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Speaker 1: And I left my phone when I left here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: only on that answer, but on several others, because I

430
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Speaker 1: think it all kind of came full circle for him

431
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Speaker 1: as he was talking about it to the media. And

432
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Speaker 1: if you and fortunately for us, we've been around tradevious,

433
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 1: we know him as a person, not just as a player,

434
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:55,439
Speaker 1: such a gregarious personality, um, funny, but genuine, like to

435
00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 1: the core, like genuine to the core. And he also

436
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 1: talked about you know, Buffalo fitting him and how happy

437
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: he is that he's in a blue collar city because

438
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: he's a blue collar guy. The Bills and Bills fans,

439
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: I mean, really lucky to have this guy in a

440
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,679
Speaker 1: in a Bill's uniform. I think it's reflected, but not

441
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 1: only that. You go back to when Sean McDermott took over.

442
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: There's a few that did. Here's a handful of guys

443
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 1: who unlike since then, they got plugged in and have

444
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: never left. Tremaine Edmonds, Milano and Tredavious White is probably

445
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,159
Speaker 1: the one. They got him, and that guy has been

446
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: a starter since the first practice, the first rep, the

447
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: first day of ot at whatever. He has been the

448
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 1: guy and he has never wavered and he has done

449
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,159
Speaker 1: what it has taken to earn it. He's earned the

450
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 1: respect of his his teammates, his opponents, the players around

451
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 1: the National foot Ball League, and certainly the coaching staff

452
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. In any administration, this was a guy

453
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 1: that for being the first guy they grabbed. Why when

454
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott got the job. It's pretty good leadoff man.

455
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: That is a home run. It's a leadoff home run,

456
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: and now he gets to round the bases in a jog.

457
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,640
Speaker 1: You know, it's good for him now. He had mentioned

458
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Speaker 1: earlier in August in a zoom call with the media

459
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Speaker 1: that he was eager to get his second contract because

460
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,919
Speaker 1: he was looking to create generational wealth for his family.

461
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:39,879
Speaker 1: Comes from Shreveport, Louisiana, somewhat depressed socioeconomic area down south,

462
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: and he's done a lot of community efforts down there

463
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 1: already in his first three years in the league. You know,

464
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 1: when he has time to go back home and things

465
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 1: like that, But there are a lot of members of

466
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: his extended family that they're going through tough time right

467
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: now and probably even tougher now amidst COVID, and so

468
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,679
Speaker 1: this contract not only meant something to him, him his

469
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: immediate family. You know, he was talking about his dad,

470
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: but he's talking about using this newfound wealth to what

471
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: he said, break the curse of not having all of

472
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Speaker 1: his family members into position where they're not worried about

473
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Speaker 1: either paying a rent or paying a mortgage, or making

474
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Speaker 1: sure that you know, they know they go to the

475
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: grocery store. They're looking to stay under seventy five dollars,

476
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 1: and then they might have a family of six, right, Like,

477
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 1: that's that's not a position you want to be in

478
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 1: every week. And so I think that's what Tradevious was

479
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 1: getting at when he talked about how this extent contract

480
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 1: extension is not only monumental for him but his extended family.

481
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 1: So let's hear from him on that. Once I told

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Speaker 1: my dad and my mom that is it was the

483
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: whole load that was lifted on my shoulders because I

484
00:26:55,840 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: knew that I could retire my parents and they'll never

485
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: had to worry about anything. So that's the emotion that

486
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: I'm feeling, man, And I can't put into words because

487
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: I have a lot of people and a lot of

488
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 1: family members that I could I could change their lives,

489
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 1: and that's what I plan do because I wasn't putting

490
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,880
Speaker 1: this position for no reason. I wasn't putting this position

491
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: to do it for myself, to to just reap all

492
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: the benefits for myself to think that I'm bigger than

493
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: anybody else, or I was putting this position to spread

494
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: the love and spread spread everything that I'm being blessed with.

495
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 1: I was putting this position to help people out where

496
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: I'm from to better, to better the resources that they have,

497
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Speaker 1: and to give them the resources to successful. And I

498
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: plan to do so because, like I said before, like

499
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Speaker 1: I told you guys like a month ago, it's a

500
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Speaker 1: lot of people in my family that are that are hurting.

501
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: So I planned lighting that burden on him and we're

502
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: gonna do it together. So with this contract, it's not

503
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,400
Speaker 1: about me, because I've been good off the first one,

504
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:30,199
Speaker 1: But this is about people that I love and I

505
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 1: really genuinely care about and being able to provide opportunities

506
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: for them that if I wasn't into this position, it

507
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna happen for nobody in my family, nobody. So

508
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: I'm able to do that now. I mean, that's man.

509
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: Like I'm sitting there watching watching them yesterday, going good Lord, man,

510
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: I mean, just think about that burden, you know, like

511
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: you're the guy that got out and you've got an

512
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Speaker 1: opportunity to you know, be financially. He's secure, but then

513
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: to take it a step further. I mean, he's talking

514
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: about extended family here. He's not talking about mom and dad.

515
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: I mean, he bought his mom a house like his

516
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: second year in the league. And you know, he's got siblings,

517
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: he's got two kids, So just immediate family alone, I mean, yeah,

518
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: he's got people to take care of. He's talking about

519
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: extended family. We're talking on its uncle's cousins, you know.

520
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: I mean he's looking he's literally looking to spread the wealth.

521
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: He uh. He also mentioned too, I'm I'm good from

522
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: this first kind. He was a you know, he's a

523
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: first well, he did right with his money, he saved

524
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: his money. He's he's good from his first his first contract.

525
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: He's got two more years on. He's that has made

526
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: him comfortable already, even for the foreseeable future. And now

527
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: he has with this second contract, the ability to let

528
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,719
Speaker 1: other people do that as well, to take care of him.

529
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: And that's to have the mindset that he does is

530
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: pretty inspiring. And for those people who are and I know,

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Speaker 1: I mean we've all said, we've been in those conversations

532
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: like those guys are making us so much money? You

533
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: know what? You know, sure, this is the guy, this

534
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: is the guy that is doing it exactly like the

535
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: worst critics of the NFL because of the money, would

536
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: tell them they should do it. Yeah, he's uh, he's

537
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: the answer to those guys who you know, blow it

538
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: um and he has that's the kind of that's the

539
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: answer to And that's and he's not alone. I mean,

540
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: there are other guys. It's it's it's not just Tradevious White,

541
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: but that is the best example, the current example of

542
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: a guy who has uh got his mindset outside the

543
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: lines of football and how good it can be for

544
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: everybody else who who has helped him. And when you

545
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: see him choked up like that, you know his intentions

546
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: are genuine. It's not just because it's the right thing

547
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: to do. It's because he wants to do it. I mean,

548
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: he wants to do right by his extended family. And

549
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: he's talked about, you know, having businesses and you know

550
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: his family is not just going to get handouts. He

551
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: wants to start businesses down there, employ his extended family

552
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: members and then pay them that way. So it's not

553
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: just here's a free handout. It's hey, you know, help

554
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: me out with my business and you'll learn it just

555
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: like I did. And that's just another thing, another layer

556
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: of this to do nothing but appreciate. So we'll continue

557
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: this peek into Trudevius White and you know his plans

558
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: going forward now that he signed this extension, including how

559
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: he has said this contract extension will not change him

560
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: in any way as a player. We'll get to that

561
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,479
Speaker 1: and more from Trudevius when we return here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by collid to Health. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio One Bills Live. Chris Brown Steve Tasker with

564
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: you on the Monday of Week one of the NFL

565
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: season as the Bills or the Monday it's Tuesday. It's

566
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: somebody forgot it was Labor Day. That would be me

567
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: Tuesday of Week one, as the Bills get set for

568
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 1: the Jets, who they will be hosting at Bill Stadium

569
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: on Sunday at one pm for the kickoff to the

570
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: twenty twenty season. And we will obviously dive deeper into

571
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: the Bill's Jets matchup as the week goes on. We're

572
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: playing a little bit of ketchup from the roster formation

573
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: over the weekend, and Steve and I'll be kind of

574
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: dissecting the roster as we go through here. But we're

575
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: in the midst of reviewing some of Tradavious White's comments,

576
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: some very powerful and inspiring stuff from him in his

577
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: interview with the media on Sunday or Monday, And you know,

578
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: we talked about the generational wealth that he wanted to

579
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: provide to his extended family in addition to his immediate family.

580
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: But there is always the skepticism that exists out there

581
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: among NFL fans and critics that always sit back and

582
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: wonder when a player gets a contract of this size,

583
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: is it going to change them? That is always a

584
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: question that is that comes up inevitably, whether it's fair

585
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: or unfair. Now, in the case of tradevia is White,

586
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: I think most people would say he's just wired to excel.

587
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: You know, money is not going to change him. He

588
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,719
Speaker 1: all but confirmed that when he was asked about it

589
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: in the conference call. So let's listen to his comments

590
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: on that, Like, I just didn't want to go into

591
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: the NFL and say, yeah, I played it. I want

592
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:45,239
Speaker 1: to actually get here, and you know, see meant my

593
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: name into something and honestly, I want to do the

594
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: next deal and I achieved that. So now it's just

595
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: being consistent and content continue to try to get better

596
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: each and every day, which you know, I've been working

597
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: in extremely hard to do um And now as I

598
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: go into practicing things, when practice and stay in my

599
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: look around, and I don't see a number twenty seven

600
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: on the wall to fame, So why not why not

601
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: be the first twenty seven to be up there? Why not?

602
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 1: Why I cannot be that guy? So yeah, I got

603
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: I got a ways to go. So that's next on

604
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: my buckett. So if I could do that and win

605
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl for Buffalo with my teammates, and then

606
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: to go out and be remembered as one of the

607
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: best cornerbacks and Bier history and be one of the

608
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: best cornerbacks in NFL history, I feel like that I

609
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: did it. I've done a great job. So until then,

610
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: I'm still working. Man, I got a long ways to go,

611
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: So yeah, my journey is not open. This guy's got

612
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: a long list. I think he wants to accomplish. It's

613
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 1: a real lesson in what makes these tick and I've

614
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: talked about it a little bit on this show before,

615
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: and it's a real it's a great thing for young

616
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: people to realize. It's not just setting goals. Particularly, you

617
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: got to set your goals really high and you almost

618
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: the best guys are ones who are motivated by those

619
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 1: goals that they have set, and those goals are literally

620
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: unattainable in your lifetime. You know what I'm saying, You

621
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: gotta be the best guy ever. You gotta be a

622
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: legendary guy. You gotta be the obvious as good as

623
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: you can possibly be. Because you've seen guys come into

624
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: the league say I want to be I want to

625
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 1: be and go to the pro bowler, I want to

626
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 1: play in the NFL. Well, the problem is once you

627
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: get your first league year in the league, in the NFL,

628
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: you've done that. Now where do you go? And it's

629
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: a real issue for some guys. They that once they

630
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: get that, it's like, oh well now what, okay, that's cool. Well,

631
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: you know it says you sell yourself short tradevious White

632
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: is obviously he obviously puts his goals way out of reach,

633
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: way out there where he's got to work hard to

634
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: get there. He sets him extremely high, and that's where

635
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: you want to be. That it means to this year

636
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: when he takes the field, he's gonna be motivated to

637
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 1: play well. Forget about the big contract, forget about the

638
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: All Pro last year. He wants to be on the

639
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: Wall of Fame, on the Wall of fame. He wants

640
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: to be legendary. That means he's got to do it

641
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: every day. He's you know, the bar is always out

642
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: there for him to strive and reach and young people

643
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Speaker 1: and he'll readjust it young, make it higher, and young

644
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,879
Speaker 1: people need to realize that that's your goal and that's

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Speaker 1: what gets you up in the morning. That's why you're

646
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: gonna be great. And if you you know, it's a

647
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,720
Speaker 1: thing if you shoot for the moon and you just miss,

648
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,399
Speaker 1: you're still out, you know what I mean, that's still

649
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: a really good shot, right, So you're still up in

650
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: the up in the heavens. So that's the idea that

651
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Speaker 1: Turdavious White has lived by and has gotten him to

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Speaker 1: this point of his career where not only has he

653
00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:01,280
Speaker 1: you know, made this generational wealth extension contract, he's also

654
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Speaker 1: empowered and in a position to go even higher. Yeah,

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00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: and I still remember him coming in the locker room

656
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Speaker 1: as a rookie in twenty seventeen. I walk up to

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Speaker 1: his locker. He's got this little picture next to his

658
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: name and it's it's a photo of a gold Hall

659
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: of Fame jacket. And I was like, well, that's interesting.

660
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: He's like, well, that's what I'm shooting for. I was like, okay,

661
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: this kids wire a little different. You know that thing

662
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: stayed up. It might still be there. I haven't checked

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00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: reach and that's not just and I won't be anytime soon.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's COVID and we've also heard all these

665
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 1: they commits it. I want to be that's a daily

666
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: reminder sitting above his locker. It's it's not hyperbole with them,

667
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: it's real. And they know the mountain of work that

668
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: lies before him every day when they come into to

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00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: work and everything. You look at that lot and these

670
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: if you want to get there, there's a laundry list

671
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,439
Speaker 1: every single day of things you got to start ticking off,

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00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: and it's it's every day you look at it, it's

673
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:00,959
Speaker 1: right there. You've got to get up and you gotta

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00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: go get it. And that's it's it's not you get

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00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: from what he said. And we've we've lived it for

676
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: the last three years watching him. It's real for him.

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00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: He's working at it, and he's working at it right.

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00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: And and after all that he talked about with respect

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00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: to his personal family, his extended family and what he

680
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: wants to do for them, and then how his journey's

681
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: not over and he's gonna keep working and it's not

682
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: going to change him. Jordavis went out and had a

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Speaker 1: message for the kids you know that look up to him,

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Speaker 1: maybe the kids back in Shreveport, you know who went

685
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Speaker 1: who are going to the same high school that he

686
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: went to, and he had a life lesson for them

687
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 1: as well. So I mean, he had it all covered.

688
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy could have run for office after

689
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Speaker 1: the twenty seven minutes that he spent with the media yesterday.

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Speaker 1: But here's his comment on a message for the kids.

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Speaker 1: I stayed in. I was able to they once those

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Speaker 1: kids saw that. Man, I was thinking about my neighborhood

693
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: when I was making this sound. I was like, man, day,

694
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: I was like, Yeah, that's that's what it's all about about. Money, Like, no,

695
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: it's your education, man, Because no matter what, when this

696
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: football stuff is over with, I can always say that

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00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a college grad, my college grad, which

698
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 1: you know, and one of the first in my family

699
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Speaker 1: to do it. So I was thinking about stuff like that. Man,

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00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: It's it's so big, so much bigger than just playing

701
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: a game. And I think that my whole message was too,

702
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: I want to break a cycle. Man. That what kids

703
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: thought in the mindset of what they are, what they

704
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: should be thinking about, how what life should be about. So,

705
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Speaker 1: I mean, he talked about staying in school at LSU

706
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: for a senior year when he could have probably been

707
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: the first or a second round pick. After his junior year,

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00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: he goes back home and everybody's like, what are you doing?

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00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: Why why aren't you It's right there, why aren't you

710
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: going to the NFL? And he's like, I want my degree, um,

711
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,879
Speaker 1: you know, and that was important to him. And then

712
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: taking it even further back, you know, he said, when

713
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Speaker 1: I was about twelve years old playing football. My plan

714
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: at that time was to play well in high school

715
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: and then go play at Grambling and then we'd see

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Speaker 1: what would happen after that. Like he wasn't even thinking,

717
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: he wasn't even in the stratosphere of LSU SEC football,

718
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,280
Speaker 1: Like not even a second thought, and he was getting

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Speaker 1: recruited by some private schools down there, you know, the

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Speaker 1: big money schools that put together big rosters and then

721
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Speaker 1: have college coaches come and watch their teams play. He

722
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: didn't go to any of those. He went to his

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Speaker 1: local high school, public high school. He said, in my

724
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Speaker 1: high school career, we won eleven games, eleven in three

725
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: I think he was on varsity for three years. Eleven games.

726
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: He said. If my coach did not put me a

727
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Speaker 1: quarterback my senior year, LSU doesn't even come to look

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Speaker 1: at me. So all of a sudden, LSU became an

729
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:07,240
Speaker 1: option and he took it. So he said, I stayed

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Speaker 1: there because I thought, you know, if I could get

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Speaker 1: enough people to see me, I could be an example

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Speaker 1: for the kids that come after me at my public

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Speaker 1: high school. So it's just like I mean, from an

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Speaker 1: early age, he's been kind of work, he's kind of

735
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: been wired this way. It's amazing. Yeah, it's uh yeah.

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Speaker 1: The guy. The guys there's a reason why he sports

737
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 1: the DNA that the Buffalo Bills were looking for. And

738
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 1: he's the number one guy that they picked when they

739
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: showed up here. That that guy right there, that we've

740
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 1: been listening to. I wanted to go hug him after

741
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: the twenty seven minutes. I want to go up and

742
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: hug the guy. How do you not love that? He's

743
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: a great human being. He's a great human bit forget

744
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: about the cornerback skills. He's a great human being. Well,

745
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: by the way, right now, by the way, he can

746
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: play football. Um, that is a guy who is an

747
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Speaker 1: example in the right way, at all the rights, in

748
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: all the right races. Because here's the thing, let me

749
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: say that that thing he goes back to he goes

750
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:57,439
Speaker 1: back to take his senior year at LSU. He didn't

751
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: have to do that. He could have been a first

752
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: round pick draft pick and then gone back and gotten

753
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: his degree in the off seat. And the NFL play

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00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 1: pays for that. By the way, Yes, for those of

755
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: you who don't know that, the NFL's has all kinds

756
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 1: of programs for these guys that come out and they

757
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: come out early their junior year, they're still on scholarship

758
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: with the NFL. The NFL go back and pay their

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00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 1: tuitions stuff. They want to go back, go to class

760
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: and get their degree if they come out early. That's

761
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: all part of the deal. And Tourdavis said, no, that's

762
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: not the example people are gonna see. They're gonna see

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00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: me coming out early to take the money because I'm

764
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: staying for another year. I'm gonna show them that it's important.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get my degree when I'm supposed to get

766
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 1: it and do it that way. And what an example

767
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 1: at sets because it's easy to see all these you know,

768
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: the Bosa brothers and Chase Young and all these guys

769
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 1: that come out after their junior year and you know

770
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: they and they lay out of their senior year there

771
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:52,399
Speaker 1: all that stuff. To see a guy say no, no no, no,

772
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it the right way.

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00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna get my degree. I'm gonna graduate

774
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,320
Speaker 1: when I'm supposed to graduate. Those are the kind of

775
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: guys that set examples for. I mean, that's it's an

776
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: amazing story. It's really an amazing story. And those are

777
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 1: the kind of guy. And then to sign the deal

778
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: that he did with the Bills, he could have held

779
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: him over the coals right and said I want it now,

780
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: I want this thing now, I want to I want

781
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: to kick in. But he also knows that he's gonna

782
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: get it right, and this is a place a lot

783
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 1: of wisdom. He said that also, you know, Buffalo fits me,

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00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: he said, I'm a blue collar guy. This is a

785
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 1: blue collar town. It fits me. We have a good

786
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: young team, we have a good young quarterback, he said,

787
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: this is where I want to be. So it made

788
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 1: it easy. I don't want to get acclimated to a

789
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,479
Speaker 1: new place, new surroundings, new scheme. This just made sense

790
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 1: for me. So we wanted to share some of that

791
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,720
Speaker 1: with you because he was Tredavious was just amazing yesterday,

792
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: amazing twenty seven minutes, so we wanted to make sure

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00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 1: we brought that to you. We do have to take

794
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: a break, but when we come back, we'll get it

795
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 1: started on the Twitter poll, which has gone forty nine

796
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Speaker 1: minutes without being mentioned. As we talk about the fifty

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00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: three man roster and what part of the Bills roster

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Speaker 1: you have the most confidence in. Check it out at

799
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: the one bills Live Twitter handle and vote on the

800
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: Twitter poll. Let us know what you think the part

801
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: of the roster you have the most confidence in. Steve

802
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: and I will discuss that more with you when we

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00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: return here on one Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio broadcasting from the Seneca Studios

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00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: here in Ortard, car Chris Brown, Steve tasking with you

806
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday edition of One Bills Live. And we

807
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: do want to get to our Twitter poll today and

808
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: it does concern the roster, which was just formed at

809
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: least initially over the course of the weekend and somewhat

810
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: firmed up with Andre Roberts and Dean Marlowe getting added

811
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 1: back to the roster. And we're ready to go, man,

812
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,360
Speaker 1: ready to go for week one, but we want to

813
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Speaker 1: know from you, after seeing how the roster has been constructed,

814
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: what part of it do you have the most confidence in.

815
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,760
Speaker 1: And there are choices there for you to choose from,

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00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: whether you think it's quarterback, defensive line, is on their

817
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: wide receiver, so secondary, We've got choices, and the secondary

818
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: is leading the way and that's probably due in large

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Speaker 1: part to pass performance. You know where I voted, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I vote a defensive line. I really think that that

821
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 1: group is gonna kill it this year. I don't know. Yeah,

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00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be upgraded, no question. I think

823
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna be fun to watch. And we're gonna notice

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00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: them a lot more than we did a year ago.

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00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 1: But I don't think they're gonna play any better than

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00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: their secondary is behind them. I think maybe because they're

827
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: gonna help that secondary a lot that the defense is

828
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 1: really is the strength of this team. There's absolutely no

829
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: question about as good as the offense could be and

830
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,879
Speaker 1: the potential and the wide receivers and the fun we've

831
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Speaker 1: had talking about it and Stefan Diggs and the intrigue there,

832
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: there's no doubt this team's the engine is the defense

833
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 1: and it's going to continue to do that. And I

834
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 1: think so you can make a case for the d

835
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: line now where in years passing would have been there.

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00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: They're good, but you know they're not like that secondary,

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00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: And now they are in the conversation and you'll notice there.

838
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,879
Speaker 1: We didn't put offensive line on partly because we still

839
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: don't know what the right side is going to look like.

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00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,839
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott said he would reveal that in his scheduled

841
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: Wednesday press conference tomorrow, so we will find out who

842
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: the starting right guard and starting right tackle or tomorrow.

843
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: McDermott said in his Zoom call on Monday that he

844
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 1: would get that information out since he's been asked about

845
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: it a countless number of times by the media, probably

846
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: from the very start of training camp. So he'll put

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00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: that to bed on Wednesday, and so once we know

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00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: what it's going to look like, I think we'd be

849
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: able to make a better assessment. But it is time

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853
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: and wide receiver go hand in hand. In my opinion,

854
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: what Josh did last year with first year players to

855
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,720
Speaker 1: the team showed great promise with Diggs and a second

856
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 1: year with Smoke and Beasley. I really can't wait to

857
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: see what this season is going to bring. So he

858
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: has confidence in the receiving corps and ties Josh in

859
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: with that obviously. Yeah, I agree, it's gonna be fun

860
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: to see. I think the results. I don't expect them

861
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: to score thirty five points a game, but I do

862
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: expect him to stay on the field and be in

863
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: control of the game more offensively. You see their defense

864
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,479
Speaker 1: come out and all of a sudden, you know, every

865
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: every third day's third and nine or is third and thirteen.

866
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: You know, every time they get out there, it's a

867
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 1: struggle for that of the team. So I think, and

868
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,840
Speaker 1: the team has controlled that the game through their defense,

869
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: I think now I think on more occasions, you're going

870
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 1: to see this offense take the reins of the game

871
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: and be able to control some things offensively, with their

872
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: run game, with their passing game, with their ability to

873
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: stay on the football field on third down, and they're

874
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: going to be in third and two, third and one,

875
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: third and three more often than they are third and eight,

876
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: third and nine. So if that's the case, I think

877
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: what Jeremy says is right, you're gonna see it's gonna

878
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,879
Speaker 1: be fun to watch these guys work and move the chains. Yeah,

879
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: snap off a big play here and there, but have

880
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 1: the ability to control the game the tempo and with

881
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 1: the ball on our side of the field right instead

882
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,720
Speaker 1: of you play that field position game. And if Josh

883
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: is true to his word, which has been for the

884
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: most part, not looking to make the giant play and

885
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,399
Speaker 1: get it all in one throw, and he is more

886
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: apt to throw a check down as soon as it's

887
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: there for him instead of wait and a half beat

888
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 1: and then that window closes and then he's running for

889
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: his life. This offense will stay on schedule more often

890
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: and be immanageable down and distance more often, and that

891
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: should also aid in keeping them on the field longer.

892
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: From Tiffany, she says, in my opinion, we have probably

893
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:57,760
Speaker 1: the deepest, most diverse defensive line going, filled with youthful

894
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: and veteran talent. Trent Murphy's going to surprise people this

895
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: year with his production. It gives AJ the time to

896
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: develop under the guidance of an excellent D line coach

897
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: in Eric Washington. As Tim and I are on the

898
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: same page with this one. I just really think the

899
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: D line is going to tear the cover off the

900
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: league this year. I don't know why. I just look

901
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 1: at the group and the way that Leslie Frasier is

902
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:22,720
Speaker 1: probably going to miss mix and match this talent based

903
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: on a given week, and there are enough veterans there

904
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: that I think he feels comfortable making those sometimes probably

905
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: in game adjustments to catch that offensive line in a

906
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,359
Speaker 1: precarious situation and take advantage of it. Because I think

907
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: he's got veterans on that side up on that line

908
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 1: that can you know he can just say, hey, this series,

909
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:45,760
Speaker 1: we're gonna switch this. We're gonna go with this combo

910
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: and this stunt over here. And you guys, if we're

911
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: getting a third and nine, we're doing this, or third

912
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: and long, we're doing this. Are we good? Yeah? All right, coach,

913
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: we gotta let's go and then bang it it's executed.

914
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: Because I think you have enough veteran guys over there

915
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to hold that together and make

916
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 1: changes on the fly. I really think, And I don't

917
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: know because we haven't seen this. You get this feeling

918
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: like during training camp. Usually you know you're over there's

919
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: you and I are standing over there on the sidelines.

920
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: We're watching one on ones with the offensive line, and

921
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,320
Speaker 1: you know where you've got, you know, good offensive lineman,

922
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,759
Speaker 1: experienced though linman, they're gonna play for the Bills, and

923
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 1: the Bills offensive line is good. I mean, it may

924
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: not be the best in the league, but it's it

925
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: was huge upgrade last year over this and they got

926
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:25,399
Speaker 1: better this year theoretically. So you always feel like you've

927
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 1: got a good offensive lineman. Think, Okay, this guy knows

928
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,240
Speaker 1: what he's doing. Let's see what this guy, this defensive

929
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,799
Speaker 1: lineman can do. Against him. You get the feeling that

930
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: in this training camp we would have seen who do

931
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: and Mario Addison and Vernon Butler and Quentin Jefferson and

932
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 1: Jerry and Trent Murphy and aj Up and and at Oliver.

933
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: You're thinking, I really get I can see you and

934
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: I stand right and I can see you and I

935
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:57,720
Speaker 1: standing on the side ice going our defensive lineman's killing

936
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: these guys. Are we gonna is this really gonna do

937
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 1: this in the regular seat? You know what I'm saying.

938
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,760
Speaker 1: I can I picture you and I having these conversations

939
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: about how giddy we're gonna be about this D line.

940
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any of it. I don't know. It

941
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: seems like they're gonna be good. Would like to think

942
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 1: they are, but man, oh man, there's some new faces,

943
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of potential there that it makes

944
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: it makes it really seem like, man, in the second half,

945
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: fourth quarter of these games, the Bill's mind is gonna like, Wow,

946
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: they're starting to get home now, you know what I'm saying.

947
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 1: Even that's if they that's even if they don't beat

948
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: them run off the bat, if they're just better. You know, so,

949
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm really intrigue. There's a couple of

950
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: things that are really intriguing about this team, the wide

951
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: receiving core in this offense and what it's gonna look

952
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: like with Josh pulling the trigger and this D line

953
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 1: with a secondary behind him, this covering guy's up where

954
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:48,839
Speaker 1: the quarterback's like, oh, that's the extra pad of the ball.

955
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: That one extra pad of the ball is like eh boom.

956
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: You know. I'm with you. It's a really tough Twitter

957
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: pull for that reason for me, because I really want

958
00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: to see this defensive line because I got high hopes

959
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: for it. I'm with you. I'm kind of like, oh, gosh,

960
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 1: I think they might be really good, right, but you know,

961
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:07,920
Speaker 1: we haven't seen him. I know, I know. All right,

962
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: we gotta take a break. There is some breaking NFL

963
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 1: news as it looks like DeAndre Hopkins got paid. We'll

964
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: get to that in the Sports Update after this break.

965
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: Second hour the show, we'll be bringing some comments from

966
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and coach McDermott your Way as they gave

967
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:27,359
Speaker 1: their summation of the roster construction, among other things. We'll

968
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: get to that and more here on the other side.

969
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: It's one Bill's Live presented by Kalaida Help. This is

970
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello, Bills Radio Network. Sports update. Another

971
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 1: blockbuster contract in the NFL as the regular season draws closer.

972
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins just landed a two year extension. We're fifty

973
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,360
Speaker 1: four and a half million dollars in new money, including

974
00:52:57,680 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: a twenty seven point two five million dollar their signing bonus.

975
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:04,240
Speaker 1: According to reports. The three time All Pro also received

976
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,919
Speaker 1: forty two point seven to five million fully guaranteed as

977
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,720
Speaker 1: part of the deal. Your Bills update, and good news

978
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 1: there on the injury front, as we saw the return

979
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: of Levi Wallace and Josh Norman a practice on Monday.

980
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 1: The team is off today, but we'll be back at

981
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: practice Wednesday as they ramp up for Sunday season opener

982
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: against the Jets. Running Back Alvin Kamara and the New

983
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints are said to be quote extremely close to

984
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: a lucrative contract extension that according to ESPN, the two

985
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: sides are hoping to finalize a new deal in the

986
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 1: next few days that would silence and he trade speculation.

987
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 1: The Giants will reportedly release cornerback DeAndre Baker after the

988
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 1: May incident in Florida where he was charged with four

989
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 1: counts of armed robbery and was placed on the Commissioner's

990
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: exempt Liz Baker, the number thirty overall selection in the

991
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen draft, had sixty one tackles and eight pass

992
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,240
Speaker 1: breakups in his rookie season. He becomes the first player

993
00:53:57,280 --> 00:54:00,280
Speaker 1: from the first round of the twenty nineteen draft will

994
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 1: be released or traded. Just one game on the ice

995
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,359
Speaker 1: for the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Western Conference Finals, Game two,

996
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: Dallas leads their series with the Golden Knights one game

997
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 1: to none. Face off there set for eight, and Conference

998
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 1: semifinals in the NBA playoffs resumed tonight. In the East,

999
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: Miami looks to close out their series with the Bucks.

1000
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 1: They're up three games to one and out West it's

1001
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: the Lakers and Rockets Game three action, that series nodded

1002
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 1: at a game apiece. Finally, the Blue Jays series with

1003
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 1: the Yankees continues tonight at Salem Field in downtown Buffalo.

1004
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 1: First pitch there set for six thirty seven PM. And

1005
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: that is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris

1006
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: Brown Steve Tasker with you for hour number two of

1007
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: the program. Here as we're coming to you alive from

1008
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: the Seneca Studios in Orchard Park, and we will be

1009
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 1: hearing from Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott in this second

1010
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 1: hour of the show, as both of those men made

1011
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: themselves available to the media over the weekend after the

1012
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: roster was constructed. And at first, Blush, Steve, where do

1013
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,879
Speaker 1: you sit with how the roster was put together, whether

1014
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 1: it's numbers at specific positions or names that are there

1015
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 1: that maybe you didn't anticipate. What grabbed you initially after

1016
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,439
Speaker 1: looking over that roster? Well, it gets me that nine

1017
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 1: defensive lineman, nine defensive backs, six linebackers. Yeah, so that's

1018
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: twenty four guys on the fifty three that are defenders.

1019
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 1: Then you've got the three specialists, which puts you twenty seven,

1020
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: and then you've got twenty that leaves you twenty six

1021
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: for offense. Right, so you've got nine offensive linemen, six

1022
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 1: wide receivers, four running backs, four tight ends, three quarterbacks. Yeah,

1023
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 1: So what grabbed what grabbed you there? What does anything

1024
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:48,320
Speaker 1: surprise you in term either in terms of the numbers.

1025
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 1: Six linebackers some might say is a little light, but

1026
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 1: they play nickels. They play nickels. So much for four

1027
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 1: three lineman where you can only even in base defense,

1028
00:55:57,480 --> 00:55:59,399
Speaker 1: when you're going against a big, heavy front, you're going

1029
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:02,880
Speaker 1: four line you're only going three linebackers anyway, you have

1030
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 1: one backup for each of those, and you're going nickel

1031
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 1: like what seventy percent of the time, right, so high

1032
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 1: sixties you're in. So you're you're thinking you only have

1033
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,400
Speaker 1: two linebackers on the field. He'd given moment most of

1034
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:16,319
Speaker 1: the time anyway. So at the rest of those guys

1035
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: are special teams guys. Yeah, and I'm surprised that we

1036
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 1: don't see that more around the league. I understanding the

1037
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 1: three four fronts that you're going to carry more linebackers,

1038
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:27,279
Speaker 1: that's to be expected, but wow, to see I thought

1039
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: six would start being a more popular number for these

1040
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 1: four three defenses knowing how much your nickel corners on

1041
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: the field. It gets down to the point where this

1042
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: where you've got a line. You've got a Matt Milano

1043
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:42,919
Speaker 1: who is a great space coverage linebacker as well as

1044
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,280
Speaker 1: an at least, if not better, an adequate run stopper.

1045
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds is a is a middle linebacker that makes

1046
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 1: a ton of plays because he moves so big, so well.

1047
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: So he's up in the backfield, and so those two

1048
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: guys can do it. I think the crux of the

1049
00:56:56,560 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: matter comes between your guys like your nickel corner, your

1050
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:05,879
Speaker 1: safety's your third safety and your nickel corner if they're

1051
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 1: not the same guy, you know what I'm saying, and

1052
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: your middle and your linebacker, your slash A J. Klein,

1053
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 1: Matt Milano, Metakevich, whoever else is that is that in

1054
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: between linebacker safety spot where you can play the run

1055
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 1: hard and effectively against a pulling guard or tackle and

1056
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: still playing space. And the more of those guys you got,

1057
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 1: those are, it's more to me your third linebacker, the

1058
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: spot where Lorenzo played once in a while, you know, well,

1059
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: I mean, do you use Lorenzo? Do you use like

1060
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: a Dean Marlow? Right? And and it sounds like, based

1061
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: on what the players and some of the defensive coaches

1062
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: have said, they're gonna fill Lorenzo's role with two people, right,

1063
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 1: And those two people are essentially A J. Klein and

1064
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: Mario Addison. Right, those are your two guys that are

1065
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:57,920
Speaker 1: gonna fill the roles. Kleine obviously at the linebacker position

1066
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: in a base set, and then Addison in the past

1067
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: rushing package and that's how they're gonna do it, because

1068
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be honest, Lorenzo was pretty unique as

1069
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: a player in terms of what he could do out

1070
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 1: there on the field in terms of serving multiple roles,

1071
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 1: and they couldn't find that in a single person. So

1072
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: they're gonna do it with two. And I think it

1073
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: will have an effect. And I'm not I keep saying it,

1074
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 1: and it's still and I guess I really truly believe it.

1075
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 1: The first month of this season, they're going to evolve

1076
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 1: into where they're gonna be. They don't know exactly, they

1077
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: know where they're gonna start. They're gonna say, we're gonna

1078
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: start with two guys. We're gonna play Mario s We're

1079
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: gonna play aj Klein some and some of it will

1080
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 1: depend even throughout the regular season, even when they find

1081
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:41,760
Speaker 1: out exactly what they've got into, like weeks twelve through seventeen,

1082
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: they'll say, Okay, we're gonna do it depending on what

1083
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 1: our opponent does. But I think when you get this

1084
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 1: defensive line, if it is an uptick in production, it's

1085
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: gonna give them the freedom to leave the linebacker off

1086
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: the field or put the linebacker back on the field,

1087
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 1: so that, if you know, I think the strength of

1088
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 1: this team is going to be able to depend more

1089
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: on the quick pressure they get, the good solid defensive

1090
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: line play, and the fact that maybe with this defensive

1091
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 1: line they're going to be able to stop the run

1092
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: with six guys in the box or certainly was seven,

1093
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: so that they can drop guys out and fill the lanes.

1094
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 1: And if they can get pressure in the passing game

1095
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 1: with four, that gives you the freedom to leave Matt

1096
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: Milano on the field and put Dean Marlowe or another

1097
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: defensive back on the field. They've got five corners, four

1098
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:35,439
Speaker 1: safeties on the roster, and they'll maximize those guys. They'll

1099
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be afraid to put a fourth corner on

1100
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 1: with the two safeties and leave five heavy guys up front.

1101
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, I hear you.

1102
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 1: And the other thing too, for those that may have

1103
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: missed it, Siran Neil is now listed as a cornerback.

1104
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: Coach McDermot was asked about him prior to the official

1105
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 1: position switched designation on the roster, saying, hey, can Saran

1106
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 1: play corner and coach unequivocally City absolutely can and now

1107
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:03,440
Speaker 1: he is listed as a cornerback. That's not to say

1108
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 1: he might not play some kind of hybrid role at

1109
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: some point. But we saw him in the nickel package

1110
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: last year against heavy personnel sets from the offense because

1111
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 1: he has a little more girth in there than Tarn

1112
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:21,320
Speaker 1: Johnson does, So it'll be interesting to see where that goes.

1113
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:25,520
Speaker 1: Obviously he's a standout special teams player, but they have

1114
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: five corners, and they have a couple on the practice

1115
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 1: squad too, I mean Dane Jackson, the seventh round pick,

1116
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 1: is there, Cameron Lewis, who had a nice camp but

1117
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 1: just came up short in terms of making the roster.

1118
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 1: He's on the practice squad again for a second year.

1119
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 1: And they even kept the undrafted kid, the safety Josh

1120
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:45,680
Speaker 1: Thomas out of app State. So player that I liked

1121
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:48,000
Speaker 1: coming in the door. You know, did you make anything

1122
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:50,959
Speaker 1: of the fact that they kept believe it was thirty

1123
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 1: five guys from the roster last year and eighteen new ones. Yeah,

1124
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 1: you know the place where I held the seven draft picks.

1125
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 1: So it's different. Yeah, And here's the here's the thing.

1126
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 1: Last year at this time, Buffalo's ten offensive linemen that

1127
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 1: they kept seven of them were new to the team

1128
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 1: this year, it's the opposite. Three new guys. I mean

1129
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: it's basically Darryl Williams, um and then Brian Winters who

1130
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 1: was picked up late. And there's one more who was

1131
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:29,600
Speaker 1: the other one? Oh no, it's only two. It's only two.

1132
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: I was thinking m Evan Baine, but he's on the

1133
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 1: practice squad, so it's only two. So you want to

1134
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 1: talk about continuity, and man, that's where you want it

1135
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. So this did Bates take snaps

1136
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 1: last year at all? Yeah, he was on. He's a

1137
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 1: really do like field goal. He's still a rookie though,

1138
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 1: uh no, because he was here last year and he

1139
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 1: did make the active roster. Remember they traded for him

1140
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,560
Speaker 1: with Philadelphia traded Eli Harold to the Eagles. Yeah, he's

1141
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:02,440
Speaker 1: still listed as a rookie. He showed up, maybe he

1142
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 1: didn't play, and maybe he didn't play in six games

1143
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 1: he was dressed. It's Brian Winners, Darryl Williams. So that's it.

1144
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 1: I mean, very little turn over there, which I like.

1145
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I like that. I means they have the

1146
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 1: right guys in the building already and they just had

1147
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 1: to do a little tweaking, and you know, I think

1148
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 1: that you look at the offensive roster and what still

1149
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: has to come together, obviously the timing in the passing game,

1150
01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 1: which is the hardest thing to nail down when you

1151
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 1: do have limited practice time, which unquestionably the Bills and

1152
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,880
Speaker 1: thirty one other NFL clubs have had. And then I'm

1153
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: interested to see some of these rookies that are going

1154
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: to have a role of some kind and how they

1155
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: adjust to the speed of the NFL game after not

1156
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:50,640
Speaker 1: having any exposure to it whatsoever in the preseason. You know,

1157
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: Zach Moss, he might touched the ball ten times a game, right,

1158
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:56,080
Speaker 1: He's never playing in a regular season game, let a

1159
01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 1: load a preseason game at this level. It'll probably he's

1160
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:01,080
Speaker 1: probably excited for There's got to be a little bit

1161
01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 1: of anxiousness there too, anxiety, I would, yeah, And I

1162
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 1: think that you'll probably see it exactly happen exactly like

1163
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:07,480
Speaker 1: it did last year Week one, Week two of the

1164
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:09,640
Speaker 1: Jets Giants game. You know, when the Bills went back

1165
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 1: to the MetLife two weeks in a row on the road,

1166
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 1: played the Jets week one, the Giants week two, and

1167
01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary carried the ball, but it was Frank Gore

1168
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 1: who kind of got him off the ground right and

1169
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:25,080
Speaker 1: started started playing. Remember Frank Gore set the tone by

1170
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: bowling over the linebacker for the Giants into the end

1171
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: zone in week two, where he kind of said, all right,

1172
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:32,720
Speaker 1: here we go and it was kind of a hammer

1173
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: kind of a run. And then well, and I would

1174
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 1: think that running back at least, the Bills have this

1175
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 1: thing where with Devin singletrailized. They worked him in pretty quickly,

1176
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:45,440
Speaker 1: and then he got that hammy in week two and

1177
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: it was like they needed him and he missed a month. Yeah,

1178
01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 1: they needed him, you could. He left him avoid and

1179
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:53,360
Speaker 1: they had they was an aarontent to put him on

1180
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: the field a lot, and and suddenly there was no

1181
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:59,040
Speaker 1: way to pace Frank Gore, which they probably wanted to do,

1182
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:02,160
Speaker 1: knowing it was thirty seven years old. Let's pace him

1183
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 1: through the season by mixing in this young kid. And

1184
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 1: now the young kids out of the mix, so they

1185
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: had to lean on Frank all the more. And then

1186
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 1: you saw it took its toll down the last six

1187
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:13,880
Speaker 1: games of the season. He could not run anything off tackle.

1188
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 1: He just couldn't get there because his legs were just

1189
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:20,800
Speaker 1: shot from using him in a heavy workload he needed

1190
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:23,160
Speaker 1: the first six seven weeks, Yeah, he needed four carries

1191
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:26,680
Speaker 1: a game. Well certainly not more than ten, right, Like,

1192
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 1: somewhere between four and ten was supposed to be the

1193
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 1: workload there and that just didn't happen. Playing and simple.

1194
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 1: But as we mentioned, Brandon Bean spoke to the media

1195
01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:40,720
Speaker 1: over the weekend after the roster was finalized, and he

1196
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 1: was asked about how Stefon Diggs has fit, how has

1197
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:48,480
Speaker 1: he blended in with the rest of an offense that,

1198
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:52,520
Speaker 1: outside of Zach Moss and a couple alignment is largely

1199
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 1: unchanged from last season. So here's what he had to

1200
01:04:55,400 --> 01:05:00,440
Speaker 1: say about the fit of Diggs in this offense. You know,

1201
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:04,760
Speaker 1: Stefan really did a great job of learning our offense. Um,

1202
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:08,320
Speaker 1: you know, speaking of quarterbacks, Davis Webb, you know, did

1203
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff with UH with Stefan this offseason

1204
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:14,520
Speaker 1: to kind of help him learn the offense and you know,

1205
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 1: from virtual and things like that. And then you know,

1206
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 1: he was a big part of that group that went

1207
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 1: down the Florida with Josh and the quarterbacks, and I

1208
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:24,160
Speaker 1: think at that time there was a bond. There was

1209
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 1: a bond before that but uh, you know, Josh called

1210
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:29,520
Speaker 1: and just said, man Stefan really fits our group. We

1211
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:32,640
Speaker 1: loved him fit right in, not only on the field

1212
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 1: but off the field. And since he's been here, it's

1213
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:39,120
Speaker 1: been great chemistry, great communication. You know, everything I've seen

1214
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:41,800
Speaker 1: from him and John Brown and Cole Beasley is we

1215
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:44,040
Speaker 1: all want to do good things so that we can

1216
01:05:44,040 --> 01:05:46,760
Speaker 1: open up, you know, for others, and um, you know,

1217
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 1: we haven't played a game yet, but so far it's

1218
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 1: it's been a great match between Josh and those three,

1219
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:56,400
Speaker 1: and so we look forward to what they'll bring. Isn't

1220
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:59,200
Speaker 1: it funny listening to the general manager and then he's

1221
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:01,480
Speaker 1: you know, he's just as excited as we are. But

1222
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:04,480
Speaker 1: then he has to bring himself back to reality and say, yeah,

1223
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 1: you know what, we haven't played a game yet, so

1224
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 1: I mean, we're all jacked up about what this offense

1225
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 1: could be. But you know, Brandon knows just as well

1226
01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 1: as anybody the proof's in the pudding. So yeah, and

1227
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 1: it's it's not just I mean, we all know this,

1228
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 1: but when he comes down to it, they got a

1229
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 1: win game. They don't care, and they don't care if

1230
01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 1: it's ugly. And because there's times when yeah, just win,

1231
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 1: just win. They don't. You don't care if you if

1232
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 1: you take fifteen penalties and you got you know, a negative,

1233
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 1: you got a net punt of five yards, none of

1234
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 1: that counts. None of that matters except the score on

1235
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:40,920
Speaker 1: the board. So you gotta steal it. But when it

1236
01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 1: comes down to it, when you do everything right, it's

1237
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 1: gonna look like a football game. And you got to

1238
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:47,120
Speaker 1: score points when you're supposed to, and you do that,

1239
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 1: But until you get in there and start in and

1240
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 1: watch what that other team does, you don't know. You

1241
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:58,480
Speaker 1: can tell. I really have a hard time. I go

1242
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 1: back and forth. I talked to Leslie Frazier on a

1243
01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 1: zoom call for some of the season ticket holders, and

1244
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 1: he goes, he goes, He just he goes. You gotta

1245
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 1: I asked him, I go, what's your philosophy? Because when

1246
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 1: you get out there, you don't know what they're gonna do.

1247
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: So what do you do? You like, attack them and

1248
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:14,560
Speaker 1: make him like a holy holy crap, what are we doing?

1249
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 1: You know? I ditate, like go whoa? Or do you

1250
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 1: just say he goes? Well, he goes. First of all,

1251
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:23,960
Speaker 1: whatever you do, you gotta do it fundamentally sound you

1252
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:26,440
Speaker 1: gotta be here, you gotta know, you gotta be aware

1253
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:28,600
Speaker 1: of what's going on. You can't be caught, you know,

1254
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:35,120
Speaker 1: over extending and all that. And then then we call something.

1255
01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 1: Let the call be aggressive. You don't have to be

1256
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:40,640
Speaker 1: over you know what I'm saying. And I'm like, Okay,

1257
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:45,320
Speaker 1: trust the scheme, Trust the scheme. And but for me,

1258
01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:51,040
Speaker 1: knowing the guys in New York, Adam Gaze and particularly

1259
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:54,960
Speaker 1: Greg Williams, I think Greg Williams is gonna be off

1260
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:58,040
Speaker 1: his rock or bringing all kinds of exotics. I think

1261
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:00,480
Speaker 1: he's I think you're not super strong on the back end.

1262
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams is gonna is not gonna be there. C J.

1263
01:08:04,760 --> 01:08:06,680
Speaker 1: Mosley's not in the house. He's got to Quinnon Williams,

1264
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 1: who's a load, who's a really good Vin Patrick Owasso.

1265
01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:12,520
Speaker 1: They've got some guys, but like Quincy and Nowton was

1266
01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:17,200
Speaker 1: not there. I mean, yeah, I think they're just the

1267
01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:19,200
Speaker 1: coaches are gonna try and they're just hatching it together.

1268
01:08:19,240 --> 01:08:21,000
Speaker 1: They're just kind of scheme it and try and catch

1269
01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:23,519
Speaker 1: the bills unaware of what's going on. So I think

1270
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:25,559
Speaker 1: they're gonna do a lot of off the wall stuff

1271
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Speaker 1: schematically to make the Bills go what you know, Well, yeah,

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01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 1: and nobody. Nobody's seeing it on tape either, because there's right,

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01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 1: no preseason and you're essentially going off last year's tape,

1274
01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 1: and the personnel has completely changed on that, well not completely,

1275
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 1: but to a good deal, to a great deal has changed.

1276
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a tough read in Week one

1277
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 1: for everybody in the league just because you haven't seen

1278
01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:49,559
Speaker 1: the opponent at all. I mean, I are Tredeavious White

1279
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 1: and Jerry Hughes over the weekend on their zoom calls.

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01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:56,240
Speaker 1: I mean Tredavious is talking about watching Baylor film of

1281
01:08:56,360 --> 01:08:59,640
Speaker 1: Denzel Mims. Yeah, he didn't have any NFL film at

1282
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:02,040
Speaker 1: Denzel el Mims, not only because he was hurt. There's

1283
01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 1: no preseason and seeing him in the Jets uniform. He's

1284
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:07,720
Speaker 1: watching Baylor tape to get ready for this guy. You

1285
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:11,360
Speaker 1: got Jerry Hughes watching McKay Beckton, that mountain of a

1286
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:13,679
Speaker 1: human that plays left tackle for the Jets. He's watching

1287
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:17,320
Speaker 1: them on Louisville tape. They didn't have any game, there's nothing.

1288
01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:22,680
Speaker 1: It's true. I keep saying people, you don't even know

1289
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:24,519
Speaker 1: what the Jet uniforms look like you've seen him in

1290
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:28,760
Speaker 1: a picture. Yeah, let alone what they're gonna look like

1291
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:31,920
Speaker 1: social media? Right, we don't know what those guys are

1292
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:36,120
Speaker 1: gonna look at. And yeah, I said this in an

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01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:40,400
Speaker 1: interview this morning. This is this whole first month is

1294
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 1: like the biggest blind date in NFL. Hist I hope

1295
01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:48,200
Speaker 1: you know what, the hope they they show up. Wonder

1296
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:50,640
Speaker 1: what they're gonna look like. You know, the picture. I

1297
01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 1: wonder if their pictures they're gonna do him justice online

1298
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:54,840
Speaker 1: photo match the real I wonder if it was back

1299
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:56,760
Speaker 1: when they were working out or whether they you know,

1300
01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 1: right right, it's this whole, this whole opening weekend is

1301
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:05,280
Speaker 1: going to be the biggest, fattest blind date of all time.

1302
01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:11,400
Speaker 1: It's gonna be good. We saw a contract extension for

1303
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:14,559
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins. We saw another one this past weekend for

1304
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:17,519
Speaker 1: Tradevious White. We also know coach McDermott signed an extension,

1305
01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 1: so that leaves from the twenty seventeen draft class just

1306
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:23,400
Speaker 1: one other player who's now entering the last year of

1307
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:27,040
Speaker 1: his rookie contract, that being linebacker Matt Milano. So Brandon

1308
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:30,439
Speaker 1: Bean did address the future of Matt Milano and where

1309
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 1: the Bills stand on wanting to keep him in the fold. Yeah,

1310
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:37,920
Speaker 1: I mean Matt's done everything. You know, you start from here,

1311
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:43,240
Speaker 1: fifth round pick, who's you know, converted safety linebacker. You know,

1312
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 1: he plays that that outside backer for us and matches

1313
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:49,040
Speaker 1: up with running backs and tight ends very well and

1314
01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:52,040
Speaker 1: is a big part of our defense. And he's one

1315
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 1: of those guys that just seems to find the ball

1316
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:58,520
Speaker 1: around it, whether it's scooping a fumble up making an interception,

1317
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 1: timely sat whatever. And so, you know, we love Matt

1318
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 1: Milano and he's definitely in our plans. You know, again,

1319
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:09,360
Speaker 1: we'll see long term if we're able to work something out,

1320
01:11:09,439 --> 01:11:11,640
Speaker 1: but we do hope to keep Matt here for the

1321
01:11:11,680 --> 01:11:16,840
Speaker 1: long term. Yeah, and he Brandon Bean did say on

1322
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:20,919
Speaker 1: WGR this morning in an interview that after the tradevious contract,

1323
01:11:20,920 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 1: they're only working with about five million in cap room

1324
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:28,200
Speaker 1: for this year. So you would think that it's probably

1325
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:31,200
Speaker 1: going to have to wait until the offseason where you

1326
01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:33,720
Speaker 1: can put the money in next year, and that's going

1327
01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:35,720
Speaker 1: to be a little tricky. You may have to get

1328
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:38,320
Speaker 1: kind of creative depending on where the cap ends up

1329
01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 1: next year. We already know it's at one seventy five now.

1330
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:43,160
Speaker 1: It could go a little bit high. Yeah, that's the basement,

1331
01:11:43,320 --> 01:11:47,080
Speaker 1: but I don't think anybody. I mean, initial plans were

1332
01:11:47,120 --> 01:11:51,360
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty one cap to be somewhere between

1333
01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:54,720
Speaker 1: what was this year supposed to be twelve or two

1334
01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:56,719
Speaker 1: to twelve, So next year was supposed to be around

1335
01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 1: two twenty and instead it's going to be like one

1336
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:01,720
Speaker 1: seventy five, maybe it gets up to one eighty. I

1337
01:12:01,720 --> 01:12:05,280
Speaker 1: don't know that. That kind of puts a kink in

1338
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:07,840
Speaker 1: the works a little bit. The Bills are rolling some

1339
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 1: money over into twenty twenty one, so that will help,

1340
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:15,160
Speaker 1: but to what degree, I don't know. I think the

1341
01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:18,640
Speaker 1: good news is this, of those three guys and the

1342
01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:23,840
Speaker 1: positions they play, left tackle Dawkins, corner Trudavious, and then

1343
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:28,879
Speaker 1: linebacker Milano. Milano's position, in terms of average annual salary,

1344
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:31,679
Speaker 1: you would think would be the easiest of the three

1345
01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:36,599
Speaker 1: to negotiate. So there's that um But past that, yeah,

1346
01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:38,080
Speaker 1: it may have to be a little bit of a

1347
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:42,160
Speaker 1: waiting game. And Matt has said he does want to

1348
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:45,120
Speaker 1: be here, so we're just gonna have to kind of

1349
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:47,439
Speaker 1: wait and see where that goes. But I think it's

1350
01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 1: good that the team has stated unequivocally, unequivocally they want

1351
01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:53,800
Speaker 1: him to be here long term. Yeah, and it makes

1352
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:56,400
Speaker 1: good sense. I mean he's overperformed as contract, that's for sure.

1353
01:12:56,439 --> 01:12:57,960
Speaker 1: I mean he's been one of them. He doesn't break

1354
01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 1: his leg two years ago, he probably gets some consideration

1355
01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:03,080
Speaker 1: for the problem. Absolutely, Absolutely, he was playing at that level.

1356
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 1: And I quoted a couple of articles on the show

1357
01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:07,880
Speaker 1: that people were saying this guy was playing at a

1358
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 1: pro Bowl level and that was late and that was

1359
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:13,479
Speaker 1: midway too late through the year. Right when that happened

1360
01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:15,760
Speaker 1: was after the right So he he had been doing

1361
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:18,920
Speaker 1: it consistently track. So it was good for him. And

1362
01:13:19,400 --> 01:13:21,160
Speaker 1: you know, he does need to stay healthy, no question

1363
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:23,320
Speaker 1: about it. But he's the exact kind of guy they want.

1364
01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:27,160
Speaker 1: He's exactly the he fits their scheme. And plus he's

1365
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:29,679
Speaker 1: you know, he's got some continuity and they they really

1366
01:13:29,680 --> 01:13:33,640
Speaker 1: want to push to keep him. Um. But yeah, that

1367
01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 1: it's not going to be a tree Aviat like to

1368
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 1: wait a little bit. You have to wait a little

1369
01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:39,200
Speaker 1: bit on that. To simply put last comment from one

1370
01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:43,880
Speaker 1: Brandon being the GM was asked about expectations managing them.

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01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:46,879
Speaker 1: We know all the prognosticators have the Bills winning the division,

1372
01:13:47,160 --> 01:13:50,160
Speaker 1: and while that is unquestionably a goal for this team,

1373
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:54,400
Speaker 1: he likes where the team is at and where it's headed,

1374
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:57,519
Speaker 1: but he still knows there's a there's a big dog

1375
01:13:57,560 --> 01:14:02,000
Speaker 1: to knock off. So let's hear Brandon on that. We're

1376
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:05,880
Speaker 1: hopefully still trending up. We haven't won the division, and

1377
01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 1: to me, that's that's the goal we have to do

1378
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:12,320
Speaker 1: because we need to host playoff games here in Orchard Park,

1379
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:14,320
Speaker 1: and the only way we get a chance to do

1380
01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:17,200
Speaker 1: that is if we win the division. And we haven't

1381
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:19,559
Speaker 1: been able to take down the Patriots yet, nobody has

1382
01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:22,439
Speaker 1: since since we've been here, So that's still the team

1383
01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:25,200
Speaker 1: we're chasing. We don't play until the middle of the season,

1384
01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 1: but I'm sure the Jets and the Dolphins are thinking

1385
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:30,360
Speaker 1: the same thing. Um, that's our goal and that's our focus.

1386
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:33,559
Speaker 1: Is we gotta, you know, try and compete and win

1387
01:14:33,600 --> 01:14:37,840
Speaker 1: the AFC East. AFC East is still the goal. I mean,

1388
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:39,599
Speaker 1: they want to host playoff games here and you gotta

1389
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:41,080
Speaker 1: win the division if you're going to do that, right,

1390
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 1: and I still think it's gonna be an uphill battle.

1391
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:45,920
Speaker 1: I mean, the Patriots over the course of last week

1392
01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:50,120
Speaker 1: named Cam Newton their starter, which in retrospect seemed like

1393
01:14:50,160 --> 01:14:53,240
Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion, even though they threw all kinds of

1394
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: smoking mirrors at the problem. Yeah, you can't think Jared

1395
01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:04,320
Speaker 1: Stidham is gonna outplay Cam Newton. So with that, the

1396
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 1: Patriots is still the team to beat until they get

1397
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,280
Speaker 1: knocked off. But the Bills have as good as shot,

1398
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:10,679
Speaker 1: probably the best shot they've had in the last fifteen

1399
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:14,840
Speaker 1: twenty years, to dethrone them. We will check in with

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01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 1: coach McDermott when we return. We got to take a

1401
01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:19,920
Speaker 1: break right now. We'll also see what you had to

1402
01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:24,120
Speaker 1: say on the tweet sheet with respect to today's Twitter poll.

1403
01:15:24,200 --> 01:15:26,360
Speaker 1: What part of the Bill's roster do you have the

1404
01:15:26,439 --> 01:15:29,360
Speaker 1: most confidence in now that that fifty three man squad

1405
01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:31,840
Speaker 1: has been put together. We'll get to all of that

1406
01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 1: on the other side. Here on One Bill's Live, presented

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01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:48,160
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health, this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Chris Brown,

1408
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:50,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you here on a Tuesday edition of

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01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:53,719
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Second half of the program now under way,

1410
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:56,120
Speaker 1: and we did want to get to some comments by

1411
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:58,599
Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott that were made over the weekend,

1412
01:15:58,640 --> 01:16:01,479
Speaker 1: and much like being he was asked about, you know,

1413
01:16:01,520 --> 01:16:05,000
Speaker 1: these raised expectations. Bless you, Steve, thank you. He was

1414
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 1: asked about these thanks for doing the elbow. That was

1415
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:10,519
Speaker 1: textbook stuff, you know, health and safety measures right on

1416
01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:13,320
Speaker 1: the air here for everyone to see. I mean Steve

1417
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:16,080
Speaker 1: and I we both got our masks here and we

1418
01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 1: put them on, you know, during the breaks and walk

1419
01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:23,160
Speaker 1: out to the control room and sanitizer and disinfectant right

1420
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:25,920
Speaker 1: at the ready in case something like that happens. We

1421
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:29,439
Speaker 1: are following it to the letter. But in any event,

1422
01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:34,040
Speaker 1: coach McDermott was asked about the raised expectations, much like

1423
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean was over the weekend by the media, and

1424
01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:40,320
Speaker 1: we understand why. I mean, there's there's a lot of

1425
01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:42,400
Speaker 1: people that think the bills are really going to make

1426
01:16:42,439 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 1: some hay this year, and I think Steve and I

1427
01:16:44,479 --> 01:16:48,120
Speaker 1: would put ourselves in that category as well. But it's

1428
01:16:48,160 --> 01:16:50,920
Speaker 1: different for a coach and his team because you don't

1429
01:16:50,920 --> 01:16:53,640
Speaker 1: want to buy the hype before you prove it on

1430
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 1: the field. So it's that managing expectations model that coach

1431
01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:02,439
Speaker 1: tries to employ all the time. So he addressed that

1432
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:08,120
Speaker 1: in terms of how to manage those raised expectations. Listen,

1433
01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:11,439
Speaker 1: no one has high expectations of themselves than I do

1434
01:17:11,479 --> 01:17:14,200
Speaker 1: it myself or our team does of itself. So we

1435
01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:18,719
Speaker 1: respect those expectations. We're focused right now on the Jets. Um,

1436
01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 1: whether we're the hunter or the hunted. That that's for

1437
01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:24,680
Speaker 1: you guys out there to narrate and talk about. UM.

1438
01:17:25,360 --> 01:17:26,880
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna We're gonna do our best to

1439
01:17:26,920 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 1: have a good week of practice and get ready for

1440
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 1: this Jets football team. That's that's talented and UH and

1441
01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 1: UH had a great end to the season last year.

1442
01:17:36,160 --> 01:17:37,800
Speaker 1: He is right about that. I think what were the

1443
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:41,040
Speaker 1: Jets six and two last eight games? Now, their schedule

1444
01:17:41,320 --> 01:17:43,600
Speaker 1: was a bear at the beginning. It was kind of

1445
01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:45,599
Speaker 1: the opposite of the bill schedule if you think about it.

1446
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:49,360
Speaker 1: Bill's schedule was a little easier on the front end

1447
01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 1: than the back end, and the Jets were a flip

1448
01:17:52,240 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 1: of that. And that's why they got out of the

1449
01:17:53,920 --> 01:17:57,040
Speaker 1: gate so poorly. In combination with the fact that Sam

1450
01:17:57,080 --> 01:17:59,800
Speaker 1: Darnold missed about four or five games with Mono, They're

1451
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:02,800
Speaker 1: picking situation was a mess, and they lost their starting

1452
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:05,160
Speaker 1: middle linebacker in Week one. Yeah, but they all and

1453
01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 1: They also got the benefit going six and two when

1454
01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:12,120
Speaker 1: the Bills played backyard football in Week seventeen, when they

1455
01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 1: had wide receivers played back and they had Matt Barkley playing,

1456
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 1: and you know that absolutely they didn't have to win

1457
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 1: the game. They crushed my prediction too, because I had

1458
01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:23,439
Speaker 1: him going to eleven and winning eleven games and they

1459
01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:25,559
Speaker 1: didn't even need that. They didn't need the eleventh win.

1460
01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 1: So there you go. Well anyway, that's yeah, so they

1461
01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:31,920
Speaker 1: didn't get that. But even so, the Bills played that

1462
01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 1: same schedule and and played it better than Jets did

1463
01:18:36,880 --> 01:18:39,479
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, so we'll see but that and you know,

1464
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:41,559
Speaker 1: but they still you know, all push comes to shove.

1465
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:43,880
Speaker 1: They split the series last year home and home. They

1466
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:46,200
Speaker 1: both won on the road against the other. Did you

1467
01:18:46,240 --> 01:18:48,879
Speaker 1: see that Peter King picked the Dolphins to win the division?

1468
01:18:50,640 --> 01:18:53,760
Speaker 1: Did you see that? Yeah, the Dolphins will play well,

1469
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 1: and I think and I got a lot of this year.

1470
01:18:56,400 --> 01:18:59,200
Speaker 1: I think Brian Flores is a really good coach, a

1471
01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:01,559
Speaker 1: really good leader, and they'll play better. And I just

1472
01:19:01,600 --> 01:19:03,559
Speaker 1: don't think they're where they need to be in their

1473
01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 1: build yet to make that kind of a moment. The

1474
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:07,559
Speaker 1: reason I say that more than anything is the fact

1475
01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:09,320
Speaker 1: that they got so many new pieces. It's going to

1476
01:19:09,400 --> 01:19:13,200
Speaker 1: take them a chance to a second preseason limited practice.

1477
01:19:13,400 --> 01:19:15,120
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I would hold against them, other

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Speaker 1: than that they've got some talent. We'll see they are

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01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: going to be good. Yeah, they are going to be better.

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01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:22,280
Speaker 1: They'll be better. I don't. I don't debate that for

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01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:23,800
Speaker 1: a second. I just don't. I don't see him make

1482
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:25,559
Speaker 1: it'd be hard to beat. I don't see him making

1483
01:19:25,560 --> 01:19:27,599
Speaker 1: it that kind of a jump. That's the only thing.

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01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:33,160
Speaker 1: Coach also was asked about, now that he's through it,

1485
01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:35,679
Speaker 1: what it was like to have one of the most

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01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:39,960
Speaker 1: unique training camps of his coaching career, which as we know,

1487
01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:44,360
Speaker 1: had no preseason games, had an acclamation period where they

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01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:46,479
Speaker 1: weren't doing anything for the first two weeks, and then

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01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:48,960
Speaker 1: basically three and a half weeks or two and a

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01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 1: half weeks essentially of something that resembled real football. So

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01:19:54,840 --> 01:20:00,559
Speaker 1: here's how coach feels they came out of all of that. Yeah,

1492
01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:03,360
Speaker 1: I think that they've worked extremely hard, and John had

1493
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:08,280
Speaker 1: been able to control the controllable at parts of training camp.

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01:20:09,720 --> 01:20:11,800
Speaker 1: All the things we haven't been able to do or

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01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 1: or evaluate them preseason and you know, in particular, but

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01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:20,479
Speaker 1: I'm confident in our preparation. I'm confident that these guys

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01:20:20,479 --> 01:20:24,280
Speaker 1: have worked extremely hard and both on and off the field,

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01:20:24,439 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 1: and they're passionate about this game. And so we've got

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01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:30,639
Speaker 1: a tough Week one opponent and the Jets coming in here,

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01:20:31,479 --> 01:20:34,040
Speaker 1: a division opponent, and we've got a long, long we

1501
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:37,880
Speaker 1: could work to put in here. So no surprises there.

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01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:40,360
Speaker 1: I mean, they did the best that could they could

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01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:43,920
Speaker 1: with the time that they had and were as methodical

1504
01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:47,080
Speaker 1: and detail oriented as they could be to cross every

1505
01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 1: tea and dot every guy that was sitting out there

1506
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:51,040
Speaker 1: in front of them before they get to the regular

1507
01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:53,280
Speaker 1: season on Sunday. Yeah, that's really all you can do.

1508
01:20:53,479 --> 01:20:56,519
Speaker 1: Just and as coach said, as mantras find a way,

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01:20:57,360 --> 01:20:59,599
Speaker 1: they tried to find a way. We'll know how effective

1510
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:01,960
Speaker 1: they were finding a way when we get to Sunday,

1511
01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:03,519
Speaker 1: and a lot of it is going to have to

1512
01:21:03,560 --> 01:21:05,120
Speaker 1: do with how they execute. You come up with a

1513
01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:08,840
Speaker 1: great plan, even if it's simple, but you got to

1514
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 1: execute it, and you got to be ready on game day.

1515
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:12,840
Speaker 1: You got to play good on game day. You can't

1516
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:16,040
Speaker 1: just you know, go through the motions and get everything

1517
01:21:16,040 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 1: and talk about everything. You got to actually work to

1518
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:20,479
Speaker 1: make everything happen in reality, and that's hard to do

1519
01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:23,200
Speaker 1: when there is you know, people just as dedicated to

1520
01:21:23,200 --> 01:21:24,559
Speaker 1: you on the other side trying to make it happen

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01:21:24,600 --> 01:21:30,639
Speaker 1: for themselves or you know, against you. It's I can't

1522
01:21:30,640 --> 01:21:32,760
Speaker 1: get over the fact with all the analytics and all

1523
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:35,360
Speaker 1: the game day and the preparation and the scouting reports

1524
01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:36,960
Speaker 1: that go on, you got these guys. You know, the

1525
01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:39,200
Speaker 1: players are looking at college film with these guys, and

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01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:43,320
Speaker 1: certainly Greg Williams and Adam Gaze have at a volume

1527
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 1: of previous games that they have coached, both as head

1528
01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 1: coaches and as coordinators that they can go back and

1529
01:21:49,320 --> 01:21:52,280
Speaker 1: watch and to get schematics and all of that. But man,

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01:21:52,280 --> 01:21:54,840
Speaker 1: oh man, coming out on a one off game where

1531
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:57,439
Speaker 1: you have no idea what's good. Even in the super

1532
01:21:57,439 --> 01:21:59,800
Speaker 1: Bowl where you've got two weeks, there are wild cards

1533
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:05,120
Speaker 1: are play game. There's a ton of wild cards you

1534
01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:06,680
Speaker 1: just don't want to get. You just don't want to

1535
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:08,960
Speaker 1: get beaten by one. You know, you don't want to

1536
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:11,200
Speaker 1: have them flop down an ace when you haven't got

1537
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:15,599
Speaker 1: one answer with That's a huge issue, a huge issue,

1538
01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:20,760
Speaker 1: and I can't get over how much thought is going

1539
01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:23,680
Speaker 1: into a game plan where you don't know what you're

1540
01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:26,519
Speaker 1: gonna face. Yeah, I mean you almost have to put

1541
01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:28,639
Speaker 1: in like six game plans, you know what I mean,

1542
01:22:28,760 --> 01:22:30,559
Speaker 1: Like you said, it's a big blind date. Yeah. But

1543
01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:32,640
Speaker 1: I think what helps the Bills is the fact that

1544
01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:34,479
Speaker 1: you have a defense that's been together for the better

1545
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:37,559
Speaker 1: part of three years. The offense third year in their system.

1546
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:39,200
Speaker 1: So if you have to make it on the fly

1547
01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:41,720
Speaker 1: adjustment that maybe you didn't rep twenty five times during

1548
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 1: the course of this week, there's still a pretty good

1549
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:46,960
Speaker 1: chance that they'll be able to execute it with some

1550
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 1: level of effectiveness because of their experience in the system,

1551
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like this was year one

1552
01:22:52,479 --> 01:22:55,200
Speaker 1: with Dabile in the offense, and they said, well, we

1553
01:22:55,200 --> 01:22:57,200
Speaker 1: got to scrap this based on what they're doing, We're

1554
01:22:57,240 --> 01:22:58,720
Speaker 1: gonna have to shift to this. I know we didn't

1555
01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:01,639
Speaker 1: rep it in practice, but let's give to go. It's like, right,

1556
01:23:01,920 --> 01:23:05,040
Speaker 1: but in year three, you know, they've probably repped it

1557
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:09,200
Speaker 1: somewhere along the way and they recognize it. They know

1558
01:23:09,200 --> 01:23:11,680
Speaker 1: what it looks like on paper, you know, that kind

1559
01:23:11,720 --> 01:23:14,040
Speaker 1: of thing. I would think that, Yeah, the chances should

1560
01:23:14,040 --> 01:23:15,800
Speaker 1: be a little bit better. If they have to really

1561
01:23:16,040 --> 01:23:19,360
Speaker 1: kind of flip the script or toss the script, I

1562
01:23:19,400 --> 01:23:22,120
Speaker 1: think they go to something else and be somewhat effective

1563
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:24,320
Speaker 1: executing it. I'll say this, I think they are getting

1564
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:26,920
Speaker 1: a break, and I think the NFL did it with

1565
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:28,400
Speaker 1: I don't think they meant to do this at all.

1566
01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:30,880
Speaker 1: I think this is pretty happenstance because we see them

1567
01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:33,360
Speaker 1: putting these division games early in the season and very

1568
01:23:33,439 --> 01:23:36,000
Speaker 1: late in the season. I think it was in case

1569
01:23:36,080 --> 01:23:39,360
Speaker 1: some games got scrapped, right, but they have done that

1570
01:23:39,400 --> 01:23:42,439
Speaker 1: in the past as well, to keep the division titles

1571
01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:44,400
Speaker 1: up for grabs later in the season for television and

1572
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:47,799
Speaker 1: ratings and the interest make big, big kind of guarantee

1573
01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:50,000
Speaker 1: there's going to be a better chance of better games,

1574
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 1: more important games later in the season. I think it

1575
01:23:54,600 --> 01:23:58,000
Speaker 1: helps these clubs because you know, how many times have

1576
01:23:58,080 --> 01:23:59,800
Speaker 1: you seen that You know, you've seen these guys twice

1577
01:23:59,840 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 1: with this head coaching staff in this game. Both the

1578
01:24:02,400 --> 01:24:05,760
Speaker 1: division teams know each other way better, so there may

1579
01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:07,559
Speaker 1: be less of that. But can you imagine the Bills

1580
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 1: going out on opening Day out to San Francisco playing

1581
01:24:10,160 --> 01:24:16,120
Speaker 1: the Niners, who right for both sides. Yeah, I think

1582
01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:18,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna be difficult for the Chiefs to play the Texans,

1583
01:24:19,439 --> 01:24:23,639
Speaker 1: you know on Thursday, right this Thursday. Uh, those out

1584
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:27,160
Speaker 1: of division games, and particularly the ones that are out

1585
01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:28,360
Speaker 1: of division, I don't think. I don't know if there's

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01:24:28,360 --> 01:24:30,880
Speaker 1: anybody playing out of division, out of conference, I doubt

1587
01:24:30,920 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 1: that there is. Even the Bengals are playing the Chargers,

1588
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:37,000
Speaker 1: so you know, all of that stuff is you know,

1589
01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:39,280
Speaker 1: it's a little bit better. But there are some teams

1590
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:42,840
Speaker 1: that really got it against the Chargers Cincinnati game. Who

1591
01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:45,040
Speaker 1: knows what you know who? You don't know any of

1592
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:47,960
Speaker 1: those guys, right, you have no idea what's going to

1593
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:49,960
Speaker 1: happen in that game. It's gonna look a little different

1594
01:24:49,960 --> 01:24:52,240
Speaker 1: this week, you got maybe even next week. I mean

1595
01:24:52,240 --> 01:24:54,920
Speaker 1: this may spill into week two. I mean, people aren't

1596
01:24:54,920 --> 01:24:57,360
Speaker 1: playing all the cards in their hand this week. Oh there,

1597
01:24:57,720 --> 01:25:01,640
Speaker 1: here's the thing. You want to win and show absolutely

1598
01:25:01,640 --> 01:25:04,040
Speaker 1: nothing in your you know, and use as few bullets

1599
01:25:04,080 --> 01:25:06,360
Speaker 1: as you can. You want to use as few plays,

1600
01:25:06,400 --> 01:25:08,560
Speaker 1: as few concepts. You don't want to have to diversify

1601
01:25:08,680 --> 01:25:10,080
Speaker 1: very much. You want to want to stay very good.

1602
01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:12,320
Speaker 1: You want to win like it's a preseason game. Leave

1603
01:25:12,360 --> 01:25:14,320
Speaker 1: it in the minnel, you leave it in the leave

1604
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:16,680
Speaker 1: it in the bucket, you know, put it and pull

1605
01:25:16,720 --> 01:25:19,000
Speaker 1: that arrow out later in the season and shoot it.

1606
01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:21,040
Speaker 1: Then you don't want to do that now. So that's

1607
01:25:21,040 --> 01:25:25,960
Speaker 1: the idea. It's gonna be fun. Wow, I think it's

1608
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:28,200
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. It's unbelievable. All right, when we come back,

1609
01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:30,439
Speaker 1: we will reset the Twitter poll, or you can give

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01:25:30,479 --> 01:25:32,680
Speaker 1: us a call at three five fifty one eight eight

1611
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:35,800
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. The team has set their

1612
01:25:35,840 --> 01:25:38,400
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. What part of the Bill's roster

1613
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:40,160
Speaker 1: do you have the most confidence in? Weigh in at

1614
01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:42,400
Speaker 1: one Bill's Live and let us know your thoughts, or

1615
01:25:42,560 --> 01:25:44,400
Speaker 1: as I said, give us a call at three oh

1616
01:25:44,479 --> 01:25:46,960
Speaker 1: five fifty Steve Task or Chris Brown here with you

1617
01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:49,280
Speaker 1: coming back in a moment on one Bills Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Now

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01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:06,519
Speaker 1: the Bills are set their fifty three man roster over

1620
01:26:06,600 --> 01:26:09,640
Speaker 1: the weekend. What part of that roster do you have

1621
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:13,320
Speaker 1: the most confidence in? Among your choices quarterback, wide receiver,

1622
01:26:13,479 --> 01:26:16,960
Speaker 1: defensive line, and secondary. We're gonna put offensive line on there,

1623
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 1: but we still don't know definitively who the starting five

1624
01:26:20,479 --> 01:26:24,559
Speaker 1: are going to be. Coach McDermott expected to reveal that tomorrow,

1625
01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 1: with the first unofficial depth chart probably likely to drop

1626
01:26:28,400 --> 01:26:31,840
Speaker 1: as well, but he said in his Zoom call over

1627
01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:34,760
Speaker 1: the weekend that he would pass that information along as

1628
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:36,240
Speaker 1: to who's gonna be starting on the right side of

1629
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:39,400
Speaker 1: the offensive line tomorrow, so stay tuned for that. We

1630
01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:41,519
Speaker 1: will have coverage of that for you here on one

1631
01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:45,920
Speaker 1: Bill's Live as we will review his comments tomorrow. But

1632
01:26:46,479 --> 01:26:49,720
Speaker 1: we're doing the twitter poll right now, and leading the

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01:26:49,800 --> 01:26:51,760
Speaker 1: way in the voting is the secondary, which, as I

1634
01:26:51,840 --> 01:26:54,880
Speaker 1: said last hour, probably has more to do with past

1635
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:57,400
Speaker 1: performance than anything else. Not to say they won't do

1636
01:26:57,479 --> 01:27:00,880
Speaker 1: well this year. I'm sure they will. And then wide

1637
01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:04,920
Speaker 1: Receiver not far behind. People are pumped about the Diggs

1638
01:27:04,960 --> 01:27:09,760
Speaker 1: Brown Beasley trio and Josh working with those guys, and

1639
01:27:09,880 --> 01:27:12,840
Speaker 1: then I'm just surprised defensive line isn't getting more love.

1640
01:27:12,920 --> 01:27:16,120
Speaker 1: That's where I voted, But let us know what you think.

1641
01:27:16,320 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: Hit us up on the tweet sheet, give us a comment,

1642
01:27:18,560 --> 01:27:21,840
Speaker 1: and we go back to the tweet sheet now, which

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01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:25,439
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01:27:30,240 --> 01:27:33,479
Speaker 1: from Jack. He says, tough call. Hard to argue against

1646
01:27:33,520 --> 01:27:37,120
Speaker 1: the secondary with hide power, White, Neil and Johnson. But

1647
01:27:37,280 --> 01:27:40,280
Speaker 1: Wallace is up and down and Norman has some questions

1648
01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:42,599
Speaker 1: if he can still do it. But you can't argue

1649
01:27:42,720 --> 01:27:44,960
Speaker 1: the Bills have one of the best wide receiving cores

1650
01:27:44,960 --> 01:27:48,320
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Wide receivers I think will set the

1651
01:27:48,560 --> 01:27:56,160
Speaker 1: NFL ablaze in twenty twenty. Anythink No, I think it's

1652
01:27:56,160 --> 01:28:00,760
Speaker 1: the secondary as well. A second Okay, l receivers gonna

1653
01:28:00,760 --> 01:28:03,479
Speaker 1: send him. I was hoping for a reaction from you. Yeah,

1654
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:06,320
Speaker 1: you're not. I'm not biting on that. I've told you

1655
01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:08,599
Speaker 1: it's all about Josh. If the wide receivers are playing good,

1656
01:28:08,680 --> 01:28:10,400
Speaker 1: is because the quarterback's playing good. I'll tell you the

1657
01:28:10,640 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 1: You don't think the wide receivers in Pittsburgh are like

1658
01:28:13,560 --> 01:28:16,760
Speaker 1: doing cart wheels cart wheels because Ben big Ben is

1659
01:28:16,760 --> 01:28:19,920
Speaker 1: back throwing football. You know you don't think. You know,

1660
01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:23,960
Speaker 1: the guys in Tampa Bay are happy to be there

1661
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:27,400
Speaker 1: instead of having Jamis Winston throw it to the other team. Yeah,

1662
01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:32,559
Speaker 1: you know, you don't think Mike Walt, Mike Michael Thomas

1663
01:28:32,840 --> 01:28:36,519
Speaker 1: down in New Orleans has a shrine in his house

1664
01:28:36,640 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 1: to Drew Brees. You know about how good that guy

1665
01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:43,000
Speaker 1: throws it. You know, you don't think Mark Duper and

1666
01:28:43,720 --> 01:28:47,400
Speaker 1: Mark Clayton back in the eighties, oh everything to third

1667
01:28:47,520 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 1: number thirteen in Miami throwing him the ball. Mean, it

1668
01:28:50,640 --> 01:28:52,760
Speaker 1: all comes down to the quarter these wide receivers. And

1669
01:28:52,880 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 1: we saw it last year, those open balls. John Brown

1670
01:28:55,640 --> 01:29:01,760
Speaker 1: is banking Steph Gilmore and running free and he can't

1671
01:29:01,840 --> 01:29:03,640
Speaker 1: hit him. He just didn't hit him. I mean that

1672
01:29:03,880 --> 01:29:05,920
Speaker 1: it comes him in the second game, Yes he did.

1673
01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:09,639
Speaker 1: He comes down to the quarterback who pulls the trigger. Yes,

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01:29:09,800 --> 01:29:12,160
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna get more separation, and they're gonna

1675
01:29:12,200 --> 01:29:14,439
Speaker 1: get open more. They're gonna be more diverse. They're gonna

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01:29:14,479 --> 01:29:17,360
Speaker 1: spread the secondary thinner than they're gonna be paper thin

1677
01:29:17,800 --> 01:29:19,479
Speaker 1: trying to cover these guys up. And we got a

1678
01:29:19,520 --> 01:29:21,400
Speaker 1: lot of guys who will win one on one matchup.

1679
01:29:21,520 --> 01:29:24,080
Speaker 1: Take your pick. And the problem, you know the problem

1680
01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:27,559
Speaker 1: is they can all do that and if the quarterback

1681
01:29:27,640 --> 01:29:31,960
Speaker 1: drops the snap, it don't matter. So and I don't

1682
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:33,920
Speaker 1: think Josh Owen's gonna do that, But it comes down

1683
01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:37,439
Speaker 1: to Josh more So for the wide receivers, and they

1684
01:29:37,520 --> 01:29:38,920
Speaker 1: know it as well. And I'm sure they got every

1685
01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:42,080
Speaker 1: confidence that Josh's gonna be better, and they have said it,

1686
01:29:42,720 --> 01:29:45,559
Speaker 1: you know that he's gonna be better. But for me, yeah,

1687
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:48,320
Speaker 1: you're wide receivers. It's hard for me to say, those

1688
01:29:48,400 --> 01:29:51,800
Speaker 1: guys are there, You're gonna be the best part of

1689
01:29:52,120 --> 01:29:55,599
Speaker 1: this Bill's roster and most you know, most exciting, most

1690
01:29:55,680 --> 01:29:59,800
Speaker 1: confidence boosting part of the roster. They may be, but

1691
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:02,160
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's going to be that secondary.

1692
01:30:03,160 --> 01:30:06,400
Speaker 1: I think that gives you confidence. I think the wide receivers.

1693
01:30:07,600 --> 01:30:11,160
Speaker 1: The wide receivers give you a little bit of, you know, hope.

1694
01:30:11,479 --> 01:30:12,880
Speaker 1: You know, they give you a bunch of hope. The

1695
01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:15,880
Speaker 1: defensive line gives you some gives you some attitude as well.

1696
01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:19,240
Speaker 1: But I think for confidence, I think the secondary is

1697
01:30:20,680 --> 01:30:23,040
Speaker 1: is the one that I'm most confident in. From Nick,

1698
01:30:23,200 --> 01:30:25,840
Speaker 1: he votes for the receivers or top three are already proven.

1699
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:27,600
Speaker 1: Now it sounds like we may have another study in

1700
01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:30,560
Speaker 1: Gabriel Davis. I believe in three quarters of our secondary,

1701
01:30:30,640 --> 01:30:34,360
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure about our second cornerback. I like Levi,

1702
01:30:34,600 --> 01:30:36,439
Speaker 1: but he had a couple of rough games last year

1703
01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:39,479
Speaker 1: and Norman is a total question mark that from Nick.

1704
01:30:39,600 --> 01:30:42,120
Speaker 1: So we've already talked about the receiver Steve, so what

1705
01:30:42,240 --> 01:30:43,920
Speaker 1: do you what do you think about his assessment of

1706
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:47,519
Speaker 1: that second corner spot. Levi Wallace and Josh Norman both

1707
01:30:47,560 --> 01:30:49,720
Speaker 1: back at practice yesterday, so that was a good thing.

1708
01:30:50,120 --> 01:30:54,400
Speaker 1: But who winds up there still hasn't been definitively declared

1709
01:30:54,840 --> 01:30:57,720
Speaker 1: by the coaching staff, do primarily to injury to both

1710
01:30:57,760 --> 01:30:59,719
Speaker 1: of those guys. Yeah, and I think this coaching staff

1711
01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:02,400
Speaker 1: had probably done their homework and watched Josh Norman on

1712
01:31:02,479 --> 01:31:05,720
Speaker 1: tape and and the thought process into Josh Norman. We've

1713
01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:07,559
Speaker 1: all heard it one hundred times, but he was misused

1714
01:31:07,640 --> 01:31:10,599
Speaker 1: in Washington? Is the is this positive spin for Josh

1715
01:31:11,520 --> 01:31:13,519
Speaker 1: is in the wrong He was in the wrong system.

1716
01:31:13,600 --> 01:31:17,080
Speaker 1: They changed desive coordinators, they did some stuff and and

1717
01:31:17,160 --> 01:31:19,439
Speaker 1: it was, let's face it, you can't tell me you

1718
01:31:19,520 --> 01:31:22,840
Speaker 1: think the Washington Redskins culture that he played it in

1719
01:31:22,920 --> 01:31:25,439
Speaker 1: the last three or four years was not anything healthy

1720
01:31:25,520 --> 01:31:31,080
Speaker 1: one but toxic. So there's a big thought that whatever

1721
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:35,320
Speaker 1: questions there were about Josh Norman in Washington have been

1722
01:31:35,439 --> 01:31:37,080
Speaker 1: a lot of those have been washed away by just

1723
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:39,920
Speaker 1: by moving not only to Buffalo, but any other team

1724
01:31:40,160 --> 01:31:42,080
Speaker 1: where they're gonna use him in a system that fits

1725
01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:45,200
Speaker 1: his skill set. Now you can make the confidence the

1726
01:31:46,080 --> 01:31:52,200
Speaker 1: comment that as old maybe, but he as we've seen,

1727
01:31:52,479 --> 01:31:55,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna get some reps. Kevin Johnson got reps last year.

1728
01:31:55,120 --> 01:31:56,880
Speaker 1: He's gonna get some. He's gonna get a chance. They're

1729
01:31:56,880 --> 01:31:58,479
Speaker 1: gonna use him where they need to use him, and

1730
01:31:58,520 --> 01:32:00,920
Speaker 1: he's gonna be better than he was in Washington. Here's

1731
01:32:00,920 --> 01:32:04,599
Speaker 1: what makes this competition so interesting for me. At that spot,

1732
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:13,760
Speaker 1: Levi at his core is a technique corner who relies

1733
01:32:13,880 --> 01:32:17,320
Speaker 1: on the technique and plays kind of a steady Eddie game.

1734
01:32:17,920 --> 01:32:21,479
Speaker 1: You know, he's not gonna guess and make three picks

1735
01:32:21,560 --> 01:32:25,160
Speaker 1: that way because he's guessing on a route and jumps it.

1736
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:29,360
Speaker 1: You know, he's gonna play steady eddie, play safe. That's

1737
01:32:29,400 --> 01:32:32,720
Speaker 1: his game. And he got to the league as an

1738
01:32:32,800 --> 01:32:37,479
Speaker 1: undrafted player because of it, and he's started the last

1739
01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:41,080
Speaker 1: two years and may start again this year. Josh Norman

1740
01:32:42,680 --> 01:32:47,920
Speaker 1: is not all that more physically gifted than Levi Wallace,

1741
01:32:49,040 --> 01:32:53,160
Speaker 1: but he's a risk taker. You know, he's attack oriented.

1742
01:32:53,880 --> 01:32:58,360
Speaker 1: So their philosophy is about playing the cornerback position. To me,

1743
01:32:58,479 --> 01:33:02,120
Speaker 1: are in stark contrast, and that's why it's very interesting

1744
01:33:02,240 --> 01:33:05,400
Speaker 1: to me to see where they land in terms of

1745
01:33:05,520 --> 01:33:09,000
Speaker 1: who the starter is going to be and who may

1746
01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:11,599
Speaker 1: or may not rotate in in a given weeks. It's

1747
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:13,680
Speaker 1: an interesting observation you make because you're right and you

1748
01:33:13,720 --> 01:33:15,320
Speaker 1: can see it all the way back to Alabama when

1749
01:33:15,400 --> 01:33:17,439
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace walked on what happens is and this is

1750
01:33:17,479 --> 01:33:21,200
Speaker 1: the way it is universally in the National Football League,

1751
01:33:21,280 --> 01:33:23,360
Speaker 1: in the collegiate level, in the high school level, and

1752
01:33:23,479 --> 01:33:28,160
Speaker 1: on down the line. Coaches put guys on the field

1753
01:33:28,479 --> 01:33:31,960
Speaker 1: who do what they're coached to do all the time.

1754
01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:38,320
Speaker 1: Coaches love consistency, and that leads to trust. Levi Wallace

1755
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:43,439
Speaker 1: is trusted more than he's depended on. They know he's

1756
01:33:43,439 --> 01:33:45,200
Speaker 1: going to give him a certain level what he's supposed

1757
01:33:45,200 --> 01:33:47,680
Speaker 1: to be in a certain coverage and a certain technique.

1758
01:33:47,720 --> 01:33:49,320
Speaker 1: He's going to be there and play it to the

1759
01:33:49,360 --> 01:33:51,719
Speaker 1: best of his abilities. Certainly, they're a faster guys, Certainly,

1760
01:33:51,720 --> 01:33:55,040
Speaker 1: they're a bigger guys. Certainly they're stronger guys, more athletic guys.

1761
01:33:55,120 --> 01:33:58,280
Speaker 1: But that guy is in the right spot where he's

1762
01:33:58,280 --> 01:34:00,320
Speaker 1: supposed to be, whether he can make the play or not.

1763
01:34:00,880 --> 01:34:04,000
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be out of position. You saw him,

1764
01:34:04,160 --> 01:34:06,479
Speaker 1: like even in Week one last year where the dB

1765
01:34:06,680 --> 01:34:09,800
Speaker 1: got behind him, he ran hard after him. The ball

1766
01:34:09,880 --> 01:34:12,439
Speaker 1: was underthrown. He knocked it away only because it was

1767
01:34:12,520 --> 01:34:16,080
Speaker 1: completely underthrown by Sam Darnald, because Darnald got a little

1768
01:34:16,080 --> 01:34:19,080
Speaker 1: pressure and the ball wobbled in the air. He was beat,

1769
01:34:19,360 --> 01:34:21,639
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace was, but he still made the play because

1770
01:34:22,120 --> 01:34:25,080
Speaker 1: he just didn't give up. That's about as bad as

1771
01:34:25,120 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 1: it's gonna get for him because he's never out of position.

1772
01:34:28,320 --> 01:34:31,120
Speaker 1: He's not gonna make that fantastic play. But the coaches

1773
01:34:31,600 --> 01:34:34,720
Speaker 1: trust him. He's not gonna go off the air. He's

1774
01:34:34,720 --> 01:34:36,680
Speaker 1: not gonna go do something that play right there that

1775
01:34:36,760 --> 01:34:40,080
Speaker 1: the MSG viewers are listening. Dude, that that's you know,

1776
01:34:40,320 --> 01:34:42,599
Speaker 1: that's a touchdown if it's thrown out there. But Darnald

1777
01:34:42,640 --> 01:34:44,559
Speaker 1: got a little pressure and gave him a chance to recover.

1778
01:34:45,439 --> 01:34:49,400
Speaker 1: He's always playing the right technique. He's always in the

1779
01:34:49,520 --> 01:34:54,920
Speaker 1: right vicinity. He never goes off the air. Coaches play

1780
01:34:55,040 --> 01:34:57,000
Speaker 1: guys like that's how you go from being a walk

1781
01:34:57,080 --> 01:34:59,800
Speaker 1: on at Alabama to be in the next guy that says, well,

1782
01:34:59,800 --> 01:35:01,760
Speaker 1: who does it right? All the time, who's always well,

1783
01:35:01,800 --> 01:35:03,240
Speaker 1: I know this kid, he's not the best kid, but

1784
01:35:03,280 --> 01:35:04,840
Speaker 1: at least he's always in the right. But put him

1785
01:35:04,840 --> 01:35:07,959
Speaker 1: on the field. He's not a five star right recruits.

1786
01:35:08,080 --> 01:35:09,760
Speaker 1: Put that kid on at least I know where he's gonna,

1787
01:35:09,800 --> 01:35:11,599
Speaker 1: know what he's gonna do, and I know he's gonna

1788
01:35:11,600 --> 01:35:15,240
Speaker 1: be consistent. I'll tell you this too, Rex Ryan, when

1789
01:35:15,280 --> 01:35:17,200
Speaker 1: he's coach of the Buffalo Bills, they were got. They

1790
01:35:17,240 --> 01:35:20,240
Speaker 1: got a whole rash of injuries. Andy, Reggie, Raglan got hurt,

1791
01:35:20,360 --> 01:35:23,160
Speaker 1: and all these guys got got hurt in training camp,

1792
01:35:23,680 --> 01:35:25,200
Speaker 1: I go, who are you gonna start at the lineback?

1793
01:35:25,280 --> 01:35:26,720
Speaker 1: He has, well, you know he's I think we're just

1794
01:35:26,760 --> 01:35:29,360
Speaker 1: gonna put Lorenzo Alexander in there. At least we know

1795
01:35:29,479 --> 01:35:32,719
Speaker 1: he's gonna do what he's supposed to do. Well, Okay,

1796
01:35:33,520 --> 01:35:37,559
Speaker 1: that's how that happened. Consistency. They know the guy's gonna

1797
01:35:37,560 --> 01:35:39,840
Speaker 1: be where he's supposed to be. That's Levi Wallace. That's

1798
01:35:39,880 --> 01:35:42,200
Speaker 1: why a guy with the ability of a Kevin Johnson

1799
01:35:42,200 --> 01:35:46,439
Speaker 1: who was a first round draft pick, couldn't unseat him.

1800
01:35:46,600 --> 01:35:48,679
Speaker 1: I mean he got he worked in with him physically

1801
01:35:48,760 --> 01:35:52,679
Speaker 1: more gifted, but not as consistent, not as consistent always.

1802
01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:56,360
Speaker 1: Didy has value to people like Leslie Fraser and John

1803
01:35:56,479 --> 01:35:59,400
Speaker 1: mcda and it's gonna so it's gonna take a certain level,

1804
01:35:59,680 --> 01:36:02,800
Speaker 1: high level of wide receiver in the NFL when you've

1805
01:36:02,840 --> 01:36:07,160
Speaker 1: got him matched one on one to beat him, because

1806
01:36:07,200 --> 01:36:09,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna use perfect technique, he's gonna be in the

1807
01:36:09,200 --> 01:36:11,919
Speaker 1: right position. It's going to take a really gifted athlete

1808
01:36:11,960 --> 01:36:13,560
Speaker 1: at wide receiver to beat him. And that's only in

1809
01:36:13,600 --> 01:36:16,840
Speaker 1: a one on one, one on one situation where there's

1810
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:20,840
Speaker 1: no safety help, right, that's why you know what you've

1811
01:36:20,880 --> 01:36:24,680
Speaker 1: got over there, and let them take their shots over there,

1812
01:36:24,760 --> 01:36:27,280
Speaker 1: give give him a little help because Turdevius has got

1813
01:36:27,320 --> 01:36:30,160
Speaker 1: the other side locked down. It's hard to get a

1814
01:36:30,200 --> 01:36:35,120
Speaker 1: guy out of the lineup who's a guy like Levi Wallace, solid, steady, technique, driven,

1815
01:36:35,479 --> 01:36:39,599
Speaker 1: always striving to get better, and the coaches just trust him.

1816
01:36:40,400 --> 01:36:43,200
Speaker 1: They trust him with the wrinkles in the game plan,

1817
01:36:43,840 --> 01:36:45,479
Speaker 1: with the new stuff that they're doing this week that

1818
01:36:45,560 --> 01:36:48,760
Speaker 1: they weren't doing last week, all that stuff, and it's

1819
01:36:49,800 --> 01:36:51,439
Speaker 1: it's hard to get that guy out of the lineup.

1820
01:36:52,280 --> 01:36:54,200
Speaker 1: All right, we gotta take a break when we come back.

1821
01:36:54,320 --> 01:36:56,960
Speaker 1: More of your thoughts from the tweet sheet, and Steve

1822
01:36:57,040 --> 01:36:58,639
Speaker 1: and I will take a little bit of a look

1823
01:36:58,760 --> 01:37:01,800
Speaker 1: at the Jets as we've begin our own preparations for

1824
01:37:01,920 --> 01:37:04,360
Speaker 1: the Bills Week one opponent. We'll get to that and

1825
01:37:04,479 --> 01:37:06,479
Speaker 1: more on the other side here on One Bill's Live

1826
01:37:06,560 --> 01:37:20,439
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio Collow

1827
01:37:20,479 --> 01:37:25,439
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network. Sports Update. Your sports update from One

1828
01:37:25,479 --> 01:37:28,960
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. The NFL releasing their latest COVID nineteen testing

1829
01:37:29,120 --> 01:37:31,760
Speaker 1: data for the week of August thirtieth to September fifth,

1830
01:37:31,800 --> 01:37:34,679
Speaker 1: and of the more than forty four thousand, five hundred

1831
01:37:34,720 --> 01:37:38,000
Speaker 1: tests administered to players and team personnel, there was just

1832
01:37:38,200 --> 01:37:42,400
Speaker 1: one new confirmed positive test among players and just seven

1833
01:37:42,800 --> 01:37:46,439
Speaker 1: among other personnel. Your Bills update, and good news there

1834
01:37:46,439 --> 01:37:48,120
Speaker 1: on the injury front, as we saw the return of

1835
01:37:48,200 --> 01:37:51,800
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace and Josh Norman to practice on Monday. The

1836
01:37:51,840 --> 01:37:53,879
Speaker 1: team is off today, but they'll be back at practice

1837
01:37:53,960 --> 01:37:57,679
Speaker 1: Wednesday as they ramp up for Sunday season opener against

1838
01:37:57,720 --> 01:38:00,639
Speaker 1: the New York Jets. A couple of more NFL contract

1839
01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:04,759
Speaker 1: extensions today as the regular season draws closer. DeAndre Hopkins

1840
01:38:05,080 --> 01:38:07,600
Speaker 1: just landed a two year extension worth fifty four and

1841
01:38:07,640 --> 01:38:10,600
Speaker 1: a half million in new money, and it includes a

1842
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:15,120
Speaker 1: twenty seven point two five million dollars signing bonus. The

1843
01:38:15,240 --> 01:38:18,599
Speaker 1: other extension, the Browns are giving running back Kareem Hunt

1844
01:38:18,920 --> 01:38:22,200
Speaker 1: a two year, thirteen point two five million dollar extension that,

1845
01:38:22,320 --> 01:38:26,559
Speaker 1: according to NFL Network Scene in Rappaport Leland, keeps Hunt

1846
01:38:26,680 --> 01:38:29,719
Speaker 1: in the fold for another three years. The deal includes

1847
01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:34,120
Speaker 1: eight point five million dollars in guaranteed money. Running Back

1848
01:38:34,200 --> 01:38:37,400
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara and the New Orleans Saints extremely close to

1849
01:38:37,479 --> 01:38:41,519
Speaker 1: a lucrative contract extension, according to ESPN, two sides hoping

1850
01:38:41,560 --> 01:38:46,120
Speaker 1: to finalize that deal before the regular season opener. Just

1851
01:38:46,320 --> 01:38:48,679
Speaker 1: one game on the ice in the Stanley Cup Playoffs

1852
01:38:49,080 --> 01:38:53,280
Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals Game two tonight, Dallas leads that series

1853
01:38:53,360 --> 01:38:56,120
Speaker 1: with the Vegas Golden Knights, one game to none. Face

1854
01:38:56,200 --> 01:38:59,120
Speaker 1: off is set for eight pm. And finally, the Blue

1855
01:38:59,160 --> 01:39:02,240
Speaker 1: Jay series with the Yankees continues tonight at Salem's Field

1856
01:39:02,280 --> 01:39:05,639
Speaker 1: in downtown Buffalo. First pitch there is set for six

1857
01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:10,120
Speaker 1: thirty seven, and that is your sports update. Steve Tasker

1858
01:39:10,240 --> 01:39:12,880
Speaker 1: Chris Brown with you for our number three of a

1859
01:39:12,960 --> 01:39:16,559
Speaker 1: Tuesday one Bill's Live addition. We are talking Bill's roster

1860
01:39:16,760 --> 01:39:19,320
Speaker 1: now that it is formed, and with the regular season

1861
01:39:19,400 --> 01:39:23,000
Speaker 1: opener five days away, we're talking a little Jets as well.

1862
01:39:23,160 --> 01:39:26,680
Speaker 1: And Steve, I know that you saw this, so I

1863
01:39:26,720 --> 01:39:29,439
Speaker 1: will mention it that the Jets aren't too happy that

1864
01:39:29,880 --> 01:39:33,120
Speaker 1: people aren't very high on them and their prospects for

1865
01:39:33,600 --> 01:39:37,120
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season. A lot of prognosticators have them

1866
01:39:37,760 --> 01:39:40,680
Speaker 1: in the basement of the AFC East by season's end.

1867
01:39:40,760 --> 01:39:43,360
Speaker 1: And while that doesn't sit well with any team, and

1868
01:39:43,400 --> 01:39:47,640
Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect it to, you look at the departures

1869
01:39:47,680 --> 01:39:52,760
Speaker 1: and the subtractions from the roster, and it's hard to

1870
01:39:52,840 --> 01:39:58,160
Speaker 1: blame the prognosticators quite frankly. Yeah, and they're general manager

1871
01:39:58,560 --> 01:40:03,719
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas. Joe Douglas, listen, they certainly the player, he acknowledged.

1872
01:40:03,720 --> 01:40:05,559
Speaker 1: The players don't live in a bubble. They hear what's

1873
01:40:05,560 --> 01:40:07,320
Speaker 1: being said about him. There's a lot of guys out there.

1874
01:40:07,320 --> 01:40:08,880
Speaker 1: They want to prove a lot of people wrong. They're

1875
01:40:08,880 --> 01:40:13,120
Speaker 1: not household names. Frank Gore was the highlights on the

1876
01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:14,960
Speaker 1: You go to the Jets website and they're you know,

1877
01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:17,280
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, this is Frank gores hand. This is

1878
01:40:17,320 --> 01:40:19,080
Speaker 1: a hard working group of guys. You know that, and

1879
01:40:19,200 --> 01:40:21,840
Speaker 1: I imagine they are. They've got something they want to prove.

1880
01:40:22,080 --> 01:40:24,400
Speaker 1: People are overlooking them. There's been some upgrades over there.

1881
01:40:24,400 --> 01:40:26,559
Speaker 1: Their offensive line is going to be better. McKay Beckton,

1882
01:40:26,640 --> 01:40:29,479
Speaker 1: who is I think I heard. I think last time

1883
01:40:29,520 --> 01:40:32,000
Speaker 1: I heard he was nine feet tall, five thousand pounds

1884
01:40:32,160 --> 01:40:35,760
Speaker 1: or something. Now he's huge. He is a gigantic I

1885
01:40:35,840 --> 01:40:41,000
Speaker 1: think he's six eight and three fifty plus. I saw

1886
01:40:41,040 --> 01:40:45,120
Speaker 1: a photo at Jets camp of McKay beck's big on

1887
01:40:45,240 --> 01:40:47,439
Speaker 1: the sidelines watching the action on the field, and he

1888
01:40:47,520 --> 01:40:50,840
Speaker 1: was standing next to Jamison Crowder, their slot receiver, who

1889
01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:54,519
Speaker 1: I think is six one no, six feet even, and

1890
01:40:55,520 --> 01:40:58,519
Speaker 1: he made Jamison Crowder looked like a twelve year old. Yeah,

1891
01:40:58,800 --> 01:41:01,960
Speaker 1: standing next to him. I mean, and here's the thing done.

1892
01:41:02,080 --> 01:41:04,080
Speaker 1: And I'll say this about McKay Beckton. There's been a

1893
01:41:04,160 --> 01:41:06,360
Speaker 1: lot of big guys come through the league that it's

1894
01:41:06,400 --> 01:41:09,720
Speaker 1: a it's a league full of big people. Most of

1895
01:41:09,800 --> 01:41:12,720
Speaker 1: them can't play well enough. You know, they can't move.

1896
01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:15,000
Speaker 1: McKay Beckton's got some feet. I mean he can. He

1897
01:41:15,080 --> 01:41:16,479
Speaker 1: can get them up and put them down, and put

1898
01:41:16,520 --> 01:41:18,000
Speaker 1: him up, pick him up and put him down. He's

1899
01:41:18,680 --> 01:41:22,040
Speaker 1: one of those guys who most normal people there, their

1900
01:41:22,080 --> 01:41:23,960
Speaker 1: thought process goes to, yeah, but I'll bet you know,

1901
01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:25,920
Speaker 1: I'll bet I could outrun that guy. You can't out

1902
01:41:26,000 --> 01:41:29,560
Speaker 1: run him. He's big, and he's fast, he's athletic, and

1903
01:41:29,680 --> 01:41:32,840
Speaker 1: he's he's gonna because you're taking them on, you are

1904
01:41:32,920 --> 01:41:35,120
Speaker 1: gonna be Bill's fans are gonna be looking at this

1905
01:41:35,200 --> 01:41:39,559
Speaker 1: guy in a jet uniform for fifteen years minimum, stay healthy. Right,

1906
01:41:39,800 --> 01:41:44,240
Speaker 1: he is that kind of right. Yeah, there's all of that,

1907
01:41:44,280 --> 01:41:45,479
Speaker 1: And I don't know what kind of guy he is.

1908
01:41:45,560 --> 01:41:48,800
Speaker 1: He may be, you know, he may be you know,

1909
01:41:49,120 --> 01:41:50,920
Speaker 1: have his own demons to fight like all of us,

1910
01:41:51,760 --> 01:41:53,839
Speaker 1: they get out of him. But he has got everything

1911
01:41:54,560 --> 01:41:57,640
Speaker 1: physically needed to play left tackle for as long as

1912
01:41:57,720 --> 01:42:02,040
Speaker 1: he wants um and he's and all reports are he's good.

1913
01:42:02,200 --> 01:42:03,960
Speaker 1: He's a good player. He's not just a big body.

1914
01:42:04,080 --> 01:42:06,280
Speaker 1: So good for him. But that's part of the reason

1915
01:42:06,360 --> 01:42:07,960
Speaker 1: the offensive line, some of the guys in the Jets

1916
01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:10,720
Speaker 1: thinking this is gonna be better. Right, Levian Belle is

1917
01:42:10,720 --> 01:42:12,840
Speaker 1: gonna have a chip on his shoulder. The offensive line

1918
01:42:12,920 --> 01:42:14,400
Speaker 1: is going to be better, and that, you know, that

1919
01:42:14,560 --> 01:42:18,040
Speaker 1: makes life easier for Sam Darnold. Yeah, but again, we

1920
01:42:18,160 --> 01:42:21,360
Speaker 1: have to remember limited time this offseason for this new

1921
01:42:21,680 --> 01:42:24,840
Speaker 1: I mean, this would be like the Bills of last

1922
01:42:24,920 --> 01:42:29,320
Speaker 1: year trying to put it all together amidst COVID. They

1923
01:42:29,400 --> 01:42:31,720
Speaker 1: had it. They took them six seven weeks before they

1924
01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:34,240
Speaker 1: really started to get rolling in a normal offseason. They

1925
01:42:34,320 --> 01:42:36,240
Speaker 1: had had a lot of injury problems in training camp.

1926
01:42:36,320 --> 01:42:39,600
Speaker 1: But it's nevertheless, they were together, they were going to

1927
01:42:39,720 --> 01:42:41,920
Speaker 1: meetings together, they were talking things over, they were having

1928
01:42:42,080 --> 01:42:46,720
Speaker 1: conversations about everything. They weren't just like total strangers, right.

1929
01:42:46,840 --> 01:42:49,280
Speaker 1: I mean, what you're essentially looking at with the Jets

1930
01:42:49,479 --> 01:42:54,120
Speaker 1: is almost the same thing that you saw with the

1931
01:42:54,200 --> 01:42:56,439
Speaker 1: Bills last year. And they had four new starters. I

1932
01:42:56,520 --> 01:42:58,400
Speaker 1: think all these guys are in new spots. So I

1933
01:42:58,479 --> 01:43:02,200
Speaker 1: think it's five new starters for the Jets across that

1934
01:43:02,360 --> 01:43:08,360
Speaker 1: offensive front. And man, I just am I wrong to

1935
01:43:08,520 --> 01:43:10,559
Speaker 1: think that it's not gonna look like a well oiled

1936
01:43:10,640 --> 01:43:12,800
Speaker 1: machine in Week one, just by virtue of the fact

1937
01:43:12,880 --> 01:43:16,560
Speaker 1: that they've they've practiced real football as much as you

1938
01:43:16,640 --> 01:43:20,760
Speaker 1: can in a practice setting for three and a half weeks. Right,

1939
01:43:21,000 --> 01:43:23,599
Speaker 1: I'm not expecting it to fit together when the game's

1940
01:43:23,640 --> 01:43:25,680
Speaker 1: moving at a one hundred miles an hour. It's not

1941
01:43:25,840 --> 01:43:30,160
Speaker 1: going to be sound and flawless. They're not going to

1942
01:43:30,240 --> 01:43:33,040
Speaker 1: one for this Jets offensive front. I just don't see it. Yeah,

1943
01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:35,800
Speaker 1: they'll be they'll be better, no question. I think they'll

1944
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:38,799
Speaker 1: be better offensively because of their offensive line in the upgrades.

1945
01:43:38,840 --> 01:43:42,519
Speaker 1: But you're right, it isn't gonna be a well oiled

1946
01:43:42,560 --> 01:43:44,439
Speaker 1: machine to begin with. The Bills weren't last year in

1947
01:43:44,479 --> 01:43:46,040
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season. It took them a while,

1948
01:43:46,120 --> 01:43:49,360
Speaker 1: but and the Jets have been taken reps together that

1949
01:43:49,520 --> 01:43:52,200
Speaker 1: they haven't heard any injury problems they've had. So whoever

1950
01:43:52,280 --> 01:43:54,000
Speaker 1: they think is gonna play for him or have been

1951
01:43:54,040 --> 01:43:56,320
Speaker 1: in taking reps much more so than the Bills were

1952
01:43:56,360 --> 01:43:59,000
Speaker 1: able to a year ago. But we have They have

1953
01:43:59,120 --> 01:44:02,360
Speaker 1: no game reps, they have no live action reps, and

1954
01:44:03,640 --> 01:44:07,240
Speaker 1: everything they have worked against has been scripted for them

1955
01:44:07,640 --> 01:44:11,320
Speaker 1: to go against. So it'll be interesting to see if

1956
01:44:11,360 --> 01:44:13,800
Speaker 1: they can handle wrinkles, which is always the acid test.

1957
01:44:13,880 --> 01:44:15,640
Speaker 1: When you get something you don't expect, how do you

1958
01:44:15,720 --> 01:44:18,599
Speaker 1: handle it? And that's that's it. When it gets that's

1959
01:44:18,600 --> 01:44:21,080
Speaker 1: when it's game time. So tell me this, Steve, because

1960
01:44:21,200 --> 01:44:23,160
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this a little bit, because these

1961
01:44:23,200 --> 01:44:26,719
Speaker 1: are the esoteric thoughts that I have about game matchups

1962
01:44:27,120 --> 01:44:29,280
Speaker 1: when I have a few minutes of free time in

1963
01:44:29,360 --> 01:44:32,439
Speaker 1: a shower well, you know wherever, and I'm thinking about

1964
01:44:32,720 --> 01:44:37,360
Speaker 1: special teams and the Bills have a rookie kicker, but

1965
01:44:37,479 --> 01:44:40,880
Speaker 1: the Jets have a rookie punter. And in Week one,

1966
01:44:42,479 --> 01:44:46,360
Speaker 1: first NFL game for a rookie punter, how anxious are you,

1967
01:44:46,479 --> 01:44:49,200
Speaker 1: as an opposing special teams coordinator to mess with that

1968
01:44:49,320 --> 01:44:54,280
Speaker 1: kid when he has seen zero film and his coordinator

1969
01:44:54,360 --> 01:44:58,400
Speaker 1: has seen zero film on what you could potentially throw

1970
01:44:58,479 --> 01:45:01,840
Speaker 1: at him a given situation. Yeah, to go, you know

1971
01:45:01,880 --> 01:45:04,400
Speaker 1: what I mean to go for a block? And what

1972
01:45:04,560 --> 01:45:06,200
Speaker 1: I what I would the kid? The first thing that

1973
01:45:06,280 --> 01:45:09,120
Speaker 1: postum minds listening, and you don't want him to change anything,

1974
01:45:09,320 --> 01:45:15,240
Speaker 1: but say, listen, son, kid, you need to work on

1975
01:45:15,320 --> 01:45:18,200
Speaker 1: your getoff time this week. You gotta get that punt

1976
01:45:18,280 --> 01:45:21,280
Speaker 1: off the ground fast. Uh, if they come after you,

1977
01:45:21,439 --> 01:45:23,800
Speaker 1: don't because we've seen it here. I've seen it on

1978
01:45:23,880 --> 01:45:26,559
Speaker 1: two different occasions with two rookie punters, both Buffalo Bills,

1979
01:45:26,600 --> 01:45:31,000
Speaker 1: Brian Mormon and Corey bar Orchis, when their first game,

1980
01:45:31,080 --> 01:45:35,400
Speaker 1: either the first game, I think, and Brian Mormon's case,

1981
01:45:35,439 --> 01:45:38,599
Speaker 1: it was his first punt as a buffalo bill. They

1982
01:45:38,720 --> 01:45:41,800
Speaker 1: left the gun or uncovered and he's tried to throw

1983
01:45:41,880 --> 01:45:45,880
Speaker 1: it and they crossed him up. Ran a guy out late. Disastrous, Yeah,

1984
01:45:46,640 --> 01:45:52,479
Speaker 1: boy or kiss uh, same thing, Baltimore, Baltimore, same got injured. Yeah,

1985
01:45:52,920 --> 01:45:58,040
Speaker 1: so you know that. It's if I'm Heath Farwell, I'm

1986
01:45:58,040 --> 01:46:02,880
Speaker 1: thinking my turn, the opportunity presents itself A you're gonna

1987
01:46:02,920 --> 01:46:04,559
Speaker 1: get up in this guy's kitchen. You don't. Yeah, I mean,

1988
01:46:04,600 --> 01:46:06,599
Speaker 1: I know you need a certain formation. You don't even

1989
01:46:06,640 --> 01:46:08,839
Speaker 1: wait to now, you don't even wait for the right opportunity.

1990
01:46:08,840 --> 01:46:11,200
Speaker 1: You make the opportunity. Okay, listen, that's what That's why

1991
01:46:11,200 --> 01:46:13,479
Speaker 1: I'm asking. It's really the opportunity isn't has anything to

1992
01:46:13,520 --> 01:46:15,200
Speaker 1: do with them or your look or what they're gonna

1993
01:46:15,240 --> 01:46:17,280
Speaker 1: do or their formation or what all that stuff has

1994
01:46:17,320 --> 01:46:20,000
Speaker 1: to do with. Listen, they're inside their own thirty or

1995
01:46:20,040 --> 01:46:24,240
Speaker 1: forty yard line. Let's go. That's what I'm saying. I'm

1996
01:46:24,280 --> 01:46:26,200
Speaker 1: thinking with a rookie punter playing in his first and

1997
01:46:27,000 --> 01:46:30,479
Speaker 1: kicking it out of his end zone. Man was really

1998
01:46:30,560 --> 01:46:32,720
Speaker 1: good in college. I believe Texas A and M. I

1999
01:46:32,760 --> 01:46:35,960
Speaker 1: want to say it was where where he kicked at um. Yeah,

2000
01:46:36,040 --> 01:46:39,320
Speaker 1: Texas A and M And I mean, he was really

2001
01:46:39,400 --> 01:46:41,679
Speaker 1: good at the college level, but the nerves are gonna

2002
01:46:41,680 --> 01:46:44,960
Speaker 1: be flowing in his first NFL game when he's back

2003
01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:47,760
Speaker 1: there for the first time. Man, I'd be throwing the

2004
01:46:47,840 --> 01:46:51,720
Speaker 1: kitchen sink at him. Yeah, I make a play, so

2005
01:46:52,760 --> 01:46:58,280
Speaker 1: I get him. My rookie season, the first time I

2006
01:46:58,439 --> 01:47:01,120
Speaker 1: suited up as a professional ass fleet was in the

2007
01:47:01,200 --> 01:47:04,559
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio, the Houston Oilers

2008
01:47:05,120 --> 01:47:11,120
Speaker 1: against the New York Football Giants. Lawrence Taylor, those those jokers, right,

2009
01:47:12,160 --> 01:47:18,080
Speaker 1: So rookie first preseason game. I'm the draft pick they

2010
01:47:18,200 --> 01:47:22,080
Speaker 1: drafted to return kicks, you know, two hundred and twenty

2011
01:47:22,120 --> 01:47:26,880
Speaker 1: sixth overall. I'm back and I don't know who. It's

2012
01:47:26,920 --> 01:47:29,720
Speaker 1: Jamie Williams, a great Titan, played for San Francisco, and

2013
01:47:29,760 --> 01:47:32,680
Speaker 1: now's it. So I'm back. And there was also a

2014
01:47:32,760 --> 01:47:35,800
Speaker 1: bunch of they had some veterans out there. I don't

2015
01:47:35,800 --> 01:47:38,960
Speaker 1: know where they knew it, saw it or whatever. But

2016
01:47:39,080 --> 01:47:41,360
Speaker 1: the ball is kicked off by I think it was

2017
01:47:42,080 --> 01:47:46,320
Speaker 1: Ali Haji Chica. He kicks it and I'm and this

2018
01:47:46,479 --> 01:47:48,560
Speaker 1: is back in the day when it didn't happen. It

2019
01:47:48,680 --> 01:47:52,479
Speaker 1: was nine yards deep, eight yards deep and Brownie your

2020
01:47:52,520 --> 01:47:56,439
Speaker 1: boys bringing it out. I am let's I'm like, stop

2021
01:47:56,520 --> 01:47:59,120
Speaker 1: me if you want to, And they did. They did.

2022
01:47:59,240 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 1: They like they like stiff armed me at three years. Yeah,

2023
01:48:03,640 --> 01:48:05,639
Speaker 1: they're like, oh when I was what are you thinking?

2024
01:48:06,439 --> 01:48:11,640
Speaker 1: Are you sure? So I league you're playing it? I was,

2025
01:48:11,960 --> 01:48:17,240
Speaker 1: man baby, I was bringing it out. Yeah, So that's

2026
01:48:17,479 --> 01:48:19,280
Speaker 1: you know. But that's what I'm talking about because you've

2027
01:48:19,320 --> 01:48:22,080
Speaker 1: got I don't care how much training camp in preparation

2028
01:48:22,120 --> 01:48:25,240
Speaker 1: you've gone through. When the lights are on, the thought

2029
01:48:25,360 --> 01:48:28,280
Speaker 1: process can get a little some wires can get crossed sometimes,

2030
01:48:28,320 --> 01:48:30,960
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I'm thinking there might be an opportunity

2031
01:48:31,080 --> 01:48:32,960
Speaker 1: there for the bill. I think the thing what happens

2032
01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:35,640
Speaker 1: these young guys, and I remember being myself, it's your

2033
01:48:35,720 --> 01:48:40,600
Speaker 1: wires get crossed. When you convince yourself there may be

2034
01:48:40,720 --> 01:48:44,840
Speaker 1: something you don't know. You start to overthink it, like, Okay,

2035
01:48:45,320 --> 01:48:47,080
Speaker 1: what am I missing here? Like if he's coming in,

2036
01:48:49,600 --> 01:48:52,080
Speaker 1: what am I missing? Like? They can't leave him uncovered.

2037
01:48:52,080 --> 01:48:54,240
Speaker 1: They're never gonna do that. But are they going to

2038
01:48:54,320 --> 01:48:55,600
Speaker 1: run one out? Or what if they come and I

2039
01:48:55,760 --> 01:48:58,400
Speaker 1: don't throw it? What if I if I throw it

2040
01:48:58,479 --> 01:48:59,960
Speaker 1: and they run a guy out there underneath it, get

2041
01:49:00,120 --> 01:49:01,880
Speaker 1: picked for picks. You know, you got like and that

2042
01:49:02,040 --> 01:49:05,120
Speaker 1: all that process happens in two It's two tenths of

2043
01:49:05,200 --> 01:49:07,320
Speaker 1: a second. You got time to go through all of that, right,

2044
01:49:08,200 --> 01:49:11,920
Speaker 1: and then the balls in the airs, you know, NFL

2045
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:15,360
Speaker 1: long snappers coming back, you know, thirty miles an hour. Like,

2046
01:49:15,720 --> 01:49:17,600
Speaker 1: I guess I'll just kick this maybe or no, that

2047
01:49:17,680 --> 01:49:21,120
Speaker 1: guy's you know you still can't, Right, that's what I

2048
01:49:21,200 --> 01:49:23,280
Speaker 1: want to That's what I'm wondering. If they could take advantage.

2049
01:49:23,520 --> 01:49:26,519
Speaker 1: I think you got to think about it. Yeah, Denzel

2050
01:49:26,640 --> 01:49:30,280
Speaker 1: Mims said he would be ready for this game. He

2051
01:49:30,479 --> 01:49:33,720
Speaker 1: essentially missed all but about two or three practices in

2052
01:49:33,880 --> 01:49:37,200
Speaker 1: Jets training camp due to a hamstring injury. How much

2053
01:49:37,240 --> 01:49:39,400
Speaker 1: are they going to put on that kids played Week one?

2054
01:49:39,600 --> 01:49:41,439
Speaker 1: Knowing all the time he missed on the field, I

2055
01:49:41,520 --> 01:49:45,880
Speaker 1: can't imagine he's gonna have a huge role. So more

2056
01:49:45,960 --> 01:49:48,439
Speaker 1: often than not, I think they're looking at Brashad Perryman,

2057
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:51,639
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan, and Jamison Crowder. I can't see Mims getting

2058
01:49:51,640 --> 01:49:53,080
Speaker 1: a lot of time on the field with all the

2059
01:49:53,160 --> 01:49:56,240
Speaker 1: time he missed. Not in Week one, right, right, I

2060
01:49:56,320 --> 01:49:58,080
Speaker 1: mean I know he was a I mean he's the

2061
01:49:58,160 --> 01:50:01,640
Speaker 1: first pick after Beckton, but I just don't know if

2062
01:50:01,680 --> 01:50:06,080
Speaker 1: he'd be ready. Yeah, because there's some there's It's like

2063
01:50:06,200 --> 01:50:09,160
Speaker 1: we always said, there's some positions you're not you're not

2064
01:50:09,240 --> 01:50:14,559
Speaker 1: afraid to do that. Yeah, others where particularly punter's kickers,

2065
01:50:15,120 --> 01:50:17,479
Speaker 1: the one time off guys where you get out there

2066
01:50:17,479 --> 01:50:19,760
Speaker 1: and you're off. But there's a whole lot of thought

2067
01:50:19,800 --> 01:50:21,599
Speaker 1: that goes into that one single play and a lot

2068
01:50:21,640 --> 01:50:26,639
Speaker 1: of possibilities. But these other positions like running back, wide receiver,

2069
01:50:26,760 --> 01:50:30,240
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, there's a lot of you gotta be ready,

2070
01:50:30,400 --> 01:50:32,400
Speaker 1: you gotta have some you gotta have some reps under

2071
01:50:32,439 --> 01:50:34,639
Speaker 1: your belt. You can't plug a p you can plug

2072
01:50:34,720 --> 01:50:38,360
Speaker 1: a punter in to catch it and kick it. Wide receiver, No,

2073
01:50:39,280 --> 01:50:40,920
Speaker 1: you have no chance. You can't see him have it

2074
01:50:40,960 --> 01:50:43,880
Speaker 1: a giant roll. I really can't. We'll dig more into

2075
01:50:43,960 --> 01:50:46,560
Speaker 1: this Jets Bills matchup as the week rolls on, and

2076
01:50:46,920 --> 01:50:50,080
Speaker 1: we'll get some expert analysis from down New York Way

2077
01:50:50,560 --> 01:50:52,560
Speaker 1: from some people through the course of the week. We

2078
01:50:52,680 --> 01:50:55,600
Speaker 1: do want to mention that the Bills have announced a

2079
01:50:55,840 --> 01:50:59,280
Speaker 1: series of unique player inspired apparel items for the twenty

2080
01:50:59,360 --> 01:51:03,080
Speaker 1: twenty season. Bills fan boxes will be available during the

2081
01:51:03,120 --> 01:51:07,439
Speaker 1: weeks prior to all eight Buffalo home games, with each

2082
01:51:07,520 --> 01:51:11,479
Speaker 1: containing a high quality player design T shirt with other

2083
01:51:11,560 --> 01:51:14,680
Speaker 1: exclusive products. I believe week one here it's something that

2084
01:51:14,800 --> 01:51:17,800
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes design. A portion of the proceeds each week

2085
01:51:17,840 --> 01:51:21,360
Speaker 1: will benefit a charity of that player's choice. Fans can

2086
01:51:21,479 --> 01:51:26,920
Speaker 1: purchase each of these boxes individually at Bills fanbox dot com,

2087
01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:31,479
Speaker 1: or you can subscribe and receive all the remaining boxes

2088
01:51:31,920 --> 01:51:34,679
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season at a five percent discount.

2089
01:51:35,000 --> 01:51:36,760
Speaker 1: And if you need any more information on that, you

2090
01:51:36,800 --> 01:51:39,080
Speaker 1: can go to Buffalo Bills dot com where they have

2091
01:51:39,200 --> 01:51:42,280
Speaker 1: some links where you can find out where these boxes

2092
01:51:42,320 --> 01:51:45,240
Speaker 1: can be purchased. And again, some of the proceeds going

2093
01:51:45,560 --> 01:51:50,120
Speaker 1: to charitable organizations supported by the players. So kind of

2094
01:51:50,200 --> 01:51:53,160
Speaker 1: a neat thing as the season gets underway. I know

2095
01:51:53,280 --> 01:51:57,080
Speaker 1: the Bills are working very hard for the fan base.

2096
01:51:57,200 --> 01:51:59,280
Speaker 1: Knowing fans can't be at games, I think they're trying

2097
01:51:59,360 --> 01:52:04,080
Speaker 1: to provide other avenues for you to feel a part

2098
01:52:04,320 --> 01:52:07,200
Speaker 1: of the game day experience, and this is just one

2099
01:52:07,240 --> 01:52:09,560
Speaker 1: of the latest examples. So good on the players for

2100
01:52:09,640 --> 01:52:12,760
Speaker 1: putting time into design some of these T shirts for fans.

2101
01:52:12,800 --> 01:52:14,439
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see those because the players usually

2102
01:52:14,439 --> 01:52:16,000
Speaker 1: do a pretty good job. Oh yeah, you know, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's it's gonna be pretty cool to see those

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01:52:17,920 --> 01:52:20,400
Speaker 1: T shirts coming on and you know, try and scarf

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01:52:20,479 --> 01:52:26,880
Speaker 1: up one for everything. But yeah, I keep you know,

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01:52:26,960 --> 01:52:29,080
Speaker 1: we're working this game. You're gonna be here, I'm gonna

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01:52:29,080 --> 01:52:32,680
Speaker 1: be here. Nobody else is gonna be here. How absolutely

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01:52:32,880 --> 01:52:36,000
Speaker 1: unbelievably strange is it gonna be to drive in here

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01:52:36,600 --> 01:52:42,519
Speaker 1: on a game day and just walk around the empty joint?

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01:52:43,960 --> 01:52:46,479
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, right, there's not even gonna be any ushers.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be empty. Nope. Yeah, there's no crowd control,

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Speaker 1: no security, just you know, maybe they'll be security, but

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Speaker 1: that's it, right, it's gonna be eerie. I think it's

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01:52:59,760 --> 01:53:01,760
Speaker 1: gonna be. Who do they really need for this game?

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01:53:01,800 --> 01:53:05,880
Speaker 1: I mean who they seriously, who is going to be

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01:53:06,200 --> 01:53:09,120
Speaker 1: in the stadium that is not a player or coach? Yeah,

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01:53:11,400 --> 01:53:14,040
Speaker 1: support personnel and then they're not gonna be any food.

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01:53:14,160 --> 01:53:18,000
Speaker 1: Yeah no, but you need you probably need stadium security

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01:53:18,120 --> 01:53:25,120
Speaker 1: just in case some you know, knuckleheads decide the fences up. Well, right,

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Speaker 1: I know that, right, Yeah, I don't know. I'm not

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01:53:28,680 --> 01:53:30,840
Speaker 1: going to pretend to have been a part of any

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01:53:30,920 --> 01:53:33,880
Speaker 1: of the game day We got rations meetings, were going

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01:53:33,960 --> 01:53:36,400
Speaker 1: to take some videos of the stadium and all that

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01:53:36,560 --> 01:53:39,000
Speaker 1: so we can show on the show next week. Yeah,

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01:53:39,080 --> 01:53:41,599
Speaker 1: people can see. Yeah, it's during the game. It's gonna

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01:53:41,640 --> 01:53:43,719
Speaker 1: be different, for sure. I don't think there's any question

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01:53:43,800 --> 01:53:47,840
Speaker 1: about that. And we know that the home teams can

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01:53:48,360 --> 01:53:52,719
Speaker 1: pump in artificial noise from prior home games no higher

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Speaker 1: than seventy deciples. I believe they can play music slightly

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01:53:57,400 --> 01:54:00,160
Speaker 1: higher than that between plays seventy five deciples, as I

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01:54:00,200 --> 01:54:03,040
Speaker 1: want to say, I read somewhere. Um, but yeah, that's

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01:54:03,400 --> 01:54:06,000
Speaker 1: that's about the size of it. Where is the decibel

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01:54:06,439 --> 01:54:09,280
Speaker 1: level measured from the middle of the field or the sideline.

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01:54:09,320 --> 01:54:11,720
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I don't know. I don't know.

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01:54:11,880 --> 01:54:13,920
Speaker 1: I would think the middle of the field, right, because

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01:54:13,960 --> 01:54:18,080
Speaker 1: they got to do it right right at the pregame.

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01:54:18,160 --> 01:54:20,000
Speaker 1: They gotta do a pregame or you know, some and

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01:54:20,120 --> 01:54:22,080
Speaker 1: just or during the game on the sideline. You gotta

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01:54:22,080 --> 01:54:24,240
Speaker 1: believe the NFL have some officials they're making sure they're

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01:54:24,240 --> 01:54:28,040
Speaker 1: inhering to the proper noise, like making a bundle doing it. Yeah,

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01:54:28,479 --> 01:54:32,200
Speaker 1: so right, yes, I would agree, But this, I'm gonna

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01:54:32,200 --> 01:54:34,000
Speaker 1: be strange. I don't think there's any question it's gonna

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01:54:34,000 --> 01:54:36,640
Speaker 1: be strange. I think it's gonna be strangest for the players.

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Speaker 1: Are they going to introduce the players? Why? Who think

2145
01:54:39,040 --> 01:54:43,520
Speaker 1: nobody's there to introduce them to each other? I don't know. Right,

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01:54:44,720 --> 01:54:48,120
Speaker 1: it'll be different and we'll be experiencing that difference on Sunday.

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01:54:48,160 --> 01:54:50,400
Speaker 1: And there's no stadium announcer. Why would they have a

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01:54:50,440 --> 01:54:54,000
Speaker 1: stadium announce Well, maybe you do that, so press box announcer.

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Speaker 1: They'll have that, Yes, And except that the press gonna

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01:54:56,840 --> 01:54:58,760
Speaker 1: be in the press box, are they? I think they

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01:54:58,840 --> 01:55:00,880
Speaker 1: will be, and they'll be so league distance and the

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01:55:00,960 --> 01:55:02,840
Speaker 1: press box is big enough to do that because there's

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01:55:02,880 --> 01:55:04,920
Speaker 1: no gonna be no visiting team media there. You can

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01:55:04,920 --> 01:55:07,560
Speaker 1: put them wherever you want. You're really gonna you have

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01:55:07,960 --> 01:55:11,360
Speaker 1: twice the press box space for half the amount of people.

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01:55:11,440 --> 01:55:14,160
Speaker 1: Set the press, set them up socially, distance up in

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Speaker 1: three twenty two or whatever section you want to be

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Speaker 1: a corner. That wouldn't be conducive to reporting come December. Yeah,

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01:55:21,640 --> 01:55:24,440
Speaker 1: that'd be a little different. Yeah, there are rules too

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Speaker 1: for you know, because they've reduced the number of videographers

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01:55:30,280 --> 01:55:32,600
Speaker 1: that can be on the field filming the game, you know,

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01:55:32,760 --> 01:55:35,600
Speaker 1: for their respective news outlets, and some of them have

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01:55:35,720 --> 01:55:38,720
Speaker 1: to be up in the stands now and once they're there,

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01:55:38,840 --> 01:55:42,360
Speaker 1: they can't leave and come back like they're stuck there. Right,

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Speaker 1: We've got a chance to get on the broadcast crew

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Speaker 1: for the game coming up. Andrew Catalan and James Lofton,

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01:55:48,720 --> 01:55:50,839
Speaker 1: my old teammate. What both of them are My old teammates.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Catalan and I do the preseason games here. I

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01:55:53,120 --> 01:55:57,520
Speaker 1: also was Andrew's first partner in the booth when he

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Speaker 1: got the job with CBS. I did his first game

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01:56:00,400 --> 01:56:02,680
Speaker 1: with him as he as he broke in. They gave

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Speaker 1: him a tryout game with me, and then a year

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Speaker 1: later they hired him full time and we worked together

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Speaker 1: then as well. And I was in a three man

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Speaker 1: booth with him as well in the beginning of his career.

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Speaker 1: We're good friends. So Andrew Catalan and Katman and maybe

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Speaker 1: James Lofton both together will be on our show later

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Speaker 1: in a week. Yeah, that'd be great if we get there.

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Speaker 1: I know. I asked Andrew about CBS what they were doing,

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01:56:21,600 --> 01:56:24,040
Speaker 1: and they said, yeah, they've got certain things they can do,

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Speaker 1: can't do, and yeah, and their whole crew isn't even

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01:56:27,920 --> 01:56:30,600
Speaker 1: traveling up here with them. Their producer director in New

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Speaker 1: York and a truck, which is also different. That's it.

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Speaker 1: One of the things when you're traveling with a networker

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01:56:38,240 --> 01:56:40,720
Speaker 1: to do a game, you travel in with your producer,

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01:56:40,800 --> 01:56:44,360
Speaker 1: your director, and the talent, the play by play and

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01:56:44,480 --> 01:56:47,440
Speaker 1: the analysts. They're all they travel. You travel with them.

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01:56:47,480 --> 01:56:50,120
Speaker 1: Every week. You end up there together, you have dinners together,

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01:56:50,320 --> 01:56:53,720
Speaker 1: you become very close friends, and it never goes away.

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01:56:53,760 --> 01:56:57,440
Speaker 1: And then you also have and then later in the

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01:56:57,480 --> 01:56:59,560
Speaker 1: weekend on Saturdays for the pruct means you got your

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01:56:59,560 --> 01:57:01,360
Speaker 1: spot or that come in and your stats guys that

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01:57:01,440 --> 01:57:05,480
Speaker 1: show up on Saturday nights. But during Friday and Saturday

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01:57:05,560 --> 01:57:08,760
Speaker 1: all day when you're doing player meetings and stuff, it's producer, director,

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Speaker 1: play by play, and the analyst. You travel together. You

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Speaker 1: do everything together. Then now the producer director aren't traveling,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be in New York City. So for this game,

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Speaker 1: I believe it is Steve McKee and Andrew Goldberg are

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Speaker 1: going to be in New York in a truck running

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Speaker 1: the game from there, doing the game, and they'll be

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Speaker 1: on headsets and they'll never see them. They'll ever see

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Speaker 1: them all weekend. It's a very strange giving new meaning

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Speaker 1: to the remote broadcasts. Yeah, the broadcasters now they'll obviously

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01:57:44,400 --> 01:57:47,320
Speaker 1: Catalan and James, Andrew and James are gonna be in

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Speaker 1: the stadium near us doing the radio broadcast. But it's

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01:57:54,280 --> 01:57:56,880
Speaker 1: gonna be different. It's gonna be different, and you know,

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01:57:57,120 --> 01:58:01,640
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to observe see how changes the game

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01:58:01,720 --> 01:58:05,800
Speaker 1: day atmosphere because without the fans, it's gonna unquestionably be different.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just going to be so different because

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Speaker 1: the energy that they bring every Sunday, some would say

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01:58:12,680 --> 01:58:17,600
Speaker 1: is unparalleled, and the players feed off it, they absolutely do.

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01:58:18,080 --> 01:58:21,000
Speaker 1: Brandon being on the air this morning on WGR was

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01:58:21,120 --> 01:58:24,640
Speaker 1: talking about even on the road, how the way the

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Speaker 1: Bills fans travels gives the players some juice even in

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01:58:29,920 --> 01:58:32,600
Speaker 1: road games. Maybe we remember the Tennessee game last year.

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01:58:32,880 --> 01:58:35,240
Speaker 1: You had twenty percent of the stands filled with Bills

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01:58:35,280 --> 01:58:39,000
Speaker 1: fans three years ago, and you could audibly hear them

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01:58:39,600 --> 01:58:43,760
Speaker 1: on third down when Marcus Mariota was under center, like

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01:58:43,920 --> 01:58:46,760
Speaker 1: you could audibly hear the twenty percent of Bills fans

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01:58:46,840 --> 01:58:51,160
Speaker 1: getting allowed on the road I remember about four years

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01:58:51,200 --> 01:58:53,800
Speaker 1: ago I did the Bills Tennessee game in Tennessee, and

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Speaker 1: just a regular season game, and we were staying at

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Speaker 1: a hotel. It was like two blocks off Old out

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Speaker 1: of old Nashville, like downtown, the Honkey Talks and stuff

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01:59:05,680 --> 01:59:10,560
Speaker 1: down there, and I mean you it looked like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it looked like one that's the downtown street where everybody's

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01:59:14,160 --> 01:59:17,240
Speaker 1: walking around downtown. The streets almost closed off. It looked

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01:59:17,240 --> 01:59:19,880
Speaker 1: like a you know, the parking lot at One Bills

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01:59:19,960 --> 01:59:25,320
Speaker 1: Drive walking through it, except more crowded. Yeah, not gonna

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01:59:25,320 --> 01:59:28,520
Speaker 1: be crowded this week. Nope, unfortunately, Nope, it's gonna be

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01:59:28,640 --> 01:59:33,040
Speaker 1: strange because dollars to donuts, every last person here at

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01:59:33,080 --> 01:59:35,040
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive would rather have fans in the stands

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01:59:35,080 --> 01:59:36,960
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I don't even think it's a question worth

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01:59:37,080 --> 01:59:41,040
Speaker 1: asking because it's a no brainer. So hopefully, sooner rather

2235
01:59:41,120 --> 01:59:44,760
Speaker 1: than later, that can get changed and fans can get

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01:59:44,840 --> 01:59:47,480
Speaker 1: back in the seats and provide the game day atmosphere

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01:59:47,560 --> 01:59:50,240
Speaker 1: that everybody's accustomed to. But for now, we'll just have

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01:59:50,360 --> 01:59:53,600
Speaker 1: to wait and see Steve Tasker Chris Brown with you

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01:59:53,720 --> 01:59:56,080
Speaker 1: when we come back. We'll hit up your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet and we'll also do a little bit

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Speaker 1: of NFL True Falls, both of the things coming your way.

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Speaker 1: Next Here on one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Chris Brown Steve task with

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Speaker 1: you and getting back to the tweet sheet as we

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02:00:20,720 --> 02:00:23,840
Speaker 1: are asking you what part of the Bill's roster do

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Speaker 1: you have the most confidence in? Your choices? Are there?

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Speaker 1: At one Bills Live on the Twitter handle and we

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Speaker 1: are up to on the tweet sheet. Who were we

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Speaker 1: up through? Christian? He said, the Bills have the most

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Speaker 1: money in the league allocated to the D line. We

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Speaker 1: have solid starters in depth galore. With a nine man rotation,

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Speaker 1: we will have fresh legs deep into the second half

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Speaker 1: going up against tired old lines. That gives me confident.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting, who do you think like the ninth guy

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Speaker 1: is to Darryl Johnson because he can played special teams.

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Speaker 1: Probably yeah, I would say Daryl Johnson or U or

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Speaker 1: AJ maybe I mean, yeah, you're going to work his

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Speaker 1: way in or maybe Harrison Phillips behind the other time

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you I don't know, I mean AJ's

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02:01:11,320 --> 02:01:13,560
Speaker 1: still feeling his way here and You've got tons of

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Speaker 1: veterans with NFL experience in front of him, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I think we all have high hopes for what aj

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02:01:19,400 --> 02:01:22,720
Speaker 1: can be in a Bill's uniform. Of course, none of

2264
02:01:22,760 --> 02:01:25,160
Speaker 1: us have really seen it in a game yet, so

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02:01:25,240 --> 02:01:26,720
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to wait and see on that, and

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02:01:26,880 --> 02:01:30,120
Speaker 1: who knows how soon will see him get any real

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Speaker 1: respectable playing time, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting because Mario Addison, Jerry Hughes, Addison with ten years,

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Speaker 1: Jerry with eleven. Then you've got Trent Murphy with seven.

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Speaker 1: Everybody else is like five years or less. You know,

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Speaker 1: Quentin Jefferson, Vernon Butler, ed Oliver Harrison, Phillips, Darryl Johnson

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Speaker 1: of course a j Epenez as a rookie. Those guys

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Speaker 1: are they're all young, except for maybe those three guys

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Speaker 1: at the top on Trent Murphy, Mario Addison and agent

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Speaker 1: or and uh Jerry Hughes. Yeah, they're a young group.

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Speaker 1: To me, Um, that says a lot. There's a there's

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Speaker 1: a I think there's every reason to be optimistic. Uh, certainly,

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02:02:15,960 --> 02:02:18,840
Speaker 1: we lost Jordan Phillips and we lost Shack Lawson last year.

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Speaker 1: Those guys were playing with a big chip on their

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Speaker 1: shoulder and prove it year deals. And certainly Jordan Phillips

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Speaker 1: got nine and a half sacks, you know, sort of

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Speaker 1: Mario Addison, you know, um Shack had like four sacks. Well,

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02:02:34,120 --> 02:02:37,640
Speaker 1: Vernon Butler and and uh Quentin Jefferson and those guys.

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Speaker 1: That's that's more than makes up for those statisticals Yeah,

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02:02:40,800 --> 02:02:43,080
Speaker 1: you would say, and yeah, you can't really payper shoot.

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02:02:43,120 --> 02:02:45,240
Speaker 1: You got to say this group together. But yeah, I

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02:02:45,320 --> 02:02:47,360
Speaker 1: get what you're saying. And Jeremiah thinks the same way

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02:02:47,400 --> 02:02:49,760
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet here, which incidentally is brought to

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02:02:49,800 --> 02:02:53,560
Speaker 1: you by Corrigan moving systems. Defensive line. Every single guy

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Speaker 1: on the line can win one on one now, and

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Speaker 1: I think Josh knowing that line can get him the

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02:03:00,160 --> 02:03:03,080
Speaker 1: ball right back will help his confidence and allow him

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Speaker 1: to play loose. That might be a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a stretch, but that's yeah, that's down the line maybe,

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Speaker 1: but certainly, you know, he may he may hear him

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02:03:12,600 --> 02:03:14,400
Speaker 1: allude to that maybe once or twice in the season

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Speaker 1: that yeah, I just figured our defense, he always yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a dependable defense, no question. I

2299
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Speaker 1: think the real question is this and what is said

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Speaker 1: in the first part of that tweet is you got

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Speaker 1: to win now. We've said it a ton over the

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Speaker 1: last month that the best defense is historically in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: are the ones that can get pressure with four guys

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Speaker 1: and get pressure at least on time. The ball has

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Speaker 1: to come out on time with just four guys rushing.

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Speaker 1: If you can do that, you're gonna be a really

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Speaker 1: good defense. And if it doesn't come out on time,

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Speaker 1: the guy's going down. He's gonna go down hard. In

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Speaker 1: the words of Al Davis, the quarterback's gotta go down,

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02:03:46,960 --> 02:03:50,480
Speaker 1: and he's got to go down hard. So so, in

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02:03:50,560 --> 02:03:52,560
Speaker 1: the immortal words, he can't go down as hard as

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02:03:52,560 --> 02:03:54,400
Speaker 1: he used to do based on all the little all

2313
02:03:54,440 --> 02:03:56,959
Speaker 1: the added protections that have been put in for the quarterbacks.

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02:03:57,040 --> 02:04:00,560
Speaker 1: But there you have it. And if that is the case,

2315
02:04:00,720 --> 02:04:03,560
Speaker 1: if this defensive line forces the quarterback to either get

2316
02:04:03,680 --> 02:04:06,760
Speaker 1: rid of the ball now or take a sack, this

2317
02:04:07,040 --> 02:04:11,760
Speaker 1: defense becomes not just a little better, but way better

2318
02:04:11,840 --> 02:04:14,320
Speaker 1: than it was even a year ago. From Bill's Fan

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02:04:14,400 --> 02:04:16,920
Speaker 1: twelve to eighty three says, I love our d line,

2320
02:04:16,960 --> 02:04:18,920
Speaker 1: but I went with the DBS. We have allowed under

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02:04:18,960 --> 02:04:21,200
Speaker 1: two hundred yards a game for two straight seasons. They

2322
02:04:21,280 --> 02:04:23,600
Speaker 1: don't give up big plays because you have one of

2323
02:04:23,600 --> 02:04:26,040
Speaker 1: the top safety duos in the league. Trey is one

2324
02:04:26,080 --> 02:04:28,280
Speaker 1: of the best corners in the league, hands down, and

2325
02:04:28,400 --> 02:04:32,640
Speaker 1: we've added more depth. He is right. I mean they

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02:04:32,760 --> 02:04:35,880
Speaker 1: gave up the fewest plays of forty yards or more

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02:04:35,920 --> 02:04:38,280
Speaker 1: in the entire league last year. They do not give

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02:04:38,480 --> 02:04:42,160
Speaker 1: up stuff cheap and deep. Nothing cheap nothing deep, right,

2329
02:04:42,880 --> 02:04:45,960
Speaker 1: And that forcing the offense is to play mistake free

2330
02:04:46,080 --> 02:04:47,920
Speaker 1: play after play. Now you've got to put together a

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02:04:48,000 --> 02:04:50,120
Speaker 1: ten twelve play drive to get points on the board.

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02:04:50,400 --> 02:04:53,800
Speaker 1: That's hard to do. They notoriously held most of their

2333
02:04:53,840 --> 02:04:58,040
Speaker 1: opponents under their season average for points significantly under, and

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02:04:58,200 --> 02:04:59,760
Speaker 1: had to because they had an offense that was a

2335
02:05:00,360 --> 02:05:03,560
Speaker 1: you know, nineteen point five a game. So if they

2336
02:05:03,600 --> 02:05:07,880
Speaker 1: can that's the idea. Make them go the long way,

2337
02:05:07,920 --> 02:05:10,520
Speaker 1: don't give up a long pass. Uh. And it also

2338
02:05:10,920 --> 02:05:16,760
Speaker 1: allows you to play pretty aggressively up front. So particularly

2339
02:05:16,800 --> 02:05:18,720
Speaker 1: because of the safeties in the corners, you know they

2340
02:05:19,400 --> 02:05:22,120
Speaker 1: nobody gets over the top, so you're gonna get enough

2341
02:05:22,200 --> 02:05:24,840
Speaker 1: chances to rush the passer because you know there's maybe

2342
02:05:24,840 --> 02:05:27,680
Speaker 1: you're going to you'll be on a drive and in

2343
02:05:27,760 --> 02:05:29,600
Speaker 1: a ten to twelve play drive. You're gonna have three

2344
02:05:29,920 --> 02:05:33,600
Speaker 1: four first downs maybe, or I mean third downs, three

2345
02:05:33,680 --> 02:05:36,320
Speaker 1: or four third downs to get a chance to get

2346
02:05:36,360 --> 02:05:37,800
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And some of them are gonna be third

2347
02:05:37,840 --> 02:05:39,800
Speaker 1: and nine's third and long as and if they can

2348
02:05:39,920 --> 02:05:43,560
Speaker 1: actually manage to stay on the field after that, well okay,

2349
02:05:43,600 --> 02:05:45,800
Speaker 1: but it just gives you more opportunities a defense. So well,

2350
02:05:45,880 --> 02:05:49,760
Speaker 1: we'll see. I mean, it's there's a lot of things

2351
02:05:49,840 --> 02:05:54,800
Speaker 1: we don't know, but we certainly it looks good on paper.

2352
02:05:55,880 --> 02:06:00,480
Speaker 1: For let me just say the unspeakable and jinxes like

2353
02:06:00,560 --> 02:06:03,760
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns A two nineteen. All right, Steve, Time

2354
02:06:03,840 --> 02:06:06,280
Speaker 1: now for some NFL true false, which is brought to

2355
02:06:06,360 --> 02:06:11,240
Speaker 1: you by Yancey's Fancy Yancey's Fancy New York's Artisan Cheese.

2356
02:06:12,440 --> 02:06:16,600
Speaker 1: Steve True False. Number one, No team in the NFC

2357
02:06:16,880 --> 02:06:21,600
Speaker 1: North will get to double digit wins this season. I

2358
02:06:21,680 --> 02:06:24,880
Speaker 1: will say that's false. Okay, I'll say that's false. Who

2359
02:06:24,880 --> 02:06:28,000
Speaker 1: do you who do you like in that division? Still

2360
02:06:28,040 --> 02:06:32,280
Speaker 1: like the Packers or in Minnesota? Like Minnesota they just

2361
02:06:32,360 --> 02:06:35,320
Speaker 1: got in go way up there. That'll help them. Uh.

2362
02:06:35,400 --> 02:06:37,240
Speaker 1: And I think Green Bay will probably be okay, I

2363
02:06:37,320 --> 02:06:41,120
Speaker 1: think the Mitch d Risky won the quarterback competition, right,

2364
02:06:41,880 --> 02:06:45,040
Speaker 1: did you hear that? Yeah? For how long? Who knows,

2365
02:06:45,600 --> 02:06:48,520
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of weeks. They're not going anywhere. Uh,

2366
02:06:48,720 --> 02:06:51,960
Speaker 1: the starting running backs hurt, their kicker just got put

2367
02:06:52,040 --> 02:06:56,840
Speaker 1: on ir. They're calling up Cairo Santos from the practice squad. Um,

2368
02:06:57,520 --> 02:07:01,280
Speaker 1: do not think I think Mike Zimmer we'll be able

2369
02:07:01,320 --> 02:07:05,160
Speaker 1: to hold together and get that team. I think either

2370
02:07:05,440 --> 02:07:07,320
Speaker 1: Minnesota or green Bay will be able to do that

2371
02:07:07,520 --> 02:07:09,800
Speaker 1: this year. Do you think Detroit can make a move

2372
02:07:10,840 --> 02:07:14,680
Speaker 1: like from four and twelve to five and eleven. I

2373
02:07:14,760 --> 02:07:18,160
Speaker 1: don't know, six and ten. They get somewhere near five hundred.

2374
02:07:19,080 --> 02:07:23,680
Speaker 1: I don't know talent. The division stinks, so they can

2375
02:07:23,720 --> 02:07:27,400
Speaker 1: all go three and three in the division. Right. Oh Yeah,

2376
02:07:27,440 --> 02:07:29,840
Speaker 1: that wouldn't shock me at all if that happened. But

2377
02:07:29,960 --> 02:07:33,280
Speaker 1: I will say falls as well. I think one of

2378
02:07:33,320 --> 02:07:37,480
Speaker 1: those teams, Minnesota or green Bay, should get to ten wins.

2379
02:07:37,880 --> 02:07:39,960
Speaker 1: I think that can happen one of them. I don't

2380
02:07:40,000 --> 02:07:42,120
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be like the Yeah, I don't think

2381
02:07:42,120 --> 02:07:43,800
Speaker 1: they're gonna be there. I do think the Packers are

2382
02:07:43,800 --> 02:07:45,840
Speaker 1: gonna take a step back from thirteen and three last year.

2383
02:07:45,840 --> 02:07:48,560
Speaker 1: They were very fortunate last year. They're not very They're

2384
02:07:48,600 --> 02:07:50,440
Speaker 1: not a thirteen win season that team, this sea a

2385
02:07:50,440 --> 02:07:53,000
Speaker 1: lot of them. But even so, I mean they're gonna

2386
02:07:53,000 --> 02:07:55,160
Speaker 1: be They're gonna be in the neighborhood of getting to

2387
02:07:55,320 --> 02:07:57,800
Speaker 1: ten wins, and so will I think so will the Packers.

2388
02:07:57,840 --> 02:07:59,800
Speaker 1: At some point this season, you're gonna think, yeah, they could,

2389
02:07:59,840 --> 02:08:01,680
Speaker 1: they could do it. Yeah, I'll say one of the

2390
02:08:01,680 --> 02:08:04,480
Speaker 1: I'll say false NFL true false. Number two, the Colts

2391
02:08:04,560 --> 02:08:09,720
Speaker 1: have the best offensive line in the NFL. True or false.

2392
02:08:10,400 --> 02:08:13,440
Speaker 1: They got a darn good one. I'll say, Okay, who knows, Yeah,

2393
02:08:14,480 --> 02:08:17,640
Speaker 1: who knows. We haven't seen any other thirty one, even

2394
02:08:17,680 --> 02:08:20,720
Speaker 1: the one we cover. You're right, You're right. I was

2395
02:08:20,800 --> 02:08:22,560
Speaker 1: trying to do a look around the league because we

2396
02:08:22,640 --> 02:08:25,880
Speaker 1: know so the Colts basically, or Anthony Costanzo, Stephen Nelson,

2397
02:08:26,520 --> 02:08:29,600
Speaker 1: Ryan Kelly who just got the big contract extension, Lewinsky,

2398
02:08:29,680 --> 02:08:32,920
Speaker 1: and Brayden Smith, and it's a good group. And with

2399
02:08:33,000 --> 02:08:35,120
Speaker 1: the exception of Costanzo, it's a young group. I mean,

2400
02:08:35,160 --> 02:08:37,920
Speaker 1: this group could be together for a while and it's

2401
02:08:37,960 --> 02:08:39,680
Speaker 1: a good group. I think Philip Rivers is gonna have

2402
02:08:39,720 --> 02:08:42,760
Speaker 1: time to throw this year. So I was thinking Okay,

2403
02:08:42,840 --> 02:08:45,760
Speaker 1: where where else in the league are the lines pretty

2404
02:08:45,840 --> 02:08:48,400
Speaker 1: darn good? I think San Franz got a good line,

2405
02:08:48,520 --> 02:08:52,240
Speaker 1: especially with the addition to Trent Williams this offseason via

2406
02:08:52,320 --> 02:08:56,240
Speaker 1: trade with Washington. I think New Orleans has an underrated line.

2407
02:08:56,720 --> 02:08:59,040
Speaker 1: You know, toront Armstead on the left side, Andrews Pete

2408
02:08:59,040 --> 02:09:02,040
Speaker 1: at guard, and you got Ryan Ramchick, the former first

2409
02:09:02,120 --> 02:09:05,000
Speaker 1: round pick at right tackle, saysar Louise, the kid they

2410
02:09:05,080 --> 02:09:07,760
Speaker 1: just drafted from Michigan's playing right guard for them in

2411
02:09:07,800 --> 02:09:09,320
Speaker 1: the starting lineup. That I mean they got a good

2412
02:09:09,360 --> 02:09:12,160
Speaker 1: group there. That's a good group. Dallas still has a

2413
02:09:12,200 --> 02:09:14,839
Speaker 1: strong group, even though they lost Travis Frederick to retirement.

2414
02:09:14,880 --> 02:09:17,280
Speaker 1: And center, you know, Joe Looney stepped in there, and

2415
02:09:17,320 --> 02:09:18,960
Speaker 1: the other four are pretty darn good and all high

2416
02:09:19,000 --> 02:09:22,720
Speaker 1: draft choices. And who's the other line that I liked?

2417
02:09:23,520 --> 02:09:26,080
Speaker 1: There was one other line. Cleveland's line got a lot better.

2418
02:09:26,400 --> 02:09:29,680
Speaker 1: Still a little suspect inside, but Jedrick Will's the top

2419
02:09:29,720 --> 02:09:31,760
Speaker 1: pick on one side, and Jack Cochland, the big free

2420
02:09:31,800 --> 02:09:34,960
Speaker 1: agent signing from Tennessee at right tackle. So there's other

2421
02:09:35,080 --> 02:09:38,320
Speaker 1: lines out there where I wouldn't just give the rubber

2422
02:09:38,440 --> 02:09:44,760
Speaker 1: stamp to Indianapolis. I think Dallas's line is still better.

2423
02:09:44,960 --> 02:09:47,280
Speaker 1: I do. I think it's still better. So I'm gonna

2424
02:09:47,280 --> 02:09:50,200
Speaker 1: say false. Say that for I'll say that for Jerry Jones.

2425
02:09:51,360 --> 02:09:54,200
Speaker 1: He can pick guys up there, you know, he may

2426
02:09:54,320 --> 02:09:56,560
Speaker 1: always They've had a good personnel department in Dallas for

2427
02:09:56,600 --> 02:10:00,200
Speaker 1: a long Yeah. They put together some talent in daw Us,

2428
02:10:00,280 --> 02:10:04,640
Speaker 1: no question about it. And now, huh are you saying now?

2429
02:10:04,760 --> 02:10:08,880
Speaker 1: I think who knows they're in the conversation. I'll say true. Okay,

2430
02:10:08,920 --> 02:10:12,320
Speaker 1: I'll say true. Last one NFL true falls The NFL

2431
02:10:12,360 --> 02:10:18,920
Speaker 1: should have allowed the Saints wild play Jadeveon Clowney. Wow, No,

2432
02:10:19,200 --> 02:10:22,440
Speaker 1: I say false. They should not have allowed that. What

2433
02:10:22,560 --> 02:10:26,160
Speaker 1: it what it boiled down to, was this the the

2434
02:10:26,360 --> 02:10:30,400
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns would sign Jadeveon Clowney to a big contract,

2435
02:10:30,480 --> 02:10:34,640
Speaker 1: pay him, pay him the bonus, and then trade him.

2436
02:10:34,680 --> 02:10:37,480
Speaker 1: So after paying him and trading him, in return, they

2437
02:10:37,520 --> 02:10:40,200
Speaker 1: would get a player plus a bunch of cash back

2438
02:10:40,800 --> 02:10:46,000
Speaker 1: which would pay for the bonus that they paid him,

2439
02:10:46,080 --> 02:10:48,680
Speaker 1: plus the draft picks, so they would really be you know,

2440
02:10:48,880 --> 02:10:53,400
Speaker 1: giving up really just you know, loaning the Saints money

2441
02:10:54,520 --> 02:10:57,760
Speaker 1: in return for a draft pick. They just take money

2442
02:10:57,800 --> 02:11:00,280
Speaker 1: off there they trade their salary cap for a couple

2443
02:11:00,280 --> 02:11:02,840
Speaker 1: of draft picks, cap space for right cap and that

2444
02:11:03,000 --> 02:11:05,760
Speaker 1: you know that's a big to me, that's dangerous President

2445
02:11:05,880 --> 02:11:09,000
Speaker 1: to set. That's exactly right. This has always been about

2446
02:11:09,880 --> 02:11:12,880
Speaker 1: rich teams not getting richer and poor teams being able

2447
02:11:12,920 --> 02:11:15,000
Speaker 1: to compete with the teams with a bigger cash. Can't

2448
02:11:15,000 --> 02:11:18,520
Speaker 1: give them circumvent the cap. That's exactly right. You cannot

2449
02:11:18,640 --> 02:11:20,160
Speaker 1: do that, and I think it's a smart move by

2450
02:11:20,160 --> 02:11:21,880
Speaker 1: the NFL to keep them from being able to do

2451
02:11:21,920 --> 02:11:23,720
Speaker 1: all right, So that is NFL True Falls brought to

2452
02:11:23,760 --> 02:11:26,120
Speaker 1: you by Yancy's Fancy. One more break and then one

2453
02:11:26,200 --> 02:11:28,400
Speaker 1: more segment as we find out what we have learned

2454
02:11:28,880 --> 02:11:31,040
Speaker 1: from today's show that's coming your way next here on

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02:11:31,120 --> 02:11:33,839
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo

2456
02:11:33,880 --> 02:11:51,800
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio time for what have we learned from today's show?

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02:11:51,960 --> 02:11:55,880
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental

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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. And we heard from White today,

2459
02:12:01,000 --> 02:12:05,440
Speaker 1: Steve an emotional Traudavious White who's got a new lease

2460
02:12:05,600 --> 02:12:09,000
Speaker 1: on life as he even talked about the burden being

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02:12:09,120 --> 02:12:13,160
Speaker 1: lifted from his shoulders to not only support his immediate family,

2462
02:12:13,240 --> 02:12:15,920
Speaker 1: but his extended family. He knows his parents will never

2463
02:12:16,000 --> 02:12:18,640
Speaker 1: have to work another day in their life. Just really

2464
02:12:18,680 --> 02:12:20,840
Speaker 1: good to see. And we also learned that a lot

2465
02:12:20,880 --> 02:12:22,720
Speaker 1: of other teams are trying to do the same thing

2466
02:12:23,280 --> 02:12:26,160
Speaker 1: with the extensions that are flying fast and furious around

2467
02:12:26,200 --> 02:12:29,160
Speaker 1: the league. Got DeAndre Hopkins with a two year extension

2468
02:12:29,240 --> 02:12:31,600
Speaker 1: today for fifty four and a half million and new money.

2469
02:12:32,320 --> 02:12:34,280
Speaker 1: I think he's the highest paid non quarterback in the

2470
02:12:34,360 --> 02:12:37,640
Speaker 1: leagues in the history of the league. And then Kareem

2471
02:12:37,720 --> 02:12:40,320
Speaker 1: Hunt just signed a two year extension with Cleveland for

2472
02:12:40,480 --> 02:12:43,120
Speaker 1: just over thirteen million, eight and a half million guaranteed.

2473
02:12:43,400 --> 02:12:45,600
Speaker 1: People are trying to tie up any loose ends with

2474
02:12:46,160 --> 02:12:49,400
Speaker 1: contract extensions because sometimes the players don't want to be

2475
02:12:49,440 --> 02:12:52,240
Speaker 1: bothered thinking about it during the season, and a lot

2476
02:12:52,280 --> 02:12:54,440
Speaker 1: of times the front office doesn't want to either. And

2477
02:12:54,560 --> 02:12:57,000
Speaker 1: it's an interesting atmosphere in the league now where players

2478
02:12:57,120 --> 02:12:59,560
Speaker 1: know the CAP's gonna go down, so they're more apt

2479
02:12:59,600 --> 02:13:01,480
Speaker 1: to say, can you know I might get more if

2480
02:13:01,560 --> 02:13:03,880
Speaker 1: I wait, but right now, let's take this team friendly

2481
02:13:03,960 --> 02:13:06,800
Speaker 1: deal with the higher guarantees. So they're giving the teams

2482
02:13:06,800 --> 02:13:09,040
Speaker 1: an actual chance to get them under the cap. And

2483
02:13:09,160 --> 02:13:11,280
Speaker 1: I think most guys will convince themselves they gives them

2484
02:13:11,320 --> 02:13:12,920
Speaker 1: a better chance of hanging around another year with that

2485
02:13:13,000 --> 02:13:16,120
Speaker 1: team as well, no question. And we remind you that

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02:13:16,240 --> 02:13:19,240
Speaker 1: when we're back here tomorrow, we'll have Sean McDermott and

2487
02:13:19,480 --> 02:13:23,640
Speaker 1: his press conference for Media Day Wednesday, the Bills are

2488
02:13:23,680 --> 02:13:25,839
Speaker 1: back on the practice field, will have all the updates

2489
02:13:25,920 --> 02:13:28,360
Speaker 1: from there as well. We are your one stop shop

2490
02:13:28,720 --> 02:13:32,760
Speaker 1: for Bill's news, notes, opinions, and everything else under the sun.

2491
02:13:33,080 --> 02:13:35,520
Speaker 1: Regarding this week one game coming up between the Bills

2492
02:13:35,880 --> 02:13:38,400
Speaker 1: and the Jets, Steve will do it all tomorrow. Man,

2493
02:13:38,560 --> 02:13:40,400
Speaker 1: can't wait. It's gonna be good. That's some other stuff's

2494
02:13:40,400 --> 02:13:42,080
Speaker 1: talking about later in the week as well. That's right

2495
02:13:42,360 --> 02:13:45,480
Speaker 1: as we get closer and closer to the first game

2496
02:13:45,560 --> 02:13:48,560
Speaker 1: of the season. Our thanks to Tom Hollander, Jeff Colton

2497
02:13:48,600 --> 02:13:50,800
Speaker 1: at Kelly Rude, and Jay Harris for Steve Tasker. I'm

2498
02:13:50,880 --> 02:13:53,320
Speaker 1: Chris Brown. This has been One Bills Live presented by

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02:13:53,400 --> 02:13:56,120
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. We'll see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We did be old