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Speaker 3: Nice cut look taking off and there he goes.

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Speaker 2: They're not gonna get him.

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Speaker 4: James Cook, don't flip. That's kind of his little thing.

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Speaker 5: Oh my, I we're excited with with where he's at

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Speaker 1: Oh he reaches across touchdown football.

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Speaker 3: What an amazing effort by Cook. Huntquel Savable.

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Speaker 6: Look down the sideline to the twentieth the time the

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Speaker 4: No Bill.

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Speaker 3: Go, Bill's indeed, let's freaking go, Let's go. James Cook

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Speaker 3: under contract after the two sides reached an agreement on

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Speaker 7: That's when the movement happened, and we woke up.

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Speaker 3: This morning to learn that James Cook will be in

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Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills. So essentially it's the last year of his

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Speaker 3: rookie deal with four years tacked on top of that,

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Speaker 3: so he will play out this year and I'm sure

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Speaker 3: the contract numbers have all been adjusted, but he still

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Speaker 3: Bill's uniform. Your reaction, Steve, I knew it.

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Speaker 8: All alone, never doubt knew it was gonna happen. No question,

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Speaker 8: He's in the right spot. They use him the right way.

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Speaker 9: Let's just watch him play.

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Speaker 8: And I like the fact that they tacked it on

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Speaker 9: That have signed the extensions this year.

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Speaker 8: you got James cooking his starts next year. He staggers

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Speaker 3: Once we saw him on the practice field yesterday. To me,

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Speaker 3: and clearly they had made enough progress in contract negotiations

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Speaker 3: where Cook scam said, just get back on the practice field,

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Speaker 3: less than twenty four hours. Here we are GM Brandon Bean,

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Speaker 3: as we mentioned, said the deal came together last night,

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Speaker 7: Cook had four touchdown runs of.

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Speaker 3: So the Bills had four forty plus yard runs last season,

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Speaker 3: Home run ability has value.

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Speaker 8: use him exactly like they should use him. He's built

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Speaker 8: in James is one of them. So congratulations to James.

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Speaker 8: Congratulations the Bills forgetting it. And I think when you

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Speaker 8: course you're trying to get better, but you're not gonna

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Speaker 8: get better losing James Cook.

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Speaker 7: Correct and you ran down the list.

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Speaker 3: How about a nice golf clap for Brandon Bean in

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Speaker 3: the front office with Jim Overdorfri and Kevin me Yank

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Speaker 3: not gonna well, what the hell, We'll toot our own

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's a I know we're sitting here now,

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Speaker 3: Well, it wasn't easy, as we know. I am going

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Speaker 3: if you have to. I don't care.

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Speaker 7: But you're paying them twelve million. Get your full value.

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Speaker 9: They scored thirty.

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Speaker 8: Points a year last year exactly where they were, I know,

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Speaker 8: they've got it going on on this offense. He's an

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Speaker 3: And it was the fourth fastest play from scrimmage in

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Speaker 3: And we will hear from James Cook in a little

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Speaker 3: good to see him working his way back Itinerary wise,

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Speaker 8: You may not know this shit. Are you gonna go

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Speaker 7: Okay, are you ready?

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Speaker 3: This comes from Nick Baumgardner. Okay, this was his assessment

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Speaker 3: everything the Dolphins for two hours out here as lopsided

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Speaker 9: It's not a good place to be Steve.

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Speaker 3: What's that team on the top three list to implode.

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Speaker 7: On my whiteboard?

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Speaker 9: The Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it may have started already. Yeah, Yeah, so there

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Speaker 7: That's make of it what you will.

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Speaker 3: Still no movement on a new contract for Washington Commanders

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Speaker 3: GM Adam Peters said last month, quote, whatever happens along

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Speaker 3: to pay you thirty old thirty three million a year?

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Speaker 4: No, right, no, absolutely not.

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Speaker 9: I'd get it.

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Speaker 7: We'll see where the middle ground is there.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you're not there.

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Speaker 8: No, and no, okay, there's I mean the Steelers, Steelers

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Speaker 8: pay to Cook. I'm right where it was with James

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Speaker 9: He's out there.

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing you need to remember, Steve Terry McLaurin

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Speaker 9: I get it.

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Speaker 2: Good for you.

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Speaker 8: Thanks for stopping by, Okay, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: The the optics are going to be very interesting here

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Speaker 9: Is he under contract?

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Speaker 3: Cam Hayward isn't the only Pittsburgh Steeler seeking a new contract.

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Speaker 3: He signed a four year, twenty million dollars deal back

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Speaker 7: On the deal.

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Speaker 3: Chiefs kicker Harrison Bucker is the highest paid kicker in

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Speaker 8: That's fine. I'll say this that this just came across

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Speaker 8: coach Ben Johnson has made it public that now everybody,

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Speaker 8: and that means Caleb Williams as well, everybody's playing against

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Speaker 8: the Bills. This was starters, the starters in the second

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Speaker 9: I love it in Chicago.

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Speaker 3: Last year, the Bills played in the game in which

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Speaker 3: Caleb Williams saw his first NFL snaps. Because the preseason

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Speaker 3: Brown's quarterback Shudur Sanders injured an oblique muscle in practice today.

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Speaker 7: Had coach Aaron Glenn said the team is still.

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Speaker 3: Evaluating the injury. And then finally, Steve Sportico released its

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Speaker 3: NFL team valuation rankings and at the top of the

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Speaker 9: That's a big number.

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Speaker 3: It's a twenty four percent increase over last year. That's

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Speaker 9: Ten billion.

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Speaker 9: Hello, that's a big number.

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Speaker 3: Second were the Rams with thirty four percent growth from

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Speaker 3: The teams below the Bills on the list Carolina, Indianapolis, Arizona,

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Speaker 8: It's interesting what affects this. I would imagine Indianapolis was

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Speaker 7: I'm not going to pretend to know if it does

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't have right so I don't know how

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Speaker 7: I would assume billion.

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Speaker 3: I would assume the Bills might make a move up

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Speaker 3: that's why you got you know, Vince and Josie and

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Speaker 9: Know what, that's pretty good growth. Yeah, and it takes

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Speaker 2: Nope.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So there it is.

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Speaker 3: Uh. We told you that you were going to hear

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Speaker 3: from the post practice podium on his new contract extension.

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Speaker 4: Good actually good to be.

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Speaker 10: I got there a plague with my team and you know,

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Speaker 5: Difficult was this process for you?

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Speaker 4: And I want to say difficult? I hindered it the

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Speaker 10: And U and all we got stuff done.

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Speaker 4: What can be confident? Instead?

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Speaker 11: Now sitting out practice and not playing the game would

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Speaker 4: Not more so it would help.

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Speaker 10: I'm just trying to protect myself, you know, just trying

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Speaker 5: What excites your most spout be in this city, shop

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Speaker 10: Like I've been saying this, the this place that drafted me, mean,

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Speaker 12: Like that because you were going through this process, What

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Speaker 4: It just shows how much they got my back and.

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Speaker 10: You know, how how willing they willing to go with

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Speaker 13: Perspective, But why did you decide to start pulling in

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Speaker 10: Like I said, to protect myself and you know, just

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Speaker 11: I was most excited out there.

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Speaker 4: All my family, everybody seems like ye been over the

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Speaker 4: Type of great. No, I mean, I just was. It

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Speaker 10: A little hard though, but I was just just kind

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Speaker 10: of calming it down and you know, like I said,

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Speaker 4: Over things and getting my mind clear.

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Speaker 2: I could, many can't.

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Speaker 4: I asked you about end of the episode. What I'm

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Speaker 5: Why you will keep off the field for what you

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Speaker 4: How do you have a competition shop and tell found out.

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Speaker 10: And we paid that, so let's go play football. I

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Speaker 10: mean I wouldn't say it was a win and lose

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Speaker 4: So yeah, you would too.

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Speaker 11: You were on the field for the first aid practice.

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Speaker 11: Why was it important for you to be on the

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Speaker 4: In the tampons.

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Speaker 10: Just to show my my loyalty to my team and

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Speaker 4: That was my mindset.

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Speaker 14: What would when you went back to packice yesterday, you

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Speaker 14: know things were close like where what would your mindset

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Speaker 10: Practiced yesterday, I kind of knew, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The next level? The next obviously last year to watch

448
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Speaker 1: your touch down the stats.

449
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Speaker 5: Were very crushing.

450
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Speaker 1: What do you feel like you can continue to your bom?

451
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Speaker 4: I mean, just continue to keep keep doing me, you know,

452
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Speaker 4: being me.

453
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Speaker 10: And yeah, like I like, hopefully bring a super Bowl here,

454
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 10: That's what I'm trying to do, and just keep elevating

455
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Speaker 10: my game.

456
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Speaker 5: Of how much was it meaning you to be a

457
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Speaker 5: part of it?

458
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Speaker 4: Kind of prime for that.

459
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Speaker 15: They've got off year.

460
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Speaker 10: And we're going to spotball, I mean especially you know

461
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Speaker 10: the guys that came in with me.

462
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Speaker 4: We all got rewarded, and I mean.

463
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Speaker 10: Now it's time to for us to go play football

464
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Speaker 10: and showing why we belong here.

465
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Speaker 14: James, did you ever.

466
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Speaker 3: Feel misunder store throughout this processing?

467
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 10: No, because y'all don't know what I'm going through, and

468
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:05,880
Speaker 10: in y'all.

469
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 4: Opinion, no matter.

470
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Speaker 10: So it's just me being myself and just staying true

471
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Speaker 10: to myself and just believing in myself.

472
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Speaker 4: It's just it's the.

473
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Speaker 9: Oldest contract, of course, const Well, it's.

474
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Speaker 3: You know, if it's easier now get the money, getting

475
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Speaker 3: to get.

476
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 4: Your now you could they gotta.

477
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Speaker 7: Deal about it about.

478
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Speaker 1: The way you're wife or you.

479
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 4: Just by never settling, you know, never get complacent.

480
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Speaker 10: Always keep working, keep pushing yourself to the to the

481
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Speaker 10: hardest and the you know, keep going.

482
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Speaker 7: Oh my wife is protect up saying.

483
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Speaker 4: I was really chilling.

484
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Speaker 10: I wasn't really thinking about it, like I was just

485
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Speaker 10: calm and just being me.

486
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Speaker 1: Did it ever get to a point where it bothered you?

487
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Speaker 4: Nope?

488
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Speaker 8: How you.

489
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Speaker 4: Have a long it took.

490
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Speaker 10: I have a long it took, but we got it done,

491
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 10: so we don't need to be discussing that, and let's

492
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Speaker 10: play football.

493
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Speaker 3: Let's play football. Indeed, I love it.

494
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Speaker 9: James's point, never get to a point where it bothered you, Nope.

495
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

496
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Speaker 3: He's a man of few words, and when it comes

497
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 3: to football or when it comes to contract extensions, he's

498
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 3: just about the business. And I think what made him

499
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Speaker 3: such an attractive player to the Bills in the first

500
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 3: place was he is just inherently a self motivated and

501
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 3: hardworking athlete. He's a performer because of the work that

502
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 3: he puts in. Now he's also tremendous gifted physically, but

503
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 3: he puts the work in as well, and I think

504
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 3: that's what his teammates appreciate about him. That's certainly what

505
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 3: the front office and the coaching staff appreciate about him,

506
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 3: and it's why they made efforts to sign him to

507
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Speaker 3: the contract extension.

508
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Speaker 4: We saw.

509
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 8: We've always seen it through the years, and young players

510
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 8: always have to see it for themselves. Sometimes not always,

511
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 8: but sometimes they have to see it for themselves. They

512
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 8: get in here, and so many young players have been

513
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 8: so good at every level they have gone through, from

514
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 8: middle school to high school to college, and then you

515
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 8: get to the pros and you think it's going to

516
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 8: be more of the same, and you get in the

517
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 8: door and all of a sudden, everywhere you look in

518
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 8: the locker room as somebody who's extremely gifted physically. The

519
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 8: only thing that sets these guys apart is how intelligent

520
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 8: they are and how hard they work.

521
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Speaker 9: That's it.

522
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Speaker 3: And I think the important thing that Brandon Bean mentioned

523
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,439
Speaker 3: in his press conference this morning after they announced the

524
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Speaker 3: signing was he reminded everybody, guy that's got low mileage

525
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 3: on the tires, the guy had two hundred and ninety

526
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 3: seven touches in his entire college career. Like there are,

527
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 3: some players come out of college they have four times

528
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 3: that amount three times that amount.

529
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 9: Yeah, they do that in one year.

530
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean seriously, and it's low miles and we

531
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 3: know what the numbers and the analytics have said over

532
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 3: the years.

533
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 7: I think it's two thousand touches.

534
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 3: And then after that that's when you usually see a

535
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,160
Speaker 3: drop off in most players. There are exceptions Derrick Henry,

536
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 3: Adrian Peterson, but there aren't many, right, And signing him

537
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 3: for another four years after this year, I think made

538
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 3: sense to them in part because of the low mileage

539
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,439
Speaker 3: that he has in terms of touches, carries and hits

540
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 3: for lack of a better turn.

541
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Speaker 7: Yeah.

542
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Speaker 8: For example, Derrek Henry's got three seasons where he's had

543
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 8: over three hundred touches I'm sorry, four seasons where he's

544
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 8: had over three hundred touches. Last year was one of them,

545
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,439
Speaker 8: three hundred and twenty five. He had three hundred and

546
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 8: forty nine one year, three hundred and seventy eight one year.

547
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 7: It's a lot, yeah.

548
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 3: I mean, if you count James Cook's career touches in

549
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 3: the pros, I mean he's just over five hundred thirty

550
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 3: carries now in his career pro career, two hundred ninety

551
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 3: seven total touches in college and once he got like

552
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 3: one hundred something receptions, so six thirty three. Yeah, you know,

553
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 3: so he's a little over a third of the way

554
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,439
Speaker 3: there to two thousand. So there's a lot of a

555
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 3: lot of guess left in that tank exactly.

556
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 8: So it's yeah, he's he's gonna be good for a

557
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 8: little while. Yeah, and he's tied up for at least

558
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 8: that long.

559
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Speaker 3: We have to take a break here because when we

560
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Speaker 3: come back, we're gonna be joined out in the parking

561
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Speaker 3: lot One Bill's Live on One Bill's Drive with Michael Hoyt,

562
00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 3: an Ontario native who's playing a lot close to home

563
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 3: than he did previously in his career out in LA.

564
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Speaker 3: We catch up with him next here on One Bills

565
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Speaker 3: Line presented by Colida Healthton's Buffalo Bills Radio. Chris Brown,

566
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Speaker 3: Steve Tasker Back here on One Pills Live, and our

567
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Speaker 3: series from the Parking Lot continues with one Michael Hoyt

568
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 3: and I guess I would call you an edge player,

569
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 3: but I think you're gonna be an exciting defensive chess

570
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 3: piece for this team. I don't know how inventive Bobby

571
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 3: Babbage wants to get, but if he wants to put

572
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 3: you in a multitude of places. I think you've proven

573
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 3: in your career already that you can swing it. What

574
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 3: were you sold on when you know, the free agency

575
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 3: process began here with the Bills and those conversations, you know,

576
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 3: started to matriculate what was most attractive to you in

577
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 3: terms of what you were told your role could be here.

578
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean number one, Uh, it's philosbophia. It looks

579
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 6: like the most fun atmosphere.

580
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 7: Game day, and that was number one.

581
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Like you can't you can't help but be like

582
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 6: romantic when you see that in the snow's coming down

583
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 6: and the fans are throwing snowballs, okay, the best And

584
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 6: then schematically, you know, Bobby Babbage obviously a ton of

585
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 6: respect for them and just what they were doing talking

586
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 6: to the coaches, talking to like how I would fit

587
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 6: into the scheme in the structure. It just felt like

588
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 6: a place that was exciting to play. And honestly, defense

589
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 6: is a lot easier to play when your offense is

590
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 6: really good.

591
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

592
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 7: And on the scoreboard.

593
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you know, that's obviously a huge selling point

594
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 6: for any defensive player coming like you have that complimentary

595
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 6: football on offense and special teams too.

596
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Speaker 8: One of the things too, is there's a lot of

597
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 8: new face. You're not just the only new face, you know,

598
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 8: all the guys. There's a lot of guys on the

599
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 8: defensive front that are that are new to the system,

600
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Speaker 8: new to the culture.

601
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Speaker 9: How's that group coming together?

602
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Speaker 2: It's good.

603
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Speaker 6: I mean while we were at Saint John Fit sure,

604
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 6: the amount of people yelling Joey Bosa. Hey, I'm like,

605
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 6: that's not me. So I need to get like a

606
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 6: shirt that just says I'm not Joey Bosa until we

607
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 6: get clearcut Who's who? But no, I mean I think

608
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 6: the group's meshing. Well, you know, we're obviously it's training camp,

609
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 6: so we spend a ton of time with each other,

610
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 6: just getting to know each other, building our culture, come connected.

611
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 6: And the trip out to Chicago this weekend. That's always

612
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 6: big this time of year, just because you can sort

613
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 6: of travel together, get away, get on the plane, spend

614
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 6: time and then uh you know, hopefully you know, take

615
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 6: continue to make the steps in Chicago.

616
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Speaker 9: What about going away to training camp?

617
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Speaker 3: Fan of it?

618
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Speaker 4: Yeah?

619
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Speaker 9: Fan of I love yeah, like it.

620
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Speaker 6: I mean I've also done it my entire life because

621
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 6: the rams would also travel. Uh, so you know, fall

622
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 6: fall camp comes around, and you're always just living in dorms.

623
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Speaker 6: You know, you're bringing the box fans, and it's just

624
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 6: that that's just football in my mind. So you know, maybe, uh,

625
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 6: you know, there comes a time in my life when

626
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 6: I don't have that and don't have that and then

627
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 6: but hopefully I'm staying here and I don't think they

628
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 6: have any plans not to go to the Saint John Tusher,

629
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Speaker 6: So I would love to be here and continue to

630
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Speaker 6: do that.

631
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Speaker 3: There was a player who came here late in his

632
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 3: career who you might be familiar with, who made some

633
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 3: similar positional transformations that you di. His name was Lorenzo Alexander.

634
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 3: He's in Washington. He's a special teams player. He's playing

635
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 3: offensive line, defensive line, eventually gets to the linebacker position

636
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 3: and actually goes to a Pro Bowl here in a

637
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 3: Bill's uniform with a twelve sax season. You've had some

638
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 3: similar transformations. Can you just speak to the challenge that

639
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 3: that presents body composition wise and the work you have

640
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 3: to put in to make a position shift like you

641
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 3: have because you were like listed as a defensive tackle

642
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:36,719
Speaker 3: at one point in time and now here you are

643
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 3: as an edge guy. Just speak to the body composition

644
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 3: commitment that that takes in an offseason.

645
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean physically, there's obviously a huge part of

646
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 6: transitioning from defensive lineman coming a league at two ninety

647
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 6: five special teams. You know, old school kickoff rules when

648
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 6: you're running down a long way forty yards, Yeah, you know,

649
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 6: starting to be there's no real reason to be too ninety.

650
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 6: So you get in the to eighty world and then

651
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 6: eventually outside linebacker to seventy world. And you know, so

652
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 6: that obviously takes a lot of a physical a lot

653
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 6: of physical work and you know, working with nutritionists, working

654
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 6: with strength coaches. But I think the more than that,

655
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 6: like every NFL team and here especially, they have all

656
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 6: the resources that they can kind of, you know, offload

657
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 6: that on your plate and allow guys that want to

658
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 6: be more versatile to focus on the x's and o's,

659
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 6: because that's the bigger part is when you switch positions,

660
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 6: is you're kind of seeing the game from a different perspective.

661
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 6: Everything that was out here is now over there, and

662
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 6: you know, allowing to sort of have really good people

663
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 6: help me in those corners also helps me.

664
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Speaker 2: Now I can focus on x's and o's.

665
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 6: Look at you know how my rushing I was a

666
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 6: three technique and I'm sort of this middle or win

667
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 6: high guy and now I'm the outside piece covering it

668
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 6: up or I'm walk back at linebacker and knowing the

669
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Speaker 6: communication and doing that stuff.

670
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Speaker 3: So you're talking about the help from Hey, these are

671
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Speaker 3: your keys now, standpoint, so you can just go when

672
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Speaker 3: you're in the game.

673
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Speaker 6: Yeah, one hundred percent. And football, especially defense, it's about

674
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 6: playing fast. You know, you just have to make decisions

675
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 6: one hundred miles an hour, and you know you strive

676
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 6: to have one hundred percent perfect decisions. Yeah, but you

677
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 6: know football is not a perfect game, and so it's

678
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 6: just being able to process as much as you can.

679
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 6: And there's a lot of information out there, and you know,

680
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 6: I think the biggest change from young players to more

681
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 6: veteran players is you're able to filter out a lot

682
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 6: of the things that don't matter and really focus in

683
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 6: on you know, what is the down and distance? Tell

684
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 6: me what part of the field am I in, What

685
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 6: personnel are they in, what personnel are we in?

686
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 2: What runs are we getting?

687
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 6: What run did we get last week that we got

688
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 6: gashed on that is all of a sudden, this same

689
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 6: formation this week and it's copycat league, so Intena probably

690
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 6: goes up.

691
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Speaker 2: You're getting something similar.

692
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Speaker 8: Right, what do you So you come in and if

693
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Speaker 8: you don't mind, let's ask you, how do you expect

694
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Speaker 8: this to go? What are some of your personal goals

695
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 8: that you're willing to share with us? What are your

696
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 8: expectations for your role? How is it going to go

697
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Speaker 8: this year? What are you expecting to do this year?

698
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean personally, I've always personal goals will always

699
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 6: come with team six us sure, and so you know

700
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 6: right now, especially in training camp, it is about team

701
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 6: success and the ultimate goal is always bring a Lombardi

702
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 6: to Western New York.

703
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 2: That is the goal.

704
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Speaker 6: To be the best defense of the world, the best

705
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Speaker 6: offense in the world, the best special teams of the world,

706
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Speaker 6: and then just the best team in the world. So

707
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 6: the more you can focus on that, the plays will come.

708
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Speaker 6: And we always talk about you don't want to chase plays,

709
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Speaker 6: just make the ones you're supposed to make. And just

710
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 6: comes to mind, is I remember early on in my

711
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 6: rookie year, Cooper Cup was talking about, you know, receivers

712
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Speaker 6: making catches and they say you should make one hundred

713
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Speaker 6: percent of the catches you're supposed to make and fifty

714
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,720
Speaker 6: percent of the ones you're not, right, And that always

715
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 6: stuck with me because I thought about it on defense,

716
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 6: where you need to make one hundred percent of the

717
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 6: plays you're supposed to make, and then to be a

718
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 6: great player, you got to make fifty percent of the

719
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Speaker 6: ones where you're not supposed to make those.

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Speaker 2: But great job you made it. Yeah, yeah, I like that.

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Speaker 3: Playing off of one another on defense also is an

722
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,879
Speaker 3: important factor to unit and team success on that side

723
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Speaker 3: of the ball.

724
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Speaker 7: All these guys are new to you.

725
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 3: How have you been able to advance your game in

726
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 3: that respect, whether it's you know, working off a DT

727
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 3: or working on you know, tackle end stunt games and

728
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 3: things of that nature, to a place where you feel comfortable.

729
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Speaker 3: And it may just take a couple more preseason games. Heck,

730
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Speaker 3: it might take the first month of the season until

731
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 3: you feel like, hey, we're a well oiled machine. Oh,

732
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Speaker 3: Joey's on the field all right, I know how to

733
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Speaker 3: play off of him in this instance, Just maybe assess

734
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Speaker 3: the level of progress in that area for you, because

735
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 3: it's a big component for sure.

736
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Speaker 6: I mean We're definitely in a good spot. And you know,

737
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 6: it's you do have to learn, like how does that

738
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 6: Oliver rush? How does DQ rush? How does Joey rush?

739
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Speaker 6: You know, so you got to learn some of those

740
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 6: pieces and you do get a feel for it. But

741
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Speaker 6: and the other part of it too is you have

742
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 6: to learn, like how is our offense protecting things? Then

743
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 6: when we go to Chicago, how they're protecting things. But

744
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 6: that's what football is. That's why we all come into

745
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 6: work every day and practice on practice it, and you know,

746
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 6: you do eventually start to get a feel for you know,

747
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 6: who rushes and how they rush. So even if you're

748
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,240
Speaker 6: not in on that rep, you know, if you see

749
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 6: and Oliver take his rush high, you know you're taking

750
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 6: that mental rep. And then when we go do one

751
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 6: on one pass rush with the offensive line there, you know,

752
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,800
Speaker 6: you start to see what moves he's making and studying

753
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 6: the tackles. So, I mean, that's what trading camps for

754
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 6: is you're finding out that's how you kind of become

755
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 6: like a connected team. And you know, in last week's

756
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 6: preseason game, I think one of the places we need

757
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 6: to make an improvement on is sort of that rush

758
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 6: lane integrity. It was a little spacey quarterback out of

759
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 6: the pocket, a little bit too much, and you know,

760
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 6: so I think that's what this the challenge, one of

761
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 6: the challenges that we have this week is to clean

762
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 6: some of that stuff up. First preseason not gonna be perfect,

763
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:39,720
Speaker 6: but you got to watch it and do it live

764
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Speaker 6: and then make those corrections and then emphasize it for

765
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 6: the Chicago game.

766
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Speaker 2: And you know, make some of those mistakes.

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Speaker 8: Let's keep let's keep it in the short term. You know,

768
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 8: what are your hopes and dreams for this week in Chicago?

769
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 8: Joint practice, second preseason game. Long way to go after that.

770
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Speaker 8: But what about this week, this joint practice and preseason game.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think it's uh, the you know,

772
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 6: a football season is like this, and if you expect

773
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 6: to show up and be here, you know you're gonna

774
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 6: have You're gonna have a long year. So you know,

775
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 6: it's continue to build that, not take steps backwards. So

776
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 6: the things we did well last week and in the

777
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 6: game against the Giants, you know, continue to build on those, uh,

778
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 6: and then the mistakes that happen, don't let those correct

779
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 6: those mistakes.

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00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 2: Don't let them happen again.

781
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 6: And honestly, you know, for the preseason, you got to

782
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,399
Speaker 6: find out what you might not know and what things

783
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 6: kind of come up that you know, you can only

784
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 6: script so much in practice until you uh you know,

785
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 6: figure things out, and you know, have to talk about

786
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 6: looks and uh, you know, the Giants ran reverse on

787
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 6: the first drive of the game last week, and so

788
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 6: we got to talk about like all right, like you know,

789
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 6: we've we can talk about that base rules, but until

790
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 6: you actually you know, go cover a tackle football reverse

791
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 6: like you gotta you gotta have that conversation. Uh, you know,

792
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 6: so weeks for or the goals for Chicago is just, uh,

793
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 6: continue to develop on the things that we made mistakes

794
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 6: last week and then uh you know, not never taking

795
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 6: a step backwards.

796
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,439
Speaker 2: Once we've corrected it once, never have to correct it again.

797
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 7: Right, Last one for me, you're an Ontario native.

798
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 3: So how big should we expect the Michael Hoyt contingent

799
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Speaker 3: and fan.

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00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 7: Club to be at home games this season?

801
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot.

802
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 6: There's just gonna be a huge block of five five

803
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 6: five five five five five, like okay, all like a

804
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 6: whole section almost it's going to be like so uh yeah,

805
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 6: they're all excited to come down. I think my dad's

806
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 6: got like some golf buddies that are organizing like a

807
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 6: party bus to all like ship on down.

808
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 7: So, uh, how long is the drive from home?

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00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 6: So they live a bit north of the city, so

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00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 6: they're probably two in a bit Okay, yeah, depending on

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00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 6: the border traffic. But yeah, I mean it's a lot

812
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 6: closer than six hours on a flight to LA Yeah,

813
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 6: I've been to that.

814
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 8: Last one for me. So I'll give you a chance here.

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Speaker 8: You you've been around the league and you're this is

816
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 8: not your first rodeo. Give us an idea maybe some

817
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 8: of the young guys as you've come in the draft.

818
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 8: You've got three draft picks sitting around you, and give

819
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Speaker 8: you a chance to toot somebody's horn or give us

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Speaker 8: a give us a shot across ourb who we should

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Speaker 8: look for.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you can. I think in the game

823
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Speaker 6: you saw some of what t J. Sanders could do.

824
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Speaker 6: He's got a good twitch, good motor, and you know,

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Speaker 6: he's a great personality in the locker room. And I

826
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Speaker 6: think not a rookie, but Javon Solomon's also been awesome.

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Speaker 6: He's taken I mean, I've only known him as this

828
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Speaker 6: Javon Solomon.

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Speaker 2: So I'm like, this guy has.

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Speaker 6: Been great, but you know, for him, for him to

831
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Speaker 6: like look and play like he's playing above what a

832
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 6: second year player would be at right now. And so

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00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 6: you know, he and I have had a lot of

834
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 6: dialogue about, you know, some of the things that you know,

835
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 6: different positions and really trying to understand football more in

836
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,720
Speaker 6: this system. But you know, and you've seen it across

837
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 6: the board that you know, every single player across the

838
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 6: defensive line has taken a major step even since like

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Speaker 6: two weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: So you know, that's been awesome to see.

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Speaker 6: It's credit to the coaching and you know, spending twelve

842
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 6: hour days here trying to you know, again trying to

843
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Speaker 6: be the best in the world.

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Speaker 9: Awesome.

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Speaker 3: Michael, thanks for the time. We appreciate it. Thank you, Gustley.

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Speaker 3: Right off the practice field, get yourself hydrated, and we

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Speaker 3: look forward to seeing in the joy practice Friday and

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Speaker 3: then obviously the game on Sunday night, which is a

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Speaker 3: nationally televised game by the way, on Fox. We'll take

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Speaker 3: a break here, be back with more on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 3: good conversation we had with Michael Hoyt there last segment.

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Speaker 3: We're back in studio now and we'll take a couple

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Speaker 3: of phone calls here at eight O three five fifty

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Speaker 3: while we've got a few minutes and waiting patiently has

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Speaker 3: been Cindy in Niagara Falls.

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Speaker 7: What's up Cindy?

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Speaker 14: Hi, guys, thanks for taking my call. I just wanted

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Speaker 14: to say how excited I am that James Cook signed

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Speaker 14: a contract. I knew he would. He is just that

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Speaker 14: kind of person and he is an all star. Secondly,

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Speaker 14: I am so excited for the upcoming season. I think

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00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 14: we're going to do great and it would be great

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00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 14: if we could bring a Super Bowl home, especially for

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Speaker 14: Marv Levy, who just turned one hundred years old. Last

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Speaker 14: thing I have to say is, let's send out those

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00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 14: powerful prayers and thoughts for baby Bean, Jim Kelly's grandson

878
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 14: who is battling in the hospital as a newborn, and

879
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 14: go Bills. Thank you all.

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Speaker 3: Right, thanks, Cindy, appreciate that. Yeah, the James deal, it's

881
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 3: good all the way around. I think the vast majority

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00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 3: of the core that the Bills wanted to get under

883
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 3: contract long term has been accomplished now.

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Speaker 7: At important positions.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you think about it. You're talking about edge rusher,

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00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 3: number one corner, middle linebacker, defensive captain, top running back,

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Speaker 3: franchise quarterback.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, all of them extended.

889
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:34,839
Speaker 9: Yeah they are.

890
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 8: And I'm sure Jim and his family appreciate your prayers

891
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 8: and we'll look for the news that comes out.

892
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 9: That's one thing about Jim.

893
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 8: He's never been shy about sharing what's going on in

894
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 8: his life and good and bad as we all know.

895
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 8: So I'm with you on that, Cindy. As well, but yeah,

896
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:58,240
Speaker 8: that's the way it is at this point in history.

897
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 8: You said, Hey, I think twenty twenty five this season

898
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 8: could be the big Every year could be. That's how

899
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,320
Speaker 8: good this franchise is. They're gonna be right there again.

900
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 8: And you'll hear me say this all the way through

901
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 8: this season. You just got to be good enough to

902
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 8: win that last game, win your last game, and when

903
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 8: they do that, they've got a chance and they're gonna

904
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 8: you know, yeah, that's it.

905
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 3: There is an update on Miami Dolphin's edge rusher Chop Robinson,

906
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 3: who was carted off the field during a joint practice

907
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 3: with the Lions today. He has since posted on his Instagram,

908
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 3: I'm good, y'all. Nothing serious. He was carted off, so

909
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 3: people thought it was a bad injury. According to him,

910
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 3: not so bad. Before we go to break, Steve, since

911
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 3: you and I belong in this category, we should make

912
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 3: it make it known that today is International Left Handers Day.

913
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 3: Steve and I are both left handed writers.

914
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 7: I don't think we.

915
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 3: Do everything.

916
00:44:58,680 --> 00:44:59,280
Speaker 9: Left handed.

917
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 3: Steve actually introduce me to that term cross handed, because

918
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 3: I'm not equally good with my right and left hand,

919
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 3: which would make me dexterrous.

920
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:11,240
Speaker 8: I eat left handed right left handed. You know, hold

921
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 8: my coffee and my phone left handed. I do sports.

922
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 8: I bat, throw baseball and play football, throw it right handed,

923
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 8: golf right handed. I shoot a bow and arrow right handed,

924
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 8: but I shoot a rifle or long gun left hand.

925
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:36,240
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, play ping pong left handed. I think, actually

926
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 8: that may be one that I can do both. I

927
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 8: struggle with that because I don't know which one I

928
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 8: feel better in. You know, I stink at both. And

929
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 8: then I'm a right handed tennis player.

930
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a bit cross handed myself, eat and right

931
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 3: left handed, cut meat with my right hand, which is

932
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 3: one of the reasons I eat as fast as I do.

933
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 3: A lot of people have to switch hands to cut.

934
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 3: I do not hope with the left, cut with the right.

935
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 7: Let's go eat with the left. Yeah, I don't have

936
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:04,280
Speaker 7: to switch.

937
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 8: Well, congratulations all the left handers out there for being

938
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 8: national international.

939
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 3: Steve international left national Steve. I was a little I

940
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 3: knew left handers way back in the Middle Ages were

941
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 3: shunned by society. I didn't realize how bad it was.

942
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 3: Let me let me read you a little of this,

943
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 3: because this is crazy. They've historic left handers historically have

944
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 3: been considered evil or malicious. Black magic has often been

945
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 3: referred to as the left hand path, and in the

946
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 3: Middle Ages, lefties were even burned at the stake for

947
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 3: being in the league with the devil. It's nice to

948
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 3: know we've advanced in the last five hundred years. We

949
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 3: don't get burned at the steak anymore.

950
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:46,280
Speaker 2: Right.

951
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 3: I will tell you my grandfather.

952
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 9: But I'll tell you man, human beings are awful.

953
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 3: I will tell you my grandfather was a left hander.

954
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 3: And when he was in grade school, and this is like,

955
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,280
Speaker 3: you know, like the nineteen teens, like nineteen fifteen, sixteen,

956
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 3: seventeen eighteen, somewhere in there. As soon as he started

957
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 3: writing with his left hand, whack with the ruler, put

958
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 3: it on your right hand.

959
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 7: We don't have left hand handers in this classroom.

960
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 3: So he had to learn how to write right handed,

961
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 3: even though it felt natural to write left handed. And

962
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 3: so then when he was older and out of school,

963
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:22,720
Speaker 3: I saw him writing with his right hand and I'm like, Grandpa,

964
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 3: I thought you were a lefty. He goes, I am,

965
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 3: but I wasn't allowed to be in school. Yeah, So

966
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 3: then I asked him, I said, can you write with

967
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,439
Speaker 3: your left hand anymore, and he goes, no, I can't

968
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 3: do it.

969
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,439
Speaker 8: I say, it's interesting in the in the movie motion

970
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 8: picture the King's Speech, the one of the princes in England,

971
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 8: the one that took over after the prince abdicated. I

972
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 8: think King Henry abdicated, his younger brother took over the

973
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 8: throne and he they forced him to be right hand.

974
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 8: He was a lefty and they made him because you know,

975
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 8: it was a print member of.

976
00:47:58,000 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 2: The royal face.

977
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 3: It can't be left handed, exactly wrong, so it can't have.

978
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 9: Any of that that's in like, that's the nineteen forties.

979
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, got two left feet means you're what clumsy?

980
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 2: Right?

981
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 7: Not cool? Not cool at all.

982
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 3: It's you know, I still remember the days in grade

983
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 3: school where we had those pens with the erasable ink. Yeah,

984
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 3: you ever get it on the back of your hand

985
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 3: all the oh my.

986
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 8: Gosh, yeah, because you're right in you when you're rag

987
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 8: in your hand across what you just wrote.

988
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, you do that smearing your ink all the time. Well,

989
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 3: there we go.

990
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 8: Left handers have an international day now, so they're not

991
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:36,320
Speaker 8: vilified anymore.

992
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 9: How backwards.

993
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 3: Here's here's a couple other quick facts for you, Steve.

994
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:44,240
Speaker 3: Left handers are more likely to be male twenty three percent.

995
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 3: More men are left handed than women.

996
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:51,479
Speaker 8: My only daughter is our only true left hander. She's

997
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:52,879
Speaker 8: left handed through and through and through.

998
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 3: See now me and my sister are left handed. Both

999
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:59,240
Speaker 3: our parents are right handed. But my grandfather was left handed,

1000
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 3: as I mentioned, and now my son is left handed.

1001
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 7: So it's pretty crazy.

1002
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 3: I just thought there were some interesting facts in. There

1003
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,399
Speaker 3: was a little it was a little unsettling to see

1004
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 3: how lefties were treated back in the day.

1005
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 7: Don't want to live in the Middle Ages. Burned at

1006
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 7: the stake. I mean, my god, everybody's.

1007
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 3: Got to relax, like you're just writing with a different hand.

1008
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,439
Speaker 3: What's the deal. We got to take a break here

1009
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 3: our number two. We are going to catch up with

1010
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,840
Speaker 3: ESPN's Kevin Clark, who visited Bill's training camp. We'll do

1011
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 3: that in the second hour of the show, and we'll

1012
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 3: also check in and get your reaction to the James

1013
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 3: Cook contract extension when we return here on One Bill's

1014
00:49:36,440 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 3: Live presented by Colida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1015
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 9: The One Bill's Live presented by called Lyda Health.

1016
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 3: Second hour here on a Wednesday Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

1017
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 3: with you and jam packed first hour there the James

1018
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 3: Cook contract extension takes center stage today. But also I

1019
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 3: had a chance to talk to Michael Hoyton. In just

1020
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 3: a little bit, we will catch up with Kevin Clark

1021
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 3: from ESPN. He took in Bill's training camp last week

1022
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 3: and we want to catch up with him just for

1023
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 3: some of his overarching thoughts on the Bills this season.

1024
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 3: I do want to ask him about whether he thinks

1025
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 3: it's realistic for the Bills to chase the one seed,

1026
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 3: which has been elusive because the Chiefs just win football games.

1027
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 3: And you want to talk about being a beneficiary. You're

1028
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:13,439
Speaker 3: the only team in the conference with the bye week.

1029
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,399
Speaker 3: That's one less playoff game you're playing every single year.

1030
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 3: I think you can call it an important factor in

1031
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 3: how the Chiefs have gotten It's five Super Bowls.

1032
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 8: It's so difficult to do as well. I mean, the

1033
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,919
Speaker 8: Chiefs won I think seven to one score games last year.

1034
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:32,240
Speaker 9: They were eleven. They won eleven eleven war score games

1035
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 9: last year they were. It was unbelievable year.

1036
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 3: From some of the games. I mean the Raiders game.

1037
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 3: The Raiders are going in for a go ahead field goal.

1038
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 3: They fumble the snap and the reps helped on that one.

1039
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:44,959
Speaker 7: With the ruling on.

1040
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 3: That play, it's all locked field goal to beat the Broncos.

1041
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 7: I think it was.

1042
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 8: Come on, yeah, it's it's crazy, but it happens and

1043
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 8: they benefit from it. The team that gets the one

1044
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:02,800
Speaker 8: seed has a huge advantage. And and I've said it before,

1045
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 8: some of the best football in past years has been

1046
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 8: wildcard un not so much when the Bills play.

1047
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:10,840
Speaker 9: The Bills have been blown some people out in a

1048
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 9: wildcard round, but for a lot.

1049
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 8: Of times you'll get a real good game and a

1050
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 8: wild card round because those teams some kind of fight

1051
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 8: to get there's a question as to what they'll get in.

1052
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 8: They get in huge adrenaline rush. Let's go, we're in

1053
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,800
Speaker 8: the playoffs, and you come into wildcard weekend and really

1054
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 8: put it on the line. It's a great game for

1055
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 8: both teams. Right then the next week you're done. You're

1056
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 8: spent in a lot of cases, and you get some

1057
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 8: blowout games in the divisional round. Not so much for

1058
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,359
Speaker 8: the Bills lately, because you know you're getting a team

1059
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 8: that those teams kind of expect to be there. Yea

1060
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 8: these days, particularly when you've got you know, only one

1061
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 8: team getting the bye week and two teams that are

1062
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 8: really good cruising through the wildcard round. It's going with

1063
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 8: a buye. It would be absolutely.

1064
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 9: Enormous for this.

1065
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 7: You saw it in Hard Knocks episode one.

1066
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 3: Thurman addresses the team on the breakdown after Practice's like,

1067
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 3: you got a good, good team here, gotta get the

1068
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 3: one seed. I was like, whoa therm, throwing it out

1069
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 3: right off the rip. I loved it.

1070
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 8: We had conversations like that when I played, and you

1071
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 8: gotta you gotta think about it.

1072
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 9: You gotta let me that.

1073
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 3: Well, back then, the top two seeds got the buy though, right.

1074
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 8: By getting by having the conversation about the one seed.

1075
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 8: Because of the context and the way the league works,

1076
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 8: that automatically makes every single game huge. You gotta get

1077
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 8: the one seed that you gotta win this week. And

1078
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 8: that's it's not a it's not really a bad argument

1079
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 8: to make. It's not bad conversation to have for a

1080
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 8: football team. It also makes every game of important.

1081
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 3: Also makes those head to head matchups with the Ravens

1082
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 3: and the Chiefs monumental.

1083
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,919
Speaker 8: In the Bengals statch, all those yeah, yeah, and it's

1084
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 8: it's a race that goes every It's not just the division. Then,

1085
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,359
Speaker 8: it's not just you know, it's not just those three

1086
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 8: division opponents.

1087
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 9: Man, you're you're.

1088
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 8: Dialed in every week because it's huge, and when you

1089
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:17,280
Speaker 8: experience it, you really get an idea is like, Wow,

1090
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 8: this is let's go.

1091
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 9: It's a huge boost.

1092
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 3: I think in case you're just joining us. Bears head

1093
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 3: coach Ben Johnson announced that his press conference today that

1094
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 3: the starters for his team will play in the preseason

1095
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,319
Speaker 3: game Sunday night against the Bills. Steve and I had

1096
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 3: some speculation yesterday, and this is just us spitballing. We

1097
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:41,359
Speaker 3: don't know anything specifically, but we were wondering because coach

1098
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 3: McDermott earlier this week essentially stated they're still figuring out

1099
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 3: whether or not Josh will participate in play in Sunday

1100
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 3: night's preseason game, and we're wondering speculating as to whether

1101
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 3: or not how the joint practice goes will determine whether

1102
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:01,359
Speaker 3: or not we see John Allen in the preseason game.

1103
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 3: If the first team offense looks lights out against the

1104
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:07,319
Speaker 3: Bears defense in Friday's joint practice, well they might say, hey,

1105
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 3: we got the work that we needed right here in

1106
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 3: a controlled environment.

1107
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 7: Why are we going to throw.

1108
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 3: Josh into a preseason game environment We're getting injured as

1109
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 3: a possibility. Josh talked yesterday and said I don't need

1110
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,479
Speaker 3: preseason reps, but happy to take him if they're given

1111
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 3: to me. So it's very clearly undetermined as to what

1112
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:31,320
Speaker 3: player this is going to happen on.

1113
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 8: Some players aren't afraid to play. No, and what they

1114
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:39,439
Speaker 8: are is, I don't want to do anything that isn't

1115
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 8: going to help me make the team or be a

1116
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 8: difference maker in me and making the team. If you're

1117
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 8: telling me I'm on the team, I don't want to

1118
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 8: play in a meaningless game because it hurt, yes, and

1119
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 8: so I'm not afraid to play. So that's kind of

1120
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 8: where you're at. The players will play, and if if

1121
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 8: you can justify it by a guy like Josh saying, Hey, Josh,

1122
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:58,320
Speaker 8: I want you to listen. We got a bunch of

1123
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 8: new guys at the wide receiver spot. I want you

1124
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 8: to go out and get some live reps. If you

1125
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 8: can do that in a practice where there's less risk, man,

1126
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 8: let's do that.

1127
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 9: Let's do that.

1128
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Speaker 3: There are joint practices already happening across the league this week.

1129
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 3: Dolphins just wrapped up with the Lions earlier today in

1130
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:18,399
Speaker 3: which it was characterized as the Lions out everything, the

1131
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:21,879
Speaker 3: Dolphins take that for what it's worth. And then you've

1132
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 3: got the Falcons and the Titans with a joint practice

1133
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 3: today and apparently quarterback Michael Pennix was in the middle

1134
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 3: of a fight between the two teams on the field. Afterwards,

1135
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 3: Pennix was asked about it because there was a melee

1136
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 3: that saw Penick surrounded by players on both teams, Titans

1137
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 3: players getting in his face, Falcons players defending him, and

1138
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:50,280
Speaker 3: Pennix acknowledged that he was involved in the trash talk

1139
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 3: that got tempers flaring. He said, I threw a deep pass.

1140
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 3: They had a lot of words throughout practice, so I

1141
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 3: gave them my words and just went a little too.

1142
00:56:58,760 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 7: Far, said Pennix.

1143
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:04,359
Speaker 3: After practice, he said he appreciated his teammates having his back.

1144
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 3: He said, I'm glad they backed me up because obviously

1145
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 3: that's not something that we want to be doing in practice.

1146
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 7: We want to get all the reps in, get the

1147
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 7: good work in.

1148
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 3: But it went how it went to see the team

1149
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 3: have my back and they were there, make sure they

1150
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 3: protected me. A lot of guys asked me, asked me

1151
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 3: if I was good, and it was good to know

1152
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 3: that those guys have my back. Dude, I know he's

1153
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 3: just a second year guy and this is his first

1154
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 3: year as the full time starter. Got me a little

1155
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 3: better than that as the quarterback. Yeah, you can't be

1156
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 3: getting All you need.

1157
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 7: Is somebody to clean your clock.

1158
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 3: And you know what I mean, or God forbid you

1159
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 3: throw a punch, you break your throwing hand on a

1160
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 3: guy's helmet, and now you look like an idiot.

1161
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 9: That it happens when a guy has.

1162
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 8: Expectations he really feels he needs to fulfill. I think

1163
00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 8: that's a that's a sign towards some stress. When guys

1164
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 8: yack like that, they don't want to get embarrassed. They

1165
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 8: don't want to you know, they want to have some

1166
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 8: you know, earn some respect. Pennix is coming in here

1167
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 8: and there's there's no Kirk Cousins there now. That's playing

1168
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 8: for him, right, So it's all on him and if

1169
00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 8: it's if it's not going well, if it is going well,

1170
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 8: it's on him now. And I think that's I think

1171
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 8: that kind of leads to that kind of stuff sometimes

1172
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 8: I think. I think guys get all bound up with

1173
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 8: the expectations. They feel like they got to speak out

1174
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 8: and you know, like make a statement verbally as well

1175
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 8: as with their play and if their play and if

1176
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 8: they're yeah, and if their play falters in any way,

1177
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 8: shape or form. Now, now the pressure is really on, right,

1178
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 8: So that kind of stuff happens.

1179
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 9: That's it's not a big deal, but it's a symptom

1180
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 9: of stress.

1181
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 3: It's interesting, you know what I mean in the quarterback

1182
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:00,040
Speaker 3: in the middle of that, it's interesting. Uh, we do

1183
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 3: you have to pivot to our conversation with ESPN's This

1184
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 3: Is Football podcast host Kevin Clark. He took in Bill's

1185
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 3: training camp last week out at Saint John Fisher before

1186
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,360
Speaker 3: they wrapped up operations out there. So we're gonna take

1187
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 3: our time now to check in with Kevin see what

1188
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 3: his overarching thoughts are on the Bills for the twenty

1189
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 3: twenty five campaign. All right, Kevin, I know the Bill's

1190
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 3: training camp was on your travel itinerary this summer, and

1191
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:30,919
Speaker 3: you know you talked to some higher ups, including mister Bean.

1192
00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 3: Now that we see the James Cook extension come to fruition,

1193
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 3: what do you look back upon in terms of your

1194
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 3: conversations with being because I don't think anybody ever hit

1195
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 3: the panic button on this one. What were the inklings

1196
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 3: you were given in that conversation knowing we're here now

1197
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:51,400
Speaker 3: with an extension in hand.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's so hard because I went to

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Speaker 1: a bunch of teams that should have SUPERWL aspirations this year.

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01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,960
Speaker 1: I went to Baltimore, I went to Buffalo. Obviously I

1201
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 1: visit it with Cincinnati, but they got to figure out

1202
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 1: their defense, and I think with a lot of it,

1203
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: it's just, hey, we're going to readtool a little bit.

1204
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 1: But we got to have all the same guys who

1205
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: contributed last year back. And so the James Cook thing

1206
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 1: to me, I was there on the first day that

1207
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 1: he didn't practice, and again I didn't press the panic button.

1208
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: It was not to me. Guys like I went to

1209
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 1: Washington where Try McLaren's not practicing, I think you might

1210
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 1: want to hit the panic button there because of how

1211
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 1: much he means to that franchise. I think the James

1212
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Speaker 1: Cook thing was always going to get done. I think

1213
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: he's really valuable. I think he saw the players talk

1214
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 1: about how valuable he was and they needed that. And

1215
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 1: I always look at some of these teams, whether that's

1216
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo or Baltimore, who have not obviously gotten to a

1217
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 1: super Bowl in the AFC, and it's just a matter

1218
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 1: of staying in the fight, just a matter of maximizing

1219
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: the roster every single year and eventually are going to

1220
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:53,080
Speaker 1: break through. Both balt was someone in Baltimore John Harball,

1221
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 1: and someone in Buffalo Dion Dawkins said it's not do

1222
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 1: or die for Super Bowl because they know that they've

1223
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 1: got a window. And more importantly, guys, if you do

1224
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 1: if you focus too much on January and February, you

1225
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:06,480
Speaker 1: don't focus on September and October, and you don't get

1226
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 1: to January or February. So to me, looking back on it,

1227
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 1: this is always going to get done. James Cook was

1228
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 1: too valuable, and James Cook probably knew the window the

1229
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 1: Bills have, which is they've got a window here four

1230
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:21,920
Speaker 1: or five years where they're going to have a really

1231
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 1: good roster with an elite quarterback and there's going to

1232
01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 1: be a special run there. I don't think Cook wanted

1233
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 1: to miss that.

1234
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 8: One of the things about the atmosphere here in Buffalo

1235
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:34,080
Speaker 8: is that it's almost taken so much for granted, how

1236
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 8: good this team is with Josh Allen, how good the

1237
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,960
Speaker 8: program is, the culture they've built, you know, the kind

1238
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,959
Speaker 8: of the roster that they've built. James Cook was really

1239
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 8: the only thing left to talk about. You came to

1240
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:48,320
Speaker 8: training camp, what are some of the things that jumped

1241
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 8: out of you at to us? We made the comment

1242
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:55,200
Speaker 8: in year eight of Sean McDermott era it was a

1243
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 8: well oiled machine. Even we noticed how easy you know,

1244
01:01:57,640 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 8: training can.

1245
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:01,800
Speaker 9: Be a wolf. It's just it just flows. What did

1246
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:02,680
Speaker 9: you notice about it?

1247
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 8: And I know that James Cook things the first thing

1248
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 8: we asked you about, but that was really the only

1249
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 8: hot topic.

1250
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 1: It's funny a lot of times with these training cantors,

1251
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 1: you can judge a team by its problems. If a

1252
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 1: team is trying to figure out who the quarterback is,

1253
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 1: whether or not they've gotten offensive coordinator, or whether they've

1254
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 1: got you know, a starting offensive line, that's when you

1255
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 1: can pencil in six, seven, eight, nine wins right when

1256
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 1: you're talking about the problem being a running back contract

1257
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 1: that's going to get resolved to which it did. As

1258
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 1: you said, it's a well oiled machine, and so I

1259
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: think that's a really good way to put it. And

1260
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:36,840
Speaker 1: there's a couple of teams we visited there were like

1261
01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:39,440
Speaker 1: that where they just knew what was at hand, what

1262
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: a practice should look like for a team that wins

1263
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 1: a lot of games, and they're just right back at it.

1264
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:49,120
Speaker 1: It was funny talking to Bean. He said, look, the offense,

1265
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 1: that wasn't the problem last year. I think you said

1266
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 1: that a couple of times this year in different interviews.

1267
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 1: But on the defense, they wanted to reinvent the defensive line.

1268
01:02:57,440 --> 01:02:59,480
Speaker 1: And one of the things he looked at was the

1269
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: Super Bowl where you play the Chiefs, you get pressure

1270
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 1: on the quarterback, you get a lead early, which the

1271
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:07,600
Speaker 1: Eagles were able to do. All of a sudden, the

1272
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 1: Chiefs are one dimensional. All of a sudden, we saw

1273
01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:12,560
Speaker 1: what happened in that game. That's what they're trying to

1274
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: build in the front seven right now, where they're able

1275
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:18,120
Speaker 1: to be relentless after the quarterback. Because that's the thing

1276
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:21,480
Speaker 1: that they're focused on now is understanding obviously the process

1277
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:25,080
Speaker 1: in August, September, October, but understanding in January. They've got

1278
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:27,120
Speaker 1: to get stops against Mahomes. They've got to get more

1279
01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:29,440
Speaker 1: stops even though they beat Lamar Jackson last year, they

1280
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 1: got to get more stops against him, and they figured

1281
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:34,360
Speaker 1: out that retooling and emphasized the defensive line is the

1282
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 1: way to do that. So that to me was what

1283
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 1: I was watching, and it was funny to me. One

1284
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:41,640
Speaker 1: on ones guys and you go to a lot of practices.

1285
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:44,680
Speaker 1: One on ones to me, in the trenches are really

1286
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:46,960
Speaker 1: fascinating to watch because you just see the raw strength

1287
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:49,080
Speaker 1: of some of these guys and you get to see

1288
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 1: it's just even an idiot like me, I haven't played

1289
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: since tenth grade, I can see who's good and who's not.

1290
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:57,720
Speaker 1: And to see Joey Bosa in some of these reps

1291
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:00,320
Speaker 1: where it looked like he was going forty per set,

1292
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,840
Speaker 1: sometimes he wasn't. He just knew what moves to make,

1293
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:04,280
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden he's able to do a

1294
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 1: spin mover. All of a sudden he's able to knock

1295
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 1: over a sixth round pick. It was really cool to see.

1296
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: And so I think they're going to have a lot

1297
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,040
Speaker 1: of that on the d line this year that they

1298
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 1: know the moves, they've got strength. A mixture of drafting

1299
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 1: for agency, obviously, I think there's going to be. I

1300
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:22,840
Speaker 1: do think Brandon Bean is gonna have mission accomplished. As

1301
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: far as Rechelin that D line.

1302
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, and obviously in free agency they added some veterans,

1303
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,000
Speaker 3: you know, Larry Ogunjobi's kind of an insurance move on

1304
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 3: the interior. They know they don't have him for the

1305
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:34,680
Speaker 3: first six weeks, and I think there was a little

1306
01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 3: bit of trepidation just from the standpoint of you have

1307
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 3: two young players and TJ. Sanders and Dion Walker on

1308
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 3: the defensive interior there, but how are they going to fare,

1309
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:48,440
Speaker 3: you know, in their first foray into NFL football, And

1310
01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:51,680
Speaker 3: the early signs from TJ Sanders have been outstanding. I

1311
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 3: mean it's not only happened in practice. We saw it

1312
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 3: in the first preseason game against the Giants. He's winning

1313
01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 3: sometimes before an offensive lineman's even out of his stance.

1314
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 3: I mean, the quickness with which he operates for a

1315
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 3: man his size is pretty darn impressive. And I think

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Speaker 3: the Bills are breathing a lot easier knowing they have

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Speaker 3: a rotational group to swing through after day Kwon Jones

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01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 3: and and Oliver. I mean, if Sanders and then Walker

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01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:22,360
Speaker 3: can come along too, I don't think those first six

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Speaker 3: weeks without Hoyd and Ogunjobi seem nearly as daunting with

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Speaker 3: some of what you describe. Being told you he wants

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Speaker 3: this defense to be going forward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I completely agree. And that's how you do it,

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01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 1: by the way, you get a deep rotation, because the

1325
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 1: best teams, whether that's the Seahawks going back a decade,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like the best teams with the actual fronts

1327
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: of you look at the Eagles last year. They had

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01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 1: they they were deep there. They could send guys, they

1329
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 1: could they if one guy got injured for a game,

1330
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 1: they were able to send a guy up. And you're

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01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 1: already seeing it now when they lose Mill Williams and

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01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:55,320
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're working in more guys in

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Speaker 1: the interior, and they look just as good in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of machine you got to build. That's

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Speaker 1: the kind of machine the Bills are trying to build.

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Speaker 1: So I completely agree. I mean, throwing my test on

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01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:09,720
Speaker 1: it is are you throwing resources at the problem? And

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Speaker 1: then the Bills did that, they signed insurance policies. You

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01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 1: mentioned t J. Sanders, obviously, you know, looking really good.

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Speaker 1: I think that there's an old line in moneyball that

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Speaker 1: I think about a lot where Billy Bean says, if

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01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 1: you have to do something, you're screwed, and I oftentimes

1343
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:30,040
Speaker 1: think like, if you've got one path to solving your problem, oh,

1344
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:32,560
Speaker 1: this guy has to hit. Oh this guy has to

1345
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:35,400
Speaker 1: you know, carry the load in the first six weeks.

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01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:37,760
Speaker 1: If you have to do something, if you're relying on

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Speaker 1: one thing normally, that's when.

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Speaker 5: You end up.

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Speaker 1: Oh, this guy picked up a tow in for at

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01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 1: the wrong time all the sudden season. So for the

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01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 1: Bills won't have that problem in the front seven. They

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Speaker 1: threw resources at the problem, and I'm extremely optimistic about

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Speaker 1: what that's going to look like.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we take a little bit of a wider view

1355
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 8: here once in a while away from the Bills. Mostly

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01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:57,080
Speaker 8: we go as wide as the AFC East and that's

1357
01:06:57,120 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 8: about it. We saw the Patriots look really good in

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01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:03,600
Speaker 8: their preseason opener. Brownie and I have talked about how

1359
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Speaker 8: much love and respect we've got from Mike Vrabel and

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01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 8: what he'll be able to bring to that table, to

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Speaker 8: that team. Uh, and of course their quarterback Drake may

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01:07:12,520 --> 01:07:14,920
Speaker 8: turned some heads last year. What do you think about

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Speaker 8: the not only the Patriots, but also the Dolphins and

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Speaker 8: the Jets in the ANFCS this year.

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Speaker 1: The Dolphins, I've been pretty low on them. I just

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01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:28,840
Speaker 1: I think they're built for two years ago. I think

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01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:31,400
Speaker 1: they had a window. And if I was a Dolphins

1368
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 1: fan it it'd break my heart because they really did

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01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:36,160
Speaker 1: have a good roster a couple of years ago, and

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Speaker 1: then they get hurt at the wrong time, they have

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01:07:38,560 --> 01:07:40,640
Speaker 1: to go play a cold weather game, they're banged up,

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Speaker 1: they're they're they're they're genuinely good. Pass rush was wrecked

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Speaker 1: by injury, and now all of a sudden, they're an old,

1374
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:51,200
Speaker 1: expensive roster two years later with an offensive line that's

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Speaker 1: a question mark. The pass rush with Chop Robinson and

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01:07:56,400 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 1: Chubb can be good. I just don't think that's enough.

1377
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Speaker 1: I mean, for me, the one thing I look at

1378
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 1: is that the first two years in Miami, Tyreek Hill

1379
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 1: led the NFL in deep perceptions of twenty in each season.

1380
01:08:08,240 --> 01:08:10,640
Speaker 1: Last year he had five, And so when you don't

1381
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: have that, the offense changes dramatically, and so Dolphins, to me,

1382
01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:17,920
Speaker 1: I'm going to put in a bucket there and not

1383
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:21,160
Speaker 1: think much about Jets. I think it's going to be

1384
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:24,360
Speaker 1: a slower build. Aaron Glenn comes from the Dan Campbell World,

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01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:28,080
Speaker 1: where you know, they didn't skip steps. In Detroit, they

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01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:31,559
Speaker 1: didn't skip steps. And Brad Holmes, their GM in Detroit,

1387
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:33,240
Speaker 1: had told me a really funny phrase when I was

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01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 1: there the first year. He said, listen, the first year

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Speaker 1: in Detroit is just the h back year. They're just

1390
01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 1: trying to get the installation in and they're trying to

1391
01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 1: get that, you know, the air conditioning in, and I

1392
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:45,760
Speaker 1: think that's a really good way that they put that.

1393
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:47,760
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, he said, you know,

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01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:50,280
Speaker 1: year three is the chandelier year. That's the year we say, hey,

1395
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:52,599
Speaker 1: let's go out and get these bells and whistles. Because

1396
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:54,839
Speaker 1: the foundation is built, the lines are built, the trenches

1397
01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:57,400
Speaker 1: are built, and so I think you're going to see

1398
01:08:57,439 --> 01:08:58,720
Speaker 1: more of that in New York where they're not going

1399
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:00,639
Speaker 1: to try to win. Now, the one thing I'll say

1400
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:03,400
Speaker 1: is that in that conversation I had a couple of

1401
01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:05,280
Speaker 1: years ago with Brad Holmes, he said, Jared Goff's on

1402
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:08,160
Speaker 1: a bridge quarterback, everybody rolled their eyes. And now the

1403
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:10,719
Speaker 1: Jets are trying to do the same thing. With Justin Fields.

1404
01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:15,160
Speaker 1: I wouldn't laugh it off. They can build something around him.

1405
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:16,559
Speaker 1: I just don't think it's going to be this year.

1406
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 9: Now.

1407
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Speaker 1: The Patriots are interesting to me because Mike vrabel has

1408
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:24,280
Speaker 1: made a living out of winning games that he shouldn't win,

1409
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 1: like we sell that in Tennessee, where he took a

1410
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:28,640
Speaker 1: roster to the one seed that no business being the

1411
01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 1: one seed. He toughens teams up, he builds culture. He

1412
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 1: challenges guys in the right way. He connects with guys

1413
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:40,960
Speaker 1: in a way that I think is really underrated. He's

1414
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 1: a former player who uses that. I think there's a

1415
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:47,519
Speaker 1: lot of good players, guys who become coaches and that

1416
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:51,000
Speaker 1: don't have patients with guys who are in his talent,

1417
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 1: guys who aren't as good Mike Vrabel I talked to

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01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 1: him a couple of years ago. He said, you know,

1419
01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 1: the one thing he understands he was never a great player.

1420
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:59,200
Speaker 1: He was a good enough athlete who figured it out.

1421
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:01,240
Speaker 1: And I think that's a good way to come from

1422
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:03,280
Speaker 1: it from a coaching perspective. If he wants guys to

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01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:05,479
Speaker 1: figure it out. Does it happen in year one? I

1424
01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:07,120
Speaker 1: don't know. They spent a lot of money. I mentioned

1425
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 1: Mitt Williams earlier, Von Diggs. Everybody loves Kyle Williams, a

1426
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 1: wide receiver from Washington State. Do I think Drake may

1427
01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:15,479
Speaker 1: showed some things? I think it starts up front with

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01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:17,599
Speaker 1: the offensive line. I think that was the worst offensive

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01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:19,240
Speaker 1: line I've seen in a long time last year, and

1430
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:20,720
Speaker 1: there's a lot of competition for that. I'll tell you

1431
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 1: a story. I do ESPN Radio with Justin Pugh and

1432
01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 1: obviously former offensive lineman. We're watching a game at last

1433
01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:32,800
Speaker 1: year and I saw one of the worst past pass

1434
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:34,840
Speaker 1: pressure reps I've ever seen in my life from from

1435
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:38,320
Speaker 1: the right tackle in New England. And a couple series later,

1436
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:40,360
Speaker 1: I see on Twitter, so and so got benched. I go, oh,

1437
01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:42,759
Speaker 1: that guy got benched, and it was the other tackle

1438
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:46,360
Speaker 1: who got pinched. Were so bad that both of the

1439
01:10:46,439 --> 01:10:49,800
Speaker 1: tackles could have been benched. Okay, and like that when

1440
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:52,240
Speaker 1: that happens in your rookie quarterback, what do you even do?

1441
01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:54,080
Speaker 1: I mean, like the guy kind of similar thing with

1442
01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:56,720
Speaker 1: Kill Williams I saw the other day. Caleb Williams said

1443
01:10:56,760 --> 01:11:00,479
Speaker 1: sixty four unblocked pressures last year because he the offensive

1444
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:02,400
Speaker 1: liners had no idea where things were coming from. What

1445
01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:04,080
Speaker 1: do you do when you're a young quarterback like that,

1446
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:06,680
Speaker 1: You're you're put in position to fail, and so I

1447
01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 1: want to see credibility around Drac and may and I

1448
01:11:09,479 --> 01:11:11,680
Speaker 1: think I think Mike Vrabel's gonna do it. I think

1449
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:13,799
Speaker 1: we use a long history of him, you know, jumping

1450
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:17,639
Speaker 1: into drills and making sure everybody's physical. They're gonna be prepared.

1451
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:19,640
Speaker 1: It's gonna It's not gonna be like last year with

1452
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:22,559
Speaker 1: girod Mayo. I think they're gonna be a lot better.

1453
01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:26,120
Speaker 1: And if I had to guess right now, I think

1454
01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:28,200
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna be the second place team in the division.

1455
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:30,080
Speaker 1: I think the Bills are the only team I know.

1456
01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:31,720
Speaker 1: I don't want to give any rat poison, but I

1457
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:33,320
Speaker 1: think they might be the only team right now in

1458
01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 1: the league just thinking about it. Maybe Baltimore is in

1459
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:39,519
Speaker 1: the same boat. Where you can, you know, start ordering

1460
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:41,080
Speaker 1: the division title banners right now.

1461
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we feel similarly about the Patriots. We wouldn't be

1462
01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:46,600
Speaker 3: surprised if you're the second place team by the end

1463
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 3: of the year in this division, last one for you,

1464
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:53,840
Speaker 3: Kevin It It might seem lofty, but it's something the

1465
01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 3: Bills have not achieved in their playoff runs of the

1466
01:11:56,800 --> 01:11:57,839
Speaker 3: last several years.

1467
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Speaker 7: And that's the one seat in the AFC.

1468
01:12:01,479 --> 01:12:03,240
Speaker 3: I don't know if it came up in your conversation

1469
01:12:03,320 --> 01:12:07,800
Speaker 3: with Brandon Bean, but the bye week has been invaluable

1470
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:11,040
Speaker 3: for the Chiefs in their appearance in five of the

1471
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Speaker 3: last six Super Bowls or whatever the number is.

1472
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Speaker 7: So, first of.

1473
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:17,639
Speaker 3: All, did Bean even bring it up? Was it mentioned

1474
01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:19,120
Speaker 3: in your conversation? Number one?

1475
01:12:19,160 --> 01:12:19,960
Speaker 7: And then number two?

1476
01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:25,400
Speaker 3: How realistic is that brass ring for the Bills this year?

1477
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:27,280
Speaker 3: I mean, the Ravens we know are loaded for bear,

1478
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:31,360
Speaker 3: the Chiefs are still the Chiefs. Cincinnati could maybe rise

1479
01:12:31,479 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 3: up if they can figure out their defense, and there

1480
01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:35,680
Speaker 3: might be a dark horse in there as well, but

1481
01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 3: the number one seed with the Bills schedule, just how realistic?

1482
01:12:42,080 --> 01:12:43,559
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I want to throw in Denver

1483
01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:47,920
Speaker 1: into that dark resveration like them amazing offensive line, one

1484
01:12:47,920 --> 01:12:51,120
Speaker 1: of the best defenses in football. And my elevator pitchure

1485
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:54,439
Speaker 1: is if the question kind of we're talking about judge

1486
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:56,960
Speaker 1: teams by its problems. If the problem is Sean Payton

1487
01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:59,400
Speaker 1: needs to raise the floor of a quarterback, I'll take

1488
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:01,840
Speaker 1: that problem, Okay. I think I think they can figure

1489
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 1: that one out, so I put them in the contender

1490
01:13:04,360 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 1: category as well. The one seed. They're just as we'll see.

1491
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:11,600
Speaker 1: I mean, like we mentioned the division earlier, Kansas City,

1492
01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:16,600
Speaker 1: that's a really hard division. That's that's three hard outs

1493
01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:19,800
Speaker 1: where you're gonna have a real problem where I think Buffalo,

1494
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't I don't see those roadblocks

1495
01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:27,240
Speaker 1: as far as the schedule goes, Baltimore, Cincinnati can beach you.

1496
01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:30,400
Speaker 1: Cincinnati can beach you forty five to forty two. We'll

1497
01:13:30,439 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 1: see what happens with the defense this year. But Cincinnati

1498
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:35,800
Speaker 1: is a really good team. Pittsburgh has a team that's

1499
01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:37,439
Speaker 1: going to have a winning record because my time one

1500
01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:39,360
Speaker 1: always does. And then all of a sudden, you had

1501
01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:43,160
Speaker 1: an Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, pretty good. Cleveland obviously, as I'm saying,

1502
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:46,320
Speaker 1: goes Browns or Browns. But I think I look at

1503
01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:48,680
Speaker 1: this division, I look at the way this team is

1504
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:51,200
Speaker 1: rounding into shape, and I'm yeah, it's the one seat

1505
01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 1: is incredibly realistic. Guys. I think that I'm just looking

1506
01:13:54,439 --> 01:13:56,160
Speaker 1: at this AFC and I'm seeing a lot of stacked

1507
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:58,240
Speaker 1: divisions and I'm not seeing that in the East. So

1508
01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:00,880
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued to see what happens this year. I'm also

1509
01:14:01,280 --> 01:14:03,720
Speaker 1: again part of the reason they don't view it as

1510
01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:06,280
Speaker 1: do or die in Buffalo is because the don't want

1511
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 1: to get ahead of themselves. They are embracing the process of

1512
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:11,599
Speaker 1: what September, October, November it means. And that's how you

1513
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:15,599
Speaker 1: end up winning fifteen fourteen games, necessarily get that one seed.

1514
01:14:16,280 --> 01:14:18,840
Speaker 8: Kevin, thanks so much, Really appreciate your time as good

1515
01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:19,719
Speaker 8: stuff as always.

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01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:21,839
Speaker 1: All right, anytime, guys.

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01:14:22,120 --> 01:14:25,639
Speaker 3: All right, that's ESPN's This Is Football podcast host Kevin

1518
01:14:25,680 --> 01:14:27,640
Speaker 3: Clark joining us. We'll take a quick break and be

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Speaker 3: back with more, including Bill's linebacker Joe Andresen at the

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Speaker 3: post practice podium. He was a featured player in the

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Speaker 3: second episode of Hard Knox. We'll check in with Joe

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Speaker 3: next here on One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 16: Stay with us.

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Speaker 3: All right, back here on One Bill's Live, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 3: Steve Tasker with you and got to get back to

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Speaker 3: the post practice podium. He was a feature a featured

1527
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:12,640
Speaker 3: player in Hard Knocks episode two last night, so he

1528
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:15,800
Speaker 3: was speaking at the post practice podium today. Let's check

1529
01:15:15,840 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 3: in with linebacker Joe Andresa.

1530
01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:20,280
Speaker 4: What has this whole.

1531
01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:22,680
Speaker 15: Summer been like for you and kind of gearing up

1532
01:15:22,720 --> 01:15:24,160
Speaker 15: and elevating your player.

1533
01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:26,879
Speaker 5: Like, how would you assess how that ancess.

1534
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:30,640
Speaker 17: Yeah, well, first I'd probably start with the offseason. You know,

1535
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:32,759
Speaker 17: the goal is always to get bigger, stronger, and faster

1536
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:36,200
Speaker 17: with the training piece, and then kind of going into

1537
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:41,840
Speaker 17: the OTA's expectations within the building are higher for me

1538
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:45,639
Speaker 17: so compared to like comparatively last year. So just trying

1539
01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:50,080
Speaker 17: to you know, I guess live up to him or like,

1540
01:15:50,360 --> 01:15:51,840
Speaker 17: not that I really worry about it, but you know,

1541
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 17: I'm trying to be the best version of myself, but

1542
01:15:54,240 --> 01:15:57,360
Speaker 17: trying to ascend and show that you know, I can

1543
01:15:57,920 --> 01:16:00,120
Speaker 17: fit that role not just in special teams, but on

1544
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:00,800
Speaker 17: defense as well.

1545
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:02,720
Speaker 5: A buck you mean you have to the coaches have

1546
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:06,599
Speaker 5: faith ov you that position. Uh yeah, it means a lot.

1547
01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:10,599
Speaker 17: You know, that's kind of as a player, confidence is huge.

1548
01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:14,600
Speaker 17: So when you see that trust within the coaches or

1549
01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 17: the top people within the organization, all that, you know,

1550
01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:22,439
Speaker 17: build your confidence makes you feel feel better. And when

1551
01:16:22,439 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 17: you're kind of playing without thinking or worrying about external things,

1552
01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:27,120
Speaker 17: it allows you to play faster.

1553
01:16:28,240 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 5: The store being local head and you know the team.

1554
01:16:32,200 --> 01:16:35,000
Speaker 2: Is that ever like seen that hard knocks more so?

1555
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:35,880
Speaker 4: Is that ever?

1556
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:38,080
Speaker 5: Just like oh man, it's like a lot of it

1557
01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 5: like a picture layers.

1558
01:16:39,240 --> 01:16:41,040
Speaker 12: You're trying to kind of go through this whole process

1559
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:44,360
Speaker 12: or are you able to compartmentalize and keep that part

1560
01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:46,760
Speaker 12: of it out.

1561
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:51,320
Speaker 17: It's a good question. Uh, I'd say a little bit

1562
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:54,720
Speaker 17: of both. When I'm inside the building, it's you know,

1563
01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 17: it's ball.

1564
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:56,559
Speaker 5: We're all football players here.

1565
01:16:57,240 --> 01:16:59,599
Speaker 17: Obviously, there's a ton of guys on this team that

1566
01:16:59,640 --> 01:17:03,960
Speaker 17: have differ different situations outside the building, whether you look

1567
01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:05,439
Speaker 17: at the top guys or the bottom guys, you know,

1568
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:09,320
Speaker 17: everyone has a different situations. And so when I'm inside

1569
01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:11,679
Speaker 17: the building, it's, uh, you know, it's ball. Where going

1570
01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 17: to meetings where teammates uh, laughing and joking, got there

1571
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:16,040
Speaker 17: doing all that kind of stuff.

1572
01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:20,280
Speaker 5: And then outside the building it is it is different.

1573
01:17:20,320 --> 01:17:23,960
Speaker 17: I'd say, you know, most special team guys, you know,

1574
01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:26,960
Speaker 17: or back up depth guys kind of don't have the

1575
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 17: situation I have.

1576
01:17:29,600 --> 01:17:30,240
Speaker 5: But it is cool.

1577
01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 17: I mean I saw the beginning of Hard Knock yesterday.

1578
01:17:33,600 --> 01:17:35,360
Speaker 17: My family is watching and everything, and I saw the

1579
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 17: beginning and it kind of surprised me. I was like, oh,

1580
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:39,200
Speaker 17: I'm the opening opening piece.

1581
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:39,519
Speaker 4: Huh.

1582
01:17:39,560 --> 01:17:43,640
Speaker 17: So that was cool, and uh, I mean, you know,

1583
01:17:43,800 --> 01:17:47,040
Speaker 17: I grew up watching Hard Knocks you know, I remember

1584
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:49,920
Speaker 17: like the Texans and I even remember like the old

1585
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:51,240
Speaker 17: Ravens ones all that kind.

1586
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:53,679
Speaker 5: Of stuff, So it's kind of cool to see yourself

1587
01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:55,160
Speaker 5: on that light.

1588
01:17:57,160 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 17: Oh I honestly don't even know it that at the time,

1589
01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:04,599
Speaker 17: because like I was four or five years old probably

1590
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 17: during that.

1591
01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:09,200
Speaker 5: I that have to be apparent. Question.

1592
01:18:09,439 --> 01:18:11,240
Speaker 17: I'm not too sure why Tekuiyo was my guy at

1593
01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:13,200
Speaker 17: that time. I know I like JP Lossman at the

1594
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,880
Speaker 17: time a lot too, so both of those guys, and uh,

1595
01:18:16,479 --> 01:18:18,360
Speaker 17: I don't know, maybe because my parents bought bought me

1596
01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:20,519
Speaker 17: the jersey, so I had to feel feel the need

1597
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:21,960
Speaker 17: to get his autograph and everything like that.

1598
01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:24,800
Speaker 5: And obviously Takio is a good player. So what is.

1599
01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:26,600
Speaker 17: It that you think inside you that it's allowed you

1600
01:18:26,640 --> 01:18:28,960
Speaker 17: to kind of really take advantage of every time you

1601
01:18:29,040 --> 01:18:32,640
Speaker 17: bet an opportunity that's taking advantage.

1602
01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:38,800
Speaker 5: Of that, I think first and foremost, God.

1603
01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:45,920
Speaker 17: Is the top answer, you know. Uh, it's kind of

1604
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:47,680
Speaker 17: funny how you like ask the question, you know, like

1605
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:51,800
Speaker 17: how I've stepped up and everything like that, because it

1606
01:18:51,880 --> 01:18:54,599
Speaker 17: really feels like I've slipped through the cracks at every level,

1607
01:18:55,880 --> 01:19:00,759
Speaker 17: whether it was high school, college, I turned the transfer

1608
01:19:00,760 --> 01:19:03,439
Speaker 17: portal all that. It feels like I was slipping through.

1609
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 17: You know, I had a face adversity. Everyone face adversity though,

1610
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 17: so like, I don't look at that any any different.

1611
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:11,920
Speaker 17: You know, I don't like look like I have a

1612
01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:13,439
Speaker 17: super special story or anything like that.

1613
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:16,360
Speaker 5: But I just think the way it's all worked.

1614
01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 17: Out, you know, the support system that God's put into

1615
01:19:21,040 --> 01:19:24,160
Speaker 17: my life, and then just the talent He's put within.

1616
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:25,920
Speaker 5: Me, and how things have just worked out.

1617
01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:33,240
Speaker 17: I can just feel his presence within it. Matt Milano

1618
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:38,560
Speaker 17: is a beast, so especially this camp. I mean, I

1619
01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 17: know you've probably seen it. You've been out here.

1620
01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:40,719
Speaker 5: He's been bawling.

1621
01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:43,960
Speaker 17: He's making big plays and that's kind of I mean,

1622
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:45,720
Speaker 17: that's why it was an All Pro because of the big,

1623
01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 17: big plays he makes. And it's cool to see him

1624
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 17: out here. And you know, I think last year, obviously

1625
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 17: the injury and everything, we probably would have seen it.

1626
01:19:55,960 --> 01:19:57,920
Speaker 17: But it's always hard coming back from injuries and everything

1627
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:00,559
Speaker 17: like that, and back late into the season. This year,

1628
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:03,360
Speaker 17: coming into it, he's healthy, he's feeling good, and you

1629
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:05,720
Speaker 17: know he's getting his mental on point, and you know

1630
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:06,639
Speaker 17: he's likeing big things.

1631
01:20:09,160 --> 01:20:12,479
Speaker 12: It's one more on Mad it's amazing that we've gone

1632
01:20:12,479 --> 01:20:15,920
Speaker 12: through episode of Hard Knocks and you haven't really seen.

1633
01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:20,200
Speaker 5: That a lot of yeah by design.

1634
01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:18,760
Speaker 4: And.

1635
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:23,080
Speaker 17: You'd have to ask Matt about that, but he probably

1636
01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 17: he probably won't answer that either.

1637
01:20:27,120 --> 01:20:29,840
Speaker 5: What's he like? He doesn't say a lot like what

1638
01:20:30,080 --> 01:20:30,479
Speaker 5: has of that?

1639
01:20:30,800 --> 01:20:31,000
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1640
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:34,920
Speaker 5: Well, what's it like? Wanting for Matt's awesome?

1641
01:20:35,240 --> 01:20:39,519
Speaker 17: Matt's uh, you know, for you guys, don't I don't know.

1642
01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:41,679
Speaker 17: You know, Matt doesn't like the media stuff and everything

1643
01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:43,320
Speaker 17: like that, but inside the room, that's great.

1644
01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:43,840
Speaker 7: Uh.

1645
01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:46,599
Speaker 17: The relationship me and Matt have is great. The relationship

1646
01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:48,320
Speaker 17: Matt has with all the linebackers in the room is great.

1647
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:52,800
Speaker 5: And uh, I mean, yeah, he's a super normal guy.

1648
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:54,280
Speaker 17: I don't know, he just doesn't like doing doing the

1649
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:56,240
Speaker 17: questions and stuff and all the interviews and everything like

1650
01:20:56,280 --> 01:20:58,760
Speaker 17: that and uh or the micd up stuff. You know,

1651
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:01,679
Speaker 17: but he's a super normal Guy's a good time.

1652
01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:08,479
Speaker 8: So that bring them now.

1653
01:21:11,439 --> 01:21:13,600
Speaker 1: Kind of both that.

1654
01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:19,720
Speaker 17: It's cool even whether it's training camp or not, just

1655
01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:22,720
Speaker 17: in public wherever it is. Uh, the kids are always one

1656
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:25,599
Speaker 17: of my favorite, uh things to sign for or say

1657
01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:28,479
Speaker 17: hi to. And you know, sometimes the kids don't even

1658
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 17: know who you are, and their dad have to introduce

1659
01:21:30,080 --> 01:21:32,600
Speaker 17: them and then uh, you know that dad tells the

1660
01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:34,640
Speaker 17: kid that, like, oh, he plays for the Bills, and

1661
01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:36,920
Speaker 17: then the h their eyes light up and it's like,

1662
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:40,240
Speaker 17: you know, just that status alone means so much to

1663
01:21:40,320 --> 01:21:43,040
Speaker 17: the kids, and so it's cool to see them. And

1664
01:21:43,320 --> 01:21:45,840
Speaker 17: hopefully for maybe the kids that are a little bit older,

1665
01:21:46,439 --> 01:21:48,920
Speaker 17: whether they're playing football or any other sport, or they

1666
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:51,719
Speaker 17: have dreams to do something big in a different area,

1667
01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:55,080
Speaker 17: hopefully you know, they can look towards me and see

1668
01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:56,280
Speaker 17: that anything's possible.

1669
01:21:56,600 --> 01:21:58,720
Speaker 15: Joe, at this time last year, we were going to

1670
01:21:58,720 --> 01:22:01,200
Speaker 15: that second preseason game and against the Steelers was kind

1671
01:22:01,200 --> 01:22:02,040
Speaker 15: of the moment where.

1672
01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:03,479
Speaker 5: We started to notice you, and you kind of as

1673
01:22:03,520 --> 01:22:04,360
Speaker 5: you're coming out.

1674
01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:05,000
Speaker 4: Party, so to speak.

1675
01:22:05,960 --> 01:22:07,880
Speaker 1: Looking back on it's kind of flouted quite fect.

1676
01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:09,040
Speaker 5: But what do you think has been the.

1677
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:11,400
Speaker 15: Biggest takeaway or the biggest thing you've learned about yourself

1678
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:14,439
Speaker 15: over the last year getting to that journey from having

1679
01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:16,920
Speaker 15: that game and now going to your second preseason game

1680
01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:18,920
Speaker 15: where we're gonna expected by see a lot of you

1681
01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:19,559
Speaker 15: out play.

1682
01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:24,200
Speaker 5: So the biggest thing I've learned about myself through this process?

1683
01:22:25,080 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 5: M I think that's a good question. I think I

1684
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 5: first say that.

1685
01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:44,439
Speaker 17: It's not easy, and whether that's football alone or everything

1686
01:22:44,439 --> 01:22:46,560
Speaker 17: that comes with being in the league. You know, the

1687
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:49,839
Speaker 17: kind of emphasize being professional a lot within the building,

1688
01:22:50,280 --> 01:22:53,439
Speaker 17: and that just does not come within the building and

1689
01:22:53,479 --> 01:22:55,720
Speaker 17: on the field. There's so much more to that, and

1690
01:22:56,120 --> 01:23:00,000
Speaker 17: I think I've learned it's hard to manage. I feel

1691
01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:03,320
Speaker 17: like more is on my plate than ever within my life.

1692
01:23:03,880 --> 01:23:04,639
Speaker 5: You know, I kind of.

1693
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:10,000
Speaker 17: My whole life has kind of been, uh revolved around

1694
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:13,439
Speaker 17: football and making sure that I'm the best football player

1695
01:23:13,479 --> 01:23:13,920
Speaker 17: I can be.

1696
01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:15,680
Speaker 5: You know, my parents allowed for that.

1697
01:23:16,080 --> 01:23:18,360
Speaker 17: Uh so kind of whatever I had to do, whether

1698
01:23:18,400 --> 01:23:21,479
Speaker 17: that was diet or working now, traveling, whatever that was,

1699
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:22,759
Speaker 17: that was the emphasis.

1700
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:24,320
Speaker 5: And uh now there's a lot more.

1701
01:23:25,840 --> 01:23:28,720
Speaker 17: There's a lot more outside of just that being a professional,

1702
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:31,519
Speaker 17: so kind of learning how to handle that and deal

1703
01:23:31,560 --> 01:23:35,400
Speaker 17: with that and uh at the same time understanding you

1704
01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:39,240
Speaker 17: know this this is first and foremost here and making

1705
01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 17: sure that I'm ready to compete.

1706
01:23:40,560 --> 01:23:50,720
Speaker 8: Here Beauty support Yeah, but also like the microfield.

1707
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:59,360
Speaker 17: Jo Yeah, Yeah, I guess it's hard for me to

1708
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:02,400
Speaker 17: answer that question because I'm not totally sure. But obviously,

1709
01:24:02,479 --> 01:24:05,559
Speaker 17: like you first said, kind of being at home and

1710
01:24:05,880 --> 01:24:08,320
Speaker 17: especially as a rookie.

1711
01:24:08,439 --> 01:24:10,559
Speaker 5: I mean that was a huge, huge for me.

1712
01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 17: You know, I was going to my parents' house and

1713
01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:16,840
Speaker 17: I was you know, they're having good home cooked meals

1714
01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:20,559
Speaker 17: for me. You know, I had to worry about less

1715
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:22,840
Speaker 17: about things about getting a car up here or anything

1716
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:23,120
Speaker 17: like that.

1717
01:24:23,160 --> 01:24:25,160
Speaker 5: You know, I have my car, I have all that here.

1718
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:28,439
Speaker 17: And you know, just because I'm saying that, I've seen

1719
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:30,880
Speaker 17: the rookies that came in with and how they had

1720
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:33,160
Speaker 17: to you know, do some extra stuff. So so that

1721
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:37,000
Speaker 17: was obviously very nice and I'm grateful for that made

1722
01:24:37,040 --> 01:24:39,960
Speaker 17: the transition easier. I mean, I don't have to h

1723
01:24:40,360 --> 01:24:41,800
Speaker 17: on the bye week. I don't have to worry about

1724
01:24:41,960 --> 01:24:45,800
Speaker 17: getting a plane flight or anything like that. But yeah,

1725
01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:48,960
Speaker 17: at the same time, you know, the media and everything

1726
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:49,360
Speaker 17: like that.

1727
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:53,439
Speaker 5: You know, it's you know, there's good and bad that

1728
01:24:53,479 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 5: always comes with it.

1729
01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:56,240
Speaker 17: You know, like you said, you're under the microscope a

1730
01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:59,519
Speaker 17: little bit more. But at the same time, I guess

1731
01:24:59,520 --> 01:25:02,479
Speaker 17: that's what you want to you know. I mean me personally,

1732
01:25:02,560 --> 01:25:06,160
Speaker 17: I want the pressure. I want, uh, you know, put

1733
01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:08,840
Speaker 17: it all on my plate, you know, because I mean

1734
01:25:10,200 --> 01:25:12,439
Speaker 17: I don't know it's in my Instagram bio. Actually, no pressure,

1735
01:25:12,479 --> 01:25:15,439
Speaker 17: no diamonds, so you know, I'll take all of it.

1736
01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 3: Joe reactions today.

1737
01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:24,760
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think we were all punk for him. You know,

1738
01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:27,640
Speaker 17: it's a business. We all understand that, and uh, you know,

1739
01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:30,160
Speaker 17: James is uh one of our brothers and we want

1740
01:25:30,240 --> 01:25:33,479
Speaker 17: him the best for him always, and uh, I think

1741
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:36,200
Speaker 17: I first heard we were in the eating breakfast in

1742
01:25:36,200 --> 01:25:39,760
Speaker 17: the cafeteria and uh, you know, we were happy for him.

1743
01:25:40,080 --> 01:25:43,400
Speaker 3: So that's Joe Andreeson addressing the media after practice today.

1744
01:25:43,439 --> 01:25:48,800
Speaker 3: And he was a big part of Hard Knock's episode

1745
01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:52,160
Speaker 3: Numero Dose as uh, you know, you got to see

1746
01:25:52,160 --> 01:25:54,559
Speaker 3: his parents, you know, coming out to practice every day

1747
01:25:55,280 --> 01:25:58,960
Speaker 3: and obviously being the hometown kid, and they kind of

1748
01:25:59,040 --> 01:26:03,800
Speaker 3: played up played up that connection to Western New York

1749
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:07,320
Speaker 3: and revisited how he went to training camp as a

1750
01:26:07,360 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 3: young kid with a takeo Spikes Jersey on he's maybe

1751
01:26:10,040 --> 01:26:12,920
Speaker 3: four or five and he wants Spikes jersey or he

1752
01:26:12,960 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 3: wants his autograph on his jersey that he had of

1753
01:26:15,479 --> 01:26:18,320
Speaker 3: him and they missed him on the initial wave of

1754
01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:23,280
Speaker 3: autograph signings and he was disappointed, and then they happened

1755
01:26:23,280 --> 01:26:25,320
Speaker 3: to see him walking by later. I don't know if

1756
01:26:25,320 --> 01:26:27,559
Speaker 3: he went to the cold tub and came out and

1757
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:30,360
Speaker 3: he shouted, mister Spikes, can I get your autograph? And

1758
01:26:30,400 --> 01:26:32,920
Speaker 3: he stopped dead, and his tracks came back and actually

1759
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:34,840
Speaker 3: walked him down the path back to the locker room

1760
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:36,200
Speaker 3: with him and signed his jersey and everything.

1761
01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:37,200
Speaker 7: So kind of a cool story.

1762
01:26:37,200 --> 01:26:38,040
Speaker 2: And now the guy's.

1763
01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:38,920
Speaker 3: Playing on the dang team.

1764
01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:39,879
Speaker 9: It's crazy.

1765
01:26:39,880 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely nuts. Gotta take a break here. When we

1766
01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 3: come back. We'll spell out a few more details that

1767
01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:50,320
Speaker 3: have trickled out on the James Cook contract extension. We'll

1768
01:26:50,320 --> 01:26:51,840
Speaker 3: do that when we get back here on one Bill's

1769
01:26:51,840 --> 01:27:10,320
Speaker 3: Live stay with us, all right, So some other contract

1770
01:27:10,360 --> 01:27:12,640
Speaker 3: details are trickling out on the James Cook deal. We

1771
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 3: often see the numbers listed and it's often the absolute

1772
01:27:16,960 --> 01:27:20,719
Speaker 3: maximum value that the deal could put in James Cook's

1773
01:27:20,720 --> 01:27:23,480
Speaker 3: pocket if he hits all the escalators and all the incentives.

1774
01:27:23,880 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 3: And we saw a four year extension forty eight million.

1775
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:29,439
Speaker 3: We have found out, according to reports from Pro Football Talk,

1776
01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 3: that his base salary was reduced this year from five

1777
01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:35,880
Speaker 3: point two seven million to one point two eight million.

1778
01:27:36,479 --> 01:27:39,000
Speaker 3: That's because his signing bonus was nine million that went

1779
01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:41,080
Speaker 3: in his pocket as soon as he signed it this morning,

1780
01:27:41,920 --> 01:27:45,800
Speaker 3: so amortized over the five total years, makes the one

1781
01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:48,760
Speaker 3: point eight bonus hit this year combined with the one

1782
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:52,320
Speaker 3: point two eight base salary two point eight eight million

1783
01:27:52,360 --> 01:27:55,920
Speaker 3: on the books, So unless there are other incentives that

1784
01:27:55,960 --> 01:27:58,800
Speaker 3: were unaware of, two point four million in savings on

1785
01:27:58,840 --> 01:28:01,400
Speaker 3: the cap this year for the bills, so that's a

1786
01:28:01,439 --> 01:28:07,200
Speaker 3: good thing. But in essence, the new money average on

1787
01:28:07,240 --> 01:28:10,960
Speaker 3: the four year extension is eleven and a half million

1788
01:28:11,400 --> 01:28:16,240
Speaker 3: per year, fifteen point two eight million fully guaranteed its signing.

1789
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:19,600
Speaker 3: By twenty twenty six, the full guarantee goes up to

1790
01:28:19,640 --> 01:28:24,200
Speaker 3: twenty five point nine million, and then if the total

1791
01:28:24,360 --> 01:28:27,960
Speaker 3: injury guarantee comes into play, it is thirty million.

1792
01:28:28,040 --> 01:28:28,920
Speaker 7: So the thirty.

1793
01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:34,639
Speaker 3: Million guaranteed money only reaches that figure if the total

1794
01:28:34,720 --> 01:28:38,240
Speaker 3: injury guarantee comes into effect well.

1795
01:28:38,080 --> 01:28:40,320
Speaker 8: Which means if he gets hurt and it's all over

1796
01:28:40,360 --> 01:28:43,679
Speaker 8: for him, he has to quit the game, yeah, which

1797
01:28:43,680 --> 01:28:45,800
Speaker 8: we all hope does not have right, and he doesn't

1798
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:46,920
Speaker 8: hope any So.

1799
01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:50,599
Speaker 3: Essentially twenty six million is fully guaranteed in the deal

1800
01:28:50,640 --> 01:28:54,080
Speaker 3: over the life of it, and really if you average

1801
01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:56,719
Speaker 3: it out over the four years or over the five

1802
01:28:56,840 --> 01:29:00,920
Speaker 3: total years, with all the new money. It averages out

1803
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:02,479
Speaker 3: to ten point two million a year.

1804
01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:04,679
Speaker 9: So that includes this year, which is the last.

1805
01:29:04,680 --> 01:29:08,200
Speaker 3: This year, yeah, because they reworked this year, it still

1806
01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:13,040
Speaker 3: is there, but then there's four years after. So once again,

1807
01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:16,639
Speaker 3: all things considered, the Bills did pretty good.

1808
01:29:16,720 --> 01:29:18,599
Speaker 9: They did, and it's a win win for James too.

1809
01:29:18,640 --> 01:29:21,160
Speaker 8: I mean yeah, because he's just started nine million dollars

1810
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:24,400
Speaker 8: in his pocket today today. If those of you who

1811
01:29:24,400 --> 01:29:29,000
Speaker 8: want to know, the answer is yes, here's your checks

1812
01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:29,799
Speaker 8: for signing.

1813
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:32,840
Speaker 9: Here's what you're wife. The money's been what it's all in.

1814
01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:35,680
Speaker 7: Thank you for putting way it is.

1815
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:38,000
Speaker 9: Yeah, it happens immediately.

1816
01:29:38,320 --> 01:29:42,639
Speaker 8: And uh so James Cook can can take Deon Dawkins

1817
01:29:42,640 --> 01:29:44,240
Speaker 8: for a pancake breakfast.

1818
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:46,080
Speaker 3: That's right, and three stake didn't and that's what dan.

1819
01:29:47,240 --> 01:29:49,560
Speaker 9: So that's for block gratulations.

1820
01:29:49,640 --> 01:29:50,160
Speaker 3: That's awesome.

1821
01:29:50,200 --> 01:29:52,280
Speaker 7: It's great. We're all happy for him, and it's good

1822
01:29:52,320 --> 01:29:52,920
Speaker 7: for the Bills.

1823
01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:55,880
Speaker 3: Uh Steve is in here with Chris Trapasso Thursday and

1824
01:29:55,920 --> 01:29:57,879
Speaker 3: Friday because I will be on the road in Chicago

1825
01:29:57,960 --> 01:30:00,439
Speaker 3: with the team. We'll get your report on Friday on

1826
01:30:00,479 --> 01:30:03,280
Speaker 3: the joint practice me and Maddie, but otherwise Steve will

1827
01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:05,280
Speaker 3: be back here with Chris Tabasso tomorrow, would want