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Speaker 1: the strated beer of normalcy. All right, Welcome to a

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Speaker 1: Monday edition of One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Maddie clab

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Speaker 1: with you here on a Monday and Bills back on

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Speaker 1: the practice field, which we'll get to in just a second.

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Speaker 1: Plenty to get to actually today with some roster moves,

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Speaker 1: last night. We just got back from dropping my daughter

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Speaker 1: got the MTV Video Music Awards on. In my younger days,

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Speaker 1: I would invariably know ninety five to ninety eight percent

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Speaker 1: my wife says to me, I don't know whether I

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Speaker 1: the hell is going on here? And I'm just like, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not you. I said, We're all in the same

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Speaker 1: to be lost. Like the stuff just keeps moving. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know it was that person, And it was just like,

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Speaker 1: music industry. I feel like a senior citizen. It was terrible.

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Speaker 1: I sometimes feel old when it comes to music. By now.

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Speaker 1: The stuff that I listened to when I was in

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Speaker 1: So I kind of get that, but I try to

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Speaker 1: which you are right, usually get a nice dose of Okay,

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Speaker 1: But I used to like watching those award shows too.

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Speaker 1: a you know, he's glued to his phone like most

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Speaker 1: him watching YouTube things than he like, he didn't listen

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Speaker 1: for a speedy recovery. And then the concerns Maddie continue

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Speaker 1: to grow in New England about their wayward offense. Mac

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Speaker 1: Jones and the entire New England offense has been a

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Speaker 1: disaster throughout most of the preseason. It did not get

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Speaker 1: any better in their final preseason tune up over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: And whether it's play calling, whether it's protections. It is

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Speaker 1: not looked to be in sync in any way, shape

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Speaker 1: or form, and it looks like moving the football unless

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Speaker 1: they are keeping everything they are doing under wraps. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was going to say it's all use. I don't

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Speaker 1: think so. I genuinely think they're going to be lousy

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Speaker 1: this year. Simple protection schemes up front, their line are not.

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Speaker 1: Their line just simply is not executing on a consistent basis.

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Speaker 1: It's putting an undue amount of pressure on mac Jones

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Speaker 1: to make things happen. And the offense cannot run the football.

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Speaker 1: They have capable running backs, there's just no holes for

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Speaker 1: them to run through. It starts up front, as we

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Speaker 1: hear coach mcdermotts say all the time, and it is

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Speaker 1: not happening upfront for the Patriots right now. It's going

447
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Speaker 1: to be interesting, to say the least. I talked to

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Speaker 1: somebody yesterday that said that they thought we were going

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Speaker 1: to lose one of the games the Patriots this season.

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Speaker 1: I was like, are you reading what's been coming out

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Speaker 1: of camp? Do you do you know what you're talking

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Speaker 1: about here? Do you really think that's a possibility, because

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Speaker 1: at this point I don't think it is. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: the whole coordinator thing, with Matt Patricia supposedly being the

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Speaker 1: play call a very limited experience on that side of

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Speaker 1: the ball, and for a second year quarterback, even one

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Speaker 1: that had as successful a rookie season as Mac Jones

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Speaker 1: did last year, that kind of coordinator change that young

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Speaker 1: in a player's career, especially with a coordinator that's not

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Speaker 1: terribly experienced on the offensive side of the ball. Man,

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Speaker 1: I just think there's a confluence of events going on

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Speaker 1: there that's going to be very difficult for that team

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Speaker 1: to overcome and still post victories. So I fully expect

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Speaker 1: them to have a losing record this year. They may

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Speaker 1: even be in the basement of the division. The Jets

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Speaker 1: may win more games than them, which is saying something.

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Speaker 1: A little note on the Giants. At the Giants press

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Speaker 1: conference today, head coach Brian Dable, when asked about improving

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Speaker 1: the roster depth right at the end of his press conference, said,

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Speaker 1: Joe's open for business meeting GM Joe Shane. They have

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Speaker 1: some depth spots to fill. To say the least, there

472
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Speaker 1: are rumors they may trade a veteran receiver like Darius Slayton.

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Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay would be tough to trade because if the

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Speaker 1: cap hit, they would incur by doing that. But word

475
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Speaker 1: out down there is that they're not happy with Kenny

476
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Speaker 1: Galladay's lack of effort blocking in the run game, and

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Speaker 1: there was some video evidence of that in the preseason

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Speaker 1: game against the Jets over the weekend. So the rubber

479
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 1: is meeting the road down there as far as the

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Speaker 1: media finding players to pick on and criticize, and they're

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Speaker 1: trying to get the head coach to jump on board.

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Speaker 1: He wisely is not doing that. But it's stuff's going

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Speaker 1: on down there. Let's just say, well, we'll see the

484
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: beginning of new pipeline this year. It was the Panthers

485
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: and the Bills for a few years. It's about to

486
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: be the Bills and the Giants. Yeah, so we'll see

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Speaker 1: where that goes. I don't I don't know. I don't

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Speaker 1: know where that's going to go for the Giants this season.

489
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Speaker 1: The Cowboys and Eagles are probably better teams than them

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Speaker 1: on paper. Certainly a lot of people are picking the

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Speaker 1: Eagles to win that division. It could be a growing

492
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Speaker 1: pains here for the Giants with all that they've got

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Speaker 1: to pull together in that division. But we will see stuff.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about with you today concerns that final preseason game.

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Speaker 1: The preseason is over, So what did we learn about

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Speaker 1: the Bills ahead of the regular season? What do you

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Speaker 1: feel you know about this team now that maybe you

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Speaker 1: didn't know at the beginning of training camp eight oh

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty the number to get on board you could

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Speaker 1: hit us up on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live.

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00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: All so should tell you we'll be having players from

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Speaker 1: the locker room that we'll be providing to you when

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Speaker 1: we return. Also, second hour of the show, our good

505
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Speaker 1: friend Eric Wood will join us after taking in the

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Speaker 1: full preseason himself. We'll get some of his thoughts on

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Speaker 1: what he feels he's learned about this Bill's team heading

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Speaker 1: into the regular season. But we will step aside here

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Speaker 1: some post practice sound from the locker room when we

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Speaker 1: return here on One Bills Live, presented by Colloid to Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back to One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Mandy Glad with you here on

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Speaker 1: a Monday. Steve will be back in tomorrow as he

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00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: is out on the links hitting him again, so he'll

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Speaker 1: join us back here in studio tomorrow. We told you

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Speaker 1: that Mandy and I, along with our video team at

517
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Com got around the locker room after practice today,

518
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: got in touch with a lot of the players open

519
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: locker room again the first time in a long time.

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00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: I mean we're talking pre pandemic twenty nineteen, like the

521
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: last time you're in the locker room interviewing people here

522
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Drive. It's crazy trying to remember where

523
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: guy's lockers are. Really, were trying to introduce yourself to

524
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: players you haven't met yet. Yeah, I mean I still

525
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: have yet to talk one on one with Stefan Dick

526
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: since he got here. That's how long this pandemic stretched

527
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Speaker 1: on with regulations and restrictions. But Jordan Poyer now with

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Speaker 1: two days of practice under his belt, wearing the red

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Speaker 1: non contact jersey again. Today, we caught up with Jordan

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Speaker 1: Poyer on how things are going and his outlook for

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Speaker 1: the season opener. Here is Jordan feeling feel good. It

532
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Speaker 1: feels good you're back on the field the guys. Uh,

533
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: you know, it's been sounds like he's been forever, but uh,

534
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Speaker 1: you know, it's finally finally felt good to be back

535
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Speaker 1: in field. He's asked, couple, get a couple of days

536
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Speaker 1: with the guys. They've been working hard, and you're trying

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Speaker 1: to camp. I've been working hard trying to get back

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Speaker 1: on the field, and like I said, it felt good

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Speaker 1: to be back to these last couple of days. Where

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Speaker 1: are you in your recovery? Will you expect to be

541
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Speaker 1: out there yet? I expect to be out there, Um,

542
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: you know, as hard as long as there's no setbacks,

543
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Speaker 1: you know, Like I said, it feels really good right now.

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Speaker 1: Continue to work every single day to you know, try

545
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Speaker 1: to get it two hundred percent. Before the first game,

546
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Speaker 1: like I said, it felt good to be back out there,

547
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Speaker 1: just last a couple of days with the guys again

548
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Speaker 1: and run around playing football. Was it happened? Uh? Yeah,

549
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: it was pretty scary. Um really wasn't sure until I

550
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Speaker 1: got the MR results what it was. Um, it just

551
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Speaker 1: kind of nervous all the way up until then, just

552
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: hoping that it wasn't, you know, too serious. But uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, just goot, damn my results and saw that

554
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: you know, I was gonna be able to recover from it.

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Speaker 1: And that's you know, that's what I was excited about.

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Speaker 1: So Um, just been in the rehab process, Danny and

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Speaker 1: I and Nate and you just been hitting pretty good,

558
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Speaker 1: trying to get trying to get it back to a

559
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Speaker 1: hundred before the first game. Is that good for you?

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Speaker 1: It gives you a little more practice time, give a

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Speaker 1: little more time to get yourself ready. Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think we got what a week and

563
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Speaker 1: a half or so. Um, Like I said, I feel

564
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: good right now, feeling shape. Um. You know, I feel

565
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: like I haven't missed a beat, you know, since missing

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Speaker 1: missing some training camp. But um, definitely good to get

567
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Speaker 1: back early and get my feedback on the ground. Um,

568
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: playing playing football with the guys, game, communicating with him again.

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Speaker 1: So it's been fun. On the extension, I'm gonna leave

570
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: that up to them upstairs. Yeah, frustrated it's taking this long.

571
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm a I'm a ballplayer and that's you know,

572
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Speaker 1: that's what I do and that's where my businesses. You know,

573
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave the rest up to them to figure out.

574
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: My my my team to figure out. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm just here. I want to continue to

576
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Speaker 1: play football, continue to play my best football here in Buffalo. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, for as long as I can, however long

578
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Speaker 1: that may be. But you know, like I said, I'm

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Speaker 1: here with the guys right now. I'm ready for radio

580
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: attack this season. What did you see, Man, A lot

581
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: of them got just some dogging the man. Um. You know,

582
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Speaker 1: it's really proud of a lot of them, Um, young guys,

583
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Speaker 1: you know, like JaMarcus Ingram Man learning a couple of positions.

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Speaker 1: Nick McLeod, I mean you go up to go down

585
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Speaker 1: the list, and obviously kier And and Christian you know,

586
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: guys that have you know, well known guys coming into

587
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: the draft, but like I said, those guys that you know,

588
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: maybe some guys haven't heard about, like JaMarcus and Nick

589
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Speaker 1: you know, Um, you know, even Cam. You know, I

590
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: can go down the list abouts. I know, we let

591
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: let some guys go today and we'll probably continue too,

592
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: which is always a hard part of the year. But

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00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Thomas, he's a great dude and then

594
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: a really good player, and so you know, I'm hoping

595
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: for the best for him. You know, whether he comes

596
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: back here, I know he can play in this league.

597
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: So um, you know, there's a lot of really good

598
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: guys in that group, and you always hate this time

599
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: of year, but you know it's part of the business

600
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: and you know we'll move forward. Um, coming forward. Does

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Speaker 1: it give this secondary more confidence just seeing how you know,

602
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: some of the rookies played. If Trey can't go Week

603
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Speaker 1: one or for however long he is out, Oh yeah,

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00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: you know, of course, anytime you know, rookies get out

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Speaker 1: there to get on the field and be able to

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00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: communicate with the with the vets and be able to

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00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: make plays on the football. You know, that's that's going

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00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: to give you confidence going into the year. Um, and

609
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: you know, you just want to keep continuing to get better,

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00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: keep continuing to try to push those young rookies and

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00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: um Ke's you know, really having inscritched the surface yet

612
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Speaker 1: of the season. So UM, it's a long year and

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Speaker 1: you know, we just got to continue to get better

614
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Speaker 1: every single day. George as a as a leader, trying

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Speaker 1: to address like the ninety six hours have been and

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Speaker 1: I think coach coach addressed it and being addressed it,

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Speaker 1: you know, and and addressed everything that needed to be said.

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Speaker 1: I think us as players in the locker room and

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Speaker 1: continue to you know, uh, just continue to support the

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Speaker 1: culture that's here. Um, continue to you know, strive for

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Speaker 1: what we believe in and and and strive what we

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Speaker 1: want to accomplish. And you know, it's the adversity happens

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Speaker 1: throughout the season, and you know it's the teams that

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Speaker 1: handle it the right way that that are and come

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Speaker 1: out on top. And this is something that we got

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Speaker 1: to be able to handle the right way to move

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Speaker 1: past and and and you know, look our look look

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Speaker 1: forward against Thursday night game against the Rams, and I

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Speaker 1: think we got the right group of guys. I not think,

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Speaker 1: I know we got the right group of guys to

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Speaker 1: do that and dropping how much because you know, being

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Speaker 1: comfortable annoyingment. This team has overcome period some adversity and

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Speaker 1: come up and come up the pen report. Yeah, like

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Speaker 1: I said before, you know, I think I know we

635
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Speaker 1: got the right group of guys in this locker room

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Speaker 1: to do so. You know, since twenty seventeen, there's the

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00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:15,919
Speaker 1: type of guys that being new Shawna brought into into

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Speaker 1: this locker room just being able to handle adversity, being

639
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 1: able to handle the ups and downs of a game

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Speaker 1: of the season, whether that's on or off the field.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's been things just happened in the past

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Speaker 1: we've been able to fight through, and you know, this

643
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 1: isn't gonna be the last thing. You know, you'd like

644
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: to think that this might be the last thing, but

645
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: you know, we played in this game long enough, and

646
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: you guys have been in this basiness long enough to

647
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Speaker 1: understanding that there's probably gonna be some other stumbles. You know,

648
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: there's something happens throughout the year that we got to

649
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: figure out. And so it's just part of part of

650
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: the business and the nature that we're in just being

651
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 1: able to handle the adversity, being able to handle these

652
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Speaker 1: moments and continue to move forward and continue to stay

653
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 1: together and and and you know, hopefully it helps us

654
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Speaker 1: be strong as a football team. Are you to get

655
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: going me? I'm very I'm very eg very all right.

656
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Speaker 1: That's Jordan Poyer addressing the media in the locker room

657
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Speaker 1: after practice. Heard him say there that he expects to

658
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Speaker 1: be out there for the opener a week from this

659
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: coming Thursday, still in the Red nine contact jersey for

660
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: a second straight day. Practiced in that jersey on Saturday

661
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: as well or Sunday. I'm sorry, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. I'm

662
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: just you know, he's trying to leave the contract stuff

663
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: where it is. Nobody asked him if there's some drop

664
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Speaker 1: dead date where he'd like to get this straightened out.

665
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Speaker 1: But he's trying to be the good soldier here, trying

666
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Speaker 1: to not make waves going into the season, which I

667
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 1: give him a lot of credit for, because he obviously

668
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 1: feels his value is greater than the sum he is

669
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Speaker 1: being paid now and coming off a first team All

670
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: Pro season, I get it. So good on him for

671
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: being a good soldier. But everybody's got everybody's got a

672
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: breaking point. I just wonder where that is is and

673
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Speaker 1: whether it comes up again down the line here. That's

674
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: the only thing I worry about. Yeah, does it come

675
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Speaker 1: up this season? Does he get through this season? What

676
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: does next season look like? It's a fun group of

677
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: fun team to be part of this year. I know

678
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: you're they're all they're catching lightning in a bottle this year,

679
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: hopefully with what this team has built toward the last

680
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: couple of seasons, And I know you would love to

681
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: be a part of it and love to be a

682
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: part of something that he really had a big hand

683
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: in building and has been here since Sean McDermott and

684
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean arrived in Buffalo so I think there is

685
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: some weight to that, But but you're right, every player

686
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,720
Speaker 1: does have that breaking point in terms of I'm ready

687
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: for the next contract, I'm worth more than I'm getting

688
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, so we'll see. Yeah, it's kind of

689
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: a wait and see type thing to see what happens

690
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: on that front. It doesn't look like it's going to

691
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: impact him playing a week from Thursday. He wants to play.

692
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: He knows what's at stake this season. I think he

693
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: realizes this team is loaded to make a deep, deep,

694
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: deep playoff run and hopefully get to the ultimate game

695
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: and win it. There were some other players talking in

696
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Speaker 1: the locker room. I was listening in to Kayer Elam

697
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Speaker 1: and then I asked him a question as well. And

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Speaker 1: I know we have Kayer from the locker room conversation.

699
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Speaker 1: So let's go to kaye Elam. Right now, less than

700
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: two weeks away from the regular season, three seasons over,

701
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Speaker 1: just you know, where's your confidence level going into the

702
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: regular season, just preparing for you know, game one, but

703
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: also taking one day at the time where I'm locking in,

704
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: I'm focusing on my technique fundamentals, just really just poking

705
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: all the small things, executing at a high level every

706
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: every single day because just not taking a day for granted,

707
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,720
Speaker 1: just because we have a game coming up. How ready

708
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: do you feel to step in in week one? Right? Uh?

709
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: Super duple prepared. I mean, like I said, I, Um,

710
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: it took me a while to get down to the

711
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: technique in fundamentals that uh my coach was like emphasizing

712
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: and things like that in training camp. But like once

713
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: I once I got it and became more confident, like

714
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: it showed in my game of preseason just making plays

715
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: and being executing the all cylinders. So uh, like I

716
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: said my first interview, and I'm gonna be ready with

717
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: my name is called, and I just couldn't be more

718
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: excited off. How did you get those things down to?

719
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: More practice straps, more maybe looking at what you're doing,

720
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,919
Speaker 1: getting practice on film, you know, be able to see

721
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: what you're doing right or wrong, and that type of thing. Um, yeah,

722
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: it just took a lot of reps honestly, Like I

723
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 1: would just say, me coming from Florida playing a lot

724
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: of man um you like, with no help and things

725
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: like that, it was kind of harder for me to

726
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: trust where my health is. You know, how to bail

727
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: and things like that. But it was like it came

728
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: with a lot of reps, Like it didn't come overnight,

729
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: and like I was taking my coach coach, but I

730
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: was telling me to do. I was doing it on

731
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: my own and I'm still doing it to this day,

732
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 1: like I'm still just trying to just top wood and

733
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: just keep striving. It was reassuring that's in your ear

734
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: out on the field pre snap, like just kind of

735
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 1: reassuring you what you're seeing is what you're seeing. Uh. Poyer,

736
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: Jordan and Mica are like like alpha males and they

737
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: always just always communicating reassuring me that you know, if

738
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 1: they motion you're doing this, they do that we're doing this.

739
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: So like it's very very very very healthful, like for

740
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: me being a rookie, Like I just feel like them

741
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: what they're doing is just like mind blowing to me

742
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: because like I never experienced nothing like that before. You've

743
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: talked about your no fun What are the biggest takeaways

744
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 1: in your biggest takeaway from this summer? Uh, I just

745
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: say just keep listening to my coaches and applying. Um.

746
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: Like I said, I wasn't perfect in training camp, but

747
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 1: you know I always had that confidence in that hunger

748
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: and that aggressive but I was just it was it

749
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: was times where looking on film and listening to them,

750
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 1: it was like, um, I could do better. So just

751
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: really just enhancing that, you know what I'm saying, and

752
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: just keeping that still that same hunger I have, you know,

753
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: to stry to be great important that you brought around. Oh,

754
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: don't take this opportunity for granted. It uh that I mean,

755
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: what what'sha never did, But it was just like every

756
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: day is a new day, Like don't matter what you

757
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: did that last pieceason game. This practice is like you

758
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: gotta come and compete every single day because like you know,

759
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: the receivers I go against our you know, top notch,

760
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: and you know, if I if I know, if I know,

761
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: I could stick with them and make plays on them,

762
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: I could be muscle memory in the game. So Kyrie

763
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:53,280
Speaker 1: elam Um says he'll be super duper prepared for the

764
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: season orpreneur, which will be obviously his first NFL regular

765
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: season game. The thing I wonder about most, Maddie, because

766
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: we've seen them rotating. I'm very interested to see what

767
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: this looks like in the first week. Do they just

768
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: put kay Erie Lam out there or do they platoon

769
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: him with Christian Benford and do they kind of alternate

770
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: series on one side with Dane Jackson on the other,

771
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: assuming Trudevious White is not part of the equation. It's

772
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 1: gonna be very interesting to see how that works. The

773
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: other thing, which is what I asked him, because if

774
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: you have Dane on one side, you know, you know

775
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,720
Speaker 1: he's straight. He's played in this defense for two seasons.

776
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing. If you need to give

777
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: help to Kaier and or Christian Benford on the other side,

778
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: you've got people like Jordan Poyer and Micah Hide to

779
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 1: get him lined up right, reassure them, hey, your help's here.

780
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,439
Speaker 1: You know, your leverage is here. Play it this way,

781
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: or if they change something, hey, this is what's coming.

782
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: So they can kind of coach him through that so

783
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 1: he's not like a lost puppy out there on the field.

784
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 1: So that's encouraging for me because you can if you

785
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: had to help both guys, you know what I mean,

786
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: You got Banford on one side and need him on

787
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: the other, that's a lot of extra work for Jordan

788
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: and Micah with only one guy, I really think you

789
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 1: can make it work and that's what encourages me about

790
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: you know, the opener. If Tredevious is not a part

791
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: of the equation back there, I don't know if you

792
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: feel differently, but they can get they can succeed. I

793
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,720
Speaker 1: think not to mention the pass rush upfront should hopefully

794
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 1: helped them as well. I don't have to cover as

795
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: long kind of thing. I mean, we have yet to

796
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: see Tredavious White come onto the practice field and start practicing,

797
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: So we're running at a time looking like that's their

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00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,320
Speaker 1: only option, and you're right, they're running out of time.

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00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: They've also said multiple times when Trey is ready to

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Speaker 1: start practicing, we don't want to run him out there

801
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: and then tell him he's going to play in a

802
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: couple of days. We want him to have the time

803
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: he needs to get acclimated to playing again in this defense.

804
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: So they've got a lot of veterans back there, Micah

805
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: Jordan and Tarren Johnson is usually on the field a

806
00:42:56,160 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: lot too. Yeah, so reserve pup unfortunately look like more

807
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,919
Speaker 1: and more of a likelihood Fortundavious White. But we'll wait

808
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,240
Speaker 1: and see break time for us here when we come back.

809
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: More on kay Elam and what's going on in that secondary.

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Speaker 1: of hard though with one hand. Yeah, I need to

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Speaker 1: as well. I think we'll have a sound on that

854
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:43,320
Speaker 1: later possibly, But he was asked of how Von Miller

855
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: has really helped him now that he's been through an

856
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: entire training camp with him, and he has so much

857
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: to say about a veteran like that. And I was

858
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: talking to Dion Dawkins too in the locker room and

859
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 1: I asked him, Hey, has Von given you any advice

860
00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 1: of how to go up against Aaron Donald? And he

861
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 1: was like, Vaughan's giving me advice of how to be

862
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 1: a better offensive lineman. I've lost so many reps against

863
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: him during training camp. Just having him on our team

864
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: in practices is making the whole team better. So I

865
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: think he's going to bring that defensive line unit to

866
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: a different level. And because of that, look out for

867
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: Edmonds and Milano. The linebackers will definitely benefit off of

868
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: a better defensive line this year. Yeah, I agree with

869
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: the with the opinion wide receiving corps and depth is

870
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: more legit. Yes, because you have the emerging players in

871
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: Davis and McKenzie, you have proven players in Digs and Crowder,

872
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: and then you have the wild card who's Shakir and

873
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,879
Speaker 1: then whoever the sixth receiver is probably Jake Kumero. Where

874
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 1: it stands right now with final cuts coming down tomorrow

875
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 1: D line. I've been trumpeting the depth of the D

876
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,800
Speaker 1: line and how excited I am about it since about April,

877
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: and not just because of Miller, because of the three

878
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 1: giant humans that they signed in free agency to play

879
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: alongside at Oliver inside. That's all very very exciting as

880
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. Career year for Oliver, I think

881
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: that could happen. Edmonds conceivably, and Milano I think it

882
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,839
Speaker 1: could happen because of those big guys up front. They're

883
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,359
Speaker 1: going to tie up lineman and not let them get

884
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: to the second level, which allows Edmonds and Milano to

885
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 1: roam free and just find the football and should result

886
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: in a lot of big numbers for them, whether it's tackles,

887
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: splash plays for the linebackers might be a little harder,

888
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 1: but the DBS should have their hands on more balls

889
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: for sure this year, with more interceptions. Hopefully it all

890
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: comes together and we see that. Let's take a break here, though,

891
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: because when we return, we're gonna be joined by our

892
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:49,919
Speaker 1: good friend Eric Wood, former Bills center and radio color

893
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: analyst on the Bills Radio network. We're gonna check in

894
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 1: with him and find out what he felt he learned

895
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: about the Bills now that the preseason is over and

896
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: we're getting ready for the regular season. Eric would coming

897
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: up next here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health.

898
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

899
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: been all over the field. Kind of unique. He was

900
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you, Steve of

901
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: a literally Steve a blimp. We're not even in the

902
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: straged beer of normalcy here, all right? Our number two

903
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,720
Speaker 1: on a Monday Chris Brown, Maddie Cleab with you and

904
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: joined now by Bill's radio color analyst, Eric Wood, who

905
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: MUCKs like us, has taken in the preseason and boy

906
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: are we ready for regular season football? Marnch Eric. I mean,

907
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,439
Speaker 1: I know it's a little less than ten days away,

908
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: but I think we're all ready. We feel like forever.

909
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 1: I know what. I'm excited for it and excited to

910
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:06,760
Speaker 1: get out to LA. We're going to get out there Saturday,

911
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: spend a little time with the family out there. But yeah,

912
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: it's it's upon us, and those broadcasts are fun to

913
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: call in the preseason. It's it's great to see all

914
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: the guys competing, so many guys getting opportunities in the preseason,

915
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:20,800
Speaker 1: but those broadcasts sometimes feel like a like a baseball

916
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: game where we're telling stories for a part of the

917
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: broadcast as opposed to just focus in on the action

918
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 1: all the time. It'll be fun to get back to

919
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: calling real games, all right, Eric, what surprised you most

920
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: about these preseason games? Was there a position, group, a player,

921
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: something that you had your eyes on that that surprised

922
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:42,879
Speaker 1: you After three preseason games, I wouldn't say I was surprised,

923
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: but it was great to see Shakier back on punt's

924
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: returns and how comfortable he was back there, like not

925
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: even a blip of a mistake back there. I thought

926
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 1: in the first game maybe he was going a little

927
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: too much laterally after catching the ball, which you can

928
00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 1: get away with in college. You cannot get away with

929
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: that in the NFL, not even preseason games. I thought

930
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: he did a great job getting north and south in

931
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,439
Speaker 1: the next two games, so that was great, And I thought, man,

932
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: he just looked so smooth out there. You know, it

933
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 1: was surprising to me at times to see how the

934
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: tight end room shook out with Oj Howard playing so

935
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: many snaps in those preseason games, Quintin Morris being used

936
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 1: and at times kind of in that Reggie Gilliam h

937
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: back fullback type role moving around, and then Tommy Sweeney,

938
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: we kind of knew what we were getting from him.

939
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 1: That's the role he played there. You know, some of

940
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 1: the guys on the offensive line played well. It was

941
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,240
Speaker 1: nice to see Quisenbury in there get some action. Spencer

942
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: Brown got some more action as the preseason went on.

943
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: If you want to talk about a surprise, maybe Bobby

944
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: Hart and how well he played through the preseason end

945
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: games and then all the reports out of training camp,

946
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 1: which may have been a little bit of the Aaron

947
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: Cromer effect coming in and just getting a different set

948
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: of techniques in some different philosophies that helped his game.

949
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,879
Speaker 1: On the defensive side of the football, defense played great.

950
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 1: Some of those young linebackers, Bernard extremely active. It was

951
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: great to see the back end of that defense. You know,

952
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,959
Speaker 1: Jaquan Johnson is just being been groomed for a number

953
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 1: of years at safety. It was great to see him

954
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 1: play at a high level all throughout the preseason, and

955
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: you know, if hits, if it gets to a point

956
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: where he's got to play this year, I think a

957
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: lot of Bills fans have tons of confidence in him.

958
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:18,399
Speaker 1: It was fun watching those two rookie cornerbacks out there

959
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: and both kind of live up to the hype and

960
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see how they shake out on

961
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: the depth chart. But it won't be because either of

962
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 1: them played bad. I think both of them were a

963
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 1: little handsy early on in the preseason, a little too

964
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 1: much contact, which takes an adjustment coming from the college

965
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: to the NFL. But man, some great pass breakups Benford

966
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 1: last game in that goal line stand how physical he was,

967
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: and you have to be physical if you're gonna play

968
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: cornerback in Sean mcdermot's defense. I explained during the broadcast

969
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 1: that those corners oftentimes are the edge rudge run support,

970
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 1: and so when the ball gets bounced out to you,

971
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:55,320
Speaker 1: you're the final line of defense out there at corner.

972
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: And so watching those guys tackle, there was a lot

973
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:00,359
Speaker 1: of bright spots from the preseason. What do you think

974
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:04,240
Speaker 1: about this prospect, Eric, Because as we get creep closer

975
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 1: and closer to the season opener, it probably becomes less

976
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: and less likely that Trudeavious White is part of the

977
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:13,280
Speaker 1: equation since he still hasn't been cleared for practice. So

978
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: with that in mind, obviously Kayerie lamandor Christian Benford will

979
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: be on the field on one side at the cornerback

980
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: position with Dane Jackson on the other. Question is could

981
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: you foresee a platoon there between the two rookies through

982
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: the course of a game or would you expect them

983
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,919
Speaker 1: to say, let's just go with this guy and keep

984
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: as many variables as minimal as possible. That's a great

985
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 1: question and one I often pondered because if the defensive coaches,

986
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,440
Speaker 1: after Sean McDermott, if they're truly being truthful in the

987
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: media when they say that those guys are just neck

988
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:52,320
Speaker 1: and neck in this competition for that spot, then maybe

989
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: you do let him rotate early in the season and

990
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 1: see who kind of shakes out and emerges as the

991
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: top guy. Because let's say you play one or the

992
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: other there's some early struggles, then do you go to

993
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 1: the other guy? Do you sit there in the back

994
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:04,879
Speaker 1: of your mind and say, hey, maybe the other one

995
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,719
Speaker 1: could have played better. I think you could see that now.

996
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: The only drawback, and I know this from playing experience

997
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,240
Speaker 1: that oftentimes throughout a game, especially earlier in your career,

998
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 1: throughout the game, you'll get more and more comfortable. It's

999
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: not hitting the reset button each and every week, but

1000
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 1: you got to get the field of the game again,

1001
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: and then you kind of get settled as the game

1002
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: goes on. Well, you'd hate to see one of them

1003
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 1: struggle a little bit early. Then you replace them and

1004
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 1: you're not letting either of them get comfortable. And I

1005
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:33,240
Speaker 1: think that can happen if you do the platoon route.

1006
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: In terms of the offensive line, you know with how

1007
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: it's going to shake out this season, the new additions

1008
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 1: to the offensive line room, the veterans that were added,

1009
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 1: Aaron Kromer's effect, why do you have high hopes for

1010
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,399
Speaker 1: the offensive line this season? We know they ended last

1011
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 1: season on a high note, but what do you think

1012
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: we can see out of this group in twenty twenty two. Well,

1013
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: you get a lot of familiar faces back, and you

1014
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:00,320
Speaker 1: get Spencer Brown at quisson Berry. That's kind of the

1015
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 1: only question mark. It appears that Quissonberry will be the

1016
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: starter at right tackle going into the season, Spencer Brown

1017
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: will likely play that sixth offensive lineman, that blocking tight

1018
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 1: end role that we often saw Brian day ball Us.

1019
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: I would assume you'll see some of that as well

1020
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: from Ken Dorsey, especially when they truly want to run

1021
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: the football and make it obvious or run some hard

1022
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: play actions, so he'll be on the field. Just seems

1023
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: like kind of similar to Tredevious White, but a much

1024
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: different situation that it's almost got to the point now

1025
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: is they're still being slogan and Spencer Brown back in there,

1026
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:31,240
Speaker 1: like does he have the conditioning level to just start

1027
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: off and play a full game week one, And I

1028
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:34,799
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the case. So it looks like

1029
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 1: Quissenbury will be the starter at right tackle, but the

1030
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 1: rest of that offensive line has played at a high

1031
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: level throughout their careers. Dion Dawkins is an excellent left tackle.

1032
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 1: Roger Staffold one of the best run blocking guards in

1033
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 1: the NFL during his time. Mitch Morse, we know what

1034
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,919
Speaker 1: we have in our savvy veteran center. And then Ryan

1035
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 1: Bates emerged and played extremely well last year when given

1036
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 1: an opportunity, and I'm excited to see what he can

1037
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: do focusing all of his attention to right guard. This

1038
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 1: is a guy last year who in the first game

1039
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 1: he pops in, he goes in at right guard and

1040
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: then immediately flips over the left side. He was also

1041
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,360
Speaker 1: playing backup center duties, so you're getting a lot of

1042
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: cross training there and maybe not able to master one spot.

1043
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 1: And so I'm excited to see what Ryan Bates can

1044
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: do focusing all of his attention at right guard. I

1045
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: realize a lot has probably been kept close to the vest,

1046
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: But after watching three preseason games worth of Ken Dorsey

1047
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:30,240
Speaker 1: calling plays, have you drawn any conclusions from his play

1048
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 1: calling as to what to anticipate going forward. I mean,

1049
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 1: my biggest conclusion would be that they kept it very

1050
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 1: similar to Brian day while so they're not giving away

1051
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 1: any secrets in the preseason, and that's what I expected.

1052
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:44,919
Speaker 1: You're not gonna any new wrinkles. You want to hold

1053
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:48,439
Speaker 1: those at least for LA, and maybe everybody will see

1054
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,479
Speaker 1: it on full display come the LA game. But most

1055
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: of that's held to the best. There's some little nuances

1056
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 1: in the run game that looks like it it's either

1057
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: a Ken Dorsey or maybe an Aaron Cromer effect. Some

1058
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: of that mid zone, so where it's not quite inside zone,

1059
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: it's not quite outside zone. The Bills are extremely effective

1060
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 1: running that throughout the preseason, but you're seeing a lot

1061
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: of the pin and pool schemes where one guy will

1062
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 1: block down and the offensive line will pull out and

1063
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: get out in space. And as athletic as this offensive

1064
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 1: line is, we saw those under Brian dave Ball and

1065
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 1: we're going to continue to see them because that's the

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00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: strength of this offensive line. And as I've talked to

1067
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 1: Aaron Cromer, he just gushes about how this is by

1068
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: far the most athletic offensive line he's ever been around,

1069
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 1: and you could just do so many fun things when

1070
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:32,359
Speaker 1: you have five guys that can all get out and run.

1071
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:35,959
Speaker 1: Eric the roster is at seventy three right now. They've

1072
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 1: got to be down of fifty three tomorrow at four o'clock.

1073
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:41,720
Speaker 1: So is there a position group or a couple players

1074
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 1: that you're looking at with you know, are these guys

1075
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 1: going to make the roster. I'm interested to see how

1076
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: this position group shakes out. A lot of people talked

1077
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:54,839
Speaker 1: about Isaiah Hodgens in the preseason based on what he

1078
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: was able to do, probably competing first spot with Jake Kumero.

1079
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:00,799
Speaker 1: So is there anyone in particular that you're kind of

1080
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:04,799
Speaker 1: eyeing as cuts getting made tomorrow afternoon? Yeah, I think

1081
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:08,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting. At receiver. You mentioned Isaiah Hodgens.

1082
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: I think that's an interesting one to look at, and

1083
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:13,360
Speaker 1: when you look at him verse maybe a Jake Kumero.

1084
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 1: Can you keep both of them? If you do, you

1085
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: probably eliminate one of your young linebackers, a bail inspector.

1086
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that's the competition there at tight end? What

1087
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: you do with Quintin Morris and Tommy Sweeney. Do you

1088
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 1: keep them both? It's gonna be interesting to see how

1089
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: those in particular shake out. But when you have a

1090
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 1: roster with so much talent, so many returning starters, there's

1091
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: not a ton of jobs up for grabs. We know

1092
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: how serious this bill staff takes special teams, So a

1093
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones, a Tyler Medakovich, you know when we're those

1094
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 1: other guys shake out special teams wise, in particular with

1095
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:49,320
Speaker 1: an Isaiah Hodgins, who's never proven in a game that

1096
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 1: he could be effective on special teams, but he very well,

1097
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 1: very well could be, But we just don't know that

1098
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 1: at this point, they've gotten the pleasure of seeing those

1099
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: guys in practice and all the reps there from the games.

1100
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 1: We didn't get a huge sample size either, and then

1101
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 1: in the last game you got to evaluate some in

1102
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 1: the punk game. But when you have Matt Barkley punting

1103
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: and valiant effort, valiant effort by him not making that

1104
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: a laughing stock getting back there and punting and being effective,

1105
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 1: it's still it's not great film to evaluate. So I

1106
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: think a lot of it comes down to those special

1107
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: teams roles and if Isaiah Hodgins, if they feel like

1108
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 1: he can be reliable on game day to go and

1109
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 1: cover and block, you know, block on the returns and

1110
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 1: cover kicks, then then I think you could see him

1111
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 1: make this team. Because it was evident to me in

1112
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: the last game. You know, he had at one point,

1113
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: I think he had three catches for thirteen yards. But

1114
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 1: that's going against the Panther starters. You're getting the ball

1115
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 1: out of your hands quick, you know, with the backup

1116
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: offensive line against their starting defensive line. But it was

1117
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 1: interesting to me that's Isaiah Hodgins is who those quarterbacks

1118
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: were looking to first, Like in a matchup of we

1119
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:57,360
Speaker 1: got some of our reserve against one of the best

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00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 1: secondaries in football they were looking his way with shows

1121
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 1: me kind of the respect and reputation he has in

1122
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: that locker room. Right, had a couple of big fourth

1123
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 1: down conversions on back to back series in that game

1124
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 1: where he did have to get physical on contested catch situation. So, Eric,

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00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: now that the preseason is over, you've kind of witnessed

1126
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: this team up close and personal. Have you formulated any opinions?

1127
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 1: Like I'm sure you had questions going in. You've observed

1128
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 1: this team now for the better part of a month.

1129
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: What do you come out of it with in terms

1130
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 1: of a projection about maybe a side of the ball

1131
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: or a position group. Is there anything that you've kind

1132
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 1: of formulated in your head in terms of an opinion

1133
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: that you have now after witnessing what you've witnessed. Well,

1134
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: we got such a small sample size of the starters

1135
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 1: in the preseason, but I was really encouraged with the

1136
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: running backs in that run game, and I think, you know,

1137
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: I think you'll see more run in play action. We

1138
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 1: heard a lot about that through the season last year

1139
00:59:57,280 --> 00:59:59,919
Speaker 1: from Sean McDermott. I think Sean McDermott in hiring Ken

1140
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: or see. I'm sure there was an understanding there that

1141
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 1: they want to be physical on the offensive side of

1142
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: the football too, And I was really encouraged by the

1143
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 1: play of single Arry Moss, James Cook and his explosiveness.

1144
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's a lot to be excited about.

1145
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: This is a passing team. You got one of the

1146
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in the NFL, one of the best receiving corps. Look,

1147
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:18,440
Speaker 1: they're going to air it out, but you want to

1148
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 1: have an effective run game, and I think they can

1149
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:22,840
Speaker 1: have that, and those running backs looked excellent. I think

1150
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 1: Zach Moss has got a little bit of pop in

1151
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 1: in his wheels again after coming off an injury last

1152
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 1: year and didn't look like quite the same player as

1153
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 1: we saw in year one from him, but him in

1154
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: Singletary looked great. We obviously know that James Cook has

1155
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 1: that explosion. We got to see it in a game now,

1156
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: but from the run game I was I was excited

1157
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 1: to see that, and then I'm excited to see this

1158
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 1: Bill's pass rush. I'm excited to see Von Miller, Greg Russ,

1159
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 1: who when I've talked to the coaches, they are so

1160
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: excited about Greg or So and what he can be

1161
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 1: in year two for this team. De Kwon Jones kind

1162
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:56,919
Speaker 1: of a sneaky candidate to be a pass rushing thread

1163
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: on the interior. Obviously, Ed Oliver really came on strong

1164
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 1: second half of the season last year. And you know,

1165
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: if we're going to play that first game in a

1166
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: number of weeks without Tredevious White to start the season.

1167
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 1: If that's the case, the best friend of those young

1168
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: cornerbacks will be that pass rush. And I'm excited to

1169
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: see them under the lights with the run game and

1170
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 1: more play action potentially this season. How do you think

1171
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 1: that can help a fifth year quarterback in Josh Allen,

1172
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:24,480
Speaker 1: who's who's still looking to improve in a lot of

1173
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 1: different ways. He talked about the yards after catch, throwing

1174
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:30,919
Speaker 1: guys open early on in OTAs when he came back

1175
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 1: to Buffalo. So how do you think an improved play

1176
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:37,720
Speaker 1: of the running backs and maybe some more play action

1177
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 1: thrown in there can help this guy maybe even reach

1178
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 1: newer heights than the season. Yeah, and it became really popular.

1179
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:47,600
Speaker 1: The Bills did it against Kansas City. Leave those safeties back,

1180
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 1: Darren run the football, and at times teams were doing

1181
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:51,640
Speaker 1: that to the Bills last year. Because the passing attack

1182
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 1: is so prolific. But if you're able to run the

1183
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 1: ball effectively, one of those safeties has got to get

1184
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 1: involved in the run game, which can open you up

1185
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 1: for bigger plays down the field. If you get a

1186
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 1: better run game with your running backs, then you have

1187
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 1: to rely on Josh Allen less in crucial situations to

1188
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: run the football himself. That could potentially keep him healthier

1189
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: long term. Looking at that, Josh is such a weapon

1190
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 1: using his legs, you don't want to take that away

1191
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 1: from him completely, But as he progresses throughout his career,

1192
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 1: you'd like to see him run the ball less and

1193
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 1: less and take less shots. That being said, a run game,

1194
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:24,280
Speaker 1: a solid play action game helps out with that last

1195
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Speaker 1: one I've got for you, Eric, it seems as though

1196
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 1: down the stretch here that the defensive staff was kind

1197
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: of pitting Nick McLeod and Cam Lewis up against one

1198
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:37,600
Speaker 1: another for potentially the last corner spot. We know that

1199
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Speaker 1: both of them have also doubled at the safety spot

1200
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: at some point in the preseason, and Cam does have

1201
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 1: the added element of being able to play outside a

1202
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: corner or in the slot. He got, you know, a

1203
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 1: nose injury in the game when his chin strap failed

1204
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 1: him had to come out early. But what are your

1205
01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 1: thoughts on those two being pitted against one another potentially

1206
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:04,000
Speaker 1: for the last corner spot on the roster if Trudevious

1207
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:07,760
Speaker 1: isn't ready. Yeah, I think that's a real battle back there.

1208
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 1: And it was interesting them working cam Lewis in that

1209
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:12,560
Speaker 1: safety in those last two preseason games. You know, he

1210
01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 1: showed that and he showed him before that he can

1211
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:16,919
Speaker 1: play corner in this league if he's able to play

1212
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 1: safety as well, that position flexibility on the back end

1213
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 1: of the defense. You know, this staff has just proven

1214
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 1: that they love that, they love us Saran Neil who

1215
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: can do both and then play special teams. And so

1216
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 1: that being said, it's being interesting to see how it

1217
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:30,479
Speaker 1: all shakes out. I don't know that either of them

1218
01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 1: completely separated themselves from each other throughout the preseason. That's

1219
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 1: why we're sitting here having this conversation about them. But

1220
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:38,440
Speaker 1: those are two guys. You know. Cam Lewis is intriguing

1221
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 1: me because he's a guy with some serious quickness and

1222
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:43,840
Speaker 1: I've just gotten to see a smaller sample size from

1223
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:46,440
Speaker 1: Nick McLeod. But cam Lewis got a lot of quickness,

1224
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 1: a lot of competitiveness. He's tough. You know, he hits

1225
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:52,280
Speaker 1: the dude so hard as chinch chap breaks in his nose,

1226
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 1: may have broken with it or whatever. The injurview was

1227
01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 1: the final call in his nose. But he's a tough dude,

1228
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 1: and you know he's a guy that you know can

1229
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: play for this Bills. I mean he's proven in the past.

1230
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 1: All Right, Eric, thank you so much for the time.

1231
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:09,160
Speaker 1: We'll see what this roster looks like. The next time

1232
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:11,360
Speaker 1: we talk to you, it'll be all set and done

1233
01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:14,760
Speaker 1: and ready to go for week one. Yeah, it's gonna

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01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 1: be fun. And I think we're gonna have some roster

1235
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 1: gymnastics again. Yeah, next few days. And so for all

1236
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 1: those Bills fans listening again, maybe maybe no harsh reactions

1237
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:26,600
Speaker 1: if if your favorite player is let go, he may

1238
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:28,439
Speaker 1: be sitting in the parking lot and coming right back.

1239
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:31,240
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting to see how they manipulate

1240
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 1: this roster and keep all the guys they want to.

1241
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 1: But man, what a what a fun time to be

1242
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:38,680
Speaker 1: a Bills fan with this roster they got set. Thanks again, Eric,

1243
01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 1: We'll catch up you the soon. Yeah, my pleasure. Thanks guys.

1244
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 1: All right, that's Eric Wood joining us here on one

1245
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 1: Bills Live, giving us his thoughts on the preseason and

1246
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 1: what he anticipates for the regular season. And he's right,

1247
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: there will be roster gymnastics. You still have mar Quiz

1248
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 1: Stevenson and his situation coming off a foot surgery. You

1249
01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 1: don't want to ear him now and lost him the

1250
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 1: entire season. But what you have to do in order

1251
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:06,280
Speaker 1: to put him on IR after the regular season starts

1252
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 1: is you have to give him a roster spot. So

1253
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 1: that means he much like last year, because what they

1254
01:05:11,880 --> 01:05:13,840
Speaker 1: did last year was he had a foot injury also

1255
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:17,040
Speaker 1: that he's suffered in the preseason. They put him on

1256
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: the active roster for a day, which is required, then

1257
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 1: they put him on IR. Do you remember what they did?

1258
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 1: They cut Read Ferguson and people were like, what do

1259
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:28,480
Speaker 1: they do it? It's like, hold on, everybody, stay calm.

1260
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:32,120
Speaker 1: It's a little roster juggling to get through the regulations

1261
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:34,920
Speaker 1: that are required. So the next day they put mark

1262
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: Quiz Stevenson on IR and he's not lost for the

1263
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 1: whole season. When you do it after the roster is

1264
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 1: set and then they resign read Ferguson, and all is

1265
01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:47,160
Speaker 1: right with the world. They may have to do that

1266
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:52,200
Speaker 1: very same thing with Mark Quiz Stevenson. And you know,

1267
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 1: as we said today, Quinn Morris leaves practice early today

1268
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 1: with an apparent injury. We don't know what it is,

1269
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:01,280
Speaker 1: We don't know the severity of it. But if it's

1270
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 1: even going to keep him out of action for a

1271
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:06,960
Speaker 1: little bit of for two days, well yeah, and yeah,

1272
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 1: and O. J. Howard hasn't done much either, So you

1273
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:12,840
Speaker 1: may have to carry four tight ends no matter what

1274
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 1: because of the injury situation, and that may push another

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Speaker 1: player off the roster, like Eric was even saying, you know,

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01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 1: maybe your sixth linebacker gets pushed off the active roster

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01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 1: like a Bayale inspector or at some other position. With

1278
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:29,400
Speaker 1: Trudeavious White situation, he looks like he is on a

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01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:32,560
Speaker 1: collision course with a reserve pup designation, which would make

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01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 1: him ineligible for the first four games of the season,

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01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 1: but would also open up another opportunity to carry another

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01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:41,080
Speaker 1: corner because if he's on reserve pup, he doesn't take

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01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:43,960
Speaker 1: up a roster spot. So it's all of that kind

1284
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 1: of juggling that Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott are going

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01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 1: to have to undertake in the next twenty four to

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01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 1: thirty six hours, let alone establish a practice squad after that.

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01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're going to be jumping through some hoops,

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01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:01,240
Speaker 1: you know, ducking under some limbo bars to kind of

1289
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 1: get this roster set where they needed to and it

1290
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 1: probably won't be completely set tomorrow at four pm. It'll

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01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:10,480
Speaker 1: be at fifty three, but it's likely to change in

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01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 1: some way, shape or form, and they may be catching

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01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 1: up on on having some of these conversations about the

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01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 1: fifty three because the last several days the conversations were

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01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:23,240
Speaker 1: involving what do we do with the punter? That took

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01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 1: up a lot of their time, including up until and

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01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:32,200
Speaker 1: after the last preseason game. So who knows what conversations

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01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:35,560
Speaker 1: are going on right now behind closed doors of with

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01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:40,120
Speaker 1: where's the roster? At? Are we still evaluating? Evaluating anybody?

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01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 1: What do we need to look look at here? Who

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01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 1: do we need to cut here? You know, you never

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01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:49,640
Speaker 1: know what these next two days look like with the

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01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 1: type of conversations that they're having, knowing what they had

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01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:54,959
Speaker 1: to deal with last week and a couple days ago,

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01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 1: you know, and now that I'm thinking about that whole

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01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:01,800
Speaker 1: thing last year with Mark Quiz Stephen. I'm thinking this year,

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01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 1: your extra spot is the punter position, which is currently unfilled.

1308
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:11,400
Speaker 1: So do you talk to a free agent punter and say, hey,

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01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:14,200
Speaker 1: we're interested, we want to sign you, but we're going

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01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:17,519
Speaker 1: to wait until after we set the roster, and then

1311
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:22,160
Speaker 1: we'll move this player, maybe Stevenson from the active roster too, IR.

1312
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:23,880
Speaker 1: Then we'll have the open spot to sign you to

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01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:25,559
Speaker 1: the roster and off we go. We just need you

1314
01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:27,840
Speaker 1: to hold your water. We'll sign you on Wednesday. You

1315
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Something like that could very well happen,

1316
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:32,360
Speaker 1: because I know there's some people out there going, why

1317
01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:35,639
Speaker 1: don't we have a punter yet? It'll happen in due time.

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01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:38,320
Speaker 1: They're just waiting to see who else has clipped around

1319
01:08:38,360 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 1: the league, in addition to some that have already been reported,

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01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:43,720
Speaker 1: And then you might have some roster juggling that you

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01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,439
Speaker 1: have to do where it might behoove the Bills to

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01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:49,840
Speaker 1: wait just one more day and then sign a punter

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01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:52,759
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, when they may have an extra spot because

1324
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 1: of a roster designation changing from active roster to IR

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01:08:56,600 --> 01:09:00,240
Speaker 1: or something else, so that may go that way left

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01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 1: to just wait and see. Yeah, and after the rosters

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01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:04,639
Speaker 1: cut down to fifty three, this week is a little

1328
01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 1: bit different with the practice schedule. We are less than

1329
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 1: two weeks away from that Week one game. But the

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01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:15,720
Speaker 1: Bills practice today, they'll practice tomorrow, and then they'll get Wednesday, Thursday,

1331
01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 1: and Friday off. So some of the guys are probably

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01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:20,599
Speaker 1: going to head out of town. I talked to Dan Jackson.

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01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:22,719
Speaker 1: He's going to go catch a pit football game because

1334
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:26,599
Speaker 1: they play on Thursday night to start their season, and

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01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:29,520
Speaker 1: then the guys will come back a little bit earlier

1336
01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 1: and start practice on Saturday. It'll be a weird week

1337
01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:39,040
Speaker 1: next week as well as they prepare for a Thursday opener. Yeah,

1338
01:09:39,160 --> 01:09:41,280
Speaker 1: let's get back to the tweet sheet here quick before

1339
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:44,960
Speaker 1: we take a break. As we were asking you today,

1340
01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 1: you know you saw the whole preseason front to back.

1341
01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 1: Now that it's over, what did we learn about the

1342
01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 1: Bills ahead of the regular season? Jack says, we learn

1343
01:09:54,479 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 1: they're still humble and hungry. It doesn't seem as though

1344
01:09:57,280 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 1: they're distracted by the preseason power rankings or the high

1345
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 1: They're focused on the long season ahead with the goal

1346
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:05,600
Speaker 1: of taking it one at a time and pursuing a championship.

1347
01:10:05,680 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 1: Is there any update on Morris her to practice today?

1348
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 1: There is not because we don't have access to coach

1349
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 1: McDermott today. We may have access to him or general

1350
01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: manager Brandon being at some point tomorrow and we may

1351
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 1: get an update there, but more than likely probably not

1352
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 1: something until midweek. That's definitive. So we are going to

1353
01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 1: have to wait. Well, we'll see with what the roster

1354
01:10:29,439 --> 01:10:32,040
Speaker 1: looks like. Well, right, that too, let's not forget that.

1355
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:35,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, if his injury is going to

1356
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 1: keep him out of practice for any length of time,

1357
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:41,720
Speaker 1: and we're talking like just three or four days, you

1358
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:44,960
Speaker 1: almost have to keep four tight ends then so you

1359
01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 1: have enough to go into the season opener with. So

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01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:54,160
Speaker 1: that could potentially change the dynamics of the intentions of

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01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:56,360
Speaker 1: the coaching staff in the personnel department as to who

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01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:58,920
Speaker 1: they were going to keep and where. That's what makes

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01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:02,400
Speaker 1: it interesting about Humble and Hungry. The NFL Top one

1364
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 1: hundred came out and Josh Allen was number thirteen on

1365
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:08,120
Speaker 1: the list, which I'm sure a lot of fans did

1366
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:11,479
Speaker 1: not expect, at least to top ten. He was ten

1367
01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:15,000
Speaker 1: last year in the NFL Top one hundred dropped three spots.

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01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:17,680
Speaker 1: Number thirteen a little bit interesting, but I saw a

1369
01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:20,680
Speaker 1: lot of players post about it. You know, keep sleeping

1370
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:22,880
Speaker 1: is what a lot of people said, a lot of

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01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:26,400
Speaker 1: emojis about. You know, why why is this guy number thirteen?

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01:11:26,439 --> 01:11:29,920
Speaker 1: He's way better than number thirteen. Deserves to be in

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01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 1: the top ten. So yeah, humble and hungry approach. All

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01:11:34,400 --> 01:11:36,240
Speaker 1: I know is I mean, I tweeted this today. I

1375
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:38,600
Speaker 1: was I was thanking the NFL Top one hundred for

1376
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 1: motivating Josh Allen to completely wreck the league again this year.

1377
01:11:43,320 --> 01:11:45,679
Speaker 1: If he didn't have any internal motivation, which it usually

1378
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:48,679
Speaker 1: has plenty of, he's got even more now. So thanks

1379
01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:52,000
Speaker 1: NFL Top one hundred for doing that. Ranking him thirteen,

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01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:55,200
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. SPAN had him at number five, So that's

1381
01:11:55,320 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 1: good jobs, but that's significantly better. I mean, don't even

1382
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 1: have him in the top ten. What the hell are

1383
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 1: you doing? Like, have you watched football? Did you watch

1384
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 1: the Patriots playoff game? I mean, I don't know if

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01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:11,920
Speaker 1: a quarterback has had back to back playoff games that

1386
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:17,240
Speaker 1: productive that efficient ever, I mean, it was almost two

1387
01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:21,400
Speaker 1: perfect games by a quarterback in the playoffs against top

1388
01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:24,639
Speaker 1: flight competition. So I don't know what else you need

1389
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:29,800
Speaker 1: to do to convince people that you know you're good.

1390
01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: Maybe Tom Brady's behind it. I'd be happy to blame him,

1391
01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 1: especially the way he treated Josh at the Match Championship.

1392
01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:41,240
Speaker 1: That still bothers me. Um with these little side jokes,

1393
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:44,040
Speaker 1: the hell, just get the hell out of here. I

1394
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:48,360
Speaker 1: can't go take another vacation. Can't stand Brady with. Speaking

1395
01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: of which, did you see the video when he was

1396
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:52,600
Speaker 1: talking about how he's got a lot of stuff to

1397
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:56,839
Speaker 1: handle it at Space? A lot was made on social

1398
01:12:56,880 --> 01:12:59,800
Speaker 1: media about all of a sudden his chin looked hard.

1399
01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:02,800
Speaker 1: I was looking at him, and I was like, he

1400
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:05,840
Speaker 1: looks more and more like a robot or like a

1401
01:13:05,880 --> 01:13:09,280
Speaker 1: fake human every single time we see him. He's always

1402
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got to define, but he's always had

1403
01:13:12,080 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 1: like a full face. And I know he's lost weight

1404
01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:18,559
Speaker 1: as he's gotten older, and you know, he's a little

1405
01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:21,639
Speaker 1: more drawn in his face. And I know he's super

1406
01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:24,040
Speaker 1: careful about what he puts in his body and how

1407
01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:25,720
Speaker 1: he takes care of his body. I don't know if

1408
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:30,760
Speaker 1: that's why he looks way younger than forty five years old,

1409
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:33,720
Speaker 1: but he looked gaunt like. I was like, what was

1410
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:36,040
Speaker 1: he sick? I looked at his face and I said,

1411
01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:38,360
Speaker 1: did he get work done? Like what? I don't know

1412
01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:41,479
Speaker 1: what was going on basically from his cheekbones down to

1413
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:43,759
Speaker 1: his chin, because he didn't even look like the same person.

1414
01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:46,360
Speaker 1: It was like something right out of the Michael Jackson

1415
01:13:46,439 --> 01:13:48,760
Speaker 1: days when he was getting all that work done. I

1416
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:54,160
Speaker 1: was like, what what's going on? There more was made

1417
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: of that on social media than him saying I'm forty

1418
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:00,120
Speaker 1: five years old and there's a lot of bleep going on.

1419
01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:03,080
Speaker 1: And I looked at I was like, what are they

1420
01:14:03,120 --> 01:14:04,679
Speaker 1: talking about? So I went and looked at the video.

1421
01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:07,639
Speaker 1: I was like, holy mackerel, doesn't even look like him.

1422
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:10,800
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going something's happening. I don't know

1423
01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:12,479
Speaker 1: if he got work done in the Bahamas or he

1424
01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:17,160
Speaker 1: was somewhere else. People were talking about the mask singer

1425
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 1: for the longest time. Well, if he was on that show,

1426
01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:20,599
Speaker 1: he must have had the mask on too long because

1427
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: it misshaped his face. I don't know what the heck's

1428
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:27,559
Speaker 1: going on there. Something. I'm telling you, something's not right

1429
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 1: with his head. There's something that got messed up with

1430
01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:32,280
Speaker 1: his chin there. I don't know if he got a

1431
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:34,640
Speaker 1: botch surgery. I don't know what it is, but he

1432
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 1: looks completely different from basically the bottom of his nose

1433
01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:42,000
Speaker 1: to the bottom of his chin. Something is different there structurally.

1434
01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:45,000
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, but it didn't look right,

1435
01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:46,880
Speaker 1: and I don't think it was just a bad day.

1436
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:49,880
Speaker 1: Something something happened there. We're gonna find it out different.

1437
01:14:50,160 --> 01:14:54,000
Speaker 1: We'll put TMZ's probably on it for sure, so I

1438
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:56,920
Speaker 1: guess we'll count on them to unearth whatever the heck

1439
01:14:56,960 --> 01:14:59,439
Speaker 1: it was. We got to take a break here. We'll

1440
01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:01,760
Speaker 1: finish up with some thoughts on the tweet sheet, and

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01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:04,120
Speaker 1: we'll play a little NFL True Falls next here on

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01:15:04,120 --> 01:15:06,280
Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Collid to help, it's Buffalo

1443
01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:21,840
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to One Bills Live.

1444
01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:25,000
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Maddi glab with you. Got some more post

1445
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 1: practice locker room comments to pass along your way. This

1446
01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:32,479
Speaker 1: is from veteran center Mitch Morse, So let's see what

1447
01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:35,400
Speaker 1: he had to say about basically the preseason, coming to

1448
01:15:35,439 --> 01:15:38,480
Speaker 1: the clothes and gearing up for the regular season. Opener's

1449
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 1: just being a veteran on the team, being one of

1450
01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 1: the leaders of the locker room, just what have the

1451
01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:46,920
Speaker 1: past couple day's been like, and just how do you,

1452
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: as one of those leaders, how do you get everybody focused?

1453
01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:55,639
Speaker 1: And yeah, I that's just that really yeah, I think, um,

1454
01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:59,320
Speaker 1: that's a great question. I think everyone would answer that

1455
01:15:59,360 --> 01:16:03,439
Speaker 1: differently in the locker room. For me, you know, there's

1456
01:16:03,479 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 1: so many unknowns that and I know there's a bunch

1457
01:16:06,120 --> 01:16:08,040
Speaker 1: of cliche answers you probably have already heard, but it's

1458
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:11,200
Speaker 1: the truth, you know what I mean. You try not

1459
01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:14,679
Speaker 1: to have the court of a public opinion affect yourself,

1460
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:16,760
Speaker 1: but it's it's hard not to, you know what I mean.

1461
01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:18,599
Speaker 1: And it's just one of those things that in the end,

1462
01:16:18,680 --> 01:16:20,720
Speaker 1: it was a hard decision for the organization to make.

1463
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:23,599
Speaker 1: I think they made the one that made the most

1464
01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:27,880
Speaker 1: sense as as a guy in the locker room, and

1465
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:30,519
Speaker 1: it's tough. You know, some guys have kids, and it

1466
01:16:30,560 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 1: makes you think of both situations, you know. I think

1467
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 1: it was one of those great tests as a group

1468
01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:39,760
Speaker 1: to see where we could go from mentally. You know,

1469
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:42,200
Speaker 1: it was right before a game. I thought the guys

1470
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:45,880
Speaker 1: were able to compartmentalize it, who were playing played effectively

1471
01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 1: really put some good stuff out there, and uh, it

1472
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:53,680
Speaker 1: was it definitely caused some conversation to the locker room,

1473
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:56,559
Speaker 1: I think, healthy ones between guys and uh, you know,

1474
01:16:56,600 --> 01:17:00,680
Speaker 1: it's it's just one of those things that it's just unfairly,

1475
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:04,320
Speaker 1: I mean not fairly, incredibly unfortunate for both parties, and

1476
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:06,679
Speaker 1: I just hope at the end that both parties find

1477
01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:09,760
Speaker 1: some peace in this and uh it sorts itself out.

1478
01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:16,000
Speaker 1: Some guys have kids yourself, you do, yeah, Um, for

1479
01:17:16,120 --> 01:17:21,080
Speaker 1: you personally, just you know, how challenging has this whole

1480
01:17:21,479 --> 01:17:27,800
Speaker 1: situation been to to be chromics? Yeah, it's a good question. Um,

1481
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:30,160
Speaker 1: you know, you it's it's that if you definitely has

1482
01:17:30,200 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 1: that shock at first, you have that guttural reaction and

1483
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:34,960
Speaker 1: then you kind of take a step back, kind of

1484
01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 1: think of the situation itself. UM. I don't think there's

1485
01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:43,599
Speaker 1: a right answer for guys to you know, it's conflicting. Um.

1486
01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:46,599
Speaker 1: In the end, I do think they made the right decision.

1487
01:17:47,080 --> 01:17:49,639
Speaker 1: And as unfortunate it might be for Matt, he's got

1488
01:17:49,680 --> 01:17:51,960
Speaker 1: other stuff to deal with and this team, you know,

1489
01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 1: time marches on and that's kind of what we're doing

1490
01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:57,840
Speaker 1: right now. How important is knowing that this team has

1491
01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:01,120
Speaker 1: gone from strikes typic grosping and you can lean on

1492
01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:03,439
Speaker 1: the fact that you've come over from the better on

1493
01:18:03,439 --> 01:18:06,839
Speaker 1: the other side. Yeah, that's a good point. Um, you know, adverse,

1494
01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:09,200
Speaker 1: he finds itself and in a locker room throughout the season,

1495
01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 1: we have talked about this while bit off air. Uh,

1496
01:18:11,479 --> 01:18:15,439
Speaker 1: it also finds itself, you know, all phases and all ways,

1497
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 1: and uh, it's you know, it's it's always unfortunate, and

1498
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:24,679
Speaker 1: especially this situation. Um, you know, it's just it's such

1499
01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:29,639
Speaker 1: a touchy subject and you have so many thoughts. Um,

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01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:32,120
Speaker 1: there's no right answer, and I think you asked fifty

1501
01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:34,080
Speaker 1: three opinions, and you know more than that. In this

1502
01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 1: locker room, they're gonna someone's gonna give you a different opinion. Uh.

1503
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:40,559
Speaker 1: It's just and that's why you sympathize for people who

1504
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 1: have to answer. Like you know, Coach goes up there

1505
01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:44,200
Speaker 1: right after this, and you know he doesn't have the

1506
01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:46,800
Speaker 1: right answer because it just for some people they don't

1507
01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:48,639
Speaker 1: think he has the right answer. But that's the answer

1508
01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 1: he's got and you got to sympathize for that. And

1509
01:18:51,280 --> 01:18:54,519
Speaker 1: I think they've handled it admirably because I don't envy

1510
01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:57,280
Speaker 1: those situations. Then that's why I'm the player and they're

1511
01:18:57,280 --> 01:18:59,400
Speaker 1: they're they're the guys who have to make those decisions.

1512
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:02,080
Speaker 1: So a lot kudos for them making the decision that

1513
01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:03,880
Speaker 1: they thought was right, and I think it was the

1514
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 1: right one. And you go from there. What was showing

1515
01:19:06,240 --> 01:19:09,880
Speaker 1: his message throughout the whole thing to you guys? Uh,

1516
01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:15,240
Speaker 1: First of all, it was just, you know, I think

1517
01:19:15,280 --> 01:19:17,680
Speaker 1: he was kind of you know, I don't think he

1518
01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:22,519
Speaker 1: slept very much. Coach. Um, he's going through the same

1519
01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:25,120
Speaker 1: thoughts we all are in regards to being a family man.

1520
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:28,599
Speaker 1: He wants to win football games, but he also there's

1521
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:30,920
Speaker 1: something higher, there's a higher power to that which is

1522
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 1: just um, you know, humanity. How he handles himself, and

1523
01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 1: how he wants his team to handle himself, and how

1524
01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:42,600
Speaker 1: he wants everyone to do stuff, and um, you know,

1525
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 1: it's just it really is such a trying time. And

1526
01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:47,360
Speaker 1: I wish there was like, you know, every like a

1527
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:49,720
Speaker 1: you know, when the fire alarms pulled at school, there's

1528
01:19:49,760 --> 01:19:51,880
Speaker 1: there there's a code you follow. Everyone goes here to

1529
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:54,080
Speaker 1: hear and hear and they're and they're kind of writing

1530
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:56,280
Speaker 1: the book on it right now. And it's unfortunate, but

1531
01:19:56,280 --> 01:19:58,400
Speaker 1: at the same time, it's it's I think they handled

1532
01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:03,160
Speaker 1: it as well as they couldn't these circumstances. I think

1533
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:07,599
Speaker 1: he puts the fact that he's a football coach. I mean,

1534
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:09,200
Speaker 1: he wants what's best for the team, but he also

1535
01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:12,320
Speaker 1: wants to make decisions that I think, uh, he'd want

1536
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:15,320
Speaker 1: for his kids, and he puts himself as a father first,

1537
01:20:15,360 --> 01:20:19,000
Speaker 1: and and and kind of ghost from there, and um,

1538
01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:21,320
Speaker 1: you know, it's just like I said, it's not something

1539
01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:25,720
Speaker 1: I envy because it's such a decision. Not only you know,

1540
01:20:26,560 --> 01:20:28,640
Speaker 1: do you not have all the facts because you're not

1541
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:31,880
Speaker 1: the one doing the investigation, right, but you're you're putting

1542
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:35,320
Speaker 1: both you know, both parties have in tremendous stakes. You know,

1543
01:20:35,360 --> 01:20:37,680
Speaker 1: their lives are in there in hand, So you have

1544
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:39,600
Speaker 1: to make decisions best for the team, which is what

1545
01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:42,800
Speaker 1: his job is, and and I think for also for

1546
01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:45,080
Speaker 1: the city of Buffalo, the organization all that stuff. So,

1547
01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:48,120
Speaker 1: like I said a thousand times, I don't envy that

1548
01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:52,519
Speaker 1: that decision, but I think he made a decision promptly,

1549
01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:54,599
Speaker 1: both of them, in a way that we can kind

1550
01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:56,040
Speaker 1: of take the next step for as a team to

1551
01:20:56,080 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 1: get ready for the seasons is the fast. Yeah. Absolutely.

1552
01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:06,960
Speaker 1: I think now at this point we have to play ball.

1553
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:09,719
Speaker 1: We know it's coming up. We don't want to completely

1554
01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:13,040
Speaker 1: compartmentalize it because there's a lot of lessons learned here,

1555
01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:17,280
Speaker 1: but we do have a game coming up in you know,

1556
01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:19,080
Speaker 1: twelve or something, you know less than that, you know,

1557
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:21,519
Speaker 1: ten days, So we got to take that step as

1558
01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:24,360
Speaker 1: a team to focus on that and learn the lessons

1559
01:21:24,400 --> 01:21:27,280
Speaker 1: we can and go from there. And that's why the

1560
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:30,160
Speaker 1: media usually huddles around Mitch Morris's locker when they want

1561
01:21:30,200 --> 01:21:32,560
Speaker 1: to gauge the temperature of a locker room or the

1562
01:21:32,640 --> 01:21:34,840
Speaker 1: mood of a locker room, because Mitch kind of states

1563
01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:39,720
Speaker 1: it pretty eloquently, as you heard him getting walked through

1564
01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:43,680
Speaker 1: a series of questions about what things were like for

1565
01:21:43,800 --> 01:21:46,160
Speaker 1: this team for the better part of the last seventy

1566
01:21:46,160 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: two to ninety six hours, when the mat arises stuff

1567
01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:52,519
Speaker 1: first broke, the decision making that followed, and then the

1568
01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:55,880
Speaker 1: ultimate decision that was made over the weekend to release him.

1569
01:21:57,160 --> 01:22:02,000
Speaker 1: Not easy for a team to go through. But Dion Dawkins,

1570
01:22:02,040 --> 01:22:05,839
Speaker 1: who spoke later after practice today, he pretty much assured

1571
01:22:05,960 --> 01:22:10,760
Speaker 1: the media it's over, it's behind us, it's done, We're

1572
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:13,479
Speaker 1: onto the next thing. And I think with the locker

1573
01:22:13,560 --> 01:22:15,679
Speaker 1: room that's got it's fair share of veterans and fair

1574
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:18,240
Speaker 1: number of players that have been here almost for the

1575
01:22:18,360 --> 01:22:23,000
Speaker 1: duration of the McDermott's tenure, that it will the page

1576
01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:26,599
Speaker 1: will be turned rather quickly. Yeah, they have no choice

1577
01:22:26,640 --> 01:22:30,040
Speaker 1: but to turn the page and focus on what's ahead.

1578
01:22:30,120 --> 01:22:33,599
Speaker 1: I mean, this is territory that a lot of them

1579
01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:37,160
Speaker 1: have never been in and hopefully will never have to

1580
01:22:37,240 --> 01:22:40,160
Speaker 1: be in again. You're walking into your final preseason game

1581
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:43,320
Speaker 1: and news is breaking and you're looking at your phone,

1582
01:22:43,400 --> 01:22:46,840
Speaker 1: You're hearing from other people about a player on the

1583
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:51,280
Speaker 1: team who has rape allegations against them, and you're wondering

1584
01:22:51,360 --> 01:22:53,880
Speaker 1: how to go through a final preseason game and then

1585
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: proceed on with practices. This was something that they all

1586
01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:01,479
Speaker 1: had to figure out. Okay, how do we work through

1587
01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:05,920
Speaker 1: this as a team, how do we come together? What

1588
01:23:06,040 --> 01:23:08,519
Speaker 1: are the coaches going to do? What is Brandon Bean

1589
01:23:08,640 --> 01:23:10,920
Speaker 1: going to do? So I'm sure in the last couple

1590
01:23:10,920 --> 01:23:13,200
Speaker 1: of days also for them to be in that locker

1591
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:18,240
Speaker 1: room was a little bit tough, but hopefully something like this,

1592
01:23:18,640 --> 01:23:23,040
Speaker 1: Mitchmore said, there were lessons learned and hopefully they can

1593
01:23:23,080 --> 01:23:26,600
Speaker 1: be better because of this or come together because of

1594
01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:29,720
Speaker 1: something like this. Let's shift gears here and we'll go

1595
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:35,840
Speaker 1: to do a little NFL True False presented by Patron Tequila,

1596
01:23:36,120 --> 01:23:39,880
Speaker 1: the official tequila of the Buffalo Bills, and we lead

1597
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:43,880
Speaker 1: off with NFL True False Number one. The forty nine

1598
01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 1: ers are making a mistake at quarterback by going with

1599
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:51,960
Speaker 1: Trey Lance over Jimmy Garoppolo. True or false. I don't.

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01:23:52,280 --> 01:23:55,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm sold on Trey Lance yet.

1601
01:23:56,640 --> 01:24:00,600
Speaker 1: I think Jimmy g can still do something for you, so,

1602
01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:03,800
Speaker 1: but I don't know if I would call it a mistake.

1603
01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:08,760
Speaker 1: Maybe premature the language. Yes, all right, so you're gonna

1604
01:24:08,760 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 1: say false, I'm gonna say false. Yeah. I think what

1605
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:15,000
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers are doing here is they're playing

1606
01:24:15,080 --> 01:24:17,800
Speaker 1: the long game. They're investing in Trey Lance, and when

1607
01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:20,760
Speaker 1: you invest in a young quarterback like this, you've got

1608
01:24:20,840 --> 01:24:22,800
Speaker 1: to be willing to accept some growing pains. And I

1609
01:24:22,880 --> 01:24:24,920
Speaker 1: think we saw that through the course of the preseason.

1610
01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:28,040
Speaker 1: So as long as you're committed to living through the

1611
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:32,559
Speaker 1: ups and the downs, I don't think it's a mistake either.

1612
01:24:32,640 --> 01:24:36,200
Speaker 1: I will say false too. They've seen Jimmy Garoppolo. They

1613
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:38,559
Speaker 1: know what he is. And there was a weird report

1614
01:24:39,439 --> 01:24:42,679
Speaker 1: like two or three weeks ago that came out basically

1615
01:24:42,800 --> 01:24:47,600
Speaker 1: saying that Jimmy g goes off the grid and you

1616
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:49,800
Speaker 1: can't get a hold of him, like there have been

1617
01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:52,120
Speaker 1: times where the forty nine ers have had to literally

1618
01:24:52,280 --> 01:24:55,559
Speaker 1: go to his house knock on the door and ask

1619
01:24:55,680 --> 01:24:59,840
Speaker 1: are you still alive? Like weird, like like the quarter

1620
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:03,639
Speaker 1: back of your team doing that. That's bizarre, not good.

1621
01:25:04,400 --> 01:25:07,200
Speaker 1: So I don't think that that did him any favors either.

1622
01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:09,559
Speaker 1: As far as being a leader on your football team,

1623
01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:13,400
Speaker 1: you know somebody to lead the group, and I think

1624
01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:16,080
Speaker 1: they believe the upside is significantly higher with Lands, so

1625
01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:18,200
Speaker 1: I think they're willing to go through some of the

1626
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:20,400
Speaker 1: growing pains that I think are inevitably going to happen

1627
01:25:20,880 --> 01:25:22,720
Speaker 1: for him because he does not look like Josh did

1628
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:24,840
Speaker 1: in his second year. Through the course of the preseason,

1629
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:28,000
Speaker 1: NFL true falls number two, Chargers are the most likely

1630
01:25:28,160 --> 01:25:31,160
Speaker 1: team who missed the playoffs in twenty twenty one to

1631
01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:35,640
Speaker 1: make it in twenty twenty two. I'd be right, there

1632
01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:39,280
Speaker 1: are the Chargers and Colts, but I'm going to say

1633
01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:42,400
Speaker 1: true on this one. I think the Chargers have a

1634
01:25:42,439 --> 01:25:46,200
Speaker 1: really great roster. We know justin Herbert, we know what

1635
01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:50,639
Speaker 1: he can offer in terms of how their roster looks

1636
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:53,679
Speaker 1: like this season, they stacked up their defense, So yeah,

1637
01:25:54,520 --> 01:25:56,559
Speaker 1: all right, so you're gonna go with Chargers. The only

1638
01:25:56,640 --> 01:26:00,400
Speaker 1: thing that gives me pause with this is the division play.

1639
01:26:01,320 --> 01:26:04,080
Speaker 1: I believe they will make the playoffs. I think they

1640
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:06,720
Speaker 1: are good enough to finally turn the corner and get there.

1641
01:26:07,280 --> 01:26:10,040
Speaker 1: They have been an organization that has a ton of

1642
01:26:10,160 --> 01:26:13,960
Speaker 1: injuries almost every year. We haven't seen that bite them

1643
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:17,760
Speaker 1: too badly in the preseason, so that's encouraging. But it's

1644
01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:22,280
Speaker 1: hard for me to say the most likely team because

1645
01:26:22,760 --> 01:26:25,400
Speaker 1: and you already mentioned them, The Colts to me are

1646
01:26:25,479 --> 01:26:27,920
Speaker 1: in a down division. I think the Jaguars will be better,

1647
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:30,200
Speaker 1: but they're gonna be lucky to win six games. I

1648
01:26:30,240 --> 01:26:32,640
Speaker 1: think Houston's gonna be lucky to win six games. And

1649
01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:34,840
Speaker 1: I think Tennessee takes a step back with some of

1650
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:38,320
Speaker 1: their free agent departures, most notably A J. Brown via

1651
01:26:38,439 --> 01:26:42,479
Speaker 1: trade and Julio Jones who they released. So because of that,

1652
01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:44,479
Speaker 1: I'm going to say the Colts are the most likely

1653
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:46,479
Speaker 1: team that missed last year to make it this year.

1654
01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 1: So I will say false for this one, even though

1655
01:26:52,479 --> 01:26:55,400
Speaker 1: I do think they're good enough even in that powerhouse

1656
01:26:55,479 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 1: division to reach the postseason. All right, that's NFL true

1657
01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:03,000
Speaker 1: False present by Patron Tequila. We will take a break

1658
01:27:03,479 --> 01:27:05,639
Speaker 1: and be back to close things up with some final

1659
01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:07,519
Speaker 1: thoughts on the tweet sheet. Here on One Bill's Live,

1660
01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, Matt,

1661
01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:26,000
Speaker 1: He's still on the Bills Instagram page. Over the weekend,

1662
01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 1: they ran a video that they stationed a camera in

1663
01:27:29,439 --> 01:27:33,880
Speaker 1: the Bills locker room and essentially had them try to

1664
01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:36,519
Speaker 1: make a trick shot straight out of Dude Perfect, where

1665
01:27:36,560 --> 01:27:39,040
Speaker 1: they're bouncing ping pong balls off of frying pans and

1666
01:27:39,160 --> 01:27:41,759
Speaker 1: pots and everything to get it into a Red Solo Cup.

1667
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:46,559
Speaker 1: And the most interesting thing for me was how Adam

1668
01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:50,200
Speaker 1: and Josh was to get at least one. And he

1669
01:27:50,280 --> 01:27:52,800
Speaker 1: even said that he's like, I gotta get at least one.

1670
01:27:52,840 --> 01:27:54,599
Speaker 1: You don't know how badly I need to get one

1671
01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 1: of these in, And eventually he did so too, did

1672
01:27:58,560 --> 01:28:01,479
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley. Um, but you can see all the ping

1673
01:28:01,560 --> 01:28:03,760
Speaker 1: pong balls are MSU viewers can see all the ping

1674
01:28:03,840 --> 01:28:07,479
Speaker 1: pong balls on the floor to realize how many there were. Um,

1675
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:10,400
Speaker 1: Josh had a couple of shots off the rim and

1676
01:28:10,439 --> 01:28:12,760
Speaker 1: he like, couldn't believe he just missed, he fell off

1677
01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:17,000
Speaker 1: the chair and whatever. Eventually he gets one in celebrates.

1678
01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:20,479
Speaker 1: Matt gets one in celebrates. I asked Josh in the

1679
01:28:20,520 --> 01:28:22,280
Speaker 1: locker room today how many ping pong balls do you

1680
01:28:22,320 --> 01:28:24,600
Speaker 1: think you threw before you got that one in? And

1681
01:28:24,760 --> 01:28:27,640
Speaker 1: he said about a hundred. Oh my gosh. Then I

1682
01:28:27,720 --> 01:28:29,880
Speaker 1: asked Matt Barkley how many he threw. He said too,

1683
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:37,760
Speaker 1: which is totally false, liar Matt Barkley. But then he

1684
01:28:37,840 --> 01:28:39,560
Speaker 1: said no, he goes, I don't know if it was

1685
01:28:39,560 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 1: a hundred. He said he thinks he threw less than

1686
01:28:41,320 --> 01:28:43,760
Speaker 1: a hundred. But he kind of went to school on

1687
01:28:44,320 --> 01:28:46,840
Speaker 1: Josh's tosses because they knew they had to hit the

1688
01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:48,720
Speaker 1: bottom left corner in one of the pants to get

1689
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:51,120
Speaker 1: it to bounce right. I asked him he putting any

1690
01:28:51,120 --> 01:28:52,960
Speaker 1: english on the ball to get it to spin a little.

1691
01:28:52,960 --> 01:28:54,360
Speaker 1: He's like, nah, I don't think I had to do that.

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01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:57,320
Speaker 1: But they were locked in. Man, it was impressive, the

1693
01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:03,160
Speaker 1: the fortitude and the persistence. We hear about how competitive

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01:29:03,240 --> 01:29:06,040
Speaker 1: that room is, so I am not surprised that Josh

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01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:08,599
Speaker 1: sat there and threw one hundred balls. Yeah, I wish

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01:29:08,640 --> 01:29:10,559
Speaker 1: I had that kind of time. I don't think any

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01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:14,040
Speaker 1: of them too. We gotta go, but we'll be back

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01:29:14,080 --> 01:29:16,559
Speaker 1: here tomorrow at one Steve, we'll be back in that chair, Mattie.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for helping us out today. We will catch up

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01:29:18,560 --> 01:29:20,840
Speaker 1: with you later in the week. We'll see you tomorrow

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Speaker 1: at one