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Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys on the roster who are

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. We went through the wide receivers, running backs.

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Speaker 1: to get for him at this point of his career.

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Speaker 1: What's his upside? And they'll be able to make evaluations better.

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Speaker 1: I think the downside is for players, if you were

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Speaker 1: released earlier, as opposed to the second cut the way

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Speaker 1: it used to be, you would have a chance to

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Speaker 1: hook on with somebody, maybe play for them in a

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Speaker 1: preseason game, the fourth and final preseason game. Right now,

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Speaker 1: fifty three. I just think it would be a little

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Speaker 1: more difficult to hook on with somebody, wouldn't it. Without it, well,

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Speaker 1: not after what we just said. You know, everybody in

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Speaker 1: the league's going to be available. And plus this way

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Speaker 1: that last cutdown, you have a better chance of hooking

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Speaker 1: on with a team because that team knows that, hey

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Speaker 1: we're shallow, we don't have anybody at that spot. We

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Speaker 1: need an upgrade somehow, some way. We're looking for anybody.

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Speaker 1: We saw you on film, we liked it you and

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Speaker 1: you can pick your spot, because now they really do

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Speaker 1: know they've got a need, and they're gonna put you

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Speaker 1: on their fifty three. They're not gonna bring you in

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Speaker 1: for five days and cut you. You know you're gonna

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Speaker 1: they're gonna put you on the fifty three, or at

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Speaker 1: least get you on their practice squad and give you

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Speaker 1: a look. So you're gonna get into the regular season

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Speaker 1: with a chance to actually make a salary rather than

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Speaker 1: a three day tryout with a team that may or

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Speaker 1: may not need you. I don't know that's I think

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Speaker 1: it's debatable. Yeah, I mean it's I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's better for players. I don't know that it's perfect.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's better for I don't know that's

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Speaker 1: a perfect system. I don't know that's a perfect system.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's better than a double cut down,

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Speaker 1: you know, like if we'd had a cut down like

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Speaker 1: two weeks ago, Well, it's usually a week and then

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Speaker 1: a week later, seventy five, it's after first it's after

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Speaker 1: the second preseason game, right, No, it was two more

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Speaker 1: final cutdown. Actually sometimes it was after three preseason games'

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Speaker 1: he might be right, it was late and then cut

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Speaker 1: to fifty you know what how I feel. I feel

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Speaker 1: like the teams are too limited in their off season

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Speaker 1: and their ability to get these guys for an off season.

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Speaker 1: I think OTA's and are just not enough. I think

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Speaker 1: they need to They need to have a week long

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Speaker 1: mini camp or two so they can sort this out.

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Speaker 1: The four preseason starts and then you can cut down

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Speaker 1: two preseason games. I think they need to get a

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Speaker 1: look at these guys earlier in the offseason. Tonight's game

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Speaker 1: preseason number four? Who is this big four? Who does

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Speaker 1: this game really matter? On the Buffalo Bills. It's a

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll or Twitter question today. Which Bills player can

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Speaker 1: win a roster spot with their performance tonight against Minnesota?

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Speaker 1: Why don't you bring us up? Give us a call

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Speaker 1: and we'll discuss. Eight oh three oh five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free from outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty Send it a tweet to one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: We got a tweet sheet here, The tweet treat Sheet

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Speaker 1: bought brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official

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Speaker 1: movers of the Buffalo Bills. Let's go to it from Jack.

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Speaker 1: Which player can win a roster spot with their performance

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Speaker 1: tonight against the Viking. Jack tweetson isaaa McKenzie. He's my guy.

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Speaker 1: Liked him last year. He's played well this preseason, but

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Speaker 1: he's caught on the numbers along with Duke Williams, who's

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Speaker 1: their only big wide receiver, so both need to play

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Speaker 1: well to get on the roster. I think that's a

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Speaker 1: very astute comment by Jack. I think he's right too,

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Speaker 1: both those guys. They could squeeze both those guys on

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Speaker 1: with the four guys they've got that they're that they're

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Speaker 1: not playing tonight in Beasley, Cole Beasley, John Brown, Say Jones,

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Speaker 1: and Andre Roberts. Those four are pretty solid now. Robert Foster,

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Speaker 1: Duke Williams, Isaiah McKenzie, those are three guys that really

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Speaker 1: have made a strong bid to get on this roster

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Speaker 1: as well. And then you've also got guys well there

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Speaker 1: you go, that Ray, Ray, McLeod, cam Phillips are all

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Speaker 1: in that mix as well. So that's in Victor Bolden Junior.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of names out there for maybe

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Speaker 1: what two spots passed them may make Maybe they do

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Speaker 1: keep seven on the fifty three and then knock it

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Speaker 1: down to five or six on game day. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: depending on the opponent, but that's a big number for

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Speaker 1: wide receivers and you're starting to get really it's really

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Speaker 1: hard to squeeze yourself onto that roster. Give us your names.

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Speaker 1: Who do you think has a chance to win a

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Speaker 1: job tonight? Give us a call or shooting a shoot

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Speaker 1: in a tweet and we'll read it on the air.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We're gonna hear from Stephen

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Speaker 1: Houshki when we return, and we got Amy Trask coming

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Speaker 1: up as well, So come on back. It's One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: We're back from what your parking. It's game day here tonight,

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Speaker 1: final preseason game Viking's Bills, seven o'clock. We've got radio coverage,

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Speaker 1: television coverage, Steve and I involved on all on that.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker here in our one Buffalo

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Speaker 1: studio on the line with us right now. One of

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Speaker 1: our favorite guests. He is the former CEO of the

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Speaker 1: Raiders from nineteen ninety seven through twenty thirteen, currently football

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Speaker 1: analysts for CBS Sports, a contributor to the Athletic Happy

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Speaker 1: to have Amy Trask on the line with us from

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Speaker 1: the West Coast. Hello, Amy, John Murphy and Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Thanks for coming on. Oh, thank you

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Speaker 1: for having me. I'm delighted to join you The Raiders.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people's minds in this preseason with Hard

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Speaker 1: Knocks on HBO. I wonder, how do you think Hard

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Speaker 1: Knocks would have gone over during your tenure with the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: or maybe more specifically, during l Davis's reign over the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that would have worked? You know, I've

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Speaker 1: been asked that question, and I think I've actually written

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Speaker 1: a few pieces on it. I cannot share on with

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Speaker 1: you right now. The language with which he would have

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Speaker 1: instructed me as to how he wanted me to deal

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Speaker 1: with it, because I don't want to get you guys

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Speaker 1: in trouble. But let's say, with me leaving that language out,

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Speaker 1: the conversation would have gone something like this, that I

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Speaker 1: should call, you know, hey, Track, and I'd gone in

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Speaker 1: and seen him and he said, you need to call

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Speaker 1: your blanking friends at the blanking league office and tell

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Speaker 1: them that we're blanking not doing this. It would have

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Speaker 1: done something like that, I can imagine, and Amy, you

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Speaker 1: are I enjoy your Twitter account. I follow you and

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Speaker 1: I and we've been acquainted through our time at CBS together.

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Speaker 1: You are the greatest living expert on how Al Davis

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Speaker 1: and the effect he had on not only the league

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Speaker 1: and the Raiders, but also in the National Football League

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Speaker 1: as well. How do you think he would handle the

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Speaker 1: for instance, the current climate with the CBA coming up

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Speaker 1: and with the current climate of how they protect quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing. What were your thoughts on that?

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Speaker 1: And do you agree with him? You know, one thing

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Speaker 1: that Al said to me from the time I began

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Speaker 1: my career until we lost him was the players are

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Speaker 1: the game. And he really believed that. And you know what,

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Speaker 1: He's right. It's far easier to go out and find

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Speaker 1: a good CFO or a good CEO, or a good

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Speaker 1: accountant or general council than it is to find a

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Speaker 1: good left tackle or a good corner, etc. Etc. So

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Speaker 1: his CD his approach to the collective bargaining agreement issues

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Speaker 1: was quite different than a number of other owners. He

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Speaker 1: looked at things through a player's eyes far more than

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Speaker 1: perhaps others do, and by the way, he was criticized

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Speaker 1: by his fellow owners for that routine. Land By the

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Speaker 1: way he didn't care. So you know, that's how he

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Speaker 1: would have approached the CBA, which is to look at

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Speaker 1: it both through the eyes of team ownership and the

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Speaker 1: league itself and through the eyes of players. And you know,

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Speaker 1: as much as I'm certainly not going to suggest that

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Speaker 1: that all teams aren't profitable, they are, some to a

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Speaker 1: greater extent than others. But he didn't always prioritize maximizing profit,

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Speaker 1: and by the way, that was to the chagrin of

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Speaker 1: many of his owners of fellow owners as well. One

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Speaker 1: of the things we've been talking about as well, Amy,

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Speaker 1: and you wrote an article on this and The Athletic

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Speaker 1: that about the roster sizes. I've long been a proponent

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Speaker 1: of that as well, of increasing the number of players

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Speaker 1: that you can put on the roster, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's in this next CBA. Perhaps the eighteen game schedule

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Speaker 1: could be tied to that. It makes a lot of

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Speaker 1: sense to if you're going to make more games just

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Speaker 1: given more players to play that game. How likely is

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Speaker 1: that to happen? I don't know how likely it is.

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Speaker 1: I guess I would put it at maybe kind of

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Speaker 1: thoral likely, but not clearly likely. If there's such a

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Speaker 1: thing as clearly likely. I guess that's an oxymoron, but

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Speaker 1: I agree with you entirely. And as I said at

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Speaker 1: the outset of that athletic piece, there's no magic to

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Speaker 1: the number fifty three, and there's no reason why it

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Speaker 1: needs to stay fifty three. As you just noted, health

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Speaker 1: and safety concerns dictate increasing the roster size. And I

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Speaker 1: will tell you that league economics support increasing the roster

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Speaker 1: size and players should be on board with this or not.

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Speaker 1: You wrote about this right amy I did, and there

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Speaker 1: were many men with whom I spoke over the course

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Speaker 1: of my career that objected to the idea I floated

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Speaker 1: of increasing the roster size. This is something I've thought

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Speaker 1: about for decades because there's no magic to fifty three.

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Speaker 1: And yet when I pushed through that with them and said, well, wait,

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Speaker 1: are you objecting to an increased roster size because you

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Speaker 1: assume purposes of this discussion that you're going to make

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Speaker 1: the roster and you don't want to see the average

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Speaker 1: per salary go down? They answered very honestly and said yes,

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Speaker 1: but with the cap. The cap should increase on a

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Speaker 1: going forward basis either because the percentage attributable to the

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Speaker 1: cap increases or because revenues increase are both. So I

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Speaker 1: think increasing roster size is a really smart idea for

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Speaker 1: a lot of reasons. And by the way, you know,

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Speaker 1: something else to discuss is should anybody be inactive on

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Speaker 1: game day? Or should all players be active? And then

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Speaker 1: that ebbs another elements of strategy. Yeah, and I agree

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Speaker 1: with you because the player just looks at it says, hey,

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Speaker 1: if there's more guys and the same money, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be spread thinner. Though you know I'm going to

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Speaker 1: get less per average, but by the same token as well. Amy,

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys might get a year extra year

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Speaker 1: or two out of their career at the back end

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Speaker 1: if they want to hang in there another two or

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Speaker 1: three years, because there is room for them at the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the roster. Correct. Absolutely, agreed, agreed, agreed, beautifully stated.

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Speaker 1: Amy Trask is our guest. She's former Raiders CEO football

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Speaker 1: analyst for CBS Sports. Amy, congratulations, By the way, you've

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Speaker 1: been named one of SI dot COM's one hundred figures

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Speaker 1: that helped shape the first century of NFL football. You

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Speaker 1: have to feel pretty good about that. I think the

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Speaker 1: role that you played in NFL history and in particular

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Speaker 1: and as a pioneer woman in NFL team management. Huh, well,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. And I was really and truly,

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Speaker 1: and this isn't hyperbole, I was overwhelmed by that. In

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Speaker 1: my wildest dreams, I would have not expected to be

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Speaker 1: on such a list. And when I learned that I was,

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Speaker 1: I was, wait for it, man, wait for it me.

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Speaker 1: I was actually speechless. So and I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of people have written thank you notes to Sports Illustrated

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Speaker 1: for that very fact that I was at a loss

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Speaker 1: for words for a while. But it is an overwhelming honor.

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Speaker 1: And you know, look, there's people in it that loved

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Speaker 1: the Raiders and loved Al Davis, and there's people that

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Speaker 1: hate Raiders and couldn't stand Al Davis. But if we're

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Speaker 1: being intellectually honest about it, I think everybody, whether they

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Speaker 1: love the Raiders or not, can agree that he hired

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Speaker 1: without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, or any other individuality

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Speaker 1: which has no bearing on whether someone can do a job,

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Speaker 1: and he afforded me the opportunity of a lifetime and

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Speaker 1: I shall forever appreciate that. Well, you certainly deserve the

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Speaker 1: honor you've You've written a great book on you Negotiate

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Speaker 1: like a Girl. It's reflections on a career in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And you're also now I think you're being recognized for

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Speaker 1: your expertise not just as a as a football person

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Speaker 1: and you and your time with the Raiders, but also

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Speaker 1: now you're you're the chairman of the board of the

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Speaker 1: Big Three basketballs. How's the crossovergone? Oh, it's it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. August is a bit of a zany

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Speaker 1: month because it's the final month of the Big Three,

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Speaker 1: and yet it is also the start of the NFL season.

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Speaker 1: So we're having our Big Three championship game this week

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. And you know, you just raised the

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Speaker 1: issue of women in sports last year where the only

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Speaker 1: league that has women coaches who are the exact same

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Speaker 1: stature as their male counterparts. Last year, in her first year,

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Speaker 1: Nancy Lieberman was coach of the Year and won the championship.

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Speaker 1: This year, Lisa leslie one coach of the Year and

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Speaker 1: is vying for the championship. And the very very very

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Speaker 1: best part of that is no one, not Ice Cube,

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Speaker 1: not Jeff quant and it's not Clyde Drexler, not one

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Speaker 1: player or one coach sares what their gender is in football? Amy,

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Speaker 1: what can and what do women bring to the league.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Bills to have a female assistant coach,

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Speaker 1: they've had one for a couple of years. No other

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Speaker 1: teams are getting involved in that, but not just in coaching.

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Speaker 1: What do you think in general women can bring that

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Speaker 1: makes the NFL a better league. I would say the

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Speaker 1: same thing men can. There are some who will be

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Speaker 1: terrific at their jobs and some who won't. I think

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Speaker 1: it's great to have an organization full of people with

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Speaker 1: differing perspectives and differing ideas. So I adding people from

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Speaker 1: different walks of life, if you will, increases the amount

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Speaker 1: of perspectives brought to bear on decisions. I think that's terrific.

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Speaker 1: You're one of the things we talked about earlier in

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Speaker 1: the in this segment was the the Hard Knocks episodes,

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Speaker 1: and you said that you know, there's no way that

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Speaker 1: Al Davis would have ever let it happen. Well, it

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Speaker 1: has happened, and the drama has been laid out in

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Speaker 1: full view. The Antonio Brown instance with his feet, with

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Speaker 1: his helmet, and of course with the return of John

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Speaker 1: Gruden to the Raiders, who you've had some dealings with.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you were there when he was there as

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Speaker 1: head coach, when he was traded and all that. How

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Speaker 1: does that? How's that drama played out in the public

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Speaker 1: persona from your perspective as a person who is you know,

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Speaker 1: you were neck deep in the raiders for a long

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Speaker 1: time and to see all this drama unfold? How how

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Speaker 1: are you handling it? What are your thoughts on it? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll answer that in a couple of ways, and first

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Speaker 1: and foremost, I must admit and acknowledge. And I hope

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Speaker 1: nobody from HBO is listening to this, or if they are,

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Speaker 1: they won't be insulted. I haven't seen Hard Knocks at

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Speaker 1: all that summer. Given a Big three work I just mentioned,

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Speaker 1: I've been rather buried and I haven't seen it. But

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Speaker 1: you know, you used a great word, which is drama,

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Speaker 1: and my you know, look for those who've been behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes, as Steve has with a team, you know

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Speaker 1: that sometimes the way things are played out on television

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Speaker 1: is not the way they always occur in real life.

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Speaker 1: And that's not something that's unique to Hard Knocks. A

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Speaker 1: lot of footage, a lot of film is taken, a

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Speaker 1: lot of footage is recorded and it's very selective as

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Speaker 1: to what is used, so I think you have to

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Speaker 1: take it all with a bit of a grain fault. Amy,

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Speaker 1: in your role as a former high level management person

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Speaker 1: for an NFL team, what are your thoughts on the

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Speaker 1: ongoing negotiations at this early stage between the players Association

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Speaker 1: and the league. Is there any chance that there is

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Speaker 1: no work stoppage and they get something done before the

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Speaker 1: CBA expires. I do think there's a good chance that

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Speaker 1: it strikes me, and look, this may simply be a

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Speaker 1: narrative that's being advanced, or it may in fact be true,

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Speaker 1: or it strikes me that things are looking to be

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Speaker 1: a little bit more collaborative in terms of the discussions

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Speaker 1: that are going on. And by the way, sometimes discussions

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Speaker 1: start out very cooperatively and collaboratively and they disintegrate so

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Speaker 1: or they deteriorate, and that may happen, but I do

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Speaker 1: hope that they are more collaborative this Look, the players

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Speaker 1: are the game. You can't have the game of football

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Speaker 1: without players. They should have a seat at the table

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Speaker 1: for decisions that affect the league as a whole. Every

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Speaker 1: single person involved in the league, whether you are a player,

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Speaker 1: a coach, staff, an executive, a team owner. You all

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Speaker 1: have a common interest, and that is that the game

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Speaker 1: not only survived, but thrive. And so I hope that

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Speaker 1: the negotiations are approached in that manner, with everyone saying, Look,

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Speaker 1: we may have differing interests, we may disagree on some points,

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Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, we have to

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Speaker 1: do what's best for the league as a whole. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think all work stoppages. All right, let me

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Speaker 1: just ask you two part question. If you're sitting there

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Speaker 1: and you're Roger Goodell negotiating for the league, and your

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Speaker 1: d Maury Smith for the players, name the top one

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Speaker 1: or two agenda items for each of those guys. Wow. Wait,

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Speaker 1: if I get to pretend I'm Roger, do I get

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Speaker 1: to half the private plane? Yes? Of course, Okay, thank you. Look,

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Speaker 1: obviously the issues are health and safety is an issue

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Speaker 1: both for players and the league. Economics are an issue

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Speaker 1: both for players and the league, And tied into all

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Speaker 1: of that is length of season, roster size, game day deactivation.

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Speaker 1: So I think that this same issues are important to

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Speaker 1: all parties to the negotiation. They simply may have different

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Speaker 1: views on the best way to resolve those issues. Amy,

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Speaker 1: thanks for this. It's great to catch up with you.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you spend a few minutes with us here today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. It is my pleasure. Thanks for having them.

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Speaker 1: Amy Trask is former Raiders CEO for seventeen years, contributor

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Speaker 1: to the Athletic Football, analyst for CBS Sports, the author

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Speaker 1: of the book You Negotiate Like a Girl, Reflections on

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Speaker 1: a career in the NFL. She's great, she really is.

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Speaker 1: She's a She was a high level executive for the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: Um she was as you can tell when Al wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk to the league. Amy's the one who did it,

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Speaker 1: you know, and he was unvarnished in his handling of her,

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Speaker 1: and she got used to it. It's it's great. She

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Speaker 1: has great stories about how that went. She wrote a

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Speaker 1: great book and How You Negotiate Like a Girl, her

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Speaker 1: reflections on how you know her time in the NFL's

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Speaker 1: She works for CBS. She has a great job there.

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Speaker 1: She does a great job with Tops that other pregame

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Speaker 1: show on CBS Sports Network. She is wired in to

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Speaker 1: the National Football League and has a vast wealth of

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Speaker 1: experience and and she not only was she one of

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Speaker 1: the first, maybe the first female to hold an executive

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Speaker 1: level position like she did. She knocked it out of

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Speaker 1: the park. Ye, thank you to transfer. Joining US Bills

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Speaker 1: Vikings seven o'clock tonight here in Aunt your Park. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk about that when we return, and which player, which

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Speaker 1: Bills player can win a roster spot with a good

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Speaker 1: performance tonight, let us don't you think? Phone line's open

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back One Doll's Live. John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. We're here until three o'clock today. Coming up

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Speaker 1: at one, we're gonna talk to you about ten minutes away.

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Speaker 1: Pete Versa. I'll talk about the Minnesota Vikings Bills opponents tonight.

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Speaker 1: They are three and oh also in this preseason, and

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Speaker 1: then coming up in the two o'clock hour, that brown

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter on the Bills Television network will join US.

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Speaker 1: Vikings event an interesting preseason. It's kind of like the

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Speaker 1: Bills three and oh, but not real happy with the

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Speaker 1: way everything's gone. Minnesota has some kicking issues they trade to.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about this this morning. Two weeks ago

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Speaker 1: they sent a fifth round draft pick the Vikings did

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Speaker 1: to Baltimore for a punter slash kicker. His name is

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Speaker 1: Corey Vedvick, who is a native of Norway. Who what

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Speaker 1: he has yet to make a kick with the Vikings. Now,

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Speaker 1: he was he was great with Baltimore, but he hasn't

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Speaker 1: made a kick yet for the Vikings. He was over

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Speaker 1: two unmanageable field goal tries. Last week you sent a

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Speaker 1: fifth round draft pick and there was a bidding more

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Speaker 1: for him, and people believe this guy is a real deal.

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Speaker 1: He's a kicker and upunter Corey Vedvick, and he's number seven.

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Speaker 1: You're likely to see him in tonight's game. But you

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Speaker 1: gotta be scratching your head. A few of the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings like, what are we doing? That's a fifth round pick.

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Speaker 1: This guy should be nailing everything we give him and

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Speaker 1: he hasn't yet ran a chant. Let the kid get

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Speaker 1: ack on me. He probably didn't even have a place

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Speaker 1: to live yet, right, I mean, come on, just calm down.

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Speaker 1: Make the kick. It's a fifth round draft pick. You're

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Speaker 1: not giving up your firstborn child. Just let the kid

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Speaker 1: kick for a minute. Okay, you can kick tonight. I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna see it tonight. I told you misses him

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Speaker 1: all tonight. I hope the kid is a disaster tonight.

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Speaker 1: I told you watched their game against Arizona over the

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Speaker 1: week and Kirk Cousins looked, I think, pretty bad. But

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Speaker 1: we'll talk with Pete Versus about this. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: who gets to start a quarterback versus. You might know.

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Speaker 1: Our guests at one o'clock could be this guy, Kyle Sloter,

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Speaker 1: who is a three or four year veteran who has

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Speaker 1: been on fire in preseason. He looks great for them.

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Speaker 1: Does he have a chance to make the roster? He may.

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Speaker 1: They also have an undrafted rookie free agent, Jake Browning

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Speaker 1: from University of Washington, who's on the roster. I would

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Speaker 1: think those two will play. Sean Mannion as their backup,

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Speaker 1: likely not to play. But the Vikings are interesting, Steve.

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Speaker 1: They were expected to be much better last year and

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Speaker 1: they never really got fired. The Bills beat him there

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Speaker 1: week three, which I think kind of rocked their world

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Speaker 1: a little bit. What were the eight, seven and one?

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Speaker 1: I think last year? But you know, there are expectations

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Speaker 1: there for the Minnesota Vikings this year, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they're going to fulfill them. That's all I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say. Yeah, that's rough. They had some high expectation.

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Speaker 1: Remember they got put out of the playoffs on that

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Speaker 1: miracle yeah two years ago in Minnesota where that they

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Speaker 1: just the Saints just hit some unbelievably quirky plan. Oh

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Speaker 1: that's right. They won and then got put out of

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Speaker 1: the playoffs the next week. But Philly they lost. The

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Speaker 1: year the Philadelphia Eagles went to the Super Bowl and

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Speaker 1: won it. So it was they had some high expectations

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Speaker 1: and they were unfulfilled. They got Kirk Cousins after they

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Speaker 1: had the Cinderella season from and now I'm gonna forget

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Speaker 1: his name, But yeah, they had high expectations, didn't didn't

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Speaker 1: play well last year. And I'll tell you this, I

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00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: said it publicly last year that game that they lost

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Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills when the Bills, you know, and

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Speaker 1: I know the Bills were reeling after the first two

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Speaker 1: weeks of the season, right, Yeah, they were. They just

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Speaker 1: were not competitive in their first couple of weeks. It

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Speaker 1: really took them a while to get their feet under.

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Speaker 1: Then they go into Minnesota on a team like Minnesota was,

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Speaker 1: with huge expectations, and I'm telling you, Minnesota just didn't

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Speaker 1: show up. They showed up very flat, they weren't ready

852
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: to play, and and the Bills hit him in the

853
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: mouth with the rookie quarterback, you know. And I thought

854
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: that was what really, you know, kind of exposed them

855
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: as being a team that thought it was gonna just

856
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: they were gonna roll their helmets out and win, and

857
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: they couldn't get it done. I thought that game against

858
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills was very telling on a number of

859
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: different levels. Hey, our Twitter question today, which Bills player

860
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,959
Speaker 1: can win a roster spot with a standout performance tonight

861
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Speaker 1: against Minnesota? What do you think? Boneline's open eight o

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Speaker 1: three fifty two three one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. The tweet sheet is brought to you

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

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Speaker 1: A tweet from Max. Max tweets this in Personally, I

866
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: think they have most of that figured out by now.

867
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: I would say the punter bo Joe has not been

868
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: impressive at all, but they'll get plenty of chances to

869
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: boot it tonight. And it doesn't matter what string you're

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Speaker 1: playing with. If you're the putter, he needs to perform tonight, Yeah,

871
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: no question. Yeah, but Horkes needs to have a better game.

872
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: He needs to be consistent more than anything else. Consistency

873
00:43:57,719 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: is the key with that guy. I think, yeah, that's

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00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: that's a cross. Well, we're getting a lot of calls

875
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: about that, a lot of feedback from that sipp in.

876
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 1: The koolaid chimes in as well. I personally think fifty

877
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: two players are set in stone. The fifty third is

878
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,879
Speaker 1: Corey by Orkes. The punning job is his to win

879
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: or lose. I expect a lot of opportunities for him tonight.

880
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: If he shines, he may get the job. Otherwise, I

881
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 1: think Bean pursues Ryan Allen For those of you who

882
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: don't know, Ryan Allen was cut by the Patriots last week,

883
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 1: the punter for the Patriots. So there's that, and yeah,

884
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: that's I think that's easy to say because we have

885
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: seen him not be consistent and he was injured last year,

886
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 1: didn't play the whole season. They were they struggled on

887
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: special teams last year, and we all know, you know,

888
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: a punter isn't a guy who's got to learn a

889
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 1: complex system. He's got to catch the ball and kick it.

890
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: So you can plug those guys in pretty quick. And

891
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: I think it's people perceive it as an easy fix,

892
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: but there's not a lot of guys out there who

893
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: do it and do it well. So right, you know,

894
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: I think boy Orkez it's I think you're right. It's

895
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: his job to win tonight, but he needs to be

896
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: consistently good. A tweet from Jerem may and we asked

897
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,959
Speaker 1: a question who can win a roster spot tonight. He says,

898
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: Daryl Johnson and Duke Williams. Look, I think Daryl Johnson

899
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: is in, especially with Mike Love going on into reserve yesterday.

900
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:11,879
Speaker 1: I think Dariel Johnson is in. I don't know about

901
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: Duke Queens. So he's made a strong case. And one

902
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 1: more treat from Alex this is interesting, he says, I

903
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: think Yelden can win a spot tonight. I want to

904
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: see him have a few nice runs. We know he

905
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: can catch the ball and he contributes on special teams.

906
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: Well he's gonna have to. I mean, what is it?

907
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: What are we talking about? Comes down to Yelden or

908
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: Sonoris Perry, who is not like the Marcus Murphy. Yeah,

909
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 1: I mean there's they're gonna if they keep four, those

910
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:39,959
Speaker 1: guys are all out. He got Pat DeMarco. Everybody always

911
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,439
Speaker 1: forgets about DeMarco being a running back, fullback. He takes

912
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: a roster spot and he got to attribute it to

913
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: that group. Then he got Shady Gore, Single, Terry, and DeMarco.

914
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: That's four. And if you're gonna keep five, who's it

915
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: gonna be. Who's the fifth guy gonna be? And that's

916
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: the big question. You've got Yelden, Perry and Murphy all

917
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 1: vi for that spot. And that's if it's there. One

918
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Speaker 1: of those guys is in. Two of them are out.

919
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 1: Let's don Tonight's get a look at it. We'll see.

920
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: We'll see a break here when we come back. Some

921
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 1: vikings talk with Pete Versus. Want to hear from you

922
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: as well. What do you think who's got a chance

923
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,479
Speaker 1: to win a roster spot in tonight's fourth and final

924
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: preseason game. Come on back to discuss One Bill's Live

925
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: presented by Kellida Health from One Bill's Drive. This is

926
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello Bill's Radio Network Sports. The update

927
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: from one Bill's Drive where you'll get a long look

928
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: at the backups. Tonight, in the Bill's final preseason game,

929
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Speaker 1: number four, the Bills expected to give their starters and

930
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,280
Speaker 1: important reserves the night off. You'd be product. Tyree Jackson

931
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: gets started quarterback and expected to go the whole game. Bills,

932
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 1: with some roster decisions to make deep down the depth chart,

933
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 1: wide receiver, offensive line, running back out the spots of vikings,

934
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Speaker 1: expected to play it the same way. Final pre season

935
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: game tonight, Bill's Vikings seven o'clock here in new Errafield.

936
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Speaker 1: You can hear the game here on our flagship radio

937
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: station in Buffalo, WGR Sports Radio five fifty. I've got

938
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Speaker 1: the call of the game of Eric Wood and Sal Capaccio.

939
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: Bill's late yesterday signed Stephen Hauski to a two year

940
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: contract extension. He was going into the final year of

941
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: his deal. He's thirty four years old. He has spent

942
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: six seasons with the Seahawks before signing with Buffalo two

943
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: years ago. Housekill last year put together a streak of

944
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Speaker 1: seventeen consecutive fields. Field goals made the second longest streak

945
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: in Bill's history. The Bills also made a couple of

946
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:34,720
Speaker 1: roster moves yesterday, putting defenseimen Mike Glove on injured reserve

947
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: he cannot return to the active roster this year, and

948
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Speaker 1: they waved offensive lineman DeAndre Wesley in an injury settlement.

949
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 1: The Vikings they've got kicking concerns. Norwegian punter kicker Corey

950
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: Bedwick has been had been nailing kicks for Baltimore the

951
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: last two preseasons. Minnesota shipped off a fifth round draft

952
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: pick to Baltimore to gain him a couple of weeks ago,

953
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: and now he's gone empty. He's not He's missed both

954
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: of his field goal attempts last week. Vikings coach Mike

955
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:03,399
Speaker 1: zim says his concern is high regarding Bedvick. Tonight's game

956
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo, one of sixteen NFL preseason games on

957
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 1: the schedule. Every team is in action. Patriots made a

958
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: couple of trade yesterday to show up they're depth on

959
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 1: the offensive line, acquiring offensive lineman Jermaine Lemannoor from Baltimore

960
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 1: for an undisclosed draft pick, and Cardinal's offensive tackle Corey

961
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 1: Cunningham was also traded to the Patriots. College football you'd

962
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: be opens this season tonight home against Robert Morris seven o'clock,

963
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: the first ever meeting between these two schools. You'd be

964
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: lost to Troy in a bowl game to Dollar General

965
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: Bowl last year, and the Bison's home finality tonight. They

966
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,839
Speaker 1: lost to Rochester last night ten to two, and first

967
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: pitch seven or five tonight at Selin Field. And that's

968
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 1: the update from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy and Steve

969
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: Tasker in our one Buffalo studio joining us on the

970
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: line right now. A guy we've had on the show before.

971
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 1: It seems like the Bills and Vikings get together a

972
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: lot in recent years. Happy to have him too. Former

973
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: Vikings linebacker, former Vikings assistant coach, and right now the

974
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: color analyst on the Vikings broadcast. Pete Versus joins us. Hi, Pete,

975
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker here, thanks for coming by

976
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: with us today. We appreciate it. Oh, no problem. How

977
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: are you guys doing that? Doing great? You guys? I

978
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: was telling my buddy here, Steve. You guys, so I

979
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: do radio tonight, Steve's doing TV. You guys do a sidelcast.

980
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: That's got to be the own set of challenges. I

981
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 1: would think, huh it is. It's it's a little it's

982
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: a little different. Um, but we've been doing it now

983
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: for my god, I think four or five years, and

984
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: they it's yeah, it's more. It's a little different on

985
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 1: the inside because the brakes come in, as you guys know,

986
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: the TV comes in at a different time than the

987
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: than the radio does and all that kind of thing.

988
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 1: So but we've we've managed to work it out. And

989
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: you know, was the NFL in the way that the

990
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: we have the Vikings Entertainment Network and the way that

991
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: those guys, um, the NFL is trying to capture as

992
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: much of media as they can and and we've all

993
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: been working together, and um, it's been. It runs a

994
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: lot more smoothly now than it did five six years ago.

995
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: But we're having a good time. I watched your broadcast

996
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,399
Speaker 1: of the Cardinals game from last Saturday, and I want

997
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: to ask you about one player in particular, the quarterback

998
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: Kyle Sloter, and I love the fact that you're played

999
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:08,799
Speaker 1: by play guy. Paul Allen kept calling it to what

1000
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: slowter Saturday or something that's become a regular thing, right

1001
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: it is? And you're in and you know, the Bills

1002
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: fans and this is if you're a preseason walk If

1003
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,799
Speaker 1: you love the preseason and digging deep into rosters and

1004
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: people that are out there, then you know you'll enjoy

1005
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: watching Kyle Sloter play tonight. I believe he's going to

1006
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: get a lot of times. He's one of these unproven guys.

1007
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: You know, that's the thing with a guy like Sean

1008
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: Mannion who's been around in the league for a long time. Uh,

1009
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,320
Speaker 1: you know, he's had a he's got a starter too,

1010
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 1: you know highly, he's drafted very highly. He can you

1011
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 1: can run your offense with him. And then Sloater is

1012
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 1: just he's still learning. But I'll tell you what, he

1013
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: has intangibles. He's a you know the team when he

1014
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: gets in there, he's He's just has an attitude. I

1015
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 1: think Steve will attest to that. Certain guys have a

1016
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: presence of that motivate they get guys going, and Sloater

1017
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 1: definitely has that. He has to grow in his ability

1018
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: to handle an offense and things like that, but you know,

1019
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 1: you love watching the kid just go out there and

1020
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 1: go about his business. And he's done a very very

1021
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: good job with everything that they've asked him to do. Well.

1022
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: Does that give him a future with the Vikings in

1023
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 1: any capacity. Well, I think it's another thing. I mean

1024
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: fourth preseason games. People say, you know, they don't really

1025
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: count them. They don't mean this, they don't mean that.

1026
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: I do think if he continues his ways, then you

1027
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 1: know that, I think he does have an opportunity to

1028
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: stay here with them Minnesota Vikings. I don't know. We'll see,

1029
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: We'll see how it all plays out. And a lot

1030
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: of times, you know you want to keep three quarterbacks,

1031
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: but a need at a different position will not allow

1032
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: you to do that. And those are the things that

1033
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 1: will is you know, for GMS, the next two three

1034
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: days are going to be extremely busy, and you know

1035
00:51:56,719 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: Sloughter can only do everything that he possibly can and

1036
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: not just maintain a spot on this roster, but what

1037
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: about you know, the other thirty one other teams in

1038
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,439
Speaker 1: the NFL. I mean those are there roster spots all

1039
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,240
Speaker 1: over the place. So he's auditioning for the entire league

1040
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 1: and I think he's in. It's gonna be fun to

1041
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 1: watch him play. Well, let me ask you about your

1042
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: number one quarterback. And I don't expect we will see

1043
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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins at all tonight. But as I said, I

1044
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: watched the Cardinals game. He did not play well and

1045
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: he admitted it afterwards. And I just wonder what you

1046
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: think the future holds for Kirk Cousins, especially after some

1047
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: people might think that he came up a little bit

1048
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: like last year too in the regular season. What do

1049
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,959
Speaker 1: you think, Yeah, he did. Here's the thing with Kirk

1050
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Speaker 1: Cousins is, you know, he was paid eighty six million

1051
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: dollars for a reason. And I think if Kirk is

1052
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: If Kirk has a trait or characteristic that is as

1053
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:49,320
Speaker 1: good as any as I've seen, it's his ability to

1054
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Speaker 1: throw down the field. Is accuracy down the field. I mean,

1055
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Speaker 1: he is an unbelievably accurate thrower deep down the field.

1056
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 1: And I think what we saw last year with him

1057
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Speaker 1: and the problems he had in the pocket, those things,

1058
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Speaker 1: with our running game and with the change of our

1059
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: offense a little bit, the tweaking of our offense, You're

1060
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 1: not going to see him dropping back in a pocket

1061
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 1: forty five times a game. And I think that's going

1062
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: to bode well for him. I mean, the ability to

1063
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 1: run the football has become huge. You saw Dalvin Cook

1064
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 1: last week. You know, we we've seen Alexander Madison. Uh,

1065
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:25,479
Speaker 1: you know, he's a high draft pick by us third

1066
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: round picks or you know he's he's playing. That kid's

1067
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: playing very very well. And then Mike boon Amer of Duel.

1068
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 1: We have some good running bags. And I think that

1069
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 1: the evolution of our running game will replace the need

1070
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: to have these short, controlled passing underneath type passing game.

1071
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:44,720
Speaker 1: And I think it's going to play to Kirk Cousins

1072
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: strength because what he is not is a drop back

1073
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 1: in the pocket passer, you know thirty sometimes a game. Yeah, look,

1074
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: I want to ask you for Bills fans who are

1075
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:56,399
Speaker 1: listening to our show, tell us what happened to the

1076
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 1: to the Vikings last year? What was their u the

1077
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: issues that held them back, and what have they done

1078
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:05,279
Speaker 1: to fix it this offseason. I think the lack of

1079
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 1: the lack of a philosophy in protection, pass protection and

1080
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: in a running game. Um, it was. It just changed

1081
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 1: every week. And we had some opportunities late in the season,

1082
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 1: especially against New England on the road, and then you

1083
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 1: go to Seattle and the defense plays an outstanding game

1084
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,760
Speaker 1: for ninety five percent of it. Uh in the offense

1085
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 1: just didn't. We just could not move the football. We

1086
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: just did not have the ability on the ground um

1087
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: to you know, to run to run the football and

1088
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,320
Speaker 1: that it's a combination of a number of things, but

1089
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:44,360
Speaker 1: I think mainly it's just steam. Uh. And with Kubiak

1090
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:48,399
Speaker 1: here now uh, you know, with Kevin Stefanski, who's our

1091
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 1: you know, our offensive coordinator, in the addition of Rick Dennison,

1092
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: who was with Kubiak and Houston Music, Dennison's our offensive

1093
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:58,399
Speaker 1: line coach, You're going to see a much more fundamentally

1094
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,799
Speaker 1: sound group up and that is going to be a

1095
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: huge difference. And you know this, if you can beat

1096
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: a team, you know, if you can't have explosive played

1097
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: on the ground and through the air, then defenses have

1098
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 1: a hard time figuring out which one they're going to stop.

1099
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: It makes them more you know, keeps them more, defenses

1100
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: more balanced. They can't just sell out and do one

1101
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 1: thing or the other. And just that little bit of

1102
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 1: a tweak, I think it could win us a couple

1103
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 1: more games this year, which is all we needed to

1104
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. On the line. With Pete Versage Vikings,

1105
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 1: color analysts talking about the Bill's opponents tonight, explosive plays

1106
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: on the ground. Saw that last week, right eighty five

1107
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:35,719
Speaker 1: yard run by Dalvin Cook. Seems like the Vikings, if

1108
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: they can just keep this guy healthy, there's the explosive

1109
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: dimension of the run game. Right. He's missed half of

1110
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 1: these games the first two years here, right, Yeah, he has.

1111
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 1: I mean it's been frustrating with that in that you know,

1112
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 1: in that part of it, in that aspect of it

1113
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 1: has been absolutely frustrating. But Dalvin Cook is you know,

1114
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:53,720
Speaker 1: you don't see, you don't see a lot of running.

1115
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: He has the ability to beat a guy one on

1116
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: one and then what that means is is that you

1117
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: can game of defense and have a guy there to

1118
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 1: make the tackle, but if he doesn't make that tackle,

1119
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: you know, then Dalvin Cooked and he can take it

1120
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: all the way to the house. And you know that

1121
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 1: always that's always tough. That's what keeps coordinators up at

1122
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 1: night when they're thinking, Man, if you have a guy

1123
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 1: in perfect position, but if he doesn't make that play,

1124
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: or we don't have the right guy making the play

1125
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 1: of making the tackle. But Dalvin Cook is that kind

1126
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 1: of guy. He's very versatile as a receiver. He can

1127
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: line up and you know outside as a wide receiver.

1128
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: He's a very, very talented and very explosive runner. I mean,

1129
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: he goes from zero to sixty very very quickly, and

1130
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: you're right with him. You know what you're getting. You

1131
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 1: just got to keep him healthy and despite the injuries

1132
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: and things that he's dealt with, he physically is as

1133
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 1: fast and as explosive as he's ever been. So that's

1134
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: that's very very good news for this club. You also

1135
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:50,400
Speaker 1: mentioned your offensive line. It looks like you retooled that

1136
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: some how many news starters will they'll be on the

1137
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:56,279
Speaker 1: offensive line as composed as compared to maybe last year

1138
00:56:56,360 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 1: opening day. Well, we have key guys for sure. W

1139
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 1: will be new. Our right tackle Brian O'Neill played finished

1140
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 1: the season. He was a first round pick out a

1141
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 1: pick former tight end. Um. You know he's been battling injury,

1142
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: but he will be where he should be ready opening day.

1143
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 1: Josh Klein is a free agent that we picked up.

1144
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:18,919
Speaker 1: He's playing right guard. And then we have a first

1145
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: round pick and Garrett Bradberry, who's our center, which meant

1146
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: ped alf line goes the left guard. So um, the

1147
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: middle of our offensive line is new. Riley Reef is

1148
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 1: still our left tackle. He's been solid there for the

1149
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Um, So the interior of our

1150
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 1: offensive line is either either new or guys that have

1151
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: changed positions. Um. But like I said, they have all

1152
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: bought into the into the new type of running game

1153
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 1: that we're running. It's not it's not a whole it's

1154
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:51,440
Speaker 1: not a revolutionary change. It's it's a tweak in a

1155
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: little different style. Um. And those guys that think up

1156
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: front have bought into it very well. Um. You know

1157
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: when you deal, I mean, if there's a downside tour

1158
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 1: with these guys being very athletic and a little undersize,

1159
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:07,439
Speaker 1: you get some of these big three techniques and those

1160
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 1: tackles in the league, and they're going to have to

1161
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 1: find a way to keep those guys from kinetry and

1162
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: getting up the field. Gary Kubiak and Rick Dennison are

1163
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 1: known also for this zone blocking scheme where the offensive

1164
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 1: line moves off as one maybe go ladder and get

1165
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: to the second level and then just trying to create

1166
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 1: some lanes for a running back to make one cut

1167
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 1: and get up through the hole. Is Dalvin Cook set

1168
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 1: up for that? Is this offensive line big enough? And

1169
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 1: that is that the kind of adjustment you're talking about, Yes, exactly,

1170
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: I mean, and having played, I mean against the city

1171
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: Indianapolis called years ago or Denver Broncos from years ago.

1172
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: As a defender, you just line up and the offense

1173
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 1: snaps the balls and the ball and the entire offensive

1174
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 1: line just runs to the left or runs to the right, right,

1175
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: and it's very very difficult to diagnose run or pass.

1176
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: The bootlegs look really good off of it. It's just

1177
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 1: a it's just a different style, but you need the

1178
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 1: people to pull it off. You need some smaller and

1179
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 1: more athletic hype offensive lineman. I think that's the direction

1180
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 1: that we're heading. So it's a it's just a different style.

1181
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 1: They cut on the backside, so you know, the lineman

1182
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 1: still hate when you get offensive lineman going at your feet,

1183
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: you know, And it's it's just that style of running game.

1184
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 1: And yeah, he's a cutback runner. I think Alexander Madison

1185
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 1: and Dalvin Cook are both going to be very good.

1186
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: I mean you look back of the years ago at Denver,

1187
00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 1: they they had nobody, They had their seventh round picks

1188
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 1: going out and becoming all pros. I mean, it's a

1189
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: good offense for a runner who has good vision and

1190
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 1: has a good solid cutback skills. Hey Pete. Two days ago,

1191
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,919
Speaker 1: we had on our show Chad Beebe, whose father Don

1192
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:50,240
Speaker 1: played here an important Super Bowl run. I watch again, Chad.

1193
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 1: You had a couple of drops against the Cardinals. But

1194
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 1: tell me about his rosters status. I would assume he's safe.

1195
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 1: In fact, I've read where he might be already penciled in,

1196
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 1: if not inked in, as a third wide receiver for

1197
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 1: the offense. Huh yeah, he's definitely competing for for that position.

1198
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and uh, you know it's uh,

1199
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 1: he's what's what's great to hear about Chad as he

1200
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:13,520
Speaker 1: was brought in and then he did such a good

1201
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 1: job on the look teams every single week. Um, you

1202
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: know that Mike Zimmer is finally like, let's I'm going

1203
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,479
Speaker 1: to activate this guy, get him off the look team

1204
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: because he kills our confidence every week. But um, you know,

1205
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 1: we we we have some question marks at the third

1206
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 1: wide receiver spot. Bc Ola, BC Johnson, um seventh round

1207
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 1: pick that we that we uh that we signed and

1208
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 1: we drafted. He's he's doing real well. Had a nice

1209
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 1: touchdown pass, a couple of nice catches, one for a

1210
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 1: touchdown against New Orleans. Laquon Treadwell, our former first round pick.

1211
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:48,959
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's still kind of in the mix.

1212
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 1: So I think the number four defensive back for number

1213
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:54,960
Speaker 1: four corner is still open for us. And I think

1214
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:57,720
Speaker 1: the number three wide receiver, I mean, Chad BB he's

1215
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 1: definitely in the mix. He's been holding, um, you know,

1216
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 1: for field goals for Dan Bailey and doing some different

1217
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: things like that as well. So he does and he's

1218
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:09,920
Speaker 1: doing everything he possibly can to make this team. But yeah,

1219
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: he's a he's a very very good football player. We

1220
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the other side of the ball.

1221
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 1: What's the biggest strength of the Vikings defense? They were

1222
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 1: they going to hang their hat on that side of

1223
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 1: the football. Um, defensive line for sure. I mean, you

1224
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 1: had Daniel Hunter who continues to improve hopefully, you know,

1225
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 1: he had an unbelievable year last year and hopefully he'll

1226
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 1: continue to get better. You get next to him again,

1227
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: named Linball Joseph who he acquired from the New York

1228
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,920
Speaker 1: Giants years ago. He's as good of a nose tackle

1229
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 1: as there is in the business. Just a huge man.

1230
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 1: And then Everson Griffin or other defensive end who had

1231
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 1: some off the field struggles last year. Hopefully he'll get

1232
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 1: all that straightened out and then you'll have a nice

1233
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 1: book end book ends there with Demil Hunter and Everson Griffin.

1234
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 1: And then we resigned a name, Shamar Stephan who was

1235
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 1: with us, went to Seattle, brought him back. He's a

1236
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:58,439
Speaker 1: you know, very very good run defender who they're working

1237
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 1: a lot on his on his you know, pass rush

1238
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 1: and things like that. But that that's four and we

1239
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: have some depth there, um with the guys behind them,

1240
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 1: but Juliel Johnson's of the world, um, you know, offending identibo.

1241
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 1: I mean, we have some guys behind them that Stephen Weatherley,

1242
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: another defensive end that that'll do a good job. So

1243
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 1: we're deep in that in that position. You know, Eric

1244
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 1: Kendricks and Anthony Barr two very very good you know linebackers,

1245
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 1: and then Trey Wayne's and Xavier Rhodes, Harrison Smith. So

1246
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:33,439
Speaker 1: we have we have all the tools and we don't

1247
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 1: really have any new faces starting per se, so those

1248
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 1: guys just have to pick up where they left off.

1249
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 1: I mean, we struggled early in the year last year

1250
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 1: against Saint Louis and Green I'm sorry, not Saint Louis,

1251
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 1: but La Rams and uh uh uh some other teams

1252
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: through the air, and we just have to fix that, hey, Pete.

1253
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: As you can imagine in the Bill six win season

1254
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 1: last year, there weren't a lot of highlights. But one

1255
01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: of the memorable moments was Week three at Minnesota and

1256
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: in the leap Josh Allen jumping over Anthony Barr. It's

1257
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:07,080
Speaker 1: probably Josh Allen singature move and his young NFL career.

1258
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 1: How do they view it up there in Minnesota looking

1259
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 1: back at Week three? You know that was you know

1260
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:14,919
Speaker 1: that well, that was a game that you know that

1261
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 1: got away from us, and you know, you look at

1262
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:20,880
Speaker 1: it and say, the Vikings, you know, they they were

1263
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:25,080
Speaker 1: missing something from from the beginning. Uh. And you guys

1264
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 1: saw exactly I think what was the Achilles heel of

1265
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:31,960
Speaker 1: this team a year ago, and that was just straight

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Speaker 1: drop back pass protection and not you know, and then

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01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 1: trying to protect cousins. And you guys, you know, when

1268
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 1: you turn the ball over twice almost in your red zone,

1269
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: anyone's gonna beat you. I mean, there's not that the

1270
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:46,480
Speaker 1: good teams, the teams that are six and ten and

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01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: the teams that are ten and six, there really isn't

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01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:52,720
Speaker 1: a huge difference and if you're not on your game, um,

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01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:55,240
Speaker 1: from the from a get go, you know you're gonna

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01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:57,439
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna lose that football game. But yeah,

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01:03:57,520 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: that was it's a less than memorable moment, let's say,

1276
01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 1: from last year. But um, you know those games, like

1277
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 1: I said against New England that we lost and yeah,

1278
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:10,800
Speaker 1: all those were those were killers. I mean you know, yeah,

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01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:12,840
Speaker 1: we gotta hang our head on something here for six

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01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:16,080
Speaker 1: one season. Absolutely absolutely. I want to ask you. I

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01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 1: got one more question. It's about the kicking situation. To

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01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 1: trade a couple of weeks ago for Corey Vedvik from

1283
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:24,600
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens a fifth round pick, and they got

1284
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 1: to be scratching a head saying, what do we get

1285
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 1: ourselves into? Right? He hasn't made a kick? Hid? Right? Yeah,

1286
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Did you ask a question about something that

1287
01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:37,040
Speaker 1: I don't kid? Yeah, it's it's it is that you know,

1288
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 1: you talk about a fourth preseason game and opportunities and

1289
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:43,720
Speaker 1: still some question marks and things that need to get

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01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 1: sorted out. Um again for us diving deep into a

1291
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 1: roster on the fourth preseason game, Yeah, who's gonna hold

1292
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:53,960
Speaker 1: for who? I mean, get Austin cutting who was a

1293
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 1: draft pick of ours. I mean he comes in and

1294
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 1: replaces Kevin McDermott. U have a rookie long snapper, and

1295
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:04,600
Speaker 1: then you you know, depending on the kicker. If it's

1296
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey, then you have bed holding. If it's uh

1297
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 1: Ved Victim, that wild holds for him, and then you

1298
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: got the pumping six years. Yeah, there's a lot of

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01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 1: that that needs to get figured out. And for some reason, Minnesota,

1300
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 1: Minneapolis is kind of the Bermuda Triangle for kickers. I

1301
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 1: mean you have Carlson last year that we let go

1302
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 1: and he goes out to Oakland and just lights it up.

1303
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,440
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's been It's been kind of a

1304
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:29,360
Speaker 1: thorn on our side. I was on the field in

1305
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 1: ninety eight with Gary Anderson, you know, I was like,

1306
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 1: you know, called the game a couple of years ago

1307
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 1: that you know, we lost the Seattle on a twenty

1308
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 1: some yard field. I mean, it's been a thorn on

1309
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:42,440
Speaker 1: our side for quite some time. So Viking fans may

1310
01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 1: we kind of dwell on these things a little bit

1311
01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:49,479
Speaker 1: more than maybe your normal team. Got you all right, Pete,

1312
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 1: thanks very much, We'll see you over here today. Thank you.

1313
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:53,600
Speaker 1: I look forward to it, guys, have a great night,

1314
01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:56,280
Speaker 1: take care of He's farwall for me. He's a great guy.

1315
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 1: Signed him as a We signed him as a free

1316
01:05:58,200 --> 01:05:59,920
Speaker 1: agent back when I was coaching, and I you know,

1317
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 1: I love the k He's just an awesome, awesome guy.

1318
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:05,120
Speaker 1: And I hope he's doing real well with special teams.

1319
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: It seems to be, but he's got his own decisions

1320
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 1: and problems to face. You know, what are you gonna do?

1321
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 1: Exactly right? Well, that's why they pay him the big money.

1322
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 1: Thanks Pete. You know Pete versus the color analysts on

1323
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:20,120
Speaker 1: the Vikings broadcast Farmer Vikings linebacker and defensive coach for

1324
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 1: them for a couple of years as well. We thank

1325
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,680
Speaker 1: Pete for joining us. Yeah, everybody's got issues, right, and

1326
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:29,120
Speaker 1: he downplayed the kicker situation, and yeah, everybody's got issues. Yeah,

1327
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:32,280
Speaker 1: even going into the fourth preseason game, which most people

1328
01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:35,280
Speaker 1: think don't doesn't mean much. People have issues. Yeah, they're

1329
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:37,200
Speaker 1: not alone in that division. The Chicago I mean, he

1330
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:39,120
Speaker 1: talked to Chicago bear. They think that's the only reason

1331
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 1: they didn't win the Super Bowl last year because they

1332
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 1: got put out in the first round of the playoffs

1333
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 1: by that because their kicker double doing to one you know,

1334
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 1: you don't you know, certainly a kicker is important, and

1335
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:50,560
Speaker 1: particularly specific times in the season night last year, House,

1336
01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: you know had a couple of game winners, so they

1337
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 1: are important, but it's a whole team that you got

1338
01:06:57,040 --> 01:06:59,160
Speaker 1: to worry about. And if you're just worried about if

1339
01:06:59,160 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 1: you're down to your last kicker and your punter, you know,

1340
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 1: you're you got to feel like if those are the

1341
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:05,960
Speaker 1: things that at the top of your agenda, you get

1342
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 1: a new agenda. Yeah, you're sitting pretty good at the

1343
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 1: rest of your roster though, you know, I mean, if

1344
01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 1: you feel like you've got good depth, if you feel

1345
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:16,080
Speaker 1: like you've got some good players, Um, I think you're

1346
01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 1: doing okay. I think you're doing okay. I think the

1347
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 1: bills are there. They're pretty close to that close to it.

1348
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 1: I think they're pretty close to that. I think, you know,

1349
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 1: one of the things, you look at the bills from

1350
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:28,080
Speaker 1: the outside and you know you don't see you know,

1351
01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:31,040
Speaker 1: you say, okay. Lashawn McCoy is a great player. Frank Gore's,

1352
01:07:31,200 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 1: you know, maybe a future Hall of Famer, probably a

1353
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:35,360
Speaker 1: first ballot Hall of Famer because of his numbers of

1354
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:37,400
Speaker 1: his career, you know, but you look at the Bills,

1355
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people that there are a

1356
01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:41,880
Speaker 1: lot of guys on the team that people here in

1357
01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:44,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo think, Wow, the sky is the limit, you know,

1358
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:46,880
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Tremaine Edmunds, kind of got an at Oliver

1359
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 1: kind of guy. But there's not they're not players on

1360
01:07:50,200 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 1: the Bills roster who have spread their wings. And everybody

1361
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:55,240
Speaker 1: in the NFL knows about these guys. Wow, look at

1362
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:59,120
Speaker 1: these guys. They don't have that star power, not at all. Right,

1363
01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:01,640
Speaker 1: they're on the cusp of that. They got guys who

1364
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:05,480
Speaker 1: you know, certainly have that in their future perhaps, But

1365
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 1: you look at other places. Kirk Cousins been on people's

1366
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 1: minds for a long time. He was in the nfc

1367
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:13,040
Speaker 1: e's playing for those Redskins. He kind of stole the

1368
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 1: job from RG three early in his career as a

1369
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 1: fourth round draft pick. You know, So the other players

1370
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:20,519
Speaker 1: on other teams, you got these guys that, Wow, I

1371
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 1: know who these guys are. The Bills still have guys

1372
01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 1: on their roster that they're playing at a high level.

1373
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 1: I think Tremaine Edmonds to be one of them that,

1374
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:29,920
Speaker 1: you know, people just don't know about yet. And I

1375
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:31,800
Speaker 1: think that's that's kind of the thing that sets our

1376
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 1: franchise at this point in history apart. They feel like

1377
01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:37,479
Speaker 1: they've got all the plea pieces in place. Yeah, we're

1378
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:40,559
Speaker 1: talking about maybe a new punter in this last of

1379
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:43,040
Speaker 1: this preseason, but they feel like they've got pieces in

1380
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:45,720
Speaker 1: place that could go that guys that could really do

1381
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 1: some things in the league. Do you think Stephen, by

1382
01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:49,720
Speaker 1: the way, you're welcome to join us, get into the

1383
01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:52,960
Speaker 1: conversation at eight fifty and toll free one eight eight

1384
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty offensive line going into camp

1385
01:08:57,240 --> 01:08:59,599
Speaker 1: five weeks ago camp began, by the way, first training

1386
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 1: camp prey because five weeks ago today, I guarantee you

1387
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:04,680
Speaker 1: that day and we might have done it as a

1388
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:06,759
Speaker 1: Twitter pole seeing what's the biggest question to be answered,

1389
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 1: and I guarantee you it was offensive line. Five weeks later,

1390
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:13,720
Speaker 1: what's the answer, I see we still don't know if

1391
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:17,960
Speaker 1: we know who the starters are now I will acknowledge this.

1392
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 1: The Bills have at least seven, maybe eight guys who

1393
01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:24,800
Speaker 1: could qualify as starting offensive lineman. Doc in Spain, Moore's

1394
01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 1: Feliciano Ford, that's five long and Insecki that's seven, all right,

1395
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 1: seven guys who would qualify as starting offensive lineman. And

1396
01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:37,960
Speaker 1: they've all taken significant rens with the number one. So

1397
01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:40,080
Speaker 1: should we be comfortable with that? That's the question. I

1398
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:43,200
Speaker 1: don't feel one hundred percent comfortable. But on the other hand,

1399
01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:45,479
Speaker 1: I see that they've got eight guys, seven guys at

1400
01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:47,760
Speaker 1: least who have played around a little bit, Some have

1401
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 1: been around the league a little bit, some have played

1402
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:52,160
Speaker 1: around this offensive line in the last five weeks. And

1403
01:09:52,200 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 1: we'll see. They don't have a lot of time to

1404
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 1: get cohesive and work with each other. But hopefully that

1405
01:09:57,160 --> 01:10:00,760
Speaker 1: starts on Sunday when they start practicing. Absolutely, And I

1406
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 1: have no idea that. And there's you get this sense

1407
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:07,840
Speaker 1: I don't right or wrong. The guys who are injured,

1408
01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:10,240
Speaker 1: like Insecki, like Mitch Morris, and particularly the fact that

1409
01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:14,320
Speaker 1: the team will probably sit down at you know, forty

1410
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:18,400
Speaker 1: guys tonight won't even see the field. Uh you think, okay?

1411
01:10:18,439 --> 01:10:21,320
Speaker 1: Because of that, all these other guys like Insecki, like

1412
01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:24,639
Speaker 1: Mitch Morris, Jason Krum who might play tonight, all these

1413
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:27,400
Speaker 1: guys who have been nicked up and injured, are all

1414
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:30,679
Speaker 1: of a sudden gonna miraculous miraculously be ready to play

1415
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: on Monday morning. You know they're gonna get risk start

1416
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:36,160
Speaker 1: getting ready for the for the pre season opener. That's

1417
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:39,760
Speaker 1: not necessarily the case. You know, they these guys might

1418
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 1: be on the shelf for a couple more weeks. Who

1419
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:47,759
Speaker 1: you think, Hey, Mitch Morrise, Uh, all these tie in Secky.

1420
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:50,920
Speaker 1: There's nothing that says his Entin Spain's got a bad ankle.

1421
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:52,919
Speaker 1: There's nothing that says all these guys are gonna miraculously

1422
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 1: be ready to play. I'm here to tell you they're

1423
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:57,320
Speaker 1: all gonna be ready to practice on Sunday. Those three

1424
01:10:57,320 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 1: guys you just mentioned, Yeah, and Secki's practiced this week.

1425
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:04,439
Speaker 1: Mitch Morris has been in practice, still in concussion protocol,

1426
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:06,600
Speaker 1: has been in practice. And I think Quentin Spain, I

1427
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 1: think they're just being overly, not overly. I think they're

1428
01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 1: being suitably cautious with him, and he'll be ready to

1429
01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:13,200
Speaker 1: go on Sunday. They might be right, but there's no

1430
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:16,000
Speaker 1: guarantees about that. And I'll say this too, because of

1431
01:11:16,040 --> 01:11:18,800
Speaker 1: the atmosphere, the offensive line about how all these guys

1432
01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:20,479
Speaker 1: have been there. They've all been taking reps with the

1433
01:11:20,479 --> 01:11:22,760
Speaker 1: ones and stuff, and you forget just because these guys

1434
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:26,400
Speaker 1: are into injured, like Insecky, like Mitch Morris, like Quentin

1435
01:11:26,439 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 1: Spain this last week, although he's been playing all the

1436
01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: way through the preseason. They have been in the room

1437
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:34,920
Speaker 1: in the meeting room talking about what they're seeing on film,

1438
01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:37,320
Speaker 1: talking about the assignments, talking about what they're thinking on

1439
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:39,840
Speaker 1: this play, what you're thinking on that play, how would

1440
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:43,280
Speaker 1: we handle that? So they are all up to speed

1441
01:11:43,400 --> 01:11:45,519
Speaker 1: mentally on what it's going to take for them to

1442
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:49,479
Speaker 1: play together. It's not like when Mitch Moore's finally lines

1443
01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:52,640
Speaker 1: up is the number one center alongside Cody Ford at

1444
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:54,840
Speaker 1: right guard and tie and Secky at right tackle and

1445
01:11:54,920 --> 01:11:58,839
Speaker 1: Quentin Spain at left guard and Dion Dawkins at left tackle,

1446
01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:01,679
Speaker 1: which is this kind of this group that's never lined

1447
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:05,200
Speaker 1: up together. It's not gonna be like, wow, I didn't

1448
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:07,760
Speaker 1: expect that from you on that play. None of that's

1449
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:09,800
Speaker 1: gonna be the case. It's just a question of going

1450
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:11,760
Speaker 1: through it. So, yeah, I see it. That's exactly what

1451
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 1: we were thinking we were gonna do. Now we've run

1452
01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:15,599
Speaker 1: through it a couple of times, I think that chemistry

1453
01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:20,200
Speaker 1: will come together really quickly. Uh, this this next week.

1454
01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:22,120
Speaker 1: If indeed all five of those guys line up, and

1455
01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:24,719
Speaker 1: whoever those five guys are, it's the same story. They're

1456
01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:27,120
Speaker 1: gonna feel comfortable with the guys around them on that

1457
01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:30,519
Speaker 1: offensive line. And Secki's practice this week, and he talked

1458
01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:32,320
Speaker 1: about it the other day to the media here in

1459
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 1: one Bill's Drive about his practice week and how he

1460
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 1: feels with the injury, the knee injury he suffered a

1461
01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 1: little while ago. Here's Tayian Sky. I feel good, so good.

1462
01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:45,479
Speaker 1: The rest was well needed, you know, so I'm ready

1463
01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:53,719
Speaker 1: good after it, were able to practice some Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1464
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:57,800
Speaker 1: having yourself and Mitch back out there. We heard that.

1465
01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:00,960
Speaker 1: We also read the let them eleven as well. Do

1466
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:04,200
Speaker 1: you feel like you're closed downe continuity because obviously much

1467
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:06,920
Speaker 1: hasn't been a many time. Yeah, you know, it's been.

1468
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 1: It's been hard. You know everybody's been you know, missing

1469
01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:11,640
Speaker 1: pieces here and there. But you know, everybody's getting back

1470
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:13,599
Speaker 1: healthy at the right time, so like now it's time

1471
01:13:13,640 --> 01:13:17,479
Speaker 1: to start growing as um. How important is that, I

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Speaker 1: mean for continuity time and time again from an offensive

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Speaker 1: line and perfective getting the five guys out there and

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Speaker 1: getting reps together. How critical is that for things to

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01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:30,360
Speaker 1: work from the job. Well, you know, especially as the

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Speaker 1: offensive line, we all have to work as one cohesive group.

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Speaker 1: So getting the time and down on what this guy

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Speaker 1: does with this guy, you know, that's very important. That's

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Speaker 1: key to our success. I impressive you've been with Cody

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01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:43,799
Speaker 1: and the rookie. You when you're in there, he slides

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01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 1: in the guard man, you're not in there, he slides

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Speaker 1: back out the tackle. Just the job that they're asking

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Speaker 1: of him at such a young age. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: very impressive that he's able to do it. But with

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01:13:53,080 --> 01:13:57,200
Speaker 1: it seems like it's seemless one it. What's the challenge

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01:13:57,200 --> 01:14:00,920
Speaker 1: of not having likely game action to those rabbits as

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Speaker 1: one unit and it's just going to be practiced before

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Speaker 1: the regular season begins. Well, you know, we try to

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01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 1: simulate it as much as we can. Um you know,

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01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:09,760
Speaker 1: practice is a little bit harder in the game. So

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Speaker 1: if we can just get the reps and you know,

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Speaker 1: just keep continuing to jail as a unit, we'll be

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01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 1: all right. Kian Schy sounds pretty confident they'll be cohesive

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01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:20,479
Speaker 1: and ready to go next week. He sounded confident, didn't

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01:14:20,479 --> 01:14:23,599
Speaker 1: he That's the way players are many and I agree

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Speaker 1: with him. Like I said, I think they're gonna they're

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01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:28,639
Speaker 1: gonna pick it up. I'm listen Tian Seck, he's thirty

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01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:31,519
Speaker 1: three years old. He's taking a snap or two with

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01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:34,679
Speaker 1: a lot of different people. Mitch Morris is twenty six,

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Speaker 1: same thing. He's gonna be ready to go. M These

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01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:40,880
Speaker 1: guys are stepping up there. Quentin Spain is a Dion

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01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:43,880
Speaker 1: Dawkins is starting left tackle. The only young guy, Cody

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01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:45,920
Speaker 1: Ford is the only one who's actually not missed a rep,

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01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:49,000
Speaker 1: so he's gonna be ready. So I if those are

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01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:51,000
Speaker 1: the five guys that line up in there, and Spencer

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01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:53,000
Speaker 1: Long is a veteran he played last year in the

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01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:57,720
Speaker 1: AFC East, they got some guys that are ready to go.

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01:14:57,880 --> 01:15:01,400
Speaker 1: John Feliciano has not missed a rep during this training camp.

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01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:04,719
Speaker 1: So it's it's yeah, I think they're gonna be ready

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01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 1: to go. Uh. The problem is, you know how long

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01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:09,400
Speaker 1: will it last? These guys are gonna stay out there together,

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01:15:09,400 --> 01:15:11,720
Speaker 1: all right? That's the big unknown, and that's that goes

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01:15:11,760 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 1: for every guy on the roster. What are you looking

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01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:15,479
Speaker 1: for tonight? From the bills, We can talk about that.

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01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:17,679
Speaker 1: We can take your phone calls or You can send

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01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 1: it a tweet at eight oh three oh five fifty

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01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:22,559
Speaker 1: or toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

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01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:25,000
Speaker 1: five fifty. I want to know which Bills player you

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01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:27,360
Speaker 1: think can win a roster spot with a performance tonight

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01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:29,960
Speaker 1: against Minnesota. You're gonna talk about all of that when

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01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:31,599
Speaker 1: we come back. You can join us on the phone

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01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:33,640
Speaker 1: lines or buy a Twitter and want to take you

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01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:35,559
Speaker 1: through some of the rest of the NFL schedule tonight

1524
01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:37,519
Speaker 1: and what people around the league are looking at for

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01:15:37,680 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 1: other teams. There are other teams. We're coming back to

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Speaker 1: talk about a One Bill's Life presented by Klata Health

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01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:57,120
Speaker 1: from One Bills Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio, John Urge,

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01:15:57,120 --> 01:15:59,760
Speaker 1: Steve Taster doing h We're not doing Field of Dreams.

1529
01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:02,080
Speaker 1: Have just doing my James Earl Jones Field something like

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01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:06,040
Speaker 1: Baseball Ray. Is that what it was? Yeah? You know

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01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:08,479
Speaker 1: that movie? You probably I've seen it. Yeah, yeah, it's

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01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:11,200
Speaker 1: good movie. I didn't not catch the James Rol Ray,

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01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: not James Rol, James Earl Jones, James Earl Jones, James

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01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:17,640
Speaker 1: Earl Jones. I didn't catch that, and maybe you were

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01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:20,200
Speaker 1: doing James Lay. That's why I didn't recognize it. People

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01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:25,160
Speaker 1: will come. Ray most definitely, Ray, Welcome back to the show.

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01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:27,479
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tanser. We really came to do tonight.

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01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:31,280
Speaker 1: We're busy your business. A long day, Bro. Jay told

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01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:34,880
Speaker 1: us not to complain, and I'm just merely staying like

1540
01:16:35,040 --> 01:16:37,960
Speaker 1: a long day, a little bit of a pre working

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01:16:38,040 --> 01:16:41,200
Speaker 1: up to a complaint. Bill's Vikings, seven o'clock, tod I

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01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:43,080
Speaker 1: want to hear from you. Who do you look? Who

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01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:45,639
Speaker 1: are you looking for? Which player can win a roster

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01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:48,200
Speaker 1: spot with a great performance tonight. Let's take a few

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01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:50,559
Speaker 1: calls here. Let's go to Norm in Alden. Hello, Norm,

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01:16:50,600 --> 01:16:54,360
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. You're on the air, gentlemen. Good afternoon, Norm,

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01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:58,879
Speaker 1: Good afternoon to you. You know I again another signing.

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01:16:59,200 --> 01:17:03,320
Speaker 1: You know I talked before about Mitch Morse in signing Hashka.

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01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:06,200
Speaker 1: I don't understand. I mean you mean to tell me

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01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:08,280
Speaker 1: that there's no other kickers that are available. I mean

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01:17:08,320 --> 01:17:10,920
Speaker 1: I'd rather bring back Dempsey or Scott Norwood. Oh you

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01:17:10,920 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: think Kushka is no good? I think he's good, but

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01:17:14,120 --> 01:17:17,720
Speaker 1: he's not consistent. I don't think he's consistent. He made

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01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:22,160
Speaker 1: seventeen in a row. He said that he was one

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01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:28,240
Speaker 1: shy of the record. Okay, so he'd beat Norwood's record.

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01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:33,000
Speaker 1: Then no, it was Ryan Lindell's record. All right, Well

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01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:35,439
Speaker 1: then I stand corrected. Well, okay, what else though, It's

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01:17:35,479 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 1: not just about he is consistent and he did and

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01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:41,360
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this too. Think about consistency. Sometimes when

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01:17:41,360 --> 01:17:44,040
Speaker 1: a guy goes into a slump, he's consistently bad. And

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01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:45,840
Speaker 1: I think he wasn't a slump early on. I think

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01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:48,679
Speaker 1: this new season it took him a second to find himself.

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01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 1: But I think, listen, Houshka is a true pro, and

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01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 1: I think they trust him because of his work ethic.

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01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:55,880
Speaker 1: A couple of stats. I'm going to throw it at you,

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Speaker 1: Norm extra points and now you know it's a thirty

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01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 1: three yard kick. How's good to seasons for Buffalo. He's

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01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:04,400
Speaker 1: missed one fifty four to fifty five. That's consistent. Steve

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01:18:04,439 --> 01:18:06,880
Speaker 1: mentioned the seventeen in a row. He is the tenth

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01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:10,679
Speaker 1: active player is tenth active player in NFL history to

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01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,479
Speaker 1: hit the one thousand career points. He is sixth in

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01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 1: the league right now, six in the league of success

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01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:19,240
Speaker 1: rate of fifty yards or more, eleven of sixteen. He's

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01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:21,760
Speaker 1: made sixty nine percent of his kicks from fifty yards

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01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:23,320
Speaker 1: or more. Now I get it. I get it too.

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01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:26,759
Speaker 1: Now here's two don't forget this norm eight million bucks

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01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:29,000
Speaker 1: over two years. I get it. But none of that's guaranteed.

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01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:33,599
Speaker 1: If he starts to sting, you know they can cut him. Okay,

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01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:36,320
Speaker 1: Now I have an argument here with my son. Go ahead,

1580
01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 1: your show religiously every day, and he thinks that the

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01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:42,600
Speaker 1: Bills are going to keep this rugby player, and I say, no,

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01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:45,080
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think he's just gonna make

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01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:47,200
Speaker 1: the practice squad. What do you think? Yeah, he will.

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01:18:47,240 --> 01:18:49,800
Speaker 1: He'll be on the eleventh at least on the eleventh

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01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:52,320
Speaker 1: spot where he's an exemption. I think that's where he's

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01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 1: gonna end up. They get a free roster exemption for

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01:18:56,280 --> 01:18:59,000
Speaker 1: him on their practice squad if they so desire to

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01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:01,360
Speaker 1: keep him around, and I think they will so. If

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01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:02,880
Speaker 1: you're saying they're going to keep him around on the

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Speaker 1: fifty three, I don't think that's going to happen. I

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01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:08,599
Speaker 1: don't think he'll make the ten practice squad roster either,

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01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:10,920
Speaker 1: But he will be the eleventh guy on the practice squad,

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01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:13,000
Speaker 1: and you can count the count on it. If he

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01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:16,880
Speaker 1: wants to be He'll be in Buffalo for the entire

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01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:19,719
Speaker 1: season and probably through the next offseason and into training

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01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:22,639
Speaker 1: camp next year as well. He's a project, right, go ahead,

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01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:28,920
Speaker 1: norm I think it brings a lot of speculation from

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Speaker 1: the fans in Buffalo. I think they want this kid

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01:19:31,320 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 1: to make it. But oh yeah, you know, we have

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01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:36,720
Speaker 1: to face the facts. I mean, this kid is he

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01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:42,200
Speaker 1: played rugby, he hasn't played NFL foot. I mean, that's it.

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01:19:42,280 --> 01:19:44,760
Speaker 1: I'm enough, chewing off of your ear, no problem. Look,

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01:19:44,800 --> 01:19:47,200
Speaker 1: I wanted to make it too, but fans who want that,

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01:19:47,240 --> 01:19:49,400
Speaker 1: and that's fine that you do. But be patient. He's

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01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:51,519
Speaker 1: got a long way to go, a lot to learn. Look,

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01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:53,280
Speaker 1: if they can get him to that eleventh spot on

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01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:55,599
Speaker 1: the practice squad, clear waivers, get him on the eleventh

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01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:57,960
Speaker 1: spot on the practice squad and invest a year, and

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01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 1: then let's see where we are with for Wade next year.

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01:20:01,200 --> 01:20:02,840
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Just be patient. I think

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Speaker 1: he will. He may have a future in the nf

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01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:07,800
Speaker 1: And don't forget, probably not this year. Yeah, don't forget.

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01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:10,320
Speaker 1: You're going to see Christian Wade play a little bit

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01:20:10,320 --> 01:20:12,080
Speaker 1: more tonight. He's not going to get just one or

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01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:13,960
Speaker 1: two snaps. I think he's going to get a series

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01:20:14,040 --> 01:20:15,800
Speaker 1: or two series, or he may get a lot of plays.

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01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:18,240
Speaker 1: He might get a chance to really carry the football

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01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:21,080
Speaker 1: where you don't expect him to run sixty five yards

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01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:22,840
Speaker 1: for a touchdown every time he touches it, you know,

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01:20:22,960 --> 01:20:26,080
Speaker 1: So you might have a different view or an even

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01:20:26,160 --> 01:20:28,320
Speaker 1: better view after you see him play tonight. So let's

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01:20:28,360 --> 01:20:30,400
Speaker 1: let's wait and evaluate him tonight, see how he does. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: m Let's go to Don in Lockport. Hello, Don, welcome,

1624
01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:35,200
Speaker 1: you're on the air with this. Yeah, how you doing.

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01:20:35,320 --> 01:20:38,800
Speaker 1: I'm really concerned about our plenty situation right now. That

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01:20:38,439 --> 01:20:40,680
Speaker 1: pun that we just get rid of one and the

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01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:43,880
Speaker 1: Puny way of now is really what they look for

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01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:46,800
Speaker 1: one now? Yeah, they probably are. And I think they're

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01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:49,360
Speaker 1: going to give Corey by Orkes the entire game tonight,

1630
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:51,320
Speaker 1: and I think he can make or break it if

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01:20:51,320 --> 01:20:54,040
Speaker 1: he comes out and those faces, Don, what are you

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01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:57,880
Speaker 1: looking for in him? Well? I'm looking for consistency an

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01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:00,800
Speaker 1: even what I've seen, he really goes for very consistent.

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01:21:01,439 --> 01:21:03,839
Speaker 1: I know he didn't get much chance last year being injured,

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01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 1: but I mean I really haven't been too impressed with

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01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:09,559
Speaker 1: the Waves and Puny at all. Yeah, I get it

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01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:11,639
Speaker 1: last Now, last week, if you look at the stats

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Speaker 1: on the stat sheet, last week, he had like a

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01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:16,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I just look at it. He's he had

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01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:20,080
Speaker 1: like a fifty five yard average or something for the Okay,

1641
01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:24,799
Speaker 1: here we go punting. That's the that's the Vikings stats.

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01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:28,920
Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, all right, punting by Orches.

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01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:31,080
Speaker 1: He's got nine punts for four hundred and nine yards.

1644
01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:33,600
Speaker 1: He's got a forty five point four yard average with

1645
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:37,719
Speaker 1: a forty one point two net, no touchbacks, one inside

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01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:40,679
Speaker 1: the twenty and along of fifty eight. So he's he's

1647
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:42,840
Speaker 1: been If you look at that, it looks pretty good.

1648
01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:45,919
Speaker 1: A net of forty one point two is really excellent.

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01:21:46,560 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: That's good. But you're right last week his first two

1650
01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 1: punts were kind of off the side of his foot

1651
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:56,840
Speaker 1: and didn't look good, so I get it. But his

1652
01:21:56,960 --> 01:22:00,240
Speaker 1: statistics say he's actually punted not too bad. He'd like

1653
01:22:00,320 --> 01:22:02,040
Speaker 1: to see the you know, he'd like to see him

1654
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:04,320
Speaker 1: get a chance to boom it out there and be

1655
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:06,760
Speaker 1: consistently doing it because he's got a big leg. But

1656
01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:08,760
Speaker 1: you want to see it more than we've been able

1657
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:11,080
Speaker 1: to see it so far. Thanks Don, We'll take more calls.

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Speaker 1: Eight oh three five fifty twenty three one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. Answering you the question

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01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:19,600
Speaker 1: which player can win a roster spot with your performance

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01:22:19,600 --> 01:22:21,679
Speaker 1: tonight against the Vikings, Let's go to the tweet sheet

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01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:24,639
Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers

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01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:26,400
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. What he got there? In the

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01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:30,080
Speaker 1: tweet sheet there from John Paul, he says, Isaiah McKenzie

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01:22:30,120 --> 01:22:34,200
Speaker 1: and t J Yelden. There you go, Isah McKenzie, You're right.

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01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:35,559
Speaker 1: I think he's going to get a chance to prove

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01:22:35,600 --> 01:22:37,720
Speaker 1: it tonight. T J Yelden may not get as much

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01:22:37,720 --> 01:22:40,280
Speaker 1: playing time tonight because I think they know what they've

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01:22:40,280 --> 01:22:42,639
Speaker 1: got in him, and I don't know what his special

1670
01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:45,320
Speaker 1: team's contribution would be if he does make the squad.

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01:22:45,400 --> 01:22:48,639
Speaker 1: So I think they're they're given sons, not Sonoris Perry,

1672
01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:51,160
Speaker 1: but Marcus Murphy a chance to shine tonight. We'll see

1673
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:53,679
Speaker 1: if he does. Also on the tweet sheet from Sammy,

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01:22:53,720 --> 01:22:55,919
Speaker 1: he says it's got to be t J Yelden, Sonoras

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01:22:56,000 --> 01:23:00,320
Speaker 1: Perry or Jason Krum, all three of stiff competition routed

1676
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:04,520
Speaker 1: position that the Bills have focused on throughout the off season. Personally,

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Speaker 1: I see value in trading t J Yelden and keeping

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Speaker 1: Perry for special teams. And Krum is an absolute toss up. Well,

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Speaker 1: there you go. That's and Krum is a toss up

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01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:20,879
Speaker 1: athletic tight end, fast guy, good athlete who's worked extremely

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Speaker 1: hard on his blocking, the blocking side of the tight

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01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:28,479
Speaker 1: end position. And he's been hobbled by hamstring for two months. Right.

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01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:30,800
Speaker 1: He had a real setback at the beginning of training camp.

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01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:33,280
Speaker 1: Five weeks of training camp and he was off from

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01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:36,280
Speaker 1: most of OTAs because of a torn or a pulled hammy.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I think Krum, we don't know what they're

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01:23:39,840 --> 01:23:41,559
Speaker 1: gonna what their thoughts are on him, And I think

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01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:43,080
Speaker 1: that's what it boils down to, what do you show

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01:23:43,120 --> 01:23:45,040
Speaker 1: him last year? What do they see in him when

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01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:48,880
Speaker 1: we can't see what he's doing and what he does

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01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:51,120
Speaker 1: tonight maybe has a big, big sway in that. Got

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01:23:51,120 --> 01:23:53,800
Speaker 1: a full schedule of NFL preseason games. We'll talk about

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01:23:53,800 --> 01:23:55,280
Speaker 1: some of them when we come back. Come on back

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Speaker 1: with us. One Bill's Live, presented by Klaida Health from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's Right. Welcome back,

1696
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:15,599
Speaker 1: one Go five from One bill Drive Down Murphy seat.

1697
01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:20,280
Speaker 1: It's one of those we should tape the breaks. Global

1698
01:24:20,280 --> 01:24:22,920
Speaker 1: warming came up during the bay Yeah, it's great. It's

1699
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:24,880
Speaker 1: not just Steve and I. We got a good group

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01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:27,719
Speaker 1: in the other rooms are not shy to make their opinion.

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01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:30,920
Speaker 1: It is a chorus of differing opinions that are all

1702
01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:34,040
Speaker 1: articulate and intelligent, of course mostly most of the time.

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Speaker 1: Bills Biking seven o'clock Tonight, one of sixteen games everybody

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01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:41,759
Speaker 1: plays tonight. We are ten days away from the Sunday

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01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:44,160
Speaker 1: of regular season opening. We're a week away from what

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01:24:44,280 --> 01:24:46,320
Speaker 1: is it the Bears and the Packers, right, opening up

1707
01:24:46,439 --> 01:24:49,760
Speaker 1: season next week tonight, but all thirty two teams play

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01:24:49,800 --> 01:24:52,439
Speaker 1: tonight Final Night, a preseason football, A couple of games

1709
01:24:52,439 --> 01:24:55,160
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on the Dolphins. You know we're

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01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:57,160
Speaker 1: in the Dolphins, right. They play at the Saints to night,

1711
01:24:57,240 --> 01:24:59,559
Speaker 1: that game at eight o'clock, so they don't know yet.

1712
01:24:59,800 --> 01:25:02,280
Speaker 1: We before ten days before the season starts. The Dolphins

1713
01:25:02,320 --> 01:25:04,920
Speaker 1: are not ready to say who their starting quarterback is now,

1714
01:25:05,720 --> 01:25:09,479
Speaker 1: right Fitzpatrick Josh Rosen. The problem tonight is fits perceived

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01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:12,400
Speaker 1: as the front runner is sick, likely won't play against

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01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:15,280
Speaker 1: the Saints, So Rosen gets to start and maybe as

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01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:17,880
Speaker 1: the finals say, that's a game to keep an eye on. Tonight,

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01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:20,880
Speaker 1: the Saints at home against the Miami Dolphins. I don't

1719
01:25:20,880 --> 01:25:23,120
Speaker 1: know who I'm rooting for. I guess i'd root for Fits. Yeah,

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01:25:23,160 --> 01:25:24,880
Speaker 1: if I were the Bills, I'd rather have to worry

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01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:26,559
Speaker 1: about the Dolphins for a while. But I'd rather face

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01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:29,240
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen. We've had this conversation before it and a

1723
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:32,040
Speaker 1: lot of people say, listen, all the media, people who

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01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:35,160
Speaker 1: don't know anything about being on a team or group dynamics,

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01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:37,240
Speaker 1: they always say, well, you gotta find you gotta play

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01:25:37,320 --> 01:25:39,559
Speaker 1: Rosen because he's the guy you gotta find out about.

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01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:41,560
Speaker 1: He's the guy you traded for. He's the guy that

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01:25:41,680 --> 01:25:44,800
Speaker 1: was a top ten pick, data data. You gotta play Rosen.

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Speaker 1: Here's here's what they don't get. And this is the

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01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:52,479
Speaker 1: where where the rubber meets the road. If you're Brian

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01:25:52,479 --> 01:25:54,880
Speaker 1: floor as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, and

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01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:57,800
Speaker 1: there is a team consensus, and there will be one

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01:25:57,840 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 1: way or the other. If there's a team consents, is

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01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:02,800
Speaker 1: that Ryan Fitzpatrick gives you the best chance to win.

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01:26:03,920 --> 01:26:09,920
Speaker 1: You are compelled to start Ryan Fitzpatrick. You have to

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01:26:09,960 --> 01:26:13,680
Speaker 1: start the guy that your team believes is gives you

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01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:18,320
Speaker 1: the best chance to win without question. Here's why. If

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01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:21,200
Speaker 1: you're in on a football team and you're gonna ask

1739
01:26:21,360 --> 01:26:25,679
Speaker 1: these offensive lineman, these defensive lineman, linebackers, dps, wide receivers,

1740
01:26:25,720 --> 01:26:27,680
Speaker 1: all these guys to go out and lay it on

1741
01:26:27,720 --> 01:26:31,000
Speaker 1: the line and get tackled, get hurt, risk their career,

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01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:34,280
Speaker 1: risk injury, either minor or major injury. If you want

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01:26:34,280 --> 01:26:36,759
Speaker 1: to them to go out and give a full effort

1744
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:41,160
Speaker 1: in that regard, physically, mentally, and emotionally for your team

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01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:42,559
Speaker 1: to win. And then you're gonna play a guy that

1746
01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:45,679
Speaker 1: doesn't give you the best chance. You lose that team quick.

1747
01:26:46,600 --> 01:26:49,479
Speaker 1: You lose that team quick. If you want them to

1748
01:26:49,479 --> 01:26:51,360
Speaker 1: give a full effort, you give a full effort. As

1749
01:26:51,360 --> 01:26:53,120
Speaker 1: a coach, you put the guy out there that's gonna

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01:26:53,160 --> 01:26:55,200
Speaker 1: give me the best chance to win. And because if

1751
01:26:55,240 --> 01:26:58,000
Speaker 1: you don't, they're gonna know there's a consensus about who

1752
01:26:58,120 --> 01:26:59,720
Speaker 1: gives you the best chance to win, and when you

1753
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:03,280
Speaker 1: don't follow that, you risk losing the football team and

1754
01:27:03,320 --> 01:27:06,679
Speaker 1: losing the respect and the and the team will say, listen,

1755
01:27:06,680 --> 01:27:09,920
Speaker 1: I don't care what you say. Your actions speak louder

1756
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:13,920
Speaker 1: than words, and they start pulling back on their effort

1757
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 1: and everything else about, you know, laying it out there.

1758
01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:19,240
Speaker 1: And that's I think the reality of the NFL. And

1759
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:22,360
Speaker 1: that's what Brian Flores has to decide about which of

1760
01:27:22,400 --> 01:27:25,000
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks to play. First year head coach, he knows

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01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:27,320
Speaker 1: that though even as a first year head coach he does.

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01:27:27,360 --> 01:27:29,439
Speaker 1: But I only this. You got a general manager there who,

1763
01:27:29,640 --> 01:27:31,120
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't have any skin in that game.

1764
01:27:31,160 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 1: He wants to find out about that kid. You know,

1765
01:27:33,280 --> 01:27:35,160
Speaker 1: you got an owner out there who went out and

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01:27:35,520 --> 01:27:37,800
Speaker 1: traded for that guy. And the owner chimes in, he's

1767
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:39,360
Speaker 1: got a little say in it. No, he's getting ready

1768
01:27:39,360 --> 01:27:42,439
Speaker 1: to trade for Clowney. Right, So there's you know, you

1769
01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:44,920
Speaker 1: got a lot of voices in theirs. And it's and

1770
01:27:44,960 --> 01:27:48,519
Speaker 1: it's common knowledge too that most of the times around

1771
01:27:48,520 --> 01:27:51,439
Speaker 1: the league that the general manager has final say over

1772
01:27:51,479 --> 01:27:53,360
Speaker 1: the fifty three because he's the guy that's in the

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01:27:53,400 --> 01:27:55,599
Speaker 1: office looking at all these other waiver wires and doing

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01:27:55,600 --> 01:27:57,080
Speaker 1: all that, and the head coach doesn't have time to

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01:27:57,120 --> 01:27:59,400
Speaker 1: do that, so he has say over the fifty three. Now,

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01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:01,760
Speaker 1: obviously you sit there and you're with your head coach,

1777
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:03,760
Speaker 1: and if you're in lockstep as you should be. The

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01:28:03,800 --> 01:28:06,040
Speaker 1: head coach says, listen, we got a problem here. I've

1779
01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:08,519
Speaker 1: got to play this guy, and the general manager says, okay,

1780
01:28:08,560 --> 01:28:13,120
Speaker 1: go do it. But not always, not always, And that's

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01:28:13,160 --> 01:28:16,320
Speaker 1: where the Dolphins find themselves today. A couple of other

1782
01:28:16,640 --> 01:28:18,920
Speaker 1: games to talk about, quarterbacks to talk about, really on

1783
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:23,599
Speaker 1: the interesting games on the schedule. Tampa Bay Buccaneers are

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01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:28,040
Speaker 1: going with Vincent Testaverdie as their starter tonight. Vincent Testaverdie

1785
01:28:28,200 --> 01:28:34,360
Speaker 1: Vinny Testaverdi, the Heisman Trophy winner his son, Vincent Vinnie Testaverdie.

1786
01:28:34,560 --> 01:28:36,760
Speaker 1: Vincent was signed to the ninety man roster before the

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01:28:36,800 --> 01:28:40,200
Speaker 1: preseason finale. Ryan Griffin is expected to start and not

1788
01:28:40,240 --> 01:28:43,439
Speaker 1: play long, so Vincent Testaverdi is expected to get most

1789
01:28:43,479 --> 01:28:45,719
Speaker 1: of the snaps Tonight eight o'clock when the Bucks play

1790
01:28:45,880 --> 01:28:49,439
Speaker 1: at the Cowboys. And another game with quarterback implications the

1791
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:52,560
Speaker 1: Seahawks late night, ten o'clock home against the Raiders. Seahawks

1792
01:28:52,560 --> 01:28:54,880
Speaker 1: trying to decide whether Geno Smith or a Paxton Lynch

1793
01:28:55,240 --> 01:28:57,639
Speaker 1: is going to be their backup. But the more interesting

1794
01:28:57,640 --> 01:29:01,280
Speaker 1: one to Bill's fans is the Raiders backup competition. You

1795
01:29:01,360 --> 01:29:03,200
Speaker 1: may have followed it on Hard Knocks if you watched

1796
01:29:03,240 --> 01:29:06,120
Speaker 1: any Hard Knocks yet, I've watched one episode now it's okay.

1797
01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:08,000
Speaker 1: I might watch another day. I think the finale is

1798
01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:11,280
Speaker 1: next week. But tonight their final preseason game, the Raiders

1799
01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:14,360
Speaker 1: play at the Seattle and it looks like it looks

1800
01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:16,360
Speaker 1: like it feels like if you watch Hard Knocks, John

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01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:19,280
Speaker 1: Gruden is really rooting for Nathan Peterman to win the

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01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:22,880
Speaker 1: job ahead of Mike Lennon. Now Glennon expected to play

1803
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:25,879
Speaker 1: tonight against the Seahawks, and then you expect that Peterman

1804
01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:29,400
Speaker 1: will play, and maybe that that the issue gets decided

1805
01:29:29,439 --> 01:29:32,760
Speaker 1: tonight when the Raiders play at Seattle. I'll tell you

1806
01:29:32,800 --> 01:29:36,280
Speaker 1: what I will say it unabashedly. I root for Nathan Peterman.

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01:29:36,560 --> 01:29:39,200
Speaker 1: I root for him. I want, don't laugh, I want

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01:29:39,280 --> 01:29:42,960
Speaker 1: him to succeeds a He's a wonderful young man who

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01:29:43,640 --> 01:29:46,800
Speaker 1: is horrible outcomes and his starts with the Buffalo Bills.

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01:29:46,960 --> 01:29:49,479
Speaker 1: But he's not a joke. He's not a laughing matter.

1811
01:29:49,680 --> 01:29:51,280
Speaker 1: And I hope that he wins this job, and I

1812
01:29:51,320 --> 01:29:53,000
Speaker 1: hope he does well tonight. I'll probably watch that game

1813
01:29:53,040 --> 01:29:57,719
Speaker 1: when I go home tonight. It's gotta be just so Yeah,

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01:29:57,760 --> 01:30:01,600
Speaker 1: it's conflicting I'm not. You saw you saw how it

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01:30:01,640 --> 01:30:04,000
Speaker 1: went for him here for Bills fans. He said, yeah,

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01:30:04,040 --> 01:30:05,800
Speaker 1: you know, okay, he's a great kid and stuff, but man,

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01:30:05,840 --> 01:30:07,280
Speaker 1: oh man, no, I don't want I hate seeing him

1818
01:30:07,320 --> 01:30:10,360
Speaker 1: play well for somebody else now, because it could not

1819
01:30:10,439 --> 01:30:13,160
Speaker 1: have been a more catastrophic outcome for some of his

1820
01:30:13,240 --> 01:30:15,200
Speaker 1: games here in Buffalo. Well, for every time he got

1821
01:30:15,240 --> 01:30:17,479
Speaker 1: stepped on the field, he through a pick six. I mean,

1822
01:30:17,640 --> 01:30:20,360
Speaker 1: it was. It was unbelievable how it went from being

1823
01:30:20,400 --> 01:30:23,240
Speaker 1: so good in the preseason to so catastrophic in the

1824
01:30:23,240 --> 01:30:25,679
Speaker 1: regular season. And now you see in the same thing

1825
01:30:26,080 --> 01:30:28,840
Speaker 1: and John Gruden is out there saying it. So Bills

1826
01:30:28,840 --> 01:30:30,960
Speaker 1: fans got to be watching this just waiting for the

1827
01:30:31,000 --> 01:30:35,360
Speaker 1: train wreck, right as right. But you and I know

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01:30:35,920 --> 01:30:38,160
Speaker 1: we've talked to the guy and he was here and

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01:30:38,160 --> 01:30:40,560
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen loved the guy. The coach. He was

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01:30:40,600 --> 01:30:45,000
Speaker 1: a great dude, a great teammate, a great kid. Uh.

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01:30:45,040 --> 01:30:47,280
Speaker 1: And you you cheer for good people like that. But

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01:30:47,360 --> 01:30:49,280
Speaker 1: then when you see when you kind of depended on

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01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:53,040
Speaker 1: him for a minute, it was like, dude, what are

1834
01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:57,960
Speaker 1: you doing? Yeah, right, it was. It's so that may

1835
01:30:58,040 --> 01:31:01,719
Speaker 1: be the great this carnival ride of a roller coaster

1836
01:31:01,760 --> 01:31:04,120
Speaker 1: you'll ever go on with a quarterback where it's so say,

1837
01:31:04,160 --> 01:31:06,320
Speaker 1: he's such a great guy, everything's going so good, and

1838
01:31:06,360 --> 01:31:11,519
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, it's like, yeah, we saw it,

1839
01:31:11,640 --> 01:31:13,559
Speaker 1: I saw it, we all witnessed it, we were all

1840
01:31:13,600 --> 01:31:17,000
Speaker 1: part of it. And so to see him, to see

1841
01:31:17,040 --> 01:31:21,120
Speaker 1: the same thing play out again and early seemingly play

1842
01:31:21,160 --> 01:31:25,760
Speaker 1: out in Oakland, it's just amazing. And and you know what,

1843
01:31:25,800 --> 01:31:27,240
Speaker 1: it's not. He's not the only one. We've been down

1844
01:31:27,280 --> 01:31:30,200
Speaker 1: this run. Look at Ryan Fitzpatrick in Miami. We've seen

1845
01:31:30,320 --> 01:31:34,720
Speaker 1: his his career do that cycle on the field. He

1846
01:31:34,960 --> 01:31:37,320
Speaker 1: he plays great and then stinks and plays great and

1847
01:31:37,360 --> 01:31:39,960
Speaker 1: then stinks, plays great and the stinks and it and

1848
01:31:40,280 --> 01:31:42,720
Speaker 1: he's made a pile of money on That became the

1849
01:31:43,080 --> 01:31:45,439
Speaker 1: punchline that Nathan Peter not at all, because he did

1850
01:31:45,439 --> 01:31:48,280
Speaker 1: play well at times and he won games. Yeah, and

1851
01:31:48,320 --> 01:31:50,840
Speaker 1: he's you know he's but he by him Peterman. He's

1852
01:31:50,840 --> 01:31:53,400
Speaker 1: a great dude, great guy, great teammate. Guys love him

1853
01:31:54,160 --> 01:31:56,200
Speaker 1: all right. So sixteen games in the league tonight one

1854
01:31:56,240 --> 01:31:57,840
Speaker 1: of them here, and that's why we're gonna focus on

1855
01:31:57,920 --> 01:31:59,680
Speaker 1: an hour number three. Come on back and join us.

1856
01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:03,200
Speaker 1: That round sports director at w ro OCTV and Rochester

1857
01:32:03,320 --> 01:32:06,280
Speaker 1: sideline reporter on the television broadcast tonight. He's going to

1858
01:32:06,320 --> 01:32:07,960
Speaker 1: be sitting down in studio with us in a moment

1859
01:32:08,080 --> 01:32:09,800
Speaker 1: or two and give us some calls. What are you

1860
01:32:09,840 --> 01:32:11,680
Speaker 1: looking for tonight? Who's got a chance to win a

1861
01:32:11,760 --> 01:32:14,479
Speaker 1: roster spot tonight? Let's let's hear what you think about

1862
01:32:14,520 --> 01:32:16,760
Speaker 1: tonight's game. Eight oh three oh five fifty toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty one

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Speaker 1: does live from one Doll's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio

1865
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 1: Bufalo Hills Radio Network Sports Day. You get a long

1866
01:32:37,240 --> 01:32:39,919
Speaker 1: look at the backups tonight for the Bills fans. Preseason

1867
01:32:39,960 --> 01:32:42,360
Speaker 1: game number four, the Bills home against the Minnesota Vikings.

1868
01:32:42,360 --> 01:32:46,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo and Minnesota expected to give their starters and important

1869
01:32:46,040 --> 01:32:48,680
Speaker 1: reserves the night off. Tyree Jackson Seedra to start a

1870
01:32:48,760 --> 01:32:51,519
Speaker 1: quarterback for Buffalo, expected to play the entire game. The

1871
01:32:51,600 --> 01:32:54,200
Speaker 1: Viking's gonna play it the same way. Final preseason game

1872
01:32:54,280 --> 01:32:56,320
Speaker 1: seven o'clock kick off a newer field tonight. You can

1873
01:32:56,360 --> 01:32:58,639
Speaker 1: hear the game here in a flagship radio station in Buffalo,

1874
01:32:59,080 --> 01:33:04,280
Speaker 1: w GR Sports Radio five fifty. Yesterday, the Bills lockdown

1875
01:33:04,360 --> 01:33:06,559
Speaker 1: kicker Stephen Houski with a new contract. The two year

1876
01:33:06,600 --> 01:33:09,559
Speaker 1: contract extension. The thirty four year old kicker was entering

1877
01:33:09,560 --> 01:33:11,720
Speaker 1: the final year of his contract. He signed to the

1878
01:33:11,800 --> 01:33:14,759
Speaker 1: free agent with the Bills in twenty seventeen after six

1879
01:33:14,880 --> 01:33:18,400
Speaker 1: seasons in Seattle. And a couple of roster moves. Late yesterday,

1880
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:21,479
Speaker 1: the Bills put defensive end Mike Love on injured reserve

1881
01:33:21,720 --> 01:33:25,320
Speaker 1: and they waived offensive lineman DeAndre Wesley in an injury settlement.

1882
01:33:25,320 --> 01:33:28,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo and Minnesota would have sixteen NFL games on the

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Speaker 1: schedule tonight. All thirty two teams will play on this

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Speaker 1: final preseason the Football Night, the fourth preseason competition for

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Speaker 1: thirty teams, the fifth for Denver in Atlanta, who took

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Speaker 1: place in the Hall of Fame game. Patriots made a

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Speaker 1: couple excuse me, a couple of trade yesterday to bolster

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Speaker 1: their offensive line depth. Acquired an offensive lineman Jermaine Lemonnyard

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Speaker 1: from Baltimore or an undisclosed traffic, and the Patriots got

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Speaker 1: offensive tackle Corey Cunningham from the Cardinals. Also and trade

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Speaker 1: made yesterday, the Jets have acquired third year cornerback Nate

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Speaker 1: Harriston from the Colts. For a sixth round pick next year.

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Speaker 1: A fifth round pick from Temple in twenty seventeen joins

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Speaker 1: the Jets. College football. You be opens a season tonight

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Speaker 1: at home against Robert Morris. Seven o'clock kickoff, Mett Myers West,

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Speaker 1: Seneca West Product. We'll start at quarterback for ub you'd

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Speaker 1: be coming off there. Lost in a bowl game last year,

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Speaker 1: they lost a Troy in the Dollar General Bowl. And

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Speaker 1: they start the season tonight seven o'clock kickoff, their first

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Speaker 1: ever meeting against Robert Morris, and the Bison's home finale

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Speaker 1: is tonight. They lost to Rochester ten to two last night.

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Speaker 1: Fan appreciation night tonight. Heard in the Red Wings first

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Speaker 1: pick seven h five, right hander TJ. Zoik, who threw

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Speaker 1: a no hitter a week ago. TJ. Zoich gets to

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Speaker 1: start for Buffalo. We got a game right here though,

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Speaker 1: right here in our back yard, right over there at

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01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:44,320
Speaker 1: the newer field, the Bills and the Minnesota Vikings. And

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Speaker 1: a guy who's gonna be on the sideline on the

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Speaker 1: television tonight joins us right now, sports director at w

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Speaker 1: r OCTV in Rochester, the Bills preseason satline reporter. He's

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Speaker 1: been around the Bills covered the bills for the last

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Speaker 1: almost twenty seasons. Nound Dad Brown joins us on the line. Hight, Dad, welcome,

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Speaker 1: you come in here tonight. Right, you're on your way.

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Speaker 1: I'm away right now. Yeah, we're passing lovely Batavia as

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Speaker 1: I speak. Okay, very nice. What do you think? What

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Speaker 1: do you think the first thing on your agenda tonight

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Speaker 1: in terms of you know, getting work, don't you mean

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Speaker 1: or what I want to watch in the game, dinner

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Speaker 1: And let's start with dinner and then we'll move on

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Speaker 1: to you know, on whatever you So, there's no dinner tonight, man,

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Speaker 1: this is this is work, work, work. I'm I'm reporting

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Speaker 1: at four five dating. You have our pregame show that

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Speaker 1: six or yeah we got we had lost up to night.

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Speaker 1: What about the game? What are you looking for in

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Speaker 1: the early parts of this game? Think? For me, you know,

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Speaker 1: very interested to see um, you know what kind of

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01:35:41,600 --> 01:35:44,000
Speaker 1: things can do Williams keep, you know, making the place

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01:35:44,080 --> 01:35:46,400
Speaker 1: he's made the last couple weeks in the preseason. You know,

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Speaker 1: what are we gonna see from Robert Foster who has

1930
01:35:48,080 --> 01:35:57,320
Speaker 1: been pretty quiet after you know, finishing really strong last year. Yeah, Chad,

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Speaker 1: you're sitting you're you're headed through the hills of Western

1932
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Speaker 1: or I can tell because it's what happens to me. Oh,

1933
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Speaker 1: every time I drive home from Rochester, you start to

1934
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Speaker 1: get your cell phone service starts. Are you there? Can you?

1935
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Speaker 1: Are you back with us? Yeah? I got you now here?

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Speaker 1: You better He's got me all right. Yeah, last we heard.

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Speaker 1: You're looking for Duke Williams some of the other guys

1938
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Speaker 1: to shine and keep continue to shine and be consistent. Yeah,

1939
01:36:18,600 --> 01:36:20,519
Speaker 1: I mean Robert Foster's another one too. A guys has

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01:36:20,560 --> 01:36:22,240
Speaker 1: been pretty quiet in preseason. I know he had the

1941
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Speaker 1: toe injury, you know, but um, you want to see

1942
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Speaker 1: a little more out of him maybe tonight and then uh,

1943
01:36:27,160 --> 01:36:30,000
Speaker 1: you know Rayray McLeod and Isaiah McKenzie they might be

1944
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Speaker 1: battling for the same roster spot, so you know which

1945
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Speaker 1: one of those guys stands out. And of course you

1946
01:36:35,240 --> 01:36:39,080
Speaker 1: know Sean mcgimmer preaches versatility, So how many other ways

1947
01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:42,519
Speaker 1: can these receivers shine beyond just catching the ball, whether

1948
01:36:42,520 --> 01:36:44,720
Speaker 1: it be in blocking is Duke Williams has done very well.

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01:36:45,000 --> 01:36:47,559
Speaker 1: Josh Allen talked about that this week. Um, you know,

1950
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Speaker 1: or in specialty. You know, both McLeod and mackenzie can

1951
01:36:50,520 --> 01:36:53,000
Speaker 1: be returned men. So you know, this might be this

1952
01:36:53,120 --> 01:36:55,720
Speaker 1: receiver battle might be decided not at receiver might be

1953
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Speaker 1: decided somewhere else and Brown on the line of this

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter for tonight's bills temcast Duke Williams. Is he

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Speaker 1: on the roster now and your roster anyway to ed

1956
01:37:04,520 --> 01:37:06,080
Speaker 1: or does he have to do something more tonight? Do

1957
01:37:06,120 --> 01:37:09,040
Speaker 1: you think he's on the roster for me right now?

1958
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:11,680
Speaker 1: But I still think there's you know, there's more than

1959
01:37:11,720 --> 01:37:13,120
Speaker 1: needs to be done. I mean, it's kind of like

1960
01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:16,080
Speaker 1: a race where he might be in front right now,

1961
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Speaker 1: but he has a recent finish line. In my opinion,

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Speaker 1: I want to see more. You know, again, it doesn't

1963
01:37:19,680 --> 01:37:23,519
Speaker 1: happen necessarily be you know, a jump over a corner

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Speaker 1: and make a spectacular fifteen yard touchdown catch like he's

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Speaker 1: had the last two weeks. Let me see more confident blocking,

1966
01:37:29,560 --> 01:37:31,519
Speaker 1: let me see maybe a little more from the route tree.

1967
01:37:32,439 --> 01:37:35,360
Speaker 1: But he is the guy in my opinion, I've got

1968
01:37:35,400 --> 01:37:37,599
Speaker 1: seven receivers making the team right now. The only guy

1969
01:37:37,600 --> 01:37:41,320
Speaker 1: I've got out is McKenzie dous necessarily mean, all you know,

1970
01:37:41,479 --> 01:37:46,080
Speaker 1: it'll be seven spots on Saturday. But to me, Williams,

1971
01:37:46,120 --> 01:37:48,639
Speaker 1: not only from his blocking point of view, but also

1972
01:37:48,960 --> 01:37:50,720
Speaker 1: just because of the receiver. He kind of does something

1973
01:37:50,720 --> 01:37:52,960
Speaker 1: that's different than everybody else. You know, as long as

1974
01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:54,960
Speaker 1: he looks like he can be, you know, a weapon

1975
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, even just in the red zone. You know,

1976
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Speaker 1: I think he doesn't make this team. Your seven includes

1977
01:37:59,400 --> 01:38:01,680
Speaker 1: Ray Ray mc owed then instead of Isa McKenzie. Is

1978
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Speaker 1: that right? Yeah? I know I'm on a smaller island

1979
01:38:04,240 --> 01:38:06,720
Speaker 1: there with that. I like McLeod's overall receiving ability. I

1980
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Speaker 1: know McKenzie's been you know, electric in terms of some

1981
01:38:09,280 --> 01:38:11,880
Speaker 1: of the gadget plays and stuff. I just think mccleod's

1982
01:38:11,880 --> 01:38:15,160
Speaker 1: a little better top to bottom receiver. But it's it's

1983
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Speaker 1: really really close. And if you wanted to argue for McKenzie,

1984
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna, you know, tell you're an idiot. Well

1985
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Speaker 1: one more, I don't know. I would steam might tell

1986
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Speaker 1: you're an idiot. I would never do that. But one

1987
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Speaker 1: more on this, does McLeod's status is a former draft pick?

1988
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Speaker 1: Does that make him someone who's got you know, a

1989
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Speaker 1: better chance than Isa McKenzie. You think no, No, I

1990
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Speaker 1: don't think so. I think at this point it's it's

1991
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Speaker 1: just about who's on the field, you know. I think

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Speaker 1: I think fans and maybe ask in the media overrate

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Speaker 1: the effect of being a draft pick in general. Especially

1994
01:38:42,960 --> 01:38:44,760
Speaker 1: we're talking about McLoud as a sixth round pick. I

1995
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Speaker 1: don't think that matters at all. Maybe first round, second round,

1996
01:38:47,280 --> 01:38:49,599
Speaker 1: that makes a difference. But now at this point, McLeod's

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Speaker 1: got to win the job, you know, based on being

1998
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Speaker 1: the better guys, and there's no question that both of

1999
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Speaker 1: them don't because they're redundant, correct, I mean they're both

2000
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Speaker 1: the same guy. I mean, yeah, McLeod, Yeah, I don't

2001
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Speaker 1: think both makes a team. Yeah, you think they're the

2002
01:39:04,240 --> 01:39:08,920
Speaker 1: same guy, well, not same skill set. I don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they do the same jobs in my open I mean,

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Speaker 1: their their backup return men, they're slot receivers, they're you know,

2005
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Speaker 1: end a round guys. I think I don't think both

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Speaker 1: them make the team unless there's an injury or something

2007
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Speaker 1: like that. Right, Yeah, That's that was really where I

2008
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Speaker 1: was headed, and I think I think you're right. Duke

2009
01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:27,400
Speaker 1: Williams is different than anybody else on the roster, which

2010
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Speaker 1: gives him I think, is it an advantage or disadvantage? Definitely?

2011
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Speaker 1: I think it's a huge advantage. You know, I think

2012
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Speaker 1: having that dimension of a guy that you can at

2013
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Speaker 1: least have the option to post up in the red zone. Um,

2014
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Speaker 1: I think gives him an opportunity to make this team

2015
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Speaker 1: in a way that it certainly does not allow a

2016
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Speaker 1: guy like mackenzie or or McLeod. You know, even Robert

2017
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Speaker 1: Foster or z A Jones, who are bigger guys, can't

2018
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Speaker 1: do the things that we've seen, or at least have

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Speaker 1: not done the things that we've seen Duke Williams do

2020
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Speaker 1: the last two weeks in the preseason. You know, to

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01:39:56,560 --> 01:39:58,560
Speaker 1: be fair, you know, against second and third team or

2022
01:39:58,600 --> 01:40:00,640
Speaker 1: isn't as different going up against first teams. And we

2023
01:40:00,680 --> 01:40:04,240
Speaker 1: won't see that tonight, but you know, in theory, Williams

2024
01:40:04,360 --> 01:40:06,599
Speaker 1: is different than all the other receivers on this team,

2025
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:08,400
Speaker 1: and to me, it gives him an advantage. And again,

2026
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Speaker 1: you know, go back to what he does blocking wise too.

2027
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Speaker 1: You know, you can be a good blocker as receiver,

2028
01:40:13,400 --> 01:40:15,679
Speaker 1: but when you have the size and strength that Williams has,

2029
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Speaker 1: I think it almost makes him like eighty percent of

2030
01:40:18,439 --> 01:40:20,800
Speaker 1: a tight end, which is another dimension that he can

2031
01:40:20,800 --> 01:40:22,720
Speaker 1: add to this roster if he makes the team. And

2032
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Speaker 1: I agree with you. His also his special teams contribution

2033
01:40:26,640 --> 01:40:28,800
Speaker 1: you're talking about is say mackenzie and Rabia mclaus being

2034
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Speaker 1: returned guys or backup return guys. Duke Williams is also

2035
01:40:32,600 --> 01:40:35,519
Speaker 1: a coverage guy and a frontline guy on kickoffs. He's

2036
01:40:35,520 --> 01:40:38,599
Speaker 1: a he's an interior lineman on punt team, that kind

2037
01:40:38,600 --> 01:40:40,920
Speaker 1: of thing. He can do some more physical work on

2038
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Speaker 1: special teams that McLeod and McKenzie wouldn't be asked to do.

2039
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Speaker 1: Not that, but it all comes down to does he

2040
01:40:46,600 --> 01:40:51,360
Speaker 1: fit on that roster in that way? Yeah, And again,

2041
01:40:51,840 --> 01:40:54,000
Speaker 1: if you're a guy like Williams, you're trying to find

2042
01:40:54,200 --> 01:40:56,599
Speaker 1: as many different ways the justifier spot on the roster.

2043
01:40:56,600 --> 01:40:59,000
Speaker 1: And McDermott has talked about this, you know, don't don't

2044
01:40:59,000 --> 01:41:00,559
Speaker 1: be a one whole guy. Don't be a guy who

2045
01:41:00,560 --> 01:41:02,800
Speaker 1: just fills one job. If he can do five things,

2046
01:41:02,800 --> 01:41:05,559
Speaker 1: it's gonna be better than mcclaude McKenzie is only doing too.

2047
01:41:05,760 --> 01:41:08,240
Speaker 1: I really, you know, I think Williams is a long

2048
01:41:08,240 --> 01:41:10,479
Speaker 1: shot to make the team three weeks ago. I think,

2049
01:41:10,760 --> 01:41:12,599
Speaker 1: you know, from our point of view, seeing him produce

2050
01:41:12,640 --> 01:41:14,800
Speaker 1: as a receiver, I think opened up a lot of

2051
01:41:14,840 --> 01:41:17,439
Speaker 1: eyes and you know, if you're looking at a guy

2052
01:41:17,479 --> 01:41:19,240
Speaker 1: like well, he does all these things on special teams,

2053
01:41:19,240 --> 01:41:21,679
Speaker 1: and he might be able to provide his other dimension

2054
01:41:21,880 --> 01:41:24,040
Speaker 1: as a receiver. You know, I think that the guy

2055
01:41:24,040 --> 01:41:26,040
Speaker 1: you want on the team on the line with Ed Brown.

2056
01:41:26,080 --> 01:41:28,080
Speaker 1: He's on his way here Orchard Park. He's going to

2057
01:41:28,120 --> 01:41:31,360
Speaker 1: be on the sidelines patrolling the sidelines for the telecast

2058
01:41:31,360 --> 01:41:34,240
Speaker 1: tonight the builds on the Minnesota Vikings preseason game number four.

2059
01:41:34,520 --> 01:41:36,960
Speaker 1: He'll be on there with Steve and Andrew Cantalan switch

2060
01:41:37,000 --> 01:41:39,960
Speaker 1: gears to another roster position, running back, And I wonder

2061
01:41:40,240 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 1: what the back end of that depth chart looks like

2062
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:45,320
Speaker 1: for you and what's at stake tonight for some of

2063
01:41:45,320 --> 01:41:47,120
Speaker 1: those running backs down the depth chart. What do you

2064
01:41:47,120 --> 01:41:50,519
Speaker 1: think that I think although the Sonoras Perry's and the

2065
01:41:50,560 --> 01:41:52,960
Speaker 1: t J. Yelvin's and Marcus Murphy's, they got to make

2066
01:41:53,000 --> 01:41:54,720
Speaker 1: this team as a special team, you know, I don't.

2067
01:41:54,760 --> 01:41:57,559
Speaker 1: I don't think there's really an opportunity for them as

2068
01:41:57,560 --> 01:41:59,920
Speaker 1: a running back. I think the Bills are probably satisfied

2069
01:42:00,080 --> 01:42:03,879
Speaker 1: with Gore, McCoy and Singletary and Pat de Marco at fullback.

2070
01:42:03,920 --> 01:42:06,640
Speaker 1: And you know, if you can't justify being on this

2071
01:42:06,680 --> 01:42:09,240
Speaker 1: team as a special teamer, kind of like Taiwan Jones was,

2072
01:42:09,320 --> 01:42:11,200
Speaker 1: you know last year, then then you're not going to

2073
01:42:11,280 --> 01:42:13,599
Speaker 1: make this team. You know. I think that's really the

2074
01:42:13,600 --> 01:42:16,400
Speaker 1: only abe these guys have. I know, Yelden was okay

2075
01:42:16,479 --> 01:42:18,599
Speaker 1: last game against Detroit, but they had the fumble early

2076
01:42:18,840 --> 01:42:21,360
Speaker 1: Sonris Perry has a fumble on his our resume of

2077
01:42:21,360 --> 01:42:23,760
Speaker 1: this preseason. You know, I just I don't see enough

2078
01:42:23,800 --> 01:42:26,680
Speaker 1: from any of the other guys to justify them as

2079
01:42:26,720 --> 01:42:29,519
Speaker 1: the fourth running back. When you have three guys that

2080
01:42:29,560 --> 01:42:31,880
Speaker 1: you feel pretty good about and at least so far

2081
01:42:31,920 --> 01:42:35,280
Speaker 1: as seemed pretty capable, what's next When you think about

2082
01:42:35,320 --> 01:42:38,360
Speaker 1: the tight ends. Jason krue may get some reps tonight.

2083
01:42:38,439 --> 01:42:41,479
Speaker 1: He has not taken very many reps. He's has been

2084
01:42:41,680 --> 01:42:43,400
Speaker 1: you know, had a hamstring pull and it looks like

2085
01:42:43,439 --> 01:42:47,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna probably sit down Sweeney and knocks. H Croft

2086
01:42:47,360 --> 01:42:49,800
Speaker 1: is not in the mix. Uh Lee Smith is a

2087
01:42:49,880 --> 01:42:53,040
Speaker 1: known commodity. What's going to happen there? I think with

2088
01:42:53,160 --> 01:42:55,560
Speaker 1: Jason Krum, he might be the guy on the team

2089
01:42:55,600 --> 01:42:58,400
Speaker 1: who's coming back from last year who desperately needs a

2090
01:42:58,400 --> 01:43:00,800
Speaker 1: big game tonight because you know, the injuries hurt him

2091
01:43:00,800 --> 01:43:02,840
Speaker 1: from being able to make an impression on anyone. You know,

2092
01:43:02,920 --> 01:43:06,320
Speaker 1: we've had three weeks of mostly Tommy Sweeney to a

2093
01:43:06,400 --> 01:43:10,280
Speaker 1: lesser extent, Dawson Knox looking impressive. Jason Krum has got

2094
01:43:10,280 --> 01:43:11,840
Speaker 1: to have a game tonight. I think it's got to be,

2095
01:43:12,120 --> 01:43:14,599
Speaker 1: you know, a breakdown. Really. I mean, if Jason Krum's

2096
01:43:14,640 --> 01:43:16,400
Speaker 1: at the first or second guy we're talking about after

2097
01:43:16,439 --> 01:43:18,400
Speaker 1: this game tonight, I don't know if he makes the roster.

2098
01:43:18,560 --> 01:43:21,240
Speaker 1: Maybe because of the injuries, you know, with Tyler Croft

2099
01:43:21,479 --> 01:43:24,200
Speaker 1: potentially not being available week one, he might get a

2100
01:43:24,280 --> 01:43:26,920
Speaker 1: fourth spot at the tight end. But Crum has got

2101
01:43:26,920 --> 01:43:28,400
Speaker 1: to have a game tonight. Well you get us to

2102
01:43:28,400 --> 01:43:30,599
Speaker 1: a spot. I meant to ask you this question earlier,

2103
01:43:30,640 --> 01:43:32,280
Speaker 1: but I want to get both of you in on this.

2104
01:43:32,360 --> 01:43:34,840
Speaker 1: Let's say Croft's not ready for week one, Let's say

2105
01:43:34,880 --> 01:43:37,240
Speaker 1: Krum is gone. Are you guys, and I'll start with

2106
01:43:37,280 --> 01:43:39,599
Speaker 1: you there? Are you comfortable with the Bill's tight end

2107
01:43:39,640 --> 01:43:43,599
Speaker 1: depth chart to begin the season of Dawson Knox, Tommy Sweeney,

2108
01:43:43,600 --> 01:43:47,360
Speaker 1: and Lee Smith as a specialist. Obviously the other two

2109
01:43:47,360 --> 01:43:51,519
Speaker 1: are rookies. I wouldn't say comfortable, but I don't know

2110
01:43:51,600 --> 01:43:53,880
Speaker 1: if if you'd have to get into numbers around the

2111
01:43:53,880 --> 01:43:56,240
Speaker 1: wrestler roster. What are you losing to keep Jason Krum

2112
01:43:56,280 --> 01:44:00,360
Speaker 1: on the team. But I think we've seen enough for Wise,

2113
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:02,760
Speaker 1: especially from Sweeney and you know a little bit from

2114
01:44:02,800 --> 01:44:04,840
Speaker 1: Knox in the summer, to be okay with that. You know,

2115
01:44:04,920 --> 01:44:07,320
Speaker 1: Lee Smith can block, you know, he can serve that role,

2116
01:44:07,600 --> 01:44:10,080
Speaker 1: you know, So I'm totally fine with that. It's just

2117
01:44:10,120 --> 01:44:12,640
Speaker 1: a matter of, Okay, do you want to believe in

2118
01:44:12,800 --> 01:44:16,080
Speaker 1: what you've seen in the preseason, especially from Sweeney, to

2119
01:44:16,560 --> 01:44:18,760
Speaker 1: roll the dice with it? And I think, you know,

2120
01:44:18,840 --> 01:44:21,400
Speaker 1: considering the options, you know, and this is like, you're

2121
01:44:21,400 --> 01:44:24,479
Speaker 1: not gonna have this conversation about these three guys, but really, Brandon,

2122
01:44:24,520 --> 01:44:27,320
Speaker 1: Bean's gonna have this conversation about the thirty five or

2123
01:44:27,320 --> 01:44:29,800
Speaker 1: forty other ones who had cut on Saturday. Would that

2124
01:44:29,840 --> 01:44:32,200
Speaker 1: be a better option for the roster? But I think

2125
01:44:32,240 --> 01:44:34,360
Speaker 1: sitting here right now, I'd be fine with rolling the

2126
01:44:34,400 --> 01:44:36,599
Speaker 1: dice those three guys next Sunday, Steve. We've seen Tommy

2127
01:44:36,640 --> 01:44:40,200
Speaker 1: Sweeney make catches, make plays we expect, and I guess

2128
01:44:40,240 --> 01:44:42,559
Speaker 1: hope that they get some of that from Dawson Knox.

2129
01:44:42,600 --> 01:44:44,840
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it in his one preseason appearance I

2130
01:44:44,880 --> 01:44:47,400
Speaker 1: just think that adds an element of not unease, but

2131
01:44:47,680 --> 01:44:52,160
Speaker 1: uncertain uncertainty about the Yeah. I think what's more likely

2132
01:44:52,200 --> 01:44:54,840
Speaker 1: to happen is that Tyler Craft, when we put on

2133
01:44:54,880 --> 01:44:58,200
Speaker 1: the pup list for six weeks, that allows him to

2134
01:44:58,280 --> 01:45:01,240
Speaker 1: keep Kroom as a safety blanket guy who's been here before,

2135
01:45:01,640 --> 01:45:03,720
Speaker 1: kind of a little bit more veteran presence, along with

2136
01:45:03,800 --> 01:45:07,680
Speaker 1: Lee Smith and Knox and Sweeney. And then when in

2137
01:45:07,760 --> 01:45:10,200
Speaker 1: six weeks, after Knox and Sweeney have had six games

2138
01:45:10,240 --> 01:45:12,439
Speaker 1: in the National Football League got their feet under him,

2139
01:45:12,439 --> 01:45:15,080
Speaker 1: then you make a decision about Cruman Croft as to

2140
01:45:15,120 --> 01:45:16,880
Speaker 1: which one you want to keep. I think that's a

2141
01:45:16,920 --> 01:45:19,960
Speaker 1: more likely scenario. I think one thing that helps too

2142
01:45:20,000 --> 01:45:22,320
Speaker 1: is that outside of the offensive line, this team has

2143
01:45:22,320 --> 01:45:24,920
Speaker 1: been tight end situation, this team has been fairly healthy.

2144
01:45:25,000 --> 01:45:27,760
Speaker 1: You know, I'm doing roster projections. I'll get to like

2145
01:45:27,840 --> 01:45:30,240
Speaker 1: fifty or fifty one spots and say, okay, these guys

2146
01:45:30,280 --> 01:45:32,719
Speaker 1: are all making the team. So there probably is room

2147
01:45:32,840 --> 01:45:34,680
Speaker 1: for the Bills at this point to keep, you know,

2148
01:45:34,720 --> 01:45:36,800
Speaker 1: a fourth tight end if they want, because they're not

2149
01:45:36,880 --> 01:45:38,959
Speaker 1: worried about covering up for an injury in the secondary

2150
01:45:39,040 --> 01:45:41,519
Speaker 1: or the linebacker. You know, even at defensive line. I

2151
01:45:41,520 --> 01:45:43,840
Speaker 1: know Michael Love is out, but um, you know these

2152
01:45:43,840 --> 01:45:46,840
Speaker 1: are these are all relatively healthy position groups. All right,

2153
01:45:46,840 --> 01:45:48,840
Speaker 1: and let's get to the offensive line. We're talking with

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01:45:49,320 --> 01:45:52,800
Speaker 1: Brown sports director at w r OCTV and Rochester is

2155
01:45:52,840 --> 01:45:54,720
Speaker 1: going to be on the sideline tonight for the telecast

2156
01:45:55,040 --> 01:45:58,639
Speaker 1: of the Bills in the Minnesota Vikings. The Bills, I've

2157
01:45:58,640 --> 01:46:00,120
Speaker 1: said a couple of times this week to add I

2158
01:46:00,160 --> 01:46:02,400
Speaker 1: know you've heard it too, that yes, it's true they

2159
01:46:02,400 --> 01:46:05,120
Speaker 1: have not had their offensive line healthy and intact yet

2160
01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:08,719
Speaker 1: this preseason. Not gonna happen tonight, but they feel comfortable

2161
01:46:08,800 --> 01:46:11,880
Speaker 1: that they have identified seven, seven and a half eight

2162
01:46:11,880 --> 01:46:15,559
Speaker 1: players that they're comfortable as as starters up front. Are

2163
01:46:15,600 --> 01:46:17,920
Speaker 1: you buying that you think that's the right way to

2164
01:46:17,920 --> 01:46:20,599
Speaker 1: look at what's going on here in the offensive line? Yeah,

2165
01:46:20,640 --> 01:46:22,880
Speaker 1: I think so. I think they feel good about whoever

2166
01:46:22,920 --> 01:46:25,280
Speaker 1: they'd have to play. I think, you know, John Feliciano

2167
01:46:25,320 --> 01:46:27,200
Speaker 1: has done a pretty solid job at center in place

2168
01:46:27,240 --> 01:46:28,920
Speaker 1: of Mitch Morris. You know, I think they know what

2169
01:46:29,000 --> 01:46:30,760
Speaker 1: Spencer Long is. This a guy that's been a start

2170
01:46:30,800 --> 01:46:32,800
Speaker 1: in the league for a while. So those are you know,

2171
01:46:32,840 --> 01:46:34,960
Speaker 1: two guys that are probably going to go into the

2172
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:37,680
Speaker 1: years as backups if everybody is healthy, and then you

2173
01:46:37,760 --> 01:46:40,559
Speaker 1: got the five up front of Mitch Morris and Quinn Spain,

2174
01:46:41,240 --> 01:46:44,519
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins, Cody Ford, and Tian Secky, and you know,

2175
01:46:44,560 --> 01:46:47,680
Speaker 1: I think really of that group, the biggest question to

2176
01:46:47,760 --> 01:46:51,000
Speaker 1: me is, you know, has four gotten enough reps at

2177
01:46:51,000 --> 01:46:53,200
Speaker 1: guard to where you feel good about them? I think

2178
01:46:53,240 --> 01:46:56,320
Speaker 1: the Bills probably do. But for a rookie to have to,

2179
01:46:56,560 --> 01:46:59,280
Speaker 1: you know, work at two positions all the way throughout

2180
01:46:59,360 --> 01:47:02,240
Speaker 1: you know, the office season, and you know into training camp,

2181
01:47:02,439 --> 01:47:04,880
Speaker 1: you're asking a lot to have that guy be you know,

2182
01:47:05,040 --> 01:47:07,640
Speaker 1: confident and ready to go week one. But you know,

2183
01:47:07,840 --> 01:47:09,800
Speaker 1: and I think more so you you talk about are

2184
01:47:09,800 --> 01:47:12,000
Speaker 1: you comfortable with a tight end spot, I'd say probably

2185
01:47:12,000 --> 01:47:15,400
Speaker 1: not comfortable. I think I feel pretty decent about rolling

2186
01:47:15,600 --> 01:47:18,040
Speaker 1: rolling out those seven guys and saying, you know, this

2187
01:47:18,120 --> 01:47:20,320
Speaker 1: is my group and if I can't play Clinton Spain,

2188
01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:22,519
Speaker 1: then I feel okay. If Miss Morris is some sort

2189
01:47:22,520 --> 01:47:25,160
Speaker 1: of issue, you know, we can go to another option there,

2190
01:47:25,520 --> 01:47:28,479
Speaker 1: you know, And this is the benefit of signing eighty five.

2191
01:47:28,680 --> 01:47:31,040
Speaker 1: You know, offlex alignment in the offseason, You've got guys

2192
01:47:31,439 --> 01:47:34,599
Speaker 1: on the team that are confident I think too Cody Ford,

2193
01:47:34,840 --> 01:47:37,000
Speaker 1: I'd be more concerned if he was playing tackle than

2194
01:47:37,040 --> 01:47:38,960
Speaker 1: I am guard. And guard you can get some help

2195
01:47:39,000 --> 01:47:40,760
Speaker 1: from inside, you can get some help from outside. You

2196
01:47:40,760 --> 01:47:42,800
Speaker 1: can kind of there's less space in there for a

2197
01:47:42,800 --> 01:47:44,920
Speaker 1: guy to get be clean if you I would feel

2198
01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:47,920
Speaker 1: less confident if Cody Ford is actually the right tackle

2199
01:47:47,960 --> 01:47:50,479
Speaker 1: then I would if he was now that he is

2200
01:47:50,479 --> 01:47:53,400
Speaker 1: playing probably guard if in Secy's healthy. So I think

2201
01:47:53,439 --> 01:47:56,320
Speaker 1: I'm more confident starting a rookie on the offensive line

2202
01:47:56,360 --> 01:47:57,880
Speaker 1: at guard than I would be one of the other

2203
01:47:58,160 --> 01:48:00,599
Speaker 1: in one of the end positions on the line scrimmage.

2204
01:48:00,600 --> 01:48:04,960
Speaker 1: So from that standpoint, I agree with you it In

2205
01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:07,680
Speaker 1: some ways, it's like, oh gosh, I don't know, but

2206
01:48:08,040 --> 01:48:11,559
Speaker 1: those five guys Dawk in Spain, more Ford and Nseki

2207
01:48:11,920 --> 01:48:15,479
Speaker 1: have kind of been there throughout. But you've also had

2208
01:48:16,000 --> 01:48:19,439
Speaker 1: Long and Feliciana who've played well and played multiple positions.

2209
01:48:19,600 --> 01:48:21,920
Speaker 1: So I don't know whether how confident on I feel

2210
01:48:21,960 --> 01:48:24,599
Speaker 1: that you got all these guys. Have any of them

2211
01:48:24,600 --> 01:48:27,200
Speaker 1: played outstandingly or have they all just been kind of

2212
01:48:27,200 --> 01:48:29,880
Speaker 1: guys or do they not stand out because all of

2213
01:48:29,880 --> 01:48:31,439
Speaker 1: them are not as good as we thought, or that

2214
01:48:31,520 --> 01:48:33,400
Speaker 1: kind of thing. We'll never know about Mitch Morse until

2215
01:48:33,400 --> 01:48:36,320
Speaker 1: we actually see him take a snap, So that adds

2216
01:48:36,320 --> 01:48:39,280
Speaker 1: a level of uncertainty there is too But you know,

2217
01:48:39,360 --> 01:48:43,000
Speaker 1: last year they struggle to put five competitive guys out there.

2218
01:48:44,400 --> 01:48:46,559
Speaker 1: This year you're telling it's like, well we have now

2219
01:48:46,560 --> 01:48:48,200
Speaker 1: we have seven guys that we can put out there.

2220
01:48:48,479 --> 01:48:52,439
Speaker 1: So that seems almost too good to be true, you

2221
01:48:52,439 --> 01:48:55,400
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I think I think there's seven

2222
01:48:55,400 --> 01:48:58,160
Speaker 1: guys you feel optimistic about. I think it's probably the

2223
01:48:58,160 --> 01:48:59,800
Speaker 1: best way to put it. But you're right, I mean,

2224
01:48:59,840 --> 01:49:02,000
Speaker 1: we don't you know, these guys are largely you know,

2225
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:04,519
Speaker 1: Feliciano has never been a regular starter and Secy's never

2226
01:49:04,560 --> 01:49:07,960
Speaker 1: been a regular starter longs or rookie. So there's Look,

2227
01:49:08,000 --> 01:49:10,640
Speaker 1: there's still questions about this line. This is not a

2228
01:49:10,720 --> 01:49:12,600
Speaker 1: team that's going to go into the Week one and

2229
01:49:12,840 --> 01:49:15,280
Speaker 1: as a top ten offensive line in the league. They

2230
01:49:15,280 --> 01:49:18,080
Speaker 1: may develop into that, but you know, I think I

2231
01:49:18,080 --> 01:49:19,840
Speaker 1: don't think the Bills are worried about, Well, if we

2232
01:49:19,880 --> 01:49:21,760
Speaker 1: get one injury, then the whole plan is, you know,

2233
01:49:21,920 --> 01:49:24,040
Speaker 1: going in and down the drain. I think there are

2234
01:49:24,080 --> 01:49:26,840
Speaker 1: options that they feel at the very least okay about

2235
01:49:27,000 --> 01:49:30,000
Speaker 1: intead Seven's not enough, right, there's gonna be an eighth,

2236
01:49:30,000 --> 01:49:33,439
Speaker 1: maybe even a ninth. Tell me about names like Ryan

2237
01:49:33,520 --> 01:49:37,519
Speaker 1: Bates and Wyatt Teller and maybe Rochester Zone Geron Jones.

2238
01:49:37,600 --> 01:49:40,599
Speaker 1: These guys have a chance to make a case tonight,

2239
01:49:40,640 --> 01:49:43,439
Speaker 1: you think. I think Ryan Bates definitely does. You know,

2240
01:49:43,520 --> 01:49:45,559
Speaker 1: for a guy that can play all five positions, he's

2241
01:49:45,560 --> 01:49:49,080
Speaker 1: gonna have a huge advantage over everyone else. But they

2242
01:49:49,120 --> 01:49:51,599
Speaker 1: need to identify another tackle, you know. I know that

2243
01:49:51,800 --> 01:49:54,120
Speaker 1: you're basically starting three guys who can play tackle with

2244
01:49:54,240 --> 01:49:56,439
Speaker 1: Cody Fort at guard, but I think this is a

2245
01:49:56,479 --> 01:49:58,559
Speaker 1: team that's gonna want to have another swing tackle. You

2246
01:49:58,560 --> 01:50:01,320
Speaker 1: don't want to be in a position where if in

2247
01:50:01,400 --> 01:50:03,560
Speaker 1: second or Dian goes down, well, then you get to

2248
01:50:03,600 --> 01:50:05,360
Speaker 1: shift forward outside and now you're you know, you're changing

2249
01:50:05,360 --> 01:50:07,599
Speaker 1: two starters instead of just one. So I think they'll

2250
01:50:07,600 --> 01:50:09,720
Speaker 1: want to have another tackle, And to me, Bates is

2251
01:50:09,760 --> 01:50:11,479
Speaker 1: probably the best option, and it can't hurt that he

2252
01:50:11,520 --> 01:50:14,320
Speaker 1: can play all those other positions. Now, Giron Drones, I

2253
01:50:14,320 --> 01:50:16,519
Speaker 1: think he's been pretty good. I might be biased because

2254
01:50:16,560 --> 01:50:18,439
Speaker 1: I'm kind of rooting for the roster guy a little bit,

2255
01:50:18,760 --> 01:50:20,880
Speaker 1: but of the guys who are still on this roster,

2256
01:50:20,960 --> 01:50:23,599
Speaker 1: who are just straight tackles. You know, I think Jones

2257
01:50:23,680 --> 01:50:26,639
Speaker 1: is the best guy left of the non starters, but

2258
01:50:26,800 --> 01:50:28,760
Speaker 1: you know, Bates, being a multiple position guy, has an

2259
01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:32,360
Speaker 1: advantage my roster projection, I still have why a Teller stand.

2260
01:50:32,439 --> 01:50:34,960
Speaker 1: I thought he was good last year when he played

2261
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:38,080
Speaker 1: maybe slightly above average. I still wanted him to be

2262
01:50:38,200 --> 01:50:40,360
Speaker 1: a guy on my roster. Maybe he's slided with the

2263
01:50:40,360 --> 01:50:43,599
Speaker 1: practice squad, but you know my roster projection, I'm keeping nine,

2264
01:50:44,040 --> 01:50:47,400
Speaker 1: and I'm keeping both Teller and Bates. Yeah, and I

2265
01:50:47,439 --> 01:50:50,559
Speaker 1: know that as you say geron Jones, you're you're kind

2266
01:50:50,560 --> 01:50:52,160
Speaker 1: of rooting for him. There are other There's one guy

2267
01:50:52,200 --> 01:50:53,960
Speaker 1: that a lot of people are rooting for, and it's

2268
01:50:54,040 --> 01:50:56,720
Speaker 1: Christian Wade. He's gonna get some snaps tonight on a

2269
01:50:56,760 --> 01:50:59,599
Speaker 1: more extended basis rather than just one play here and there.

2270
01:51:01,120 --> 01:51:04,760
Speaker 1: What do you think nobody really expects him to make

2271
01:51:04,800 --> 01:51:08,800
Speaker 1: the fifty three. But nevertheless, what kind of splash or

2272
01:51:08,800 --> 01:51:12,280
Speaker 1: statement could he make tonight about his career? Well, so

2273
01:51:12,320 --> 01:51:14,400
Speaker 1: far away has really been two big plays. You know,

2274
01:51:14,600 --> 01:51:17,040
Speaker 1: he had to touchdown run against the Colds and then

2275
01:51:17,080 --> 01:51:19,640
Speaker 1: the big catcher run against Carolina. Now you want to

2276
01:51:19,640 --> 01:51:22,880
Speaker 1: see him advanced to some sort of consistent production. You know,

2277
01:51:22,920 --> 01:51:25,280
Speaker 1: you're not gonna make a living in the NFL breaking

2278
01:51:25,320 --> 01:51:27,000
Speaker 1: off fifty yard runs all the time, which is not

2279
01:51:27,040 --> 01:51:29,479
Speaker 1: going to happen. So can Christian Wade? Can he turn

2280
01:51:29,560 --> 01:51:31,240
Speaker 1: the three yard runs into seven? Can you turn the

2281
01:51:31,280 --> 01:51:33,479
Speaker 1: seven yard runs into twelve? You know, can he make

2282
01:51:33,520 --> 01:51:35,840
Speaker 1: sure that he's not taking negative fives. We're gonna get

2283
01:51:35,840 --> 01:51:38,519
Speaker 1: a good read on that tonight, and I don't think

2284
01:51:38,520 --> 01:51:41,559
Speaker 1: he's making the fifty three. But if you do enough tonight,

2285
01:51:41,560 --> 01:51:44,639
Speaker 1: as Christian Wade, to show that maybe the learning curve

2286
01:51:44,680 --> 01:51:46,120
Speaker 1: that you had in the NFL. And this is the

2287
01:51:46,160 --> 01:51:48,080
Speaker 1: guy that three weeks ago told me he felt like

2288
01:51:48,120 --> 01:51:50,120
Speaker 1: a four year old when it came to where he

2289
01:51:50,240 --> 01:51:52,439
Speaker 1: was learning the game of football. Well, if you can

2290
01:51:52,479 --> 01:51:54,280
Speaker 1: accelerate that to where you look like maybe your high

2291
01:51:54,320 --> 01:51:57,280
Speaker 1: school level or early college level, then maybe you make

2292
01:51:57,280 --> 01:51:59,679
Speaker 1: a case for him being on the ten man practice

2293
01:51:59,680 --> 01:52:02,360
Speaker 1: squad instead of being the extra eleventh spot and having

2294
01:52:02,400 --> 01:52:04,639
Speaker 1: an opportunity to get promoted to the actor roster during

2295
01:52:04,640 --> 01:52:06,680
Speaker 1: the year. You know, I would bet heavily on him

2296
01:52:06,680 --> 01:52:09,800
Speaker 1: being an eleventh practice squad guy and just being stuck there.

2297
01:52:09,840 --> 01:52:12,320
Speaker 1: But he has a chance tonight, Well, all the snaps,

2298
01:52:12,320 --> 01:52:14,200
Speaker 1: he's going to get the show if he can do

2299
01:52:14,240 --> 01:52:16,639
Speaker 1: what he's done on any sort of consistent basis. Yeah,

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01:52:16,640 --> 01:52:18,639
Speaker 1: one of the things I've heard from him, he has

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01:52:18,640 --> 01:52:22,759
Speaker 1: worked extremely, extremely hard. He's watched film, he's talked to coaches,

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01:52:22,800 --> 01:52:25,439
Speaker 1: he's been in their ear a lot. He's done everything

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01:52:25,439 --> 01:52:27,439
Speaker 1: he possibly can to get as ready as he can.

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01:52:28,200 --> 01:52:30,840
Speaker 1: And tonight maybe we'll get a chance to see maybe

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01:52:30,840 --> 01:52:32,880
Speaker 1: the fruits of that labor. But it's gonna be fun

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01:52:32,880 --> 01:52:36,080
Speaker 1: to see. One thing about way too, he's it feels

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01:52:36,080 --> 01:52:38,400
Speaker 1: better about where he is, you know, mentally, he said,

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01:52:38,640 --> 01:52:40,040
Speaker 1: you know, he told me earlier this week that he's

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01:52:40,040 --> 01:52:42,360
Speaker 1: always fol good about his physical skill set as being

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01:52:42,360 --> 01:52:44,960
Speaker 1: competitive in the league, but mentally he's improving to the

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01:52:45,000 --> 01:52:47,479
Speaker 1: point where he's no longer looking to the sideline every

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01:52:47,479 --> 01:52:49,280
Speaker 1: play to make sure he's lined up in the right spot.

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01:52:49,479 --> 01:52:50,920
Speaker 1: And now he's getting to the point where he can

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01:52:50,960 --> 01:52:54,000
Speaker 1: watch that film and critique himself and be able to say, right,

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01:52:54,080 --> 01:52:55,960
Speaker 1: you know, to himself, I gotta do this better, I

2316
01:52:55,960 --> 01:52:58,160
Speaker 1: gotta stop doing this. So there is you know, even

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01:52:58,240 --> 01:53:01,240
Speaker 1: he sees improvement going on at this early stage, then

2318
01:53:01,280 --> 01:53:07,040
Speaker 1: what's at stake tonight for the quarterback Tyree Jackson. You know,

2319
01:53:07,240 --> 01:53:08,920
Speaker 1: I want to see him do better. I mean, his

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01:53:08,960 --> 01:53:12,000
Speaker 1: preseason numbers have not been good. Um, you know, I

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01:53:12,400 --> 01:53:14,760
Speaker 1: want to he may not be auditioning for a job

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01:53:14,800 --> 01:53:16,840
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. You know, this is a spot. This is

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01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:18,479
Speaker 1: a guy that you know, he needs to put some

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01:53:18,560 --> 01:53:20,519
Speaker 1: good film down that if the Bills want to go

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01:53:20,520 --> 01:53:23,600
Speaker 1: in a different direction, that at least there's an opportunity

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01:53:23,600 --> 01:53:25,559
Speaker 1: for someone else to look at him and say, you know,

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01:53:25,600 --> 01:53:28,160
Speaker 1: this is something that we can work with. Um. You know,

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01:53:28,200 --> 01:53:30,439
Speaker 1: I think that the Bills feel good about him in general.

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01:53:30,479 --> 01:53:32,840
Speaker 1: I know that you know, I've talked up the intangible

2330
01:53:32,880 --> 01:53:34,880
Speaker 1: part of it, but you know that the tangibles have

2331
01:53:35,000 --> 01:53:37,040
Speaker 1: just not been I don't think what anybody would have

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01:53:37,040 --> 01:53:39,200
Speaker 1: hoped right now, and the Tyree included, and he's had

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01:53:39,200 --> 01:53:41,320
Speaker 1: a great attitude about it. I know. You know, again,

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01:53:41,360 --> 01:53:43,559
Speaker 1: Buffalo is behind him after you know the way he

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01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:46,519
Speaker 1: performed as a player of ub UM. But you know,

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01:53:46,560 --> 01:53:48,720
Speaker 1: this is a game, you know, in a different way

2337
01:53:48,720 --> 01:53:50,519
Speaker 1: than Christian weighed, but in the same way as a

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01:53:50,560 --> 01:53:52,760
Speaker 1: lot of the other guys that he's playing with. You know,

2339
01:53:52,800 --> 01:53:55,240
Speaker 1: whether it's with Buffalo or somewhere else. He needs to

2340
01:53:55,280 --> 01:53:58,439
Speaker 1: show somebody in this league that there is promise, that

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01:53:58,479 --> 01:54:00,960
Speaker 1: there is you know, a reason to keep him around out. Yeah,

2342
01:54:01,000 --> 01:54:02,800
Speaker 1: we've talked here for twenty minutes. We haven't had one

2343
01:54:02,920 --> 01:54:05,000
Speaker 1: question about defense. I kind of like that. I think

2344
01:54:05,040 --> 01:54:08,160
Speaker 1: that says something, don't you. Absolutely? I mean, and we

2345
01:54:08,400 --> 01:54:09,800
Speaker 1: I had a conversation with a couple guys in the

2346
01:54:09,800 --> 01:54:11,120
Speaker 1: locker room, a couple of meeting guys in the locker

2347
01:54:11,160 --> 01:54:12,880
Speaker 1: room about this the other day about you know that

2348
01:54:13,040 --> 01:54:16,280
Speaker 1: this defense has been kind of set and ready to go,

2349
01:54:16,400 --> 01:54:18,600
Speaker 1: and you know, we know what to expect. We know

2350
01:54:18,600 --> 01:54:21,519
Speaker 1: there're's no questions, you know, and you almost don't want

2351
01:54:21,520 --> 01:54:22,960
Speaker 1: to say that from a you know, a knock on

2352
01:54:23,000 --> 01:54:25,800
Speaker 1: wood point of view, but yeah, this this defense is

2353
01:54:25,920 --> 01:54:29,240
Speaker 1: as sound, you know, top to bottom. Uh, there's quality

2354
01:54:29,320 --> 01:54:32,560
Speaker 1: starters at every position. There's you know, guys at every

2355
01:54:32,720 --> 01:54:34,960
Speaker 1: level that can be dominant and can make big plays.

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01:54:35,320 --> 01:54:38,240
Speaker 1: You know, really the second corner and and maybe backup

2357
01:54:38,280 --> 01:54:41,560
Speaker 1: safety might be the only questions. And you know, it's

2358
01:54:41,600 --> 01:54:43,440
Speaker 1: just it's almost unfortunate that we're in the error of

2359
01:54:43,480 --> 01:54:46,400
Speaker 1: the NFL where you know, you can't dominate with defense anymore.

2360
01:54:46,440 --> 01:54:48,640
Speaker 1: I wonder, you know, twenty five years ago, you know,

2361
01:54:48,640 --> 01:54:50,560
Speaker 1: we might be looking at this defense as a kind

2362
01:54:50,560 --> 01:54:52,160
Speaker 1: of thing that could carry it to a super Bowl.

2363
01:54:52,200 --> 01:54:54,160
Speaker 1: But you know, obviously the league is different now. Well,

2364
01:54:54,320 --> 01:54:56,200
Speaker 1: and as the defense has taken shape and it kind

2365
01:54:56,200 --> 01:54:58,280
Speaker 1: of stayed in shape from last season and a lot

2366
01:54:58,320 --> 01:55:01,440
Speaker 1: of expectations over there. We already knew about the defense,

2367
01:55:01,520 --> 01:55:03,400
Speaker 1: but what else have we learned about this Bills team

2368
01:55:03,400 --> 01:55:07,600
Speaker 1: this preseason? We want to stay on the defensive side.

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01:55:07,600 --> 01:55:09,480
Speaker 1: The thing that I've heard a lot of is the

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01:55:09,520 --> 01:55:13,120
Speaker 1: way Tremaine Edmonds has developed in his mental game and

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01:55:13,160 --> 01:55:16,960
Speaker 1: his ability to digest and you know, take that information

2372
01:55:17,040 --> 01:55:19,680
Speaker 1: whatever the play call is and use it on the field.

2373
01:55:19,760 --> 01:55:22,320
Speaker 1: You know, both Michael Hyde and Jordan Poyer have talked

2374
01:55:22,360 --> 01:55:24,720
Speaker 1: about how he's improved in that way. And you know,

2375
01:55:24,880 --> 01:55:27,879
Speaker 1: I wonder when you look at the one real big negative,

2376
01:55:27,880 --> 01:55:31,080
Speaker 1: glaring negative from this defense last year, which was red zone,

2377
01:55:31,400 --> 01:55:34,320
Speaker 1: you know, if Tremaine Edmunds is better mental, he's he

2378
01:55:34,400 --> 01:55:37,720
Speaker 1: was processing faster in that short area, does that help

2379
01:55:37,760 --> 01:55:40,440
Speaker 1: the Bills get better when it comes to trying to

2380
01:55:40,520 --> 01:55:42,480
Speaker 1: navigate all the guy who's running around trying to make

2381
01:55:42,520 --> 01:55:45,200
Speaker 1: plays in a red zone? So that's really the big

2382
01:55:45,240 --> 01:55:47,160
Speaker 1: thing for me. And I've also been impressed with the

2383
01:55:47,160 --> 01:55:50,600
Speaker 1: way Ed Oliver has kind of taken to being educated.

2384
01:55:50,640 --> 01:55:52,560
Speaker 1: You know, he's not come in here as a first

2385
01:55:52,640 --> 01:55:55,040
Speaker 1: round rookie and ninth round pick where he owns the

2386
01:55:55,080 --> 01:55:57,640
Speaker 1: world and you know everyone's gonna bow down next to him. He's,

2387
01:55:57,720 --> 01:56:00,760
Speaker 1: you know, listen to Kyle Williams, you know, taking all

2388
01:56:00,800 --> 01:56:04,000
Speaker 1: that education and really, you know, embrace the opportunity he's

2389
01:56:04,000 --> 01:56:05,880
Speaker 1: had to learn. And I've been pretty impressed by the

2390
01:56:05,920 --> 01:56:09,280
Speaker 1: way he's handled himself as a ninth overall pick. Do

2391
01:56:09,360 --> 01:56:11,360
Speaker 1: we need to fix the preseason? We had this big

2392
01:56:11,400 --> 01:56:13,840
Speaker 1: conversation during the you know, when we're going through all

2393
01:56:13,840 --> 01:56:16,600
Speaker 1: these first preseason games and the CBA's coming up eighteen

2394
01:56:16,640 --> 01:56:19,000
Speaker 1: game schedu or whatever. Does this preseason need to be fixing?

2395
01:56:19,040 --> 01:56:21,720
Speaker 1: If so, how would you do it? I would like

2396
01:56:21,800 --> 01:56:24,200
Speaker 1: to fix it. I'd like to go, I go two games,

2397
01:56:24,600 --> 01:56:27,400
Speaker 1: I go. Everybody has a joint practice. I think you

2398
01:56:27,480 --> 01:56:29,920
Speaker 1: get more out of joint practices than they do preseason games.

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01:56:30,160 --> 01:56:32,720
Speaker 1: But the first half of that game last week against

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01:56:32,760 --> 01:56:36,120
Speaker 1: the Lions just it felt wrong. You know, guys were

2401
01:56:36,200 --> 01:56:38,440
Speaker 1: dropping like flies injury wise, out of the game, there

2402
01:56:38,440 --> 01:56:41,280
Speaker 1: were penalties, there was no flow, you know. It just

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01:56:41,320 --> 01:56:43,560
Speaker 1: it didn't feel like to me we were getting anything

2404
01:56:43,600 --> 01:56:46,000
Speaker 1: done in terms of developing a football player or a

2405
01:56:46,000 --> 01:56:48,560
Speaker 1: football team. So I, you know, I kind of feel

2406
01:56:48,560 --> 01:56:50,640
Speaker 1: like my idea is puying the sky. Just don't see

2407
01:56:50,840 --> 01:56:54,080
Speaker 1: you know, the league agreeing to reduce, you know, take

2408
01:56:54,120 --> 01:56:57,360
Speaker 1: two games away to two opportunities to you know, collect

2409
01:56:57,360 --> 01:56:59,400
Speaker 1: money and sell be here and parking all that stuff.

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01:57:00,280 --> 01:57:02,800
Speaker 1: To me, I'd go two preseason games, one home, one away.

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01:57:03,160 --> 01:57:06,280
Speaker 1: Everybody does a joint practice, and we do it that

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01:57:06,320 --> 01:57:08,560
Speaker 1: way to get ready for the season, because it seems

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01:57:08,560 --> 01:57:11,120
Speaker 1: like there's too much risk and not enough reward, especially

2414
01:57:11,200 --> 01:57:14,200
Speaker 1: with you know, you've got some teams the Baltimore Ravens,

2415
01:57:14,200 --> 01:57:16,520
Speaker 1: they're not going to face a starting quarterback this entire

2416
01:57:16,560 --> 01:57:18,720
Speaker 1: preseason from a defensive point of view, and they're not

2417
01:57:18,760 --> 01:57:20,880
Speaker 1: the only team either. You're just not getting enough out

2418
01:57:20,880 --> 01:57:23,200
Speaker 1: of this to really make it worthwhile from a you know,

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01:57:23,280 --> 01:57:25,760
Speaker 1: getting ready for the regular season point of view, which

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01:57:26,160 --> 01:57:28,200
Speaker 1: is ostensibly the whole point of what we're doing this for.

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01:57:28,600 --> 01:57:30,480
Speaker 1: We're gonna ask you this question at eight forty five

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01:57:30,520 --> 01:57:33,360
Speaker 1: pm tonight, Dan and meet. You'll probably be leaving stronger

2423
01:57:33,360 --> 01:57:35,640
Speaker 1: about it. At that point, you're gonna say, let's go,

2424
01:57:35,680 --> 01:57:38,480
Speaker 1: I'm done, let's go, We're good, and we're all gonna

2425
01:57:38,480 --> 01:57:40,560
Speaker 1: feel that way. But you know, look, hey, I'll tell

2426
01:57:40,600 --> 01:57:43,680
Speaker 1: you what of all the preseason games, to me, this

2427
01:57:43,720 --> 01:57:45,640
Speaker 1: is the one I'm always the most interested in because

2428
01:57:45,680 --> 01:57:49,320
Speaker 1: I'm always fascinated by guys who are in the NFL

2429
01:57:49,640 --> 01:57:51,520
Speaker 1: trying to keep a job. Not the stars, not the

2430
01:57:51,520 --> 01:57:53,920
Speaker 1: guys that make eight ten million a year, the guys

2431
01:57:53,960 --> 01:57:56,120
Speaker 1: that were if they're on a roster for four weeks,

2432
01:57:56,400 --> 01:57:58,720
Speaker 1: you know that that makes their season, that makes their year.

2433
01:57:59,000 --> 01:58:00,800
Speaker 1: You know, if you being able to have a practice

2434
01:58:00,800 --> 01:58:02,920
Speaker 1: squad spot for a whole year and making that money,

2435
01:58:03,040 --> 01:58:05,080
Speaker 1: that's still life changing money for a lot of these guys,

2436
01:58:05,120 --> 01:58:07,280
Speaker 1: and you know tonight, for a lot of them, this

2437
01:58:07,360 --> 01:58:09,200
Speaker 1: is their last chance and maybe their best chance to

2438
01:58:09,520 --> 01:58:11,560
Speaker 1: earn back. Well, if you're that excited about it, we're now.

2439
01:58:11,640 --> 01:58:13,080
Speaker 1: He's sending it down to you a lot on the

2440
01:58:13,080 --> 01:58:16,200
Speaker 1: TV broadcast gets happy to help you guys on TV.

2441
01:58:16,280 --> 01:58:17,880
Speaker 1: I'm fine, man, all right, We'll see you later, man.

2442
01:58:19,480 --> 01:58:22,600
Speaker 1: Thanks that. Brown is sports director at w ro OCTV

2443
01:58:22,720 --> 01:58:26,560
Speaker 1: and Rochester's sideline reporter on the Bills preseason telecasts. He

2444
01:58:26,680 --> 01:58:29,640
Speaker 1: and Steve and Andrew Catalan working their third game tonight,

2445
01:58:29,680 --> 01:58:31,560
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Minnesota Vikings. I want to talk

2446
01:58:31,600 --> 01:58:33,680
Speaker 1: more about this game. Maybe you have an idea of

2447
01:58:33,680 --> 01:58:36,280
Speaker 1: who can win a roster spot with a good performance

2448
01:58:36,320 --> 01:58:38,560
Speaker 1: to night against Minnesota. If you do, or if you

2449
01:58:38,600 --> 01:58:40,880
Speaker 1: have any other thoughts on what might happen tonight about

2450
01:58:40,880 --> 01:58:43,280
Speaker 1: the Buffalo roster. Just a couple of days away from

2451
01:58:43,280 --> 01:58:45,600
Speaker 1: cutdown Day, give us a call. Lines open eight three

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01:58:45,840 --> 01:58:49,120
Speaker 1: five fifty toll free from outside Buffalo one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. John Murphy was Steve Tasker.

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01:58:52,520 --> 01:58:54,840
Speaker 1: More to com One Bill's Live presented by KLADA Health

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01:58:55,160 --> 01:59:10,160
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio Can Day. You're an archer Park.

2456
01:59:10,280 --> 01:59:12,240
Speaker 1: It means something done to Steve, even for a preseason

2457
01:59:12,280 --> 01:59:15,400
Speaker 1: game number four. You can feel it. Preseason game game day,

2458
01:59:15,440 --> 01:59:18,560
Speaker 1: seven o'clock to night, Bills and the Minnesota Vikings. I

2459
01:59:18,560 --> 01:59:21,160
Speaker 1: don't know what you think about the Bills and those

2460
01:59:21,240 --> 01:59:23,600
Speaker 1: roster battles. I will say this, Steve, Well, they'll do

2461
01:59:23,720 --> 01:59:26,240
Speaker 1: respect to all of us into our audience. I'm glad

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01:59:26,280 --> 01:59:28,680
Speaker 1: cut down Day is Saturday, because when we come back

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01:59:28,680 --> 01:59:30,800
Speaker 1: here no show Monday, Labor Day, and we come back

2464
01:59:30,800 --> 01:59:34,120
Speaker 1: here Tuesday. The cuts will will not be an issue. Right,

2465
01:59:34,120 --> 01:59:37,120
Speaker 1: It's all Jets. It's all Bills Jets starting Tuesday, if

2466
01:59:37,120 --> 01:59:40,280
Speaker 1: not Monday, right, right, Yeah, this is the weekend story.

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01:59:40,360 --> 01:59:42,320
Speaker 1: Still be now, I'll sell it. They'll still be tweaking

2468
01:59:42,360 --> 01:59:44,680
Speaker 1: the roster. They'll still be one or two guys that

2469
01:59:44,760 --> 01:59:47,200
Speaker 1: are gonna be in and out and off, up and down.

2470
01:59:47,240 --> 01:59:49,840
Speaker 1: And they'll be guys signed to the practice squad or

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01:59:49,880 --> 01:59:52,000
Speaker 1: cut and then signed back to the practice squad or

2472
01:59:52,440 --> 01:59:54,520
Speaker 1: cut off the practice squads so they can sign somebody

2473
01:59:54,520 --> 01:59:58,920
Speaker 1: else in the practice squad. Yeah, it's they'll do that.

2474
01:59:59,000 --> 02:00:03,080
Speaker 1: But then, for the first time since last year, we're

2475
02:00:03,080 --> 02:00:05,840
Speaker 1: gonna have something really important to talk about. Yeah, and

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02:00:05,920 --> 02:00:08,680
Speaker 1: it means something Bills and Jets. I had a dream

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02:00:08,720 --> 02:00:11,080
Speaker 1: about that game, I think last night. I don't. I

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02:00:11,120 --> 02:00:12,960
Speaker 1: can't remember what it was. It was something about being

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02:00:12,960 --> 02:00:15,040
Speaker 1: a MetLife stadium. No, honestly, I can't remember what we're

2480
02:00:15,080 --> 02:00:19,520
Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna start people down the Freudian psychosis. Help it.

2481
02:00:19,600 --> 02:00:22,280
Speaker 1: I think I dreamt about the Bills and Jets last night.

2482
02:00:22,560 --> 02:00:24,360
Speaker 1: I can't. It's not right in the front of those

2483
02:00:24,440 --> 02:00:26,360
Speaker 1: deja vous kind of things. Right, you're gonna be sitting

2484
02:00:26,360 --> 02:00:29,440
Speaker 1: in the booth next week. Oh my gosh, it's my dream. Right. Yeah,

2485
02:00:29,440 --> 02:00:31,840
Speaker 1: I can't remember it was good or bad, but it's

2486
02:00:31,840 --> 02:00:33,960
Speaker 1: a big game, and it's it's now just a couple

2487
02:00:34,000 --> 02:00:35,600
Speaker 1: of days away, all right. What do you think who

2488
02:00:35,600 --> 02:00:37,320
Speaker 1: can win a roster spot on the Bills with a

2489
02:00:37,320 --> 02:00:39,960
Speaker 1: performance a night against Minnesota? Give us a call if

2490
02:00:39,960 --> 02:00:42,120
Speaker 1: you want to discuss eight oh three five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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02:00:45,640 --> 02:00:47,560
Speaker 1: Got some tweets to read you from the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers

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02:00:51,440 --> 02:00:54,360
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Kirk tweets this and is this

2495
02:00:54,440 --> 02:00:56,760
Speaker 1: is Tyree Jackson's night. Will you make the practice squad

2496
02:00:56,840 --> 02:00:59,240
Speaker 1: or be cut? That's a question. That's a good question.

2497
02:00:59,360 --> 02:01:02,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, And you know what makes it interesting

2498
02:01:02,720 --> 02:01:04,680
Speaker 1: to me, Steve is and I don't have the answer

2499
02:01:04,680 --> 02:01:06,720
Speaker 1: to this, So I'm just gonna raise this question. What

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02:01:06,920 --> 02:01:11,400
Speaker 1: do Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott think about a third quarterback,

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02:01:11,440 --> 02:01:14,200
Speaker 1: whether on the roster, on the practice squad, or maybe

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02:01:14,240 --> 02:01:16,560
Speaker 1: someone they know that's on the street. They can bring

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02:01:16,600 --> 02:01:18,800
Speaker 1: in here. They have to have thought this through, right,

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02:01:19,120 --> 02:01:22,360
Speaker 1: I would guess that they're they're thinking that, man, we

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02:01:22,440 --> 02:01:24,640
Speaker 1: really don't know if we can lean on Tyree Jackson

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02:01:24,640 --> 02:01:26,840
Speaker 1: to be a third quarterback. Now, if you have an

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02:01:26,840 --> 02:01:30,440
Speaker 1: eleven man practice squad with Christian Wade, maybe you keep

2508
02:01:30,480 --> 02:01:32,960
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks on your practice squad either way, to be

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02:01:33,040 --> 02:01:36,000
Speaker 1: Tyree and a guy with not a ton of experience.

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02:01:36,120 --> 02:01:38,880
Speaker 1: What about Kyle Sloter of Minnesota. I mean, keep an

2511
02:01:38,880 --> 02:01:40,560
Speaker 1: eye on him when you watch him tonight, you know,

2512
02:01:40,680 --> 02:01:43,960
Speaker 1: young guy who I'm assuming would have some practice squad eligibility.

2513
02:01:43,960 --> 02:01:46,240
Speaker 1: But I just I don't have a real good sense

2514
02:01:46,280 --> 02:01:50,680
Speaker 1: of what McDermott and being think about what they might

2515
02:01:50,800 --> 02:01:53,080
Speaker 1: need in a third quarterback. Maybe they got buddies out

2516
02:01:53,080 --> 02:01:54,920
Speaker 1: on the street, you know this year is Derek Anderson

2517
02:01:54,960 --> 02:01:56,280
Speaker 1: that they think they can bring in here if they

2518
02:01:56,320 --> 02:01:59,440
Speaker 1: need him, and hopefully obviously you think hopefully don't need them. Well,

2519
02:01:59,440 --> 02:02:01,560
Speaker 1: they got Sean Man you know on their on their roster,

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02:02:01,720 --> 02:02:06,200
Speaker 1: Kyle Sloterer, Jake Browning, all those guys that's who Tyree

2521
02:02:06,320 --> 02:02:09,520
Speaker 1: Jackson is competing with, and guys like that all over

2522
02:02:09,560 --> 02:02:13,040
Speaker 1: the National Football League. And you and I have seen,

2523
02:02:14,360 --> 02:02:17,600
Speaker 1: and Tyree is knew that he was going to be

2524
02:02:17,640 --> 02:02:20,280
Speaker 1: a project for an NFL team. He knew it. Um

2525
02:02:20,560 --> 02:02:22,480
Speaker 1: he did not get drafted, came out of you be

2526
02:02:23,400 --> 02:02:26,920
Speaker 1: as a junior, had another year of eligibility, and it

2527
02:02:26,960 --> 02:02:29,000
Speaker 1: remains to be seen whether it was the right decision.

2528
02:02:30,480 --> 02:02:32,120
Speaker 1: But this is a guy who, you know, at the

2529
02:02:32,160 --> 02:02:35,400
Speaker 1: beginning of training camp was struggling to take snaps, and

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02:02:35,920 --> 02:02:39,520
Speaker 1: you know that's you know, that's way down the list

2531
02:02:39,520 --> 02:02:41,720
Speaker 1: of things you're worried about. If you're drafting a quarterback.

2532
02:02:41,760 --> 02:02:45,000
Speaker 1: We're getting a quarterback. You've got to be well beyond that.

2533
02:02:45,160 --> 02:02:48,560
Speaker 1: So that's how far he had to go. And there's

2534
02:02:48,680 --> 02:02:51,400
Speaker 1: got to be guys out there that the Bills know

2535
02:02:51,440 --> 02:02:56,560
Speaker 1: about around the National Football League who are much further

2536
02:02:56,600 --> 02:03:01,040
Speaker 1: along in their development as a quarterback then Tyree maybe is.

2537
02:03:01,440 --> 02:03:04,600
Speaker 1: But we all know this too. Tyree's top end physically,

2538
02:03:06,640 --> 02:03:08,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's that many guys out there

2539
02:03:08,400 --> 02:03:11,040
Speaker 1: that are better than his top end physically, his arm,

2540
02:03:11,320 --> 02:03:16,200
Speaker 1: his athleticism, his size, all of that stuff. He wins

2541
02:03:16,240 --> 02:03:19,240
Speaker 1: the race in that regard. And if you're gonna have

2542
02:03:19,280 --> 02:03:21,080
Speaker 1: a guy, it's the third quarterback that you're gonna try

2543
02:03:21,120 --> 02:03:24,200
Speaker 1: and develop. Anyway, Hey man, let's get a guy with

2544
02:03:24,240 --> 02:03:26,840
Speaker 1: a bigger top end. You know, they may they may

2545
02:03:26,920 --> 02:03:29,240
Speaker 1: like him that way. But here's the thing. Do the

2546
02:03:29,280 --> 02:03:32,520
Speaker 1: Bills look at um their practice squad quarterback or a

2547
02:03:32,600 --> 02:03:36,440
Speaker 1: third quarterback as this is our emergency if something happens

2548
02:03:36,440 --> 02:03:38,800
Speaker 1: this year as it did last year? Or can they

2549
02:03:38,840 --> 02:03:41,520
Speaker 1: afford to keep a Tyree Jackson or somebody like him

2550
02:03:41,520 --> 02:03:44,400
Speaker 1: around because he is a long term project. I don't

2551
02:03:44,400 --> 02:03:46,120
Speaker 1: know what they think of. Yeah, I think of their

2552
02:03:46,160 --> 02:03:49,080
Speaker 1: third possible third quarter. We're gonna have Brandon being in

2553
02:03:49,120 --> 02:03:52,360
Speaker 1: the third quarter for the TV broadcast and I'll ask

2554
02:03:52,400 --> 02:03:55,320
Speaker 1: him that. Yeah, what is his philosophy about his third Yeah?

2555
02:03:55,480 --> 02:03:57,960
Speaker 1: Is he you know? Is he selling insurance? You? Right now?

2556
02:03:58,240 --> 02:04:00,280
Speaker 1: I think I think what it is for me if

2557
02:04:00,280 --> 02:04:02,960
Speaker 1: I was going to anticipate it. We want the best

2558
02:04:02,960 --> 02:04:04,760
Speaker 1: guy there is. We want the best guy we can get.

2559
02:04:05,840 --> 02:04:07,600
Speaker 1: We wanted to go in and run our offense and

2560
02:04:08,040 --> 02:04:11,040
Speaker 1: win games. That's what we need run. But it's third quarterback.

2561
02:04:11,080 --> 02:04:13,120
Speaker 1: You probably don't want to use a fifty three spot

2562
02:04:13,160 --> 02:04:17,480
Speaker 1: on him, right And there are certain eligibility requirements for

2563
02:04:17,520 --> 02:04:20,280
Speaker 1: the practice squad that some guys might have trouble fitting

2564
02:04:20,320 --> 02:04:23,920
Speaker 1: a too right, and there are guys on the street

2565
02:04:23,960 --> 02:04:25,960
Speaker 1: who might be available. If you're down to your third quarterback,

2566
02:04:26,000 --> 02:04:28,560
Speaker 1: you're looking to get by, right, that's all you're looking

2567
02:04:28,600 --> 02:04:32,080
Speaker 1: to do. But y'alls, yeah, that's a good question. I

2568
02:04:32,240 --> 02:04:36,440
Speaker 1: thank you if I think if the guy's good enough,

2569
02:04:38,040 --> 02:04:41,040
Speaker 1: and you really think he's good enough, you spend a

2570
02:04:41,080 --> 02:04:43,760
Speaker 1: fifty three on him. But man, oh man, you're sitting

2571
02:04:43,760 --> 02:04:46,880
Speaker 1: there with Josh Allen. Nobody's gonna unseat him. No, no,

2572
02:04:46,960 --> 02:04:50,600
Speaker 1: So do you really want that guy? I don't know

2573
02:04:50,640 --> 02:04:52,120
Speaker 1: if you want to use one of your fifty three

2574
02:04:52,160 --> 02:04:54,680
Speaker 1: when you've got some difficult cuts in some other spots.

2575
02:04:54,680 --> 02:04:57,280
Speaker 1: You don't people fats talking about seven wide receivers and

2576
02:04:57,720 --> 02:04:59,960
Speaker 1: you've got if you've got numbers like that at other positions.

2577
02:05:00,080 --> 02:05:01,360
Speaker 1: That's why I don't know if you can keep a

2578
02:05:01,400 --> 02:05:03,360
Speaker 1: third quarterback on your fiftie and you really don't have

2579
02:05:03,440 --> 02:05:06,680
Speaker 1: that many tough cuts on the defensive side, maybe two

2580
02:05:06,840 --> 02:05:09,720
Speaker 1: or three maybe, so you've got you know, you've got

2581
02:05:09,760 --> 02:05:11,880
Speaker 1: twenty three or twenty four guys you know about, or

2582
02:05:11,920 --> 02:05:14,360
Speaker 1: twenty two twenty three guys you really know about on

2583
02:05:14,400 --> 02:05:18,520
Speaker 1: your defense. I mean, how okay, maybe you know maybe

2584
02:05:18,520 --> 02:05:20,960
Speaker 1: the twenty fourth one is a third quarterback, you know,

2585
02:05:21,720 --> 02:05:24,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a it's a it's a tough question.

2586
02:05:24,280 --> 02:05:26,920
Speaker 1: I think what it happens is that there's no pad answer.

2587
02:05:27,000 --> 02:05:30,440
Speaker 1: That's the problem because you do have like we need

2588
02:05:30,480 --> 02:05:32,240
Speaker 1: an extra We don't need an extra time. We got

2589
02:05:32,240 --> 02:05:33,880
Speaker 1: three that can play. The fourth one can't, so we

2590
02:05:33,920 --> 02:05:35,880
Speaker 1: can get rid of him. We'll keep this quarterback until

2591
02:05:35,880 --> 02:05:37,480
Speaker 1: we find a better tight end and we'll get a

2592
02:05:37,560 --> 02:05:39,680
Speaker 1: look a handle on this quarterback. You know that kind

2593
02:05:39,720 --> 02:05:43,520
Speaker 1: of thing. Um, it's a it's a it's a chemistry

2594
02:05:43,560 --> 02:05:46,000
Speaker 1: experiment as much as it is a math experiment. And

2595
02:05:46,360 --> 02:05:49,760
Speaker 1: that's that's that's the real problem that you have when

2596
02:05:49,760 --> 02:05:53,360
Speaker 1: you're trying to evaluate these guys and use them as ingredients.

2597
02:05:53,640 --> 02:05:55,720
Speaker 1: What would you rather do more from the tweet sheet here?

2598
02:05:55,840 --> 02:05:59,000
Speaker 1: Or true or falls? Um? I don't have true and

2599
02:05:59,040 --> 02:06:00,880
Speaker 1: false in front of me, so so let's do the true.

2600
02:06:02,520 --> 02:06:05,520
Speaker 1: Yancey's Fancy Presents NFL True or False brought to you

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02:06:05,560 --> 02:06:08,720
Speaker 1: by Yancey's Fancy, New York's Artists and Cheese. We've been

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02:06:08,760 --> 02:06:10,200
Speaker 1: putting it off all week, which is why I think

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02:06:10,200 --> 02:06:12,360
Speaker 1: we should do it. Okay, all right, here's one one

2604
02:06:12,440 --> 02:06:16,400
Speaker 1: contention out there. The Jets must put AFC East rivalry

2605
02:06:16,440 --> 02:06:22,600
Speaker 1: aside and called the Dolphins about the Stills and Kik Alonzo. False. Look,

2606
02:06:25,440 --> 02:06:27,280
Speaker 1: they don't need either one of those guys, right, The

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02:06:27,360 --> 02:06:29,600
Speaker 1: Jets defense is pretty good, and I think the receiving

2608
02:06:29,640 --> 02:06:31,080
Speaker 1: core is pretty good. They don't need either one of

2609
02:06:31,120 --> 02:06:33,400
Speaker 1: those guys. They lack some depth on the receiving corps

2610
02:06:33,520 --> 02:06:35,560
Speaker 1: a little bit, but they're for top three guys they

2611
02:06:35,800 --> 02:06:40,680
Speaker 1: really like. And yeah, and for whatever you know, the

2612
02:06:40,920 --> 02:06:43,080
Speaker 1: remember that back in the day when Kiko was here,

2613
02:06:43,840 --> 02:06:46,160
Speaker 1: it was the legend of Kiko Alonso. Well he's gone

2614
02:06:46,200 --> 02:06:51,560
Speaker 1: the next year and he's been a journeyman at best. So, yeah,

2615
02:06:51,600 --> 02:06:54,840
Speaker 1: the Jets aren't backed into a corner by that. I agree.

2616
02:06:55,000 --> 02:06:57,240
Speaker 1: That's a false. That's false. All right. Here's number two

2617
02:06:57,320 --> 02:07:01,160
Speaker 1: two or false. Trading running back Melvin to the Houston

2618
02:07:01,240 --> 02:07:03,880
Speaker 1: Texans would be a great solution for the Chargers. True

2619
02:07:03,960 --> 02:07:06,560
Speaker 1: or false. It might be. It's more of a special

2620
02:07:06,880 --> 02:07:08,560
Speaker 1: Texans than it is for the char it's a better

2621
02:07:08,600 --> 02:07:11,240
Speaker 1: solution for the Chargers. They get for what though, I mean,

2622
02:07:11,320 --> 02:07:13,800
Speaker 1: what do they get? I don't know, all right, I

2623
02:07:13,800 --> 02:07:15,320
Speaker 1: don't know how that's a good solution. They do it

2624
02:07:15,320 --> 02:07:18,400
Speaker 1: if they get enough out of him. But but listen, training,

2625
02:07:18,880 --> 02:07:23,440
Speaker 1: I mean running backs, the difference between the best ones

2626
02:07:23,640 --> 02:07:25,480
Speaker 1: and the ones who are just getting by is not

2627
02:07:25,680 --> 02:07:29,680
Speaker 1: big enough to you know, break the bank over. I

2628
02:07:29,680 --> 02:07:31,560
Speaker 1: mean we're seeing that all over the league. The Cowboys,

2629
02:07:31,600 --> 02:07:33,440
Speaker 1: they may want to pay Zeke, they've offered him a

2630
02:07:33,440 --> 02:07:36,880
Speaker 1: big contract, but a running back is not going to

2631
02:07:36,920 --> 02:07:39,480
Speaker 1: break the bank in the NFL at this point in history.

2632
02:07:39,520 --> 02:07:41,880
Speaker 1: There may come a time when they do, but they're

2633
02:07:41,920 --> 02:07:45,440
Speaker 1: just they just don't because you get a bunch of

2634
02:07:45,480 --> 02:07:47,280
Speaker 1: guys who can run the You got a guy who

2635
02:07:47,280 --> 02:07:49,640
Speaker 1: played rugby his whole life who can come in and

2636
02:07:49,680 --> 02:07:52,120
Speaker 1: snap one off for sixty five yards. So there's that

2637
02:07:52,240 --> 02:07:57,480
Speaker 1: big thought that they're easily more easily replaceable than like

2638
02:07:57,920 --> 02:08:01,840
Speaker 1: even the left tackle or a pass rusher. So yeah,

2639
02:08:01,880 --> 02:08:04,440
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can get a great value for

2640
02:08:04,560 --> 02:08:07,280
Speaker 1: a running back, yeah, I think you make that move.

2641
02:08:07,600 --> 02:08:10,400
Speaker 1: I'd say false. I don't know how. I don't. Look,

2642
02:08:10,400 --> 02:08:12,840
Speaker 1: the Chargers are better with Melvin Gordon then without him,

2643
02:08:13,280 --> 02:08:15,600
Speaker 1: So that's not a good solution for the Chargers. They're better,

2644
02:08:15,680 --> 02:08:18,120
Speaker 1: much better with him than without him. I don't get that.

2645
02:08:18,320 --> 02:08:20,680
Speaker 1: I don't know how much worse they are with the

2646
02:08:20,680 --> 02:08:22,680
Speaker 1: other guy playing running back than they would be if

2647
02:08:22,680 --> 02:08:25,120
Speaker 1: they got for the assets that could be, you know,

2648
02:08:25,280 --> 02:08:27,400
Speaker 1: more valuable. That's the thing. We don't know what they're

2649
02:08:27,400 --> 02:08:29,720
Speaker 1: going to trade him for two or false number three.

2650
02:08:29,880 --> 02:08:35,240
Speaker 1: I'm beginning to regret doing this game, all right. The

2651
02:08:35,280 --> 02:08:39,040
Speaker 1: Titans Tennessee Titans had the most enviable quarterback situation in

2652
02:08:39,080 --> 02:08:43,320
Speaker 1: the NFL. I think that's really false. He too, really false.

2653
02:08:43,320 --> 02:08:50,560
Speaker 1: They got Marcus Mariota and Ryan Tannehill. Remember remember what right?

2654
02:08:50,920 --> 02:08:53,160
Speaker 1: Remember what Wade Phillips said when you got it says,

2655
02:08:53,320 --> 02:08:56,520
Speaker 1: usually if you got a quarterback, controversies because you don't

2656
02:08:56,560 --> 02:08:59,200
Speaker 1: have a quarterback. And I think that's where they're at.

2657
02:08:59,280 --> 02:09:02,000
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill got kicked to the curb by the Miami

2658
02:09:02,040 --> 02:09:08,280
Speaker 1: Dolphins for Ryan Fitzpatrick and Marcus Mariota. They don't even

2659
02:09:08,320 --> 02:09:10,280
Speaker 1: know if they want him after they picked him number

2660
02:09:10,280 --> 02:09:13,600
Speaker 1: one in the draft. So who says that's him? Who

2661
02:09:13,720 --> 02:09:16,080
Speaker 1: envies them? I don't. I don't think I envy them.

2662
02:09:16,240 --> 02:09:18,280
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I'm trying to think of a

2663
02:09:18,280 --> 02:09:25,880
Speaker 1: team who would envy them, and I'm struggling what I

2664
02:09:25,920 --> 02:09:28,640
Speaker 1: agree Marcus Mariota is a is a nice player. He's

2665
02:09:28,680 --> 02:09:32,520
Speaker 1: had trouble staying healthy. He's not a real dynamic leader.

2666
02:09:32,800 --> 02:09:35,000
Speaker 1: He's a good athlete, good arm. Came out of a

2667
02:09:35,040 --> 02:09:38,240
Speaker 1: great college program, put together a great college career. Ryan

2668
02:09:38,280 --> 02:09:41,640
Speaker 1: Tannehill was a converted wide receiver who that Miami Dolphins

2669
02:09:41,640 --> 02:09:44,480
Speaker 1: took in the first round and had a nice stretch

2670
02:09:44,520 --> 02:09:51,120
Speaker 1: in Miami. Although nice is being kind, Yeah, there's I

2671
02:09:51,480 --> 02:09:53,720
Speaker 1: think they don't know if they're struggling about which one

2672
02:09:53,720 --> 02:09:58,440
Speaker 1: of those guys to play. They're done NFL two or false.

2673
02:09:58,480 --> 02:10:00,880
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New York's artist and

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02:10:00,960 --> 02:10:02,680
Speaker 1: Gee Steve and I back with more in a moment

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02:10:02,680 --> 02:10:05,680
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. It's a good question to

2677
02:10:22,000 --> 02:10:23,600
Speaker 1: ask yourself at the end of every day, what have

2678
02:10:23,680 --> 02:10:25,920
Speaker 1: you learned today? What have we learned from today's show?

2679
02:10:26,480 --> 02:10:28,960
Speaker 1: As we ask our listeners and we talk about it too,

2680
02:10:29,000 --> 02:10:30,720
Speaker 1: what have we learned today? Had a good show? Amy

2681
02:10:30,720 --> 02:10:33,600
Speaker 1: Trass joined this former CEO of the Raiders back in

2682
02:10:33,640 --> 02:10:36,360
Speaker 1: the Al Davis era, seventeen years with the Raiders. She's

2683
02:10:36,640 --> 02:10:39,680
Speaker 1: a contributor on CBS Sports Right Now. We asked her

2684
02:10:39,960 --> 02:10:43,200
Speaker 1: how former Raiders owner Al Davis would react to having

2685
02:10:43,280 --> 02:10:45,880
Speaker 1: the HBO Hard Knocks grew with the Raiders this summer.

2686
02:10:45,880 --> 02:10:51,600
Speaker 1: Here's what she said. I cannot share on with you

2687
02:10:51,720 --> 02:10:55,400
Speaker 1: right now the language with which he would have instructed

2688
02:10:55,440 --> 02:10:57,640
Speaker 1: me as to how he wanted me to deal with it.

2689
02:10:58,520 --> 02:11:01,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to get you guys in, but let's say,

2690
02:11:01,200 --> 02:11:04,600
Speaker 1: with me leaving that language out, the conversations would have

2691
02:11:04,600 --> 02:11:08,000
Speaker 1: gone something like this, that I should call you know,

2692
02:11:08,200 --> 02:11:10,120
Speaker 1: he trapped you, and I'd gone in and seen him,

2693
02:11:10,160 --> 02:11:13,080
Speaker 1: and he said, you need to call your blanking friends

2694
02:11:13,600 --> 02:11:16,720
Speaker 1: at the blanking league office and tell them that we're

2695
02:11:16,760 --> 02:11:19,760
Speaker 1: blanking not doing this. They would have done something like that,

2696
02:11:20,680 --> 02:11:25,080
Speaker 1: Steve fill in the blanks. Yeah, No, that's you're right.

2697
02:11:25,800 --> 02:11:31,760
Speaker 1: It's so funny because she's so good at relaying how much,

2698
02:11:31,920 --> 02:11:35,080
Speaker 1: how closely she worked with Al Davis, and she knew

2699
02:11:35,160 --> 02:11:37,800
Speaker 1: his reactions to things, she knew the way he spoke,

2700
02:11:38,840 --> 02:11:43,840
Speaker 1: and she benefited greatly by it. And it's interesting to

2701
02:11:43,880 --> 02:11:46,560
Speaker 1: hear her take on all of that because it's, you know,

2702
02:11:47,080 --> 02:11:50,240
Speaker 1: Al was such a secretive, kind of far off guy,

2703
02:11:50,320 --> 02:11:52,560
Speaker 1: nobody really knew how he was, but she did, and

2704
02:11:52,600 --> 02:11:54,440
Speaker 1: it's fun to hear about. What else we learned from

2705
02:11:54,480 --> 02:11:56,520
Speaker 1: today's show. We had Pete Versage on the show. He's

2706
02:11:56,520 --> 02:12:00,240
Speaker 1: a color analyst on the Vikings Radio and television broadcast. Tonight,

2707
02:12:00,480 --> 02:12:04,040
Speaker 1: we asked him about Kyle Sloterer. They have Slowter Saturday,

2708
02:12:04,120 --> 02:12:06,480
Speaker 1: this backup quarterback who has played three or four years

2709
02:12:06,480 --> 02:12:08,440
Speaker 1: in the league and always plays well. It seems we'll

2710
02:12:08,480 --> 02:12:12,640
Speaker 1: see him tonight. Here's what Pete Versus said. He's still learning,

2711
02:12:12,880 --> 02:12:16,360
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you what he hasn't intangibles. He's you know,

2712
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Speaker 1: the team when he gets in there. He's just has

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Speaker 1: an attitude. I think Steve will attest to that. Certain

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Speaker 1: guys have a presence about him that motivate. They get

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Speaker 1: guys going, and Slowter definitely has that. He has to

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Speaker 1: grow in his ability to handle on offense and things

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Speaker 1: like that. But you know, you love watching the kids

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Speaker 1: just go out there and go about his business. And

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Speaker 1: he's done a very very good job with everything that

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Speaker 1: they've asked him to do. There you go. Best case

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Speaker 1: scenario tonight. I want to get your teef. Here's mine.

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Speaker 1: Bill's when it'd be great to be four and oh,

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Speaker 1: they've ever been four in preseason doesn't mean much obviously. Two.

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Speaker 1: Cut the number number of penalties in half. They're averaging

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Speaker 1: ten per game. They had a dozen last week. Get

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Speaker 1: to five penalties throughout the entire game. Three best case scenario,

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Speaker 1: two hour and forty five minute game. That's I get it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, you'd like to see him win.

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Speaker 1: You'd like to see him not turn the football over.

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Speaker 1: That's good too. Yeah, fumbles. Cut the penalties in half,

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Speaker 1: and have you know, and I'd say no pre snap

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Speaker 1: or post snap penalties as well. That's about it. So

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Speaker 1: and have eleven guys on the field all time. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about this game tomorrow on the show YEP

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Speaker 1: or right back here noon to three tomorrow. I hope

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Speaker 1: Kevin Carcis, James Roebol, our producer Jay Harris. So, Steve's

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Speaker 1: on the TV tonight, I'm on the radio. It's Bills

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Speaker 1: and the Vikings, and then catches tomorrow to talk about it.

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