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Speaker 1: Oh, great time. I'll watch De Tasper Susi sus domest Time,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to one Bills Live to task her here on

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Speaker 1: June first, twenty twenty. Um, I'll be ready when it's

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Speaker 1: December thirty first, twenty twenty. We can kick twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: to the curb. It's not been that great, but I'm

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Speaker 1: pleased to be joined this week by all week by

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Speaker 1: Maddie Glab mad girl coming in uh and she's gonna

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Speaker 1: be with us all week. I Maddie, how are you

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Speaker 1: doing yet? But first of all, happy birthday? Last Wednesday

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Speaker 1: was your birthday. Yeah, I'm really happy. Yeah, I turned sixteen.

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Speaker 1: and that's going on? Not honestly, not really, even on

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Speaker 1: my birthday. I mean, it was a tough week to

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Speaker 1: want to celebrate anything. So when Saturday came around and

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Speaker 1: just it was tough to want to celebrate yourself amidst

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Speaker 1: so it's nice that things are becoming more relaxed. But

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Speaker 1: the road during or when most things are open. But

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Speaker 1: it was it was a somber weekend. I think. You know,

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Speaker 1: you're feeling the same way. Just waking up on Monday

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Speaker 1: just it's heartbreaking. Is really tough. Now you live down

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Speaker 1: and you made some pretty good observations about what you

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Speaker 1: saw that that was, you know, some distinctions you need

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Speaker 1: that I stand with. And after the three hundred peaceful

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Speaker 1: And it was interesting too that over the course of

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Speaker 1: time together this weekend. That is amazing. These are things

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Speaker 1: that get me really amped up and really excited for

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Speaker 1: the season is to see this chemistry is being built

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Speaker 1: not only in Zoom meetings, it's now being built on

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Speaker 1: a field in Florida. And I think these guys are

435
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Speaker 1: also being smart about the way that they're going about it.

436
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Speaker 1: Pete Vomrio explained in his interview on Friday that they've

437
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Speaker 1: had to do different things because of COVID nineteen. They

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Speaker 1: were just able to open their weight room this past week.

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Speaker 1: They had to move it outside so they could practice

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Speaker 1: social distancing. The guys have to go in and out

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Speaker 1: of the complex with masks on and things like that.

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Speaker 1: So I think they're they're doing it in smart ways.

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Speaker 1: And if you're not allowed to being the facility right now,

444
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Speaker 1: find a way to train together and not waste this time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's fun to think about because I remember what it's

446
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: like you to hang out with your guys and buddies,

447
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 1: and you think of it sounds if it wasn't for

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. I mean, think about it. Let's go to Florida.

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00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,400
Speaker 1: We'll all stay in the same hotel, We'll work out

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Speaker 1: during the day, go out to eat. It'll be a kick, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean most of us do that with golf. Right,

452
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Speaker 1: or you want to do that. You know, it goes

453
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Speaker 1: to go down in golf all of your buddies and stuff.

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Speaker 1: These guys are, you know, in their early twenties and

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Speaker 1: they're down there running around the football field getting ready

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Speaker 1: to play a professional sport. It sounds like it, you know,

457
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Speaker 1: from from where we're sitting in Buffalo, this sounds like

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun, right, and it does give you

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Speaker 1: a lot of sense of man, these guys must be

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Speaker 1: really having fun. If they're having fun together, they're growing

461
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Speaker 1: closer together, they're growing to be a better team. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about that. We're gonna continue to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: We also have Nate Davis from USA Today Sports. He's

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Speaker 1: the NFL writer for USA Today. He's coming on with

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Speaker 1: us later. We also have a guy named Scott Hallenbeck. Now,

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Speaker 1: if that name is not familiar with your that means

467
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Speaker 1: you don't have kids playing youth football. Scott Hollenbeck is

468
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Speaker 1: USA Football CEO since two thousand and five. He's the

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Speaker 1: guy that runs Football USA all these youth football things

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Speaker 1: all the way across the country. We're gonna we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk to him about, you know, what they're doing, because

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Speaker 1: right now kids be starting to play football, you know,

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Speaker 1: youth football and all that stuff. Maybe it might be

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Speaker 1: a little early, but pretty soon that you know, they're

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Speaker 1: starting to get their you know, their fees in, starting

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Speaker 1: to get fitted for equipment, starting to you know, which

477
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Speaker 1: town are you gonna play for or whatever. You know,

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Speaker 1: these kids are gonna start getting their teams together and

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Speaker 1: sign up. And I don't know that that's gonna happen. Um,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have these huge webinars and stuff. So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk to Scott Hallenbeck about that, the USA to

482
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Speaker 1: Football's CEO, and uh, we'll have him on later in

483
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Speaker 1: the show, like about two thirty. But for right now,

484
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Speaker 1: we're talking about the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen And

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Speaker 1: I guess it's interesting for me, what'd you make of

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Speaker 1: Webb Davis or David Webb Davis Davis Webb running the

487
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Speaker 1: program like being he strikes me. I'm thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: Third string quarterback is always the guy that's kind of

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Speaker 1: the coaches kid, right, the guy who's the overachiever, who

490
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: made the NFL, who's you know, holds the clipboard, watched

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Speaker 1: film with his dad. You know, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that describes Davis Web or not, but he's obviously the

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Speaker 1: guy now that's running the show. Josh is taking all

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Speaker 1: the reps. It's yeah, which I if you know Matt Barkler,

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Speaker 1: you're probably busting his chops about it. But he's taken

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Speaker 1: all the reps with Stefan Diggs and stuff. So they're

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Speaker 1: down there working hard. A lot and a lot going on.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot here to chew on. Um. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: other guys are working out it even you know, we

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Speaker 1: heard Stefan Diggs and those guys, these guys and Josh Allen,

501
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 1: he was in California working out with guys. So there's

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Speaker 1: a lot, a lot of this going on around the country,

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Speaker 1: and the Bills seem to be a big part of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think they're they're following suit with Sean McDermott's find

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Speaker 1: a Way that they've implemented a phrase this offseason. I

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Speaker 1: think this team is doing just that. They're finding a way.

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Speaker 1: And you know, reading about what came out of these

508
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Speaker 1: three days of training together and you read that Davis

509
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: Web kind of lead, everything speaks to the volume of

510
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: the type of quarterback room that you have in the

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Speaker 1: culture of this team and the type of players that

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Speaker 1: they recruit, and that if you can't have coach McDermott,

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Speaker 1: you can't have Brian Dabel, you can't have quarterbacks coach

514
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: Dorsey in place right in front of you. Well, hey,

515
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: you've got backup quarterbacks who can lead, who can set

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Speaker 1: something up. You've got Davis Webb who can set up

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Speaker 1: a practice. You've got Matt Barkley who can help the

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Speaker 1: younger guys. And to watch them all work together when

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Speaker 1: there's not coaches in place again, I think speaks to

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Speaker 1: the culture of this team. And to see Alan and

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Speaker 1: Diggs starting to link up, and Alan's taken every single

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Speaker 1: rep with Diggs. I'm glad because I want that chemistry

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Speaker 1: to be there once the season starts in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: And you're reading more about how Josh looked in some

525
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 1: of these training sessions and some people are saying, well,

526
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Speaker 1: it's like kid's more muscle on him and more control

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00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: over his throws and all this just gets me. It's

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Speaker 1: like it's making my skin boil with excitement because we've

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00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: had so little of what's supposed to be mini camps

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Speaker 1: going on right now and things to look forward to

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Speaker 1: and evidence to see, Okay, this guy improved this offseason.

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00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: We haven't been able to see any of that. So

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Speaker 1: to read about this some of this stuff and to

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Speaker 1: see pictures of it, I mean, I want to jump

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Speaker 1: for Joey because I'm so dang ready to see these players,

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Speaker 1: to get to meet the new guys and to get

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Speaker 1: the season and training camp going. Yeah, and it's funny

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00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: you and I are kind of in the same boat because, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we hear one Bills live. We talk about what we

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00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: talked about it every day. That's it's our almost our

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Speaker 1: exclusive subject matters the Buffalo Bills and what they're doing

542
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: in and every day, how they're fitting into the National

543
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Speaker 1: Football League, how their players are doing, their coaches, their philosophy,

544
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: their team, their past, the present, their future. We talk

545
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Speaker 1: and we chew the Buffalo Bills up every day and

546
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Speaker 1: they're not playing or practicing. I mean, it's and we

547
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Speaker 1: talk about like this, we're talking about twenty guys working

548
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: in the South Florida together like gets the super Bowl

549
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: almost because it kind of is for you and me.

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Speaker 1: We we we we chew this stuff up. Can't get enough.

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00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: And I know we've got a ton of Bills fans

552
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: who I mean, our our content off hours, like they're

553
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: going into the podcasts. You know, they can get it.

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00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: They can catch us on you know, you know, live

555
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Speaker 1: every day, but they can stream us live on the

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Speaker 1: Bills app. They can show portions, they show portions the

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00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: show on the Buffalo on Buffalo bills dot com. And

558
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: that stuff gets all kinds of hits, particularly when we're

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Speaker 1: talking or having guests on who were talking about the

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Speaker 1: Bills and what they're doing, and you know, right now, uh,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, it's like, you know, it's like trying to

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Speaker 1: find Howard Hughes, you know what I mean. He's like,

563
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: where is this guy? He's like the most important guy

564
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: out there and we and you know he's a recluse almost,

565
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: but he's out there. He's down to South Florida. So

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Speaker 1: h I'm like, you, I am busting at the seams

567
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: to see these guys play together. I mean, I can't.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the schedule and right you know, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just you know, the biggest you know, in our

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll, the biggest what's gonna be the biggest surprise

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Speaker 1: about the Buffalo Bills twenty twenty season if it gets

572
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: off uninterrupted. That may be the biggest surprise sitting from

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Speaker 1: here right, think about it. It's June, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of people are agreeing with you, Steve, that's right. It's

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Speaker 1: June first. So we got all of June, all of July,

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Speaker 1: and then August thirteenth, between the thirteenth and seventeen, that

577
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Speaker 1: that first preseason weekend, they got a game somewhere in there, right,

578
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Speaker 1: So and we're like, we're headed to phase two, what

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Speaker 1: Phase two? Two of four tomorrow and each phase takes

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Speaker 1: two weeks, and they probably won't go consecutively, like we'll

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Speaker 1: probably have one to last maybe two and a half,

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Speaker 1: maybe three weeks. Maybe Phase two does or maybe Phase

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Speaker 1: three you'll stretch out. So we're sitting here looking they're

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Speaker 1: scheduled for a game. The earliest possible thing is August thirteenth,

585
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Speaker 1: and that's you know, June, that's you know, ten weeks,

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Speaker 1: and they'll need they'll need minimum of two weeks to

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Speaker 1: get ready for that game two, So that's you know,

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Speaker 1: eight weeks two months from today or just you know,

589
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: just just shy at two months that they gotta get

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Speaker 1: together as a team with coaches on the field, fully

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00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: sanctioned open up, let's go. We're doing business as usual.

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00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: All of a sudden or whatever. We work up to it. Right,

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Speaker 1: So I'm just like in the starting blocks and there's

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Speaker 1: no starter pistol, right, you know, I have nothing. There's

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00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: nobody there to start the gun the race. Yet I'm

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00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: just like standing around. So I'm with you, Maddie. Hearing

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Speaker 1: about these guys working out and play and just gets

598
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: me for this game. And and not just the Bills,

599
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: I mean everybody, the whole league. I want to see.

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00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: I want to see it. I want to see it.

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00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: I don't want to see a European soccer. You see

602
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: real NFL football. I think one thing would also makes

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00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: I want to I'm done, right, But one thing that

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00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: makes me pumped up to about these players getting together,

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00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: see some of the rookies there to see Gabriel Davis

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Speaker 1: or Gay Davis and Isaiah Hodgens. Being able to train

607
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Speaker 1: with these players. I think this offseason for them is

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Speaker 1: the hardest and the most important. Also because you're entering

609
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Speaker 1: the NFL, but you're entering the NFL where you're opening

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Speaker 1: your playbook for the first time virtually with guys not

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Speaker 1: to the right or left of you. With your position coach,

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00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: not in front of you, teaching you, uh this playbook.

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Speaker 1: And when you look at how wide receivers transition in

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Speaker 1: the NFL and sometimes how hard it is for them

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Speaker 1: because in college, depending on what have wide receive you are,

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Speaker 1: and depending on what offense you're in, you're asked to

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00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: do so little. You're asked to run a few routes.

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Speaker 1: You're the person who's always right. I heard Gabe Davis

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Speaker 1: talking about this in an interview. Whatever route he chose

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Speaker 1: to run, that was the right route, and the quarterback

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Speaker 1: had to go to when he was doing his check down,

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Speaker 1: had to look one, two, three, these are my options.

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Speaker 1: This is where I'm going to go. And so when

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Speaker 1: you're trying to transition to an NFL and in a

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Speaker 1: virtual offseason, that's got to be so tough, and it's

626
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: got to be very helpful to be able to talk

627
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Speaker 1: to John Brown and Stefan Diggs and Cole Beasley in

628
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Speaker 1: person and to kind of pick their brains. And Dawson

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Speaker 1: Knox talked about it in an interview a couple of

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Speaker 1: months ago. He's like, I am so thankful that I

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Speaker 1: am not a rookie right now, because I'm a hands

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Speaker 1: on learner, and to do this would be so difficult

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Speaker 1: for me, so I can't imagine how tough it is.

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Speaker 1: I do feel good with the coaching staff that we

635
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Speaker 1: have and with the veteran players that we have in

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Speaker 1: the locker room, but man, it's got to be tough

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Speaker 1: for them. And it's great that some of them were

638
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: able to get to Florida, to have that FaceTime, to

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Speaker 1: watch that in person, to be able to run routes

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Speaker 1: with those wide receivers, and to have coaching from Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen and Matt Barkley. I mean, that's got to that's

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Speaker 1: hopefully going to pay dividends. And a lot of people

643
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Speaker 1: have said this offseason, you're going to be able to

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Speaker 1: tell the teams that didn't take advantage of this time

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Speaker 1: when it comes time to play on Week one, the

646
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: teams that are the losers are going to be the

647
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Speaker 1: teams that didn't do enough to find a way in

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00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: the off season. And I think the Bills are doing

649
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: enough right now. Yeah, Steve Tasker, Mattie Glad, we're one

650
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: Bills Live. We're gonna be here till three o'clock. It

651
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Speaker 1: brought up a cool point because for most of these rookies,

652
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 1: they don't know what it's like, and seeing them do

653
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: this down there brought up something to me that this

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Speaker 1: culture that we talk so much about with Sean McDermot,

655
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Speaker 1: I mentioned this to you off the area that one

656
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Speaker 1: of the things that surprised a lot of people, particularly

657
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Speaker 1: the young a lot of people, a lot of players,

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00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: particularly the young players who came onto the teams I

659
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 1: was a part of in the nineties, and they had this.

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00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 1: You know, we were going to the Super Bowl all

661
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 1: the time, and and like one year or two years

662
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: into it, we had this. We got this culture, and

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Speaker 1: it's surprising. It was surprising for the young players coming

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Speaker 1: into our team that we didn't have all these silly

665
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: hoops for them to jump through. We didn't have all

666
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: this hazing, we didn't have all this stuff. You got

667
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: to earn your stripes, rookie, you got to do all

668
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Speaker 1: this hard work. We didn't do that because our culture

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Speaker 1: was such and it was a lot like this culture

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00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo now, where the guys are so comfortable

671
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Speaker 1: talking to each other. You know, Sean McDermot will have them,

672
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: each one individually, stand up at certain points and tell

673
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: their story. Where'd you come from who's your family, Why

674
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: is this important to you? What are your goals? How'd

675
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: you get here? All of these questions, And in doing so,

676
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 1: it makes I say, well, I don't have any secrets

677
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: from these guys. I can I can be genuine with

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Speaker 1: these guys. And when you go through a season like that,

679
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Speaker 1: like the Bills did last year, and a somewhat successful season,

680
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: you know, winning ten games, get into the playoffs, you

681
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 1: get comfortable with that so much that when all these

682
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 1: new guys come in, you find out they've been drafted,

683
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 1: they're part of your team, you treat them the same way.

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00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: These young guys are coming. I think the biggest surprise

685
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Speaker 1: for guys like a Javanessa and Zach Moss and Gabe Davis,

686
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: Ike Hogens, Dane Jackson, all these others. They're gonna be like, Wow,

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00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: these guys are acting like I'm on the team. They're

688
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: acting like I'm one of the guys. They're acting like

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Speaker 1: I'm not new, Like they're treating me like I'm a

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Speaker 1: peer rather than a college kid. I think that's a

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Speaker 1: real surprise, and I think that's the sign of a

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Speaker 1: culture that is really healthy and growing. When you bring

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Speaker 1: these guys in their on. Their only right of passage

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Speaker 1: is to become comfortable revealing who they are with their

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Speaker 1: teammates and being comfortable with that and being accepted for

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Speaker 1: who they are. That is that's where this culture seems

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Speaker 1: to be. It's it's what reminds me of the culture

698
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Speaker 1: I was a part of that was so productive, and

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00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: I think it's really cool. And I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: with our little Twitter pool here fill in the blank,

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Speaker 1: the biggest surprise for the Buffalo Bills in twenty twenty

702
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Speaker 1: will be what and I think for these rookies how

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Speaker 1: cool this culture is and how much a part of

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Speaker 1: it they will all feel so quickly. I think that

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Speaker 1: would be a surprise for some of them. I think

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Speaker 1: some of them thinks, like, I got a lot to prove.

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Speaker 1: I gotta come in here, and I gotta, you know,

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Speaker 1: show how tough I am. I gotta I gotta, you know,

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Speaker 1: prove these guys I'm worthy of their respect. But when

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Speaker 1: they come in and they get embraced so quickly by

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Speaker 1: the veterans and the important players like Tremaine Edmonds and

712
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, I think that's going to surprise them. I

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Speaker 1: think it's going to surprise them and I think that's

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Speaker 1: kind of a cool thing to think about it, at

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Speaker 1: least for an old guy like me and a lot

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Speaker 1: of these rookies. I mean every Brookie that we drafted,

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Speaker 1: not a lot of them. Every single rookie that the

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Speaker 1: Bills drafted is a mature football player, and you can

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Speaker 1: tell that from the interviews they've been a part of.

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Speaker 1: You can tell that they want to work their butt

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Speaker 1: off and learn that playbook so that it's easier on

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Speaker 1: the veterans when they all get back together in person.

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Speaker 1: And I think one thing that helps with these rookies

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Speaker 1: feeling accepted and feeling a part of the team is

725
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: of course sharing stories. I think that's there's no better

726
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 1: way to get to know somebody than get to know

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Speaker 1: their hardships and what they've been through and what makes

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Speaker 1: them themselves and what makes them tick. But also I

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Speaker 1: also think it's very helpful that we have a lot

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Speaker 1: of young leaders on this team. Tremaine Edmonds, Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: These are young players who haven't been in the NFL

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Speaker 1: for a long time, and when you can look to

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Speaker 1: a young leader like those two, I think it probably

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Speaker 1: makes that transition a little bit easier. Yes, we have

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Speaker 1: old veterans too, but I think it helps them. You

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Speaker 1: have a leadership group that is a wide variety of ages.

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Speaker 1: So you have a Mario Addison and Jerry Hughes who

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Speaker 1: have been in the league for some time, but then

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Speaker 1: you have a Josh Allen, It, Tremaine Edmunds, a Devin

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Speaker 1: Singletary who's entering his second year in the league next year.

741
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Speaker 1: And that helps when you can hold a lot of

742
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Speaker 1: people accountable on the team. Yep, Mattie Glab Steve Tasker,

743
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: we're here till three o'clock. We're talking about the Bills

744
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: training down in Florida. And it's funny too, and we

745
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: talked about it early in the show about what's going

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Speaker 1: on this weekend in the protests across the country, and

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Speaker 1: it's interesting. And I'll tell you this that this atmosphere

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Speaker 1: that is in our country that is so emotional and charged,

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00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: emotionally charged for everyone will prove to be something that

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00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: will strengthen a team like the Buffalo Bills, because in

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00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: the in the atmosphere that you and I are talking about,

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00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: and those guys down in Florida, they'll sit down and

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Speaker 1: talk about it. Black guys, white guys, all of them together,

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Speaker 1: they'll talk about what it means to them, their experiences,

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Speaker 1: their beliefs, and it won't be that all of a

756
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 1: sudden they all agree and it's all great. It won't be,

757
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: you know, they don't don't have to agree, but they

758
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: will understand each other. And by understanding each other so much,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna respect each other and the journey

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Speaker 1: that each of them has been on that it's been

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Speaker 1: so different, you know, the white guy's journey has been

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Speaker 1: so different from the black guy's journey. And they'll understand

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00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: them each other each other so much better, and that

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Speaker 1: leads to respect, and that respect means they're gonna they're

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Speaker 1: gonna prepare hard for each other, They're gonna work hard

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Speaker 1: to each other. They're gonna match the effort each other doubt.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna work together out of respect for each other.

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Speaker 1: And then after that happens, it's about, you know, five seconds,

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Speaker 1: so they start loving each other like brothers and their

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Speaker 1: lifelong friends. That's just the way it evolves. So I

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Speaker 1: wish that for them, I really do. I wish that

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Speaker 1: kind of thing would for them, not just for the

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Speaker 1: football and the productivity and the wins that will meet

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Speaker 1: on football because of what it'll mean to them as

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Speaker 1: human beings, and they'll carry that with them throughout their

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Speaker 1: lives long after wins and losses that they accomplish together

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00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,320
Speaker 1: or endure together. So it's gonna be really interesting to

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Speaker 1: see and the stories that come out out of these

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00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,919
Speaker 1: workouts in Florida. What is going to be the most

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00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: surprising thing about the Buffalo Bills in twenty twenty. You

781
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: can give us a call at eight oh three oh

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00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: five fifty. You can talk to Maddie and I here

783
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live. Or you can call us at

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00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. If

785
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 1: you're down in Florida with you know, with Josh and

786
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: those guys, you can call us. That's the number you

787
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,879
Speaker 1: have to use. So give us a call. We're gonna

788
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 1: take a break. We've got a lot more coming up.

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Speaker 1: We've got Nate Davis coming on from USA today. We've

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00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: got Scott Hollandbeck from USA Football, he's the CEO since

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Speaker 1: two thousand and five. Lots more. We're here till three o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Seat Tasker Maddie Glab not from the Senecas Studios, but

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Speaker 1: Kalidah Health. This is One Bills Live and this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live. If

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Speaker 1: I had to treace some one in the last bite

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00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: of macaroni and cheese, I'm we're laughing in the break

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00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: because the grandkids are at my house today, so I'm

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00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: getting macaroni and cheese for lunch, so which is nice.

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Speaker 1: There are worse things to have for lunch and macaroni

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00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,879
Speaker 1: and cheese that your grandkids are eating. So that's good.

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00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 1: We have this game. The biggest surprise for the Bills

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00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty will be, by the way, you with

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Matti Glab on One Bills Live here in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: First of all, let's get to you, Maddie. What's your answer?

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00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta you can't just like hang out.

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00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: You gotta come up with, you know, your own opinion

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Speaker 1: about what's going to be the biggest surprise for the

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Speaker 1: Bills in twenty twenty. What's it gonna be? I wrote

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Speaker 1: a couple names down because I was thinking about it

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Speaker 1: this morning when we decided this was going to be

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Speaker 1: our Twitter question. I think there could be a lot

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Speaker 1: of surprises. You know what, how do you define a surprise?

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Speaker 1: It's somebody who is new on the team. Is it

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Speaker 1: a rookie? Is it somebody who didn't do too great

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Speaker 1: last year? Could they all be surprises? And thinking about that,

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Speaker 1: some things that I wrote down where why receiver rookie?

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Speaker 1: Gabriel Davis um. I think with the linebacker situation you

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Speaker 1: could see a couple of surprises. Now we have Tremaine Edmunds,

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Speaker 1: Matt Milano and aj Klein is probably that third spot.

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Speaker 1: But you have to have somebody to be able to

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Speaker 1: rotate in is Za Corey Thompson. Is that Voshon Joseph

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Speaker 1: uh Dean Marlowe could have a bigger role this season?

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Speaker 1: And what he was able to do? Uh playing nicol

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00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: Um Zack Moss? Could he have a breakout year his

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Speaker 1: first year? Josh Norman? How how will he play on

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Speaker 1: a role? So what's your You're you're skirting around your

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Speaker 1: answer and you're not giving me an ant. Come on,

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Speaker 1: Gabriel Davis, is my answer? Gabe Davis? Ye, I will

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Speaker 1: say I'll take that. The wide receiver. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: what I've read just from the way that he leads

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Speaker 1: and he carries himself, and what he was able to

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Speaker 1: do at UCF and the records he broke on a

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Speaker 1: really good team. I'm very excited for what he could

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Speaker 1: do on this Doll's roster with Josh Allen in his

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Speaker 1: first season, it seems like he's a super smart wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall has had said some great things about him,

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Speaker 1: so I'm expecting some good things from dab Davis this year.

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Speaker 1: Here's my biggest surprise. That's a good one, by the way,

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Speaker 1: I like it. I was thinking more big picture and

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Speaker 1: I and a lot of people are we're gonna live.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna get to the tweet sheet because I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna take up the rest of the time with my opinion,

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Speaker 1: but because we're gonna start. Um, here's where I think.

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Speaker 1: Here's my not prediction, but here's where I think it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a great surprise. And I'm and I'm

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Speaker 1: you know how we already got emotional the first part

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Speaker 1: of the show, and when I started thinking about this,

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Speaker 1: I started getting it because I get I cry a

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Speaker 1: really good beer commercial. So I'll try and get through

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Speaker 1: this because this makes me this he brings me to

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Speaker 1: tears because of my city, Buffalo. Okay, here's here's what's

853
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: gonna happen. The season's gonna go off without a hitch,

854
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: except that there's not gonna be very many fans in

855
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: the stands. There may be a time, particularly the beginning

856
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: of the season, they may start out with zero fans.

857
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: You know, it's just gonna be nobody there. And then

858
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: by the end of the season, or as they work

859
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 1: through the season, maybe the stages will get there, they'll

860
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: feel more comfortable with a higher percentage of fans there.

861
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: Maybe the people only in dugouts, only in the suites

862
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: where they can stay separated with their own isolation pods,

863
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,320
Speaker 1: and they'll, you know, they'll make all the they're necessary

864
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: protocols and all the concessions and the adjustments to get

865
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: the season going and stuff. The Bills will play well.

866
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: I believe that. I think they're gonna play really well.

867
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna adjust to this really well. They're

868
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 1: gonna get in, they're gonna make the playoffs. They're gonna

869
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 1: get it, and then the playoffs are gonna happen. They're

870
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: gonna have a vaccine by then, and all of us

871
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: are gonna be in the stadium together for the first

872
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:51,399
Speaker 1: time after that season. Oh, that would be amazing. They'll

873
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 1: be there'll be a home game and it will be

874
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 1: the first time when we can all go together, all

875
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:06,399
Speaker 1: eighty thousand the media. Yeah what you know what a moment? Right?

876
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's playoff game, that's my call. It will

877
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: be empty or virtually empty until we get to the

878
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: playoffs and the Bills will have a playoff and maybe

879
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 1: it'll maybe a couple of rounds of play. Maybe it'll

880
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: be the AFC Championship game in Buffalo, and it will

881
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: be the first pro sports thing that will be all

882
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: people in the stadium and it'll be Buffalo. Sign up

883
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: for that sign that's my sign. All right. That's so

884
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: you and I have answered what our biggest surprises for

885
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: the two twenty twenty season is. You jump on board

886
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 1: and answer it. What do you think the biggest surprise

887
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills will be in twenty twenty eight

888
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: or three oh five fifty or one eight eight five

889
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. At the top of the hour,

890
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna have Nate Davis, USA Sports NFL Rider. He's

891
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: covered the NFL since two thousand and five. We've got

892
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 1: some stuff. He's got a great list of twenty rookies.

893
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: He thinks they're gonna make a difference in the National

894
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 1: Football League. We'll talk about that. Maddie Glab Steve Tasker

895
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 1: from One Bills at one Bills Live. Brought to you

896
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: by Collide to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, and

897
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. Welcome back to One Bills Lives.

898
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: Teach Tasks along with Maddie Glab. We're here till three o'clock.

899
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: What's gonna be the biggest surprise to the Buffalo Bills

900
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 1: twenty twenty season. We asked you that you can give

901
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: us a call and we'll take your calls. But for

902
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: right now on the line, we've got Nate Davis. We're

903
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 1: gonna get in touch with with at USA NFL Sports Riding.

904
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 1: He's gonna come on with us in a few minutes.

905
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: As we connect with him, Mattie, we've got this big

906
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 1: surprise thing your your your call was Gabriel Davis. I

907
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: was shocked that you think Gabriel Davis is gonna be

908
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: the biggest surprise of the Buffalo Bills twenty and now

909
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: I will say this. If Gabe Davis jumps up and

910
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,399
Speaker 1: is a force on the Buffalo Bill's offense this year,

911
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: You're right, that will be a shock because you know,

912
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: you got Cole Beasley, you got John Brown, you got

913
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,399
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs ahead of him in the rotation right now,

914
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: and certainly there's it doesn't take that much mental gymnastics

915
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: to see, you know, an injury or a rotationary thing

916
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: where Dave Davis all of a sudden is a guy.

917
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: But to be the guy or a force on the

918
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: Bills offense, You're right, that would be a surprise. What's

919
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 1: the scenario you foresee for him getting on the field.

920
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: So I don't think he will be the guy. I mean,

921
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: you have Stefan too, right, Cole Beasley, those are the guys.

922
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: But I think the surprise will be is that he

923
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:46,320
Speaker 1: will work himself into being a part of this offense.

924
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: And I could see him playing not not Isaam McKenzie's

925
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: role because they are very different receivers. But I think

926
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,240
Speaker 1: they will be able to use him in different ways

927
00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: to show his strengths and to create mismatches for the defense.

928
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 1: I think he's capable of doing that. I like his size,

929
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a taller receiver. That is what this

930
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: offense needed, and I think that's what he can provide

931
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: sometimes on some of those outside throws down the sideline,

932
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: and he had a lot of touchdowns in the red zone.

933
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: I mean, you want somebody to go jump up and

934
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 1: grab a ball. I think he's somebody that can do

935
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 1: that once you get down there. Yeah, I agree. I

936
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 1: mean that's something I've gone with as well. And for you,

937
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 1: you picked you know, Gabe Davis. A lot of people

938
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: have done that. A lot of people have taken a

939
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 1: guy or a thing and made that the surprise me.

940
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: I went big picture and said, I think the surprise

941
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: is going to be that the first game where they

942
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: allow fans back into the stadium is going to be

943
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 1: a playoff home playoff game in Buffalo. I think it'll

944
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 1: be the first time where they open up the gates

945
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: let fans attend just like the old day like last year,

946
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,399
Speaker 1: where they'll tailgate all day and show up. I think

947
00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a playoff game, and I think it

948
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: will be absolutely bonkers in there. That's my surprise is

949
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: gonna be. We got some fans that have tweeted in

950
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 1: at US though about their biggest surprise for the Bills

951
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty from Jack A on the tweet sheet,

952
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: he says, I think it's gonna be Dawson Knox. He

953
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 1: showed his athleticism last season despite some drops. He's still

954
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 1: learning the position. I think his experience at quarterback. That

955
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,320
Speaker 1: means Dawson Knox when he played quarterback, his chemistry with

956
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, and further commitment on his hands, routes and concentration,

957
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: he's going to grow into the playmaker we've always lacked

958
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: at tight end. Dawson Knox is a good one. He's

959
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: gonna be on the field, you know, and I think

960
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: you can bet that he's probably gonna be better than

961
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 1: he was a year ago. How that will manifest itself?

962
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 1: Jack thinks it's gonna be He's gonna be a playmaker

963
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: there and he's gonna be an impossible matchup right, He's

964
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,840
Speaker 1: got a chance at that. Yeah, Dawson was very aware

965
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: of what he needed to work on going into the offseason.

966
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: I remember interviewing him on locker clean out day, and

967
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,399
Speaker 1: he wanted to fix those mistakes. He wanted to fix

968
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: the drops. I think he's somebody that has a great

969
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: work ethic, he's a great teammate, and I don't think

970
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: he wants to let his team down. I think he

971
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: wants to get better in catching more balls and being

972
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,399
Speaker 1: a force and a threat on this offense even more

973
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:16,839
Speaker 1: than just the blocking game. He wants to be able

974
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: to be used as a receiver at times, and I

975
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: think he is definitely capable of being used that way.

976
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: Tiffany also tweets in at us the biggest surprise for

977
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: the Bills in twenty twenty will be Trey White. He's

978
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: going to be named the defensive MVP and lead the

979
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 1: Bills defense to a number one ranking in the National

980
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:35,959
Speaker 1: Football League. And for a bonus, Trey picks off Pat

981
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 1: Mahomes three times, leading the team to a massive victory

982
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: in front of a packed house at New Airfield. Go Bills, Well,

983
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 1: there you go. The Bills play the Chiefs on a

984
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: Thursday night. I think it's week seven in Buffalo, Yeah,

985
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: I think it is. It's week well, week six in

986
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo Thursday. It'll be week seven Thursday, so that'll be interesting.

987
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,880
Speaker 1: They're coming into town and by that time, Maddie, you

988
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 1: can think about it too. What it's gonna be like

989
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: thinking outside the lines. We're gonna handle on what it's like,

990
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: you know, with this new season and the weird scene.

991
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: By week seven, if they're if they're plowing along and

992
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: they're already to week seven, they got the Thursday night

993
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 1: game and stuff's going on. It's gonna be with or

994
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 1: without fans or whatever, but it'll be more of a

995
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: routine by that time, right, And yeah, and your team's

996
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 1: gonna know who it is. They're gonna you're gonna understand

997
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 1: what they're bringing to the table, and by that time

998
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: it'll be kind of feeling normal. These games what however

999
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: they look right, Yeah, And by that time the Bills,

1000
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,399
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the games before that, the Bills will

1001
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: have already played the Rams, the Raiders, and the Titans.

1002
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: They opened the season with the Jets, then they play

1003
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, and I think you play the Titans and

1004
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: the Rams and the Raiders, those are decent teams, and

1005
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:55,280
Speaker 1: I think they'll be able to have a good idea

1006
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: of where this team is at by playing against teams

1007
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: like the Tight and the Rams. Now we all know

1008
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,080
Speaker 1: where the tough stretches in that schedule, and that comes

1009
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: later in the season. But by week six, Thursday, October fifteenth,

1010
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 1: at eight twenty, you're gonna have a good idea of

1011
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: where this team is at and how they can maybe

1012
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: match up against some of the best. Yeah. I think

1013
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: so too, And I think that's that we're going to

1014
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,800
Speaker 1: kind of be. You know, I don't know how the

1015
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: record's gonna look, but you gotta feel like, if this

1016
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: team plays the way it can, it's gonna be in

1017
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 1: the thick of it, and it's gonna be a thick

1018
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: in the race. This in the thick of the race,

1019
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: and a lot of football yet to be played, but

1020
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: still enough has been played to kind of give you

1021
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:38,799
Speaker 1: an identity for the team. And I think that's gonna

1022
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 1: be the funnest part about it. One more from the

1023
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: tweet sheet from Nate. He says the biggest surprise for

1024
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,919
Speaker 1: the Bills in twenty twenty would be going six and ten.

1025
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised. We've already talked too. We had the

1026
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 1: show on a few couple of weeks ago with Murph

1027
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: and he's you know, the biggest surprise. Jim Kelly said,

1028
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,959
Speaker 1: if the Bills don't win the acast, something went wrong.

1029
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: Something's wrong, right, And I think that's that would be

1030
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 1: a surprise, um, and maybe we've been lulled into it

1031
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 1: a little bit. Man, the Bills for the last two

1032
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 1: seasons have been one of the healthiest squads in the league.

1033
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: You know, if you could see if that, if that

1034
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: changes and all of a sudden, they are one of

1035
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: the worst, if they're one of the most injury ridden

1036
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 1: teams in the league all of a sudden, you know,

1037
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 1: it's easy to see scenario, see him dropping games they

1038
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: should win, or you know, losing tight games to really

1039
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 1: tough opponents. That's easy to conjure up six and ten,

1040
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: it's really hard to live with. I think I think

1041
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 1: we'd all be really disappointed if that happened, and I

1042
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: think it would be a surprise, particularly here now to first,

1043
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 1: I do not want that to happen at all. I

1044
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 1: don't think it will happen. I think somebody who believes

1045
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,840
Speaker 1: that that won't happen is our guest, Nate, And I

1046
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: think he's on with us now. Nate Dave us from

1047
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:58,360
Speaker 1: USA Today, Right is Dave is date Nate on with

1048
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: us Nate Nate Nate Davis from USA Today. He's been

1049
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 1: covering the NFL since two thousand and five. Are you

1050
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:07,479
Speaker 1: on with us, Nate? Yeah, here you guys. Ye, thanks,

1051
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Sorry, sorry to be for the rough

1052
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: intro there. Thanks for coming on with us. We want

1053
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 1: to first of all, thank you so much for coming

1054
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 1: on with us. We hope you're well during this pandemic.

1055
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: Are you getting through it? Okay? Oh yeah, I am

1056
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: sorry to be a little a little late to the

1057
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 1: party today. I got I got. I got ambushed or

1058
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: taken out like a kick returner by Steve Tasker, by

1059
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 1: my ten month old. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, the worst

1060
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 1: things will happen to you, believe me, than getting hit

1061
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 1: by me. Believe me. I gotta ask you before we get,

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Speaker 1: before we go any further, I got it. You were,

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00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 1: um you went to William and Mary way back in

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00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 1: the day, and you were there at the exact same

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00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,840
Speaker 1: time that Mike Tomlin and Sean McDermott were teammates for

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00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 1: their football team. Did you ever have any interaction with

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00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:50,919
Speaker 1: them or have has that given you kind of sort

1068
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:52,919
Speaker 1: of a special reason to follow both of those guys.

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00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: I knew both guys from from around campus, you know,

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00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 1: I did. I didn't know Mike very well. I mean

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00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:02,880
Speaker 1: I anyway he was when we walked by, and I

1072
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: worked in the athletic department, but he was, he was

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00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 1: two years ahead of me. And uh, you know, my my,

1074
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: my cat his famous scowl, even back when he was

1075
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: twenty one, and it was it was in a fraternity

1076
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: that you know, you know, you don't want to mess

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00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: with those guys. Not that they weren't good guys. I

1078
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 1: think they liked talking, walking around and looking tough, but

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00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 1: they were all actually a really good dudes. Um. And

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00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 1: I know several of my of Mike's Mike's friends. Um,

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00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,880
Speaker 1: Sean was here behind me, and I was around him

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00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: a little bit more. And you know, I tell people that,

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00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 1: you know, I was an RFTC will even Mary and

1084
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: then went to the military out to college, and you know,

1085
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 1: we always had early morning training, but it always seemed

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00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: like Sean it was in the cafeteria, you know, after

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00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: his workout before we were so I always knew that

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00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: Shaan was was probably gonna be one of the hardest

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00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 1: working guys on the team, you know, even even as

1090
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: a coming as a freshman, but when I was a

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00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 1: sophomore or whatever, and certainly that that that that uh

1092
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: played out to be the case, and then when it

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00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 1: was even serious of a heart attack kind of guy

1094
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 1: you know at the age of eighteen. So so Sean

1095
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:58,320
Speaker 1: pretty much now is it's the same guy he was

1096
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:00,040
Speaker 1: when he was eighteen as far as from what I

1097
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 1: could sell back then. I got a question off of

1098
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: that just watching these two coaches, Mike Tomlin and Sean

1099
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,880
Speaker 1: McDermott now now be head coaches of teams, the Steelers

1100
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,399
Speaker 1: and the Bills, successful teams as well with the way

1101
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:15,759
Speaker 1: with the way, but the Bills are heading and then

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00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: you're looking at the Steelers is having a bounce back

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00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: year now being healthy with Big Ben. Uh, what do

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00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 1: you see in these two coaches just based off of

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00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 1: how you viewed them in college and kind of the

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00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: mindset of both of them, the personalities of both of them.

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00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:37,160
Speaker 1: You said Sean was a hard worker, and he's definitely

1108
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,520
Speaker 1: that with the Buffalo Bills. I think those are two

1109
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 1: great people who the NFL is lucky to have with

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00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 1: with some great teams. Yeah, and you know the piece

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00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 1: you guys are referring to, I wrote it before the

1112
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 1: Steelers and the Bills played played last December, and as

1113
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: I talked too to a great many of their teammates.

1114
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 1: And I would say another thing that that comment thread

1115
00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: was was both guys. You know, both guys were team

1116
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: happens when they were William Murray. Uh. But but both

1117
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: universally loved by by all of their teammates. UM as

1118
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 1: far as I could tell them, I talked to several guys.

1119
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: But you know, white, white, black, rich, you know, offensive, defensive,

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00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: you know, however you want to break it down, UM,

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00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 1: you know, Mike and Sean were both very respected and

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00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 1: very liked, and both you know, have have very bitingfenses

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00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 1: of humor and are funny guys, you know, kind of

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00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 1: kind of once once the work is done. But UM,

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00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: I think that end to kind of address your question too.

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00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 1: I think their teams um in many ways also reflect

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00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: their personalities. And you know, certainly, you know, take taking

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00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: Sean as an example. You know, the Bills have have

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00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: built this thing up and have been very careful with

1130
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: team chemistry and the kind of guys that they brought in.

1131
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: And I think, you know a lot of these are

1132
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 1: the kind of guys um that Sean McDermott probably would

1133
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 1: have enjoyed playing with. Uh. That hard work and scrappy

1134
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 1: gets the job done effectively. Uh and probably you know,

1135
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: gonna be good guys to bond with UM off the field.

1136
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: And certainly a lot of guys have mentioned that you

1137
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: know that they've they've enjoyed that aspect and playing in Buffalo.

1138
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: But but I think I think very much the Bills

1139
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 1: as as a team, UM kind of reflect your Sean

1140
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: McDermott was as a player, uh and as a man,

1141
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 1: and certainly as as a football team and player are

1142
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 1: are gonna are gonna lay the wood pitching in the mouth,

1143
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 1: and you know you're gonna you know you're gonna be

1144
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 1: in for it for a long day. When you see

1145
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:17,720
Speaker 1: the Bills, you know, at one o'clock Eastern or whenever

1146
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: they play this year, you're Steve Tasker, Maddy Glad We're

1147
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:24,480
Speaker 1: speaking to Nate Davis on One Bills Live. He's an

1148
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 1: NFL writer for the USA Today Sports and he's got

1149
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: a number of really good articles on that side. If

1150
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: you don't want to go over and check it out.

1151
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: One of them lists twenty rookies that are gonna make

1152
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 1: an impact in twenty twenty. Uh. For the Buffalo Bills.

1153
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 1: He had Zach Moss making the kind of impact UM

1154
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 1: for them and being the rookie to keep an eye

1155
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: on here in Buffalo. It makes a lot of sense

1156
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:49,840
Speaker 1: to me and Nate, I'll ask you, you know, kind

1157
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 1: of give us your rationale for what you see Zach

1158
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 1: moss Um contributing to the Buffalo Bills this season. Yeah. Well,

1159
00:59:58,040 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's gonna he's gonna come in

1160
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: and I think, well, you know, everyone kind of expects

1161
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:04,479
Speaker 1: as soon as Zach is kind of up to speed

1162
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:06,439
Speaker 1: with the playbook and that kind of thing, I would

1163
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 1: expect that you're gonna kind of see a fairly similar

1164
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:13,560
Speaker 1: split workload between Zach and Devin Singletary that he saw

1165
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: it last year with Frank Gore. Um. And you know,

1166
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: I think Frank Gore's impact will probably continue to be

1167
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 1: um felt, given the kind of locker room guy if

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01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: he was there in Buffalo. But I think Zach is

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01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: probably gonna be more productive players than Frank. You know,

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01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 1: Frank obviously a tough guy to bring down in a

1171
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 1: hard runner, but near the back end of his career

1172
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 1: and I think he was at about you know, three

1173
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 1: and a half yards per touch or per per carry

1174
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:37,439
Speaker 1: last season. I think I think he gets a little

1175
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: bit more um at Zach Moss's fresh legs, and I

1176
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 1: know fresh legs is a relative thing that he had

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01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 1: a big workload of Utah, but he is an angry,

1178
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:48,440
Speaker 1: violent runner um and I think he's the kind of

1179
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: guy that that's really going to do a nice job

1180
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: wearing teams down. And again, you know, hard working guy

1181
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 1: that that's gonna you're gonna be it for a long

1182
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,640
Speaker 1: day if you see Zach Moss getting fifteen or twenty

1183
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 1: touches the day, And I think it's only going to

1184
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: help the Devin Singletary, who I would expect it's going

1185
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 1: to be the guy that's going to be playing more

1186
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: on the passing downs. But I think I think those

1187
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 1: two guys should compliment each other with their relative skill

1188
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 1: sets very nicely. Now, besides Zack Moss, the Bills picked

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01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: up a few other players in this draft. You have

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Speaker 1: Aji Epanessa, who they took him the second round. You

1191
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 1: have Gabe Davis from the fourth round, Jake from from

1192
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 1: the fifth round, Isaiah Hodgens from the sixth round. Is

1193
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:29,040
Speaker 1: there anyone else on that list that you think could

1194
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 1: make a difference on this roster in twenty twenty, Well,

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01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: you know, I think aj Epanessa could you know, I

1196
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 1: don't know that he's gonna have to come in and

1197
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:39,840
Speaker 1: start right away. I would expect he'll be more more

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01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: of a situational guy, and I don't know that he'll

1199
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 1: ever be a ten or twelve sack guy. But I

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01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 1: think he's the kind of guy that's gonna be very

1201
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: nice once he's his snap count increases. But but you

1202
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 1: know the kind of guy that can get to a passer,

1203
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 1: relentless motor, is going to defend the run. I would

1204
01:01:56,240 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 1: expect that Age is gonna have a nice long career

1205
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 1: there flow and then the kind of guy that you

1206
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 1: can count on as a cornerstone. And I guess the

1207
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 1: other guys that'd be interesting to see is they drafted

1208
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:09,439
Speaker 1: kicker Tyler bath That was Georgia Southern. I mean, normally

1209
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: you don't draft kickers unless you intend to keep him

1210
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 1: on your roster. And we all know, you know that

1211
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 1: the NFL is usually you know, most most games come

1212
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 1: down to one score, So you think Tyler Baths is

1213
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: certainly a guy that, um, if he makes the team,

1214
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:25,200
Speaker 1: as you expect, he probably would that he's the kind

1215
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:27,520
Speaker 1: of guy that they could have a very positive and

1216
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:29,360
Speaker 1: we're negative in fact, if it doesn't go about very

1217
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 1: well for him early. We've seen a lot of kickers

1218
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:33,440
Speaker 1: come in and as rookies and do well, but a

1219
01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: lot of them come in and it's that that is

1220
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 1: one position we don't talk about much. And I talked

1221
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 1: to some guys, but a lot of guys in college,

1222
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 1: particularly kickers, end up doing a lot of kicking in

1223
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 1: games when their team is up thirty to ten or

1224
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 1: thirty to seven in front of ten thousand people. Uh.

1225
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 1: You know, Tyler Bathto from Georgia Southern Uh, he may

1226
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 1: have to get used to playing in front of a

1227
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 1: full house that they're in Orchard Park. Uh, and in

1228
01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:59,000
Speaker 1: games that they are thirteen ten, you know, twenty one,

1229
01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: twenty whatever. So that's always injusted for those guys. We're

1230
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 1: talking with Nate Davis USA Today Sports and is there

1231
01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: a rookie that came into the leaguers coming into the

1232
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:13,680
Speaker 1: league that and I know there's some who are incredibly talented,

1233
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 1: like Joe Burrow and Chase Young at the top of

1234
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 1: the draft, but is there a rookie that jumped out

1235
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:20,040
Speaker 1: to you, maybe on this list of twenty that you

1236
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 1: went down in your article in USA Today Sports. Is

1237
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 1: there a rookie that you think like fell into a

1238
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 1: rose garden? You know what I mean? Is there a

1239
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: guy that got in the perfect spot at the perfect

1240
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 1: time that you think is gonna flourish that nobody knows about? Well,

1241
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 1: if you're saying nobody knows about even those are those

1242
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 1: are guys that obviously tend to be down down the

1243
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:44,360
Speaker 1: board a little bit and you but you also try

1244
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 1: not to project, you know, too much out of a

1245
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 1: guy that's that's drafted beyond you know, rout round three

1246
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 1: because most of those guys tend to be project kind

1247
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: of players, and you don't you don't expect a third

1248
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 1: round or um, you know, I love this guy like

1249
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 1: Jack Moss, a player running back to back or that

1250
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 1: those positions maybe translate a little bit better from college

1251
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 1: of the pros. But the most guys, part, guys taken

1252
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:09,040
Speaker 1: late on Friday and certainly on Saturday are not ready

1253
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 1: to play. But um, there are a few, you know,

1254
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 1: I'll mentioned one guy in the division, u UVa's cornerback

1255
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:18,600
Speaker 1: Bryce Hall, who was taken by the Jets in the

1256
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:21,040
Speaker 1: fifth round. He was a guy that was hurt quite

1257
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:23,000
Speaker 1: a bit last year and I think I think that

1258
01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 1: really hurt his stock. But but a converted receiver, M

1259
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 1: I think he led led uh FBS or Division one

1260
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 1: as we used to know it past breakups in twenty eighteen. UM.

1261
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:34,720
Speaker 1: But you know, he's a guy that that that's got

1262
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:38,240
Speaker 1: the ability good hands of a former receiver and has

1263
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 1: played well, you know, at a high level as cornerback.

1264
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 1: Going to a team and Bill's fans have seen the

1265
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: Jets recently that desperately needs help at cornerback, so Bryce

1266
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 1: saws the guy I could see maybe stepping in and

1267
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:51,360
Speaker 1: making more of an impact than you would think of

1268
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 1: a fifth rounder. And another one is kJ Hill for

1269
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 1: fans that know him from Ohio State. Uh, you know,

1270
01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 1: Chargers haven't had a whole lot of those West Welker

1271
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 1: kind of slot guys that are moving the chains out

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Speaker 1: of the slot. You know, Keenan Allen will work out

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Speaker 1: of the slot a fair amount, but but he's not

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Speaker 1: necessarily you know, one of those guys who's just ten

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Speaker 1: yards to catch all the time. I think k J. Hill,

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Speaker 1: who's the all time leading receiver at Ohio State terms

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Speaker 1: or receptions, with two hundred and one, you could probably

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Speaker 1: step into a team that really didn't get a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of production out of their wideouts beyond Keenan Hill

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Speaker 1: and Mike Williams. I think I think there's an opportunity

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Speaker 1: for him to be the wide receiver three or four

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Speaker 1: as a rookie despite being drafted two hundred and twentieth Nate.

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Speaker 1: You also have an article out about twenty twenty predictions.

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Speaker 1: You have the Bills finishing at the top of the

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Speaker 1: AFC East ten and six. Why do you think the

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Speaker 1: Bills will finish winning the division? Yeah, well, obviously you

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Speaker 1: would think the division is there to be one with

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Speaker 1: with Tom Brady out of it. I'm sure you guys

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Speaker 1: talk about this regularly and the Bills coming off the

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Speaker 1: season where they make the playoffs as a wildcard, you know, two,

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Speaker 1: two times and three years, and you would think that

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Speaker 1: if that arrow continue used to point up and Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen takes the next step as a quarterback, obviously that

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Speaker 1: the headline moves to fond Diggs, you would think that

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Speaker 1: they'll be at least as good um this season and

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Speaker 1: they've got the continuity going for him, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's going to be such a big aspect for this

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Speaker 1: NFL season, assuming it's played in its entirety. But I

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Speaker 1: think teams that have stability at head coach, in front office,

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Speaker 1: as the Bills do, that have stability at quarterback and

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Speaker 1: you've got Josh Allen the third year as a starter,

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Speaker 1: stability on the coaching staff, that that should give those

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Speaker 1: kind of teams an advantage. And I also want to

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Speaker 1: I think I kind of hurt you guys before I

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Speaker 1: came on, but um, I think the Bills have an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to really get out of the gate very quickly

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Speaker 1: this year. I think I've got them winning their first

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Speaker 1: score games, so I think I think they've got a

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Speaker 1: chance to plant their flag and maybe stick claim the

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Speaker 1: first place early on, and I think they'll they'll probably

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Speaker 1: need to because um, you know their their December schedule

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Speaker 1: does not look very inviting. So um, I think they'll

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Speaker 1: win the division. But I think they need to start

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Speaker 1: back because because they've got a bunch of tough games,

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Speaker 1: you know, at San Francisco, at Denver, who's a very

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Speaker 1: good team and hard place to play, and at in

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Speaker 1: New England. They're in December, and you would think that

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Speaker 1: if less, probably a team you would prefer to catch

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Speaker 1: earlier this year than later. Nate Davis USA Today Sports

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Speaker 1: last thing I got for you and a you had

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Speaker 1: a great article about We've all been enamored with the

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Speaker 1: Last Dance and the things that it taught us about

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Speaker 1: those nineteen nineties Bulls teams that were so phenomenal to

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Speaker 1: watch and they won six championships. I was on a

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Speaker 1: team back in the nineties that they did an ESPN

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Speaker 1: thirty for three called The Four Falls of Buffalo is

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Speaker 1: four parts series. There's a lot of teams and a

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Speaker 1: lot of human dynamics in pro sports, and given what's

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Speaker 1: happened in our country over the weekend and the atmosphere

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01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:46,840
Speaker 1: that we're in now highly charged, there's been eras in

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01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:52,760
Speaker 1: sports where a conglomeration of events has led to a

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Speaker 1: group of guys getting together that we're something different than

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01:07:55,760 --> 01:07:58,960
Speaker 1: we see in every day, every season kind of sports

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Speaker 1: grinding along. You've got a list of nine or ten

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Speaker 1: teams that were you know, we're worthy of another look.

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Speaker 1: Maybe go back and make a last Dance of like

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Speaker 1: give me and the one I want to hear about.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not the number one on your list, but it's

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Speaker 1: one way back in the day, the nineteen seventy eight

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Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders. That kind of rings a bell. I was

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Speaker 1: I was like sixteen years old, and they had all

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Speaker 1: of these guys on it, and there was a book

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Speaker 1: written about them called Badasses, and they were just a

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Speaker 1: group that everybody wanted to be buddies with. They were

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Speaker 1: a very good football team. It was John Madden's last year.

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Speaker 1: On your list. You have a bunch of really good

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01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:44,599
Speaker 1: football teams and a ton of interesting stories. But can

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Speaker 1: you maybe pick out that nineteen seventy eight Oakland Raider

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Speaker 1: team and give and particularly in the fact that they

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Speaker 1: were probably so politically incorrect that they would have been stray.

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Speaker 1: What would that kind of program like in your eyes,

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01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:02,840
Speaker 1: isn't and in this day and agent may not be

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Speaker 1: as possible to go back and get it done. But

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Speaker 1: that nineteen seventy eight Oakland Raiders team, Uh, give us

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Speaker 1: a little bit of your reason for putting them on

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Speaker 1: the list of a team that you would like to

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Speaker 1: go back and have a documentary made about. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: like I said, you know, like unless you said they

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Speaker 1: were they were number nine on my list of nine,

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Speaker 1: and you kind of I kind of like to go back.

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Speaker 1: And I considered my bit of myself a bit of

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Speaker 1: an NFL historian. I was only four years old when

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Speaker 1: those guys played, but I certainly read pointy about them.

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Speaker 1: I did read that book. You referred to badasses, but

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Speaker 1: I mean that was a colorful, uh you know, colorful

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Speaker 1: time in the NFL. And you mentioned, you know, not

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Speaker 1: very politically correct. You know, those those Raiders definitely predated

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Speaker 1: the term politically correct. I'm pretty sure. And right, you know,

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Speaker 1: they were kind of those were the teams that the

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Speaker 1: kind of established, you know, the Raider reputation and mystique

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Speaker 1: that we all talk about today, but you know it's

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Speaker 1: not not really the same, but just because that kind

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Speaker 1: of outlaw mentality, and you know, you think you think

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Speaker 1: about guys like you know, quarterback Kenny Stabler, who it

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Speaker 1: was kind of the guy that ran through that period,

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Speaker 1: but a guy who liked to, you know, as the

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Speaker 1: story goes, study you know, his playbook by the light

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Speaker 1: of the jukebox, you know, and that's that's kind of

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Speaker 1: that's kind of the the personality that team. Know, Ted Hendricks,

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Speaker 1: they're they're they're linebacker, one of the craziest personalities the

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Speaker 1: NFL has ever seen. And you know, I think that

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Speaker 1: that team gets a little bit of short shrift for

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Speaker 1: those seventies Raiders do just because they played at the

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Speaker 1: time when when you know, the Cowboys came into the

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Speaker 1: being with the whole America's team thing. Uh. And certainly

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Speaker 1: when the Steelers are winning four Super Bowls in six years,

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Speaker 1: those Raider teams get a little bit forgotten. Um. But

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Speaker 1: they were so good and I mean they still toe

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Speaker 1: to toe with those Steelers teams um many times. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And finally, you know what won the Super super Bowl

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Speaker 1: eleven at the end of the seventy sixth season. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: that seventy eight team was John Madden. Madden's last I

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Speaker 1: think I think he still has the most successful ten

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Speaker 1: year coaching career. I want to stay based on the

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Speaker 1: winning percentage in NFL history. But characters like Madden, you know, Hendricks,

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Speaker 1: and you know part of the we'd like to see

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Speaker 1: a team like that documented now. It's just that we're

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Speaker 1: starting to lose those guys. I mean, we didn't lose

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Speaker 1: you know, Snake step Stabler and Team Upshaw and Willie

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01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:11,160
Speaker 1: Brown have all have all left us too soon. So uh,

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Speaker 1: it'd be fun to kind of have those guys where

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Speaker 1: relive their glory days while they still can it. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: guys like Bill Filipiano and they're colorful linebacker Art Shell

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01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:23,160
Speaker 1: or still around to tell some of those tales. But

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01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:26,040
Speaker 1: you'd hate for that to be lost to history. If

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Speaker 1: there's a there's a way to bring it to us again. Nate,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for coming on with us. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: We hope to have you get on again sometime soon.

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Speaker 1: All right, pleasure be well, guys, Thank you. Nate Davis

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Speaker 1: USA Today's Sports. He's been an NFL writer for a

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01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:43,880
Speaker 1: USA to Day since two thousand and five. He came

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Speaker 1: on today discussing some of the articles he's put out

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Speaker 1: a lot of good stuff about him. We're going to

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Speaker 1: come back, Mattie and I will take a break. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health on

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01:11:52,120 --> 01:12:01,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to one of Bill's Lives

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01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:03,840
Speaker 1: since as along with Maddie Glad, we just caught up

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Speaker 1: the phone with Nate Davis USA Today Sports Writer. You

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01:12:06,439 --> 01:12:07,720
Speaker 1: can go back and listen to that at a later

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01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:10,280
Speaker 1: date if you'd like. It'll be on all the platforms

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01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 1: that you can usually do that with um podcast, you

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01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:18,000
Speaker 1: know all that giggy yiggindy, and I had the paper

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Speaker 1: that told me where you could watch it, but it's

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01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 1: on Buffalo bills dot com. Later on they'll put it

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01:12:22,040 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 1: on his podcast on the website, all that stuff. So uh,

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Speaker 1: Nate Davis, it was good to have him on. Maddie

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Speaker 1: and I sitting here till three o'clock. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: the bills and stuff going on down floor with all

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Speaker 1: the bills getting together down there at a little mini

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01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:38,559
Speaker 1: team function down there, a little weekend away for the guys.

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Speaker 1: I guess seven, I seven doing a lot of It's

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Speaker 1: kind of cool to hear about. They're having fun. Mattie

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01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 1: and I are here in Buffalo, and I think it's

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01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:48,600
Speaker 1: time to do what's for lunch? Where you are? You

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01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:51,960
Speaker 1: up for that? I'm up for it. I haven't had

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01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:54,040
Speaker 1: lunch yet. I mean you've had your mac and cheese

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01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:57,559
Speaker 1: so unch, that's right. So here we are. It's what's

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01:12:57,600 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 1: for lunch. What we do is we give it you, well,

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01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:01,200
Speaker 1: give you a couple of choices and you choose which

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01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:06,040
Speaker 1: one you like in which one is garbage? So here

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01:13:06,120 --> 01:13:09,640
Speaker 1: we go, and well this will start out. This is uh,

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01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:11,560
Speaker 1: this is all around the National Football Like. This is

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01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 1: not Buffalo Bill specific. So here we go. You're ready, Maddie.

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Speaker 1: Item number one on the men, which would you rather

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01:13:18,200 --> 01:13:23,000
Speaker 1: have for lunch? Kurt Cousins or Matthew Stafford as the

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Speaker 1: most underrated quarterback in the National Football League? Which one's

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Speaker 1: more underrated, Cousins or Stafford. I'm gonna say Cousins. I

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Speaker 1: think Stafford still has some years to prove that. We

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01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:39,800
Speaker 1: didn't really see much of him last year, so I

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01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:42,639
Speaker 1: think the next few years will be telling for Matthew

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01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:46,120
Speaker 1: Stafford and what he does with that team. I think

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01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:50,479
Speaker 1: Stafford is more underrated because I've seen him both play.

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01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:54,040
Speaker 1: Stafford is a number one. He was a first round

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Speaker 1: draft pick. The guy is a great He's got a

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Speaker 1: great arm, accurate arm, he can do it. He's got

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01:13:57,640 --> 01:14:01,840
Speaker 1: great intangible as a great leader, and he's been there

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Speaker 1: for a long time. He's he's a good quarterback. But

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Speaker 1: he's been off the field too much with injuries. He's

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01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:10,000
Speaker 1: gotten beat up. His team has never done enough to

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Speaker 1: give him an offensive line that will help him. He's

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01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:16,400
Speaker 1: been on an organization that is perennially and also ran.

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Speaker 1: They for whatever reason, the Detroit Lions have not been

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Speaker 1: a winning organization for a long time, and Matt Stafford,

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Speaker 1: I think, has been a little bit like the Archie

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01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 1: Manning of his era, a great quarterback playing for a bad,

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Speaker 1: bad organization. So I think he's the most underrated one.

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Speaker 1: I remember two on the menu, the forty nine Ers

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Speaker 1: or the Kansas City Chiefs. Two super Bowl teams. Which

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Speaker 1: one has the toughest road back to the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: The Niners or the Chiefs. I think they both have

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Speaker 1: tough roads. I think with this one, I look at

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Speaker 1: the roster shake up of both teams a little bit,

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Speaker 1: and I think the forty Niners are without more of

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01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: their roster from last years, without more of their key players,

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Speaker 1: I should say, from last year. And they'll be interesting

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01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 1: to see how they bounce back and if losing some

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Speaker 1: of those key players really matters. And I think the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are still the better team. I think so too.

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Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs have the easier division to plow through.

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01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:25,960
Speaker 1: I think the Raiders, the Chargers, and the Broncos. While

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Speaker 1: they have their moments, I don't think their Chargers are

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01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:31,439
Speaker 1: gonna not with Tyrod Taylor. I don't think the Bronchos

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01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:37,479
Speaker 1: are ready to Withdrew Locke. The Raiders maybe with John

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01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 1: Group maybe. And now at this point of his coaching return,

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01:15:40,479 --> 01:15:43,200
Speaker 1: John grud has got the Raiders in the spot. But

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Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs have the easier division. You know,

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01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:48,280
Speaker 1: the Niners still got to go through the Rams or

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01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 1: think you'd think Mike bounce back a little bit this year.

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01:15:50,479 --> 01:15:53,400
Speaker 1: The Seahawks are a bear and the Arizona Cardinals are

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01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:55,920
Speaker 1: gonna be way better. So I think the Chiefs have

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01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:58,559
Speaker 1: the easier way back, not only because they retain the players,

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01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 1: like you said, but all so they've got the easier

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01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 1: division to get through the regular season. All right, here

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01:16:03,280 --> 01:16:05,880
Speaker 1: we go. Here's that was that lunch menu? Here's another

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01:16:05,920 --> 01:16:07,880
Speaker 1: item on the menu for what's for lunch? Here we go? Ready,

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01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:10,559
Speaker 1: who's in the better situation? This is a pretty good question.

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01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:14,200
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Tampa Bay or Philip Rivers in Indianapolis.

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01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:17,720
Speaker 1: Who's in the better position. I think Tom Brady and

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01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Why, I think with the weapons that he

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01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:27,120
Speaker 1: has and his good old best friend at tight end

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01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:32,760
Speaker 1: coming with him, I mean, come on, you're you're livings

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01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:38,800
Speaker 1: to come now. I think Rivers is better off in Indianapolis,

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01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:41,160
Speaker 1: because he's got the maybe one of the best, if

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01:16:41,240 --> 01:16:43,280
Speaker 1: not the best, offensive line in front of him, which

1505
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 1: has always been something that's plagued him in San Diego.

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01:16:46,240 --> 01:16:49,200
Speaker 1: And he's got t Y Hilton, and he's got Frank

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01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:52,000
Speaker 1: Reich as his head coach. Now, I like Bruce Arians,

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01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:57,160
Speaker 1: but Tom Brady um throws a dynamic in there where

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01:16:57,280 --> 01:16:59,160
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Bruce Arians is going to give Tom

1510
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:01,439
Speaker 1: hands off, Tom Brady, Tom, you do what you want.

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01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:03,840
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's gonna love it, and he's gonna thrive maybe

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01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 1: a little bit. But I think the history the Tom

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01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 1: Brady and Bruce areas haven't been together very much. Philip

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01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 1: Rivers and Frank Reich worked together for a couple of

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01:17:15,400 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 1: years in San Diego and they have a mutual respect

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01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:20,000
Speaker 1: for each other in a knowledge about what makes it.

1517
01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 1: And I think Frank Reich hand picked Philip Rivers for

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01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:25,400
Speaker 1: this job. I think he knows Phillip's got what it

1519
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:28,400
Speaker 1: takes and can use his skill set to get it going.

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01:17:28,479 --> 01:17:31,360
Speaker 1: So I think Philip Rivers because of Frank Reich and

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01:17:31,439 --> 01:17:33,720
Speaker 1: because of the offensive line ahead of him. Despite the

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01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 1: fact that Tampa Bay's got a really nice roster and

1523
01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:41,559
Speaker 1: defensively as well as a roster that Jamis Winston right there.

1524
01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 1: That offense they threw for five thousand yards last year

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01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:49,880
Speaker 1: with Jamis Winston. So Tom Brady's gonna bounce back, no question.

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01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:52,880
Speaker 1: But I think Philip Rivers and once again you got

1527
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:54,719
Speaker 1: to go. I think a little bit to the division

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01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:59,080
Speaker 1: that they're in. I like Indianapolis Division with them, with

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01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 1: jackson with Tennessee and with some other team that I

1530
01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:09,599
Speaker 1: can't think of in the South Texas Houston Texans, Texans

1531
01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:13,799
Speaker 1: are good, Indianapolis is good, Jacksonville is not. And Tennessee

1532
01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:19,800
Speaker 1: I'm a doubter. I'm sorry, I'm a doubter. I don't

1533
01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:23,160
Speaker 1: think they can reconstruct what they did in the second

1534
01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:25,200
Speaker 1: half of last season. I don't think they can do

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01:18:25,280 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 1: it again. So I think the division is better suited

1536
01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:31,720
Speaker 1: for the AFC Colts and Philip Rivers than I think

1537
01:18:31,760 --> 01:18:36,080
Speaker 1: it is for Tom Brady. All right, agree with that?

1538
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:38,040
Speaker 1: All right? So here we I was move on again?

1539
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:42,120
Speaker 1: Here we go? Um yeah, okay, who's it? Okay, so

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01:18:42,320 --> 01:18:45,880
Speaker 1: Brady's in. Another question, who's got more pressure on them

1541
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:48,479
Speaker 1: this season? Is it Tom Brady moving down to Tampa

1542
01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 1: Bay or is the guy who replaces Tom Brady in

1543
01:18:52,560 --> 01:18:57,200
Speaker 1: New England, Jared'stidham who's under more pressure. I think it's

1544
01:18:57,320 --> 01:19:00,360
Speaker 1: the guy who replaces Brady because Brady is such a

1545
01:19:00,439 --> 01:19:05,080
Speaker 1: talented quarterback. He's gonna have some sort of success because

1546
01:19:05,439 --> 01:19:07,759
Speaker 1: of what he's been able to do in the NFL.

1547
01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 1: I think Jared Sidham is someone who has yet to

1548
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:15,479
Speaker 1: prove himself. I've we've heard good things about him out

1549
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:18,479
Speaker 1: of that organization, but we haven't seen him outside a

1550
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:21,439
Speaker 1: preseason game yet, So I think there's quite a bit

1551
01:19:21,479 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 1: of pressure on Jared Sidham. Also, with the way the

1552
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:28,560
Speaker 1: Patriots roster looks, right, I would yeah, I got to

1553
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:31,000
Speaker 1: agree that Brady's sitting there. And I saw a stat

1554
01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:33,880
Speaker 1: over the weekend on social media. You take the first

1555
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:36,960
Speaker 1: nine years of his career and it's a Hall of

1556
01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:41,000
Speaker 1: Fame career. He's got like three MVPs, three Super Bowl wins.

1557
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:47,760
Speaker 1: He's like he's a League MVP and one or two

1558
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:50,679
Speaker 1: league MVPs. So he had a Hall of Fame career

1559
01:19:50,720 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 1: the first nine years of his career. The last eleven

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01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:55,439
Speaker 1: years of his career is another hall of Fame career.

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01:19:55,479 --> 01:19:58,519
Speaker 1: Another three m you know, another three MVPs, another Super

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01:19:58,560 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: Bowl MVPs. He's got you know, he's got throw him

1563
01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:04,439
Speaker 1: for like forty eight thousand yards in the last eleven year.

1564
01:20:04,479 --> 01:20:07,519
Speaker 1: You know, he is, he's got two Hall of Fame grew.

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01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:11,280
Speaker 1: He doesn't have any pressure on him. He's done. He

1566
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:14,840
Speaker 1: could stink in Tampa Bay and he's still gonna go

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01:20:14,920 --> 01:20:17,599
Speaker 1: to the Hall of Fame, right, and he's still made

1568
01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:20,960
Speaker 1: you know, six buckets of money, right, So uh yeah,

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01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:25,559
Speaker 1: he is an under no pressure Jared Stidham. He can't win.

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01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:30,240
Speaker 1: He cannot win. The pressure is on him. There's nothing

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01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:36,920
Speaker 1: he could do except win the Super Bowl will make

1572
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:39,920
Speaker 1: him anything but a failure. And the pressure is on him.

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01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:42,800
Speaker 1: The pressure is on him. He is Oh, I totally

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01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:45,040
Speaker 1: agree with you. Okay, here we go now in the

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01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:47,519
Speaker 1: in the NFC, and that's this is the next item

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01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 1: on the on the what's for lunch? Are we got

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01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:51,960
Speaker 1: a couple more of these? All right? Who's the top

1578
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 1: quarterback in this division the NFC North? Is it Minnesota's

1579
01:20:58,200 --> 01:21:02,040
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay or Matt Stafford

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01:21:03,160 --> 01:21:07,120
Speaker 1: and Detroit? And they threw the Chicago guy out? Come on,

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01:21:07,240 --> 01:21:09,600
Speaker 1: what about Mitch Trubisky. I think he's the I'm just

1582
01:21:09,680 --> 01:21:15,839
Speaker 1: kidding at because I do not agree with it. Chicago

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01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:20,400
Speaker 1: Bears are not in this. You realized that Chicago. Yeah,

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01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:23,000
Speaker 1: from my side here, and I know you're a bearras fan.

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01:21:23,439 --> 01:21:26,040
Speaker 1: You grew up there, and I went to school in Chicago,

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01:21:26,120 --> 01:21:27,840
Speaker 1: and I was like an eighty five, right, So I

1587
01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:33,639
Speaker 1: was like, wow, A right, so team, here's my here's

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01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:37,320
Speaker 1: my thing. I said earlier in this the Bear. The

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01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:39,800
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions are kind of an also rand all the time.

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01:21:39,840 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 1: They have never been a winning organization. It's kind of

1591
01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:44,799
Speaker 1: like Archie Manning for the Saints all those years they couldn't.

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01:21:44,840 --> 01:21:47,560
Speaker 1: They just did not win. They were a bad organization

1593
01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:49,840
Speaker 1: with a bad football team, and it happened every year.

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01:21:50,400 --> 01:21:55,559
Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears are the same team. They stink all

1595
01:21:55,640 --> 01:21:58,960
Speaker 1: the time. They had one year of twelve and four.

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01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:01,160
Speaker 1: They'll they'll catch lightning in a bottle one year, then

1597
01:22:01,280 --> 01:22:03,120
Speaker 1: then the rest of it. They're nine and seven, seven

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01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:05,080
Speaker 1: and nine, eight and eight nine. And listen, we here

1599
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:06,880
Speaker 1: in Buffalo can feel for him because it for you know,

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01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:11,599
Speaker 1: a couple of decades we were there, but they've got

1601
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:14,599
Speaker 1: it going for like fifty years, you know, at least

1602
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:17,479
Speaker 1: the Bears have got the eighty five Bears, and you're

1603
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:20,120
Speaker 1: telling and here, I'll tell you how bad that that

1604
01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:23,320
Speaker 1: team is. The eighty five Bears only won one World

1605
01:22:23,400 --> 01:22:31,000
Speaker 1: jamp once one they were they crushed every single opponent

1606
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 1: the entire They lost one game the whole year. They

1607
01:22:36,439 --> 01:22:38,599
Speaker 1: whole year, and then they the next scene, they come

1608
01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:41,760
Speaker 1: and they you know, how does that happen? How? And

1609
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:44,960
Speaker 1: they fire my did cut? All right? So anyway, let

1610
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:47,360
Speaker 1: me get off that. All right, Who's the best quarterback

1611
01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:50,280
Speaker 1: in the NFC North? That's what's for lunch? Is it? Not?

1612
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:57,799
Speaker 1: Rodgers or Stafford's not. I'm gonna say it's Aaron Rodgers.

1613
01:22:58,160 --> 01:23:01,360
Speaker 1: Based off of what he has done with the Packers.

1614
01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:05,639
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting watching him going forward with the whole

1615
01:23:05,680 --> 01:23:11,599
Speaker 1: situation quarterback potentially entering that room. But all Saron Rogers,

1616
01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:15,040
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, I gotta go with that too. Kirk Cousins. No,

1617
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: I think Kirk Cousins has made more money than both

1618
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:19,479
Speaker 1: of the others combined, though. I mean he's with he

1619
01:23:19,680 --> 01:23:22,320
Speaker 1: was making the franchise tag for like four years in

1620
01:23:22,400 --> 01:23:25,000
Speaker 1: a row, and they got traded for a huge all right,

1621
01:23:25,040 --> 01:23:28,519
Speaker 1: So Kirk cousin wins financially, he's the best word. But

1622
01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:30,840
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, I think for wins and the guy who

1623
01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:33,080
Speaker 1: can do it on his own, Aaron Rodgers it because

1624
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:35,400
Speaker 1: he's always available. Matt Stafford is let me tell you,

1625
01:23:35,920 --> 01:23:38,360
Speaker 1: Matt's I think this Matt Staffords is as good as

1626
01:23:38,439 --> 01:23:40,640
Speaker 1: anybody though, and I mean anybody in the league. But

1627
01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:42,200
Speaker 1: he can't stay on the field because he's on a

1628
01:23:42,240 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 1: bad team. He's on a bad offensive line. So that's it,

1629
01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:47,160
Speaker 1: all right, That's that's what's for lunch. That's that's a

1630
01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:50,120
Speaker 1: good menu item. We've got enough for to finish lunch there,

1631
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:53,080
Speaker 1: thank you. That's that's good, Maddie. All right, we're gonna

1632
01:23:53,160 --> 01:23:55,360
Speaker 1: take a break after that. We're gonna come back later

1633
01:23:55,479 --> 01:23:58,040
Speaker 1: on in the show. We've got Scott hallenback. He is

1634
01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:03,040
Speaker 1: the CEO of USA Football, all the youth football leagues

1635
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:05,800
Speaker 1: around the country. He's the CEO of that. We're gonna

1636
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:08,120
Speaker 1: talk to him about that. The Bills are partnered up

1637
01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:11,120
Speaker 1: with USA Football. We're gonna talk about that partnership and

1638
01:24:11,240 --> 01:24:13,400
Speaker 1: what they're doing and what youth football is doing to

1639
01:24:13,520 --> 01:24:16,640
Speaker 1: adjust to the pandemic. This Steve Tasker, Maddi Glab. We're

1640
01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 1: on One Bills Life presented by Kalida Health. This is

1641
01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:32,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills the Radio. We'll be right back. Welcome back

1642
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:34,559
Speaker 1: to One Bills Live. Steve Tasker along with Maddi Glab.

1643
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:38,519
Speaker 1: We're talking about we had what's the lunch and we

1644
01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 1: made a couple of choices that made the surprise. But

1645
01:24:41,200 --> 01:24:45,680
Speaker 1: we'll also have a twitter bold and open question today about, uh,

1646
01:24:46,439 --> 01:24:49,760
Speaker 1: the biggest surprise for the Buffalo Bills in twenty twenty.

1647
01:24:49,800 --> 01:24:52,120
Speaker 1: What's it gonna be. We've got a bunch of responses

1648
01:24:52,200 --> 01:24:54,040
Speaker 1: from that on the tweet sheet we'll get to in

1649
01:24:54,120 --> 01:24:58,280
Speaker 1: just a moment. We've also you can also tweet at

1650
01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:00,479
Speaker 1: us or call us at eight oh three fifty or

1651
01:25:00,520 --> 01:25:03,880
Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty UM. And

1652
01:25:04,360 --> 01:25:06,559
Speaker 1: coming up at the top of the hour, we're gonna

1653
01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:09,240
Speaker 1: do the State of the Bills. Uh, mad Girl. We're

1654
01:25:09,240 --> 01:25:12,880
Speaker 1: gonna take a look at the linebackers. UM. We're gonna

1655
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:14,880
Speaker 1: go down the roster. Who the guys that we've got,

1656
01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:17,200
Speaker 1: what they're brought in for, who's gonna make the team?

1657
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:19,240
Speaker 1: Who the bills we think they kind of like already

1658
01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:21,880
Speaker 1: what guys might be on the bubble that kind of thing.

1659
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:24,240
Speaker 1: And we're also gonna do NFL true false after the

1660
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:28,120
Speaker 1: top of the hour. We've mentioned this too. Tomorrow Lorenzo

1661
01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:30,360
Speaker 1: Alexander's coming on the show with us, and that won't

1662
01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:32,040
Speaker 1: be nice to hear from him. See how he's doing.

1663
01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:34,640
Speaker 1: He's living out in Arizona. It'll be nice to hear

1664
01:25:34,720 --> 01:25:37,599
Speaker 1: from Lorenzo. And also NFL Network Steve Murray, she's gonna

1665
01:25:37,600 --> 01:25:40,960
Speaker 1: come on the show. That's tomorrow. You're here all week

1666
01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:44,640
Speaker 1: with us, mad and uh, yes, so far, so good, right,

1667
01:25:44,720 --> 01:25:47,479
Speaker 1: I mean it's I'm you know, we're still talking to

1668
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:50,479
Speaker 1: each other anyway, right, you haven't right, you know, we

1669
01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:54,000
Speaker 1: we haven't had any fights yet. I mean, I think

1670
01:25:54,280 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 1: we cried together to cry together, and we've laughed together today,

1671
01:25:57,680 --> 01:26:00,960
Speaker 1: so I think it's I think it's gone well. We've

1672
01:26:00,960 --> 01:26:03,479
Speaker 1: got a good connection going here. That's right. We're gonna

1673
01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:05,040
Speaker 1: do the tweets sheet. What else were we gonna do?

1674
01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:07,120
Speaker 1: I can't remember the other topic we're gonna talk about

1675
01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:11,360
Speaker 1: right before the top of the hour about crowd noise.

1676
01:26:11,680 --> 01:26:17,719
Speaker 1: John Madden against he advised John Madden, the iconic NFL

1677
01:26:17,880 --> 01:26:21,439
Speaker 1: guy that everybody knows. Um he advised everybody or came

1678
01:26:21,479 --> 01:26:24,400
Speaker 1: out and said it's a bad idea to pipe in

1679
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:27,040
Speaker 1: crowd noise. I don't know. I don't know what his

1680
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:29,280
Speaker 1: reasoning was, but I kind of agree with him. I

1681
01:26:29,360 --> 01:26:32,200
Speaker 1: gotta agree with him. I think, let it happen. Live

1682
01:26:32,280 --> 01:26:34,240
Speaker 1: in the live and what you're supposed to live, you know,

1683
01:26:34,800 --> 01:26:37,040
Speaker 1: live where you're at. Don't fake yourself out, and don't

1684
01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:38,680
Speaker 1: try to be order, you know, be who you are.

1685
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:41,320
Speaker 1: Let the NFL be who it is this year. Let

1686
01:26:41,400 --> 01:26:43,680
Speaker 1: us watch these games the way they are. We'll appreciate

1687
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:46,120
Speaker 1: it more when they change back, or maybe we won't.

1688
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:48,320
Speaker 1: Maybe there'll be people like man, I miss I've turned

1689
01:26:48,360 --> 01:26:51,080
Speaker 1: the sound. I don't. I don't like crowd noise. Who cares.

1690
01:26:51,439 --> 01:26:55,559
Speaker 1: Let's experience life as it comes. Right, Hey, I'm getting

1691
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:59,360
Speaker 1: philosophical now, but right, I mean, let's let's watch these

1692
01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:01,439
Speaker 1: games like there's supposed to be watching. We're in a pandemic.

1693
01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:04,680
Speaker 1: Let's not act like it's not happening. So like as

1694
01:27:04,760 --> 01:27:06,560
Speaker 1: you and me we came on and we addressed the

1695
01:27:06,840 --> 01:27:10,240
Speaker 1: protest this last couple, let's not pretend like it's not happening,

1696
01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:14,679
Speaker 1: you know, So let's go without fans. As a fan,

1697
01:27:15,240 --> 01:27:17,080
Speaker 1: if I'm going to sit down and watch a game

1698
01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:21,560
Speaker 1: during this pandemic and there's crowd noise. I don't know

1699
01:27:21,680 --> 01:27:24,080
Speaker 1: how that's gonna help me at all consume the game.

1700
01:27:24,520 --> 01:27:27,240
Speaker 1: I don't need crowd noise to watch football game. If

1701
01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:31,040
Speaker 1: something good happens, I'm gonna cheer. If something bad happens,

1702
01:27:31,320 --> 01:27:34,760
Speaker 1: I may have some words to say, but artificial crowd

1703
01:27:34,840 --> 01:27:37,320
Speaker 1: noise isn't going to do me any good. So why

1704
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:39,599
Speaker 1: would they spend the time and money to figure out

1705
01:27:39,680 --> 01:27:43,200
Speaker 1: how to do artificial crowd noise. If it's without fans,

1706
01:27:43,240 --> 01:27:46,040
Speaker 1: it's without fans. If it's with fans, it's with fans.

1707
01:27:46,479 --> 01:27:49,600
Speaker 1: It is what it is. Don't fake it right and

1708
01:27:50,280 --> 01:27:51,880
Speaker 1: for right now, we don't even know what that's going

1709
01:27:51,920 --> 01:27:54,320
Speaker 1: to be. It may be only twenty thousand fans in

1710
01:27:54,400 --> 01:27:56,920
Speaker 1: the stands who cares, But if there's some fans, they'll

1711
01:27:56,960 --> 01:28:00,360
Speaker 1: have that to show, and the difference between way it

1712
01:28:00,479 --> 01:28:02,000
Speaker 1: is normally in the way it is, there will be

1713
01:28:02,320 --> 01:28:06,040
Speaker 1: part of the story. Show that don't pipe in fake stuff.

1714
01:28:07,600 --> 01:28:11,880
Speaker 1: I think you go you show what it is, Show

1715
01:28:11,960 --> 01:28:14,800
Speaker 1: the truth of it, you know, show the reality of it.

1716
01:28:15,400 --> 01:28:17,640
Speaker 1: Show that changes in the adjustments that have to be

1717
01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:19,759
Speaker 1: made because of it, There'll be a lot of interesting

1718
01:28:19,840 --> 01:28:21,600
Speaker 1: things that come out of this. Because there won't be

1719
01:28:21,720 --> 01:28:25,840
Speaker 1: fans in the stands, we don't need to twist it

1720
01:28:26,320 --> 01:28:28,200
Speaker 1: or fake it or enhance it in a way that

1721
01:28:28,720 --> 01:28:31,840
Speaker 1: is not there, right. I mean, I'm just I'm just

1722
01:28:31,920 --> 01:28:34,439
Speaker 1: so about I think you live in the truth, you

1723
01:28:34,520 --> 01:28:38,760
Speaker 1: know completely, And I think if the season goes on

1724
01:28:38,920 --> 01:28:41,120
Speaker 1: without fans, which again we have no idea what it's

1725
01:28:41,120 --> 01:28:43,920
Speaker 1: going to look like. It's June first and the season

1726
01:28:43,960 --> 01:28:46,920
Speaker 1: that's going to kick off in September, so there's still

1727
01:28:46,960 --> 01:28:49,559
Speaker 1: a lot of time left. But in a case where

1728
01:28:49,640 --> 01:28:51,640
Speaker 1: there's no fans, I think it would be cool if

1729
01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:53,680
Speaker 1: if we get to see more of the sideline, or

1730
01:28:53,720 --> 01:28:56,160
Speaker 1: if we get to see more interaction between players on

1731
01:28:56,240 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 1: the bench or coaches on a bench with players, or

1732
01:28:58,680 --> 01:29:02,519
Speaker 1: more in the sweets and the boxes where the coaches

1733
01:29:02,520 --> 01:29:06,200
Speaker 1: are sitting. I think to be able. Just like the draft,

1734
01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:08,720
Speaker 1: we got to see inside of the GM and the

1735
01:29:08,800 --> 01:29:11,439
Speaker 1: head coaches houses and how they were going through with

1736
01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:14,160
Speaker 1: the draft, which was such a cool behind the scenes blok.

1737
01:29:14,280 --> 01:29:16,800
Speaker 1: I think if you give fans a behind the scenes

1738
01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:19,000
Speaker 1: look of a game, they're going to really appreciate it.

1739
01:29:19,880 --> 01:29:23,040
Speaker 1: I totally, totally agree. I think there's plenty to be

1740
01:29:23,439 --> 01:29:25,439
Speaker 1: interested in in these games, maybe more so to be

1741
01:29:25,520 --> 01:29:27,720
Speaker 1: interested in not just because of the novelty of it,

1742
01:29:28,200 --> 01:29:30,400
Speaker 1: but because it will allow you what it will allow

1743
01:29:30,479 --> 01:29:33,040
Speaker 1: you to assimilate, because of the change without the fans

1744
01:29:33,120 --> 01:29:35,479
Speaker 1: and the crowd noise. We've also got the fill in

1745
01:29:35,520 --> 01:29:37,759
Speaker 1: the blank question today for our Twitter poll. The biggest

1746
01:29:37,800 --> 01:29:40,600
Speaker 1: surprise from the Bills in twenty twenty from Bernie on

1747
01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:42,840
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. Oh and by the way, the tweet

1748
01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:45,400
Speaker 1: sheet is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

1749
01:29:45,439 --> 01:29:50,840
Speaker 1: official equipment moving of the Buffalo Bills. From Bernie, he says,

1750
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:53,280
Speaker 1: if we don't win the division and not winning at

1751
01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:56,880
Speaker 1: least one playoff game, so Bernie, give me an audit,

1752
01:29:57,400 --> 01:29:59,439
Speaker 1: it will be a surprise of the Bills aren't a

1753
01:29:59,439 --> 01:30:01,680
Speaker 1: successful franchise this year, right, If they don't win a

1754
01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:03,840
Speaker 1: lot of games, that will be a surprise. And I

1755
01:30:03,920 --> 01:30:06,400
Speaker 1: think as a nod to all the stuff we talk

1756
01:30:06,439 --> 01:30:08,960
Speaker 1: about here all the day, and can you imagine if

1757
01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:11,880
Speaker 1: you know this was a team that had the tank,

1758
01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:13,560
Speaker 1: or if this you know this was a team that

1759
01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:16,840
Speaker 1: didn't you know, have anything to look forward to, whatever,

1760
01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 1: if it was a team that you know, didn't have

1761
01:30:20,400 --> 01:30:22,479
Speaker 1: a coming off a playoff team. It wasn't going on

1762
01:30:22,560 --> 01:30:25,640
Speaker 1: an uptick. How different the conversations are. We've been there

1763
01:30:25,880 --> 01:30:27,559
Speaker 1: a couple of years or two years ago when they

1764
01:30:27,600 --> 01:30:29,599
Speaker 1: were six and ten kind of struggling through that year.

1765
01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:32,320
Speaker 1: At least we had the development of Josh Allen to

1766
01:30:32,400 --> 01:30:34,080
Speaker 1: look forward to in the draft picks and getting the

1767
01:30:34,160 --> 01:30:36,760
Speaker 1: financial house still in order in the offseason. All that

1768
01:30:36,840 --> 01:30:38,880
Speaker 1: money if they spent, you know, last year to bring

1769
01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:41,280
Speaker 1: all those guys in and revamp the defense. So there's

1770
01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:43,400
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about then. But man, oh man,

1771
01:30:43,640 --> 01:30:46,960
Speaker 1: all we can talk about now is the anticipate anticipation

1772
01:30:47,040 --> 01:30:49,160
Speaker 1: of a great year. And I think from Bernie on

1773
01:30:49,200 --> 01:30:51,519
Speaker 1: the tweet sheets, you know, it's surprised if they don't

1774
01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:54,880
Speaker 1: win this division Right now June one, the Bills are

1775
01:30:54,880 --> 01:30:57,080
Speaker 1: the team to beat, and they haven't won the division

1776
01:30:57,120 --> 01:31:01,719
Speaker 1: in over twenty years, you know, so it's it's pretty

1777
01:31:01,760 --> 01:31:04,000
Speaker 1: surprising to be here. I think that may be the

1778
01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:06,760
Speaker 1: biggest surprise in twenty twenties that the Bills are the

1779
01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:11,080
Speaker 1: favorites after two decades of not being I think this

1780
01:31:11,280 --> 01:31:15,080
Speaker 1: team and this coaching staff as earner respect to Garner

1781
01:31:15,160 --> 01:31:18,840
Speaker 1: attention like this and to Garner the conversation of that

1782
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:21,960
Speaker 1: they're expected to be the favorites and it's gonna be

1783
01:31:22,040 --> 01:31:24,839
Speaker 1: a surprise if they don't win at least a playoff

1784
01:31:24,880 --> 01:31:28,439
Speaker 1: game or are winning the division. Because of the talent

1785
01:31:28,600 --> 01:31:32,160
Speaker 1: that's on this team, I mean from offense to defense.

1786
01:31:32,520 --> 01:31:34,400
Speaker 1: I mean, this team is so powerful and they have

1787
01:31:34,600 --> 01:31:36,880
Speaker 1: so much that they can build on from last season.

1788
01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:41,519
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be bummed for sure, because there's gonna

1789
01:31:41,560 --> 01:31:43,280
Speaker 1: be some good things that come out of this season,

1790
01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:48,200
Speaker 1: and an AFC's title would be amazing. Yeah, and you

1791
01:31:48,320 --> 01:31:51,120
Speaker 1: said this too from the tweet sheet. The biggest surprise

1792
01:31:51,200 --> 01:31:53,040
Speaker 1: from the Bills in twenty twenty will be the biggest

1793
01:31:53,080 --> 01:31:54,800
Speaker 1: surprise You're going to be? How much better Miami and

1794
01:31:54,840 --> 01:31:57,840
Speaker 1: the Jets are certainly Miami I think is going to

1795
01:31:57,880 --> 01:32:00,120
Speaker 1: get better. I gotta be honest with you. I was

1796
01:32:00,200 --> 01:32:03,519
Speaker 1: very impressed with Brian flor as their head coach, I think,

1797
01:32:03,760 --> 01:32:06,360
Speaker 1: and I talked to some people down there, you know

1798
01:32:06,640 --> 01:32:09,320
Speaker 1: that I know personally in the broadcast end of things,

1799
01:32:09,360 --> 01:32:10,519
Speaker 1: and I was like, what do you think about your

1800
01:32:10,560 --> 01:32:12,680
Speaker 1: head coach? How you know, what's the vibe about him?

1801
01:32:13,080 --> 01:32:14,880
Speaker 1: Is he the right guy? Is he gonna work out?

1802
01:32:15,439 --> 01:32:17,200
Speaker 1: And they all were like they were all looking at

1803
01:32:17,240 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 1: me like nodding their head, going yeah, I think we

1804
01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:21,120
Speaker 1: got the right guy. They like him. He's a you know,

1805
01:32:21,160 --> 01:32:23,400
Speaker 1: he's a real leader. You get that sense from him.

1806
01:32:24,280 --> 01:32:26,720
Speaker 1: He's building that team from the inside out. Guys are

1807
01:32:26,800 --> 01:32:30,559
Speaker 1: rallying around him, he's holding him accountable. He's he's their

1808
01:32:30,720 --> 01:32:33,400
Speaker 1: head coach. So I think that kind of guy, plus

1809
01:32:33,479 --> 01:32:37,240
Speaker 1: the draft capital that they have, it is gonna make

1810
01:32:37,280 --> 01:32:40,280
Speaker 1: them a much better football team this year. The Jets.

1811
01:32:42,040 --> 01:32:45,479
Speaker 1: We've seen this before with the Jets, We've seen them

1812
01:32:45,560 --> 01:32:50,080
Speaker 1: look better. They I got work to you to convince me.

1813
01:32:50,280 --> 01:32:51,800
Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna be a tough guy. I'm not

1814
01:32:51,840 --> 01:32:53,280
Speaker 1: saying we're gonna go in there and they're gonna be

1815
01:32:53,400 --> 01:32:55,479
Speaker 1: laughable and they're not gonna be competitive. They are and

1816
01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:58,760
Speaker 1: they're gonna win some games. But I I just have

1817
01:32:58,880 --> 01:33:01,599
Speaker 1: a hard time sit here in Western New York after

1818
01:33:01,760 --> 01:33:04,200
Speaker 1: seeing them kind of being in the same track as

1819
01:33:04,200 --> 01:33:07,320
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills up until this last year, and they

1820
01:33:07,479 --> 01:33:11,240
Speaker 1: chose guys like Levion Bell to go after. You know,

1821
01:33:11,320 --> 01:33:15,080
Speaker 1: they chose their linebacker and I can't think of his

1822
01:33:15,240 --> 01:33:17,880
Speaker 1: name from Seattle. They got the inside who was really

1823
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:24,200
Speaker 1: good and then got hurt. Levion Bell was ineffective. Sam

1824
01:33:24,360 --> 01:33:28,040
Speaker 1: Darnold got sick. Their offensive line wasn't what it should

1825
01:33:28,080 --> 01:33:30,679
Speaker 1: have been. They didn't spend any time on their offensive line,

1826
01:33:30,720 --> 01:33:32,720
Speaker 1: And for all those reasons, that's a team to win

1827
01:33:32,800 --> 01:33:37,080
Speaker 1: eight and eight. And yeah, you know, I have a

1828
01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:39,120
Speaker 1: hard time seeing the Jets is being that much better.

1829
01:33:39,160 --> 01:33:41,680
Speaker 1: I think they're the same, you know what I mean.

1830
01:33:41,800 --> 01:33:44,400
Speaker 1: I just think they're the same, not better. So I

1831
01:33:44,439 --> 01:33:47,479
Speaker 1: don't know what do you think about that? Yeah, I

1832
01:33:47,600 --> 01:33:51,120
Speaker 1: think the amount of money that the Dolphins spent on

1833
01:33:51,280 --> 01:33:53,880
Speaker 1: defense this offseason, they're going to be a better team.

1834
01:33:53,920 --> 01:33:56,519
Speaker 1: The Jets were just unsure. I'm not sure about it.

1835
01:33:56,560 --> 01:33:58,560
Speaker 1: They spent all this money on the offensive line in

1836
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:01,800
Speaker 1: the off season, and I'm just not sure. I don't

1837
01:34:01,800 --> 01:34:03,920
Speaker 1: know how they're gonna look this year. It could be better,

1838
01:34:04,040 --> 01:34:07,320
Speaker 1: it could be worse. Yeah, I'm totally with you. All Right,

1839
01:34:07,360 --> 01:34:09,479
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break, Steep Task and Maddie Glad,

1840
01:34:09,479 --> 01:34:11,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna come back. We've got the state of the bills.

1841
01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:13,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the linebacking corps, and we're also

1842
01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:17,719
Speaker 1: gonna do NFL True Fall. Scott hallenback of USA Football's

1843
01:34:17,760 --> 01:34:20,760
Speaker 1: coming on at two thirty and tomorrow, Lorenzo Alexander and

1844
01:34:20,800 --> 01:34:23,960
Speaker 1: Steve mary Utire coming on. That's tomorrow. This is One

1845
01:34:24,000 --> 01:34:26,599
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalidah Health and this is Buffalo

1846
01:34:26,640 --> 01:34:36,360
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Oh were time watch Steve Taster to the

1847
01:34:37,439 --> 01:34:53,040
Speaker 1: downs down Time. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Steep

1848
01:34:53,120 --> 01:34:55,400
Speaker 1: Tasper along with Maddie Glab We're here till three o'clock.

1849
01:34:55,479 --> 01:34:58,120
Speaker 1: We've been talking a lot about what we're talking a

1850
01:34:58,160 --> 01:35:00,200
Speaker 1: little bit about the events over the week, and we

1851
01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:03,599
Speaker 1: also talked to uh Nate Davis of USA Today about

1852
01:35:03,640 --> 01:35:05,599
Speaker 1: the Bills and some of the ideas he has about

1853
01:35:05,600 --> 01:35:08,960
Speaker 1: which rookies in the National Football League will be surprises.

1854
01:35:09,320 --> 01:35:12,800
Speaker 1: Surprise contributors are. We also have a Twitter question out

1855
01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:14,800
Speaker 1: what's going to be the most surprising thing about the

1856
01:35:14,840 --> 01:35:17,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills in twenty twenty. You can call us at

1857
01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:20,080
Speaker 1: eight o three oh five fifty one eighty eight five

1858
01:35:20,200 --> 01:35:23,160
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. We're also this half hour we're

1859
01:35:23,200 --> 01:35:26,479
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the Bills linebackers. We're gonna do kind

1860
01:35:26,520 --> 01:35:28,040
Speaker 1: of a state of the Bills We're gonna do this

1861
01:35:28,200 --> 01:35:30,400
Speaker 1: throughout the week, I think, aren't we, Maddie. We're gonna

1862
01:35:30,400 --> 01:35:32,760
Speaker 1: pick a position every day and talk about and today

1863
01:35:32,800 --> 01:35:35,120
Speaker 1: we're gonna start it off with the linebackers. There's a

1864
01:35:35,200 --> 01:35:37,240
Speaker 1: ton of guys, and for those of you who don't know,

1865
01:35:37,439 --> 01:35:39,360
Speaker 1: I'll remind you of some of the you know, the

1866
01:35:39,520 --> 01:35:43,240
Speaker 1: key figures, and y'all obviously have Tremaine Edmonds and Matt Milano.

1867
01:35:44,040 --> 01:35:46,640
Speaker 1: Those are two kind of stalwarts that we all kind

1868
01:35:46,680 --> 01:35:51,560
Speaker 1: of know about. Tremaine and Matt also brought in his

1869
01:35:51,760 --> 01:35:54,920
Speaker 1: AJ Klein. Now he was primed to take Lorenzo Alexander's spot.

1870
01:35:55,040 --> 01:35:57,599
Speaker 1: So you got Tremaine to Edmunds, Matt Milano, and AJ Klein.

1871
01:35:58,439 --> 01:36:01,800
Speaker 1: Holdovers from last year, Core Thompson, Vashawan, Joseph who was

1872
01:36:01,880 --> 01:36:04,519
Speaker 1: drafted in twenty nineteen and was on IR last year,

1873
01:36:04,840 --> 01:36:09,840
Speaker 1: Tyrell Dodson, Mike Bell, and then del Shan Phillips and

1874
01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:13,200
Speaker 1: then the guy they brought in from Pittsburgh, Tyler Tyler Metakevich.

1875
01:36:13,240 --> 01:36:15,080
Speaker 1: We had him on the show. Seems like a great guy,

1876
01:36:15,160 --> 01:36:18,080
Speaker 1: obviously a culture fit, but he is a special teams

1877
01:36:19,520 --> 01:36:23,559
Speaker 1: pro and so he'll be contributing in that way. If

1878
01:36:23,600 --> 01:36:25,439
Speaker 1: he indeed for most of the time when he gets

1879
01:36:25,479 --> 01:36:29,840
Speaker 1: on the field. Now they also Mike Bell was a

1880
01:36:29,960 --> 01:36:32,760
Speaker 1: tryout player in twenty nineteen and they brought him back

1881
01:36:32,840 --> 01:36:37,320
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Del Shan Phillips is a guy that

1882
01:36:37,400 --> 01:36:39,800
Speaker 1: has no experience. He was signed as a free agent.

1883
01:36:39,960 --> 01:36:42,960
Speaker 1: So we'll see. But you gotta think this, Maddie. It

1884
01:36:43,080 --> 01:36:46,120
Speaker 1: starts at Tremaine Edmonds. It starts with Matt Milano and

1885
01:36:46,240 --> 01:36:49,320
Speaker 1: aj Klein, who began his career in Carolina with Sean

1886
01:36:49,439 --> 01:36:52,640
Speaker 1: McDermott as the defensive coordinator, spent the last year or

1887
01:36:52,680 --> 01:36:56,479
Speaker 1: two in New Orleans. Now he's back with Buffalo. I

1888
01:36:56,600 --> 01:36:59,040
Speaker 1: just think he's kind of too much an obvious fit

1889
01:36:59,560 --> 01:37:01,960
Speaker 1: for this for this team. So those are your top

1890
01:37:02,080 --> 01:37:05,120
Speaker 1: three guys, and then it comes down to Corey Thompson,

1891
01:37:05,240 --> 01:37:08,519
Speaker 1: v Shaan Joseph and Terrell Dotson. Maybe Mike Bell hangs

1892
01:37:08,520 --> 01:37:09,840
Speaker 1: in there for a year or two, but they're gonna

1893
01:37:09,880 --> 01:37:11,760
Speaker 1: take They got three guys that play on the field

1894
01:37:11,760 --> 01:37:15,439
Speaker 1: and their base personnel usually it's only two because of

1895
01:37:15,479 --> 01:37:20,720
Speaker 1: their big nickel package. Most of the linebacker corps are

1896
01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:23,000
Speaker 1: gonna be special Teams guys of the year. You know,

1897
01:37:23,040 --> 01:37:25,240
Speaker 1: if there's no injuries. It's gonna be hard to get.

1898
01:37:25,600 --> 01:37:28,240
Speaker 1: You're not getting Tremaine Edmonds off the field, and unless

1899
01:37:28,240 --> 01:37:30,599
Speaker 1: he gets injured. You know again, Matt Milano's not coming

1900
01:37:30,640 --> 01:37:34,880
Speaker 1: off the field. Now, you got aj So it's those guys, right.

1901
01:37:36,120 --> 01:37:39,280
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander played like forty percent of the defensive snaps

1902
01:37:39,360 --> 01:37:41,240
Speaker 1: last year because of their big nickel package and the

1903
01:37:41,280 --> 01:37:44,439
Speaker 1: fact that everybody's running so many wide receivers onto the field,

1904
01:37:44,760 --> 01:37:47,920
Speaker 1: So linebackers are kind of It's a position I think

1905
01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:50,960
Speaker 1: in transition philosophically in the National Football League, and the

1906
01:37:50,960 --> 01:37:54,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills at the top seem really prepared and the

1907
01:37:54,439 --> 01:37:56,200
Speaker 1: rest of these guys are gonna be you know, they're

1908
01:37:56,240 --> 01:37:59,080
Speaker 1: gonna be searching for a role. I think, yeah, And

1909
01:37:59,280 --> 01:38:02,920
Speaker 1: I think the role will be not the termined by

1910
01:38:03,200 --> 01:38:06,200
Speaker 1: but the fringe players who you look at who could

1911
01:38:06,400 --> 01:38:09,599
Speaker 1: partly play a role in rotating in some of these snaps.

1912
01:38:10,360 --> 01:38:13,560
Speaker 1: Is and Sean McDermott has always said that who is

1913
01:38:13,640 --> 01:38:16,280
Speaker 1: going to be the biggest special teams contributor. That's how

1914
01:38:16,360 --> 01:38:18,960
Speaker 1: you earn a spot on this roster. With some of

1915
01:38:19,040 --> 01:38:22,400
Speaker 1: these players who are competing for roster spots, which we

1916
01:38:22,560 --> 01:38:25,040
Speaker 1: talk about this too. It's going to be harder than

1917
01:38:25,160 --> 01:38:27,160
Speaker 1: last year in the year before to make this team

1918
01:38:27,240 --> 01:38:29,640
Speaker 1: this year. There are so many great players, and some

1919
01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:31,840
Speaker 1: of these guys who did make the squad last year,

1920
01:38:32,080 --> 01:38:35,519
Speaker 1: who were practice squad players or maybe made it up

1921
01:38:35,560 --> 01:38:39,160
Speaker 1: to the roster game in, game out, depending on what

1922
01:38:39,360 --> 01:38:43,040
Speaker 1: the injury situation looked like, they may not be with

1923
01:38:43,240 --> 01:38:45,639
Speaker 1: this team next year. It's gonna be tough. There's gonna

1924
01:38:45,640 --> 01:38:48,679
Speaker 1: be a lot of competition battles, which Sean loves, which

1925
01:38:48,760 --> 01:38:53,000
Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier loves. But you're looking at of course Tremaine

1926
01:38:53,200 --> 01:38:58,160
Speaker 1: and Matt Milano leading this group. Aj Klein will come

1927
01:38:58,240 --> 01:39:01,599
Speaker 1: in and helpful fill the role Alexander, but I think

1928
01:39:02,120 --> 01:39:04,280
Speaker 1: that's a role that you can't fill with one body.

1929
01:39:04,360 --> 01:39:05,920
Speaker 1: You have to have more than one body to be

1930
01:39:05,960 --> 01:39:07,880
Speaker 1: able to fill what he was able to do on

1931
01:39:08,040 --> 01:39:12,439
Speaker 1: this team. It'll be interesting Corey Thompson with Sean Joseph's

1932
01:39:12,560 --> 01:39:16,160
Speaker 1: Tyrell Dodson. I mean, these are guys who have been

1933
01:39:16,240 --> 01:39:19,280
Speaker 1: talked of high highly about by this coaching staff or

1934
01:39:19,320 --> 01:39:20,960
Speaker 1: what they've been able to do on special teams, and

1935
01:39:20,960 --> 01:39:24,599
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see how they can maybe rotating

1936
01:39:24,760 --> 01:39:28,639
Speaker 1: a snap here snap there in a linebacker role. Yeah,

1937
01:39:28,680 --> 01:39:30,960
Speaker 1: and here's the thing we all know we're up against it.

1938
01:39:31,760 --> 01:39:34,920
Speaker 1: It's linebackers. Um, you're not going to have that many

1939
01:39:34,960 --> 01:39:36,560
Speaker 1: of them on the field at any given time. You

1940
01:39:36,640 --> 01:39:38,600
Speaker 1: gotta have backups and all of that, but you can

1941
01:39:38,720 --> 01:39:40,640
Speaker 1: have guys to play special teams, which is going to

1942
01:39:40,720 --> 01:39:43,599
Speaker 1: be the lower part of that roster or the depth chart.

1943
01:39:43,880 --> 01:39:46,519
Speaker 1: This is a difficult roster to make all the way around,

1944
01:39:46,600 --> 01:39:50,439
Speaker 1: not just a linebacker but everywhere. Nobody's gonna unseek Tremaine

1945
01:39:50,560 --> 01:39:55,040
Speaker 1: Edmonds as lineback, starting linebacker. He's gonna be there. Mamelana

1946
01:39:55,120 --> 01:39:58,640
Speaker 1: is gonna be there. And here's another thing, Maddie. So

1947
01:39:58,760 --> 01:40:00,760
Speaker 1: he bring in a guy like Tyler out of Keevich. Now,

1948
01:40:00,880 --> 01:40:02,840
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's got a lot of experience playing

1949
01:40:02,880 --> 01:40:04,960
Speaker 1: special teams. He did in Pittsburgh and it was very

1950
01:40:05,120 --> 01:40:07,360
Speaker 1: good at it. It was the lion's share of his

1951
01:40:07,439 --> 01:40:10,360
Speaker 1: playing time. I mean, the guy's a professional special teams player.

1952
01:40:11,640 --> 01:40:14,320
Speaker 1: AJ Klein also can play special teams a little bit,

1953
01:40:14,640 --> 01:40:20,000
Speaker 1: but these but Mattakevich is he is hardcore. So think

1954
01:40:20,000 --> 01:40:24,720
Speaker 1: about this, He's got this experience. These other guys you

1955
01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:27,840
Speaker 1: don't when you practice special teams. It is virtually it's

1956
01:40:27,880 --> 01:40:32,519
Speaker 1: a glorified walkthrough at best. You can't take live reps

1957
01:40:32,600 --> 01:40:36,360
Speaker 1: on special teams in NFL practices. You can't cover a

1958
01:40:36,520 --> 01:40:40,080
Speaker 1: kick You can't cover a kickoff. Are you kidding me?

1959
01:40:40,720 --> 01:40:43,120
Speaker 1: You know right, they wouldn't be the healthiest team in

1960
01:40:43,160 --> 01:40:45,160
Speaker 1: the league if they were doing that in practice, right,

1961
01:40:45,200 --> 01:40:49,000
Speaker 1: they'd have guys injured. So how are these guys gonna

1962
01:40:49,160 --> 01:40:54,639
Speaker 1: prove they're great special teams players on a team where

1963
01:40:54,720 --> 01:40:58,600
Speaker 1: you can't practice it at full speed and the preseason

1964
01:40:59,200 --> 01:41:04,360
Speaker 1: maybe aviated. Worst case scenario, You're not gonna you have

1965
01:41:04,479 --> 01:41:07,120
Speaker 1: to be doing stuff. You're gonna be, for instance, a

1966
01:41:07,280 --> 01:41:10,559
Speaker 1: linebacker like a like a Mike Bell and a del

1967
01:41:10,600 --> 01:41:15,200
Speaker 1: Shann Phillips, they're gonna be and Tyrell Dotson two to

1968
01:41:15,240 --> 01:41:18,880
Speaker 1: a certain extent, they're gonna be competing with a spot

1969
01:41:18,960 --> 01:41:21,120
Speaker 1: for a roster and they're gonna be do it against

1970
01:41:21,120 --> 01:41:23,800
Speaker 1: a guy like Tyler Medakevitch, who does it for a

1971
01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:26,280
Speaker 1: living and has done it for a handful of years

1972
01:41:26,600 --> 01:41:29,920
Speaker 1: for a living. He's got so much experience. He knows

1973
01:41:29,960 --> 01:41:32,040
Speaker 1: what the coaches are looking for, he knows what to do.

1974
01:41:32,680 --> 01:41:34,519
Speaker 1: He works well, and you know he does he has

1975
01:41:34,520 --> 01:41:36,880
Speaker 1: all those gifts, and these guys are gonna come in

1976
01:41:37,120 --> 01:41:40,600
Speaker 1: with a limited amount of practice. And here's what. So,

1977
01:41:40,720 --> 01:41:43,360
Speaker 1: here's the point I'm making. It's gonna be hard for

1978
01:41:43,479 --> 01:41:47,280
Speaker 1: him in the first place. What a and the coaches

1979
01:41:47,360 --> 01:41:48,960
Speaker 1: know this. It's gonna be hard for a guy to

1980
01:41:49,000 --> 01:41:52,760
Speaker 1: get enough meaningful reps to evaluate whether he can do

1981
01:41:52,840 --> 01:41:55,760
Speaker 1: it or not. Here's what the coaches looking And I'll

1982
01:41:55,760 --> 01:41:58,560
Speaker 1: tell you this as an experienced guy. They want a

1983
01:41:58,680 --> 01:42:03,080
Speaker 1: guy who want to play special teams. It sounds very simple,

1984
01:42:03,840 --> 01:42:06,920
Speaker 1: but you've got guys like like Mike Bell, like del

1985
01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:11,320
Speaker 1: Sean Phillips, Vashon Joseph Tyrrell Dodson. These are guys were

1986
01:42:11,360 --> 01:42:15,120
Speaker 1: all tremendous college players. They did not play special teams

1987
01:42:15,160 --> 01:42:18,840
Speaker 1: in college because that was that was for backups and

1988
01:42:18,960 --> 01:42:21,880
Speaker 1: scrubs like me. Right, they were like guys who couldn't

1989
01:42:21,960 --> 01:42:23,880
Speaker 1: get on the field. That he was one of the

1990
01:42:23,960 --> 01:42:26,800
Speaker 1: guys who was not asked to play special because he

1991
01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:29,559
Speaker 1: was too valuable to play special teams. So they got

1992
01:42:29,680 --> 01:42:33,240
Speaker 1: to change that entire mindset and come back and say, man,

1993
01:42:33,320 --> 01:42:35,080
Speaker 1: I want to do this. I want to be on

1994
01:42:35,240 --> 01:42:37,519
Speaker 1: this team. And if it means covering kicks. I'm gonna

1995
01:42:37,560 --> 01:42:39,679
Speaker 1: give it everything. I'm gonna give it all I got,

1996
01:42:40,200 --> 01:42:42,920
Speaker 1: And they have to do that while still playing linebacker

1997
01:42:43,120 --> 01:42:46,120
Speaker 1: every day in practice. It is a really tough task

1998
01:42:46,479 --> 01:42:49,479
Speaker 1: to do. But what it really comes down to is

1999
01:42:49,600 --> 01:42:52,360
Speaker 1: being in me, showing the coaches you are enthusiastic about

2000
01:42:52,479 --> 01:42:55,280
Speaker 1: doing it, and getting on the field and taking reps

2001
01:42:55,320 --> 01:42:57,680
Speaker 1: and coming to special teams meetings even if you're not

2002
01:42:57,800 --> 01:43:01,240
Speaker 1: part of it. Just being wanting to be there, wanting

2003
01:43:01,240 --> 01:43:03,240
Speaker 1: to be on that squad, wanting to be on that group.

2004
01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:06,400
Speaker 1: That's hard for young guys to get their mind around

2005
01:43:06,800 --> 01:43:09,559
Speaker 1: because they're not gonna get meaningful reps at special teams.

2006
01:43:09,960 --> 01:43:12,479
Speaker 1: And yet you look at this linebacker depth chart and

2007
01:43:12,520 --> 01:43:15,639
Speaker 1: they do this too. They'll stand in drills during during

2008
01:43:15,680 --> 01:43:17,960
Speaker 1: the game, during preseason, and they'll stand in drills during

2009
01:43:18,040 --> 01:43:20,920
Speaker 1: training camp, and they'll do the math in their head. Well,

2010
01:43:21,520 --> 01:43:26,200
Speaker 1: Edmonds ain't leaving, Milano's not leaving. Kline's not leaving. Okay,

2011
01:43:26,320 --> 01:43:30,639
Speaker 1: so they drafted Joseph last year. He ain't leaving. Meta

2012
01:43:30,720 --> 01:43:33,240
Speaker 1: Kevitch is in. You start to run out of spots

2013
01:43:33,360 --> 01:43:36,080
Speaker 1: and you do that mental math and you're thinking, okay,

2014
01:43:36,200 --> 01:43:38,800
Speaker 1: and the wrong thinking is Okay, I'm gonna try and

2015
01:43:38,920 --> 01:43:43,720
Speaker 1: beat out Matt Milano. It's like, hey, don't do it,

2016
01:43:44,200 --> 01:43:47,519
Speaker 1: Yeah right, right, don't do it. Don't do it. But

2017
01:43:47,720 --> 01:43:52,320
Speaker 1: you can beat out maybe Vashan Joseph can beat out

2018
01:43:52,479 --> 01:43:55,160
Speaker 1: Mike Bell because he can cover kicks better. I can

2019
01:43:55,320 --> 01:43:57,920
Speaker 1: do that better. I can show more effort there, I

2020
01:43:58,040 --> 01:44:02,240
Speaker 1: can show more enthusiasm them there, I can show more

2021
01:44:02,840 --> 01:44:06,280
Speaker 1: a knowledge and ability there. I can do that. And

2022
01:44:06,439 --> 01:44:07,800
Speaker 1: that's the way you have to be, because that's what

2023
01:44:07,920 --> 01:44:09,840
Speaker 1: it comes down to. Forget about playing a position or

2024
01:44:10,080 --> 01:44:12,600
Speaker 1: just make the team, just be on the team. Just

2025
01:44:12,800 --> 01:44:14,880
Speaker 1: be there somehow, some way, and that's what has to

2026
01:44:14,920 --> 01:44:17,240
Speaker 1: get through to the bottom half of this linebacker depth chart,

2027
01:44:17,280 --> 01:44:19,599
Speaker 1: in my opinion. And some of these guys may get

2028
01:44:19,640 --> 01:44:22,240
Speaker 1: there and some of them might not. I had a

2029
01:44:22,360 --> 01:44:26,760
Speaker 1: conversation with one of my friends who played on Tennessee's

2030
01:44:26,760 --> 01:44:28,880
Speaker 1: football team when I was working at Tennessee in is

2031
01:44:28,960 --> 01:44:30,880
Speaker 1: now on the forty nine ers, and he earned his

2032
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:35,120
Speaker 1: way onto their roster by playing special teams, and we

2033
01:44:35,240 --> 01:44:38,120
Speaker 1: are just catching up, and I said, what's something you

2034
01:44:38,200 --> 01:44:40,439
Speaker 1: wish you would have told yourself that you didn't know

2035
01:44:40,560 --> 01:44:43,280
Speaker 1: about the NFL when you were in college, and he said,

2036
01:44:43,760 --> 01:44:45,960
Speaker 1: I wish I would have known the importance of special

2037
01:44:46,040 --> 01:44:48,320
Speaker 1: teams coming into the league. I wish I would have

2038
01:44:48,360 --> 01:44:51,720
Speaker 1: taken special teams more seriously in college, because you can

2039
01:44:51,800 --> 01:44:55,280
Speaker 1: make a living on special teams in the NFL. And

2040
01:44:56,360 --> 01:44:58,720
Speaker 1: if these guys think this way and act this way.

2041
01:44:58,800 --> 01:45:02,080
Speaker 1: And Tyler Matakavic the perfect example. When he was doing

2042
01:45:02,200 --> 01:45:05,680
Speaker 1: his opening media availability to us and we talked to

2043
01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:08,080
Speaker 1: him for the first time, he said his mindset on

2044
01:45:08,160 --> 01:45:10,680
Speaker 1: special teams is c ball, get ball, and that he

2045
01:45:10,840 --> 01:45:13,160
Speaker 1: knows that he only has so many reps on special

2046
01:45:13,200 --> 01:45:15,240
Speaker 1: teams every single game that he wants to make the

2047
01:45:15,320 --> 01:45:18,320
Speaker 1: most of those reps. He wants to go crazy, get

2048
01:45:18,400 --> 01:45:21,120
Speaker 1: that ball, make as many tackles as he can, and

2049
01:45:21,280 --> 01:45:23,960
Speaker 1: be a force on special teams. And by doing that,

2050
01:45:24,200 --> 01:45:27,280
Speaker 1: and by committing yourself to special teams, you open up

2051
01:45:27,320 --> 01:45:31,520
Speaker 1: other windows for yourself with opportunities getting in at linebacker.

2052
01:45:31,640 --> 01:45:35,559
Speaker 1: He talked about Lorenzo Alexander as someone who has said

2053
01:45:35,560 --> 01:45:39,080
Speaker 1: an example for him, he wants to be like Lorenzo Alexander,

2054
01:45:39,160 --> 01:45:41,880
Speaker 1: somebody who started off on special teams and earn their

2055
01:45:41,960 --> 01:45:46,240
Speaker 1: way onto a role in a linebacker spot because of

2056
01:45:46,280 --> 01:45:48,519
Speaker 1: the way he played on special teams and now you're

2057
01:45:48,600 --> 01:45:51,559
Speaker 1: starting linebacker instead of a special teamer. So I think

2058
01:45:51,600 --> 01:45:53,600
Speaker 1: when you go into it with the mindset like that,

2059
01:45:54,040 --> 01:45:56,240
Speaker 1: good things are going to happen for you. And these

2060
01:45:56,280 --> 01:45:59,799
Speaker 1: players who were talking about are younger players in the NFL.

2061
01:46:00,439 --> 01:46:02,280
Speaker 1: They still have a lot to prove and this is

2062
01:46:02,320 --> 01:46:04,880
Speaker 1: a way by proving themselves. Yeah, I can. I can

2063
01:46:04,920 --> 01:46:07,760
Speaker 1: totally remember back in the day when you know you're

2064
01:46:07,800 --> 01:46:10,560
Speaker 1: out there playing and you really just have to have

2065
01:46:10,720 --> 01:46:13,160
Speaker 1: the inner wisdom to say, you know what, I yeah,

2066
01:46:13,280 --> 01:46:15,280
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna beat those guys out. I've got to

2067
01:46:15,360 --> 01:46:17,280
Speaker 1: find a way. But I've got to find a way

2068
01:46:17,320 --> 01:46:19,320
Speaker 1: to stay here. I've got to find a way to

2069
01:46:19,400 --> 01:46:21,280
Speaker 1: stay on this team and special teams? Was it? And

2070
01:46:21,320 --> 01:46:24,360
Speaker 1: I remember and he says, ceball, get ball. That's that's

2071
01:46:24,439 --> 01:46:26,400
Speaker 1: what I That's what I thought I and I did

2072
01:46:26,439 --> 01:46:29,479
Speaker 1: it throughout my career. When you're sitting over there, you

2073
01:46:29,560 --> 01:46:32,280
Speaker 1: only get you know, I was playing maybe twenty plays

2074
01:46:32,320 --> 01:46:35,760
Speaker 1: a game, twenty twenty two plays a game, And the

2075
01:46:36,120 --> 01:46:38,160
Speaker 1: simple fact that the matter is you have plenty of

2076
01:46:38,240 --> 01:46:39,920
Speaker 1: time to get over there and think about it, make

2077
01:46:39,960 --> 01:46:42,080
Speaker 1: sure you're you're focused on your part of the game,

2078
01:46:42,160 --> 01:46:44,519
Speaker 1: certainly you watch the offense, you watch the defense, because

2079
01:46:44,560 --> 01:46:47,280
Speaker 1: you gotta keep track of the game situation because you

2080
01:46:47,320 --> 01:46:49,760
Speaker 1: may have to dart onto the field and cover a

2081
01:46:49,840 --> 01:46:52,800
Speaker 1: punt or punt return at any moment, and you just

2082
01:46:52,840 --> 01:46:54,719
Speaker 1: kind of got to stay engaged. But you're thinking about

2083
01:46:54,800 --> 01:46:57,760
Speaker 1: what happened on the earlier plays, what's gonna happen, and

2084
01:46:58,080 --> 01:46:59,800
Speaker 1: if if that's not the case, you're thinking about what

2085
01:46:59,840 --> 01:47:02,320
Speaker 1: the film steady, and what's gonna happen the next special

2086
01:47:02,360 --> 01:47:04,360
Speaker 1: team to come up. They've got the ball. Okay, I'm

2087
01:47:04,400 --> 01:47:06,360
Speaker 1: gonna be rushing the punter. I'm gonna be blocking for

2088
01:47:06,439 --> 01:47:08,680
Speaker 1: punt return. I got to think about what play that

2089
01:47:08,840 --> 01:47:10,400
Speaker 1: is and what's it gonna look like. And I remember

2090
01:47:10,439 --> 01:47:13,000
Speaker 1: the number of the guy that I watched film on,

2091
01:47:13,520 --> 01:47:15,680
Speaker 1: and I'm and this is gonna be a chance. And

2092
01:47:15,760 --> 01:47:18,519
Speaker 1: when I get out there, I've thought about all that

2093
01:47:18,680 --> 01:47:21,880
Speaker 1: and all I need to do is absolutely bust loose

2094
01:47:21,960 --> 01:47:25,560
Speaker 1: and try and dominate the entire play, get to the

2095
01:47:25,600 --> 01:47:27,840
Speaker 1: punter before the ball gets off. And if I don't

2096
01:47:27,840 --> 01:47:29,559
Speaker 1: get to the punter before the ball gets off, I'm

2097
01:47:29,560 --> 01:47:31,800
Speaker 1: gonna the guy who's blocking me is gonna have to work.

2098
01:47:31,920 --> 01:47:35,400
Speaker 1: So hard. He's gonna be taken completely out of the coverage.

2099
01:47:35,800 --> 01:47:38,519
Speaker 1: And if I don't get there, I've got to turn

2100
01:47:38,800 --> 01:47:41,240
Speaker 1: and I'm the last guy up the field to help.

2101
01:47:41,360 --> 01:47:43,320
Speaker 1: So I've got to I've got to get on the

2102
01:47:43,800 --> 01:47:48,439
Speaker 1: fast horse and catch everybody, catch somebody, catch up to somebody,

2103
01:47:48,880 --> 01:47:51,599
Speaker 1: and get him out of the way of my returner

2104
01:47:51,920 --> 01:47:54,519
Speaker 1: some way to help. So you got to be thinking

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Speaker 1: all that stuff, and it's pretty specific stuff. But in

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Speaker 1: the midst of it is this this full throttle effort,

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Speaker 1: and you also have this level of aggression too, so

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Speaker 1: you're kind of gonna feel like you're like jumping in

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01:48:09,320 --> 01:48:12,000
Speaker 1: the octagon like in a UFC fighter. It is, you know,

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01:48:12,200 --> 01:48:15,040
Speaker 1: is there's no holds barred go. You know, let's go.

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Speaker 1: And so it's that kind of mentality, and it's you

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Speaker 1: can't practice that in practice, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: You never get to see it anytime other than when

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01:48:25,320 --> 01:48:28,920
Speaker 1: you know it's an actual game. So it's really hard

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01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:32,360
Speaker 1: to find unless you have some experience and even you

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01:48:32,439 --> 01:48:37,600
Speaker 1: know so it's a but that's that's a problem that

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Speaker 1: is inside these linebackers. It's not it's not the guys

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Speaker 1: ahead of them on the deck chart at linebacker who

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Speaker 1: that this is something inside themselves that they can control.

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Speaker 1: It's their attitude, It's their ability to foresee what's gonna happen.

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01:48:51,120 --> 01:48:53,720
Speaker 1: It's their ability to have a picture of what they

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01:48:53,800 --> 01:48:56,080
Speaker 1: look like in this roster and where they can contribute

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01:48:56,400 --> 01:48:58,920
Speaker 1: and then think specifically too about how they're going to

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01:48:59,000 --> 01:49:03,120
Speaker 1: act when this place snaps. And that's it's really really

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01:49:03,240 --> 01:49:05,680
Speaker 1: something that you can It's hard to communicate to a

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01:49:05,800 --> 01:49:07,680
Speaker 1: young player, but you know in the guys, in the

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Speaker 1: conversations you just related to, and the and the way

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Speaker 1: it was for me, it's all right there in front

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Speaker 1: of him. But it's and that's the one thing that's

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01:49:17,439 --> 01:49:20,439
Speaker 1: inside of them that they can control, and they don't

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01:49:20,479 --> 01:49:22,200
Speaker 1: have to worry about what the coaches think or whatever.

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01:49:22,520 --> 01:49:24,240
Speaker 1: Just go out there and play against the guys with

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Speaker 1: the effort and intensity and with the desire to do it.

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01:49:27,200 --> 01:49:28,960
Speaker 1: So you know, if you can get him to do that,

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01:49:29,520 --> 01:49:31,680
Speaker 1: you know, that's half the battle for him. But man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, they're they're too young and smart to to

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01:49:34,640 --> 01:49:36,280
Speaker 1: listen to you when you're an old guy like me.

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Speaker 1: Just remember I said that, mad girl, and I'm looking

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Speaker 1: forward to the leadership of this position group Chremaine Edmonds

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01:49:45,160 --> 01:49:47,920
Speaker 1: and Matt Milano still too younger players in the NFL,

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01:49:47,960 --> 01:49:50,240
Speaker 1: and the strides that Chremaine was able to make last

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01:49:50,360 --> 01:49:53,439
Speaker 1: year going into this year, the leadership steps that he's

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01:49:53,560 --> 01:49:56,519
Speaker 1: picked up, and the conversations that I'm sure he's had

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01:49:56,560 --> 01:50:01,200
Speaker 1: with Lorenzo as Lorenzo's left the program, left the Bills.

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01:50:01,640 --> 01:50:04,240
Speaker 1: I mean, he has some holes to fill with it

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01:50:04,320 --> 01:50:06,960
Speaker 1: with a leadership position, and I'm excited to see what

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01:50:07,400 --> 01:50:09,960
Speaker 1: those two can do when it comes to leading some

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01:50:10,040 --> 01:50:14,719
Speaker 1: of these younger linebackers and making indifference on this roster

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01:50:14,960 --> 01:50:19,040
Speaker 1: and earning more respect from the national media because I

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01:50:19,160 --> 01:50:21,800
Speaker 1: think Tremaine Edmonds is going to be one of the

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01:50:21,920 --> 01:50:26,000
Speaker 1: best linebackers out there in the NFL. Totally agree with you.

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01:50:26,320 --> 01:50:28,080
Speaker 1: I think it's it's fun to watch these guys play.

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01:50:28,160 --> 01:50:30,599
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmunds is going to take another step forward this year.

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01:50:30,640 --> 01:50:32,880
Speaker 1: He's training with his two brothers, who both played for

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01:50:32,920 --> 01:50:35,759
Speaker 1: the Steelers. How about that living room? How about that table?

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01:50:35,960 --> 01:50:37,800
Speaker 1: You know, Mom and Dad, you know you're coming down.

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01:50:37,840 --> 01:50:40,519
Speaker 1: You've got three guys that are like nineteen nine feet

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01:50:40,600 --> 01:50:43,160
Speaker 1: tall each, you know, coming to the table for breakfast.

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Speaker 1: That's hilarious to think about and their dad's bigger than

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Speaker 1: all of them. Did you know that true? Yes, Farrell Edmund.

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Speaker 1: Did you see him in South Carolina when he's down

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01:50:49,920 --> 01:50:53,400
Speaker 1: to watch Tremaine practice? I recognize. I played with him

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Speaker 1: a couple of Pro Bowls, and I forgot what an

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01:50:56,200 --> 01:51:00,639
Speaker 1: immense human being. Tremaine Edmund's father is Farrell. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: he's so big. He's great, dude, though. Good stuff. All right,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break tomorrow. We've got Lorenzo Alexander

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01:51:07,320 --> 01:51:09,679
Speaker 1: coming on the show, Steve Murray Ucci from the NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: Later on in the week. Also, Brian Baldinger is going

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01:51:12,479 --> 01:51:14,320
Speaker 1: to come on and talk with us. It'll be fun

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01:51:14,360 --> 01:51:16,800
Speaker 1: to catch up with Baldy as well. But coming up

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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour, we've got the CEO

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01:51:20,880 --> 01:51:26,560
Speaker 1: of USA Football, Scott Hallenbeck. I want to say that

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01:51:26,640 --> 01:51:28,400
Speaker 1: exactly right. It's right. He's gonna come on with us

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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour. This Steve Tasker Maddie

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Speaker 1: Glab on One Bills Live. It's presented by Kalida Hell.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker and Mattie Glab Welcome back to one Bills Live

2178
01:51:45,720 --> 01:51:49,000
Speaker 1: we're speaking to. We've had a couple of guests, Nate

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Speaker 1: Davis on the line. Also, we've got Lorenzo Alexander's team,

2180
01:51:51,760 --> 01:51:53,800
Speaker 1: Murri Ucci coming in tomorrow. But right now we've got

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Speaker 1: the USA Football CEO. He's been in that post since

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Speaker 1: two thousand and five, Scott Hallenbeck's Scott, thanks for coming on. Stephen,

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01:52:01,720 --> 01:52:03,360
Speaker 1: Maddy here in Buffalo. What have you got on your

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01:52:03,400 --> 01:52:10,760
Speaker 1: mind today? Scott? Are you still there? Hey? How are

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01:52:10,760 --> 01:52:13,800
Speaker 1: you doing a good How are you? And Steven Steve

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01:52:13,840 --> 01:52:16,000
Speaker 1: Tasker and Maddy glab here in Buffalo. Thanks for coming

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01:52:16,040 --> 01:52:17,679
Speaker 1: on with you. Are you doing okay in the pandemic?

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01:52:17,720 --> 01:52:21,400
Speaker 1: Are you staying healthy? Thank you, sir? I am how

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01:52:21,439 --> 01:52:23,880
Speaker 1: about you guys, We're doing great. I was going to

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01:52:23,920 --> 01:52:26,639
Speaker 1: ask you how how big an adjustment has this pandemic

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01:52:26,760 --> 01:52:28,080
Speaker 1: been for you? I mean it's been a little bit

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01:52:28,120 --> 01:52:30,320
Speaker 1: in the off season. The NFL has benefited, and that

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01:52:30,439 --> 01:52:32,840
Speaker 1: it started kind of right after their season ended, and

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01:52:33,520 --> 01:52:35,840
Speaker 1: it's going on through the off season and they may

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01:52:35,880 --> 01:52:37,400
Speaker 1: get to a point where we can have games. What

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Speaker 1: about USA Football, the youth football that's going on. How

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Speaker 1: big an adjustment is this going to be? For you guys,

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Speaker 1: do you see, Well, it's been considerable. Frankly started with

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Speaker 1: just the fact that you know, the entire staff went remote,

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01:52:48,600 --> 01:52:51,280
Speaker 1: So that was you know, that was a first, and

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Speaker 1: I'm glad that we all responded very positively and effectively there.

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01:52:55,680 --> 01:52:57,880
Speaker 1: And then as it relates to our constituents, you know,

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01:52:58,280 --> 01:53:00,759
Speaker 1: we do a lot of our work in the offseason,

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01:53:00,920 --> 01:53:05,160
Speaker 1: so many coach events and clinics and camps and things

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01:53:05,200 --> 01:53:08,200
Speaker 1: of that nature where we can work together to obviously

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01:53:08,360 --> 01:53:10,960
Speaker 1: make the game better, and pretty much all of that

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01:53:11,080 --> 01:53:13,840
Speaker 1: has been canceled, so we've been trying to come up

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01:53:13,880 --> 01:53:17,479
Speaker 1: with new innovative ways to engage. We've done some really

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Speaker 1: good things in terms of research, and we call town halls.

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01:53:22,280 --> 01:53:25,439
Speaker 1: You know, we wear out zoom like pretty much everybody else.

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01:53:26,320 --> 01:53:28,960
Speaker 1: But it's been very effective. Actually, we've really seen a

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01:53:29,560 --> 01:53:33,080
Speaker 1: sort of coming together of the football constituency and coaches

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01:53:33,160 --> 01:53:36,840
Speaker 1: and commissioners and parent meetings and all kinds of things.

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01:53:36,840 --> 01:53:38,479
Speaker 1: So we've done just about anything we can do to

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01:53:38,840 --> 01:53:42,680
Speaker 1: remain engaged and to share information and to show that

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01:53:42,760 --> 01:53:45,439
Speaker 1: we're here to support and care about everybody out there.

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01:53:45,520 --> 01:53:48,000
Speaker 1: And I think overall it's gone about as well as

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Speaker 1: it could go, Scott. For people who don't know about

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01:53:52,080 --> 01:53:54,799
Speaker 1: us USA football, can you give us a little background

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01:53:54,840 --> 01:53:57,320
Speaker 1: and tell us what the goal of USA Football is.

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01:53:58,240 --> 01:54:01,080
Speaker 1: Of course, so where the nowational governing body and our

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01:54:01,120 --> 01:54:05,439
Speaker 1: focus is really on just trying to advance, lead, and

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01:54:06,120 --> 01:54:09,799
Speaker 1: grow the sport of football. So it starts with education.

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01:54:10,320 --> 01:54:13,040
Speaker 1: We do a ton of coaching education. We're closely with

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01:54:13,120 --> 01:54:16,040
Speaker 1: commissioners and the best practices in terms of how they

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01:54:16,120 --> 01:54:20,240
Speaker 1: can continue to evolve and develop their leagues. Ultimately, all

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Speaker 1: of which is focused on creating a positive and great

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01:54:25,160 --> 01:54:29,160
Speaker 1: experience for the players and the parents in youth football.

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01:54:29,760 --> 01:54:32,240
Speaker 1: Work closely with a lot of great high school programs

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01:54:32,280 --> 01:54:34,520
Speaker 1: and high school coaches on a tour of which are

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01:54:34,720 --> 01:54:37,600
Speaker 1: in your backyard that will be working together on this project.

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01:54:38,480 --> 01:54:42,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, we focus largely on just the development side

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Speaker 1: of the sport and delivering safety measures to make it

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01:54:46,800 --> 01:54:50,680
Speaker 1: just a great experience for all those that participate. We're

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01:54:50,720 --> 01:54:54,120
Speaker 1: talking to Scott Hallenbeck. Do you CEO of USA Football

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01:54:54,200 --> 01:54:57,720
Speaker 1: and you've got a webinar series. You mentioned the remote

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01:54:57,760 --> 01:55:01,080
Speaker 1: working of your staff. You've got now what would usually

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01:55:01,160 --> 01:55:03,520
Speaker 1: take place on the field. You've got a webinar coming

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01:55:03,600 --> 01:55:06,200
Speaker 1: up and it's going to happen this Wednesday. Can you

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about what you expect to

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01:55:07,960 --> 01:55:10,680
Speaker 1: come out of that and what are the goal what's

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01:55:10,720 --> 01:55:14,200
Speaker 1: the goal of this webinar on Wednesday? Yeah, so yeah,

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01:55:14,280 --> 01:55:17,360
Speaker 1: perfect segue. I mean we you know, we can't unfortunately

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01:55:17,400 --> 01:55:19,360
Speaker 1: be there in person together, which would be all of

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01:55:19,400 --> 01:55:25,680
Speaker 1: our first choice. But through some creative ideas and steps,

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01:55:25,800 --> 01:55:29,480
Speaker 1: you know, a group of us, including Pressutigue and the

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01:55:29,960 --> 01:55:33,000
Speaker 1: great team at the Bills with our team, came together

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01:55:33,280 --> 01:55:37,840
Speaker 1: with creating a three part virtual clinic series. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be focused on building better programs and players. On

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Speaker 1: this Wednesday, June third, we're gonna have a prep for

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Speaker 1: Contact program addressing the psychological principles that underpinn contact on

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01:55:49,280 --> 01:55:53,000
Speaker 1: June tenth, and then blocking and Tackling on June seventeenth.

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01:55:53,120 --> 01:55:57,240
Speaker 1: So some really great coaches in again in your backyard

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01:55:57,840 --> 01:56:02,120
Speaker 1: Coach are Bartosik and Coach Current. UH. Coach Current's one

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Speaker 1: of our master trainers and just two great coaches that

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01:56:05,240 --> 01:56:08,120
Speaker 1: will be part of this process. Um. So we we

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01:56:08,720 --> 01:56:11,560
Speaker 1: believe that this is about as good a way as

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01:56:11,640 --> 01:56:17,080
Speaker 1: we can engage and continue to educate and support and train. UH.

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01:56:17,200 --> 01:56:21,120
Speaker 1: You know, the constituents, given the circumstances. So so we

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01:56:21,240 --> 01:56:23,680
Speaker 1: think it's sort of we're excited about it. We've had

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Speaker 1: a few other occasions where we've done this with great success,

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01:56:28,120 --> 01:56:32,240
Speaker 1: so we're confident that this would be nothing short of that. Now.

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01:56:32,320 --> 01:56:35,880
Speaker 1: You also, we heard that Leslie Frasier, the defensive coordinator

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01:56:35,880 --> 01:56:37,280
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, is going to be part of a

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01:56:37,360 --> 01:56:40,680
Speaker 1: webinar this Wednesday. Is that true and how that came about? Yes? Actually,

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01:56:40,720 --> 01:56:42,840
Speaker 1: I just I just learned that as well, So we're

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01:56:42,840 --> 01:56:46,280
Speaker 1: really excited about that. Again, just shows shows the you know,

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01:56:46,480 --> 01:56:50,680
Speaker 1: the the great support that the Bills at large offer. Um,

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01:56:51,120 --> 01:56:53,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a you know, a great community

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01:56:53,080 --> 01:56:55,840
Speaker 1: of football, and it's just so exciting to be able

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01:56:55,880 --> 01:56:58,520
Speaker 1: to get sort of this that kind of representation and

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01:56:58,600 --> 01:57:01,680
Speaker 1: support I know, to go along way from from those

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01:57:01,760 --> 01:57:05,640
Speaker 1: attending and participating in the in the virtual clinics. So yeah,

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01:57:05,680 --> 01:57:10,200
Speaker 1: excited to have them. If people are interested to sign

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01:57:10,320 --> 01:57:12,680
Speaker 1: up for this webinar, how can they sign up and

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01:57:12,760 --> 01:57:15,640
Speaker 1: where should they go? So you can go to USA

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01:57:15,760 --> 01:57:20,560
Speaker 1: football dot com backslash Bills webinar and you can it's

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01:57:20,640 --> 01:57:23,120
Speaker 1: free of charge. O'my sure, it's very clear so we

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01:57:23,200 --> 01:57:26,640
Speaker 1: obviously welcome any and all. I mean, you know obviously

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01:57:26,840 --> 01:57:29,960
Speaker 1: based on the topics. I mean most would think your

2281
01:57:29,960 --> 01:57:32,920
Speaker 1: coaches or something like that, but any and all are welcome.

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01:57:33,320 --> 01:57:38,240
Speaker 1: Uh it's you know, we're gonna just you register there

2283
01:57:38,360 --> 01:57:41,280
Speaker 1: and it'll be a zoom conference and all the details

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01:57:41,360 --> 01:57:44,600
Speaker 1: are listed there. So again, USA football dot com backslash

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01:57:44,640 --> 01:57:47,480
Speaker 1: bills webinars is the place to go. Do you have

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01:57:47,600 --> 01:57:49,640
Speaker 1: any kind of gut feeling what this season will look

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01:57:49,720 --> 01:57:52,040
Speaker 1: like in youth football across America? I know I for

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01:57:52,120 --> 01:57:54,960
Speaker 1: a minute or two, well more than that, I have

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01:57:55,040 --> 01:57:57,240
Speaker 1: four sons, they all played youth football. I kind of

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01:57:57,320 --> 01:57:59,480
Speaker 1: helped out, you know, I was the assistant to the

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01:57:59,520 --> 01:58:03,360
Speaker 1: assistant to the assistant to the assistant because that's all

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01:58:03,440 --> 01:58:05,880
Speaker 1: that's all the pressure I could take. So yeah, how

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01:58:06,000 --> 01:58:08,200
Speaker 1: is do you have a gut feeling it, Scott about

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01:58:08,240 --> 01:58:10,200
Speaker 1: how this season's gonna look Do you think it'll happen

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01:58:10,280 --> 01:58:12,560
Speaker 1: or will we just kind of step back, take a

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01:58:12,680 --> 01:58:14,920
Speaker 1: year off and then grab it and grab hold of

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01:58:14,960 --> 01:58:17,480
Speaker 1: it next spring? You know, what's what's your gut feeling

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01:58:17,480 --> 01:58:20,720
Speaker 1: about how this will resolve? Well, actually, now we've been

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01:58:20,920 --> 01:58:24,520
Speaker 1: very proactive again through this f outreach effort working with

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01:58:25,000 --> 01:58:27,320
Speaker 1: um you know, members of the youth football community and

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01:58:27,400 --> 01:58:29,880
Speaker 1: leaders of the football community across the country, and you know,

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01:58:30,040 --> 01:58:32,840
Speaker 1: much like you hear the guidance from you know, the

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01:58:32,960 --> 01:58:36,560
Speaker 1: CDC and the US Olympic Committee and uh, you know,

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01:58:36,640 --> 01:58:40,680
Speaker 1: you name it, it's all about local So uh, it's

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01:58:40,760 --> 01:58:43,440
Speaker 1: it starts with what's what are the best practices, where

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01:58:43,520 --> 01:58:46,320
Speaker 1: the steps how quickly are we opening in your local communities?

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01:58:46,760 --> 01:58:49,240
Speaker 1: Clearly we have to follow that guidance first and foremost.

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01:58:49,680 --> 01:58:52,520
Speaker 1: Then it's about sort of the partnerships in your community.

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01:58:52,560 --> 01:58:54,840
Speaker 1: You know, what's the state of your fields, parks and

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Speaker 1: rex open, uh, schools open, et cetera. So we're working

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Speaker 1: closely at the High School Federation and of course all

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Speaker 1: their state associations. So I guess a long way to

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Speaker 1: say it's good, we believe we're confident right now that

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Speaker 1: things are progressing the right way. So there's a level

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Speaker 1: of optimism that's really exciting. Uh. You know, I guess

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Speaker 1: I would position myself as cautiously optimistic, probably more responsibly

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Speaker 1: than anything else. And so we're just working closely with

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Speaker 1: our constituents. We have a return to football three phased plan.

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Speaker 1: We're about to release the second phase, which starts to

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Speaker 1: get into best practices and considerations for making sure you're

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Speaker 1: setting up your league and you're you know, that field

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Speaker 1: of play and the area around the field and all

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Speaker 1: of those areas. We're being as responsible as we possibly

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Speaker 1: can to give everybody confidence. So the constituents have been great.

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Speaker 1: They all weigh in on different ideas and they're sharing information. Again.

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Speaker 1: To collaboration has probably been the highest I've ever seen

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Speaker 1: in across you football. That's really exciting. So I guess

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Speaker 1: a long way to say that I'm confident that at

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Speaker 1: this stage, you know that at this moment, granted things

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Speaker 1: change quickly, we are definitely head in the right direction

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Speaker 1: and we'll work closely with our constituents and sort of

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Speaker 1: every little local community to try to help them do

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Speaker 1: things the best and right way so we get back

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Speaker 1: and have just a great experience with football again. Scott,

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Speaker 1: we wish you all the best, thanks for coming on

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Speaker 1: with us, and we hope you guys have a fantastic

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Speaker 1: season and good luck with the webinar series coming up,

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Speaker 1: the first one here this Wednesday. Thank you so much. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you guys. Take care. Scott Hallenbeck USA Football CEO

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Speaker 1: coming up. There's a webinar series coming up, and I

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Speaker 1: think it's three consecutive Sundays, the June third, June tenth,

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Speaker 1: and June seventeenth. They'll have different type of preparation for

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Speaker 1: coaches and programs, how you can build your team, how

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Speaker 1: you can get your kids ready for contact and football

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02:00:52,760 --> 02:00:55,680
Speaker 1: and blocking and tackling techniques coming up. Good luck to

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Speaker 1: him as Scott Hallenbeck and the rest of USA Football.

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Speaker 1: Good h I hope it does happen for the youth

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02:01:02,280 --> 02:01:05,040
Speaker 1: of football. I know all the kids that out there

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02:01:05,080 --> 02:01:07,760
Speaker 1: that love playing and the families that love taking part

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02:01:07,800 --> 02:01:11,800
Speaker 1: in it, it'll be an interesting year for them as well. Yeah,

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02:01:11,960 --> 02:01:15,080
Speaker 1: it'll it'll be exciting once youth sports starts up again.

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02:01:15,120 --> 02:01:16,920
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of kids who are cooped

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Speaker 1: up at home right now and parents are probably thinking,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I wish we had games to drive

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02:01:21,800 --> 02:01:24,160
Speaker 1: you two. I complain about driving into games, but I

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Speaker 1: wish those were going on. So I think this is

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Speaker 1: definitely a step in the right direction. And those webinar

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Speaker 1: replays are going to be available at Buffalo bills dot

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Speaker 1: com as well, so if you miss out, you can

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Speaker 1: always head to the website. Also fill in the bank blank.

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Speaker 1: What's the biggest surprise from the Buffalo Bills in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: We've had a lot of feedback from it. We also

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02:01:44,360 --> 02:01:46,520
Speaker 1: had one from from David and this is one that's

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Speaker 1: so topical. It's funny because Josh out the surprise. Josh

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02:01:50,080 --> 02:01:51,920
Speaker 1: Allen is going to be on the cover of Madden.

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Speaker 1: That's what you've always said. A lot of people have

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02:01:54,640 --> 02:01:56,320
Speaker 1: said that's always been a curse for the guys who

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Speaker 1: did it. Although Pat Mahomes was on at this last year,

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Speaker 1: was he and what happened to him? Well for him?

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Speaker 1: I think pretty good there, and they yeah, pretty good.

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Speaker 1: That'll be all right. I'll sign up for that. Yeah,

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02:02:12,720 --> 02:02:16,280
Speaker 1: that would be a surprise. If Josh challes on the

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Speaker 1: cover Madden, that means he would have had an amazing season.

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02:02:19,640 --> 02:02:23,520
Speaker 1: And that also we got another tweet from Pat he

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Speaker 1: says a dominant offense will be the biggest surprise this season.

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02:02:26,960 --> 02:02:28,920
Speaker 1: I feel with Josh in Florida, with the most of

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02:02:29,000 --> 02:02:31,920
Speaker 1: his offensive teammates working out at this time, just shows

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02:02:31,960 --> 02:02:34,920
Speaker 1: the determinational leadership he has to make them better. The

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02:02:35,000 --> 02:02:38,880
Speaker 1: cultures in full bloom this season that would listen. If

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Speaker 1: the Bills have a dominating offense this season, there is

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02:02:43,280 --> 02:02:46,960
Speaker 1: nobody that's going to be more surprised than me. I

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02:02:47,160 --> 02:02:49,320
Speaker 1: just this is a team that's built around their defense.

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02:02:49,520 --> 02:02:52,160
Speaker 1: You don't need their defense to be dominating, and yet

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02:02:52,680 --> 02:02:55,120
Speaker 1: they have taken proper steps to where they got some

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02:02:55,200 --> 02:02:57,840
Speaker 1: pieces in place that if Josh turns it around or

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02:02:57,960 --> 02:03:00,360
Speaker 1: not turns it around, but turns it up and does

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02:03:00,440 --> 02:03:03,720
Speaker 1: get to the sixty five percent threshold and he cuts

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02:03:03,760 --> 02:03:06,800
Speaker 1: down on his turnovers and they use him and Brian

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02:03:06,920 --> 02:03:09,400
Speaker 1: Dable will be creative and he'll do those. The thing

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02:03:09,480 --> 02:03:12,400
Speaker 1: in the play that gets me about this last season

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02:03:13,160 --> 02:03:19,080
Speaker 1: Week two in New York, where they snap the ball

2392
02:03:19,120 --> 02:03:21,400
Speaker 1: out of shotgun to Josh Allen and the whole the

2393
02:03:21,560 --> 02:03:24,600
Speaker 1: offensive line and both backs pull out ahead of him

2394
02:03:24,600 --> 02:03:26,760
Speaker 1: and it's like student body right right into the end

2395
02:03:26,840 --> 02:03:30,480
Speaker 1: zone against the Giant's unbelievable. That kind of thing really

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02:03:30,600 --> 02:03:33,200
Speaker 1: plays for me to use Josh both in the run

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02:03:33,280 --> 02:03:35,800
Speaker 1: in the past and if he's throwing the football well

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02:03:36,600 --> 02:03:39,920
Speaker 1: this year, man oh man, they will be. They will

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02:03:40,000 --> 02:03:42,840
Speaker 1: be tough to be, really tough to be. I think

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Speaker 1: there is an expectation, of course for this offense to

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02:03:45,720 --> 02:03:48,760
Speaker 1: be better this season, rightfully, so, I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: an expectation for them to be dominant because, like you said,

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02:03:52,280 --> 02:03:55,600
Speaker 1: the team is carried by the defense, the offense is dominant.

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02:03:56,480 --> 02:03:58,640
Speaker 1: That would I think that would take this team to

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02:03:58,760 --> 02:04:03,240
Speaker 1: new heights in the coming years as well. And I

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02:04:03,360 --> 02:04:05,800
Speaker 1: can't wait to see what Brian Dable does this season

2407
02:04:06,240 --> 02:04:09,760
Speaker 1: when he reaches into those bag of tricks on offense,

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02:04:10,920 --> 02:04:14,280
Speaker 1: good things happen. Uh. Deon Dawkins was seen running some

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02:04:14,480 --> 02:04:18,200
Speaker 1: routes in Florida, and those routes they looked pretty crispy.

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02:04:18,440 --> 02:04:21,040
Speaker 1: Might I say, uh, Dion, I would love you to

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02:04:21,120 --> 02:04:23,680
Speaker 1: line up at wide receiver a player two. I'm all

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Speaker 1: for it. He was burning corner Isaiah McKenzie on some

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02:04:29,400 --> 02:04:33,200
Speaker 1: of those routes. Well, isamh. McKenzie is not a corner

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Speaker 1: And if if you will put it this way, if

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Speaker 1: you can't cover a left tackle playing wide receiver, you're

2416
02:04:42,400 --> 02:04:45,080
Speaker 1: not a cornerback. That's all I could say. I can

2417
02:04:45,160 --> 02:04:47,840
Speaker 1: get the matchup problem where they throw the high fade

2418
02:04:47,880 --> 02:04:50,680
Speaker 1: to the big boy, but yep, if you can't, come on, man,

2419
02:04:51,360 --> 02:04:53,840
Speaker 1: come on man. I think he had to do with

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02:04:54,000 --> 02:04:58,360
Speaker 1: Deon's size and Isam McKenzie's size, but still, you know, yeah,

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02:04:58,360 --> 02:05:00,880
Speaker 1: it tough. It'd be tough to go Dion Dawkins on

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02:05:00,960 --> 02:05:02,680
Speaker 1: the hook route, that's for sure. You'd have to run

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02:05:02,720 --> 02:05:04,960
Speaker 1: around a lot of body to get out in front

2424
02:05:04,960 --> 02:05:08,440
Speaker 1: of him. What do you think the biggest surprise for

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02:05:08,440 --> 02:05:11,240
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills will be in twenty twenty one? From

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02:05:12,240 --> 02:05:16,120
Speaker 1: from Bobby He said this. He says the biggest surprise

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02:05:16,200 --> 02:05:18,800
Speaker 1: for the Bills this year they'll set the NFL single

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Speaker 1: season record for interceptions and interception return tds, including seven

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02:05:23,920 --> 02:05:28,200
Speaker 1: picks and three touchdowns for Tradevious White and three interceptions

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02:05:28,280 --> 02:05:33,680
Speaker 1: and one td for Tremaine Edmonds. I'd sign up for that.

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02:05:33,920 --> 02:05:36,200
Speaker 1: I think that is one thing that the defense has

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02:05:36,320 --> 02:05:39,160
Speaker 1: missed this last year. Now. They were they were dominating,

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02:05:39,200 --> 02:05:41,240
Speaker 1: they were really tough to move the ball on, but

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02:05:41,400 --> 02:05:43,880
Speaker 1: they weren't spectacular, and by that, I mean, you know

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02:05:43,960 --> 02:05:46,920
Speaker 1: they weren't. They weren't like ten sacks ahead of the

2436
02:05:47,080 --> 02:05:50,160
Speaker 1: league early in the season by jumping out into early

2437
02:05:50,280 --> 02:05:51,920
Speaker 1: leaguan sacks. They didn't get in most of their sacks

2438
02:05:52,000 --> 02:05:54,240
Speaker 1: until the second half of the year, and they didn't

2439
02:05:54,280 --> 02:05:56,720
Speaker 1: get a lot of turnovers this year. Although they were.

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02:05:57,200 --> 02:06:00,280
Speaker 1: They got him early in the season, they had to

2441
02:06:00,360 --> 02:06:03,320
Speaker 1: overcome a lot of turnovers by the offense until I

2442
02:06:03,400 --> 02:06:06,760
Speaker 1: think through week six, Josh was throwing too many interceptions.

2443
02:06:07,080 --> 02:06:08,600
Speaker 1: It took them a while, but they did get on

2444
02:06:08,680 --> 02:06:10,400
Speaker 1: top of that and they got a lot of turnovers,

2445
02:06:10,440 --> 02:06:14,640
Speaker 1: but they weren't spectacularly timely turnovers. And I think if

2446
02:06:14,720 --> 02:06:16,600
Speaker 1: they were going to improve on one aspect, or a

2447
02:06:16,680 --> 02:06:19,120
Speaker 1: couple of aspects on the game, turnovers to be one

2448
02:06:19,200 --> 02:06:21,720
Speaker 1: of them, and the other would probably be red zone defense.

2449
02:06:21,760 --> 02:06:24,320
Speaker 1: And they'll tell you that themselves. Yeah, they had a

2450
02:06:24,400 --> 02:06:26,920
Speaker 1: couple great goal line stands there this season, but I

2451
02:06:26,960 --> 02:06:28,600
Speaker 1: think if they can add on to that and do

2452
02:06:28,720 --> 02:06:31,640
Speaker 1: that more regularly, have a turnover a game, Yeah, this

2453
02:06:31,880 --> 02:06:34,760
Speaker 1: defense is going to be better. Yeah, we're gonna take

2454
02:06:34,800 --> 02:06:38,360
Speaker 1: a break. Maddie Glass, Steve Tasker. We're broadcasting from our

2455
02:06:38,440 --> 02:06:40,960
Speaker 1: homes all week. Maddie's in with me. It's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Clyde Help. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: with what have we learned right after this. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio, brought to you by Skyworks, the official

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Speaker 1: USA Today. We had Nate Davis on. He had a

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Speaker 1: nice article about twenty rookies he thought would really contribute

2462
02:07:15,800 --> 02:07:18,520
Speaker 1: to the teams they were chosen by on draft Day,

2463
02:07:18,800 --> 02:07:22,080
Speaker 1: and he talked about the Bills running back Zach Moss.

2464
02:07:22,160 --> 02:07:24,280
Speaker 1: And here's what Nate Davis of USA Today had to

2465
02:07:24,320 --> 02:07:26,680
Speaker 1: say about the Bills running back. He is an angry,

2466
02:07:26,960 --> 02:07:29,360
Speaker 1: violent runner um and I think he's the kind of

2467
02:07:29,400 --> 02:07:31,200
Speaker 1: guy that that's really going to do a nice job

2468
02:07:31,560 --> 02:07:35,560
Speaker 1: wearing teams down. And again, you know hard working guy

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Speaker 1: that's gonna You're gonna be it for a long day.

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02:07:37,760 --> 02:07:40,960
Speaker 1: If you see Zach Moss getting fifteen or twenty touches

2471
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Speaker 1: a day, and I think it's only going to help

2472
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Speaker 1: them in singletary who I would expect it's going to

2473
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Speaker 1: be the guy that's going to be playing more on

2474
02:07:47,040 --> 02:07:48,800
Speaker 1: the passing downs. But I think I think those two

2475
02:07:48,840 --> 02:07:51,520
Speaker 1: guys should compliment each other with their relative skill sets

2476
02:07:52,200 --> 02:07:55,080
Speaker 1: very nicely. That is what we learned. Brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Skyworks, the official equipment and const rental company of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Maddie. That was we also did a

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Speaker 1: State of the Bills today and we went down the linebackackers,

2480
02:08:04,560 --> 02:08:06,560
Speaker 1: and we you and I both agree you kind of

2481
02:08:06,600 --> 02:08:08,960
Speaker 1: got the top of it with Milano and Edmonds, and

2482
02:08:09,000 --> 02:08:11,760
Speaker 1: the rest of it maybe Klein and Meta Kevig. The

2483
02:08:11,840 --> 02:08:13,680
Speaker 1: rest of it comes down to these guys and special

2484
02:08:13,720 --> 02:08:16,480
Speaker 1: teams and how bad they want it. Yeah, totally. The

2485
02:08:16,680 --> 02:08:19,240
Speaker 1: top half half is filled out. The bottom half is

2486
02:08:19,720 --> 02:08:22,440
Speaker 1: what can you do in phase three of the game

2487
02:08:22,480 --> 02:08:24,600
Speaker 1: and how can you add on special teams. That's that's

2488
02:08:24,640 --> 02:08:26,480
Speaker 1: what's going to get you out to this roster. That's

2489
02:08:26,520 --> 02:08:30,560
Speaker 1: what Sean McDermott has preached since he has entered the building.

2490
02:08:30,800 --> 02:08:33,840
Speaker 1: So I think it'll be a fun group to watch.

2491
02:08:34,560 --> 02:08:36,640
Speaker 1: Mattie's in all week. Later on in the week we're

2492
02:08:36,640 --> 02:08:39,080
Speaker 1: gonna have Brian ball Digger on with us. But tomorrow

2493
02:08:39,120 --> 02:08:42,720
Speaker 1: we've got Lorenzo Alexander and NFL Networks former head coach

2494
02:08:42,800 --> 02:08:45,080
Speaker 1: Steve Merrit's gonna come on. And also we did the

2495
02:08:45,120 --> 02:08:48,959
Speaker 1: State of the Bills Linebackers today. Tomorrow, Mattie has decided

2496
02:08:49,320 --> 02:08:52,240
Speaker 1: that we're gonna naturally yea, we would read and tweeter.

2497
02:08:52,280 --> 02:08:54,440
Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about the tight ends. We're gonna do State

2498
02:08:54,480 --> 02:08:57,080
Speaker 1: of the Bills tight Ends tomorrow. We'll also touch back

2499
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Speaker 1: on the linebacker conversation we had today with Lorenzo. You

2500
02:09:00,160 --> 02:09:03,720
Speaker 1: have something to say, right, Maddie, Oh, definitely. I want

2501
02:09:03,760 --> 02:09:07,600
Speaker 1: to hear Lorenzo's thoughts on the state of the linebacker

2502
02:09:07,680 --> 02:09:10,360
Speaker 1: group and how he thinks it. It's left off with

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Speaker 1: him retiring, and there's a lot to talk about what

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02:09:13,080 --> 02:09:15,160
Speaker 1: tight ends group. There's a lot of those guys in

2505
02:09:15,240 --> 02:09:17,360
Speaker 1: that room, there are, and that's gonna be fun too.

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02:09:17,400 --> 02:09:19,760
Speaker 1: I want to watch him now that he's retired. I

2507
02:09:19,760 --> 02:09:21,240
Speaker 1: wonder if he's gonna go back to way in three

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Speaker 1: hundred pounds. I know I would. I have to all

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Speaker 1: bust his chops about that. All right, Steve Tasker and

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Speaker 1: matt Mattie's been a great first day. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for being here. Wells have we you back with us

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Speaker 1: all week? This is Steve Tasker Mattie Glab We'll be

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