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Speaker 1: This this One Bill's Live presented by Calllida Health.

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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome into a Thursday edition at One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and here at.

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Speaker 3: One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 2: Today it is a season wrap up day. General Manager

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Speaker 2: Brandon Bean addressed the media about an hour ago, actually

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Speaker 2: two hours ago was when it started. He went seventy

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Speaker 2: five minutes. There is no media member that can complain

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Speaker 2: they didn't get their question answered or their question in

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Speaker 2: because Buffalo's GM gave him all of his time and then.

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Speaker 1: Something, can we please just wrap this up?

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Speaker 2: Steve was getting a little impatient, but a very comprehensive

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Speaker 2: season wrap up press conference by the Ills General manager Brandon.

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Speaker 1: Obviously one of the questions Brown and I were talking

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Speaker 1: to this walking back in the office and just you know,

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Speaker 1: there is the obvious question, and he said, what do

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Speaker 1: you got to do? And we talked about the last

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Speaker 1: four years. What do you got to do to get

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Speaker 1: over the hump of the Kansas City Chiefs? What do

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Speaker 1: you And the question is very simple. You're not trying

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Speaker 1: to get past just the Chiefs. You're trying to get

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Speaker 1: thirty one other thirty other teams as well. You build

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Speaker 1: your roster as good as you can build it. You

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Speaker 1: try and win your division, and you try and play

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Speaker 1: well on that last game of the season in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: The Bill didn't play their best on Sunday against the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Almost good enough though, But that's the story of the

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Speaker 1: chief season. Everybody almost plays good enough to beat them,

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Speaker 1: and they just can't get it done. And that's you know,

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Speaker 1: that's where you're at. But you you're they're gonna spend

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Speaker 1: this off season and I and I know people roll

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Speaker 1: their eyes. You do exactly what you've been doing to

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Speaker 1: give yourself a shot at it. Every You've got to

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Speaker 1: make your team as good as you can make it

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Speaker 1: and play well. It doesn't matter about what the and

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Speaker 1: I ain't wait looking at the Cheese Way, looking at that,

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Speaker 1: We're looking at the We're looking at the Patriots, the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: the Jets, and then everybody else and the and the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: everybody else. You're trying to build your team as good

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Speaker 1: as you can build it in your building, built with

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Speaker 1: what you've got, with what you're gonna go forward with

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Speaker 1: your offensive line, your quarterback, your running backs, your tight end,

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Speaker 1: stable your right wide receivers, under the whole guys, everybody

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Speaker 1: under contract, and you got to bring in some competition

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Speaker 1: and some better players, get better and go back and

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Speaker 1: win a bunch of games again and try and take

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: That's that's the way it works. There's nothing, there's nothing

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Speaker 1: to blow up here or you know, discard other than

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Speaker 1: you know the way that the contracts and the roster

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Speaker 1: works itself. Every year, you got to get as good

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Speaker 1: as you can get and then your recipe for winning

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Speaker 1: you find that out in the preseason, in the early season,

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Speaker 1: and you go with it. That's what the Bills did

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Speaker 1: this year. That's what they do every year, and that's

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Speaker 1: why they're good. They maximize the guys they got and

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Speaker 1: they win a ton of games, and they're gonna keep

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Speaker 3: And part of the reason you have to take an

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Speaker 3: inward approach towards making your team better is because you

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Speaker 3: don't know who's suddenly going to be good next year?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 2: Can anybody expect the Washington Commanders to be twelve and

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Speaker 4: That's right? No?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 1: And what do you do if if something happens in

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Speaker 1: Kansas City that nobody can You're not you can't control

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Speaker 1: anybody else. You can only control what's in your building,

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Speaker 1: So you build it as good as you can build it,

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Speaker 1: making the decisions you got on that you have, and

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Speaker 1: you let everybody else make their decisions. And this they

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Speaker 1: even brought up the Xavier Worthy thing today. I'm like, dude,

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Speaker 1: you're trying to get as good as you can get.

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Speaker 1: If they like a guy better than you, that's on

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Speaker 1: that let them And I know they're really good and

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Speaker 1: they do all that stuff, but they're different than this building.

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Speaker 1: You got to build your building the way you want it,

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Speaker 1: your roster, your team, your coaching staff, and play as

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we should make it clear he does. Any good

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Speaker 2: in the league. And sometimes decisions are made to strengthen

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Speaker 2: outline that because those teams have to play twice that's where,

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Speaker 1: That's right. And here's the thing too, Everything changes from

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Speaker 1: week one to week What is it twenty twenty one?

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Speaker 1: of the year turns in turns out no, not so much.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 1: So you go into the season putting your best foot forward,

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Speaker 1: doing everything can to bolster your roster. Get better here,

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Speaker 1: a getting And I get it too. And here we're

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Speaker 1: just almost a Super Bowl week. Everybody's preoccupied with Philly

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Speaker 1: and Kansas City. Yeah, I get it. But you can't.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can't chase to Jack. You know, you

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Speaker 1: can't chase something that you can't control. Control what you

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Speaker 1: then measure up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, before we play.

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Speaker 2: Some of the more notable comments from Bill's general manager

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Speaker 2: hour ago. A couple of bills notes to pass along

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Speaker 2: to you. Roster wise, Buffalo re signed tight end Sack

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Speaker 2: the week eleven Chiefs game to the Dalton Kin cad injury.

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Speaker 2: on ir for the season. So the Bills now have

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Speaker 2: Mike White, and now Shane bouchell So those are the

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Speaker 2: housekeeping Bills notes for you concerning the roster. But we're

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Speaker 2: going to turn to some of Brandon Bean's comments now

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Speaker 2: because we have a handful to pass along to you.

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Speaker 2: This was a press conference that went seventy five minutes

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Speaker 2: in length, so we're just trying to play some of

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Speaker 2: the highlights for you, and we'll begin with his comments

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Speaker 2: on his evaluation of the team on the heels of

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Speaker 3: Here's Buffalo's general manager on that subject.

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Speaker 7: Next year, I'll sign up for it to be in

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Speaker 7: the AFC Championship Game. Down three, with three whatever to

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Speaker 7: sign up for that again and take our chances. You've

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Speaker 6: And let's also give credit to the Chiefs. You know

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Speaker 7: You know, we're not losing to different teams every year

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Speaker 6: Like it's a very good team. They've taken down a

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Speaker 7: Last year, that team, we actually had them here and

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Speaker 7: the game came down. You know, we miss a kick.

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Speaker 7: It's a play here, a play there. So you have

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Speaker 7: the big game. We do have to do that, and

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Speaker 7: we're going to continue. I can promise you. We haven't

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Speaker 7: slept a lot since that game. And we hurt, and

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Speaker 7: we feel bad for the fans that hurt, you know,

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Speaker 6: It's hard to.

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Speaker 7: Come up short, and so we're going to continue to

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Speaker 7: turn over every rock, every stone. But again, the last

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Speaker 7: five years, this team, counting playoffs has averaged thirteen to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the Bills and the Chiefs are the

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Speaker 2: last six years. They're also the only two teams to

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Speaker 3: Two teams Bills and the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 3: That's the list consistency, and that's in terms of contending.

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Speaker 1: Also, it's a double edged sword. It gives you great

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Speaker 1: frustration because they've you know, two AFC championship games and

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Speaker 1: that's it. That's the frustration of it. But they Brandon

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Speaker 1: said it, they do a ton of stuff right, and

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Speaker 1: is man, that is massively frustrating for a fan base

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Speaker 2: So naturally, Bean was asked, what is it going to

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Speaker 2: take to get over the hump and how do you

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Speaker 2: embrace that challenge in the seat that you sit in,

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Speaker 2: and he said, it is a challenge.

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Speaker 3: We want to get better. Let's see what he had

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Speaker 7: You're never one player away. Okay, that's a dangerous mindset

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Speaker 7: you're never one player away. It's again, this team had

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Speaker 6: I do believe that.

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Speaker 7: Sometimes you leave the season and you say, man, I

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Speaker 7: don't know if we if we gave ourselves a chance.

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Speaker 7: But ultimately, like we talked about earlier, it's down to

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Speaker 7: we go for it, we make the play. Okay, the

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Speaker 7: other night, you can go through a play here. When

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Speaker 7: be sitting here. So it sucks, it hurts, But I

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Speaker 7: don't think I'm not in the mood of thinking you

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Speaker 6: I don't think that's rational.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And being even admitted as well that he is

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Speaker 2: still too emotional to even competently evaluate the roster. The

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Speaker 2: emotions are too raw for him to get in a

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Speaker 2: with his personnel department and his coaching staff what's needed,

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Speaker 2: what's not needed, where the strengths lie, where the weaknesses lie,

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Speaker 2: and the best path towards making those better be a

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Speaker 2: draft free agency trade.

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Speaker 3: So he said he's got to take this whole week.

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Speaker 3: He's still he's still pretty frustrated with him.

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Speaker 1: I told you yesterday, it was like till yesterday Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: before I ever answered any texts on my phone. I

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Speaker 1: was just done.

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Speaker 8: I was radio silent.

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Speaker 1: So, and these guys are worse than that. Here's the

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Speaker 2: But they got to tie up loose ends here with players,

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Speaker 2: If there was one area that kind of stuck out

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Speaker 7: I thought this year you started to see Vaughan return

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Speaker 7: Again, it's not just one thing, but we always want

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Speaker 1: Here's the problem with the pass rush and I'm not

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Speaker 1: It's never enough, but yeah, you do need to You

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Speaker 2: And Brandon, he said this in the press conference, even

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Speaker 2: You had to give him twenty something million, give three

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Speaker 2: Like, ugh, well and that and that brings us to

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Speaker 6: He did.

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Speaker 7: An uncharacteristic thing, a selfless thing to be about the team.

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Speaker 6: This business that's willing to do that. That's that's the sacrifice.

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Speaker 7: This guy wanted to be a part of this team,

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Speaker 6: And that says everything you know you need to know

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Speaker 7: And so again I don't I don't have anything I

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Speaker 2: So that kind of left things open ended. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Have, right, Yeah, I mean yes, that's right to be.

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Speaker 1: And I'll say this too, it depends if they can.

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Speaker 1: you know they're hard to come by, and you and

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Speaker 1: the Bills are drafting thirtieth, not third.

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Speaker 2: Right, And as we've already said, it's not a draft

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Speaker 2: class that is chock full of elite, high end talent.

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Speaker 2: Some are saying it only goes eight to nine deep.

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Speaker 2: So you're outside the top ten. You're out of luck

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Speaker 2: on a blue chipper in all likelihood. Now you may

446
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Speaker 2: get you may get lucky, and you may have a

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Speaker 2: guy develop into a blue chip prospect that you draft

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Speaker 2: a little bit later.

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Speaker 1: There might be a guy out there that explodes and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden becomes that because of the change

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Speaker 1: in environment.

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Speaker 4: But that's rare.

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Speaker 1: It happens, but it's rare.

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Speaker 2: Right, So yeah, I mean that's that's kind of most

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Speaker 2: of what Brandon being addressed in terms of an overarching

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Speaker 2: look at the team. He did get more specific among

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Speaker 2: the players he was asked about individually. There were some

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Speaker 2: in the receiving corps. Keon Coleman's rookie season was one

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Speaker 2: that looked like it was just about to take off,

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Speaker 2: and then he suffers the wrist injury and misses three games,

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Speaker 2: and I think we can all agree he didn't look

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Speaker 2: like the same imposing physical force that he did in

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Speaker 2: the Seattle game or even to some degree the Miami game,

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Speaker 2: which is the game where he got hurt when he

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Speaker 2: took a helmet to the wrist from Jordan Poyer. So

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Speaker 2: let's get Brandon Bean's take on the season that rookie

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Speaker 2: Keon Coleman had in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 7: You know, I thought Keon, you know, did some good

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Speaker 7: things and I really felt like he and Josh and

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Speaker 7: the offense were doing this, and then he had the injury,

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Speaker 7: and you know, I would say probably was a little

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Speaker 7: disappointed in the return from the injury. I did not

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Speaker 7: see the same player down the stretch, you know, from

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Speaker 7: a physicality some of the things that.

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Speaker 6: He needs to use his size. Some of that is youth,

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Speaker 6: you know, some of that is you.

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Speaker 7: Know, I'm not sure how many injuries he's had to

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Speaker 7: overcome in season and come back. That takes a certain

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Speaker 7: you know, experience level maybe how to deal with an injury,

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Speaker 7: how to return, like how do you work your way

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Speaker 7: back into the lineup? Because we keep playing games, whether

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Speaker 7: you're out four weeks, five weeks, whatever it was for him,

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Speaker 7: But you know, that would be my only thing I

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Speaker 7: would say. I wish he had finished the season stronger,

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Speaker 7: But we had honest, direct conversations with Keon. He's a

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Speaker 7: young player, you know, we remember he's twenty one years

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Speaker 7: old and some of the guys that get drafted in

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Speaker 7: the first round or twenty four, twenty five, things like that.

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Speaker 6: So let's give him a little grace here.

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Speaker 7: You know, his career will not be defined by one season,

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Speaker 7: and he did some good things. He has a skill

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Speaker 7: set that we think will play well in this offense.

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Speaker 6: But it's up to him.

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Speaker 7: He's gonna have to work very hard this offseason, him

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Speaker 7: and Josh continue to work on that rapport together. But

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Speaker 7: I'm optimistic that he'll do those things and that we'll

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Speaker 7: see him continue to improve going into year two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So I thought it was a very honest evaluation of

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Speaker 2: keon season because when he came back, Brandon's one hundred

501
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Speaker 2: percent right. He was not as physically imposing out there

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Speaker 2: on the field as he was pre injury. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we remember him dominating a six foot four corner, Tarik Woolan,

504
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Speaker 2: who's a good corner in this league. And he's dominating

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Speaker 2: that dude, you know, mossing in the end zone with

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Speaker 2: an over the head reception for a touchdown in one

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five yards in that game. And then

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Speaker 2: the next week he gets injured against the Dolphins right

509
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Speaker 2: at the end of the game. And I don't know

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Speaker 2: what it was coming back from an injury.

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Speaker 3: It just wasn't the same.

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Speaker 1: And I'll say this too, it's not all on Keon.

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Speaker 4: You go out, he leaves.

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Speaker 1: He leaves the offense for a month right as right

515
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Speaker 1: after like a you know, a two game losing streak.

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Speaker 1: Let me just make double check his he was. He

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Speaker 1: was the that they start hitting their stride right at

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Speaker 1: the point where he goes out, you know, after they

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Speaker 1: had the nice game in Seattle, all of that, and

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Speaker 1: that's you know, so he gets in the Dolphins. That

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Speaker 1: was week was that week nine? No, it was earlier

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Speaker 1: than that. It was the week three.

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Speaker 4: When was that.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, here here we go. Yeah, he got hurt

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Speaker 1: in the Dolphins game, which was all the way down

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Speaker 1: in week nine nine, They were scoring thirty points a game.

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Speaker 1: He goes out, they go to the by, they come back,

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Speaker 1: their skills scoring thirty five, forty two, forty eight. They're

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Speaker 1: not really looking for somebody to come in and take

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Speaker 1: more reps when they're scoring thirty points. Again, that's in

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Speaker 1: that stretch where they scored thirty points for like eight

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Speaker 1: straight weeks, you know, And I mean they're just killing it.

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Speaker 1: So he's not gonna come in. They're not gonna you know,

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Speaker 1: they don't need him to come in and upset the

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Speaker 1: apple cart by trying to get him targets. So it's

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Speaker 1: it was hard for anybody in this offense, in this

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Speaker 1: philosophy that everybody eats thing to come in and command targets.

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Speaker 1: So it's in a weird spot, particularly for a young dude.

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Speaker 2: You're not due making waves and yeahokie.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, they bring in Amari Cooper, right, so

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Speaker 1: it's like.

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Speaker 3: You know, I've watched that guy on it.

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Speaker 1: It's weird. Yeah, so yeah, I get it. I think

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Speaker 1: with an off season when he comes in full lap,

545
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Speaker 1: comes into training camp and the OTAs and all that,

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Speaker 1: and he starts to see a full lap of a

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Speaker 1: calendar years as a player, and he comes back and

548
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Speaker 1: starts seeing the calendar repeat itself. He'll look at himself going, oh,

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Speaker 1: I get this, this is what it's about, and he'll

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Speaker 1: calm him down. He'll be able to make some hay

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Speaker 1: and play better. But yeah, that was for him. It

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Speaker 1: had to be in this offense, on this team, with

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Speaker 1: the way they ran their offense and his role in

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Speaker 1: it and his injury really made for a strange year

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Speaker 1: for him.

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Speaker 2: So those are some of the more notable comments from

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Speaker 2: GM Brandon Bean. We want to remind you that second

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Speaker 2: hour of the show, we will be carrying head coach

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Speaker 2: Sean McDermott's season wrap up press conference live here on

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Speaker 2: the air, so be sure to stay tuned for that.

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Speaker 2: We have to take a break here because when we

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Speaker 2: come back, we got the Hall of Famer Thrman Thomas

563
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Speaker 2: coming in to give us his thoughts on the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty fourth season and maybe touch on the AFC title

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Speaker 2: game as well. Derman Thomas coming up next year on

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Speaker 2: One Bill's Live, presented by Colid of Health, It's Buffalo

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Speaker 2: Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 3: Steve Tasker, and the Hall of Fame of joining us

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Speaker 3: here in studio. Therma Thomas. How you doing the It's.

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Speaker 1: Good to see. Let me tell you, I texted something

572
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Speaker 1: good to see by the way, I texted him and

573
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Speaker 1: said that this one hurt like the old days did.

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Speaker 9: It wasn't It was a it was a punch to a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of people.

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Speaker 4: Don't know this.

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Speaker 1: You were at the game, tell that's why.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I was at the game.

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Speaker 10: So went out for the coin toss and you know,

580
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Speaker 10: met Patrick Mahomes and Willie Lanier.

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Speaker 8: Was their guy.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you know, I'm there for the game,

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Speaker 10: and you know it comes down.

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Speaker 4: I got my sheet read and whatever.

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Speaker 10: So I was going to be the one that were

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Speaker 10: present the Buffalo Bills with the Lamar Hunt.

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Speaker 4: Trophy, and so happened. Yeah, something happened.

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Speaker 10: Something happened, and I looked at the lady and she said.

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Speaker 4: You can probably leave now. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: This was at the end of the game on the

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Speaker 1: sideline right there.

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Speaker 4: I was in a tunnel. I was in there. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I was in the tunnel.

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Speaker 1: The game was right there.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, and she said that, and I just walked. I

596
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Speaker 10: don't even know how I got outside the stadium. I

597
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 10: didn't even go back to my suite. I didn't even

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Speaker 10: go back to the suite. I left and then I'm walking.

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Speaker 10: I just went out and just started walking or whatever,

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Speaker 10: and all of a sudden, confetti comes down.

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Speaker 9: I'm like, really, is this really happening right now?

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Speaker 4: And and so I.

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Speaker 10: Takes Patty let her know where I was at, and

604
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 10: everybody was in the suite crying.

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Speaker 4: Patty and Josh's mom were crying.

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Speaker 10: It was I mean, it was a really it was hard.

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Speaker 10: It was it was really hard man. And and and

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Speaker 10: even today, I'm still not over it. Man, it's still

609
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Speaker 10: not because yes, I know how it is as a player,

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Speaker 10: but now I'm like, I'm a fan, We're fans, and

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Speaker 10: to see all the Bills fans like walk out of there,

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Speaker 10: it was like.

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Speaker 4: It was bad. It was very sad.

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Speaker 10: And like I said, it still hurts me to still

615
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Speaker 10: today to see, like, why.

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Speaker 4: Is this always happening to us? And I don't know

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Speaker 4: the reason why.

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Speaker 9: We just have to, hey, get better at the positions

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Speaker 9: that we need to get better at.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's nothing else that we can do.

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Speaker 1: We've been talking about it, and today was Brandon's press conference.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard any other everybody's and

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Speaker 1: everybody's kind of preoccupied with the Chiefs and the Eagles

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Speaker 1: and all and the Ravens and the teams that we

625
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Speaker 1: played and beat and didn't beat. And everybody's like, what

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Speaker 1: about the Chiefs? What another Chiefs? And Brandon's rightly so

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Speaker 1: kind of alluded to Listen, isn't it about the chief

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Speaker 1: It's about us. We're just gonna get better. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: we're gonna fix our problems, try and get our roster

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Speaker 1: even better, and we're gonna keep because we gotta beat

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Speaker 1: thirty thirty teams, not just the Chiefs, but thirty other

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00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: teams as well, starting with our division. So it's about

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00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: the Bills getting themselves better, making all, you know, taking

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00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: the opportunity, spending their money wisely, getting the players they

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00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: need and getting better and then playing their best on

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Speaker 1: that day again. You know, that's that's the hard part,

637
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Speaker 1: because it's it's so hard not to sit here and

638
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: watch the Chiefs and do and zig when they zag,

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00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: and whenever they do, you do the other and whatever

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00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: or whatever, whatever whatever, you build your whole team around

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Speaker 1: what they're doing, and to get over to beat that hunt.

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00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, your third and year division

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Speaker 1: and you're going home.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think for us, I mean like going into

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Speaker 10: next year, even with the draft and the free agent

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Speaker 10: and all the stuff that you have going on, Like,

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Speaker 10: we need to come out next year and be like

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Speaker 10: that team that everybody talks about every single week. And

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00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 10: when you do that, then you have that opportunity. And

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Speaker 10: I've said it two years ago and three years ago,

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00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 10: we need to go for that number one seat. I

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00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 10: think that is kind of the great teams have done it,

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Speaker 10: the Patriots and now the Chiefs. You know, we didn't

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Speaker 10: win it, but we had three out of the four

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Speaker 10: years we had home fields.

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Speaker 1: We said that to ourselves to preseason. I remember, am

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Speaker 1: I miss miss remembering in that we had the conversations

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Speaker 1: like we need to get.

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00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 4: The one seat. Yeah.

660
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: We had conversations like yeah all the time, all the time.

661
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 9: And I think this team needs I think did I

662
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 9: think it for you?

663
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 10: For the psychic that we're the best team in the

664
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,240
Speaker 10: ABC because we got the number one seat.

665
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 2: And offenses can communicate more effectively at home. You can

666
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,280
Speaker 2: use more pre snap motion because the communication is easier.

667
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 3: And Steve pointed this out to me last week.

668
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,760
Speaker 2: With the bye, how much extra work can your coaches

669
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 2: do to not only get ready for the next opponent,

670
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 2: but already start advanced scouting the opponent after that, Right,

671
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 2: You don't think they were getting to work on Buffalo

672
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 2: and Baltimore when they were getting set to play the

673
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 2: Texans week That whole week they're saying, Okay, who are

674
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 2: we likely? Who are we probably going to play? In

675
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 2: the division in the championship round? You know, well, there's

676
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 2: only two possibilities here, so let's get you know, you

677
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 2: get half your scouting scouting.

678
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,879
Speaker 3: You're on these guys, all right, you're on these guys. Yeah,

679
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 3: and you have a whole.

680
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,359
Speaker 4: Week to do that whole to do that.

681
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does help. That's the other built in advantage

682
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 3: of getting the bye.

683
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 11: Yeah.

684
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 3: So yeah, you.

685
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 2: Just said something that kind of sparked a question in

686
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 2: my head. You said you were a you know, having

687
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 2: been a player and experiencing you know, bad playoff performances

688
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 2: in your career, not as a team I'm talking about,

689
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 2: and then now experiencing as a fan is does one

690
00:35:58,719 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 2: hurt any more than the other.

691
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 3: Because because as a player, you at least have some

692
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 3: measure of control over the album, as a fan you

693
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 3: have zero.

694
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 2: So which is which is more difficult for you?

695
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 4: Mine is like, like.

696
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 10: I actually wanted to be out there helping them. I

697
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 10: wanted to be out there on the field, like, yeah,

698
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 10: I want to I want to be a part of

699
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 10: this kind of used to it, right, Yeah, so yeah,

700
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 10: I wanted to be out there with them, helping them.

701
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 2: So being a fan and watching these losses happen is

702
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 2: would you say, is harder for you to take?

703
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 3: Like, I think it is with you longer?

704
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 4: Yeah it has been.

705
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,760
Speaker 9: I'm still not over it today and it's been four days.

706
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 10: And so yeah, I think as a fan walking out

707
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 10: of there and feeling that like that numbness and not

708
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 10: going into like the locker room and shaking his hand

709
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 10: or whatever outside and seeing the fans go by them,

710
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 10: it's just like I just.

711
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 9: I wanted to help them so bad and I knew.

712
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 4: That I couldn't.

713
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: I agree with Therma, it's harder as a fan because

714
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: for as a player, I mean, it's gonna hurt. It's

715
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: gonna hurt for a while because now the season's over

716
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: and it's over abruptly, you're done, and it really hurts

717
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: to you get back into your routine and you know

718
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: you got to go on with It does stick with you,

719
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: but you also and this is the same way for

720
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: a tough loss in the regular season. Even more so,

721
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: you got to spin it ford because you've got another

722
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: thing to do, you got another game to go to.

723
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: And these they'll get to that when they start, when

724
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,320
Speaker 1: it starts coming around, they'll start. You know, it's easy

725
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: for them to spin it forward because now they got

726
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: to say, all right, I gotta get in shape, I

727
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta do some stuff, stay active. I don't

728
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: want to just vacation for a month and a half.

729
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: I gotta start, you know whatever. So they start spinning forward,

730
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: start working again towards having an effect on the game

731
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 1: and fans. All we can do is just sit here

732
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: and stew That's all you can do. And you don't

733
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: get to you can start looking forward to it, but

734
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:57,359
Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do to help it or make

735
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: the clock run faster.

736
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you this too, from a change from

737
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 4: a standpoint.

738
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 10: When I saw it today, it was like you know,

739
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 10: I saw I think it was this morning where you know,

740
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 10: Josh is not gonna play in this at and t

741
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 10: pro am. So things have already started to change. Because

742
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 10: Josh loves golf, he loves playing in that tournament out

743
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 10: there this year is not. So it affects the players

744
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 10: in different ways. And I'm sure it's affecting him now

745
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,439
Speaker 10: because yeah, he said, like, yeah, I just read someone

746
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:30,280
Speaker 10: where he's not playing.

747
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 3: So his hand also got dinged up there, and it did.

748
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 4: But you know, that's a tournament that he loves to

749
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 4: go to.

750
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 3: Yah.

751
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,240
Speaker 10: Yeah, and it's a nice tournament to go to, dude.

752
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 10: So but like, but even wrong things have changed. Like

753
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 10: he's probably say, Okay, what do I gotta do? Let

754
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 10: me just take a week off because I know if

755
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,720
Speaker 10: I go to this pro am or whatever, I'm.

756
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 9: Gonna get asked the same question over and over and over. Yeah,

757
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 9: and that's exhausting. So hey, good on you, Josh.

758
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.

759
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 2: Do you uh does anything come to mind immediately and

760
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 2: when you think about how this team gets better to

761
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 2: get over the hump? Does anything come straight to the

762
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 2: forefront of your mind immediately that you say this needs

763
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 2: to happen?

764
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 4: You know?

765
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 10: I I think for me, Brownie, I look, the run

766
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,439
Speaker 10: game is there, we got our running backs, the old

767
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 10: line is there, tight end still there. But you know

768
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 10: what I need for us to bring in some more

769
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 10: guys that that are gonna like push key on Coleman

770
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,280
Speaker 10: a little bit, not just okay, the job is yours.

771
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 9: From a rookie standpoint, get guys that you know.

772
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 4: Always.

773
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 10: I used to always think like your first guy is

774
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 10: your first guy, but if your first guy is not

775
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 10: playing well, that second guy's good enough to come in

776
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 10: and make plays and might put you on the bench.

777
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 10: So I competition, The competition has to be like, hey,

778
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 10: I love all the things that met Cop Hollin's is

779
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 10: done all of them, but we need somebody to push

780
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 10: him to. We need somebody to push him to. And

781
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 10: I think that goes for the defensive line too. I

782
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,879
Speaker 10: would like to see, you know. I mean, they did

783
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 10: a great job this year of taking away to football,

784
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 10: but the sacks were down.

785
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 3: Weren't getting depressure down fifteen from last year.

786
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 9: Down fifteen from and that's a big number. It didn't

787
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 9: basically touch Mahomes any the entire day.

788
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:36,280
Speaker 2: I mean, essentially, you replaced Leonard Floyd with von Miller,

789
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 2: who was back full time, and you got half of

790
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 2: the production Floyd ten and a half sacks last year.

791
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 2: Vaughn comes in and essentially is Leonard Floyd five sacks,

792
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,760
Speaker 2: So it wasn't just him I mean there's other people

793
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 2: too that are part of that equation. I mean Greg

794
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,720
Speaker 2: Grusso probably had the most consistent season, but at Oliver

795
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three at nine and a half.

796
00:40:58,400 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 3: Sacks, I think he had three this year.

797
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 2: So there were drops precipitously across the front there. And

798
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 2: I don't know if you need an elite guy because

799
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 2: those aren't easy to find and nobody's selling them on

800
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:11,439
Speaker 2: the open market for peanuts either.

801
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, so that's not an easy true.

802
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 4: Phil, And you're draft thirty.

803
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, the other Garret at thirtieth.

804
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 10: Right, nice, he's just would be nice. Yeah, but you're

805
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 10: you're just not. I mean you're gonna have to There

806
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 10: was a couple of farms.

807
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: For that, right, right, So it's yeah, And that's we're

808
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 1: gonna ask this question probably next week some point.

809
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 6: You know.

810
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: In the big picture, it certainly great season for the Bills.

811
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: They it was the best offensive year in the franchise

812
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: franchise is including the old K one K K gun days.

813
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: I mean, they really wrung it up this year and

814
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: it was impressive to see they ran the ball all

815
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 1: this year. They did a lot of great They did

816
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 1: a lot of really outstanding things. And this mantra they

817
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 1: came into the regular the preseason with everybody each turned

818
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: out to be exactly the way they ran it and

819
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: and paid dividends in a lot of different ways. What's

820
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: your you know, what's your big picture? Look where the

821
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,720
Speaker 1: franchise at Bridy was just saying, there's been two teams

822
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: in a lot that have won a playoff game in

823
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: the last six years in a row. It's Kansas City

824
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: and Buffalo.

825
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 3: It's only two teams. That's the list.

826
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 4: That's the list. That's it.

827
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: That's it. So there are two teams that are elite,

828
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: always contending. You're one of them, but you're still an

829
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: afterthought after all of that. What's your what's your big take?

830
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 1: Big you know, big picture.

831
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 9: Take, big picture. I think we're I think we're set.

832
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 10: Player wise where we can do some things, add some

833
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 10: pieces here, add some pieces there. I think with the

834
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 10: way that our division is, we can easily they can

835
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 10: win three more Division AFC titles, these titles in a

836
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 10: row in this division that we're in now. I think

837
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 10: the Patriots will be a little bit tough there, you know,

838
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 10: lead leading the ship there now, Aaron Glenn, So now

839
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 10: we got to prepare. Now we got to prepare for

840
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 10: two more of the coaches, Mike Rabel and Aaron Glenn

841
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 10: with so uh yeah, I just think that I think this.

842
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 10: I think this organization and this fan base is in

843
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 10: a good spot.

844
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 9: I really still, I really truly believe.

845
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 4: At it as it is.

846
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 10: I think if we continue to hey build and keep

847
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 10: building offense, defense and special teams, I think we're in

848
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 10: a spot where for the next for the next five years,

849
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 10: we can compete and still win a Super Bowl.

850
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,879
Speaker 3: Thanks for popping in giving us your thoughts. I hope

851
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 3: you feel better in the next few year.

852
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry it's sticking with you as long as

853
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 2: it has.

854
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: Still frustrated sick with everybody if they were in that

855
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: spot on the.

856
00:43:58,239 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 4: Part of it.

857
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 10: I was going to be a part of it, on

858
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 10: my line, memorize and everything so bad.

859
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,879
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it was. It wasn't a point where

860
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:08,320
Speaker 9: I think I probably would have started.

861
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 10: Crying when I handed over to the.

862
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 6: To Uh.

863
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that's it's quite a moment to think about.

864
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 3: But we'll see if we can get you on the

865
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 3: docket for next year.

866
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly what they were to ask you to do.

867
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 5: It.

868
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: You're the guy that should be doing it.

869
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 4: Appreciate it.

870
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 3: All right. Good to see a Therm.

871
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 2: Uh, we'll catch up with you down the line here.

872
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 2: Uh be well, all right, that's Therm and Thomas the

873
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer joining us here in studio. Will take

874
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 2: a break and be back with more here on a

875
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 2: Thursday edition of.

876
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 3: One Bill's Live. Stay with us all right back here.

877
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 2: On One Bills Live on a Thursday, Chris Brown, Steve

878
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 2: Tasker with you, and it is season wrap up day

879
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 2: here at One Bill's Drive. You already heard the comments

880
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 2: from Brandon Bean. We await the comments of head coach

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Speaker 2: Sean McDermot, who schedule to address the media next hour,

882
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Speaker 2: and we will bring his press conference to you live

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Speaker 2: here on the show after this next break coming up.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that we did not outline that was.

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Speaker 3: Mentioned by Brandon Bean.

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Speaker 2: He was asked about the team chemistry, and he said that, look,

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Speaker 2: they've had a lot of good teams here in the

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Speaker 2: seven or eight years that he and McDermott have been

889
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 2: in charge. He said, this was as close a team

890
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 2: as you could ask for. Guys hung out here after

891
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Speaker 2: work or away from the facility, Guys showing up at

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Speaker 2: other guys community events. I'm not sure we've had a

893
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Speaker 2: tighter group than this one. Maybe as tight, but not tighter.

894
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Speaker 3: And they put value in that.

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Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things that gave people

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Speaker 1: like you and me and fans around the area. I

897
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Speaker 1: think that's what gave us a little bit more optimism

898
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: than usual. They felt like this was a special group.

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Speaker 1: They came off that way. Guys like Mac Hollins and

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Speaker 1: of course Jordan Phillips are always you know.

901
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Speaker 4: Part of that.

902
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: The success of so many guys and the nature of

903
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Speaker 1: how the offense was successful with a different guy here

904
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Speaker 1: and a different guy there, and a guy there in

905
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Speaker 1: the offensive lineman. The running game gave it a sense

906
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Speaker 1: of everybody was on board because so many guys got

907
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Speaker 1: the chance to contribute, and it gave this team that

908
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: special feel for a lot of people. I'll say this,

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00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: I've I've maybe out there people call in tell us different,

910
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: but even the people that I talked to are all

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Speaker 1: my friends and golfing buddies and my family, everybody.

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Speaker 8: I know.

913
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: There was more outright optimism that this was the year

914
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Speaker 1: than I've ever heard before.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that. People felt it was

916
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 3: the Bill's.

917
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Speaker 1: Time because and it was because of that special bomb.

918
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: These guys have seemed like.

919
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 2: And I think it was a very easy team for

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, Bill's fans are going to support their

921
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 2: team no matter what. But I think this was an

922
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Speaker 2: unusually easy team for fans to wrap their arms around

923
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Speaker 2: on this year and root for.

924
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Speaker 3: It's not because they were a little lunch pale, you

925
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Speaker 3: know what I mean, un pal.

926
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Speaker 1: Also, they had that beautiful thing that you can appreciate.

927
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Speaker 1: They at every turn exceeded expectations. That's that was what's

928
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Speaker 1: first and foremost is what was fun about this group.

929
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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: They were better than everybody thought they were gonna be,

931
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Speaker 1: and that was fun. It was nice because there was

932
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Speaker 1: a lot of nose rubbing by Bills fans of all

933
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Speaker 1: the national people, the national punnet, everybody's like their third

934
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Speaker 1: in the division. The Dolphins are better, the Jets are

935
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Speaker 1: gonna bet better, the Jet's gonna win the division, and

936
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Speaker 1: the Bills rubbed everybody's noses in it two times over.

937
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Speaker 1: Not only they win the division, they did it in

938
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Speaker 1: record time. So it was fun for that reason, and

939
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Speaker 1: that's why, you know, and plus the guys they looked

940
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Speaker 1: like they were having an absolute ball.

941
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Speaker 2: It was probably easier to enjoy this team knowing you

942
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 2: didn't have to sweat out the last five weeks of

943
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Speaker 2: the season like you did last year.

944
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Speaker 12: Oh my god, you know, it was smooth sailing after.

945
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 12: Like we we've been talking about it. It's January thirtieth.

946
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 12: It seems like it's been January for nine months because

947
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 12: we were waiting on it to get here for since

948
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 12: early no, like week eleven.

949
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 3: Now we're just praying that it ends forever.

950
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 1: And now you know here we are. We're still you

951
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: know in that in that it's the same kind of mode.

952
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: It's just now it's never ends. It's like groundhog strap in. Man,

953
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a while.

954
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 2: We gotta take a break here because when we come back,

955
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Speaker 2: head coach Sean McDermott is going to be delivering his

956
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 2: season ending press conference to the Buffalo media. We will

957
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 2: carry that for you here live next on One Bill's Live,

958
00:48:33,760 --> 00:49:06,919
Speaker 2: presented by Kilida Helton's Buffalo Bills Radio.

959
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Speaker 1: This the One Bill's Live presented by Call LIGHTA Help.

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Speaker 2: All right, Welcome to our number two here on a Thursday,

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Speaker 2: One Bill's Live.

962
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 1: Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you.

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Speaker 2: It is a season wrap up day here at one

964
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Speaker 2: Bill's Drive. We already heard from general manager Brandon Bean.

965
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 2: We are waiting the start of the Sean McDermott press conference,

966
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 2: and as soon as he gets going, we will pass

967
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Speaker 2: it over to him and bring you his comments live

968
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Speaker 2: on the air here in the second hour of the show.

969
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Speaker 2: So once he is up at the lectern and addressing

970
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Speaker 2: the media, we will go there in short order. One

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Speaker 2: other thing that Brandon Bean mentioned that we did not

972
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Speaker 2: really cover. He addressed the pass rush, but he was

973
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 2: asked specifically about adding an elite defender.

974
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Speaker 3: He didn't say no, Necessariah.

975
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 2: The question wasn't specific positions specific, but an elite defender,

976
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Speaker 2: and Bean said, would I love to have an elite

977
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Speaker 2: difference maker? Heck yeah, but we have a cap and

978
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Speaker 2: we are picking low every year. That doesn't mean we

979
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Speaker 2: can't land one, and we'll continue to turn over every

980
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 2: stone to find one.

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Speaker 3: How do you how do you take that response?

982
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: They know it's a priority, but they're not going to

983
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: overspend to get one, and they're going to do the

984
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: best they can with what they got. They get, they

985
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,240
Speaker 1: get whatever opportunities they have in the draft and whatever's

986
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Speaker 1: available and whatever's on the free agent market and whatever

987
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 1: teams are willing to trade for and what the price is.

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00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: That's it. That and the and their own cap.

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00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 3: What do you uh? Do you think.

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Speaker 2: Brandon Bean could be influenced by the investment made in

991
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Speaker 2: von Miller and how it turned out?

992
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 7: Well?

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00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:58,319
Speaker 1: I think yeah, I think though, sure, but.

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00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,760
Speaker 3: It's not his fault. It didn't right, the guy got hurt.

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00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: That's always on the docket when you sign a big

996
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: name free agent. What are you gonna do if you know,

997
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: the guy gets an offender bender and twists his you

998
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,360
Speaker 1: know what I mean? I mean, anything can happen to

999
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,439
Speaker 1: these guys. You're putting a lot of money on one

1000
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Speaker 1: guy and his ability to play professional football at a

1001
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Speaker 1: high level and get through the offseason and the preseason

1002
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Speaker 1: and the OTAs and the mini camps and training camp

1003
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Speaker 1: and in one piece. And there's no guarantee about any

1004
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 1: of it. So you always know that. That's why these

1005
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: guys sit down in the preseason. So yeah, I mean that.

1006
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: And it may it may color as thinking, and it

1007
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Speaker 1: may it may be most notably as well, it might

1008
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Speaker 1: turn Sean McDermott off like, listen, dude, you know, let's

1009
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:49,359
Speaker 1: not put everything there. I got these guys, these guys

1010
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 1: are coaching up. I can work with these guys. Sean

1011
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: McDermott may get cold feet over something like that. How

1012
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: many who knows they all have a voice, and those

1013
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: two guys work in concert with each other. Terry Pagoula

1014
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: probably has a voice in that as well. Obviously he

1015
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 1: tends to listen and hold him accountable to what they said,

1016
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: more so than you know, chiming in with an opinion,

1017
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: although he has those two. But Brandon and Sean have

1018
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 1: got to come to grips with it. Every guy they

1019
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: signed like they had to talk about that with mac Hollins,

1020
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 1: for goodness sake, you know how mac Hollins they're like,

1021
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: I mean, Shawn's probably going who who right? That's what

1022
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: all of us were saying, mac Hollins, Who is that right?

1023
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:35,919
Speaker 1: Sometimes it works great as that one did, and sometimes

1024
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 1: not so much. Sometimes you get a twisted ankle, you

1025
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: get a blown knee, and it's like, oh God, what

1026
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 1: are we doing?

1027
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:42,319
Speaker 3: Right?

1028
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,399
Speaker 1: So I'm he knew that going in, and I don't

1029
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 1: think that change is the fact that if you're looking

1030
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 1: at the upside. Well, let's let's hyperbolize it. What do

1031
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:56,240
Speaker 1: you do if you're talking about you know, if Cleveland

1032
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: says opens the door for you and says, yeah, Miles

1033
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 1: garretts available, then how you know the upside is right? Yeah,

1034
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: then you gotta think, O, man, it's man, this guy

1035
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: let's go right, Let's it's worth it.

1036
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 11: Yeah.

1037
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 1: Now, I'm you know, mat Now Miles Garrett is not

1038
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Speaker 1: up like that. But that's I'm you know, TJ. Watt,

1039
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do with that?

1040
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:17,399
Speaker 3: TJ.

1041
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 1: Watt comes available that kind of stuff, right, you know,

1042
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: so he gotta It's a it's a roll of the

1043
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: dice in a lot of ways. Like all these guys,

1044
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: you can't tell the future. And that's I don't know

1045
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: that that sours you on how you do business because

1046
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: you know the risks going in and they're all the cases,

1047
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:37,879
Speaker 1: they're all the same every time.

1048
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1049
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 3: Uh. He also mentioned tight end Dalton Kincaid.

1050
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 2: He was asked about Kincaid's season and admits that he

1051
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 2: was injured and was tough to play through that injury.

1052
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Speaker 2: He missed three games because of it and a bye week.

1053
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,439
Speaker 2: He said, we believe in Dalton and he's a big

1054
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 2: part of our plans going forward. Building his body up

1055
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Speaker 2: to withstand the rigors of the game is something that

1056
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 2: was discus so they need hit, they've basically told him

1057
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 2: in his exit interview, Bigger and stronger so you can

1058
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:06,720
Speaker 2: get through the rigors of a season.

1059
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Speaker 3: Right, So interesting comments.

1060
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Speaker 2: We're gonna pivot now to the press conference as Sean

1061
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Speaker 2: mcdermoyd sat down and he's answering questions from the Buffalo media.

1062
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Speaker 13: I would like to start, if if everyone doesn't mind,

1063
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Speaker 13: just with acknowledging what what unfolded the tragic event today

1064
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Speaker 13: with the plane crash.

1065
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Speaker 8: I don't, I don't.

1066
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Speaker 13: I'm not going to pretend to all the details, but

1067
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Speaker 13: I'm just just a true reminder of how fragile life

1068
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Speaker 13: is and puts things into perspective awfully quick. I know

1069
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Speaker 13: when I woke up and found out about it. So

1070
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Speaker 13: our thoughts, our prayers are certainly with everyone that are

1071
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 13: going through that tragic situation right now, so.

1072
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Speaker 8: You know, moving.

1073
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Speaker 13: Forward, you know, I thought we had a good season,

1074
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:53,800
Speaker 13: and I would like to thank a number of people,

1075
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Speaker 13: starting with Terry and the Pagoula family for all their

1076
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 13: support that they give Brandon myself, Pete and the entire

1077
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,800
Speaker 13: organization on a day to day basis. That is huge

1078
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 13: from a leadership standpoint top down, giving us what we

1079
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Speaker 13: need to win, and the support beyond just the financial support, uh,

1080
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Speaker 13: and then everyone in our building, staff, players. Just an

1081
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Speaker 13: incredible year in a lot of ways. And yeah, you're good, Mark,

1082
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,920
Speaker 13: I act like I didn't hear it, you know, and

1083
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 13: then you and then you go to the to the

1084
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 13: fans and you know, this journey we experienced together this

1085
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 13: year was was as good of a journey as we've

1086
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 13: experienced and a lot of highs, certainly some lows, but

1087
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Speaker 13: being ten and oh at home incredible and that's that's uh.

1088
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Speaker 8: You know, the fans are a big part of that.

1089
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 13: But then the way that they travel every week, uh,

1090
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 13: to Detroit to different places that we play, that does

1091
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:06,800
Speaker 13: not go unnoticed or underappreciated. It's just incredible to to

1092
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 13: to experience the journey every season together like we do.

1093
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Speaker 13: You know, I thought the year was a good year

1094
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 13: and a lot of first in a lot of ways.

1095
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 13: We were able to take a team that there were

1096
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 13: a number of new players, young players, players that have

1097
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 13: never been in the Bills uniform, pairs, players that have

1098
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 13: never played in an NFL game prior, and we counted

1099
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 13: on a lot of those guys and they.

1100
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 8: Did a phenomenal job.

1101
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:31,799
Speaker 13: The coaches had to hand in that as well in

1102
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 13: terms of their their ability to develop players or or

1103
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 13: work through some of the injuries, maybe more so defensively,

1104
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:43,320
Speaker 13: perhaps in the beginning of the year. So I applaud

1105
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 13: those guys, Uh, the leadership, you know, overall, the players

1106
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 13: group that have led this football team, led by Josh.

1107
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 13: I couldn't do my job if if they didn't do

1108
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:56,880
Speaker 13: what they did this year, in particular this season and

1109
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 13: the way that they went about their business. And when

1110
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 13: you deal with adversity like you do every season, you

1111
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 13: need that leadership, that player driven leadership piece to to

1112
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:08,399
Speaker 13: steer the ship in the right direction or to take

1113
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:12,840
Speaker 13: direction from me h and and and connected to the

1114
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 13: locker room and the individual position groups and and so

1115
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 13: that I just something so so grateful for those guys

1116
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 13: and the way that they handle themselves. So overall, again,

1117
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 13: good season, you know, came up a little bit short

1118
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 13: and that and that feeling, uh never goes away, I

1119
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 13: know it.

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00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 8: Some people say it goes away, at least for me.

1121
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 13: It doesn't ever go away until you get to a

1122
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 13: spot where you can say, hey, we were the best

1123
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 13: in the world. And that is a lofty goal, but

1124
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 13: it's our goal every season and that's what we we

1125
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 13: look forward to, uh to doing every season. And and

1126
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 13: you know, we were just short of it this year

1127
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 13: in terms of a couple of plays here and there.

1128
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 13: And that's what happens in the playoffs. Every play gets magnified.

1129
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 13: You go back to the Ravens game and you're and, hey,

1130
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 13: a couple of those plays go the other way, and

1131
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 13: we're not in that in that game, and but they

1132
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 13: but they went our way.

1133
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 8: And then fast forward a.

1134
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 13: Week to last week and and you're saying, hey, a

1135
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 13: couple of those plays didn't go our way, but if

1136
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 13: they did, maybe maybe we're working again this week in

1137
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 13: preparation for the Super Bowl. So with that, I'll turn

1138
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 13: it over to you and your questions.

1139
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 4: Ye Wen, how do you square.

1140
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 11: With all the success that you've had here Buffalow and

1141
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 11: branded yourself with the Ages. How difficult is it knowing

1142
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 11: that you there's a narrative out there that this team

1143
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 11: just keeps up coming short. I know there's differences per season,

1144
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 11: but there's that narrative out there that this team can't

1145
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 11: get over that hump? How do you? How do you

1146
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 11: how do you address that?

1147
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 13: Well, until you get over the hump, right, there's always

1148
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 13: going to be a hump.

1149
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:53,439
Speaker 8: Where's the hump start though?

1150
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 6: Right?

1151
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 8: Where's it end?

1152
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 11: Right?

1153
00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 13: And I think that's just perspective of that's the easy narrative.

1154
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 13: And if you if you kind of get too far

1155
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 13: down into that, into the weeds of that kind of

1156
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 13: negative connotation or negative mindset, you forget all the success

1157
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 13: that you have had. However, Uh, no one in this building,

1158
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 13: myself included, is is comfortable or content with where we're at.

1159
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 13: And I think that's the greatest thing about the people

1160
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 13: in this building, you know, Brandon, myself, Pete certainly Terry,

1161
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 13: and our mindsets that that it doesn't stop right. We

1162
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 13: continue every year to try and start from scratch, put

1163
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 13: a team together, develop a team, get everyone to be

1164
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 13: on the same page, and and put us in a

1165
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 13: position to win in the playoffs. And if you look

1166
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 13: at the last two years against against a really good

1167
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 13: football team, who are the two time defending champs, we

1168
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 13: had the ball with it, you has to win down three.

1169
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 8: Both of these last two years and.

1170
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Speaker 13: You know it didn't happen, So I don't I don't

1171
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:14,920
Speaker 13: think there's any consolations in that. But but perspective, perspective

1172
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:19,400
Speaker 13: is is important as it relates to you know, where

1173
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 13: we're at it as a team, where we're as an organization,

1174
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 13: and then are we giving ourselves a chance to win?

1175
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 8: Are we putting ourselves in position?

1176
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 13: And we were in a position however we got there

1177
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 13: the last two years to be in a position to

1178
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 13: win those games. And I think that's part of what

1179
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 13: we have to look at. Also, quite frankly, is on

1180
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 13: the last drive of the game we came up short

1181
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 13: and figuring out why, right when we have the ball

1182
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 13: in the position to tie or win the game, we

1183
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 13: weren't able. We weren't able to get it done. And

1184
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 13: and so now getting into into the weeds on it,

1185
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 13: we defensively we have to perform better than we did

1186
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 13: and and that's real.

1187
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 8: And so.

1188
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 13: You know, there's a lot that you look at. I'm

1189
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:10,600
Speaker 13: sure we'll get into it, but I would say that

1190
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 13: we're very aware of where we are and in place

1191
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 13: and time and and where our team is. It doesn't

1192
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 13: mean you start their next season, but you certainly you

1193
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:28,439
Speaker 13: feel good about the day to day and our methodology

1194
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:31,240
Speaker 13: of what we're doing. Does that mean that you feel

1195
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:34,439
Speaker 13: completely comfortable with where we're at and where we want

1196
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 13: to get to?

1197
01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:36,560
Speaker 8: No, not at all.

1198
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 13: And and then I start with myself and saying, right

1199
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 13: after the game, what kind of what.

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01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:43,080
Speaker 8: Could I have done better?

1201
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 6: Right? What?

1202
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 13: And then you go into the what I'm mostly responsible for,

1203
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 13: our our our our coaching staff, what can we do better?

1204
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 13: And then we get into the different areas that that

1205
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 13: have to all pair up.

1206
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 8: To win to win at that level? Right, And so.

1207
01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 13: You know that's that's really kind of the progression. But overall,

1208
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 13: you don't want to lose sight of the success we

1209
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 13: have experienced. Knowing that we want some big games, it's

1210
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 13: not I mean, you tell me, what isn't a big

1211
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 13: game in the NFL anymore?

1212
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 8: Right week to week?

1213
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:13,640
Speaker 13: But we go on this year we beat a Super

1214
01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 13: Bowl winning coach and Sean Payton and the Denver Broncos

1215
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 13: or a good football team, and do the same with

1216
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 13: the Baltimore Ravens coach by John Harbows also won a

1217
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 13: Super Bowl.

1218
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 8: So there's a lot of success in a lot of

1219
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 8: big games.

1220
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 13: What's left is to go win a world championship, which

1221
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 13: is which is a lofty goal, but one that we

1222
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:32,000
Speaker 13: pursue relentlessly.

1223
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:35,439
Speaker 11: I may just to flip that question around them. Given

1224
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 11: what you've said and knowing the successes that you've had,

1225
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 11: what gives you the belief, the confidence in knowing that

1226
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 11: we have the way you do things here will get

1227
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:47,520
Speaker 11: you both of that.

1228
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 8: Now, where do you want to start?

1229
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 14: Right?

1230
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 13: If you look at a give as much time as

1231
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:03,920
Speaker 13: you need, John, If you look at and I and

1232
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 13: I should have mentioned you guys. I mean the support

1233
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 13: that you guys give us during the year. I understand

1234
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 13: you guys want to win as well, and and I

1235
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 13: get that. So I appreciate you guys as well for

1236
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 13: for your support and all the stories you put out there,

1237
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,959
Speaker 13: not even just about football, but about about what.

1238
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 8: Happens off the field.

1239
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 13: So your question was about the belief that we can

1240
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 13: do that. I mean, if if you if number one,

1241
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 13: you got to believe in yourself if you want to

1242
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:34,000
Speaker 13: accomplish anything, right, So this self belief is huge. If

1243
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:35,680
Speaker 13: if you want to be a great reporter, I'm sure

1244
01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 13: it's the same way, right, if you want to be

1245
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 13: a great you know, football coach, player, what have you.

1246
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 13: It's got to start with a certain level of self belief.

1247
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 13: After that it gets into hey, the people you have

1248
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 13: around you. I'm extremely confident that people, uh that are

1249
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 13: behind me and behind these walls.

1250
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 8: And then and then you look at what have we

1251
01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:57,160
Speaker 8: been able to do?

1252
01:03:57,280 --> 01:04:00,600
Speaker 13: So what usually you know, some semblance of history is

1253
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:03,520
Speaker 13: a pretty good indicator of what could happen in the future.

1254
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 13: One of the things we've done been able to do

1255
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:09,240
Speaker 13: is not only the seventeen year drought, but we got

1256
01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:12,120
Speaker 13: that turned around the first year. And listens, that is

1257
01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 13: what it is. It's to me someone in the past,

1258
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:19,400
Speaker 13: and I'll never forget it the experience. But we have

1259
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:21,440
Speaker 13: to continue to look forward and say, hey, what have

1260
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:23,120
Speaker 13: we done? And we've been One of the things we've

1261
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 13: been able to do, I feel like is sustain success,

1262
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:29,360
Speaker 13: which is very difficult to do. There's a lot of

1263
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:33,040
Speaker 13: teams that get to the AFC Championship Game, let's say,

1264
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:36,760
Speaker 13: but they're never to be heard from again. And I

1265
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 13: don't know what you I don't know how you know

1266
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 13: what the narrative is around those teams. You probably can't

1267
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 13: say they come up short because they're never there again.

1268
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 13: So I'd rather be in the position we're in where

1269
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:51,360
Speaker 13: we're continually knocking on the door. But I'm also not,

1270
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:53,360
Speaker 13: like I told you, I'm not very I don't deal

1271
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:56,120
Speaker 13: well with sitting right on the edge and being like, hey,

1272
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 13: well it was good season, you know, slap everybody on

1273
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 13: the back and say we'll get them next year. That's

1274
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 13: that's the last thing that we're about, Brandon.

1275
01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 8: Myself, and so you know, but I'm confident in who

1276
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:10,480
Speaker 8: we are.

1277
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 13: I'm confident that over the years we've been developed players

1278
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 13: who usually play have played better here than elsewhere, whether

1279
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 13: it be college or going to another team on the

1280
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:26,040
Speaker 13: pro level. Confident in in that, and you know that,

1281
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:27,960
Speaker 13: I think that's huge, right that you can do that,

1282
01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 13: and you can take a team.

1283
01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 8: This year where we lost a number of leaders, as you.

1284
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:36,240
Speaker 13: Guys have documented, we lost a number of of players

1285
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:40,120
Speaker 13: who were significant in our journey to this point making

1286
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:44,040
Speaker 13: an impact, and we're able to put it together form

1287
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:46,720
Speaker 13: a team. The team came together and then we're able

1288
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:51,080
Speaker 13: to win at a level that to me, you're getting

1289
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 13: to the AFC Championship game, which is hard.

1290
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:54,160
Speaker 8: It's difficult to do.

1291
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 13: So when you're in a position you want to be there,

1292
01:05:58,760 --> 01:06:00,840
Speaker 13: and eventually, if you keep doing I'll just say this,

1293
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:04,440
Speaker 13: if you keep doing things right, not that we're doing

1294
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 13: everything right, but if you keep doing the right thing, eventually.

1295
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:11,880
Speaker 8: That door will open.

1296
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,720
Speaker 13: I mean, I worked for a guy that went through

1297
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:19,880
Speaker 13: something similar years ago, and he experienced something similar. Now

1298
01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 13: he's you know, in the position that he's in. So

1299
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 13: I've just learned that firsthand that you got to keep

1300
01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:29,400
Speaker 13: doing because if you don't do things the right way,

1301
01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 13: you'll fall and you won't be ever heard from again.

1302
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 15: So and you say that you work for any of

1303
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:37,920
Speaker 15: the three straight years in the championship, then you finally

1304
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 15: got through, But this time, four out of five years.

1305
01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 4: Has been the Chiefs.

1306
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 15: Does it make it different that it's them in the way,

1307
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:48,560
Speaker 15: in their historic run and all those things that it's

1308
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:51,920
Speaker 15: you almost feel like it's inevitably got to be them

1309
01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 15: and beating that team in order to get there. Is

1310
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:57,160
Speaker 15: it make it any different what your approach is?

1311
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Speaker 8: Uh?

1312
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Speaker 13: You know, you never you never want to build your

1313
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:04,840
Speaker 13: team to beat one team because you never really know.

1314
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 13: In fairness to the Chiefs, you know that you never

1315
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:11,040
Speaker 13: really know that it's going to be them every year,

1316
01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:13,720
Speaker 13: although it has been them and if you're you know

1317
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 13: they they're well coached, you know they they don't they

1318
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:24,320
Speaker 13: don't beat themselves. They've got some star level players and

1319
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 13: you have to be at your best in order to

1320
01:07:26,080 --> 01:07:33,840
Speaker 13: beat them. And we weren't. And so you know, to me,

1321
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:36,960
Speaker 13: I don't look at it like, hey, it's just this

1322
01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:37,479
Speaker 13: one team.

1323
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:38,880
Speaker 8: I look at it like, how do we put a

1324
01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:39,919
Speaker 8: team together.

1325
01:07:41,680 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 13: Against whoever it is every year, whomever whichever team shows

1326
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:51,680
Speaker 13: up in these rounds and coach at a level and

1327
01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 13: and have the personnel a level all of us, starting

1328
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 13: with me, that we can beat them, whoever them is.

1329
01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 13: And so there's a lot that goes into that, right

1330
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:08,439
Speaker 13: And like I mentioned earlier, from myself, coaching staff, person else,

1331
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:11,480
Speaker 13: you know, all the things that training room, weight room,

1332
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:13,919
Speaker 13: it all has to be at a level of are

1333
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:18,479
Speaker 13: we super Bowl equivalent in every area where that we're

1334
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 13: operating in And those are the those are the conversations

1335
01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:25,920
Speaker 13: that have to continue to happen and and they have

1336
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:31,439
Speaker 13: to be yes, filled with love but also truth and

1337
01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:32,759
Speaker 13: if not, we're wasting our time.

1338
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:34,879
Speaker 8: I mean, that's the reality of the situation.

1339
01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 13: Right. So you don't get up at whatever time you

1340
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:38,839
Speaker 13: get up to get in here and stay late.

1341
01:08:40,479 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 8: To keep.

1342
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 13: Knowing going into the year, that's not going to get

1343
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:48,240
Speaker 13: there if you're not doing X, Y and Z, right,

1344
01:08:48,320 --> 01:08:51,200
Speaker 13: So then you're living a lie. And that's you know,

1345
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:53,840
Speaker 13: your time and my time is better spent than that.

1346
01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:58,600
Speaker 16: So can you talk about the defensive line play? I

1347
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:00,160
Speaker 16: mean again to pass rush.

1348
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:02,000
Speaker 4: Was struggled the other time, and that's put.

1349
01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:06,400
Speaker 16: A theme in these playoff losses through the years, and

1350
01:09:06,479 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 16: you've invested assets in that area. How do you get

1351
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:11,519
Speaker 16: the most out of your pass rush?

1352
01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:12,760
Speaker 9: Moving on down the.

1353
01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:16,360
Speaker 13: Light here, now, you guys know what I believe in

1354
01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:20,680
Speaker 13: and how you build a team, and we have a quarterback.

1355
01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:22,800
Speaker 13: I think our offensive line has done a really good job,

1356
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:25,760
Speaker 13: and in some cases our defensive line has done a

1357
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 13: really good job. The defense. A really good defense starts

1358
01:09:30,560 --> 01:09:34,720
Speaker 13: up front. Winning games. As you guys know, I talk

1359
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:38,200
Speaker 13: about it, winning a lot of scrimmage is critical, and

1360
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:41,360
Speaker 13: you know I felt like we did that at sometimes

1361
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:46,120
Speaker 13: this year, not enough. And so you know that's an

1362
01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:50,559
Speaker 13: area where I did see some of our players, maybe

1363
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:55,799
Speaker 13: not statistically, but just overall factor wise or performance wise,

1364
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:05,559
Speaker 13: you know, improve upfront, and that's important, right, So I

1365
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:07,919
Speaker 13: won't get into all those guys. But but that's important.

1366
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:11,719
Speaker 13: You have to You've got to play well upfront, and

1367
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:16,639
Speaker 13: I'm just talking generally speaking, and to win the line

1368
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:19,120
Speaker 13: of scrimmage, you can control the game.

1369
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:21,960
Speaker 8: And I believe that.

1370
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:25,799
Speaker 13: You know, moving forward when in order to move forward,

1371
01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 13: just as a team in the games where I've been

1372
01:10:29,560 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 13: in the Super Bowl, you it's it's your front is

1373
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:36,240
Speaker 13: what gets you there, right, I mean, you have to

1374
01:10:36,280 --> 01:10:39,080
Speaker 13: have a good quarterback, but the O line, the D line,

1375
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:42,280
Speaker 13: they're the guys that are getting you there and and

1376
01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:45,400
Speaker 13: they impact the game more than any position. And I

1377
01:10:45,439 --> 01:10:47,200
Speaker 13: believe in that. You guys know, I've talked about that

1378
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:49,840
Speaker 13: for since I've gotten here, since we've gotten here, so

1379
01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:51,679
Speaker 13: I know Brandon believes that also.

1380
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 8: So that's an important spot for us.

1381
01:10:54,920 --> 01:10:56,840
Speaker 16: If I could follow on that. Do you need to

1382
01:10:56,880 --> 01:11:00,759
Speaker 16: get bigger on that defensive line, especially obviously tackle?

1383
01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:02,400
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean we'll look at everything.

1384
01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:06,800
Speaker 13: You know, it's it's, uh, you know, how do you

1385
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 13: with I believe we have some good players and pieces,

1386
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:15,479
Speaker 13: and it's how we add around those guys, you know,

1387
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,280
Speaker 13: so to compliment who they are and what they do

1388
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:22,519
Speaker 13: already to to to you know, as we look into

1389
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,719
Speaker 13: the free agency period and the draft as well.

1390
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:28,040
Speaker 5: Brandon talked a little bit about this, like Chris Jones

1391
01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 5: is Dome. They're just not floating out there right like

1392
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:34,200
Speaker 5: game wrecking players. There's maybe two or three of those

1393
01:11:34,240 --> 01:11:36,400
Speaker 5: in the league. We saw what Will Anderson did the

1394
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:39,160
Speaker 5: week before against Kansas City. How do you guys go

1395
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:40,600
Speaker 5: about finding that?

1396
01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:41,800
Speaker 6: In your eyes?

1397
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 5: Do you need that player somebody that can kind of

1398
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 5: change the math a little bit on that side of

1399
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:49,479
Speaker 5: the ball against some of these especially not just Pat,

1400
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:52,640
Speaker 5: but you know all these quarterbacks, Joe Burrow and the

1401
01:11:52,680 --> 01:11:53,200
Speaker 5: list goes on.

1402
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:55,360
Speaker 8: Yeah, the AFC, I'll just speak for the AFC.

1403
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 13: I certainly know that better than I know the NFC.

1404
01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:03,600
Speaker 13: I mean, the AFC is just loaded with, you know,

1405
01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:09,400
Speaker 13: really good quarterbacks, really good coaches, and so the short

1406
01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:14,360
Speaker 13: answers they are hard to find. Like Brandon said, you

1407
01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 13: do need difference makers, and again in my experience, you

1408
01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 13: need two to three on each side of the ball

1409
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:23,800
Speaker 13: that are difference makers like that. I'm not suggesting we

1410
01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:25,840
Speaker 13: have them, don't have them. I'm just saying that if

1411
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:30,640
Speaker 13: you're just saying, hey, what gets a team.

1412
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:30,040
Speaker 8: To the Super Bowl?

1413
01:12:30,080 --> 01:12:33,120
Speaker 13: Philosophically, for me, that's you look at it, you study it.

1414
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 13: You've got about two to three at least on each

1415
01:12:35,160 --> 01:12:37,479
Speaker 13: side of the ball that are top one to three,

1416
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 13: one to five at their position.

1417
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 8: That's that's real.

1418
01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:44,200
Speaker 17: How do you analyze Joe Brady's first full season on

1419
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 17: the job. Obviously, in the regular season you scored a

1420
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:48,559
Speaker 17: lot of points, second in the league, but your second

1421
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:50,080
Speaker 17: half of the Ravens game, I think it was just

1422
01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 17: six points, and then the Chiefs games some failures and

1423
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:56,840
Speaker 17: shortyarded situations that you had been good at that fourth

1424
01:12:56,880 --> 01:12:59,840
Speaker 17: down at the end there that you know the play

1425
01:12:59,920 --> 01:13:03,080
Speaker 17: is it made. So holistically, how did you feel like

1426
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 17: Joe Brady did both all season and then in the

1427
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 17: most critical moments against Kansas City.

1428
01:13:08,960 --> 01:13:11,719
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'll take the first part in terms of all seasons.

1429
01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:14,719
Speaker 13: So overall, I thought Joe did a really good job.

1430
01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:19,479
Speaker 13: He took what he had in this everybody eats slogan

1431
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 13: or whatever, and I think that's that was kind of

1432
01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 13: the approach all year. And you know, again, you look

1433
01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:29,599
Speaker 13: at what we're able to do in the in the

1434
01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:32,920
Speaker 13: past game, but also in the run game, and keeping

1435
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:35,599
Speaker 13: a team a two dimensional offense.

1436
01:13:36,720 --> 01:13:38,160
Speaker 8: Is hard to do.

1437
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 13: I thought Joe did a really effective job with doing

1438
01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:44,800
Speaker 13: that throughout the course of the year and and not

1439
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:49,519
Speaker 13: really knowing or or the opponent knowing who to try

1440
01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:52,960
Speaker 13: and take away. So I think as a coach just

1441
01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:56,599
Speaker 13: in general, when you can do that and take what

1442
01:13:56,680 --> 01:13:59,720
Speaker 13: you have learn the strength of your team, in this

1443
01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:03,480
Speaker 13: case the offense, and then use those strengths to form

1444
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:07,280
Speaker 13: to form a good system year to year, I think

1445
01:14:07,280 --> 01:14:08,640
Speaker 13: that's that's a sign of.

1446
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 8: A good football coach or a good coach overall.

1447
01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:16,760
Speaker 13: Specific to the Kansas City game, I thought, I thought

1448
01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:20,120
Speaker 13: we made some big time plays. I thought we moved

1449
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 13: the ball. In fact, I think we all gained them.

1450
01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:24,200
Speaker 13: I don't know, I can't remember that quite the numbers.

1451
01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:29,559
Speaker 13: But you know, there were some plays that I know

1452
01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:32,920
Speaker 13: Joe wants back like I do in any game, and

1453
01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:37,160
Speaker 13: so and some of those are you're talking about, you know,

1454
01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:41,320
Speaker 13: in this case, two point play from the one yard line,

1455
01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:43,280
Speaker 13: right that that's that turned out to be a very

1456
01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:46,679
Speaker 13: big play in the game. The next two point play

1457
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 13: did as well, right, the six inches of a of

1458
01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:57,240
Speaker 13: a fourth and one. That's how much. That's how razor

1459
01:14:57,320 --> 01:15:02,120
Speaker 13: thin the margins are in these games. And it's just

1460
01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:04,400
Speaker 13: to me, I don't like it, but it's fascinating to

1461
01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:07,680
Speaker 13: me to the level of because of the level of

1462
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:11,280
Speaker 13: detail you have to have to win a game like

1463
01:15:11,320 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 13: that against a team like we were going against. And

1464
01:15:16,240 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 13: I know Joe and for sure myself that you know

1465
01:15:19,160 --> 01:15:21,759
Speaker 13: we don't run from that, right, that level of detail,

1466
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:24,600
Speaker 13: that level of execution. The last drive, why did it?

1467
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:25,960
Speaker 13: Why did it go the way it did?

1468
01:15:26,320 --> 01:15:26,439
Speaker 6: Right?

1469
01:15:26,479 --> 01:15:29,360
Speaker 13: If you look at the last drive, Josh scrambles, I

1470
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 13: think for the first down, the very next play, I

1471
01:15:32,439 --> 01:15:35,200
Speaker 13: think we try to screen and go to a screen

1472
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 13: pump to get the ball down the field a little

1473
01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:41,719
Speaker 13: bit more. Our level of execution was not high enough.

1474
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 13: The next play I think was helped me out here

1475
01:15:47,800 --> 01:15:50,840
Speaker 13: batted down by number ninety. So a defensive linement made

1476
01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:52,920
Speaker 13: a big play and a big moment of the game

1477
01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:55,679
Speaker 13: right where Curtis was coming open and a potential runaway

1478
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:57,040
Speaker 13: I think from Reid.

1479
01:15:57,240 --> 01:15:57,439
Speaker 6: Right.

1480
01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:01,960
Speaker 13: The next play was a was a check screen against

1481
01:16:01,960 --> 01:16:05,720
Speaker 13: a zero blitz and we're this close. Carlostis makes the

1482
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 13: play on the edge just in a heck of a

1483
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:10,759
Speaker 13: retrace effort, right, And the last play was the last play,

1484
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:14,679
Speaker 13: and so again just you're just I keep going back

1485
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:17,559
Speaker 13: over those plays in my mind, along with others of

1486
01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:20,600
Speaker 13: that's the level of detail, that's the level of execution,

1487
01:16:21,720 --> 01:16:23,640
Speaker 13: so on and so forth and so and I know

1488
01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:27,040
Speaker 13: Joe does as well in the whole offensive staff. But overall,

1489
01:16:27,840 --> 01:16:29,880
Speaker 13: Joe's wired the right way. I thought he did a

1490
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:32,800
Speaker 13: really good job taking what he had in terms of

1491
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:36,040
Speaker 13: finding the strengths of the players, connecting with them as people,

1492
01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:39,759
Speaker 13: keeping us on a pretty good path all season long,

1493
01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:42,559
Speaker 13: which was hard to do when you go through some

1494
01:16:42,680 --> 01:16:44,759
Speaker 13: ups and downs and whatnot.

1495
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:47,679
Speaker 9: Job statistic coaching, for a second, how do you evaluate

1496
01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 9: the job.

1497
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 16: That Matthew's signed he did this season, and what's your

1498
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:51,960
Speaker 16: level of confidence in him.

1499
01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:54,639
Speaker 8: Matthew's done a nice job. Listen.

1500
01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:57,559
Speaker 13: I know there's plays that have come up and and

1501
01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 13: I know he he doesn't feel great about them, nor

1502
01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:05,519
Speaker 13: do I. Those are learning pieces for a coach in

1503
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:07,639
Speaker 13: his position. And you know, one of the things that's

1504
01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:12,400
Speaker 13: interesting about a special team's coach or the position that

1505
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:16,479
Speaker 13: they occupy, is when you get some injuries like we

1506
01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 13: had in particular on the defensive side. Unfortunately we kind

1507
01:17:19,920 --> 01:17:22,040
Speaker 13: of started with them, they stayed with us, and they

1508
01:17:22,160 --> 01:17:24,360
Speaker 13: kind of disappeared a little bit towards the back quarter

1509
01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:28,519
Speaker 13: of the season they reappeared. But usually the special teams

1510
01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:32,479
Speaker 13: coaches feel the cumulative effect because what happens is the

1511
01:17:32,479 --> 01:17:35,760
Speaker 13: special teams players get slit up into defensive roles and

1512
01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:39,800
Speaker 13: then they are left with, Hey, what's left in terms

1513
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:42,479
Speaker 13: of how I can formulate a group to go out

1514
01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 13: there and play effectively. So all that being said, you know,

1515
01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 13: I'm confident that coach Smiley is going to learn from

1516
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:52,520
Speaker 13: those situations and plays that came up this year, and

1517
01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 13: he knows we can't give up some of those plays

1518
01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:56,800
Speaker 13: that we gave up and we have to be better.

1519
01:17:57,360 --> 01:18:00,479
Speaker 14: To the defense. They scored thirty two points and high

1520
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:02,719
Speaker 14: for the year. They had twenty eight first downs, which

1521
01:18:02,760 --> 01:18:04,720
Speaker 14: was tied for their second most of the season. They're

1522
01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:09,080
Speaker 14: at all their numbers that were good, exceeded their own

1523
01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:11,599
Speaker 14: at even their own standard. As good as they are,

1524
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 14: you know, from a defensive standpoint, what from an evaluation

1525
01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:19,839
Speaker 14: standpoint do you need to do to keep them from

1526
01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:21,320
Speaker 14: having their best day of the.

1527
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Speaker 11: Year against you?

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01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:24,240
Speaker 13: Yeah, No, I think I think market it's a it's

1529
01:18:24,280 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 13: a fair question. You know, we've played really good defense

1530
01:18:27,439 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 13: for a long time here. That's that's what we're used

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01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:32,400
Speaker 13: to doing. I would say this year probably not as

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01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 13: good as as.

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01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:34,599
Speaker 8: We've played in the years prior.

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01:18:35,360 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 13: One of the things, however, I thought we've we did

1535
01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 13: a really good job at this year, which has also

1536
01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 13: been a hallmark of our of our defenses is taking

1537
01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 13: the ball away. I mean, part of this scoring on

1538
01:18:45,280 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 13: offense is from, you know, the defense taking the ball away.

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01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:52,240
Speaker 13: We did it again in the championship game, the AFC

1540
01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:56,760
Speaker 13: Championship game. That being said, we didn't do enough, We

1541
01:18:56,800 --> 01:19:00,200
Speaker 13: didn't perform well enough in that in the case into

1542
01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:03,519
Speaker 13: city game I did. I would say, if you look

1543
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:06,559
Speaker 13: back at it, you know we did make a key stop,

1544
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:09,400
Speaker 13: you know the year before, similar to allow us to

1545
01:19:09,400 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 13: go have a chance to win the game, which is

1546
01:19:11,720 --> 01:19:16,920
Speaker 13: which is perspectively an important piece. But but to your point,

1547
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:18,800
Speaker 13: we have to we have to figure out a way

1548
01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 13: to perform better against that football team you've.

1549
01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:23,599
Speaker 4: You've been sport of a Dalton.

1550
01:19:23,640 --> 01:19:27,559
Speaker 17: This team may certainly have it's commendable that he's played injured.

1551
01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:30,639
Speaker 17: I guess which has come out now, how did you

1552
01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:33,960
Speaker 17: and the training staff, I guess arrive at the conclusion

1553
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:36,640
Speaker 17: that he would be bester being out there even if

1554
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:40,920
Speaker 17: he was playing through an injury and after after that

1555
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:42,760
Speaker 17: part of it, how do you know, how do you

1556
01:19:42,760 --> 01:19:45,759
Speaker 17: get him to be more consistently impactful going into year three?

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01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,919
Speaker 13: Well, Dalton's a really good football player. I think sometimes

1558
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:52,439
Speaker 13: what happens is some of these young players come in

1559
01:19:52,479 --> 01:19:54,679
Speaker 13: and they set the world on fire the first year,

1560
01:19:55,360 --> 01:19:57,920
Speaker 13: and then what happens naturally is expectations all you know,

1561
01:19:57,920 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 13: all of a sudden rise to a level of okay this,

1562
01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:01,080
Speaker 13: then the next year is going.

1563
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:01,679
Speaker 8: To be up here.

1564
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:04,479
Speaker 13: And I think that's just human nature for all of us.

1565
01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:09,040
Speaker 13: And and uh, Dalton didn't have that next step up

1566
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:11,400
Speaker 13: type of year. Some of it was he missed some

1567
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:13,559
Speaker 13: games due to injury, then he came back and was

1568
01:20:13,560 --> 01:20:15,160
Speaker 13: trying to play through some of it.

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01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:18,600
Speaker 8: As far as the last the last ball.

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01:20:18,720 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 13: You know, Dalton makes those plays and it never comes

1571
01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:23,479
Speaker 13: down to just one play. And I want to make

1572
01:20:23,479 --> 01:20:26,360
Speaker 13: sure everybody knows that my confidence, our confidence in Dalton

1573
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:32,479
Speaker 13: is extremely high. He knows and we know that he

1574
01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:36,880
Speaker 13: has to get to a level of health and strength

1575
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:39,559
Speaker 13: playing strength so that he can remain healthy through the

1576
01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:42,080
Speaker 13: course of a full season. A lot of these tight

1577
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:44,519
Speaker 13: ends are coming out that are built a little bit

1578
01:20:44,560 --> 01:20:46,760
Speaker 13: differently maybe than they were years ago in terms of

1579
01:20:46,760 --> 01:20:49,360
Speaker 13: they're a little bit more built like Dalton and some

1580
01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:51,360
Speaker 13: of these other guys that that you know their names,

1581
01:20:51,479 --> 01:20:54,320
Speaker 13: these household names now. But the way he could set

1582
01:20:54,360 --> 01:20:57,679
Speaker 13: himself apart would be to add some of that strength,

1583
01:20:57,720 --> 01:21:01,320
Speaker 13: add some of that that that play strength and that

1584
01:21:01,400 --> 01:21:06,360
Speaker 13: durability would help him. And and so I know, Josh myself, Brandon,

1585
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:09,360
Speaker 13: offensive staff all extremely confident in Dalton.

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01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:12,400
Speaker 10: Brandon talked about how he was a little bit disappointed

1587
01:21:12,479 --> 01:21:15,240
Speaker 10: how Keon finished the vision coming back from his injury.

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01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:18,080
Speaker 11: What was your perspective on Keon's rookie yar and how

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01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:19,040
Speaker 11: he kind of added things?

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01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:22,320
Speaker 13: Well, I would say similar to what to the way

1591
01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:25,880
Speaker 13: Brandon described it, it sounds and I thought Keon really

1592
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:29,080
Speaker 13: got off to a good start. I'm going back in

1593
01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:31,280
Speaker 13: my mind to the Seattle game. You know, he was

1594
01:21:32,280 --> 01:21:35,320
Speaker 13: almost dominant in that game, both catching and blocking and

1595
01:21:35,520 --> 01:21:37,720
Speaker 13: was really starting to hey, starting to get it. And

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01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:41,160
Speaker 13: that's some of the journey for these rookies of getting

1597
01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:44,040
Speaker 13: them to understand the it. How how hard is it,

1598
01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:47,280
Speaker 13: how hard it is to play in this league and

1599
01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 13: to play week to week and you're you're not going

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01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:54,760
Speaker 13: against any any slouch corner out there usually and and

1601
01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 13: then he had the injury unfortunately the end of the

1602
01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:58,679
Speaker 13: Miami game, all the while trying to make a play

1603
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:01,719
Speaker 13: where I should clearly trust him. It was a critical

1604
01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:04,519
Speaker 13: third and long play, and then he went down. So

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01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:07,519
Speaker 13: I would, I would, I would agree with what Brandon said.

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01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:11,680
Speaker 13: And you know, he didn't play his best down the

1607
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:14,360
Speaker 13: stretch and and uh some that probably was due to

1608
01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:16,200
Speaker 13: coming off the injury. He kind of get out out

1609
01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 13: of sank out of rhythm a little bit, but it

1610
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 13: is something that he can he can learn from and

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01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:21,719
Speaker 13: improve on moving forward.

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01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 2: All right, that's head coach Jean McDermott addressing the media

1613
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Speaker 2: here this afternoon at his season wrap up press conference.

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Speaker 2: We have to take a break, but when Steve and

1615
01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:32,559
Speaker 2: I come back, we'll kind of react to some of

1616
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:35,280
Speaker 2: coach McDermott's comments, And if you have any thoughts you

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Speaker 2: want to chime in on, feel free to do so.

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Speaker 3: At eight h three oh five fifty here on One.

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Speaker 2: Bill's Live, presented by co Lot of Health, It's Buffalo

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Speaker 2: Bill's Radio. All right, back here on One Bill's Live

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01:22:57,240 --> 01:23:00,519
Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, and it's an interesting comments from

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01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:03,120
Speaker 2: coach McDermott. He did echo the same sentiments to Branton

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01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:06,120
Speaker 2: being dead about Dalton kincaid, it's clear that in his

1624
01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 2: exit interview he's been given some work to do in

1625
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:12,559
Speaker 2: terms of making himself bigger and stronger, more durable for

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01:23:12,680 --> 01:23:17,519
Speaker 2: next season. Maybe they felt that being bigger and stronger

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01:23:17,600 --> 01:23:20,400
Speaker 2: might help him avoid the injury that kept him out

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01:23:20,400 --> 01:23:25,200
Speaker 2: for three games this season. I found his comment about

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01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:29,880
Speaker 2: having difference makers on your roster interesting. He would not

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01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:31,640
Speaker 2: say whether or not he feels he has two or

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01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:34,960
Speaker 2: three different makers on this roster, but he said, if

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01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:37,200
Speaker 2: you want to really contend for a championship, you have

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01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:40,400
Speaker 2: to have two or three difference makers on each side

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01:23:40,439 --> 01:23:43,800
Speaker 2: of the ball. I found that comment very interesting.

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01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 1: And I mean sitting from you know where we're at,

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01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:48,720
Speaker 1: where you watch this team all the time, and I

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01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:50,920
Speaker 1: mean Josh is a difference maker. James Cook proved to

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01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:54,200
Speaker 1: be a difference maker. Certainly, if you want to throw

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01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:56,200
Speaker 1: it in there, the offensive line is difference making on

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01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:58,560
Speaker 1: this team. Those are all on the offensive side of

1641
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:00,960
Speaker 1: the ball. Defensively, kind harder to come up with one.

1642
01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:02,920
Speaker 1: Maybe Matt Mulano, although he's in and out of the

1643
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:07,800
Speaker 1: lineup a little injured. Terrell Bernard is a great player

1644
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:09,960
Speaker 1: and I think can be construed as that, But none

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01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:11,600
Speaker 1: of those guys are working on either end of the

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01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:15,200
Speaker 1: passing game, and that's kind of where you make your

1647
01:24:15,280 --> 01:24:20,000
Speaker 1: bread and butter. Yeah, I think it's harder to make

1648
01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:23,320
Speaker 1: a difference from an inside linebacker spot where Milano and

1649
01:24:23,479 --> 01:24:29,120
Speaker 1: Bernard are. But yeah, I mean it's still it just

1650
01:24:29,160 --> 01:24:34,400
Speaker 1: screams that. You know, everybody wants more sacks. Everybody wants

1651
01:24:34,439 --> 01:24:36,879
Speaker 1: one of the Everybody wants one of those elite pass rushers,

1652
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:40,560
Speaker 1: and certainly you know the Bills would take one of

1653
01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:42,800
Speaker 1: they get one. Yeah, the question is how hard is

1654
01:24:42,800 --> 01:24:44,200
Speaker 1: it going to be to get one? I mean, think

1655
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:46,400
Speaker 1: about the Chiefs. They've got difference makers on both sides

1656
01:24:46,400 --> 01:24:49,280
Speaker 1: of the ball, and on defense they've got well like

1657
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:51,240
Speaker 1: Ladarius Snead and Chris Jones.

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01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:54,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't have Lagarius sneed anymore. They have Tred McDuffie.

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01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:57,479
Speaker 1: McDuff right, So they've got you know, they got guys

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01:24:57,520 --> 01:24:59,479
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, you can point, you hang your hat

1661
01:24:59,520 --> 01:25:04,040
Speaker 1: on that, and you know, so it's it's a little

1662
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:04,360
Speaker 1: bit of that.

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01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:06,519
Speaker 6: Not really.

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01:25:06,680 --> 01:25:08,920
Speaker 1: I was gonna say chicken in the egg. Your your

1665
01:25:08,920 --> 01:25:10,920
Speaker 1: difference makers make your team get there. But when your

1666
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:13,880
Speaker 1: team gets there, those guys kind of show up. It's

1667
01:25:13,880 --> 01:25:16,200
Speaker 1: not a chicken in the egg. Those great good players

1668
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:19,280
Speaker 1: make you better. It's it's not difficult.

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01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:21,280
Speaker 2: I would say on offense, you could point to Allen

1670
01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:26,479
Speaker 2: and Cook has two difference makers. Probably need a third

1671
01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 2: and wide out and we'll see what happens there. And

1672
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:38,559
Speaker 2: then defensively, do you have like an a one difference maker.

1673
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 3: I'm not certain that you do. I think you have

1674
01:25:40,520 --> 01:25:42,040
Speaker 3: a lot of very good players.

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01:25:41,720 --> 01:25:45,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, good, really good players, but you don't have a

1676
01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:48,800
Speaker 1: guy that's like other teams when you're game planning. Yeah,

1677
01:25:48,800 --> 01:25:51,880
Speaker 1: when you're going into whatever whatever road game you want

1678
01:25:51,880 --> 01:25:53,920
Speaker 1: to talk about l A. Or you're going into Sandy

1679
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:58,160
Speaker 1: st to a Seattle and those teams and there are going, Wow,

1680
01:25:58,200 --> 01:25:59,720
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do about this?

1681
01:25:59,760 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 6: Why?

1682
01:26:00,160 --> 01:26:01,439
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do about that guy? What are

1683
01:26:01,479 --> 01:26:03,680
Speaker 1: you gonna do about this defender? Bills don't have any

1684
01:26:03,680 --> 01:26:05,960
Speaker 1: of those, don't have those guys.

1685
01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 2: They got Josh, Yeah, and I would say Cook is

1686
01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:13,320
Speaker 2: probably and Cook into that category also, Yeah.

1687
01:26:13,400 --> 01:26:15,599
Speaker 1: So and the way they ran their offense, their running

1688
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:18,760
Speaker 1: game is a factor, and I Yeah, let's face it,

1689
01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:20,800
Speaker 1: they were the number two league and two in the

1690
01:26:20,840 --> 01:26:22,559
Speaker 1: league in scoring this year. We keep saying it over

1691
01:26:22,600 --> 01:26:25,599
Speaker 1: and over. They set a league, a franchise record for touchdowns.

1692
01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:27,200
Speaker 1: I mean, they got it going on on that side

1693
01:26:27,200 --> 01:26:30,519
Speaker 1: of the ball. Defensively, they hung in there because they

1694
01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:32,960
Speaker 1: could punch the ball out and get some picks. They

1695
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:35,000
Speaker 1: got some turnovers, and even the offense helped him out

1696
01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:37,479
Speaker 1: with that because of the turnover margin. The offense never

1697
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:40,479
Speaker 1: turned it over and they were really efficient. So you know,

1698
01:26:40,520 --> 01:26:42,519
Speaker 1: that was a little complimentary there. So yeah, I mean

1699
01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:45,920
Speaker 1: you're looking you look at the defense. You're coughing up

1700
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:48,000
Speaker 1: thirty two points to the Chiefs who didn't score thirty

1701
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 1: points all season. It's hard now. Certainly the Chiefs were

1702
01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:54,200
Speaker 1: playing their best. I mean they turned it on and

1703
01:26:54,200 --> 01:26:57,320
Speaker 1: they got a gear. But you need you know, that's

1704
01:26:57,360 --> 01:26:59,000
Speaker 1: where you're looking at right now, and you're saying, in

1705
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:01,960
Speaker 1: this offseason, what's that gonna what's it gonna look like

1706
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:04,280
Speaker 1: on opening Day next year? How different is it gonna

1707
01:27:04,280 --> 01:27:06,880
Speaker 1: be as different as it was this year. Defensively, it

1708
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:07,599
Speaker 1: might be.

1709
01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:09,760
Speaker 4: It might be.

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01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:13,640
Speaker 2: Got to take a break here, one more segment to

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01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:16,680
Speaker 2: go here on a season wrap up Thursday on One

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Speaker 2: Bills Live presented by Collide Health.

1713
01:27:18,280 --> 01:27:32,519
Speaker 3: It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

1714
01:27:34,680 --> 01:27:36,519
Speaker 2: All right back here on one Bill's Live on a

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01:27:36,560 --> 01:27:40,600
Speaker 2: season wrap up edition. As we had, Brandon Bean and

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01:27:40,640 --> 01:27:44,600
Speaker 2: Sean McDermott both address the media today with their reflections

1717
01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:48,760
Speaker 2: on the twenty twenty four season. One interesting thing that

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01:27:48,840 --> 01:27:52,320
Speaker 2: coach McDermott brought up was talking about the success they

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01:27:52,400 --> 01:27:55,479
Speaker 2: have had in lots of big games. As we mentioned earlier,

1720
01:27:55,520 --> 01:27:57,000
Speaker 2: the Bills and the Chiefs are the only teams to

1721
01:27:57,040 --> 01:27:59,360
Speaker 2: win a playoff game each of the last six seasons,

1722
01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:02,679
Speaker 2: and he pointed out that they beat two very good

1723
01:28:02,680 --> 01:28:06,759
Speaker 2: teams this year that have two Super Bowl winning coaches

1724
01:28:08,240 --> 01:28:10,640
Speaker 2: and Sean Payton and John Harbaugh.

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Speaker 1: In the playoffs. Yes, they also beat both number one

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01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:17,280
Speaker 1: seeds in then in each conference AFC, NFC during the

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01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:21,320
Speaker 1: regular season. And it's and this is stacked on top

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01:28:21,360 --> 01:28:27,960
Speaker 1: of now five straight division titles and in a season

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01:28:28,120 --> 01:28:32,439
Speaker 1: where once again everybody picked the Bills to take a

1730
01:28:32,439 --> 01:28:36,920
Speaker 1: step back from the division title, significant step back, and

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01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:40,120
Speaker 1: they won the division. Not only winning the division but

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01:28:40,160 --> 01:28:44,840
Speaker 1: won it in record time. Yeah, I mean, there's a

1733
01:28:44,840 --> 01:28:48,760
Speaker 1: lot to be happy about, but it's you know, it's

1734
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:52,000
Speaker 1: hard to listen to that stuff. After this NFC Championship game,

1735
01:28:52,040 --> 01:28:54,479
Speaker 1: you get booted out by the exact same team kind

1736
01:28:54,479 --> 01:28:55,920
Speaker 1: of in the exact same way, just like.

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01:28:55,960 --> 01:28:56,960
Speaker 4: The skin of the teeth.

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01:28:57,040 --> 01:29:00,240
Speaker 1: You know, you're just right there all the time. But

1739
01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:03,080
Speaker 1: you know, you take a deep breath and you think

1740
01:29:03,080 --> 01:29:06,600
Speaker 1: about it. It's like and you look around at the

1741
01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:08,640
Speaker 1: competition and what's going on. You think, you know what,

1742
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:10,320
Speaker 1: we're doing a lot of stuff. Right, let's go, let's

1743
01:29:10,320 --> 01:29:14,120
Speaker 1: take another swing at it, and we'll say it again.

1744
01:29:16,080 --> 01:29:19,320
Speaker 1: Running it back is not running it back the way

1745
01:29:19,840 --> 01:29:23,240
Speaker 1: a fan would think of it. You do your thing,

1746
01:29:23,280 --> 01:29:24,920
Speaker 1: you make your team as good as you can make it,

1747
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:29,960
Speaker 1: and keep going. So it's not expecting different results doing

1748
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:32,599
Speaker 1: the same thing. It's doing it the right way and

1749
01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:33,559
Speaker 1: getting different results.

1750
01:29:33,560 --> 01:29:35,360
Speaker 2: And that's why I said there's still one thing left

1751
01:29:35,360 --> 01:29:37,240
Speaker 2: to win, and that's a World Championship. But he was

1752
01:29:37,360 --> 01:29:40,080
Speaker 2: very clear that they feel good about their methodology and

1753
01:29:40,160 --> 01:29:42,720
Speaker 2: what they're doing. How can they do better is the

1754
01:29:42,760 --> 01:29:44,600
Speaker 2: next question. That's it for us today. We'll see you

1755
01:29:44,640 --> 01:29:53,680
Speaker 2: tomorrow at one