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Speaker 1: Bills Live here on a Tuesday, a mandatory mini camp Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: We will do the same here on One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: What do you got for us? Judy? You're on one

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Speaker 1: fed and watered, and they have a hotel or if

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Speaker 1: they need a hotel or whatever they can you know,

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Speaker 1: get that paid for as well. But as for paychecks, no,

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Speaker 1: zeros and ziltch Now they don't start getting now when

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Speaker 1: they go to training camp, Judy. Veteran players get per

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Speaker 1: diem payments, which for the upcoming league year is I

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Speaker 1: believe twenty nine hundred dollars a week, So they get

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Speaker 1: like a stipend during training camp separate from their Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they don't pay these guys to practice, they pay them

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Speaker 1: to play. So is Judy still there? Yes? Yes, go ahead, Judy.

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Speaker 1: Do you have anything else or was that it? Well?

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Speaker 1: That's it? So it's really a minimum situation for them

435
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Speaker 1: showing up right now. Absolutely, it's strict. That's why. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's mandatory, no question, because it's in the CBA and

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Speaker 1: all that. But they don't get anything extra. Now, there

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Speaker 1: may be parts of individual guys contracts, and I imagine

439
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Speaker 1: there's a bunch of guys like this who have stuff

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Speaker 1: in their contracts. Say listen, I gotta workout bonus, which

441
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Speaker 1: they'll lay out exactly what that means. All right, you

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Speaker 1: gotta be at the mandatory minicamp. Okay. It also means

443
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Speaker 1: if you show up to a certain percentage of the

444
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Speaker 1: voluntary stuff you also that goes into the mix as well.

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Speaker 1: But if you show up to this, this, this, and this,

446
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Speaker 1: you get a ton of cash. Now, there's probably some

447
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Speaker 1: guys that have that in their contracts, but nothing for

448
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Speaker 1: the guys who just signed unless you know that they

449
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Speaker 1: specifically negotiate it. Yeah, all right, thanks for the call, Judy,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Eight oh three five fifty one eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty for you to get on

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Speaker 1: board if you want. How to the bills manage the

453
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Speaker 1: highest expectations they've had in the Sean McDermot era choices

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Speaker 1: are there for you at one Bills live on the

455
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Speaker 1: Twitter page, So check that out at your earliest convenience

456
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Speaker 1: and let us know what you think. Ravens quarterback Lamar

457
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: Jackson at his mandatory minicamp basically declared himself ready for

458
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Speaker 1: the season. Terry McLaurin not at mandatory minicamp for the

459
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Speaker 1: Washington Commanders. He's seeking a contract extension and light of

460
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Speaker 1: the way the wide receiver market got reset this offseason,

461
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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill chief among those contracts altering terms. So we'll

462
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Speaker 1: see where that goes. But it's really thrown the rest

463
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Speaker 1: of the league into a tizzy and players that are

464
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Speaker 1: entering the final years of their contracts. As McLaurin is,

465
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Speaker 1: let's going to the team with his hand out now saying, hey,

466
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Speaker 1: Dolphins took care of that guy. Bill's re up their guy.

467
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: After the Dolphins got their guys, you gonna do for me.

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Speaker 1: That's why human beings are hey me too, exactly. Speaking

469
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Speaker 1: of wide receivers, as we know, Odell Beckham Junior towards

470
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Speaker 1: ACL in the Super Bowl last February and is currently

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Speaker 1: without a team as a free agent. Rams CEO Kevin

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Speaker 1: Demoff said he is optimistic that Odell Beckham Junior will

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Speaker 1: resign with the Rams. When that happens is a gigantic

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Speaker 1: question mark. I think at best you're probably looking at

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Speaker 1: what steve second half of the sea, if he even

476
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Speaker 1: is ready at that point in time. It's February, second

477
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Speaker 1: week of February, and yeah, it's like the middle of

478
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Speaker 1: October at the earliest, and that's when he can get

479
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Speaker 1: on the field and be one hundred percent. Yeah, and

480
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Speaker 1: you know all that. So mentally it'll go faster than

481
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Speaker 1: that because he'll you know, he'll be in meetings and

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Speaker 1: all that watch and learning and all of that. Sign

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Speaker 1: providity signed. So yeah, that's the worst possible since I

484
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Speaker 1: guess you could do. I guess you could sign him

485
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Speaker 1: and do reverse or reverse reserve pup, which would make

486
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Speaker 1: him ineligible for the first six weeks of the season.

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Speaker 1: Then he can start practicing week seven, eight, nine, or

488
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Speaker 1: ten couple extra months, you know, and buy yourself time

489
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Speaker 1: that way. But I mean, at the receiver position, the

490
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Speaker 1: acl is, I mean, it's a lot of stopping and starting.

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Speaker 1: That thing's got to be healed. Then two it's got

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Speaker 1: to be strong. Yeah, and he's he's he's been three

493
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Speaker 1: injuries before. Oh yeah, this is the second a cl

494
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Speaker 1: and he'll know what he's up against. But yeah, I

495
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: mean that's he's been a lightning rod through his whole career.

496
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: Guy can really play, though we all have to acknowledge

497
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Speaker 1: that once he got in the tank with you can't

498
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Speaker 1: work him out right. I mean, it's not like you're

499
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to bring him in see how he's running,

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Speaker 1: how his movement. It's like, he's got to trust your

501
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Speaker 1: medical people and have him come and visit. You say, hey, Odell,

502
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Speaker 1: how you feeling. Let's come in. He's got to submit

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Speaker 1: to a physical by your physicians, get their hands on him.

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00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: You know, look at the at the operation, the wound, everything,

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Speaker 1: Just give me a full evaluation of his knee, and

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Speaker 1: they'll say, yeah, he's on track. He'll be back by whatever, October, September,

507
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Speaker 1: October for sure, November. Then you say, okay, well let's see,

508
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: let's talk about it. And then you got an idea.

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Speaker 1: But nobody I would think, is gonna let sign Odell

510
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Speaker 1: Beckham as good as he has been unless they get

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Speaker 1: their doctor's hands on him eactly, and who knows like

512
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Speaker 1: and whether he's even though it's surgically repaired. Do you

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Speaker 1: know if he's capable of passing a physical? You don't. Like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor. I don't know what where does

515
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Speaker 1: the ACL repair have to be to pass a physical

516
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Speaker 1: for a team? Well, I mean if the doctor gives them. Well,

517
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Speaker 1: here's the thing, you don't have to pass any physical.

518
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: If the team wants to sign you, that just sign you.

519
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: So there's that. It's not a rule. They usually against it,

520
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Speaker 1: try to cover their basis. Yeah, yeah, for sure. What

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is though the team is saying, if the

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Speaker 1: doctors come and say, yeah, the operation looks good, looks

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Speaker 1: at with his you know, the guy's going to be

524
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Speaker 1: able to play and he'll be fine. And then you

525
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Speaker 1: got to, you know, look the guy in the eye

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Speaker 1: and does he want to play again? Well, then okay,

527
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Speaker 1: let's go to sign him. Certainly, you got to know

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Speaker 1: what you're getting when you do that, and you structure

529
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Speaker 1: the contract accordingly so you're not on the hook. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I get it. Break time for us here. When we

531
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Speaker 1: come back, we're going to be playing you. Sean mcdermot's

532
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Speaker 1: press conferences he met the media prior to practice today,

533
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Speaker 1: covered a range of topics. Will bring those two you

534
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: next year on One Bills Live, Presentybody, Colloid to Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live, Chris.

536
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: Perhaps Deep Pastor would do time for us though. Now

537
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: to bring you head coach Sean McDermott, who addressed the

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Speaker 1: media prior to today's first mandatory minicamp practice. Before I

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Speaker 1: get started, just want to open up with a couple

540
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Speaker 1: of words about Terry and Kim and you know what

541
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: they're going through, and let them know that our thoughts

542
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: and our prayers are with them. What they've done for me,

543
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: for my family, for this team, this in this city,

544
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: in Western New York. Just being there for them, all

545
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: of us collectively offering our prayers, our support and giving

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00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: them the privacy that they need, I think is important,

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00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: um during this time. So, UM, I know you'll have

548
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Speaker 1: some questions. I respect those questions, UM, but I also know,

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Speaker 1: UM that I know what's important right now, and that

550
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: is to uh that we're all thinking of them and

551
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: supporting them every way we can. So with that alternative

552
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: over to you and UH we'll go from there. Coach, Um,

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00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: you know you're spending the night you're putting in these

554
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: as two hours. UM, Julie Beany, Lucy's mile max too

555
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: over the weekend about how did you manage you know,

556
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Speaker 1: work in real life, knowing how close wild with this broster,

557
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: what we'll make the ultimate sacrifice? Yeah, I mean, let's

558
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: go back. I appreciate, I'm aware of that message that

559
00:32:53,360 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: went out, UM, the accuracy. And what I said is

560
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: this is UM. I used to spend the night in

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Speaker 1: the office, UM, and it was about work life balance.

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Speaker 1: And I spent a lot of time here we as coaches,

563
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of people that spend a lot

564
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: of time in this building working hard so that we

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Speaker 1: get the results that we so desire. But I also

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Speaker 1: believe in and uh and being a good dad at

567
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: home so UM and taking a lot of pride in that.

568
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: So having said that, UM, you know, we do what

569
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Speaker 1: we can. UM. The goal is the goal. And UH

570
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: after a few days this week, we're gonna unplug a

571
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: little bit to get away speaking of balance and and

572
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: enjoy a little bit of what life has to offer.

573
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Speaker 1: And I think that perspective is good. And then we

574
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Speaker 1: fire back up at the end of July and we

575
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Speaker 1: get this thing cranked up all the way here, So

576
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,719
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. But in between now and then

577
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: we've got a couple of days of work in front

578
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Speaker 1: of us and then get some rest here. So is

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Speaker 1: this week, I guess wetting things up before training camp,

580
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: especially for new coaches later, Head Smiley, just make sure

581
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: before you guys. Yeah, it's huge. Um, you know, you

582
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: want to be able to kind of throw all the

583
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 1: paint on the palette over the course of the spring

584
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Speaker 1: and then really start to chisel it down so that

585
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: when you come back for training camp you've got a good,

586
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: defined and clear plan as to what you want to do,

587
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: how you want to approach it, how you want to

588
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: attack things, and how you see, at least on the

589
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: surface at the beginning of it all training camp unfolding

590
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: is camp. He is here, yep, he is here. How

591
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: worn is that to get him back in the building

592
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Speaker 1: after not be here for oas and things like that. Yeah,

593
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: it's important. He's one of the leaders of our team. Um,

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00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 1: you know, it's good to see his face in here,

595
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 1: you know, on a personal level, and then uh, and

596
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: then just to get him around the team. And I'm

597
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: sure those guys are happy to see him as well.

598
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 1: So it looks like he's been working and and we're

599
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,799
Speaker 1: looking forward to spending some time with him the next

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00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: couple of days. Respect you, you know, Art, And I

601
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: think I'm really kicking about what uniqueness or what needs

602
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: it about the rules that make gimpers from other ownership groups,

603
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: or what I've been brought to you during your time

604
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: ye oh man, um yeah, I don't want to get

605
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: into comparing and contrasting. I don't think that's that's that's healthy. Um.

606
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,240
Speaker 1: I mean, in my mind, they're they're the best owners

607
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: in the NFL um um. And I'm probably biased, but

608
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: that's how I feel in my heart. UM. I mean,

609
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: I think if you just look at what they've done

610
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: for uh, you know, Western New York, what they've done

611
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: for this organization, for the multiple organizations and companies that

612
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: they own around here, and then personally what they've done

613
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: for me and my family. UM. I don't know that

614
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 1: I'll ever be able to repay them. Um um. So

615
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: we love them, um and more than anything, we just

616
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,439
Speaker 1: want to be there for him right now. Set his wife,

617
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: is anyone not present because a forms, oh everyone's here.

618
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 1: Look at your quarterback room that you have this year.

619
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: I mean case is new to the team. That is

620
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: new again. He was on the team with Joe Brady

621
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: is a new quarterback coach. What do you think you

622
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: have in this new quarterbacks room? And I guess how

623
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: do you think you could help Josh as he moved

624
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: on into the NFL career. Well, you know, that's an

625
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: interesting room every year, but it's an important room. Um,

626
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: just the same, Maddie, and uh, you know we we

627
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: were talking a little bit about this yesterday. Um, and

628
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: the the personalities that are in that room, the experience

629
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,280
Speaker 1: in some ways that that is in that room. Um,

630
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,760
Speaker 1: it's gotta it's got to work together and fit together

631
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,720
Speaker 1: like a puzzle because of the importance of that position

632
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: and how that relates to winning football games. So it's

633
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Speaker 1: an interesting dynamic because Josh is obviously, you know, the

634
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: guy in that room right now, and those other two

635
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: players have to support Josh but at the same time

636
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: get themselves ready to go. So but with very limited reps. Um.

637
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: So I've always said that the backup quarterback position in

638
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: the NFL is a hard one because of what comes

639
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: with the job description. So m but Joe and the

640
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: way he fits into that room, personality wise, and then

641
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: what he's been able to do to this point in

642
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:53,479
Speaker 1: his career with his experience, I think I think really

643
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: builds well for that group as a whole. He signed

644
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: Greg Van Roban, Why and what do you see in Yeah?

645
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: So Greg Um has tremendous experience. Obviously he's played in

646
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: the division for a window of his career. Um was

647
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: in Carolina. I did not overlap with Greg there, but

648
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: saw his body of work from afar Um. We have

649
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for Greg and what he's been

650
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 1: able to do through his career, and I think it's

651
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: a it's a good addition for us in terms of

652
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: the competition, the experience. Uh, he has positioned flexibility as well.

653
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: So I had a few minutes this morning to be

654
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: around Greg and and uh to this point, he's been

655
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: a great addition. The other injury besides, you know, Flucker's

656
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: obviously coming back from surgery, but anybody else hurt that

657
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: precipitated let's bring in another guy. Nothing new. Nothing got

658
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: any feedback from the guys who went out with von

659
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,720
Speaker 1: Miller from the pass rush summon and was young guys

660
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: bring back anything that you've heard. Yeah, that's a that

661
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: was a cool deal right where they can get out

662
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: there and imitation only and they can get out there

663
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: and be around not only Vaughan in a setting like that,

664
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: but also the other pass rushing specialists that were out there,

665
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: experts right hands on. And the thing that those guys

666
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 1: all came back with was just I think you come back.

667
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: How couldn't you come back with confidence? A little bit

668
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: more confidence than what you had before, right just by

669
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: being around that environment. So within that you could ask

670
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: those guys individually what they each individually came back with,

671
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: But I think you come back with a little sense

672
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: of confidence, a little boost of confidence when you're around that.

673
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:36,399
Speaker 1: Kmark's question about the offensive line, you've added some experience there?

674
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: Was that a point of ephosis this offseason to maybe

675
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: get some more experienced depth up front? You know, Jad

676
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: would say yes, and though I would say from an

677
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: experienced standpoint, didn't have to be experienced, but depth and competition. Yes,

678
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 1: the game is one upfront on both sides of the

679
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: all so we were able to do some things offensively

680
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: with that. To your point up front, and I think

681
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: you've got to be able to control that line of

682
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 1: scrimmage and um, you know, you got to know what

683
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,879
Speaker 1: you got coming out of training camp and and uh,

684
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: you know, we've got a established a line of scrimmage

685
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: and be protect our quarterback position. But these are guys

686
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: who have been stapled the new roles. I heard Jimmy Saalgata,

687
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: who was the first one. Bobby. Yeah, you know, I've

688
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: been very impressed with with those two. Um, you know,

689
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:42,720
Speaker 1: the continuity piece is there. Uh, but when you're changing roles,

690
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: that that's that's a little bit of a challenge in

691
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 1: terms of a how you're viewed internally. I've been through

692
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: that before. And and those two work their tails off too, uh,

693
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,439
Speaker 1: prepare themselves for the next step. And in this case,

694
00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: Jimmy moved over to the safeties and Bobby to the linebackers. So, um,

695
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 1: you know you want to challenge too at times. You know,

696
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: a new challenge is exciting, it's new, and it's it's uh,

697
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: it challenges you to adjust as a coach. So um,

698
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 1: they're going through some some you know, minor growing pains

699
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,760
Speaker 1: here and there, but they're both very diligent and thorough

700
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: in their approach. And I know that when they get

701
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: to training camp it'll run a little bit even smoother

702
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 1: than it did. Uh in this in this spring time. Here, Well,

703
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: here's another experienced player right with uh with a tremendous

704
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: amount of potential and talent. He was drafted in the

705
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: first round for a reason. Um, you know he had

706
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: the injury in Tampa. I think the key for him

707
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 1: is getting off on the right start. He works his

708
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: butt off to to get our playbook down and you've

709
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: seen him make some plays out there already. And I

710
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 1: think he's going to have a great, a great training camp.

711
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,439
Speaker 1: He's finishing off a good spring and it gets better

712
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 1: every day. So when we put the pads on, that's

713
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 1: when the real football begins. And I think we'll know

714
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: a little bit more come training camp. Ask Dorris's presence

715
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,320
Speaker 1: and then like a lot of as a coordinator and

716
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: what elements does he have that suits his offense to

717
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: be more explosive. Uh. Well, first, I'd say he's played

718
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: at a high level. And if you've been around Doris

719
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: a little bit, you've seen the fire that he has,

720
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 1: that he brings, the competitive nature that he has. You know,

721
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: it's important when you coach that you can see it

722
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: through the eyes of the helmet. Right, You've got to

723
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: be able to put yourself in the players position in

724
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: order to get them in position to make plays and

725
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: be successful. Ken Ken's warned that helmet, so he's been

726
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: those eyes. And then when you're coaching through the offensive lens,

727
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: it's it's usually coaching through the eyes of the quarterback,

728
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: and he's played that position, so he is to me

729
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: very qualified to do that at a high level. So

730
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:58,320
Speaker 1: that's coach. Most of his comments from today's press conference,

731
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,479
Speaker 1: and as Steve mentioned at the top of the show,

732
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: because it was asked line play both sides of the ball,

733
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: heavy investments on both sides, inexperienced NFL players. You're talking

734
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: about Jordan Phillips, Shack Lawson to Kwan Jones, Von miller Um,

735
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 1: Tim Settle, and Tim Settle. Those are your five new

736
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: additions on the defensive side of the ball. Nobody has

737
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: less than four years of experience. And then you go

738
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: to the offensive side of the ball and the majority

739
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: of the additions are veterans as well. Greg Man's Greg

740
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: Van Rotten or Rotten sorry, Jacob Kapra has some time

741
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: in the league, staff Old and Kessenberry, Yeah, I mean

742
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 1: you got veteran players where you know, should something happen

743
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,720
Speaker 1: and you have a shortage of players. You've got an answer.

744
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: I think too it and he said it when it

745
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,919
Speaker 1: was asked. I kind of thought this to myself. It's

746
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: not as much about experience, although that's good. I think

747
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: they're bringing bringing in the best guys they can and

748
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 1: right now, the guys that are out there on the

749
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: free agent more guys that haven't been like you know,

750
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: Van Roten today or yesterday is a perfect example. He's

751
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: kind of waiting around. He knows he's gonna wants to

752
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: be in camp, wants to go in and he's probably

753
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: not panicking about signing someplace. But guys like Questenberry and

754
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: certainly Saffled, those guys picked up early in free agency,

755
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,879
Speaker 1: they're the absolute best guys available, particularly when they signed him,

756
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: And it's not so much that they have experiences that

757
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,800
Speaker 1: the fact that you've seen them play the exact position

758
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: you wanted to play for you at the level you

759
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: want them to play at. Right, So it's it's as

760
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 1: much about bringing in the best players they can find

761
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,399
Speaker 1: as it is about the experience. Now, the experience tells

762
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: you how good they are, and that's fine, but it's

763
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: really about the level of play are getting. If they had,

764
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: you know, if a guy like Spencer Brown or Tommy

765
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: Doyle or any of these other guy young guys were

766
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: out there, they'd want they'd sign them to you know

767
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. The experience is a plus for those

768
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,959
Speaker 1: reasons tell you how good they are, and it gives

769
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: you some confidence that they can repeat that performance for

770
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: your team. Break time for us here. When we come back,

771
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: we will have more on mandatory minicamp as well as

772
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: the latest with DeShawn Watson. Yes, there's more. We'll tell

773
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: you about a next here on One Bill's Live presented

774
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome

775
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: back One Bill's Live and Leaveland Brown's quarterback Deshaun Watson

776
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: at Brown's minicamp address the media today. During his remarks,

777
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: the quarterback said he was focused on clearing his name

778
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,359
Speaker 1: and that he has always been honest and truthful. Those

779
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: are his words. Comments come as allegations of sexual assault

780
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 1: against the quarterback are now up to twenty four civil suits.

781
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: Tony Busby, the attorney for the plaintiffs in those civil cases,

782
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: said recently anticipates adding more to the ones current currently pending,

783
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: So basically most of Deshaun Watson's press conference today dealt

784
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: with his off the field legal issues, and he was

785
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: asked about the New York Times article which alleged that

786
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 1: he had met with sixty six different massage therapists over

787
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: a seventeen month period, and his response was he was

788
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:47,280
Speaker 1: asked his sixty six massage therapists accurate, he said, quote,

789
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 1: I don't think so, but later added that the question

790
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: should be directed to his attorneys. You I'm not passing judgment,

791
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: but anytime you're referring questions, be passed to your attorneys.

792
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 1: You've been given strict instructions on what to say, and

793
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: not just for a good reason. And I get it.

794
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:14,280
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna discount him for for that. Um No,

795
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: because you know, I don't know what happened, and well

796
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: you long, yeah, exactly, through twenty six lawsuits, you almost

797
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: can't talk about anything, right, I mean, so, um it,

798
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: it's distasteful at the very least disgusting. Um um So, yeah,

799
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to deal with it, and so are

800
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: all and unfortunately so does everybody until it's until it's

801
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: resolved in one way or another. And even after it's resolved,

802
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: all of us have to wrap our minds amount whether

803
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:52,760
Speaker 1: we're satisfied with the resolution, starting with the with the victims.

804
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's nothing you got to keep track of

805
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: and see what happens. The unfortunate thing is, it's just gonna,

806
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: like I said when we had Judie Batista on yesterday,

807
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: this is this is gonna be a story that blocks

808
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: out the sun for the NFL until it's resolved. Yeah,

809
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: and on a league landscape, yeah, the only and I

810
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: don't it's hard for the league. I mean, the league's

811
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: not I mean set up to do this. I mean

812
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: because it's such a public thing in the in the

813
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: NFL is in such a spotlight, and they live in

814
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:25,760
Speaker 1: you know, the whole league is in a fish bowl,

815
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 1: albeit an eight hundred pound fish bowl. It's not as

816
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: easy as to have the commissioner come out and say, listen,

817
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 1: we're gonna when this happened a year ago or two

818
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: more than a year ago, for the commissioner just come

819
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: out and say listen, I'm gonna we're gonna suspend him

820
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: until this is all resolved. Because there have been instances

821
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: where people lied about NFL players and what they did,

822
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: and to suspend the guy for somebody who just cock

823
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: cooks something up, and you got to treat them all

824
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: the same the same. So that's why stuff like this

825
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 1: you kind of got to live through it, because the

826
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: league has to live through it. They can't just wash

827
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: their hands of it until it's all said and done,

828
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: because there have been other instances where they shouldn't have

829
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 1: done that either. So yeah, it's just you we got

830
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 1: to sit here and just YEA keeps up to date. Well,

831
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,280
Speaker 1: twenty four cases already filed, two more on the way,

832
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: which would make twenty six and any others that may

833
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,399
Speaker 1: come down the pike, and none of them are going

834
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: to trial until March verse twenty twenty three. I mean,

835
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 1: that's gonna take a lot of time. First of all,

836
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: you know, you're nine months away from the civil cases

837
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: even starting to be heard. I'm in twenty six cases

838
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: that's gonna spill into twenty twenty four. Oh yeah, I

839
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 1: mean if and if we add like five or six more,

840
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: you could be talking twenty twenty five. It's and rightfully say,

841
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 1: his uh, career, no matter how it goes, no matter

842
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 1: how it goes, he's always going to be framed around

843
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,839
Speaker 1: what happens with all these lawsuits, all of it, and

844
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: maybe for the remainder of his life, i mean, his

845
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,280
Speaker 1: pro career, his public life is always going to be started.

846
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:20,799
Speaker 1: That's going to be it's like almost going to be

847
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: part of his bio. Yeah, I mean think of it

848
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: this way when you say, Michael Vick, absolutely, if it's

849
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: not your first thought, it's your second. Yeah. You know,

850
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: the whole dog fighting scandal that sent him to federal prison,

851
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 1: not just prison, federal prison. That's some serious stuff. And

852
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: when the Feds come after, you're going to jail. So

853
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:47,720
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. Um, And I'm not trying to compare apples

854
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 1: and oranges here at all, but I'm just trying to

855
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 1: make the point that, yeah, this is this is unfortunately,

856
00:50:55,640 --> 00:51:01,760
Speaker 1: especially if he's found you know, punitive damage are levied

857
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: against him, you know, by the judges in those civil cases. Yeah,

858
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:10,399
Speaker 1: it will unquestionably be associated with him for the rest

859
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: of his career. And that's what he'll unfortunately be known for,

860
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 1: maybe even more than what he does on the field,

861
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: before his career ever really even got started. When you

862
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 1: think about it, He's only played four years. So yeah,

863
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: it's it's unfortunate in so many different ways. And it's

864
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: interesting too that the way it affected so many different people.

865
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: The absolute highlight of his career was in twenty eighteen

866
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: against Josh Allen the playoffs or twenty nineteen. That was

867
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: the absolute zignith of his career and it has been

868
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: a train wreck ever since. Yeah. I mean, he led

869
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: the league in passing but it was for a four

870
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: and twelve football team. His last year on the field,

871
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: led the league in passing yards, but the team was

872
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: four and twelve. Yeah, we have to take a break here.

873
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: We're getting back to more Bill's talk when we return,

874
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: and some interesting quarterback talk. As Garoppolo and Mayfield are

875
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: still sitting out there twisting in the wind. There is

876
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: some interest on the part of the Carolina Panthers still

877
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: in Baker Mayfield. Where is that going? Steve and I

878
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: will discuss next here on One Bill's Live, presented by

879
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 1: Collat of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve

880
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 1: Tasker who has been all river Field. Kind of unique.

881
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you, Steve,

882
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the straded fere

883
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: of normalcy. Welcome to our number two, Chris Brown, Steve

884
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: tasking with you. One Bill's Live is the show day

885
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 1: one of Vandatory any camp because the players are wrapping

886
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: things up out on the field as we speak. It

887
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,280
Speaker 1: is so hot out and they're out there just running around,

888
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: working hard. Steve was worried about not being prepared to

889
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: watch practice. His hat, his sunglasses, no sunscreen, not that

890
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,359
Speaker 1: you ever bring any. You're not a big sunscreen guy.

891
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 1: You know. It's my arm and my bold spot. Yeah,

892
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:26,800
Speaker 1: but you have a had as most old guys. Um.

893
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: But yeah. They're doing their thing out there, hunting competitions,

894
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: heating up, and everybody's got have you. Can you recall

895
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:39,439
Speaker 1: a time where a roster is so good that people

896
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 1: are talking about the punting competition is like maybe one

897
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 1: of the top three positional al in training camp. Let

898
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: me just say this, it's one of the few off

899
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 1: seasons in recently. Everybody's really excited about the team. You

900
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 1: and I are. I'm I'm I'm glad. I can't wait

901
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 1: to see him practice and go and play. I am

902
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: just so fed up with this right now. I want

903
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,879
Speaker 1: just let's go. Oh you're tired of waiting. Let's see

904
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 1: it up. There's nothing more to be said. There's no

905
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: higher expectations, there's no more up, you know, there's more,

906
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: no more upbuild. You don't have to build it up

907
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 1: anymore than it's already been built up. What are you

908
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: gonna do? I mean it can only let's go. Yeah,

909
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: short of wrapping everybody in Christmas lights, I don't know

910
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,319
Speaker 1: how more you could, how much more you could build

911
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 1: it up? Oh my gosh, I say a McKenzie with

912
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 1: going with the red and green theme, it's unbelievable. I

913
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 1: don't know what you do, It's unbelievable. They're just but

914
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: you mentioned the expectations. They're loaded. They're full of expectations,

915
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: and rightfully so they've earned all of it. How they

916
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: hand out, okay, they'll hand it fine. This is the

917
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: second year in a row they've had those They were

918
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: they were last year. They were supposed to be really good,

919
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 1: and they were. People weren't super Bowl. Wasn't rolling off

920
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 1: the tongue as much as we've heard it now, No,

921
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: no that, no, you're right, but they were. They were

922
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 1: gonna win the division, yes, and certainly they lost one

923
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:00,439
Speaker 1: different they've lost one game in the division the past

924
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: two calendar years. This is different though. This is you

925
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: guys at the top, Banana, make it, make it come true. Yeah,

926
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 1: they put the Bills ahead of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,

927
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams, and the Kansas City Chiefs. The

928
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 1: only team that's a dark horse that I that I

929
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:16,399
Speaker 1: was thinking about, and I was listening to the guys

930
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,080
Speaker 1: this morning on the show. You know, Baltimore is a

931
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 1: sneaky good football team that that had a lot of

932
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: bad luck last year. Now, I'll say this too, got

933
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: a ton of new pieces when you got Yeah, they

934
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 1: got a ton of new pieces, and they had a

935
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: ton of injuries. Let me just say this to me,

936
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,400
Speaker 1: injuries of that nature are not something that just is

937
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 1: like a it's not bad luck, right, you can say, well,

938
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 1: you can't, pretty no, But the injuries and the way

939
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: they happened last year, and one after the other after

940
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: the other, after the other after the other at the

941
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:52,360
Speaker 1: same position, the same couple of positions, something's something is

942
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 1: systemically wrong with what they're doing well. And that's why

943
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: when we had Clifton Brown on from Baltimore Ravens dot

944
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: Com a couple of weeks ago, I asked him, I said,

945
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,919
Speaker 1: were the injuries to a degree where a head coach

946
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh said, we got to do some investigating and

947
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,720
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of why there were so many,

948
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:14,280
Speaker 1: so often and so closely together. They lost two starting

949
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:16,400
Speaker 1: corners in the span of twenty minutes on a practice

950
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:20,839
Speaker 1: field non contact. Like, what's going on, you can say,

951
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 1: and he said, yes, they did. Conduct. You got to,

952
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:26,319
Speaker 1: you got, you got. You're doing yourself a disservice if

953
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 1: you don't. Yeah, You're like, that's when you're like, you know,

954
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:30,720
Speaker 1: you're taking the pictures off the wall looking for bugs

955
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: kind of thing, you know, I mean, what are you

956
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? What's going on? And you're like, like,

957
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: what kind of tape are we using? Yeah, you know, seriously,

958
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 1: maybe it's our and it could be it could be

959
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: field surface, it could be schedule. Do they not have

960
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: enough time between recovery meetings and practice? Our guys hustling

961
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: out to practice because they have to hurry, They're not

962
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: whatever their mindset, it could be wrong, you know, they're

963
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: whatever's getting them ramped up for practice every days is

964
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: putting some guys in a bad spot mentally, So they

965
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:02,919
Speaker 1: come out either try too hard, don't try hard enough,

966
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: trying too hard too early in practice, trying not hard enough,

967
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: too late in practice. All of those those unbelievably wild

968
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 1: variations and variables that go into a football to practice

969
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 1: and a football team something in there it blew up

970
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 1: in their face. Yeah, I'll give you an example. Dick

971
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 1: Giron here in Buffalo, remember ton injuries. You know, had

972
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 1: seventeen guys on injured reserve in two thousands, and it's

973
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: easy for me to sit here years late, seventeen and

974
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:37,560
Speaker 1: act like I can say. I mean, there's Mike. Take

975
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 1: their philosophy at that time, Dick Giron was, They weren't.

976
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: They were never the Bills were never big into free agency,

977
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: never like they are now where they bring these guys in.

978
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 1: They had a different philosophy, and they had a philosophy

979
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: of listen, we want to be fast all over the field.

980
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 1: And usually that means if you're gonna be fast all

981
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: over them, that meant everybody, defensive lineman, defensive tackles, corners

982
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: of everybody. That means they were light, small, small, slender.

983
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 1: You're talking two thousand and six, seven, eight and nine,

984
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: you know, before completely flipped and went all passing. People

985
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 1: are still running the football back then. So you got

986
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 1: guys two hundred and twenty five pounds in two thousand

987
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 1: and seven, right, you got linebackers that way maybe now

988
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 1: one or two now all of them on your rosy

989
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: about two thirty. Yet safeties that big back when in

990
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: the nineties. Yeah, but that's what you're looking at. You

991
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: had guys who were just as in general, the players

992
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 1: were lighter, and you start playing physical football with teams

993
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: that are heavier and have a lot of velocity and

994
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 1: you get breakdowns. Yeah, mass time's acceleration equals power. So

995
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 1: that's why those Dick Duron teams were riddled with injuries.

996
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 1: They're just too light, not short, just lighting. So that

997
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: kind of stuff happens, and it's a philosophical choice you're

998
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: and that you pay the price for, and that that

999
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 1: could be in a more you know, convoluted and different

1000
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 1: type scenario could be what's happening with teams like like Baltimore,

1001
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:20,800
Speaker 1: because that that's not something that happened then before, right,

1002
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not indicative of every year they're doing that.

1003
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: So I would go back and say, what was different

1004
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 1: this year than it was last year? That's where I'd

1005
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: start with my They lost multiple corners, multiple running backs,

1006
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: multiple linemen, and not just to some soft tissue issue

1007
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:41,280
Speaker 1: injury where they're back in a couple of weeks, talking

1008
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: like season enders, ligament tears. It's it's interesting bad stuff.

1009
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: I'm not saying interesting because I'm I don't care about

1010
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 1: the guys that got hurt. I'm just saying it's it's

1011
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:57,000
Speaker 1: it's really interesting to think about what could have changed

1012
00:59:57,120 --> 01:00:02,440
Speaker 1: in that building systematically that would make that happen to

1013
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: a group of guys independent of one another. It was.

1014
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 1: It was startling, to say the least. So we'll see.

1015
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 1: But that's, you know, that's that's a little bit down

1016
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: the rabbit hole. But I think it's really looked into it.

1017
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: I think it's real. They looked into it. So what

1018
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: they came up with, we don't know. But we'll see

1019
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:21,640
Speaker 1: if it can't be worse this year than it was

1020
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 1: last year, and if it is, then they got a

1021
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 1: real problem on their hands that they better find out

1022
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 1: the root cause of it. How do the Bills manage

1023
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 1: the highest expectations they've had in the Sean McDermott era.

1024
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:32,320
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1026
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills and Bills fan twelve to eighty three says,

1027
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: it's got to be the day by day approach. Stay

1028
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 1: humble and hungry. I think that they've gotten to this

1029
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 1: point through the hard work of the front office, coaches

1030
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: and players. Don't change a thing. Keep up the hard work,

1031
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 1: Go Bills, and I guess what we're trying to indicate

1032
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 1: here is how do you avoid being affected by those

1033
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: expectations and the day by day approaches. An answer that's

1034
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 1: getting almost two thirds of the vote, Um, tune it

1035
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: out completely is in second, embrace the hype. Those are

1036
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 1: the people with the bravado, right, Embrace the hype. Yeah,

1037
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 1: we are the best what of it? Yeah? So yeah, um,

1038
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:18,520
Speaker 1: And you're always going to have a contingent of those people.

1039
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:21,280
Speaker 1: I get it. That's why we're kind of doing this

1040
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 1: poll today just to see what percentage of the fan

1041
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 1: base is on that. I get trained. If you thought

1042
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: about which choice you're so we kind of dream up

1043
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 1: these choices ourselves. Yeah, which I'm kind of like, I'm

1044
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,560
Speaker 1: kind of day by day. I'm not don't tune it out,

1045
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:40,040
Speaker 1: don't ignore you know that what the expectations are, and

1046
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:42,480
Speaker 1: know that they're there, and know they're there for a reason.

1047
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 1: It worked hard to have people think of you in

1048
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 1: this way. So don't dismiss it. Just keep on keeping

1049
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:52,440
Speaker 1: on with what your approaches that got you there in

1050
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 1: the first place. And you know, coach McDermott said something

1051
01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: similar today, Well, we know those things are there. We've

1052
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Speaker 1: heard it since he became. You know, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: that day by day is kind of trust the process

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01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:05,480
Speaker 1: kind of thing, because here's the thing, if you do

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Speaker 1: it day by day. And and I was thinking back

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Speaker 1: when when we were getting our you know, when we

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Speaker 1: were getting our heads kicked in every Super Bowl. We

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Speaker 1: had some of both ends of this spectrum. We kind

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Speaker 1: of came from nowhere from eighty nine going into the

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety season. Before the first Super Bowl, we were

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Speaker 1: not expected to do anything. We were we were the

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Speaker 1: bickering Bills kind of we'd gotten ousted from the playoffs

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Speaker 1: in the first round. You know, didn't look good. We were,

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Speaker 1: you know, emotionally erect, so the expectations weren't there. Then

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Speaker 1: the next year, after we went to the first Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl and lost on a last second field goal. We

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Speaker 1: were the favorites, right, and I think and the same

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Speaker 1: thing the next year, we were also the favor you know,

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Speaker 1: pretty much favored too. But you kind of like, if

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Speaker 1: you embrace the hype, it doesn't mean you're like gonna

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Speaker 1: say it depends on how you embrace it, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, how you feel about it to acknowledge it,

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Speaker 1: because you can't escape it. Even back in the day

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Speaker 1: where there was no social media and the media crush

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Speaker 1: wasn't exactly the way it is now. But I think

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Speaker 1: I've been a part of locker rooms that had all

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Speaker 1: of this stuff at one point, and I'll say this,

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Speaker 1: you can't escape it, and you better have a way

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Speaker 1: to handle it if you're a football And I think

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Speaker 1: that's the point here, because it's one thing to say,

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Speaker 1: how do you manage the expectations. The expectations by themselves,

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Speaker 1: that's not the issue. It's the expectations combined with how

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Speaker 1: your season is going. Like the expectations over here by themselves.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, they think we're gonna be great. That's great.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep working over here. But once you

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Speaker 1: start playing games combined with those expectations. How are you

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Speaker 1: going to handle the expectations when you drop two in

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Speaker 1: a row, you know, and you're one and two through

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Speaker 1: the first three weeks, do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: That's when it becomes a challenge, right, You're right. They

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Speaker 1: went through a little bit of that in Week two

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Speaker 1: last year, where they come in the opening day, they're

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Speaker 1: really going to be good and they get they get there,

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01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 1: you know, they get it handed to them by the

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, a little bit of a wake up call,

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Speaker 1: and it served them well. And we've talked about how

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Speaker 1: the Bills schedule looks this year, and you know, you

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Speaker 1: go look at it and that first eight game, six

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Speaker 1: or eight games with the Rams, the Titans, the Dolphins, Ravens, Steelers, Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: and then the Packers after the bye, those seven games

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Speaker 1: in eight weeks. I just I'd like to come out

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Speaker 1: four and three, you know, because here's the thing, and

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Speaker 1: here's why, here's why I don't have a problem with

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Speaker 1: the Bills going into a place where they got ten

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Speaker 1: games left in the season with a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a hole to climb out of, because now you're motivated

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Speaker 1: to finish that's right. And and think about this last

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Speaker 1: year and night, Sean McDermott, I gotta I gotta tip

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Speaker 1: my hat to him last year, and I know how

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Speaker 1: it ended. But last year, they hit the end of

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01:04:56,760 --> 01:05:01,200
Speaker 1: the regular season, they were one one hundred percent healthy,

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Speaker 1: they were playing their best football offensively with the number

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Speaker 1: one defense on their side, and they were heading and

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Speaker 1: they were and they shift, they were shifting gears into

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. That is, they were absolute gold headed in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Now, I know how it ended there, but man, Oman,

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Speaker 1: that and that's where you want to go again. And

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Speaker 1: so I don't have and certainly, hey, you want to

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Speaker 1: go seventeen to er, I get it. But it would

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be too much of a problem for me if

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Speaker 1: they you know, there's a bunch of really good football

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Speaker 1: teams on this this list, I don't mind, you know,

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Speaker 1: if the Rams and the Packers, you know, because all

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Speaker 1: those others are AFC teams, it's kind of hard, you know,

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Speaker 1: you don't want to get caught in a race where

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Speaker 1: you're have a bunch of AFC losses early in the season,

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Speaker 1: the hole is deeper. Yeah, but man, Oman, this is

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Speaker 1: a team that that in and of itself with all

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Speaker 1: though football left to play after eight weeks of the season,

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Speaker 1: with ten games to play, I don't mind a little

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01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 1: bit of a hole to dig out of, because that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a reason to really put it in gear

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01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 1: and shift. And I love the way that worked for

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Speaker 1: the Bills last year. And so I'm you know, we

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01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:17,280
Speaker 1: can sit here and talk about their schedule all day

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Speaker 1: and all night and and you know, and go down

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01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 1: and put a W here and L there and W here.

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Speaker 1: But you're right, how you handle the expectations in the

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01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:28,520
Speaker 1: midst of your season says a lot about how good

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Speaker 1: a football team you are. Yeah, let's go to the phone.

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01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 1: See what you think at eight oh three, five fifty

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Speaker 1: one fifty two five fifty open line for you there,

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Speaker 1: and we go to Frank and Williamsville next. What do

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Speaker 1: you have first? Frank, Hey, Steve. I can see where

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Speaker 1: most players will say that they don't with the fans

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Speaker 1: other of them at all. I got to ask you

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Speaker 1: in in the hockeytown, hockey crazy cities like Toronto, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: doing one right. They can't get out of the first round.

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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking that if the Bills, let's say they

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Speaker 1: play a few game against Kansas City next year. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's good. There's gonna be something something some of that

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01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:08,880
Speaker 1: wagh and at all the players. I mean, how can

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Speaker 1: you say we've been in a community where, like in

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Speaker 1: Buffalo is footballah foahball all the time, and went to

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Speaker 1: the players listen to the stuff that they read, this

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Speaker 1: to papers, they watches shows. I don't know, you tell

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Speaker 1: me I've never played it. Yeah, they hear everything. They'll

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Speaker 1: tell you that they don't care about it. They'll tell

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Speaker 1: you that they don't watch it or listen to it

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Speaker 1: or whatever. They read everything and they hear everything. It's like,

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Speaker 1: how likely is it? And be honest with yourselves out there,

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Speaker 1: if you're listening, how likely is it that you had

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Speaker 1: two people who a lot of people knew or whatever,

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Speaker 1: If you had this conversation going and it was about you,

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Speaker 1: How likely is it that you want to hear what

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Speaker 1: they said? You could not listen? Yeah, you let me

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01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,000
Speaker 1: just tell you. Yet none of you could not listen

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01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:56,600
Speaker 1: to a conversation you knew was about you. All of

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01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:58,520
Speaker 1: us want to know what other people think about us.

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Speaker 1: You can you can say I don't care what anybody thinks.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna. Yes, you do. We all do. If you

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Speaker 1: know there's a conversation about you going on in a

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Speaker 1: public forum or even and even in a private forum. Yeah,

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01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 1: you want to know what they say. You really want

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Speaker 1: to know. So that's where the players sit every day

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Speaker 1: as they pick up their phone with Twitter, as they

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Speaker 1: pick up you know, their Instagram pages, as they as

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Speaker 1: they listen and talk to the media, as they hear

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Speaker 1: everything that goes on out there, and their families hear

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Speaker 1: about it. Yes, they hear and listen to everything that

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Speaker 1: is said about them. They know the expectations, they know

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Speaker 1: what pete the perceptions right or wrong, and they got

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Speaker 1: to deal with it in their own mind. And the

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Speaker 1: better they do that, the better they are. Now. Certainly

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01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,920
Speaker 1: they have to be able to understand that people are

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01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:51,519
Speaker 1: gonna say things that have no idea about the reality

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Speaker 1: of whatever situation they're talking about. People, and if if

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01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:57,519
Speaker 1: any of you are on Twitter, you know that people

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Speaker 1: chime in with opinions that are based in fantasy that

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Speaker 1: they think are fact. Yeah, so you've got to be

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01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:08,360
Speaker 1: willing to know as a as a rational human being

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01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:11,559
Speaker 1: that you got to sort through that and discard it

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01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:15,280
Speaker 1: if it's ridiculous as a lot of it is. And

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01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 1: when you can get your mind around that, then you

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01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:18,679
Speaker 1: can get on with your day. But if you're gonna

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01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:22,120
Speaker 1: sit there and you've seen it, guys get caught up

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Speaker 1: in this twitter argument that they can't win because they

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Speaker 1: know facts and about their own lives and about their

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Speaker 1: own decisions that other people don't. So it becomes a distraction, certainly.

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Speaker 1: But the question is and then you know, Frank just asked,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure they're right. The hockey guys in Canada

1202
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Speaker 1: that the maple leaves they got to live with that.

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01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:43,519
Speaker 1: You know, you can't get out of the first round.

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01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 1: Same thing with if there's a conversation going on about

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Speaker 1: you as a professional athlete, public figure, whatever, you want

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Speaker 1: to hear what's being said. You have to know the

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Speaker 1: perceptions about you. It's just human nature. Vince on the

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Speaker 1: tweet Cheat says, for this team to be the best

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01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:02,680
Speaker 1: version of itself, you've got to take it one day

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Speaker 1: at a time. Growth mindset, The fact that everyone is

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Speaker 1: here speaks volumes about the process. Just wondering what sort

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Speaker 1: of team building activities do they have in mind for

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Speaker 1: this year's team. Well, we're not really privy to that.

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Speaker 1: I will say this, they do do very good team

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Speaker 1: building during the offseason conditioning program at the very start.

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Speaker 1: When they come back in the spring, they have these

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Speaker 1: iron Man games and they break them up into teams,

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Speaker 1: and they'll have tug of war, they'll have obstacle courses,

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Speaker 1: they'll have like a dodgeball tournament, and they break them

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Speaker 1: up into teams. And I mean, you put eighty eight

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Speaker 1: alpha dogs in a fieldhouse together and say, hey, the

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Speaker 1: winning team is getting this or whatever, and you're building.

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Speaker 1: That's team building right there, right in a big way.

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Speaker 1: And they do that every April. They do it every April,

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Speaker 1: and they do it by shuffling the deck too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, like a d lineman will be on the

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Speaker 1: field and he'll be playing as a teammate with a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver DBS and and offensive linemen and running backs

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Speaker 1: and linebackers, and all these guys are going to be

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Speaker 1: mixed together. Also, the coaches are sprinkled in. The coaches

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Speaker 1: go in and they're they're parts of the teams as well.

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Speaker 1: So it's really a good way to get to know

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Speaker 1: and compete alongside guys you don't really normally rub up against.

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Speaker 1: And you get to know each other and you get

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01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:23,599
Speaker 1: to pull together before it really comes push to shove,

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01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:26,400
Speaker 1: push comes to shove. We have to take a break

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Speaker 1: here because when we come back, the players are off

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Speaker 1: the practice field. Josh Allen will be addressing the media.

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Speaker 1: We'll bring in those comments next Here on One Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Klota Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

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01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:52,360
Speaker 1: welcome back to one Bills Live. As promise, Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: is addressing a media post practice here on day one

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Speaker 1: of mandatory minicamp. Here is Josh. First, I'd like to, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, just send my condolences to the Pagoulas and

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Speaker 1: their family. Obviously, UM don't know all the details of

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Speaker 1: what's going on. You know, we're all praying for them,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know we appreciate everybody else in the

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Speaker 1: community praying for them as well. Um again, this is

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Speaker 1: it's new news to us, and um, you know, she's

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Speaker 1: done so much for our our organization and we all

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Speaker 1: love her so much. So again, as a team, we're

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Speaker 1: we're sending our prayers and we just asked that you

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Speaker 1: guys do the same for us. Please, all little things

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Speaker 1: today a little bit of a cloud babe because of

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Speaker 1: that or yeah, I mean a little bit. Again, it

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Speaker 1: was just taken at such a surprise to the team,

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01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:44,120
Speaker 1: UM to hear about that, you know. Um, yeah, so

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Speaker 1: you can definitely feel that. So she's she's on our

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Speaker 1: minds and again you know, this is the time that

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01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:53,559
Speaker 1: they need privacy and uh, just just as many prayers

1261
01:12:53,600 --> 01:13:00,599
Speaker 1: as they can get. Yeah, yeah, she's just the most

1262
01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:03,200
Speaker 1: reparare you to have. You know, we'll just fire you're

1263
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:05,879
Speaker 1: playing career and how would that make you a better quarterback?

1264
01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:09,240
Speaker 1: To see? Yeah, man, we've got guys um all over

1265
01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:11,800
Speaker 1: the field that can make some plays now. And you know,

1266
01:13:11,880 --> 01:13:14,120
Speaker 1: if you look at the depth from the running backs

1267
01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 1: to the tight ends, the receivers um and the guys

1268
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:19,920
Speaker 1: that just have have shown they've made plays in the

1269
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 1: league before. And we've got some some rookies that are

1270
01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 1: coming along and continuing to improve and impress them these coaches. UM.

1271
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:31,439
Speaker 1: So again all this is fine and andy, um, but

1272
01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 1: until we put on the pads and play some real football,

1273
01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:37,880
Speaker 1: you know, you never really know how would you compare, Josh,

1274
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:42,680
Speaker 1: maybe how you feel from an overall offense UM perspective

1275
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:51,000
Speaker 1: in terms of like how prepared as an offense. Do

1276
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:54,519
Speaker 1: you feel obviously with the change that can and everything, um,

1277
01:13:55,640 --> 01:13:57,639
Speaker 1: and some of that continuity, I just gage it compared

1278
01:13:57,640 --> 01:14:00,640
Speaker 1: to other years. Yeah, again, Um, it doesn't feel like

1279
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:03,920
Speaker 1: we've we've missed a step. You know. Obviously, it's going

1280
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:05,840
Speaker 1: to be different. It's a different voice in the head said,

1281
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:08,760
Speaker 1: it's a different mind calling the plays. The verbage is

1282
01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:12,240
Speaker 1: still the same, the protections are still the same. Obviously

1283
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:14,000
Speaker 1: we've switched up a couple of things here and there

1284
01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:18,559
Speaker 1: with concepts and thought processes and stuff like that. But again,

1285
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:21,360
Speaker 1: being able to call the same play and understand our

1286
01:14:21,400 --> 01:14:23,880
Speaker 1: players know this play like the back of their hand,

1287
01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:26,680
Speaker 1: and it's just our job to go out there and execute. Um.

1288
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:28,800
Speaker 1: But again, this is the game of football. Everything that

1289
01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:31,320
Speaker 1: we did last year and the year before has no

1290
01:14:31,439 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 1: effect to what we're gonna do and hope to accomplish

1291
01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 1: this this next coming year. So we gotta we gotta

1292
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:39,400
Speaker 1: start fresh and learn how to improve and keep finding

1293
01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:47,200
Speaker 1: ways to improved. It's everybody, right. But we found out

1294
01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:50,320
Speaker 1: if anything last week PIX Sports talking about see the

1295
01:14:50,400 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, little hyped up whatever. Healthy. Um. Again, I

1296
01:15:03,439 --> 01:15:07,439
Speaker 1: think it's a very similar sense of you know, they're

1297
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:10,960
Speaker 1: very competitive. I'm talking about Dorison and Davil and me

1298
01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:14,240
Speaker 1: being very competitive. We mash very well together, so I

1299
01:15:14,320 --> 01:15:16,719
Speaker 1: know when he gets hyped up, I'm probably pretty hyped

1300
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:19,400
Speaker 1: up too, so we can feed off each other that way.

1301
01:15:19,560 --> 01:15:21,880
Speaker 1: But I'm sure there's gonna be times too where he's

1302
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:23,720
Speaker 1: either gonna have to tell me let's calmed down here,

1303
01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:25,519
Speaker 1: or I'm gonna have to tell him let's calm down here.

1304
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 1: And again, being a first year play caller, I'm sure

1305
01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:32,040
Speaker 1: it could be difficult at times. But I've got supreme

1306
01:15:32,120 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 1: faith in him, and um, I know that he's got

1307
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 1: trust in me, So that makes makes me at easy

1308
01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,599
Speaker 1: when you've got a guy calling plays that has trust

1309
01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:40,720
Speaker 1: in you, when you when you call something that you

1310
01:15:40,800 --> 01:15:43,599
Speaker 1: can execute it or find a way to get out

1311
01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 1: of a bad situation and put yourself into a better situation. Josh,

1312
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:48,800
Speaker 1: it's been a few years since you guys have been

1313
01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:50,720
Speaker 1: to Rochester. What does it mean said be able to

1314
01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:54,960
Speaker 1: have training Canada. I love going there. I love spending

1315
01:15:55,040 --> 01:15:58,599
Speaker 1: time in the dorm rooms with teammates and playing cards

1316
01:15:58,640 --> 01:16:01,559
Speaker 1: and video games and hanging out and spending really every

1317
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:04,080
Speaker 1: waking second together with the guys, and I think that

1318
01:16:04,160 --> 01:16:07,640
Speaker 1: helps build camaraderie and a really good team chemistry that

1319
01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 1: you can't get otherwise. So, um, it'll be fun to

1320
01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:13,000
Speaker 1: get back. I know the fans in Rochester are probably

1321
01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:14,679
Speaker 1: excited about it. You know, there's a lot of fans

1322
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:18,040
Speaker 1: that do that commute um on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays

1323
01:16:18,080 --> 01:16:20,559
Speaker 1: for us, So you know, it's a way to give

1324
01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:22,360
Speaker 1: some outreach back to them as well and show them

1325
01:16:22,400 --> 01:16:24,280
Speaker 1: that we appreciate them. But you know, we're looking forward

1326
01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:26,400
Speaker 1: to it. Unsettle a lot of the same things he made.

1327
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:30,880
Speaker 1: Question the dorm rooms a little bit. Yeah, you know,

1328
01:16:31,240 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 1: Sean lives up in his castle and he has a

1329
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:38,240
Speaker 1: he has a good time and um, no again, we

1330
01:16:38,320 --> 01:16:40,800
Speaker 1: don't need much. You know, we're we're hanging out as

1331
01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:43,680
Speaker 1: long as we've got some some xboxes and PlayStations to

1332
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:46,280
Speaker 1: play video games on and cards to play with. Guys

1333
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:48,280
Speaker 1: in the dorm rooms are when you know, we're pretty chill.

1334
01:16:48,320 --> 01:16:50,760
Speaker 1: And again, we understand what the training camps for. So

1335
01:16:51,120 --> 01:16:53,760
Speaker 1: when we're waking up, we're working. When we're done, try

1336
01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:56,400
Speaker 1: to relax and decompress a little bit with each other. Um,

1337
01:16:56,520 --> 01:16:59,320
Speaker 1: but make no mistakes, it's a business trip. What is

1338
01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:01,920
Speaker 1: this offseason been like for you? Between the match and

1339
01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:04,400
Speaker 1: NFTs and it just seems like it's been go, go

1340
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:08,360
Speaker 1: go this offseason is it? Does it feel any different? Not?

1341
01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:10,719
Speaker 1: Not really? I mean this, It feels like the OTA

1342
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 1: sessions have flown by. It doesn't feel like I've been

1343
01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:16,000
Speaker 1: here that long. You know. I've had a couple of

1344
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:17,920
Speaker 1: trips here and there and done a couple of different things,

1345
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:22,639
Speaker 1: which has been fun. Um, But I'm I'm extremely ready

1346
01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:25,200
Speaker 1: to get back to just being football and being the

1347
01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:26,920
Speaker 1: best quarterback and teammate that I can be for the

1348
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:34,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills pretty well. What has made that quickly? And

1349
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:40,320
Speaker 1: what has he maybe drought? Yeah, golf, humor and personalities.

1350
01:17:40,360 --> 01:17:43,760
Speaker 1: We match up pretty well. Um. And again, he's just

1351
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:45,479
Speaker 1: he's a great dude. He's been around the league a

1352
01:17:45,520 --> 01:17:47,880
Speaker 1: long time. He knows a lot of different things. It's

1353
01:17:47,920 --> 01:17:51,679
Speaker 1: been multiple offenses. He knows how to deal with guys.

1354
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:54,200
Speaker 1: So I can lead on him heavily about things that

1355
01:17:54,320 --> 01:17:56,240
Speaker 1: I see, things that he sees, and he comes up

1356
01:17:56,240 --> 01:17:58,360
Speaker 1: to me and I got great respect and trust in him.

1357
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:00,920
Speaker 1: So that that's something that develop really quickly, and I'm

1358
01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:02,560
Speaker 1: sure it's only going to get better. You know, with

1359
01:18:02,920 --> 01:18:06,600
Speaker 1: with time today out there today, it was kind of

1360
01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:09,360
Speaker 1: impossible and miss von Austin and the've been times on

1361
01:18:09,439 --> 01:18:13,920
Speaker 1: the sidelines. I mean, that's a true pro right there.

1362
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:15,800
Speaker 1: You know, he's only been here a couple of weeks,

1363
01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:18,960
Speaker 1: but even in walkthrough, it was the attentive uh you

1364
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:21,599
Speaker 1: know how attentive he is. He's right behind me basically

1365
01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:25,320
Speaker 1: listening to the play call, jogging out and standing behind

1366
01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 1: somebody in front of him and going through the play.

1367
01:18:27,760 --> 01:18:30,160
Speaker 1: The guys saw him warm ups. You know, he's behind

1368
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:32,680
Speaker 1: the guy's catching punts. He's right there behind him and

1369
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:35,240
Speaker 1: doing all the all the drills and making it you know,

1370
01:18:35,360 --> 01:18:37,320
Speaker 1: game like reps and he's trying to get those reps

1371
01:18:37,360 --> 01:18:40,400
Speaker 1: without actually getting him so um. Again, his attention to

1372
01:18:40,520 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 1: detail has been awesome. His approach to guys, how he

1373
01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:47,439
Speaker 1: talks to his teammates is the other receivers is awesome.

1374
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 1: He's bringing those guys along. So um. It's awesome to

1375
01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:51,599
Speaker 1: have a guy like that who's been around the league

1376
01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 1: for a long time that people respect so much. And again,

1377
01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:56,760
Speaker 1: I think that's when you have some of these young

1378
01:18:56,800 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 1: guys in here, you know, they know Tavon Austin from

1379
01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:01,400
Speaker 1: his highlights on YouTube. You know, I know that I

1380
01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:03,720
Speaker 1: watched those as kid, you know, as a kid growing up.

1381
01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:07,360
Speaker 1: His college highlights were unbelievable. So um, I know some

1382
01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:09,840
Speaker 1: of those receivers have so much respect for him already,

1383
01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 1: so when he talks, they listen. Most critical is this

1384
01:19:12,280 --> 01:19:14,200
Speaker 1: week to making sure everything's kind of button up with

1385
01:19:14,280 --> 01:19:17,120
Speaker 1: the operation of the play call, getting in and out

1386
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:19,200
Speaker 1: with lou oc before you guys get the training camp

1387
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:21,559
Speaker 1: so you can get there running. Yeah, we you wouldn't

1388
01:19:21,600 --> 01:19:25,080
Speaker 1: hit the ground running there, so making sure that you

1389
01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:27,519
Speaker 1: know the voice that we're hearing is mentioning the words

1390
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 1: and it sounds weird, but even having somebody new call

1391
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:33,120
Speaker 1: and plays, certain words may sound different in a headset

1392
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:35,920
Speaker 1: and they max up mat mix up with some other things.

1393
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 1: So um, if there's any problems with that, trying to

1394
01:19:39,320 --> 01:19:41,640
Speaker 1: fix it as quickly as possible and maybe changing a

1395
01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:43,640
Speaker 1: word or changing a protection so we can hear it

1396
01:19:43,720 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 1: better in the huddle in order to go out there

1397
01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:48,720
Speaker 1: and execute. But um, so far, so so good, and

1398
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 1: again we'll continue to work on it. And uh, like

1399
01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:52,599
Speaker 1: I said, I try to hit the ground running fast

1400
01:19:55,040 --> 01:20:00,920
Speaker 1: and make sure you right every private everybo I understand why,

1401
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 1: but you can describe you're thinking about how the apportance

1402
01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 1: are being here. Yeah. I mean again, the only reason

1403
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:11,800
Speaker 1: that I've been able to do some of these things

1404
01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:15,200
Speaker 1: this offseason is because I played quarterback. I played football

1405
01:20:15,200 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills. So I again, I want to improve.

1406
01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:19,560
Speaker 1: I want to be the best quarterback that I can be,

1407
01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:21,760
Speaker 1: the best teammate that I can be for the Buffalo Bills.

1408
01:20:22,479 --> 01:20:24,000
Speaker 1: On top of that, I was tired of Vegas, ready

1409
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:25,680
Speaker 1: to get out of there, didn't play too well and

1410
01:20:25,760 --> 01:20:27,840
Speaker 1: wanted to get my mind off of it. So came

1411
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:29,280
Speaker 1: back here and got to do what I'm really good

1412
01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:32,479
Speaker 1: at and throw throwing the pigskins. So it was a

1413
01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:34,919
Speaker 1: way to Some people will have to leave the facility

1414
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:37,040
Speaker 1: to ease their mind, you know, I have to come

1415
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:40,599
Speaker 1: to facility sometimes e's mind. All right. So that's Josh

1416
01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:43,400
Speaker 1: Allen addressing a lot of questions about the relationship between

1417
01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:46,120
Speaker 1: him and Ken Dorsey going forward. He's pretty confident that

1418
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:51,040
Speaker 1: things will move rather smoothly because they have to this point.

1419
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:54,880
Speaker 1: We turn now though, for one of the offensive leaders

1420
01:20:54,960 --> 01:20:57,759
Speaker 1: to one of the newest defensive leaders, Von Miller addressing

1421
01:20:57,800 --> 01:21:01,320
Speaker 1: the media now here is the Bills veteran pass Russia

1422
01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:14,920
Speaker 1: m Houdy. What has your first three months been, White

1423
01:21:14,920 --> 01:21:18,599
Speaker 1: guys are brought a little bit. It's been, uh, it's

1424
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:22,280
Speaker 1: been pretty cool, you know, um, especially here in the facility. Um,

1425
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:25,559
Speaker 1: getting to know my teammates, trying to you know, earn

1426
01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:28,840
Speaker 1: their their respect and earn their earn their trust. Um,

1427
01:21:29,439 --> 01:21:31,280
Speaker 1: getting to know the coaches, getting to know all the

1428
01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:34,559
Speaker 1: people that uh they make this organ organization go, like, uh,

1429
01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:38,320
Speaker 1: the people that work in the cafeteria, the media relations team,

1430
01:21:38,360 --> 01:21:40,600
Speaker 1: the janitors, and you know, the people that work in

1431
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:43,160
Speaker 1: the front office. So it's just uh, just you know,

1432
01:21:43,200 --> 01:21:45,960
Speaker 1: getting to know everybody, introducing myself to everybody. That's how

1433
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:49,160
Speaker 1: that's how he has been Sean. Sean said this morning

1434
01:21:49,720 --> 01:21:51,719
Speaker 1: that he's been trying to put himself around you guys

1435
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:53,880
Speaker 1: like you, Roger Sample as much as possible. Now, what

1436
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:56,479
Speaker 1: have those conversations been like with Sean that you've gotten

1437
01:21:56,520 --> 01:21:59,920
Speaker 1: here and got to know a little bit With coach McDermott, Oh, yes,

1438
01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:03,400
Speaker 1: it's been great. Um. You know, honestly, my my very

1439
01:22:03,439 --> 01:22:07,120
Speaker 1: first conversation with coach McDermott, Uh, it was one that

1440
01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:08,640
Speaker 1: they made me come here, you know, I was a

1441
01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:11,599
Speaker 1: believer and Coach McDermott, like right when I flew here,

1442
01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:13,439
Speaker 1: you know, I was still you know, on defense about

1443
01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:15,680
Speaker 1: you know, coming to Buffalo, just to be honest, But

1444
01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:18,559
Speaker 1: when I talked to when I talked to Coach McDermott,

1445
01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:22,280
Speaker 1: and um, I just felt his his authenticity, you know,

1446
01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:24,040
Speaker 1: I felt that he was genuine. I felt that he

1447
01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:27,479
Speaker 1: was real, and I felt like that was a coach

1448
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 1: that I want to play for. So, you know, being

1449
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:31,920
Speaker 1: around him, I'm learning stuff, He's learning stuff from me.

1450
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:35,720
Speaker 1: I really just paid everything that I've learned before me

1451
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:38,800
Speaker 1: for like, um, you know, everything I learned around Payton

1452
01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:42,360
Speaker 1: Manning and DeMarcus Ware and coach Kubiak and you know,

1453
01:22:42,439 --> 01:22:45,360
Speaker 1: coach Fangio and all the all the great defensive coordinators,

1454
01:22:45,439 --> 01:22:47,280
Speaker 1: Coach Woods, everything that I learned from all these guys,

1455
01:22:47,320 --> 01:22:49,360
Speaker 1: I just I just paid forward to the players and coaches.

1456
01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:51,720
Speaker 1: That's That's all I'm doing. Is It's nothing coming from me.

1457
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:54,320
Speaker 1: It's just everything that I've heard from great players and

1458
01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:56,479
Speaker 1: great coaches around me. Given where you've been in the

1459
01:22:56,520 --> 01:22:59,040
Speaker 1: success you've had your career, in the organizations you've been with,

1460
01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:02,000
Speaker 1: based on your arience here so far, how would you

1461
01:23:02,080 --> 01:23:05,840
Speaker 1: compare this program, uh, the interaction with the coaches, that

1462
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:08,559
Speaker 1: sort of thing based on other compared to other places.

1463
01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:11,240
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't really compare. It's kind of like,

1464
01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:14,000
Speaker 1: you know, having a third kid. You know, it's uh,

1465
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:16,320
Speaker 1: you love them all the same. You know, of course

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01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:18,800
Speaker 1: you love your first kid, it's your firstborn. And you

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01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:20,640
Speaker 1: got another kid that you want to super Bowl with

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01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:23,680
Speaker 1: as well. You know, you love them too. And then

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01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:26,960
Speaker 1: you hear, um, you got a new kid that's as uh,

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01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:30,320
Speaker 1: that's as talented as any other any other kid that

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01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:32,639
Speaker 1: I have, and you love you know them the same.

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01:23:32,760 --> 01:23:35,880
Speaker 1: So it's just it's all love. Every team is different, um,

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01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:39,120
Speaker 1: but the similarities that that each team has had it's

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01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:40,880
Speaker 1: just in a locker room. You know, all great all

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01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:43,840
Speaker 1: great teams are player driven, and we got a great uh,

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01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:46,280
Speaker 1: we got a great roster of guys, great leaders in

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01:23:46,320 --> 01:23:49,760
Speaker 1: the locker room. And that's the that's the parallel from

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01:23:49,880 --> 01:23:51,240
Speaker 1: you know, all the teams that I've been on before.

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01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:54,679
Speaker 1: Did you pay any special attention to your three teammates

1480
01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:57,160
Speaker 1: out in all Vegas there? Give them a little side

1481
01:23:57,200 --> 01:24:01,000
Speaker 1: dish of stuffer puts it all up on up. Oh,

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01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:03,400
Speaker 1: you you're talking about Aarondon and coober Cup. You know.

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01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:10,200
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah they got paid. Yeah, yeah, they got paid.

1484
01:24:10,240 --> 01:24:13,720
Speaker 1: Congrats my guys. Yeah I did tell them that. But yeah, yeah,

1485
01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:16,720
Speaker 1: A J and um, you know, AJ and Boogie and Greg.

1486
01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 1: We all went to the Pass for a summit, and um,

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01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 1: you know, I call it the Summit. I call it

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01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:24,600
Speaker 1: the Summit and not the clinic because it's not a

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01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:27,160
Speaker 1: it's not a place where I go. And I just

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01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:29,760
Speaker 1: you know, everybody listening to vun you know, it's the

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01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:31,720
Speaker 1: summit of all the great players in the league, all

1492
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:33,760
Speaker 1: the great pastors in the league. And it's just a

1493
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:37,560
Speaker 1: space that I created that we all make go, you know.

1494
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:40,120
Speaker 1: And um, I've always been a fan of just being

1495
01:24:40,160 --> 01:24:45,679
Speaker 1: around great players, being around great talent, and success leaves clues.

1496
01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:47,800
Speaker 1: And we have a lot of successful pass verses there.

1497
01:24:47,840 --> 01:24:52,080
Speaker 1: The pastor of Summit, Chandler Jones, Max Crosby, you know,

1498
01:24:52,200 --> 01:24:54,439
Speaker 1: all these guys just in Houston, all these guys came

1499
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 1: and I just feel like success leaves clues, and whenever

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01:24:57,040 --> 01:24:59,080
Speaker 1: you get complacent, I feel like that's when you go downhill.

1501
01:24:59,160 --> 01:25:01,120
Speaker 1: Each and every year, I try learned something. You know,

1502
01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:03,719
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if I got a two hundred sacks.

1503
01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:06,000
Speaker 1: You know, I'm trying to get two hundred and one sacks.

1504
01:25:06,040 --> 01:25:08,080
Speaker 1: So I feel like being around and young guys. They

1505
01:25:08,160 --> 01:25:09,800
Speaker 1: refreshed me being around the guys they've been doing it

1506
01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:11,599
Speaker 1: a long time. You know, I can kind of sharpen

1507
01:25:11,680 --> 01:25:13,559
Speaker 1: a knife around those guys, and it's just a great

1508
01:25:13,600 --> 01:25:15,320
Speaker 1: space where we can all get better. Is that a

1509
01:25:15,360 --> 01:25:18,400
Speaker 1: coincidence that you mentioned two hundred because two hundred one

1510
01:25:18,479 --> 01:25:23,680
Speaker 1: is the Becker Yeah, yeah, you know Bruce Smith. You

1511
01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:25,519
Speaker 1: know Bruce, that's part of the reason why I came

1512
01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:27,640
Speaker 1: here as well, you know, to be a part of

1513
01:25:27,680 --> 01:25:30,000
Speaker 1: this culture, to you know, to really be a part

1514
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:32,439
Speaker 1: of his legacy. And um, yeah, two hundred and one

1515
01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:34,240
Speaker 1: is the record. Two hundred and one is the goal

1516
01:25:34,320 --> 01:25:37,880
Speaker 1: for sure that Bruce and Reggie both played well into

1517
01:25:37,880 --> 01:25:40,800
Speaker 1: their thirties at a very high level. Like I know,

1518
01:25:40,920 --> 01:25:42,600
Speaker 1: that's one thing how you feel, But also do you

1519
01:25:42,680 --> 01:25:44,000
Speaker 1: look at that and say, I can I can do

1520
01:25:44,120 --> 01:25:46,120
Speaker 1: this for a while if I maintain how I train

1521
01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 1: it all that. Honestly, I just take what God to

1522
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:50,439
Speaker 1: give me, you know, Um, I've seen I talked to

1523
01:25:50,439 --> 01:25:52,000
Speaker 1: young guys all the day. They asked me you know,

1524
01:25:52,040 --> 01:25:55,040
Speaker 1: how do you do it. I'm like, bro, I honestly

1525
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:57,400
Speaker 1: do everything that you possibly can do to keep your

1526
01:25:57,439 --> 01:26:00,320
Speaker 1: body fresh. Whenever I leave here, the facility to my

1527
01:26:00,439 --> 01:26:04,439
Speaker 1: day is getting ready for the next day, whether that's massages, nutrition, um,

1528
01:26:04,560 --> 01:26:08,920
Speaker 1: whether that's uh, get an acupuncture Colta cryo. You know,

1529
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty two and we've got so many different

1530
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:13,240
Speaker 1: things that can help us recover. I'm doing them all,

1531
01:26:13,360 --> 01:26:16,080
Speaker 1: you know, I'm doing them all, trying to trying to

1532
01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 1: get an edge and trying to recover as fast as

1533
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:20,320
Speaker 1: I can. And you know, that's uh, that's that's been

1534
01:26:20,400 --> 01:26:22,200
Speaker 1: my secret. You know, I don't really compare it, you know,

1535
01:26:22,640 --> 01:26:25,200
Speaker 1: myself to other guy's careers, and you know what they do.

1536
01:26:25,439 --> 01:26:27,840
Speaker 1: And honestly, the Marcus is probably the only one. You know,

1537
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:29,800
Speaker 1: the Marcus played twelve years, you know, one hundred and

1538
01:26:30,439 --> 01:26:34,639
Speaker 1: thirty eight sacks. I need twenty three more. But that's

1539
01:26:34,680 --> 01:26:36,880
Speaker 1: the only guy. That's really the only guy. And that's

1540
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:39,240
Speaker 1: that's that's because that's my brother, you know, and but

1541
01:26:39,320 --> 01:26:41,000
Speaker 1: everybody else, I just trying to stand my lane, just

1542
01:26:41,040 --> 01:26:44,400
Speaker 1: trying to stay focused, try to just stay prayed up,

1543
01:26:44,439 --> 01:26:47,080
Speaker 1: and I just take whatever God to give me. All right,

1544
01:26:47,120 --> 01:26:51,080
Speaker 1: that's Von Miller addressing the Buffalo media today. We have

1545
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:53,439
Speaker 1: to take a break here. When Steve and I come back,

1546
01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:57,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the cost of pulling a jersey

1547
01:26:58,120 --> 01:27:01,560
Speaker 1: number off of a teammate. How much money would you

1548
01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:04,519
Speaker 1: pay to get the number you want to wear? Because

1549
01:27:04,560 --> 01:27:07,680
Speaker 1: Sauce Gardner paid up. We'll tell you how much he

1550
01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:10,640
Speaker 1: forked over. Next here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:26,120
Speaker 1: Colloid of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back One

1552
01:27:26,200 --> 01:27:30,120
Speaker 1: Bills Live. And I put this to Steve and to

1553
01:27:30,240 --> 01:27:33,599
Speaker 1: you the listening audiences. We went to break how much

1554
01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:36,360
Speaker 1: money are you going to fork over to make sure

1555
01:27:36,479 --> 01:27:38,839
Speaker 1: you get the jersey number you want as a rookie

1556
01:27:39,160 --> 01:27:44,800
Speaker 1: because sauce Gardener paid up? All right? So Steve, take

1557
01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:48,200
Speaker 1: a guess. How much do you think sauce Gardner forked

1558
01:27:48,280 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 1: over to get jersey number one, which was the same

1559
01:27:51,439 --> 01:27:59,759
Speaker 1: number he war in college at Cincinnatu. Was it six figures? No? Okay,

1560
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:04,040
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say fifty thousand dollars

1561
01:28:04,120 --> 01:28:06,760
Speaker 1: and you would hit it right on that fifty k

1562
01:28:07,560 --> 01:28:11,040
Speaker 1: for number one? Tell you how? And he paid his

1563
01:28:11,160 --> 01:28:14,080
Speaker 1: teammate DJ Reid, who's also a corner on the roster

1564
01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:19,640
Speaker 1: for number one. To me, you he you've lost your

1565
01:28:19,720 --> 01:28:22,200
Speaker 1: values for just a minute, if you're paying well, let's

1566
01:28:22,240 --> 01:28:24,840
Speaker 1: not forget. This is a man with a giant, iced

1567
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:28,639
Speaker 1: up sauce bottle hanging around his neck, covered in diamonds.

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01:28:28,720 --> 01:28:32,439
Speaker 1: I get it. Probably went for sixty grand just to

1569
01:28:32,520 --> 01:28:35,160
Speaker 1: hang it on his neck with real sauce inside. I

1570
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:40,439
Speaker 1: get it. I just that's Craig kraiy Yeah, probably that's that.

1571
01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:42,840
Speaker 1: That's you know, and I get it. I mean, I

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01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:45,920
Speaker 1: bbody wants the word jersey. Okay, fine, fine, Michael Jordan,

1573
01:28:46,080 --> 01:28:48,600
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant, all those guys changed jersey numbers, Lebron, they

1574
01:28:48,640 --> 01:28:52,000
Speaker 1: all have different jersey numbers. You know, were you partial

1575
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:54,080
Speaker 1: to any number? No? I didn't even know what number

1576
01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:55,960
Speaker 1: I was gonna be in Buffalo until I showed up

1577
01:28:56,000 --> 01:28:59,639
Speaker 1: on game day. I swear that's it. That's true, that's true.

1578
01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:01,760
Speaker 1: I found out I was looking at a game on

1579
01:29:01,880 --> 01:29:05,120
Speaker 1: a Tuesday, you know, on Saturday before day before a game.

1580
01:29:05,200 --> 01:29:07,040
Speaker 1: I found out when I walked in the locker room.

1581
01:29:07,080 --> 01:29:11,759
Speaker 1: Oh okay, fine, there you go. More mandatory minicamp coverage

1582
01:29:11,840 --> 01:29:14,920
Speaker 1: here tomorrow. Steve and I will see at one pm.