1: that it can be proven that these unauthorized workouts took place,

1808
01:35:41,520 --> 01:35:44,280
Speaker 1: and they're multiple ones. There are as many as three

1809
01:35:44,600 --> 01:35:47,880
Speaker 1: by three different groups of players from this team on

1810
01:35:47,960 --> 01:35:51,320
Speaker 1: September thirtieth. If it has proven out to be the

1811
01:35:51,400 --> 01:35:54,160
Speaker 1: case that all of those workouts took place and they

1812
01:35:54,280 --> 01:35:58,040
Speaker 1: violated protocols, I don't know that the Players Association is

1813
01:35:58,040 --> 01:36:00,000
Speaker 1: going to stand in the way of any league discipline

1814
01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:04,000
Speaker 1: that's getting handed down, right, No, not at all. I mean,

1815
01:36:04,040 --> 01:36:06,479
Speaker 1: because these have been protocols that we mutually agreed upon,

1816
01:36:07,320 --> 01:36:09,360
Speaker 1: because it's not too often that we align on a

1817
01:36:09,400 --> 01:36:11,560
Speaker 1: lot of things. But this is all about men to

1818
01:36:11,640 --> 01:36:13,760
Speaker 1: get through this season, being able to handle this pandemic

1819
01:36:13,800 --> 01:36:16,680
Speaker 1: and be able to move forward and then once the

1820
01:36:16,680 --> 01:36:20,120
Speaker 1: season's over, you know, reevaluated, and so we're very much

1821
01:36:20,200 --> 01:36:22,920
Speaker 1: aligned with everything is going on because not only did

1822
01:36:22,920 --> 01:36:25,200
Speaker 1: the ownership and the NFL come of these protocols, the

1823
01:36:25,240 --> 01:36:27,519
Speaker 1: players had a heavy hand in developing this and making

1824
01:36:27,560 --> 01:36:30,400
Speaker 1: sure that we had things like Davey testing and that

1825
01:36:30,479 --> 01:36:33,680
Speaker 1: there was a separation of certain staff members and so

1826
01:36:33,800 --> 01:36:37,200
Speaker 1: that we can mitigate this virus as much as we can,

1827
01:36:37,280 --> 01:36:40,599
Speaker 1: you know, not having a preseason all those things that

1828
01:36:40,600 --> 01:36:43,439
Speaker 1: that were implemented this ship because of the pandemic or

1829
01:36:43,439 --> 01:36:47,679
Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen that we agreed upon mutually, and so yeah,

1830
01:36:47,680 --> 01:36:50,320
Speaker 1: I don't think there will be any body standing in

1831
01:36:50,360 --> 01:36:53,040
Speaker 1: a way. What would be interesting to see is, you know,

1832
01:36:53,080 --> 01:36:54,960
Speaker 1: who do they blame on this? You know, was it

1833
01:36:55,360 --> 01:36:59,760
Speaker 1: you know, player driven? Was it head coach driven? You know,

1834
01:37:00,600 --> 01:37:02,360
Speaker 1: those are the intricac season that you're going to start

1835
01:37:02,360 --> 01:37:03,920
Speaker 1: trying to figure out, you know, whether or not they

1836
01:37:03,960 --> 01:37:07,120
Speaker 1: try to find players when the head coach is really

1837
01:37:07,200 --> 01:37:10,599
Speaker 1: driving the initiative and not the players. Well, one thing

1838
01:37:10,600 --> 01:37:12,920
Speaker 1: that's coming out of this is that there's probably this

1839
01:37:13,000 --> 01:37:15,320
Speaker 1: game on Sunday at one o'clock between the Bills and

1840
01:37:15,320 --> 01:37:17,880
Speaker 1: the time it's probably gonna get moved and wherever it

1841
01:37:17,960 --> 01:37:20,080
Speaker 1: get moves to, that's going to affect the Chiefs game

1842
01:37:20,120 --> 01:37:22,200
Speaker 1: on Thursday night here in Buffalo, and you know, it's

1843
01:37:22,200 --> 01:37:25,280
Speaker 1: a you know, the ripple effects are obvious, But I

1844
01:37:25,320 --> 01:37:27,040
Speaker 1: don't think the same question. The league is going to

1845
01:37:27,120 --> 01:37:29,920
Speaker 1: try its best to cram these games into where they

1846
01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:33,320
Speaker 1: belong because they want to keep as much slack as

1847
01:37:33,320 --> 01:37:35,040
Speaker 1: they can in the back of the end of the season,

1848
01:37:35,080 --> 01:37:37,400
Speaker 1: because we may get here again in two weeks. We

1849
01:37:37,439 --> 01:37:39,599
Speaker 1: may another team may do it, right, so they got

1850
01:37:39,600 --> 01:37:42,320
Speaker 1: to cram it in now if they can. So my

1851
01:37:42,520 --> 01:37:45,120
Speaker 1: question to you is, we've been talking about this, how

1852
01:37:45,200 --> 01:37:49,280
Speaker 1: many games and say, like, say like a Sunday then

1853
01:37:49,320 --> 01:37:52,040
Speaker 1: the next Sunday and the next Sunday. So if you

1854
01:37:52,040 --> 01:37:54,240
Speaker 1: play a game on a Sunday then there's a Sunday

1855
01:37:54,240 --> 01:37:57,960
Speaker 1: between another, can you play maybe two games between those

1856
01:37:58,040 --> 01:37:59,840
Speaker 1: games as one team? Say, for instance, can the Bills

1857
01:37:59,840 --> 01:38:03,000
Speaker 1: play is Sunday then a Thursday, then a Tuesday then

1858
01:38:03,040 --> 01:38:07,040
Speaker 1: a Sunday. Wow to squeek to shoehorning? I mean, how fascans?

1859
01:38:07,080 --> 01:38:11,120
Speaker 1: Because I know the Chiefs. The Chiefs are playing a game.

1860
01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:15,879
Speaker 1: They're playing three games, but you can't play four games

1861
01:38:15,920 --> 01:38:22,080
Speaker 1: in fourteen right, Yeah, that would be almost impossible. I mean,

1862
01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:23,479
Speaker 1: the only way you could get through something like that

1863
01:38:23,640 --> 01:38:25,760
Speaker 1: if it happens early in the season. The later the

1864
01:38:25,760 --> 01:38:28,960
Speaker 1: season that gets them Thursday night games. Even doing you know,

1865
01:38:29,040 --> 01:38:31,760
Speaker 1: three and eleven days is ridiculous on the body. I know,

1866
01:38:31,880 --> 01:38:34,320
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be able to do it. So you would

1867
01:38:34,360 --> 01:38:36,320
Speaker 1: have to you know, maybe rest guys, you wouldn't have

1868
01:38:36,320 --> 01:38:37,880
Speaker 1: to practice. I don't know how you would do that,

1869
01:38:37,920 --> 01:38:41,000
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't be smart because we're talking about player

1870
01:38:41,000 --> 01:38:43,960
Speaker 1: health and safety right right. Organizationally too. You're talking about

1871
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:46,519
Speaker 1: COVID on one hand, and then now you're gonna subdue

1872
01:38:46,560 --> 01:38:50,320
Speaker 1: me or subject me to physical harm trying to add

1873
01:38:50,360 --> 01:38:53,880
Speaker 1: another game, you know, four games and within fourteen days

1874
01:38:53,880 --> 01:38:56,760
Speaker 1: that you're not physically possible. Someone would have to give.

1875
01:38:57,000 --> 01:38:59,040
Speaker 1: Someone would have to give, whether you just cancel the game.

1876
01:38:59,400 --> 01:39:02,960
Speaker 1: It becomes fifteen game season or fourteen game season. But

1877
01:39:03,040 --> 01:39:05,080
Speaker 1: there's no way you can ask players, especially with the

1878
01:39:05,120 --> 01:39:08,240
Speaker 1: injury rate being what it is, to now throw an

1879
01:39:08,280 --> 01:39:11,080
Speaker 1: additional game within a two week period and try to

1880
01:39:11,120 --> 01:39:14,559
Speaker 1: do uh, fourteen games or four games in fourteen days?

1881
01:39:14,680 --> 01:39:16,800
Speaker 1: What about? Now? That's what I'm asking though. What if, okay,

1882
01:39:16,800 --> 01:39:18,679
Speaker 1: you can't do it. You can do three in eleven,

1883
01:39:19,439 --> 01:39:22,479
Speaker 1: well they have to right now? You can do three

1884
01:39:22,520 --> 01:39:28,439
Speaker 1: in eleven, How can't you can? How quickly can you

1885
01:39:28,479 --> 01:39:34,840
Speaker 1: do four? Oh? Man? Four? I mean I don't want

1886
01:39:34,840 --> 01:39:39,920
Speaker 1: to maybe twenty twenty days? Maybe maybe, I mean because

1887
01:39:39,960 --> 01:39:43,760
Speaker 1: you're thinking, yeah, I mean I guess you would go

1888
01:39:43,840 --> 01:39:47,320
Speaker 1: Sunday Thursday and then Sunday Thursday. How many days is that?

1889
01:39:47,400 --> 01:39:49,320
Speaker 1: What is that is that two weeks? That's two weeks.

1890
01:39:49,320 --> 01:39:53,680
Speaker 1: That's two days. No, yeah, that's that's Sunday Thursday. You

1891
01:39:53,720 --> 01:39:56,559
Speaker 1: can't go right the next Sunday after the Thursday though, right,

1892
01:39:56,720 --> 01:39:58,320
Speaker 1: yeah you can't. Oh no, no, no, it would have

1893
01:39:58,360 --> 01:40:00,479
Speaker 1: to be maybe mid weeks or maybe days later. You

1894
01:40:00,680 --> 01:40:03,599
Speaker 1: do Tuesday. Here's the thing, Wednesday, then a Monday night.

1895
01:40:03,840 --> 01:40:06,080
Speaker 1: If you think about it, think about it this way.

1896
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Speaker 1: Think about this way. You got a game on a Sunday,

1897
01:40:08,240 --> 01:40:10,479
Speaker 1: you got a game on the next Sunday, then you

1898
01:40:10,520 --> 01:40:13,519
Speaker 1: got a game on the Thursday. So how soon after

1899
01:40:13,560 --> 01:40:16,720
Speaker 1: that Thursday game can you go and forget about the

1900
01:40:16,760 --> 01:40:19,280
Speaker 1: days of the week? So first you had to play

1901
01:40:19,320 --> 01:40:25,120
Speaker 1: on a Sunday or Tuesday even you know, forget about that. Yeah,

1902
01:40:25,240 --> 01:40:29,120
Speaker 1: maybe maybe Wednesday? So whatever that how many days that is? Right?

1903
01:40:29,560 --> 01:40:31,760
Speaker 1: So there you go, and then I mean then but

1904
01:40:31,800 --> 01:40:33,800
Speaker 1: then you can play that next weekend, so it'll be

1905
01:40:33,800 --> 01:40:36,799
Speaker 1: thrown off. So I mean, it's ways you can probably

1906
01:40:36,840 --> 01:40:39,600
Speaker 1: do it. Would it be uh, would it be the

1907
01:40:40,920 --> 01:40:44,840
Speaker 1: safest way? No? No, But you know, it depends on

1908
01:40:44,920 --> 01:40:46,439
Speaker 1: what players are willing to do. And I think at

1909
01:40:46,439 --> 01:40:48,280
Speaker 1: this point you have to protect guys from the sales

1910
01:40:48,400 --> 01:40:51,320
Speaker 1: I'd be like, Okay, we don't do I have to

1911
01:40:51,360 --> 01:40:54,599
Speaker 1: play four games in in in fourteen days or miss

1912
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Speaker 1: out on my week's pay. You know, most guys are

1913
01:40:58,200 --> 01:41:01,679
Speaker 1: We're gonna and that's why, And that's why I don't think. Yeah,

1914
01:41:01,760 --> 01:41:03,679
Speaker 1: that's why I don't think. That's why I don't think

1915
01:41:03,720 --> 01:41:06,400
Speaker 1: forfeit is in the cards and it is an absolute

1916
01:41:06,520 --> 01:41:10,120
Speaker 1: last resort because you're punishing the Bills players because they're

1917
01:41:10,120 --> 01:41:11,600
Speaker 1: not going to get a game check either if you

1918
01:41:11,880 --> 01:41:14,280
Speaker 1: force the Titans to forfeit the game, and that's obviously

1919
01:41:14,320 --> 01:41:17,439
Speaker 1: not fair to the Bills. What do you think about this,

1920
01:41:17,560 --> 01:41:20,679
Speaker 1: because I've proposed this, Lorenzo, as a solution here, If

1921
01:41:20,720 --> 01:41:24,479
Speaker 1: in fact, you conclude in your investigation that you had

1922
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:29,320
Speaker 1: upwards of twenty players practicing illegally and violating COVID protocols

1923
01:41:29,320 --> 01:41:32,120
Speaker 1: when they were still shedding the virus and extending the

1924
01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:34,960
Speaker 1: timeline to keep the facility closed for the Titans, and

1925
01:41:34,960 --> 01:41:39,120
Speaker 1: you have twenty players there, I say a proper punishment

1926
01:41:39,320 --> 01:41:42,519
Speaker 1: here is suspend all those players for this week's game

1927
01:41:42,720 --> 01:41:46,920
Speaker 1: without pay. Everybody on the COVID nineteen list is ineligible

1928
01:41:46,960 --> 01:41:49,559
Speaker 1: to play. That'll probably leave the Titans with about forty

1929
01:41:49,600 --> 01:41:53,519
Speaker 1: players go play the bills have fun. That seems like

1930
01:41:53,520 --> 01:41:57,840
Speaker 1: pretty good punishment for me. Forty players go play the bills. Well,

1931
01:41:57,880 --> 01:42:01,599
Speaker 1: for me, it's all about it's all about the power

1932
01:42:01,600 --> 01:42:03,519
Speaker 1: and control. And I know there's a grown men, but

1933
01:42:04,280 --> 01:42:07,960
Speaker 1: where was the who who initiated? The question is is

1934
01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:11,880
Speaker 1: who initiated the practice? So if it was player driven, okay,

1935
01:42:11,960 --> 01:42:15,280
Speaker 1: I understand. But if if if Rabel said, hey, guys,

1936
01:42:17,520 --> 01:42:19,800
Speaker 1: I talked to a high school coach and y'all can

1937
01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:23,439
Speaker 1: go practice if y'all want to wink wink and I

1938
01:42:23,680 --> 01:42:25,960
Speaker 1: some way, there'll be a script out there wink wink,

1939
01:42:26,400 --> 01:42:30,120
Speaker 1: then there's that's much different than players going on their

1940
01:42:30,120 --> 01:42:32,600
Speaker 1: own and doing something. Yeah. So I'm never going to

1941
01:42:32,640 --> 01:42:36,719
Speaker 1: get in a position where powers are the employee listening

1942
01:42:36,760 --> 01:42:40,400
Speaker 1: to their superior and and and now following direction. Just

1943
01:42:40,680 --> 01:42:43,080
Speaker 1: now you want me to be suspended because or a

1944
01:42:43,200 --> 01:42:45,920
Speaker 1: cut I can right, depending on who you are, if

1945
01:42:45,960 --> 01:42:48,880
Speaker 1: you don't fall in line. And so that's where I

1946
01:42:49,439 --> 01:42:51,760
Speaker 1: air on the side of the let's hold on, let's

1947
01:42:51,760 --> 01:42:54,439
Speaker 1: see what actually happened before you start trying to find

1948
01:42:54,479 --> 01:42:57,479
Speaker 1: players and and and and hold them accountable for something

1949
01:42:57,479 --> 01:43:00,920
Speaker 1: that was done by leadership. I'm gonna leaderships if account.

1950
01:43:01,080 --> 01:43:03,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a quote from Ryan Tannehill,

1951
01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:09,519
Speaker 1: who was who said this on September thirtieth, a day

1952
01:43:09,640 --> 01:43:14,519
Speaker 1: after the facility was closed. He said, he said this quote.

1953
01:43:14,880 --> 01:43:16,800
Speaker 1: You can't sit around on the couch for a week

1954
01:43:16,840 --> 01:43:18,800
Speaker 1: and be on a zoom meeting and expect to go

1955
01:43:18,920 --> 01:43:21,679
Speaker 1: be at a physical peak on a Sunday or whenever

1956
01:43:21,720 --> 01:43:23,240
Speaker 1: the game's going to be. It's going to look a

1957
01:43:23,280 --> 01:43:25,599
Speaker 1: little bit different for everybody when they're able to do

1958
01:43:26,200 --> 01:43:28,640
Speaker 1: where they're able to work out in a garage, in

1959
01:43:28,680 --> 01:43:31,080
Speaker 1: a gym somewhere. I'm not even sure every man on

1960
01:43:31,120 --> 01:43:34,559
Speaker 1: this team is charged with prepping themselves, getting their bodies right,

1961
01:43:34,680 --> 01:43:37,160
Speaker 1: making sure that we're running, we're conditioned and ready to

1962
01:43:37,200 --> 01:43:39,720
Speaker 1: go whenever the game comes around. I'm just going to

1963
01:43:39,760 --> 01:43:41,760
Speaker 1: make sure that I'm getting throws in and ready to

1964
01:43:41,800 --> 01:43:44,839
Speaker 1: go and throw the ball well when the game comes around.

1965
01:43:45,080 --> 01:43:47,400
Speaker 1: If that is not an indication as to where everybody's

1966
01:43:47,439 --> 01:43:50,439
Speaker 1: mindset from a player perspective was with the Titans the

1967
01:43:51,320 --> 01:43:57,040
Speaker 1: facility was closed, Clearly this seems player driven, right, Well,

1968
01:43:57,080 --> 01:43:59,639
Speaker 1: that's they have nothing to do with saying that's player driven.

1969
01:43:59,640 --> 01:44:02,000
Speaker 1: He's saying in the reality of we can't go out

1970
01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:04,080
Speaker 1: there and play a game if we can't practice, and

1971
01:44:04,160 --> 01:44:07,120
Speaker 1: that's true, it's not gonna look good. But that he said,

1972
01:44:07,160 --> 01:44:09,920
Speaker 1: every man, it has to go. So for example, if

1973
01:44:09,960 --> 01:44:12,479
Speaker 1: I was in Buffalo, I would go out to the

1974
01:44:12,560 --> 01:44:15,280
Speaker 1: yard or to that park by myself and go run spreads,

1975
01:44:15,320 --> 01:44:17,840
Speaker 1: go do some stuff, some drills. Change the direction. This

1976
01:44:18,040 --> 01:44:20,439
Speaker 1: ways you can do things that are social distance and

1977
01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:23,840
Speaker 1: seeing that are not team or collaborated with the team.

1978
01:44:23,880 --> 01:44:25,920
Speaker 1: At least stay in shape. Yeah, where you have the

1979
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:29,479
Speaker 1: timing and all that going on. Right, No, you won't.

1980
01:44:29,800 --> 01:44:33,800
Speaker 1: But that statement in itself is speaking to the reality

1981
01:44:33,840 --> 01:44:36,160
Speaker 1: of if we don't do anything, it's going to be

1982
01:44:36,240 --> 01:44:38,960
Speaker 1: a different product. And while you're at home, don't just

1983
01:44:38,960 --> 01:44:41,599
Speaker 1: sit on the couch. Make sure you work out. However

1984
01:44:41,640 --> 01:44:43,559
Speaker 1: you were able to do just like you were during

1985
01:44:43,600 --> 01:44:46,080
Speaker 1: the off season when we didn't have OTAs and guys

1986
01:44:46,120 --> 01:44:48,120
Speaker 1: found a way to work out on their own and

1987
01:44:48,200 --> 01:44:51,160
Speaker 1: left weights. But anytime that you're coming together like that,

1988
01:44:51,160 --> 01:44:53,680
Speaker 1: that's overboard. But that doesn't tell me that that was

1989
01:44:53,720 --> 01:44:56,800
Speaker 1: player driven. That just says that's a veteran understanding what

1990
01:44:56,920 --> 01:44:58,479
Speaker 1: you have to do to prepare for a game to

1991
01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:01,439
Speaker 1: be able to win it literally. Does this illustrate? Now?

1992
01:45:01,479 --> 01:45:04,160
Speaker 1: The league has said, yeah, doctor Alan Sills, the league's

1993
01:45:05,600 --> 01:45:08,639
Speaker 1: infectious disease expert, who's running the protocols and set these

1994
01:45:08,680 --> 01:45:11,200
Speaker 1: all up. He has maintained from the beginning and did

1995
01:45:11,200 --> 01:45:13,120
Speaker 1: so in a conference call last week. They said, listen,

1996
01:45:13,200 --> 01:45:16,320
Speaker 1: if you follow these protocols, we're gonna be okay. And

1997
01:45:16,439 --> 01:45:22,880
Speaker 1: the Titans did not. And how you know, how likely

1998
01:45:23,040 --> 01:45:25,000
Speaker 1: is it that all thirty one other teams are gonna

1999
01:45:25,000 --> 01:45:26,639
Speaker 1: be able to hold that line all the way through

2000
01:45:26,640 --> 01:45:29,760
Speaker 1: this season? Now, they've done pretty well so far, but

2001
01:45:29,880 --> 01:45:31,760
Speaker 1: when you get an outbreak of the Titan, of the

2002
01:45:31,800 --> 01:45:33,799
Speaker 1: nature of the Titans, where you got like a handful

2003
01:45:33,840 --> 01:45:35,960
Speaker 1: of six or seven guys that come down with it,

2004
01:45:36,200 --> 01:45:38,040
Speaker 1: they shut the whole thing down. But in the case

2005
01:45:38,080 --> 01:45:41,600
Speaker 1: of the Raiders and in the case of the Patriots,

2006
01:45:41,880 --> 01:45:43,960
Speaker 1: they can keep rolling because it's just one guy at

2007
01:45:43,960 --> 01:45:46,080
Speaker 1: a time, and they can isolate that guy when he

2008
01:45:46,080 --> 01:45:48,200
Speaker 1: comes in and send him home that kind of thing.

2009
01:45:48,560 --> 01:45:51,559
Speaker 1: So how optimistic are you that if they can get

2010
01:45:51,560 --> 01:45:56,280
Speaker 1: a lid on this Titans outbreak, that they can everybody

2011
01:45:56,320 --> 01:45:59,120
Speaker 1: can keep a lid on it. Yeah, well, if you

2012
01:45:59,160 --> 01:46:01,360
Speaker 1: can get a lid on it it, um, then I

2013
01:46:01,479 --> 01:46:03,680
Speaker 1: you know, I'm fairly optimistic. I'm still sitting around like

2014
01:46:03,720 --> 01:46:06,120
Speaker 1: maybe a six or seven, just because you never know,

2015
01:46:06,200 --> 01:46:08,880
Speaker 1: especially the way this virus moves and it could turn

2016
01:46:09,000 --> 01:46:12,519
Speaker 1: any second, or those other organizations you know, or you know,

2017
01:46:12,560 --> 01:46:15,760
Speaker 1: once they get a guy that's positive, you essentially separate him.

2018
01:46:15,960 --> 01:46:17,840
Speaker 1: You don't you don't go and hang out with him,

2019
01:46:17,840 --> 01:46:20,400
Speaker 1: you don't go and have a practice, because that's going

2020
01:46:20,479 --> 01:46:23,360
Speaker 1: to elongate the period, as we've seen with the Titans.

2021
01:46:23,400 --> 01:46:25,360
Speaker 1: And so it has to be some accountability on the

2022
01:46:25,400 --> 01:46:27,360
Speaker 1: office as well as the players. And so yeah, could

2023
01:46:27,360 --> 01:46:31,479
Speaker 1: the players have said I ain't going to that, Sure,

2024
01:46:31,760 --> 01:46:34,120
Speaker 1: sure you could, but well, you know, you may get cut.

2025
01:46:34,160 --> 01:46:38,920
Speaker 1: So I mean, it's just it's just a level of comfortability,

2026
01:46:39,200 --> 01:46:42,559
Speaker 1: being firming with you're at. And it takes all groups

2027
01:46:42,720 --> 01:46:44,800
Speaker 1: to make sure that we get through this and they

2028
01:46:44,800 --> 01:46:48,680
Speaker 1: are able to finish an NFL season. Um, So we

2029
01:46:48,760 --> 01:46:50,919
Speaker 1: just have to you know, kind of move forward, adhere

2030
01:46:50,960 --> 01:46:53,240
Speaker 1: to it. Take it, take it as a warning, just

2031
01:46:53,280 --> 01:46:56,360
Speaker 1: like mlbpre with the Miami. I think Marlins didn't did

2032
01:46:56,400 --> 01:46:59,520
Speaker 1: what they did in Atlanta. See what the Tennessee Titans

2033
01:46:59,600 --> 01:47:03,040
Speaker 1: did see who has let them see what the consequence is,

2034
01:47:03,280 --> 01:47:06,360
Speaker 1: not only won't you play, you probably won't get paid,

2035
01:47:06,439 --> 01:47:07,920
Speaker 1: most likely if you have to get a game that

2036
01:47:08,000 --> 01:47:10,800
Speaker 1: can't be rescheduled. And so you have to have all

2037
01:47:10,800 --> 01:47:13,639
Speaker 1: those things in mind when you're making a decision, from

2038
01:47:13,680 --> 01:47:16,840
Speaker 1: coaches to players to front office, when you want to

2039
01:47:16,840 --> 01:47:19,719
Speaker 1: put yourself in harm good. So unfortunately for the Tights,

2040
01:47:19,720 --> 01:47:22,559
Speaker 1: they are where they're at right now. Hopefully it doesn't

2041
01:47:22,880 --> 01:47:25,160
Speaker 1: adversely affect the Bills. May hopefully they can move the

2042
01:47:25,200 --> 01:47:27,000
Speaker 1: game to a Monday or Tuesday and get this thing

2043
01:47:27,040 --> 01:47:31,360
Speaker 1: going so they don't have to suffer financially. But people

2044
01:47:31,439 --> 01:47:33,160
Speaker 1: have to take oneing and look at it and get

2045
01:47:33,200 --> 01:47:36,040
Speaker 1: things corrected. And because if this thing goes shuts down,

2046
01:47:36,680 --> 01:47:38,599
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be good for anybody. And I'm talking

2047
01:47:38,640 --> 01:47:40,840
Speaker 1: about the community as well, for people people that are

2048
01:47:41,040 --> 01:47:43,360
Speaker 1: depending on some of these things that benefit from at

2049
01:47:43,439 --> 01:47:45,599
Speaker 1: least some of these NFL games being played, even though

2050
01:47:45,640 --> 01:47:48,840
Speaker 1: there isn't fans in the stadium. So Lorenzo, paint the

2051
01:47:48,840 --> 01:47:52,040
Speaker 1: picture for me, if you will. Despite all of the

2052
01:47:52,080 --> 01:47:55,360
Speaker 1: advanced preventative measures, as you've already outlined that the Bills

2053
01:47:55,360 --> 01:48:00,680
Speaker 1: are undoubtedly taking They have to come to the realization

2054
01:48:00,760 --> 01:48:03,840
Speaker 1: also that the team they just played, the Raiders, had

2055
01:48:03,840 --> 01:48:07,040
Speaker 1: a positive and that guy was shaking hands and hugging

2056
01:48:07,040 --> 01:48:09,920
Speaker 1: people after the game, including Josh Allen from the Raiders.

2057
01:48:10,479 --> 01:48:14,840
Speaker 1: Then this week you've got the Titans. Next week you've

2058
01:48:14,880 --> 01:48:19,320
Speaker 1: got the Chiefs who played the Patriots, and then in

2059
01:48:19,360 --> 01:48:21,680
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks after that, you've got the Patriots.

2060
01:48:21,720 --> 01:48:25,879
Speaker 1: How do you keep as a player that ancillary stuff

2061
01:48:25,920 --> 01:48:30,160
Speaker 1: that is very real from creeping into your your daily

2062
01:48:30,200 --> 01:48:36,599
Speaker 1: process of staying on task. I mean, I think one

2063
01:48:36,640 --> 01:48:39,519
Speaker 1: thing guys have done all always, and you have to

2064
01:48:39,520 --> 01:48:41,880
Speaker 1: be able to compartmentalize certain things as far as you know,

2065
01:48:41,960 --> 01:48:44,320
Speaker 1: going out working and going to practice and doing things.

2066
01:48:44,360 --> 01:48:46,479
Speaker 1: Because you have a diversity in your life at all

2067
01:48:46,520 --> 01:48:49,680
Speaker 1: different parts of time, this is something different. Obviously, it's

2068
01:48:49,720 --> 01:48:52,400
Speaker 1: of impacting your health that is internal in the sense

2069
01:48:52,439 --> 01:48:57,120
Speaker 1: of it could you know, make you sick. But that

2070
01:48:57,400 --> 01:49:00,760
Speaker 1: is one of, you know, just the challenges as a

2071
01:49:00,760 --> 01:49:02,840
Speaker 1: professional athlete in this day and age, especially in this

2072
01:49:02,920 --> 01:49:05,360
Speaker 1: time of the pandemic, that you have to be able

2073
01:49:05,360 --> 01:49:08,200
Speaker 1: to overcome as far as working out and going to practice,

2074
01:49:08,240 --> 01:49:11,720
Speaker 1: and the guys that weren't or didn't feel comfortable enough

2075
01:49:11,760 --> 01:49:14,680
Speaker 1: to do it, decided to opt out. You had an

2076
01:49:14,720 --> 01:49:16,719
Speaker 1: opt out opportunity if you felt like it would never

2077
01:49:16,760 --> 01:49:18,760
Speaker 1: if you could never mentally get over there, because you

2078
01:49:18,800 --> 01:49:21,400
Speaker 1: never want to step on that field and you are

2079
01:49:21,439 --> 01:49:23,240
Speaker 1: second guessing whether or not you're out there. I don't

2080
01:49:23,240 --> 01:49:25,200
Speaker 1: care if it's because you have a physical injury in

2081
01:49:25,240 --> 01:49:27,559
Speaker 1: the sense of like an ankle or a knee, or

2082
01:49:27,800 --> 01:49:31,200
Speaker 1: you're worried about catching COVID from somebody, because you're gonna

2083
01:49:31,200 --> 01:49:33,680
Speaker 1: put yourself at an adverse risk. So the guys that

2084
01:49:34,360 --> 01:49:36,760
Speaker 1: didn't feel like they could do that, they opted out.

2085
01:49:37,960 --> 01:49:41,759
Speaker 1: Gotcha all right time now, fresh off the practice field,

2086
01:49:41,800 --> 01:49:45,040
Speaker 1: to bring in one second year defensive end one Darryl

2087
01:49:45,120 --> 01:49:48,200
Speaker 1: Bam Johnson. Who's going to recognize the other face up there,

2088
01:49:48,280 --> 01:49:51,519
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander. But we're doing this three box thing here

2089
01:49:51,560 --> 01:49:53,519
Speaker 1: on one. Bill's live to get everybody on at the

2090
01:49:53,560 --> 01:49:57,360
Speaker 1: same time. Bam, how you doing? Man? Are you doing?

2091
01:49:57,760 --> 01:50:00,280
Speaker 1: We're doing good? Doing good? Can you see all the here?

2092
01:50:00,320 --> 01:50:02,040
Speaker 1: I know Steve and I are pretty tiny right now,

2093
01:50:02,080 --> 01:50:05,280
Speaker 1: but you can see Lorenzo. I'm sure, yes, sir, I

2094
01:50:05,320 --> 01:50:11,960
Speaker 1: could see. Yeah, so Zo, we miss you, man. I

2095
01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:16,280
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Man. Yeah, man, all right, So so Bam,

2096
01:50:16,360 --> 01:50:18,559
Speaker 1: you get a ton of action last week, you make

2097
01:50:18,600 --> 01:50:21,720
Speaker 1: an impact in the game. Um, Steve and I have

2098
01:50:21,760 --> 01:50:24,120
Speaker 1: talked about this for a couple of weeks because you know,

2099
01:50:24,160 --> 01:50:26,040
Speaker 1: I know fans are like, what happened to our top

2100
01:50:26,080 --> 01:50:28,320
Speaker 1: five defense? I said, hold on a second, pump the brakes,

2101
01:50:28,360 --> 01:50:30,839
Speaker 1: give it some time. You know, these guys haven't tackled

2102
01:50:30,840 --> 01:50:33,360
Speaker 1: a human in nine months. It's gonna take a little

2103
01:50:33,360 --> 01:50:35,960
Speaker 1: doing because they didn't have a preseason. Do you feel

2104
01:50:35,960 --> 01:50:39,479
Speaker 1: like the defense now after four games played, is really

2105
01:50:39,520 --> 01:50:43,680
Speaker 1: starting to round into form? Oh? Of course, you know,

2106
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Speaker 1: we still got a lot of a lot of work

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Speaker 1: to do. Uh. You know, we just got to continue

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01:50:48,240 --> 01:50:50,880
Speaker 1: to come out and just build that bonding and that

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Speaker 1: chemistry and everything should work out and we should be

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Speaker 1: playing some good football. Yeah, Bama, I want to ask

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Speaker 1: you a question about how how did you bounce back?

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Speaker 1: Because we probably you're inactive. What was your mindset doing

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Speaker 1: that whole time? Now? Getting back after making some play,

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Speaker 1: So what's been your mindset the last you know, week

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Speaker 1: and a half two? Basically just just controlling what you

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Speaker 1: can control, man, Just just going out with the mindset

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01:51:13,680 --> 01:51:17,599
Speaker 1: just getting better every day and when your opportunity comes,

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Speaker 1: just just do what you gotta do. Do your job, man,

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Speaker 1: work out. What's the vibe in the locker room BAM

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Speaker 1: about this game this weekend? I know nobody knows anything yet,

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01:51:26,880 --> 01:51:29,760
Speaker 1: but what's the mindset of you guys going into Friday

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01:51:29,920 --> 01:51:31,519
Speaker 1: in a week where you may or may not be

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Speaker 1: playing on Sunday. I mean, we really don't know too much.

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Speaker 1: All we knew is, uh, we're going at it like

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Speaker 1: we're playing on Sunday, So we're just gonna going out.

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Speaker 1: We're attacking practice just like any other practice. Well, I

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Speaker 1: feel like we got our head on straight and you know,

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01:51:49,040 --> 01:51:51,240
Speaker 1: we're just ready to work and get to it. The

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01:51:51,439 --> 01:51:54,880
Speaker 1: rotation on the defensive line thus far, BAM has been

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01:51:55,040 --> 01:51:57,519
Speaker 1: even heavier than it was last year, I think. I mean,

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01:51:57,800 --> 01:52:00,439
Speaker 1: do you guys have had all nine defensive linemen up

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01:52:00,479 --> 01:52:03,160
Speaker 1: for most of the games this year? I mean, everybody's up,

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01:52:03,280 --> 01:52:06,600
Speaker 1: everybody's rolling through, everybody's playing, which I'm sure for a

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01:52:06,640 --> 01:52:08,920
Speaker 1: young guy you must love that. But how do you

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01:52:09,000 --> 01:52:13,200
Speaker 1: handle that frequent rotation like that? You know, staying in

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01:52:13,320 --> 01:52:16,120
Speaker 1: the flow of the game when you're rotating in and

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01:52:16,200 --> 01:52:19,120
Speaker 1: out so much. I mean, you're staying fresh and that's good,

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01:52:19,800 --> 01:52:22,400
Speaker 1: but how are you kind of staying locked in when

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01:52:22,439 --> 01:52:26,200
Speaker 1: you're not out there every snap? Oh well, coach tells us,

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Speaker 1: like when you're not in, just take those those mental

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01:52:28,960 --> 01:52:32,360
Speaker 1: reps and you know, watch guys and also give guys

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Speaker 1: the tips that they need some things that they might

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01:52:35,880 --> 01:52:39,160
Speaker 1: have didn't see when it was out there. So you know,

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01:52:39,240 --> 01:52:41,679
Speaker 1: just just being ready. You know, so when your name called,

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01:52:41,720 --> 01:52:44,400
Speaker 1: you go out there, you execute playing. So give us

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01:52:44,400 --> 01:52:47,439
Speaker 1: an idea like last year you had, you know, you

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01:52:47,520 --> 01:52:49,559
Speaker 1: weren't as talented because you had guys like who that

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01:52:49,600 --> 01:52:52,080
Speaker 1: guy Alexander was out there? And you know, so now

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01:52:52,120 --> 01:52:54,920
Speaker 1: this year you got some talented guys out there. I'm teasing.

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01:52:55,240 --> 01:52:58,400
Speaker 1: I'm teasing, but tell us that you got new faces

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01:52:58,400 --> 01:53:01,400
Speaker 1: out there. If you could compare the last year's personality

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01:53:01,439 --> 01:53:03,120
Speaker 1: on the D line to this year's, where are the

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01:53:03,160 --> 01:53:07,840
Speaker 1: differences and and how have you guys changed? Uh? I

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01:53:07,880 --> 01:53:10,519
Speaker 1: mean we added some a couple of pieces, like like

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01:53:10,520 --> 01:53:16,400
Speaker 1: like Mario Addison and you know guys like that. So uh,

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01:53:16,640 --> 01:53:18,840
Speaker 1: really you just I don't know, you just go out

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01:53:18,880 --> 01:53:22,240
Speaker 1: and and try to execute. Uh, you know, you got

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01:53:22,280 --> 01:53:25,439
Speaker 1: Mario you got, you got Josh Norman, we got we

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Speaker 1: added those guys to the defense. So it feels good

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01:53:28,200 --> 01:53:30,240
Speaker 1: to you know, go out there and be able to

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01:53:30,280 --> 01:53:33,120
Speaker 1: have some some some playmakers out there for you, I know.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, hey, we're we're talking about the process and

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01:53:36,360 --> 01:53:38,599
Speaker 1: the defense. Where have you grown the most you feel

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01:53:39,479 --> 01:53:43,439
Speaker 1: being in this this season versus last year? Uh just

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Speaker 1: basically trying not to uh get cold st up on

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01:53:46,280 --> 01:53:48,720
Speaker 1: the same mistake twice, Just trying to learn from the

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Speaker 1: first time I do it, and and just trying to

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Speaker 1: be more consistent. I still got to work on being

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Speaker 1: more consistent, but that's that's my goal every time I

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Speaker 1: hit the fields, Just trying to trying to be more consistent,

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Speaker 1: uh not and try to see too much this guat

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01:54:01,479 --> 01:54:04,960
Speaker 1: there and play so Quintin Jefferson last week after the game,

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01:54:05,680 --> 01:54:10,080
Speaker 1: Darryl said, you know, without fans, it's still an adjustment

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Speaker 1: for us on defense because we're used to feeding off

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01:54:12,600 --> 01:54:15,280
Speaker 1: the energy of the crowd. Obviously that takes place more

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01:54:15,280 --> 01:54:17,720
Speaker 1: at home games than at road games. But he was

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01:54:17,760 --> 01:54:21,120
Speaker 1: talking about how Josh and the play he made in

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01:54:21,160 --> 01:54:25,479
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter last week injected this energy and life

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Speaker 1: into the entire defense. And then you know the next series,

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01:54:28,800 --> 01:54:31,040
Speaker 1: Ed gets the big fourth down stop and then Q

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01:54:31,200 --> 01:54:34,960
Speaker 1: Jeff gets the sack strip and fumble recovery. Can you

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01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:39,600
Speaker 1: just speak to how much more perhaps in this season

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01:54:39,680 --> 01:54:44,160
Speaker 1: with no fans, you need some juice guys on defense

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01:54:44,240 --> 01:54:48,560
Speaker 1: to get the whole unit up. Yes, sir, yeah you

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01:54:48,600 --> 01:54:52,000
Speaker 1: need him also you say defense, but I feel like

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Speaker 1: special teams a lot of that set the tone too

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01:54:54,680 --> 01:54:58,520
Speaker 1: as well. So like that's my job too, is the

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Speaker 1: gu out there and try to set the tone special team.

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01:55:00,720 --> 01:55:03,680
Speaker 1: So uh, it'll get a defensive guys, really the whole

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01:55:03,760 --> 01:55:06,760
Speaker 1: team that that energy that we need to go out

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Speaker 1: of execute. I know you guys have been looking at

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Speaker 1: all week at film of the Titans. They've they've played

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01:55:11,640 --> 01:55:13,800
Speaker 1: three games, you've played for what does give us the

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01:55:13,840 --> 01:55:16,200
Speaker 1: personality of the Titan offense? I know they got the

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Speaker 1: big they got a freight train at running back, and

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Speaker 1: they got a guy that's a pretty accurate thrower, you know,

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Speaker 1: So give us your your overall view of what you're

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Speaker 1: facing perhaps on Sunday against the Titans. You know they're

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Speaker 1: a good team, they always play us well, Uh, we

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01:55:30,960 --> 01:55:33,160
Speaker 1: just got to go out to execute the plan, you know, coach.

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Speaker 1: I believe in coach Leslie or coach McDermott, uh that

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Speaker 1: they that they set up a game plan for us

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01:55:38,720 --> 01:55:41,160
Speaker 1: to go out and make play. So we just got

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01:55:41,160 --> 01:55:42,720
Speaker 1: to go out there and execute that plan. And the

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Speaker 1: best I've been the last one I've got for you,

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01:55:45,600 --> 01:55:50,400
Speaker 1: Darryl Is. We see more and more these NFL quarterbacks

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01:55:50,400 --> 01:55:53,280
Speaker 1: getting it out way fast, Like the ball is coming

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01:55:53,320 --> 01:55:55,560
Speaker 1: out in like two point four seconds. I mean you

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01:55:55,600 --> 01:55:58,840
Speaker 1: could come clean sometimes and you're not gonna get there

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01:55:58,880 --> 01:56:02,080
Speaker 1: in time. So I know, batted passes and getting your

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01:56:02,080 --> 01:56:06,800
Speaker 1: hands up is something that the defensive staff had promoted

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01:56:06,840 --> 01:56:09,800
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Is that still something that's

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01:56:09,840 --> 01:56:13,000
Speaker 1: being preached knowing these quarterbacks you're getting the ball out

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01:56:13,000 --> 01:56:15,320
Speaker 1: so fast, it's hard to get there even on the

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01:56:15,360 --> 01:56:20,400
Speaker 1: best win that you have in your arsenal. Yeah, that's

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01:56:20,440 --> 01:56:23,040
Speaker 1: that's one of our main focus is also um Coase

2217
01:56:23,080 --> 01:56:26,480
Speaker 1: Washington always tells us good and good enough, So you

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01:56:26,560 --> 01:56:29,680
Speaker 1: just got to find a way to be a step faster.

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01:56:29,920 --> 01:56:34,440
Speaker 1: So that's that's what we try to do. All right, Listen, Bam,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate the time here. Coming off the practice field.

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01:56:36,880 --> 01:56:39,840
Speaker 1: We know you're a busy man during game week. Uh, Zoe,

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01:56:39,880 --> 01:56:41,840
Speaker 1: you want to you want to say your goodbyes here

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01:56:41,920 --> 01:56:45,160
Speaker 1: to your former teammate. Yeah, man, I'm just trying to

2224
01:56:45,440 --> 01:56:47,800
Speaker 1: when they start calling you bam. You hitting guys. Now,

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01:56:48,280 --> 01:56:50,880
Speaker 1: Oh I've been called bam. You know it's just starting

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01:56:50,920 --> 01:56:54,919
Speaker 1: to I'm trying to get it to spread throughout Buffalo.

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01:56:55,000 --> 01:56:59,560
Speaker 1: So but I've been called Yeah, we're we're BAM's promotional

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01:56:59,600 --> 01:57:02,560
Speaker 1: We're BAM's promotional and marketing team over here. Zoe. You

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01:57:02,600 --> 01:57:04,960
Speaker 1: didn't know that, So all right, thanks for the time.

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01:57:05,000 --> 01:57:08,960
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Aie a man, go get him on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, that's Daryl Bam Johnson joining us

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Speaker 1: here on the program. Um, Zoe, we're gonna say goodbye

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01:57:16,000 --> 01:57:18,480
Speaker 1: to you as well. Um do you want to give

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01:57:18,520 --> 01:57:20,440
Speaker 1: us a quick three on the lowdown? Is he still

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01:57:20,440 --> 01:57:24,200
Speaker 1: with us? I don't even I'm still here. Give us,

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01:57:24,240 --> 01:57:26,600
Speaker 1: give us, give us your give us your rapid fire

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01:57:27,160 --> 01:57:32,320
Speaker 1: lowdown for their game quick three offense. Just can continue

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01:57:32,320 --> 01:57:34,600
Speaker 1: to do what you do. Be dominant. Uh, continue to

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01:57:34,640 --> 01:57:36,400
Speaker 1: score points to make this team feel like they have

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01:57:36,480 --> 01:57:40,200
Speaker 1: to pass um because Derek Henry is a monster. So

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01:57:40,800 --> 01:57:42,880
Speaker 1: first second down round, we gotta dominate Derek Henry. This

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01:57:42,920 --> 01:57:46,520
Speaker 1: is always a physical game between the Bills and the

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01:57:46,560 --> 01:57:50,680
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. And then lastly, again we saw with Josh

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01:57:50,720 --> 01:57:52,760
Speaker 1: Norman last week the way he got the defense started

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01:57:52,760 --> 01:57:54,840
Speaker 1: with those turnovers. We have to get the ball out

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01:57:54,840 --> 01:57:57,640
Speaker 1: and turn his team over, uh to take possessions away

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01:57:57,640 --> 01:57:59,280
Speaker 1: from them and then make him feel like they have

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01:57:59,040 --> 01:58:02,080
Speaker 1: to throw the all which they don't do. As well

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01:58:02,120 --> 01:58:04,840
Speaker 1: as obviously running with Henry. The last one I had

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Speaker 1: for you, Zough, because I noticed this stat and I'm

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01:58:07,280 --> 01:58:09,120
Speaker 1: sure it's something that the players are going to notice

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01:58:09,160 --> 01:58:12,040
Speaker 1: on film. But through three games, and this probably doesn't

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01:58:12,040 --> 01:58:15,480
Speaker 1: come as any surprise, on first and ten they hand

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01:58:15,560 --> 01:58:19,520
Speaker 1: the ball to Derrick Henry sixty seven percent of the time. Now,

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Speaker 1: that seems like a high number for a tendency, but

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Speaker 1: then you also know that they go to play action

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01:58:26,880 --> 01:58:29,000
Speaker 1: a great deal too. I think Tannehill's worth in the

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01:58:29,080 --> 01:58:31,960
Speaker 1: league and play action passing yards. So how do you

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01:58:32,040 --> 01:58:36,480
Speaker 1: take a tendency that seems seems to have a major

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01:58:36,600 --> 01:58:39,000
Speaker 1: lean towards your running back, But at the same time,

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01:58:39,240 --> 01:58:41,320
Speaker 1: you got to respect play action as that guy at

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01:58:41,360 --> 01:58:43,720
Speaker 1: the linebacker level where you don't want to bite too hard,

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01:58:44,080 --> 01:58:45,840
Speaker 1: But you know, you gotta have some momentum if you're

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01:58:45,840 --> 01:58:48,840
Speaker 1: gonna meet that guy in the hole. Yeah yeah, well

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01:58:49,240 --> 01:58:52,080
Speaker 1: sixty seventy percent is not too highly. I mean, obviously

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01:58:52,160 --> 01:58:53,440
Speaker 1: going to do it, but you don't want to rely

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01:58:53,480 --> 01:58:54,880
Speaker 1: on it. But you gotta play the run first. And

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01:58:54,880 --> 01:58:57,800
Speaker 1: that's why it's so important to stop the run early

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01:58:58,000 --> 01:59:00,520
Speaker 1: in the game. And so when they start doing that

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01:59:00,560 --> 01:59:02,760
Speaker 1: play action, much like the Rams, you may not fly

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01:59:02,920 --> 01:59:04,720
Speaker 1: up their edge fans because you get started getting the

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01:59:04,760 --> 01:59:07,080
Speaker 1: feeling what the off of the lineman are doing after

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01:59:07,080 --> 01:59:08,960
Speaker 1: you stuff to run and put them in some second

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01:59:09,000 --> 01:59:12,240
Speaker 1: and longer. Because that play action comes on second downs.

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01:59:12,320 --> 01:59:15,400
Speaker 1: You know when they have when they are second in

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01:59:15,640 --> 01:59:18,240
Speaker 1: five second and six. Oh, we're gonna give it right

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01:59:18,280 --> 01:59:20,800
Speaker 1: back to Henry. We just got four yards. Oh here

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01:59:20,880 --> 01:59:23,160
Speaker 1: comes a play action. I gotta get back. Oh I

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01:59:23,200 --> 01:59:25,320
Speaker 1: jumped it right over the linebacker's head. But if you

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01:59:25,440 --> 01:59:28,120
Speaker 1: stuff to run on first down, especially and they are

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01:59:28,280 --> 01:59:31,120
Speaker 1: second in nine, you don't feel as a linebacker you

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01:59:31,120 --> 01:59:32,840
Speaker 1: can fly. You have to fly up. You can pop

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01:59:32,880 --> 01:59:35,080
Speaker 1: your feet for an extra second to see if it's

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01:59:35,120 --> 01:59:38,240
Speaker 1: play action and then make your determination. That's why it's

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01:59:38,240 --> 01:59:40,640
Speaker 1: going to be so important, especially on first down down

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Speaker 1: to stop hind me Loo. It's great hearing from you man.

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Speaker 1: You look great. Good luck and stay healthy, bro. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. All right, Lorenzo Alexander with the Lowdown

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Speaker 1: a day earlier than normal. He's usually joining us on Fridays,

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01:59:53,440 --> 01:59:55,880
Speaker 1: but you know, hey, we're flexible here. We can move

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Speaker 1: the schedule around to accommodate our guests. There are our

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01:59:58,400 --> 02:00:03,160
Speaker 1: schedule is as totally league out the window, and it's strange.

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Speaker 1: We can't even get to break up. Strange times, all right,

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Speaker 1: but we do have to take a break now, and

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Speaker 1: we will do that and then get back to some

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Speaker 1: of your phone calls and to the tweet sheet, which

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Speaker 1: we have yet to visit yet, as we are looking

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02:00:14,480 --> 02:00:18,800
Speaker 1: for solutions to how the NFL handles these COVID outbreaks

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Speaker 1: while still playing a sixteen game schedule. If you have

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Lives keep Tasker alone with Chris Brown's time for that

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Speaker 1: at that time in the show each week where our

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Speaker 1: guy Chris Brown has a chance to sit down with

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Speaker 1: one of the bills and have a little cup of joe.

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Speaker 1: So this week's edition of Coffee with the Bills, here's

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Speaker 1: Chris joining us. This week is build Receivers Coach chat

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Speaker 1: all coach Chanks and taking some time to be with us.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate it always. Thanks for having all right, So,

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Speaker 1: first off, the offense is out to a blazing start.

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Speaker 1: I know Josh Allen has deservedly received the good deal

2315
02:01:13,840 --> 02:01:15,600
Speaker 1: of the attention, but I want to talk to you

2316
02:01:15,600 --> 02:01:17,680
Speaker 1: about your guys in that receivers room. A lot of

2317
02:01:17,720 --> 02:01:21,040
Speaker 1: times a receivers coach has to kind of explain to

2318
02:01:21,120 --> 02:01:23,800
Speaker 1: guys in the room why they're not up on game day.

2319
02:01:23,840 --> 02:01:25,840
Speaker 1: But that hasn't been an issue for you. All six

2320
02:01:25,880 --> 02:01:27,760
Speaker 1: of your guys have been up every single week. So

2321
02:01:27,800 --> 02:01:30,080
Speaker 1: how much fun has it been having all of your

2322
02:01:30,120 --> 02:01:33,920
Speaker 1: guys ready to roll on Sundays here? It's been awesome. No,

2323
02:01:34,640 --> 02:01:37,760
Speaker 1: I got a great group, They worked really hard, and

2324
02:01:37,960 --> 02:01:42,480
Speaker 1: all of them play for us offensively. Someone's special games.

2325
02:01:42,480 --> 02:01:46,120
Speaker 1: But every guy has gotten in step up every day,

2326
02:01:46,240 --> 02:01:48,680
Speaker 1: So we got a lot of versatility and guys who've

2327
02:01:48,680 --> 02:01:50,880
Speaker 1: been doing a lot of stuff and know the whole thing.

2328
02:01:51,720 --> 02:01:55,360
Speaker 1: It seems like the camaraderie with your group is at

2329
02:01:55,400 --> 02:01:57,839
Speaker 1: like an all time high. Not to say it wasn't before,

2330
02:01:57,960 --> 02:02:02,120
Speaker 1: but just the selfless way these guys seem to interact

2331
02:02:02,560 --> 02:02:05,600
Speaker 1: with one another, which admitted that you don't always seat

2332
02:02:05,680 --> 02:02:09,160
Speaker 1: across the league, especially at that position. Where does that

2333
02:02:09,840 --> 02:02:12,600
Speaker 1: come from and what makes it work so well in

2334
02:02:12,640 --> 02:02:16,760
Speaker 1: your room? I think we got some great leadership guys

2335
02:02:16,800 --> 02:02:19,440
Speaker 1: who have been in the league for a lot of years,

2336
02:02:19,480 --> 02:02:22,840
Speaker 1: like j Roberts, Cold bes Is Smoke. I mean, they're

2337
02:02:22,880 --> 02:02:27,000
Speaker 1: all thirty and above, so a lot of it comes

2338
02:02:27,000 --> 02:02:30,160
Speaker 1: from them, you know, the player leadership and the way

2339
02:02:30,200 --> 02:02:32,400
Speaker 1: they played for each other on the field, and you

2340
02:02:32,440 --> 02:02:34,520
Speaker 1: see one of them making cats together, was trying to

2341
02:02:34,520 --> 02:02:38,200
Speaker 1: block them and give them a big, big game. So

2342
02:02:38,920 --> 02:02:41,920
Speaker 1: they really they really, you know, like you say, and

2343
02:02:42,040 --> 02:02:46,640
Speaker 1: like each other, and I think it builds on the field. Yeah,

2344
02:02:46,720 --> 02:02:49,040
Speaker 1: no question, all right, I appreciate that. Now, just to

2345
02:02:49,160 --> 02:02:50,760
Speaker 1: have a little bit of fun, coach, We're gonna play

2346
02:02:50,760 --> 02:02:52,840
Speaker 1: a little thing call off the Name game where I'm

2347
02:02:52,840 --> 02:02:55,040
Speaker 1: gonna give you a scenario or situation. You give me

2348
02:02:55,080 --> 02:02:58,440
Speaker 1: the name of a coach somewhere in your history, give

2349
02:02:58,520 --> 02:03:02,160
Speaker 1: or taken. All right, you're ready, And here's the first one. So,

2350
02:03:03,120 --> 02:03:06,440
Speaker 1: which coach gave you a piece of advice that you

2351
02:03:06,640 --> 02:03:10,200
Speaker 1: used to day as a coach with your players? Coach

2352
02:03:10,320 --> 02:03:13,680
Speaker 1: Mark ter Gory. Okay, and what was that advice? Or

2353
02:03:13,720 --> 02:03:18,280
Speaker 1: you're my Sharon who was find a way? He told

2354
02:03:18,280 --> 02:03:21,720
Speaker 1: me that when I was in ninth grade football football coach.

2355
02:03:22,320 --> 02:03:24,400
Speaker 1: I guess I probably came up with some excuse or

2356
02:03:24,440 --> 02:03:27,720
Speaker 1: something that doesn't matter five of the way. Yeah, right,

2357
02:03:28,040 --> 02:03:30,400
Speaker 1: And coaches using that now with COVID. So it's kind

2358
02:03:30,440 --> 02:03:34,360
Speaker 1: of a cool full circle deal there. Coach who prepared

2359
02:03:34,400 --> 02:03:37,080
Speaker 1: you as much for life when you got older as

2360
02:03:37,080 --> 02:03:42,560
Speaker 1: he did to play the game. Fisher debar An air Force.

2361
02:03:42,800 --> 02:03:46,080
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, air Force had coach for like thirty years. Yeah,

2362
02:03:46,200 --> 02:03:50,760
Speaker 1: good answer. Okay, which coach last one year? Which coach

2363
02:03:51,280 --> 02:03:53,640
Speaker 1: dead or alive? Do you wish you could have been

2364
02:03:53,840 --> 02:03:57,000
Speaker 1: on their staff even for a week, just for the

2365
02:03:57,040 --> 02:04:00,720
Speaker 1: pure experience of it. Eric Bryan just here all the

2366
02:04:01,000 --> 02:04:06,720
Speaker 1: stories I think that to be a part of Yeah, awesome,

2367
02:04:06,920 --> 02:04:09,240
Speaker 1: great answer, All right, coach, listen, thanks very much for

2368
02:04:09,280 --> 02:04:11,480
Speaker 1: the time. Good answers there in the name game with

2369
02:04:11,720 --> 02:04:14,440
Speaker 1: luck the rest of the way this season. Appreciate it. Chris,

2370
02:04:14,720 --> 02:04:17,200
Speaker 1: all right, that's Bills receivers, Coach Chad Hall. This is

2371
02:04:17,240 --> 02:04:20,840
Speaker 1: bing Falton Bills presented by Tim Horton's Cafe and Big Shop,

2372
02:04:21,120 --> 02:04:23,680
Speaker 1: the official coffee of the Buffalo Bills. We'll see you

2373
02:04:23,760 --> 02:04:27,839
Speaker 1: next time. How about Coach Hall with the product placement

2374
02:04:27,880 --> 02:04:30,600
Speaker 1: there at the end. Very nice coffee with the Bills

2375
02:04:30,600 --> 02:04:33,680
Speaker 1: presented by Tim Horton's Cafe and Bike Shop. And yeah,

2376
02:04:33,720 --> 02:04:35,360
Speaker 1: we thought he'd be an interesting guy to talk to

2377
02:04:35,440 --> 02:04:37,920
Speaker 1: in light of the roaring start that that receiving cores

2378
02:04:37,920 --> 02:04:41,000
Speaker 1: off to all six guys up every week and man

2379
02:04:41,640 --> 02:04:44,720
Speaker 1: just doing it and doing it and doing it well. Ye,

2380
02:04:45,760 --> 02:04:49,000
Speaker 1: we do have to get to the tweet sheet because

2381
02:04:49,000 --> 02:04:51,240
Speaker 1: we have not done that once for the entire show.

2382
02:04:51,360 --> 02:04:53,040
Speaker 1: So let's get to that. And the tweet sheet is

2383
02:04:53,080 --> 02:04:55,360
Speaker 1: always brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official

2384
02:04:55,360 --> 02:04:59,440
Speaker 1: equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. And we are

2385
02:04:59,480 --> 02:05:01,480
Speaker 1: asking you what should the approach be from the NFL

2386
02:05:01,520 --> 02:05:03,839
Speaker 1: when dealing with the COVID nineteen outbreaks and a sixteen

2387
02:05:03,880 --> 02:05:07,000
Speaker 1: game schedule from Nick t Whatever they do, do not

2388
02:05:07,120 --> 02:05:10,000
Speaker 1: make teams forfeit. It may be justice for the team

2389
02:05:10,000 --> 02:05:12,280
Speaker 1: who's forced to lose, but it's not fair to the

2390
02:05:12,320 --> 02:05:14,040
Speaker 1: rest of the league to give away a free win.

2391
02:05:14,440 --> 02:05:17,200
Speaker 1: Teams shouldn't earn a w just because they were coincidentally

2392
02:05:17,200 --> 02:05:19,360
Speaker 1: scheduled to play a team with an outbreak that week.

2393
02:05:19,640 --> 02:05:22,200
Speaker 1: What any think of that? Yeah, it's true. I can

2394
02:05:22,200 --> 02:05:24,600
Speaker 1: get on board with that. Nobody wants these gut even

2395
02:05:25,000 --> 02:05:27,440
Speaker 1: the Bills don't want the Titans to forefeit. Nobody wants

2396
02:05:27,440 --> 02:05:29,240
Speaker 1: to because now you know, we found out too, and

2397
02:05:29,240 --> 02:05:30,880
Speaker 1: they don't get paid if they get forfeit the game.

2398
02:05:30,920 --> 02:05:33,920
Speaker 1: But also, you want to play. I mean, that's why,

2399
02:05:34,160 --> 02:05:36,000
Speaker 1: that's why you do what you do. These guys enjoy

2400
02:05:36,040 --> 02:05:38,320
Speaker 1: it as fun. It's what you want to do. Everybody's

2401
02:05:38,400 --> 02:05:39,800
Speaker 1: up for a week off, but you don't want to

2402
02:05:39,800 --> 02:05:42,840
Speaker 1: cost you a game. So I'm I'm totally on board

2403
02:05:42,880 --> 02:05:45,240
Speaker 1: with it. I'm these guys don't want the time. Nobody

2404
02:05:45,240 --> 02:05:47,080
Speaker 1: wants the Titans to have to forfeit games. I know

2405
02:05:47,160 --> 02:05:49,040
Speaker 1: people out there fans are like, going, yeah, give them

2406
02:05:49,040 --> 02:05:52,200
Speaker 1: the hammer, let's take the quick win. Not so much.

2407
02:05:52,280 --> 02:05:56,240
Speaker 1: I don't think most people are like this, and there's

2408
02:05:56,280 --> 02:05:59,280
Speaker 1: some misconceptions about what's going on with the virus as well.

2409
02:05:59,320 --> 02:06:01,120
Speaker 1: From Jack, you're on the tweet sheet. He says this,

2410
02:06:01,480 --> 02:06:04,160
Speaker 1: I can't believe the players don't have mandatory face shields

2411
02:06:04,160 --> 02:06:06,640
Speaker 1: on their helmets. That would be a start. And as

2412
02:06:06,680 --> 02:06:10,200
Speaker 1: far as the Titans completely ignoring the protocol, they should

2413
02:06:10,240 --> 02:06:12,880
Speaker 1: have to pay an enormous penalty. Well, we agree with

2414
02:06:12,880 --> 02:06:16,480
Speaker 1: you about the enormous penalty. What that is, though, remains

2415
02:06:16,520 --> 02:06:19,280
Speaker 1: to be seen. And for the face masks, I'll say

2416
02:06:19,280 --> 02:06:23,520
Speaker 1: it again. Until I hear that somebody has transferred the

2417
02:06:23,600 --> 02:06:25,920
Speaker 1: virus on the field in a game, in a game,

2418
02:06:25,960 --> 02:06:28,560
Speaker 1: we don't think it's happened yet. There's been no evidence

2419
02:06:28,600 --> 02:06:31,720
Speaker 1: that anybody has gotten the virus during a football game.

2420
02:06:31,960 --> 02:06:35,080
Speaker 1: The Vikings and the Titans played, and that's the day

2421
02:06:35,120 --> 02:06:42,040
Speaker 1: before seven Titans staff and players tested positive. Nobody on

2422
02:06:42,080 --> 02:06:47,600
Speaker 1: the Vikings tested positive and haven't yet. Nobody on the

2423
02:06:47,720 --> 02:06:50,120
Speaker 1: Raiders had that incident where they all went to the

2424
02:06:51,000 --> 02:06:54,160
Speaker 1: to the charity event, they were unmasked and all that

2425
02:06:54,360 --> 02:06:59,400
Speaker 1: da da dat. He wasn't at the event. And the

2426
02:06:59,440 --> 02:07:03,280
Speaker 1: Bills have nobody rights as of now, they have nobody

2427
02:07:03,360 --> 02:07:06,080
Speaker 1: and they and the Chiefs. The Chiefs, they don't have

2428
02:07:06,120 --> 02:07:08,800
Speaker 1: anybody well they know, not yet, No, not yet. And

2429
02:07:08,800 --> 02:07:12,440
Speaker 1: they play the Patriots on Monday night. So it's a

2430
02:07:12,440 --> 02:07:14,120
Speaker 1: little early maybe in the game, and we're not out

2431
02:07:14,120 --> 02:07:16,560
Speaker 1: of the woods yet with the Chiefs. But there you go.

2432
02:07:16,640 --> 02:07:19,160
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't even as of now, it doesn't

2433
02:07:19,160 --> 02:07:22,520
Speaker 1: even look like anybody's transferred the virus on the field,

2434
02:07:22,800 --> 02:07:27,360
Speaker 1: which is to me the most unbelievable part about anything.

2435
02:07:27,400 --> 02:07:29,280
Speaker 1: I mean, are you kidding me? Yeah, I wouldn't have

2436
02:07:29,320 --> 02:07:32,240
Speaker 1: expected that. And I get it. Most of the theoretically

2437
02:07:32,400 --> 02:07:36,040
Speaker 1: zero people are positive when they're on the field playing

2438
02:07:36,040 --> 02:07:38,560
Speaker 1: a game. They get tested all week. Nobody's nobody who's

2439
02:07:38,600 --> 02:07:42,080
Speaker 1: been negative at all is on the field. But nevertheless,

2440
02:07:42,440 --> 02:07:44,640
Speaker 1: we've seen it. You don't know you're spreading it when

2441
02:07:44,640 --> 02:07:46,800
Speaker 1: you're spreading it. Yeah, And because you don't know you

2442
02:07:46,800 --> 02:07:49,160
Speaker 1: have it yet, it's amazing. That's the amazing part about

2443
02:07:49,200 --> 02:07:51,000
Speaker 1: this whole thing. Yeah, back to the phones. At eight three,

2444
02:07:51,160 --> 02:07:53,280
Speaker 1: five fifty, we go to Joe and cheek to waga, Joe,

2445
02:07:53,320 --> 02:07:56,440
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Thanks for holding on? Well,

2446
02:07:56,480 --> 02:07:59,120
Speaker 1: here's what I feeling, and this obvious that the Titans

2447
02:07:59,160 --> 02:08:04,280
Speaker 1: have they violated the protocol of the league, and somehow,

2448
02:08:04,520 --> 02:08:06,640
Speaker 1: to me, that one hundred dollars find that they're driven

2449
02:08:06,640 --> 02:08:10,040
Speaker 1: out is chip change with these people here. Somehow they

2450
02:08:10,040 --> 02:08:13,040
Speaker 1: should be punished. My feeling is what two said, Ronnie.

2451
02:08:13,640 --> 02:08:15,880
Speaker 1: I think they should have to play the game with

2452
02:08:16,080 --> 02:08:18,520
Speaker 1: the players they have on the same with New England

2453
02:08:18,520 --> 02:08:21,400
Speaker 1: had to play obviously there was only one player. But yeah,

2454
02:08:21,560 --> 02:08:24,520
Speaker 1: he's good point all that premises, And my biggest thing

2455
02:08:24,640 --> 02:08:30,080
Speaker 1: is this right here, I think, why are they waiting

2456
02:08:30,160 --> 02:08:32,440
Speaker 1: so long? It's not fair of the Bills. It's not

2457
02:08:32,560 --> 02:08:34,320
Speaker 1: fair of the Bills to be wait so long. I mean,

2458
02:08:34,400 --> 02:08:36,360
Speaker 1: like you said, it's probably about a ninety nine percent

2459
02:08:36,480 --> 02:08:39,600
Speaker 1: chance that the game is going to be postponed. If

2460
02:08:39,600 --> 02:08:41,760
Speaker 1: it isn't let us know because it's not fair of

2461
02:08:41,840 --> 02:08:43,760
Speaker 1: the Bills. I mean, they're practicing like it's going to

2462
02:08:43,800 --> 02:08:46,320
Speaker 1: be the Titans, and by now they should know what

2463
02:08:46,320 --> 02:08:48,040
Speaker 1: they're gonna do, and why what are they gonna do

2464
02:08:48,080 --> 02:08:51,000
Speaker 1: wait till Saturday to let us know? And there and

2465
02:08:51,040 --> 02:08:52,960
Speaker 1: they got to prepare on a short week for the Chiefs.

2466
02:08:52,960 --> 02:08:54,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, the sooner the better for the Bills. You're

2467
02:08:54,920 --> 02:08:57,040
Speaker 1: absolutely right about that. Good call. Thanks for giving it

2468
02:08:57,080 --> 02:08:59,440
Speaker 1: to us. I agree, and I think this may be

2469
02:08:59,560 --> 02:09:03,400
Speaker 1: what's happen happening to Joe, that the league may have

2470
02:09:03,560 --> 02:09:05,880
Speaker 1: been telling the Bills nothing, saying hey, you just keep

2471
02:09:05,920 --> 02:09:09,040
Speaker 1: going because we're If the Titans can open their facility

2472
02:09:09,080 --> 02:09:13,680
Speaker 1: on Saturday, tough luck to them. They're playing on Sunday.

2473
02:09:13,400 --> 02:09:17,880
Speaker 1: That maybe that seems to me, right, that may be

2474
02:09:18,320 --> 02:09:20,640
Speaker 1: what they're gonna put them through. They don't care if

2475
02:09:20,680 --> 02:09:22,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna do all that stuff you've been do and

2476
02:09:22,520 --> 02:09:24,560
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay the penalty. The guys that are clean

2477
02:09:24,800 --> 02:09:27,680
Speaker 1: and work at those or whatever, whoever you've got healthy

2478
02:09:27,760 --> 02:09:30,400
Speaker 1: or whatever can play. But you're playing with a day's

2479
02:09:30,440 --> 02:09:33,920
Speaker 1: notice period and it's your fault, not ours, and all

2480
02:09:33,960 --> 02:09:37,080
Speaker 1: those guys that were violating the protocols should be suspended

2481
02:09:37,080 --> 02:09:40,120
Speaker 1: for the game and get doctor game check, right. I mean,

2482
02:09:40,120 --> 02:09:42,440
Speaker 1: if if if you guys didn't go do that, you

2483
02:09:42,440 --> 02:09:44,480
Speaker 1: wouldn't have extended the length and the life of the

2484
02:09:44,560 --> 02:09:47,120
Speaker 1: virus within your own team. Because here's the thing. If

2485
02:09:47,160 --> 02:09:49,120
Speaker 1: they can get that game done, even if they move

2486
02:09:49,160 --> 02:09:51,440
Speaker 1: it to a four o'clock window on Sunday, give them

2487
02:09:51,440 --> 02:09:54,360
Speaker 1: at a few extra hours whatever or Sunday night, whatever

2488
02:09:54,680 --> 02:09:57,880
Speaker 1: the Bills still got their game on Thursday. Yeah, nothing

2489
02:09:58,000 --> 02:10:00,360
Speaker 1: changes for the Bills or the Chiefs. They don't want

2490
02:10:00,360 --> 02:10:02,320
Speaker 1: that game push back. They don't want to mess any

2491
02:10:02,400 --> 02:10:06,520
Speaker 1: with any more games than they have to, So they're

2492
02:10:06,560 --> 02:10:08,480
Speaker 1: not telling the Bills anything that from right now. The

2493
02:10:08,520 --> 02:10:10,680
Speaker 1: Bills are going to climb on a jet day after

2494
02:10:10,720 --> 02:10:13,840
Speaker 1: tomorrow and head to Tennessee and the Titans. For all

2495
02:10:13,880 --> 02:10:17,840
Speaker 1: we know, they're the earliest they can be open is Saturday,

2496
02:10:17,840 --> 02:10:21,280
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, right, and I don't know if

2497
02:10:21,320 --> 02:10:23,920
Speaker 1: that's even going to happen right at this point. So

2498
02:10:24,120 --> 02:10:27,560
Speaker 1: that's that's that's where they're at. If they if they

2499
02:10:27,600 --> 02:10:30,040
Speaker 1: if they have another positive, they where they have two?

2500
02:10:30,520 --> 02:10:32,560
Speaker 1: Do they have any this morning? Yeah, they had another

2501
02:10:32,600 --> 02:10:35,240
Speaker 1: positive today and they want to They had the one

2502
02:10:35,280 --> 02:10:38,920
Speaker 1: that was inconclusive yesterday corroborated and confirmed today, so they're

2503
02:10:38,920 --> 02:10:42,360
Speaker 1: getting technica. It was one new one today and then

2504
02:10:42,400 --> 02:10:44,960
Speaker 1: another one from yes because they had two positive yesterday.

2505
02:10:45,000 --> 02:10:47,200
Speaker 1: The one that was kind of in question yesterday was

2506
02:10:47,240 --> 02:10:50,400
Speaker 1: confirmed today with a point of care test, and then

2507
02:10:50,400 --> 02:10:53,680
Speaker 1: they had another new positive today. So yeah, they're still

2508
02:10:53,760 --> 02:10:55,960
Speaker 1: rolling in and it's due to the fact that they

2509
02:10:56,000 --> 02:10:59,760
Speaker 1: were out there practicing in an unauthorized fashion. Heb's practiced,

2510
02:11:00,080 --> 02:11:02,360
Speaker 1: the offense practiced, and there was another group of players

2511
02:11:02,400 --> 02:11:05,240
Speaker 1: that practiced after the facility was closed. If everybody just

2512
02:11:05,280 --> 02:11:07,480
Speaker 1: stayed at home after they closed the facility on the

2513
02:11:07,520 --> 02:11:09,600
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, there's a good chance they would have been

2514
02:11:09,600 --> 02:11:12,520
Speaker 1: able to reopen the facility today, I mean, or yesterday

2515
02:11:12,600 --> 02:11:16,200
Speaker 1: or today. The simple fact is we had Lorenzo Alexandro

2516
02:11:16,280 --> 02:11:18,120
Speaker 1: on earlier, and he's right now. It could have been

2517
02:11:18,200 --> 02:11:19,960
Speaker 1: that the players said it all right, let's just go

2518
02:11:20,000 --> 02:11:22,200
Speaker 1: home and get and the coaching steps said, wait a minute, guys,

2519
02:11:22,800 --> 02:11:25,560
Speaker 1: we're three and oz here. Once you guys go out,

2520
02:11:25,720 --> 02:11:28,080
Speaker 1: run through this script, run through these plays, and just

2521
02:11:28,120 --> 02:11:30,760
Speaker 1: stay sharp and get you know, stay together on this.

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Speaker 1: So when we come back on Tuesday or Thursday, or

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Speaker 1: I mean sorry, Thursday or Friday, when we opened back up,

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Speaker 1: we'll be ready to go. Well, they do that, and

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Speaker 1: of course now now that now they haven't shut the

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Speaker 1: door on the virus ball. Eric in Chicago, Frank in Lockport,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry we are at a time and we didn't

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Speaker 1: get a chance to get to you. Feel free to

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Speaker 1: call back on another edition of the show. We thank

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Speaker 1: you for holding on and trying to be patient. We

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Speaker 1: just ran out of time here with the brakes because

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Speaker 1: we have to step aside. Now. We'll be back with

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Speaker 1: what have we Learned? Coming up next to close up

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Speaker 1: the show here on Thursday edition, Chris Brown Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio time for what if We Learned?

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Speaker 1: Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental

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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. And we've learned that the

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Speaker 1: league has not yet made a decision on what to

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Speaker 1: do with the Bills Titans game on Sunday, even though

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Speaker 1: there was another new positive test down in Tennessee with

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Speaker 1: the Titans organization, their facility remains closed and the timeline

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Speaker 1: on this virus continues to stretch as and we don't

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Speaker 1: know when it's going to end. The Bills are still

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Speaker 1: preparing to play a game, but we don't know if

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Speaker 1: that game is taking place at least on Sunday. It's

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Speaker 1: the further we get into the future without hearing anything,

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Speaker 1: the more likely it is that the game will not

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Speaker 1: be played in Tennessee on Sunday. They're still probably holding

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Speaker 1: out hope that it could be played Monday or Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: But if it gets pushed back that far, Bills fans

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Speaker 1: know that then the Thursday night home game against the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs has to be moved as well, and

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Speaker 1: then the ripple effects get a little bit hairy after that.

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Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? So they can they can

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Speaker 1: push the Bills in casey game back, but that now

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Speaker 1: you have to get cooperation from another entity, which is

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Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football, and YadA, yadda YadA, and here we go.

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Speaker 1: Why why am I picturing the NFL office in Park Avenue.

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Speaker 1: They got guys out with slide rules and protractors and

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Speaker 1: that little compass, remember the pencil with the point and

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Speaker 1: you do the compass thing. They're doing all of that

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Speaker 1: to figure out because once you got to start juggling,

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Speaker 1: you can. We can stand here and throw darts at

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Speaker 1: it is not easy because the ripple effects are unseen

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Speaker 1: and unimaginable dominoes. The dominoes are all lined up, which

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Speaker 1: is the first one to fall. Tomorrow's show Daniel Jeremiah

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Speaker 1: from NFL Network. We will also have NFL films Greg

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Speaker 1: Cosell and another edition of Tasker's teammates. Don't you dare

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Speaker 1: miss it. Friday edition of One Bill's Live coming your

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Speaker 1: way tomorrow. We'll see you the