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Speaker 1: your throat, And so it just adds so many mismatches

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Speaker 1: as far as personnel groups that you can run out there.

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Speaker 1: You know, deva single Taran when he was able to

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Speaker 1: do last year and that next step, and so it's

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Speaker 1: just it's just scary and and the more talent you

436
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Speaker 1: had to this team, I mean, it's just, um, it's

437
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Speaker 1: gonna be really hard for defenses to match up. They're

438
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Speaker 1: gonna have to figure out who they're gonna take away.

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Speaker 1: And and maybe it changes throughout the season, because I

440
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Speaker 1: think this is going to be more the year where

441
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Speaker 1: it's not just one guy, but you see, you know

442
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Speaker 1: four or five guys have big weeks that you know,

443
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Speaker 1: just kind of back to back and you really can

444
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Speaker 1: never pin anybody. And that's what you really love as

445
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Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator because then you don't really have any tendencies.

446
00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,520
Speaker 1: You can go he Josh can go to anybody because

447
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be two or three guys open every single

448
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Speaker 1: time just because of their talent. And now you throw

449
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Speaker 1: in the scheme of what Dabell brings the running game.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just really looking forward to this offense because

451
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Speaker 1: i think it's gonna be very dynamic and it's gonna

452
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Speaker 1: be hard to match up with because you have so

453
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Speaker 1: many talented guys and you have guys that can go

454
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Speaker 1: outside and inside. It's definitely going to be scary this year.

455
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Speaker 1: And there's so many offensive offensive players who return to

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Speaker 1: this offense. And it's awesome for Josh that he has

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Speaker 1: coach McDermott and Brian day Ball now in his third

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Speaker 1: straight year, especially for a young quarterback that works complete

459
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Speaker 1: wonders when it comes to understanding an offense and truly

460
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Speaker 1: being able to get the most out of it as

461
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Speaker 1: well as you know, fit himself into it. Brian Dayball

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Speaker 1: has been great about creating an offense that works for

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Speaker 1: his players and the strengths that they offer. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: take a break, Zoe so happy to have you on

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Speaker 1: with us today. When we come back, we're gonna hear

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Speaker 1: from former Bill's quarterback Drew A. Bled So we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about the overtime thriller win against the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 1: That game will be re airing tonight at eight o'clock.

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Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live, presented by Collida Hell on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Builds Radio. We'll meck into One Bills Live. Mattie

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Speaker 1: glab here holding down the Fort Steve Tasker Chris Brown.

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Speaker 1: They decided to take the day off, so it's just me,

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Speaker 1: but I am joined by someone who is super special

474
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Speaker 1: to this fan base. It is a former Bills quarterback,

475
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Speaker 1: Drew Bledsoe. He had four Pro Bowl appearances and a

476
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Speaker 1: former Super Bowl champion from his time with the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Drews joining us from Bend, Oregon. Drew, So nice to

478
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Speaker 1: have you on today. We appreciate you taking the time.

479
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Speaker 1: It's always good to relive some great memories from the past,

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Speaker 1: right it is? It is? Yeah, I was just I

481
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Speaker 1: was thinking about this game this morning and trying to

482
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Speaker 1: remember all the things I can recall us All of

483
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Speaker 1: a sudden, it was a long time ago. I'm getting old,

484
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Speaker 1: but but but it sure was a lot of fun.

485
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: And watching Peerless run to the end zone with that

486
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Speaker 1: for that final touchdown, and I'd listen to their stadium

487
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: and go so quiet through the game was one of

488
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Speaker 1: my favorite memories. So you're joining us from Oregon. How

489
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Speaker 1: has quarantine been treating you? How has this whole pandemic

490
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 1: been treating you? What have you been up to? Have

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Speaker 1: you been safe and healthy as well as your family? Yeah,

492
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Speaker 1: you know, we've been trying to find the silver linings

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Speaker 1: in this thing, and there are a few. You know.

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Speaker 1: One is we got to have our our college kids

495
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,959
Speaker 1: home for you know, a long time, which we never

496
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Speaker 1: thought we'd get to have them under our roof for

497
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Speaker 1: more than a week maybe at a time. So that

498
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Speaker 1: was fun. You know where we are here, you know,

499
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Speaker 1: we've been able to get out and play golf and

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Speaker 1: go hike and hit all the river and you know,

501
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Speaker 1: we've enjoyed some freedoms here that I don't think exists

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Speaker 1: in a lot of the big cities that least. And

503
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: on the business side, people tend to drink a lot

504
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Speaker 1: of wine when they're stuck at home, So our business

505
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: is actually doing just five which is good. That is

506
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Speaker 1: amazing to hear. We're going to talk about the overtime

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Speaker 1: thriller today against the Vikings the two thousand and two season.

508
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 1: It was a forty five to thirty nine overtime game

509
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Speaker 1: that the Bills ended up winning. So we're going to

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Speaker 1: dive into that, and we're diving into it because there's

511
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Speaker 1: going to be a reair tonight at eight o'clock on

512
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Speaker 1: WIVB and w ROC IS presented by Connors and Ferris.

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Speaker 1: It's the first of four legendary game airings that will

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Speaker 1: be on in the area. So if there's no games,

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00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: there's no better thing to do than reair some pivotal

516
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Speaker 1: games in Bill's history. So when did you truly let

517
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,439
Speaker 1: that game sink in? This was week two during the

518
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Speaker 1: season right here. Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It was sort of you know, like

520
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Speaker 1: when you're in the middle of the season, you know,

521
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: you don't get to celebrate for very long. But that game,

522
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 1: there's some specific memories I have from that game. Number One,

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Speaker 1: Early in the game, I got hit pretty hard and

524
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Speaker 1: I had this interesting deal that would happen to me

525
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Speaker 1: about once a year, where you know, I would lose

526
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Speaker 1: I would get hit it was a concussion. We didn't

527
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Speaker 1: call it back then you's got ding. But I would

528
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: lose the purple vision out of the left side of

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Speaker 1: my head, so I couldn't see everything on the left

530
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Speaker 1: side of the field. And I remember coming to Kevin Gilbride,

531
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Speaker 1: who as our coordinator, and I was like, hey, you know,

532
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Speaker 1: I need you to take care of me here a

533
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Speaker 1: little bit. And he looks at me and goes, yeah,

534
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Speaker 1: I think I'm just gonna throw it a bit. So

535
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Speaker 1: rather than taking care of me and handling the ball off,

536
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 1: he just started calling pass plays and he started, you know,

537
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Speaker 1: just kind of lighten it up. You win thirty five

538
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: of forty nine for that game for four hundred and

539
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 1: sixty three passing yards. It was a career game for you.

540
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: You were the last Bill's four hundred yard passer and

541
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Speaker 1: the Viking game was the highest since um coming off

542
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Speaker 1: of an overtime loss the week before. If you can remember,

543
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: you guys lost the Jets in overtime. Going into week two,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're thinking, I don't want to get into

545
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Speaker 1: another overtime game here. That's the last thing I want

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Speaker 1: to do, right right, Yeah, I know that the first

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00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,679
Speaker 1: game of that season we lost to the Jets. That

548
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: one was such an emotional roller coaster because we scored,

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Speaker 1: you know, right at the end of regulation to send

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Speaker 1: it into overtime. You might even have been in the

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Speaker 1: last play of regulation. And then they take the opening

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Speaker 1: kickoff kickoff of overtime, take it back for a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: So we went from just you know, the highest of

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Speaker 1: highs hie the game up at the very end of

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Speaker 1: the game to losing it at the end. So a

556
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: pretty emotional game. And then we come into this game

557
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Speaker 1: and we get into another shootout. Next thing you know, um,

558
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: you know, we're in overtime for the second straight week

559
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Speaker 1: to start the season. But thankfully this one ended the

560
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: right way and said of the wrong way. In the

561
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: fourth quarter of that game, there were five lead changes.

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Speaker 1: Can you remember any other game that was that up

563
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Speaker 1: and down from the Vikings taking the lead to you

564
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Speaker 1: guys taking the lead, to finally tying up basically as

565
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Speaker 1: time ran out. You know, I don't remember if I

566
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Speaker 1: was ever involved in a game where there were five

567
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Speaker 1: lead changes in the fourth quarter. At one game in

568
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Speaker 1: college where there were four lead changes, like in the

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Speaker 1: last two and a half minutes, but I can't recall

570
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Speaker 1: ever with a time when there were five, you know, thankfully,

571
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Speaker 1: thankfully we got the last one, which was great. Yeah,

572
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: it was a fifty four yard field goal to send

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Speaker 1: it into overtime. That happened with three seconds left on

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Speaker 1: the clock. And in that fourth quarter alone, the Bill

575
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 1: scored sixteen points. The Vikings scored thirteen points. So this

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Speaker 1: game gets sent into overtime, and what are what can

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Speaker 1: you remember before Peerless Price had that forty eight yard

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Speaker 1: touchdown for effrom you Yeah, you know, I don't have

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Speaker 1: a lot of recollections of what the rest of the

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Speaker 1: drive was like. I just remember watching Peerless catch that ball,

581
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, once once Peerless turned on

582
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,719
Speaker 1: the Jets, nobody was going to catch him, right, So

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Speaker 1: once he once he turned up field and started to

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Speaker 1: go as they had the game's over, which was and

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00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: so I chased him down the field. And you know

586
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: when you when you when you play ball, um, you

587
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: know they're there. You know there's the obvious, you know,

588
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: great sound of throwing a touchdown or winning a game

589
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: in your home stadium where it just goes crazy crazy

590
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: and goes super loud. But I think it might even

591
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: be a better sound when you're in the opposing stadium

592
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: and it's incredibly loud. You know, people are just going

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Speaker 1: crazy and the you know, you know, the old Metrodome

594
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: was really really loud. But when it goes from that

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Speaker 1: loud to dead quiet, that is a really cool sound.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was just as loud as you can imagine,

597
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you could hear a pen drop,

598
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Speaker 1: you could deal the people you can hear screaming were

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Speaker 1: you know, us and the handful of fans that we

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Speaker 1: have in the stands at the game, and everybody else

601
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Speaker 1: was you know, really really quiet, and it was a

602
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: beautiful sound. Oh that's has to be the best to

603
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: be able to silence and away crowd. But we have

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00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: some beautiful sound here ourselves today. We have sound from

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Speaker 1: Peerless Price from that game. So let's go ahead and

606
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Speaker 1: listen back to that. And over time, coach Gilbride goes,

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Speaker 1: do you think you can beat him on his z

608
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Speaker 1: Z hooking up? And I was like, yeah, Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: anytime coach asked you if you can be that guy

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Speaker 1: on a particular route, and you know you're the primary

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Speaker 1: read on that, you're gonna say yeah, And so he

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Speaker 1: asked me, said, do you think he can beat on

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Speaker 1: Z hook and up? And uh? Me and me and

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Speaker 1: Drew loved the call and man went up ran he

615
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: was he was shade it inside, ran a Z the hook,

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00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: gave an outside stick, he took it. He took the

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Speaker 1: stick outside and next thing I know, I was running

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Speaker 1: up the middle of the field and I was wide open.

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Speaker 1: Drew delivered a great ball and it was my job

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Speaker 1: to getting the end zone. Outran the safety who I

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Speaker 1: felt I took a bad angle, outran the safety and

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Speaker 1: for the game winner. And then I'm in the end

623
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Speaker 1: zone and you can see I'll go down on one

624
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: knee and we our fourth receiver at the time was

625
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: Charles Johnson, and he's in the game because we ran

626
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 1: four wising and I'm on one knee. I'm about to cry.

627
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Speaker 1: I'm literally about to cry, and he goes, you better

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Speaker 1: not cry. So I hopped up and started celebrated with

629
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Speaker 1: my teammates. Did you know was about to cry in

630
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: that moment? You know, I didn't know that until just now,

631
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: But that makes total sense. I can see CJ doing

632
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: that for sure. Uh yeah, yeah, he was. CJ was

633
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: a piece of work man, one of the all time

634
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: great dudes. Uh. Yeah, yeah, I knew. Uh. I'm certainly

635
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: we were all emotional about it, but I didn't know.

636
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Speaker 1: I didn't know until just now that Peerless was about

637
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: to cry. But I'm glad CJ grabbed him. That's pretty funny.

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00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:14,959
Speaker 1: That's a pretty funny story, man. I would love to Uh,

639
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: I would love to hear CJ's angle on that. That'd

640
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: be great. What are your memories playing with a receiver

641
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: like Peerless price? You know, Peerless? Um, he was really unique. Um.

642
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: First of all, obviously explosive, fast, you know, great hands,

643
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: all of those things that the measurables. But in this

644
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: particular offense, Peerless was perfect for this offense because he

645
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Speaker 1: was really a smart player and in his position he

646
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: got a lot of latitude and we had to read

647
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: the defense the same way at the same time in

648
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Speaker 1: order to be effective. And Peerless and now were on

649
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: the same page. We were, we were seeing the same

650
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: thing at the same time, you know, so they're they're

651
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: you know, we had you know, choice routes where he

652
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: could go vertical, he could break it flat, he could

653
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: break it slightly in, or he could even sit and

654
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: we had to see the same thing at the same

655
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Speaker 1: time in order to be effective, and you know, peerless

656
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: was we were on the same page all the time.

657
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: I never had to guess where he was going. He

658
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: always made the right decision at the right time. And

659
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: so he was really uniquely suited for this offense because

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00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: in addition to his explosiveness and his talent, you know,

661
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: he was also a guy that could make very quick

662
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: and very accurate decisions on the fly, which is not easy.

663
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: I'm you know, that's not a not a slight on

664
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Speaker 1: anybody else, but when you have to in real time

665
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: watch the way of safety moves, and watch the way

666
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: the coverage moves and make a decision and do the

667
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: exact right thing at the same time that your quarterback

668
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,479
Speaker 1: is seeing it, you know that that requires some some

669
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: fast processing and he was able to do that. Gotta

670
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,959
Speaker 1: give some love to the defense in this game, because

671
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: the Bill's defense racked up five sacks on Dante Colepepper

672
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: in that game. He also had three fumbles, if you remember,

673
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: which led to thirteen points on the scoreboard as well.

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00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: What do you remember about the defense from that game

675
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: and from that season? You know, I remember them getting

676
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: after Dante in that game. And uh, you know, when

677
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: you're playing quarterback, um, you know it's a difficult job

678
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 1: no matter what. But but but when you're when you're

679
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: getting hit a bunch, that makes your job that much harder.

680
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,879
Speaker 1: And so our defense made things, excuse me, made things

681
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: very difficult on him. Uh. And anytime that your defense

682
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 1: can give you some turnovers, um, that's gonna be a

683
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: huge advantage way. So yeah, tip of the cap to

684
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: uh to our d stepped up when they had to,

685
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: got after the quarterback, created some turnovers and gave us

686
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: a chance to uh gave us a chance to come

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00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: back and win the game. How many times have you

688
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: rewatched this game? You know, honest truth, I've never watched it.

689
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: We watched it, I mean we watched We watched it

690
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: obviously in film that week, um uh, you know, just

691
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: getting ready pretty rather the next week's game. But outside

692
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: of just a couple of highlights, it's you know, it's

693
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 1: I've never watched the whole game, So I'll to see

694
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,439
Speaker 1: if I can find it and stream it tonight. Yeah.

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00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, come on head back to Buffalo

696
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: because it's gonna air on w I v b W

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Speaker 1: r OC tonight at eight o'clock. Drew, thank you so

698
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: much for being on with us and breaking down this game.

699
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: It's always fun to relive some crazy, insane games like

700
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: that overtime thriller. We appreciate the time. Glad to hear

701
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: you're doing well in Ben, Oregon, and glad to hear

702
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,399
Speaker 1: the wine business is doing well too. Right. Um, well,

703
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: thank you guys for having me on. I'm happy to

704
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 1: come on and discuss any victory you'd like to talk about.

705
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 1: Just don't ever ask me come on for a game

706
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: that we lost. But you know, really really fun, great

707
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: memories that was. That was really an amazingly fun team

708
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: to be a part of. You know, we had great

709
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: weapons with Peerless and Molds and Larry Centers and Josh

710
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: Reid and and uh you know, uh, Jay Rumers met

711
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: tight End, you know, Travis Henry, and then we had

712
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,720
Speaker 1: just a great offensive live man. We were an electric offense.

713
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: It was really really a fun team to be a

714
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: part of. Um And quite honestly, you know, I really

715
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: thought at that point that that was going to be

716
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Speaker 1: an offense that was going to go on and be

717
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Speaker 1: one for the one for the Ages. But unfortunately some

718
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 1: pieces didn't come back to next year. But I don't

719
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: have to I don't wanna have to talk about that.

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00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: We're just talking about how much fun it was. Yeah, Well,

721
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: everybody can go ahead and watch the former QB Drew

722
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Speaker 1: Bledsoe tonight at eight o'clock w IRVB w RO octy

723
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Speaker 1: five to thirty nine overtime win by the Bills is

724
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,959
Speaker 1: presented by Connors and Faris is the first of four

725
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,720
Speaker 1: legendary games that will be on. We're gonna go ahead

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00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: and take a break here. We will be back shortly.

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Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live from One Bills that I've

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Speaker 1: presented by Collide. Help. Welcome back into One Bills Live.

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00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: Mattie glab here with former Bills linebacker Lorenzo Alexander. He

730
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: joins us. We just had Drew Bledsoe on to talk

731
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: about that overtime thriller win against the Minnesota Vikings, which

732
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Speaker 1: you can check out tonight at eight o'clock on w

733
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Speaker 1: ivbw ROC. That's presented by Connors and Ferris, the first

734
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: of four legendary games that are going to air over

735
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: the next couple weeks. I believe an awesome thing to

736
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,280
Speaker 1: do right now because there's no live football being played,

737
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: although that's going to change in a couple of weeks.

738
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: So Zoe will bring you back in talk a little

739
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: bit more about training camp, talk a little bit more

740
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: about what's going on in the league, and unfortunately not

741
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: some super great news came out last night. Washington's Ron

742
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: Rivera says that he has cancer. He's been diagnosed with

743
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: cancer after a self check that he did and announced

744
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: it to his team last night. Although he said this

745
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: cancer is in the very early stage and is considered

746
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: very treatable and curable. So that's really great to hear, um.

747
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: But of course, being a teammate, being a player for

748
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: a head coach, that's probably the last thing you want

749
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: to hear from your head coach and a team meeting

750
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 1: is hey, guys, I have cancer. Um. You know, I'm

751
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to coach you guys, and this

752
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: is very treatable. But of course this is an added

753
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: wrinkle to the season that nobody wants, especially for a

754
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: guy like Ron river I know he's very well liked

755
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: by his team and by everybody he's he's been around

756
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: in the league. Yeah, he's very rare respected. Um, you know,

757
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: I'm very close to Thomas Davis, whoever, who obviously played

758
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: with him in Carolina for a long time. Obviously, Brandon Bean,

759
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, Leslie Frader is just a lot of touch points.

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00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 1: I've never had the privilege of playing for him, But UM,

761
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: here great great things about him about you know, obviously

762
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: a player, but even more so as a man. Of course,

763
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: he's a cowbear. We both share that. UM going to

764
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 1: UC Berkeley, and so I've always admired him from afar

765
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: and UM always would be would have been a guy

766
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 1: that I've wanted to play for. You know, obviously hearing

767
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: this news, being in that locker room, you're not even

768
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: really thinking about UM, you know what this means for

769
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 1: me as you know, playing the football season or our team,

770
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 1: But you're really more worried about him, his health, his safety,

771
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: his family, especially amongst um or in the midst of

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Speaker 1: this this this pandemic and COVID, you know, and now

773
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Speaker 1: that he has an underlying UH condition, you know, how

774
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: is that going to impact him? Um. Obviously he'll make

775
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: that decision with him and his family as far as

776
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: how to move forward in those regards, UM, But those

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00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: are that's where my mind would be immediately go, Um,

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00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,280
Speaker 1: in the hardships that he's going to have to endure.

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00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: Thank goodness, he founded in the early stages, and oftentimes

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00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: when you're able to get treatment sooner than later, you

781
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: can at least mitigate, um, some of the bleak outcomes. Um,

782
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: that can be possible. So UM, it's a blessing that

783
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 1: he was able to find it that he was had

784
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: to wear for all the check and then report it

785
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: because oftentimes too many men, especially especially football players too

786
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: Oh man, what is that? Oh, that's nothing, that'll go away.

787
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,919
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm in the middle. I'm about to start camp.

788
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:13,959
Speaker 1: I can't even think about, you know, being sick. So

789
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,720
Speaker 1: it just shows you how where he is to obviously

790
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: report it, get it checked out, get diagnosed, and now

791
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,280
Speaker 1: he can move forward with a plan to keep himself

792
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: safe as possible, obviously get healthy and overcome this. But

793
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: those those are the things that would be going through

794
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: my mind as a player in that locker room, and

795
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: football would be a distant distant you know, third or

796
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,240
Speaker 1: fourth on the list. Yeah. According to the Mayo Clinic,

797
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,879
Speaker 1: it's a form of skin cancer. It's usually not life

798
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: Their name but it can spread throughout the body and

799
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Speaker 1: cause serious complications. RIVERI did say he has a Plan

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Speaker 1: B in place, although he was not ready to give

801
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Speaker 1: those notes out. We're gonna have Sean McDermott on hopefully soon.

802
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: He's addressing the media before practice starts here shortly around

803
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: the one fifteen ish hour. I believe for their fifth

804
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 1: training camp practice that I'm sure somebody will ask Sean

805
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: about Ron just because of their connection. But yeah, something

806
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: you don't want to see, don't want to hear out

807
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: of any head coach, out of any player in the NFL.

808
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: And this guy's just taking over this team and now

809
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: he has this obstacle to overcome. And we've all probably

810
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: overcome several obstacles in this year of twenty twenty with

811
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: the pandemic and other things that have came up that

812
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: we've had to fight through, especially just a football team

813
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: getting together in July and now finally being able to

814
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,800
Speaker 1: be in the same building for just a couple weeks,

815
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: and to have this fork in the road probably not

816
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: something he envisioned he would have to deal with this year.

817
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: So we do hope that Ron is well and we

818
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: hope that treatment goes well. And we hope that he

819
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 1: continued to stay on the field the entire season. Zoe.

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00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: Another thing that teams have started to talk about is

821
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:07,280
Speaker 1: this whole bubble scenario. We have heard of it talked

822
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: about for several different leagues, including a collegiate whether it's

823
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: football or basketball. It's in place right now, of course

824
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: for the NBA and the NHL, and it seems to

825
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:25,839
Speaker 1: be working with the amount of positive test results that

826
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: have came out of the bubble. I believe for the

827
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: NHL and the NBA, the last time they tested everybody

828
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:34,879
Speaker 1: it was at zero, So that's great to hear. But

829
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: the Saints head coach Sean Payton suggested that the league

830
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 1: should consider a postseason bubble environment. Do you think this

831
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,879
Speaker 1: could be something that's doable? I know, at least when

832
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 1: playoffs start, there's still quite a few teams in the mix.

833
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: But it's not something that lasts, you know, three months.

834
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: It's it's something that lasts about a month. So what

835
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on that scenario and if it could

836
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: work and if we're still in you know, a similar place,

837
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: uh with it with it still being a pandemic here

838
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: in January, If it's something that maybe it should be

839
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: talked about. Yeah, I think I think that would be

840
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:18,280
Speaker 1: a obviously contingent on where we're at with COVID nineteen

841
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 1: and if we've had any more peaks or outbreaks, um,

842
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 1: you know, as a vaccine come out, uh, you know,

843
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: kind of where we're at in the state. But I

844
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: think it is something that we should be thinking about

845
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: in and plan for and have that as a contingency

846
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: plan kind of set up in case there is something

847
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: you know, um that you know, we have, you know,

848
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: an outbreak in in in San Francisco for example, and

849
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: nobody wants to go there to play or they can't

850
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: because the governor says something, and so um, we should

851
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 1: then have maybe a contingency plan to where maybe all

852
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 1: the NFC teams can go to Texas or maybe some

853
00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: other facility to where you can can consistently or artem

854
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: for four months. And I think that's more doable, at

855
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: least from a players standpoint, because it's almost like an

856
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: extended training camp, even though it's never ideal to be

857
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: away from your family that long, but there's certain things

858
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: that you would have to do at that point you're

859
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 1: trying to win a championship. That you would have to

860
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: sacrifice in order to continue the season. I think most

861
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:20,280
Speaker 1: guys would be open to that, and you know, obviously

862
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: willing to do something like that. But could it work?

863
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: I mean, I think so. I mean, I think the

864
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: NBA has done a great job of setting out a

865
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: protocol or a game plan. Obviously as far as players,

866
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: there would be a significant less amount of guys and

867
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: teams and organizations, because that's what you think about with

868
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: football is can you find venues in places like that

869
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: that can host that many people all in one place?

870
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: And then are there enough fields? You know, if the

871
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: turf fields, grass fields, you can't play that many games on.

872
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 1: So there are multiple sites within this complex that you

873
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 1: can host, and so there's a lot of things that

874
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:56,879
Speaker 1: you would have to put into and that's why it's

875
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: good to think about it now. So if it comes

876
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: up and we you know, here in you know, late

877
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: December early January, and something happened significantly, we already have

878
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: this kind of this concept thought about, logistically planned, and

879
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: then all you have to do is just kind of

880
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 1: hit that hit that button, and then everybody kind of

881
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: knows what to do. Yeah, if there's a season that

882
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: you want to plan ahead for different scenarios. This is

883
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 1: the season to plan ahead for different scenarios, and I'm

884
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: sure the NFL is trying to plan ahead and hopefully

885
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: trying to have a bunch of different ABCD plans when

886
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: it comes to the season and when it comes to

887
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: the postseason. Now, we've been in training camp for a

888
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and it's nice to know that we

889
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: haven't seen a lot of headlines of, oh, there's an

890
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 1: outbreak on this team. I mean, of course there's going

891
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: to be some positive tests when these guys were coming

892
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: into the complex for the first time, traveling from wherever

893
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:56,240
Speaker 1: they were spending their off season, But after those first

894
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 1: you know, week or two weeks of if they needed

895
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:03,760
Speaker 1: to quarantine, and they're getting tested so frequently, and there's

896
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 1: a lot of trust that goes into a team this year,

897
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: trusting that guys are, you know, following protocols when they

898
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: go home and not going out and not doing things

899
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: that are unsafe. It seems like it's pretty much under

900
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: control for now, which is so great because it gives

901
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: a lot of people hope that this thing is going

902
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: to happen. We're gonna have a season we're gonna go

903
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: through an entire season, but we'll see how it goes

904
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: when travel gets brought into it and when teams have

905
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 1: to start going on planes and when teams have to

906
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: start traveling to play each other, you know, from week

907
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: one to week sixteen. Yeah, and I think because the protocols,

908
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 1: and I think most teams have probably still even done

909
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,919
Speaker 1: the daily testing even though we've been under that five

910
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: percent threshold, just because we don't want to have anything

911
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: like MLB when you think about the Cardinals or you

912
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: think about the Marlins when you have fifteen or twenty

913
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: players that end up having it, because that's gonna in

914
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: a significant setback, and potentially maybe a team happened to

915
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: four for the game or whatever we schedule. I don't

916
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: know what the protocol would or would be if that happened.

917
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I mean, I think it's it's it's

918
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: good that we are on this and the thing we

919
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 1: have these protocols, and guys have done a great job

920
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 1: of adhering to it, staying disciplined for the most part.

921
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 1: You know, we do have that that dB out Um

922
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: in Seattle that did what he did m and got

923
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 1: caught and he was actually an example, and so I

924
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 1: think some guys, especially young guys, that may have thought

925
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: maybe I should do the same thing, or being very

926
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:43,359
Speaker 1: cautious about it now because unlike maybe a year ago

927
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: he might have got fined and maybe had to run

928
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: something in practice, now he's losing his job. And so

929
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: because of the seriesness of the matter and what that

930
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: means as far as if one person tests positive in

931
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 1: the impact, that could potentially have one entire team organization.

932
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: And so it's been it's been good to see that

933
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: the test numbers have been so low in a and

934
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: it's not a bubble, so I don't even know what

935
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: to call it, but just an environment that's set up

936
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: that we have a lot of testing, you know, where

937
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,879
Speaker 1: guys stand. The only thing that may get a little

938
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: different once you start traveling is if we have like

939
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 1: a false negative and then you own a plane or

940
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 1: bust with somebody for a stated period of time. But

941
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: hopefully because we are doing these day to day tests

942
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: that you can you minimize those much as possible. Totally.

943
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: I really think that you know, every single team is

944
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: testing is as much, you know, as the NFL and

945
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:37,399
Speaker 1: the NFLPA have agreed upon which is every single day,

946
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,359
Speaker 1: and if you continue to do that or whatever these

947
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: rules change to that, hopefully nobody is gonna have it,

948
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,280
Speaker 1: and if they do have it, they're they're quarantined before

949
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: you get on a plane. And that this can actually work,

950
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: because I am I really believe that it can. At

951
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: least with the place that we're in right now. It

952
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: seems like everything is going as plan and teams are

953
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: being safe, and I have full faith that the Bills

954
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 1: are going to continue to be safe once they walk

955
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: out of this complex every single day, just because of

956
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: the type of culture that's in place here. But we're

957
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 1: gonna take a break though. When we come back, we're

958
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: gonna have Jets insider Eric Allen on with us to

959
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about what's going on with their

960
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: training camps and players to watch who's doing good, who's

961
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 1: doing not so good. So we will be back in

962
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: a short few minutes. Stick with us. One Bill's Live

963
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive presented by Kalid to help back

964
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 1: in Seneca Studios. Mattie glab here with Lorenzo Alexander on

965
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 1: Friday on One Bills Live, We're just having a ball,

966
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 1: talking some football. We have one of our fellow reporters

967
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: who join us an AFC East reporter of the New

968
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:06,240
Speaker 1: York Jets. It's Eric Allen. He's the New York Jets

969
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 1: senior reporter Team insider, is a senior director of Just

970
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: three sixty Productions and a Western New York native. So

971
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: Eric is on the phone with us. Thanks for being

972
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: on with us, Eric, We appreciate the time. How are

973
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: you doing in this weird training camp that we've all

974
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: been covering, Maddie and Lorenzo, thank you so much for

975
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: having me on. It's great to talk football again. I mean,

976
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: this has been the most unique on precedent in a

977
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: few months. Even before we got to training camp, well,

978
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: we brought a week into camp because since these guys

979
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: had the virtual spring, he had to force basically OTAs

980
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 1: into a couple of these days in camp, and the

981
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: Jets finally had the first padded practice, which was yesterday Thursday.

982
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: They have an off day today, and I'll be back

983
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,279
Speaker 1: on the field on Saturday and Sunday. I mean, from

984
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: being within the building working for the team, we kind

985
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: of get an inside look as to how all of

986
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: this has has come together. All the protocols in place,

987
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: all the social distancing. I'm sure like you, we've had

988
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: to move our offices upstairs. It's it's totally different with

989
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: how we come to work every day, just like the

990
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: players too. You get in, you do your work, you

991
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: have practice, and then you get out. How how has

992
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: this team acclimated to this unique off season? In your eyes, Maddie,

993
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:30,319
Speaker 1: you just hit the nail on the head right there.

994
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 1: I think the Jets have adjusted very well because the

995
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 1: new normal is driving into the complex and there are

996
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: testing tents throughout the parking lot and they get tested,

997
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 1: and then they answer to the facility and they're not

998
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:50,720
Speaker 1: even participating in team meetings in the same room. Obviously,

999
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: they're still they still continue to do that virtually. We

1000
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:58,839
Speaker 1: have quarridors the corridors here that are marked off. Everybody's

1001
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: wearing trackers, and then when you get on in the

1002
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: practice field, if it's a walk through, most of the

1003
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: guys they're wearing masks. And then the coaching staff, of course,

1004
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,840
Speaker 1: are out there on the practice field and each of

1005
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: the coaches have mask on. So I think that it's

1006
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: a relief. I have to imagine from a player's perspective

1007
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: that they're finally doing what they're meant to do and

1008
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: what they love to do. They are football players, so

1009
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: they're back on the field, and I think that you

1010
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 1: sense that excitement that, Hey, now we're three weeks away

1011
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: from the regular season, which is amazing in itself considering

1012
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 1: everything the world has been through and people in the

1013
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: National Football League have been through as we continue continue

1014
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:46,800
Speaker 1: to confront this invisible virus and invisible out of me,

1015
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: I should say, but it's just feels different. But when

1016
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 1: you're out there on the field, it feels like normalcy.

1017
00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: We're finally back to getting a little bit back to normal. Yeah.

1018
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: So with that normalcy, I know, obviously we have a

1019
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: lot of focus on the players. How have the coaches?

1020
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:07,319
Speaker 1: You know, I played with Greg Williams. I know what

1021
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: type of coach he is. His mentality, a little bit

1022
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: of that old school mentality. How to have they adjusted

1023
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: as far as you know, drills, expectations, tempo of things

1024
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 1: out there since they haven't had all those OTAs in

1025
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 1: the spring. Yellow Renzo A great point, and you know

1026
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 1: you did so many. You were such a fine professional yourself,

1027
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 1: and you know you are like a guy who I

1028
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: would imagine a lot of Buffalo bills looks up to

1029
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:39,240
Speaker 1: and during this time you can lean on the players

1030
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: to set a tempo for you. But the good thing

1031
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 1: that Jets have gone for them and likewise there in

1032
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo is the continuity is staff. The coordinators are all

1033
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: the same here, so Adam Gates's back, of course, and

1034
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,800
Speaker 1: then Greg Williams you just mentioned brand Boyer as well,

1035
00:53:56,239 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: So you do have that system continuity and familiarity. But

1036
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 1: I think these guys have They've looked at it as

1037
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: a challenge and they've embraced it, you know, and tried

1038
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: to set forth expectations for these guys. But uh, you know,

1039
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: like I said, once they get inside the building and

1040
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: on the field, it has felt it just felt a

1041
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,359
Speaker 1: little bit like it has in the past. It just

1042
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: looks very different. But yeah, I think that's what the

1043
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 1: Jets have gone for them right now, is in that continuity.

1044
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 1: You got to feel bad for teams around the league

1045
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:35,880
Speaker 1: who trying to incorporate new coaches and new systems because

1046
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 1: everything Greg has talked about has been hey, no preseason games,

1047
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 1: but we have to ramp everything up at practice. With

1048
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 1: that being said, you kind of have to pick your

1049
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,240
Speaker 1: spots as far as one to scale back, like the Jets,

1050
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,919
Speaker 1: we're going to have a padded practice earlier this week,

1051
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: and they opted for a walkthrough because there were a

1052
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 1: few guys dealing with some soft tissue injuries. I got

1053
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 1: to ask you about the head coach, Adam Gase. Does

1054
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: he deserve the criticism that he's been getting from the

1055
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 1: national media this offseason heading into the season beginning shortly, Well,

1056
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: it's a great question. The Jets last year in their

1057
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 1: first four games, they played four different quarterbacks. Sam Darnold

1058
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: after he played the Bills in Week one obviously went

1059
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: out with Mono on miss three games, and then you'd

1060
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: dealt with some injury issues up front that played the

1061
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 1: Jets all throughout the season. They had eleven different starters

1062
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 1: on offensive line, nine different line combinations. They started one

1063
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 1: and seven. We all know that, but when you're looking

1064
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:45,399
Speaker 1: at Gaze and the coaching staff, what do they do

1065
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: down the stretch? Well, this team won six and two

1066
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 1: down the stretch. They won seven games. Last year. Sam

1067
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: Donald was seven and six as a starter, so you

1068
00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: saw progress and Lorenzo mentioned Will he was fantastic last year.

1069
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: Considering what happened defensively, The Jets finished number seven overall

1070
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:10,319
Speaker 1: and number two against the run and special teams has

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00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: always been solid under a brand Boyers, So I think

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00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: actually the Jets took a big step forward in the

1073
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: second half of the season. Now you start a new

1074
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:22,280
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. But again, you're trying to establish

1075
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:25,359
Speaker 1: culture here and that was Gays's first season as head

1076
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,439
Speaker 1: coach to the New York Jets. That's tough for any

1077
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: coach to walk into a situation where you're starting quarterback

1078
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,880
Speaker 1: goes out with Monoli's out for three games, and then

1079
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 1: you dealt with so many injuries on both sides of

1080
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 1: the ball. But they kept on plugging away and you

1081
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:43,319
Speaker 1: saw the progress in that second half. You mentioned continuity,

1082
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 1: and we obviously we've seen c. J. Mosley opt out

1083
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 1: as well as the Jamal Adams trade. Are there have

1084
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: there been some guys that the coaches of Mitchel and

1085
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,280
Speaker 1: have kind of stepped up to fill those roles because

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00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: that is an opportunity for maybe some young guys that

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00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: we didn't know about. And then how do you feel

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00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 1: that they're going to be able to overcome because those

1089
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:03,720
Speaker 1: are two big time players, well, Laurato Greg Williams always

1090
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: says that the best coaches not only can make transitions

1091
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: and change during the offseason, but the best ones do

1092
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 1: it on a fly in game when you're losing players.

1093
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: But the good thing, I guess, the blessing and disguise

1094
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: for the Jets in regards to CJ. Mosley is that

1095
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 1: he didn't play fourteen games last season. He got hurt

1096
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: against the Bills. He was a one man wrecking crew

1097
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 1: against the Bills for much of that game. He an

1098
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: interception returned for a touchdown, a funnel recovery, a couple

1099
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 1: of past defenses, six tackles, then he prevented a touchdown,

1100
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: and then on that PD in the third quarter when

1101
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:44,600
Speaker 1: the Jets held the sixteen nothing leading over the Bills,

1102
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: he hurts his groin and he was never the same again.

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00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: So they did not play without They played without CJ.

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00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: Mosley for fourteen games last season, So there is that

1105
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: at the inside linebacker position, and they are hoping they

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00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: get Avery Williamson back as well. Added to that equation

1107
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 1: because Williamson also missed last year because he went down

1108
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 1: in the preseason with an acl But Neville Hewitt had

1109
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 1: a career year starting and he's very comfortable at that

1110
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: microle James Burgess, who was with Williams in Cleveland. I'll

1111
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: play well. The Jets like what they have at Blake

1112
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: with Blake Cashman draft pick last year, came in a

1113
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 1: very athletic guys probably are their best coverage inside linebackers,

1114
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: so there is some depth at the position. And then

1115
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: you mentioned safety that that was a monster storyline obviously

1116
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 1: u one of the most significant trades in franchise history

1117
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 1: when the Jets and sent Jamal Adams to Seattle. But

1118
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: they like what they have at the safety position. Marcus

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00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: May is a guy who played mostly post safety with

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00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams doing a lot of damage inside the box.

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00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: But he is a versatile play, very athletic range and

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00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 1: you can potentially move him around a little bit. Bradley

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00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: McDougald came over in that trade from Seattle. Seventy five

1124
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 1: career start, ten interceptions. That guy's is starting caliber player.

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Speaker 1: And then the Jets also liked Ashen Davis out of California,

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00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: who they drafted in a third round. Very versatile, highly

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00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:28,160
Speaker 1: athletic of former walk on in California who participated both

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00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 1: on the track team and the football team. So you're

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00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: gonna see a lot of multiple safety looks. I would

1130
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 1: imagine the Jets are thrown a lot of things at

1131
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: Davis early to see what he can handle, but they

1132
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 1: liked the rotation. You don't replace Jamali Adams one for

1133
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: Wannie such a special player and a special talent. But

1134
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 1: Greg Williams, he makes his adjustments as good as anybody

1135
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. Let's switch over to the

1136
00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. Do you think Sam Darnold

1137
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 1: can take a leap this season? I mean, nobody predicts

1138
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 1: to have mono ever during an NFL season, so I

1139
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 1: would I would call this year kind of a bounce

1140
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: back year for him. Do you think he can truly

1141
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:14,920
Speaker 1: bounce back from last year, especially with how he finished

1142
01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 1: the season. Well. One of the reasons why going back

1143
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: to Gates a little bit, one of the reasons why

1144
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 1: this job is so attracted to him was coaching up

1145
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 1: the guy like Sam Donald and last season in his

1146
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 1: first year under Gates, despite all the turnover and the

1147
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 1: shuffle in its offensive line position, his completion percentage went

1148
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 1: up from fifty seven point seven to sixty one point nine.

1149
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: His yards went up from more than twenty eight hundred

1150
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 1: his rookie season. He threw for three thousand yards, and

1151
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: his touchdowns went up and his interceptions went down. He

1152
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 1: went from seventeen to nineteen touchdowns from years one to

1153
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 1: years a year two, and an interceptions went from fifteen

1154
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: to thirteen. So across the board, the numbers were better.

1155
01:00:57,600 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 1: And again I go back to the number where he

1156
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 1: was seven and six last year as a starter compared

1157
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 1: to four and nine as a rookie. The other thing

1158
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 1: we have to consider with Sam Darnold is last year

1159
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 1: was his third different system in three years. That's tough

1160
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: for anybody to handle, much less a twenty two year

1161
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: old quarterback. While now he's twenty three. He's entering year

1162
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 1: two of the system, and the Jets love what they're

1163
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:29,160
Speaker 1: seeing out of him early. He's showing leadership qualities and

1164
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: he's playing at such a faster temple. He doesn't have

1165
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 1: to think when Adam Gates has thrown a play out there,

1166
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: it's going in his ear. He's not thinking necessarily about

1167
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 1: what the offense is going to do. He's already thinking

1168
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: about finding the mic linebacker, assigning protections and looking at

1169
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 1: coverages and going from there. So he definitely is a

1170
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: different player at this point. This year than last year.

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01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:57,480
Speaker 1: Heading into this season, the Jets have a lot of

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01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: confidence in him. He has never leadership qualities and he

1173
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:05,120
Speaker 1: has a very good physical skill set. Work with Josh

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01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: Allen of course, an off season with Jordan Palmer. Yeah,

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01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 1: and you mentioned the makeshifts on the line that he's

1176
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 1: been behind the last couple of season's guys shifting in

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01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 1: and rotating around. How how would those guys look because

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01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 1: I think those guys get overlooked as far as the production,

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01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 1: especially if a young quarterback that's like a pocket passer

1180
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:26,120
Speaker 1: having confidence to be able to stay in the pocket

1181
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:27,920
Speaker 1: and get the ball down the field and find his

1182
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 1: second or third option. How wore those guys looked up

1183
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 1: front a lot better? Lorenzo. And it's early in training camp,

1184
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 1: and I know you're not playing against anybody right now,

1185
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 1: as you know, but Joe Douglas went to work on

1186
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,400
Speaker 1: the offensive line in the off season. This is what

1187
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:44,840
Speaker 1: it was his first true off season. He came in

1188
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 1: as general manager last June. He bring in center Connor

1189
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: McGovern from the Dunver Broncos. He was a free agent.

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01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: He's not gonna overpower him most times, but a very

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01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 1: smart player who can get out and move. Greg Van

1192
01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:03,360
Speaker 1: Roten also was signed in free agency. Is similar qualities

1193
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:09,760
Speaker 1: to McGovern. Is that the angles smart player and also

1194
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 1: it was probably the Carolina Panther's most effective blocker last season.

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01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 1: Alex Lewis returns at left guard. The toughest son of

1196
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:23,439
Speaker 1: a gun. Joe Douglas actually acquired him last year. So

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01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:28,680
Speaker 1: you know, across the board from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty,

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01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:32,000
Speaker 1: every opening day they're opening day starters from left to right.

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Speaker 1: None of them are here anymore. So then I go

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01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:38,840
Speaker 1: to the tackle position, maybe the most important spot. When

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01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 1: you're thinking about that left tackle spot, it could be

1202
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:45,640
Speaker 1: McKay Beckton. He played both left and right tackle at Louisville.

1203
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: But six to seven, three hundred seventy pounds guy was

1204
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:57,760
Speaker 1: an overwhelming run blocker at Louisville. And he's got to

1205
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 1: work on some techniques. And Frank Pollock, the offensive line coach, said,

1206
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 1: you know, we got to get his weight down a

1207
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 1: little bit. But the Jets are really happy about how

1208
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:09,080
Speaker 1: he's absorbed the playbook, how quickly he's moving out there.

1209
01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 1: He's not swimming. He is in Lorenzo. You know, you

1210
01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:17,919
Speaker 1: had to face these guys every Sunday is that this

1211
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 1: guy's got rare size. He gets his hands on you,

1212
01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:25,919
Speaker 1: it's over and he's got good feet for a big guy.

1213
01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 1: He moves pretty well for a guy's three hundred and

1214
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:31,840
Speaker 1: seventy pounds. Not across the way. You bring in George

1215
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 1: Fant from Seattle Seahawks, who played left tackle and right

1216
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:38,880
Speaker 1: tackle there in Seattle. He was also a free free

1217
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: agency edition. He even lined up sometimes as a third

1218
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 1: tight on for the Seahawks. But your hoping Beckton is

1219
01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 1: a foundational pillar that up front that hopefully he's blocking

1220
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 1: for Sam Darnold for ten years if all goals right.

1221
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:57,240
Speaker 1: You've been on training camp for you know, a couple

1222
01:04:57,240 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 1: of days now said they just had their first padded practice.

1223
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:03,160
Speaker 1: Being able to check out practices, I mean, what players

1224
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 1: have stood out for you, who's looking fresh, who's looking

1225
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: improved from last season, who has a different body type

1226
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 1: than last season. Gives a little insight as to what

1227
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 1: you've been able to take out of the last week. Well,

1228
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:20,080
Speaker 1: Levion Bell, he had a career low in terms of

1229
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 1: yards per carry, in yards per touch last season. He

1230
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:26,520
Speaker 1: didn't point, he didn't make any excuses and say, well,

1231
01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:28,640
Speaker 1: this was happening up run or this is what happened

1232
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:31,480
Speaker 1: with the quarterbacks. Instead, he went to work in the

1233
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:35,360
Speaker 1: off season, most notably doing a lot of boxing work.

1234
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:38,920
Speaker 1: He came to camp at two hundred and ten pounds.

1235
01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:41,680
Speaker 1: So this is a guy who's probably playing last year

1236
01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 1: about two twenty five. He's gonna play this year between

1237
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 1: two ten and two fifteen, and he's got four percent

1238
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 1: body fat. He said, you are going to see the

1239
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 1: best Levion Bell that we have seen in the National

1240
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:57,040
Speaker 1: Football League. I think people kind of overlook that, oh, yeah,

1241
01:05:57,120 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 1: Levion Bell is here and he still is a this

1242
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:03,400
Speaker 1: football player. And we talked about the improvements up front.

1243
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:06,919
Speaker 1: Most people talked about the improvements up front in terms

1244
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 1: of Sam Darnold. What can that mean for Sam Darnold. Well,

1245
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 1: I think we can see a totally new Levion Bell

1246
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, second year with the Jets. Prescott Perryman

1247
01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:20,440
Speaker 1: a guy who flourished down the stretch with the Tampa

1248
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:24,760
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers last season. He's got good size and he's

1249
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:27,520
Speaker 1: a sub four four guy burner on the outside. He's

1250
01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:31,240
Speaker 1: been connecting with Sam Darnold early and that's been encouraging

1251
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. I know the

1252
01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 1: Bills took out at Oliver in the first round last year. Well,

1253
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 1: the Jets took a defensive tackle to Quinnon Williams. He

1254
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 1: was bothered by the ankle injury last year. He looks explosive.

1255
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 1: He talks about being a dominant force on the interior

1256
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:54,200
Speaker 1: this year. Other guys the interior offensive lineman. You know

1257
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:56,440
Speaker 1: when they're talking about guys when they're just throwing it

1258
01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:59,040
Speaker 1: out there and saying, hey, listen, he's been very impressive

1259
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 1: Quinn and william as a guy to watch out in

1260
01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 1: year two. And then we talked about the safety position

1261
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 1: before I got to go back to Marcus May. Marcus

1262
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:09,600
Speaker 1: May is rangie. He is heady. He is also the

1263
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:13,720
Speaker 1: quarterback at the secondary, but he has potential to do

1264
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 1: some more things. I think just because they're gonna they'll

1265
01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:23,320
Speaker 1: use the skill sets. Greg Williams always uses these guys

1266
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:28,320
Speaker 1: and fits his system to his personnel. And that's the

1267
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:32,640
Speaker 1: great thing about Greg and Marcus May. He could be

1268
01:07:33,040 --> 01:07:36,480
Speaker 1: poised for a breakout year. I think in the back end. Eric,

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01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:39,440
Speaker 1: thanks for giving us all of this insight into training camp.

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01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 1: What you think of this team heading into the twenty

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01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:44,800
Speaker 1: twenty season. Good to catch up with you. That's Eric Allen,

1272
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:49,040
Speaker 1: New York Jets senior reporter and the team insider. We're

1273
01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 1: going to face the Jets week one, September thirteenth. We're

1274
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 1: going to host them here at Bill's Stadium. So great

1275
01:07:57,320 --> 01:08:00,600
Speaker 1: to hear about what's going on there during training camp.

1276
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:02,479
Speaker 1: O we're going to take a break. When we come back,

1277
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 1: we will hear from Sean McDermott and what he had

1278
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 1: to say to the team before they went out to practice. Today.

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Speaker 1: It's One Bills Live presented by Kalidah Health on Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome inside One Bills Live. Mattie Glab here

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Speaker 1: with the former Bills linebacker Lorenzo Alexander, who's with us

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Speaker 1: on a Friday. Training camp is going on Sean mcdermot's

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Speaker 1: book to the media earlier. All as well in the

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Speaker 1: world when it comes to the Bills heading into the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty season. A lot to look forward to and

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Speaker 1: some exciting things happened before training camp began. Sean McDermott

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Speaker 1: signed a multi year contract extension, something that Bills Mafia wanted,

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Speaker 1: something that at one of us inside the building as

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Speaker 1: well as his players wanted. I'm sure something that you

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Speaker 1: wanted to see as well. So it's great to know

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Speaker 1: that he's locked up for the foreseeable future. When you

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Speaker 1: heard that news, Zough, what were you thinking and how

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Speaker 1: are you happy for Sean? Yeah? Not surprising at all.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously I sent him a text to congratulate him,

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Speaker 1: because it happened like right when the stuff was ramping up,

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Speaker 1: so I knew not the calling because I know he's

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Speaker 1: busy ripping and running. But he's earned it. He's done

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Speaker 1: everything the right way. He's really turned around the perception

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Speaker 1: and the production of the organization. If you can even

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Speaker 1: go back when I first got here in sixteen, having

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Speaker 1: not been in the playoffs for seventeen years, the lack

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Speaker 1: of stability as far as head coach after head coach,

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Speaker 1: and you know, just a different culture. And so what

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Speaker 1: he's really done is established the culture, which people when

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Speaker 1: he first was talking about it, it was like what culture?

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Speaker 1: It's about talent? But he's established that, and not only

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Speaker 1: as he talked about it, he's emphasized it continually. He's

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Speaker 1: been very humble throughout this process as far as always

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Speaker 1: trying to grow, not resting on what he did last year,

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Speaker 1: and always trying to learn. If you've ever been around Shot,

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Speaker 1: he's always asking questions, always trying to figure out how

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Speaker 1: he could be better, which I think has been huge.

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Speaker 1: And then lastly, he's put a huge emphasis on people,

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Speaker 1: people that embody the culture that he's established. And by

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Speaker 1: bringing in these people from from coaches from Brian to

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Speaker 1: Leslie to Bob, I can go on and on on

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Speaker 1: the football side, it's well as holding people on the

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Speaker 1: business side and the rest of the organization accountable for

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Speaker 1: the standard of that culture as well. And so when

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Speaker 1: you have a coach that's leading that way, you get

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Speaker 1: the type of results he's guiding. And obviously with the results,

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Speaker 1: he's been rewarded with a contract extension and has really

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Speaker 1: been just a great time obviously for him and his

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Speaker 1: family know that they're going to be there at least

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Speaker 1: for the next six years, and I look forward to

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Speaker 1: having more success, more protectivity and continue to grow with

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Speaker 1: the stuff they've already established. The type of culture that's

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Speaker 1: been putting place here, I mean it's traveled across the NFL.

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Speaker 1: A lot of these free agents who came to the team.

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Speaker 1: This year's Steph Diggs Mario Addison, Quinton Jefferson, Vernon Butler,

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Speaker 1: you name it. They all spoke about this culture that

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Speaker 1: they had heard about and the type of players that

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Speaker 1: they bring into to this complex and that they bring

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Speaker 1: into this team. It's a specific type of person, whether

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Speaker 1: it's a coach, whether it's a player that fits the

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Speaker 1: DNA of the culture that they've built here. And it's

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Speaker 1: really cool to hear that it's it's traveled across the

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Speaker 1: league and that the Bills are known for this type

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Speaker 1: of atmosphere that they've been able to put in place.

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Speaker 1: But let's hear from Sean McDermott and what he had

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Speaker 1: to say about training camp and about practice number five.

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Speaker 1: And before I start, I just wanted to I'll give

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Speaker 1: you the injury update, but before I started, just wanted to,

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Speaker 1: you know, let Ron Rivera, his family and the Washington

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Speaker 1: football team know that we're thinking of them and praying

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Speaker 1: for them, and we hope for a speedy recovery and

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Speaker 1: health moving forward for coach Rivera. So we'll open it

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Speaker 1: up to your questions. Coach, Thank god, it's Friday. How

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Speaker 1: you go, just mookie? Yeah, go BACKPT today, not in

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Speaker 1: a few um. Yeah, we'll just give us the reaction

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Speaker 1: on first heard and it was about courture. Yeah I

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Speaker 1: heard uh last evening and UH was was definitely shocked.

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Speaker 1: But it also brings to life the human nature of

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Speaker 1: of us as coaches, and um, we're no different than

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Speaker 1: anyone else out there. We have families, um, and we

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Speaker 1: go through things that everyone else goes through. And so UM,

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Speaker 1: as I said before, just I learned a lot from

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Speaker 1: the man and and just really praying for him and

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Speaker 1: his family, and UH just want them to know that

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Speaker 1: we're here for them, for them anyway we can, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: And uh you know finally, you know, a week one,

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Speaker 1: the first four weekend and impassed your assessment. I think

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Speaker 1: we know where we are as a team and that's important. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've we've been off to a fast start

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Speaker 1: because of the short run up, and the players have

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Speaker 1: done a phenomenal job being baled and locked into what

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Speaker 1: we're doing. Um, you know, the process continues in terms

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Speaker 1: of the work that we have to put in. Today

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Speaker 1: will be a big day and then the guys will

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Speaker 1: get the rest of the day off as well as

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Speaker 1: tomorrow to recover, and and then next week will be

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Speaker 1: a big week. For us as a football team. We've

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Speaker 1: got a lot of work to do. We're not where

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Speaker 1: we need to be, uh, and so we've got a

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Speaker 1: lot of work to do on and off the field

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Speaker 1: and get ourselves ready to go. Hey, Sean, Josh Rey here,

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Speaker 1: thanks for taking taking a little bit of time. The

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Speaker 1: rookie wide receivers have made a little bit of noise

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Speaker 1: early on in practices. Um, what are your impressions. I

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Speaker 1: know it's only a couple of padded practices now, but

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Speaker 1: what are your early impressions And how hard are some

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Speaker 1: of the other veteran receivers gonna have to push to

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Speaker 1: make it make the rocket? Yeah, there's good competition there, Josh.

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Speaker 1: These rookie receivers have done a nice job and they're

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Speaker 1: still young with a lot of football yet to go

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Speaker 1: and to be learned. It's been interesting and cool to

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Speaker 1: watch the dynamic, though develop between some of our young

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Speaker 1: rookies at that position in particular, and then these older

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Speaker 1: guys like Smoke and Gigs and Cold. To watch the

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Speaker 1: trust that's being earned by the young guys and the

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Speaker 1: dynamic that's developing as they integrate into into the into

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Speaker 1: the line up. In some areas, so yeah, fun to watch,

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Speaker 1: you know. And Diggs had a big play yesterday, as

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Speaker 1: did Isaiah as well, and so both seem very committed

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Speaker 1: to what it takes to become a pro and a

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Speaker 1: good football player at this level and committed to putting

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Speaker 1: the work in which is which is a start. Thanks Sean,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Yeah, he's John. I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: ask about Josh Norman. Do you guys know the severity

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Speaker 1: of his injury yet? Yeah, Josh has a has a

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Speaker 1: hamstring injury at this point, and we don't know the

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Speaker 1: severity exactly. Those takes some time to really get a

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Speaker 1: good read on at this point, Heather, And so you know,

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Speaker 1: he'll continue to learn and be out there when he can,

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Speaker 1: and the biggest thing right now is that he maximizes

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Speaker 1: those treatment opportunities so that he can get back out

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Speaker 1: there as quickly as possible. Can you give us the

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Speaker 1: rest of the injury rundown? Yeah, I'll do that. So

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Speaker 1: Pat de Marco will be out, John Feliciano and Tommy

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Speaker 1: Sweeney still, Robert Foster, Josh Morman, as we know, AJ

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Speaker 1: Klein and Tremaine Edmonds and then limited ed will return today.

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Speaker 1: Oliver in a limited fashion, and then we're gonna give

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Speaker 1: bet days to Stefan Diggs, Garry Hughes, and both Micah

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Speaker 1: Hyde and Jordan Poyer. So we're gonna have a number

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Speaker 1: of guys and at least limited or maybe out today.

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Speaker 1: And I just wanted to ask you really quick about

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Speaker 1: Cody Ford. Do you guys have a timetable? I know

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Speaker 1: that you know there was questions about whether he'd played

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Speaker 1: guard or tackle. Do you guys have a timetable for

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Speaker 1: when you'd like to zero in on where you guys

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Speaker 1: are going to have him this season? Yeah? I'd like

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Speaker 1: to see see something unfold this week. When I say

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Speaker 1: this week, maybe over the next seven days, so we'll

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Speaker 1: just see. We're still looking at some things, trying to

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Speaker 1: evaluate make sure we have a full evaluation and understanding

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Speaker 1: of our situation, both what that would do at the

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Speaker 1: starter level and what it would do and how it

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Speaker 1: would impact our depth behind those starters. So before we

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Speaker 1: make any final move, we're going to take all those

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Speaker 1: factors into consideration. Thanks Sean. Yeah, hey, Sean, John Scott.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you about the defensive line

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Speaker 1: because we saw yesterday they were really getting after it.

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Speaker 1: And we know there's a lot of depth and you

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Speaker 1: like position flexibility. Just is this the most pieces you've

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Speaker 1: had to work with up front that you can move

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Speaker 1: in and put in different spots? Well, you know, I

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Speaker 1: think Eric Washington and Jack have done a great job

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Speaker 1: are two defensive line coaches number one. And the players

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Speaker 1: just to come in in great shape. Albeit there's a

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Speaker 1: couple working through some bumps and bruises right now, alsoft tissue,

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Speaker 1: what have you. But overall, there are some pieces and

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Speaker 1: I think that's important. We've talked along and hard about

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Speaker 1: just hey, we got to win up front on both

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Speaker 1: sides of the ball, and you've got to have that

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Speaker 1: so and and I don't think you really know until

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Speaker 1: you know. One outing doesn't necessarily mean that we've we've

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Speaker 1: got it, but also one outing doesn't necessarily mean we

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Speaker 1: don't have it either. So there's a lot of football

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Speaker 1: yet to be played and a lot of spots to

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Speaker 1: be earned yet, and I'm interested and excited to watch

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Speaker 1: it to come together. I thought they had a good

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Speaker 1: day yesterday. There's certainly still room for improvement, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's the base thing that those guys understand that

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Speaker 1: and they embrace that mentality of that growth mindset. And

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Speaker 1: do you notice the younger guys looking at a guy

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Speaker 1: like Mario Addison And he mentioned how and Quintin Jefferson said, man,

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Speaker 1: you move well for an older guy. Do you see

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Speaker 1: the younger guys gravitating to him and seeing that at

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Speaker 1: his age he's still bringing it day and day out.

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Speaker 1: He really is. And those relationships are fun to fun

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Speaker 1: to watch unfold guys that may not have known each

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Speaker 1: other very well, um that that have come from two

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Speaker 1: different teams in this case with Quentin and U and

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Speaker 1: Mario both to watch these guys form bonds that are

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Speaker 1: are significant where they get to know each other, they

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Speaker 1: get to know each other's families and and really respect

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Speaker 1: each other's games and and so that's that's pretty cool

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Speaker 1: to watch. And that's how that's um, you know, and

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Speaker 1: to me, an important part of a team coming together

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Speaker 1: is these relationships that these guys are building off the

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Speaker 1: field in particular and and um, but yeah, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: you watch guys, and in particular Mario and Quinton, you

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Speaker 1: know the way they compete and how passionate they are

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Speaker 1: about the game, and yet they're good people, which is

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Speaker 1: which is hard to find, and so we value that

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Speaker 1: here and we certainly appreciate the two of that. Thanks

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Speaker 1: an true Hey, Sean, Mike Catalana. A year ago, you

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Speaker 1: talked about how impressed you wherever Christian weighed trying to

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Speaker 1: learn the game and all those things. Now here we

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Speaker 1: are a year later. You know, virtual offseason, no preseason games.

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Speaker 1: He's got there. He's telling us I got a shot

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Speaker 1: to make this team. Like, what have you learned about him?

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Speaker 1: Even more so over the last year. Man. You know,

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Speaker 1: the thing I appreciate about Christian honestly is that he

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Speaker 1: doesn't change. You know, his effort, his effort, his enthusiasm,

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Speaker 1: is positive energy, he's got a great smile. Those are

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Speaker 1: the intangibles that he brings to our football team. And

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Speaker 1: I bet you if you'd ask any player on our team,

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01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 1: in particularly the guys that were here a year ago

1490
01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 1: and that are still with us today, they would say

1491
01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:11,559
Speaker 1: the same thing. He has great influence on our football

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01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:14,560
Speaker 1: team because of all those intangibles. And then all the

1493
01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:17,759
Speaker 1: while he continues to grow on the field and improve

1494
01:20:17,840 --> 01:20:21,479
Speaker 1: every day. And that's he really personifies the growth mindset

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01:20:21,640 --> 01:20:24,800
Speaker 1: that we talk about. And I appreciate his attitude and

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01:20:24,880 --> 01:20:27,840
Speaker 1: his daily approach and on the field, he said, you know,

1497
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:33,080
Speaker 1: last year everything was learning. Have you seen a difference. Yeah,

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01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:34,960
Speaker 1: I mean this is a guy that was really coming

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01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:38,360
Speaker 1: from starting at square square one and and uh, you know,

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01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:42,560
Speaker 1: he's he's grown and developed. So you know, playing in

1501
01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:45,160
Speaker 1: a varsity game, if you will, is a little bit

1502
01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:49,800
Speaker 1: different than practice in the backyard here. But he is

1503
01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:52,360
Speaker 1: growing and he is developing and we certainly appreciate what

1504
01:20:52,479 --> 01:20:56,559
Speaker 1: he brings to our team. Thank you. Yeah, Hey, Sean,

1505
01:20:56,680 --> 01:21:01,519
Speaker 1: John Warrel. There's as we're getting to know these players,

1506
01:21:01,600 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 1: these newcomers that you've added in the offseason, like Mario

1507
01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:07,800
Speaker 1: Addison and Quentin and you know, we talked to Tyler

1508
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 1: Matakevitch a few months ago. There seems to be I

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01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:16,639
Speaker 1: use the word looseness to them. There's there's an easy

1510
01:21:16,800 --> 01:21:20,400
Speaker 1: going nature about these guys. How do you see what

1511
01:21:20,560 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 1: do you see from the additions and how they've been

1512
01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:26,400
Speaker 1: able to kind of fold into the culture that you're

1513
01:21:26,479 --> 01:21:30,960
Speaker 1: developing well being being loose and in some ways and

1514
01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:36,320
Speaker 1: being themselves. Yeah, the last word you said, themselves. That's key. Um.

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01:21:37,040 --> 01:21:39,040
Speaker 1: We feel like guys can come here and once we

1516
01:21:39,160 --> 01:21:44,160
Speaker 1: lay down what's expected the guys have have clear boundaries

1517
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:46,479
Speaker 1: right in terms of what they can do and what

1518
01:21:46,600 --> 01:21:50,240
Speaker 1: they can't do, and and uh, within that, that's a big,

1519
01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:53,280
Speaker 1: wide open space where they can be themselves and express

1520
01:21:53,400 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 1: their true personalities and also be vulnerable at the same time.

1521
01:21:56,520 --> 01:21:58,559
Speaker 1: And I think I think that's a piece of our

1522
01:21:58,600 --> 01:22:02,559
Speaker 1: culture that the guys appreciate. But they also know having

1523
01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:04,679
Speaker 1: said that, they also know what's out of bounds also

1524
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:07,000
Speaker 1: and what's kind of on the other other side of

1525
01:22:07,040 --> 01:22:09,920
Speaker 1: that defence. And so but within that, I think, you know,

1526
01:22:10,600 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 1: the guys know that they've got a lot of space

1527
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:16,679
Speaker 1: to be themselves and to become the best version of themselves.

1528
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:19,639
Speaker 1: And um, I think once once we're able to sit

1529
01:22:19,800 --> 01:22:25,400
Speaker 1: to lay to lay down those expectations, these players can

1530
01:22:25,479 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: really to your point, settle in John, to to be

1531
01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:31,760
Speaker 1: comfortable and to yet understand that we're heading towards a

1532
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:34,439
Speaker 1: season here and we expect once we get on the

1533
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:36,559
Speaker 1: field that we all have a job to do. We're

1534
01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:41,200
Speaker 1: all professionals. That was Sean McDermott addressing the media before

1535
01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:44,599
Speaker 1: the team headed out for their fifth practice of Bill's

1536
01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:48,800
Speaker 1: training camp, more of a walk through ish practice. Today,

1537
01:22:48,880 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: they were in pads yesterday, so I would imagine it

1538
01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: would be a little dialed back today, and then Saturday

1539
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:57,080
Speaker 1: is their off day. They'll practice again on Sunday, so

1540
01:22:57,200 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: about a six day work week, which is normal. Heading

1541
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 1: into this season, we heard a lot about the rookies

1542
01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:06,680
Speaker 1: battling for spots, especially with the wide receiver position, and

1543
01:23:06,760 --> 01:23:09,200
Speaker 1: then a lot of talk about the defensive line and Zoe,

1544
01:23:09,200 --> 01:23:12,040
Speaker 1: I want to ask you a player like Mario Addison,

1545
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:14,280
Speaker 1: did you ever get to know him a little bit

1546
01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:16,960
Speaker 1: just because he's such a vet in this league. Of course,

1547
01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:23,080
Speaker 1: you had the training camp practices with the Panthers last season, right, Yeah,

1548
01:23:23,200 --> 01:23:24,760
Speaker 1: you know, I've been in the league so long. I

1549
01:23:25,280 --> 01:23:27,759
Speaker 1: might be considered the new Kevin Bacon of the NFL.

1550
01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:30,719
Speaker 1: It's normally like a one or two degree separation because

1551
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 1: me and Mario actually played in Washington together. We went

1552
01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:36,160
Speaker 1: training camp, and I think he was in for a

1553
01:23:36,240 --> 01:23:38,200
Speaker 1: couple of games before he moved on, and we stayed

1554
01:23:38,240 --> 01:23:40,640
Speaker 1: in contact, obviously with him continue to play in the

1555
01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:42,759
Speaker 1: league and growing as a player and being really dominant,

1556
01:23:43,320 --> 01:23:47,400
Speaker 1: but great character guy, obviously a great football player. I

1557
01:23:47,479 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 1: really liked what Shan was. He said it was hard,

1558
01:23:49,320 --> 01:23:52,040
Speaker 1: but they emphasized finding men like Mario that can actually

1559
01:23:52,080 --> 01:23:54,120
Speaker 1: play but also be great leaders in the locker room

1560
01:23:54,600 --> 01:23:56,160
Speaker 1: and then too. It was kind of funny to hear

1561
01:23:56,280 --> 01:23:59,120
Speaker 1: Quentin talk about Mario. Mario is only thirty two, moving well,

1562
01:23:59,160 --> 01:24:02,439
Speaker 1: he's young as young man out there bawling, but you know,

1563
01:24:02,520 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: he's been putting up to his sac numbers the last

1564
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:07,760
Speaker 1: couple of years, and so I'm really intrigued about what

1565
01:24:07,840 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 1: he's going to bring from a versa utility standpoint, obviously

1566
01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:12,760
Speaker 1: playing your traditional rush in, but also standing up doing

1567
01:24:12,800 --> 01:24:15,760
Speaker 1: that joker position, moving into a three technique, and so

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01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:17,439
Speaker 1: he's going to be one of those guys they use

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01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:19,599
Speaker 1: and move in very different ways because he can drop

1570
01:24:19,680 --> 01:24:22,040
Speaker 1: his well, and so it's going to be very interesting

1571
01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:24,519
Speaker 1: to see the type of packages they put together for him. Yeah,

1572
01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 1: I believe it's thirty nine sacks over the last four

1573
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:31,880
Speaker 1: seasons for Mario Addison. He has not hit peak career

1574
01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:36,320
Speaker 1: yet because year after year after again he posted the nine,

1575
01:24:36,479 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 1: nine and a half eleven sacks. So hopefully he'll have

1576
01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:41,880
Speaker 1: another season like that with the Bills, Zoe. When you

1577
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:44,920
Speaker 1: think about this defensive line and just how athletic and

1578
01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:48,400
Speaker 1: versatile they can be. You spoke about how Mario Addison

1579
01:24:48,479 --> 01:24:51,160
Speaker 1: can can move about the line, and Leslie Fraser of

1580
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:53,559
Speaker 1: course wants that out of his defensive line. He wants

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01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:56,760
Speaker 1: to get after the quarterback rush. The paths are more.

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01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:00,479
Speaker 1: What can they do with the amount of guys that

1583
01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:04,000
Speaker 1: they've brought in that don't just play defensive end or

1584
01:25:04,080 --> 01:25:07,599
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. A player like Quintin Jefferson who is known

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01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:11,920
Speaker 1: for playing multiple positions, A player like Mario Addison who

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01:25:11,960 --> 01:25:13,960
Speaker 1: can do that as well as well, a player like

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01:25:14,160 --> 01:25:17,280
Speaker 1: aj Epanessa who gets drafted and they're like, hey, yeah,

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01:25:17,360 --> 01:25:19,519
Speaker 1: you're an end, but you're gonna play inside on certain

1589
01:25:19,560 --> 01:25:23,599
Speaker 1: packages too. Could this be the most athletic, versatile defensive

1590
01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:26,519
Speaker 1: line that we could see out of Sean McDermott since

1591
01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:29,640
Speaker 1: he's gotten to the Bills. Oh, I don't know. Me

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01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:32,439
Speaker 1: and me and Kyle were pretty numbed. Yeah, I think

1593
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 1: for as far as number wise and the amount of

1594
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:36,160
Speaker 1: guys that can go inside and outside and not with

1595
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 1: trending there as well as a guy that can also

1596
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:41,479
Speaker 1: rush inside as well as outside and stand up and

1597
01:25:41,560 --> 01:25:44,120
Speaker 1: move around, because he did that in Washington and did

1598
01:25:44,160 --> 01:25:45,640
Speaker 1: that with us when me and him were kind of

1599
01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 1: a piece that would be could interchangeable. And so when

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01:25:50,360 --> 01:25:52,880
Speaker 1: you think about, you know, those four guys, and it

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01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:54,760
Speaker 1: may be another guy that I'm not thinking about that

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01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:57,599
Speaker 1: that can do that as well, I would say yes.

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01:25:57,840 --> 01:26:00,400
Speaker 1: And that versatility crosses a lot of issues because now

1604
01:26:00,479 --> 01:26:02,600
Speaker 1: instead of you know, a guy only could play in

1605
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:04,519
Speaker 1: the gun, he could play the left of the right

1606
01:26:04,600 --> 01:26:07,960
Speaker 1: side or just inside. Now you can figure out who

1607
01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 1: is my best matchup because a guy that Trent rushes

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01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:13,640
Speaker 1: well against maybe a guy that Mario struggles with. So

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01:26:13,760 --> 01:26:16,360
Speaker 1: let's flip him this week. Let's put Mario on the

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01:26:16,439 --> 01:26:18,720
Speaker 1: left side, Trent on the right side. Oh well, you

1611
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:20,760
Speaker 1: know what, I think, AJ do a better guy but

1612
01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:23,240
Speaker 1: against the left guard. This week, let's move him to

1613
01:26:23,280 --> 01:26:25,640
Speaker 1: the left three technique. And so now the game is

1614
01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:27,760
Speaker 1: about matchups. And so now that you have your four

1615
01:26:27,840 --> 01:26:31,439
Speaker 1: Russians versus their most advantageous opponent, you don't have to

1616
01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:33,679
Speaker 1: blitch as much. You know you can win more often

1617
01:26:33,760 --> 01:26:35,880
Speaker 1: because you have guys that can move all over the board.

1618
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:37,960
Speaker 1: And as far as from an office trying to game plan,

1619
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:40,120
Speaker 1: they don't know where you're gonna line up. Why is

1620
01:26:40,160 --> 01:26:42,040
Speaker 1: this guy over here this week? Last week he was

1621
01:26:42,080 --> 01:26:44,479
Speaker 1: over here, what are they doing? And so it causes

1622
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:47,160
Speaker 1: some confusion, and so it's definitely a strength of theirs

1623
01:26:47,240 --> 01:26:49,960
Speaker 1: that they're going to probably look to exploit, especially as

1624
01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:52,479
Speaker 1: the season develops and they really start figuring out what

1625
01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:54,479
Speaker 1: guys are really good at and what they do well

1626
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:57,840
Speaker 1: within the system. I cannot wait to watch this defensive line.

1627
01:26:57,960 --> 01:27:01,280
Speaker 1: I mean, what they can do Leslie Frazier wants them

1628
01:27:01,360 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 1: to do. It is going to be a nightmare for

1629
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:07,439
Speaker 1: offensive lines who stay on the field the entire game.

1630
01:27:08,040 --> 01:27:09,960
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be fun to watch them mix and

1631
01:27:10,080 --> 01:27:13,439
Speaker 1: match and move all over that line, switched positions, dropping

1632
01:27:13,479 --> 01:27:15,880
Speaker 1: a coverage, russ the pastor you name it. They're gonna

1633
01:27:15,880 --> 01:27:18,880
Speaker 1: do it all. I cannot wait because it all starts

1634
01:27:19,240 --> 01:27:20,960
Speaker 1: up front. We're gonna take a break, but when we

1635
01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:24,040
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna dip into our mail bag. Plenty

1636
01:27:24,080 --> 01:27:28,240
Speaker 1: of questions to answer. Maddie Glab Lorenzo Alexander coming back

1637
01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:31,360
Speaker 1: four hour number three of our show, It's One Bills

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01:27:31,400 --> 01:27:34,040
Speaker 1: Live presented by cly to help. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

1639
01:27:47,880 --> 01:27:50,880
Speaker 1: One Bills Live going up on a Friday. Maddie Glab

1640
01:27:51,080 --> 01:27:56,960
Speaker 1: here with co host Pro Bowler, former Bills linebacker Lorenzo Alexander.

1641
01:27:57,000 --> 01:27:59,760
Speaker 1: We're holding down the four. We got another hour to go,

1642
01:28:00,160 --> 01:28:03,040
Speaker 1: and we thought it'd be fun to dip into the

1643
01:28:03,240 --> 01:28:07,479
Speaker 1: tweet sheet presented by Corgan Moving System, the official equipment

1644
01:28:07,520 --> 01:28:10,599
Speaker 1: moving company of the Buffalo Bills. We did a mail

1645
01:28:10,680 --> 01:28:14,040
Speaker 1: back today, so plenty of questions to get into all

1646
01:28:14,120 --> 01:28:16,760
Speaker 1: started off and this one is from Tiffany says, this

1647
01:28:16,920 --> 01:28:19,880
Speaker 1: one is for Lorenzo, So this one is for you

1648
01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:24,280
Speaker 1: this season being unlike any other. What circumstance would it

1649
01:28:24,360 --> 01:28:27,680
Speaker 1: take for him to consider coming out of retirement to

1650
01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:31,679
Speaker 1: help lead this team to a championship. He sure looks

1651
01:28:31,720 --> 01:28:36,080
Speaker 1: to be in phenomenal shape, just saying while I am

1652
01:28:36,200 --> 01:28:38,240
Speaker 1: in good shape, I have been working out. You see

1653
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:40,679
Speaker 1: the videos with my mom. I'm definitely putting that work.

1654
01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:44,160
Speaker 1: But I don't know if i'd be leading anybody. I mean,

1655
01:28:44,200 --> 01:28:45,760
Speaker 1: if I came back, I'll be just more of a

1656
01:28:45,800 --> 01:28:48,120
Speaker 1: background player and just being the old guy on the team.

1657
01:28:48,160 --> 01:28:49,880
Speaker 1: Because this team is filled with a lot of youth

1658
01:28:49,960 --> 01:28:52,599
Speaker 1: and talent and guys that are gonna be leading the way.

1659
01:28:52,640 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 1: I would just be just kind of fitting in here

1660
01:28:55,560 --> 01:28:57,960
Speaker 1: guy just in case something happened. But what would that

1661
01:28:58,040 --> 01:28:59,840
Speaker 1: take out? I mean, I really don't know. I mean,

1662
01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:04,920
Speaker 1: obviously with COVID nineteen, um, this offseason has been quite

1663
01:29:05,040 --> 01:29:08,320
Speaker 1: different and has put all organizations in in a predicament

1664
01:29:08,400 --> 01:29:11,280
Speaker 1: of not being able to develop their young talent. And um,

1665
01:29:11,600 --> 01:29:14,880
Speaker 1: you know, so am I open to it possibly, but

1666
01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:17,320
Speaker 1: we'll see. I mean that has to be something that

1667
01:29:17,400 --> 01:29:21,120
Speaker 1: goes both ways, and the way these guys have been practicing,

1668
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:23,679
Speaker 1: the way these guys have been working, UM, my hope

1669
01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:26,160
Speaker 1: is they don't even have to make that call at all,

1670
01:29:26,240 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 1: and that these guys stand up and and earn the

1671
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:31,680
Speaker 1: trust of obviously the guys and the coaches as far

1672
01:29:31,760 --> 01:29:34,000
Speaker 1: as the young players so that they feel comfortable with

1673
01:29:34,200 --> 01:29:36,559
Speaker 1: going out there with them. I know this team misses

1674
01:29:36,600 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 1: you though quite a bit, but hopefully they can stay

1675
01:29:39,439 --> 01:29:41,760
Speaker 1: super healthy to the point where they don't need to

1676
01:29:42,560 --> 01:29:45,479
Speaker 1: call on anybody. I mean, this team was one of

1677
01:29:45,520 --> 01:29:48,679
Speaker 1: the healthiest, if not the healthiest, last season, and hopefully

1678
01:29:48,720 --> 01:29:50,760
Speaker 1: they can take that into this season as well. I

1679
01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:53,680
Speaker 1: mean that's something you never know. Injuries they come and

1680
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:57,920
Speaker 1: they go, so hopefully this team can be healthy throughout

1681
01:29:57,960 --> 01:30:01,840
Speaker 1: the entire season and post season as well. So you

1682
01:30:01,920 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 1: want to read off number two for us. Yeah, and

1683
01:30:04,880 --> 01:30:08,479
Speaker 1: it's from Seth Zoe. How big of an impact do

1684
01:30:08,600 --> 01:30:10,920
Speaker 1: you expect the new fifty seven to have? A j

1685
01:30:11,040 --> 01:30:14,600
Speaker 1: F Banessa seems like he could be moving around a

1686
01:30:14,680 --> 01:30:20,240
Speaker 1: bit this year, particularly on obviously obvious passing downs, and um,

1687
01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:23,479
Speaker 1: you know, I think we've talked about this last segment obviously,

1688
01:30:23,640 --> 01:30:26,600
Speaker 1: with him being able to move around inside and outside,

1689
01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:29,280
Speaker 1: playing the three technique, playing the five, playing the six,

1690
01:30:30,520 --> 01:30:33,799
Speaker 1: playing left and right, he's going to be very critical

1691
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:36,679
Speaker 1: to game planning week to week and trying to find

1692
01:30:36,760 --> 01:30:39,560
Speaker 1: his best matchup along with the other guys, and the

1693
01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:42,639
Speaker 1: more impactfully is versus his matchup is going to open

1694
01:30:42,760 --> 01:30:45,920
Speaker 1: up things for Jerry, for d for Trent, for Mario,

1695
01:30:46,000 --> 01:30:50,519
Speaker 1: for guys around him. But watching him very long player,

1696
01:30:50,680 --> 01:30:54,600
Speaker 1: very strong, athletic, and that's what really allows him to

1697
01:30:54,680 --> 01:30:57,799
Speaker 1: be so versatile, to be able to move inside and outside,

1698
01:30:57,840 --> 01:31:00,679
Speaker 1: which a lot of guys can't do. But having watched

1699
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:02,160
Speaker 1: a lot of film on him when he was coming

1700
01:31:02,160 --> 01:31:03,639
Speaker 1: out and was one of the guys I thought would

1701
01:31:03,640 --> 01:31:06,519
Speaker 1: have went first round. He was my favorite D lineman

1702
01:31:06,600 --> 01:31:09,280
Speaker 1: of the whole group, and so he's going to be

1703
01:31:09,479 --> 01:31:13,000
Speaker 1: very impactful this year as he moves around and they

1704
01:31:13,040 --> 01:31:16,519
Speaker 1: figure out really what he does well as the season progresses. Yeah.

1705
01:31:16,520 --> 01:31:19,400
Speaker 1: I remember in the combine when I started to research

1706
01:31:19,439 --> 01:31:22,120
Speaker 1: a bunch of names, I was like, I hope we

1707
01:31:22,280 --> 01:31:25,479
Speaker 1: get aj Epanessa. That would be amazing. And then I

1708
01:31:25,640 --> 01:31:27,160
Speaker 1: was like, no, he's gonna go in the first round.

1709
01:31:27,200 --> 01:31:29,280
Speaker 1: And then he dropped to us in the second round.

1710
01:31:29,320 --> 01:31:31,960
Speaker 1: Of course he wanted to go earlier, but I think

1711
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:34,559
Speaker 1: he's going to be a great fit to this defense.

1712
01:31:34,800 --> 01:31:37,200
Speaker 1: He spoke to the media this week and said, Yeah,

1713
01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:40,599
Speaker 1: Coach Washington is making me learn every single position. It's

1714
01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:43,080
Speaker 1: a little bit different. I've never done that before. But

1715
01:31:43,320 --> 01:31:45,920
Speaker 1: thankfully he has a room full of veterans like Trent

1716
01:31:46,320 --> 01:31:49,439
Speaker 1: and Mario and Jerry to learn from. I mean, an

1717
01:31:49,479 --> 01:31:52,360
Speaker 1: all star cast to be able to ask questions to

1718
01:31:53,240 --> 01:31:56,400
Speaker 1: Tick says, this is a question for Lorenzo. As of now,

1719
01:31:56,840 --> 01:31:59,200
Speaker 1: it looks as if AJ Klein is going to replace

1720
01:31:59,280 --> 01:32:02,200
Speaker 1: your position this season. Do you see any similarities between

1721
01:32:02,240 --> 01:32:04,719
Speaker 1: you and Klein? Also, do you think he'll be rushing

1722
01:32:04,800 --> 01:32:08,320
Speaker 1: the quarterback more with this defense than he has previously

1723
01:32:08,520 --> 01:32:12,880
Speaker 1: in his career? Um, I don't know. I mean, I

1724
01:32:12,920 --> 01:32:15,280
Speaker 1: haven't watched Aj enough. I mean just looking at him

1725
01:32:15,320 --> 01:32:17,200
Speaker 1: and the way he plays from the film I've seen,

1726
01:32:17,200 --> 01:32:20,080
Speaker 1: I think we're different. We do thing things differently. He's

1727
01:32:20,240 --> 01:32:23,240
Speaker 1: a traditional off the ball linebacker. Obviously I came up

1728
01:32:23,600 --> 01:32:26,360
Speaker 1: from being a defensive lineman to a linebacker, so I

1729
01:32:26,479 --> 01:32:28,720
Speaker 1: think he has a natural better as we see him

1730
01:32:28,760 --> 01:32:31,680
Speaker 1: intercept this ball right here, He's better in coverage. He's

1731
01:32:31,720 --> 01:32:34,360
Speaker 1: more fluid with his hips and space. I think I

1732
01:32:34,479 --> 01:32:38,080
Speaker 1: probably play. I'm probably better in pass rush maybe than

1733
01:32:38,160 --> 01:32:39,920
Speaker 1: he is as far as what I'm able to do

1734
01:32:40,000 --> 01:32:43,160
Speaker 1: there because of my defensive line background, and so we're

1735
01:32:43,240 --> 01:32:46,400
Speaker 1: both productive, but just different in the way we do it.

1736
01:32:47,080 --> 01:32:49,439
Speaker 1: And then also I don't know if he'll be rushing

1737
01:32:49,560 --> 01:32:52,880
Speaker 1: like I was on fourth down, moving down to the

1738
01:32:52,960 --> 01:32:56,160
Speaker 1: defensive line, so he'd be playing I think primarily then

1739
01:32:56,240 --> 01:32:59,360
Speaker 1: off the ball linebacker. And will they go to like

1740
01:32:59,439 --> 01:33:02,439
Speaker 1: an under up with that Sam linebacker that wheel linebacker

1741
01:33:02,560 --> 01:33:05,000
Speaker 1: walks onto the line, Yes, and so they will have

1742
01:33:05,160 --> 01:33:08,439
Speaker 1: opportunities for him to get after the quarterback and have

1743
01:33:08,600 --> 01:33:10,519
Speaker 1: one on ones with the tight ends because he can't

1744
01:33:10,560 --> 01:33:12,720
Speaker 1: do that. And that's also something they like to do,

1745
01:33:12,840 --> 01:33:15,760
Speaker 1: just to switch up the scheme and create one on

1746
01:33:15,880 --> 01:33:18,720
Speaker 1: one five one on ones, and so it's not necessarily four.

1747
01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:20,800
Speaker 1: It wasn't for me to get a sack, but it's

1748
01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:22,599
Speaker 1: to create one on ones across the board for all

1749
01:33:22,680 --> 01:33:26,479
Speaker 1: five defensive linemen and to create some pressure without having

1750
01:33:26,600 --> 01:33:31,120
Speaker 1: to blitz a six guy. And Matt and Tremaine both

1751
01:33:31,160 --> 01:33:33,840
Speaker 1: spoke on aj and and how he's came into the

1752
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:36,320
Speaker 1: room so far and just said that they're they're happy

1753
01:33:36,360 --> 01:33:39,280
Speaker 1: to have another veteran like you inside of that room

1754
01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:42,080
Speaker 1: to learn from, especially when it comes to experience playing

1755
01:33:42,160 --> 01:33:45,919
Speaker 1: for different teams, playing for some very talented teams, especially

1756
01:33:46,000 --> 01:33:48,040
Speaker 1: with the Saints and the time that he spent with

1757
01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:51,240
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. Tremaine said, he's a guy who's who's

1758
01:33:51,320 --> 01:33:53,840
Speaker 1: just coming in and trying to learn right now. It's

1759
01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:56,000
Speaker 1: not like he came in as as this big vet

1760
01:33:56,080 --> 01:33:58,720
Speaker 1: with his chest high and it's like, hey, this is

1761
01:33:58,800 --> 01:34:01,720
Speaker 1: how we do things here. He's just coming in, sitting down,

1762
01:34:01,880 --> 01:34:05,679
Speaker 1: taking it all in, asking questions to Tremaine and Matt

1763
01:34:05,760 --> 01:34:07,600
Speaker 1: and the other guys in the linebacker room. This is

1764
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:09,880
Speaker 1: not somebody who's trying to take over the show by

1765
01:34:09,960 --> 01:34:13,040
Speaker 1: any means. He wants to adversatility as well as his

1766
01:34:13,160 --> 01:34:15,640
Speaker 1: experience to this defense, all right, you want to do

1767
01:34:15,840 --> 01:34:19,680
Speaker 1: one more before we take a break? Sure, And this

1768
01:34:19,840 --> 01:34:23,320
Speaker 1: is from Nick T. From a physical standpoint, do you

1769
01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:27,160
Speaker 1: think player health is better or worse without preseason games

1770
01:34:27,640 --> 01:34:29,920
Speaker 1: or the lack of preseason games allow players to start

1771
01:34:30,000 --> 01:34:32,840
Speaker 1: the year better off physically or is it or is

1772
01:34:32,880 --> 01:34:35,800
Speaker 1: the physical contact and preseason games needed in order to

1773
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:39,200
Speaker 1: prepare your body? And I think you know, obviously there's

1774
01:34:39,200 --> 01:34:41,320
Speaker 1: always a fine line as far as blending into two.

1775
01:34:41,400 --> 01:34:44,639
Speaker 1: And that's why you never see starters play every single

1776
01:34:44,680 --> 01:34:48,160
Speaker 1: preseason game, but they will play in some because if

1777
01:34:48,200 --> 01:34:51,840
Speaker 1: there is something too hitting the guy going full contact,

1778
01:34:51,920 --> 01:34:55,759
Speaker 1: having your quarterback take a hit, you know, finishing through plays,

1779
01:34:56,280 --> 01:35:00,680
Speaker 1: playing to the whistle, there is a for that. But

1780
01:35:00,760 --> 01:35:02,360
Speaker 1: at the same time, you don't need to do that

1781
01:35:02,600 --> 01:35:06,439
Speaker 1: four times, and since you play a sixteen or a

1782
01:35:06,520 --> 01:35:09,600
Speaker 1: twenty game schedule, and so that is the balance. And

1783
01:35:09,640 --> 01:35:11,080
Speaker 1: so I know the coaches are going to try to

1784
01:35:11,160 --> 01:35:13,720
Speaker 1: have to artificially create that with some of their live

1785
01:35:13,800 --> 01:35:16,960
Speaker 1: practices because there aren't any preseason games. But at the

1786
01:35:17,000 --> 01:35:19,800
Speaker 1: same time, the goal is to get to the first

1787
01:35:19,880 --> 01:35:24,040
Speaker 1: game healthy and on point ready to go. And if

1788
01:35:24,080 --> 01:35:26,080
Speaker 1: you have to dial it back, I'd rather fall on

1789
01:35:26,120 --> 01:35:29,000
Speaker 1: the other side of making sure I'm healthy versus banging

1790
01:35:29,080 --> 01:35:31,439
Speaker 1: too much and then guys are sluggish that first week

1791
01:35:31,520 --> 01:35:34,120
Speaker 1: and having gotten their legs back for the season, because

1792
01:35:34,120 --> 01:35:36,040
Speaker 1: that's when it counts. Now. A lot of people have

1793
01:35:36,160 --> 01:35:39,519
Speaker 1: said and predicted, you know, the first few weeks, from players,

1794
01:35:39,600 --> 01:35:41,920
Speaker 1: to coaches to even the refs. This could be the

1795
01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:45,200
Speaker 1: first few weeks, could be their true preseason. I know

1796
01:35:45,320 --> 01:35:48,840
Speaker 1: these games count, but without preseason games, especially for some

1797
01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:52,639
Speaker 1: rookies who could be playing sometime in games, it could

1798
01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:55,240
Speaker 1: be kind of an adjustment period a week one in

1799
01:35:55,360 --> 01:35:58,720
Speaker 1: Week two especially, and for the refs too, it's not

1800
01:35:58,840 --> 01:36:01,880
Speaker 1: like they have preseason games to work with. I'm sure

1801
01:36:01,960 --> 01:36:05,720
Speaker 1: they'll be out at some practices, you know, practicing for

1802
01:36:05,800 --> 01:36:09,320
Speaker 1: themselves too before Week one hits. But we're gonna hear

1803
01:36:09,400 --> 01:36:14,320
Speaker 1: from Quintin Jefferson as well as a Mario Addison when

1804
01:36:14,400 --> 01:36:17,360
Speaker 1: we come back. They both addressed the media today before practice.

1805
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:21,840
Speaker 1: We'll be back in a couple minutes. Maddie glab Lorenzo Alexander.

1806
01:36:21,880 --> 01:36:24,760
Speaker 1: It's One Bills Live, presented by Kalidah Health. This is

1807
01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:41,759
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Both back into One Bills Live. Maddi

1808
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:46,600
Speaker 1: glab here with former Bills linebacker Lorenzo Alexander. We have

1809
01:36:46,720 --> 01:36:49,479
Speaker 1: been talking about the defensive line of defense quite a bit.

1810
01:36:49,880 --> 01:36:52,640
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott addressed it in his press conference. And now

1811
01:36:52,680 --> 01:36:56,679
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from new players Mario Addison and Quintin Jefferson.

1812
01:36:56,760 --> 01:37:00,439
Speaker 1: Mario of course, coming from the Carolina Panthers, uh and

1813
01:37:00,800 --> 01:37:05,120
Speaker 1: Quentin Jefferson coming from the Seahawks. Let's here from Mario Addison. First,

1814
01:37:05,200 --> 01:37:08,200
Speaker 1: he had quite a bit to say on what he's

1815
01:37:08,320 --> 01:37:13,880
Speaker 1: helping aj Abanessa with in his rookie season. I want

1816
01:37:13,920 --> 01:37:19,080
Speaker 1: to ask you about ajs. He's willing to learn um

1817
01:37:19,240 --> 01:37:21,240
Speaker 1: every chance he get. He pulled them to the side,

1818
01:37:21,880 --> 01:37:25,200
Speaker 1: ask me different questions you know about the system or

1819
01:37:26,040 --> 01:37:28,560
Speaker 1: all the things that I you know, had to contribute

1820
01:37:28,640 --> 01:37:32,040
Speaker 1: to get, you know, to sussist. And I see him

1821
01:37:32,080 --> 01:37:34,439
Speaker 1: pulling guys like Jerry to the side. Is where you

1822
01:37:34,520 --> 01:37:39,679
Speaker 1: know Trent to the side they got He have bright

1823
01:37:39,760 --> 01:37:43,120
Speaker 1: fish nice by the frame the side of the kid

1824
01:37:44,160 --> 01:37:50,280
Speaker 1: very fast and he's just ready. Man. Always get to

1825
01:37:50,400 --> 01:37:55,680
Speaker 1: hear those words from a vet, to hear him talk

1826
01:37:55,680 --> 01:37:58,360
Speaker 1: about a rookie, who who's playing well and who who

1827
01:37:58,439 --> 01:38:00,839
Speaker 1: has been doing good things in the past week, especially

1828
01:38:01,080 --> 01:38:03,880
Speaker 1: a rookie who has been tasked with learning every single

1829
01:38:03,960 --> 01:38:09,560
Speaker 1: position on the defensive line. Yeah, and that's what you

1830
01:38:09,640 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 1: want to hear from about aj you know, being a veteran,

1831
01:38:14,520 --> 01:38:17,080
Speaker 1: having been the obviously in that position, and hearing Mario speak.

1832
01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:19,360
Speaker 1: When you see young guys coming, especially guys that have

1833
01:38:19,439 --> 01:38:22,000
Speaker 1: been drafted, the first thing I want to know, even

1834
01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:24,320
Speaker 1: before how good they are, because obviously they got drafted

1835
01:38:24,320 --> 01:38:27,360
Speaker 1: at high because they can play football. Is their mentality

1836
01:38:27,560 --> 01:38:30,200
Speaker 1: and their character and who they are. Are they coming

1837
01:38:30,240 --> 01:38:33,880
Speaker 1: in with the sense of entitlement or are they coming

1838
01:38:33,960 --> 01:38:36,479
Speaker 1: in with a sense of humidity, And like, Okay, I

1839
01:38:36,600 --> 01:38:39,080
Speaker 1: know I've did well in college, but now I'm coming

1840
01:38:39,120 --> 01:38:41,200
Speaker 1: in to learn something new. This game is different, this

1841
01:38:41,360 --> 01:38:43,640
Speaker 1: environment is different, and it doesn't mean that I'm not

1842
01:38:43,720 --> 01:38:45,720
Speaker 1: confident who I am, but I need to learn from

1843
01:38:45,720 --> 01:38:48,000
Speaker 1: people that have been around it for a long time.

1844
01:38:48,080 --> 01:38:51,479
Speaker 1: Because there's a ton of guys probably in Mario's draft

1845
01:38:51,520 --> 01:38:54,200
Speaker 1: class and in my draft class when I was there,

1846
01:38:54,320 --> 01:38:56,400
Speaker 1: that we outplayed and so there's a reason why. And

1847
01:38:56,520 --> 01:38:58,320
Speaker 1: so it's good to hear that he's trying to figure

1848
01:38:58,360 --> 01:39:02,720
Speaker 1: out from Trent, I'm Jerry from Mario about things that's

1849
01:39:02,720 --> 01:39:04,920
Speaker 1: going to allow him to be a successful football player.

1850
01:39:05,240 --> 01:39:07,519
Speaker 1: But I hope he's also ask you, hey, man, what's

1851
01:39:07,560 --> 01:39:09,400
Speaker 1: this off the field stuff? How do I manage all

1852
01:39:09,439 --> 01:39:12,400
Speaker 1: these other things that are coming my way? Because I

1853
01:39:12,520 --> 01:39:17,120
Speaker 1: am a high draft pick now I'm a professional, you know, finances, relationships,

1854
01:39:17,160 --> 01:39:19,679
Speaker 1: all those things that if he has those in order,

1855
01:39:19,760 --> 01:39:21,600
Speaker 1: then he's allowed to give his full self when he

1856
01:39:21,640 --> 01:39:24,040
Speaker 1: shows up to that building and then be the productive player.

1857
01:39:24,439 --> 01:39:26,760
Speaker 1: And so I know, knowing Jerry, knowing Trent, and then

1858
01:39:26,800 --> 01:39:29,320
Speaker 1: obviously knowing who Mario is, character wised, he'll be able

1859
01:39:29,320 --> 01:39:31,080
Speaker 1: to see that just as much as he's seeing what

1860
01:39:31,120 --> 01:39:33,400
Speaker 1: they're doing on the football field and hopefully be able

1861
01:39:33,400 --> 01:39:35,800
Speaker 1: to put together a pretty good career in Buffalo. And

1862
01:39:35,960 --> 01:39:39,120
Speaker 1: Mario is also asked about Tremaine Edmonds what he's seen

1863
01:39:39,200 --> 01:39:41,439
Speaker 1: out of him so far. I'm sure when he first

1864
01:39:41,479 --> 01:39:44,000
Speaker 1: came into this team he was saying, wait, that's our

1865
01:39:44,080 --> 01:39:49,240
Speaker 1: mic linebacker. That tall player is our mic linebacker. What

1866
01:39:49,680 --> 01:39:52,719
Speaker 1: type of defense are they running here? They're just placing

1867
01:39:53,160 --> 01:39:57,280
Speaker 1: these odds shaped of like super tall guys in the middle.

1868
01:39:57,560 --> 01:39:59,639
Speaker 1: How does that work? But you know it works well

1869
01:39:59,680 --> 01:40:01,560
Speaker 1: for this defense. So what's here? And Mario had to

1870
01:40:01,600 --> 01:40:06,280
Speaker 1: say about Tremaine. I've seen him last year, you know

1871
01:40:06,320 --> 01:40:08,479
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, when we playing against him, like joint

1872
01:40:08,520 --> 01:40:12,439
Speaker 1: practice in preseason everything, And I never really just walked

1873
01:40:12,560 --> 01:40:15,439
Speaker 1: up on this guy and just seeing how big and

1874
01:40:15,560 --> 01:40:19,680
Speaker 1: tall he really is. So because I really didn't, you know,

1875
01:40:19,840 --> 01:40:22,519
Speaker 1: remember his face well when I first met him. So

1876
01:40:22,640 --> 01:40:27,840
Speaker 1: when I first got here, like, uh, that's the end

1877
01:40:27,920 --> 01:40:30,360
Speaker 1: right now, you know what it's like, that's at the end.

1878
01:40:30,600 --> 01:40:34,040
Speaker 1: They're like, no, man's I say here a middle backer.

1879
01:40:34,320 --> 01:40:36,320
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, he's a redder Becker. So then I

1880
01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:37,560
Speaker 1: had to go chop it up Wood. You know what

1881
01:40:37,600 --> 01:40:40,760
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Tell him, bro, you're tall, like you're tall

1882
01:40:40,880 --> 01:40:43,840
Speaker 1: head and you're like my side, you know what I'm saying,

1883
01:40:43,880 --> 01:40:46,679
Speaker 1: playing middle lineback. So it was like my hats talked

1884
01:40:46,680 --> 01:40:49,600
Speaker 1: to him. But you see, you know, um how the

1885
01:40:49,760 --> 01:40:52,920
Speaker 1: term he is to fly around to the ball, you know,

1886
01:40:53,120 --> 01:40:56,320
Speaker 1: make plays and you know because he the quarterback or

1887
01:40:56,479 --> 01:41:01,200
Speaker 1: defense you know, and to get us lined up broad beast.

1888
01:41:02,560 --> 01:41:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm liking I'm seeing great things out of young Manzo.

1889
01:41:07,200 --> 01:41:11,360
Speaker 1: When the Bills drafted Tremaine, I mean, what were your

1890
01:41:11,479 --> 01:41:14,560
Speaker 1: thoughts on when you first saw him in person and

1891
01:41:15,320 --> 01:41:18,960
Speaker 1: knew where he was gonna play on this defense, Yeah,

1892
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:22,560
Speaker 1: I had the same type of interaction or reaction I

1893
01:41:22,640 --> 01:41:24,240
Speaker 1: guess when I saw him, I was like, my god,

1894
01:41:24,400 --> 01:41:26,640
Speaker 1: this dude is big. But I was actually winning when

1895
01:41:26,680 --> 01:41:28,280
Speaker 1: he was with his dad, and I said, my god,

1896
01:41:28,360 --> 01:41:31,000
Speaker 1: who was this? And so it made sense why he

1897
01:41:31,120 --> 01:41:33,040
Speaker 1: was so big because his dad's a big man too.

1898
01:41:33,720 --> 01:41:37,040
Speaker 1: And so you know, I always mess which remain about him,

1899
01:41:37,240 --> 01:41:39,360
Speaker 1: making sure he watches what he eats because he loves

1900
01:41:39,400 --> 01:41:41,160
Speaker 1: to eat. Because I said, man, you can easily turn

1901
01:41:41,240 --> 01:41:43,200
Speaker 1: into a defensive end because you probably can play that

1902
01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:47,160
Speaker 1: at a high level too. Well, Yeah, Tremaine is obviously

1903
01:41:47,240 --> 01:41:49,679
Speaker 1: second to none, and it is becoming a standard. People

1904
01:41:49,680 --> 01:41:52,320
Speaker 1: are gonna try to find guys that can run like

1905
01:41:52,439 --> 01:41:54,000
Speaker 1: he runs and as big as he is, and that

1906
01:41:54,080 --> 01:41:56,200
Speaker 1: can lead the way he does, because those are three

1907
01:41:56,680 --> 01:41:58,439
Speaker 1: things that are hard to find. But that's what's gonna

1908
01:41:58,439 --> 01:42:01,160
Speaker 1: make him a great player. And so you know, I

1909
01:42:01,280 --> 01:42:02,760
Speaker 1: was in all of him too. I'm steal in all

1910
01:42:02,800 --> 01:42:04,519
Speaker 1: of what he's able to do because he's still just

1911
01:42:04,560 --> 01:42:06,400
Speaker 1: scratching the surface. And so it's going to be really

1912
01:42:06,479 --> 01:42:08,840
Speaker 1: fun to see him really coming to his own and

1913
01:42:08,920 --> 01:42:12,040
Speaker 1: take this defense under his own identity as far as

1914
01:42:12,120 --> 01:42:13,840
Speaker 1: what he wants to do with it. And it's even

1915
01:42:13,920 --> 01:42:15,960
Speaker 1: cool to hear Mario talk about him because he was

1916
01:42:16,000 --> 01:42:18,920
Speaker 1: with Luke Keekley in Carolina and so he knows what

1917
01:42:19,000 --> 01:42:22,639
Speaker 1: greatness looks like. And for him to talk that positive

1918
01:42:22,640 --> 01:42:25,479
Speaker 1: about Tremaine. Obviously we knew who Terrain was anyway, but

1919
01:42:25,960 --> 01:42:28,479
Speaker 1: when you when you couple that with him being around

1920
01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:31,880
Speaker 1: Luke and then his h that's what he's comparing him to,

1921
01:42:32,240 --> 01:42:34,800
Speaker 1: because that's that's was probably one of the best linebackers

1922
01:42:34,840 --> 01:42:36,559
Speaker 1: for a while in the league. And now you come

1923
01:42:36,680 --> 01:42:39,320
Speaker 1: next to Tremaine like this dude nasty too, Okay, So

1924
01:42:39,479 --> 01:42:42,760
Speaker 1: that gives me what Mario saving even more validation because

1925
01:42:42,760 --> 01:42:44,880
Speaker 1: of who he's been around in his career. I just

1926
01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:47,200
Speaker 1: want to fast forward, like two or three years to

1927
01:42:47,360 --> 01:42:50,679
Speaker 1: see how Tremaine becomes a household name in the NFL,

1928
01:42:50,800 --> 01:42:53,280
Speaker 1: because we've already seen it here in Buffalo. With with

1929
01:42:53,439 --> 01:42:56,000
Speaker 1: what he's been able to do in just two seasons,

1930
01:42:56,120 --> 01:42:59,200
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see how his career takes shape

1931
01:42:59,240 --> 01:43:01,839
Speaker 1: in the in the next few seasons ahead. But speaking

1932
01:43:01,880 --> 01:43:05,639
Speaker 1: of Luke Keikley, Mario also talked about spending the last

1933
01:43:05,840 --> 01:43:08,760
Speaker 1: eight seasons in Carolina. So let's hear a ready, how

1934
01:43:08,760 --> 01:43:12,479
Speaker 1: to say about that? Now? When I first got here,

1935
01:43:12,680 --> 01:43:17,400
Speaker 1: I was like, um, you know, these franchises real similar

1936
01:43:17,479 --> 01:43:19,920
Speaker 1: to you know, Carolina, because you know, most of the

1937
01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:23,800
Speaker 1: guys you know, kind of play, you know, kind of

1938
01:43:23,840 --> 01:43:28,599
Speaker 1: coach along each other and got the same Corbetts. But here, man,

1939
01:43:29,120 --> 01:43:33,599
Speaker 1: it's it's it's different, you know, it's it's it's family. Man.

1940
01:43:34,080 --> 01:43:36,760
Speaker 1: It's no selfish at all. You know, we need one

1941
01:43:36,800 --> 01:43:40,800
Speaker 1: another to you know, influence each other and push each other. Um,

1942
01:43:41,560 --> 01:43:44,800
Speaker 1: and and it's fun, like we actually have fun here.

1943
01:43:45,240 --> 01:43:47,960
Speaker 1: It ain't all it's it's about football and it's about winning.

1944
01:43:48,400 --> 01:43:50,639
Speaker 1: Let's say, let me get it off a much. It's

1945
01:43:50,640 --> 01:43:52,840
Speaker 1: all about winning and we're here to win. But at

1946
01:43:52,880 --> 01:43:56,559
Speaker 1: the same time, man, here they they make it fun

1947
01:43:56,640 --> 01:43:59,519
Speaker 1: to come to work. And Covie mcderney, Kavie mcdermany DoD

1948
01:43:59,520 --> 01:44:03,440
Speaker 1: a great job with you know, letting the guys beat themselves.

1949
01:44:04,240 --> 01:44:07,040
Speaker 1: And I loved it about here. And um, you know,

1950
01:44:07,080 --> 01:44:09,519
Speaker 1: I walk around, you know, the younger player called me

1951
01:44:09,600 --> 01:44:13,639
Speaker 1: og or uncle, you know, and I'm starting embrace that role,

1952
01:44:14,280 --> 01:44:16,640
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's a fun environment to be

1953
01:44:16,680 --> 01:44:20,400
Speaker 1: alone and it's a great organization. So what does that

1954
01:44:20,560 --> 01:44:24,360
Speaker 1: mean he's taking your role of uncle? Yeah, yeah, I

1955
01:44:24,439 --> 01:44:26,200
Speaker 1: mean it's a whole bunch of uncles out there. You know,

1956
01:44:26,560 --> 01:44:28,719
Speaker 1: in our code you can have about four or five uncles,

1957
01:44:28,960 --> 01:44:31,640
Speaker 1: you know, So it all helps you know, uh, And

1958
01:44:31,760 --> 01:44:34,080
Speaker 1: so embrace it. Mark, You've earned that title because of

1959
01:44:34,120 --> 01:44:35,920
Speaker 1: what you've done and how long you've played in the league,

1960
01:44:35,920 --> 01:44:38,360
Speaker 1: and so the the earlier you embrace it, the cooler

1961
01:44:38,400 --> 01:44:40,680
Speaker 1: it becomes. And so but it's good to hear what

1962
01:44:40,760 --> 01:44:43,440
Speaker 1: he's talking about it. So he's really just re emphasizing

1963
01:44:43,520 --> 01:44:46,719
Speaker 1: what coach McDermott talks about. You know, it's about winning.

1964
01:44:46,840 --> 01:44:49,479
Speaker 1: But within that winning, uh, you know, there's a fence

1965
01:44:49,680 --> 01:44:51,720
Speaker 1: and this is how we're going to win. And so

1966
01:44:51,840 --> 01:44:53,680
Speaker 1: he allows you to be yourself. He wants you to

1967
01:44:53,760 --> 01:44:56,760
Speaker 1: talk about process and in every single day, he wants

1968
01:44:56,760 --> 01:44:59,280
Speaker 1: you to think about the growth mindset. How can you

1969
01:44:59,360 --> 01:45:01,479
Speaker 1: be better than you were yesterday and become the best

1970
01:45:01,600 --> 01:45:05,240
Speaker 1: version of yourself today for the people around you. And

1971
01:45:05,400 --> 01:45:09,240
Speaker 1: so that's why Sean brought Mario in because obviously he's

1972
01:45:09,360 --> 01:45:11,920
Speaker 1: articulating that very well and then he's gonna take that

1973
01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:15,280
Speaker 1: back to the locker room and articulate that to whoever

1974
01:45:15,360 --> 01:45:17,719
Speaker 1: he comes in contact with. With the relationship he continues

1975
01:45:17,760 --> 01:45:20,719
Speaker 1: to develop doing throughout the season, and that's what helps

1976
01:45:20,760 --> 01:45:27,240
Speaker 1: this culture really spread throughout the building and allows gods

1977
01:45:27,280 --> 01:45:30,080
Speaker 1: to sometimes play above themselves because, like you said, it's

1978
01:45:30,120 --> 01:45:32,559
Speaker 1: a family, and so I'm willing to do more things

1979
01:45:33,120 --> 01:45:35,519
Speaker 1: for you because I see you as my brother, as

1980
01:45:35,640 --> 01:45:38,280
Speaker 1: a real family. And Sean really focuses on this relationship

1981
01:45:38,280 --> 01:45:41,240
Speaker 1: and love peace than I may do because we're just

1982
01:45:41,360 --> 01:45:43,400
Speaker 1: teammates and I kind of know you. I know we're

1983
01:45:43,439 --> 01:45:46,120
Speaker 1: co workers, but I'm gonna do me. You do you.

1984
01:45:46,320 --> 01:45:48,559
Speaker 1: I know we're trying to win, but I'm only gonna

1985
01:45:48,560 --> 01:45:50,960
Speaker 1: go this far. No, No, I love you, my brother.

1986
01:45:51,000 --> 01:45:52,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go a little bit further. I may make

1987
01:45:52,840 --> 01:45:54,760
Speaker 1: a couple more sacrifices, which I think is going to

1988
01:45:54,800 --> 01:45:57,920
Speaker 1: be real key when we talk about guys. Once you

1989
01:45:58,080 --> 01:45:59,840
Speaker 1: kind of get out of training camp and get into

1990
01:45:59,880 --> 01:46:03,080
Speaker 1: the season, guys continually to make sure that they are

1991
01:46:03,520 --> 01:46:06,200
Speaker 1: putting themselves in a safest position as far as going out,

1992
01:46:06,640 --> 01:46:09,599
Speaker 1: you know, minimizing contact with other people in all ways

1993
01:46:09,600 --> 01:46:12,120
Speaker 1: and kind of self quarantining themselves, and that's going to

1994
01:46:12,439 --> 01:46:14,240
Speaker 1: be a big difference as far as well. I think

1995
01:46:14,280 --> 01:46:15,559
Speaker 1: this team is going to have a lot of success

1996
01:46:15,680 --> 01:46:17,840
Speaker 1: in those regards as well. Yeah, I think this team

1997
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:19,960
Speaker 1: was just set up in such a perfect way with

1998
01:46:20,040 --> 01:46:22,080
Speaker 1: this type of culture as to where they can take

1999
01:46:22,160 --> 01:46:24,640
Speaker 1: on a pandemic like this and feel good about the

2000
01:46:24,680 --> 01:46:28,040
Speaker 1: players leaving the complex every day because that trust has

2001
01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:30,439
Speaker 1: already been built, and that trust is already there, and

2002
01:46:30,560 --> 01:46:34,200
Speaker 1: you have leaders like Mario who hasn't even played a

2003
01:46:34,320 --> 01:46:36,800
Speaker 1: season on this team but is already having a big

2004
01:46:36,920 --> 01:46:39,360
Speaker 1: voice in the locker room that is echoing what coach

2005
01:46:39,439 --> 01:46:42,040
Speaker 1: McDermott says. I mean, it's one thing to hear it

2006
01:46:42,120 --> 01:46:44,080
Speaker 1: from coach, but it's another thing to hear it from

2007
01:46:44,120 --> 01:46:47,680
Speaker 1: a veteran player. Sometimes that resonates a lot more with

2008
01:46:47,880 --> 01:46:50,439
Speaker 1: certain guys hearing it and understanding it from a different

2009
01:46:50,479 --> 01:46:54,679
Speaker 1: type of perspective or from a different person. And Mario

2010
01:46:54,800 --> 01:46:57,600
Speaker 1: also had quite a bit to say on what he

2011
01:46:57,800 --> 01:47:01,400
Speaker 1: thinks of the competition amongst the defensive line, because there's

2012
01:47:01,400 --> 01:47:05,880
Speaker 1: a lot of guys in that room right now. It's

2013
01:47:05,880 --> 01:47:08,880
Speaker 1: always a competition and we all gonna please each other

2014
01:47:09,320 --> 01:47:12,360
Speaker 1: let's name the game. Compete, compete, compete and to make

2015
01:47:12,400 --> 01:47:17,720
Speaker 1: each other better. And um, these guys as they they

2016
01:47:17,800 --> 01:47:19,920
Speaker 1: made me elevate my game. You know, I made a

2017
01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:22,360
Speaker 1: couple of guys elevate their game. And I like it

2018
01:47:22,479 --> 01:47:25,360
Speaker 1: that way. You know, when you see a guy that's

2019
01:47:25,400 --> 01:47:28,400
Speaker 1: out there real smooth during their thing, like okay, okay,

2020
01:47:28,479 --> 01:47:31,559
Speaker 1: you're moving, well, you're doing the thing. He's stabbing, he's spending,

2021
01:47:31,560 --> 01:47:33,560
Speaker 1: he's doing all that. I like. I like that, So

2022
01:47:33,680 --> 01:47:36,280
Speaker 1: it made me, know, elevate my game. And when they

2023
01:47:36,360 --> 01:47:38,479
Speaker 1: see an old guy like me, you know, coming out

2024
01:47:38,520 --> 01:47:42,880
Speaker 1: the edge flying like wow, you still can move, you

2025
01:47:43,040 --> 01:47:45,800
Speaker 1: make the younger guys elevate their game. So you know,

2026
01:47:45,880 --> 01:47:51,040
Speaker 1: it's always competition always. I just love the personality that

2027
01:47:51,120 --> 01:47:53,960
Speaker 1: you can already already see it in Mario. Um, I

2028
01:47:54,000 --> 01:47:56,040
Speaker 1: mean he's he's been in the league for for ten

2029
01:47:56,160 --> 01:47:59,680
Speaker 1: years now. To have that type of personality in that

2030
01:47:59,800 --> 01:48:02,000
Speaker 1: low room. Of course, as somebody who works for the

2031
01:48:02,120 --> 01:48:04,360
Speaker 1: team in the media department, you love to you love

2032
01:48:04,439 --> 01:48:06,559
Speaker 1: to hear that and see that because that's somebody who

2033
01:48:06,600 --> 01:48:08,439
Speaker 1: can be involved in a lot of videos, just like

2034
01:48:08,600 --> 01:48:13,160
Speaker 1: you or zom. But man, is there some competition in

2035
01:48:13,240 --> 01:48:16,200
Speaker 1: this defensive line room, and and a lot of guys

2036
01:48:16,240 --> 01:48:19,839
Speaker 1: who have a lot of different experience from different teams,

2037
01:48:20,600 --> 01:48:24,519
Speaker 1: from lots of years spent in the league. Jerry Hughes,

2038
01:48:24,920 --> 01:48:33,280
Speaker 1: Trent Quinton, Mario Vernon, Brian Cox, Junior Harrison's coming back.

2039
01:48:33,360 --> 01:48:36,439
Speaker 1: You have at Oliver. I mean, the list goes on

2040
01:48:37,439 --> 01:48:39,680
Speaker 1: and it's not like you're like, Okay, this is this

2041
01:48:39,840 --> 01:48:41,760
Speaker 1: is a fourth line, this is a third Like these

2042
01:48:41,840 --> 01:48:45,080
Speaker 1: guys can all start on this defense and it's crazy

2043
01:48:45,200 --> 01:48:49,120
Speaker 1: to think that. He's definitely a good issue to have,

2044
01:48:49,479 --> 01:48:51,360
Speaker 1: you know, guys coming off and so what you what

2045
01:48:51,520 --> 01:48:55,280
Speaker 1: you really realize is that defensive lines, the competition is great,

2046
01:48:55,280 --> 01:48:57,320
Speaker 1: but you want to have It's not like Mike Linebacker

2047
01:48:57,400 --> 01:48:59,680
Speaker 1: like Tremade is never coming off the field unless if

2048
01:48:59,720 --> 01:49:02,519
Speaker 1: he is off the field is something wrong. Defensive line,

2049
01:49:02,520 --> 01:49:04,400
Speaker 1: you want to have all this competition. You want to

2050
01:49:04,439 --> 01:49:08,640
Speaker 1: have six, seven, eight guys that can rotate in, that

2051
01:49:08,720 --> 01:49:10,960
Speaker 1: can play first second down, that can move around, that

2052
01:49:11,040 --> 01:49:12,880
Speaker 1: can come in, you come in and hit offensive a

2053
01:49:12,880 --> 01:49:16,120
Speaker 1: lignements with waves and so it's a good problem to have.

2054
01:49:16,320 --> 01:49:18,880
Speaker 1: It's going to be a very hard decision, and that's

2055
01:49:18,960 --> 01:49:21,679
Speaker 1: why it's great to be first detail right now, because

2056
01:49:21,720 --> 01:49:25,280
Speaker 1: that's gonna give you added value. And so yeah, maybe

2057
01:49:25,280 --> 01:49:27,439
Speaker 1: you're not gonna obviously start over Jerry Hughes, but on

2058
01:49:27,600 --> 01:49:29,600
Speaker 1: third downs, hey, this is a great guy we can

2059
01:49:29,680 --> 01:49:32,000
Speaker 1: bring in and Russian next to Jerry and the three technique.

2060
01:49:32,200 --> 01:49:33,840
Speaker 1: He may be a defensive end, but he can move

2061
01:49:33,920 --> 01:49:36,680
Speaker 1: inside and out. And then I'll take the competition to

2062
01:49:36,760 --> 01:49:38,760
Speaker 1: the next step further two because you think about just

2063
01:49:39,120 --> 01:49:42,599
Speaker 1: between defensive alignment, they're also making our offensive alignment better

2064
01:49:42,640 --> 01:49:44,759
Speaker 1: because all those names over there, there are some elite

2065
01:49:44,840 --> 01:49:46,640
Speaker 1: rushers that can get after the passing. So I think

2066
01:49:46,640 --> 01:49:49,360
Speaker 1: about Dion Dawkins, who just signed a big contract him

2067
01:49:49,400 --> 01:49:51,719
Speaker 1: continue to develop because he's seeing all these different types

2068
01:49:51,720 --> 01:49:54,200
Speaker 1: of rushers every single week, and so he'll be ready

2069
01:49:54,200 --> 01:49:56,519
Speaker 1: when he sees elite rushers during the season. You know,

2070
01:49:56,680 --> 01:49:59,360
Speaker 1: quit in Spain, this a whole group as a whole.

2071
01:49:59,600 --> 01:50:02,000
Speaker 1: You something trying to work forty four, trying to find

2072
01:50:02,120 --> 01:50:05,040
Speaker 1: his footing at guard or tackle. He's singing off a

2073
01:50:05,120 --> 01:50:08,400
Speaker 1: ton of different rushes, getting bored off the edge, getting

2074
01:50:08,400 --> 01:50:10,320
Speaker 1: out in space, and so that's going to help him

2075
01:50:10,400 --> 01:50:12,960
Speaker 1: develop to where he can be that utility guy, be

2076
01:50:13,040 --> 01:50:15,720
Speaker 1: able to play guard start at tackle or you know,

2077
01:50:15,920 --> 01:50:17,840
Speaker 1: be able to move up and down at this adds

2078
01:50:17,920 --> 01:50:20,160
Speaker 1: value to him. And so this competition is really good

2079
01:50:20,400 --> 01:50:22,080
Speaker 1: not only for the defensive line, but I think the

2080
01:50:22,160 --> 01:50:25,559
Speaker 1: offensive lines development as well. Yeah, definitely. And Quentin Jefferson

2081
01:50:25,680 --> 01:50:27,960
Speaker 1: was also someone who spoke to the media today when

2082
01:50:28,000 --> 01:50:31,200
Speaker 1: he had his introductory press conference. He talked about being

2083
01:50:31,240 --> 01:50:34,920
Speaker 1: attracted to Buffalo because he could be someone who would

2084
01:50:35,000 --> 01:50:37,519
Speaker 1: rotate through the defense, come on and off the field.

2085
01:50:37,600 --> 01:50:40,360
Speaker 1: He said when he was in Seattle he played quite

2086
01:50:40,400 --> 01:50:42,880
Speaker 1: a bit of time on that defensive line. They didn't

2087
01:50:42,960 --> 01:50:46,360
Speaker 1: rotate like Buffalo rotated. So he's excited to play in

2088
01:50:46,400 --> 01:50:49,160
Speaker 1: a defense like that because it offers up fresh legs

2089
01:50:49,360 --> 01:50:51,760
Speaker 1: and it offers up a defense who's probably gonna play

2090
01:50:51,800 --> 01:50:54,800
Speaker 1: faster and stronger throughout an entire game because you have

2091
01:50:54,960 --> 01:50:57,519
Speaker 1: guys coming on and off the field so frequently. He

2092
01:50:57,720 --> 01:51:00,800
Speaker 1: also spoke about the competition in that room. I'm sure

2093
01:51:00,800 --> 01:51:05,120
Speaker 1: it was similar to what Mario had to say. It

2094
01:51:05,320 --> 01:51:07,360
Speaker 1: definitely reminds, you know, like my first couple of years

2095
01:51:07,400 --> 01:51:10,720
Speaker 1: of Seattle, it's like we're we're stacked. It's like j

2096
01:51:10,960 --> 01:51:14,640
Speaker 1: Ree brain by Claire from every one year we had

2097
01:51:14,680 --> 01:51:18,040
Speaker 1: like shell and um, so it's definitely like from talking

2098
01:51:18,080 --> 01:51:20,200
Speaker 1: to the bottom, but even yet to talk to the bottom,

2099
01:51:20,240 --> 01:51:21,840
Speaker 1: he might we might even have more depth than even

2100
01:51:21,920 --> 01:51:24,920
Speaker 1: those years, you know. So just uh, you know, every

2101
01:51:25,000 --> 01:51:27,200
Speaker 1: day you gotta bring your a game, you know, because

2102
01:51:27,360 --> 01:51:28,960
Speaker 1: you know the other guys around you. And I feel

2103
01:51:28,960 --> 01:51:31,240
Speaker 1: like it just helps us because everybody, you know, we

2104
01:51:31,320 --> 01:51:33,240
Speaker 1: even have right a little G two expere, everybody wants

2105
01:51:33,280 --> 01:51:36,320
Speaker 1: to beat off the next guy. Like so, I mean,

2106
01:51:36,400 --> 01:51:38,240
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty cool, you know. I feel like we're

2107
01:51:38,240 --> 01:51:41,280
Speaker 1: all gonna push ourselves to that next level. And uh,

2108
01:51:41,320 --> 01:51:43,640
Speaker 1: it's something that kind of made me we even want

2109
01:51:43,680 --> 01:51:46,000
Speaker 1: to come here and definitely said just being in a

2110
01:51:46,120 --> 01:51:48,479
Speaker 1: room with a bunch of talent, you know, no one's

2111
01:51:48,520 --> 01:51:50,720
Speaker 1: only pushed me myself to be my be better. And

2112
01:51:50,920 --> 01:51:53,280
Speaker 1: like I said, you get to gain knowledge from guys

2113
01:51:53,360 --> 01:51:56,680
Speaker 1: like Mario and Jerry and Trimp who have been here

2114
01:51:56,720 --> 01:51:58,160
Speaker 1: and played at a high level. So I get to

2115
01:51:58,320 --> 01:52:00,960
Speaker 1: watch them, see the thing they do and see if

2116
01:52:00,960 --> 01:52:02,920
Speaker 1: I can implement in my game, and even pick their

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Speaker 1: brains on and off the field. So it's pretty it's

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Speaker 1: pretty it's pretty cool. How important is that though? To

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01:52:09,360 --> 01:52:12,559
Speaker 1: be able to pick each other's brains, especially coming into

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Speaker 1: a new team. I mean, you have the defensive line

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01:52:16,000 --> 01:52:19,559
Speaker 1: definitely added the most new faces. So to be able

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01:52:19,600 --> 01:52:23,280
Speaker 1: to have guys who come from different experiences, have a

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Speaker 1: lot of years on their back to be able to

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Speaker 1: pick each other's brain. How important is that? I mean

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Speaker 1: it's huge, especially when you start talking about third down

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Speaker 1: and how guys rush, you know, even how guys play

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Speaker 1: certain positions. Because sometimes you're gonna have a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of new faces. But if they're all young and they

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01:52:40,160 --> 01:52:43,200
Speaker 1: don't have the football IQ with the wisdom, the conversation

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01:52:43,320 --> 01:52:46,559
Speaker 1: really isn't as beneficial as it can be. But when

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01:52:46,640 --> 01:52:48,600
Speaker 1: you have these veterans that you're bringing in that have

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01:52:48,720 --> 01:52:53,400
Speaker 1: played significant amount of snaps years, have had a lot

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01:52:53,439 --> 01:52:56,640
Speaker 1: of production, you can really start trying to figure out, Okay, well,

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01:52:56,640 --> 01:52:58,160
Speaker 1: how do you do that rip move? How do you

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01:52:58,240 --> 01:52:59,880
Speaker 1: do that so, how do you turn your shoulders? How

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01:52:59,880 --> 01:53:02,360
Speaker 1: do you dip like that? And really start getting into

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01:53:02,360 --> 01:53:04,920
Speaker 1: the nitty gritty of some techniques that allows them to

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01:53:04,960 --> 01:53:07,360
Speaker 1: be great and maybe you can adopt some of those

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01:53:07,479 --> 01:53:10,360
Speaker 1: things to your own game to help you take your

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01:53:10,400 --> 01:53:12,400
Speaker 1: game to the next level. And then number two, I

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01:53:12,479 --> 01:53:14,679
Speaker 1: think having these veterans like this, the way they are wired,

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01:53:14,760 --> 01:53:16,920
Speaker 1: the way they practice. Like if you ever come to

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01:53:17,040 --> 01:53:19,840
Speaker 1: a practice, and I'm pretty sure this is true of

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01:53:19,880 --> 01:53:24,120
Speaker 1: Mario as well as Quentin. Watching Jerry and Trent practice,

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01:53:24,680 --> 01:53:27,040
Speaker 1: you feel like you're in a in a game. I mean,

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01:53:27,280 --> 01:53:30,200
Speaker 1: you'll see guys running forty yards down the field, getting

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01:53:30,200 --> 01:53:34,879
Speaker 1: after the quarterback, running screens down, and that in itself

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01:53:35,120 --> 01:53:37,400
Speaker 1: is inspiring. And you have to raise your game up

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01:53:37,840 --> 01:53:40,200
Speaker 1: to compete with guys that have you know, are older,

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01:53:40,720 --> 01:53:42,800
Speaker 1: are guys that you know are going to traditionally be

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01:53:42,880 --> 01:53:44,960
Speaker 1: on the team, and really the tone setters and your

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01:53:44,960 --> 01:53:47,439
Speaker 1: stars in a lot of ways. And that's what they're

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01:53:47,439 --> 01:53:50,200
Speaker 1: talking about too, You making guys around you raise their game.

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01:53:50,240 --> 01:53:52,080
Speaker 1: Of these young guys. Man, I can't just close to

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01:53:52,160 --> 01:53:54,200
Speaker 1: day through it. I can't go through my motions or

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01:53:54,640 --> 01:53:57,080
Speaker 1: my old habits or standards that I might have developed

2157
01:53:57,080 --> 01:54:00,360
Speaker 1: in college or having quite formed my first couple of years.

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01:54:00,680 --> 01:54:02,639
Speaker 1: If I want to be on this team, I gotta

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01:54:02,720 --> 01:54:04,960
Speaker 1: practice like that guy over there, and then for an

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01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:07,120
Speaker 1: older guy. For me, when I saw that, it's like, okay,

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01:54:07,120 --> 01:54:09,080
Speaker 1: I gotta show out too. They may think I'm getting

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01:54:09,120 --> 01:54:12,479
Speaker 1: old and gray out. Here. So it's definitely a very

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01:54:12,560 --> 01:54:15,320
Speaker 1: beneficial or reciprocal relationship when you have guys like that

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01:54:15,880 --> 01:54:18,120
Speaker 1: that play at a high level that know what they're doing,

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01:54:18,200 --> 01:54:20,600
Speaker 1: that as smart intelligence that can communicate that to you

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01:54:20,760 --> 01:54:23,599
Speaker 1: because it does push you. Like like Q said, as

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01:54:23,640 --> 01:54:26,680
Speaker 1: well as Mario, Yeah, there are no days off when

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Speaker 1: it comes to hit in the practice field. These guys

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01:54:28,800 --> 01:54:31,920
Speaker 1: are flying around going one hundred and ten percent, and

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Speaker 1: that's talking about the vets. They're not taking it lightly

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01:54:35,080 --> 01:54:37,440
Speaker 1: unless they get that veteran rest day, which some of

2172
01:54:37,520 --> 01:54:40,640
Speaker 1: them definitely will throughout training camp. But when they're playing,

2173
01:54:40,720 --> 01:54:43,560
Speaker 1: they are going at it full force, and this defense

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Speaker 1: is going to be a physical one. They want to

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01:54:45,800 --> 01:54:49,280
Speaker 1: get after. The quarterback Josh Norman called the group some dogs,

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01:54:49,360 --> 01:54:52,160
Speaker 1: so you have to believe they want to play nasty,

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01:54:52,800 --> 01:54:55,720
Speaker 1: they want to knock you down, they want to force turnovers,

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Speaker 1: and Quentin Jefferson spoke about how physical this defense can be. Man,

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Speaker 1: I feel right in you know, like I said, that's

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Speaker 1: one of the first things I've seen, like I said,

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01:55:06,280 --> 01:55:08,080
Speaker 1: especially like I said yesterday we did the Night on

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01:55:08,120 --> 01:55:11,280
Speaker 1: seven screaming scene, guys coming off the ball, just playing hard, nose,

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01:55:11,360 --> 01:55:14,280
Speaker 1: playing physical, not scared to put you know, get up

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01:55:14,320 --> 01:55:16,080
Speaker 1: in there. And I said that fits my style of play,

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01:55:16,160 --> 01:55:17,400
Speaker 1: Like I said, you go back and even watch like

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01:55:17,480 --> 01:55:19,400
Speaker 1: sit film from prior last year, Like I like to

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01:55:19,440 --> 01:55:21,920
Speaker 1: play physical in my hands and uh like I said,

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Speaker 1: just I think I meshed well with this defense, like

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Speaker 1: and it allows me to be aggressive, you know, not

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01:55:27,240 --> 01:55:30,800
Speaker 1: really reading just play downhill And I said, I think

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01:55:30,880 --> 01:55:32,400
Speaker 1: the sky's limit from me. I feel like this is

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01:55:32,440 --> 01:55:34,880
Speaker 1: only going to bring out the best version of myself.

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01:55:34,920 --> 01:55:36,720
Speaker 1: I feel like, especially now, I feel like my best

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01:55:36,760 --> 01:55:39,040
Speaker 1: balls ahead of myself. So I'm just excited for the

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Speaker 1: opportunity this defense allows me, like I said, to do

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Speaker 1: really it suits my skill set. The rookie running back

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Speaker 1: Zachmas spoke to the media yesterday and he was asked,

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Speaker 1: what's something that you've noticed about the NFL now through

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01:55:54,000 --> 01:55:57,000
Speaker 1: two weeks of practices, and he said, well, the defense

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01:55:57,080 --> 01:55:59,520
Speaker 1: comes flying at you with eleven guys. He's like, it's

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Speaker 1: not just like one versus two anymore. He was like,

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01:56:02,520 --> 01:56:05,800
Speaker 1: there's eleven guys like flocking to the ball. They're trying

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01:56:05,880 --> 01:56:07,920
Speaker 1: to knock it out, They're trying to knock you down.

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01:56:08,040 --> 01:56:10,720
Speaker 1: He was like, this isn't it's not Nicee's like, this

2205
01:56:10,960 --> 01:56:15,120
Speaker 1: defense is tough, right, and and that's and that's actually

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01:56:15,200 --> 01:56:17,520
Speaker 1: pretty unique. Every team doesn't practice like that, and I

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01:56:17,600 --> 01:56:19,400
Speaker 1: think that's why has allowed this defense to have the

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01:56:19,600 --> 01:56:22,240
Speaker 1: success it has over the last three years. It really

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Speaker 1: clear things that they want to do as far as

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01:56:29,120 --> 01:56:31,560
Speaker 1: having our mission statement right, and so you want to

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01:56:31,600 --> 01:56:33,920
Speaker 1: have the defensive linement. They want to attack, they want

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01:56:33,920 --> 01:56:36,720
Speaker 1: to get off the ball, be disruptive in the backfield.

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01:56:36,760 --> 01:56:39,280
Speaker 1: Linebackers want to play downhill. You want your DB's breaking

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01:56:39,320 --> 01:56:41,520
Speaker 1: on the ball and tackling. And when you have that

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01:56:41,680 --> 01:56:45,000
Speaker 1: mindset and those clear objectives, then you know what's expected

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01:56:45,040 --> 01:56:46,080
Speaker 1: of you and then you can go out there and

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01:56:46,120 --> 01:56:49,080
Speaker 1: fly around. But it's very simple. And when I say simple,

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01:56:49,120 --> 01:56:52,080
Speaker 1: it's not like it's you know, fourth or fifth grade football.

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01:56:52,200 --> 01:56:54,040
Speaker 1: It's simple as far as there's not a ton of

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01:56:54,120 --> 01:56:58,040
Speaker 1: stuff that the defense does. You just do it really well,

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01:56:58,200 --> 01:57:00,400
Speaker 1: and when you clear your mind, you can then fly around,

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01:57:00,440 --> 01:57:03,560
Speaker 1: be athletic, be physical, and really get after people. And

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01:57:03,680 --> 01:57:06,000
Speaker 1: so that's what we're seeing right now on training camp

2224
01:57:06,040 --> 01:57:09,080
Speaker 1: because we're working on all the foundational, fundamental things that

2225
01:57:09,240 --> 01:57:11,920
Speaker 1: really allow our defense to kind of create that mindset

2226
01:57:12,440 --> 01:57:15,520
Speaker 1: and Quinn. Jefferson was also asked about his new teammate

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Speaker 1: Mario Addison and what he has to offer out on

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Speaker 1: the field. I'll throughitely say, I'll say Mario because I

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01:57:24,160 --> 01:57:26,600
Speaker 1: mean I watched him from Afar when I was in Seattle,

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Speaker 1: Like I said, a lot of time we played the

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01:57:28,400 --> 01:57:31,560
Speaker 1: same teams Carolina, like overlaps. So I get the chance

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01:57:31,600 --> 01:57:34,320
Speaker 1: to watch him, and I'm like, man, for an old guy,

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01:57:34,400 --> 01:57:38,240
Speaker 1: you can move. I thought about, but you're coming out

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01:57:38,320 --> 01:57:40,880
Speaker 1: that add So it's just like I said, just watching

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01:57:40,960 --> 01:57:43,400
Speaker 1: him and work and just like said, just picking his brains,

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01:57:43,640 --> 01:57:46,360
Speaker 1: like how he goes about rushing the pastor and some

2237
01:57:46,400 --> 01:57:48,560
Speaker 1: of the moves of you. It's pretty dope, just to say,

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01:57:48,640 --> 01:57:50,520
Speaker 1: to watch him every day and then I see the

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01:57:50,600 --> 01:57:52,240
Speaker 1: work he puts in and I'm like, Okay, now I

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Speaker 1: see why he was able to play so long at

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Speaker 1: a high level. I say, still like he's like ten

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01:57:56,960 --> 01:57:58,920
Speaker 1: years in he's still playing like a and moving like

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01:57:59,000 --> 01:58:00,520
Speaker 1: a young guy. So I was like, it's good to

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01:58:00,560 --> 01:58:02,840
Speaker 1: see just how let's say he takes care of his body.

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01:58:02,880 --> 01:58:05,240
Speaker 1: So that's how he's able to, you know, come back

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01:58:05,280 --> 01:58:07,720
Speaker 1: every year, still play the high level, even even down

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01:58:07,760 --> 01:58:11,760
Speaker 1: the road in his career is thirty two old, So

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01:58:12,160 --> 01:58:14,480
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, is that really all that? I mean,

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01:58:14,600 --> 01:58:18,480
Speaker 1: he's he's playing like he's young. I've been beating up

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Speaker 1: my chest for a long time. We gotta we gotta

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01:58:20,320 --> 01:58:22,400
Speaker 1: change the mindset of what's old and the NFL, once

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01:58:22,440 --> 01:58:24,520
Speaker 1: you cross thirty, you consider old. But the way the

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01:58:24,600 --> 01:58:28,280
Speaker 1: game is played, the way guys take care of their bodies,

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01:58:28,480 --> 01:58:31,120
Speaker 1: the way we are so informed about sports signs, especially

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Speaker 1: up in Buffalo. Um, now, I think you gotta be

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01:58:34,040 --> 01:58:37,000
Speaker 1: at least I don't know, thirty eight, thirty nine, maybe

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01:58:37,040 --> 01:58:40,000
Speaker 1: even forty to be old in the league now, So

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01:58:40,160 --> 01:58:42,520
Speaker 1: you gotta start changing that mindset. So Mario is still

2259
01:58:42,520 --> 01:58:44,240
Speaker 1: a young man. He's out there flying around and you

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01:58:44,400 --> 01:58:46,480
Speaker 1: better watch out. Man. He gonna he keep playing the

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01:58:46,520 --> 01:58:49,240
Speaker 1: way he plays. He gonna be an old man soon too.

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01:58:49,440 --> 01:58:52,640
Speaker 1: So he can't just be throwing the old around. Call

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01:58:52,760 --> 01:58:55,440
Speaker 1: him on, ogee, you know, put a little swag on it, man.

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01:58:55,480 --> 01:58:57,120
Speaker 1: Don't make us feel like we're old and gray and

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01:58:57,160 --> 01:59:00,520
Speaker 1: cripple walking around there. And Mario did say in a

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01:59:00,640 --> 01:59:03,240
Speaker 1: previous press conference he was asked about how he felt,

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01:59:03,520 --> 01:59:05,520
Speaker 1: and he said, I'm thirty two, but I feel like

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01:59:05,600 --> 01:59:07,400
Speaker 1: I'm twenty five right now because of the type of

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01:59:07,480 --> 01:59:09,920
Speaker 1: off season I have, And that's exactly what you want

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01:59:09,960 --> 01:59:13,040
Speaker 1: to hear from a veteran defensive lineman. Is I feel

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01:59:13,080 --> 01:59:15,760
Speaker 1: like twenty five and the season hasn't even started yet.

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01:59:18,600 --> 01:59:20,440
Speaker 1: And that's the hyper mentality has I mean, you can

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01:59:20,520 --> 01:59:22,760
Speaker 1: even see it when he's moving in practice, he's he's

2274
01:59:22,760 --> 01:59:25,280
Speaker 1: still turned the corner, turning it up, has the juice,

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01:59:25,320 --> 01:59:28,200
Speaker 1: and so it's gonna be very intriguing what he's able

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Speaker 1: to do this season. When we come back, we are

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Speaker 1: going to do some NFL true false and later of

2278
01:59:34,360 --> 01:59:37,480
Speaker 1: what we learn from today's show. So stick with us.

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back into One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Mattie glab here with former Bill Lorenzo Alexander. As we

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Speaker 1: are winding down the show, we had Drew Bledsoe on

2283
02:00:03,880 --> 02:00:07,080
Speaker 1: Eric Allen on the New York Jets senior reporter. Good

2284
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Speaker 1: to get some insight from him as we play the

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Speaker 1: Jets in a couple of weeks here on September thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills and Primetime Mafia says, who is your favorite

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Speaker 1: player on the Bill's defensive line to watch an action? Zoe,

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Speaker 1: I'll let you answer this one first. I mean, this

2291
02:00:33,400 --> 02:00:35,360
Speaker 1: is the way I'm going to take this question, because

2292
02:00:35,360 --> 02:00:37,879
Speaker 1: I've been watching the film and watching guys in practice

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02:00:38,040 --> 02:00:42,480
Speaker 1: doing one on ones, and I've gravitated towards the younger guys.

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02:00:42,760 --> 02:00:45,160
Speaker 1: So like Harrison Phillips coming off of his aco, how's

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02:00:45,160 --> 02:00:46,560
Speaker 1: he been moving? What are some of the things that

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Speaker 1: he's working through since I have a relationship with him,

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Speaker 1: Daryl Johnson, and probably Mike Love because I know all

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Speaker 1: three of those guys and just really been trying to

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Speaker 1: help those guys. So I have loved watching them what

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Speaker 1: they're doing in practice, how they're trying to push through

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02:00:59,480 --> 02:01:02,360
Speaker 1: some of the city, and really the competition that those

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Speaker 1: guys are trying to have to overcome because they don't

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Speaker 1: have preseason and you have this kind of condensed training camp.

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Speaker 1: And so I've just been watching those guys and trying

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Speaker 1: to help them out as much as possible. I think

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Speaker 1: it's really hard to pick like one person like, I'm

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02:01:16,760 --> 02:01:18,960
Speaker 1: excited to see what a jap and Essa can do

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Speaker 1: in his first season and what type of packages they

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Speaker 1: use him and depending on you know, his size and

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Speaker 1: what the offensive line presents. I'm excited to see Mario

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Speaker 1: and Jerry matchup again. They played a little bit together

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Speaker 1: when they were at the Colts, I believe in two eleven,

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Speaker 1: I want to say, so it's cool that they get

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Speaker 1: to be back together. I can't wait to see Harrison

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Speaker 1: Phillips coming off of that injury. I mean, he had

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Speaker 1: such a great season before he had that ACL injury.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what at Oliver offers in

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Speaker 1: year number two. He's been out with a hip injury

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Speaker 1: so far in training camp. Doesn't seem like it's anything

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Speaker 1: too serious. But he really turned it on the second

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Speaker 1: and half of the season, had those two sacks in

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Speaker 1: that Cowboys game, finished the season with five sacks. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could go from player to player and

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Speaker 1: just talk about why it will be fun to watch

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Speaker 1: them in action this season. I think the most exciting

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Speaker 1: part about this, and we've talked about this quite a

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02:02:16,080 --> 02:02:19,360
Speaker 1: bit today and it's it's definitely topic of conversation for

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02:02:19,480 --> 02:02:22,120
Speaker 1: everybody is just how they're gonna be able to mix

2329
02:02:22,280 --> 02:02:25,080
Speaker 1: and match this defensive line. I'm sure there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: several times Zo where we're watching a game and they're

2331
02:02:27,640 --> 02:02:30,880
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna say they did that with that player

2332
02:02:31,200 --> 02:02:34,720
Speaker 1: against that offensive lineman and he just blew by him

2333
02:02:34,760 --> 02:02:37,720
Speaker 1: for a sack like what, or he dropped in the coverage,

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02:02:37,760 --> 02:02:40,600
Speaker 1: or he batted that pass down like It'll be fun

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Speaker 1: to watch this group as a whole. Really, the front seven,

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Speaker 1: I want to say, to see what they can do,

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02:02:46,640 --> 02:02:50,200
Speaker 1: because it's such an athletic type of group. But go

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02:02:50,280 --> 02:02:53,080
Speaker 1: ahead and read our last one from the tweet sheet

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02:02:53,120 --> 02:02:56,080
Speaker 1: for us. Yeah, this one is from Jack. Who will

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Speaker 1: win the kicking battle? Could the Beatles keep two kickers?

2341
02:03:00,160 --> 02:03:03,160
Speaker 1: Bass look really good? Yesterday they also brought in competition

2342
02:03:03,240 --> 02:03:07,120
Speaker 1: for a broadcast who struggle with consistency? I would I

2343
02:03:07,320 --> 02:03:10,680
Speaker 1: worry about trusting a rookie with big kicks, but would

2344
02:03:10,800 --> 02:03:15,520
Speaker 1: hate to lose best. And you know, honestly, I don't know.

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02:03:15,760 --> 02:03:17,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know who's gonna win it. I

2346
02:03:17,120 --> 02:03:22,120
Speaker 1: mean it's gonna be a ongoing camp competition. This is

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02:03:22,200 --> 02:03:24,280
Speaker 1: probably one of the areas where you would have really

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02:03:24,360 --> 02:03:29,040
Speaker 1: loved to see preseason games, because kicking in practice and

2349
02:03:29,080 --> 02:03:31,240
Speaker 1: when there's really nothing on the line is much different

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02:03:31,320 --> 02:03:34,600
Speaker 1: than kicking when there is. And to be honest, I

2351
02:03:34,680 --> 02:03:37,280
Speaker 1: mean this is probably my weakest point because kickers are

2352
02:03:37,320 --> 02:03:40,720
Speaker 1: like golfers, and every little thing makes a difference in there,

2353
02:03:40,840 --> 02:03:43,960
Speaker 1: and specialists are so different than any other position as

2354
02:03:44,000 --> 02:03:45,960
Speaker 1: far as mind set and what they do. Just hang

2355
02:03:46,040 --> 02:03:48,960
Speaker 1: out with Steve Hoshka for a day and just to

2356
02:03:49,080 --> 02:03:51,400
Speaker 1: see all his quirkiness and all the things that he

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02:03:51,480 --> 02:03:53,880
Speaker 1: does just to prepare and get ready. And so I

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02:03:54,000 --> 02:03:55,800
Speaker 1: do know this though. I know Steve is going to

2359
02:03:55,840 --> 02:03:58,480
Speaker 1: compete all out. I know they drafted bast because of

2360
02:03:58,520 --> 02:04:01,240
Speaker 1: his talent, and so it's gonna down to who probably

2361
02:04:01,320 --> 02:04:03,760
Speaker 1: is the most consistent and who they feel most comfortable

2362
02:04:03,840 --> 02:04:07,560
Speaker 1: with after training camp. You know, you use a draft

2363
02:04:07,600 --> 02:04:09,640
Speaker 1: pick on a guy, but you also pay Steve, and

2364
02:04:09,720 --> 02:04:11,800
Speaker 1: so those things kind of equal out, and so it's

2365
02:04:11,840 --> 02:04:13,880
Speaker 1: gonna come down to what's best for our football team.

2366
02:04:14,200 --> 02:04:16,600
Speaker 1: And the same thing with punter. You want somebody that's

2367
02:04:16,640 --> 02:04:18,560
Speaker 1: gonna be consistent, put the ball where you ask me

2368
02:04:18,640 --> 02:04:21,480
Speaker 1: to put it, with some hang time so your guys

2369
02:04:21,560 --> 02:04:24,280
Speaker 1: can go down there and cover it. Obviously Corey unfamilar

2370
02:04:24,320 --> 02:04:25,760
Speaker 1: with him, and he had a great year. I thought

2371
02:04:25,840 --> 02:04:28,760
Speaker 1: last year really took a step four from year one,

2372
02:04:29,840 --> 02:04:31,440
Speaker 1: and you want to continue to bring in Just because

2373
02:04:31,480 --> 02:04:33,879
Speaker 1: they bring in guys doesn't mean that they're not performing

2374
02:04:33,920 --> 02:04:36,000
Speaker 1: where they need to be. You have to create those

2375
02:04:36,040 --> 02:04:38,440
Speaker 1: competitive environments and that's what Sean likes to do and

2376
02:04:38,560 --> 02:04:41,240
Speaker 1: he does it with every other position, So not why

2377
02:04:41,320 --> 02:04:44,560
Speaker 1: not with your specialist And so there's going to be

2378
02:04:44,680 --> 02:04:48,040
Speaker 1: one of each. You rarely, especially in this day and

2379
02:04:48,080 --> 02:04:51,240
Speaker 1: age with with COVID, or you're gonna keep two specialists

2380
02:04:51,280 --> 02:04:54,920
Speaker 1: on your rosters just because you need position flexibility and

2381
02:04:55,080 --> 02:04:57,839
Speaker 1: need other depth in other areas because of the additional

2382
02:04:57,960 --> 02:04:59,960
Speaker 1: risk of COVID, And so I don't see him keeping

2383
02:05:00,080 --> 02:05:04,640
Speaker 1: to one kicker, one putter. Then obviously uh Ferguson the

2384
02:05:04,720 --> 02:05:08,240
Speaker 1: long snapper. Yeah, and special teams coordinator Heath Farwell said

2385
02:05:08,280 --> 02:05:10,560
Speaker 1: when he talked to the media about the kicker battle,

2386
02:05:10,640 --> 02:05:12,960
Speaker 1: he said, look, it's gonna make these two guys better.

2387
02:05:13,520 --> 02:05:15,680
Speaker 1: Housh goes the vet who's been in this league for

2388
02:05:15,800 --> 02:05:19,920
Speaker 1: quite some time, and he's made some very impressive kicks

2389
02:05:20,240 --> 02:05:24,240
Speaker 1: in playoff situations when when the intensity is high and

2390
02:05:24,360 --> 02:05:27,280
Speaker 1: when it's a high stress type of situation, he's been

2391
02:05:27,320 --> 02:05:30,760
Speaker 1: able to connect and have a great impact on some

2392
02:05:30,880 --> 02:05:32,960
Speaker 1: of those playoff games. And then you bring in a

2393
02:05:33,040 --> 02:05:36,840
Speaker 1: rookie like Tyler Bass who has that strong leg but

2394
02:05:37,040 --> 02:05:39,840
Speaker 1: kicked at Georgia Southern and hasn't kicked in a cold

2395
02:05:40,000 --> 02:05:43,440
Speaker 1: environment really, and it's it's tough to kick in a

2396
02:05:43,520 --> 02:05:46,880
Speaker 1: place like Buffalo with a type of weather, with that

2397
02:05:47,040 --> 02:05:49,400
Speaker 1: type of win that they get in that stadium, So

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02:05:49,600 --> 02:05:52,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fun battle. Of course, they're gonna

2399
02:05:52,200 --> 02:05:55,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna make each other better from this. And they've

2400
02:05:55,200 --> 02:05:58,640
Speaker 1: been doing different things, like they'll break after a team

2401
02:05:58,720 --> 02:06:01,800
Speaker 1: period zough, and then they'll bring on Haushka to kick

2402
02:06:01,920 --> 02:06:04,960
Speaker 1: like eight field goals, and then they'll they'll have another

2403
02:06:05,040 --> 02:06:07,320
Speaker 1: team period, and then they'll bring on Tyler Bass to

2404
02:06:07,480 --> 02:06:10,360
Speaker 1: kick like eight field goals. So they've all been getting

2405
02:06:10,440 --> 02:06:14,040
Speaker 1: the same amount of work basically, and so it's been

2406
02:06:14,120 --> 02:06:17,280
Speaker 1: fun to watch them compete in that way. And it's

2407
02:06:17,360 --> 02:06:20,200
Speaker 1: so tough to be a kicker and to try and

2408
02:06:20,600 --> 02:06:24,520
Speaker 1: really put a situation like that in your mind where

2409
02:06:24,600 --> 02:06:27,600
Speaker 1: where the stress level is high, because it's really tough

2410
02:06:27,640 --> 02:06:30,960
Speaker 1: to just recreate that I mean, the stadium's empty, you're

2411
02:06:31,040 --> 02:06:34,560
Speaker 1: just with your team. You kick normally in practices like this,

2412
02:06:34,760 --> 02:06:36,680
Speaker 1: So so it's tough to be able to put that

2413
02:06:36,800 --> 02:06:40,920
Speaker 1: type of artificial pressure on yourself and really try and

2414
02:06:41,040 --> 02:06:43,680
Speaker 1: win a battle when it's it's tough to create that

2415
02:06:43,800 --> 02:06:48,120
Speaker 1: type of environment that you would have in a game, right, Yeah,

2416
02:06:48,160 --> 02:06:50,840
Speaker 1: it is. So some coaches used to get creative and

2417
02:06:50,960 --> 02:06:53,720
Speaker 1: like conditioning would be on the line forward or us

2418
02:06:53,920 --> 02:06:56,879
Speaker 1: practice being over because you don't want all your teammates

2419
02:06:56,960 --> 02:06:59,920
Speaker 1: mad at you. And so hopefully I'm pretty sure shan

2420
02:07:00,000 --> 02:07:01,560
Speaker 1: It is probably trying to do some of those type

2421
02:07:01,560 --> 02:07:03,760
Speaker 1: of things like oh this is it, or we don't

2422
02:07:03,800 --> 02:07:07,360
Speaker 1: have to run, or something to where it's cool if

2423
02:07:07,400 --> 02:07:09,320
Speaker 1: the guys make it or what not, just to trying

2424
02:07:09,360 --> 02:07:11,880
Speaker 1: to create that additional pressure on top. But you know,

2425
02:07:11,920 --> 02:07:13,720
Speaker 1: it'll probably be cool if they invested in like some

2426
02:07:13,840 --> 02:07:17,560
Speaker 1: big fans or something like that, because you can't you

2427
02:07:17,640 --> 02:07:20,600
Speaker 1: can't prepare for the wind that whips around that stadium

2428
02:07:21,080 --> 02:07:23,840
Speaker 1: in November and December, and so you would think somebody

2429
02:07:23,880 --> 02:07:25,960
Speaker 1: would come up with something to kind of create that

2430
02:07:26,160 --> 02:07:28,840
Speaker 1: additional effect that kickers would need to learn how to

2431
02:07:28,920 --> 02:07:32,040
Speaker 1: kick in to overcome, especially being up in Buffalo because

2432
02:07:32,200 --> 02:07:34,520
Speaker 1: leg strength is great, but if you if you're not

2433
02:07:35,280 --> 02:07:37,080
Speaker 1: placing that ball in the right area and the wind

2434
02:07:37,160 --> 02:07:38,960
Speaker 1: just takes it, it really doesn't matter how strong your

2435
02:07:39,040 --> 02:07:43,680
Speaker 1: leg is. Yeah, that is a great idea. Um, That's

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02:07:43,760 --> 02:07:46,160
Speaker 1: that's something that maybe you should call Sean on the

2437
02:07:46,240 --> 02:07:48,120
Speaker 1: phone and be like, hey, I have I've we were

2438
02:07:48,120 --> 02:07:50,240
Speaker 1: talking about the Kicker battle today and you know, I've

2439
02:07:50,280 --> 02:07:53,160
Speaker 1: just got this great idea. You guys need to invest

2440
02:07:53,640 --> 02:07:56,240
Speaker 1: in some industrial size fans and go ahead and just

2441
02:07:56,360 --> 02:07:59,400
Speaker 1: blow up straight at the kickers, especially the rookie who

2442
02:07:59,440 --> 02:08:02,240
Speaker 1: has no idea what type of environment he's walking into

2443
02:08:02,640 --> 02:08:07,400
Speaker 1: when it gets called outside, right, that'd be great to watch.

2444
02:08:08,280 --> 02:08:10,720
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we are going to take a break here.

2445
02:08:10,760 --> 02:08:14,560
Speaker 1: We got one more segment coming up before we close

2446
02:08:14,640 --> 02:08:17,200
Speaker 1: out the show and before we say to everybody have

2447
02:08:17,280 --> 02:08:19,200
Speaker 1: a good weekend. So we will be back in a second.

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02:08:19,240 --> 02:08:22,880
Speaker 1: Mattie Glavi, Larngelo, Alexander. It's One Bills Live presented by

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02:08:22,920 --> 02:08:41,080
Speaker 1: Clyde to Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio Time for

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02:08:41,320 --> 02:08:45,080
Speaker 1: What have We Learned? Presented by Skyworks, the official construction

2451
02:08:45,120 --> 02:08:48,240
Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. We talked to

2452
02:08:48,600 --> 02:08:52,840
Speaker 1: Drew Bloods about the overtime win against the Minnesota Vikings,

2453
02:08:53,120 --> 02:08:55,560
Speaker 1: and he had quite a bit to say about silencing

2454
02:08:55,720 --> 02:09:00,880
Speaker 1: that entire stadium when you play ball, Um, you know

2455
02:09:00,960 --> 02:09:04,280
Speaker 1: they're there. You know, there's the obvious, you know, great

2456
02:09:04,520 --> 02:09:06,720
Speaker 1: sound of throwing a touchdown or winning a game in

2457
02:09:06,800 --> 02:09:09,480
Speaker 1: your home stadium where it just goes crazy, crazy and

2458
02:09:09,520 --> 02:09:13,080
Speaker 1: goes super loud. But I think it might even be

2459
02:09:13,240 --> 02:09:16,360
Speaker 1: a better sound when you're in the opposing stadium and

2460
02:09:16,480 --> 02:09:19,560
Speaker 1: it's incredibly loud. You know, people are just going crazy

2461
02:09:19,600 --> 02:09:20,920
Speaker 1: and the you know, you know, the old Metro Golt

2462
02:09:21,000 --> 02:09:23,840
Speaker 1: are really really loud. But when it goes from that

2463
02:09:24,040 --> 02:09:28,600
Speaker 1: loud to dead quiet, that is a really cool sound.

2464
02:09:28,680 --> 02:09:31,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just as loud as you can imagine,

2465
02:09:31,360 --> 02:09:33,200
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you could hear a pin drop,

2466
02:09:33,240 --> 02:09:34,960
Speaker 1: you could do many people, you could hear screaming where

2467
02:09:35,360 --> 02:09:36,920
Speaker 1: you know, us and the handful of fans that we

2468
02:09:37,000 --> 02:09:39,760
Speaker 1: had in the stands at the game and everybody else

2469
02:09:39,920 --> 02:09:44,520
Speaker 1: was you know, really really quiet, and it's a beautiful sound. Yit.

2470
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Speaker 1: Let's bring back in Lorenzo Alexander, who's been on with

2471
02:09:47,760 --> 02:09:52,400
Speaker 1: us for today. We appreciate you coming in to join us, Lorenzo,

2472
02:09:52,480 --> 02:09:54,760
Speaker 1: it's been fun to have you all the way over

2473
02:09:55,280 --> 02:09:58,840
Speaker 1: in Arizona. It's amazing to see what we're capable of

2474
02:09:59,160 --> 02:10:02,080
Speaker 1: during this time of COVID where Zoom meetings have been

2475
02:10:02,720 --> 02:10:05,920
Speaker 1: a favorite for many, or maybe not a favorite anymore. Actually,

2476
02:10:06,280 --> 02:10:08,720
Speaker 1: that we've been through like five months of zoom meetings,

2477
02:10:08,800 --> 02:10:12,040
Speaker 1: I'm missing seeing people in person, but I'm glad that

2478
02:10:12,120 --> 02:10:16,000
Speaker 1: you've been able to join us virtually. Drew Bledsoe talked

2479
02:10:16,040 --> 02:10:20,080
Speaker 1: about silencing a stadium. Can you remember an away game

2480
02:10:20,320 --> 02:10:23,760
Speaker 1: where you guys silenced a stadium in any of your

2481
02:10:24,320 --> 02:10:26,800
Speaker 1: years playing that, whether that be the Buffalo Bills or

2482
02:10:26,840 --> 02:10:31,000
Speaker 1: another team. Man, because you throw me off from then,

2483
02:10:31,040 --> 02:10:35,120
Speaker 1: I don't. I really can't remember, especially years lately. When

2484
02:10:35,160 --> 02:10:37,040
Speaker 1: we won it felt like a home game because there's

2485
02:10:37,080 --> 02:10:39,840
Speaker 1: Mafia travel really well. So we really had those moments

2486
02:10:39,880 --> 02:10:44,040
Speaker 1: where we went in somewhere and it went quiet after

2487
02:10:44,120 --> 02:10:45,680
Speaker 1: we beat a team. You know, when you think about

2488
02:10:45,720 --> 02:10:48,480
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh or some other team like that, Dallas, we really

2489
02:10:48,560 --> 02:10:52,840
Speaker 1: felt like we always had big time fans out here. Yeah,

2490
02:10:52,920 --> 02:10:55,320
Speaker 1: I mean when you say Pittsburgh, I just think back

2491
02:10:55,400 --> 02:10:58,440
Speaker 1: to I wasn't at that game, but watching the video

2492
02:10:58,560 --> 02:11:01,400
Speaker 1: clips come out of that game where Matt Barkley has

2493
02:11:01,560 --> 02:11:04,880
Speaker 1: the oversized jacket and is swinging it around his head

2494
02:11:04,920 --> 02:11:08,320
Speaker 1: as Renegades playing, and Ed Oliver looks like he's playing

2495
02:11:08,440 --> 02:11:11,400
Speaker 1: guitar on the sidelines. I was like, Oh my gosh,

2496
02:11:11,840 --> 02:11:15,360
Speaker 1: they've completely taken over in the stadium. It is game over.

2497
02:11:15,800 --> 02:11:20,440
Speaker 1: We're gonna be playing Renegade at Bill's Stadium this season. Yeah,

2498
02:11:20,440 --> 02:11:23,320
Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, I think one time twenty twelve

2499
02:11:23,560 --> 02:11:27,960
Speaker 1: RG three's rookie year, we went down to play the

2500
02:11:28,080 --> 02:11:30,520
Speaker 1: Saints and we beat them in their stadium, and we

2501
02:11:30,600 --> 02:11:32,760
Speaker 1: all know how a lowd Van stadium can get the

2502
02:11:32,800 --> 02:11:34,920
Speaker 1: Mercedes being stadium, So we went down there beat them

2503
02:11:35,000 --> 02:11:37,440
Speaker 1: on the road. That was probably the time where you

2504
02:11:37,560 --> 02:11:39,520
Speaker 1: go from it that three hundred tran they do at

2505
02:11:39,560 --> 02:11:42,320
Speaker 1: the beginning, the dead silence after we had beat him.

2506
02:11:42,640 --> 02:11:45,480
Speaker 1: RG three rookie year. Well, it'll be a different season

2507
02:11:46,240 --> 02:11:48,680
Speaker 1: for many of us, for pretty much all of us,

2508
02:11:48,800 --> 02:11:52,040
Speaker 1: depending on what comes out with with certain teams, if

2509
02:11:52,080 --> 02:11:55,760
Speaker 1: fans can be in stadiums or not, whatever they decide,

2510
02:11:55,800 --> 02:11:59,120
Speaker 1: it's going to be the right and the safest reason. Hopefully,

2511
02:11:59,480 --> 02:12:02,800
Speaker 1: by some point during the season we can have fans

2512
02:12:02,960 --> 02:12:05,440
Speaker 1: inside of Bill's stadium. Of course, we don't have word

2513
02:12:05,520 --> 02:12:07,840
Speaker 1: yet on what that will look like for Week one

2514
02:12:08,200 --> 02:12:11,280
Speaker 1: or any of the home games, but I'm optimistic that

2515
02:12:11,360 --> 02:12:13,400
Speaker 1: at least some point maybe we can have fans in

2516
02:12:13,480 --> 02:12:17,280
Speaker 1: the stadium because dang Bill's Mafia is such a difference maker.

2517
02:12:17,840 --> 02:12:22,560
Speaker 1: But Zoe, you got any fun weekend plans? Well, I'm

2518
02:12:22,600 --> 02:12:24,880
Speaker 1: gonna have my cheat meal tomorrow, so I'll call my

2519
02:12:25,000 --> 02:12:29,040
Speaker 1: treat meal. Going to get me some apple pancakes. Obviously,

2520
02:12:29,080 --> 02:12:31,120
Speaker 1: got the boys with me, and I think we're gonna

2521
02:12:31,200 --> 02:12:34,280
Speaker 1: have a friend Matt Shounessy who's a former football playing

2522
02:12:34,280 --> 02:12:36,040
Speaker 1: in his family come over and do like a barbecue

2523
02:12:36,040 --> 02:12:38,680
Speaker 1: in the backyard. But I do have to clean up

2524
02:12:38,720 --> 02:12:40,480
Speaker 1: the backyard too, so I don't know how fun that

2525
02:12:40,680 --> 02:12:42,400
Speaker 1: is because we had a mom soon come through here

2526
02:12:42,520 --> 02:12:46,360
Speaker 1: last night, so I got leaves everywhere and so but yeah,

2527
02:12:46,440 --> 02:12:51,240
Speaker 1: but barbecue, hang out with the kids, treat meal, love

2528
02:12:51,320 --> 02:12:54,000
Speaker 1: me some apple pancakes, and so yeah, that's what I

2529
02:12:54,080 --> 02:12:56,560
Speaker 1: got planned. And you know, probably watch church online, which

2530
02:12:56,600 --> 02:12:58,760
Speaker 1: I really don't like watching it online, which I could

2531
02:12:58,760 --> 02:13:00,840
Speaker 1: be there in person, but do that as well, and

2532
02:13:01,360 --> 02:13:03,280
Speaker 1: just had family time because the kids have been in

2533
02:13:03,360 --> 02:13:05,480
Speaker 1: school all weekend, so it's a little different vibe now

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Speaker 1: around the house with a distant learning and with my

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Speaker 1: oldest daughter actually going to class. Yeah, that sounds like fun.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I might have to make pancakes now that

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Speaker 1: you said apple pancakes. I'm in the mood for some pancakes. Tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We've got work on Sunday. I'm sure you're happy that

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Speaker 1: you now have weekends because we get Tomorrow off, but

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Speaker 1: Sunday we're back at practice. So I'm glad that you

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Speaker 1: get to enjoy your weekends now after spending on fifteen

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Speaker 1: years in the NFL, you definitely deserve it. But Zoe,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us today. We really appreciate it. We'll

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Speaker 1: have you on again. Have a good weekend, everybody. This

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Speaker 1: was One Bill's Live, presented by Kalidah Health on Buffalo

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