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Speaker 1: tex Dog clapstore times. I'd go for overtime this week.

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Speaker 1: I would. We had overtime in Baltimore a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago, didn't go so well, but I'd go for

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Speaker 1: overtime this week. Welcome to the show. Steve's looking at

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Speaker 1: me like you know the one I'm I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: the Bills winning it overtime in Arrow. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: We are live and cut off guard. I was sitting here,

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Speaker 1: settling into my seat and you started talking. No time

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Speaker 1: to settle. We're on the air, buddy. By the way,

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Speaker 1: are you talking to me? No, I was not. We're

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Speaker 1: on the air, John Murphy, Steve Tasker, One Bill's Life

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. Good afternoon to you, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: coming in. It's a kind of a muggy, overcast day

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Speaker 1: in Orchard Park and a heck of a rainstorm last night. See,

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Speaker 1: wasn't we walking far away? It was bad last night.

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Speaker 1: It was bad. It was bad. And I gotta tell

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Speaker 1: you the thing I noticed. The closer it gets to

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Speaker 1: a game in this building, man, everybody starts to lose

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Speaker 1: their minds. What are you talking about the whole the

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Speaker 1: lid comes off, and then they started getting, oh, we

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Speaker 1: got this for a game. They start like he had

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Speaker 1: a meeting in the office today about the show. Come.

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Speaker 1: I was like that, dude, you can't do that, like

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Speaker 1: a month ago, right, I'm like, the game is in

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Speaker 1: like four days, three days? You got are you referring

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Speaker 1: referring to me losing my mind? No, No, every No.

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Speaker 1: I don't mean like somebody's actually snapped, but I'm just saying,

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Speaker 1: started in April. You go around that time, it was

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Speaker 1: like nothing, nothing, I gotta It's like now everybody's like, well,

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Speaker 1: we got that going on. We're thinking about this and

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Speaker 1: script that's been Yeah, I mean it's like one drive

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Speaker 1: a game. It's yeah, it's for real. It's been coming

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Speaker 1: for like nine months. Just it's like a baby. You know.

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Speaker 1: The due date is fast approaching, and it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: if it's not if it's not coming on its own,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be induced. It's coming. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: one o'clock on Sunday, and we're pretty pumped for it.

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Speaker 1: The Bills, as we speak. Out on the practice field

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Speaker 1: as we speak, they moved to practice an extra hour today.

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Speaker 1: It's a funny week practice wise, and it's because of

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Speaker 1: the holiday, because they you know, we're off last weekend.

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Speaker 1: They played a week ago today in Chicago and extra time,

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Speaker 1: and so today's practice is more like a Friday practice.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what tomorrow Friday's practice will be like,

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Speaker 1: coming up today. It's gonna be Therms coming on, which

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Speaker 1: We think it'll be around one o'clock. Corey Horkes, the

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing you think about it, It's not just

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Speaker 1: And he goes, yeah, it's Gerhardt, right, and he goes, no,

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Speaker 1: think about Pat. I was thinking, what so we? And

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Speaker 1: The odds are changing on that given the preseason we had,

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Speaker 1: kind of feel like you've got a commodity there. You

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Speaker 1: know what you're gonna do. Trent Murphy, we don't know

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Speaker 1: pass rush he's gonna make the biggest difference for this defense.

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Speaker 1: he's not gonna he's not gonna be a guy who

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Speaker 1: you have to worry about putting in the work to

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Speaker 1: get better, so that that's a plus um as of yet.

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Speaker 1: And I think now that it's over for Bills Fens,

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Speaker 1: I think it's kind of a good thing that nobody

429
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Speaker 1: got a chance to see how good he could possibly be,

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Speaker 1: because if it does come out and he and he

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Speaker 1: does hit the top end of his potential, that's a

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Speaker 1: surprise for the Baltimore Ravens. Give us a call eight

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Speaker 1: three fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty Bill's defense improving this year? If so,

435
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Speaker 1: which player will have the biggest impact? I want to

436
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Speaker 1: hear it from you. Um a call here from Steve

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Speaker 1: on the road. Steve, I guess your question is not

438
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Speaker 1: about Bill's defense, is that right? Asker? Great to talk

439
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,360
Speaker 1: to you guys a football. I'm gonna shift over to here,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen not studying this first game, and I've got

441
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Speaker 1: two schools of thought. What's your both rationalizations all of three.

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Speaker 1: We admit that number one, based on what we saw

443
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Speaker 1: against Cleveland and Cincinnati, they don't want to expose him

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Speaker 1: to get knocked around too badly early on, perhaps even

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Speaker 1: injured early on. The second school of thought though as

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Speaker 1: a reason for him not starting. I find it really

447
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,760
Speaker 1: interesting that they don't have a third quarterback in camp here,

448
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Speaker 1: so they've got Allen playing stout all as well as

449
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Speaker 1: being preparing to come in for Peterman. Should you know

450
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Speaker 1: something happened in that direction? And I'm just wondering, is

451
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Speaker 1: that sort of like a process slash write of passage

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Speaker 1: where the Dermot would like to see him go through

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Speaker 1: the trials of being a stout quarterback and then having

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Speaker 1: to prepare as a starter if Peterman goes down. And

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Speaker 1: if you guys want to comment, then I'd love to

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Speaker 1: me to keep me on hopeless and then I love

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Speaker 1: to hear Now, Okay, Stevie and all address it. First.

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Speaker 1: First of all, there's no there's nothing that correlates not

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Speaker 1: wanting to get Josh Allen hurt to what happened in

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cincinnati game. The struggles the offensive line because

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Speaker 1: they're not going into this game thinking their quarterback is

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Speaker 1: not going to finish it. That's that's the first thing.

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Speaker 1: Second thing is there's no great conspiracy that says, you know,

464
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Speaker 1: they've got this big plan for the quarterback, and I

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Speaker 1: know it it is a plan. There is a plan

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Speaker 1: in place. But here's the thing. The plan, even for

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Speaker 1: a quarterback of Josh Allen's stature, meaning the seventh overall pick,

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Speaker 1: that plan does not override what is important to the

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Speaker 1: football team this week against the Baltimore Ravens. Whatever plan

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Speaker 1: they had takes a backseat to winning this game. So

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Speaker 1: if Josh Allen was their best chance to win this game,

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Speaker 1: he would be playing no matter how the offensive line

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Speaker 1: was playing. If if Nathan Peterman is that guy, he's

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Speaker 1: the one that gets to be playing now. And the

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Speaker 1: fact that they don't have a number three quarterback has

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with anything other than the fact that

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Speaker 1: they want that roster spot. With everything that's going on

478
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Speaker 1: with their team, they need all forty five guys on

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Speaker 1: game day to contribute. The third quarterback is an absolute

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Speaker 1: waste of a position, particularly since given if everything goes

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Speaker 1: as playing, he'll never see the field. That extra guy

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Speaker 1: gives them flexibility, either offensively or defensively or on special

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Speaker 1: teams that they can do things they could not otherwise

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Speaker 1: do without that guy on the roster. That's the only reason.

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Speaker 1: That was the exact answer that Brandon Bean gave us yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Right now, I said and I asked him, now you

487
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Speaker 1: always gonna go with just two quarterbacks? He said, no,

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Speaker 1: We're flexible, but we want that of the roster spot.

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Speaker 1: We want the flexibility to listen, you've got to be

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Speaker 1: firing on all cylinders. And if you get one extra guy,

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Speaker 1: particularly for instance, what if you can activate an extra

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Speaker 1: wide receiver. And because you do that, now you've got

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Speaker 1: an entire package of offensive plays that four go four

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Speaker 1: wide on offense. Because you have the extra guy, he

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Speaker 1: can fill in for all four spots, and he knows

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Speaker 1: he got five suited up. Now you can go into

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Speaker 1: an offense a game, and if you get into a

498
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Speaker 1: spot where that four wide gives out of the team

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00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 1: real problems, that decision to set your third quarterback becomes

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Speaker 1: the main reason why you win the game because that

501
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,919
Speaker 1: package becomes undefendable for your opponent. Same thing on defense.

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00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you you activate an extra safety

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Speaker 1: or an extra corner or an extra linebacker, and that

504
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: personnel package becomes a bigger part of your game plan

505
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Speaker 1: because of it, and the other team can't defend it

506
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 1: or can't can't answer it offensively. So don't think that

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00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 1: this quarterback plan is the overriding factor in every decision

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00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 1: that the club makes. Because it's not. It is a factor,

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00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,200
Speaker 1: and it has more to do with each individual player

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Speaker 1: than it does the overall scheme of the game caller.

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00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 1: That's a good question too, and I was thinking about

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00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 1: this today too. What does Josh Allen miss out on?

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Speaker 1: Now that he's got a round the scout team. He's

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00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,399
Speaker 1: got a round the Baltimore raevens places this week, So

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Speaker 1: this week and next week I'll have to run the

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Speaker 1: charge his plays. What is he missing out on? I

517
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,360
Speaker 1: know this especially with the quarterback as inexperiences Nathan Peterman

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Speaker 1: at number one on the depth chart, he's gonna get

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Speaker 1: seventy five eighty percent of the first team reps. I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about Pieterman right at Peter that much. So that's

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Speaker 1: what he's missing at fifteen to twenty. You know, anything

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Speaker 1: he would he would still get those fifteen to twenty.

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Speaker 1: But well, the question came up for Brian Dable today

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Speaker 1: and I thought it was a good one and a

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00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 1: pretty interesting answer. Brian Dable to Bill's offensive coordinator. He

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Speaker 1: was asked today this morning before practice. So Peterman gets

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Speaker 1: the first team reps, so how much practice time does

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Speaker 1: that give for the rookie, Josh Ellen. Here's what Brian

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Speaker 1: Dable had to say. Nate's taken the ones, Josh has

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Speaker 1: taken the show team, so he's going to get his

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Speaker 1: work there and then on if we want to put

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Speaker 1: him in and give him a few reps here or there,

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Speaker 1: we'll do that. I think that's just the nature of

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Speaker 1: the business. When you're preparing for a team in the

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Speaker 1: regular season. Is the guy that's starting is going to

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Speaker 1: get most of them. Josh is going to have to

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Speaker 1: do it great job mentally, you know, before practice, after practiced,

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Speaker 1: real work, coaching him up on the show team, and

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Speaker 1: then whatever reps she does get with the ones. That's

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Speaker 1: the That's the way we're gonna go with it. Ryan

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Speaker 1: Gabele on the how they split up the practice reps um.

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Speaker 1: The caller asked if it's a rite of passage the

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00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: chal McDermot is adhering to here with you know, you

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00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: take care of the scout team first, Josh, and we'll

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Speaker 1: see if you're ready. I don't not necessarily get that's

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Speaker 1: the case. I mean, if you're looking to get him

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Speaker 1: ready to play, there's a better way to do it

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Speaker 1: that I think they're gonna risk him. See, you think

549
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 1: they're gonna risk losing a game in the National Football

550
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: Leg in the regular season because they've got a guy

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00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 1: that needs to like pay his dues or that, you know,

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00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: some sort of hazing thing that you do. You know

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00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,360
Speaker 1: what I mean. I mean, you're you have to sit

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00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,199
Speaker 1: on the bench for at least one week before you Yeah, right,

555
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 1: well that's what you're thing. I'm exaggerating to make the point. No,

556
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 1: if he gives you the best chance, he's in. I

557
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,360
Speaker 1: don't care if he's ten years old, he's in. That's

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00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 1: the way it works. And that's why Peterman is taking

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00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: the snaps. And also, here's the misnomer. Josh Allen's missing

560
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 1: out all these reps because now Nathan Peterman is going

561
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 1: to take all the reps with the one. He's not

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00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: missing anything. He's just not taking the reps. He's standing

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00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: right there. He's watching every rep. He's talking about every

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00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: rep with Nathan Peterman and Brian Dable. He's standing fifteen

565
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: feet away watching another guy do exactly what he would do.

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00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 1: He's watching the defense. He's watching the rep. And then

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00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 1: he goes into meetings and watches the film and they

568
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,199
Speaker 1: talk about that play, and he's getting all the coaching

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00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: and teaching points that Nathan Peterman will get. So he's

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Speaker 1: not missing anything. The only thing he's not doing is

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00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 1: actually throwing the football. He's making the play call in

572
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 1: his head. He's listening to the play call go in.

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00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,120
Speaker 1: He's listening to the substitutions. He's listening to the guys

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00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 1: in the huddle. He's listening to the offensive line conversations.

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00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: He's even listening to the conversations Peterman has with the

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Speaker 1: receivers when they come back. He's there. He's just not

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Speaker 1: taking the reps. And that's part of being a good

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00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: football player is when the guy gets coached, so are

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00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,920
Speaker 1: you you're getting coached? I mean I did that for

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00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,159
Speaker 1: a long time, and there in the offense. You know,

581
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: when Andre Reid would get coached, I was listening to

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00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: how he was getting coached. I was listening to the

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00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: pointers he got. Same thing with James Lofton Don Beebe

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00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: and all the other guys that ever played with. Do

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00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 1: you any good? Yeah? Now he didn't have to coach me.

586
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: He didn't have tell me that I was watched. I

587
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I get it. So don't. I'm gonna

588
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: say I'm not doing that. When I get in there,

589
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do what the coach told me him to do.

590
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: That's how you get better when you're standing there watching.

591
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: Josh Allen knows that, and so does every other player

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00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: on that team, most of them anyway. That's part of

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00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 1: the culture they build. When you're standing back there watching,

594
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: You're not just standing back there waiting for your turn.

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00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 1: You're getting coach and you're getting better by watching good

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00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: coaches coach and good players improve. Well, you talk quarterbacks,

597
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 1: we'd like to talk defense too. If the Bill's defense

598
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 1: is going to improve, who's the key there? Who's the

599
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: key player? Give us a call. We got phone lines

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00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 1: open in the next couple of minutes. Eight oh three

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Speaker 1: oh five fifty toll free from outside Buffalo one eight

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00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. You can weigh

603
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: in on Twitter as well. Who's the key player the

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00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna get better on defense? That's coming up

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Speaker 1: next when we come back One Bill's Live from One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to the show,

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00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker, I'll never let you down. Late

608
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 1: rival I gotta figure out how big of those large stamprtons?

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00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: Do you think they're bigger than sixteen ounces? Large? Extra large?

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00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: I didn't know they had extra large silis like saw

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00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: somebody had, and you know how it was like it

612
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: was like that scene. It was like that scene from

613
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: the Lord of the Rings when the Hobbits were in

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00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,959
Speaker 1: the bar and they go what is that? And he goes,

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00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: that's a point I want. I'm gonna get one. That's

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00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: what it was like. When I saw somebody with an

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00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: extra large coffee. I was like, I'm gonna get one.

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00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: Our stats crew tells me they're twenty four ounces each.

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Speaker 1: That's really Yeah, you had two of them in the

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Speaker 1: last eight ounce cup plus this doctor pepper, which is

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Speaker 1: some caffeine and eight what is eight into forty eight? Six? Right?

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00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: So I had six cups six eight isn't eight in? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Eight times six? Right? No? Right, that's fifty I don't know.

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00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: It's fifty four forty eight divided by w E. This

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00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: is always phone out and I'll do it on it

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00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: is six cups, six cups. Steve had six cups of

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00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: coffee from what ten thirty eleven o'clock till Now see,

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00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: here's the thing. When I when I drink coffee, I

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00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: don't just like sip it and letting it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm you were chugging. I'm drinking it. Yeah, I'm

631
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: drinking You were chugging coffee six cups of coffee before

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Speaker 1: the show, which is why he just barely made it

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Speaker 1: back for segment two here on the show. This is

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Speaker 1: a segment two, right, yes, it is. It is segment two.

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Speaker 1: We have four issues to discuss. Six cups of six.

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Speaker 1: My phone told me, hey, um, Bill's defense. What do

637
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: you think? Who are the key performers that are gonna

638
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: have to come through if the Buffalo Bills are going

639
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: to get better on defense this year. We got a

640
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: good show coming up coming up at the top of

641
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: the hour or around then. Corey Blehrkez, the new punter

642
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: for the Bills, will be joining us. Former New England

643
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: Patriot from training camp, Dennis Pitta, former tight end for

644
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens, gonna join us talk about the Ravens.

645
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas is gonna be here, gonna hear from Leslie Frasier,

646
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: the Bill's defensive coordinator. We got a lot, a lot

647
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: of ground to cover here, Stephen. It's good that we

648
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: started off with these phone calls and kind of take

649
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: the pulse of the folks, the listeners defense, the Buffalo

650
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: Bill's defense. Who are the key players? Trent calling from Batavia. Hi, Trent,

651
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the year. Oh that's Trevor. But

652
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: that's okay. How you guys? Sorry Trevor, go ahead, Traff? Sorry?

653
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: How are we doing? Boyd good great man? Talk about

654
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: you know, talking about Bill's defense. I think it's gonna

655
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: come down to the same thing as we did last year,

656
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: is those defensive backs. We don't get the respect. I

657
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 1: think the defensive backs deserving the league. And people talk

658
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: about defensive backs. You want to talk about Jacksonville. Maybe

659
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: you know the Vikings, But Jordan Poyer last year was

660
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. Trudavious White, I mean, was arguably the best

661
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: defensive rookie of the year. I mean we all know

662
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: what games does. And then Vonte Davis. Yeah, he struggled

663
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: the last couple of years with Indianapolis, but he's got

664
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: a lot of the central So just like last year,

665
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: it's not gonna come down to the defensive ayas I

666
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: gonna come down the linebacks. It's gonna be our defensive

667
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: back making those secondary plays that we need him to make. Trevor,

668
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: I would take you say, we all know what Gains does.

669
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: I don't know what Philip Games does. This is not EJ.

670
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: Gaines from last year. This is another Gains. He might

671
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: wind up starting on Sunday against other Ravens. And I'm curious,

672
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: you know, what are we looking at there? We saw

673
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: him a little bit in preseason, but what are we

674
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: looking at there? Is he's a starter or even an

675
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: important reserve. I don't know what to expect from him. Yeah,

676
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: but I think it's going to be important, no question

677
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: about it. And Vante Davis was looking to be a

678
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: replacement for EJ. Gaines, and we don't know what he's

679
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: gonna bring to the table. I agree with you, though,

680
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: if you've got something that's really good from one year,

681
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: you you kind of project that into the next year

682
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: and say, hey, they're gonna be good again. Not necessarily,

683
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: we'll see. I do like what I've seen from the

684
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: three guys that are returning. Plus Rafael Bush, a free

685
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: agent signing in the offseason. He has really shown in

686
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: training camp and in the preseason. He knows what he's

687
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: doing back there, and he can really play. In fact,

688
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: during training, Cam Murph and I had a quick conversation

689
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: with some other people about you know, they may have

690
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: to get Bush on the field with a three safety

691
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: kind of look up, because that's how good he was playing.

692
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: Hard to take Micah Hyder, Jordan Poor, you're off. But

693
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: when you've got a good player and a player like

694
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: Rafael Bush who's playing extremely well, you might have to

695
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: get the guy on the field somehow. That's the dilemma,

696
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: and that's a good dilemma to have. We'll see if

697
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: it works out. But it's interesting a lot of people

698
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: look for the Bill's front seven to have to be better.

699
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: But you know, Trevor is thinking, you know, if the

700
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: DBS can dominate once again, it's a throwing league and

701
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: we'll see him do it. Trevor, you had another point

702
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: to make, did you No? I said, man, just you know,

703
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: if our defensive backs play like they did last year

704
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: and we can get a show out from Peter Minner Allen,

705
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: I think we can make another go at it. I

706
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: mean a lot of people are countless out already, but

707
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: don't forget how many people countless out last year and

708
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: I mean last last you know, last season we made

709
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: the playoffs. That was the biggest best moment of my

710
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: young life and sports. So if everyone believes in it,

711
00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: and if the team believes in it, we've all the process.

712
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: We go back to where we were last year. Trevor, thanks,

713
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: thanks for crawling from I don't know, Murphy. Maybe we'll

714
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: do this on another tweet poll some time. There's no

715
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: doubt that the Bills overachieved last year. I mean, they

716
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: were called out for being a team that was We've

717
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: said it, they were going to tank. I mean, there's

718
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: no way they could be seriously trying to win when

719
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: they trade away Sammy Watkins and Ron Derby, when they

720
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: come into the into the season in the shape that

721
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: they did and make those trades right at the end

722
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: of training camp, there's no way they're going to be

723
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: able to do it. And yet you know they did,

724
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: and in large part it was because of their defensive backfield,

725
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: their ability to generate turnovers, and their culture. You know,

726
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: it was the culture in that locker room. We all

727
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: saw it at the end of last season when the

728
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: team was in there waiting to see what was the

729
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: result was going to be between Cincinnati and Baltimore, and

730
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: we saw that culture live. We saw another example of

731
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: it palpably in Chicago last week with a bunch of

732
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: guys who a lot of them were on the team

733
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: aren't on the team now. Is that gonna give them

734
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: the impetus? Is that really the reason they overachieved last year?

735
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: Was Sean McDermott and their culture the real reason they

736
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: overachieved last year? Or was it just some lucky breaks

737
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: getting a bunch of turnovers? Can I say? I think

738
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: it was both. Mostly. I think the culture, the impact

739
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 1: that McDermott had on his team, but a little bit

740
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: of luck too when it comes to turnovers. I mean,

741
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: you cannot look at the Atlanta game and the tradevious

742
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: White touchdown and not think, WHOA, that's a little crazy.

743
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: It's a nice break. That's a nice break. It's interesting

744
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:37,800
Speaker 1: you bring this up, though, see because a couple of

745
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 1: players were talking about it in the locker room yesterday,

746
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: including Lorenzo Alexander. And look, the national perspective on the

747
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: Bills right now is negative. Right, some people saying they're

748
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: gonna win three games, some people say maybe even less

749
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: than that. Lorenzo Alexander was asked if the Bills care

750
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: about that, if they respond to that. Here's what he

751
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: had to say. Coach may sometimes reference just a general

752
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: perception of you know, us versus the world mentality, but

753
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 1: it's never like, oh, we're ranked thirty two. It's never

754
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 1: anything like that. But yeah, I think if you're a

755
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: competitive at all, it does kind of rub you the

756
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: wrong way. But you know, it is what it is.

757
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: But we gotta go out to play games and and

758
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,320
Speaker 1: make people eat their their words. At the end of

759
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: the day, man, it just adds on to the top

760
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: of you. I mean, I think if you're in the league,

761
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,320
Speaker 1: you have to be self motivated. You can't allow external

762
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: things like that too. Oh I'm gonna go even play harder.

763
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it does rub

764
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: you a certain type of way because people don't respect

765
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: the work that you put into it. But we have

766
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: to change those minds, and a lot of times it

767
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: takes time to do that. It's not just one season,

768
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: you know, being having a drought for eighteen seasons, people

769
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: seeing oh they went one year. It's just a fluke.

770
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: So they're going to continue to kind of think of

771
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: us as the bottom feeders in the n fail until

772
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: we create longevity as far as winning around here, unto

773
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: and well, I want to. We'll get into this when

774
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: he joins us Son the show tomorrow. But he's onto

775
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: a good topic there. And you met you to two

776
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: a year ago. The topic was yet the Bills are

777
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,839
Speaker 1: going to be bad and they're tanking. They're deliberately gonna lose.

778
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 1: Nobody's saying deliberately this year. But I think I wonder

779
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: if the perception is worse now, if the expectations for

780
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: the Bills naturally are worse now than they were even

781
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: twelve months ago. I don't know how to measure that

782
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: or answer no. And he said something too, he was

783
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: listening you hear it. No question the players here they

784
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: know what's going on out there, they know what the

785
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 1: national media is saying. And he made a great statement

786
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 1: just in passing. He said, you know, if you're competitive

787
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: at all, you know it's gonna rub you the wrong way. Listen,

788
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: that locker room is full of guys who are that

789
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 1: stokes That stokes your motivation right there. Those guys are

790
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: going to be absolutely fired up to shout down the

791
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: naysayers with the way they act with You know, they're

792
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: not gonna say anything, but what they're gonna do. They

793
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: want to speak so loudly that nobody's gonna hear what

794
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 1: anybody else is saying about them. They're gonna, They're gonna

795
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: they are highly motivated by all the negative opinions about

796
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,800
Speaker 1: them around the country. They're gonna use it as fuel.

797
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: Absolutely no question about now. Whether that is enough to

798
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: get him into the upper echelon of the NFL, I

799
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: don't know, but I'm telling you this. He said it.

800
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: If you're competitive at all, and these guys are ultra competitive,

801
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna rub you the wrong way. And that's exactly

802
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. They're gonna use it as motivation.

803
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,720
Speaker 1: Micah Hid talked about it too in the locker room yesterday.

804
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: It seemed like it was a fairly big topic question

805
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: topic in the Buffalo locker room. Bill safety Micah Hide

806
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: on the perception that the Bills could be the worst

807
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: team in the NFL. Here's what Micah Hid said. Like

808
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: I said last year, dating back to training camp, but

809
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 1: last year all the way through to the end of

810
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: the season, there's a lot of guys in this locker

811
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 1: room that have been doubted, coaches that have been doubted

812
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 1: and fired. So um, there's nothing new to us to see,

813
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,240
Speaker 1: you know, the media once again doubting us and bashing

814
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: us in saying the horrible season, because at the end

815
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: of the day doesn't matter us. You know, there's a

816
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: lot of guys in this locker room with ships on

817
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 1: their shoulders, and we're gonna go out there and try

818
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: to play, you know, to the best our ability, and

819
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: we really don't care what the meata says. At what

820
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: point do you just sit back and laugh that you

821
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: get doubted again and after making the playoffs and winning

822
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: however you may have done, you just laugh at the

823
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: people who continue to do Um. I think that's uh,

824
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: it is fuel to the fire. But I don't think

825
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: it's uh. I think you're always gonna have doubters, And

826
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: I think that if you can sit back and laugh

827
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: about that, and uh, you know, whether if it's the

828
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: middle of your career, maybe you're getting complacent. I think that, Um. Yeah,

829
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: you know, I was giving you guys a little a

830
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: little crap at into the season, um about people doubting us.

831
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean I'm over it. Um, you know,

832
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: I'm always been doubt. A lot of guys in locker.

833
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: I'm always been doubted. So maybe at the end of

834
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: my career I'll be able to look back and be

835
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: like wow, you know, and laugh about it then. But uh,

836
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: right now, it's just about getting better that whole plan

837
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: with a chip on your should to think you guys

838
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: do it a lot. Is that something you're getting good at? That?

839
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: Is that a skill to develop to be able to

840
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: play that way? Um well, I think mentally going into

841
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: each and every game, you gotta have you gotta have

842
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: that mindset. Um you know, I say they say in

843
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: this league, defensive players are crazy. You know, they're just

844
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,879
Speaker 1: wired differently. They you know, they're we're out there, they're hitting,

845
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: you know, as hard as they can and basically running

846
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: into the walls every single play. But um yeah, you

847
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: just try to go out there and just get mentally prepared.

848
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: But if you know, you feel like you're the underdog,

849
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: or you've always been doubted, or you know whatever, everyone

850
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 1: has their own mentality. And I'm not speaking for anybody

851
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: else in this room, but I think that you know,

852
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: that's kind of been mine, just being doubted. So I

853
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 1: try to go out there, remember that each and every game.

854
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: It is a familiar storyline. Steve teams. Nobody respects us,

855
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: they're dogging us, they're picking us to finish last. You're

856
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: at all the time in the NFL. It accomplishes a

857
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: lot of things. Does it for your team? It unites

858
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: you for one thing, and it's and it speaks to

859
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: everybody else outside the rooms ignorance about how hard you've worked.

860
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: They don't know. You know, you look outside a buffalo.

861
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: You know. All you heard from the national media was

862
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,959
Speaker 1: all they traded their left tackle. It's idiocy because they didn't.

863
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: They traded Cordy Glenn, who used to be the tackle

864
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: and get big and a big drag on their and

865
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: it was dragon. They got better when they when they

866
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,240
Speaker 1: let them go. They got better when they traded Marcel Darius.

867
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: They got better when they traded uh Sammy Watkins. They

868
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: got better when they traded Ron Darby. These are all

869
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: really good players, absolutely no question about a very talented players.

870
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,720
Speaker 1: But it says something about the knowledge of the coaching

871
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:21,800
Speaker 1: staff and the people who actually are in the building

872
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 1: that they knew that was it was progress when those

873
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: players were no longer here. And when you're in there

874
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: in it, and you're sweating about it, and you're hurting

875
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: about it, and you're sacrificing time for it, and you're

876
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: and you're working hard at it. It drives you crazy

877
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: to know that people have an opinion that is inaccurate,

878
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: and whether it's in and even if it's not inaccurate,

879
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: even if it's just differing from your own or conflicting

880
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: with your own, it's highly motivating. And I think more

881
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,720
Speaker 1: often than that, and more importantly that it unites everybody

882
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: in the locker room to do it together. And that's

883
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: and that's why it's so so commonplace for teams to

884
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: use us against them. We'll talk more about this. We'll

885
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 1: talk about the Buffalo defense. Who are the key factors

886
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: if the Bills A defense are going to improve this year?

887
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: Got phone lines open when we return eighth three, five

888
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: fifty and toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

889
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: two five fifty one Bills Live from One Bill's Drive.

890
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back, One Bills Live

891
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: from One Bill Drive. John Murphy and Steve Tasker here

892
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: until three today, good show. We got going on. We

893
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: want to here from you two. We got some good

894
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: shows coming up this weekend. Steve, our regular compliment of

895
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 1: Bill's TV programming starts up this weekend. And you started

896
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: off with week one of the Sean McDermot Show. Right,

897
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: you're the host of the Sean McDermot Show, air Sundays

898
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: at eleven am. Right, Yeah, he comes in, We sit down,

899
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 1: chit chat about you know everything, dudes, go through some

900
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: plays on film, let him talk about what's important to

901
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: the team, and that's it was funny. We shot it already,

902
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 1: so it's it's good stuff. He talks about this week's matchup,

903
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: goes into the film room, the interviews of players and coaches.

904
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott show every Sunday at eleven am on WKBW

905
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,760
Speaker 1: TV channel seven and on MSG. It's available in Buffalo

906
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:21,240
Speaker 1: and some other markets as well, also on Sunday's Bills Tonight.

907
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: Bills Tonight airs on Sundays after Bills games at eleven

908
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,399
Speaker 1: thirty PM. And a new addition to the show, Mike

909
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,879
Speaker 1: Catalana is back to host in his co host this year,

910
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: Fred Jackson's going to be stopping by every Sunday eleven

911
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,760
Speaker 1: thirty every Sunday after a Bills game. Bills tonight, highlights

912
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: from the game, postgame locker room, in depth analysis. Fred

913
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: will be a big contributor for that. It'll be good

914
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: to have Fred Jackson around the building once in a while. Yeah,

915
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: we gotta get him on the show Man. Well, by

916
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 1: the way, Fred's going to be a weekly guest on

917
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: our show, I believe on Mondays. So he's coming to

918
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 1: town to do Bills tonight, dal Money I mentioned this.

919
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: That's nice, very smooth. Eleven thirty on Sunday's Bills Tonight,

920
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: presented by ECMC and before that, eleven thirty am on

921
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:05,240
Speaker 1: Sunday's Bills All Access Chris Brown hosts. I'll be alongside

922
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 1: of him. We'll talk a little bit about the game.

923
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the opponents. We'll have four issues to

924
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: talk about the opponents, not five, but four. Chris and

925
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: I will be live. We'll beat them. We won't be live,

926
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:16,879
Speaker 1: but we will be broadcasting. What are you laughing about?

927
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: Broadcasting from Mt Bank Stadium tonight. Then depth look at

928
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: the upcoming opponents, sights and sounds from game day. We'll

929
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 1: go inside the numbers. All Access Sunday's eleven thirty am

930
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: on MSG A pregame show it's a good one looking

931
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: forward to it. Yeah, all right, talking about the Buffalo

932
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: defense this year, who has to be the standout if

933
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: the Bills are going to get better on defense? Give

934
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: us a call. Let's go to Dave in Florida. Hi, Dave, welcome,

935
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: you're on the air. How are you doing? Mark west

936
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: corn Is Steve? Not much? Go ahead, Dave, all right, listen,

937
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Kyle Williams. Is Kyle Williams. I didn't

938
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: know he had an injury. I am down here in Florida.

939
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:51,479
Speaker 1: We don't get much infol Well. He missed a little

940
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,479
Speaker 1: time in preseason with a little bit of a knee

941
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: injury from the Cleveland game. Go ahead, I rolled up

942
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: on the Cleveland game and miss some practices. But it

943
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: seems he, like Murph said, he's not on the jury report. Okay,

944
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: that's what I want to hear. Kyle Williams the heart

945
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: and soul at Buffalo defense, and Jerry Jerry Hughes is

946
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: the one that could put in all the sacks. So

947
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 1: that's my opinion. As long as our corners of the

948
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: safeties can cover, I think we're in good shape. No

949
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: matter what they tell me on these other stations about

950
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. All right for Kyle Williams, all right,

951
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: thanks Dave. He's the one I thought about that as

952
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 1: the player, the key player. You're almost taking for granted,

953
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: Steve as far as having a big impact. You know

954
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: that his motor runs high. You know he'll be in

955
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: on a lot of plays. You know Kyle will demonstrate

956
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: leadership on that defense, and we take it for granted.

957
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: I'd take him for granted as far as the key

958
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: player on that defense. Yeah, And it certainly is the

959
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: heart and soul. I mean, he was the leader, and

960
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: he was the focal point of the run they made

961
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: to the playoffs last year. The players looked to him

962
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,240
Speaker 1: on both sides of the football to set the tone

963
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 1: emotionally in the locker room, and he is I think

964
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: he's really not short of brilliant at doing it. He

965
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 1: understands his role as a leader, he understands his role

966
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: as a mentor, he understands his role as a good player,

967
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: and he also does a great job at setting a

968
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: high bar for effort and preparation. When players look at

969
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 1: him and they see how he does his job in

970
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: every aspect on and off the field, that's a high bar,

971
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 1: and I think that's a thing that sets the raises

972
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: the level for other guys in the locker room. Yeah,

973
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: all right, we'll talk more about this on defense. Which

974
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: player will have the biggest impact on the Buffalo Bills

975
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: improving in defense? Coming up in the next hour. We

976
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: got two more hours ago. Bills in the final stages

977
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,720
Speaker 1: of their practice right now for Thursday, and when practice

978
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,240
Speaker 1: is over, we'll get the new punter here in studio.

979
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: Corey Bhart is going to join us coming up next hour,

980
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: So come on back for that. John Murphy, Steve Tasker,

981
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive, presented by Kalia

982
00:45:46,960 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: Health and this is Buffalo Bills Radiofalo Bills Radio Stories. Day,

983
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: another practice day for the Bills, and it has just

984
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: ended on the practice field for Buffalo, essentially an extra

985
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: day because of the Monday Labor Day workout. The Bills

986
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,240
Speaker 1: fairly healthy for the game. Two players on yesterday's injury

987
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: list today's injury list not out yet. Lorenzo Alexander, Bills linebacker.

988
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: The veteran reportedly had the day off, a scheduled rest

989
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: day for him. Ray Ray McLeod did not practice yesterday,

990
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 1: not like the Hill practice today with his knee. Bills

991
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,280
Speaker 1: getting set for the season opener against the Baltimore Ravens

992
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,240
Speaker 1: Sunday one o'clock at MTBank Stadium. We got the broadcast

993
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: on our flagship radio station here in Buffalo and up

994
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: and down the Bills Radio network, twenty stations strong. Myself,

995
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: Mark Kelsel Salcapato on the sidelines Bills Ravens. The Buffalo

996
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: Bills opened up the season this Sunday. NFL opens up

997
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 1: it's ninety nine season tonight with the Falcons and the

998
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles eight twenty kickoff tonight at

999
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. First Super Bowl and franchise

1000
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 1: history for the Eagles last year after they beat New England.

1001
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 1: They were third in the NFL and points scored twenty

1002
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: eight point six points per game. They are likely to

1003
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: go with Nick Foles at quarterback the Super Bowl MVP

1004
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: a year ago, as Carson Wentz is still not ready.

1005
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: It's eight twenty tonight, the kickoff of the Falcons and

1006
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: the Eagles. The NFL returns. Steelers will not rescind the

1007
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: franchise tag for Lebian Bell, despite the fact that Bell

1008
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: has yet to report and there's no indication on when

1009
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: he might. Yesterday, several of Steelers players expressed frustration with

1010
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: Bell's extended average. Some of them were live it, they

1011
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: say the players, some of the offensive lineman walked out

1012
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 1: of the locker room saying that Lebian Bell went back

1013
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,280
Speaker 1: on a promise he made to show up for practice

1014
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 1: this week. Adrian Peterson another starting gig in the NFL.

1015
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: The thirty three year old running back has been expected

1016
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: to be the Washington starter, and he will be when

1017
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 1: they open up against the Arizona Cardinals. That's according to

1018
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: NBC Sports in Washington. Adrian Peterson notable for him he

1019
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 1: bided his time on the free agent market, signed very late,

1020
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 1: and now he is back with Washington and we'll get

1021
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 1: the start and Chaquem Griffin his story. The Seattle Seahawks

1022
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: say the rookie linebacker will start. He's been working as

1023
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: a backup at week sign linebacker, but the rookie will

1024
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: start for the Seahawks in their season opener. And then

1025
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: as the update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker,

1026
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. It is One Bill's Live from

1027
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Bill's just off the practice field, and

1028
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: coming into our studio just off the practice field, the

1029
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 1: newest one of the newest Buffalo Bills. Happy to have

1030
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,839
Speaker 1: punter Corey Horkes and study with us. Am I saying

1031
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: the name right please? Yes, that is Behrkes. That's not

1032
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: as hard as as we thought. I think it's just

1033
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: a letter, you know that gets people. It's the jay. Yeah,

1034
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: they don't know what to do. I don't know what

1035
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: to do with that. Joris, Corey, where are you from?

1036
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 1: I'm originally from right out to Long Beach, California. Okay.

1037
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: And you went to New Mexico University, New Mexico, I did.

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00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: I went there for two years. After junior college where

1039
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:38,399
Speaker 1: you go to Juco? I went to Surrito's College, Serritos, California. Okay. Yeah,

1040
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: and punting all the way. Did you do anything but

1041
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: punt that whole time? Or my junior high school did

1042
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: a little bit of kioff and field goal. Um senior,

1043
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: you're just kind of decided to focus this our pun

1044
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 1: Obviously a smart guy. Just stay away from the contact. Dude,

1045
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: you can do right exactly, can play a long time

1046
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: doing Oh there's some guys playing fifteen two. Let me

1047
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: look at Vinitarius. But twenty three seasons, now, yeah, you're

1048
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: in camp with the hat. Just didn't do anything, didn't

1049
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: see any game action at all. Right, So then obviously

1050
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,439
Speaker 1: their their plan was to kind of have you hang around.

1051
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 1: And everybody from here says, well, their guide, their kicker, punters,

1052
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 1: and their punters in the long last year of a deal.

1053
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 1: So if if he wants, you know, if it doesn't

1054
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 1: go well with him, they've got you. And they brought

1055
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: you in for that express reason. And they didn't want

1056
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 1: anybody to see what you could do. You know, they

1057
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: kind of had their plan that they wanted to go

1058
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: forward with and everything, and you know, they just told me, like,

1059
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: just keep working and you know you're doing good. And

1060
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: I just said, all right. You know when people say

1061
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: you didn't kick in preseason, you did practice and kick.

1062
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I practice every day. Yeah, it's not as

1063
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: if you're staying around eating honey buns or something. But

1064
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: like the rest of us, Yeah, was that the plan

1065
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: going in? Did they tell you, look, we're gonna keep

1066
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: our punter. We're gonna it's Ryan Allen, Right, we're gonna

1067
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: keep him, but we want you around two Did they

1068
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: express that to you before you got there or what

1069
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: did they say? Oh? No, it was just coming in

1070
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,320
Speaker 1: just you know, kind of competing, just trying to you know,

1071
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: make me into a better punter. And so I really

1072
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 1: didn't think too much about it. You know. It was

1073
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 1: kind of like Game I game. They'd tell him, you know, like, hey,

1074
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 1: we're gonna, you know, do this for this game, and

1075
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 1: I'll just said, all right, no, no problem. What do

1076
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: you do now that you're a Buffalo? Bill? You're gonna

1077
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: be on the field. Yeah, and that's like snap number

1078
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: one is snap number one live? Yeah, you're okay with that? Oh, definitely,

1079
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it was a little bit more pressure,

1080
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: you know, in the sense of like playing a big,

1081
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: bigger atmosphere, you know, and you know, better players coming

1082
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: at you. But at the same time, what happened between

1083
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: the snap and you know, the ball hits my foots

1084
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: the same as it's always been. Hey Corey and we're

1085
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: with Corey Barkeez. By the way, Bill's putter just signed

1086
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 1: to the roster. Um. Did you anticipate you would be

1087
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: released last Saturday? Did did you figure that's the way

1088
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:36,959
Speaker 1: it will go down in New England? Um? Yeah, because

1089
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 1: I mean I know they wouldn't kind of cut him

1090
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: and keep me as a starter. You know, I didn't

1091
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 1: played again stuff, so I figured either it's going to

1092
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 1: be you know, kind of doing a practice squad thing

1093
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: or just you know, thanks for coming. He did really well, right,

1094
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: and so I know I wasn't really too sure if

1095
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: I wasn't get claim or not. You know, I was

1096
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: kind of banking on being on their practice squad, you know,

1097
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: kind of just working through the year and trying to

1098
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: get better. And sure enough things worked out for me

1099
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 1: and you got the call from buff though Sunday. Then, yeah,

1100
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 1: I walked into the facility. You know, how does some

1101
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: of us waiting, you know, to hear with what the

1102
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:08,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing in the future, And you know,

1103
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: they called me at the office and said, the Bills

1104
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: has claimed you. So I'm sorry, Steven, but go ahead us. Yea.

1105
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,279
Speaker 1: The whole thing, it really is, the hope is I

1106
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:21,279
Speaker 1: think I'm on many Bills fans at the Patriots, You're like,

1107
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: the Bills claimed Yet was it like that? Were they

1108
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: upset that the Bills claimed you? You know, we had

1109
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: a really good relationship with a lot of the guys there,

1110
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: so uh, I think, you know, they're kind of hoping

1111
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: to hang on to me for a little bit and

1112
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 1: kind of work with me a little bit, So you know,

1113
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: I think you know, to them, you know, they kind

1114
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: of wish I wouldn't have been claimed, but at the

1115
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 1: same time, wish mad that's what we're really home. I'm

1116
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:43,919
Speaker 1: sure you know he had a plan that you wanted

1117
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: to go through, you know, and that's not happening. So

1118
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: one for us. Tell me tell you so, you've been

1119
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: kicking for like you said, for a long long time,

1120
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 1: even how were you hunting in training camp with those guys?

1121
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 1: How did that camp go for you? Were you hitting

1122
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,760
Speaker 1: it well? I think I did pretty well. Yeah, definitely

1123
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 1: got a lot more consistent throughout those couple that I

1124
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,399
Speaker 1: was out there, and I feel like from the time

1125
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: I got there to now, I've improved a lot. Was

1126
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: it a different level for you? I mean, you punted

1127
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: New Mexico, you did great, a great career in New Mexico,

1128
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 1: especially your last year year. But did you feel like

1129
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 1: you were up in the in the big leagues when

1130
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: you got to the NFL and punting in an NFL

1131
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: training camp, getting out the rookie minicamp was h It

1132
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 1: was a really cool experience, you know, not anything I

1133
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: really have before. I mean, you know, I played out

1134
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: a smaller D one school, so I didn't really have

1135
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: the atmosphere when we went and played like Texas, A

1136
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: and M like that was you know, really big for me.

1137
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 1: So getting out to that it was really cool. But

1138
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 1: I didn't kind of, you know, let it overwhelm me.

1139
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: You know, I kind of just like, you know, I

1140
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 1: know what I can do. I'm here to you know,

1141
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: punt and do my thing, so I just try not

1142
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: to you know, phase me too. It's a really stupid question.

1143
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: Where is New Mexico University. It's in Albuquerque, So a

1144
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 1: lot of people get a confused at New Mexico State,

1145
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: which is like three hours south. Okay, so you're in Albuquerque,

1146
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: which is a percizable town. It's it's biggest city. And

1147
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: a lot of hot colloons in Albuquerque a ton and

1148
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 1: you see them all the time. Yeah, did you go there?

1149
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,320
Speaker 1: And did you was it hard enough to think about

1150
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 1: breaking bad every time you turned around. I'm gonna my

1151
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: family helped me move out there. That's actually one of

1152
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: the first places we went to that weekend was go

1153
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:12,320
Speaker 1: and see the house there, Yes, is it a tourist attraction?

1154
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: What is? Definitely? Asked? So they have like a fence

1155
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: up now and because people were throwing pizzas up on

1156
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: the house and the roof. Yes, did you ever see

1157
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 1: that seam? You watch freaking you know where to miss

1158
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:22,439
Speaker 1: that episode? I got to watch Break Bad. I've watched

1159
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:24,319
Speaker 1: like three seasons of it and no, go it's good.

1160
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: It's good. It's really good. Yeah, really good. What I

1161
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:30,720
Speaker 1: want to ask you m t talk about the vibe.

1162
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: You were in the Patriots locker room for four months,

1163
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: you came over to the Bill's locker room. How has

1164
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: that transition gone and some of the things that surprised

1165
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: you maybe didn't surprise you. Um, I wasn't really too

1166
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,879
Speaker 1: sure what to expect here, you know, um, just because

1167
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: you know, I've never been out here before. But you know,

1168
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,239
Speaker 1: everyone that I've met has been super welcoming, you know,

1169
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: really helpful with helping me find my way around here

1170
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 1: and you know, places to go and like live at

1171
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: things like that. So it's been really nice transition. You

1172
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,959
Speaker 1: punt left footed. Yes, that's important. It seemed more teams

1173
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: and the Patriots maybe the translators here more teams are

1174
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: looking for left footed punt. Yeah like that. You know,

1175
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: the ball obviously rotates the other way, which for returners

1176
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: can cause the muff here and there. And for some

1177
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 1: teams having that extra couple muscle, you know, a season

1178
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: can really turn things around. True. Do you know Stevens too,

1179
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 1: seven time Pro Bowl? Yeah, that's pretty amazing. Did he

1180
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 1: tell you that tattoo? No, but it's true though. Yeah.

1181
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 1: The ball spin in the opposite way. You don't think

1182
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 1: about it until you're back there and then because as

1183
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: the ball turns over and it flattens out, it spins

1184
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 1: and it spins away from you. Yeah, and it's hard

1185
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 1: to do that the opposite way. It's a mirror image

1186
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: of it, and sometimes it catches guys off guard. It does,

1187
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean, especially if you look over my

1188
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: two years that New Mexico had muffs like pretty often.

1189
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 1: It's interesting too in this stadium and new air of field, Um,

1190
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 1: there are areas of where the wind affects the ball

1191
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be completely different, particularly for you know,

1192
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 1: buffalo guys are used to catch it. If they catch

1193
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: it left footed punter in there, everything that they've been

1194
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: used to seeing is going to be much different because

1195
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 1: the ball is gonna move differently. I think it'll probably

1196
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: be better for you on the road. For these teams

1197
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: if they've got an experienced punt returner, then it will

1198
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:16,320
Speaker 1: be at home because they'll kind of understand what the

1199
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 1: wind and then it'll be it'll be completely different. We'll

1200
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: catch them off guard. Yeah, yeah, that's that's a fun

1201
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:24,840
Speaker 1: thing to think about. Oh, I love it. Wait, have

1202
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 1: you kicked any balls yet in the stadium? Not in

1203
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: the stated I'll just in the practice worlds right now.

1204
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 1: But even the wind out there, you know, can move

1205
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 1: it around a bit. Let me ask you this, and

1206
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 1: I guess you've got one. You got one of those

1207
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,359
Speaker 1: Austie kicks where you drop it first goal. And okay,

1208
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 1: now when did you How young were you when you

1209
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 1: started working on that? My first season, which was my

1210
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 1: junior year of high school, right, so that it I'm old,

1211
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 1: So I was around when it began. When started us,

1212
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 1: I see Darren Benn and I played with a bunch

1213
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: and against he was in the Pro Bowl, And yeah,

1214
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,440
Speaker 1: I'm the guy who talked him into kicking it the

1215
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: first time in the game. It was in the Pro Bowl. Yeah,

1216
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 1: because his coach. His coach wouldn't let him kick cases.

1217
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 1: You're not doing all that blah blah blah blah, and

1218
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: he goes, so he goes, I can do it. He goes,

1219
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 1: the guy won't let me do it, and I said, well,

1220
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: let's do it in this game. He and he was

1221
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 1: in Australian He didn't want to try it. I go, dude,

1222
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 1: what are they gonna do? Cut us? No, it's a

1223
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. Let's go. So he kicked it and I

1224
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: chased it, and you know, from then on he could drive.

1225
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:20,279
Speaker 1: You know, it's now it is what it is. Every

1226
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: punter in the league hits it and now I was

1227
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 1: when interested to see you started as soon as you

1228
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:26,240
Speaker 1: started punting. You had to learn that. Yeah. So because

1229
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: I actually met him my first year punting went down

1230
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:31,320
Speaker 1: to San Diego, you know, it's about an hour and

1231
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: a half from where I live, and training with him

1232
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 1: and Michael Houston. That was one of the things he

1233
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 1: really was like working with me. So I didn't really

1234
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:39,360
Speaker 1: start hitting it until I got into junior college or

1235
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: really wanted to feel really comfortable with it. And now

1236
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: you know, it's second nature. Yeah. Corey BJRK is is

1237
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 1: our guest Bills new punter. When did you start thinking

1238
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 1: about punting is a possible profession for you? Maybe you

1239
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 1: can make money doing this? After first game in high school?

1240
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 1: Really yeah, so I played JV and varsity. You know,

1241
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:56,959
Speaker 1: I really liked it. I wasn't sure how far I would,

1242
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 1: you know, go with it. I was always you know,

1243
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:01,840
Speaker 1: a big baseball guy growing up. Um, you know, first

1244
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: punt or the JV game, you know, hit it fifty

1245
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 1: fifty five yards over the guys hitt and I thought,

1246
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,359
Speaker 1: you know, I like doing this. It makes me feel good.

1247
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: So since then, you know, I've just been working to

1248
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:15,439
Speaker 1: get it. It's always fun to contribute. Oh, always, always, Yeah,

1249
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 1: hey I read this. You're asked the question if you

1250
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: could play any other sport professionally, what would it be.

1251
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: Your answer was hockey for the Anaheim Ducks. YOU'RER Ducks

1252
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: fan growing up a little bit. Yeah, you know, hockey

1253
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:28,560
Speaker 1: wasn't like a huge sport for us, but we'd go

1254
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: to a couple of games and uh, you know, watch

1255
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: the TV show Mighty Ducks, and that was always something

1256
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: I thought would be a lot of fun. Not very well,

1257
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: I got news for You're in a hockey town too,

1258
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 1: that's what I heard. Yeah, that's gonna be a lot

1259
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: of fun. Yeah, I got. I mean I go to

1260
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 1: I go to as many games as I can go to.

1261
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 1: I got. We have season tickets. Oh that's awesome, sot out. Yeah,

1262
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 1: it's a great atmosphere. You like it. This question comes

1263
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: up on your bio two hobbies. You can play four

1264
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: different instruments? Yes, which four? I can play the trumpet.

1265
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 1: That was the first one I learned. Uh, ukulele, piano,

1266
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 1: and guitar. Wow, that's taking less from all those. Uh,

1267
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: Trumpet I took a class, right, and guitar I took

1268
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 1: a class my senior year. The other two I had

1269
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 1: a lot of Polynesian friends middle school, high school, and

1270
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 1: they kind of talking. Yeah. And then piano just I

1271
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: knew how to read music and stuff, figured out which

1272
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: keys are what, and just kind of talk myself to

1273
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about this game this week. First,

1274
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: it's your first thing out of the box. You probably

1275
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 1: you're getting installed with a game plan. Is that? Is

1276
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: there anything that's a little bit surprising to you about

1277
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 1: how the NFL does things as composed to your college days. Uh,

1278
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: things a little bit more organized. They go more into

1279
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 1: detail about the specialists. You know, it's not so much

1280
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 1: this is our punner, this is his number, here's his stats.

1281
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 1: You know, it's more of like all right, you know

1282
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: when he's on this hash, she kind of does you

1283
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: know these uh sorts of things and stuff like that.

1284
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: So it definitely goes into a lot more detail. How

1285
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: much detail you think they can go in about you?

1286
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 1: He's left footed and that's where it is played in

1287
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: college about it good stuff and part of your job

1288
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 1: I believe is going to be holding for policement kis definitely. Yeah,

1289
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 1: I consider that, you know, would be at least half

1290
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 1: of what my job is. You done a lot of that, yeah,

1291
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 1: oh yeah since high school? And what do you think

1292
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: of that rule? How do you like that? I like

1293
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 1: it a lot? You know best it really kind of

1294
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 1: builds that bomb between like the kicker and punter because

1295
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: you know, you have to work with them a lot.

1296
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 1: You know, every kicker likes the ball held a certain way,

1297
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 1: so you know, it builds like a lot of communications.

1298
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: Have you gotten in with Houseket already? Oh it doesn't.

1299
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: We've been working on in every practice. Yeah, yeah, And

1300
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 1: and um, he's a good one too. He's a good

1301
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: guy that learned very good. Yeah, very good. Yeah, well, Corey, welcome.

1302
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: And it's last question I get for you. Is your

1303
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 1: head spinning? I mean a week ago, a Thursday, You're

1304
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 1: you're thinking, I don't know how there's gonna wornd up

1305
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 1: here in New England. Here you are a week later

1306
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: in Buffalo getting ready to kick in the NFL game

1307
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: on Sunday. It's it's a big change, it is. You know,

1308
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting it, but you know, I could not

1309
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: be more excited for it. You know. I was just

1310
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 1: kind of waiting around, just you know, for my name

1311
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:50,680
Speaker 1: to be called, and sure enough it happened. So I'm

1312
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 1: really excited. You weren't even expecting to get into game

1313
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 1: this year, right, I mean I was expecting, you know,

1314
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 1: practice squad training, just trying to get better. And this

1315
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 1: is more fun, I thin. So I think I'm gonna

1316
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 1: like this. You have family coming in from the West

1317
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 1: Coast for this one, not this time. Just everyone's working,

1318
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: going to school, and stuff happened a little too quick

1319
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 1: to get flights. Flights are like fifteen grand right, and

1320
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 1: I'm teaching about flights going through the roof when he

1321
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: gets close. You gotta put it out there to the

1322
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 1: next home game. So my parents are coming. Yeah, in

1323
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: two weeks a little bit Chargers game. Yeah. Okay, good

1324
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: luck to you. Thanks for coming back. Congratulations. Cory behrk

1325
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: is joining us, the Bill's new punter, just acquired off

1326
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: waivers from the Patriots. Are thanks saying for joining us, Steve,

1327
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 1: and I'm back with more One Bills Live from One

1328
01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:47,400
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Sean rolls along

1329
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: our thanks to Cory Behrk has Corey BEHRKZ. It's not

1330
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: that difficult, Steve. It's the jade that screws everybody out.

1331
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 1: I'm going with Cory Behark. It's easier to say that

1332
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 1: it is. It's easier to say than it is to read. Exactly.

1333
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:02,600
Speaker 1: Good point, good guy, young guy. How old is he?

1334
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 1: I'm guessing twenty three? Yep, No, twenty one years old?

1335
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 1: Who he'll be twenty two? Uh? Next week? All right,

1336
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: it'll be twenty two next week? Wow, young guy? Do

1337
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: you worry about that? I mean, he's gone out. We

1338
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: can talk about do we worry about a rookie punter

1339
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 1: in his first game? And worry about a twenty year

1340
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 1: old in your middle year. DA. They're ready for it.

1341
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:25,160
Speaker 1: They're trained. I believe me. It's not rocket science at

1342
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:29,479
Speaker 1: this point the NFL. It's not rocket for these guys

1343
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,960
Speaker 1: and handling all the stuff they've got to handle. This

1344
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 1: young guy, you know, being parachuted into Buffalo to be

1345
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: the starting punter for your for the Bills, on your

1346
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:44,640
Speaker 1: in your first snap as a professional. Um, it sounds daunting,

1347
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 1: but they're you know, they're they're ready for it. They're young,

1348
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 1: smart guys who've been trained. So they're all right. I'm

1349
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 1: not saying he's gonna come in and, you know, do

1350
01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 1: his best impression of you know, Ray guy, but he'll

1351
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 1: be good. He'll be all right the Bills. No, dude, punters.

1352
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: They might feel pressure. He feel pressure, Yeah, I'm sure that,

1353
01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 1: but it's a pressure that's self inflicted. I mean, you

1354
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:07,560
Speaker 1: got to know as a as a guy coming in

1355
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 1: and say, well, you know, the expectations for me coming

1356
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: in here as basically a guy who's never even taken

1357
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 1: a snap in any kind of professional game to be

1358
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 1: stuck in there as a starting punter, the expectations the

1359
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: bar is gonna be kind of low. So the pressure

1360
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 1: he's gonna feel is listen, listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna

1361
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: show these guys. I'm gonna show him. And the pressure

1362
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:30,120
Speaker 1: is to that you really want to do it well

1363
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: and uh and and the problem is sometimes you try

1364
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 1: and overstep, you know, try and overdo it, and uh,

1365
01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 1: you don't really need to you don't need to just

1366
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 1: be you. He did say that holding for a house

1367
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 1: gift for replacement kicks. He considers it at least fifty

1368
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: percent of the job it is. And and that might

1369
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 1: be where the pressure comes into play, right, I mean

1370
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 1: that's points on the board sometimes if you get the

1371
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 1: good hold. Yeah, because now you've got people depending on you,

1372
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 1: like directly and U, there is a lot of and

1373
01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:00,240
Speaker 1: I remember that feeling. Man, that's the you help yea, yeah,

1374
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's pressure there. I really that's in fact,

1375
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 1: I never really thought about it, but you say that,

1376
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 1: and it's really true. That was probably as much pressure

1377
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 1: as I ever felt on a football field, because you know,

1378
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 1: you not just the guy kicking, but he had to

1379
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: kick it well, but you had to do it just right,

1380
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 1: you know, And it was you didn't want to be

1381
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: that guy, and that that caused the problem. Yeah, that

1382
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: was as much pressure as ever was being the holder.

1383
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 1: One more question about holding. Is it the hold itself

1384
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 1: or the kick or the snap sometimes that you worry about, Well,

1385
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 1: it's all of them. As the snapper, I mean, as

1386
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:37,240
Speaker 1: the as the holder, I'm worried about the snap first,

1387
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 1: and then you got to get it down. You kind

1388
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 1: of kind of let your training take over. He do

1389
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 1: what you do after that. But this, but if the

1390
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 1: snap is off target, it adds a degree of difficulty

1391
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 1: that you can't expect. And that's yeah, you're right. I

1392
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: think it's you got to catch it first then hold it,

1393
01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 1: you know, and you can't do one without the other.

1394
01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 1: So it's I mean, I don't Yeah, I don't know that.

1395
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:03,840
Speaker 1: I it's I'm bringing my hands here, just sitting here

1396
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:06,720
Speaker 1: thinking about it. You're getting nervous, I am. I'm getting nervous.

1397
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 1: I am because No, I am, because I remember that

1398
01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 1: was as much angst as I ever felt in a game,

1399
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 1: was holding for Steve Christie or whoever. Yeah, Scott Norwood,

1400
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 1: if you could offer Corey Bojorrez advice, Hork Hork Hork

1401
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 1: has advice and how to deal with the pressure, whether

1402
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:28,240
Speaker 1: it's holding or punting. What would you say to him today?

1403
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 1: And why didn't you say to him ten minutes? And

1404
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 1: nobody asked me to you know, I said, listen, the

1405
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 1: pressure is what you make it. But I always had

1406
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 1: the best success when I acted. When you acted had

1407
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: a little bit too much confidence, say listen, I'm gonna

1408
01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:44,040
Speaker 1: watch me. You know, I'm watching me. I can I'm

1409
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:46,320
Speaker 1: ready for this. That was when I had my most success.

1410
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 1: I'm you know, when you're like when you're a little

1411
01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 1: kid and your mom and dad are up on the

1412
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 1: porch or watching you say watch this, watch this, watch this,

1413
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:54,800
Speaker 1: and you can do this thing twenty times before you

1414
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:57,360
Speaker 1: get it right because there's no consequences, nobody you know.

1415
01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:00,080
Speaker 1: So that was kind of the attitude I had. You

1416
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 1: can't worry about the consequences. You gotta say, watch me,

1417
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:03,920
Speaker 1: I got this, check me out, and that then you

1418
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 1: kind of have your best performances once you run down

1419
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:08,040
Speaker 1: the hall and and give that advice to Corey right now,

1420
01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:10,040
Speaker 1: he'll be fine, He'll be all right. He seemed kind

1421
01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 1: of cool. It seemed kind of yeah, he seems together,

1422
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:15,440
Speaker 1: well grounded, like he's real secure about it. That's it's

1423
01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:17,320
Speaker 1: a good He looks like he's in a good place. Yeah,

1424
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:19,480
Speaker 1: Corey about Hork has Bill's new punter. We're happy that

1425
01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: he joined this in studio. Still coming up on the show,

1426
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:24,520
Speaker 1: a couple of months away from Dennis Pitta, Ravens radio

1427
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 1: broadcast analyst. He played seven seasons with the Ravens in

1428
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 1: the NFL. On a super Bowl with him back in

1429
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 1: twenty and thirteen. Thurmon Thomas gonna stop by in the

1430
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 1: two o'clock hour. I'm nervous about that. I'm gonna wring

1431
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:35,680
Speaker 1: my hands about that. I haven't talked to Thurman in months.

1432
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 1: Who knows what he's got. You know, he's always got

1433
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 1: impressive meetings with big time celebrities to talk about. He is.

1434
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 1: He's very opinion he's he's in the but he's in

1435
01:05:44,680 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 1: the a list of Yeah, yeah, he travels with it. Yeah,

1436
01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 1: he's super he is. He's nervous about thereman, I'm gonna start,

1437
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:54,560
Speaker 1: I know, but you know, he's a he's a superstar.

1438
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:57,240
Speaker 1: He's he gets out there, he's out there. That'll be

1439
01:05:57,320 --> 01:05:59,720
Speaker 1: two o'clock today, we'll have Thurman Thomas. Let's hear from you.

1440
01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 1: The online is open eight fifty two three one, eight, eight,

1441
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 1: eight fifty two, five fifty. If the Bills are going

1442
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 1: to be better on defense this year, which I think

1443
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 1: Steve and I agree they will be, who's gonna be

1444
01:06:11,120 --> 01:06:12,920
Speaker 1: the leader there? Who's gonna make the difference? Give us

1445
01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:14,400
Speaker 1: a call, let us know what you think, or let

1446
01:06:14,480 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 1: us know on Twitter at one Bills Live. Who's going

1447
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 1: to be the difference maker on defense? Who's a call

1448
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 1: from Zach and Rochester? How Zach ohead you're on the air. Yeah.

1449
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 1: So I'm really excited to watch the Bill shock the

1450
01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:28,480
Speaker 1: world this year. I was. I remember waking up and

1451
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 1: seeing that USA Today one in fifteen prediction. Wait, didn't

1452
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 1: see that one. I can't imagine being in that building

1453
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:39,600
Speaker 1: and seeing the work ethic in the process every day,

1454
01:06:40,240 --> 01:06:43,320
Speaker 1: and you know, seeing that, how fired up these guys

1455
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 1: must be. I think that just the absolute depth on

1456
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 1: the of the front seven we have this year is

1457
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:53,320
Speaker 1: going to transition to a great Pro Bowl year for

1458
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 1: Jordan Ployer. Also, the biggest issue for me of the

1459
01:06:56,200 --> 01:07:01,200
Speaker 1: day is Steve, Uh you know of you my You're

1460
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 1: like my dad's favorite player, but but well he looks

1461
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 1: you buy two Tim Horton's coffee. You don't get any

1462
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:11,160
Speaker 1: for you don't get any for jobs. I brought to

1463
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:13,160
Speaker 1: and he didn't want one. I have a small one

1464
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:16,440
Speaker 1: earlier day. In fact, before I went, I offered to

1465
01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:19,280
Speaker 1: get him something. I know Zach has a good call

1466
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:21,400
Speaker 1: by you, because you're right. It did sound like I

1467
01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:23,720
Speaker 1: got too and didn't offer, but I did. All right,

1468
01:07:24,080 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 1: here's this one caveat though I got both of them

1469
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:29,480
Speaker 1: the way I like him because I didn't, you know,

1470
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 1: because he had already said no, but I knew if

1471
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 1: I walked in there with a coffee, were oh ma, oh,

1472
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:35,120
Speaker 1: it looks good after all. So I got one for him,

1473
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:37,040
Speaker 1: and I was like, I was old. I was like

1474
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:38,920
Speaker 1: they were like everybody was like waving it off. So

1475
01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 1: that's a week's worth of coffee, so I can't get

1476
01:07:42,880 --> 01:07:46,000
Speaker 1: I drank it all of it. It was so good,

1477
01:07:46,080 --> 01:07:47,920
Speaker 1: and he asked, what do you got one sugartoo creams?

1478
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:51,240
Speaker 1: Is there what you're going? One sugartoo cream and that

1479
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:54,040
Speaker 1: it was good too. I almost didn't get through the

1480
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:55,880
Speaker 1: last one before it got cold. Though you should have

1481
01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:58,680
Speaker 1: had the honey bun while you had the coffee. Listen,

1482
01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:01,840
Speaker 1: those are new, there's honeybody and they have not been

1483
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 1: here before. I know. Dude. Sorry, I'm sorry you open them.

1484
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not going back there. I'm not

1485
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 1: gonna do those anymore. Thank Zacht. Let's go to a

1486
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:12,680
Speaker 1: Carl in Clarence. Carl, welcome to the show. You're on

1487
01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:15,280
Speaker 1: the air with us. Hey, hi, guys, I got a

1488
01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 1: comment in the question, well, in an opinion. First of all, John,

1489
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 1: I don't think you drink enough coffee here. You're seem

1490
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:22,680
Speaker 1: to be astounded by the fact that he's drinking so

1491
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:24,760
Speaker 1: much coffee. I can't drink that much coffee and I

1492
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:27,679
Speaker 1: start drinking coffee in single digits. Yeah, I can't drink

1493
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:29,200
Speaker 1: I don't know what a Tim Horton small is. That's

1494
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 1: my limit for the day. If I drink more than that,

1495
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:34,639
Speaker 1: I'm a mess in awe of him drinking drinking forty

1496
01:08:34,640 --> 01:08:36,200
Speaker 1: eight ounces of coffee and what was an hour and

1497
01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:41,240
Speaker 1: a half. Yeah, yeah, I was going, yeah, that I'd

1498
01:08:41,240 --> 01:08:45,080
Speaker 1: be hospitalized. That is a lot. But what my comment is,

1499
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:47,639
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that the line is so well at seven.

1500
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:49,400
Speaker 1: I mean, the home team is usually a FOURD at

1501
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:52,519
Speaker 1: least three, so they're saying like a four point differential

1502
01:08:52,560 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: between us and Baltimore and everybody's building Baltimore off and

1503
01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 1: the builds are the worst team to ever exist. That's

1504
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:02,920
Speaker 1: my comment. Yeah, Yeah, it's interesting because Carl, you gotta

1505
01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:05,479
Speaker 1: remember too that they set those lines not based on

1506
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:07,760
Speaker 1: what they think the teams will do. They bet set

1507
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 1: those lines on what they think people will bet. That's

1508
01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:14,640
Speaker 1: where they set the line. So just take that into consideration.

1509
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:18,600
Speaker 1: You are right about that. I'm surprised to make a

1510
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:20,559
Speaker 1: six and a half. So if you'll really get everybody

1511
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:23,519
Speaker 1: to pile on Baltimore. Yeah, and you're right though, too, Car.

1512
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:27,639
Speaker 1: Baltimore has high expectations. Joe Flacco was outstanding in the preseason.

1513
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:29,680
Speaker 1: They're five and oh in the preseason. They didn't lose

1514
01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:32,560
Speaker 1: a game. All the problems and issues that seemed to

1515
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 1: plague them last year have seemed to be alleviated. They

1516
01:09:35,360 --> 01:09:38,720
Speaker 1: revamped their wide receiver crew, which is in large which

1517
01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 1: a lot of people blamed in large measure for Joe

1518
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:45,160
Speaker 1: Flacco's lack of production last year. Joe Flacco was lasting

1519
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: the league in a couple of important categories, yards per

1520
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:50,840
Speaker 1: attempt kind of thing. So they think they and their

1521
01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:54,240
Speaker 1: defense was very good last year and they return a

1522
01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 1: lot of those guys, so Baltimore's expectations are through the roof,

1523
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 1: and I think it is it's interesting that they're only

1524
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:03,840
Speaker 1: maybe when you take the home in a way out

1525
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:06,639
Speaker 1: of the equation for the betting line, that they're only

1526
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:10,519
Speaker 1: a four point favorite. Um, it's interesting. We'll see. Yeah,

1527
01:10:10,520 --> 01:10:15,280
Speaker 1: go ahead, Carl. I can't remember, Steve, did you hold

1528
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:17,840
Speaker 1: the ball for wide right? And if you did, at

1529
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 1: what point did you realize it wasn't gone through? I

1530
01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:23,160
Speaker 1: did not hold the ball for wide right. Frank Reich

1531
01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:26,479
Speaker 1: was holding for Scott Norwood. I was holding hands with

1532
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:28,479
Speaker 1: somebody on the sidelines because we were all holding hands

1533
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:33,479
Speaker 1: at that point. And I knew almost. I think I

1534
01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:36,640
Speaker 1: knew just before it went across the goal posts. You know,

1535
01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:39,160
Speaker 1: I knew it was wide before it actually did go wide,

1536
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:41,240
Speaker 1: and I was I knew it was you know. I said,

1537
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:44,120
Speaker 1: I missed it. So that's about all I said. That's

1538
01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:45,680
Speaker 1: all I could say. It's all I could get out.

1539
01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 1: Thanks Carl, John Murphy, Steve Tasker. It's one Bill's line

1540
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive Bills getting set to pleey Baltimore

1541
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:53,200
Speaker 1: and joining us on the subway fresh take Lane, the

1542
01:10:53,240 --> 01:10:55,240
Speaker 1: guy who knows a lot about the Baltimore Ravens. He's

1543
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:58,920
Speaker 1: their radio broadcast analysts. Seven seasons in the NFL, all

1544
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:00,840
Speaker 1: of them with the Baltimore Ravens, won a Super Bowl

1545
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 1: with him a couple of years ago. Happy to have

1546
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:04,720
Speaker 1: Dennis Pitta on the line with us. Dennis, it's John

1547
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:07,040
Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve Task. You're up here in Buffalo. Thanks

1548
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 1: for joining us. Hey, guys, happy to be here. You're

1549
01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:12,240
Speaker 1: probably saying to yourself, they're still talking about missing that

1550
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 1: field gold in Super Bowl twenty five, right all these

1551
01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:16,519
Speaker 1: years later. You probably can't believe that that just came up.

1552
01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:20,439
Speaker 1: I darely remember that. I think that was the formula.

1553
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:23,200
Speaker 1: No one here forgets it, not a little bit. It

1554
01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:26,320
Speaker 1: was a lot before your time. Hey, Dennis, five and oh,

1555
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:29,839
Speaker 1: preseason for the Baltimore Ravens. What does that mean? If anything,

1556
01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:35,280
Speaker 1: it certainly means something. I don't know that it means

1557
01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:38,560
Speaker 1: too much, though. You look at the previous seasons with

1558
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:41,400
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens and I think we're fourteen and zero

1559
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:44,120
Speaker 1: in the last couple of preseasons. So and of course

1560
01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 1: in the last few years we've missed the playoffs after

1561
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:50,000
Speaker 1: the fact, so I don't think too many people are

1562
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,360
Speaker 1: pretty much stock into her being five and oh in

1563
01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 1: the preseason. It certainly is a good thing, not a

1564
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 1: bad thing, and it speaks to the depth and the

1565
01:11:57,600 --> 01:11:59,720
Speaker 1: coaching level that they have there with the Ravens. But

1566
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 1: everybody knows the importance of the regular season, how different

1567
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:05,000
Speaker 1: that is from the preseason, So all eyes were looking

1568
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:07,320
Speaker 1: forward at this point. Yeah, a lot of people disappointed

1569
01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:09,080
Speaker 1: in the way they finished the year last year. And

1570
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:12,479
Speaker 1: but for Buffalo fans, you know, the entire nation was

1571
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:15,519
Speaker 1: watching Baltimore in their last game against Cincinnati's that fourth

1572
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:18,160
Speaker 1: and twelve turned into a touchdown and put the Bills

1573
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:21,160
Speaker 1: into the playoffs and took Baltimore out as a result

1574
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:22,840
Speaker 1: of that. Is that is that one of the things

1575
01:12:23,040 --> 01:12:25,880
Speaker 1: that they saw coming into the draft this year. The

1576
01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 1: Ravens first four picks of their draft were all on

1577
01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:31,680
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the football. Did they just think

1578
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:34,439
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco wasn't getting enough help or that or was

1579
01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:38,439
Speaker 1: it deeper than that, Well, that's certainly part of it.

1580
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:41,840
Speaker 1: I know Jones didn't have a lot of help last year,

1581
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 1: and some of the weapons around him didn't quite contribute

1582
01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:48,240
Speaker 1: or didn't quite reach the potential that they would hope

1583
01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:50,360
Speaker 1: that they would reach, and so that was certainly an

1584
01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:53,639
Speaker 1: emphasis this offseason was to surround them with playmakers, guys

1585
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 1: that could could trust, that could help and make a

1586
01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:59,640
Speaker 1: play that could be reliable in critical situations. And so

1587
01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:03,639
Speaker 1: they've certainly found a few of those pieces you talked about,

1588
01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:06,560
Speaker 1: these three new wide receivers, each of them clubs for

1589
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:10,360
Speaker 1: Willie Snead and John Brown have had tremendous, tremendous training

1590
01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:13,559
Speaker 1: camps and offseasons. I think they're guys that Joe now

1591
01:13:13,640 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 1: has a certain level of trust with chemistry with and

1592
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:19,760
Speaker 1: we'll see how it all plays out Sunday, but I

1593
01:13:19,880 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 1: think they're excited about the weapons they have around them now. Dennis,

1594
01:13:23,160 --> 01:13:25,639
Speaker 1: the season last year did not end with the playoff spot,

1595
01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 1: obviously for the Baltimore Ravens, But the second half of

1596
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: the season wasn't bad. Was it nine wins at the end,

1597
01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:33,719
Speaker 1: but five and two down the stretch. Did the Ravens

1598
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 1: kind of get themselves on the right track even at

1599
01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:38,479
Speaker 1: mid season last year? And can they carry that over

1600
01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:41,920
Speaker 1: into this year? Yeah? I think when you look at

1601
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:44,600
Speaker 1: how they ended last season, there was a lot of

1602
01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:46,880
Speaker 1: pauses and a lot of things to build off fronts

1603
01:13:47,320 --> 01:13:49,599
Speaker 1: and then take into this off season. Certainly it didn't

1604
01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:51,800
Speaker 1: end the way that Ravens fans had helped with a

1605
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:56,800
Speaker 1: brutal loss in the Cincinnati which obviously was to Buffalo's game.

1606
01:13:56,920 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 1: But I think Hibbinsons are now excited about what they

1607
01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:04,880
Speaker 1: did last year, building upon the adding new weapons and

1608
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:08,439
Speaker 1: going into this season. And you really look at Joe

1609
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:11,200
Speaker 1: Flacco's help throughout last season. He started off bling up.

1610
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 1: He didn't see you go through any of the preseason.

1611
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:16,639
Speaker 1: He had back issues, and really midway through the season

1612
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:19,760
Speaker 1: he started to feel much better and it's shown in

1613
01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:21,640
Speaker 1: his play through the back half of that season. And

1614
01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:24,240
Speaker 1: now he had a really strong off season and training

1615
01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:26,960
Speaker 1: camp because of his health. And I think everybody's excited

1616
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:29,760
Speaker 1: and heat confident, excited going into this season. Flacco going

1617
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:31,760
Speaker 1: into his eleventh season as the start of there, you

1618
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 1: played with him, you caught sixty passes from him not

1619
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:37,519
Speaker 1: too long ago. How has he developed? You know when

1620
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:39,200
Speaker 1: he came into the league, he was the big, strong

1621
01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:41,120
Speaker 1: arm guy. How is he now and what would you

1622
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:45,080
Speaker 1: think are his best characteristics as an NFL quarterback? Now? Well,

1623
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:47,479
Speaker 1: I think when you talk about Joe Flacco. Certainly, his

1624
01:14:47,640 --> 01:14:49,680
Speaker 1: arm strength is one thing that stands out, and I

1625
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:51,720
Speaker 1: don't know that I've seen a quarterback for all a

1626
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:56,000
Speaker 1: better football than Joe Flacco in my time, and so

1627
01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 1: that's first and foremost. You just look at the physical

1628
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 1: tools he had. He's six seven, he's got a huge arm,

1629
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:04,639
Speaker 1: he can make any throw on the field. He's incredibly

1630
01:15:04,680 --> 01:15:07,720
Speaker 1: accurate for a nice catchable ball, and so those are

1631
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:11,280
Speaker 1: traits that anybody's looking for in a franchise quarterback, and

1632
01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:14,120
Speaker 1: you coupled out with just a good, healthy offseason, is

1633
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:17,640
Speaker 1: feeling physically ready to go. I think he's going to

1634
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:19,760
Speaker 1: see a different Joe Placco this year than we saw

1635
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:21,599
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, where he was coming off

1636
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:24,360
Speaker 1: in a yell injury last year with a back injury.

1637
01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 1: He has none of those issues. Now. He's feeling great,

1638
01:15:27,280 --> 01:15:30,560
Speaker 1: he's feeling confidence, he trusts the weapons around him. I

1639
01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:32,519
Speaker 1: think this is going to be a very different offense

1640
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 1: from what we saw last year. And it's certainly both

1641
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:37,400
Speaker 1: well for the Ravens if that's the case, because they

1642
01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 1: returned certually everybody on the defensive side, and so they

1643
01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 1: have a ton of trust with that side of the ball,

1644
01:15:43,120 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 1: and it's about really what this offense has been used

1645
01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:47,680
Speaker 1: to propel this team for the next level. Let's talk

1646
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:52,759
Speaker 1: about the next level. Expectations are understandably high for Baltimore,

1647
01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:56,680
Speaker 1: aren't they. Yeah, certainly. I think that's every year when

1648
01:15:56,680 --> 01:15:59,800
Speaker 1: you play in Baltimore. My first five or six years

1649
01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:04,240
Speaker 1: in Baltimore, we made the postseason every single year. You

1650
01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:07,360
Speaker 1: were getting too the AFC Championship almost every other year,

1651
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,920
Speaker 1: and so that's what fans had really been accustomed to

1652
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:14,720
Speaker 1: until these last handful years, two or three years where

1653
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:17,639
Speaker 1: the Ravens haven't made the postseason. It's been really difficult

1654
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:20,240
Speaker 1: for the fan base in Baltimore. And so this year

1655
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:25,000
Speaker 1: the team is retoled. They certainly stand behind their quarterback

1656
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:27,639
Speaker 1: Jill Flacca, and with his defense coming off a great

1657
01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:31,840
Speaker 1: season and returning virtually everybody, Expectations once again are really high.

1658
01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:34,400
Speaker 1: And it's lasts or plus pretty much every year for

1659
01:16:34,479 --> 01:16:37,720
Speaker 1: this franchise. And so that's the mindset and that's the

1660
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:40,479
Speaker 1: goal going into this season. Around the line with Dennis Pitt,

1661
01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 1: a former Ravens tight end who is a color analyst

1662
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:45,240
Speaker 1: on the Baltimore Ravens Radio Network, want to ask you

1663
01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:47,120
Speaker 1: about a coach who spent a little time here, Dennis,

1664
01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:50,439
Speaker 1: and that's Greg Roman, whose title there is assistant head coach,

1665
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:52,880
Speaker 1: tight ends coach. You got Marty morning Wegg as the

1666
01:16:52,920 --> 01:16:56,400
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. Look, I thought very highly of Greg Roman

1667
01:16:56,520 --> 01:16:59,280
Speaker 1: during his brief stint here in Buffalo. I know he

1668
01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:01,760
Speaker 1: has a lot to I wonder what he does. You know,

1669
01:17:01,960 --> 01:17:03,920
Speaker 1: morning Wakes still the coordinator. What do they what do

1670
01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:05,600
Speaker 1: they put Greg Roman to work on down there on

1671
01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:09,000
Speaker 1: the coaching stap. So Great Roman was my ten coach.

1672
01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:11,400
Speaker 1: My final year was the Ravens twenty six game. He

1673
01:17:11,479 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 1: came over just after leaving Buffalo, and we brought him

1674
01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 1: the tight ends coach and really a run game coordinator

1675
01:17:17,520 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, and so he brought a lot of

1676
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:22,320
Speaker 1: his schemes that he's had over the years from when

1677
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 1: he was at the forty nine ers the Buffalo so

1678
01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:28,960
Speaker 1: to his many stops and really gave and re told

1679
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:32,120
Speaker 1: this Ravens run game, which from a couple of seasons

1680
01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:35,479
Speaker 1: ago was lackluster at best. And so they do a

1681
01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:40,120
Speaker 1: lot more misdirections gap schemes than the four was really

1682
01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:42,759
Speaker 1: get the zone, last zone right type of run games.

1683
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:45,639
Speaker 1: The four Great Roman came in and he's given them

1684
01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 1: a lot of new wrinkles with that run game, and

1685
01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:52,000
Speaker 1: you saw that come to Fruition last year. They had

1686
01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:54,559
Speaker 1: a much improved run game the emergence of Alex Colans

1687
01:17:54,560 --> 01:17:57,840
Speaker 1: a running best and he helped that. But he's really

1688
01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:01,120
Speaker 1: the one that drives that running game and somebody that

1689
01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:04,640
Speaker 1: Marty morning With really relies on in that part of

1690
01:18:04,760 --> 01:18:07,760
Speaker 1: the game plan. And so that's his role as of now,

1691
01:18:08,479 --> 01:18:12,320
Speaker 1: and he continues to be a really critical part of

1692
01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:14,400
Speaker 1: that Ravens coaching staff. Dennis, one of the things I

1693
01:18:14,439 --> 01:18:16,360
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you about is, you know, we were

1694
01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:19,720
Speaker 1: here neck deep in the Buffalo Bills offseason. What does

1695
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 1: what do the Baltimore fans and coaching staff. What are

1696
01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:25,479
Speaker 1: their players and coaches saying about what Buffalo? What challenges

1697
01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:28,040
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills bring to the table. I mean, what's

1698
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:30,680
Speaker 1: the what's you know, what's the game plan? Not game

1699
01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:33,040
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? What's their opinion? What do

1700
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:34,800
Speaker 1: they got? What do they think about the Buffalo Bills

1701
01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:38,040
Speaker 1: in Baltimore? Yeah, well, they have a lot of respects

1702
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:40,080
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills. And I can remember two years

1703
01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:42,880
Speaker 1: ago when we played Buffalo in the home opener, just

1704
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 1: like this year, and I was playing in that game

1705
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:48,720
Speaker 1: and Buffalo brought a really stout defense. I think it

1706
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:50,759
Speaker 1: was a low scoring game. I can't remember the score

1707
01:18:51,280 --> 01:18:53,679
Speaker 1: off the tip of my head, but they were physical.

1708
01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:57,320
Speaker 1: Then we're tough. They bringing a physicality to the game

1709
01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:00,320
Speaker 1: and bold their run game offensively, and the way they

1710
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:03,479
Speaker 1: approach the defense the side of the ball the Ravens

1711
01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 1: have a kind of respect for, and that's a little

1712
01:19:06,280 --> 01:19:08,559
Speaker 1: bit like the Ravens philosophy. They want to be able

1713
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 1: to run the ball, they want to out physical people,

1714
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 1: and they want to play out hard nose defense. And

1715
01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:15,800
Speaker 1: I really see that in the Buffalo Bills now. I

1716
01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:17,960
Speaker 1: think if you look at the Bills, the one question

1717
01:19:18,040 --> 01:19:21,599
Speaker 1: mark Ravens fans probably do have with fans is at

1718
01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:24,640
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. I know they have the seventh of

1719
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:28,759
Speaker 1: all TOI in Josh Allen waiting in the wings. Ravens

1720
01:19:28,760 --> 01:19:31,479
Speaker 1: fans don't know a lot about Nathan Peterman other than

1721
01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 1: his gave you last season, which was not how he

1722
01:19:35,520 --> 01:19:38,120
Speaker 1: had imagined. I'm sure the Buffalo Bills had imagined throwing

1723
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:40,920
Speaker 1: five interceptions in the first half. So I think if

1724
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:44,240
Speaker 1: there's anything the Ravens fans are optimistic about the fact

1725
01:19:44,320 --> 01:19:46,599
Speaker 1: that they were the number one defense and takeaways last

1726
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:50,479
Speaker 1: year and they're playing the quarterback that samal account is

1727
01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:54,960
Speaker 1: a little bit prone two giveaways and sore participating the

1728
01:19:55,040 --> 01:20:00,600
Speaker 1: physical game, a tough, hard nose run game coming into Baltimore,

1729
01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:04,160
Speaker 1: But I think they think they can they can really

1730
01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 1: get an advantage in take warse Denne, I got to

1731
01:20:06,200 --> 01:20:08,719
Speaker 1: ask you about the Baltimore defense. Everybody knows about sucks,

1732
01:20:08,760 --> 01:20:10,840
Speaker 1: but a lot of people up here have pointed out

1733
01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:13,760
Speaker 1: and I I'm kind to agree that Brandon Williams might

1734
01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:15,840
Speaker 1: be the key guy on that defensive front. What do

1735
01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 1: you see from him? What do you see from that

1736
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:20,680
Speaker 1: defensive front in general? Yeah, when you talk about that

1737
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:24,200
Speaker 1: front seven, I think he is the key piece to

1738
01:20:24,360 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 1: that run defense. And he missed some time last year

1739
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:29,840
Speaker 1: early in the season. And you say that team take

1740
01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:34,479
Speaker 1: advantage of the Baltimore Ravens in that aspect of the game.

1741
01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:38,240
Speaker 1: I think they play the Bears um at some point

1742
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:40,240
Speaker 1: in the middle and the early in the season, and

1743
01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:43,920
Speaker 1: the Bears set a franchise record ran for I think

1744
01:20:46,479 --> 01:20:49,519
Speaker 1: when he was that f So the Ravens are vulnerable

1745
01:20:49,720 --> 01:20:52,040
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field in that front seven

1746
01:20:52,120 --> 01:20:54,080
Speaker 1: when he's not in the ball game. So he's really

1747
01:20:54,360 --> 01:20:58,519
Speaker 1: a critical piece to make that run defense go and

1748
01:20:58,880 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 1: certainly somebody that the Ravens have high expectations for because

1749
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:07,080
Speaker 1: even in the big contract last Offsea, they promoted the

1750
01:21:07,160 --> 01:21:11,920
Speaker 1: linebackers coach coach Martindale Don Martindale the defensive coordinator. Is

1751
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:14,680
Speaker 1: it is it the same defense? Do you expect that

1752
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:17,759
Speaker 1: we'll see a little bit different defense played by the Ravens.

1753
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 1: I've heard some people say he's a little bit more

1754
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:22,880
Speaker 1: like Rex Ryan type of defense. What do you see there? Yeah,

1755
01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:25,240
Speaker 1: I think stramatically, it's a lot of the same things

1756
01:21:25,280 --> 01:21:29,920
Speaker 1: that they have been doing, um wink. Martindale has been

1757
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:33,040
Speaker 1: a coordinator at other places and so he brings some

1758
01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:36,759
Speaker 1: experience to that position. He's a guy that Ravens players

1759
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:39,120
Speaker 1: have a ton of respect for, something that they loved

1760
01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:41,800
Speaker 1: playing for. And I think he came out in the

1761
01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:45,320
Speaker 1: SUTH season said they're going to be aggressive, and you

1762
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:47,479
Speaker 1: to take that for what it's worth. Whether that means

1763
01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 1: drawing up a bunch of blitzes or playing more physical

1764
01:21:50,640 --> 01:21:53,559
Speaker 1: or ensuring that they stopped the run. We'll find out

1765
01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:56,680
Speaker 1: on Sunday. But um, this is not a defense that's

1766
01:21:56,680 --> 01:21:58,679
Speaker 1: going to sit back and let people do what they want.

1767
01:21:59,040 --> 01:22:00,919
Speaker 1: It's a defense that's going to come out and attack

1768
01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 1: and be aggressive early. What new faces are Baltimore fans

1769
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:07,960
Speaker 1: looking for new players? Because so many times you've got

1770
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:10,920
Speaker 1: guys like Terrell Suggs and Joe Flacco, guys with double

1771
01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:13,160
Speaker 1: digit ears in the league who are kind of the

1772
01:22:13,240 --> 01:22:16,000
Speaker 1: face of the franchise. But what new faces are Baltimore

1773
01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:18,360
Speaker 1: fans and the team looking for to contribute a lot

1774
01:22:18,439 --> 01:22:22,439
Speaker 1: this year. Well, when you talk about new faces, I

1775
01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:24,760
Speaker 1: think you have to look really primarily to the facts

1776
01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:26,760
Speaker 1: the side of the ball. Like I mentioned before, the

1777
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:30,160
Speaker 1: defense returns virtually everybody. Ravens fans are very familiar with

1778
01:22:30,280 --> 01:22:32,880
Speaker 1: what they have defensively, with the faces that they'll see

1779
01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:36,800
Speaker 1: out on the field. With the suspension of Jimmy Smith,

1780
01:22:37,160 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 1: they'll certainly need to see an emergence from Marlin Huntley Humpty,

1781
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:43,240
Speaker 1: who played well at times as a rookie last season

1782
01:22:43,320 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 1: and showed a lot of potential, So he'll be a

1783
01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:47,360
Speaker 1: guy that they have to lean on early, and Ravens

1784
01:22:47,439 --> 01:22:50,519
Speaker 1: fans will want to see step into that starting role

1785
01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:54,080
Speaker 1: at cornerback. But like I mentioned, ends the side of

1786
01:22:54,120 --> 01:22:56,800
Speaker 1: the ball. Those receivers. Michael patter is the guy that

1787
01:22:56,880 --> 01:22:59,000
Speaker 1: everybody knows around the league has has a ton of success,

1788
01:22:59,040 --> 01:23:00,760
Speaker 1: but they want to see what he can do in

1789
01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:03,599
Speaker 1: a purple jersey. And John Brown is a guy who

1790
01:23:03,640 --> 01:23:05,559
Speaker 1: had a tremendous camp that not a lot of people

1791
01:23:05,600 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 1: were talking about. It's a big Preusian acquisition for the

1792
01:23:08,160 --> 01:23:11,160
Speaker 1: raven but somebody that they have been incredibly impressed with.

1793
01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:14,000
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see his name called quite

1794
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:16,840
Speaker 1: a bit come Sunday and throughout this season. Yeah, I'm

1795
01:23:16,880 --> 01:23:18,320
Speaker 1: a big John Brown fan. I love the way he

1796
01:23:18,360 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 1: played at Arizona. Hey Dennis, this game Sunday, and then

1797
01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:23,920
Speaker 1: the Ravens get right onto the road on Thursday night,

1798
01:23:24,040 --> 01:23:27,000
Speaker 1: right at Cincinnati. That's a That's a tough way to start,

1799
01:23:27,080 --> 01:23:29,599
Speaker 1: isn't it? With your home opener and then playing after

1800
01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:32,400
Speaker 1: a couple of days off on the road. It is

1801
01:23:32,439 --> 01:23:34,439
Speaker 1: a tough way to start, especially when you talk about

1802
01:23:34,520 --> 01:23:37,679
Speaker 1: having the length of training camp that they get played

1803
01:23:37,720 --> 01:23:40,040
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame game, they play five preaking game,

1804
01:23:40,560 --> 01:23:43,600
Speaker 1: an incredibly long, difficult training camp, and they have to

1805
01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:46,759
Speaker 1: come around and play two games in five days. Is difficult,

1806
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:49,320
Speaker 1: but you know, you push through it, and after that

1807
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:51,400
Speaker 1: Thursday night game you get almost a mini bye week

1808
01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:53,439
Speaker 1: coming after that. So I think players will play hard

1809
01:23:53,439 --> 01:23:56,160
Speaker 1: at the games and look forward to that time off

1810
01:23:56,400 --> 01:23:58,840
Speaker 1: after that. We're looking forward to a good game. Dennis

1811
01:23:58,840 --> 01:24:00,280
Speaker 1: will say, Hi, do you there Sunday. Thank you for

1812
01:24:00,360 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 1: spending a few minutes with this year today. We appreciate it.

1813
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:06,360
Speaker 1: I look forward to it. Thanks Dennis Pitta. He is

1814
01:24:06,400 --> 01:24:09,479
Speaker 1: the radio broadcast analysts on the Baltimore Ravens Radio network.

1815
01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:12,360
Speaker 1: Longtime Ravens tight end seven seasons in the league with

1816
01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:14,760
Speaker 1: the Ravens won a Super Bowl there just five years

1817
01:24:14,800 --> 01:24:17,200
Speaker 1: ago with the Baltimore Ravens. Dennis Pitta joined us on

1818
01:24:17,280 --> 01:24:20,080
Speaker 1: the Subway Fresh Take Hotline, Subway Eat Fresh. Steve and

1819
01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:22,519
Speaker 1: I back with more One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive.

1820
01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:37,880
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio, One Bill's Live from One

1821
01:24:37,920 --> 01:24:40,200
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. Steve and I and some of our producing

1822
01:24:40,479 --> 01:24:42,760
Speaker 1: teams spending the break talking about how good are the

1823
01:24:42,840 --> 01:24:45,280
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. Steven, I think they could be a there

1824
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:47,160
Speaker 1: could be a ten or eleven to win team, maybe

1825
01:24:47,360 --> 01:24:49,879
Speaker 1: challenging the Steelers. I would think right for a playoffs

1826
01:24:49,920 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 1: every there, and it'd be better than were a year ago.

1827
01:24:52,120 --> 01:24:55,000
Speaker 1: And I forgot to and Dennis Pitta told us about him,

1828
01:24:55,040 --> 01:24:57,880
Speaker 1: reminded us, and he never gets out because that's the

1829
01:24:57,920 --> 01:25:00,519
Speaker 1: way teams work. Joe Flacco wasn't fee good for the

1830
01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:02,599
Speaker 1: first eight or nine games of that season last year.

1831
01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:05,960
Speaker 1: He was struggling with his back, and that once he

1832
01:25:06,040 --> 01:25:08,439
Speaker 1: started to feel better, that team won seven or the

1833
01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:11,479
Speaker 1: last nine or whatever, five or the last seven going

1834
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:14,280
Speaker 1: down the stretch. So much better football team when Joe

1835
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:16,560
Speaker 1: Flacca was feeling good and he got better too, he

1836
01:25:16,600 --> 01:25:19,479
Speaker 1: played better too. The reason you think about their place

1837
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:21,760
Speaker 1: Baltimore was placed in that division, you wonder if there's

1838
01:25:21,760 --> 01:25:24,639
Speaker 1: a little chink in the Pittsburgh Steeler's armor. Look, they've

1839
01:25:24,720 --> 01:25:27,599
Speaker 1: got great talent, Pittsburgh does. But I think we're at

1840
01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:29,160
Speaker 1: the point now where you have to acknowledge that the

1841
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:31,519
Speaker 1: Leby on Bell holdout is becoming an issue. Right it

1842
01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:34,439
Speaker 1: was yesterday they all prone running back not expected to

1843
01:25:34,479 --> 01:25:36,760
Speaker 1: play Sunday against the Browns are going to Cleveland to play.

1844
01:25:37,120 --> 01:25:39,040
Speaker 1: His agent says Bell might be willing to wait it

1845
01:25:39,120 --> 01:25:41,760
Speaker 1: out longer in order to preserve his long term health.

1846
01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:43,680
Speaker 1: Leby On Bell has yet to sign his fourteen and

1847
01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:46,120
Speaker 1: a half million dollars franchise tag. He can become a

1848
01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:48,759
Speaker 1: free agent in twenty nineteen as long as he signs

1849
01:25:48,800 --> 01:25:51,960
Speaker 1: it by week eleven. The interesting thing was the reaction

1850
01:25:52,040 --> 01:25:54,639
Speaker 1: from his teammates. I think they expected he'd be there,

1851
01:25:54,840 --> 01:25:58,200
Speaker 1: if not Monday, then yesterday when the real practice week began.

1852
01:25:58,600 --> 01:26:02,679
Speaker 1: Marquise Pouncy, Pro Bowl offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers,

1853
01:26:02,760 --> 01:26:05,200
Speaker 1: had this to say yesterday about lady On Bell's absence.

1854
01:26:07,160 --> 01:26:08,800
Speaker 1: I just felt confident that he was going to come.

1855
01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:11,280
Speaker 1: But now that he didn't, obviously, as lady On over

1856
01:26:11,320 --> 01:26:13,840
Speaker 1: the Steelers and we're the Steelers and we're gonna play

1857
01:26:13,840 --> 01:26:16,240
Speaker 1: as the Steelers. Has anybody talked to him to your knowledge.

1858
01:26:16,280 --> 01:26:18,560
Speaker 1: We had conversation with him couple though, Alignement did and

1859
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:22,120
Speaker 1: it was all good conversation. But at this point, it's

1860
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:25,000
Speaker 1: bigger than business, is it kind of like preseason and

1861
01:26:25,120 --> 01:26:28,439
Speaker 1: campus for business and let's says the preseason all that,

1862
01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:30,360
Speaker 1: But now in the game time, as you know that

1863
01:26:30,479 --> 01:26:33,240
Speaker 1: you have fourteen million dollars lomen out there and he's

1864
01:26:33,280 --> 01:26:35,120
Speaker 1: still not hearing the team really wants to hear this

1865
01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:38,840
Speaker 1: at this point, we got Connor bigger than business is

1866
01:26:38,880 --> 01:26:42,080
Speaker 1: what he said, Steven, want to get your former player

1867
01:26:42,160 --> 01:26:45,920
Speaker 1: take on this. Some people think the Steelers I gotta

1868
01:26:45,920 --> 01:26:48,360
Speaker 1: find the other quotes too. Some people think the Steelers

1869
01:26:48,400 --> 01:26:52,240
Speaker 1: offensive line overreacting. Yeah, ruined Foster. You know what he said,

1870
01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:54,000
Speaker 1: what do you do? Here's a guy who doesn't give

1871
01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:57,080
Speaker 1: a dam you know, I guess so we'll treat it

1872
01:26:57,120 --> 01:26:58,720
Speaker 1: as such. I just hate it came to this. And

1873
01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:01,720
Speaker 1: then he went on and said he's making seven times

1874
01:27:01,800 --> 01:27:04,880
Speaker 1: what I make, twice as much as Alville Nueva, and

1875
01:27:05,160 --> 01:27:07,360
Speaker 1: is making, you know, is making and worthy guys who

1876
01:27:07,479 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 1: do it for him. So there's some getting to be

1877
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:13,400
Speaker 1: some pretty hard feelings about him not being there for

1878
01:27:13,479 --> 01:27:16,679
Speaker 1: them on this opening weekend. And some people think thought

1879
01:27:17,280 --> 01:27:20,759
Speaker 1: that players don't do that, shouldn't do that. That business

1880
01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:22,840
Speaker 1: is business. You take care of your business. I won't

1881
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 1: second guess you. I think it's a bit of a

1882
01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:28,599
Speaker 1: break from tradition, from the norm when the Steelers were

1883
01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:33,320
Speaker 1: so when the Steelers offensive line particular was so vociferish yesterday, right, normally,

1884
01:27:33,920 --> 01:27:36,200
Speaker 1: whatever he's gonna make you had guys holding out right,

1885
01:27:36,720 --> 01:27:39,120
Speaker 1: guys missing training. Can't we Gottas sermon about this, and

1886
01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:41,479
Speaker 1: he held out a little bit once in pre season.

1887
01:27:41,880 --> 01:27:44,640
Speaker 1: But the guys hold out and their teammates typically ignore it,

1888
01:27:44,720 --> 01:27:46,360
Speaker 1: just move on, yeah, one of them, and they do

1889
01:27:46,680 --> 01:27:50,639
Speaker 1: because usually it doesn't turn into games. Yeah, that's the idea.

1890
01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:52,640
Speaker 1: You hold out of training camp and mini camp and

1891
01:27:52,960 --> 01:27:55,320
Speaker 1: OTAs and all that that. You know, that's fine, nobody

1892
01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:57,000
Speaker 1: wants to show up for those, but when it comes

1893
01:27:57,080 --> 01:27:59,439
Speaker 1: time to be game week. And Levion Bell has done

1894
01:27:59,439 --> 01:28:01,080
Speaker 1: this a couple of times before where he had that

1895
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:04,200
Speaker 1: came in and then got a full week of preparation

1896
01:28:04,320 --> 01:28:06,400
Speaker 1: in for that first game. And for a guy like

1897
01:28:06,520 --> 01:28:08,080
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell, you think that's all he need. And

1898
01:28:08,160 --> 01:28:10,360
Speaker 1: it sounds like and there were some other things on Twitter,

1899
01:28:10,400 --> 01:28:12,759
Speaker 1: we can't you know, there's you know, there's a million

1900
01:28:12,840 --> 01:28:15,160
Speaker 1: things on it, but said something like they he had

1901
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:17,280
Speaker 1: told some of his guys that hey, I'm coming to

1902
01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:19,519
Speaker 1: worry about it. They'll be there, and then he didn't,

1903
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:23,519
Speaker 1: and that changed things for them too, because that's that's

1904
01:28:23,520 --> 01:28:26,559
Speaker 1: your your friend going back on his word. So I yeah,

1905
01:28:26,720 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 1: there's some hard feelings starting to fester in Pittsburgh. It

1906
01:28:29,160 --> 01:28:31,760
Speaker 1: sounds like, can you put that back together? Let's say Bell, well,

1907
01:28:31,800 --> 01:28:34,040
Speaker 1: he's not gonna play this week, apparently walks in next

1908
01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:36,200
Speaker 1: week or two weeks from now. Can you put that

1909
01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:39,040
Speaker 1: back together? And can the offensive line really the ones

1910
01:28:39,080 --> 01:28:40,560
Speaker 1: who had the most to say about what kind of

1911
01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:44,320
Speaker 1: season living on Bell might have. Can they work in cohesion?

1912
01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:47,880
Speaker 1: They can? I mean they'll, they'll play together. But when

1913
01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:50,160
Speaker 1: he comes in, they'll, you know, they even bet in

1914
01:28:50,200 --> 01:28:51,760
Speaker 1: the locker room. They're gonna ask you, hey, what are

1915
01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:53,840
Speaker 1: you doing? You know what happened? Took you song? What changed?

1916
01:28:53,840 --> 01:28:55,960
Speaker 1: What's going on? He'll have to explain himself a little bit.

1917
01:28:56,080 --> 01:28:58,840
Speaker 1: And if he has a good explanation, which he probably will,

1918
01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:01,920
Speaker 1: they'll say, okay, well let's go and try and win

1919
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:03,920
Speaker 1: this game then and it'll probably be all forgotten. It

1920
01:29:04,040 --> 01:29:06,800
Speaker 1: won't take much because and when push comes to shove,

1921
01:29:07,160 --> 01:29:09,720
Speaker 1: he's a family member, and and that's that's the way

1922
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:11,080
Speaker 1: you treat family. When they got it, you know, they

1923
01:29:11,120 --> 01:29:14,400
Speaker 1: explained themselves. Um, you want what's best for them as well.

1924
01:29:14,520 --> 01:29:18,439
Speaker 1: So yeah, it'll it'll be water under the bridge if

1925
01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:20,479
Speaker 1: he does come in. If you're playing, well, yeah, how

1926
01:29:20,560 --> 01:29:22,760
Speaker 1: long can he sit out? Really? He can sit out

1927
01:29:22,760 --> 01:29:25,280
Speaker 1: as long as he wants long would anybody be prepared

1928
01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 1: to miss game checks? Fourteen million dollars, it's almost nine

1929
01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:36,599
Speaker 1: hundred grand a game, almost nine hundred thousand dollars a game. Um, goodness,

1930
01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:41,600
Speaker 1: gracious right, you don't have and you'll never make that

1931
01:29:41,720 --> 01:29:43,640
Speaker 1: money up. No, you'll never get that money back. I

1932
01:29:43,680 --> 01:29:45,840
Speaker 1: don't care what kind of At that point, he's talking

1933
01:29:45,840 --> 01:29:50,120
Speaker 1: about a big deal. A really earlier in this offseason,

1934
01:29:50,120 --> 01:29:52,000
Speaker 1: it would have been the biggest deal for any running

1935
01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:55,599
Speaker 1: back ever. Uh And now that Todd Gurley has signed

1936
01:29:55,600 --> 01:29:59,360
Speaker 1: to be the second it's you know it. You know

1937
01:29:59,600 --> 01:30:02,320
Speaker 1: it's a huge deal. So if you go out and

1938
01:30:02,640 --> 01:30:04,920
Speaker 1: skip a year on that deal, you're not making that

1939
01:30:05,040 --> 01:30:08,160
Speaker 1: fourteen five back. You might make a good chunk next year.

1940
01:30:08,560 --> 01:30:11,280
Speaker 1: Even if you make four million next year, you're not

1941
01:30:11,520 --> 01:30:15,920
Speaker 1: getting you're not getting that money back. The fourteen point

1942
01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:17,680
Speaker 1: five you're already passed up. I mean, it gets to

1943
01:30:17,720 --> 01:30:20,080
Speaker 1: the point where it's diminishing returns. You got to get

1944
01:30:20,120 --> 01:30:22,040
Speaker 1: in take the money. Here's the problem though, and I

1945
01:30:22,160 --> 01:30:24,160
Speaker 1: know this too, if he does go in and play

1946
01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:26,639
Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Steelers this year, he's gonna and I've

1947
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:29,000
Speaker 1: said it, he's gonna touch that ball probably four hundred

1948
01:30:29,080 --> 01:30:31,760
Speaker 1: times this year, and they're gonna do their best team

1949
01:30:31,920 --> 01:30:33,639
Speaker 1: use him up because they know that it's all he's got,

1950
01:30:33,760 --> 01:30:35,280
Speaker 1: that's all they're getting him for. He's gonna be a

1951
01:30:35,320 --> 01:30:37,160
Speaker 1: free agent at the end of the year and they

1952
01:30:37,280 --> 01:30:40,360
Speaker 1: will use him up. And maybe that's what he's thinking about.

1953
01:30:40,520 --> 01:30:43,960
Speaker 1: Nine hundred and six thousand dollars per game, that's fourteen

1954
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:48,080
Speaker 1: point five fighter by sixteen or seventeen sixteen games, it'll

1955
01:30:48,080 --> 01:30:50,519
Speaker 1: be seventeen weeks. Seventeen weeks, okay, so that's different. It's

1956
01:30:50,520 --> 01:30:53,120
Speaker 1: about nine. It is about It's just it's like eight

1957
01:30:53,240 --> 01:30:56,080
Speaker 1: eighty six or eight eight fifty six er. Yeah, it's

1958
01:30:56,080 --> 01:30:58,559
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Yeah. He is expected to miss

1959
01:30:58,600 --> 01:31:01,120
Speaker 1: this week against Cleveland. We'll see how long that goes on.

1960
01:31:01,200 --> 01:31:02,960
Speaker 1: All right, now, break care. When we come back, Thurman

1961
01:31:03,000 --> 01:31:04,840
Speaker 1: Thomas are gonna join us, we'll get his thoughts on that.

1962
01:31:05,320 --> 01:31:06,920
Speaker 1: The Hall of Fame running back from the Bills, I'm

1963
01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:08,920
Speaker 1: gonna be here on set with us. We're live at

1964
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:11,720
Speaker 1: one Bill's Drive, One Bills Live, presented by Kalaida Health

1965
01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:26,400
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radiolo Hills Radio Network. Stories Bills came

1966
01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:28,599
Speaker 1: off the practice field about an hour ago getting set

1967
01:31:28,680 --> 01:31:30,920
Speaker 1: for their A game coming up the Sunday. Fairly healthy

1968
01:31:31,040 --> 01:31:33,559
Speaker 1: for the season opener. A couple of players on yesterday's

1969
01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:36,120
Speaker 1: injury list, including wide receiver Ray Ray McLeod with his

1970
01:31:36,200 --> 01:31:40,400
Speaker 1: knee injury. He was not practicing today. Linebacker Julian Stanford

1971
01:31:40,400 --> 01:31:43,599
Speaker 1: got unlimited work yesterday and today with his nose. Linebacker

1972
01:31:43,680 --> 01:31:46,320
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander reportedly with the rest to day today. We'll

1973
01:31:46,320 --> 01:31:49,040
Speaker 1: get the official injury report later today. The Bills and

1974
01:31:49,160 --> 01:31:51,360
Speaker 1: raven Sunday one o'clock at Mt. Banks stay Um in

1975
01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:54,280
Speaker 1: Baltimore gets the broadcast on the radio on our Flagshipper

1976
01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:57,240
Speaker 1: in Buffalo w g R Sports Radio five fifty. Myself,

1977
01:31:57,280 --> 01:32:00,120
Speaker 1: Mark Kelso sal Capacho will be on the sideline. It's

1978
01:32:00,160 --> 01:32:03,280
Speaker 1: the NFL season. The ninety nine season of NFL football

1979
01:32:03,360 --> 01:32:07,240
Speaker 1: opens up tonight. Falcons at Philadelphia Tonight eight twenty pm

1980
01:32:07,320 --> 01:32:10,599
Speaker 1: at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Nick Foles to get

1981
01:32:10,640 --> 01:32:13,240
Speaker 1: to start the Super Bowl MVP back at quarterback for

1982
01:32:13,360 --> 01:32:16,759
Speaker 1: Philadelphia as Carson Wentz continues to recover from his injury.

1983
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:19,760
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, of course, starts for the Atlanta Falcons eight

1984
01:32:19,840 --> 01:32:23,759
Speaker 1: twenty kickoff tonight. The Atlanta Falcons and the Philadelphia Eagles

1985
01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:27,640
Speaker 1: on NBC. Steelers say that Lebyon Bell is unlikely to

1986
01:32:27,720 --> 01:32:30,160
Speaker 1: play on Sunday. His agent says he could be out

1987
01:32:30,160 --> 01:32:32,400
Speaker 1: a little bit longer. He did not return this week,

1988
01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:35,200
Speaker 1: as many of his teammates anticipated he would. Bell still

1989
01:32:35,280 --> 01:32:37,640
Speaker 1: holding out his extended absence, as he has not yet

1990
01:32:37,720 --> 01:32:40,559
Speaker 1: signed as fourteen and a half million dollars franchise tag.

1991
01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:42,519
Speaker 1: He could become a free agent next year as long

1992
01:32:42,560 --> 01:32:45,720
Speaker 1: as he signs by week eleven. James Conner will get

1993
01:32:45,760 --> 01:32:48,400
Speaker 1: to start in Libyans Libyan Bell's place in Week one

1994
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:52,080
Speaker 1: in Cleveland against the Browns. The Rams say that they

1995
01:32:52,240 --> 01:32:55,280
Speaker 1: made a bid for defensive end Khalil Mack. They offered

1996
01:32:55,439 --> 01:32:59,240
Speaker 1: an aggressive package. They say. The Raiders eventually traded Mac

1997
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:02,120
Speaker 1: to the Chicago As for two first round picks, but

1998
01:33:02,280 --> 01:33:03,880
Speaker 1: the Rams city they were in on it, and we're

1999
01:33:03,920 --> 01:33:06,519
Speaker 1: interested in bringing Khalil Mack to the Los Angeles Rams.

2000
01:33:06,880 --> 01:33:09,240
Speaker 1: And Adrian Peterson's gonna get the start a running back

2001
01:33:09,280 --> 01:33:12,360
Speaker 1: for the Washington Redskins on Sunday against Arizona. The thirty

2002
01:33:12,400 --> 01:33:14,840
Speaker 1: three year old opening the season as the number one

2003
01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:17,960
Speaker 1: back in Washington's backfield. The move had been expected since

2004
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:20,760
Speaker 1: they brought in Peterson just over two weeks ago. That's

2005
01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:23,439
Speaker 1: the update from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy Steve Tasker

2006
01:33:23,520 --> 01:33:26,080
Speaker 1: with One Bills Live, joined in studio again by our

2007
01:33:26,200 --> 01:33:29,720
Speaker 1: buddy Future Well. He is a Pro Football Hall of

2008
01:33:29,760 --> 01:33:31,320
Speaker 1: Famer and of course the Bill's Wall of Famer, and

2009
01:33:31,360 --> 01:33:33,439
Speaker 1: soon they have his number retired by the Buffalo Bills.

2010
01:33:33,880 --> 01:33:36,320
Speaker 1: Running back Thurman Thomas. Welcome back, Thurman. It's been months

2011
01:33:36,320 --> 01:33:37,680
Speaker 1: since you've been here. I think going back to the

2012
01:33:37,840 --> 01:33:41,200
Speaker 1: draft where you been. Oh Man, doing work before the

2013
01:33:41,280 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 1: season starts, getting everything done, putting everything down before the

2014
01:33:44,400 --> 01:33:48,880
Speaker 1: season easier during the season. No, No, I I get

2015
01:33:48,960 --> 01:33:50,560
Speaker 1: less business. You don't do anything. I do all my

2016
01:33:50,640 --> 01:33:54,760
Speaker 1: stuff doing a say you get a lot of Yeah.

2017
01:33:55,479 --> 01:33:58,320
Speaker 1: I go some places, but most of the time I

2018
01:33:58,439 --> 01:34:01,400
Speaker 1: stay no and I stay here. Man, I don't go anywhere. Yeah,

2019
01:34:01,439 --> 01:34:04,880
Speaker 1: I say no. Every time Murph wants me to do something. Yeah,

2020
01:34:04,920 --> 01:34:06,680
Speaker 1: like show up. Hey, by the way, that's a nice get.

2021
01:34:06,840 --> 01:34:08,680
Speaker 1: Howse come we don't get nice gear like this to wear.

2022
01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:13,880
Speaker 1: Mur This's like two years old, is it? Yeah? Shows

2023
01:34:13,880 --> 01:34:16,679
Speaker 1: you what I know? You good? Looks good on you though.

2024
01:34:17,680 --> 01:34:20,320
Speaker 1: One thing, so you were an eye compliment from what

2025
01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:21,960
Speaker 1: you told me when you were when I first came here.

2026
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:24,680
Speaker 1: Then I couldn't get my arms around you. Man. Come on, um,

2027
01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:28,479
Speaker 1: you went to Iowa for like, and this is kind

2028
01:34:28,479 --> 01:34:31,000
Speaker 1: of stuff that people are interested because I'm I'm kind

2029
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:33,040
Speaker 1: of interested to see what you get requested to do.

2030
01:34:33,160 --> 01:34:35,840
Speaker 1: You said, charity softball game in Iowa on the field

2031
01:34:35,880 --> 01:34:38,599
Speaker 1: of Dreams from the movie. Yeah. Yeah, Unfortunately it got

2032
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:42,000
Speaker 1: rained out. You know, we um swished it to the

2033
01:34:43,040 --> 01:34:46,240
Speaker 1: We swished it to the to a high school. But yeah,

2034
01:34:46,280 --> 01:34:48,240
Speaker 1: I got rained out. But I did get a chance

2035
01:34:48,280 --> 01:34:53,280
Speaker 1: to go over and see the field and cornfield all around. Yeah,

2036
01:34:53,479 --> 01:34:55,559
Speaker 1: and this time of year, the corn is probably way up.

2037
01:34:55,560 --> 01:34:58,639
Speaker 1: It's way up, way up and goes for miles. When

2038
01:34:58,680 --> 01:35:00,720
Speaker 1: you walk into the corn do you disap here? Oh yeah,

2039
01:35:00,720 --> 01:35:04,120
Speaker 1: you just oh yeah. They got like trails through it

2040
01:35:04,360 --> 01:35:06,960
Speaker 1: that you can walk through. Yeah, you know, my sense

2041
01:35:07,000 --> 01:35:08,760
Speaker 1: of direction it's not good. So I walked in and

2042
01:35:08,840 --> 01:35:11,720
Speaker 1: walk right back out. It's a church attraction, right, it is.

2043
01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:14,120
Speaker 1: It is. And I mean they were actually uh that

2044
01:35:14,320 --> 01:35:17,559
Speaker 1: day there, since we were having the uh celebrity golf

2045
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:22,599
Speaker 1: softball tournament. There was about there's about seven fifty people there. Wow,

2046
01:35:22,920 --> 01:35:25,160
Speaker 1: seven hundred fifty people that they usually say during the

2047
01:35:25,200 --> 01:35:29,280
Speaker 1: summertime or like right when the corn goes down or whatever,

2048
01:35:30,120 --> 01:35:32,640
Speaker 1: like two thousand people because you get to see like

2049
01:35:33,560 --> 01:35:38,760
Speaker 1: just everything you know, and everything is not blocked off

2050
01:35:38,840 --> 01:35:41,200
Speaker 1: by the high corns. It's just a one lane road

2051
01:35:41,240 --> 01:35:42,920
Speaker 1: like it is in the movie the end of one

2052
01:35:43,040 --> 01:35:47,040
Speaker 1: lane is is Everything is dirt. That's why they really

2053
01:35:47,120 --> 01:35:50,559
Speaker 1: canceled the softball because you drive out there, you get

2054
01:35:50,760 --> 01:35:54,840
Speaker 1: stuck in them up. Everything is just there's no paved

2055
01:35:54,960 --> 01:35:58,240
Speaker 1: road to anything like that. It's just all fields and mud.

2056
01:35:58,400 --> 01:36:01,160
Speaker 1: I grew up in western Kansas, and yeah, it was dirt.

2057
01:36:01,200 --> 01:36:03,200
Speaker 1: It's all dirt road. It's all dirt road. I was

2058
01:36:03,240 --> 01:36:04,680
Speaker 1: shocked when I came to New York State and there

2059
01:36:04,720 --> 01:36:09,880
Speaker 1: are no dirt room. Like yeah, but had a good time.

2060
01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:12,080
Speaker 1: So you've been keeping tabs, I mean, you live live

2061
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:14,080
Speaker 1: here locally. Talk to us about what your thoughts are.

2062
01:36:14,400 --> 01:36:17,679
Speaker 1: Let's first all, let's talk about before we get to that. Okay,

2063
01:36:17,960 --> 01:36:20,400
Speaker 1: this guy is amazing with the people he meets and

2064
01:36:20,479 --> 01:36:22,320
Speaker 1: the people he sees. Who did you see at this

2065
01:36:22,400 --> 01:36:24,880
Speaker 1: Field of Dreams thing? It was, you know, most of

2066
01:36:24,920 --> 01:36:27,200
Speaker 1: it was baseball players. You know, I was there with

2067
01:36:27,720 --> 01:36:30,559
Speaker 1: Dick Buckers and Jerry Kramer. Okay, you know they were

2068
01:36:30,600 --> 01:36:33,960
Speaker 1: the man Yeah. Jerry Kramer couldn't even pick up a bat,

2069
01:36:34,040 --> 01:36:38,880
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean, I mean he's just eight years old.

2070
01:36:38,920 --> 01:36:41,040
Speaker 1: So they were going to be the managers. Uh. So

2071
01:36:41,160 --> 01:36:43,720
Speaker 1: who was Alan Trammell, who just got into the Hall

2072
01:36:43,760 --> 01:36:47,400
Speaker 1: of Fame. He was there, Ricky Henderson, Uh, Wade Box, Uh,

2073
01:36:47,840 --> 01:36:50,840
Speaker 1: Jose Conzeco and I was supposed to be in the

2074
01:36:50,920 --> 01:36:55,639
Speaker 1: home run derby against Jose Canseco and Wade Box. They

2075
01:36:55,800 --> 01:36:59,320
Speaker 1: got it, got rained out. Jose Canseco was on the

2076
01:36:59,439 --> 01:37:03,080
Speaker 1: football feel warming up for this in the rain. Wow, yeah,

2077
01:37:03,120 --> 01:37:05,080
Speaker 1: the rain. So that's it's gotta be a little bit

2078
01:37:05,080 --> 01:37:07,320
Speaker 1: of him. I was we boxed. He can still hit.

2079
01:37:07,479 --> 01:37:10,320
Speaker 1: I guess I didn't get a chance to see him hit,

2080
01:37:10,360 --> 01:37:12,080
Speaker 1: but I did get to see him a chance to

2081
01:37:12,200 --> 01:37:16,439
Speaker 1: drink though. He can definitely do that. Yeah, oh yeah,

2082
01:37:16,680 --> 01:37:19,320
Speaker 1: I've never I mean, if you go on YouTube or

2083
01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:22,519
Speaker 1: whatever he's doing an interview, he drank one hundred and

2084
01:37:22,560 --> 01:37:27,599
Speaker 1: seven beaters one day, one day and one day Sunday

2085
01:37:27,960 --> 01:37:32,560
Speaker 1: before I left Monday, he drank sixty Wow, and like

2086
01:37:32,680 --> 01:37:34,880
Speaker 1: how long a day? All day? I mean he started

2087
01:37:34,920 --> 01:37:36,760
Speaker 1: like eight o'clock this morning. Well, you know what they say,

2088
01:37:36,760 --> 01:37:38,240
Speaker 1: you can't drink all day. Unlets you start in the

2089
01:37:38,280 --> 01:37:40,240
Speaker 1: morning unless you start in the morning. And he did start,

2090
01:37:42,160 --> 01:37:45,880
Speaker 1: and I was Ricky Henderson character. Yeah, he's a character.

2091
01:37:45,960 --> 01:37:48,880
Speaker 1: Everything was third person with him. Yeah, Ricky didn't feel

2092
01:37:48,880 --> 01:37:52,000
Speaker 1: like playing a day anyway. I was like, okay, so no.

2093
01:37:52,120 --> 01:37:55,559
Speaker 1: It was a great group of guys. Isaiah Smith was there. Yeah,

2094
01:37:55,640 --> 01:37:57,160
Speaker 1: it was a little jump as a little something. I

2095
01:37:57,200 --> 01:37:59,479
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think he can do the flip now. Yeah,

2096
01:37:59,520 --> 01:38:01,680
Speaker 1: he's a little He put a little weight on it.

2097
01:38:01,800 --> 01:38:03,320
Speaker 1: Might not make it all the way all the way.

2098
01:38:03,439 --> 01:38:06,599
Speaker 1: We all put a little weight on. Io. Yeah, that's great.

2099
01:38:06,720 --> 01:38:08,400
Speaker 1: That is nice. And where you know, we haven't where

2100
01:38:08,439 --> 01:38:10,080
Speaker 1: you fly in? Wait, where do you fly into when

2101
01:38:10,120 --> 01:38:15,760
Speaker 1: you go to Dubuque. Oh we flew into Moleen of course.

2102
01:38:15,920 --> 01:38:20,280
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Moleen. Yeah. So where is that is that?

2103
01:38:20,400 --> 01:38:24,800
Speaker 1: Wisconsin's in Illinois? Illinois, Illinois. Yeah, all right, about forty

2104
01:38:24,840 --> 01:38:28,000
Speaker 1: five minutes we were in our I didn't know. Yeah,

2105
01:38:28,080 --> 01:38:29,640
Speaker 1: what else he's been doing because we haven't seen you

2106
01:38:29,680 --> 01:38:31,519
Speaker 1: in months, and I know you probably have another list

2107
01:38:31,600 --> 01:38:34,280
Speaker 1: your former presidents. You probably have been hanging with No,

2108
01:38:34,439 --> 01:38:36,600
Speaker 1: I haven't been daters. I haven't every day you know,

2109
01:38:36,720 --> 01:38:39,280
Speaker 1: Thurm just looked him just kind of finished up baseball

2110
01:38:39,400 --> 01:38:42,680
Speaker 1: travel season. That wouldn't be all over? Yeah, all over

2111
01:38:43,600 --> 01:38:46,719
Speaker 1: when you're in New York a lot Atlanta? Was the team?

2112
01:38:47,320 --> 01:38:49,639
Speaker 1: What was the team? Who? What team was he playing? Called?

2113
01:38:49,720 --> 01:38:52,880
Speaker 1: Academy Stars? Yeah? What yours? Little Thurman School? He's a

2114
01:38:52,960 --> 01:38:55,519
Speaker 1: junior there. Okay, can you join your Conicia? Yeah? So

2115
01:38:55,800 --> 01:38:58,080
Speaker 1: is he h? Is he starting to think about what

2116
01:38:58,160 --> 01:39:00,920
Speaker 1: he's gonna do after? Yeah? Something like Sea wanna play baseball?

2117
01:39:00,960 --> 01:39:03,960
Speaker 1: I know that where? Yeah, he want to go somewhere downside?

2118
01:39:04,479 --> 01:39:06,839
Speaker 1: Is he getting looked at as a scholarship? Is actually?

2119
01:39:06,920 --> 01:39:10,880
Speaker 1: You know they start the recruiting process September first and

2120
01:39:11,080 --> 01:39:13,920
Speaker 1: changed it now, so he just started. He just started,

2121
01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:17,120
Speaker 1: you know. And who's hearing from? You know, university right

2122
01:39:18,040 --> 01:39:23,040
Speaker 1: obviously Oklahoma State, UM, Hartford University up in Connecticut. So yeah,

2123
01:39:23,320 --> 01:39:28,160
Speaker 1: could he played professionally baseball? I don't know, you know what, Um,

2124
01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:30,960
Speaker 1: we haven't really talked about that yet. Uh. You know,

2125
01:39:31,160 --> 01:39:34,080
Speaker 1: he basically wants to go to college first. I think

2126
01:39:34,120 --> 01:39:37,719
Speaker 1: I read some survey where you know they're now taking

2127
01:39:37,840 --> 01:39:40,800
Speaker 1: more college kids now than New York kids coming straight

2128
01:39:40,840 --> 01:39:43,320
Speaker 1: out of high school. You know, they're kind of like, yeah,

2129
01:39:43,320 --> 01:39:45,640
Speaker 1: they're kind of letting them go, say no, we want you.

2130
01:39:45,920 --> 01:39:48,400
Speaker 1: You know, we go to college and yeah, do good.

2131
01:39:48,760 --> 01:39:50,920
Speaker 1: We still have an opportunity to draft you. I mean,

2132
01:39:51,000 --> 01:39:52,759
Speaker 1: but some of these kids, you know, they get drafted

2133
01:39:52,760 --> 01:39:55,679
Speaker 1: in six to seven round. People throw five hundred thousand

2134
01:39:55,680 --> 01:39:58,040
Speaker 1: dollars at him. They're gone right away, and they could

2135
01:39:58,080 --> 01:40:01,160
Speaker 1: be in the you know, single A, Double A for

2136
01:40:01,240 --> 01:40:03,200
Speaker 1: five or six years. You know, you don't you know,

2137
01:40:03,320 --> 01:40:06,160
Speaker 1: your your hand with grown men that have been there

2138
01:40:06,200 --> 01:40:08,680
Speaker 1: for ten years. Probably you go to college. Man, it's

2139
01:40:08,680 --> 01:40:10,920
Speaker 1: a whole lot different story. You get to it's better experience.

2140
01:40:10,920 --> 01:40:13,320
Speaker 1: It's a better experience. Yeah, it's hard. Do you ever

2141
01:40:13,400 --> 01:40:14,760
Speaker 1: go to a game? And I do try to go

2142
01:40:14,960 --> 01:40:16,800
Speaker 1: once a year, like in Batavia or one of these

2143
01:40:17,000 --> 01:40:19,240
Speaker 1: single A short season New York's New York Penn League.

2144
01:40:19,280 --> 01:40:21,439
Speaker 1: I think it still is yep, and it's an eye opener.

2145
01:40:21,520 --> 01:40:23,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard, it is. Guys are playing every

2146
01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:25,519
Speaker 1: day for every day in the summer, every day. It's

2147
01:40:25,520 --> 01:40:28,120
Speaker 1: a little short schedule. But if you get out of

2148
01:40:28,160 --> 01:40:30,040
Speaker 1: there and get to major league baseball. You have earned it,

2149
01:40:30,080 --> 01:40:32,080
Speaker 1: but you have so different. You have definitely earned it,

2150
01:40:32,360 --> 01:40:35,160
Speaker 1: and it's not one of those deals where like I

2151
01:40:35,479 --> 01:40:37,760
Speaker 1: talked to Ken Griffith Junior all the time, you know,

2152
01:40:38,400 --> 01:40:40,600
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he was a number one pick, but

2153
01:40:40,760 --> 01:40:44,280
Speaker 1: he was in a minus for two months. That's that's rare.

2154
01:40:44,720 --> 01:40:47,280
Speaker 1: That's very rare. Yeah, I mean that's the first. That's

2155
01:40:47,280 --> 01:40:49,759
Speaker 1: almost like not going to the minors, right, it's almost

2156
01:40:49,840 --> 01:40:52,960
Speaker 1: like that. But I'm say, like Ricky Henderson, Ricky Henderson's

2157
01:40:52,960 --> 01:40:54,800
Speaker 1: in a minus for two and a half years. Yeah,

2158
01:40:54,840 --> 01:40:57,840
Speaker 1: that's that's hard. And these all time leading base dealer

2159
01:40:58,439 --> 01:41:01,320
Speaker 1: in in Major League Baseball, So being in that spot

2160
01:41:01,439 --> 01:41:03,840
Speaker 1: for two and a half years. Same with Barry Larkin,

2161
01:41:04,240 --> 01:41:06,560
Speaker 1: same thing. You know, you're down in those minus for

2162
01:41:06,640 --> 01:41:09,120
Speaker 1: a number of years, man, and uh it's a grind

2163
01:41:09,439 --> 01:41:14,040
Speaker 1: riding buses. Yeah yeah right yeah, Well so all right,

2164
01:41:14,080 --> 01:41:17,920
Speaker 1: can we stop talking about baseball now? So I'm glad

2165
01:41:17,960 --> 01:41:22,080
Speaker 1: you didn't ask me about the Yankeest gys. So what

2166
01:41:22,200 --> 01:41:24,360
Speaker 1: has been up with you guys? You know nothing, We're

2167
01:41:24,360 --> 01:41:26,960
Speaker 1: doing this thing, this thing every day. It's good. You're

2168
01:41:27,000 --> 01:41:30,600
Speaker 1: just getting back though, right next time? Usually gone with

2169
01:41:30,680 --> 01:41:33,920
Speaker 1: you a little CBS day. Right, I didn't set him

2170
01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:38,719
Speaker 1: talking about while I'm not. I know it usually happened there.

2171
01:41:39,080 --> 01:41:41,880
Speaker 1: You're usually going on. It was last Monday, Tuesday. Oh,

2172
01:41:41,920 --> 01:41:46,120
Speaker 1: I got this last one. You know what four or

2173
01:41:46,120 --> 01:41:48,240
Speaker 1: five eight? Since April twenty third, I think it's been

2174
01:41:48,320 --> 01:41:50,639
Speaker 1: three weeks. I've been here for five days, all five

2175
01:41:50,720 --> 01:41:53,080
Speaker 1: days the other the other like fifteen weeks I've spent

2176
01:41:53,120 --> 01:41:54,920
Speaker 1: whatever it's been, I've been here for like four days

2177
01:41:55,000 --> 01:41:56,960
Speaker 1: or three. Yeah, that goes over. Well, yeah, I thought

2178
01:41:57,040 --> 01:42:01,960
Speaker 1: Chris Brown was doing the show now. Yeah, Uh have

2179
01:42:02,080 --> 01:42:03,840
Speaker 1: you thought about the Bills this year? Did you watch

2180
01:42:03,960 --> 01:42:07,840
Speaker 1: much preseason? Not at all? Really, No, thanks for coming

2181
01:42:07,880 --> 01:42:09,920
Speaker 1: by then, Yeah that's all we got. Yeah, well, I

2182
01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:11,920
Speaker 1: don't know. All I know is Nate p m is

2183
01:42:11,960 --> 01:42:14,200
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback. That's all I know. Yeah, you might

2184
01:42:14,240 --> 01:42:16,920
Speaker 1: be better off, but I didn't want to ask you.

2185
01:42:17,040 --> 01:42:19,080
Speaker 1: You know, I know you know about a Levion Bell

2186
01:42:19,160 --> 01:42:21,880
Speaker 1: holding out, Yeah, fourteen and a half million dollars. He's

2187
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:24,240
Speaker 1: kind of pushing away, saying he thinks you know what

2188
01:42:24,280 --> 01:42:26,760
Speaker 1: I mean, But he's in a tight spot. Because here's

2189
01:42:26,880 --> 01:42:28,519
Speaker 1: here's let me just give you both sides of the coin.

2190
01:42:28,560 --> 01:42:31,519
Speaker 1: Because for people who are listening. He is gonna make

2191
01:42:31,600 --> 01:42:33,720
Speaker 1: fourteen point five. He goes in this year, the last

2192
01:42:33,800 --> 01:42:37,200
Speaker 1: year they can actually franchise, so he'll be a free

2193
01:42:37,200 --> 01:42:38,360
Speaker 1: agent at the end of the year if they don't

2194
01:42:38,360 --> 01:42:40,040
Speaker 1: get a long term deal in. If he goes in

2195
01:42:40,120 --> 01:42:43,400
Speaker 1: and place for the Pittsburgh Steelers, they're gonna use him up,

2196
01:42:43,560 --> 01:42:45,240
Speaker 1: are gonna run him down. They're gonna run him like

2197
01:42:45,280 --> 01:42:48,479
Speaker 1: four hundred touches year, right, So he's gonna get another

2198
01:42:48,560 --> 01:42:50,840
Speaker 1: year like that end, and then he comes out as

2199
01:42:50,840 --> 01:42:52,240
Speaker 1: a free agent after that, teams are gonna be like,

2200
01:42:52,320 --> 01:42:54,559
Speaker 1: I don't know, man. You know that's like eight hundred

2201
01:42:54,640 --> 01:42:58,760
Speaker 1: touches in in eighteen months. They might not. You know,

2202
01:42:58,880 --> 01:43:02,160
Speaker 1: that may hurt his ability to get a big deal

2203
01:43:02,240 --> 01:43:05,320
Speaker 1: after that. Now is the money out there for him

2204
01:43:05,320 --> 01:43:08,120
Speaker 1: to say goodbye to fourteen point five, have a good year,

2205
01:43:08,400 --> 01:43:09,800
Speaker 1: and then come back and make up for it in

2206
01:43:09,880 --> 01:43:11,960
Speaker 1: a bigger deal after that, I don't think. I don't

2207
01:43:11,960 --> 01:43:13,519
Speaker 1: think it's I don't think he can make up that

2208
01:43:13,600 --> 01:43:17,120
Speaker 1: fourteen million. There's no way I think he can make

2209
01:43:17,200 --> 01:43:22,000
Speaker 1: up that fourteen million. But you know there's news that

2210
01:43:22,400 --> 01:43:26,599
Speaker 1: you know, he might not come into the tenth week,

2211
01:43:26,800 --> 01:43:29,240
Speaker 1: which he's allowed to do right, still get a year

2212
01:43:29,320 --> 01:43:32,360
Speaker 1: of still get a year and still become a free agent.

2213
01:43:32,920 --> 01:43:36,639
Speaker 1: I think personally, I think the French as tex thinks. Yeah,

2214
01:43:36,880 --> 01:43:41,360
Speaker 1: I think especially at that position. Yeah, I just think

2215
01:43:42,120 --> 01:43:44,479
Speaker 1: all the long term contract that you sign if you're

2216
01:43:44,479 --> 01:43:46,320
Speaker 1: a first round draft pick, I mean you have to

2217
01:43:46,360 --> 01:43:48,439
Speaker 1: sign as you have to sign four or five years

2218
01:43:48,520 --> 01:43:50,880
Speaker 1: first round draft picks five year Yeah, yeah, I think

2219
01:43:50,960 --> 01:43:53,280
Speaker 1: at that position there should be two or three years

2220
01:43:53,800 --> 01:43:56,799
Speaker 1: short enough for that position because you know they always

2221
01:43:56,840 --> 01:43:59,960
Speaker 1: talk about, oh, that position can be replaced. It's hard

2222
01:44:00,240 --> 01:44:03,200
Speaker 1: to replace. Levi bel I don't care what you say, right,

2223
01:44:03,400 --> 01:44:06,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, I agree with you because it becomes a

2224
01:44:08,840 --> 01:44:11,120
Speaker 1: question of longevity, right, and the ability to play for

2225
01:44:11,240 --> 01:44:13,960
Speaker 1: a long period of time. If you got a running

2226
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:16,000
Speaker 1: back like that, you know, it's it's rare a guy

2227
01:44:16,080 --> 01:44:18,760
Speaker 1: gets to your level in the obviously rare, you're in

2228
01:44:18,800 --> 01:44:20,920
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, but to your level of experience,

2229
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:24,559
Speaker 1: to Adrian Peterson's level of experience, to al Frank Gore's

2230
01:44:24,640 --> 01:44:29,280
Speaker 1: level of experience, there's a handful. There's less than a handful.

2231
01:44:30,000 --> 01:44:31,880
Speaker 1: And to have these guys come in and have to

2232
01:44:31,920 --> 01:44:33,960
Speaker 1: sign a five year deal before they can even reach

2233
01:44:34,040 --> 01:44:37,559
Speaker 1: free agency. I think. I do think. On the other hand, though,

2234
01:44:37,600 --> 01:44:41,040
Speaker 1: the league say, listen, he's still making as much as

2235
01:44:41,240 --> 01:44:45,320
Speaker 1: almost every other running back in the league. So what's

2236
01:44:45,360 --> 01:44:48,800
Speaker 1: the problem. You want that long term contract though, Yeah,

2237
01:44:50,080 --> 01:44:56,160
Speaker 1: got one. I know when Todd Gurley shows up and

2238
01:44:56,240 --> 01:44:58,000
Speaker 1: takes his foot off the gas because he's already got

2239
01:44:58,040 --> 01:44:59,880
Speaker 1: his money, nobody else is going to be able to

2240
01:44:59,880 --> 01:45:02,000
Speaker 1: s a big deal like that, You know what I mean? Yeah,

2241
01:45:02,160 --> 01:45:03,880
Speaker 1: you know because some of these guys will, some of

2242
01:45:03,920 --> 01:45:06,080
Speaker 1: the guys in the last year or two here playing

2243
01:45:06,160 --> 01:45:08,439
Speaker 1: other positions like defensive line, they take their foot off,

2244
01:45:08,439 --> 01:45:10,880
Speaker 1: they put it out of gear, and they's past. Yeah.

2245
01:45:11,000 --> 01:45:18,320
Speaker 1: See Lorenzo Alexander's still getting days off. Make a little

2246
01:45:18,400 --> 01:45:21,840
Speaker 1: note Lorenzo being studio with us tomorrow. We played that

2247
01:45:21,920 --> 01:45:24,240
Speaker 1: clip tomorrow. Hey, let me ask you this about Leavin

2248
01:45:24,280 --> 01:45:26,800
Speaker 1: bill Thurin Thomas is in studio with us. By the way,

2249
01:45:27,400 --> 01:45:31,040
Speaker 1: what happened yesterday? His teammates, his offensive line calling him out,

2250
01:45:31,200 --> 01:45:33,280
Speaker 1: saying he should be here. We're moving on without him.

2251
01:45:33,280 --> 01:45:34,800
Speaker 1: We're going with James Connor. We don't care if he

2252
01:45:34,840 --> 01:45:37,080
Speaker 1: shows up. I've never seen that kind of reaction by

2253
01:45:37,280 --> 01:45:39,639
Speaker 1: by teammates and a guy who's gonna in a contract fight,

2254
01:45:39,760 --> 01:45:42,360
Speaker 1: And to be honest with you, that's a no no,

2255
01:45:42,880 --> 01:45:47,200
Speaker 1: especially coming from somebody in that organization, because that organization

2256
01:45:47,320 --> 01:45:50,320
Speaker 1: has been on top for years, right the Ruining family.

2257
01:45:50,880 --> 01:45:54,880
Speaker 1: They have run that organization very well from top to bottom.

2258
01:45:55,160 --> 01:45:59,320
Speaker 1: And two heroes players say that that almost that's not good.

2259
01:45:59,520 --> 01:46:03,719
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean because now when Liveran Bell whenever

2260
01:46:03,800 --> 01:46:05,840
Speaker 1: he gets there, he's gonna have to hear all listeners

2261
01:46:05,880 --> 01:46:08,000
Speaker 1: wanted to look those guys who are the foster that's

2262
01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:10,519
Speaker 1: saying something. Yeah, you've got to look those guys in

2263
01:46:10,560 --> 01:46:14,679
Speaker 1: the eyes. Both what are you talking about? It's almost

2264
01:46:14,800 --> 01:46:18,360
Speaker 1: like two you get a feeling, especially with the Pittsburgh Gorganisation,

2265
01:46:18,479 --> 01:46:20,599
Speaker 1: almost get a feeling like those offensive linemen. Or it's

2266
01:46:20,640 --> 01:46:23,679
Speaker 1: like kids telling people what they'd heard their parents say,

2267
01:46:24,560 --> 01:46:26,439
Speaker 1: like Mike Tomlins been in there listening we're going on

2268
01:46:26,479 --> 01:46:28,400
Speaker 1: without him. He ain't doing it, and those guys saying, Okay,

2269
01:46:28,439 --> 01:46:30,240
Speaker 1: we're on without you know what I mean? Yeah, it's

2270
01:46:30,240 --> 01:46:32,360
Speaker 1: almost coming from a higher level. Yeah, but that's something

2271
01:46:32,439 --> 01:46:34,040
Speaker 1: that you keep in the locker room and you just

2272
01:46:34,160 --> 01:46:36,040
Speaker 1: do not do that. I don't know if you can

2273
01:46:36,120 --> 01:46:38,240
Speaker 1: hide anything anymore. In the locker room. Yeah, you just

2274
01:46:38,400 --> 01:46:42,200
Speaker 1: do not do that right now. And you know, how

2275
01:46:42,280 --> 01:46:46,320
Speaker 1: does that speak for liveran Bell I mean you know,

2276
01:46:46,439 --> 01:46:48,559
Speaker 1: I mean it could be the obposite word. Those guys

2277
01:46:48,600 --> 01:46:51,439
Speaker 1: probably just don't like him, you know. Yeah, there's a

2278
01:46:51,479 --> 01:46:53,240
Speaker 1: lot of I mean, there's a lot to be said

2279
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:56,479
Speaker 1: about this. Yeah, it's you know, it's gonna be a

2280
01:46:56,560 --> 01:46:59,640
Speaker 1: lot of questions the players. Basically the offensive line. We're saying, well,

2281
01:46:59,640 --> 01:47:01,840
Speaker 1: he doesn't can't do his thing without us, which is true,

2282
01:47:02,200 --> 01:47:04,800
Speaker 1: and you appreciated what your offensive line issue. But on

2283
01:47:04,880 --> 01:47:06,680
Speaker 1: the other hand, you're the guy, you know, when you're

2284
01:47:06,720 --> 01:47:08,599
Speaker 1: the running back, right, you're the guy, and if somebody

2285
01:47:08,640 --> 01:47:10,920
Speaker 1: else has the block for you, okay, and I did. Yeah,

2286
01:47:10,920 --> 01:47:14,519
Speaker 1: I've never heard players. Usually players walk away from criticizing

2287
01:47:14,560 --> 01:47:16,960
Speaker 1: somebody's hold out for money or any kind of motivation

2288
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:18,599
Speaker 1: for me, any kind of moody. Hey, and you're at

2289
01:47:18,640 --> 01:47:21,120
Speaker 1: this position, get what you can, really at any position,

2290
01:47:21,240 --> 01:47:23,360
Speaker 1: get how much it makes, how much money you possibly

2291
01:47:23,439 --> 01:47:25,559
Speaker 1: can until the day. What do you think happen there?

2292
01:47:25,600 --> 01:47:27,960
Speaker 1: Do you think somebody up top of Steve suggested maybe

2293
01:47:28,160 --> 01:47:30,360
Speaker 1: Toomlin or somebody said, hey, don't you guys hate the

2294
01:47:30,400 --> 01:47:33,400
Speaker 1: fact that the Labyan's leaving this hanging here. I'm sure

2295
01:47:33,680 --> 01:47:36,840
Speaker 1: Tomlin had to say something to the fact that hey,

2296
01:47:37,880 --> 01:47:41,320
Speaker 1: it's guy's in this rule forget about him or whatever.

2297
01:47:41,400 --> 01:47:43,519
Speaker 1: It might be something what's that? Yeah, we don't know

2298
01:47:43,760 --> 01:47:47,880
Speaker 1: what what's that? But something players to come out and

2299
01:47:48,040 --> 01:47:51,120
Speaker 1: say that publicly in the media, that is just a

2300
01:47:51,360 --> 01:47:53,680
Speaker 1: no new because and I don't know, maybe there was

2301
01:47:53,760 --> 01:47:55,600
Speaker 1: some other stuff saiding it, because you always get, you know,

2302
01:47:55,680 --> 01:47:57,960
Speaker 1: a snippet at the best snippet of every you know,

2303
01:47:58,600 --> 01:48:02,760
Speaker 1: twenty twenty minute interview, you know, and everything is condensed down.

2304
01:48:02,800 --> 01:48:07,680
Speaker 1: But you know, um, it's not two offensive lineman said it,

2305
01:48:08,120 --> 01:48:11,760
Speaker 1: and they mentioned a third and so it's like team

2306
01:48:11,840 --> 01:48:14,960
Speaker 1: Why so you write something was said in a team

2307
01:48:15,040 --> 01:48:18,040
Speaker 1: meeting or in an offensive line meeting, or in the

2308
01:48:18,160 --> 01:48:19,840
Speaker 1: locker room as a group when more you know a

2309
01:48:19,880 --> 01:48:22,439
Speaker 1: lot of guys are hanging around at the very least, Yeah,

2310
01:48:22,680 --> 01:48:25,200
Speaker 1: saying man that he you know, he promised us he

2311
01:48:25,280 --> 01:48:28,640
Speaker 1: was coming in. Now where is he? You know, right now?

2312
01:48:28,680 --> 01:48:32,760
Speaker 1: And that's something happened, something something, something line was crossed. Yeah,

2313
01:48:32,800 --> 01:48:34,760
Speaker 1: something line was going And I thought about that too.

2314
01:48:35,080 --> 01:48:37,479
Speaker 1: Did he promise that? Yeah, I'm gonna be there Wednesday,

2315
01:48:37,920 --> 01:48:40,240
Speaker 1: and they didn't show up and didn't show up somebody mentioned.

2316
01:48:40,680 --> 01:48:43,200
Speaker 1: But still, yeah, I still if even if you do that,

2317
01:48:44,080 --> 01:48:45,840
Speaker 1: you still don't come out in the media and say

2318
01:48:45,920 --> 01:48:48,479
Speaker 1: I just that's weird. You don't do that. If you're

2319
01:48:48,960 --> 01:48:50,519
Speaker 1: Leon Bell and you told all these guys, hey, I'm

2320
01:48:50,560 --> 01:48:52,680
Speaker 1: coming in. I'm gonna be there on Wednesdays because I'm

2321
01:48:52,680 --> 01:48:54,080
Speaker 1: gonna do it just like I did last year, and

2322
01:48:54,120 --> 01:48:56,680
Speaker 1: then it doesn't it's not gonna happen. You're on the

2323
01:48:56,720 --> 01:48:59,080
Speaker 1: phone and say, listen, I ain't coming in, bro, here's

2324
01:48:59,080 --> 01:49:02,719
Speaker 1: what happened. You tell those guys, tell tell the boys

2325
01:49:02,800 --> 01:49:06,000
Speaker 1: that here's what happened. Something changed and ain't doing it. Yeah,

2326
01:49:06,120 --> 01:49:09,880
Speaker 1: so that's where it's at. That doesn't seem to have happened. Nope,

2327
01:49:09,960 --> 01:49:12,120
Speaker 1: it does not seem to have happened at all. Nope.

2328
01:49:12,240 --> 01:49:13,800
Speaker 1: I got a couple of minutes left here with Thurnam

2329
01:49:13,800 --> 01:49:16,040
Speaker 1: and Thomas. Let me ask you about Buffalo is running

2330
01:49:16,040 --> 01:49:19,439
Speaker 1: back to LaShaun McCoy needs nineteen hundred yards to get

2331
01:49:19,479 --> 01:49:21,400
Speaker 1: to twelve thousand. I looked it up the other day.

2332
01:49:21,479 --> 01:49:24,960
Speaker 1: Thirteen of the sixteen backs who had twelve thousand or

2333
01:49:25,000 --> 01:49:26,479
Speaker 1: more yards are in the Hall of Fame. So that's

2334
01:49:26,560 --> 01:49:29,400
Speaker 1: kind of the threshold there. He's thirty years old, needs

2335
01:49:29,520 --> 01:49:32,160
Speaker 1: nineteen hundred yards. He's averaged a thousand yards rushing each

2336
01:49:32,200 --> 01:49:34,320
Speaker 1: of the last two years. Can he do this and

2337
01:49:34,439 --> 01:49:37,880
Speaker 1: can he do it in Buffalo? Do you think? I mean,

2338
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:41,400
Speaker 1: he's thirty, he needs a thousand, he needs nineteen hundred yards. Yeah,

2339
01:49:41,439 --> 01:49:44,360
Speaker 1: but they usually start talking about it that at that age,

2340
01:49:44,400 --> 01:49:47,200
Speaker 1: at twenty nine or twenty eight. He's thirty. I mean,

2341
01:49:48,080 --> 01:49:51,920
Speaker 1: he's still the best offensive player we got. Yes, the

2342
01:49:52,000 --> 01:49:54,000
Speaker 1: offense is still going to go through him. Offense is

2343
01:49:54,080 --> 01:49:56,240
Speaker 1: still go through him. So yeah, you know, I hope

2344
01:49:56,320 --> 01:49:58,120
Speaker 1: that he gets it here in Buffalo. Yeah, I would

2345
01:49:58,160 --> 01:49:59,840
Speaker 1: love for him to get it here in Buffalo, thank you.

2346
01:50:00,120 --> 01:50:02,519
Speaker 1: He has this year and probably what next year on

2347
01:50:02,560 --> 01:50:04,680
Speaker 1: his contract. Yeah, I think so, I think so. Yeah.

2348
01:50:04,760 --> 01:50:07,439
Speaker 1: I mean, um, you know, he's been the focal point

2349
01:50:07,680 --> 01:50:10,519
Speaker 1: everywhere he's been and he's put up numbers and we

2350
01:50:10,800 --> 01:50:13,519
Speaker 1: haven't seen you know. I mean, I love watching him.

2351
01:50:13,560 --> 01:50:15,519
Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glad we got him the thing that

2352
01:50:15,600 --> 01:50:18,479
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. But yeah, I think I think you can

2353
01:50:18,600 --> 01:50:20,479
Speaker 1: do it. You can't. It's gonna be tough. To do

2354
01:50:20,560 --> 01:50:22,320
Speaker 1: it this year, but I think if you give them

2355
01:50:22,320 --> 01:50:24,360
Speaker 1: another two years, I think you'll do it. Yeah. Here's

2356
01:50:24,360 --> 01:50:26,280
Speaker 1: the thing too, And he's a little bit like you,

2357
01:50:26,479 --> 01:50:28,599
Speaker 1: not in the style or anything, but he's always available.

2358
01:50:28,680 --> 01:50:30,400
Speaker 1: You always showed up. I mean, right, you had that

2359
01:50:30,479 --> 01:50:32,519
Speaker 1: one season where you got your when flute he hung

2360
01:50:32,600 --> 01:50:36,840
Speaker 1: you out. But but he's always on the field and

2361
01:50:37,080 --> 01:50:42,080
Speaker 1: that all his year. He's always on the field, and

2362
01:50:42,200 --> 01:50:45,240
Speaker 1: that gives him a chance even at thirty, because you know,

2363
01:50:45,960 --> 01:50:50,960
Speaker 1: particularly at his stature and his relevance to this team

2364
01:50:51,080 --> 01:50:54,040
Speaker 1: and this spot gives him a chance to still be

2365
01:50:54,200 --> 01:50:56,640
Speaker 1: the guy in next year, not just this year, but

2366
01:50:56,800 --> 01:50:59,519
Speaker 1: next year because the fact that guy's always on the

2367
01:50:59,640 --> 01:51:03,040
Speaker 1: field always, and as long as that's the case, I

2368
01:51:03,120 --> 01:51:05,880
Speaker 1: don't think it's I think it's with beyond doubt that

2369
01:51:06,000 --> 01:51:08,479
Speaker 1: he will reach that if he can stay available in

2370
01:51:08,479 --> 01:51:10,360
Speaker 1: on the field, because they ain't gonna move away from

2371
01:51:10,439 --> 01:51:13,240
Speaker 1: him because he's not because he you know, he's just

2372
01:51:14,439 --> 01:51:18,639
Speaker 1: his style is too is too versatile. He's got too

2373
01:51:18,760 --> 01:51:22,280
Speaker 1: big a skill set to be taken off the field

2374
01:51:22,560 --> 01:51:24,519
Speaker 1: and be replaced. Like they're not gonna draft a number one,

2375
01:51:24,560 --> 01:51:26,920
Speaker 1: a running back, number one overall to take a shady's place,

2376
01:51:27,160 --> 01:51:31,520
Speaker 1: and it'll be guys like like Cadet, like Murphy Keillislee,

2377
01:51:31,800 --> 01:51:34,280
Speaker 1: like Marcus Murphy. They'll keeps bringing guys into spell him.

2378
01:51:34,280 --> 01:51:35,760
Speaker 1: But he's always going to be the guy as long

2379
01:51:35,840 --> 01:51:38,720
Speaker 1: as he's available and healthy. If he stays healthy, there's

2380
01:51:38,840 --> 01:51:41,280
Speaker 1: in my opinion, there's no doubt he reaches There's no

2381
01:51:41,439 --> 01:51:44,120
Speaker 1: doubt if he stays healthy, U he reaches twelve K.

2382
01:51:44,280 --> 01:51:46,880
Speaker 1: And I think that does kind of pulled him into

2383
01:51:47,080 --> 01:51:49,240
Speaker 1: the talk of being into the Pro Football Hall of

2384
01:51:49,280 --> 01:51:52,600
Speaker 1: Fame absolutely, and uh, you know we've talked about it,

2385
01:51:52,720 --> 01:51:55,519
Speaker 1: and you know last year was you know, last year

2386
01:51:55,600 --> 01:51:58,679
Speaker 1: was a big year for him because he says he's

2387
01:51:58,680 --> 01:52:01,320
Speaker 1: always talked about, Yeah, I love putting up these numbers

2388
01:52:01,439 --> 01:52:04,080
Speaker 1: or whatever, but I want to get into the playoffs. Right.

2389
01:52:04,280 --> 01:52:08,280
Speaker 1: That's where you know his focus has always been, is that, Yeah,

2390
01:52:08,280 --> 01:52:09,680
Speaker 1: I was in Philly for a couple of years and

2391
01:52:09,720 --> 01:52:11,680
Speaker 1: we made the playoff and it felt good. You know,

2392
01:52:11,760 --> 01:52:14,040
Speaker 1: I don't want to be putting up numbers and not

2393
01:52:14,200 --> 01:52:16,080
Speaker 1: making the playoffs. You know, I want to be out

2394
01:52:16,120 --> 01:52:18,280
Speaker 1: there in the playoffs. I want to try to do

2395
01:52:18,400 --> 01:52:21,160
Speaker 1: it every single year. And hey, look, I mean the

2396
01:52:21,240 --> 01:52:25,400
Speaker 1: guy never takes a shot, right, never takes that shot.

2397
01:52:25,800 --> 01:52:28,479
Speaker 1: He's gifted, He's very gift. And the thing about it,

2398
01:52:28,479 --> 01:52:30,680
Speaker 1: I don't say it's a gift. I mean he is

2399
01:52:30,760 --> 01:52:33,080
Speaker 1: skilled enough not to take a shot. And the thing

2400
01:52:33,160 --> 01:52:36,360
Speaker 1: about it, the guy can catch the ball out of

2401
01:52:36,400 --> 01:52:38,960
Speaker 1: the backfield. Line him up a while I received. I mean,

2402
01:52:39,320 --> 01:52:41,080
Speaker 1: I wish we would do that with him a little

2403
01:52:41,080 --> 01:52:43,400
Speaker 1: bit more. You know, that would keep him a little

2404
01:52:43,400 --> 01:52:45,840
Speaker 1: bit more fresher from running the football and there by

2405
01:52:45,880 --> 01:52:47,559
Speaker 1: the time you get to the fourth quarter. Yeah, he'll

2406
01:52:47,560 --> 01:52:50,439
Speaker 1: be freshening everything, throw up some passes. Man to dude

2407
01:52:50,640 --> 01:52:54,959
Speaker 1: is one of the most exciting players at thirty International

2408
01:52:55,000 --> 01:52:58,240
Speaker 1: Football League. Still, yeah, he termed you mentioned you kind

2409
01:52:58,240 --> 01:53:00,600
Speaker 1: of shut it down kind of stuff, the traveling a

2410
01:53:00,600 --> 01:53:02,680
Speaker 1: little bit knowledge you moved towards the fall. You got

2411
01:53:02,720 --> 01:53:05,040
Speaker 1: a big fall coming up, including coming up on NFL

2412
01:53:05,120 --> 01:53:08,240
Speaker 1: Network Football Life, Thurman Thomas. I think they shot a

2413
01:53:08,280 --> 01:53:10,040
Speaker 1: lot of it, right. I think they interviewed Steve. Did

2414
01:53:10,080 --> 01:53:12,640
Speaker 1: you know that about that? Yeah, they interviewed a lot

2415
01:53:12,680 --> 01:53:15,000
Speaker 1: of people that I don't know that I do know,

2416
01:53:15,160 --> 01:53:17,599
Speaker 1: but I don't know who they interviewed. Oh did they care? Yeah,

2417
01:53:17,760 --> 01:53:21,400
Speaker 1: you've known me for a while. Yeah, didn't they talk

2418
01:53:21,400 --> 01:53:24,200
Speaker 1: to you? See they did what you say, you're kind

2419
01:53:24,200 --> 01:53:27,519
Speaker 1: of holding back. Not nothing good, But I tell you

2420
01:53:27,600 --> 01:53:30,479
Speaker 1: it had to be good because the guy that I

2421
01:53:30,560 --> 01:53:34,320
Speaker 1: talked to that ran the whole thing, he said, Steve Tackers,

2422
01:53:34,479 --> 01:53:38,720
Speaker 1: these Taskers one funny dude. Yeah, so there's gonna be

2423
01:53:38,840 --> 01:53:41,360
Speaker 1: some good stuff coming up. So you know it was

2424
01:53:41,520 --> 01:53:43,439
Speaker 1: I guess. I guess the guy told me, like I

2425
01:53:43,520 --> 01:53:46,120
Speaker 1: think Bruce did it. You know, Bruce is not really funny,

2426
01:53:46,240 --> 01:53:49,960
Speaker 1: the Usual, the Usual Suspect, the Usual five President and

2427
01:53:50,080 --> 01:53:57,200
Speaker 1: it's Bruce Andre, Jim Biscuit, Darrel. Uh. You know they

2428
01:53:57,240 --> 01:54:01,320
Speaker 1: did Kenny, he told it. They did will Wolf. That

2429
01:54:01,400 --> 01:54:05,559
Speaker 1: should be hilarious. Smart guy. Yeah. Um, so that's coming up,

2430
01:54:05,600 --> 01:54:07,479
Speaker 1: and that's coming up and kind of coinciding with the

2431
01:54:07,960 --> 01:54:10,439
Speaker 1: October twenty ninth premieres on the twenty ninth. Does it

2432
01:54:10,560 --> 01:54:12,439
Speaker 1: that day? No, I don't think it does. Right around

2433
01:54:12,680 --> 01:54:15,320
Speaker 1: it's right around, yeah. I think that's when they're started

2434
01:54:15,360 --> 01:54:18,280
Speaker 1: showing like what it's going to be. It doesn't come

2435
01:54:18,320 --> 01:54:21,040
Speaker 1: out to December. Oh yeah, it doesn't come out to

2436
01:54:21,080 --> 01:54:24,920
Speaker 1: this because they wanted to get some clips oct Yeah,

2437
01:54:25,080 --> 01:54:27,000
Speaker 1: they don't want to finish it until after that, till

2438
01:54:27,080 --> 01:54:29,559
Speaker 1: after that. Yeah, so, and they didn't know. October twenty

2439
01:54:29,640 --> 01:54:31,880
Speaker 1: ninth is the Bill's Monday ninth home game against England,

2440
01:54:32,000 --> 01:54:34,200
Speaker 1: at which time you will have your number retire. Yeah.

2441
01:54:34,280 --> 01:54:37,600
Speaker 1: Are you pumped about that now? Yet? It's a little

2442
01:54:37,640 --> 01:54:39,680
Speaker 1: it seems a little early, a couple of months early. Yeah,

2443
01:54:40,240 --> 01:54:43,280
Speaker 1: trying to wait to see how this first four games go.

2444
01:54:44,520 --> 01:54:46,200
Speaker 1: What are you worried about getting out there at halftime?

2445
01:54:47,520 --> 01:54:49,120
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be that, But you know what

2446
01:54:49,240 --> 01:54:51,560
Speaker 1: I want. I want this seem to be ready. I mean,

2447
01:54:51,640 --> 01:54:56,560
Speaker 1: I want this seem too when they get exactly. Yeah.

2448
01:54:56,680 --> 01:54:59,560
Speaker 1: I want to be more pumped than to be like

2449
01:54:59,680 --> 01:55:02,040
Speaker 1: for the Bills then, you know, having my jersey retire,

2450
01:55:02,040 --> 01:55:03,320
Speaker 1: I want to be like, oh my god, they gotta

2451
01:55:03,320 --> 01:55:05,000
Speaker 1: win this game. They can be in the playoffs, they

2452
01:55:05,040 --> 01:55:06,600
Speaker 1: could be in first places, they can knock in New

2453
01:55:06,640 --> 01:55:09,040
Speaker 1: England the third place. I want to be in that mode.

2454
01:55:09,080 --> 01:55:12,160
Speaker 1: You try to be a meaningful game, exactly. Yeah. What

2455
01:55:12,240 --> 01:55:14,640
Speaker 1: do you gotta have about a two minute speech? Minute

2456
01:55:14,680 --> 01:55:16,840
Speaker 1: a half for you get a two minutes until I'm

2457
01:55:16,840 --> 01:55:18,560
Speaker 1: not up there to talk long or whatever? You know,

2458
01:55:18,560 --> 01:55:20,440
Speaker 1: if you're written anything yet? No, I haven't written anything.

2459
01:55:20,440 --> 01:55:24,840
Speaker 1: I've probably written write a week before the producers for

2460
01:55:24,920 --> 01:55:27,400
Speaker 1: the Football Life will probably write his story. Get Steam

2461
01:55:27,440 --> 01:55:29,960
Speaker 1: to write something for you. No, I'm a funny guy,

2462
01:55:30,040 --> 01:55:32,640
Speaker 1: he says, Yeah, I know you are a funny guy.

2463
01:55:32,880 --> 01:55:35,120
Speaker 1: Getting you to write it though, Yeah, yeah, that'll be.

2464
01:55:35,320 --> 01:55:37,920
Speaker 1: I can't wait. It's gonna be. It's gonna be. I'm

2465
01:55:37,920 --> 01:55:41,320
Speaker 1: sure the whole weekend. It's gonna be great because they're

2466
01:55:41,360 --> 01:55:43,160
Speaker 1: you know, so many guys will come back. It'll be fun.

2467
01:55:43,280 --> 01:55:45,520
Speaker 1: So many guys are coming back. And actually, you know what,

2468
01:55:45,880 --> 01:55:49,120
Speaker 1: I had two guys reached out to me well too

2469
01:55:49,240 --> 01:55:53,360
Speaker 1: yesterday and and and one about a week ago. And

2470
01:55:53,880 --> 01:55:55,920
Speaker 1: you know, I'm like, who is this? You know, I

2471
01:55:56,000 --> 01:55:58,280
Speaker 1: got the Force mil or whatever. I'm like, hey, this

2472
01:55:58,400 --> 01:56:00,080
Speaker 1: Emma Smith. You know I'm gonna be in buff to

2473
01:56:00,120 --> 01:56:02,800
Speaker 1: Oktober twenty seven. I think he was doing an autogra

2474
01:56:02,960 --> 01:56:04,839
Speaker 1: time because the any way I can get an invitation

2475
01:56:04,920 --> 01:56:07,640
Speaker 1: to come to the party or whatever, it's like absolutely,

2476
01:56:07,800 --> 01:56:09,480
Speaker 1: you know, and like, and the other one I got,

2477
01:56:09,520 --> 01:56:11,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna say, I'm sorry, Yeah, I'm sorry. And I'm

2478
01:56:11,920 --> 01:56:14,200
Speaker 1: like and the other one that I got was Barry Sanders.

2479
01:56:14,280 --> 01:56:17,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, Wow, two guys that I went, Yeah, that's

2480
01:56:17,120 --> 01:56:20,240
Speaker 1: cool head to head within the nineties. You know, I'm like,

2481
01:56:20,520 --> 01:56:22,760
Speaker 1: oh my god, yeah, I'm like, so yeah, I got

2482
01:56:22,880 --> 01:56:26,240
Speaker 1: him in and Barry coming now, so yeah, see what

2483
01:56:26,320 --> 01:56:31,160
Speaker 1: I mean. He's mister Aless. You are people. It's funny

2484
01:56:31,200 --> 01:56:33,440
Speaker 1: because once he retired, people found out, oh he really

2485
01:56:33,560 --> 01:56:37,280
Speaker 1: is a good guy. Because if the media, the media

2486
01:56:37,400 --> 01:56:41,200
Speaker 1: hated you because you were prickly, you know, and for

2487
01:56:41,320 --> 01:56:46,640
Speaker 1: good reasons. Jerry Ry Sullivan and God will tell me

2488
01:56:46,680 --> 01:56:48,879
Speaker 1: how to do my job, ain't kidding me? Yeah exactly.

2489
01:56:48,960 --> 01:56:51,360
Speaker 1: It's like what Kyle Williams always said, how how do

2490
01:56:51,440 --> 01:56:53,480
Speaker 1: you know what I'm supposed to do on every plate?

2491
01:56:53,600 --> 01:56:58,240
Speaker 1: And you criticize me? Right? Yeah, it's I would love

2492
01:56:58,320 --> 01:57:00,840
Speaker 1: to get up. I didn't think I'll tell me. Nobody

2493
01:57:00,920 --> 01:57:02,960
Speaker 1: wanted to nobody, nobody wanted to interview Therm because he

2494
01:57:03,040 --> 01:57:06,080
Speaker 1: was you know. We had a couple of uh yeah,

2495
01:57:06,400 --> 01:57:08,760
Speaker 1: heated exchanges, but I loved it. And it wasn't just

2496
01:57:08,880 --> 01:57:11,040
Speaker 1: about me. It was like I would take up now Jim,

2497
01:57:11,120 --> 01:57:14,600
Speaker 1: oh yeah, everywhere else. But that's exactly it. There's nothing,

2498
01:57:14,680 --> 01:57:16,480
Speaker 1: no subject that they could talk to you about that

2499
01:57:16,720 --> 01:57:19,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna you bite their head off because they knew it.

2500
01:57:19,200 --> 01:57:21,320
Speaker 1: So that was like mine. So then you retired and

2501
01:57:21,400 --> 01:57:23,560
Speaker 1: went to the Hall of Fame, and now everybody loves you,

2502
01:57:24,040 --> 01:57:26,200
Speaker 1: including all the celebts. Thurmon, thanks for this. You're gonna

2503
01:57:26,200 --> 01:57:27,880
Speaker 1: come out on a more regular basis, and I'm trying

2504
01:57:27,920 --> 01:57:29,440
Speaker 1: to be here every Wednesday. We'll make sure you on

2505
01:57:29,520 --> 01:57:32,120
Speaker 1: Tuesday at least you've hooked up with some celebrity somewhere

2506
01:57:32,200 --> 01:57:35,400
Speaker 1: so that I won't be here next year a week

2507
01:57:35,840 --> 01:57:37,480
Speaker 1: you won't be here. Yeah, I think i'd be in hey,

2508
01:57:37,560 --> 01:57:39,760
Speaker 1: sound like me. I think I'd be somewhere in Mexico somewhere.

2509
01:57:39,760 --> 01:57:41,480
Speaker 1: All right, you find some celebs on there to talk

2510
01:57:41,520 --> 01:57:45,360
Speaker 1: about probably, okay, Yeah, thanks, no problem. Man Thurman Thomas

2511
01:57:45,400 --> 01:57:47,800
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Famer, October twenty nine. His number

2512
01:57:47,880 --> 01:57:50,840
Speaker 1: retired here at One Bill's Drive. It is John Murphy

2513
01:57:50,880 --> 01:57:53,720
Speaker 1: Steef Tasker. One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health

2514
01:57:53,880 --> 01:58:11,440
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, thanks to Thurman Thomas

2515
01:58:11,480 --> 01:58:13,560
Speaker 1: for joining us. He's gonna be fun every week, I

2516
01:58:13,600 --> 01:58:15,440
Speaker 1: think pretty much every Wednesday. See, he's gonna be a

2517
01:58:15,480 --> 01:58:17,040
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Oh yeah, right, And I'm telling you

2518
01:58:17,120 --> 01:58:23,400
Speaker 1: the guy as a knack for finding like celebrities, hanging

2519
01:58:23,440 --> 01:58:25,760
Speaker 1: with celebrities. He came out a couple of years ago.

2520
01:58:25,760 --> 01:58:27,720
Speaker 1: I was telling me about hanging out with Neil Young,

2521
01:58:27,920 --> 01:58:30,080
Speaker 1: and I was like, what I mean, he does it

2522
01:58:30,160 --> 01:58:32,440
Speaker 1: all the time. It's it's pretty amazing. I love to

2523
01:58:32,480 --> 01:58:34,960
Speaker 1: hear those stories. I mean, he came in here talking

2524
01:58:34,960 --> 01:58:37,520
Speaker 1: about bogs drinking one of the girls. He's one of

2525
01:58:37,560 --> 01:58:39,960
Speaker 1: the all time great guys. Yeah, he really is. And

2526
01:58:40,600 --> 01:58:43,120
Speaker 1: but he puts himself out there, which is cool too. Well. Yeah,

2527
01:58:43,200 --> 01:58:47,200
Speaker 1: they guys like thing, those Hall of Fame guys, I

2528
01:58:47,280 --> 01:58:51,880
Speaker 1: Guess and Jim, and they get requests constantly for appearances

2529
01:58:52,000 --> 01:58:54,440
Speaker 1: and meet and greets and whatever what have you. And

2530
01:58:54,640 --> 01:58:57,400
Speaker 1: you know there's always invariably affairs and an event. They'll

2531
01:58:57,400 --> 01:58:58,920
Speaker 1: put it out and they'll bring guys in and then

2532
01:58:58,960 --> 01:59:01,320
Speaker 1: you get you get a chance to meet and meet

2533
01:59:01,600 --> 01:59:04,120
Speaker 1: different guys, like guys from baseball like he did with

2534
01:59:04,200 --> 01:59:08,000
Speaker 1: his Eyowa thing and politics and music and it's you know,

2535
01:59:08,120 --> 01:59:10,680
Speaker 1: you're right though they do. He does get a chance

2536
01:59:10,720 --> 01:59:13,120
Speaker 1: to say hi to a lot of cool people. And

2537
01:59:13,200 --> 01:59:14,600
Speaker 1: he talked to us about it, and we'll get him

2538
01:59:14,600 --> 01:59:18,720
Speaker 1: in here the experience and to a greater degree than

2539
01:59:18,840 --> 01:59:22,800
Speaker 1: Ricky Henderson though before I like Ricky too, but I

2540
01:59:22,920 --> 01:59:25,400
Speaker 1: met him too. But it's uh, I want to you know,

2541
01:59:25,640 --> 01:59:29,280
Speaker 1: when it's bigger names, not bigger. But you know how

2542
01:59:29,320 --> 01:59:34,000
Speaker 1: about Wade Boggs drinking sixty beers. That's interesting, right, sixty

2543
01:59:34,080 --> 01:59:37,560
Speaker 1: beers and one day? Yeah. Well, hey, the Bill's practice

2544
01:59:37,600 --> 01:59:39,920
Speaker 1: today a little bit earlier than normal. The injury report

2545
01:59:40,000 --> 01:59:41,840
Speaker 1: is out today and as we were talking about earlier,

2546
01:59:42,120 --> 01:59:47,760
Speaker 1: Ray Ray McLeod did not practice today with his knee injury.

2547
01:59:48,200 --> 01:59:52,720
Speaker 1: Also not practicing, Lorenzo Alexander Arrestate just today off for Lorenzo.

2548
01:59:53,360 --> 01:59:56,560
Speaker 1: Julian Stanford now limited work today after not practicing yesterday.

2549
01:59:56,760 --> 01:59:59,320
Speaker 1: Stanford had the proconos and that's good. That's a short

2550
01:59:59,680 --> 02:00:05,040
Speaker 1: can Sie. Not too terrible injury reports, Steve, That's not bad. Yeah,

2551
02:00:05,160 --> 02:00:09,520
Speaker 1: that's there. It's opening weekend. Help. The injury report would

2552
02:00:09,520 --> 02:00:13,080
Speaker 1: be completely clean, but you know, not not in today's NFL.

2553
02:00:13,160 --> 02:00:17,080
Speaker 1: I guess m Leslie Frasier spoke after practice today, the

2554
02:00:17,160 --> 02:00:20,120
Speaker 1: Bill's defensive coordinator. He was asked an interesting question which

2555
02:00:20,120 --> 02:00:21,760
Speaker 1: we've touched on a little bit here on the show,

2556
02:00:22,000 --> 02:00:24,400
Speaker 1: but not a lot. Lamar Jackson first round pick last

2557
02:00:24,440 --> 02:00:28,000
Speaker 1: pick in the first round. Quarterback Louisville did not exactly

2558
02:00:28,120 --> 02:00:31,200
Speaker 1: challenge for starting work at quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens

2559
02:00:31,280 --> 02:00:34,880
Speaker 1: this offseason. May get some work in special offensive packages, though,

2560
02:00:34,920 --> 02:00:37,640
Speaker 1: that's then the rumor out of Baltimore since their training

2561
02:00:37,680 --> 02:00:41,520
Speaker 1: camp began, and today Bill's defensive coordinator Leslie Frasier was

2562
02:00:41,640 --> 02:00:46,120
Speaker 1: asked about that. We've looked at some preseason tape and

2563
02:00:46,360 --> 02:00:47,760
Speaker 1: you know, taking a look at some of the things

2564
02:00:48,000 --> 02:00:49,920
Speaker 1: he's done in college as well, just to be prepared.

2565
02:00:50,000 --> 02:00:53,400
Speaker 1: And you know, he's a very good athlete. But you

2566
02:00:53,800 --> 02:00:56,200
Speaker 1: don't want to ignore Jill Flacco. I mean, he's an

2567
02:00:56,360 --> 02:00:59,680
Speaker 1: outstanding player. Got I'm very familiar with my time there

2568
02:00:59,720 --> 02:01:02,000
Speaker 1: in ball more and just uh, you have a lot

2569
02:01:02,040 --> 02:01:04,520
Speaker 1: of respect for Joe and you know, Lamar is a

2570
02:01:04,640 --> 02:01:08,160
Speaker 1: really good athlete, Heisman Trophy winner, and you know hopeful

2571
02:01:08,200 --> 02:01:10,200
Speaker 1: will be you know, prepare for him if he comes

2572
02:01:10,200 --> 02:01:11,960
Speaker 1: out on the field. I gotta be ready for him.

2573
02:01:11,960 --> 02:01:14,560
Speaker 1: I would think that Lamar Jackson, if he has an

2574
02:01:14,600 --> 02:01:17,840
Speaker 1: opportunity this season to make his mark in some packages

2575
02:01:17,920 --> 02:01:20,720
Speaker 1: in the Ravens offense, that opportunity may come later in

2576
02:01:20,800 --> 02:01:22,760
Speaker 1: the season as opposed to opening day, What do you think,

2577
02:01:23,480 --> 02:01:25,640
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, or just through reverse. They may do it

2578
02:01:25,680 --> 02:01:27,720
Speaker 1: a couple of times during the opening weekend or the

2579
02:01:27,840 --> 02:01:30,160
Speaker 1: opening two weekends and then make force teams to prepare

2580
02:01:30,200 --> 02:01:33,920
Speaker 1: for it for the rest of the season. And because

2581
02:01:33,960 --> 02:01:36,160
Speaker 1: when you do put him out there, it forces teams

2582
02:01:36,200 --> 02:01:38,640
Speaker 1: to contend with and think about it during their preparation

2583
02:01:38,720 --> 02:01:42,680
Speaker 1: for your team, and I think it might be more likely.

2584
02:01:42,800 --> 02:01:44,840
Speaker 1: And plus they've had, you know, all these the extra

2585
02:01:44,960 --> 02:01:47,800
Speaker 1: days to install a couple of new things, And it

2586
02:01:47,920 --> 02:01:52,000
Speaker 1: really doesn't take much to throw a wrench into the

2587
02:01:52,080 --> 02:01:56,120
Speaker 1: preparation process for your opponent. You know, it's just a

2588
02:01:56,200 --> 02:01:59,040
Speaker 1: few plays and show him some things and hint at

2589
02:01:59,080 --> 02:02:02,000
Speaker 1: maybe some other things, and all of a sudden, you know,

2590
02:02:02,080 --> 02:02:04,280
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson becomes a weapon and he never steps on

2591
02:02:04,360 --> 02:02:07,760
Speaker 1: the field. So that's I think probably the mindset that

2592
02:02:08,160 --> 02:02:10,640
Speaker 1: Ravens will use more so than depending on him to

2593
02:02:10,680 --> 02:02:13,000
Speaker 1: get him a first down in a tough spot. Hey,

2594
02:02:13,080 --> 02:02:16,120
Speaker 1: on Twitter today, our question out a pole goes to

2595
02:02:16,240 --> 02:02:18,640
Speaker 1: the Buffalo defense and if the Bills are going to

2596
02:02:18,680 --> 02:02:20,640
Speaker 1: better on defense this year, which many of us think

2597
02:02:20,680 --> 02:02:22,600
Speaker 1: they will be better than last year, who would be

2598
02:02:22,640 --> 02:02:25,560
Speaker 1: the key players that would lead that charge lead that difference.

2599
02:02:25,640 --> 02:02:28,080
Speaker 1: The player that have the biggest impact on the defense

2600
02:02:28,120 --> 02:02:30,200
Speaker 1: improving this year, give us a call. We got time

2601
02:02:30,240 --> 02:02:32,960
Speaker 1: to the Scotts eighth three fifty and toll Free one

2602
02:02:33,160 --> 02:02:35,640
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. I got

2603
02:02:35,720 --> 02:02:38,120
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes as the player they have the biggest impact.

2604
02:02:38,160 --> 02:02:39,960
Speaker 1: What do you got, Steve who? I think Trent Murphy.

2605
02:02:40,440 --> 02:02:43,040
Speaker 1: I think that one of the shortcomings of the team

2606
02:02:43,080 --> 02:02:45,160
Speaker 1: last year was their inability to get after the passer.

2607
02:02:45,800 --> 02:02:47,520
Speaker 1: Some of that was predicated on the fact they went

2608
02:02:47,560 --> 02:02:49,560
Speaker 1: through a three game swoon and couldn't stop the run,

2609
02:02:49,680 --> 02:02:51,160
Speaker 1: so then they had to you know, they spend a

2610
02:02:51,240 --> 02:02:53,520
Speaker 1: lot of time stop on the run and didn't get

2611
02:02:53,560 --> 02:02:55,000
Speaker 1: a chance. And when you can't stop the run, you're

2612
02:02:55,000 --> 02:02:56,680
Speaker 1: not gonna get a chance to rush the passer. But

2613
02:02:56,880 --> 02:03:01,880
Speaker 1: I think Trent Murphy was brought in for that's it's

2614
02:03:01,920 --> 02:03:04,400
Speaker 1: his specialty. It's you know, he's got he's got some

2615
02:03:04,480 --> 02:03:06,360
Speaker 1: guys around him that are gonna help him do that.

2616
02:03:06,800 --> 02:03:09,120
Speaker 1: On the other side, Jerry Hughes, like you mentioned, it's

2617
02:03:10,400 --> 02:03:13,400
Speaker 1: you've got Star Lotu Lae, Kyle Williams. You've got some

2618
02:03:13,520 --> 02:03:16,000
Speaker 1: guys that can help him. But I think Trent Murphy

2619
02:03:16,040 --> 02:03:19,040
Speaker 1: would be a guy that I would say I'm looking

2620
02:03:19,080 --> 02:03:22,280
Speaker 1: forward to be the biggest difference in what that defensive

2621
02:03:22,320 --> 02:03:24,200
Speaker 1: front seven looks like. We'll find out. Let's get to

2622
02:03:24,280 --> 02:03:26,680
Speaker 1: your calls on that. Let's get to your tweets on that.

2623
02:03:26,840 --> 02:03:30,240
Speaker 1: From the tweet sheet going with Marty Rodgers, who agrees

2624
02:03:30,240 --> 02:03:32,440
Speaker 1: with me player that will have the biggest impact on

2625
02:03:32,480 --> 02:03:36,120
Speaker 1: the defensive improvement this year. Marty Rodgers says Jerry Hughes

2626
02:03:36,440 --> 02:03:38,760
Speaker 1: with the help up front, he must be disruptive as

2627
02:03:38,800 --> 02:03:41,720
Speaker 1: the pocket gets pushed. He's our best pass rusher who

2628
02:03:41,840 --> 02:03:45,200
Speaker 1: could aid in getting sex himself and also creating sex

2629
02:03:45,280 --> 02:03:47,320
Speaker 1: for Trent Murphy and others. Without this, we cannot be

2630
02:03:47,680 --> 02:03:50,120
Speaker 1: a top ten defense. He's got Jerry Hughes. Yeah. And

2631
02:03:50,360 --> 02:03:53,160
Speaker 1: from Team Many twenty two, it's Star for me, Star

2632
02:03:53,240 --> 02:03:55,800
Speaker 1: Loto l need to clog up the middle on run

2633
02:03:55,880 --> 02:03:58,200
Speaker 1: plays and push the pocket on pass plays. If he

2634
02:03:58,440 --> 02:04:01,080
Speaker 1: does this, our linebackers may plays on running backs and

2635
02:04:01,160 --> 02:04:03,240
Speaker 1: Trent and Jerry can get to the quarterback. And we

2636
02:04:03,360 --> 02:04:05,440
Speaker 1: said that for a long time. Starlutu Le maybe one

2637
02:04:05,440 --> 02:04:08,240
Speaker 1: of those guys who may be may he could play

2638
02:04:08,240 --> 02:04:10,400
Speaker 1: at all pro level and the fans may never notice

2639
02:04:10,440 --> 02:04:13,280
Speaker 1: it because it opens up so many opportunities for other players.

2640
02:04:13,360 --> 02:04:15,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a that's a it's a good opinion

2641
02:04:15,720 --> 02:04:18,320
Speaker 1: from Team Many twenty two about you know what you

2642
02:04:18,360 --> 02:04:19,880
Speaker 1: can look for and the guy who may make a

2643
02:04:19,960 --> 02:04:22,560
Speaker 1: difference that won't go as noticed as other players but

2644
02:04:22,680 --> 02:04:25,400
Speaker 1: will be just as important. From the tweet sheet from

2645
02:04:25,400 --> 02:04:28,160
Speaker 1: Brian Rossignal and answer to this question, the player that

2646
02:04:28,200 --> 02:04:31,520
Speaker 1: will have the biggest impact on defense improvement, Brian Rossignal

2647
02:04:31,600 --> 02:04:35,120
Speaker 1: says a cornerstone position in a fourth three defense is quarterback.

2648
02:04:35,200 --> 02:04:39,040
Speaker 1: Mental linebacker Preston was underrated. Edmonds has big shoes to fill,

2649
02:04:39,120 --> 02:04:42,600
Speaker 1: regardless of shoe size. In my opinion, Tremaine Edmonds is

2650
02:04:42,600 --> 02:04:47,040
Speaker 1: a fundamental piece of garnishing success line and secondary improved

2651
02:04:47,040 --> 02:04:51,120
Speaker 1: for certain However, however Edmonds plays the defense will also Okay,

2652
02:04:51,240 --> 02:04:54,640
Speaker 1: I get that, I can see that point. Yeah, that's

2653
02:04:54,840 --> 02:04:56,960
Speaker 1: that's a great take, and we've we've been talking about it.

2654
02:04:57,600 --> 02:04:59,680
Speaker 1: One of the things that's been sticking in my mind lately.

2655
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:02,720
Speaker 1: Bring it up to people is Tremaine Edmunds is almost

2656
02:05:02,760 --> 02:05:06,240
Speaker 1: off the radar. He got plugged into starting middle linebacker

2657
02:05:06,280 --> 02:05:09,480
Speaker 1: as soon as he was drafted. And he and certainly

2658
02:05:09,560 --> 02:05:11,720
Speaker 1: people were watching him early in the preseason that kind

2659
02:05:11,760 --> 02:05:16,800
Speaker 1: of thing. But from all accounts, he's equitted himself very nicely.

2660
02:05:16,840 --> 02:05:20,120
Speaker 1: Certainly has some growth to do, but it's a player

2661
02:05:20,560 --> 02:05:22,920
Speaker 1: that with all the other question marks the Bills have

2662
02:05:24,320 --> 02:05:27,440
Speaker 1: on their roster, Tremaine Edmonds ceased to be one of

2663
02:05:27,520 --> 02:05:31,240
Speaker 1: them very early in training camp. People just trust him

2664
02:05:31,240 --> 02:05:33,640
Speaker 1: to be able to do it, and that's I think

2665
02:05:33,680 --> 02:05:36,840
Speaker 1: that says a lot about how he's impressed on in

2666
02:05:36,880 --> 02:05:39,440
Speaker 1: the coaching staff but his teammates. I'm looking forward to

2667
02:05:39,480 --> 02:05:41,560
Speaker 1: watching Tremaine in a regular season game, and I mentioned

2668
02:05:41,600 --> 02:05:44,640
Speaker 1: when we had Brandon being out here yesterday. Love the

2669
02:05:44,680 --> 02:05:46,720
Speaker 1: way he's adapted to the NFL game, Love the way

2670
02:05:46,720 --> 02:05:49,360
Speaker 1: he's handled all the responsibility he has. I want to

2671
02:05:49,400 --> 02:05:51,680
Speaker 1: see him start tagging people, you know what I mean?

2672
02:05:51,720 --> 02:05:53,520
Speaker 1: I do. I want to see him start flying around

2673
02:05:53,600 --> 02:05:57,000
Speaker 1: making plays. I'm not talking about picks and fumble recoveries,

2674
02:05:57,040 --> 02:05:58,760
Speaker 1: et cetera. That'd be great, but I just want to

2675
02:05:58,760 --> 02:06:00,440
Speaker 1: see him be a big hitter too, because I think

2676
02:06:00,480 --> 02:06:02,280
Speaker 1: he has that in him too, as well as the

2677
02:06:02,520 --> 02:06:04,200
Speaker 1: cerebral mental part of the game. I want to see

2678
02:06:04,280 --> 02:06:06,680
Speaker 1: him flying around making tackles. He got better. I thought

2679
02:06:06,720 --> 02:06:09,600
Speaker 1: every game in preseason I want to see that trend continue.

2680
02:06:09,640 --> 02:06:11,000
Speaker 1: I have to agree with you, and that's one of

2681
02:06:11,040 --> 02:06:13,160
Speaker 1: the things I thought as well. Every week they took

2682
02:06:13,200 --> 02:06:15,440
Speaker 1: the field and Tremaine was playing, you could see him

2683
02:06:15,440 --> 02:06:18,480
Speaker 1: play better and more confidently. He ran side to sign.

2684
02:06:18,520 --> 02:06:22,200
Speaker 1: We're seeing some highlights now on MG of the Cleveland

2685
02:06:22,280 --> 02:06:24,080
Speaker 1: game where I thought it was like, wow, it's a

2686
02:06:24,240 --> 02:06:26,240
Speaker 1: lot better than he was against Carolina. I mean, that

2687
02:06:26,280 --> 02:06:30,040
Speaker 1: guy really jumped out when sideline to sideline, made some plays.

2688
02:06:30,240 --> 02:06:33,160
Speaker 1: But I agree with you. I don't know that I'm

2689
02:06:33,200 --> 02:06:36,000
Speaker 1: gonna be able to see him tag people because nobody's

2690
02:06:36,000 --> 02:06:38,280
Speaker 1: allowed to tag anybody in anymore. I mean it's a

2691
02:06:38,320 --> 02:06:40,160
Speaker 1: little bit, you know, it's not gonna be like he's

2692
02:06:40,200 --> 02:06:42,720
Speaker 1: gonna go in there and light people up. I just

2693
02:06:42,800 --> 02:06:44,880
Speaker 1: wanted to get the guy on the ground. Yeah, guess

2694
02:06:44,960 --> 02:06:46,480
Speaker 1: get the guy on the ground. I don't care if

2695
02:06:46,520 --> 02:06:49,160
Speaker 1: it's a drag down in the backfield or whatever. Just

2696
02:06:49,280 --> 02:06:51,600
Speaker 1: get the guy in the ground. Be where you're supposed

2697
02:06:51,600 --> 02:06:53,080
Speaker 1: to be. And I think one thing I want to

2698
02:06:53,120 --> 02:06:55,280
Speaker 1: see I want to see him be the reason and

2699
02:06:56,080 --> 02:06:58,800
Speaker 1: the reason and the factor in a lot of turnovers.

2700
02:06:58,920 --> 02:07:02,240
Speaker 1: I want him to turn football over and drop back

2701
02:07:02,280 --> 02:07:05,200
Speaker 1: into his past coverage responsibilities. He's an enormous body, and

2702
02:07:05,240 --> 02:07:07,760
Speaker 1: I don't think quarterbacks are ready for that big of

2703
02:07:07,840 --> 02:07:10,560
Speaker 1: a wingspan inside that defense. I'll be interested if you

2704
02:07:10,560 --> 02:07:12,480
Speaker 1: can see a past defender. There's a call from Low

2705
02:07:12,560 --> 02:07:14,440
Speaker 1: and Buffalo on this topic. Lu go ahead, you're on

2706
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Speaker 1: the air with us, Hey Murphy, Steve, I gotta believe

2707
02:07:20,880 --> 02:07:24,240
Speaker 1: that's gonna be your biggest upgrade stuff in the middle.

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02:07:25,600 --> 02:07:28,000
Speaker 1: It is an upgrade. You're right, It's definitely an upgrade

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02:07:28,000 --> 02:07:29,600
Speaker 1: from where they were a year ago. I would look

2710
02:07:29,640 --> 02:07:32,000
Speaker 1: forward to that. Again, we were mentioned about star how

2711
02:07:32,880 --> 02:07:35,000
Speaker 1: he will be an upgrade. He will have an impact

2712
02:07:35,080 --> 02:07:38,160
Speaker 1: on this defense. It may not go noticed right away, Steve,

2713
02:07:38,280 --> 02:07:41,200
Speaker 1: Right now, I agree. I mean, here's the thing, Starlo

2714
02:07:41,280 --> 02:07:43,600
Speaker 1: two LA may not do anything on the stat sheet,

2715
02:07:43,640 --> 02:07:47,920
Speaker 1: but it may end up instead of getting six third

2716
02:07:48,040 --> 02:07:50,040
Speaker 1: and longs in the entire game, you may end up

2717
02:07:50,080 --> 02:07:52,480
Speaker 1: getting eighteen or twenty third and longs in a game.

2718
02:07:52,560 --> 02:07:55,360
Speaker 1: That kind of thing. He may be the difference in

2719
02:07:56,280 --> 02:08:00,200
Speaker 1: winning defensively on first and second down against the run

2720
02:08:00,320 --> 02:08:03,320
Speaker 1: game that leads to a third and eight plus more

2721
02:08:03,400 --> 02:08:05,760
Speaker 1: often than it did before. And I think that's why

2722
02:08:05,880 --> 02:08:08,360
Speaker 1: he may not notice him because he won't make the tackle,

2723
02:08:08,720 --> 02:08:10,680
Speaker 1: but he'll be the reason the tackle has made and

2724
02:08:10,760 --> 02:08:12,360
Speaker 1: the reason the Bills are in a better position on

2725
02:08:12,480 --> 02:08:15,160
Speaker 1: third down. There's a call from Peter and Buffalo. Go ahead, Peter,

2726
02:08:15,280 --> 02:08:18,560
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. How are you doing, guys? I

2727
02:08:18,760 --> 02:08:23,640
Speaker 1: just wondering, how can the offense playing ket any better?

2728
02:08:24,440 --> 02:08:29,120
Speaker 1: They kill him the quarterbacks, How can they get any better?

2729
02:08:29,240 --> 02:08:30,920
Speaker 1: You say, yeah, you think that chip. With the guys

2730
02:08:30,960 --> 02:08:32,720
Speaker 1: they got, there's no room for him. There's no way

2731
02:08:32,760 --> 02:08:34,560
Speaker 1: they can get better because they got the same guys

2732
02:08:34,600 --> 02:08:38,480
Speaker 1: who didn't play well against Cincinnati eighty or the week

2733
02:08:38,560 --> 02:08:41,080
Speaker 1: before that. Right, Well, there's a reason for the reason

2734
02:08:41,160 --> 02:08:43,560
Speaker 1: they played bad in Cleveland is much different reason than

2735
02:08:43,600 --> 02:08:47,480
Speaker 1: the way a reason they played bad in Cincinnati. In Cleveland,

2736
02:08:47,560 --> 02:08:50,879
Speaker 1: they were shuffling the line around, and the Cleveland Browns

2737
02:08:51,960 --> 02:08:57,960
Speaker 1: through every quirky rush tactic and weird blitz they could

2738
02:08:58,040 --> 02:09:00,480
Speaker 1: find in their playbook at the offensive line. So they

2739
02:09:00,520 --> 02:09:04,320
Speaker 1: had and they had some guys running free. That was

2740
02:09:04,400 --> 02:09:06,080
Speaker 1: the reason it didn't go well in Cleveland and the

2741
02:09:06,160 --> 02:09:10,520
Speaker 1: early going and in Cincinnati, Cincinnati's got a very talented upfront,

2742
02:09:11,000 --> 02:09:14,480
Speaker 1: a group who played, and also the Bills were shuffling

2743
02:09:14,520 --> 02:09:16,080
Speaker 1: guys in and out of that game as well. So

2744
02:09:16,280 --> 02:09:20,120
Speaker 1: I think it was two different reasons why they didn't

2745
02:09:20,120 --> 02:09:22,960
Speaker 1: play well in both those games. But you're right, if

2746
02:09:22,960 --> 02:09:25,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna get better, first of all, they're gonna have

2747
02:09:25,160 --> 02:09:26,960
Speaker 1: to get the five guys in there and leave them

2748
02:09:27,000 --> 02:09:30,000
Speaker 1: in there. Secondly, they're gonna have a game plan where

2749
02:09:31,600 --> 02:09:35,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback gets them in the right protection, gets a

2750
02:09:35,520 --> 02:09:37,920
Speaker 1: hat on a hat. They've got to understand where they're going,

2751
02:09:37,960 --> 02:09:40,360
Speaker 1: and they can't have communication breakdowns. There's a couple of

2752
02:09:40,400 --> 02:09:42,440
Speaker 1: times when guys stepped the wrong way in those games.

2753
02:09:42,560 --> 02:09:45,640
Speaker 1: They can't do that. So they'll play better when they're

2754
02:09:45,680 --> 02:09:47,760
Speaker 1: more confident in what they're doing and the game plan

2755
02:09:48,000 --> 02:09:51,400
Speaker 1: isn't what it was in the preseason. But make no mistake,

2756
02:09:53,200 --> 02:09:55,000
Speaker 1: they got work to do, there's no doubt about it.

2757
02:09:55,200 --> 02:09:57,040
Speaker 1: Take a break, we're back with more One Bill's Live

2758
02:09:57,080 --> 02:10:15,360
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2762
02:10:23,760 --> 02:10:26,160
Speaker 1: We had a good show today. We had the Bills

2763
02:10:26,480 --> 02:10:29,600
Speaker 1: new putter Corey Harkes in studio with us and we

2764
02:10:29,760 --> 02:10:31,640
Speaker 1: talked to him. I asked him, when did you first

2765
02:10:31,680 --> 02:10:34,320
Speaker 1: start thinking about punting as a possible career. Here's what

2766
02:10:34,400 --> 02:10:38,400
Speaker 1: he said, after a first game in high school? Really? Yeah,

2767
02:10:38,480 --> 02:10:40,520
Speaker 1: So I played JV and varsity. You know, I really

2768
02:10:40,600 --> 02:10:42,200
Speaker 1: liked it. I wasn't sure how far I would, you know,

2769
02:10:42,320 --> 02:10:43,960
Speaker 1: go with it. I was always, you know, big baseball

2770
02:10:44,000 --> 02:10:47,720
Speaker 1: guy growing up. Um, you know, first punt or the

2771
02:10:47,840 --> 02:10:50,680
Speaker 1: JV game, you know, we hit it fifty fifty five

2772
02:10:50,760 --> 02:10:52,200
Speaker 1: yards over the guy's hit and I thought, you know,

2773
02:10:52,520 --> 02:10:54,560
Speaker 1: I like doing that. It makes me feel good. So

2774
02:10:54,720 --> 02:10:56,880
Speaker 1: since then, you know, I've been working to get it.

2775
02:10:57,640 --> 02:10:59,800
Speaker 1: Cory bout hark has good talking with him. Today's good

2776
02:10:59,800 --> 02:11:01,960
Speaker 1: guess dam On the show, we had to Dennis pitt

2777
02:11:02,040 --> 02:11:04,320
Speaker 1: It on long time Baltimore Ravens sight end, now part

2778
02:11:04,360 --> 02:11:07,040
Speaker 1: of the radio broadcast team. We asked him about what

2779
02:11:07,200 --> 02:11:10,800
Speaker 1: the Ravens have done offensively to help to help Joe

2780
02:11:10,880 --> 02:11:14,320
Speaker 1: Flacco get better in his eleventh season as their starting quarterback.

2781
02:11:15,840 --> 02:11:18,280
Speaker 1: I know Joe didn't have a lot of help last year,

2782
02:11:18,480 --> 02:11:22,680
Speaker 1: and some of the weapons around him didn't quite contribute

2783
02:11:22,720 --> 02:11:24,640
Speaker 1: or didn't quite reach the potential that they would hope

2784
02:11:24,640 --> 02:11:26,760
Speaker 1: that they would reach. But I think if they'd certainly

2785
02:11:26,880 --> 02:11:29,600
Speaker 1: found a few of those pieces. He talked about these

2786
02:11:29,720 --> 02:11:32,520
Speaker 1: three new wide receivers, each of them cross for you.

2787
02:11:32,640 --> 02:11:36,160
Speaker 1: Willie Speed and John Brown have had tremendous, tremendous training

2788
02:11:36,240 --> 02:11:39,120
Speaker 1: camps and off season. I think they're guys that Joe

2789
02:11:39,240 --> 02:11:42,400
Speaker 1: now had a third level of trust with chemistry with

2790
02:11:42,720 --> 02:11:45,440
Speaker 1: And we'll see how it all plays out Sunday. But

2791
02:11:45,520 --> 02:11:47,840
Speaker 1: I think they're excited about the womens that have around

2792
02:11:47,920 --> 02:11:49,680
Speaker 1: them now. I can't wait to see how it all

2793
02:11:49,720 --> 02:11:52,879
Speaker 1: plays out on Sunday. The Bills practice report Julian Stanford

2794
02:11:52,920 --> 02:11:55,320
Speaker 1: limited in practice today with his nose. Ray Ray McCloud

2795
02:11:55,880 --> 02:11:58,400
Speaker 1: no practice today with his knee. The Renzo Alexander had

2796
02:11:58,400 --> 02:12:00,400
Speaker 1: to arrested Steven, let me let's go. He's in one

2797
02:12:00,440 --> 02:12:03,360
Speaker 1: more call. I'm interested in this call stand on Grand Island.

2798
02:12:03,400 --> 02:12:05,160
Speaker 1: Stan We got about a minute left. Go ahead, please,

2799
02:12:05,960 --> 02:12:10,320
Speaker 1: Thanks John and Steve. I appreciate you're taking my call. Guys,

2800
02:12:10,440 --> 02:12:12,280
Speaker 1: I don't know how do you handle all of this

2801
02:12:12,480 --> 02:12:16,000
Speaker 1: negativism when we haven't even seen these guys play in

2802
02:12:16,040 --> 02:12:19,600
Speaker 1: a regular season game. You take a look at some

2803
02:12:19,760 --> 02:12:23,200
Speaker 1: of the additions that we've made. Star in the center

2804
02:12:23,280 --> 02:12:25,800
Speaker 1: of the line, that was one of the weakest positions

2805
02:12:25,960 --> 02:12:29,240
Speaker 1: last year. We were terrible against the run. You take

2806
02:12:29,280 --> 02:12:31,560
Speaker 1: a look at this guy Murphy, whom we haven't even

2807
02:12:31,680 --> 02:12:35,800
Speaker 1: seen much of. He was a disruptor for Washington last year.

2808
02:12:36,280 --> 02:12:39,400
Speaker 1: We've got Dave old now obviously one of the best

2809
02:12:39,520 --> 02:12:43,320
Speaker 1: game planners in the country with his career at Alabama

2810
02:12:44,560 --> 02:12:48,200
Speaker 1: as an example of we've got a quarterback that is

2811
02:12:48,400 --> 02:12:51,600
Speaker 1: replacing one of the worst passing games in the league,

2812
02:12:51,840 --> 02:12:54,640
Speaker 1: and he's got another year of experience. So Sam, we're

2813
02:12:54,640 --> 02:12:56,360
Speaker 1: almost have a time. Your question is what do you

2814
02:12:56,400 --> 02:12:58,840
Speaker 1: do with that negativism? You ignore it? Right? How do

2815
02:12:58,880 --> 02:13:02,480
Speaker 1: you guys handle all that negativity? Three? And you ignore it?

2816
02:13:02,720 --> 02:13:05,480
Speaker 1: Who cared? Nobody knows. Everybody knows, We don't know. Nobody

2817
02:13:05,560 --> 02:13:06,880
Speaker 1: knows how I was going to play out. That's how

2818
02:13:06,920 --> 02:13:09,080
Speaker 1: I stand. Here's what you do. You drink two extra

2819
02:13:09,200 --> 02:13:16,560
Speaker 1: large coffees and you get on with your day. Thanks, Thanks, Yeah,

2820
02:13:16,600 --> 02:13:18,640
Speaker 1: we got a big show tomorrow. Then who knows? There

2821
02:13:18,720 --> 02:13:20,960
Speaker 1: might be some negativity, maybe not, but make sure he

2822
02:13:21,080 --> 02:13:22,960
Speaker 1: joined us tomorrow at twelve noon. I want to thank

2823
02:13:23,000 --> 02:13:25,880
Speaker 1: our production assistant George Blast, Jeff Colt, Nick Thomas Honalder,

2824
02:13:26,000 --> 02:13:29,280
Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, JJ Turrito, Kevin Cartis, James Robot, our producer

2825
02:13:29,440 --> 02:13:31,720
Speaker 1: Jay Harris, Big Show tomorrow. I don't even have time

2826
02:13:31,760 --> 02:13:33,520
Speaker 1: to tell you. There's so many good guests coming up tomorrow.

2827
02:13:33,760 --> 02:13:36,040
Speaker 1: Join us at noon. One Bill's Lide presented by Collada

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Speaker 1: Health from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio