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Speaker 1: Those numbers don't exist in this league. It's too good.

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Speaker 1: A four yard run is a good play in the

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Speaker 1: NFL because you do that three times, you got a

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Speaker 1: first down. So you know, I think that's going to

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Speaker 1: be the approach. I think they're going to be more

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Speaker 1: dedicated to getting some run game going so they can

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Speaker 1: stay on the field, move the chains, hold on to

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Speaker 1: the football, and keep it out of the hands of

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers and company. Okay, Chris, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Good to check in with you. We appreciate it. You

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Speaker 1: gotta guys. Chris Brown, Bills Insider, Buffalo Bills dot Com

439
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Speaker 1: Live from the field to practice field. The Bills just

440
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Speaker 1: took the field at twelve noon today for their a

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Speaker 1: Thursday practice. They'll do it again tomorrow, and then they

442
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Speaker 1: have to walk through Saturday, and then the Chargers coming

443
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Speaker 1: here to play the Bills on Sunday one o'clock kickoff.

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Speaker 1: The weather forecast for Sunday calls for Sunday sky's temperature

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Speaker 1: eighty two degrees on Sunday. Looks like the weather just

446
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Speaker 1: broke this morning. Getting ready for that, right, supposed to

447
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Speaker 1: be eighty degrees here today and yeah, humid, Yeah, it's

448
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Speaker 1: smoking hot. It's great. We thank Chris for joining us.

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Speaker 1: We got a good show coming up here today. Let's

450
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Speaker 1: take you through it. Thurman Thomas the Hall of Fame

451
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Speaker 1: running Meck and to join us this week today at

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Speaker 1: twelve thirty, just about ten minutes from now coming up

453
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Speaker 1: at one o'clock. A Western New York native, the general

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Speaker 1: manager of the SA Los Angeles Chargers, Tom Talaska, will

455
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Speaker 1: join us at one o'clock live on the line, and

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Speaker 1: then after practice, Jerry Hughes builds veteran defensive end joints us.

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Speaker 1: Have we done the Twitter question yet? No? Go ahead?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, you do it? You do it? Why do

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Speaker 1: I have to do it? All right? All right? We

460
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Speaker 1: came in and we said earlier in the show, we

461
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Speaker 1: came in and chit chatted about everything on Monday because

462
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Speaker 1: everything was brought into question, including our sense of reality.

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Speaker 1: So so we came reason and we got right, and

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Speaker 1: we got we started getting peppered with people who you know,

465
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Speaker 1: were bummed about the game. And I'm so our Twitter

466
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Speaker 1: question today and you can you can reach out to us.

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Speaker 1: It's how much has the Week one loss changed your

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Speaker 1: season expectations? Um, we thought about a million ways to

469
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Speaker 1: word this is it gonna be? You know? How are

470
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Speaker 1: you jumping off the bandwagon? Are you jumping on? What

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Speaker 1: are your feelings about the bills? Bandwagon? Are you drinking

472
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Speaker 1: the cooler? A lot of these metaphors like what do

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Speaker 1: you think is gonna happen now does it? Does week

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Speaker 1: one really change how you're gonna feel about this? We

475
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Speaker 1: know it's only one week. We know last year they

476
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Speaker 1: went through a really an incredible roller coaster of a

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Speaker 1: season and there were ups and downs. Do you anticipate

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Speaker 1: that same thing again? Do you think there's gonna be

479
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Speaker 1: more downs than ups? Are there gonna be more ups

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Speaker 1: than downs? You can give us a call or tweet

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Speaker 1: at us. You can at eight or three oh five

482
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Speaker 1: fifty or one eight eight five fifty two five fifty,

483
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Speaker 1: or tweet at us at one bills Live and uh,

484
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Speaker 1: jump on boards, tell us what you think about the

485
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Speaker 1: rest of the season, no question. Uh. It was a

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Speaker 1: black eye, It was a tough it was a it

487
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Speaker 1: was a big one punch knockout. On Week one, it

488
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Speaker 1: was are we gonna pick ourselves up off the canvas

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Speaker 1: or not? Sunday was a jarring loss, a shocking loss,

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Speaker 1: forty seven to three. That doesn't, I mean, the second

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Speaker 1: worst loss in franchise history by the score, A jarring loss,

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Speaker 1: and it shakes you. I get that. But when I

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Speaker 1: hear as the week goes along, when I hear people

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Speaker 1: writing the obituary for the twenty eighteen Bills, talking about

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Speaker 1: next year's draft, how to position themselves tank for next

496
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Speaker 1: year's draft, what to do about coaches second guessing decisions

497
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Speaker 1: made way back in January. Everything on the table as

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Speaker 1: if this season is over. I reject that, Steve. I

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Speaker 1: reject that violently. You heard me earlier today. I went

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Speaker 1: off on a little tangent in the office. Look, it's

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Speaker 1: one game they're on, and one they played terrible. I

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Speaker 1: can't even say how badly they played last Sunday. It

503
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Speaker 1: was awful. But it's one game, and people are already

504
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Speaker 1: writing the obituary like, well, here's what happened to the

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen Bills. You know, they shouldn't have traded Tyrod Taylor,

506
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Speaker 1: and they lost those two offensive linemen, and they probably

507
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Speaker 1: should have done this and done that, and that's why

508
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Speaker 1: they're the worst team in the league. They're all in one.

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Speaker 1: You don't write an obituary when you have a hiccup.

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Speaker 1: You wait, you wait, let's see how this is going

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Speaker 1: to play out. I am perfectly willing to be accused

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Speaker 1: of being overly optimistic here, but I'm telling you, you're

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Speaker 1: an idiot if you're writing the obituary for the twenty

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Speaker 1: eighteen Bills right now. I don't know how good they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be. I know they're not going to be that

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Speaker 1: bad again. I said before the Seaton started, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: win six, seven or eight games. I'm sticking with that.

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Speaker 1: I think they are, you know, pretty much what we

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Speaker 1: thought they were going to be right there. They're rebuilding.

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Speaker 1: There was a great Albert Breer post on the MMQB

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Speaker 1: today about kind of the rebuild the first year of

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Speaker 1: the rebuild two point oh. He wrote it last week

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Speaker 1: as well, that's kind of where they're at. Forty seven

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Speaker 1: to three was jarring, It was shocking, it was despicable

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Speaker 1: how poorly they played. But are you really reevaluating the

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Speaker 1: whole twenty eighteen season now? Can you wait till mid season,

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Speaker 1: maybe until you want to put the you know, your

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Speaker 1: stamp on what you think went? We're on here or

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Speaker 1: right here. I just can't believe that people bail so

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Speaker 1: early and immediately fast forward to well, here's what we

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Speaker 1: gotta do in next year's drafting, here's what we got

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Speaker 1: to do about the coaching staff. Can we wait a

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Speaker 1: little bit and see how this plays out? Are you

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Speaker 1: sick of hearing me rant. You heard this rant at

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Speaker 1: ten thirty this morning too. It was worth coming in

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Speaker 1: today for you haven't listened even you haven't live until

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Speaker 1: you've heard John Murphy rant. Because that's the thing about

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Speaker 1: You've been known to rant a little bit. We both

539
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Speaker 1: ran yourself and listen Renfred, usually with good reason. But

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Speaker 1: you're right, I mean, you're a ranting about your printer.

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Speaker 1: That was classic. Yes, this printer didn't work today. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was even of the world. I'm you save

543
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Speaker 1: your rants for something important, But you're right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: and it's fun to you know, to take the lid

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Speaker 1: off and rant a little bit of event because let's listen, man,

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Speaker 1: we all needed to rant after last week forty seven

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Speaker 1: to three, we were you had to sit down and

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Speaker 1: gather yourself together, all your It took me a couple

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Speaker 1: of days actually get to a point where I could

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Speaker 1: get all my points together before I could rant. So

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Speaker 1: you know you do that, and yeah, I feel you

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Speaker 1: feel better though, don't you when you get it out? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: feel little bit better now, Avenues. Yeah, so I invite

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Speaker 1: not on the show. Don't call us in rant, just

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Speaker 1: calling his the twitter rant in the car while we're

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Speaker 1: talking turn us down, get your rant out, and then

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Speaker 1: turn us back in. And I want to hear it

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Speaker 1: is listen, how much have your expectations change? How much

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Speaker 1: does your outlook for the season changed? And not everybody,

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Speaker 1: not everybody, but I see people talking about, well we

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Speaker 1: better lose the rest of them and try to get

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Speaker 1: the first overall pick. Really, at oen one, you're moving

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Speaker 1: to that? Or well we better reevaluate the quote? Really,

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Speaker 1: aten one, how much have you changed your thoughts about

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Speaker 1: the season based on last Sunday? I want to know,

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Speaker 1: And this is a fact finding mission by me and

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Speaker 1: the show, right and listen, some of this is kind

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Speaker 1: of where I'm at right now. This from sipping the

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Speaker 1: kool aid. Nothing, nothing has changed as I've yet. For me,

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Speaker 1: losing to the Jets thirty four to twenty one, a

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Speaker 1: game that wasn't that close, the Saints forty seven to

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Speaker 1: ten and the Chargers fifty four to twenty four consecutively

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the season was much more alarming

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Speaker 1: to me, and the end result was nine to seven

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Speaker 1: on playoffs. Our franchise quarterback. Quarterback is now in place,

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Speaker 1: and it's time to get better. Well, it may be

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00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: time to get better but they got to play better

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Speaker 1: than they did last weekend. But you're right, you gotta

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Speaker 1: have a kind of a you gotta step back and say, listen,

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Speaker 1: it's not it is about right now. They do want

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Speaker 1: to win this game this week. They do want to

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Speaker 1: win a lot of games this season, but it's also

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Speaker 1: about getting some things in place so that they can

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Speaker 1: once they do get good, they can sustain it. This

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Speaker 1: is a very new roster than it was a year ago,

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Speaker 1: and last year's roster was new from the year before that.

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Speaker 1: This has been a big turnover in the last eighteen

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Speaker 1: months two years, and it's not over yet. I don't

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Speaker 1: think we ate orchards in the fold right now. You know,

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Speaker 1: they cut a guy they brought in Butker, they got

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Speaker 1: another offensive line, they got ten offensive linemen on the roster.

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Speaker 1: They've got some things they're working on right now to

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Speaker 1: try and stem the tide, no question about it. But

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Speaker 1: they've got a plan that includes Josh Allen, and I

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Speaker 1: think no question that this has been moved up a

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Speaker 1: few weeks at least in their minds. Yeah, that loss,

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Speaker 1: so maybe that's where we're at right now. We're in

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Speaker 1: a little ahead of schedule with Josh Allen. But the

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Speaker 1: rest of it. Listen, they have plans to win this week,

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Speaker 1: and whether they do it or not, they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: plans to win. Whether they win or not this week,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have plans to win. In Minnesota. This is

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Speaker 1: the first month of the season. You can see coming.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a rough road to hoe, a rough

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Speaker 1: row to hoe. And they're gonna have to play better

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Speaker 1: than they did on Sunday to make the most of it.

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Speaker 1: But listen, we're it ain't gonna be easy, No, But

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Speaker 1: I want to I really want to take the temperature

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Speaker 1: of Bills fans today and we'll get your phone calls

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Speaker 1: and read some of your tweets, some more of your tweets,

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Speaker 1: just on where you're at. I know it's a terrible

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Speaker 1: lost Sunday. How much did that change your outlook for

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Speaker 1: the season? As Steve said, phone lines open eighth three

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Speaker 1: fifty outside Buffalo, toll free one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty or tweeted in at one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: When we return Thurman, Thomas Hall of Fame running back,

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Speaker 1: we'll get his take on this. I'm sure he has

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Speaker 1: some thoughts on Sunday's loss. But what does it mean

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Speaker 1: for the season? Thurm say, anybody to join us live

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Speaker 1: in studio when we come back One Bills Live. Just

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Speaker 1: get started from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. We're back, We're back, One Bill's Live. John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Cansker from our One Buffalo Studio in Archard Park.

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Speaker 1: Happy to have one of the prime occupants of newer

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Speaker 1: Field formerly Ralph Folson City and formerly rich Stadium, the

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Speaker 1: guy who's got his name on the wall and is

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Speaker 1: gonna have his number retired coming up in October. Happy

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Speaker 1: to have Hall of Fame running back Thurman Thomas in studio. Hi, Thurmanton,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you didn't see War memorial never really play there.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever go there? Yeah? Yeah? Did you see

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Speaker 1: baseball Bisons or where'd you go there? Bisons? Yeah? Yeah, Steve,

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Speaker 1: did you ever go to war Memorials? I played in

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Speaker 1: War Memorial? What what charity? Softball? Oh? I love that place?

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Speaker 1: He loved that place, I did. I loved it cozy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I went when I was a little kid, So barn

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Speaker 1: I spent a lot of times or not getting wrong

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Speaker 1: disparage the Buffalo icon by saying, but come on, man,

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Speaker 1: it was a nineteen twenty two stadium, a nineteen thirty stadium.

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Speaker 1: It was concrete. There were no seats in it. There

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Speaker 1: was only benches. That's not true. I've got two seats

641
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: at home from War Memorial Stadium. Yeah, I've got two

642
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: seats pulled out illegally or illegally, I don't know. I

643
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: think the statute of limitations is run out right. I've

644
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: got two seats, wooden seats. Odd place. Now the odds,

645
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: I love the odd The odd was great. Yeah, I

646
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: would admit Memorial. I liked it when we played there,

647
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: and I was you know, you know, we had some

648
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: dirt floors and stuff in it. But yeah, it was

649
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: all right. Yeah, I mean I did play, but I do.

650
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: I tell people that all the time I played in

651
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: Warmorial and they're like, you did, like what? No? And

652
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: I was it was a charity softball German. We're gonna

653
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: ask you that the Twitter question. What is today? I

654
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: haven't seen or heard anything today? What is this would

655
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: be good for you? Then? Um about last Sunday? Let

656
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: just do you a favorite? Have your expectations for the

657
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen Buffalo Bills changed as a result of the

658
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: Week one loss. You have a different thought about this

659
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,719
Speaker 1: year's Bill season based on the forty seven to three

660
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: loss in Baltimore Sunday. Not at all, Not at all,

661
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: not at all. Can you elaborate please? Well, I mean

662
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: they changed quarterbacks, that's number one. So obviously you get

663
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: to see a different quarterback in there. So look, all

664
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: thirty two teams go through this at least once or

665
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: twice a year, having a game like this where they

666
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: just don't do anything. Well, a couple of years ago,

667
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: New England the same thing up in Kansas City, and

668
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: we thought they were done. They came back and won

669
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. They're just saying it was last year

670
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: and it wasn't even Kansa c was a home opener,

671
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: right exactly. It's not like the Bills are gonna, you know,

672
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: do that and make a run to go to the

673
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: super Bowl. But I just think they're just too much

674
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: talent on this football team for them to just go downhill. Yeah,

675
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: and then it all starts Sunday. You're at home. Everybody

676
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: wants to see Josh Allen. You got a lot of

677
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: things that are kind of combination. Anthony Lynn coming back,

678
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: you know, guy being here. So it's gonna be a homeway.

679
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be what eighty degrees. Yeah, yeah, it's

680
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: gonna be a beautiful day, and so the stadium should

681
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: be rocking. Man. And just I hate to hear the

682
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: negativities so much after one football game. It's just it

683
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: just it drives me crazy. I think it's tougher for

684
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: maybe Murf two, but certainly for Thermini because we realize

685
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: what it's like living it. You've got to practice with it.

686
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: You know, all the stuff's out there you gotta come

687
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: back to work for. And I always say sometimes it's

688
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: it's better for the players because they're you know, Monday morning,

689
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: they were thinking about the Chargers. They could they could

690
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: flush the Baltimore game out. They watch the film, getna say, well,

691
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that again. I'm gonna we're gonna

692
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: play watch me this week. You know. It's kind of

693
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: that mental that's it's easier for us to But then

694
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: you gotta go home and look at the wife and kids,

695
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: and your sons are looking at you, and whoever going

696
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: to school. I don't even I'm not wearing new jersey.

697
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: Your kids you're right. So that's the hard part. It's

698
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: just kind of dealing with everybody outside the building because

699
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: the building it's a man. They're they're on it. They're

700
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: on it together the same direction. And it's it's a

701
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: lot better to be at work this week than it

702
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: is absolutely, And I guarantee you was saying right after

703
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: the game, you know, by a couple of players, a

704
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,479
Speaker 1: couple of leaders on the football team. Today it's one game, man.

705
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: We got to go back to work Monday, watch the film,

706
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: correct everything that we did, and come back out here Monday.

707
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're opening up our home opener at home

708
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: with our top quarterback. Right. If you can't get excited

709
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: for that, yeah, I'll tell you. I'll give you a story.

710
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: And we've told this story a bunch in the years.

711
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: When we were going to the Super Bowl a lot.

712
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: We went to Kansas City on a Monday night and

713
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: got crushed by Joe Money but Joe Montana and that crew, right,

714
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: so and it was bad. I mean, we didn't go

715
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: through that too much. But when we get thirty three

716
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: to six, thirty three to six, so we and we

717
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: looked bad doing. I mean, Thurman and Jim are bumping

718
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: into each other the backfield and Jim's flopping on it.

719
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: It was it was old. I mean, it was embarrassing.

720
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 1: National TVs liked the bills are done. Thanks, you know,

721
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: thanks for stopping by. And so we're on the listen.

722
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: We're on the flight home after that game. The flight home,

723
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: so the game happened and it was an embarrassment. So

724
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: it's like two am by this time, right, if we're

725
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,439
Speaker 1: flying back and back then the Chiefs maybe they still

726
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: do it. They do this. Na, no, no at all.

727
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: They sang that thing that. They sang that song like

728
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: sixty times at the pre game. They were singing it

729
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 1: after the field goal. They sang it after the touchdowns,

730
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: they sang it after the extra points, they sang it

731
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: after a turnover. They sang it that thing. They were

732
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: singing it all night. On the plane home. We were

733
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: playing cards or doing whatever you did, and somebody went

734
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: a hand and they would sing it that. We were

735
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: singing it on the way home. So that's you know,

736
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 1: we were last. We say, all right, guys, it's one bag.

737
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: So right, So fast forward championship game. Later that year,

738
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: we're in the championship game against that team here and

739
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: Tom Brads in a hand shows a film of that

740
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 1: game the night before the game, and it was, you know,

741
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: the plays going and we're looking like it's seems like

742
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: a lifetime ago by that time, and we're laughing. We're

743
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: sitting there going and it's quiet, you know, because we

744
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: stink because we're about to go and try and win,

745
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: and we're looking at ourselves like flopping around like you know,

746
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: too so and so the lights So he goes, that's it, guys.

747
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: He turns the film off. The land is dark in

748
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: the room for just a second and the lights come

749
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: up and it's quiet. I mean it's dead quiet. And

750
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: Thurman says something. He goes, it is a bad night.

751
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: And that was it, and we went out and won

752
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: the game with the girl, you know. The players. And

753
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 1: the point of all that is, and I'm not saying

754
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: this team's gonna end up in the championship game. The

755
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: point is they're not where the fans are right. They

756
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:49,720
Speaker 1: have a belief that is contagious amongst them and amongst

757
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: the coaching staff. Because when you work hard at doing something,

758
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: you gain confidence that you're gonna be able to do it.

759
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're gonna hit the field on Sunday and

760
00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:00,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna believe they're gonna win the game. Yeah. I'm

761
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: putting money down right now. They're gonna win the game,

762
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 1: are you. Yeah, you can't do that legally, but okay, okay,

763
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: I'm uncomfortable with hard gambling. Carrot hr. I'm not doing that.

764
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: What I'm just saying, Yeah, I'm like, I'm Joe Nama.

765
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: I'm guaranteeing that they're gonna win this football game. What

766
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: do you think of the quarterbacks? Yeah? What do you

767
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: think of the quarterbacks? Which the Josh Allen? What do

768
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: you think? Um? Let's go. I mean, that's all I

769
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: can say is let go. Uh, let's go. U Nate Peterman,

770
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: you know a couple of starts hasn't done well. If

771
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 1: you're talking about last year in this first game against Baltimore,

772
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: you know, number seventh pick in the draft, let's go.

773
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: Let's see what he has. I mean, you heard Lashan

774
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: mccour talk about it yesterday. He's smart, got a good arm,

775
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 1: he's ready to go. If I had a chance to

776
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: draft somebody say they would have been Hill. Yeah. So

777
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 1: I mean, you having confidence and a veteran guy saying that.

778
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this though. Listen, Lashan comes out

779
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 1: and says that, and you put yourself in this position

780
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: you can and the rest of the team and I

781
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:02,439
Speaker 1: because I can do it, and the rest of the team,

782
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: like you guys covering kicks, right, I mean help how

783
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: much you're gonna rally around that guy? Right? Oh? I

784
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: mean you guys are gonna come out. You know, we're

785
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: gonna help our boy. We're gonna help our boy. And

786
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: you know, it was just like it's gonna be a

787
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: real rally, just like when Jim went out and Frank

788
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 1: came in. I'm like, oh boy, we got you. We

789
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: got you. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it

790
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: because you know, and I'm gonna just give me the ball.

791
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get at least twenty five cars because Frank

792
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: in there when Jim I would get fifteen or seventeen

793
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 1: or whatever, when Frank I knew I was getting twenty five.

794
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: And Lashawn has to be looking at it going like,

795
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: you know what, I need to be the guy for

796
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: this guy, for this team right now to help this

797
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: young quarterback get through all of it. And there's other

798
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: guys like that to the offensive lineman feeling that way,

799
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: Charles Clay's feeling that way, Yea, Benjamin All even because

800
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: they didn't play with any guys on the other side

801
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: of the ball to say like, we're gonna give him

802
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:51,879
Speaker 1: a chance, we're gonna give him the ball back, we're

803
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,240
Speaker 1: gonna give him some feel position, all of that stuff,

804
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: And that's you know, that kind of that's not because

805
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: anybody they would. I mean, they may stand up say guys,

806
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this. Somebody might say up and say that,

807
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: but that's just the way they're built in their own

808
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 1: when they're sitting at home, when that call gets made,

809
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: they're going, all right, I'm gonna make sure he's success.

810
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: You know, It's just the way you're built, right, man.

811
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: If if if if people only on the outside, as

812
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:20,280
Speaker 1: fans knew how players who played the game, how they're built,

813
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: they had a lot more confidence, Yes they would, they

814
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: would have a lot more confidence because I hate to say,

815
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: we're just built differently man than the average fan. What

816
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: way in what the mindset of you know, forty seventy three, Okay,

817
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: it's over with, that game is overw we gotta refocus

818
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: on Okay, both of them might not play this game.

819
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: Oh that's one positive that we can look at right there. Hey,

820
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: the offensive line you got you gotta block better. Kevin Biserman,

821
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: Zay Jones, Charles clay Dever did so much call him out,

822
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: but they know that they didn't play well. Ye during

823
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: times our guests spills all the fame running back. I'm

824
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: Shady Mccoyla Shan McCoy. You know him pretty well there,

825
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 1: and I have been impressed with him over the last

826
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: few weeks. His reaction to being named the captain, I

827
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: thought was really cool and surprised me a little bit.

828
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: As captain McCoy, Yeah, he loves to be the captain.

829
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: And what he was saying yesterday about how we have

830
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: to make it easier now on Josh Allen, I thought

831
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: he is showing leadership. He is showing that he enjoys

832
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,359
Speaker 1: being a captain, and he's acting like a captain, which

833
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: I didn't know if he had it in him. I

834
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: thought he always had him. But I know, you know what,

835
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: it was kind of a strange way kind of how

836
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: he got here in the first place. I mean, being

837
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,320
Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh, playing at University of pitt then being drafted

838
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 1: by Philadelphia and then come in here something new, totally

839
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: a surprise trade, a surprise trade and to the Bills

840
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: and the Eagles for him to come here and being

841
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: an entire newly situation, which he didn't appear to like

842
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 1: at first being here, because I mean if I was

843
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: at home all those years in college in high school,

844
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: I would have felt differently too. It's like your hometown

845
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: team didn't want you. But he's been here, he's played well,

846
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: and now you know, And I think it was it's

847
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: kind of like how I was as a younger player.

848
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: You know, Jim and Darrel and all those guys were

849
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: the captains whatever, and I was just a little young

850
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: whipper snapper, you know, just going. But as I got older,

851
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 1: I was kind of put in a position where, you know,

852
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: Darrel wasn't here anymore, Coman Yus wasn't here anymore. It's

853
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 1: tasker retired Jim, so I had to become that leader.

854
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: And now that's what you're seeing from the show in

855
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: mccour right now, because this is at a time right

856
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: now where they needed more than any time. Yeah, you

857
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: talk about a guy like McCoy and it's he came

858
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,840
Speaker 1: here and it was unexpected for him, really unexpected, I

859
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: think because he was he's a great player and you

860
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: don't trade superstars like that, and I think over there

861
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: and once he got around that and realized that, hey,

862
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 1: this is a team where they really made him the centerpiece.

863
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: They built absolute offense around a particular with with with

864
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: when Tyrod was here and now this year, particularly with

865
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: a young quarterback group, he's the and I think he

866
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: he kind of fell into it a little bit, you know.

867
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a it's like, wow, that perfect

868
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 1: for him. Perfect. I think he appreciates it. Yeah, I

869
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: mean he knows it. I just think you're coming from

870
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,320
Speaker 1: you know, he played with Michael Vicks, Jackson, Jeremy Macklin,

871
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: all those great players, and he comes here and it's

872
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: like you're the guy. Yeah, you are the guy that

873
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: we're going to lean on. You know, he's the guy.

874
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,359
Speaker 1: He loved the great players eat that up. They want

875
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: they want it. And I think that's why you've seen

876
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: him since he's been here. He's played extremely well throughout

877
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: the entire year, been injured every now and then, but

878
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 1: you know, he's a tough guy man. He loves to

879
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: play football, and I think you want to see a

880
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 1: lot of him Sunday. One thing I wanted to ask

881
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: you about that. I always think about this because it

882
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: is it's kind of I think Opening Day for the

883
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 1: Bills is kind of a Western New York holiday. I mean,

884
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: it's an event. It's like it is unlike any other

885
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: event in Western New York at any time. And every

886
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: year it's like that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if

887
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,359
Speaker 1: they're coming back from a Super Bowl year or coming

888
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: back from a three and thirteen Tobaccle. It doesn't matter

889
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: Opening Day in Buffalo. I mean, I mean all the

890
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 1: old oh you old guys want to come back for that.

891
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: They all they're like, yeah, they want to come back

892
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: because you go ahead and talk about that a little,

893
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: because there's nothing like it, no anywhere, No, No, I think,

894
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: And it goes back to a game I think that

895
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: we had. I think it was an opening game of

896
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: the year. Um, I don't know if it might have been.

897
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: We went down to Miami and got a butt whooped. Right,

898
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: it was the game that mar pulled everybody out, that's right.

899
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: And Bruce was mad. Bruce was made was mad. It

900
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: was early. Let's see, that was like it wasn't It

901
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: wasn't eighty nine because that was the last play Gym one.

902
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: I think it was like ninety. It was like nine

903
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: four years. It could have been ninety. I think it

904
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: could have might have been that first year after the

905
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 1: eighty Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, but I

906
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: remember that was. I think that was that could have

907
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: been the opening. I'm not sure, but they lumped us up.

908
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: But being here, coming here, it's gonna be a beautiful day.

909
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: And when those players arrived, when they start arriving here,

910
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: getting here before what eleven o'clock, they had to be

911
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: here by eleven, and they're going to come through those

912
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: games and they're gonna see those parking lots field already.

913
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: I'm telling us, it's like they're wearing white on white

914
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: this week too, the white on white for the Bills

915
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: come on their home opener. Yes, well, you guy got

916
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 1: a West Coast team coming across to the East coast too.

917
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 1: Had always helped. That's hard, Yeah, it is very hard, Thurm.

918
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: Can you stick for another couple of minutes. Absolutely, we're

919
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: gonna take a break. Thurman Thomas coming back with us,

920
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, John Murphy one does live from One Bill's

921
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to the show

922
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: One Does Live, John Murphy, Steve Tasker, and Hall of

923
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: Famer Thurman Thomas. Have you written your speech yet for

924
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: the number of retirement ceremony? Oh? No, okay, I'd probably

925
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: do it a night before. Oh no, the napkin. There's

926
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: only one two or three minutes. I'm gonna have to talk, right, Yeah,

927
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: but you want it to be good. You wanted to

928
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: be a good two or three heads. Yeah, well, you

929
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:02,359
Speaker 1: know what I want to inspire. I'm sure it could

930
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 1: be better than Patriots. They might need a lift. The

931
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 1: fans might need a lift at halftime. It's Monday night.

932
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 1: They're not gonna need a lift. Good point, very good point.

933
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: I hope I stay awake from Umm, what's what's the

934
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 1: plan here? Uh? You you saw the Bills game. You

935
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:20,800
Speaker 1: told me you did not stay till the end. I

936
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,879
Speaker 1: don't blame you. It was those of us like Steve

937
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: and I who got paid who had to stay with

938
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 1: the game right through the entire thing. But even the

939
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: Baltimore fans were leaving. Yeah, there wasn't anybody left in

940
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: the stadium at the end. Lest Sunday. It was that bad.

941
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: It was it was, it was awful. It was just

942
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: not a game that it's not a game. But I

943
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: wanted to just really look at it. After halftime. I

944
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: was done, Yeah, I was done. It was just you're

945
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: looking at that game and continued to rain. There was

946
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:43,919
Speaker 1: no way that. I mean, I hadn't had to didn't

947
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: get a first down until third quarter, so you know,

948
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: there was no reason for myself to put I'm not

949
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 1: saying through that. Yeah, I just I just you know

950
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: what it got next week to make it all up,

951
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: to do better. That was it? All right? Well next

952
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: week is this Sunday term. Thanks for joining us. Get

953
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: you in here again this week, be in this game

954
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 1: this week. You're gonna be in town? Are you going somewhere?

955
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: Are you gonna throw me onto the bus? Tell me?

956
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: I already told Kemp Pagoula. I was gonna be at

957
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: the game anyway. So you're not No, I'm not all right.

958
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: You got something going on. I guess I got that's

959
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,399
Speaker 1: what happens. Man. You just threw him under the bus.

960
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 1: But he's not required you were listening. You haven't, you

961
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: haven't been here. You're not required to go to the game.

962
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,320
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be there. I am required to go

963
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: to the game. No, you're not, are you? Yeah, it's

964
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: in my contrary or deal. It's parted might deal. Wow,

965
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: that's a rough deal. I already talked to Pagoulas about it.

966
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: Everything's good. Well, listen, my kids will be at the game.

967
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,720
Speaker 1: There you go. You still got it, but just won't

968
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: be ready. I'm not gonna be there either. I'll be

969
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: in New York City. I'm being MetLife. Thanks, we'll see

970
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: you next week of Fame running Back. We're back, but

971
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: mar Tom Telesco general manager or the Chargers gonna join

972
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: us when we return. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Driving.

973
00:45:56,120 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello, Bills Radio Network. Sports

974
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: date update from One Bill's Drive. Date two on the

975
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: practice field with Josh Allen on the field as the

976
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: starter for the Bills. They've got the Los Angeles Chargers

977
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: coming to town this Sunday, the Bills home opener. On

978
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: the practice field today, it looks like it could be

979
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: another off day for defensive end Check Lawson. He did

980
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: not practice with a hamstring. The same for a cornerback

981
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: Karen Johnson. Misspracticed yesterday with the shoulder and does not

982
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: look like he's going today. The Bills made a move

983
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: on the offensive line yesterday, claiming off waivers guard Ike Butcker,

984
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: who they had in training camp. They released him signed

985
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 1: by the Chargers or by the Chiefs, released by the Chiefs,

986
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: and signed back to the Bills roster. In the mak room,

987
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: the Bills released cornerback Ryan Lewis. Bills Chargers Sunday one

988
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: o'clock kickoff at newer Field. We've got the radio broadcast

989
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: on our flagship here in Buffalo, w g R Sports Radio.

990
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: I'll be there with Mark Kelso Salkapachu will be on

991
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: the sidelines. Joey Bosa is gonna miss second game of

992
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 1: the season. The Chargers pass rusher will not play this

993
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:07,399
Speaker 1: Sunday here in Buffalo, and according to Chargers coach Anthony Lynn,

994
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: he could be gone for the next couple of weeks.

995
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport of NFL Network said Bosa is week to week.

996
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: He will not play this Sunday in Buffalo. The NFL

997
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: Weekend starts tonight Baltimore at Cincinnati. A couple of one

998
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: and OH teams hook up in Thursday Night Football Ravens

999
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:25,839
Speaker 1: had six different players score offensive touchdowns against Buffalo last week.

1000
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: Joe Mixin with one hundred forty nine Scrimmery Chards for

1001
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals in their win last week. Eight twenty

1002
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 1: kickoff tonight in Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati to Ravens

1003
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: and Cincinnati Thursday Night Football. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers says

1004
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 1: he as a spring knee he says has been sore

1005
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: the last few days, held out a practice yesterday. Says

1006
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: he does not need any practice time to play Sunday

1007
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: against the Minnesota Vikings, but he would not commit to playing.

1008
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:51,720
Speaker 1: The Packers overcame a twenty to nothing deficit on opening

1009
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: night Sunday Night and beat the Chicago Bears twenty four

1010
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: to twenty three. Baltimore's leading rusher from their victory over

1011
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo is on injured reserve. Ravens put running back Kenneth

1012
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,760
Speaker 1: Dixon on IR with a knee injury, and the Savers

1013
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: camp is open testing in physicals today on the ice

1014
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: for the first practices tomorrow. That's the update from One

1015
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive John Murphy Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo

1016
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: Studio Bills outside practicing as we speak, getting set for

1017
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,800
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Chargers and joining us right now on

1018
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: the Subway Freshtate Hotline in his sixth season as the

1019
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: general manager of the Chargers. He is a former Colts

1020
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: College and Pro personnel director. Started his NFL career right

1021
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: here as a Bill's internal training camp in nineteen ninety one.

1022
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: Western New York native Tom Tolesco on the Subway Freshtate Hotline. Tom,

1023
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: how are you doing? It's John Murphy and Steve Tasker

1024
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Hey Murphy, Steve, how are you doing? Hey,

1025
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: I've already heard that that Therma Thomas guaranteed a victory

1026
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: this weekend. So what do you guys want to talk about? Yeah? Right,

1027
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: so we can we can all take the weekend off,

1028
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: right since Therman knows how's that gonna go? You guys,

1029
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you, Tom, You guys, Philip rivers your offense,

1030
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: you throw for four hundred and forty yards, you score

1031
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 1: as many points you did. You gotta feel like you

1032
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: know you're playing well. It's like a little bit like

1033
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: looking a little better than your record. I mean, you

1034
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 1: guys being at home seeing the Chiefs again, and the

1035
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: Chiefs always kind of get out of the gate fast

1036
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: under Andy Reid. Talk a little bit about how well

1037
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: your team did play in an opening day loss. Well,

1038
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: like you said, Kansas City, Andy Reid, they're really good

1039
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:22,320
Speaker 1: football team, very well coached. They came out with a

1040
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: great plan. And like most football games, and it doesn't

1041
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,439
Speaker 1: even really matter what the score is sometimes it comes

1042
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: down to the little things, and we just made too

1043
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: many mistakes and the Chiefs played really clean football. We

1044
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: had some drops, we had some penalties, we had some

1045
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: misassignments on defense, we had some special teams that wasn't

1046
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: where it needed to be. And like I can tell

1047
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: you what losing last week, the way we lost to

1048
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 1: Kansas City, and then I know that Bill's lost to

1049
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: the Ravens, I can tell you that they both feel

1050
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: the same despite what the scores look like. But you

1051
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: get back on the practice field. The great thing about

1052
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: this league is they're gonna let us play fifteen more.

1053
00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 1: So we gotta get get ready for Buffalo. We know

1054
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: in any home game in Buffalo is difficult, but the

1055
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,720
Speaker 1: home opener just always has a little bit of different

1056
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: atmosphere to it, and it's gonna be a great environment

1057
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 1: to play in was gonna be a challenge. Tom. I

1058
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: love what the Rivers said. I might have been postgame

1059
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:14,359
Speaker 1: Sunday or maybe Monday about how he's not a fan

1060
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: of cycling, but he compared to an NFL season to

1061
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: the Tour de France. You know, you have different stages,

1062
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 1: sixteen different stages. First stage didn't go well for you

1063
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: or the Bills, but there's still a long way to

1064
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:25,759
Speaker 1: go in this race, isn't it. You have to I mean,

1065
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 1: you know you're upset Sunday night, you're still really upset

1066
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 1: Monday morning, but by Monday afternoon, you have to put

1067
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: it in the rear view mirror and move on. And

1068
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: that's that's that's what professional athletes do, and that's what

1069
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: coaches do, and that's what we did this week. You

1070
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: put it behind you by Tuesday. You're on the field

1071
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. We had a really good day of practice yesterday,

1072
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 1: great tempo, a lot of intensity. So you know, we

1073
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 1: had a good mindset yesterday. We need to reduplicate that today.

1074
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: We haven't worked yet. Today. We'll be out there in

1075
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: a couple hours and you know, get rate for the

1076
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: next week. I mean, even win or lose, you have

1077
00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: to put the last one behind you. It's the way

1078
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 1: that it is, especially with the opener. Yeah, Tommy, talk

1079
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:05,360
Speaker 1: a little bit about, you know, face of your franchise.

1080
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,879
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers has been there for for so long. He's

1081
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 1: still playing at a high level. He threw the ball

1082
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: fifty one times last week. And when you when you

1083
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:14,800
Speaker 1: have a guy like Philip and you're as the general manager,

1084
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: how how far out of your way or how big

1085
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: a priority is it to make sure he always every year,

1086
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: year in and year out, has top quality guys to

1087
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: throw to. I know, Keenan Allen's there, Melvin Gordon is there. Uh,

1088
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 1: you know. But then you also have the other side

1089
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: of the football. You've got you you spend the draft

1090
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 1: picks on Joey Boza. But you know, how much of

1091
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: a priority does Philip Rivers make the offensive side of

1092
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 1: the football when you know you've got a franchise quarterback

1093
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: in the league kind of revolves around that. Yeah, you know,

1094
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 1: you try and balance it where you can. But but

1095
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: when you have Philip Rivers, um, when I was in

1096
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: Indianapolis and we had Peyton Manning, um, they need more

1097
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 1: than than than uh, they need help, you know, they

1098
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: need weapons, they need offensive line to protect them. Um,

1099
00:51:58,000 --> 00:51:59,879
Speaker 1: you know, we need receivers who can separate and catch

1100
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: the football because they know that ball is going to

1101
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: be where it needs to be, you know, eighty percent

1102
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: of the time. So but you do need to build

1103
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 1: a balanced roster. Um. You have to have a defense

1104
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: that can get the ball back. You have to have

1105
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: special teams that play solid that puts points on the board,

1106
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 1: that can cover kicks and punts. But obviously with Philip,

1107
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 1: we want to make sure we have we have some

1108
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: tight ends, we have some receivers, but it just takes time.

1109
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 1: It takes years to get that built the way this

1110
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: league is. But you do have to keep an eye

1111
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 1: on all three sides of the ball at the same time.

1112
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: Any time you had you used a premium draft pick

1113
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: on Mike Williams, the receiver from Clemson a year a

1114
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: year ago, and to see him come out and have

1115
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: the big opening game last Sunday that he did, you

1116
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: have to feel gratified about that, like, yeah, yeah, that

1117
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: was the pick to making we feel good about that.

1118
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: And the future is laying right ahead of him now

1119
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: for Mike Williams, Huh, yeah, he had a nice, nice

1120
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 1: training camp for US. This is essentially his rookie year.

1121
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 1: He was hurt for majority of last year. He came

1122
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 1: back late in the year, but he missed all the

1123
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: training camp, miss September and October, and by the time

1124
00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 1: he got on the practice field in November, you're this

1125
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: tempo is just a lot different than it is earlier

1126
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,399
Speaker 1: in the year. Um, So it took him a while

1127
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,959
Speaker 1: to get caught up, just just football wise, conditioning wise,

1128
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 1: and then even take out the fact of knowing the

1129
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 1: offense and applying that in real time on the field.

1130
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: So this training camp for him to go every day,

1131
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:17,879
Speaker 1: you know, back to back, you know, really grind through

1132
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:20,800
Speaker 1: camp work with the quarterbacks. We're starting to see that

1133
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 1: talent that we saw at Clemson, and we saw that

1134
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: really the whole preseason, and then we saw that again

1135
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and we think he has really high ceiling.

1136
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: He's big, he's he's very fast, very flexible and quick

1137
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: for a man his size, and his good ball skills. So, um,

1138
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 1: you know, we're a team that spreads the ball around.

1139
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: So if you're a receiver or back of tight end,

1140
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 1: it's just if you get open, you're gonna get the football.

1141
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: We don't really you know, feature one guy all the time,

1142
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:45,879
Speaker 1: although I know last year Keenan had had a big

1143
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: day against Buffalo. But you know, it's a fun off

1144
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: offensive playing because if you can get open or you're

1145
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: gonna get the football. Yeah. One of the things about

1146
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 1: your team as well, Anthony Lynn, your head coach, was

1147
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo for a minute under the Rick Ryan

1148
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 1: regime and now coming into his second year, he got

1149
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: off you know, he took a loss in the week one,

1150
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:04,359
Speaker 1: but he seems like your team is playing pretty well.

1151
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: Talk about some of the things that Anthony Lynn brought

1152
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: to the table as a head coach. Higher by you

1153
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 1: and one are the things that he's done well in

1154
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: his short tenure there so far. Yeah, he really brings

1155
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:17,360
Speaker 1: a great presence to the football team that the players

1156
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: they respect him, and the biggest thing is they really

1157
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 1: believe in him. We saw that last year. We started

1158
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: oh and four last year and we had just relocated

1159
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 1: from from San Diego to La So there's never a

1160
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 1: really good time to start O on four, but in

1161
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: that situation was not ideal to say the least, and

1162
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,399
Speaker 1: he just never flinched through that to those for first

1163
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: four weeks and when he didn't flinch, the players kind

1164
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:41,320
Speaker 1: of bought into that and they all kind of falled

1165
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: right into what they saw from their head coach. And

1166
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,319
Speaker 1: we played much better late in the year, not quite

1167
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 1: enough to get into playoffs, so we got to nine

1168
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: and seven. So he handled the team well. He's tough

1169
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: on him, but he's fair and then there's no gray area.

1170
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: I mean, if you have a question, he'll give you

1171
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: a straight answer, whether he'll like the answer or not.

1172
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 1: Sometimes who give the players a straight answer. He coaches

1173
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 1: his coaches really well, um something that goes unnoticed sometimes

1174
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 1: with head coaches, but he really keeps his head his

1175
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:10,760
Speaker 1: assistant coaches accountable. He tells him exactly what he expects

1176
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,800
Speaker 1: at East position, and for me, it's been great to

1177
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 1: work with. He's got big picture perspective as well as

1178
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 1: day to day and it's been a great hire for us. Tom.

1179
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: When we look at his first season and the trouble,

1180
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: you know, you got off to a bad start, it's

1181
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 1: almost as if that Buffalo game in what was a

1182
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 1: November nineteenth kind of ignited your season. You won that

1183
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: game and won the six of the final seven. Then yes,

1184
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: you said almost made it to the playoffs. Said game

1185
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 1: against the Bills was critical. It appears huh it was.

1186
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: You know, I think anytime there's transition, you know, it

1187
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 1: just takes time. We all like to see immediate results.

1188
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 1: You don't always get that. But having a new head

1189
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: coach and new thoughts, new ways he wants to run things,

1190
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: and having players with still learning about exactly what their

1191
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 1: roles and responsibilities are going to be, it takes time

1192
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 1: for that to play out. So as a season moved on,

1193
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 1: we started to play better foot ball, cleaner football, less mistakes. Um,

1194
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: and you know we weren't on a run at the end,

1195
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 1: just wasn't quite enough to get in the playoffs. Buffalo

1196
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:09,839
Speaker 1: got in, we didn't, you know with with the tiebreaker. Um,

1197
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: but I really liked as team from Anthony. So you're

1198
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 1: coming back to Western New York, back to your hometown

1199
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. How many tickets did you have to

1200
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,919
Speaker 1: get for this game this weekend? You know, luckily only four,

1201
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 1: really only only four tickets. But I know, I know,

1202
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: I love coming back. I mean it's uh to me

1203
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: and anybody grow who grows up in Buffalo. Um, you

1204
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 1: just become loyal to that city and you know, you

1205
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 1: live and die with it, and that's the way I

1206
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: am with with with my hometown. I love it there.

1207
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 1: I'm I'm still a Bills fan as long as it

1208
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 1: doesn't affect us, and obviously this week it does affect us.

1209
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:42,320
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I have family and friends and

1210
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:44,400
Speaker 1: you know, still a lot of contacts and Buffalo that

1211
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 1: that really enjoy. And um, I think they're gonna be

1212
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 1: with with their quarterback with Josh Allen, who we did

1213
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:51,919
Speaker 1: a lot of work on in the draft. Um, because

1214
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: obviously with Philip we know we'reis in his career, so

1215
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:56,360
Speaker 1: we have to know all these quarterbacks coming out. We

1216
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: really like Josh. We saw a lot of them, did

1217
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 1: a lot of work on them, and from what I've

1218
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 1: seen a little bit so far, and Brian Dabo's offense,

1219
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 1: he can do some things with the football and he's

1220
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 1: gonna be a big challenge this week. Hey time, I've

1221
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: often wondered, So you're in personnel obviously as a general manager,

1222
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: and you got a coaching staff. They can look at

1223
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: film and evaluate video. But do they ever do the

1224
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: coaching staff do they ever come to the personnel department

1225
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: and say, hey, what did you have on this guy

1226
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: going into the draft, and what did you have, for instance,

1227
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: on Josh Allen that might be a benefit through us

1228
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 1: as we get ready for this game. Oh yeah, that's

1229
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: all the time. Every week of every opponent, we go

1230
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: through that. Now a lot of times they don't have

1231
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 1: to come down and ask because they've already done work

1232
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 1: on these players. So we may have you know, Gus Burley,

1233
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator, come over and talk to Ken Wizzen

1234
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 1: Hunt and talk about what he saw and Josh Allen

1235
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: in college, because obviously Gus wouldn't be studying him in

1236
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 1: college what he saw and Josh there, So that that

1237
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: all comes Yeah, it all comes full circle. You know,

1238
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 1: all the work we do on players in the draft,

1239
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: they're all going to end up in the league. And

1240
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: all those scouting reports in our system and our database

1241
00:57:58,440 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 1: go from the college side of the pro side, and

1242
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:01,919
Speaker 1: our pro scalts will use that as they put together

1243
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 1: their scouting reports on all the players. So yeah, that

1244
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 1: just never ends. We're talking about your player personnel. I

1245
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: really like the the coordinators that you have Wiz on

1246
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: offense and Gus Bradley on defense. I mean, what a

1247
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: great resource for Anthony Lynn and his first real crack

1248
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 1: at being a head coach. Uh it is. Yeah, they're

1249
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: They're both they're excellent coaches, are great people. They both

1250
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:24,919
Speaker 1: have head coaching backgrounds. They've been in Anthony's shoes before,

1251
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 1: so they're great sounding boards and not only for Anthony football,

1252
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: for me as we talk to different scenarios with our

1253
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: football team, anything from the culture of our team to

1254
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: u you know, two player personnel decisions, and that was

1255
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: a big part of our off season to make sure

1256
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: those two coordinators are going to be here for a

1257
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: long time and to have some stability and continuity with

1258
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 1: our team, which this league is hard to find sometimes.

1259
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: So we feel like we have a good, good mixer

1260
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: of their head coach and two coordinators. UM and you know,

1261
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: combine that with trying to get our talent better on

1262
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: the football field and you know, give us a chance

1263
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: to win every single week on the line with Chargers GM,

1264
00:58:57,200 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 1: Tom Tolesco. Just a couple more questions for you time.

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Speaker 1: One of them about your stadium. You know, we played

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Speaker 1: there obviously, the Bills played there last year. Since that

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00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: visit and it was a terrible day for the Bills.

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Speaker 1: I've come back and told people. What a unique and

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00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 1: kind of fun atmosphere it is there. I know you

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00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 1: got a lot of visiting fans who take up some

1271
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: of the seats, but and I know it's only a

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00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 1: short term venue for the Chargers team, but it's just

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00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,080
Speaker 1: a different feel there. I like that feel there. It's

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Speaker 1: StubHub Stadium. How have you guys adapted to that? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been. It's been very unique. There's nothing like it

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00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:27,440
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and it's been a good setup for

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00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: us right now. We know we're in a new market.

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00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 1: We still have a lot of fan building to do

1279
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 1: in the LA and Orange County area and the environment

1280
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: and StubHub it's yours. Every seat is and you guys

1281
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: were there, so it is so close to the fields.

1282
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 1: There's an experience that you just don't get a chance

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00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: to de see very often. And then everything they do

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00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:49,480
Speaker 1: outside the atmosphere, part of the pregame, which I never

1285
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: had a chance to see, but I heard that's great too.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's different, it's unique. It's a very nice stadium.

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00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 1: It's just it's just small by NFL standards. But we'll

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00:59:57,960 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: be in there this year, we'll be in there next

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00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:01,440
Speaker 1: year and they will be in the brand new stadium

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Speaker 1: in Englewood in two twenty. I believe ye walk us

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Speaker 1: through a little bit. I know, in two years, you're

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01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 1: going to be in a new stadium. What has the

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01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 1: relocation been like for your facilities of practicing? You know

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01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: where you you know where your home offices are, where

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01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: these guys make their home during the week. Talk to

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Speaker 1: us a little bit about how that transition went last year. Sure,

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Speaker 1: you know, um, finally this year it feels like home.

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Speaker 1: Last year at this time and even during training camp,

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Speaker 1: there were a lot of moving parts as far as

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01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 1: moving getting a football team moved up to a new era,

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01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: even though it wasn't that far away, it took a

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01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 1: good amount of work. And then there's everything that goes

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01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 1: on off the field, and all of our players have families,

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01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 1: our staff has to have families, and you have to

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01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: get your kids in school, and you got to find

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01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: out all those the doctors and everything that that you

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01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 1: had all set up in your previous hometown. So that

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Speaker 1: took some work. Last year, I thought our players and

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Speaker 1: coaches handled the transition really well. Where there's some distraction,

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01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:57,200
Speaker 1: yeah there were, but but I thought we handled them well.

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Speaker 1: But I can tell you this year, it's just feels

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Speaker 1: like we have a routine. That's our home. What we're

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Speaker 1: set up in Coasta Mesa, California, which is in Orange County.

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Speaker 1: We have a really nice training facility. It's right near

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Speaker 1: the airport, there's near hotels, there's places to live, and

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Speaker 1: then you know, our stadium that we go to, you know,

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Speaker 1: ten times a year, is in Carson right now, which

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Speaker 1: is a little bit north by about forty minutes and

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Speaker 1: then Inglewood and that are ten minutes from there. So

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Speaker 1: it's not a bad setup. And and we're making it work.

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Speaker 1: Last question for me, Tom, and it's about this weekend.

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Speaker 1: A lot's been said, and I remember as a player,

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Speaker 1: we thought about a lot. The time change from a

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Speaker 1: West Coast team going east has always been a little

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Speaker 1: bit of more of a burden, obviously than the teams

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Speaker 1: from east to west. Tell us about how you guys,

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Speaker 1: you know, do you think about that and how much

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Speaker 1: of a factor is that and how you set up

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Speaker 1: your weekend with your player's schedule. Yeah, it's it was.

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Speaker 1: It was brand new for me because the teams I

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Speaker 1: worked with in the pass I've always been on the

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Speaker 1: East coast. So I thought it was going to be

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Speaker 1: a big issue that the ten am body clocks start

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Speaker 1: for us. It really hasn't been too bad. So, like

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Speaker 1: most West Coast teams of leaving on Saturday to go

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Speaker 1: to Buffalo, we'll leave Friday, so we'll get into Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Friday night and that will kind of help as far

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Speaker 1: as the time change is concerned. And then on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: we'll do a walkthrough at an undisclosed location so Thurman

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Speaker 1: doesn't show up and scout us out and give all

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Speaker 1: his information back to Sean McDermott. So we'll do a

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Speaker 1: walk through, get our players out, get him loosening up

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Speaker 1: a little bit, get that done, and then play the

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Speaker 1: game on Sunday. You know, it's a ten o'clock start

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01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 1: for us on our body clocks, um, but we're pretty

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01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 1: much used to it at this point and so that

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01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:32,720
Speaker 1: that should not be any issue for us. Yeah, Saint

1348
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:35,479
Speaker 1: Francis doesn't really have an opaque fence around their field.

1349
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:37,440
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're gonna do now. We need

1350
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 1: we need tall walls around on wherever we're gonna work.

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Speaker 1: It's good talking to you, Tom, Thanks for coming on, Tom.

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Speaker 1: Thanks okay, Tom, Tolesco is the general manager of the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers, joining us on the Subway fresh Day

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01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:53,760
Speaker 1: huntline presented by Subway Restaurants proud to be locally owned

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01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:55,960
Speaker 1: and operated. He's a really good guy. You know him

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Speaker 1: pretty well from Saint Francis. I'd met him over the years.

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Speaker 1: Really like him. Um, he's very open, Steve. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, I asked about the stadium in Los Angeles.

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01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 1: Certainly it's not optimal. It is not an NFL stadium,

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01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:10,480
Speaker 1: but it's unique. It's a different atmosphere there, and he's right,

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01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 1: they've made the best of it, I think last year

1362
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:16,320
Speaker 1: and this Yeah, And that's tough. I mean it's tough

1363
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 1: when I mean you asked those players way back in

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Speaker 1: the day when Cleveland left Cleveland, they announced they were

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Speaker 1: leaving Cleveland side to play eight games there in Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: And they did the same thing in San Diego two

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Speaker 1: years ago when they knew everybody knew the club was

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01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: not going to play there anymore. To exist in that

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01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 1: environment and try and play a competitive professional sport, certainly

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01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:42,000
Speaker 1: in football, it's a huge, huge handicap for your club

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01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:45,720
Speaker 1: to overcome that mentality and everywhere you go everywhere you're seeing,

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Speaker 1: everywhere you do business or you know, whether you're going

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01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 1: out to eat or any It is all people can

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01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 1: talk about, and it's hard to get out from underneath

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01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:54,640
Speaker 1: of So I think they did a really nice job.

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01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:58,040
Speaker 1: It's really easy to see why they got off to

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01:03:58,080 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 1: such a slow start a year ago, just making the

1378
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 1: transition new place to live, new place to work, a

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01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 1: new location, and then to come out and play like

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Speaker 1: they did. I think he had to tip your hat

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01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 1: to him. They overcame a lot of obstacles. Here's what

1382
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:13,480
Speaker 1: we know about Tom Talsco in his background here right,

1383
01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 1: grew up in Buffalo Saint Francis High School. You can

1384
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 1: John John Carroll at Saint Francis. He got he was

1385
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 1: with Napoleon's right with Chris and Brian Polian and Bill

1386
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 1: Pollian brought him into the business, I believe, down to Carolina,

1387
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 1: then took him to INDI with him. The one thing

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01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: I'm certain, and I've never asked this question I should have,

1389
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:34,440
Speaker 1: I'm certain he has bought into the Polean mantra of

1390
01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:37,520
Speaker 1: we need a program, the program wins, and for you

1391
01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:39,160
Speaker 1: know what I mean, it's not just a good coach

1392
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 1: or a good quarterback, you need the entire program. It's

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01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: not you know, it's not obviously a revelation, but to

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01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 1: maintain that program in the face of that move kind

1395
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 1: of wrenched out of San Diego, some of the players

1396
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:53,360
Speaker 1: happy about it, some of them not. I believe last

1397
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: year Rivers was taking a limo to practice every day,

1398
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 1: and I want to have limo ride San Diego to

1399
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:00,920
Speaker 1: LA That was a major upheaval. But for Tlesco to

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01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:04,360
Speaker 1: maintain that program, that winning program, nine wins last year,

1401
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 1: certainly a chance to be a playoff team this year,

1402
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 1: that's impressive. Because when you get wrenched out of one city,

1403
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 1: you're in another city. You're playing in a temporary stadium,

1404
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:15,440
Speaker 1: a small stadium. You practice here, you drive here, you

1405
01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 1: go there. People living in hotels, they're training. You know,

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01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 1: you've got all those things working against the continuity that

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01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 1: you would establish in a football program. I give to

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01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 1: LESCo a lot of credit for keeping that ship together

1409
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 1: out there. It's hard enough, and you can say what

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Speaker 1: it's like in this building when you've got you know,

1411
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 1: fifty three players, you've got twenty coaches or twenty five coaches,

1412
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Speaker 1: you've got staff, you've got support, crews, you got PR,

1413
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 1: you know, media relations, you got all these people and

1414
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 1: not all of you know, trying to pull the same direction,

1415
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:46,920
Speaker 1: win football games. Do everything they can to put the

1416
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Speaker 1: product on the field that gives them a chance to win.

1417
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 1: But then you throw in the big you know, the

1418
01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:54,920
Speaker 1: big wrenching of the works is that now all their

1419
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 1: personal lives are also upheaval. They also got all this

1420
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 1: stuff away from the field that's distracting every in the building,

1421
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:03,480
Speaker 1: not just the players, but the coaches, the PR department,

1422
01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 1: the staff, everybody else. The whole organization is in an upheaval,

1423
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,040
Speaker 1: and their personal lives as well as their professional lives

1424
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:12,600
Speaker 1: and man to be successful as successful as they were

1425
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Speaker 1: a year ago. Says a lot about the program Tom

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Speaker 1: Talesco's installed. And they're coming into Buffalo this weekend. Yeah

1427
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 1: and that, And you asked them about that a little bit.

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01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 1: They go from their little, cozy, little stadium in Los

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01:06:24,560 --> 01:06:27,959
Speaker 1: Angeles to new Era Field. It's gonna be it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a different It's different, you know what it'll be

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01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 1: Like I was thinking, I didn't ask him to see that.

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01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 1: I thought about this for the Chargers. I'm sure at

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Speaker 1: some point Anthony Lynn or somebody in the coaches to

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01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 1: have its saying, yeah, it's a tough place to play

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. You know what, It's kind of like Kansas City,

1436
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 1: don't you think it's kind of that same kind of raucus,

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01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:45,479
Speaker 1: loud fans right on top of the field, atmosphere. They'll

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01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 1: be used to that. Now. They haven't had much success

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01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 1: against Kansas City. They've lost their last nine games to

1440
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs they played the last nine times they played them.

1441
01:06:52,920 --> 01:06:54,960
Speaker 1: But they will be accustomed to that sort of atmosphere,

1442
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 1: I think, based on playing in Kansas City every year. Yeah,

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01:06:57,440 --> 01:07:00,440
Speaker 1: it's a it's a very big stadium, just like Arrowhead

1444
01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 1: Stadium is New air Fields, a very big stadium, and

1445
01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:05,960
Speaker 1: both of them are football only stadiums. And they've got

1446
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 1: fan bases that live and die with that team. And

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01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:12,080
Speaker 1: it's and it's Opening Day, it's it's it is a

1448
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: tough tough place to play on Sunday, no question. More

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01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:17,000
Speaker 1: on Sunday's game when we come back, Steve and I

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01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:20,280
Speaker 1: coming back with more, including our discussion on your expectations

1451
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:22,120
Speaker 1: for the twenty eighteen season. We'll get back to more

1452
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:26,360
Speaker 1: phone calls and read some tweets heavier expectations changed as

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Speaker 1: a result of last Sunday's debacle in Baltimore. Let's hear

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Speaker 1: from you eighth three five fifty to three one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Steve and I

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Speaker 1: back with more. One Bill's Live presented by Kalaida Health

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Along One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live from One Goes Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: on a beautiful day in Orchard Park. The Bills continuing

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Speaker 1: their practice out on the practice field of Grass practice

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Speaker 1: Field on the other side of our broadcast location here

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Speaker 1: in Orchard Park. After practice, Jerry Hughes schedule to join

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Speaker 1: US Bills, veteran defensive end. We'll talk with him in

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Speaker 1: We got a special giveaway, two tickets for Sunday's game.

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Speaker 1: If you are chosen, your tickets will be at will call.

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01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:35,680
Speaker 1: You can pick them up here Sunday. You gotta have

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Speaker 1: a proper photo identification in order to pick them up.

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01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,599
Speaker 1: And that's about it. Go to our Twitter site at

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Speaker 1: one Bill's Live and check it out. Two tickets to giveaway.

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Speaker 1: Go to one bills Live for a chance to get

1478
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Speaker 1: two tickets to Sunday's game. What about last Sunday's game.

1479
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:51,160
Speaker 1: We're still kind of talking about that a little bit

1480
01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:53,160
Speaker 1: here on the show. We started the show with our

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01:08:54,120 --> 01:08:56,240
Speaker 1: I guess it's not a Twitter poll, but our question

1482
01:08:56,320 --> 01:08:58,160
Speaker 1: on Twitter, how much is the Week one loss to

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01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:01,880
Speaker 1: Baltimore changed your expectation for the season, if at all.

1484
01:09:02,240 --> 01:09:04,240
Speaker 1: I went through a rand about an hour ago about

1485
01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:06,479
Speaker 1: how I couldn't believe how the way people are already

1486
01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 1: writing about the end of the twenty eighteen season, like, well,

1487
01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: here's what went wrong in twenty eighteen. There's fifteen games left, folks.

1488
01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:15,559
Speaker 1: You may feel differently, and if so, let me hear

1489
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:17,400
Speaker 1: from you. It was a horrible lost Sunday. No one's

1490
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:20,080
Speaker 1: disputing that. You may feel like, you know how the

1491
01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen season is going to go. My contention is

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01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:25,200
Speaker 1: you don't. I don't know how it's gonna go. Do

1493
01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:27,639
Speaker 1: you know how the twenty eight to go? I don't

1494
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:29,360
Speaker 1: either give us a call let us know what you

1495
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:32,240
Speaker 1: think eight h three fifty toll free one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty or on Twitter at

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Speaker 1: one Bill's Life, Tom in West Seneca, Hello time, Welcome

1498
01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:40,760
Speaker 1: to the show, John Steve, thanks for having me. Appreciated

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01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:44,559
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills that showed up last Sunday. They didn't

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01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 1: even do a good impersonation of the Buffalo Bills that

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01:09:48,360 --> 01:09:53,879
Speaker 1: we know and love. If that team shows up this Sunday,

1502
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:57,760
Speaker 1: I think we're in for a world of hearst. But

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01:09:59,040 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 1: I think McDermott, coach McDermott will straighten these guys out

1504
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:07,080
Speaker 1: and they'll be ready to play. Uh. I was happy

1505
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:10,280
Speaker 1: to hear that Josh Shalen is starting. I think that,

1506
01:10:10,600 --> 01:10:15,720
Speaker 1: irrespective of his statistics on Sunday, he showed some real

1507
01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 1: h field generalship and he looked very comfortable there. So

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01:10:21,720 --> 01:10:26,880
Speaker 1: uh and nothing like I'm done sulking. Not much good

1509
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:30,599
Speaker 1: stiff drink after a game like that, And uh, well

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01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 1: that's only one game. We have fifteen to go. That's right. Point, Yeah,

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01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:39,240
Speaker 1: that's right, and it's Tom. That's a good call. You're right.

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01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:43,120
Speaker 1: It hurts when you lose like that. No question about

1513
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 1: a night and he had some people and it's funny.

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01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:51,559
Speaker 1: This one just popped up on the timeline from it says,

1515
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:54,080
Speaker 1: my expectations have changed. I was hoping we'd be at

1516
01:10:54,160 --> 01:10:56,759
Speaker 1: least an eight and eighteen, but a win on Sunday

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01:10:56,800 --> 01:11:02,000
Speaker 1: will change my expectations again, particularly if Josh Shallon plays. Well.

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01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:05,080
Speaker 1: I guess we're all on that. I guess we're all

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01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:08,160
Speaker 1: in that. I mean, yeah, you're we're prisoners of whatever

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01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,439
Speaker 1: week it. It's a week to week league. Murphy say

1521
01:11:10,439 --> 01:11:12,760
Speaker 1: it all the time, and it's true. You know, this week,

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01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:16,960
Speaker 1: you know we stink. Next week, oh we found ourselves.

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01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:18,840
Speaker 1: Here we go. You know it's gonna be. It's gonna

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01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:20,280
Speaker 1: be a great year. It's just like we thought it

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01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 1: was gonna be. And you know, whether it is or not,

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01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:24,880
Speaker 1: either way, you're gonna have to play sixteen. I'm to

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01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:29,639
Speaker 1: find all that out. Let's call here from uh stephen Tonawanda. Hello,

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01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 1: see welcome, How you doing good? Good? I just want

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01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:37,120
Speaker 1: to say that, um, after seeing the display last week,

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01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:39,519
Speaker 1: I got to feel we're gonna get a butt swoop

1531
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 1: again this week against the Chargers. Um, it's right the

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01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:46,600
Speaker 1: season off before it even began. Um, you know, with

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01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:51,760
Speaker 1: our with our online um not really playing at all. UM,

1534
01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:54,800
Speaker 1: no receivers. You know, you just really can't wait till

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01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:56,960
Speaker 1: next year. Um. I think we're gonna be picking at

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01:11:57,040 --> 01:12:00,320
Speaker 1: least within the top four in the first round year.

1537
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 1: And we have damn here close to one hundred million

1538
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:06,960
Speaker 1: dollars in cap space. So I'm looking forward to next year. Um. Again,

1539
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:08,600
Speaker 1: I have no clues to happen this year. You know,

1540
01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:11,040
Speaker 1: we could squeak in the playoffs like last year. I

1541
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 1: just highly doubt it. So I'm really looking forward to.

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01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:15,479
Speaker 1: Next question question for you though, Steve, do you do

1543
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:17,599
Speaker 1: you come to games? Do you buy tickets? Come to games?

1544
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 1: This year? This year? No? Um, you know we had

1545
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:24,080
Speaker 1: a baby, so okay, congratulations, they're more important. Will you

1546
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:28,200
Speaker 1: watch the game on Sunday? I will? Um, why Bills?

1547
01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:31,559
Speaker 1: I love the Bills, Um, even though I don't think

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01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna be a good team this year. UM, I

1549
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:37,840
Speaker 1: still rude the mom. They're my team. I grew up watching,

1550
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 1: you know, the nineties Bills with Tasker and you know,

1551
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:43,400
Speaker 1: I'm Kelly from the Pounds. Um, I'm still very passionate

1552
01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:45,720
Speaker 1: about the Bills. I just don't think that this year

1553
01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:48,760
Speaker 1: is our year. Okay, yeah, well you can certainly have

1554
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:52,840
Speaker 1: that opinion, no question about it. And I think, yeah,

1555
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:54,320
Speaker 1: that's a lot of people. You know, I'll tell you that.

1556
01:12:54,479 --> 01:12:57,519
Speaker 1: You see this a lot in Buffalo when there's one

1557
01:12:57,520 --> 01:12:59,320
Speaker 1: of these games that come up, particularly like a game

1558
01:12:59,479 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 1: like last week, and then or you get a couple

1559
01:13:02,120 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 1: of guys injured and it was gonna be a tough

1560
01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:07,000
Speaker 1: game anyway, and it looks bad for this game this week.

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01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:10,000
Speaker 1: You get a lot of people in Buffalo who and

1562
01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 1: you can laugh, but it's true they won't watch the

1563
01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:16,560
Speaker 1: game because it hurts too, because they can't stand the

1564
01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:20,519
Speaker 1: angst is just too great. They gotta get up and

1565
01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:22,760
Speaker 1: walk out. I know I've done it before when I

1566
01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:25,840
Speaker 1: think I have to leave the room because because I'm

1567
01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:27,720
Speaker 1: just too pent up, and you know what I mean,

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01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: I do. I don't understand that. But I've heard people say, well,

1569
01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:33,880
Speaker 1: you've never you can't leave the game calling it. You

1570
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:35,760
Speaker 1: don't know what it's like. You don't know what it's

1571
01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:37,519
Speaker 1: like when you're sitting at home and watching it and

1572
01:13:37,640 --> 01:13:40,120
Speaker 1: it's going south in a big way, and you have

1573
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:42,040
Speaker 1: to you just can't sit there and watch it. You've

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01:13:42,160 --> 01:13:44,240
Speaker 1: got to leave the room. And I know there's certain

1575
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 1: people that have the same kind of feeling after that

1576
01:13:46,240 --> 01:13:49,840
Speaker 1: game last week. They they probably will have it on,

1577
01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:53,080
Speaker 1: but they'll find a reason that they don't have to

1578
01:13:53,160 --> 01:13:55,519
Speaker 1: sit there and watch because they just can't bring themselves

1579
01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:58,160
Speaker 1: to sit through another game, Like they think it's painful,

1580
01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:00,200
Speaker 1: they can't do it. I just get that a lot

1581
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:01,599
Speaker 1: here and both I don't know if other fan bases

1582
01:14:01,640 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 1: are like that. Imagine there's some people and everything like that. Yeah,

1583
01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:06,280
Speaker 1: but I think you get that here in Buffalo a

1584
01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:09,600
Speaker 1: lot where people just are so sold out for the

1585
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:11,479
Speaker 1: team and they want to win so bad, and when

1586
01:14:11,479 --> 01:14:14,720
Speaker 1: they can't believe it's going to go so bad, they

1587
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:17,639
Speaker 1: just can't watch. Trent in Rochester on the line, Hello Trent,

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01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:21,439
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, guys. Thanks for having me. And

1589
01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 1: you know, honestly, as a fan, I do understand that

1590
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:27,840
Speaker 1: based on last week's performers, we have a lot of

1591
01:14:27,920 --> 01:14:31,080
Speaker 1: people that aren't very optimistic right now about the season.

1592
01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 1: But as a fan, I you know, if if the

1593
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:37,240
Speaker 1: Bills played great Sunday, those same people are going to

1594
01:14:37,479 --> 01:14:41,559
Speaker 1: have unrealistic expectations after two games about how good they

1595
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:45,400
Speaker 1: could be. So I've seen both ends of it. I

1596
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:48,560
Speaker 1: try to stay right in the middle. I believe that

1597
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:53,800
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, like I said yesterday, for whatever reason, you know,

1598
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:56,880
Speaker 1: if it's by the fat or whatever, he's starting, and

1599
01:14:57,479 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 1: I think it's the best thing for the team. So

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01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:02,360
Speaker 1: you know, I believe the people that are crying now

1601
01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:05,680
Speaker 1: will have a better outlook later. And John, like you

1602
01:15:05,760 --> 01:15:09,960
Speaker 1: said earlier, it's only one game, and it's not It's

1603
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:13,639
Speaker 1: one sixteenth of the season, so there's no way I'm

1604
01:15:13,720 --> 01:15:18,280
Speaker 1: going to decide on this year's team. Welly, any team

1605
01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:22,000
Speaker 1: you know by based on one game. So I'll leave

1606
01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:24,759
Speaker 1: you guys with this. The best team in the league

1607
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 1: right now that played the best in Week one, cannot

1608
01:15:28,160 --> 01:15:31,920
Speaker 1: forecast a great season even based on that, as much

1609
01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:34,200
Speaker 1: as you can for the Bills the other way. So

1610
01:15:34,280 --> 01:15:37,880
Speaker 1: irebody's more even killed. And I'll leave you guys with that.

1611
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me t Yeah, thank you, good perspective.

1612
01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 1: It's really true, I mean, and I'll tell you this

1613
01:15:43,400 --> 01:15:45,800
Speaker 1: as well. Last year this happened and I'm gonna take

1614
01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:49,599
Speaker 1: credit for it, because it's true. Last year, the Chiefs

1615
01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:51,680
Speaker 1: jumped out to that six and oh star. I think

1616
01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 1: all of us remember that. The opening It we've mentioned

1617
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:55,720
Speaker 1: a couple of times as a as a as a

1618
01:15:56,800 --> 01:15:59,559
Speaker 1: caution for writing the bills off, because it's what happened

1619
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:01,839
Speaker 1: to the paper's last year. The Chiefs came into Foxboro

1620
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:05,240
Speaker 1: on opening night and thumped them big time. The Chiefs

1621
01:16:05,320 --> 01:16:09,200
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots bad, then they beat They won Week two, three, four, five,

1622
01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:11,600
Speaker 1: and they were six and zero and the regulars, you know,

1623
01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:14,840
Speaker 1: start to start the regular season last year, they looked unbeatable.

1624
01:16:15,160 --> 01:16:17,880
Speaker 1: And I told a bunch of people then I said, listen,

1625
01:16:19,960 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: it's too bad about the Chiefs because they're not going

1626
01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: to be able to play as good as they played

1627
01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:25,160
Speaker 1: in the first six weeks of the season for ten

1628
01:16:25,280 --> 01:16:28,559
Speaker 1: more weeks. They're going to peek out, and sure enough

1629
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 1: they did. It's just impossible to play sixteen weeks at

1630
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:33,920
Speaker 1: a high level, even like the Chiefs did last year,

1631
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:35,720
Speaker 1: getting out of the box like that. You're not the

1632
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:38,479
Speaker 1: same team at the midpoint of the season that you

1633
01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:40,479
Speaker 1: are at the beginning of the season. And you're not

1634
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:42,519
Speaker 1: the same team at the end of the season that

1635
01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 1: you are even at the midpoint of the season, it's

1636
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:49,519
Speaker 1: you're just not and it's you just gotta hang in

1637
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:51,560
Speaker 1: there and play as good as you can week to

1638
01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:53,560
Speaker 1: week and try and stack some wins up and some

1639
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:56,600
Speaker 1: good performances up, and so that at the end of

1640
01:16:56,640 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 1: it when if you can get yourself to peak at

1641
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:00,040
Speaker 1: the end of the season, you can get in. The

1642
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:03,040
Speaker 1: Giants have won two super Bowls playing well at the

1643
01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:05,400
Speaker 1: end of the season and stinking in the regular season,

1644
01:17:05,479 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 1: not stinking nine to seven and just sneaking into the playoffs,

1645
01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:11,400
Speaker 1: and they end up winning two super Bowls because of it.

1646
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:14,320
Speaker 1: So I'm Trent the caller just now, he's right that

1647
01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:16,760
Speaker 1: no matter how good or how bad you play in

1648
01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:19,439
Speaker 1: week one, there's not even a guarantee as how you're

1649
01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:21,000
Speaker 1: gonna play in Week two, let alone at the end

1650
01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:23,280
Speaker 1: of the season. And that's my point. Look, we asked

1651
01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 1: this question not to convince anybody that it's it's all good,

1652
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:28,400
Speaker 1: the good Bill is going to be all right. I'm

1653
01:17:28,439 --> 01:17:31,479
Speaker 1: not saying that. I'm saying nobody knows how they're gonna

1654
01:17:31,479 --> 01:17:34,120
Speaker 1: be yet. One game, right, one game that's it. You

1655
01:17:34,360 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 1: don't know how they're gonna the season there gonna turn out.

1656
01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:38,600
Speaker 1: People will start talking about next year's draft, and what

1657
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:40,360
Speaker 1: do you do with the coaching staff and what do

1658
01:17:40,479 --> 01:17:42,240
Speaker 1: we need next year? And we're gonna be a top

1659
01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:45,479
Speaker 1: ten pick? What are you doing? There's fifteen games left waiting?

1660
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:48,120
Speaker 1: What's the rush? I like the season better in the

1661
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:50,960
Speaker 1: off season, by the way, don't you? Yeah? I mean

1662
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:54,759
Speaker 1: this one and I'll say you this week it's interesting

1663
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:56,040
Speaker 1: to me. And the thing I look for is I'm

1664
01:17:56,040 --> 01:17:58,240
Speaker 1: gonna want to see what did they do? What are

1665
01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:00,519
Speaker 1: they doing different than they did again Baltimore? How are

1666
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:02,880
Speaker 1: they fixing the things that happened to him in Bold? Yeah?

1667
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 1: What are they doing? How do you help? They got

1668
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 1: ten offensive linemen now in the roster. I mean they're

1669
01:18:07,200 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 1: they're working at it. How do you respond to Sunday right?

1670
01:18:10,120 --> 01:18:11,680
Speaker 1: I want to see him respond. I want to see

1671
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:13,920
Speaker 1: I know they're switching quarterbacks. I know they got a

1672
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,720
Speaker 1: bunch of offensive linemen in. I know they brought in

1673
01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:19,920
Speaker 1: a new pass rusher to cover for Shack Lawson's absence.

1674
01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 1: They're gonna have some some questions in the secondaryything. I

1675
01:18:23,479 --> 01:18:24,960
Speaker 1: want to see how they play. I want to see

1676
01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 1: what this coaching staff does to right the ship and

1677
01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 1: to help these guys find a way to win, and

1678
01:18:29,280 --> 01:18:31,400
Speaker 1: the kind of game plan they come up with. That's

1679
01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:33,479
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. Question how much has the weak one

1680
01:18:33,560 --> 01:18:36,280
Speaker 1: loss to the Ravens changed your expectations for the Bills?

1681
01:18:36,600 --> 01:18:38,960
Speaker 1: From the tweet sheet from Brian Cook, he says, I

1682
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:42,320
Speaker 1: just remember last year's performances against the Chargers and Saints. Yuck.

1683
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:45,040
Speaker 1: Those two games were no worse than last week and

1684
01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:47,599
Speaker 1: even the Patriots late late in egg and last year's opener.

1685
01:18:47,640 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 1: That's right from C. Trendy. We asked the question how

1686
01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:52,840
Speaker 1: much has the week one lost change your expectations? See

1687
01:18:52,920 --> 01:18:55,680
Speaker 1: Trendy's answer, not much. Thought we'd take a step back

1688
01:18:55,720 --> 01:18:57,840
Speaker 1: this year. It reminds me of the Saints game last year.

1689
01:18:58,080 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 1: I don't believe this guy is falling. Just thought that

1690
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:02,320
Speaker 1: game got away from us last week. Still hoping the

1691
01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:04,720
Speaker 1: defense can lead this team and Josh can continue to

1692
01:19:04,720 --> 01:19:07,599
Speaker 1: develop and keep us in games good points, I think,

1693
01:19:07,680 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 1: see Trendy, it got away big time. It was awful

1694
01:19:10,439 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 1: last week. It got away, you know. And as much

1695
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:15,599
Speaker 1: as the focus has been on quarterbacks and we talked

1696
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:17,840
Speaker 1: about it a little bit, earlier this week, Steve, when

1697
01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:20,800
Speaker 1: the defense gives up two, not one, but two ten

1698
01:19:20,880 --> 01:19:23,240
Speaker 1: play touchdown drives in the first quarter, you got a

1699
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:25,519
Speaker 1: problem on defense. You better fix all of a sudden.

1700
01:19:25,520 --> 01:19:27,880
Speaker 1: Your quarterback, who's struggling badly, is looking up at the

1701
01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:30,800
Speaker 1: scoreboard and seeing fourteen to nothing, seventeen to nothing, twenty

1702
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 1: to nothing. I gotta come back. I gotta make this throw.

1703
01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:34,639
Speaker 1: I gotta make this play. I mean that all played

1704
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:36,640
Speaker 1: into it last week. That was a defensive failure as

1705
01:19:36,680 --> 01:19:38,639
Speaker 1: well as a quarterback failure. See yeah, I mean there's

1706
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:40,840
Speaker 1: no doubt. You can't dodge the issues. I mean they

1707
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:43,080
Speaker 1: got outplayed in every phase of the game last week,

1708
01:19:43,200 --> 01:19:45,559
Speaker 1: and Baltimore came out. They're very ready to play. They've

1709
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 1: got an established elite. I think he's a leade. I've

1710
01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:51,120
Speaker 1: always said that Joe Flacco is very good. He's a

1711
01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:55,360
Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP for a reason. He's making twenty five

1712
01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:58,800
Speaker 1: million dollars a year for a reason. The guy can

1713
01:19:58,880 --> 01:20:01,439
Speaker 1: sling it. And he's been there for a long time

1714
01:20:01,479 --> 01:20:04,519
Speaker 1: in the same offense. And they got went out and

1715
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:07,120
Speaker 1: got him a whole new group of wide receivers this year,

1716
01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:08,960
Speaker 1: and they had a statement to make coming out of

1717
01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:11,559
Speaker 1: the gate, and they did. They outplayed the Bills at

1718
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:15,479
Speaker 1: every turn, and even in a driving rainstorm, Joe Flacco

1719
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:17,200
Speaker 1: showed the kind of quarterback he is and I think

1720
01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:18,760
Speaker 1: the Bills were the victim of it. But there's no

1721
01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:22,679
Speaker 1: doubt either Bills didn't help themselves on too many occasions

1722
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:26,719
Speaker 1: last week. So I don't think either of those teams

1723
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 1: are as good or as bad as they looked on Sunday.

1724
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:31,640
Speaker 1: Terrell Suggs said that exact same thing to me in

1725
01:20:31,680 --> 01:20:33,560
Speaker 1: a postgame interview. He said this and this, and we

1726
01:20:33,600 --> 01:20:37,519
Speaker 1: ain't that good and they're not that bad. And that's

1727
01:20:37,560 --> 01:20:39,680
Speaker 1: what I expect to see, and it's going to be

1728
01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:41,920
Speaker 1: interesting to see if the Bills can prove it against

1729
01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:45,439
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Let's take a call from Jack in Blaisdell. Jack,

1730
01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:51,559
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air. Hello Jack in Blaisdell. Jack,

1731
01:20:51,600 --> 01:20:55,360
Speaker 1: you've been waiting a while. We'll go to a marketing town.

1732
01:20:55,400 --> 01:20:58,000
Speaker 1: I wan to Hello Mark, Welcome to the show. Hey guys,

1733
01:20:58,040 --> 01:21:01,559
Speaker 1: thanks for having me on. Sure, my biggest concern going

1734
01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:03,639
Speaker 1: into this week was I don't know if you guys

1735
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:06,680
Speaker 1: got a chance to see Kurt Warner's tweet. But I

1736
01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 1: pulled it up, he said. After Washingtonville's offense this past week,

1737
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:13,240
Speaker 1: it was no surprise they struggled. I have no idea

1738
01:21:13,280 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 1: what they're trying to accomplish on a lot of their

1739
01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:19,000
Speaker 1: past concepts. So they had their reasons, but I can't

1740
01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:22,320
Speaker 1: figure them out. That's just calls for concern for me. That.

1741
01:21:22,520 --> 01:21:25,160
Speaker 1: You know, I've met Kurt Warner at the athletes in

1742
01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:28,280
Speaker 1: National Breakfast. You know he's a stand up guy, and

1743
01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:32,640
Speaker 1: you know even he's questioning some of Davil's you know,

1744
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 1: concepts here and I us that's my one of my

1745
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:38,040
Speaker 1: biggest concerns coming into Sunday, and I want to know

1746
01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:40,439
Speaker 1: what you guys thought. Yeah, I didn't. I saw the tweet.

1747
01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 1: I didn't read the article, but I saw the tweet.

1748
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:43,840
Speaker 1: And I do know Kurt. I'm acquainted with Kurt. I've

1749
01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:46,320
Speaker 1: worked with him on radio for Monday Night Football sum

1750
01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:48,280
Speaker 1: as well, and he is a stand up guy. I

1751
01:21:48,320 --> 01:21:50,080
Speaker 1: don't have any reason to doubt what he's thinking. And

1752
01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:53,320
Speaker 1: I know these quarterbacks. I know quarterbacks around the country.

1753
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:56,479
Speaker 1: In fact, that calling the game this week is Mike

1754
01:21:56,560 --> 01:22:00,680
Speaker 1: McCarthy and Steve Burline, my former booth partner. They all

1755
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:03,560
Speaker 1: have opinions about offenses and how quarterbacks are treat It

1756
01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 1: is right, you know, you're right. It's concerning to think about.

1757
01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:08,080
Speaker 1: But I do know this. I got a lot of

1758
01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:10,960
Speaker 1: faith in this coaching staff and Brian Dabole is a

1759
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:13,800
Speaker 1: very experienced offensive coordinator, and they probably they had a

1760
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:18,880
Speaker 1: lot of ideas and a lot of reasoning behind the

1761
01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:22,320
Speaker 1: concepts they were using in the game. Certainly that probably

1762
01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:24,720
Speaker 1: changes the game went on with the conditions and what

1763
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:26,360
Speaker 1: their players were able to do and what they weren't

1764
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 1: able to do. But no doubt that game looked bad

1765
01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:32,560
Speaker 1: in on a lot of levels, let alone what the

1766
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:35,720
Speaker 1: film said. So I'm interested to read that. I haven't

1767
01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:37,639
Speaker 1: read that yet or what Kurt Warner said. I'll try

1768
01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:41,240
Speaker 1: to do that, but yeah, everybody's chiming in on it

1769
01:22:41,280 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 1: when you have a game like that. Thanks for your call.

1770
01:22:43,320 --> 01:22:44,960
Speaker 1: We're going to take a break where you're gonna come

1771
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:46,400
Speaker 1: back to Jerry, who was going to join this when

1772
01:22:46,640 --> 01:22:48,960
Speaker 1: Bill's practice end. Sounds like they're still going on out

1773
01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:50,960
Speaker 1: there in the stadium. That's some Hall of Fame news.

1774
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:52,960
Speaker 1: When we return, we'll talk about that. Come on back,

1775
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:55,439
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Driving This is Buffalo

1776
01:22:55,560 --> 01:23:15,400
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back to the show, John Murphy, Ce Tasker,

1777
01:23:15,439 --> 01:23:16,760
Speaker 1: do you have a question for men, Steve? What are

1778
01:23:16,800 --> 01:23:19,040
Speaker 1: we doing this segment? I'll tell you what we're doing.

1779
01:23:19,760 --> 01:23:21,960
Speaker 1: We are in the presence of greatness, ladies and gentlemen.

1780
01:23:22,280 --> 01:23:24,799
Speaker 1: I think we all knew that, but the Pro Football

1781
01:23:24,800 --> 01:23:27,800
Speaker 1: all shame asked. The Pro Football Hall of Fame is

1782
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:30,479
Speaker 1: out just now with its list of one hundred two

1783
01:23:30,600 --> 01:23:32,880
Speaker 1: Modern Era nominees for the Hall of Fames class of

1784
01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:37,320
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, including four players eligible for their first year,

1785
01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:41,120
Speaker 1: including twenty Gonzalez. He's a Hall of Famer, right, London Fletcher.

1786
01:23:41,720 --> 01:23:45,519
Speaker 1: I don't know. Cornerback Champ Bailey, I don't know safety

1787
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:47,600
Speaker 1: Ed Reid, he's a Hall of Famer. You know what

1788
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:50,200
Speaker 1: else is on the list. This guy, Steve Tasker is

1789
01:23:50,240 --> 01:23:54,000
Speaker 1: one of two special teamers nominated Modern era nominee. We

1790
01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:56,080
Speaker 1: have to counter up Hall of Fame counts. Now we're

1791
01:23:56,120 --> 01:24:00,320
Speaker 1: up to forty nine mentions for se Brian Mitchell. Yeah,

1792
01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 1: I'd vote for him. Would you wouldn't vote for yourself

1793
01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:05,080
Speaker 1: before him? Before me? I'd vote for him. Really? Yeah,

1794
01:24:05,439 --> 01:24:07,599
Speaker 1: if you get if you go to the total yardy

1795
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:10,599
Speaker 1: career yardage for every player in the National Football League history.

1796
01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:13,920
Speaker 1: In every player in history, the first name that comes

1797
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:21,840
Speaker 1: after all the quarterbacks is Brian Mitchell. Really yep, Punder's kickers.

1798
01:24:21,920 --> 01:24:25,920
Speaker 1: Jason elam Is is a finalist, a nominee, not a finalist.

1799
01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 1: Jeff Beagles punter is a nominee. Sean Landetta punter is

1800
01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:31,439
Speaker 1: a nominee. I'm blocked one of eagles punts. Well, then

1801
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:35,600
Speaker 1: let's cross him off. You're gone. But Steve is a

1802
01:24:36,360 --> 01:24:38,840
Speaker 1: one under two modern ran nominees. Here's how it works.

1803
01:24:39,040 --> 01:24:40,920
Speaker 1: And you've been here before, right, you've done been in

1804
01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:42,479
Speaker 1: the one hunder two. How many years have you done

1805
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:44,960
Speaker 1: been in one hundred two or in the nominees? You've

1806
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:47,439
Speaker 1: been a lot. I know, I don't know. You know,

1807
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:51,800
Speaker 1: I'm guessing. I don't know not all. I've been eligible

1808
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:55,439
Speaker 1: for like fifteen or sixteen years and I've been on

1809
01:24:55,720 --> 01:24:57,879
Speaker 1: I don't know most years. I guess I get nominated

1810
01:24:57,920 --> 01:25:00,799
Speaker 1: by somebody. So there'll be eighteen FI the list presented

1811
01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:03,800
Speaker 1: to the selection committee. They got to boil it down

1812
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:06,280
Speaker 1: from this group one or two to eighteen. They'll be

1813
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:08,719
Speaker 1: presented to the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection Committee

1814
01:25:08,760 --> 01:25:11,960
Speaker 1: during selection Saturday day before the Super Bowl. The finalists

1815
01:25:11,960 --> 01:25:14,760
Speaker 1: will also consist of will consists of fifteen modern era

1816
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:17,200
Speaker 1: finalists from this one or to two lists, the senior

1817
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:22,160
Speaker 1: finalists Johnny Robinson and contributor finalists Pat Bolland and Gil Brandt.

1818
01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:25,599
Speaker 1: The Selection Committee meets a Saturday, February second in Atlanta

1819
01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:27,720
Speaker 1: to elect the class of twenty nineteen for the Pro

1820
01:25:27,840 --> 01:25:29,840
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame. Steve is in there, one of

1821
01:25:29,880 --> 01:25:32,400
Speaker 1: the one or to two modern era nominees for the

1822
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:34,800
Speaker 1: Hall of Fames Class of twenty nineteen. How do you

1823
01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:37,840
Speaker 1: feel about that? Don't just give me your usual shrug

1824
01:25:37,880 --> 01:25:40,800
Speaker 1: it off. Oh, I appreciate you that conversation, I really

1825
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:44,160
Speaker 1: Do's a honor being cleared with those guys. It really is.

1826
01:25:44,240 --> 01:25:46,600
Speaker 1: It always is. It's it's pretty awesome you think about it,

1827
01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:51,439
Speaker 1: to get in there and be you know, somebody remembers

1828
01:25:51,479 --> 01:25:55,120
Speaker 1: you still and nominate you. And it was it was,

1829
01:25:55,439 --> 01:25:57,800
Speaker 1: you know, I whether ever it happens from you or not,

1830
01:25:57,880 --> 01:25:59,479
Speaker 1: which I don't, I don't, you know, I don't think

1831
01:25:59,520 --> 01:26:03,000
Speaker 1: it ever will. But I like it. I liked my

1832
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:05,200
Speaker 1: career where it was what happened to me. I liked,

1833
01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:07,760
Speaker 1: you know, what you know, the teams that I was on,

1834
01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:11,519
Speaker 1: I wouldn't change anything about it, even even playing better

1835
01:26:11,560 --> 01:26:14,439
Speaker 1: to get in. You know, I like where I was at.

1836
01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:19,799
Speaker 1: You know, when you see your friends Thurman, Kelly Lofton,

1837
01:26:20,280 --> 01:26:24,639
Speaker 1: Um read who else, Bruce your coach, When you see

1838
01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:26,560
Speaker 1: them in there, do you see that their lives have

1839
01:26:26,800 --> 01:26:31,080
Speaker 1: changed during in fact been enhanced by inclusion the pro football? Certainly?

1840
01:26:31,200 --> 01:26:34,120
Speaker 1: How so? And how could you not want that for yourself? Oh?

1841
01:26:34,160 --> 01:26:36,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. How are their lives better? How? What

1842
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:39,840
Speaker 1: has it done for them? Well? I don't know. I

1843
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:43,120
Speaker 1: think I think there might be, Um, there might be

1844
01:26:43,320 --> 01:26:48,360
Speaker 1: some some ability to you know, kind of kick back

1845
01:26:48,400 --> 01:26:51,200
Speaker 1: and retire and you know, and make parentss as hall

1846
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:52,840
Speaker 1: of famers and kind of hobby backs. You know, you

1847
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:54,720
Speaker 1: heard the Field of Dreams trip he took. That'd be

1848
01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:56,360
Speaker 1: some cool stuff to do. Yes, as a hall of

1849
01:26:56,400 --> 01:26:59,040
Speaker 1: fame and money, you can say the word money. There's

1850
01:26:59,120 --> 01:27:01,280
Speaker 1: more there may be. I don't know. They don't share

1851
01:27:01,320 --> 01:27:03,400
Speaker 1: that with anybody, but you know they kind of give

1852
01:27:03,400 --> 01:27:05,040
Speaker 1: you this eye roll, like, yeah, you know they're making

1853
01:27:05,040 --> 01:27:07,080
Speaker 1: a good buck doing it. Hey, listen, I like what

1854
01:27:07,160 --> 01:27:09,479
Speaker 1: I'm doing, you know, I mean, I've started doing this.

1855
01:27:09,720 --> 01:27:11,240
Speaker 1: I took this job because I like doing it. You

1856
01:27:11,479 --> 01:27:13,160
Speaker 1: maybe if you got in the Hall of Fame, you

1857
01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:16,040
Speaker 1: have to do this job. I don't have to do

1858
01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:19,559
Speaker 1: this job. I didn't have to do this job before

1859
01:27:19,600 --> 01:27:22,400
Speaker 1: I took this job. I like this job. That's why,

1860
01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:24,680
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, that's why I took it. You

1861
01:27:24,760 --> 01:27:26,160
Speaker 1: know that you gotta want to be in the Hall

1862
01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 1: of Fame, though, right, I'm sure, man, are you kidding me?

1863
01:27:29,479 --> 01:27:32,200
Speaker 1: My dad's eighty eight. He wants to be in the

1864
01:27:32,240 --> 01:27:35,720
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, let alone me. Yeah, everybody wants to

1865
01:27:35,760 --> 01:27:39,000
Speaker 1: be And believe me, I do appreciate the conversations, and

1866
01:27:39,120 --> 01:27:42,200
Speaker 1: I know people mean the best because it's it's always

1867
01:27:42,240 --> 01:27:44,880
Speaker 1: that kind of catch phrase when somebody they don't they

1868
01:27:44,960 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 1: meet you and they kind of know who I am,

1869
01:27:46,479 --> 01:27:49,320
Speaker 1: they recognize my name for whatever reason, and it's kind

1870
01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:51,680
Speaker 1: of the the catch phrase they hey, I really think

1871
01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:53,040
Speaker 1: you should be in the Hall of Fame. It's kind

1872
01:27:53,040 --> 01:27:56,120
Speaker 1: of a conversation starter for most people. I appreciate it.

1873
01:27:57,720 --> 01:27:59,360
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what. When I go and I

1874
01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:01,600
Speaker 1: went to all and I went to when Jim got in,

1875
01:28:01,680 --> 01:28:03,679
Speaker 1: when Marv got in, when Thurman got in, when James

1876
01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:06,000
Speaker 1: got in, when Bruce got in, when Andre got in,

1877
01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:09,479
Speaker 1: when Ralph got in, when Bill Polian got in. I mean,

1878
01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:11,560
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of guys from that club. So I

1879
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:16,439
Speaker 1: went to all of them. And every single time when

1880
01:28:16,479 --> 01:28:19,479
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there in that in that arena down in Canton,

1881
01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:22,479
Speaker 1: and they present those gold jacket and the guy comes

1882
01:28:22,560 --> 01:28:24,560
Speaker 1: up and they walk across that thing and they and

1883
01:28:24,640 --> 01:28:27,160
Speaker 1: they introduce all the old Hall of Famers that are there,

1884
01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:31,640
Speaker 1: and and you get a sense of you know, this

1885
01:28:31,800 --> 01:28:33,519
Speaker 1: was right in my wheelhouse. I mean, I grew up

1886
01:28:33,840 --> 01:28:35,880
Speaker 1: when all these Hall of Famers were great, and I

1887
01:28:36,040 --> 01:28:38,200
Speaker 1: remember them, and I remember watching them, and I remember

1888
01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:40,240
Speaker 1: who they are. I remember moments about their careers and

1889
01:28:40,320 --> 01:28:43,000
Speaker 1: the guys that even the current guys since I finished playing,

1890
01:28:43,680 --> 01:28:47,479
Speaker 1: so that I've covered in the league. You know, when

1891
01:28:47,520 --> 01:28:49,960
Speaker 1: you sit there and watch all those guys be presented

1892
01:28:50,640 --> 01:28:55,960
Speaker 1: and see career highlights, man, you got I mean, how

1893
01:28:56,040 --> 01:28:57,880
Speaker 1: do you sit there and say, oh, yeah, I belong

1894
01:28:57,960 --> 01:29:00,560
Speaker 1: in that group. You know, I just can't get I

1895
01:29:00,640 --> 01:29:03,720
Speaker 1: can't get there. I cannot get there. You know what

1896
01:29:03,880 --> 01:29:05,640
Speaker 1: that is? I need to think about it. Yeah, and

1897
01:29:05,680 --> 01:29:07,439
Speaker 1: you see what I'm like, Yeah, I can't wait till

1898
01:29:07,479 --> 01:29:11,400
Speaker 1: my turn comes up. There are guys like that. Yeah,

1899
01:29:11,439 --> 01:29:14,599
Speaker 1: I just thought there are guys out there going, well,

1900
01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:16,000
Speaker 1: when I get in, I'm gonna say this at my

1901
01:29:16,080 --> 01:29:17,720
Speaker 1: speech and I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna have

1902
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:20,360
Speaker 1: this at my party. And I'm like, wow, yeah, you know,

1903
01:29:20,800 --> 01:29:23,880
Speaker 1: because I'm not there, I can't get there. And that's

1904
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:25,679
Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of where I'm kind of happy

1905
01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:29,280
Speaker 1: in that spot. Okay. And Plus, I never want to

1906
01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:32,400
Speaker 1: be that guy who and this has happened where a

1907
01:29:32,439 --> 01:29:37,400
Speaker 1: guy will hire a a PR firm to get them in.

1908
01:29:37,520 --> 01:29:39,680
Speaker 1: You're anticipating my next question, what do we gotta do

1909
01:29:39,760 --> 01:29:42,960
Speaker 1: to make this happen? Now? Yeah, let's go. I manage guys,

1910
01:29:42,960 --> 01:29:45,000
Speaker 1: I've got people here. I manage this campaign. Let me

1911
01:29:45,040 --> 01:29:46,840
Speaker 1: get you elected to the Hall of Fame. I've done this. Listen.

1912
01:29:46,920 --> 01:29:50,680
Speaker 1: That makes me, really, that makes me kind of uncomfortable

1913
01:29:51,360 --> 01:29:53,800
Speaker 1: in a serious way. I don't like it. The fact

1914
01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:57,439
Speaker 1: that some of these guys, you know, they felt like

1915
01:29:57,560 --> 01:30:01,600
Speaker 1: it was necessary for them to hire a committee or

1916
01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:05,559
Speaker 1: a firm, PR firm, or a publicist or a group

1917
01:30:05,640 --> 01:30:10,320
Speaker 1: of people to get them in. Basically, yeah, they hire

1918
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:16,759
Speaker 1: somebody who voters, Oh, favors too, to leverage those favors

1919
01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:20,400
Speaker 1: to get votes. And I don't know that bothers me.

1920
01:30:20,640 --> 01:30:22,280
Speaker 1: I understand that too, and I don't. I don't want

1921
01:30:22,280 --> 01:30:23,760
Speaker 1: to get in like that. So listen to you. If

1922
01:30:23,760 --> 01:30:25,559
Speaker 1: you do get in, will you go at least to Canton?

1923
01:30:25,600 --> 01:30:27,760
Speaker 1: Will you go to the ceremony? I probably you can

1924
01:30:27,800 --> 01:30:31,280
Speaker 1: probably count on the show. Yeah, it's great. Congratulations we're

1925
01:30:31,400 --> 01:30:33,800
Speaker 1: making fun of and I'm glad. I'm glad for all

1926
01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:35,720
Speaker 1: those guys because every one of the guys, there's one

1927
01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:38,280
Speaker 1: hundred and two guys, you know, one hundred and one

1928
01:30:38,360 --> 01:30:40,240
Speaker 1: besides me, and let me tell you something, all of

1929
01:30:40,320 --> 01:30:42,960
Speaker 1: them that means something too. That's cool. Congratulations, I appreciate.

1930
01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:45,919
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, one of one under two Modern era nominees

1931
01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:48,479
Speaker 1: for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of twenty nineteen,

1932
01:30:49,120 --> 01:30:50,760
Speaker 1: just found out today. We just got the word today.

1933
01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:52,880
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. I'm gonna talk with Jerry Hughes in

1934
01:30:52,960 --> 01:30:54,439
Speaker 1: the third and final hour of the show. Come on

1935
01:30:54,560 --> 01:30:57,080
Speaker 1: back for that One Bill's Live from One Bill's Driving.

1936
01:30:57,160 --> 01:31:13,160
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Hello Hills Radio Network. Story date.

1937
01:31:13,320 --> 01:31:15,439
Speaker 1: If they come from One Bill's Drive, the Bills are

1938
01:31:15,560 --> 01:31:17,880
Speaker 1: just now wrapping up date two on the practice field

1939
01:31:17,880 --> 01:31:20,080
Speaker 1: as they gets set for the Los Angeles Chargers coming

1940
01:31:20,120 --> 01:31:22,880
Speaker 1: to town on Sunday, the home opener for Buffalo. Josh

1941
01:31:22,920 --> 01:31:25,839
Speaker 1: Allen gets through another day on the field as Buffalo

1942
01:31:25,920 --> 01:31:30,639
Speaker 1: starting quarterback. The Bills yesterday play a practice without cornerback

1943
01:31:31,439 --> 01:31:34,759
Speaker 1: Ron Johnson with the shoulder and defensive end Shack Lawson

1944
01:31:34,800 --> 01:31:37,960
Speaker 1: with a hamstring. No official update on today's injury report yet.

1945
01:31:38,240 --> 01:31:42,240
Speaker 1: Overnight last night, the Bills claimed off waivers offensive lineman Butker,

1946
01:31:42,320 --> 01:31:45,160
Speaker 1: a rookie free agent from Iowa who spent offseason in

1947
01:31:45,240 --> 01:31:47,120
Speaker 1: training camp with the Bills. Released by the Bills on

1948
01:31:47,160 --> 01:31:49,439
Speaker 1: the final cutdown, Bucker went to the Chiefs and was

1949
01:31:49,479 --> 01:31:53,000
Speaker 1: released just a week ago. Resigned to the Bills roster. Yesterday,

1950
01:31:53,240 --> 01:31:56,280
Speaker 1: i Butcker added to the roster. The Bills released cornerback

1951
01:31:56,360 --> 01:31:59,840
Speaker 1: Ryan Lewis, who they just claimed off New England's cuts

1952
01:32:00,080 --> 01:32:02,719
Speaker 1: week or so ago. Bills and Chargers Sunday one o'clock

1953
01:32:02,800 --> 01:32:04,959
Speaker 1: kick off a new arafield. We got the radio broadcast

1954
01:32:05,320 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 1: on our flagship in Buffalo, WGR Sports Radio five fifty. Myself,

1955
01:32:09,080 --> 01:32:12,200
Speaker 1: Mark Council sal Capaccio on the sidelines Joey Bosa will

1956
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:15,200
Speaker 1: not play for the San Diego Chargers, miss his second

1957
01:32:15,240 --> 01:32:18,400
Speaker 1: game of the season with a foot injury. Anthony Lynn

1958
01:32:18,439 --> 01:32:21,400
Speaker 1: confirmed that earlier today. He says he's week to week,

1959
01:32:21,439 --> 01:32:23,840
Speaker 1: but will probably be out for the next couple of weeks.

1960
01:32:24,120 --> 01:32:26,000
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame is out with a list

1961
01:32:26,080 --> 01:32:28,800
Speaker 1: of one under two Modern era nominees for the Hall

1962
01:32:28,800 --> 01:32:31,839
Speaker 1: of Fames class of twenty nineteen. On that list of nominees,

1963
01:32:32,040 --> 01:32:33,920
Speaker 1: my partner here in the broadcast, Steve Tasker, is a

1964
01:32:33,960 --> 01:32:38,440
Speaker 1: special teamer wide receiver Ian Brian Mitchell. Two special teamers nominated.

1965
01:32:38,520 --> 01:32:40,639
Speaker 1: The Hall of Fame will narrow it down to eighteen

1966
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:43,519
Speaker 1: finalists and the voters boat next February and the Pro

1967
01:32:43,560 --> 01:32:46,120
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame for twenty nineteen. The NFL Weekend

1968
01:32:46,200 --> 01:32:49,080
Speaker 1: starts tonight. The Baltimore Ravens, fresh off their victory over

1969
01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:51,439
Speaker 1: the Bills, go to Cincinnati to play the Bengals tonight.

1970
01:32:51,720 --> 01:32:55,240
Speaker 1: Ravens had six different players score offensive touchdowns in Week

1971
01:32:55,320 --> 01:32:58,560
Speaker 1: one against Buffalo. Joe Mixon with a big game for

1972
01:32:58,720 --> 01:33:01,280
Speaker 1: the Bengals in their opener last week, one hundred forty

1973
01:33:01,360 --> 01:33:04,600
Speaker 1: nine scrimmage yards in Cincinnati's win one to no Cincinnati

1974
01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:07,760
Speaker 1: one to oh Baltimore eight twenty tonight in Cincinnati, and

1975
01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:11,639
Speaker 1: the Savers start training camp tomorrow. Practices tomorrow are open.

1976
01:33:11,800 --> 01:33:14,080
Speaker 1: A's the update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy Steve

1977
01:33:14,160 --> 01:33:19,040
Speaker 1: Tasker in our One Buffalo Studio again, congratulations Steve on

1978
01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:20,280
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. I think that's pretty cool. We

1979
01:33:20,280 --> 01:33:21,960
Speaker 1: don't have to dwell on that. Here's what we want

1980
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:26,639
Speaker 1: to talk about Tonight's game. Two teams that Bills fans got. Yeah,

1981
01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:29,160
Speaker 1: one more vote every time you say that, Steve, Steve,

1982
01:33:29,200 --> 01:33:30,120
Speaker 1: do you think of me in the Hall of Fame?

1983
01:33:30,240 --> 01:33:34,240
Speaker 1: Game Steve? Tonight's game Baltimore Cincinnati. Bills fans gotta feel

1984
01:33:34,520 --> 01:33:37,160
Speaker 1: fairly familiar with these two. Baltimore from last week, the

1985
01:33:37,200 --> 01:33:38,840
Speaker 1: Bengals from a couple of weeks ago, what was in

1986
01:33:38,880 --> 01:33:43,080
Speaker 1: August twenty six in the third preseason game. The Bills

1987
01:33:43,200 --> 01:33:45,400
Speaker 1: obviously don't play the Bengals this year. They just lost

1988
01:33:45,439 --> 01:33:48,880
Speaker 1: to Baltimore. You wonder how much attention Bills fans will

1989
01:33:49,080 --> 01:33:50,760
Speaker 1: will pay to this game tonight. I would think a

1990
01:33:50,760 --> 01:33:52,960
Speaker 1: little bit. Huh Yeah, I think so. I think they

1991
01:33:53,040 --> 01:33:55,080
Speaker 1: want to because they just saw Cincinnati and they want

1992
01:33:55,120 --> 01:33:57,439
Speaker 1: to get another look at Baltimore and say, you know

1993
01:33:57,840 --> 01:34:01,640
Speaker 1: to me because I want to double check as to

1994
01:34:01,720 --> 01:34:04,439
Speaker 1: how good the Baltimore Ravens looked against the Buffalo Bills,

1995
01:34:04,439 --> 01:34:06,600
Speaker 1: because if they come out and what happens. What do

1996
01:34:06,680 --> 01:34:08,559
Speaker 1: you think if the Baltimore Ravens come out and get

1997
01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:12,400
Speaker 1: smoked forty seven to three. First of all, it'd be stunned,

1998
01:34:12,960 --> 01:34:16,760
Speaker 1: right that they gave up uh fourteen points? A little yeah,

1999
01:34:16,880 --> 01:34:20,599
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I mean, listen, I'm I don't

2000
01:34:20,640 --> 01:34:23,160
Speaker 1: want to pile on anybody, but I hope the Cincinnati

2001
01:34:23,240 --> 01:34:27,439
Speaker 1: Bengals look horrible against that team. Might me feel better? Yeah,

2002
01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:31,120
Speaker 1: I think would this look it would don't give me that.

2003
01:34:31,200 --> 01:34:32,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if it would. Oh, come on, if

2004
01:34:32,960 --> 01:34:35,960
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens go out, it would. If the Baltimore

2005
01:34:36,040 --> 01:34:42,639
Speaker 1: Ravens go out and crush crush the Bengals, then Bills

2006
01:34:42,680 --> 01:34:46,479
Speaker 1: fans are gonna go, oh, it's not just us, right,

2007
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:49,240
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right. And this goes kind of to

2008
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:52,160
Speaker 1: our theme of the day, like what did that last Sunday?

2009
01:34:52,200 --> 01:34:55,160
Speaker 1: Duty your expectations for the season that last Sunday? Maybe

2010
01:34:55,360 --> 01:34:58,599
Speaker 1: you know, if the Baltimore Ravens wonted win at Cincinnati

2011
01:34:58,640 --> 01:35:01,360
Speaker 1: to night forty seven to three. We'll ask the question

2012
01:35:01,400 --> 01:35:02,920
Speaker 1: again tomorrow. Now, what do you think of that, Bills?

2013
01:35:03,160 --> 01:35:05,080
Speaker 1: What about it? If it could be twenty four ten

2014
01:35:05,240 --> 01:35:07,519
Speaker 1: something like, you know, they win a double digit win

2015
01:35:07,880 --> 01:35:12,320
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, you gotta think, okay, yeah, because believe believe me,

2016
01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:14,720
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here thinking, Baltimore it's a pretty good football team.

2017
01:35:14,920 --> 01:35:19,320
Speaker 1: I think by NFL standards, I think Cincinnati is too.

2018
01:35:19,360 --> 01:35:21,160
Speaker 1: So if they go if Baltimore does go in there

2019
01:35:21,160 --> 01:35:22,880
Speaker 1: and kind of rolls over him with a you know,

2020
01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:27,160
Speaker 1: with a seven ten point lead, even I think and yeah, okay,

2021
01:35:27,280 --> 01:35:30,600
Speaker 1: Baltimore is pretty legit, okay, you know, and then and

2022
01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:33,280
Speaker 1: then it's like, okay, all right, we you know, I

2023
01:35:33,360 --> 01:35:36,280
Speaker 1: can maybe just hang onto the bandwagon with one hand. Now.

2024
01:35:36,320 --> 01:35:39,600
Speaker 1: At least I think if this has the makings of

2025
01:35:39,640 --> 01:35:41,080
Speaker 1: a good game, I know how we, you know, many

2026
01:35:41,080 --> 01:35:42,920
Speaker 1: of us feel about Thursday night football, but this one

2027
01:35:42,960 --> 01:35:46,880
Speaker 1: could be pretty good. Um, the Ravens looked outstanding obviously

2028
01:35:46,880 --> 01:35:49,920
Speaker 1: against Buffalo. The Bengals looked pretty good. You know, I

2029
01:35:50,000 --> 01:35:52,479
Speaker 1: thought they looked pretty good um last week, and I

2030
01:35:52,520 --> 01:35:54,200
Speaker 1: think they look really good against the Bills back in

2031
01:35:54,320 --> 01:35:56,760
Speaker 1: late August. So we'll see it's an eight twenty kick

2032
01:35:56,800 --> 01:35:59,760
Speaker 1: off Paul Brown Stadium, Ravens and Bengals. Hey, I was

2033
01:35:59,800 --> 01:36:03,240
Speaker 1: looking up more informential on the Bills game. The referee

2034
01:36:03,280 --> 01:36:04,960
Speaker 1: for Sunday. First of all, the weather's gonna be great,

2035
01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:08,880
Speaker 1: sunny in eighty two. Referee is Clay Martin. Is that

2036
01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:12,120
Speaker 1: name familiar? No, it's his first a year as an

2037
01:36:12,200 --> 01:36:17,439
Speaker 1: NFL referee, the Bills head Bills said Shanna Hockeyle last

2038
01:36:17,479 --> 01:36:20,000
Speaker 1: week his first game as an NFL referee. Now they

2039
01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:22,680
Speaker 1: get another guy, Clay Martin, who's been an umpiring the

2040
01:36:22,760 --> 01:36:24,559
Speaker 1: league for I think three or four or six years

2041
01:36:24,640 --> 01:36:26,400
Speaker 1: or something. So I was on the on the sidelines

2042
01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:29,639
Speaker 1: as the reporter for you know, Kevin Harlan rich Gannon.

2043
01:36:29,720 --> 01:36:33,040
Speaker 1: I was in the truck broadcast trucks before the game,

2044
01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:35,800
Speaker 1: and Sean Hockeley came into the trucks, you know, because

2045
01:36:35,800 --> 01:36:37,439
Speaker 1: the officials always go into the trucks and they talk

2046
01:36:37,479 --> 01:36:40,719
Speaker 1: about the time period, the timesheet and how they're gonna

2047
01:36:40,760 --> 01:36:43,400
Speaker 1: do some things. Each each official has a crew, the

2048
01:36:43,439 --> 01:36:46,639
Speaker 1: whole crew has a meeting with the production crew, meaning

2049
01:36:46,680 --> 01:36:49,240
Speaker 1: our producer, our director, about how they're going to handle timeouts.

2050
01:36:49,240 --> 01:36:52,640
Speaker 1: And stuff like that, and sure enough Ed hockey Lee

2051
01:36:52,720 --> 01:36:54,880
Speaker 1: was at the game. Ye. Ed came in. Yeah. Ed

2052
01:36:55,000 --> 01:36:57,720
Speaker 1: came into that and said, hey, and so is Mike Carry. Yeah.

2053
01:36:58,000 --> 01:37:00,400
Speaker 1: So I'm we're sitting there talking to the both of him.

2054
01:37:00,520 --> 01:37:02,839
Speaker 1: Ed Hockeyley, I mean, you talk about a guy. He's retires,

2055
01:37:02,920 --> 01:37:07,080
Speaker 1: growing a beard, sold the house, sold the car, but

2056
01:37:07,280 --> 01:37:09,519
Speaker 1: an RV. They're headed around the country, him and his

2057
01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:12,200
Speaker 1: wife friends. He says, I'm loving and we're just do

2058
01:37:12,280 --> 01:37:14,320
Speaker 1: we just cut loose? And so he did. He flew in,

2059
01:37:14,680 --> 01:37:17,880
Speaker 1: they parked the RV. I guess in Idaho. His wife's there.

2060
01:37:18,160 --> 01:37:20,160
Speaker 1: He flew in for this game. Mike Carry and he

2061
01:37:20,320 --> 01:37:22,760
Speaker 1: have been close friends. Mike Carry is the guy um

2062
01:37:22,920 --> 01:37:25,360
Speaker 1: there was a CBS rules analyst for a year two

2063
01:37:25,479 --> 01:37:28,919
Speaker 1: years ago, and they flew in and watched Sean Hockiley

2064
01:37:29,000 --> 01:37:31,639
Speaker 1: do the Bills Baltimore game last week. I was teasing

2065
01:37:31,680 --> 01:37:33,800
Speaker 1: too because I thought, Okay, I didn't get a chance

2066
01:37:33,800 --> 01:37:35,280
Speaker 1: to say it on the air, but I wonder if

2067
01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:38,200
Speaker 1: Sean Hockey's really gonna give a dissertation on his first

2068
01:37:38,560 --> 01:37:40,439
Speaker 1: you know call, like his dad d did. And sure

2069
01:37:40,560 --> 01:37:42,320
Speaker 1: enough it was a triple penalty and he came in

2070
01:37:42,400 --> 01:37:44,600
Speaker 1: and had to talk for like five minutes. Hey, I

2071
01:37:44,760 --> 01:37:48,640
Speaker 1: think I thought Sean Hockiley did a bad job Sunday did,

2072
01:37:48,720 --> 01:37:50,280
Speaker 1: You said, yeah, I did? I did. I think there

2073
01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:52,360
Speaker 1: are a number of calls, and look, it had nothing

2074
01:37:52,400 --> 01:37:55,720
Speaker 1: to do with the magnitude of Buffalo's defeat. But he

2075
01:37:55,840 --> 01:37:58,600
Speaker 1: just had some bad calls because I didn't I didn't know.

2076
01:37:58,680 --> 01:38:00,840
Speaker 1: I can't think of him. Yeah, tips, So I watched

2077
01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:02,920
Speaker 1: a game overthinking that's not right. There was a hold

2078
01:38:03,040 --> 01:38:06,360
Speaker 1: that I thought was suspect, the Passt deference on Tron

2079
01:38:06,479 --> 01:38:10,200
Speaker 1: Johnson uncatchable ball clearly and he called it and forced it.

2080
01:38:10,520 --> 01:38:13,559
Speaker 1: I thought he over officiated. I thought Sunday's game, Now,

2081
01:38:14,200 --> 01:38:17,520
Speaker 1: that's not why the Bills lost. The Bills were outplayed dramatically.

2082
01:38:17,560 --> 01:38:21,000
Speaker 1: As long as everybody's getting critiqued, Sean Hockley in the list,

2083
01:38:21,120 --> 01:38:23,840
Speaker 1: that's right. Hey, let's talk a little bit about that

2084
01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:26,240
Speaker 1: game and what it did to your expectations for the season,

2085
01:38:26,320 --> 01:38:28,800
Speaker 1: if anything, maybe it didn't. We'll take your calls. Eight

2086
01:38:28,880 --> 01:38:31,720
Speaker 1: oh three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight

2087
01:38:31,840 --> 01:38:34,240
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. Jerry Hues we think is

2088
01:38:34,240 --> 01:38:35,599
Speaker 1: going to join us a little bit later in the hour.

2089
01:38:35,680 --> 01:38:37,519
Speaker 1: They've just come off the practice field. He's getting in

2090
01:38:37,640 --> 01:38:41,080
Speaker 1: his Thursday lift right now. A call from Mark and

2091
01:38:41,160 --> 01:38:45,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo Marco ahead, you're on the air. Gentlemen. Hey, you know,

2092
01:38:45,479 --> 01:38:47,439
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's done in my expectations. I

2093
01:38:47,479 --> 01:38:50,000
Speaker 1: guess it lowered them. But I'm not gonna ready to

2094
01:38:50,120 --> 01:38:53,320
Speaker 1: jump off the Brooklyn Bridge just after one game. I'm

2095
01:38:53,320 --> 01:38:56,920
Speaker 1: still behind him. Anyways. You know what, mister Tasker, don't

2096
01:38:56,920 --> 01:38:59,600
Speaker 1: cut yourself short. You are a Hall of Famer. You

2097
01:38:59,640 --> 01:39:02,320
Speaker 1: are the special teams players I've ever seen. I'm fifty

2098
01:39:02,400 --> 01:39:05,040
Speaker 1: five years old. You belong in there. People forget one

2099
01:39:05,120 --> 01:39:07,400
Speaker 1: other thing. They used you as a wide receiver for

2100
01:39:07,479 --> 01:39:10,120
Speaker 1: a while and you were great. You got beat up.

2101
01:39:10,200 --> 01:39:12,360
Speaker 1: You were smaller than they were, but you were great

2102
01:39:12,400 --> 01:39:15,960
Speaker 1: at that. Also, and mister Murphy, you're both Hall of Famer.

2103
01:39:16,040 --> 01:39:18,799
Speaker 1: You replaced a great Van Miller. You've got your own style.

2104
01:39:19,040 --> 01:39:22,400
Speaker 1: You're great. Also, gentlemen, have a great thing. Great call, Mark,

2105
01:39:24,720 --> 01:39:27,719
Speaker 1: Thanks Mark, Thank you for doing that. Yeah, I gotta

2106
01:39:27,720 --> 01:39:29,200
Speaker 1: get it. I guess I'm gonna get my own Hall

2107
01:39:29,200 --> 01:39:32,000
Speaker 1: of Fame count. That is great starting. I'm giving Steve

2108
01:39:32,200 --> 01:39:34,000
Speaker 1: what a fifty five vote edge in the Hall of

2109
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:38,160
Speaker 1: Fame vote. Hell, I needs forty two votes. A call

2110
01:39:38,280 --> 01:39:41,160
Speaker 1: here from Jim and Jamestown. Hi, Jim, go ahead, you're

2111
01:39:41,200 --> 01:39:44,400
Speaker 1: on the air with us. Well hang on there you are, Hi, Jim.

2112
01:39:44,439 --> 01:39:48,599
Speaker 1: Are you there? Yeah, I'm here, Yes, can you hear me? Yeah?

2113
01:39:48,640 --> 01:39:52,440
Speaker 1: Go ahead? Yeah. I just like to first said congratulations

2114
01:39:52,479 --> 01:39:56,200
Speaker 1: to Steve. Steve, I met you in twenty fourteen at

2115
01:39:56,520 --> 01:40:00,080
Speaker 1: the induction of Andre Reid. You took the time with

2116
01:40:00,240 --> 01:40:02,680
Speaker 1: my daughter and me, and you're a class act and

2117
01:40:03,400 --> 01:40:05,840
Speaker 1: I wish you the best and if you make the

2118
01:40:05,920 --> 01:40:08,960
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, I'll be there. Wow, so will I

2119
01:40:09,080 --> 01:40:13,240
Speaker 1: if I do. Tell the folks Jim. Thanks, uh. Yeah.

2120
01:40:14,080 --> 01:40:16,200
Speaker 1: It was just an honor to meet you, and you

2121
01:40:16,360 --> 01:40:19,280
Speaker 1: took the time and just very respectful and to my

2122
01:40:19,439 --> 01:40:23,360
Speaker 1: daughter and me. And I'll never forget that one of

2123
01:40:23,360 --> 01:40:25,280
Speaker 1: the because I want to commented the team since I've

2124
01:40:25,320 --> 01:40:28,960
Speaker 1: been a season ticket holder since nineteen eighty three. If you,

2125
01:40:29,160 --> 01:40:32,240
Speaker 1: if you, if you as a fan can't ride this

2126
01:40:32,439 --> 01:40:35,800
Speaker 1: out and give up your season tickets. I've been through

2127
01:40:35,880 --> 01:40:39,120
Speaker 1: good times, bad times, whatever you want to do, but

2128
01:40:39,680 --> 01:40:42,559
Speaker 1: this is my team. I came out of the West

2129
01:40:45,000 --> 01:40:47,680
Speaker 1: and in nineteen eighty three I bought season tickets and

2130
01:40:47,760 --> 01:40:51,080
Speaker 1: I've had them every year. I don't miss the games. Um,

2131
01:40:52,040 --> 01:40:54,760
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a supporter of the team. I'm a

2132
01:40:55,040 --> 01:40:56,960
Speaker 1: you know, financially if you look at it as a

2133
01:40:57,040 --> 01:41:00,960
Speaker 1: season ticket holder, I support the team. And it's a

2134
01:41:01,040 --> 01:41:04,000
Speaker 1: great team. You know, these are you know, if you're

2135
01:41:04,040 --> 01:41:05,880
Speaker 1: gonna if you're gonna hang in with this team and

2136
01:41:05,960 --> 01:41:07,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a part of this team, you're gonna

2137
01:41:07,760 --> 01:41:10,120
Speaker 1: have to ride it as a fan and hope for

2138
01:41:10,240 --> 01:41:13,240
Speaker 1: the best. We've had good years, and I'll be honest

2139
01:41:13,320 --> 01:41:16,280
Speaker 1: with you, one game is not making our season. And

2140
01:41:16,760 --> 01:41:19,280
Speaker 1: who We've had these before, and you can get all

2141
01:41:19,320 --> 01:41:21,679
Speaker 1: in it. But I'll tell you, the minute we start

2142
01:41:21,760 --> 01:41:24,680
Speaker 1: doing well, the media is gonna jump on what a

2143
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:27,720
Speaker 1: great deal, what a great decision they made this and that.

2144
01:41:28,000 --> 01:41:30,800
Speaker 1: So to me, let it play out, Let it be

2145
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:33,519
Speaker 1: what it is. Thanks for taking my call. Thanks Jim,

2146
01:41:33,560 --> 01:41:37,479
Speaker 1: good perspective of you. Yeah, it's get a little nostalgic there.

2147
01:41:37,560 --> 01:41:40,120
Speaker 1: Since nineteen eighty three, and then listen, a lot of

2148
01:41:40,160 --> 01:41:42,880
Speaker 1: people will tell you they thought the bad times lasted

2149
01:41:42,920 --> 01:41:47,599
Speaker 1: too long. Between nineteen ninety nine and twenty seventeen, they did.

2150
01:41:48,040 --> 01:41:51,400
Speaker 1: They did a long time. It was a difficult road

2151
01:41:51,560 --> 01:41:53,640
Speaker 1: and they were they got tired of waiting, and a

2152
01:41:53,720 --> 01:41:56,280
Speaker 1: lot of people did give up their tickets. But this

2153
01:41:56,520 --> 01:41:59,439
Speaker 1: last year they maxed out, so people are back on board,

2154
01:41:59,520 --> 01:42:01,960
Speaker 1: no question about it. And for people who I think

2155
01:42:02,000 --> 01:42:03,400
Speaker 1: there is a little bit of a badge of honor,

2156
01:42:03,439 --> 01:42:05,200
Speaker 1: I don't know for sure. I mean I've had tickets

2157
01:42:05,200 --> 01:42:08,800
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty six, and some people do hold it

2158
01:42:08,840 --> 01:42:10,439
Speaker 1: as a badge of honor. And you think, Murph that

2159
01:42:10,520 --> 01:42:12,200
Speaker 1: they kind of hang in there no matter what, no

2160
01:42:12,280 --> 01:42:14,160
Speaker 1: matter how bad that team gets, they're going to hang

2161
01:42:14,240 --> 01:42:16,120
Speaker 1: in there. I think a lot of most people like it,

2162
01:42:16,320 --> 01:42:19,559
Speaker 1: like the games, like the game day experience, like the NFL.

2163
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:23,479
Speaker 1: I love in this town the NFL. It's it's unique.

2164
01:42:24,080 --> 01:42:27,200
Speaker 1: It's special now every football stadium and you know they're

2165
01:42:27,240 --> 01:42:29,360
Speaker 1: all kind of the same, but they're all unique too

2166
01:42:29,479 --> 01:42:32,280
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and Kansas City's unique, Green Bay's unique,

2167
01:42:32,280 --> 01:42:35,679
Speaker 1: and certainly you know, Buffalo is one of a kind city.

2168
01:42:35,800 --> 01:42:38,600
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, if you have tickets, it's more some

2169
01:42:38,880 --> 01:42:40,519
Speaker 1: For a lot of people, it's more than just about

2170
01:42:40,560 --> 01:42:43,920
Speaker 1: the game. It's about it's about the entire day with

2171
01:42:44,080 --> 01:42:46,120
Speaker 1: the family, with your friends, being out there at the

2172
01:42:46,160 --> 01:42:48,639
Speaker 1: stadium and doing the pregame thing and the postgame thing,

2173
01:42:49,040 --> 01:42:51,439
Speaker 1: and hanging in there through the week for with with

2174
01:42:51,600 --> 01:42:54,519
Speaker 1: guys like us, talking about it with everybody, because everybody

2175
01:42:54,520 --> 01:42:58,599
Speaker 1: in town has got an opinion. Yeah, they as I've

2176
01:42:58,640 --> 01:43:03,080
Speaker 1: found doing this job right, Yeah they do. It's great.

2177
01:43:03,120 --> 01:43:05,360
Speaker 1: We're asking for your opinion. Has that loss in Week

2178
01:43:05,400 --> 01:43:08,760
Speaker 1: one changed your season? A long expectations for the Bill?

2179
01:43:08,840 --> 01:43:10,280
Speaker 1: Steve came in here on Monday and said, Hey, in

2180
01:43:10,320 --> 01:43:12,800
Speaker 1: the locker room, they're talking about next game next week.

2181
01:43:13,280 --> 01:43:16,160
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer kind of made that playing yesterday the Bill

2182
01:43:16,240 --> 01:43:18,800
Speaker 1: safety in the locker room talking about looking ahead, not

2183
01:43:18,880 --> 01:43:21,639
Speaker 1: looking behind, but looking ahead to the game against the Chargers.

2184
01:43:24,040 --> 01:43:27,479
Speaker 1: Anybody competitor would say, it's frustrating, you know, to come

2185
01:43:27,520 --> 01:43:30,240
Speaker 1: out there and perform, you know, the way we did.

2186
01:43:30,280 --> 01:43:32,320
Speaker 1: I think anybody would say it's frustrating. But at the

2187
01:43:32,360 --> 01:43:33,920
Speaker 1: same time, I was telling him and it's something that

2188
01:43:34,360 --> 01:43:36,200
Speaker 1: you know, we have to learn from and something that

2189
01:43:36,280 --> 01:43:39,280
Speaker 1: we have to take into this week preparing for the Chargers,

2190
01:43:39,400 --> 01:43:41,640
Speaker 1: because you know, I was telling him, it's not just

2191
01:43:41,720 --> 01:43:43,600
Speaker 1: it's not that we like we lost three games in

2192
01:43:43,640 --> 01:43:45,160
Speaker 1: a row, two games in a rows, one game. We're

2193
01:43:45,280 --> 01:43:47,760
Speaker 1: on one, you know, and we got an opportunity at

2194
01:43:47,800 --> 01:43:49,280
Speaker 1: home in front of our home fans this weekend, and

2195
01:43:49,360 --> 01:43:51,800
Speaker 1: so we're preparing. Um, let's play. Let's play that game.

2196
01:43:52,040 --> 01:43:53,680
Speaker 1: That's what you'd expect to hear. I guess they are

2197
01:43:53,720 --> 01:43:56,040
Speaker 1: Owen one and Steve this just in. They might go

2198
01:43:56,200 --> 01:43:59,439
Speaker 1: Owen two. Chargers are pretty good, they might go Owen two.

2199
01:43:59,760 --> 01:44:01,760
Speaker 1: We could have the same kind of discussion next week.

2200
01:44:01,880 --> 01:44:05,320
Speaker 1: Very good. Yeah, maybe people, you know, maybe your expectations

2201
01:44:05,439 --> 01:44:08,439
Speaker 1: changed then. But it's a season. It's not a one

2202
01:44:08,520 --> 01:44:11,240
Speaker 1: game season. It's a season. There's sixteen of them. Before

2203
01:44:11,240 --> 01:44:13,960
Speaker 1: you start writing the obituary for the twenty eighteen Buffalo Bills.

2204
01:44:14,400 --> 01:44:16,639
Speaker 1: You know, there's still a pulse here, a strong pulse.

2205
01:44:16,760 --> 01:44:19,360
Speaker 1: I think, you know, there's nobody you know. I think

2206
01:44:19,400 --> 01:44:21,000
Speaker 1: people kind of get carried away, but the ups and

2207
01:44:21,080 --> 01:44:22,599
Speaker 1: downs a little bit. I think one of the things too.

2208
01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:26,599
Speaker 1: I mean, this is when you know that this culture

2209
01:44:26,680 --> 01:44:28,599
Speaker 1: that we heard so much about a year ago, when

2210
01:44:28,680 --> 01:44:31,080
Speaker 1: it kind of carried this team through to the playoffs,

2211
01:44:31,520 --> 01:44:35,320
Speaker 1: the turnover driven defense and the engine that ran the

2212
01:44:35,400 --> 01:44:37,800
Speaker 1: team by the defense getting turnovers in the secondary, that

2213
01:44:37,880 --> 01:44:39,400
Speaker 1: was all new, and yet came through in a big

2214
01:44:39,479 --> 01:44:43,639
Speaker 1: way when they kind of banded together and got themselves

2215
01:44:43,680 --> 01:44:46,519
Speaker 1: through a tough three game winning streak or losing streak

2216
01:44:46,560 --> 01:44:48,680
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season, where they bounced back

2217
01:44:48,720 --> 01:44:51,479
Speaker 1: and went to Kansas City and beat that team, went

2218
01:44:51,560 --> 01:44:54,240
Speaker 1: to Atlanta and beat them, beat the Raiders at home.

2219
01:44:54,320 --> 01:44:57,040
Speaker 1: All these teams with high expectations. You know, it's that

2220
01:44:57,280 --> 01:45:00,439
Speaker 1: culture that was credited in large part as to being

2221
01:45:00,479 --> 01:45:03,439
Speaker 1: the reason why they were able to do that. This,

2222
01:45:03,880 --> 01:45:06,320
Speaker 1: I think is a point where that culture really needs

2223
01:45:06,360 --> 01:45:08,120
Speaker 1: to come through in a big way. I think this

2224
01:45:08,360 --> 01:45:10,600
Speaker 1: is where guys like Jordan Poor or Micah Hyde and

2225
01:45:10,760 --> 01:45:14,439
Speaker 1: Kyle Williams and Lorenzo Alexander and Jerry Hughes, all these

2226
01:45:14,520 --> 01:45:17,120
Speaker 1: guys need to be the ones that stamp say listen, guys,

2227
01:45:17,200 --> 01:45:19,000
Speaker 1: this is not what we're about, and this is how

2228
01:45:19,040 --> 01:45:20,400
Speaker 1: we're going to get better. This is how we're going

2229
01:45:20,439 --> 01:45:22,519
Speaker 1: to improve. This is what we have to do to

2230
01:45:22,640 --> 01:45:25,200
Speaker 1: pull ourselves out of it. It'll be interesting to see

2231
01:45:25,240 --> 01:45:28,320
Speaker 1: them rebound from this inside their locker room if we

2232
01:45:28,400 --> 01:45:30,040
Speaker 1: ever got to look at it. But I think the

2233
01:45:30,400 --> 01:45:32,240
Speaker 1: evidence of it will be on the field. But I

2234
01:45:32,320 --> 01:45:34,160
Speaker 1: think it's a big test form No question I gotta

2235
01:45:34,200 --> 01:45:36,240
Speaker 1: call on the line from Tony on this topic. Tony,

2236
01:45:36,240 --> 01:45:38,680
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air with us. First of all,

2237
01:45:38,720 --> 01:45:41,559
Speaker 1: I'd like to say that when I have a drums

2238
01:45:41,640 --> 01:45:45,920
Speaker 1: like the game that we watched where the Bills got trumped,

2239
01:45:45,960 --> 01:45:49,320
Speaker 1: I try to offset that with a counterbalance. So we

2240
01:45:49,400 --> 01:45:54,519
Speaker 1: went back and watch the Raiders game from the playoffs game,

2241
01:45:54,760 --> 01:45:57,479
Speaker 1: and let me if you had one whale of a

2242
01:45:57,560 --> 01:45:59,720
Speaker 1: game there were just two receivers in front of you

2243
01:46:00,040 --> 01:46:02,160
Speaker 1: were hurt, and you had one wail of the game,

2244
01:46:02,200 --> 01:46:05,160
Speaker 1: you certainly deserve your nomination. Well, I appreciate it. Thanks.

2245
01:46:06,560 --> 01:46:10,120
Speaker 1: Second of all, Uh, I think that someone said this

2246
01:46:10,240 --> 01:46:13,080
Speaker 1: earlier in the show. I don't feel that the problem

2247
01:46:13,200 --> 01:46:16,080
Speaker 1: necessarily was with the offense, which everybody's trying to pin

2248
01:46:16,160 --> 01:46:18,840
Speaker 1: it on. I think the defense gave up much too

2249
01:46:18,960 --> 01:46:21,320
Speaker 1: much early. There was one play I think in the

2250
01:46:21,479 --> 01:46:24,800
Speaker 1: second drive, which was second in twenty seven or twenty eight.

2251
01:46:24,960 --> 01:46:30,240
Speaker 1: Second was third and twenty six twenty nine yards. Oh,

2252
01:46:30,240 --> 01:46:34,120
Speaker 1: I thought it was third, and uh and uh. The

2253
01:46:34,280 --> 01:46:36,960
Speaker 1: thing that encourages me is the defense is six of ball,

2254
01:46:37,200 --> 01:46:39,000
Speaker 1: and I think that they will be the key to

2255
01:46:39,120 --> 01:46:43,519
Speaker 1: keep this team uh in their games and the season.

2256
01:46:43,840 --> 01:46:46,080
Speaker 1: So if the defense gets sixed, I think the offense

2257
01:46:46,160 --> 01:46:47,639
Speaker 1: will be all right. They're not a come from behind

2258
01:46:47,640 --> 01:46:50,360
Speaker 1: the offense, I don't believe. Yeah, no kidding, not with

2259
01:46:50,439 --> 01:46:53,080
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback. Not with a rookie quarterback. No, they're

2260
01:46:53,080 --> 01:46:55,960
Speaker 1: not a come from behind offense. Nobody ever is gonna be.

2261
01:46:55,960 --> 01:46:57,519
Speaker 1: But that's a good point, Tony. You're right. I mean

2262
01:46:57,800 --> 01:47:00,680
Speaker 1: it was Listen, it was a team loss. Yeah you

2263
01:47:00,760 --> 01:47:02,200
Speaker 1: can say it wasn't It wasn't so many. It was

2264
01:47:02,240 --> 01:47:04,160
Speaker 1: the it was the It was both. The offense didn't

2265
01:47:04,160 --> 01:47:08,960
Speaker 1: play well enough. The defense uh got gashed. Uh they

2266
01:47:09,120 --> 01:47:12,720
Speaker 1: and Joe Flacco was really good. The receivers were really good. Um.

2267
01:47:13,080 --> 01:47:15,560
Speaker 1: The only thing the Bills really did was, you know,

2268
01:47:15,600 --> 01:47:19,200
Speaker 1: they held him to seventy five yards rushing, um, which

2269
01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:21,400
Speaker 1: if you're looking for, if you're looking for, you know,

2270
01:47:21,479 --> 01:47:23,640
Speaker 1: a silver lining. Okay, well, they wanted to fix their

2271
01:47:23,680 --> 01:47:25,840
Speaker 1: run defense. It's better than it was, but man, oh man,

2272
01:47:25,920 --> 01:47:29,000
Speaker 1: you can't give up you know, all those yards passing

2273
01:47:29,040 --> 01:47:30,280
Speaker 1: and all those points. I mean, it was a it

2274
01:47:30,400 --> 01:47:34,120
Speaker 1: was a rough day. And uh yeah, the defense was

2275
01:47:34,200 --> 01:47:36,360
Speaker 1: just as culpable as the offense in this one. And

2276
01:47:37,120 --> 01:47:39,840
Speaker 1: you don't lose by that amount, and the special teams

2277
01:47:39,840 --> 01:47:44,439
Speaker 1: were too, even though you know, borchz Uh punted pretty

2278
01:47:44,479 --> 01:47:47,280
Speaker 1: well for his first time in uniform, and he also

2279
01:47:47,360 --> 01:47:51,840
Speaker 1: dropped a kick. You know. Uh, Marcus Murphy played some

2280
01:47:51,920 --> 01:47:54,160
Speaker 1: pretty some pretty good football in the return game and

2281
01:47:54,360 --> 01:47:56,320
Speaker 1: in the as a running back. I think he showed

2282
01:47:56,400 --> 01:47:59,800
Speaker 1: up in a big way, but it wasn't enough, you know,

2283
01:48:00,080 --> 01:48:02,640
Speaker 1: not going to overcome the deficiencies around the rest of

2284
01:48:02,680 --> 01:48:04,280
Speaker 1: the team. Thank you very much for your call, Tony.

2285
01:48:04,360 --> 01:48:08,280
Speaker 1: Let's take a call from John and Rochester. Hello, John, Welcome,

2286
01:48:08,320 --> 01:48:11,679
Speaker 1: go ahead, Hey John and Steve. See what you're getting

2287
01:48:11,680 --> 01:48:18,000
Speaker 1: all these complicated complements. What did you do? Nothing? Steve

2288
01:48:18,160 --> 01:48:20,439
Speaker 1: is one of the finalists. They're not a finalist. They

2289
01:48:20,520 --> 01:48:22,799
Speaker 1: keep saying that he's a nominee for the Pro Football

2290
01:48:22,800 --> 01:48:25,759
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, one of one hundred two nominees. Okay,

2291
01:48:25,840 --> 01:48:28,840
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't hear that, So congratulations you deserve it.

2292
01:48:29,160 --> 01:48:32,400
Speaker 1: I'm one of your biggest stands. Listen, I gotta tell you,

2293
01:48:32,560 --> 01:48:36,120
Speaker 1: I'm I'm still up about this team. And what are

2294
01:48:36,160 --> 01:48:39,240
Speaker 1: the reasons? Is Steve, you remember those games where we

2295
01:48:39,320 --> 01:48:41,920
Speaker 1: were at our peak under the in the Kelly years,

2296
01:48:42,040 --> 01:48:46,200
Speaker 1: Super Bowl years. We got clavered by Kansas City twice,

2297
01:48:46,560 --> 01:48:49,879
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh once in the Jets, once on Monday Night football,

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01:48:50,240 --> 01:48:52,560
Speaker 1: and I think in on the average, I think we

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01:48:52,680 --> 01:48:55,200
Speaker 1: lost by thirty points in each of those games. And

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01:48:55,320 --> 01:48:58,800
Speaker 1: we had a phenomenal team back then. So this game

2301
01:48:59,680 --> 01:49:03,880
Speaker 1: past Sunday, I was bothered by it, but I just

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01:49:04,040 --> 01:49:05,840
Speaker 1: think we can come back strong. What are your what

2303
01:49:05,920 --> 01:49:08,400
Speaker 1: are your thoughts? I think you're saying the same thing. Yeah,

2304
01:49:08,479 --> 01:49:10,960
Speaker 1: we've we've We had Thurman Thomas on earlier in the

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01:49:11,000 --> 01:49:12,720
Speaker 1: show and he and I related a story about what

2306
01:49:12,760 --> 01:49:14,479
Speaker 1: happened to us in one of those games you just mentioned.

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01:49:14,520 --> 01:49:16,400
Speaker 1: We got thumped by Kansas City on a Monday nine,

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01:49:16,520 --> 01:49:19,160
Speaker 1: came back and met that same team in the AFC Championship,

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01:49:19,680 --> 01:49:22,800
Speaker 1: and it's happened. It happened throughout. It happens to good

2310
01:49:22,840 --> 01:49:27,120
Speaker 1: teams no matter. The problem is after a get you know,

2311
01:49:27,240 --> 01:49:30,080
Speaker 1: we're sitting in that spot after a tough loss like

2312
01:49:30,240 --> 01:49:33,880
Speaker 1: that and trying to find a faith in a team,

2313
01:49:34,320 --> 01:49:37,280
Speaker 1: particularly in the Buffalo Bills. Now, this is a team

2314
01:49:37,320 --> 01:49:41,360
Speaker 1: that really hasn't earned that spot where you think that's

2315
01:49:41,400 --> 01:49:42,920
Speaker 1: all right, they're gonna be coming back. We have to

2316
01:49:42,960 --> 01:49:45,880
Speaker 1: see that from them. They did some wonderful things last year.

2317
01:49:46,439 --> 01:49:48,280
Speaker 1: But this is a different team and it's not like

2318
01:49:48,560 --> 01:49:51,280
Speaker 1: they have it's not like they have a super Bowl

2319
01:49:51,320 --> 01:49:54,680
Speaker 1: appearance or two super Bowl appearances under their belt to

2320
01:49:54,800 --> 01:49:56,280
Speaker 1: come back and say, hey, this is a team that

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01:49:56,520 --> 01:49:58,120
Speaker 1: they've been here before, they can do it. This is

2322
01:49:58,120 --> 01:50:01,439
Speaker 1: a team that's relatively new to their success with this

2323
01:50:01,640 --> 01:50:04,800
Speaker 1: coaching staff. They're only in their second year so and

2324
01:50:04,880 --> 01:50:06,519
Speaker 1: this is a team that we don't know about too much.

2325
01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:11,320
Speaker 1: So it's hard to dredge up that same hope or

2326
01:50:11,439 --> 01:50:14,519
Speaker 1: same expectation after a loss like they saw last Sunday.

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01:50:14,560 --> 01:50:16,160
Speaker 1: But I, you know, I do appreciate it, John, that

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01:50:16,280 --> 01:50:18,640
Speaker 1: was you know, that was. I appreciate your words. And

2329
01:50:18,720 --> 01:50:21,880
Speaker 1: you're right, there's no reason to think it could not happen.

2330
01:50:23,600 --> 01:50:25,840
Speaker 1: But how much do you anticipate and expect it it happens.

2331
01:50:25,840 --> 01:50:28,280
Speaker 1: Another story from the tweet sheet is we asked the question,

2332
01:50:28,360 --> 01:50:30,880
Speaker 1: how much did the week one lost in Baltimore change

2333
01:50:30,920 --> 01:50:34,919
Speaker 1: your expectation? Spencer mcindyre tweets in apparently making the playoffs

2334
01:50:34,960 --> 01:50:38,360
Speaker 1: and breaking the street turns fans into we need success

2335
01:50:38,439 --> 01:50:42,240
Speaker 1: today or else. So many irrational thoughts the team lost

2336
01:50:42,280 --> 01:50:45,800
Speaker 1: three linemen two surprisingly, our number two cornerbacks up in

2337
01:50:45,840 --> 01:50:47,960
Speaker 1: the air. We have numerous injuries and there in sunning

2338
01:50:48,000 --> 01:50:51,920
Speaker 1: the new offense. Relax, That's what Spencer McIntyre says. And

2339
01:50:51,960 --> 01:50:54,080
Speaker 1: is that what Aaron Rodgers said famously a couple of

2340
01:50:54,160 --> 01:50:57,519
Speaker 1: years speld it, Yeah, he spelled it. Yeah. Relax. From

2341
01:50:57,600 --> 01:50:59,960
Speaker 1: Thomas Derlac, it's a long season. It's only one game.

2342
01:51:00,520 --> 01:51:03,000
Speaker 1: It becomes concerning the play does not improve over the

2343
01:51:03,080 --> 01:51:05,400
Speaker 1: next few games. Always thought this would be a six

2344
01:51:05,520 --> 01:51:07,800
Speaker 1: or seven win team and that has not changed. That's

2345
01:51:07,880 --> 01:51:09,880
Speaker 1: my position. I think I said that. I know I

2346
01:51:09,960 --> 01:51:12,439
Speaker 1: said that before the season, six seven, eight wins, somewhere

2347
01:51:12,479 --> 01:51:16,680
Speaker 1: in that range. Thomas says, if it doesn't improve over

2348
01:51:16,720 --> 01:51:18,920
Speaker 1: the next few weeks, they're up against it the next

2349
01:51:18,960 --> 01:51:20,759
Speaker 1: few weeks. This is the toughest part of the schedule.

2350
01:51:20,800 --> 01:51:23,080
Speaker 1: They got two road games coming up after the Sunday.

2351
01:51:23,120 --> 01:51:27,040
Speaker 1: They got an extremely high powered offense coming in here Sunday,

2352
01:51:27,200 --> 01:51:29,720
Speaker 1: the Chargers and against the Buffalo defense that did not

2353
01:51:29,880 --> 01:51:32,360
Speaker 1: play well in Baltimore. And then they hit the road

2354
01:51:32,560 --> 01:51:35,479
Speaker 1: for two good offenses, two good teams, Minnesota and Green Bay.

2355
01:51:35,560 --> 01:51:39,400
Speaker 1: It's it's gonna get tougher I think before it gets better. Yeah, yeah,

2356
01:51:39,720 --> 01:51:42,760
Speaker 1: it's it's this is and we saw it coming. We've

2357
01:51:42,800 --> 01:51:44,880
Speaker 1: been talking about it the entire offseason, ever since the

2358
01:51:45,560 --> 01:51:48,160
Speaker 1: schedule was announced. You go to Baltimore, you have the

2359
01:51:48,320 --> 01:51:51,200
Speaker 1: Chargers here, then you go to Minnesota and to Green Bay.

2360
01:51:51,720 --> 01:51:56,000
Speaker 1: Those four really difficult games, and you know, in fact,

2361
01:51:56,080 --> 01:51:57,680
Speaker 1: a lot of people had predicted at the end of

2362
01:51:57,720 --> 01:52:00,799
Speaker 1: those four games is exactly when Josh Allenwood be inserted

2363
01:52:00,840 --> 01:52:02,599
Speaker 1: as a starter. They give him a chance to get

2364
01:52:02,600 --> 01:52:05,519
Speaker 1: past those really rough defenses, those great pass defenses from

2365
01:52:05,520 --> 01:52:08,400
Speaker 1: a year ago, and then ease him into an easier

2366
01:52:08,439 --> 01:52:11,360
Speaker 1: stretch of the schedule, you know. They and they also

2367
01:52:11,439 --> 01:52:13,120
Speaker 1: along with that, they said, ah, the Bills will be

2368
01:52:13,200 --> 01:52:15,599
Speaker 1: oh and four, one and three. After that stretch, it'll

2369
01:52:15,600 --> 01:52:17,240
Speaker 1: be time to insert in the season will be over

2370
01:52:17,439 --> 01:52:20,679
Speaker 1: and they'll chalk it up. Well, yeah, I mean that's

2371
01:52:21,080 --> 01:52:23,160
Speaker 1: we saw this stretch coming. It was gonna be a

2372
01:52:23,200 --> 01:52:25,439
Speaker 1: difficult stretch of the season. We didn't think it was

2373
01:52:25,479 --> 01:52:28,320
Speaker 1: gonna be a forty seven to three stretch. I mean

2374
01:52:28,400 --> 01:52:31,519
Speaker 1: that's right, right, Yeah, you know it'd be tough, but

2375
01:52:32,200 --> 01:52:34,960
Speaker 1: that's where you set I mean, it's it's not easy.

2376
01:52:35,000 --> 01:52:37,479
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be easy. But I think, like I said,

2377
01:52:37,600 --> 01:52:39,360
Speaker 1: this is gonna this is a real this is the

2378
01:52:39,479 --> 01:52:41,240
Speaker 1: dark time of this season when you got to kind

2379
01:52:41,280 --> 01:52:43,479
Speaker 1: of buckle down. If you're the players and co you

2380
01:52:43,560 --> 01:52:45,599
Speaker 1: got to buckle down and get through this and give

2381
01:52:45,680 --> 01:52:47,920
Speaker 1: yourself a chance to come back later in the season.

2382
01:52:48,040 --> 01:52:50,640
Speaker 1: He can't do it coming from oh and four, oh

2383
01:52:50,720 --> 01:52:52,880
Speaker 1: and five, oh and six, he just doesn't happen. Call

2384
01:52:52,960 --> 01:52:55,400
Speaker 1: here from Bob and lockpoort, go ahead, you're on the air.

2385
01:52:55,840 --> 01:52:59,599
Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve Tesker. You are an inspiration to any

2386
01:52:59,760 --> 01:53:06,880
Speaker 1: young football player coming up. Just a wonderful your reels

2387
01:53:07,240 --> 01:53:12,519
Speaker 1: that you see on TV. Any young football person would

2388
01:53:13,320 --> 01:53:16,080
Speaker 1: would would see that as a as an inspiration. But

2389
01:53:16,200 --> 01:53:18,040
Speaker 1: one of the things I have to say, I'm a

2390
01:53:18,080 --> 01:53:21,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's football fan, But I saw a lack of effort.

2391
01:53:21,800 --> 01:53:25,160
Speaker 1: Uh the fifty fifty balls. I didn't see that. I

2392
01:53:25,280 --> 01:53:28,960
Speaker 1: didn't as even though the whole team concept, they didn't

2393
01:53:29,000 --> 01:53:32,799
Speaker 1: seem a total team effort. I saw a lack of effort.

2394
01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:36,960
Speaker 1: I didn't see that, did you, Steve? No? I mean

2395
01:53:37,040 --> 01:53:39,840
Speaker 1: I Calvin Benjamin's been mentioned as a guy that people

2396
01:53:39,920 --> 01:53:42,080
Speaker 1: thought maybe gave up late in that game or didn't

2397
01:53:42,080 --> 01:53:43,639
Speaker 1: make the effort to do that. I know I saw

2398
01:53:43,760 --> 01:53:45,720
Speaker 1: him bat one ball away that Peterman threw up for

2399
01:53:45,840 --> 01:53:48,000
Speaker 1: him instead of he wasn't going to get it and

2400
01:53:48,080 --> 01:53:50,600
Speaker 1: the dB was he knocked it away down the sideline.

2401
01:53:52,080 --> 01:53:54,760
Speaker 1: He got one picked off where the dB broke on

2402
01:53:54,840 --> 01:53:56,240
Speaker 1: the ball because it was at that point of the

2403
01:53:56,280 --> 01:53:58,040
Speaker 1: game where they knew Peterman had to get the ball

2404
01:53:58,080 --> 01:54:00,600
Speaker 1: out and they started sitting on routes. But now I

2405
01:54:01,720 --> 01:54:05,080
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't see a spot where I thought you'd say,

2406
01:54:05,120 --> 01:54:07,960
Speaker 1: the whole team, you know, through in the town at

2407
01:54:07,960 --> 01:54:09,639
Speaker 1: any point. I think they were. I think the guys

2408
01:54:09,680 --> 01:54:13,320
Speaker 1: were playing hard. I don't think, uh, there was anything

2409
01:54:14,560 --> 01:54:18,439
Speaker 1: worth mentioning about their effort. I thought they were trying to.

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01:54:18,520 --> 01:54:20,519
Speaker 1: They were playing hard, they were putting forth the effort,

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01:54:21,000 --> 01:54:23,240
Speaker 1: but they just weren't getting anywhere. And I think that

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01:54:23,360 --> 01:54:26,799
Speaker 1: I don't know whether that's more more disturbing or less disturbing.

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01:54:27,120 --> 01:54:29,000
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, that's a good point. Dave on the

2414
01:54:29,080 --> 01:54:33,360
Speaker 1: line from Florida, I Dave, go ahead, good, how you doing, Mark? Good?

2415
01:54:33,520 --> 01:54:36,080
Speaker 1: Real good? All right, listen. I just wouldn't tell you

2416
01:54:36,320 --> 01:54:38,120
Speaker 1: people that give up a buffalo. I don't want to

2417
01:54:38,160 --> 01:54:41,160
Speaker 1: hear about it. Okay, this team is I've been a

2418
01:54:41,240 --> 01:54:44,640
Speaker 1: fan since the sixties of the old grade Monster, and

2419
01:54:44,840 --> 01:54:47,960
Speaker 1: I moved into Ralph Wilson Stadium with season tickets. My

2420
01:54:48,080 --> 01:54:52,360
Speaker 1: grandson has him. Nah, my grandson takes his son. That's great,

2421
01:54:52,520 --> 01:54:55,440
Speaker 1: wear a field and this team here is going to

2422
01:54:55,560 --> 01:54:58,080
Speaker 1: make it. And there's not this year, next year. There

2423
01:54:58,200 --> 01:55:02,200
Speaker 1: is no rush. There's no reason for panic. And Sean

2424
01:55:02,320 --> 01:55:04,680
Speaker 1: McCoy put it right, he hand on the ball seven times.

2425
01:55:04,760 --> 01:55:08,080
Speaker 1: You say, well, I think that's going to change. That's

2426
01:55:08,120 --> 01:55:10,960
Speaker 1: why I got to say congratulations, Steve Kasker. I still

2427
01:55:11,000 --> 01:55:12,920
Speaker 1: got your picture of you not standing out a milk

2428
01:55:12,960 --> 01:55:17,280
Speaker 1: carton about I appreciate Dave. Let me ask you this day.

2429
01:55:17,720 --> 01:55:19,000
Speaker 1: I just caught him how you cut him on? I

2430
01:55:19,040 --> 01:55:21,400
Speaker 1: was gonna ask him. I was gonna ask him, he says, no, patience,

2431
01:55:21,440 --> 01:55:23,000
Speaker 1: no rush do. I was gonna ask him what he

2432
01:55:23,040 --> 01:55:24,880
Speaker 1: thought about where they're at and how they got here

2433
01:55:24,880 --> 01:55:26,160
Speaker 1: and are they in the right track? Are they doing

2434
01:55:26,160 --> 01:55:27,880
Speaker 1: the right thing? I wish he would. I'm sorry about that.

2435
01:55:28,000 --> 01:55:31,600
Speaker 1: That's sorry. I'm gonna rush. His great grandkids are going

2436
01:55:31,600 --> 01:55:34,760
Speaker 1: to the days on his old tickets. No, it's grandkids. No, no,

2437
01:55:34,920 --> 01:55:37,480
Speaker 1: they're right. His great kant great. Yeah, that's right, that's cool. Yeah,

2438
01:55:37,520 --> 01:55:40,880
Speaker 1: it's great, grandkids. Here's a cow from Grand Island. Go ahead, cal,

2439
01:55:40,960 --> 01:55:43,480
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Thank you very much. More if

2440
01:55:43,520 --> 01:55:45,240
Speaker 1: I wanted to say, great jobs for both of you guys,

2441
01:55:45,400 --> 01:55:48,240
Speaker 1: thank you great show daily. I listen and I've been

2442
01:55:48,280 --> 01:55:50,080
Speaker 1: to build fan my whole life as well. But uh,

2443
01:55:50,280 --> 01:55:51,840
Speaker 1: I just wanted to start off and seeing. I was

2444
01:55:51,920 --> 01:55:54,200
Speaker 1: at a game one time back in the day and

2445
01:55:54,440 --> 01:55:57,920
Speaker 1: it was against Atlanta Falcons at home, and Dan Sanders

2446
01:55:58,000 --> 01:56:01,480
Speaker 1: tried to hurdle Steve, and Steve you almost got over here,

2447
01:56:01,640 --> 01:56:03,600
Speaker 1: and you made like one of the most athletic great

2448
01:56:03,640 --> 01:56:05,600
Speaker 1: plays that I've ever seen him. My luck yet trapped

2449
01:56:05,640 --> 01:56:07,240
Speaker 1: him by the tone and you flipped them over and

2450
01:56:07,320 --> 01:56:10,240
Speaker 1: the place went absolutely insane. Do you remember this? And

2451
01:56:10,800 --> 01:56:14,000
Speaker 1: I just want to wish you congregulations on a well

2452
01:56:14,040 --> 01:56:16,800
Speaker 1: deserved nomination, and I know all of Buffalo is rooting

2453
01:56:16,800 --> 01:56:18,600
Speaker 1: for you to get in the Hall of Fame. I

2454
01:56:18,600 --> 01:56:21,240
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I do remember that game, and uh it

2455
01:56:21,320 --> 01:56:23,960
Speaker 1: was Dion Sanders and I, yeah, I did tackle him

2456
01:56:24,000 --> 01:56:26,640
Speaker 1: by the foot, and um, it was interesting because I

2457
01:56:26,680 --> 01:56:28,919
Speaker 1: think the head coach of that team. I'm I'm positive

2458
01:56:29,000 --> 01:56:32,040
Speaker 1: was Jerry Glanville. Buddy, Yeah, my boy, who's now the

2459
01:56:32,120 --> 01:56:34,920
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Hamilton Tiger Cats. I see him all the time.

2460
01:56:35,400 --> 01:56:37,760
Speaker 1: He's yeah yeah. But and I'll tell you the truth too.

2461
01:56:37,840 --> 01:56:40,240
Speaker 1: Dion was one of the all time great players too.

2462
01:56:40,280 --> 01:56:41,960
Speaker 1: He deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, which

2463
01:56:41,960 --> 01:56:45,760
Speaker 1: he is. He was a he was a really great player.

2464
01:56:45,840 --> 01:56:48,520
Speaker 1: So it was Yeah, like I said earlier, it was

2465
01:56:48,600 --> 01:56:51,920
Speaker 1: fun and I wouldn't change much about my career, believe me. Uh,

2466
01:56:52,760 --> 01:56:56,000
Speaker 1: I don't think I'd changed much of anything if I

2467
01:56:56,080 --> 01:56:59,120
Speaker 1: can't think of anything. So um, I appreciate it. Thanks.

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01:56:59,320 --> 01:57:01,480
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, Cal, And I remember that tackle too,

2469
01:57:01,720 --> 01:57:03,840
Speaker 1: So thanks Cal. I'm gonna take a break. We're back

2470
01:57:03,880 --> 01:57:06,400
Speaker 1: with more. It is One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive.

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01:57:06,480 --> 01:57:24,400
Speaker 1: And this is Buffalo Bill's Radio Back at One Bill's Live.

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01:57:24,600 --> 01:57:28,080
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Trasker Tasker from One Bill's Drive. The

2473
01:57:28,120 --> 01:57:30,120
Speaker 1: Bill's practice is over. We'd hope to get Jerry Hughes

2474
01:57:30,200 --> 01:57:33,360
Speaker 1: in here, but he's lifting. Gotta do it right. See, well,

2475
01:57:33,400 --> 01:57:35,840
Speaker 1: they got they got a routine, man, that's what they do.

2476
01:57:35,920 --> 01:57:37,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna see if we can get him in here.

2477
01:57:37,320 --> 01:57:40,720
Speaker 1: We don't. Let's set the Twitter question and then get

2478
01:57:40,760 --> 01:57:42,800
Speaker 1: some tweet sheet things in here, and then let's do

2479
01:57:43,040 --> 01:57:46,080
Speaker 1: NFL truth falls. Okay, what I want to do? Okay,

2480
01:57:46,200 --> 01:57:49,040
Speaker 1: that's no. You have a voice here. You you're a

2481
01:57:49,360 --> 01:57:53,000
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame nominee. We're gonna starting flexing my muscles

2482
01:57:53,000 --> 01:57:55,760
Speaker 1: as a nominee. You have a voice. We put this

2483
01:57:55,880 --> 01:57:58,320
Speaker 1: up on Twitter. We've talked about it all day. Horrible

2484
01:57:58,400 --> 01:58:01,040
Speaker 1: loss in Baltimore last Sunday. So the debt change your

2485
01:58:01,200 --> 01:58:04,120
Speaker 1: expectations for the Bills this season? If so? If not,

2486
01:58:04,560 --> 01:58:07,080
Speaker 1: give us a call eight three fifty toll free one

2487
01:58:07,240 --> 01:58:10,200
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty or tweeted in.

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01:58:10,280 --> 01:58:12,320
Speaker 1: We got some more from the tweetchet. What do you have, Steve? Yeah,

2489
01:58:12,320 --> 01:58:14,120
Speaker 1: I think from Thomas. I don't think you've read this

2490
01:58:14,200 --> 01:58:16,520
Speaker 1: one from Thomas Derlac. It's a long season. It's only

2491
01:58:16,560 --> 01:58:19,280
Speaker 1: one game. It becomes concerning if play doesn't improve over

2492
01:58:19,320 --> 01:58:21,880
Speaker 1: the next few games. Always thought this would be a

2493
01:58:21,920 --> 01:58:24,440
Speaker 1: six or seven win team, and that has not changed

2494
01:58:25,360 --> 01:58:28,800
Speaker 1: from Thomas Derlock and then Postman Pilot in two thousand

2495
01:58:28,840 --> 01:58:31,200
Speaker 1: and three. This is our guy, he's your guy. He's

2496
01:58:31,280 --> 01:58:34,040
Speaker 1: usually well thought out and logical. We'll see if he

2497
01:58:34,240 --> 01:58:36,160
Speaker 1: if he comes through. In two thousand and three, we

2498
01:58:36,280 --> 01:58:39,000
Speaker 1: beat New England thirty one nothing in the opener, only

2499
01:58:39,080 --> 01:58:41,000
Speaker 1: for them to do the same to us in the finale.

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01:58:41,480 --> 01:58:45,080
Speaker 1: That alone shows the unpredictability of the NFL. Any given Sunday, right,

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01:58:45,560 --> 01:58:48,760
Speaker 1: things right, am I right? You're right? Things can absolutely change.

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01:58:48,800 --> 01:58:52,000
Speaker 1: How about that Sam Adams t d What a memorable moment.

2503
01:58:52,080 --> 01:58:54,840
Speaker 1: He's right. Remember when Sam Adams picked that ball off, Yes,

2504
01:58:55,000 --> 01:58:58,360
Speaker 1: and waltzed into the end zone at the beginning of

2505
01:58:58,440 --> 01:59:01,680
Speaker 1: that game. And that was the That was the what

2506
01:59:01,800 --> 01:59:05,440
Speaker 1: was the safety's name, lawyer Lawya Malloyd game? That was

2507
01:59:05,440 --> 01:59:09,840
Speaker 1: the Lawyer Malloy game. Yeah, that was fun. Got a

2508
01:59:09,880 --> 01:59:11,880
Speaker 1: call on the line, David Florida. I'd get you in

2509
01:59:12,000 --> 01:59:15,360
Speaker 1: far between those moments, Stave. Go ahead, you're on the air, Steve,

2510
01:59:15,480 --> 01:59:17,200
Speaker 1: you're right, and ask me a question before we get

2511
01:59:17,280 --> 01:59:19,600
Speaker 1: cut off. There you go, yes, oh day, Yeah, I

2512
01:59:19,680 --> 01:59:22,720
Speaker 1: was I was gonna ask you. You said, there's no time,

2513
01:59:22,760 --> 01:59:26,200
Speaker 1: there's no uh no hurry about this season. There's no

2514
01:59:26,800 --> 01:59:28,960
Speaker 1: you know, there's no reason to get your you know,

2515
01:59:30,840 --> 01:59:33,160
Speaker 1: into a panic about how this season went. Because there's

2516
01:59:33,160 --> 01:59:35,960
Speaker 1: no change. Are you happy with where the Bills are

2517
01:59:36,040 --> 01:59:39,240
Speaker 1: in their process of getting better or how they're putting

2518
01:59:39,280 --> 01:59:42,040
Speaker 1: this new regime together and you know the you know

2519
01:59:42,160 --> 01:59:44,200
Speaker 1: the course that's laid ahead for them. Are you happy

2520
01:59:44,240 --> 01:59:46,760
Speaker 1: with where they're at now, aside from the bad loss

2521
01:59:46,800 --> 01:59:50,080
Speaker 1: they took on Sunday? Yes, I am. You think you

2522
01:59:50,160 --> 01:59:52,400
Speaker 1: can see the logic to all these moves they made,

2523
01:59:52,400 --> 01:59:54,320
Speaker 1: because they every time you have a loss like the

2524
01:59:54,360 --> 01:59:57,240
Speaker 1: one on Sunday, the people around the country are all saying, Hey,

2525
01:59:57,760 --> 02:00:00,280
Speaker 1: it's a dumpster fire in Buffalo. They got no plan,

2526
02:00:00,440 --> 02:00:02,600
Speaker 1: they don't know what they're doing. They made some bad decisions.

2527
02:00:03,000 --> 02:00:06,200
Speaker 1: What do you think, right? I think they're all wrong,

2528
02:00:06,680 --> 02:00:09,000
Speaker 1: is what I think. Being a Bills fan as long

2529
02:00:09,040 --> 02:00:11,760
Speaker 1: as I have been and watching through the processes and

2530
02:00:11,880 --> 02:00:14,440
Speaker 1: the coaches they've been through, players they've been through. This

2531
02:00:14,680 --> 02:00:17,840
Speaker 1: team is young, good, and they're gonna be tough, and

2532
02:00:17,880 --> 02:00:20,560
Speaker 1: they gonna get tougher. I expect them to win one

2533
02:00:20,800 --> 02:00:23,200
Speaker 1: or two games and of the first half of the

2534
02:00:23,280 --> 02:00:26,640
Speaker 1: season that cant half of the season. I think we're

2535
02:00:26,680 --> 02:00:29,600
Speaker 1: gonna get five or six wins. Yeah, there you go,

2536
02:00:30,040 --> 02:00:32,120
Speaker 1: that's okay, That's what I wanted to ask you to.

2537
02:00:32,160 --> 02:00:33,960
Speaker 1: I appreciate your calling back and give me a chance

2538
02:00:34,000 --> 02:00:37,000
Speaker 1: to do that because you David called in earlier and said,

2539
02:00:37,120 --> 02:00:41,920
Speaker 1: you know, Murph, you're all right too. Yeah, you guys,

2540
02:00:42,040 --> 02:00:45,440
Speaker 1: enjoy Steve, you go to Cannon. I'll be there. Thanks man.

2541
02:00:45,440 --> 02:00:47,760
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, And I think he speaks for a

2542
02:00:47,840 --> 02:00:50,920
Speaker 1: lot of Bills fans. They've seen this before, where and

2543
02:00:51,120 --> 02:00:53,800
Speaker 1: particularly in times where they didn't get they didn't go

2544
02:00:53,880 --> 02:00:56,720
Speaker 1: through this process where they didn't have the courage to

2545
02:00:56,800 --> 02:00:59,480
Speaker 1: cut players that were the quality of Marcel Darius and

2546
02:00:59,480 --> 02:01:03,440
Speaker 1: Sammy Adkins and move to players that fit the culture

2547
02:01:03,480 --> 02:01:05,720
Speaker 1: that they were trying to build better. They didn't see,

2548
02:01:05,920 --> 02:01:10,160
Speaker 1: you know, doing gosh, how many decisions in the trickle

2549
02:01:10,240 --> 02:01:13,720
Speaker 1: down effect? Maybe you can got a ballpark figure. Think

2550
02:01:13,760 --> 02:01:17,160
Speaker 1: back to this last offseason. How many decisions in the

2551
02:01:17,240 --> 02:01:20,720
Speaker 1: trickle down effect led to them being able to pull

2552
02:01:20,800 --> 02:01:25,840
Speaker 1: off the Josh Allen thing. Yeah, there's like, yeah, there's

2553
02:01:25,880 --> 02:01:29,200
Speaker 1: more than a handful almost. And it involved each move

2554
02:01:29,280 --> 02:01:32,760
Speaker 1: involved a couple of assets and a couple of return items.

2555
02:01:32,800 --> 02:01:34,240
Speaker 1: You know, I mean it was like two draft picks

2556
02:01:34,280 --> 02:01:36,480
Speaker 1: for this player or this player for two draft picks

2557
02:01:36,600 --> 02:01:38,240
Speaker 1: or this player and a draft pick. I mean, it

2558
02:01:38,320 --> 02:01:41,640
Speaker 1: was a lot of moving parts in that offseason to

2559
02:01:41,840 --> 02:01:45,640
Speaker 1: ultimately get into the top ten and get the quarterback

2560
02:01:46,000 --> 02:01:49,840
Speaker 1: that they wanted and not so I I'm kind of

2561
02:01:49,880 --> 02:01:52,280
Speaker 1: with the caller, Dave. I knew it was gonna be

2562
02:01:52,400 --> 02:01:55,080
Speaker 1: tough at times. Maybe this is one of those tough times.

2563
02:01:55,160 --> 02:01:57,200
Speaker 1: Maybe it's only the beginning. Maybe this is all the

2564
02:01:57,240 --> 02:01:59,560
Speaker 1: tougher it gets. I don't know, but I figured it

2565
02:01:59,600 --> 02:02:01,760
Speaker 1: was gonna bumpy at times when you got to make

2566
02:02:01,840 --> 02:02:04,000
Speaker 1: moves like that, when you've got fifty five million dollars

2567
02:02:04,040 --> 02:02:07,320
Speaker 1: of dead cap money and you've said goodbye to some

2568
02:02:07,400 --> 02:02:09,960
Speaker 1: players who had taken it out of gear. There's a

2569
02:02:10,000 --> 02:02:14,640
Speaker 1: called from Bill on Grand Island. Hello Bill, and go ahead, Hello,

2570
02:02:15,720 --> 02:02:20,160
Speaker 1: go ahead Bill. Yeah, I'd like to know why did

2571
02:02:20,240 --> 02:02:28,400
Speaker 1: they traded Gyrod Taylor and and kept Peterman. I wish

2572
02:02:28,480 --> 02:02:33,160
Speaker 1: that it was they got rid of Peterman what he

2573
02:02:33,240 --> 02:02:36,760
Speaker 1: did last year. Yeah, they traded Tyrode because they wanted

2574
02:02:36,760 --> 02:02:39,280
Speaker 1: a draft pick that they used to eventually move up

2575
02:02:39,360 --> 02:02:41,920
Speaker 1: and get the Tremaine Edmonds. And there was also a

2576
02:02:42,000 --> 02:02:45,240
Speaker 1: sixteen million dollar salary hit that was going to happen

2577
02:02:45,280 --> 02:02:47,000
Speaker 1: in what mid March last year. They didn't want to

2578
02:02:47,320 --> 02:02:49,000
Speaker 1: be on the hook for that because they had seen

2579
02:02:49,080 --> 02:02:51,120
Speaker 1: Tyrod play. They'd seen it before they even got here.

2580
02:02:51,120 --> 02:02:53,240
Speaker 1: They knew what he was, they knew what the ceiling was.

2581
02:02:53,840 --> 02:02:55,720
Speaker 1: That's why they basically a bill. He was a piece

2582
02:02:55,800 --> 02:02:57,640
Speaker 1: that when they traded him, it had nothing to do

2583
02:02:57,760 --> 02:03:01,200
Speaker 1: with Peterman. It was about Josh Allen or Sam Darnold

2584
02:03:01,280 --> 02:03:03,560
Speaker 1: or Josh Rosen or Baker Mayfield or whoever they were

2585
02:03:03,600 --> 02:03:05,400
Speaker 1: going to be able to jump up and get to

2586
02:03:05,520 --> 02:03:07,920
Speaker 1: take a shot out in the draft. That's why Tyrod's

2587
02:03:07,960 --> 02:03:11,240
Speaker 1: not here. It had nothing to do with Nathan petermann

2588
02:03:11,520 --> 02:03:13,920
Speaker 1: you say that's good or bad, but it was all

2589
02:03:14,160 --> 02:03:17,240
Speaker 1: part of a plan to move up and make sure

2590
02:03:17,440 --> 02:03:20,440
Speaker 1: that in this draft they had a player that they wanted,

2591
02:03:20,720 --> 02:03:22,760
Speaker 1: and that was part of the plan together. It wasn't

2592
02:03:22,760 --> 02:03:24,640
Speaker 1: even the end of it. I mean, it wasn't that

2593
02:03:24,800 --> 02:03:26,840
Speaker 1: Tyrod trade wasn't even the end of what they had

2594
02:03:26,920 --> 02:03:28,720
Speaker 1: to do to get there. It was only a small

2595
02:03:28,760 --> 02:03:31,879
Speaker 1: stepping stone. So it was a long drawn out process

2596
02:03:31,960 --> 02:03:34,320
Speaker 1: that finally got him ultimately to where they could picked

2597
02:03:34,400 --> 02:03:37,320
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. A call from Rochester, Brett in Rochester on

2598
02:03:37,440 --> 02:03:40,840
Speaker 1: the line, Brett go ahead. Hey, Hey, what's up, gentlemen. Hey,

2599
02:03:40,960 --> 02:03:44,720
Speaker 1: I wanted to say, you know, this is the first game.

2600
02:03:44,800 --> 02:03:48,000
Speaker 1: Hasn't changed the outlook or of the of what I

2601
02:03:48,080 --> 02:03:49,400
Speaker 1: think the season is going to be. I think it

2602
02:03:49,520 --> 02:03:52,680
Speaker 1: just highlights the fact that they need to really work

2603
02:03:52,840 --> 02:03:56,240
Speaker 1: on bolstering the offensive line and the wide receivers, because

2604
02:03:56,240 --> 02:04:00,200
Speaker 1: that's what really killed them, you know last you know,

2605
02:04:00,280 --> 02:04:04,440
Speaker 1: on Sunday, you know, I mean Peterman. Yeah, I mean obviously, uh,

2606
02:04:05,400 --> 02:04:07,760
Speaker 1: you know, you could do there's some some blame on that,

2607
02:04:07,880 --> 02:04:10,320
Speaker 1: but really, I mean the offensive line and the wide

2608
02:04:10,320 --> 02:04:12,400
Speaker 1: receivers let him down because there were a couple of

2609
02:04:12,400 --> 02:04:14,640
Speaker 1: plays that the wide receivers needed to make that didn't

2610
02:04:14,760 --> 02:04:17,280
Speaker 1: that could have helped change the outcome of that game

2611
02:04:17,320 --> 02:04:20,840
Speaker 1: a little bit, no doubt. I mean there's there, you know,

2612
02:04:20,920 --> 02:04:23,200
Speaker 1: everybody could have played better, no question. I think maybe

2613
02:04:23,280 --> 02:04:27,000
Speaker 1: in a loss like that against a really good football team,

2614
02:04:27,120 --> 02:04:29,680
Speaker 1: it does highlight some of the areas where you're not

2615
02:04:29,800 --> 02:04:31,840
Speaker 1: as deep or not as skilled or talented as you

2616
02:04:31,920 --> 02:04:34,080
Speaker 1: need to be. And I don't think it's any question

2617
02:04:34,120 --> 02:04:36,040
Speaker 1: the Bills have still have some work to do on

2618
02:04:36,120 --> 02:04:38,680
Speaker 1: this roster, and it was highlighted in a number of ways.

2619
02:04:38,720 --> 02:04:41,120
Speaker 1: In that game Sunday it was awful. Sunday, Hey, it was.

2620
02:04:41,320 --> 02:04:42,880
Speaker 1: We got to spin it forward and we will a

2621
02:04:42,960 --> 02:04:45,640
Speaker 1: lot tomorrow talk about the Bills and the Chargers. Right now,

2622
02:04:45,720 --> 02:04:49,360
Speaker 1: time for NFL True and False presented by Yancey's Fancy

2623
02:04:49,440 --> 02:04:52,360
Speaker 1: New York's artists and Cheese. True or False. Steve, You're ready,

2624
02:04:52,360 --> 02:04:54,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you the first crack at this. Well,

2625
02:04:54,800 --> 02:04:56,840
Speaker 1: this was the result. This is an article on It

2626
02:04:56,960 --> 02:04:59,920
Speaker 1: was a discussion really on by Gil Brandt, who was

2627
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:04,360
Speaker 1: a well respected, long time serving nominee. He's a Hall

2628
02:05:04,400 --> 02:05:08,040
Speaker 1: of Fame nominee this year. He's got the Jacksonville Jaguars,

2629
02:05:08,240 --> 02:05:12,080
Speaker 1: he says, our America's team. He ranks them second, after

2630
02:05:12,200 --> 02:05:15,280
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, the Jacksonville Jaguars. No, I'm sorry, after the Packers.

2631
02:05:15,720 --> 02:05:18,760
Speaker 1: He's got the Packers as America's team, whatever that means.

2632
02:05:19,160 --> 02:05:22,880
Speaker 1: He's got the Jacksonville Jaguars. Well, some Packers Jaguars among

2633
02:05:22,920 --> 02:05:25,920
Speaker 1: America's teams after the Cowboys. These are all after the Cowboys. Yeah,

2634
02:05:26,080 --> 02:05:30,760
Speaker 1: he's got Cowboys, Packers, Jaguars third, America's team. Do you

2635
02:05:30,840 --> 02:05:33,760
Speaker 1: want to I've teated up for you. It's a fastball,

2636
02:05:33,840 --> 02:05:39,160
Speaker 1: right and then kill brants doddering old Man, the pack

2637
02:05:39,360 --> 02:05:42,720
Speaker 1: the jag Packers, Okay, the Packers, I can see the Packers. Yeah.

2638
02:05:42,960 --> 02:05:46,920
Speaker 1: The Jaguars. They put tarps over seats in their stadium.

2639
02:05:48,120 --> 02:05:52,000
Speaker 1: They cover seats because they can't sell tickets in London,

2640
02:05:52,080 --> 02:05:57,840
Speaker 1: and they made they Yeah, they played games London every year. Stop,

2641
02:05:57,920 --> 02:05:59,800
Speaker 1: we don't have time for a rant. But that's a

2642
02:06:00,040 --> 02:06:02,880
Speaker 1: rant worthy. That is a rant worthy claim that the

2643
02:06:03,120 --> 02:06:07,520
Speaker 1: Jaguars are even behind the Cowboys as America's team. Terrible.

2644
02:06:07,680 --> 02:06:12,040
Speaker 1: That that is rant worthy, all right, NFL true or false?

2645
02:06:12,200 --> 02:06:15,440
Speaker 1: Part two? Yeah, for both of us. All the Bengals

2646
02:06:15,480 --> 02:06:17,800
Speaker 1: are the best team in the AFC North. You've got

2647
02:06:17,880 --> 02:06:20,640
Speaker 1: the Steelers, You've got the Ravens, You've got the Bengals.

2648
02:06:21,000 --> 02:06:24,120
Speaker 1: Forget about the Browns. I'm gonna go true, Steve, I

2649
02:06:24,200 --> 02:06:25,920
Speaker 1: think this could be true. I was very impressed with

2650
02:06:26,000 --> 02:06:28,320
Speaker 1: what I saw was Cincinnati back around August twenty six.

2651
02:06:28,880 --> 02:06:31,960
Speaker 1: The Steelers not an impressive opening day for them. Last Sunday, Yes,

2652
02:06:32,000 --> 02:06:35,640
Speaker 1: they tied with Cleveland. Baltimore looked great last week. The

2653
02:06:35,720 --> 02:06:37,840
Speaker 1: Bills were awful. I think it's going to be pretty

2654
02:06:37,840 --> 02:06:40,480
Speaker 1: competitive AFC North. But I've got the one of no Bengals.

2655
02:06:40,760 --> 02:06:42,440
Speaker 1: I think you'll probably see you tonight. I've got them

2656
02:06:42,440 --> 02:06:43,920
Speaker 1: as the best team in that division. What do you

2657
02:06:43,960 --> 02:06:48,520
Speaker 1: think I'm the saying false? Listen, that's a listen telling

2658
02:06:48,600 --> 02:06:51,000
Speaker 1: me anybody, but the Baltimore Ravens are the best team

2659
02:06:51,040 --> 02:06:54,840
Speaker 1: in that Division's a tough cell this week. No, after

2660
02:06:54,960 --> 02:06:57,400
Speaker 1: what I saw them on the sidelines last week in

2661
02:06:57,480 --> 02:07:00,240
Speaker 1: Baltimore in a driving rain storm. They were good, but

2662
02:07:00,360 --> 02:07:02,840
Speaker 1: they were really good. And I listen, they don't have

2663
02:07:02,920 --> 02:07:05,480
Speaker 1: I'll put Jay Green. I'll put they don't have Joe

2664
02:07:05,560 --> 02:07:09,640
Speaker 1: Mixon in the backfield. I'll put Joe Flacco up against

2665
02:07:09,720 --> 02:07:13,400
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton any day, and I'll put and I'll put

2666
02:07:13,480 --> 02:07:19,120
Speaker 1: him up against uh Ben Roethlisberger without Leavy on Bell

2667
02:07:19,200 --> 02:07:22,960
Speaker 1: any day as well. So no, I I granted it's

2668
02:07:22,960 --> 02:07:26,160
Speaker 1: a competitive division. The three got Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Cincinnati are

2669
02:07:26,200 --> 02:07:28,160
Speaker 1: really good football teams. But I don't I don't think

2670
02:07:28,160 --> 02:07:31,480
Speaker 1: there's any reason you'd put Cincinnati ahead of those other two.

2671
02:07:32,000 --> 02:07:34,600
Speaker 1: So I'm Jay Green. I'm not gonna say it's not

2672
02:07:34,680 --> 02:07:39,760
Speaker 1: a defense, no, okay, I mean they beat a Colt

2673
02:07:39,800 --> 02:07:43,080
Speaker 1: team that's in a rebuild because of a late defensive

2674
02:07:43,160 --> 02:07:46,000
Speaker 1: touchdown when a quarterback who hadn't played in two years

2675
02:07:46,000 --> 02:07:48,400
Speaker 1: almost beat him. So I'm gonna say no one more

2676
02:07:48,440 --> 02:07:51,800
Speaker 1: call to our question about the uh the Buffalo Bills.

2677
02:07:52,120 --> 02:07:55,360
Speaker 1: Have your expectations changed since last week? Let's go to

2678
02:07:55,480 --> 02:07:59,560
Speaker 1: market Archer Park. Hello, Mark, you're on the air. I

2679
02:07:59,680 --> 02:08:04,880
Speaker 1: think at a stronger team brings us tirer that look big, deeper,

2680
02:08:05,040 --> 02:08:08,120
Speaker 1: and just I mean, everybody's got to take a harder

2681
02:08:08,240 --> 02:08:10,600
Speaker 1: look at themselves. And because if you get a lump

2682
02:08:10,680 --> 02:08:13,880
Speaker 1: like that again, it isn't gonna look very good for him.

2683
02:08:14,680 --> 02:08:17,480
Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine them doesn't look very good for him. Now,

2684
02:08:18,040 --> 02:08:20,280
Speaker 1: hard to imagine the Bills playing that poorly again. For me,

2685
02:08:20,400 --> 02:08:22,320
Speaker 1: I get that kind of a scoring, that kind of

2686
02:08:22,360 --> 02:08:25,600
Speaker 1: performance anywhere down there remaining fifteen year I agree, I agree.

2687
02:08:25,640 --> 02:08:27,920
Speaker 1: I mean that there's a little bit of confluence of

2688
02:08:27,960 --> 02:08:31,200
Speaker 1: events that the dictator too. It's a road game, rainstorm

2689
02:08:32,320 --> 02:08:35,840
Speaker 1: quarterback coming out of the preseason without a track record,

2690
02:08:36,480 --> 02:08:38,640
Speaker 1: playing against a defense that was a really good matchup,

2691
02:08:38,640 --> 02:08:41,080
Speaker 1: an offensive line that still needs to develop and needs

2692
02:08:41,120 --> 02:08:44,520
Speaker 1: to he needs to learn how to play better. So yeah,

2693
02:08:44,560 --> 02:08:48,160
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I don't know that it's you take

2694
02:08:48,200 --> 02:08:50,160
Speaker 1: it to heart and say, hey, that that gives us

2695
02:08:50,200 --> 02:08:53,040
Speaker 1: a Certainly, it should be a real motivating factor for

2696
02:08:53,120 --> 02:08:55,320
Speaker 1: a team like the Bills to come out and say, hey,

2697
02:08:55,400 --> 02:08:58,200
Speaker 1: let's we're not doing that again. Let's go and buckle

2698
02:08:58,280 --> 02:09:00,520
Speaker 1: down and work hard for that. He can, you know,

2699
02:09:00,600 --> 02:09:02,800
Speaker 1: make sure they don't do that this week against the Chargers.

2700
02:09:02,840 --> 02:09:05,120
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't. I don't think there's any

2701
02:09:05,200 --> 02:09:06,880
Speaker 1: much more of a positive you can spin out of it.

2702
02:09:07,200 --> 02:09:09,920
Speaker 1: I agree a break. We're back with more John Murphy's

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02:09:09,920 --> 02:09:12,680
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2704
02:09:12,880 --> 02:09:32,200
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Speaker 1: the preferred alarm and home theater provider of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: We had a great show today. Thurman Thomas was on

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Speaker 1: the show with us earlier on first hour. Thurman is

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Speaker 1: ready to go. He virtually went Joe Namath and guaranteed

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Speaker 1: a Buffalo victory this Sunday against the Chargers. They changed quarterback.

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Speaker 1: That's number one, so obviously you get to see a

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Speaker 1: different quarterback in there. So look, all thirty two teams

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Speaker 1: go through this at least once or twice a year,

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Speaker 1: having a game like this where he just don't do

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Speaker 1: anything well. But I just think there's just too much

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Speaker 1: talent on this football team for them to just go downhill. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then it all starts Sunday. You're at home. Everybody

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Speaker 1: wants to see Josh Allen. You got a lot of

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Speaker 1: things that are kind of combination, Anthony Lynn coming back,

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Speaker 1: you know, guy being here. So I'm putting money down

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Speaker 1: right now. They're gonna win the game, are Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can't do that legally, but okay, okay, I'm uncomfortable

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Speaker 1: with her gambling car Hr I'm not doing that, but

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, yeah, I'm I'm like, I'm Joe Naber.

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Speaker 1: I'm guaranteeing that they're gonna win this football game. Whoa sermon.

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Speaker 1: Times you can actually hear him slamming money down on

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Speaker 1: the table. I'm guarantee I'm putting for the next guest

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Speaker 1: on the show was Tom Talesco and he comes and

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Speaker 1: he heard it. He Tom Talesco was the next guest

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Speaker 1: on the show, and he talked about the former Bills

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Speaker 1: assistant coach Anthony Lynn and the great job he's doing

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Speaker 1: as the Los Angeles Chargers head coach. He really brings

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Speaker 1: a great presence to the football team that the players

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Speaker 1: they respect him, and the biggest thing is they really

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Speaker 1: believe in him. He handles a team well. He's tough

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Speaker 1: on him, but he's fair and then there's no gray area.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you have a question, he'll give you

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Speaker 1: a straight answer. Whether he'll like the answer or not.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes he'll give the players a straight answer. He coaches

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Speaker 1: coaches really well, something that goes unnoticed sometimes with head coaches,

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Speaker 1: but he really keeps his assistant coaches accountable. He tells

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Speaker 1: him exactly what he expects at East position, and for me,

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Speaker 1: it's been great to work with. He's got big picture

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Speaker 1: perspective as well as day to day and it's been

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Speaker 1: a great hire for us. Tom talasco Chargers GM on

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Speaker 1: his coach and Anthony Lenn I'll tell you what else

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Speaker 1: I've learned today. See is that our listeners, the ones

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Speaker 1: that participated today in our little Twitter poll, I think

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Speaker 1: they're ahead of the curb. Let's face it, not most

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Speaker 1: of them that perponterance. We didn't take a poll, we

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Speaker 1: didn't collect numbers. Most people thought, well, that was a

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Speaker 1: really bad game. But I don't think that's who they are.

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Speaker 1: And that was kind of the point of what I

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Speaker 1: was trying to get to, to take the temperature, because

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Speaker 1: I hear it out there, people saying, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen season will be remembered as what are

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Speaker 1: you talking about? Right, you're rushing to judgment here. There's

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Speaker 1: fifteen games left. I think to their credit, most of

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Speaker 1: our listeners and respondents were ahead of that kind of mente. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And we got to that point because you know, coming

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Speaker 1: on we talked about the game. It's hard to be

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Speaker 1: positive coming out of a game like that, and I

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Speaker 1: think everybody kind of works through the same process getting

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Speaker 1: out of a game like that mentally and start thinking

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Speaker 1: about the next one and remember and say listen, there,

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Speaker 1: that's not the football team we've seen throughout the preseason

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Speaker 1: and throughout the OTA's mini camps and all that. So

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Speaker 1: there's and like Thurman said in the snippet we just

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Speaker 1: heard and earlier on the show, there's too much talent

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Speaker 1: on this football team for them to sit there and

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Speaker 1: play like that. For the rest of the season. I

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Speaker 1: don't think you'll see that again. The immediate concern the

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Speaker 1: Chargers game, and the injury report is out. The practice

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Speaker 1: participation report for today a little bit different than yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Still not practicing today. Cornerback Tarn Johnson with his shoulder,

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Speaker 1: no practice today. For a defensive end, Shack Lawson with

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Speaker 1: his hamstring, no practice today. For a wide receiver, Ray

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Speaker 1: Ray McCloud with his knee, Lawson no practice, Taron Johnson

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Speaker 1: no practice. Those are important players, Steve. I think we're

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Speaker 1: going to see some Nate Orchard in there if Lawson

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Speaker 1: cannot go, and it looks like after two days off

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Speaker 1: with his hamstring he might not be able to go. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we spoke to Nate Orchard yesterday. He said, nah,

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Speaker 1: he's not He said, I'll be ready to go. So

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Speaker 1: Nate Orchard will have enough under his belt practice wise

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Speaker 1: to contribute if he's called upon. Okay, good show tomorrow, right,

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Speaker 1: Greg co sal will join us, Lorenzo, Alexander, Mark Kelso

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Speaker 1: and much more. What up, Steve Burlin, Yeah, we got

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Speaker 1: a good show tomorrow. We'll start at twelve noon. Hope

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Speaker 1: you can join this production. Assistance from George Blast Jeff

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Speaker 1: Colteneck Thomas Donald or Kelly Rude, j J. Jurito, Kevin Cartiss,

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Speaker 1: and James Robell. Our producer is Jay Harris. We will

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Speaker 1: see you tomorrow noon to three. We're right back here,

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Speaker 1: the final day before the home opener, Final show before

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Speaker 1: the home opener. Hope you can join us at twelve

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