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Speaker 1: We're back home again. Yeah, new airfield right next to

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive, One Bills Drive,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker, And look, we were here

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Speaker 1: It's our Twitter poll today after two pres preseason games.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Bills Insider Buffalo Bills dot Com, is standing

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Speaker 1: by live outside the at Pro Sports Training Center where

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Speaker 1: practice is just underway. Good afternoon, Chris Brown. How are

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Speaker 1: and I mean, if he follows up his game Friday

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Speaker 1: that decision a lot more difficult, because he does represent

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Speaker 1: really the most liable size guy they have in the

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Speaker 1: wide receiver corps. And it took a while into this preseason,

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Speaker 1: But he made plays last Friday night in Carolina that

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Speaker 1: we've all been looking for for a couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: do you agree? Yeah? And I mean I think coach

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Speaker 1: Dabel said it best today. He said, Duke Williams made

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Speaker 1: the most of his opportunity in Carolina last week. So

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Speaker 1: that pretty much says it all. The offensive staff saw

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Speaker 1: what he could do. They felt that he maximized his opportunity.

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Speaker 1: And he's put him self right in the thick of

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Speaker 1: that mix for what has anticipated to be that last

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Speaker 1: receiver spot. So where can he take it from here?

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Speaker 1: That remains to be seen. I think we all know

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Speaker 1: that his opportunities maybe even fewer and further between than

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Speaker 1: they were last week, just by virtue of the fact

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Speaker 1: that you know they're going to try to be getting

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Speaker 1: the starters ready for the regular season at least in

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Speaker 1: this next preseason game, and it may take another four

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Speaker 1: or five days before they're back on the field again

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Speaker 1: for the preseason finale for him to really make his

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Speaker 1: mark and put a stamp on his body of work

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Speaker 1: and say I deserve to be on this roster. One

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Speaker 1: of the things about Duke is the fact that he's

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Speaker 1: a size difference, no question about it. But he also

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Speaker 1: has he plays, to me with a little harder edge

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Speaker 1: than most of those guys do. It's hard for a

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Speaker 1: guy like Cole Beasley to have a little grit in

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Speaker 1: him because he's kind of a finesse inside guy. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: John Brown's not a big type physical guy when you

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Speaker 1: start going down there, and Zay Jones doesn't really play

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Speaker 1: like that type of player. But the other night, Duke

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Speaker 1: bit of grit. He went up for that hard you know,

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Speaker 1: the red zone catch. He went up there with an attitude.

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Speaker 1: And I said it on the TV broadcast, and I

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Speaker 1: want to see get your take on this Brownie. You know,

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Speaker 1: for the importance that they place on culture and for

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Speaker 1: all the things we've heard them say about other players

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Speaker 1: like John Feliciano on the offensive line, are they maybe

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Speaker 1: Duke Williams and his ability to give them an attitude outside,

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Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of culture, grit outside. By

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Speaker 1: Does that part of his game boost him a little

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Speaker 1: bit more than people might give it credit for? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it does because he's the only guy in

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Speaker 1: the whole entire receiving corps who offers that. Yeah, who

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a spot locked on the roster. You know,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie certainly has an interesting skill set, but it's

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Speaker 1: almost identical to that of Ray Ray McLeod. You know,

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Speaker 1: David Sills is a tall receiver, but he does not

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Speaker 1: offer the physical presence on the field that Duke Williams does. Um,

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Speaker 1: you look at Duke Williams, Uh, I mean he could.

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Speaker 1: He almost looks like a tight end. I mean that's

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Speaker 1: how big he is. Uh. He might be a little

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Speaker 1: smallish for a tight end, but um, you know, if

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Speaker 1: if you didn't have another tight end standing next to him,

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't know. Uh, that's how he's broad shouldered. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he showed him the game last week what he

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Speaker 1: can do from a physical standpoint. He can he can

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Speaker 1: make plays even when he's covered. And there is a

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Speaker 1: little bit of an attitude And we saw it in

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Speaker 1: the joint practices last week down in Carolina. He comes

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Speaker 1: uh to try to kind of give an indication like, hey,

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Speaker 1: under a live game, I would I would have decleded

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Speaker 1: you on that. And Duke didn't back down because he

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Speaker 1: didn't slow down, and he'd decked the safety who was

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Speaker 1: pulling up and he knocked him over and there was

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Speaker 1: a nice little roar from the fans in attendance. But

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Speaker 1: that's that's what he brings. There's an attitude there, and

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Speaker 1: there isn't a whole lot of that. Uh. And the

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Speaker 1: guy that you know, you think back, who had on

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Speaker 1: the receiving corps last you can remember it was Robert Woods.

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Speaker 1: Robert Woods was the last guy that really had an

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Speaker 1: attitude in this receiving corp. And a guy who would

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Speaker 1: block like a maniac in the run game. Maybe the

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Speaker 1: best blocking receiver I've ever seen on this Bill's roster,

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Speaker 1: maybe short Eric Moltz. So you know, you look at

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Speaker 1: it and you say, if Duke can put his game together,

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Speaker 1: he can get that last spot because what he can offer,

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Speaker 1: there's nobody else here who can right now. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Bills Insider Buffalo Bills dot Com. Keeping an eye on

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Speaker 1: the early portion of practice for us today on the

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Speaker 1: outside practice fields here at the at Pro Sports Training Center.

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Speaker 1: Every day that goes by, every week that goes by

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Speaker 1: the tight end picture doesn't get a whole lot clearer.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any sense of who's practicing today in

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Speaker 1: that group? The you know, the Dawson Knox, Jason Krume,

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Speaker 1: watch anything on that today, Chris, Yeah, Crum and Knox

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Speaker 1: are participating right now. Whether they'll participate in team segments

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Speaker 1: of practice, we'll have to find out afterwards because we're

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Speaker 1: under regular season rules. We don't get to watch practice

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Speaker 1: start to finish anymore. But they are both in White Jersey's. Croom,

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Speaker 1: as we know, was limited all through last week's practice

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Speaker 1: sessions where you know, he was doing the individual position drills,

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Speaker 1: which is some of what's going on right now, but

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Speaker 1: as far as team segments, he did not take any

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Speaker 1: team reps. Whether Dawson, knowing Dawson Knox all throughout this

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Speaker 1: process has been behind Croom in his recovery, I would

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Speaker 1: anticipate that Knox would fall under the limited category and

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Speaker 1: probably just be participating here in individual position drill work

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Speaker 1: and some special team stuff. Whether Croom gets up to

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Speaker 1: the team setting, we'll have to wait and see. And

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Speaker 1: when all that goes on, Tommy Sweeney just keeps making plays,

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Speaker 1: which is good for him. Right That's been fun to

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Speaker 1: watch a less weeks, right, I mean, guy only got

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Speaker 1: targeted what three times and two giant catches in the game,

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Speaker 1: one of which was the longest play of the game

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Speaker 1: before Christian Wade decided to break for his tackle and

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Speaker 1: run to the goal line. So yeah, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: not like he's just I think people underestimated just what

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Speaker 1: he can offer. And it's not because he's like this

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Speaker 1: game breaking pass catching tight end. It's because he just

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Speaker 1: does everything well. And I think it was eye opening

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Speaker 1: to some people that, yeah, you know what, he's precise

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Speaker 1: enough of a route runner where he can get down

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Speaker 1: the scene for a twenty five yard pass play, or

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Speaker 1: he can take a route to the sideline and catch

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Speaker 1: a ball over his shoulder, you know, and make a play.

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Speaker 1: So every opportunity he's been given, he's taken it and

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Speaker 1: run with it, quite literally. I don't think there's any questions.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any indication that's gonna change. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be on the fifty three, no

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Speaker 1: question about it. And it depends on Chroom Knox and

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Speaker 1: Lee Smith and of course the return of Tyler Crawforman.

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Speaker 1: They got a bunch of guys that are that are there,

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Speaker 1: but Sweeney has been the number one tight end all

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Speaker 1: the way through training camp. You can say it's by default,

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Speaker 1: but I'll tell you what, if any of the other

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Speaker 1: players were in their plan like that, you'd take it

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Speaker 1: for granted because they're the number one. The only reason

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Speaker 1: Sweeney's not getting the kudos for being a number one

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Speaker 1: tight ends because he was a seventh round draft pick.

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Speaker 1: If he was a third round draft right, nobody else

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Speaker 1: is getting that spot away from him, right, So, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think he is on the roster. I think he's

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Speaker 1: done enough. And again we talk about position, flexibility, versatility.

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Speaker 1: He can do everything. He can block on the line,

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Speaker 1: he can run routes, he can help you on special teams.

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Speaker 1: You know, he just does everything pretty well. And that's

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Speaker 1: by virtue of the fact that the guy played in

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Speaker 1: a pro style offense at Boston College. And even day

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Speaker 1: Ball said it today, the guy was well coached in college,

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Speaker 1: came in here with a firm breadth of knowledge of

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Speaker 1: the game, and that's why he's been so quick on

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Speaker 1: the uptake here. Hey, Chris, thanks for this. We'll talk again.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate it, all right, guys, Chris Brown, Bills Insider

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot Com on the practice field here is

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Speaker 1: starting to shut down practice to the media, including Chris,

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Speaker 1: and that's why we'll think about it. Chris, I had

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Speaker 1: answered some of our questions, not all of them, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about that when we come back. Want

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Speaker 1: to hear from you two as well as to uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, what do you think about the first two

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Speaker 1: games that it increased your wind total? You're projected wind

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Speaker 1: total for the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills. Any other observations

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Speaker 1: about the Bills, the way they've played Friday or the

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. Give us a call. We got

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Speaker 1: phone lines open when we come back. Eight h three

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio, moving our way through the show.

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Speaker 1: Happy to be here. We're on Orchard Park in our

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Speaker 1: one Buffalo studio inside the Innfro Sports Training Center. John

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Speaker 1: Murphy Steve Tansker. I gotta sneez Steve. I don't know why.

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Speaker 1: Happy to be back. We had got on the road

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Speaker 1: a lot South Carolina last week. Got home on time.

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Speaker 1: We get home quarter to two Saturday morning. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: kind of put it on Saturday. You know, Saturday was

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Speaker 1: kind of a low key day, wasn't it for you?

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Speaker 1: Did you know a lot you went? I had a

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Speaker 1: birthday party, had to go to. I had a graduation

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Speaker 1: party that went to. And my son had a game

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Speaker 1: in Ottawa. Read the tie Cats Bela that beat the

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Speaker 1: Red Blacks pretty handily. Your name? What is that all about?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but it makes for a great great

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Speaker 1: um gear because they got you know, black and red

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Speaker 1: plaid like lumberjacks. What did the rough Riders? Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: they had another rough Rider, Saskatcha. They went away for

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Speaker 1: a while. Now they expanded back into the league out

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Speaker 1: it was back. Now they're gonna have another team in

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Speaker 1: the CFL. We're going off the off topic Nova Scotia.

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Speaker 1: Oh cool, the no And we were trying we were

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Speaker 1: going to like, what what's the Nova Scotia, you know, mascot,

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Speaker 1: what's it gonna be? And I figured you know what's

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Speaker 1: what's it gonna be? Right? Yeah, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be, but they're coming in the league in

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Speaker 1: The Nova Scosia's got, Natalie's gonna have ten teams in it.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be back though, Right, It's gonna be back

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Speaker 1: in Western area by the way, big weekend, but so

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Speaker 1: much more comfortable temperature wise here than it was in

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Speaker 1: either Charlotte or Spartanburg. We're living in the garden spot. Man,

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Speaker 1: And yeah, there was a little rain yesterday, but at

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Speaker 1: one point I'm like, this just feels great. We were

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Speaker 1: sitting out on a patio with some friends last night,

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Speaker 1: you know, just talking and you know, glass of wine whatever,

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Speaker 1: and just it was just perfect. I mean great, perfect,

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Speaker 1: good to be home. There's no mosquitoes. I was perfect.

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Speaker 1: Oh my guys, we missed it. Can you tell you

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Speaker 1: did we miss it? Our Twitter poll question today deals

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Speaker 1: with the first couple of preseason games, and it deals

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Speaker 1: with your perception of where this team is at after

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Speaker 1: two preseason games. How much is your projected Bill's win

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Speaker 1: total change for twenty nineteen voting to Twitter poll. We

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Speaker 1: got more than five hundred votes in already in less

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Speaker 1: than an hour. Forty seven percent of you say no change.

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Speaker 1: They're right where I thought they'd be. Forty percent of

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Speaker 1: you say I can see one or two more wins

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Speaker 1: than what I thought before, eleven percent say three or

647
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Speaker 1: more wins, which is a lot, and only three percent

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00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: say lowered expectations, which is a lot. I'd be interesting

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Speaker 1: to hear that. Phone lines open eight fifty toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two fifty. Let's work

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Speaker 1: in a call. Duke and Elma, Hello, Duke, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air, Duke. I hear you, Duke, I

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Speaker 1: know you hear us. I hope you hear us. Are

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Speaker 1: you there, Duke? I think we've waited long enough for

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Speaker 1: Duke and Elma. Yeah, it is chance. Twitter poll? What

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Speaker 1: do you got? The Twitter poll brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of the Buffalo Bills, who,

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Speaker 1: by the way, did a great job moving all our

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Speaker 1: radio equipment home from Charlotte Friday night. They helped drop

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Speaker 1: all night they let us get on their great our

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Speaker 1: stuff on their truck. That was great. And this is

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Speaker 1: from my after two pre season games it started. This

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Speaker 1: is Matthew. From Matthew, and this is exactly why we

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Speaker 1: did this Twitter poll. Offense and defense looking ten times

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Speaker 1: better than last year. Alan to Beasley to move the

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Speaker 1: chains and Oliver to stop the run game. I was

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Speaker 1: thinking nine and seven. Now I'm thinking eleven and five.

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Speaker 1: It's good thinking, that's realistic. It's I mean, eleven wins

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Speaker 1: is a little rich for my blood. But I see it.

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Speaker 1: I see how you get it. It's the defense ten

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Speaker 1: times better. That's a lot. The offense is a lot better.

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Speaker 1: And the connection with Cole Beasley early in that game, well,

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Speaker 1: you have five targets, five catches, two or three of

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Speaker 1: them for first sounds. You know why. It wasn't that

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00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: he just caught the boy. It looked easy. Yeah, it

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00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: was like that had a little five yard boom that

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Speaker 1: eight yards seven yards first time, ten yards he caught it.

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Speaker 1: Now he caught it on the run, got up the

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Speaker 1: field on a third and fifteen turns into a second,

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Speaker 1: and fifteen turns into a third and four, third and three.

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Speaker 1: We can get that you know you can get that.

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Speaker 1: He gives you a chance, and it's just that's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people saw us like, Wow,

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Speaker 1: that was that was really easy. I talked to Beasley

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Speaker 1: in the locker room Friday night in Carolina and talked

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Speaker 1: to him about, you know, the timing. He had virtually

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Speaker 1: no snap apps in the OTAs or mini camp with

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, so that just started when they went to

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Speaker 1: training camp back on July twenty fifth. This sort of

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Speaker 1: connection they've managed to forge. And here we are three

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Speaker 1: and a half weeks into a preseason and it looked

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's a finished product, but it's it's

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Speaker 1: sure looked like those two newer they each gonna be

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Speaker 1: and what it Beasley looked like, you knew what Josh

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Speaker 1: was expecting from him right the plays that he got,

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Speaker 1: the passes he caught in the first down he picked up.

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Speaker 1: It looked like they've been working together for months. It's

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Speaker 1: only been three and a half weeks. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: Beasley showed. I mean, and I've seen this happen with

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Speaker 1: other guys, and it happened a little bit with me.

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Speaker 1: For a heartbeat in my career where you get in

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Speaker 1: there and you start to think like your quarterback wants

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Speaker 1: you to think. And it's it sounds, but you know

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Speaker 1: what your quarterbacks thinking. You understand what he's looking at,

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Speaker 1: and you've had a cup a bunch of conversations about

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Speaker 1: it and you've seen him. For me, it was me

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Speaker 1: watching him do it with Andre Reid for a long

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Speaker 1: time and just knowing the quarterback so well. And it

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Speaker 1: takes a little time hanging around to do that. But

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Speaker 1: when your receiver starts to think and know what your

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Speaker 1: quarterback wants, man, he give it to you. And a

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Speaker 1: quarterback just after a while, quarterback won't look anyplace else.

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Speaker 1: He's looking right at because he knows he's got a

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Speaker 1: completion right there and we're gonna get positive yards. And

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Speaker 1: that's what it looked like the other night with those two.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, there was nothing to it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And that's something this club hasn't seen for maybe since

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Speaker 1: back in the day when when I was watching Jim

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Speaker 1: and Andre do it. It just looked like it was

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Speaker 1: supposed to look a receiver with some skill with a

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Speaker 1: skill set with a matchup the Bills liked, and they

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Speaker 1: just went at it. And that's that's football right there,

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Speaker 1: and that's it looked. The fact that it looks so easy,

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Speaker 1: I think is one of the reasons why people are

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Speaker 1: like sitting up in the edge of their chair going, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know what, maybe we are going to win a

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Speaker 1: couple more games this year. We'll see um. Also from

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet from Tiffany right soon, I had them

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Speaker 1: in eight and eight, but now I think ten and six.

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Speaker 1: If the offensive line can link up and play well.

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Speaker 1: What I've seen in Beasley and Allan, I liked their

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Speaker 1: chemistry just talking about that. Tiffany's right about the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: And I'll confess I was fully expecting this to be

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Speaker 1: the week, maybe today, to be the day when the

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Speaker 1: offensive line got healthy and found their five. And it

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Speaker 1: does not appear that that has happened fully yet. We'll

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Speaker 1: get you know, we've heard about Chris gave us his

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Speaker 1: um rundown of what he saw first unit offensive line

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Speaker 1: when the open portion of practice. But um, I think

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Speaker 1: Tiffany's onto something there. You know, you gotta wonder where

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Speaker 1: are they going with this offensive line? Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 1: I'm not worried. I'm not panicing. I'm not either because

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Speaker 1: even if even if Mitch Morse is not in the game,

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Speaker 1: they're better than they were a year ago in my opinion. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but even without Mitch Morsey in investment, and the sure

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Speaker 1: is in Morse. The investment investments, you know, is significant

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Speaker 1: and it's noteworthy, but it's not my money. So they're

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Speaker 1: upgraded no matter what. So whatever I'm paying for him

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Speaker 1: getting better. And so yeah, I'm serious about this. Even

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Speaker 1: if Mitch Morse isn't on the field, I think their

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00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: offensive line is gonna better at all four spots that

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Speaker 1: are new and there and for that reason, Dan DM

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00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: Dawkins is going to look better as well. So I'm

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. It's more about chemistry for me than

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00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: it is level of play, because they're going to be

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Speaker 1: better no matter who's who's in there. Brian Gable was

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00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 1: asked about it today. The Bill's offensive coordinator met with

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Speaker 1: the media before today's practice, and he talked about the

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Speaker 1: ongoing competition and really the churn of offensive line positions.

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Speaker 1: Here's what Brian Dable had to say. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: we're we're a little bit away here from the end

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Speaker 1: of end of this training camp, if you will, preseason,

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Speaker 1: so there's still um competition, and we encourage the competition.

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Speaker 1: You know, a competition makes everybody better. Um. But you

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Speaker 1: know a lot of guys have have played different spots

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Speaker 1: and that's what you're gonna need at some point during

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Speaker 1: the year. Um, there's always injuries and guys are going

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00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: to be able to have some position flexibility. So you know,

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Speaker 1: we still have still have a ways to go. It's

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Speaker 1: it's good to be able to do that has not

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Speaker 1: been I mean, I'm sure that's designed to a certain

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Speaker 1: degree the league that if you kind of have to

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Speaker 1: ramp him up and get ready or is that something

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00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: that I think I think it'd be good for everybody

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00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:14,280
Speaker 1: to uh to ramp it up. Um. You know again,

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00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 1: back in back in the early days when kind of

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00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: first got in the league, everybody understood what the third

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00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: preseason game was. We're still um, we're still focusing on

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00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: us and making sure that well we can play as

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Speaker 1: good as we can play together and build our chemistry. Um.

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00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: So you know it'll be up to everybody to keep improving.

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00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: Ryan Gable builds offensive coordinate or answering a question about

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Speaker 1: the offensive line and then about the lea Shawn McCoy, Um, yeah,

784
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: it doesn't appear panicky or worry too much about the

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00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: offensive plane. I don't think they are, and I don't

786
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: think they should be, right, but let's get going. I

787
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 1: think that's that's the mind mentality. I just kind of said,

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Speaker 1: I don't care who they put out there. They're gonna

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00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,479
Speaker 1: better than it were last year. So now they they're

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00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: trying to maximize it, no question about it. They want

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Speaker 1: their best five out there, and they want to roll,

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Speaker 1: and they want they don't want to have a competitive

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Speaker 1: offensive line. They want to have a dominant They want

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Speaker 1: to want best they want to think. Yeah, I think,

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Speaker 1: of course, but but I'm not panicked that he's not.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna like Flounder without him. I

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00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be pretty competitive without him. I think

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00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: they're gonna be good, really good with him, because you're

799
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Speaker 1: plugging a guy into the top two or three spots

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Speaker 1: on your offensive line along with Cody Ford, with Inseci,

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Speaker 1: with Dion Dawkins, with what we've seen from Feliciano Spencer

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Speaker 1: Long Quentin Spain, I mean, they got some guys to

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00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: pick from that can really go. And I think that's

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00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: the fun part about this um because sooner or later

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Speaker 1: they are going to get there, and you know, the

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Speaker 1: sooner or the better, but whenever it is, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be good, and they're gonna be good pretty quick. They'll

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00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: be better with Morrise. I think they will be better

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Speaker 1: with Morris. But they're better now. Yes, without agree, So

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Speaker 1: I'm you know, let's agree, but let you know that's hey.

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Speaker 1: You're in the business of winning. You want your best

812
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: guys out there. That means Mitch Morse needs to guess

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Speaker 1: get healthy. Break here, we'll talk more about the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: about the Bills in general. You are welcome to join us.

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Speaker 1: Phone lines open eighth three five fifty toll free one

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Speaker 1: Sell is gonna join us at one his take on

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Speaker 1: the Bills preseason performance. So now it's your chance next

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Speaker 1: couple of minutes to get in your thoughts. Come on

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Speaker 1: back One Bill's Live, presented by Come Out of Health

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: It's One Bills five. I'm John Murphy, Steve Chancers with

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Speaker 1: the Steve Just give me a look. I'm here. You're

824
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Speaker 1: looking at me like a right you know you leaned

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Speaker 1: over to take a take a note, write a note

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Speaker 1: if just as our producer said you and you weren't.

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Speaker 1: I don't listen to that. I got my own time,

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Speaker 1: obviously not. I'm getting ready for great postal coming up

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Speaker 1: after the top of the hour. Hey, how many two

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Speaker 1: preseason games? Has your projection of the Bill season changed

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Speaker 1: at all? A lot of people I saw over the

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Speaker 1: weekend are like, oh, this is great. They're gonna be great.

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Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see. Has it changed it all? You

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Speaker 1: can vote on it on the Twitter poll. You can

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Speaker 1: give us a call. We'll discuss. Let's take a call

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Speaker 1: here from Robert in Clarence, New York. Fire up here, Robert, Hello, Robert,

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Speaker 1: are you there? Yes? Hi. I think the Bills will

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Speaker 1: be nine and seven or ten and six. And I

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Speaker 1: haven't really changed my thought on how many wins they're

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Speaker 1: going to have based on the two preseason games. That's

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Speaker 1: right where I am, Robert, And it's been good, right

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Speaker 1: encouraging the two preseason games, right encouraging. I think the

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00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 1: running back situation is more wide open than we originally thought.

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Speaker 1: I still think though running back, the one, two, three,

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Speaker 1: four running backs are still wide open. I think they

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00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: may have to restructure Lashawn McCoy's contract because I don't

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Speaker 1: think he's going to get as many touches as they

848
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Speaker 1: originally suspected, and if they can't restructure it, he may

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Speaker 1: not be in the lineup come the first game of

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Speaker 1: the season, and I wouldn't be surprised if that happened.

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00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 1: Why sound like why? I'll go ahead and answer that question.

852
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,320
Speaker 1: I got another question for you. Go ahead. The amount

853
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 1: of touches that his salary would indicate. They've got a

854
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,399
Speaker 1: lot of other running backs that can do other things

855
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: that he doesn't do. I think Christian Wade may actually

856
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: make the team at the end. It's all going to

857
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: depend on how well he does the next two preseason games.

858
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 1: I think Gore is an outstanding running back, and they're

859
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: going to find out that on the third and twos

860
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: they want to use Gore instead of McCoys. Question, Robert,

861
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: is Christian Wade part of your running back restructuring that

862
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 1: you thought of actually have him in as the third

863
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: or fourth running back? Who's number one? Is it Devin Singletary?

864
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: Then Singletary is gonna shoot the responsibility with Gore and

865
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: they're going to be an indifferent situations, and so you

866
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: have you really have Lashawn McCoy being off the team

867
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: because of his salary. Yes, okay, okay, all right, that's interesting.

868
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: What about t J. Yelton Does he make this team?

869
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: And we lost Royan? Hey, Roberts bailed on my TJ.

870
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: Yelden question. It's a called from Ryan and Williamsville. Hello. Ryan,

871
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air with us, Ryan and

872
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 1: I'm sorry Ryan and Jacksonville not Winsville. Ryan and Jacksonville.

873
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 1: Are you there? Ah, you're here, Ryan, Yeah, this is

874
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: Dominic in Jacksonville. I wonder why it says Ryan and

875
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: Jacksonville on my board. Okay, go ahead, it's Hey, nice

876
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: talking to John and Steve. Yeah, time listener, first time caller.

877
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: I'm one with ten and six. I would say I

878
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: would take ten and six in a split with the Patriots,

879
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: and I'll be a happy man. Yeah, ten wins might

880
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: not get him in the playoffs, Dominic, Right, we acknowledge that.

881
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:05,399
Speaker 1: I realized that we're you know, it's a tough division. Yeah,

882
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: I was. I'm gonna talk about one point that I

883
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: was watching the game. I always watched it a couple

884
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: of times and uh I was watching. Uh I wasn't

885
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: specifically looking to single him out at the center. Ryan Bates, Yeah,

886
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: played quite well. Uh you know, he played a lot

887
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:23,959
Speaker 1: of snaps and it was hard to find a snap

888
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: that wasn't good. You know, he's interesting. Dominic, thank you,

889
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: And see we should talk about him a little bit.

890
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: Acquired in the trade about a week and a half

891
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 1: ago for Eli Harold right, they sent him off to

892
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: the Eagles, undrafted rookie for agent from Penn State. Almost

893
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: immediately goes to the second team Bill's offensive line as

894
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 1: a center as and shows he belongs in fact, and

895
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott made the point late last week. A couple

896
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: of times in practice last week at Carolina they had

897
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: Ryan Bates at center, same practice, Bates at center, Sat

898
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,959
Speaker 1: Bates at guard, Bates at tackle. He's an interesting character

899
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: and that kind of versatility goes along way. One of

900
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,720
Speaker 1: the things I noticed as well, and it really speaks

901
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: to how they can how they can have really upgraded

902
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: the whole way across. Bates goes in its center and

903
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers come down in this three fourth set

904
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: and Bates, you know, the center sets the sets the

905
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: defense and makes some calls. Right. Well, in this case,

906
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: Feliciano was playing right guard, Bates would make a call,

907
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 1: and then Feliciano really took controlling head. None, let's do that,

908
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: and Feliciano made the line calls from his guard position

909
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: for Bates, because you know, Bates has been there what

910
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: five days or four days and a couple of practices,

911
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: So Feliciano sitting next to Bates, gave them the flexibility

912
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: say hey, we can have two guys seeing it and

913
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 1: one guy can cover for the other with the calls

914
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 1: to make sure that the left guard left tackle have

915
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: the calls and the right tackle have the calls, and

916
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 1: the two guys playing center and right guard can kind

917
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 1: of together, you know, with Feliciano, and they're making sure

918
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: nothing slips through the cracks. So in what I'm saying

919
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,439
Speaker 1: isn't a pinch. Bates can go in and start a game,

920
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: and if you've got Feliciano or maybe Spencer Long and

921
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: there next to him, they can make the line calls

922
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: instead of the center doing it because they have such

923
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: experience playing it in this offense. So I saw that,

924
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: and you're right, that did take something off the plate

925
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: for Baits, so he could can you know, he could

926
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: concentrate on just listen, I just got to block the

927
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: guy in front of me now in this play instead

928
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: of having to look and see the defensive snaps and

929
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: the defensive front and make calls and identify the mic

930
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: and all of that stuff. So the Bill's offensive line

931
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: doing a lot of stuff upfront with all the combinations

932
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: and John Feliciano showing one more level of expertise he's

933
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:35,879
Speaker 1: got on this offense. He's played both guards, he's played

934
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: the center, and now he's making line calls from the

935
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: guard spot. So it's a lot going on on the

936
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: offensive line. But Bits, you're right, he's been a little

937
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:48,399
Speaker 1: bit of an eyebrow raiser for you and I Murph saying, wow,

938
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 1: he came in off the street and now he's played tackle,

939
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: played tackle and center, and they said he can play

940
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: both guards. So yeah, that's there's a lot going hot

941
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: out there. Yeah, there's a lot going on in this

942
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 1: offensive line we don't know about yet, not for the

943
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: faint of heart, which I think we all are. When

944
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 1: you hear davel Or McDermott say we got time, we

945
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 1: got time, I'm thinking, do we do we really have time,

946
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: Are you sure? And they're like, yeah, we got Time's

947
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,919
Speaker 1: been like three full weeks yea, and plus yeah, They're

948
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: like it's still fluid. Yeah. Interesting, We're gonna get Greg

949
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 1: co Sal's opinion on what the Bills are all about,

950
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: plus some of the other NFL news and evaluation of

951
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: a couple of preseason games. Greg co Sal from NFL

952
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: Network in the ESPN NFL Matchup Show, He's coming up

953
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 1: when we come back for our number two, Come on back,

954
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. Coming here from

955
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive for a Change. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello.

956
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network stories date updates from One Bill's Drive.

957
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: The Bills on the practice field as we speak, day

958
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: two of this practice week before they get set for

959
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 1: preseason game number three. Chris Brown, Bills insider Buffalo Bills

960
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 1: dot Com took a look at the early power of practice,

961
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 1: said the offensive line lined up like this first unit,

962
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,399
Speaker 1: Dean Dawkins at left tackle, Spencer Long at left guard,

963
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: John Feliciano at center, Quentin Spain at right guard, and

964
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 1: right tackle Cody Ford. As of yesterday, Mitch Morse was

965
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 1: still in concussion protocol. No updated on that yet. Tyan

966
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: Secky did not play last week. Looks like he's not

967
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: practicing today with his sore knee. Preseason game number two

968
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,760
Speaker 1: coming up Friday night the Bills and the Detroit Lions

969
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock. Well, the Bills have released cornerback EJ. Gaines,

970
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 1: put him on injury reserve a couple of weeks ago,

971
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: and now reportedly have released him with an injury settlement

972
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: that makes him a free agent. He's able to sign

973
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,839
Speaker 1: with any team, according to reports. Played for the Bills

974
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, played for the Browns last year, and

975
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: then came back. Injuries have been an issue for games

976
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: all along. He's never played in sixteen games in a season.

977
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: He missed the entire twenty fifteen season with the Rams

978
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: with the foot injury. He is a free agent now,

979
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: and Tonio Brown maybe believed it when the Oakland Raiders

980
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 1: issued your inner, your out message yesterday, one day after

981
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 1: Oakland general manager Mike May said the organization needed to

982
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: know whether Brown was in or out. I'm in an

983
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: extended conflict about finding the right helmet. The wide receiver

984
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: reportedly rejoined the team today or a meeting. According to

985
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: multiple reports, they've got no practice, no walkthrough with their

986
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: training camp in Napa, California. Yesterday, Mike Mayock, Raiders general managers,

987
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 1: said the Raiders have been trying to resolve the conflict

988
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 1: and find a version of a helmet he can wear.

989
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: But he did say for him, it's time for m

990
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: to be all in or all out. It sounds like

991
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown is in right now. Jets coach Adam Gays

992
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 1: says his Pro Bowl running back let me On Bell,

993
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: will not play at all in the preseason. Gaye said

994
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: he was considering it for a couple of weeks. A

995
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 1: season ending injury to linebacker Avery Williams, who towards ACL

996
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: Thursday against the Falcons, convinced Adam Gays to sit Beell

997
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: for good and the Bisons on the road. They started

998
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 1: a series in Rochester, four game series Tonight. NAT is

999
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: the update from Wondell's Drive. John Murphy and Steve Tasker

1000
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:56,959
Speaker 1: in our one Buffalo Studio getting set for our number

1001
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: two of the show. Happy to have you with us here.

1002
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 1: Happy to be back right, We were really happy to

1003
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 1: be back in Orchard Parks. Feels very comfortable to be

1004
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 1: back in our two chairs here right, questions our home? Yeah,

1005
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: where we lit? Um on the line with us our

1006
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: guest this hour. He is the executive producer analyst for

1007
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: NFL Matchup on ESPN, Senior producer at NFL Films. Happy

1008
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: to have great cosll on the line. Hello, Greg, how

1009
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: you doing? Merph, Steve? What's happening to my friends? We're

1010
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: just cooling off from a week in Carolina that was

1011
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 1: blisteringly hot down there. Oh well, it's gonna be blisteringly

1012
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: hot here in the Philadelphia area this week. Yeah, gotcha.

1013
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: They'll stay inside and watch film for us. Well, you know,

1014
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: I guess I'll have to fix my helmet to make

1015
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: sure it's okay. We're gonna get We'll believe me, we'll

1016
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:41,959
Speaker 1: get to that. Whatever what I want to we're gonna

1017
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:46,800
Speaker 1: ask him. Bill's fans are all our giddy with the

1018
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: way the team has played in the first two preseason games.

1019
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: What did you see in Josh Allen in this last

1020
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: game against Carolina? Well, I'll tell you what I really

1021
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: liked about Josh, and this is something that he needs

1022
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 1: to be a part of what he does. And I

1023
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: love the way he hit on a lot of these

1024
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: short tests that require pace and touch, because that was

1025
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: an area he needed to improve dramatically. And Beasley is

1026
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: really good. He's really good in particular when he's lined

1027
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,439
Speaker 1: up Steve his number three to trips because you're gonna

1028
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: get him working either on a safety or a linebacker,

1029
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: depending on whether the defense is playing nickel or dime.

1030
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:22,839
Speaker 1: And that's where Beasley is so good running those as

1031
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 1: you know, what are called either option or choice routes,

1032
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: and he's so good at creating separation with those little

1033
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: jerk moves and that's the way you move to change

1034
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 1: when it's third and four, third and five. You know,

1035
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: obviously Beasley's not a deep threat, so he's the kind

1036
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: of guy that might average ten yards or reception, but

1037
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 1: those kinds of plays on third and four, third and

1038
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: five are absolutely critical to an offense. And those are

1039
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: the throws I think that Josh really needed to get

1040
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: better at, and I thought he did a really good

1041
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: job with those throws this past week. Greg. You know,

1042
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 1: we know Josh Allen. The accuracy has always kind of

1043
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: following him around fifty two percent complete your percent last year.

1044
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: But I know they're only preseason games, but I think

1045
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,320
Speaker 1: we're seeing evidence that from these two preseason games that

1046
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: it's really more of a function of the type of

1047
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: throws he's attempting as opposed to whether or not he's

1048
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: accurate with the pass. Can we make that assumption after

1049
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:17,800
Speaker 1: two games, what do you think? Well, look, the coaching

1050
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: staff knows Josh Allen, They know him better than we do,

1051
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 1: and there are certain throws you have to make that

1052
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: require precise ball placement. I thought his twenty two yard

1053
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: completion to Sweeney on the first possession, that to me

1054
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: was the kind of throw that was critical to his

1055
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 1: development because that was a pace and touch throw with

1056
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 1: really precise ball placement, and it was a really well

1057
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: designed route concept, and that was the throw that had

1058
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: to be made. And that's the kind of throw you're

1059
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: looking for him. We know he can drive the ball

1060
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: down the field. We know he can make throws off movement.

1061
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: We know that about him. What you're looking at with

1062
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: him are the pocket throws that demand touch and demand

1063
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,920
Speaker 1: and precise ball location. And I thought that one of

1064
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: the twenty two yard or in particular it's a Sweeney

1065
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: on that first possession, I think that really said a lot.

1066
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: And you're hoping that that can continue. Are you talking

1067
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: about the corner route or the one down the scene? No,

1068
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: the corner route. Yeah, the corner route. I agree with you.

1069
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: It was a really it was a touch throw out

1070
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: wide to the field and he made it on time

1071
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: and he dropped it in. I thought it was a

1072
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:25,919
Speaker 1: great throw. Yeah. Yeah, let's move to the other side

1073
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: of the football. Let's talk about Ed Oliver down inside,

1074
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:33,240
Speaker 1: you know, getting in two game setting against a Panther's

1075
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: offensive line. He had one batted down pass. What else

1076
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: did you see from Ed Oliver? You know, in honesty

1077
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: and I really like Oliver coming out, but I think

1078
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 1: he struggled a little bit, and you know, don't forget

1079
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 1: he's not a big guy, and I think his lack

1080
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: of size has been a little bit of a factor

1081
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 1: in the two preseason games. There's been some snaps in

1082
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: which he's just been engulfed. You know. I think that

1083
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: obviously he's a quickness player and an athletic player, and

1084
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:01,360
Speaker 1: he's playing the three tech nique position, which you know

1085
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: normally that's where you play your quickness defensive tackle. He

1086
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: needs to, I think, be taught a lot more about

1087
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: rushing the quarterback. And I think that was evident when

1088
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: he was coming out of Houston. He's not a refined

1089
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:16,280
Speaker 1: pass rusher because in this league, as you know, Steve,

1090
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 1: you need more than athleticism and quickness to develop into

1091
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: a quality pass rusher. You needn't use your hands well,

1092
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: you need counter moves, you need to set up people.

1093
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 1: So I think he's learning all this and this will

1094
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,319
Speaker 1: be a little bit of a process. But again, it's

1095
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: always tough to to make judgments about a player when

1096
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 1: he plays, you know, twenty or twenty five snaps. So,

1097
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 1: but I do think that the lack of size is

1098
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: something that they need to work through because he's going

1099
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 1: to be playing against much bigger offensive linemen. Right. And

1100
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 1: as you talk going down the list of players who

1101
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,959
Speaker 1: kind of flashed a little bit, maybe for the first time,

1102
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley you mentioned earlier where I mean the thing

1103
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 1: that I think got people in Buffalo, the Buffalo fan

1104
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:00,399
Speaker 1: basically excited, was it looked so easy for I'm Josh

1105
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: Allen to Cole Beasley. Yeah, I mean it was just

1106
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 1: there was nothing to it, and that can't happen all

1107
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: the time, ken it. Well, I think that's Beasley's game.

1108
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 1: I mean, look, obviously he's not going to catch eight

1109
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: nine balls every single week because he's not going to

1110
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 1: catch one hundred and forty balls. But I think when

1111
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:20,280
Speaker 1: all's said and done, that's called Beasley's game. He works inside,

1112
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: whether he's the slot to twin the two receiver side,

1113
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: or whether he's number three to trips inside like that.

1114
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 1: You know, that's his game. That's what he does. You know,

1115
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 1: he wins those routes in those critical type situations because

1116
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: ultimately that's what this offense needs. It needs to move

1117
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: the chains. You know. Obviously Josh had some big plays

1118
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,280
Speaker 1: last year, and he made some big plays with his legs,

1119
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 1: but you want to be able to move the chains

1120
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. You know. You mentioned the seam ball

1121
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:51,800
Speaker 1: to Sweeney, which came later. I guess it was in

1122
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: the second or I don't. I forget how many possessions

1123
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 1: Josh played, but I think it was his last possession,

1124
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: you know, and that was that was another designed play

1125
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 1: because they put Sweeney on the line of scrimmage as

1126
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 1: the single receiver to that side of the field, and

1127
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 1: he ran the seam and that was that was a

1128
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: beautiful throw. Uh. You know, again, there was some pace

1129
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: and touch on that throw. Was kind of a firm

1130
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 1: touch throw, and I think that's the kind of throw

1131
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: too that you look for from Josh Allen. But Beasley,

1132
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: I think as a chance to be a really big

1133
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:24,239
Speaker 1: factor in this offense. Yeah, and I hope that's right, Greg.

1134
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: But I found myself and I know I'm way ahead

1135
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 1: of everything here. But is there any danger that Josh

1136
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: becomes so enamored of Cole Beasley knowing where he'll be,

1137
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 1: knowing how is Steve said how easy those throws can be,

1138
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 1: that he forgets about forcing the issue, you know, forcing

1139
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:39,800
Speaker 1: the downfield a little bit. They have to they have

1140
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on that, right. Well, that's situational murphy.

1141
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: You know, when it's third and four, you're okay with that.

1142
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,240
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, obviously they're going to design plays

1143
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,920
Speaker 1: and call plays. Who's going to throw to wide receivers?

1144
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:52,240
Speaker 1: You know? And also we're getting a small sample size,

1145
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,359
Speaker 1: so it's really difficult to make any definitive judgment about

1146
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 1: what this means for the season other than the fact

1147
00:56:57,680 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 1: that this is what Beasley does. This is why he

1148
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 1: was brought in. They didn't have this guy a year ago.

1149
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 1: You know, he gives you that in those situations. Beasley's

1150
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 1: more of a situational player than he is, you know,

1151
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 1: a big time wide out, but he certainly can give

1152
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: you the ability to move the chains on third down situations.

1153
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: One of the other guys that got an opportunity in

1154
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: Carolina was Duke Williams, who, yeah, and made a couple

1155
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: of catches, made the nice red zone grab for the touchdown,

1156
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 1: nice little dig route. But then also the thing I

1157
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 1: noticed Greg was he was on the edge of the

1158
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: formation and blocked really well in the run game. Well,

1159
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Steve, he's got really strong hands.

1160
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: I mean that, and I remember him when he came

1161
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 1: out of Auburn, but which is a number of years ago,

1162
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: but I remember him. He's a big guy, he's a

1163
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: physical guy. He's got strong hands. I mean, he played

1164
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 1: mostly with Barkley, I guess, but I mean a lot

1165
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: of those you know, quick inbreakers, sort of the long slant,

1166
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: you know, he snatches the ball. It'll be interesting to

1167
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: see because there's a lot of wide receivers now that

1168
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 1: are here, and I don't know, you know, we know

1169
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: obviously probably the top three I guess I would it

1170
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: be John Brown, Beasley and Zay Jones or would they

1171
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,200
Speaker 1: be considered the top three at this point. Yeah, that's yeah,

1172
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: it's close enough anyway. I mean they're in the mix anyway. Yeah, yeah,

1173
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 1: So I mean, I mean, John Brown and Beasley are

1174
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 1: not getting cut, so you know, and I don't think

1175
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: say Jones will either, but you know, again, you never know,

1176
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: but you know, and then after that, you know, I

1177
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I like Robert Foster a year ago,

1178
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem like he's getting a ton of

1179
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: snaps in these preseason games. Greg, how do we're with

1180
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 1: Greg goes by the way, executive producer analysts of NFL

1181
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: matchup on ESPN. How do most teams put together their

1182
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: five or six man wide receiver corps these days? And

1183
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 1: I guess my real question is do most teams try

1184
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: to have like a mixture of body types because Duke

1185
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:50,720
Speaker 1: Williams provides a body type that really no one else

1186
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: on the wide receiver depth chart hand correct well. Teams

1187
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 1: I think think in terms of dimensions, mirth, they'd like

1188
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: to have every dimension. They'd like to have a speed

1189
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 1: guy who can run and scretch the defense vertically. They'd

1190
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 1: love to have a Beasley kind of guy. They'd love

1191
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: to have the intermediate guy. In an ideal world, they'd

1192
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 1: love to have a complete guy who can do a

1193
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 1: lot of things. But teams think in terms of dimensions,

1194
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,439
Speaker 1: because dimensions give you the ability to attack and break

1195
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 1: down defense and defensive coverages. So that's what you're ultimately

1196
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: looking for. Usually the bottom guys in the wide receiver

1197
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: group the fourth, fifth and depending on how many you carry,

1198
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:29,680
Speaker 1: if you do carry a sixth. Now you're getting into

1199
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: special teams. You know. If you start thinking about the

1200
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie's or the mcleods, those guys have to be

1201
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 1: special teams players, you know, and Steve knows this. I

1202
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: mean that's what he was and he was a wide receiver.

1203
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 1: But you know, right, Steve, these guys have to be

1204
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,439
Speaker 1: able to be special teams contributors. Well, yeah, if they're

1205
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 1: not going to see a lot of snaps on down

1206
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: and distance, they got to contribute somewhere because it takes

1207
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: all forty five guys on game day to get it done.

1208
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 1: And you're right, a guy like Isaiah McKenzie's gonna have

1209
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 1: to return kicks or cover kicks, and Andre Roberts the

1210
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: same story. He's gonna have to do both. So yeah,

1211
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: it's a mix of skills and how many times are

1212
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 1: going to contribute on one or the other, either special

1213
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 1: teams or offense. So I request a really good season

1214
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 1: for the Jets last year as a pun returner. So

1215
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 1: he's done this in the league. I mean, he's done

1216
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: that throughout his career, you know. And I know they

1217
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 1: brought him in and signed him as a free agent.

1218
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 1: So again, you know, I'm not there every day, so

1219
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: I don't know how the competition is going. But my

1220
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 1: guess is Andre Roberts, Isaiah McKenzie, and Ray Ray McLeod

1221
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 1: are not all making this team. Yeah right, hey, Greg,

1222
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: many of us were excited when the Bills in the

1223
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 1: third round got tight end Dawson Knox. They chose one

1224
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 1: in the seventh round as well, Tommy Sweeney, who because

1225
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 1: of injuries he had a chance to play. What did

1226
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 1: you think im pre draft him? What do you think

1227
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 1: of his performance for these two games? Yeah, Sweeney's an

1228
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:48,800
Speaker 1: interesting guy because he came out of Boston College, where

1229
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 1: he was a line of scrimmage tight end. Because of

1230
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:52,720
Speaker 1: the way they play with their run game, so he's

1231
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: got a lot of blocking experience on the line of scrimmage,

1232
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: which a lot of tight ends in college football do not.

1233
01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 1: So he's got that experience in the background. And there

1234
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 1: you know, he's not a great athlete. He's not one

1235
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 1: of those tight angel to look at and say, wow,

1236
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:06,920
Speaker 1: I think Dawson Knox is more athletic in his movement.

1237
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 1: But you know, Sweeney obviously he made the really nice

1238
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 1: catch on that kind of corner out and then he

1239
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 1: had the steam ball. That was a designed play and

1240
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 1: that didn't necessarily require Sweeney to be faster. But you know,

1241
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 1: I think he's an intriguing prospect for a team. You know,

1242
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 1: I don't know what their tight end situation is. I mean,

1243
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: Knox obviously, barring any injury, he's going to make the team.

1244
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 1: He was a third round pick. What about the guys

1245
01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: from last year? What about Croom? I mean, I always

1246
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: like that kid, but I don't know. Yeah, he's just

1247
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 1: kind of struggling to, you know, get off the injured

1248
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 1: list at a hamstring first day of training camp. And

1249
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 1: then of course, Tyler Croft, the former Bengal, is still

1250
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 1: here and he might be a couple of weeks into

1251
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 1: the regular season before he's ready. And he's pretty athletic kid.

1252
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he was in Cincinnati for a

1253
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 1: number of years. You know, another guy who's athletic. They've

1254
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:53,960
Speaker 1: actually got some guys who could turn out to be

1255
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 1: nice players. But you know, the key thing. Look a

1256
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:58,600
Speaker 1: guy like Croom, as much as I like the skill set,

1257
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: if he's not on the field. You know, we're not

1258
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 1: talking about Travis Kelsey. Guys like that, if they're not

1259
01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:05,439
Speaker 1: on the field, get cut. So you know, I hope

1260
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: it works out for him because I think he's an

1261
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: intriguing prospect. Yeah, lets it's true, and let's kind of

1262
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:14,760
Speaker 1: widen our scope a little bit outside the Buffalo Bill's roster.

1263
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got guys around the league talks us

1264
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 1: a little bit about what's going on. Maybe in Tennessee

1265
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:24,920
Speaker 1: we got Chase Winovich. He's got a preseason game win

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Speaker 1: of Itch versus the Titans. He had a really nice game.

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Speaker 1: This defensive guy from from New England. You know, is

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Speaker 1: he gonna make their defense a little better And it's

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Speaker 1: the last thing we want to hear in Buffalo about

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Speaker 1: England defender getting better. Well, I think he's a He's

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Speaker 1: a fascinating player for Bill Belichick because first of all,

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Speaker 1: he's obviously one of those guys that plays with great

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01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 1: energy all the time, which everybody should, but not everybody does,

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Speaker 1: as you know Steve, but that's really stands out when

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Speaker 1: you watch Winovich. But more importantly, from a tactical perspective,

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Speaker 1: I think he's the kind of guy that Bill will

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Speaker 1: be able to move around. You know, he can line

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Speaker 1: up in a number of different places. He can line

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Speaker 1: up with his hand on the ground and a three

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Speaker 1: point stance. He can line up standing up is what

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Speaker 1: we like to call a joker, and a two point

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01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 1: stance moving around. I think he provides Belichick in that

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Speaker 1: defense with a lot of flexibility and we know that's

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Speaker 1: so important to Bill because he's very opponent specific with

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Speaker 1: his matchups. Josh Gordon gets the green light to come back.

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Speaker 1: He is a difference maker for New England. I think

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Speaker 1: when he plays, isn't he greg You know, it's funny

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Speaker 1: because I thought last year and again, you know, look,

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Speaker 1: the guy's been in and out. You know, if he

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Speaker 1: does train on his own, it's not the same as

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Speaker 1: training with a team. I didn't think last year he

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Speaker 1: looked quite as explosive as he did in his earlier

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Speaker 1: days in Cleveland. Now, again, I can't speak to what

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Speaker 1: he is now, but he certainly is a factor. You know,

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Speaker 1: you could have made the argument and for a couple

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Speaker 1: of those years in Cleveland that he was arguably the

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Speaker 1: best wide receiver in football because he's big and he's explosive.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't see him as quite as explosive a

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Speaker 1: year ago on tape. Could have been a little bit

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Speaker 1: of the way New England deploys all their guys. I

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01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:04,400
Speaker 1: mean sometimes it might be hard in that system to

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01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 1: look explosive if they've got you running some disciplined routes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I was just looking Steve at the way

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01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 1: he moves. I mean, uh, you know, I just didn't

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01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:16,480
Speaker 1: see the same level of movement. But we'll see. I mean, look,

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01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 1: he's obviously a very good player, even if he's not

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Speaker 1: exactly the same as he was, you know, in twenty

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01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 1: thirteen or fourteen, but you know, he's he's an upgrade. Obviously,

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01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:29,240
Speaker 1: he's we'll see. I mean, the guy that has really

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01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:31,360
Speaker 1: stood out for New England that wide receiver, and again

1311
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:34,440
Speaker 1: it's two preseason games, is Jacobe Myers, the rookie from

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01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:37,600
Speaker 1: North Carolina State, well a couple of preseason games into

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01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,160
Speaker 1: the season and the New York Jets have decided they're

1314
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:43,760
Speaker 1: not going to play Levion Bell at all in the preseason.

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01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,040
Speaker 1: But Sam Darnold's playing, and he's playing pretty well. What

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01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: do you see from Sam? Yeah, I tell you what's

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01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:50,440
Speaker 1: really stood out in the last game, and and this

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01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:54,200
Speaker 1: to me is so important for quarterbacks. It was his accuracy.

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01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 1: I mean, he made a couple of throws in that

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Speaker 1: game where he was really precise with his ball location.

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01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,440
Speaker 1: And then you always see the second reaction playmaking dimension.

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01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: That's really become a staple of his game. But you know,

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01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: Donald has looked very smooth, very comfortable. Um. I think

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01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 1: there's a combination there with with Darnald and with Adam Gaze.

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01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:15,920
Speaker 1: I really like what Adam Gase does in terms of

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01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 1: orchestration of offense. I think this is really going to

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01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 1: be a good mix. And I know that that's the

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Speaker 1: Week one game Bills Jets. Um, that's you know, that's

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01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 1: turning out now to be a pretty interesting, intriguing game

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01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 1: Week one. Yeah, it really went up against each other

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01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 1: once last year, right the second match right, the second matchup,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna we're gonna talk about that a lot.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna compare those two hopefully for decades, I would

1334
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 1: think Graig right, I mean, well, you know, my guess

1335
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:41,200
Speaker 1: is they'll both be the starting quarterbacks for their respective

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01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:43,920
Speaker 1: teams for quite some time. I mean that's uh, you know,

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01:05:44,040 --> 01:05:46,120
Speaker 1: and look, that's just great for the league when these

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01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks come in and they kind of make it

1339
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 1: and they and again, we don't know the level that

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01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:51,919
Speaker 1: they'll make it at. You know, that's hard to say,

1341
01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 1: but I think they're both going to be good players

1342
01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:57,240
Speaker 1: and we'll see how their careers pan out. But I

1343
01:05:57,280 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 1: think it'll be fun to watch over time. Yeah, Dow Dallas.

1344
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott is still not in training camp, but the

1345
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:09,120
Speaker 1: running back his replacement, Tony Pollard, is planning. How big

1346
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 1: a wrench does Tony Pollard put into what they're planning

1347
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 1: to do with Ezekiel Elliot? How good has he played?

1348
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:17,480
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a good size back, Steve. He's got

1349
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 1: some subtle shiftiness and confined space. He showed some finishing power.

1350
01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:23,840
Speaker 1: He's never been a full time back, so you know,

1351
01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 1: it's hard to say after five carries one week or

1352
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 1: six another week that he can line up and carry

1353
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:32,560
Speaker 1: the ball eighteen twenty times every week. I have an

1354
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 1: opinion about this that's based in nothing other than just

1355
01:06:35,360 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 1: an opinion. And I really think at this point that

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01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:43,120
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is far more interested in signing Dak Prescott

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01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 1: and that he's not going to give Ezekiel Elliot at

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01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:48,360
Speaker 1: the money that he's looking for. And if Zeke doesn't

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01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 1: want to come in, I think Jerry is not that

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01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 1: he's okay with it, but I think that's the direction

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01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 1: that he's moving in. And like I said, that's a

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01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:57,920
Speaker 1: personal opinion based on nothing, but I think in Jerry's

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01:06:58,040 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: mind he's made the decision. Dak is the guy I'm

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01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:04,160
Speaker 1: going to pay him, and we'll see about Zeke down

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01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:07,920
Speaker 1: the road. Um, Greg, look, I'm sure, and you know

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01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:10,280
Speaker 1: you follow up goes on with the Indianapolis Colts. There's

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01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:12,080
Speaker 1: got to be a little bit of a shutter echoing

1368
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:15,520
Speaker 1: through the Colts building with you know, Andrew Luck's health situation.

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01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 1: What does that leave them with with Dak Press or

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01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:21,960
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette. I mean, and how you know how much

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Speaker 1: it's a big drop off. It's what I'm trying to say, right,

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Speaker 1: The Luck's a great great player. You know, I like

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01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 1: Jacobe Brissette and I always did from the time he

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01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 1: came out of North Carolina State, and I think that

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01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 1: he could be a quality starter in this league. He's

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01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 1: not Andrew Luck, but I like Brissette, And you know,

1377
01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:40,800
Speaker 1: I think since they have if Luck truly can't play

1378
01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:43,600
Speaker 1: for a while, they have a very solid football team

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01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:46,120
Speaker 1: at this point. And I think that Brissette can come

1380
01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:49,440
Speaker 1: in and he can run your team, run your offense. Um.

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01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 1: So I don't think this is a team that all

1382
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:53,040
Speaker 1: of a sudden goes from a playoff team to being

1383
01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:56,600
Speaker 1: four and twelve. I think they've got a quality quarterback

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01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 1: who is who could be an NFL starter. Yeah, I

1385
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:01,960
Speaker 1: kind of tend to agree with you as well. But

1386
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:08,200
Speaker 1: one last thing about you know, the Colts, you what

1387
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 1: are your assess what's your assessment of I don't know,

1388
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 1: it's it's a completely speculation. But if Jacoby Brissette, what

1389
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:15,800
Speaker 1: does he played part of the season or whatever they

1390
01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:17,760
Speaker 1: got off to the slow start last year, are they

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01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 1: good enough with Jacoby Brissette to win different ways than

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01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:24,439
Speaker 1: with the quarterback who has to run that offense. You

1393
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:26,200
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying is their offensive line. Is their

1394
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:29,400
Speaker 1: defense good enough? Are they a complete enough team to

1395
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:32,680
Speaker 1: overcome the absence of a guy the quality of Andrew Luck.

1396
01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:35,320
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody is. I'm not sure that

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01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:38,080
Speaker 1: they you know, again, that's a tough question. I think

1398
01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:39,680
Speaker 1: they would need to get a lot more from their

1399
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:42,120
Speaker 1: running game. I think they'd like to do that anyway,

1400
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:44,400
Speaker 1: even if Luck plays with Marlon Mack. But I think

1401
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:46,759
Speaker 1: that's a big question mark as we entered the season.

1402
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:49,439
Speaker 1: I mean, Luck, if I'm not mistaken through thirty nine

1403
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:52,799
Speaker 1: touchdown passes last year, I would not expect Jacoby Brissette

1404
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:55,240
Speaker 1: to do that. So, yes, there's a drop off, and

1405
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:58,040
Speaker 1: then other parts of your team you really have to

1406
01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:03,120
Speaker 1: become more important. Equation, the run game becomes more important.

1407
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:05,320
Speaker 1: Your defense has to become a little more shut down

1408
01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:07,600
Speaker 1: ish in given weeks. You know, you might have to

1409
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:10,599
Speaker 1: win some game seventeen thirteen instead of twenty eight, twenty four.

1410
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: You know, I think the dynamic of your team changes.

1411
01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:18,080
Speaker 1: Go ahead, I just see on my last crutch for you, Greg.

1412
01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 1: You know, Bill's fans feel pretty good about first two

1413
01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:23,479
Speaker 1: preseason games, and we know that's only preseason. We know

1414
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,479
Speaker 1: who's playing against who do you put extra stock in

1415
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:29,439
Speaker 1: preseason game number three coming up this weekend because the

1416
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:32,519
Speaker 1: starters go a little bit longer. I don't necessarily you know,

1417
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:34,600
Speaker 1: I look at reps. I mean to me, you know,

1418
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 1: when I'm evaluating, particularly, let's say a quarterback, because I

1419
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:38,760
Speaker 1: know Josh is always going to be a big topic

1420
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:42,000
Speaker 1: of conversation for obvious reasons. I'm looking at the quarterback

1421
01:09:42,080 --> 01:09:45,240
Speaker 1: in a vacuum, isolating his traits, isolating the way he plays.

1422
01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:48,880
Speaker 1: For me, it's it's not a matter of who the

1423
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:51,280
Speaker 1: competition is. Sometimes a quarterback can do everything right and

1424
01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:53,479
Speaker 1: make a great throw and it's incomplete, and I still

1425
01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:56,519
Speaker 1: think the quarterback did a great job. So you know,

1426
01:09:57,200 --> 01:10:01,360
Speaker 1: to me, that doesn't necessarily matter. Obviously, Uh, teams start

1427
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:04,400
Speaker 1: to do more. Um, whether they want to show more blitz.

1428
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:06,280
Speaker 1: We know when we get to the regular season, we

1429
01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 1: see more tactics. Uh. But you know, I'm looking to

1430
01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 1: see how someone like Josh Allen just improves with his

1431
01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:15,519
Speaker 1: traits in the areas that he needs to improve. And

1432
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:18,040
Speaker 1: if you see that, then I start to feel pretty

1433
01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:20,680
Speaker 1: good that that will continue. Um. Is he going to

1434
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:22,240
Speaker 1: have some ups and downs? Look, he could have a

1435
01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:24,400
Speaker 1: poor third preseason game, and then what are we going

1436
01:10:24,439 --> 01:10:26,719
Speaker 1: to start saying next week he's no good some people,

1437
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 1: that's the way people start to think, Yeah, well all right,

1438
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:34,000
Speaker 1: let me ask you. I know that you studied these

1439
01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:35,920
Speaker 1: guys on an individual basis and you really don't care

1440
01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:37,559
Speaker 1: about who they play or what they play, but it's

1441
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:41,200
Speaker 1: you know, we We've asked Bills fans today about their expectations,

1442
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:45,080
Speaker 1: and the Bills have looked as a big as a unit,

1443
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 1: as a team, looked pretty solid through these first preseason games.

1444
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna ask you to kind of make a

1445
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:54,160
Speaker 1: generalized statement. I know you're you kind of study individual players.

1446
01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:56,560
Speaker 1: You don't get into the big picture that much, but

1447
01:10:56,640 --> 01:10:58,880
Speaker 1: what are your what are your expectations for a team?

1448
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 1: Like a book. I think if Josh Allen can be effective, Okay,

1449
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 1: I don't expect him to be a sixty five percent

1450
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:10,599
Speaker 1: completion guy and throw forty touchdowns, But I think if

1451
01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 1: Josh can be relatively consistent, okay, then I think this

1452
01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 1: is a very solid team. I think they're pretty good defensively.

1453
01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:20,599
Speaker 1: They've got a few areas that were uncertain about about

1454
01:11:20,640 --> 01:11:23,000
Speaker 1: as far as rushing the quarterback. Who's going to be

1455
01:11:23,360 --> 01:11:25,760
Speaker 1: is there going to be a consistent second rusher other

1456
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:29,559
Speaker 1: than Jerry Us. I think their secondary is solid. They

1457
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:32,080
Speaker 1: feel good about Levi Wallace at the other corner spot

1458
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:36,400
Speaker 1: opposite White. I think Sean McDermott and Leslie Frasier are

1459
01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 1: very good defensively. I've talked to some offensive coaches who

1460
01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:43,040
Speaker 1: say that they're a tough defense to play against because

1461
01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 1: those kinds of things. Sean, does you know, I think

1462
01:11:46,479 --> 01:11:48,719
Speaker 1: there's talent here. I think the old line is somewhat

1463
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 1: of a question mark, so there are questions, but I

1464
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:53,360
Speaker 1: think for the most part, it's a team moving in

1465
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:56,519
Speaker 1: the right direction and it's a solid football team. What

1466
01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:59,519
Speaker 1: that means with wins and losses, that's always a tough

1467
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:01,680
Speaker 1: question for me to answer. We'll take that on in

1468
01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:05,760
Speaker 1: August nineteen. Thank you, great, Thanks all right, guys, appreciate it. HI,

1469
01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:08,679
Speaker 1: sorry with you. Greg Cosell his senior producer, NFL Films,

1470
01:12:09,080 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 1: executive producer analysts of NFL Matchup on ESPN. We'll talk

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01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:15,720
Speaker 1: to him next week about preseason game number three. All right,

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Speaker 1: we got a lot more to talk about. Bill's practice continuing,

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Speaker 1: should be winding down soon. We're gonna hear from Josh

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01:12:20,479 --> 01:12:23,360
Speaker 1: Allen Live or close to live after practice ends today

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna get Daryl Johnson, Bill's new defensive end

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01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:28,840
Speaker 1: in studio after practice one sounds, so we'll stick around

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01:12:28,880 --> 01:12:31,040
Speaker 1: for that. Lad to get you involved in our Twitter

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01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 1: question today. After a couple of preseason games, how has

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Speaker 1: your win total change about the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: If it has, give us a call, we'll discuss. We'll

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Speaker 1: look at some of the tweets as well. Come on

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Speaker 1: back One Bill's Live, presented by a Lot of Health

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01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:58,200
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. Jo Murphy

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01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:02,599
Speaker 1: Sea tansk here here until three. We got post practice

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01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:05,160
Speaker 1: stuff coming up. Josh Allen and Gerald Johnson going to

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01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:06,880
Speaker 1: join this. What's take a great corsette? I thought he

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01:13:06,920 --> 01:13:10,320
Speaker 1: had nice reason approach to what he saw in preseason

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01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 1: game number two. It's good to have art observations almost

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01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:18,840
Speaker 1: confirmed sometimes by an outsider like that. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you asked him the question at the end, how good

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01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 1: have they been? Basically? And he said it's good. You know,

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01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:25,320
Speaker 1: it's not great. There are some still some questions. It's good.

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01:13:25,360 --> 01:13:27,720
Speaker 1: I think that's a honest assessment to where this team

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01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:29,599
Speaker 1: is after a couple of preseason He also said, listen,

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01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:32,519
Speaker 1: it's a lot of it comes down to have to Josh.

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01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:34,720
Speaker 1: He says, Josh doesn't even have to be spectaclor. He

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01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:37,559
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be you know, a seventy percent completion

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01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 1: percentage and throw for forty touchdowns. He's just got to

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Speaker 1: be consistent and effective. And that's what we've seen thus

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01:13:45,040 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 1: far in the preseason. If Josh Allen can make the

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01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:50,680
Speaker 1: throws he's been making on a consistent basis, as a

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01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 1: team is going to be a tough out because you

1504
01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:55,760
Speaker 1: know they're gonna be pretty good defensively. Yeah, and of course,

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01:13:56,360 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 1: if every base if he's always the finger quotes, if

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01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:02,000
Speaker 1: everybody stays healthy, you know, you gotta have key people

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01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:06,240
Speaker 1: stay healthy and work around them. But yeah, this is

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01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 1: a team that you know, a lot of people probably

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01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:10,680
Speaker 1: feel pretty good about, particularly given the fact that they've

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01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:12,880
Speaker 1: been solid in the preseason. What do you think give

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01:14:12,920 --> 01:14:16,120
Speaker 1: us a call after two preseason games and the Bills

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01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 1: changed your idea of how many games they might win.

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01:14:20,200 --> 01:14:22,000
Speaker 1: Some people would tell you they have give us a call.

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01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:24,720
Speaker 1: That's our Twitter poll. Let me check the Twitter poll

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01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 1: here because it was most people said they have not

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01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:30,479
Speaker 1: but go ahead. You got something from the or here.

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01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:33,679
Speaker 1: It is how much is your projected bills win total

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01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:37,080
Speaker 1: change for twenty nineteen. Forty seven percent say no change,

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01:14:37,720 --> 01:14:40,559
Speaker 1: thirty six percent say you're seeing one or two more wins.

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01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:43,840
Speaker 1: Out of this group, fourteen percent saying three or more wins.

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01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:47,439
Speaker 1: Three percent have lowered expectations, which is okay. I guess

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01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:49,559
Speaker 1: I'd like to have someone to explain that. Give us

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01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:52,680
Speaker 1: a call to discuss eight three to three one eight

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01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:57,719
Speaker 1: eight eight by fifty three percent is the Miami Dolphin

1525
01:14:57,800 --> 01:15:01,479
Speaker 1: fans living amongst us? I'm sure I'm teasing. I don't

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01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:03,880
Speaker 1: know who that. They probably have good reasons. But this

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01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:05,920
Speaker 1: from Timmy g and the tweet she says, I've been

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01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:08,320
Speaker 1: at ten or eleven wins since early in the preseason.

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01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 1: Not going to change that unless I see something that

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01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:14,160
Speaker 1: kills my optimism. I love what Josh Allen has been

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01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:15,720
Speaker 1: doing these last two games, and I can't wait for

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01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 1: the season to start. Any you think about it, we talk,

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01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:22,680
Speaker 1: we go anywhere from you know, you hear everything from

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01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:25,800
Speaker 1: seven to seven and nine, eight and eight, nine and seven,

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01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:28,640
Speaker 1: ten and six, and at the most optimistic people go

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01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:31,680
Speaker 1: to eleven and five. You don't have anybody saying, hey,

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01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:34,120
Speaker 1: this is a twelve win team. You know, twelve wins

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01:15:34,280 --> 01:15:37,320
Speaker 1: is an incredible season in the NFL. I mean, it

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01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 1: is an incredible season. You know, you can't go there. Yeah,

1540
01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:45,320
Speaker 1: you're going four and one for three every quarter of

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01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 1: the season, you're going three and one, You're going you're

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01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:52,439
Speaker 1: going six and two, nine and three, and twelve and four.

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01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:55,840
Speaker 1: That's those are some mile park mile markers that are

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01:15:55,920 --> 01:15:59,360
Speaker 1: hard to get tom So yeah, I mean that's you know,

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01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:03,840
Speaker 1: you'll probably get the occasional New England fan that'll be going, yeah, yeah,

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01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:05,599
Speaker 1: we're gonna do But even New England fans are going, yeah,

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01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:08,320
Speaker 1: there's another eleven win season there. Even they know twelve

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01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:12,000
Speaker 1: and four, thirteen and three is is special. So when

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01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:14,559
Speaker 1: you go eleven and five and you're thinking ten wins,

1550
01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:18,880
Speaker 1: you're thinking you got a really good football team. So

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01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:22,160
Speaker 1: I not for nothing, But you know a lot of

1552
01:16:22,200 --> 01:16:24,840
Speaker 1: people are finding themselves kind of thinking wow, you know,

1553
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:27,880
Speaker 1: looking at themselves in the mirror, going I think they

1554
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:30,200
Speaker 1: can get there. You know, you're sitting there thinking about

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01:16:30,240 --> 01:16:32,439
Speaker 1: all the variables and all the things that have gone

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01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:35,920
Speaker 1: that this team has in place at the present moment. Yeah,

1557
01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:37,800
Speaker 1: it's hard to poke holes in what they've done. And

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01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:40,640
Speaker 1: that's why you think maybe ten and eleven wins is

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01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:42,200
Speaker 1: not out of the question. And a lot of people

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01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:44,360
Speaker 1: are standing there, and a lot of people have been

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01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:46,720
Speaker 1: there since early in the off season obviously, but I

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01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:49,080
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are starting to warm up

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01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:52,640
Speaker 1: to the fact that there's you know, there's not a

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01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:56,160
Speaker 1: lot of predictables that are gonna that can go against

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01:16:56,240 --> 01:16:59,639
Speaker 1: this team right now. Another from the tweet cheet sponsored

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Speaker 1: by cor and Moving Systems from James Rights, and I

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01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:06,240
Speaker 1: think ten and six is a good possibility that's realistic.

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01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:09,000
Speaker 1: After watching the first two games, I give them an

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01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 1: extra w he says. Josh looks um where he improved. Improved. Yeah,

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01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:17,760
Speaker 1: Josh looks improved. I think under nine and seven would

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01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:20,880
Speaker 1: be a disappointment. I see improvement throughout all phases. Week

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01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:24,960
Speaker 1: one will speak volumes about our progress. Even great Cosell

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01:17:25,320 --> 01:17:28,519
Speaker 1: divorced from the Buffalo Bills. You know, it's like a

1574
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 1: realization came to Oh my goodness, Bills and Jets matchup.

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01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:34,639
Speaker 1: Week one. It's a big game, is a big couple

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01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:38,120
Speaker 1: of teams. Look, Darnold's played well, he looks good, looks

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01:17:38,120 --> 01:17:41,839
Speaker 1: as good as Josh Yep. Maybe maybe of the highlights

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01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:45,120
Speaker 1: we saw from Darnold, those throws were on the money.

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01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:48,600
Speaker 1: And they've got Levion Bell who is just itching to

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01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:51,880
Speaker 1: get back on the field. And they've got great you know,

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01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:55,240
Speaker 1: Quinnin Williams upfront and that and the kid in the

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01:17:55,320 --> 01:17:59,679
Speaker 1: secondary too, Yep, the safety. They've got some guys. They've

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01:17:59,720 --> 01:18:03,080
Speaker 1: got they've got some guys, and they've got to feel

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01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:06,360
Speaker 1: really good about where Jamal Adams. That's the kid. He's

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01:18:06,360 --> 01:18:10,040
Speaker 1: a really really good player. Yeah, there their works going

1586
01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:11,640
Speaker 1: to be cut out for him, no question about it.

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01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:14,320
Speaker 1: And you know that both these teams are gonna come

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01:18:14,360 --> 01:18:17,439
Speaker 1: in just sky high with expectations. So I think that

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01:18:17,640 --> 01:18:20,160
Speaker 1: is a really really good game to start the season with.

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01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:23,679
Speaker 1: And the Jets are home something. It means something team

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01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:26,120
Speaker 1: in its home opener, look it up. The teams in

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01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:28,400
Speaker 1: their home opener are always tough to beat. Hey. Sean

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01:18:28,520 --> 01:18:32,920
Speaker 1: McDermott met with the media yesterday, but obviously before today's practice,

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01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:35,960
Speaker 1: before yesterday's too, and yeah, and even Greg Osan pointed

1595
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:37,880
Speaker 1: out they've got some of the Bills have some questions

1596
01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:40,760
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. McDermott talked yesterday about trying to

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01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 1: find a starting five up front on the offensive line.

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01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:47,280
Speaker 1: Here's what the head coach had to say. Yeah, I mean,

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01:18:47,320 --> 01:18:49,160
Speaker 1: I think the one advantaged to it, Matt is that,

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Speaker 1: you know, through some of the injuries that we incurred

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01:18:52,560 --> 01:18:56,720
Speaker 1: in training camp, Mitch being out, it's it's provided some

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01:18:56,920 --> 01:19:02,559
Speaker 1: position flexibility or versatility, UM, and so that I think

1603
01:19:02,680 --> 01:19:07,920
Speaker 1: is good for us. Um. So, but that's that being said,

1604
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 1: we want to get this thing set here UM, in

1605
01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 1: the next and the foreseeable in your future here. So

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01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:18,639
Speaker 1: Sean Cooney for his development, the best has the best

1607
01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:21,680
Speaker 1: to pick a spot for him sooner than later, UM

1608
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 1: for him to really good developmental Yeah, I mean that's

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01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:30,160
Speaker 1: that's a little bit what this you know what Matt's

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01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:33,439
Speaker 1: question was, you know, UM. But again, I mean I

1611
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:36,200
Speaker 1: think it's just been a display of his mental toughness

1612
01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:38,080
Speaker 1: really UM to be able to come in as a

1613
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 1: rookie play two positions, UM, play both at a high level.

1614
01:19:42,280 --> 01:19:44,760
Speaker 1: From the standpoint of against it's not in practice, it's

1615
01:19:44,800 --> 01:19:49,320
Speaker 1: been in games UM and so UM. But you know,

1616
01:19:49,479 --> 01:19:52,240
Speaker 1: just overall, I think it would benefit us once we

1617
01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:55,440
Speaker 1: get this thing set um to to have that consistency

1618
01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:59,080
Speaker 1: and continuity. Sean mcermot yesterday and you know he started

1619
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:03,439
Speaker 1: talking about that aition flexibility thing last week. Carolina. Well

1620
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:05,120
Speaker 1: that's been the good thing. And I thought to myself,

1621
01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:07,720
Speaker 1: come on, that's that's silver lining stuff, right. And then

1622
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:09,080
Speaker 1: the more I think about it, and you see how

1623
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:11,479
Speaker 1: where they line up today at practice. You see it

1624
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:14,439
Speaker 1: at play right. Cody forwards it right tackle. Quentin Spain's

1625
01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:17,320
Speaker 1: at right guard today, spent so long at left guard.

1626
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:21,840
Speaker 1: They have demonstrated in practice and in preseason games that

1627
01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: these guys can fill a couple of different roles. That's

1628
01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:26,880
Speaker 1: not a bad thing. It's interesting too, because all right,

1629
01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:31,080
Speaker 1: you got Mitch Morris hurt. They haven't just lined up

1630
01:20:31,200 --> 01:20:33,719
Speaker 1: four other guys and just plugged somebody in at center

1631
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:35,479
Speaker 1: just to get through so these other four guys can

1632
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 1: get it. They've kept switching everybody around. The only guy

1633
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:41,720
Speaker 1: that hasn't switched is now is is Dawkins. Dawkins, all

1634
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:46,400
Speaker 1: four other guys have switched and played multiple positions, multiple practices,

1635
01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:51,120
Speaker 1: and you know it, and against multiple teams now, against

1636
01:20:51,439 --> 01:20:54,679
Speaker 1: our guys and the Carolina Panthers. They have not stood

1637
01:20:54,800 --> 01:20:57,080
Speaker 1: pat with four guys where they're gonna line up and say, hey,

1638
01:20:57,120 --> 01:20:59,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna put you here, you here, you here. So

1639
01:20:59,360 --> 01:21:02,840
Speaker 1: when think about this, Murph, Now Mitch Morse comes back,

1640
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:06,519
Speaker 1: we still don't know where they're gonna line up. Right

1641
01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:09,400
Speaker 1: a week ago, I thought I knew. Now I don't know.

1642
01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:11,880
Speaker 1: Morse not back as far as we know today. That's

1643
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:14,200
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that. But if Morse came back

1644
01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:15,960
Speaker 1: today and started to say it and they plugged him

1645
01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:18,880
Speaker 1: in its center, who's going to be the right guard

1646
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:22,720
Speaker 1: last week, I'll tell you what Spencer Long last week

1647
01:21:22,760 --> 01:21:24,519
Speaker 1: at this time, here's what I thought. Morse comes back.

1648
01:21:24,600 --> 01:21:27,559
Speaker 1: They played Dawkins at left tackle. They keep Spain at

1649
01:21:27,640 --> 01:21:30,360
Speaker 1: left guard, where he'd been since camp began, Morse in

1650
01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:33,479
Speaker 1: the middle, um I, Cody Ford at right guard, and

1651
01:21:33,560 --> 01:21:35,559
Speaker 1: tie and second at right tackle. The in second injury

1652
01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:38,200
Speaker 1: complicates things now too. That's what I thought a week ago.

1653
01:21:38,280 --> 01:21:39,960
Speaker 1: Now I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I don't

1654
01:21:39,960 --> 01:21:42,880
Speaker 1: know who. I don't know what. Four guys, well, I

1655
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:45,439
Speaker 1: know one guy, I don't know where the other three guys,

1656
01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:47,120
Speaker 1: both guards and the right tackle, I don't know who

1657
01:21:47,160 --> 01:21:49,000
Speaker 1: they would be if Mitch Morse got plugged in today

1658
01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:52,320
Speaker 1: and they wanted to go and well because because now

1659
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:55,200
Speaker 1: you know in Secy's hurt, so you don't even know

1660
01:21:55,240 --> 01:21:57,000
Speaker 1: if if he was good enough or gonna be the

1661
01:21:57,080 --> 01:21:58,800
Speaker 1: guy right tackle, they don't know. I don't even know

1662
01:21:58,800 --> 01:22:02,519
Speaker 1: if he'd be plugged in. Yeah, So that's it is

1663
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:07,759
Speaker 1: interesting to think about because that wasn't just lip service.

1664
01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:10,200
Speaker 1: They're they're finding out who can play where, and they're

1665
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:12,120
Speaker 1: doing it. They're just taking all the time they want

1666
01:22:12,280 --> 01:22:16,760
Speaker 1: to find out, and I think that's a It makes

1667
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:18,760
Speaker 1: a lot of sense to me, but it's got to

1668
01:22:18,800 --> 01:22:20,880
Speaker 1: give them some level of man, Oh, you know, we

1669
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:24,400
Speaker 1: gotta get five guys set playing somewhere soon. I thought

1670
01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:26,120
Speaker 1: this was the week. Maybe it still will be there.

1671
01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 1: You know, it's only Monday, but there's a game on

1672
01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 1: Friday right the other issue. And it was funny, it

1673
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:33,040
Speaker 1: was not funny. It was interesting to hear Great Cosell

1674
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:36,120
Speaker 1: talk about the wide receiver, coring about Duke Williams, who

1675
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:39,320
Speaker 1: had a really pretty strong game Friday night in Carolina,

1676
01:22:39,600 --> 01:22:42,160
Speaker 1: how that might throw things off a little bit. McDermot

1677
01:22:42,240 --> 01:22:44,680
Speaker 1: talked about yesterday and talked about the question that I

1678
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:47,639
Speaker 1: asked Cosell about. You know, do teams look to get

1679
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Speaker 1: a variety of a very group of receivers in their

1680
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:53,560
Speaker 1: wide receiving corps in the wide receiver room. Here's what

1681
01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:57,920
Speaker 1: McDermott talked about yesterday, finding variety among his wide receiver group.

1682
01:22:57,960 --> 01:23:01,280
Speaker 1: Here's what the head coach thinks. We got these little

1683
01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:03,960
Speaker 1: guys that run around out there. Um, I think that's

1684
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:07,519
Speaker 1: been good. Um so, but I thought I saw you know,

1685
01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:09,439
Speaker 1: some flashes the other night from some of the other

1686
01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:12,320
Speaker 1: players too, which is great in the second, third and

1687
01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:16,880
Speaker 1: fourth quarter that you know, I think some of those

1688
01:23:16,920 --> 01:23:19,400
Speaker 1: guys deserve opportunities to get a little bit more reps

1689
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:24,040
Speaker 1: and and run and so, you know, regardless of the size,

1690
01:23:24,240 --> 01:23:26,679
Speaker 1: I mean, we're looking for good football players that make plays,

1691
01:23:27,479 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 1: um and are willing to put the team first and

1692
01:23:29,400 --> 01:23:32,679
Speaker 1: blocking the run game and and um you know, maybe

1693
01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:35,960
Speaker 1: be a decoy not the primary receiver on every play.

1694
01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:38,479
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, it's um, it's

1695
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:40,439
Speaker 1: what happens with the offense. Are we putting points on

1696
01:23:40,479 --> 01:23:43,559
Speaker 1: the board. When he says, Steve, I want your opinion here.

1697
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 1: When he says, when he calls them smurfs like he

1698
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:48,720
Speaker 1: did what first week into training camp? Or says, we

1699
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:51,760
Speaker 1: get these little guys that run around out there? Is

1700
01:23:51,880 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 1: he kind of saying is he kind of dismissing? What?

1701
01:23:54,720 --> 01:23:56,519
Speaker 1: Is he saying? I need more big guys in my

1702
01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:58,760
Speaker 1: wide receiver room? Isn't he? Am I reading too much

1703
01:23:58,800 --> 01:24:02,040
Speaker 1: into that? Calls him, and then he goes, today, yesterday

1704
01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:04,160
Speaker 1: we got these little guys who running around out there.

1705
01:24:04,640 --> 01:24:07,120
Speaker 1: That was good. He's almost saying to me, give me

1706
01:24:07,240 --> 01:24:09,639
Speaker 1: some give me some beef in that wide receiving room.

1707
01:24:10,720 --> 01:24:13,519
Speaker 1: Some of that too is probably he's standing there as

1708
01:24:13,520 --> 01:24:18,200
Speaker 1: a former defensive coordinator and a good one, saying, I

1709
01:24:18,320 --> 01:24:20,120
Speaker 1: think you can handle these little guys easier than you

1710
01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:23,560
Speaker 1: can handle big guys. Yeah, I think it. You know,

1711
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:25,519
Speaker 1: you get these quick little guys if you get your

1712
01:24:25,560 --> 01:24:28,120
Speaker 1: hands on them once they're out of that play or whatever.

1713
01:24:28,240 --> 01:24:31,000
Speaker 1: He thinks. He didn't say that, but I'm just I'm

1714
01:24:31,560 --> 01:24:36,919
Speaker 1: I'm conjecturing what a defensive coordinator might think. He obviously

1715
01:24:37,040 --> 01:24:41,519
Speaker 1: thinks big guys or pose more problems for a defensive coordinator.

1716
01:24:41,560 --> 01:24:43,080
Speaker 1: If he's speaking there he said, I know he's speaking

1717
01:24:43,080 --> 01:24:45,400
Speaker 1: as a head coach, but with his defensive background, he's

1718
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:47,680
Speaker 1: got to look at this offense from that perspective, you

1719
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:51,519
Speaker 1: would think. And he's like, I don't know, you know,

1720
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:54,880
Speaker 1: it's like you didn't take him serious. Yeah, it's like

1721
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:58,000
Speaker 1: we need we're missing something. Yeah, at the very least,

1722
01:24:58,160 --> 01:25:01,760
Speaker 1: And and I don't know how big an uh you

1723
01:25:01,840 --> 01:25:04,760
Speaker 1: know how big a an issue that is for him

1724
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:06,800
Speaker 1: that he says we gotta fix it, or he says, oh,

1725
01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:08,719
Speaker 1: all right, you know, all right, these guys are playing

1726
01:25:08,760 --> 01:25:11,200
Speaker 1: well enough, it'll be all right. But certainly when a

1727
01:25:11,200 --> 01:25:13,840
Speaker 1: guy like Duke Williams flashes like he did, he's probably

1728
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:17,360
Speaker 1: from that perspective, Duke Wize probably looks pretty attractive. Yes,

1729
01:25:17,479 --> 01:25:19,400
Speaker 1: as a roster spot, I agree, But I don't know.

1730
01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:22,519
Speaker 1: And he may just be having fun with us too.

1731
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:24,559
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, I had a little bunch

1732
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:26,640
Speaker 1: of little guys. He might like them. I don't know.

1733
01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:29,280
Speaker 1: It's funny how deeply you have to listen to McDermott

1734
01:25:29,320 --> 01:25:30,680
Speaker 1: to get anything out of it, you know what I mean.

1735
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:33,559
Speaker 1: All of them were like that, you gotta break here.

1736
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:35,599
Speaker 1: We're coming back, but more practice is gonna wind down soon.

1737
01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:38,400
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Bill's quarterback Johns sh Allen after practice.

1738
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:41,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna get We're gonna get in studio Daryl Johnson,

1739
01:25:41,479 --> 01:25:44,360
Speaker 1: Bill's defensive in after practice as well. Come on back.

1740
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:47,040
Speaker 1: We're here till three one goals five from One Bill's Drive,

1741
01:25:47,080 --> 01:26:06,160
Speaker 1: I'm Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back, We are there. Yes,

1742
01:26:06,280 --> 01:26:09,280
Speaker 1: there are things we should not I don't know how much,

1743
01:26:09,640 --> 01:26:12,080
Speaker 1: and there are important football things. You and I are

1744
01:26:12,080 --> 01:26:15,599
Speaker 1: going to come up with us television sitcom skip script

1745
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:19,920
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be between segments of a radio show.

1746
01:26:19,960 --> 01:26:20,800
Speaker 1: You know what. I was just thinking, you know what.

1747
01:26:20,840 --> 01:26:23,080
Speaker 1: It reminds me remember the old Larry Sanders show. Yeah,

1748
01:26:23,160 --> 01:26:24,920
Speaker 1: behind the scenes script. We could do that here. We

1749
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:27,240
Speaker 1: could have a little sitcom here, kind of a reality.

1750
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:29,719
Speaker 1: We do have a few laughs once in a while

1751
01:26:30,400 --> 01:26:33,679
Speaker 1: between during the commercial breaks. Yeah, Hey, we're talking about

1752
01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:35,400
Speaker 1: the who do you like so far in preseason? And

1753
01:26:35,479 --> 01:26:37,640
Speaker 1: have your as your guests on how many wins it

1754
01:26:37,680 --> 01:26:40,920
Speaker 1: might get as that increase based on the last couple

1755
01:26:40,920 --> 01:26:42,439
Speaker 1: of games. Let's go to Tom and Lack. I want

1756
01:26:42,439 --> 01:26:46,120
Speaker 1: to hello Tom, Welcome to the show. Hi guys. Hi, um,

1757
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:50,120
Speaker 1: just with all the good competition that's going on and

1758
01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:54,360
Speaker 1: kind of looking at players and who at the three

1759
01:26:54,400 --> 01:26:58,200
Speaker 1: positions tight end, wide receiver, and running back. And I'm

1760
01:26:58,240 --> 01:27:01,679
Speaker 1: thinking was if the if they want Duke Williams because

1761
01:27:01,680 --> 01:27:07,280
Speaker 1: of tallness and blocking ability, and it's gonna come down

1762
01:27:07,360 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 1: to special teams and where else you can complete. I

1763
01:27:12,400 --> 01:27:14,519
Speaker 1: think in Lee Smith they may only go with three

1764
01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:17,920
Speaker 1: tight ends. Smith, since he's a one trick pony, might

1765
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:22,479
Speaker 1: be out, and then it'll come down to between Yelden

1766
01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:28,600
Speaker 1: and DeMarco. They may only keep either three halfbacks and

1767
01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:32,200
Speaker 1: DeMarco or four halfbacks. Let me let's talk about tight

1768
01:27:32,320 --> 01:27:36,080
Speaker 1: ends for a second. First, Lee Smith, you characterize as

1769
01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:38,960
Speaker 1: a one trick pony. I understand what you're saying. That's

1770
01:27:38,960 --> 01:27:41,520
Speaker 1: a pretty important trick. I think for this this offensive

1771
01:27:41,560 --> 01:27:44,280
Speaker 1: blocking tight end, and there's an element of leadership I

1772
01:27:44,360 --> 01:27:46,160
Speaker 1: think they expect to get from Lee Smith as well.

1773
01:27:46,560 --> 01:27:49,040
Speaker 1: If they keep three, he my bet would be he'd

1774
01:27:49,080 --> 01:27:51,200
Speaker 1: be one of those three. Look, he's not a roster lock.

1775
01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:54,560
Speaker 1: He hustles and he's gonna have to continue to do that.

1776
01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:56,519
Speaker 1: But I'd be surprised if he were not on the

1777
01:27:56,640 --> 01:27:59,200
Speaker 1: roster final cutdown day. What about you, There's there's five guys.

1778
01:27:59,280 --> 01:28:04,360
Speaker 1: You're looking at Tyler Croft pup right now pup, Jason Croom,

1779
01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:08,000
Speaker 1: Lee Smith, and then of course Dawson Knox and Tommy Sweeney.

1780
01:28:08,240 --> 01:28:13,880
Speaker 1: There's five guys, all of whom are pretty good players

1781
01:28:14,160 --> 01:28:16,040
Speaker 1: in their own right. Some of them are limited, like

1782
01:28:16,240 --> 01:28:18,559
Speaker 1: Lee Smith is a is a is really a tackle

1783
01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:21,120
Speaker 1: playing tight end. He's a short yardage guy. He caught

1784
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:23,640
Speaker 1: a few balls last year for the Oakland Raiders, so

1785
01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:26,240
Speaker 1: you know he's not a total stiff in the passing game.

1786
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:29,839
Speaker 1: But he's not Jason Croom or Knox or or Sweeney,

1787
01:28:30,280 --> 01:28:32,479
Speaker 1: and he's certainly not Croft. I mean, he's like the

1788
01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:35,000
Speaker 1: last of those five, but he may be number one

1789
01:28:35,040 --> 01:28:38,000
Speaker 1: in the run game. So if you're gonna rank those five,

1790
01:28:38,080 --> 01:28:39,760
Speaker 1: and that's what you gotta do. And I don't know

1791
01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:43,639
Speaker 1: that we know enough about Dawson Knox or Tommy Sweeney

1792
01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:48,200
Speaker 1: even certainly know nothing about Tyler Croft. I mean, how

1793
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:50,200
Speaker 1: do you rank these guys when you haven't seen three

1794
01:28:50,240 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 1: of them play? And so I don't know where we're

1795
01:28:54,320 --> 01:28:57,719
Speaker 1: gonna stand at tight end. Certainly, it's been pretty frustrating

1796
01:28:57,720 --> 01:28:59,720
Speaker 1: for this coaching staff looking at these guys. Dawson Knox

1797
01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:01,760
Speaker 1: can't get on the field, Jason Krum can't get on

1798
01:29:01,800 --> 01:29:03,679
Speaker 1: the field, and those were two of the top three

1799
01:29:03,760 --> 01:29:07,519
Speaker 1: guys on your depth chart when camp kicked off. So yeah,

1800
01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:10,240
Speaker 1: that's that's as big a quandry as the offensive line,

1801
01:29:10,280 --> 01:29:12,920
Speaker 1: maybe even more so, and maybe even more concerning. Here's

1802
01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:15,519
Speaker 1: a call from Kevin and Hamburg. We talk about your

1803
01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:19,000
Speaker 1: projected wind total for the Bills. Kevin, has it changed? Um?

1804
01:29:19,160 --> 01:29:21,360
Speaker 1: I think it used to be eight and eight was

1805
01:29:21,439 --> 01:29:24,559
Speaker 1: wonderful after the regular sheet last year. But I think

1806
01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:28,519
Speaker 1: nine and seven to ten and six that's changed. Pushing

1807
01:29:28,560 --> 01:29:33,200
Speaker 1: it'd be wonderful, but pushing in yeah, okay, so you're

1808
01:29:33,240 --> 01:29:35,560
Speaker 1: somewhere between nine and seven and eleven and five, but

1809
01:29:35,680 --> 01:29:39,280
Speaker 1: probably ten and six. Yeah, and just try to avoid

1810
01:29:39,439 --> 01:29:42,720
Speaker 1: the massacres like the forty one nine Bear game was

1811
01:29:42,800 --> 01:29:47,080
Speaker 1: so bad then, yeah, yeah, trying to avoid massacres this year. Yes,

1812
01:29:47,240 --> 01:29:49,680
Speaker 1: must avoid massacres. That was the low points year. That's

1813
01:29:49,680 --> 01:29:52,000
Speaker 1: a nice starting point. That was the Nater That was

1814
01:29:52,080 --> 01:29:53,920
Speaker 1: the low point. Remember. I came into that Monday after

1815
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:57,040
Speaker 1: the loss of the Bears, and and you were a

1816
01:29:57,160 --> 01:29:59,360
Speaker 1: dark day. You were hiding. Tried to talk you'all. I

1817
01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:01,519
Speaker 1: had to talk y'all. Edge. I was talking back into

1818
01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:03,479
Speaker 1: the building. Here one more from the tweet sheet after

1819
01:30:03,560 --> 01:30:06,600
Speaker 1: two preseason games hours your win total change for the

1820
01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:10,320
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen Bills, Jordan tweets in my expectation was ten wins,

1821
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:12,400
Speaker 1: and then what I've seen so far back set up

1822
01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:16,360
Speaker 1: have not increased my expectations, but that's because my expectations

1823
01:30:16,400 --> 01:30:19,599
Speaker 1: were already high. Super excited to get back to real football,

1824
01:30:19,840 --> 01:30:23,080
Speaker 1: got it. I'm pretty much there. Ten wins, nine ten wins.

1825
01:30:23,200 --> 01:30:25,160
Speaker 1: I'm staying with it for now. We'll see. We've been

1826
01:30:25,200 --> 01:30:27,879
Speaker 1: more evidence coming in over there. Generally speaking, this last offseason,

1827
01:30:27,920 --> 01:30:29,320
Speaker 1: for all the people we've talked to on the phone,

1828
01:30:29,360 --> 01:30:30,760
Speaker 1: we talked to him every day we get one or

1829
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:33,120
Speaker 1: two calls and sometimes more than that, and plus the

1830
01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:35,720
Speaker 1: people we've had on this show, and you and I

1831
01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:38,360
Speaker 1: talking back and forth about what we've seen in OTA's

1832
01:30:38,439 --> 01:30:41,960
Speaker 1: mini camps and now training camp in preseason games, We've

1833
01:30:42,040 --> 01:30:45,799
Speaker 1: always been really high expectations, mostly because of the progress

1834
01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:48,920
Speaker 1: we saw from Number seventeen Josh Allen throughout the last

1835
01:30:48,960 --> 01:30:51,400
Speaker 1: half a last season. We saw the guy take leaps

1836
01:30:51,439 --> 01:30:54,040
Speaker 1: and bounds forward. To me, he was one of the

1837
01:30:54,120 --> 01:30:56,200
Speaker 1: most exciting players to watch at the end of last season.

1838
01:30:56,200 --> 01:30:58,479
Speaker 1: I wanted to see him every day, and you know,

1839
01:30:58,680 --> 01:31:01,400
Speaker 1: obviously you can't. You gotta wait till game days. That's

1840
01:31:01,439 --> 01:31:04,000
Speaker 1: how excited we were when the season ended. And nothing

1841
01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:07,160
Speaker 1: has really backtracked for us these injuries, this rash of

1842
01:31:07,240 --> 01:31:10,160
Speaker 1: injuries at these positions a little bit during training camp. Yeah,

1843
01:31:10,439 --> 01:31:12,360
Speaker 1: but for us, I think we're kind of keeping on,

1844
01:31:12,520 --> 01:31:14,960
Speaker 1: keeping on. We are where we've been all off season.

1845
01:31:15,080 --> 01:31:21,240
Speaker 1: They're steady, steady, We're steady, focused on the future. Focused

1846
01:31:21,280 --> 01:31:23,360
Speaker 1: on hour number three of the show. It's coming up.

1847
01:31:23,400 --> 01:31:25,000
Speaker 1: After the top of the hour, we will hear from

1848
01:31:25,080 --> 01:31:27,519
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and we'll get Darryl Johnson in studio with

1849
01:31:27,600 --> 01:31:29,720
Speaker 1: us a Bill seventh round draft pick that's coming up

1850
01:31:29,720 --> 01:31:32,599
Speaker 1: when we return. We are still steady. One Bills Live

1851
01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:45,799
Speaker 1: presented by Kalada Health on Buffalo Bills Radio Buffalo Bills

1852
01:31:46,000 --> 01:31:50,599
Speaker 1: Radio Network. Stories date update from One Bill's Drive. Practice

1853
01:31:50,640 --> 01:31:53,679
Speaker 1: has just ended this Monday practice for the Buffalo Bills

1854
01:31:53,680 --> 01:31:56,240
Speaker 1: as they get set for preseason game number three. The

1855
01:31:56,360 --> 01:31:59,000
Speaker 1: traditional approach to preseason game number three is that the

1856
01:31:59,080 --> 01:32:01,720
Speaker 1: starters a long time. We'll see if that happens. With

1857
01:32:02,320 --> 01:32:05,280
Speaker 1: John McDermot not indicating on who's playing win, it appeared

1858
01:32:05,280 --> 01:32:07,320
Speaker 1: at the start of practice today that the offensive line

1859
01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:10,439
Speaker 1: looked like this, Dion Dawkins the starters at left tackle,

1860
01:32:10,720 --> 01:32:13,920
Speaker 1: Spencer Long with the starters at left guard, John Feliciano

1861
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:17,280
Speaker 1: starting at center, Quentin Spain starting at right guard this time,

1862
01:32:17,320 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 1: and Cody Ford at right tackle. We'll see if that

1863
01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:21,000
Speaker 1: holds up throughout the course of the week. It is

1864
01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:24,400
Speaker 1: believed that center Mitch Morse remains in concussion protocol Tie

1865
01:32:24,479 --> 01:32:27,280
Speaker 1: and Secky not believed we'd be practicing with a sore knee.

1866
01:32:27,560 --> 01:32:29,680
Speaker 1: Preseason game number three coming up the Bills end of

1867
01:32:29,680 --> 01:32:32,880
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions eight pm kickoff on Sunday, The game

1868
01:32:32,920 --> 01:32:35,040
Speaker 1: on CBS and of course, on our flagship radio here

1869
01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:38,200
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, w GR Sports Radio FLA fifty. Well. The

1870
01:32:38,240 --> 01:32:41,559
Speaker 1: Bills earlier this months put quarterback EJ. Gaines on injured reserve,

1871
01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:44,160
Speaker 1: and according to were multiple reports, they released him with

1872
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:46,400
Speaker 1: an injury settlement that means Gains, as a free agent

1873
01:32:46,680 --> 01:32:48,400
Speaker 1: able to sign with any team. Came back to the

1874
01:32:48,439 --> 01:32:51,519
Speaker 1: Bills this year after playing here in twenty seventeen. Spent

1875
01:32:51,640 --> 01:32:54,400
Speaker 1: last season with the Cleveland Browns. He can't stay healthy.

1876
01:32:54,640 --> 01:32:56,960
Speaker 1: He's never played all sixteen games in the season and

1877
01:32:57,080 --> 01:32:59,320
Speaker 1: missed all of twenty fifteen with a foot injury, and

1878
01:32:59,400 --> 01:33:03,719
Speaker 1: Tonio Brown reportedly back with the Raiders that for meetings today. Yesterday,

1879
01:33:03,880 --> 01:33:06,400
Speaker 1: General manager Mike Mayock of the Raiders said he needed

1880
01:33:06,439 --> 01:33:09,240
Speaker 1: to know whether Antonio Brown was all in or all

1881
01:33:09,320 --> 01:33:12,680
Speaker 1: out after an extended conflict about finding a helmet that's

1882
01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:16,360
Speaker 1: approval approved by everybody. The wide receiver reportedly rejoining the

1883
01:33:16,439 --> 01:33:19,760
Speaker 1: team today for a meeting. No practice for the Raiders today.

1884
01:33:19,960 --> 01:33:21,840
Speaker 1: Let me on Bell's long away to return to the

1885
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:24,519
Speaker 1: football Field's gonna have to wait even longer, probably for

1886
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Speaker 1: the opener against the Bills. Jets coach Adam gastold reporters

1887
01:33:27,479 --> 01:33:29,960
Speaker 1: that Bell is not going to play at all during

1888
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:34,439
Speaker 1: this preseason. Seahawks workie receiver dk Metcalf needs knee surgery,

1889
01:33:34,479 --> 01:33:36,800
Speaker 1: but head coach Pete Carroll expressed to optimism we won't

1890
01:33:36,800 --> 01:33:39,040
Speaker 1: be out too long. Doctors said he should be ready

1891
01:33:39,080 --> 01:33:41,000
Speaker 1: to go by the start of the regular season. And

1892
01:33:41,120 --> 01:33:43,280
Speaker 1: after a six game homestand where they went four and two,

1893
01:33:43,320 --> 01:33:45,320
Speaker 1: the Bisons all went up a four game series in

1894
01:33:45,600 --> 01:33:48,880
Speaker 1: Rochester tonight. And that is the update from One Bill's Drive.

1895
01:33:48,960 --> 01:33:51,920
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker here from one Bill's drive

1896
01:33:52,160 --> 01:33:55,360
Speaker 1: practice is over. We're going to hear from Daryl Johnson

1897
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Speaker 1: in a moment, Bill seventh round pick on his way

1898
01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:01,599
Speaker 1: to join the sign the show. In the meantime, we'll

1899
01:34:01,600 --> 01:34:04,479
Speaker 1: get your thoughts. Two preseason games in. Is your win

1900
01:34:04,560 --> 01:34:07,439
Speaker 1: total change for the Bills in twenty nineteen? Let us

1901
01:34:07,439 --> 01:34:09,320
Speaker 1: know what you think. Give us a call. Eighth three

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Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

1903
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Speaker 1: five fifty. You can weigh in on the tweet sheet,

1904
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Speaker 1: which is presented by Corrigan Moving Systems. The official movers

1905
01:34:18,520 --> 01:34:20,240
Speaker 1: are the Buffalo Bills. What do you have on your

1906
01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:22,640
Speaker 1: tweet sheet? Stevie, I'm gonna start with the one at

1907
01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:24,920
Speaker 1: the bottom that Seth has got it all planned out. Okay,

1908
01:34:25,120 --> 01:34:27,599
Speaker 1: be awesome, he has no change eleven and five. Josh

1909
01:34:27,640 --> 01:34:29,639
Speaker 1: and the offense are going to consistently put up points

1910
01:34:29,920 --> 01:34:32,600
Speaker 1: and could even be great. The defense will dominate with

1911
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Speaker 1: at Oliver wreaking havoc in the middle and Tremaine Edmonds

1912
01:34:36,280 --> 01:34:38,679
Speaker 1: running free. Playing with the lead will bring a plethora

1913
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:41,280
Speaker 1: of turnovers and then our running backstable will close them out. Well,

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Speaker 1: there you go, there's our season sixteen times, just like that,

1915
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Speaker 1: Just like love the word plethora. Nice one. Yes, way

1916
01:34:46,880 --> 01:34:49,679
Speaker 1: to sprinkle that in there, said, makes it sound well read.

1917
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Speaker 1: We've also got one from Michael up at the top.

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Speaker 1: He said, I said eleven and five from the start

1919
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Speaker 1: preseason games didn't change anything, but certainly made me look

1920
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Speaker 1: less crazy. Well, there you go. From Charlie on the

1921
01:35:03,080 --> 01:35:06,240
Speaker 1: tweet sheet says two things I really needed to see

1922
01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 1: this preseason was were noticeably improved talent and depth roster wide.

1923
01:35:11,600 --> 01:35:14,599
Speaker 1: I think we've seen that. I guess that's two things

1924
01:35:14,840 --> 01:35:18,280
Speaker 1: we have looked good at through all eight quarters despite

1925
01:35:18,320 --> 01:35:21,360
Speaker 1: all the injuries. A ton rides on number seventeen, Josh,

1926
01:35:21,439 --> 01:35:24,439
Speaker 1: but we need a complete team full of contributors to

1927
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Speaker 1: take the next step. No one would dispute that, that's

1928
01:35:26,720 --> 01:35:28,920
Speaker 1: for sure. Thanks for tweeting that in Charlie. We'll get

1929
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Speaker 1: more tweets and more calls your evaluation of the Bills

1930
01:35:31,600 --> 01:35:34,240
Speaker 1: where they are at after these two preseason games, and

1931
01:35:34,479 --> 01:35:39,040
Speaker 1: as your assessment of what their win total might be

1932
01:35:39,240 --> 01:35:41,920
Speaker 1: changed as a result of these two preseason games. One

1933
01:35:41,960 --> 01:35:44,080
Speaker 1: of the big contributors in the Bills in these two

1934
01:35:44,160 --> 01:35:46,840
Speaker 1: preseason games sits with us now right out the practice field,

1935
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Speaker 1: happy to have a seventh round draft at Daryl Johnson

1936
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Speaker 1: the studio with us. Hello, Daryl, thanks for coming. Bye.

1937
01:35:50,680 --> 01:35:52,280
Speaker 1: How are you doing. How are you doing? We're doing great.

1938
01:35:52,320 --> 01:35:54,519
Speaker 1: How how it's practice today? Oh? It was awesome. You know,

1939
01:35:54,720 --> 01:35:56,800
Speaker 1: got better today. I felt like I got better. Weather

1940
01:35:56,880 --> 01:36:01,040
Speaker 1: got better. Oh yeah this morning. Yes, nice nicer weather

1941
01:36:01,120 --> 01:36:04,280
Speaker 1: here than it wasn't Spartanburg too. Well. Wow, I gotta

1942
01:36:04,280 --> 01:36:06,040
Speaker 1: get back. You know, I came from North Carolina, but

1943
01:36:06,120 --> 01:36:07,439
Speaker 1: I got it. I had to get back used to that.

1944
01:36:07,520 --> 01:36:09,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, you know, it's way different from Buffalo.

1945
01:36:10,200 --> 01:36:12,519
Speaker 1: You know. Do you think that any impact on how

1946
01:36:12,600 --> 01:36:14,680
Speaker 1: you guys practice or even played Friday? I meant it

1947
01:36:14,760 --> 01:36:18,080
Speaker 1: was it was high eighties at kickoff on Friday night

1948
01:36:18,120 --> 01:36:20,320
Speaker 1: and it was muggy. It was really muggy down there. Yeah.

1949
01:36:20,400 --> 01:36:22,080
Speaker 1: I mean I believe we needed that game, you know,

1950
01:36:22,439 --> 01:36:25,160
Speaker 1: playing in and you know that type of environment. Uh,

1951
01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:27,920
Speaker 1: you know, being used to that Buffalo weather. Um, but

1952
01:36:28,160 --> 01:36:29,920
Speaker 1: we needed that game and it's gonna help us like

1953
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:33,040
Speaker 1: get in shaping stuff. So you've played really well in

1954
01:36:33,080 --> 01:36:35,640
Speaker 1: the first two preseasons. What's the feedback been like from

1955
01:36:35,640 --> 01:36:37,560
Speaker 1: the coaching staff that and what are some of the

1956
01:36:37,600 --> 01:36:39,680
Speaker 1: things you need to work on. Obviously you've played well,

1957
01:36:39,760 --> 01:36:41,160
Speaker 1: but what you know, what are you looking at? What

1958
01:36:41,200 --> 01:36:42,720
Speaker 1: do you need? I still got a lot of work

1959
01:36:42,760 --> 01:36:45,040
Speaker 1: to do. You know. I played all right in those

1960
01:36:45,160 --> 01:36:47,800
Speaker 1: last two games, but you know, I put that behind

1961
01:36:47,880 --> 01:36:50,160
Speaker 1: me and I just looked forward to playing Detroit this

1962
01:36:50,280 --> 01:36:54,280
Speaker 1: weekend and trying to get better at in that area. Aryl,

1963
01:36:54,320 --> 01:36:56,360
Speaker 1: how much of what you do on the field in

1964
01:36:56,479 --> 01:36:59,280
Speaker 1: these early preseason games and the place that you've made,

1965
01:36:59,400 --> 01:37:01,640
Speaker 1: I mean, are they just telling you look look at

1966
01:37:01,840 --> 01:37:03,559
Speaker 1: you know, you're a rookie, You're in your first couple

1967
01:37:03,560 --> 01:37:06,040
Speaker 1: of preseason games. Do they say just go get the

1968
01:37:06,080 --> 01:37:09,360
Speaker 1: pastor that's what your job? Yeah? My coach is kind

1969
01:37:09,400 --> 01:37:11,439
Speaker 1: of you know, tells me not to see too much. Um,

1970
01:37:11,560 --> 01:37:14,880
Speaker 1: just play football, and you know we are correct everything,

1971
01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:17,120
Speaker 1: but just you know, just play a game. I mean,

1972
01:37:17,240 --> 01:37:18,439
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I still got to

1973
01:37:18,479 --> 01:37:21,080
Speaker 1: do my job, you know that, of course, but you know,

1974
01:37:21,240 --> 01:37:25,760
Speaker 1: just not just just play football, um, coach Bill, you

1975
01:37:25,840 --> 01:37:27,840
Speaker 1: know those guys they tell me what you think, they

1976
01:37:28,080 --> 01:37:30,960
Speaker 1: don't see too much. Uh, just just try not to

1977
01:37:31,040 --> 01:37:34,120
Speaker 1: make you know, expect the big play right away. Just

1978
01:37:34,240 --> 01:37:36,840
Speaker 1: let the game come to you. So yeah, take it. Yeah,

1979
01:37:37,040 --> 01:37:41,240
Speaker 1: because some games. Some some football players just aren't yours

1980
01:37:41,320 --> 01:37:43,240
Speaker 1: to make, right Yeah, yeah, yeah, it make the plays

1981
01:37:43,240 --> 01:37:46,160
Speaker 1: that you're supposed to make and then worry about everything else, right, Yeah,

1982
01:37:46,200 --> 01:37:48,640
Speaker 1: keeps simple. Yeah, it's the National Football League, so you

1983
01:37:48,720 --> 01:37:52,559
Speaker 1: know you gotta just play football. Is there anything about

1984
01:37:52,600 --> 01:37:56,040
Speaker 1: the game preseason two games that surprises you, you know,

1985
01:37:56,080 --> 01:37:58,599
Speaker 1: about other players, about the way the game is played,

1986
01:37:58,800 --> 01:38:01,920
Speaker 1: because you look like a natural. I mean, shoot, I

1987
01:38:02,000 --> 01:38:04,800
Speaker 1: was telling the guys and every light and warm ups

1988
01:38:04,800 --> 01:38:07,479
Speaker 1: and stuff. I'm like, man, I'm in I'm in the NFL,

1989
01:38:07,680 --> 01:38:10,639
Speaker 1: Like this is crazy, you know, Like practice last week

1990
01:38:10,680 --> 01:38:13,840
Speaker 1: when we was playing the Panthers, I'm like, man, that's

1991
01:38:13,920 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. You know, yeah, it's like wow. You know,

1992
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:19,720
Speaker 1: I'm just excited. You know, I still can't believe it,

1993
01:38:19,760 --> 01:38:22,639
Speaker 1: you know, walking in the locker room seeing Frank Gore

1994
01:38:22,960 --> 01:38:25,280
Speaker 1: and Sadie you know those guys, I'm like, man, I

1995
01:38:25,400 --> 01:38:27,720
Speaker 1: grew up watching these guys playing with these guys on

1996
01:38:27,880 --> 01:38:30,640
Speaker 1: NFL so, I mean Matten so and yet they were

1997
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:33,000
Speaker 1: when you played, and you played twice down preseason, you

1998
01:38:33,080 --> 01:38:36,200
Speaker 1: look like you belong right. You're forcing the ball out

1999
01:38:36,200 --> 01:38:38,400
Speaker 1: of the quarterback's hands, You're getting sacks in the first

2000
01:38:38,439 --> 01:38:40,800
Speaker 1: preseason game against the Colts. Does that help you feel

2001
01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:42,760
Speaker 1: a little bit better? Like maybe? I mean, yeah, of

2002
01:38:42,840 --> 01:38:45,720
Speaker 1: course it does. Um, But like I said, you know,

2003
01:38:45,840 --> 01:38:47,960
Speaker 1: I just still got a lot of order to do.

2004
01:38:48,040 --> 01:38:49,720
Speaker 1: I believe I could be a lot better. I'm still

2005
01:38:49,760 --> 01:38:52,519
Speaker 1: a raw talent. Um. I still got a lot to learn,

2006
01:38:52,560 --> 01:38:55,120
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot of potential upside. So I'm just

2007
01:38:55,479 --> 01:38:57,479
Speaker 1: going to continue to work and learn from Jerry Hughes

2008
01:38:57,520 --> 01:38:59,559
Speaker 1: every day. Talk a little bit. I'm want to ask

2009
01:38:59,600 --> 01:39:02,840
Speaker 1: you about the vibe in the locker room. Great group

2010
01:39:02,880 --> 01:39:05,000
Speaker 1: of guys seem to be all pulling the same direction.

2011
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:08,680
Speaker 1: Coaching staff seems all in. You guys seem to like, uh,

2012
01:39:09,080 --> 01:39:12,680
Speaker 1: seems like a real cohesive unit gonna even despite you know,

2013
01:39:13,080 --> 01:39:15,519
Speaker 1: Christian Wage scoring Touchdow everybody coming out going crazy. But

2014
01:39:15,680 --> 01:39:21,040
Speaker 1: it does seem like great attitude on the team, real

2015
01:39:21,160 --> 01:39:23,760
Speaker 1: high expectations for yourself. Forget about what everybody and what

2016
01:39:23,920 --> 01:39:27,040
Speaker 1: we're talking about, but high expectations and the belief that

2017
01:39:27,080 --> 01:39:29,479
Speaker 1: you're gonna get there. Yeah. Man, It's it's like a

2018
01:39:29,560 --> 01:39:32,120
Speaker 1: brotherhood in our locker room. We all you know, just

2019
01:39:32,560 --> 01:39:34,920
Speaker 1: you know, want we expect the best for each other.

2020
01:39:35,439 --> 01:39:38,760
Speaker 1: And try to get better. So just you know, and

2021
01:39:38,880 --> 01:39:41,000
Speaker 1: then you got a lot of leaders like Jerry Hughes

2022
01:39:41,200 --> 01:39:44,880
Speaker 1: and guys like that, just leading in. They they expect for,

2023
01:39:45,240 --> 01:39:46,960
Speaker 1: you know, the second and third group to go out

2024
01:39:47,000 --> 01:39:49,880
Speaker 1: there and do the same thing as them. So you know,

2025
01:39:49,960 --> 01:39:52,560
Speaker 1: we just try to keep the standard, you know, to

2026
01:39:52,720 --> 01:39:56,400
Speaker 1: our standard high and just play football, play Bills football.

2027
01:39:56,800 --> 01:39:59,200
Speaker 1: We're with the Gerald Johnson Bills seventh round draft picked

2028
01:39:59,200 --> 01:40:02,960
Speaker 1: from North Carolina. At plays in his first two preseason games.

2029
01:40:03,160 --> 01:40:05,400
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you, you you've joined the defense there.

2030
01:40:05,479 --> 01:40:07,560
Speaker 1: I think at Oliver's he only knew starter from a

2031
01:40:07,640 --> 01:40:10,479
Speaker 1: year ago. It's an established defense a third year with

2032
01:40:10,560 --> 01:40:13,439
Speaker 1: coach Frasier kind of putting the plan in place. How

2033
01:40:13,560 --> 01:40:15,080
Speaker 1: was it to kind of jump into a kind of

2034
01:40:15,120 --> 01:40:16,840
Speaker 1: a training that's already moving down the tracks like that.

2035
01:40:17,840 --> 01:40:20,519
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to fit in, and I mean, you know,

2036
01:40:20,720 --> 01:40:23,000
Speaker 1: it's just excited to be here. So it's like, you know,

2037
01:40:23,120 --> 01:40:27,120
Speaker 1: I'm just soaking everything. A complex defense is difficult to una.

2038
01:40:27,479 --> 01:40:30,240
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the same defense, and he ran

2039
01:40:30,320 --> 01:40:33,320
Speaker 1: a little bit, just different concepts, different names and things

2040
01:40:33,400 --> 01:40:35,920
Speaker 1: like that. But you know, I caught on pretty quick

2041
01:40:36,040 --> 01:40:39,720
Speaker 1: now I'm just trying to learn the you know, formations

2042
01:40:39,760 --> 01:40:42,240
Speaker 1: and what might come and things like that different just

2043
01:40:42,400 --> 01:40:44,240
Speaker 1: little things that you know, I try to listen to

2044
01:40:44,360 --> 01:40:46,800
Speaker 1: Jerry when when he you know, pickups and things like that.

2045
01:40:46,880 --> 01:40:49,559
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to learn. So so you're still technically

2046
01:40:49,640 --> 01:40:51,720
Speaker 1: in training camp, even though now you're back in Orchard Park,

2047
01:40:51,760 --> 01:40:54,479
Speaker 1: you left Saint John Fisher, you're down in Carolina and

2048
01:40:54,600 --> 01:40:56,960
Speaker 1: you probably haven't even maybe you had, but haven't really

2049
01:40:57,000 --> 01:40:59,760
Speaker 1: started to talk about Detroit this coming week. Oh yeah,

2050
01:40:59,800 --> 01:41:02,720
Speaker 1: we we had, right, So what's the vibe coming in

2051
01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:05,320
Speaker 1: about this game? The third preseason game is a little

2052
01:41:05,320 --> 01:41:07,400
Speaker 1: different than the other. Well, right now we were on

2053
01:41:07,640 --> 01:41:11,400
Speaker 1: like like regular season game schedule, so we're treating it

2054
01:41:11,479 --> 01:41:14,759
Speaker 1: like a normal game, and just we already getting tips

2055
01:41:14,800 --> 01:41:18,360
Speaker 1: and things like that, what are their favorite favorite runs

2056
01:41:18,400 --> 01:41:20,360
Speaker 1: and things like that, just little tips right now and

2057
01:41:20,479 --> 01:41:22,720
Speaker 1: then you know, eventually we'll pick it up throughout the

2058
01:41:22,760 --> 01:41:26,680
Speaker 1: week more things. So Coach mcdermots thinking about that right,

2059
01:41:26,720 --> 01:41:29,320
Speaker 1: like replicating even for the home game a couple of

2060
01:41:29,400 --> 01:41:32,080
Speaker 1: weeks ago, the coach game, here's where you go, Here's

2061
01:41:32,080 --> 01:41:33,920
Speaker 1: what time you get to the stadium now and saying

2062
01:41:33,960 --> 01:41:36,640
Speaker 1: this is what it's From what you're telling us, it

2063
01:41:36,760 --> 01:41:39,160
Speaker 1: sounds like he's using this week to say, here's what

2064
01:41:39,240 --> 01:41:41,120
Speaker 1: a regular season game week will look like. Here's what

2065
01:41:41,200 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 1: we prepare. Yeah, so you know, he just got a

2066
01:41:43,640 --> 01:41:45,439
Speaker 1: he he got he laid it out. You know, he

2067
01:41:45,600 --> 01:41:48,840
Speaker 1: laid out every schedule. So we just followed. What has

2068
01:41:48,880 --> 01:41:54,280
Speaker 1: been the biggest surprise so far? Um, just I guess

2069
01:41:54,479 --> 01:41:56,920
Speaker 1: I could say the last the first preseason game was

2070
01:41:57,000 --> 01:42:01,200
Speaker 1: my actual first NFL game ever that I've ever been to.

2071
01:42:01,360 --> 01:42:03,599
Speaker 1: So I played in my first NFL games. You never

2072
01:42:03,680 --> 01:42:06,800
Speaker 1: even witnessed one, never witnessed one live. I've always seen

2073
01:42:06,840 --> 01:42:08,720
Speaker 1: it on TV. So I guess that's like one of

2074
01:42:08,800 --> 01:42:11,439
Speaker 1: my biggest You know where you grew up in Camden,

2075
01:42:11,479 --> 01:42:16,880
Speaker 1: New Jersey, No, Camden County, Georgia. Oh, Georgia, Yeah, Kingsland, Georgia, Georgia. Okay,

2076
01:42:17,240 --> 01:42:19,519
Speaker 1: from the South. Okay, so you were of the Falcons fan.

2077
01:42:20,720 --> 01:42:23,519
Speaker 1: I was. I was a Steelers fan growing up. Steelers. Yeah,

2078
01:42:23,720 --> 01:42:26,120
Speaker 1: you'll get to see them this yeah. Yeah, yeah. My

2079
01:42:26,280 --> 01:42:28,559
Speaker 1: dad was a big Steelers fan too. He's like, well,

2080
01:42:28,960 --> 01:42:30,760
Speaker 1: you know, I hope they do good against y'all, But

2081
01:42:32,800 --> 01:42:34,880
Speaker 1: does he have some gear? Now, some bills. Oh that's

2082
01:42:34,880 --> 01:42:37,280
Speaker 1: all he wears. He put this, He put the Steelers

2083
01:42:37,360 --> 01:42:39,240
Speaker 1: to the side. I'm like, wow, come on, dad, you

2084
01:42:39,240 --> 01:42:42,000
Speaker 1: can't let down the Steelers like that. Where is North Carolina?

2085
01:42:42,040 --> 01:42:45,760
Speaker 1: At Greensboro, North Carolina? That's like by the coast? Is

2086
01:42:45,760 --> 01:42:49,240
Speaker 1: it Wreensboro's it's like by like an hour of forty

2087
01:42:49,280 --> 01:42:51,880
Speaker 1: from Charlotte? Okay, is it Does it get as hot

2088
01:42:51,960 --> 01:42:55,040
Speaker 1: there as it didn't spe Yeah, it gets hot, real hot.

2089
01:42:55,080 --> 01:42:58,639
Speaker 1: It's about the same, you know. Just I actually forgot

2090
01:42:58,680 --> 01:43:01,080
Speaker 1: about how it feels. And I went back, you know,

2091
01:43:01,280 --> 01:43:03,160
Speaker 1: last week. So we didn't like it. Yeah, we were there,

2092
01:43:03,520 --> 01:43:06,240
Speaker 1: we were out. Yeah, this must be a kind of

2093
01:43:06,320 --> 01:43:09,240
Speaker 1: a cool breeze for you. Definitely camp here in western

2094
01:43:09,280 --> 01:43:11,360
Speaker 1: New York. Yeah. When I came to a rookie mini camp,

2095
01:43:11,439 --> 01:43:15,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's somewhere like you know, it was cool. Yeah,

2096
01:43:15,360 --> 01:43:19,360
Speaker 1: long sleeves, Yeah, yeah, it's cool. That was crazy. Lesson, girl.

2097
01:43:19,400 --> 01:43:21,559
Speaker 1: I didn't like Buffalo in general. You have a chance

2098
01:43:21,560 --> 01:43:23,599
Speaker 1: to look around at all in this town yet. Oh yeah.

2099
01:43:23,640 --> 01:43:29,080
Speaker 1: I went to a couple of wing spots, barbills, and yeah,

2100
01:43:29,360 --> 01:43:33,280
Speaker 1: I love those places. And man, like, the fans are awesome.

2101
01:43:33,280 --> 01:43:36,479
Speaker 1: I met some great fans. Man, they're real big man.

2102
01:43:36,960 --> 01:43:39,240
Speaker 1: Keep you into it every day, you know, just just

2103
01:43:39,400 --> 01:43:41,720
Speaker 1: the fans. Well, I got one more question for you.

2104
01:43:41,760 --> 01:43:44,519
Speaker 1: It's about your length. How long are your arms that

2105
01:43:44,600 --> 01:43:47,280
Speaker 1: I been like you? They probably still growing. I forgot,

2106
01:43:47,640 --> 01:43:50,200
Speaker 1: you know. I feel like every morning when I wake up,

2107
01:43:50,240 --> 01:43:53,400
Speaker 1: I just get taller. Like I'm like, damn, dang, I'm talking.

2108
01:43:53,880 --> 01:43:59,000
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think that every day, wake up taller. Right,

2109
01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:02,040
Speaker 1: but you're twenty two years you could be growing. Yeah, probably, yes, sir,

2110
01:44:02,520 --> 01:44:05,200
Speaker 1: And uh, that's a big part of your game, right, yes, sir.

2111
01:44:05,760 --> 01:44:08,080
Speaker 1: We're starting to learn how to use my length a

2112
01:44:08,120 --> 01:44:11,240
Speaker 1: little bit more on phraser always telling me, man, just

2113
01:44:11,520 --> 01:44:13,880
Speaker 1: you know, use those long arms. God bless you with

2114
01:44:14,400 --> 01:44:16,640
Speaker 1: So I start using the long arm and things like that,

2115
01:44:16,800 --> 01:44:19,240
Speaker 1: just trying to perfect yeah, just trying to keep them

2116
01:44:19,240 --> 01:44:21,200
Speaker 1: off me. And didn't work off of that so well.

2117
01:44:21,720 --> 01:44:24,000
Speaker 1: I saw on Friday night when we were in the

2118
01:44:24,080 --> 01:44:26,040
Speaker 1: TV booth watching you a couple of times if you

2119
01:44:26,160 --> 01:44:30,200
Speaker 1: came off the edge one time and uh and got

2120
01:44:30,240 --> 01:44:33,640
Speaker 1: the sack strip fumble recover on didn't get recovered. But

2121
01:44:33,720 --> 01:44:35,600
Speaker 1: in fact, the guy that missed the block on you

2122
01:44:35,680 --> 01:44:37,600
Speaker 1: had to recover the fumble, which is always a you know,

2123
01:44:37,720 --> 01:44:40,120
Speaker 1: kind of adding insult to injury. But then you came

2124
01:44:40,160 --> 01:44:42,920
Speaker 1: off right back with an up and under. Yeah yeah,

2125
01:44:42,960 --> 01:44:46,880
Speaker 1: And having a complimentary move is crucial. And the guy,

2126
01:44:48,400 --> 01:44:50,680
Speaker 1: I mean, that guy's having a bad Monday right now

2127
01:44:50,800 --> 01:44:53,200
Speaker 1: because of that game on Friday night. So that having

2128
01:44:53,360 --> 01:44:55,400
Speaker 1: both those moves to go to is really and by

2129
01:44:55,479 --> 01:44:57,720
Speaker 1: more of than just one pass rush. Most young guys

2130
01:44:57,760 --> 01:45:01,000
Speaker 1: don't have all of that. Where did you get the

2131
01:45:01,160 --> 01:45:05,439
Speaker 1: extra move? Uh? Just I guess natural? Um, I just

2132
01:45:05,720 --> 01:45:07,479
Speaker 1: I know he was gonna go with the speed because

2133
01:45:07,479 --> 01:45:09,840
Speaker 1: I beat him off with the speed the first time.

2134
01:45:09,920 --> 01:45:11,920
Speaker 1: And I was like, well maybe if I just you know,

2135
01:45:12,040 --> 01:45:14,400
Speaker 1: act like offing to jump off the rock and hit

2136
01:45:14,479 --> 01:45:16,920
Speaker 1: him with an inside move here, you know, give, And

2137
01:45:17,120 --> 01:45:18,800
Speaker 1: that's what he did. So yeah, the second of the

2138
01:45:18,880 --> 01:45:20,519
Speaker 1: up and under didn't get there in the quarterback just

2139
01:45:20,880 --> 01:45:22,439
Speaker 1: you know, got rid of got rid of it, got

2140
01:45:22,560 --> 01:45:24,280
Speaker 1: rid of it real quick. He saw them, he saw

2141
01:45:24,360 --> 01:45:26,920
Speaker 1: you get win real quick. Yeah, yeah, I remember that.

2142
01:45:27,320 --> 01:45:29,640
Speaker 1: Is that anything that your coaches talking about it? They

2143
01:45:29,720 --> 01:45:32,040
Speaker 1: say that the great pass rushers not only can win,

2144
01:45:32,200 --> 01:45:35,439
Speaker 1: but they win right now. Yeah, push the guy back.

2145
01:45:35,479 --> 01:45:37,160
Speaker 1: And they tried two or three different things and then

2146
01:45:37,240 --> 01:45:38,760
Speaker 1: finally get off the edge. You see that once in

2147
01:45:38,760 --> 01:45:40,720
Speaker 1: a while, but basically they want you to win right

2148
01:45:40,760 --> 01:45:42,599
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage if you can. Yeah, our

2149
01:45:42,640 --> 01:45:44,920
Speaker 1: coaches always say, man, if you got a one on one,

2150
01:45:44,960 --> 01:45:47,479
Speaker 1: you must win. You know, I could see if the

2151
01:45:47,560 --> 01:45:49,960
Speaker 1: slide is coming to you, then that's kind of hard.

2152
01:45:50,040 --> 01:45:52,840
Speaker 1: But if you got a one on one, you gotta win.

2153
01:45:53,000 --> 01:45:55,240
Speaker 1: You gotta be the winner. So he garrel. The media

2154
01:45:55,240 --> 01:45:58,040
Speaker 1: guys says, your nickname is Bam bam. Anybody call you that?

2155
01:45:58,120 --> 01:46:02,120
Speaker 1: Sill Um back at like North Carolina and te and

2156
01:46:02,280 --> 01:46:05,320
Speaker 1: my mom, dad, you know, anybody here. I'm trying to

2157
01:46:05,360 --> 01:46:08,040
Speaker 1: get them to call me that now on the radio.

2158
01:46:08,840 --> 01:46:10,519
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm trying to get him to call

2159
01:46:10,560 --> 01:46:12,639
Speaker 1: me that because I love that name. Man, I believe

2160
01:46:12,680 --> 01:46:14,920
Speaker 1: it fits me. Um. It's been my name since I

2161
01:46:15,040 --> 01:46:18,040
Speaker 1: was like six years old. My dad gave it to me. Um.

2162
01:46:18,160 --> 01:46:21,560
Speaker 1: He got it from the flint Stones. Bam Bam. You

2163
01:46:21,640 --> 01:46:24,719
Speaker 1: know he was the big baby, ye strong, strongest baby

2164
01:46:24,720 --> 01:46:27,880
Speaker 1: in the world. Yeah, so clumsy kinda. So I was like, um,

2165
01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:29,680
Speaker 1: I guess you know that kind of fits me. So

2166
01:46:29,760 --> 01:46:35,479
Speaker 1: we're gonna call your bad baskets. Thank you, Daryl Bam

2167
01:46:35,720 --> 01:46:39,320
Speaker 1: John Studio. Josh Adam speaking with the media moment ago

2168
01:46:39,439 --> 01:46:41,519
Speaker 1: here at One Goes Drive, and he started out talking

2169
01:46:41,520 --> 01:46:45,639
Speaker 1: about the Bill's offensive performance against Carolina Panthers last Friday.

2170
01:46:46,600 --> 01:46:48,360
Speaker 1: You know, as an offense, I think we obviously moved

2171
01:46:48,360 --> 01:46:49,840
Speaker 1: the ball well, we put points on the board when

2172
01:46:49,880 --> 01:46:52,280
Speaker 1: we needed to. Obviously would like to finish the first

2173
01:46:52,360 --> 01:46:54,200
Speaker 1: drive there with six points in set of three. UM,

2174
01:46:54,800 --> 01:46:57,439
Speaker 1: But overall, like the day just kind of taken when

2175
01:46:57,479 --> 01:46:59,280
Speaker 1: they gave us. UM, that's kind of what what we

2176
01:46:59,320 --> 01:47:01,240
Speaker 1: were just trying to work on. UM. You know, we're

2177
01:47:01,479 --> 01:47:03,920
Speaker 1: trying to improve on that every day, still are and UM,

2178
01:47:04,240 --> 01:47:07,559
Speaker 1: it was good to see that in live game Repsos said,

2179
01:47:07,720 --> 01:47:10,320
Speaker 1: it's good he considered that to throw the ball a

2180
01:47:10,400 --> 01:47:13,080
Speaker 1: lot with the first team offens out there. How is

2181
01:47:13,120 --> 01:47:17,840
Speaker 1: that helping you some rates your growth with this wide

2182
01:47:17,880 --> 01:47:20,639
Speaker 1: receiver group in the offensive. Yeah, there's nothing like live reps.

2183
01:47:20,800 --> 01:47:23,839
Speaker 1: There's nothing like game reps. So UM, and I appreciate

2184
01:47:23,880 --> 01:47:25,960
Speaker 1: what he's doing and how he's helped me progress along

2185
01:47:26,040 --> 01:47:28,439
Speaker 1: so far, and how those team's kind of helped each

2186
01:47:28,439 --> 01:47:30,640
Speaker 1: other gel and the camaraderie that we have right now

2187
01:47:30,720 --> 01:47:32,920
Speaker 1: and how we're working to become you know, the best

2188
01:47:33,160 --> 01:47:35,240
Speaker 1: version of ourselves that we can every day. Um, but

2189
01:47:36,080 --> 01:47:38,800
Speaker 1: those game reps are you know, they're invaluable. So um,

2190
01:47:39,040 --> 01:47:40,640
Speaker 1: as many as we can get, as many we're going

2191
01:47:40,720 --> 01:47:44,040
Speaker 1: to do. Josh that never snapped the ball in the

2192
01:47:44,200 --> 01:47:47,400
Speaker 1: lateral game until yeah, he snapped the other the other day.

2193
01:47:47,439 --> 01:47:48,640
Speaker 1: I know you weren't inim with them, but what have

2194
01:47:48,720 --> 01:47:50,960
Speaker 1: you seen from him being able to transition to center? No,

2195
01:47:51,200 --> 01:47:52,760
Speaker 1: he did a really good job the other day. And

2196
01:47:52,880 --> 01:47:54,639
Speaker 1: he's been doing a good job in practice. So obviously

2197
01:47:54,720 --> 01:47:57,840
Speaker 1: being thrown in, you know, within being a week here, Um,

2198
01:47:58,320 --> 01:47:59,960
Speaker 1: you know, playing a lot of snaps at center there,

2199
01:48:00,040 --> 01:48:01,479
Speaker 1: and you know he did a really good job of

2200
01:48:01,520 --> 01:48:03,880
Speaker 1: snapping the ball and you know, taking care of his assignments.

2201
01:48:03,920 --> 01:48:06,120
Speaker 1: But he's one of those guys that you look at him. Um,

2202
01:48:06,240 --> 01:48:09,080
Speaker 1: he's an undrafted guy, he's a rookie. He comes in

2203
01:48:09,200 --> 01:48:11,880
Speaker 1: ready to work every day. Um. You know, not a

2204
01:48:11,920 --> 01:48:14,200
Speaker 1: lot of people may see it, but I see he's

2205
01:48:14,200 --> 01:48:16,240
Speaker 1: an athletic kid too that can can move well, and

2206
01:48:16,600 --> 01:48:19,760
Speaker 1: he can probably play all five positions, you know, left

2207
01:48:19,800 --> 01:48:22,240
Speaker 1: side and right. Um, so what he's doing on now

2208
01:48:22,360 --> 01:48:24,960
Speaker 1: is really good Jock. You were really clicking with the

2209
01:48:25,040 --> 01:48:28,120
Speaker 1: whole last game, and we saw that a lot Carolina,

2210
01:48:28,320 --> 01:48:30,400
Speaker 1: just as this prese team goes along, How would you

2211
01:48:30,520 --> 01:48:34,400
Speaker 1: describe your chemistry with him so far at this point? Yeah,

2212
01:48:34,400 --> 01:48:36,400
Speaker 1: I think we're getting better to read each other. Um,

2213
01:48:36,479 --> 01:48:38,679
Speaker 1: still an open line of communication that we're still having

2214
01:48:38,760 --> 01:48:40,920
Speaker 1: and looking at certain routes in certain plays and just

2215
01:48:41,080 --> 01:48:43,840
Speaker 1: me asking him what he would do in certain situations

2216
01:48:43,920 --> 01:48:46,120
Speaker 1: and him asking me where I would put the ball

2217
01:48:46,160 --> 01:48:48,920
Speaker 1: in certain situations. So, UM, we're gonna continue to develop that.

2218
01:48:49,120 --> 01:48:51,240
Speaker 1: I know in the game it was it looked pretty nice,

2219
01:48:51,320 --> 01:48:52,880
Speaker 1: but you know, we still got a long ways to

2220
01:48:52,960 --> 01:48:54,720
Speaker 1: go to get to where we want to get to.

2221
01:48:54,880 --> 01:48:57,880
Speaker 1: Because they're adjustin at offers ay with Cole and John

2222
01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:00,280
Speaker 1: now and because he was kind of you know guy

2223
01:49:00,400 --> 01:49:02,320
Speaker 1: last year and now there's a lot of guys in there,

2224
01:49:02,760 --> 01:49:05,439
Speaker 1: you've been an adjustment community. Um, I mean, I I

2225
01:49:05,439 --> 01:49:07,120
Speaker 1: don't think so. You know, Za's one of the hardest

2226
01:49:07,160 --> 01:49:08,519
Speaker 1: working guys on the team. He goes out there and

2227
01:49:08,600 --> 01:49:11,920
Speaker 1: does his job and doesn't say anything, doesn't complain about anything. Um,

2228
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:14,200
Speaker 1: he just puts his hard, hardhead on and goes to work.

2229
01:49:14,240 --> 01:49:18,240
Speaker 1: And UM, you know his role and his leadership ability

2230
01:49:18,280 --> 01:49:21,000
Speaker 1: that he has in our offense is very big for us,

2231
01:49:21,040 --> 01:49:23,200
Speaker 1: and UM, that's only can continue to get better as well.

2232
01:49:24,600 --> 01:49:30,479
Speaker 1: Get a lot of working three game you know how

2233
01:49:30,560 --> 01:49:34,120
Speaker 1: many players I get. Um, it's still to be yet determined,

2234
01:49:34,360 --> 01:49:36,760
Speaker 1: you know by the head man. But UM as been

2235
01:49:36,840 --> 01:49:39,240
Speaker 1: as I get, IM take those and learn from what

2236
01:49:39,400 --> 01:49:41,559
Speaker 1: goes on on the field. Um. I love playing football,

2237
01:49:41,600 --> 01:49:45,200
Speaker 1: So as many reps I get, I'll be happy. Sweet

2238
01:49:45,320 --> 01:49:48,000
Speaker 1: what have you kind of see? Yeah, I mean he's

2239
01:49:48,040 --> 01:49:50,160
Speaker 1: one of those rookie guys who not a lot of

2240
01:49:50,200 --> 01:49:53,000
Speaker 1: people maybe knew um before our first couple of games,

2241
01:49:53,600 --> 01:49:55,920
Speaker 1: but just a guy that he's a smart kid. He

2242
01:49:56,040 --> 01:49:57,840
Speaker 1: does his job. He's very physical at the point of

2243
01:49:57,840 --> 01:50:00,320
Speaker 1: attack too, and you'd love to see it kid like

2244
01:50:00,400 --> 01:50:03,280
Speaker 1: that makes some plays for us. Just how hard he's

2245
01:50:03,320 --> 01:50:06,600
Speaker 1: been working. Um, you know, he's a special talent, he

2246
01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:09,040
Speaker 1: really is, and I think he's opened some eyes to

2247
01:50:09,120 --> 01:50:11,120
Speaker 1: what he can do. Um, he's been doing a really

2248
01:50:11,160 --> 01:50:12,760
Speaker 1: good job for us, and it's only get continue to

2249
01:50:12,760 --> 01:50:17,120
Speaker 1: get better as well. Work Today we saw Jason and

2250
01:50:17,479 --> 01:50:20,439
Speaker 1: Dawson out there, but today and even recently is as

2251
01:50:20,479 --> 01:50:23,040
Speaker 1: they've been really Yeah, it's good to have them back.

2252
01:50:23,080 --> 01:50:25,960
Speaker 1: Obviously they've been out for a couple of weeks now, um,

2253
01:50:26,479 --> 01:50:28,519
Speaker 1: but it's just a different flow in the offense when

2254
01:50:28,520 --> 01:50:31,080
Speaker 1: they're in there, and um, you know, it's it's it's

2255
01:50:31,160 --> 01:50:33,759
Speaker 1: fun to have them back, you know, and gives Tommy

2256
01:50:33,760 --> 01:50:35,640
Speaker 1: a little break, gives little a little break, um, some

2257
01:50:35,720 --> 01:50:37,040
Speaker 1: of the other tight ends. I know, they were working

2258
01:50:37,120 --> 01:50:39,120
Speaker 1: really hard and trying to manage all the reps that

2259
01:50:39,160 --> 01:50:42,559
Speaker 1: they were getting. But you know, to have this guy's back,

2260
01:50:42,600 --> 01:50:46,400
Speaker 1: it just solidifies the depth a little more. There anything

2261
01:50:46,560 --> 01:50:49,640
Speaker 1: to decide while they were rehabbing and working to get

2262
01:50:50,160 --> 01:50:52,360
Speaker 1: I mean a little walkthrough stuff where they're still staying

2263
01:50:52,560 --> 01:50:55,920
Speaker 1: a ton of um taking mental reps, but nothing really physical. Um,

2264
01:50:55,960 --> 01:50:57,559
Speaker 1: they've been doing a good job. You know. Every time

2265
01:50:57,600 --> 01:50:59,719
Speaker 1: I go in the training room, they're there getting treatment.

2266
01:50:59,800 --> 01:51:03,920
Speaker 1: So um, they've been really diligent about that. Probably set

2267
01:51:04,120 --> 01:51:07,080
Speaker 1: yourself up and add some markers of this year with rest,

2268
01:51:07,160 --> 01:51:09,680
Speaker 1: whether it's going to California and working out with a

2269
01:51:09,720 --> 01:51:12,080
Speaker 1: couple of guys I can march or you know, or

2270
01:51:12,479 --> 01:51:16,719
Speaker 1: you know, coming in being ready for the voluntary worked

2271
01:51:16,760 --> 01:51:18,960
Speaker 1: out and then what do you want to do in

2272
01:51:19,040 --> 01:51:22,439
Speaker 1: training camp in three season how if you match them,

2273
01:51:22,560 --> 01:51:25,559
Speaker 1: if you set set out the markers that you've established

2274
01:51:25,560 --> 01:51:29,200
Speaker 1: in yourself, you know, as you reflect back at where

2275
01:51:29,200 --> 01:51:32,559
Speaker 1: you are now, if you maybe match those markers two, Um,

2276
01:51:32,640 --> 01:51:35,760
Speaker 1: I mean maybe maybe a couple. UM. I wouldn't say

2277
01:51:35,800 --> 01:51:38,360
Speaker 1: that I'm where I need to be, um at any

2278
01:51:38,439 --> 01:51:40,880
Speaker 1: point at all. So there's still a lot of work

2279
01:51:40,920 --> 01:51:42,280
Speaker 1: that I got to do and continue to get better.

2280
01:51:42,360 --> 01:51:44,920
Speaker 1: As long as this team's getting better and I'm getting better, UM,

2281
01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:48,479
Speaker 1: that's all I can ask for really, in for that,

2282
01:51:48,760 --> 01:51:50,880
Speaker 1: you know, free season three and you know, what are

2283
01:51:50,880 --> 01:51:53,479
Speaker 1: you really expecting? What's a bit different from this time?

2284
01:51:53,800 --> 01:51:56,679
Speaker 1: You know this year Confederate at this time last year, well,

2285
01:51:56,840 --> 01:51:59,840
Speaker 1: obviously running with the ones. Um, you know Week three

2286
01:52:00,120 --> 01:52:02,040
Speaker 1: kind of the week where a lot of the guys

2287
01:52:02,080 --> 01:52:03,960
Speaker 1: that may have been sitting out all the vets, you know,

2288
01:52:04,040 --> 01:52:05,559
Speaker 1: kind of get back in the action and start getting

2289
01:52:05,560 --> 01:52:08,960
Speaker 1: their bodies back in football shape. And UM, so we're

2290
01:52:08,960 --> 01:52:10,840
Speaker 1: gonna be playing against a really good defense. You know,

2291
01:52:10,920 --> 01:52:13,080
Speaker 1: They're they're very well coached over there, and we saw

2292
01:52:13,200 --> 01:52:14,920
Speaker 1: them last year and we end up winning that game.

2293
01:52:15,000 --> 01:52:17,000
Speaker 1: So I'm sure that they want to get back at us.

2294
01:52:17,040 --> 01:52:19,720
Speaker 1: So we know that, and UM, we're just trying to

2295
01:52:19,760 --> 01:52:20,800
Speaker 1: go out in there and play. You know, we're just

2296
01:52:20,880 --> 01:52:23,760
Speaker 1: trying to be better. Um. I think both sides out

2297
01:52:23,800 --> 01:52:28,280
Speaker 1: the same way. Josh's just starting to work his way

2298
01:52:28,360 --> 01:52:31,719
Speaker 1: back into the football activities. Obviously he's new to the team,

2299
01:52:31,840 --> 01:52:34,559
Speaker 1: but you feel like you can do enough or you've

2300
01:52:34,560 --> 01:52:38,519
Speaker 1: done enough in practice. It doesn't necessarily need to get

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01:52:38,600 --> 01:52:41,960
Speaker 1: in the game to start. Yeah, and Mitch is, you know,

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01:52:42,040 --> 01:52:44,800
Speaker 1: obviously one of the smartest guys that we brought in,

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01:52:44,960 --> 01:52:46,400
Speaker 1: one of the smartest guys on the team, just as

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01:52:46,479 --> 01:52:48,760
Speaker 1: far as protection and communication goes. When he's in there

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01:52:48,840 --> 01:52:51,080
Speaker 1: during even like little things like walk through, just a

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01:52:51,120 --> 01:52:54,000
Speaker 1: communication that he has between the offensive line and myself

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01:52:54,040 --> 01:52:57,880
Speaker 1: and then relaying stuff to the backs. He's fantastic. Um. Obviously,

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01:52:57,920 --> 01:53:01,400
Speaker 1: he's been very coached coach well throughout his career and

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01:53:01,720 --> 01:53:03,840
Speaker 1: he's taking that in stride and he brought that here,

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01:53:03,920 --> 01:53:06,720
Speaker 1: so you know, we're super glad to have him. Josh

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01:53:06,800 --> 01:53:09,400
Speaker 1: Allen quarterback John Sallen moments ago, addressing the media right

2312
01:53:09,760 --> 01:53:11,320
Speaker 1: right on the other side of that wall inside the

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01:53:11,560 --> 01:53:14,320
Speaker 1: Pro Sports Training Center, dropped a little news on us

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01:53:14,320 --> 01:53:17,639
Speaker 1: too about tight end. He's Jason Krum back it sounds

2315
01:53:17,680 --> 01:53:20,200
Speaker 1: like he had a full practice session. According to JOHNH. Allen,

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01:53:20,360 --> 01:53:24,160
Speaker 1: same for a thurn round draft pick Dawnson Knox, both

2317
01:53:24,240 --> 01:53:26,040
Speaker 1: of whom he had hamstrings, right, I got yeah, yea,

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01:53:26,040 --> 01:53:28,479
Speaker 1: that's rights with the hamstring. Yeah yeah. Jason Krum got

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01:53:28,560 --> 01:53:31,479
Speaker 1: hurt after like one practice with his hamstring kind of

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01:53:31,520 --> 01:53:34,160
Speaker 1: a lingering issues. And Dawson Knox got a hamstring early

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01:53:34,240 --> 01:53:36,400
Speaker 1: a day or two into camp. That's good, se even

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01:53:36,439 --> 01:53:39,200
Speaker 1: that makes it interesting to think about the tight end spot. Right.

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01:53:39,240 --> 01:53:41,880
Speaker 1: We were talking about it with Greg Cosett a little bit,

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01:53:42,360 --> 01:53:44,360
Speaker 1: and it'll be him now at tight end. Yeah, it's

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01:53:44,400 --> 01:53:47,240
Speaker 1: on because now Sweeney has shown just about as much

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01:53:47,280 --> 01:53:49,320
Speaker 1: as he could show. Yep, I had two receptions for

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01:53:49,360 --> 01:53:53,160
Speaker 1: forty seven yards and the two crucial catches on both drives.

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01:53:53,240 --> 01:53:56,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, the number ones were in the game and

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01:53:56,120 --> 01:53:58,519
Speaker 1: I got to be outside. I didn't notice him blocking

2330
01:53:58,560 --> 01:54:00,360
Speaker 1: in the run game and didn't know any stuff he

2331
01:54:00,400 --> 01:54:02,599
Speaker 1: did at the other side of the tight end position.

2332
01:54:03,080 --> 01:54:07,080
Speaker 1: But you gotta think they're gonna want to see what

2333
01:54:07,160 --> 01:54:09,600
Speaker 1: Crewm and Knox can do, so Sweeney might get a

2334
01:54:09,680 --> 01:54:12,320
Speaker 1: chance to take a little breather this week against the

2335
01:54:12,360 --> 01:54:15,240
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions, and this may be the only shot Crewman

2336
01:54:15,320 --> 01:54:18,360
Speaker 1: Knox have it have to impress, you know, so we

2337
01:54:18,439 --> 01:54:20,360
Speaker 1: might see him a lot. Hey, let's talk about that.

2338
01:54:20,479 --> 01:54:22,360
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Bills in your perception and how

2339
01:54:22,439 --> 01:54:24,920
Speaker 1: many how many wins they can get this year. It's

2340
01:54:25,200 --> 01:54:28,240
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll two preseason games in as your win

2341
01:54:28,360 --> 01:54:30,760
Speaker 1: total change for the Bills this year. Give us a call.

2342
01:54:30,880 --> 01:54:33,720
Speaker 1: We'll discuss eight oh three fifty toll free one eight

2343
01:54:33,920 --> 01:54:36,520
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. We're gonna have

2344
01:54:36,560 --> 01:54:39,320
Speaker 1: to talk about that. Whatever you got questions, comments about

2345
01:54:39,320 --> 01:54:41,520
Speaker 1: the Bills where they're at, a couple of preseason games

2346
01:54:41,600 --> 01:54:43,520
Speaker 1: left to play, Give us a call, send it a tweet.

2347
01:54:43,520 --> 01:54:45,960
Speaker 1: We got time for the tweet sheet still on the show.

2348
01:54:46,040 --> 01:54:47,600
Speaker 1: We got a little other time left here, more than

2349
01:54:47,640 --> 01:54:49,400
Speaker 1: a half hour, So don't give up on it yet.

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01:54:49,840 --> 01:54:51,800
Speaker 1: Steve and I coming back. One Bill's Live presented by

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01:54:51,880 --> 01:54:54,560
Speaker 1: Cold of Health from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio.

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01:55:05,920 --> 01:55:08,360
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy, Steve

2353
01:55:08,440 --> 01:55:12,800
Speaker 1: Tasker in our beautiful one Buffalo Studio air condition. That's right,

2354
01:55:13,520 --> 01:55:16,440
Speaker 1: something that was in short supply last week in Spartanburg,

2355
01:55:16,520 --> 01:55:19,040
Speaker 1: South Carolina, that seemed like a long time ago now though,

2356
01:55:19,080 --> 01:55:23,200
Speaker 1: doesn't it a little bit? Lots happened, Lots happened. Who

2357
01:55:23,200 --> 01:55:25,480
Speaker 1: do you practice today? The Bills are just wrapped up practice.

2358
01:55:25,480 --> 01:55:27,920
Speaker 1: They've played, of course, since we were in Spartanburg two

2359
01:55:28,040 --> 01:55:31,760
Speaker 1: preseason games in. Is your wind projected win total change

2360
01:55:31,800 --> 01:55:33,879
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills? Give us a call. Let's discuss

2361
01:55:34,200 --> 01:55:36,280
Speaker 1: Gary's on a cell phone with the thought on that, Gary,

2362
01:55:36,320 --> 01:55:38,400
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air with us. Hey, guys,

2363
01:55:38,440 --> 01:55:41,240
Speaker 1: how y'all doing? We're doing well? You know, I think

2364
01:55:41,280 --> 01:55:43,840
Speaker 1: if the off the line developed play, we all hope

2365
01:55:44,560 --> 01:55:46,080
Speaker 1: and they can run the ball, because that's kind of

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01:55:46,120 --> 01:55:48,960
Speaker 1: how I think McDorman wants to play offense. I think

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01:55:49,000 --> 01:55:51,560
Speaker 1: we can win nine to eleven, eleven being high and

2368
01:55:51,640 --> 01:55:54,840
Speaker 1: obviously the hope, I think so. I think we'll win

2369
01:55:54,880 --> 01:55:57,200
Speaker 1: a couple of games, hopefully that that we thought. Maybe

2370
01:55:57,200 --> 01:55:59,480
Speaker 1: they would be hard from the win if we have

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01:55:59,520 --> 01:56:02,320
Speaker 1: a good off the line and we can run the ball. Yeah, yeah,

2372
01:56:02,440 --> 01:56:04,240
Speaker 1: I think you're right. It's hard to run the ball

2373
01:56:04,280 --> 01:56:06,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I don't kid yourself. It's really hard

2374
01:56:06,720 --> 01:56:10,120
Speaker 1: to do. And because teams still feel like they should

2375
01:56:10,120 --> 01:56:13,160
Speaker 1: stop the run first, and even though it's a throwing

2376
01:56:13,280 --> 01:56:16,680
Speaker 1: league and last year the Bills couldn't do it at all.

2377
01:56:17,560 --> 01:56:20,000
Speaker 1: Josh Allen ended up being their running game from the

2378
01:56:20,080 --> 01:56:23,560
Speaker 1: quarterback position. So if that change is it's gonna be

2379
01:56:23,760 --> 01:56:25,800
Speaker 1: and you're right, it does come down to the offensive line.

2380
01:56:25,800 --> 01:56:27,520
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be one of those things that you

2381
01:56:27,720 --> 01:56:30,760
Speaker 1: think has a ripple effect. I mean, if you can

2382
01:56:30,840 --> 01:56:32,360
Speaker 1: run the ball, all of a sudden, it's easier to

2383
01:56:32,440 --> 01:56:35,360
Speaker 1: throw it, it's easier to control the clock you get,

2384
01:56:35,760 --> 01:56:39,640
Speaker 1: you give the other team fewer possessions, and it ripples

2385
01:56:39,880 --> 01:56:42,600
Speaker 1: into the win lost column, hopefully that way. And that's

2386
01:56:42,840 --> 01:56:44,520
Speaker 1: so I agree with you. And it does depend on

2387
01:56:44,560 --> 01:56:47,640
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Jadie McCoy four carry six yards. Any

2388
01:56:47,720 --> 01:56:50,080
Speaker 1: thoughts on his performance last week? Really, there's not much

2389
01:56:50,120 --> 01:56:53,360
Speaker 1: to think about. I mean, you know that the offensive

2390
01:56:53,400 --> 01:56:55,120
Speaker 1: line is going to block better than they did. Yes

2391
01:56:55,320 --> 01:56:58,680
Speaker 1: that Friday, No question, it was a combination that either

2392
01:56:59,160 --> 01:57:00,760
Speaker 1: I don't know whether they like it or didn't, but

2393
01:57:01,240 --> 01:57:04,760
Speaker 1: certainly today you got Quentin Spain playing right guard instead

2394
01:57:04,760 --> 01:57:06,960
Speaker 1: of left guard for the first time in training camp.

2395
01:57:07,480 --> 01:57:11,560
Speaker 1: Seems late adjustment, but I don't know, we'll see. There's

2396
01:57:11,600 --> 01:57:14,600
Speaker 1: just so much uncertainty up there. I'm certain that they're

2397
01:57:14,640 --> 01:57:17,720
Speaker 1: going to be better offensive, I'm not certain how it's

2398
01:57:17,760 --> 01:57:21,360
Speaker 1: gonna look and who's gonna benefit from it. I think

2399
01:57:21,440 --> 01:57:24,560
Speaker 1: Josh Allen will for sure. I think Lashawn McCoy will.

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01:57:24,600 --> 01:57:26,840
Speaker 1: I think the running back will, the running game will,

2401
01:57:26,960 --> 01:57:31,320
Speaker 1: the passing game certainly has thus far. We'll see. All right,

2402
01:57:31,360 --> 01:57:34,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk more about this. Your perception of the Bills,

2403
01:57:34,320 --> 01:57:36,280
Speaker 1: their potential win total, what do you think. We'll talk

2404
01:57:36,360 --> 01:57:39,120
Speaker 1: more about that. But Bill's practice just ended about i

2405
01:57:39,240 --> 01:57:41,360
Speaker 1: want to say, thirty minutes ago, about a half hour ago,

2406
01:57:41,720 --> 01:57:44,680
Speaker 1: and Maddi glab Our multimedia journalists had a chance to

2407
01:57:44,760 --> 01:57:48,160
Speaker 1: talk with Bill's receiver, Isaam McKenzie in a pretty spirited

2408
01:57:48,480 --> 01:57:50,480
Speaker 1: roster battle right now, So let's go to her. Maddi

2409
01:57:50,520 --> 01:57:54,080
Speaker 1: glab with Isam McKenzie. Thanks, guys, Maddi glab here with

2410
01:57:54,160 --> 01:57:56,920
Speaker 1: wide receiver Isaam McKenzie. You guys just finished up a

2411
01:57:57,000 --> 01:58:00,200
Speaker 1: week of joint practices against the Carolina Panthers in a

2412
01:58:00,280 --> 01:58:03,120
Speaker 1: game against the Panthers as well. What did you learn

2413
01:58:03,240 --> 01:58:05,760
Speaker 1: from that week? How did you grow in practices and

2414
01:58:05,920 --> 01:58:10,000
Speaker 1: in the game. Um, I've done many joint practices before,

2415
01:58:10,080 --> 01:58:11,880
Speaker 1: you know, when I was back in Denver things like that,

2416
01:58:11,960 --> 01:58:13,520
Speaker 1: so I was kind of used to it, but just

2417
01:58:13,640 --> 01:58:16,000
Speaker 1: being down there with a new team and just you know,

2418
01:58:16,080 --> 01:58:18,240
Speaker 1: filling out the atmosphere and it was it was a

2419
01:58:18,280 --> 01:58:20,720
Speaker 1: great atmosphere. You know, we all were hyped. The team

2420
01:58:20,800 --> 01:58:22,520
Speaker 1: came out to play, The team came out to practice

2421
01:58:22,560 --> 01:58:23,880
Speaker 1: each and every day, and you know, we came out

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01:58:23,880 --> 01:58:26,680
Speaker 1: with to win. How does practicing against other guys rather

2423
01:58:26,800 --> 01:58:31,200
Speaker 1: than your teammates help you, especially in time for the season, Um,

2424
01:58:31,960 --> 01:58:34,680
Speaker 1: just practice against other guys just you know, knowing their tendencies.

2425
01:58:34,920 --> 01:58:37,680
Speaker 1: Just not only you know, my teammates, but other players

2426
01:58:37,720 --> 01:58:40,120
Speaker 1: as well around the league. But it helped me, you know,

2427
01:58:40,320 --> 01:58:42,640
Speaker 1: just figure out other players on different teams and how

2428
01:58:42,720 --> 01:58:44,760
Speaker 1: they how they run defenses and things like that from

2429
01:58:44,760 --> 01:58:47,320
Speaker 1: my office side of the ball and from special teams point,

2430
01:58:47,360 --> 01:58:49,600
Speaker 1: you know, you know who who the special team aces

2431
01:58:49,600 --> 01:58:51,480
Speaker 1: are all other teams and things like that. But you know,

2432
01:58:51,520 --> 01:58:54,000
Speaker 1: I learned a lot from that week. On Sunday, coachman

2433
01:58:54,080 --> 01:58:56,920
Speaker 1: Derrec talked about the depth of the wide receiver room.

2434
01:58:56,960 --> 01:58:58,600
Speaker 1: There's a lot of wide receivers right now, a lot

2435
01:58:58,640 --> 01:59:01,600
Speaker 1: of talented wide receivers, he said, he wants the whiteouts

2436
01:59:01,640 --> 01:59:03,800
Speaker 1: to be able to do the dirty work, to block

2437
01:59:03,880 --> 01:59:06,200
Speaker 1: and things like that. How do you add in that

2438
01:59:06,360 --> 01:59:08,880
Speaker 1: facet of the game. Um, I know I'm small, so

2439
01:59:08,880 --> 01:59:10,880
Speaker 1: a lot of people ask, you know, you know, is

2440
01:59:10,920 --> 01:59:12,880
Speaker 1: he gonna be able to block? I can block. I

2441
01:59:12,960 --> 01:59:16,400
Speaker 1: feel like I can block. Just you know, the dirty works,

2442
01:59:16,400 --> 01:59:19,240
Speaker 1: play special teams, getting dirty on special side of the ball,

2443
01:59:19,360 --> 01:59:21,680
Speaker 1: and just not only you know, getting a lot of passes,

2444
01:59:21,720 --> 01:59:24,480
Speaker 1: but also blocking for running backs you know, or passes downfield.

2445
01:59:24,560 --> 01:59:26,640
Speaker 1: Just doing my job the best way I can. But um,

2446
01:59:27,480 --> 01:59:29,000
Speaker 1: like he said, doing the dirty work, it's what I

2447
01:59:29,160 --> 01:59:30,760
Speaker 1: If I have to do it, I'll do it. Being

2448
01:59:30,840 --> 01:59:33,120
Speaker 1: involved in the special teams, this is something that you've

2449
01:59:33,160 --> 01:59:35,920
Speaker 1: done back at Georgia in college. You broke records for

2450
01:59:36,480 --> 01:59:38,960
Speaker 1: return game touchdowns and you've been involved in that. And

2451
01:59:38,960 --> 01:59:41,120
Speaker 1: in the last year here with the Bills, how do

2452
01:59:41,200 --> 01:59:44,280
Speaker 1: you see that role growing? I know there's Andre Roberts

2453
01:59:44,360 --> 01:59:46,520
Speaker 1: now back there, but what can you do to make

2454
01:59:46,560 --> 01:59:50,120
Speaker 1: yourself more marketable here? Um? You know, just keep returning

2455
01:59:50,160 --> 01:59:51,680
Speaker 1: the ball whenever I get a chance. You know, I'm

2456
01:59:51,720 --> 01:59:53,760
Speaker 1: behind Andre and know he's teaching me a lot and

2457
01:59:53,840 --> 01:59:55,520
Speaker 1: things like that. He's a great returner. You know, it's

2458
01:59:55,520 --> 01:59:57,680
Speaker 1: a pro bowler, so you got to respect it. And

2459
01:59:57,920 --> 01:59:59,480
Speaker 1: you know I respect you know, each and every day.

2460
01:59:59,480 --> 02:00:01,480
Speaker 1: I come out here to play with him. But you know,

2461
02:00:01,520 --> 02:00:03,160
Speaker 1: if they got me a left corner and I'm blocking

2462
02:00:03,200 --> 02:00:04,640
Speaker 1: for him, then I got to do that. If they

2463
02:00:04,680 --> 02:00:06,440
Speaker 1: got me off return on kick off returned, then I'll

2464
02:00:06,480 --> 02:00:08,680
Speaker 1: block for him left tackle. You know, I'll do anything,

2465
02:00:08,800 --> 02:00:11,480
Speaker 1: you know, to be here and play special teams that

2466
02:00:11,480 --> 02:00:13,040
Speaker 1: I have to and just do my job to help

2467
02:00:13,120 --> 02:00:15,560
Speaker 1: team win. You've got two wide receivers that are similar

2468
02:00:15,600 --> 02:00:17,480
Speaker 1: in size too, and Cole Beasley and John Brown that

2469
02:00:17,520 --> 02:00:19,920
Speaker 1: are new additions to this team. What are you learning

2470
02:00:20,080 --> 02:00:22,400
Speaker 1: from guys like that? Talented guys who have came from

2471
02:00:22,440 --> 02:00:25,840
Speaker 1: different teams who can bring some knowledge here to Buffalo Um.

2472
02:00:26,400 --> 02:00:29,520
Speaker 1: Just you know, they got a lot of experience. I've

2473
02:00:29,560 --> 02:00:32,360
Speaker 1: only been this my third year, and you know, smoke

2474
02:00:32,400 --> 02:00:35,480
Speaker 1: comes comes in. John Brown, he comes in. He teached

2475
02:00:35,480 --> 02:00:37,160
Speaker 1: me how to run routes and things like that, you know,

2476
02:00:37,480 --> 02:00:39,840
Speaker 1: how to separate down feel Cole, you know, he has

2477
02:00:39,880 --> 02:00:42,320
Speaker 1: it all. He can. He can, you know, run jukes

2478
02:00:42,360 --> 02:00:44,320
Speaker 1: and things like that, you can run down field. So

2479
02:00:44,400 --> 02:00:46,360
Speaker 1: he's teach they both teach me a lot even though

2480
02:00:46,360 --> 02:00:48,520
Speaker 1: they're in my size, but they have you know, they're

2481
02:00:48,560 --> 02:00:50,200
Speaker 1: they're a lot bigger in the mind what I'm saying.

2482
02:00:50,600 --> 02:00:52,680
Speaker 1: Last question for you. Coach McDermott has talked a lot

2483
02:00:52,720 --> 02:00:56,080
Speaker 1: about the chemistry on this team at being really great

2484
02:00:56,160 --> 02:00:58,840
Speaker 1: this season, at being unlike any other place you've been

2485
02:00:59,040 --> 02:01:02,160
Speaker 1: on different teams you've been in college football. You've been

2486
02:01:02,200 --> 02:01:04,480
Speaker 1: on teams probably with some good chemistry. What is the

2487
02:01:04,560 --> 02:01:08,800
Speaker 1: chemistry like here this season? Um, it's changed draft Lee

2488
02:01:08,880 --> 02:01:10,240
Speaker 1: from last year. You know, I came in the middle

2489
02:01:10,240 --> 02:01:13,840
Speaker 1: of the season, Week eight, and you know it's a

2490
02:01:13,920 --> 02:01:15,880
Speaker 1: little shake. Yeah, I didn't know what to expect, but

2491
02:01:16,200 --> 02:01:18,200
Speaker 1: when I got into the receiver room it was like

2492
02:01:18,320 --> 02:01:21,000
Speaker 1: they brought me in with open arms. But this season

2493
02:01:21,120 --> 02:01:23,760
Speaker 1: just getting it, you know, getting around everybody and coming

2494
02:01:23,800 --> 02:01:25,520
Speaker 1: from last year, just building off what we did last

2495
02:01:25,600 --> 02:01:27,160
Speaker 1: ye At the end of the season, I feel like

2496
02:01:27,240 --> 02:01:29,200
Speaker 1: we got a lot of josh, you know, throwing the

2497
02:01:29,240 --> 02:01:32,160
Speaker 1: balls receivers, you know, the timing and everything like that.

2498
02:01:32,320 --> 02:01:33,720
Speaker 1: Even off the field. We do a lot of things

2499
02:01:33,760 --> 02:01:36,120
Speaker 1: off the field to try to build chemistry amongst ourselves.

2500
02:01:36,360 --> 02:01:39,360
Speaker 1: But everybody's you know, feeling wonderful. Everybody's doing their job

2501
02:01:39,680 --> 02:01:41,760
Speaker 1: and we just want to keep you winning games. Isaiah,

2502
02:01:41,800 --> 02:01:45,000
Speaker 1: thanks for your time, appreciate it. Thank you, Tasker Murph

2503
02:01:45,160 --> 02:01:47,760
Speaker 1: back to you guys. Okay, Mandy, go ahead, thank you

2504
02:01:47,840 --> 02:01:51,160
Speaker 1: very much. It's getting interesting in wide receiver. Duke Williams

2505
02:01:51,560 --> 02:01:53,680
Speaker 1: made it so a little bit more on Friday night.

2506
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Speaker 1: And I did see McDermott's talking yesterday about how we

2507
02:01:57,400 --> 02:01:59,840
Speaker 1: needs wide receivers to due the dirty work, which I

2508
02:02:00,040 --> 02:02:02,440
Speaker 1: think he's referring to special teams now, and it's important

2509
02:02:02,440 --> 02:02:03,880
Speaker 1: for us, and I've got the perfect guy to talk

2510
02:02:03,920 --> 02:02:06,880
Speaker 1: to this about these these wide receivers looking to meet

2511
02:02:06,880 --> 02:02:09,720
Speaker 1: their mark on special teams. We're not necessarily talking about

2512
02:02:09,760 --> 02:02:12,400
Speaker 1: return work here, where are we? And Ray Rating made

2513
02:02:12,400 --> 02:02:15,200
Speaker 1: to play the other day running down a punt. I

2514
02:02:15,280 --> 02:02:17,280
Speaker 1: think we made a great tackle on punt coverage, so

2515
02:02:18,440 --> 02:02:22,520
Speaker 1: timed it perfectly, played it perfectly, had right leverage everything.

2516
02:02:22,640 --> 02:02:24,720
Speaker 1: So it is going to come down to these guys

2517
02:02:24,920 --> 02:02:27,120
Speaker 1: if they're gonna be on the forty five on game

2518
02:02:27,200 --> 02:02:29,400
Speaker 1: day and active there and they're not one of the

2519
02:02:29,480 --> 02:02:35,640
Speaker 1: top four guys. If they're good enough, the Bills could

2520
02:02:35,720 --> 02:02:38,960
Speaker 1: keep six wide receivers active and go light someplace else

2521
02:02:39,200 --> 02:02:41,760
Speaker 1: if they're that good. The problem that and that's what's

2522
02:02:41,800 --> 02:02:44,320
Speaker 1: going to happen the bottom of the rosters at every position.

2523
02:02:44,400 --> 02:02:46,720
Speaker 1: The last guy at every position group is going to

2524
02:02:46,760 --> 02:02:49,720
Speaker 1: be a special team's core guy. It's gonna be a

2525
02:02:49,800 --> 02:02:52,360
Speaker 1: guy like sonoras Perry. It's gonna be a guy like

2526
02:02:53,400 --> 02:02:58,080
Speaker 1: Cam Phillips or or Duke Williams, or you name it.

2527
02:02:58,440 --> 02:03:01,880
Speaker 1: One of the other the safeties, Ja Kwan Johnson, it

2528
02:03:01,920 --> 02:03:03,600
Speaker 1: could be one of those guys. It's gonna be the

2529
02:03:03,720 --> 02:03:05,480
Speaker 1: last guy at the position group is gonna be a

2530
02:03:05,520 --> 02:03:08,400
Speaker 1: special teams player. It's not gonna be the guy who

2531
02:03:08,520 --> 02:03:13,000
Speaker 1: has the high end potential to be a starting linebacker,

2532
02:03:13,280 --> 02:03:16,280
Speaker 1: wide receiver, defensive back, tight End's not gonna be that guy.

2533
02:03:16,320 --> 02:03:18,480
Speaker 1: It's going to be the guy who's a professional special

2534
02:03:18,520 --> 02:03:21,920
Speaker 1: teams player. And these guys get these four games to

2535
02:03:22,040 --> 02:03:23,800
Speaker 1: prove they can do that and can be that, and

2536
02:03:23,920 --> 02:03:26,200
Speaker 1: that they're committed to be in that. And for me,

2537
02:03:26,560 --> 02:03:28,200
Speaker 1: the smart thing for all these young guys to do

2538
02:03:28,480 --> 02:03:33,080
Speaker 1: is get in the hip pocket of Heath Farwell and

2539
02:03:33,360 --> 02:03:35,720
Speaker 1: tell him and convince him that you're his guy. You

2540
02:03:35,800 --> 02:03:37,320
Speaker 1: can't just talk to him about that right now. You

2541
02:03:37,400 --> 02:03:40,000
Speaker 1: gotta show it, but you gotta first. It starts with, hey,

2542
02:03:40,160 --> 02:03:42,160
Speaker 1: I can do this, I can do this, I can

2543
02:03:42,240 --> 02:03:44,080
Speaker 1: do this, I can do this. Give me something to

2544
02:03:44,160 --> 02:03:45,840
Speaker 1: do on special teams and let me show you how

2545
02:03:45,920 --> 02:03:47,520
Speaker 1: good I can be, and then you gotta go out

2546
02:03:47,520 --> 02:03:51,960
Speaker 1: and do it. But it is an enormous role. Most

2547
02:03:52,120 --> 02:03:55,120
Speaker 1: guys that come into the NFL, all these guys too,

2548
02:03:55,200 --> 02:03:57,120
Speaker 1: every guy we're talking about who comes into the NFL

2549
02:03:57,200 --> 02:03:59,840
Speaker 1: has been a really significant player on his college team,

2550
02:04:00,320 --> 02:04:03,120
Speaker 1: a go to guy, a star, a leader, a captain,

2551
02:04:04,160 --> 02:04:07,480
Speaker 1: a guy they leaned on on offense and defense. Rarely

2552
02:04:07,560 --> 02:04:10,360
Speaker 1: do any of these guys come into the league as

2553
02:04:10,400 --> 02:04:14,120
Speaker 1: a dominant special teams player in college. And it's never happens,

2554
02:04:14,560 --> 02:04:20,200
Speaker 1: And unfortunately they get the idea that it means at

2555
02:04:20,240 --> 02:04:22,760
Speaker 1: the pro level. What it means in the hut college level.

2556
02:04:22,800 --> 02:04:24,800
Speaker 1: It's just a way for guys to earn a letter.

2557
02:04:25,200 --> 02:04:28,520
Speaker 1: They can cover kicks for three games and get a letter.

2558
02:04:28,600 --> 02:04:30,040
Speaker 1: That's what you know. Some of these guys come into

2559
02:04:30,040 --> 02:04:34,200
Speaker 1: the NFL thinking at the NFL level, No, you're making

2560
02:04:34,520 --> 02:04:37,960
Speaker 1: one point two million bucks covering kickoffs. You're making three

2561
02:04:38,040 --> 02:04:40,720
Speaker 1: point two being the fifth wide receiver. You you're in there.

2562
02:04:40,760 --> 02:04:43,240
Speaker 1: You're getting paid as a pro to go do this,

2563
02:04:43,520 --> 02:04:46,920
Speaker 1: and the more you do it, the more you can

2564
02:04:47,000 --> 02:04:49,240
Speaker 1: convince them that you're capable of doing it. That means, hey,

2565
02:04:50,320 --> 02:04:52,480
Speaker 1: you're a veteran in the NFL. All of you know.

2566
02:04:52,640 --> 02:04:54,640
Speaker 1: You wake up one morning and you're an NFL player

2567
02:04:54,680 --> 02:04:56,920
Speaker 1: on an NFL team, and you got you got the

2568
02:04:57,000 --> 02:04:59,520
Speaker 1: respect of your peers. It's and it's a big it's

2569
02:04:59,560 --> 02:05:01,160
Speaker 1: a big as over for a lot of other guys.

2570
02:05:01,440 --> 02:05:03,160
Speaker 1: Take a few calls here, zip through a few. Let's

2571
02:05:03,160 --> 02:05:04,720
Speaker 1: go to Pittsburgh, New York. I don't have a name.

2572
02:05:04,720 --> 02:05:07,760
Speaker 1: Who are we going on line from Pittsburgh? Here? Tom? Tom?

2573
02:05:07,880 --> 02:05:09,640
Speaker 1: How are you? You're on the air of this good

2574
02:05:09,760 --> 02:05:13,600
Speaker 1: Thanks mersh, Thanks Steve. The reason I'm calling for about

2575
02:05:13,640 --> 02:05:19,280
Speaker 1: a month now, before the Antonio Brown episode with the helmets,

2576
02:05:19,640 --> 02:05:22,600
Speaker 1: I've wondered about these new helmets. I've seen him for

2577
02:05:22,680 --> 02:05:27,200
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Not one announcer has mentioned

2578
02:05:27,600 --> 02:05:31,280
Speaker 1: anything about it. What is that little trap door on top?

2579
02:05:31,720 --> 02:05:35,640
Speaker 1: What is it? Oh, it's not a trap door, it's

2580
02:05:35,680 --> 02:05:38,480
Speaker 1: a it's a spot. And the helmet that will give

2581
02:05:39,480 --> 02:05:41,720
Speaker 1: it's just a tab. It's like they cut around a tap.

2582
02:05:41,800 --> 02:05:43,360
Speaker 1: So if you pushed on it, it would push in

2583
02:05:43,440 --> 02:05:46,400
Speaker 1: with your hand. And it is a shock absorber and

2584
02:05:46,520 --> 02:05:49,520
Speaker 1: it doesn't have anything underneath it except padding. It's a

2585
02:05:49,560 --> 02:05:52,960
Speaker 1: place where the plastic will give in a more significant

2586
02:05:53,000 --> 02:05:55,280
Speaker 1: way than if it was a solid piece. And they

2587
02:05:55,360 --> 02:05:57,640
Speaker 1: cut a big U shape on the front top of

2588
02:05:57,680 --> 02:05:59,760
Speaker 1: the helmet, so if a guy hits it with some

2589
02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:03,320
Speaker 1: but with it, that you shape will bend in just

2590
02:06:03,520 --> 02:06:05,080
Speaker 1: like you would normally think if you cut out a

2591
02:06:05,120 --> 02:06:07,520
Speaker 1: little U shape and a cardboard piece of cardboard and

2592
02:06:07,560 --> 02:06:09,360
Speaker 1: you push on that U shape, it's gonna go in.

2593
02:06:09,480 --> 02:06:12,280
Speaker 1: It's gonna move. That's what that cutout piece and the

2594
02:06:12,360 --> 02:06:16,240
Speaker 1: helmets are for. Thanks. Let's go to Vance and Niagara Falls. Hello, Vance,

2595
02:06:16,280 --> 02:06:19,480
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Yeah, hello guys. Let me first

2596
02:06:19,480 --> 02:06:21,480
Speaker 1: say that I'm a huge fan of the show, listening

2597
02:06:21,480 --> 02:06:23,000
Speaker 1: to you guys every day on the way to work,

2598
02:06:23,080 --> 02:06:28,600
Speaker 1: and you know bus So I had two points. One

2599
02:06:28,760 --> 02:06:32,080
Speaker 1: is I love the way that the offense is firing

2600
02:06:32,160 --> 02:06:35,200
Speaker 1: on all cylinders. It seems like Allen is really taking

2601
02:06:35,280 --> 02:06:38,360
Speaker 1: that next step. He's getting the ball out to everybody

2602
02:06:38,360 --> 02:06:42,400
Speaker 1: who's making all the wide receivers look like wide receivers,

2603
02:06:42,480 --> 02:06:46,280
Speaker 1: which a new thing around here, right, what's your second point?

2604
02:06:46,320 --> 02:06:50,720
Speaker 1: What about what else? I want to know? How does

2605
02:06:50,800 --> 02:06:52,880
Speaker 1: Christen Wade get a spot on this team? Because I

2606
02:06:52,960 --> 02:06:56,520
Speaker 1: think he deserves it. I think he's he's an interesting

2607
02:06:56,640 --> 02:06:59,880
Speaker 1: prospect for this team, and I think maybe even special

2608
02:07:00,040 --> 02:07:01,880
Speaker 1: teams could be a way that he could earn his

2609
02:07:02,000 --> 02:07:04,000
Speaker 1: way on here if he can show that not only

2610
02:07:04,840 --> 02:07:08,040
Speaker 1: can he return and play well as a running back,

2611
02:07:08,240 --> 02:07:11,800
Speaker 1: but you can contribute defensively on special teams on hunt returns.

2612
02:07:11,920 --> 02:07:14,400
Speaker 1: And I'll leave with you, guys, let me question to that.

2613
02:07:14,880 --> 02:07:16,880
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about Christian Wade this morning. You know

2614
02:07:16,960 --> 02:07:19,880
Speaker 1: how we always joke, what do you think about the billsman?

2615
02:07:19,920 --> 02:07:22,600
Speaker 1: You're not here right? In order to get him to

2616
02:07:22,680 --> 02:07:27,240
Speaker 1: that eleventh, that extra practice squad spot, they have to

2617
02:07:27,280 --> 02:07:31,560
Speaker 1: waive him. They have to expose him to waivers, right right,

2618
02:07:31,720 --> 02:07:33,800
Speaker 1: I need to ask this question. I was looking around

2619
02:07:33,840 --> 02:07:36,320
Speaker 1: for Brandon Beans, but I'm pretty sure you have to

2620
02:07:36,520 --> 02:07:40,360
Speaker 1: they get a no. Not if he's on the eleventh spot.

2621
02:07:41,600 --> 02:07:43,920
Speaker 1: I do not think you have to expose him to waivers.

2622
02:07:44,000 --> 02:07:45,720
Speaker 1: But if he's the tenth, if he's in the ten,

2623
02:07:46,280 --> 02:07:48,480
Speaker 1: he's on waivers all the time. Anyway, any team can

2624
02:07:48,520 --> 02:07:50,720
Speaker 1: grab him off the way off the practice squad. I

2625
02:07:50,800 --> 02:07:52,960
Speaker 1: got to ask Brandon Bean. But here's the thing. There

2626
02:07:53,000 --> 02:07:55,400
Speaker 1: are there's a lot of unique rules that surround the

2627
02:07:56,160 --> 02:08:01,360
Speaker 1: players pathway program that we're not it's I've there's a

2628
02:08:01,400 --> 02:08:03,680
Speaker 1: lot of details that so you got to really be

2629
02:08:03,880 --> 02:08:05,959
Speaker 1: up to snuff on it. But yeah, there's way exposing

2630
02:08:06,040 --> 02:08:08,920
Speaker 1: him to waivers you lose him. I would think somebody

2631
02:08:08,960 --> 02:08:11,880
Speaker 1: would might take a chance. I don't know. I'm not

2632
02:08:11,960 --> 02:08:14,080
Speaker 1: saying put him on your fifty three either. I mean,

2633
02:08:14,160 --> 02:08:16,600
Speaker 1: I still think he's he's been He's been really good,

2634
02:08:16,680 --> 02:08:19,440
Speaker 1: solid and very limited work for two weeks. But there's

2635
02:08:19,440 --> 02:08:21,280
Speaker 1: just a still a big hill to climb for him,

2636
02:08:21,320 --> 02:08:24,280
Speaker 1: isn't there? Yeah? There, because yeah, he just and for

2637
02:08:24,360 --> 02:08:26,280
Speaker 1: as good as he looks, and for as instinctive as

2638
02:08:26,280 --> 02:08:28,160
Speaker 1: he is, I don't know. I don't know. I haven't

2639
02:08:28,160 --> 02:08:29,760
Speaker 1: coached him. I don't know. I haven't heard him talk

2640
02:08:29,760 --> 02:08:33,320
Speaker 1: about the game. I don't know if if he knows

2641
02:08:33,560 --> 02:08:36,240
Speaker 1: enough to make the coaches feel comfortable with putting the

2642
02:08:36,320 --> 02:08:39,280
Speaker 1: safety of other players in his hands, for instance, your

2643
02:08:39,360 --> 02:08:42,840
Speaker 1: quarterback and pass protection. You know, is he good enough

2644
02:08:42,880 --> 02:08:44,760
Speaker 1: that's stepping up to the right guys? He you know,

2645
02:08:45,520 --> 02:08:48,120
Speaker 1: all of the nuances that you know, all of us

2646
02:08:48,280 --> 02:08:50,520
Speaker 1: take for granted as they're playing the game as kids

2647
02:08:50,560 --> 02:08:52,680
Speaker 1: and stuff. They're all new to him. So there's a

2648
02:08:52,760 --> 02:08:55,080
Speaker 1: lot of things he's not sure about. So I don't

2649
02:08:55,160 --> 02:08:58,200
Speaker 1: and I think you can count on him being around

2650
02:08:58,240 --> 02:09:01,360
Speaker 1: the organization if they can, if he can he doesn't

2651
02:09:01,400 --> 02:09:03,160
Speaker 1: get picked up by somebody else, or if they have to,

2652
02:09:03,560 --> 02:09:04,840
Speaker 1: if they have to expose him, well they have to

2653
02:09:04,880 --> 02:09:07,240
Speaker 1: expose him, but if they don't, if they can put

2654
02:09:07,280 --> 02:09:09,480
Speaker 1: him on that eleventh spot and not expose him, but

2655
02:09:09,600 --> 02:09:12,360
Speaker 1: then by being on the eleventh spot of the practice squad,

2656
02:09:13,840 --> 02:09:17,240
Speaker 1: he's ineligible to play right so it's just fine. But

2657
02:09:17,360 --> 02:09:19,440
Speaker 1: he'll be around, he'll be practicing, he'll be part of

2658
02:09:19,480 --> 02:09:21,280
Speaker 1: the team, and he'll you know, we just won't see

2659
02:09:21,320 --> 02:09:23,240
Speaker 1: him on game day. And I get it. People are

2660
02:09:23,280 --> 02:09:25,120
Speaker 1: really excited to see him play. They think he's going

2661
02:09:25,160 --> 02:09:27,880
Speaker 1: to score, touchdown everything he touched the ball. He's not

2662
02:09:28,040 --> 02:09:32,280
Speaker 1: going to but he has. You see what the Bills

2663
02:09:32,320 --> 02:09:35,000
Speaker 1: saw when they drafted him out of the player Pathway program.

2664
02:09:35,400 --> 02:09:37,520
Speaker 1: They were assigned him. I don't think they draft, they

2665
02:09:37,560 --> 02:09:40,040
Speaker 1: were assigned Yeah, okay, I heard a report that said

2666
02:09:40,040 --> 02:09:41,240
Speaker 1: they drafted him out of it, and I didn't know.

2667
02:09:41,240 --> 02:09:43,240
Speaker 1: I don't have any idea who what it's a draft,

2668
02:09:43,320 --> 02:09:44,640
Speaker 1: or where they sign him, whether they all take that,

2669
02:09:44,840 --> 02:09:47,200
Speaker 1: or whether they get delegated him. But they signed him,

2670
02:09:47,800 --> 02:09:50,600
Speaker 1: and you see what they saw, right. I mean, he's

2671
02:09:50,600 --> 02:09:52,400
Speaker 1: a pretty good he's a pretty good instinctive player, and

2672
02:09:52,400 --> 02:09:53,920
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of ability and he squeeze in

2673
02:09:54,000 --> 02:09:57,240
Speaker 1: one more call if we can. Josh in Pittsfield, Hello, Josh, welcome,

2674
02:09:57,240 --> 02:10:00,760
Speaker 1: you're on the air of this. Hi. I'm just got

2675
02:10:00,880 --> 02:10:03,879
Speaker 1: a question about because you guys talked about the offensive

2676
02:10:03,880 --> 02:10:08,880
Speaker 1: line and also about the tight ends, and I mean,

2677
02:10:09,520 --> 02:10:13,520
Speaker 1: is it are we right now concerned with where tight

2678
02:10:13,640 --> 02:10:16,360
Speaker 1: ends are gonna look with the start of season or

2679
02:10:16,920 --> 02:10:18,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't know a situation with the

2680
02:10:18,520 --> 02:10:20,440
Speaker 1: tight ends right now. Well, they got into according to

2681
02:10:20,560 --> 02:10:24,520
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, too important. Jason Cruman Dawson knocks back in

2682
02:10:24,640 --> 02:10:27,280
Speaker 1: practice today, So I'm less concerned now than I was

2683
02:10:27,320 --> 02:10:29,520
Speaker 1: forty five minutes ago. Yeah. No, I think we're gonna

2684
02:10:29,520 --> 02:10:31,680
Speaker 1: have to wait and see how Crewman knocks played, because

2685
02:10:31,720 --> 02:10:33,640
Speaker 1: we know how Tommy Sweeney play and it was pretty good.

2686
02:10:33,720 --> 02:10:36,560
Speaker 1: So we'll see. We'll see act for your call. We

2687
02:10:36,600 --> 02:10:38,400
Speaker 1: got a break here, We're coming back. One Bill's Live

2688
02:10:38,520 --> 02:10:56,920
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. What

2689
02:10:57,040 --> 02:10:59,160
Speaker 1: have we learned from today's show? We got a lot

2690
02:10:59,200 --> 02:11:01,000
Speaker 1: more to learn, no question about that. We had Great

2691
02:11:01,040 --> 02:11:04,920
Speaker 1: co Sell on the show from NFL Matchup, ESPN's NFL Matchup,

2692
02:11:05,000 --> 02:11:07,760
Speaker 1: longtime senior producer at NFL Films, and we asked some

2693
02:11:07,880 --> 02:11:10,480
Speaker 1: kind of in general, these two preseason games Bills look

2694
02:11:10,520 --> 02:11:14,040
Speaker 1: pretty good as it altered your perceptions your expectations for

2695
02:11:14,120 --> 02:11:16,920
Speaker 1: the Bills in twenty nineteen. Here's what Great co Sell said.

2696
02:11:18,480 --> 02:11:21,560
Speaker 1: I think if Josh Allen can be effective, okay, I

2697
02:11:21,600 --> 02:11:23,920
Speaker 1: don't expect him to be a sixty five percent completion

2698
02:11:24,000 --> 02:11:26,520
Speaker 1: guy and throw forty touchdowns, But I think if Josh

2699
02:11:26,600 --> 02:11:30,120
Speaker 1: can be relatively consistent, okay, then I think this is

2700
02:11:30,160 --> 02:11:33,000
Speaker 1: a very solid team. I think they're pretty good defensively.

2701
02:11:33,080 --> 02:11:36,200
Speaker 1: They've got a few areas that were uncertain about about

2702
02:11:36,200 --> 02:11:38,600
Speaker 1: as far as rushing the quarterback. Who's going to be

2703
02:11:38,960 --> 02:11:41,360
Speaker 1: Is there going to be a consistent second rusher other

2704
02:11:41,440 --> 02:11:45,120
Speaker 1: than Jerry Us. I think their secondary is solid. They

2705
02:11:45,200 --> 02:11:47,640
Speaker 1: feel good about Levi Wallace at the other corner spot

2706
02:11:47,720 --> 02:11:52,000
Speaker 1: opposite White. I think Sean McDermott and Leslie Fraser are

2707
02:11:52,240 --> 02:11:55,080
Speaker 1: very good defensively, you know, I think there's talent here.

2708
02:11:55,120 --> 02:11:57,400
Speaker 1: I think the old line is somewhat of a question mark,

2709
02:11:57,440 --> 02:12:00,280
Speaker 1: so there are questions, but I think for the most part,

2710
02:12:00,320 --> 02:12:02,720
Speaker 1: it's a team moving in the right direction and it's

2711
02:12:02,760 --> 02:12:06,600
Speaker 1: a solid football team. Greg throw Something thinks that about

2712
02:12:06,640 --> 02:12:09,600
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. We had Daryl Johnson damn th seventh

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Speaker 1: round draft pick, like should we called bam? We're gonna

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Speaker 1: call him that seventh round pick for North Carolina and

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Speaker 1: t We asked him if anything had surprised him through

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Speaker 1: his time in the preseason with the Buffalo Bills. Here's

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Speaker 1: his answer. I was telling the guys and every lightness

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Speaker 1: and warm ups and stuff. I'm like, man, I'm in

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Speaker 1: I'm in the NFL. Like this is crazy, you know,

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Speaker 1: Like practice last week when we were playing the Panthers,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, man, that's Cam Newton. Yeah, like wow, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just excited. You know, I still can't believe it,

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Speaker 1: you know, walking in the locker room seeing Frank Gore

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Speaker 1: and Sadie you know those guys, I'm like, man, I

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Speaker 1: grew up watching these guys playing with these guys on NFL.

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Speaker 1: So I mean Matt and So I still got a

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Speaker 1: lot of work to do. I believe I can be

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Speaker 1: a lot better. I'm still a wrong talent um. I

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Speaker 1: still got a lot to learn, a lot, a lot

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Speaker 1: of potential upside. So just going to continue to work

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Speaker 1: and learn from Jerry Hughes every day. There you go,

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Speaker 1: and we had a pretty good show. We're trying to

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Speaker 1: get answers on well salt. Let me read you what

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Speaker 1: Sal Capacho wrote about earlier today about Christian Wade. If

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Speaker 1: he is signed, you are right see if he's according

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Speaker 1: to Sal, if he's signed to the Bill's practice squad

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Speaker 1: as the eleventh member, the exempt member, he is ineligible

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Speaker 1: to be picked up by another team. He can also

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Speaker 1: be put on the practice squad as one of the

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Speaker 1: ten regular practice squad players, but he would be eligible

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Speaker 1: to activate it for the Bill. So if he's met

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Speaker 1: number eleven, then he cannot. He cannot be signed to

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Speaker 1: the active roster if he's number eleven. If he's number ten,

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Speaker 1: he can, so he would have to clear waivers unless

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Speaker 1: he is designated as mister eleven on the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: That's a different status at ten at the ten. If

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Speaker 1: he's in the ten spot, everybody's always exposed to favorite.

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Speaker 1: He can just grab it. Free agent. Yeah, is different,

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Speaker 1: all right, thanks to our crew. I left our crew

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Speaker 1: list down to Carolina. But tomorrow I'll get a new one.

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Speaker 1: We'll see tomorrow at noon. One Bill's Live, presented by

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