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Speaker 1: So we're time watching Temper. What's up, What's up? What's up?

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Speaker 1: What's God? Welcome into One Bills Live. Happy Friday, Bills Mafia,

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, everybody who's listening. We have made it through

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Speaker 1: another week. We are a week closer to being able

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Speaker 1: to see practices, a week closer to the players putting

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Speaker 1: I'm getting so amped up about everything with so many

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Speaker 1: players from the Bills now addressing the media as they

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Speaker 1: are in training camp. Maddie glab here, Steve Tasker is

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Speaker 1: going to join us in a bit. We are still

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Speaker 1: doing this from our homes, but soon enough we will

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Speaker 1: be back in the studio, back at the One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live studio. I'm excited to get back to work, to

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Speaker 1: get back to the office. We've been at our homes

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Speaker 1: since about March. It's about time to do the dang thing.

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Speaker 1: A lot of things on the show today. We had

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Speaker 1: a mailbag. We have some great questions from that mail bag,

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Speaker 1: got a Twitter pull for everybody to answer in on

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Speaker 1: about what's going to go on during this training campa.

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Speaker 1: Where your mind's at heading into the twenty twenty season.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Dawson Knox soon coming up at

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Speaker 1: twelve thirty. He's addressing the media. Actually right now, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna play that at twelve thirty. Dawson, a second year

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Speaker 1: tight end with the Bills, had quite the rookie campaign

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Speaker 1: awesome nicknames like mister stiff Arm and things like that.

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Speaker 1: Rambo and Knox if you will, so we'll hear from Dawson.

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Speaker 1: And then at two o'clock, my friend Marcel Louis Jacques

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Speaker 1: from ESPN and the Bills reporter from ESPAN is going

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Speaker 1: to be on with us. We'll chat with him just

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Speaker 1: about training camp, the upcoming season, many things going on.

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Speaker 1: Maybe one of the biggest things that we can talk

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Speaker 1: about today is that Trey White decided to not opt out.

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Speaker 1: So a big sigh of relief from me, from you,

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Speaker 1: from Bill's mafia. Man, what a decision to make. I'm

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Speaker 1: happy he's playing. I'm happy he took the time to

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Speaker 1: I think to hear from Trey when he did a

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Speaker 1: sharing what it's like to make a tough decision like this,

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Speaker 1: to think about your family, to think about your kids,

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Speaker 1: And Trey ultimately he decided he was going to play.

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Speaker 1: I think he is a huge, monumental mammoth part to

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Speaker 1: this Bill's defense. This defense would look so much different

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Speaker 1: am so thankful he's playing. I hope he and his

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Speaker 1: This year, he said that he wanted to test the waters,

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Speaker 1: just see what the facility was like, see what the

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Speaker 1: factors that played into him deciding ultimately, you know, and

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Speaker 1: I'm going to play this season because I think it's

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Speaker 1: safe enough. He did say that they're the best people

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Speaker 1: it a safe environment for the players, for the coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: for everybody coming in every day, and somebody who just

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Speaker 1: came into our skype cone at we going on now,

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Speaker 1: He's not going on, mister Steve Tasker has join us

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Speaker 1: to Steve Happy Friday. Thanks, thanks for coming in. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: it's my bad. That's one of the perils of working

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Speaker 1: I said him like ten minutes before, right, so we

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Speaker 1: I guess that's right. I get. You know, there's nothing

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Speaker 1: calling for you, like ding ding ding ding, thing like

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Speaker 1: I apologize. I'm I apologize for being one hundred and

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Speaker 1: making sure that I'm laughing at him too, because we've

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Speaker 1: like so nineteen one. That's so hippie, right, you know,

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Speaker 1: You can tell he had a couple of a lot

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Speaker 1: a lot to him. And not for nothing either. I

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Speaker 1: know this, Maddie. Every player spoke to his representation, his

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Speaker 1: What do you think it means for me in particular?

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Speaker 1: Because every guy's different a little bit. So you've got

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Speaker 1: There's still a risk at playing. No matter how safe

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Speaker 1: that way. What do you think I'm buying that message?

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Speaker 1: I think maybe this year you want to put in

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Speaker 1: and install some weirder plays and in my mind goes

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Speaker 1: in weird getting guys in out of position, so in

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Speaker 1: the red zone or different type of packages, you put

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Speaker 1: a defensive player out on offense for a player too,

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Speaker 1: because likely I've talked about before, what if the unexpected

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Speaker 1: happens and a guy maybe has to flip the side

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Speaker 1: of the field for a part of the game. Now,

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Speaker 1: hopefully it doesn't go that whack, but I would think

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Speaker 1: this season, more than any you might have to have

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Speaker 1: a few more tricks up your sleeve or more just

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Speaker 1: a few more options for different types of plays, especially

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Speaker 1: rotating receivers through different receiver positions, putting your tight ends

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Speaker 1: at receiver positions, putting your running backs in the slot.

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Speaker 1: Different things may happen where you might be down, you're

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Speaker 1: starting receiver, you're running back, and hey, you might have

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Speaker 1: to play some guy out of position. So that would

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Speaker 1: make total sense if you are trying to install things

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Speaker 1: that have people that are out of position on offense.

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Speaker 1: All right, Steve Tasker, Matti lab Here till three o'clock

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. We've got Marcel Louise Jacques coming up

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Speaker 1: at two. Dawson knocks some sound bites coming up with him.

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Speaker 1: We've got news and notes from around the league as well.

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Speaker 1: Stick with us One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to one of Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker along with Maddie Glad We're here till three

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Speaker 1: o'clock later the program. By the top of the air,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get the Dawson Knox sound bites available. We're

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Speaker 1: still trying to import and export and get those electronically

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Speaker 1: turned around so we can package him up for you

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Speaker 1: to hear what the Bill's young tight end, second year

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Speaker 1: tight end had to say working out with George Kittle

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Speaker 1: in the off season, and we heard step Stefan Diggs

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Speaker 1: call him mister stiff arm. We were adding all that stuff,

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Speaker 1: got he got asked about all that stuff. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be pretty fun to hearing from Dawson Knox again. But

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Speaker 1: right now we're asking our listeners you what's on your mind?

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Speaker 1: Does the Bills euroupe for training camp and for the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty season? Is it if the Bills just get

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Speaker 1: the Bills through COVID unscathed. Sixty five percent of you think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's it. Just get through this thing, this training camp

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Speaker 1: unscathed with COVID. Eighteen percent of you think nothing. Nothing's

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Speaker 1: really are priority because we're not really confident that a

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty season will in fact happen. Twelve percent of

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Speaker 1: you think it's about the chemistry and the players like

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Speaker 1: it normally is, and five percent of you have something

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Speaker 1: else in mind. You can call us at eight oh

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Speaker 1: three oh five fifty or one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. You've got a couple one hundred

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Speaker 1: votes on that. And also we've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: feedback on the tweet sheet, Maddie. Why don't you start

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Speaker 1: with the tweet sheet brought to us by Corrigan Moving Systems.

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Speaker 1: The official equipment movers are the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, John,

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Speaker 1: we love John because he said I went with d

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Speaker 1: other getting one Bills live back on Unsteen next week. Yes, John,

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Speaker 1: we are all our production crew is doing the most

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Speaker 1: trying to get back on TV. Lots of things to

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Speaker 1: figure out, lots of things to work through. They are

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Speaker 1: the MVPs of this week, and it'll be awesome to

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Speaker 1: get back on TV. Everybody will get to see her

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Speaker 1: lovely face against Steve and Chris Brown. And then I'll

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Speaker 1: pop on once in a while too. Get the game

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Speaker 1: back together. Yeah, Unfortunately they've asked me to wear my

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Speaker 1: mask whether I'm distanced or not, which is I have

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Speaker 1: a perfect face for radio. So also from the tweet sheet,

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Speaker 1: Tiffany says I voted chemistry. Several new players along the

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Speaker 1: D line getting to know each other. It definitely helps

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Speaker 1: having coach Washington, who's familiar with Butler and Addison and

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Speaker 1: knowing the system, working alongside coach McDermott. They do have

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Speaker 1: position flexibility along the defensive line now that from Tiffany,

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Speaker 1: and it's interesting too. I'm interested in that as well,

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Speaker 1: the d line chemistry and how those guys are gonna look, Maddie,

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Speaker 1: and how the receiving core is going to look, how

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Speaker 1: Josh looks all. But I really this COVID pandemic hangs

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Speaker 1: over everything. It's almost the point of ridiculousness and how

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Speaker 1: different things are because of the risk that everybody walks

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Speaker 1: around with all the time, even in these buildings that

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Speaker 1: are so full of safety protocols. It's a really strange

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Speaker 1: place to be in as you think about where we're

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Speaker 1: at and for us, I mean for me, Like we said,

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Speaker 1: we've been out of the studio for almost exactly five

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Speaker 1: months since we've been broadcasting from home, and it's kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's been different, but okay, normal, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're still talking and doing our radio thing. But man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, now that the season's here and training camp

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Speaker 1: is so vastly different in the NFL as which is

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Speaker 1: kind of this like you know, it''s like a Mount

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Speaker 1: Rushmore thing in the United States. I mean, it's like

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Speaker 1: and now it looks it's like somebody carved somebody else's

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Speaker 1: face on Mount Rushmore. Like it looks completely different, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it really is getting sticking home with it

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Speaker 1: for day today for some reason more so than any other,

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Speaker 1: I really, since the vast different world we're living in today,

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Speaker 1: more than I have for a long long time. I

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Speaker 1: think one two words that Sean McDermott and Brandon mean

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Speaker 1: and a lot of the players in their availabilities this

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Speaker 1: week have used is adapt and adjust. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's a saying a phrase that Sean is now using

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Speaker 1: with his team because exactly that they don't know what

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Speaker 1: the next day is going to look like. They don't

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Speaker 1: know what the next week is going to look like,

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Speaker 1: the unexpected is going to happen. They're expecting that they

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Speaker 1: might have a player out here or there because of COVID,

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Speaker 1: because of other injuries, and hey, we just have to

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Speaker 1: keep our mindset on adapting and adjusting because in a

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Speaker 1: year where nobody knows when COVID is going away, nobody

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Speaker 1: knows if the season is going to go completely through

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Speaker 1: without pausing. It's all about being able to adapt and

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Speaker 1: adjust and expect the unexpected. I think that's a great

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Speaker 1: mindset to put on a young team, a team full

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Speaker 1: full of twenty year olds, a team full of thirty

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Speaker 1: year olds that are still learning about life in several

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Speaker 1: different ways, and to be able to have a mindset that,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm okay if it doesn't go as planned,

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Speaker 1: I'm expecting things to change and I can adapt. I

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Speaker 1: think that's an awestome mindset to adopt before the season begins. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's on in your mind is the Bill's gear up

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Speaker 1: for training camp for the twenty twenty season. For two

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Speaker 1: thirds of you out there, it is about this COVID

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Speaker 1: and how the players and teams in the league are

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Speaker 1: going to adjust to it. But from Jack k he says,

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Speaker 1: the biggest question on my mind is still number seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen needs to take the next step, show improvement

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Speaker 1: and decision making, improvement on the deep bowl, and continue

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Speaker 1: to grow with his short and intermediate throws. Also has

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Speaker 1: to take better care of the football. He cannot take

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Speaker 1: a step back in year three like trabisk he did

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Speaker 1: in Chicago, no question about it. In a regular year, Maddie.

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Speaker 1: And we've said it a lot during this offseason, and

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Speaker 1: and and it's still true. Like like Jack says, Josh

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Speaker 1: is the X factor for this entire show here at

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Speaker 1: one Bill's Drive, Right, He's the big X factor if

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Speaker 1: he comes out and has a season like no other

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Speaker 1: and completes sixty five percent plus of his or like

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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill did in the last half of last season

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Speaker 1: with the Dolphins. If if Josh Allen catches lightning a

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Speaker 1: bottle and like that, this is a team that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be impossible to beat on paper. You know, him completing

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Speaker 1: sixty five percent plus of his passes, the offense running

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Speaker 1: an efficient rate, staying as healthy as they did a

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Speaker 1: year ago, with a defense like they have with Trdavious

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Speaker 1: White and a refurbished Josh Norman. A good gracious this

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Speaker 1: is I mean, you know, I want to see how

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Speaker 1: that turns out in a big way. I'm a Bills fan,

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Speaker 1: but I think Jack is right. When all when you

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Speaker 1: washed away all the garbage that you know we all

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Speaker 1: live in in twenty twenty, Josh is still the big

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Speaker 1: X factor of a whole scenario. And it's sometimes you

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Speaker 1: forget all of that. Josh has certainly got to take

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Speaker 1: a step forward in several ways this season, and he

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Speaker 1: is aware of that, and I think he he puts

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Speaker 1: the most pressure on himself and he can deal with

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Speaker 1: that pressure. I think the outside noise and the outside pressure.

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Speaker 1: Of course, like any player, he tries to not let

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Speaker 1: that get to him. But I think the freeing thing

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Speaker 1: about all of this is that, yes, Josh has to improve,

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Speaker 1: but Devin Singles Sarry still has to do do his job.

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Speaker 1: Dawson Knox does, Tyler Kraft does, Steph Diggs does, John

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Speaker 1: Brown does, Cole Beasley does, Zach Moss does so Thankfully

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Speaker 1: his entire team working with him and the offensive line

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Speaker 1: that they all need to put it together. Josh is

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Speaker 1: going to be the glue to all of this and

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Speaker 1: the thing that seals the deal. But the offense as

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Speaker 1: a whole, they've they've got to be better. Those receivers

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Speaker 1: have to catch more balls. Dawson Knox has to catch

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Speaker 1: more balls. Devin Singletary needs to get more yards. Zach

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Speaker 1: Moss needs to be the strong running back who can

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Speaker 1: run up the whole for a couple of yards when

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Speaker 1: you need it. The offensive line needs to provide protection

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Speaker 1: for Josh so that he has the time to make

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Speaker 1: the right decision and to throw or to run the ball.

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Speaker 1: It all works together at the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: So we've got we're asking our listeners what what's on

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Speaker 1: their mind? Is the Bills grew up for training Kim,

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Speaker 1: what are they thinking about? And sixty five percent of

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Speaker 1: you think it's all about COVID Can they handle that?

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Speaker 1: Twenty percent of you, twenty percent of you think I

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Speaker 1: don't don't think the season's going to happen at all.

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Speaker 1: You don't have any faith that the NFL can make

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Speaker 1: this happen. You're seeing what's going on in the NBA

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Speaker 1: and the NHL and how well they're doing at least

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Speaker 1: getting games on their you know, on the competitive field

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Speaker 1: or ice or the court. And then you've seen Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball, which by the way, is probably the one

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Speaker 1: Their protocols and the way they run their business is

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Speaker 1: probably closer to what the NFL is doing, and they're

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Speaker 1: having all kinds of problems getting it done, which I

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Speaker 1: think leads people to think the same thing is going

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Speaker 1: to happen with the NFL. And I think we all

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Speaker 1: know there are differences in the NFL that hopefully, and

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Speaker 1: I hope is not a plan, Maddie, but hopefully the

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Speaker 1: fact that they play once a week, three or four

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Speaker 1: times a week. They don't have two games a day,

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Speaker 1: a double header, or a road trip that's going to

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Speaker 1: going to be in a different hotel. You're gonna be

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Speaker 1: interacting with hotel people. The NFL plays once a week,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of people hope, and like I said,

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Speaker 1: hope is not plan. They hope that that's going to

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Speaker 1: make a difference and help keep the NFL virus free.

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Speaker 1: But they're not in a bubble and a lot of

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Speaker 1: people and I'd be interested to hear what you used

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Speaker 1: to say about this. A lot of people don't think

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Speaker 1: this is going to work unless they tighten down what

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Speaker 1: the players do away from the facility. You have to

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Speaker 1: tighten everything down. I think that really comes to the

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Speaker 1: culture that you have inside the building, the trust that

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Speaker 1: you have in your players, the power of the leaders

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Speaker 1: inside of the locker room as well as you're head coach,

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Speaker 1: and for guys, and Sean talked about this is to

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Speaker 1: truly care for one another and Sean talks about this

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Speaker 1: all the time, is that, Hey, I love you, I

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Speaker 1: love my teammate, I love the guy next to me

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Speaker 1: so much that I am willing to do whatever it

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Speaker 1: takes for that person next to me. It's it's about

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00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: selfless business. It's about caring for one another. And I

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00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: think if you have that type of culture in place,

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00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: it can be successful because guys know how important it

645
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: is to stay healthy. They understand how risky it is

646
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: to do things that you shouldn't be doing. They understand

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00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: how intense this virus is and how a week could

648
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: completely change your season, or a night out could completely

649
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: change your season. So I think it really comes down

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Speaker 1: to the trust and the type of team you have.

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Speaker 1: And I have confidence in our team. I think they're

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Speaker 1: full of great humans. I think our head coach and

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00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: our general manager are great leaders. I think it's trickled

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Speaker 1: down to the leaders inside the locker room. And I

655
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,879
Speaker 1: haven't met any of the new ones. You haven't either

656
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Speaker 1: our rookies or our new free agents, but it seems

657
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Speaker 1: like it's right in line with the type of DNA

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Speaker 1: you want on this team. Yes, I think a bubble

659
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: is the safest scenario the NFL doesn't have a bubble

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Speaker 1: in place right now. Maybe that will change for some

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Speaker 1: teams down down the line. Read an article about the

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers who are going to try and voluntarily do a

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Speaker 1: bubble and training camp and once the season starts. So

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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see if some teams adopt that.

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Speaker 1: Because COVID is still an issue throughout the season. We're

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Speaker 1: still seeing outbreaks like we have in MLB. But it

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00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 1: comes down to the players. Yeah, I agree, it comes

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Speaker 1: down to the guys. And I think one thing that

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Speaker 1: what's it going to take to scare these guys into

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Speaker 1: minding their p's and ques. Is it going to take

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Speaker 1: a quick outbreak during training camp? Like one guy, it's like, well,

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00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: I just went into a seven eleven or whatever, or

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Speaker 1: I you know, shook hands with a guy or whatever,

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Speaker 1: took a selfie with some fans whatever you call it um,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, one guy gets comes back

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Speaker 1: positive one day, and then six other guys come down

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Speaker 1: with it two days later, and you know, they all

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Speaker 1: those guys get kicked out of the building. Is they're

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Speaker 1: going to take a scare like that for a young

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Speaker 1: guy to understand he's on the hook. For what happens,

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Speaker 1: particularly when they do contact tracing and trace it back

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Speaker 1: to him. You know, you don't. I can't. And it's

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Speaker 1: just me. Maybe not all guys are like this, and

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Speaker 1: maybe you wouldn't be like this either, Maddie. But I

685
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,959
Speaker 1: don't want to be that guy. That's my great fear.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be because they got, you know,

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Speaker 1: these contract tracers. I don't want to be the guy

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Speaker 1: that they trace it back to and point the finger

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00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: and say, you're the guy that sank our entire season.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I Oh my gosh, can you imagine being

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Speaker 1: that guy? You wouldn't You wouldn't be able to stay

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Speaker 1: on the team. Fans, fans would vilify you. The fan

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00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 1: I mean, oh my gosh, everybody would know. It would

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00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: be so horrible. Yeah, I don't want I couldn't stand

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Speaker 1: to be that guy. Can you imagine? Can you imagine?

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're so, we're going back to the office.

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Speaker 1: You're going back into one Bill's Live. I'll be going

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Speaker 1: back to my desk at some point, which has been

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Speaker 1: moved to the second floor because the first floor is

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Speaker 1: players staff, Tier one and tier two, and the third

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Speaker 1: floor or the second floor is Tier three employees, And

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Speaker 1: even though I'm not allowed to have contact with the

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Speaker 1: players or the coaches, not allowed to come within six

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Speaker 1: feet of them, I'm even like of the mindset of man,

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Speaker 1: once I go in the building, I really have to

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Speaker 1: be safe, and I've I've been safe since this has started.

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Speaker 1: But even so, you go through all the scenarios in

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Speaker 1: your mind and you're like, oh my gosh, what if

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Speaker 1: it seeps through the fence. What if I cough and

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00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: I and I'm asymptomatic and I have it and a

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Speaker 1: player gets it, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to be the person who carries this to someone.

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Speaker 1: So you think that these players are hopefully thinking the

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Speaker 1: same way, like I don't want to be the person

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Speaker 1: of who ruins this for my team. And I think

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Speaker 1: when they announced that five players had tested positive, whether

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Speaker 1: that was false positives or not, I think that was

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Speaker 1: a little scare amongst the team right away and a

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Speaker 1: chance to learn from that when it was so early

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Speaker 1: in training camp, like, guys, hey, we got to lock

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Speaker 1: this up. We can't be living the lifestyle that we

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Speaker 1: used to be. We have to be careful for each other,

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Speaker 1: and we maybe have to go from the facility right

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Speaker 1: back home and not really go out anywhere else. Right well,

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Speaker 1: we'll be reading the rest of your tweets from the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet throughout the show. We've also got Dawson Knocks

727
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Speaker 1: soundbites coming up. The young tight end for the Buffalo

728
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: Bills met with the media earlier this afternoon. We've got

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Speaker 1: your questions from the mail bag coming up. We also

730
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 1: got news and notes from around the National Football Leagues.

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Speaker 1: Deep task or Mattie Glab here till three o'clock one

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Speaker 1: he goes live by Tolight to Health on Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Lives. Deep Tasker, Maddie Glab

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Speaker 1: We're talking about your thoughts on training camp, what your

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00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: priorities are. A lot of you think just get through

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00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: the thing without getting COVID and let's just move on.

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00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,919
Speaker 1: That's what most of you are saying on our Twitter poll.

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Speaker 1: We've also got Dawson Knox coming up just after this

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Speaker 1: next segment, after the top of the hour, he's meeting

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Speaker 1: has met with the Western New York media and the

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Speaker 1: second year tight end for the Buffalo Bills had a

742
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Speaker 1: lot to say, and we're gonna package that up and

743
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: give you some soundbites from him. And we're also going

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00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 1: to talk to your take your questions from our mail

745
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: bag about everything you want to talk to us about

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00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,439
Speaker 1: about around the National Football League, players, coaches, and what's

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00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: going on here at One Bill's Drive. Mattie and I

748
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: and Chris Brown will also be back in the studio

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Speaker 1: on MSG starting Monday, so we've got that going on

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Speaker 1: as well stuff going on around the league. This just

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00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: came out lambeau Field, where the Packers played. They've said

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00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: for the first two games, at least the first two

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00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: home games of the twenty twenty season, the Packers are

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Speaker 1: going to be without fans in the stands. So the

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00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna do that, and then they're gonna

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00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: reevaluate after the first two home games. Their governor has

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00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: come out and said, listen, we're not gonna do this.

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00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: It's not going to be the same obviously. I mean,

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00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: the Bills played there, and I actually did that game

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Speaker 1: when the Bills played in Lambeau a couple of years ago,

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00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,919
Speaker 1: and it was it's a great place. It's a really

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00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: special place, no question, and it it turned Mattie, it

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00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: turns into a barn when there's no fans in the stands.

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Speaker 1: But nevertheless, I think that's just the beginning. I think

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00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:50,800
Speaker 1: that's a good way to do it. Say, listen, the

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Speaker 1: first couple of games, we're not gonna have any fans,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll reevaluate from there and we'll see. If

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you pick which fans get to

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Speaker 1: go and which ones don't. That's gonna be a tough

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00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: part of this decision. And I like what the Packers

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00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: are doing is to not just rule it out and

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Speaker 1: say no fans at all this season. I think it's

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Speaker 1: smart to say, all right, for the first couple of

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00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 1: the games, are going to do no fans, and then

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00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: we'll reevaluate and take it kind of like players say

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00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,919
Speaker 1: all the time, a week by week basis. It's we're

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Speaker 1: taking it day by day. I think that's what a

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Speaker 1: lot of these stadiums are going to need to do,

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Speaker 1: at least in the start of the season, before we

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Speaker 1: have a vaccine in place, if we do by the

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Speaker 1: time the season ends, but man to have games without

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Speaker 1: without fans. And you look at Lambeau and you look

783
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: at Bills, and those fan bases mean a lot. Yeah,

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00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 1: they do that. Home field is huge, and you can

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00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: imagine I mean, I mean you and I live over there,

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00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 1: so one Bill's drive. So we've seen the stadium a

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00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: ton when it didn't have any people in it. Hard

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00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: to imagine having a game in there with no fans.

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Speaker 1: It's it's an amazing thing. Also, in keeping with our

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Speaker 1: question today of what your thoughts are about the Bills

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00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: in training camp, the Buccaneers have a voluntary bubble U

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00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: during the regular season. They're gonna formulate they got a hotel.

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00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: They're gonna rent the whole thing out, and if the

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Speaker 1: players want to, or if they volunteer, they can live

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Speaker 1: in that hotel and be in a bubble, much like

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00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:25,320
Speaker 1: the NBA is doing well. The New Orleans Saints have

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00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: said they're gonna do that during training camp and then

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Speaker 1: and then ease up at the regular season. But the

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers are gonna have a voluntary bubble during the regular season. Uh.

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Speaker 1: In the article that I've read, Uh, I got a

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Speaker 1: spoiler alert is that they're gonna volunteer right quote finger

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Speaker 1: quote volunteer. Um. I wonder what Tom Brady says about

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Speaker 1: that in a hotel for season is going to stay? Yeah,

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00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: he's he gonna stay in a double double room rather

805
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: than a twenty million dollar house that he bought from

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Speaker 1: ja Eric Keeter. You know, I mean, and what's Gizelle

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00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: going to say about that? You know, what is your

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00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: one of the you know, She's like, what are you

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00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 1: kidding me? I got we got four kids, you know

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00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: how to leave. You're not leaving me high and dry.

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Speaker 1: Of course, then again, you think Tom could afforded, you know,

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00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: an hourly wage earner to come in and you know,

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00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: look after the kids. It's not like they don't have

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00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 1: any help around the house. But right if you're gonna,

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Speaker 1: like quote unquote volunteer all your guys to be in

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Speaker 1: the hotel, and Tom Brady has been pretty pretty I

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00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: don't know casual about how serious he's taken the virus anyway,

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00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: is he gonna Is he gonna be the guy that says,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not volunteering to be in the bubble

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Speaker 1: with you guys. That doesn't sound like him. One thing

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Speaker 1: that worries me about this voluntary bubble I think it

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Speaker 1: has to be the entire team or nobody, because I

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00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: think when you have yeah, when you when you have

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Speaker 1: players that are choosing not to be inside of the bubble.

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00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: I can see creating problems within the locker room because

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Speaker 1: it could be like, hey, twenty guys are in a

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Speaker 1: hotel and they're truly quarantining and living this bubble life.

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Speaker 1: But then you have forty people who are living at home,

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Speaker 1: and then there's friction between well, I saw so and

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00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: so was out at this restaurant, or I saw so

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00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,439
Speaker 1: and so doing this, and that's not what you want

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00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: inside of a locker room. They also have that hot

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00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 1: line that they've formulated as well. The NFL is going

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00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: to have their own little snitch hot line where you

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Speaker 1: can if it's more for the clubs, right though, if

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00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: you're if your players say, listen, our club's not doing this.

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00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: They're nobody's washing their hands, or they're not nobody's wearing masks,

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00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: or nobody's socially distancing, they should call that in. But

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Speaker 1: I don't know that with Yeah, you're right though, If

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Speaker 1: it's a voluntary bubble and some guys don't volunteer, it's

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Speaker 1: not a bubble. Right, you're right back to now, right,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. Dawson Knox coming up. Sound

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Speaker 1: soundbites from his meeting with the Western New York Media

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Speaker 1: the Bill's second year tight end coming up right after

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Speaker 1: the break One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Oh, a good time of my Steve

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Speaker 1: Plasterer gone, Bucks Down, Bucks down to Dosto time. Welcome,

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Speaker 1: come tow, I'm up for two feet pastor Mattie glab

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Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live. Earlier this afternoon, Dawson Knox,

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Speaker 1: the second year tight end for the Buffalo Bills, in

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Speaker 1: his second training camp coming in, was met with the

852
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,399
Speaker 1: Western New York Media. We're gonna take some time out

853
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,959
Speaker 1: to listen to a large chunk of that interview. Here's

854
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox, Buffalo Bill's tight end in the Western New

855
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 1: York Media. The addition of stuff onigs seems to make

856
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 1: everyone in the huddle a little bit better. Um. Question,

857
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: what are your impressions of, you know, kind of being

858
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: around him and seeing seeing him work. Oh, I mean,

859
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: it's been awesome. Ever since we were out in Miami

860
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 1: training together and now actually being in the building together,

861
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 1: it's been cool kind of getting to know him off

862
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: the field a little bit, but also just you know

863
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: the way he works. You know, he's a workhorse. He's

864
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: out there grinding just as hard as everybody else, and

865
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 1: seeing him run some routes, like I've already tried to

866
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: start picking up some certain things that he does while

867
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 1: he's running routes to see if I can do it myself,

868
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: and a lot of times, you know, it's very difficult,

869
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: but it's just impressive to watch, and obviously everybody's really

870
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 1: excited to have him in the huddle with us. Quick

871
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: follow up a little bit, the expectations for yourself. I know,

872
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: outside of the building, the experts seem to think that

873
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox is going to have a big year. What

874
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: are your What are your expectations for yourself? What did

875
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 1: you go into the offseason kind of looking to do

876
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,800
Speaker 1: and improve on? Yeah, so, you know, I felt like

877
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: you're one was you know, it was a tough year

878
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: just because it was, you know, first year in the league,

879
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 1: trying to keep my head above water, kind of like

880
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 1: I was just treading water the whole time. And finally

881
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: towards the end of the season, I felt like I

882
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 1: was able to kind of start playing faster, not really

883
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: thinking about where I'm lining up and when I'm looking

884
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: at pre snap and more just playing freely. But this offseason,

885
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 1: I've you know, had a drug machine the whole time,

886
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: just working on the hands and some of the easier

887
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,320
Speaker 1: catches where I would start looking down the field before

888
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: I secured the ball away. That was a big emphasis

889
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 1: for me. But also I'm really excited having the same

890
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 1: playbook with day Ball and just the same connections. Like

891
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: on the offense with Josh, I was with him tons

892
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: of you know, we had several throwing sessions during the

893
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: off season, so just continuing to work on that chemistry

894
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 1: and kind of just building out everything we did last year.

895
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to see what, you know, this year's

896
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: gonna be. Like I feel like, you know, I'm ready

897
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: to make a big leap. Thanks Dawson, stay safe. Yeah, thanks,

898
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Hey Dawson, John Scott, good to see you.

899
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: How's it going good? Good? I wanted to kind of

900
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: see if you could expand on last year and drops

901
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,439
Speaker 1: were an issue, and what were some of the things

902
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: that you did this offseason to try to, you know,

903
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 1: shorten up that that little flip on your season. Yeah,

904
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,800
Speaker 1: it was mostly just training my eyes, Like it was

905
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 1: I realized there were a few of most of the

906
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 1: issues that I had were on the easier balls that

907
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: Josh would put a you know, great ball right on

908
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 1: my chest. You know, I'd kind of already be looking

909
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 1: to make someone mess before I secured that, So it

910
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: was kind of just going back to the basics, training

911
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: my eyes to the tuck. I had a jug machine

912
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 1: all offseason, which was great, and obviously getting together with

913
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:58,320
Speaker 1: Josh a lot help there too. So I think, you know,

914
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: I'm I'll be prepared and ready to go this season.

915
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: One quick follow up, what is your reaction to knowing

916
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: that in short order, Stefan Diggs is already referring to

917
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 1: you as mister stiff arm. See, that's what he's already.

918
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: He's called me that a couple of times in the

919
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 1: locker room. I mean, you know, any compliment from him,

920
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: I'll take um. So that's nice. You know, I'll see

921
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: how that goes this year again too. Yeah, there's some pressure.

922
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:23,399
Speaker 1: I mean, you got to keep it up then, right, Yeah,

923
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: I know, I know I can't be letting him down

924
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: with that one. Now. I gotta definitely got some pressure

925
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: on me. Hey, thanks a lot, Yeah, I appreciate it.

926
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: So mister stiff firm. Good morning, Lukie Harkins Sports to

927
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: dat Um. You know, availability, growth, consistencies. Those are some

928
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 1: of the three things coach McDermott spoke of recently. So

929
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: what have you done to address those things? Yeah, just

930
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: like I already kind of mentioned, just going back to

931
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: some of the basics when it comes to catching, and

932
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: then just working on fundamentals all off season. Obviously, the

933
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: off season was a lot longer than everybody planned, so

934
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: there's some extra time there for me to work on

935
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: some specific things that I wanted to do, and even

936
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: blocking wise, I want to get better in pass protection.

937
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: I kind of want to be able to be out

938
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: there and do whatever they need me to do, and

939
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to be a guy that they have

940
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 1: to take off when they run certain packages. So I

941
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to just work on all areas of

942
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: my game, making a little bit more well rounded, and

943
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: just work on some of the consistency things with catching

944
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:32,320
Speaker 1: the ball, which I think was great to me and

945
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,239
Speaker 1: Josh were able to get together so much during the

946
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: off season. So okay, So with that being said, we

947
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:40,439
Speaker 1: also know that tight end as a quarterback's best friend.

948
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 1: With all these new editions. You know, do you feel

949
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 1: that you would? What do you got to do to

950
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 1: make sure that you maintain targets this year? You know,

951
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 1: I think, you know, having stepped there on the outside,

952
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's going to open up the

953
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: middle for me a lot. So hopefully, you know, because

954
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: defenses are going to respect him. And then obviously with

955
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: smoke and Cold, I mean, our receiving corps is going

956
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: to be special. So it's gonna be really fun to

957
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: watch those guys, and you know, hopefully sometimes I'll get

958
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: a little check down ball here and there, but there's

959
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:11,399
Speaker 1: also going to be some good plays where I'm out,

960
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: you know, down the field number one or two in

961
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: the progression. So I think it's gonna be similar to

962
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 1: last year. But also we're throwing in some you know,

963
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: king sharing there that I'm excited about. Smoke Fire, mister

964
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,840
Speaker 1: Stiffen sauce. I love it. Can't wait to see it

965
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 1: on the field, man, go look this year. Can't wait

966
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Hey Dawson, Matt Preno, Syracuse dot com. Are

967
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 1: you good? I love you? I'm good man, I'm good.

968
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: It's It's cool that you mentioned the time that you

969
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: spent with Josh and some of the insight that he

970
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: gave you, because I feel like it's a it's a

971
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: comparable situation. When he came in, he talked so much

972
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 1: about like just getting thrown into the fire and having

973
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 1: it kind of deal with figuring things out on the fly.

974
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 1: What are some of the things that he shared with

975
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: you in your time together that to kind of help

976
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: you feel more prepared and more confident in your two Yes.

977
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,879
Speaker 1: So obviously, you know, as a tight end, I don't

978
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: have as much to worry about as quarterbacks do. Um.

979
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine, you know, his job that he

980
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: has to deal with, but he's you know, off the field.

981
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 1: We've just talked about kind of just trusting the same

982
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 1: process that we're about to start again going into camp,

983
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,720
Speaker 1: learning a few plays a day, just kind of putting

984
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: those in the back pocket as we start working on

985
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: the place for the you know, if we worked on

986
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: ten plays yesterday, kind of put those behind me and

987
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 1: start working on the ten to day and then just

988
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: kind of building brick by brick, kind of a good

989
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,240
Speaker 1: foundation of you know, getting the timing right with Josh

990
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,720
Speaker 1: down the field and kind of learning the playbook again

991
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: as if you know, it's the first time kind of

992
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: reworking some of the fundamentals and kind of seeing the

993
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,879
Speaker 1: whole concept, which for me is a thing that's really

994
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: helps knowing where I am in the progression. So you know,

995
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: if I'm if I'm the third guy he's gonna look

996
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: at I don't want to be open too soon, or

997
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: he's gonna miss me. So you know, just some little

998
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,399
Speaker 1: little things that are easier to work on year two

999
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 1: that you know would have been hard to get to

1000
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 1: on year one when I'm trying to learn the whole playbook,

1001
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: you know, from the from the start. So I'm really

1002
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 1: excited to see how that's gonna go this year. Thanks man,

1003
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Yep. Hey Dawston, Maple Bay here. I hope

1004
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 1: you're doing well. Good to see you again. You keep

1005
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:18,399
Speaker 1: bringing up this jug machine. I guess how frustrated were

1006
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: you last year that that became kind of your focal

1007
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: point of the offseason, Because it's funny you look back

1008
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: and it seems like all the crazy catches you were

1009
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,360
Speaker 1: able to make, but you keep bringing up the simple

1010
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 1: ones that maybe you weren't happy with. Was that kind

1011
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,399
Speaker 1: of the biggest focus going into the off season. Yeah,

1012
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: it was for me just because that was a very

1013
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,239
Speaker 1: frustrating thing. You know, there are some crucial catches that

1014
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: I needed to make that um I didn't, And like

1015
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: I said, I mean, I even have some photos of

1016
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 1: me the balls getting there, and I'm already looking to

1017
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 1: try to, you know, make someone mask or do a

1018
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 1: you know, step farm or whatever you want to say.

1019
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,840
Speaker 1: But I think it's going to be important for me to,

1020
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,360
Speaker 1: like even on the easy catches, just to work on

1021
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: my eye the tuck. And I think that's something I

1022
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:04,800
Speaker 1: was able to do a lot during the off season,

1023
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 1: Like I got a bunch of little brothers and my

1024
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 1: dad was able to go on the jug machine with

1025
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 1: me and we were, you know, catching a few hundred

1026
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 1: balls a day. So it was He's a pretty good

1027
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: off season. And apologize because I know players don't often

1028
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:19,320
Speaker 1: like to answer this question because you want to be

1029
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,920
Speaker 1: your own player and your own person. But tight end

1030
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:23,839
Speaker 1: is one of those positions where there's so many different

1031
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: varieties and so many types of tight ends. Is there

1032
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 1: somebody you kind of emulate your game around, Like, is

1033
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: there somebody who you've seen in the past, and like

1034
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 1: that's who I want to be because tight ends come

1035
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 1: in so many different shapes and sizes. Yeah, to me,

1036
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:39,720
Speaker 1: my favorite guy to watch right now is George Kittle,

1037
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:42,239
Speaker 1: and I actually was able to train with him a

1038
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:43,880
Speaker 1: good bit during the off season. He was there in

1039
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 1: Nashville and we kind of used the same guy for

1040
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: some of the field work, so I got to know

1041
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: him a little bit. He's a great dude, super high energy,

1042
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 1: really fun to you know, work with, work out with,

1043
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 1: and compete against. But also just watching what he does

1044
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,279
Speaker 1: on film is amazing. Like he'll go, you know, block

1045
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: a d and they go out around a corner and

1046
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: you know, score touchdown. So I think it's really fun

1047
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 1: to see his athleticism in space, the way you can

1048
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 1: create separation and then you know, it's hard to bring

1049
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: down too. So I think if I was if I

1050
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 1: was only to watch one person right now, i'd probably

1051
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: watch him. Yeah, I'm glad, I asked, Thanks man be Well, Yeah,

1052
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: for sure. Thanks. Hey Dawson, Jason Wolf at the Buffalo News,

1053
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 1: appreciate you taking some time to talk to us. Curious

1054
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 1: what you think about the value of consistency in personnel

1055
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: on offensive season with so many guys returning given you know,

1056
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: everything you have to do. How weird this offseason and

1057
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: training camp is. And also the jump that you and

1058
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: Devin think that you can make heading into year two

1059
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 1: now that you do have that one season you know,

1060
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:52,360
Speaker 1: established in the league. Yeah, so Devin and I are

1061
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: really excited. I know Cody is too. All the rookies

1062
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: from last year, I think everyone kind of expects your

1063
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 1: biggest jump to be from from year one to year

1064
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 1: two because mostly during my rookie year last year, I

1065
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 1: was just you know, trying to make trying knew where

1066
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 1: to line up, knew where to you know, run my round,

1067
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:15,480
Speaker 1: and what to look for in the defense because you know,

1068
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: going from having a limited playbook to you know, coach

1069
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 1: day Ball's offense, it was you know nine and day difference,

1070
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 1: and it's really exciting to see what he can do

1071
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,640
Speaker 1: with you know, the weapons that he has. But last

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00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:29,920
Speaker 1: year it was for me it felt like I was

1073
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 1: playing slower than I could have. So this year I'm

1074
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: really excited to kind of, you know, I already had

1075
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: the playbook mentally down and then like I kind of

1076
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, being able to dive into some of the

1077
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: specifics on you know when Josh is going to be

1078
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 1: looking for me and against what coverage and then how

1079
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 1: to kind of run. Rounds are differently according to what

1080
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 1: I see the defense to what I see in the defense.

1081
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: So I think, you know, especially me and Motor at

1082
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 1: those offensive skill positions, I think we're really excited to

1083
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 1: see that jump this year. Hey Dawson, Um, Josh Radiana,

1084
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: the if you were down in Nashville, you probably bumped

1085
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 1: into Connor McDermott, which is a whole probably other conference. Yeah,

1086
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 1: saw once or twice the thought of the possibility of

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00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: no fans being in the stands. What you know, have

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00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 1: you even thought about that idea and what that would

1089
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: be like? You know, I think it's crossed everybody's mind

1090
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 1: at some point. Um. You know, it's not gonna you know,

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00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 1: for us, first and foremost, we just want to play.

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00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 1: But also knowing that there's a good chance, you know,

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00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:39,720
Speaker 1: the fans are gonna be either limited or not there

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00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 1: at all. You know, it's gonna be really tough for us.

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00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: You know, that's gonna be an obstacle for sure because

1096
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: of the way that the you know, the mafia brings

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00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: the energy to the stadium. And I mean it's so

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00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 1: fun to play in front of those fans every Sunday.

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00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 1: So I think that's definitely gonna be a big thing

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Speaker 1: that's missed. Um if that, you know, actually does happen

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00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 1: to where fans can't be in the stands U And

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01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: you know, we're trying not to think too much about

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01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: that aspect right now. We're just trying to take a

1104
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:07,080
Speaker 1: day by day and get better right now and trying

1105
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:09,479
Speaker 1: to you know, just keep focused on that first week.

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Speaker 1: But if it does happen to where we can't have fans,

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01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: I think everybody's gonna be pretty you know, frustrated about that,

1108
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have to find a way to bring

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01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: our selves energy because you know, the fans do such

1110
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: a great job without here. That was Dawson Knox with

1111
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 1: the Western New York Media and Steve Tasker Maddie glab Here.

1112
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Speaker 1: Maddie that those comments by Dawson Knox really give you

1113
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:34,760
Speaker 1: an insight as to how much he was hearing the

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01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 1: stuff about him having the drop sees last season, about

1115
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 1: the work he put into it, about the commitment he

1116
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: had of going out his workout guy was the same

1117
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 1: as George Kittles rubbing up against some really good tight ends,

1118
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: some guys who were veterans at his position, talking to them,

1119
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:54,760
Speaker 1: rubbing up against them, watching them running routes. Also the

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01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 1: stuff about watching Stefan Diggs run routes and and taking

1121
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 1: some things away from him, some of the stuff he

1122
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: wanted to work on with past protection, those kind of things.

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Speaker 1: A lot going on with Dawson Knox this offseason. As

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01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 1: you might imagine, this is his first offseason as a pro,

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01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: but it seems as though he really got a system

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01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 1: down where he could get better as the season this

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01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 1: season than he was a year ago, and that was

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01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:25,720
Speaker 1: his focus. It really seems like he put in a

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01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: lot of work to come back to the Bill's a

1130
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 1: better player than he left just six or eight months ago.

1131
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: I remember talking to Dawson on locker clean out day,

1132
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 1: and that was a sad day for everyone, including you

1133
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 1: and I because the season was over and none of

1134
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 1: us wanted the season to be over, especially with how

1135
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 1: that Texans game win, I mean, so close to winning

1136
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 1: that game and pushing deeper into the playoffs. But asking

1137
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 1: him about how the season went and what he wanted

1138
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 1: to do in the offseason, I mean immediately he said

1139
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 1: I need to work on those drops. I want to

1140
01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: fix that, And he explained with the season ending, he

1141
01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 1: felt like it was his first time since before his

1142
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: senior season in college that he could truly take a

1143
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 1: breath and kind of went into the timeline of someone

1144
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 1: going through their senior season into the NFL and really

1145
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 1: thinking about it. I mean, it's crazy. They go from

1146
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 1: playing an entire season, then they go into their bowl game,

1147
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,240
Speaker 1: if they're going to have a bowl game, then they

1148
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 1: go into training for the Combine or for their pro day,

1149
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 1: and then from there they go straight into the draft.

1150
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:36,920
Speaker 1: They get drafted, they go to rookie minicamp, they go

1151
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 1: to all these other OTAs, then the season starts, and

1152
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 1: then it's February January and you finally get a chance

1153
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 1: to exhale. So he explained a little bit that he

1154
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,760
Speaker 1: was just kind of wading in water and just trying

1155
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:55,120
Speaker 1: to keep his head above the water being a rookie

1156
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 1: learning the system. And he's someone who didn't have that

1157
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:02,560
Speaker 1: much experience. He came to Ole Miss as a walk

1158
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: on and didn't catch too many balls in the years

1159
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:08,480
Speaker 1: that he was at Ole Miss. So, yeah, your rookie

1160
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:10,760
Speaker 1: year is going to be a huge step and with

1161
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: the way that he was used because Tyler Croft was out,

1162
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it was a leap for him last

1163
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:20,040
Speaker 1: season and to be able to perform the way he did,

1164
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 1: I think was way above expectations, which is great because

1165
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:27,080
Speaker 1: he only sets it higher for his second year and

1166
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:30,400
Speaker 1: addressing those drops and getting on the jugs machine, like

1167
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:33,520
Speaker 1: he said, catching a hundred or so balls a day

1168
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 1: with his brothers and with his dad. That's what you

1169
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:38,720
Speaker 1: need to do. You need to hone in, especially when

1170
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:42,000
Speaker 1: you're young. You need to work on the fundamentals. You

1171
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 1: need to work on the small things before you can

1172
01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: truly take a next step forward. And also continuity for

1173
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:51,720
Speaker 1: young players. Great. It's awesome that he has Josh Allen again.

1174
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 1: It's awesome that he has Brian day Ball again, that

1175
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 1: he has very similar faces in the offense heading into

1176
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 1: his second year. Yeah, it's you think about the schedule.

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01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: These guys keep these rookies about. You know, they start

1178
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: their senior season and they don't stop until after their

1179
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 1: first year in the pros is in the books, and

1180
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:15,360
Speaker 1: to finally get a chance to sit back, take a

1181
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 1: deep breath and self assess about how far they've come,

1182
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:21,960
Speaker 1: because once the NFL regular season starts, it's a thousand

1183
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 1: miles per hour and there ain't no going back and

1184
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 1: catching your wind. You're constantly getting barraged with information and

1185
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:36,040
Speaker 1: improvement and technique and game plans and maintenance, body maintenance,

1186
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 1: you know, I mean treatment, game planning, practicing, finding a

1187
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:44,480
Speaker 1: new place to live in a new city with a

1188
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:46,920
Speaker 1: new group of guys, and all the acclamation that goes

1189
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:49,280
Speaker 1: into that and getting nine. Now, certainly Sean McDermott and

1190
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 1: the coaching staff, they all did a really great job of,

1191
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:54,640
Speaker 1: you know, incorporating these rookies and kind of putting their

1192
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 1: arms around them and getting them up to speed real quick.

1193
01:04:57,760 --> 01:05:00,080
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, it's still a lot to take in and

1194
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 1: to get back into January February, this last January February,

1195
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:07,680
Speaker 1: after the Bill season ended, and finally getting a chance

1196
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:12,439
Speaker 1: to take a breath and say, okay, now what happened right?

1197
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 1: And then you know, get get hammered with a pandemic.

1198
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 1: I almost get forced to take a breath, which is

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01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:22,440
Speaker 1: probably you know, you think about it's probably for a

1200
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:25,919
Speaker 1: guy like Dawson Knox, the pandemic probably isn't all bad

1201
01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 1: because it probably kept him like, you know, just you know,

1202
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 1: take an extra breather here for a minute, Particularly a

1203
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:35,640
Speaker 1: guy who is obviously as dedicated as he is where

1204
01:05:35,680 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's got this personal trainer, and he's

1205
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:40,440
Speaker 1: got his dad and his brothers out there shooting a

1206
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 1: couple hundred jugs, a couple hundred footballs a day off

1207
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:47,360
Speaker 1: the jugs machine. I'll tell you this too. It's fun

1208
01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:50,760
Speaker 1: and nice when and I saw it happen a couple

1209
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:53,560
Speaker 1: of not many times, but a number of times during

1210
01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:56,919
Speaker 1: my career. Where you get a football player who knows

1211
01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 1: what it means very earlier in their career to be

1212
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 1: act how to be a fessional. And Dawson Knox seems

1213
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 1: to be one of those guys. You go out and

1214
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: you spend the money to buy your own jugs machine.

1215
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,040
Speaker 1: You buy your own hundred balls. You know, you're your

1216
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:13,280
Speaker 1: own thirty three dozen footballs, throw them into a big

1217
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:17,560
Speaker 1: bucket and you catch them. You got your brother, your dad,

1218
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 1: your girlfriend, your wife, your college buddy, whatever, somebody's over

1219
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 1: there dunking these balls into the jugs machine and firing

1220
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:28,280
Speaker 1: them at you about you know, fifty five miles an

1221
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:31,440
Speaker 1: hour from ten yards away and you get used to

1222
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:37,000
Speaker 1: that sensation and all of that stuff getting rolled up

1223
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:39,479
Speaker 1: into Dawson Knox and what he does bring to the table.

1224
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 1: It gives you high hopes that he might be the

1225
01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: next Zach Ertz or George Kittle or Jason you know,

1226
01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: zach or Kelsey, Travis Kelsey, Rob Gronkowski, all those great

1227
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 1: tight ends that have come down the pipe here in

1228
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 1: the in the National Football League. They came from somewhere,

1229
01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:01,480
Speaker 1: and in every single one of those cases, a lot

1230
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 1: of what they are and who they are as an

1231
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 1: NFL football player superstar is self made. And Dawston Knox,

1232
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:13,600
Speaker 1: you know, being there with George Kelsey probably getting firsthand

1233
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 1: or George Kittle, he's probably getting first hand taste of

1234
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:19,280
Speaker 1: what that looks like on a personal level. Pretty interesting.

1235
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be even more interesting to

1236
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 1: see how it plays out for him this year because

1237
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 1: usually when you have two tight ends on the field

1238
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:31,640
Speaker 1: at the same time, you have a blocking tight end

1239
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 1: and you have a pass catching tight end. Lee Smith

1240
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 1: is our blocking tight end on this team, but Tyler

1241
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:41,080
Speaker 1: Croft is healthy this year, and Tyler Croft is the

1242
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:43,960
Speaker 1: dude that they spent the money on. Now they restructured,

1243
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 1: restructured his contract to where this year is a prove

1244
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:50,280
Speaker 1: it year for them. But Tyler Croft is going to

1245
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:55,080
Speaker 1: get an opportunity this season to showcase why he was

1246
01:07:55,200 --> 01:07:57,959
Speaker 1: signed by the Bills and to prove himself. And it'll

1247
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 1: be so interesting to see how how they manage snaps

1248
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 1: for Dawson and Tyler Croft, because I would say more

1249
01:08:07,960 --> 01:08:09,960
Speaker 1: likely than than not, they're they're not going to be

1250
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:11,960
Speaker 1: on the field at the same time. There's gonna be

1251
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 1: a few times where where that's the case, and to

1252
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:17,840
Speaker 1: see how each of them are used. Maybe they're gonna

1253
01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 1: split snaps between each other, but it'll be interesting to

1254
01:08:22,040 --> 01:08:25,000
Speaker 1: see if there's there's a competition there to see who

1255
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:28,720
Speaker 1: gets the most reps and who it truly shows you

1256
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 1: know they're worth on the field. Yeah, it's interesting too

1257
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,120
Speaker 1: because you're right there may they may never be on

1258
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:36,639
Speaker 1: the field at the same time or during the season.

1259
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:41,519
Speaker 1: And I remember Teddy Marcha brota Um, the offensive coordinator

1260
01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 1: for my years in the with the K gun offense.

1261
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:46,160
Speaker 1: He used to say this, He goes, we're gonna see

1262
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:48,479
Speaker 1: this and you might see Croft and knocks on the

1263
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:51,080
Speaker 1: field like twenty five times during the season. That's it.

1264
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 1: Twenty five plays, but twenty of them will all be

1265
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 1: in the same game because there'll be a game plan

1266
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:00,639
Speaker 1: thing and they'll have a matchup. You know that, it's

1267
01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 1: gonna be that kind of situation where you're gonna have

1268
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 1: these guys they'll never see each other on the field

1269
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:07,439
Speaker 1: until they get to that one game or maybe twa

1270
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 1: maybe if it's against the division opponent. Both games against

1271
01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:13,040
Speaker 1: the Jets, or both games against the Dolphins, or both

1272
01:09:13,080 --> 01:09:15,479
Speaker 1: games against the Patriots, they're on the field a ton

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Speaker 1: together because it fits the game plan. And you're right,

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Speaker 1: there is some competition there and there is some depth

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Speaker 1: at that position, just like there is every position. But

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Speaker 1: Dawson Knox, listen, not for nothing. I'm not gonna I

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Speaker 1: don't want to blow sunshine up his skirt or anything.

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Speaker 1: But the guy was a rookie in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: It was an afterthought in his college program, and he's

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Speaker 1: a starter on a playoff team in the NFL. That

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Speaker 1: guy can play. He already came to the team with

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Speaker 1: something under his belt. And you gotta tip your hat

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Speaker 1: because the guys who was under the radar, who had

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Speaker 1: a stellar season last year was Dawson Knox. He was

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Speaker 1: a starter on an NFL football team at tight end

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs as a rookie. That's that's big. I

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Speaker 1: don't I kind of I don't want that to go away. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he had some problems, he's got some stuff to learn.

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Speaker 1: But man, oh man, I think there's a lot under

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Speaker 1: the hood of Dawson Knox that we haven't seen yet.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to see. Steve tasks say, just

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Speaker 1: like Josh Allen, Dawson Knox has so much more left

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Speaker 1: to prove. That's right, all right, after the break, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna take your questions out of the Friday mail bag.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear it from our listeners. You are listeners.

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Speaker 1: Right after this break Steve Tasker Matti lab Here till

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Speaker 1: three o'clock One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to one Bills Lives. Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: Matti glab Here till three o'clock. Would just listen to

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Speaker 1: the media availability of Dawson Knox with the West New

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Speaker 1: York Media. If you want to listen to that, you

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Speaker 1: can go back and listen to it on on Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills dot Com, on Buffalo Bills app, Spotify, Google Play,

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Speaker 1: Apple podcasts, you can go back and listen to the

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Speaker 1: portions of the show or the entire show if you

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Speaker 1: like to do that. Right now, we're asking our fans,

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Speaker 1: our faithful listeners, they're most pressing questions about the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills and the twenty twenty season. This is our one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live Friday Mailbag, and it's it starts out, I

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Speaker 1: guess with an xs and o's question. We've been asking

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Speaker 1: you about what your thoughts are overall about training camp

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Speaker 1: and what you're worried about. But these are your most

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Speaker 1: pressing questions, and they start out with the mail in

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Speaker 1: the mailbag Maddie with an question from Andrew, who do

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Speaker 1: you think are starting right guard? Will be Cody Ford,

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Speaker 1: Brian Winters or somebody else? Who do you think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be? Maddie any thoughts? Well, based on what Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott and Brandon Bean said is that they are looking

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Speaker 1: at Cody Ford first as a right tackle, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's an important part about this conversation and to

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Speaker 1: this equation of who the best five are going to

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Speaker 1: be on this offensive line. Because yes, we saw Cody

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Speaker 1: Ford rotate between guard and tackle last season, but if

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Speaker 1: they're looking at him as a right tackle first and foremost,

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Speaker 1: I'd say he stays there, and I do think he

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Speaker 1: will continue to rotate because Brandon Bean also said we're

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Speaker 1: going to use him at both positions this year. The

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Speaker 1: question remains will be how often does he rotate between

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Speaker 1: both positions. Now, he really stuck at right tackle when

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Speaker 1: Tie and Secki went out towards the end of the

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Speaker 1: season for those five straight weeks. So with a healthy

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Speaker 1: Tie and Secky and a healthy Brian Winters, it'll be

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Speaker 1: interesting to see how that rotation works right guard. Though

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Speaker 1: with all that being said, I think the addition of

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Speaker 1: Brian Winters here is an important one. I think he

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Speaker 1: makes sense at right guard. I also think Darryl Williams

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Speaker 1: is another player who makes sense at right guard. These

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Speaker 1: are two known starters in the NFL. Darryl Williams comes

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Speaker 1: from the Panthers, so he has that connection to the Panthers.

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Speaker 1: To you know, all the players on the team who

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Speaker 1: have played with the Carolina played for the Carolina Panthers,

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Speaker 1: So I would say I'd say Winters or Williams there

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Speaker 1: at that right guard spot. I think Ford will be

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Speaker 1: rotating through that position sometimes, but I think he's gonna

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Speaker 1: stick over at right tackle at least to begin the season.

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Speaker 1: But just like training camp went, I'm sure we are

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Speaker 1: going to see the crazy rotations every single day when

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Speaker 1: we can start watching practice, because they did that last year,

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Speaker 1: one to find the best five, but two to have

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Speaker 1: sure backups when someone went out and it definitely paid off. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the fact that they brought in Brian Winters, um,

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Speaker 1: I think they feel like they got better. He's a

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Speaker 1: really good player and he's a solid guard as well.

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Speaker 1: Played well for the Jets. They knew exactly who Brian

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Speaker 1: Winters is and they've probably got the idea in their

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Speaker 1: mind now to me that there's our guy. Uh, there's

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Speaker 1: a guy that can play guard as well as Cody

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Speaker 1: Ford can play guard. And now we can put Cody

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Speaker 1: Ford out at right tackle where we wanted him, and that,

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Speaker 1: I think to me is the difference right there. They

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Speaker 1: signed Brian Winters for a reason that guy can play,

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Speaker 1: and now there's not going to be any drop off

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Speaker 1: at guard if Cody Ford goes to right tackle and

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Speaker 1: vice versa. So I I like that move, and I

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Speaker 1: think that says a lot about what they think they

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Speaker 1: they needed to make sure Ford can stay at tackle.

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Speaker 1: I think what they needed was a guard that they thought,

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Speaker 1: you know, that guy can plug and play and he's

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Speaker 1: gonna go. Plus with the loss of John Feliciano, they

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Speaker 1: they probably felt like they we're lucky to upgrade at

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Speaker 1: that spot. So I think that's I think that's right.

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Speaker 1: I think Cody Ford is a right tackle first, and

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Speaker 1: I think those other guys Darryl Williams, Brian Winters and

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Speaker 1: of course John Feliciano when he comes back, and all

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Speaker 1: the other guys at the depth chart, which there are many,

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be vying for that for that

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Speaker 1: spot at right guard and maybe left guard as well. So, um,

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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see. It depends on two who

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Speaker 1: can play center as well to back up Mitch Morse.

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Speaker 1: All that stuff. Really, I think, go ahead, I was

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Speaker 1: gonna say that backup spot. Um, I think one new

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Speaker 1: player who can provide depth to that center position, which

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Speaker 1: is something that was needed last year. Um is Mitch

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Speaker 1: Morse or not Mitch Morse is Evan Bain Um they're

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Speaker 1: bringing him in as a guard and a center, so

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Speaker 1: I think he's somebody who will be able to provide

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Speaker 1: depth there. He played for the Colts and the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: most recently, right, So all that stuff put in there,

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think Cody Ford goes to tackle,

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Speaker 1: stays there as much as he can. If he starts

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Speaker 1: to play well there, they'll worry about guard rather than

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Speaker 1: worry about moving Cody forward. But because I think the

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Speaker 1: way it was last year, I could be wrong about

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Speaker 1: this and I but the way it appeared to me

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Speaker 1: last year was Cody Ford was the was the better guard,

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Speaker 1: but when Ty and Secky was healthy, they were I

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Speaker 1: think they liked Cody Ford a tackle, but because in

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Speaker 1: Secki was a better guard than anybody else was. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean, all right, here we go. I'm gonna get

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Speaker 1: this strike man here. Because Ty and Secki was a

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Speaker 1: better tackle than any of the other guys were at guard,

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Speaker 1: I think they felt like they could move Cody forward

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Speaker 1: to guard and still be good. And then when in

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Speaker 1: Seki went down, they moved Cody out to tackle, and

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Speaker 1: then that you know, the next guy in. They wanted

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Speaker 1: a guard, not a tackle. So I think that's where

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Speaker 1: what they did. I think the weakness was at guard,

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Speaker 1: not at tackle. When in Secy went out, the next

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Speaker 1: best guy was codyy Ford, so they it was one

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Speaker 1: of those old unfortunate rotational things where they said, listen,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to move two guys around to get

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Speaker 1: better at one. And I think when Inseci kept going

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Speaker 1: down in and out of the lineup at right tackle,

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Speaker 1: Cody Ford used that as his They used that as

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Speaker 1: an excuse to him. You know, he's rotating in and

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be the guy. But I think it was

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Speaker 1: the fact that they had better They had better backup.

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Speaker 1: They had Cody Ford, who was a better tackle than

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Speaker 1: anybody else, was gonna play tackle and they had to

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Speaker 1: move him out to do that. So um yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that was a function of Inseci's in to stay

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Speaker 1: on the field last year. Um and the fact that

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Speaker 1: Cody Ford could play guard and tackle better than most

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Speaker 1: of the guys in the backup roles, so they kept

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Speaker 1: him both on the field as much as they could. Part.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna add one thing. One thing that I

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Speaker 1: had mentioned before a couple weeks ago when we're on

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Speaker 1: this topic, is that as as a rookie, you know,

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Speaker 1: Quody Ford was a rookie last year, going to be

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Speaker 1: a second year player this year, so he's still very young.

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Speaker 1: And one question that I had was by rotating him

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Speaker 1: through right guard and right tackle and in his second

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Speaker 1: year doing so as well, does that stunt his growth

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Speaker 1: at being at one position? Is he not going to

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Speaker 1: be able to grow? Essentially? How he could grow at

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Speaker 1: right tackle if he was there at the entire time.

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Speaker 1: But you know, Quody Ford might just be this really

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Speaker 1: talented player who can grab hold of two positions and

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Speaker 1: rotate through guard and tackle all the time throughout, you know,

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Speaker 1: his entire career. This just may be a player that

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Speaker 1: has the intelligence level to be able to rotate like

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Speaker 1: that and it's not going to harm his ceiling or

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Speaker 1: how much he can grow. You know, one of the

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Speaker 1: things about this we talked about players road to and

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Speaker 1: you usually think about that as you know, rookie players

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Speaker 1: like the Bills like to do. They like to develop them.

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Speaker 1: Given us some reps are reading the season more and

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Speaker 1: more reps as the season wears on. We get this

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Speaker 1: from our Friday mail bag. As we plow through that

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Speaker 1: from Vince and he says, which Bill's rookie will make

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Speaker 1: the greatest impact this season and why. It's a really

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Speaker 1: good question, and you start, I think you start with obviously,

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Speaker 1: the draft picks, the guys they expect to a j. F. Panesza,

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Speaker 1: the top pick on the second round, Zach Moss, Gabriel Davis,

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Speaker 1: Jake From, Tyler Bass, Isaiah Hodgens, and Dane Jackson. And

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Speaker 1: they've got some other guys like offensive tackle Trey Adams,

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Speaker 1: a safety Garrett Taylor, Brandon Walton who is an offensive lineman,

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Speaker 1: Antonio Williams, another running back, Ike Brown is another corner,

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Speaker 1: Josh Thomas, another defensive back, mark Kell Harrold from Auburn.

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Speaker 1: He's an offensive lineman. So they've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: rookies that they've signed that and you know, when you

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Speaker 1: weed down through them, you gotta start, really to me

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Speaker 1: mat with the draft picks, and the top one is

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Speaker 1: aj Epenessa. Certainly he plays a position that can be,

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Speaker 1: you know, pretty prominent position outside defensive and a pass rusher.

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Speaker 1: But I think in a place where the team rotates

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Speaker 1: so many guys, even quality veteran players move in and

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Speaker 1: out of the lineup at a regular basis, I think

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Speaker 1: maybe you have to drop down and next, and probably

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Speaker 1: go to Zach Moss as a guy who could really

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Speaker 1: make make the biggest difference sharing half the carries or

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Speaker 1: fifty percent of the carries with Devin Singletary. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: have to think about Zack Moss too, just thinking about

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Speaker 1: the other options you have aj EPINESSA. Yes, he's going

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Speaker 1: to get his time on the field, probably not as

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Speaker 1: much as what Zach Moss will get. Yes, Gabriel Davis,

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis will be on the field. Yes, Isaiah Hodgens

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Speaker 1: could be on the field too, But those reps are

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Speaker 1: going to be fewer than that of Zach Moss because

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Speaker 1: you have Devin Singletary and you have TJ. Yelden in

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01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:05,640
Speaker 1: that room and Zack Moss. I assume the two are

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Speaker 1: going to be Devin's single Terry and Zach Moss, And

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Speaker 1: I think how they compliment each other earns Zack Moss

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01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:17,040
Speaker 1: that much more reps. How they are able to stet

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Speaker 1: each other up in different situations. You know, Zach Moss

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01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:23,000
Speaker 1: is going to be your power back. Devin single Terry's

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01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: more of an elusive pass catching running back. I will

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01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:31,759
Speaker 1: say this, if Tyler Bass beats out Stephen Haushka, Tyler

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01:21:31,840 --> 01:21:34,800
Speaker 1: Bass immediately will have the biggest impact on this team

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01:21:35,160 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 1: because he's going to be the one kicking your field goals.

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01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 1: That's good point too. That's a good point too. If

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01:21:40,160 --> 01:21:41,720
Speaker 1: the guy's on the team, he's going to make a

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01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: huge difference and that could be the one thing that

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01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:46,000
Speaker 1: tips it in his favor. We're gonna keep on with

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01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:47,840
Speaker 1: this is good stuff. If we're gonna take this to

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Speaker 1: the top of the hour. The Friday mail Bag with

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01:21:49,560 --> 01:21:51,720
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and Matty Glad. What are your questions? If

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01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:53,559
Speaker 1: you want to get in on the conversation, you can.

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01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:56,320
Speaker 1: You can call us at eight oh three fifty or

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Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty will take

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01:21:58,600 --> 01:22:01,760
Speaker 1: your questions from the phone or on Twitter in the

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01:22:02,040 --> 01:22:04,920
Speaker 1: or you can email us as well at you should

1503
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:07,599
Speaker 1: just tweet tweet us at one Bills Live on Twitter.

1504
01:22:08,200 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 1: Give us your questions. We've got a ton that are

1505
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:11,599
Speaker 1: piled up, but you can get in on the conversation

1506
01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:13,080
Speaker 1: if you want to get to the top of the line.

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01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:14,920
Speaker 1: If you want to get to the front of the line,

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01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:17,840
Speaker 1: call us and we'll take those calls. Steve Tasker, Maddie

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01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:19,559
Speaker 1: Glab coming back after the break with more of your

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01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:38,800
Speaker 1: questions on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Well, I come back to

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01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:41,400
Speaker 1: one of Bills Live, Steve Tasker, Maddie glab here taking

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01:22:41,439 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 1: your questions in our Friday mail bag. We've got a

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01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:47,240
Speaker 1: ton of responses and people asking really pretty good questions.

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01:22:47,320 --> 01:22:49,479
Speaker 1: We had two from one from Andrew, one from Vincent.

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01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:52,280
Speaker 1: Now from the Beeve. Maddie, I want you to take

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01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:53,800
Speaker 1: a stab at this. When there's a lot in here,

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01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:56,680
Speaker 1: you're ready. There's there's a lot to unpack here. So

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01:22:58,920 --> 01:23:02,360
Speaker 1: the beave did his It's all right, Okay, here's from

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01:23:02,360 --> 01:23:04,599
Speaker 1: the baby. How much better does the run game get?

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01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:09,200
Speaker 1: We have the number one easiest to schedule against run defenses? Also,

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01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:11,320
Speaker 1: how do you see the number three and number five

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01:23:11,439 --> 01:23:15,479
Speaker 1: wide receiver options? Shaking out and tight end behind knocks?

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01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:18,000
Speaker 1: As Diggs and Browns will be the number one and

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01:23:18,040 --> 01:23:20,280
Speaker 1: two wide receiver. Using the others on top of the

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01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:23,800
Speaker 1: run game should put us at the twenty twenty four

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01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:29,720
Speaker 1: point plus points per game a game. Yeah, there's a

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01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:31,920
Speaker 1: lot in there. How much better does the run game get?

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01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:34,400
Speaker 1: Who's the tight end behind knocks? How is number three

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01:23:34,439 --> 01:23:38,719
Speaker 1: and five three through five wide receiver? Go? Diggs and Browns?

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01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:42,800
Speaker 1: Number one and two. I think the running game for me, Maddy,

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01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:44,920
Speaker 1: the running game for me always starts with the running

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01:23:45,080 --> 01:23:48,320
Speaker 1: with the offensive lineman and how dominant they can be upfront,

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01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:52,080
Speaker 1: how much can they consistently win the line of scrimmage,

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01:23:52,680 --> 01:23:56,639
Speaker 1: and how good can Josh Allen throw it? How effective

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01:23:56,640 --> 01:23:58,320
Speaker 1: are they going to be throwing the football if the

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01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:01,200
Speaker 1: team really doesn't pack the box and put eight in

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01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:05,040
Speaker 1: the box against Josh Allen because he's throwing the football

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01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:10,120
Speaker 1: very well. You know, Devin Single, Devin Singletary and Zach

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01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:12,519
Speaker 1: Moss could have a field day against and against these

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01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:15,320
Speaker 1: run defenses. He's right. Last year, these run defenses weren't

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01:24:15,479 --> 01:24:16,920
Speaker 1: at the top of the league. The Bills are going

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01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:19,360
Speaker 1: to have a chance to make some hay on the

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01:24:19,400 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 1: ground if they can get it done. I think the

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01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:24,720
Speaker 1: running game will be better. I do believe it's going

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01:24:24,760 --> 01:24:26,360
Speaker 1: to be better. I think their entire offense is going

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01:24:26,400 --> 01:24:30,200
Speaker 1: to be better, starting with the running game. Devin Singletarry

1547
01:24:30,400 --> 01:24:34,520
Speaker 1: was asked a question when he talked to the media yesterday.

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01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:39,240
Speaker 1: He was asked, do you think the addition of Stefan Diggs.

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01:24:39,320 --> 01:24:41,960
Speaker 1: With that addition, do you think that opens up more

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01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:43,920
Speaker 1: for the run game? And he said, I mean, yeah,

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01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:48,200
Speaker 1: defense are defenses are going to have to respect the

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01:24:48,360 --> 01:24:52,120
Speaker 1: passing game more this season because of Stefan Diggs. And

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01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:54,960
Speaker 1: if they're going to respect the passing game more, yeah,

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01:24:54,960 --> 01:24:56,880
Speaker 1: they're not going to stack the box as much, and

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01:24:57,240 --> 01:24:59,760
Speaker 1: that's going to open up opportunity for the run game.

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01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:04,360
Speaker 1: We know that this offense does like to use the run,

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01:25:04,760 --> 01:25:09,160
Speaker 1: whether that's Singletary, whether that's Alan, whether that's not, whether

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01:25:09,280 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 1: that's um Zach Moss. But I think more so this

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01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:14,880
Speaker 1: year we're going to see a little bit more pass

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01:25:15,200 --> 01:25:19,400
Speaker 1: added into that equation because of Stefan Diggs. Because the

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01:25:19,520 --> 01:25:21,920
Speaker 1: chemistry is only going to get better with John Brown

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01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:24,800
Speaker 1: and Cole Beasley, and Stefan Diggs is going to make

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01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:29,599
Speaker 1: everybody around him better. When you look at wide receiver

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01:25:29,800 --> 01:25:33,600
Speaker 1: options number three through number five, I mean you have

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs, do you have John Brown? And then three

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01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:42,640
Speaker 1: that's cool Beasley yere four year five. I'm looking at

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01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:44,800
Speaker 1: this list right now, and I think this is going

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01:25:44,920 --> 01:25:49,000
Speaker 1: to be a great training camp battle is how many

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01:25:49,120 --> 01:25:52,040
Speaker 1: do they keep in the wide receiver room and who

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01:25:52,240 --> 01:25:55,760
Speaker 1: earns those spots? Because because there's a couple available and

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01:25:55,920 --> 01:25:59,040
Speaker 1: we've talked about this before Steve is I think Andre

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01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 1: Roberts is on this team because of what he provides

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01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 1: two special teams. I would say that was the lock

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01:26:06,120 --> 01:26:08,800
Speaker 1: last year because of what he provided to the special teams.

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01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:13,360
Speaker 1: And then you look at the highest drafted wide receiver

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01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:16,719
Speaker 1: for them. They drafted too, Gave Davis and Isaiah Hodgens.

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01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:21,120
Speaker 1: Gave Davis was drafted before Isaiah Hodgins was. I think, uh,

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis probably makes this roster because Brandon Bean loves

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01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:29,960
Speaker 1: his draft picks. He loves um growing those guys up,

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01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:33,320
Speaker 1: he loves seeing what they can offer, he loves helping

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01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:38,880
Speaker 1: them learn under an awesome offensive coordinator in Brian Dayball.

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01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:41,960
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna be tough. You have Isaiah McKenzie,

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01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 1: you have Duke Williams, you have Isaiah Hodgins, you have

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01:26:45,120 --> 01:26:49,599
Speaker 1: Robert Foster. I mean, we could argue all all day

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01:26:49,600 --> 01:26:53,120
Speaker 1: about who who four and five are gonna be right,

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01:26:53,640 --> 01:27:00,640
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be hard for the front office, the

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Speaker 1: personnel department, the coaching staff to evaluate all these players

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01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:07,080
Speaker 1: in a year where they're not going to get nearly

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01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:11,760
Speaker 1: their repetitions they've gotten in the past or the repetitions

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01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 1: you would expect for a young player to get when

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01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:17,280
Speaker 1: he's trying to impress the coaching staff that drafted him,

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01:27:17,280 --> 01:27:20,160
Speaker 1: which means what to me. It means they're going to

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01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 1: hang onto their draft picks to make sure that if

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01:27:23,439 --> 01:27:26,400
Speaker 1: you know that, they get every opportunity to develop. And

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01:27:26,600 --> 01:27:28,960
Speaker 1: they do expect these players to develop, and that's one

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01:27:28,960 --> 01:27:30,920
Speaker 1: of the things that Sean McDermott and this coaching staff

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01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:34,320
Speaker 1: have done extremely well at. That's getting their young players

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01:27:34,400 --> 01:27:38,400
Speaker 1: to play better and doing it in a methodical way,

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01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:42,120
Speaker 1: which means slow starts, very few reps when the games begin,

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01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:45,759
Speaker 1: taking it very slow, making sure they have their feet

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01:27:45,840 --> 01:27:50,320
Speaker 1: under them mentally. For instance, when Devin Singultary started the

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01:27:50,360 --> 01:27:52,800
Speaker 1: season last year Week's one and two, they had I

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01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:54,920
Speaker 1: think he had. It was pretty evident he had a

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01:27:54,960 --> 01:27:57,360
Speaker 1: small menu of plays they were going to run with him,

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01:27:57,400 --> 01:28:00,559
Speaker 1: and most of them involved him directly. He wasn't being

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01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:04,000
Speaker 1: asked to look to the backside of the past protection

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01:28:04,040 --> 01:28:06,240
Speaker 1: and pick up the first guy that came and step

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01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:09,360
Speaker 1: to the right guy and take somebody on. So they

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01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:13,120
Speaker 1: didn't have very high expectations of them, but they little

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01:28:13,160 --> 01:28:15,320
Speaker 1: by little throughout the season, they start to add this stuff.

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01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:18,680
Speaker 1: So my point is this, these rookies, particularly in the

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01:28:18,800 --> 01:28:24,080
Speaker 1: wide receivers, it's gonna come down to how much potential

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01:28:24,240 --> 01:28:26,360
Speaker 1: this coaching staff season them, because they're not going to

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01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:28,200
Speaker 1: be able to see these guys fully formed in this

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01:28:28,360 --> 01:28:30,960
Speaker 1: training camp the way the way it's constructed, and I

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01:28:31,080 --> 01:28:32,960
Speaker 1: think it means that it's going to be hard or

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01:28:33,120 --> 01:28:36,360
Speaker 1: really hard for the guys down the line in the

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01:28:36,520 --> 01:28:39,760
Speaker 1: evaluation process to get looked at in a real in

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01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:42,760
Speaker 1: him in a substantive way. I think it's I think

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01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:44,719
Speaker 1: you go with the guys you picked early in the draft,

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01:28:44,800 --> 01:28:46,400
Speaker 1: you go with the guys that you have the most

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01:28:46,479 --> 01:28:49,680
Speaker 1: faith in you, and you kind of let everybody else

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01:28:49,800 --> 01:28:55,120
Speaker 1: fall away. I just really question the comprehensive nature of

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01:28:55,240 --> 01:28:58,800
Speaker 1: how they're gonna evaluate these young players. And that goes

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01:28:58,920 --> 01:29:01,479
Speaker 1: for the four from fifth wide receiver and sixth and

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01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:04,120
Speaker 1: seventh wide receivers on the depth chart, you know, and

1627
01:29:04,240 --> 01:29:06,840
Speaker 1: the same thing in the D line, linebacker, defensive back.

1628
01:29:06,920 --> 01:29:09,240
Speaker 1: All those corners they brought in, you know, they got

1629
01:29:09,320 --> 01:29:12,559
Speaker 1: they drafted a couple of them as well as brought

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01:29:12,640 --> 01:29:15,320
Speaker 1: in a couple of free agents. All those guys are

1631
01:29:15,880 --> 01:29:22,439
Speaker 1: neck deep in competition and the competition is what who

1632
01:29:22,520 --> 01:29:24,280
Speaker 1: can sit the best in a film room? You know,

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01:29:24,360 --> 01:29:26,800
Speaker 1: I mean that they're not on the practice field. So

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01:29:27,640 --> 01:29:31,320
Speaker 1: it's it's really going to be difficult to have a

1635
01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:34,000
Speaker 1: clear idea of who's gonna be good who's gonna be

1636
01:29:34,120 --> 01:29:36,679
Speaker 1: bad in this training camp, given the fact that nobody's

1637
01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:39,360
Speaker 1: gonna get reps. All right, let's go. There was a

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01:29:39,400 --> 01:29:41,960
Speaker 1: lot in that question from Beef, so let's move on

1639
01:29:42,040 --> 01:29:43,960
Speaker 1: to one from Nick T. We got time for one

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01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:46,760
Speaker 1: more from Nick T right now. If you had to

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01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:50,120
Speaker 1: bet money on it, do you think every NFL team

1642
01:29:50,160 --> 01:29:54,160
Speaker 1: will play their full sixteen game season as scheduled? No

1643
01:29:54,320 --> 01:29:56,680
Speaker 1: middle ground, just yes or no answer. I'd say yes

1644
01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:01,280
Speaker 1: until they say no. I think they are gonna play it.

1645
01:30:01,560 --> 01:30:04,040
Speaker 1: And I because I here's where I think is gonna happen, Mattie.

1646
01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:07,240
Speaker 1: There's gonna be games where this team is going to

1647
01:30:07,280 --> 01:30:10,080
Speaker 1: go in there a thinking man. We gotta really scramble

1648
01:30:10,200 --> 01:30:12,720
Speaker 1: to have fifty three or forty seven guys to get

1649
01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:14,439
Speaker 1: on the field, but we're gonna get them on and

1650
01:30:14,600 --> 01:30:16,760
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the mandate from the NFL. If you've

1651
01:30:16,840 --> 01:30:21,200
Speaker 1: got forty seven healthy bodies, let's play ball. That's gonna

1652
01:30:21,240 --> 01:30:23,920
Speaker 1: be it. They won't. I don't think the NFL is

1653
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:27,120
Speaker 1: gonna be have too much gray area in that area.

1654
01:30:27,439 --> 01:30:29,960
Speaker 1: If you can, you will play. If you can't, you

1655
01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:32,160
Speaker 1: will forfeit. So these teams are gonna have a fire

1656
01:30:32,280 --> 01:30:34,880
Speaker 1: lit underneath them. I haven't been told that they're gonna

1657
01:30:34,880 --> 01:30:37,920
Speaker 1: forfeit games or anything like that. I'm just saying, as

1658
01:30:37,960 --> 01:30:41,800
Speaker 1: a consequence, there's gonna be some consequences. If you can't

1659
01:30:41,840 --> 01:30:45,439
Speaker 1: get your team ready, you're gonna you're gonna suffer for it.

1660
01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:47,920
Speaker 1: So I think these teams will have a you know,

1661
01:30:48,200 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 1: really have every incentive there is to make sure they

1662
01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:54,960
Speaker 1: can feel a team every Sunday for sixteen weeks. Yeah,

1663
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:57,840
Speaker 1: I'm taking the high road on this one. I want

1664
01:30:57,960 --> 01:31:02,200
Speaker 1: every game to be played. So yes, accent, that's the

1665
01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:05,680
Speaker 1: that's the high road. Okay, yeah right, I mean I'm

1666
01:31:06,000 --> 01:31:09,519
Speaker 1: until they're not gonna happen, They're gonna happen. And so

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01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:12,120
Speaker 1: that's where I sit with you. Maddie, Okay, Steve Tasker,

1668
01:31:12,160 --> 01:31:15,400
Speaker 1: Maddie Glab coming up after the break, uh, ESPN national

1669
01:31:15,479 --> 01:31:17,760
Speaker 1: reporter covering the Buffalo Bills is gonna come on with us,

1670
01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:20,639
Speaker 1: Marcel Louise Jack coming on One Bills Live. Right after

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01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:23,000
Speaker 1: the break. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. We'll be right back.

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01:31:31,120 --> 01:31:37,519
Speaker 1: Oh What's time by Steve Clasp that's down, that's down

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01:31:40,760 --> 01:31:53,840
Speaker 1: to Do'stfalo Time. Welcome back to One Bills Live. Cheap

1674
01:31:53,840 --> 01:31:56,639
Speaker 1: Tasker along with Maddie Glab, we're here till three o'clock.

1675
01:31:56,680 --> 01:31:58,800
Speaker 1: We're pleased to be joined on the line by the

1676
01:31:59,520 --> 01:32:02,600
Speaker 1: ESPN national reporter covering the Buffalo Bills. He contributes to

1677
01:32:02,800 --> 01:32:07,479
Speaker 1: ESPN NFL Live SportsCenter, ESPN Radio. Thanks for joining us,

1678
01:32:07,560 --> 01:32:11,280
Speaker 1: Marcel Louis Jacques, Marcel, Steve Tasker, Matti Lab thanks for

1679
01:32:11,320 --> 01:32:14,120
Speaker 1: coming on with us. I appreciate it. Yeah, of course, Steve.

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01:32:14,240 --> 01:32:16,760
Speaker 1: Maddie's good to be on with y'all. I've missed the

1681
01:32:16,760 --> 01:32:18,280
Speaker 1: show man. I think it's been a while since I've

1682
01:32:18,320 --> 01:32:21,719
Speaker 1: been on. It's good to have you back. We're gonna

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01:32:21,760 --> 01:32:24,599
Speaker 1: be back on TV on Monday, so it's a big,

1684
01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:27,840
Speaker 1: big news for us. We're gonna finish out this week

1685
01:32:27,880 --> 01:32:30,280
Speaker 1: and then go back on television on Monday. So we're

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01:32:30,280 --> 01:32:33,880
Speaker 1: glad you're a part of our last radio only broadcast. Well,

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01:32:34,160 --> 01:32:37,280
Speaker 1: I'm honored, but at that quarantine cut, man, I can

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01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:40,640
Speaker 1: imagine you look a little uh, look a little a

1689
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:43,080
Speaker 1: little raggedy right now, magg make sure you're to get

1690
01:32:43,120 --> 01:32:47,599
Speaker 1: back on TV. Yeah I don't, Yeah, I do look raggedy.

1691
01:32:47,640 --> 01:32:50,000
Speaker 1: I haven't had a haircut in five on. So you can,

1692
01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:52,120
Speaker 1: you can. I'll just leave it at that. So I

1693
01:32:52,200 --> 01:32:54,000
Speaker 1: gotta ask you first thing out of a lot to

1694
01:32:54,080 --> 01:32:58,160
Speaker 1: Davis White, tough decision for him to opt back in.

1695
01:32:59,120 --> 01:33:02,080
Speaker 1: What kind of different does he make? What was what

1696
01:33:02,200 --> 01:33:04,320
Speaker 1: were the consequences going to be if Trey White had

1697
01:33:04,360 --> 01:33:07,280
Speaker 1: opted out? And how big a difference maker is a

1698
01:33:07,439 --> 01:33:11,280
Speaker 1: number one All Pro quarnerback. I mean, let's be let's

1699
01:33:11,320 --> 01:33:14,599
Speaker 1: be incredibly clear that the Buffalo Bills are a better

1700
01:33:14,680 --> 01:33:17,920
Speaker 1: football team when Sardas is on the field, Like there

1701
01:33:18,040 --> 01:33:21,080
Speaker 1: is no doubt, notibate about that. But I thought it

1702
01:33:21,280 --> 01:33:25,840
Speaker 1: was one of the most contract and candid interviews that

1703
01:33:26,120 --> 01:33:29,040
Speaker 1: I have ever been a part of with t Davis.

1704
01:33:29,160 --> 01:33:31,960
Speaker 1: And you could tell that this was something that was

1705
01:33:32,040 --> 01:33:35,400
Speaker 1: really weighing on his mind, his family's health, his family's

1706
01:33:35,400 --> 01:33:39,280
Speaker 1: safe well being. Um, you could tell this was this

1707
01:33:39,680 --> 01:33:43,120
Speaker 1: really seemed like a down to the wire decision for him.

1708
01:33:43,520 --> 01:33:47,080
Speaker 1: But personally, you know, I'm glad that he and his

1709
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:50,240
Speaker 1: family were able to come to a conclusion and find

1710
01:33:50,360 --> 01:33:54,120
Speaker 1: what works best for them, what their best option is.

1711
01:33:54,240 --> 01:33:57,200
Speaker 1: And I don't think anybody can falter criticize him for that.

1712
01:33:57,960 --> 01:34:01,040
Speaker 1: Um the consequences if he would not have played, as

1713
01:34:01,120 --> 01:34:03,200
Speaker 1: far as how it impacts the bills on the field

1714
01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:06,000
Speaker 1: would have been, you know, they would have been pretty severe.

1715
01:34:06,800 --> 01:34:11,680
Speaker 1: Josh Norman is a I think that he is a

1716
01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:14,439
Speaker 1: good cornerback at this stage of his career. I think

1717
01:34:14,520 --> 01:34:17,760
Speaker 1: he is a good cornerback in this system, absolutely. But

1718
01:34:18,200 --> 01:34:21,640
Speaker 1: I think that part of the appeal of his resurgence

1719
01:34:21,680 --> 01:34:24,000
Speaker 1: and come into Buffalo was that he would be able

1720
01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:28,280
Speaker 1: to work alongside Tredavious White, and that Tredavious White is

1721
01:34:28,360 --> 01:34:31,320
Speaker 1: going to when you face a when you face Till

1722
01:34:32,760 --> 01:34:34,400
Speaker 1: White is probably gonna line up on that side. When

1723
01:34:34,400 --> 01:34:37,200
Speaker 1: you face the number one receivers, the all pro cornerback

1724
01:34:37,640 --> 01:34:40,720
Speaker 1: is probably going to handle the heavy work. And then

1725
01:34:40,800 --> 01:34:44,040
Speaker 1: Josh Norman people want to pick on him, that's kind

1726
01:34:44,080 --> 01:34:47,960
Speaker 1: of that's that's they're picking their poison here. But at

1727
01:34:48,040 --> 01:34:51,280
Speaker 1: corner without Trey White, if it's just Josh Norman by Wallace,

1728
01:34:51,840 --> 01:34:54,640
Speaker 1: that is a pretty that's a pretty obvious weakness in

1729
01:34:54,680 --> 01:34:56,920
Speaker 1: the second there or in a defense that doesn't really

1730
01:34:57,000 --> 01:35:01,479
Speaker 1: have any right now. U. That's not saying anything against

1731
01:35:01,600 --> 01:35:04,160
Speaker 1: Josh or Levi. I think they are both. They're both

1732
01:35:04,200 --> 01:35:06,720
Speaker 1: good number two corners right now. But let's let's be clear.

1733
01:35:07,160 --> 01:35:09,880
Speaker 1: Nobody on this roster is Trenado his wife. I think

1734
01:35:09,920 --> 01:35:12,640
Speaker 1: he's about as close to an irreplaceable player on the

1735
01:35:12,720 --> 01:35:15,920
Speaker 1: Bill's roster as you can get. So it is major.

1736
01:35:16,160 --> 01:35:20,040
Speaker 1: Is not an easy schedule this year. Championship windows like

1737
01:35:20,120 --> 01:35:24,240
Speaker 1: this don't come across too often, and they are going

1738
01:35:24,360 --> 01:35:26,599
Speaker 1: to meet him if you're going to make this run,

1739
01:35:26,960 --> 01:35:29,680
Speaker 1: and not only an AFC East Division title at first

1740
01:35:29,720 --> 01:35:32,360
Speaker 1: since nighteteen ninety five, but I'm sure you're well aware,

1741
01:35:32,960 --> 01:35:38,360
Speaker 1: but also an AFC championship in the whole. We heard

1742
01:35:38,520 --> 01:35:41,600
Speaker 1: from Josh Norman yesterday, Marcella, I know you were on

1743
01:35:41,720 --> 01:35:46,200
Speaker 1: that call with me. That dude has so much confidence

1744
01:35:46,320 --> 01:35:49,240
Speaker 1: and swagger about him. I wish I had that much

1745
01:35:49,320 --> 01:35:53,639
Speaker 1: confidence in myself. But if he earns the starting job

1746
01:35:54,120 --> 01:35:57,200
Speaker 1: opposite of trade, do we see a return of a

1747
01:35:57,320 --> 01:36:00,120
Speaker 1: high caliber play on that side of the ball, or

1748
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:02,960
Speaker 1: do you think him and Levi Wallace there are pretty

1749
01:36:03,040 --> 01:36:06,880
Speaker 1: equivalent in the way that they play I think we

1750
01:36:07,120 --> 01:36:09,519
Speaker 1: be I don't know if we see you know, twenty

1751
01:36:09,560 --> 01:36:12,880
Speaker 1: fifteen Josh Norman or not, but absolutely his level of

1752
01:36:12,960 --> 01:36:16,040
Speaker 1: confidence from two thousand and fift team has not gone anywhere,

1753
01:36:16,080 --> 01:36:18,840
Speaker 1: and you need that as a cornerback. It is such

1754
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:23,280
Speaker 1: a high profile, your mistakes are so highly publicized at

1755
01:36:23,360 --> 01:36:25,479
Speaker 1: that position that you have to be able to have

1756
01:36:25,600 --> 01:36:28,560
Speaker 1: a bulletproof kind of a bulletproof level of confidence. And

1757
01:36:28,840 --> 01:36:32,960
Speaker 1: Josh Storman absolutely has that. But when everybody, everybody wants

1758
01:36:33,000 --> 01:36:35,360
Speaker 1: to talk about, you know, the historic contract he signed

1759
01:36:35,400 --> 01:36:39,760
Speaker 1: in Washington and that he maybe didn't live up to

1760
01:36:39,880 --> 01:36:42,439
Speaker 1: it or think you know it was he was a

1761
01:36:42,520 --> 01:36:45,439
Speaker 1: one year wonder x y Z. Nobody really wants to

1762
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:49,280
Speaker 1: talk about though, the three I believe, the three position

1763
01:36:49,360 --> 01:36:53,120
Speaker 1: coaches he had in four seasons. Nobody wants to talk

1764
01:36:53,120 --> 01:36:55,560
Speaker 1: about the below average safety health he got behind, and

1765
01:36:55,680 --> 01:36:57,240
Speaker 1: no one wants to talk about the fact that he

1766
01:36:57,439 --> 01:37:00,920
Speaker 1: is a good zone corner in Washington, was not playing

1767
01:37:01,040 --> 01:37:04,479
Speaker 1: a system that uses his talents adequately. I think a

1768
01:37:04,560 --> 01:37:06,840
Speaker 1: return to Sean McDermott system. I returned to his own

1769
01:37:06,880 --> 01:37:10,439
Speaker 1: heavy scheme in a situation where he's not looked at

1770
01:37:10,520 --> 01:37:13,080
Speaker 1: as the focal point of the defense. I think all

1771
01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:15,639
Speaker 1: the well firm he gets back that level of play.

1772
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:18,839
Speaker 1: But I think Josh or Josh Norman, he's an attacking quarterback.

1773
01:37:18,960 --> 01:37:21,800
Speaker 1: He's aggressive, he brings an edge that I think there's

1774
01:37:21,880 --> 01:37:24,679
Speaker 1: defense needs. And now I've been I've been all aboard

1775
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:27,760
Speaker 1: this tiding since before it was even announced. I've been

1776
01:37:27,760 --> 01:37:32,040
Speaker 1: all aboard Josh Norman as he too for Buffalo, and

1777
01:37:32,360 --> 01:37:34,280
Speaker 1: lee By Wallace is not a slouch either. I think

1778
01:37:34,400 --> 01:37:38,479
Speaker 1: Leeby Wallace is obviously making calendar quarterback. The Cleveland game

1779
01:37:39,200 --> 01:37:42,240
Speaker 1: was probably his worst game as a worst game of

1780
01:37:42,720 --> 01:37:45,160
Speaker 1: the year, And like I said before, this is a

1781
01:37:45,240 --> 01:37:48,679
Speaker 1: position where your failures are so highly publicized that people

1782
01:37:48,840 --> 01:37:51,400
Speaker 1: tend to forget how good you really can be. Levy

1783
01:37:51,479 --> 01:37:55,280
Speaker 1: Wallace was a good second quarterback last year. So you know,

1784
01:37:55,320 --> 01:37:57,000
Speaker 1: I think that they're in a good position as long

1785
01:37:57,080 --> 01:38:01,479
Speaker 1: as everybody is healthy. I think they've got equality starting

1786
01:38:01,520 --> 01:38:05,080
Speaker 1: caliber guys, and they've got some decent depth this year

1787
01:38:05,240 --> 01:38:12,479
Speaker 1: as compared to the set up in twenty nineteen. Steve

1788
01:38:12,560 --> 01:38:19,320
Speaker 1: your muted. He ows two dollars starting, all right, marcelf

1789
01:38:19,920 --> 01:38:22,360
Speaker 1: I expect him to be a top five defense I

1790
01:38:22,479 --> 01:38:24,639
Speaker 1: really do. Do you think they could be a number

1791
01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:28,360
Speaker 1: one defense if Josh Norman reclaims a good portion of that,

1792
01:38:28,400 --> 01:38:30,519
Speaker 1: if he is an upgrade over a year ago. If that,

1793
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:33,120
Speaker 1: if this secondary does take a step forward because they

1794
01:38:33,200 --> 01:38:35,599
Speaker 1: get this guy and reclaim his career and he's got

1795
01:38:35,720 --> 01:38:39,240
Speaker 1: something left in the tank. Those two corners, along with

1796
01:38:39,320 --> 01:38:42,559
Speaker 1: what they've done up front and the guys they're returning,

1797
01:38:42,800 --> 01:38:45,479
Speaker 1: and the history that is with this coaching staff and

1798
01:38:45,560 --> 01:38:49,120
Speaker 1: these this corp group, this defense could be special this

1799
01:38:49,320 --> 01:38:52,439
Speaker 1: coming year. Could it not? I think so. I think

1800
01:38:52,520 --> 01:38:55,320
Speaker 1: the continuity is there. You've got the same course of

1801
01:38:55,400 --> 01:38:59,680
Speaker 1: guys for the past two seasons, are going on their

1802
01:38:59,720 --> 01:39:02,320
Speaker 1: third season, and they've been a top three unit these

1803
01:39:02,360 --> 01:39:05,280
Speaker 1: past two years. And it's really a lot of it

1804
01:39:05,400 --> 01:39:08,280
Speaker 1: falls on on to Leslie Fraser. Is there isn't that

1805
01:39:08,920 --> 01:39:13,000
Speaker 1: you know, there aren't many big household names on this defense.

1806
01:39:13,120 --> 01:39:16,640
Speaker 1: You know, the average stand in Colorado probably doesn't know

1807
01:39:16,760 --> 01:39:19,439
Speaker 1: who Jordan Poyer is, probably might not even know who

1808
01:39:19,479 --> 01:39:23,040
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds is. But these are both excellent players. They

1809
01:39:23,080 --> 01:39:25,479
Speaker 1: are excellent pieces on this team. Out of credit goals

1810
01:39:25,800 --> 01:39:29,439
Speaker 1: to Leslie Fraser putting them in position to succeed. I

1811
01:39:29,560 --> 01:39:32,599
Speaker 1: think it's really I know Bills fans are gonna want

1812
01:39:32,600 --> 01:39:34,680
Speaker 1: to hear it, but I think it's a travesty that

1813
01:39:34,880 --> 01:39:37,280
Speaker 1: he's not getting head coaching interviews. He has been a

1814
01:39:37,479 --> 01:39:40,559
Speaker 1: top three coordinator in this league over the vale of years.

1815
01:39:40,640 --> 01:39:43,599
Speaker 1: But yeah, I do think that they will find success.

1816
01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:46,599
Speaker 1: I like the pairing of Jerry Hughes and Mario Addison

1817
01:39:47,040 --> 01:39:49,320
Speaker 1: on the edge. I like aj F Pinessa a lot.

1818
01:39:49,400 --> 01:39:52,240
Speaker 1: I think Tremaine Edmonds is one of the better middle

1819
01:39:52,320 --> 01:39:57,040
Speaker 1: linebackers in the NFL. Matt Mulano again another underrated piece

1820
01:39:57,080 --> 01:40:01,200
Speaker 1: at outside backer at Oliver could be a breakout year form.

1821
01:40:01,240 --> 01:40:03,280
Speaker 1: I think it needs to be a breakout year form

1822
01:40:03,360 --> 01:40:08,880
Speaker 1: because that pass rush, that interior pressure is going to

1823
01:40:08,960 --> 01:40:12,040
Speaker 1: be important against some of the quarterbacks Buffalo is facing

1824
01:40:12,120 --> 01:40:15,160
Speaker 1: this year. So the pieces are there for another top

1825
01:40:15,280 --> 01:40:18,920
Speaker 1: three finished, maybe even a number one, But that's going

1826
01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:21,960
Speaker 1: to take It's going to take them bringing down the

1827
01:40:22,040 --> 01:40:24,439
Speaker 1: quarterback at a higher rate that they did than they

1828
01:40:24,479 --> 01:40:27,080
Speaker 1: did the past two seasons and taking the ball away

1829
01:40:27,160 --> 01:40:29,840
Speaker 1: forcing turnovers. I think it's going to be is going

1830
01:40:29,920 --> 01:40:33,320
Speaker 1: to be important. But this is it's a scary defense.

1831
01:40:33,400 --> 01:40:35,880
Speaker 1: You know, They're not a team that a lot of

1832
01:40:35,920 --> 01:40:40,559
Speaker 1: opponents I'm looking forward to playing every Sunday. We're talking

1833
01:40:40,640 --> 01:40:44,280
Speaker 1: with Marsa Louis Jacques, ESPN national reporter covering the Buffalo Bills.

1834
01:40:44,360 --> 01:40:45,880
Speaker 1: We've got a Twitter poll out. I was going to

1835
01:40:45,920 --> 01:40:48,400
Speaker 1: ask you your opinion on this because we're living in

1836
01:40:48,479 --> 01:40:51,479
Speaker 1: such different times now with the COVID. What is your

1837
01:40:51,560 --> 01:40:53,880
Speaker 1: What's on your mind as the Buffalo Bills gear up

1838
01:40:53,920 --> 01:40:56,080
Speaker 1: for training camp for the twenty twenty season. Is it

1839
01:40:56,640 --> 01:40:58,880
Speaker 1: as at all about the chemistry and how it develops

1840
01:40:58,920 --> 01:41:01,680
Speaker 1: with the new players? Is it be just get through

1841
01:41:01,720 --> 01:41:05,960
Speaker 1: it unscathed by COVID or see, we're not nothing. I'm

1842
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:07,880
Speaker 1: not confident that the season's even going to take off.

1843
01:41:07,960 --> 01:41:10,120
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about the Bills and the priorities

1844
01:41:10,160 --> 01:41:13,360
Speaker 1: they have going into training camp right now? But I

1845
01:41:13,400 --> 01:41:15,320
Speaker 1: don't want to comment because I don't want to speculate

1846
01:41:15,439 --> 01:41:17,840
Speaker 1: on where they're not the season's going to take off

1847
01:41:17,960 --> 01:41:21,519
Speaker 1: or not. I will say I very much hope it does,

1848
01:41:21,960 --> 01:41:25,080
Speaker 1: and because I would like to have a job, I

1849
01:41:25,120 --> 01:41:27,200
Speaker 1: would like to have something to do this fall, and

1850
01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:29,880
Speaker 1: I love footballs. This is the next guy. But I'm

1851
01:41:29,960 --> 01:41:33,799
Speaker 1: more concerned with how this chemistry builds on the offensive

1852
01:41:33,840 --> 01:41:37,839
Speaker 1: side of the ball constibility is really is a keyword

1853
01:41:38,200 --> 01:41:40,720
Speaker 1: for the Bills this season. The returning ten starters on

1854
01:41:40,880 --> 01:41:42,880
Speaker 1: either side of the ball, that's a lot of the

1855
01:41:42,960 --> 01:41:47,839
Speaker 1: same guys in the same system. However, Stefon Diggs its addition,

1856
01:41:48,160 --> 01:41:52,960
Speaker 1: is probably the biggest canalysts of where this team can

1857
01:41:53,120 --> 01:41:56,919
Speaker 1: go in twenty twenty. They are relying on the chemistry

1858
01:41:56,960 --> 01:42:00,200
Speaker 1: between Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs in order for has

1859
01:42:00,200 --> 01:42:02,960
Speaker 1: become a more balanced offense. They are playing some explosive

1860
01:42:02,960 --> 01:42:06,879
Speaker 1: teams this year in San Francisco, Kansas City, Los Angeles,

1861
01:42:07,120 --> 01:42:09,960
Speaker 1: just you know, for starters, Arizona and Denver, I think

1862
01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:12,400
Speaker 1: are going to be great offensive teams, Like they're gonna

1863
01:42:12,439 --> 01:42:16,120
Speaker 1: have to They're gonna have to score points. They're gonna

1864
01:42:16,120 --> 01:42:17,800
Speaker 1: have to score more points this year, just to put

1865
01:42:17,840 --> 01:42:21,599
Speaker 1: it bluntly, and that this offense really needs to get going.

1866
01:42:21,880 --> 01:42:24,439
Speaker 1: That I think Josh all you know, he is kind

1867
01:42:24,439 --> 01:42:27,639
Speaker 1: of a he is kind of a national state boat,

1868
01:42:27,840 --> 01:42:30,040
Speaker 1: and I know that bugs Buffalo fans a lot, but

1869
01:42:30,120 --> 01:42:33,960
Speaker 1: I don't think he quite deserves the reputation that he's gotten.

1870
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:36,280
Speaker 1: I think this is a guy who's extremely self aware.

1871
01:42:36,600 --> 01:42:38,880
Speaker 1: I think this is a guy who knows, constantly knows

1872
01:42:38,960 --> 01:42:41,280
Speaker 1: what he needs to improve on and generally does a

1873
01:42:41,400 --> 01:42:44,519
Speaker 1: good job of improving at in those areas. And I

1874
01:42:44,560 --> 01:42:47,160
Speaker 1: think he takes a similar leap from year two to

1875
01:42:47,280 --> 01:42:49,320
Speaker 1: three as he did from year one to two that

1876
01:42:49,600 --> 01:42:52,320
Speaker 1: this build's offense is going to be something special. And

1877
01:42:53,160 --> 01:42:55,360
Speaker 1: but it starts right here. It's start training camp. You know,

1878
01:42:55,400 --> 01:42:57,320
Speaker 1: it's good that they were able to get together in

1879
01:42:58,160 --> 01:43:01,800
Speaker 1: the offseason and run that practice order, but you know,

1880
01:43:01,960 --> 01:43:04,080
Speaker 1: they need they need these reps. They need to get

1881
01:43:04,120 --> 01:43:07,120
Speaker 1: it together quickly because without without even warm up games,

1882
01:43:07,160 --> 01:43:11,360
Speaker 1: without any preseason, you can't afford. You know, it's it's

1883
01:43:11,360 --> 01:43:15,000
Speaker 1: a tough schedule. They can't afford to lose games while

1884
01:43:15,040 --> 01:43:17,679
Speaker 1: they're still figuring each other. So that that's my number

1885
01:43:17,720 --> 01:43:19,880
Speaker 1: one concern, that's the number one thing I'm looking at

1886
01:43:20,240 --> 01:43:25,040
Speaker 1: this training camp. Yeah, So with that in mind, and

1887
01:43:25,200 --> 01:43:28,280
Speaker 1: just this weird preseason that we've all been in, including

1888
01:43:28,320 --> 01:43:31,479
Speaker 1: these players, finally getting to the complex and getting to

1889
01:43:31,560 --> 01:43:34,280
Speaker 1: see how this works, getting to see these protocols, what's

1890
01:43:34,280 --> 01:43:39,320
Speaker 1: the biggest training camp storyline in your mind? The biggest

1891
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:41,880
Speaker 1: training camp storyline? I mean, I think that you can

1892
01:43:41,960 --> 01:43:44,800
Speaker 1: just throw a blanket statement over the entire league, and

1893
01:43:44,880 --> 01:43:47,560
Speaker 1: it's how each team is going to respond to this

1894
01:43:47,680 --> 01:43:54,479
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen pandemic. I think that the consequences of losing

1895
01:43:54,520 --> 01:43:57,040
Speaker 1: a player are so are still so unknown, but I

1896
01:43:57,120 --> 01:44:00,479
Speaker 1: feel I could be massive swing. It's like you just

1897
01:44:00,600 --> 01:44:03,800
Speaker 1: don't especially for rookies that are going to need rests,

1898
01:44:03,840 --> 01:44:06,280
Speaker 1: if they get on that reserlaive COVID nineteen lists, they're

1899
01:44:06,280 --> 01:44:09,360
Speaker 1: gonna lose out on valuable rest and you've got to

1900
01:44:09,439 --> 01:44:12,360
Speaker 1: wonder how that's going to affect their playing time come

1901
01:44:13,080 --> 01:44:18,120
Speaker 1: the regular season. But I think that is that's extremely important.

1902
01:44:18,320 --> 01:44:21,240
Speaker 1: But and then specifically, you know, we talked about the

1903
01:44:21,320 --> 01:44:24,360
Speaker 1: offense a little bit. I think that that battle at

1904
01:44:24,479 --> 01:44:27,639
Speaker 1: number two quarterback is still something, it's still something to watch.

1905
01:44:27,760 --> 01:44:31,000
Speaker 1: Josh Thorman's himself as a starter, obviously, I can guarantee

1906
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:33,519
Speaker 1: you Levi Wallace season stelf as a starter as well,

1907
01:44:34,080 --> 01:44:36,519
Speaker 1: and so it's going to be interesting to see which

1908
01:44:36,560 --> 01:44:39,880
Speaker 1: one of those guys earns it in training camp. And

1909
01:44:41,040 --> 01:44:44,080
Speaker 1: I think that's that's really the question, that's really the

1910
01:44:44,120 --> 01:44:47,240
Speaker 1: big question mark on this On the starting lineup on

1911
01:44:47,320 --> 01:44:49,320
Speaker 1: either side of the ball, everybody else is pretty much

1912
01:44:49,360 --> 01:44:54,439
Speaker 1: set intrigued to see who wins this kicking competition between

1913
01:44:54,760 --> 01:44:58,400
Speaker 1: Stephen house Gell and Tyler Bass. Obviously, Keith Paul Will says,

1914
01:44:58,479 --> 01:45:01,160
Speaker 1: the job us just to lose. But Brandonby loves his

1915
01:45:01,280 --> 01:45:03,439
Speaker 1: draft picks and he's not spending one on a kicker.

1916
01:45:03,520 --> 01:45:06,519
Speaker 1: If that kicker doesn't have a realistic shot, I'm making

1917
01:45:06,560 --> 01:45:09,000
Speaker 1: the roster. So there's a few there's a few things

1918
01:45:09,080 --> 01:45:14,080
Speaker 1: to really kick in mind over these next few weeks. Marceau,

1919
01:45:14,200 --> 01:45:17,000
Speaker 1: You've also been a part of all the zoom access

1920
01:45:17,160 --> 01:45:19,400
Speaker 1: to the players as they get back into the building

1921
01:45:19,439 --> 01:45:21,800
Speaker 1: for training camp. Usually you have these guys every day,

1922
01:45:21,880 --> 01:45:24,840
Speaker 1: the quarterback, the running back, whoever you want. They'll make

1923
01:45:24,880 --> 01:45:27,200
Speaker 1: guys available. You can stand right there next to him

1924
01:45:27,200 --> 01:45:30,160
Speaker 1: and interview him. But you had to do it zoom wise.

1925
01:45:30,200 --> 01:45:32,519
Speaker 1: It's been an everyday occurrence. You've gotten like you know,

1926
01:45:32,680 --> 01:45:35,880
Speaker 1: Josh Norman, Josh Allen Devons, Singletary, Tremaine Edmonds. The list

1927
01:45:35,960 --> 01:45:39,799
Speaker 1: goes on. What has been your impression of these guys

1928
01:45:40,320 --> 01:45:44,240
Speaker 1: and how they're handled. Dawson Knox happened today. What's your impression?

1929
01:45:44,320 --> 01:45:47,400
Speaker 1: Is there any overriding generalization you can make about how

1930
01:45:47,479 --> 01:45:50,720
Speaker 1: these players are handling this current situation, and if all

1931
01:45:50,800 --> 01:45:53,479
Speaker 1: those players that we've seen come through these zoom calls

1932
01:45:53,560 --> 01:45:56,759
Speaker 1: on the you know, with the media, is there anybody

1933
01:45:56,800 --> 01:45:59,360
Speaker 1: that struck you as being maybe far ahead of where

1934
01:45:59,360 --> 01:46:04,080
Speaker 1: you thought they might um, far ahead of where I

1935
01:46:04,160 --> 01:46:07,280
Speaker 1: thought they might be. UM, I thought, like I said,

1936
01:46:07,320 --> 01:46:11,719
Speaker 1: I've never seen that level of of candidness from Davia's

1937
01:46:11,760 --> 01:46:15,320
Speaker 1: White and so that really that took me by surprise. UM.

1938
01:46:15,920 --> 01:46:19,080
Speaker 1: You know, obviously media, that's nobody's favorite, that's no player's

1939
01:46:19,120 --> 01:46:22,280
Speaker 1: favorite part of the day. But I think that everybody

1940
01:46:22,439 --> 01:46:28,000
Speaker 1: has has really been engaged and active and friendly, uh

1941
01:46:28,320 --> 01:46:33,280
Speaker 1: in understanding from both sides, given these these really weird uh,

1942
01:46:33,360 --> 01:46:36,040
Speaker 1: these really weirdcumstances. Uh, I thought it was. It was

1943
01:46:36,080 --> 01:46:39,160
Speaker 1: really fun talking to Josh Norman yesterday. It's one of

1944
01:46:39,160 --> 01:46:41,360
Speaker 1: those things where it's like, man, I really wish, uh,

1945
01:46:41,840 --> 01:46:43,680
Speaker 1: I really wish we could we be able to do this,

1946
01:46:43,880 --> 01:46:45,960
Speaker 1: you know, in the locker room and and see and

1947
01:46:46,280 --> 01:46:48,160
Speaker 1: talk with him more often. He seems like the kind

1948
01:46:48,200 --> 01:46:50,600
Speaker 1: of guy that where you learned something new or you

1949
01:46:50,720 --> 01:46:53,519
Speaker 1: learn a different perspective or a different X y Z

1950
01:46:53,960 --> 01:46:56,600
Speaker 1: every time he speak to him. But you know, just

1951
01:46:57,160 --> 01:46:59,000
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where you know, I'm a

1952
01:46:59,040 --> 01:47:01,639
Speaker 1: pretty firm believer in in controlling what you can control,

1953
01:47:02,280 --> 01:47:06,200
Speaker 1: and right now we can't control We can't control what's

1954
01:47:06,240 --> 01:47:09,560
Speaker 1: going on in the nation right now, not directly. We

1955
01:47:09,680 --> 01:47:11,800
Speaker 1: don't know a whole lot about this buyer. We want

1956
01:47:11,840 --> 01:47:14,920
Speaker 1: to keep everybody safe, and it's very understandable if this

1957
01:47:15,080 --> 01:47:16,600
Speaker 1: is the way that we have to do things, and

1958
01:47:16,840 --> 01:47:18,519
Speaker 1: this is just this is the way that we're going

1959
01:47:18,560 --> 01:47:21,320
Speaker 1: to do them. And I think that I think everybody's

1960
01:47:21,360 --> 01:47:23,960
Speaker 1: been you know, I think everybody's been able to do

1961
01:47:24,040 --> 01:47:27,200
Speaker 1: their job. I think the bills to their PR department

1962
01:47:27,240 --> 01:47:30,160
Speaker 1: and a good job of making the most of a

1963
01:47:30,360 --> 01:47:34,560
Speaker 1: really difficult situation. And I appreciate that. But and you know,

1964
01:47:34,680 --> 01:47:38,040
Speaker 1: I think that we're still myself, my peers, my colleagues.

1965
01:47:38,040 --> 01:47:39,720
Speaker 1: I think we're still going to be able to get

1966
01:47:40,200 --> 01:47:41,679
Speaker 1: you know, we're going to be able to get content

1967
01:47:41,760 --> 01:47:44,640
Speaker 1: out at a decent rate, at a at a you know,

1968
01:47:44,920 --> 01:47:47,160
Speaker 1: at a rate comparable to what we what we do

1969
01:47:47,240 --> 01:47:49,720
Speaker 1: under normal circumstances. It's just one of those things where,

1970
01:47:49,800 --> 01:47:52,760
Speaker 1: like I said, this is our situation right now, it

1971
01:47:52,920 --> 01:47:56,479
Speaker 1: is nothing really we can do about it. And honestly,

1972
01:47:56,640 --> 01:48:00,120
Speaker 1: like if if our safety, if players safety is not guarantee.

1973
01:48:00,400 --> 01:48:02,479
Speaker 1: I don't even want to be in the locker room

1974
01:48:02,520 --> 01:48:04,840
Speaker 1: because I don't want to be the guy that potentially

1975
01:48:04,960 --> 01:48:08,400
Speaker 1: brings a possibly deadly virus into the locker room. Like

1976
01:48:08,479 --> 01:48:10,800
Speaker 1: I don't want to put anybody else in danger as well.

1977
01:48:10,920 --> 01:48:13,439
Speaker 1: So this is uh, Like I said, it's weird, but

1978
01:48:13,600 --> 01:48:15,800
Speaker 1: you know, after two weeks of doing it, you just

1979
01:48:16,040 --> 01:48:18,599
Speaker 1: not even two weeks, man, it's been months as these

1980
01:48:18,680 --> 01:48:21,519
Speaker 1: zoom calls started. You're just you're used to it at

1981
01:48:21,560 --> 01:48:26,800
Speaker 1: this point. Yeah, there's a lot of knowns, of course

1982
01:48:26,880 --> 01:48:29,240
Speaker 1: with this season and with this virus. But I think

1983
01:48:29,280 --> 01:48:31,880
Speaker 1: when you look at the roster of this team, Uh,

1984
01:48:32,520 --> 01:48:35,439
Speaker 1: they returned so many players, the continuity is there, so

1985
01:48:35,640 --> 01:48:39,600
Speaker 1: there's not too many unknowns when you're looking at specific

1986
01:48:39,760 --> 01:48:44,280
Speaker 1: starters or specific positions. But what would you say is

1987
01:48:44,360 --> 01:48:46,800
Speaker 1: the biggest unknown for this Bill's offense? I mean, is

1988
01:48:46,800 --> 01:48:49,080
Speaker 1: it Josh taking that next step? You said you're pretty

1989
01:48:49,080 --> 01:48:51,000
Speaker 1: confident that he can, which I am too. Is it

1990
01:48:51,479 --> 01:48:53,760
Speaker 1: is it a tight end after Dawson Knox? Is it?

1991
01:48:54,200 --> 01:48:56,400
Speaker 1: Is it the conversation of who is it going to

1992
01:48:56,439 --> 01:49:00,240
Speaker 1: be Tyler, Tyler Croft or Dawson Knox taking those taking

1993
01:49:00,280 --> 01:49:03,080
Speaker 1: the most snaps or is it the offensive line building

1994
01:49:03,200 --> 01:49:07,599
Speaker 1: off of what they did last year? You know, Maddie,

1995
01:49:07,640 --> 01:49:12,200
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really curious what this offense's identity is going

1996
01:49:12,320 --> 01:49:15,680
Speaker 1: to be in twenty nineteen and twenty eighteen as well.

1997
01:49:16,240 --> 01:49:18,479
Speaker 1: You knew Buffalo was going to run that rock. They

1998
01:49:18,520 --> 01:49:20,120
Speaker 1: were going to run that football. They were going to

1999
01:49:20,160 --> 01:49:22,680
Speaker 1: try to dominate the game on the ground, and they

2000
01:49:22,760 --> 01:49:24,439
Speaker 1: had the horses to do so. You know, they have

2001
01:49:24,560 --> 01:49:27,400
Speaker 1: the shot McCoy, they had Devin Singletary, and of course

2002
01:49:27,479 --> 01:49:31,439
Speaker 1: the gap Josh Hadden. But but it was more out

2003
01:49:31,479 --> 01:49:33,760
Speaker 1: of I believe it was more out of necessity than

2004
01:49:33,840 --> 01:49:36,120
Speaker 1: anything else. I know that they football a lot more

2005
01:49:36,720 --> 01:49:39,800
Speaker 1: last season that when he got, you know, for the

2006
01:49:39,880 --> 01:49:42,839
Speaker 1: first time, some decent weapons and John Brown, Cold Beasley

2007
01:49:42,880 --> 01:49:46,960
Speaker 1: and Knox. But I'm curious what this offense is identity

2008
01:49:47,040 --> 01:49:48,720
Speaker 1: really is, Like, what are you going to expect to

2009
01:49:48,720 --> 01:49:50,880
Speaker 1: see from the Bills when they take the field every Sunday,

2010
01:49:51,240 --> 01:49:54,759
Speaker 1: when they have a whole supply of weapons at their disposal.

2011
01:49:54,800 --> 01:49:57,439
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at any skill position at wide receiver,

2012
01:49:57,840 --> 01:49:59,680
Speaker 1: this is one of the best starting threes in the

2013
01:49:59,800 --> 01:50:03,960
Speaker 1: end right now. It's really hard to find many slot receivers,

2014
01:50:04,240 --> 01:50:08,719
Speaker 1: quicker and better than Cole Beasley, hardifying receivers, more underrated

2015
01:50:08,760 --> 01:50:12,160
Speaker 1: than John Brown and Stefon Diggs is a He's a star.

2016
01:50:12,520 --> 01:50:15,280
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs is a star, and we know that at

2017
01:50:15,360 --> 01:50:18,080
Speaker 1: that tight end Dawson knocks. He's expected to take a

2018
01:50:18,160 --> 01:50:21,559
Speaker 1: major lead this year if he can fix those drop

2019
01:50:21,600 --> 01:50:24,280
Speaker 1: issues that really plagued him as a rookie. This guy

2020
01:50:24,400 --> 01:50:26,600
Speaker 1: is excellent in the catch. This guy turned is a

2021
01:50:27,120 --> 01:50:30,600
Speaker 1: you know in that Kittle and Travis Kelsey um in

2022
01:50:30,720 --> 01:50:34,320
Speaker 1: that caliber. When it when it comes to running after

2023
01:50:34,439 --> 01:50:36,960
Speaker 1: the catch, it's just can he get those catches down?

2024
01:50:37,360 --> 01:50:41,320
Speaker 1: Which is obviously it's important. Offensive line's got continuity there,

2025
01:50:41,439 --> 01:50:44,320
Speaker 1: it's got depth there. Um That right guard is a

2026
01:50:44,360 --> 01:50:46,080
Speaker 1: little bit of a concern right now. It's a little

2027
01:50:46,080 --> 01:50:48,479
Speaker 1: bit of an UNKNIGHTE guess if we're looking for, you know,

2028
01:50:48,640 --> 01:50:51,840
Speaker 1: things that we don't know. But and then running back,

2029
01:50:51,880 --> 01:50:54,560
Speaker 1: I think Devin Singletary is I think he's poised. I

2030
01:50:54,600 --> 01:50:56,760
Speaker 1: think he could be a thousand yard back if he

2031
01:50:56,840 --> 01:50:59,360
Speaker 1: gets to the opportunity. I'm just I'm not sure he

2032
01:50:59,520 --> 01:51:02,479
Speaker 1: gets that kind of workload in twenty twenty. But there's

2033
01:51:02,520 --> 01:51:05,360
Speaker 1: not a lot of there's a lot going on to

2034
01:51:05,520 --> 01:51:09,000
Speaker 1: life on this Buffalo offense. But I'm curious what that

2035
01:51:09,200 --> 01:51:12,400
Speaker 1: right guard situation ends up being and what this identity

2036
01:51:12,720 --> 01:51:15,599
Speaker 1: ends up being. What Brian Dable, what kind of identity

2037
01:51:15,680 --> 01:51:20,200
Speaker 1: Brian dabele sex for the stead We're talking with Marcel

2038
01:51:20,320 --> 01:51:23,559
Speaker 1: Louis Jacques. Marcel, you spend some time in Carolina covering

2039
01:51:23,560 --> 01:51:26,519
Speaker 1: the Panthers. Cam Newton was there during your time there.

2040
01:51:26,600 --> 01:51:30,040
Speaker 1: You saw how Ron Rivera his relationship with Cam Newton went.

2041
01:51:30,160 --> 01:51:32,439
Speaker 1: How do you think the relationship between Cam Newton and

2042
01:51:32,600 --> 01:51:36,800
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick will develop? And how does Cam Newton's presence

2043
01:51:36,840 --> 01:51:39,280
Speaker 1: in New England change the landscape in the AFC East

2044
01:51:39,400 --> 01:51:41,960
Speaker 1: And are the Bills still the favorite because of that?

2045
01:51:43,439 --> 01:51:46,559
Speaker 1: I think that for the first time in his career,

2046
01:51:46,800 --> 01:51:49,960
Speaker 1: Cam Newton is looked at as if he can't do something.

2047
01:51:51,160 --> 01:51:53,200
Speaker 1: I think, you know, he was obviously, he was seen

2048
01:51:53,280 --> 01:51:57,880
Speaker 1: as superman. He rose this MVP caliber player in Carolina,

2049
01:51:58,200 --> 01:52:01,240
Speaker 1: and especially over the past years once he's been injured,

2050
01:52:01,600 --> 01:52:04,519
Speaker 1: people are now studying for the first time again starting

2051
01:52:04,560 --> 01:52:09,200
Speaker 1: to think this guy can't do this, and that publicly

2052
01:52:10,000 --> 01:52:11,680
Speaker 1: kicks him off. I mean, I think I believe he

2053
01:52:11,760 --> 01:52:15,160
Speaker 1: said on a Patriots conference call today that he wakes

2054
01:52:15,240 --> 01:52:17,920
Speaker 1: up angry, he wakes up right now. So these concerns

2055
01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:20,599
Speaker 1: that he's not gonna be able to take criticism from

2056
01:52:20,640 --> 01:52:25,080
Speaker 1: his head coach. I think that I don't think his

2057
01:52:25,200 --> 01:52:28,479
Speaker 1: ego is that fragile. I think he's looked at for

2058
01:52:29,160 --> 01:52:31,240
Speaker 1: a number of reasons that I don't think we have

2059
01:52:31,400 --> 01:52:34,040
Speaker 1: time to get into today. I think he is he's

2060
01:52:34,240 --> 01:52:39,200
Speaker 1: looked at disfavorably as as a quarterback, as a professional.

2061
01:52:39,520 --> 01:52:43,360
Speaker 1: But this guy is good, you know, to put it

2062
01:52:43,439 --> 01:52:46,240
Speaker 1: in sort, this guy could play this game. Before he

2063
01:52:46,360 --> 01:52:49,360
Speaker 1: was injured in twenty eighteen, he was playing at a

2064
01:52:49,479 --> 01:52:52,280
Speaker 1: level more efficient than he has ever played in his

2065
01:52:52,400 --> 01:52:55,479
Speaker 1: professional career. If he's healthy, which he should be after

2066
01:52:55,640 --> 01:52:59,000
Speaker 1: basically two years off away from the game. If he's healthy,

2067
01:53:00,000 --> 01:53:02,479
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who is around him. It doesn't really

2068
01:53:02,520 --> 01:53:05,720
Speaker 1: matter who's around him. That their defense is good enough

2069
01:53:05,960 --> 01:53:08,080
Speaker 1: and those weapons are good enough and can will be

2070
01:53:08,160 --> 01:53:12,200
Speaker 1: good enough in AFC. Each contender, I'm not sure if

2071
01:53:12,240 --> 01:53:15,479
Speaker 1: there are title contenders right now. I think they lost,

2072
01:53:15,560 --> 01:53:17,800
Speaker 1: especially with the ad opt outs. They lost a lot

2073
01:53:17,920 --> 01:53:20,600
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. But this is

2074
01:53:20,600 --> 01:53:24,040
Speaker 1: still Bill Belichick. We're talking, and this is still this

2075
01:53:24,200 --> 01:53:28,040
Speaker 1: is still Cam Newton until proven otherwise. And I do

2076
01:53:28,200 --> 01:53:30,920
Speaker 1: believe the Bills are still the favorite. I think there's

2077
01:53:30,960 --> 01:53:33,280
Speaker 1: still a lot more a lot fewer question marks in

2078
01:53:33,360 --> 01:53:37,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo than there are in New England. But looking over

2079
01:53:37,120 --> 01:53:39,800
Speaker 1: New England as a piplumba Bills fan, I'm not looking

2080
01:53:39,880 --> 01:53:43,040
Speaker 1: past New England as much as I would if Jared

2081
01:53:43,120 --> 01:53:48,760
Speaker 1: Stidham wasn't their starting quarterback. More Still, thanks for spending

2082
01:53:48,840 --> 01:53:50,240
Speaker 1: some time with us. Good luck with the rest of

2083
01:53:50,280 --> 01:53:52,760
Speaker 1: your media access on the Zoom calls with the team.

2084
01:53:52,920 --> 01:53:54,800
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Stay healthy and well during the rest

2085
01:53:54,840 --> 01:53:58,160
Speaker 1: of the pandemic. Thanks thanks for having me on y'all,

2086
01:53:58,160 --> 01:54:02,360
Speaker 1: Stay well, say safe, see and Stephen looking forward to

2087
01:54:02,360 --> 01:54:08,280
Speaker 1: seeing that haircut. Then. Marcelo vi Jacques, ESPN National Reporter,

2088
01:54:08,680 --> 01:54:11,719
Speaker 1: covers to Buffalo Bills. He also contributes to ESPN NFL

2089
01:54:11,840 --> 01:54:16,439
Speaker 1: Lives Sports Center. Also a contributor on ESPN Radio Maddie

2090
01:54:16,439 --> 01:54:18,599
Speaker 1: Glab's Deep Task Coming Back after the Break with more

2091
01:54:18,640 --> 01:54:21,240
Speaker 1: of your Friday mail bag and what did we learn

2092
01:54:21,400 --> 01:54:24,599
Speaker 1: and maybe some NFL true false One Bill's Live presented

2093
01:54:24,640 --> 01:54:42,000
Speaker 1: by Kalidah Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to

2094
01:54:42,080 --> 01:54:44,880
Speaker 1: one of Bill's Lives Deep tasker Maddie glab here till

2095
01:54:44,960 --> 01:54:47,920
Speaker 1: three o'clock, we've been asking you, are loyal listeners, you're

2096
01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:49,920
Speaker 1: what's on your mind is the Bills gear up for

2097
01:54:50,000 --> 01:54:53,920
Speaker 1: training camp and for the twenty twenty season. Sixty two

2098
01:54:54,000 --> 01:54:56,720
Speaker 1: percent of you said, Hey, just get the Bills through

2099
01:54:57,000 --> 01:55:00,360
Speaker 1: COVID unscathed man, just stay away from the virus. That's

2100
01:55:00,480 --> 01:55:02,400
Speaker 1: that's job one. Sixty two percent of you say that,

2101
01:55:02,520 --> 01:55:06,400
Speaker 1: twenty percent of you say, nothing is on my mind

2102
01:55:06,480 --> 01:55:10,040
Speaker 1: because I'm not confident in a twenty twenty season. Fifteen

2103
01:55:10,120 --> 01:55:12,520
Speaker 1: percent of you say it's still about chemistry with the

2104
01:55:12,560 --> 01:55:14,720
Speaker 1: new players, getting those guys on the field, and four

2105
01:55:14,760 --> 01:55:16,560
Speaker 1: percent of you have other things to say. We've got

2106
01:55:16,600 --> 01:55:19,080
Speaker 1: a lot of feedback. We also took a bunch of

2107
01:55:19,720 --> 01:55:24,760
Speaker 1: Friday mail bag questions that once again our loyal listeners

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Speaker 1: coming to our rescue and brig giving us some questions

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Speaker 1: that they want answered. We've got a lot of good ones.

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Speaker 1: This one. Still people are still, you know, they they're

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Speaker 1: asking us, if you know, if we think that the

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Speaker 1: team is going to play it's full sixteen game schedule,

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Speaker 1: what about something? They got a couple of football questions

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Speaker 1: from Adam. He asked this, how many quarterbacks do the

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Speaker 1: Bills go into the season with. What's the plan for

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Speaker 1: Jake From's development in his rookie season. I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: this what I think about the quarterback development and these players,

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Speaker 1: particularly a guy like Jake from Man, They've got a

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Speaker 1: lot of room on this roster, and I don't want

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Speaker 1: to waste it on guys who maybe won't play. But

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Speaker 1: you know, as a quarterback and Jake from you might

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Speaker 1: want to say, you, listen, we're gonna stash this guy

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Speaker 1: on our protected COVID list, keep him separate from you

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Speaker 1: both quarterbacks unless we're on the pracch Field or whatever,

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Speaker 1: and let him be around the building, assimilate the offense,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll get a chance to evaluate him in

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Speaker 1: the next offseason or preseason of next year or whatever.

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Speaker 1: But I think a guy like Jake from particularly since

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Speaker 1: you know you took the guy in the fifth round,

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Speaker 1: let's give the guy a chance to develop a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Sitting around watching Jake, watching Josh Allen and Matt Barkley

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Speaker 1: do their jobs, I think league wide, this could be

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Speaker 1: a year where you see four quarterbacks on rosters. There's

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Speaker 1: going to be more quarterbacks on rosters than usual. I

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Speaker 1: mean we had Josh Allen, Matt Barkley, and then Davis Webb.

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Speaker 1: I think it would be common to have four quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: on your roster this year, especially with an expanded practice squad.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you want to take any chances of

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Speaker 1: having multiple quarterbacks going down and having nobody to go with.

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Speaker 1: So I think I would see them taking all four

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Speaker 1: and even even keeping Davis Webb too. And Jake from

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Speaker 1: a development standpoint, I mean he's there to learn from

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen and learn from Matt Barkley, and if David's

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Speaker 1: web is also there learned from Davis Webb. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is your rookie year. This is you want to

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Speaker 1: take in as much as you can, especially not being

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Speaker 1: thrown into a starter job right away. You want to

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Speaker 1: learn the system, you want to learn the lay of

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Speaker 1: the land. Matt Barkley is a great quarterback to learn

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Speaker 1: from in that essence, and so is Josh Allen. And

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Speaker 1: I know Jake from will probably be able to help

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Speaker 1: Josh as well. Jake has thought of as somebody who

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Speaker 1: is very intelligent and someone who will be able to

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Speaker 1: help every single quarterback in that room this year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: fram has got the reputation of being a thinker and

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of along the lines of Davis Webb.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've we've heard a lot in the offseason

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Speaker 1: about Davis Webb kind of being one of those coaching

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Speaker 1: type of guys, one of those guys that's a mentor

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Speaker 1: of a quarterback. And I think that's one of the

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Speaker 1: things that they say about Jake from as well. One

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Speaker 1: last thing, let's let's take one more from the Friday

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Speaker 1: mail bag, and this one from David and this is

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Speaker 1: this is a burning question for the entire offseason, and

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Speaker 1: we may not get an answer for another eighteen months.

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Speaker 1: But from David, he says, do you think the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills will make Trey White the top paid cornerback in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League. It's a good question. Certainly they're

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Speaker 1: gonna offer the guy big contract, Rays and it'll depend

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Speaker 1: on what Tredavius is Trey Davious White thinks about his

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Speaker 1: worth on the open market. Certainly this year he would

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Speaker 1: be one of the top paid if they did it

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Speaker 1: strictly by merit, and he was all pro it along

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Speaker 1: with Stefan Gilmour, there's only two guys that are all

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Speaker 1: pro that's a very short list, you know. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know if they'll make him the top paid corner

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Speaker 1: but I know this, they're gonna They're gonna do everything

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Speaker 1: they can to sign that guy because I think he's

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Speaker 1: a center stone in a corner, a cornerstone piece, and

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Speaker 1: a foundational piece, however you want to say it. He's

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Speaker 1: a guy that the Bills think they've got to have. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I think Trey White also knows that there's a

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Speaker 1: big market out there for cornerbacks and that cornerbacks get paid. Um.

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Speaker 1: Trey and Brandon Bean have have been on the same

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Speaker 1: page about getting him a new deal. They want to

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Speaker 1: they want to retain him. Of course, Brandon bead wants

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Speaker 1: to retain his players, Trey White being one of the

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Speaker 1: best on this team right now, but they both want

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Speaker 1: to strike a deal when the time is right. When

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Speaker 1: Trey talked to the media, it didn't seem like he

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Speaker 1: was in a rush to get a deal done. He

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Speaker 1: knows his self worth. He wants to probably see how

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Speaker 1: much he can get as a corner and he explained,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not in the stance that I need

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Speaker 1: money right away. I manage my money well, I don't

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Speaker 1: need a deal to live right now. But when you're

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Speaker 1: looking at corners and how much they're making right now,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Byron Jones, how a deal what two or

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Speaker 1: three weeks into March five year eighty two and a

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Speaker 1: half million dollar deal including fifty seven million guaranteed. That

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Speaker 1: makes him the highest paid cornerback based on guaranteed money,

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Speaker 1: with fifty seven million that being the highest all time.

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Speaker 1: So you're seeing now more frequently that these corners are

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Speaker 1: getting paid quite a bit of money. And I think

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Speaker 1: in those two years he'll be guaranteed or he can

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Speaker 1: make up to forty million dollars. That's quite a bit

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Speaker 1: and Trey White is going to be at the top

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Speaker 1: of the list there some people. I think he's the

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Speaker 1: best corner in the league. He didn't allow a touchdown

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Speaker 1: last season, had six interceptions. He is worthy of getting

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Speaker 1: paid that type of money. I got a question for

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Speaker 1: you that just occurred to me. Yeah, I believe you.

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Speaker 1: Tradevius White is an important piece. He's also a piece

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Speaker 1: that fits exactly, and I mean in every way. He's

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Speaker 1: the right kind of person. He works hard, He's plays

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Speaker 1: at a high level. He's a leader in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: He's got great character, he does all the things that

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Speaker 1: he's everything. He's got all the DNA that this culture

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Speaker 1: at one Bill's drive has been built around how much

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Speaker 1: pressure is there on the coaching staff and on the

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Speaker 1: front office to sign that guy? Said? What happens if

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Speaker 1: they don't? What's that say to all the guys that

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Speaker 1: they've said, hey, this will pay the guys we like.

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Speaker 1: We'll pay the guys that do everything right. We'll pay

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Speaker 1: the you know what happens if they aren't able to

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Speaker 1: sign him? You know, well what if they how much

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Speaker 1: pressure is on the team to say, hey, you said

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Speaker 1: you said, you know, because everybody does. That's what players do.

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Speaker 1: They stand on the table and they go you said

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Speaker 1: right that if I did A, B and C, you'd

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Speaker 1: take care of me. Well I did ABC, D, E

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Speaker 1: and F. You know, Jamal Adams was the best player

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Speaker 1: on their team, and he you know, he's he called

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Speaker 1: you know how he and of course he wanted out

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Speaker 1: and he was not happy and he started spouting off.

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Speaker 1: Which makes it different. But none of these are like

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Speaker 1: if Tredavious White has minded his business. I mean, how

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Speaker 1: much pressure is there on the bills to sign a

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Speaker 1: guy like that, because if they don't, what's their culture mean?

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Speaker 1: I think I don't even want to entertain the thought

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Speaker 1: of the possibly not getting resigned because, um, I may

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Speaker 1: call out of work for a week while I cry

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Speaker 1: every single day. Um I think he's I think they're

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Speaker 1: going to be able to make this happen because Brandon

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Speaker 1: Bean manages money so well and even with the uncertainty

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Speaker 1: of the salary cap the next few seasons, regardless of that,

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Speaker 1: they know they have some big deals coming up, and

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Speaker 1: they know they need to make good on those deals

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Speaker 1: and pay those players for what they're worth. And I

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Speaker 1: think relationally wise, they understand that those players are deserving

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Speaker 1: of the money that the market has set for them, right,

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Speaker 1: And I think that's true too. But yeah, but it

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Speaker 1: is It is a question though, right. I Mean, if

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Speaker 1: they say, hey, if you guys, have we got the

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Speaker 1: right kind of guys? You know, you got to put

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Speaker 1: up some point, you know. Josh Allen, Tremaine, Edmunds, Davious

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Speaker 1: White's first guy on the list, Dion Dawkins, Milano. All

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Speaker 1: these players have done exactly and in some cases outperformed

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Speaker 1: the expectations. So I think the structure of the contract

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Speaker 1: will be what allows the Bill to do Bills to

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Speaker 1: do it. But I think all these players, all the

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Speaker 1: elite players in the league have to know too that

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Speaker 1: if they do hit a home run, it does hamstring

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Speaker 1: their ability to be winners because the club just be

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Speaker 1: able to get enough talent around them. We'll see. That's

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Speaker 1: that's an interesting thing. Last one from the mail bag

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Speaker 1: before we go to break, how much from Josh? How

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Speaker 1: much better does Tyler Bass have to be than Stephen

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Speaker 1: Houshka in training camp to make this team? It feels like,

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Speaker 1: even if it's closed, the Bills would side with a

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Speaker 1: proven veteran like Stephen Houshka over a rookie who won't

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Speaker 1: have any preseason games to show how he handles the

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Speaker 1: pressure of a real game. That's a good question. How

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Speaker 1: much better? I mean, He's right, Tyler Bass may have

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Speaker 1: to be significantly better than Stephen Houshka to make the

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Speaker 1: team in place of a veteran who's as proven as

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Speaker 1: Howshka is. Yeah, I think we talked about what rookie

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Speaker 1: will make the biggest impact. And while I think Brandon

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Speaker 1: Bean wants to keep most of his draft picks because

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Speaker 1: of the fact that he can help them grow in

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Speaker 1: the system and develop them, which he always does. When

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Speaker 1: you're a kicker, I think you're gonna have to make

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Speaker 1: a big difference, and you're gonna have to be a

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Speaker 1: lot better than Stephen Haushka because he has proven himself

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Speaker 1: and is very good in the playoffs. Yes, he missed

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Speaker 1: some kicks last year, but I think he's gonna have

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Speaker 1: to be way better than Houshka if he wants to

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Speaker 1: start a job. I think so too, particularly in the

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Speaker 1: fact that you're gonna have to really worry about how

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Speaker 1: are you gonna you know, we're gonna kick and you know,

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Speaker 1: buy yourselves in an open field. Not much pressure there.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a good it's a great question thing,

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Speaker 1: and thanks to everybody who's sent in a mail bag

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Speaker 1: a Friday mail bag question, we really appreciate it. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna gonna be back right after the break with what

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Speaker 1: do we learned? Steve Tasker. We actually we don't have

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Speaker 1: any what are we learned today, so we're gonna skip that.

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Speaker 1: But if we did do what we learned, it would

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Speaker 1: Deal Welcome, Welcome back to one of Bill's Live Steve

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Speaker 1: task along with Maddie Glab just finishing up. We asked

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Speaker 1: you at the beginning of our show what was on

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Speaker 1: your mind as the Bills gear up to training camp

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Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty season. Sixty two percent of you said,

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Speaker 1: we just hope the Bills can get through COVID unscathed.

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Speaker 1: Fifteen percent of you said it's all about chemistry and

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Speaker 1: development that these getting these new players acclimated, twenty percent

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Speaker 1: of you say nothing, I don't think the season is

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Speaker 1: actually gonna happen, and four percent of you have something

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Speaker 1: else in mind. Mattie, As we talk through this, most

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Speaker 1: people are just in the mind that if they can

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Speaker 1: get through this COVID unscathed, the season is actually gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: Some people are well twenty percent of them are kind

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Speaker 1: of doubtful that it'll never get to that point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think there's hope. I think it's good to have

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Speaker 1: the mindset of that we can get through this. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I want to see the season happen, and I want

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Speaker 1: to see this team be healthy through it all. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean too. And there's no question that we've got

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Speaker 1: a long way to go and there's gonna be some obstacles,

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Speaker 1: but and it's gonna look different, but nevertheless, I think

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Speaker 1: it'll still happen, right, I mean, I'm positive that we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be back, and in fact, we're gonna be back

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Speaker 1: on the year. On Monday on MSG Television, Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Won Bills Live on MSG Back at You on Monday,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Matty Glab saying goodbye, everybody, have a great weekend.