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Speaker 1: the room, behind the old guy in the room. Back

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Speaker 1: in my day, Magan might days, Megan right day, the

423
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Speaker 1: Washington team was a respected franchise. They were, Yeah, they were,

424
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Speaker 1: They were emulated. Yeah, they had it going on. They

425
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: had great fans, sold out every game. They were rabid fans,

426
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 1: costume wearers, they had the whole thing, the songs, the

427
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: tail that everything, the stuff outside the state, everything that

428
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Speaker 1: everybody was there. An institution. They were an institution in

429
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Speaker 1: our country. And now now look at them, Look at them,

430
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: they are They are an absolute disappointment on every level.

431
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: They just can't seem to get you know, they're an

432
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 1: embarrassed step forward and two steps back. They were absolutely

433
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Speaker 1: an embarrassment for a minute. And and it was bordering

434
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Speaker 1: on ugly. Yeah, if not, if not outright, yeah, if

435
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 1: not outright, an atrocity to talk about the workplace environment.

436
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 1: It was ugly. It was horrible. Look, that's that is

437
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: probably the most precipitous drop, prolonged drop in franchise stature

438
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: I have ever seen. I can't think of another franchise

439
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: that has dropped to lower depths than the Washington franchise

440
00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: from where they started back winning world championships to where

441
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:05,360
Speaker 1: they are now. It's it is absolutely embarrassing for them.

442
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: Yeah did you say? And it's And it's the pictures

443
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: coming out of their training camp. They got three people there,

444
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: three fans. They three saw. I saw something on social

445
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 1: media that was gauging fan enthusiasm for the upcoming season

446
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: based on the amount of of betting that was done

447
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: by teams fan bases. You know, they're tracking. You know, Oh,

448
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: this person plays a bet and it goes back to

449
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: some account holder in Buffalo. Okay, that's a Buffalo fan

450
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: Washington was dead last by a mile. Their fans are

451
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: so disengaged they're not even betting on them, better and

452
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: different thing, betting against them. That's what I mean, good,

453
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: better and different. They're not even betting if it's your team.

454
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: It is full blown apathy. I don't know. I have

455
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: never placed a wager. I have never and probably never

456
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Speaker 1: will place a sports wager ever ever, But it would

457
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Speaker 1: seem to me from a from a totally novice outside

458
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: betting on your team, betting the game and all that stuff. Okay, better,

459
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: but you'd almost never, even if you knew, you'd almost

460
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: feel sick betting against your own team, right, I mean,

461
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: doesn't that the way it works? And even if you

462
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: know our team were, some people might be more. It

463
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: might be prioritizing self interest. So if they know their

464
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: team intimately and they know it's sad, maybe they do

465
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: bet again. I'm sure. I don't know, but it feels bad, right,

466
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: I guess in some level. I guess that would be

467
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Speaker 1: have like the chilling effects. So if nobody's betting anything

468
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: pulling the money in though, right, if nobody's betting anything

469
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: on that team from that area, it's because they feel bad,

470
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: about betting against their own team. I think it's full

471
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: blown apathy inside. Oh my gosh, that's the worst. Yeah,

472
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: that's even worse. It is. The apathy is the worst.

473
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about something a little bit more positive as

474
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Speaker 1: of this moment, and maybe it's gone up since now.

475
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Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia, in typical Bill's Mafia fashion, has raised more

476
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Speaker 1: than one hundred nine thousand dollars for the Punt Foundation,

477
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Speaker 1: which was a foundation started here in Buffalo by Bill's

478
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Speaker 1: former punter Brian Mormon that battles against pediatric cancer. More

479
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 1: than one hundred and nine thousand dollars has been raised

480
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Speaker 1: by Bill's Mafia in honor of Luke Knox, Dawson Knox's

481
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Speaker 1: younger brother, who tragically passed away earlier this week. Gwen Meisiak,

482
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Speaker 1: who runs the Punt Foundation, has told some local reporters

483
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Speaker 1: that a majority of the fifty five hundred plus donations

484
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Speaker 1: in the last twenty four hours have been made in

485
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Speaker 1: sixteen dollars and eighty eight cent increments, those being the

486
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Speaker 1: jersey numbers of Luke Knox sixteen and Dawson Knox eighty eight.

487
00:30:54,840 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: They're averaging ten donations a minute, so awesome. Once again

488
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia taking a very tragic situation and trying to

489
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Speaker 1: pull something positive out of it. And our MSG viewers

490
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: are seeing the photo of Dawson, who has been very

491
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Speaker 1: involved with the Pun Foundation since he came to town

492
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: as a draft choice in twenty nineteen. Has really been

493
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Speaker 1: a big supporter of the Pun Foundation and great to

494
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Speaker 1: see that on the part of Bill's mafia. When tragedy strikes,

495
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia steps up, so it is no surprise they

496
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: have done so here again, So salute to you. Brown

497
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: family made a donation as well this morning, so we're

498
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Speaker 1: on board with that. And yeah, if you haven't you can.

499
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Speaker 1: You can just look up Pun Foundation online, find it

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00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: quickly and then there's a donation link right there, and

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00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: you want to fire off sixteen dollars and eighty eight cents,

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Speaker 1: go for it. We'll see how high we can get

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Speaker 1: the numbers on that. I know that that Dawson, with

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Speaker 1: all the work that he for the Punt Foundation, would

505
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Speaker 1: be very touched by what's happened. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he's been informed yet. Obviously he's still grieving with his

507
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Speaker 1: family and they have business to take care of obviously.

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Speaker 1: On that front. But when the time comes, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: they'll inform him and I know that he'll be touched

510
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: by that very deeply. So good job, Bills mafia. We

511
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: have to take a break, but we want to remind

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00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: you the OBL Friday fan mail bag is open. You

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Speaker 1: got questions about the preseason game tomorrow, the Bills in general,

514
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: the upcoming roster cuts on Tuesday to get down to eighty,

515
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: or anything else involving the NFL. Fire off your questions now,

516
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: either on the phones at eight O three five fifty

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00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: eight fifty two five fifty, or on the tweetchet at

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. Back

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Speaker 1: in a moment here on one Bills Live. All right,

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00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: with you, and the OBL fan Friday mail bag is open.

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Speaker 1: Any of your questions about the Bills, potential roster cuts,

523
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: how position battles are going. All that stuff is free

524
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: game for you to ask us at eight three fifty

525
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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty open phone lines for you are there,

526
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: or you can hit us up on the tweet sheet

527
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Speaker 1: at one Bills Live. Steve, I put a right up

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Speaker 1: up on Buffalo Bills dot com today. Five players to

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Speaker 1: watch in the Bills Broncos preseason game number two. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there are more than these five, but based

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Speaker 1: on how training camp in the preseason has gone thus far,

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00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: these are the five players I pointed out. You tell

533
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: me what you think, Okay, Linebacker Tyrrell Dodson, cornerback Kaier Elam,

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Speaker 1: wide receiver Isaiah Hodgins, tight end O J. Howard, and

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Speaker 1: defensive end Greg Rousseau. Do you want reason why? Well,

536
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Speaker 1: I probably say I can surmise him. To go ahead

537
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: and share him. Go from the top. Why the first one?

538
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: Don Dodson did not play in the preseason opener. Um

539
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: he was dealing with a nick and after the performances

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Speaker 1: by Terrell, Bernard and balin Spector in the preseason opener,

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Speaker 1: I think Dodson's got to show something in the game

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Speaker 1: tomorrow to remind everybody, Hey, I'm the guy you want

543
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 1: to be the next A. J. Klein at the linebacker

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Speaker 1: position behind Edmundson Milano. I'm the guy special team stalwart. Yeah.

545
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: But also if we're playing bass defense, I'm the third

546
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Speaker 1: linebacker on the field, or if Edmunds or Milana should

547
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Speaker 1: go down to an injury. I'm the next guy in.

548
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: I think he's got to he's got to prove that

549
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. All right, what about Kai Kaier. I chose because,

550
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: as we heard Leslie Fraser say earlier this week, while

551
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: he was very encouraged by the performances of Elam and

552
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: Benford for that matter, now they have to take another step.

553
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: Go out and do it again. Prove to me that

554
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: you're not going to be an up and down rookie.

555
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: Prove to me that you can bring some consistency to

556
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: your forget forget forget the I know you're good enough,

557
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,839
Speaker 1: forget the splash play, You're talented enough. Show me the

558
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: consistency down to down, series to series consistently steady. So

559
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: that's that's on the to do list. I think for

560
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,479
Speaker 1: Kyer Elam and for Isaiah Hodges, I get that one right.

561
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: Had a very good showing in the first game, was productive,

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00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 1: showed good hands. Now build off of that because you

563
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: have to grind at that position. That's a very crowded

564
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Speaker 1: wide receiver room. And the thing that I'll point out

565
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Speaker 1: to fans is keep an eye out for where he's

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Speaker 1: going to be utilized on special teams because I think

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff is trying to see if we are

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00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: going to consider this guy on offense. There's a very

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Speaker 1: good chance most weeks he's not going to be factoring

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Speaker 1: in on offense. But if he's active, can we use

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Speaker 1: him on special teams units? He still has to prove

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Speaker 1: himself capable there. And they sprinkled him in on a

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Speaker 1: couple last week. Does he play on more units this week?

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Speaker 1: I think that will be a telltale sign as to

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Speaker 1: how much they're considering him for the active roster. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you talk about you know, Hodgens and the kind

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Speaker 1: of player he is. You know, he's he's big, you

578
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. He's Yes, he's six three, two

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Speaker 1: oh one. He said he's playing a two fifteen. Now.

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Speaker 1: He's busted up a little bit. He doesn't play that big,

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Speaker 1: hasn't in the past, and he's doing better now. I

582
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Speaker 1: think he is doing better now than he has in

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Speaker 1: the pain. But that's you know, that's been the issue

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Speaker 1: with him. And but a guy at that height and

585
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: that size, you need to you need to play big.

586
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: You need to play to that size because that's your advantage.

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Speaker 1: None of those dbs. He's gonna be playing and none

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Speaker 1: of them are six three, none of them, and none

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Speaker 1: of them are probably going to be too close, you know,

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00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: two fifteen to twenty either nobody's gonna to ten even

591
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: none of them are gonna be that So you got

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Speaker 1: to use that to your advantage because that's something. As

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Speaker 1: fast and as strong as they might be, they are

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Speaker 1: not that big. So you got to play to that size.

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Speaker 1: If you can do that, you've always got an advantage because,

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Speaker 1: like I say, none of them are gonna be that big, right.

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Speaker 1: I think what you and I have had this conversation

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Speaker 1: more than once about Isaiah Hodgens. The biggest difference between

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Speaker 1: him and many of the other receivers on Buffalo's roster

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Speaker 1: is his degree of separation from the defender isn't always

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Speaker 1: as large as it is for some other receivers on

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Speaker 1: this roster Stefan Diggs, Gabriel Davis, Isaiah McKenzie, Jamison Crowder.

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Speaker 1: These guys separate from defenders. They make the window in

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Speaker 1: which the quarterback can throw into large, like it's a

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00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: bigger window because of the separation they get from the defender.

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00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: Hodgins can get separation at times, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: to the degree and to the size that a lot

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Speaker 1: of the other receivers can. So what happens that makes

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00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: it more of a contested throw, and contested throws sometimes

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00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: wind up being in completions or at worst interceptions. And

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00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: so his process in being a better separator, I think

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00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: is important too in this sequation, I think what they

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Speaker 1: what probably happens in postseason. And let's let's remember Hodgens

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Speaker 1: history here his first year three years which would this

615
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: will be his third year, So it's two years ago,

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Speaker 1: his rookie season, COVID year he was shoulder surgery. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so he was on the practice squad, but most of

618
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: his year was compromised by the shoulder. Last year he

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Speaker 1: was on the practice squad, probably a little disappointed at that,

620
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Speaker 1: got up for one game, didn't play though I didn't

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Speaker 1: think he got in the game. He had one, he

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00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,959
Speaker 1: had maybe a couple of special team snaps. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: probably a disappointment to him. But I think one of

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Speaker 1: the things they probably told him was they listen, you

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00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 1: gotta play up to your side, you gotta play big,

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Speaker 1: you gotta get there. And to your point about getting

627
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: something he needed to work on his releases is probably

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Speaker 1: what they told him so and how hard did he

629
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Speaker 1: work on him? Did he get better? Certainly he seems

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00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: to be playing better than we have seen him in

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Speaker 1: his career here in Buffalo we have, of course, his

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00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: first year we didn't see much of him at all

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Speaker 1: except at practice once in a while, and last year.

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Speaker 1: So this year the guy is playing better. He when

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00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: we watch him, he gets better results consistently than he

636
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: has in the first two years we saw him. He

637
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: always had good hands right always, So how good has

638
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: he gotten remains to be seen. What are they what

639
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: are they seeing him? Can he play special teams? Can

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Speaker 1: he can he help as a six three two ten

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Speaker 1: fifteen pound guy who's a matchup problem? Can he be

642
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: a matchup problem on special teams? Do well enough? Can

643
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: he run well enough? And you'd think as a wide

644
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: out he he should be able to. But and this

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00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,320
Speaker 1: is you know, the ultimate who knows until you see it?

646
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: Does he want to? Right? Does he want does he?

647
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Speaker 1: Is he willing to be a hard worker and an

648
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: attitude guy on special teams? Kumarro is yeah, you know

649
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: guys out there, you know sarrand Neil is Sorrand. Neil

650
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: is a great athlete, who wants to play safety and

651
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: now he plays special teams and you know what, guys

652
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 1: got a nice career going right, and actually is more

653
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: of a corner now than a safety. So yeah, and

654
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: that's kind of that's the kind of athlete he is, right,

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Speaker 1: And so you gotta think a guy like like, you know,

656
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Speaker 1: these guys who are athlete Kumarro and sarrand Neil and

657
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,800
Speaker 1: these guys who you don't think they want to play

658
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,399
Speaker 1: wide out or corner like the of course they do,

659
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: but they know this. It's better beyond the team and

660
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 1: playing special teams and practicing corner and wide receiver all

661
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: all week and being on the team than not wanting

662
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Speaker 1: to play special teams and being a wide receiver who's

663
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Speaker 1: out on a high school field trying to stay in shape. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Fourth player on the list, I had Oj Howard. He

665
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Speaker 1: played a lot last week. He may play more this

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Speaker 1: week because I don't think any of us really expect

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Speaker 1: Dawson Knox to play tomorrow. I would assume he's with

668
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: his family right now. We have not got an official

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Speaker 1: word on that, but I would assume he is with

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00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 1: his family and will be for the foreseeable future. Here,

671
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: you know, as they grieve as a family after the

672
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,760
Speaker 1: laws of his younger brother. So that means OJ Howard

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00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: might play even more than anticipated. And I think he's

674
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 1: got to put in an encouraging performance here. He has

675
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: to demonstrate he is on track to make contributions for

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Speaker 1: this offense at the tight end position in all facets,

677
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 1: whether it's blocking, receiving, you know, whatever it is. He Yeah.

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Speaker 1: For as optimistic as you and I were about OJ

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Speaker 1: Howard when we saw him sign, and you know, watch

680
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: him in practice, and you know, you get a load

681
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: of how big he is and his athleticism. You think, okay, well,

682
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: you know we'll see it. As of yet, he has

683
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: yet to flash. Um, we've talked about most of the

684
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Speaker 1: rookie class more than we've talked about OJ Howard. Yeah,

685
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 1: and you know this will be his champ. He's gonna

686
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: get a lot a ton of snaps. You got a

687
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Speaker 1: lot of ton of snaps last week. We'll see how

688
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Speaker 1: many targets he gets and how he does. But I'm

689
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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think it's really interesting to see

690
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: what he can contribute, if anything. And I think if

691
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: you don't see it, you know why you bring why

692
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 1: is he here. You know, Um, he's got to he's

693
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,240
Speaker 1: got to bring something to the table because if Dawson

694
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Speaker 1: Knox misses him, it's got him. You need some you

695
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: don't want any drop off. It's got to show up soon.

696
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,879
Speaker 1: And yeah, exactly, it starts on Saturday. Yeah, we got

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Speaker 1: one more player on the list of the five players

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Speaker 1: to watch on Buffalo Bills dot Com. Will tell you

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Speaker 1: who that is next here on one Bills Live presented

700
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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, we

701
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Speaker 1: got one more player on our five players to watch

702
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,359
Speaker 1: list on Buffalo Bills dot com for tomorrow's preseason game

703
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:18,879
Speaker 1: against the Denver Broncos. It is Greg Rousseau Steve. And

704
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: you know, this is a guy that is going to

705
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Speaker 1: be on the roster, but I think on the to

706
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 1: do list for him as far as tomorrow's game goes

707
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: is you know, as we know, didn't play in the

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Speaker 1: first one. This is his first opportunity to show how

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00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: much his game has grown since his rookie season. We

710
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: know he's stronger. We saw him here in the spring.

711
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy clearly added about eight to ten

712
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: pounds a lean muscle mass to his frame. How much

713
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: has his pass rushing repertoire expanded, That's what I want

714
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: to see. Yeah, I'm intrigued by him. He's the I

715
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Speaker 1: would say, probably the most impactful defensive lineman they've taken

716
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Speaker 1: in the draft out of at Oliver, Boogie Basham, Greg

717
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Speaker 1: Russo Aja Panessa. Greg Russo is the one who got

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00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,919
Speaker 1: the most snaps last year, and it was his first year,

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00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: so he as much as a guy could in this

720
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: defense and this philosophy the way they rotate guys through.

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Speaker 1: He's the one who were actually splashed the biggest last

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Speaker 1: year because it was his first year and he got

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Speaker 1: a bulk of the snaps. I mean, the guy was

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Speaker 1: out there. He was the defensive player of the Week

725
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,800
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs in Week five. As a rookie, he's

726
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: got an upside that seems to be he seems to

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Speaker 1: be on trend reaching. It'll be interesting to see what

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Speaker 1: Boogie Basham does as well. I think both those guys

729
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: are intriguing. Boogie had the play last week off the edge,

730
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: strip sacked and fumbled recovered for a touchdown, So all

731
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Speaker 1: of that stuff's going on. Greg Russo is a guy

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Speaker 1: who also most notably has been at the feat of

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Speaker 1: von Miller listening to him, Punti and Bruce Smith. When

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Speaker 1: Bruce has been in town, the big man was was

735
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: here given these guys lessons as well, talking to him

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Speaker 1: about what their his thought process is one of the

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00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: things that he did. And I think Bruce's who never

738
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,879
Speaker 1: got enough credit for this, was really intelligent about why

739
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: things worked for him and why they might not work

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Speaker 1: for somebody else, but what might work for somebody else.

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00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: Bruce doesn't get enough credit for that, So him, you know,

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Speaker 1: expounding on that to guys like Rousseau, and hearing von

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00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,399
Speaker 1: Miller say the same thing both, you know, nobody's got

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00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: more than Bruce, so but von Miller's got a ton

745
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Speaker 1: of them. So having Rousseau at the feet of those guys,

746
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: listening to those guys and listening to those guys talk

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Speaker 1: to each other, let alone having them talk to him

748
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: is can be as instructive as well. So I'm with you, Brownie.

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Speaker 1: I think I have high hopes for Rousseau this year.

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Speaker 1: You know, hopefully we won't see like a sophomore slump

751
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: or anything, but but I still think his upside is

752
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 1: to be seen yet. And I think he's one of

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00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: those guys that steadily got more, got better and better

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00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: last year in his rookie season, and I think that

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00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:10,439
Speaker 1: should and probably will continue. Yeah. So those are our five.

756
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 1: If you have questions about any of them, send them in.

757
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: We do have a bunch of questions now coming in

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00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheets, So we will get to that,

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Speaker 1: which is always is presented by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

760
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 1: official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. And let's

761
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: get to the top of this sheet. And Nick leads

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00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: us off by asking, do you think the decision to

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Speaker 1: play the starters this weekend had anything to do with

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00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,800
Speaker 1: it being the final home preseason game so the fans

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00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 1: can watch. Otherwise it would seem to make much more

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00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: sense to play them in the third game closer to

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00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: the regular season. Yeah. I think I wonder if the

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Speaker 1: fact that the opener is four days earlier than it

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00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 1: usually is played a role in the decision to play

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Speaker 1: starters in the second preseason Fay, the Thursday start date

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Speaker 1: is the thing that did it. Yeah, it starts four

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Speaker 1: days earlier than usual. Right, And here's the thing, And

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Speaker 1: here's what that means. If you have a preseason game,

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Speaker 1: which they do next a week from it's a week

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Speaker 1: from Saturday, is it? Or a week from Fridays? It

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00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: on Friday. It's Friday. They have a game on Friday.

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Speaker 1: Sunday is Wednesday of the game week of game week

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Speaker 1: for week one, right Sunday is Wednesday. They're three days ahead,

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00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 1: so they don't want to play them on Friday, because

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Speaker 1: then you're stuck. If somebody get tweaks in ankle or something,

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00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 1: they're done. Got six days cover. It's six days to

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00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: your next game. You only have one day off on

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00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 1: Saturday next week, and then you're right back in it.

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Speaker 1: And it's Wednesday plus cuts practice squad guys. I remember,

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00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 1: I say it every year. They're gonna come in here

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Speaker 1: on Sunday for practice, which is a Wednesday practice next

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00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: week after that final preseason game, and the rookies are

788
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: gonna look around, going where did everybody go? I mean,

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00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,399
Speaker 1: we got like twenty five. It looks like you got

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00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: twenty five guys on the field to play. I was like,

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00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: and this has got you know, coming from you know,

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00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 1: Georgia and Clemson all where all these guys came from.

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00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: There's like one hundred and fifty guys on the team.

794
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:18,319
Speaker 1: You get to the pros and you get down to

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00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: fifty three, it's like the sidelines vacant. Well even with

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00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 1: a sixteen man practice squad, right, there's no and plus

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00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: there's nobody gonna be there. The practice squad is like

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00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 1: the next day right where they formulated. So they're gonna

799
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: get out there to stretch and it's like, how are

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00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,800
Speaker 1: you even gonna how are you even going to practice?

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00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 1: So they got all that going on, trying to get

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Speaker 1: ready for the World Champions Thursday. Yeah, so and it's

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00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: their first game. Oh my god. Yeah, So it's a

804
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: lot going on. So they don't want to they don't

805
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:53,959
Speaker 1: want to have, you know, guys coming off a game,

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00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: a Friday game. They don't need to add any more headaches. Yeah,

807
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: you know what, just just sit down on that bench,

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00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,760
Speaker 1: don't move, and watch what's going on and think about

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00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: Thursday's game and getting ready for it, because it's there's

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00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:11,399
Speaker 1: a lot in there that this week coming up. It's

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Speaker 1: it's they're gonna be in over their head a lot

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Speaker 1: of these guys. I'm they're gonna pick up the pace

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00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,439
Speaker 1: of practice, they're gonna get ready for a game. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna travel on Thursday, Oh my gosh, Yeah, this is this.

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Speaker 1: This week is the culmination of training camp, the offseason,

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00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: the draft, the combine, the OTA's and of course training camp.

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00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: It's all culminates this week and you can feel it.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a big, big week in the NFL all

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Speaker 1: over and these guys. I think these young guys are

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00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 1: gonna sense it. Yeah, we have to take a break here.

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Speaker 1: We will get to more of your questions from the

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Speaker 1: obl Fan Friday mail bag. But first when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna find out who the heck is up for

824
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Speaker 1: the Broncos. Tomorrow we'll be checking in with the writer

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Speaker 1: that covers the Broncos for the athletic Mister Cosminer is

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Speaker 1: gonna be joining us next. We'll catch up with him

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Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been

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Speaker 1: all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind

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Speaker 1: of a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp.

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Speaker 1: We're not even in the strated beer of normalcy. Now

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Speaker 1: we're number two on a Friday. Chris Brown Ce task

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Speaker 1: here with you One Bills Live as we get set

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Speaker 1: for preseason game number two Bills Bronchos, and while this

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00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: iss will be playing for the Bills, it does not

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Speaker 1: sound as though that will be the case for the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: But here to confirm that, along with a whole lot

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00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 1: of other stuff concerning the Denver Broncos, is Broncos writer

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Speaker 1: for the Athletic Nick Cosmier kind enough to join us, Nick,

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Speaker 1: how you doing, Welcome to the show. Thanks a lot,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you having me. Yeah, So, why don't we begin there?

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Speaker 1: Has coach Hackett completely adopted the well Coach la Fleur

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Speaker 1: style of preseason starter play or lack thereof, He certainly

844
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Speaker 1: seems to have done that, and notably, the Broncos also

845
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:41,280
Speaker 1: brought three assistants over from the Rams Super Bowl winning

846
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:44,720
Speaker 1: staff who did it the same way under Sean McVeagh.

847
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: And that's just been the formula for the Broncos. You know,

848
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,399
Speaker 1: they go hard during their you know, their padded days

849
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: and practice, get a lot of teamwork in, and they're

850
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:58,240
Speaker 1: viewing that as their their evaluation, their ramp up period

851
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: toward the regular season and are using the preseason for um,

852
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: you know, second and third team players and guys who

853
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: might still be battling for starting spots to get those

854
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: opportunities in those games. But I don't think you'll spe

855
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 1: seeing many starting Broncos in Buffalo's Saturday morning. Every time

856
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: a team switches head coaches, there's always the obligatory comparisons

857
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: to what it was like under Vic Fangio and that

858
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 1: kind of thing. How has Nate Hackett handled that that

859
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 1: transition and what's the perception of Nate Hackett is compared

860
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: to the last guy they had, or the time before

861
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: or Nick Nate Hackett as a first time head coach,

862
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: how's that going? Yeah, you know, you couldn't really have

863
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 1: two um more varying personalities than than Vic Fangio and

864
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett. Um, certainly, and that seems to be the

865
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: way it goes. As you know, Steve, you hire, you

866
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: fire staff, you tend to you know, you tend to

867
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,280
Speaker 1: go kind of with the opposite um. But but players

868
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 1: have raved about the way that that he coaches, these

869
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,839
Speaker 1: um sort of regeneration days that he calls them where

870
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: they have these jobs throughs in the middle of training camp,

871
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: which we certainly didn't see a year ago, you know,

872
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: kind of has them playing, you know, playing games at

873
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 1: the beginning of meetings, you know, having these quizzes, you know,

874
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:12,880
Speaker 1: just doing things, and I think a little bit of

875
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: a different way with a lot more energy that I

876
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: think right now players have gravitated toward. And as we're

877
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: mentioning talking about the preseason, big fan Joel played his

878
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,360
Speaker 1: starters throughout the preseason during his three years as the coach.

879
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: So there's definitely definitely a varying style that the players

880
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: seem to really be enjoying. But of course it'll all

881
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: come to fruition on the field. What does it look

882
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:40,919
Speaker 1: like then? What is the general consensus there in Denver, Nick,

883
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,359
Speaker 1: at least from the fan base, because you know, it's

884
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 1: not only a first time head coach in Nathaniel Hackett,

885
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: you're also turk in the first time OC, a first

886
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 1: time defensive coordinator. And I realize, you know, the special

887
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:56,720
Speaker 1: teams coach had been that before in his previous coaching days,

888
00:53:56,760 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: I believe for a year with the Tampa eight Bucks.

889
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: But what do they make of this staff which is

890
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: made up completely of first time or is in their

891
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 1: respective roles. I think there is m maybe a slight

892
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: bit of trepidation from from some sections of the fan base.

893
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: You know, I did a mail bag the other day

894
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: where that question popped up a couple of times of

895
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: you know, what are the comparisons to this? You know,

896
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,839
Speaker 1: you've seen it recently. Some young head coaches have gone

897
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 1: with veteran coordinators. To start with, McVeigh had Wade Phillips

898
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 1: with him in Los Angeles. You know, Matt Lafleur when

899
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: he took over, he hired Hackett, who had previous OC experience,

900
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:36,720
Speaker 1: and he also hired Mike Petton to coach the defense,

901
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: who obviously had experience in that role and as a

902
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,800
Speaker 1: head coach. So um, it is a little bit different

903
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: for the Broncos. Kyle Shanahan is probably the closest recent

904
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: comparison in twenty seventeen when he took the job with

905
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. Um, you know, he was the

906
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: de facto OC, you know, went with a first time

907
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. They went six and ten in that first year.

908
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:00,919
Speaker 1: The big difference here is Russell Wilson, and I think

909
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 1: that's what ultimately kind of assages some of these concerns

910
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: is that you have a staff that, while they haven't

911
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,440
Speaker 1: been in their exact positions, they have a lot of

912
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: experience at various stops, but Russell Wilson is what they

913
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: hope will kind of tie this whole thing together, that

914
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: it's a collaborative experience, and having him in that most

915
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: important role in the organization will help assage some of

916
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: those learning curves that the staff will inevitably have well

917
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:27,240
Speaker 1: given all those and you know, of course, here in Buffalo,

918
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:29,719
Speaker 1: we're sitting here on top of the highest expectations that

919
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: maybe the franchise has ever had. What are the expectations

920
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:34,959
Speaker 1: for the Broncos. I mean, they're sitting in the middle

921
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 1: of a division that is the most competitive, at least

922
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: on paper, the most competitive division in football. What are

923
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:44,799
Speaker 1: the expectations for how good this team could be, might be,

924
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: or will probably be. Well, internally, they're not shying away

925
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: from championship style expectations, which is certainly a difference around

926
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: here from what it's been recently. Obviously, this is a

927
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:01,920
Speaker 1: team that won Super Bowl fifty him Von Miller's incredible

928
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 1: game against the Panthers, But since then, six straight seasons

929
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 1: with no playoff appearances, five straight seasons with losing records,

930
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: and then you come in and you have this season

931
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,879
Speaker 1: of just absolute change right, you got. We talked about

932
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,720
Speaker 1: the coaching staff a little bit, We talked about Russell Wilson.

933
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:20,359
Speaker 1: The Broncos also were sold to brand new owners who

934
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:22,360
Speaker 1: have been introduced over the last couple of weeks. So

935
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 1: the newness for this franchise, you know, the level of

936
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: change is pretty incredible, and with that comes a lot

937
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:32,239
Speaker 1: of expectations. Steve, you mentioned that the division is what

938
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: could potentially, I think, hold this team back. Every single

939
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 1: one of those games is going to be a dog fight,

940
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: and how you are able to kind of handle that

941
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:43,319
Speaker 1: division is going to determine whether you can get into

942
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs and then what you do from there. I

943
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:47,799
Speaker 1: think it's realistic to expect this team to get back

944
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: into the playoffs for the first time since twenty fifteen,

945
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:52,920
Speaker 1: but I also think that this is probably going to

946
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 1: take a year before it reaches sort of it's, you know,

947
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: it's full steam ahead type of mode. Right because of

948
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 1: the new coaching stap Russell Wilson playing with a new

949
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: team for the first time in his career, I think

950
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 1: it's fair to expect there is going to be some

951
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 1: bumps in the road, and while I still think they

952
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:10,760
Speaker 1: will be a playoff team this year. I think turning

953
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 1: into a real championship contender is going to take probably

954
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 1: another offseason, you know, for them to fully kind of

955
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: clip that all together. Projected as one of the starting

956
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: corners is a guy that Bill's fans are familiar with

957
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 1: in Ronald Darby, you know, a new addition to the

958
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 1: roster for Denver this year or was it last year?

959
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember last year, last year? What has

960
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 1: been the general review of his play, you know, last

961
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: year in a different scheme and now coming into this

962
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 1: season and a new one. Well, he had a really

963
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: strong camp going into last year, but then was hurt

964
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: in the season. Opener had to miss about four games,

965
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,680
Speaker 1: I believe with a hamstring injury, and when when he

966
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 1: got back, it took him a little bit to to

967
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 1: kind of, I think get into the flow of Big

968
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: Fangio's defense. There was there's some russ there. Ultimately he

969
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 1: had he had a good season, but dealt with a

970
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: couple more injuries and then has been injured again in camp.

971
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 1: And that has sort of been the knock on Darby

972
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: during his career is that he hasn't been able to

973
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 1: stay fully healthy for long stretches. They really need him

974
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: to be productive this year. They need him to be

975
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: on the field. Obviously, Pat Surtan is already developing into

976
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 1: one of the best cornerbacks in the league, but they

977
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 1: need Darby on the other side to really be effective.

978
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: They drafted a young cornerback out of pitt named to

979
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 1: Marie Mathis, who they like a lot. But again, as

980
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: you guys know what the rookie cornerbacks, most of them

981
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: takes some time. Curtan not included because he was a

982
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: stud from the start. But they need Darby to i think,

983
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 1: be healthy and be able to contribute in order to

984
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: kind of reach the goals that they want to want

985
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: to reach on defense. Before we move on to other things,

986
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 1: we may as well talk about the game tomorrow. Josh

987
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: Johnson's going to get the snaps. I mean, certainly, Russ

988
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 1: Wilson's never been one to miss a game. He's been durable.

989
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: It's been one of his hallmarks, has been able to

990
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: he shows up every week. But if you're going to

991
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: talk about who's backing him up, Josh Johnson might be

992
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 1: the guy that we see tomorrow in this game. Yeah,

993
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 1: he'll start, and it's an important it's an important, I

994
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: think gauge four Josh Johnson. As you mentioned, the Broncos

995
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 1: gave away what they did five draft picks, a couple

996
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: of starters in order to sign Russell Wilson, and a

997
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 1: big part of that is because of his durability. It's

998
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 1: something that you can count on year in and year out,

999
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: you know, kind of his fluke finger injury last year notwithstanding.

1000
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: But all that being said, you always have to account

1001
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: for the fact that your starter might go down. And

1002
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: for Josh Johnson, he had a great debut preseason debut

1003
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys last week, started off a little rocky,

1004
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 1: but then completed thirteen of his last fourteen passes. But

1005
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: that was against Dallas's second and third teamers. If he

1006
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 1: gets to go against some Buffalo starters on Saturday, I

1007
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a real important test for

1008
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 1: him for the staff to see that he is the

1009
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 1: guy that's going to be capable to sort of help

1010
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: them tread water in the event that Russell Wilson does

1011
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: have to miss any time this year. So so I

1012
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: look for him to kind of view this as a

1013
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 1: kind of his biggest game potentially, you know, of the year,

1014
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: because certainly the Broncos hope that they don't have to

1015
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 1: see him in the regular season. What can you say

1016
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 1: about the tight end position, because Noah Fant went the

1017
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: other way in the Russell Wilson trade. He's in Seattle. Now,

1018
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 1: I know they drafted Greg Dulsiche, but if I remember right,

1019
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 1: like the last I saw, he was dealing with some

1020
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 1: injuries in training camp. So how has that position shaken

1021
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 1: out here as as they get set to fill it

1022
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 1: in the absence of Fan, who's now a Seahawk. Yeah,

1023
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 1: they kind of prepared this season for a third year player,

1024
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 1: Albert okawab Nam, who was a fourth round pick a

1025
01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:42,919
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, to kind of step into Fan's role,

1026
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:45,680
Speaker 1: and in a lot of ways he's done that and

1027
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 1: it has been really exciting for Russell Wilson. He's a big,

1028
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: kind of one of those mismatch type guys who's very

1029
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 1: fast up the scene, has good quickness in his route running,

1030
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: has great has really good hands. So he's done a

1031
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:01,640
Speaker 1: lot of that from a pass catching perspective in camp.

1032
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: He's got a long way to go as a blocker.

1033
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 1: You saw some of that in the preseason opener against

1034
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Had a couple missed assignments, you know that

1035
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:12,439
Speaker 1: led to some busted plays. That's one area where they're

1036
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 1: really trying to get him better. The team is really

1037
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,480
Speaker 1: high on Greg Dulst's, as you mentioned, the third round

1038
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 1: pick out of UCLA, but he has not really been

1039
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:22,840
Speaker 1: healthy at all this offseason. He suffered that hamstring injury

1040
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 1: almost immediately after arriving in Denver and hasn't really done

1041
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 1: team stuff during training camp. They expect, they expect ultimately

1042
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:32,920
Speaker 1: for him to be kind of a similar mold to

1043
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 1: Okaway Bunam, but I think at this point the expectations

1044
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 1: for him should probably be tempered until they can see

1045
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 1: him consistently on the field. So Okaway Bunam has a

1046
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 1: real chance here to kind of step in as a

1047
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: big target for Russell Wilson, particularly in the red zone.

1048
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 1: So we've seen Russell Wilson arrive in town. How is

1049
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:55,920
Speaker 1: the chemistry between guys like Courtland Sutton, Jerry Judy, the

1050
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: first line guys. How has that gone in his acclamation

1051
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: of those guys coming in And what are those guys

1052
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 1: said about his arm and the way he throws it,

1053
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:08,000
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. How's that going? Yeah, Well, you know,

1054
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 1: you got to remember with these receivers, these guys, even

1055
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 1: the ones that are going into their third season, like

1056
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 1: like a Jerry Judy, had already played with three, four, five,

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01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: six quarterbacks. That's just how how much turnover there has

1058
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 1: been at the position since Peyton Manning retired after the

1059
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen season. But so what they're seeing with with

1060
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:31,439
Speaker 1: Wilson is just a complete change. They went to San

1061
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,760
Speaker 1: Diego to his place in San Diego almost immediately after

1062
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:37,160
Speaker 1: the trade went down, to have like a little bit

1063
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 1: of a mini camp there where he got to know

1064
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 1: his receivers. They spent time in his own like you know,

1065
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: film room that he has their running routes on the field.

1066
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 1: So they kind of developed that really quickly, and then

1067
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 1: went back to San Diego after mini camp and before

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01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: training camp began. So they've already had these two extra

1069
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:56,160
Speaker 1: like mini camps. And that's on top of these just meetings,

1070
01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 1: these these Wilson led meetings that he has with his

1071
01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 1: receivers and his offensive lineman every single morning at six am.

1072
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:06,360
Speaker 1: And so it's just been a wholesale change for these receivers.

1073
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 1: And I think what you're starting to see over the

1074
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks of camp is that that chemistry

1075
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: is starting to have a tangible impact on the way

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01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 1: that they're playing on the field, particularly Courtland Sutton. I

1077
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 1: think ever since Tim Patrick went down with an ACL

1078
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 1: injury toward the start of camp, Sutton has had this

1079
01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 1: developing chemistry with Russell Wilson that I think portends a

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01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 1: really strong season for that duo. Sutton is a guy

1081
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: who was a pro bowler in twenty nineteen, tore his

1082
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 1: ACL in twenty twenty, was kind of still dealing with

1083
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:36,960
Speaker 1: that last year, but appears very healthy and I think

1084
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 1: he's going to have a big year with Russell Wilson.

1085
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 1: Last one I've got for you, Nick is, I know

1086
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 1: it's still a little bit of a ways off, but

1087
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 1: it is going to be prime time if I remember

1088
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 1: right the opener, and we know the NFL does this

1089
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 1: all the time. Russell Wilson against the Seahawks in Week one.

1090
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:56,760
Speaker 1: Has he been asked about it yet? If so, what's

1091
01:03:56,800 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 1: been his response. He's been asked a couple of times. Um,

1092
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 1: you know, right right after right after that schedule came out,

1093
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 1: and then again kind of at the beginning of training camp. Um,

1094
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 1: And you know he's kind of stuck at the same

1095
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: line that it's going to be for him, Um, you know,

1096
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 1: a chance to go to a place that was really

1097
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 1: special for him for ten years, right, had a lot

1098
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:18,320
Speaker 1: of roots in that community. Um. But but I but

1099
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:20,360
Speaker 1: you know, the kind of understanding that I've gotten around

1100
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 1: here is he really doesn't want to talk a lot

1101
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:26,320
Speaker 1: about his separation from Seattle. He has been, um, kind

1102
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 1: of very focused on moving forward. Once he made the

1103
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:31,000
Speaker 1: decision that he was going to, um, you know, kind

1104
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 1: of accept this trade or or work to be traded

1105
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 1: um with Seattle, that that he was going to kind

1106
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 1: of close that chapter. And you know, all that being said,

1107
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:41,120
Speaker 1: when when when it actually occurs, when he you know,

1108
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 1: he lands in Seattle, and when he walks into that building,

1109
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 1: it'd be impossible, if you're a human being, not to

1110
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:48,080
Speaker 1: have some of that pull of all that they did

1111
01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 1: there in the ten years. But I think he has

1112
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:52,760
Speaker 1: tried the best he can to downplay what that's going

1113
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 1: to be. So I think the real test will be

1114
01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:57,160
Speaker 1: when he when he actually shows up there and um,

1115
01:04:57,200 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 1: you know, and sees that stadium that he played so

1116
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: many games and last one for me and it's about

1117
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:04,920
Speaker 1: this game tomorrow. There's seems to be you know, the

1118
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:09,560
Speaker 1: Broncos really would love to have Javonte Williams be the

1119
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:13,080
Speaker 1: starting running back and not Melvin Gordon, although they Melvin

1120
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 1: Gordon went out found out the grass was not greener.

1121
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 1: Now he's still there. You know, how's that going to

1122
01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 1: work itself out? And it's precision, especially tomorrow in this

1123
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 1: game against the Bills. Yeah, I would imagine that both

1124
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 1: Williams and Gordon will sit tomorrow. They did in the opener,

1125
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,960
Speaker 1: and certainly Gordon will sit. He had a he had

1126
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 1: a foot contusion last week that um, you know, they

1127
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 1: Kepta Maudison practices. He got back to practicing this week,

1128
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:40,320
Speaker 1: but um, I don't think he will play. And I

1129
01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:42,480
Speaker 1: think the same for Williams. He's gonna fall into that

1130
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 1: general starters that they're not going to play. Um, And

1131
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 1: so you'll see kind of Mike Boone, who a veteran

1132
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:50,919
Speaker 1: who played a couple of years with the Vikings. He'll

1133
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:53,840
Speaker 1: probably be the lead back for the Broncos tomorrow. But

1134
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:56,080
Speaker 1: as far as that that that duo and how it

1135
01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:58,920
Speaker 1: will shake out, Melvin Gordon himself said the other day

1136
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: that that he believes the step is going to make

1137
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:04,680
Speaker 1: Javontay Williams, the second year player out of North Carolina,

1138
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:07,120
Speaker 1: that they'll make him the starter. But I think it's

1139
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 1: going to look very similar to what it did in

1140
01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. When you know Gordon and Williams ended

1141
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:14,720
Speaker 1: up with the exact same carry total two hundred and

1142
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:17,960
Speaker 1: three attempts at piece on the ground. You're going to

1143
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:20,360
Speaker 1: see something resembling that. I think that's always just been

1144
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:22,720
Speaker 1: the way Nathaniel Hackett has done it at his stops

1145
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:26,200
Speaker 1: as an offensive play caller, offensive coordinator. You know, a

1146
01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:28,880
Speaker 1: pretty even split of his top two running backs, and

1147
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:31,200
Speaker 1: really that's the way it should be given all that

1148
01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:34,000
Speaker 1: Gordon has been able to do in his two years. Yes,

1149
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:36,000
Speaker 1: he's dealt with some fumble issues, but this is a

1150
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:38,360
Speaker 1: guy that has scored twenty total touchdowns over the past

1151
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:41,040
Speaker 1: two seasons, just knows how to get it done when

1152
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,600
Speaker 1: they get close to the goal line. He's going to

1153
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 1: be a big part of what they do, even if

1154
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 1: Javontay Williams kind of has that designation as the starter.

1155
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:51,960
Speaker 1: Nick appreciate the time. Thanks for lending us some insight

1156
01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:54,600
Speaker 1: on what we can expect from the Broncos. Tomorrow. Appreciate it.

1157
01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, have a great day, guys. Right. That's

1158
01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: Broncos reporter for the Athletic Nick Cosmider on what the

1159
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 1: Broncos will be doing against the Bills tomorrow, which basically

1160
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 1: means essentially no starters playing for them. As Steve said,

1161
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:12,040
Speaker 1: it's kind of a flip of what we saw last week.

1162
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:16,080
Speaker 1: Last week we saw the Bills second teamers working against

1163
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:19,160
Speaker 1: the Colts starters. This week it will be the opposite

1164
01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:24,120
Speaker 1: Bills starters for a period of time against Bronchos backups.

1165
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 1: I mean neither Melvin Gordon nor You got Mike Boone

1166
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 1: starting at running back probably for the Broncos tomorrow, and

1167
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 1: put your Quan Hardy'll get some Steve scot Yeah, there's yeah,

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01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna be You're gonna need a program tomorrow. You

1169
01:07:40,040 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 1: will need a flip card tomorrow. Yes, no question. Let's

1170
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:47,560
Speaker 1: get back though to the Friday fan mailbag, as we

1171
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 1: had some lingering questions there to address, and Frank was

1172
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:54,720
Speaker 1: where we left off, and Frank asks, do you think

1173
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:58,040
Speaker 1: that Ken Dorsey will use a variation of his college

1174
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:01,560
Speaker 1: Day's offense? He did go thirty eight and two using it,

1175
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:06,200
Speaker 1: and it had a lot of deep passing touchdowns. News flash.

1176
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 1: It also had a lot of future NFL players. It's

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01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,440
Speaker 1: it's pretty easy. I mean, look, I'm not taking anything

1178
01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:17,920
Speaker 1: away from coach Dorsey. As a quarterback. He was smart

1179
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 1: enough to get it in the hands of his playmakers

1180
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 1: and had to execute guy through twenty five touchdown passes

1181
01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:29,479
Speaker 1: in two thousand in a thirteen game season. He also

1182
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:34,560
Speaker 1: had on his offense Clinton Portis naj Davenport, DJ Williams,

1183
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:40,719
Speaker 1: Santana Moss, Reggie Wayne, and Jeremy Shockey and Andre Johnson.

1184
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 1: Wasn't kelln Winslow junior on that town not yet? Okay, Yeah,

1185
01:08:44,400 --> 01:08:46,360
Speaker 1: there were some guys on it. I'll say this though,

1186
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 1: and I've heard other coaches say this as well. When

1187
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:52,080
Speaker 1: you get down to it and you're calling plays in

1188
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:55,559
Speaker 1: the NFL or any place else, and you're thinking down

1189
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:58,679
Speaker 1: a distance and you're thinking all that, you you don't

1190
01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:02,800
Speaker 1: think play cole as an offensive coordinator or defensive coordinator.

1191
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:06,240
Speaker 1: You think players. You don't think plays, You think players.

1192
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:10,280
Speaker 1: And that's what Ken Dorsey did so well at Miami University.

1193
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: You get the ball of the guys who are difference makers.

1194
01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:14,880
Speaker 1: You get the ball of the guy who's got the

1195
01:09:14,920 --> 01:09:18,680
Speaker 1: matchup that you win, and that's what And in the

1196
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:21,880
Speaker 1: offense in the NFL, certainly there's great players on both

1197
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:24,200
Speaker 1: sides no matter who you're playing that week. As an offense,

1198
01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:27,719
Speaker 1: they got guys you want to make sure you're great guys,

1199
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:29,799
Speaker 1: get on their guys who are not their great guys

1200
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:33,800
Speaker 1: and attack those guys. That's what can That's the real

1201
01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 1: thought about it. So you don't think you think, Okay,

1202
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:38,559
Speaker 1: you got Steph Diggs. You think Gabe Day, You think

1203
01:09:38,560 --> 01:09:41,920
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs. First, Can I put Steph Diggs somewhere where

1204
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:44,120
Speaker 1: he's gonna win no matter what. Can we move him around?

1205
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 1: Can we said? And then if their defense can adjust

1206
01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 1: to that, who else is gonna win? Gabe is on now,

1207
01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 1: Gabe is on that guy. We can win that one,

1208
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 1: you know. But then if you get it out there

1209
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:56,160
Speaker 1: and Steph is winning, you keep going to him. So

1210
01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:59,240
Speaker 1: that's you're right, That's exactly what Ken Dorsey did as

1211
01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:03,760
Speaker 1: a college athlete. Throw it to that there. You know

1212
01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:09,559
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt can't match up with that guy. Yeah, Andre Andre

1213
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:14,880
Speaker 1: Andre stinking Johnson, So yeah, you're gonna win that. And

1214
01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 1: that's what that's I mean, you're gonna win matchups, and

1215
01:10:18,439 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: he had a ton of guys who could win matchups,

1216
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:23,639
Speaker 1: and and Ken Dorsey is a smart guy thirty eight

1217
01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:26,840
Speaker 1: and two are you kidding me? So there you go.

1218
01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:29,280
Speaker 1: It's one win away from two national titles. That's where

1219
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:32,040
Speaker 1: it is right there. So he's gonna he's gonna do

1220
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 1: that as And plus he's got a decade as an

1221
01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 1: NFL coach watching guys do it, and he's watched Josh

1222
01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:44,920
Speaker 1: go from you know, from a doubted guy to a

1223
01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:50,320
Speaker 1: probable MVP contender. So if that's the case, you know,

1224
01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:52,400
Speaker 1: you can bet that's what tink Ken Dorsey's thinking, and

1225
01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:55,439
Speaker 1: all that stuff goes into the stew He's thinking, player,

1226
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:57,680
Speaker 1: I got this guy, and they got that guy. My

1227
01:10:57,760 --> 01:10:59,640
Speaker 1: guy wins the same of the Brian Dabele took a

1228
01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:03,480
Speaker 1: very similar approach to game planning. He would start with matchups,

1229
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:08,640
Speaker 1: less so on passing concepts and scheme, more on the

1230
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: matchups first, and then the play calls kind of generated

1231
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 1: from there. To answer your Kellen Winslow question, he was

1232
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:20,160
Speaker 1: a freshman on the team in two thousand and one,

1233
01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:22,760
Speaker 1: but he didn't really play much because Shocky was still there.

1234
01:11:23,439 --> 01:11:28,599
Speaker 1: Unbelievable some of that talent. And then Willis mcgahey, Frank

1235
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:32,400
Speaker 1: or I mean, Mike. Even when you're sitting there, think, yeah,

1236
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:33,920
Speaker 1: he's a good players all that, but you never know

1237
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:35,559
Speaker 1: how good they're gonna be till they you know, they

1238
01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:37,960
Speaker 1: take the next step and they and they do well there.

1239
01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:41,479
Speaker 1: But there was a lot of pro football players playing

1240
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:44,799
Speaker 1: for the Miami Hurricanes. I gave you some of the guys,

1241
01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:49,320
Speaker 1: you know, the skill position players, Flynton Portis NJ Davenport,

1242
01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:55,320
Speaker 1: Willis mcgaey, Frank Gore, Andre Johnson, Darryl Jones, Jeremy Shocky,

1243
01:11:55,520 --> 01:12:00,559
Speaker 1: Kellen Winslow Junior. Here's your offensive line, Bryant McKinney, Jerome

1244
01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:04,599
Speaker 1: McDougall both played in the NFL. Then the defensive line,

1245
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:10,720
Speaker 1: William Joseph NFL, Andrew Williams NFL, Matt Walters NFL, Vince Wilfork,

1246
01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:17,599
Speaker 1: Jonathan Vilma, DJ Williams, Darryl mcclover, Philip Buchanan, Ed Reid,

1247
01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:21,800
Speaker 1: Mike Rumfinantrelle Roll, Ed Reid. They got like two Hall

1248
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:25,360
Speaker 1: of Famers works Wilfork's gonna go in the Hall of

1249
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 1: Fame and Ed Reid's already in Ed Reid was like

1250
01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:32,680
Speaker 1: a first ballot Hall of Famer. Yeah that let me

1251
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 1: just tell you something. You say what you want. Who

1252
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 1: was recruiting those guys and where are they working now?

1253
01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:43,360
Speaker 1: They're well, they're a lot older now. Yeah, you know,

1254
01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 1: it's a long time with twenty which Davis, Larry Coker guys.

1255
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 1: It's kind of a fun exercise to go back stacked.

1256
01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 1: Yeah that roster. And I'll say this too. I know

1257
01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:58,240
Speaker 1: this is how I feel, and I've seen a lot

1258
01:12:58,280 --> 01:12:59,880
Speaker 1: of the guys and they feel the same way. Those

1259
01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:03,200
Speaker 1: all those guys that you just mentioned, they are sitting

1260
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 1: there going they are just absolutely positively cheering for Ken

1261
01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 1: Dorsey right now. Oh yeah, let's go, man. You know

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Speaker 1: they're gonna come on, man, let's go. They want to

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01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:13,800
Speaker 1: see him do well. They really want to see him

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01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:17,360
Speaker 1: do well. And it's kind of fun to think about. Yeah,

1265
01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:21,840
Speaker 1: it's I I'd love to just sit down and talk

1266
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:25,160
Speaker 1: to him about that. Forget about all this stuff with

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01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:28,599
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator here and bills and all that. We gotta

1268
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:32,440
Speaker 1: get him in here one time and just talk Miami Hurricanes. Yeah,

1269
01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 1: because we hear it all the time. We hear it

1270
01:13:34,520 --> 01:13:35,880
Speaker 1: you and I bring it up to people all the

1271
01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 1: time that are out and about because we interact with

1272
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 1: our guests off the air and stuff like that. And

1273
01:13:40,560 --> 01:13:43,200
Speaker 1: he's telling about Ken and all the people get that guy.

1274
01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:47,960
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey is a legend in South Florida. He is

1275
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:51,200
Speaker 1: like big time. I was asking Duke Johnson about it

1276
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:54,360
Speaker 1: earlier this week. Duke Johnson was like seven years old

1277
01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:57,360
Speaker 1: when Dorsey was doing what he is. And he played

1278
01:13:57,400 --> 01:14:00,160
Speaker 1: at Miami too. He's at Miami alum and he's like,

1279
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 1: I don't remember the games, but Ken Dorsey's a legend. Yeah,

1280
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:08,519
Speaker 1: here's the problem. So we lost Brian day Ball to

1281
01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:11,080
Speaker 1: the Giants. Thigures are gonna happen Ken Dorsey. We may

1282
01:14:11,120 --> 01:14:12,720
Speaker 1: lose him to the Miami hurt. You know what I mean.

1283
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:15,360
Speaker 1: He may go back and want to play. You want

1284
01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:17,599
Speaker 1: to coach college, be a head guy in a college situation.

1285
01:14:17,680 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 1: They just hired a new coach. I'm not saying Miami

1286
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:24,760
Speaker 1: University any place. Yeah, you know what I mean, particularly

1287
01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:27,759
Speaker 1: in the SEC where you know he might get lured

1288
01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:33,360
Speaker 1: away by that right as a head guy for sure. Yeah,

1289
01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: I mean you know coordinators in the NFL. Yeah, that's

1290
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:42,360
Speaker 1: really interesting because you know, if he hits a home run,

1291
01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:48,680
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the hot guy on the list. Yeah,

1292
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:51,559
Speaker 1: oh man, that's hard to think about. I don't want

1293
01:14:51,600 --> 01:14:53,400
Speaker 1: to think about that yet. We just went through that

1294
01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:56,960
Speaker 1: each of the last two years. We just went through that.

1295
01:14:57,520 --> 01:14:59,639
Speaker 1: I don't even to go through that again. Not yet.

1296
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:03,080
Speaker 1: We have to take a break when we come back.

1297
01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:07,960
Speaker 1: More of your questions from the obl Friday fan mail bag,

1298
01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:11,639
Speaker 1: and if we have time, a little NFL true fall.

1299
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:16,519
Speaker 1: Steve gotta pull those up when we return. Here on

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01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:19,360
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 1: All right, back to the Friday fan mailbag, we go,

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01:15:35,960 --> 01:15:41,519
Speaker 1: where Peter asks, does position flexibility give Ariza a leg up?

1303
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:44,519
Speaker 1: No pun intended with a history of kicking and punting

1304
01:15:44,560 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 1: in college? And why not have a running back due

1305
01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:50,320
Speaker 1: holding in case of a bad snap? Wouldn't that put

1306
01:15:50,320 --> 01:15:52,280
Speaker 1: the ball in the hands of a player better suited

1307
01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:58,000
Speaker 1: on a chance for a busted play? Well, I've kind

1308
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:00,080
Speaker 1: of wondered about that here and there, I get it.

1309
01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:05,639
Speaker 1: Here's the here's the thing. The running back situation player

1310
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:07,920
Speaker 1: or whatever I mean. I did it. They were hesitant

1311
01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:10,719
Speaker 1: to have me do it as a special teams player,

1312
01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 1: because you know, my hands got broken, got broken ten times. Yeah,

1313
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:22,439
Speaker 1: I mean all all my fingers on either hand got broken.

1314
01:16:22,439 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 1: So what happened? And I could still cover kicks with that.

1315
01:16:24,479 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 1: I got a bunch of football cards with me wearing

1316
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 1: a cast. Well, you can't hold with that. So all

1317
01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:30,040
Speaker 1: of a sudden, now you're in the middle of the season.

1318
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:31,760
Speaker 1: You got a kicker who's on his hot streak, and

1319
01:16:31,840 --> 01:16:34,120
Speaker 1: you change holders on him because the guy who usually

1320
01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:36,360
Speaker 1: does it gets a busted finger. What happens if you

1321
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:38,719
Speaker 1: know the running back boom blows a knee, blows an ankle.

1322
01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:44,479
Speaker 1: But it's a volatile spot the holders, the punter is

1323
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:46,800
Speaker 1: not going to go out with a with an acl

1324
01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:49,040
Speaker 1: The punter is not going to get a busted finger.

1325
01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:51,439
Speaker 1: The punter is not going to get something that goes

1326
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:55,640
Speaker 1: out there. Right. That's the reason you don't give do

1327
01:16:55,760 --> 01:16:58,160
Speaker 1: it with a running back because he might have to

1328
01:16:58,240 --> 01:17:01,760
Speaker 1: change it three times. So you want somebody who's going

1329
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:04,960
Speaker 1: to do it and who has least operations of getting injured.

1330
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:08,160
Speaker 1: Even if he even if he snaps a hamstring, he

1331
01:17:08,200 --> 01:17:12,760
Speaker 1: can hold during a game, right, even if you know

1332
01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:14,400
Speaker 1: like an hour and a half, you know you set

1333
01:17:14,400 --> 01:17:16,040
Speaker 1: the rosters an hour and a half. We've seen this

1334
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:19,120
Speaker 1: happen where the punt the kicker or somebody the somebody

1335
01:17:19,160 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 1: pulls a hamstring and warm ups. Well, even then, if

1336
01:17:22,400 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 1: your punter blows up hamstring and warms up, he can

1337
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 1: still kneel down and hold. He can't do the busted play,

1338
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:31,760
Speaker 1: but at least he can hold. So all of that

1339
01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:33,720
Speaker 1: goes into the mix. But it's a good question, and

1340
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:36,600
Speaker 1: you're right, there are great guys. You know, why not

1341
01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:39,840
Speaker 1: have Josh do it? You know, because if you if

1342
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 1: if worse comes to worse, he's got the ball in

1343
01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:44,160
Speaker 1: his hands and you know he can throw it or

1344
01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:48,000
Speaker 1: run it. Well, the aunt kind of answer your own question.

1345
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 1: It's like I don't want to, you know, right, So

1346
01:17:51,120 --> 01:17:54,400
Speaker 1: what about the position flexibility question? Knowing a rise it

1347
01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:58,639
Speaker 1: punted end place, It's it's a it's a consideration. You're

1348
01:17:58,640 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 1: really just looking for the best punter, You're just right, Yeah,

1349
01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:03,680
Speaker 1: you're just looking for the best punter. You know, you

1350
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:06,600
Speaker 1: already have a kicker plan. I understand. Okay, if you

1351
01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:08,160
Speaker 1: go with the best guy at the spot, and then

1352
01:18:08,200 --> 01:18:09,960
Speaker 1: whoever you have on the roster, and finally you go

1353
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:12,759
Speaker 1: what's your best plan being Okay, well you got Dawson

1354
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:15,719
Speaker 1: Knox can punt, Okay, do it. He's our backup punter.

1355
01:18:17,439 --> 01:18:19,519
Speaker 1: That's what you're looking at. But it's a good question. Yeah,

1356
01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:23,400
Speaker 1: but the consideration is, and like I said, is what

1357
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 1: if something happens? Yeah, best thing to keep the kicking

1358
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:31,160
Speaker 1: operation consistent with the people involved in it. Jack asked,

1359
01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 1: I'm curious on your opinion of the guys competing on

1360
01:18:33,560 --> 01:18:36,880
Speaker 1: the D line. Could they keep nine or ten and

1361
01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:40,560
Speaker 1: could we see a surprise? Per reports last game? C J.

1362
01:18:40,800 --> 01:18:44,200
Speaker 1: Brewer and Brandon Bryant both looked good, An Ku played

1363
01:18:44,240 --> 01:18:48,719
Speaker 1: well last year, and Love always seemed to flash. Yeah,

1364
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:51,280
Speaker 1: it's it's a deep position. I mean, I don't think

1365
01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:55,120
Speaker 1: there's any question about that, and there are going to

1366
01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:58,160
Speaker 1: be some difficult decisions here. I think some of the

1367
01:18:58,200 --> 01:19:02,080
Speaker 1: guys that Jack mentioned are destined for the practice squad

1368
01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:06,120
Speaker 1: because you got veteran free agent signees ahead of them

1369
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:09,519
Speaker 1: on the depth chart right now, particularly on the defensive interior,

1370
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:13,320
Speaker 1: and you have high draft choice investments at defensive end.

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01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:15,760
Speaker 1: All right, here's what you got say. If you go

1372
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:21,840
Speaker 1: eight deep, you got Rousseau, four Rousseau, Oliver Jones, D

1373
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 1: Kwon Jones, Von Miller. Okay, then you got Boogie Basham,

1374
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips, Tim settle A, Ja Panessa. Well, that leaves

1375
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 1: Brandon Bryant, Shack Lawson, Mike love Eli, elianku Oh on

1376
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:39,960
Speaker 1: the outside looking end. And that's nothing about you know,

1377
01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:44,400
Speaker 1: Daniel Joseph, C. J. Brewer, Prince Emilie and Kingsley Jonathan.

1378
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:48,280
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of guys, and I think

1379
01:19:48,360 --> 01:19:51,320
Speaker 1: the most I think nine is possible. Ten seems a

1380
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:55,080
Speaker 1: little fat. Ten might happen because then if you only

1381
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:59,519
Speaker 1: go five linebackers, that gives you seven that it gives

1382
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:02,840
Speaker 1: you that gives you eight dbs. That gets you to

1383
01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:05,240
Speaker 1: twenty three on the defensive side of the ball. But

1384
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:07,639
Speaker 1: if you go five linemen, they took six last year

1385
01:20:08,120 --> 01:20:10,960
Speaker 1: because of special team, so that goes six. That's sixteen

1386
01:20:11,040 --> 01:20:14,840
Speaker 1: on your front six and then you've got sixteen. You

1387
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:17,639
Speaker 1: can go all the way up to what twenty four

1388
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:23,679
Speaker 1: defensive players. That means that's eight dbs. That ain't enough

1389
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:26,200
Speaker 1: to me. We got three. You got five on the

1390
01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:30,920
Speaker 1: field all the time. I think you go ten defensive backs,

1391
01:20:32,960 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 1: nine defensive lineman, and that gives you if you go six,

1392
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:41,360
Speaker 1: that gives you twenty five defensive players. That's pushing as

1393
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:42,760
Speaker 1: far as you can go. That's as far as you

1394
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:45,880
Speaker 1: can go. Yeah, I think nine is the limit because

1395
01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:48,400
Speaker 1: you got fifty guys. You got the kicker, the punter,

1396
01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:50,519
Speaker 1: the long snapper. That so it takes your fifty three

1397
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:52,600
Speaker 1: man down to fifties. You got fifty guys. If you

1398
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:55,280
Speaker 1: go twenty five and twenty five, there's your number. But

1399
01:20:55,520 --> 01:20:59,439
Speaker 1: usually you go twenty six, sometimes even twenty seven on

1400
01:20:59,479 --> 01:21:02,680
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball with your offensive you know,

1401
01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:05,519
Speaker 1: people the Bills, I think could go less than that

1402
01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:09,080
Speaker 1: because they have the same eleven guys on the field

1403
01:21:10,840 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 1: of the snaps. They're in their nickel defense. Yeah, but

1404
01:21:15,840 --> 01:21:21,000
Speaker 1: they rotate the front four so yeah, well there you go.

1405
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:25,719
Speaker 1: Now you got eight guys up front. So it's hard.

1406
01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:28,520
Speaker 1: It's not going to be easy. I think the linebackers

1407
01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:31,160
Speaker 1: where they go light, if they're gonna go light. Yeah,

1408
01:21:31,200 --> 01:21:34,639
Speaker 1: but special teams is important. And if that look at

1409
01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:38,839
Speaker 1: these if you look at these defensive linemen, there aren't

1410
01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:41,519
Speaker 1: many that have a role on special teams. No, I mean,

1411
01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:48,360
Speaker 1: I mean, like, yeah, exactly. I think AJ is on

1412
01:21:48,360 --> 01:21:52,760
Speaker 1: one of the units. Um I don't have my notes

1413
01:21:52,800 --> 01:21:55,320
Speaker 1: in front of me, but I remember seeing Aja out

1414
01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:57,840
Speaker 1: there on one of these. It's a problem. It's because

1415
01:21:57,960 --> 01:21:59,680
Speaker 1: it's a good problem, but it's a problem. But the

1416
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:05,400
Speaker 1: problem him is this. The linebackers become Matt Milano, Tremaine Edmonds,

1417
01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:09,639
Speaker 1: then you got Terrell Bernard probably he's in, and then

1418
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:16,160
Speaker 1: maybe what Meta Kevitch, there's Specter is five. That leaves Dodson,

1419
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:20,920
Speaker 1: Smith's six. No, Dodson is six. Dodson's making the roster,

1420
01:22:21,080 --> 01:22:27,320
Speaker 1: don't you think? Okays, Milano, Edmonds, Bernard Meta Kevitch, that's

1421
01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:33,160
Speaker 1: four Specter and Dodson. That leaves Giles, Harris and Andre

1422
01:22:33,320 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 1: Smith out. Well. Andre Smith is going to be on

1423
01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:39,880
Speaker 1: the suspended list anyway, so he's suspended for the first

1424
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:42,559
Speaker 1: six games. So I don't know what. I don't know

1425
01:22:42,600 --> 01:22:46,559
Speaker 1: what the thought process is there. But if you're gonna

1426
01:22:46,560 --> 01:22:49,120
Speaker 1: go light to me, that's the spot you go light

1427
01:22:49,160 --> 01:22:55,680
Speaker 1: at because you only play two of them. Yeah, you

1428
01:22:55,720 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: only play two of them. I know you got a

1429
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:04,120
Speaker 1: special team, a guy that's here primarily for special teams exploits,

1430
01:23:04,160 --> 01:23:08,799
Speaker 1: much like Seran Neil and Madakavitch, right, Bernard and Dotson

1431
01:23:09,720 --> 01:23:12,439
Speaker 1: are not getting on the field unless Edmonds or Milano

1432
01:23:12,479 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 1: are injured. And then even if one of them gets injured,

1433
01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:18,280
Speaker 1: Bernard backs both those guys up to me. Well, Dotson

1434
01:23:18,360 --> 01:23:20,400
Speaker 1: ken too though, Right, Well, that's the thing you got.

1435
01:23:20,439 --> 01:23:22,800
Speaker 1: You got two guys that back up both guys, you

1436
01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:24,879
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So if you got a clip somewhere,

1437
01:23:24,880 --> 01:23:27,679
Speaker 1: you might be there. So you go five there, only

1438
01:23:27,720 --> 01:23:33,200
Speaker 1: play two. Specter on the practice squad, spector makes it. Well,

1439
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:39,080
Speaker 1: then you're back to six. Yeah, you're not clipping Madacave. Yeah,

1440
01:23:39,640 --> 01:23:43,120
Speaker 1: you're right. Yeah, it's hard. It's really hard. Specter gets

1441
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:45,719
Speaker 1: protected on the practice squad. Problem go around and around

1442
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:48,280
Speaker 1: on that. But that's that's what you're looking at. Then

1443
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:50,280
Speaker 1: you go down to the and it's all about dbs

1444
01:23:50,320 --> 01:23:52,479
Speaker 1: and safeties. How many guys you get because they play

1445
01:23:52,479 --> 01:23:56,639
Speaker 1: five at a time. They play five dbs every snap.

1446
01:23:57,320 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 1: Usually it's the same five. Yeah, but if it's not.

1447
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:06,080
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about I mean that this club

1448
01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 1: has bent over backwards to make sure Jaquan Johnson and

1449
01:24:10,320 --> 01:24:14,439
Speaker 1: DeMar Hamlin don't go anywhere, and cam Lewis too. They've

1450
01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:16,559
Speaker 1: jumped through hoops to keep make sure those guys know

1451
01:24:16,600 --> 01:24:18,840
Speaker 1: how much they like him. Yeah, even though they can't

1452
01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:22,960
Speaker 1: get on the field right and the moment Jaquan Johnson

1453
01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:25,280
Speaker 1: and Damar Hamlin or cam Lewis is a free agent,

1454
01:24:25,640 --> 01:24:30,360
Speaker 1: they're a New York Giant the next minute or somebody else.

1455
01:24:30,400 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 1: But I know they'd be a Giant if they wanted to, right.

1456
01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:36,519
Speaker 1: Steve asked, do you expect the Bills to trade any

1457
01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 1: players to obtain draft capital next week prior to the

1458
01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:41,439
Speaker 1: final fifty three cutdown? If so, will there be any

1459
01:24:41,439 --> 01:24:43,960
Speaker 1: players they may showcase in tomorrow's game like they did

1460
01:24:43,960 --> 01:24:47,600
Speaker 1: Watkins a few years ago. We think we thought about it.

1461
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:49,679
Speaker 1: I think it's possible. I don't want to name names,

1462
01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:52,920
Speaker 1: but you gotta believe that Brandon Bean, if he feels

1463
01:24:52,920 --> 01:24:55,400
Speaker 1: he has a surplus at a position and has some

1464
01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 1: players of value that will be in demand by multiple teams,

1465
01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:02,280
Speaker 1: that that's when you can try to broker a deal

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01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:06,000
Speaker 1: and try to get some late round draft compensation in return.

1467
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:08,720
Speaker 1: If you can convince a team, hey, you want to

1468
01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:12,120
Speaker 1: compete with thirty one other teams for this guy, all right? Well,

1469
01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:14,840
Speaker 1: or maybe flip them. You can have him now and

1470
01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:17,080
Speaker 1: I'll trade him to you. Or it may Yes, otherwise

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01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 1: like maybe like this, Hey, listen, if we don't trade him,

1472
01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:22,200
Speaker 1: we're keeping him. You're not going to get a shot

1473
01:25:22,240 --> 01:25:25,240
Speaker 1: at him. We'll trade him if we get a five

1474
01:25:25,479 --> 01:25:28,280
Speaker 1: for this. Anybody's buying that. But but we're gonna keep

1475
01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:30,479
Speaker 1: him if you don't, and we're gonna guy. I think

1476
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:32,559
Speaker 1: you have a better chance of convincing somebody if they

1477
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:34,559
Speaker 1: believe that player is going to be in demand by

1478
01:25:34,600 --> 01:25:37,320
Speaker 1: more than one team. And now the power is out

1479
01:25:37,320 --> 01:25:39,800
Speaker 1: of your hands. Now the player is choosing where you go,

1480
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:41,920
Speaker 1: and you may see it. Maybe you choosing to acquire

1481
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:43,720
Speaker 1: him for an asset, or maybe it's like this. You

1482
01:25:43,760 --> 01:25:47,080
Speaker 1: can trade, will trade Jikwon Johnson or Damar Hamlin or

1483
01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:50,040
Speaker 1: Cam Lewis to you because they'll start for you. Or

1484
01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:52,479
Speaker 1: you can wait and we're gonna cut a guy like

1485
01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:55,960
Speaker 1: Josh Thomas or Nick McLeod. Yeah, you know you if

1486
01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:58,599
Speaker 1: you think Josh Thomas or Nick McLoud can start for you, okay,

1487
01:25:58,600 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 1: you can wait for us to release them. But we're

1488
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 1: not releasing Jikwan Johnson, DeMar Hamlin or Camp into that

1489
01:26:03,160 --> 01:26:06,320
Speaker 1: kind of thing. They'll hierarchy it. We may release that guy,

1490
01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:08,120
Speaker 1: but we're gonna keep that guy. You can trade for

1491
01:26:08,160 --> 01:26:10,240
Speaker 1: that guy, but we don't. We're not going to take

1492
01:26:10,280 --> 01:26:13,479
Speaker 1: anything less than a fifth for those guys. Or you

1493
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:15,240
Speaker 1: can take this other guy for free. If when we

1494
01:26:15,360 --> 01:26:17,000
Speaker 1: and you can be in a bidding war with thirty

1495
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:20,160
Speaker 1: one other teams. That kind of stuff's got to happen. Yeah,

1496
01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:23,280
Speaker 1: those conversations take place, no question. We have to take

1497
01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:26,680
Speaker 1: a break here. Got one more question on the tweetcheet.

1498
01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:30,720
Speaker 1: We'll get to concerning the joint scrimmages in advance of

1499
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:33,559
Speaker 1: a preseason game between the same two teams. Why do

1500
01:26:33,640 --> 01:26:37,120
Speaker 1: they do that? And how's my dog doing? Who's missing

1501
01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:39,240
Speaker 1: my son? Who's away at college. We'll have an updates

1502
01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:42,679
Speaker 1: on both. We have updates on both because Susie wants

1503
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:44,479
Speaker 1: to know. We'll get to that in a second here

1504
01:26:44,479 --> 01:26:59,519
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. Stay tuned, all right, Steve Susie

1505
01:26:59,520 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 1: in the mail says, scrimmages between teams like the Pats

1506
01:27:02,240 --> 01:27:04,200
Speaker 1: and Panthers, if they're playing against each other in the

1507
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:06,840
Speaker 1: preseason anyway, why do they have them? Also? How is

1508
01:27:06,840 --> 01:27:11,000
Speaker 1: the dog? So the Bills did this in twenty nineteen,

1509
01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:12,920
Speaker 1: they went down and did two pract two days of

1510
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:15,760
Speaker 1: joint practices with the Panthers and then played against them

1511
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:18,080
Speaker 1: in the scrimmage or played against them in the preseason.

1512
01:27:18,360 --> 01:27:21,479
Speaker 1: Down there, it's just an extra two days of quality

1513
01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:25,439
Speaker 1: work against a real opponent where you're not looking at

1514
01:27:25,479 --> 01:27:29,280
Speaker 1: the same looks from your defense in practice a training

1515
01:27:29,320 --> 01:27:32,120
Speaker 1: camp every day. There is a risk that you know,

1516
01:27:32,240 --> 01:27:35,400
Speaker 1: tempers boil over and you know somebody. There's always an

1517
01:27:35,439 --> 01:27:38,639
Speaker 1: injury risk too, because the sessions are a little more intense.

1518
01:27:39,439 --> 01:27:42,040
Speaker 1: But coaches feel like there are benefits to it that

1519
01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:45,120
Speaker 1: make it worthwhile. Yet you get used to playing the

1520
01:27:45,160 --> 01:27:47,519
Speaker 1: same guy over and over. You need some somebody else

1521
01:27:47,560 --> 01:27:48,840
Speaker 1: to do it so they can see. Plus it's a

1522
01:27:48,840 --> 01:27:52,240
Speaker 1: little more pressures. You don't have to be nice to

1523
01:27:52,280 --> 01:27:55,920
Speaker 1: these guys or whatever. Plus the coaches coaching staffs can

1524
01:27:55,960 --> 01:27:58,679
Speaker 1: control the violence to a greater degree. They can protect

1525
01:27:58,720 --> 01:28:01,479
Speaker 1: their star players. Play ends when the whistle blows, and

1526
01:28:01,479 --> 01:28:03,800
Speaker 1: the whistle can blow halfway through the play. They can

1527
01:28:03,840 --> 01:28:06,000
Speaker 1: blow the whistle whenever they want and stop the play

1528
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:08,840
Speaker 1: and save guys from doing it. It's a much more controlled,

1529
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:14,639
Speaker 1: if intense atmosphere, so they feel it safer for their

1530
01:28:14,640 --> 01:28:16,720
Speaker 1: players while they still get the benefits of playing in

1531
01:28:16,720 --> 01:28:19,200
Speaker 1: a real game, and they feel it's a better evaluation

1532
01:28:19,240 --> 01:28:22,439
Speaker 1: in the practice setting too, because the intensity is up.

1533
01:28:23,040 --> 01:28:28,360
Speaker 1: As for my dog, Coda, we leave the door open

1534
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:30,360
Speaker 1: to her crate at night because she's usually good. Once

1535
01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:32,800
Speaker 1: she's out, she's out. She sleeps like a rock. Second

1536
01:28:32,920 --> 01:28:34,639
Speaker 1: night in a row, she's up in my son's bed

1537
01:28:35,080 --> 01:28:39,800
Speaker 1: under the covers, missing him, missing him. So we took

1538
01:28:39,840 --> 01:28:42,679
Speaker 1: the advice of a couple of our tweeters, so thanks

1539
01:28:42,680 --> 01:28:45,840
Speaker 1: for the suggestions. We took this pillow that he would

1540
01:28:45,920 --> 01:28:48,760
Speaker 1: use as a knee pillow at night, put it in

1541
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:52,040
Speaker 1: her crate, and she slept like a baby. Last night

1542
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:54,280
Speaker 1: she used it as a pillow for her head. So

1543
01:28:54,840 --> 01:28:58,479
Speaker 1: it's working so far. We'll keep you updated, But so far,

1544
01:28:58,600 --> 01:29:02,040
Speaker 1: so good. I'm sure if there's some crazy hijinks going on,

1545
01:29:02,320 --> 01:29:06,120
Speaker 1: we'll let you know. Full coverage of tomorrow's preseason game

1546
01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:09,400
Speaker 1: will happen on the radio side on WGR and the

1547
01:29:09,439 --> 01:29:11,640
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network. Steve will have the call of the

1548
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:15,080
Speaker 1: game with Andrew Catalan on w IVB TV here locally

1549
01:29:15,080 --> 01:29:21,240
Speaker 1: and on NFL Network. We'll see him Monday at one