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Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

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Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

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Speaker 1: in the stragedyer of normalcy. Welcome to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker in for you this week. You're you are

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Speaker 1: I'm pleased to be joined today, uh with a good

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Absolutely always stuff we you know,

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Speaker 1: we always refer to this as the darks at well

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Speaker 1: dark time in the NFL. We would Jay Harris and

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Speaker 1: Everybody's gone. Yeah, that doesn't happen often, No, not in NFL,

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Speaker 1: but only at this time of year, and every every

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Speaker 1: kind of follows that. Everybody jams their vacation into this

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Speaker 1: in because because once Fisher's coming up, and once that happens, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: that's right, we come up for air in March hopefully, right,

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Speaker 1: you shift gears and you don't let your foot off

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Speaker 1: are long days. But that season it's crazy because you

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Speaker 1: of the other things, these other things that the Bills

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Speaker 1: got right during this last offseason. One of the fourth

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Speaker 1: thing that Brownie has in his in his article is

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Speaker 1: m comment about Greg Russo and Boogie Basham two guy,

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Speaker 1: you and I both you said, Greg Russou looks like

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Speaker 1: a different cat, and I said, boogie basham does Both

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Speaker 1: these guys are physically different than they were twelve months ago.

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Speaker 1: They look like they shed the baby weight, right. That's

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Speaker 1: kind of when they went to lack of a bet

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Speaker 1: room being a twelve year old kid to a fifteen

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Speaker 1: year old Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: just yeah, you know what I mean when I say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And it just you look at him and you go,

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Speaker 1: that looks like an eight year vet now, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: and it's and it's it is pretty amazing. And you

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Speaker 1: talk to these guys after year one going into year two,

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Speaker 1: and most of them say it's a nutrition thing. Most

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Speaker 1: of them say they get their own cook you know,

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Speaker 1: they kind of figure out the right way what they

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Speaker 1: need to do eating, you know, working out and stuff.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know, but those two figured it out.

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Speaker 1: And man, I need to find out what plans are

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Speaker 1: on because a part of this, and a part of

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Speaker 1: this is the program they're in and how you get

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Speaker 1: into the bunch of there's a bunch. It's complicated, no question,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of layers to this, but all a

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Speaker 1: couple of them are this. They don't pick guys that

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Speaker 1: aren't committed. So the Bills grab guys like Greg Russo,

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Speaker 1: Greg Russo and boogie bash them. They get them in

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Speaker 1: and not because because they're great players and because they're

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Speaker 1: gifted physically, because they have some college production, because they

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Speaker 1: came from good schools, because they played at a high

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Speaker 1: level of competition. All of that gets them an interview.

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Speaker 1: And when they get into that interview, those guys try

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Speaker 1: and dissect what their psyche is because they know that

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Speaker 1: one of the hallmarks of this program is and one

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Speaker 1: of the reasons it is that is when a guy

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Speaker 1: comes in the door two or three years down the road,

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Speaker 1: he's way better. And that's been one of the hallmarks

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Speaker 1: and one of the reasons the Bills have gotten to

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Speaker 1: be this juggernaut of a team that says, this is

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Speaker 1: the team you're gonna pick to win the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: because every guy that walks in the door plays better

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Speaker 1: week after week after week after week, and certainly year

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Speaker 1: after year and year over year. They're better and better

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Speaker 1: and better because the coaching staff works on them and

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Speaker 1: they got in the door because they're that kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: And the rosters better now, so Guess what, if you're

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Speaker 1: not good and you're not pushing yourself to be better,

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Speaker 1: you won't play. They don't have to play you anymore.

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Speaker 1: They just don't. They have so much talent on the

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Speaker 1: roster that guess what it's if you're a second round pick.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that a second round pick year two

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Speaker 1: is gonna be Look here's a great example. Aj Apinessa

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Speaker 1: was a pretty high draft pick. Ajpiness A better better

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Speaker 1: put some put some stuff on film this preseason because Boogie,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of talent on that defensive line. These guys,

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Speaker 1: the rosters that's really talented now. And here's the thing

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Speaker 1: to u because they're that kind of guy. Because Greg

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Speaker 1: Rousseau has this appetite to be better, and Boogie bash

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Speaker 1: him obvious. They've proven it. I mean you go out

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Speaker 1: there and look at him. You just can't deny it.

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Speaker 1: They've got it's important to them. They want to get

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Speaker 1: on the field. They don't want to be a healthy

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Speaker 1: scratch this offseason. This you know, they don't want to

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Speaker 1: be one of the inactives. And and Boogie certainly was

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Speaker 1: that last year, and last year it was Jerry Hughes

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Speaker 1: and a guy who played double double digits in the

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Speaker 1: league is ten year, eleven year guy. And now Vaughan

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Speaker 1: Miller's in the room there in that guy's hip pocket,

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Speaker 1: saying how do I how do I do what you did?

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Speaker 1: How did you do that? I want to learn that? Um.

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Speaker 1: Being open to that and being and asking the right

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Speaker 1: questions and watching and learning and being humble enough to say, man,

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Speaker 1: that guy's got it and I don't. I want to

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Speaker 1: get it. Rushers Academy and that's big. That's huge. Those

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Speaker 1: are big, UM. So I think those two guys are

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Speaker 1: indicative of why this club has been so good. Guys

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Speaker 1: like Matt Milano, fifth round draft pick Terren Taran Johnson,

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Speaker 1: who's maybe as good as slot corners there is in

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Speaker 1: the league. Dane Jackson, who is you? Man? Oh? Now?

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Speaker 1: He played CB one since Thanksgiving last year on a

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Speaker 1: number one defense. Levi Wallace developed Levy Wallace enough that

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, an organization that seems to figure things out

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Speaker 1: most of the time, wanted him. Yeah. Right, All of

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Speaker 1: these guys that when they came in was one of

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Speaker 1: the first things that built that Sean McDermott did. They

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Speaker 1: signed Micah Hyde and Jordan Poor, and back then we're

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Speaker 1: all I going to you signed who looking back that

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Speaker 1: Micah Hyde signing, I honestly believe, as we sit here today,

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Speaker 1: that is really what swung the pendulum. I really do

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Speaker 1: he well, I don't think I don't think we truly

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Speaker 1: can gauge what he means inside that locker, what he

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Speaker 1: means to that roster. He's incredibly committed, incredibly intelligent, great communicator,

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Speaker 1: he's humble, he's a winner, and guys guys want to

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Speaker 1: be like they want to play for him, they want

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Speaker 1: to play with him, they want to be on his team,

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Speaker 1: they want to learn from him. Um, that's everything you

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Speaker 1: can possibly get. Guys like Greg Russo and Boogie Bashing

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Speaker 1: come in and they rub up against Micah Hyde and

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Speaker 1: they watch him and see him and hear him talk

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Speaker 1: to his teammates. All of that stuff goes into the

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Speaker 1: model and this play. Yeah, we're watching the first series

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Speaker 1: for the Patriots in the wildcard playoff round where Mike

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Speaker 1: It comes from nowhere and picks that ball off. I

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Speaker 1: and it happened so fast, and he closed that so fast.

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Speaker 1: I thought, oh man, they've got him, he's gonna catch that,

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Speaker 1: no hype, I go, oh my gosh. It was incredible.

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Speaker 1: It was one of the It was one of the

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Speaker 1: great plays I've seen in person. That play was every

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Speaker 1: bit as good as Tarn Johnson's one hundred and one

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Speaker 1: yard pick six. Ye, both of them were just as

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Speaker 1: important as well. If mac Jones completes that ball for

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Speaker 1: a touchdown, it's seven to seven, and it might have

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Speaker 1: been a little bit of a different game. Although that play,

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it, the Bills absolutely were perfect

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Speaker 1: offensively in that game. They were just that game was

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Speaker 1: not going to go in any other direction. But that

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Speaker 1: play just snuffed, snuffed all hope, all emotional content the

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Speaker 1: Patriots brought with him. They put together gone that first.

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Speaker 1: I've gone, I've watched it. I go back and watch

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Speaker 1: these old games. I say, old games are eight months old.

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Speaker 1: I watch it and I and I remember the emotion

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Speaker 1: and the things that happened during those games. And they

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Speaker 1: strung together. They had like two huge conversions on their

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Speaker 1: first drive, trying to hang in there with a Bills

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Speaker 1: team that went down and just think through the ball

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Speaker 1: away at the back of the end zone. No Dawson

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Speaker 1: knocks shows up, gets it seven nothing, So they kind

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Speaker 1: of struggle and they strive and it's a long drive

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Speaker 1: and they kind of go for it at that point

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Speaker 1: and it gets picked off and you feel like they

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Speaker 1: had it everything. It went as good as it could

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Speaker 1: have gone for them in that first drive and they

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Speaker 1: were like, yeah, no points, we got nothing, and here

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Speaker 1: we go again and they go back to score again.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, all of that stuff going on that play

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Speaker 1: was quintessential play for that team. And that's why Micah

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Speaker 1: Hyde and the example he sets and all the stuff,

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Speaker 1: and guys like Greg Russeau, Boogie Basham and the guys

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Speaker 1: they bring in have to be of a right mentality

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Speaker 1: and personality so they will get better. We give so

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Speaker 1: much credit to the coaches and they deserve a ton

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Speaker 1: of it and the atmosphere and the culture, but getting

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Speaker 1: better is ultimately on the guy who wears the helmet.

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Speaker 1: It's gotta be in here, Dan, It's got to be.

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Speaker 1: If it's not in there, no one's gonna be able

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Speaker 1: to get it out right. Steve Tasker, Josh Reid in

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Speaker 1: for you. We're gonna be here till three. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: take a break. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna come back, Chris, but Chris Trepasso from CBS

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Speaker 1: Sports coming up at the top of the hour. We've

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Speaker 1: got more right after this. This is One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Josh Reid in for Chris Brown this week,

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Speaker 1: and we're talking a little bit about an article that

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Speaker 1: my buddy, our buddy, Chris Brown wrote on the website.

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Speaker 1: Six things that the Bills got right in this offseason.

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Speaker 1: First one was Josh Allen becoming the leader, the kind

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Speaker 1: of centerpiece. It's his team now, kind of entering that

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Speaker 1: elite status. Then it was the defensive line changes, Von

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Speaker 1: Miller and all the new guys they brought in beefing

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Speaker 1: up the front. Also James Cook being really the most

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Speaker 1: talked about newcomer, and the guys who changed their bodies

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Speaker 1: up on the defensive line, Boogie Basham, Greg Rousseau and

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Speaker 1: the commitment they've shown about getting on the field and

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Speaker 1: making contribution. And then we had some another one the

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Speaker 1: Latin next one Josh's two most encouraging player forecast one

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Speaker 1: obviously Gabriel Davis, who every nobody can stop talking about

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Speaker 1: the game he had to finish the season, the fourth

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Speaker 1: touchdown game in Kansas City where the Bills go down

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Speaker 1: score and he gets his fourth touchdown to you know,

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Speaker 1: put him up with you know, seconds left and ultimately

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Speaker 1: didn't win the game. But what a performance Gabe have.

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Speaker 1: And then of course Ed Oliver coming in and with

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Speaker 1: the with the beefed up defensive line, everybody looking for

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Speaker 1: him to take an enormous step forward. These the most

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Speaker 1: encouraging player forecast, Gabe Davis had Oliver. What do you

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Speaker 1: think about those two players? And obviously Gabe Davis looking

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Speaker 1: to take a ton more snaps this year than he

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Speaker 1: ever has. Yeah, the wide receiver room looks a lot

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Speaker 1: different going in going into this season. Obviously Cole Beasley's gone,

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders is gone. You know what you have in

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Speaker 1: the a one guy, right Stefan Jigs. You know, so

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Speaker 1: you just kind of move on from there, you know

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Speaker 1: what that is? Go you go right to Gabe Davis

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Speaker 1: because you at least the Bills are planning on him

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Speaker 1: to be that that number two guy now, and I mean,

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Speaker 1: from what we've seen, there's no reason to think that

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Speaker 1: he can't be that guy. And they have enough weapons

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Speaker 1: that Josh isn't gonna have to force feed him the ball,

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Speaker 1: just like he doesn't with Steph Diggs. He doesn't force

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Speaker 1: feed him the ball. Now, there are times that you

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Speaker 1: can tell that Josh thinks I need to get him

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Speaker 1: in a rhythm early in a game, and he'll make

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Speaker 1: sure that he gets his touches early. But Gabriel Davis,

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Speaker 1: I think he has a chance to have a very

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Speaker 1: good season. Now. I see some of the projections of oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, twelve hundred yards, maybe ten touchdowns. I'm like, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about that because I

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Speaker 1: think they've got enough playmakers all throughout the offense. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, Dawson Knox. I still think there's a little

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Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna make some plays in that offense too.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, Gabriel Davis and anytime, and I'm not even

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Speaker 1: talking about just after this Chief game, you go back

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Speaker 1: and listen to anytime Josh Allen was asked about Gabriel

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Speaker 1: Davis and even going back to Brian Dable when he

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Speaker 1: was asked about Gabriel Davis, and it was always talked.

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Speaker 1: They talked off the charts about him and his ability

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Speaker 1: to learn and know the playbook and be able to

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Speaker 1: step into different roles. And you know, it's it's his

639
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: time to shine. Now he's gonna get He's gonna get

640
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: his opportunity. Yeah he is. And he's and that's the

641
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: thing too, He's just gonna get more opportunity. He's the

642
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: fourth wide receiver last year and burst onto the scene

643
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: and at the end of the season where it was

644
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: him instead of Emmanuel Sanders. I mean, they he was

645
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: on the field and that says a lot about his development,

646
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: about where he's at. And I go back to this

647
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: all the time. Twenty twenty, his rookie season, he caught

648
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: the first pass of the season that was a completion

649
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: from Josh as a rookie in his first game. Just

650
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: one of those guys that is steals confidence and he

651
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: trusts him, Josh, Josh trusts him, and I think most

652
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: fans do as well. I mean, and I'm like you,

653
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna over I don't care about twelve hundred

654
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: yards one hundred and ten k that's not my thing.

655
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 1: What I'm more concerned about is just having an offense

656
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: that's got enough weapons that you can keep up with

657
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: anybody on any given day. James Cook's in the mix.

658
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a you're gonna have a new package

659
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: of plays where he's split out and he's the number

660
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: one thing. And this is gonna be up to Ken

661
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: Dorsey as well. Don't forget Steph Diggs with I think

662
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 1: he averaged like eight targets a game, which is a

663
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: pretty good number, and sometimes he had like more than that.

664
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 1: Targets are the thing, So you're not gonna take targets

665
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: away from Steph Diggs and Gabe Davis is gonna get

666
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: all of Emmanuel Sanders targets. Jamison Crowd is gonna get

667
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley's targets. Isaiah McKenzie. I mean whose targets is

668
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: he gonna get? You know, you got some questions you

669
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: gotta answer. O. J. Howard, O J. Howard and Dawson Knox.

670
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: So there's all this stuff. They've got a lot of

671
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: guys and here's the thing too, and it's a great

672
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: locker room. You know that everybody knows that's they're notoriously

673
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 1: they all like each other and it's easy to do

674
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,240
Speaker 1: that when you have maybe if you have three targets

675
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: a game and you get two catches and you get

676
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: like six touchdowns on the year or whatever, it's great.

677
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: Nobody cares. If you're winning. Hey, ask Shack loss. If

678
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: you're Jordan Phillips, how good that locker room is? Right,

679
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: right right? And when you're winning games a couple of years,

680
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: and guess what, you're winning games. When you're winning games,

681
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: all everybody wants. Everybodybody wants to just a chance to contribute.

682
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: Just give me a chance to contribute it. But if

683
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: we're winning, that's fine. So you're kind of getting to

684
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: the point where it's gonna be like there's one football.

685
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: It's gonna be up to Josh and we'll see how

686
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: it goes. But certainly those two guys, Gabe Davidson when

687
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 1: and Ed Oliver as well. People are waiting on Ed Oliver.

688
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: And here's like, is ed Oliver gonna be one of

689
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: those guys that makes the guys around him better or

690
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: is he gonna need guys around and make him better.

691
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: You you said that a question. I think that's the question.

692
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: We We've been waiting on Ed Oliver and he has

693
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: shown some flashes, and with the upgrade and the guys

694
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: around him, this is this is a big, big, big

695
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: year for it, Oliver, I think yeah, And I think

696
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: he's got a chance statistically to put up huge numbers.

697
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: And we all know that that contract is coming around

698
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 1: the corner. In defensive tackles that can pressure the quarterback,

699
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: they get paid a lot of money. So it's it's

700
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: gonna be an interesting situation that he's gonna put the

701
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 1: bills in. Possibly, I think the bills would go, hey, fine,

702
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: have twelve sex. We'll figure out the rest of it,

703
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: like who cares? Right, Yeah, who cares? Go out the

704
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: best season of any defensive tackle that we've seen in

705
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: the last ten years. But look, I think ed Oliver

706
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,399
Speaker 1: showed enough last season where you go, okay, he took

707
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 1: that next step. Now it's a matter of taking another step.

708
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: And I think having guys next to him on the out,

709
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: whether it's on the outside of him with von Miller

710
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: or next to him with de Kwon Jones. You know,

711
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: a big guy that can eat up some space, I

712
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: think that's really going to help at Oliver, I think

713
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: you're right. Before we get to the last thing on

714
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: this superlatives that the Bills got right in the offseason.

715
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: Let's go over and let's take a phone call. We've

716
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: got Judy in Buffalo. Judy, you're on the air with

717
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: Steve and Josh. Judy, what do you got for us?

718
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 1: You know, I'm intrigued with Tammy Doyle. I want to

719
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 1: know what the future holds for him. He seemed to

720
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 1: be very effective at the end of the years. He's

721
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: simply a backup line lineman. Used you know when they

722
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: need short yardage him And what do you think they

723
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: have in mind for him? Because I'm impressed with him. Yeah,

724
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: here's the thing, Judy, and thanks for the call. I

725
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: guess a great question. I think one of the things

726
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: you got to know too is I don't know what

727
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: they're I think they wanted to be a starting offensive lineman,

728
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: if that's his thing, they wanted to be on the field.

729
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: He has athleticism to go out and do the stuff

730
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 1: you talked about, be a sixth offensive lineman, which means

731
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: also he's an eligible receiver. You know what I'm saying.

732
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 1: He's not just a guy that's going out there to

733
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: stand around. Um, he did he kind of touchdown this

734
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 1: last year. So he's got some athleticism, but he if

735
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: if you're intrigued with him, so are the Bills. But

736
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: he's got to be one of the guys we've been

737
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,800
Speaker 1: talking about who gets better, because if you've got to

738
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: get on the if you want to play better, if

739
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: you want to play more, you got to play better.

740
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: And it's a it's a deep room on the offensive line.

741
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: Brandon has done a great job of building depth across

742
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: this roster. It's incredible. They're gonna be guys. This is

743
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: this is when you started to see the difference in

744
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: talent over the last couple of years. There's gonna be

745
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: a few guys that get cut off of this roster.

746
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 1: Then they're gonna get swallowed up on by another organization.

747
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: This is gonna start some games. Yeah, and you think

748
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. Tommy Dowel could be one of

749
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,240
Speaker 1: those guys. Yeah, you got And I said this before,

750
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: and I've you know, if you heard it over the

751
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: years since back in the early nineties when that team

752
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: was going to the Super Bowl all the time, they'd

753
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: cut guys who went on to have great careers. They

754
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: went on to play have you know eight or ten

755
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: year careers for other teams, but they couldn't make that roster.

756
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,879
Speaker 1: This is one of those. This is one of those roster.

757
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: Hen what are you gonna beat von Miller out? You know? No,

758
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: watch him play defensive line. When von Miller needs a break,

759
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: you can go in for a play and then you

760
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: got to come back out. I mean, that's how it's

761
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: gonna be. Um, Tommy Doyle's in that same boat. You

762
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: got Spencer Brown over there. You got Kessonberry from the

763
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: from the Titans. Kessonberry was the starting right tackle for

764
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 1: the number one seed in the playoffs last year in

765
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: the AFC. That runs the ball, that ran the football, run,

766
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 1: and the Bills want to run it better. Yes, the

767
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: same same thing was Saffold, Roger Saffold. He was on

768
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 1: that offensive line. They were the number one seed and

769
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: Tennessee last year and they ran the ball. Tommy Doyle's

770
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: got to get ahead of those guys somehow. That's that's

771
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: what you're looking at. It's a it's a hard group

772
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,280
Speaker 1: to rise above. He's got youth on his side though, certainly,

773
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: which is good because the system. Yeah, he knows the

774
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: system and he's young, all right, ye'd be young again,

775
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: that's that's interesting and thanks for the call of Judy.

776
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: That's it's an interesting question, but that's what you're up against.

777
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 1: He's gotta beat better guys out and you gotta get

778
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: better yourself. This let's take one more call before we go.

779
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: Tim from north Tonawanda, you're you're talking about you're asking

780
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: about players being similar to the nineties. What's on your mind, Tim, Yeah,

781
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: I've you know, watched you guys over the years, and uh,

782
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 1: I equate a lot of players a similarities. Davis reminds

783
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: me of when James Lofton come in here and finished stuff,

784
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: you know, the offense, the last piece for it. But

785
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 1: when you guys drafted James Cook, he reminds me of

786
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: young Barry Sanders. I watched him in both of those

787
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 1: guys in college and they are very similar. Just like

788
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: to hear your opinion on it, I don't know, I don't.

789
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. I don't see the

790
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders because James Cook is more of a I mean,

791
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders was a line up behind the quarterback guy

792
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: handed to him, and James Cook is more of a

793
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: guy that like you put him in the slot, you

794
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,359
Speaker 1: split him out why and he put him out into

795
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: the routes. I see him. I see James Cook is

796
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: more as a receiving threat than I did Barry Sanders

797
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 1: as a guy you could hand the ball off to

798
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: thirty thirty five times a game. Yeah, I mean, what

799
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: do you see? Oh, Tim's gone, But that's what I saw.

800
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: I think that's different. Um, Now, I when you run

801
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: the ball, when he runs the ball, Yeah, you can

802
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 1: do something. But don't don't kid yourself. There's to me,

803
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: there's only one Barry Sanders. He was one of a kind,

804
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,399
Speaker 1: and James Cook could be one of a kind as well.

805
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I see the similarities as

806
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: much as you do. He could be one of a kind,

807
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 1: just in a different role. Yeah, I don't think. I

808
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: don't think we'll ever see Cook, James Cook run the

809
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 1: ball thirty five times ever. No, don't nobody's gonna do

810
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: that anything. Yeah, you know, Derrick Henry, you might get

811
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: a shot at us Nick Chubb. Yeah, but guys, but

812
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: that's an anomaly in the league, in this league. But

813
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: James Lofton, I'll tell you what if Gabe Davis is

814
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 1: eighty percent of James lofton. I mean, James Loft is

815
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame. Yeah, I mean I get that,

816
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: but they're different kind of players as well. Yeah, just

817
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: before we go, before we wrap this up, you know,

818
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:11,919
Speaker 1: and then this superl as we were talking about about

819
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 1: the Bills getting it wrong one thing, and I wanted

820
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: to bring it up just before we go to break here.

821
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: The thing that the Bills also got right in the

822
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: in the off season was the way they handled the

823
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: East Side shooting. This organization, along with the Sabers and

824
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: the entire community, jumped on board with what was going

825
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: on over on Jefferson Avenue and were symbolic I think,

826
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: if not, you know, hands on and get some tangible

827
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: stuff done and helped in tangible ways, no question, but

828
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: also served as a symbol of where everybody's heart was.

829
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: And I think it was a great example of how

830
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: much Buffalo people love Buffalo people and how much they're

831
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: willing to reach out and help each other. The Bills

832
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 1: were a part of that. It's one of the things

833
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 1: that happened that it was a tragic and horrific event

834
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 1: that happened in the off season here in Buffalo, and

835
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: nobody shied away from addressing it or being a part

836
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: of part of it and getting on the right side

837
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: of it. I think the Bills did get get that right.

838
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 1: So did PSC and so did the Sabers, and so

839
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: did a ton of other ministries and people who just

840
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: wanted to be a part of it, churches around the region, families, individuals, people,

841
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: all kinds of people just showing up, just wanting to help.

842
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 1: And I you know, the Bills might have been a

843
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: little symbolic of that because they're an organization people know about,

844
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: but certainly they weren't the only ones at all. And

845
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: and I was, I was proud of the way the

846
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: organization came in, the way Bruce came back and and

847
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 1: all the other the old guys came in and took

848
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Speaker 1: part in what in the aftermath of what happened on

849
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Speaker 1: Jefferson Avenue at the tops, And I was, I was

850
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 1: thankful for the team and grateful for what they did

851
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,439
Speaker 1: and how they stepped up to that in that situation. Yeah,

852
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: that's well said. And to me, the thing that really

853
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: stood out was they were at the forefront of it too,

854
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: like they wanted to be Hey, they wanted to be

855
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: out there and they wanted to make sure that people

856
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 1: saw that they were here for the community. And I

857
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: thought that that was there was no sitting around waiting

858
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: to see how they could help. They went out and said,

859
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna do to help. Right. A

860
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: criminal came in from the outside the city, came in

861
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: and scouted it out and went to a place where

862
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 1: he thought he could hurt the most people who didn't

863
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 1: look like him. And that's and it as it's insanity

864
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: at its height, and uh um, yeah, and it was

865
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 1: tragic and horrific and premeditated and all of that. So

866
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: I'm really happy and pleased with and I hope it

867
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: doesn't stop. I mean, we want to keep on going.

868
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: Well not with this community. We're all part of this together,

869
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: and we're all we don't forget our own and and

870
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: that was part of it. So that was one of

871
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: the other that was kind of the final thing that

872
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Speaker 1: Chris put into that article, and I thought it was

873
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: a very poignant addition. Uh six things that the Bills

874
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: got right in the offseason and being more than just

875
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:54,240
Speaker 1: a football team in the aftermath of the Jefferson Avenue

876
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: shootings was a big part of it. And I'm really

877
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: happy he added that to his to his list. Steve Tasker,

878
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: Josh Reid, We're gonna be here with you till three.

879
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 1: We're gonna be back in a minute or two. This

880
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,720
Speaker 1: is one Bills Live presented by Kalidah Health and Buffalo

881
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back to one Bills Live. Wanted to

882
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: give you a reminder that coming up coming soon of Thursday,

883
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Speaker 1: July fourteenth, at seven sixteen pm, if you get the

884
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:36,320
Speaker 1: seven one six reference, your city, your cause, your team's

885
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 1: is going to open up seven to one six. Get

886
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:42,240
Speaker 1: ready for seven one six day coming up on July sixteenth,

887
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: and you're gonna start by seven sixteen pm. Sean and

888
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: Jamie McDermott, along with the Bills and Sabers Foundations, are

889
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: going to match donations to your charities and then at

890
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: eight pm on Thursday that of the same night, eight pm,

891
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna give away one hundred hundred Josh Allen autographed

892
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 1: jerseys for the first hundred people who donate seven hundred

893
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: and sixteen dollars or more to one of the five

894
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five charities around Western New York. Then

895
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: on Friday, July fifteenth, it starts out seven am Delaware,

896
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: North is matching twenty five thousand. Eight AM Key Bank,

897
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 1: David Adams World Card World is matching all these are

898
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars matching Gramps Wegman's twenty five thousand

899
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:35,720
Speaker 1: at noon one pm High Mark, four pm, M ANDT Bank,

900
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: East Buffalo, they're matching ten thousand dollars, And of course

901
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:45,240
Speaker 1: at five pm Rick Jinnerette, the first five hundred donors

902
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: of one hundred and seventeen dollars and sixteen cents or

903
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:51,800
Speaker 1: more will receive an autographed Rick Jinnerette banner. And this

904
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: is a this is from a banner company. The banner

905
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: Company's gonna be a very nice memento. Also at six

906
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: pm him the Bills and Sabers Foundations will match twelve thousand,

907
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: five hundred. These are all on July fifteenth, and then

908
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: of course on seven one sixth day as well, So

909
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on coming up. Give seven one

910
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: six The Bills Sabers are all about it. Over five

911
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 1: hundred charities are gonna be receiving or available to be

912
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: a part of that for your So pick the one

913
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,800
Speaker 1: that you like and it all goes in so you

914
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 1: can if you want those jerseys and all the stuff

915
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: that the prizes and the matching. You can give during

916
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: the time that your company's matching, or you can do

917
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: it at eight pm on the fourteenth for a Josh

918
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 1: Allen jersey, or you can be part of Sean and

919
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: Jamie McDermott's gift matching all of that stuff. So ton

920
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: going on. It's our city. We're really proud of it

921
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: for good reason and all. And it's they raise a

922
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: ton of money for a ton of charities. It's a

923
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: big day here in Buffalo. So be a part of it. Yeah,

924
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: not shocking. I mean I feel like it just never

925
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: ends with the community just giving back. Yeah, it's more charity.

926
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: I mean every I've had the opportunity to work, you know,

927
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,800
Speaker 1: around the country in this industry and stuff, and and

928
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: there's never I've never lived in a place that does

929
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: what this community does. It's it's above and beyond. I

930
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: feel like every weekend it's another big charity event that's

931
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: going on for another great cause. And it's just and

932
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: the fact that they have you know, Sean and his

933
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 1: wife are connected to it, and you know, Josh Allen

934
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: helps out with so many different just it's awesome. It

935
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 1: is and it's part of who it isn't And I

936
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 1: think this too, one of the one of the things.

937
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: You know, Buffalo, We've all heard it for decade and

938
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: they still do. People like hammer Buffalo because the winters

939
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: we get in the weather and whatever. Um. Part of

940
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 1: the benefit of that is that when the good weather hits,

941
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:51,320
Speaker 1: as it does, I mean, you go July, August, September, October,

942
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 1: you don't want to live anywhere else on the planet.

943
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: It's the best in Western New York. It's the best.

944
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: It is unbelievable here. So because of that, I think

945
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 1: this region and all the people in it, it really blooms.

946
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: I mean, our spirits bloom. People are people people, their

947
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,919
Speaker 1: whole attitude chan and I think because of the long

948
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: winters and the will the winters are okay. The spring

949
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: is really tough because it rains and it's the spring. Yeah,

950
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: you can't get outside spring. That's what really crushes people, right,

951
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: So all of that stuff when it does hit, when

952
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 1: the good weather does, and it always hits, man oh man,

953
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 1: the people's attitudes and their spirit and their the whole

954
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: region just you can see it open up like a

955
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: flower and stuff like this seven one sixth Day and

956
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: the stuff that happened with the Jefferson Avenue, and it

957
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: just gives everybody just looks for reasons to get together

958
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: and do good. Um, it's really a special place and

959
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 1: it's one of the reasons, you know, we've made our

960
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: home here and stayed here for thirty five plus years,

961
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,399
Speaker 1: and it's just one of the great things. So seven

962
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 1: one sixth Day coming up. Be a part of it.

963
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: Starts actually on seven fourteen with the Bills and you

964
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: can look it up and there's prizes and incentives and

965
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: all kinds of companies awesome uh, local companies jumping on

966
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: board with it, and we hope you'll be a part

967
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 1: of it as as we will be. Josh Read Steve

968
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 1: Tasker coming back, christ Passo, CBS Sports going to come

969
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: on with us here in studio. We're gonna have him

970
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 1: on for the next segment. So come back and join us.

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

972
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: Bills Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all

973
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 1: all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind

974
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:52,240
Speaker 1: of a dual role player for you. Steve, Steve a blimp.

975
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: We're not even in the strated here of normalcy. Walking

976
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 1: back from One Bill's Live, Steve Casker with Josh Reedbard

977
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 1: please to be joined by CBS Sports NFL and college

978
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: football analyst Chris Trepasso. Could wow Trepasso, friend of the show.

979
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on, man, I appreciate it. Sorry about

980
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: screwing your name up. I'm trying to look at six

981
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: different I got three screens in front of me. Um.

982
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on the show. We got a lot

983
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: to talk about. Even though it's July. Yeah, it's you know,

984
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: I'm not wishing away the summer, but I think driving

985
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: here and coming back to the stadium, I'm like ready

986
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: for football season. I'm like, are the Bills playing on Sunday?

987
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: Like I'm ready at this point. Fourth of July week

988
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 1: has done for football to be here back in Buffalo. Yeah,

989
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: we've we've been having a lot of fun with this.

990
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: We've been talking about we're getting We're gonna get to

991
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:40,720
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet after a while. But at the bottom

992
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: of the hour, maybe we asked, you know, what's the

993
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: most underrated player on the Bill's roster? Because you get

994
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:47,879
Speaker 1: you start from the top, you go Josh and Von

995
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 1: Miller and the new guy you know, James Cook and

996
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 1: blah blah, you got all the way down the list. Um,

997
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,439
Speaker 1: I don't know that there's anybody who's been overlooked because

998
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 1: some of these guys that people are mentioning are starters

999
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: who have been depended on. Do you have anybody, I mean,

1000
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: who gets forgotten in all of this? For me, I

1001
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 1: can't even remember that we signed Von Miller. Yeah, I

1002
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: think underrated is still Matt Milano that recently there was

1003
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: a I think ESPN ran a pole of executives who

1004
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 1: are the top ten linebackers in the league, and Tremaine

1005
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 1: Edmunds was on that list. I think Matt Milano deserves

1006
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: to be on that list. What he does in coverage

1007
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: in today's NFL at the linebacker spot is absolutely paramount

1008
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:30,479
Speaker 1: to the Bill's defense being really good over the last

1009
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: four or five seasons. To be that smaller type linebacker

1010
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: that can cover running backs out of the backfield, makes

1011
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: a lot of splash plays in the backfield. Because he's

1012
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:43,879
Speaker 1: so instinctive, so athletic. You don't think that someone else

1013
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:47,240
Speaker 1: opposite Tremaine Edmonds gets as much hype as he should.

1014
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: That's Matt Milano. And when they ask him to go

1015
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,240
Speaker 1: after the quarterback, he gets there. He's a good blitzer,

1016
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: he gets there. I mean, they don't ask him to

1017
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: do it a ton, but when they do, he's effective. Yeah.

1018
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 1: It's interesting too that so many executives they put They

1019
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: put Tremaine Edmonds up there in the top ten lineback

1020
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: and Bill's fans are kind of unappreciative of Tremaine Edmonds because,

1021
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 1: you know, but he's this huge physical specimen and all

1022
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: these teams are they have real problems with him, and

1023
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 1: plus his leadership and the guys that he knows everything

1024
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:16,359
Speaker 1: there isn't know about the defense and he gets all

1025
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: of these guys lined up because he's kind of the

1026
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: polar opposite of what Matt Milano is, you know what

1027
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: I mean, high draft pick, hugely physically gifted guy that's

1028
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 1: running all in charge of Matt Milano like a fifth

1029
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:33,320
Speaker 1: round guy, a little undersized one. Guy like Milano is

1030
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:37,280
Speaker 1: completely instinctive. And sometimes you see Tremaine Edmonds, it feels

1031
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: like he's kind of thinking through things while he's on

1032
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: the field, while Matt Milano it's like he couldn't tell

1033
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: you what number he's wearing. Yeah, right, so it's all

1034
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: simple for Milano and Tremaine Edmonds is neck deep and complicated,

1035
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: and for both of that, I think fans love and

1036
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: and and kind of disrespect both in different ways. Yeah,

1037
00:53:58,239 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 1: that's a good way to put it. I think they

1038
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: just play off each other perfectly. That to be that

1039
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: six foot five, two hundred and fifty pound middle linebacker

1040
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 1: running down the seam. Over the last five years, I

1041
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 1: can't count on probably two hands how many passes have

1042
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: been completed on the Bills defense over the middle and

1043
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: that intermediate range. It doesn't show up on the stat sheet,

1044
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: but I think quarterbacks look down between the hash marks

1045
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 1: and see that Tremaine Edmund's specimen in the middle. They

1046
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: just don't make those passes very often because they can't.

1047
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 1: And then anything to the outside. With Matt Milano ranging

1048
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: sideline to sideline, covering swing passes, running backs out of

1049
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,240
Speaker 1: the backfield, even slot receivers at times, they just play

1050
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: off each other and probably compliment each other better than

1051
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: any other linebacker duo in the NFL. And we've seen

1052
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:46,839
Speaker 1: when Matt Milano's missed some games that defense doesn't look

1053
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: the same. No, when Matt Milano is not on the field,

1054
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: that defense just there's some things they can't do. In

1055
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, they Milana went out. It was out like

1056
00:54:57,840 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: five or six games, and they brought in Aj Klein,

1057
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Speaker 1: and they wanted to try and get Aj Cline to

1058
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: play like Matt Milano, and he couldn't do. He's out

1059
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: for like six or eight weeks. He was a lot

1060
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:08,799
Speaker 1: for a while. So what happened was they finally said, listen,

1061
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 1: we can't, we can't. It's not working. There's nobody that

1062
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:14,320
Speaker 1: can play like Matt Milanna. So they started asking aj

1063
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: Cline to do what he did well instead of filling

1064
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 1: in for Milan. He looked different after that, and Aj

1065
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,359
Speaker 1: was better after that. He couldn't do what Milanna did,

1066
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 1: but they gave him stuff to do that he could

1067
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 1: do well, and they had to adjust the entire defense

1068
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: because of it, but they played better after that. We've

1069
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 1: been having this conversation, Chris, about running backs and about

1070
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 1: the role that James cook Miter might not have. We've

1071
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 1: had some people chime in and say Devin Singletary has

1072
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: been overlooked and Zach Moss is going to be overlooked.

1073
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 1: The running backs in general have been an afterthought in

1074
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: an offense led by Josh Allen, Steph Digson all and

1075
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 1: that's easy to say. So as a result of that,

1076
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 1: James Cook has been like the top of the conversation

1077
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 1: for a long time. And you guys kind of did

1078
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 1: that on CBS Sports. You talked about the best rookie

1079
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: running back. Yeah, I have James Cook in the top

1080
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: five of rookie running backs in terms of just their

1081
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 1: production in year one. And from what you just mentioned,

1082
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 1: it's a Josh Allen offense. The Bills are a past

1083
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:15,399
Speaker 1: heavy team, they're a past first team. But with James Cook,

1084
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 1: he brings what I think Brandon Bean has been looking

1085
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: for in the backfield in receiving ability and speed to

1086
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 1: run four four two, be very effortless with the ball

1087
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: in his hands, and be utilized on film differently than

1088
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:30,839
Speaker 1: any other running back that I've ever scouted. They weren't

1089
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,399
Speaker 1: just throwing him swing passes and screens. They were using

1090
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: him in the slot and on the outside running go routes,

1091
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 1: post routes at Georgia to be that effortless type like

1092
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:44,839
Speaker 1: his brother Delvin. To again compliment Devin Singletary, who's more

1093
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: of a slashing type, elusive better in the screen game.

1094
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: I think just to be in this offense, James Cook

1095
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 1: is in a luxurious situation, and new offensive coordinator Ken

1096
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 1: Dorsey will script some places for James Cook because he's

1097
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:00,040
Speaker 1: such a unique specimen out of the backfield. Yeah, I

1098
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,839
Speaker 1: saw your list, Breues Sall. I think you had number one.

1099
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: What's some of the guys that really jump out, you know,

1100
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: along with Cook and Bruce Hall. Breeze Hall was at

1101
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:12,280
Speaker 1: number one. I think he was the most complete running

1102
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: back of this rookie class, and the Jets traded up

1103
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: for him in round two, which just kind of seems

1104
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 1: like they're going to use him as that workhorse type.

1105
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: It's obviously not what James Cook Roll is going to be.

1106
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: Isaiah Spiller was another running back who's now with the

1107
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: Chargers who I loved in this pre draft process. He

1108
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 1: has Austin Eckler in front of him, but I think

1109
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: he's capable of being that workhorse type. Rashad White was

1110
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 1: at number two on Tampa Bay with Tom Brady, who

1111
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: we know certainly loves to throw the football to running backs.

1112
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: That's really where Rashad White excelled when he was in college.

1113
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:46,320
Speaker 1: So James Cook, you wouldn't necessarily pencil him in as

1114
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 1: a top option in this super deep Bill's offense with

1115
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs and Gabriel Davis and Dawson Knox in his

1116
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: contract here, but again, being a four four two guy

1117
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 1: that has a legitimate experience averaging almost eleven yards per

1118
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 1: catch in college, surd number four a running back, the

1119
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 1: Bills will utilize him in his rookie season. Yeah, and

1120
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: it also goes to because you want to do the

1121
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: unexpected when you're off Sure people know Steph Diggs is

1122
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 1: gonna get targets, Gabe Davis gonna get targets, Dawson Nas

1123
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: gonna get targets. Nobody knows about these young guys. Yeah,

1124
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: what's what? How the Jets gonna use Breece Hall. We

1125
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: don't know. They're gonna hand it to him, Throw it

1126
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: to him. What's he good at? Because once they get

1127
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:26,040
Speaker 1: into this level, job one in training camp and all

1128
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 1: these OTAs is for the coaching staff say, Okay, what

1129
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 1: can this kid really do at this level? I saw

1130
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: him in college playing against and I always say this,

1131
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: He's playing against dental students in college. Let's see what

1132
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 1: he can do. Playing against you know, Tremaine Edmonds, Mamlano. Yeah,

1133
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: now what's going to happen? And they don't know until

1134
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: they line up, and then it's the great unknown takes

1135
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:45,440
Speaker 1: place and they start give the guy chances and to

1136
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 1: do things that nobody knew he could do. Yeah, and

1137
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: I think that's really where James Cook can be a weapon,

1138
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: maybe early on, and maybe it's not until November or December.

1139
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: Like the Bills aren't necessarily just playing for the regular

1140
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 1: season at this point. I mean, playoff seating certainly matters.

1141
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 1: To get home games at this stadium would certainly be

1142
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 1: key for the Bills. But even if a plan for

1143
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:10,920
Speaker 1: James Cook doesn't materialize until November or December or even January,

1144
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 1: I think that's huge for this Bill's offense. And like

1145
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: you're mentioning Steve, just for opponents to not be able

1146
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 1: to game plan for what's going to come out of

1147
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 1: the backfield when they already have to game plan for

1148
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs, Dawson Knox, and Gabriel Davis on the outside. Now,

1149
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 1: the argument for Cook is that in the SEC, there's

1150
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 1: not a lot of dentists, right, It's a lot more

1151
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,720
Speaker 1: nay so at least, there's not a lot of dentists

1152
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: in that conference. That's right. What's what's another rookie you

1153
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: know that the Bills? You know? I think Caye William's

1154
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: probably one that jumps out to you. What did you

1155
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 1: see with him kind of through the draft process and

1156
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: what he How does he fit into the puzzle? That's

1157
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 1: a great question. I think he fits perfectly with what

1158
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 1: the Bills needed. In watching that Divisional round game against

1159
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, obviously no Trey White, he was down with

1160
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 1: the torn acl in that game, it kind of felt

1161
00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 1: like the Bills secondary needed more speed and Kayer Eilerman

1162
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 1: four three nine at the combine. He was a big recruit,

1163
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: played at Florida, played against a lot of future NFL players.

1164
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:13,280
Speaker 1: He fits in that he has speed and I think

1165
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 1: he gives the Bills more coverage versatility that Sean McDermott

1166
01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: and Leslie Frasier have been mostly a zone based defense

1167
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: and it's been super successful. They've been in the top

1168
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: ten of interceptions and all five seasons with Sean McDermott.

1169
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 1: Kayer Elam was mostly a man corner at Florida, so

1170
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: they can do a lot of creative things zone on

1171
01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 1: one side man on the other side. If a team

1172
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 1: has two starwide receivers, and most teams do. Now you

1173
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 1: can have Trey White matchup with different types of wide receivers.

1174
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 1: And you know that Kayer Elam has the athleticism and

1175
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 1: the experience to be a really good on an island

1176
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:51,800
Speaker 1: press man corner that can run down the field with

1177
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 1: some of the faster receivers in the NFL. You're listening

1178
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 1: to One Bill's Live Steve Tasker and Josh Reid in

1179
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:59,480
Speaker 1: the studio with CBS Sports, NFL and college football analyst

1180
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: Chris trap pas So, and I gotta ask you this,

1181
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 1: this is go down. Let's give a synopsis about the

1182
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 1: entire draft. You got two the Bills drafted two corners,

1183
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:13,040
Speaker 1: two linebackers, a tackle, a punter, and a wide receiver.

1184
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: They made all their picks. Give us a little synopsis

1185
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 1: of how much these guys are going to really help

1186
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: you think or give us, you know, the highlights and

1187
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: the low lights. Well, certainly kyeer Elam, James Cook, who

1188
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 1: we've talked about already, their first two round picks. I

1189
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be contributors, major contributors in the year one.

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01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 1: The one player that I'll highlight, Khalil Shakier is going

1191
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 1: to enter training camp buried on the depth chart. But

1192
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder, twenty nine years old, He's been one of

1193
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: the more reliable slot receivers in the NFL, but he's

1194
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:46,360
Speaker 1: missed fifteen games over the last four seasons. Now, I

1195
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 1: do think that the Bill's strength and conditioning program is

1196
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: one of the best in the NFL. They've not really been,

1197
01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 1: you know, hamstrung by a lot of injuries during the

1198
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott era. But if Jamison Crowder goes down and

1199
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 1: they want to utilize Isaiah McKenzie in that gadget role,

1200
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:02,680
Speaker 1: like they've kind of reserved that for him, Khalil Shakier

1201
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 1: could be sitting there in October or November as the

1202
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:08,240
Speaker 1: starting slot receiver in a Josh Allen based offense. I

1203
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 1: think that's again, a very luxurious position to be in

1204
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 1: four years at Boise State, very productive, almost being like

1205
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:17,840
Speaker 1: a Cole Beasley finding the soft spots in zone and

1206
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 1: then creating after the catch. I think he actually excels

1207
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:24,560
Speaker 1: even more so than Beasley did creating after the catch

1208
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: yards after the catch, which was really one area of

1209
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:29,640
Speaker 1: the Bill's offense that's been lacking over the past couple

1210
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 1: of seasons. Overall, I think they did a good job

1211
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 1: adding you know, special teams talent with Balen Spector in

1212
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 1: round seven. And one other player that I'll mention that

1213
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 1: probably hasn't been talked about that much, Christian Benford. I

1214
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:43,520
Speaker 1: watched him late in the process because there was some

1215
01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 1: buzz that out of Illanova he could get drafted. Fourteen interceptions,

1216
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 1: forty five pass breakups in his four seasons. He got

1217
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: drafted as a corner. I think he's going to ultimately

1218
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 1: play safety, and I like for him as a rookie

1219
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: to learn from Jordan Poyer and Mica Hyde as they're

1220
01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 1: getting up there in age, they know this is something

1221
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 1: like the back of their hand. Christian Benford, with that

1222
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:06,360
Speaker 1: production in college, I think he can eventually be the

1223
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 1: air apparent to those two safeties here in Buffalo. This

1224
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 1: roster's so stacked with talent. You know, we talked about

1225
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 1: Khalil's shakier, you know, being buried on a depth chart.

1226
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of position battles going into training camp.

1227
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 1: We're probably going to talk a lot about punter, believe

1228
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 1: it or not. Right, Matta Raisa, you know the punt god, right,

1229
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:34,959
Speaker 1: what should expectations be of him? And is the holding things?

1230
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:37,920
Speaker 1: There's a big you know, divide on people whether or

1231
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 1: not they think the holding thing is a thing or

1232
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 1: if holding is kind of maybe not even secondary to

1233
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 1: just being able to have a huge leg. Well, I

1234
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: think certainly having that monster leg is something that put

1235
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:54,240
Speaker 1: him on the draft radar in a big way, and

1236
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised he was still available in

1237
01:03:56,480 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 1: round six. Steve could probably talk more about the holding scenario.

1238
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:02,480
Speaker 1: I know though during the pre draft process he was

1239
01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 1: working with a specialist working on his holds because he

1240
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 1: never really did that. And I do think that a

1241
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:11,880
Speaker 1: kicker and his holder, they have a really strong relationship.

1242
01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 1: I think Tyler bass a lot of his success early

1243
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 1: in his career certainly on his own leg and his accuracy,

1244
01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:21,160
Speaker 1: but the level of the whole, like the quality of

1245
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 1: the holds, is very important. So I think for everyone

1246
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 1: else in this Bill's draft class, they're kind of starting

1247
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:29,280
Speaker 1: as a secondary player. Matta Risa could really be the

1248
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 1: guy that's on the field the most to begin his

1249
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:34,960
Speaker 1: NFL career, and if he can be penning teams back

1250
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 1: inside the ten and the twenty yard line. The Bills

1251
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:39,520
Speaker 1: are going to be in a lot of advantageous situations

1252
01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 1: on defense this season. He's got a couple of things

1253
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 1: working against him and not really working against and that's

1254
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:47,840
Speaker 1: not he may he may punt less than anybody in

1255
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 1: the league. That's a good thing. The second thing is

1256
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:54,160
Speaker 1: this when a guy gets on the radar for the NFL,

1257
01:04:54,280 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 1: usually because they hit these bombs at but every bomb

1258
01:04:56,880 --> 01:04:59,240
Speaker 1: that you don't see, there's there's one that's wabbling off

1259
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: on the sidelines, right, there's a bad kick. The thing

1260
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:04,920
Speaker 1: for the punter of particularly a young punter, is to

1261
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 1: make sure the floor of his range of punts is high.

1262
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 1: A bad punt, you can live with one, But when

1263
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:17,760
Speaker 1: you have one every week now, and the bad puns

1264
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 1: can't be out of bounds fifteen yard punts, they've got

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Speaker 1: to be thirty five yard punt net, you know that's

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01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: a bad one. The floor of your bad punts has

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Speaker 1: to be really high. They don't have to be all

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Speaker 1: sixty five yard bombs or seventy yard bombs, but you

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Speaker 1: can't have a twenty five yard wobbler, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's what you gotta get rid of and

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Speaker 1: for the holding thing for the field goal. Now, Tyler

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Speaker 1: Bass will agree with me because he's the guy that

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Speaker 1: has to kick it, But I'm not listening. If I

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Speaker 1: did it, it's not hard. It's there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: pressure on it, but there's not hard. It's not hard,

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Speaker 1: particularly if a guy like Matt Ariza says, all I

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01:05:57,400 --> 01:05:59,040
Speaker 1: gotta do is learn how to hold for that. For

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Speaker 1: Tyler Bass, he's the only guy I need to learn

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Speaker 1: how to hold it. How does he like it? Learn

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Speaker 1: how to do that and rep it a thousand times

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01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:08,920
Speaker 1: in the first week, and a thousand more in the

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Speaker 1: second week, and a thousand more in the third week.

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Speaker 1: Just it's reps, and it's where you get comfortable with it.

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01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:15,520
Speaker 1: If you can handle the pressure being the guy to

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01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:16,959
Speaker 1: catch it the snap and put it on the ground

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01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 1: your goal. It's not difficult to do, but it's easy

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01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 1: to feel the weight of the world on your shoulders

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01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 1: when everything depends on it. So the snapper wants you

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Speaker 1: to make him look good, and the kicker certainly wants

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Speaker 1: you to make him look good. And all eighty thousand

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01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 1: people in the stands don't want to see you sitting

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Speaker 1: back there trying to find a handle on that thing. Right,

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01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:40,600
Speaker 1: So it's easy to learn to do. It's not a

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Speaker 1: difficult job, but it does have a lot of stress,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So it's the stress that's

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Speaker 1: the hard part, not the physical thing of grabbing a

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Speaker 1: snap and putting it down. Do you think during training

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Speaker 1: camp and in the preseason met Aaac and Tyler Bass

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01:06:56,320 --> 01:07:00,280
Speaker 1: can get enough of a connection where week one against

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01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 1: the Rams, if there's a key kick, that they would

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Speaker 1: both feel comfortable, Like how long do you think that? Well,

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01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 1: if they're not comfortable, they won't be out there. Yeah,

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01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:08,400
Speaker 1: they'll both work hard at it. And if they haven't

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01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,439
Speaker 1: been working hard at it already, that you know they're

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01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:13,600
Speaker 1: they're not pros. I mean Tyler Bass has been working

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01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:15,160
Speaker 1: on it, but he can't do it without a rise

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01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:19,960
Speaker 1: and a snapper and that's all three guys. So yeah,

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01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:22,360
Speaker 1: it takes a lot of rips and it's yeah, but

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Speaker 1: they can do that. You can do it, and there's

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Speaker 1: no reason to think that three guys who go out

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Speaker 1: there and work hard, and particularly you've got two guys

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Speaker 1: that are proven like Red Ferguson and Tyler Bass, Matta

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01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 1: Raiza can go in there. You can you can catch

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Speaker 1: a snap and get it down. There's not it's not

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Speaker 1: that hard. It's the mental aspect of knowing there's so

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01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:46,760
Speaker 1: much rides on you doing that um and you don't

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01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 1: get rewarded for it because people have been doing it

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01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:51,600
Speaker 1: for so long. It's like, come, I just you know

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01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 1: how hard? And it's not hard, but it's important. We

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Speaker 1: are going to be talking about the holds on extra

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Speaker 1: points in the preseason. Oh, yeah, that's what we're gonna

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01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:02,760
Speaker 1: be talking about. Yeah. You know what though, that's a

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01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:05,640
Speaker 1: good thing because you were not talking about quarterback battles.

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01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 1: We're not talking about right, talking about as the head

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01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 1: coach on the hot seat. None of that's a thing, right,

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Speaker 1: It's it's a can the punter hold on extra points?

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Speaker 1: We're talking to christ Rapasso of CBS Sports NFL in

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Speaker 1: college football analysts. One of the things you guys pumped

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Speaker 1: out with some guys in entering maker break seasons and

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Speaker 1: one of the you know, the guys on as a

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01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: guy we've been talking about and Tremaine Edmunds, you're and

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Speaker 1: this is an important year for him. I don't think

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01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:29,760
Speaker 1: he's in question yeah, definitely. I mean, going into that

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01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 1: final year of his rookie deal, it's huge and if

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01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:34,519
Speaker 1: he plays out of his mind, he could be the

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01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:36,639
Speaker 1: highest paid off ball linebacker at the end of the season.

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01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:39,320
Speaker 1: If he regresses, he might not be on the Bills

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01:08:39,400 --> 01:08:42,960
Speaker 1: next season. For me, I don't actually view it though,

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01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:45,600
Speaker 1: as that much of a make or break because I

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01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 1: think even though he's still young, he's like twenty four

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01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:50,920
Speaker 1: years old and he's played for four seasons already. I

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01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:53,160
Speaker 1: think we know what we're gonna get with Tremaine Edmunds.

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01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:55,200
Speaker 1: And I mentioned it earlier that he's you know, he's

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01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 1: going to be around the football a lot at times.

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01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,720
Speaker 1: He's not going to play as fast in terms of

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01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:02,840
Speaker 1: assessing as Matt Milano. He's going to clog the middle

1347
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:05,719
Speaker 1: of the defense in coverage, make a few splash plays,

1348
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:07,760
Speaker 1: maybe miss a few more tackles in the Bills would like.

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01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:10,680
Speaker 1: So I kind of think that the Bills know what

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01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:13,879
Speaker 1: they have with him. They love how he compliments Matt Milano,

1351
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:17,559
Speaker 1: and again with Michael Hi Jordan Poyer, it's the same deal.

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01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:21,920
Speaker 1: No one probably knows this defense better than Tremaine Edmunds.

1353
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:25,800
Speaker 1: So it technically from a financial perspective is a maker

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01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:27,920
Speaker 1: break season. I don't think we're gonna be talking about

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01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 1: him as a Defensive Player of the Year candidate, and

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01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 1: I don't think in November people are gonna want Tremade

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01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:36,720
Speaker 1: Edmunds off the team. He's a valuable asset to for

1358
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 1: as much as the offense has gone on a huge

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01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 1: skyrocket during the Josh Allen are the defense has been

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01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:47,799
Speaker 1: very consistent since Sean mcdermot's been here, it's been rock solid,

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01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:50,799
Speaker 1: and Tremaine Edmonds is at the focal point of the second,

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01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:53,599
Speaker 1: you know, back seven of that defense. I think one

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01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:55,639
Speaker 1: of the things that you just brought up that's key

1364
01:09:56,240 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 1: is splash plays. Leslie Frasier actually brought that up about

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01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:03,160
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds. He said, I need to see more of

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01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:05,680
Speaker 1: those splash plays from him. Wrote real quickly, what do

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01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:07,719
Speaker 1: you think about ed Oliver. He's a guy that's getting

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01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 1: close to contract time, and defensive tackle is a valuable spot.

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01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:15,759
Speaker 1: I think if there's a player that I would predict

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01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:19,080
Speaker 1: on the Bills defense to take that next step into Superstartdom,

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01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:22,040
Speaker 1: it's at Oliver think to sign to Kwan Jones and

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01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:25,960
Speaker 1: Tim Settle, two big wide body nose tackles that can

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01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:27,519
Speaker 1: get up the field a little bit, but are going

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01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 1: to eat a lot of blockers that will truly let

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01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:33,360
Speaker 1: at Oliver play and that up the field role. I

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01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 1: think that's just personnel wise and teammate wise, will allow

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01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:41,160
Speaker 1: him to generate a lot of pressures, get more sex

1378
01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:43,960
Speaker 1: and he's ever gotten before. And I like that at Oliver,

1379
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 1: who came into the league pretty young and played nose

1380
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:50,719
Speaker 1: tackle at Houston, he was out of position. We've seen

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01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 1: him incrementally get better during his career in Buffalo. I

1382
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:56,760
Speaker 1: think he's worked a little bit harder. Sean McDermott kind

1383
01:10:56,760 --> 01:10:58,639
Speaker 1: of mentioned early in his career maybe he's not working

1384
01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:01,240
Speaker 1: on his craft enough, and he saw by year two

1385
01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:03,840
Speaker 1: and then last season him take that next step. In

1386
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 1: this defense that's so rotational upfront, to have those guys

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01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:08,800
Speaker 1: next to him, he's going to take off. And we've

1388
01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 1: been talking about Tremaine Edmonds at Oliver. Let me ask

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01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 1: you this now, when you get to the end of

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01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:14,920
Speaker 1: the year and they both have good years or maybe

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01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds has any he's been in a Pro Bowl.

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01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:22,320
Speaker 1: I mean, people teams hate playing against the guy at Oliver.

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01:11:22,479 --> 01:11:24,960
Speaker 1: Same thing so he has a little step uptick. Here's

1394
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:27,120
Speaker 1: a question. You start talking about finances, what kind of

1395
01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: contracts are they going to pay these guys? How much

1396
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:33,599
Speaker 1: are they those contracts gonna hamstring the team going forward? Now,

1397
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:37,640
Speaker 1: the big question is this, how easy is it to

1398
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:42,040
Speaker 1: replace Ed Oliver or Tremaine Edmonds? How easy is it

1399
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:43,600
Speaker 1: to find a guy that maybe doesn't give you one

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01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:46,559
Speaker 1: hundred percent but gives you ninety percent of the production

1401
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:50,839
Speaker 1: for ten percent of the money. Those kind of questions

1402
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:53,120
Speaker 1: have to be answered. How tough is it to play

1403
01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 1: in the middle of this defense? How much will you

1404
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 1: have to change if it's not Tremaine Edmonds in the

1405
01:11:57,320 --> 01:11:59,760
Speaker 1: middle of your defense or Ed Oliver you know, on

1406
01:11:59,840 --> 01:12:02,759
Speaker 1: the offside, on the week side of the offensive formation.

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01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 1: I mean, and that goes for every team, not every

1408
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 1: player on every team. What's the cost of their replacement

1409
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:11,840
Speaker 1: and how much replacement production can you get for way

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01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:14,360
Speaker 1: way less money. Yeah, that's a great question. I think

1411
01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:17,439
Speaker 1: if we're stacking Tremaine Edmunds versus at Oliver, Like I said,

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01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:21,600
Speaker 1: I'm more optimistic about at Oliver. But I think in

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01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:24,639
Speaker 1: this Bill's defense, and I mentioned it earlier with how

1414
01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:27,559
Speaker 1: rotational they are up front, they're going nine ten deep.

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01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot did it in Carolina, He's done it in

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01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:32,759
Speaker 1: his first five seasons in Buffalo. I think the Bills

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01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 1: would be a little bit more apt to say, hey,

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01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 1: you know what, if they're equal and they're going to

1419
01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:41,840
Speaker 1: be paid around the same, let's actually let at Oliver go.

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01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:46,639
Speaker 1: Because that middle linebacker has so many responsibilities stopping the run,

1421
01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: whether it be inside, the tackles, outside, and in coverage.

1422
01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:52,760
Speaker 1: I think that's more of a valuable asset in Sean

1423
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:57,320
Speaker 1: mcdermot's defense than a defensive tackle that's maybe only playing

1424
01:12:57,439 --> 01:12:59,439
Speaker 1: forty to sixty percent of the snaps. You can get that,

1425
01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 1: I think the draft more so than a six foot five,

1426
01:13:02,120 --> 01:13:04,680
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty pound really fast linebacker. All right,

1427
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 1: one last question before we let you go. We have

1428
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:08,679
Speaker 1: this question, what's the most overlooked player on the Bills roster.

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01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:10,439
Speaker 1: We kind of answered that with all the guys. Now,

1430
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:12,400
Speaker 1: when you were a kid and you're playing in the yard,

1431
01:13:12,479 --> 01:13:16,040
Speaker 1: who did you pretend to be when you were playing football, baseball, basketball,

1432
01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:18,439
Speaker 1: Who is the guy that you wanted to be? Like? Well,

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01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:21,200
Speaker 1: if you say Steve Tash, Karl Choker, I was gonna

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01:13:21,240 --> 01:13:23,600
Speaker 1: say special teams, it was de Tasker, No, it was

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01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 1: for me. It was definitely Andre Reid. Andre meet like

1436
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:29,880
Speaker 1: to me, just running routes like we would play so

1437
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: much backyard football. If I wasn't the all time quarterback

1438
01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:34,840
Speaker 1: being Jim Kelly, it was Andre Red because he was

1439
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:37,759
Speaker 1: just so good over the middle all areas of the field.

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01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:41,200
Speaker 1: Good stuff TBS, Sports, NFL and college football. And as

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01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:43,680
Speaker 1: Chris Trapasso growing joins the show, thanks for coming in,

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01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 1: man really appreciate it anytime. Guys. Thanks Steve Tasker. Josh

1443
01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 1: Reed will be right back. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio

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01:13:48,439 --> 01:14:03,760
Speaker 1: and this is One Bills Live. Welcome back to One

1445
01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 1: Bill's Life. Chief Tasker Josh Rei. Thanks to Chris Trapasso

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01:14:06,439 --> 01:14:08,320
Speaker 1: for coming in and join us. In the last segment,

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01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:12,639
Speaker 1: talking about the Bill's roster training camp upcoming season. You know, guys,

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01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 1: he's looking for guys are in big years. It's it's

1449
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 1: it's always interesting to get an outside perspective because we're

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01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, we're neck deep. We're up to

1451
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:24,000
Speaker 1: our eyeballs and Bills stuff every day. And most Bills,

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01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:26,680
Speaker 1: you know, are the same way. Most Bills fans are

1453
01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:29,040
Speaker 1: the same way. They don't really you know, they'll catch

1454
01:14:29,120 --> 01:14:31,360
Speaker 1: other stuff, big stories from other teams. But mantle Man,

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01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:33,720
Speaker 1: they know this roster and it's fun to get an

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01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:35,960
Speaker 1: outside set of eyes on it. Yeah, and it's it's

1457
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:38,040
Speaker 1: interesting to hear kind of how some of those guys

1458
01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:41,120
Speaker 1: stack up with other rookies that other teams took. You know,

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01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:44,280
Speaker 1: that's always interesting because I mean, these guys, like you said,

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01:14:44,360 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 1: we are twenty four seven Bills, whereas they they are

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01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:50,240
Speaker 1: able to spread some of their attention out there around

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01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:52,519
Speaker 1: the league and everything. And you know, it's interesting to

1463
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:54,599
Speaker 1: hear him talk about Bruce Hall, guy that the Bills

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01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:58,639
Speaker 1: will see twice a year. Yeah, let's go on. We're

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01:14:58,640 --> 01:15:00,880
Speaker 1: gonna take We asked you today who's the most overlooked

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01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:02,840
Speaker 1: player on the Bills roster? And if you ever had

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01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:05,599
Speaker 1: a player that you pretended to be growing up, then

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Speaker 1: we'll go to the tweet sheet right now, brought to

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. And the first one's from Jeremy's

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01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:18,120
Speaker 1: is right now. He thinks Jamison Crowder, who's a beast

1472
01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:20,880
Speaker 1: for the Jets, but it's overlooked when he because he

1473
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:22,840
Speaker 1: was on a poor team. I think he's gonna bring

1474
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:27,120
Speaker 1: a ton to the table. Possibility. He's right. Christ Passo

1475
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:30,280
Speaker 1: just said, you know, this is a guy in Jamison Crowder.

1476
01:15:32,320 --> 01:15:34,400
Speaker 1: He missed fifteen games over the last four seas. That's

1477
01:15:34,439 --> 01:15:38,560
Speaker 1: like four four a season. Cole Beasley missed about that

1478
01:15:38,600 --> 01:15:41,760
Speaker 1: many last year. Every so off seemed like he missed

1479
01:15:41,960 --> 01:15:44,920
Speaker 1: some games. I don't know me. He did play hurt though,

1480
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 1: tough as nails. It'll be interesting to see, well this

1481
01:15:50,080 --> 01:15:52,680
Speaker 1: will buy far be the best quarterback he's played with,

1482
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:56,400
Speaker 1: best team, best team. Al Smith was the best quarterback

1483
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:58,720
Speaker 1: he's played with. And I mean, let's face it, Josh Allen, right,

1484
01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:01,920
Speaker 1: he can't caddy for John. Jamison Crowder is going to

1485
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 1: be in a different spot, in a different situation than

1486
01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:07,599
Speaker 1: he's ever been in as a pro. It'll be interesting

1487
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:10,960
Speaker 1: to see what that means to his career, in his production. Certainly,

1488
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:13,920
Speaker 1: he's going to feel a difference walking and walking off

1489
01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 1: the field winning more than losing as he did with

1490
01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: the Jets. And it's easy to overlook him too. I mean,

1491
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:24,680
Speaker 1: the Bills have just hit home run after home run

1492
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 1: in the off sea. We went over it early in

1493
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:29,240
Speaker 1: the superlatives of this offseason. You know Von Miller and

1494
01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:33,320
Speaker 1: James Cook and Kayer Elam and all the other you

1495
01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 1: know Saffold and Kesson Berry and and you sit there

1496
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:39,080
Speaker 1: and look at crowded. Crowder is one of the guys

1497
01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 1: that's like, guys should darn it. He's still on the

1498
01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:43,920
Speaker 1: Jets and we gotta play him that. You know. I

1499
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 1: can't believe he's twenty nine. I feel like he's been

1500
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:48,880
Speaker 1: in the NFL for fifteenth season, right, he should be

1501
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:54,320
Speaker 1: like thirty eight. Right. So he played well against the

1502
01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:57,000
Speaker 1: Bills a lot, and I think that's one of the

1503
01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:58,960
Speaker 1: reasons the Bill the Bills went after him a second time.

1504
01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:00,960
Speaker 1: He was a free age a couple of years ago,

1505
01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:04,080
Speaker 1: and he stayed with the Jets. Now he came to

1506
01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:05,840
Speaker 1: the Bills, and the Bills hung in there and stayed

1507
01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:08,360
Speaker 1: with it and got him after all. So, yeah, you

1508
01:17:08,439 --> 01:17:11,479
Speaker 1: might have a Jeremy might have a point. When Jamison

1509
01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: Crowder is the most overlooked from MT on the tweet sheet,

1510
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 1: he says, OJ Howard will be a nightmare in two

1511
01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 1: tight end formations. Yeah. OJ Howard has been when he

1512
01:17:23,400 --> 01:17:24,560
Speaker 1: came out. And I don't know if you remember this

1513
01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:30,240
Speaker 1: a few years ago. That guy was an unbelievable talent.

1514
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:34,559
Speaker 1: He was unbelievable. He was like the kid that Atlanta

1515
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:38,559
Speaker 1: pits pits. Yeah, he's a lot like him, except bigger. Yeah.

1516
01:17:39,160 --> 01:17:41,599
Speaker 1: Oj Howard. I mean you'll see if everybody, and I've

1517
01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 1: said it before, come out to training camp and get

1518
01:17:43,800 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 1: a load of what Oj Howard looks like walking around,

1519
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:52,120
Speaker 1: it's impressive. The guy is a giant. I mean he's huge.

1520
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:55,160
Speaker 1: I mean he makes Dawson Knox look like his little brother.

1521
01:17:55,640 --> 01:17:58,519
Speaker 1: And Dawson Knox is big. I mean, he's just a big,

1522
01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:01,320
Speaker 1: fast guy with a lot of athletic ability. He has

1523
01:18:01,439 --> 01:18:04,479
Speaker 1: had struggled, to say it, staying healthy, and I think

1524
01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:06,559
Speaker 1: that's a large reason why he got kind of pushed

1525
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:09,840
Speaker 1: to the side when Gronkowski came into Tampa. They had

1526
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:12,360
Speaker 1: Cameron Braden. They couldn't you know, he couldn't break into that,

1527
01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:14,760
Speaker 1: and he couldn't stay healthy enough to be consistent. So

1528
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:17,000
Speaker 1: he had some stuff going against him. But if he

1529
01:18:17,240 --> 01:18:20,439
Speaker 1: comes to the table with all of his potential, yeah,

1530
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:24,479
Speaker 1: he's a big plus it. Once again, you know, Brandon

1531
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:27,200
Speaker 1: Bean did a great job of just surrounding Josh with

1532
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:31,320
Speaker 1: guys who can make plays and look o. J. Howard

1533
01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 1: may be in a situation where he may go three

1534
01:18:34,479 --> 01:18:37,360
Speaker 1: weeks and have three catches for thirty yards, and then

1535
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:40,479
Speaker 1: he may have a game where the mismatches there and

1536
01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:43,640
Speaker 1: he may have eight catches for a buck ten and

1537
01:18:43,720 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. I mean, it might be that kind of

1538
01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 1: year where Steph Diggs we know pretty much week in

1539
01:18:49,200 --> 01:18:51,120
Speaker 1: and week out he's gonna go for the big numbers

1540
01:18:51,439 --> 01:18:53,600
Speaker 1: and then it's just kind of where's the mismatch. And

1541
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 1: I'll say this too, depending on how teams adjust and

1542
01:18:56,280 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 1: what they do. You got Dawson Knox out there with

1543
01:18:58,120 --> 01:19:01,719
Speaker 1: OJ Howard. They're extremely tall targets in the red zone.

1544
01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:04,600
Speaker 1: And like you always say, you think, now, I'm not

1545
01:19:04,680 --> 01:19:07,000
Speaker 1: talking about you know, fade routes ring, but I'm talking

1546
01:19:07,040 --> 01:19:09,680
Speaker 1: about throwing it high over the middle and getting a

1547
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:14,160
Speaker 1: mismatch on a short guy and it's too hard to defend. Yeah,

1548
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:17,280
Speaker 1: if he's lined up in the slot, these the slot cornerbacks,

1549
01:19:17,360 --> 01:19:20,360
Speaker 1: he's gonna tower over them, right. Another one from the

1550
01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:22,680
Speaker 1: tweet sheet from Nick he thinks Devin Singletary is the

1551
01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:24,680
Speaker 1: most overlooked player. I don't know if I buy that.

1552
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 1: And for whatever he gives. No, he has no justification

1553
01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:31,040
Speaker 1: for it. He just thinks Devin Singletary from Mike, He says,

1554
01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:33,479
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips, and I think having him back this year

1555
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:37,120
Speaker 1: is just as big as the von Miller's signing. No,

1556
01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:40,160
Speaker 1: I kind of I'm not gonna go that far, but

1557
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:41,920
Speaker 1: I get where you're I get where your point is

1558
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: being made. Jordan Phillips when he was here two years ago,

1559
01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:47,200
Speaker 1: when he or three years ago, when he was highly

1560
01:19:47,320 --> 01:19:51,640
Speaker 1: motivated as he probably will be this year, he was

1561
01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 1: a force, a real force. Miami kicked him to the curb.

1562
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,120
Speaker 1: He was unhappy. He came to Buffalo on a one

1563
01:19:58,240 --> 01:20:00,720
Speaker 1: year deal to prove it, and man, oh man, did

1564
01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:03,120
Speaker 1: he ever? He had a huge season. Yes, I mean

1565
01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:06,720
Speaker 1: he was chasing quarterbacks all season and he is. He

1566
01:20:06,960 --> 01:20:10,320
Speaker 1: is big, He's like three thirty plus, and he moves.

1567
01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: He's got like a waste, you know. Yeah, he's he's Yeah,

1568
01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:18,880
Speaker 1: he's to your point, He's very athletic. He's probably underrated

1569
01:20:18,920 --> 01:20:22,280
Speaker 1: how athletic he is. Hard to single team him up inside,

1570
01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:24,000
Speaker 1: so you gotta have a center in a guard on him,

1571
01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:27,840
Speaker 1: which means ed Oliver's by himself or on the other side.

1572
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:30,080
Speaker 1: Daquan Jones is by himself and he put both those

1573
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:33,040
Speaker 1: guys in there. In a passing down, you got a

1574
01:20:33,080 --> 01:20:37,200
Speaker 1: lot of weight to try and stop um, and it's slippery,

1575
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:40,360
Speaker 1: so it's pretty tough. It's it's a really good signing.

1576
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:42,519
Speaker 1: I think Jordan Phillips is a is a huge plus

1577
01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:45,960
Speaker 1: for this team. He's a off the field, he's pretty quiet,

1578
01:20:46,120 --> 01:20:48,200
Speaker 1: pretty regular going guy. When he's on the field, he's

1579
01:20:48,320 --> 01:20:50,719
Speaker 1: high energy and he loved and coaches love that stuff.

1580
01:20:50,760 --> 01:20:53,920
Speaker 1: And I think he's a piece to the Bill's defensive line.

1581
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:56,640
Speaker 1: Von Miller is the piece, right, you know what I mean?

1582
01:20:56,720 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 1: That's that's the centerpiece exactly right from Jim, He says,

1583
01:21:00,800 --> 01:21:03,880
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie. Every chance he catches the every chance he

1584
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:08,400
Speaker 1: catches the ball, big third down catches, runs, returns. He's

1585
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:10,479
Speaker 1: been the best slot guy for a season and a

1586
01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 1: half and we always look to replace him. Now it's

1587
01:21:14,479 --> 01:21:19,720
Speaker 1: Crowder free Isaiah. He'll make you proud. Jim is this

1588
01:21:19,920 --> 01:21:27,200
Speaker 1: Isaiah's agent? Hey, Look, was there a bigger did that

1589
01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:31,000
Speaker 1: just happen game? Than when Isaiah went into New England

1590
01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 1: and just went off? No. I mean when you look

1591
01:21:35,840 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 1: at individual performances like That was one of those ones

1592
01:21:39,600 --> 01:21:42,600
Speaker 1: that just came out of nowhere, and you looked at

1593
01:21:42,640 --> 01:21:44,280
Speaker 1: the stat sheet at the end of the game and

1594
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:49,400
Speaker 1: in the clutch timing of those catches, I was like,

1595
01:21:49,600 --> 01:21:51,639
Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me. I didn't know he had him.

1596
01:21:51,800 --> 01:21:55,439
Speaker 1: The Patriots didn't believe the Bills would keep going to him,

1597
01:21:56,160 --> 01:21:59,080
Speaker 1: and they just kept the same guy on him and

1598
01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:01,519
Speaker 1: the same thing. They didn't believe Josh would keep throwing

1599
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:03,639
Speaker 1: him the ball. Twelve targets for Isaiah McKenzie who hasn't

1600
01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:04,840
Speaker 1: even been on the field for the last month and

1601
01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:07,200
Speaker 1: a half. Yeah, no, they didn't believe it. And now

1602
01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:11,639
Speaker 1: you know, twelve targets and eleven catches late, eleven catches

1603
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:17,200
Speaker 1: on twelve targets. He killed them. And and we've talked

1604
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:19,120
Speaker 1: about this before. At the end of twenty twenty, when

1605
01:22:19,120 --> 01:22:20,800
Speaker 1: the Bills had it all wrapped up, they put him

1606
01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:23,160
Speaker 1: in against Miami. He did the same thing to Miami.

1607
01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:27,080
Speaker 1: He was he was the offense in the first half

1608
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:29,320
Speaker 1: of Miami and then Matt Barkley came into the second

1609
01:22:29,360 --> 01:22:31,760
Speaker 1: half of that game and still lit him up. Matt

1610
01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:37,360
Speaker 1: Barkley beat the Miami Dolphins with Isaiah McKenzie. So he

1611
01:22:37,560 --> 01:22:39,880
Speaker 1: has been nothing but productive when he's gotten the chance.

1612
01:22:39,960 --> 01:22:43,720
Speaker 1: But like a lot of for some reason, and I

1613
01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:45,160
Speaker 1: don't know whether it's an on the field or off

1614
01:22:45,200 --> 01:22:47,680
Speaker 1: the fielding. Everybody likes him, they all, they all like him,

1615
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:53,080
Speaker 1: but that guy is not their go to. He is

1616
01:22:53,240 --> 01:22:55,960
Speaker 1: not their go to. And I think I don't know

1617
01:22:56,000 --> 01:22:58,320
Speaker 1: whether it's Sean McDermott or Brandon Bean or maybe it's

1618
01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:00,680
Speaker 1: Josh Allten or somebody else. I don't know, but that

1619
01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 1: guy does not get the opportunities you would think he

1620
01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:06,920
Speaker 1: would get with the production he puts out when he

1621
01:23:06,960 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 1: does get an opportunity. And maybe maybe we'll see it

1622
01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:13,759
Speaker 1: this year. Maybe this is it. The offensive coordinator, maybe

1623
01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:16,639
Speaker 1: maybe Ken Dorsey says, you know what, let's run it back.

1624
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:18,800
Speaker 1: Let's let's see what this guy. Let's get hit the

1625
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:21,439
Speaker 1: ball in his hands nine times a game and see

1626
01:23:21,479 --> 01:23:23,080
Speaker 1: what he can do, whether it's in a bunch of

1627
01:23:23,200 --> 01:23:25,680
Speaker 1: jet sweeps, that kind of action. You know, maybe you're

1628
01:23:25,720 --> 01:23:28,679
Speaker 1: dumping it to him, you know, in the slot. But yeah,

1629
01:23:28,720 --> 01:23:32,439
Speaker 1: I mean you're right. When he touches it, he's pretty electric.

1630
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:39,479
Speaker 1: He's fast, catches the ball well, he can go in

1631
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:44,040
Speaker 1: the return game, yes, he's very versatile and he gives

1632
01:23:44,080 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 1: you something on special teams that makes his roster spot productive,

1633
01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:51,000
Speaker 1: even if he's not the number one guy on the offense.

1634
01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:55,840
Speaker 1: And you know that kid Bryant from New England tried

1635
01:23:55,880 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 1: to stay with him all day and he wore him out.

1636
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:02,200
Speaker 1: He absolutely or the guy out. And he's a story.

1637
01:24:02,439 --> 01:24:07,479
Speaker 1: He's an interesting story of a player who remember he

1638
01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:10,840
Speaker 1: was inactive in that New Orleans game and he could

1639
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:13,360
Speaker 1: have gone He could have gone sideways. It could have

1640
01:24:13,400 --> 01:24:19,320
Speaker 1: gone really sideways, and somehow he sidestepped getting too deep

1641
01:24:19,400 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 1: in the doghouse right, and he was and then he

1642
01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:25,040
Speaker 1: was active and he put up some he put up

1643
01:24:25,120 --> 01:24:28,360
Speaker 1: some good that. I'll say this, when guys get benched

1644
01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:30,840
Speaker 1: and they go in and they go south and they

1645
01:24:31,160 --> 01:24:32,880
Speaker 1: and they you can't they don't hear from the rest

1646
01:24:32,880 --> 01:24:34,519
Speaker 1: of the season. They just like, forget it. I'm out.

1647
01:24:35,479 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 1: That's on the coach. Now. He may have he may

1648
01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:42,040
Speaker 1: have sat him down for good reason, and everybody knows

1649
01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:45,680
Speaker 1: whatever the guy did. Plus you're gonna get benched for

1650
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:48,559
Speaker 1: that for a minute. But if the head coach doesn't

1651
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 1: handle it the right way, like sit down, look the

1652
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:53,080
Speaker 1: look the guy in the eye and say, hey, listen,

1653
01:24:53,160 --> 01:24:55,680
Speaker 1: here's what's gonna happen, and here's why. Now I know

1654
01:24:55,800 --> 01:24:58,960
Speaker 1: you're not happy about it, I know whatever. A head

1655
01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:01,080
Speaker 1: coach can diffuse all that and give the guy a

1656
01:25:01,280 --> 01:25:03,920
Speaker 1: ray of hope, give the guy a reason to come

1657
01:25:03,960 --> 01:25:06,760
Speaker 1: back strong. And that's what Sean McDermott is so good at.

1658
01:25:07,320 --> 01:25:10,240
Speaker 1: Certainly he's he's benched a ton of guys who most

1659
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:12,400
Speaker 1: of us out here like going, what do you do

1660
01:25:12,520 --> 01:25:15,439
Speaker 1: that for? Why isn't boogie bash him? Start? Why isn't

1661
01:25:15,439 --> 01:25:18,479
Speaker 1: a j Epanessa as a first round pick on the

1662
01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:21,519
Speaker 1: field as rookie's in an opening day? You know, he's

1663
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:23,800
Speaker 1: done that to a ton of guys. And the reason

1664
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:27,000
Speaker 1: he's such a good head coach is because none of

1665
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:29,040
Speaker 1: those guys go in the tank after he does it. Yeah,

1666
01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:32,920
Speaker 1: he becomes the button, right, he pushed it. He communicates

1667
01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 1: the truth to them, and guys respond to that. Guys

1668
01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:37,240
Speaker 1: respond to that, And I think that that's as much

1669
01:25:37,280 --> 01:25:41,040
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott keeping Isaiah McKenzie motivated and engaged and saying

1670
01:25:41,040 --> 01:25:43,479
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna show you rather than going in

1671
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:45,479
Speaker 1: the tank, says you're never gonna get me I'm gonna

1672
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:47,360
Speaker 1: go on and go do something else, and they never

1673
01:25:47,439 --> 01:25:49,760
Speaker 1: turned into Antonio Brown, you know what I'm saying. So

1674
01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:53,400
Speaker 1: that's on Sean McDermott. This is a good one, Jim.

1675
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:56,439
Speaker 1: When I first read the name isam McKenzie, I wanted

1676
01:25:56,479 --> 01:25:59,680
Speaker 1: to go yeah that. Actually, after talking it out, I

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Speaker 1: can see mackenzie being one of these overlooked guys. There's

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Speaker 1: another one here from Josh. He says, you already show.

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Speaker 1: It's Dion doc and selected the Pro Bowl last season,

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01:26:08,479 --> 01:26:10,880
Speaker 1: quietly goes about his business. Guys in the trenches, especially

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01:26:10,920 --> 01:26:13,840
Speaker 1: on the old line, always seem to get overlooked. No

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Speaker 1: one should overlook the wonderful impact he's had on the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo community as well. Go Bills. Yeah, there's a ton

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Speaker 1: of guys. And last one this says from now, I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna read that one forget. That's about somebody else.

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Speaker 1: So Deon docins. Yeah, any you can name any offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman and they're gonna get overlooked. It's just the nature

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Speaker 1: of the beast. YEA. To me, it's a little different

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Speaker 1: topic if you're talking about if one of these guys

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Speaker 1: goes down with an injury, because that would be a

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Speaker 1: huge impact. You lose Dion. Look, not that you want

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01:26:45,320 --> 01:26:47,519
Speaker 1: to lose Isaiah or any of these guys, but you

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Speaker 1: can you can make it work with some of the

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Speaker 1: guys we mentioned. That's a foundational piece. But that left tackle,

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01:26:53,439 --> 01:26:57,400
Speaker 1: you're you're protecting seventeen's blindside. That's a whole other level

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01:26:57,439 --> 01:27:00,599
Speaker 1: of being important that Steve Tasker, Josh, we're gonna take

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Speaker 1: a break. We'll be back to wrap things up right

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Speaker 1: after this. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio and this is

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Welcome back to One Bill's Life. Steeve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: Josh Reid here to finish things up for today. You know,

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01:27:24,120 --> 01:27:26,639
Speaker 1: Chris Trapasso, great guest on the show, did a lot

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01:27:26,680 --> 01:27:28,240
Speaker 1: of had a lot to say, and all of your

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01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:32,160
Speaker 1: tweets and feedback from our question about who the most

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01:27:32,240 --> 01:27:35,639
Speaker 1: overlooked player was, there's a lot there's so much going

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01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:39,320
Speaker 1: on with the Bills this offseason, you kind of forget

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01:27:39,320 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 1: about the guys who have contributed so much. And we

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01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:44,160
Speaker 1: were both talking about Terren Johnson being a guy that

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01:27:44,400 --> 01:27:46,880
Speaker 1: nobody even gives a second thought to what happens if

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01:27:46,920 --> 01:27:49,559
Speaker 1: that guy goes down. Oh, that defense looks way different

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01:27:49,720 --> 01:27:53,120
Speaker 1: and it's what he does in his role in that defense,

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01:27:53,240 --> 01:27:56,400
Speaker 1: playing in the slot, he is so crucial. I mean

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Speaker 1: we just sat here and talked about James Cook and

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Speaker 1: the Bill maybe some thoughts of him playing in the

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Speaker 1: slot and how big of a role that could be. Well,

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Speaker 1: guess what if you're the Bills and you're facing that,

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Speaker 1: That's where a guy like tarn Johnson comes in. I mean,

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01:28:10,240 --> 01:28:13,400
Speaker 1: you need that guy who can I mean, he can

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01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:16,519
Speaker 1: match up against wide receivers, he can match up against

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Speaker 1: running backs. And I'll tell you what, pound for pound,

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Speaker 1: he's the toughest guy on the team. Yeah, he is.

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01:28:21,479 --> 01:28:23,360
Speaker 1: He is not afraid. He will stick his nose in

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01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:26,799
Speaker 1: and he will bring the thunder. He's a willing tackler.

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01:28:26,960 --> 01:28:29,479
Speaker 1: He gets in a physical game and he makes a

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Speaker 1: big difference out there. And I think his presence. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you talk about the value they've gotten out of him

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01:28:35,439 --> 01:28:37,799
Speaker 1: for what they invested in him. They gave him an extension.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he earned it. It's just great to see

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Speaker 1: that happen. It's great to see what happened. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: coming in today. You're gonna be back with us tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you tomorrow, Steve. We'll be back tomorrow, Steve Tasker,

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01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:49,080
Speaker 1: Josh Reid back in tomorrow. Chris Brown's gonna be on

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01:28:49,240 --> 01:28:51,360
Speaker 1: vacation all week. We're gonna take It's gonna be a

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01:28:51,439 --> 01:28:54,920
Speaker 1: herky jerky week as the week stretches on as well.

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Speaker 1: But we've got a lot of a lot of shows.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have another Twitter question for you tomorrow. Give

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Speaker 1: us a call tomorrow if you want enjoy the summer.

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01:29:01,760 --> 01:29:04,439
Speaker 1: We're getting to it. We're just drumming our just tapping

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Speaker 1: our feet, waiting for training camp to start. But it's

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Speaker 1: been fun. Thanks Josh, thank you, Steve. Appreciate it all right,

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01:29:09,200 --> 01:29:11,599
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be back with you tomorrow and One

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01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:14,280
Speaker 1: Bills Live. We're gonna have we had christ Postco. You

1742
01:29:14,320 --> 01:29:16,560
Speaker 1: can go back, get back and listen to that on

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01:29:16,680 --> 01:29:19,320
Speaker 1: your iPod or your podcast as well. We'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow, everybody,