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Speaker 1: I first came in the league, you know, I played

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Speaker 1: with Hanes Ward and Mike Wallace and Being Roethlisberger, Troy Polamalou,

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Speaker 1: all these guys, and I had the pleasure going to

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Speaker 1: dinner playing with the Marcus Ware and Pay Manning and um,

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Speaker 1: you know. Then I went to New Orleans and San France.

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Speaker 1: I've been around with some Hall of Fame guys, and

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Speaker 1: one thing about me is I always say that, you know,

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Speaker 1: if you ever want to be great at something, you

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Speaker 1: you look at the people that are great at it.

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Speaker 1: And so you know, I've studied the way to pay

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Speaker 1: Manning has has has become a pro, and the Marcus

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Speaker 1: Where and Being Roethlisbury, all these guys, an Tonio Brown.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I feel like, you know, that's me.

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Speaker 1: I show up and I just try to do the

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Speaker 1: right thing and try to be an example. And if

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Speaker 1: I see something that that that's wrong, you know, obviously

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna, you know, say something about it. But I

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Speaker 1: just I just want to be an example and show

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Speaker 1: the young guys they got questions they want to ask.

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Speaker 1: The young guys walking to me ask me some questions.

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Speaker 1: And for me, I'm just talking. But you know, they

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Speaker 1: received my information of how to be a pro to

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Speaker 1: and how to think and what to look for and

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Speaker 1: so um. You know, I just I just want to

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Speaker 1: be that veterans that veteran presence. You guys have a

452
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Speaker 1: great deal of pressure and just being in the NFL,

453
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Speaker 1: making it to this point and the expectations for this

454
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Speaker 1: team are so high. A few minutes of who you're

455
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Speaker 1: talking about how important it was to have fun. How

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Speaker 1: do you make sure that you guys are actually having

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Speaker 1: fun as the day to start to wear on and

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Speaker 1: I mean it's a grind, right, So like, how do

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Speaker 1: you how do you make sure that you have fun?

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Speaker 1: This is in you right, Like, yeah, I don't have

461
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Speaker 1: to think about it before because I'm doing what I

462
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Speaker 1: love to do. Like this is what I love to do, dude, Like,

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Speaker 1: I'm passionate about this. So it's fun in general, it's

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Speaker 1: fun to get up and work out and chase a goal.

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Speaker 1: That's it's fun to me. It's fun to go out

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Speaker 1: and go against uh, you know, to seven and see

467
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Speaker 1: John stow the ball and see Steph go crazy overall play.

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Speaker 1: That's this is this is what we love to do.

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Speaker 1: And I think that when you want to talk about

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Speaker 1: this organizations just a football team in general, Um, that's

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm bought fun. You got a group of

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Speaker 1: guys that's passionate about what they do. And you would

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Speaker 1: think that everybody's passionate about it, but some people is

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Speaker 1: just good at it. Passionate and good it's two different things.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that in this building, we got

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys that's passionate about what they're doing

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Speaker 1: and they want to be successful and they're having fun

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Speaker 1: and doing what they do they love to do. Josh

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Speaker 1: calling us about you get up in front of the

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Speaker 1: team and you know, talking a little bit about your experience.

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Speaker 1: What were some of the things that you said and

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Speaker 1: what did you learn about this group that first big

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Speaker 1: moment with them from the guys? Yeah, I mean for me,

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Speaker 1: like I believe it's not I'm not a big talker.

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Speaker 1: I talked, I don't really like I'd be chilling. So

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Speaker 1: you know, I told myself getting in front of the

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Speaker 1: team just to speak, just to talk, and so I

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Speaker 1: just told them about myself. You know, sometimes you'll go

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Speaker 1: a whole year and you don't even know anything about

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Speaker 1: a guy. So um, you know, I made myself vulnerable.

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Speaker 1: I told him about my family. I told them about

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Speaker 1: my kids, my wife, I told them about you know

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Speaker 1: where I'm from, you know how I was raised. And

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Speaker 1: then I just talked to about my career. And I

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Speaker 1: told him pretty much why why I came here, why

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Speaker 1: I chose Buffalo, um and so um, just to let

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Speaker 1: the guys know me and what I'm about, and you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm willing to do and what I'm wanting

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Speaker 1: to put online, because you know, it's hard to you know,

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Speaker 1: play with a guy you really don't know. And so

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Speaker 1: all the teams that I've been on that have made

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Speaker 1: it to the super Bowl, we've had those off the

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Speaker 1: field type conversations in which you get to know guys

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Speaker 1: and which you grow. I know you've been it's been

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Speaker 1: a while since you've been there. And opening game is

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Speaker 1: against the Steelers, team that drafted you, brought you in

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Speaker 1: this league, then is still there? Coach thomla is still there.

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Speaker 1: You still have a lot of relationships there, and what

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Speaker 1: do you think about them still playing at that level. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't really have a relationship there, but it's all

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Speaker 1: of like Mike Thomond was like a father fig to

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Speaker 1: me there. Oh I never forget the words he told

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Speaker 1: me once I parted. Just every time he turned the film,

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Speaker 1: he just want to see me, you know, dancing and

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Speaker 1: having fun and being a player that I am. So

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Speaker 1: I never forget that I was like for like ten

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Speaker 1: years ago. But yeah, so if we're playing against them,

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I'm gonna take

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Speaker 1: a quote from Mike Thomond, is nameless gray faces. That's

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Speaker 1: in our way to attain our goal. All right. That's

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders addressing the media today after practice number two.

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Speaker 1: Obviously he's already been pretty impressed with what Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: can do on a football field. I guess that's not

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Speaker 1: really surprising. And he said, you know, we heard all

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Speaker 1: the hype about this young quarterback that everybody's talking about

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. It's an offense that intrigued me. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he even admitted when he first signed he would spend

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Speaker 1: his downtime during the season last year, watching Bill's tape

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Speaker 1: because he was so entertained by it. And this is

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Speaker 1: a guy that was playing in an offense run by

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton, you know what I mean. It's not like

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Speaker 1: he was, you know, mired in some kind of unimaginative

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Speaker 1: attack guys. Yeah, but guys whose lights are on and

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Speaker 1: know that, you know, can see the landscape and have

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Speaker 1: been around the block as long as he has, even

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Speaker 1: his twelfth year. He was probably picturing that himself in

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Speaker 1: the Bill's offense. He's probably new, he's known for a

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Speaker 1: couple of years. The Bills had been to sign him,

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Speaker 1: try to sign him a couple of times different times,

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Speaker 1: and probably felt like in his mind, the Bills were

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Speaker 1: kind of a safety net for him. He because I

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Speaker 1: know those guys will give me at least a chance

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Speaker 1: if I'm done or whatever. So watching that offense and

544
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Speaker 1: getting used to what's going on over there probably as much,

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Speaker 1: you know, was a scouting endeavor for him, as it

546
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Speaker 1: was kind of a mouth watering appetizer. He's got to

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Speaker 1: love what those guys are doing with the way they

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Speaker 1: played last year, scoring five hundred points and doing the

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Speaker 1: creative stuff they did, plus with four wides on the

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Speaker 1: field at times more second most in the NFL with

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Speaker 1: four wides and the most with three wides at least

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Speaker 1: on the field. He knows what he's getting into and

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Speaker 1: to come out and see it at first tandis like

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Speaker 1: you and I at the top of the show. We're

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Speaker 1: seeing with the speed with which this team plays and

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Speaker 1: the way they practice. Yeah, he's got to be really

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Speaker 1: really fired up right now to be here. I think

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Speaker 1: the other telling thing that we heard from him is

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Speaker 1: something that we also heard from Cole Beasley yesterday, and

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Speaker 1: that was the ability. It sounds like for receivers to

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Speaker 1: improvise based on how they read leverage or coverage, and

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Speaker 1: you know it might be drawn up in the book

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Speaker 1: a certain way, but when the quarterback tells them, just

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Speaker 1: do what you need to do to get open and

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Speaker 1: I'll find you. I can't imagine and maybe you can

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Speaker 1: speak to this, Steve, how freeing that must feel for

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Speaker 1: a receiver to know he has that kind of license

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Speaker 1: to improvise without fear of it leading to a bad

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Speaker 1: play where there might be a miscommunication with a quarterback

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Speaker 1: and a turnover. They don't seem to have any qualms

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Speaker 1: about improvising if they feel it's going to benefit them

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Speaker 1: getting open and being an option for their quarterback in

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Speaker 1: this system. Yeah, that's not a universal either. There have

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Speaker 1: been guys here in the past where the quarterbacks scrambled

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Speaker 1: out of the pocket they just stop and watch, and

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Speaker 1: I was certainly that's poor coaching, but it's also on

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Speaker 1: the player as well. And I think now at this

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Speaker 1: current level of current point in history of the NFL,

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Speaker 1: you got all these quarterbacks like you know, like Josh,

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Speaker 1: like Lamar, like Russ Wilson, Uh, all these guys that

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Speaker 1: got Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert, these guys that can

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Speaker 1: get out and move quite a bit. That's that's part

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Speaker 1: of the offense. That's really part of the offense. I

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Speaker 1: think for a long time there have been a number

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Speaker 1: of Now, certainly a guy like Mac Jones or Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: you're not improvising with Tom Brady, because the ball is

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Speaker 1: gonna be out on time, it's gonna be on target.

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Speaker 1: You better be open. Peyton Manning, the ball comes out

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Speaker 1: on time. Drew Brees the same thing. Um, certainly there's

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Speaker 1: been a you know, go down the list um of

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Speaker 1: you know of quarterbacks that that have played, Um, Philip Rivers,

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00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: same thing. Uh. The list is really long of guys

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Speaker 1: who were kind of statuesque back there, and for a

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Speaker 1: long time, players you know, expected that man away. You

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Speaker 1: can't do that now it's it's past. It's how how

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Speaker 1: good you can get after the quarterback and can you

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Speaker 1: get turnovers? That's defense today in the NFL. Right, But

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Speaker 1: I guess the point that I'm making is it seems

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Speaker 1: like what is built into this offense is a freedom

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Speaker 1: to improvise within the scope of the passing game. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying it's just helter skelter draw it up in

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Speaker 1: the dirt, but there seemed to be areas where veteran

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Speaker 1: receivers can improvise and tweak whatever there is at the

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Speaker 1: top of their route to facilitate getting separation and providing

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen with a multitude of options. And then it's

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Speaker 1: on the trigger man to deliver the ball to the

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Speaker 1: right place at the right time. And we heard Brian

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Speaker 1: Dable say this last year, I trust Josh Allen completely.

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Speaker 1: And when that trust exists, it seems that it has

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Speaker 1: given Brian Dable the confidence to say, if the way

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Speaker 1: we drew it up is not working, you have the

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Speaker 1: freedom to do what is necessary to win the leverage

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Speaker 1: battle against the defensive back or where his help might be,

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Speaker 1: and go where his help isn't. So you're open and

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Speaker 1: available to Josh because we trust Josh to make the

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Speaker 1: right decision more often than not. And I have to

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Speaker 1: believe that makes an offense that much more difficult to

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Speaker 1: stop when those built in on the fly adjustments exist

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Speaker 1: within the scope of given plays. And I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to pretend to know all the ins and outs of

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Speaker 1: those options, but it's clear they exist in the framework

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Speaker 1: of this offense, and it's going to make this offense

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Speaker 1: even more difficult to stop. We're up against the break here,

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Speaker 1: Steve and I will talk more about that when we

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Speaker 1: come back. We also have Jordan Poyer on the horizon,

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Speaker 1: probably in the second hour of the show. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to him as well. And we have some important NFL

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Speaker 1: news and notes in the AFC and in the division.

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Speaker 1: They concerned Lamar Jackson and Dolphins top corner Xavien Howard,

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Speaker 1: who has already expressed his desire to be traded. There

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Speaker 1: is a new development there we will cover when we

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Speaker 1: return here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health.

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

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. I want to let

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Speaker 1: you know our Twitter poll today concerns the Bills identity

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Speaker 1: as a team. We want to know from you, how

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Speaker 1: do you think the identity of the Bills will change

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Speaker 1: this year? As head coach Sean McDermott says, every year

639
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: is different, every team is different, and Steve has said

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Speaker 1: several times on this show, just because this team scored

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Speaker 1: five hundred points last year doesn't mean it's a given

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Speaker 1: this year. I think we're optimistic that it'll be similar

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Speaker 1: in nature, but I think we all know that this

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Speaker 1: team this year is not going to be completely identical

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Speaker 1: to last year's team. So that's why we're asking you today,

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Speaker 1: how will the identity of the Bills change this year?

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Speaker 1: And Steve, I know you and I were talking before

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Speaker 1: the show, and it changed from nineteen to twenty in

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Speaker 1: a big way if you think about it, the identity

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Speaker 1: very much. So. It was a top three defense, maybe

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Speaker 1: top two defense in the National Football League, and trying

652
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: to move the football against you couldn't do it. They

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Speaker 1: were really good in twenty nineteen and were the engine

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Speaker 1: that drove him to a ten and six record, or yeah,

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Speaker 1: ten and six record, and got him into the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: The offense with Josh and his second year, was still

657
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Speaker 1: only completing fifty eight percent of his passes, and you

658
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: know it, it was better, but it wasn't good enough.

659
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: And Josh was still running the ball a lot and

660
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Speaker 1: playing a little hero ball and that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: So Josh had some development to do and that was

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Speaker 1: the team. The defense kind of carried the day. Then

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Speaker 1: they get into twenty twenty and it is absolutely flip flop.

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Speaker 1: The defense struggled to find their way, particularly upfront with

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Speaker 1: a loss of star aj Epanessa couldn't get on the field,

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Speaker 1: and Mularno and Edmonds got injured quick. No preseason games,

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Speaker 1: no tackling practice. It was a really rough start for them.

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Speaker 1: And they got it together in a big way late

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Speaker 1: in the season. From week eleven, after the bye week on,

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Speaker 1: they were much much better team defensively, but you know,

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Speaker 1: the damage had been done. So at the end of

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Speaker 1: the year, you have this offense in the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: that it was top scored, number two in the league,

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Speaker 1: and scoring I mean they were off the charts and

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Speaker 1: the defense was middle of the pack, maybe number sixteen,

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Speaker 1: something like that. So it was a complete opposite from

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen to twenty twenty. What will happen this year?

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Speaker 1: What do you expect it to happen, or if it

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Speaker 1: was going to change, how would it change in your mind?

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Speaker 1: That's our question for today, because you know, training camp

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Speaker 1: you kind of start to find that stuff out. Last year,

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Speaker 1: we had no idea what they were going to look like.

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Speaker 1: When they got on the field. You and I were

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Speaker 1: astounded because it was completely different than the year before,

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Speaker 1: with mostly the same guys except for the opt outs

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Speaker 1: and whatever. But I was shown and how that first

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Speaker 1: half of that season transpired, what we found out about

688
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Speaker 1: this club. I mean, they were hanging thirty burgers on

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Speaker 1: people almost every single week, and I was like, where

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Speaker 1: is this point? I mean, you were all too happy

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Speaker 1: to see the point production we did, but I don't

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Speaker 1: think after the team averaged nineteen point six points per

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Speaker 1: game in twenty nineteen, did we anticipate a jump to

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Speaker 1: thirty points a game. It was just twenty nine and

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Speaker 1: a half, completely unexpected, you know, And a lot of

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Speaker 1: things went into why that was as the offense reached

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Speaker 1: critical mass and then just turned into a juggernaut where

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Speaker 1: they were just beating people down. But the identity in

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Speaker 1: some way, shape or form is probably going to change

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Speaker 1: for this team. The stamp on this team will be

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Speaker 1: different than last year and the year before that and

702
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Speaker 1: the year before that. So let us know what you

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Speaker 1: think the identity will be for this year's team. While

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Speaker 1: you do that at eight oh three oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: or one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty, or

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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live, we wanted

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Speaker 1: to ask him News and notes along to you from

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Speaker 1: around the NFL. The early returns up in New England

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Speaker 1: on one Mac Jones are pretty positive. Steve and I

710
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Speaker 1: have long been banging the drum. Well, I know I

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Speaker 1: have Cam Newton's washed up, you can't play anymore, and

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Speaker 1: so I'm of the opinion that mac Jones will be

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Speaker 1: starting at quarterback for that team week one. Most up

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Speaker 1: there think that Cam Newton will get the benefit of

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Speaker 1: the doubt and play the first four games so as

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Speaker 1: not to expose mac Jones to the Tom Brady return

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Speaker 1: game in Week four when Tampa Bay goes up there

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Speaker 1: and then they'll start him after that after the Bucks

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Speaker 1: probably throttle the Patriots by twenty points. I just think

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Speaker 1: that what mac Jones does runs right in line with

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Speaker 1: how Josh McDaniels wants to execute the offense short to

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Speaker 1: intermediate passing game, quick release football, and then a running

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Speaker 1: game to support it. Mac Jones is that quarterback Cam

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Speaker 1: Newton is not in any way that quarterback, and so

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Speaker 1: I think it's a matter of when, not if, And

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked at all if it happens for

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Speaker 1: week one going forward. I mean, if the guy, if

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Speaker 1: you anticipate the guy's going to probably move into the

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Speaker 1: starting lineup by week five, why are you gonna wait

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Speaker 1: a month. It's an extra month for that guy to

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Speaker 1: be more experienced, more ready when the games really matter

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Speaker 1: November in December. So I'm I just don't think. I

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Speaker 1: may they may make it a more gradual transition than that,

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Speaker 1: and may not set Cam Newton down for good in

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Speaker 1: the season, may bring, you know, put packages in format.

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Speaker 1: They're not above any nothing's beneath them or out of

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Speaker 1: their you know, possibilities. But I just think mac Jones,

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Speaker 1: they had so much success with a quarterback who couldn't run,

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Speaker 1: but was accurate and thought at a high level. That's

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Speaker 1: what Mac Jones is. It's easy to see the parallel

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Speaker 1: between what the Patriots had in Tom Brady and thinking

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Speaker 1: they can reincarnate that with Mac Jones, a player just

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00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,919
Speaker 1: like that in that ILK. I'm not saying Mac Jones

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Speaker 1: is the next guy. In fact, I don't think he

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Speaker 1: will be, because I don't think that guy's out there right.

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Speaker 1: But I think that's what the Patriots want to formulate

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Speaker 1: this team into, to resemble that, at least right. Their

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Speaker 1: offense last year with Cam Newton was a tire fire.

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Speaker 1: It was an atrocity. And only because Cam Newton's singular

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Speaker 1: abilities as a runner and a quarterback and the athlete

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Speaker 1: that he is were they able to kind of hang

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Speaker 1: in there. It was patchwork, though it was patchwork at best.

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Speaker 1: Their defense was a mess last year, unlike any Bill

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Speaker 1: Belichick team before that, because of all the opt outs

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Speaker 1: and the free agents that left. They were. They were

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Speaker 1: rough last year, and I don't think they want to

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Speaker 1: go back there again. I really don't. I think They've

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Speaker 1: got their sights set on a ten win plus season

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Speaker 1: and they're going to give themselves the best chance to

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Speaker 1: do that. And I think early on they play the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins to open up and then they go then they

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Speaker 1: have the Jets. I think the Patriots think they can

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Speaker 1: beat those two teams with mac Jones. Yeah, and and

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Speaker 1: and here's the thing. First of all, the bar is

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Speaker 1: very low. Cam Newton said a very low bar last

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Speaker 1: year on offense. That's number one. So I don't think

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Speaker 1: mac Jones has to be great. He just has to

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Speaker 1: prove he can be functional in the offense from down

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Speaker 1: to down and keep it on schedule in terms of

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Speaker 1: down and did just be able to do that, and

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Speaker 1: you'll probably be the starter. I mean, I agree, I

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Speaker 1: don't think there's a high bar to clear here. He

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Speaker 1: if he doesn't turn it over and can keep him

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Speaker 1: on schedule, that's gonna be enough. Manage the game. Just

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Speaker 1: manage the game. And and and here's the thing too,

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Speaker 1: I think the the the mantra that they've got to

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Speaker 1: get for him. Get him to where he as good

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Speaker 1: as you can get him in this preseason, get him

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Speaker 1: a lot of take him, have him take a lot

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Speaker 1: of reps, and then oh, I think he will. And

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Speaker 1: then when they get the regular season, just wherever he's

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Speaker 1: at just say each week, week by week, just improve

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Speaker 1: a little bit, just get a little bit better, and

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Speaker 1: a little bit better and a little bit better. We'll

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Speaker 1: find out. We'll give you more that you can do.

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Speaker 1: Your will expand your horizons step by step, and by

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Speaker 1: the end of the season, we're gonna be a lot better.

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Speaker 1: I know Tom Brady's career started because of injury, but

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Speaker 1: he was thrown for like one hundred and sixteen yards

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Speaker 1: a game and a touchdown, and they had a running

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Speaker 1: game to support him and a good defense and they

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Speaker 1: took it all the way to the Super Bowl. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying the Patriots are doing that this year,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's not out of release. Gives indication

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Speaker 1: because they still have a very good defense that should

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Speaker 1: be better this year. It gives indication, at least to me,

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Speaker 1: that they're not averse to putting a young player in

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Speaker 1: there to just manage the game and not kill them.

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Speaker 1: Do enough, and I you know, you got a Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame coach that can figure out the rest. Just

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Speaker 1: make the offense functional in comparison to last year. That's

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Speaker 1: all they have to do. Other news and notes and

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Speaker 1: will carry this into the next segment but Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: as we know, when on the COVID reserve list for

805
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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens yesterday. It is being reported by news

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Speaker 1: outlets in Baltimore that he is still unvaccinated, which, if true,

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Speaker 1: means he will miss the next ten days, the first

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Speaker 1: ten days of training camp. And the reason this is

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Speaker 1: so eye opening because look, Lamar Jackson is the only

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Speaker 1: person that's gone on the COVID reserve list in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: There's players on almost every roster that have on report

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Speaker 1: day two here in Mike Bucker and Dion Dawkins. But

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Speaker 1: there's a history here with COVID for Lamar Jackson. For

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Speaker 1: those that don't remember, he contracted COVID last year was

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Speaker 1: a COVID positive. Missed a game, which was a division

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Speaker 1: game against the Steelers that they lost nineteen fourteen because

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Speaker 1: the two backups, Trace McSorley and Robert Griffin the third,

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Speaker 1: were abysmal in replacing him, and so he missed a game,

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Speaker 1: a game that costs them not only in the division

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Speaker 1: standings but overall as well in the AFC. They win

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Speaker 1: that game, maybe they're not going to Buffalo in the

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Speaker 1: divisional playoff round. Maybe they're hosting that game or hosting

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Speaker 1: the wild card game instead of playing in Tennessee, so

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Speaker 1: it was it was a swing game for them. Well,

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Speaker 1: every game matters in many respects, matters a ton, and

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Speaker 1: the magnitude of that game, though Steve and missing the

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Speaker 1: game costing his team of victory, did not convince him

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Speaker 1: to get vaccinated. I understand everybody's got reasons why yes

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Speaker 1: no on the vaccination stuff. I totally get it. Everybody's

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Speaker 1: got different reasons. Some are well founded, some a little questionable.

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Speaker 1: Whatever the case might be. Whatever it is, I don't care.

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Speaker 1: I just think about these NFL players as ultimate competitors,

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Speaker 1: like rip your face off to win a game competitors,

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Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Like ultra competitors. And

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Speaker 1: the fact that his COVID was a direct correlation to

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Speaker 1: a loss for his team in the division, and he's

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Speaker 1: still decided not going to get vaccinated and now has

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Speaker 1: COVID again and it's going to miss the first ten

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Speaker 1: days of training camp. I don't know. I can't. I'm

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Speaker 1: having trouble with that. I am. Yeah. And it's not

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Speaker 1: even for all of the reasons that people are pro

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Speaker 1: er against vaccinations. It's more about knowing the competitive nature

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Speaker 1: of professional athletes at this level. I'm surprised that after

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Speaker 1: having COVID cost him a game last year that he

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Speaker 1: hasn't taken care of it this year. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to go down in the weeds and get off off track.

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Speaker 1: But compare what it's different. It's it's odd because I

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Speaker 1: don't know why this came to me because they're they're

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Speaker 1: completely unrelated. But compare the Simone Biles withdrawing from the

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Speaker 1: Olympics because of mental health reasons and also because she

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Speaker 1: wasn't right physically as well, but and because she wasn't

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Speaker 1: right and she felt like she might have you know,

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Speaker 1: all the I didn't have an injury conflicting it was.

854
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 1: She was totally conflicted and had meant but to this

855
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson just making a decision that, you know,

856
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: after going through it the first time, just saying, you know,

857
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: I'm I'm good, I'm I'm not gonna get vaccinated. And

858
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: now he's in the same exact same position again. There

859
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 1: are you know, everybody says, hey, we gotta be free

860
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:36,399
Speaker 1: to choose, and I get it, fine, choose what you want,

861
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: but there's consequences. Well, I just think it's a reminder,

862
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: especially when you're the quarterback of the football team, how

863
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: much it impacts your your team's level of success. Experience

864
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: did firsthand last year, There's no way around it. They

865
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: lost by five points to the Steelers, who were well,

866
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 1: I'm you know, they were eleven and one eleven and no. Well,

867
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 1: the two quarterbacks that replaced him when nine of eighteen

868
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 1: for one hundred and eleven yards combined. So I think

869
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: it's pretty safe to make the argument they would have

870
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,240
Speaker 1: been better off with Jackson's and had a better might

871
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 1: have been eighteen two. I mean, Lamar is not you know,

872
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: he might for one hundred and fifty yards. It's not

873
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: a throwing offense to begin with. But the fact that,

874
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: the simple fact of the matter is the guy's the MVP,

875
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: and there's a reason for it. He's a he's a singular,

876
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: he's a unicorn, for for goodness sake. So him not

877
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: being in there, of course had an effect on the

878
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: outcome of that game. So now he's back. Yeah, I'm

879
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: susling to me, could you hear these guys all the

880
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: time when they're injured and they can't play because of

881
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 1: an injury, you know, or they'll drag themselves out there

882
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,919
Speaker 1: with an injury even if they're not play a game,

883
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: because they can't stand not being there for their teammates.

884
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: They'll tay in there for their guys. Amazing. That's the

885
00:45:58,360 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: thing too. And a lot of people don't have any

886
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: patients for it. But you know, these are guys that

887
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 1: will take a needle with it if it's got quarter

888
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: zone in it. But they won't take the needle with

889
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: a vaccination in it. I mean, they'll take a needle

890
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: with you know, with a shot that will to it all,

891
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: you know, tour it all or whatever. And and I'm

892
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: one of those guys. I did that on multiple occasions

893
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: during my career so I could play. I did a

894
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 1: couple of times so I could practice. That's the kind

895
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: of state of mind these guys get themselves into, right

896
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 1: point here. So it's it's surprising. I'm with you, it's

897
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 1: surprising that they won't make a decision of this nature.

898
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,240
Speaker 1: Um and I although albeit, uh, it's a different decision,

899
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 1: it's different type of decision it is, but being available

900
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: for your team. But I say this too, like we're

901
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: talking about it, like eighty to ninety percent of all

902
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: the all thirty two teams, eighty ninety percent of the

903
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: guys are making that decision. Yes, you know, so I

904
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: get it, And and there's and there's probably this is

905
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: a pretty big guy in the league that's not doing it.

906
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:00,840
Speaker 1: But there's ten to twenty percent scent of the guys

907
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: in the league also who would not take a quarter

908
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: zone shot or some other tour it all shot so

909
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:09,959
Speaker 1: that they could play. So it goes. It works both ways.

910
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: There's two sides of that coin. And I get it,

911
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 1: but I'm but like you, I'm a little surprised when

912
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: you put it in the context of what they will

913
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: do to play as opposed to what risks they'll take

914
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: not to play to potentially not be availably not be available. Yeah,

915
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: it's it doesn't that's what. That's what. It doesn't seem like.

916
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like a balance to me. Break time

917
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 1: for us here. We'll get to what's going on with

918
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and Xavian Howard next here on One Bill's Live,

919
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All Right,

920
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:55,720
Speaker 1: as we know, all is not well in Miami, where

921
00:47:56,360 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 1: cornerback Xavian Howard as formerly asked to be traded after

922
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 1: his attempts to try to negotiate a new contract with

923
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: the club fell on deaf ears, and he feels he

924
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: has grossly outperformed his current contract, which you know, if

925
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:14,959
Speaker 1: you look at his numbers and the money he's making,

926
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: he is probably in the right on that. So he

927
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: did show up to training camp so he wouldn't get fined,

928
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:27,879
Speaker 1: was participating in practice. But today he pulled out of

929
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: practice with what was termed a minor injury. Our good

930
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:39,840
Speaker 1: friend Armandol Salgero said there was no planned departure from practice,

931
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: but naturally the nature of the timing of his exit

932
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: from practice on day two has people believing Howard, instead

933
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: of holding out, is holding in. Yeah, he's at he's

934
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: at training camp, but oh yeah, you know what, I

935
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 1: got this tightness in my hamstring. I don't think I

936
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: can go. So he is not going to practice. So

937
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,839
Speaker 1: he stepped out of practice today. We'll have to see

938
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: if he returns to the practice field tomorrow. He did

939
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: return to watch the rest of practice without a helmet today,

940
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 1: but it looks like he's taken yet another step. He's

941
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: made his trade request public. Did that on social media.

942
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 1: Now he has stepped out of practice to kind of

943
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: tighten the screws a little bit more like, hey, i'm here,

944
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: I won't I don't want to be here, and I'm

945
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: not going to practice either, So move me or this

946
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 1: is just going to continue like this and you're gonna

947
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: look bad. And he's up, and he's up for what

948
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 1: sixteen million bucks this year something like that. Yeah I

949
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 1: got and not big enough, but yeah, he's got a

950
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: big contract. But the simple fact the matter is if

951
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a guy, you're gonna he's not You're

952
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 1: not gonna cut him. That's exactly what he would love,

953
00:49:55,360 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: just cut him, But you're paying him and he's in

954
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: this condition. You know, he's not gonna he's never gonna

955
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 1: see the field for you. He's gonna be injured the

956
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: entire year with this, that and the other. He's not

957
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: gonna work hard. He's not gonna be a positive. He's

958
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 1: gonna be a negative. So you gotta make a decision

959
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: either movement. If a guy's willing to do that, and

960
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 1: it's hard to do. Let's face it, it's hard to

961
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:20,240
Speaker 1: be a bad guy in the locker room on purpose.

962
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: But he's gonna do it. He's gonna hold in, and

963
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: that's like, that's like not taking out the garbage man.

964
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: The whole house reeks, the whole building reeks if you

965
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: don't get it out. That's the way it is. That

966
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: you've got to make a big enough stink that they

967
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: can't live with it. There are reports that a few

968
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 1: teams already contacted the Dolphins expressing interest in acquiring Xavier Howard,

969
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,760
Speaker 1: so we'll have to see where it goes. But Howard

970
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: taking it upon himself to step out of practice with

971
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: what was termed a minor injury. See if he's back

972
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:58,839
Speaker 1: on the practice field tomorrow. If I had to guess,

973
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: I would say no. I would say no, he will

974
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: not be participating in practice tomorrow. But we'll wait and

975
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: see and then see if anything materializes on the trade

976
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:11,800
Speaker 1: front for the Dolphins to move him off their roster

977
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:14,760
Speaker 1: and see what they might be able to get in return.

978
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 1: Break time for Steve and I here, but when we return,

979
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:21,400
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer will be addressing the media. We will go

980
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 1: to that when we return for the second hour of

981
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 1: the show. Here on a Thursday, day two of training camp,

982
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: It's One Bills Live presented by Collida Health. This is

983
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been

984
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind

985
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:58,320
Speaker 1: of a dual role pleader for ste Steve a blimp.

986
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: We're not even increded. Beer of normalcy. Here for hour

987
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: number two on a Thursday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

988
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: day two of training camp now in the books. And

989
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: our third player addressing the media today one Jordan Poyer,

990
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: who we join now as he addresses the media airport. Yeah, yeah,

991
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: how did how did everything go? Your summer is great?

992
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: It was great. Had had enjoy the summer, join my

993
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 1: daughter and my wife. Golfed a lot, trained a lot.

994
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: You know, my goal is heat down to under a

995
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: tan handicap before the season got to a nine and

996
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:41,439
Speaker 1: a half, so I'm pretty happy about it. So yeah,

997
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,800
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Appreciate it. Emmanuel was just talking about

998
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,359
Speaker 1: that player that Josh Josh drew a cole. I think

999
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: you and Micah we're kind of on the back end there.

1000
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:51,799
Speaker 1: I mean, just how well as the offense kind of

1001
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: performing so far in these persons and they looked good, man,

1002
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: it looked good. Uh look like shoe like they have

1003
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 1: missed a beat. You know, Josh out there, come in

1004
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,439
Speaker 1: in the offense. Obviously, you got Diggs, Emmanuel, Uh, Cole

1005
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: Beasley out there, Gabe. Um. You know, those guys are

1006
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: really taking over, taking over, and it's it's fun to

1007
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: watch it and it's fun to compete against. You know,

1008
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 1: it's only gonna make us better what he's added, just

1009
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:17,879
Speaker 1: and what his abilities are, you know, even at his age. Yeah,

1010
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 1: I mean obviously, you know, being in the league as

1011
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: long as he has as he hasn't had the success

1012
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 1: that he has, but just um, as a person, he's

1013
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: got I mean he plays and I played against him.

1014
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: He plays with a lot of heart. He plays. I mean,

1015
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: he's a dog out there on the football field. I

1016
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: mean he's not the biggest guy out there, and uh,

1017
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: he's probably not the strongest guy out there. But he's

1018
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and he's gonna pete every day

1019
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:38,359
Speaker 1: and he's gonna he's gonna give it his best and um,

1020
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 1: a lot of fifty fifty balls he's gonna come down with,

1021
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 1: and you know he's gonna go out there and talk

1022
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: his talk his mess and um, that's who he is.

1023
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 1: And you know we're excited to have him on the bills.

1024
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: Oh you're a warm out. He doesn't, he doesn't. He

1025
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: likes to talk, of course. I mean this is the NFL,

1026
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: you know, and uh, you know wide receivers too, especially,

1027
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: But you know, it's like I said, it's all competitive.

1028
00:53:58,040 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 1: You know, he caught some balls today. It's been in

1029
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 1: front of guys. That's what you'd like to see, man.

1030
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: I mean obviously, you know, not at our end. But

1031
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, you know, he has

1032
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: that dog inside him, so we're happy to have him

1033
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 1: on the team. We saw your warm up drill. Did

1034
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: you get enough chance to show off your baseball abilities

1035
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: or did you need more time? I probably need a

1036
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: little bit more time. You know, it's a little resty,

1037
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 1: I think turning two over there. But you know, we

1038
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: just tried to work on a little hand eye coordination

1039
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: and just some some pre practice stuff that that, you know,

1040
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: just get our get our eye training going and get

1041
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 1: our minds going. And uh, you know, it's always fun

1042
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: to see Tradevias try out there to go play some baseball.

1043
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:33,760
Speaker 1: How does that come about? Is that through the coachings?

1044
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: Do you guys suggest things like that or how does

1045
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:37,919
Speaker 1: that work. No one really just came about. I don't

1046
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 1: know how that one came about, but we've always done

1047
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: the tennis ball drills. I think since Mike and I

1048
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: were here our first year. We've always remember at Saint

1049
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: John Fisher, Bobby our Safety's coach. Uh yeah, I don't

1050
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: even know if he made up the drills himself, but

1051
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: it just kind of became a thing that we had

1052
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: always done. Just like I said, training our eyes, training

1053
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: our mind and hand eye coordination, you know, because a

1054
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: lot of times you're not really uh you know what.

1055
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to look back at the ball and

1056
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 1: the ball is going to be right there, and being

1057
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:04,640
Speaker 1: able to catch the ball, you know, as as it

1058
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 1: gets there. So a lot of the stuff you saw

1059
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: the training off the wall, um, and then it kind

1060
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 1: of add a little fun to it trying to trying

1061
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 1: to make some double plays out there. Blue Jays, if

1062
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:17,320
Speaker 1: you're watching man, you know, you know what I'm saying,

1063
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 1: South Florida. Yeah, for a lot of though you just

1064
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 1: started golfing like two years ago, I did. Uh yeah,

1065
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: I actually started golfing right when COVID. Having golf was

1066
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: really one of the only things that was like you're

1067
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 1: able to do down there in South Florida. Um, I

1068
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: was terrible, shooting one hundred, one hundred and tens, but

1069
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 1: never took a lesson, And you know, I just really

1070
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: golf is kind of the thing that I believe saved

1071
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 1: my life. You know. Uh, you know I stopped stopped drinking.

1072
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 1: A lot of you guys know that story. Um, you know,

1073
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: golf is something that I was able to go do

1074
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,359
Speaker 1: and kind of get away from everything and you know,

1075
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 1: be myself and have my own thoughts. And you know,

1076
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 1: I started kind of taking it pretty serious and I

1077
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 1: wanted to be good at it. And uh, I'm not

1078
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 1: saying I'm I'm that good at it, but you know

1079
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,880
Speaker 1: I'm shooting low eighties now have handicapped nine and a half. Soum.

1080
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 1: I enjoy Andrew golfin he caps some nine point five.

1081
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: You don't have to be that home. I didn't. There's

1082
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: some people under this tent that might be offended by

1083
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: the same one. Ten is terrible. That's all right, that's right,

1084
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 1: Chip playing. That's the main thing. We heard MICUs speak

1085
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 1: about the additions that Brandon made to this defense this offseason.

1086
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 1: What's been your impression so some of these new guys

1087
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 1: so far and what they can do for you guys

1088
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 1: on the back end. I mean, man, you saw what

1089
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:30,320
Speaker 1: book you did today made making the pick six a

1090
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: huge play that kind of really jumped off the rest

1091
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 1: of the plays of practice. Sran had a big play.

1092
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: JT had a big play. And you know, obviously Greg man,

1093
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 1: he's just so tall, so long, he gets off the

1094
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:42,839
Speaker 1: ball so fast. Those guys have they just came in

1095
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 1: and it had been ready to work, and um, they're

1096
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 1: taking it all in, listening to the coach and listening

1097
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 1: to the vets. Um. You know, Greg and I had

1098
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: some real good conversations on the field that you know,

1099
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:53,840
Speaker 1: I know, I'm learning, I'm able to trust him. You know,

1100
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:55,840
Speaker 1: he's he's gonna listen to me and you know, and

1101
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear each other out. And um, it's been

1102
00:56:58,080 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: fun to be a part of and I'm excited to

1103
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: see those guys grow. You know, maybe expanding a little

1104
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 1: bit more on your thoughts on that play by Bookie

1105
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: and just what you've seen from him so far in

1106
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 1: this early stage. Yeah, just his athleticism, his ability to

1107
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: come off the ball, his his work habits, and you know,

1108
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: I mean guys that that Brandon and Sean bring here

1109
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:18,919
Speaker 1: and Terry. I mean, those are the type of guys

1110
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 1: that they bring in here. So they say, you know,

1111
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: you kind of expect nothing less from guys like that,

1112
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: and so just to see him come in here, see

1113
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: all of them really come in here and embrace their roles. Um,

1114
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 1: not even just them, even some of the guys who

1115
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: third fourth round picks, six round picks, some of the

1116
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 1: free agents that came in here, they really embrace, you know,

1117
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: being here, being part of the bills and you know,

1118
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 1: trying everything they can to earn the trust and the

1119
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 1: coaches and their teammates. They mentioned will Basil's catch at

1120
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: practice today, but Isam McKenzie also had some pretty good

1121
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: grabs today. It seems like that room is so stacked,

1122
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: but Isaam McKenzie always finds a way to show up

1123
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: and make his presence. Know how is he someone that's

1124
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:56,440
Speaker 1: hard to defend in this office? Yeah, I mean apparently

1125
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 1: he's the face of the team from what he say yesterday.

1126
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 1: But no, I mean just a guy guy. You guys

1127
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:04,680
Speaker 1: saw that guy in the in the slide who's able

1128
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 1: to make guys miss when he catches the ball. Enable.

1129
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: He's so shifty's so quick. Um, and I mean, I

1130
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: believe it or not, he's actually pretty intelligent. So he's

1131
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: able to go out there and read coverages and and

1132
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:16,959
Speaker 1: you know, run his choice routes, runners, the option routes,

1133
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,400
Speaker 1: and um, you know, he's a he's a fun player

1134
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: to watch. You know, he's out there talking a lot

1135
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: of mess, and you know, it's always fun to compete

1136
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 1: against him, Like we hate when he catches the ball.

1137
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: But you know, he's he's a he's a great player

1138
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 1: for us. He said that. Say it again? When did

1139
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 1: he say? I'm pretty sure I saw that on the

1140
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 1: Bill's story yesterday. He came out and he was like, yeah,

1141
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: Isaiah Mackenzie on the face of the face of the franchise,

1142
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 1: the side of the others. But that's what it is.

1143
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 1: You mentioned a couple of times the guys have said

1144
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,960
Speaker 1: about guys who talk, like who doesn't talk at the

1145
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Gabe doesn't say a whole lot. Gabe just

1146
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: goes out there and just does what he's supposed to do. Um.

1147
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: You know, but at this at the end of the day,

1148
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's different. You know, guy's gonna go out there,

1149
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:54,919
Speaker 1: and you know, we're competing at a high level every

1150
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: single day, and so you know, the juices are flowing.

1151
00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: You make a big play, you know, he almost feel

1152
00:58:59,960 --> 00:59:01,479
Speaker 1: like you want to say something to the guy who's

1153
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: who you're going against. It's just that's just red For

1154
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 1: as long as I played football, That's just kind of

1155
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: what has always been, you know, And um, yeah, that's

1156
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: just uh does that answer your question? All right? Suran?

1157
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: He made a little plays out there today. This guy's moved,

1158
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 1: he played sat, he's played corner. It's hard to get

1159
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 1: on the field with this group, and he does everything

1160
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: he can to be so virtual. How much does that

1161
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: mean for you guys? Man? Surrand has grown so much

1162
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 1: since he's came here, since his rookie year. He's learned

1163
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: so much about the game of football. And you know,

1164
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 1: these coaches have learned to put trust in him to

1165
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: be able to go out there and do his job.

1166
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 1: And so, like I said, to see him, how the

1167
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 1: success that he's continued, he's going to continue to have.

1168
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 1: I mean I always tell him, Surrand, you might be

1169
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: the most gifted athlete that I have ever seen, you know,

1170
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: just his ability to run, jump, hit, you know, and

1171
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:43,400
Speaker 1: and obviously he saw today make players on the football

1172
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 1: And so I'm excited to continue to see Suranne grow

1173
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: and and find his way within our team and finding

1174
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: his role on the team. This year. He's gonna take

1175
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 1: continue to make plays on special teams, and you know

1176
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 1: he'll come come in on when when we need him

1177
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,320
Speaker 1: on defense and do what he's do what Surran does.

1178
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to get too much compared,

1179
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: but can you sense an energy that maybe he's not

1180
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 1: typical for this early in a camera? Yeah, Like I said,

1181
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: today's practice, I mean it was it was competitive out there.

1182
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys watching the entire practice,

1183
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,240
Speaker 1: but it was probably. I mean, it was exciting to

1184
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:18,440
Speaker 1: be part of again, to to compete again at a

1185
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 1: high leveling. I mean even yesterday, first day, but the

1186
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: first day is all the first day. But coming out

1187
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:24,840
Speaker 1: second day after, you know, you might be tired, you

1188
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 1: might be this out of the other you got, you know,

1189
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 1: a bunch of excuses to not have that energy. But

1190
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: guys on both sides of the football brought the energy

1191
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 1: offense making plays, defense making plays, and that's only going

1192
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 1: to make us better as a football team. Is going

1193
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 1: out there and competing good on good every single day. So, um,

1194
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 1: you know, we all have a goal, you know, and

1195
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: that's just continue to get better every day. Coach always

1196
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 1: mentioned Kaisen, just continuous growth, um, and and that's our goal.

1197
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 1: What have you noticed about There's a lot of young cornerbacks,

1198
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: a few rookies, underrafted guys. What have you noticed about

1199
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 1: some of those? Yeah, I mean, guys are smart. Man,

1200
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 1: This isn't an easy defense to learn, especially you know

1201
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:03,000
Speaker 1: it wanted safety and then that corner two. Um, and

1202
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 1: you know I said, guys are embracing the roles. You know,

1203
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 1: I was here this morning seven fifteen, seeing guys early

1204
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 1: speaking with coaches. Uh. And so to see those guys

1205
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 1: out there competing every day, you know, the one on

1206
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:16,400
Speaker 1: one today, I mean they look like you know, those

1207
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: guys have been in the league for a little while now,

1208
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 1: and so obviously a lot of work to be done,

1209
01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, those guys have really really stepped

1210
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 1: up and embraced being part of this family. Telling the

1211
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: expectations for this team and also the fact that it's

1212
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 1: only day two. How do you kind of balance where

1213
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: you're at and where you want to go? Yeah, I mean,

1214
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 1: it's hard to obviously balance on day two. Um, but

1215
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 1: you know I said earlier just that Kays and growth

1216
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 1: and we guys go watch the tape and and figure out.

1217
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't a perfect practice by any means,

1218
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:44,640
Speaker 1: but like I said, the energy was there. You can

1219
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 1: feel you can feel that. You know, guys want to

1220
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 1: go out there and guys want to guys want to

1221
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: compete at a high, high level. You know, guys still

1222
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 1: have that bad taste in their mouth from the SEC

1223
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 1: Championship game, and um, you know, everything's got to be

1224
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,120
Speaker 1: earned this year. Nothing's gonna be given to us. Just

1225
01:01:57,120 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 1: just because we were there last year doesn't mean we're

1226
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 1: gonna get a free as there this year. And so

1227
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: we gotta you gotta work extremely hard to get there,

1228
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 1: and um, you know, guys understand that, and you know,

1229
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:07,400
Speaker 1: it's just it's just fun to be a part of

1230
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 1: what went into your decision to sign with Avalon Sports.

1231
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: It feels like this past off season there's just been

1232
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 1: a way more concerted effort to kind of build your

1233
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 1: brand off the field, more so than we've seen a year. Yeah,

1234
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 1: so actually there's not I mean, Lorenzo reached out to

1235
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 1: me learns that Alexander, um, you know, and he's like,

1236
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 1: po that you know, you're going into year nine, man,

1237
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:30,360
Speaker 1: like you know what you're doing off the field type stuff.

1238
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: And you know, I said, oh, you know, I got

1239
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:33,320
Speaker 1: some stuff going here and there. He's like, I got

1240
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 1: this company. You know, they want to reach out to

1241
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 1: you and see if they can help you. And you know,

1242
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 1: I sat down with Daver and sat down with it,

1243
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: you know, the manager of Avalon Sports, and sat down

1244
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:43,680
Speaker 1: with Pat and they kind of sat me through. I

1245
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 1: told him the type of stuff that I wanted to

1246
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:47,520
Speaker 1: be able to do, and you know how I want

1247
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 1: to present my brand. And those guys want to work

1248
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 1: right away. Those guys want to work right away. I

1249
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:56,439
Speaker 1: got the documentary that I put out in that story organ.

1250
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 1: Actually it came out on the last Saturday, and it's

1251
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 1: going to be out in Buffalo on the We're gonna

1252
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 1: have it out in Buffalo at the Theater on the

1253
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 1: fourth of September. I actually haven't seen it yet. He

1254
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 1: won't let me see it. But uh, um, you know, man,

1255
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 1: they've just been they've just been going to work and

1256
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: I'm extremely happy that I that I signed with him.

1257
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:14,400
Speaker 1: Extremely have the Lorenzo reach out to me. Um, and

1258
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:16,800
Speaker 1: and it's been nothing but you know, great success and

1259
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 1: I'm excited to continue to work with him. He talked

1260
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 1: Lorenzo often. It's awesome man. Uh, He's one of the

1261
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: players that I've I've learned to. I feel like I

1262
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: can tell him anything regardless of if we agree or disagree. Um,

1263
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 1: And he's always going to be straight up with me.

1264
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:32,920
Speaker 1: And he's someone that I trust. Uh. You know, I

1265
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:35,440
Speaker 1: I was going through a lot back when, back in

1266
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 1: the days, and I was able to tell him some

1267
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:38,560
Speaker 1: things and you know, he got to me in the

1268
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:41,000
Speaker 1: right direction. So um, you know when he reached out

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Speaker 1: to me, there was really no question. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't like he was trying to persuade me. But

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Speaker 1: you know, he's just somebody who I look up to

1272
01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 1: as a as an older player, and you know, someone

1273
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 1: who I kind of want to model my my life after.

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01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 1: Thank you guys. So there's Jordan Poyer addressing the media

1275
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 1: after practice today, certainly impressed with some of the things

1276
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 1: that the offense was able to dish out on the

1277
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:09,120
Speaker 1: field today during the team segments, but also encouraged in

1278
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:11,960
Speaker 1: particular Steve By some of the young players out there

1279
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 1: turning in plays. You know, whether it's Saran Neil who

1280
01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:18,200
Speaker 1: looks like he's going to get a greater opportunity to

1281
01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 1: find a role for himself on the defensive side of

1282
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:24,520
Speaker 1: the ball this summer. He mentioned, you know, Boogie Bashman

1283
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 1: is pick six for a touchdown today. He even mentioned

1284
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:29,360
Speaker 1: Greg Rousseau, you know, getting his hands up in passing

1285
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:31,960
Speaker 1: lanes making it difficult for the quarterbacks to deliver passes.

1286
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: That helps those guys on the back end. I know,

1287
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:35,960
Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything that people don't know, but the

1288
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 1: fact that he's mentioning a lot of these plays. He

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01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 1: mentioned Josh Thomas also having a big play today, the

1290
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie last year who is now a second year

1291
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:45,920
Speaker 1: player and playing in the second area as the safety.

1292
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:49,120
Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's encouraging when you see a

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01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:52,080
Speaker 1: veteran who's been here as long as he has pointing

1294
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: out and noticing the contributions being made by young players.

1295
01:04:55,840 --> 01:05:01,520
Speaker 1: On day two, Steve, Yeah, it's it's this team really

1296
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 1: seems healthy right now. I don't mean that. I mean

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01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:09,400
Speaker 1: it figuratively, not literally. I just mean they You know,

1298
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: when you've got veteran guys that are putting their arms

1299
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:14,600
Speaker 1: around young players, calling them out and in their press

1300
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:17,760
Speaker 1: conferences and noticing them and talking to them and encouraging them.

1301
01:05:18,560 --> 01:05:22,240
Speaker 1: It elevates the team. The floor of what this team

1302
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:25,560
Speaker 1: will accomplish gets raised every day that you include more

1303
01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 1: and more guys who can contribute. And that's what they're doing.

1304
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:31,640
Speaker 1: And I think the fact that guys like Micah Hide,

1305
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer, Emmanuel Sanders are talking most of the most

1306
01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 1: things they're talking about in their press time is the

1307
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:45,480
Speaker 1: other players on the team. That's that's pretty impressive. And

1308
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 1: it's it's not really by design. I think it's a

1309
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:50,280
Speaker 1: symptom of something that's really good about this team. It

1310
01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: is it's an atmosphere where these guys thrive. And it's

1311
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:56,600
Speaker 1: easy to see. Why do you believe that there is

1312
01:05:56,680 --> 01:06:00,400
Speaker 1: truth to this statement? So we see these young players

1313
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 1: who are not wholly familiar with the system, have not

1314
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 1: repped it tens of thousands of times like the veteran

1315
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 1: players on this roster, and yet here they are, day

1316
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: two of training camp, seemingly just blending in, I don't

1317
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:22,000
Speaker 1: want to say seamlessly, but they're contributing already is that

1318
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:28,040
Speaker 1: the value of having veteran players like you described putting

1319
01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:30,959
Speaker 1: their arms around young players, making them feel not only

1320
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 1: a part of the team, but b hey, you can

1321
01:06:34,520 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 1: help us, you can make a difference for us. You're

1322
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:40,400
Speaker 1: not joining this team to be a bystander. I think

1323
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:44,360
Speaker 1: it's a symptom of your Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott.

1324
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 1: They got a building full of really good players. The

1325
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:51,439
Speaker 1: sad part of it is these guys who are making

1326
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 1: plays and doing some good things in this training camp,

1327
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 1: there's not going to be a spot form not all

1328
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:58,760
Speaker 1: of them. We said it early. This is a team

1329
01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: that's going to be really tough to make, and it's

1330
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 1: not going to be about how you perform in day

1331
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:06,000
Speaker 1: one or day two a training camp, but how you

1332
01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 1: perform day one through day twenty two of training camp.

1333
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:16,560
Speaker 1: You've got to be a guy who shows up every day. Certainly,

1334
01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:18,320
Speaker 1: a play here and a play there you would expect

1335
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: from anybody. But if you do a play like that

1336
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:23,600
Speaker 1: every day for twenty two days, yeah, you're gonna be

1337
01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 1: You're gonna be here. This is a tough roster to make,

1338
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:29,680
Speaker 1: and the fact that even these veteran guys are looking

1339
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 1: around seeing all these guys playing at a high level,

1340
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:37,280
Speaker 1: they recognize how good this team is right now. The

1341
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 1: roster taught from all eighty eight guys, ninety guys. They're stacked,

1342
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:44,800
Speaker 1: and it's going to take a real supreme effort and

1343
01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:49,080
Speaker 1: a consistent, consistently productive training camp to make this team.

1344
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 1: And as competitive as they are in the practice setting,

1345
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 1: it's very clear that there is a healthy respect that

1346
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:00,760
Speaker 1: goes across the sides of the I mean, we heard

1347
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:04,840
Speaker 1: Micah Hyde talking today about how much he appreciated being

1348
01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:08,280
Speaker 1: able to sit in the cafeteria with teammates again at

1349
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:12,440
Speaker 1: meal time. He said he got to know Emmanuel Sanders

1350
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 1: sitting at the lunch table with him. You know, things

1351
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,040
Speaker 1: like that that really weren't a part of the equation

1352
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:20,800
Speaker 1: at all last year and made you forming those kinds

1353
01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:22,840
Speaker 1: of bonds with new additions to the team all that

1354
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:25,800
Speaker 1: much harder because of the distancing that had to go

1355
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 1: on with all of the COVID protocols. A lot of

1356
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:30,760
Speaker 1: those are still in place in some way, shape or form,

1357
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:33,599
Speaker 1: but if you're a vaccinated player, they're vastly different than

1358
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 1: they were last year, and it seems like it's allowing

1359
01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:38,599
Speaker 1: a good portion of this roster. As we heard Brandon

1360
01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:40,840
Speaker 1: being said yesterday, eighty percent of the players have gotten

1361
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 1: at least one vaccination shot at this point. That doesn't

1362
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:46,920
Speaker 1: mean eighty percent are fully vaccinated, but eighty percent are

1363
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 1: on their way to being fully vaccinated, and it seems

1364
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:53,720
Speaker 1: like it's kind of helped them re establish some of

1365
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 1: those connection points that they can have here at the

1366
01:08:57,120 --> 01:09:01,240
Speaker 1: facility in a given work day. Yeah, just moving about

1367
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:04,640
Speaker 1: your business in a normal, more normal way goes a

1368
01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:09,160
Speaker 1: long way towards, you know, deepening the relationships in the

1369
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:11,080
Speaker 1: locker room and being able to be in the locker

1370
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:15,400
Speaker 1: room the way you normally would has changed. So it's

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01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:18,640
Speaker 1: it's a good roster of very stacked roster. It's going

1372
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 1: to be a very competitive atmosphere to try and make

1373
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:23,040
Speaker 1: this club. They're going to say goodbye to some people

1374
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:25,800
Speaker 1: that they love and respect in this training camp, and

1375
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:27,599
Speaker 1: there's going to be some guys that don't make this

1376
01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 1: team that will go on to have very productive NFL careers.

1377
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is. And you and I

1378
01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 1: talked about it at the top of the show. You

1379
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:40,759
Speaker 1: go out and watch this team practice, it's it looks

1380
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:43,479
Speaker 1: like a playoff game. I mean, it's those guys flying

1381
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 1: around and it's not even a contact, right, there's not

1382
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:49,040
Speaker 1: even full contact, and that's to be flying around. And

1383
01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:52,639
Speaker 1: what's to be said about that that they reach a level,

1384
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:56,680
Speaker 1: a tempo level that is game like and yet have

1385
01:09:56,840 --> 01:10:01,559
Speaker 1: the presence of mind to pretend checked each other. Right,

1386
01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:05,120
Speaker 1: That is not an automatic thing. That is a learned thing. Yeah,

1387
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's a temp tempo is hard to learn

1388
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:09,200
Speaker 1: for some guys when they first come into the league.

1389
01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:12,720
Speaker 1: But obviously that the example has already been set by

1390
01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:15,840
Speaker 1: the veterans and you know, you know, guys see it

1391
01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:20,759
Speaker 1: and they do it. But yeah, I guess we should

1392
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 1: have suspected, and we didn't see it last year. So

1393
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:26,679
Speaker 1: it's been two seasons, two full years since we've seen

1394
01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 1: a training camp, and it's been able to sit here

1395
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:33,960
Speaker 1: and watch practice this roster today compared to the roster

1396
01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:36,800
Speaker 1: and the practices they put together in twenty nineteen, which

1397
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 1: was also a playoff season. It's it's it's vastly different.

1398
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:44,840
Speaker 1: I mean, right, Brown, I mean, you and I are

1399
01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:48,599
Speaker 1: sitting here two years after two training camps. We didn't

1400
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 1: get to watch last year's at all. To come out

1401
01:10:51,520 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 1: and watch this one in comparison to the one we

1402
01:10:53,240 --> 01:10:57,880
Speaker 1: saw two years ago. It's night and day. It's night

1403
01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:00,800
Speaker 1: and day. How high a level of that execution they have,

1404
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:06,360
Speaker 1: The speed that they practice with, the crispness, the changing

1405
01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 1: from drill to drill, the awareness that everybody has what's

1406
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:12,280
Speaker 1: going on around what they expect next in practice. How

1407
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:14,680
Speaker 1: quickly did they transition from period one period to the

1408
01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:17,759
Speaker 1: next period, from a seven on seven to a goal line,

1409
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 1: from a from a seven on seven to eleven on

1410
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:22,960
Speaker 1: eleven period, The way they transition from red zone to

1411
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:26,559
Speaker 1: out in the field work, Just those little things. You

1412
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 1: hear fewer reminders from coaches out there. I mean, they're

1413
01:11:29,439 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 1: not talking half as much as they used. It's a

1414
01:11:31,400 --> 01:11:33,840
Speaker 1: different world out there than it was two years ago.

1415
01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:37,000
Speaker 1: And they were playoff team two years ago. So I

1416
01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 1: M certainly that's a that's a a byproduct of having

1417
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:46,760
Speaker 1: so many veterans in these systems. It's also a byproduct

1418
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:51,720
Speaker 1: of having a continuity in their coaching staff, but it's

1419
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:55,720
Speaker 1: also a product of having a very deep roster of

1420
01:11:55,840 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 1: guys who whose lights are on. And it's it's the

1421
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:03,760
Speaker 1: difference that we've seen that you and I are talking about.

1422
01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:08,400
Speaker 1: It is tangible. It's really tangible. Yeah. And if this

1423
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 1: is day two, man, where are we going to be

1424
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 1: in like three weeks? Yeah, I think, you know, astonishing

1425
01:12:15,439 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 1: if you think about that, I tell you where they're

1426
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:19,200
Speaker 1: gonna be. The're gonna they're gonna have to they'll tone

1427
01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:22,639
Speaker 1: it down, you know, the one the sports science people

1428
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 1: out there and say listen there, you got to you

1429
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 1: gotta throttle it back of hair, you know, going through

1430
01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:30,679
Speaker 1: that three weeks like this, day after day. Repetitive names,

1431
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:36,240
Speaker 1: movement save movements. Also, when the familiar familiarity of the

1432
01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: defense versus the offense and the offense versus the defense

1433
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:41,679
Speaker 1: starts to come into play, you're gonna get guys who

1434
01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:46,519
Speaker 1: sometimes get frustrated and sometimes uh, you know, have a

1435
01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:50,160
Speaker 1: mega advantage on a play, and it'll lead to injuries

1436
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:53,680
Speaker 1: and collisions and things that are unexpected. So you can

1437
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:56,840
Speaker 1: expect the sports science side of the equation to step

1438
01:12:56,880 --> 01:12:59,559
Speaker 1: in in a week or two and say, listen, you

1439
01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:01,800
Speaker 1: need to go you need to walk through today, or

1440
01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:03,599
Speaker 1: you need to take this guy, this guy, that guy,

1441
01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:06,840
Speaker 1: and that guy off the field, or your workload at

1442
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:09,840
Speaker 1: the highest possible intensity level has gone on for too

1443
01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 1: long yesterday. If we want to avoid injury today, you've

1444
01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:17,839
Speaker 1: either got to cut their reps, sit them on the side,

1445
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:22,400
Speaker 1: or you know, shortan practice for half an hour or

1446
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:25,519
Speaker 1: just you'll walk because you're right, You're right. It'll go

1447
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:29,480
Speaker 1: and and it'll start to become diminishing returns on injuries

1448
01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:34,200
Speaker 1: and fatigue and what you get out of it. Um. Yeah,

1449
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:36,400
Speaker 1: So as much as you say they're gonna hit the

1450
01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:39,479
Speaker 1: gas pedal and go through this, um, they'll take it

1451
01:13:39,479 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 1: out of gear a little bit to make sure they're

1452
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:44,360
Speaker 1: healthy for for the Detroit game, for the Chicago game,

1453
01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:50,000
Speaker 1: and for the Green Bay game. Yeah. I mean, it

1454
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:52,880
Speaker 1: looks this good this early. I just I'm like, can

1455
01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 1: I get any better like it? I don't know if

1456
01:13:56,240 --> 01:13:58,320
Speaker 1: it can. That's it. And that's a and I'll say

1457
01:13:58,360 --> 01:14:01,920
Speaker 1: this too, you're right. And I think Sean McDermott sits

1458
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:04,240
Speaker 1: down with Leslie Fraser and Brian Dable and the and

1459
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:06,439
Speaker 1: the you know, the sports science people and the training

1460
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:09,240
Speaker 1: staff and the medical staff, and they'll say, okay, okay, right,

1461
01:14:09,320 --> 01:14:12,479
Speaker 1: what what's a wise course of action here? We're we're

1462
01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:16,719
Speaker 1: far too sharp right now to go out there and

1463
01:14:18,400 --> 01:14:19,960
Speaker 1: get as much out of this as we need to

1464
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:22,479
Speaker 1: beginning what can we do differently? And this might be

1465
01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:24,559
Speaker 1: one of the cases. We're in five days or so,

1466
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:30,559
Speaker 1: you know, end up going bowling, you know, for an afternoon. Uh,

1467
01:14:31,120 --> 01:14:35,280
Speaker 1: it's kind it is. It is because I'll tell you this,

1468
01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:37,040
Speaker 1: the way I've seen him practice in the first day's

1469
01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:43,120
Speaker 1: training camp there, you could take the field with these guys.

1470
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:46,080
Speaker 1: I mean it's they look that sharp um on both

1471
01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:50,560
Speaker 1: sides of the bowl. Yeah, the speed that they're practicing

1472
01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:54,120
Speaker 1: it at right now, it's just it was startling to me.

1473
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:56,120
Speaker 1: And it hasn't been that long since I've seen a game,

1474
01:14:56,760 --> 01:15:01,760
Speaker 1: right and you know, they just really seems sharp and uh,

1475
01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:05,040
Speaker 1: and I guess we should expect it, but I didn't

1476
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:08,439
Speaker 1: know you'd get it from you know. I mean, you

1477
01:15:08,479 --> 01:15:10,240
Speaker 1: get there's you know, you see these guys work out

1478
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 1: there and there's a bunch of unfamiliar numbers out there

1479
01:15:12,479 --> 01:15:14,880
Speaker 1: running around. I'm like, who's that you're looking? I'm checking

1480
01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:16,960
Speaker 1: the roster and you got a bunch of those guys

1481
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:20,000
Speaker 1: out there, and there's no, there's not that much drop off.

1482
01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:23,920
Speaker 1: I mean, they may be running a football one on

1483
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: one play, but they're running at a thousand miles an

1484
01:15:27,080 --> 01:15:29,479
Speaker 1: hour and they look like they know what they're doing.

1485
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:33,720
Speaker 1: It's I don't know, Maybe it's been two years since

1486
01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:35,799
Speaker 1: I saw a training camp. Maybe it's like this everywhere,

1487
01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:38,519
Speaker 1: but man, I don't remember it being like that. It's

1488
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,280
Speaker 1: a unique tempo right now, one that I have not

1489
01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:44,360
Speaker 1: seen here maybe, if not in a long long time.

1490
01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:47,439
Speaker 1: I remember too when we came back, you know, during

1491
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:50,360
Speaker 1: the day years that I played, first day or two

1492
01:15:50,479 --> 01:15:53,599
Speaker 1: or whatever, you kind of get you know, you're you're amped, yes,

1493
01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 1: particularly coming off a really good year, which I came

1494
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:57,760
Speaker 1: off a bunch of I came off like a couple

1495
01:15:57,760 --> 01:15:59,200
Speaker 1: of really bad ones, and I came off a bunch

1496
01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:01,599
Speaker 1: of really good ones. You come back after a really

1497
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:03,439
Speaker 1: good year, and you get a little bit of an

1498
01:16:03,479 --> 01:16:06,840
Speaker 1: adrenaline pump those first couple of days because you want to, like,

1499
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:09,040
Speaker 1: all right, you know you're ready, you want to play

1500
01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:12,200
Speaker 1: games tomorrow, right, because you're so excited about what you've

1501
01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:14,080
Speaker 1: been able to accomplish the year before. And I think

1502
01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:16,040
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of that here in Bill's training

1503
01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:18,640
Speaker 1: camp in twenty twenty one. Steve and I have to

1504
01:16:18,640 --> 01:16:21,599
Speaker 1: step aside here, but when we return, we'll do a

1505
01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:24,680
Speaker 1: little what's for lunch. We'll see what's on the menu today,

1506
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 1: and then we'll try to get to the tweet sheet

1507
01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:29,960
Speaker 1: as we have to do that before we or when

1508
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 1: we get to our number three of the show. We've

1509
01:16:32,080 --> 01:16:35,320
Speaker 1: had some good responses so far as we've been asking

1510
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:39,479
Speaker 1: you today, how will the identity of the Bills change

1511
01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:42,439
Speaker 1: this year? As coach McDermott says, every year is different,

1512
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:45,400
Speaker 1: So how will that identity of this team change for

1513
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:47,519
Speaker 1: this year? Can let us know at eight O three

1514
01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:49,760
Speaker 1: oh five fifty one, eight eighty five to fifty two

1515
01:16:49,760 --> 01:16:51,360
Speaker 1: five fifty or hit us up on the tweet sheet

1516
01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 1: at one Bill's Live Steve and I back in a

1517
01:16:53,240 --> 01:17:07,320
Speaker 1: couple of minutes. We'll see that. But yesterday on the show,

1518
01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 1: we were talking about how the Jets had yet to

1519
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:13,519
Speaker 1: agree to terms with their first round draft choice, Zach Wilson,

1520
01:17:13,560 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 1: the quarterback taking with the second overall pick. But it

1521
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 1: has now been reported that he has agreed to terms

1522
01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:23,799
Speaker 1: with the Jets, so he'll be getting his signing bonus,

1523
01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:25,439
Speaker 1: and it looks like the Jets won the battle on

1524
01:17:25,520 --> 01:17:28,480
Speaker 1: offset language, which was the main sticking point of the contract,

1525
01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:33,639
Speaker 1: so apparently he's already on site at training camp and

1526
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:37,640
Speaker 1: you know, we'll jump right in so only misses a

1527
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:42,320
Speaker 1: day and we'll get to work. So that's good for

1528
01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:45,320
Speaker 1: the Jets because they really don't have some proven veteran

1529
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:49,000
Speaker 1: backup to kind of take the reps in his absence,

1530
01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:50,559
Speaker 1: and he's going to need every single one of them

1531
01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:52,760
Speaker 1: if he wants to be ready week one. It'll be

1532
01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:58,280
Speaker 1: interesting to kind of keep track of Zach Wilson's progress

1533
01:17:59,040 --> 01:18:02,200
Speaker 1: as there are two of the top four quarterbacks in

1534
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:07,200
Speaker 1: the draft in the division. So yeah, Mac Jones and

1535
01:18:07,280 --> 01:18:11,719
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson. I don't want I don't want to be smug,

1536
01:18:11,840 --> 01:18:15,880
Speaker 1: but he's not gonna be ready week one, whether he's

1537
01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:19,360
Speaker 1: out there or not. Yeah, I get there right. There's

1538
01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 1: a whole lot that has to be put together. In

1539
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:24,400
Speaker 1: New York. They're playing Cara against the Carolina Panthers and

1540
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:34,160
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold in Carolina week one. Week one, there's a

1541
01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:36,519
Speaker 1: hair bitter. That's a little bit of pressure on Zach Wilson.

1542
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:43,240
Speaker 1: To me, yeah, I know you weren't tremendously high on him.

1543
01:18:44,240 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 1: Slight build. He's got a slight build, and it's a

1544
01:18:48,439 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 1: line that is that's got some talent that's been added

1545
01:18:50,960 --> 01:18:52,920
Speaker 1: to it, but it hasn't meshed yet. Yeah, they got

1546
01:18:52,960 --> 01:18:55,799
Speaker 1: two They got two really young great players, Vera Tucker

1547
01:18:55,840 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 1: at guard and Beckton at left tackle. Left guard, left tackle.

1548
01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 1: Those two guys can really go good. And that's so

1549
01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:04,400
Speaker 1: they're kind of trying to do it the right way.

1550
01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 1: And I'm sure they're off the rest of their at

1551
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:07,240
Speaker 1: Their other three offensive line are going to be an

1552
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:10,160
Speaker 1: upgrade from last year as well. But Zach Wilson's gonna

1553
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:12,720
Speaker 1: be against defensive coordinators who are gonna give him something

1554
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:15,720
Speaker 1: he's never seen before. He's gonna be in an environment,

1555
01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:19,639
Speaker 1: in a hostile environment in Carolina, with a team who

1556
01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:22,759
Speaker 1: is going to be incredibly motivated to make their quarterback

1557
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:26,120
Speaker 1: look great. Not to mention the fact that he's gonna

1558
01:19:26,120 --> 01:19:28,240
Speaker 1: be playing his home games in an environment he's never

1559
01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:30,720
Speaker 1: experienced before, having never really ever been out of the

1560
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:34,200
Speaker 1: state of Utah. New York is a little bit different

1561
01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:37,479
Speaker 1: than Provo. Yeah, even as a home player, That's what

1562
01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:41,040
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Right, it doesn't go right, the Boo Birds

1563
01:19:41,439 --> 01:19:44,599
Speaker 1: will be out, I still think, and we'll We've talked

1564
01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:47,679
Speaker 1: about this, but I'll just bring it up to recap

1565
01:19:48,439 --> 01:19:50,400
Speaker 1: both I don't know if you'd do I thought the

1566
01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:55,200
Speaker 1: Jets completely bungled it when they traded Sam Darnold, because

1567
01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:57,000
Speaker 1: if you got to find a guy and you're still

1568
01:19:57,240 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 1: there are still questions and there's still reason for other

1569
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: people around the league to believe Sam Darnland's got a

1570
01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:03,360
Speaker 1: lot of good football in him, you don't let that

1571
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:06,360
Speaker 1: guy go. You draft Sack Wilson anyway, You didn't have

1572
01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:08,519
Speaker 1: to give up that draft pick to get him. Now

1573
01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:11,600
Speaker 1: you've got two guys, um, and you don't have to

1574
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:15,519
Speaker 1: throw Zach Wilson out there and flounder around for a

1575
01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:17,720
Speaker 1: year with the rookie quarterback, and you can find out

1576
01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:19,840
Speaker 1: more about Darnland now. Certainly it would have cost him

1577
01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:27,800
Speaker 1: a guaranteed twenty three or eighteen million dollars as for

1578
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:32,639
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the NFL. Yeah, okay, you're he you're

1579
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:38,840
Speaker 1: playing him like a corner and Tamai okay and what yeah,

1580
01:20:38,880 --> 01:20:41,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a lot of money, absolutely, no question.

1581
01:20:41,120 --> 01:20:42,920
Speaker 1: And they didn't have to do it. They could trade him,

1582
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:44,960
Speaker 1: but they don't. They still don't know if they got

1583
01:20:44,960 --> 01:20:47,760
Speaker 1: a guy right, And they didn't exactly get a king's

1584
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 1: ransom back for him. They got a two and A four.

1585
01:20:50,960 --> 01:20:53,920
Speaker 1: So I thought they I thought they bought twenty three

1586
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:58,760
Speaker 1: years old? And what's what's Zach Wilson twenty two or

1587
01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:02,760
Speaker 1: twenty one? Tops? Um, you still have a lot of

1588
01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:05,320
Speaker 1: football left in Sam Darnald, you got you never gave

1589
01:21:05,400 --> 01:21:07,679
Speaker 1: him the weapons or the offensive line that he needed

1590
01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:12,320
Speaker 1: to be successful. The head coach was a mistake on

1591
01:21:12,439 --> 01:21:16,240
Speaker 1: your part, not Sam Donald's part. So you can the

1592
01:21:16,280 --> 01:21:22,120
Speaker 1: list goes on about why Sam Darnald was far far

1593
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:26,760
Speaker 1: from having all the questions answered about him, positive or negatively,

1594
01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:30,120
Speaker 1: and you're just throwing him, throwing him out. Can you

1595
01:21:30,240 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 1: see the back of the New York tabloid papers in

1596
01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:40,639
Speaker 1: Week one? If Sam Darnald and the Carolina Panthers not

1597
01:21:40,680 --> 01:21:43,880
Speaker 1: only beat the Jets, but Donald has an embarrassed him

1598
01:21:44,439 --> 01:21:48,760
Speaker 1: and damn Sam, you know or something like that on

1599
01:21:48,800 --> 01:21:54,000
Speaker 1: the back page. Um, I mean, who'd be a rough

1600
01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:59,320
Speaker 1: start for Sala and the boys. I'm I can see it. Yeah,

1601
01:21:59,360 --> 01:22:03,400
Speaker 1: there's there. There is so much that Robert Sala has

1602
01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:08,080
Speaker 1: to weave together there, not only from a defense that

1603
01:22:08,200 --> 01:22:13,839
Speaker 1: was gutted to having one of his best players probably

1604
01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:18,400
Speaker 1: not available until the Week one game, Quinnon Williams, who

1605
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:27,160
Speaker 1: sidelined right now, getting an offensive line to mesh new receivers,

1606
01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:32,959
Speaker 1: no corners with any proven ability, and a rookie quarterback

1607
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:36,479
Speaker 1: with an offense that just unfortunately lost their quarterbacks coach

1608
01:22:36,520 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 1: to a tragic accident. I mean, what, I don't know

1609
01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:44,400
Speaker 1: how ready they're going to be in week one. That's

1610
01:22:44,439 --> 01:22:47,880
Speaker 1: gonna be a heavy lift. What's quarterback crop looked like

1611
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two? Oh, you want them to reset

1612
01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:55,479
Speaker 1: it again next year? Idiots? What are they doing? You can't?

1613
01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:58,320
Speaker 1: I mean, why get rid of Sam for a two

1614
01:22:58,360 --> 01:23:00,160
Speaker 1: and a four when you don't know if the he

1615
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:03,520
Speaker 1: might be the guy? Yeah, because you've been an atrocity

1616
01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:07,280
Speaker 1: around him. Well, the problem there is bad head coach

1617
01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:10,240
Speaker 1: higher right, And the problem is the GM that's currently

1618
01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:12,800
Speaker 1: in the GM seat didn't draft him in the first place,

1619
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:15,839
Speaker 1: so he's not beholden to him. But right, wrong or indifferent?

1620
01:23:15,880 --> 01:23:17,559
Speaker 1: If you still if the jury is still out on

1621
01:23:17,600 --> 01:23:21,559
Speaker 1: whether he can be a difference maker for you, and

1622
01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:24,240
Speaker 1: it's an eighteen million dollars cost and you've got and

1623
01:23:24,280 --> 01:23:26,200
Speaker 1: you want to draft the quarterback, fine, do that. He's

1624
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:28,760
Speaker 1: on a rookie contract, He's going to be relatively affordable.

1625
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:31,759
Speaker 1: On your cap. I have the two guys compete against

1626
01:23:31,760 --> 01:23:33,759
Speaker 1: each other. You want to know the character of a player.

1627
01:23:34,200 --> 01:23:37,719
Speaker 1: Put him in direct competition with somebody who's every bit

1628
01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:43,639
Speaker 1: coming in with the same level of hype. Second pick overall,

1629
01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:47,840
Speaker 1: third pick overall. Go get him, guys, show me who's better. Yeah,

1630
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:52,000
Speaker 1: I am all about that, And then you could trade

1631
01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:53,920
Speaker 1: the other guy if you want, then trade him for

1632
01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:58,599
Speaker 1: a tune or four or even more than that if

1633
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:01,000
Speaker 1: he plays well in the preseason. I just think that

1634
01:24:01,120 --> 01:24:04,719
Speaker 1: I just can't have to You can't be at that spot.

1635
01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:07,840
Speaker 1: You can't have too many options, particularly if you don't

1636
01:24:07,880 --> 01:24:10,879
Speaker 1: have a guy, right if you don't have a Aaron Rodgers,

1637
01:24:10,960 --> 01:24:14,080
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Russ Wilson, which Tom Brady, we don't have

1638
01:24:14,120 --> 01:24:17,400
Speaker 1: one of those guys? What are you doing? Yeah, which

1639
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:20,720
Speaker 1: I'll say for the record, I thought Mitchell Trubisky got

1640
01:24:20,760 --> 01:24:22,559
Speaker 1: off to a good start on Day one. He made

1641
01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:26,519
Speaker 1: some plays out there, knowing this is a new offense

1642
01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 1: for him. I thought he was pretty aggressive, you know,

1643
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:32,720
Speaker 1: he wasn't playing it safe yesterday during some of those

1644
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:36,120
Speaker 1: red zone periods and made some place found Gabe Davis

1645
01:24:36,120 --> 01:24:40,519
Speaker 1: on a nice touchdown pass. I know we joke about it,

1646
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:43,519
Speaker 1: but I think there's some legitimacy. The Bills may have

1647
01:24:43,600 --> 01:24:49,759
Speaker 1: the best two quarterbacks in the entire division. It'd be interesting,

1648
01:24:49,800 --> 01:24:52,080
Speaker 1: you know what, it would be interesting to get and

1649
01:24:52,160 --> 01:24:55,000
Speaker 1: they won't do it because it's just the way the

1650
01:24:55,080 --> 01:24:58,320
Speaker 1: kind of the thing works. Your backup quarterback rarely speaks

1651
01:24:58,400 --> 01:25:02,000
Speaker 1: because you don't need that distraction. You don't want, But

1652
01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:04,840
Speaker 1: it would be really interesting a distraction here, like what

1653
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:06,759
Speaker 1: did that? Bean? I don't think it'd be really interesting

1654
01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 1: to hear what Mitch Trubisky thinks about what you and

1655
01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:10,639
Speaker 1: I've been talking about about how fast practice is going

1656
01:25:10,640 --> 01:25:13,960
Speaker 1: and how with the pace and the high level of execution.

1657
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:15,880
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'd be you know, he'd be like painted

1658
01:25:15,960 --> 01:25:18,280
Speaker 1: all rosy and everything. But yeah, but think about the

1659
01:25:18,320 --> 01:25:21,559
Speaker 1: reasons why he came here, Steve. He came here under

1660
01:25:21,600 --> 01:25:27,200
Speaker 1: the guise of take a breath on your career. Sit

1661
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:32,720
Speaker 1: here as a number two guy, improve your focus on

1662
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:35,559
Speaker 1: your personal game because in the number two spot, you

1663
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:39,160
Speaker 1: don't have to leave the team every week. Get better

1664
01:25:40,240 --> 01:25:44,160
Speaker 1: and then, you know, jump start your career and it's

1665
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:48,160
Speaker 1: second chapter after this season. But in the meantime, improve

1666
01:25:48,240 --> 01:25:54,320
Speaker 1: your personal game, Enjoy the ride and you know, get better. Yeah,

1667
01:25:54,479 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 1: it'd be interesting if Trubisky, if you know Josh, you know,

1668
01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:02,040
Speaker 1: tweaks his an for a week or three weeks or whatever.

1669
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:06,360
Speaker 1: Trubisky comes in lights it up. That's that's good for you.

1670
01:26:06,479 --> 01:26:08,200
Speaker 1: You know, he could make it. He could almost he

1671
01:26:08,200 --> 01:26:10,439
Speaker 1: could almost end up in this division. He'll make money.

1672
01:26:10,479 --> 01:26:12,720
Speaker 1: You know, he could end up with the Patriots next year,

1673
01:26:13,439 --> 01:26:17,400
Speaker 1: or you know, probably not the Jets or the Dolphins

1674
01:26:17,560 --> 01:26:21,000
Speaker 1: if they can't land Deshaun Watson or somebody. Now do

1675
01:26:21,000 --> 01:26:24,160
Speaker 1: you think Steve Steve's in twenty twenty two, He's already

1676
01:26:24,160 --> 01:26:27,200
Speaker 1: got two out the door. I was gonna that was

1677
01:26:27,240 --> 01:26:30,280
Speaker 1: my next question too. I was like, wait, wait, you

1678
01:26:30,320 --> 01:26:32,240
Speaker 1: took the words right out of my mouth. Wait, here's

1679
01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:34,960
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say. Here's what I was gonna say.

1680
01:26:35,360 --> 01:26:37,960
Speaker 1: Risk before you said that, just before you said that,

1681
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:40,200
Speaker 1: I was gonna say this. Here's the question. Is to

1682
01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:43,599
Speaker 1: a dolphin in twenty twenty terribly? You don't think so?

1683
01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:48,200
Speaker 1: I give it that away. I'm telling you we're not

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01:26:48,280 --> 01:26:50,519
Speaker 1: impressed with them. I'm sorry. Maybe he proves us wrong,

1685
01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:52,680
Speaker 1: and if he does, more power toos coming out of it.

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01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:56,240
Speaker 1: You've heard rumblings that Brian Flores wanted to draft Justin

1687
01:26:56,320 --> 01:26:59,720
Speaker 1: Herbert instead of tah and got overruled by they, and

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01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:02,280
Speaker 1: he got overruled, and he's probably didn't want to put

1689
01:27:02,280 --> 01:27:04,760
Speaker 1: two in the game last year with fits standing there,

1690
01:27:05,560 --> 01:27:07,720
Speaker 1: but was overruled. Probably again, we need to find out

1691
01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:11,400
Speaker 1: if he can play, and he's sitting there stewing about

1692
01:27:11,439 --> 01:27:15,080
Speaker 1: it probably now, which is and you know he's doing

1693
01:27:15,120 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: all these you know, co offensive coordinators and all that.

1694
01:27:18,160 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 1: Maybe he's doing the co offensive coordinators to sabastage Tua

1695
01:27:21,320 --> 01:27:23,639
Speaker 1: because he wants to be proven. Right to the owners,

1696
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:26,719
Speaker 1: maybe he's got something on them. They agreed like, okay,

1697
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:30,240
Speaker 1: if if he's not the guy, will you know whatever,

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01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:32,400
Speaker 1: we'll give you an extension kind of thing. Right. I

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01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:36,680
Speaker 1: don't know, but man oh man, Yeah, that is not

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01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:42,880
Speaker 1: a relationship that looks like it is long term to me. Yeah,

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01:27:42,920 --> 01:27:46,640
Speaker 1: it's I just really am not expecting much from the

1702
01:27:46,640 --> 01:27:49,439
Speaker 1: Dolphins this year. I think that five game schedule to

1703
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 1: start the year, it's gonna, I mean, it's gonna be

1704
01:27:53,280 --> 01:27:56,320
Speaker 1: like Wiley Coyote with the box of TNT. The plunger

1705
01:27:56,400 --> 01:27:59,120
Speaker 1: is coming down and nobody's there to stop it, and

1706
01:27:59,240 --> 01:28:02,000
Speaker 1: the whole thing is is going to implode or explode.

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01:28:02,840 --> 01:28:07,000
Speaker 1: It's just it's not gonna be good. We have to

1708
01:28:07,040 --> 01:28:10,280
Speaker 1: take a break here when we come back. We never

1709
01:28:10,320 --> 01:28:12,280
Speaker 1: did what's for lunch, but maybe we'll do a little

1710
01:28:12,280 --> 01:28:14,920
Speaker 1: of that. We'll see. Who knows. We've got a lot

1711
01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:17,720
Speaker 1: on the table still today, including your comments on the

1712
01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:19,479
Speaker 1: tweet sheet. We've got to get to those as well.

1713
01:28:19,840 --> 01:28:21,920
Speaker 1: Still have a third hour to go though. We'll be

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01:28:21,920 --> 01:28:23,759
Speaker 1: back in a second here on One Bill's Live, presented

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01:28:23,760 --> 01:28:39,000
Speaker 1: by Kellett of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

1716
01:28:39,320 --> 01:28:42,439
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Second hour, the program closing up here,

1717
01:28:42,560 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 1: third hour still to come. Don't know if anyone saw

1718
01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:49,400
Speaker 1: this story, but it perked my ears up a little bit.

1719
01:28:49,800 --> 01:28:53,639
Speaker 1: There was a lawsuit filed against Julio Jones and former

1720
01:28:53,760 --> 01:29:03,280
Speaker 1: NFL receiver Roddy White by a legal cannabis cultivation and

1721
01:29:03,479 --> 01:29:09,479
Speaker 1: distribution company named Genetics LLC. They accused Jones and White

1722
01:29:10,120 --> 01:29:13,400
Speaker 1: of involvement in efforts to divert cannabis products from an

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01:29:13,439 --> 01:29:18,040
Speaker 1: otherwise legal distribution operation to make black market sales of

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01:29:18,080 --> 01:29:22,880
Speaker 1: their own. Personally, so, it says Jones, White and a

1725
01:29:22,880 --> 01:29:26,920
Speaker 1: bunch of other defendants have sold since March of this

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01:29:27,040 --> 01:29:33,120
Speaker 1: year three million dollars per month of cannabis products on

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01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:35,800
Speaker 1: the black market and then laundered the money they made

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01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:41,680
Speaker 1: off of those sales. So naturally and probably not surprisingly,

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01:29:42,840 --> 01:29:48,640
Speaker 1: the attorney for White, Jones and others said in a

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01:29:48,720 --> 01:29:53,920
Speaker 1: statement that the allegations against them are meritless. But it

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01:29:53,960 --> 01:29:57,760
Speaker 1: looks as though this case is going to proceed, at

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01:29:57,840 --> 01:29:59,760
Speaker 1: least for now. But I would assume that attorney's going

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01:29:59,800 --> 01:30:02,479
Speaker 1: to try to get the charges dismissed. If he doesn't

1734
01:30:02,479 --> 01:30:06,120
Speaker 1: get the charges dismissed, well, then it goes to the

1735
01:30:06,120 --> 01:30:11,400
Speaker 1: next step, which gathering of evidence, which means these guys

1736
01:30:11,400 --> 01:30:13,400
Speaker 1: are going to be brought in for depositions and stuff

1737
01:30:13,400 --> 01:30:17,080
Speaker 1: like that. They'll have to answer questions, their phone records

1738
01:30:17,080 --> 01:30:20,240
Speaker 1: will probably be seized, you know, to try to gather evidence,

1739
01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:23,840
Speaker 1: and we'll see where it goes. You have to believe

1740
01:30:23,880 --> 01:30:26,600
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, who just gave up stuff in a

1741
01:30:26,640 --> 01:30:31,080
Speaker 1: trade to acquire Julio Jones probably biting their fingernails a

1742
01:30:31,120 --> 01:30:35,840
Speaker 1: little bit and wondering, you know, where is this going

1743
01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:38,760
Speaker 1: to go. I don't know if it necessarily impacts his

1744
01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:41,200
Speaker 1: availability to the team this season, because we know these

1745
01:30:41,200 --> 01:30:43,160
Speaker 1: cases often take a long time to make their way

1746
01:30:43,160 --> 01:30:47,800
Speaker 1: through the court system. But next year, when Julio Jones

1747
01:30:47,880 --> 01:30:51,760
Speaker 1: is looking for a new contract, this could come into play. Yeah,

1748
01:30:51,200 --> 01:30:54,920
Speaker 1: the articles some of them and then said that, you know,

1749
01:30:55,280 --> 01:30:57,559
Speaker 1: at this I'll quote it says, at this point, there's

1750
01:30:57,600 --> 01:31:00,880
Speaker 1: nothing about the lawsuit that screams frivolous or goofy or

1751
01:31:00,960 --> 01:31:04,000
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory. Yeah, it's not like a Yeah, the lawsuit

1752
01:31:04,040 --> 01:31:07,360
Speaker 1: makes allegations, and a lawyer believes that the allegations are

1753
01:31:07,360 --> 01:31:10,080
Speaker 1: true or sufficiently close to true to justify attaching his

1754
01:31:10,200 --> 01:31:15,599
Speaker 1: name to it. So this there seems to be something here,

1755
01:31:15,640 --> 01:31:18,080
Speaker 1: and if there's the kind of money that they're talking about,

1756
01:31:18,200 --> 01:31:20,479
Speaker 1: it's probably not going to be that hard to trace it.

1757
01:31:21,880 --> 01:31:23,840
Speaker 1: How illegal it is and what these guys have to

1758
01:31:23,880 --> 01:31:28,160
Speaker 1: do with it remains to be seen. But that's that's

1759
01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:33,719
Speaker 1: pretty wild. It is pretty wild. I'm so, you're taking

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01:31:33,720 --> 01:31:37,640
Speaker 1: a legal operation that you're apparently have some kind of

1761
01:31:37,640 --> 01:31:41,519
Speaker 1: business relationship with, whether you're a spokesperson or whatever it is,

1762
01:31:42,520 --> 01:31:46,559
Speaker 1: and they give you product, you know, probably because you're

1763
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:48,400
Speaker 1: a spokes I don't know what their role was, but

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01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:52,639
Speaker 1: they were tied to the company which legally distributes cannabis products.

1765
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:54,719
Speaker 1: As you know, in California, the laws are a little

1766
01:31:54,720 --> 01:31:58,920
Speaker 1: looser as they are in other states like Colorado. And

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01:31:59,439 --> 01:32:02,839
Speaker 1: what it just says is that they were diverting cannabis

1768
01:32:02,920 --> 01:32:08,519
Speaker 1: products from a legal place, yeah, to distribute them illegally. Yeah.

1769
01:32:09,080 --> 01:32:12,880
Speaker 1: And for personal game, right, a big personal game. It

1770
01:32:12,880 --> 01:32:16,920
Speaker 1: sounds like three million a month, so um. And then

1771
01:32:17,200 --> 01:32:21,240
Speaker 1: they took pains to laud put the money through a

1772
01:32:21,320 --> 01:32:24,879
Speaker 1: separate business to make it look like they went ozark

1773
01:32:24,960 --> 01:32:31,120
Speaker 1: on it. Um. Jason Bateman working on it for him,

1774
01:32:31,200 --> 01:32:34,120
Speaker 1: so uh yeah. The thing that blows my mind is

1775
01:32:34,200 --> 01:32:36,680
Speaker 1: we've seen this. There've been examples of this in the

1776
01:32:36,760 --> 01:32:40,439
Speaker 1: league before, Steve. It just baffles me how these guys

1777
01:32:40,479 --> 01:32:43,439
Speaker 1: get wrapped up in stuff like this or say, hey,

1778
01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:45,760
Speaker 1: why don't we just do it this way? You know,

1779
01:32:46,160 --> 01:32:49,959
Speaker 1: the whole get rich quick scheme for NFL players who

1780
01:32:50,280 --> 01:32:53,080
Speaker 1: you know make a good buck. It baffles me. Remember

1781
01:32:53,080 --> 01:32:55,120
Speaker 1: when Nate Newton was found with a trunk full of

1782
01:32:55,120 --> 01:32:59,720
Speaker 1: pot a van ful. Yes, it was like a hay

1783
01:32:59,760 --> 01:33:04,640
Speaker 1: base yeah, hey bales plural, it's like two hundred pounds, yeah,

1784
01:33:04,680 --> 01:33:07,800
Speaker 1: in his trunk. And then I think we all know

1785
01:33:07,880 --> 01:33:09,920
Speaker 1: you know, Travis Henry got wrapped up in some bad

1786
01:33:09,920 --> 01:33:12,160
Speaker 1: stuff and went to jail on federal drug charges. It

1787
01:33:12,200 --> 01:33:14,400
Speaker 1: has happened time and time again. I just I don't

1788
01:33:14,479 --> 01:33:19,360
Speaker 1: get it, Like why every every case is different and

1789
01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:22,760
Speaker 1: none of the you know this, none of this has

1790
01:33:22,760 --> 01:33:25,320
Speaker 1: been proven right, It's gonna have to make its way

1791
01:33:25,439 --> 01:33:28,640
Speaker 1: through the court what happens. But man, I don't know.

1792
01:33:28,680 --> 01:33:31,160
Speaker 1: What do you call it a welcome distraction from COVID

1793
01:33:31,200 --> 01:33:36,360
Speaker 1: vaccine debate or just one more? It's not like you

1794
01:33:36,400 --> 01:33:38,720
Speaker 1: were out of work. I mean, Roddy Whitz retired. I

1795
01:33:38,760 --> 01:33:40,280
Speaker 1: get it, but he had a ten year career in

1796
01:33:40,280 --> 01:33:45,639
Speaker 1: the league. I don't know. Just it baffles me. Sometimes

1797
01:33:45,640 --> 01:33:49,799
Speaker 1: it really does break time for us. Here we promise

1798
01:33:50,439 --> 01:33:52,760
Speaker 1: our number three we will get to your comments on

1799
01:33:52,800 --> 01:33:54,559
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. We want to know what you guys

1800
01:33:54,560 --> 01:33:58,439
Speaker 1: thought the Bill's identity would be this year. How is

1801
01:33:58,479 --> 01:34:01,880
Speaker 1: it going to change from last year's identity, which was

1802
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:06,360
Speaker 1: basically a juggernaut offense lumping people up. The year before though,

1803
01:34:06,520 --> 01:34:09,160
Speaker 1: and prior to that, it was a top five defense

1804
01:34:09,200 --> 01:34:12,240
Speaker 1: that was the identity of this club. How's the identity

1805
01:34:12,280 --> 01:34:13,720
Speaker 1: going to change this year? Let us know at eight

1806
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:17,720
Speaker 1: three five fifty one eight five fifty two five fifty

1807
01:34:17,840 --> 01:34:19,479
Speaker 1: or hit us up on the tweet sheet, which is

1808
01:34:19,479 --> 01:34:21,760
Speaker 1: where we're going next. Here on one Bill's Live presentybody

1809
01:34:21,800 --> 01:34:41,000
Speaker 1: collide to help, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve

1810
01:34:41,240 --> 01:34:44,519
Speaker 1: Tasker who had spent all over the fields. Kind of unique.

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01:34:44,520 --> 01:34:47,839
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player. Street a balloon,

1812
01:34:48,120 --> 01:34:54,640
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the stratgere of normalcy.

1813
01:34:57,280 --> 01:35:00,760
Speaker 1: Welcome to our number three Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

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01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:04,240
Speaker 1: you here on a Thursday, Day two of Bills training camp,

1815
01:35:04,800 --> 01:35:09,800
Speaker 1: now in the books, and we are excited to get

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01:35:09,840 --> 01:35:11,720
Speaker 1: to the tweetcheet, which, as you know, is brought to

1817
01:35:11,720 --> 01:35:14,599
Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company

1818
01:35:14,600 --> 01:35:17,000
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. As we are asking on the

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01:35:17,040 --> 01:35:19,439
Speaker 1: Twitter poll today, how will the identity of the Bills

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01:35:19,560 --> 01:35:22,599
Speaker 1: change this year? Can also give us a call if

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01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:24,320
Speaker 1: you want to weigh in on that. Eighth three five

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01:35:24,400 --> 01:35:27,120
Speaker 1: fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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01:35:27,439 --> 01:35:30,920
Speaker 1: But Seth kicks it off today by saying defense will

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01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:34,559
Speaker 1: return to top five form, offense will continue to light

1825
01:35:34,600 --> 01:35:36,680
Speaker 1: it up, forcing opponents to take risks, which will lead

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01:35:36,680 --> 01:35:40,040
Speaker 1: to more turnovers. From a group with a reinvigorated line

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01:35:40,360 --> 01:35:43,320
Speaker 1: and a secondary looking to prove they are elite, we

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01:35:43,400 --> 01:35:46,519
Speaker 1: will run with and even beat the big dogs like

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01:35:46,720 --> 01:35:51,559
Speaker 1: k C. So we're gonna So the identity is basically

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01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:56,480
Speaker 1: top five across the board. Basically, it's seventeen and oregular

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01:35:56,640 --> 01:35:59,639
Speaker 1: season three and O in the postseason, with the bye

1832
01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:04,839
Speaker 1: week keeping the Dolphins from nineteen seventy two from sipping

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01:36:04,920 --> 01:36:10,040
Speaker 1: any kind of champagne. Okay, awesome, Seth, I just started

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01:36:10,120 --> 01:36:14,000
Speaker 1: us al. He'd been listening to the first part of

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01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:16,200
Speaker 1: our show about there about the first couple of days

1836
01:36:16,240 --> 01:36:19,680
Speaker 1: of training camp, going well, yeah, oh my gosh, all

1837
01:36:19,760 --> 01:36:24,160
Speaker 1: right that. But I think there from from this standpoint,

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01:36:24,360 --> 01:36:27,840
Speaker 1: I think he could be on a very realistic track.

1839
01:36:27,880 --> 01:36:32,000
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is eighteen and nineteen

1840
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:37,639
Speaker 1: defense killing it, top three in the league, offense still

1841
01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:43,600
Speaker 1: coming together still yeah twenty offense takes off like a rocket.

1842
01:36:44,400 --> 01:36:48,479
Speaker 1: Defense slides back to the middle a little bit. Um

1843
01:36:48,640 --> 01:36:50,880
Speaker 1: shows some signs of life at the end of the season,

1844
01:36:51,360 --> 01:36:55,760
Speaker 1: performs admirably for the most part in the postseason, with

1845
01:36:55,800 --> 01:37:00,200
Speaker 1: the exception of the Chiefs game. And now you're at

1846
01:37:00,200 --> 01:37:02,960
Speaker 1: a point where man, the defense looks like it's reloaded.

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01:37:04,000 --> 01:37:06,599
Speaker 1: Can they get back to that, you know, top ten form,

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01:37:06,680 --> 01:37:10,600
Speaker 1: top five form. If the offense can maintain and the

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01:37:10,680 --> 01:37:13,719
Speaker 1: defense can get back to where they were, the identity

1850
01:37:13,720 --> 01:37:16,559
Speaker 1: of this team might be this is a complete unit.

1851
01:37:17,800 --> 01:37:20,720
Speaker 1: That might be the identity a complete team. You know,

1852
01:37:20,800 --> 01:37:22,200
Speaker 1: get the hell out of the way. Yeah, I think

1853
01:37:22,240 --> 01:37:24,240
Speaker 1: you and I are both in the same But whatever happens,

1854
01:37:24,320 --> 01:37:26,160
Speaker 1: I think this team is going to be really tough

1855
01:37:26,200 --> 01:37:28,559
Speaker 1: to beat. They're gonna be a tough out no matter

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01:37:28,640 --> 01:37:30,400
Speaker 1: what it looks like. I don't think their offense is

1857
01:37:30,400 --> 01:37:33,719
Speaker 1: going anywhere. Certainly, they they may not score thirty points

1858
01:37:33,720 --> 01:37:36,479
Speaker 1: a game like they did a year ago, but they're

1859
01:37:36,479 --> 01:37:38,640
Speaker 1: gonna be scoring points, and they're gonna be tough to

1860
01:37:38,640 --> 01:37:40,160
Speaker 1: get the ball away. They're gonna be tough to get

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01:37:40,160 --> 01:37:43,200
Speaker 1: off the field. And I think the biggest enemy the

1862
01:37:43,240 --> 01:37:47,000
Speaker 1: Bill's offense is gonna have is gonna be themselves. They've

1863
01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:49,479
Speaker 1: got to make sure that they execute, run, don't turn

1864
01:37:49,520 --> 01:37:51,360
Speaker 1: it over. I went back and looked at some of

1865
01:37:51,400 --> 01:37:53,400
Speaker 1: the games where they struggled to get off this to

1866
01:37:53,479 --> 01:37:55,840
Speaker 1: a start. Last year. Against the Jets opening Day, Josh

1867
01:37:56,200 --> 01:37:59,719
Speaker 1: fumbled it twice down in that Jets end. They still

1868
01:38:00,160 --> 01:38:04,960
Speaker 1: them up in Week one, so you know, turnover. I

1869
01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:06,960
Speaker 1: think that's where the Bill's offense is going to be.

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01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:09,000
Speaker 1: I think that's who they are. They're gonna be good,

1871
01:38:09,600 --> 01:38:13,120
Speaker 1: really good, and they'll probably be improved in some aspects

1872
01:38:13,200 --> 01:38:16,560
Speaker 1: this year, even if the point total isn't there. Defensively,

1873
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:20,760
Speaker 1: they have in the last two years attacked last two

1874
01:38:20,800 --> 01:38:23,320
Speaker 1: and a half three years, they've attacked the defensive line,

1875
01:38:23,360 --> 01:38:25,160
Speaker 1: trying to get it to a point where they can

1876
01:38:25,280 --> 01:38:28,240
Speaker 1: dominate up front. Defensively, We'll see if they got there

1877
01:38:28,280 --> 01:38:31,519
Speaker 1: this year with basham Rousseau, see Ed Oliver makes a

1878
01:38:31,600 --> 01:38:36,320
Speaker 1: step and a Japanessa. There's four top draft picks on

1879
01:38:36,360 --> 01:38:41,360
Speaker 1: that defensive line at the edge. That's got to pay

1880
01:38:41,439 --> 01:38:44,280
Speaker 1: dividends at some point. If it doesn't, they're gonna have

1881
01:38:44,400 --> 01:38:47,280
Speaker 1: some They're gonna have to reevaluate how they do things right,

1882
01:38:47,520 --> 01:38:50,519
Speaker 1: and I'm interested in Seth made this point as well,

1883
01:38:50,560 --> 01:38:54,599
Speaker 1: which I think is well founded. I think they're going

1884
01:38:54,760 --> 01:38:58,240
Speaker 1: under the assumption that the offense is going to continue

1885
01:38:58,280 --> 01:39:02,040
Speaker 1: to be successful in putting points on the board, where

1886
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:05,040
Speaker 1: if the defense gets a stop or two, the opponent

1887
01:39:05,040 --> 01:39:08,240
Speaker 1: could very easily be down fourteen points, and then at

1888
01:39:08,280 --> 01:39:12,080
Speaker 1: that point that opposing offense is throwing the football, and

1889
01:39:12,160 --> 01:39:15,760
Speaker 1: with the extra talent up front now making it difficult

1890
01:39:16,400 --> 01:39:18,760
Speaker 1: not only to have the time for a quarterback to throw,

1891
01:39:19,439 --> 01:39:24,080
Speaker 1: but to throw around waving condor like arms in the

1892
01:39:24,080 --> 01:39:27,640
Speaker 1: passing lanes, there are going to be opportunities on the

1893
01:39:27,680 --> 01:39:30,200
Speaker 1: back end for more takeaways for this team this year

1894
01:39:30,240 --> 01:39:31,920
Speaker 1: because of it. I think one of the things as

1895
01:39:31,960 --> 01:39:34,920
Speaker 1: well is that if if they can do a better

1896
01:39:35,000 --> 01:39:40,120
Speaker 1: job against the run game, then even if the ball

1897
01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:41,880
Speaker 1: does come out in a second and a half like

1898
01:39:41,880 --> 01:39:43,679
Speaker 1: it did last year, you know, two and a half

1899
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:47,679
Speaker 1: seconds we like it always did last year, they're gonna

1900
01:39:47,720 --> 01:39:50,720
Speaker 1: have to throw past the sticks. They're gonna have to

1901
01:39:50,760 --> 01:39:53,200
Speaker 1: take some bigger risks this, you know, the five yard

1902
01:39:53,280 --> 01:39:55,720
Speaker 1: throw for the first down, and then whatever you can

1903
01:39:55,720 --> 01:39:57,640
Speaker 1: get after that is gravy. I don't think that's going

1904
01:39:57,680 --> 01:39:59,479
Speaker 1: to work. If you can stop them and do a

1905
01:39:59,520 --> 01:40:02,280
Speaker 1: better job against the run game on early downs. They're

1906
01:40:02,320 --> 01:40:05,920
Speaker 1: talking about opposing offenses, Yeah, I'm talking about the Bill's

1907
01:40:06,040 --> 01:40:08,760
Speaker 1: defense stopping the other team's run a little better than

1908
01:40:08,800 --> 01:40:11,240
Speaker 1: they did in the first half of last year. First

1909
01:40:11,240 --> 01:40:14,080
Speaker 1: ten games, eleven games, of last year, after Week eleven,

1910
01:40:14,120 --> 01:40:17,280
Speaker 1: after the Arizona game, this defense was different when it

1911
01:40:17,320 --> 01:40:20,200
Speaker 1: came back on the field after that buy. Certainly they

1912
01:40:20,200 --> 01:40:22,280
Speaker 1: were more invigorated because of the way they lost the

1913
01:40:22,320 --> 01:40:26,400
Speaker 1: Arizona game, but they didn't lose a game the rest

1914
01:40:26,400 --> 01:40:29,679
Speaker 1: of the regular season. I mean, they ran the table

1915
01:40:30,360 --> 01:40:33,960
Speaker 1: and the defense was a big part of it. So

1916
01:40:34,240 --> 01:40:36,519
Speaker 1: that's where you would hope and think that this team

1917
01:40:36,600 --> 01:40:38,800
Speaker 1: kind of that's its sweet spot. When this defense is

1918
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:41,120
Speaker 1: playing at a high level and the offense is what

1919
01:40:41,200 --> 01:40:44,439
Speaker 1: it is. Even when they get into a tussle, they're

1920
01:40:44,479 --> 01:40:46,840
Speaker 1: tough to beat. The Monday night game against Pittsburgh's a

1921
01:40:46,880 --> 01:40:51,479
Speaker 1: perfect example. They come back and you know, they just

1922
01:40:52,000 --> 01:40:54,040
Speaker 1: you know, they get a turnover to a late pick

1923
01:40:54,120 --> 01:40:57,200
Speaker 1: six by tarn Johnson and man, it's off to the races.

1924
01:40:58,800 --> 01:41:01,439
Speaker 1: So I think that's what the sweet spot of this

1925
01:41:01,479 --> 01:41:05,519
Speaker 1: team could be. And if it is, they're every bit

1926
01:41:06,280 --> 01:41:08,720
Speaker 1: the juggernaut that a team like Kansas City has been

1927
01:41:08,760 --> 01:41:10,640
Speaker 1: for the last three or four years since they got

1928
01:41:10,680 --> 01:41:12,559
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes and there as a starter. That's where this

1929
01:41:12,600 --> 01:41:16,040
Speaker 1: team's going to be. If that defense takes a step forward,

1930
01:41:16,080 --> 01:41:19,080
Speaker 1: like we're talking about Eli on the tweet sheet says

1931
01:41:19,439 --> 01:41:22,640
Speaker 1: they will be playing for a reason. They all have

1932
01:41:22,680 --> 01:41:25,080
Speaker 1: a chip on their shoulders. They are extremely motivated and

1933
01:41:25,120 --> 01:41:28,559
Speaker 1: they are going for gold. All the players have reasons

1934
01:41:28,560 --> 01:41:31,200
Speaker 1: to be motivated and that will be the force that

1935
01:41:31,240 --> 01:41:37,840
Speaker 1: will drive them all season. So his identity is they

1936
01:41:37,880 --> 01:41:41,519
Speaker 1: came close to tasting it, so they'll be even more

1937
01:41:41,640 --> 01:41:44,720
Speaker 1: driven than before. I'm trying to read between the lines here. Well,

1938
01:41:44,720 --> 01:41:47,120
Speaker 1: that's what they've said. There's a bad taste in the

1939
01:41:47,160 --> 01:41:48,760
Speaker 1: mouth and a lot of the veterans who got beat

1940
01:41:48,760 --> 01:41:51,720
Speaker 1: in the AFC Championship game last year, and I've said

1941
01:41:51,720 --> 01:41:53,200
Speaker 1: it too, there's a subtle difference. I don't know if

1942
01:41:53,200 --> 01:41:55,639
Speaker 1: I've articulated it well enough or maybe I've spoken too

1943
01:41:55,680 --> 01:41:58,720
Speaker 1: much about it. The difference for the mindset of the

1944
01:41:58,720 --> 01:42:01,040
Speaker 1: guys who were here a year ago is that all

1945
01:42:01,040 --> 01:42:04,000
Speaker 1: these games and how how great they were, and how

1946
01:42:04,040 --> 01:42:06,000
Speaker 1: fun it was to score thirty points a game, and

1947
01:42:06,000 --> 01:42:07,760
Speaker 1: it was, you know, the winning all these games, and

1948
01:42:07,760 --> 01:42:09,679
Speaker 1: the only way teams beat them was with some hail

1949
01:42:09,800 --> 01:42:12,479
Speaker 1: Murray passed at the end of the game, and they

1950
01:42:12,520 --> 01:42:15,479
Speaker 1: just had that other team had to do everything right

1951
01:42:15,920 --> 01:42:18,559
Speaker 1: all the time to beat this team. It was so fun.

1952
01:42:18,600 --> 01:42:20,479
Speaker 1: To be a part of. They were lumping people up

1953
01:42:20,680 --> 01:42:22,800
Speaker 1: in games the Dolphins had to win. The Bills hung

1954
01:42:22,960 --> 01:42:25,360
Speaker 1: fifty six points on them, it was not even close.

1955
01:42:25,600 --> 01:42:27,280
Speaker 1: They go out to Denver to a team that was

1956
01:42:27,360 --> 01:42:30,800
Speaker 1: run by a defensive mastermind, and they hung forty six

1957
01:42:30,880 --> 01:42:33,280
Speaker 1: on those guys and walked out of there with an

1958
01:42:33,280 --> 01:42:35,400
Speaker 1: easy victory to clinch the division. I mean, it was

1959
01:42:35,439 --> 01:42:37,920
Speaker 1: just a fun ride the whole time, and they were

1960
01:42:38,000 --> 01:42:41,960
Speaker 1: enjoying it and we were too as Bills fans. This year,

1961
01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:47,479
Speaker 1: it's different. There's those stuff is all gonna be nice,

1962
01:42:47,800 --> 01:42:49,800
Speaker 1: but they're not gonna that's not what it's about. Now.

1963
01:42:49,800 --> 01:42:51,840
Speaker 1: They're on a mission. They're on a mission. This is

1964
01:42:51,880 --> 01:42:53,880
Speaker 1: all well and good, but this is what we do.

1965
01:42:54,040 --> 01:42:57,920
Speaker 1: We win games like that, that's fine. Give us the playoffs,

1966
01:42:58,360 --> 01:43:00,280
Speaker 1: give us a game that means something if it's a

1967
01:43:00,360 --> 01:43:02,560
Speaker 1: chance to go to the super Bowl again, and that's

1968
01:43:02,680 --> 01:43:05,839
Speaker 1: what it's all about. And that's a very different mindset

1969
01:43:05,880 --> 01:43:08,000
Speaker 1: than they were in a year ago. At the same time,

1970
01:43:08,840 --> 01:43:11,639
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna I don't think they're gonna

1971
01:43:11,680 --> 01:43:14,559
Speaker 1: fall victim to the kind of thing we saw the

1972
01:43:14,640 --> 01:43:18,840
Speaker 1: Chiefs fall victim to last year, where they were doing

1973
01:43:18,920 --> 01:43:22,439
Speaker 1: just enough to win regular season games and then turned

1974
01:43:22,439 --> 01:43:27,160
Speaker 1: it on in the playoffs, chiefly in the AFC Championship

1975
01:43:27,160 --> 01:43:31,320
Speaker 1: game against the Bills. I don't foresee that kind of

1976
01:43:31,400 --> 01:43:35,400
Speaker 1: thing unfolding with this team, do you, because coach McDermott

1977
01:43:35,400 --> 01:43:38,240
Speaker 1: doesn't really allow for that to enter into the equation

1978
01:43:38,280 --> 01:43:40,000
Speaker 1: at any point in time. No matter what the st

1979
01:43:40,160 --> 01:43:42,519
Speaker 1: no coach wants to do that. Andy Reid's included in that. So,

1980
01:43:42,680 --> 01:43:44,599
Speaker 1: no matter what we think about the Chiefs, Andy Reid

1981
01:43:44,640 --> 01:43:46,400
Speaker 1: was trying to get him to play hard and fast

1982
01:43:46,479 --> 01:43:51,479
Speaker 1: every every game, but I could. I don't really want

1983
01:43:51,479 --> 01:43:53,559
Speaker 1: to get into all the different ways I think the

1984
01:43:53,560 --> 01:43:55,920
Speaker 1: Bills are different than the Chiefs and the way they

1985
01:43:55,920 --> 01:43:58,559
Speaker 1: put together their team and the way their rostered, the

1986
01:43:58,560 --> 01:44:01,360
Speaker 1: emotional content of their roster, and the culture that they

1987
01:44:02,160 --> 01:44:04,840
Speaker 1: have inside their locker room. I'm not saying the Chiefs

1988
01:44:04,920 --> 01:44:06,439
Speaker 1: is bad and the Bills is good or anything, but

1989
01:44:06,439 --> 01:44:09,000
Speaker 1: they are different. I think I think they're built there

1990
01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:11,639
Speaker 1: a little bit differently. The culture is a little different

1991
01:44:12,160 --> 01:44:18,479
Speaker 1: and and I think it it breeds a different look

1992
01:44:18,600 --> 01:44:21,200
Speaker 1: on the field. So yeah, I'm with you. I think

1993
01:44:21,240 --> 01:44:25,240
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott keeps the screw keeps the pedal of the

1994
01:44:25,240 --> 01:44:27,360
Speaker 1: metal on these guys pretty much. And and it's kind

1995
01:44:27,360 --> 01:44:30,400
Speaker 1: of comes from within the players. I mean, Sean McDermott

1996
01:44:30,479 --> 01:44:33,680
Speaker 1: gets them in a mindset that motivates these guys. These

1997
01:44:33,680 --> 01:44:37,200
Speaker 1: guys are they're self motivated, and Sean McDermott keeps them

1998
01:44:37,240 --> 01:44:42,439
Speaker 1: in that mindset. And that and the way that looks

1999
01:44:42,479 --> 01:44:44,000
Speaker 1: on the field and the way it feels when you're

2000
01:44:44,040 --> 01:44:46,960
Speaker 1: around this building. I think, at least from a thousand

2001
01:44:46,960 --> 01:44:48,679
Speaker 1: miles away from the Chiefs, it looks a little different

2002
01:44:48,680 --> 01:44:51,640
Speaker 1: than the Chiefs atmosphere. We've talked a lot about the

2003
01:44:51,680 --> 01:44:55,080
Speaker 1: Chiefs not playing their best football ever until the AFC

2004
01:44:55,240 --> 01:44:58,280
Speaker 1: Championship Game last year. That's kind of the mindsets that's

2005
01:44:58,280 --> 01:44:59,960
Speaker 1: played out. The mindset and I'm talking about with the

2006
01:45:00,040 --> 01:45:02,639
Speaker 1: Bills here. Now, none of that game. Those games were important.

2007
01:45:02,960 --> 01:45:04,800
Speaker 1: Let's just win them and get out of here. Yeah,

2008
01:45:04,920 --> 01:45:06,719
Speaker 1: I don't care if I don't care if I scored

2009
01:45:06,920 --> 01:45:09,800
Speaker 1: nine thousand points or if I scored nine points. Let's

2010
01:45:09,800 --> 01:45:12,559
Speaker 1: just get the win and get out of here. That's

2011
01:45:12,600 --> 01:45:16,080
Speaker 1: the way a team with expectations thinks about it. Just

2012
01:45:16,160 --> 01:45:19,000
Speaker 1: get the win and move on. Because these things just

2013
01:45:19,080 --> 01:45:21,639
Speaker 1: let's just stack them up, don't care what they look like,

2014
01:45:22,360 --> 01:45:25,160
Speaker 1: don't care what that people think about us, because they

2015
01:45:25,200 --> 01:45:26,720
Speaker 1: are We already know what they think about We're the

2016
01:45:26,760 --> 01:45:33,000
Speaker 1: defending champions. Let's go. So the Bills. While that's kind

2017
01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:35,400
Speaker 1: of the place they're in after getting put out of

2018
01:45:35,400 --> 01:45:38,280
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship Game, where listening. I think it's going

2019
01:45:38,360 --> 01:45:40,680
Speaker 1: to be a different feel week to week than it

2020
01:45:40,720 --> 01:45:42,439
Speaker 1: was last week because in their minds they don't want

2021
01:45:42,439 --> 01:45:45,679
Speaker 1: anything yet. That's right, that's true. And we heard Brandon

2022
01:45:45,680 --> 01:45:48,200
Speaker 1: being say yesterday, we're still hunting. I think that that

2023
01:45:48,320 --> 01:45:52,320
Speaker 1: may be the only sign of a Super Bowl hangover

2024
01:45:52,360 --> 01:45:55,439
Speaker 1: that we saw from the Chiefs last year. The regular

2025
01:45:55,479 --> 01:45:58,840
Speaker 1: season was a sleepwalk. Well it was a sleepwalk. It

2026
01:45:58,920 --> 01:46:02,120
Speaker 1: was a formality for them. It was a check of

2027
01:46:02,120 --> 01:46:04,760
Speaker 1: the box kind of thing for them. They were they're

2028
01:46:04,800 --> 01:46:07,080
Speaker 1: so good, and they are let's all get it. We

2029
01:46:07,080 --> 01:46:11,639
Speaker 1: can freely admit it. They're a fantastic football team, well coached,

2030
01:46:11,680 --> 01:46:13,360
Speaker 1: and they got a quarterback that his lights out, and

2031
01:46:13,360 --> 01:46:15,760
Speaker 1: they got a couple of weapons offensively that are unbelievable,

2032
01:46:15,800 --> 01:46:18,799
Speaker 1: and Spagnola has done a phenomenal job with their defense.

2033
01:46:19,320 --> 01:46:22,680
Speaker 1: They're a great team. But I think that. If you're

2034
01:46:22,720 --> 01:46:24,720
Speaker 1: looking for a super Bowl hangover, the super Bowl they

2035
01:46:24,720 --> 01:46:26,960
Speaker 1: won two years ago, that may have been it. The

2036
01:46:27,000 --> 01:46:30,599
Speaker 1: fact that the regular season last year they almost slept walked.

2037
01:46:30,760 --> 01:46:34,240
Speaker 1: They were sleepwalking through that thing. Yeah, let's go to

2038
01:46:34,280 --> 01:46:36,880
Speaker 1: the phones. At eight oh three, oh five fifty one,

2039
01:46:37,120 --> 01:46:39,960
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty, we've got Philip

2040
01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:42,360
Speaker 1: in Lancaster. What do you have for us? You're on

2041
01:46:42,400 --> 01:46:46,639
Speaker 1: one Bill's Live. Hey, what's up, Chris Steve. I hope

2042
01:46:46,640 --> 01:46:49,639
Speaker 1: you're doing well. M insert long time listen their first

2043
01:46:49,680 --> 01:46:54,800
Speaker 1: time caller clichem. You know I heard you guys talking

2044
01:46:54,840 --> 01:47:01,880
Speaker 1: earlier about are you there? Phil? You're breaking up a

2045
01:47:01,880 --> 01:47:05,400
Speaker 1: little bit? Oh? Sorry, can you hear me? Yeah? You're

2046
01:47:05,439 --> 01:47:11,240
Speaker 1: good now, Okay, Sorry, So it's I think that's the

2047
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:16,519
Speaker 1: proven in separate seasons as well as like at the

2048
01:47:16,600 --> 01:47:20,679
Speaker 1: end of we can be just yeah, I'm sorry, Phil,

2049
01:47:20,720 --> 01:47:22,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to put you on hold. Try to

2050
01:47:22,240 --> 01:47:26,760
Speaker 1: get yourself to a better location and we'll check check

2051
01:47:26,800 --> 01:47:28,840
Speaker 1: back with you and see if we can't get better

2052
01:47:28,880 --> 01:47:31,439
Speaker 1: reception here. So, I don't know, get to a window

2053
01:47:31,600 --> 01:47:34,680
Speaker 1: or out from under a tunnel or wherever you might be.

2054
01:47:34,760 --> 01:47:37,040
Speaker 1: Right now, we're having trouble hearing you sorry about We

2055
01:47:37,080 --> 01:47:40,240
Speaker 1: appreciate the call. Nick on the tweet sheet says, I

2056
01:47:40,280 --> 01:47:43,000
Speaker 1: think we'll have a more balanced running and passing game.

2057
01:47:43,360 --> 01:47:46,040
Speaker 1: I don't think will necessarily run it more, but hopefully

2058
01:47:46,080 --> 01:47:48,360
Speaker 1: with a healthy line and improve play from our backs,

2059
01:47:48,360 --> 01:47:51,759
Speaker 1: we can run it more effectively when we do decide

2060
01:47:51,760 --> 01:47:54,760
Speaker 1: to hand it off. Well, that was an offseason goal

2061
01:47:54,880 --> 01:47:58,360
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean, Brandon Bean stated it, Sean McDermott

2062
01:47:58,400 --> 01:48:01,600
Speaker 1: stated it, members of the off and in general stated it.

2063
01:48:01,880 --> 01:48:04,840
Speaker 1: But at the same time they also said, hey, let's

2064
01:48:04,840 --> 01:48:06,439
Speaker 1: just not forget. We're gonna do what we do best,

2065
01:48:06,479 --> 01:48:08,559
Speaker 1: which just chuck the thing around the yard sixty one

2066
01:48:08,960 --> 01:48:12,280
Speaker 1: thirty nine percent. Run pass, Yeah, yeah, I pass pass round.

2067
01:48:12,280 --> 01:48:15,200
Speaker 1: I mean, but yeah, and don't change it. I mean

2068
01:48:15,280 --> 01:48:18,240
Speaker 1: go sixty five twenty five, sixty five thirty five, I

2069
01:48:18,240 --> 01:48:21,920
Speaker 1: mean public math sixty five thirty five. I don't care.

2070
01:48:22,520 --> 01:48:26,120
Speaker 1: As long as you know you're scoring points. Um, that's

2071
01:48:26,120 --> 01:48:31,240
Speaker 1: what you're out there for. And certainly Devin Singletary and

2072
01:48:31,320 --> 01:48:35,200
Speaker 1: Zach Moss and we've seen this too. When you get

2073
01:48:35,240 --> 01:48:37,280
Speaker 1: into the second half of these games and the Bills

2074
01:48:37,280 --> 01:48:38,800
Speaker 1: have lit it up in the first half and you

2075
01:48:38,840 --> 01:48:40,519
Speaker 1: get to that point where you'd like to run the

2076
01:48:40,560 --> 01:48:43,920
Speaker 1: ball and shorten the game and get to where instead

2077
01:48:43,960 --> 01:48:46,160
Speaker 1: of having six possessions left in the game, you want

2078
01:48:46,160 --> 01:48:49,960
Speaker 1: to have four. And because you're going to hang onto

2079
01:48:50,000 --> 01:48:52,080
Speaker 1: the ball, that's when you want to run it. When

2080
01:48:52,120 --> 01:48:54,559
Speaker 1: you want to run it and stay on the field

2081
01:48:54,560 --> 01:48:57,160
Speaker 1: and let the clock run down and just choke the

2082
01:48:57,240 --> 01:48:59,200
Speaker 1: life out of the opportunity to win it the other

2083
01:48:59,200 --> 01:49:03,960
Speaker 1: team has. And that's kind of what I'm looking for.

2084
01:49:04,120 --> 01:49:07,160
Speaker 1: If you're going to raise the level of you know,

2085
01:49:07,240 --> 01:49:09,200
Speaker 1: percentage of the run game, do it in the fourth

2086
01:49:09,240 --> 01:49:11,759
Speaker 1: quarter when you got a you know, ten point, fourteen

2087
01:49:11,840 --> 01:49:15,360
Speaker 1: point twenty point lead and you're getting first downs on

2088
01:49:15,439 --> 01:49:19,519
Speaker 1: three straight runs. I mean, that's a perfect and then

2089
01:49:19,520 --> 01:49:22,000
Speaker 1: a perfect world. That's the way it looks. And to

2090
01:49:22,080 --> 01:49:24,439
Speaker 1: a certain extent, they did that a little bit in

2091
01:49:24,439 --> 01:49:26,560
Speaker 1: the Denver game when they got up on them, you know,

2092
01:49:26,920 --> 01:49:29,000
Speaker 1: and yeah, that was that was the one game where

2093
01:49:29,040 --> 01:49:30,920
Speaker 1: they actually did bust a long run play. That was

2094
01:49:30,920 --> 01:49:33,960
Speaker 1: the fifty one yeard touchdown run by Devin Singletary. I mean,

2095
01:49:34,400 --> 01:49:37,040
Speaker 1: le Broncos had pretty much waved the white flag already

2096
01:49:37,040 --> 01:49:38,960
Speaker 1: by that point, but they were waving it all during

2097
01:49:39,000 --> 01:49:41,080
Speaker 1: that run too, by the way, that that was a

2098
01:49:41,720 --> 01:49:45,400
Speaker 1: that was embarrassing for their defense. I think. Yeah. Back

2099
01:49:45,439 --> 01:49:48,240
Speaker 1: to the phones, though, we go to Dave in Florida. Dave,

2100
01:49:48,280 --> 01:49:50,000
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live.

2101
01:49:50,720 --> 01:49:53,760
Speaker 1: All right, guys, how are you doing today? Good? All right?

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Speaker 1: One one comment. Defense creates offense, and I think our

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Speaker 1: defense is going to be in the top three, and

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Speaker 1: I know our offense is going to be number one,

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Speaker 1: So go Bills. So so hold on a second here, Dave.

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Speaker 1: So with that in mind, expecting, you know, a top

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Speaker 1: three defense and a number one offense, what do you

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Speaker 1: think is the identity stamp that people call this defense?

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Speaker 1: I was still defense. Okay, it's got to be defense.

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Speaker 1: We got to stop the run, and we gotta offensively run.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to go into all that detail, but

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Speaker 1: you guys are that's what well, that's what we kind

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Speaker 1: of that's kind of what we have to do. It's

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Speaker 1: in our job description. So I understand that. But looking

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Speaker 1: at him last year and a defense couldn't stop Derrick

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Speaker 1: Henry or anybody. We got to cut that nonsense out,

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Speaker 1: and I think we will te guys all right, fair enough,

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Speaker 1: appreciate the call, Dave, thanks very much. Yeah, we'll let

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Speaker 1: you go. Uh, Dave likes to keep it short and sweet.

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Speaker 1: Now I can't blame them for that. Yeah, I don't

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01:50:50,320 --> 01:50:53,560
Speaker 1: know how if your identities defense, but your offense is

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Speaker 1: ranked higher than that. That's why I asked him. I

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01:50:55,960 --> 01:50:57,680
Speaker 1: was like, okay, So if if they're going to be

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Speaker 1: that good on both sides of the ball, what do

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Speaker 1: we call it? What's the what's the identity? A complete team?

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Speaker 1: You know, an unstoppable force. That's what happens. So you

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Speaker 1: become the like the Kansas City Chiefs are that at

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Speaker 1: this point in history. There you gotta beat the Chiefs.

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01:51:10,640 --> 01:51:12,880
Speaker 1: They don't you know they Pat Mahomes and you know

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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey and those guys. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: it's the Chiefs. Um. Last year their defense played extremely well,

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Speaker 1: um and you know, and you look at the world

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01:51:23,240 --> 01:51:26,800
Speaker 1: champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It was their defense that that

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Speaker 1: was just as much a part of the equation as

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Speaker 1: their offense was. So if the Bills can get there,

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Speaker 1: you start to become one of those organizations where they

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Speaker 1: just say everybody. They don't say Josh Allen, the Bills

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Speaker 1: come to town. This's like that, you know, the Bills are,

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Speaker 1: the Bills are in town. We gotta we gotta beat them. Um,

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Speaker 1: I know. That's the kind of the way it was

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01:51:46,560 --> 01:51:48,920
Speaker 1: back in the nineties when the guy, when those guys were,

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Speaker 1: you know, going to every Super Bowl every year. Um,

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Speaker 1: it was the team that people were afraid of, not

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Speaker 1: just Jim Bruce. Yeah, it was a complete group. That's why.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it may and that's where the Chiefs

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01:52:04,439 --> 01:52:07,080
Speaker 1: are now, that's where the Bucks are right now. It's

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01:52:07,120 --> 01:52:09,519
Speaker 1: been that way for the New Orleans Saints of late.

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Speaker 1: You know, all the teams that are up there, with

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Speaker 1: the exception of possibly what the Packers you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: where the main focus is Rogers and Adams. I mean

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Speaker 1: you have Aaron Jones, he's a really good back, a

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Speaker 1: breakaway back, but it's largely it's Aaron Rodger, Rogers and Packers, right,

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Speaker 1: and they're not coincidentally, they haven't made it the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl in a while because they don't have a gun

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Speaker 1: flows But yeah, you're right, you're right back to the

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Speaker 1: phones at eight oh three oh five fifty open line

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Speaker 1: for you. There we go to Steve and Iowa. Steve

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live, Hi, guys,

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Speaker 1: see listen to a couple of quick questions here. First

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Speaker 1: of all, a real general football question. This is for Steve. Really.

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Speaker 1: I've always wondered why, at least lately, the putters seem

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01:52:57,320 --> 01:52:59,720
Speaker 1: to not kick the ball in the coffin corner. They

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01:52:59,800 --> 01:53:01,720
Speaker 1: see us to be a pretty simple thing to do,

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Speaker 1: and I consistently see punters kick the ball straight away

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Speaker 1: and the end zone. I just think that's terrible strategy.

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Speaker 1: And secondly, realistically, what's the chance of these later on

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Speaker 1: draft choices making the team? And if they do, what

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Speaker 1: does that tell you about the team? Last year? Were

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Speaker 1: these the kids coming out of college can make the

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Speaker 1: team right away, not necessarily start, but make the team. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's hard. This is gonna be a hard team for

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Speaker 1: him to make. Unlike other years, they do try and

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Speaker 1: keep those guys around. If they've got a high upside athletically,

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Speaker 1: they'll keep them around knowing that if they get better

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Speaker 1: skill wise and with their technique and with their acclamation

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01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:38,800
Speaker 1: to the system, that they'll be able to contribute because

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Speaker 1: of their athleticism. And that's why they hang around on

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Speaker 1: the practice squad. This is a tough team to make though,

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Speaker 1: and I would be hard pressed once you get past

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Speaker 1: Jack Anderson in the draft order that these guys, that

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01:53:53,280 --> 01:53:55,439
Speaker 1: any of them have a real shot at getting on

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Speaker 1: the field and playing snaps for this team this season.

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Speaker 1: Now they may hang aroun on the practice squad, but

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Speaker 1: you go from Tommy Doyle on down and it's gonna

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01:54:05,200 --> 01:54:06,960
Speaker 1: be a tough road to hoe here. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Tommy Doyle is at best, you know, a fourth or

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Speaker 1: fifth tackle on this team, you know what I mean, Like, uh,

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Speaker 1: tomar Hamlin, He's he's probably looking at a fourth or

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Speaker 1: fifth safety spot, you know, Like I mean, he's not

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Speaker 1: getting on the field ahead of Jordan Poyer or Micah Hyde.

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, yeah, I mean, and then Marquez Stevenson.

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Speaker 1: Do we have to explain what he's up against at

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Speaker 1: the receiver position, even though he is a return man

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Speaker 1: and we'll probably factor into that competition, which certainly helps

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Speaker 1: his chances. But he's got Isaiah McKenzie to deal with

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Speaker 1: there too, um, And you can keep on going down

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Speaker 1: the list. Rashad wild Goose, I don't think he's maybe

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Speaker 1: got his uphill a battle as some of the other guys,

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Speaker 1: because there are other unproven players at the corner position too,

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Speaker 1: But there's you're still behind Terren Johnson, Davous White, and

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Speaker 1: Levi Wallace and probably Dane Jackson. And there's a reason

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Speaker 1: you will still there on the sixth round as well,

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Speaker 1: if you're Rashod wild Goose. I mean, there's something. There's

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Speaker 1: some some spots there where you just don't do some

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Speaker 1: things they want to see, and until you prove that

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Speaker 1: you can do those things, you know you're up against it. Also,

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Speaker 1: Steve asked about punters. Yeah, here's the thing, Yeah, you can.

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Speaker 1: The reason you're seeing that you've seen the change over

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Speaker 1: the years to guys who kick the ball end over

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Speaker 1: end in the middle of the field rather than try

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Speaker 1: and kick it out of bounds at the corner, is

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01:55:36,360 --> 01:55:40,040
Speaker 1: that it's easier to get underneath a kick that's in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the field than it is around the corner.

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Speaker 1: And it's what you want to do is kick it

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01:55:47,280 --> 01:55:51,160
Speaker 1: really high, have it float and let the guy catch it,

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01:55:52,040 --> 01:55:54,400
Speaker 1: and you get the same effect. If he catches it

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01:55:54,440 --> 01:55:56,120
Speaker 1: at the ten yard line is a fair catch, as

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Speaker 1: you do is putting it out the out of bounds

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01:55:57,720 --> 01:56:01,920
Speaker 1: at the ten it's easier, way easier to do that

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Speaker 1: than it is to kick it at an angle and

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Speaker 1: have it cut off the corner of the field and

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Speaker 1: get out of bounds at the right spot. Because if

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Speaker 1: it lands a little bit left of where you're trying

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Speaker 1: to get it, depending on which sideline you're going to,

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Speaker 1: if it lands a little left, you lose all that

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Speaker 1: distance and it goes way out of bounds. It's just

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Speaker 1: hard because in the if you're kicking it out of bounds,

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Speaker 1: you have to get the direction and the distance exactly right.

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Speaker 1: If you're kicking it down the middle of the field,

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Speaker 1: all you have to do is to get the distance right.

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Speaker 1: There's a greater margin for error. There's a much greater

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Speaker 1: margin for era. More importantly, you're forcing your opponent to

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Speaker 1: make a decision. The returner has to decide, is this

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Speaker 1: clearly going to be over my head and inside the

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Speaker 1: ten where I can let this thing bounce and hopefully

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Speaker 1: go in the end zone. Up we're kind of close here.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I should field it just to preserve, you know,

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Speaker 1: and prevent the risk of it being inside or five

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01:56:54,040 --> 01:56:56,400
Speaker 1: and given my team a crappy drive start, you know.

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Speaker 1: And now if he's caught in between there and no

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Speaker 1: man's land, maybe at him to make a mental error.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you're jumping on a ball at the five right,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe you have an opportunity to knock it

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Speaker 1: from the goal line so it doesn't go in the

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Speaker 1: end zone for a touchback. Or maybe he does field

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Speaker 1: it and your guys get down there and you drop

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Speaker 1: him for no return. It's easier for your punter to

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01:57:16,120 --> 01:57:18,000
Speaker 1: execute the kick in the middle of the field when

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01:57:18,120 --> 01:57:20,440
Speaker 1: when they do the Aussie kick, which is they kick

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Speaker 1: the ball vertically instead of flat. And when you kick

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Speaker 1: it vertically, it tumbles backwards like a kickoff us. You

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01:57:26,480 --> 01:57:31,360
Speaker 1: know it does. It tumbles, and it also bounces more

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01:57:31,560 --> 01:57:34,920
Speaker 1: often than not, more straight up than it does side

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01:57:34,920 --> 01:57:38,280
Speaker 1: to side or forward. And when you can when you

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Speaker 1: do that, the ball will land closer to the end zone.

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Speaker 1: And it also you can kick it higher doing that

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Speaker 1: and give your coverage team a chance to get down

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01:57:48,720 --> 01:57:50,960
Speaker 1: there under it. And like Brownie says, it forces a

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Speaker 1: guy into a decision. It puts the end onus on

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Speaker 1: the return team to make better decisions, and it opens

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Speaker 1: up up the possibility of way more mistakes by their guys,

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Speaker 1: and that decision and then they got to execute that,

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01:58:06,200 --> 01:58:07,240
Speaker 1: that's right, and they got to do it in a

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01:58:07,320 --> 01:58:11,320
Speaker 1: half a heartbeat with you know, guys bearing down on

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01:58:11,360 --> 01:58:14,560
Speaker 1: them with ill intent. So it puts the return guy

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Speaker 1: under a ton of pressure to make the right decision

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01:58:16,760 --> 01:58:20,440
Speaker 1: to handle a kick down close to his own end

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01:58:20,960 --> 01:58:23,240
Speaker 1: with guys around it to take advantage of it. If

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01:58:23,280 --> 01:58:26,800
Speaker 1: he doesn't, it just it just puts more pressure on

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01:58:26,840 --> 01:58:29,000
Speaker 1: the return team when you put the ball down the

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01:58:29,040 --> 01:58:33,080
Speaker 1: middle of the field, just on that gray area of

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01:58:33,120 --> 01:58:35,880
Speaker 1: whether the field it or let it bounce. Now the

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01:58:36,000 --> 01:58:38,120
Speaker 1: key the onus then, the only onus then is to

2274
01:58:38,160 --> 01:58:40,920
Speaker 1: get guys down there to take advantage of whatever happens,

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01:58:40,960 --> 01:58:43,480
Speaker 1: either to down it close to the end zone or

2276
01:58:43,520 --> 01:58:45,160
Speaker 1: to jump on a loose ball or a live ball

2277
01:58:45,160 --> 01:58:48,440
Speaker 1: if he touches a kicking a return team. So it's

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01:58:48,480 --> 01:58:51,040
Speaker 1: just an It opens up the margin of air for

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01:58:51,080 --> 01:58:52,800
Speaker 1: the punt team when they kick it down the middle

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01:58:52,840 --> 01:58:55,400
Speaker 1: and with the Aussie kick, and it puts a lot

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01:58:55,440 --> 01:58:58,440
Speaker 1: more pressure on the return team because of the decision

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01:58:58,480 --> 01:59:01,280
Speaker 1: making and the execution that they have perform. Let's get

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Speaker 1: back to the phones into Matthew in Rochester. You're you're

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01:59:04,360 --> 01:59:06,480
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live, Matthew, tell us what you have

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01:59:06,600 --> 01:59:11,240
Speaker 1: for us. Thank you for having me. I love the show.

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01:59:11,360 --> 01:59:14,920
Speaker 1: I've actually been a caller before last season, so I

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01:59:15,040 --> 01:59:18,240
Speaker 1: just wanted to call and address the question about the

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01:59:18,320 --> 01:59:21,400
Speaker 1: identity and how it changed this year. I think that

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Speaker 1: we're going to be, or at least I'm hoping, we're

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01:59:25,040 --> 01:59:29,600
Speaker 1: going to be, a more playmaking team, more opportunistic on

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Speaker 1: offense and defense. I think with the defense, with the

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01:59:34,720 --> 01:59:38,280
Speaker 1: with the speed rush and in the rush upfront, getting

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01:59:38,280 --> 01:59:41,720
Speaker 1: to the quarterback more, getting more sacks, more chances for fumbles,

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01:59:42,480 --> 01:59:46,760
Speaker 1: um forcing more turnovers on the defensive side of the ball,

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01:59:46,800 --> 01:59:49,320
Speaker 1: and then an offensive you know. I think that's why

2296
01:59:49,400 --> 01:59:53,920
Speaker 1: we got the running back from Miami is the Matt Breeder.

2297
01:59:55,160 --> 01:59:57,840
Speaker 1: Because of his speed, he has more of an opportunity

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01:59:57,880 --> 02:00:01,040
Speaker 1: to turn instead of a ten yard on into a

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Speaker 1: twenty yard run or thirty yard run or just take

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Speaker 1: it to distance. So I really think that that's where

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Speaker 1: the identity is going to change, not so much with

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Speaker 1: more you know, not old schools smash mouth kind of football,

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02:00:14,720 --> 02:00:18,680
Speaker 1: but more of a speed and making plays even even

2304
02:00:18,720 --> 02:00:21,000
Speaker 1: on like you were talking about on special teams, making

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02:00:21,080 --> 02:00:24,440
Speaker 1: more plays, more impactful plays as opposed to just more

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02:00:24,520 --> 02:00:29,280
Speaker 1: routine plays. We got really good at three and outs,

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02:00:30,760 --> 02:00:33,200
Speaker 1: but I want us to be more or I think

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Speaker 1: that we're going to be more of a playmaking team.

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02:00:37,720 --> 02:00:41,440
Speaker 1: You know, more interceptions, more turnovers, taking less stress off

2310
02:00:41,480 --> 02:00:45,080
Speaker 1: of the offense. Yeah, that way on the defense, and

2311
02:00:45,160 --> 02:00:49,800
Speaker 1: then on the offense, you know, bigger runs, more plays

2312
02:00:49,840 --> 02:00:51,880
Speaker 1: for the running backs to catch out of the backfield.

2313
02:00:51,920 --> 02:00:53,600
Speaker 1: Again with the speed and Matt Breed, I think that

2314
02:00:53,680 --> 02:00:54,960
Speaker 1: had a lot to do it. Why we didn't go

2315
02:00:55,040 --> 02:00:57,560
Speaker 1: and get a running back because if a lot of

2316
02:00:57,560 --> 02:01:00,000
Speaker 1: those runs, if we had more speed, even last year

2317
02:01:00,040 --> 02:01:01,720
Speaker 1: we had a little bit more speed at that position,

2318
02:01:02,040 --> 02:01:04,840
Speaker 1: those would have been a lot bigger runs. So I

2319
02:01:04,880 --> 02:01:08,360
Speaker 1: think that bigger playmaking um in the run game. Of course,

2320
02:01:08,400 --> 02:01:12,760
Speaker 1: the offense is going to continue to get better and

2321
02:01:12,840 --> 02:01:16,680
Speaker 1: be more explosive, but on defense more so than the offense.

2322
02:01:16,920 --> 02:01:21,920
Speaker 1: But altogether just more of a bigger playmaking team. Those

2323
02:01:22,000 --> 02:01:26,000
Speaker 1: highlight plays, you know what I meant when you start talking, Yeah,

2324
02:01:26,040 --> 02:01:28,680
Speaker 1: when you started talking about turnovers and sacks and stuff. Defensively,

2325
02:01:28,720 --> 02:01:30,640
Speaker 1: that's gonna go a long way. And I think three

2326
02:01:30,760 --> 02:01:33,480
Speaker 1: when when Sean mcdermot's and Sean mcdermot's first year. That

2327
02:01:33,640 --> 02:01:38,160
Speaker 1: was the reason they broke the drought was their playmaking defense. Offensively,

2328
02:01:38,520 --> 02:01:41,160
Speaker 1: It's hard for me to, you know, to sit here

2329
02:01:41,160 --> 02:01:44,000
Speaker 1: and say they need to be more playmaking. They their

2330
02:01:44,000 --> 02:01:46,880
Speaker 1: offense there are. I think the offense is there and

2331
02:01:46,920 --> 02:01:49,320
Speaker 1: certainly you can say, hey, more big plays. That's fine,

2332
02:01:49,360 --> 02:01:51,880
Speaker 1: but uh, and Matt Breeda, you're right, it's it's a

2333
02:01:51,880 --> 02:01:55,280
Speaker 1: great point. Matt Breeda does bring a dimension um and

2334
02:01:55,360 --> 02:01:57,520
Speaker 1: that could be the thing that changes the offense a

2335
02:01:57,600 --> 02:02:00,920
Speaker 1: little bit in the playmaking ability. But I think you're

2336
02:02:00,920 --> 02:02:04,280
Speaker 1: talking about that as in comparison to last year. You're

2337
02:02:04,280 --> 02:02:07,560
Speaker 1: talking about the defense coming up with turnover, sacks and interceptions.

2338
02:02:08,200 --> 02:02:10,760
Speaker 1: Phil and Lancaster is back. We'll get to him, along

2339
02:02:10,800 --> 02:02:13,080
Speaker 1: with John and Springville, Russ and Rochester. We'll get to

2340
02:02:13,120 --> 02:02:15,200
Speaker 1: all you guys in the next segment. Here on One

2341
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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Colloid of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

2342
02:02:30,280 --> 02:02:32,160
Speaker 1: Back Here on one Bills Live and right back to

2343
02:02:32,240 --> 02:02:35,000
Speaker 1: the phones we go as Phil and Lancaster has hopefully

2344
02:02:35,000 --> 02:02:38,560
Speaker 1: found a better spot in which to talk to us. Phil, Phil,

2345
02:02:38,600 --> 02:02:42,120
Speaker 1: are you there? Can we hear you? Come in? Phil? Yes? Hi,

2346
02:02:42,240 --> 02:02:45,920
Speaker 1: I'm here. Can you hear me? Well, yeah, we're much better. Okay, cool.

2347
02:02:45,960 --> 02:02:47,800
Speaker 1: Yeah I was driving and they had to pull over here,

2348
02:02:47,840 --> 02:02:51,040
Speaker 1: so um okay, so yeah I was calling. Because when

2349
02:02:51,080 --> 02:02:54,480
Speaker 1: it comes to the Bill's identity, I think what I

2350
02:02:54,520 --> 02:02:56,400
Speaker 1: look for and probably what most fans look for, is

2351
02:02:56,440 --> 02:02:59,000
Speaker 1: to be a complete team. I think both the offense

2352
02:02:59,000 --> 02:03:01,120
Speaker 1: and defense are different. Times of the last couple of

2353
02:03:01,160 --> 02:03:03,360
Speaker 1: years have proven they can play at that elite level

2354
02:03:03,440 --> 02:03:06,680
Speaker 1: to get there, whereas the special teams, and we've had

2355
02:03:06,720 --> 02:03:11,280
Speaker 1: players like Housegun and Roberts and stuff, but it hasn't

2356
02:03:11,280 --> 02:03:13,040
Speaker 1: taken us to the level of where we were with

2357
02:03:13,320 --> 02:03:15,680
Speaker 1: let's say someone like like when we had Brian Mormon,

2358
02:03:15,800 --> 02:03:18,360
Speaker 1: Ryan Went Dallan McGee just this triple threat that can

2359
02:03:18,440 --> 02:03:22,120
Speaker 1: really change your game. So I'm looking at Tyler Bass

2360
02:03:22,120 --> 02:03:26,480
Speaker 1: as probably the most impactful rookie for this year, or

2361
02:03:26,520 --> 02:03:29,760
Speaker 1: not rookie of the players we drafted last year, he'll

2362
02:03:29,760 --> 02:03:32,360
Speaker 1: be the most impactful this year making big bombs and

2363
02:03:32,400 --> 02:03:35,280
Speaker 1: clutch kicks. I like to be orches, but I think

2364
02:03:35,320 --> 02:03:37,040
Speaker 1: I think it was a hack that we picked up

2365
02:03:37,040 --> 02:03:41,880
Speaker 1: from Miami right who could be instead of just making

2366
02:03:41,920 --> 02:03:45,160
Speaker 1: long bomb kicks but actually pinning people within the ten,

2367
02:03:45,240 --> 02:03:48,320
Speaker 1: within the five, within the two even, and then I

2368
02:03:48,360 --> 02:03:50,680
Speaker 1: look at the returner and again, as I said, Roberts

2369
02:03:50,680 --> 02:03:55,000
Speaker 1: was awesome, But I want to see touchdowns m aside

2370
02:03:55,040 --> 02:03:58,960
Speaker 1: from the McKenzie one and then that semi fluke hide

2371
02:03:58,960 --> 02:04:01,919
Speaker 1: would turn years ago. We haven't had a true return

2372
02:04:02,200 --> 02:04:06,120
Speaker 1: for a touchdown since, like Marcus Stigpen, and I'd like

2373
02:04:06,600 --> 02:04:09,400
Speaker 1: to see that more or like a little bit more consistency,

2374
02:04:09,440 --> 02:04:11,720
Speaker 1: something like one or two touchdowns in a year to

2375
02:04:11,800 --> 02:04:14,800
Speaker 1: really just elevate that level of the game. Yeah, and

2376
02:04:14,800 --> 02:04:17,480
Speaker 1: the coverage, Yeah, I get it. And and thanks for

2377
02:04:17,520 --> 02:04:21,160
Speaker 1: the call, Philly, appreciate you calling back. I just think

2378
02:04:21,240 --> 02:04:25,080
Speaker 1: that is not as realistic anymore because of the new

2379
02:04:25,160 --> 02:04:30,000
Speaker 1: kickoff rules. Getting touchdowns, I mean off of them, Yeah,

2380
02:04:30,000 --> 02:04:31,560
Speaker 1: you can get them on a punt. But even the

2381
02:04:31,560 --> 02:04:34,200
Speaker 1: punters are good. I mean, fifteen years ago you had

2382
02:04:34,200 --> 02:04:36,960
Speaker 1: about three punters in the league that would have a

2383
02:04:37,000 --> 02:04:39,680
Speaker 1: net punting average over forty. Now you have about sixteen.

2384
02:04:39,760 --> 02:04:41,720
Speaker 1: When I when I was in the league, it was

2385
02:04:41,760 --> 02:04:45,040
Speaker 1: a holy grail. Nobody nobody net forty. Net punt was

2386
02:04:45,080 --> 02:04:48,720
Speaker 1: never done. Yeah, and now it's like half the league,

2387
02:04:48,760 --> 02:04:51,040
Speaker 1: half the league does it. That's that's the elevation of

2388
02:04:51,120 --> 02:04:54,920
Speaker 1: punters have gotten better. The kickoff rules make kick coverage easier.

2389
02:04:54,960 --> 02:04:56,920
Speaker 1: And it's not just about the net. The net punting

2390
02:04:57,040 --> 02:05:01,800
Speaker 1: is is the punt minus the returns. They're good, They're

2391
02:05:01,920 --> 02:05:07,600
Speaker 1: really good, and it's it's a function of you know,

2392
02:05:07,640 --> 02:05:11,000
Speaker 1: the league putting emphasis on it, getting guys to work

2393
02:05:11,040 --> 02:05:14,040
Speaker 1: on it, and getting guys with the ability to perform

2394
02:05:14,080 --> 02:05:17,200
Speaker 1: and execute it. Back in the day was just kick

2395
02:05:17,240 --> 02:05:20,400
Speaker 1: it away and see what you can get. You know. Uh,

2396
02:05:20,440 --> 02:05:22,680
Speaker 1: we were the first team when I played with and

2397
02:05:22,800 --> 02:05:26,040
Speaker 1: Marvin and Bruce to Haven would say, listen, we just

2398
02:05:26,120 --> 02:05:29,200
Speaker 1: kick the thing forty yards, hang it up, hang it

2399
02:05:29,240 --> 02:05:31,760
Speaker 1: up high, and we want if you're gonna punt seventy

2400
02:05:31,760 --> 02:05:34,280
Speaker 1: two times this year, we want seventy two fair catches. Yea.

2401
02:05:34,920 --> 02:05:37,520
Speaker 1: And and it was our job to get down there

2402
02:05:37,520 --> 02:05:38,960
Speaker 1: and make sure the guy didn't have any room to

2403
02:05:39,000 --> 02:05:42,200
Speaker 1: punt it or to you know, to run with it.

2404
02:05:42,240 --> 02:05:46,160
Speaker 1: So that was because we felt that the philosophy was

2405
02:05:46,240 --> 02:05:48,720
Speaker 1: you never give up a punt return touchdown if they're

2406
02:05:48,720 --> 02:05:52,080
Speaker 1: fair catch everything, because they won't have a return. Yeah,

2407
02:05:52,120 --> 02:05:55,240
Speaker 1: and you know, I know whatever. I ended up making

2408
02:05:55,280 --> 02:05:58,440
Speaker 1: a lot of tackles anyway, But that was the philosophy.

2409
02:05:58,480 --> 02:06:01,840
Speaker 1: Now you've got teams I think that are trusting their

2410
02:06:01,840 --> 02:06:04,240
Speaker 1: coverage units even more than they did in my day,

2411
02:06:04,360 --> 02:06:06,680
Speaker 1: because they're just saying, hey, hit a sixty five yard

2412
02:06:06,760 --> 02:06:09,200
Speaker 1: or if they get a ten yard return, it's a

2413
02:06:09,240 --> 02:06:11,640
Speaker 1: fifty five yard punt and let's go. And a lot

2414
02:06:11,680 --> 02:06:14,480
Speaker 1: of those special teams units during the Bobby April days,

2415
02:06:15,120 --> 02:06:18,640
Speaker 1: we're also the beneficiary of an aggressive scheme that Bobby

2416
02:06:18,720 --> 02:06:22,280
Speaker 1: April had full license to make use of, whether he's

2417
02:06:22,400 --> 02:06:26,400
Speaker 1: pooching a kickoff and lighting up the upman who doesn't

2418
02:06:26,520 --> 02:06:29,600
Speaker 1: practice ball security all that much to force a fumble

2419
02:06:29,600 --> 02:06:32,120
Speaker 1: and get the ball back, or whether he was running

2420
02:06:32,120 --> 02:06:34,840
Speaker 1: a Kamikaze play which has since been outlawed, where you

2421
02:06:34,960 --> 02:06:37,200
Speaker 1: line up ten guys in a huddle, you break the

2422
02:06:37,240 --> 02:06:39,840
Speaker 1: huddle quickly, the kicker runs up and pooch kicks it,

2423
02:06:39,960 --> 02:06:42,680
Speaker 1: and ten guys run headlong into the poor guy that's

2424
02:06:42,680 --> 02:06:44,080
Speaker 1: got to try to feel the ball and hold on

2425
02:06:44,160 --> 02:06:46,640
Speaker 1: for dear life without getting blown up by ten guys.

2426
02:06:46,640 --> 02:06:48,560
Speaker 1: You can't do that anymore. You have to have you

2427
02:06:48,560 --> 02:06:50,440
Speaker 1: have to split your guys on either side of the ball.

2428
02:06:50,480 --> 02:06:52,680
Speaker 1: You need certain number of guys outside the numbers all

2429
02:06:52,680 --> 02:06:55,880
Speaker 1: in the name of safety, but that makes it harder

2430
02:06:55,880 --> 02:06:58,200
Speaker 1: to make impact plays on special teams as well. So

2431
02:06:58,360 --> 02:07:01,160
Speaker 1: that's why I agree Tyler Bass probably will be the MVP.

2432
02:07:01,320 --> 02:07:03,800
Speaker 1: Set the scoring single season scoring record in team history

2433
02:07:03,880 --> 02:07:08,120
Speaker 1: last year as a rookie, and it was a great,

2434
02:07:08,240 --> 02:07:10,360
Speaker 1: was a nice, was great. I mean, I think if

2435
02:07:10,360 --> 02:07:12,760
Speaker 1: you had to expect him to improve that like everybody

2436
02:07:12,760 --> 02:07:14,200
Speaker 1: else on that's good on day one. I mean he

2437
02:07:14,280 --> 02:07:18,600
Speaker 1: was yesterday. I'll say this, Um, he was a huge

2438
02:07:18,680 --> 02:07:22,200
Speaker 1: asset to the club last year and he single handily

2439
02:07:22,200 --> 02:07:24,800
Speaker 1: scored all the points against the Jets. It would have

2440
02:07:24,840 --> 02:07:27,320
Speaker 1: been great though, if he'd made all eight of the

2441
02:07:27,320 --> 02:07:30,200
Speaker 1: attemption instead of just six of them. Yeah, kicking eight

2442
02:07:30,240 --> 02:07:32,520
Speaker 1: field goals, and it would have been an NFL record

2443
02:07:32,640 --> 02:07:35,320
Speaker 1: and it would have been dynamite way for him to

2444
02:07:35,360 --> 02:07:38,720
Speaker 1: inaugurate his career. But I think he'll take the single

2445
02:07:38,720 --> 02:07:41,040
Speaker 1: season scoring record and be happy with that. Pay start

2446
02:07:41,040 --> 02:07:44,120
Speaker 1: there the heck of a part. To set. Back to

2447
02:07:44,160 --> 02:07:46,760
Speaker 1: the phones to John in Springville, we go, what do

2448
02:07:46,760 --> 02:07:50,000
Speaker 1: you have for us? John? You're on one Bill's life, Okay,

2449
02:07:50,840 --> 02:07:55,440
Speaker 1: So good afternoon, gentlemen. And um, I'm a military guy,

2450
02:07:55,480 --> 02:08:01,400
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna make this as a military explanation. Okay,

2451
02:08:01,640 --> 02:08:05,120
Speaker 1: so if you could, if you could picture two different teams.

2452
02:08:05,640 --> 02:08:11,080
Speaker 1: One team has eight guys of six foot four carrying

2453
02:08:11,080 --> 02:08:14,480
Speaker 1: that eight hundred pound log over their head and running

2454
02:08:14,520 --> 02:08:16,840
Speaker 1: down a half a mile and having to toss it

2455
02:08:16,880 --> 02:08:20,600
Speaker 1: over a five foot hurdle at the end, and a

2456
02:08:20,600 --> 02:08:24,240
Speaker 1: group of eight men that are five foot nine to

2457
02:08:24,640 --> 02:08:28,200
Speaker 1: five foot eleven doing the same thing. The guys that

2458
02:08:28,280 --> 02:08:31,360
Speaker 1: are six foot two to six foot four toss it

2459
02:08:31,400 --> 02:08:34,920
Speaker 1: over with no problem. The guys that are five foot nine, well,

2460
02:08:35,400 --> 02:08:40,640
Speaker 1: they're able to do it, but it hurts. I believe

2461
02:08:40,920 --> 02:08:43,680
Speaker 1: that the Buffalo Bills are elect those five foot nine

2462
02:08:43,760 --> 02:08:47,240
Speaker 1: guys because what they do is on the side they

2463
02:08:47,280 --> 02:08:52,360
Speaker 1: work harder and harder and harder and longer until they

2464
02:08:52,360 --> 02:08:55,160
Speaker 1: can not only put it over the five foot hurdle,

2465
02:08:55,480 --> 02:08:58,320
Speaker 1: they can throw it over the five foot hurdle. So

2466
02:08:58,440 --> 02:09:01,080
Speaker 1: the hardest working team in football kind of identity is

2467
02:09:01,080 --> 02:09:06,440
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. Yes, I believe that whoheartedly Steve.

2468
02:09:07,120 --> 02:09:10,200
Speaker 1: Unfortunately I didn't get to watch you in nineteen ninety

2469
02:09:10,400 --> 02:09:18,120
Speaker 1: until June of nineteen ninety one, but I believe that

2470
02:09:18,200 --> 02:09:23,120
Speaker 1: has been the name of this team forever. The hardest

2471
02:09:23,120 --> 02:09:27,800
Speaker 1: working team in football. I truly believe that with all

2472
02:09:27,880 --> 02:09:32,520
Speaker 1: my heart. I believe that wherever they're going to go

2473
02:09:32,560 --> 02:09:35,200
Speaker 1: to this year, and I'm hoping and believing that they're

2474
02:09:35,200 --> 02:09:36,840
Speaker 1: going to go all the way to the super Bowl,

2475
02:09:37,240 --> 02:09:39,400
Speaker 1: I believe that they're going to do it because of

2476
02:09:39,560 --> 02:09:47,720
Speaker 1: not just talent, but because of brass tacks work theory. Yeah, okay, John,

2477
02:09:47,800 --> 02:09:50,720
Speaker 1: appreciate the phone call. Yeah, I mean, I think you

2478
02:09:50,720 --> 02:09:53,560
Speaker 1: can certainly make that argument because you know, Sean McDermott

2479
02:09:53,600 --> 02:09:56,040
Speaker 1: is a nose to the grindstone kind of a coach

2480
02:09:56,200 --> 02:10:00,560
Speaker 1: and his players follow suit, and he talks about that

2481
02:10:00,600 --> 02:10:04,000
Speaker 1: Bill's DNA all the time, which is, you know, it's

2482
02:10:04,040 --> 02:10:05,840
Speaker 1: not just talent that's going to get you anywhere in

2483
02:10:05,880 --> 02:10:07,920
Speaker 1: this league. You got to back it up with hard

2484
02:10:07,920 --> 02:10:12,360
Speaker 1: work and you know that whole thing the process. So, yeah,

2485
02:10:12,480 --> 02:10:14,080
Speaker 1: we want to get to this last call a real

2486
02:10:14,160 --> 02:10:17,920
Speaker 1: quick Russ and Rochester, what do you have for us? Russ? Hey, Chris,

2487
02:10:17,920 --> 02:10:19,600
Speaker 1: how are you? Um? I was just calling the Sun.

2488
02:10:19,800 --> 02:10:22,280
Speaker 1: Will the Bills identity change to share? I think it's

2489
02:10:22,440 --> 02:10:25,840
Speaker 1: pretty simple. I think it's establishing both sides of the

2490
02:10:25,840 --> 02:10:28,959
Speaker 1: football and the offensive line being able to run the football,

2491
02:10:29,040 --> 02:10:32,560
Speaker 1: control games, especially when you play Kansas City. And if

2492
02:10:32,560 --> 02:10:34,160
Speaker 1: we go back to the Super Bowl and watch how

2493
02:10:34,200 --> 02:10:37,400
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers were very successful. They control the line of scrimmage,

2494
02:10:37,440 --> 02:10:39,760
Speaker 1: they rushed four and drop seven and coverage. So the

2495
02:10:39,800 --> 02:10:42,480
Speaker 1: Bills just have to continue to be able to establish

2496
02:10:42,520 --> 02:10:45,880
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, both lines, all right enough

2497
02:10:45,920 --> 02:10:48,720
Speaker 1: for us? Yeah, I can buy that for a dollar.

2498
02:10:48,800 --> 02:10:51,680
Speaker 1: And you know, I think what we're hearing more than

2499
02:10:51,720 --> 02:10:55,680
Speaker 1: anything else, Steve is fans want the identity to be

2500
02:10:55,760 --> 02:10:58,720
Speaker 1: that of a complete team. That's really what they're looking for.

2501
02:10:58,880 --> 02:11:00,800
Speaker 1: They've seen both sides of the ball play extream like

2502
02:11:00,840 --> 02:11:03,280
Speaker 1: he's one more callers says, put it all together. Yeah,

2503
02:11:03,280 --> 02:11:07,360
Speaker 1: they've seen both these clubs, both sides of the ball

2504
02:11:07,400 --> 02:11:09,480
Speaker 1: play at an elite level. They got to do it

2505
02:11:09,560 --> 02:11:10,920
Speaker 1: for an entire season. They got to do it in

2506
02:11:10,920 --> 02:11:13,000
Speaker 1: the same season, and they haven't been able to do

2507
02:11:13,080 --> 02:11:18,080
Speaker 1: that yet. But he's right, he's under this last caller,

2508
02:11:18,800 --> 02:11:23,160
Speaker 1: Russ from Rochester. I have said it. Maybe you've been

2509
02:11:23,160 --> 02:11:26,040
Speaker 1: listening in a thousand times this offseason. You got if

2510
02:11:26,080 --> 02:11:29,919
Speaker 1: the game is still ultimately played up front, your offensive

2511
02:11:29,920 --> 02:11:32,480
Speaker 1: line and your defensive line have to win, and if

2512
02:11:32,520 --> 02:11:35,920
Speaker 1: they win, everybody else's job gets way easier. And when

2513
02:11:35,920 --> 02:11:38,320
Speaker 1: you've got really elite players around those guys and those

2514
02:11:38,320 --> 02:11:41,880
Speaker 1: guys are winning, you're that's the recipe. Yeah, Big play

2515
02:11:41,880 --> 02:11:44,040
Speaker 1: potential is kind of another good submission there. I think

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Speaker 1: that was Matthew and Rochester, So I like that call

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Speaker 1: as well. Good calls here in the third hour the show.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for doing it, Steve and I have to step

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Speaker 1: aside here, but we come back to wrap things up

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Speaker 1: with what we have learned, and we may have listed

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Speaker 1: some of the lessons just there in the last thirty

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Speaker 1: seconds back in a flash here on One Pill Live

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Speaker 1: presented by a lot of health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: What have we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the

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Speaker 1: official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. I

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Speaker 1: think we're learning that doesn't matter if we've got rookies

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Speaker 1: or young players out there on the field. They're showing

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Speaker 1: an ability to blend in and blend early. Credit to

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Speaker 1: them for knowing the playbook well enough to play freely

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Speaker 1: to put themselves in position to make those plays, and

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Speaker 1: they're getting credit from the veterans. It's day two. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they hit the It seems like they hit the ground running,

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Speaker 1: no question about, a way way ahead of where they

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Speaker 1: were a year ago because of COVID restrictions being alleviated

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Speaker 1: or relieving relieved out of money combe alleviated. They're not gone,

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Speaker 1: but they're better than they were a year ago. They've

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Speaker 1: got a year under their belt. They've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of confidence they didn't have a year ago as well.

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Speaker 1: Think about the level of confidence these guys have and

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Speaker 1: the level of familiarity they have on offense, even coming

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Speaker 1: back after the year that they put together a year ago.

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis is now an integral part of what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: They've got confidence in what they're doing, they've got confidence

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Speaker 1: in each other, they've got a level of understanding of

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Speaker 1: the offense, and they can continue to branch out and

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Speaker 1: be creative. So training camp for the Buffalo Bills has

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Speaker 1: gotten off to a really fast start. Fingers crossed that

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Speaker 1: everybody stays healthy over the next twenty four hours, thirty

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Speaker 1: six hours, next three weeks, next all season, all season.

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Speaker 1: That's really one thing that is out of the control

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Speaker 1: of the players and coaches that you can't anticipate. So

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Speaker 1: we'll see. But right now, first couple of days of camp.

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Speaker 1: They hit the ground running, no question about it. Off

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Speaker 1: to a flying start. We will have coverage of day

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Speaker 1: three of Bill's training camp on tomorrow's show noon to three.

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Speaker 1: We'll also have the latest installment of Tasker's teammates, and

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Speaker 1: we'll also have interviews from the players after practice. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you that